1 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,119 Speaker 1: Now it's time for Cannabis Talk one on one with Blue, 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: Chill Grunde and Markin Craig Wasserman, the Pott Brothers of Law, 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: the world's number one source for everything cannabis, with special 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: guest Ben Faller from Icy Fresh Jewels. 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to Cannabis Talk one on one. 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 3: My name's Blue. 7 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: Along Side of me are the world famous Pot Brothers 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: at Law and mister Joe Grunde. And you are now 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 2: tuned into the greatest cannabis show in the Country's. 10 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 3: The world, I say the galaxy. 11 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 4: I say, just in all the podcast world. 12 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 3: That makes it good for us. 13 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: Well, we've got an amazing show for you guys today. 14 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 2: We've got mister Ben the Baller, Ben Foller on the ball. 15 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: Mister Ben Yang also known as Ben Baller. He's a magician, actor, jeweler. 16 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 2: I mean worked records done zal Kanye. 17 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 3: He played basketball and football. 18 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 5: Reside cow Bears, doing it from the Beta La Tougher 19 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 5: than the toughest. He's the founder of Icy Fresh Jewelers 20 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 5: and he creates extravagant diamond and crushing jewelry. 21 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 3: I beautiful stuff. He's done crazy stuff with. 22 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 5: All kinds of every He's from Kanye West straight to 23 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 5: I guess making that belt buckle for Michael Jackson. Were 24 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 5: going to talk to him and get into it all 25 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 5: with you. But welcome to the show, senior, Ben Baller. 26 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 3: How are you, brother? 27 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 4: What's up? Guys? Man? I'm good, I'm blessed. 28 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 5: It's just funny to say all these things about you 29 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,559 Speaker 5: like that, and you know, to think about the records 30 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 5: and having a great conversation with you yesterday. But you know, 31 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 5: take me back early, you know Ben Yang days growing 32 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 5: up in Los Angeles as a young you know cat 33 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 5: from LA going, how am I getting into this game? 34 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 3: What led you to? What was first? Was it? 35 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 4: You know? 36 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 5: As I know we talked, you did you did the 37 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 5: record and he was rapping you did this and that? 38 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 5: But what led you to all this major success? Walk 39 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 5: us down that path? 40 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 4: You know what, man? I just think I was a 41 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 4: dreamer and I think I had a you know, I 42 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 4: just dreamed a lot. Now I was. I was born 43 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 4: and actually a really small part of like an outskirt 44 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 4: town of LA right by East Lost, right by East 45 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 4: Los Angeles, and you know, to an immigrant family, and 46 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 4: my mom and dad worked very hard. My dad worked 47 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 4: very hard for an honorable job but didn't make very 48 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 4: much money. My mom worked really really hard to make 49 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 4: sure that we were all good, and I guess I 50 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 4: kind of came in when we were doing all right, 51 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 4: like lower middle class. My brother and sister were older, 52 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 4: they grew up into the true poverty side of things, 53 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 4: like dad going to jail because you couldn't afford a 54 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 4: speeding violation, you know what I mean. And this is like, 55 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 4: you know, in the sixties and stuff, and you know, 56 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 4: I just I picked up hip hop early on, like 57 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 4: late seventies, early eighties and started breakdancing, just got into DJing, 58 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 4: graffiti and stuff. And I was able to meet Iced Tea, 59 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 4: like in a eighty three ish somewhe around there. I 60 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 4: was ten years old. I was break dancing at the 61 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 4: radio stron nightclub and right by MacArthur Caark, which is 62 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 4: basically kind of k town outskirts, and I just grew up, 63 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, just being a fool, just 64 00:02:58,320 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 4: I don't know what it was, but I don't know 65 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 4: what it's just, you know, he used to that movie 66 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 4: Good Fellas and he's like, I just always rooted for 67 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 4: the bad guys and that no line resonated more with 68 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 4: me than that ever. You know, I just always ready, 69 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 4: I always rooted for the bad guys. I've always caused trouble, 70 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 4: you know. I went to jail for the first time 71 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 4: when I was nine years old. They just talked about 72 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 4: that the other day with my sister, and. 73 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 3: Uh, the hell did you go to jail for at nine? 74 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 4: For grand theft larceny? Mantos? I uh, And I could 75 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 4: have got away off the fit. My boy, his dumbass 76 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 4: wanted to go back and get more ship, and we 77 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 4: had ship in the bag. The good thing is I 78 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 4: had Thank god, I got arrested. 79 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, right sometimes the first time. 80 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 4: But I just uh, I think once my parents got divorced, 81 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 4: I just think that, Uh, I just spiraled out of control. Man. 82 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 4: I was just I was kind of out of crazy, 83 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 4: you know. And then then I'm going to create town. 84 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 4: Back in the day, it wasn't gentrified, and it was 85 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 4: a heavy gang culture, and I just kind of got 86 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 4: caught up in that And I think the only way 87 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 4: to kind of get myself out of it was I 88 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 4: didn't think music was going to get out. I didn't 89 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 4: have no idea. I really was like, man, this is 90 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 4: I'm not saying I'm hopeless. Like, you know, my goals 91 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 4: were like, well, you know what, I could work at 92 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 4: Trader Joe's. I could even be part of a union there, 93 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 4: and I can be cool and whatever, and I could 94 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 4: have a Honda or so I didn't, you know whatever. 95 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 4: My aspirations and dreams were way out of my reach. 96 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 4: And as I got older, the dreams got and my 97 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 4: goals got way way, way bigger, you know, to a 98 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 4: certain point where you know they're unreachable. And I got 99 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 4: to a certain point like where I'm at now, where 100 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 4: my goals are not even like it's not even close 101 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 4: to being and I've gotten to a certain point where 102 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 4: I don't even give a fuck. 103 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, to. 104 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 4: Where I've attained a certain level of success. But yeah, 105 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 4: you know, Ben Yang started, I mean ben Baller was 106 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 4: founded in nineteen ninety two when I was playing ball 107 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 4: in college and I was also DJing around that time. 108 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 4: I was in the hip hop scene heavy in high 109 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 4: school and everything else. I was always hustling, just doing 110 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 4: all kinds of shit here and there. My first professional 111 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 4: career was probably DJ, nightclub DJ, going out whatever they're 112 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 4: and then I got into the music business, and then 113 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 4: music business, uh still DJed, then I'll slip and kitchen 114 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 4: the side. And how I became a millionaire was selling 115 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 4: my Steager collection and then from there it just flourished. 116 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: Sure, you know, I I've noticed that, you know, throughout 117 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 2: your career. You know, I always have seen like everybody 118 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: direct you to if you need jewelry, if you need ice, 119 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: I mean, if you need you know, baller. And if 120 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, are you in the Cosmo too or 121 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 2: something like that, you have something in the cosmos that 122 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:40,679 Speaker 2: you have you have a jewelry, he said, don't ever guess? 123 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,239 Speaker 3: Yeah, do you guys? Do you guys jewels? 124 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 2: Do you have jewelry stores in Vegas or the people 125 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 2: that sell you Beverly Hills. 126 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 4: That's actually one of my my stores inside the Beverly 127 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 4: Center over the Hills. 128 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: Okay, So so I just noticed that, like, how did 129 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 2: jewelry become so such a big thing for you? 130 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 3: And and you know in the market. 131 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: It wasn't it was you know, like most of my 132 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 4: jobs are kind of like, you know, I didn't really 133 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 4: have a door open up for me. I kind of 134 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 4: almost had to with jewelry. I built the door. You 135 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. I got I got some wood 136 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 4: and I built the door. I was like, all right, 137 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 4: let me open this motherfucker. Oh the jewelry here, shit right, 138 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 4: I guess what it is. My cousin was was was 139 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 4: slaying and jewelry in the hood, and the Losses swapped 140 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 4: me and uh, you know legendary man. You know this 141 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 4: is we're in south central Los Angeles. 142 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 3: Oh hell yeah. 143 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 4: And uh my uncle was a jeweler. I just love 144 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 4: jewelry as a kid. You know, my mom used to 145 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 4: wear jewelry sometimes here and there. And I just like 146 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 4: gold chains. Watch, you know, looking at old Eric b 147 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 4: Rock him and looking at old uh any kind of 148 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 4: old school hip hop stuff l O cool JC and 149 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 4: big chains and looking at you know, like old school 150 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 4: hip hop. Uh a lot of New York influence and 151 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 4: a lot of drug dealers and shit. You know, I 152 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 4: was like, all right, well, you know you successful, You 153 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 4: got a Rolex, you got a gold chain. And it 154 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 4: was kind of like something I always obsessed over. When 155 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 4: I got my first six figure check was from doctor 156 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 4: dre and you know, I bought a Rolex on a 157 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 4: chain and about a car, and so I was like, 158 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 4: you know, something I always thought was a cool business, 159 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 4: and then I didn't really consider it and it had 160 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 4: been in the back of my head for seven eight years. 161 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 4: And then you know, in two thousand and four, I 162 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 4: saw my secret collection and I became a millionaire for 163 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 4: the first time, and I was out of debt, and 164 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 4: I was like, let me try to get my life together, 165 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 4: and uh, it's a lot of sneakers. Yeah, I mean, 166 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 4: now it's really not a ton I mean, you know, 167 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 4: they're sneakers that are you know, average one hundred thousand 168 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 4: dollars here and there. But I mean, going on, I 169 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 4: kind of was an innovator, you know. I was a pioneer, 170 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 4: trailblazer in that business. And I'm I decided. I was like, like, 171 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 4: I need to figure out what the fuck I'm gonna do. 172 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 4: The first thing I want to do is I don't 173 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 4: want to DJ ever again. I was sick at a 174 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 4: certain point. Where as much as I love meeting people, 175 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 4: I love meeting girls, I love fucking happy, I just 176 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 4: loved man. It was I was in the night life 177 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 4: for so long. At a certain point, towards the end, 178 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 4: I was making money too, you know what I mean. 179 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 4: I was obviously doing very well for myself on the street, 180 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 4: like not like I didn't take it to the next 181 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 4: level of where you know, I had attained a million dollars, 182 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 4: but I was eating well at a nice car. I 183 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 4: had a nice place, and you know, I did pretty 184 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 4: much what I wanted for that time. It just at 185 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 4: a certain point, I was paying a security guard to 186 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 4: not even let girls have to talk to me. I 187 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 4: just didn't want to talk to anybody. At a certain point, 188 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 4: I started pre recording my mixes for a nightclub and 189 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 4: I would just like bring a small, little eight inch 190 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 4: television and play Xbox and like not, and I just 191 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 4: started I just got really bored and I hated the 192 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 4: business of music. I hated telling somebody, oh, man, i'll 193 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 4: call you back. Man, your album is dope. Look we're 194 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 4: gonna fucking sign You're gonna do this, And then we 195 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 4: signed that person. It just bullshit. They don't understand the business. 196 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 4: We're taking advantage of them. And I figure, I was like, 197 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 4: you know what, man, I can't be a piece of 198 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 4: shit all my life, you know, like I got to 199 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 4: try to figure out how to change a little bit. 200 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 4: And then you know, I was I was engaged to 201 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 4: get married for the first time in my life. And 202 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 4: I was one thousand and a half and I was 203 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 4: dating the supermodel. And then I think the money got 204 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 4: a little bit to me because I was like, man, 205 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 4: I got everything on my access now, you know what 206 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 4: I'm saying. And so she was in uh, Paris, Milan 207 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 4: and Germany, and uh, this was a time where you know, 208 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 4: text messaging wasn't very common or wasn't common. Sorry, it 209 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 4: wasn't common at all. There was two way messaging, but 210 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 4: in Asian and other parts of the world, they were 211 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 4: text messaging already. Wait, you know, going but you know 212 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 4: it was like call somebody and uh cell phone called 213 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 4: from Europe. You know you're talking, you know, like it 214 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 4: might have been ten bucks a minute, who knows. So 215 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 4: my fiancee called me and I didn't pick up the phone, 216 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 4: and she knew right then and there the energy was 217 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 4: off just from being thirty thousand miles away from me. 218 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 4: She knew something was wrong. And I went to Vegas. 219 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 4: I just shot. I was a cameo in a Little 220 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 4: John video. Hits me up. It is hey, Bronnie the 221 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 4: Asian gangster in this video. Man, you being there, I 222 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 4: was like, yeah, cool. So I was like, little John 223 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 4: is popping right now? All right cool? Oh icecubes in 224 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 4: the video, my boy, all right, boom did this video? 225 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 4: Shoot this a bunch of video hosts and then we 226 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 4: started partying and I was like, fuck this, let's go 227 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 4: to Vegas. So I decided to get a penthouse suite 228 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 4: and we drive it to Vegas and uh, I don't 229 00:09:58,040 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 4: even tell my my filanx hid I'm going out there. 230 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 4: I'm just being bad. I'm just being stupid. And she 231 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 4: sensed that I didn't have to tell her. We were 232 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 4: that connected. I felt like she told me and she 233 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 4: figured it out, and you know, she flipped it around. 234 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 4: And then at that point I was like, damn man, 235 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 4: I'm actually you know what, I'm actually really miserable right now. 236 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 4: So at that point I decided to travel the world 237 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 4: and I hit like twenty countries. 238 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 3: Wow. 239 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 4: And I had a mentor at the time who is 240 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 4: very instrumental in my life, you know. He was there 241 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 4: was mister Cartoon. It's famous tattoo, yeah cartoon, And so 242 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 4: Cartoon was like, hey, man, you know you got to 243 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 4: figure this, this is this out and I was like, 244 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 4: I'm going to go see the world. You know, something 245 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 4: I always wanted to do. You know, I've never really 246 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 4: been out of la and you know, I've been in 247 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 4: New York for business and certain shit because of the 248 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 4: music business. But I'm talking about like that, let's go 249 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 4: see the world, like fuck, Cabo, fuck, let's let's go somewhere. 250 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 4: So you know, I hit all of Europe, I hit 251 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 4: the South of France, I hit all of Asia, Southeast Asia, everything, 252 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 4: and when I came back, I still couldn't figure it out. 253 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 4: But I got cultured. And Cartoon was about to open 254 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 4: up a store. He's about to start spanning his business, 255 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 4: and I was admiring this Guy's like, wow, man, this 256 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 4: dude came from the street, came from the hood. I 257 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 4: know this dude a long time from you know, being 258 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 4: on the street. Like damn, man, Cartoon is really doing it. 259 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 4: I really admired this guy. And then he kind of 260 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 4: pulled me to the side and he's like, hey, bro, 261 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 4: like I'm gonna be real with you, man. You know, 262 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 4: we bump heads here and there. You know, I know 263 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 4: you got a big ego and I got a big ego, 264 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 4: and you know, your egos out of control, you know 265 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 4: what I mean. And you have all the confidence in 266 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 4: the world, and I have to be honest with you. 267 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 4: You can't work with me. Bro, you can't work with me. Dog, 268 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 4: you're too bad ass. Bro, you're like too He was 269 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 4: saying it in a really good way. 270 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 3: And before you understood it, like okay. 271 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 4: I accepted it and really understood what he was saying. 272 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 4: He was like, you know he was he was telling me, man, Bro, listen, man, 273 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 4: you got to get the fuck away from me. Dogs, 274 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 4: you drive me crazy, but I love you. And at 275 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 4: the same time he really did mean like, hey, bro, 276 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 4: you're too badass. You need to figure out what you 277 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 4: want to do. And even Cartoon was buying jewelry. He 278 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 4: had a relationship with the jeweler I was dealing with. 279 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 4: I was with Cartoon every day. Yeah, so I hit 280 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 4: my cousin up, went to go visit the store, and 281 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 4: I was like, hey, bro, this is really a really 282 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 4: you know, this is a shithole, Like were in the hood. 283 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 4: Motherfuckers a getting shot every day. I come down here 284 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 4: and I'm from the hood, so I'm not really shripping, 285 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 4: but Bro, like they're really coming out here spending twenty rand, 286 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 4: thirty grand, fifteen grand, ten grand He's like yeah all 287 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 4: day long. So I said, look, man, we ain't gonna 288 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 4: do this the Korean way and the Korean way as 289 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 4: we shake hands and that's it. Ain't no contracts. It's 290 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 4: just cash. And for the most part, I have to 291 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 4: be honest with you, like it's like an eighty percent 292 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 4: success rate where you don't have to go to court. 293 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 4: They don't believe in Korean people just kind of just 294 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 4: do business on their owns. You know. They go to 295 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 4: crean doctors, go to grocery stores. They don't go outside 296 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 4: their circle. Me I'm very you know, I'm I'm interactive 297 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 4: with everyone. So you know, I said, let's start a 298 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 4: different location. It could be inside the swap meet, let's 299 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 4: just move shops. I want to start a name. Let's 300 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 4: start this up boom And so we did it, you know, 301 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 4: and then I contacted all my music people, you know, 302 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 4: Travis Barker and the Clips, Mariah Carey and a bunch 303 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 4: of people, and I started bubbling and you know, long 304 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 4: story short, or you know, I would hit, I would hit. 305 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 4: I would hit a milestone like Michael Jackson Gigantic boom, 306 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:08,839 Speaker 4: all the rappers boom. 307 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 3: And then like you know, just walls. I've seen them all. 308 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 3: Everybody's everybody. 309 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 5: How did that Michael Jackson one come about? And did 310 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 5: you get to meet him? And you know what was 311 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 5: that like? 312 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 4: So with Mike? You know, like the crazy part is 313 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 4: anyone my age? Man? Look man, anyone really for real? 314 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 4: Anyone from forty to sixty. I don't care what color 315 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 4: skin you are. You tell me you being fuck with 316 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 4: Michael Jackson. Man, I'm fucking punching you in the. 317 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 3: You' a straight liar? Yeah, So you. 318 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 4: Know, obviously I was an enormous all of his and uh, 319 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 4: it's just random as hell. One of my nicknames is 320 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 4: one of my monikers is the Forest Gumpy hip Hop, 321 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 4: And when I launched my podcast, I launched it off 322 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:54,959 Speaker 4: that that that that basic like on the Forest gumpany 323 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 4: hip hop. I've been in the room with Park, I've 324 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 4: been in the room with so many people. I've had 325 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 4: these weird experiences, and you know, it's time to talk 326 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 4: about him and my cousin by marriage. She's my blood 327 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 4: cousin's sister, half sister. She was going to school with 328 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 4: Kim Kardashian all them, and they lived the very privileous 329 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 4: life totally the opposite of the hill, and she was 330 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 4: dating Michael Jackson's nephew, Tito's son, Terrell. And a funny 331 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 4: thing is that's Kim Kardashian's act. So it's like a 332 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 4: weird thing in that school whatever. But bottom line is 333 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 4: I had a chance to go to Neverland and I 334 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 4: was like shit, And I kind of became friends with 335 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 4: some of the people, some of the family members and stuff. 336 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 4: We end up being cool. But I never ever one 337 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 4: thing about me was there was a point in time 338 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 4: where I was really green, like maybe like eighteen to 339 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 4: twenty two, and someone's like, oh, you want to go 340 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 4: meet somebody. I had no shame. Well let's go fucking 341 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 4: meet and boop, I'll shake my hand and I mean, 342 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 4: I'll put my hand out and be I just act 343 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 4: like the biggest fucking dick rider like I had no 344 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 4: It was just weird, and I was so glad being 345 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 4: born and raised in LA with so many people. I 346 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 4: just kind of got that out of my system. So 347 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 4: when it came to the time where I started working 348 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 4: with big people, it wasn't shipped to me. But Mike 349 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 4: was a big fucking deal. 350 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, so. 351 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 4: His manager at the time, is this a guy named 352 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 4: Tomo tome and the dudes obviously mafia dude, like this 353 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 4: guy bought his dead up and everything else and helped 354 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 4: him out. And uh, Mike was renting like a sixty 355 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 4: seven million dollars crid back in the day. You know, 356 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 4: this was like twelve years ago, so that's probably like 357 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 4: a twenty million dollar house now. And uh, the house 358 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 4: he was renting, we actually shot a jay Z video there, 359 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 4: like seven years prior. It's a very weird, full circle 360 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 4: Forrest Gump moments. I'm always just jumping here and there. 361 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 4: And Tomeo Tomy's son is a friend of a friend's 362 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 4: and he's all these rich kids, and I was like, hey, bro, man, 363 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 4: I just want to fucking meet dude. I would love 364 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 4: to get some some some work done with him. And 365 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 4: you know, I'm saying this to him, but I'm not 366 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 4: going to talk to Mike like that. So I'm excited 367 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 4: to meet Mike. I meet the manager. We meet each 368 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 4: other at a coffee shop in Brentwood. It was the 369 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 4: most random, chill little spot. The next thing, you know, 370 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 4: I meet Mike there and I'm like, the fuck, this 371 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 4: is fucking crazy. I can't put this fool is really 372 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 4: out in this. It was a very nice part of Brentwell. 373 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 4: But still and when we started, when we sat down, 374 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 4: we were about where basically how far you guys are 375 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 4: sitting apart, think a circular table, very close meaning obviously 376 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 4: you guys talked at each other. You can hear each other, 377 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 4: you don't have to yell nothing. Mike wouldn't talk to 378 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 4: me the entire fifteen twenty minutes we met. He only 379 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 4: talked to his manager. Was manager to talk to me, 380 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 4: And I was like, so, what colored diamonds do you like? 381 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 4: You know, you want blue? 382 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 6: Will do? 383 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 4: I mean, do you have an idea for artwork? And 384 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 4: he'd be like can you tell him that? So I said, look, man, 385 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 4: you know what, I can only think of maybe two 386 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 4: times or three times in my life that I could 387 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 4: think of someone I meet that I idolized, and this 388 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 4: is one of the times. So I'm like, don't you know, 389 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 4: I think the only thing he couldn't do is maybe, 390 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 4: you know, kiss me on the mouth. 391 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, maybe one spin on me whatever, I'll. 392 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 4: So you know this, This lasted that entire time and 393 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 4: I was like, wow, man, crazy. So after like three 394 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 4: or four times and dealing things. I made a piece 395 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 4: of jewelry, and that's when I understood at that point, 396 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 4: I'm in the wrong. I'm in the I'm not not 397 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 4: doing this the right way. At that point, I was 398 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 4: outsourcing the jewelry. I had a guy that was making 399 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 4: stuff for me, and I realized the real level of 400 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 4: the game. I was making hip hop jewelry. You know, 401 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 4: not disrespecting about I'm just saying this that the expectations 402 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 4: were not as high. She's dealing with Cardier de Beers, 403 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 4: you know, Van Kleft Harry Winston level jewelry. I mean 404 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 4: he's buying things, you know, he's shopping where the Kings 405 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 4: would shop, royalty And I was like all right, And 406 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 4: he told me, He's like, hey man, this is fucking 407 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 4: come on, man, this is a joke, you know, his 408 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 4: manager telling me. And I was like, fuck, my brainstorm 409 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 4: figured things out. I started taking classes, I started learning 410 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 4: how to car, I started learning how to do all 411 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 4: the trades, and came back and built him a badass piece. 412 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 4: But uh yeah, man, dude was fucking a trip. You know. 413 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 4: I meant I got to meet like his cook and 414 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 4: people like that. And one time we were sitting and 415 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 4: talking in his living room, and uh, we were just, 416 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 4: you know, kind of in the middle of a conversation. It 417 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 4: wasn't anything super deep or anything, but I was still 418 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 4: talking and then we kind of paused for a second 419 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 4: and he goes, oh, and he stood up, got up, 420 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 4: walked out of the room, and uh, you know, this 421 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 4: is his house. So it's like, you know, like it 422 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 4: was such a big house. I didn't really want to 423 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 4: just get up and start, you unless I was going 424 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 4: to the bathroom. I know where that was. So I 425 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 4: kind of just stay in the room and I just 426 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 4: waited for him to come back, you know, because because 427 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 4: we still kind of had a couple of things to 428 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,199 Speaker 4: talk about. And so twenty minutes had gone by, and 429 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 4: I'm like, fuck, maybe you know, you know who knows, 430 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 4: maybe you know whatever. So thirty minutes goes by, I'm 431 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 4: like all right, and I started walking around and I 432 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 4: fucking run into the chef and he's like, oh shit, 433 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 4: you scared the hell of me. Who are you? And 434 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I'm I'm Ben Baller, I'm a jeweler. 435 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 4: I was just talking to MJ. Do you know where 436 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 4: MJ is? And he goes, oh, MJ's home and I 437 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 4: was like, well, what do you mean. He goes, I 438 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 4: see anybody, and I was like, you haven't seen anybody 439 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 4: in ten days. He goes, Mam, He goes, are you hungry? 440 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 4: I'll cook you something. I was like, no, man, I'm 441 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 4: gonna get the fuck I actually get to the door. 442 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 4: I need to get out of here. 443 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 3: He did bounce just. 444 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 4: He was just bounced on. He just took off and I 445 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 4: had made a few things like broaches and things like that, 446 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 4: and the next thing you know, you know, he passed away. 447 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 4: I made all his jewey up till until he died 448 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 4: of pretty much. I mean, it was a trip. 449 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 7: Wow. 450 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 5: Wow, Wow, we're talking to Ben Baller and that's great, man. 451 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 3: I see fresh jewelers. Let's take a break and come 452 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 3: right back with you. 453 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 2: Welcome back to Cannabis Talk one on one. Ben Baller 454 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 2: is with us. If you haven't been listening, you know, 455 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 2: talking about Michael Jackson just did disappearing on you. 456 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 3: I mean what you know what as a musician. 457 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 7: Yeah, and however, did he ever ultimately just talk straight 458 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 7: to you? 459 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, when they're at the house. 460 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 4: But honestly, like it was like, you know, you gotta remember, man, like, 461 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 4: this is a dude who did nothing but cuss. I 462 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 4: cuss a lot, a lot, Like he told that motherfucker 463 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 4: what what? What the fuck are you talking about? And 464 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 4: it was a trip because you would never think that 465 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 4: Michael Jackson cuss a lot. I mean, people who know 466 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 4: him obviously know that he you know, he had a 467 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 4: kind of a temper, different side. But it was just 468 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 4: it was fuck man. You know, you just really start 469 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,360 Speaker 4: realizing like, wow, TV is different, and you know, Hollywood 470 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 4: is different, and this is me being in Hollywood already 471 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 4: for you know, fucking fifteen years almost or something. It's 472 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 4: just like, god damn. 473 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 8: So how did you transition into cannabis? 474 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 4: So first time I got high was probably what nineteen 475 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 4: eighty six or something, eighty five maybe eighty five. I 476 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 4: think eighty four eighty five I got I might have 477 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 4: been eighty four. Actually I'm sorry, eighty four. Some dude 478 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 4: at school had had weed. He was an eighth grader. 479 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,239 Speaker 4: I was sixth grader, and my boys like, oh, we're 480 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:13,959 Speaker 4: gonna get you. Watch all the fucking videos back there. 481 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 4: You're watching TV, like, oh. 482 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 6: Just say no, and all that shit's going on, right 483 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 6: of all fucking schools of all places, you want to 484 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 6: talk about some forest gump shit, like weirdo random shit 485 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 6: of all places. 486 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:33,199 Speaker 4: My school was a school where Dare was founded. Chances 487 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like my fucking school. I'll 488 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 4: never forget. The guy's name was Officer Gay. How do 489 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 4: you forget that name? Yeah, dere And I'm like, shit, man, 490 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 4: I'm a bad dude. But I don't know. Man, you 491 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 4: don't know about Joe. I don't want to start at 492 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 4: the same time too, I played sports. I don't want 493 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 4: to get short. I don't want to be short. I'm Asian. 494 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 4: I'm more than against the ropes, you know what I'm saying, Like, 495 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 4: I think I might have been six two or something 496 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 4: if if I didn't, you know, smoke so much. But 497 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 4: we're getting high, and it just was like it was 498 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 4: a weird thing because you know, I can't really go 499 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 4: super deep into specifics of strains and things, but I 500 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 4: can't think of their being that many strains around them, 501 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 4: you know what I mean? All I know was that 502 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 4: it was Indica. Back then. I didn't even know so 503 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 4: t bigss. I had no idea, but I smoke and 504 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:18,120 Speaker 4: I was like. 505 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 3: Well, just like what did had some skunk bud? 506 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 5: Uh. 507 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 4: My godfather was one of the OG's normal you know, 508 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 4: m R N O R M L. And my godfather 509 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 4: directed Up and Smoke and he also he produced every 510 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 4: Cheap Chong album ever. 511 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: Wow. 512 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 4: So I know he used to smoke and shit. And 513 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 4: then it's weird because he had so many kids and 514 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 4: he didn't smoke me as kids my age, so it's 515 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 4: kind of a weird thing. And I just didn't smoke 516 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 4: again until I got to school. So I go to 517 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 4: the Bay and you know, Grateful Dead is going on, 518 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 4: all that shit is going on on the hate Street. 519 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 4: I'm like, WHOA should I do acid for the first 520 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:01,160 Speaker 4: time all my craziest college and you know, I've don't 521 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 4: ask the sugar cubes all this other shit. I'm doing mushrooms. 522 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 4: I'm like, damn do The Bay is different. I'm like, 523 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 4: this shit is dope out here, like you know, smoking 524 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 4: all through high school and everything, and uh, you know, 525 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 4: at that point, I was like, obviously it's a good 526 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 4: hustle sell weed, not a lot, but you know, I 527 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 4: just sell a little bit here and there make Money's 528 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 4: always dabbled with it. It wasn't until like around ninety 529 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,159 Speaker 4: nine to where I started moving like five hundred and 530 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 4: six hundred pounds a week a week, you know, that's 531 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 4: nine two thousand. Selling five hundred pounds of a weed 532 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 4: a week is a lot of weed. 533 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 3: That's weight. 534 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 4: Now we're moving that. We're taking l's. You were taking 535 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 4: the l here and there, here and there. And then 536 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 4: in two thousand and one, everyone in my crew got 537 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 4: By two thousand and one, everyone's been was arrested and 538 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 4: fucked up, and they just know the game, like, yo, man, 539 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 4: you're gonna arrest us what it is, and we do 540 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 4: what we can, but at the same time, like we 541 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 4: can't make it hot. My cousin decided to start making 542 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 4: a movie about it, and we did. We made a 543 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 4: real movie, like seventy percent reality and like thirty percent 544 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 4: extra shit. I made a movie called Cake Feature Film. 545 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 4: It took three years to sell the fucking movie the 546 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 4: lions Gate, but it ended up coming out side You 547 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 4: can buy like a fucking Walmarts more for like three 548 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 4: four dollars. But it was based upon that and I 549 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 4: never thought about it again because it was illegal and 550 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 4: it was just a nightmare. Then I started seeing like 551 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 4: medicinal shark come back, and it wasn't until like around 552 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 4: four years ago. I had some guys who kind of like, 553 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 4: you know, they had told me they looked up to me. 554 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 4: They admire what I was doing for Asian Americans and 555 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 4: the community. They had never seen Asians move like me whatever. 556 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 4: And I asked them what they were doing. They're like, oh, 557 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 4: we own some dispensaries. And I was like, oh, I 558 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 4: get cool. You know, that's that's dope. And then you know, 559 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 4: like at that time, you know you can make a 560 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 4: couple million dollars off one dispensary. Yeah, and you know, 561 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 4: I met guys who were a big time like you know, 562 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 4: those guys like, am I want four dispensaries? And they're 563 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 4: like real big time, super big ball of Harley's and 564 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 4: cars and everything. These guys own like forty dispensaries. So 565 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 4: I was like, holy shit on a whole different motherfucking level. Right, 566 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 4: they showed me this vake pen like, hey man, you 567 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 4: know what do you think about this? And I was like, 568 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 4: oh man, this is dope. You know, it's actually fucking 569 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 4: five years ago. And I was like like right when 570 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 4: it just started, and I was like, this is dope. 571 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 4: Let me put it on my page and I'll just 572 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,239 Speaker 4: boom and put it on my Instagram page. And they 573 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 4: said they hired girls with two million followers. Everything you 574 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 4: could think of whatever is a lot of followers back then, 575 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,439 Speaker 4: and they were hiring people to post shit and the 576 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,719 Speaker 4: turnaround was really not that great. When I did it, 577 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 4: the turnaround was overwhelming for them. So I said, hey, man, 578 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 4: we got an idea. Man, would you want to do 579 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 4: your own pen And I'm like, yeah, fuck it. But 580 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 4: if I do business, you know, I can't do like 581 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 4: some Let's do it, like let's let's let's let's let 582 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 4: let's let's brand it, let's let's do let's do a 583 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 4: whole fucking thing around me. Let's do this. And I 584 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 4: don't know why, but I just deep dove into it. 585 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 4: And so we started vbs and we began to crush 586 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 4: it until something called the fucking BCC. Yeah, irs a 587 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 4: fucking weed nott me just the BCC. But it was 588 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 4: just like, you know, like, uh, I've seen how many 589 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 4: times a new compliance has come around in the years. 590 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 4: I'm just like, what the come on, bro, a black sticker? 591 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 4: You're telling me the black SAA sticker. I have seventy 592 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 4: five thousand stickers. I mean two hundred fifty thousand stickers. 593 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 4: I got to get white stickers that the c A, 594 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 4: the fucking c A compliance sticker. Yeah, choking me, Please 595 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 4: tell me you're kidding. And I'm like, yo, It's like 596 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 4: little things like that, you know, like all right, you 597 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 4: got to start doing your homework. You know, I grew 598 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 4: up with Cypress Hill. Mister Cartoon's part of soul Assassins. 599 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 4: You know, it's all families, Like I've been around cannabis 600 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 4: all my life, and you know, I just started learning 601 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 4: the hardships and then just with the compliance and shit 602 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 4: and fucking and then pesticides came up, and there's people 603 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 4: are like, oh, you're selling dirt. And then it's just 604 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 4: like hold on, wait a second, what the fuck is 605 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 4: going on? I got these sides talking shit, hiding, you know, 606 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 4: putting this up your boom, and they're like, man, man, 607 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 4: we got people bootlegging your pants. 608 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's a lot of that happens to the 609 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 3: best of them. That's why you're doing it. 610 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 4: Fucking kidding me so counterfaiting that my pens are being 611 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 4: bootleg and there's not really much because it's it's pretty 612 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 4: close but then I'm like looking at it. I'm like, 613 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 4: all right, it's little off. I'm a jeweler. I'm gonna 614 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 4: look at detail. And yeah, sure enough, you know they 615 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 4: got bad you know they got bad oil in my pants. 616 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 4: You know the shit happened in brass nuckles and fucked 617 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 4: them up. And those are my boys, And it just 618 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 4: I had to just keep transitioning. So now it's at 619 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 4: the point where it's it, dude, it's it's a fucking 620 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 4: it's a struggle with with with with with bait pens, 621 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Plus on top of that, 622 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 4: I'm using c cell technology, which to means one of 623 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 4: the best. And people are like, you know why you're 624 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 4: on a pistoric shit, why don't you use live resud? Like, 625 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 4: shut the fuck up, bro, let me do what the 626 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 4: fuck I do? Do you know what I'm saying, Like, 627 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 4: everyone that has all these things to say about something, 628 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 4: they're either doing something out of the garage, they're doing 629 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 4: it on a very small scale, or they don't own 630 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 4: a company, don't understand what it is to sell a 631 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 4: million pens, you know. And you know, right when the 632 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 4: pandemic had started, we had two hundred and fifty thousand 633 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 4: pens stuck in customs from where China, and uh, I 634 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 4: was like, bro, there has to be someone who makes 635 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 4: fucking ce cell technology in America's there isn't. So I 636 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 4: was just like Jesus fucking Christ. So that was stuck 637 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 4: for a minute. I had a big partnership with medmen 638 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 4: and then that ship, Thank God, thank fucking God, like 639 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 4: God bless them and they are really good to me. 640 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 4: And I got paid. 641 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 8: I made money with that, Yeah, a lot of people didn't. 642 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, And I felt bad because I talked to people 643 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 4: are like, hey, man, how big is You're you're po 644 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 4: with them whatever. I'm like, man, like why do you 645 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 4: count in my pockets? I an't asked you no questions 646 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 4: what you guys doing? And you know, we got paid. 647 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 4: We're thankful, and we kept the pushing. So right now, 648 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 4: the good thing is the pens are in higher demand. 649 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 4: It's just harder to get because uh, you know, because 650 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 4: of because of China. So I kind of, you know, 651 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 4: finally went to the stream route and I teamed up 652 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 4: with Cookies Spam and my boys as the cultivation of 653 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 4: Big Farm Skypack and you know, Sacramento and I'm we 654 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 4: were about to launch the Strain on March twentieth. On 655 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 4: March eleventh, the entire country got shut down. Oh fucking fantastic. 656 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 4: You know, this is amazing. So, I mean, it's just 657 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 4: been it's been very interesting. And at the moment they 658 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 4: were like, why don't we just launch it without you here? 659 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 4: And I was like, Bro, I'm not like one of 660 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 4: these weirdos. Bro, you know what I'm saying, Like, I 661 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 4: want to be there, be involved, I want to be 662 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 4: at the instores. I want to actually be proactive on this. 663 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 4: And it's just it's still a very very unusual situation. 664 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 4: So that's just kind of on hold because my son 665 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 4: and my children's and my children and my whole family's 666 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 4: you know, health is ten times more valuable than any 667 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 4: of the Oh yeah, you know. 668 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 8: It'll be the Cannibals will be there tomorrow, all businesses will. 669 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 3: You got to take care of fan band first. 670 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 2: You know, Ben, Well, I remember when, you know, back 671 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 2: in the day, I used to hang out with you 672 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 2: at the Rainbow Room with you know, be Real and 673 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 2: you'd stop in once in a while. We used to 674 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 2: and you remember Playboy Bud next door at the Key Club. 675 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 2: You know what I mean and running around and and 676 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 2: I've watched this this industry evolves so much from your 677 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: you know, your product lines, to to the people, the 678 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 2: players that are all in that game, to the underground 679 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 2: things that were happening then to what's really happening now. 680 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 2: And you're right, it's such a big curve and all 681 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 2: these new things are happening, and it's so difficult to 682 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 2: to you know, navigate through it when you have laws changing, 683 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 2: like the Little c A and all this. So, you know, 684 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 2: I admire that fact that it's just like it's it's 685 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 2: a grind, you know, you've got to you've got to evolved. 686 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 2: I mean when we when we you know, try to 687 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 2: create this show and you know, you know me, people 688 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 2: told us that we were going to fail. You know, 689 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 2: all this isn't gonna work. You know, You're not gonna 690 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 2: ever be played on radio. And then three years, four 691 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 2: years into it, we're signing to the biggest you know, 692 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 2: uh music conglomerates. 693 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 3: You know. 694 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 2: But it's just you have to have that vision, and 695 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 2: you've always had that vision. And that's something that I 696 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 2: admire about you. 697 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 4: Man. 698 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 2: I've watched your success for for many years, you know, 699 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 2: and I just think it's fantastic that you have made 700 00:30:55,680 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 2: a staple and have influenced so many people, minorities, you know, 701 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 2: to be stronger, better and faster because you are you know, 702 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 2: that unicorn in that space. You know what I mean, 703 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 2: you always have been and it's it's beautiful. 704 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 3: Huh. 705 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 4: I appreciate it. 706 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. I want to get. 707 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 5: Towards now that you know you've done everything, you're doing, 708 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 5: all these things you make the thing with Michael Jackson, 709 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 5: what is. 710 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 3: It now that go? 711 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 5: You know, this is my passion and I know, of 712 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 5: course you know the pandemic, the health of your family 713 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 5: and kids. I'm assuming that's first top of the list, 714 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 5: making sure that's a plus number one. 715 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 3: But what is it now? I mean, is cannabis the 716 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 3: new Let me learn more about are what is it 717 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 3: that meant? Meant? 718 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 5: Let Ben Yang go from the young kid east in 719 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 5: La growing up to be Ben Baller, the icy fresh jewelers. 720 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 3: Now this now that where's your mindset out? 721 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:47,239 Speaker 7: Now? 722 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 3: Because you've been so successful, where are you going? 723 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 4: You know, it's funny to say that, man, like, there's 724 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 4: very few people in the world that even know my 725 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 4: name is Ben Yang. I think b reals play one 726 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 4: of the very few, and Kenji and all my soul 727 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 4: Assassin family. I don't think I've used that name as 728 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 4: a joke until maybe two years ago, so I no 729 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 4: one even I've never ever been addressed as that. I 730 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 4: think even my mail at my office, I think people 731 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 4: kind of bug out when they see that name. They 732 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 4: think it's wrong. They'll send it back like Motherfucker's use 733 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 4: name because it makes sense because I don't care about 734 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 4: anything anymore. I don't want to learn too much about 735 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 4: anything else. I'm really just over it. I'm almost fifty nine. 736 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 4: I'm just kind of like, I just want to be 737 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 4: a dad now, you know what I mean, because I 738 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 4: started so late in life. My wife is eleven years 739 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 4: younger than me, so like, you know, with my kids 740 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 4: and everything, you know, I've made enough money to kind 741 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 4: of just chill. So you know, I have businesses that 742 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 4: are on cruise control. And my my dream is to 743 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 4: delete all my social media, you know, like I think 744 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 4: I have y Yeah, man, you know, I'm just I'm 745 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 4: just I'm just over it. I want to be ben 746 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 4: Yang now, you know what I mean, And I want 747 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 4: to kind of I mean, I'm I'm never really gonna 748 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 4: fit in. I guess, you know, I could be in 749 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 4: regular clothes or whatever. It just wouldn't it wouldn't. It 750 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 4: wouldn't matter. I don't really wear jewelry anymore. I still have, 751 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 4: you know, obviously really nice cars and other things, but 752 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 4: I just don't really. It's just I'm just at a 753 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 4: different way. And I don't mean that to sound like 754 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 4: and some people will be like, oh, man, for your 755 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 4: giving up. How am I giving up? Motherfucker. I'm still 756 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 4: living better than everybody. You know, I've done that. 757 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 3: You're ready to cruse? Yeah, yeah, I have to. 758 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 4: Drive because you got to remember someone. I don't know, 759 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 4: somebody big. I'm trying to think, like fuck, I mean, 760 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 4: even like Jeff Bezos. I honestly, truly, this thing sounds 761 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 4: our land is to somebody listening to this. I don't 762 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 4: know if he had the work ethic I did at 763 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 4: a certain point. It was just he had the tools 764 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 4: and the money and other things, and he's amazing what 765 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 4: he did as a visionary and everything, and where he's 766 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 4: at now. It's just I can't think of it. I 767 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 4: don't know if you can work any hard like I 768 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 4: stressed my brain out so much. I had a seizure 769 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 4: a few weeks ago, you know, And it wasn't from anything, 770 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 4: to the fact that I just was so overwhelmed and 771 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 4: I've just worked so much that it's to the point 772 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 4: where I don't want to work anymore, do you know? 773 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 4: Because I worked for so long. I had a paper 774 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 4: route when I was a kid. I was always running 775 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 4: around doing shit. I worked at bird King, I worked, 776 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 4: I worked shitty places, fast food, you name it. Like 777 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 4: I'm cool, Like I'm good man. I don't want to 778 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,399 Speaker 4: work nowhere, you know what I mean, I'll take less 779 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 4: here to do this. And I've learned how to you know, 780 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 4: to you know, last this long. You know, people by 781 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 4: the time they're thirty in the hip hop world, you know, 782 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,320 Speaker 4: you're a dinosaur. Twenty seven they old, you know what 783 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 4: I mean, forty, mom, forget about it. 784 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 6: You know. 785 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,359 Speaker 4: Like the Plain Jane song came out just barely three 786 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 4: years ago, you know, and like that was a number 787 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 4: one song in the world, not even just the country. 788 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 4: And like my glow up every year I became more 789 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 4: relevant and flourished, and I was like, yo, man, like 790 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,400 Speaker 4: i got two more years and I'm done, right, you know. 791 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 3: And now if I'm not mistaken. You're on ESPN earlier. 792 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,239 Speaker 3: Is it a new shoe that you launched or what 793 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:57,320 Speaker 3: was cracking with that? 794 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,919 Speaker 4: No, So I have a I have a baseball card 795 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,279 Speaker 4: deal with Tops and Fact to cartoons of artists. They 796 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 4: they chose twenty iconic artists across the country, I'm sorry, 797 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 4: across the world, and they got the twenty most prolific 798 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 4: baseball player history, from Ted Williams to Mark Maguire to 799 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 4: Derek Jeter to Ken Griffy. And what they did was 800 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 4: they had twenty artists recreate twenty players rookie cards. And 801 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:34,520 Speaker 4: it was supposed to just be a fifty sixty Instagram campaign, 802 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,879 Speaker 4: but it ended up being a royalty thing. And I'm 803 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 4: with the major agency. I'm actually with Derek Jeter, same 804 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 4: agent as Derek Jeter, Tiger Woods. I'm with Excel Sports Management, 805 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,319 Speaker 4: you know. And for a long time, everything I've done 806 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,040 Speaker 4: on myself, every TV show, my reality series, my my 807 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 4: my movies, any kind of campaigns, everything was done through me. 808 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,400 Speaker 4: I had I had representation through w ME and CIA 809 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 4: before that, but I never really had like a real 810 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,719 Speaker 4: manager or agent and everything was myself, like I just 811 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 4: did it myself. I acted like it was someone else, 812 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 4: but it was just me. Now, in the last year, 813 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,400 Speaker 4: I'm with like some big hitters now, so you know, 814 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 4: my my deals are structured different. And in the pandemic, 815 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 4: you know, I signed this deal with Tops and I 816 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 4: thought it'd be cool, you know, I was like, hey, man, 817 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,319 Speaker 4: let's do this for fun. You know, this was ended 818 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 4: up being you know, like almost a eight figure deal, 819 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 4: so you know, it's it's it's you know, we're selling 820 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 4: twenty dollars cards, you know, and I've already sold a 821 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 4: quarter million of them. Yeah, Caroquin was a few cards 822 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,759 Speaker 4: ago and things like that. But I've also with them, 823 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,439 Speaker 4: I've been making money I've never in my life ever 824 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 4: And I own a non profit organization for a long 825 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,440 Speaker 4: time in Seattle, and I've done a lot of charity 826 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,879 Speaker 4: and help. But this is the year where I think 827 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,439 Speaker 4: I gave more than ever I've ever done in my life. 828 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 4: I would fuck trying to get an organization to middlemanship. 829 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 4: I literally looked through like two hundred ms. All right, 830 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 4: single mom needs diapers, boom, all right, I'm gonna send 831 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:57,840 Speaker 4: your cash out for twenty bucks, all right, Boom, you 832 00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 4: need three fifty all right, boom here. All right, I'm 833 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,719 Speaker 4: gonna send books listeners. All right, I'm a send SENTI 834 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,839 Speaker 4: fight allst this person. I just donated tons of shit 835 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,759 Speaker 4: that I donated to the Black Lives Matter Ship, to 836 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 4: the cause and everything. And I've just I've done more 837 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,879 Speaker 4: charity and donated this here than ever in my life. 838 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's a beautiful thing. 839 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 7: Man. 840 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,839 Speaker 5: You know, it's so great to hear you were talking 841 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 5: to Ben Baller also known and want to be known 842 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 5: as Debuilder Button named Ben Yang. We're gonna come back 843 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:23,360 Speaker 5: to do the high fight with you. 844 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 3: It's Cannabis Talk one on one. 845 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 8: Yes, welcome back to Cannabis Talk one on. 846 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 7: One with Blue Joe, Grande, Mark and Craig and Pop 847 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 7: Brothers at Law. We are here with Ben Baller of 848 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,719 Speaker 7: Icy Fresh, Jewelers and just so much stuff. But we 849 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 7: got to give thanks to Pitt, Peanut, Jennifer and Elvis. 850 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,479 Speaker 8: Those are the Those are. 851 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 5: The people of the crew who the only one that 852 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 5: tells talking like this to be back to be part 853 00:37:59,200 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 5: of the show. 854 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:00,719 Speaker 3: Reconnect me. 855 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,879 Speaker 5: As he's ripping Elvis, It's like I'm looking at him going, 856 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 5: I can't believe you're bringing us back. 857 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:06,719 Speaker 3: This this is a couple of times. 858 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,360 Speaker 8: Now, Hey, I remember, I remember how to do everything 859 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 8: I was. 860 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:11,399 Speaker 3: He just hasn't been here so long. 861 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 5: He's had such a crazy July to where we've done 862 00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,359 Speaker 5: podcasts every day in the month of July, and then 863 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,359 Speaker 5: he was here just the other day and he goes 864 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 5: our shows only Tuesdays and Thursday. 865 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 3: It's like, dog, we do a show every day, we're 866 00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:23,879 Speaker 3: doing five days. 867 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:24,839 Speaker 6: Wait, what do you mean? 868 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:25,239 Speaker 2: Hey? 869 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,240 Speaker 3: But when I come back, I bring the big guests 870 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:27,560 Speaker 3: with me. 871 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,320 Speaker 7: Right now, it's time for the Cannabis Talk one on 872 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,200 Speaker 7: one high. 873 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:33,200 Speaker 3: Five with Ben Ball. 874 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 5: Before we do the high five with Ben Ball, and 875 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,040 Speaker 5: I want you to give another introduction so we can 876 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:37,919 Speaker 5: do that nice and clean. 877 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 3: Okay, Ben, am I not mistaken? Are you a big 878 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 3: fan of the poem the slam poem that mister Mark? 879 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 3: Have you heard of it yet? Do you know the 880 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 3: slam poem that Mark and Craig Washerman have done? 881 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 4: Oh? 882 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:51,680 Speaker 3: Oh, no, you know it. 883 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 4: I'm not sure. 884 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,239 Speaker 3: I don't know. 885 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,479 Speaker 4: I to refresh my memory. 886 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 3: It's okay, he's heard the script. 887 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,640 Speaker 5: Well, I guess I think we walk on without further 888 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 5: If you, Ben, this is education that should be sold 889 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,120 Speaker 5: and not told by the pop brothers at law without 890 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,520 Speaker 5: further ado, mister Mark Washerman give him the slamp home. 891 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 8: It's called am I being detained or am I free 892 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:17,960 Speaker 8: to go? By the pop brothers at law? 893 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 3: Am I being detained or am I free to go? 894 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,040 Speaker 7: This is what to say, my lawyer tells me. So 895 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 7: the cops are out there doing a job. Sometimes they 896 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,920 Speaker 7: must contain a mob, a thankless job that saves many lives. 897 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 7: At their home are worried children, husbands and wives. But 898 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,960 Speaker 7: does that give them the right to stomp on my rights? 899 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,040 Speaker 7: So we are here for you, the cannabis community, to 900 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 7: fight to let you know it's okay to just shut. 901 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 8: The fuck up. 902 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,920 Speaker 7: When cops ask questions, you start with I'm not discussing 903 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 7: my day, end with I invoked the Fifth These ain't suggestions, 904 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,040 Speaker 7: These are words to live by, to memorize. See, it's 905 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 7: not about the size of that cops gun because they 906 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,359 Speaker 7: want you to run so they can pull that macho 907 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,879 Speaker 7: gun and shoot you for fleeing the scene. Some cops 908 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,359 Speaker 7: are just plain mean. We must show off, shut it down. 909 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 7: Those feelings of anger that instantly come around when that 910 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,080 Speaker 7: cop has to show his power and his might without cause, 911 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:08,360 Speaker 7: without reason, and. 912 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,560 Speaker 3: We know they're not right. 913 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,880 Speaker 7: We must remain calm, keep the devil sleeping on the 914 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,919 Speaker 7: left shoulder. We must be cold, even colder. Ice must 915 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,840 Speaker 7: flow through your veins to shut that heat, the blood 916 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 7: that rush your brain straight from your feet. When that 917 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,759 Speaker 7: cop disrespected you cuz you wouldn't tell him what that 918 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,759 Speaker 7: smell was, and he accuses you of a pot to 919 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,960 Speaker 7: ui because he absolutely knows that you're buzzed. But see, 920 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,600 Speaker 7: they can't tell, and they don't know only if you 921 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 7: tell them. So o, Officer, I smoked a joint a 922 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 7: few hours ago. Officer, here's my medical wreck. Officer, I'm 923 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:45,240 Speaker 7: a marijuana patient. We live in America. Prohibition still exists. 924 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 7: That CoP's gonna do whatever he's gonna do. Fifty to 925 00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,000 Speaker 7: fifty he arrests. You. Give us a chance to represent 926 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 7: you with the defense that's blazing. Let us show you 927 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,200 Speaker 7: in court we're amazing. But we can only do that 928 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,279 Speaker 7: if you listen to our tips. Now, let me see 929 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,320 Speaker 7: you move your lips. You know the drill. When the 930 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,919 Speaker 7: cops ask questions, we say, I'm not discussing my day. 931 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 7: Am I being detained? Or am I free to go? 932 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:14,120 Speaker 7: I invoked the fifth and then you shut the fuck up. 933 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,520 Speaker 7: It's all about what you say and what you do. 934 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:17,760 Speaker 8: We have given you the script. 935 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,760 Speaker 7: We are telling you what to say, we are telling 936 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,200 Speaker 7: you what to do. We've put your hands up in 937 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 7: protection mode. But should you take a shot to the jaw, 938 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,400 Speaker 7: we will be here fighting for the cannabis community. 939 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,000 Speaker 8: Because we are the pot brothers at all. 940 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,880 Speaker 3: Damn you think that. 941 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:38,719 Speaker 4: I'm all about it man? 942 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:39,480 Speaker 6: You know I. 943 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,440 Speaker 4: That's what got me looked onto it when I heard 944 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,920 Speaker 4: them on I'm with the Saving I'm on the same 945 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,560 Speaker 4: production company as Mike Rapport, so you know when I 946 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,239 Speaker 4: heard them on rap shawls like yo, I fuck with 947 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:50,800 Speaker 4: these dudes. 948 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,560 Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate. 949 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,080 Speaker 7: All right, now it is time for the Cannabis Talk 950 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 7: one oh one high five with Ben Baller. 951 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:00,960 Speaker 3: Joe. Take it away, Ben, Here we go. 952 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,719 Speaker 5: Five questions for you, brother, can't wait to get your 953 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,440 Speaker 5: honest answer. How old are you the first time you 954 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:07,160 Speaker 5: smoked weed? 955 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:08,520 Speaker 3: And where'd you get it from? 956 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,359 Speaker 4: I was twelve and I got it from some dude 957 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:13,240 Speaker 4: named Lawrence. 958 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,000 Speaker 3: Good old Lawrence, number neighbor, friend, who's Lawrence? 959 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,799 Speaker 4: He was an older dude at my school. In fact, 960 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,160 Speaker 4: you know I think he was in eighth grade, but 961 00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:24,799 Speaker 4: he flunked the grade, so he should have been high 962 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,560 Speaker 4: schoolready and getting fucking sixth graders high back in the 963 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,680 Speaker 4: fucking nice. 964 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,760 Speaker 8: Question number two, what is your favorite way to use cannabis? 965 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,400 Speaker 4: My favorite way to use cannabis is to smoke it 966 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:42,640 Speaker 4: in a blunt but. 967 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 5: Due to. 968 00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,799 Speaker 4: Home and things like that in my hands and spill 969 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,000 Speaker 4: anything else. You know, I do smoke it out of 970 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,600 Speaker 4: a out of a cannabis big pen, nice just because 971 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,160 Speaker 4: I just I do it out of respect for them, 972 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,320 Speaker 4: for my family understood. 973 00:42:58,360 --> 00:42:58,560 Speaker 7: Yeah. 974 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,400 Speaker 2: Question number three of the High five with Ben Baller, 975 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:07,080 Speaker 2: craziest place you've ever used or smoked cannabis? 976 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,759 Speaker 8: Damn, he's thinking about a million things right now. 977 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 5: I know he's all hate witch uh Flint's barbecue and 978 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,560 Speaker 5: O Glynn Michael Jackson's house. 979 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,560 Speaker 4: I mean, bro, I can't, I can't. I can't even imagine, 980 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:31,240 Speaker 4: like like you know in Asia, there's areas like in Korea. 981 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,919 Speaker 4: You know, if it gets caught with weed, it's yeah, 982 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,839 Speaker 4: it's Charlie. You know, getting the twelve year old naked 983 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,080 Speaker 4: boy in your car, you know what I mean, in 984 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:43,920 Speaker 4: the trunk, like it's Jesus. In Korea, you know, they 985 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,680 Speaker 4: don't have the jail cells only five feet tall, so 986 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,239 Speaker 4: I can't even stand up in a jail cell, you know, 987 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,440 Speaker 4: like there's no toilet, there's none of that. It's it's 988 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,200 Speaker 4: really some old other ship. 989 00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:51,360 Speaker 7: You know. 990 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,239 Speaker 4: It's just really crazy. So with that said, you know, 991 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,560 Speaker 4: there's there's a lot of places, but I have to 992 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 4: say I was completely against it. When Snoop first went 993 00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,560 Speaker 4: to Korea, he had no how expensive weed was. Right, 994 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,880 Speaker 4: So Snoop goes to Korea and he's like, hey, bro, 995 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,600 Speaker 4: you need to hook me up blah blah. His manager's koreand. 996 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,520 Speaker 3: Ted Ted Yeah, Ted change yeah. 997 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,080 Speaker 4: And so Ted's like, hey, man, look bro, you already 998 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,440 Speaker 4: know what the deal is. He's banned in like four 999 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,200 Speaker 4: countries and just try to make it happen. So I 1000 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:25,640 Speaker 4: was like, you want some good shit. He's like, bro, 1001 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,160 Speaker 4: come on, man, you know what. I'm like, all right, 1002 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,400 Speaker 4: I got you, man, I'm gonna figure it out. And 1003 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,120 Speaker 4: he goes, bro, they have an ounce there, like, but 1004 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 4: I'm gonna be real with you. It's like, you know, 1005 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,440 Speaker 4: twenty five thousand dollars my god, but if you want 1006 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,359 Speaker 4: to just buy it by the Graham. You know it's 1007 00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,560 Speaker 4: you know what, maybe like twenty five hundred bucks a gram. 1008 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,400 Speaker 4: It's like it's it's so he's just like trying to 1009 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,200 Speaker 4: figure it out. He goes through like the entire ounce, 1010 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,200 Speaker 4: you know, in less than a day, and he's like, 1011 00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,800 Speaker 4: fuck this, I'm gonna start doing features, Like do you 1012 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,320 Speaker 4: know how much a snoop feature is? Like if you 1013 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,319 Speaker 4: justone had to cash to pay it, he was going 1014 00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,399 Speaker 4: to do a feature anyways. Bottom line is I told 1015 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,279 Speaker 4: him exactly where to stay with hotel to stands so 1016 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,640 Speaker 4: we can smoke and certain things, and he was able 1017 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:09,120 Speaker 4: to maneuver through that. Craziest place I smoked weed was 1018 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,640 Speaker 4: I brought Justin Bieber to Korea for the first time 1019 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,000 Speaker 4: six years ago. It's never been to Korea. Before he 1020 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,480 Speaker 4: started going to country he's never been to. And he 1021 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,760 Speaker 4: starts getting kicked out of countries because he's literally running 1022 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,279 Speaker 4: to a jet to get out of the country because 1023 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,279 Speaker 4: they find out that weed and they're trying to arrest him. 1024 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, Korea, and tells. 1025 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,719 Speaker 4: Me, don't worry about Everything's all good. I sneak half 1026 00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:36,600 Speaker 4: an ounce of my pants in Korea. Dombest fucking thing 1027 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,880 Speaker 4: I've done in my entire life. I'm worried, like, this 1028 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,319 Speaker 4: is so stupid, so. 1029 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:40,880 Speaker 3: I bring it. 1030 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,600 Speaker 4: He starts smoking in my room. I'm like, no, no, no, broke, 1031 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,440 Speaker 4: I'm not staying at the hotel where you smoke. He's like, oh, 1032 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 4: the way back, Boom. I'm just irritated. He goes, hey, 1033 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,000 Speaker 4: let's go to the mall. Let's go hang out. Show 1034 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,640 Speaker 4: me some sh sw me some fly shit in Korea. 1035 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:56,120 Speaker 4: So we get in the car. We start smoking. I'm 1036 00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,800 Speaker 4: not even fucking paying attention. Okay, We're in a seven 1037 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,279 Speaker 4: car convoy. All kinds of craziness right, security everything. I know. 1038 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,920 Speaker 4: His entire team bes my boy. We're in a fucking 1039 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:16,400 Speaker 4: car driven by the police in Korea, smoking and I 1040 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,719 Speaker 4: hear that the the thing come down, and I hear 1041 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,919 Speaker 4: the dude talking and he has a police walkie talking. 1042 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,400 Speaker 4: I don't speak Korea influently, I understand everything I need 1043 00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:28,000 Speaker 4: to understand. And at that point I knew we were 1044 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,480 Speaker 4: going to jail. I was that was a wrap, it 1045 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,840 Speaker 4: was done. I was like, holy shit, this is fucking unbelievable. 1046 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,480 Speaker 4: It was just a fucking un We made TMZ that 1047 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,640 Speaker 4: week and everything, and it was just crazy that we 1048 00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,959 Speaker 4: were damn near smoking in a police car in Korea. 1049 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,400 Speaker 4: Of the most strictest places hasn't been the top five 1050 00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,840 Speaker 4: strictest places in the world. Of spoke with me. I 1051 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,239 Speaker 4: was just like, Yo, it is unbelievable, like it fucked 1052 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,719 Speaker 4: up our relationship to our friendship. Because it was such 1053 00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,520 Speaker 4: a fucked up situation, that had to be the craziest 1054 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:51,960 Speaker 4: place I could think of it. There's other places I 1055 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:52,399 Speaker 4: could think. 1056 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,000 Speaker 3: That that was a great journey. 1057 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,680 Speaker 7: All right, we are here with Ben Bam. It is 1058 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,480 Speaker 7: question number four of the High five. Man, what is 1059 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,520 Speaker 7: your go to munchies. 1060 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:06,120 Speaker 8: When you get high? 1061 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:07,600 Speaker 7: Oh? 1062 00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:13,160 Speaker 4: Man, any Japanese snack man, the green tea or strawberry 1063 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,160 Speaker 4: kit kats. There's these butter biscuits that I get from Japan. 1064 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,120 Speaker 4: Everything's all Japanese snacks. Man. It's just, you know, if 1065 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:20,960 Speaker 4: I don't have Japanese snacks, then you know what, fuck it. 1066 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,680 Speaker 4: I'll just go to some Cheetos and I go to like, 1067 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:28,279 Speaker 4: you know, some pound cake shit. I'm into all of 1068 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:29,719 Speaker 4: the fancy shit, you know what I'm saying. But I 1069 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,560 Speaker 4: love my Japanese snacks man. 1070 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,480 Speaker 5: I remember DJ Cos bringing me a bunch of Japanese 1071 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:38,279 Speaker 5: snacks shout out to cars over there. Okay, question number five, 1072 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,080 Speaker 5: if you could smoke with anybody senior. 1073 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,520 Speaker 3: Ben Baller, dead or alive, who would it be? 1074 00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,440 Speaker 4: Oh? Man, Shit, bro, it's not even a question. Bro, 1075 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,440 Speaker 4: be fucking Bruce Lee. Man. How to be Bruce Lee? 1076 00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,560 Speaker 4: Bob Marley, you know what I'm saying. But yeah, I 1077 00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:01,040 Speaker 4: mean it's Bob Marley second and maybe Barack Obama third, 1078 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:02,439 Speaker 4: and that's about it. That's yeah. 1079 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,600 Speaker 5: But I want to get into detail now with Bruce Lee. 1080 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,960 Speaker 5: And I'm sure you've watched the movies, but I'm a 1081 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,960 Speaker 5: huge fan of it. Man, I know you've watched it 1082 00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:12,320 Speaker 5: man one, two, probably. 1083 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:13,719 Speaker 3: Three and four. Are you hip to the movie it? 1084 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:13,960 Speaker 4: Man? 1085 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,680 Speaker 3: Ip right? Of course? Yeah, so that it man. If 1086 00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,480 Speaker 3: you guys don't know, that was Bruce Lee's one of 1087 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,200 Speaker 3: his senses. So why Bruce Lee? Though? 1088 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:29,120 Speaker 4: I think one growing up as an Asian American in 1089 00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:33,560 Speaker 4: the world and there was nobody of representation but him, 1090 00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,080 Speaker 4: and he happened to be the baddest motherfucker that ever lived, 1091 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:37,680 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like, and he was cool 1092 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,000 Speaker 4: with the brothers, he was cool with the blacks, he 1093 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,920 Speaker 4: was cool, cool with everyone. Everyone kind of fucked with him. 1094 00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,400 Speaker 4: You know, it wasn't just like Asians, and he was 1095 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,160 Speaker 4: just you know you even watching the documentary Be Like Water, 1096 00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,600 Speaker 4: and just his philosophy on life and just how he 1097 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,120 Speaker 4: felt and what he did and what barriers he had 1098 00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:52,960 Speaker 4: to break down in Hollywood and in the world, and 1099 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,440 Speaker 4: he just just seems so so pure, you know, and 1100 00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,759 Speaker 4: so real. And I think, like, you know, sparking, you know, 1101 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,960 Speaker 4: a nice you know, some o g cush with him. Man, bro, 1102 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,040 Speaker 4: I couldn't imagine what kind of shit he might be spending. 1103 00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,879 Speaker 3: After that, you know for sure. 1104 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:09,640 Speaker 7: You know what. 1105 00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,040 Speaker 5: It's funny, Ben, You're such a great storyteller. You're such 1106 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,880 Speaker 5: a pleasure to have on the podcast with us. And 1107 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,919 Speaker 5: to hear you say, Bruce Lee, we literally all lost 1108 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,000 Speaker 5: it out here. I mean, Craig's a black belt or 1109 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,440 Speaker 5: whatever belt, grew up with his kids, like, he's got 1110 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,919 Speaker 5: nice nice wow and know only that it makes you think, going. 1111 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:29,839 Speaker 5: I love when I hear names, because when I hear 1112 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,640 Speaker 5: an obscure name that I don't know, I'm like, I 1113 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,160 Speaker 5: don't know who that is, but I'm sure that person 1114 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:33,600 Speaker 5: likes him. 1115 00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,960 Speaker 3: You said Bruce Lee, it makes you go that would 1116 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:38,719 Speaker 3: be a good one. Man. 1117 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,839 Speaker 4: Yeah, see anything. 1118 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,200 Speaker 5: Else you want to shout out there? I mentioned you're 1119 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,160 Speaker 5: a good talker. You got a podcast? Are you still 1120 00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:45,520 Speaker 5: doing it? 1121 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,600 Speaker 4: I have a podcast I do every every two times 1122 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,560 Speaker 4: a week. We drop every Monday and every Thursday. It's 1123 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,960 Speaker 4: called Behind the Baller. We are a top forty chart, 1124 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,360 Speaker 4: you know, topping a podcast, and you know we crush it. 1125 00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,840 Speaker 4: I have my one hundredth episode dropping on Monday, but 1126 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,879 Speaker 4: I have an episode dropping them all actually. 1127 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,959 Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, we'd love to be a part of your show. 1128 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:06,200 Speaker 6: Man. 1129 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,000 Speaker 2: If if that, if you could work out some space 1130 00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,520 Speaker 2: for these few Mexicans and Jews over here, we kind 1131 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:11,960 Speaker 2: of join you. 1132 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,320 Speaker 4: Hey, man, you know half my family is Jewish. You 1133 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:18,360 Speaker 4: see the star of David on me, remember of the tribe? 1134 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,400 Speaker 4: I mean the star Davis Tatada me. 1135 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,080 Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, beautiful man. 1136 00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,920 Speaker 4: I definitely do a man just so you guys know. Man, 1137 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:28,080 Speaker 4: you know, my first language was not English, It wasn't Korean. 1138 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:31,560 Speaker 4: It was Spanish, you know, so yeah, and you know 1139 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,839 Speaker 4: my my uh, and then my second language is Korean 1140 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,520 Speaker 4: and then in an English third and then uh, you 1141 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,200 Speaker 4: know pretty much it's sad. You know, I only kind 1142 00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:40,960 Speaker 4: of kept the slang and the bad words of Spanish 1143 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,800 Speaker 4: and Korean. But you know, but it was just, you know, 1144 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:45,839 Speaker 4: I grew up around blacks and Jews all my life, 1145 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,879 Speaker 4: and I would love to have you guys on the show. 1146 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,800 Speaker 4: I've had some amazing guests on my show. Uh. You know, 1147 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,480 Speaker 4: I worked with George George Lopez really heavily. You know, 1148 00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:55,759 Speaker 4: if you saw his new Netflix. 1149 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:56,920 Speaker 3: Special Awesome, Awesome. 1150 00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:58,359 Speaker 4: I'm in the beginning of the show. 1151 00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,240 Speaker 3: You're going to introduce it, correct, Yeah. 1152 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, I introduced him on that He's brought me. I 1153 00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,120 Speaker 4: think I choose some With three different specials now to 1154 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,520 Speaker 4: HBO and this Netflix one, he just always flies me out. 1155 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,160 Speaker 4: I don't don't don't ask me why. I don't know. 1156 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,160 Speaker 4: But he's always cool. He has a great weed party 1157 00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,360 Speaker 4: every year at his house, and and I'm just you know, 1158 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,279 Speaker 4: I'm down with anything, bro. You know, I've had a 1159 00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,759 Speaker 4: lot of amazing guests on my show, and uh, I 1160 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,120 Speaker 4: can't wait to have you guys on to inform people 1161 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,040 Speaker 4: because I had not mister ticket what's his name, the 1162 00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,640 Speaker 4: checks checkpoint, checkpoint, amazing. 1163 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,719 Speaker 8: Y senate, good friends of ours time. 1164 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,040 Speaker 4: He's a very nice guy. He's a little too nice, 1165 00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,560 Speaker 4: I think Mark is a little more like like me, like, listen, 1166 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,759 Speaker 4: fuck you, dumb buck. I don't mean you're dumb buck, 1167 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,040 Speaker 4: but I can tell you a dumb buck because you 1168 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,440 Speaker 4: don't fucking listen. Shut the fuck up. I need you 1169 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,400 Speaker 4: to tell my listeners and my fans, my followers like, bro, 1170 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,480 Speaker 4: shut the fuck up when you get pulled over right, 1171 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,560 Speaker 4: just you know, I think I think my fan base 1172 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,759 Speaker 4: could definitely use the Pop Brothers for sure. 1173 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:57,520 Speaker 3: You got it, you got it, got it. 1174 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,520 Speaker 2: Well, we want to thank you for joining the show man, Bamballer. 1175 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,160 Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure. Man. We love you. 1176 00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,000 Speaker 2: Make sure you check out his podcast and follow him online. 1177 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:07,839 Speaker 2: It's Cannabis Talk one on one. 1178 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,160 Speaker 3: Remember this. If no one else loves you, we do. 1179 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:10,719 Speaker 4: Peace. 1180 00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,839 Speaker 1: Peace, Thanks for listening to another podcast of Cannabis Talk 1181 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,280 Speaker 1: one oh one, the world's number one source for everything cannabis, 1182 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,200 Speaker 1: featuring Ben Baller from Icy Fresh Jewels.