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Speaker 2: Don't come.

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Speaker 1: I'll call it a comeback, folks.

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Speaker 4: They've been there for years, so it's not like, oh,

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Speaker 4: your hands together for mister help me out in Rillo.

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Speaker 1: Welcome you guys. You like that?

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Speaker 5: Hey, thank you?

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Speaker 1: You like that?

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Speaker 5: Love it?

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Speaker 4: You know it's funny. I just started on this podcast.

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Speaker 4: I don't think you ever heard of me or seating me.

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Speaker 3: I've heard of you, so it's funny, never even been

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Speaker 3: on a mic before you being I don't even know

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Speaker 3: this yet, but are you from the bay because you

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Speaker 3: know me from the doghouse, So where are you from?

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Speaker 3: I look at Joe getting this a clap out about that?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, put me up real quick. Well, like he said,

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Speaker 3: he looks at me and he calls me me. Oh,

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Speaker 3: he was a fan.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was a fan at that time. You were a fan.

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Speaker 1: I could be so cocky and arrogant about it because

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Speaker 1: the Joe, So Joe, you wanted to sign your chest.

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Speaker 1: You know we already took a picture before the show started.

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Speaker 4: Come on, I mean, doghouse fans were real like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean it's it was a real like people have

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Speaker 4: from the Big Boys neighborhood. He came in and giving

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Speaker 4: me props early on going, Joe, I got to tell

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Speaker 4: you fox with you, I've been you know, I grew

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Speaker 4: up in matt Latin hoods and you know me and blah.

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Speaker 1: Blah blah, bah blah.

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Speaker 4: That's why I said blacks again at the beginning, so

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Speaker 4: I already had some dialogue with these cats, and then

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Speaker 4: to know that it's even deeper rooted with you is

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Speaker 1: But enough about me. You're where are you from?

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Speaker 2: The Bay born Rader Salmon Tao? No? No, actually I

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Speaker 2: was born in Mexico. Oh really Mexican American? Yes, Mexico, Mexican.

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Speaker 1: Right, they let you in, so you were born there.

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Speaker 2: We're at uh called the Calvillo.

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Speaker 4: So you're full Spanish speaking the whole nine huh yes,

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Speaker 4: l yes, you mentioned the second language.

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Speaker 1: That's what my mama was boy.

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Speaker 2: Advantage, you know. The blue eyes helped out a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. You don't look like a full on

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Speaker 1: Spaniard like that. Even got Spain though. Yeah, me o

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Speaker 1: g Louis. Look you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: I did the DNA test and it's yeah, it's really

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Speaker 6: fifty six percent Spanish Spanish.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you have the more Spanish looking because they're the

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Speaker 4: more wetal you know, life span.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: So when did you move to Bay Area?

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Speaker 2: Uh, like in nineteen ninety four probably.

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Speaker 1: Oh so, right when the doghouse was popping.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, no, I didn't move to very ninety four.

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Speaker 6: It was in the eighties, Okay, in ninety four, I

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Speaker 1: That's what he was listening to you. And he said

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Speaker 1: a kid. No, high school, you're a young adult. I

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Speaker 1: mean in trouble, you're kid. We're dating Joe.

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Speaker 4: I love when you guys Blue does that. When I

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Speaker 4: I grew up listening to a great fuck you.

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Speaker 1: You didn't grow up. I'm not that old. You're already

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Speaker 4: So from the bay like that. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: Or did it exactly?

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Speaker 6: One of my buddies actually had testicular cancer in high

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Speaker 1: So you start, you were rubbing it on him. You're

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Speaker 5: Before that, it was just how's he doing?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: He's great?

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Speaker 1: Thank god? They cut his nuts off.

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Speaker 2: He lost one that's.

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Speaker 1: Good, great many exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's always interesting when people find out cannabis that way,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I didn't realize that I

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Speaker 4: allla used to put it in the rubbing alcohol, so

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Speaker 4: like I knew of it as medicine as well, like

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Speaker 4: in my household, and I thought it was just a

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Speaker 4: Mexican myth.

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Speaker 2: That you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's that old school CBD that we didn't

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Speaker 1: even know was already being.

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Speaker 4: Utilized, right like the Mexican culture or the Indian cultures

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Speaker 4: were like put this in your rubbing alcohol, it will

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Speaker 4: help you for better or whatever. Yeah, there was no

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Speaker 4: scientific behind it. My mom was just like, mean, hall West,

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Speaker 4: what we're doing?

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Speaker 1: Shut up? You know what I'm saying. So Bay Area

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Speaker 1: born and raised are not born and ra born in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: Raised there? High school in the East Bay.

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Speaker 6: No Aragon, Salmonteo, Sam Matao, you're right there in the peninsula.

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Speaker 2: Yep, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Nice us a place. What high school?

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Speaker 2: Aragon High School?

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Speaker 1: And then what did you play sports?

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Speaker 7: Not?

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Speaker 1: I didn't play sports nothing, huh no, just just smoking weed.

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Speaker 2: You went across the Ridge was class president though I presidents.

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Speaker 1: Look at this class president as president. We're a fucking

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Speaker 1: team over here. Yeah, that's always nice. And what about you, Anthony?

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Speaker 1: Where are you from?

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Speaker 5: Chris?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You know what's funny is Anthony's my brother and you

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Speaker 2: It must be exactly. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Originally I'm from Charleston, South Carolina, born and raised. Moved

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Speaker 1: What, I was like nine, What do you think about

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Speaker 1: that move?

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Speaker 8: I think it was probably the best thing, you know

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Speaker 8: what I mean, being light skin mixed in South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't too cool and shown to California and

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Speaker 8: And my stepfather's Filipino. So when we moved out here,

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Speaker 8: we moved to like Eagle Rock, Cypress Park area.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, always right in the hood.

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Speaker 8: Always lived in either Glasshow Park, Cypress Park, Highland Park.

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Speaker 5: Now I stay in East LA, so you know, East

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Speaker 5: LA born and raised.

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Speaker 1: So did you go to high school here in Kelly?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I did.

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Speaker 8: I went to a pretty fucked up school called Hillside

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Speaker 8: Bible Baptist Academy.

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Speaker 5: The last school that did corporate punishment.

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Speaker 1: Did you get hit in school?

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Speaker 2: Bro? I was bad.

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Speaker 5: I think the pastor had it out for me. Definitely

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Speaker 5: hate him. Really yeah he did.

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Speaker 8: His name was Ray Ramirez. If you're if you're watching

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Speaker 8: fund yourself.

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Speaker 5: Yeah it was uh yeah awesome. Send your children there, no.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right? And did you play.

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Speaker 5: Sports or just basketball thing like that? You know that's

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Speaker 5: my favorite sport. Yeah, you know, mainly just basketball, running.

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Speaker 2: Running thing like to run nice.

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Speaker 5: You're still doing that light skin, so you know you

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Speaker 5: run a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, from the cops too.

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Speaker 5: It's pretty much exactly.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've got that Raffael's skin where you can

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Speaker 4: pull it up and stand there for a little longer.

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Speaker 1: Ye what sir, I know I lost my Latin accent.

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Speaker 1: So I'm here to handle my business's blue eyes.

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Speaker 5: That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: It does work, you guys.

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Speaker 4: So we have original Green Cross Torrents and I know

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Speaker 4: you got edit dispensary, you got a brand you've been growing.

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Speaker 4: I want to get into the history of everything that

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Speaker 4: you've been doing over the Rocky. We're going to take

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Speaker 4: a break real quick and come back and talk about the.

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Speaker 1: Dispensary and your gro history and everything else. Will be

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Speaker 4: Chris Ward here, the sales director of the original Greenhouse

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Speaker 4: cross Points, and Rafael Chabez, the CEO. Raf this is

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Speaker 4: Is this your first dispensary that you opened or what's

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Speaker 4: your story?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 1: How you go.

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Speaker 4: From living in Mexico moving the Bay area San Mateo.

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Speaker 4: By the way, I did forty nine days in that

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Speaker 4: but anyhow, well and then there, yeah, Joe, that was Elmwood.

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Speaker 6: Joe, I'm actually not the CEO. It's it's a family business.

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Speaker 6: I worked with my brother Edward, he's the CEO, and

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I was telling you it's a family. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that makes it nice. You said your brother, yeah, older, younger.

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Speaker 6: Like universities, it's philosophy in there, so they're very woke nowadays. Uh,

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Speaker 6: That I had two buddies that dropped out of college.

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Speaker 6: I was like, once you guys started dispensary in la

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Speaker 6: And so the first one we opened, I founded it.

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Speaker 6: I applied for a business license. I told him what

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Speaker 2: You know, they're they're about to change the law in Torrance.

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Speaker 6: They're gonna they're gonna say we won't issue a business

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Speaker 6: the this license I had was no good.

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Speaker 1: Wow, how fun was that. Yeah, did they shut you

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Speaker 6: You don't even need a license. And then I was like,

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Speaker 6: shut him down. A year later, the Feds indeded him.

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Speaker 6: They fought it. One got like twenty three years, one

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Speaker 6: He was the last cannabis prisoner in California or something

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, they're not gonna win with the Feds.

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Speaker 6: Just driving around Torrents looking for a spot. Yeah, And

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Speaker 2: I was like, who's video? So I go in there.

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Speaker 6: It's this old Korean man, mister Kim. At the time,

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Speaker 2: I promise, we're just caregivers.

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Speaker 6: And we opened up as a collective there in two

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Speaker 1: You're right there on the corner of La City. So

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Speaker 7: So?

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Speaker 3: Oh shit, did they license it and and give you

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Speaker 1: Obviously?

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Speaker 6: Well back then they didn't have that. It was just

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Speaker 6: La pre Icos. You know it was it was a BTRC,

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Speaker 1: I still got pictures of mine.

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Speaker 6: Well people try to sell those things back in like

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Speaker 2: Now have I sold mine that license.

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Speaker 3: It's a different certificate, but I sold mine and they

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Speaker 2: Right and still I mean we still own them, our

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Speaker 4: And then you guys just grandfathered that in to get

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Speaker 6: We have provisional licenses still.

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Speaker 1: Really why and you're pre ico, which is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Because the DCR is just understaff.

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Speaker 6: They got a lot of stuff to deal with and uh,

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Speaker 1: And so Torrance is Torrents, you know, cool with you.

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Speaker 2: Now we're in La City, all right, so it's not.

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Speaker 1: And you guys have been rocking there since two thousand

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, since two thousand and six.

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Speaker 6: And it's funny because we keep winning best Dispensary in

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Speaker 5: Five times nice, which is a you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: Five times as you should. How we pay for that?

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Speaker 2: No, that's it's voted on.

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Speaker 1: Or what do we got cooking?

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Speaker 6: Our director of sales over there and he's uh, he's

449
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Speaker 6: really come in swinging. He's gotten sales up, surprisingly because

450
00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,720
Speaker 6: as you know, we're in a downturn right now. We

451
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Speaker 6: can sure, I like to compare it. It was kind

452
00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,760
Speaker 6: of like a fake peak with all this COVID money

453
00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,560
Speaker 6: that came in. So that's kind of where the industry

454
00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,120
Speaker 6: is right now. A lot of these people that own

455
00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,040
Speaker 6: shops thought that this was going to keep going, sure,

456
00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,679
Speaker 6: and it's really now. It's down here pre twenty twenty numbers,

457
00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:19,760
Speaker 6: but a lot of them didn't realize, Hey, I got

458
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Speaker 6: to stop spending and hiring and and living like I'm

459
00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,959
Speaker 6: making money like this wherever. And that's where the industry

460
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,280
Speaker 6: is right now, where people owners aren't realizing like, oh shit,

461
00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,040
Speaker 6: things have changed. I gotta I gotta go back to

462
00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:33,600
Speaker 6: this this because that's.

463
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Speaker 2: Where the numbers are. You know, our sales are down.

464
00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,760
Speaker 2: The numbers, they're not down, but they're down back to

465
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Speaker 2: where they were.

466
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Speaker 3: Pre they're not right COVID because it was deemed everybody

467
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Speaker 3: had their checks.

468
00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:47,680
Speaker 2: It was it was.

469
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Speaker 6: Deemed essential, so we were able to stay open and yeah,

470
00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,440
Speaker 6: business was was good. But it's not just the cannabis industry.

471
00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,720
Speaker 6: Everybody's it's tough for everybody right now, most industries, you

472
00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,240
Speaker 6: know that money's not there right now. They say we're

473
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Speaker 6: in a recession. Where entering your session, I don't know,

474
00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,199
Speaker 6: it feels like there's there's there's something going on.

475
00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,119
Speaker 1: It feels good. I feel like we're crushing it.

476
00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,120
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's hard. It's hard for a lot of people

477
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Speaker 4: out there. So, Chris, what are some of the good

478
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:11,639
Speaker 4: SKUs that you guys have in this shop?

479
00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,720
Speaker 8: Man, we have man a thousand, maybe a thousand skews

480
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,639
Speaker 8: in our shop. So you know, there's nothing that we

481
00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,720
Speaker 8: don't have. It's probably like it's easier to find what

482
00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:20,360
Speaker 8: we don't have.

483
00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, we downsize.

484
00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,480
Speaker 6: We used to have like forty five hundred SKUs and

485
00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,400
Speaker 6: now we're down probably to a couple thousand.

486
00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:25,679
Speaker 5: Couple thousand.

487
00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,320
Speaker 8: Really, some of the best stuff that we have is

488
00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,919
Speaker 8: the stuff that we personally grow in our own facilities.

489
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,840
Speaker 8: The Alta Vedo brand they're rocking with like thirteen different flavors,

490
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:42,240
Speaker 8: all indoor, all fire, all manicured, properly has the testing.

491
00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:44,080
Speaker 5: It's some of the best quality.

492
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,920
Speaker 1: And altivid that this is the house brand for you guys.

493
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're we're already integrated our family. We have

494
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:50,760
Speaker 6: crows and we have distribution.

495
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Speaker 1: Oh nice, that helps.

496
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I.

497
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Speaker 6: Mean we're doing it since two thousand and five, so

498
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,879
Speaker 6: you know, I've been able to manage and maintain stuff.

499
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Speaker 2: So, uh, this is one of our newest things.

500
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Speaker 6: It's a it's a it's a subscription box that we

501
00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,080
Speaker 6: we curate ourselves and uh, it's real popular right now.

502
00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:08,680
Speaker 1: Is that big gas box right there?

503
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Speaker 8: Yeah, those are actually for you guys, So there's actually

504
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,480
Speaker 8: stuff in there. So at the end of everything, Yeah,

505
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,520
Speaker 8: we got we got a number of things.

506
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Speaker 2: That we got.

507
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Speaker 1: How does this work? How do people get these for us? Jeez?

508
00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 1: These are big boxes?

509
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,520
Speaker 8: Can you would donate or excuse me, pay two hundred

510
00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,040
Speaker 8: bucks for this box? After taxes? It's like two hundred

511
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,680
Speaker 8: and seventy bucks. Sorry, I'm from the medicals.

512
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:32,560
Speaker 3: Is still here, he's still blown away like a taxi.

513
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Speaker 9: He's still doing it the old well and we'll give

514
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,800
Speaker 9: you a T shirt and you tap those three times

515
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:38,920
Speaker 9: to say there's no place like home.

516
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so you Uh, it's two hundred bucks for the box,

517
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,200
Speaker 8: but there's about four hundred and fifty almost five hundred

518
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:45,560
Speaker 8: bucks worth of cannabis in there.

519
00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,119
Speaker 5: So it's a super deal. Uh, they're flying like hotcakes.

520
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 8: We only have fifty of them available every month, so

521
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,760
Speaker 8: it's first come for serve and uh yeah, we're probably

522
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Speaker 8: gonna have to have a lot more.

523
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Speaker 1: Of them because it's a pop that's Oh, that'd be

524
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Speaker 1: a great deal right there.

525
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Speaker 2: Someone, it's a really good you put a back because

526
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Speaker 2: we tream up with.

527
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Speaker 6: Up with brands that you know, give us product the

528
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,880
Speaker 6: special costs and you can put that.

529
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Speaker 2: In the box and past the savings.

530
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Speaker 3: You know, I wanted to get delivered to your house,

531
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Speaker 3: but wow, I want to hear some of the things

532
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Speaker 3: that you know, you think why the industry is slowing

533
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 3: down from you guys, you know, because you know, I

534
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,400
Speaker 3: think you guys get to see it from the forefront,

535
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,680
Speaker 3: and it's so important for you know, people out there

536
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,120
Speaker 3: listening that are like, you know, a lot of people

537
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 3: are hyped up still they don't know what's really going on.

538
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Speaker 3: So can you give this like a you know, just

539
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Speaker 3: a rundown on what you think, you know, what's holding

540
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Speaker 3: us back in California.

541
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Speaker 1: We have the gentlemen in here from the original Green Cross.

553
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Speaker 1: Excuse me in Torrents and Blue.

554
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Speaker 4: Asked you a great question, Rafayel and Chris about where

555
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 4: the industry is at because you're opening up, Rafael about

556
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 4: it's not as big as it was when Covid was here.

557
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 4: Our numbers are back to the early twenty twenty era.

558
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,920
Speaker 4: But what is it about this time that you feel,

559
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Speaker 4: because we're hearing it from so many companies in the

560
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,919
Speaker 4: industry that it's hurting. So many people are owing dispensaries

561
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 4: money that are buying the cannabis from the brands that

562
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 4: aren't paying the brands.

563
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we hear about all these things.

564
00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 2: Right, You nailed it right there.

565
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Speaker 6: It's the standard of living that this business has had

566
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 6: because of this COVID pump and not realizing it that

567
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 6: it kind of went away about a year ago, and

568
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,679
Speaker 6: they're still spending or hiring or and where where's that

569
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 6: money coming from? If it's not you know, the sales

570
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 6: come in. But right now, since the excise tax is

571
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Speaker 6: now being collected by the retailers, about a third of

572
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Speaker 6: the money we make every.

573
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Speaker 2: Day is taxes.

574
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so a lot of the dispensaries are spending that

575
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 6: money to operate or to continue their way of life,

576
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,479
Speaker 6: whatever it is, it's being spent, and then the state's

577
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 6: not getting it. So I think there's like two hundred

578
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 6: shops that are in jeopardy of losing their licenses because

579
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Speaker 6: their arrears in the first two quarters of taxes, at

580
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 6: least from what I've read. But that's basically what it is.

581
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 6: There's it was a huge pump, and now it's corrected.

582
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 6: It's a huge correction.

583
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 2: Now.

584
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Speaker 6: The other thing would be like, you know, there's just

585
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 6: too there's too much product out there and not enough consumers,

586
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 6: or the taxation taxes are really high. People rather spend

587
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 6: it in the black market where they don't have to

588
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 6: pay those taxes.

589
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the state has to do a better job

590
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 2: of addressing that. They're really not doing anything, you know,

591
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 2: And is there a solution. Yeah, reduce the taxes.

592
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: That's it.

593
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Speaker 6: Why is it thirty five percent? It's ridiculous. There's no

594
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Speaker 6: other industry that's tax like that. I was trying to

595
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 6: compare it to gas. I mean, even gas it's thirty

596
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 6: five cents a gallon, but a gallon's like six dollars.

597
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 2: It's that's nothing.

598
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, exact.

599
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Speaker 8: Not only that, Like you got the you got five

600
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Speaker 8: thousand trap shops in LA and you only got like

601
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Speaker 8: five hundred of us.

602
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Speaker 5: You get what I'm saying.

603
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Speaker 4: So, yeah, how do you guys even deal with that?

604
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Speaker 4: Having a shop like that and people knowing you? Chris, Like, okay,

605
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,439
Speaker 4: you know you got your man of the streets, You're

606
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 4: a man of the hoods.

607
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 1: Who we kidding? You know what I mean?

608
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Speaker 4: And you go out there and you know where these

609
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 4: shops are. You may even know people that work there.

610
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well, you know, it's all about education.

611
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 8: You got to let them know the difference between what

612
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 8: we offer and what they offer. How their meds aren't

613
00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 8: tested for pesticides, molds, mildew, just all kinds of chemicals

614
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 8: that shouldn't be used.

615
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 5: Non do too.

616
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 2: You're gonna buy a brownie that has a thousand milligrams.

617
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 6: And yeah, that's one of the stories we get the most,

618
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 6: is people coming in and saying, I haven't touched weed

619
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Speaker 6: in twenty years because it's the brownie story.

620
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 2: I had a brownie.

621
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Speaker 6: And it's so now they come in and they want

622
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 6: to you know, they want measured and they want doses

623
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 6: and and you know, we've seen a shift in our

624
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 6: customer base from twenty eighteen forward. Pre twenty eighteen, pre legalization,

625
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 6: it was a lot of younger guys. Now it's a

626
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 6: lot of middle aged people, older people, middle aged people

627
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 6: getting products for older people as well. So it's people

628
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 6: that don't have the plug. You know, it's the reality.

629
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 6: It's like I don't have a dealer I can call,

630
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Speaker 6: so I'll go to the shop.

631
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Speaker 2: I like it there. It's nice. People are good.

632
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 4: So crazy when you say that, because I think that's

633
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 4: the hard part for dispensaries, right, like legal dispensaries who

634
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 4: spend their hard earned life and doing the family business.

635
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 4: And then it's like, you know, everybody that's younger.

636
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: Has a plug.

637
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, well as we did when we're growing up,

638
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 4: because we all have plugs growing up, right.

639
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 8: It's like trapshot get shut down, they open up like

640
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 8: a day or two later, you know what I mean.

641
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 5: So it's it's not hard for us as long as

642
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 5: we educate the people.

643
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, call me, I got some weed for you.

644
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 8: But you know, once they can process all the social

645
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 8: equity candidates, I think that's going to be a game

646
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,959
Speaker 8: changer as well. Yeah, I personally am a social equity candidate.

647
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 2: I've missed.

648
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 8: Uh, I'm one of the original two hundred still waiting,

649
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 8: missed like four four or five freaking lotteries.

650
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 1: What was your story? How'd you get busted?

651
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 8: I got popped for a manufacturing concentrates back when it

652
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 8: was a gray area, you know what I mean? Uh,

653
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 8: you know, instead of bringing my shop into it, I

654
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 8: just took the whole hit and just you.

655
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 5: Know, as you should, you know, manned up.

656
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: That's gonna work out for them.

657
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,679
Speaker 8: But because that happened, I was able to, Oh, you

658
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 8: can have a shop, you're a you're a marijuana fell

659
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 8: and we're going to legalize weed, which I'm still waiting for.

660
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 5: You know what I mean. So you know it sounded great.

661
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 3: We actually know some people over there. You know what

662
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 3: I'm saying that that we do actually that are really

663
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 3: in the forefront of that. Yeah that you know, I'd

664
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 3: like to introduce you to Bro what I'm saying to

665
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 3: shut up?

666
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 2: Bro?

667
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know right well, and they got love for us.

668
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: They came on the show.

669
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 5: That means that means the world to me and my family.

670
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 2: Bro.

671
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 4: I know we'll be no because it's so real like

672
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 4: that You're part of the first two hundred.

673
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it's it's it's for real, like we

674
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: Arey Brown.

675
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 8: I think I'm like, yeah, I think I'm like one

676
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 8: eighty three five. I'm like below two hundred from the

677
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 8: first round.

678
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: And even though old girl that was here the other

679
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: day too, you know, we know we got we did.

680
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: We got a couple of people that emotional while you

681
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: get emotions.

682
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 8: It's been along road in cannabis, you know for me,

683
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 8: so you know, I've been working at the you know

684
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 8: when it was medical, worked at a Rastafarian spot owned

685
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 8: by New Jersey weed Man and Pat Duffman I know

686
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 8: y'all know them out there, and then worked with brother

687
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 8: Dan who owns the Librea Collective in Hollywood.

688
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 5: I rocked with them for about ten eleven years.

689
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 8: That's when I had caught my f when I was

690
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 8: working for one of the biggest out there. And then uh,

691
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 8: someone that was actually you know, vending pot to that dispensary.

692
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 8: His name was Aaron, introduced me to Rafa and Ed

693
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 8: and all of them, you know what I mean. So

694
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 8: it's just been a long journey, you know, I've been

695
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 8: through all that. I've making concentrates, a freaking burned the

696
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 8: hell out of my arms, lost all the skin on

697
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 8: my arms. And I love doing concentrates. If you paid

698
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 8: me to do it, I'd still do it, you.

699
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.

700
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 5: So and now I'm managing I'm not managing them.

701
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 3: I got a back room right now, tubes and yeah,

702
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: the O G style.

703
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

704
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 8: But you know, I started at the Green Cross as

705
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 8: a bud tender, worked my way up to a lead,

706
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 8: worked my way up to a sales manager, and now

707
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 8: I'm the director of sales. So it's been a long

708
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 8: fucking journey for me and my family.

709
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: You know.

710
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 8: I remember when they're like stop smoking weed, Christ, you

711
00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 8: smoke too much weed.

712
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, And now it's just.

713
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: And now it's Chris. Can we get some weed? Can

714
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: get Can I get some of that weed that you

715
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: got to.

716
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: Discount?

717
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 10: Yeah?

718
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 9: Yeah.

719
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 4: Is They're funny how it all changes once they realize,

720
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 4: oh my god, this is it's actually kind.

721
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: Of good for you if I do it this way,

722
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: you know.

723
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 4: And I really am so into the fact that, you know,

724
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 4: you guys come from the which I look at as

725
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 4: the Blue Way, the medical way, right because you know,

726
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 4: Blue Hat was doing that too when he had his

727
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 4: illegal shops running that were legal and helping patients and

728
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 4: everything else.

729
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: And to me, when I hear.

730
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 4: People who come from that, that's real love, man, you

731
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,719
Speaker 4: know what I mean. And that's just real love period.

732
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 4: Not just love for the plant. That's love for human nature.

733
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

734
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 4: Because your boy who lost the testicle, who went to

735
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 4: Berkeley and you were sitting there learning about it early

736
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 4: on to doing what you're doing now, to do all that,

737
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 4: that's that's commendable, you guys. I really look at what

738
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 4: you guys are doing over there at the original Green

739
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 4: Cross and Torrents and say that's the type of company

740
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 4: and dispensary that people should fuck with and go to

741
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 4: because these are the guys that and God blessed those

742
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 4: that are the business ones that just wanted the business

743
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 4: and just started cool.

744
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: No love, look just put it that, you guys put

745
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: in that footwork, you know what I mean.

746
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like the compassion is really it's real brought us

747
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 6: this level of success. We still have great deals for

748
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 6: our medical patients, you know, for veterans. I mean, compassion's

749
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 6: always been a big part of it. In fact, I

750
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 6: think that was the first article that got written about

751
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 6: us in the Daily Breeze.

752
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 2: It was about I have it in my office. It

753
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 2: says that compassion comes out of cost.

754
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's really what it was because we were

755
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 6: looking at you know, federal charges. You know, it's always

756
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 6: been it's been a roller coaster for We've been doing

757
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 6: this in two thousand and six, two thousand and five,

758
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 6: and I thought it was going to be all all

759
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 6: gravy come twenty eighteen, But really it was just a reset.

760
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 2: You know.

761
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 5: It's like and now it's.

762
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 2: Now, it's now where it is.

763
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 6: But you know, I always think of of of the

764
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 6: cannabis industry as a recession proof industry, kind of like alcohol,

765
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 6: you know, it's when times get bad, people consume more

766
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 6: more product. So I don't really I don't really think

767
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 6: that the industry is bad right now as far as clientele. Uh,

768
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 6: it's just the taxation is really what's killing us. And

769
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 6: you know there's gonna be a correction that's already happening.

770
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 6: A lot of companies have failed, bigger companies are coming

771
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 6: in and buying them up, and you know, that's kind

772
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 6: of where.

773
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 2: The industry is right now. But it's not going anywhere.

774
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:36,959
Speaker 2: You know.

775
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 6: The next step, like I was telling you earlier, is

776
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 6: a federal decriminalization and then that's when the big money

777
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 6: comes in and hopefully everybody gets a nice paycheck and

778
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 6: cashes out, rides off into the sunset.

779
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, will rough here or what else you got going on?

780
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 9: Though?

781
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: I know you got all this.

782
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 4: You know you're vertically integrated. Where are the other dispensaries

783
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 4: that you have popping off at?

784
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 6: We have one in North Hollywood on Van Owen that

785
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 6: should be opening opening up here soon in the next

786
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 6: month or two.

787
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: Oh really North Hollywood?

788
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah?

789
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 6: And then we had one and what uh closest would

790
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 6: be Market Lancashem right there.

791
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: And uh, the target right over there, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah.

792
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 6: Uh, the other one we had was in Venice. It

793
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 6: still is in Venice, but that one that was like

794
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 6: a crazy story. With that one, I did a deal,

795
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 6: a management deal with a bigger company and they kind

796
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 6: of just didn't they get you out now, they failed

797
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 6: and then I got it back. But then the landlord

798
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 6: they they've failed to like extend the lease. So the

799
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 6: landlord got mad and kicked us out.

800
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: But you're looking for a new location.

801
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 2: Or yeah, looking for a new location in Venice.

802
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 6: But then I found out because of the last round

803
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 6: of social equity, they issued licenses and those can be

804
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 6: anywhere in La City.

805
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 2: Now I can move anywhere. Nice. So yeah, looking to move.

806
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 6: But you know, I'm not sure if this is the

807
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 6: best time to open up a store right now.

808
00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: Sure, so, yeah, it's it's it's definitely tricky, you know, at.

809
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 6: Least here in California. Yeah, but I am working on

810
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 6: one in New York. I'm consulting on one out there

811
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 6: in Long Island. It's called Big Apple Budco. You'd be

812
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 6: opening up for delivery in the next couple of months,

813
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 6: and then you know, you're dealing with different municipalities everywhere.

814
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: So there you got to it's licensing permitted.

815
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 6: So we're looking at like nine to ten months just

816
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 6: to get the permits to build it out, you know.

817
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and how is that in New York?

818
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 4: Talk about the differences between New York legalization and California legalization.

819
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 6: New York is where we were in like twenty sixteen,

820
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 6: twenty seventeen, where they have a ton of trap shops

821
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 6: out there. There's only twenty legal dispensaries over there right now.

822
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 6: And over there the first round is similar to here,

823
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 6: a social equity round, but over there they're really ambitious.

824
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 6: So over there, the social equity candidates get a turn

825
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 6: key dispensary location, built out, everything paid for by this

826
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 6: yeah Dasney and a fund. Yeah, but it's it's over ambitious.

827
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 6: I mean they've only open twenty they were you know,

828
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 6: they're trying to get the whole two hundred million they

829
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 6: were supposed to raise. I think they finally got it,

830
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 6: so they're rolling them out slowly. But over there, you know,

831
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 6: the the trappers over there really outdid the trappers here

832
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 6: because they.

833
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,280
Speaker 1: Took they took it to a whole nother lit.

834
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,240
Speaker 6: It on wheels, you know, they had these food trucks

835
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 6: that were just driving around Times Square selling product to everybody, and.

836
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: And the cops just don't bother me.

837
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 6: No, they finally cracked down on that, finally started cracking

838
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 6: down on that, impounded over one hundred of those vehicles.

839
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: That's crazy to think there's that many people that said bucket,

840
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: let's go.

841
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're still doing it. Yeah, they're just low key

842
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 3: about it now. They're not just yeah, we sell cannabis, not.

843
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: A Green Cross on it driving up in the middle.

844
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: Of Times Square, Yes, exactly, CD doubt on whatever.

845
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 4: Well, you guys, we'd like to do the high five

846
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 4: with everybody that comes in here on the show. And

847
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, Chris, thank you for getting emotional and vulnerable.

848
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: Man. We love that. And you know we're really gonna

849
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: do some ship to help you out for real, real shit.

850
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 2: That appreciate you.

851
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 4: Just talk over here, Rafael, both of you guys. Your

852
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 4: journey has been amazing. Folks hearing what they're doing over

853
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 4: there at the original Green Cross in Torrents.

854
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: You hear what the company is about.

855
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, It's not just a place

856
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 4: where you want to go in there and by the

857
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 4: most expensive weed, you know, the safe it's the safest weed.

858
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 4: And they care about their patients. And I'm imagining you

859
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 4: guys got great bud tenders are very well educated. We

860
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 4: have because of what you guys do. You have to

861
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 4: train them well.

862
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 2: We have the best.

863
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 8: We have an education procedure that we do put them

864
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 8: through training that from growing everything everything I've been.

865
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys come from that medical side where everyone

866
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 4: works here has to be educated.

867
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 2: We're just selling shop has been there since two thousand

868
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 2: and six.

869
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 5: We're not the five time best shop in the South

870
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 5: Bay for no reason.

871
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 8: And we're gonna work on the sixth. That's that's what

872
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 8: we gotta working on. We're gonna get that six We

873
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 8: got the ice cream truck coming out. We're gonna be

874
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 8: able to be mobile, so we're gonna be coming all

875
00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 8: your delivery.

876
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 6: The ice cream model is you basically have thirty percent

877
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 6: of your sales. I think it's thirty here have to

878
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 6: be prepaid, and then the other seventy You can park somewhere,

879
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 6: put a like a barcode for your menu, they order,

880
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 6: pay and then just come to the window and pick

881
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 6: it up.

882
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 2: Maybe I got out of a concert.

883
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 8: This Friday is gonna be our first soft opening. We're

884
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 8: gonna do Nondo Beach, So we're gonna be out for

885
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 8: like three to five hours something like that. Yeah, man,

886
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 8: we're gonna that's gonna We're gonna be at the twenty

887
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 8: one twenty one Savage and Drake concert.

888
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: We got a whole list, a whole list.

889
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 5: Of things that we're gonna be hitting, so we should collabse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, were you guys?

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Speaker 3: I got some some other things that I was, you know,

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00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 3: gonna bring to you guys too that we'll talk off out.

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Speaker 5: Definitely exposed it all and give too much out.

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00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's gonna be nice. Well, let's hit this

895
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Speaker 1: high five.

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Speaker 4: You guys will go in the order off the allio

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Speaker 4: answer first, Christ your answer second. We're going with the

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Speaker 4: sixth time award winning I'm already calling it you guys,

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Speaker 4: the crew from the original.

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Speaker 1: Green Cross Torrents. It's the high five. How old were

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00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: we the first time you smoked canabis? And where'd you

902
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: get it? From?

903
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 2: Fourteen from my neighbor Justin.

904
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 10: It old Justin Samitteo, Sanmitteo. Yeah, Justin's out in Vegas, Chris,

905
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 10: and I was about fifteen. And it was my cousin

906
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 10: Michael Domante. We smoked it on top of a roof,

907
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 10: out of trouble, getting down.

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00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 9: Yeah.

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00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 3: Question number two of the High five, what is your

910
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 3: favorite way to use or smoke cannabis?

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00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 2: I like to roll a joint? Yeah, just what kind

912
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 2: of joint? Zig zag?

913
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, exact nation little joint? Okay.

914
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 4: Any favorite weed that you guys that you're like, Okay,

915
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 4: I like to go to this, you know.

916
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 6: I love a really strong indica, like a O. G. Cush,

917
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 6: but only because it tests my mind. I get so

918
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 6: like paranoid and like, yeah, but usually a sativa something

919
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 6: that chill or makes brings out of my creative nice.

920
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: What about you, Chris?

921
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 5: Like to roll a joint? I don't like pre roles.

922
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 8: Pre Roles are kind of like you know, cut, you know,

923
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 8: and so I like to roll my own cannabis with

924
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 8: like unbleached papers, raw or you know. I like the

925
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 8: elements that are those are really nice. And then I

926
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 8: don't do in the course the tivah.

927
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 2: I do it all.

928
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 5: I'm not a weed racist. I like it all.

929
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 4: Question number three of the High five, Craziest place you

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00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 4: ever used or smoked cannabis.

931
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 6: I've been to a couple of Super Bowls that I

932
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 6: always blazing the super Bowl.

933
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: That's good. Which ones I've been like three?

934
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: My three?

935
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 1: Oh you went to the last three. That was good.

936
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: That's fun. There's nothing better in my point than big

937
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 1: sporting events. Super Bowls.

938
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:38,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to go to Vegas.

939
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 6: I went to the first one in the in the

940
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 6: Bay Area, a leviy Stadium.

941
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: Oh you did.

942
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: Weren't even playing, but we went right. You're a Niner,

943
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 2: of course.

944
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a Cowboy fan.

945
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 2: But my brother, he was born in Texas.

946
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 3: We're doing We're doing the uh Great Iron Great Celebrity

947
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 3: Golf Tournament in UH Vegas last year in Arizona, and

948
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 3: then we're doing this year in Vegas.

949
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: Yeah we should do something. You guyhoul get involved with us

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00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: with Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

952
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: We had like fifty NFL players out there last year.

953
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Speaker 1: We're looking at a list of even more this year.

954
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 4: Super Bowl is a good crazy spot though a lot

955
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 4: of security. It goes down there.

956
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 5: What about you truckle be parked out there?

957
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: Uh me.

959
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 8: The craziest place I've medicated was actually at the Vatican.

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00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 2: Yeah over here.

961
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 8: I snuffed some some disposable carts when I went to

962
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 8: Rome with my in laws too, So it's with the

963
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 8: in laws get there and then I fucking smoked in

964
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 8: the Vatican.

965
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: That's a good one here, Vatican top one in here

966
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 2: and says something better.

967
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's a good one. That's a good one.

968
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 3: Question number four of the high five what is your

969
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 3: go to munchie after you get high?

970
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 2: I like a good chocolate chip cookie. Yeah.

971
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 6: I used to love costcos, but I feel like the

972
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 6: recipe has changed, so now I'm like looking for a

973
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 6: better one.

974
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 3: Uh, chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookies, boozies, You're like walnuts and.

975
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 2: I've had them. Wut your sea salt?

976
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's like the sea salt on him too.

977
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 4: Susie's Susie's, Susi's cupcakes, Susie cupcakes, Crumbles.

978
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: Crumbles guys. Yeah, but those are like overly sweets. Some

979
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: times they're like frosty.

980
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 4: Oh it's like I can't have a bite or two,

981
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 4: and it's like, oh that's great, you need a whole

982
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 4: one of your diabetes is spiking right now.

983
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: That's a good one about you.

984
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 8: I stay in East l As so I love that

985
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 8: Mexican candy. Everything Mexican watermelon.

986
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: Are the best one right there?

987
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 4: Question number five of the High five with the folks

988
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 4: from their original Green Cross and Torrents. You guys, God willing,

989
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 4: there'll be the sixth winner six six years in a row,

990
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 4: but it's five times in a row official already.

991
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 1: So you know you can go shop there and get quality.

992
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 4: If you can smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive,

993
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 4: who would it be and wide.

994
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 6: Probably Bob Marley. Yeah, It's just been the biggest influence

995
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 6: in my life. When I started smoking weed at fourteen,

996
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 6: That's what I gravitated to. The boys would go to

997
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,760
Speaker 6: all the reggae festivals and you know, I think that's

998
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 6: reggae has been still a big part of my life.

999
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, Bob Marley for me.

1000
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 8: So, Chris, I was gonna say Bob Marley because he

1001
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 8: said it. I'm gonna say Damian Marley because I look

1002
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 8: a lot like that.

1003
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: Well, Chris, Chris, you know the thing is, it's crazy

1004
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: you say that.

1005
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 2: You know.

1006
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: Ralphie and I were speaking before we got here, ladies

1007
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: and gentlemen.

1008
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 3: Damn, he said, oh ship man, you know, listen, is

1009
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 3: there anything that you know? We we left out that

1010
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 3: you guys want to share with our listeners man and

1011
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 3: fans out there, and just to share before we let

1012
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 3: you guys off the show.

1013
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 1: Man, We appreciate you guys.

1014
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 2: I just want to say thanks for the opportunity of

1015
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 2: letting us on your podcast. Man, this is great.

1016
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 6: This is a huge deal for us. So we're really thankful.

1017
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 6: I just want to say, you know, come check us out.

1018
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 6: We're we've been around for a long time. You know

1019
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 6: what we're doing, and uh we still show compassion and love.

1020
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 2: So sure, what's that address, sixteen fifty eight West Carson Street,

1021
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Speaker 2: christ Anything.

1022
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 8: Man, Just thank you guys for everything man, just inviting us, uh,

1023
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 8: just being so warming, the facility, the tour, the everything, man, Like,

1024
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 8: I do appreciate you guys and everything you got past.

1025
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 8: Uh and just a big shout out to the Green

1026
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 8: Cross Man. Like it takes a lot of work to

1027
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 8: do what we do. There's a lot of you know,

1028
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 8: companies like Medman and Stizzy who are now like management

1029
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 8: companies that just plaster their fucking name on a bunch

1030
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 8: of struggling fucking shops up and uh, we ain't that,

1031
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 8: you know what I mean, we know what we're talking

1032
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 8: about We're here to educate and uh, we're just a

1033
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 8: big shout out to the people at Green Cross sales team,

1034
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 8: delivery team, purchasing, the managers, the directors, everybody anyone that

1035
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 8: steps foot in there and clocks in. I appreciate you,

1036
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 8: guys from the bottom of my heart. Man, I appreciate

1037
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 8: you guys.

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00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: Hey, man, I haven't felt love for a company like

1039
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: this to me.

1040
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 4: I got you, guys, I swear, and I know Blue

1041
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 4: feels the same way because I'm sitting here emotional my

1042
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 4: damn self because your passion and your love for what

1043
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 4: you guys do. I want to fuck with you so hard,

1044
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 4: like I want to do things with you guys, and

1045
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 4: like a pillow talk with you whatever. But the real

1046
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 4: fit is, man, your guys is vulnerable love for your staff,

1047
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 4: for your leads out of you. I can feel it,

1048
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 4: and I love that because I don't normally feel it

1049
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 4: like I've never felt it.

1050
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: Like that about you.

1051
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 3: Well that's why I even said I was like, man,

1052
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 3: I want to help you because I do know I

1053
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 3: feel them.

1054
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 1: We know. I don't want to say we know everybody,

1055
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: but we know all the people.

1056
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 3: In LA for sure that are that are running the

1057
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 3: Social Equity program they just took over. There's a whole

1058
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 3: new regime there, and you know, we've had extensive conversations

1059
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 3: with them on how to help get this thing in order,

1060
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 3: you know, and get it cleaned up. And there is

1061
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 3: grants that that are available to you, you know what

1062
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 3: I mean. There's a whole education platform that you can

1063
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 3: go through and we can just connect you.

1064
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: And I'm going to just connect you with the right people.

1065
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 8: Can't do it and doing all the email. I get

1066
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 8: all the emails I've been doing. I plenty ask you

1067
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 8: know what I mean.

1068
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: But like you know, yeah, running into the walls.

1069
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna put you on on with the person

1070
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: that's running ship and.

1071
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 3: Said, I appreciate you guys then yeah.

1072
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Speaker 1: And I'm just kidding.

1073
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Speaker 5: Man, you give me that, you give me that, I'll

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Speaker 5: get you a percentage of that. And a big shout

1075
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 5: out to Cannabis Talk.

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Speaker 8: Man, you guys are amazing from the man, the big

1077
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Speaker 8: man over here running a real show.

1078
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Speaker 2: Ye got all the everybody in here.

1079
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Speaker 1: Man there, I don't know about those two idiots hundred.

1080
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Speaker 2: Again, and they know I love him to death.

1081
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Speaker 1: I talked to them all day every day. I was like, hey,

1082
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Speaker 1: you know what you guys.

1083
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Speaker 4: Thank you guys for telling me you so listen to

1084
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Speaker 4: me when you guys are older, big boy.

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Speaker 1: Well there it is, guys. It's Cannabis Talk one to

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