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Speaker 1: a very special show today. I mean, not only is

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Speaker 1: he way better dressed than us, I wish I had

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Speaker 1: you guys about this cat up here. Andreas the co

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Speaker 1: founder of Green Queen Dispensary, located in downtown Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: buy the Green Queen Dispensary. He is also the co

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Speaker 1: which is a beautiful nonprofit organization that empowers the local

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Speaker 1: lgbt Q plus community in Downtown l A throughout visibility, volunteerism, partnership,

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Speaker 1: just to validate that this guy was official like a

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Speaker 1: were coming to the party. Now you need to go

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Speaker 1: see his party at Green Queen because that dispensary is

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Speaker 1: so wonderful inside. And the thing that I love about

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Speaker 1: it is because they're catering and what you did there,

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Speaker 1: Andreas has catered the lgbt Q plus community and weren't

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Speaker 1: This is what we're about, and he haw, we're here,

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Speaker 1: So congratulations and welcome to the show. But I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you and what he's done so far. That being said,

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Speaker 1: by there, say hello, check it out. It is pimped out.

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Speaker 1: quite the proposition to fifteen doing business as a mutual

426
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 1: benefit organization back then versus what the laws are now

427
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,879
Speaker 1: and everything else, right, And so I'm sitting here, you know,

428
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 1: operating as legal as I can, and some gentleman walks

429
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 1: through the door and his name was Marty. And Marty

430
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 1: says to me, he says to the front desk, he's

431
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: patting his pockets and he goes, damn, I don't I

432
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: didn't bring my wallet, you know. And uh, he's like

433
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 1: and he's talking about I'm sick and I'm not gonna

434
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 1: feel well and blah blah blah this and that. And

435
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 1: then security he's like, yo, you gotta go right just

436
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 1: and he looks sick, you know. He looked like he

437
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 1: was on drugs or something, you know, for that matter.

438
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 1: He's an older gentleman. Didn't look you know, healthy or whatever.

439
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: But so we're having that conversation and my security guards

440
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,680
Speaker 1: kicking him out. In my heart, I might I felt

441
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 1: something wrong, you know, And he was queer, you know,

442
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 1: and but but that wasn't what I felt wrong. I

443
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 1: felt there was something like real about what he was saying,

444
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 1: his message about being sick and whatever is that I

445
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,640
Speaker 1: look past anything else. And as he's walking out the door,

446
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: I pop out the back and I'm like, hey, bro,

447
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 1: like what do you mean you're sick? You know? And

448
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I'm really sick, and and and it's

449
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 1: just i'll go get my money. I'll be right back,

450
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. And I'm like, no, I'm trying

451
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 1: to help you out, like you know, I work here

452
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: and I want to help you out. And the security

453
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,399
Speaker 1: guard was kind of rude, so it wasn't the best

454
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 1: conversation starting off. And so I'm here listen, like it's

455
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 1: it's all right, like please explain to me. So he's like, look,

456
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 1: I've got AIDS. And he's like and I'm very sick,

457
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,120
Speaker 1: and I'm getting ready to go to my outreache community.

458
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 1: And when i'm done, i'll come back because this you

459
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 1: guys got the best weed blah blah blah, and I'll

460
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: be back and I'll get my it's no big deal.

461
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know what, I was like, you

462
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: really got as you know, because now I'm thinking he's

463
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: hustling me, you know, because I'm younger. I'm not you know,

464
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 1: as as smart as I am today, and and and

465
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: conversating and I'm communicating with them, and I'm like, this

466
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,679
Speaker 1: guy's hustling me. Is you for real? And I'm like,

467
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 1: come on in, let's go in the store. So walk

468
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 1: in the store and I'm like, give this guy an ounce, right,

469
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: And my staff like, well, why don't I get a

470
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 1: free ounce? And fucking jokes are cracking, you know. So

471
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm in there just going and and I'm getting frustrated

472
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 1: because I'm getting serious now because you know, I'm I'm

473
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,439
Speaker 1: a lot of fun until i'm not, you know, and

474
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 1: then I'm an asshole and then I'm fun again. You know.

475
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 1: That's just kind of my description. Yea. And it's like

476
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 1: and and that's like, dude, you know, yeah that allowed

477
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,679
Speaker 1: me one day. You fucking hate me. But but but

478
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 1: I have to be that way. I'm hot and cold

479
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: because if not, then you know, I melt, you know,

480
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: and and I can't melt. So the thing is, I'm

481
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: in there and I'm telling this gentleman, Marty. I'm saying, Marty,

482
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 1: you know, just pick whatever you want, what you're saying,

483
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: shut the funk up, literally yelling at my security don't don't,

484
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: don't talk, don't say another word, don't say another word

485
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: to my manager saying the game, he's sick and he

486
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 1: needs some fucking weed. Let's get him some weed. So

487
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: we get him some weed. And I walked him out

488
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I apologize about my staff, and I'm

489
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: in my head growing. This is me growing because back

490
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 1: then everybody had to be a little tough. We were

491
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: running pretty much damn near trap spots, so we were

492
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 1: more focused on being tough than than selling you know,

493
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: patients cannabis. You know, we were more about worried about

494
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: our money. And and as we're sitting there, you know, um,

495
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: Marty's like, no, thank you, I'll pay for it. And

496
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, Marty, it's all me, dude. And I was

497
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: like and he's like and I'm He's like, I gotta

498
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 1: go to my my AIDS clinic thing. You should come

499
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: with me, right, And I'm like, you know, at first,

500
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 1: I'm like no, I'm good. You know, He's like, no,

501
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 1: please come with me. You know what I mean, Like

502
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: I need you to see this, and I'm like, fuck,

503
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, like and and something was just like getting

504
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: the car and go wait here was this? Oh? Then

505
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: this was, Um, I'm gonna say ninety, it's like two

506
00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 1: thousand uh five or maybe maybe soon. Yeah, I don't know.

507
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: I can't remember the dates. I would be lying. I'm

508
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm foggy with time, like blink lines like that. But

509
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: it was one proposition with two fifth team was in play,

510
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: and um, so I jumped in the car and and

511
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: just left. And I was super frustrated my staff. I'm

512
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: driving in my car and I'm behind him and lo

513
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,199
Speaker 1: and behold, a little light goes and he goes in

514
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: front of it. I'm like, oh, he's gonna ditch me.

515
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: He's taken off, right, you know. He pulls over. He

516
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: pulls over. So I'm like, okay, fuck it, I'm going

517
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: I'm going in. And I go in there and I

518
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 1: said he pulled over. Yeah yeah, And still in my

519
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 1: head again, you know, I'm I'm you know, on protection mode, right,

520
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: not over the fucking ounce, over the fact that where's

521
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: it going, what's going on? Blah blah blah. You know.

522
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: So we get there and it's in Anaheim here and um,

523
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: there's this whole fucking group people just like we're sitting

524
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: around here inside here, and they're just talking about there

525
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: that we're late, you know, and there's a few seats open.

526
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: They're kind of all hanging out in here, not in

527
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 1: a circle, but like a circle, like we're almost in

528
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: a circle, but not a fluid circle. And everybody's kind

529
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: of bullshitting and talking and and and I and I

530
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: started listening to each and every person walking through what

531
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm going everybody's story in this room has very very

532
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: common analogy, right, and now what was that? It was?

533
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: It was that they smoke weed cannabis to help them sleep.

534
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: They smoke cannabis to help them eat because the medication

535
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: that they're taking wasn't working. Um And they smoke. They

536
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: they they're eating edibles because it helps them their body

537
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: feel better or and every one of them in the

538
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: room have AIDS. And I'm not saying it's I mean,

539
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: there's a few people that have HIV that are you know,

540
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: the full blown aids, most of them. And I'm having

541
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 1: these conversation and I'm looking at everybody listen to this

542
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: guy's story, and I didn't think this couldn't have been

543
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: um planned. You know what I'm saying, like, you can't

544
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: walk into a fucking meeting like this and everybody's talking

545
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: about cannabis as a major component to their life. Uh,

546
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: long story short, I'm in the room and then they

547
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: come over to you and they're like, and and this

548
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: is my friend Chris. He donated you know, an ounce

549
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: of cannabis to us or blue, and everybody's fucking clapping

550
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 1: and and you know, getting ready to go outside and smoke,

551
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 1: and and and they're like, you know, and then they're

552
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: looking at me like say something. So the first thing

553
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: I can said, I'm like, well, I'm gonna donate cannabis

554
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: to all of you because I'm also touched by the

555
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: exactly who you are. I'm so touched by like all

556
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 1: these men's story and women's stories because we're going through

557
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: this this this whole room. And then don't give away

558
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: the business with me if I don't tell them to

559
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: not sometimes like you don't stop giving away to do

560
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: and and and so we're sitting there and so I'm

561
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: I'm donating the fucking ouse to you, to you and

562
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: you and and and they're they're fucking clapping blah blah

563
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 1: blah blah. I'm like, oh god, I just gave away

564
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: a purpose is important, but it gets the I'll and

565
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: I'll wrap it up. Is that it comes down to

566
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: is that, um, I got very in touch with the

567
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: the And the second thing that came to my mind

568
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 1: was now I got very in touch with with real

569
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: terminal patients, people that had AIDS UM and and again

570
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: back then we were in proposition to fifteen doing businesses

571
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: and mutual benefit organization, and we were looking for protection,

572
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: you know. And and at the same time, protection didn't

573
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: mean we needed weapons. Protection was by patients and and

574
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: and at first, again it wasn't about for me when

575
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 1: I was going there, it wasn't about that. But of

576
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: course the mind triggers again and goes, oh shit, I've

577
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: got real life room full of patients that I just

578
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: gave weed to. And then now I'm like, well, you guys,

579
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: we sign up as my patients. And then now they

580
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: all became clients. And then we all started working together

581
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: on on many different projects, normal started getting involved in

582
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: all the different groups. And and I just say that

583
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: that's when my my change of of working with not

584
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: only just the career community, but for people with AIDS

585
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: or But it was cancer. It was autism. It became

586
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: and it became medicine, and it came a focus, and

587
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: my whole life changed, you know. So that's kind of where,

588
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: you know, for me, that the industry became, like where

589
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: it was no longer about selling cannabis and hurting. It

590
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: was more about and I don't say it hurting like

591
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: you're hurting people. It was just about getting weed money

592
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: and smoking the best weed. And you too, Gosh, we've

593
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: really got something here that fucking helps people and it

594
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: change people's lives. And here's proof. And if you can't

595
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: do And then my dad a couple of years later

596
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: dies of cancer, so again this yeah, and and and

597
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: and yeah, and my son, my dad on his deathbed,

598
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: is like, look, dude, like you know, we've came too

599
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: far in this industry to too quit, because I'm like,

600
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: what do I do? You? I mean, you know, your

601
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: pops just passing away. You're you're sitting there and trying

602
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: to figure out life all in a fucking a few

603
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: minutes before he takes his last breath, and he's like, look,

604
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, just just whatever you do, do it the

605
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: right way, because it's it's gonna become legal. You have

606
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: opportunity to help spread the message and get it out there.

607
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: So do it, do it the right way, and stop

608
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: being the trapper, you know what I'm saying. And so

609
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: you know, I hung up my gloves and I didn't

610
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: hang him up completely, but I have I have now

611
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: as far as touching the plant and stuff like that.

612
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: I opened up some growths. I went and got full

613
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: licensing Los Angeles. I went out to Hawaii to do

614
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: Hawaii licensing. I got life and seen in fucking Arizona

615
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: that my brother is still operating today. I pushed, you know,

616
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: through through Arizona, Oklahoma and all the different states including Florida,

617
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: to to help legalize in my own way, meaning that

618
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: I take other licensees, help them get their licensing and

619
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: and so on. And so I've been a part of

620
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: the movement for a long time, but this is kind

621
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: of my story to you know, understanding why we're all

622
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: here for. And I think that came up because when

623
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: you said full circle, I feel like this is a

624
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: full circle for him to even get that off to

625
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: a proud member who has a d t L, A

626
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: proud of a standing member of the queer community of

627
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: like you know that it's a good moment for you

628
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: to share that with something too, is that, you know,

629
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: the modern the cannabis industry was founded because of the

630
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: AIDS crisis, correct that, yeah, okay by Dennis Prown. Yeah,

631
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: and so I was very aware of that. Like the

632
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: first dispensary or whatever you want to call it that

633
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: was legal was because of people dying for me and

634
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: a c T which was the drug that was killing

635
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: them because it was so poisonous, and the only way

636
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: they could function as humans and live was because of cannabis.

637
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: And everything grew from that, and that's what Green Queen

638
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: was inspired by. You know, we looked at this even

639
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: before I even looked at the cannabis industry as a whole.

640
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: When I had the opportunity to get a license, I

641
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: was like, I want to create a dispensary on that legacy.

642
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: And I didn't want to say to say we're the first.

643
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to say we're claiming anything for me.

644
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: It's like we're reclaiming somewhere along the line we lost

645
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: our place in cannabis, you know, from here and now

646
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: we're back as a retailer and we're picking up and

647
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: and and picking up that flag and like, okay, this

648
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: was our father. Here we are. What does it look

649
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: like now? How are we going to push this forward?

650
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: So and that's why we were asking what date was,

651
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: just when was this? And to go back into that

652
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: story for me is that after meeting all those folks

653
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: and realizing where all that came from, the also educated

654
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: me on that movement, right because I remember the movement,

655
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: I remember being and I remember hearing about cannabis being legal,

656
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: but I didn't really identify it as Okay, this is actually,

657
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, the reason that it was fair. It's a

658
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: fair argument to say, how about this, folks, when this happened,

659
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: when the AIDS epidemic came so heavily, this cure for

660
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: the AIDS epidemic was quote unquote cannabis. That was a

661
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: known medicine that now AIDS patients can eat, sleep, live comfortable. Therefore,

662
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: without these pills, this plant is now doing this, which

663
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: is so true because I really didn't look at it

664
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: that way. To be honest with you, how that movement

665
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: is really the movement of the ball getting really pushed,

666
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: because that's really the one that gave you the proplemisies

667
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: that you open up your dispensary on right because of

668
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: that movement led to that which then led to everything

669
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: out where we're at now. It's really the part of

670
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: the movie of but that that happened, and that's such

671
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: a cool story, Like I mean, like having like you're

672
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: asking him where he's taking you. He took you on

673
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: a transcendent journey of growth, you know what I mean,

674
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: Like you were able to identify so many things because

675
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: you took a chance and followed your gut with a

676
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: person who then opened up your world to so many

677
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: other things. And how do you understand what you're really

678
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: doing here? What your purpose was that? And that's what

679
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: I'm saying. When it became more about not me and

680
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: my money and what everything else came very easily right.

681
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: And that's why, you know, a lot of most people

682
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: have a hard time because I identify with I need money.

683
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: And it's like money isn't what you need, you know,

684
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: and and it's hard to explain that. But you don't

685
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: need money, you know, you need you need movement, you

686
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: need the belief, you need the energy, believe energy, actual results.

687
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: You get all the money in the world. I like,

688
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: sure I could just everything I do, whether it was

689
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: a nightlife or cannabis or anything I'm doing, I have

690
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: to have purpose behind it, Like I can't just be

691
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: money for me, for me, like even like get this

692
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: because I'm We went through a process called a PCN,

693
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: which is we had to go to city council and

694
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: plead our case and get our license approved. And it

695
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

696
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: Because we started it, we signed our lease. Then the

697
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: pandemic happened a month later, and you have to hold

698
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: your lease in order to apply for the license, but

699
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: the government shut down for a year, so I'm paying rent.

700
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: It was like already the hardest thing ever. I would

701
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: have given up so long ago if I wasn't doing

702
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: it for a bigger purpose, which was my community. If

703
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: it was if I was just doing it for me

704
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: just for a paycheck, I would have been like, this

705
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: is too hard. But I had to show up every

706
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,479
Speaker 1: single fucking day because I had to because I'm because

707
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: I'm doing it for the community and I'm not gonna

708
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: let my community down. And then when I found out

709
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: that city council wasn't going to approve us, they were

710
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: not going to prove any licenses because they just couldn't

711
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: deal with it. They were too busy. I was like,

712
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: funk that I'm not going to let them do this

713
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: to me or my community. So had it not been

714
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: for my any I never would have made it that far.

715
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: And then the most ironic part is that I did

716
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: a change dog change dot org. When I found out

717
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: they were just like, no, we're not going to prove you.

718
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 1: We did change out or we got three thousand signature

719
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: in two days, and we forced our hand to approve

720
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: us to make the right decision, to make the right

721
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: And it wasn't even it wasn't even an attack. It

722
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't an attack. It was an embrace. Yeah,

723
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: it was like, come be the hero that we need

724
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: you to be. Come give us a hug. Sure, and

725
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: I and I respect that, and and and quite frankly,

726
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: it takes We need more people like you to continue that, right,

727
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: because that is how we we get messages across sometimes

728
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: through through your actions. Right, taking that massive action, it

729
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: creates a ripple effect across the country that more people

730
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: need to embrace. And with that, it's Cannabis Talk one one.

731
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna do the high five

732
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: and talk to more with Andreas. Yes, and I want

733
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: to talk more about the Green Queen because I got

734
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: a little bit about the staff and whatnot. Let's talk

735
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: about the wonderful people that work there. It's kind of

736
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: a talk one. We'll be right back after this. We'll

737
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: be right back with Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome

738
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: back to Cannabis Talk one oh one. For a trusted

739
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: cannabis seed at a fair price, you need to hit

740
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: the Rocket Seeds dot Com or I'll go to Instagram

741
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: at rockets Underscore Seeds, and uh, I want to thank

742
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: all these seeds that are here that are helping us

743
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: do all this wonderful in here. They're all growing so well,

744
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: starting with Jessica over there doing so many things that

745
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: I forgot it the last time. I cannot figure in

746
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: this time. And Jan Erica, Daniel cal Christian A Christian

747
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: s Danny p Funk, Connor Kimberly, Selina Sagar, Brianna cash Camp, Solar,

748
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: Nadia Ali Pitt, Chris Freig, you know, Jennifer Elvis, and

749
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: of course who do we kid Mark? Who do oh

750
00:36:54,400 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: have the owl? The foul al himself exactly your I

751
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: always mess out her names. He said, it's your what

752
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: is his name? The pal? What is your underscore pal? Underscore?

753
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 1: Do you think did he ever call you and asked

754
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: you to do it right? Like you didn't know? I

755
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:16,959
Speaker 1: just do it right every time? Were you talking about?

756
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: I mean the kind of guy I'm that for thirty

757
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: years follow him online and I can't figure out. I'm

758
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: trying to even still figure out what is uh real

759
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: information is online your pal? But you're on You're trying

760
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: to find looking at text messages. I'm trying to see

761
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: to have his name now under his phone and have

762
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: big shout out to Devon as well. Thank you Devon

763
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: for first interview right here a great guy, this guy

764
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,919
Speaker 1: right here on Regas Regal Devon found you. I don't

765
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: know where she found you at, but she said she's

766
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: bringing in this amazing guy. And I've seen this video

767
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: on you the co founder of Green and Queen Dispensary

768
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: once again located in downtown Los Angeles, one zero five

769
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: one South Broadway, Los Angeles, California, nine zero zero one five.

770
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: And I look at the video and it's just a

771
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: beautiful dispensary. Lights hanging down like at this feel like

772
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: just the beautiful layout. I didn't get a chance to

773
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: see everybody that worked there, but I'm curious because it's

774
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: so themed green, queen, lgbt Q plus community. What is

775
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: it in the environment that works there? Is only that

776
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: is that anybody works there? What are you guys looking

777
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:28,720
Speaker 1: like inside for hiring? Well, we hire everybody obviously, Um,

778
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: but our staff is I love my staff so much

779
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: like for me, it's like, I don't I think of

780
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: them more like family. Um. We have such an incredible

781
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: staff of of so many walks of life, and some

782
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: of them are queer, some ofver not, but all of

783
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: them are family and I'm very thankful that they're there

784
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: with us. You know, do you just play? You know?

785
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: I don't know how you know, it's not it's a

786
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: stupid question, I guess, But what kind of I mean,

787
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: what kind of you know? People are there? Are there

788
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: more queer coming in there than than than straight? Or

789
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: is it just a is it is it just a

790
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: you know, the space itself is I mean, I'm not

791
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: sure if you saw pictures, but it's it doesn't We

792
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: don't have like we're not trying to alienate anybody, So

793
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: it's not like you're gonna walk. I should have said that.

794
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: Yet it's not full on feels like a rainbow. There's

795
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: no like whatever vibe, what do you think? Whatever you

796
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: may think. It doesn't look like there's what I look

797
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: at it. It It looks business professional. It doesn't look queer

798
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: to me, whatever that may be to any eye. But

799
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I mean I wanted I designed

800
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 1: it like I wanted. The interior design is like Memphis Design,

801
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: which is which was a design movie that went against

802
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: the grain for design, which for me like lent itself

803
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 1: to queer people because there basically I wanted the space

804
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: to be a representation of queer people who are fantastic

805
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 1: and amazing and very expressive, and that's what the space is.

806
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: But there's no you're not going to feel uncomfortable going

807
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: in Um, it's more you'll go in there and if

808
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: you're a straight person, uh, I hope that you have

809
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: a transformative experience in there where you're exposed to you know, queer,

810
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: marginalized or bipoc brands that you may not be aware of.

811
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 1: Our educated, amazing staff can walk you through that journey

812
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: through the store, through each you know area and tell

813
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: them about like the history and who these brands are

814
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: and what they're doing and what they represent. So you're

815
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: catering now brands that are l G b QT as well,

816
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: and that's a different thing to that. We're using the

817
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: space as an incubator because the it's very hard for

818
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: any brand, let alone a marginalized brand or a queer

819
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: brand or a female brand to get a foothold in

820
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: the industry because the industry is run by majority CIS,

821
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: white males, um who struggle to represent queer people or

822
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: females or any marginalized community. So we as a retailer

823
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: are using it as a space to get a lot

824
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: of the brands to get a really good placement in

825
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: our store and help build them and grow them kind

826
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: of like a greenhouse. I love, yeah, and uh so,

827
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: then get a foothold and then I expose them to

828
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: more people. But our clientele is queer people because we

829
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: have a differentiation people coming to support the community. We

830
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: have locals, you know, people just coming out because they

831
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: just want to get weed. But it's growing day after

832
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: day and I'm really happy. I want to hook you

833
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: up with a friend of mine. Um and not in

834
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: that hook up way, but in a connection way of

835
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,439
Speaker 1: He's a queer guy in San Francisco named St. John.

836
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with him? I'm not. St. John is

837
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: a radio guy. I've worked with it well Tony for

838
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: night because all the voice stuff for all the big stations.

839
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: I think he works at whatever big station. Said that

840
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: there's a queer morning show on too, because he's the

841
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: big guy in the afternoons there but you and him

842
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: and you're everything you guys are doing, or just there's

843
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: a synergy that I got to make sure I cannot

844
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: do it. He's just he's a big time He's worked

845
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: at Power one O six way back in the days,

846
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: way way back before you went to San Francisco. But St.

847
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: John for those who've known him, he's been going to St.

848
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: John's so fierce, Like he's like the guy that's been

849
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: the gay guy on the air. Like he's done a

850
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: contest where he goes, okay, sat here on the radio,

851
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: it's the contest show. Hell, it's the guest with's in

852
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: my mouth content. Hell right now St John on the

853
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: radio hot and he's the fucking but And I love

854
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: him forever. He's been one of my dearest friends. And

855
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 1: even when I first started working there in San Francisco.

856
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: Here's the my first queer community with the morning show.

857
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: Doghouse comes to the Wild nine nine who comes and

858
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: sits right next to me. St John right, and he

859
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: brought rubbing my leg and and oh we got a

860
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: new morning show here. Han. I go, oh, you're Sat John. Huh,

861
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: okay cool. I would say, I'm not afraid of this,

862
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: so you can keep rubbing me all you want. What

863
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna get nervous. Are like, Oh,

864
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 1: I've been working in San Francisco and now I'm supposed

865
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: to be afraid of you, Sat you know what I mean.

866
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: And we hit it off so great. I just grabbed

867
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 1: him and kissed him on the mouth, right there in

868
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 1: front of the whole meeting. I go, you guys, the

869
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: doghouse is here, and I'm okay with everybody. This is

870
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: just kissed many man. And I could even go further

871
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: inta grab him, through him on the table and broke

872
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: the conference room table. That's the real left the whole story.

873
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: I kind of left that part out, but there is

874
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: that part too. And then me and him, from that

875
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: moment on, he knows I'm a brother from another mother.

876
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: And let's go. And my point is I want to

877
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: hook you guys up because he has major pool out

878
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: and that I would love. Andre's no ideas about joke

879
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 1: because he's married now though, Yeah cool, Yeah, And we don't.

880
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: But I'm a cute at least, can I you don't

881
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: kill you? Hold on? He was looking at me. I'm like,

882
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: can I get a cute card? But you know, I,

883
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,839
Speaker 1: like I said, And you know, if if you were here,

884
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: you know, and you're trying, yeah, I know you. We

885
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: want to help you get your message out, you know.

886
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: More often, I think it's important too for us to

887
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: help each other. You know. There's probably a lot of

888
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: people that are in your arena that maybe don't field it.

889
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: They're they're capable of being on the show or or

890
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: capable of of getting in contact with somebody. And and

891
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: I quite frankly, I think that's that's you know, partly

892
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 1: our fault, you know, because it's just we haven't looked

893
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: out to to to reach for it, you know, And

894
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: not that we haven't had any uh you know, queer

895
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: or lesbian. We've had a lot of different walks on

896
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: the show, but you're just a standout. When we were

897
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: talking about earlier going and good you're you're you're doing it,

898
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: you're but but in the way you're you're you're laying

899
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: leveling it up, meaning that again it's with the purpose,

900
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: you know, when you when you sit down, and and

901
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: and not that everybody's not. It's just some people need help,

902
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 1: more help with than others, you know, and and and

903
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: we all need help, you know. I don't think any

904
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 1: one of us have got it all put together, you know.

905
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: And I don't care how good we are at whatever

906
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: we do in life, none of us have it all

907
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: put together, you know. I often think that so many

908
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: people are like, oh my god, you got this place,

909
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: you do so well, And it's just like shit, if

910
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: you only knew, you know, how much stress I go

911
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: through in order to to to stay sane, you know,

912
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: like it's it's not easy for and for anybody. And

913
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: then to add you know, um, you know, color or race,

914
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: or or or queer or any any gender, any name.

915
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: That's on top of all the things that we already

916
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: deal with. It's difficult. We're building, we're building foundations for

917
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: other or like roads for me. It's like I I

918
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: look at it like I'm going forward and there's no

919
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: road in front of me. I'm literally laying bricks in

920
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: front of me. The road is doesn't exist, and we're

921
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: building it. And like the same with you guys, you know,

922
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: like we're just creating it so the people that come

923
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: after us, we'll have somewhere to stand or walk or

924
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: follow or do something, or like an icebreaker ship going

925
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: through a glacier so other ships can follow. And not

926
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: only that, you're doing the things that are online. So

927
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: a young queer child is watching, let alone a young

928
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican queer one, because it's even harder for Puerto Ricans.

929
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: In my opinion, that's weird. Does that is harder for anybody,

930
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: But it's his faces other Latin cultures to say how

931
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: ignorant that I was. And I can only share my

932
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: ignorance as a kid growing up and and and and

933
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: and and I feel like it was trained. I don't

934
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: know from where, but I feel like this is how

935
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 1: ignorant I was that I thought, you know, at the

936
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: moment it was it was gay. Was the way to

937
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 1: communicate it, not queer. First of all, if you said

938
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: you're queer or something like that, you were insulting people

939
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: um into you did you learn queer today is the

940
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,760
Speaker 1: cool term? Well, you know, I'm learning every day new words.

941
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm all like, dude, you know, and I'm not you know,

942
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: I'm not all enough to learn. But but at the

943
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,959
Speaker 1: same time, and I still feel like some people don't

944
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: like the word queer. I've heard them say that to

945
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: me too, don't like yeah, yeah, and I and I've

946
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: I've sat in the room with somebody not too long ago.

947
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, don't call me queer, you know. Yeah,

948
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,919
Speaker 1: but it so hard for us that are like trying

949
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: to be respectful over here, Like, oh, I thought that

950
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: was the proper term, and I found out today, you know.

951
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: And I probably should have known this earlier and now

952
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: and now you know, first to apologize already. But you know,

953
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: I guess we're not supposed to say handicap, you know,

954
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: because I guess that's that's um it's supposed to be.

955
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: Are you gonna look at me? You asked to say,

956
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 1: what do you want to be called? How what you're

957
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: about to do? It doesn't doesn't have that out a

958
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 1: blue handicapped placard on my license, No, no, I have one.

959
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 1: I forgot what they're called. But I said today in

960
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: a meeting they called a handicapped. They go, oh, it's

961
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: called disabilities disabled, yeah, disabled, right, And I'm going, Jesus,

962
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: I'm going, I'm sorry, like you know, and I didn't

963
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: know that was a bad thing. But but again, my ignorance,

964
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: my ignorance growing up about queer gay it was that,

965
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: um that I thought that they all had some kind

966
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: of molestation by some adults. And there I and I

967
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: say that this is my ignorance, because that's cool. That's

968
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: how I was thought, like, oh, this person must have

969
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: been sexually less, saying that they were a child, you know.

970
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: And I certainly do believe that it's it's happened to

971
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: some people and possibly maybe turn them out if you would,

972
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: But I don't think that. But for whatever reason in

973
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: my mind, and maybe that's because I was sexually gonna

974
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: you know that I feel that way, but by a man.

975
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: But but I don't think that, Um, I could see

976
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: that thought because I too have been the same exact scenario.

977
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: Everything you said. I could see the thought process everything

978
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: you just explained me too, and I can with my ignorance, right,

979
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: But I didn't go as far as thinking that that

980
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,479
Speaker 1: happened to him, that's why they're gay. But I could

981
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: I think at one point in my life I thought

982
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: that scenario, thought that for women to like, you know,

983
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: it's funny that so many women have been you know, uh,

984
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: sexually abused by by men growing up, and it's it's

985
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: one of those things that it's not talked about enough.

986
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: I think. And I say that because I've set and

987
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: talked to a lot of women and they're just like,

988
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: fucking well, yeah, you know, my dad's friend came over

989
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: and did this, and I'm just and I've heard it

990
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 1: so many times. I'm like, holy fuck, like, what the funk?

991
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: You know, it's not exactly And again I I you know,

992
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: so when I'm asking you a question, do you feel

993
00:48:54,719 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 1: that that plays a part in a lot of people's sure, well, uh, homosexuality,

994
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: genetic h you know, absolutely not. No. But I can't

995
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 1: really speak to these statistics on if gay people are

996
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: molested more than straight people, or if there was some

997
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: sort of it that I mean, I think anecdotally there

998
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: has to be, right, like it just people in numbers.

999
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,479
Speaker 1: In general, every you're describing has to happen to certain people.

1000
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,399
Speaker 1: I think statistically, probably be straight people more because there's more.

1001
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: I would think that too, actually, but being homosexual or

1002
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: any person on the CURS spectrum is genetics. You're born

1003
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: into it, so it's like you're just it's just like

1004
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: when you're it's like a transperson, you know, like they're

1005
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 1: they're born and they're like, I'm I'm in a male body,

1006
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: but identify a female because that's the way my brain

1007
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: is telling me to think, or you know, I when

1008
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: I went through puberty, I was like, oh my gosh,

1009
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: I like boys. That's weird, you know what I mean?

1010
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: Like I think he's hot and it's funny because I

1011
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: used to think what Blue was say, like could have

1012
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: this happened, could have that. But everyone's different and they

1013
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: just they're born that way and that So I started

1014
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: thinking that way once I started hearing that way going

1015
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: and then as I feel like I'm so stupid. This

1016
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: is I loved with Lady Ganga stamped it when I

1017
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: was adult going. She stamped how I changed my way

1018
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: of thinking? Why because baby I was born this way?

1019
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: It's that goes a full circle of life for me

1020
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: when she came up with that song, because I felt

1021
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,280
Speaker 1: like I've changed my way of thinking because I thought

1022
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: that way your thoughts. I want to thank you for

1023
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: being so vulnerable starting so stupid that we thought that

1024
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 1: way as kids and inns of training right, And yeah,

1025
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: I only say because I want people to learn, right.

1026
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: I want someone to hear it and go fun me too.

1027
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: I thought I thought that way too, and and and

1028
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: and and that could be fixed, right, But but it's

1029
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: also very hard. It's hard conversation because as we're having

1030
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: the conversation, I have to think, how do I frame

1031
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: this without insulting the whole fucking community, you know, where

1032
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: where children of our environments, you know, like however our

1033
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: parents raised us, or whatever you've been exposed to, like

1034
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: your education as a child, however that was, it's going

1035
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: to frame who you are as an adult until you're

1036
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,359
Speaker 1: able to. But you have to be humble and open

1037
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 1: and honest enough to be able to challenge that education,

1038
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: to have a conversation like this, to where I'd be like,

1039
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: you know what, I thought this, and you know, and

1040
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: have a conversation that's until I'm not assaulted by it,

1041
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: because it's not. It wasn't your fault that you thought that,

1042
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It was training. It was

1043
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: bad training, bad training, But it's the same thing. It's

1044
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: like thinking, like you didn't just wake up one day

1045
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: and was like I like girls. You just did. Nobody

1046
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: molested you and said, okay, now you like girls. There

1047
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: was no trigger, you just it just what it was girls.

1048
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: It's the same thing as a as a gay person.

1049
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: It's just like there's no rhyme or reason to it.

1050
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: You can't you don't know why you get hard, but

1051
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: you do. And the same thing with sexual it in general,

1052
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: it's like what turns you on, turns you want? Sexuality

1053
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: is such a gigantic spectrum. So I feel like everything

1054
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's no wrong er right way

1055
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: to love as long as it's consensual. Man Like, cannabis

1056
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: indust needs more of you, people that could speak like you,

1057
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: that can articulate like you. Share because again I think

1058
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: that it's it helps our community so much, and not

1059
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: just the cannabis, the whole fucking world. Right, it's just

1060
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: good behaviors. It's good um, it's good mojo. So so

1061
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: what what what do you feel that that um is

1062
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: missing most from the community. And a cannabis bridge like

1063
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: the bridge, because that's something that we can I feel

1064
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,359
Speaker 1: like we could help. I mean, for me, it's just

1065
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: you know, when I started going out to a lot

1066
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: of cannabis events, I just didn't really see myself or

1067
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: where people represented in them, not like on purpose, not

1068
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: represented it, but just like, yeah, it just wasn't there,

1069
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: you know. And like I think that there's a place

1070
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,720
Speaker 1: and time and a lot of the events are really important. Uh,

1071
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,760
Speaker 1: but you know, I went to mt biscon for example, uh,

1072
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: and Gigantic, Uh it's super Bowl, super Bowl cannabis, and

1073
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 1: there wasn't And I looked hard. There wasn't one queer

1074
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: lgbt Q anything, any booth anywhere in the entire convention.

1075
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: And then I went to every forum because I was

1076
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: like a nerd, just did the whole thing. And I

1077
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: went to the Equality Canvas one and I thought, well,

1078
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: for sure we're gonna talk about queer people, especially because

1079
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: because equality and the cannabis movement was you know, started

1080
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: with queer people. Nothing we talked about. We talked about

1081
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:33,359
Speaker 1: really important stuff, I was thinking, but there was no

1082
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: mention of queer people. So you know, I think what's

1083
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: lacking is is having like not only authentic representation acquire people,

1084
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: but just a conversation. So we we actually had that

1085
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: conversation and they called me on the way here and

1086
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: and they you know, thought that you would be a

1087
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: great candidate to speak at the World's Shoes Cannabis to

1088
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: Connects and Burning Trees festival that we have coming up. Yeah,

1089
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: and so we'd love to have you on board. And seriously,

1090
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, if that forward, yeah, that's something that you

1091
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: want to do. You know, we we want to add

1092
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: that and include that, you know, and we do. And

1093
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: there's a connection and not only that, even as we're

1094
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 1: moving doing things. I really want you to feel this

1095
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: Sunday is I know you can see the connection because

1096
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: your eye contacted and there's we always have that when

1097
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: we're on set with people. We're already having that, so

1098
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: we already know there's a connection, but no, that it's real.

1099
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: Dog Like we want you to come and bring the

1100
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: community and we've already talked about it on the side

1101
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,760
Speaker 1: that like I call them going, this is a community

1102
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: that we love. Like I told you what I did

1103
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: with St. John, this is not a joke. This is history.

1104
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hook you. I'm gonna call him afterwards. We're

1105
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,399
Speaker 1: gonna do all these things with this community that we

1106
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: want to do with you. Like Blue, you heard his

1107
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: real story about the community on how that really happened,

1108
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's not like there's

1109
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: not a real, deep, got us own story that hits

1110
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: his heart, that's sincere that the community hits. So as

1111
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: we say this to you, you heard my real story,

1112
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: we know that this is a community that we kind

1113
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 1: of feel like, you're right, we're not didn't turn our

1114
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: eye o them, but funk, we haven't opened it and

1115
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:02,439
Speaker 1: said let's go either in fairness, and now we are.

1116
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: And I'm just the tip of the iceberg. I mean,

1117
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: like for me, it's just like I made it through

1118
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: the gauntlet and here I am. But there are so

1119
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: many incredible people that could say so many amazing things

1120
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: that would just like keep you at the edge of

1121
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: your seat and the stories that could you know what

1122
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: I mean, And like that's what I feel like my

1123
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: purpose here is to do is to allow them to

1124
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: have a space to do that I didn't. I did

1125
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 1: that in nightlife for twenty years and now I'm here

1126
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: in cannabis and I feel like that this is my

1127
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: new journey. Tell me about that night life real quick

1128
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: because you was doing all the Hollywood. First of all,

1129
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:38,839
Speaker 1: I'm still doing it, okay, so don't don't don't put

1130
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: me out to pastor. I used to be here listening

1131
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 1: to me. I'm still doing it. I was like, but

1132
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: what do you mean I used to be Joe. You

1133
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: better recognize No. Yeah, the long and short of it

1134
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: is I I started in nightlife in two thousand seven

1135
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:02,479
Speaker 1: as a hobby. Um. It was doing like a sad

1136
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: my friend out of sad. He was like a promoter

1137
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: and he was like, I was like, what do you do?

1138
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: He's like, I just get paid for people to come out.

1139
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: And I was like, what does that mean. He's like, no,

1140
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: they just pay me money and I drink for free.

1141
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I want to do that. Yeah,

1142
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: I want to do that. So he didn't give me

1143
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 1: a Saturday and I didn't. I was like, yeah, yeah,

1144
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 1: I got I got I got it. And I was like,

1145
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: oh funk, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't

1146
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 1: like what am I gonna do? How am I get

1147
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: people here? So then I was like, so I created

1148
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 1: this like weird like cover night where I had like

1149
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 1: cover bands playing in a nightclub. And then we had

1150
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: like a DJ spinning okay, so sure. Then the manager

1151
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: came up to me like a couple of weeks in,

1152
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: he goes, Prince is on the way and I was like,

1153
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: Prince of what. Yeah, He's like no Prince and I

1154
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: was like, oh, fuck, okay, So like whatever. It was

1155
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: like a whatever night, like I had these kids playing

1156
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: Prince is White. Limo pulls up, he walks in the room,

1157
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: walks through the crowd and said to the VI, I

1158
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: p table. The band's playing, and then he he has

1159
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: like a drink or something and it's like this like

1160
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,399
Speaker 1: these like these kids playing playing I'm not sure what.

1161
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: He gets up, walks over to the stage the little

1162
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 1: room the size of this room, picks up a guitar

1163
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: and just starts jamming as backup for these kids who

1164
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: are probably like twenty two two seven. Imagine you're on

1165
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: set and everyone's face was like exactly, I'm still like know.

1166
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: And so the next day, by the way, there was

1167
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: no Instagram back then in Facebook infancy, we had to

1168
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: really work people streets passing out paper flyers. Know the game,

1169
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: we know the game. The next day, I my night

1170
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:51,959
Speaker 1: was like on all the blogs, which was like Press

1171
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: Hilton and like pink us a new blog and then

1172
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: like after that, like my night blew up, and then

1173
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: we I just moved over and I opened Bardo in Hollywood.

1174
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: Hold on, this was two nights and Prince camus your

1175
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: third night you got stamped Holy third night and he

1176
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: got stamped by It was like it was fate, you know,

1177
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: and it just happened. And then we just like it

1178
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: was a rocket ship after that, and then we got

1179
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: asked to go over to Spider Club. Uh turned it

1180
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: into Bardo, and then I developed my live music concept there.

1181
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: We had Prince performed a lot more time. So I

1182
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: discovered Bruno Mars at the time. You know, my friend

1183
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: Brandon came out to me said I have this kid.

1184
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: His name is Bruno. Check out his MySpace page. Nice

1185
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: and so I was like, sure, listen to it. And

1186
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: then I had to I had to literally beg the

1187
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: club to bring Bruno in. I hadn't performed for my

1188
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: brother's birthday party. And they're crazy, like people forget like

1189
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: that part of the grind, Like when you say that,

1190
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm like man. Bruno performed at the time, he didn't

1191
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: have any original music. His favorite song to perform with

1192
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson, which he slade and got

1193
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: him signed to Atlantic Records, and I did his Grammy

1194
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: party there and then I said sworn some machine Macy Gray.

1195
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: So I was doing all that and then I jumped

1196
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: off that and then looked at Queer Nightlife and I

1197
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: was looking at Queer night liife and I was like,

1198
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: I was like, it's just all the same. It's just

1199
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: like a bunch of guys like dancing around on boxes.

1200
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: I was like, let's just do something. So I took

1201
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: my competitive straight night life concept and moved over to

1202
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: queer nightlife and was like, let's create something dynamic and

1203
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: interesting and keep it cheap and fun. And that's why

1204
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: I did. And so I've been doing that for the

1205
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: past like seventeen years, and I've created like a bunch

1206
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: of parties. And then are you all in the West,

1207
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: You're doing the West Hollywood on West Hollywood. Primarily, I

1208
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: did this big party called Summer Tramp, which is like

1209
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: I basically take a parking lot and cover it with

1210
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: thirty square feet of AstroTurf and get a seventy water

1211
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: slide and like above ground pool and have like eight

1212
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: DJs and bubble machines. It's really stupid, but it's super

1213
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: fun now because now I greenk we and vending there

1214
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: as well, so you can get real cross we want

1215
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: to get We want to be the vendors there too. Yeah,

1216
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: that's for me, Like what I'm really excited about cannabis

1217
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: is like I really want people to like figure out

1218
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: we work together, Like you don't need to just like

1219
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: sit at home smoke weed, like the future canab Like,

1220
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: let's do consumption lounges. Let's why does it always have

1221
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: to be alcohol? You know what I mean? Like why

1222
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: can't we just have especially with a new versioning beverage market,

1223
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: like it's there. It's so exciting to be in cannabis

1224
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: right now, you know. And for me, it's just like

1225
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned earlier, like you were thinking like

1226
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: how do we how do we do it different? How

1227
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: do we do it better? You know? And for me,

1228
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 1: it's just like walking into cannabis, I'm not gonna wait.

1229
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm like I look at it with a different lens,

1230
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: and I'm like, how can we do it different? Like

1231
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, and like what can we do? Parties? Can

1232
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: we do? We can? Can we do like, oh no

1233
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: that You're just always like I can see this, Andrey's

1234
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,040
Speaker 1: is like everywhere we go, like you're just part of

1235
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 1: like like any other company that's there in the community

1236
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 1: that's there, because your community should be a part of

1237
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: everything that we're about. Well not that. And I think

1238
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: it starts with like, you know, like that event you have, right,

1239
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: what was it called Summer Tramp Summer Tramp, Right, So

1240
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: so we do the Summer Trap event, right, and then

1241
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 1: you know, we we worked together on selling you know,

1242
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 1: some of these brands to to participate, right, so that

1243
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: we can create more capital. And then also you know

1244
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 1: you almost have like a responsibility to be involved, right.

1245
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: And then it's bringing those straight folks there to enjoy

1246
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: a time and breaking that stigma of not being It's

1247
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: educating the consumer, educating the consumer and how that So

1248
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 1: I just did it. I just did it, And and

1249
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: people were coming up and buying pre rolls from me

1250
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: at Summer Tramp and They're like is this okay? Like

1251
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: can I do this? And I'm like, no, you can

1252
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 1: do it. It's educating the consumer and holding their hand

1253
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 1: and walking them into the room and showing them that

1254
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: they can consume in public because it still feels illegal. Yeah,

1255
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 1: and the taboo that's there. Call, it's not like it's

1256
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: like we're literally at the forefront of the industry where

1257
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: we're kind of creating. Like I said, the road in

1258
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: front of us, and we're like we're holding their hand

1259
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 1: and we're walking into it with them. And you guys

1260
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:12,919
Speaker 1: are doing such a great job. And days who actually

1261
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: do the High five with guests that come on. I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking we could just start another question and keep going

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Speaker 1: on and yead I could sit here literally dog and

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Speaker 1: just keep going. I'm literally forcing myself to the High

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Speaker 1: Five because I want to go in a different directions,

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Speaker 1: but I want to continue talking with You're gonna hang out.

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Speaker 1: I've got so many stories. We still gonna make a

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Speaker 1: phone call ap for this show. High Five with Andregus Blues.

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rican Brother from Another Mother? Where are you from

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico? My my quest, my dad, I got family

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Speaker 1: from pone s and crash boat Beach and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've been out there quite I was just

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Speaker 1: there for two weeks. Nice. It's such a beautiful place.

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Speaker 1: Guarantee we play a family or friends there there, It's

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Speaker 1: probably related. Yeah, I'm gonna start asking them questions. What's

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Speaker 1: your family's name. I was trying to tell people about,

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Speaker 1: you know, cookies, and they're like, they're like, like, what

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01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: is that. I was like, it's like literally a frog

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01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: that you will never see, like you'll just hear it there,

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01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 1: You'll never see him. And they're everywhere. My brother's got

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Speaker 1: him tattooed all on his he's got scorpions and cookies

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01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 1: because he's the Puerto Rican frog. Things. They're like, they're

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Speaker 1: like this big and we don't have crickets, wet frog,

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Speaker 1: but they're loud as ship, like all night long. Cookie

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Speaker 1: gang bang, those gang bang they're really hard. They're hard right,

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Speaker 1: they're out there, Hi FI with it on today, the

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Speaker 1: co founder of Green Queen out there in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: How old are you is the first time you smoked cannabis?

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Speaker 1: And where did you actually get it from? I I

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01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 1: think I was eleven. I don't remember I got it from,

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Speaker 1: but I know that I smoked it out of a cane.

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Speaker 1: Like when you like, can you put the fork? Yeah

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01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,440
Speaker 1: for sure, car, Yeah, I was like a little My

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01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: first screen, the small holes was the small holes you

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01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: put like the little flower on there, and it's like this,

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Speaker 1: my friends just did always make the big hole your idiots,

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Speaker 1: you just little baby hole us. Question number two, what

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Speaker 1: is your favorite way to use or smoke cannabis? Lately?

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Speaker 1: I'm really into drinkables, which one I love Wonder, I

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Speaker 1: wonder what's delicious? Can amazing as while they're queer. I

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Speaker 1: love can. They're making so much joyce cann and weed

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Speaker 1: maps doing a big queer thing reported on the other

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Speaker 1: day Your Own. Yeah, we love that and they're doing

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01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 1: so much, so many amazing let him know, we want

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Speaker 1: him on the show. Let me do it all queer

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01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 1: own companies. Luke's incredible. He's a good friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: He's a founder, and he's doing really great things. He's

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Speaker 1: came out with a really amazing music video. You guys

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Speaker 1: have to check it out. Would Pride just a video overall? Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's like it's like charting, it's like a thing. Ah. Well,

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Speaker 1: So I'm really into drinkables. I love like getting home

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01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: and like I love I'm kind of going through like

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01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: a low and slow kind of moment right now where

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Speaker 1: I love low milligrams and like pouring like a can

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01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,120
Speaker 1: or any drinkable into a mine glass and just like

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01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 1: vibing out and just like drinking it. Yeah, why am

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01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: I going to try that tonight? You should try and

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01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 1: I can pour a little bit of a waye glass.

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Speaker 1: It's it's if you learn your doughs, be careful on

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Speaker 1: on on any consumptional like edibles and stuff like that,

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01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: because if you don't know your dose, I mean, you

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01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:21,479
Speaker 1: could end up, you know, sleeping this thing though with

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Speaker 1: with low mills though, because you're sipping so it's like

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Speaker 1: drinking a beer like and cans, so low dose that

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01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: companies like five millions. I like that. My My, my

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Speaker 1: business owner Taylor, who you'll meet, was like, we should

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Speaker 1: like do bottle service with the heavy hitters, uh, the

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Speaker 1: thousand milligrams. I was like, are you kidding them? Don't

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01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: like die? Everyone's people like doing shots. It'll cut to

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01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: everyone's sleeping. Yeah, exactly, Everything's good and then all right,

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Speaker 1: So that's the favorite way to use it. Question number

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Speaker 1: three of the High five. What's your craziest place that

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01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 1: you ever use cannabis or smoke? Oh gosh, So I

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Speaker 1: was at a roots concert in Denver, roots roots, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and this guy gave me the biggest uh Detroit I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. And I had already been

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Speaker 1: drinking and I was like, yeah, yeah, we're at the roots, right.

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01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 1: So I took the biggest hit ever, started spinning like

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01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: right away, and I was like, I'm not gonna get

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01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 1: sick here. So I ran out and I'm like walking

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01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 1: on the street, and I for some reason, I decided

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Speaker 1: to sleep underneath this car in a parking lot. And

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01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm just gonna lay here, right, Okay,

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01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 1: Well it's a police car. Oh no. And I was like,

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01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: and I wake up and I hear like lights and

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01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: like cops walking all around me. I'm in a police

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01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: parking lot underneath the police car. Yeah, like sleeping under

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01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: I had to like army crawl out of there. I

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01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: didn't get caught. Didn't get caught. There was a great

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Speaker 1: more question number four of the high five, What does

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01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:00,920
Speaker 1: your go too much after you get high? I really

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01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: love dried mangoes, dried ones like Puerto Rican and you like,

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01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 1: and that's a quarter wee thing. Tried mangoes. They're they're good, good,

1354
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: gonna make me I've had I haven't had them, and

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01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: they're good for you. Like I'm trying I told my boyfriend.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I refused to get fat and happy.

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01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm losing control right now. I've lost I've lost all

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Speaker 1: kinds of weight, and I don't understand what's going I'm

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01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: dog on doctor's calls all day to day two. So

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing. But by the way, I'm losing

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01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: good weight, so it's a good thing. That's why I'm

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01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 1: gonna go get some of those, because that's a good

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01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 1: snack to have. That's why I was like, I gotta

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Speaker 1: get those pineapple question number five of the High five.

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Speaker 1: Andreas Regal, the co founder of Green Queen. I love you, brother.

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01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:48,400
Speaker 1: It's such a good honor to have you so fun anytime.

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01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:50,200
Speaker 1: I want you just to hang out with us and

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01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: be part of this Latin community and queers that we

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01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:55,960
Speaker 1: all are. If you could smoke cannabis with anyone dead

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01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: or alive, who would it be and why I would

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Speaker 1: like to smell cannabis with. Steve Ruebel, the founder and

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Speaker 1: creator of Studio fifty four, died of aids, but he

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Speaker 1: was the creator of fifty four On Sunset, New York,

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Speaker 1: there's Studio fifty four and on on not that, but

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01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 1: there was there was big There was four not on

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01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 1: Sunset but on us the other street that runs STO

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Speaker 1: in New York during the seventies, and it was like

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Speaker 1: the spot Madonna, Grace Jones, like like Andy Warhol, every

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01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: there's so many special I was just thinking, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would love to like just for me like campis

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01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,600
Speaker 1: is like having a conversation with somebody like we're doing now,

1382
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 1: like rapping with somebody, just and just like vibing out

1383
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:54,679
Speaker 1: and like how cool would that be to like listen

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01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,760
Speaker 1: to all their stories about like can you imagine like

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Speaker 1: what he saw and like the experience he had, and

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Speaker 1: also creating the most famous nightclub in the world still

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Speaker 1: to this day even so it's where people are naming

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Speaker 1: it in Los Angeles. And to the point under this,

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Speaker 1: before I got into radio, my nightlife job was a

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Speaker 1: bouncer in a nightclub, So I was working nightclubs before

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Speaker 1: I got into radio. So my point, dog with my

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Speaker 1: point is I've seen a lot and that Studio fifty

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Speaker 1: four resonated with me because I was the head of

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Speaker 1: security of the nightclub. That wasn't my first nightclub that

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Speaker 1: I worked at minded to do the head of security,

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Speaker 1: so I worked many nightclubs before I was the head

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Speaker 1: of security. Then I went to being the guy on

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Speaker 1: the mic in the nightclub. Hey, what's that was a

1399
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 1: big joke, you know, I mean blah blah blah. So

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Speaker 1: I'm the guy that's doing that. So my point is

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01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:42,320
Speaker 1: I got to see that nightlife real firsthand, right, And

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01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 1: I really admired the that guy as well. So that's

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01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: why I knew exactly who he was. I have a

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01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: history of nightclub life and and club promoting from the

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01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 1: parties at my house with Flyers and Djason. It's not

1406
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: it's not a hobby, is that. It's a real thing.

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01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 1: We've been doing our whole lives. So my point is,

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Speaker 1: as you say him, I am infatuated with that dude

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01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:04,679
Speaker 1: as well. When the rebels came, they had the Rebels.

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Speaker 1: There's been so many different genres, you know, Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of But the studios before though, was

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Speaker 1: that big hit of New York life. Like it was

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Speaker 1: almost like house music in Chicago. We kind of feel

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01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: like house music came from Chicago, right, it started that.

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Speaker 1: When you hear about that, how it did right and

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01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: how nightlife kind of came from New Yorker studio fifty four.

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01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 1: It's kind of like that vibe of what happened in life.

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01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: Everything was legal, yeah, and it wasn't like everything was

1419
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: like didn't coke was no, there's no laws for it.

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Speaker 1: It was very like and it was that scene because

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Speaker 1: then at the same time, too, you have that Beach

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01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: Street scene going on too. That was the b boy

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01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,080
Speaker 1: going on in New York. But this was the different

1424
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 1: type of nightlife, that big time, a list star night life.

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01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 1: And then you had the hip hop crowds over there

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01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: where you've seen the Beach Street movies and then the

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Speaker 1: Breed movies come out, but the Studio fifty four movie

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Speaker 1: and then the Lifeline is that how it? So that's

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Speaker 1: an interesting one. Dog. You've sparked up a lot of

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01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 1: emotions in me by saying that that's it is because

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01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:06,679
Speaker 1: it's a big it's a big time in a life

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01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: of Vera So Andreas, was there anything that we didn't

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01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: mention that you want to, you know, get out or

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01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: discuss before we let you get on out of here? Uh? No,

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01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,719
Speaker 1: I think we talked about everything. I was just where

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01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:20,679
Speaker 1: can people find your store? We are in Dohntown, Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Uh ten fifty one talk Broadway, Broadway and Olympic Ye

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Speaker 1: and we're up in seven days a week. Website. Uh,

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01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,639
Speaker 1: we are at the Green Queen dot com and then

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01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:38,840
Speaker 1: our instagram is Shop Green Queen and then my instagram

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01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 1: is Andres Recall and as light g a O. Well, Mante,

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01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,080
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining the show. We appreciate

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01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: you and everything that you're doing for the queer community. Uh,

1444
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 1: it's important to us and Cannabis Talk one on one

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01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,800
Speaker 1: and remember this, if no one else loves you, we do.

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01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one on one

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