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Speaker 4: man behind the entity that single handedly bringing Michigan cannabis

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Speaker 4: My brother from another mother, William McKenzie, the CEO of

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Speaker 4: Left Coast Holdings, which is a vertically integrated cannabis business

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Speaker 4: to success, I'm talking like Factor out there, Caddy, Heritage Provisioning,

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Speaker 4: Heritage Farm Company and Authentic two three one all kinds

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Speaker 4: the California medical cannabis industry, owning and operating a number

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Speaker 4: he's a smart lad over here studying agribusinesses.

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Speaker 5: And he's a Bay Area player like myself.

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Speaker 4: So do yourself a favor and visit his website at

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Speaker 4: Left Cooastoldings dot com or shoot them and email you

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Speaker 4: guys info at Left Coast Holdings if you need some

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Speaker 4: without further ado, put your hands together for the CEO

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Speaker 4: of Left Coast Holdings, Mister William McKenzie's in.

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Speaker 6: The building, same guys.

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Speaker 4: I mean, first off, we got to talk about the

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Speaker 4: who is this dude? Where's the duck Duck dynasty guy?

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Speaker 7: At I know, I know the beard was my thing.

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Speaker 4: You know, you're looking good, brother, You come in looking healthy,

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Speaker 4: like you're lifting a few weights, and congratulations.

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Speaker 7: Fifty stores, we run fifty thousand plants, like full term

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Speaker 7: The culture shock is real, right, I mean, in California,

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Speaker 7: he lost the deal. Yeah, in Michigan, everything works a

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Speaker 4: But it's a great which is good for you though,

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Speaker 6: I'm back to you, I know, you know.

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Speaker 3: It is it a a license? I mean, is it

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Speaker 7: We actually stopped renewing our medical licenses because we weren't

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Speaker 5: Where no one wants to go out in that fucking

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Speaker 6: That's another shock, right the winter weather.

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Speaker 2: That's real. There's some beautiful places out there though, I'll

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Speaker 4: Well Blue just became a grandpa. We have to officially

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Speaker 4: say it on the show Blue Grandpa.

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Speaker 2: Blue over there, my son, my twenty year old son,

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Speaker 5: Got a few days ago, which crazy grandpa blues in

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Speaker 4: I never think you're going to have a year and

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Speaker 4: be a grandpa at forty. I'm at forty. Is that

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Speaker 2: Forty five? Forty five?

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Speaker 3: I'm just in my forties.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean I have most of my friends

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, you get to do a running. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Why the name?

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Speaker 7: You know, we're on the left coast of Michigan, right,

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Speaker 2: And how's how's it growing out there versus out here?

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Speaker 7: So, I mean we've really built our business around kind

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Speaker 7: So you know, when you're selling pounds in the wholesale

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Speaker 7: produce them for a hundred right.

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Speaker 4: Sure, that's great. So you're killing the market out there.

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Speaker 4: You went out there and started like owning it then.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we specifically for that outdoor smokable flower. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: outdoor smokable flower. This is our Caddy brand. It's fire

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Speaker 7: people love it. They can't get enough of it. They

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Speaker 7: buy it in bulk, bounce this fly like nobody's business.

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Speaker 3: How many pounds a year are you producing this year?

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Speaker 3: Fifty thousand, Yeah, fifty pounds. Huh.

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Speaker 5: And what kind of strains are we looking at? What

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Speaker 2: What's your big We ran?

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Speaker 7: We ran twenty six strains, a bunch of different Z strains, Zotopia, Jealousy,

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Speaker 7: Rs eleven, Lemon, Haze, Lemon Icy, Dante's Inferno came out

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Speaker 7: super fire in the outdoor.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we're are you bringing any.

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Speaker 4: Bay area names out there and trying to like incorporate

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Speaker 2: Ye, we got Cali that Cala call, because unless we

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Speaker 2: you know, there was many, many, many moons where either

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Speaker 5: We know the best weed comes from northern Cali.

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Speaker 2: Everybody who know it really did. And and and you

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Speaker 4: Consistency of the best weed comes from northern California.

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Speaker 2: And then and then to top that off, though, is

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Speaker 5: Of growing that Bay Area thumb, that Bay Area thumb,

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Speaker 2: And then so so what what do you how do

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Speaker 3: Are you just crushing everybody out there with the indoor.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean our indoors definitely fire. We got all

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Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, I think that that's what I heard, because

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Speaker 4: with you guys and say, I want a part of

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Speaker 4: this fucking grow you're doing in White Label, and you

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Speaker 4: know what can we do to get in contact with

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Speaker 4: you guys?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 7: So we have a pretty large scale manufacturing facility. We

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Speaker 7: contract manufacturing for some other brands. We've launched some of

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Speaker 7: the biggest brands in the state of Michigan, and then

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Speaker 7: we produce obviously for ourselves a couple So you can

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Speaker 7: find us on Left Coast Holding dot com, Caddie.

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Speaker 6: Brand on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Do you guys white label?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we like we white label for other people.

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Speaker 2: Nice, So we could get teed up with our Master

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Speaker 2: Mentors program White Label some folks that are from out there,

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Speaker 6: That's right, launch them in the state of Michigan.

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Speaker 4: Would you be able to do the artist that wants

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Speaker 4: to come in pick the Michigan rapper Chicago rapper and says,

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Speaker 4: I want to really do my own strain, and I

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Speaker 4: maybe they go from this Bay Area exotics or whatever.

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Speaker 4: But can you sit there and go piece by piece

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, I mean that's what we do, right, We built

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Speaker 7: this business piece by piece for ourselves.

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Speaker 6: It's nothing to walk somebody else through it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's funny because you know

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Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of I like to say,

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Speaker 2: we were building the plane in the middle of the air,

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Speaker 2: you know, and and like, I don't care what you

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Speaker 2: an operator, a licensed operator, they've been through a whole

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Speaker 5: And license operated for that part most too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah or yeah, and I mean legacy he's real and yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: go back to your days in the Bay growing and stuff.

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Speaker 4: When was the first grow? How did you get into it?

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Speaker 7: So I fired up my first grow in two thousand

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Speaker 2: You know, it's funny because the stories out there Oakland Hills,

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Speaker 2: You know Greenie No, okay, yeah, they had it was

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Speaker 3: It's like a clothing line out there.

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Speaker 7: Actually, I do. I have the Cali's Finest T shirt.

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Speaker 3: He was pushing heavy out there.

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Speaker 2: Him and I used to I used to work a

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Speaker 2: and uh what's his name? Uh from the Bay too, man? Uh,

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Speaker 2: I forget the other his other partner's name. But we

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: But you remember Kelly Finess the brand, Yeah, yeah, yeah, man,

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Magic, Yeah, I took him the magic, got them

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Speaker 7: I have worked with Greenie before. It took a second.

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Speaker 7: Soon you said Callie's finus. It's like, yes, I have

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Speaker 4: and now you've got some ship out of the Hey

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Speaker 4: it's just funny to think you're going so much now,

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Speaker 6: It's it's fucking funny.

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Speaker 3: Because it almost reversed it on.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes it used to feel like, you know, when we

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Speaker 7: I felt like that was a lot. And now it's

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Speaker 7: like hundred pounds is like nothing, nothing like a sneeze.

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Speaker 7: You know, fifty thousand plants like all row cropped in

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Speaker 7: a fucking the game has changed, right, it's big boys shit.

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, it's way big bullshit. You know, what kind

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Speaker 2: does that look? I mean, because you've got to be

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Speaker 7: Do we run Athena? I couldn't tell you how much.

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Speaker 7: We got massive, massive batch tanks that run you know,

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Speaker 7: all so many zones in our fields. Yeah, and things

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Speaker 7: have changed, right like back in the day, this was

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Speaker 7: it was bro science what.

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Speaker 6: We were doing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 7: I got a director of cultivation now who's a real

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Speaker 7: the time, SAP testing things and tweaking the nutrients based

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Speaker 3: And you know it's there.

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Speaker 4: So it's the next level of growing for you and

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Speaker 4: as well, I'm sure you're going, Wow, now we're really

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Speaker 4: studying and looking is that market out there into that

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Speaker 4: it can benefit and constantly growing like that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I mean the kind of technology that's coming into cultivation

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Speaker 7: into We're a commercial ag scale, right, so we are

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Speaker 7: doing it leveraging commercial AGG technic technology, leveraging commercial AGG equipment.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So are you are you going to Jason?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll be there now you have a booth, No, you.

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Speaker 3: Don't need it. It's just going to look at what's

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Speaker 2: Are you one of the biggest in Michigan.

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Speaker 6: We are one of the bigger farms in Michigan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice and and and like I said, so, you

444
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Speaker 2: know how many stores are approximately in Michigan right now?

445
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Speaker 6: Eight hundred eight.

446
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Speaker 2: It became crazy out there. Yeah, is it pretty easy

447
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Speaker 2: to open a store there?

448
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Speaker 3: Right now.

449
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you could just anybody could over a.

450
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Speaker 6: Couple bucks and a couple bucks in the storefront. You're

451
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Speaker 6: in business.

452
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Speaker 2: Oh really?

453
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Speaker 5: How did the locals take to you being from Cali?

454
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

455
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Speaker 7: So that was interesting, right because when we showed up,

456
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Speaker 7: it was split like who the fuck are these guys?

457
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Speaker 7: And we and I felt it, right, you feel it

458
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Speaker 7: when you're at the gas station in a small town,

459
00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,439
Speaker 7: people are unsure about you. But we really stepped in.

460
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Speaker 7: We invested a lot of money in the community. We

461
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Speaker 7: created a lot of jobs, We sponsor everything. We sponsor

462
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Speaker 7: at this little kids little league that has our shit

463
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Speaker 7: on the back, you know what I mean, because as

464
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Speaker 7: you should, as it should, right, And so at this

465
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Speaker 7: point now the community really.

466
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Speaker 6: Fucks with us.

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Speaker 3: They love it.

468
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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 7: We do a sales and consumption event every year. Right,

470
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Speaker 7: We've done it two years now running. The first year

471
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Speaker 7: it was really hard to get it through city council.

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Speaker 7: Last year we got it through seven nothing and the

473
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Speaker 7: people who voted against us apologized and said like, hey,

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Speaker 7: you know, we recognize you guys are doing something good here.

475
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Speaker 2: Wow.

476
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Speaker 4: So you went over all the voters in the big

477
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Speaker 4: wigs in the city going what is this company doing

478
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Speaker 4: and then they go, wow, I.

479
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Speaker 5: See what Left Coast is doing. And then they realized

480
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Speaker 5: Left Coast holding this for the community, and you're helping everybody.

481
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Speaker 6: Changing hearts and minds.

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Speaker 2: Baby. Yeah, yeah, one plane at a time, right. And

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Speaker 2: then as as far as you know the amount of stores,

484
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Speaker 2: how are the stores holding up? You know, the retail side,

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Speaker 2: because you know, I mean we see in the California boom.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was first it was a climb to

487
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Speaker 2: the top and now it's like a race to the bottom.

488
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Speaker 2: You know, prices of drop. People are trying to you know,

489
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Speaker 2: keep themselves alive here and then you know the other

490
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Speaker 2: states are just coming on board. So they're just barely

491
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Speaker 2: launching up. So what what are you seeing in stores?

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Speaker 6: Retail is tough in Michigan.

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Speaker 7: I mean you have border stores along Ohio, Illinois, Indiana.

494
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Speaker 7: Those stores kill you know, twenty thirty.

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Speaker 2: One comes cross state line and line.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and prices are so low in Michigan that you

497
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Speaker 7: could come across state line and you could take it

498
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Speaker 7: back to your state and trap you know, fifteen day

499
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Speaker 7: parts for one hundred dollars, twenty five dollars for an ounce,

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Speaker 7: you know, cheap cheap.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five for an ounce?

502
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, what's an eighth going for? Then you buy

503
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Speaker 6: eights for five ten bucks?

504
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's it's really really good.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 7: So you know, California has experienced the price compression, specifically

507
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Speaker 7: at the wholesale level, but in Michigan we have felt

508
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Speaker 7: the retail compression, like like nobody's business. I mean, when

509
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Speaker 7: you can buy vape car it's in the store for

510
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Speaker 7: seven dollars.

511
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Speaker 3: Whoa, that's how you're giving away the oil?

512
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Speaker 6: Yeah, basically in the way.

513
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're basically buying the hardware and sell.

514
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Speaker 4: For four bucks probably right. I mean, jeez, I'm making

515
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,240
Speaker 4: three bucks a pop. You ain't really getting too much

516
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 4: to help, you know, the but the rents cheaper. I

517
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 4: mean you still got to pay folks and security.

518
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Speaker 3: And why do you see that?

519
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 2: Is that because there's just too much too many competitors

520
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Speaker 2: or is it because they're trying to wash everybody out.

521
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Speaker 6: There's a lot of there's a lot of competition.

522
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Speaker 7: Right when I first went to Michigan, we had to

523
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Speaker 7: we had to prove finances, right, Like I had to

524
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Speaker 7: show assets and liquidity to get my licenses, and then

525
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 7: like six months later, like I just kidding, bucket, you

526
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 7: don't have to have any money anymore, just just come

527
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Speaker 7: for a license. And then you know, the state took

528
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Speaker 7: a very wow yeah right, and then the state took

529
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Speaker 7: a hands off approach to regulation. Right, so there's no

530
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Speaker 7: enforcement there is now. But in the beginning, like you know,

531
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Speaker 7: nobody ever came to my farm, I could have never

532
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Speaker 7: planted any plants and just brought in a tree from

533
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Speaker 7: Canada or ally and just put it in the market

534
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Speaker 7: and never even turn my lights on. So they were

535
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Speaker 7: completely hands off on the enforcement side of things. Now

536
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Speaker 7: they changed out, you know, the regime. There's a new

537
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Speaker 7: guy in there. He comes from the Michigan State Police.

538
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Speaker 7: He started busting people. You know, there were people were

539
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Speaker 7: bringing in five thousand leaders oil a month, five pounds.

540
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Speaker 3: Like where you getting all this shit?

541
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Speaker 2: But and no grow house, no bro.

542
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Speaker 5: The house, their licenses, their fucking backyard.

543
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Speaker 2: So I mean, because because I know a couple of groups,

544
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Speaker 2: you know, and I don't want to say any names,

545
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,680
Speaker 2: but you know, they were like, look, we're going to

546
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Speaker 2: bring the price of cannabis so far down that we'll

547
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Speaker 2: take a loss for the next five ten years. And

548
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Speaker 2: then once we wipe everybody out. We're just gonna jack

549
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Speaker 2: the price back up. Yeah. And I'm like what, you know,

550
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 2: like like you're gonna drop the price just to just

551
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Speaker 2: squeeze everybody out. They can't make it, you know. And

552
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Speaker 2: and and now.

553
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Speaker 3: You're talking a big business.

554
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 2: You know, this is a big business, and and people

555
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 2: are very intelligent when it's like, hey, we'll take a

556
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 2: five year loss, we'll just blow everybody out, you know,

557
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 2: and and we'll lose you know, a billion dollars or

558
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Speaker 2: whatever or tens of millions of dollars. And then you know,

559
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: once we wipe everybody out, we'll come back in and

560
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 2: just roll it up, you know. And I'm just like,

561
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 2: holy shit, you know. And you start having those conversations

562
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Speaker 2: with people. I mean, we were very fortunate to get to,

563
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Speaker 2: you know, to deal with all walks here, you know.

564
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Speaker 2: And it's kind of sad because we come from such

565
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 2: a compassionate place, and we we started this, you know,

566
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Speaker 2: and out of I mean, for me and my family,

567
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 2: it was at first for me, it was a money grab.

568
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Speaker 2: And when I first started, and then I started realizing

569
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Speaker 2: that I was really helping patients, which I'm sure you

570
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 2: went through that too. Especially being from northern California. Medical

571
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 2: side medical side really hit and you're kind of like, oh,

572
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 2: this is really helping people. And then it got super compassion,

573
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 2: and then it was like okay, cool. And then I

574
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 2: just for me, I wanted to stop touching the plant,

575
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: you know, I just I got to a point where

576
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, cool, here's besold, my licenses, everything like that.

577
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 3: What do you feel? What are you gonna do.

578
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 2: You're gonna stay in the retail, stay in the grows

579
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,719
Speaker 2: and and are you going to uh take a shift

580
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 2: and just focus on your your your mentoring. Yeah.

581
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Speaker 7: I mean we're building to have a big platform in

582
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Speaker 7: the state of Michigan. Like I want to have one

583
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 7: of the biggest companies in the state of Michigan. And

584
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 7: that's what we're going for right now, really building the

585
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 7: Caddy brand and long term you know, because when you

586
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 7: first started cannabis company, you think, oh, this is a

587
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 7: short term play. A couple few years, we'll build this

588
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 7: thing and then we'll sell it. It has obviously not

589
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 7: a short term play anymore, right, this is a long

590
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 7: term play. So I see myself, I'm in this for

591
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Speaker 7: another you know, five eight years, whatever it takes. Until

592
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Speaker 7: the market turns around and the business is big enough

593
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Speaker 7: that it makes sense to sell it.

594
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Speaker 2: So you guys are just kind of you know, you

595
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 2: guys are just making money right now. You're not blowing

596
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Speaker 2: it out, You're not you're not profiting, but you're you're winning.

597
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, we're doing good. The business cash flows itself.

598
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Speaker 7: I mean, I'm not running out trying to raise a

599
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Speaker 7: bunch of money right now. I'm not in a position

600
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Speaker 7: where I have to sell the company because we're in

601
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Speaker 7: a bad spot.

602
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Speaker 3: So it's a good place to stay.

603
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Like you know, to me, after going through the

604
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Speaker 7: last couple of years in Michigan, the fact that we're

605
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Speaker 7: still here, that we expanded as much as we have

606
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Speaker 7: feels like a big ad coledge.

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Speaker 5: Well it is, brother, I mean, William, you know what

608
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Speaker 5: I mean.

609
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Speaker 2: You're doing it.

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Speaker 4: And you have that many plans. You're producing fifty pounds

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Speaker 4: a year. I mean, for goodness sakes, that's a lot

612
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Speaker 4: of cannabis out there. That's a lot of good medicine

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Speaker 4: for people. I want to ask you, when did you

614
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Speaker 4: realize that this is medicine for patients?

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Speaker 2: How did you feel that?

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Speaker 4: And like see that because I think you first got into.

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Speaker 4: William Mackenzie, great story so far. I want to take

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Speaker 4: it back though to where I.

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Speaker 2: Love blue story.

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Speaker 4: When you know, as you heard a little bit about

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Speaker 4: him understanding patients and I mean literally how AIDS is

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Speaker 4: a part of that story and hearing it?

643
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Speaker 5: What is your story when you've seen.

644
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Speaker 2: That this is real medicine.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so it took me a while to figure that out, right,

646
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 7: because I'm an og drug addict, right, I was really

647
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Speaker 7: deep into the drugs for a long time.

648
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Speaker 6: I got clean and sober in twenty and twelve.

649
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Speaker 3: Congratulations, thanks man, I appreciate that.

650
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Speaker 7: And reintroduced myself to the cannabis industry.

651
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Speaker 4: And when you say drugs like uh oh, crystal pills,

652
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Speaker 4: the whole nine.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Okay, I love the party.

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Speaker 4: Whatever's at the sound Factory and I'm partying with and

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Speaker 4: bring the club.

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Speaker 2: But let's go.

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Speaker 7: You know I spent uh spent seven months in rehab

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Speaker 7: in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 4: Well you know, I got twenty five plus years. I

660
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Speaker 4: got sober in ninety eight, so you know, I know

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Speaker 4: the feeling.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I keep my chip working, you know mean I

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Speaker 3: got chip.

665
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 5: I literally keep my chip in my pocket right here, boom,

666
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 5: right here on my key chain.

667
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 2: I'm all about the sobriety.

668
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 6: That's amazing.

669
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

670
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 7: So yeah, when I came back into the game, it

671
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 7: was understanding that this is this is medicine for people,

672
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 7: and it was a much less uh materialistic capitalist play

673
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 7: when we when we got back into the medical market

674
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 7: and started growing outside.

675
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, and how did you figure that out?

676
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 2: You know?

677
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 7: I have a cousin who had been telling me for

678
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 7: years that this is medicine, and I always just said, bro,

679
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 7: shut up, like, yeah, you're getting high, bro, you know,

680
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,959
Speaker 7: And it finally got through to me, you know. And

681
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 7: I saw also I had an aunt who died from

682
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 7: pancreas cancer and she was using cannabis at the end,

683
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 7: and that also had an impact on me.

684
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 2: It always affects you, you know, like I said, for me,

685
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 2: it was you know, it was it was. I had

686
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: a delivery service here down the street, and then I

687
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 2: started going to patient's houses because some of my drivers

688
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 2: were kind of just you know, sketchy, you know what

689
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 2: I mean. I was afraid to get out there and

690
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 2: go and I'm like, dude, it's a fucking gramble weed

691
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: dog like. But then I was like, but I got

692
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 2: a lot of weed behind me, so I just didn't

693
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 2: want to get wrapped in. So I had drivers, but

694
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 2: then sometimes they wouldn't show up, and then I'd be like, man,

695
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 2: this guy's here all the time. He's one of our serious,

696
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 2: you know patients. Let me just I'll shoot it over there,

697
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: fucking and I roll up and i'd see, you know,

698
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 2: come in and I'm like the doors like cracked, you know,

699
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 2: and I'm like knocking on the door.

700
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: I'm like, just meet me at the front, you know.

701
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 2: Like I'm like looking around, thinking I'm gonna go down,

702
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: you know, and they're like, no, just come in and

703
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: bring it down the counter.

704
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 3: And I'm on my couch.

705
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 2: I can't get up, and I'm like, fuck this, you

706
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 2: know what I mean, I'm not going to this guy's house,

707
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 2: you know. And then I'm like fuck it, I'm already here.

708
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: If I try and leave, they're gonna snatch me up. Anyways,

709
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 2: I've seen fucking whatever, you know, show like I'm gonna

710
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 2: get rushed no matter what the news. I have had

711
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: them all at me. And so I went in and

712
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: went in there and dudes on the couch, he's just like, yeah,

713
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 2: I put it right there. The money's on the counter,

714
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 2: and I'm like okay, and I'm fucking soon I grabbed

715
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 2: that money.

716
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 3: I'm like I'm going down and I'm like, he's like, yo,

717
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 3: can you pack me a ball before we leave? And

718
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 3: I'm like, huh, like what, you know, He's like, yeah,

719
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 3: I can't.

720
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm like, well you okay, and he's

721
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: like not really, you know, I'm fucking sick as shit,

722
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 2: you know, like okay. And then, you know, I had

723
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 2: that happened to me with many different people, and actually

724
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 2: while dealing with them, it just was like, fuck, this

725
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 2: is this is real deal, you know, and and it

726
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 2: got like pretty emotional. And then some of those people

727
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: start dying. You know, you you start showing up to

728
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: the house for years or three years and ordering, they

729
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 2: stop ordering his ship and boom, and then someone's like,

730
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 2: oh yeah that so and sos.

731
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: You know, it's a small world.

732
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, But long story short, my dad ended up being

733
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 2: diagnosed with cancer and dying, you know, and my dad

734
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 2: taught me how to grow weed.

735
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 3: My dad taught me how to sell weed.

736
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: My dad's been selling weed since I was a kid,

737
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: you know, some second generation. And then on his way out,

738
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 2: I was like, fuck dude, and he was all fucking

739
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 2: pumped up on the opioids and stuff like that, and

740
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: he's like, I'm stopping this shit.

741
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 3: And I'm like, what do you mean he can't stop? Dude?

742
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 3: He was like so much pain.

743
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 2: He's like, just give me the best repositories, the best

744
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 2: fucking weed you can find, the best fucking oils, whatever

745
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: you know, Rick Simpson oils, whatever you can find me,

746
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 2: the strong edibles, and I'm not taking these opiates no

747
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 2: more in it. And then he completely cold turkey. And

748
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 2: then once he did, it was weird because I came

749
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 2: home one day and he's pushing his walker, you know,

750
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: and I was like, this fucking man hasn't been up

751
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 2: in fucking months and he cold turkeys for like thirty days,

752
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: and then fucking now he's on his walker moving around

753
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 2: making food for himself. And I was just like, and

754
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't like he was gonna fucking you know,

755
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,479
Speaker 2: come out of it, dude, you know what I mean.

756
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 3: But it was just such.

757
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 2: An amazing a miracle for me to see him have

758
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 2: a little bit better quality of life.

759
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 3: I want to put food in his mouth. And then

760
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 3: from that.

761
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 5: Point of life is the key term, like better quality.

762
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 2: And then I knew from from then on, I'm like, man,

763
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: this is this is I'm supposed to be here. You know,

764
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 2: and then you know, so I had to see my

765
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: dad pass but you know, I literally got to see

766
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 2: him have a better quality of life. And and so

767
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: I believe in our plant, you know. So what you're

768
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 2: doing out there is a good thing, you know, And

769
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: even if it's for recreational use. What you don't know

770
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 2: is that eighty percent of us have problems, and we're

771
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 2: really going.

772
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 4: To help with stress and help with anxiety whatever it

773
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 4: is that you're normally just if you just think you're smoking,

774
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 4: But man, I'm happier.

775
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 3: I just can't get drunk all day.

776
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,959
Speaker 2: Dude, that's the worst part. I'll be dru all day.

777
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 4: I I want to ask you, William, is this the

778
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 4: biggest girl you've had so far?

779
00:31:58,960 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 2: Oh?

780
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, the biggest scrab I've ever seen. And for

781
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 7: most people who come to the farmer's the biggest scroll

782
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 7: they've ever seen. Really, even O G's from Cali. Yeah,

783
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 7: towny acres. It's one hundred and twenty acre farm. We

784
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 7: have fifty acres of canopy.

785
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 3: Wow.

786
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: So it's a nice size.

787
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's chunky, you know it's chunky. Are you trying

788
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 4: to do the other acres too? Or what are you

789
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 4: doing in an amusement park.

790
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 7: I mean, we just ran up, We ran up against

791
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 7: our boundaries. We'd have to take down trees until the land.

792
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 7: But we may take over an adjacent farm.

793
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 3: Actually.

794
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 7: One of the things, you know, Michigan outdoor farming is challenging, right,

795
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 7: there's a lot of different ship.

796
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 6: That's going on in Michigan that's not going on in California.

797
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 6: Some of it's good, right, we have fucking water Cali.

798
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 7: I used to run out of water in August, you know,

799
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 7: and then we were trying to get water from where

800
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 7: we were trying to.

801
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 6: Get water from.

802
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 2: You're fucking filling up fire hydrot and pushing it into a.

803
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 7: There may not have been the creek, you know what

804
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 7: I mean. But yeah, but there's a lot of there's

805
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 7: molds in the air, there's a lot of differ and shit, right,

806
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 7: and so different bugs, I'm sure different bugs. So a

807
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 7: lot of people are failing, right, and so people will

808
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 7: come and ask us, like, hey, we take over our

809
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 7: farm basically, so I think we are going to take

810
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 7: over at least one, maybe two farms for next season.

811
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, management company, Yeah, how big are those coming?

812
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 7: Those are smaller? So like a ten thousand and a

813
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 7: twenty thousand plant farm. So between the two of those,

814
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 7: you know, and the other thing is that we planted.

815
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 7: We made a decision in May fifteenth of this year

816
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 7: to plant the additional thirty seven thousand plants take us

817
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 7: from twelve thousand to fifty. Yeah, and so most of

818
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 7: our plants this year wound up. They were pretty small, right,

819
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 7: like one pound plants versus or even.

820
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 5: Have the time.

821
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, didn't have the time, right, but you still popped

822
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 6: them off, still popped them off.

823
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 7: They came out fire, they came out beautiful.

824
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 3: It almost came out better quality. But right, a lot.

825
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 7: Easier to manage a one pound plant than a fucking

826
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 7: plant that weighs fifty pounds wet.

827
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is when you say that, because

828
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 2: I remember that, right, So I used to in my mind,

829
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, they got to get bigger.

830
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 3: And so this is.

831
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 2: Indoor, right, even an indoor though, And I was like,

832
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 2: they got to get bigger, and we let them get bigger,

833
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 2: and you know, look for higher ceilings and and you know,

834
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 2: take the trays to the floor if we had to

835
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 2: write or right before, you know, whatever we can do.

836
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 3: And then it was like you know there.

837
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 2: Well, it's just you're dealing with the big ass, bushy

838
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 2: ass tree, you know, instead of this little baby tree

839
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 2: that just has all these cute little things you gotta

840
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 2: cut off, and it's already ready to go.

841
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, And and my butt, one of my boys, is like, bro,

842
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 3: you're tripping it. And I'm like what it's like.

843
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 2: He's like, dude, you're getting more weight. But he's like,

844
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 2: but it's costing you more to fucking produce that way.

845
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense. And I'm just like, hun, He's like, dude,

846
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 2: we do short dogs. It's like, just stack them on

847
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 2: top of each other and do a bunch of short dogs.

848
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: And I was like huh.

849
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 2: Then I was like, well then, and I looked at

850
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 2: my brother, and my brother's like like, let's do it.

851
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 3: I just did a bunch of like you know, like

852
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 3: I don't know.

853
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, so seven to ten days.

854
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 2: And then and then go and flip flip flip, flip flip,

855
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 2: and and and it.

856
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 3: Was so much easier. It was just like boom, and

857
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 3: it was just cracking them out.

858
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 4: And that was just make money, make money, make money.

859
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 3: The harder it is to produce everything, right.

860
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 4: To cut it off it's heavier, more problems, more this,

861
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 4: more that, more potential of more waste because you let

862
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 4: it grow further and then something else happens to it.

863
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 4: So yeah, I could see it being a way better

864
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 4: better fit. What else is next for you, guys?

865
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 6: Man?

866
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 7: We ran some pretty interesting stuff this year. We ran

867
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 7: these quicks. It's a cross between auto and a photo period.

868
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 7: Those came out amazing, and that's something that really people

869
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 7: haven't been doing in Michigan yet, running auto flower because

870
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 7: it's not like California where you can get two runs

871
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 7: in or where you can run a sea green and

872
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 7: a bunch of tiny little plants. So we're gonna do

873
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 7: a run of those next year. We're gonna have We're

874
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 7: gonna have flower in August, you know, beat the market

875
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 7: are doing.

876
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 6: We're not in the air, straight in the air.

877
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 7: I'll show you videos after the you know, I mean,

878
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 7: we're just out out in it.

879
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 3: Yeah. So you only have a small period time where

880
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 3: you can grow this time it is too cold.

881
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

882
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 7: We have a couple of greenhouses at the farm where

883
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 7: we grow year round, and then we have an indoor

884
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 7: growth facility. But that farm we get one run full

885
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 7: term sun grown native soil, fire ass outdoor weed, right.

886
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 2: And if you miss it though, yeah, I mean this

887
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 2: is what I want in the game, your fox, you

888
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: know what I mean.

889
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 3: I want people to know that.

890
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 2: You know, that's the coldest part of the business. Though, dude,

891
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 2: if you wait, I could go as far as saying,

892
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 2: if you if you let it go into that one

893
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 2: or two weeks of extra growth, you could.

894
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 6: Just yeah, you can blow it.

895
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 2: I mean quick.

896
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 7: It's like the time you spend five million dollars to

897
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 7: grow these plants and you get one shot, right, and

898
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 7: that's your one shot for the year. All that product

899
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 7: has to sustain that business for the other months of

900
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 7: the year, right, And so it's a don't fuck it up,

901
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 7: don't fuck it up.

902
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

903
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 5: How many people you guys got working for you?

904
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 7: We have eighty five, like full time people right now today.

905
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 7: I think there's seventy people harvesting today. That's that's separate

906
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 7: from those Yeah, different crew, different crew.

907
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, coming in.

908
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 7: We get heavy for planting and heavy for harvesting. Heavy

909
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 7: for a couple of strip periods.

910
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fucking great man. You're doing it out there

911
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 4: in Michigan, folks. If you don't know of left Coast Holdings.

912
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 4: What are the brands that they're smoking out there that

913
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 4: Left Coast Holdings are producing?

914
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 7: Caddy Heritage Provisioning are our brands? Find them in the

915
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 7: Authentic two three one Heritage Provisioning stores and a bunch

916
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 7: of other stores in Michigan.

917
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 2: Nice.

918
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 5: And then of course you're white labeling a bunch of shit.

919
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're smoking something.

920
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 5: You don't realize that this is Left Coast Holdings.

921
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 7: Least right, you might see it on the tag right

922
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 7: on the metric tag if it says Heritage Farms Authentic

923
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 7: two three one on there it comes from us.

924
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 4: You already know that's great, brother, you're doing it. We

925
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 4: like to do the high five with everybody that comes

926
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 4: in here. Before we do, I want to thank the

927
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 4: staff that makes it all happen. From a mirror to Adrian,

928
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 4: Alex c Alex A Mondo, Madison Logan, Teddy the Show Dog,

929
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 4: Daniel O'Connor, ve, Kicky Camp, Baxter Beach Barcelaar, Ali Muffins, Sunday, Cassie, Skinny, Ruvie,

930
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 4: Goldie Brother, Pitt, Mark Karnes, Chris Frankeno, Jennifer Erica and Elvis.

931
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 3: Thank you guys all of you for doing what you do.

932
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 4: It's now time for the High five with the CEO

933
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 4: Left Coast Holdings, William Mackenzie. How old were you the

934
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 4: first time he smoked cannabis and where'd you get it from?

935
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 7: I was thirteen years old and I got it from

936
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 7: my friend Dylan.

937
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,479
Speaker 2: Good old Dylan in the East Bay.

938
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 6: In the East Bay, Yeah, in Albany.

939
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 5: Nice Dylan, Dylan, Dylan.

940
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: We're gonna find Dylan.

941
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 5: He's a drug dealer.

942
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: Question number two of the I five, what is your

943
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 2: favorite way to use or smoke cannabis?

944
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 6: I don't use or smoke cannabis anymore, No way.

945
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 5: No, not even oils or CBD or nothing.

946
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 7: Not oils or wow, I take CBD cb teacher.

947
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 4: See, I've been sober to but I used the oils

948
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 4: and CBDs and the rubs and the repositories.

949
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 2: Everyone.

950
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever it takes.

951
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 5: But Blue helps me with them, you know, no glove,

952
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 5: no love too. It's cool, that's right, you know what

953
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 5: I mean. We're buddies like that's fun.

954
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 2: Exactly.

955
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 5: Whatever it takes, you know what, We're gonna do it

956
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 5: on the show next week.

957
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 4: We'll show everybody we're talking about demonstration exactly. This is

958
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 4: when you find out if you have a true buddy. Yeah,

959
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 4: I mean that's what we call him. The steaky finger, Grandpa.

960
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 2: That's me. Question number three of the High Five.

961
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 5: Craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis?

962
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: Oh?

963
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 7: Man, craziest place I ever smoked? Top of Half Dome

964
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 7: in Yosemite. Maybe.

965
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, is great to go and just walk and chill

966
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 4: if you're ever out in Cali, folks, to do yourself

967
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 4: a favor.

968
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 2: It's damn near one of the eighth Wonders of the world.

969
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 5: I'll give it the eighth because it's so beautiful.

970
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 6: It's wild.

971
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good one.

972
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 3: Question number four of the High five, what is your

973
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: go to month sheet? Have to you use to get high?

974
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 1: Oh?

975
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 7: Man, I'm I'm kind of on these Lenny and Larry's

976
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 7: Complete cream cookies right now. Those things are.

977
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 3: Where do you get those?

978
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 6: Every gas station's got them right now. They're like the

979
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 6: protein cookies.

980
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 7: Oh, the protein they got like the little ones now

981
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 7: that are like Warrios.

982
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 3: I know what you're trying.

983
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 2: Brow.

984
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Mary, Larry, Curly and Jack.

985
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

986
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 1: Whatever.

987
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 4: The I don't know, I'm not hip to it. I

988
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 4: gotta get some I gotta try this, you know, the

989
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 4: three Stooges. Yes, Larry Crillion, Moe said Jack and made

990
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 4: me turn off.

991
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 3: I'm about to say, Joe, thank you.

992
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 4: Question number five of the high five. Folks, go check

993
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 4: it out. Of course, Left Coast Holdings. You want to

994
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 4: get ahold of them info at Left Coast Holdings dot com.

995
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 4: You're interested in getting in the game out there. You

996
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 4: already heard what he's done, You already know where he's from.

997
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 4: William can help you out, William, if you could smoke

998
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 4: cannabis with anyone dead or alive, I know you're sober

999
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 4: like me, brother, But if you could and would and

1000
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 4: pick somebody out, who would it be?

1001
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 2: And why?

1002
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 6: I think it would have to be Willie Nelson.

1003
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 4: Willie, Ladies and gentlemen, Willie Nelson, come on in, will

1004
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 4: Oh he's not here today?

1005
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: Why will he has to turn around? Like damn? He's

1006
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:42,720
Speaker 2: like I've done seen a lot of motherfuckers.

1007
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 7: So you know, I'm I'm a I like country music.

1008
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:46,760
Speaker 7: I've always liked Willie Nelson.

1009
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 3: I like country too.

1010
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he's just one of the real og cannabis game.

1011
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 5: You know that's funny. We've never had him on yet.

1012
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 4: We've never Willi's been the guy that you know, we've

1013
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 4: here sometimes here and there.

1014
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do need to push it and we need

1015
00:40:58,920 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 3: to get him.

1016
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 4: Have a peanut hit the Yeah, we need to try

1017
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 4: to get Willie on or getting no solars holding him

1018
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 4: back on trying to reach him.

1019
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1020
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, So so is anything that we forgot before we

1021
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 2: let you get on out of here?

1022
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 3: Man?

1023
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 7: No, man, you know I'm big on mentorship. I got

1024
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 7: this mentorship program that we launched called the Lead Cannabis

1025
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 7: Operators Mastermind. It's four cannabis operators creating a community of

1026
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 7: operators or pushing each other, working together, sharing best practices,

1027
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 7: what's working, what's not. And so if anybody's interested, any

1028
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 7: operators are interested in hearing more, hit me either on

1029
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 7: Instagram at Willie McKenzie official or on LinkedIn Willie McKenzie.

1030
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 4: Well, thank you, brother, I appreciate you coming man, and

1031
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 4: thanks for not smuggling any weed in here.

1032
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: I mean, this was nice that you brought with stuff

1033
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: to me. I was ready to smail.

1034
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 5: I'm looking like, Wow, you guys really brought from Michigan. Uh,

1035
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 5: that's working pretty ballsy?

1036
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 3: Did they look in your bags.

1037
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 6: No, no, we could have brought weed from Michigan.

1038
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would have been smarter. That's got some trust,

1039
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 2: I'm sure. Well there it is, guys.

1040
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,319
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1041
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,640
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1042
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1044
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1045
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