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Speaker 1: It's now time for Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue,

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Speaker 1: Joe Grande, and Mark and Craig Wasserman the Pot Brothers

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Speaker 1: at Law. We're the world's number one podcast for everything cannabis.

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Cannabis Talk one on one, the

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Speaker 1: world's number one source for everything cannabis. My name is Blue.

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Speaker 1: Alongside of me is Jenny and Christine. The latest Cannabis

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Speaker 1: us a call, It's nineteen eighty Brendan Robinson. How are

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Speaker 1: you doing today? But I'm doing fantastic that I'm stumbling,

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Speaker 1: stumbling Eddie over here, just stumbling along. How's everything, man,

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Speaker 1: So talk to us about what's going on in the

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Speaker 1: Minority Cannabis Academy. I mean, I'm super interested. All we've

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Speaker 1: talked about that. We've talked about that. Man, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: all right. So, so talk to us about the Minority

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Speaker 1: with and n J events. Sure, so I mean, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what when I just kind of give you

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Speaker 1: our five minutes still kind of how it all came together. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So it started back into seventeen. My brother and there

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Speaker 1: right Let's you know, let's what what what kind of

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Speaker 1: hugs went to press the women and man right, Um,

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Speaker 1: So we think it's extremely important our I mean our

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Speaker 1: our our platform, like seventy seventy three cent of our

427
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Speaker 1: platform is women. You know are our women? Excuse me?

428
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Speaker 1: So it's really important to highlight them. We're gonna be

429
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Speaker 1: doing different virtual events to make sure we get the

430
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Speaker 1: full entire nation in Bob, you know, all kind of

431
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Speaker 1: fun stuff. We're gonna have high end events here in

432
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Speaker 1: Jersey towards the end of the summer. I love that

433
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Speaker 1: you do that for the wise. Not to cut you off,

434
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Speaker 1: but I was one of those. Wise my house was rated,

435
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,399
Speaker 1: all my money was gone, bank accounts frozen, and I'm

436
00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 1: just kicked out, Like what the funk do I? Sorry?

437
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Speaker 1: Do I do now? Like? What do you do? You know?

438
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Speaker 1: It's like that's so honorable that you do that, you

439
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Speaker 1: know what? And God bless your sister because that story

440
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:46,000
Speaker 1: happens so often and never just so God bless you.

441
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Speaker 1: Oh thank you. No, I love that you're doing that.

442
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 1: So back to back to the events, right so that God? Yeah,

443
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Speaker 1: So back to the events. I mean, so, um, what

444
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Speaker 1: what what kind of events are you guys putting on again? Yeah?

445
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Speaker 1: Like I said, we're having virtual little events. We're gonna

446
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Speaker 1: have some imperson stuff. Is that what happened monkey? Are

447
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 1: you guys working with Happy Monkey on that stuff too?

448
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,360
Speaker 1: Are you guys doing your own thing? You know, right

449
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,520
Speaker 1: now we're doing our own things. We we love Happy Moon,

450
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,200
Speaker 1: could be love Glad every Moon. Um, you know, we

451
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Speaker 1: would love to work with them, but right now we're

452
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Speaker 1: kind of doing our own. We love Happy Monkey, yeah,

453
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Speaker 1: no doubt. So when you when New York, Yeah yeah,

454
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Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey. Man, you guys are right across

455
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Speaker 1: the water. It's speaking of that. You know, how does

456
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Speaker 1: that work for you guys? Because I know the taxes

457
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Speaker 1: are different in in the both of the states, right,

458
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Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, it's it's it's it's a higher

459
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Speaker 1: tax rate in New York or in New Jersey. Yeah,

460
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Speaker 1: I mean so, I mean everything is different, bro, the tape,

461
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Speaker 1: the amount of home. I mean, excuse, New York can

462
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Speaker 1: do homebro, we can't. Um, you know, New York is

463
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Speaker 1: smoke outside where you can smoke a cigarette. We can't,

464
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Speaker 1: you know. So it's close as we are, Like, there's

465
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Speaker 1: still so many, so many differences that that bridge is separating.

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Speaker 1: So to your point, it's important that we went up

467
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Speaker 1: from New York and the entire trying to state because

468
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Speaker 1: we don't all kind of morphing to each other. We

469
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Speaker 1: all work when you shouting somewhere in some form. So

470
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Speaker 1: it's proof that we all come together. Yeah, I mean,

471
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Speaker 1: I was talking to I think it was Leo or

472
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Speaker 1: or somebody out in in New Jersey that's one of

473
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Speaker 1: our fellows, and he was like, man, we we go

474
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Speaker 1: across the water to go work, like sometimes we gotta leave,

475
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Speaker 1: you know, Jersey to just go work in New York.

476
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Speaker 1: And then and vice versus. Some folks are coming from

477
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Speaker 1: New York into New Jersey to go work, so you know,

478
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Speaker 1: and so you're definitely like, you know, going into each

479
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Speaker 1: other's backyards. And when you do so, you guys have

480
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Speaker 1: different laws. So it's just changes. Like you know, so

481
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Speaker 1: you might think it's all good. You know, you're smoking

482
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Speaker 1: in New York and then you come slide into New

483
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Speaker 1: Jersey and you start smoking and boom you're racked, you know,

484
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Speaker 1: so you got to be conscious of that. One and

485
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Speaker 1: then two is is do you what do you think

486
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Speaker 1: that the future holds? Right? Let's talk about you know,

487
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 1: three years from now, right, so three years from now, um,

488
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Speaker 1: if if you were to you know, have a genie,

489
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Speaker 1: you know what do you see the makeup like as

490
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Speaker 1: far as New Jersey and New York and and the

491
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Speaker 1: legalization of it all, do you think it's gonna be like,

492
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: you know the same or do you think this this?

493
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 1: The laws are gonna change. Laws are definitely gonna change

494
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Speaker 1: because a lot of the policies least I just I

495
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Speaker 1: don't only speak for New Jersey, I cant speak for

496
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Speaker 1: New York. Um, but the laws in Jersey, a lot

497
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Speaker 1: of them are one type on one year, two year

498
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Speaker 1: type of contingencies to kind of see how things go.

499
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Speaker 1: The cr C, the c C in New Jersey was

500
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: just built, um and front. The Murphy signed that bill

501
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 1: in February. The CRC is the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. There

502
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Speaker 1: those pop will govern adult use Canadas in New Jersey.

503
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 1: Got you, Yeah, So they just had their second meeting

504
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: last Tuesday, and they have until August went first to

505
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Speaker 1: put out the exact regulations and rules or adult use

506
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Speaker 1: candidus in New Jersey. Once those rules, I can answer

507
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Speaker 1: that question a lot better. And I can tell you this,

508
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks, especially are minority folks neither.

509
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Speaker 1: Look at these six micro licenses in New Jersey. Okay, Um,

510
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Speaker 1: I mean they built it where you had to be

511
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Speaker 1: a New Jersey resident for at least two years, at

512
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Speaker 1: least fifty one. One of your company had to be

513
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 1: someone actually resides in the neighborhood in which your dispensary

514
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: or the stility will be actually pleased. You know, good

515
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: things going to New Jersey, but we still have a

516
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: long way to go. But the fact that our rules

517
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Speaker 1: have been written out yet means that we have a

518
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Speaker 1: strong uh a strong to making a change and to

519
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,719
Speaker 1: answer your quest. It wasn't like three years and never

520
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,160
Speaker 1: had if I had a genie a glass ball, Um,

521
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 1: I see three years from them. The Minority Cannabis Academy

522
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: has putting ten thousand students through their program. Those ten

523
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Speaker 1: thousand students are going on to become entrepreneurs, working dispensaries,

524
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: lab texts, um whatever whatever else you can need. That's

525
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: where that's what our goals are and that's what we're

526
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Speaker 1: focused on. You know what I'll tell you. You know,

527
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Speaker 1: I have an education platform and I could I would

528
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Speaker 1: like to, you know, offer you guys some of the

529
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Speaker 1: things that I've you know, trained my students through. I

530
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Speaker 1: had sixty three thousand students go through my program, been

531
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Speaker 1: in New Jersey, New York, um in twenty nine different

532
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Speaker 1: states throughout the US, and through that process. Um, you

533
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Speaker 1: know what I've learn learned is that definitely more than

534
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 1: any other thing people that where minorities came out, Like

535
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Speaker 1: I can go back to, I documented everything I did

536
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: and every single week for the last four years pre COVID,

537
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: four years before COVID, so sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen,

538
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: I was on the road every single week, okay four

539
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: days out of the week I left my family to

540
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Speaker 1: go out and and and teach people cannabis. And I

541
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Speaker 1: didn't do it for free. But but I'll tell you

542
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Speaker 1: what though, is that more minorities showed up to every

543
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Speaker 1: single event that I did than anything. So you know,

544
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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you there's a there's a level that

545
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Speaker 1: you know, you try to figure out, like how to

546
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: train people because the laws are changing, so you know,

547
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: and you'll you'll understand this as you guys start, you know,

548
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,239
Speaker 1: rolling this thing out completely. It's like you might be

549
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: training this certain way, you know, and let's just say

550
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: it's um, you know, you're dealing with the laws as

551
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: they are today and all those people that and this

552
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: is something I would encourage you to educate your folks

553
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: on while you're bringing them in because as you're you're going,

554
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: you know, everything changes and all of a sudden, all

555
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,439
Speaker 1: the things you've been teaching just boof one day and

556
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: it's all changed. And sometimes you know, you're you're the um.

557
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: You know, don't shoot the messenger. They try to shoot

558
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: the messenger because you know they've they're they're working with you,

559
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: they're focused with you and then you're going through that process,

560
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: So be conscious of that, you know, while you're training

561
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: to to educate them because I didn't know. I didn't

562
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Speaker 1: know the laws are gonna change in you know, I

563
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Speaker 1: hadn't seen it. So be be very aware while while

564
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Speaker 1: you're doing it that laws are gonna change, you know,

565
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: and and and things are gonna definitely evolve and as

566
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Speaker 1: they do. You know, if you let your people know

567
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: from the beginning, Hey, look like we're in the middle

568
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: of prohibition right now, and things are gonna change. The

569
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Speaker 1: laws might open wide open, Federal comes and they just

570
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 1: say everybody that has a liquor store, a gas day

571
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: and anything could have have cannabis. Who knows what the

572
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: real rollout's gonna look like. But let them know from

573
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Speaker 1: the beginning so that they're not shell shocked when it

574
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: hits them, because that's one of the biggest things I

575
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: wish I would have foreseen, um, you know, going state

576
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: to state because I was in Ohio. Ohio was like

577
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: we're going, we're going legal and I'm over here teaching

578
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: this the laws and the legalization of what they had.

579
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: And then two weeks later I'm selling people into a

580
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: course and I'm two, two or three months into it,

581
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: I'm teaching them boom boom boom, and then all of

582
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: a sudden, everything changes, and you're like damn, you know,

583
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: and it's almost impossible to go back and go, well,

584
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna train you for another three or four months,

585
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,239
Speaker 1: and then I'm and then and then three or four

586
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: months ago down the road and then something mouse changes

587
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: because that wasn't working. And so you have to let

588
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: them know. They gotta have thick skin, you know, to

589
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: get into this game. And most most cats that are

590
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Speaker 1: willing to jump into the cannabis industry kind of get it,

591
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, if you're willing to

592
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Speaker 1: get in and be like, yo, this is what we do,

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00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: then you kind of you understand what you're going through.

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Speaker 1: So you know, make sure you you you articulate that

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Speaker 1: throughout your process. You know, if I could give you

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Speaker 1: any advice, because I think it's super important that people

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00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: know that that things are going to change in this

598
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Speaker 1: space and sometimes you're spot on them, right. I mean,

599
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: in any business, you gotta be you gotta be fluid. Right,

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Speaker 1: things are gonna happen, rope box are gonna come, and

601
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,719
Speaker 1: you gotta persevere. It goes back to I said, our

602
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: mindset and cannabis is no different. But to your point,

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00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: you're dealing with something that's not even regulating yet. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're we can launch our academy tomorrow if you wanted to,

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Speaker 1: But why when when I haven't even written out the

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Speaker 1: rules yet. That's just that's not responsible, you know what

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00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you know, we're looking at this from

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Speaker 1: the standpoint we can, we can educate folks, you can

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Speaker 1: get them up speed, But to your point, will be

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Speaker 1: fluid enough that as it changes, we're gonna change with

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Speaker 1: it because we persevere that that's what we're building, that's

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Speaker 1: what we're made out of it. So it's amazing all

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Speaker 1: these box all changes when we're starting out, they don't.

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Speaker 1: It's like people need to understand. Every time they change

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Speaker 1: the laws, what has to go on the box. Everyone

616
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: has to pull all the product off the shelf, that

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Speaker 1: costs some money, have new boxes made, ship it back out.

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Speaker 1: It wipes out companies and people don't know for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I amn't. Having the economic backing into

620
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Speaker 1: this thing is so important because you have to be

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Speaker 1: in a position to deal with those you know those

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Speaker 1: that were one off the curveball seriously, man, yeah, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely a curveball. Guys. We want to thank you guys,

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Speaker 1: and when we come back, guys, we're gonna do the

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Speaker 1: high five with Brendan Robinson, co founder of Minority Cannabis

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Speaker 1: dot org dot org? No, that was right, dot com.

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Speaker 1: The other one is dot org, n J Events dot

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Speaker 1: get lit, sit back and enjoy Cannabis Talk one on one.

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Speaker 1: Right here on Cannabis Talk one on one, it's going

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Speaker 1: down real big guys. We're about to do the high five,

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Speaker 1: but Before we do, I want to give us special

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Speaker 1: thanks out to Tirpeine Warehouse, Dope Minerals, G four Live

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Speaker 1: one Toe at the Mandalaid Bay, Callie Effects Connector and

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Speaker 1: Dime Industries. Guys, it's going down real big. Listen. I

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Speaker 1: really want to, you know, tell you guys, you know

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Speaker 1: before we go into the high five man, you guys

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Speaker 1: are are pioneer is in this space by doing this

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Speaker 1: for your state, you know, and I would tell you

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Speaker 1: to hyper focus on it because what you have is

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Speaker 1: is something that you know other people will try to

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Speaker 1: to to imitate, which is flattering, but you're doing it

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Speaker 1: right now. And so by putting that into the world

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Speaker 1: and actually taking actions and moving forward, guys, the best

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Speaker 1: thing I can tell you is is that in the

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Speaker 1: last in the next ten years, you know, I will

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Speaker 1: be here, you know what I mean. And I know

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Speaker 1: you will too because I can hear it in your voices.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you go through those emotions and those times

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Speaker 1: and and and and really cherish everything that you're building

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Speaker 1: right now, because this isn't um isn't for everyone, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean, And and I believe that you

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Speaker 1: guys really deserve to be here because I could tell

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Speaker 1: you smoke in you you're with it. I can tell

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Speaker 1: it in your heart by the conversation we have, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean like you're sincere about it. So you know,

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Speaker 1: anything we can do from Cannabis talk on one and

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Speaker 1: the team. You just reach out to us bro, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it will do everything we can to support this

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Speaker 1: because we do support minorities in this in the street,

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Speaker 1: and we do feel that we need to make sure

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Speaker 1: that it's known. So I appreciate that man and Jeanne,

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Speaker 1: didn't you have a question when we first started what

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Speaker 1: she wants to know what you're smoking on? I actually

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Speaker 1: have just an awe because if you think about being

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Speaker 1: disruptors of our space and this time, like you're giving

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Speaker 1: people like a place and a home to go to

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Speaker 1: and where they feel that there is a community within

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Speaker 1: a community and where they can ask questions and feel

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Speaker 1: safe and be a part of something. And a lot

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Speaker 1: of people out there in the minority groups, they don't

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Speaker 1: feel like they can be a part of something. So

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Speaker 1: you starting this within the community. I really respect you

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Speaker 1: for that. Being a disruptor. Yeah, I mean you're helping

684
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: like countless people in so many different ways. Well, well said,

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Speaker 1: very well said, and what are you smoking? We want

686
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Speaker 1: to know what strain you're smoking? We got some uh man,

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Speaker 1: what else? We got a couple of different things. Well,

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Speaker 1: what you're smoking in your mouth? All this whole interview,

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Speaker 1: you've been puffing out, so you roll it yourself. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you need some runs, just hit me up, bra

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Speaker 1: shoot it out there. You know, I mean, I gotta package.

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Speaker 1: I got a package coming your way if you need something.

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Speaker 1: I'm just playing were the Dutch Masters. Man, So listen,

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Speaker 1: you know it's time for the High five guys, and

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is ask you five questions. This

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Speaker 1: is my favorite part of the show. First question, Brandon,

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Speaker 1: how old were you the first time you smoked? And

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Speaker 1: where did you get it from? Oh man? Um, I was,

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Speaker 1: and I got it from this guy right here. Bro?

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Speaker 1: How old? My bro started smoking a lot earlier? I was.

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Speaker 1: I was an athlete. I was kind of like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to smoke, and then at twenty I

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Speaker 1: got into doing Thank God, because the best decision ever,

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Speaker 1: he said, the best decision ever. Question number two of

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Speaker 1: the High five, what is your favorite way to use cannabis?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I just showed you, brother, I just showed you.

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Speaker 1: I like that Vanilla Dutch, nice and crispyn. Well, here

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Speaker 1: we go. Craziest place you've ever used cannabis or smoked

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Speaker 1: crazy these cannabis. Okay. So I went to in cruise

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Speaker 1: to Jamaica one time and in my buddy got into

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Speaker 1: a random van and put the top of the hill

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Speaker 1: with these these these cool ass Jamaican dudes and smoked

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Speaker 1: a ton of weed at the top of the hill

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Speaker 1: overlooking reels. It was good. Wow. So so how was that?

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Speaker 1: How was that trip? Man? That's gotta be So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be real with you. Man. Um, We're riding up

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Speaker 1: the hill and I'm like, ship, what did you do? Okay?

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Speaker 1: And we're like ship, okay, we probably have thought this out.

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Speaker 1: And then literally coming down the hill is a is

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Speaker 1: a with probably an eight year old girl eating an

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Speaker 1: ice cream. Cool. Yeah, I think we'll think. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's it's it's funny you say that, man,

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Speaker 1: because you know I've done some some crazy trips, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and and ended up in like you know, with

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Speaker 1: some cats, and I'm just like in Mexico, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I'm all sitting I'm sitting in this this car

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, let's rolling, and we're all in

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Speaker 1: the city and everything's all good. All of a sudden

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Speaker 1: you end up in the jungle and you're like boom boom,

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Speaker 1: you're pushing through and I'm like, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: my heart just goes, Holy ship, where am I? You

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? And and do I really know

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Speaker 1: these dudes? You know what I'm saying, Like, I'll think

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Speaker 1: it and then and then I'll think it, did I

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Speaker 1: do something wrong? You know? D But I went there

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Speaker 1: too and felt that they picked me up in the

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Speaker 1: jeep with no doors and they're like jump in, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, is this safe? Safe thing? Man? I know

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Speaker 1: that feeling. Bro, When you said that, I was like, man,

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Speaker 1: I beat all that ride. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: You're sitting there because you know you're you're you're not

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Speaker 1: nowhere near home. You don't know anything about you know

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Speaker 1: what's up, you know, unless you really live there or

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Speaker 1: or have real family, like if your cousins in the

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Speaker 1: cards different. But I'm like I've literally been like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out there and link up with some cats,

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Speaker 1: and I link up with these cats next to you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm in the in the in the jungle and driving through. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: We're on our way to a farm and ship and

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Speaker 1: I'm going on, no, man, I don't know, like did

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Speaker 1: I do something? Where did I mess up? You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like this is just the end of me?

753
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking how much money do I got on me? Am?

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Speaker 1: I gonna get robbed and left out here? You know,

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Speaker 1: you just mind starts going through it, you know, and

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Speaker 1: you and you really feel like, oh, ship and then

757
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden you get there, you blaze, you

758
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Speaker 1: hang out, you do Oh that was beautiful. It was

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Speaker 1: the best event. You know, the best people I've ever

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Speaker 1: met in my life. I want to go back and ship,

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. Yeah, like really though, and it's like

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Speaker 1: you know, and you you really you really learn to appreciate,

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Speaker 1: you know, the culture of different you know, countries and

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00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: and and folks when you actually go out there and

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Speaker 1: spend that kind of time with them, because again, there's

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Speaker 1: that moment you feel and then all of a sudden

767
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Speaker 1: they let you know that like it's all love right here,

768
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 1: let's go, and and you just being like buddies forever

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Speaker 1: with them, you know. So, question number four and my

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Speaker 1: favorite to ask because I love to eat. What is

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Speaker 1: your go to? Mun chese? After you get high? Okay,

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Speaker 1: to pick one food or can I pick one restaurant both?

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Speaker 1: I want to hear him both? Now you got my

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Speaker 1: chummy right hungry? Now I'm gonna tell you it's some

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Speaker 1: real fash Okay. Over here on the East Coast, we

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Speaker 1: have we have a fast food chain called Checkers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know Checkers. Okay, you check Yeah, I've been. I've

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Speaker 1: been out there. God man, I love Checkers. WHI my

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Speaker 1: left as cheek is made from there. Christmas is in

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Speaker 1: New York? What's up? What's your what's your what's your

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Speaker 1: go to? Like when you go to Checkers? What do

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Speaker 1: you eat? I'm a real brother. I go there, I

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Speaker 1: get I get too, get my exact mill. I get

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Speaker 1: at Jeffreeze. Now you were good? Yeah, exactly. So I

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Speaker 1: get two spicy chicken sandwiches delicious. I get a large

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Speaker 1: fry and a strawberry fantom and man, what a knight? Hey,

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Speaker 1: that's it? Just a strawberry fanto too. That that's the

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Speaker 1: one that's especially when you're lydy like oh man a

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Speaker 1: little straw like a little kid again. Put blunt. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's good time. I'm about to

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Speaker 1: slide out there just to get that mail with you.

792
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Speaker 1: And question of five of the high five, if you

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Speaker 1: could smoke cannabis with anyone dad alive, who would it be?

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Speaker 1: That's a hard one, y'all um. I would say they

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Speaker 1: both be alive. I would go with Khalifa. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a good one. And I would go Yo and who

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Speaker 1: young dog from Memphis, dog from methis h Yeah. What

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Speaker 1: question would you ask with ship? I would ask Liz.

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Speaker 1: Will we ask everybody on our Higher Learning before podcast?

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00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: What's your favorite strain? And why? Nice? Yeah? You know

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00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: what's your favorite strain? And why listen. I'm glad you

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00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: asked it. I've been waiting for this, so I'm looking

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00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 1: for that two thousand for two thousand, two thousand six

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00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: Purple Hayes, the official Purple Haye Purple Hayes. If you

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00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: can find it, listen, find me, find me. If you

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00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: can find it, I'll find you. You just gotta light

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00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: it up and I'll just ah, there they are smoke signals. Yeah,

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00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: no doubt, man. Well listen before we let you out

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Speaker 1: of here. Is there anything else that you guys want

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Speaker 1: to discuss um you know and shout out or anything

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Speaker 1: that we're missing? No, man, we just want to thank

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Speaker 1: you guys first and foremost of just being so so

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Speaker 1: gracious to us and let us come ahead and chat

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Speaker 1: with your experience. Obviously, want to shout out for twenty

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Speaker 1: in events for events UM check us out on Instagram

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Speaker 1: at four twenty in events UM. We have the Minority

817
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Speaker 1: from Cannabis Academy check us out Minority Cannabis Academy dot org.

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00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: We're launching this summer and again, guys, just thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for this. Do you have any upcoming events

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Speaker 1: so uh? We had not that we're announcing just yet,

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Speaker 1: not that we're done just yet. We have our podcast

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Speaker 1: going to check going YouTube the Higher Learning with four

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Speaker 1: twenty in events uh podcast. We have Leo Bridgewater episode.

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Speaker 1: We have Nick the Emilio from Harrison on our second

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Speaker 1: episode the Sunday, we have Jazmine Johnson who's a black

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Speaker 1: MFO from Miami. Hearst ever interviewed anywhere dropping on on

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Speaker 1: our platform this Sunday at six pm Eastern. Job man

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Speaker 1: and listen, have you ever met Um, the California Minority Alliance, Donnie.

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Speaker 1: I have not someone linkio with Donnie too. He's out

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Speaker 1: here used to be Snoops manager. Um. Good, good dude, man.

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Speaker 1: And they've done a lot of good work here in California. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been to several you know, uh courts

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Speaker 1: with them to speak in front of the courts systems.

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Speaker 1: They've helped a lot of the laws in Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: and California and pass it and and and lean towards

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Speaker 1: the minorities and and and help the social equity applicants.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've been pivotal here in California. And so

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Speaker 1: they have a lot of insight and I know that, um,

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Speaker 1: they're willing to share some of their information so that

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Speaker 1: you guys can take some of that information and make

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Speaker 1: it yours, you know, And I would I'd highly encourage

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Speaker 1: you to go to the California Minority Alliance dot com

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Speaker 1: and and and you know, kind of breathe through it

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Speaker 1: and look at them boys, because they kick ass. I mean,

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Speaker 1: done so much of God's work man um, so I'd

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Speaker 1: start painting things back and forth. Yeah. Well, there it is, guys.

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