1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Welcome the Cannabis Talk one oh one featuring Blue with 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Joe Bronde, the world's number one source for everything cannabis. 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 2: Hello, welcome to Cannabis Talk one on one, world's number 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 2: one source for everything cannabis. My nays bluelong side is 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 2: mister Joe Brande, and you were now tuned into the 6 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 2: greatest cannabis show on the planets. 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 3: Yes you are you, guys, Thank you for listening to 8 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 3: our podcast all around the world. 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And if you want to 23 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 3: turn your typical into something special, folks, when it comes 24 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 3: to infuse products, the flavor you taste should be just 25 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 3: as enjoyable as the feeling you experience. Visit the website 26 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: laran Oils dot com. Our guest on the show is 27 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 3: not only a rock chalk j but Nick, I gotta 28 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 3: tell you, I rock this just for you today. 29 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 4: Brother. 30 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 5: As you can see you looking good, You're looking real good. 31 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,639 Speaker 5: You like already know you already, you know that, you know. 32 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 4: That you like this. 33 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 5: I gotta be quiet about that. You know I'm down 34 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 5: in the ozark, So I gotta be gonna be a 35 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 5: little bit to be subtle about that. 36 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 3: But you can't let everybody know around you how much 37 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 3: you're a rock talker. But I know you are as 38 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 3: I looked at your LinkedIn. But Nick, we're knowing you, guys. 39 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 3: The CEO of Hippos now Hippos is a vertically integrated 40 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 3: cannabis company serving the adult use in medical markets of 41 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 3: good old Missouri. Now Hippos is committed to mind and 42 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 3: body wellness. 43 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 4: They strive to offer. 44 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 3: The most eco friendly and reliable packaging available when possible. 45 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 3: Their retail stores support sustainability and the effort to support 46 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 3: current and future generations. As a part of this commitment, 47 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 3: they offer reusable exit bags and actually encourage their companies 48 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 3: are assuming customers to bring the back when they shop. 49 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 3: I think that's pretty smart right there. More people should 50 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 3: try and use that little strategy right there. I love 51 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 3: the mission statement that they have their blue Check this out. 52 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 3: We aim to protect and further the rights of all 53 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 3: individuals to experience both the joy and the powerful healing 54 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 3: properties of cannabis and related products. 55 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 4: Now. 56 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 3: Nick is an expert in both alcoholic beverage and cannabis 57 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 3: product development, distribution, and regulation. As Nick previously served as 58 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 3: the COO of Verdant Distribution out here in good old 59 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 3: Los Angeles, so he came from the West to head 60 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 3: back to the Midwest. Hippos LS currently operates dispensaries under 61 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 3: the name Hippos Marijuana Dispensary throughout the state of Missouri, 62 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 3: a cultivation and manufacturing facility under the name og Yields 63 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 3: and has developed brands such as sundro Ata and Boie 64 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 3: Pony that are available throughout the state for purchases. Check 65 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 3: out their website Hipposcannabis dot com and Hippos Cannabis is 66 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 3: on ig Hippos c. 67 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 4: A N N A BI S. 68 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 3: They have three locations in Chesterfield, Columbia and Springfield. Welcome 69 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 3: to the show, Nick, Yes, yes, yes, what. 70 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 5: Is a hall of an intro right there? I like that. 71 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 5: We we can circle back. We just do that again, 72 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 5: like that again, Nick. 73 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 3: So, I mean, let's just talk about this because I 74 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 3: see on your LinkedIn that you went to ku. 75 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 4: My wife went to kau. 76 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,399 Speaker 3: My family's from Kansas, a small little town out there 77 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: called Cheeney. 78 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 4: I fly in there all the time. I'm supposed to 79 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 4: go out there for the fourth of July. 80 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 3: So you know, my brother in law is a very 81 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 3: famous football coach out there. His teams just hasn't lost 82 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 3: the game in four years out there, And so I 83 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 3: love the area. And I noticed, is it you're from 84 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 3: Kansas originally? 85 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 5: No, I'm actually from Illinois. Originally grew up in a 86 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 5: small town in Quincy, Illinois, right on the Mississippi River, 87 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 5: about two hours north of Saint Louis, and then ended up, uh, 88 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 5: you know, ended up in Lawrence, Kansas, uh for college, 89 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 5: went to Kansas there. You know, Donner of the Earth, 90 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 5: as far as I'm as far as I'm concerned, you 91 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 5: get it. You know, you go to Allen Field House. 92 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 5: Once you catch a game. I mean, you're gonna have 93 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 5: that fever forever, you know. Then from there, I I 94 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 5: my career kind of took me all over the place 95 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 5: and spent a little time in Phoenix. I lived in 96 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 5: Las Vegas, spent a good amount of time in Chicago, 97 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 5: down to Los Angeles. You know, I've batten out in Missouri. 98 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 5: So and we're we're located at the Oas Dark So 99 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 5: you know, I'm kind of like Marty Byrd out here. 100 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 4: I love that. 101 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 5: Uh, you know, you're right, So we got that. We 102 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 5: we kind of took the So you mentioned o G yields, 103 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 5: that's what our production facility goes by, his OG yields. 104 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 5: And uh, you guys are out Cali. You guys know 105 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 5: what o G stands for in the cannabis vernacular. That's 106 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 5: ocean grown. A lot of people think it's original gangs 107 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 5: through but it's ocean grown. For us, it's o's are grown. 108 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 5: So we stole that, you know, grown, baby. 109 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 4: I love that. 110 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, o g os are grown. 111 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 3: And as you mentioned, OZ, just gotta mention that's one 112 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 3: of the best shows that Netflix has ever put out. 113 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 3: I mean, there's a there's a lot for the next 114 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 3: season to come out. I'm actually jonesing for it. It's 115 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 3: been I hate that I'm current on it, Like you know, 116 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 3: I mean, I wish I had a few more episodes 117 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 3: to watch. 118 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 5: I mean, you could you just come down and visit. 119 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 5: You can, you can experience live action? 120 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 4: Is it crazy? 121 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 5: Like let me you you go, you go to the lake. 122 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 5: The lake itself, it's a lot nicer than what people 123 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 5: realize it is. I mean, it's beautiful homes, you know, 124 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 5: a million dollar boats left and right. Well we're located. 125 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 5: It's a beautiful town. But it's a little bit you know, 126 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 5: the areas a little bit more, a little more gritty, 127 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 5: much more close to what uh And the surrounding area 128 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 5: is a lot closer to what you see on the show. 129 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 5: And the sense of community is a lot like you 130 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 5: see the show. I mean, everybody knows each other. I 131 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 5: mean their grandparents, their cousins, I mean, you know, I 132 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 5: mean a lot of people that work here, you know, 133 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 5: they knew each other from high school. 134 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody that's still there, you know, that's been there 135 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 2: for more than ten years or whatever, pretty much knows. 136 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 2: And if you're there for more than two years, everybody 137 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: knows who you are. Whether they like you or whether 138 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 2: they don't. 139 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a fact. 140 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 3: All that being said, I literally called my wife and 141 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 3: I said, hey, by any chance, do you know who 142 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 3: Nick Ranald? 143 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 4: And she goes, no, Hell Ranella, sorry, and she goes, no, 144 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 4: I don't. 145 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 3: Well, I just figured all of you guys know each 146 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,559 Speaker 3: other from out there, that you know, does the fast 147 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 3: Bender name ring a bell to you? 148 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 5: The fast Better Now it doesn't. But I'm sure if 149 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 5: you start mentioning the Hawks knows about the Hawk and 150 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 5: the Wheel, you know there's things in common there. 151 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 3: Oh dude, I've been to State Line. I've been to 152 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 3: weddings out there right there where Missouri is and that 153 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 3: whole downtown where that lake is in the river. It's 154 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 3: just so it's beautiful out there, I can contest I've 155 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 3: been there, Nick. I think it's one of the most 156 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 3: beautiful places on earth. And not only people yet great people, 157 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 3: not all that Missouri is making so much noise out there. 158 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 3: That's why I was so happy when this came across 159 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 3: me to see that you're running, you know, a big 160 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: company out there, and this four twenty. 161 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 4: You guys had whiz Khalifa, you. 162 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 3: Had Berner, you had a huge four twenty event out 163 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 3: in Missouri that was like a Vegas style events let alone, 164 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 3: you know, La, So Missouri is making a lot of 165 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 3: noise with cannabis and you guys being a dominant force 166 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 3: out there. Is Hippos Cannabis by far one of the 167 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 3: biggest names and dispensaries out there. 168 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 5: You know, it's one of the biggest names for me. 169 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 5: I don't know if it's the biggest names out there, 170 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 5: but we're we're definitely making an impact. You know, We're 171 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 5: we're located in this Saint Louis area, and then we 172 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 5: have one in Columbia, Missouri, where the University of Missouri, 173 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 5: which is the only school within the SEC that has 174 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 5: that's located in a legal state. So you know, it's 175 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 5: one of those things where people go to visit their 176 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 5: friends that you know, maybe they're watching Alabama play Miszoo. 177 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 5: You know, then they might want to partake a little 178 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 5: bit and who knows what they do from there, but 179 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 5: that's up to them. And then we're down in Springfield, Missouri. 180 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 5: So you know, we've got some great things covered. As 181 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 5: you see in my background, we got the California raised 182 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 5: those aren't grown, so that is kind of our moniker 183 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 5: for our our sun Drow brand. But it's been a 184 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 5: it's been a wild ride, and a lot of it 185 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 5: just you know, goes back to the fact that we 186 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 5: have common sense regulations. You know, they've they've put the 187 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 5: you know, they put together a framework where the cannabis 188 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 5: industry can thrive and in too many places, you know, 189 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 5: it's just not the case, you know, And so we've 190 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 5: we have been able to boom hippos, you know, we 191 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 5: but the some of my partners, the guys he kind 192 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 5: of first organized this company, or ex hockey players, ex 193 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 5: Saint Louis Blues players. So if there's any hockey fans listening, uh, 194 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 5: you know, Brett Hall is one of our one of 195 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 5: my partners. We actually developed a strain Brettthold number sixteen. 196 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 5: I believe Brett like the number four goalscorer of all 197 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 5: time in the NHL. Wow, so pretty legit. Got a 198 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 5: statue of himself outside of the stadium in Saint Louis. 199 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 5: So he's a big deal. And then we have Kelly Chase, 200 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 5: who was a enforcer for the Blues for thirteen years. 201 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 5: He still is not somebody to fuck with, all right, 202 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 5: I would not want to go toe to toe with 203 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 5: this guy. 204 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 4: They're the nicest guys with their savages. 205 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, tough. And then we have Barrett Jackman, so 206 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 5: you know, the Saint Louis area. We really it's nice 207 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 5: because you get these hometown heroes that got behind something 208 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 5: then and the real reason to get behind it to 209 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 5: begin with is they got in the cannabis space, not 210 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 5: because they were active users, unlike myself. I've been with 211 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 5: the plant for a long you know, for for longer 212 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 5: than I haven't. But they had a lot of the 213 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 5: players Kelly's the president of the Retired Players Association, and 214 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 5: they have a lot of alumni have opioid addiction problems, 215 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 5: and these guys are getting banged up, you know, big time. 216 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 5: You think you watch a hockey game, I mean you're 217 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 5: seeing these guys basically getting like twenty car accidents the 218 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 5: game and they're slamming up against the boards and everything else. 219 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,079 Speaker 5: And so you know, they were looking for a better, 220 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 5: you know, a better alternative to keep their players off 221 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 5: of for getting addicted to these opioids. And then you know, 222 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 5: I know, telling some brain lesions himself, and so they're 223 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,679 Speaker 5: looking at different therapies that could you know, help them. 224 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 5: And that's kind of with his journey in the cannabis 225 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 5: and these guys, I mean they you know, it's not 226 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 5: just a hockey player and it's not just a you know, 227 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 5: somebody that was in the military. I mean, there's all 228 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 5: types of people that have I mean, life is tough, 229 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 5: you know, you get banged up, and so it's nice 230 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 5: to have some other alternatives. So it's it's great to 231 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 5: have guys like that kind of bring the hometown heroes 232 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 5: to shed the light on that, you know, because even 233 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 5: in California when I was there, I remember being at 234 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 5: my cousin's kids t ball game and you know, getting 235 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 5: introduced to the other parents and whatnot that are around. And 236 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 5: as woman asked what I did, I'm like, run a 237 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 5: cannabis company, and then I might as well have like 238 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 5: a third eye. I mean, she thought, and you could 239 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 5: tell she was she was not pleased with the answer. 240 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 5: And you know, you get people from the middle they think, man, 241 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 5: California is like wow, It's like it's just it's not 242 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 5: it's not you know, it took it took a while, 243 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 5: and I feel like twenty eighteen, you know, when things uh, 244 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 5: you know, became right out there. It did a lot 245 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 5: to normalize it. You know, obviously there's there's still plenty 246 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 5: of people out there that haven't you know, fully embraced 247 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 5: the plant, and there's still kind of that reefer madness. 248 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 5: But in every state, you know, that kind of gets 249 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 5: beat down, but it gets beat down through education and 250 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 5: then people having access and they realize, hey, my neighbor 251 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 5: doesn't my name's actually a pretty good person and they 252 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 5: consume cannabis, so maybe this isn't as bad as I 253 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 5: thought it was. And people like Kelly and Bratt and 254 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 5: Barrett when they're out there, it's nice because it kind 255 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 5: of gives you know, the general public that ball passed 256 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 5: if they you know, this stuff's not that bad and 257 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 5: it can actually help Nicholas. 258 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: You know, I want to I want to discuss, you know, 259 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 2: some of the licences you have and what you took 260 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 2: to kind of go through that process. 261 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,599 Speaker 4: It's Cannabis Talk About on One movie right back with 262 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 4: Nick rib on that. 263 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: Subscribe to our weekly newsletter on our website, Cannabis Talk 264 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: one on one dot com. Welcome back to Cannabis to 265 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: one one. 266 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 3: Kellyjuana from cannabis operations to financial Wealth management. 267 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 4: We got your back, folks. 268 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 3: Check them out online at kelliwana dot com, c A. 269 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 4: L I w A n n A dot com. Are 270 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 4: on Instagram, kennywe of brands. 271 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 3: We're sitting here with the Man, the Myth, the Legend 272 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 3: from Hippos out in good old Missouri. Nicholas Blue was 273 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 3: asking you about some licensing out there. 274 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 4: Blue, go ahead and take it away. 275 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 2: No, I mean, you know, obviously you've had to give 276 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 2: you know, and and and work with the you know, 277 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 2: for us, it's it's California regulations. It's different, you know, 278 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: it's different applications, there's lotteries. You know, there's been all 279 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 2: kinds of different ways. I'm interested to see, if you know, 280 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 2: how does that you know, did that work out for 281 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 2: you over there? 282 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 5: Absolutely? You know, I think Missouri overall, their their program 283 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 5: it is the it's the best in the country that 284 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 5: I've seeing. And so there was a merit based application process. 285 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 5: I don't think any of those are perfect when they 286 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 5: get out there, because a lot of times you have 287 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 5: people judging them. Maybe they don't have the qualifications to 288 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 5: necessarily be judging. The answers to your questions to the 289 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 5: questions that were presented but it was a merit based application. 290 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 5: It had sixty or so general questions that were for 291 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 5: all license types, and then there was you know, anywhere 292 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 5: from ten to fifteen that were specific to the actual 293 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 5: license type. And those license types are we have a 294 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 5: cultivation license in Missouri. We got a manufacturing license in Missouri, 295 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 5: so those are separate. We have a dispensary license in Missouri, 296 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 5: and we have a lab license. And then the last 297 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 5: license would be a transport license. So they limited it 298 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 5: to begin with to sixty cultivation licenses you own. You 299 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 5: could own no more than three of them. They had 300 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 5: a dispensary license. They originally awarded twenty four per congressional district, 301 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 5: which was nice the way that they did that, and 302 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 5: they didn't the local municipalities were not allowed to zone 303 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 5: you out of an area, specifically zone you out so 304 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 5: that they could, you know, they could do it if 305 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 5: they wanted to and say, hey, we're not going to 306 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 5: have this type of business and all the next thing, 307 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 5: you know, the only area is five feet from a church, 308 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 5: and so that's not going to work. So they had 309 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 5: the kind of those standard federal things that you'll see 310 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 5: out there where you've got to be a thousand feet 311 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 5: from a school, church, daycare, but they had one hundred 312 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 5: and ninety six of those. It was twenty four per 313 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 5: congressional district. The nice thing with that is we don't 314 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 5: really have any cannabis desert, So you go to other states. 315 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 5: You know, California is a great spot. I mean I 316 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 5: lived in Hermosa Beach, loved it there. But my closest 317 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 5: dispensary was, you know, thirty minutes with no traffic. You know, 318 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 5: it was forty five minutes, which traffic in Missouri exactly 319 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 5: exactly in Missouri, you're you know, you could be the 320 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 5: most rural part of Missouri and you're gonna be within 321 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 5: thirty minutes of it disponsory. So they did that. You 322 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 5: could own up to at the time, you could have 323 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 5: up to five dispensaries. When those original applications went out. 324 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 5: The manufacturing you could have I believe up to three 325 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 5: manufacturing licenses per entity. They released eighty six of those. 326 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 5: And then the labs. I believe there was ten labs, 327 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 5: and that was a situation where you couldn't own you know, 328 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 5: another part of the vertical and on the lab, which 329 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 5: makes it makes a lot of sense I don't want 330 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 5: the fox, you know, in the hen house. And then 331 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 5: transportation licenses, there's an unlimited amount. So as long as 332 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 5: you meet the minimum requirements, you're able to get in. 333 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 5: So through the merit based process, they asked a series 334 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 5: of questions. You got either a zero seven or zero 335 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 5: four seven or ten A zero you didn't meet the 336 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 5: minimum requirement for you meet you met the minimum requirements, Devin, 337 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 5: you went above and beyond, and then ten was a 338 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 5: distinctive answer. So you know, ten was a little bit arbitrary, 339 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 5: you know, as far as what the you know, the 340 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 5: it depends. 341 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 6: You know, you might have caught them up a good day, 342 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 6: you're good at ten U you catch them on a 343 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 6: bad day. 344 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 5: But the fours, you know, are pretty obvious. It's like, hey, 345 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 5: this was a you met the minimum requirements. Anything above 346 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 5: the minimum requirements, you know, should have been a seven. 347 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 5: Now I've got fourteen appeals out there, so I'm in 348 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 5: the middle of a suit with the state right now 349 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 5: because we believe, hey, this doesn't make a lot of sense. 350 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 5: Just like in a lot of other states, sometimes the 351 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 5: results don't always, you know, jive up. We got our 352 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 5: cultivation license here in Vienna, Missouri. I applied for three 353 00:17:56,119 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 5: cultivation licenses, every single one of them the exact floor plan, 354 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 5: exact to dress this, that, and the other. I got 355 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 5: three different scores. One of them got me a license. 356 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 5: So it's kind of like, well, how did they get 357 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 5: the same these other dudes. So so, I mean, you 358 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 5: we had some of that. We had a lot of 359 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 5: the same issues that I think everybody else had, you know, 360 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 5: these merit based applications. I still think it's the best 361 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 5: way to go about it. I mean, you want to 362 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 5: ensure that the people that are going to be standing 363 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 5: these industries up are actually going to have the capability 364 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 5: to do it. One thing I don't think that they 365 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 5: you know, in a lot of states they put enough 366 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 5: bonus on is the amount of capital that it takes, 367 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 5: and you know it has you know, I've seen people 368 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 5: a lot of times complain like, oh my god, like 369 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 5: this is this capital requirement, It's too much? How could 370 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 5: I ever? You know, I'm just this, you know, small 371 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 5: guy trying to make it happen. It's like, well, to 372 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 5: be honest, it's somewhat saving people from themselves because it's 373 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,199 Speaker 5: going to cost that much. You know, it's if if 374 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 5: you've got to show that you have half a million dollars. 375 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,959 Speaker 5: You can put together a you know, commercial scout sized 376 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 5: grow for half a million dollars, you can teach me something. 377 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,120 Speaker 4: You're so well versed in cannabis already. 378 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 3: And I say already because I mean it's it's not 379 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 3: that you haven't been with the company long. You started 380 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 3: in March of twenty nineteen. But you really come from 381 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 3: a big spirit background. I mean you're working with Anheuser 382 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 3: Busch for God's sakes back in the day, and the 383 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 3: COO of Verdant Distributions and then Heali Spirits and doing 384 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 3: your thing there. Why cannabis? And not only why cannabis, 385 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 3: but I love the fact that they get a man and. 386 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 4: Any person woman at that too, any people that. 387 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 3: Have such great high expertise in other fields and then 388 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 3: bring them into cannabis. But how and why did you 389 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 3: decide to take this role as a CEO of this company? 390 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 5: Well, I guess that's kind kind of a two part question. 391 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 5: Why why Canada? Yes, I mean I love weed. I 392 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 5: mean that was that's one of these one of the 393 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 5: reasons I love easy product. So that was a you know, 394 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 5: why wouldn't I but why, why why did I when 395 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 5: I move from Fromosa Beach to you know, Osh Beach 396 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 5: and the Ozarks. I mean, that's a that was just 397 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 5: a matter of really looking at the regulations. Uh. You know, 398 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 5: back when I was with Verdant, I was working with 399 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 5: a gentleman named Matt Cook who was doing some consulting 400 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 5: for us. Became good friends with the guy. I'm still 401 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 5: friends with him. And Matt was the chief regulator out 402 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 5: in Colorado. So he wrote the law in Colorado. He 403 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 5: was the you know, the head enforcement officer there, and 404 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 5: he was working with this group out in Missouri and 405 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 5: he's he brought me the opportunity and said, Nick, you 406 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 5: know another thing because we were talking about, hey, where 407 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 5: California is going. I remember talking to the CDTFA about 408 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 5: the nineteen percent tax and I'm like, guys, like, do 409 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 5: you guys understand what this is going to do? And 410 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 5: and you know, it was like you want me to 411 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 5: collect it? What happens if the dispensary says fuck it 412 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 5: and doesn't pay me? Like whoo, how do you how 413 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 5: do I collect from somebody else that they go under 414 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,959 Speaker 5: There's all kinds of crazy questions and you know, a 415 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 5: lot of good intentions and you're also trying to get 416 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 5: things passed. And it was always it always cracked me up. 417 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 5: You can get people say, well, you know, this nineteen 418 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 5: percent tax, I'm here bitching about it. They're telling me 419 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 5: how great it is. It's like, well, this is what 420 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 5: people voted for. I'm like, all right, how out of 421 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 5: touch are you? People voted for legal weed. They did 422 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 5: not vote for nineteen percent tax. You think they wrap 423 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 5: the whole fucking thing. It never happened. And so Missouri. 424 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 5: I looked at the regulations and it was just you 425 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 5: could tell it was just gonna I mean, it was 426 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 5: gonna work. You know, it looked like it was going 427 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 5: to work. You know, there's always the double and detail 428 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 5: regulators going to you know, respond to it. But you 429 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 5: know that's what That's what drove me to Missouri cannabis, 430 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 5: you know, you know, kind of expand on that a 431 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 5: little bit further. Is the time that I'm really going 432 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 5: to I guess the aha moment or when I shifted 433 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 5: you know, my kind of my efforts from the beverage 434 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 5: space into cannabis. The way it happened was just kind 435 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 5: of you know, it was my age at the time, 436 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 5: and I'm in my forties now I was back. I 437 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 5: just had a medical distribution company. I just went back 438 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 5: to my family business, which we have an antiser bush 439 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 5: beer distributor. Went back. I was working alongside my father. 440 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 5: It was twenty thirteen, and I'll never forget. We're you know, 441 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 5: we're in this small little town fifty thousand people and 442 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 5: me and my father's office were next to each other. 443 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:38,239 Speaker 5: And I get this little local newspaper. It comes up 444 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 5: and I see that Illinois is legalizing weed, and I 445 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,239 Speaker 5: off the door, open the door between the two of us. 446 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 5: I was like, Dad, did you see this? Like we 447 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 5: got to do this. I mean, this is you know, 448 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 5: and my dad, you know, I don't think he you know, 449 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 5: I don't know if all of his friends know, but 450 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 5: all his friends he went to college with, certainly though 451 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 5: he was a DJ in college. He went to a school, 452 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 5: Regis College in Denver, Colorado, and it was Regis Reefer 453 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 5: Rock Radio. So I knew he had yeah radio that 454 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 5: it gives it up. So I felt like he had 455 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 5: a little bit of knowledge, you know, some institutional knowledge 456 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 5: that we could maybe utilize at the same rate. It's 457 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,439 Speaker 5: a CpG product, so consumer package good. We knew how 458 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 5: to do that. I've been doing that my home group. 459 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. 460 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 5: I just felt like there was a lot of things 461 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 5: that were transferable, and so, like I said, I I 462 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 5: opened like that. We got to make a run at this. Well, 463 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 5: the first thing I did is I had a friend 464 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 5: that I went to the University of Kansas with that 465 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 5: had a spot out in Denver because they had just 466 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 5: I think in twenty twelve or twenty ten, right around there, 467 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 5: that's when those licenses started popping. And I had a 468 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 5: buddy that was a you know, big smoker in college 469 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 5: and he had had to grow I'm like, fuck, I'm 470 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 5: I'm going to drive out there see if I have 471 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 5: the aptitude for this. I mean, I don't know if 472 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 5: I do. I mean I knew I like to consume it. 473 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 5: I knew what I knew. It looked good. But I 474 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 5: wasn't a girl, not going to pretend like I was. 475 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 5: I went out there and I kind of saw what 476 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 5: he was doing, and I was like, I can do this, Like, 477 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 5: we can make this happen. So made a run at 478 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 5: it in Illinois back in twenty thirteen. Didn't get the license, 479 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 5: you know, which is fortunate and unfortunate, you know, although 480 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 5: at one of those guys are kicking ass and did 481 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 5: for a long time. But what people forget is they 482 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 5: were losing their raft for a long time too. They're 483 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 5: the qualifying conditions were extremely limited. I mean you essentially 484 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 5: had to be on your deathbed and then sign away 485 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 5: your first child to get a medical card. So it 486 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 5: was really difficult. I know, there was a lot of 487 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 5: people's like eighty thousand ware what warehouses with like one 488 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 5: plant in them. So a lot of the people you 489 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 5: see that ended up, you know, the Cresscos, the Gtis, 490 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,479 Speaker 5: the Brontos in the world. I don't know if all 491 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 5: of them, but I know a lot of those guys 492 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 5: ended up picking up other people's licenses and just couldn't 493 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 5: hold on to rack. And so I ended up getting 494 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 5: hit up by a friend of mine in California when 495 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 5: Governor Brown kind of institute that propsix four that had 496 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 5: the distribution channel in it, and he was looking for 497 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 5: somebody with distribution experience, and sounds like, you know, sure, 498 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,479 Speaker 5: I can do some consulting on that, but you know 499 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 5: that that is my wheelhouse, and no one knows distribution 500 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 5: like like I did, especially on you know that level. 501 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 5: We're doing the DSD distribution, which is direct score delivery. 502 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 5: So I I hopped on board with him and think 503 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 5: it was gonna be consulting roll. Next thing you out, 504 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 5: you know, I'm out in LA and uh, you know, 505 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 5: we're distributed to you know, hundreds and thousands of disponsories, 506 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 5: you know, from Santa Barbara Do into San Diego. So 507 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 5: that was kind of of my journey out of the 508 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 5: alcohol space, not not really thinking that I'm going to 509 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 5: take that full leap, but once I did kind of 510 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 5: was no turning back. It's like, hey, I'm in it 511 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 5: and this is my wheelhouse. And it's been nice too, because, 512 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 5: as you guys know, there's a lot of people that 513 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 5: get in the cannabis space, especially in these merit based 514 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 5: applications and even places where they're not that you know, 515 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 5: it's either an attorney or it's some physician, or. 516 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 7: It's somebody that Wednesday license because the legislators feel like 517 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,959 Speaker 7: we need people with medical experience, but they don't have 518 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,360 Speaker 7: really any operational experience with any kind of CpG product 519 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 7: or like any kind of retail or anything like that. 520 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,919 Speaker 5: So it's like they've never done it. 521 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 4: I don't. 522 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 5: And I think that's where a lot of these guys 523 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 5: seem like overspend or they put money in the wrong spots, 524 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 5: or you know, you see a lot of overstaffing, and 525 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 5: it makes sense just because it's like, well they've never 526 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 5: this is their first go at it, you know, and 527 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 5: a lot of people. I think when you look at dispensaries, 528 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 5: I think the way that we designed our dispensaries, I 529 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 5: feel like you're gonna see a lot of dispensaries over 530 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 5: the next five ten years look a lot more like 531 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 5: art than what a traditional dispensary like. You say that thing, 532 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,120 Speaker 5: you know, how did these dispensaries? Well, when you look 533 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 5: at the way that our dispensaries are put together, we 534 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 5: don't waste the space that most dispensaries, and my my view, 535 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 5: waste a lot of space. You got a lot of 536 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 5: you have a huge floor space, and there's not a 537 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 5: lot of places for you to actually shop if you 538 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 5: go into our dispensaries, and you can see if you 539 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,919 Speaker 5: if you look at our Instagram at Hippos Cannabis, so 540 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 5: it's at Hippo's Cannabis. You put it in there, you'll 541 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 5: be all to see some of the different reels and stuff. 542 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 5: But we have you guys remember Blockbuster back in the day, right, 543 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 5: some of your listeners Blockbuster? What the hell's Blockbuster? But 544 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 5: you had the right and Big Bear exactly. Oh is 545 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 5: there one a Big Barn. 546 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 2: It's been open for years and Big Bear and and 547 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 2: they just shut it down about a year or two ago. 548 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 2: And I I've been going to that one for years 549 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 2: just you know, show up. I literally go there to 550 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 2: rent movies, just to be in Big Bear and kind 551 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 2: of like being a time you know, or pick you back. 552 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 5: Love it. 553 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 4: Yeah. 554 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 6: So we have we have we cause our we wall 555 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 6: and we have all of our products and we have 556 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 6: laminated and so there's a picture of the product and 557 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 6: on the back there's a description and so it's like 558 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 6: you know, I sometimes you want to shop. 559 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 5: You want to be a look and compare our products. 560 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 5: You can do that. You can see every product that's 561 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 5: in our vault on that weed wall and you can 562 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 5: look and you can see the price. And it's within 563 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 5: our waiting area. And our waiting area is in a 564 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 5: class room and so that glass room and I'll just 565 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 5: I'm gonna. 566 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 4: This is awesome. 567 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 5: We have if if rectangles are dispensary. Okay, right, we 568 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 5: eight sales. So where you got the w is the 569 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 5: waiting room and the s is where the sales floor 570 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 5: is well split in the middle as a glass wall. 571 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 5: So a lot of people would have the weighting room 572 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 5: here and then you'd walk back and you go to 573 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 5: the sales floor and there's these two boxes where we 574 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 5: have these two long rectangles and so on the one 575 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 5: on the on the waiting room rectangle. What they were 576 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 5: able to do is we're able to shop there. You know, 577 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 5: we have Kiosk there. They can look on, they can 578 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 5: look at the pictures online that there's several different ways 579 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 5: toy shop. But it takes up a minimum amount of space. 580 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 5: It's a tight area, you know, it's probably twelve feet wide. 581 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,719 Speaker 5: I see a lot of these dispensaries. You got this 582 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 5: massive airy and you're there's you're not selling anything, you know, 583 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 5: it's just free space. I want to utilize every single speed, 584 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 5: you know, foot of space to sell. I look at you. 585 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 5: I grew up on a beer truck, you know, fourteen 586 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 5: years old. I was working forty hours a week, you know, 587 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 5: the summers and over Christmas hopping on a beer truck 588 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 5: down and really cool to my friends. And I told 589 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 5: him I was getting up at five in the morning, 590 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 5: and you know, I'm weighing all like abut pen at 591 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 5: the time, and you know, throwing these cases around. In 592 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 5: the Midwest, you know, summer it's hot as hell, in 593 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 5: the winter it's cold. So it was it was a 594 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 5: tough uh, you know, it's a tough thing. But I 595 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 5: was going to all these convenience stores, and you see 596 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 5: how they're set up in convenience stores utilizer space better 597 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 5: than any other retail spot. And that's what we are. 598 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 5: I mean, we're a spot where we want to make 599 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 5: in purchases on a weekly basis, on a daily basis. 600 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 5: And I see a lot of these stores, you know, 601 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 5: I've seem like the well we're the Apple Store of cannabis. Well, 602 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 5: how often did people buy apple products once a year, 603 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 5: twice a year? You know, So it's a different experience 604 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 5: with us. We want it to be convenient. We want 605 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 5: them to be able to spend the time if they 606 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 5: need the time. We want to be able buzz through 607 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 5: if they needed to get through. I mean, I know 608 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 5: what I want. I want to get in and out. 609 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 5: You know, I don't want to wait for a long time, 610 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 5: and so we try to have a lot of terminals 611 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 5: for people to be able to check out. We try 612 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 5: to have an area where they can peruse as long 613 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 5: as they as long as you want to look at 614 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 5: all the stuff. I mean, you want to talk to people. 615 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 5: You know, some people don't feel comfortable talking to people. 616 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 5: They want to be the experts, like, let me kind of, 617 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 5: you know, let me look at the shoes in the 618 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 5: shoe department before you, you know, see if I need help, 619 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 5: I'm good. You know, I'll let you know when I 620 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 5: need help. And so that's kind of how we we've 621 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 5: set our stores up. And I think it's uh, I 622 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 5: really think it's the most efficient way to get customers 623 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 5: in and out. So I'm really excited about that. I mean, that's. 624 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 4: Listen, I like it. I like it a lot. 625 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 2: Actually, it sounds like it's quick Leigers Global. 626 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 5: Would that be when we come back, we want to 627 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 5: do the high five with you. 628 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 2: It's Cannabis Talk one to one movie right back after 629 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 2: this break. 630 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: Make sure you like follow and subscribe to Cannabis Talk 631 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: one to one Now. 632 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 4: Now back to the number one tenabis shoe on the planet. 633 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 4: You know what gets now? 634 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: Back to the number one cannabis showing the universe, Cannabis Talk. 635 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 5: One oh one. 636 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 4: Lay Low Baby, just hit it. 637 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 3: Check them out on Instagram at Club Laylow c l 638 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 3: U b l A y l Ow, or check out 639 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 3: the website Clublaylo dot com. 640 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 4: It's Cannabis Talk one oh one. 641 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 3: We're talking to the man, the myth, the legend nick 642 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 3: everything you're saying due to so on point what hippos 643 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 3: is doing. And as we're just talking about the IG. 644 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 3: One of the things that I noticed, as you not 645 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 3: made me look at it, but already had it pulled 646 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 3: up and I was looking at it as you're described 647 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 3: with the thing. I really like your Instagram with the 648 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 3: information that you guys are putting out right, like the 649 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 3: fact Missouri legal cannabis market has created ninety two hundred 650 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 3: plus jobs and that's still growing right there. That's some 651 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,479 Speaker 3: stuff that you look at and you go wow, like 652 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 3: who wouldn't whatever, Like what the hell is Kansas waiting for? 653 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 4: You know what I mean? When you see something like that. 654 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 3: Fact prescription drugs killed and estimated one hundred and eight 655 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 3: thousand people last year in the US, Cannabis killed zero. 656 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:07,959 Speaker 4: Fact. 657 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 3: George Washington grew medical grade marijuana. Like, my point is, 658 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 3: I'm looking at this. I can go on and on 659 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 3: because I could keep scrolling. And as I was looking 660 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 3: at these facts, I go, dude, stuff like that intrigues me. 661 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 3: I love facts, I love stats. I love just more 662 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 3: data information. Blue and I are big fans of you know, 663 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 3: we look at cannabis as medicine, and we're all about 664 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 3: this as being medicine. If you want to smoke a 665 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 3: joint for recreational, god bless you. But you know, we 666 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 3: can't wait for the day where it's you know, I 667 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,239 Speaker 3: have a headache, I'm two hundred pounds and you need 668 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 3: to take this pill because this will work for you 669 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 3: as a male or whatever. Right, And just facts like 670 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 3: that is my point when I see things like this, 671 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 3: like you're doing. Thirty six is the number of states 672 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 3: in the US where medical marijuana is legal. 673 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 4: It's just cool. It's on point to my. 674 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 3: Beliefs are beliefs that cannabis talk one oh one, which 675 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 3: is informing people is cannabis for everybody. No, try it yourself, 676 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 3: micro do see if you know, take a little hit, 677 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 3: take a pill, take a gummy, a half a gummy. 678 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,240 Speaker 3: See if it helps you. If it doesn't, it doesn't, 679 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 3: but it feels like that's the model with you guys. 680 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 3: Like you guys are out there just trying to push 681 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 3: out facts. You want to come try it, come by 682 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 3: our store. And I like that Brett Hull is doing 683 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 3: meet and greets out there with you know, the celebrity 684 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 3: guests and as as the host of one of the 685 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 3: of the Dispensary. It's just cool to see what you 686 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,399 Speaker 3: guys are doing. And the logo looks cool too. Give 687 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 3: me a description of how you guys came up with 688 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 3: that logo because it kind of reminds me of in 689 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 3: and out Ish a little bit, you know what I mean? 690 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 3: And you know you're provider as I see it on 691 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,279 Speaker 3: your hat and I see this here, Yeah, where did 692 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 3: this logo come from? 693 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 4: And how did you guys come up with it? 694 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 5: So you know, when we were first coming up with 695 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 5: you know, hippos, you know, it's a great name that 696 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 5: we came up with. You know, I wanted something that 697 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,400 Speaker 5: wasn't going to be like a can of this or 698 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,760 Speaker 5: organic that, something that was a little bit different because 699 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,959 Speaker 5: you know, like any kind of you know, I think 700 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,280 Speaker 5: your dispensaries am I in my view, or the number 701 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,280 Speaker 5: one brand right now in the cannabis station dispensaries period, 702 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 5: you know, and I'm really excited about sun Drow. You know, 703 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 5: that's our flagship wholesale brand. If you go to Sundrow 704 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 5: at Sundro Cannabis, you can see our whole seed to 705 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 5: sale videos. You can see our facility, what it looks like, 706 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 5: kind of see the whole process. It's pretty cool. See 707 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 5: what the lay of the land at the Osberg look like. 708 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,760 Speaker 5: But with the branding, at the end of the day, 709 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 5: I think when people people go to hippos to buy weed, 710 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 5: you know, I want them to go buy Stuntdrow, But 711 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 5: I think at the end of the day, it's like, Hey, 712 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 5: I'm gonna go pick up some weed, and. 713 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 4: Whe're you going. 714 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 5: I'm going to hippos, you know, or we're going to 715 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 5: this dispensary, I'm going to people's you know, you're out 716 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,799 Speaker 5: in Orange County wherever you may be going, You're going 717 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 5: to there to buy weed. And so I think it's 718 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:55,319 Speaker 5: important to brand your brand yourself and have a name 719 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:00,239 Speaker 5: that you can that's distinguishable between other brands. It's right, 720 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 5: you don't want it to sound just like the next brand, 721 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 5: because if it sounds like you know your root this 722 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 5: or your you know your nature is that it's like ship, 723 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 5: it's Nature's like, Oh I just pulled this up on 724 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,799 Speaker 5: my phone. You know which one was it? 725 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: Again? 726 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 5: You know? Is it was it Nature's or was it natural? 727 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,840 Speaker 5: I'm not sure. And so we wanted something that was different. 728 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 5: The other thing is I wanted something that wasn't green. 729 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 5: You know, it was another thing. We wanted to stand 730 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 5: out something that wasn't green. A lot of it goes 731 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,399 Speaker 5: back to my beverage background. You know. I'm like, there's 732 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 5: reasons why people have chosen these colors for these brands. 733 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 5: It's because they stand out or retail brand. So I 734 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,399 Speaker 5: want you to be able to see my I want 735 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:43,760 Speaker 5: to I want you to see me from the street. 736 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,839 Speaker 5: So if you're driving by and you know you see 737 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,480 Speaker 5: a sign, you're not gonna see blue very good at night. 738 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 5: You know, eat purple very good at night. You know, 739 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 5: see green very good at night, you see red very well. 740 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,720 Speaker 5: Have McDonald's, Wave, Target and Tay have all these things. 741 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 5: And so we went to a company, the brand Terminal, 742 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,200 Speaker 5: based out of Los Angeles. Big shout out to the 743 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,120 Speaker 5: brand terminal. They did a lot of great work for us, 744 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,760 Speaker 5: and so we went to them. They're a boutique agency. 745 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,840 Speaker 5: Gave them the direction. They came back to us. You know, 746 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 5: I told them I want to I was big on red. 747 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,439 Speaker 5: I wanted something with red, but I wanted to look cool. 748 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 5: They ended up throwing some and you know, I liked pink. 749 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,719 Speaker 5: You know, I don't want to go heavy in the pink, 750 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,400 Speaker 5: but I'm like, I don't mind, you know, learn those lines. 751 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 5: And that's one of those things that they were pushing 752 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:35,200 Speaker 5: on us. They came up with that ombre, which looked 753 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,400 Speaker 5: awesome with kind of the the red and the pink. 754 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,360 Speaker 5: But you know, as I mentioned earlier, and I got, 755 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 5: you know, three partners and yeah, just under ten total partners. 756 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,399 Speaker 5: They're all in their uh you know, from their mid 757 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 5: forties to mid sixties, guys living in the Midwest. Three 758 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,399 Speaker 5: of them are ex hockey players. When I was brought 759 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:06,480 Speaker 5: that in, They're like, diad, we exactly doing this. So 760 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,000 Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, guys, like look he around the room. Uh, 761 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 5: trust these gals over here more than I'm gonna trust 762 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,040 Speaker 5: h You know, what you guys think is cool. What 763 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,319 Speaker 5: you don't think is cool. Lucky for me. Within like 764 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 5: the next like week or two, the Bleacher Report ended 765 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,120 Speaker 5: up changing their color scheme to nearly match ours. So 766 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 5: I'm like, hey, guys, look at where we're out of that. 767 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 5: And then I think the Pantone that they that the 768 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,279 Speaker 5: group at the brand terminal ended up pigging ended up 769 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 5: being the Pantone color of the year. So that's kind 770 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 5: of how that, you know, how that happened with with 771 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 5: the look. But I wanted something that was going to 772 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 5: be bright, you know when you walked in. I didn't 773 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 5: want it look like a headshop. I didn't want it 774 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,759 Speaker 5: looking like a skateboard shop. I wanted it something my 775 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,759 Speaker 5: mother was going to be comfortable walking into, because I know, 776 00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,320 Speaker 5: you know, all the all me and my stone are fronds. 777 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,480 Speaker 5: They're coming in, they're coming for the weed, you know. 778 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,040 Speaker 5: So I needed some I needed something that was going 779 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,840 Speaker 5: to be on intimidating, something that people were going to 780 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 5: be comfortable with. It's got to be shoppable too, I mean, 781 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,200 Speaker 5: you have to have like a bright store. There's a reason, 782 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 5: you know, to me, you go back to the convenience stores, 783 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,359 Speaker 5: it's like it's the most expensive real estate out there. 784 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,279 Speaker 5: Every convenience store, they have the best real estate, they 785 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 5: utilize all of it. What are they doing? I mean 786 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 5: I looked at and you know, I did a lot 787 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:29,600 Speaker 5: of we got into this retail space. I I didn't 788 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,239 Speaker 5: spend a lot of time in malls before that. But 789 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, from the time we started our 790 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,279 Speaker 5: concepts to the time we finished, I visited more shops 791 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 5: in the mall. You know, just walking down what catches 792 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,080 Speaker 5: my eye? You know, the nice thing is you go, 793 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,640 Speaker 5: you go walk the mall. There's hundreds of stores all 794 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,879 Speaker 5: next to each other. Well, which one caught your eye 795 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,319 Speaker 5: with the quickest? Okay, now why did it catch your 796 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 5: eye the quickest? So I think I think you got 797 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,759 Speaker 5: to be really intentional with the way that you go 798 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 5: about putting these together. And that's what we did. Everything 799 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,440 Speaker 5: was very deliberate, very intentional. And that's where I think, Like, 800 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 5: you get a lot of people who what they do 801 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 5: is they fly out to California and they fly out 802 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,799 Speaker 5: to Colorado and it's kind of you know, do what 803 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 5: they did? So how did they build their dispensary? Well, 804 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,440 Speaker 5: that's what a dispensary looks like when in all reality, 805 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,560 Speaker 5: most of these dispensaries. The first couple ones were built 806 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 5: on a you know, a lean budget. You know, you 807 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,800 Speaker 5: had some backpack boys that ended up getting a license, 808 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,759 Speaker 5: and you just basically took over whatever that store's footprint 809 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 5: was and you change nothing. And I think that I 810 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,880 Speaker 5: think that's what you see in a lot of these stores. 811 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,640 Speaker 5: You can see, well, this just looks like a old 812 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,279 Speaker 5: convenience or whatever it was before they just threw they 813 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,279 Speaker 5: just dry wall the waiting room in there, because it's 814 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,879 Speaker 5: the statements that they needed to do. You know, they 815 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,319 Speaker 5: took off where you see some of these ground up 816 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,000 Speaker 5: builds and didn't take any of that into consideration. So 817 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 5: I do think that you're gonna see a ship. But 818 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 5: that's kind of how we got to where our logos 819 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,960 Speaker 5: are and everything else was kind of and it's. 820 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,000 Speaker 4: What is that, you know what I mean? 821 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:01,800 Speaker 3: And then not only that, when you have the h 822 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 3: with just the two lines on the top of the bottom, 823 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,440 Speaker 3: as I want to say simple and not in a 824 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:07,080 Speaker 3: negative way. 825 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,640 Speaker 4: It's simple cool, right, It's. 826 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,600 Speaker 3: Like look at that and I go, oh, I rock that, 827 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,200 Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And and the color schemes, 828 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,240 Speaker 3: I think it's on point. That's why I was asking 829 00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 3: about it, going, dude, it looks cool. The hatcher wearing 830 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,240 Speaker 3: looks cool. It could be a restaurant, it could. 831 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,239 Speaker 4: Be car dealers, it could be anything. You just don't know. 832 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,400 Speaker 5: But then once you do, that's what I mean, my 833 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 5: gear that people are going to wear. 834 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean exactly. You got you 835 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,040 Speaker 4: got to send us some gear outis so we can 836 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,120 Speaker 4: rock some of this out here. 837 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,160 Speaker 5: And Kelly, we got We'll get you guys hooked up 838 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,320 Speaker 5: and hippos. You know, it's the you know, it's medical, 839 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,640 Speaker 5: and so we did a little play on the Hippocratic oath, 840 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,280 Speaker 5: you know which the hippocritic oath, but you know, essentially 841 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,759 Speaker 5: says that, you know, we are going to do our 842 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,840 Speaker 5: bat to serve our patients and to not do anything 843 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,880 Speaker 5: that's going to harm them. And so that's kind of 844 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,840 Speaker 5: you know, that really is our mention. We want to 845 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,680 Speaker 5: be able to help help our customers and help our 846 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,040 Speaker 5: patients and help them on their cannabis journey because we know, 847 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,000 Speaker 5: you know, whether it's your first time in or you've 848 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,480 Speaker 5: been going to dispensaries forever, you know, we want to 849 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,799 Speaker 5: be you know, we have the products and you know, 850 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,719 Speaker 5: the nice thing is we've got a you know, we've 851 00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,120 Speaker 5: got a pretty special team too, so it's been exciting. 852 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,360 Speaker 3: Let me ask you, Nick, this is random, but you know, 853 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,279 Speaker 3: being out there in the Midwest, and I know they 854 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,439 Speaker 3: voted for it, that they wanted legal cannabis, but it's 855 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,080 Speaker 3: the Midwest, dude, and you know there's still people out 856 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,120 Speaker 3: there everywhere for that matter. But you know, you're pretty 857 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:28,920 Speaker 3: close to well, you're right next to a state that 858 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 3: has no legalization yet whatsoever, in Kansas, and a lot 859 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 3: of people are like, oh no, it's still taboo. It's 860 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,520 Speaker 3: the devil, it's the gukui. It's that's such bad thing. 861 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 3: Are you guys dealing with anybody coming into the store. 862 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,080 Speaker 4: I don't want this here. My kids are driving by. 863 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,520 Speaker 4: It's Sunday, we're going to church, and how dare hippos 864 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:46,960 Speaker 4: be open? 865 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,719 Speaker 5: No, we don't, you know, to be frank, we just don't. 866 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,400 Speaker 5: I mean, we do have people that stop on their 867 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,239 Speaker 5: way to and from church, so we do have the 868 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,239 Speaker 5: church goers and you can see it. I mean like 869 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,240 Speaker 5: Springfield is a I mean Springfield is the Bible Belt. 870 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,160 Speaker 5: I mean it is in the absolute Bible Belt. That's 871 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 5: our you know, Storida is great for us, and it's like, 872 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,440 Speaker 5: you know, you can you can have a relationship with 873 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,640 Speaker 5: whatever religion that you're into and have a relationship with 874 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,680 Speaker 5: cannabis and you're doing all right. I mean, I've just seen, 875 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,080 Speaker 5: you know, especially here in Missouri, it's been nice, you know, 876 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 5: and you get a lot of people that, you know, 877 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 5: you get the jokes, you know, oh, you're doing this 878 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,759 Speaker 5: so three for But once they get into it, I 879 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,160 Speaker 5: mean they understand, they see the benefit, you know it. 880 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:41,080 Speaker 5: Missouri was hit really hard with the opioid crisis, really hard, 881 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:46,280 Speaker 5: and this whole area has and so they yeah, totally. 882 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,400 Speaker 5: So they see what, you know, what the alternative looks like, 883 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:54,319 Speaker 5: and it's not pretty. You know. It always amaze me 884 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,399 Speaker 5: the people that they feel like, you know, I feel 885 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:02,799 Speaker 5: like it's you know, politicians looking to protect people. And 886 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:07,000 Speaker 5: oftentimes the loudest voices are the minority. They're not the majority, right, 887 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,080 Speaker 5: and so that the people screaming not in my backyard, 888 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,200 Speaker 5: this and that, But that's not the majority of how 889 00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:12,880 Speaker 5: we would have got the vote if it was the 890 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,400 Speaker 5: majority and the majority of the people wanted it. You know, 891 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,680 Speaker 5: I look at our dispensaries, you know, if I'm not 892 00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,560 Speaker 5: in the dispensaries, I'm on the cameras on a daily 893 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,439 Speaker 5: basis nothing else, and I'm seeing you know, you see 894 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,560 Speaker 5: people every day that are in their eighties coming in 895 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,560 Speaker 5: and picking up products because it's helping them. You know, 896 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,560 Speaker 5: they're looking for something that's like, shit, I'm on all 897 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,840 Speaker 5: these bills. I want to have something that's different. They also, 898 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,600 Speaker 5: you know, people want to you know, they're intrigued by it. 899 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,719 Speaker 5: You know, they see what they're doing, and they might 900 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,839 Speaker 5: their grandkids, you know, working in this industry and they've 901 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,520 Speaker 5: been hearing about it and they want to see what's 902 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,200 Speaker 5: going on. And for most people, it's not their first 903 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,480 Speaker 5: ever experience with the cannabis. I mean, so it's been 904 00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,520 Speaker 5: you know, is taboo as you think it would be. 905 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,640 Speaker 5: It's not as bad. I mean it's really not. I 906 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,760 Speaker 5: mean you go to you go anywhere in the country 907 00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,239 Speaker 5: and like I said, I've kind of lived all over 908 00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,120 Speaker 5: the place. It's like everybody's consuming cannabis and they have 909 00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:08,080 Speaker 5: been for a long time. 910 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:08,879 Speaker 4: Right. 911 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,239 Speaker 3: So that being said, as you said, as we know 912 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,000 Speaker 3: from the stats, and we've said this a bunch on 913 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,440 Speaker 3: this show, you know, the highest amount of people that 914 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,879 Speaker 3: are going to the dispensaries are fifty and over I mean, 915 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,920 Speaker 3: and that's around the country. That being said, what are 916 00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:26,959 Speaker 3: the number one items being sold at Hippos marijuana dispensary 917 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:28,160 Speaker 3: right now? 918 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:33,120 Speaker 5: For us, it's that Central Flower hits behind me. We're 919 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,879 Speaker 5: a lot like any other market, I mean, and that's 920 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,960 Speaker 5: the how you get into that's the house brand. So 921 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,359 Speaker 5: love that we've got our you know, our cultivator, Ben Friedeberg. 922 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,440 Speaker 5: Super proud of him. Ben came is from Missouri originally 923 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:54,040 Speaker 5: very smart, I mean, highly intelligent plant scientists, went and 924 00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,839 Speaker 5: got his degree in plant sciences. Why he was at 925 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 5: the University of Missouri. He did that unlike you know, 926 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,839 Speaker 5: a lot of people you see a lot of these 927 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,520 Speaker 5: commercial growers anymore, either got he came out of the 928 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,879 Speaker 5: black market or you got this plant science degree. Well, 929 00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,200 Speaker 5: Ben went and got his plants. Ben Ben went got 930 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:15,800 Speaker 5: his plant science degree so he can learn how to 931 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,759 Speaker 5: grow weep better. So he had that relationship with the 932 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,799 Speaker 5: plant plant and then he went on to Colorado with 933 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,840 Speaker 5: the California and then we got him to come back here. 934 00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:27,000 Speaker 5: But so we're putting out, you know, some really special products, 935 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,239 Speaker 5: which has been great. The flower you know that that's 936 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,200 Speaker 5: still are you know, the top mover, top moving category 937 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,200 Speaker 5: and all of our dispensaries. And then it just you know, 938 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,720 Speaker 5: you got pre rolls out of bulls. I mean it's parts, 939 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,120 Speaker 5: it's kind of it's kind of the same as you'll 940 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,560 Speaker 5: see anywhere, you know, the easiest thing. You know, people 941 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,080 Speaker 5: I think, first we're getting in, you know, back into cannabis. 942 00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,920 Speaker 5: They've either had flower before. We sell a lot of 943 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,440 Speaker 5: pre rolls because that you know that joints already done 944 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:57,480 Speaker 5: for them. I can't can't say that I don't utilize 945 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,160 Speaker 5: that pre role option quite a bit. It's easy, you know, 946 00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,520 Speaker 5: it's a lazy man's way of doing it. And then 947 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,239 Speaker 5: you have you know, the carts because they're you know 948 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,239 Speaker 5: a little bit more discreet, so people love those. And 949 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,879 Speaker 5: then I think a lot of people, especially you get 950 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:15,680 Speaker 5: that fifty plus, you know, they don't they don't use cannabis. 951 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,239 Speaker 5: They they are not cannabis consumers, but they will try 952 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,840 Speaker 5: a gummy exactly. So that's kind of thing that the 953 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,240 Speaker 5: older I would think it will. 954 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:24,799 Speaker 3: Be much easier to use, especially when you're dealing with 955 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,520 Speaker 3: your authortis you're this and that and they're sixty five 956 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,840 Speaker 3: years old and don't want to start smoking again because 957 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,439 Speaker 3: maybe they use to smoke or no longer smoking, don't 958 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,680 Speaker 3: want to actually have that smoke in their lungs. 959 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:35,600 Speaker 4: So I can see. 960 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,279 Speaker 5: Yeah, edible sales of Yah. Edible sales have increased, but 961 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,680 Speaker 5: it's still dominated above by Flower. 962 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,840 Speaker 3: And Sundro is the number one. If you're out there, folks, 963 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,880 Speaker 3: try that bad pony, and of course they're excited about 964 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,960 Speaker 3: the brand new bread whole number sixteen. It's now time 965 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,640 Speaker 3: to do the high five with our guests out of 966 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:55,600 Speaker 3: good old Missouri. 967 00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,200 Speaker 4: The CEO of this amazing company. Out there, folks. 968 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,239 Speaker 3: If you're out there and you're going to hit a dispensary, 969 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,600 Speaker 3: make sure you hit that one up. It's called Hippos 970 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,120 Speaker 3: and Nick is the ceo. 971 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,000 Speaker 4: Nick. Question number one of the high five. How old 972 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,040 Speaker 4: are you the first time you smoked cannabis? And where 973 00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,239 Speaker 4: did you get it from? 974 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,200 Speaker 5: So? I was thirteen fourteen years old. 975 00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:17,239 Speaker 4: I was. 976 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,759 Speaker 5: Out of all the places I could have possibly been. 977 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,399 Speaker 5: I was at the lake at the Ozarks. No way 978 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,799 Speaker 5: you're back, and it's funny it goes full circle. I mean, 979 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:31,120 Speaker 5: this is mansive is destiny. So is at the Lake 980 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,960 Speaker 5: of the Ozarks. I was at a buddy's lake house 981 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,239 Speaker 5: and his older brother at a little bit of pot 982 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,719 Speaker 5: and so he wanted to know if we wanted it. 983 00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,160 Speaker 5: It's like, of course we wanted you guys are you 984 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,440 Speaker 5: know you guys are you guys are cool? You're you 985 00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:51,040 Speaker 5: know consuming? So that was the first experience is down 986 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,120 Speaker 5: at the Lake of the Ozarks with a couple of 987 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,600 Speaker 5: buddies and we were I don't know, seventh eighth grade. 988 00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:58,560 Speaker 4: So and who had it? 989 00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:03,360 Speaker 5: Look his brother, his older brother. So we got he 990 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:05,359 Speaker 5: packed the bowl and gave it to us. I think 991 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:06,839 Speaker 5: he was just wanting us to get away from him 992 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,640 Speaker 5: and his friends. You know, it's like this will work. 993 00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,919 Speaker 5: We thought it was great, you know. So I don't 994 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,759 Speaker 5: know if that we could have been, you know, the 995 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,640 Speaker 5: worst titch wee in the world. But let me tell you, 996 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:18,760 Speaker 5: we thought it was amazing. 997 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,759 Speaker 4: So and I thought that was at that age it 998 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,040 Speaker 4: was that's all that matter. 999 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,600 Speaker 5: But you know, I mean, obviously is like I like that, 1000 00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,440 Speaker 5: So that's awesome. 1001 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,759 Speaker 3: Now, Question number two of the High five, Nick, the 1002 00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,480 Speaker 3: CEO of Hippos, what is your favorite way to use cannabis? 1003 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:40,320 Speaker 5: My favorite is smoking. I'm a flower guy from way back. 1004 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,040 Speaker 5: So I guess it goes back to, uh, you know, 1005 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:44,880 Speaker 5: just kind of my age and the fact that I've 1006 00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,600 Speaker 5: been consuming as long as I have. Is I steel 1007 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:51,560 Speaker 5: like the ritual of smoking. Probably joint would be my 1008 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,120 Speaker 5: favorite way to consume. So yeah, I'm a I'm a 1009 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:55,680 Speaker 5: joint guy. 1010 00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:57,400 Speaker 4: Nice Okay. 1011 00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,880 Speaker 3: Question number three, Craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis? 1012 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:07,839 Speaker 5: You know, I grew up, I had a fairly grew 1013 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,400 Speaker 5: up in a fairly strict household. Although my dad was 1014 00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,480 Speaker 5: the head of you know, or not the head, but 1015 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:17,200 Speaker 5: he was a DJ at reefer rock radio. Things tightened up, uh, 1016 00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,759 Speaker 5: you know, in the house so consuming. I'm sure a 1017 00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,360 Speaker 5: lot of people can relate to this consuming in my 1018 00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,839 Speaker 5: bedroom when my parents were at the house. That was 1019 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,719 Speaker 5: actually the craziest because it's like that you could, you know, 1020 00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,600 Speaker 5: this could turn into get your. 1021 00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,359 Speaker 4: Ask exactly you can come in there. 1022 00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,239 Speaker 5: So that was always dangerous. 1023 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:41,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. 1024 00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,320 Speaker 3: What I would do if my fucking kids started lighting 1025 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,400 Speaker 3: up in the house in the room. And it's funny 1026 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,480 Speaker 3: because I go back, you know, I started smoking at 1027 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,200 Speaker 3: the age of six, and you know, I go so 1028 00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,160 Speaker 3: far back with it and as you say, your dad 1029 00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,480 Speaker 3: was a DJ. I was a DJ on the radio 1030 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:57,319 Speaker 3: for a long time. I worked at Power when O six, 1031 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,640 Speaker 3: Kiss at BAM, you know, sports talk. I've done all 1032 00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,120 Speaker 3: kinds shows, and now I'm doing a cannabis talk show. 1033 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,640 Speaker 3: So my kids got to know that, are they? And 1034 00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,080 Speaker 3: the funnier thing is is, Nick, I don't even smoke weed. 1035 00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,480 Speaker 4: I use products. I've been sober twenty four plus years, 1036 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:10,680 Speaker 4: but I use all the products. 1037 00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,200 Speaker 3: I don't just smoke joints, you know what I mean, 1038 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:16,640 Speaker 3: particularly for medicine. I had surgery. I ingested a lot 1039 00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,319 Speaker 3: of THC. But it's funny. I'm just thinking, as you 1040 00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,080 Speaker 3: say that, it would be crazy for my kids too 1041 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:23,959 Speaker 3: if they chose to do that at home. 1042 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,840 Speaker 5: Well, you know, I got one other one. I was 1043 00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,840 Speaker 5: in Germany. So I was getting a treatment for lyme disease. 1044 00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:31,920 Speaker 5: I was in a bad way. I was in a 1045 00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,200 Speaker 5: wheelchair at one point, and so I was on this 1046 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,400 Speaker 5: And this is recently, so this is right before I 1047 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,040 Speaker 5: moved out to California, And this is actually the crazy 1048 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,120 Speaker 5: spot we're in. I'm in Germany, I'm at this hospital. 1049 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:48,560 Speaker 5: There's probably thirty of us there, and I'm Jones and 1050 00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,839 Speaker 5: you know, I've been there, and my younger brother's there 1051 00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,560 Speaker 5: kind of the caretaker for me. And I'm in like 1052 00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,560 Speaker 5: days seven or eight of this treatment. Actually i'm longer 1053 00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,920 Speaker 5: than that. I'm in day thirteen because I was flying 1054 00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,520 Speaker 5: back on the on the day fifteen and fourteenth was 1055 00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,640 Speaker 5: my last day there before they kind of give your 1056 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:11,200 Speaker 5: exit pro So I'm out there and like I said, 1057 00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,840 Speaker 5: there's like thirty people from all over the world' or 1058 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,640 Speaker 5: at this place. You're trying to get help and doing 1059 00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,160 Speaker 5: this this therapy called hyper therapy where they heat your 1060 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,000 Speaker 5: body up to over one hundred and seven degrees and 1061 00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,799 Speaker 5: so you're really going through it. And I was, like I said, 1062 00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,480 Speaker 5: I was a wheelchair and I was in a bad way. 1063 00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,440 Speaker 5: I went from being like, you know, doing all these 1064 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,239 Speaker 5: different fours and this, that and the other. So I 1065 00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,319 Speaker 5: couldn't walk. I mean, I couldn't walk around a grocery store. 1066 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:34,759 Speaker 4: It was bad. 1067 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:41,279 Speaker 5: And so I'm in Germany and I'm like, tell my brother, 1068 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,200 Speaker 5: I'm like, dude, we gotta find some lead. Man, Like 1069 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,319 Speaker 5: it's been it's been nearly two weeks. Man. I got 1070 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,279 Speaker 5: I'm yelling at her and I see this nurse and 1071 00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,200 Speaker 5: she's it's this white chick with dreads, you know, and 1072 00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:54,960 Speaker 5: she's got like a grateful dead shirt on. So I'm like, 1073 00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,320 Speaker 5: this is a dead kebboy. I'm like, we don't figure 1074 00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,279 Speaker 5: something out. So I'm asking her. I know she knows 1075 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,520 Speaker 5: where the weed is. Well, we end up in the 1076 00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:05,160 Speaker 5: cafeteria and there's these two women talk and that look 1077 00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,400 Speaker 5: like soccer moms from the US. And this one lady 1078 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:12,279 Speaker 5: thought that we overheard her. We didn't. She's asked us, 1079 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,319 Speaker 5: you know, do you guys want some edibles? I'm like, 1080 00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,120 Speaker 5: you brought edibles with you from Yeah. She's like, I'm 1081 00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,200 Speaker 5: from Boulder. I brought some edibles. So I'm like I'm 1082 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,280 Speaker 5: in like, yes, we want these. 1083 00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:23,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. Please. 1084 00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:28,480 Speaker 5: So that night we're watching TV on our on our computer, 1085 00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,280 Speaker 5: watching a little Netflix, and you know, my brother's eleven 1086 00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:36,080 Speaker 5: years younger. He takes the whole thing I and it's 1087 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,239 Speaker 5: this little GAMMI. I take a quarter. Nothing. I wait 1088 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,120 Speaker 5: like twenty minutes, take the other quarter. Nothing, Wait another 1089 00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:45,600 Speaker 5: twenty minutes. I'm like, cluck ed. I ate the whole thing. 1090 00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,680 Speaker 5: And this is a regimented program. It's in Germany, so 1091 00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,280 Speaker 5: everything is like you have to be on time to everything. 1092 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:53,920 Speaker 5: You know, eight o'clock, you gotta be at this appointment, 1093 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,440 Speaker 5: that appointment, the next appointment, and if you're late, they 1094 00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,440 Speaker 5: charge you. I mean, this is like very you know, 1095 00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:05,760 Speaker 5: very s So next thing, I remember, it's ten am 1096 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,560 Speaker 5: and my younger brother is shaking me. He's like that 1097 00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:13,399 Speaker 5: we overslept. This thing had me rocked. So I got 1098 00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,719 Speaker 5: and they're doing like the accident interview the thing, or 1099 00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:19,480 Speaker 5: they're they're telling me what my protocol is. When I 1100 00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,480 Speaker 5: get back to the States. I've got like six German 1101 00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,280 Speaker 5: doctors over me. I can barely understand them. I'm thinking, 1102 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,600 Speaker 5: just just email it to me, dude, like I can't. 1103 00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,239 Speaker 5: You know, I'm not tracking anything. We get down to 1104 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,680 Speaker 5: lunch and those ladies go, well, they go, how you doing? 1105 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:36,719 Speaker 5: I go, how the fuck do you think I'm doing? 1106 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:38,960 Speaker 5: And I'm still high? He goes, well, how much did 1107 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:40,400 Speaker 5: you take? We had the whole thing, there were one 1108 00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,440 Speaker 5: hundred biogram had no idea. I mean, I was, you know, 1109 00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,319 Speaker 5: I entered the matrix, I was still feeling it. 1110 00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:51,920 Speaker 3: That is so great, and how you know what, I'm 1111 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,560 Speaker 3: making some serious progress. 1112 00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,920 Speaker 5: So I'm I'm in a lot better place than what 1113 00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,040 Speaker 5: I what I was you know, for a long time, 1114 00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,399 Speaker 5: I couldn't wear couldn't even wear pants cause it hurt 1115 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,520 Speaker 5: so bud of my legs. That really been Rockay, I 1116 00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,759 Speaker 5: appreciate you asking. I'm you know, I'm probably ninety five 1117 00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,680 Speaker 5: percent back to you know, fully back to out drink 1118 00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:11,640 Speaker 5: for seven years trying to fight that. So it's been 1119 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:12,120 Speaker 5: a journey. 1120 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,040 Speaker 4: I never knew about lime disease. 1121 00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,120 Speaker 3: I just had a buddy of mine that I did 1122 00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,239 Speaker 3: radio with in San Francisco. We used to do morning 1123 00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,439 Speaker 3: radio with a show called The Doghouse, and it made 1124 00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:26,560 Speaker 3: national news. This sky JV ended up committing suicide. And 1125 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,239 Speaker 3: because I know him, I know the family. You know, 1126 00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:33,080 Speaker 3: his lime disease was so bad that he couldn't take 1127 00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:33,640 Speaker 3: it anymore. 1128 00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,360 Speaker 5: And it's it's brutal. 1129 00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:37,399 Speaker 4: That's what I would say. 1130 00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:41,239 Speaker 5: Mine cannabis, Uh, you know, cannabis helped. I always tell 1131 00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,319 Speaker 5: people this too, if my cannabis saved my life when 1132 00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,000 Speaker 5: it came to that, And it's like, did it cure 1133 00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:48,799 Speaker 5: the lime disease? No, but it gave my brain a 1134 00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,120 Speaker 5: break from all the pain I was going through every day, 1135 00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,239 Speaker 5: so I could consume it. 1136 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,520 Speaker 4: I didn't know it, like whoa lime disease is that 1137 00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:58,000 Speaker 4: bad for people are hurt? I didn't know what hurt. 1138 00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:01,000 Speaker 3: I didn't even know really what it was like. I 1139 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,640 Speaker 3: couldn't even understand it. You know, it's like something just 1140 00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:04,359 Speaker 3: out of left field. 1141 00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:04,879 Speaker 4: You don't know, you. 1142 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,279 Speaker 3: Don't know, and yeah, it's crazy and you to mention it. 1143 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,160 Speaker 3: That's why, like, dude, how's it going for you? Because fuck, 1144 00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:11,359 Speaker 3: my buddy just took his life. 1145 00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:13,000 Speaker 4: Guy, Yeah, it's a. 1146 00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:17,520 Speaker 5: It's a wild. It's a it's a wild and it's 1147 00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,279 Speaker 5: a very sad thing take. You know, it takes over 1148 00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:21,919 Speaker 5: a lot of people. You don't see it. I didn't 1149 00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:23,840 Speaker 5: look much different than I do now, so people, you know, 1150 00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,520 Speaker 5: people don't If you can't see it, it's hard for 1151 00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,560 Speaker 5: other people that really have like the empathy. And so 1152 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:31,839 Speaker 5: I think it's and then it's very underdiagnosed. That's really 1153 00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,160 Speaker 5: poor diagnostics for testing for it. So I think there's 1154 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:37,279 Speaker 5: a lot of people walking around with it that I 1155 00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,640 Speaker 5: don't know that they have it, but they're feeling all 1156 00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,520 Speaker 5: these pains, and people think that they're like hyperchondriacts because 1157 00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:43,840 Speaker 5: the crazy thing lining. 1158 00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,920 Speaker 4: Is psy I invited him to my fifteth birthday. No, 1159 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,239 Speaker 4: I can't make it. My body's been hurting too much. 1160 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:51,920 Speaker 4: Quit being such a pussy and get your ass down here. 1161 00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,799 Speaker 4: I'm like, whoa, you have no idea. I hope that 1162 00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:57,239 Speaker 4: how treats you better. Nick. 1163 00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,600 Speaker 3: Let's go to question number four the High Five. Nick, 1164 00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,560 Speaker 3: the CEO of Hippos out in good old Missouri? What 1165 00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,280 Speaker 3: is your go to munchies after you get high? 1166 00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,400 Speaker 5: I might go to munchies. Is you know I like 1167 00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,759 Speaker 5: making pop gun to be honest, big popcorn guy, or 1168 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,280 Speaker 5: you know, anything that someone else wants to make and 1169 00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,320 Speaker 5: get me at that point of pump couch lock. You 1170 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:20,960 Speaker 5: want to bring it over, I'll participate. 1171 00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,240 Speaker 3: You're like, I'll put my hand in it. 1172 00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:25,680 Speaker 4: But popcorn just regular butter? 1173 00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, I like, I like make it on the stovetop. 1174 00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:34,160 Speaker 5: I'm like, you know, I feel like I'm a popcorn 1175 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,920 Speaker 5: connoisseury as So get that airloom popcorn, get a popping 1176 00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:37,800 Speaker 5: on the on the stove. 1177 00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,880 Speaker 4: Oh that's to me, there's nothing better than that, right. 1178 00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,400 Speaker 3: Well, the kettle homemade, just getting in front of good 1179 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,520 Speaker 3: kettle corn is a phenomenal. But you're right, that homemade anything, 1180 00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,800 Speaker 3: like you said, it's great. Question number five of the 1181 00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,560 Speaker 3: High Five, Nick, if you could smoke cannabis with anyone 1182 00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:58,600 Speaker 3: dead are alive, Who would it be and why. 1183 00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:04,160 Speaker 5: You know this person wasn't a wasn't a big cannabis consumer. 1184 00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:08,480 Speaker 5: In fact, he referred to it as dope, never smoked 1185 00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:12,400 Speaker 5: in his life, had grew up with ree for madness. 1186 00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:16,360 Speaker 5: Was my grandfather? If I could you know, if if 1187 00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,160 Speaker 5: it took cannabis to be the thing to bring him 1188 00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,680 Speaker 5: back to spend an extra day with him. I think 1189 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,840 Speaker 5: everybody has a family member if they're close to that 1190 00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,160 Speaker 5: they wish they could do that with. I don't care 1191 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,240 Speaker 5: if I'm the only person participating in that uh in 1192 00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,240 Speaker 5: that session, you know that that would be the guy. 1193 00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:38,800 Speaker 5: I don't care, what the what, what the what it was? 1194 00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:41,439 Speaker 5: If it's say, could you do this with them? Could 1195 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,400 Speaker 5: you have dinner with anybody? Could you go to a 1196 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,320 Speaker 5: concert with anybody? Consume cannabis? That you know? That's kind 1197 00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:48,520 Speaker 5: of standard answer. 1198 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,480 Speaker 4: For my grandma. That's you know what. 1199 00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:56,680 Speaker 3: I personally love those type of answers when it's a 1200 00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,920 Speaker 3: family member like a grandpa, the mother, the father, the 1201 00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,720 Speaker 3: brother that pat like. And we've had all these types 1202 00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,320 Speaker 3: of answers that have every so many different random answers 1203 00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:08,160 Speaker 3: and obscured answers, but it's the family ones that touch 1204 00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,000 Speaker 3: me too, because it's like, oh, yeah, can you imagine 1205 00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,760 Speaker 3: just sitting there with you and I'm sure and when 1206 00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,520 Speaker 3: you say that, it just makes me imagine. You've got 1207 00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,320 Speaker 3: so many stories as a young whipper snapper with that 1208 00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,880 Speaker 3: grandpa of yours teaching you these random lessons as you're 1209 00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:22,600 Speaker 3: older now in life in your forties boring. 1210 00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:28,680 Speaker 5: Now I know what he was, you know, so he 1211 00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:32,000 Speaker 5: was a in his own right. I mean he was 1212 00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:35,560 Speaker 5: a party animal. He was, you know, super great guy, 1213 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:39,400 Speaker 5: you know, big philanthropist, you know, was definitely gave more 1214 00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,120 Speaker 5: than he ever took, you know, any part of his life. 1215 00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:44,800 Speaker 5: He's kind of the you know, set the standard for 1216 00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:46,920 Speaker 5: you know, who I hope to be and you know, 1217 00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:50,400 Speaker 5: hoop who I hope to emulate. So one more day 1218 00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:51,360 Speaker 5: with him, I'll take it. 1219 00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:53,120 Speaker 4: Well, that's awesome. 1220 00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,520 Speaker 3: Nick, you're the CEO of Hippo Cannabis. Hippocannabis dot com 1221 00:59:56,520 --> 01:00:00,680 Speaker 3: three locations out there in Missouri and west Chesterfield at 1222 01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:05,760 Speaker 3: seventeen four oh nine g Chesterfield Airport Road, Chesterfield, Missouri. 1223 01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,880 Speaker 3: Also if you're in the Columbia area, twenty five hundred 1224 01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:12,960 Speaker 3: Broadway Bluff's Drive and you know, good old Columbia and 1225 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,520 Speaker 3: if you're in Springfield, it's two eight six eight South 1226 01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,920 Speaker 3: Glenstone Avenue and Springfield go check it out. You know, 1227 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,080 Speaker 3: they got the good local brands that they're doing, Sundra 1228 01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,560 Speaker 3: a Bad Pony and of course that new breadhole number sixteen. 1229 01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:29,840 Speaker 3: Is there anything we forgot or you want to mention 1230 01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:30,960 Speaker 3: Nick before we let you go? 1231 01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,880 Speaker 5: You know, just check out our soul social handles. You know, 1232 01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,280 Speaker 5: I think you covered those at Hippos Cannabis, at sun 1233 01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:41,760 Speaker 5: Droke Cannabis. We also have adda that's atta like a 1234 01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,400 Speaker 5: boy and a girl at a cannabis. You'll look at that, 1235 01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:48,720 Speaker 5: and then Bad Pony King Cannabis we have. We also 1236 01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,160 Speaker 5: have OG yields, so you can just hit the OG yields, 1237 01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,000 Speaker 5: but you'll see a lot of cool content videos kind 1238 01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,440 Speaker 5: of see what we're up to at our different locations 1239 01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:58,960 Speaker 5: and kind of see what's going on in Missouri. You know, 1240 01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,360 Speaker 5: it's uh. When I first got out here, you know, 1241 01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,600 Speaker 5: telling people I'm headed to Missouri, they didn't know where 1242 01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,800 Speaker 5: the hell was southern California. So a give little better idea, 1243 01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,120 Speaker 5: you know, not a lot of a lot of people 1244 01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,480 Speaker 5: passing geography out there, and I guess that don't need to. 1245 01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,880 Speaker 5: But he kind of what we're up to. I think 1246 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,800 Speaker 5: it's pretty exciting. Any anything anything east of Vegas. It's like, 1247 01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:21,160 Speaker 5: I'm not going What am I. 1248 01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:23,000 Speaker 4: Going there for? Where is that at? Where? What do 1249 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:23,200 Speaker 4: you mean? 1250 01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:23,400 Speaker 5: Where? 1251 01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,200 Speaker 4: Nebraska? Is that next to Kansas? Is it next? The 1252 01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:28,160 Speaker 4: side of it? Above it? 1253 01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:30,960 Speaker 3: And now that I'm the same way I was literally 1254 01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,520 Speaker 3: looking at the map is in South Dakota. 1255 01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:33,280 Speaker 4: That's not I just. 1256 01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:38,439 Speaker 3: I'm one of those Californians that doesn't fly over. 1257 01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,600 Speaker 4: I married in and now I have Kansas gear. 1258 01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:43,800 Speaker 3: And when I seen that we were interviewing you, I go, oh, 1259 01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:45,560 Speaker 3: I can't wait to rock my rock chalk. 1260 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:46,440 Speaker 5: I got looking good. 1261 01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:49,200 Speaker 3: It's I got all kinds of ship and matter of fact, 1262 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,880 Speaker 3: my mother in law's coming down from good ol' chiny Kansas. 1263 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,480 Speaker 4: So rock chock. Remember, folks, if nobody else loves you, 1264 01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:56,360 Speaker 4: we do. 1265 01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:58,640 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one on one 1266 01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:01,280 Speaker 1: with Blue with Joe bron Day, the world's number one 1267 01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:04,840 Speaker 1: source for everything cannabis, and make sure you like, follow, 1268 01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,360 Speaker 1: and subscribe to Cannabis Talk one to one now