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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back to earlier Nicha l A Aditions

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Speaker 2: and the very special edition on Man.

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Speaker 3: It's the first time we've actually covered somebody on our

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Speaker 2: This is very special. Yeah, it's dope. It's dope, so

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Speaker 2: you know, give the introduction.

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Speaker 4: Al Harrington started as a basketball legend in our area

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Speaker 4: in Trackstate area, right change out of high school to

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Speaker 4: the to the league and had a great NBA career

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Speaker 4: and then is having even more success now in the

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Speaker 2: So he's a perfect guest for us because our show is, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, the.

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Speaker 5: Backstories of financial aspects of sports and entertainment for the

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Speaker 5: most of our business, but sports entertainment, right, a lot

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Speaker 5: of time people they look at NBA players, NFL plays, actors,

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Speaker 5: scenes on the financial side, right, and financial literacy is

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Speaker 5: something that you know is in the season right now,

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Speaker 5: especially in our culture. So it's encouraging to see our

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Speaker 5: that is because people are interested in sports entertainment, right.

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Speaker 3: The reason the success is really testament to how much

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Speaker 5: So yeah, so we wrote about I remember about our

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Speaker 5: early in our Instagram, like early on stages of Instagram,

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Speaker 5: and it was about you know, him starting a company

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Speaker 2: Blew up and you tell the story. But he he

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Speaker 5: Posts and he started following us, right, So that's so

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Speaker 5: we appreciate it. And then we spoke about him on

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Speaker 5: another podcast when we spoke about marijuana industry, and now

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Speaker 5: we got in here, so's it's it's full cerviuce, So

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Speaker 5: thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate thanks for having me, Fellows. I appreciate it. We

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Speaker 5: So all right, can you just give the people a

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Speaker 5: quick backstory I wrote, but I think it's a really

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Speaker 5: But you couldn't even do it in your names and

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Speaker 6: For me, which I was blessed because a lot of

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Speaker 6: So that's my inspiration. That's my story. That's how I

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Speaker 5: lot of guys. I even Kochie had spoken when he

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Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. So little things like that

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Speaker 2: Like they like you own. I want you, I want

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Speaker 2: So it's tough. But you know the good thing about

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Speaker 2: Keep getting better. To absolutely that's a game.

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Speaker 5: And it's important too because so I'm a financial or

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Speaker 5: Look like me, right, So a lot of this Some

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Speaker 5: But you really have to You can't the days of

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Speaker 3: Right. We want the article page about Chris Bobs R. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: About finance or telling you so do you never walked?

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Speaker 3: Like back to Chris Bosher's like his main focus is

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Speaker 2: That's the only thing in folks. And it's like, but

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Speaker 3: Almost as equally as important, right, like to say you

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Speaker 5: Well it's it's really, it's reality and put the thing

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Speaker 5: You you were fortunate when you had a second contract, right,

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Speaker 2: Now you're now you're really screwed and you're what twenty

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so all right, my whole life in front of me. Yeah, disasterous.

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Speaker 5: Know, especially like you said, in our community, right, Unfortunately

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Speaker 5: So now we're in a position where you can actually

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Speaker 2: A lot of times we don't have mentors. We figured

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Speaker 5: That's why we make so many mistakes exactly because there's

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Speaker 3: I think one of the things you like and what

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Speaker 2: I think that was dope. I was like one of

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Speaker 3: I was like, you said, make sure you're an expert

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Man, it's funny, bro like like you' said. Man, Like,

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Speaker 6: was just taking that same approach into the Cannibis centry.

436
00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:16,879
Speaker 6: So like you go back there, tell my office you

437
00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:18,320
Speaker 6: see it. I got a big plaque on my wall

438
00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,720
Speaker 6: and say, nobody with our workers. You know what I'm saying.

439
00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,080
Speaker 6: Like the reason why I played sixteen year was because

440
00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,199
Speaker 6: I swear every year because I remember my mindset as

441
00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,320
Speaker 6: a rookie. My mind said as a rookie was I

442
00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,240
Speaker 6: was looking at the older dudes and I'm like, I'm

443
00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,840
Speaker 6: taking hib getting that spot, like I gotta play. So

444
00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:35,560
Speaker 6: I always remember I was always in the back of

445
00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,480
Speaker 6: my mind as I got older in the league that

446
00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,560
Speaker 6: these rookies that's coming in and just trying to.

447
00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,800
Speaker 2: Take my minute, you know what I'm saying. So and

448
00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:43,400
Speaker 2: I take that same thing with cannabis.

449
00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,399
Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, Vayola may be popping or whatever, but

450
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,360
Speaker 6: like I don't sleep, you know, I don't sleep any

451
00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,600
Speaker 6: better at like you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm

452
00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,720
Speaker 6: still constantly thinking there's another black company coming behind me

453
00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,440
Speaker 6: that's gonna try to claim the things that I've done it,

454
00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:58,760
Speaker 6: or either just regular companies, you know what I'm saying.

455
00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,040
Speaker 2: So that's always my age. You know what I'm saying.

456
00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:02,280
Speaker 2: I always can constantly do that.

457
00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,760
Speaker 6: But to answer a question like what they've done, and

458
00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,639
Speaker 6: I mean the lawmakers and stuff like that, because they

459
00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:10,520
Speaker 6: have so many.

460
00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,880
Speaker 2: Different people influencing their decisions.

461
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,159
Speaker 6: Because the issue that we have in cannabis right now

462
00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,680
Speaker 6: is that the people that are actually writing the laws

463
00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,280
Speaker 6: don't have any business acting.

464
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,160
Speaker 2: They're just politicians.

465
00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,159
Speaker 6: So they writing these laws and putting these taxes and

466
00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,840
Speaker 6: all these different things, and they're killing the industry. You

467
00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:29,440
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, What I think they should have

468
00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,119
Speaker 6: did it. They should have went to some of the

469
00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,879
Speaker 6: people that were successful in the black market and used them.

470
00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,080
Speaker 6: That's consulting, because there was a thriving industry until y'all

471
00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:39,880
Speaker 6: stepped in, You understand what I'm saying.

472
00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,679
Speaker 2: So that's that piece. But why it's tough is this.

473
00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,639
Speaker 6: They're trying to monopolize the process, right And like what

474
00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,560
Speaker 6: you said, you know, our communities was you know, most

475
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,120
Speaker 6: impacting on drugs, eighty five percent are all black men.

476
00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,160
Speaker 6: Drug arrests on cannabis related You know what I'm saying,

477
00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,840
Speaker 6: and we have no representation in the industry right now,

478
00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 6: with me doing what I'm doing in a couple other people,

479
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,720
Speaker 6: you represent one percent in the enagry. Like that's ridiculous,

480
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,359
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. And it's tough for me

481
00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,639
Speaker 6: to sit here and tell somebody like, go do this

482
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,960
Speaker 6: to create ownership, because it's tough. It's like, you know,

483
00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,359
Speaker 6: you look in New Jersey, someplace that we're very familiar with,

484
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,840
Speaker 6: or even New York. You know, some of the requirements

485
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,600
Speaker 6: was like in New York, it was like we gotta

486
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Speaker 6: have like twenty twenty five years of experiencing farming or agriculture.

487
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:32,760
Speaker 2: I look, black person own land, not understand what I'm saying.

488
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,440
Speaker 6: New Jersey was you know, you had to show fifteen

489
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 6: to twenty million dollars in a workable capital part of

490
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Speaker 6: your application process.

491
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Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying. So what black person can

492
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Speaker 2: do that?

493
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Speaker 6: I'm like, even I struggle getting people to put up

494
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 6: money to have twenty in the account. You undertand what

495
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,359
Speaker 6: I'm saying, that's what all the resources I had. So

496
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,200
Speaker 6: just imagine somebody off the block. And I'm not saying

497
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Speaker 6: this is discouragure what I'm just trying to give you

498
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,879
Speaker 6: is just like what's going on, right, So how I

499
00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 6: look at it is like, you know, one of the

500
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Speaker 6: things I want to do is I want to start

501
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,959
Speaker 6: incubating or whatever for the for the black communities. Right.

502
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 6: So what I want to do is I want to

503
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,200
Speaker 6: get licensed in every state and I want to build

504
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,280
Speaker 6: facilities that are big enough that I can allow other

505
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Speaker 6: black entrepreneurs that want to get into the space of

506
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 6: an opportunity to come in perfect the crafts, whether they

507
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 6: want to make cbity, THAC waters, where they want to wait,

508
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,080
Speaker 6: THAC mints, whatever it is. I want to give them

509
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 6: a platform and licenses allow them to be created and

510
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Speaker 6: create products.

511
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Speaker 2: Right. That's one way that I feel like I can

512
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 2: include more black people, right. Yeah.

513
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Speaker 6: The other way is this and this is real because

514
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 6: my company right now, right, you know, I would like

515
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 6: to I wish I hired, I wish I had more

516
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,239
Speaker 6: black employees, right.

517
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 2: But I promise you when I put out these job opportunities.

518
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:50,879
Speaker 6: Online through uh you know all those yeah, all that stuff,

519
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 6: they don't apply. It's nobody applying, you know what I'm saying.

520
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 6: So and I can't figure out what jobs, like what

521
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 6: jobs are, whether it's you know, whether it's working in

522
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,880
Speaker 6: the front or in the grow being a grower, being

523
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 6: a packager. And this is this is gonna be my point.

524
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 6: You got to start somewhere. You got to put your

525
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 6: ego aside if you want to get into this industry.

526
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,880
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. I know so many people

527
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 6: bro I problem. So many people that have started off

528
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 6: as packagers that now own dispensaries.

529
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 2: They're not black, you understand what I'm saying.

530
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,160
Speaker 6: Like they went through that, They went through the whole process,

531
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Speaker 6: learn every part of the business, you know what I'm saying,

532
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 6: and then figure it out because at the end of

533
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Speaker 6: the day, what I will tell you is that if

534
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,160
Speaker 6: you do through that, you're gonna be valued with somebody.

535
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

536
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 6: I wish I could run to somebody that say, I packaged,

537
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 6: I'll grow out this, that and the third, Like I'm.

538
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 2: Hiring you a set.

539
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 6: That's all the experience I need because what because of

540
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 6: the way my company is kind of set up, you

541
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 6: wear multiple hats. You know what I'm saying, we kind

542
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 6: of eye attitude is like everybody do a little bit

543
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Speaker 6: of everything.

544
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, I don't have no problem

545
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 2: going to clean the.

546
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 6: Bathroom dead ass, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's

547
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 6: just how I operate when they see me going. Everybody know,

548
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 6: it's not been anybody to going that to operate like that,

549
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So, you know, so one

550
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 6: of the things is just I would just say, you know,

551
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 6: look at applying to get into the industry. Maybe you

552
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 6: can't get ownership right now out the gate, you know,

553
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 6: I would say that this industry is going to be.

554
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 2: Like liquor, where liquor has over forty thousand brands. You

555
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. It's gonna be the same thing

556
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 2: in cannabis.

557
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Speaker 6: So maybe right now in twenty nineteen or twenty twenty,

558
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 6: you don't get your ownership and something, But twenty twenty one,

559
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 6: it's always going to be opportunity because it's just gonna

560
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 6: be just like the liquor industry, have craft beers or

561
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 6: have all these different things. So I would just tell,

562
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Speaker 6: you know, all the entrepreneurs or people that want to

563
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 6: try to figure out how to get in, it's just

564
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 6: go get a job, man, get a job in the space.

565
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Speaker 3: You know what, I'm saying, you guys are File Extracts

566
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 3: operates from four states, right, California, Oregon, Michigan, and Colorado.

567
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 2: Yes.

568
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 3: So when you say like people are applying to do jobs,

569
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Speaker 3: like the farming would be in Oregon.

570
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 6: Farm, it would be in Oregon. So like, you know,

571
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 6: so my farm is like where it's at. I don't

572
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 6: think a lot of black people there. Yeah, that's just

573
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 6: because of the jar Recraft location, you know what I mean.

574
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 6: But in Colorado, yes, California for sure, Michigan one thousand.

575
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 2: Percent is that's your newest one missions on the It's

576
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 2: place or whatever.

577
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 6: So we opened up our retail in the next fifteen days,

578
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 6: so exit about that's our first retail operation. And it

579
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 6: goes back to what I was telling you, was like

580
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 6: I'm learning every part of the business. You know what

581
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 6: I'm saying. So I know all the cultivation, greenhouse, outdoor, indoor,

582
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 6: I know all the manufacturing methods.

583
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Now we're going to dive

584
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 2: into the retail part.

585
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 6: And you know and like and to my point that

586
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 6: I was just saying, like I wanted to do retail

587
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 6: five years ago, I wasn't ready.

588
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, but I built up, built

589
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 2: up to the.

590
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 6: Point where now we're ready and now we're opening up

591
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Speaker 6: the spot, you know what I'm saying, and it's going.

592
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 2: So how all right?

593
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Speaker 5: So as far as scaling the business right, because you

594
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 5: you started, I don't know exactly, like if you started

595
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 5: with a dispensard, like, what was what was the first

596
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 5: thing you actually started with.

597
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Speaker 2: I was just I was a caregiverer.

598
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Speaker 6: So what that means is, you know, if we're all

599
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Speaker 6: patients in Colorado or whatever, you would give me your

600
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 6: paperwork and I would grow when you were from twelve

601
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 6: to sixteen dollars for you, right, And when we first started,

602
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 6: we only had forty likes and it was in a

603
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 6: twelve thousand square foot building and all of our patients

604
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 6: either had HIV or cancer or whatever.

605
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 2: So we grew in them.

606
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 6: So we do you grow it, we will give them

607
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 6: a portion of it and the rest of them would

608
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 6: sell to the dispensers.

609
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 2: So what's your business model?

610
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Speaker 5: As far as sale to thee we had a restaurant

611
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 5: on on and he actually was a great interview. And

612
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 5: the thing is everybody might not be in the restaurant business,

613
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 5: but in my personal opinion. Business is business, So no

614
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 5: matter what, the key principles of scaling a business can

615
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 5: you apply to anything, right, And obviously you've you've been able.

616
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 5: That's what one of the things I'm really impressed about

617
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Speaker 5: is that you've been able to scale your business in

618
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Speaker 5: a very short period of time.

619
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Speaker 3: Right.

620
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Speaker 2: And like you said, like you didn't have a business background,

621
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Speaker 2: so a how were you able to do that?

622
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Speaker 5: And like what's your kind of business business model like

623
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 5: broad brains as far as like you know, looking at

624
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Speaker 5: opportunities scaling.

625
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 6: Like you know, yeah, So my biggest thing is, like

626
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 6: you know, my number one thing is to build a

627
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 6: good brand. You know what I'm saying. I feel like

628
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 6: once the brand is strong enough, you can take the

629
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 6: brand any you know what I'm saying. There's a couple

630
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 6: of examples of other brands that have sold to Canadian

631
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 6: LPs and different things like that that don't on any

632
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 6: of the supply chain. All they do is have a brand,

633
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:14,920
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. But what I'm trying to

634
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 6: do a vertically integrate my brand. It gives them more value,

635
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. What I've learned is that

636
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 6: you know, nobody is you know, like, ain't nobody gonna

637
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 6: treat your car the way you treat your partisans your car.

638
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 6: They getting they drop some. It ain't the same you're

639
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 6: getting it, you know what I'm saying. It's just that's

640
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 6: just life. That's just how I just realized that people

641
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 6: do things. So, you know, for us, the reason why

642
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 6: we get cultivation in every sea is because we have

643
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 6: a valuel away that we do things the way that

644
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 6: we grow the way the end product, you know what

645
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 6: I'm saying.

646
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Speaker 2: So that's the reason why.

647
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Speaker 6: For me, why you know, we continue to go stay

648
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 6: by state and acquirity licenses so that every time someone

649
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 6: opens up a BODYO package, they get an experience. You

650
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying that we control the experience because

651
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 6: we control the you know, the supply chain.

652
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 3: So Harrington Group, right, it has three things under the umbrella.

653
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 3: You have violas you got, uh is a baby butters

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Speaker 3: just viola yea uh butter baby baby, I'm sorry. And

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Speaker 3: then Harrington Wellness, which is our replay.

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Speaker 2: This is like a difference on the butter baby is

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Speaker 2: the edible they just walked into.

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Speaker 6: Yeah they yeah, so they make so they make butters

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Speaker 6: and coconut oil, they make olive oil. They all kind

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Speaker 6: of stuff that you can cook with and they have

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Speaker 6: vision and their messages that you know, a lot of

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Speaker 6: sick people can't eat edibles, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 6: because a lot of times people that have cancer where

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Speaker 6: they have diabetes, you know what I'm saying, So you

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Speaker 6: can't take all this sweet stuff trying to get the

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Speaker 6: benefits and you messing something else up. So their their

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Speaker 6: their mission is to be able to teach people how

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Speaker 6: to dosage and co midicate themselves through all natural foods.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and then the harrings and wellnesses. That's like the

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Speaker 2: oils of the creams. That's yeah, that's the CBD line.

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Speaker 6: So right now on that on Harrington Wellness, our first

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Speaker 6: product line is all people or whatever. It's really catered

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Speaker 6: towards recovery, pain relief. Wee can warrior athletes, you know

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Speaker 6: what I'm saying. So we have uh, we have cream

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Speaker 6: teacture capsules, and we have this little recovery shop.

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Speaker 2: It was like a five hour drink or whatever that

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Speaker 2: we take that we have as well, and you know

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Speaker 2: that is expanding.

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Speaker 6: So why you actually you know, sell those products is

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Speaker 8: Coach, the energy out there felt different. What changed for

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Speaker 8: the team today?

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Speaker 6: It was the new game day, scratches from the California

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Speaker 2: Those games sent the team's energy through the roof.

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Speaker 8: Are you saying it was the off field play that

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Speaker 8: made the difference on the field.

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Speaker 2: Hey, little play makes your day, and today it made

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Speaker 2: the game. That's all for now, Coach.

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Speaker 8: Peace May Responsibility must be eighteen years or older to

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Speaker 8: purchase plate or claim.

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Speaker 6: And then we also have a program where it was

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Speaker 6: like the Mary Kay whatever. So we allow on people

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Speaker 6: from the community and opportunity to be a part of

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Speaker 6: the brand.

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Speaker 2: To be able to sell products.

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Speaker 3: So I was reading when I think twenty twelve you

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Speaker 3: had the surgery on you need correct and the staff

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Speaker 3: infection and then trying to treat you like everything wasn't

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Speaker 3: working right and you were using a cream.

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Speaker 2: I was like, huh.

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Speaker 3: And then when I kept reading, I'm like, oh, okay.

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Speaker 3: And then from there then you start getting more guys.

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Speaker 3: Steve Kerr right, I'm gonna start using it. And then

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Speaker 3: you had this meeting with David Stern that churns. That's

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Speaker 3: a game changer.

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Speaker 2: It was a game changing man.

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Speaker 6: That that was crazy man, Like, I mean, I seen

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Speaker 6: him at this thing called a Milking Conference, which is

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Speaker 6: a conference they hold here in LA I think it's

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Speaker 6: like forty five hundred ticket just to come for three

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Speaker 6: days and just kind of learn about all different Industries

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Speaker 6: or whatever, and he was on He was on a

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Speaker 6: pay talking about the effect of esports on like the NBA,

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Speaker 6: NFL because the esports guys were saying like it's gonna

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Speaker 6: trump love sports, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: And he was on there and he was just talking,

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Speaker 2: you know, they was very witty, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: So he was up there talking circles around a lot

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Speaker 6: of people up there, him Robber Kraft was up there

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Speaker 6: that got from Univision or whatever. So after after they

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Speaker 6: got done, I just went up to him like, heaby,

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Speaker 6: what's up man? And uh, you know, his mind is crazy,

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Speaker 6: remembers everything, bro, Like you gotta think about. He's seen

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Speaker 6: over you know, two thousand players the least.

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Speaker 2: But when he sold me, its not like I was

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Speaker 2: Lebron or somebody. First thing, he said, how's your knee?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 5: My knie?

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Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. I never ever sat and

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Speaker 6: talked with him about it ever, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: He just shocked like that. So we started talking.

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Speaker 6: I think that was my way of telling him like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: actually okay, I actually was caim blah blah blah blah

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Speaker 6: his face and I started telling him what I was doing,

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Speaker 6: and he was just saying, you know, we don't smoke

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Speaker 6: all the product. It's real funny about it. I was like, hey,

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Speaker 6: you know, you get a chance. I want to sit

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Speaker 6: and talk with you about a couple of things. And

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Speaker 6: it took me like seven months to set up my

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Speaker 6: first menion with whatever. But he's so busy. I had

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Speaker 6: like a thirty minute times like talk to him right

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Speaker 6: like the lady from that was running the Sacramento Kings

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Speaker 6: was meeting after and he was in there for an

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Speaker 6: hour and a half. It was that interested in everything

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Speaker 6: that I was telling, you know what I'm saying, and

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Speaker 6: he's like, let's have another meeting Madigan. And then the

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Speaker 6: third time I met with him, I just asked him

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Speaker 6: and said, you mind if I just like interview you

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Speaker 6: on TV talking about that, and he said yes, and

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Speaker 6: you know what I had that It was so funny

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Speaker 6: because you know, he's an attorney, so it's kind of

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Speaker 6: hard trying to like trick him right, and you know

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Speaker 6: he's very calculated. He's not gonna say now, you know mean,

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Speaker 6: So when I was going through all the questions with

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Speaker 6: Mavick Carter or whatever, is you know, interrupted and helped

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Speaker 6: me put that together. We was trying to figure out

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Speaker 6: ways to kind of walk him down the road to say,

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Speaker 6: like the leak should just considered Yeah, the bitshoes and

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Speaker 6: literally my second question, bro, he said that. He was

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Speaker 6: just like, yeah, I have to talk to you. I

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Speaker 6: think they really should re evaluate the policies and this,

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Speaker 6: that and there. So I'm looking at everybody off camera

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Speaker 6: like what else you want?

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: But now I was cool man, and a lot of

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Speaker 6: people always say how much ownership did you give them

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Speaker 6: in your company?

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Speaker 2: Gave him nothing, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: He believe that that conversation could change, Like the way

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Speaker 3: Lee's look at it now like that, I feel like

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Speaker 3: that's super imployant.

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Speaker 2: I think I think it's uphill you.

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Speaker 5: You kind of know, like, Okay, the tide is turning, right,

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Speaker 5: So anybody that is intelligent, it's a fight that's not

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Speaker 5: worth fighting, right, even if you're not.

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Speaker 2: Pro marijuana, And you don't have to be pro marijuana

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Speaker 2: or eight or use it yourself, but.

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Speaker 5: It's really hard to be totally against it at this

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Speaker 5: point because it's a battle that eventually you're not gonna

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Speaker 5: win that back, right, So I think that when you

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Speaker 5: see David Sterning and you know the guys who go

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Speaker 5: there and tell that obviously intelligent people and they want

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Speaker 5: to be on the right side of history.

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Speaker 6: You gotta remember, man, I swear bro like you know,

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Speaker 6: it was so funny I first got done that. I

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Speaker 6: was so scared to tell you what I was doing, right,

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Speaker 6: just thinking of like how people do say yea. And

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Speaker 6: I mean since I was retired, I've been offered the

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Speaker 6: NBA jobs, don't coach, you know what I'm saying, I've

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Speaker 6: been offered TV jobs like nothing.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that they don't care, but it's like they're.

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Speaker 6: Starting to come around to realize and like all the

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Speaker 6: pharmaceutical stuff we're using, dog, like that's the real dangerous stuff.

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Speaker 6: Like we can sit here right now, came and smoke

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Speaker 6: for the next two weeks straight. I mean, back to back,

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Speaker 6: you edibles asleep. We gonna pass out, but I guarantee

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Speaker 6: you won't die. There's five pills. There's pills out here

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Speaker 6: in the world that they've given people that they give

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Speaker 6: a bottle of sixty and you could take five of

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Speaker 6: them and getting their hands on them, chot anything like that.

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Speaker 6: They take five in their death, So how do you

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Speaker 6: compare it to it?

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Speaker 2: Don't it makes sense? You know what I'm saying. And

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Speaker 2: I think that people are starting to really wake up, y'all.

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Speaker 6: We're not saying that, We're not saying that everybody should smoke,

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Speaker 6: We're not saying any of that.

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Speaker 2: Always saying is that it's an alternative way for people.

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Speaker 6: To medicate themselves without the highly addictive and the dangerous

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Speaker 6: from the suit and drugs that are being off.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: You look at these commercials and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 6: people are skipping and the commercials like side of things, internal.

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Speaker 2: Beating, give it on the beach, and they're still skipping.

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Speaker 2: I'm like that, you know what I'm saying. So it's

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Speaker 2: just like, you know, my own things.

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Speaker 6: I just feel like, man, sometimes man, it's just like

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Speaker 6: commaisense is not always coming, you know. But you know

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Speaker 6: the reason why I like the platform that I have

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Speaker 6: is that, you know, when I go to these seminars

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Speaker 6: and it is these doctors up there talking about fidal commanding.

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Speaker 2: Or is it this that?

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Speaker 6: And the third like you're talking to people that have

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Speaker 6: no idea what you gotta talk to you know what

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Speaker 6: I'm saying. You got talking to their language. And that's

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Speaker 6: what I've been able to do with other athletes and

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Speaker 6: other entertainers that are stepping out and being advocates. I

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Speaker 6: think that we are starting to humanize the plant in

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Speaker 6: the whole process in general.

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Speaker 2: That's that's dope, that's nope virus. And now we're gonna

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Speaker 2: go into all last.

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Speaker 5: Second and talking about the future of the marijuana industry

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Speaker 5: and company as well. All right, so now we're gonna

871
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Speaker 5: go into the future. But before we go into that,

872
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 5: because we like to paint the real picture of entrepreneurship.

873
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 5: I don't know if you watch like YouTube a lot,

874
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 5: but I do. And there's a lot of entrepreneur all

875
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 5: guys on YouTube, and they always they talking circles for

876
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 5: that you don't really know what they said, and it's

877
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 5: all motivational.

878
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 2: Like if you don't wake up in five ahead, you

879
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 2: know what I mean. But it's like, okay, but what

880
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 2: does that mean? You know what I'm saying. What the

881
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 2: good thing I like about you is that you actually

882
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 2: started a few businesses right at that.

883
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, So reading your portfolio was like, you've had businesses

884
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 3: that haven't succeeded though. Right at the date you at

885
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 3: the restaurant in Miami and you try a hotel in

886
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 3: New York City, upstate, upstate.

887
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 2: That way too far. You were talking about it's important

888
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 2: for people to understand that every business is not gone. Ye.

889
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 6: No, I mean most successful business people would tell you

890
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 6: they took hell a l before they were successful, you

891
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, Like, that's part of the process.

892
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: You just got to manage the loss. You understand what

893
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: I'm saying.

894
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 6: So you know, in the beginning, like I used to

895
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 6: be so like you could sell me on any idea,

896
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 6: any idea, you was passionate about it. I'm like, how

897
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 6: much shit we could do well? And I learned that

898
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 6: that's not what we operate, you know what I'm saying. So,

899
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 6: like the one operation was fully in the city. So

900
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 6: you know, Felipo on fifty ninth Street has been over

901
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 6: ten years, ten twelve. I think basket might put some

902
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 6: money up. I think you know what I'm saying. And

903
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 6: you know we in there every week.

904
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: It's cracking.

905
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 6: I'm like, in Miami, I gotta go ahead. What I

906
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 6: learned about Miami, Miami seasonal, that's true, saying. What I'm

907
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 6: saying people go down there during the winter. They don't

908
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 6: go down there during the summers. You understand what I'm saying.

909
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,720
Speaker 2: So I learned that. So now there's any Miami business

910
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 2: deals and it's food or all.

911
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 6: That kind of related or service I know now like

912
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 6: and now I know that about other places too, like

913
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 6: places it is a seasonal place.

914
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 2: You gotta know.

915
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 6: The hotel business. What happened with that I think was

916
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 6: more of just two thousand and eight happening is one

917
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 6: of the May investment. It's just everything that just crashed.

918
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. I think the concept was good.

919
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 6: I don't know how far upstate New York maybe, but

920
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 6: you know they had, like Jack Nicholson had signed going

921
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 6: to do the golf course. They had a hotel bed,

922
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 6: the hotel was the anchor, and then they were gonna

923
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 6: build homes around the golf course.

924
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 2: So you know that that model has.

925
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 6: Worked a lot of places. You know what I'm saying is,

926
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 6: you know, I know a project right now growing up

927
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 6: in Vegas like that. You know that model has worked.

928
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 6: So I say that deal right there didn't come in fruition.

929
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 6: I think more just because of the time. You know

930
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, I think the concept and everything was

931
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 6: actually right on. You know, Mariotte had just signed on

932
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 6: to manage the hotel, so you know, everything was coming

933
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 6: in place with that, but I took that out, you

934
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. And you know when I played

935
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 6: for the Knicks or right before when I was in

936
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 6: Golden State, I started the Protege, a sneaker line or

937
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 6: whatever that was going to be very successful, but I

938
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 6: had bad business partners, you know what I'm saying. So

939
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 6: that's when I started realizing I'm a bet on myself

940
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 6: and everything. So like a lot of times now, like

941
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 6: it's really tough for me to get to invest in

942
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 6: somebody else's idea. I got to fully understand it. Like

943
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 6: I mean, when I see you understand, I understand it

944
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 6: just like the person that's pitching it. And you know

945
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, before I would actually make an investment.

946
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 6: And and I think that, you know, from taking all

947
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 6: those l's, I think that's what I learned. You know

948
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 6: what I'm saying is that you know, you can invest

949
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 6: in other people ideas or whatever, but you know, if

950
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 6: you're gonna make that investment, put.

951
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: Your heart own money into it.

952
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 6: You need to fully understand how you're gonna get your

953
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 6: money out, what all the risky involved, and what it's

954
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 6: gonna be the ROI, what's the true ROI, not just

955
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 6: something someone pitching. Because even in cannabis, I remember, like

956
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 6: someone pitching me, I'm in the business already. Like I'm

957
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 6: in it already. They came into my building in Colorado

958
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 6: and show me a facility they want to put up

959
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 6: in Nevada, and it was gonna make thirty million dollars

960
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 6: a year. And the one thing I can tell you

961
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 6: for sure, there's no businesses that you're starting a year

962
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 6: in cannabis.

963
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,720
Speaker 2: It's just impossible, you know, because you got to remember.

964
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 2: And this is a gym for people to understand. It's like,

965
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 2: you know, when you're launching a new market.

966
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 6: It takes a while to get that cuts to my

967
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 6: acquisition because most people are going to the dispensary that

968
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 6: first time, and a lot of times those dispensaries aren't

969
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,919
Speaker 6: gonna be carrying the fire fire either. So you're gonna

970
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 6: go in there, You're gonna spend sixty dollars for an

971
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 6: eighth smoke it, and remember your man got it on

972
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 6: the corner for twenty five, you know what I'm saying.

973
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 6: So it's gonna take you a while to realize that

974
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 6: your man stuff isn't tested, it's not as safe as.

975
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 2: What you actually smoke in the dispensary.

976
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 6: It takes people time to get you used to that

977
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 6: and realizing, like, this stuff out of this dispensary is

978
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,479
Speaker 6: way safer for me and my family or my girl

979
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 6: or my own boy or whatever, you know what I'm saying.

980
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 6: And that's when people start going back to the dispensary

981
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 6: and realizing that smoking the other stuff is potentially dangerous,

982
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So you know, they're sitting

983
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 6: there telling me, like we're gonna make all this money

984
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 6: in the year one of a market that's brand.

985
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 2: New, or like it's impossible, you know what I'm saying.

986
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 6: And it's shown if you look at the market out there,

987
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 6: people still kind of struggling in the body market and

988
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 6: it's been three.

989
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 2: Years now, you know what I'm saying.

990
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,919
Speaker 6: So that's just you know, you know, like I said,

991
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 6: you just got to really educate yourself when you investment,

992
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 6: and you know it's not easy, and you know a

993
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 6: lot of times you know, especially depending on the industry,

994
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 6: like cannabis is so new, a lot of people getting tripped.

995
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, because it's so crazy because

996
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 5: everybody's looking there like it's the gold rush.

997
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: Right you just go to La or Las Vegas and

998
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 2: open a dispens people believe are thinking like.

999
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 6: That, And it's not even that easy to open it, right,

1000
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 6: Like you just can't go to any state and just

1001
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 6: open up the dispension.

1002
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 2: All these places right now, that's kind of that open

1003
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:33,240
Speaker 2: It's Oklahoma.

1004
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 6: I would say that I know of right now that

1005
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 6: it's pretty easy to go get a license and open

1006
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 6: up you know what I'm saying. But a lot of

1007
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 6: these markets, man, they're so regulated, and you know, the

1008
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 6: markets that are smart to me, they make it somewhat

1009
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 6: restricted just because you know that oversaturation, like a place

1010
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 6: like you know, Washington and orel You know what I'm saying.

1011
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 2: That's another thing I learned.

1012
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying that you know, I'm not

1013
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 6: really going to run and be so excited to run

1014
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 6: into a state where it's unlimited licensing, you know what

1015
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 6: I'm saying.

1016
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 2: Where it's a place where it's undimit licenses. What I'm

1017
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 2: gonna do is I'm.

1018
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 6: Gonna go partner up waring those licenses producers come in,

1019
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 6: give them my expertise, my SOPs, and just having to

1020
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 6: feel of like ola job.

1021
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 2: You know, I see what I'm saying.

1022
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 6: It don't make sense for me to go spend all

1023
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 6: the capex to go buy something to be competing, because

1024
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 6: then it's just a race to the bubom.

1025
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 2: You know. I use my example of like in Oregon.

1026
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 6: In Oregon, when I went out there in twenty sixteen,

1027
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 6: and outdoor pounds was being sold for any living too.

1028
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 2: A Loanan nine hundred high end thirteen fourteen hundred.

1029
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 6: By the time I harvested in twenty fourteen, the price

1030
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 6: of pounds outdoor pounds was like three four hundred bucks.

1031
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 2: But you know why because the market was oversaturated.

1032
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 6: When I went out there in twenty sixteen, it was

1033
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 6: only forty operators by the time I harvested it, and

1034
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 6: the year later it was over four hundred producers. And

1035
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 6: now you look at the market right now, they got

1036
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 6: a million pounds of surplus in Oregon, you know what

1037
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 6: I'm saying. So so these are the some of the

1038
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 6: things people gotta learn. You just realizing, you know, and

1039
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 6: you know, I gotta do a better job because I

1040
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 6: wanted I want to get more of this access and

1041
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 6: this and now even access with this information to other

1042
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 6: entrepreneurs that's trying to figure it out. You know what

1043
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 6: I'm saying, because these are like very valuable things that

1044
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 6: they should know. It kind of help them instill in

1045
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 6: the right direction so that they don't lose.

1046
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 5: Not that's dope, and that was the dope when you

1047
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 5: do that platform that you're speaking up too, because like

1048
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 5: I said, there's so many I'm sure people hit you

1049
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 5: up all the time, but there's so many people that

1050
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 5: want to get involved in it, right, and it's like

1051
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 5: it's not easy a and you know it's it's pitfall

1052
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 5: for any other business. So you know, I think that

1053
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 5: the more, like you said, the more you the more

1054
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 5: you learn, right, you're gonna educate yourself.

1055
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 2: And it also is important what you said before as

1056
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 2: far as to say, Okay, a.

1057
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 5: Lot of time people just want to come in and

1058
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 5: open the dispense, Like nah, just work your way up,

1059
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 5: like it takes time.

1060
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to.

1061
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 5: You're not gonna be over tomorrow. I think everybody's gonna

1062
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 5: rush like I need to do this right now before

1063
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 5: this blows up. I just wait, Like two years isn't

1064
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 5: gonna kill it.

1065
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 2: I said, you're right because you know, like know, and

1066
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 2: I feel that pressure sometime.

1067
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 6: There's a business owner too where you know, you see

1068
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 6: all this consolidation happening around me, and it's like, damn man,

1069
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 6: they got access to Marnie million. And I'm still trying,

1070
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. But at the end of

1071
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 6: the day, you know what I'm saying, I think that,

1072
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 6: you know, being a little patient and I'm seeing move

1073
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 6: too slow, be a little patient cause I'm at the table.

1074
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 2: You know, that's all you can ask, is I'm a ask.

1075
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 2: All I need is an opportunity.

1076
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 6: So I'm at the tape. That's what am I gonna do?

1077
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 6: What am I gonna do with this opportunity? And you know,

1078
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 6: I feel like, you know, sticking to you to what

1079
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,959
Speaker 6: I'm doing and just building an unbelievable brand that everybody knows,

1080
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 6: like I said, every time they pick up a package,

1081
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 6: they have a great experience.

1082
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 2: I think I'll be all right, you know what I'm saying.

1083
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 2: I think I could be okay.

1084
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 9: Yeah, So I read you know, you guys evaluation over

1085
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 9: one hundred million, but you said billion's not off the question,

1086
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 9: So you got what's the next market that you guys

1087
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 9: are trying to tap it?

1088
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 6: So you know I'm being honest, man, like, I never really,

1089
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 6: I never came into this thing with a dollar mind

1090
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 6: a dollar in mind.

1091
00:45:58,560 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 2: You know I'm saying.

1092
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 6: It was never about I'm gonna make a million a

1093
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 6: billion dollars. You know a lot of times when I

1094
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 6: do interviews, they kind of woke me down that road.

1095
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 6: I fall for it every time. But one I think

1096
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:14,240
Speaker 6: that what I'm creating will be worth multi billion dollars,

1097
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 6: not just one whatever.

1098
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 2: One is too small, right.

1099
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 6: But the reason why I think that is because the

1100
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 6: good and how many people we're gonna help is the

1101
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 6: reason why you're gonna have that kind of evaluation, as

1102
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 6: you know, like with I, yo, like, I'm trying to

1103
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 6: make this brand and brand of the people, you know

1104
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. And I got a couple of different

1105
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 6: ideas of trying to figure out just how to get

1106
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 6: regular people involved and investing in BODYO let them take ownership,

1107
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.

1108
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 2: I think that's the kids like adding you know, adding customers.

1109
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 6: Feel like they own the brand, you know what I'm saying,

1110
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 6: Like like I always worference the Puffins sarat You know

1111
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. Puffers created the environment with Sarac where

1112
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 6: people feel like they are part of that lifestyle. Right,

1113
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 6: It's like you pick up that bottle like you win

1114
00:46:56,719 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 6: in there looking got a suit like that out, you

1115
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 6: know what I mean. So I learned that from him,

1116
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 6: but I saw that, you know what I'm saying, And

1117
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 6: you know, I think that he was able to do

1118
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 6: that because he's very authentic in his message and he

1119
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 6: was consistent, you know what I'm saying, And that's what

1120
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,479
Speaker 6: you know, That's what I'm working on. And like I said,

1121
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 6: you know, with this incubator program, different things like that,

1122
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 6: I think we're gonna be that brand and everybody's gonna

1123
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 6: want to support because they're gonna be at a take

1124
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 6: over the ship.

1125
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 2: Then let me ask before we wrap it up. I

1126
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 2: just had a question.

1127
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 5: They just passed the Safe according and passed the past

1128
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 5: the person that Safe Thinking Act. So if anybody coind

1129
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 5: of familiar the it still is a major problem because

1130
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 5: marijuana is not legal on the federal level.

1131
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 2: Even though it's legal, it's on sustain levels.

1132
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 5: Right, So a lot of things, most things don't really

1133
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 5: want to do business with marijuana company because it's a

1134
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 5: great line they can get in trouble from the FETs.

1135
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 3: Right.

1136
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 5: How have you dealt with that as far as like

1137
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 5: and what do you think the future? How do you

1138
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 5: foresee the future in that, because that plays a major

1139
00:47:58,320 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 5: part in my opinion because once the thanks.

1140
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 6: Legal, that's kind of like you know, right that people

1141
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 6: can get a loans potentially get into the space, but

1142
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 6: not black people once again, because you know, we got

1143
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 6: student loans and why it's gonna be tough or whatever.

1144
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,240
Speaker 2: But you know, when I first started, I had no banking.

1145
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 6: Obviously, credit unions have come around, so every state I

1146
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 6: bank with the credit union and then there's also a

1147
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 6: third party company that I hope with also made pay

1148
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 6: quick that they're pretty much like the middle man between

1149
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 6: the producers and the bank, and they have a whole

1150
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 6: you know, due diligence and a process that you know,

1151
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 6: the banks, the credit unions are.

1152
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 2: Comfortable with being able to bank. But you know the

1153
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 2: banking is smart, like the credit unions, they making a

1154
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:44,959
Speaker 2: lot of money.

1155
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying they charging twenty five hundred

1156
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 6: dollars a month just to hold the bank account. You

1157
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying it let alone the fees on

1158
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 6: all the money that actually comes in. So banks realize

1159
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 6: it's a billion dollar opportunity for them too.

1160
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 2: But it's just that the federal government as it ends,

1161
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, that they could Yeah, that's dope, man.

1162
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 2: Now we want anything else you want to talk about

1163
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 2: you now, we want to thank you for coming in.

1164
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 5: Also before we wrap it up, it's important, I think

1165
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 5: for people with aid to follow that passion right because you,

1166
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 5: like you said, you're you're passionate about this.

1167
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 2: It's not just about the money. It's not even about

1168
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 2: the money.

1169
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 5: It's to help people, right, And I think that's one

1170
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 5: of the biggest mistakes that people and even we've made

1171
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 5: that mistakes in the Bath with the other things that

1172
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 5: we were successful now with the podcast because we actually

1173
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 5: like doing it.

1174
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 2: We're passionate, but but we've done.

1175
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 5: Stuff in the Bath well honestly just different money, and

1176
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 5: it didn't work.

1177
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 6: It never.

1178
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 5: It's hard to wake up everyone and do something if

1179
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 5: you don't really care about what you're doing, right, So

1180
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 5: I think that that's encouraging. And then also it's very

1181
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 5: important first impressions and work act it too, So I

1182
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 5: would be talking off camera.

1183
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 2: So if anybody followed the podcast, you know.

1184
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 5: That I went to like eight different high schools in

1185
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 5: high school with basketball, but I went to school in

1186
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,280
Speaker 5: Florida for a little bit at im G Academy.

1187
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 2: So when I first met Al, this was.

1188
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 5: Years ago, and he probably doesn't remember, but one thing

1189
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 5: I always remember because he was in IMG training. He

1190
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 5: was a professional, so I everybody's not familiar. IMG is

1191
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 5: one of the top prep schools in the country. Actually

1192
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 5: just won so they have they have pros that come

1193
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 5: in as well, like football and basketball.

1194
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 2: At the time. Yeah, so he was.

1195
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 6: He was there.

1196
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 5: He's one of the pros that was working out, and

1197
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 5: we used to run pick up games every once in

1198
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 5: a while. So I can't say I had a lot

1199
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 5: of interactions with him. I had some interactions with with

1200
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 5: some other people. Harold Jamison real good, Oh my god,

1201
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 5: Harold James.

1202
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 2: He's different. I've never getting them stories. Jamison. He's the

1203
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 2: first person. So I missed my school box one day, right,

1204
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 2: somebody He's like, what's to school here?

1205
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 6: You wrong?

1206
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 2: He had a drop top lesus and he had the

1207
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 2: air conditioner on full blast. Well he had the air conditionings.

1208
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 2: We got to the top then because it's cold, he's

1209
00:50:59,239 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 2: gotten colder.

1210
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 5: So he's the first person I've ever seen to have

1211
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 5: a footballing air conditioning in the drop.

1212
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 6: Now you know anything about Al Jamison, So when you

1213
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 6: like he's sweat at the dropping like yeah, like dropping

1214
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 6: hat bro So Like he was the type dude where

1215
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 6: we used to work out.

1216
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 2: Bro Like during the workout, he's had to always wipe

1217
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 2: the court.

1218
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 6: That something he'll go through an our workout, bro, no

1219
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 6: bs our workout, he go through four teen shirts.

1220
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 2: I always had weight issues, like, bro, how you overweight?

1221
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 6: That's what if he was playing but heat at that

1222
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 6: time and that's when they want to don't play with

1223
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 6: the body fat and all that type of stuff.

1224
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 2: But you got to have issues with his weight and

1225
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 2: he used to sweat. I'm guaranteed he was dropping shout

1226
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 2: wherever you are in the world right now, man, shout

1227
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 2: out to you. But I was saying that. You know,

1228
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 2: one thing I never forget is that you know how

1229
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 2: he always worked hard.

1230
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 5: He was a hard worker. Like I'm never the job

1231
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 5: so that the head basketballs. He used to always reference him, like,

1232
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 5: you see how how how hard I works.

1233
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 2: You gotta work like that. That's how hard.

1234
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 5: He always worked hard. And he always smiled like he

1235
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 5: was never in a bat I never saw him in

1236
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 5: the bat. Move boy had smile his pace, right. So

1237
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 5: it's funny when people remember because I was fifteen years

1238
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 5: ago and I still remember that, right. So I say

1239
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:11,879
Speaker 5: that to say, you never know how it's come full

1240
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,320
Speaker 5: circle now he's on our podcast, right, So it's important

1241
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 5: to just be a good person, right and to set

1242
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:17,439
Speaker 5: that exam.

1243
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 2: You never know who's watching you, exactly like reality, and

1244
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: you never know when it could come back.

1245
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 3: Right.

1246
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 6: So I just always tell people, man, it's just so

1247
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 6: much easy to be cool. Like it's so like it

1248
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 6: takes no effort to be cool. It takes no effort.

1249
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:34,800
Speaker 6: Somebody go up in the room and give him a

1250
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 6: D nine, takes no effort. You ain't got to go

1251
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 6: out your way or nothing. Just acknowledge people just be cool.

1252
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 6: And that's what I'm saying. Like I've never had no

1253
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 6: issues no where I've been. You know what I'm saying.

1254
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 6: I live in LA and people getting rods here in

1255
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 6: New York. I'll never as security nothing Atlanta. I am,

1256
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,439
Speaker 6: y'all go anywhere I go, any hood I got because

1257
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 6: I'm cool. Like it's just it is what it is,

1258
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 6: like what's up? You know what I'm saying, I'm approaching

1259
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 6: and it's just is It's like it takes effort to

1260
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 6: be a jerk, you know what I'm saying. And you know,

1261
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 6: for me, like I've had a lot of success that way,

1262
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 6: and I took a little of the time like when people,

1263
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 6: you know, I always asked me about, you know, different

1264
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 6: things and like betting me. I'm like, you could vet

1265
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:17,439
Speaker 6: me with anybody knows, nobody walking the earth right down

1266
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 6: that got anything bad.

1267
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 2: To say about regular fear And you know my word

1268
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 2: is my bonds. I said, do something period, keep it

1269
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 2: calling clean, right, you got to keep you another one too,

1270
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:30,240
Speaker 2: charging Billups.

1271
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 5: So he was down there too, and enough to get

1272
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 5: my dad. So when my dad he took it, took

1273
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 5: me to school and everybody knows what he's talking.

1274
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 2: Billups, you know he is.

1275
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 5: So he walked up to my dad and he introduced himself.

1276
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 5: He's like, you know, I'm charging Bill Up. So my

1277
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 5: dad is always impressed to this day, because it's like

1278
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:46,760
Speaker 5: he took the time to walk up to a stranger

1279
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 5: that obviously knew who he.

1280
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 2: Was, but he treated everybody the same.

1281
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 5: Right, So I say that to say in business and

1282
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 5: just in life in general, it's I think he's completely underrated.

1283
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 2: It's just to be a good purson.

1284
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 3: In addition to that, it's like, look at this sets

1285
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 3: that the two individuals are saying, have had post and

1286
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,720
Speaker 3: there's no, it's no, they've treated people with respect.

1287
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 2: And look at this said they had posts. You're right, right,

1288
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 2: you're right.

1289
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 5: So yeah, so do you have any initiatives or how

1290
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 5: can people contact how can people contact viola website?

1291
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1292
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean so we're about to So we

1293
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 6: got some big, big announcements coming up. Hopefully the first

1294
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 6: one that you first be on. We're on schedule to

1295
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 6: get that done. So we're potentially bringing somebody on to

1296
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 6: the company. It's gonna be a huge name for what

1297
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 6: we're doing. You will follow us on Instagram if iola

1298
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 6: that lifestyles, follow me and Al Harrington three and just

1299
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 6: you know, we will obviously do everything through social media.

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Speaker 6: That's the world we live in. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 6: and you know our website. We've revamping that as well.

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Speaker 6: We got some merchandise start about to hit. So you know,

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Speaker 6: we just continued just to move. So I would just say,

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Speaker 6: just continue to support us and follow us and you

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Speaker 6: get a chance, you know, by my humans, I'm always

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Speaker 6: open to on social media. Please hit me and let

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Speaker 6: me know what you think about it. You know what

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Speaker 6: I'm saying. I've had some bad reviews, mostly great, but

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Speaker 6: you know it's a bad one. I just got something

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Speaker 6: to say to get you to try it again. But yeah,

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Speaker 6: we just we just moving. We just we're working. We

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Speaker 6: building and you know, if you have any cool ideas

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Speaker 6: and different things like that, and you're in the states

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Speaker 6: that we're operating in, you know, reach out for sure.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate that. Short before we go, can you just talk

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Speaker 2: about our Patreon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Patreon is for those of you who listen.

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Speaker 3: You know that it's always for us to connect with

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Speaker 3: some people who want extra content. It also allows us

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Speaker 3: invite to do things like this, you know, come to

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Speaker 3: LA and touch with people who are doing things in

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Speaker 3: business and in real estate that can help everyone. So

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Speaker 3: one of the things I was saying is like he's

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Speaker 3: having a tough time finding people. Well, you just spoke

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Speaker 3: to a bunch of people right now, probably thinking like, hey,

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Speaker 3: I can help out. So pictureon allows us to do that.

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Speaker 3: We have five different tiers. You know that proud of

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Speaker 3: paid program is something that is important, you know. So

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Speaker 3: if you feel like supporting us, great, If you don't,

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Speaker 3: you love you the same, but you know it allows

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Speaker 3: us to do things like this.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, probably pay proaly americanforting. Of course, you see what's

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Speaker 5: our guy. Everybody knows that we reference them every episode.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, like I said, I alway said,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna.

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Speaker 5: Give you the information for free, but if you would

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Speaker 5: like to financially support the podcast, that's the way.

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Speaker 2: We also have merched Our merch shop is up on

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Speaker 2: the website or a lesion dot com. So make sure

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Speaker 2: you got that. We got the assets over life. Sure yeah,

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Speaker 2: season too coming, it's coming at New Collection.

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Speaker 5: And then and then we want to just thank you

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Speaker 5: guys about like I said, to be you know, a

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Speaker 5: couple of months in and to be ahead of Wall Street.

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Speaker 2: Journal in Bloomberg and Susie Orman and we we just

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Speaker 2: did it. You know what I'm saying. Now, we have

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Speaker 2: a crazy budget. I have any budget I was like, Yo,

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Speaker 2: we just passed all the shot.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: He was like, no, we did.

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Speaker 5: It just shows how hungry the culture is for financial

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Speaker 5: good financial accountment, right, So we might keep giving you

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Speaker 5: guys some information and we appreciate your support. Before I leave,

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Speaker 5: I always do a book tip. So my boot tip

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Speaker 5: this week is actually the first book that I ever read.

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Speaker 2: When I was getting into finance, like eighteen years old.

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Speaker 2: His dad, boy dad. Everybody knows that I actually had

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Speaker 2: like the whole thing, like Michael.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to we had. I'm because that that's a

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Speaker 3: great book. But the first person I heard read it

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Speaker 3: was Mike and I was like, yeah, the first that

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Speaker 3: I heard he's he's a sound.

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Speaker 2: Big mic.

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Speaker 3: So when they said that, I was like, his name

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Speaker 3: is not Mike big Home. When he had said he

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Speaker 3: read it, I was like, wow, that's flying me to

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Speaker 3: go read it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that is my book tip of the week.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, thank you for rocking this.

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