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Speaker 1: with special guest Ben Faller for Icy Fresh Jewels. Although

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Speaker 1: we've got an amazing show for you guys today. We've

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Speaker 1: got Mr Ben the Baller Ben Foller on the fall.

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Speaker 1: Mr Ben Yang also known as Ben Baller. He's a musician, actor, jeweler,

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Speaker 1: I mean worked records done Dall Connie. He played basketball

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Speaker 1: and football Residence and Cal Bears doing it from the

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Speaker 1: Beta l A tougher than the toughest. He's the founder

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Speaker 1: of Icy Fresh Jewelers and he creates extravagant diamond and

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Speaker 1: crusted jewelry and beautiful stuff. He's done crazy stuff with

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Speaker 1: all kinds of everybody from Kanye West straight to I

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Speaker 1: guess making that belt buggle from Michael Jackson. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk to him and get into it all with you.

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Speaker 1: But welcome to the show, senior, Ben Baller. How are you, brother?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Guys? Man, I'm good, I'm blessed. It's just

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Speaker 1: funny to say all these things about you like that,

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Speaker 1: and you know, to think about the records and having

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Speaker 1: a great conversation with you yesterday. But you know, take

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Speaker 1: me back early, you know Ben Yang days growing up

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles as a young you know cat from

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Speaker 1: l A going, how am I getting into this game?

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Speaker 1: What led you to? What was first? Was that? You know,

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Speaker 1: as I know we talked, you did you did the record,

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Speaker 1: and you was rapping, you did this and that. But

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Speaker 1: what led you to all this major success? Walk us

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Speaker 1: down that path? You know what, man? I just think

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Speaker 1: I was a dreamer and I think I had you know,

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Speaker 1: I just dreamed a lot and I was. I was

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Speaker 1: born and actually a really small part of like an

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Speaker 1: right by East Los Angeles, and you know, to an

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Speaker 1: immigrant family, and my mom and dad worked very hard.

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Speaker 1: My dad worked very hard for an honorable job but

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Speaker 1: didn't make very much money. My mom worked really really

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Speaker 1: I guess I kind of came in when we were

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Speaker 1: doing all right, like lower middle class my brother and

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Speaker 1: of things. Um like dad going to jail because you

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Speaker 1: And this is like you know, in the sixties and stuff,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: what it's just you know, he said that movie Good Fellas,

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Speaker 1: You know, I just always read I always rooted for

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Speaker 1: larceny man cerritos? Is I? Uh? And I could have

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Speaker 1: So so I just noticed that, like, how did jewelry

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Speaker 1: At a certain point, I started pre recording my mixes

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Speaker 1: as a BRONI the Asian gangster in this video manque

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Speaker 1: the door. I need to get out of here. Just

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Speaker 1: the door. He bounced you just he just bounced on me,

424
00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,600
Speaker 1: just took off, and I had made a few things

425
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Speaker 1: like broaches and things like that. In the next thing,

426
00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,199
Speaker 1: you know, um, you know, he passed away. I made

427
00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,080
Speaker 1: all his jewel up to until he died up pretty much.

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00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,040
Speaker 1: I mean it was a trip. Wow. Wow, we're talking

429
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Speaker 1: to Ben Bahler and that's great, man. I see fresh jewelers.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a break and come right back with you.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Cannabis Talk one on one. Ben Boler

432
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Speaker 1: is with us. If you haven't been listening, you know,

433
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Speaker 1: talking about Michael Jackson just disappearing on you. I mean,

434
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Speaker 1: what you know what and however, did he ever ultimately

435
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,720
Speaker 1: just talk straight to you. Yeah, when they're at the house.

436
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,320
Speaker 1: But honestly, like it was like, um, you know, you

437
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Speaker 1: gotta remember, man, like this is a dude who did

438
00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,720
Speaker 1: nothing but cuss. I cussed a lot, a lot, like

439
00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 1: he told that motherfucker what wh what are you talking about?

440
00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 1: And it was a trip because you would never think

441
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Speaker 1: that Michael Jackson cuss a lot. I mean, people who

442
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Speaker 1: know them obviously know that he you know, he had

443
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Speaker 1: a kind of a temper, different side, but it was

444
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,480
Speaker 1: just it was funk man. You know, you just really

445
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 1: started realizing, like, wow, TV is different, and you know Hollywood,

446
00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 1: and this is me being in Hollywood already for you know,

447
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,399
Speaker 1: fucking fifteen years almost or something. It's just like, god, damn,

448
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:54,399
Speaker 1: So how did you transition into cannabis? Um? So? The

449
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,200
Speaker 1: first time I got high was probably what six or something? Eight?

450
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,680
Speaker 1: They five baby eighty five. I think eighty four, eighty

451
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,200
Speaker 1: five I got I might have been eighty four. Actually,

452
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, eighty four. Some due to school had had weed.

453
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,439
Speaker 1: He was an eighth grade. I was sixth grader. And

454
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 1: my boys like we're gonna get you. Watch all the

455
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,439
Speaker 1: videos back there. You're watching the TV, like, oh, just

456
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 1: say no, and all that ship is going on of

457
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,440
Speaker 1: all fucking schools, of all places. You wanna talk about

458
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 1: some Forrest Gump ship, like weirdo random ship of all places.

459
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: My school was a school where Darren was founded dances.

460
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like my fucking school. The

461
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 1: guy I'll never forget. The guy's name was Officer Gay.

462
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 1: How do you forget that name? And I'm like, ship, man,

463
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm a bad dude. But I don't know, man, you

464
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,679
Speaker 1: don't know about I don't want to stop. At the

465
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 1: same time, too, I played sports. I don't want to

466
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 1: get short. I don't want to be short. I'm Asian.

467
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 1: I'm word against the rope, you know what I'm saying,

468
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 1: Like I think I might have been six two or

469
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 1: something if if I didn't you know, smoke so much.

470
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,479
Speaker 1: But we're getting high, and it just was like it

471
00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 1: was a weird thing because you know, I can't really

472
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: go super deep into um specifics of strains and things,

473
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 1: but I can't think of their being that many strains

474
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 1: around them, you know what I mean? All I know

475
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,120
Speaker 1: was that it was Indica. Back then. I didn't even

476
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: know so T Biggs. I had no idea, but I

477
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:24,239
Speaker 1: might smoke, and I was like, whoa, just uh my

478
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: godfather was one of the O G s normal you know,

479
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 1: Emmy or N O R M L And uh my

480
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: godfather directed Up and Smoke and he also, um, he

481
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 1: produced every cheap chong I'll never so I know he

482
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 1: used to smoke and ship. And then it's weird because

483
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 1: he had took many kids and he didn't smoke his

484
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 1: kids my age, so it's kind of a weird thing.

485
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,120
Speaker 1: And um, I just didn't smoke again until I got

486
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Speaker 1: to school. So I go to the Bay and you know,

487
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 1: Grateful Dead is going on, all that is going on

488
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 1: on the hate street. I'm like, whoa should I do?

489
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 1: Ask it for the first time, all my craziest knowledge,

490
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 1: and you know, I've done ask the sugar cubes. Also

491
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: the ship, I'm doing mushrooms. I'm like, damn do the

492
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: Bay is different. I'm like, this ship is dope out here,

493
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: Like you know, spoken all through high school and everything,

494
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,360
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, at that point, I was like,

495
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 1: obviously it's a good hustle, so we'd not a lot,

496
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: but you know, I sell a little bit here and there,

497
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 1: make money. It's always dabbled with it. It wasn't until

498
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: like around to where I started moving like five hundred,

499
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: six hundred pounds a week, you know, um, seven five

500
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Speaker 1: hundred pounds of a week A week is a lot

501
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: of week, and we're moving that, we're taking elves. We

502
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: were taking it l here and there, here and there,

503
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: And then in two thousand one, everyone in my crew

504
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 1: got By two thousand and one, everyone's been was arrested

505
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: and sucked up and they just know the game, like, yo, man,

506
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: you can arrest us what it is and we do

507
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 1: what we can. But at the same time, like we

508
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: can't make it hot. My cousin decided to start making

509
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: a movie about it, and we did. We made a

510
00:23:55,040 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: real movie like reality and Extrable Ship. I made a

511
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: movie called Cake Feature Film. It took three years to

512
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: sell the fucking movie the lions Gate, but it ended

513
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: up coming out, so you can buy it like a

514
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: fucking Walmart's More for like three or four dollars. But um,

515
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: it was based upon that and I never thought about

516
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: it again because it was illegal and it was a nightmare.

517
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: Then I started seeing like medicinal shark comeback. And it

518
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: wasn't until like around four years ago. I had some

519
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 1: guys who kind of like, you know, they had told

520
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: me they looked up to me. They admired what I

521
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: was doing for Asian Americans and nudity. They had never

522
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 1: seen Asians move like me whatever, and uh, I asked

523
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:34,959
Speaker 1: him what they were doing. They're like, oh, we want

524
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: some dispensaries. And I was like, oh, okay, cool, you

525
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 1: know that's that's dope. And then, um, you know like

526
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 1: at that time, you know you can make a couple

527
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: of million dollars off one dispensary, and uh, you know,

528
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: I met guys who were big time, like you know,

529
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: those guys like came my own four dispensaries and they

530
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: were like real big time, super big, you know, all

531
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: but Harley's and cars and everything. These guys on like

532
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: forty dispensaries. So I was like, holy sh it on

533
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 1: a whole different motherfucking level. They showed me this bait

534
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: pen like amen, um, you know, what do you think

535
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: about this? And I was like, oh man, this is dope.

536
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: You know it's actually fucking five years ago. And I

537
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: was like like right when it just started. And I

538
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,679
Speaker 1: was like, this is dope. Let me put it on

539
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 1: my page and I'll just boom and put it on

540
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: my Instagram page. And they said they hired girls with

541
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: two million followers. Everything you could think of. Whatever is

542
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: a lot of followers back then, and they were hiring

543
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 1: people to post ship and the turnaround was really not

544
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: that great. When I did it, the turnaround was overwhelming

545
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,719
Speaker 1: for them. So I said, hey, man, we got an idea. Man,

546
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: would you want to do your own pen And I'm like, yeah,

547
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: fuck it. But if I do business, you know, I

548
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 1: can't do like some let's do it like let's let's

549
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: let's let's let let's let's brand it, lets let's do

550
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: let's do a whole fucking thing around me. Let's do this.

551
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: And I don't know why that just deep dove into it.

552
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 1: And so we started VBS and we began to crush

553
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: it until something called the fucking BCC. Yeah, I r

554
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: s a fucking weed. Um, let me just the BCC.

555
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: But it was just like, you know, like, uh, I've

556
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: seen how many times a new compliance has come around

557
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: in the years. I'm just like, what a mom bro

558
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: a black sticker you're telling me, the black SA sticker.

559
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: I have seventy five thou stickers, I mean two stickers.

560
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: I gotta get white stickers out to be at c

561
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: A the fucking c A compliance sticker talking me, Please

562
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: tell me you're kidding and I'm like, yo, it's like

563
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: little things like that, you know, like all you guys

564
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: start doing your homework. You know, I grew up with

565
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: Cypress Hill Mr Cartoons, part of soul Assassins. You know,

566
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: it's all families. Like I've been around cannabis all my life,

567
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 1: and you know, um, I just started learning the hardships

568
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: and then just with the compliance and ship and fucking,

569
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 1: and then pesticides came up, and there's people like, oh,

570
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: you're showing, and then it's just like hold on, wait

571
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: a second, what the fuck is going on? I got

572
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: these sides talking ship hiding, you know, putting this up

573
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: here boom, and they're like, bandman, we got people who

574
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: leg in your pants. Oh yeah, there's a lot of

575
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 1: that happened to the best of them. That's why you're

576
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: doing it. Fucking kidding me. So counterfeits. That's a little

577
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: rising that my pens are being bootleg and there's not

578
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: really much because it's it's pretty close. But then I'm like,

579
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 1: looking at it, I'm like, all right, it's little off.

580
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: I'm a jeweler. I'm gonna look at detail, and yeah,

581
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: sure enough, you know they got bad you know they

582
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: got bad oil and my pants, and you know, the

583
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: ship happened brass snuckles and sucked them up and those

584
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: are my boys, and it just I had to just

585
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 1: keep transitioning. So now it's at the point where it's

586
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: it's it's a fucking it's a struggle with with with

587
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: with with bait pens, you know what I mean. Plus

588
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: on top of that, I'm using C cell technology, which

589
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: to me is one of the best. And people like, yo,

590
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: why you're on a phistoric ship, why don't you use

591
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 1: live resumes? Shut the funk up? Bro? Let me do

592
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: what then? I do? You know what I'm saying, Like

593
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: everyone that has all these things to say about something,

594
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: they're aithing doing something out of the garage. They're doing

595
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: it on a very small scale, or they don't own

596
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: a company and don't understand what it is to sell

597
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: a million pens, you know. And um, you know, right

598
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: when the pandemic has started, we had two and fifty

599
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: pens stuck in customs from where China, and uh. I

600
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: was like, bro, there has to be someone who makes

601
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: fucking C cell technology in Americas. There isn't. So I

602
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 1: was just like Jesus fucking Christ. So that was stuck

603
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: for a minute. Um, I had a big partnership with

604
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: med men and then that ship. Thank God, thank fucking God,

605
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: Like I God blessed something, and they are really good

606
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: to me. And I got paid. I made money with that. Yeah,

607
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't. Yeah, and I felt bad

608
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 1: because I talked to people, are like, a man, how

609
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: big your your p o with them? Do whatever? I'm like, man, like,

610
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: why are you counting my pockets? I ask you, no question,

611
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: what you guys doing. And you know, we got paid.

612
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: We're thankful and we kept the pushing. So right now.

613
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: The good thing is the pens are in higher demand.

614
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: It's just harder to get because, you know, because because

615
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: of China. So I kind of, you know, finally went

616
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: to the string route and uh, I teamed up with

617
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: Cookies Fam and my boy as a as the cultivation

618
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: a big farm skypack and you know, Sacramento, and um,

619
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: we're about to launch the strain on March. On March eleventh,

620
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: the entire country got shut down. Oh fucking fantastic. You know,

621
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: this is amazing. So, I mean it's just been, uh,

622
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: it's been very interesting. And at the moment they were like,

623
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: why don't we just launch it without you here. And

624
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,959
Speaker 1: I was like, Bro, I'm not like one of these weirdos. Bro,

625
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I want to be there,

626
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: be involved, I want to be at the in stores.

627
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: I want to actually be proactive on this, and it's

628
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: just it's still a very very unusual situation. So, um,

629
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: that's just kind of on hold because my son and

630
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: my children's and my children and my my whole family's

631
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Speaker 1: you know, health is ten times more valuable than any

632
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Speaker 1: of the you know it will be the Cannibals will

633
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: be there tomorrow, all businesses. Well, you gotta take care

634
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Speaker 1: of fan band first, you know, Ben, Well, I remember when, um,

635
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, I used to hang

636
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: out with you at at the Rainbow Room with you know,

637
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: be real and you stop in once in a while.

638
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: We used to and remember Playboy Bud next door at

639
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: the Key Club, you know what I mean, and running

640
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: around and I and I and I've watched this this

641
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: industry evolves so much from your you know, your product lines,

642
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: to to the people the players that are all in

643
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: that game, to the underground things that we're happening then

644
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: to what's really happening now and you're right, it's such

645
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: a big curve and all these new things are happening,

646
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: and it's so difficult to to you know, navigate through

647
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: it when you have laws changing, like the Little c

648
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: A and all this. So, you know, I admire that

649
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: fact that it's just like it's it's a grind. You know,

650
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: you've got it, You've got evolved. I mean when we

651
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: when we you know, try to create this show, and

652
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I mean people told us that

653
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: we were gonna fail. You know, all this isn't gonna work.

654
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: You know, you're not gonna ever be played on radio.

655
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: And then three years, four years into it, we're signing

656
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Speaker 1: too the biggest you know, uh music conglomerates. You know.

657
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: But it's just you have to have that vision, and

658
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: you've always had that vision. And that's something that I

659
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: admire about you. Man. I've watched your success for for

660
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: many years, you know, and I just think it's fantastic

661
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: that you have uh made a staple and they have

662
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: influenced so many people, uh minorities, you know, to be stronger,

663
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: better and faster because you are you know, that unicorn

664
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Speaker 1: in that space, you know what I mean, you always

665
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: have been and it's it's beautiful, appreciate, thank you. I

666
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: want to get towards now that you know you've done everything,

667
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: you're doing, all these things you make the thing with

668
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Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, What is it now that go? You know

669
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Speaker 1: this is my passion and I know, of course you

670
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: know the pandemic, the health of your family and kids.

671
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's first top of the list, making sure

672
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Speaker 1: that's a plus number one. But what is it now?

673
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Speaker 1: I mean, is cannabis the new Let me learn more

674
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Speaker 1: about our our What is it that men bent? Let

675
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: Ben Yang go from the young kid and east in

676
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Speaker 1: l A growing up to be Ben Baller, the icy

677
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: fresh jewelers. Now this now that where's your mindset out? Now?

678
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: Because you've been so successful, where are you going? You know,

679
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: it's funny to say that, man like, there's very few

680
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: people in the world that even know my name is

681
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: Ben Yang. I think be Real is probably one of

682
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Speaker 1: the very few, and Kenji and all my soul Assassin

683
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: family that um. I don't think I've used that name

684
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: as a joke until maybe two years ago, so I

685
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: know one even I've never ever been addressed as that.

686
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: I think even my mail at my office. I think

687
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: people kind of bug out when they see that name.

688
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: They think it's wrong, and they'll send it back like motherfucker.

689
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: That's my rooms. That name government name because it makes

690
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: sense because I don't care about anything anymore. I don't

691
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: want to learn too much about anything else. I'm really

692
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: just over it. I'm almost fifty nine. I'm just kind

693
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: of like I just want to be a dad now,

694
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because I started so late

695
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: in life. My wife is eleven years younger than me,

696
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: so like, you know, with my kids and everything, you know,

697
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: I've made enough money to kind of just chill. So

698
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, I have businesses that are on cruise control,

699
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: and um my my dream is to delete all my

700
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: social media, you know, like I think, yes, um, yeah, man,

701
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I'm just I'm just over it.

702
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: I want to be Ben Yang now, you know what

703
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: I mean, And I want to kind of I mean,

704
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: I'm I'm never really gonna fit in I guess you know,

705
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: I could be in regular clothes or whatever. It just

706
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't it wouldn't it wouldn't matter. Um, I don't really

707
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: wear jewelry anymore. Um, I still have you know, obviously

708
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: really nice cars and other things. But I just don't really.

709
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: It's just I'm just at a different way. And I

710
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: don't mean that to sound like in some people would

711
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: be like, oh, man, for your giving up. I was like,

712
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: how am I giving up? Motherfucker? I'm still living better

713
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: than everybody? You know. I'm just drive because you gotta

714
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: remember someone. I don't know, somebody big. I'm trying to think,

715
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: like fuck, I mean, even like Jeff Bezos. I honestly,

716
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: truly this same sounds outland is to somebody listening to this.

717
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if he had the work ethic I

718
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: did at a certain point. It was just he had

719
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: the tools and the money and other things, and he's

720
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: amazing what he did as a visionary and everything, and

721
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: what where he's at now. It's just I can't think

722
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know if you could work any

723
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: hard like I stressed my brain out so much. I

724
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: had a seizure a few weeks ago, you know, And

725
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: it wasn't from anything, to the fact that I just

726
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: was so overwhelmed, and um, I've just worked so much

727
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: that it's to the point where I don't want to

728
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,479
Speaker 1: work anymore, you know. Because I've worked for so long.

729
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: I had a paper rout when I was a kid.

730
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: I was always running around doing it. I worked at

731
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Speaker 1: bird King, I worked, I worked shitty places, fast food,

732
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: you name it. Like I'm cool, Like I'm good now.

733
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to work nowhere, you know what I mean,

734
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: I'll take less here to do this. And I've I've

735
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,919
Speaker 1: learned how to you know, to you know, last this long.

736
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: You know, people by the time they're thirty in the

737
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: hip hop world, you know, you're a dinosaur old, you

738
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean, forty mom, forget about it. You know,

739
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: like the Playing Jade song came out just barely three

740
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: years ago, you know, and like that was the number

741
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: one song in the world, not even just a country.

742
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: And like my glow up every year I became more

743
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: relevant and flourished, and I was like, yo, man, like

744
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 1: I got two more years and I'm done right, you know.

745
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: And now if I'm not mistake and you're on ESPN earlier,

746
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: is it a new shoe that you're launched or what

747
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: was cracking with that? Nou So? I have have a

748
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: baseball card deal with Tops and Cartoon of artists. They

749
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: they chose twenty iconist artists across the country, I'm sorry,

750
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: across the world. And they got to twenty most prolific

751
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 1: baseball player in history, from uh Ted Williams to Mark

752
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: McGuire to Derek Jeter to Ken Griffey and um. What

753
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: they did was they had twenty artists recreate twenty players

754
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: rookie cards and it was supposed to just be a

755
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: Instagram campaign, but it ended up being a royalty thing.

756
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: And I'm with the major agency. I'm actually with Derek Jeter,

757
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,240
Speaker 1: same agent as Derek Jeter Tiger Woods. I'm with Excel

758
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: Sports Management, you know. And for a long time, everything

759
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: I've done on myself, every TV show, my reality series,

760
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: my my my movies, any kind of campaigns, everything was

761
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: done through me. I had. I had representation through W

762
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: and ME and CIA before that, but I never really

763
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: had like a real manager agent. Everything was myself, Like

764
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: I just did it myself. I acted like it was

765
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: someone else, but it was just me. Now in the

766
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: last year, I'm with like some big hitters now, so

767
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, my my deals are structure different and in

768
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: the pandemic, you know, I signed this deal with TOPS

769
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: and I thought would be cool, you know, I was like,

770
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: hey man, let's do this for fun. You know this

771
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: is ended up being, you know, like almost eight figure deal,

772
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's it's you know, we're selling

773
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: twenty dollar cards, you know, and I've already sold a

774
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: quarter million of them. Yeah, Kean was a few cards

775
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: ago and things like that. But I've also with them.

776
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: I've been making money I've never in my life ever

777
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: And I own a nonprofit organization for a long time

778
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: in Seattle, and I've done a lot of charity and help.

779
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: But this is the year where I think I gave

780
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: bore than ever I've ever done in my life. I

781
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: would fun trying to get an organization to middlemanship. I

782
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: literally looked like two ms all right, single mom needs diapers,

783
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: boom all right, I'm gonna send you cash after twenty

784
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: bucks all right, but you need three fifth all right,

785
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: boom here all right. I'm gonna send books, this nurse,

786
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna send Centifi a US this person.

787
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: I just donated tons of ship that I donate to

788
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: the to the Black Lives Matter Ship, to the cause

789
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: and everything. And I've just I've done more charity and

790
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: donate this year than ever in my life. Yeah, that's

791
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. Man. You know, it's so great to

792
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: hear you were talking to Ben Baller also known and

793
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: wants to be known as Rebuild the Button named Ben

794
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 1: Yang in the building. We're gonna come back. We're gonna

795
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: do the high five with you as Cannabis Tark one

796
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: oh one, Yes, welcome back to Cannabis Talk one on

797
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: one with Blue Joe, Grande, Mark and Craigy Pop Brothers

798
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: at Law. We are here with Ben Baller of Icy Fresh,

799
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: Jewelers and just so much stuff. But we gotta give

800
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: thanks to Pitt, Peanut, Jennifer and Elvis. Those are the

801
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: Those are the people of the crew who helps the

802
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: only one that talking like this to be back to

803
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: be part of the show, who reconnecting. Right as he's

804
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: ripping Elvis, it's like I'm looking at him like I

805
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: can't believe you're bringing us back this. This is a

806
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: couple of times now I remember, I remember how to

807
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: do everything I was. He just hasn't been here so long.

808
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: He's had such a crazy July to where we've done

809
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: podcasts every day in the month of July, and then

810
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: he was here just the other day and he goes.

811
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: Our show is only Tuesdays and Thursday. It's like we

812
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: do a show every day. Wait, what do you mean?

813
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: But when I come back, I bring the big guests

814
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: with me. Right now, it's time for the cannabis talk

815
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: one on one high five with Ben Ball. Before we

816
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: do the high five with Ben Ball and I once

817
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: you give another introduction so we can do that nice

818
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: and clean. Okay, Ben, am I not mistaken? Are you

819
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: a big fan of the poem? The slam poem that

820
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: Mr Mark Farr? Have you heard of it yet? You

821
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: know the slam poem that Mark and Craig Washerman have done? Oh?

822
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: Oh if you know it? I'm not sure. I don't know,

823
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: I tosh, It's okay, he's heard the script. Well yes,

824
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: I think he wants without you been. This is education

825
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: that should be sold and not told by the Pop

826
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: Brothers at Law. Without further ado, Mr Mark Washerman give

827
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: him the slam poem. It's called am I being detained?

828
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: Or am I free to go? By the Pop Brothers

829
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 1: at Law? Am I being detained? Or am I free

830
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: to go? This is what to say, my lawyer tells me.

831
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: So the cops are out there doing a job. Sometimes

832
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 1: they must contain a mob, a thankless job that saves

833
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: many lives. At their home are worried children, husbands and wives.

834
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: But does that give them the right to stomp on

835
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: my rights? So we are here for you, the cannabis community,

836
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: to fight to let you know it's okay to just

837
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: shut the funk up. When cops asked questions, you start

838
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: with I'm not discussing my day and with I invoked

839
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: the Fifth These ain't suggestions, these are words to live by,

840
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: to memorize. See, it's not about the size of that

841
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: cops gun because they want you to run so they

842
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: can pull that macho gun and shoot you for fleeing

843
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: the scene. Some cops are just plain mean. We must

844
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: at it off, shut it down those feelings of anger

845
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 1: that instantly come around when that cop has to show

846
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: his power and his might without cause, without reason, and

847
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,879
Speaker 1: we know they're not right. We must remain calm, keep

848
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: the devil sleeping on the left shoulder. We must be cold,

849
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: even colder. Ice must flow through your veins to shut

850
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: that heat, the blood that rush your brain straight from

851
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: your feet. When that cop disrespected you because you wouldn't

852
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: tell him what that smell was and he accuses you

853
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: of a pot d u I because he absolutely knows

854
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: that you're buzzed. But see, they can't tell, and they

855
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: don't know only if you tell them so whole, Officer,

856
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: I smoked to joint a few hours ago. Officer, here's

857
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: my medical rector. Officer, I'm a marijuana patient. We live

858
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: in America. Prohibition still exists. That cop is gonna do

859
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: whatever he's gonna do. Fifty he arrest you. Give us

860
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: a chance to represent you with the defense that's blazing.

861
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: Let us show you in court. We're amazing. But we

862
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: can only do that if you listen to our tips. Now,

863
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: let me see you move your lips. You know the drill.

864
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: When the cops asked questions, we say, I'm not discussing

865
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: my day. Am I being detained? Or am I free

866
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: to go? I invoked the fifth and then you shut

867
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: the fuck up. It's all about what you say and

868
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: what you do. We have given you the script. We

869
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: are telling you what to say, we are telling you

870
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 1: what to do. We've put your hands up in protection mode.

871
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: But should you take a shot to the jaw, we

872
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 1: will be here fighting for the cannabis community because we

873
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: are the pot Brothers. A damn you think that I'm

874
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: all about it? Man? You know, I uh, That's what

875
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: got me looked onto it when I heard him on

876
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 1: I'm with the Saving On. I'm on the same production

877
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: company as Mike Ropport, so you know when when I

878
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 1: heard them on rock Shaws like yo with these duds.

879
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate. All right, now it is time for

880
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,399
Speaker 1: the Cannabis Talk one oh one high five with Ben Baller. Joe.

881
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: Take it a Ben, Here we go. Five questions for

882
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: your brother. Can't wait to get your honest answer. How

883
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: old were you the first time you smoked weed? And

884
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: where did you get it from? I was twelve and

885
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: I got it from some dude named Lawrence. Good old Lawrence.

886
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: Friend who's Lawrence? He was an older dude at my school.

887
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: In fact, you know, I think he was in eighth grade,

888
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: but he flunked the grade, so he should have been

889
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: in high school already and getting sixth graders high back

890
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: in the nice question number two, what is your favorite

891
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: way to use cannabis? Um, my favorite way to use

892
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 1: cannabis is to smoke it in a blunt. But due

893
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: to home and things like that, in my hands, it's

894
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: anything else. You know, I do smoke it out of

895
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: out of a Cannada's big pen nice because I just

896
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: I do it out of respect for them, for my family.

897
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: Understood question number three of the High five with Bemballer,

898
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: craziest place you've ever used or smoked cannabis. Damn, he's

899
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: thinking about a million things right now. I know which

900
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: Flint's barbecue and Clinton Michael Jackson's house. I mean, bro,

901
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't. I can't even imagine, like like

902
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, in Asia, there's areas, um, like in Korea,

903
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 1: you know, if he gets caught with weed, it's just

904
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's you know, getting the twelve year

905
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: old naked boy in your car, you know what I mean,

906
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: in the trunk like it's Jesus. In Korea, you know,

907
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: they don't have the jail cells only five feet tall.

908
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: So I can't even stand up in the jail cell,

909
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: you know what I'm like, There's no toilet, there's none

910
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: of that. It's it's really some old other ship. You know,

911
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: it's just really crazy. So with that said, you know, um,

912
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of places, but I have to

913
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: say I was completely against it. When Snoop first went

914
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: to Korea, he had no how expensive weed was. Right,

915
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: So Snoop goes to Korean and he's like, a, bro,

916
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: you need to hook me up blah blah. His managers

917
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: Korean Ted, Yeah, and to Ted's like a man, I look, bro,

918
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: you already know what the deal is. He's banned in

919
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: like four countries and just just trying to make it happen.

920
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: So I was like, you want some good ship. He's like, bro,

921
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: come on, man, you know what. I'm like, all right,

922
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: all right, I got you, man, I'm gonnaigure it out.

923
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: And he goes, bro, they have an ounce there, like,

924
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna be real with you. It's like, you know, dollars,

925
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: oh my god. But if you want to just buy

926
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: by the Graham, you know, it's you know, maybe like Graham.

927
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's it's so he's just like

928
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. He goes through like the

929
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: entire ounce, you know, in less than a day, and

930
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: he's like, fuck this, I'm gonna start doing features like

931
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: do you know how much a Snoop feature is? Like

932
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: if you still want how to cash to pay it?

933
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: He was gonna do a feature anyways. Bottom line is

934
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: I told him exactly where to stay with hotel, the stands,

935
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: we can smoke and certain things, and and he was

936
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: able to to maneuver through that. The craziest place I

937
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: smoked weed was I brought Justin Bieber to carea for

938
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: the first time six years ago. It's never been a

939
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: career before he started going to country, has never been

940
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: to And he starts getting kicked out of countries because

941
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: he's literally running to a jet to get out of

942
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: the country because they finally that weed and they're trying

943
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: and arrest him. Shut up. Yeah, and Um tells me,

944
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: don't worry about Everything's all good. I sneak half an

945
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: ounce of my pants in Korea. Dumbest fucking thing I've

946
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: done in my entire life. I'm worn like this is

947
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: so stupid, so I bring it. He starts smoking in

948
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: my room, Like, no, no, broth, I'm not staying at

949
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: the hotel where you smoke. He's like, oh, don't worry

950
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: back Boom, I'm just irritated. He goes, hey, let's go

951
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: to the mall. Let's go hang out, showing me some

952
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: in the stormy some fly sh in Korea. So we

953
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: get in the car, we start smoking. I'm not even

954
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: fucking paying attention. Okay, we're in a seven car convoy.

955
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: All kinds of craziness, right security everything, I know, his

956
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 1: entire team bes my boy, We're in a fucking car

957
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: driven by the police in Korea smoking and I hear

958
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: that the thing come down, and I hear the dude

959
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: talking and he has a policewalkie talkie. I don't speak

960
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 1: Korean fluently. I understand everything I need to understand, and

961
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: at that point I knew we were going to jail.

962
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: I was that was a rapid was done. I was like,

963
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: holy shit, this is unbelievable. It was just a fucking

964
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: We made TMZ that week and everything, and it was

965
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: just crazy that we were damn near smoking in the

966
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: police car and Korea, of the most strictest places, hasn't

967
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: been top five strictest places in the world of smoke.

968
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: With me, I was just like, Yo, it is unbelieable,

969
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: Like it sucked up our relationship to our friendship because

970
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: it was such a situation that had to be the

971
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: craziest place I could think of. There's other places I

972
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: can think that. All right, we are here with Ben

973
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: ball are it is question number four of the High five. Man,

974
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: what is your go to munchies when you get high?

975
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: Oh Man, any Japanese snack man, the green tea or

976
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: strawberry kit cats. There's these butterfiscuits that I get from Japan.

977
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: Everything's all Japanese snacks. Man. It just you know, if

978
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: I don't have Japanese snacks, then you know what fun it.

979
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: I'll just go to some Cheetos and I go to like,

980
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: you know, um, some pound cake. Ship. I ain't into

981
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:29,479
Speaker 1: all of the fancy ship, you know what I'm saying.

982
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: But but I love my Japanese snacks. Man. Remember d

983
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: J Cos bringing me a bunch of Japanese snacks. Shout

984
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: out to Cos over there. Okay, question number five. If

985
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: you could smoke with anybody senior band baller, dead or alive,

986
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: who would it be? Oh Man, ship, bro, it's not

987
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: even a question, bro, be fucking Bruce Lee Man, how

988
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: do you Bruce Bob Marley? You know what I'm saying.

989
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's it's it's Bob Marley second

990
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: and maybe Barack Obama third. And that's about it. That's

991
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: but but I want to get into detail that with

992
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: Bruce Lee. And I'm sure you've watched the movies, but

993
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of it. Man. I know you've

994
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: watched it man, one, two, probably three and four. Are

995
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: you hit to the movie it man? I p right,

996
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: of course, yeah, so that that that it? Man? If

997
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: you guys don't know, that was Bruce Lee is one

998
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: of his senses. So why Bruce Lee though? I think

999
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: one growing up as an Asian American in the world

1000
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: and there was nobody of representation but him, and he

1001
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: happened to be the baddest motherfucker that ever lived, you

1002
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, and he was cool with

1003
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 1: the brothers, he was cool with the blacks, he was cool,

1004
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: cool with everyone. He everyone kind of fun with him.

1005
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: You know. It wasn't just like Asians, and he was

1006
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: just you know you even watching the documentary Be Like Water,

1007
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: and just his philosophy on life and just how he

1008
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: felt and what he did and what what what barriers

1009
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: he had to break down in Hollywood and in the world,

1010
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: and he just it just seems so so pure, you know,

1011
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: and so real, And I think, like you know, um sparking,

1012
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: you know, a nice you know, some o g kush

1013
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: with him. Man, bro, I couldn't imagine what kind of

1014
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 1: ship he might be spending after that, you know for sure?

1015
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: You know what? It's funny, Ben, You're such a great storyteller.

1016
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: You're such a pleasure to have on the podcast with us.

1017
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: And they hear you say Bruce Lee, we literally all

1018
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: lost it out here. I mean, Craig's a black bell

1019
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: or whatever belt grew up with his kids like he's

1020
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 1: got and now that it makes you think, going. I

1021
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: love when I hear name because when I hear an

1022
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 1: obscure name that I don't know, I'm like, I don't

1023
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: know who that is, but I'm sure that person likes him.

1024
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: You said Bruce Lee, it makes you go, that would

1025
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: be a good one. Man. Anything else you want to

1026
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: shout out there? I mentioned you're a good talker. You

1027
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: got a podcast? Are you still doing it? I have

1028
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: a podcast I do every every two times a week.

1029
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: We dropped every Monday and every Thursday. It is called

1030
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: Behind the Baller. We are a top forty char charting

1031
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: you know, topping to podcast, and you know we crushed it.

1032
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: I have my hundred episode dropping on Monday, but I

1033
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: have an episode dropping the mall actually, man, but yeah,

1034
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: we love to be a part of your show. Man.

1035
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:07,959
Speaker 1: If if that, if you could work out some space

1036
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: for these few Mexicans and Jews over here, we we

1037
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: kind of join you. Hey, man, you know, half my

1038
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: family's Jewish. You see the star of David on me,

1039
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: remember the tribe, Well, I mean to start Davids tatted

1040
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: on me. Man, Yeah, beautiful man, I definitely do a

1041
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: man just so you guys know. Man, you know, my

1042
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: first language was not English. It wasn't creating it with Spanish,

1043
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, so um, and then you know, m my

1044
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: my uh. And then my second language is created in

1045
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: an English third and then uh, you know pretty much

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Speaker 1: it's sad. You know, I only kind of kept the

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Speaker 1: slang in the bad words of Spanish and Korean. But

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Speaker 1: you know, but it was just you know, I grew

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Speaker 1: up on Blacks and Jews all my life. And um,

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Speaker 1: I would love to have you guys on the show.

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Speaker 1: I've had some amazing guests on my show, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: I work with George George Lopez really heavily. You don't

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Speaker 1: know if you saw his new Netflix awesome, Awesome. I'm

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Speaker 1: in the beginning of the show on you're Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: introduced him on that He's brought me. I think I

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Speaker 1: choose him with three different specials now to HBO on

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Speaker 1: this Netflix one. He just always flies me out. I

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Speaker 1: don't don't don't ask me why. I don't know. But

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Speaker 1: he's always cool. He has a great weed party every

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Speaker 1: year at his house and and um, I'm just you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm down with anything, bro. You know, I've had a

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Speaker 1: lot of amazing guests on my show, and uh, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to have you guys on to inform people

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Speaker 1: because I had, um not Mr Tickett what's his name?

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Speaker 1: The Mr che Checkpoint, Checkpoint amazing, Yeah, Sen Sen good

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Speaker 1: friends of art time. He's a very nice guys, a

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Speaker 1: little too nice. I think Mark is a little more

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Speaker 1: like like me, like listen, fuck you dumb buck. I

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Speaker 1: don't mean your dumb buck, but I can tell you

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Speaker 1: a dumb buck because you don't listen. Shut the bunk up.

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Speaker 1: I need you to tell my listeners and my fans.

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Speaker 1: My father's like, bro, shut the bunk up when you

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Speaker 1: get pulled over, right, Just you know. I think I

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Speaker 1: think my my my fan base could definitely use the

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Speaker 1: Pop Brothers for sure. You got it. You got it. Well,

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Speaker 1: we want to thank you for joining the show man

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Speaker 1: Bam Faller. It's always a pleasure. Man, We love you.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out his podcasts and follow him online.

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Speaker 1: Uh it's Cannabis Talk one on. Want to remember this.

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