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Speaker 2: And we have the founders of on the Revel.

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Speaker 1: We have Lulu Sway here, and we had Jacobe Holland

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Speaker 1: thank you guys for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you an honor.

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Speaker 4: Super excited to be here with you.

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Speaker 1: Edgelin, Well listen, so am I and I just want

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be joining you this weekend and this

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Speaker 1: Revel, This Revel re event is a huge deal, and

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Speaker 1: this is all about cannabis business to business operations. This

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Speaker 1: eight years ago, if I'm not mistaken, twenty sixteen, all

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Speaker 5: So that was kind of like our whole goal for me.

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Speaker 6: He would also say, it's like all the conferences we

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Speaker 6: And when we met. We're both nerds, Like our whole

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this is where we've created a space where if

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Speaker 6: So it's our public day, So people who are interested

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Speaker 3: you're a consumer and you go to a dispensary, it's

443
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Speaker 3: pretty overwhelming. There's like a bunch of products of brands

444
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Speaker 3: you've never heard of, with all these colors.

445
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Speaker 2: And it's that's true.

446
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,800
Speaker 3: Because yeah, yeah, but I really that's.

447
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Speaker 2: When I do really lean on the whoever's working there.

448
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

449
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Speaker 1: The tenders, right, the butt tenders are so important because

450
00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,720
Speaker 1: they're really great at, or should be at being able

451
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Speaker 1: to give you direction on what it is that you know,

452
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Speaker 1: because sometimes you want to be able to get some

453
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Speaker 1: products so you can stay awake and clean the house.

454
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you want something that's going to help you go

455
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Speaker 1: to sleep at night, or to get on a flight

456
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Speaker 1: and be like I just want to knock out on

457
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Speaker 1: this flight and be relaxed. I want to have to

458
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to have my mind racing

459
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Speaker 1: and thinking about all these different things. And then sometimes

460
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Speaker 1: I'll give you some products that are like I never

461
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Speaker 1: even would have thought to try this, you know. There's

462
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Speaker 1: like these sodas that I've been drinking that have tac

463
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Speaker 1: that are amazing And for my friends who maybe don't

464
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Speaker 1: necessarily drink and don't necessarily smoke, they'll do that, you know,

465
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Speaker 1: and it's a nice Beverages.

466
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Speaker 5: Are the highest growing category.

467
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Speaker 3: It feels like we're used to it, like the alcohol coffee,

468
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Speaker 3: Like that's how we're used to kind of bringing in

469
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Speaker 3: different like conscious changing.

470
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Speaker 1: It's so amazing to me to see something that was

471
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,920
Speaker 1: so stigmatized, that was criminalized that now those very same

472
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 1: people are like, how can I invest in this business?

473
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Speaker 1: And I'm doing X, Y and Z even you know

474
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Speaker 1: with mushrooms. Mushrooms used to be something that people were

475
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Speaker 1: look at you so crazy, like you did what?

476
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Speaker 2: Oh my guy, you're a druggie.

477
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

478
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Speaker 1: Now everybody's like, do you have some micro dosi? Micro

479
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 1: dose rooms all the time. It's just the funniest thing

480
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Speaker 1: to see how stuff is changing.

481
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, you mentioned the bud tenders. They're

482
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Speaker 3: welcome on Saturday. We want them to come through. The

483
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Speaker 3: attendees that are just consumers. The whole point of day

484
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Speaker 3: two is for you for the attendees to come through

485
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Speaker 3: and take their time learning about all the products there.

486
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Speaker 3: So you're not like you know when you go in

487
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Speaker 3: the spencer and you're overwhelmed, all of a sudden, you

488
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 3: can really get to know the people behind this. Like

489
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,359
Speaker 3: you might see a package on the shelf. This is

490
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Speaker 3: a small farmer. They're really hustling to try to make

491
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 3: these you know, inventory runs all the time, or these

492
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Speaker 3: big brands that have all of this cool, flashy stuff,

493
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Speaker 3: Like maybe that's for you, maybe it's not, but the

494
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,479
Speaker 3: fact that you have an opportunity to come learn, educate,

495
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 3: you can try product there. We're working with people travel

496
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 3: Agency and do Be. There are retail and delivery partners

497
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,919
Speaker 3: so you can see a brand you like and then

498
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 3: you know, put it in an app and we'll deliver

499
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Speaker 3: it to you at the event so you can try something.

500
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Speaker 4: There's going to be one hundred and seventy six brands there.

501
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Speaker 2: I feel like this would be a really peaceful event.

502
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're all gonna be nice and it's amazing, like

503
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 3: versus like alcohol. You see, everybody's just happy, it's just

504
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 3: all love, like it's great.

505
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Speaker 1: I always feel like this is also inexperience that much

506
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 1: like music and sports brings people together, this brings all

507
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Speaker 1: different ages, all different ethnicities, like everybody.

508
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Speaker 2: You know, it helps people really bond.

509
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 3: It's like a through line to all of these other industries,

510
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,919
Speaker 3: like we talked about fashion sports, like you're saying, like

511
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Speaker 3: cannabis is intersecting in all of these little worlds, and

512
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 3: it's just kind of been on the low for decades

513
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 3: and really in the line like ten years, everybody's starting

514
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 3: to kind of bring it out.

515
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Speaker 5: It's coming to light.

516
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 3: Like we have one panel that's all former athletes played

517
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 3: in the NFL WNBA, like representing that it's always been happening.

518
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 3: It's just always on the love. And so now we

519
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 3: can kind of bring all those cultures together because we

520
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,360
Speaker 3: have this unified you know, cannabis love.

521
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Speaker 1: And I've watched that progress too from you know, you're

522
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: getting test that you can't do any anything, you can't

523
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: have any weed. But then all of a sudden it

524
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Speaker 1: turned into well when you're retired, yeah, you know, it's okay,

525
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: and people are investing in businesses. You just can't do

526
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Speaker 1: it if you're active because it's frowned upon. Kids are watching.

527
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Speaker 1: But now it's turned into more like a I feel

528
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Speaker 1: like it's just okay.

529
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Speaker 5: Now if you.

530
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Speaker 3: Look at the the cannabis advocates that are athletes. Most

531
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Speaker 3: of them are retired, right, It's like once they're kind

532
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Speaker 3: of off that contract, you realize that they're ready to

533
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Speaker 3: talk about anything. But it's the one still in a contract.

534
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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, but I feel like that's it's going to

535
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Speaker 1: start to change a little, you know.

536
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Speaker 6: So what's really interesting too that you know a lot

537
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Speaker 6: of kids are teaching their parents about cannabisiness grandparents, so

538
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 6: it's it's it's really to see like the families that

539
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 6: are having conversations, and you know, and because you're part Chinese,

540
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 6: you know how difficult it is to have anything move

541
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Speaker 6: within our culture. But then all of a sudden, like

542
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 6: Grandpa and grandma, Auntie and uncle are open to it

543
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 6: because you know, pain relief, arthritis, all of that.

544
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Speaker 4: The tiger bomb. I think somebody should make tiger bombs.

545
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Speaker 1: Gave me tiger bomb last year. That's like our cure

546
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Speaker 1: all for everything. Like here's a little tiger bomb.

547
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Speaker 2: Just make sure you use that. That's that is a

548
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 2: great idea.

549
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 4: And then as soon as the grandparents are cool with it,

550
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 4: it just trickles down into and.

551
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Speaker 1: I feel like they don't talk about it necessarily though.

552
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Speaker 1: It's just kind of like my brother. So my brother

553
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 1: for the longest, if anybody who knows my brother, he's

554
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Speaker 1: the person that he will like actually make stuff like

555
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: he's always made like rice, krispy trees and his own

556
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: jolly ranswers and done everything like organic cookies whatever. He

557
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 1: can make anything. And so with my family, he'll just

558
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: bring stuff over and like my uncle who had can't.

559
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 1: They would be like, where's your brother, because you.

560
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 2: Know, we need him.

561
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: And now everybody's exactly you know, and it's fine, but

562
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Speaker 1: they don't necessarily talk about it.

563
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 3: It's at one spark that starts to make it like

564
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 3: kind of okay, but oh my gosh, my.

565
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Speaker 1: Cousin got married and at the wedding it was like

566
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Speaker 1: being handed out like yeah, it was just the funniest thing.

567
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Speaker 1: So it is nice to see the progress that's come.

568
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Speaker 1: And it's a shame to see so many people have

569
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Speaker 1: suffered though because of what the law used to be.

570
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Speaker 1: But I do really want to see those same people

571
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Speaker 1: be able to participate. I know that was allegedly the plan,

572
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: so let's just make sure that does happen.

573
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Speaker 3: I think that it's one of the most important things

574
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Speaker 3: when it comes to legalizing cannabis. That like first and foremost,

575
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 3: it's like for a social justice reason, Like people shouldn't

576
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 3: be getting locked up over this, right, and if like

577
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 3: that's the foundational thing as well as the fact that

578
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 3: it's a medicine, then we can worry about making money

579
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 3: off it. Yeah, like that that should come second. Third, right,

580
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 3: the problem as we see it from the markets that

581
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 3: we worked in, it became an economic thing immediately, yes,

582
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Speaker 3: and then oh, you know what, there's not many black

583
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 3: people in here, let's start a little program, you know,

584
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 3: five years after legalized the exactly, and that's that's such

585
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 3: a hard hield of climate at that point. So the

586
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 3: way it was legalized in New York, the MRTA, like,

587
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 3: like we said, one of our team members kind of

588
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 3: helped write it, Jason Starr, And it was kind of

589
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 3: putting people first. And so you'll see that the first

590
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 3: round of licenses for retail, they call them card licenses.

591
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 3: They've gone through a lot of struggles too. Like I

592
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 3: said earlier, like it wasn't perfect, but we have more

593
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 3: black and brown dispensaries in New York than all of

594
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Speaker 3: the other states combined.

595
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Speaker 2: Wow.

596
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 3: So like it's been a challenge and in the media.

597
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 3: You see that like you know, the program is failing.

598
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 3: There's all these legal shops, but like we also have

599
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 3: done some really really good things and there was automatic

600
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 3: expungement for like nonviolent cannabis offenses, and so like we're

601
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Speaker 3: making like really positive strides in New York cannabis. And

602
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 3: I feel like if we're going to have our events

603
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 3: and like glorify like all the cannabis community, it's still

604
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 3: important that we include all the people that built the

605
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 3: demand for this product that people are making money off of.

606
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 3: So we have that in our panels. We have that

607
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 3: included in every part of our program.

608
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Speaker 6: The other part that's really beautiful about what we've done

609
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 6: in New York is that now it's set a standard

610
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 6: for any other market that comes online. It's going to

611
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 6: be written into their initial drafts as well.

612
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 5: So hopefully, well they should it should be.

613
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 4: It should be.

614
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:32,719
Speaker 2: We have a precedent.

615
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, they can have some friends that are helping write

616
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 6: for some of the upcoming markets, and that's like they're

617
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 6: texting like who what you need to what needs to

618
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 6: be included?

619
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 4: Who should we talk to? Like this is really important.

620
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 6: So it's nice to know that, like you said, it's

621
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 6: set a precedent for future markets and.

622
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Speaker 2: For people who aren't here.

623
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Speaker 1: You guys also do have an online community, So I

624
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: want to make sure that anybody who can't make it

625
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: this weekend for whatever reason, they can still participate in

626
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 1: and know what's going on with dope people online.

627
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely so we you know, from the pandemic,

628
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 3: we kind of had to pivot to doing a lot

629
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 3: of things online. And we have Peter in the room,

630
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 3: our head of content in community, and you know, one

631
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 3: of our core things is like democratizing all the information.

632
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 3: So if you want to start a dispensary, if you

633
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 3: want to, you know, go legit from being an illegal

634
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 3: underground cultivator to.

635
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 5: Go on you know, above board.

636
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 3: All the information, all of our speakers, it's free. We

637
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 3: put it all online. And like if you're like, we

638
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 3: have people in our community, they really have like looked

639
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,479
Speaker 3: at everything, they've learned all that they can from our content,

640
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,959
Speaker 3: and then you know, we're accessible. We try to make

641
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 3: sure that, like we hit us on Instagram, whatever, if

642
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 3: we can help you, we're sending stuff your way.

643
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, all of our past speakers are all on YouTube.

644
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: You know what I like to I saw you guys

645
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: as finding somebody was like, I'd love to open up

646
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: and you guys, sorry, there's another like, yeah, that's Peter.

647
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: And there's also a Reverie Buyers Club directory too. Yeah,

648
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: and make sure people know about that as well.

649
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 5: Oh that's the gold.

650
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 6: So that's been called the Bible because it has it's

651
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 6: the most concentrated information of contact information of all of

652
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 6: our operators in New York. So there's no there's no

653
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 6: directory of database as of yet because everything's kind of

654
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 6: like been piecemealed.

655
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 4: Sometimes you find an ocum.

656
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Speaker 6: You know, people don't really want their information out there

657
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 6: because you're going to get spammed with all of these things, right,

658
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 6: so you know, we it speaks a lot that people

659
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Speaker 6: have trusted us to keep this information specifically for our operators.

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Speaker 6: So the directory is is something that you get if

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Speaker 6: you're an exhibitor and if you're a retailler, okay, and

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Speaker 6: that is purposely for them to do business and make

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Speaker 6: it easy for them to do business.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, you guys, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited to be there this weekend and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are excited that I.

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Speaker 3: Will be there this weekend, so I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, this is something that I feel like

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Speaker 1: for so long, since I was in high school and everything,

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Speaker 1: that it's been like.

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Speaker 2: A dirty little secret that you know. So it's nice

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Speaker 2: to see how far we've come.

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Speaker 1: I know we still have a lot left to do,

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Speaker 1: but thank you for the work that you guys have

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Speaker 1: been doing and trying to make sure that this is

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Speaker 1: something that can be more fair and more equitable for

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Speaker 1: people and to bring people together, and so the inclusivity

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Speaker 1: is one of the most important parts of what it

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Speaker 1: is that we do and to do it the right way,

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Speaker 1: you know, to go from like you said, from going

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Speaker 1: from being like maybe one of these illegal shops to

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Speaker 1: now being able to operate in the right way because

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Speaker 1: there are people who have.

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Speaker 2: Been doing this for so long that deserve the opportunity

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Speaker 2: because they're in it, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Look, I'm really grateful to be here on

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Speaker 3: your show. Like you've been an amazing advocate just for

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Speaker 3: all the things that you do in the community, and

689
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Speaker 3: like you're the exact type of people that we want

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Speaker 3: to have on our stage because it shows the precedence

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Speaker 3: of like the character of the people that we want

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Speaker 3: to be in this industry. So We're really honored for

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Speaker 3: you to be participating.

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Speaker 1: And how can people get tickets if they still haven't

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Speaker 1: gotten them and they want to come out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to get tickets, go to revelry andy dot com.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna want to get the Cannabis Festival tickets.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we'll get a code, right Oh.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we got to get it. We got a code.

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Speaker 3: We got a code way up twenty for twenty percent

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Speaker 3: off on the Canus festival time.

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Speaker 2: I like that, Yeah, servicing people.

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Speaker 3: We got twenty is the code way up twenty.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you guys so much. I'm really

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Speaker 1: looking forward to it. And we got to keep this

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Speaker 1: conversation going, so we'll keep it, you know, next time.

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Speaker 1: Every time something happens, I'd love to be able to

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Speaker 1: tap

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Speaker 5: In love it, appreciate you, all right, it's way up