WEBVTT - TUCKY BLUNT - Jam n Spam, egg and Cheese

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<v Speaker 1>Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm your host Coli Witt, and today we have very

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<v Speaker 1>special guests entrepreneur in the building, Tucky Blunt, and just

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<v Speaker 1>like the name, we are gonna talk cannabis. Okay, so

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna be talking cannabis today all the way from

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<v Speaker 1>the Bay.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I'm a fan, so I appreciate y'all sharing your

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<v Speaker 2>you personally share your platform with me and just overall

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<v Speaker 2>the whole platform. So I appreciate what y'all doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, thank you, and we appreciate you coming and

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<v Speaker 1>really sharing the transparency behind behind the cannabis industry what

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<v Speaker 1>it took to get to own your own display, entry,

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<v Speaker 1>lounge and events business. So before we get into all

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<v Speaker 1>the tea on the business side, I want to know

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<v Speaker 1>what you were eating while you were broken. What you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to be having me eat today?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh man, this is scary. So what we're eating today

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<v Speaker 2>is basically play on bacon, egg and cheese with spam.

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<v Speaker 2>So we're doing a spam egg and cheese saying wich,

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<v Speaker 2>something I ate a lot of when I was younger,

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<v Speaker 2>but I haven't eaten about thirty plus years. So this

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<v Speaker 2>is interesting. Spam is interesting. We used to call it

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<v Speaker 2>a spare parts and meat, so hopefully that's not what

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<v Speaker 2>it is anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>There's some I forgot which guest of ours like genuinely

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<v Speaker 1>was at Miguel Newness. Yes he loved spam.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, when I was younger, I didn't know no reason

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<v Speaker 2>not to love spam. It was great. But about eighth

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<v Speaker 2>ninth grade, on the field trip, I had thick uncooked

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<v Speaker 2>just and one of the homies on the field trip

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<v Speaker 2>was like, bro, you eating that. I'm like, yeah, what

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<v Speaker 2>is that? What's wrong with He like, you know, we

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<v Speaker 2>don't eat that? And ever since then, I've never read

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<v Speaker 2>it again. Leave it to it.

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<v Speaker 1>I got you the wonderbread, and usually I don't do it,

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<v Speaker 1>but we did have an elected official come on the

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<v Speaker 1>show and he really like expressed the importance of keeping

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<v Speaker 1>it like all the way one hundred. So today I

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<v Speaker 1>decided to torture you, okay, with wonderbread because we all

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<v Speaker 1>know wonderbread is a very delicate bread. And I wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>get you a nice bread, but I said, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>why not make your life harder since you're gonna give

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<v Speaker 1>me spam.

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<v Speaker 2>I ain't mad at all. You see how this butter

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<v Speaker 2>trying to do me?

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, for people, I don't know what you're doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Was this a little drop of butter in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of the brand? But here we go cook it up.

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<v Speaker 1>So take me back to what was going on in

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<v Speaker 1>the spam air of life.

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<v Speaker 2>So I was ninety three ninety four, So I was

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<v Speaker 2>fourteen thirteen when in junior high school at a place

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<v Speaker 2>called freaking Oapron, California. Like I said, we didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>we was poor. I lived in the shelter before and

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<v Speaker 2>stuff like that, but we didn't know we was poor.

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<v Speaker 1>I think someone stabs the back or something to get

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<v Speaker 1>it out.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I do remember that, remember that. But we

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<v Speaker 2>just you know, we were just eating. You know, we

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<v Speaker 2>didn't think nothing of it. I was going to school

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<v Speaker 2>straight at student living in Oakland. It was different back

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<v Speaker 2>than than it is now. That's pretty much it. I

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<v Speaker 2>was a nerd. I was a nerd in school and

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<v Speaker 2>just really I really enjoyed school. But we just didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have a lot of money and we didn't you know,

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<v Speaker 2>both my parents had been on drugs before. I lived

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<v Speaker 2>with my grandmother, like I said, lived in the shelter before.

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<v Speaker 2>So we were just you know, trying to get back.

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<v Speaker 2>Used to think my mom had just got custody of us,

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<v Speaker 2>so she was doing what she could do to fetus,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And that's how spam came about.

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<v Speaker 2>Like I said, I never knew nothing was wrong with

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<v Speaker 2>spam until ninth grade.

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<v Speaker 1>Damn. Does this look like reminiscent to you?

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<v Speaker 2>It's like it is bringing back a lot, not in

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<v Speaker 2>a bad way, but just bringing back a lot because

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<v Speaker 2>this is how we used to eat, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. So yeah, it's pretty cool.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So your mom gets you back and you leave

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<v Speaker 1>your Grandma's back to your mom. Where's your poppy at?

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<v Speaker 2>My pap was around and we were talking about that

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<v Speaker 2>recently too. My mom and dad lived in the same city,

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<v Speaker 2>still live in the same city now, but they can't

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<v Speaker 2>stand each other day to this day, to this day,

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<v Speaker 2>like to the point like right now currently, if I

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<v Speaker 2>call my mom and tell her that my dad's at

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<v Speaker 2>my house or vice versa, they're going to be mad

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<v Speaker 2>at me.

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<v Speaker 1>They're going to be mad at you.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, wow, So I'm going through that as a child then,

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<v Speaker 2>because they was going back and forth to court. So

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<v Speaker 2>dad was around, but Dad would rather us love him

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<v Speaker 2>to death, but he would rather us live with his

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<v Speaker 2>mom instead of him. So it was it was interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>But why that we have no I still to this

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<v Speaker 2>day don't know. I have no clue. But he had

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<v Speaker 2>a house, but we never went to it. We would

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<v Speaker 2>go out, hang out on weekends, go do stuff, and

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<v Speaker 2>then he drop us back off at my granny house.

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<v Speaker 2>So I don't know if it was something to spite

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<v Speaker 2>my mom.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait, so you never saw his house.

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<v Speaker 2>No, we would see it, but would never stay in it.

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<v Speaker 2>No overnight.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, but you can hang out in it.

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<v Speaker 2>Hang out and when on time to go home and

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<v Speaker 2>go to sleep. I spent the night in my daddy

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<v Speaker 2>ho maybe once when I was younger, outside of him

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<v Speaker 2>my mom being together.

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<v Speaker 1>And you never asked them, not until I.

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<v Speaker 2>Got older, because when I was younger, I didn't even

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<v Speaker 2>nothing know it. We just looked as we were going

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<v Speaker 2>back to granny house. We didn't think anything of it.

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<v Speaker 1>So do you when you ask them now?

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<v Speaker 2>What is? He turned to an argument, Oh.

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<v Speaker 1>You really can't okay, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>No, you really, it's okay. It's it's funky, okay.

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<v Speaker 1>But they still don't get along.

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<v Speaker 2>Dabor. Were they married, they were never married childish sweethearts,

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<v Speaker 2>met when they was twelve, had me when they were

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<v Speaker 2>seventeen and sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so, and they both got into drugs. Yes, heavy drugs,

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<v Speaker 1>like drugs. I'm sorry, I don't like a hell a

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<v Speaker 1>nosy person.

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<v Speaker 2>No, heavy, Both of them were users. My dad started first.

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<v Speaker 2>Mom would stay at home. Mom dad paid all the bills.

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<v Speaker 2>So once he stopped paying the bills, Mom was kind

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<v Speaker 2>of like all over the place, didn't know what to do.

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<v Speaker 2>She we moved with her mom and that got kind

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<v Speaker 2>of funky because she's her baby daughter moving home with

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<v Speaker 2>three kids. That wasn't a good look. Cussed her out

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<v Speaker 2>every day we end up in the shelter. Moms was like,

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<v Speaker 2>I was a nerd, so I was like really smart

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<v Speaker 2>as a kid. She would have to take me from

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<v Speaker 2>let's just say Burdbank to Lax every day in a

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<v Speaker 2>broke down car. She couldn't afford it. So she was like, man,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna send you with your daddy. He said, to

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<v Speaker 2>be getting this stuff together. I'm gonna send you with him.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I get myself together, I'm gonna come back

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<v Speaker 2>and get y'all. That was like eighty nine and my

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<v Speaker 2>Mama came and got us back in ninety two. Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>And she hates she don't like me talking about her

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<v Speaker 2>own podcasts or nothing. But I love my mama. Mama

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<v Speaker 2>did a whole lot for us to get back and

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<v Speaker 2>she just she just she did not she see this interview.

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<v Speaker 2>She's gonna cuts me.

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<v Speaker 1>Out over why because she doesn't like that.

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<v Speaker 2>She don't like to be talked about. She's she's one

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<v Speaker 2>of them people who still how can I put it,

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<v Speaker 2>My Mom's gonna die without friends. I put it like that.

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<v Speaker 2>She's one of the people that's just everything is a conspiracy,

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<v Speaker 2>and I hate that for her, you know what I mean, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>you need to get out of mom. You need to

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<v Speaker 2>have some friends, Like you need to go. She just

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<v Speaker 2>sits in her house. So that's a whole nother story.

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<v Speaker 2>But this was one of her favorite meals.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so you are a straight A student at some point,

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<v Speaker 1>so she decides to send you back because she couldn't care.

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<v Speaker 1>So she was she putting you in a really good

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<v Speaker 1>school at the time.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was in a school called Peter Pan which

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<v Speaker 2>was one of the higher end like private schools, and

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<v Speaker 2>I got in because of my brains because we couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>afford to go there, and then my sisters, all of

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<v Speaker 2>them went loved us. I graduated. I skipped the grade there.

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<v Speaker 2>I graduated from there. I think you sposed to graduate

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<v Speaker 2>fifth grade, like twelve or something. I was done at ten.

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<v Speaker 2>So everything was great on that and she didn't want

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<v Speaker 2>me to miss that. She's like, no, I want you

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<v Speaker 2>to go to that school because she taught us. While

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<v Speaker 2>Pop was at work, Mom was at home teaching us

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<v Speaker 2>how to count, how to add all that. Yeah, she

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<v Speaker 2>had a whole chart like that, had the days of

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<v Speaker 2>the week, the months of the year, the five times tables,

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<v Speaker 2>ten times tables. I'm learning that at one and two

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<v Speaker 2>years old. So I went to school ready. Yeah. So

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<v Speaker 2>when Pops wasn't doing his end, it kind of messed

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<v Speaker 2>up the whole family dynamic overall. So you know, and

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<v Speaker 2>that's no hat shade on him, It just thingings happen.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So then what happens get.

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<v Speaker 2>With moms mom's is both my parents sold whed for

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<v Speaker 2>a very long time, and we and my family never

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<v Speaker 2>looked at weed as like a bad thing. I never

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<v Speaker 2>knew that cannabis was bad ever, because it was part

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<v Speaker 2>of my family Domino's food weed. And when I got

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<v Speaker 2>about I mean it was literally that order. You know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, Like you can always peep through the

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<v Speaker 2>kitchen and they smoking they weed and they playing their bones.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just what we knew. And about thirteen I started smoking.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, all right, it's cool. You know, weed

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<v Speaker 2>is cool, but it wasn't really my thing. By a sixteen,

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<v Speaker 2>it was my thing, and I knew I could sell it.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was like, if I'm going to sell it,

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<v Speaker 2>where am I going to sell it? Everybody I knew

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<v Speaker 2>it was going to jail for selling drugs on the street.

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<v Speaker 2>So I was like, man, I got to figure out

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<v Speaker 2>a better way to sell weed. And it was at work.

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<v Speaker 2>I've always had a job since I was thirteen, So

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<v Speaker 2>at sixteen, I'm working at the grocery store. All my

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<v Speaker 2>coworkers smoked, so I'm like, oh shit, I don't need

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<v Speaker 2>to be on the corner, I guess, so all my

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<v Speaker 2>whet this is my corner. So everywhere I worked, I

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<v Speaker 2>sold everything I've ever sold in my life. I sold

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<v Speaker 2>the coworkers, so I was selling weed. I detailed cars,

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<v Speaker 2>detailed bikes. I threw parties just or you.

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<v Speaker 1>Were a hustler.

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<v Speaker 2>I was a hustler.

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<v Speaker 1>You're I don't want to see you're a hustler because

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<v Speaker 1>it sounds like you. You know, yeah, I think hustlers

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes people, But I think you are an entrepreneur, a

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<v Speaker 1>young entrepreneur.

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<v Speaker 2>I take that. I will take that, and I just

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<v Speaker 2>applied that to being at work. I'm like, if I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to be here, I was making more money at work,

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<v Speaker 2>and I made.

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<v Speaker 1>At work, and I that's hilarious.

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<v Speaker 2>Continued that all my life and kind of fast forward.

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<v Speaker 2>Sold We for about eight years, no issues, and then

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<v Speaker 2>in two thousand and five when the guys I was

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<v Speaker 2>buying weed from snitched on me and the police came.

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<v Speaker 2>They arrested me whatever whatever I built out the same night.

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<v Speaker 2>But that arrest led to me qualifying for the program

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<v Speaker 2>that allowed me to get my store.

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<v Speaker 1>And what was that program?

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<v Speaker 2>That program is called the Social Equity Program that originated

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<v Speaker 2>in Oakland, which gave people who was convicted of CA

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<v Speaker 2>one of his charges chances that ownership in the cannabis space.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm the first person to open a cannabis store

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<v Speaker 2>out of that program.

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<v Speaker 1>And now it was two thousand and five.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it's crazy as I caught the case in O five.

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<v Speaker 2>None of this happened until twenty eighteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait, you didn't get to open legally till twenty eighteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Because legalization just started in twenty sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's what I was gonna take. So wait, you

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<v Speaker 1>go to jail for it, and then how do you

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<v Speaker 1>hear about the program?

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<v Speaker 2>So I go to jail, get out. I continue working,

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<v Speaker 2>continue doing everything I was doing, selling weed. All this

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<v Speaker 2>stuff never stopped all these years later.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh so you get an the restidents stop you?

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<v Speaker 2>No oh no, no, no no, it just what happened was

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<v Speaker 2>and I left that out. Remember I told you, I

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<v Speaker 2>said all my week at work that particular time, I

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't at work because I was in between jobs and

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<v Speaker 2>my son was fin to be born. So with him

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<v Speaker 2>fin to be born and we have an extra time

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<v Speaker 2>on my hand, I'm like, I'm gonna go to my street,

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<v Speaker 2>go to my turf and sell some weed. I'm out there.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a great time. I seen why people was

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<v Speaker 2>outside selling weed. I'm like, this is fun. But that's

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<v Speaker 2>when I got knichtng them snitching on me is how

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<v Speaker 2>I qualified for that program. So fifteen sixteen years later,

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<v Speaker 2>I get a phone call from one of my homeboys,

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<v Speaker 2>Mike Marshall. You're familiar with the song I got five

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<v Speaker 2>on it. Yeah, so the guy that's singing I got

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<v Speaker 2>five on his name is Mike Marshall. He called me

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<v Speaker 2>and was like, hey, Tucky, you ever called a week

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<v Speaker 2>case in open. I'm like, yeah, that's hell of random,

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<v Speaker 2>but I have why. He was like, man, I know

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<v Speaker 2>two people out of Atlanta that's trying to open a

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<v Speaker 2>store through this program called Social Equity, but they need

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<v Speaker 2>someone that qualified. It was met. I'm like, well, what

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<v Speaker 2>do they mean for me? They was like, they just

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<v Speaker 2>want to meet you and talk to you. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>all right, we met. I thought we was on on board,

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<v Speaker 2>on point. They was good people. Next thing I know,

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<v Speaker 2>we applied. I got this phone call in September. We

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<v Speaker 2>applied for the license in December of seventeen. January thirty

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<v Speaker 2>person of eighteen. We won a license in a lottery.

0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.120
<v Speaker 2>Two people I never met. Now we got a license

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<v Speaker 2>in a billion dollar industry and have to work together

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<v Speaker 2>from there. Oh MG, exactly, So you do the math.

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<v Speaker 1>Who created the Social Apple program? Was it a government thing?

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<v Speaker 2>It was a government thing? Yep. City of Oakland government

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<v Speaker 2>did it. One lady Destiny Brooks has something to do

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<v Speaker 2>with it. Another guy named Keith Stevenson who owned the

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<v Speaker 2>cannabis club up there called Purple Heart, he was a

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<v Speaker 2>part of it. It was just a way for them

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<v Speaker 2>to if y'all gonna legalize, y'all need to give these

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<v Speaker 2>people who's been adversely affected a chance to own in

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<v Speaker 2>this space. Period.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know there was a such thing because my

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<v Speaker 1>dad used to get really upset about, like, Yo, they

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<v Speaker 1>got all these people in jail that know the industry

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<v Speaker 1>in and out and they can't get in. And there

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<v Speaker 1>was a whole program.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, it came out in twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>But it was it only in Oakland or is it.

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<v Speaker 2>One in LA right now? It's been going on.

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<v Speaker 1>It's one in LA right now, right now currently. So

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<v Speaker 1>if you have a history, big.

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<v Speaker 2>Kika, I don't know if you meant with Kika, but

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<v Speaker 2>Kika has a store called Gorilla Wellness. It's I want

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<v Speaker 2>to say, it's on Crenshaw Social Equity owned. She's the

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<v Speaker 2>first social equity in LA.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a female owned.

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<v Speaker 2>Female owned Black people. A big keepers. You share wrong?

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<v Speaker 2>You a good lady, super good lady. But yeah, that's

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<v Speaker 2>that's that's how it became famous in the legal cannabis space.

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<v Speaker 2>But from ninety six, I've been the celebrities weed man

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<v Speaker 2>since ninety six, Like all my friends, like we were

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<v Speaker 2>talking off on camera of my friends are celebrities because

0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.600
<v Speaker 2>I pick and choose my clients, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't want just you know, I don't know. It

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<v Speaker 2>was different.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw that after you went to jail, you got

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<v Speaker 1>real selective for your clustomer.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it was creat No, before I was already selecting

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<v Speaker 2>selling to celebrities before, I just was selective about how

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<v Speaker 2>I sold my weed. I never went back to staying outside.

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<v Speaker 2>It was always at work. You had to call me

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<v Speaker 2>and you had to know me. Outside attracting different kind

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<v Speaker 2>of attention. Police is all in your face thing, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. And I didn't want that, Like

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to go to jail, so I'm doing

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<v Speaker 2>something legal. The best way for me to do it

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<v Speaker 2>is at work.

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<v Speaker 1>Why did you say that when you were outside it

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<v Speaker 1>was fun.

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<v Speaker 2>Though, because like the outside life back then in two

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<v Speaker 2>thousand and five, selling weed was like a movie outside

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<v Speaker 2>like my.

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<v Speaker 1>Spot wash your fires up really too high?

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<v Speaker 2>This one the egg. Yeah, that's why I moved it

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<v Speaker 2>over here. That's why I moved it over here.

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<v Speaker 1>This one is that one down?

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<v Speaker 2>This one?

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<v Speaker 1>No, you're good cooking like that one?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, you all good seat cooking. O five. Back then,

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<v Speaker 2>outside my turf where I'm from was a dope spot.

0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.440
<v Speaker 2>They so dope they didn't sell weed. So with us

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<v Speaker 2>bringing weed to the table, it brought a different type

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<v Speaker 2>of people over there. Like back then, prior to my wife,

0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.040
<v Speaker 2>I was a ladies man, so all my lady clients,

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<v Speaker 2>they coming over there to different people. Getting to see that.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like, man, you know, cause they clients are do

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, not dressing right, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>typical dope and stuff. So it changed the dynamic and

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<v Speaker 2>I got to just see how fun being outside was.

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<v Speaker 2>We having block parties, bringing the dirt bikes out. We're

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<v Speaker 2>just kicking it. But I'm like, nah, this ain't really

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<v Speaker 2>me because the police driving by all that, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. I got touch stuff, I got to

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<v Speaker 2>hide stuff I'm not used to that, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. So it was fun, but it wasn't nothing

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<v Speaker 2>that I could like. It was just temporary. It was

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<v Speaker 2>until I got hired at my job and the guy

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<v Speaker 2>who snitched on me, I start to work Monday. He

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<v Speaker 2>snitched on me on a Thursday, so he knew I

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<v Speaker 2>started work that Monday, and we're trying to have me

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<v Speaker 2>in jail to miss my first day at working. Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>called a piece of work.

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<v Speaker 1>How long did you spend time in jail for?

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<v Speaker 2>I built out the same night because I had no priority.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh but did you ever go back? Wait a minute,

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<v Speaker 1>so you mean to tell me that you served.

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<v Speaker 2>Like four hours built out equity as long as lottery.

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<v Speaker 2>Caught a charge in cannabis and I called a felony

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<v Speaker 2>when they called me. I had eighty dollars worth of

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<v Speaker 2>weeed on me and I got ten years of felony

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<v Speaker 2>probation with a four way search clause. That mean anytime

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<v Speaker 2>for ten years, anybody I'm riding with, anywhere I'm at,

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<v Speaker 2>I can get searched felony for eight dollars worth a week.

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<v Speaker 2>My first defense never been to jail, never have no

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<v Speaker 2>Really glad.

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<v Speaker 1>That you got the equity program, because honestly, to have

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<v Speaker 1>a felony for such.

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<v Speaker 2>A low it's a lot. It's a lot, and it

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<v Speaker 2>kind of for lack of better words. It fucked off

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<v Speaker 2>my life, but I didn't realize it. I didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>what it was doing to my life because I did.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a likely how can I put I'm a positive person.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't let nothing keep me down longer than need to.

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<v Speaker 2>So when it happened, I'm like, all right, I can't

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<v Speaker 2>do this, but I can do this, And that's just

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<v Speaker 2>what I did. I just I never let it stop me,

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<v Speaker 2>because if I did, I wouldn't be talking to you.

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<v Speaker 1>But how did you get How did you when you

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<v Speaker 1>found out you got a felony? It would affect your

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<v Speaker 1>ability to sell well obviously have a job, which was

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<v Speaker 1>your main place to sell the weed? So how did

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<v Speaker 1>that affect your emotional So.

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<v Speaker 2>What's crazy is when he snitched on me. The place

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<v Speaker 2>that I started working for Alameda County. At the time,

0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.920
<v Speaker 2>I was working to be a probation officer. Me and

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<v Speaker 2>the guy used to go to the shooting range every

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<v Speaker 2>Tuesday and Thursday to practice shooting at a registered firearm.

0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.920
<v Speaker 2>So I want to go practice my shooting. Whatever we do,

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<v Speaker 2>our transactional park line, go about our business. He knew

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<v Speaker 2>like I said that, I started work that Monday. So

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<v Speaker 2>when I go to work that Monday to work at probation.

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<v Speaker 2>I already have the case. You can't work at probation

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<v Speaker 2>on probation, So they sent me somewhere else to work

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<v Speaker 2>for the county. They couldn't fire me because I was

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<v Speaker 2>already hired, So it worked out everything have a Had

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<v Speaker 2>I not already had that job, I wouldn't have been

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<v Speaker 2>able to get a job. I would have had to

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<v Speaker 2>been forced to the streets. Yeah, so I called heaven

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<v Speaker 2>Father the yeahweah yahweh set it up to where now

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna go ahead and get you this job. We're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna also get you stitched on so it can come

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<v Speaker 2>back and help you let it down the line. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know that, Colleen, Like, how do you walk that?

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<v Speaker 2>And don't you? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, But now, what was the learning curve for

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<v Speaker 1>the equity license? Like what was some of the things

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<v Speaker 1>that you had to learn to do it to where

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<v Speaker 1>it's a lasting business.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm still learning now. I closed my store in March.

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<v Speaker 2>I still got other businesses, but I closed my store

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<v Speaker 2>in March because I'm still learning. I have Remember I

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<v Speaker 2>told you the people I partnered with I never met before.

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<v Speaker 2>So they robbed me blind. After about two years, they

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<v Speaker 2>took the money and when opened the store in another state,

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<v Speaker 2>I'd have had no clue.

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<v Speaker 1>Can they do that? Is the license non based on

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<v Speaker 1>the area.

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<v Speaker 2>They didn't have the license for the store. They used

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<v Speaker 2>the name the notoriety from the store to go out

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<v Speaker 2>there and have somebody else get them a license. And

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<v Speaker 2>I had no clue end of finding out because people

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<v Speaker 2>was coming up on me in the streets like, hey, Tuckie,

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<v Speaker 2>w ain't been paid. W ain been paid? War are money?

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, what do you mean? Because when I

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<v Speaker 2>opened the business, I was more like a face of

0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.040
<v Speaker 2>the brand. I wasn't. I didn't know nothing about the

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<v Speaker 2>legal side of the business. They were supposed to teach me.

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<v Speaker 2>They didn't teach me. They just stole from me.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm current, how are you getting paid?

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<v Speaker 2>So I was getting paid as a employee at first,

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<v Speaker 2>which was totally wrong. Fixed that now I'm getting paid

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<v Speaker 2>as a consultant. So that happened after I got ribbed twice.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. I didn't know. I had

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<v Speaker 2>to learn. So it's like the equity program was great.

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<v Speaker 2>I love what it did for me allow me to

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<v Speaker 2>be in this space, but it's just still a learning

0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:40.639
<v Speaker 2>curve now because legalization just happened twenty sixteen. How are

0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.120
<v Speaker 2>you posing to know everything by now? Now?

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<v Speaker 1>When they give you the equity program, they don't hold

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<v Speaker 1>your hand through it. They just hand you a.

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<v Speaker 2>License basically at that time, yes, they.

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<v Speaker 1>Put you through any type of classes.

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<v Speaker 2>No, they didn't have none set up at the time,

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<v Speaker 2>So how.

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<v Speaker 1>Did they not expect you to mess up? Not mess up?

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<v Speaker 1>So it's like a slippery it's almost like a setup.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a set up. Yes, yes, and again I respect

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<v Speaker 2>what they did, but it's just like anything when you

0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.440
<v Speaker 2>start something off, you have to fine tuning after a while.

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<v Speaker 2>It's time for the fine tuning. Right now, currently it's

0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.879
<v Speaker 2>time for the fine tuning in it's happening now. But

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<v Speaker 2>for me to have to be open five years six years,

0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:19.480
<v Speaker 2>I was open six years. I have five break ins

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<v Speaker 2>in six years.

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<v Speaker 1>I had and it's all cash business.

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<v Speaker 2>All cash business, what's what's.

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<v Speaker 1>The rules with the Because I've had talked to multiple

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<v Speaker 1>people about this because I thought with the cannabis business,

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<v Speaker 1>legally you can't have the money in banks because then

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<v Speaker 1>it would be a federal.

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<v Speaker 2>So you're not supposed to have money in banks, but

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<v Speaker 2>yet and still there's cannabis banks. You understand what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's like, how do we do it if it's

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<v Speaker 2>federally illegal? But you're telling me you holding my money,

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<v Speaker 2>And then most of the banks are charging fees that are.

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<v Speaker 1>Reap Well, wait, what do you mean a cannabis bank.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have to educate us.

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<v Speaker 2>So they have banks that take cannabis money that you

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<v Speaker 2>know that are actual legal banks, but they're set up

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<v Speaker 2>under the bank, not under like figuratively, but under the bank,

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<v Speaker 2>under like another LLC. So they'll take your money and

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<v Speaker 2>everything will be cool. You can have debit card purchases

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<v Speaker 2>and everything. But overall, at the end of the day,

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<v Speaker 2>if a bank wants to come in and shut you down,

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<v Speaker 2>they can come shut you down. Bank.

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<v Speaker 1>Why would a bank shut you down?

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<v Speaker 2>They can come because you're funneling funds illegally. Technically we're

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<v Speaker 2>still a Schedule one drug. So technically every day that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm open, I'm selling weed illegally to the FEDES. But

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<v Speaker 2>because the checks and balances within the state, I can

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<v Speaker 2>do a state legally, so the fedesers leave you alone.

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<v Speaker 2>But every day that we sell, we we can go

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<v Speaker 2>to jail. But it's supposed to be legal, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>still people in jail for it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a whole another Well, my brain is very slow.

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<v Speaker 1>So what you're saying is is that but that's only

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<v Speaker 1>illegal if you have a bank account, right, No.

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<v Speaker 2>It's illegal every every day that we're open. It's fetially illegal.

0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.680
<v Speaker 2>Any cannabis business right now that's open right now as

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<v Speaker 2>we talk, is illegal because to the fes. But the

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<v Speaker 2>fares aren't bothering you because of checks and balances that

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<v Speaker 2>the state controls it. So they're like, go ahead, you

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<v Speaker 2>can do whatever you do as long as you ain't

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<v Speaker 2>doing too much. We're gonna come boy you because it

0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.800
<v Speaker 2>is legal by the state, but by the fares. No,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm illegal every day. I shouldn't be selling weak at all.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. So but oh there's so much unpack. So do

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<v Speaker 1>you still have the license?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes? I do?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Bay, yes I do in the Bay.

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<v Speaker 1>But you don't have the cannabis store right now, no,

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<v Speaker 1>honestare nope?

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<v Speaker 2>Close?

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<v Speaker 1>So do you have people hounding hounding you twenty four

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<v Speaker 1>to seven as far.

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<v Speaker 2>As to get back opening store? Yeah, they missed me.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like, dude, like what are you doing? Like when

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<v Speaker 2>you open and when you open, and I'm like, man,

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<v Speaker 2>I need to, you know, make it more convenient inaccessible.

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<v Speaker 1>This looks good.

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<v Speaker 2>I need to make it more convenient accessible. So that's

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<v Speaker 2>why I pivoted and doing what I'm doing now done?

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<v Speaker 1>What are you doing?

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<v Speaker 2>So? I do events and I do pop ups. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>basically a store without being a brick and mortar.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, and are you allowed to sell well, this is

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<v Speaker 1>kind of dumb question, but are you allowed to sell online?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you need to cut it? Sorry, So let's just

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<v Speaker 1>do a quick taste test, ma'am. This looks really good.

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<v Speaker 1>I love I love the Friday I love how you

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<v Speaker 1>did the Friday egg cool, the way you did the

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<v Speaker 1>spam had a little crest on it. I just have

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<v Speaker 1>to acknowledge all this because it actually looks really deuicious. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>here we gotcha.

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<v Speaker 2>It's that really does not taste bad.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't even refront that just tastes amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>If she was talking about the spam all day, it's

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<v Speaker 2>actually not bad.

0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.880
<v Speaker 1>It's really good. Wow, the of this because some kids

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<v Speaker 1>talk smack.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's really good.

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<v Speaker 1>M h call your homeboy back and be like it

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<v Speaker 1>was really good.

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<v Speaker 2>This is pretty good, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>Jared was talking smack guys back there about the strawberry jelly.

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<v Speaker 1>Strawberry jelly is definitely necessarily that's.

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<v Speaker 2>The you got to and couldn't do it wrong. Can't

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<v Speaker 2>put on mail or nothing. It has to be to jelly.

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<v Speaker 2>She took three bites. I'm happy. This is one of

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<v Speaker 2>my main meals as a youngster.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a great man meal.

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<v Speaker 2>I love that lady to death. Boy, But dear mom,

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<v Speaker 2>this is that So yes, you can sell online, but

0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:40.040
<v Speaker 2>he run at that same risk with the dealing with

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<v Speaker 2>cards and dealing with the federal government because you're not

0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:46.800
<v Speaker 2>supposed to do that because if we're selling drugs technically,

0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:50.760
<v Speaker 2>So what I do? I throw events the same way

0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:52.560
<v Speaker 2>I threw events back when I got arrested. I throw

0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:54.920
<v Speaker 2>an event at a venue. Let's just say an art show.

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<v Speaker 2>You want weed at the event, I'll be outside with

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<v Speaker 2>delivery truck. You text your order, we'll bring it right in.

0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:03.679
<v Speaker 2>So the event is not a weed event. It's an

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<v Speaker 2>event that just so happens to have weed. So now

0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:07.600
<v Speaker 2>I don't have to have a brick and mortar. So

0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:09.960
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people follow me to figure out how

0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.200
<v Speaker 2>to move around in the space. And for the longest time,

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, get a brick and mortar, Get a

0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:16.160
<v Speaker 2>brick and mortar. I'm not pushing that really no more.

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<v Speaker 2>Unless you own the land that the brick and mortar

0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:19.879
<v Speaker 2>is on. It's no point.

0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:21.640
<v Speaker 1>Why do you say unless you own it?

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<v Speaker 2>Because so what I'm going through with the store the

0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.360
<v Speaker 2>second time around, I got new partners. The new partners

0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:31.359
<v Speaker 2>I got were my original landlords, so they've been around

0:24:31.400 --> 0:24:33.840
<v Speaker 2>the whole time. I'm thinking that, oh we're good, y'all

0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:35.679
<v Speaker 2>seen what happened these people that came to my wedding.

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<v Speaker 2>We're gonna be good. They were stealing from me too,

0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:42.879
<v Speaker 2>the landlord. Yes, so because they were hired by me

0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:45.760
<v Speaker 2>to handle the store. Mind you, I don't know how

0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:47.399
<v Speaker 2>to run the story yet because I was never told.

0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:49.760
<v Speaker 2>So when I don't know how to do something, I'm

0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:51.680
<v Speaker 2>going to employ somebody that knows how to do it.

0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:53.639
<v Speaker 2>So they said they didn't know how to do it.

0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:56.640
<v Speaker 2>They was doing it, but they were stealing. And same thing.

0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:58.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm in the streets. People are like, Tuckie, we ain't

0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:00.840
<v Speaker 2>being paid. People I've never met, but they know me

0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:03.800
<v Speaker 2>from the store. Long story short, I ended up figuring

0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:06.399
<v Speaker 2>out that they were stealing. Confronting the moment, got it

0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:08.520
<v Speaker 2>proof that they you know that they were stealing. But

0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:10.840
<v Speaker 2>they are my landlord. So if I caught you stilling,

0:25:10.920 --> 0:25:12.960
<v Speaker 2>think they're gonna let me stay in their building? No,

0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:16.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm kicked out. So what am I supposed to do?

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<v Speaker 2>You have to own the land. If I'm just renting

0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:20.600
<v Speaker 2>from you, you can not like me. One month they cut

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<v Speaker 2>my least. Now my business is gone. What A'm I

0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:25.600
<v Speaker 2>supposed to do with that? And the city you know,

0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:27.280
<v Speaker 2>they know that this is going on, but what can

0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:29.520
<v Speaker 2>they do. You sign a least agreement with a place

0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:31.960
<v Speaker 2>they don't have to. The city can't make them keep

0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:32.320
<v Speaker 2>you there.

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<v Speaker 1>You can just fire them and just be like you're fired.

0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:38.760
<v Speaker 2>I could have in normal circumstances, but being at there

0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:40.840
<v Speaker 2>with my landlord, they felt like they had that over me.

0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:42.640
<v Speaker 2>So if you don't want us here, then you can't

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<v Speaker 2>be here either.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So the how does the event's distribution go? Again?

0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:51.399
<v Speaker 2>So it's pretty pretty simple. You have an event, you

0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:53.760
<v Speaker 2>have someone attached to the event that has a license

0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:56.399
<v Speaker 2>that can sell and you can have smoke. I mean,

0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:58.639
<v Speaker 2>you can sell them smoke there. That person can be

0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:00.960
<v Speaker 2>in the same building or they can be outside, And

0:26:01.240 --> 0:26:02.800
<v Speaker 2>I just choose to do it outside because that way,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't When you label something as a weed event,

0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:08.920
<v Speaker 2>it tends to get overly scrutinized for no reason. You

0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:10.560
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. We're just chilling with just smoking.

0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:12.639
<v Speaker 2>But if I labeled as an art event, I probably

0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:14.320
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't have no police set to show up, you know

0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:16.719
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. So for me, it was about pivoting

0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:19.359
<v Speaker 2>to be able to still sell weed to the community,

0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:22.080
<v Speaker 2>but then do it to where I don't have to

0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:25.040
<v Speaker 2>be in a brick and mortar. I missed my staff, right,

0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:30.639
<v Speaker 2>But between staff, rent, utilities, and security, I spend like

0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:34.399
<v Speaker 2>fifty thousand a month just on that. Wow, just on

0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:37.159
<v Speaker 2>that nothing else. I was literally opened my doors to

0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:39.199
<v Speaker 2>pay taxes and pay my staff. And that's something else

0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:41.800
<v Speaker 2>people don't know about the taxes on the weed. It's

0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:44.199
<v Speaker 2>way different. We don't get no rite offs, Like how

0:26:44.240 --> 0:26:45.919
<v Speaker 2>we sitting here and it's office and you get right

0:26:45.920 --> 0:26:48.600
<v Speaker 2>off of the life electricity closing everything. I don't get

0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:52.479
<v Speaker 2>none of that. Why because we're selling dope because we're

0:26:52.520 --> 0:26:56.920
<v Speaker 2>scheduled one. If they reschedule, not if they deschedule, not rescheduleed,

0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:59.719
<v Speaker 2>they deschedule cannabis, we can get those right offs as

0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:02.640
<v Speaker 2>long as to the federal government, we are selling drugs.

0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:04.440
<v Speaker 2>There's no right off for selling drugs.

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<v Speaker 1>Is it because it's a cash based business.

0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:09.480
<v Speaker 2>No, it's because it's a drug. It's a one drug. Okay.

0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:13.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying this because I'm just trying to get an understanding.

0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:17.440
<v Speaker 1>Maybe from the government's perspective. They're like, Yo, they're gonna

0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:19.680
<v Speaker 1>figure out a way to hide some of the cash,

0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:24.480
<v Speaker 1>because you know that's what entrepreneurs we do. So I'm saying,

0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:28.080
<v Speaker 1>are they do you think that they're doing that? Because

0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:30.720
<v Speaker 1>they're like, look, man, they're already gonna pocket some we

0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:31.800
<v Speaker 1>don't need to add right offs.

0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:36.000
<v Speaker 2>So One, there's something called two eighty e to AD

0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:39.240
<v Speaker 2>is a tax code that effects cannabis. Two EDD just

0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:41.919
<v Speaker 2>basically says you're selling drugs, so you don't get no

0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:44.560
<v Speaker 2>right offs, and as long as cannabis is in that

0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:47.320
<v Speaker 2>schedule one, we'll never be able to get right All

0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:49.320
<v Speaker 2>I get right off is calls costs of goods. So

0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:50.199
<v Speaker 2>that's the only thing I can.

0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:53.200
<v Speaker 1>But now how do they track like how much money

0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:53.560
<v Speaker 1>you make?

0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:57.560
<v Speaker 2>So we had to report everything. There's something called what

0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:00.160
<v Speaker 2>is the database metric? So everything that you get from

0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:03.280
<v Speaker 2>seed to sales tracked. So now there are people who

0:28:03.320 --> 0:28:06.000
<v Speaker 2>doing stuff back door. We know that that's just what happens.

0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:08.520
<v Speaker 2>But I never I never did. I did everything above

0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:11.600
<v Speaker 2>board and got screwed twice. I don't want to say fuck,

0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:14.800
<v Speaker 2>but got screwed twice. It's a lot, and people don't

0:28:15.280 --> 0:28:18.280
<v Speaker 2>People aren't giving the game. People aren't sharing what they're

0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:20.880
<v Speaker 2>going through, so we don't all bump our head, Like

0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:22.800
<v Speaker 2>I went through a lot, and I think other people

0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:24.240
<v Speaker 2>should know what I was going through so they don't

0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:25.480
<v Speaker 2>have to go through that, you know what I mean?

0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:29.399
<v Speaker 1>So is there a way to make the money and

0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:32.960
<v Speaker 1>kind of hide the money? Like how are they knowing

0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:35.399
<v Speaker 1>how much weed you're purchasing and how much profit you're

0:28:35.400 --> 0:28:36.000
<v Speaker 1>supposed to make?

0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:38.280
<v Speaker 2>So they don't it's not about profit for them. They

0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:38.680
<v Speaker 2>don't care.

0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:41.320
<v Speaker 1>Like no, I'm just saying, like how when it comes

0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:44.560
<v Speaker 1>to the taxes, the taxes that every entrepreneurs, Yes, yes,

0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:47.400
<v Speaker 1>it can actually make it a business quite profitable if

0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:49.720
<v Speaker 1>you know how to work taxes, right. So I'm saying,

0:28:49.840 --> 0:28:53.520
<v Speaker 1>if you don't get any tax right off, the next

0:28:53.600 --> 0:28:57.959
<v Speaker 1>thing I would do is just an entrepreneur would be

0:28:58.000 --> 0:28:59.640
<v Speaker 1>done to have the money.

0:28:59.760 --> 0:29:01.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and that's what the people are doing.

0:29:01.640 --> 0:29:03.960
<v Speaker 1>And how but how are they able to do it?

0:29:04.080 --> 0:29:07.280
<v Speaker 2>Because because I'm thinking so, the way that they're able

0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:10.880
<v Speaker 2>to do it is because we're not federally legal. So

0:29:11.000 --> 0:29:12.640
<v Speaker 2>you can steal and I can say, hey, I'm going

0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:14.640
<v Speaker 2>to sue you. Where is that really going to go?

0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:17.320
<v Speaker 2>Because we're not fairly legal. You're gonna take me to

0:29:17.320 --> 0:29:19.600
<v Speaker 2>a federal court to sue me for money that you

0:29:19.720 --> 0:29:21.560
<v Speaker 2>claiming I stole from you. You got to prove it.

0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:23.280
<v Speaker 2>And then once you do prove it, we're still in

0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:26.480
<v Speaker 2>federal it's illegal. Like I've had people threatened lawsuits on

0:29:26.560 --> 0:29:28.200
<v Speaker 2>me that I was able to get null and void

0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:31.360
<v Speaker 2>just because it was fairly illegal. You got to know

0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:32.280
<v Speaker 2>your LLC. Right.

0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:36.680
<v Speaker 1>But I'm saying, like, if I have a license to

0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:40.400
<v Speaker 1>sell weed, right and I don't get any tax right off,

0:29:41.840 --> 0:29:45.720
<v Speaker 1>can I just buy the weed, sell the weed, keep

0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:47.640
<v Speaker 1>the cash, and report like ten percent?

0:29:48.400 --> 0:29:50.440
<v Speaker 2>Not legally you can do it. Illegally, you can do it.

0:29:52.000 --> 0:29:54.560
<v Speaker 1>Can I get caught. Oh yeah, how would they catch me?

0:29:55.200 --> 0:29:58.080
<v Speaker 1>M Now do they have a check and balance? Like

0:29:58.080 --> 0:30:00.360
<v Speaker 1>you buy weed from a federal spot. I don't know

0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:02.200
<v Speaker 1>where you buy the weak? Is there like a No,

0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:02.800
<v Speaker 1>that's the metric.

0:30:02.840 --> 0:30:04.880
<v Speaker 2>That's the metric. Thing I'm telling you talking about metric

0:30:05.120 --> 0:30:07.960
<v Speaker 2>is how everything is tracked. So if you buy it

0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:10.360
<v Speaker 2>from a legal place, it has to go through metric.

0:30:10.640 --> 0:30:12.640
<v Speaker 2>If you're not buying it through legal, it don't matter.

0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:14.360
<v Speaker 2>It's not on the radar. So you can do whatever

0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:14.680
<v Speaker 2>you want.

0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:17.600
<v Speaker 1>So why wouldn't a person that has a license not

0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:20.840
<v Speaker 1>by legal, Why wouldn't we buy it illegal because.

0:30:20.600 --> 0:30:22.200
<v Speaker 2>They had a license and they're trying to do it right.

0:30:24.080 --> 0:30:27.320
<v Speaker 2>But it hasn't worked for anybody, not like not like

0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:33.280
<v Speaker 2>it should because the overtaxation and we're overly regulated too,

0:30:33.560 --> 0:30:35.080
<v Speaker 2>like we like it's a lot.

0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:39.120
<v Speaker 1>I see a lot of dispensaries in Los Angeles. They'll

0:30:39.160 --> 0:30:41.880
<v Speaker 1>open and then within a year or two they shut down.

0:30:42.440 --> 0:30:44.680
<v Speaker 1>And then I just also see like when I do

0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:48.040
<v Speaker 1>because I do engage in edibles just for everyone that's curious.

0:30:48.200 --> 0:30:50.640
<v Speaker 1>I take edibles to go to sleep, and when I

0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:52.480
<v Speaker 1>hang out with a lot of mommies and we are

0:30:53.200 --> 0:30:56.080
<v Speaker 1>hanging out with our kids. I like to I like

0:30:56.160 --> 0:30:59.320
<v Speaker 1>to pass around edibles, Star Wars for you, Star Wars

0:30:59.320 --> 0:31:02.240
<v Speaker 1>for You. But when I do go into dispensaries, there's

0:31:02.280 --> 0:31:04.680
<v Speaker 1>like all these rules about you know, paying cash, there's

0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:11.480
<v Speaker 1>cameras everywhere, and then they're always getting shut down. But

0:31:11.600 --> 0:31:14.040
<v Speaker 1>I guess it's very tempting if they're putting all these

0:31:14.120 --> 0:31:17.320
<v Speaker 1>rules up, so even though you're doing it legally, to

0:31:18.240 --> 0:31:20.680
<v Speaker 1>kind of go back to doing it illegally right to survive.

0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:23.040
<v Speaker 2>And it's forced a lot of people to do that.

0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:25.800
<v Speaker 2>But people like us who want to do illegally and

0:31:25.880 --> 0:31:27.720
<v Speaker 2>want to show other people that we can do illegally,

0:31:27.800 --> 0:31:30.680
<v Speaker 2>it makes it hard because they're, like, like you said,

0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:33.320
<v Speaker 2>every time one opens, one closes. So what I've been

0:31:33.320 --> 0:31:36.080
<v Speaker 2>telling people is quit coming in the game to just

0:31:36.200 --> 0:31:39.400
<v Speaker 2>grow and sell weed. Growing and selling weed is what

0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:41.400
<v Speaker 2>you get taxed. You know, well, you can't get no

0:31:41.480 --> 0:31:44.960
<v Speaker 2>tax ride offs on. So how brought you them? Shirts? Merch?

0:31:45.960 --> 0:31:48.800
<v Speaker 2>Use merch to make your money, build brands with the merch,

0:31:48.920 --> 0:31:51.600
<v Speaker 2>sell candles, sell lighters, that type of stuff you can

0:31:51.640 --> 0:31:53.920
<v Speaker 2>get a regular tax ride off on, and you can

0:31:54.040 --> 0:31:56.840
<v Speaker 2>use that money to help your business. But just trying

0:31:56.840 --> 0:31:59.520
<v Speaker 2>to use the money from your cannabis business is going

0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:02.520
<v Speaker 2>to be hard to really make money unless you have

0:32:02.600 --> 0:32:04.480
<v Speaker 2>like fifteen twenty stores. You know what I mean?

0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:06.640
<v Speaker 1>Is that why Like when you go onto cannabis stores,

0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:09.200
<v Speaker 1>they sell like the little pipes and the little you.

0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:11.320
<v Speaker 2>Gotta have sundryes. You have to because that your.

0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:13.600
<v Speaker 1>But you can get you can get all right off

0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:14.000
<v Speaker 1>from that.

0:32:14.160 --> 0:32:16.840
<v Speaker 2>Yes you can, because it's not a cannabis product. It's

0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:19.600
<v Speaker 2>a necessary so you don't get taxed like that the

0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:20.800
<v Speaker 2>only way you're getting taxed.

0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:23.640
<v Speaker 1>You don't think all the places are onto that game

0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:27.960
<v Speaker 1>or yeah, everyone knows it, but not everyone's doing it.

0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, cause it's it's it's you got to have money

0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:32.440
<v Speaker 2>to do with. People are so focused on buying the

0:32:32.480 --> 0:32:34.760
<v Speaker 2>weed and buying other type of stuff for the stores

0:32:34.800 --> 0:32:36.760
<v Speaker 2>that kind of like slips their mind. I know the

0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:38.959
<v Speaker 2>value of having other things to sell. So it's like

0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:41.280
<v Speaker 2>now you can't. You gotta figure out other stuff to sell.

0:32:41.400 --> 0:32:43.440
<v Speaker 1>Now, Like when I go to some of these places

0:32:43.440 --> 0:32:47.320
<v Speaker 1>in LA which are phenomenally built, like you know, they

0:32:47.320 --> 0:32:50.440
<v Speaker 1>got the dog products and you know, now is that

0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:55.000
<v Speaker 1>considered that's considered legal? It's non federal federally problemly.

0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:57.840
<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, that's illegal, so a lot of people tend

0:32:57.840 --> 0:32:59.680
<v Speaker 2>to forget My kids. We talked about it too. My

0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:03.160
<v Speaker 2>oldest is twenty five, my youngest daughter is sixteen. They're

0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:06.120
<v Speaker 2>not really taught about checks and balances anymore in school.

0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:11.280
<v Speaker 2>California made cannabis legal like other states think it's thirty eight.

0:33:11.640 --> 0:33:16.040
<v Speaker 2>What California does is California business. The Feds could come

0:33:16.080 --> 0:33:17.960
<v Speaker 2>in and shut us down because we're not legal on

0:33:18.000 --> 0:33:20.960
<v Speaker 2>the Feds, but they're allowing the checks and balances to win,

0:33:21.200 --> 0:33:23.800
<v Speaker 2>so California can do whatever they want, So it's not

0:33:23.880 --> 0:33:26.200
<v Speaker 2>like the it would be the Feds have to be

0:33:26.200 --> 0:33:28.560
<v Speaker 2>being total assholes to come shut down everybody. You understand

0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:31.120
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. But as long as California approves it,

0:33:31.120 --> 0:33:33.120
<v Speaker 2>the Fedes kind of like are their hands are tied.

0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:36.560
<v Speaker 2>As long as you, I guess, ain't doing too much.

0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:38.000
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying, Stay off that radar, you

0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:39.840
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. And for me, it was just

0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:41.400
<v Speaker 2>like I said, it wasn't even the FED thing. It

0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:43.720
<v Speaker 2>was just within the city. It made no sense to

0:33:43.720 --> 0:33:46.200
<v Speaker 2>stay open. My store was located across from where the

0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:48.800
<v Speaker 2>A's and the Raiders and the Warriors used to play

0:33:49.240 --> 0:33:51.920
<v Speaker 2>all three of them teams are gone. What am I

0:33:51.960 --> 0:33:53.840
<v Speaker 2>open for? I lost fifty percent of my business just

0:33:53.840 --> 0:33:55.960
<v Speaker 2>when that happened. And that was before getting ribbed by

0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:56.920
<v Speaker 2>two sets of groups.

0:33:57.320 --> 0:34:00.320
<v Speaker 1>So between when you say robbed, like, oh, well, you're

0:34:00.360 --> 0:34:02.640
<v Speaker 1>not like robbed with guns, I mean these are your partners.

0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:04.440
<v Speaker 2>No, I have five of those robberies with guns. I

0:34:04.440 --> 0:34:05.880
<v Speaker 2>had a car through my store the last time they

0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:07.840
<v Speaker 2>robbed it. They rode a car through my store. And

0:34:07.880 --> 0:34:09.480
<v Speaker 2>then I got robbed by my partners twice. So I've

0:34:09.480 --> 0:34:13.719
<v Speaker 2>been robbed seven times total in six years.

0:34:14.520 --> 0:34:17.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's not that's me excited about that. That industry

0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:18.800
<v Speaker 1>is sounds stressful.

0:34:19.200 --> 0:34:20.000
<v Speaker 2>It's very stressful.

0:34:20.000 --> 0:34:21.719
<v Speaker 1>And do you have to find different ways of like

0:34:22.000 --> 0:34:23.600
<v Speaker 1>hiding your money in these robberies.

0:34:23.760 --> 0:34:25.719
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And because they don't even get any money, that's

0:34:25.760 --> 0:34:27.520
<v Speaker 2>the thing. The money is in the safe or already

0:34:27.560 --> 0:34:31.319
<v Speaker 2>been dropped. Most of the money is spent on me rebuilding,

0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:33.560
<v Speaker 2>and then when you apply for like your insurance claim,

0:34:34.080 --> 0:34:36.839
<v Speaker 2>you don't get nothing. So I'm basically the last two

0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:38.520
<v Speaker 2>times I broke I broke into I didn't even file

0:34:38.520 --> 0:34:41.680
<v Speaker 2>a claim. It didn't make no sense, and I think

0:34:41.719 --> 0:34:43.840
<v Speaker 2>I had like about forty thousand dollars worth of damage,

0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:46.600
<v Speaker 2>but it made no sense because the stuff that they

0:34:46.760 --> 0:34:49.879
<v Speaker 2>damaged is covered. But it's like so much you gotta

0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:52.200
<v Speaker 2>go through with it. And then my landlord, it's his bill.

0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:54.920
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say, the landlord. If anybody's making a

0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:57.040
<v Speaker 1>profit off these damages, is the landlord?

0:34:57.120 --> 0:34:57.400
<v Speaker 2>Yes?

0:34:57.840 --> 0:35:01.520
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Well, shoot, you better talk to celebrities gets you

0:35:01.560 --> 0:35:04.160
<v Speaker 1>a building? How hard is it to get a commercial building?

0:35:04.280 --> 0:35:06.359
<v Speaker 2>It's not hard. But I didn't know what I know now.

0:35:06.480 --> 0:35:08.520
<v Speaker 2>Had I known what I'm you know, going into this,

0:35:08.600 --> 0:35:12.120
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't even partner with them. But everything happens for

0:35:12.160 --> 0:35:14.080
<v Speaker 2>a reason and how it's supposed to happen. I needed

0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:16.680
<v Speaker 2>to go through that to learn what to do now.

0:35:17.480 --> 0:35:19.480
<v Speaker 2>Like I don't like, I don't hate the people that

0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:22.640
<v Speaker 2>did that, both parties. I don't have no negative ill

0:35:22.680 --> 0:35:25.360
<v Speaker 2>will toward them. They taught me a lot. They taught

0:35:25.360 --> 0:35:27.719
<v Speaker 2>me how to move like they move. I know more

0:35:27.719 --> 0:35:30.279
<v Speaker 2>about LLCs now, how to walk away from an LLC

0:35:30.480 --> 0:35:32.839
<v Speaker 2>or let an LLC bankrupt and what that looks like.

0:35:32.920 --> 0:35:35.480
<v Speaker 2>I understand that now. I know why they had fifteen

0:35:35.560 --> 0:35:37.840
<v Speaker 2>sixteen LLCs. I couldn't understand, like, why y'all got me

0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:41.040
<v Speaker 2>paying rent to this LLC and this LLC and this LLC.

0:35:41.560 --> 0:35:56.400
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I know, Now, what do you know from that?

0:35:56.800 --> 0:35:58.480
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Tell me.

0:35:59.400 --> 0:36:02.400
<v Speaker 2>When you have LLCs that literally stands for a limited

0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:05.840
<v Speaker 2>liability company, that means your liability to whatever debt or

0:36:05.880 --> 0:36:09.080
<v Speaker 2>whatever's going on with that business is limited based on

0:36:09.160 --> 0:36:11.880
<v Speaker 2>how you structured it. So when I came in with

0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:14.520
<v Speaker 2>my previous partners, that LLC and all that debt that

0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:17.160
<v Speaker 2>came along with it shouldn't have to travel with me

0:36:17.280 --> 0:36:20.240
<v Speaker 2>because it's limited liability. I had no clue that was stealing.

0:36:20.360 --> 0:36:22.520
<v Speaker 2>I can prove that I didn't know they were taking

0:36:22.520 --> 0:36:24.239
<v Speaker 2>the money. Why a y'all coming after me to truck

0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:25.680
<v Speaker 2>people were trying to come up to me and sue

0:36:25.719 --> 0:36:28.759
<v Speaker 2>me personally take my house off. I had nothing to

0:36:28.760 --> 0:36:31.720
<v Speaker 2>do with that. That's the purpose having a limit liability company.

0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:35.279
<v Speaker 2>It limits your liability. So once you know that, then

0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:38.000
<v Speaker 2>you start the bankruptcy process you go through that. That's

0:36:38.160 --> 0:36:39.960
<v Speaker 2>most of these people that don't look like us have

0:36:40.040 --> 0:36:42.520
<v Speaker 2>fifteen LLCs and they just left. Something goes on with one.

0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:44.279
<v Speaker 2>They watch it coming to me and.

0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:47.160
<v Speaker 1>Here I am my favorite corporation is an es court.

0:36:47.640 --> 0:36:49.799
<v Speaker 2>I love man. I love escort too.

0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:52.439
<v Speaker 1>I love now that's my favorite. People talk at LLC,

0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:55.719
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I've never had an LLC, but I like

0:36:55.840 --> 0:36:56.400
<v Speaker 1>an escort.

0:36:56.560 --> 0:36:59.080
<v Speaker 2>I do my LLC, but then with my other businesses

0:36:59.120 --> 0:37:00.960
<v Speaker 2>I found my escort. You know what I'm saying, but

0:37:01.040 --> 0:37:02.360
<v Speaker 2>that I can't do that with cannabis.

0:37:02.440 --> 0:37:05.200
<v Speaker 1>Can you share for everybody the difference between an LLC

0:37:05.239 --> 0:37:09.920
<v Speaker 1>and an escort. Okay, come on, educate us.

0:37:09.960 --> 0:37:14.680
<v Speaker 2>I know the difference. But for me, how I equated it.

0:37:14.880 --> 0:37:17.319
<v Speaker 2>It's all with tax filing. That's how I equated the

0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:20.399
<v Speaker 2>LLC you filed one way, the ESCORP you filed another way.

0:37:20.840 --> 0:37:23.760
<v Speaker 2>And it all depends on the money you made within

0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:26.960
<v Speaker 2>that year. But as far as like the definitions of

0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:29.320
<v Speaker 2>the es corp, I only have one comepan that's es Corporate.

0:37:29.320 --> 0:37:31.200
<v Speaker 2>My CPA handles it all. Get y'all a CPA.

0:37:31.719 --> 0:37:33.479
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I have a really good account and shout outs

0:37:33.480 --> 0:37:41.040
<v Speaker 1>to Robert Robert Hill. I like es corpse because I

0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:44.960
<v Speaker 1>can pull a salary yep, and then the profit from

0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:47.799
<v Speaker 1>the business can be added as an extra income, so

0:37:47.880 --> 0:37:51.279
<v Speaker 1>I'm allowed to basically have the benefits of write off

0:37:51.920 --> 0:37:56.960
<v Speaker 1>employment and profitability all in one scoop. So like when

0:37:56.960 --> 0:37:59.319
<v Speaker 1>it comes to buying an asset, it benefits me more,

0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:05.080
<v Speaker 1>Yes and LLCs. I just know that my accountants, whenever

0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:07.480
<v Speaker 1>my company's gross a certain amount of money, they're like, yo,

0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:12.120
<v Speaker 1>you're getting taxed at a higher rate versus the escorp.

0:38:12.200 --> 0:38:14.799
<v Speaker 1>You get taxed, you save a lot more money. So

0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:19.040
<v Speaker 1>but I never really understood the benefits. I just know

0:38:19.120 --> 0:38:21.480
<v Speaker 1>that every time, like maybe the first year, they'll be like,

0:38:21.840 --> 0:38:23.319
<v Speaker 1>you can, you can slide out the sea corp. But

0:38:23.360 --> 0:38:26.239
<v Speaker 1>as that company grows and revenues, do I get the

0:38:26.239 --> 0:38:31.080
<v Speaker 1>fork out of here and switch the escort. And it's

0:38:31.080 --> 0:38:34.080
<v Speaker 1>so crazy because I remember fighting my account on one

0:38:34.120 --> 0:38:36.799
<v Speaker 1>of my business for years because I thought it would

0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:38.680
<v Speaker 1>cost more money or it'd be like a whole bunch

0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:43.200
<v Speaker 1>of work. And all I had to do was say okay,

0:38:43.440 --> 0:38:46.400
<v Speaker 1>and he will just click a box and that's it.

0:38:46.480 --> 0:38:48.200
<v Speaker 1>And when I say, I lost a lot of money,

0:38:48.239 --> 0:38:50.520
<v Speaker 1>and I preach it to everyone that works for me

0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:52.279
<v Speaker 1>to turn into corporation, I can preach it. So I

0:38:52.280 --> 0:38:54.919
<v Speaker 1>turned purple. These guys will never do it. The day

0:38:54.960 --> 0:38:58.520
<v Speaker 1>they do it, though, I will be so happy. It's

0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:02.640
<v Speaker 1>a good thing. But but that's interesting, so hum.

0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:06.000
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not trying to I'm not trying to drag

0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:07.720
<v Speaker 2>on industry and tell y'all not to get in. It's

0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:11.720
<v Speaker 2>it's it's it's it's a new industry, so it's gonna

0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:12.520
<v Speaker 2>go through bumps.

0:39:12.600 --> 0:39:15.879
<v Speaker 1>Do you with the license? Can you grow your own weed?

0:39:16.239 --> 0:39:18.040
<v Speaker 2>So I don't have a grow license on purpose, but

0:39:18.040 --> 0:39:19.600
<v Speaker 2>I can get a grow license, Yes I can. I

0:39:19.640 --> 0:39:20.000
<v Speaker 2>can do that.

0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:22.560
<v Speaker 1>Why don't you have one on purpose? You're gonna get

0:39:22.600 --> 0:39:24.399
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people hitting you up, like, yo, let's

0:39:24.400 --> 0:39:25.319
<v Speaker 1>get into business together.

0:39:25.560 --> 0:39:28.839
<v Speaker 2>Because I'd rather I've grown weed for a long time,

0:39:28.880 --> 0:39:30.800
<v Speaker 2>but I don't have the desire to grow with anymore.

0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:32.920
<v Speaker 2>I'd rather, well, before I came out, I just went

0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:35.160
<v Speaker 2>and visit the farm. I'd rather buy weed from farms

0:39:35.200 --> 0:39:37.440
<v Speaker 2>that I trust and let them deal with that. They

0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:39.680
<v Speaker 2>gotta deal with the overhead, the maintenance, the growing. I

0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:41.200
<v Speaker 2>don't want to deal with that. No more. People don't

0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:43.920
<v Speaker 2>realize growing weed is a process and it takes a

0:39:43.960 --> 0:39:46.200
<v Speaker 2>lot of money and a lot of time, and if

0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:48.759
<v Speaker 2>you don't have neither, your product's not gonna be good.

0:39:48.840 --> 0:39:50.480
<v Speaker 2>So I just don't. I don't have the time or

0:39:50.520 --> 0:39:52.279
<v Speaker 2>the money to do it. I'm not a different place

0:39:52.320 --> 0:39:54.120
<v Speaker 2>in my life. I got grandkids. I don't want to

0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:54.480
<v Speaker 2>grow eat.

0:39:54.960 --> 0:39:57.399
<v Speaker 1>What's the profitability margins is when you buy it?

0:39:58.320 --> 0:40:00.719
<v Speaker 2>So for me, I'm speaking for for me. When I

0:40:00.760 --> 0:40:02.719
<v Speaker 2>buy weed, I try. I think of weed buying as

0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:06.840
<v Speaker 2>a cousinsumer as well as a you know owner. I

0:40:06.880 --> 0:40:08.560
<v Speaker 2>want to buy a good weed for a good price.

0:40:08.600 --> 0:40:10.319
<v Speaker 2>So when I buy weed, whatever you sell it to

0:40:10.360 --> 0:40:13.319
<v Speaker 2>me for. Some companies do like a two to three

0:40:13.400 --> 0:40:16.520
<v Speaker 2>hundred percent markup. I may do like a thirty percent markup.

0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:18.799
<v Speaker 2>So if I get it for fifteen, some companies will

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<v Speaker 2>sell it for forty five. That's enough for them to

0:40:20.600 --> 0:40:23.320
<v Speaker 2>buy another one, you know, make some money. Me personally,

0:40:23.360 --> 0:40:25.799
<v Speaker 2>I may do it for let's just say thirty thirty five,

0:40:26.040 --> 0:40:28.239
<v Speaker 2>as long as I got enough to rebuy and make

0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:29.000
<v Speaker 2>five dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>Why do you do that for me?

0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:33.319
<v Speaker 2>I want you to come back and buy more. So

0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:35.640
<v Speaker 2>if I'm cheaper, you're gonna come back and buy more.

0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:37.479
<v Speaker 2>Then if you just come back that one time, Okay,

0:40:37.520 --> 0:40:39.239
<v Speaker 2>Tucky gave me some weed. It was good. I spent

0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:41.160
<v Speaker 2>the high for it. But maybe I come back to

0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:43.200
<v Speaker 2>him just when I'm in town, just on the flute.

0:40:43.480 --> 0:40:45.440
<v Speaker 2>But if I'm giving to you that same good weed

0:40:45.480 --> 0:40:47.960
<v Speaker 2>for maybe four dollars cheaper, you're gonna come by it

0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:49.680
<v Speaker 2>from me, and it's not hurting me profit wise.

0:40:49.840 --> 0:40:51.840
<v Speaker 1>To me, you just remind me of that clip of

0:40:51.920 --> 0:40:54.040
<v Speaker 1>DC Young Clan eating while broke, where he's like this

0:40:54.200 --> 0:40:56.680
<v Speaker 1>somebody's step using this step on bo.

0:40:57.160 --> 0:40:58.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you, like in that shout out, DC, that's

0:40:58.960 --> 0:41:01.560
<v Speaker 2>family too, praise y'all. That's my guy. But like, no,

0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:05.280
<v Speaker 2>it's it's I approached legal like I did in the streets.

0:41:05.320 --> 0:41:07.960
<v Speaker 2>Everybody sells weed. What's going to make me different than you?

0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:09.080
<v Speaker 2>My price?

0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:12.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, I like that. I like that. That's exactly

0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:16.560
<v Speaker 1>what he That was. Literally, there's a clip they're talking

0:41:16.560 --> 0:41:19.560
<v Speaker 1>about I washed it. Yeah, it was a funny clip.

0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:21.880
<v Speaker 1>But he was like, yeah, man, that's rice.

0:41:21.880 --> 0:41:23.880
<v Speaker 2>That comes from the hustle's mentality. A lot of the

0:41:23.920 --> 0:41:27.200
<v Speaker 2>people that's in the space now never saw weed before ever,

0:41:27.400 --> 0:41:29.319
<v Speaker 2>so they don't get that. That's something I've been trying

0:41:29.360 --> 0:41:31.480
<v Speaker 2>to tell the city for the longest time. It's like, y'all,

0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:34.399
<v Speaker 2>if y'all will lower the taxes, we would sell more

0:41:34.480 --> 0:41:36.680
<v Speaker 2>product because the customers are coming in they seeing as

0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:38.799
<v Speaker 2>high tax it limits how much they want to buy.

0:41:38.920 --> 0:41:41.680
<v Speaker 2>But if the taxes is lowered, they would buy more

0:41:41.760 --> 0:41:44.120
<v Speaker 2>and y'all would get more tax money. But they don't.

0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:46.799
<v Speaker 2>They don't understand that. They don't they don't get it.

0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:50.319
<v Speaker 1>How do you choose your vendors as far as like edibles.

0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:53.120
<v Speaker 2>Testing them, Bring them in, let us test them, give

0:41:53.160 --> 0:41:55.200
<v Speaker 2>them to my staff, excuse me, let them test them,

0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:57.000
<v Speaker 2>make sure they're good, and then go from there.

0:41:57.000 --> 0:41:59.279
<v Speaker 1>It's pretty simple, like how do I qualify to be

0:41:59.280 --> 0:41:59.600
<v Speaker 1>a test?

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<v Speaker 2>What you want? What you need? I'll be selling home,

0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:05.360
<v Speaker 2>but you can't mail it.

0:42:05.440 --> 0:42:06.360
<v Speaker 1>You can't mail it to me?

0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:08.840
<v Speaker 2>Huh? I can mail you don't tell nobody.

0:42:08.840 --> 0:42:10.439
<v Speaker 1>It's okay because I mailed my mom edle.

0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:13.839
<v Speaker 2>I can mail a lot of stuff. You know, we'll

0:42:13.840 --> 0:42:14.200
<v Speaker 2>talk off.

0:42:14.560 --> 0:42:17.080
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, no, is that bad though? Can you mail edibles?

0:42:17.120 --> 0:42:19.560
<v Speaker 2>You can edibles, just don't tell nobody e mailing edibles.

0:42:20.840 --> 0:42:22.080
<v Speaker 2>If you're gonna mail.

0:42:22.000 --> 0:42:26.239
<v Speaker 1>Edibles, is it illegal to me?

0:42:26.440 --> 0:42:27.880
<v Speaker 2>You're not supposed to mail anything with T A C

0:42:27.960 --> 0:42:28.960
<v Speaker 2>in across state lines.

0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:31.520
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, so.

0:42:31.680 --> 0:42:34.399
<v Speaker 2>Cross state line. If you're in California and you're sending

0:42:34.480 --> 0:42:36.879
<v Speaker 2>somebody some edibles, put something else in it, like maybe

0:42:36.920 --> 0:42:38.759
<v Speaker 2>a candle or a lighter or a T shirt. You

0:42:38.800 --> 0:42:40.879
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying, mix it up. But if you're

0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:44.520
<v Speaker 2>you cannot ship t ac across state lines. It's illegal.

0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:48.239
<v Speaker 1>Just so you know everyone that when Tucky came, he

0:42:48.320 --> 0:42:53.320
<v Speaker 1>game gifts. I love gifts gifts. He gave me an edible,

0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:55.319
<v Speaker 1>he gave me a lighter, and he gave me a

0:42:55.480 --> 0:42:58.959
<v Speaker 1>really cool T shirt the evolution of the blunts, which

0:42:59.000 --> 0:43:01.960
<v Speaker 1>was really cool, which I'm going to ask for it

0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:06.000
<v Speaker 1>in black and white, probably gonna send them. You did

0:43:06.040 --> 0:43:08.600
<v Speaker 1>not know this, but God works so funny with me.

0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:11.760
<v Speaker 1>I needed a lighter for my house. This sounds really crazy,

0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:12.719
<v Speaker 1>and I don't know why.

0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:13.319
<v Speaker 2>God.

0:43:14.480 --> 0:43:16.520
<v Speaker 1>I was like, I have these like matches that are

0:43:16.520 --> 0:43:18.560
<v Speaker 1>busted at home and I keep going to my stove

0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:21.600
<v Speaker 1>and like relighting them to light the candles in my house.

0:43:22.120 --> 0:43:24.360
<v Speaker 1>And I was like, why is it that I just

0:43:24.400 --> 0:43:26.319
<v Speaker 1>can't remember to buy a lighter even know where to

0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:29.600
<v Speaker 1>buy a lighter from, But you handed me a lighter?

0:43:30.640 --> 0:43:33.080
<v Speaker 1>Is that crazy? Like that, just the most random things

0:43:33.120 --> 0:43:35.520
<v Speaker 1>will make somebody be like Yes, I needed.

0:43:35.200 --> 0:43:38.880
<v Speaker 2>This, I believe wholeheartedly. And like I said, I called

0:43:38.960 --> 0:43:42.440
<v Speaker 2>Hemley father yeahwah yahweh makes things happen when it's supposed

0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:44.080
<v Speaker 2>to happen. Even with just us, we've been talking for

0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:46.719
<v Speaker 2>a year. I could have been out here. It was

0:43:46.760 --> 0:43:48.920
<v Speaker 2>meant for me to come to day. You know what

0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:52.359
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, And I'm fine with that. Like everything that's

0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:54.920
<v Speaker 2>happened in my life, it's happened because it's supposed to

0:43:55.840 --> 0:43:58.480
<v Speaker 2>and I don't know that it's supposed to happen. I'm

0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:00.399
<v Speaker 2>just walking the path. Like I never thought getting called

0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:02.400
<v Speaker 2>for selling we was gonna leave me to open the store.

0:44:02.520 --> 0:44:05.680
<v Speaker 2>Like all the people I've met since then met you

0:44:05.760 --> 0:44:08.600
<v Speaker 2>because of that, you know what I'm saying, So I

0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:10.359
<v Speaker 2>take it for what it is. It's just like I'm

0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:12.200
<v Speaker 2>walking my path and I got to do whatever I

0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:14.799
<v Speaker 2>can while I'm here to keep that path straight. That's

0:44:14.800 --> 0:44:16.560
<v Speaker 2>why I don't believe in like negative like all that

0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:18.840
<v Speaker 2>arguing and all that I don't live there. Me and

0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:21.480
<v Speaker 2>my wife could argue and I'm hugging her five minutes later.

0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:23.239
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. I love that, I don't

0:44:23.320 --> 0:44:25.600
<v Speaker 2>I'd rather visit Anger, but I don't want to live there.

0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:30.120
<v Speaker 1>And then have you considered being a week consultant. Well

0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:35.040
<v Speaker 1>you are. I was emailing your consultants. So how do

0:44:35.080 --> 0:44:37.680
<v Speaker 1>people go about reaching you for that? And what services

0:44:37.719 --> 0:44:39.279
<v Speaker 1>do you provide as a we consult I.

0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:41.520
<v Speaker 2>Tell everybody to hit me on ig to start first,

0:44:42.000 --> 0:44:43.640
<v Speaker 2>just because it's a lot of weird though. I don't

0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:45.080
<v Speaker 2>want to give you my email on my phone numbers.

0:44:45.080 --> 0:44:46.920
<v Speaker 2>I want to know kind of people call me. But

0:44:46.960 --> 0:44:49.440
<v Speaker 2>I offer everything. I do a full course where I

0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:52.200
<v Speaker 2>do an intro to cannabis where it's like just the

0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:54.600
<v Speaker 2>business of cannabis, but then I also do an intro

0:44:54.800 --> 0:44:57.080
<v Speaker 2>to like growing techniques, and I do all the way

0:44:57.120 --> 0:45:00.000
<v Speaker 2>up to advance shout out our hearing and our hearings.

0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:03.240
<v Speaker 2>That is how I started teaching. He had a company

0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:05.080
<v Speaker 2>called the Herington Institute and he hired me as a

0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:07.880
<v Speaker 2>teacher and I was like, all right, cool, let me

0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:10.000
<v Speaker 2>do it. And I loved it. I was like, man,

0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:13.319
<v Speaker 2>it's amazing. So I just took my curriculum that I

0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:16.360
<v Speaker 2>had with them, made it for me and now I

0:45:16.400 --> 0:45:17.359
<v Speaker 2>teach students with it.

0:45:17.680 --> 0:45:20.080
<v Speaker 1>And you teach people with a license or without, with or.

0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:23.799
<v Speaker 2>Without, and I do it too. I'm probably different than

0:45:23.800 --> 0:45:26.399
<v Speaker 2>anybody else because I allowed them to tell me what

0:45:26.480 --> 0:45:28.920
<v Speaker 2>they want. So I have maybe I take four students

0:45:28.960 --> 0:45:31.040
<v Speaker 2>at the time, and I'll have them tell me what

0:45:31.040 --> 0:45:33.000
<v Speaker 2>it is you want to know about cannibis, what is

0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:35.040
<v Speaker 2>it that you're trying to do, what you're trying to achieve,

0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:37.960
<v Speaker 2>and then I guide my teaching for those six weeks

0:45:38.840 --> 0:45:42.520
<v Speaker 2>for that and after that they give full access to me,

0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:45.120
<v Speaker 2>full access to my black book. Any connections that I have,

0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:47.640
<v Speaker 2>I share with them. All of my students are still

0:45:47.640 --> 0:45:52.000
<v Speaker 2>my friends, Like I see myt different conferences, two of them,

0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:54.640
<v Speaker 2>three of my I've had eight students total. Three of

0:45:54.680 --> 0:46:00.800
<v Speaker 2>them are gms at dispensaries now, three of them are

0:46:02.600 --> 0:46:05.280
<v Speaker 2>budtenders at dispensaries. One of them is even the cannabis

0:46:05.320 --> 0:46:07.480
<v Speaker 2>field at all. He realized that it wasn't what he

0:46:07.520 --> 0:46:10.520
<v Speaker 2>wanted to do, so he's doing ancillary stuff for cannabis

0:46:10.560 --> 0:46:13.839
<v Speaker 2>businesses and he's eating. He called me all the time, like, man,

0:46:13.880 --> 0:46:15.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm so glad you changed because he went to open

0:46:15.440 --> 0:46:17.880
<v Speaker 2>the store like and I wasn't trying to change his mind.

0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:21.080
<v Speaker 2>But I want to be real educated. If you don't

0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:23.360
<v Speaker 2>know about to adye, there's no reason for you to

0:46:23.400 --> 0:46:25.000
<v Speaker 2>jump into this trying to grow and sell eating.

0:46:25.520 --> 0:46:29.440
<v Speaker 1>Now do you assist people in the paperwork to get

0:46:29.440 --> 0:46:31.520
<v Speaker 1>a license or how hard is it to get a license?

0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:34.160
<v Speaker 2>So getting a license is pretty easy. The city now

0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:37.279
<v Speaker 2>has stuff set up to help people with applying for it.

0:46:37.640 --> 0:46:40.160
<v Speaker 2>So if people want to have me help them do that,

0:46:40.280 --> 0:46:42.680
<v Speaker 2>I will, but I would prefer them to go through

0:46:42.719 --> 0:46:47.080
<v Speaker 2>the city that they're in because every city has different requirements.

0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:48.960
<v Speaker 2>So if you come to me you're from Oakland, I

0:46:49.000 --> 0:46:50.680
<v Speaker 2>can help you with the requirements, but I can't help

0:46:50.760 --> 0:46:53.680
<v Speaker 2>them from LA because I don't know their requirements. You'd

0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:54.640
<v Speaker 2>have to do the research on.

0:46:54.760 --> 0:46:59.960
<v Speaker 1>That, because now are you able to do those? City nonprofit?

0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:03.040
<v Speaker 1>Because I know every so I know in Los Angeles

0:47:03.080 --> 0:47:06.200
<v Speaker 1>we have like economic development centers, we have business source centers.

0:47:06.640 --> 0:47:09.239
<v Speaker 1>If you're in Los Angeles and you are not familiar,

0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:14.160
<v Speaker 1>but the city of Los Angeles really supports entrepreneurs. They

0:47:14.200 --> 0:47:16.200
<v Speaker 1>have right now. We have a legacy grant. If you've

0:47:16.239 --> 0:47:19.439
<v Speaker 1>been in business for over twenty years, there's a twenty

0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:23.920
<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars grant being clear and the city business source

0:47:23.960 --> 0:47:27.120
<v Speaker 1>centers locally will help you put together that paperwork. You

0:47:27.120 --> 0:47:28.759
<v Speaker 1>don't even have to struggle on your own. It will

0:47:28.760 --> 0:47:33.000
<v Speaker 1>probably help you actually get it. Will They also help

0:47:33.040 --> 0:47:35.560
<v Speaker 1>you with your DBAs, your escorps. They even have grants

0:47:35.600 --> 0:47:38.759
<v Speaker 1>for immigrants out right now in LA where if you

0:47:39.080 --> 0:47:42.200
<v Speaker 1>are an immigrant or you have various to entry and employment,

0:47:42.280 --> 0:47:45.719
<v Speaker 1>you can get ten thousand dollars grant for us a

0:47:45.840 --> 0:47:48.040
<v Speaker 1>legalized streetcart. They help you with your permits and everything.

0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:49.799
<v Speaker 1>LA definitely does it.

0:47:49.920 --> 0:47:52.480
<v Speaker 2>Just Oakland, Oakland things they have those type of things.

0:47:52.520 --> 0:47:55.200
<v Speaker 2>That was crazy, is most of my money last year

0:47:55.200 --> 0:47:57.200
<v Speaker 2>I made was from grant's. Ninety nine percent of money

0:47:57.200 --> 0:47:59.839
<v Speaker 2>I made last year is from grants, just from knowing

0:47:59.840 --> 0:48:01.760
<v Speaker 2>how to apply for them. But that's something I've learned.

0:48:02.160 --> 0:48:05.200
<v Speaker 2>Those are things that we we tend not to know

0:48:05.280 --> 0:48:08.520
<v Speaker 2>where the money is. It's a grand fund everything. You

0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:09.600
<v Speaker 2>just got to know where to find them.

0:48:09.640 --> 0:48:11.600
<v Speaker 1>Now do you get help to apply for your grants?

0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:12.640
<v Speaker 1>So you just do it on your own?

0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:15.400
<v Speaker 2>So I have I have a grant writer on my team.

0:48:15.719 --> 0:48:17.880
<v Speaker 1>Give a grant writer on your team. That's interesting.

0:48:17.920 --> 0:48:19.480
<v Speaker 2>I have a grand writer on my team. But then

0:48:20.480 --> 0:48:24.040
<v Speaker 2>cheat code is what's that thing called the AI theme

0:48:24.520 --> 0:48:28.120
<v Speaker 2>chat GBT. That's the best grant writer you're gonna find. Really,

0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:32.120
<v Speaker 2>what get the pay that twenty dollars a month and

0:48:32.160 --> 0:48:33.920
<v Speaker 2>get that in this game I got from somebody else

0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:36.640
<v Speaker 2>within the last six months. When I say my proposals

0:48:36.640 --> 0:48:38.960
<v Speaker 2>have been amazing, you just tell it what you wanted

0:48:38.960 --> 0:48:42.399
<v Speaker 2>to do and how you're trying to propose it. I'm

0:48:42.400 --> 0:48:44.520
<v Speaker 2>trying to tell you, I damnifire, my grand writer. I'm like,

0:48:44.560 --> 0:48:45.920
<v Speaker 2>what am I using you for? He talking about, Well,

0:48:45.960 --> 0:48:49.919
<v Speaker 2>that's what I use you chat GBT, I said, you bastards.

0:48:50.200 --> 0:48:52.440
<v Speaker 1>Oh my goodness. Let me tell you something. Chat GBT

0:48:52.760 --> 0:48:57.319
<v Speaker 1>is a great investment. I if you it's weird. I

0:48:57.360 --> 0:49:00.640
<v Speaker 1>have like a love hate personality. Like you, you love me,

0:49:01.400 --> 0:49:04.400
<v Speaker 1>but you also can hate me easily because some people

0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:07.480
<v Speaker 1>consider me me mean because I'm like my homie says,

0:49:07.520 --> 0:49:09.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm mean with the eyes. That's what it is.

0:49:10.040 --> 0:49:11.960
<v Speaker 2>Everybody. She's the sweetest person on earth, so I know.

0:49:12.719 --> 0:49:15.320
<v Speaker 1>But but what I do is sometimes when I'm sending

0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:18.319
<v Speaker 1>an email and I need something important, of course my

0:49:18.440 --> 0:49:20.719
<v Speaker 1>original email will be like yo, where is it at?

0:49:20.840 --> 0:49:22.680
<v Speaker 1>Or give it to me, like why are you late? Whatever?

0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:25.960
<v Speaker 1>I'll literally type that and say make it nice and

0:49:26.040 --> 0:49:30.440
<v Speaker 1>chatchy be what. I literally will write, what my email

0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:35.400
<v Speaker 1>is this EBT and make this like I was, edit

0:49:35.520 --> 0:49:38.520
<v Speaker 1>this and I'll be going off like my and I'll

0:49:38.600 --> 0:49:42.040
<v Speaker 1>be ready to press in, and I go, oh, don't pressent.

0:49:42.239 --> 0:49:44.680
<v Speaker 1>Take everything you wrote, put it in chat GPT and

0:49:44.719 --> 0:49:47.560
<v Speaker 1>I'll be like making business professional. Make it nice, make

0:49:47.600 --> 0:49:51.560
<v Speaker 1>it warm, man, and it'll say exactly what I wanted

0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:54.040
<v Speaker 1>to say, but with like a cheerry and a smile.

0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:57.680
<v Speaker 2>Yes, very nice. Is that crazy man that thing? When

0:49:57.680 --> 0:49:59.480
<v Speaker 2>he told me that, I said, man, that's some free game.

0:49:59.520 --> 0:50:01.400
<v Speaker 2>I spent that twenty every month. It don't bother me.

0:50:01.560 --> 0:50:03.680
<v Speaker 1>It is great. But it's also free game for everyone

0:50:03.719 --> 0:50:05.760
<v Speaker 1>out there. We did not know that applying for grants

0:50:05.800 --> 0:50:07.600
<v Speaker 1>you could totally use chat gypt. That is the best

0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:09.960
<v Speaker 1>kept secret there. And it's cool because you could take

0:50:10.040 --> 0:50:12.040
<v Speaker 1>what the grant requirement is and probably just.

0:50:12.000 --> 0:50:15.000
<v Speaker 2>Copy aja it literally, It's like it makes it so

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<v Speaker 2>like and chat GPT.

0:50:17.480 --> 0:50:19.319
<v Speaker 1>What I noticed is it keeps a log of your

0:50:19.320 --> 0:50:22.960
<v Speaker 1>stuff because sometimes cheat code. I know a lot of

0:50:23.000 --> 0:50:26.240
<v Speaker 1>people people have different theories on how I get guests

0:50:26.239 --> 0:50:30.279
<v Speaker 1>on the show, but every once in a while I

0:50:30.320 --> 0:50:33.560
<v Speaker 1>will have to redraft an email for requesting a guest.

0:50:33.719 --> 0:50:36.360
<v Speaker 1>And chat GBT knows so much about eating while broke

0:50:36.400 --> 0:50:39.799
<v Speaker 1>that I don't even have to like retype all stuff.

0:50:39.880 --> 0:50:43.400
<v Speaker 1>Chat GBT will like do my whole request and know

0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:46.440
<v Speaker 1>everything about eating while broke. I don't know how, and

0:50:46.480 --> 0:50:49.640
<v Speaker 1>I could be like, well, just send this request to

0:50:49.840 --> 0:50:52.880
<v Speaker 1>you know whoever, and they'll do the whole thing and

0:50:53.080 --> 0:50:53.719
<v Speaker 1>I'll tweak it.

0:50:53.640 --> 0:50:57.360
<v Speaker 2>Of course, you know, because you know it. Chat GBT

0:50:57.640 --> 0:51:01.239
<v Speaker 2>will also send you down the the rabbit hole too

0:51:01.239 --> 0:51:03.080
<v Speaker 2>if you ain't paying attention, Like if you ask it

0:51:03.320 --> 0:51:06.840
<v Speaker 2>too much and get too technical with it, it it

0:51:06.960 --> 0:51:09.360
<v Speaker 2>special stuff out you'll be like what, But if you

0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:10.680
<v Speaker 2>just give it the key.

0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:13.319
<v Speaker 1>Point, it's good. And a lot of people don't know

0:51:13.400 --> 0:51:18.640
<v Speaker 1>this about chat EPT. I don't know why we sound

0:51:18.680 --> 0:51:21.160
<v Speaker 1>like a damn chat g EPT commercial, but it works.

0:51:21.320 --> 0:51:25.800
<v Speaker 1>Giving game images, Oh man, let me tell you something.

0:51:26.239 --> 0:51:30.120
<v Speaker 1>I did my daughter' birthday party invitation. I did the

0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:32.880
<v Speaker 1>basic invitation, and of course it's still jinky because it

0:51:32.880 --> 0:51:35.400
<v Speaker 1>won't have like the letters right for the words right,

0:51:35.520 --> 0:51:38.799
<v Speaker 1>and then I'll go over and photoshop and just re

0:51:39.160 --> 0:51:42.160
<v Speaker 1>edit it so like even for logos, like I did

0:51:42.160 --> 0:51:45.960
<v Speaker 1>another company recently and I was I did like thirty

0:51:46.200 --> 0:51:48.800
<v Speaker 1>you know prompts, and I finally got the logo I wanted.

0:51:48.880 --> 0:51:51.520
<v Speaker 1>I said, hey, and people like I love that lugo.

0:51:51.560 --> 0:51:55.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, thank you cost me twenty dollars. Did you

0:51:55.600 --> 0:51:55.880
<v Speaker 1>know that?

0:51:56.160 --> 0:51:59.120
<v Speaker 2>Yes, my people that put me on a chat GPT

0:51:59.160 --> 0:52:02.799
<v Speaker 2>because I was still like AI whatever. We was in

0:52:02.840 --> 0:52:05.520
<v Speaker 2>the process of writing some grants and applying for some money,

0:52:05.680 --> 0:52:08.400
<v Speaker 2>and my proposal was a one. It was this stuff

0:52:08.440 --> 0:52:11.080
<v Speaker 2>I typed up myself and he was like, take that

0:52:11.120 --> 0:52:13.360
<v Speaker 2>same proposal and run through chat chyit beteam, watch what happens.

0:52:13.440 --> 0:52:14.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, what's wrong with this? Like it's nothing wrong

0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:17.560
<v Speaker 2>with it, but watch what happens, man, I said, Yeah,

0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:21.680
<v Speaker 2>I'm stuck. Instantly paid that twenty dollars. It would write there, I.

0:52:21.560 --> 0:52:24.160
<v Speaker 1>Have it, definitely, and I do it for like I said,

0:52:24.320 --> 0:52:28.080
<v Speaker 1>just because my tone, as my friends would say, have

0:52:28.160 --> 0:52:30.320
<v Speaker 1>me not. But my tone could come off a little

0:52:30.719 --> 0:52:34.920
<v Speaker 1>like crack, like cold, and so it sounds crazy. But

0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:38.040
<v Speaker 1>I take that extra minute to like just soft soften

0:52:38.120 --> 0:52:40.640
<v Speaker 1>my so I sound like a human being that doesn't

0:52:40.680 --> 0:52:41.120
<v Speaker 1>want to kill you.

0:52:41.239 --> 0:52:42.840
<v Speaker 2>I tell my wife that all the time, like babe,

0:52:42.880 --> 0:52:45.440
<v Speaker 2>retype that you cannot because I see her she fuman,

0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:49.120
<v Speaker 2>watch she tip. That's how I'm babe, You're typing to

0:52:49.160 --> 0:52:51.279
<v Speaker 2>the owner like of your company, of your whole. You

0:52:51.320 --> 0:52:54.000
<v Speaker 2>can't do that, like redo that. So, yeah, it's been

0:52:54.040 --> 0:52:54.920
<v Speaker 2>a great one.

0:52:54.880 --> 0:52:57.520
<v Speaker 1>Hundred percent in that person. And I'm like, right before

0:52:57.560 --> 0:53:01.480
<v Speaker 1>I present, because I have mentors. I am a strong person.

0:53:01.600 --> 0:53:05.439
<v Speaker 1>I love I love mentors, even though I will say

0:53:05.440 --> 0:53:07.520
<v Speaker 1>the older I get, the more I fight with them,

0:53:07.800 --> 0:53:09.920
<v Speaker 1>the more I'm like, I know what I'm talking about.

0:53:09.920 --> 0:53:11.239
<v Speaker 1>And then they check me and I'll be like, I

0:53:11.280 --> 0:53:14.160
<v Speaker 1>know an hour from now, a week from now, the

0:53:14.200 --> 0:53:16.280
<v Speaker 1>answer is going to be you're right and I'm wrong.

0:53:16.560 --> 0:53:20.279
<v Speaker 1>And I've bumped my head enough times to know that. Yeah,

0:53:20.320 --> 0:53:22.320
<v Speaker 1>I may have that quick clap back with my mentor

0:53:22.400 --> 0:53:24.520
<v Speaker 1>and they may even have a quick clap back with me, right,

0:53:25.200 --> 0:53:27.560
<v Speaker 1>but at the end of the day, I'm gonna sit

0:53:27.680 --> 0:53:30.719
<v Speaker 1>for an hour in that heat and I got to

0:53:30.760 --> 0:53:32.719
<v Speaker 1>kiss the pinky ring. That's you know, That's it.

0:53:33.120 --> 0:53:35.399
<v Speaker 2>That's growth though too, that's being a mature, a dope,

0:53:35.440 --> 0:53:37.319
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Like, I love to learn.

0:53:37.640 --> 0:53:39.960
<v Speaker 2>I feel like I can learn from anybody older, younger,

0:53:40.440 --> 0:53:42.479
<v Speaker 2>in between. It don't matter if you got something that's

0:53:42.719 --> 0:53:45.799
<v Speaker 2>a value. I need to listen. Listen, listen.

0:53:58.560 --> 0:54:01.600
<v Speaker 1>When you pivot and your business. Do you look at

0:54:01.600 --> 0:54:05.120
<v Speaker 1>it as a pivot or do you sometimes look at

0:54:05.160 --> 0:54:06.320
<v Speaker 1>it as you're settling.

0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:10.600
<v Speaker 2>So for me, I look at it as pivots because

0:54:10.719 --> 0:54:13.799
<v Speaker 2>for me, I don't settle for shit because I know

0:54:13.880 --> 0:54:16.680
<v Speaker 2>that like I got bills, like all my bills on

0:54:16.719 --> 0:54:18.080
<v Speaker 2>auto pay, so I gotta.

0:54:17.840 --> 0:54:20.640
<v Speaker 1>Figure out it's not like me we could be friends, that's.

0:54:20.600 --> 0:54:24.719
<v Speaker 2>That's perfectly fine, Like like you had. I have to

0:54:24.719 --> 0:54:27.880
<v Speaker 2>be able to make my money for my lifestyle, for

0:54:27.960 --> 0:54:30.600
<v Speaker 2>my kids, my grandkids, my wife. So now I don't

0:54:30.640 --> 0:54:32.800
<v Speaker 2>look at for me a pivot, especially in just life

0:54:32.800 --> 0:54:35.360
<v Speaker 2>in general. Pivots for me is like how can I

0:54:35.400 --> 0:54:38.839
<v Speaker 2>put it all my losses, I take a lessons, so

0:54:38.920 --> 0:54:40.279
<v Speaker 2>I don't look at it as a loss, as a

0:54:40.280 --> 0:54:42.320
<v Speaker 2>bad thing. I had to learn something from it, you

0:54:42.360 --> 0:54:44.040
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean? So where you learn from it?

0:54:44.080 --> 0:54:45.480
<v Speaker 2>How do you apply that to the next thing you're

0:54:45.480 --> 0:54:48.959
<v Speaker 2>finna do. I never thought cannabis was gonna last five

0:54:49.280 --> 0:54:51.360
<v Speaker 2>three years. On the legal side, I was able to

0:54:51.400 --> 0:54:53.560
<v Speaker 2>be in it six years running a good store, doing

0:54:53.600 --> 0:54:55.759
<v Speaker 2>a lot of good stuff for the community, like fuck

0:54:55.880 --> 0:54:59.040
<v Speaker 2>just selling weed. I had expudgement clinics at my store

0:54:59.040 --> 0:55:02.520
<v Speaker 2>for people who had case I've had what expensive bungement

0:55:02.560 --> 0:55:04.120
<v Speaker 2>clining like where they come in and help you get

0:55:04.160 --> 0:55:06.279
<v Speaker 2>your record clear. So I've had three those at my

0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:11.160
<v Speaker 2>store before I've had open Like I have multiple food

0:55:11.200 --> 0:55:13.200
<v Speaker 2>trucks come to my store and just set up and

0:55:13.280 --> 0:55:15.319
<v Speaker 2>just do food for the for the community. Like I'm

0:55:15.320 --> 0:55:18.440
<v Speaker 2>a big community person. That doesn't bother me. So it's like,

0:55:18.640 --> 0:55:20.440
<v Speaker 2>let me figure out ways to move around and do

0:55:20.440 --> 0:55:23.560
<v Speaker 2>what I need to do. But I don't. My pivots

0:55:24.120 --> 0:55:27.240
<v Speaker 2>have always been about growing, So it's just like, Okay,

0:55:27.239 --> 0:55:29.640
<v Speaker 2>it's not working, let me find out what do work

0:55:30.040 --> 0:55:31.920
<v Speaker 2>and get on it, Like I just do you.

0:55:31.960 --> 0:55:34.760
<v Speaker 1>Think that's like the secret behind being a great entrepreneur

0:55:34.800 --> 0:55:38.120
<v Speaker 1>is that pivot versus an l Like I feel what

0:55:39.800 --> 0:55:43.160
<v Speaker 1>the most the entrepreneurs that I respect the most are

0:55:43.200 --> 0:55:46.279
<v Speaker 1>the ones that pivot the best. For me, It's like

0:55:46.400 --> 0:55:49.399
<v Speaker 1>watching a sport, like it's not that I shut down

0:55:49.440 --> 0:55:52.080
<v Speaker 1>the company, it's that I pivoted into something that looked

0:55:52.120 --> 0:55:54.840
<v Speaker 1>like it was producing better results. Yes, that's all I

0:55:54.920 --> 0:55:57.160
<v Speaker 1>was wondering from your perspective, because to say like, hey,

0:55:57.719 --> 0:56:01.120
<v Speaker 1>you know I got into this industry. You know, for

0:56:01.160 --> 0:56:03.080
<v Speaker 1>whatever reason I got I got I got the license

0:56:03.120 --> 0:56:05.640
<v Speaker 1>everything worked in my favor. But I was able to say, Okay,

0:56:05.640 --> 0:56:08.640
<v Speaker 1>my store was getting robbed six times, this was happening.

0:56:08.719 --> 0:56:11.320
<v Speaker 1>Let me relook at the playing board, let me replay

0:56:11.320 --> 0:56:14.279
<v Speaker 1>the numbers. I'm losing fifty thousand dollars a month doing this, Well,

0:56:14.320 --> 0:56:18.200
<v Speaker 1>this makes the business more profitable. Yes, and it's I think.

0:56:18.320 --> 0:56:20.440
<v Speaker 1>On your first business, I know, at least for me,

0:56:21.200 --> 0:56:23.239
<v Speaker 1>I would be very emotional about it. Yeah, I'll be

0:56:23.280 --> 0:56:26.959
<v Speaker 1>crying and stuff. Like I told you that I don't

0:56:26.960 --> 0:56:29.920
<v Speaker 1>live it long. But my first company, it took me

0:56:29.960 --> 0:56:33.720
<v Speaker 1>about I would say, four years to do the full breakup.

0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:36.640
<v Speaker 1>But that's how I am. I guess in all because.

0:56:36.440 --> 0:56:38.719
<v Speaker 2>You got to. You think, for me, I could have

0:56:38.920 --> 0:56:41.680
<v Speaker 2>when the first partner did what they did and left,

0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:44.080
<v Speaker 2>I should have been done then, but I didn't know.

0:56:44.280 --> 0:56:47.399
<v Speaker 2>I'm still trying. I'm like, let's figure let's pivot, let's

0:56:47.400 --> 0:56:50.080
<v Speaker 2>figure something out. Because for me, I'm like, I see

0:56:50.080 --> 0:56:52.120
<v Speaker 2>what we're doing in the community, Okay, can get better.

0:56:52.520 --> 0:56:55.120
<v Speaker 2>We'll figure something out. I got back with them and

0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:57.040
<v Speaker 2>it was kind of it's the same thing all over again.

0:56:57.120 --> 0:57:00.719
<v Speaker 2>That tarnished me on working with other people. But at

0:57:00.719 --> 0:57:03.360
<v Speaker 2>the same time, it can't those are just two bad humans.

0:57:03.640 --> 0:57:06.080
<v Speaker 2>Everybody else not bad. Yeah, so I have to look

0:57:06.080 --> 0:57:07.920
<v Speaker 2>at it like they're like, no, you're gonna You're gonna

0:57:07.960 --> 0:57:09.920
<v Speaker 2>have to work with people along whatever journey you're on.

0:57:10.040 --> 0:57:11.279
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. That's just it is what

0:57:11.320 --> 0:57:13.759
<v Speaker 2>it is. But I just took like I said, I

0:57:13.760 --> 0:57:16.200
<v Speaker 2>took that loss as a lesson and use that lesson

0:57:16.200 --> 0:57:17.840
<v Speaker 2>to help me pivot to where I'm man now. Because

0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:19.560
<v Speaker 2>for the longest time, I was telling everybody at Mama,

0:57:19.640 --> 0:57:22.000
<v Speaker 2>get you a store, get you a store. It's it's

0:57:22.560 --> 0:57:24.920
<v Speaker 2>it's money and ownership in the space. But it was

0:57:24.920 --> 0:57:26.720
<v Speaker 2>the wrong type of ownership. I was telling him to

0:57:26.720 --> 0:57:29.040
<v Speaker 2>get that store ownership ain't always cracked up to be.

0:57:29.520 --> 0:57:32.160
<v Speaker 2>There's other ways to own in the space, and I'm

0:57:32.200 --> 0:57:34.800
<v Speaker 2>realizing that now and making sure I share that.

0:57:34.960 --> 0:57:37.600
<v Speaker 1>What are your top three favorite books as an entrepreneur?

0:57:38.160 --> 0:57:44.880
<v Speaker 2>Ooh, that is a good question. Rich Man poor Man

0:57:44.960 --> 0:57:46.680
<v Speaker 2>is when I always read and I haven't read a

0:57:46.680 --> 0:57:47.920
<v Speaker 2>long time to read again.

0:57:47.880 --> 0:57:48.640
<v Speaker 1>Rich Man poor Man?

0:57:48.680 --> 0:57:51.600
<v Speaker 2>Or rich Dad Poor Dad, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. That's

0:57:51.640 --> 0:57:51.960
<v Speaker 2>the one.

0:57:52.040 --> 0:57:53.880
<v Speaker 1>I was like, rich Man poor Man, I wonder what

0:57:53.960 --> 0:57:54.200
<v Speaker 1>is that?

0:57:54.200 --> 0:57:56.200
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's the one that's it's been a minute.

0:57:56.240 --> 0:57:57.040
<v Speaker 1>That's a long time.

0:57:57.040 --> 0:58:02.640
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let me see. Let me see books as an entrepreneur, what.

0:58:03.200 --> 0:58:06.200
<v Speaker 1>Books that really helped carry you through? Are you a

0:58:06.440 --> 0:58:07.040
<v Speaker 1>big readers?

0:58:07.080 --> 0:58:09.680
<v Speaker 2>I used to be a big reader, but now I'm

0:58:09.720 --> 0:58:13.600
<v Speaker 2>more of like a go, sit and ask type person,

0:58:14.080 --> 0:58:15.400
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, Like, let me meet with you,

0:58:15.440 --> 0:58:17.640
<v Speaker 2>let me pick your brain. If that's gonna cost me

0:58:17.680 --> 0:58:19.280
<v Speaker 2>your feed, let me pay that feed on one of

0:58:19.280 --> 0:58:21.040
<v Speaker 2>them kind of people Like I used to have time

0:58:21.080 --> 0:58:23.840
<v Speaker 2>to read, but now I need to actually do more reading.

0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:25.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm glad you actually brought that up. I talked about WFE.

0:58:25.760 --> 0:58:27.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't need to read some more. Not that I

0:58:27.120 --> 0:58:28.880
<v Speaker 2>don't read, but I don't really like I used to.

0:58:29.360 --> 0:58:31.560
<v Speaker 2>So I know the rich the rich dad poor dad

0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:33.960
<v Speaker 2>for sure, But other than that, I can't really think

0:58:34.000 --> 0:58:36.840
<v Speaker 2>of him because my entrepreneur game come from me being

0:58:36.880 --> 0:58:39.640
<v Speaker 2>around people and soaking up and taking notes and being

0:58:39.640 --> 0:58:42.280
<v Speaker 2>in the rooms with people and asking questions. That's why

0:58:42.320 --> 0:58:43.880
<v Speaker 2>I got a lot of my game.

0:58:43.920 --> 0:58:47.640
<v Speaker 1>Friend, I like that, but I I have to say,

0:58:47.720 --> 0:58:51.480
<v Speaker 1>I love to read. I love to read. There are

0:58:51.520 --> 0:58:53.960
<v Speaker 1>some books I'll definitely sidebar you and like send you

0:58:53.960 --> 0:58:56.400
<v Speaker 1>some books that I think really change the way I

0:58:56.440 --> 0:59:01.280
<v Speaker 1>do business, and like genuinely enjoyed reading please do. I

0:59:01.320 --> 0:59:03.120
<v Speaker 1>was just genuinely curious because I was like, maybe he

0:59:03.200 --> 0:59:04.240
<v Speaker 1>knows something that I don't know.

0:59:05.000 --> 0:59:08.360
<v Speaker 2>But it's a trip that the book learning and the

0:59:08.520 --> 0:59:12.240
<v Speaker 2>people learning it still is, you know what I mean,

0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:14.000
<v Speaker 2>because somebody had to write the book, A person had

0:59:14.040 --> 0:59:16.479
<v Speaker 2>to write it. So it's just I'm just big on learning,

0:59:16.640 --> 0:59:18.520
<v Speaker 2>and I can learn from let's just sitting here. I've

0:59:18.560 --> 0:59:20.720
<v Speaker 2>already learned stuff from you. I don't even know about it.

0:59:20.760 --> 0:59:22.280
<v Speaker 2>That's making me want to do more, you know what

0:59:22.320 --> 0:59:24.160
<v Speaker 2>I mean. I just made a post maybe about two

0:59:24.240 --> 0:59:26.760
<v Speaker 2>three weeks ago that I want to be around people

0:59:26.760 --> 0:59:28.880
<v Speaker 2>that make me better, that's making more money than me,

0:59:29.000 --> 0:59:31.520
<v Speaker 2>that's hustling harder than me, that's doing better than me. Like,

0:59:31.600 --> 0:59:33.439
<v Speaker 2>I want that because it's going to make me want

0:59:33.440 --> 0:59:36.320
<v Speaker 2>to do better hanging around people who's doing less. Not

0:59:36.360 --> 0:59:38.240
<v Speaker 2>that they're bad or anything, but we're not in the

0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:39.880
<v Speaker 2>same space, you know what I mean.

0:59:40.880 --> 0:59:44.240
<v Speaker 1>Eating while broke would not exist if at that period

0:59:44.240 --> 0:59:46.880
<v Speaker 1>in my life, I wasn't hanging out more with my

0:59:47.000 --> 0:59:51.880
<v Speaker 1>more successful friends. I noticed personally, for myself, I'm more

0:59:51.960 --> 0:59:55.880
<v Speaker 1>comfortable with the friends that aren't doing as well. But

0:59:56.040 --> 0:59:59.880
<v Speaker 1>when I get around my friends that are extremely successful,

1:00:00.120 --> 1:00:04.439
<v Speaker 1>I mean millionaires one, they don't treat me different at all.

1:00:04.560 --> 1:00:08.720
<v Speaker 1>But the conversation is different. The conversation is constantly about creating,

1:00:09.640 --> 1:00:12.040
<v Speaker 1>building the world that hasn't been seen yet, whether it's

1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:15.440
<v Speaker 1>planning a tree, building this building that. Like, the conversation

1:00:15.600 --> 1:00:18.320
<v Speaker 1>is different. And then the people at this other level,

1:00:18.840 --> 1:00:22.640
<v Speaker 1>the conversation is more sad to say, but like I

1:00:22.760 --> 1:00:25.680
<v Speaker 1>call it like trailer talk, like you know what girl

1:00:25.720 --> 1:00:28.120
<v Speaker 1>you're sleeping with, who's getting cheated on? Who who has this?

1:00:28.240 --> 1:00:31.120
<v Speaker 1>And who's doing that? And it's more gossipy versus like

1:00:31.240 --> 1:00:36.200
<v Speaker 1>we're trying. And then it's more like last minute content creation,

1:00:36.320 --> 1:00:38.880
<v Speaker 1>like oh I see social a YouTube page and I

1:00:38.920 --> 1:00:40.840
<v Speaker 1>heard they did that, so they'll do three poles and

1:00:40.960 --> 1:00:44.960
<v Speaker 1>for like three seconds. But the ones that are really successful,

1:00:45.000 --> 1:00:49.320
<v Speaker 1>you hang around them enough, it is damn well impossible

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<v Speaker 1>not to dream big. Yeah, and they dream big. They

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<v Speaker 1>dream like they been dreaming and all they dreams came true.

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<v Speaker 1>But in reality, you hang out with successful people enough,

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<v Speaker 1>we realize that they cry alone, they failed alone, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what I'm saying. They go through all that but

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<v Speaker 1>that that that consistency of I'm gonna keep throwing stuff

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<v Speaker 1>at the board and we'll see what sticks really works

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<v Speaker 1>with them. But I will say this, my best moments

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<v Speaker 1>are hanging around now that my other friends aren't fun times.

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<v Speaker 1>But my best like get up is if I'm surrounding

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<v Speaker 1>myself by people that are straight winners, like thoroughbreds. I

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<v Speaker 1>remember one time I had a low patch. This was

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<v Speaker 1>like a couple of years ago. One of my successful

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<v Speaker 1>friends sent me this like Instagram thing and it was

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<v Speaker 1>like a pack of dogs will walk running together and

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<v Speaker 1>one dog was weak, and it was like keep running

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<v Speaker 1>with us, You'll you'll catch up and you know, but

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<v Speaker 1>it was it was kind of like, yo, run with us,

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<v Speaker 1>like you know, don't We don't give a fuck where

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<v Speaker 1>you at. We don't care if you fall, you broke

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<v Speaker 1>your leg, continue to run with us, Wenn you're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>catch the speed or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>In the circles I want to be in, Like it's

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<v Speaker 2>nothing wrong. You got people grew up with that, you

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<v Speaker 2>grew apart from there's nothing wrong with that, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, Like I'm and I'm realizing that I'm

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<v Speaker 2>forty four. I finally realized that about thirty six thirty seven,

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<v Speaker 2>it's okay to have new friends, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>like a lot of like for example, Neo, I mean

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<v Speaker 2>Neo five years ago. That's my Pattner. Like we talked

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<v Speaker 2>just about regular can and stuff. Same thing with Slink.

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<v Speaker 2>A bunch of people who I've seen come on here. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that's he is one of the most viral. That is

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<v Speaker 2>the homes. Niggas know that. Niggas know your mama, come

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<v Speaker 2>on now.

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<v Speaker 1>Shout out to Slink sleep brother sleep Man talking about

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<v Speaker 1>how he had been up and down and up and down,

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<v Speaker 1>but he was the most impressive on the show with vulnerability.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he had like forty dollars in his pocket

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<v Speaker 1>at the time. But he had put out this We

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<v Speaker 1>had put out this clip of him saying like, yeah, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I took my wife to Maldives or my girl's mouth

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<v Speaker 1>beves and then I came home and was eating chili dogs.

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<v Speaker 1>Every day. I promise you that clip is shared. We

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<v Speaker 1>get the alerts on how many times it is shared consistently.

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<v Speaker 2>Back to Bank, He's not lying. I don't know, because

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<v Speaker 2>I know in personally he ain't lying. He literally went

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<v Speaker 2>I know her, know the old lady, know the kids.

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<v Speaker 2>They win, had a great time. He got back like

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<v Speaker 2>bro broken shit. She would funny. He SLINKs to cook

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<v Speaker 2>pies and stuff and like like you know, like we're hustlers. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he shared his story. It was really great. What

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<v Speaker 1>advice would you give to someone that doesn't have a license,

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<v Speaker 1>that does do that is in the business illegally and

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<v Speaker 1>wants to go legal or what advice would you give

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<v Speaker 1>him them? Period if they are doing it illegally and

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<v Speaker 1>that's what they feel they only.

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<v Speaker 2>Know right, most of us are like that, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, because that's so we know a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of people even know that this legal stuff is going on.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're interested in getting in the legal space, my

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<v Speaker 2>advice is find a me and suck up game. Do

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of research. Do as much research as you

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<v Speaker 2>can on your own, but find people in the space

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<v Speaker 2>that's in the space that's actually doing the work. Don't

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<v Speaker 2>get coined. Find somebody that's in the space doing the

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<v Speaker 2>work and work with them. Talk to them, ask them questions.

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<v Speaker 2>Getting these rooms, be willing to spend money to go

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<v Speaker 2>to some of these events, Like a lot of people

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<v Speaker 2>don't realize when I did eighty five sold, when I

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<v Speaker 2>did sway On, I'm doing eating while Bro, I'm paying

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<v Speaker 2>for myself to get here. That's money. That's like marketing

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<v Speaker 2>money to me. Be willing to spend money on yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of people in rap and just whatever don't

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<v Speaker 2>want to spend money on themselves, But you want somebody

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<v Speaker 2>to spend money on you, but you're not want to

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<v Speaker 2>spend no money in yourself. Be won't spend some money

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<v Speaker 2>on yourself. Be willing to put yourself in their rooms

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<v Speaker 2>and set yourself a budget to be able to go

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<v Speaker 2>do that. That's what would be my advice is getting

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<v Speaker 2>these rooms and talk to these people. So you got

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<v Speaker 2>to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Shout out to Tucky Blunt. You could find him on Instagram.

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<v Speaker 1>You are very nice, very approachable, So you guys don't

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<v Speaker 1>have to be out there all like well, I need

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<v Speaker 1>to address myself in a suit and approach me. He's

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<v Speaker 1>very approachable. We've been talking back and forth for like

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<v Speaker 1>a year about doing this episode, and so I'm saying

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<v Speaker 1>this sidebar, like, hey, you can literally reach out to him,

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<v Speaker 1>ask these questions on like what the next steps are,

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<v Speaker 1>full transparency. If he does have a consulting fee, that's great.

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<v Speaker 1>I would definitely recommend it. I mean, you want to

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<v Speaker 1>hire someone that's been in your shoes and that you

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<v Speaker 1>can feel comfortable being transparent with, you know, Like I

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<v Speaker 1>have a pastor, which I want to bring him on

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<v Speaker 1>the show. He doesn't know yet, but like I say

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<v Speaker 1>the craziest stuff in front of my pastor. But I

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<v Speaker 1>like that because I'm like, you know what, it's someone

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<v Speaker 1>that I can relate to. But that's walking the direction

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<v Speaker 1>that I want to go in. And that's the same

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<v Speaker 1>thing I would say to you guys, like if you're

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<v Speaker 1>interested in this business, you know, and then have you

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<v Speaker 1>made like millions of dollars doing this business or like, oh.

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<v Speaker 2>Well the business had made millions of dollars, but you

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<v Speaker 2>don't get to see it because you're paying all the

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<v Speaker 2>money in taxis and the staff and all the overhead.

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<v Speaker 2>So no, I never for six years, I never made

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<v Speaker 2>a profit. But also keep in mind I was being

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<v Speaker 2>stolen from so once I took over control September of

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<v Speaker 2>twenty three till March or twenty four when I closed,

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<v Speaker 2>I got to see actual, real numbers. Blunsymore could have

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<v Speaker 2>made money if we weren't being stolen from. I could

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<v Speaker 2>have made money, but I was being stolen from. It

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<v Speaker 2>was no way to get out from under it. They

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<v Speaker 2>were stealing money and then not paying the vendors. That's

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<v Speaker 2>a double whammy. So it's no way to come up

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<v Speaker 2>from under that. But it's definitely you can make money.

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<v Speaker 2>But the way to make the money in the legal

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<v Speaker 2>space is doing everything but selling weed. You got to

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<v Speaker 2>do everything else. You got to use that money from

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<v Speaker 2>the merch, from the parties, from whatever it is that

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<v Speaker 2>you do to make money. You need to I tell

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<v Speaker 2>people all the time, what can I do in the

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<v Speaker 2>weed space? Whatever you do in your normal nine to five,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever you do in your everyday space, bring that to weed.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a need for it. But everyone is just focused

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<v Speaker 2>on selling the weed. No one is focused on like

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<v Speaker 2>how you just said a lighter. Them ltders you can

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<v Speaker 2>get I don't know, I think it's like three hundred

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<v Speaker 2>and fifty of them. You can just sell those and

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<v Speaker 2>make money just off lighters. You can make trades, you

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<v Speaker 2>can make as trays, what ever, whatever you can use

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<v Speaker 2>that money to help facilitate And what.

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<v Speaker 1>About the vendors that are trying to get into the stores.

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<v Speaker 1>Like if say there's a pipe vendor or an ashtray vendor, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>how hard is it to get into these stores? Do

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<v Speaker 1>they just go into the store.

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<v Speaker 2>They need to go to the store, hollow the store

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<v Speaker 2>stores need that type of stuff. You know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>You just got to you gotta so they need us

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<v Speaker 1>and we just got to go. That's awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>I just choose to do my own stuff branded because

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<v Speaker 2>it's a brand recognition, you know what I'm saying. But

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<v Speaker 2>if you have a perfect example, Neo's Moms makes our

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<v Speaker 2>ass trays, I could have went and bought my own

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<v Speaker 2>blunts and more ass trays. She's making some, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>let me get them from you and put blunts some

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<v Speaker 2>more on them. So now I'm supporting a whole nother

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<v Speaker 2>business that's a black owned business that's putting stuff in

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<v Speaker 2>my black owned business, and I'm selling to my people

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<v Speaker 2>easy peasy, like it just just I don't know, it

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<v Speaker 2>just seems natural and it's easy to do. And she's

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<v Speaker 2>not touching the plant, so she don't have to worry

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<v Speaker 2>about the taxation. Wow, you know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 1>So do you hear it here? First, guys, can you

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<v Speaker 1>spell it out for everyone, all our listeners on how

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<v Speaker 1>to keep up with you, how to reach out with

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<v Speaker 1>reach out to you, Cameron, the center is all yours.

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<v Speaker 2>I am Tucky Blunt on everything. T U c K

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<v Speaker 2>Y B l U n T. Just be respectful when

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<v Speaker 2>you reach out. I'm super, super transparent and I'm Tucky

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<v Speaker 2>Bunt everywhere. Cybar. I appreciate you and what you're doing

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<v Speaker 2>for entrepreneurs. Because you wanted a rare podcasts where you'll

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<v Speaker 2>see stars, but you'll see a meet You know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. You don't really get that a lot. So

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<v Speaker 2>I appreciate you and what you're doing for people like me.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, well, it's all love. It's an honor to

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<v Speaker 1>have you. And like I said, my favorite guest, my

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<v Speaker 1>team knows, it's always gonna be a entrepreneur, always right

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<v Speaker 1>or died for y'all. Spam y'all, and I love the

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<v Speaker 1>spam Sam. I'm just genuinely curious. I'm hoping that is.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what's in spam. I just hope it's

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<v Speaker 1>not red meat.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's special parts and oh my.

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<v Speaker 1>God, sick assitation. Thank you guys for tuning in to

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<v Speaker 1>another episode of Eating While Broke. He's out