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Speaker 4: from a dispensary that has been an operation since two

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Speaker 4: thousand and six, providing the greater Los Angeles area with

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Speaker 4: a wide variety of high quality cannabis products. Besides us

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Speaker 4: today is a Justice Taylor Andrew and of course we

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Speaker 4: have Chase and Drew over here all over here hanging

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I think we're going to start a

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Speaker 3: dance contest too, but we're going to figure that out

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Speaker 3: a little bit later.

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Speaker 4: Because Smartweed, how do you come up with such a

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Speaker 4: great name like that? A cannabis dispensary that offers a

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Speaker 4: diverse assortments of THC and CBD products including flower concentrates, edibles,

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Speaker 4: wellness products such as oils, tinksters, creams, healing bombs and

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Speaker 4: pills and capsules. All the above, you guys, open for

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Speaker 4: both recreational and medical clientele. Smartweed is a member of

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Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Esteemed United Cannabis Business Association otherwise known

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Speaker 4: as a whole make sure you guys. Check out their

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Speaker 4: wxxd and tap in and shop at one of LA's

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Speaker 4: original providers if you're in the area. It's one zero

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Speaker 4: four zero Northwestern Avenue in Hollywood, California, nine double two nine.

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Speaker 4: Without further ado, Please give it up for Justice. T

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Speaker 4: Bone in the building, Jason, and the co founder himself,

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Speaker 4: Drew was in the house.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 4: And before I even get into asking all these great questions, Drew,

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Speaker 4: there's nothing better than somebody bringing us a gift, and

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Speaker 4: And for you to go out of your way and

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Speaker 4: understand that I was a connoisseur of cigars.

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Speaker 3: And bring me such a nice one.

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Speaker 4: You see where I put it, I hit it just

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Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you, Drew. You're a

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Speaker 5: Thank you. We appreciate you as well. We did bring cannabis.

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Speaker 3: For everybody else.

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Speaker 4: Well about this for everybody got everybody has it on

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Speaker 4: Chris Frankeno, our VP guy who you know everybody brings

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Speaker 4: They go, smart weed? And everybody else had it on

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Speaker 5: Well, we're happy to be of service and much appreciate

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Speaker 4: Well, no, it's good to have you guys here, so

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Speaker 4: off the batman. Congratulations for starting such a great name

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Speaker 5: Well, like you said, we do have to be smart

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Speaker 5: and we specialize in cultivation. There's a cultivation facility on site.

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Speaker 2: And so, were you growing before, because I know the answer,

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Speaker 5: And to your point too, it's very hard to duplicate

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Speaker 2: you said, the true professionals. Tell me a little bit

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Speaker 5: Okay, So to my left, to my left here a Chase.

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Speaker 5: He's a partner now and a shareholder. He came on

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Speaker 4: Because the way you're modeling that jumpsuit. I mean, I

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Speaker 6: Well, I can tell you this is definitely not the

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Speaker 3: And they gave you, and they got you to tied.

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Speaker 3: Although you do look super fly.

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Speaker 4: Please let them know I'm looking for one, all right,

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Speaker 4: it looks very sharp on you.

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Speaker 5: Drew Taylor to his left is Taylor. That's our current

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Speaker 3: The buyer over there, right is that is that the role?

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Speaker 3: So you're kind of like they're looking for you. Everybody

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Speaker 7: Just making sure that that's your most reputable and freshest

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Speaker 9: Or you can tell that's been sitting in a trunk.

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Speaker 3: They've been working three months the same. Understand that's a

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Speaker 7: So sample freshness, because that's that's more or less what

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Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah nice, Yeah, that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: And so that's great quality still coming out the door

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Speaker 2: Oh you're saying, that's the weed that was giving you

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Speaker 6: Door shut So I wanted to jump street.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right right, Yeah, thirty books.

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Speaker 4: An eighth is white called Larry, Yeah, called Daniel, Like, oh.

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Speaker 6: No, Taylor knows this very well. So this is this

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Speaker 3: Well, now we're talking data. Yeah, yeah, this that is

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know a lot of people, you know,

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Speaker 3: School method, right, the things that we grew up on, which.

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Speaker 2: It's like yo, it smells good, it looks good, and

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Speaker 2: freestyle right, there's you know this game is past that now. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and it's tough because I think a lot of people

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Speaker 6: That's absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is even set those up because they elaborate. Folks.

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Speaker 4: If you're listening, you're a rep out there listening to

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Speaker 3: Let's cut the bullshit, let's get to know each other

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Speaker 6: One of the things that we actually do Taylor Taylor

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's great.

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Speaker 2: So you have that rep from their company walk our

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Speaker 3: That way they're not just going in there going well,

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Speaker 3: this is the you're just trying to you know, these

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Speaker 6: So we actually operate with probably some of the slimmest

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Speaker 6: we need it. We need to hit this out the

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Speaker 6: door price. It's not us trying to give a grind

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Speaker 6: It's actually very much the opposite.

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Speaker 5: Yep, nice, And that's what That's what element Chase brings

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Speaker 5: For us as growers, we're kind of like old school

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Speaker 3: True.

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Speaker 2: You know, I got a question for you, Like, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm listening to your team right now, and you know

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Speaker 2: you have to not give yourself credit too, because you

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Speaker 2: were able to develop this team, right, I mean because.

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Speaker 3: You have somebody else hired them. Don't give you.

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Speaker 5: Did you hire we did hire everybody? Yes, yeah, Okay.

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Speaker 5: Chase and I actually know each other from from prior, he.

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Speaker 3: Said, don't give them that much credit.

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Speaker 5: Chase and I have prior experience together in the watch industry.

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Speaker 5: Chase happens to be actually we both happen to be

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Speaker 10: Oh really, what would I kind of watch what I

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Speaker 10: got on? You have an victim? Well, that's wearable.

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Speaker 3: It's one of those I watched. So there is.

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Speaker 6: Actually something funny Apple. Apple calls it a watch so

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Speaker 6: because it's not the best selling wearable.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 6: So they they chose their classification so that they could

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Speaker 3: Well, I want to know what your favorite watch is?

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Speaker 4: the president, the buyer's ambassadors from Chase to Tie and Justice.

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Speaker 4: Great stories, but damn when you mentioned watches, dog, Wow,

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Speaker 4: you can see how we perk up because Drew Yet

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Speaker 4: it's just so funny that for us guys, that's all

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Speaker 4: we really have, right, We have that a cool ring,

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Speaker 3: Watches are one of those things.

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Speaker 4: I have so many watches and now I have my

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Speaker 4: it wor so much. Yeah yeah, well, and for me

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Speaker 3: So this is honestly, well, there's two reasons.

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Speaker 3: But it really is the truth of why I like

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Speaker 3: what rock or what watch are you working with, Chase today?

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Speaker 6: I'm wearing a vintage Omega today.

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Speaker 3: See that.

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Speaker 4: Shout out to my boy Chris Capri Capri Jewelers on

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Speaker 4: six and Hill. I always get all my watches from

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Speaker 4: that guy. I don't know randomly, I've always been going

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Speaker 6: So so listen, I actually were the Omega because that's

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Speaker 6: my other clients is in the same industry as you.

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Speaker 6: Would you mind if I introduced the two of you,

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Speaker 6: And this was many, many years ago, I think it

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Speaker 6: Okay, either one. It was a little while ago, and

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Speaker 3: How random is it? And how long have you been

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Speaker 6: Just over a year now?

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Speaker 3: Oh fantastic.

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Speaker 2: So if and if I'm not mistaken, I mean, you

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Speaker 3: So they brought you on for a strategic partner. Yes, So.

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Speaker 6: And if in other industries, you'd almost call it a unicorn.

445
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:25,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

446
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,400
Speaker 4: So's if they're to say chase because of what I'm

447
00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,200
Speaker 4: hearing smart weed and you guys's margins and this and

448
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 4: that you can sell more for less and make more

449
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 4: money than selling something for a little more and.

450
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 3: Not pushing it out as quickly.

451
00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 6: Absolutely, if you want to talk price elasticity of demand,

452
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 6: we can definitely go there. But I don't want to

453
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:44,120
Speaker 6: lose anyone.

454
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,560
Speaker 4: Because you know what, when you said what you said, though,

455
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,360
Speaker 4: that's what resonated to me. Like I was listening you going, oh,

456
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,880
Speaker 4: this fucking guy chasing lots smarter than you looks well,

457
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 4: I like it. Yeah, I mean he's got a sweatshuit.

458
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 4: On how many smart guys are walking around in sweatsuits?

459
00:20:59,080 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 5: I know one?

460
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:01,840
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean, he's the president. I

461
00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,320
Speaker 3: mean he's rocking up a loore. I thought he was

462
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,400
Speaker 3: going to sing, you know, l kul Jadimire or something.

463
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:05,760
Speaker 8: You know.

464
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 5: So it came time in the company's history where it

465
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,359
Speaker 5: was time to take this thing to the next level.

466
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,439
Speaker 5: And one thing the cannabis industry in general is lacking

467
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,920
Speaker 5: is actual business professionals. A lot of us know a

468
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 5: lot about all the time, a lot about.

469
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:21,920
Speaker 3: A lot of us know a lot.

470
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 5: About cultivation or how to get things moving from back

471
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,400
Speaker 5: in the day, but we need more people like Chase

472
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 5: to help push the industry to the next level. And

473
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 5: I'm fortunate to have known him in the circles that

474
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 5: he was talking about, and I thought he would be

475
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,920
Speaker 5: the perfect fit to help us reach the heights that

476
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 5: smart we you just trying to achieve.

477
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 2: Sure, you know, I find it interesting because I you know,

478
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,560
Speaker 2: I've had also to go through that learning curve here,

479
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 2: you know, I mean even just with the show. You know,

480
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 2: like I had a show on one on one point

481
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 2: five FM, KOCI on the radio show prior to annoying Joe,

482
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 2: and we were doing just fine. But you know, Joe

483
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 2: comes from the radio background.

484
00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 3: You know, we meet and he just.

485
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,119
Speaker 2: Adds these little tips and these tricks and these you know,

486
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 2: the things that he's learned, and it adds that value.

487
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 2: Then I'm in here trying to run the whole company

488
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 2: just me Joe and and you know, a couple of

489
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 2: guys and realizing that no, I need a graphics designer, I.

490
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 4: Need this and that, and you know, I'm all I

491
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 4: could edit videos real well yeah, horrible yeah, And then

492
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 4: I'd be like, but there was a point where we

493
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 4: were doing we argue about it because it's like Joe,

494
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 4: that looks like shit.

495
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,120
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, you don't like my ship. Yeah.

496
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's that point of like, you know, the

497
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 2: team's growing, you know, and watching developments, and this is

498
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 2: the difference between you know, now cannabis talk one on one,

499
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 2: you know, where the world's number one source for everything,

500
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,400
Speaker 2: and we have an amazing team and we keep getting better.

501
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,680
Speaker 2: We're finding the humbleness to say, like, listen, I'm not

502
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 2: a great, you know, analyst, I don't understand that. So

503
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 2: I have a data guy that does that, you know.

504
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,400
Speaker 2: So you guys are experiencing that, especially you and your team,

505
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 2: and like I said, that that makes you brilliant, like

506
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 2: that makes you grow. A lot of people are It's

507
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 2: impressive right now in this I'm impressed right now with

508
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:00,480
Speaker 2: I guess.

509
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 5: Mightst to have people with specialization in the right departments

510
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 5: where they can succeed so the company can fire on

511
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 5: all cylinders.

512
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

513
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things I noticed we spoke last week,

514
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 2: and I could just hear your knowledging growing, Like it

515
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 2: was hands down, you just started breaking things down the

516
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 2: way the plant works and all you know, the CBDs,

517
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 2: the cbns, the stuff that you know about this plant,

518
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 2: like probably the rest of the company doesn't necessarily have

519
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 2: to because you run your department, you know.

520
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, so my partner and I do run the

521
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 5: cultivation department, and like specifically, he knows as much as

522
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 5: I do, in fact a little bit more. Right now,

523
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 5: he's working on genetical engineering with the very reputable geneticist

524
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 5: in the industry. So Smartweed is looking to be creating

525
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 5: its own strains coming up in the next year or

526
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 5: two based on the knowledge that he amasses. He'll pass

527
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 5: it on to me and then that's probably the last

528
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 5: thing that we're lacking in our cultivation portfolio, is the

529
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 5: ability to produce new genetics and interesting strains.

530
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 3: Sure, now, what are you guys producing though? What is

531
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 3: the number one sellers from your brand?

532
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 8: So it's a Blueberry Runs right now. So actually we

533
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 8: have a sample for our Blueberry Runs and our l

534
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,199
Speaker 8: CG right there for you guys right here.

535
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 11: At least those tests come on the news. I've got

536
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 11: the I can't read that my eyes socks. Sorry, this

537
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 11: one is the LCG. Oh, I got the blueberry.

538
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 3: That one's blueberry.

539
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 5: Those are both going in house that smart Weed over

540
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 5: steamed by the smell and professional cultivation stuff.

541
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 3: This looks amazing.

542
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 8: Actually, yeah, put that in your pipe and smoke.

543
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 3: This blueberry one is like mm hmm, it's just it's yeah,

544
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 3: it is so and it looks so crystallizing, just amazing.

545
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 3: This is the what one again?

546
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 5: Well, now you gots switched them.

547
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,120
Speaker 3: This is the Yeah, the blueberry is just so much blueberry.

548
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 3: I feel like it's a you know, I just bought

549
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 3: some Trader Joe's.

550
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,679
Speaker 5: CG is the Lemon Cherry Gelato. That's a very popular

551
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 5: exotics strain out right now. We have a lot of

552
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 5: strains in our in our gene bank. We've been doing

553
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 5: exotics for the last several years to go along with

554
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 5: the trend, but now the trend is moving back to

555
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 5: OG some of the more original strains, which, by the way,

556
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 5: we have one of the original OG cuts from back

557
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 5: in the nineties, whatever you want to call it, the

558
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 5: s FVOG or Skywalker OG. That was always that was

559
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 5: always part of our portfolio, one of our you know,

560
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 5: crown jewels in our cultivation library.

561
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 2: If you will, do you guys save your genetics and

562
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 2: how do you store those genetics?

563
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 5: So we do save our genetics. We probably have about

564
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 5: twenty five the strains in rotation right now. It's basically

565
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 5: just keeping a mom for a long time, and you

566
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 5: just clone, keep it going. Even if the strain falls

567
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 5: out of favor with the cannabis community for a while,

568
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 5: you still keep the strain alive, keep reproducing it for

569
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 5: when it comes back into fashion.

570
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny you say that, because again,

571
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 2: you know, I think everybody was betting on exotics.

572
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 3: The names came out. I feel like almost it was

573
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: just a trend, you know.

574
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 2: And then but prior to that, it was always og,

575
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: especially here in southern California. You know, it was og

576
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 2: all the time. It's like, what are you gonna smoke

577
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 2: some og? Like they didn't know, g I don't want it.

578
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 2: And if it did, it just devalued it, you know.

579
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 2: And then there was a point where these exotics came

580
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 2: and I almost feel like, you know, for somebody that's

581
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 2: been in the game, like I felt like it was

582
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 2: kind of like fast food.

583
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 3: You know, they brought it in, they hyped it up.

584
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: It smells really good, looks good, but it doesn't really

585
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 2: hit you over the head like an og mite. But

586
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 2: I think teach his tone, right, I think in the industry,

587
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 2: you know, this plant has so many different versions of

588
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: her that you know you you could find it your

589
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 2: your favorite in a Jack Herrera or this or that

590
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 2: or whatever it may be, because everybody has a different tablet.

591
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 6: But plus, people's tastes can be influenced, they're off. The

592
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 6: market is often cyclical with you know, multiple markets. This

593
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 6: isn't you unique to cannabis, the fact that people's tastes

594
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 6: are changing, especially I was joking with Drew. I said, no,

595
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 6: it's like when the vintage resurgence happened in watches, are

596
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 6: now more in clothes. People long for the things that

597
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 6: they want that they have fond memories of and realize

598
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 6: that maybe that is what's best suited for them.

599
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 2: Sure, Now, what kind of what size facility do you

600
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 2: guys have as far as at the smart Weed plan, so.

601
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 5: As far as the store, we have about five thousand

602
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,719
Speaker 5: square feet total, which definitely puts us in a position

603
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 5: with cultivation and manufacturing where we're not producing at the

604
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 5: capability that we would like. But the location was found

605
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 5: with the intention of a good retail location. Sure, and

606
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 5: we are smack dab in the middle of Hollywood, which

607
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 5: makes it great for retail, right by the one on

608
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 5: one Freeway on Western and Santa Monica, But we are

609
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 5: sacrificing our output and cultivation and manufacturing. We should be

610
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 5: in like a twenty thousand square foot cultivation facility, but

611
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 5: right now we're probably doing about twenty five square feet

612
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 5: of cultivation. We got about eighty four lights with the

613
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 5: complete vege, which does something for us, but we should

614
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 5: we should be in charge of a little bit more.

615
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 2: Are you guys go ahead with say do you guys?

616
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 2: Are you guys running short dogs or like full sized plants?

617
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 5: You know?

618
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 3: So right now?

619
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 5: Actually it's been it's been an evolution for us. But

620
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 5: right now we're double stacking with LEDs. Nice because we

621
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 5: don't have a lot of height. We got about nine

622
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 5: and a half foot ceilings and we need to pump

623
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 5: out as much as we could for our shelves for

624
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 5: our distro, and that's that's the best way to maximize

625
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 5: the space that we have right now.

626
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 3: Have you guys actually been through a full cycle with

627
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 3: the LEDs?

628
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we've been doing it for over two years. Now.

629
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: What kind of lights you guys running?

630
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 5: The fluent spiders?

631
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 3: Uh?

632
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: Huh?

633
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: You like them?

634
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 5: They're they're good enough. They get the job done for us.

635
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 2: Okay, and that that keeps the cost down with the

636
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 2: LED lights. Absolutely, And then and how's the quality difference?

637
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 5: So quality difference is not that big of a difference.

638
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 5: We're pretty dialed in with the way our flower turns out.

639
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 5: What's a little bit challenging is matching the yields that

640
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 5: we used to get with the high pressure sodium life,

641
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 5: you know, especially Gavitas, those used to pump out nice yields.

642
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, they kind of lost their their their their their their,

643
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 3: I guess their reputation feel I don't know. I don't

644
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 3: know if it was maybe that the quality went down.

645
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying it has, I'm just saying I'm

646
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 2: hearing that, you know, the same Gavitos that they used

647
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,959
Speaker 2: to have just don't produce the same amount as they

648
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: did back in the day.

649
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 3: And I'm wondering why that is.

650
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 6: You know, I heard there were some changes in the company.

651
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 4: Actually, Oh really, so I try to do some cutting

652
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 4: costs and how they make it and don't.

653
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 6: I don't know the details, but i'd heard that there

654
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 6: was there were issues internally, and so I'm not surprised

655
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 6: if there are issues, then enough the product with the

656
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 6: product's coming out, Yeah, but.

657
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 4: We're sitting here with the guys who are smart weed.

658
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 4: And when we come back, I want to ask you

659
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 4: guys that question.

660
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 3: Recreational and medical? You guys do both? And why? Right

661
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,959
Speaker 3: when we come back, it's NIPS Talk one oh one.

662
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 3: We'll be right back after this break. Don't you want

663
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Speaker 4: Before I went to break, I noticed that you guys

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Speaker 4: are still are bottom line doing well still because you

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Speaker 4: open up in two thousand and six as a medical

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Speaker 4: lot of places will get rid of that, I've noticed,

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Speaker 4: but you guys at smart Weed choose to have both.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. So, like you said, we have been around since

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Speaker 5: two thousand and six. The model in the early early

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Speaker 5: days of cannabis was that it was a.

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Speaker 2: Non benefit doing business as a mutual benefit organization exactly.

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00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 5: Nonprofit collective servicing the community from a holistic standpoint, and

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Speaker 5: as the industry itself grew, our philosophy was to stay

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Speaker 5: true to the original like ethos of the cannabis industry,

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Speaker 5: which is, we are providing support to the medical community.

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Speaker 5: Of course, it's it's a retail now and for profit also,

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Speaker 5: but we still hold true to the original cannabis values

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Speaker 5: and definitely want to still keep the medical aspect of

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Speaker 5: it alive.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: And I mentioned that and brought it up once again

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Speaker 4: to give you guys more kudos because you know, I

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Speaker 4: personally and I know Blue does as well, we look

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Speaker 4: at this as a plant as medicine, you know, and

712
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Speaker 4: for you to be open for the patients, that's what

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Speaker 4: it's about, right, So for you really to do that

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Speaker 4: and give them that extra little discount that they get

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Speaker 4: and whatever little perks that they get for that, I

716
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Speaker 4: think that's dope that you guys do that personally, and

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Speaker 4: I think it's the extra mile and I just appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Thank you. And that's one of the primary reasons we

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Speaker 5: offer our indoor flour for thirty dollars an eighth out

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Speaker 5: the door, half ounces for seventy We even have twenty

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Speaker 5: dollars half ounces for people because we're all about servicing

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Speaker 5: the community.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, you said, twenty dollars half ounce, that is

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Speaker 3: that is correct?

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Speaker 5: We do have the lowest priced half ounces in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: Twenty dollars half ounces out.

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Speaker 3: The door, off the door. Does that have seeds in it?

728
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Speaker 3: Is that for Mexican?

729
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Speaker 9: It's all bud baby, Yeah, but whole flower, no shake,

730
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Speaker 9: no trim or anything like that.

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Speaker 7: That's really where the a lot of the times the

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Speaker 7: medical card comes into play because we have such a

733
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Speaker 7: great value. We have people that will hit their limits.

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Speaker 7: Say and not even ever heard of the twenty eight

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Speaker 7: gram limit. I can only buy twenty eight grams a day, sure,

736
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Speaker 7: not knowing they can buy more than an ounce it

737
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Speaker 7: smart weed for less than one hundred dollars. So with

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Speaker 7: that being said, you could go from a twenty eight

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Speaker 7: gram cap to a two hundred and twenty eight gram

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Speaker 7: cap just for having that medical card. So that, on

741
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Speaker 7: top of saving a tad bit on the taxes, of course,

742
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Speaker 7: is a huge, huge importance of the medical card. But yeah,

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Speaker 7: twenty dollars half pounce out the door. It's not trim,

744
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Speaker 7: not shake, no bs like that house flower that power

745
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Speaker 7: right there actually is going to be thirty dollars out

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Speaker 7: the door with tax included. We also offer our smalls

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Speaker 7: for seventy dollars a half ounce, so that same flower

748
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 7: you'd get just the smaller buds, which still is you know,

749
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Speaker 7: a one premium smoke from almost you know, a fraction

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Speaker 7: of the price seventy dollars. Also have our halfhounds, as

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00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 7: he said, that start at twenty, but they up from

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00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 7: you know, different tiers thirty dollars, forty dollars for a

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00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 7: half pounce, sixty five even all the way up to

754
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Speaker 7: you know, the seventy or ninety nine dollars half ounce

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Speaker 7: would be the big buds.

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Speaker 4: And that's flour. I'm looking at the store right here.

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Speaker 4: First off, it's beautiful, very nice through store clean inside.

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00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 4: I love that you have the shells right there, the

759
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 4: glasses over it, but I like these old like the

760
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 4: water you can grab it.

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Speaker 3: I almost want to touch all the products, you know,

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Speaker 3: one of our best.

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Speaker 9: I'd say we'd like to leave it generally open for

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Speaker 9: the consumer.

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Speaker 7: Especially during COVID there was a lot of times where

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00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 7: you couldn't pick up a jar, let alone smell it.

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00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 9: But we're a smart weed.

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Speaker 7: We you know, of course, give you an introduction, show

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Speaker 7: you where everything is at, and let the consumer feel

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Speaker 7: comfortable enough to check out the THC percentages that we

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Speaker 7: have labeled.

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Speaker 3: Check out the description grat O. I love that you

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Speaker 3: guys do this. This is this is right here is

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00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 3: what I think a lot of dispentries are missing out on.

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Speaker 2: You have to be an experience. It's an experience. It's

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00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 2: a it's a different experience when you touch it. Like

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00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 2: even me, I just open it up and grab it

778
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 2: and and and break it into it because I'm from

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00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 2: that day where we have to touch it.

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Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta rip through it. And sometimes people like,

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Speaker 3: don't touch it you in the crystal. I'm like, man, man,

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00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 3: I gotta see how sticky. I gotta open up sticks

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00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 3: to my thumb is If it's a stick to my thumb.

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Speaker 3: When I can do that, that's a little something right there. Extra.

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Speaker 4: I gotta ask you, guys, so many different products that

786
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 4: I've seen on the shelves here and the would work.

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Speaker 3: Everything is dope.

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Speaker 4: I really like the way this flooring everything looks, and

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Speaker 4: your guys building, the lighting and some of the pictures

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Speaker 4: with the older ladies and the bongs and that's just

791
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:46,959
Speaker 4: a cool vibe.

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00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 5: And that's that's Betty White.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was Betty.

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00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's Betty White. We have a picture of Snoop

795
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Speaker 5: and Martha up there. That's Jeane Wilder. Oh there's that,

796
00:35:55,520 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 5: okay there, Willy Wonka. Interesting note about the art the artists.

797
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 5: The artist actually knows these the these celebrities himself and

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00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 5: was commissioned by them or allowed by them to make

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Speaker 5: these prints for us. So it's all original art by

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00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 5: an artist, and he was kind enough to donate it

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00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 5: to our to our store to showcase his talents and

802
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 5: also dress up our place a little bit.

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00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just the hallway to go to the back there.

804
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 5: That's the hallway to Western Avenue. Yet.

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00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 4: Oh wow, dude, I think your spot is so cool.

806
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 4: For those who want to look at the website smartweed

807
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 4: dot co. Yeah you got to go. I mean, geez,

808
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 4: it'd be nice. We could have lunch for us over there.

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00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 5: You guys are always welcome.

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00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 3: Stuff can come by and we have a cigar together. Please.

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Speaker 5: That would be my place.

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00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 3: What are the store hours, guys? I want to do that.

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00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 8: So the store hours are seven to ten every day.

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00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 3: Seven am, seven days a week. That's good. Is there

815
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 3: is there a time in LA you have to shut down?

816
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 3: Is it ten pm?

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00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 6: Yep?

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Speaker 12: Ten?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Nice? And then on the weekend, same thing and

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00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 3: Wednesday seven seven. Yeah, you're like, we're taking advantage of

821
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 3: the whole time, as you should because you're in an

822
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 3: area too where That's what I'm curious.

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00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,919
Speaker 4: Do you guys get more local or is it more

824
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 4: visitors because you guys are you know, you still get

825
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 4: all of it, I.

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Speaker 8: Mean, believe it or not. We get people that come

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00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 8: in from easily an hour away just to shop for

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Speaker 8: some of our deals.

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Speaker 3: Wow, well I could say that.

830
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Speaker 5: Also we have a high.

831
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Speaker 3: The show really shot.

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Speaker 5: We have a lot of tourists that come in too

833
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 5: because we're right in Hollywood, so people are there visiting

834
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 5: LA checking out the sites. I think about twenty five

835
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 5: to thirty percent of our businesses tourism at some point. Right,

836
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 5: And I wanted to give you a side note that

837
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 5: it's Hollywood, so it's very hard to park. We do

838
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 5: have a private parking lot behind the building through the alley.

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Speaker 5: Just look for the big Kobe Bryant mural on the building.

840
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 5: Oh wow, Yeah, we do have a tribute to Kobe.

841
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 5: It's like it's been featured on one of those like

842
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Speaker 5: LA's Kobe Mural.

843
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Speaker 3: Who did it?

844
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Speaker 5: One of our former employees is actually pretty good artists,

845
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 5: and we commissioned him to do to do the whole

846
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 5: wall in the back, so you could basically just look

847
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 5: for the Kobe Kobe mural through the alley behind Western Avenue,

848
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 5: the private parking and back entrance to Smart Weed.

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Speaker 3: Is that where Dash Radio used to be? Right down there?

850
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 3: Are you guys? Little in the little No, no, no,

851
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 3: we're on the street. That's on sunset. We're on the street. Okay, yeah,

852
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 3: we're the new Dash had the old day, it was

853
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 3: an old Dash.

854
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 4: Remember that built the old You went down that's when

855
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Speaker 4: you went to Okay, okay or I'm sorry.

856
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 5: So we're just out of Santa Monica Boulevard, the number

857
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 5: two on the one on one right there off the

858
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 5: one on one on Western Avenue. Okay, cross streets or

859
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 5: Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard.

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Speaker 3: You know, guys, yeah, you know, like I said, Curdius

861
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Speaker 3: to you guys, what's the plans?

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, before we change gears, it was

863
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Speaker 2: edibles I want to talk about your edibles, So tell

864
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Speaker 2: us some of edible.

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Speaker 8: Guess absolutely, yeah, So we we have them right here.

866
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Speaker 8: It called our everyday treats. They are ice water, live bras,

867
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Speaker 8: and gummies nice that we offer for an amazing deal.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if we can just can we discuss

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Speaker 8: prices on the show. So it's eighteen out the door.

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Speaker 3: Eighteen dollars.

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00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 8: Eighteen dollars out the door.

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00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 3: How many miligrams is that?

873
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 8: Well, so it's a hundred milligraunds for package ten gummies.

874
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 8: And we brought a sample for each of you guys

875
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 8: to wow, three different flavors.

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Speaker 3: Eighteen bucks ye out the door. Huh, that's a smashing.

877
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 8: You guys are making these yourselves in so we're sourcing

878
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 8: them manufacturers some of the highest uh sourcing ingredients it so.

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00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 6: These are being made to our specifications. We we wanted

880
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 6: very much in line with everything else we're doing. We

881
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Speaker 6: want to offer a top quality product, but at again

882
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 6: incredible price. As you know, eighteen dollars that's great is

883
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 6: usually let's say a bargain or you know, entry level edible.

884
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 6: These are the these are made to specifications of it

885
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 6: can't get any better. Yeah, the ingredients here are they're

886
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 6: vegan and we're applicable their organic as well.

887
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 3: Wow that's nice. Now do you guys have you know,

888
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 3: have a kitchen there at your location? Dude? Not yet,

889
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 3: not yet. What's the best selling product though in the dispensary,

890
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 3: like some of the top fives.

891
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 8: Well, I would say obviously our twenty dollars half ounce

892
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 8: is a huge seller. Our blueberry runs eighths is a

893
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 8: huge seller. We also offer dollar joints as well. Every

894
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 8: ten dollars you spend you get a dollar joint and

895
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 8: or a ten milligram gummy of our everyday treats.

896
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 3: Those are great deals, you guys. You guys are like

897
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 3: killing the game.

898
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 5: Honestly waits for the people.

899
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is, It really is, for sure. I'm

900
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 3: so impressed some dispensaries here. I've never heard these prices,

901
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 3: never unless it was Johnny on the block, you know.

902
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, somebody can give us these prices. You

903
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 3: can hit them as smart. We didn't flip.

904
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 12: Still make money, guys. You your guys, we're flipping out.

905
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 12: My god, dude, you really could. I can buy that

906
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 12: break to go.

907
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 4: Celebrate at least twenty five want to come up and

908
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 4: be like, Okay, I'm good, I'm giving you a deal.

909
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 8: Well, to be honest, I'm sure Justice is going to

910
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 8: attest to this, But we do have certain customers that

911
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 8: come in every single day and buy an ounce.

912
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 7: It's a little little mysterious, little a whole ouse to

913
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 7: day or you breaking this down, man, we're really going,

914
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 7: Oh no.

915
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 3: Someone buying and a half for the same price. I

916
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 3: got a half a free. Hey, that's how we all learned.

917
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 8: I mean, that's the way the games talk exactly. So

918
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 8: half ounces go, those go, half ounces go. The gummies

919
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 8: do really well, our flower does really well. As far

920
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 8: as the last two, I mean that's kind of up

921
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 8: in the air. We do have amazing brands. I mean,

922
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 8: obviously we carry the major brands like Stizzy, Plug and Play,

923
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 8: uh CBX, Alien Labs, and Connected, but we also carry

924
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 8: some up and coming brands as well, like Oak for

925
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 8: a Landa is a pretty good brand, Green Label RX.

926
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 8: We work really well with Fruit, We work really well

927
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 8: with and Yeah, we just try to offer the just

928
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 8: the best prices man, as simple as that.

929
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 5: Like Taylor is being modest, so he's in charge of

930
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 5: procuring all of our products. And curating our menu from

931
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 5: a real professional standpoint. He does his own quality control.

932
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 5: The industry has quality control, but smart Weed has their

933
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 5: own quality control, which is a little bit higher standard.

934
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 5: So Taylor is in charge of all that. We do

935
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 5: appreciate the work that he does, and he does a

936
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 5: great job doing it. His eye for cannabis is incredible.

937
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

938
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 5: You.

939
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 3: I love the team you have, man. I just really

940
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 3: like it. It feels real cool. It feels like it's right.

941
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I see it, I feel it. And it's not

942
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 4: too often a lot of times you just get the

943
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 4: owner here and he talks and this and that. It's

944
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 4: really cool to meet this you know, the team, and

945
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 4: hear what you guys are doing behind it and how

946
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 4: you guys are doing it, especially you, dude. It's like

947
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 4: getting somebody really and and uh in sales, so to speak,

948
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 4: and somebody who really understands it like just it or

949
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 4: assuming like Chase. I think that's the key to like

950
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 4: a lot of this this culture here sometimes because a

951
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 4: lot of people are good at something, but they don't

952
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 4: have that business smart Yeah.

953
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 5: It's nice to bring a team of experts together and

954
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 5: let them work in their specific areas of expertise.

955
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you actually important.

956
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 6: You hit on something really important also not unique to

957
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 6: the cannabis industry most of the time. That's that's an

958
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 6: inflection point for most businesses is where you have the

959
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 6: subject matter expert who'll usually be the founder that can

960
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 6: get something going, but actually being able to run a business.

961
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 6: There's the what I say is there's a business of

962
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 6: running a business no matter what it is, and and

963
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 6: the subject matter expert that can get an idea off

964
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 6: the ground. There's a point which they're they're not able

965
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 6: to usually carry the ball and you can see that

966
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 6: that's where we're companies hit their ceiling.

967
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you guys are doing good man.

968
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 4: We'd like to do the high five with everybody that

969
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 4: comes in here, and we got these four gentlemen. We'll

970
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 4: go in the same order that we've been talking to

971
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 4: you guys in so we'll ask question number one and

972
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 4: Julie'll answer it, Chase Taylor Justice. It'll be the same question. Folks,

973
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 4: you heard about the company, You heard who they are.

974
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 4: Go check them out online hear me now, believe me later.

975
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 4: Smartweed dot Co is the website, or follow them on

976
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 4: the gram at smart WXXD tap in to see what

977
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 4: they're doing. Are jumping the building at ten forty Northwestern

978
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 4: Avenue in Hollywood, California. Nine double low two six, question

979
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 4: number one, gentlemen, Hold you the first time you smoked cannabis?

980
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 3: And where did you get it from? And I'm out?

981
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 5: So I'm about to reveal my age here then, because

982
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 5: when you.

983
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 6: Look old, but I look older than me, and but

984
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 6: I feel so young.

985
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's important.

986
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 5: Though it was nineteen ninety four, it was happens to

987
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 5: be at a Beastie Boys concert. That was when the

988
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 5: Ill Communication album came out with.

989
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 3: Run DMC if that same country, right, you always had

990
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 3: that concert too.

991
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 5: It was a good one. It was a good one

992
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 5: and I I hadn't smoked before.

993
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 3: Well, no, this was in the Bay Area. I went

994
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 3: to that contract area, like this was.

995
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 5: In in Los Angeles.

996
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, the same tour. Yeah, so I was there

997
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 3: with a.

998
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 5: Group of friends. I hadn't smoked before. They had some weed,

999
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 5: they rolled it up, I hit it, went into the pit.

1000
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 5: That did my thing. Classic story. Like most first time smokers.

1001
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 5: I didn't get high. I didn't feel it.

1002
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 3: That's awesome, but that concert was great. Thanks for taking me.

1003
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, how about you, So my first time is going

1004
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 6: to be a little bit different. Uh, I have to

1005
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 6: also take you back. Contrary is what you might see here. Uh,

1006
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 6: this is not how I normally dress. I'm usually very

1007
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 6: as people would say, preppy, polo shirt, you know, potentially

1008
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 6: some topsiders. That's the suspenders. No, no, those suspenders. None.

1009
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 6: Watch but definitely in high school this was on like

1010
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 6: on steroids. I I was joking, I said, I was

1011
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 6: basically Carlton nice. Yeah, so you danced, I was, That's

1012
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 6: exactly how I danced. That was to the tee. But

1013
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 6: and I was very square, so I was. I was

1014
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 6: not into it at all. The way I got high

1015
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 6: the first time was completely by accident. So one of

1016
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 6: the other things that you will now know about me

1017
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 6: is that I'm lactose intolerant. And my friends thought it

1018
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 6: would be hilarious to make some brownies for me. And

1019
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 6: what they told me was that the reason they taste

1020
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 6: funny is because they used olive oil and not butter a.

1021
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 6: So they were in the kitchen they I went and

1022
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 6: I ate a couple. I came back and they said,

1023
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 6: you know, jokingly, did you try the bread? I said, yeah,

1024
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 6: I had a couple. They said, what you did? You had?

1025
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 6: You had two?

1026
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 3: Yeah? Why not?

1027
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 6: I was also a very fat kid. You just flew

1028
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 6: through two of them. Oh yeah, no problem, just two brownies.

1029
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 6: And they're like, oh no, like those were actually weed brownies.

1030
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 6: So my first time I was very high.

1031
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 3: And did they use milk in it?

1032
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 5: No?

1033
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 6: Thankfully.

1034
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 3: It was also like you were high and taking this. Yeah, that.

1035
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 6: Would have been a really bad combination.

1036
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 3: Oh man, I was just experiencing that in my head, like,

1037
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 3: oh no, this is gonna be a night.

1038
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 5: That's one of those classic mystery edible stories where were

1039
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 5: you're high for like a day and a half.

1040
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we wake up the next day. You're like, those

1041
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:49,840
Speaker 3: are tough, how about you?

1042
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 8: So high school, I believe ninth grade, me and a

1043
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 8: group of my childhood friends with Jackson Weed from his dad,

1044
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 8: who we used to have like a little homegrow, and

1045
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 8: we just walked outside and got an old soda can

1046
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 8: and just smoked a couple of balls off of that

1047
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 8: and walked to the convenience store and had the best

1048
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 8: or not panic tech the best laughing Oh y.

1049
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I ever had them giggles. Maybe the giggle the

1050
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 3: giggles like the gearing full effect.

1051
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 8: It was the best.

1052
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 3: That's awesome. I think all of us had that same

1053
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 3: one where we pinched. You know, we didn't call it steal.

1054
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 3: We called it pinched. We pinched. Your dad's a little

1055
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 3: sash pinch.

1056
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 2: Like you take my weed. I just pinched a little

1057
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 2: bit off. I didn't take nothing. I pinched it, how

1058
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 2: about you, boss man?

1059
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 9: So with my god brother Man shout out to my

1060
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 9: brother Rob.

1061
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 7: We were like twelve thirteen at the time, so nothing

1062
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 7: too crazy, but it was super early.

1063
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 8: Man.

1064
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 9: He always wanted me to smoke.

1065
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 7: I was never much of a smoker, you know, I

1066
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 7: was playing sports, video games, all that other kid stuff,

1067
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 7: you know. So uh, finally I broke down. He bought

1068
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 7: the weed already, he wrote it up. I just remember

1069
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 7: smoking in his garage. This was like ten in the morning.

1070
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 7: As soon as we get done smoking, two fat dubies

1071
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 7: going inside and call it the Chinese food spot, like

1072
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 7: they don't open it for like twenty minutes, like hey,

1073
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 7: can you guys deliver? Just super high, trying to order

1074
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 7: some food, you know, having a great time. And thankfully

1075
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 7: the dude was cool about it. He knew we were

1076
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 7: absolutely baked, took the order, and of course we still

1077
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 7: had to wait like forty five minutes for the food,

1078
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 7: but just a really great time, you know, a lot

1079
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 7: of laughs, great food, and uh, we'll never forget that moment.

1080
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: Man.

1081
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 2: So you can tell how young he is by him

1082
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 2: saying he ordered food his first time. I was like,

1083
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 2: you could order food back though we couldn't order no food.

1084
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 2: We had Domino's.

1085
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 3: I guess yeah.

1086
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 2: Question number two of the high five what is your

1087
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 2: favorite way to use or smoke cannabis?

1088
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,240
Speaker 5: So traditionally it would be water pipe the bong.

1089
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 3: Nice just nice hits.

1090
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 5: From the bong like Cypress Hill used to say, it's fun,

1091
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 5: there you go. But nowadays I'm more of an edible guy.

1092
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 5: I like to I like to eat my cannabis. I've

1093
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 5: been training for like longer runs lately, so preserving my

1094
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 5: lung capacity is good. And I still like the effects

1095
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 5: from eating cannabis.

1096
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 2: So now that when you just said that, dude, I

1097
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 2: just flashed into seeing you at I like the Rainbow

1098
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 2: Room back in the day.

1099
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 5: Did you ever go down there, Iceman? I was on

1100
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 5: sunset a lot at shows.

1101
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 3: Rosy Dude.

1102
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 2: When you said that, look at when you just said

1103
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 2: that right now. I was like, fuck, dude, I remember

1104
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 2: around PC. I just watched you walk by me at

1105
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 2: the or smoke next to me on one of these venues.

1106
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 2: You know, I've seen that flash right now, when you

1107
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 2: said that, I was like, damn, dude, I totally Reme'm.

1108
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 5: A la guy. Man. I grew up as no.

1109
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 2: I always thought you looked familiar when I see it, Like,

1110
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 2: what's up, dude? And I even said that for someone,

1111
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 2: it's good to see you again. You're like, well, I'm

1112
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 2: not sure if we met. We might have met at

1113
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 2: a convention. And then I thought, right now, when you

1114
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:46,439
Speaker 2: said that, dude, I just got the chills.

1115
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 3: I was like, man, I remember.

1116
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 2: Seeing you in Hollywood when we were younger, Like, straight up,

1117
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 2: you were popping around up and down sunset.

1118
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 5: I might have been at an Imperial Star show.

1119
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 3: You probably were. You probably were. You know, that's a

1120
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 3: good chance right there. He broke that down. So how

1121
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 3: about you?

1122
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 6: So my favorite definitely edibles.

1123
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 2: If you went to the cotton Mouth Kings show. I've

1124
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 2: actually never seen them, no, no way, no, how about

1125
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 2: what's his name?

1126
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 4: Was?

1127
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 3: Sorry to cut you off, but what's his name?

1128
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 5: I went to a lot of shows back in the day.

1129
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 3: I want to make they go to make these parties.

1130
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 3: He had some good parties, dude. That dude was crazy

1131
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 3: A go ahead, got it?

1132
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 6: Oh, edibles? I prefer more drawn out, let's say, controlled experience.

1133
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:32,919
Speaker 6: Probably not too surprising either.

1134
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 3: What was the answer?

1135
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,240
Speaker 2: I missed the edible part completely up Like now, okay,

1136
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 2: how about you bob uh.

1137
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 8: To be honest man? Socially, probably a good handroll joint, yeah,

1138
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 8: but by myself, just hit a really good libraries and

1139
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 8: disposal or pin.

1140
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, just chilling.

1141
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 8: It's chilling man.

1142
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 9: Yeah, how about you easily, man, just roll up a

1143
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 9: good fat joint.

1144
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 7: Man at papers passin that's yes, elements the thinnest most

1145
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 7: natural papers man.

1146
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 3: I love it man.

1147
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 2: Question number three of the high five, what is the

1148
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 2: craziest place you've ever used or smoked cannabis?

1149
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 5: Room? Okay, So my co founding partner Leon and I

1150
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 5: we used to travel a lot when we were younger,

1151
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,320
Speaker 5: and we took a nice europe swing at one point,

1152
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 5: I think it was ninety nine, and our mo was arrive,

1153
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 5: drive straight to Amsterdam, stock up on as much cannabis

1154
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 5: and mushrooms as we could and then we hit the road.

1155
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 5: We hit like nine or ten cities in a month

1156
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,280
Speaker 5: and a half and smoked at some really nice places

1157
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 5: like the Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, Berlin Wall.

1158
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 3: We just went down the list nice and did some mushrooms.

1159
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 5: And a little bit of a psilocybin on top of it.

1160
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 5: I've been interested in that as of late too, microdosing

1161
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 5: psilocybin instead of smoking. So yeah, I'm supportive of all

1162
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 5: the natural elements.

1163
00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 3: Me too. Man. How about you?

1164
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 6: And we have to be a sauna in the Alps?

1165
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 8: Oh?

1166
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 6: Wow, I was just it was great. It was it

1167
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 6: was actually fantastic.

1168
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 3: Wow with no pants? Are you guys together?

1169
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 8: You know?

1170
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 3: Gotcha?

1171
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 6: It was a glass wall looking out into the mountains.

1172
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 6: Was it was incredible?

1173
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 3: Are you with the chick?

1174
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 9: I was?

1175
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 6: There was everyone and it was like twenty people in there.

1176
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 10: Naked in there just smoking. That's how you have to

1177
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 10: do it, no way, Yeah, that's awesome. Clothes are actually

1178
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 10: not allowed. That's why the songs are clean there lace

1179
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,439
Speaker 10: but at the right time, really wild.

1180
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 3: We see that. We see that after these I almost

1181
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 3: see him with nothing else on, but that just out.

1182
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 6: That's why the tables, this height.

1183
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has no pants on. For those you guys

1184
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 3: at home, that's the usual.

1185
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 8: How about you, Bob ship Man the space needle, the

1186
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 8: space needle in Seattle. Oh nice, getting the ripped man

1187
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:03,959
Speaker 8: there and then have an amazing steak dinner.

1188
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: It was the best.

1189
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 8: But I also, me and a couple of friends used

1190
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 8: to like to get high off of the on the

1191
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 8: boats at bast Pro shop, you know at night. Yeah,

1192
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:13,760
Speaker 8: we used to sneak on roll some joints.

1193
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1194
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's dope. It was that in the water, just

1195
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 3: in the back of the boat.

1196
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 8: Back of the boat.

1197
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: Man.

1198
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 3: Nice. Just jumped the fence and just get back there

1199
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 3: and just be in a little safe place.

1200
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 8: Just hit them all, go to the boat.

1201
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 3: That's dope. Yeah, how about you, man?

1202
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 9: Funny you said.

1203
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: Man.

1204
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 7: Actually, I was like sixteen or seventeen. One of the

1205
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 7: first jobs I actually ever worked McDonald's. I had this

1206
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 7: short manager shout out to Mss Maria and she smoked

1207
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 7: weed a lot, but she happened to be the manager

1208
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 7: at the time. Yeah, and the main general manager lady

1209
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 7: she had left and everything like that. But at this

1210
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 7: moment we were doing renovations on the inside on the

1211
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 7: dining room. So it's closed down completely, So drive through

1212
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 7: only right McDonald's with a bunch of stoners. Yeah, we're

1213
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 7: not going outside to go take a smoke break. So

1214
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 7: we had a genius plan. My homie had the weed.

1215
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 7: My manager at the time had the weed. It was like, hey,

1216
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 7: go to the bathroom. That's getting you know, worked, want

1217
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 7: to roll this up. It's night shift as well, and

1218
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 7: let's smoke it real quick. Okay, last hour of the

1219
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 7: show's coming, all right, cool, I swear to god, bro

1220
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 7: I start rolling it, break it all up. Ten minutes later,

1221
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 7: the actual owner of the shop shows of the McDonald's

1222
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 7: shows up. She just came to grab something she had forgotten.

1223
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 7: First thing that came to my mind was like, we

1224
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 7: have to burn cookies immediately, Yes, but burnt cookie smell,

1225
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 7: you're that's the first thing that you're gonna smell. We

1226
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 7: didn't only roll the joint up in the bathroom, we

1227
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 7: smoked the entire joint in the shout out to that

1228
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 7: entire McDonald's crew. Man, you know who you guys are.

1229
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 7: Miss Maria, I love you as well. But yeah, it

1230
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 7: was absolutely absurd. Thankfully, you know, she didn't catch on

1231
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 7: to the smell too much, or she may have and

1232
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 7: just wanted to get the hell out of there, but

1233
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 7: definitely at that time it was the craziest spot then

1234
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 7: I had smoked on the clock just with my manager, like, oh,

1235
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 7: this is cool as hell in Texast.

1236
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 9: Ma'm mind you.

1237
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 3: Make out with her too?

1238
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:52,479
Speaker 7: Absolutely not, she was you know, she had her wife

1239
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 7: at home and stuff. So unfortunately, you know, I was.

1240
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 7: I was out of luck on that, but still a

1241
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,760
Speaker 7: great time man in a great smoking experience.

1242
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 3: Nice man. Question of for the high five? What is

1243
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 3: your go to edible after you get high?

1244
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 5: Okay? So I'm a I'm a healthy eater in general,

1245
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 5: and I really like Japanese comfort food when i'm high,

1246
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 5: something like ramen, or ise kaya, even sushi. And one

1247
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 5: of the things I really like, which some people find

1248
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 5: quite off putting, is not to not to not to.

1249
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 5: It's fermented soybeans, and it's definitely challenging for the average eater.

1250
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 5: But my partner and I happen to love it. Chase,

1251
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 5: we bonded over this, like kim chi. Look, it's it's fermented,

1252
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 5: so in that sense, yes, but in the turn that

1253
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 5: flavor in terms of challenging, it's a little bit past

1254
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 5: kim chid.

1255
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:47,760
Speaker 3: You get past it, it's.

1256
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:52,959
Speaker 5: It's one of the five healthiest foods in the world,

1257
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 5: if that helps anybody. And it's it's something we use

1258
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 5: that smartweed as like a rite of initiation, Like once

1259
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 5: you become part of the team, you got a Nato

1260
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 5: hand roll when we go out to dinner.

1261
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 3: And and and and what it's a whole. It's a whole.

1262
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 8: What is it?

1263
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 5: It's either a cut roll or a hand roll. And

1264
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 5: what's kind of like weird or different about it is

1265
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 5: because it's fermented. It's it's soybeans, so the beans become

1266
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 5: kind of gooey and webby, so it almost has like

1267
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:26,919
Speaker 5: a cotton candy effect where it'll stretch and and really, yeah,

1268
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 5: it's webby, and it's.

1269
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 6: Kind of that does not taste like cotton candy, is

1270
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 6: what I call it.

1271
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 3: Nal everybody ate one initiation.

1272
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 8: It's hard, man, It's really hard to eat.

1273
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 3: You have to eat the whole role or just one.

1274
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 8: You gotta at least take a big bite, at least just.

1275
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 3: Smash the whole thing.

1276
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 5: If you haven't tried Nato, it's hard to find. Next

1277
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 5: time you go out to your local Japanese or sushi spot,

1278
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 5: order some Nato.

1279
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 3: I dare you now?

1280
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 6: Drew is one of the very few people that I

1281
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 6: have met that also knows what not to win. It's

1282
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 6: definitely obscure.

1283
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 3: Really, I was. I have never even heard is that?

1284
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 3: What's your favorite?

1285
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 6: What is your love Nato? But I would not say

1286
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 6: it's my favorite Munchie. That would probably be Celery or

1287
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 6: maybe Hikama. I love the crunch and all that. You know,

1288
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 6: it alleviates the dry mouth. It's it's great.

1289
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 3: How about you, dude?

1290
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 8: Money funions?

1291
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 5: Bro?

1292
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 3: Are you an oh my god, cheese or something? You decriminated?

1293
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 8: You straight up straight up funions with like a mucho

1294
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 8: mango arizona.

1295
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 3: He said, Uh, how about you man?

1296
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 7: Something boring? Man like to stay on the healthy set,

1297
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 7: so like a protein bar. Maybe there's some Nicks ice

1298
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 7: cream for anybody that's looking zero sugar. Of course they

1299
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 7: use artificial sweetener, but still Knicks ice cream. It's like

1300
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 7: three hundred and seventy calories for the entire pint. Check

1301
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 7: it out. Really, it's called mixed mix in icy mix. Yeah,

1302
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 7: the guys aren't paying me. I promise that fire ice nice. Really,

1303
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 7: so those would be my go to I really like

1304
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 7: a lot of dietary restrictions. I don't do a lot

1305
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 7: of sugar and stuff, so pretty boring. Smart Yeah, yep,

1306
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 7: get high, have a protein bar or something.

1307
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 3: Well, guys, question number five of the high five if

1308
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 3: you could smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who

1309
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 3: would it be and why?

1310
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 5: So I was trying to think outside the box on

1311
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 5: this one and not go with one of the standard answers,

1312
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,439
Speaker 5: and I came up with Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile Nice,

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Speaker 5: the last ruler of the Egyptian dynasty. I figured she

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Speaker 5: has a reputation for being really seductive in the alluring,

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Speaker 5: which is great for me. And I figured that we'd

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Speaker 5: probably be smoking at one of her palaces, so that's cool.

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Speaker 5: There's probably a lot of servants waiting on us with

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Speaker 5: good food and entertainment. And I figured I would bring

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Speaker 5: something that we grew in house at smart weeds, so

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Speaker 5: she would be really high and impressed. And then after

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Speaker 5: she was high, I would be like, it could lead

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Speaker 5: to a good night.

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Speaker 3: This could be a good night for you and me.

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Speaker 3: What's up chasing?

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Speaker 6: All right? So it would be Stephen hawking for me?

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Speaker 6: Oh wow, I would I would love to understand the universe,

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Speaker 6: especially be curious to uh, to hear what he has

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Speaker 6: to say or read what he has to say in

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Speaker 6: that state of mind.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just going at it. Huh how about you?

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Speaker 8: But I'm gonna go with the Man on the moon himself.

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Speaker 3: Get cutty cutty man.

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Speaker 2: So listen, bro, Like we we spoke to your team

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Speaker 2: and uh, you know they we talked about it and

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Speaker 2: said that you're a big fan of kick cutting.

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Speaker 3: So ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for ki.

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Speaker 8: Ki Cutti is the guy.

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Speaker 7: Man when we get him in here, we have you

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Speaker 7: come through, please do how about you? But man, probably something.

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Speaker 7: I think it's something interesting, like Einstein or something. He

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Speaker 7: just seems like a really interesting character. Obviously has a

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Speaker 7: lot to teach. And yeah, I think it'd be hysterical man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the smart the smart who came up with the

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Speaker 2: logo for smart Weed the bulby.

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Speaker 5: My partner and I put together our heads and came

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Speaker 5: up with some creative designs back in the day for that.

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Speaker 5: It's been our logo for a few years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it works. It works.

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Speaker 5: We've been trying to get some merchandising going and we've

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Speaker 5: haven't been getting positive feedback from the community about the logo,

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Speaker 5: the styles. You can see some of the stuff we

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Speaker 5: got on right now. He's got the track suit with

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Speaker 5: the little logos, we got the smart preams. No, they

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Speaker 5: like it.

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Speaker 3: They do positive negative, positive.

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Speaker 5: Feedback from the community.

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Speaker 3: Far shirt over there. That one was really dope. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: these are really great you guys. Yeah, that's just cool, man.

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Speaker 3: So listen, is there anything that we forgot that you

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Speaker 3: guys want to mention before we let you guys get

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Speaker 3: on out of here around it's been an awesome I mean,

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Speaker 3: we're just.

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Speaker 5: Happy to be here. We appreciate what you and Joe

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Speaker 5: do for the cannabis industry. You guys are at the

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Speaker 5: forefront of education and infotainment and we're happy to be

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Speaker 5: guests on your show and fellow members of the cannabis community.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you very much. Anything else again about it? Well,

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Speaker 2: there it is, guys, man. Make sure you check out smartweed.

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Speaker 2: What's the website smartweed dot co. There is guys, Cannabis

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