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Yeah, it's dope. It's dope, so 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.080 you know, give the introduction. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:42.399 Al Harrington started as a basketball legend in our area 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.240 in Trackstate area, right change out of high school to 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.200 the to the league and had a great NBA career 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.680 and then is having even more success now in the 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:52.640 entrepreneurial realm. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.040 So he's a perfect guest for us because our show is, uh, 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:56.480 you know, the. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.280 Backstories of financial aspects of sports and entertainment for the 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.440 most of our business, but sports entertainment, right, a lot 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.440 of time people they look at NBA players, NFL plays, actors, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:05.880 but they don't really know what goes on behind the 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.720 scenes on the financial side, right, and financial literacy is 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.760 something that you know is in the season right now, 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.280 especially in our culture. So it's encouraging to see our 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.440 growth sure as far as you know, being one of 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.760 the top financial podcasts on icenes and a short period 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.880 of time. And one of the reasons why we're doing 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.520 that is because people are interested in sports entertainment, right. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.520 The reason the success is really testament to how much 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.080 people needed in our posture. So that's why we delivered 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.320 the content at there we are We're gonna keep delivering. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:34.720 Yeah, not for sure. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.000 So yeah, so we wrote about I remember about our 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.280 early in our Instagram, like early on stages of Instagram, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.520 and it was about you know, him starting a company 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.600 right called Bola, and it talked about him putting five 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.400 million dollars into it and the company. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.400 Blew up and you tell the story. But he he 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.040 liked the. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:00.440 Posts and he started following us, right, So that's so 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.080 we appreciate it. And then we spoke about him on 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.160 another podcast when we spoke about marijuana industry, and now 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.520 we got in here, so's it's it's full cerviuce, So 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:09.840 thank you for coming on. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.160 Appreciate thanks for having me, Fellows. I appreciate it. We 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:13.040 appreciate you. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:14.600 So all right, can you just give the people a 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.880 quick backstory I wrote, but I think it's a really 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.639 dope story as far as to how you got into 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.800 the marijuana cannabis industry, as far as you know, starting 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:24.840 out with the seed money. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:26.240 I believe it currently come wrong. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:27.600 But you couldn't even do it in your names and 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.720 your cousin's name, right, correct, because you didn't want to 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:30.760 like cross those lines. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.880 Yeah, man, I didn't want to lose my contract. But 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.960 I saw an opportunity that made a lot of sense. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.040 And you know, For me, it was all about being 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:39.920 able to help you. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.280 You know what I'm saying. It wasn't about just the 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:42.160 financial game. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.640 It was like wow, you know, so like you said, 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.240 just to touch on the backstory, you know, we're from 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.320 the same area, so you already know like the old 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.880 War on drugs and it was explained to us, and 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.200 you know, we was taught that, you know, cannabis is 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.840 a gateway drug. We saw people getting locked up for 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.000 having weed and all that. So you know, I know, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:03.560 I ain't want to never get locked up, you know 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.080 what I'm saying. My mom who my ayes, you know 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.119 what I'm saying. And in the fact, and I didn't 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.240 want to be a crackhead either, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.280 For me, I stayed away from it, you know, as 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.400 far away from it as I could. But when I 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.040 got to the NBA, it was the first time and 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.440 I saw like active players that was actually like killing 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.520 on a nightling basis, smoking heavy tree, you know what 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.200 I'm saying. That's when I first realized that, yo, we 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.240 was being lied to. But it's still you know, it 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:30.760 still wasn't for me, you know what I'm saying. Just 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.000 can you see somebody do something. I mean, it's for you, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.400 you know what I mean. I always felt that smoking 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.120 was just bad for you in general, you know what 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.279 I'm saying. So I stayed away from it. So throughout 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.080 my career, like I said, I had teammates that you 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.360 used to smoke heavy. Stephen Jackson's one that I could 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.400 throw out there, Matt Barnes and some of the guys 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.440 that I won't mention now, but you know, I. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:52.960 Had teammates that actually huld to smoke. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.560 So you know, I would ask a little questions and 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.120 all that, and they would tell me, like, yo, I 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.239 smoke because of this. I smoke because of that, And 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.640 like I said, it was productive. So it changed the 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.400 way I thought about cannabis. So, you know, fast forward 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.240 to when I signed with the Denver Nuggets in two 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.520 thousand and nine or ten, when I left the Knicks. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.480 You know, when I got there, they had just started 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.760 in medical program or whatever. So you know, I want 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.920 him do this to always read the newspaper, especially with 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.440 being George Carby and my coach. And you see, he's 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.479 definitely exposed himself since he's stopped coaching the type of 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.080 asshole that he was. He was the type of coach 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.800 that when we won the game, it was because of him. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.680 When we lost, it was our fault. So I used 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.600 always read the paper just to see what he was saying. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.839 But at the same time, I was picking up the 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.359 newspaper every morning and it was always something about the 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.440 benefits of cannabis. So my grandmother come to see me 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.440 play towards the end of my first season there in twenty. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.600 Eleven, and you know, she got there. 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.280 She had me put this pillow box up on her 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.080 counter and she saw taking all this medication and the 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.880 athlete and he said, Grandma, like taking so many vitamins. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:53.279 And she's like, boy, he's. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.120 Not vitamin She's like, I got eye, blood pressure, diabetes, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.440 gla cooma. And I was like, Grandma, I was just 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.480 reading the paper the other day that cannabis help with glacoma. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.120 And I was telling everything I was reading, and finally 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.480 she said, well, what is cannabis? And I was like, 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.920 you know, marijuana weed. She's like, reefuck, ain't no way, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.320 no reef going to help me out composition. And she's 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.800 seventy nine years old this time at the time, right, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.719 and I'm you know, so I'm starting to educate up, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.000 but she shuts me down. So the next day I 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.800 come home and out the games, I come home and 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.680 shoot around and she's sitting in my kitchen and you know, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.080 she's sitting with her hands in them, facing her hands, 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.080 and I'm like, Grandma, what's up? And she look up 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.360 and she's squating and she's like, that's your baby doll. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.039 She's like, my eyes are so bad that I could 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:34.800 barely see. So I say, Grandma, you tell me you 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.440 saying all that medication and you're still in pain, like 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.560 it's not working at all, and she's like it's hit 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.680 and miss I was like, look, this would be our secret, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:42.520 you know what I'm saying. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.960 I was like, just try it. And you know, and 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.080 I believe in. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.039 God, right, you know, I grew up in church and everything, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.760 and you know, as we all know, like old people 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:51.480 are hard. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.680 To change their beliefs and then they waves, you know what, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.520 I know what I'm saying. And my grandmother, I was time, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.680 like she's not going to heaven. We're all going to 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:01.080 you know what I'm saying. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.240 And not only that, like she was a back going 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.159 to my family back and going to the church. So 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.800 like I mean she's so straight and narrow, and for 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.480 her to say, okay, I'll try it, that was God 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:11.840 to me, you know what I'm saying. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.720 He was helping me pick what was next. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.240 For me, which I was blessed because a lot of 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.640 players where you know, we talk about the financial literacy 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.320 and stuff like that, which sucks. And a lot of 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.400 guys when they get done playing on the what's next? 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:23.800 You know what I'm saying, they so used to be 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.760 chasing after room. When that's over, it's just like it's 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.640 such a brude awakening. It's just like you don't know 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.200 what they're doing a lot of times you start to 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.760 spend money to be relevant, you know what I'm saying, 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.520 and that's how they run through the bag, you know. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:36.040 What I'm saying. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.040 So, you know, so I talked to her about it 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.680 or whatever, and she's just like, you know what, I'm 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.480 in so much pain they I'll try and think. So 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:43.920 I called my boy. I was like, yo, you got 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.400 a little dispensary. Fine, gets something for you know, for glackoma. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:48.880 And I'm not a smoke at the time, So I 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.280 don't know what to recommend. No indecoods of TV. I 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:56.000 don't know nothing. So he bring back Vietnam cushion and 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.800 and it's how we Vavee rose in front of a baby, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.440 you know, and that's harsh. So taking the garage and 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.680 she starts smoking it and like she's like blowing it 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.280 in and blowing it out her nose like perfect. I'm 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:11.880 looking at it like like, well, I spoke a cigarette 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.760 one time, and a long story short, you know, she smoked. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.040 I took it downstairs. I went to the nap. I 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.720 woke up an hour and a half later, and before 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.600 I got dressed, I said, we'll go check on to 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.160 make sure she cool. And I went downstairs and uh 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.040 knocked on the door. Back to the door, and she 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:29.760 was looking down. I was like, Grandma, you're good. And 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.960 then she turned around. She was crying to and she 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.800 was like I'm here. She's like, you know how the 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.960 big read the words of my wife went over three years. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:36.400 Wow. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.120 So that's my inspiration. That's my story. That's how I 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.160 got into cannabis. And you know, we decided, you know, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.000 me and my cousin who was my business partner, we 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.839 designed to name of the company after her name is Bayo. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:49.480 So that's how we got out. You know that's our 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.680 origin story and how we start. Yeah, now that's dope. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:53.199 We could just talk about the the league for a 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:54.839 little bit, because yeah, you know, we do write a 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.839 lot of stories and important. It's unfortunate, right with a 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.880 lot of guys. I even Kochie had spoken when he 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.120 was saying the past. The problem that a lot of 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.400 guys have it that they don't know that passion after right, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.400 and even if you have a long career thirty five 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.400 thirty seven, that's still relatively young in life, right. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.679 So and then I also shout to Sebastian. You know, 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.080 he fell on some hard times. He just you got convicted, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.199 so you know, we're praying for him. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.600 But he he had a good clip too where he said, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.079 you know, he kind of explained how a lot of 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.480 guys fall into financial hardship because when you get paid, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.199 it's not like you get fifty million dollars all at once. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.280 Right, we know that there's a jock tax. Like every 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.000 state that you go in, you pay the state tax, 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:32.600 and then you know, you get. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.200 Paid twice a month, then you have to pay everybody else, 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.839 and then a lot of times you you don't have 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.839 the financial literacy when you're coming into the league, so 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.800 you know, you all of your stuff is kind of 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:43.600 like out front. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:44.960 Now you got to kind of pay it back, right, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:45.400 So can you. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.440 Just talk about that briefly as far as like because 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.360 you you are you weren't inside, so you know, as 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:50.840 far as like. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.439 That, and you played for multiple teams for a few states, Yeah, 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.240 I mean obviously the text stuff and you know, that 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:57.880 is what it is. And you know, I got a 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.240 story of my rookie year, you know, they they sent 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.640 me and then they sent me my taxes to sign 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.000 or whatever, and you know it was like all these books, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.480 you know, yay high And I looked at it and 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:11.760 I ain't know what it was. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.040 So I took in, I put up in my closet. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.240 I was singing Antonio Davis as a ripper, And like 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.000 two weeks later, I came home and he was sitting 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.400 there and he was signing those same books. One day 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.440 and when I came in, I'm like, what's up, big fellay, 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.959 like chilling, like what you're doing. He's like, I'm signing, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.360 you know, paying taxes. He's like, you got yours. I 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.520 was like, I got some books like that. A couple 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.199 of weeks ago, on the day of my closet. He's like, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.199 go get them, So I go get them. Bring me 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.240 he like smack me behind my head, like those your 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:45.400 taxi at that time, you're eighteen eighteen years old, right, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.679 I remember I just turned nineteen because I remember that. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.640 The challenges this man, it's like we first generation money exactly. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.839 You know what I'm saying. That's the thing is like 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.720 we didn't learn how to make that money. You understand 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:58.360 what I'm saying. We didn't. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.280 Really I'm not gonna say we didn't earn it. Definitely 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.679 earned it, but we didn't learn how to make it. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.280 We didn't run a business. We didn't learn how to 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.280 balance books and the running the p and ls and 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:07.199 all that type of stuff. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:07.800 You know what I'm saying. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.439 That's kind of after the fact that a lot of 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.319 times what happened with the players, which sucks, is that 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.439 we had financial advisors and agents and all that that 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.000 discourage us to learn how to do that. They just like, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.480 pay me, I'll take care of keep to the blood, 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.559 you know what I'm saying. And that's the issue that 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.959 we had. It's like, no, like and I learned that 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.200 after I turned twenty eight, is when I started taking 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.160 a that's say, interest in where my money was going 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.480 in taxes I was paying, how I was paying taxes, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:33.920 where my. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.520 Money was actually going up. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.400 Until that point, I was just having fun and I 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.319 was just trusting that they had my back, you know 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.120 what I'm saying. So that responsibility of first money is 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.280 just is very tough man, because you know, it's nobody 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.360 in your family you can really go to. You know 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.520 what I'm saying, They don't know. The mothers, you know, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.160 have credit bad, Dad, credit bad, Grandma, credit bad. They 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.720 don't know, you know what I'm saying. So you end 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.480 up having to trust somebody that you don't know, and 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.760 you just got to pray to God it right. You 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.480 know what I'm saying. Where I was lucky was that 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.000 I had a financial guy. You know, I ain't gonna 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.160 lie my first my rookie deal. When I got done 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.079 with my rookie deal, so I probably made just something 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.959 two million bucks right over four years span. Because I 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.000 was a twenty fifth PIX, I ain't make as much bread, 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.000 but like I had like thirty thousand dollars in my 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.160 name after that. You know what I'm saying, I ain't 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.880 know about my mother, Alexis, I bought two benses, I 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.040 bought a crib. I ain't know, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.040 But after that, once that happened, that's when I moved 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.319 to my new financial advisors and they started teaching me 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.319 there like look, you buy this, or they even took 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.360 a little stuff with like you know, if I can't 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.120 wait for something with cash, I can't afford it. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.400 And that was a great mindset to give me. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.520 So now I'm not gonna go and buy five five 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.880 hundred thousand dollars cars now two point five million. I oh, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.319 you understand what I'm saying that, Like, Okay, if I'm 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.080 gonna spend five on I gotta get what I can 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:49.559 get you for that. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.880 You see what I'm saying. So little things like that 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:53.400 is what helped me, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.760 And you know the players I just say, you know, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.360 it takes some time, you know what I'm saying, Like 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.840 you kind of got to get your feet in then 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.440 start figuring it out or whatever. But I will always 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.160 tell these guys like, you know, take the time to 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.120 learn about your money and learn like how you spending 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.280 it and who's spending it, where it's going and finding 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.000 out tax breaks and starting now for profits and if 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.679 you're gonna pay take care of your mom, do it 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.360 this way. You're gonna take care of your family, do 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.720 it this way. And uh, you know, it's very challenging, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.079 you know, you know what I'm saying, because you know, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.839 like I said, being first generation money and you know, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:26.400 a lot of people make you feel. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:30.079 Like they like you own. I want you, I want 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:31.720 you to want you will. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.720 Cook, you know what I'm saying, And you feel bad. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.079 Next thing, you know, you're gonna spend some bread, you 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:36.720 know what I'm saying. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.920 So it's tough. But you know the good thing about 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.800 these guys making so much money down I think they. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.400 Definitely more of a window to kind of make some 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.920 mistakes and still be okay that. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.679 Keep getting better. To absolutely that's a game. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.199 And it's important too because so I'm a financial or 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:02.439 choice of teacher and educat, so yeah, I see it firsthand. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.960 As far as like a right, they're not a lot 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:05.960 of financial advisors that. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.959 Look like me, right, So a lot of this Some 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.000 guys offers they might work with athletes things that nature, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.520 and I can just tell they're not looking at them 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.679 as the peers, because they're at the peers, right, and 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.520 they're looking at them as I mean, took it, and 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.720 it's like, Okay, when you're done playing, it's over right. Like, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.640 so I think that it's important, like you said that 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.080 the athletes have to start empowering themselves or work with 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.280 people that are interested in empowering them right. And I 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.080 think that's one of the good things even with our platform, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.720 is that there's so much information available now and that's 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:34.720 why we definitely want to sit. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.440 Down with you and we'll talk about you know, your 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.000 business now in the next segment. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.640 But you really have to You can't the days of 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.120 just letting somebody do with whatever they want and being 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.200 blind and over right. We can't afford that to happen 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.960 because we've seen it happen every generation. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.120 Right. We want the article page about Chris Bobs R. Yeah, 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.840 twenty five million dollars said you know nothing. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.040 About finance or telling you so do you never walked? 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:04.120 I'm uncle exactly. It's like how possible his state was? 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.320 Like back to Chris Bosher's like his main focus is 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.280 I have to train, I have to perform and to 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:10.000 keep my body up. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.160 That's the only thing in folks. And it's like, but 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.080 you're getting paid to do this, like that's. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.320 Almost as equally as important, right, like to say you 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.360 have you don't know anything about finance, you just sign 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.840 one hundred and twenty five like it's mind body, right. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.680 Well it's it's really, it's reality and put the thing 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.160 about it, not even not even the put because nobody 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:28.280 really do anything about finance. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.240 I know a lot of doctors don't anything about find 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.240 the difference that their career is. Don't be forty years exactly. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.600 You you were fortunate when you had a second contract, right, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.040 but what if you didn't have that second contractor you 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:38.640 say you have thirty thousands not out the league. 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.720 Now you're now you're really screwed and you're what twenty 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.920 four at that time, maybe twenty two? 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:44.160 Right? 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.160 Yeah, so all right, my whole life in front of me. Yeah, disasterous. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:49.720 All right. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.760 So now we're going to go into the business side 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.680 of things. All right, So now we're gonna talk about 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.240 you know, you you you built an empire. This is 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.680 an impact band person, so you. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.160 Know, especially like you said, in our community, right, Unfortunately 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:10.120 there's countless people during ten, fifteen, twenty years, thirty years, 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.920 fed time, stay time for marijuana. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:14.840 Right, for marijuana. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:16.920 So now we're in a position where you can actually 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.520 make money legally off of marijuana. Right. So it's one thing, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.160 all right, because I get this question a lot Instagram 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.320 and people just in general, they're like, how do I 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.640 get involved in the marijuana business? So you can buy stock, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.760 we'll talk about that. But you actually built a company, right, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:33.680 so can you just talk about that because I'm sure 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.000 that there's a lot of people. I know for a 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.920 fact that there's a lot of people that want to 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.280 get involved in but they don't know how to go about. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.000 They don't know licenses you have to do, they don't know, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.800 like you know, it's just like that's the problem with 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:44.680 our community. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.080 A lot of times we don't have mentors. We figured 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:48.160 out as we go, you know what I mean. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.320 That's why we make so many mistakes exactly because there's 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.880 no mentorship. They don't there's no blueprint to follow. So 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.120 it's like, Okay, I'm just gonna go out there. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.640 I think one of the things you like and what 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.760 you've done is like you've kind of the blueprint for 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:01.760 people from what you're the. 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.119 Saying, like I remember watching the HBO Sports special and. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.040 I was like, wow, this guy literally created a farm 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.160 and went and played the seed to himself. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.159 I think that was dope. I was like one of 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:16.040 the best posts. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.480 I was like, you said, make sure you're an expert 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.919 of what you're asking people to do, right, So if 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.040 I'm gonna hire you, trust it, I know what I'm doing. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.000 We'll talk about the Harrington group. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.760 Yeah. Man, it's funny, bro like like you' said. Man, Like, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.680 I don't really have like a financial background or any 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.200 of that. Like it was literally like I just took 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.160 my work ethic that I took from how I got 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.840 into the NBA and played sixteen years. Like you know 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.399 my background. I saw who was a freshman iceed to 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:47.920 really really. I never that my mom used to beat 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:48.960 me on the one all the time. 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.960 That's hard. That's even as a freshman, I was hard. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:54.600 I was the worst player on the team as a freshman, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.119 and I probably was like the eighth best player as 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:57.680 a sophomore. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.000 He went from that to then the play like in 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.960 two years. But it was I lived in the gym. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.840 It was work that they learned like and and thank 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.040 god I was able to get the results because it 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.879 showed me what all wor can do for you. You 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:12.359 know what I'm saying, and what I've done is I 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.200 was just taking that same approach into the Cannibis centry. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:16.879 So like you go back there, tell my office you 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.320 see it. I got a big plaque on my wall 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.720 and say, nobody with our workers. You know what I'm saying. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.080 Like the reason why I played sixteen year was because 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.199 I swear every year because I remember my mindset as 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.320 a rookie. My mind said as a rookie was I 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.240 was looking at the older dudes and I'm like, I'm 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.840 taking hib getting that spot, like I gotta play. So 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:35.560 I always remember I was always in the back of 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.480 my mind as I got older in the league that 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.560 these rookies that's coming in and just trying to. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.800 Take my minute, you know what I'm saying. So and 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:43.400 I take that same thing with cannabis. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.399 I'm like, yeah, Vayola may be popping or whatever, but 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.360 like I don't sleep, you know, I don't sleep any 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.600 better at like you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.720 still constantly thinking there's another black company coming behind me 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.440 that's gonna try to claim the things that I've done it, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:58.760 or either just regular companies, you know what I'm saying. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.040 So that's always my age. You know what I'm saying. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:02.280 I always can constantly do that. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:06.760 But to answer a question like what they've done, and 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.639 I mean the lawmakers and stuff like that, because they 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:10.520 have so many. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.880 Different people influencing their decisions. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.159 Because the issue that we have in cannabis right now 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.680 is that the people that are actually writing the laws 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.280 don't have any business acting. 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:22.160 They're just politicians. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.159 So they writing these laws and putting these taxes and 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.840 all these different things, and they're killing the industry. You 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:29.440 know what I'm saying, What I think they should have 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.119 did it. They should have went to some of the 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.879 people that were successful in the black market and used them. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:38.080 That's consulting, because there was a thriving industry until y'all 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:39.880 stepped in, You understand what I'm saying. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.679 So that's that piece. But why it's tough is this. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.639 They're trying to monopolize the process, right And like what 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.560 you said, you know, our communities was you know, most 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.120 impacting on drugs, eighty five percent are all black men. 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.160 Drug arrests on cannabis related You know what I'm saying, 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.840 and we have no representation in the industry right now, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.520 with me doing what I'm doing in a couple other people, 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.720 you represent one percent in the enagry. Like that's ridiculous, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.359 you know what I'm saying. And it's tough for me 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.639 to sit here and tell somebody like, go do this 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.960 to create ownership, because it's tough. It's like, you know, 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.359 you look in New Jersey, someplace that we're very familiar with, 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.840 or even New York. You know, some of the requirements 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:19.600 was like in New York, it was like we gotta 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:24.160 have like twenty twenty five years of experiencing farming or agriculture. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:32.760 I look, black person own land, not understand what I'm saying. 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.440 New Jersey was you know, you had to show fifteen 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.040 to twenty million dollars in a workable capital part of 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:41.320 your application process. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.720 You understand what I'm saying. So what black person can 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:43.960 do that? 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.439 I'm like, even I struggle getting people to put up 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.720 money to have twenty in the account. You undertand what 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:50.359 I'm saying, that's what all the resources I had. So 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.200 just imagine somebody off the block. And I'm not saying 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.159 this is discouragure what I'm just trying to give you 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.879 is just like what's going on, right, So how I 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:58.320 look at it is like, you know, one of the 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.320 things I want to do is I want to start 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.959 incubating or whatever for the for the black communities. Right. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:06.040 So what I want to do is I want to 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.200 get licensed in every state and I want to build 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.280 facilities that are big enough that I can allow other 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:13.639 black entrepreneurs that want to get into the space of 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:17.000 an opportunity to come in perfect the crafts, whether they 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.040 want to make cbity, THAC waters, where they want to wait, 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.080 THAC mints, whatever it is. I want to give them 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.879 a platform and licenses allow them to be created and 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:26.720 create products. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.240 Right. That's one way that I feel like I can 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:30.960 include more black people, right. Yeah. 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.879 The other way is this and this is real because 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.520 my company right now, right, you know, I would like 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.840 to I wish I hired, I wish I had more 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:40.239 black employees, right. 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:44.520 But I promise you when I put out these job opportunities. 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:50.879 Online through uh you know all those yeah, all that stuff, 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:55.280 they don't apply. It's nobody applying, you know what I'm saying. 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:57.480 So and I can't figure out what jobs, like what 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.760 jobs are, whether it's you know, whether it's working in 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.880 the front or in the grow being a grower, being 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.560 a packager. And this is this is gonna be my point. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.000 You got to start somewhere. You got to put your 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.000 ego aside if you want to get into this industry. 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:14.880 You know what I'm saying. I know so many people 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.280 bro I problem. So many people that have started off 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:20.960 as packagers that now own dispensaries. 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:23.800 They're not black, you understand what I'm saying. 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:26.160 Like they went through that, They went through the whole process, 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.760 learn every part of the business, you know what I'm saying, 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:30.320 and then figure it out because at the end of 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.080 the day, what I will tell you is that if 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.160 you do through that, you're gonna be valued with somebody. 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:35.040 You know what I'm saying. 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.400 I wish I could run to somebody that say, I packaged, 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:40.280 I'll grow out this, that and the third, Like I'm. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:41.040 Hiring you a set. 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:43.480 That's all the experience I need because what because of 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:45.960 the way my company is kind of set up, you 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:48.240 wear multiple hats. You know what I'm saying, we kind 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:50.480 of eye attitude is like everybody do a little bit 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:51.000 of everything. 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.200 You know what I'm saying, I don't have no problem 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:53.919 going to clean the. 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:56.360 Bathroom dead ass, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:59.119 just how I operate when they see me going. Everybody know, 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.639 it's not been anybody to going that to operate like that, 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:03.679 you know what I'm saying. So, you know, so one 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:05.720 of the things is just I would just say, you know, 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.520 look at applying to get into the industry. Maybe you 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:10.639 can't get ownership right now out the gate, you know, 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.119 I would say that this industry is going to be. 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:17.200 Like liquor, where liquor has over forty thousand brands. You 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:18.679 know what I'm saying. It's gonna be the same thing 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:19.280 in cannabis. 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.120 So maybe right now in twenty nineteen or twenty twenty, 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:24.359 you don't get your ownership and something, But twenty twenty one, 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:26.359 it's always going to be opportunity because it's just gonna 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:29.320 be just like the liquor industry, have craft beers or 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:31.840 have all these different things. So I would just tell, 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:34.200 you know, all the entrepreneurs or people that want to 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:36.119 try to figure out how to get in, it's just 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.280 go get a job, man, get a job in the space. 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:40.920 You know what, I'm saying, you guys are File Extracts 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:45.200 operates from four states, right, California, Oregon, Michigan, and Colorado. 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:45.560 Yes. 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:48.520 So when you say like people are applying to do jobs, 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:50.240 like the farming would be in Oregon. 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:52.000 Farm, it would be in Oregon. So like, you know, 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.160 so my farm is like where it's at. I don't 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:58.760 think a lot of black people there. Yeah, that's just 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:01.280 because of the jar Recraft location, you know what I mean. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:06.120 But in Colorado, yes, California for sure, Michigan one thousand. 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:09.320 Percent is that's your newest one missions on the It's 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:10.200 place or whatever. 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.119 So we opened up our retail in the next fifteen days, 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:16.280 so exit about that's our first retail operation. And it 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:18.119 goes back to what I was telling you, was like 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:20.000 I'm learning every part of the business. You know what 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:23.440 I'm saying. So I know all the cultivation, greenhouse, outdoor, indoor, 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:25.600 I know all the manufacturing methods. 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:27.160 You know what I'm saying. Now we're going to dive 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:28.560 into the retail part. 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:30.440 And you know and like and to my point that 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.000 I was just saying, like I wanted to do retail 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:35.000 five years ago, I wasn't ready. 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:36.960 You know what I'm saying, but I built up, built 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:37.359 up to the. 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:39.560 Point where now we're ready and now we're opening up 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:42.000 the spot, you know what I'm saying, and it's going. 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:43.119 So how all right? 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.119 So as far as scaling the business right, because you 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.680 you started, I don't know exactly, like if you started 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:50.320 with a dispensard, like, what was what was the first 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:51.040 thing you actually started with. 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:52.440 I was just I was a caregiverer. 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:55.440 So what that means is, you know, if we're all 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:58.199 patients in Colorado or whatever, you would give me your 0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:00.840 paperwork and I would grow when you were from twelve 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:04.600 to sixteen dollars for you, right, And when we first started, 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:07.359 we only had forty likes and it was in a 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:10.000 twelve thousand square foot building and all of our patients 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:12.440 either had HIV or cancer or whatever. 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:13.320 So we grew in them. 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:16.320 So we do you grow it, we will give them 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:18.200 a portion of it and the rest of them would 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:19.000 sell to the dispensers. 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:20.040 So what's your business model? 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:22.560 As far as sale to thee we had a restaurant 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:25.080 on on and he actually was a great interview. And 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:27.280 the thing is everybody might not be in the restaurant business, 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:30.560 but in my personal opinion. Business is business, So no 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:34.360 matter what, the key principles of scaling a business can 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:37.240 you apply to anything, right, And obviously you've you've been able. 0:25:37.359 --> 0:25:39.120 That's what one of the things I'm really impressed about 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:40.399 is that you've been able to scale your business in 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:41.400 a very short period of time. 0:25:41.480 --> 0:25:41.600 Right. 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:44.400 And like you said, like you didn't have a business background, 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:46.920 so a how were you able to do that? 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:50.040 And like what's your kind of business business model like 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:52.200 broad brains as far as like you know, looking at 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:54.120 opportunities scaling. 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:56.359 Like you know, yeah, So my biggest thing is, like 0:25:56.600 --> 0:25:58.440 you know, my number one thing is to build a 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:00.639 good brand. You know what I'm saying. I feel like 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:03.119 once the brand is strong enough, you can take the 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:05.240 brand any you know what I'm saying. There's a couple 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:08.040 of examples of other brands that have sold to Canadian 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:10.680 LPs and different things like that that don't on any 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:13.200 of the supply chain. All they do is have a brand, 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:14.920 you know what I'm saying. But what I'm trying to 0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:17.960 do a vertically integrate my brand. It gives them more value, 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:19.560 you know what I'm saying. What I've learned is that 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:23.440 you know, nobody is you know, like, ain't nobody gonna 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:25.640 treat your car the way you treat your partisans your car. 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:28.639 They getting they drop some. It ain't the same you're 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:30.480 getting it, you know what I'm saying. It's just that's 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:33.040 just life. That's just how I just realized that people 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:35.680 do things. So, you know, for us, the reason why 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:38.200 we get cultivation in every sea is because we have 0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:40.680 a valuel away that we do things the way that 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:43.040 we grow the way the end product, you know what 0:26:43.119 --> 0:26:43.520 I'm saying. 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:45.399 So that's the reason why. 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:48.320 For me, why you know, we continue to go stay 0:26:48.400 --> 0:26:51.960 by state and acquirity licenses so that every time someone 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:55.399 opens up a BODYO package, they get an experience. You 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:57.560 know what I'm saying that we control the experience because 0:26:57.560 --> 0:26:59.440 we control the you know, the supply chain. 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:03.439 So Harrington Group, right, it has three things under the umbrella. 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:06.880 You have violas you got, uh is a baby butters 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:11.879 just viola yea uh butter baby baby, I'm sorry. And 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:14.240 then Harrington Wellness, which is our replay. 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:17.680 This is like a difference on the butter baby is 0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:20.600 the edible they just walked into. 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:23.920 Yeah they yeah, so they make so they make butters 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:27.159 and coconut oil, they make olive oil. They all kind 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:28.639 of stuff that you can cook with and they have 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:31.320 vision and their messages that you know, a lot of 0:27:31.400 --> 0:27:34.840 sick people can't eat edibles, you know what I'm saying, 0:27:34.880 --> 0:27:36.720 because a lot of times people that have cancer where 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:38.920 they have diabetes, you know what I'm saying, So you 0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:41.320 can't take all this sweet stuff trying to get the 0:27:41.400 --> 0:27:44.680 benefits and you messing something else up. So their their 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:47.760 their mission is to be able to teach people how 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:51.399 to dosage and co midicate themselves through all natural foods. 0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:55.280 Okay, and then the harrings and wellnesses. That's like the 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:57.560 oils of the creams. That's yeah, that's the CBD line. 0:27:57.640 --> 0:28:00.720 So right now on that on Harrington Wellness, our first 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:03.840 product line is all people or whatever. It's really catered 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:09.440 towards recovery, pain relief. Wee can warrior athletes, you know 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:12.040 what I'm saying. 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So we allow on people 0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:03.520 from the community and opportunity to be a part of 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:04.080 the brand. 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:05.160 To be able to sell products. 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:08.880 So I was reading when I think twenty twelve you 0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:12.240 had the surgery on you need correct and the staff 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:15.720 infection and then trying to treat you like everything wasn't 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:17.960 working right and you were using a cream. 0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:19.440 I was like, huh. 0:31:19.840 --> 0:31:22.360 And then when I kept reading, I'm like, oh, okay. 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:24.920 And then from there then you start getting more guys. 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:27.479 Steve Kerr right, I'm gonna start using it. And then 0:31:27.880 --> 0:31:31.160 you had this meeting with David Stern that churns. That's 0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:31.840 a game changer. 0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:33.239 It was a game changing man. 0:31:33.320 --> 0:31:36.280 That that was crazy man, Like, I mean, I seen 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:38.520 him at this thing called a Milking Conference, which is 0:31:38.560 --> 0:31:40.800 a conference they hold here in LA I think it's 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:43.680 like forty five hundred ticket just to come for three 0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:47.320 days and just kind of learn about all different Industries 0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:50.560 or whatever, and he was on He was on a 0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:55.920 pay talking about the effect of esports on like the NBA, 0:31:56.160 --> 0:31:58.960 NFL because the esports guys were saying like it's gonna 0:31:59.000 --> 0:32:01.440 trump love sports, you know what I'm saying. 0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:03.680 And he was on there and he was just talking, 0:32:03.760 --> 0:32:06.200 you know, they was very witty, you know what I'm saying. 0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:08.040 So he was up there talking circles around a lot 0:32:08.080 --> 0:32:11.160 of people up there, him Robber Kraft was up there 0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:13.680 that got from Univision or whatever. So after after they 0:32:13.720 --> 0:32:15.520 got done, I just went up to him like, heaby, 0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:18.680 what's up man? And uh, you know, his mind is crazy, 0:32:18.800 --> 0:32:21.600 remembers everything, bro, Like you gotta think about. He's seen 0:32:21.760 --> 0:32:24.240 over you know, two thousand players the least. 0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:25.960 But when he sold me, its not like I was 0:32:26.160 --> 0:32:28.520 Lebron or somebody. First thing, he said, how's your knee? 0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:29.360 Wow? 0:32:29.520 --> 0:32:29.840 My knie? 0:32:30.440 --> 0:32:32.120 You know what I'm saying. I never ever sat and 0:32:32.200 --> 0:32:34.280 talked with him about it ever, you know what I'm saying. 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:36.440 He just shocked like that. So we started talking. 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:38.440 I think that was my way of telling him like, yeah, 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:41.120 actually okay, I actually was caim blah blah blah blah 0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:44.280 his face and I started telling him what I was doing, 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:46.640 and he was just saying, you know, we don't smoke 0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:49.280 all the product. It's real funny about it. I was like, hey, 0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:50.640 you know, you get a chance. I want to sit 0:32:50.680 --> 0:32:52.120 and talk with you about a couple of things. And 0:32:52.680 --> 0:32:54.440 it took me like seven months to set up my 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:58.080 first menion with whatever. But he's so busy. I had 0:32:58.160 --> 0:33:00.720 like a thirty minute times like talk to him right 0:33:01.040 --> 0:33:03.600 like the lady from that was running the Sacramento Kings 0:33:03.720 --> 0:33:05.560 was meeting after and he was in there for an 0:33:05.560 --> 0:33:08.120 hour and a half. It was that interested in everything 0:33:08.160 --> 0:33:09.800 that I was telling, you know what I'm saying, and 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:12.080 he's like, let's have another meeting Madigan. And then the 0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:13.920 third time I met with him, I just asked him 0:33:13.920 --> 0:33:15.680 and said, you mind if I just like interview you 0:33:15.800 --> 0:33:19.120 on TV talking about that, and he said yes, and 0:33:19.360 --> 0:33:21.080 you know what I had that It was so funny 0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:22.600 because you know, he's an attorney, so it's kind of 0:33:22.680 --> 0:33:25.560 hard trying to like trick him right, and you know 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:27.800 he's very calculated. He's not gonna say now, you know mean, 0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:30.440 So when I was going through all the questions with 0:33:30.560 --> 0:33:33.200 Mavick Carter or whatever, is you know, interrupted and helped 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:35.880 me put that together. We was trying to figure out 0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:38.280 ways to kind of walk him down the road to say, 0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:41.960 like the leak should just considered Yeah, the bitshoes and 0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:45.080 literally my second question, bro, he said that. He was 0:33:45.120 --> 0:33:46.920 just like, yeah, I have to talk to you. I 0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:49.760 think they really should re evaluate the policies and this, 0:33:49.840 --> 0:33:51.720 that and there. So I'm looking at everybody off camera 0:33:51.920 --> 0:33:53.000 like what else you want? 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:56.360 You know what I'm saying. 0:33:56.880 --> 0:33:58.720 But now I was cool man, and a lot of 0:33:58.760 --> 0:34:01.080 people always say how much ownership did you give them 0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:01.600 in your company? 0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:04.040 Gave him nothing, you know what I'm saying. 0:34:04.040 --> 0:34:07.320 He believe that that conversation could change, Like the way 0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:09.480 Lee's look at it now like that, I feel like 0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:10.440 that's super imployant. 0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:12.400 I think I think it's uphill you. 0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:15.640 You kind of know, like, Okay, the tide is turning, right, 0:34:15.760 --> 0:34:19.000 So anybody that is intelligent, it's a fight that's not 0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:20.880 worth fighting, right, even if you're not. 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:23.840 Pro marijuana, And you don't have to be pro marijuana 0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:25.120 or eight or use it yourself, but. 0:34:26.600 --> 0:34:29.960 It's really hard to be totally against it at this 0:34:30.120 --> 0:34:34.839 point because it's a battle that eventually you're not gonna 0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:36.920 win that back, right, So I think that when you 0:34:36.960 --> 0:34:38.719 see David Sterning and you know the guys who go 0:34:38.800 --> 0:34:40.480 there and tell that obviously intelligent people and they want 0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:41.520 to be on the right side of history. 0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:44.279 You gotta remember, man, I swear bro like you know, 0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:46.279 it was so funny I first got done that. I 0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:48.759 was so scared to tell you what I was doing, right, 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:51.759 just thinking of like how people do say yea. And 0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:54.440 I mean since I was retired, I've been offered the 0:34:54.600 --> 0:34:57.480 NBA jobs, don't coach, you know what I'm saying, I've 0:34:57.480 --> 0:35:00.480 been offered TV jobs like nothing. 0:35:00.680 --> 0:35:03.840 I'm not saying that they don't care, but it's like they're. 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:06.520 Starting to come around to realize and like all the 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:11.400 pharmaceutical stuff we're using, dog, like that's the real dangerous stuff. 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:14.960 Like we can sit here right now, came and smoke 0:35:15.040 --> 0:35:17.960 for the next two weeks straight. I mean, back to back, 0:35:18.560 --> 0:35:22.640 you edibles asleep. We gonna pass out, but I guarantee 0:35:22.680 --> 0:35:26.319 you won't die. There's five pills. There's pills out here 0:35:26.320 --> 0:35:28.359 in the world that they've given people that they give 0:35:28.800 --> 0:35:31.560 a bottle of sixty and you could take five of 0:35:31.680 --> 0:35:34.239 them and getting their hands on them, chot anything like that. 0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:36.880 They take five in their death, So how do you 0:35:37.000 --> 0:35:38.279 compare it to it? 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:40.200 Don't it makes sense? You know what I'm saying. And 0:35:40.280 --> 0:35:42.719 I think that people are starting to really wake up, y'all. 0:35:42.719 --> 0:35:45.399 We're not saying that, We're not saying that everybody should smoke, 0:35:45.440 --> 0:35:46.239 We're not saying any of that. 0:35:46.680 --> 0:35:49.840 Always saying is that it's an alternative way for people. 0:35:49.640 --> 0:35:53.200 To medicate themselves without the highly addictive and the dangerous 0:35:53.239 --> 0:35:55.080 from the suit and drugs that are being off. 0:35:55.360 --> 0:35:55.839 You know what I mean. 0:35:55.880 --> 0:35:58.160 You look at these commercials and it's like, you know, 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:05.080 people are skipping and the commercials like side of things, internal. 0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:08.000 Beating, give it on the beach, and they're still skipping. 0:36:08.040 --> 0:36:11.160 I'm like that, you know what I'm saying. So it's 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:12.560 just like, you know, my own things. 0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:14.440 I just feel like, man, sometimes man, it's just like 0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:17.920 commaisense is not always coming, you know. But you know 0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:20.719 the reason why I like the platform that I have 0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:23.120 is that, you know, when I go to these seminars 0:36:23.239 --> 0:36:26.440 and it is these doctors up there talking about fidal commanding. 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:26.759 Or is it this that? 0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:29.000 And the third like you're talking to people that have 0:36:29.239 --> 0:36:31.719 no idea what you gotta talk to you know what 0:36:31.760 --> 0:36:33.359 I'm saying. You got talking to their language. And that's 0:36:33.400 --> 0:36:35.480 what I've been able to do with other athletes and 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:38.960 other entertainers that are stepping out and being advocates. I 0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:41.320 think that we are starting to humanize the plant in 0:36:41.360 --> 0:36:42.600 the whole process in general. 0:36:42.800 --> 0:36:44.879 That's that's dope, that's nope virus. And now we're gonna 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:45.520 go into all last. 0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:48.280 Second and talking about the future of the marijuana industry 0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:50.919 and company as well. All right, so now we're gonna 0:36:50.920 --> 0:36:52.719 go into the future. But before we go into that, 0:36:52.840 --> 0:36:55.640 because we like to paint the real picture of entrepreneurship. 0:36:55.640 --> 0:36:57.160 I don't know if you watch like YouTube a lot, 0:36:57.239 --> 0:37:00.160 but I do. And there's a lot of entrepreneur all 0:37:00.239 --> 0:37:03.759 guys on YouTube, and they always they talking circles for 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:05.560 that you don't really know what they said, and it's 0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:07.040 all motivational. 0:37:06.560 --> 0:37:08.120 Like if you don't wake up in five ahead, you 0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:10.120 know what I mean. But it's like, okay, but what 0:37:10.160 --> 0:37:11.560 does that mean? You know what I'm saying. What the 0:37:11.600 --> 0:37:14.120 good thing I like about you is that you actually 0:37:14.160 --> 0:37:16.960 started a few businesses right at that. 0:37:17.040 --> 0:37:20.840 Yeah, So reading your portfolio was like, you've had businesses 0:37:20.880 --> 0:37:23.520 that haven't succeeded though. Right at the date you at 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:27.800 the restaurant in Miami and you try a hotel in 0:37:28.320 --> 0:37:31.319 New York City, upstate, upstate. 0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:36.040 That way too far. You were talking about it's important 0:37:36.080 --> 0:37:38.400 for people to understand that every business is not gone. Ye. 0:37:39.680 --> 0:37:42.239 No, I mean most successful business people would tell you 0:37:42.320 --> 0:37:44.840 they took hell a l before they were successful, you 0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:46.800 know what I'm saying, Like, that's part of the process. 0:37:46.840 --> 0:37:49.239 You just got to manage the loss. You understand what 0:37:49.280 --> 0:37:49.680 I'm saying. 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:52.080 So you know, in the beginning, like I used to 0:37:52.160 --> 0:37:54.480 be so like you could sell me on any idea, 0:37:55.840 --> 0:37:59.759 any idea, you was passionate about it. I'm like, how 0:37:59.840 --> 0:38:02.960 much shit we could do well? And I learned that 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:04.840 that's not what we operate, you know what I'm saying. So, 0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:07.800 like the one operation was fully in the city. So 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:11.560 you know, Felipo on fifty ninth Street has been over 0:38:11.719 --> 0:38:17.160 ten years, ten twelve. I think basket might put some 0:38:17.200 --> 0:38:19.440 money up. I think you know what I'm saying. And 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:22.799 you know we in there every week. 0:38:22.920 --> 0:38:23.640 It's cracking. 0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:27.040 I'm like, in Miami, I gotta go ahead. What I 0:38:27.160 --> 0:38:31.040 learned about Miami, Miami seasonal, that's true, saying. What I'm 0:38:31.040 --> 0:38:33.080 saying people go down there during the winter. They don't 0:38:33.160 --> 0:38:35.919 go down there during the summers. You understand what I'm saying. 0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:38.720 So I learned that. So now there's any Miami business 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:40.120 deals and it's food or all. 0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:43.480 That kind of related or service I know now like 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:45.279 and now I know that about other places too, like 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:46.640 places it is a seasonal place. 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:47.160 You gotta know. 0:38:48.120 --> 0:38:52.279 The hotel business. What happened with that I think was 0:38:52.400 --> 0:38:54.520 more of just two thousand and eight happening is one 0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:57.240 of the May investment. It's just everything that just crashed. 0:38:57.239 --> 0:38:59.000 You know what I'm saying. I think the concept was good. 0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:02.000 I don't know how far upstate New York maybe, but 0:39:02.160 --> 0:39:04.879 you know they had, like Jack Nicholson had signed going 0:39:04.960 --> 0:39:07.920 to do the golf course. They had a hotel bed, 0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:10.080 the hotel was the anchor, and then they were gonna 0:39:10.120 --> 0:39:11.960 build homes around the golf course. 0:39:12.520 --> 0:39:15.480 So you know that that model has. 0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:17.480 Worked a lot of places. You know what I'm saying is, 0:39:17.600 --> 0:39:19.359 you know, I know a project right now growing up 0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:22.800 in Vegas like that. You know that model has worked. 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:26.120 So I say that deal right there didn't come in fruition. 0:39:26.280 --> 0:39:28.120 I think more just because of the time. You know 0:39:28.160 --> 0:39:30.520 what I'm saying, I think the concept and everything was 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:33.160 actually right on. You know, Mariotte had just signed on 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:36.120 to manage the hotel, so you know, everything was coming 0:39:36.160 --> 0:39:38.960 in place with that, but I took that out, you 0:39:39.040 --> 0:39:41.839 know what I'm saying. And you know when I played 0:39:41.880 --> 0:39:43.480 for the Knicks or right before when I was in 0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:46.160 Golden State, I started the Protege, a sneaker line or 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:49.360 whatever that was going to be very successful, but I 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:51.719 had bad business partners, you know what I'm saying. So 0:39:51.800 --> 0:39:54.160 that's when I started realizing I'm a bet on myself 0:39:54.239 --> 0:39:56.320 and everything. So like a lot of times now, like 0:39:56.400 --> 0:39:58.040 it's really tough for me to get to invest in 0:39:58.120 --> 0:40:02.279 somebody else's idea. I got to fully understand it. Like 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:04.200 I mean, when I see you understand, I understand it 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:06.040 just like the person that's pitching it. And you know 0:40:06.080 --> 0:40:09.040 what I'm saying, before I would actually make an investment. 0:40:09.520 --> 0:40:12.040 And and I think that, you know, from taking all 0:40:12.080 --> 0:40:13.960 those l's, I think that's what I learned. You know 0:40:14.000 --> 0:40:16.640 what I'm saying is that you know, you can invest 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:19.120 in other people ideas or whatever, but you know, if 0:40:19.120 --> 0:40:20.600 you're gonna make that investment, put. 0:40:20.480 --> 0:40:21.680 Your heart own money into it. 0:40:21.960 --> 0:40:23.880 You need to fully understand how you're gonna get your 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:26.560 money out, what all the risky involved, and what it's 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:28.800 gonna be the ROI, what's the true ROI, not just 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:33.960 something someone pitching. Because even in cannabis, I remember, like 0:40:34.120 --> 0:40:36.839 someone pitching me, I'm in the business already. Like I'm 0:40:36.920 --> 0:40:39.560 in it already. They came into my building in Colorado 0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:41.920 and show me a facility they want to put up 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:45.120 in Nevada, and it was gonna make thirty million dollars 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:47.239 a year. And the one thing I can tell you 0:40:47.400 --> 0:40:49.799 for sure, there's no businesses that you're starting a year 0:40:51.200 --> 0:40:51.720 in cannabis. 0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:53.720 It's just impossible, you know, because you got to remember. 0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:56.000 And this is a gym for people to understand. It's like, 0:40:56.560 --> 0:40:58.200 you know, when you're launching a new market. 0:40:58.680 --> 0:41:00.160 It takes a while to get that cuts to my 0:41:00.239 --> 0:41:02.880 acquisition because most people are going to the dispensary that 0:41:03.000 --> 0:41:05.960 first time, and a lot of times those dispensaries aren't 0:41:05.960 --> 0:41:08.919 gonna be carrying the fire fire either. So you're gonna 0:41:08.960 --> 0:41:11.000 go in there, You're gonna spend sixty dollars for an 0:41:11.040 --> 0:41:14.400 eighth smoke it, and remember your man got it on 0:41:14.440 --> 0:41:17.279 the corner for twenty five, you know what I'm saying. 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:19.960 So it's gonna take you a while to realize that 0:41:20.080 --> 0:41:22.680 your man stuff isn't tested, it's not as safe as. 0:41:22.640 --> 0:41:24.200 What you actually smoke in the dispensary. 0:41:24.520 --> 0:41:26.640 It takes people time to get you used to that 0:41:26.719 --> 0:41:29.800 and realizing, like, this stuff out of this dispensary is 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:32.479 way safer for me and my family or my girl 0:41:32.640 --> 0:41:34.600 or my own boy or whatever, you know what I'm saying. 0:41:34.640 --> 0:41:37.400 And that's when people start going back to the dispensary 0:41:37.600 --> 0:41:40.920 and realizing that smoking the other stuff is potentially dangerous, 0:41:41.080 --> 0:41:43.879 you know what I'm saying. So you know, they're sitting 0:41:43.880 --> 0:41:45.759 there telling me, like we're gonna make all this money 0:41:45.800 --> 0:41:48.080 in the year one of a market that's brand. 0:41:47.840 --> 0:41:50.120 New, or like it's impossible, you know what I'm saying. 0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:52.440 And it's shown if you look at the market out there, 0:41:52.480 --> 0:41:55.120 people still kind of struggling in the body market and 0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:55.920 it's been three. 0:41:55.800 --> 0:41:57.279 Years now, you know what I'm saying. 0:41:57.360 --> 0:42:00.919 So that's just you know, you know, like I said, 0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:03.520 you just got to really educate yourself when you investment, 0:42:03.760 --> 0:42:06.160 and you know it's not easy, and you know a 0:42:06.239 --> 0:42:08.800 lot of times you know, especially depending on the industry, 0:42:08.880 --> 0:42:11.640 like cannabis is so new, a lot of people getting tripped. 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:14.120 Yeah, that's what I'm saying, because it's so crazy because 0:42:14.160 --> 0:42:15.920 everybody's looking there like it's the gold rush. 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:20.080 Right you just go to La or Las Vegas and 0:42:20.200 --> 0:42:23.400 open a dispens people believe are thinking like. 0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:27.440 That, And it's not even that easy to open it, right, 0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:29.680 Like you just can't go to any state and just 0:42:29.800 --> 0:42:30.640 open up the dispension. 0:42:30.680 --> 0:42:32.520 All these places right now, that's kind of that open 0:42:32.600 --> 0:42:33.240 It's Oklahoma. 0:42:33.280 --> 0:42:35.080 I would say that I know of right now that 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:38.080 it's pretty easy to go get a license and open 0:42:38.200 --> 0:42:39.360 up you know what I'm saying. But a lot of 0:42:39.400 --> 0:42:43.400 these markets, man, they're so regulated, and you know, the 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:46.480 markets that are smart to me, they make it somewhat 0:42:46.560 --> 0:42:49.680 restricted just because you know that oversaturation, like a place 0:42:49.800 --> 0:42:52.120 like you know, Washington and orel You know what I'm saying. 0:42:52.960 --> 0:42:54.000 That's another thing I learned. 0:42:54.040 --> 0:42:55.640 You know what I'm saying that you know, I'm not 0:42:55.760 --> 0:42:57.719 really going to run and be so excited to run 0:42:57.760 --> 0:43:00.960 into a state where it's unlimited licensing, you know what 0:43:01.000 --> 0:43:01.359 I'm saying. 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:03.719 Where it's a place where it's undimit licenses. What I'm 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:04.960 gonna do is I'm. 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:08.040 Gonna go partner up waring those licenses producers come in, 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:11.200 give them my expertise, my SOPs, and just having to 0:43:11.239 --> 0:43:12.239 feel of like ola job. 0:43:12.719 --> 0:43:13.560 You know, I see what I'm saying. 0:43:13.560 --> 0:43:15.000 It don't make sense for me to go spend all 0:43:15.040 --> 0:43:18.000 the capex to go buy something to be competing, because 0:43:18.000 --> 0:43:19.320 then it's just a race to the bubom. 0:43:19.640 --> 0:43:21.800 You know. I use my example of like in Oregon. 0:43:22.200 --> 0:43:24.600 In Oregon, when I went out there in twenty sixteen, 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:29.320 and outdoor pounds was being sold for any living too. 0:43:29.360 --> 0:43:32.680 A Loanan nine hundred high end thirteen fourteen hundred. 0:43:33.360 --> 0:43:37.120 By the time I harvested in twenty fourteen, the price 0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:40.280 of pounds outdoor pounds was like three four hundred bucks. 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:44.200 But you know why because the market was oversaturated. 0:43:44.200 --> 0:43:45.880 When I went out there in twenty sixteen, it was 0:43:45.920 --> 0:43:49.120 only forty operators by the time I harvested it, and 0:43:49.280 --> 0:43:51.880 the year later it was over four hundred producers. And 0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:53.520 now you look at the market right now, they got 0:43:53.560 --> 0:43:56.640 a million pounds of surplus in Oregon, you know what 0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:58.600 I'm saying. So so these are the some of the 0:43:58.640 --> 0:44:01.560 things people gotta learn. You just realizing, you know, and 0:44:02.160 --> 0:44:03.840 you know, I gotta do a better job because I 0:44:03.920 --> 0:44:05.680 wanted I want to get more of this access and 0:44:05.760 --> 0:44:09.960 this and now even access with this information to other 0:44:10.200 --> 0:44:12.279 entrepreneurs that's trying to figure it out. You know what 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:14.920 I'm saying, because these are like very valuable things that 0:44:14.960 --> 0:44:17.360 they should know. It kind of help them instill in 0:44:17.440 --> 0:44:19.120 the right direction so that they don't lose. 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:21.520 Not that's dope, and that was the dope when you 0:44:21.600 --> 0:44:23.200 do that platform that you're speaking up too, because like 0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:25.160 I said, there's so many I'm sure people hit you 0:44:25.280 --> 0:44:27.279 up all the time, but there's so many people that 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:29.520 want to get involved in it, right, and it's like 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:33.320 it's not easy a and you know it's it's pitfall 0:44:33.360 --> 0:44:35.520 for any other business. So you know, I think that 0:44:36.640 --> 0:44:38.359 the more, like you said, the more you the more 0:44:38.400 --> 0:44:40.640 you learn, right, you're gonna educate yourself. 0:44:40.640 --> 0:44:42.359 And it also is important what you said before as 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:43.560 far as to say, Okay, a. 0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:44.920 Lot of time people just want to come in and 0:44:45.000 --> 0:44:47.560 open the dispense, Like nah, just work your way up, 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:48.279 like it takes time. 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:48.960 You know, you don't have to. 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:51.759 You're not gonna be over tomorrow. I think everybody's gonna 0:44:51.840 --> 0:44:53.439 rush like I need to do this right now before 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:56.000 this blows up. I just wait, Like two years isn't 0:44:56.000 --> 0:44:56.480 gonna kill it. 0:44:57.960 --> 0:45:00.279 I said, you're right because you know, like know, and 0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:01.640 I feel that pressure sometime. 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:03.960 There's a business owner too where you know, you see 0:45:04.000 --> 0:45:07.759 all this consolidation happening around me, and it's like, damn man, 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:10.960 they got access to Marnie million. And I'm still trying, 0:45:11.040 --> 0:45:12.800 you know what I'm saying. But at the end of 0:45:12.840 --> 0:45:14.520 the day, you know what I'm saying, I think that, 0:45:14.840 --> 0:45:16.920 you know, being a little patient and I'm seeing move 0:45:17.000 --> 0:45:19.480 too slow, be a little patient cause I'm at the table. 0:45:19.680 --> 0:45:21.839 You know, that's all you can ask, is I'm a ask. 0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:23.160 All I need is an opportunity. 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:25.360 So I'm at the tape. That's what am I gonna do? 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:28.000 What am I gonna do with this opportunity? And you know, 0:45:28.120 --> 0:45:29.880 I feel like, you know, sticking to you to what 0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:33.959 I'm doing and just building an unbelievable brand that everybody knows, 0:45:34.400 --> 0:45:36.360 like I said, every time they pick up a package, 0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:37.640 they have a great experience. 0:45:38.040 --> 0:45:39.640 I think I'll be all right, you know what I'm saying. 0:45:39.640 --> 0:45:40.839 I think I could be okay. 0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:45.000 Yeah, So I read you know, you guys evaluation over 0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:47.319 one hundred million, but you said billion's not off the question, 0:45:47.880 --> 0:45:50.279 So you got what's the next market that you guys 0:45:50.280 --> 0:45:51.000 are trying to tap it? 0:45:51.680 --> 0:45:54.879 So you know I'm being honest, man, like, I never really, 0:45:54.960 --> 0:45:57.200 I never came into this thing with a dollar mind 0:45:57.320 --> 0:45:58.480 a dollar in mind. 0:45:58.560 --> 0:45:59.080 You know I'm saying. 0:45:59.080 --> 0:46:01.200 It was never about I'm gonna make a million a 0:46:01.280 --> 0:46:02.960 billion dollars. You know a lot of times when I 0:46:03.040 --> 0:46:04.960 do interviews, they kind of woke me down that road. 0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:09.239 I fall for it every time. But one I think 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:14.240 that what I'm creating will be worth multi billion dollars, 0:46:14.600 --> 0:46:15.800 not just one whatever. 0:46:15.920 --> 0:46:17.040 One is too small, right. 0:46:17.560 --> 0:46:20.120 But the reason why I think that is because the 0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:22.440 good and how many people we're gonna help is the 0:46:22.520 --> 0:46:25.640 reason why you're gonna have that kind of evaluation, as 0:46:25.640 --> 0:46:27.320 you know, like with I, yo, like, I'm trying to 0:46:27.360 --> 0:46:29.200 make this brand and brand of the people, you know 0:46:29.239 --> 0:46:31.319 what I'm saying. And I got a couple of different 0:46:31.400 --> 0:46:33.400 ideas of trying to figure out just how to get 0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:37.320 regular people involved and investing in BODYO let them take ownership, 0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:38.279 you know what I'm saying. 0:46:38.320 --> 0:46:42.600 I think that's the kids like adding you know, adding customers. 0:46:42.160 --> 0:46:44.239 Feel like they own the brand, you know what I'm saying, 0:46:44.280 --> 0:46:47.560 Like like I always worference the Puffins sarat You know 0:46:47.600 --> 0:46:51.120 what I'm saying. Puffers created the environment with Sarac where 0:46:51.200 --> 0:46:55.000 people feel like they are part of that lifestyle. Right, 0:46:55.080 --> 0:46:56.640 It's like you pick up that bottle like you win 0:46:56.719 --> 0:47:03.600 in there looking got a suit like that out, you 0:47:03.640 --> 0:47:06.080 know what I mean. So I learned that from him, 0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:07.840 but I saw that, you know what I'm saying, And 0:47:08.719 --> 0:47:10.400 you know, I think that he was able to do 0:47:10.480 --> 0:47:13.239 that because he's very authentic in his message and he 0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:16.239 was consistent, you know what I'm saying, And that's what 0:47:16.640 --> 0:47:18.479 you know, That's what I'm working on. And like I said, 0:47:18.520 --> 0:47:20.840 you know, with this incubator program, different things like that, 0:47:21.440 --> 0:47:23.600 I think we're gonna be that brand and everybody's gonna 0:47:23.600 --> 0:47:25.719 want to support because they're gonna be at a take 0:47:25.760 --> 0:47:26.200 over the ship. 0:47:26.239 --> 0:47:27.920 Then let me ask before we wrap it up. I 0:47:27.960 --> 0:47:28.480 just had a question. 0:47:28.600 --> 0:47:31.600 They just passed the Safe according and passed the past 0:47:31.640 --> 0:47:35.000 the person that Safe Thinking Act. So if anybody coind 0:47:35.040 --> 0:47:39.240 of familiar the it still is a major problem because 0:47:39.320 --> 0:47:41.560 marijuana is not legal on the federal level. 0:47:41.600 --> 0:47:43.239 Even though it's legal, it's on sustain levels. 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:45.359 Right, So a lot of things, most things don't really 0:47:45.440 --> 0:47:48.160 want to do business with marijuana company because it's a 0:47:48.200 --> 0:47:50.800 great line they can get in trouble from the FETs. 0:47:50.920 --> 0:47:51.000 Right. 0:47:51.880 --> 0:47:53.920 How have you dealt with that as far as like 0:47:54.080 --> 0:47:55.759 and what do you think the future? How do you 0:47:55.840 --> 0:47:58.279 foresee the future in that, because that plays a major 0:47:58.320 --> 0:47:59.800 part in my opinion because once the thanks. 0:47:59.680 --> 0:48:02.080 Legal, that's kind of like you know, right that people 0:48:02.120 --> 0:48:06.000 can get a loans potentially get into the space, but 0:48:06.320 --> 0:48:08.040 not black people once again, because you know, we got 0:48:08.080 --> 0:48:11.120 student loans and why it's gonna be tough or whatever. 0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:14.240 But you know, when I first started, I had no banking. 0:48:14.520 --> 0:48:19.320 Obviously, credit unions have come around, so every state I 0:48:19.480 --> 0:48:21.719 bank with the credit union and then there's also a 0:48:21.840 --> 0:48:25.640 third party company that I hope with also made pay 0:48:25.760 --> 0:48:29.080 quick that they're pretty much like the middle man between 0:48:29.800 --> 0:48:32.879 the producers and the bank, and they have a whole 0:48:33.120 --> 0:48:36.360 you know, due diligence and a process that you know, 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:38.719 the banks, the credit unions are. 0:48:38.719 --> 0:48:41.680 Comfortable with being able to bank. But you know the 0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:44.400 banking is smart, like the credit unions, they making a 0:48:44.440 --> 0:48:44.959 lot of money. 0:48:45.000 --> 0:48:47.640 You know what I'm saying they charging twenty five hundred 0:48:47.640 --> 0:48:50.200 dollars a month just to hold the bank account. You 0:48:50.280 --> 0:48:52.080 know what I'm saying it let alone the fees on 0:48:52.160 --> 0:48:55.440 all the money that actually comes in. So banks realize 0:48:55.440 --> 0:48:57.520 it's a billion dollar opportunity for them too. 0:48:57.680 --> 0:48:59.799 But it's just that the federal government as it ends, 0:49:02.600 --> 0:49:05.560 you know what I'm saying, that they could Yeah, that's dope, man. 0:49:05.680 --> 0:49:07.520 Now we want anything else you want to talk about 0:49:08.560 --> 0:49:09.920 you now, we want to thank you for coming in. 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:12.880 Also before we wrap it up, it's important, I think 0:49:12.920 --> 0:49:14.759 for people with aid to follow that passion right because you, 0:49:14.880 --> 0:49:17.920 like you said, you're you're passionate about this. 0:49:18.040 --> 0:49:20.200 It's not just about the money. It's not even about 0:49:20.239 --> 0:49:20.520 the money. 0:49:20.560 --> 0:49:23.640 It's to help people, right, And I think that's one 0:49:23.680 --> 0:49:25.719 of the biggest mistakes that people and even we've made 0:49:25.760 --> 0:49:27.800 that mistakes in the Bath with the other things that 0:49:27.880 --> 0:49:30.440 we were successful now with the podcast because we actually 0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:31.000 like doing it. 0:49:31.320 --> 0:49:32.680 We're passionate, but but we've done. 0:49:32.520 --> 0:49:35.000 Stuff in the Bath well honestly just different money, and 0:49:35.040 --> 0:49:35.600 it didn't work. 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:36.160 It never. 0:49:39.760 --> 0:49:42.040 It's hard to wake up everyone and do something if 0:49:42.040 --> 0:49:43.600 you don't really care about what you're doing, right, So 0:49:43.640 --> 0:49:46.160 I think that that's encouraging. And then also it's very 0:49:46.200 --> 0:49:50.480 important first impressions and work act it too, So I 0:49:50.520 --> 0:49:51.640 would be talking off camera. 0:49:51.880 --> 0:49:54.400 So if anybody followed the podcast, you know. 0:49:54.480 --> 0:49:57.080 That I went to like eight different high schools in 0:49:57.200 --> 0:49:59.560 high school with basketball, but I went to school in 0:49:59.600 --> 0:50:02.280 Florida for a little bit at im G Academy. 0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:04.120 So when I first met Al, this was. 0:50:04.320 --> 0:50:07.120 Years ago, and he probably doesn't remember, but one thing 0:50:07.160 --> 0:50:09.560 I always remember because he was in IMG training. He 0:50:09.600 --> 0:50:11.560 was a professional, so I everybody's not familiar. IMG is 0:50:11.960 --> 0:50:14.360 one of the top prep schools in the country. Actually 0:50:14.480 --> 0:50:18.920 just won so they have they have pros that come 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.000 in as well, like football and basketball. 0:50:21.000 --> 0:50:23.239 At the time. Yeah, so he was. 0:50:23.440 --> 0:50:23.879 He was there. 0:50:23.920 --> 0:50:26.279 He's one of the pros that was working out, and 0:50:26.440 --> 0:50:28.279 we used to run pick up games every once in 0:50:28.320 --> 0:50:29.719 a while. So I can't say I had a lot 0:50:29.760 --> 0:50:31.719 of interactions with him. I had some interactions with with 0:50:31.880 --> 0:50:35.120 some other people. Harold Jamison real good, Oh my god, 0:50:35.320 --> 0:50:35.920 Harold James. 0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:45.000 He's different. I've never getting them stories. Jamison. He's the 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:48.560 first person. So I missed my school box one day, right, 0:50:48.640 --> 0:50:50.440 somebody He's like, what's to school here? 0:50:50.480 --> 0:50:50.799 You wrong? 0:50:50.960 --> 0:50:53.040 He had a drop top lesus and he had the 0:50:53.080 --> 0:50:56.800 air conditioner on full blast. Well he had the air conditionings. 0:50:57.000 --> 0:50:59.239 We got to the top then because it's cold, he's 0:50:59.239 --> 0:50:59.919 gotten colder. 0:51:00.480 --> 0:51:02.440 So he's the first person I've ever seen to have 0:51:02.520 --> 0:51:05.120 a footballing air conditioning in the drop. 0:51:07.040 --> 0:51:10.120 Now you know anything about Al Jamison, So when you 0:51:10.360 --> 0:51:14.640 like he's sweat at the dropping like yeah, like dropping 0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:16.520 hat bro So Like he was the type dude where 0:51:16.520 --> 0:51:17.279 we used to work out. 0:51:17.360 --> 0:51:19.600 Bro Like during the workout, he's had to always wipe 0:51:19.640 --> 0:51:19.960 the court. 0:51:20.000 --> 0:51:23.279 That something he'll go through an our workout, bro, no 0:51:23.480 --> 0:51:26.080 bs our workout, he go through four teen shirts. 0:51:27.320 --> 0:51:31.440 I always had weight issues, like, bro, how you overweight? 0:51:31.760 --> 0:51:33.400 That's what if he was playing but heat at that 0:51:33.520 --> 0:51:34.920 time and that's when they want to don't play with 0:51:34.960 --> 0:51:36.560 the body fat and all that type of stuff. 0:51:36.920 --> 0:51:38.560 But you got to have issues with his weight and 0:51:38.640 --> 0:51:43.640 he used to sweat. I'm guaranteed he was dropping shout 0:51:43.920 --> 0:51:45.600 wherever you are in the world right now, man, shout 0:51:45.600 --> 0:51:47.719 out to you. But I was saying that. You know, 0:51:48.000 --> 0:51:50.279 one thing I never forget is that you know how 0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:51.399 he always worked hard. 0:51:51.480 --> 0:51:53.440 He was a hard worker. Like I'm never the job 0:51:53.600 --> 0:51:55.960 so that the head basketballs. He used to always reference him, like, 0:51:55.960 --> 0:51:58.080 you see how how how hard I works. 0:51:58.080 --> 0:51:59.520 You gotta work like that. That's how hard. 0:52:00.040 --> 0:52:02.080 He always worked hard. And he always smiled like he 0:52:02.560 --> 0:52:03.719 was never in a bat I never saw him in 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:05.239 the bat. Move boy had smile his pace, right. So 0:52:05.480 --> 0:52:07.520 it's funny when people remember because I was fifteen years 0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:09.839 ago and I still remember that, right. So I say 0:52:09.880 --> 0:52:11.879 that to say, you never know how it's come full 0:52:11.920 --> 0:52:14.320 circle now he's on our podcast, right, So it's important 0:52:14.360 --> 0:52:17.000 to just be a good person, right and to set 0:52:17.080 --> 0:52:17.439 that exam. 0:52:17.520 --> 0:52:22.520 You never know who's watching you, exactly like reality, and 0:52:22.680 --> 0:52:24.120 you never know when it could come back. 0:52:24.280 --> 0:52:24.400 Right. 0:52:24.640 --> 0:52:27.279 So I just always tell people, man, it's just so 0:52:27.480 --> 0:52:30.640 much easy to be cool. Like it's so like it 0:52:30.719 --> 0:52:33.520 takes no effort to be cool. It takes no effort. 0:52:33.600 --> 0:52:34.800 Somebody go up in the room and give him a 0:52:34.920 --> 0:52:37.640 D nine, takes no effort. You ain't got to go 0:52:37.680 --> 0:52:40.439 out your way or nothing. Just acknowledge people just be cool. 0:52:40.600 --> 0:52:42.880 And that's what I'm saying. Like I've never had no 0:52:43.000 --> 0:52:44.640 issues no where I've been. You know what I'm saying. 0:52:44.640 --> 0:52:46.960 I live in LA and people getting rods here in 0:52:47.120 --> 0:52:51.839 New York. I'll never as security nothing Atlanta. I am, 0:52:52.000 --> 0:52:54.439 y'all go anywhere I go, any hood I got because 0:52:54.440 --> 0:52:56.080 I'm cool. Like it's just it is what it is, 0:52:56.200 --> 0:52:58.480 like what's up? You know what I'm saying, I'm approaching 0:52:59.120 --> 0:53:01.440 and it's just is It's like it takes effort to 0:53:01.520 --> 0:53:04.480 be a jerk, you know what I'm saying. And you know, 0:53:04.640 --> 0:53:06.680 for me, like I've had a lot of success that way, 0:53:06.680 --> 0:53:08.200 and I took a little of the time like when people, 0:53:08.680 --> 0:53:10.800 you know, I always asked me about, you know, different 0:53:10.880 --> 0:53:13.440 things and like betting me. I'm like, you could vet 0:53:13.560 --> 0:53:17.439 me with anybody knows, nobody walking the earth right down 0:53:17.840 --> 0:53:18.960 that got anything bad. 0:53:18.800 --> 0:53:22.680 To say about regular fear And you know my word 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:26.320 is my bonds. I said, do something period, keep it 0:53:26.360 --> 0:53:28.680 calling clean, right, you got to keep you another one too, 0:53:29.560 --> 0:53:30.240 charging Billups. 0:53:30.520 --> 0:53:32.120 So he was down there too, and enough to get 0:53:32.160 --> 0:53:33.839 my dad. So when my dad he took it, took 0:53:33.880 --> 0:53:36.480 me to school and everybody knows what he's talking. 0:53:36.560 --> 0:53:37.520 Billups, you know he is. 0:53:37.640 --> 0:53:40.920 So he walked up to my dad and he introduced himself. 0:53:41.000 --> 0:53:42.960 He's like, you know, I'm charging Bill Up. So my 0:53:43.120 --> 0:53:45.080 dad is always impressed to this day, because it's like 0:53:45.120 --> 0:53:46.760 he took the time to walk up to a stranger 0:53:46.840 --> 0:53:47.799 that obviously knew who he. 0:53:48.000 --> 0:53:50.200 Was, but he treated everybody the same. 0:53:50.320 --> 0:53:53.279 Right, So I say that to say in business and 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:56.560 just in life in general, it's I think he's completely underrated. 0:53:56.840 --> 0:53:57.839 It's just to be a good purson. 0:53:58.320 --> 0:54:00.319 In addition to that, it's like, look at this sets 0:54:00.360 --> 0:54:03.120 that the two individuals are saying, have had post and 0:54:03.320 --> 0:54:06.720 there's no, it's no, they've treated people with respect. 0:54:07.440 --> 0:54:10.400 And look at this said they had posts. You're right, right, 0:54:12.360 --> 0:54:12.719 you're right. 0:54:12.760 --> 0:54:16.640 So yeah, so do you have any initiatives or how 0:54:16.680 --> 0:54:20.040 can people contact how can people contact viola website? 0:54:20.160 --> 0:54:20.359 Yeah? 0:54:20.800 --> 0:54:23.040 Yeah, well, I mean so we're about to So we 0:54:23.160 --> 0:54:26.680 got some big, big announcements coming up. Hopefully the first 0:54:26.719 --> 0:54:29.040 one that you first be on. We're on schedule to 0:54:29.120 --> 0:54:32.759 get that done. So we're potentially bringing somebody on to 0:54:32.840 --> 0:54:34.759 the company. It's gonna be a huge name for what 0:54:34.840 --> 0:54:39.000 we're doing. You will follow us on Instagram if iola 0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:43.520 that lifestyles, follow me and Al Harrington three and just 0:54:43.640 --> 0:54:46.200 you know, we will obviously do everything through social media. 0:54:46.239 --> 0:54:48.200 That's the world we live in. You know what I'm saying, 0:54:48.280 --> 0:54:51.200 and you know our website. We've revamping that as well. 0:54:51.239 --> 0:54:55.200 We got some merchandise start about to hit. So you know, 0:54:55.400 --> 0:54:57.480 we just continued just to move. So I would just say, 0:54:57.640 --> 0:55:00.560 just continue to support us and follow us and you 0:55:00.640 --> 0:55:04.320 get a chance, you know, by my humans, I'm always 0:55:04.400 --> 0:55:07.400 open to on social media. Please hit me and let 0:55:07.480 --> 0:55:08.920 me know what you think about it. You know what 0:55:08.960 --> 0:55:12.320 I'm saying. I've had some bad reviews, mostly great, but 0:55:12.480 --> 0:55:14.759 you know it's a bad one. I just got something 0:55:14.800 --> 0:55:19.759 to say to get you to try it again. But yeah, 0:55:19.840 --> 0:55:22.200 we just we just moving. We just we're working. We 0:55:22.360 --> 0:55:27.160 building and you know, if you have any cool ideas 0:55:27.280 --> 0:55:29.400 and different things like that, and you're in the states 0:55:29.440 --> 0:55:32.359 that we're operating in, you know, reach out for sure. 0:55:32.560 --> 0:55:34.719 Appreciate that. Short before we go, can you just talk 0:55:34.760 --> 0:55:35.720 about our Patreon. 0:55:35.920 --> 0:55:38.359 Yeah, so Patreon is for those of you who listen. 0:55:38.440 --> 0:55:40.840 You know that it's always for us to connect with 0:55:41.440 --> 0:55:44.319 some people who want extra content. It also allows us 0:55:45.040 --> 0:55:47.360 invite to do things like this, you know, come to 0:55:47.560 --> 0:55:50.520 LA and touch with people who are doing things in 0:55:50.680 --> 0:55:53.880 business and in real estate that can help everyone. So 0:55:54.160 --> 0:55:56.839 one of the things I was saying is like he's 0:55:56.880 --> 0:55:59.440 having a tough time finding people. Well, you just spoke 0:55:59.520 --> 0:56:02.839 to a bunch of people right now, probably thinking like, hey, 0:56:02.920 --> 0:56:05.440 I can help out. So pictureon allows us to do that. 0:56:06.160 --> 0:56:09.520 We have five different tiers. You know that proud of 0:56:09.560 --> 0:56:12.000 paid program is something that is important, you know. So 0:56:12.040 --> 0:56:14.080 if you feel like supporting us, great, If you don't, 0:56:14.160 --> 0:56:17.400 you love you the same, but you know it allows 0:56:17.480 --> 0:56:18.319 us to do things like this. 0:56:18.600 --> 0:56:22.120 Yeah, probably pay proaly americanforting. Of course, you see what's 0:56:22.160 --> 0:56:24.760 our guy. Everybody knows that we reference them every episode. 0:56:25.120 --> 0:56:26.799 But yeah, you know, like I said, I alway said, 0:56:26.800 --> 0:56:27.320 we're gonna. 0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:30.160 Give you the information for free, but if you would 0:56:30.160 --> 0:56:32.440 like to financially support the podcast, that's the way. 0:56:32.480 --> 0:56:35.160 We also have merched Our merch shop is up on 0:56:35.320 --> 0:56:37.520 the website or a lesion dot com. So make sure 0:56:37.600 --> 0:56:40.839 you got that. We got the assets over life. Sure yeah, 0:56:40.920 --> 0:56:44.640 season too coming, it's coming at New Collection. 0:56:44.400 --> 0:56:45.600 And then and then we want to just thank you 0:56:45.640 --> 0:56:48.320 guys about like I said, to be you know, a 0:56:48.400 --> 0:56:51.040 couple of months in and to be ahead of Wall Street. 0:56:50.840 --> 0:56:54.320 Journal in Bloomberg and Susie Orman and we we just 0:56:54.400 --> 0:56:56.120 did it. You know what I'm saying. Now, we have 0:56:56.239 --> 0:56:58.960 a crazy budget. I have any budget I was like, Yo, 0:56:59.239 --> 0:57:00.200 we just passed all the shot. 0:57:00.960 --> 0:57:01.000 No. 0:57:01.280 --> 0:57:02.120 He was like, no, we did. 0:57:03.480 --> 0:57:06.120 It just shows how hungry the culture is for financial 0:57:06.160 --> 0:57:09.040 good financial accountment, right, So we might keep giving you 0:57:09.080 --> 0:57:11.799 guys some information and we appreciate your support. Before I leave, 0:57:11.840 --> 0:57:14.719 I always do a book tip. So my boot tip 0:57:14.800 --> 0:57:17.480 this week is actually the first book that I ever read. 0:57:17.320 --> 0:57:19.680 When I was getting into finance, like eighteen years old. 0:57:19.720 --> 0:57:22.400 His dad, boy dad. Everybody knows that I actually had 0:57:22.440 --> 0:57:25.440 like the whole thing, like Michael. 0:57:27.000 --> 0:57:30.200 Shout out to we had. I'm because that that's a 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:32.120 great book. But the first person I heard read it 0:57:32.280 --> 0:57:34.440 was Mike and I was like, yeah, the first that 0:57:34.560 --> 0:57:37.080 I heard he's he's a sound. 0:57:40.400 --> 0:57:40.880 Big mic. 0:57:41.000 --> 0:57:42.640 So when they said that, I was like, his name 0:57:42.720 --> 0:57:48.760 is not Mike big Home. When he had said he 0:57:48.840 --> 0:57:51.200 read it, I was like, wow, that's flying me to 0:57:51.240 --> 0:57:51.640 go read it. 0:57:55.040 --> 0:57:58.240 So yeah, that is my book tip of the week. 0:57:58.360 --> 0:57:59.880 And yeah, thank you for rocking this. 0:58:28.840 --> 0:58:32.680 You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday. 0:58:33.240 --> 0:58:37.400 How can you find amazing candidates fast? Easy? Just use 0:58:37.520 --> 0:58:40.760 indeed stop struggling to get your job posts seen on 0:58:40.920 --> 0:58:44.760 other job sites with indeed sponsored jobs. 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