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Speaker 1: This dude right here, Will good Day goody Okay, so

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Speaker 1: Will good dooy. I met him at a fundraiser charity

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Speaker 1: he's the director of team member development at BJ's restaurant

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Speaker 1: and the food they're having intrigued. But his story is

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Speaker 1: what attracted me to him. You guys. Now, Will told

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Speaker 1: hear all about b J's in the restaurant and how

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Speaker 1: great it is. But first we're gonna meet the man Will,

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Speaker 1: who I met at the golf course and I was like,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, all this b J step and there's

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Speaker 1: Will first to the Cannabis talk one on one campus here, everybody,

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Speaker 1: we're definitely gonna get into b Ja's and now you're

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Speaker 1: here with him and all that good stuff. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: first off, where are you from, brother? And where'd you

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Speaker 1: grow up? I grew up in rinch Cuckamonga, and uh,

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Speaker 1: seeing how the world has changed, and it really has

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Speaker 1: and just looking at where we've gone today, you know,

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Speaker 1: right into that, because you grew up as the Dare child,

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Speaker 1: you said, right the whole Nancy, this is your brain,

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Speaker 1: I would do with of course, like most people would

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Speaker 1: I do you remember your first drink? Yeah, we had tequila.

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Speaker 1: And so now you're Texas, You're back to California. What's

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Speaker 1: your life? You're married, you have kids? Yes, yes, I'm married.

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Speaker 1: figure that out? You went and spend two your first time,

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00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,200
Speaker 1: you bought a chocolate bars and oils, and how did

427
00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,520
Speaker 1: you Because here's the coldest part about the situation. If

428
00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,960
Speaker 1: you're listening and you run into somebody like this, it's

429
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,639
Speaker 1: a regiment that there's not one regiment that's right for

430
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,240
Speaker 1: folks outside. You know what I mean? Because Blue and

431
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,720
Speaker 1: I just connected you with somebody before the show, We're

432
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,480
Speaker 1: to connect you with somebody else after the show. Because

433
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,439
Speaker 1: there's different reguments for different types of people who have

434
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 1: these stage four stage, whatever stage you're in, and no

435
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,600
Speaker 1: matter where you're at with cannabis hues, even if you

436
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 1: don't have a stage in your non cancer use. If

437
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 1: you choose to use this as medicine as I do,

438
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,920
Speaker 1: as well, it will So I use creams. Know everything

439
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,000
Speaker 1: you described as how I use it as well. So

440
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,679
Speaker 1: you're talking my language right perfect. I use it in

441
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 1: the morning and night that way exactly from my pills.

442
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 1: I do have an ad vill new eight hundred milligram

443
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,040
Speaker 1: that I just got from my doctor, but it's the

444
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 1: auld hundred whatever. But my point is I look at

445
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 1: it that way as well. But how long did it

446
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 1: take you in that regiment of learning that. I'd probably

447
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: say it took me roughly about like six or seven

448
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 1: months to figure it out because like, um my dosing

449
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 1: at that time, I was just trying to like overcompensate

450
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,479
Speaker 1: for the chemo I was taking, and I just felt like, hell,

451
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 1: this is the way I need to be right and then, um,

452
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:39,719
Speaker 1: you know, and again you don't want to you know,

453
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,200
Speaker 1: go too far down the rabbit hole either, because then

454
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,359
Speaker 1: I was just trying to make sure that I wasn't like,

455
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 1: you know, um functional in general on both ends offense.

456
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 1: I wanted to be brain functional to the point of like, hey,

457
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 1: I'm ready to do this and I don't like being trapped,

458
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,439
Speaker 1: so like this was really good. So roughly about like

459
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,400
Speaker 1: five or six months, Um, you know, I was able

460
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,159
Speaker 1: to kind of like figure out, hey, this of the

461
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 1: dose that works for me, especially my body type, because

462
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 1: I have a natural like I burned off about two

463
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: thousand calories roughly, just like average. So because of that,

464
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,879
Speaker 1: I'm just like constantly losing, so it's burning off faster.

465
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 1: So the same thing works with like medicine, right, so

466
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 1: if you were taking um uh, they had me on morphine.

467
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 1: And when I was on morphine after my surgeries, they

468
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: said it would last X amount of time, but my

469
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 1: body was burning it off so quickly that I was

470
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 1: just recouping and filling the pain twice as much. Yeah,

471
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: So the same thing for this as well. So I

472
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 1: had to figure out, like what my dosage was to

473
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 1: keep me like good for about five hours? Now would

474
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: it help you? And I know the answer, but would

475
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 1: it help you if you're insurance covered? Of course it

476
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 1: would yeah, yeah, said yeah. And and and what would

477
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: that look like you know from someone like you that

478
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 1: because because again you're seeing it differently, yeah right, versus

479
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: like you know, all of us have these great ideas, Yeah,

480
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 1: but you're actually living, right, so how you know, what

481
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,199
Speaker 1: would that look like? Like? The funny part is like

482
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: with insurance even for normal medicine right now, I mean

483
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 1: these zero oute depending on what the medicine is UM

484
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: and then some resumes you might do like a copay

485
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 1: where it's like you know, five dollars ten dollar or

486
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: something like phone these lines. If it followed into the

487
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 1: same category and you saw the same relief. I don't

488
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: see the same different like it would be the same difference,

489
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand why it wouldn't be. And that's

490
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: and that's the that's the thing that gets me. I mean, well,

491
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: I've also had insurance once tell me that I didn't

492
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: have cancer. I thought that was interesting because they denied

493
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 1: one of my scans. Yeah, denied a scan and said

494
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: uh and on the letter head, which was great, it

495
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: said we're denying the scan because you have no trace

496
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 1: of cancer. That's what literally said it and I and

497
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: I highlighted it and I took it to my oncologists

498
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, look that I'm cured. And he's like,

499
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: he's like, I'll give them a call. And I was like, yeah, So,

500
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: I mean I know where they would kind of go

501
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: with it. And that's that's the disappointing part. But if

502
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 1: they did advocate for it, yeah, it would be it

503
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: would be, you know, be game changing. And he would

504
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Speaker 1: it be would you think that the costs would be

505
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: around the same for or you know, traditional prescriptions versus

506
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: cannabis or do you think we would save money if

507
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: they were able to prescribe cannabis. I think we'd be

508
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 1: able to save money. But the problem with insurance companies

509
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 1: is they find a way to hide the payment of

510
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: it regardless, you know what I mean. But but I

511
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 1: think in general, if we you should be able to

512
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: save money because the cost efficiency of it is so

513
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: much lower than the manufacturing cost of OI poids or

514
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: things along those lines. And I want to be clear,

515
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: you know about something. Are you taking other drugs and

516
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: they are prescribed to you at the same time? Still no,

517
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: like they so they gave me, I mean you they

518
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: gave me a lot of oak woids and things along

519
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: those lines to kind of like help with you know, um,

520
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: all of those things that we discussed. But I just

521
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: I like, I I would get a whole bottle of them,

522
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 1: like because I at the time when I came in,

523
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, here's there's VI, here's VI get in,

524
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: here's you know, oxy, cotton, all all this stuff, right,

525
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 1: And I was like sure, I and I you know,

526
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: you get it because you think you need it, right,

527
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 1: And then I remember like taking oxy for the first

528
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: time and how made me feel and I didn't like it.

529
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: I was like, this is just it's just not good

530
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: like you just I don't know, it just takes you

531
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: a whole different place. I remember having like the craziest

532
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: dreams and I was just like, yeah, this is not right,

533
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: like insane. Yeah. So I just remember in any of

534
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: their subscribed goes, you're you're strict using Yeah, cannabis, multi vitamins,

535
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: you know, just the just the vitamin D, you know,

536
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: the the the actual vitamins that you should be taking

537
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 1: as an adult, like those things. Yeah, that's amazing to

538
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: see what you've done. Will you know we're gonna take

539
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 1: a break real quick. We're gonna come back because you've

540
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: got this all diagnosed while working at b J. You

541
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: should be collapsed at idotic. So I can't wait to

542
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: hear help you. J supported you, how I met you,

543
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: and how they're still down with you and you have

544
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: a huge title with him. It's not like, oh, you're

545
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: just one of the servers that No, you're the director

546
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 1: of team member development at BJ's restaurant. We're talk about

547
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: that title and how they stood by you and how

548
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 1: they're you'll buy you. It's Cannabis talk one on one.

549
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this bridge. We'll be right

550
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: back with Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome back to

551
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one. What time is it, folks? Do?

552
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Speaker 1: That's why I think hiler with Dime Industries. Find them

553
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: in California, Oklahoma and Arizona. Check out the website Dime

554
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: Industries dot com. Are on I G Dime dot Industries.

555
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody here that makes us happen.

556
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: You guys, our whole team. Daniel cal Christian A Christian S,

557
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: Danny p Funk, Connor, Jorge Sergar, Jessica s Cash, cam

558
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 1: Isaiah Dallas, Eric Alexas, Sarah Jack, Jasmine, Maddie, Jessica p Pianchi,

559
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: Slar Wilson, Alley Cousin, Ray Goldie, my brother, Pitt, Mark Karnes, Erica, Jennifer, Chris, Frankino,

560
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 1: and of course Elvis. Thank you guys all for doing

561
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: what you and chin. I see you brother working hard

562
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: and making us look good on paper, to right and down.

563
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: Will how do you say his last name as your

564
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: other friend is that they have to be related with?

565
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 1: She was in Anahell. The stage four colon cancer story

566
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. I wish you nothing but the best I

567
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: know you have a surgery coming up and you know

568
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: that the journey continues as this never leaves the body.

569
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: It can go into half of her mission, but it's

570
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: stage four. It sticks with you. As I've learned and

571
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: you've told me offer as well. So we're praying and

572
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: hoping that the next surgery goes well and we just

573
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: keep seeing you and let this little boy have his

574
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: daddy forever and ever. You know what I mean that

575
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: all being said before we went to break BJ's Restaurants.

576
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you're the director of Team member Development. You're

577
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: a GM at a young age. How do you become

578
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: the director of team developments at b J's And how

579
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: do they stick with you like this and just ride

580
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,479
Speaker 1: you gotta love them that, No, I love this company.

581
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: I've been with BJ's for fifteen years. It off as

582
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: a senior manager in Irvine, California, and then from there

583
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: I traveled around the United States. So uh, down to Texas,

584
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 1: like I said, back to California. Then, Um, when I

585
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: got diagnosed, that was the big one. That's when I

586
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: realized how much this company was all about me and

587
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 1: it made me feel so loved. Um when I went out,

588
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: I had to go and workers compensation right and I

589
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: was out for a full year, full year of lost wages. Right.

590
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: So b JS has what's called them Give a Slice Foundation,

591
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: and this foundation is used to help utilize for team

592
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: members in need, and they ended up giving me roughly

593
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: about ten dollars, which I just blew my mind. Right,

594
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: so helps with a lot of my medical bills and

595
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: medical pay and things along those lines right off the front.

596
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,959
Speaker 1: And uh, I I had everyone from the VP of

597
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: Operations to UM the senior vps come and visit me

598
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: at the hospital when I first got diagnosed and had

599
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: the surgery that came to my bedside, My directors came

600
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: to my bedside. UM after they did that and I

601
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: was out for a year. As soon as I was

602
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: able to come back, they offered me a position, so

603
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: I became a recruiter for BJS. So I started recruiting

604
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: managements for BJ's and started you know, getting more people

605
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: you know, excited with the company. And then from there

606
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: they offered me management development. So I took over what's

607
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: called the Advanced Manager Program with BJS, the AMP program,

608
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: So now I would train new managers for the company

609
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: to learn about BJ's, to get like excited about it,

610
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: and then go out in the workforce and you know,

611
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: produce all the things that we try to teach them

612
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: to do right. And then from there um I took

613
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: over as the director of team envelopment. So when you're

614
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: the director of managers, you have roughly about a thousand,

615
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: four hundred, two thousand, five hundred managers under your belt,

616
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: right the team member the team member development, you're about

617
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: twenty three thousand team members that you're kind of like

618
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: responsible for, so everything from their training, their development, how

619
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: we can create action plans and things along those dyes

620
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: four directors and gms and restaurants to make sure that

621
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: we're cultivating our team members the right way and helping

622
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: them to get where they need to go. And all

623
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: of this process while still dealing with cancer, still going

624
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: through chemotherapy, while still having surgeries, being out here and there,

625
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: They've always been on my side, super beneficial, super helpful,

626
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: you know, and has never stopped, you know, helping me

627
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: advance my own career as well. So and it's and

628
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: it's been great, and honestly without them, you know, it

629
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: definitely would be life changing. And so they they're rooted

630
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: in my journey from the very beginning two now shout out, yeah,

631
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: I mean you gotta love I do already, but not

632
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: I love them more. I'll be us aside. When when

633
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: when you told me the story at the golf course,

634
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 1: I literally went home first of all, I even came

635
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: to the office. I'm in tears right now. I mean

636
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: holding back for BJS to to you know, the men

637
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: and women there, the culture that they must have put

638
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: into the team and building and everything else for them

639
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: to take the time to come see you, spend time

640
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: with you, continue to work forward with you, actually help

641
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: you through this process financially when they didn't have to.

642
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: You know, there, there's there's so much that if I

643
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: feel like that that has helped you on your journey,

644
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: that you know, and and and more companies should do this. Um,

645
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: It's it's an amazing it's an amazing thing. I'm super

646
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: impressed by them, and not only impressed by them, but

647
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: to continue this journey with you and for you to

648
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: continually develop and do such great work as a testament

649
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: to you as well. It's not like, oh, they're just

650
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: handing out things. You've worked hard, You've done great things.

651
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: You did a great promotion at the Gulf event that

652
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: I've seen you at had no idea you're you know,

653
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: because you're just so well in shape. You don't not

654
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: that somebody looks like they have cancer, but you definitely

655
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: don't look like you have a stage four cancer, you know.

656
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're broad shoulder, You look like you

657
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: could do about at least twenty five push ups right

658
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: now on let's go. But you know, I mean, yeah,

659
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: he even straight at my point, he looks strong. And

660
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: when you told me you're story at the golf course

661
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: and to hear it now, it's so touching to know

662
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: that you're one of these people that pushed like that,

663
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: and to speak on cannabis like that. Does b j's no,

664
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 1: obviously you've spoken here on the show of the Cannabis Use.

665
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: And is BJ's a company then that supports cannabis use

666
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: as employees for medicine or what's the outlook or do

667
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: you even know? Yeah? I mean, as we're really big

668
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: on like as long as you know you're not doing

669
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: it during work hours like at that time, you know

670
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: you were your business is your business? Put it that way, right,

671
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: and if it's helpful and healthy, then go for it.

672
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 1: But as long as it doesn't interfere with the job.

673
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: It's like drinking, you know, we don't want you to

674
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: drink in the job either, right. We want to make

675
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: sure that there to give hospitality and guest service to

676
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: those guests when they're in the restaurant and making sure

677
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: that you're a part and functionally. But again if you

678
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: have to because of you know, whatever ailment to to

679
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: kind of like get through at the end of the day,

680
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 1: we just want to make sure our team members are

681
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: take care of so they test for cannabis for to

682
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: get a job at BJS. Uh, you know, I mean

683
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: we could do drugs. I mean that is part of

684
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: our thing, but especially now is it's becoming more relevant

685
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: in the world, you know, as like recreational use and

686
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: things along those lines. The likelihood is very minimal, you know.

687
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: You know, you might do a random drug test if

688
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: you think someone else is over indulging in something else. Yeah,

689
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: like like anything else. Yeah, you know, you know, a

690
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,239
Speaker 1: little bit off. I was gonna say, Moderation is the key, right,

691
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: so and if you and if you start going like

692
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: off the wire off moderation then yeah, est so you know,

693
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: and we're trying to help, you know, and That's what

694
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: it what it comes down to, because then then there's

695
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: that fine line between you know, you know, doing the

696
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: workforce that you're supposed to be part of, or taking

697
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: things and taking advantage of something. So that's the biggest

698
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: I mean, if a server brought me my bazooki and

699
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: it had a bite in it, he might be high.

700
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: I was like, I mean, if all the books come

701
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: out and one guy taking a bite out of one girl,

702
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, maybe you're a little too much, exactly,

703
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: like everything smells good today, and I'm like, of course

704
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: it does. We're not. We're not. I want to I

705
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: want to dab in as I say that, because the

706
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: bazookies is a world famous item to me in my head.

707
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just one of those items that I

708
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: say buzuki and you know it's b J's right. I mean,

709
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: it's not the rib platter, it's not the salmon that

710
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: they make, it's not the jumble lie. Because they have

711
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: a crazy, you know, elaborate menu. Many is amazing, Yes,

712
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: about hundred sixty two menu items roughly, which is great

713
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: because I love going there. I take my family there

714
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: sometimes I have one in R. S. M. Rancho Santa

715
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,959
Speaker 1: Margarite right there, you know, that's right by my gym,

716
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: and I kind of met you at that. That's the one.

717
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: We got to go to. The one down the street here,

718
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: that's bias, but I've been there with the family and

719
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: it's always a grab of bazooki at the end. Yeah.

720
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: Do you know the story of the bazuki? How does

721
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: this come about? Because that's the most fabulous thing I've

722
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,760
Speaker 1: ever had a bj So we had um twelve restaurants

723
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: at the time when this was created, and so the

724
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: owners at the time, Jerry Hennessey and Puma Tanko, those

725
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: two gentlemen reach out to the twelve restaurant and they

726
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: asked them, Hey, we need to come up with a dessert,

727
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: something that's going to hook people, right, So all the

728
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: general managers kind of got together did their own thing.

729
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: To the general managers came up with the idea of

730
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: a pizza cookie and that's where the pizuki comes from, right,

731
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: And with that, it was like, hey, how can we

732
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: attract people to something that's amazing? And they're like, well,

733
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: what beats a freshly big cookie with scoops of ice

734
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: cream on top? Like you know, it's just homemade. Right.

735
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: It makes you think in your head when you're a

736
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: kid and your mom's making cookies and they come right

737
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: out of the right and then and then and you

738
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: throw some ice cream just like, oh man, I really

739
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: want it. So that's what we tested, and that's what

740
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: those general managers come up with, and that's what became

741
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: one of the selling points for b J's um other

742
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: than our beer, right, like being known for our own brewers. Right.

743
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: But the thing is at the time to Palm Tanko's

744
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: daughter has CFS vibrosis. So what they decided to do

745
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: was cents of each of the pizickeys would go to

746
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: the CF Foundation. So they would donate cents of each

747
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: of the cost of those physickeis that we sold to

748
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: the CF Foundation. Now, since we're so big, we are

749
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: still the largest contributor to c for the United States,

750
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: and we are the ones that donate to the C Foundation.

751
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: You can still do it a quarter of buzuoki No no, no,

752
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: we just kind of huge check like ah yeah, no, no no, yeah,

753
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 1: it's a large check now, but it's but it's still

754
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: puts us on the map of what we do. And

755
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: then we again our BJ's Foundation. Um, we use our

756
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: our golf tournament and things along those lines to create revenue,

757
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: and we do a ton with like you know, cancer

758
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: down syndrome, you know, you name it will donate and

759
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: that's what's really cool. And we have what's called task

760
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: force events, so our team members actually donate their time

761
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: to go do things for the community. And it's just

762
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: part of what we do. And uh, it's really cool

763
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: because that's nationwide and that's what separates us from a

764
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: lot of other places, you know that just kind of

765
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: like do the day to day. We're like, no, no no,

766
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: let's go above and beyond. And as you say that nationwide,

767
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: someone's listening to this abroad and they go, Wow, I

768
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: would love to get BJ's to help out with our foundation.

769
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: Are our fundraiser? Like I seen you and you said,

770
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: you guys do this. How do they get in touch

771
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: with BJ? They can go to our BJ's website and

772
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: then on there at BJ's Restaurants dot com and on there,

773
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: they can go to our communication site and they can

774
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: reach out or they can look for a local restaurant

775
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: that's in nearby them and they can reach out and

776
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: talk to the general manager of that location or the

777
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: marketing manager and they can work out something that we

778
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: can help them with. Wetastic. Yeah, you're so well and

779
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,720
Speaker 1: dealt with stories and this and that. And you said,

780
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: you know two of the twelve general managers that started

781
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: out when there was twelve stores, the two gentlemen that

782
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: started Can I get the full history of how they

783
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: came up with the first b j's. Do you know

784
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: that story as well? Because you were just story So

785
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: it was it was pretty cool. So, um, there was

786
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: a restaurant company back in Chicago called r J Grunts,

787
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: and r J Grunts was a child style pizza rhea

788
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 1: out there, and there was a group of investors that

789
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: liked that restaurant concept and decided to come to California

790
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: and open up our J Grunts here in California. And

791
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: they opened it up, and when they got to about

792
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: twelve restaurants roughly around there eleven twelve is when they

793
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: got a hit with copyright infringement, right, so you can't

794
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: have that. They had two accountants that worked for them, um,

795
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: and it was Jerry Hennessey and paulma Tanko, and these

796
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: two gentlemen decided that they would take over those the

797
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: restaurants from these investors. So they took him over and

798
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: then they changed the R to a B and they

799
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: got rid of grunts and then we have BJ's wow

800
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: wow yeah, and they under is there a reason why

801
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: B N J H No, No, just just change. We're

802
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: not going to change it. We're gonna keep them. It

803
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: kind of looks put just put another loop. We're good.

804
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: Was it very similar to the letters as well? So yeah, yeah, yeah,

805
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: Sam sim similar shot. We've we've changed since then, but

806
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: the initial we're exactly the same. And uh, that was

807
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: the time where we really were just kind of like

808
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: very low key menu was very like I think it

809
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: was only items is very like like in and out,

810
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, You're very basic and you're

811
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: like here we are. And then it wasn't until is

812
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: when we had Alex Puchner and Toby come on board,

813
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: and that's when we introduced our beers and we started

814
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: winning awards like you know, gold medals and things along

815
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: those lines from the great California Colorado, bring um festivals

816
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: out there, um so, and that what really kind of

817
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: put us on the map. And then um, when I

818
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: first started with BJS, there was only I think thirty

819
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: six restaurants and now we have two hundred and eighteen. Wow. Yeah,

820
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: you guys have other countries to know, No, no, just

821
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: just in the United States, just the United States. Yeah,

822
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: what's your favorite? Mine? I have to so. Um. I

823
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: like our chicken spicy chicken sober noodles. So that's our

824
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: our lighten menu. So I do recommend that. So if

825
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: you like in enlighten menus you want to eat under

826
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: like six and your calories, that's like the one to

827
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: go right, the spicy chicken sober noodles, and then the

828
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 1: other one is our Parmesan chicken so and that one's

829
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: like one of our classics, one of our I think

830
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: it's like number two top selling that we have. Yeah,

831
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: and that's the top selling ones actually our chicken off freight. Yeah.

832
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: How's that really good? Yeah? Yeah, I've had it before.

833
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it is. I've added before with the honey wings. Yeah.

834
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah. You know. Well, it's fantastic to hear

835
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: your story in depth like that, the company that you

836
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: work for, the history of it. I feel like too

837
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: that b J's has catered the cannabis community so to speak.

838
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: I mean the marketing, the way angles the buzuki, they

839
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: come late and hang out, the vibes of the lingo

840
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: that they utilize on their script. How did that come

841
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,479
Speaker 1: about for you guys to kind of attack that industry. Well,

842
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: the big one was trying to figure out how we

843
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: can like help everybody, right, because we want to have

844
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: a diverse community coming into b J's right, but we

845
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: still want it to be fun. We wanted to be

846
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: a place where you're not going in and it's like

847
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: you know, old and and has like no life to it.

848
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: There's no like sound. You're just like there and you

849
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: just hear like you know, plates and silver wear going

850
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: it's not fun, it's not Yeah, And but when you

851
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: go into a place and you open the door and

852
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 1: it's like energet right and you hear music. And our

853
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: focal point is always the bar, so when you walk in,

854
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: you always see a huge, grandiose bar, you know, and

855
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: it looks amazing. And our new prototypes it's more kind

856
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: of like a U bar. So you walk in and

857
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: it has an outside seeing patio, it's like gorgeous and um.

858
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: Of course we try to make it so it's fun

859
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: on the interior too, but it's it's a little bit

860
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: for everybody. And that's the cool part about it. And

861
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: just as you said about the things well and as

862
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like as you look at like the

863
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: marketing that we've done, our marketing team is amazing, right,

864
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: Like they really go out of their way to figure out,

865
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, how we can showcase not just our drinks

866
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: and our food, but the entertainment you know portion of

867
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: the things, right, Like how can we make it fun?

868
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the craziest things that

869
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: I've ever seen and been a part of, is when

870
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: I'm in these meetings, were able to kind of like

871
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: see firsthand like the commercials that we do or the

872
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: things that we put on Instagram, Um it's just or

873
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: Twitter or things on those lines, and it's just those

874
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: capsules of just people being energetic and fun. It's just

875
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: is your mind and and it makes and you know,

876
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. There's like the ones that we

877
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: do with like the beer or like the Phyzukis you

878
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: know where they come in and then you people are

879
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: like digging in. It's like right there. I'm like, man,

880
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: I'm hungry, like it just they just yeah, I think

881
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: that b J's does some of the best marketing period because,

882
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: like I said, I look at what the commercials are.

883
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: It's fun. It's everything you described right now, right and

884
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: it gets my mouth watering after I see whatever food

885
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: they're serving. I give props to them, and I also

886
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: give props to them for catering more people like the

887
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: cannabis community, because I feel like in their advertising they

888
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: have jokes about it and they do things that are

889
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: the puns and the innu windows that let us know,

890
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: oh well, look at that little pun right there. That's

891
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: kind of cool. They're they're doing that end to see that.

892
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: They do that with their employees and everything else. So

893
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: it's not just the let's go after that crowd, they're

894
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: actually living it. So big up. Some kudos to be

895
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: J's and Freedom for allowing you to come on our

896
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: show like this, and because you had to clear this

897
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: all through your core course. Yeah yeah, and I sincerely,

898
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: you know, um look at it as at them giving back,

899
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: because what what what they've done for you personally. They've

900
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: they've obviously done on a massive scale as well, you know,

901
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: and so from from the guy that's in their home

902
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 1: to the guy that's out and the woman that's outside

903
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: of their home. BJS is actually taking that initiative to help.

904
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not seeing a lot of companies

905
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: don't because I don't I don't follow the trends of

906
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 1: what they're doing. But it's it's definitely refreshing to hear

907
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: that you know they had your back and your support

908
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: to help you and your family through through the unfortunate

909
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: times that you have to go through. And then also

910
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: others out there and like you said, they're cutting checks

911
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: to it to help. You're putting together golf tournaments, You're

912
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,760
Speaker 1: working on different you know, avenues of branding and making

913
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: sure that people are are being taken care of. I

914
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: think it's fantastic. I I really didn't, I know. And

915
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go have dinner tonight or you're looking

916
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 1: to go have dinner some other time, folks, they could

917
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: be J's because this is who they are and what

918
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: they're doing. And will we like to do the high

919
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,240
Speaker 1: five with all the people that we have on the show.

920
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: And that being said, I know you started in your thirties,

921
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: but how old are you the first time you smoked

922
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: cannabis or used cannabis? That was in so I was

923
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: thirty six, thirty six years that was that chocolate bar

924
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: you said first, because that was the first thing I

925
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: ever take. What a mental show, Like, oh my god, right,

926
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 1: but you're just I need to try. Yeah, I got

927
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: you get over the fear real quick when you know

928
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: the alternative. So you're just gonna like this better make

929
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 1: me better? Question number two of the high five what

930
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: is your favorite way to use it for yours? I

931
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: think I think now it's still still the v pen,

932
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: just because it's immediate and so if I'm like not

933
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: doing well and I need something like initial, then that's

934
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: usually like my go to. Yeah, that's just amazing to

935
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: think that that's what you've learned in your body of

936
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: eight pin can help you with your cancer and your

937
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: elements of sickness whatever. That's so dope. I mean, I

938
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: just to think that this is medicine that does that

939
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: for you, and for people to think, oh my god,

940
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: I I hate it. It's bad. It's the devil. It's like, dude,

941
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: this is this guy Will saying this is what helps him. Well,

942
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 1: you don't know, you don't know, you don't know, you know,

943
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: It's like people don't know what they don't know, and unfortunately,

944
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 1: you know, like I was, I was talking to someone

945
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: last night and a young lady and she's just like,

946
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: you know, um, oh no, you know. She she's like,

947
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: this is a drug and uh And I said, well, yeah,

948
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 1: it's a drug until you understand what your options are.

949
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: And I said, you should wrap your head around what

950
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 1: your options are now, you know, because you're getting older

951
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: and you start to realize that, you know, oxycodon Viking,

952
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: and I said, have you ever take one of those?

953
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've had one of those? Okay, well yeah.

954
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: It's like and then and I'm like, you know, you're

955
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: not taking them, but she she's not taking them, but

956
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: she had that. She's had pain and been been introduced

957
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: to it before. And it's like, you don't realize what

958
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: kind of damage those pills are are doing to you

959
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: until you're in it, and then you're wrapped in it,

960
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: and they don't tell you. They'll say, hey, this is

961
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: highly addictive. Only take what you're supposed to, okay, But

962
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: then you walk out of there and you're just you're

963
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: feeding yourself because you're taking them and you need them

964
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: all the time. Yes, and then you're addicted to them.

965
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: Question Number three. And I don't know if it's anything crazy,

966
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 1: but I think it's a few years you've been doing.

967
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: What's the craziest place that you ever use cannabis? Oh? Man, Um,

968
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: I don't say. I mean maybe it's great. I don't know. Um,

969
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: we've done um when I was in Big Bear, you know,

970
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: and just like going on a walk, you know, and

971
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: you're just out in the middle of like you know, nature,

972
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: and you're just like you're just involved, right and I

973
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: and to me, that's like I want to say, it's crazy,

974
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: but it's like therapeutic. And I felt like that is

975
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: just it's better than just being at home and just

976
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: you know, relaxing, you know what I mean, like you're

977
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: part of it, just like you're part of it so

978
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: and enjoying it and present, yeah, and being able to

979
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 1: experience it without feeling bad. Yes, that's a good question.

980
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: Number four, the high five. What is your go to

981
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 1: munchie after you get that? Um, I still think cookies

982
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: like yeah or yeah, yeah, I was, I mean I

983
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: was available. Yeah, but I was like, I don't know,

984
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: it's like rios, Like I think it's like this, it's

985
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: just a quick you know what I mean. But at

986
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: the same time, like you know, And the funny part

987
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: is too, I didn't enjoy sugar a lot when I

988
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: was younger, um, you know, until I had cancer. And

989
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: then once I had cancer and I taken chemo, my

990
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: taste bed's got like you know, messed up a lot,

991
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: so like sugar and salt became more of like something

992
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: I wanted, Yes, so like I craved it more and

993
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 1: so yeah, but it's actually yeah, yeah yeah, And that's

994
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: the hard part, right, Like it shouldn't have yeah, well,

995
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: because it wants it wants that flavor profile because everything

996
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: else is kind of like blandish. Yeah yeah. Question number

997
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: five will if you couldn't use cannabis with anyone dead,

998
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: who would it be? And why? Um? That one? That

999
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: one's that one's interesting. Um, I would probably say, you'll

1000
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: be really funny because I really like music. Um maybe

1001
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,919
Speaker 1: like Lenny Kravis, that'd be kind of fun, right, that'd

1002
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: be kind of cool and just say just it just

1003
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: just like you know, and then like you know, hear

1004
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: stories and like you know what happened and everything else,

1005
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: and would just be a part of that'd be kind

1006
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,280
Speaker 1: of fun. Yeah, Lenny, is this the first Lenny Kravitz

1007
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: I think we've gotten I like Lenny Kravitz. I I

1008
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,959
Speaker 1: could bang out Lenny Kravitz hits after a hit. Boy,

1009
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: that's one of those music that's a good weekend listen.

1010
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: You know, drive home after work. Lenny Kravitz put it on. Man,

1011
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: we gonna put that on the plate. This done deal.

1012
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: And you know, you know, let let me ask you.

1013
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: You know, um, you know, you know it's difficult to

1014
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 1: to to have I guess conversations I'm assuming with your

1015
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: family about you know, your your illness. You know, so

1016
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: you and you know that you know that what you're

1017
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: going through more than any of us, right, So this

1018
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: is not something that I can sit here and go, well,

1019
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: I know, it's like I know what it's like to

1020
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: to have my dad on his deathbedding with cancer. You know,

1021
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: my father died of cancer as well, and and he

1022
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: used uh cannabis for a better quality of life as well.

1023
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: I seen the difference. So I I know it, you know,

1024
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: and I knew it before then. He knew it before then.

1025
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: But you know, he was going into chemo and doing

1026
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: his thing, and then you know, they gave him all

1027
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: these pills. He was taking the pills at first, and

1028
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: then he was just like, you know, I'm like, Dad,

1029
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: you gotta get up. And he's like I can't you understand.

1030
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: I'm just like, you gotta get up, you know, you

1031
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: gotta fight this thing. And he's just like you know,

1032
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: and he wouldn't get up. And then you know, lo

1033
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,479
Speaker 1: and behold, we give him some cannabis and and and

1034
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 1: and he's just like, I'm not taking this anymore. I'm

1035
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: only doing cannabis like that's it. And and then now

1036
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: he's come home one day and he's up cooking food

1037
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 1: and he's not It's not a miracle. He wasn't jumping around,

1038
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: but he was there, like what's wrong. He's like, I'm hungry.

1039
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: I had to make some food. And I'm like thank god.

1040
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: I was like and and you know, I think if

1041
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: if more people knew that, you know, but you know,

1042
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: how how is the the you know, the thought process

1043
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: for you, um and and helping other people to to

1044
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,919
Speaker 1: get to that level, because I think you're you could

1045
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: be a strong advocate to to help people. And do

1046
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: you do you do anything to to speak out to

1047
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: others that have it? Like this is something? Yeah, yeah, no,

1048
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: i I've I've done um some talks for like City

1049
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: of Hope. Um. They we just had a new release

1050
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:17,760
Speaker 1: of Like the Hope Sign. It was over at UM

1051
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: not Fashion Island Mall, one of the one of the

1052
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: malls over there. But and now, so I worked with

1053
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: an artist and they gave me a letter and mine

1054
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: was p and uh, you know, they put art to

1055
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Speaker 1: it and then you're going to use that as stationary.

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Speaker 1: And my wife told me, she's like, you know, not

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Speaker 1: a lot of people have art, you know, made for

1058
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: them and to speak about what you've gone through your

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Speaker 1: child tribulations, and you hit something really close to home though,

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Speaker 1: because you know your dad, right, and you're a son

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00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: and my son. When I'm on chemo and I'm laying

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00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: on my bed and I'm usually in the guest bedroom

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Speaker 1: at this time, because you know, I just I want

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00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: my wife to relax and I have to be there.

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Speaker 1: He'll come in the room and he'll just hold my

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Speaker 1: hand and he'll just tell me, like, I love you, daddy.

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Speaker 1: You know you're gonna be okay. And and and he

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Speaker 1: as he's starting to get old where he's starting to

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00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: see it more and it and it started to become

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Speaker 1: even though it's normalized, right now because he's just walk

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Speaker 1: me through the right. Um. But that's that's the biggest

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00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: thing too. It's like it's hard because I'm you're giving

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00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: me his perspective right now, you know what I mean,

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00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: like what you had to witness and had to see

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Speaker 1: it and and and my hope of hopes is like

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00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 1: you know, just I have milestones, like I want to

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00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: see him graduate eighth grade. I want to see him

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00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: graduate high school. I want to see him, like you know,

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00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: get married, and you know, those are the things that

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00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: like you know, and it's and and that's and that's

1081
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: the thing though, that's that's the part that kind of

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00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: gives me that extra push, you know what I mean.

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00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: And so being able to take you know, something like this,

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00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: like take cannabis to get me like you know functional,

1085
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: so I can at least like set up with him

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00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: and talk with him and like you know, play with him.

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00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: You know that that helps, and and and it and

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00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: it kind of gives me that like hope that you know,

1089
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: this is one of those things that can you know,

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00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: get you through that medicine that they're poisoning with you

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00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,720
Speaker 1: to keep you alive, right and but but still keeping

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00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 1: you functional. They they call it comfort care, and um,

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00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: you know, and and I remember them saying comfort care

1094
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: to me, and I'm just you know, it was a

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00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: v a and you God blessing for everything they did do,

1096
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: and they were a lot. But again, once I took

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00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: him home, you know, my pops, and I just was like,

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00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: you know, what do you what do you want? And

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00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: He's just like, just get all those away from me,

1100
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, just go load me up on edibles, load

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00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: me up on cannabis. I just need cannabis. And it's

1102
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: just like and at first it was, you know, not

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00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: as much as I knew that it was. It was

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00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 1: it was alternate you know, avenue and a better health avenue.

1105
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you can't just do that, you know.

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00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: And so I can understand where your wife is coming from.

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00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: I can understand it from you know, everywhere, but yours.

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00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: You know, i'derstanding, you know. And and and then I

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00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: could understand him looking at me going like, you know,

1110
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what you think, I'm not taking another

1111
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 1: one of those damn pills. I'm not doing it again.

1112
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: I've already tried those pills. And he went on for months,

1113
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: he was on him and he was just like I'm done,

1114
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: and then he went straight to cannabis and like I said,

1115
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: the quality of his life was better. There was no

1116
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: getting it. There's no when you know you have great

1117
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: smiles right now, you're happy. But but I know that

1118
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: you know from from when when I was at home

1119
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: with him, he was he had his smiles and he

1120
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: had his days. But it's a real rod. This is

1121
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: not a this isn't no you know, hey, well I'm

1122
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: just all good. It isn't all good. You've got to

1123
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: go through and it makes you a strong manner and

1124
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: you're still working. Um. You know, this is incredible, and

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00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: I think that's what's gonna keep you going, brother. And

1126
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: you're helping so many people by sharing your experience, strength

1127
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,360
Speaker 1: and help like this. And that's why I'm so happy

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00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: that you chose to come on this show and talk

1129
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: about it like that, and not only that, to highlight

1130
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: a company that's supporting somebody like you that's going through

1131
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: all this and understanding what you're doing how you're doing it.

1132
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: I've been so impressed from just first meeting you at

1133
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: the golf course to now hearing your story like this.

1134
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm supporting you. I'm praying for you. I'm cheering for

1135
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: you and your family dog. If there's anything we can do,

1136
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: as you know, we've already connected to and I'm to

1137
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: connect you with another guy after the show, right, We're

1138
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: going to really connect you because this is what our

1139
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: show is about. We like to connect these people in

1140
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 1: the community. And if you're listening and you want some

1141
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: more help or you know a family member, please call

1142
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: us up one that's one, and we can literally plug

1143
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: you into the right people will even plug you. People

1144
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: will for God's saying, he can tell you how he

1145
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: uses it, because I'm sure Will wouldn't be afraid to

1146
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: talk to you. Just said Gary and everybody, Joe, g

1147
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: who We're gonna hook you guys up with that if

1148
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: you're in these positions. This is what our show does,

1149
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: and this is what this community is about. Because the

1150
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: first person we called you already talked. When the second

1151
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: person we're gonna call there, it's gonna be the same way.

1152
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: And if you're listening and you're going through something like this,

1153
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,800
Speaker 1: and you know that this is what this community is

1154
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: about and this is what we're here for, so please

1155
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: feel free to reach out to us so we can

1156
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: connect you with the right people to help support you

1157
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: get through this. Will all that being said, is there

1158
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: anything that we missed before we let you get out

1159
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: of here? Uh? The only thing I'd say is, uh,

1160
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: you know, please just take care of your health. You know,

1161
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: check up on yourself. Like colon cancer is no joke

1162
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: to affecting people who are in their thirties. So if

1163
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: you know you want to go see a doctor and

1164
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,439
Speaker 1: just do a preventive check, I would recommend it. And

1165
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, you know they always say, like we're

1166
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: always afraid of, like, you know, putting cameras in weird

1167
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: places and all that kind of stuff. At the end

1168
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: of the day, it's your health and that's the most

1169
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,879
Speaker 1: important part. Yeah, there it is. Well, thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: Will for for joining us on the show. Guys, it's

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Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one on one and remember this, if no

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Speaker 1: one else loves you, we do. Thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to Cannabis Talk one on one on the I Heart

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