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Speaker 2: at Cannabis Talk one oh one. Well, Blue is at

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Speaker 2: Bearflaggroup dot com. Our guest today is Ryan Crandell. Now

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Speaker 2: Ryan is the Chief Revenue Officer at Merrimd. Merrimd is

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Speaker 2: a multi state cannabis operator dedicated to improving lives every

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Speaker 2: day through their high quality products, its actions and values.

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Speaker 2: They develop, own and manage ceed the sales state licensed

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Speaker 2: cannabis facilities which are models of excellence and horticultural principles,

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Speaker 2: cannabis cultivation, cannabis infused products, and dispensary operations. They have

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Speaker 2: facilities in Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware, and soon in Ohio

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Speaker 2: Chief Revenue Officer for Merimd, Inc. Since twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 2: overseeing all revenue generations for the company, including wholesale, retail,

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Speaker 2: and licensing. Prior Oryan was a chief Product Officer in

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Speaker 2: SVP Sales for the company, leading sales as well as marketing,

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Speaker 2: product developments and distribution for the company. Now, under his leadership,

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Speaker 2: Merimd developed a portfolio of award winning and top selling

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Speaker 2: which I find to be so interesting and cool. Co

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Speaker 2: a chef. Look at him. A brand of all natural

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Speaker 2: cannabis infused fruit shoes that Merrimed acquired prior to Ryan

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Speaker 2: So random though, Ryan, before I say welcome, but when

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Speaker 2: people on our show knew that we're talking to Merrimid,

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Speaker 2: I mean literally they were excited because they were like, well,

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Speaker 2: My other guy, Chris Frankino has stock in your company.

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Speaker 2: They've already doubled up on it. And even Craig Washerman,

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Speaker 2: He's the one that turned us onto your guys' company

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Speaker 2: many moves back. Going dude, you guys got to keep

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Speaker 2: How you doing today?

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Speaker 4: Hey, great Joe, Thank you very much for that intro.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I think we're the best secret in cannabis.

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Speaker 2: Right, who knew this company was going to explode like this?

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Speaker 2: Sure your typical into something special, folks. When it comes

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Speaker 2: Loranoils dot com. Ryan Crandall, the chief revenue officer at Merrimad.

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Speaker 2: Him and his boys put together a nice little fruit

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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. That'd be great, dude, What a great

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Speaker 2: again to hear your story from having a product that

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you why, you know, I mean honestly

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Speaker 2: So you guys have made it to a peak and

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Speaker 2: So is that what Merrimid has done. It's just basically

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Speaker 2: And I see you're heavily basically on the East right.

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Speaker 2: of this from Ohio, and grab this from New York

433
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 2: and grab that. Like you have to sit there and

434
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 2: piece it together. Because I've talked to several guys that

435
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 2: are doing some multi states stuff and they go, it's

436
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,879
Speaker 2: just all screwed up, no matter. You can't just go

437
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 2: to one place and have it all equal. They're like,

438
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 2: but I've heard Missouri has been pretty good, that a

439
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,639
Speaker 2: lot of people are liking Missouri the most. What is

440
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 2: your take on it?

441
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, And my take is, you know, I love

442
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,399
Speaker 4: to travel and see brands in all these different states,

443
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 4: and you know, I'm really a student of the industry,

444
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 4: and you know, I never stopped learning every day, so

445
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 4: I'm you know, I realized early when I started traveling

446
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 4: to Colorado and Ampsteare and that there was a real

447
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 4: lack in product quality, Like you know, I remember early

448
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,879
Speaker 4: on going out and buying cookies in Colorado and they

449
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 4: test tasted like they were three years old.

450
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 3: They were stale, you know, they didn't taste good. And

451
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 3: like I'm saying.

452
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 4: Myself, like I just spent more money on this tube

453
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 4: of cookies than I've ever spent on the tube of

454
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 4: cookies in my life. They taste horrible and I don't

455
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 4: even really get high, you know. So you know, I

456
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 4: felt as though, not just me, but other folks in

457
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,439
Speaker 4: the company felt as though, you know, there was a huge,

458
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 4: huge gap in what we thought of is great cannabis

459
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 4: products and what some of the largest producers. I mean,

460
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Speaker 4: I remember, I don't throw anybody under the bus, but

461
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 4: this one company I will. I don't know if you

462
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 4: remember ed a pure out in Colorado. I mean they

463
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 4: used to buy gummies off the shelf and spray them

464
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 4: with oil. I know they're not around anymore, but they

465
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 4: were the number one product in Colorado early on, and

466
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 4: it was because they could get so much product to

467
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,119
Speaker 4: market so quickly. But literally it was some of the

468
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 4: worst product you'd ever had, and they were the lead

469
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 4: in the market. So I said to myself early and

470
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,119
Speaker 4: are the partners did too, like there's a huge gap,

471
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 4: and if we stay really focused on quality and really

472
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 4: focused on our customers, there's an opportunity to win.

473
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I noticed that too, and I feel that way

474
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 2: about the edibles, and I feel that way about the

475
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: whole cannabis industry as far as making it more accountable

476
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 2: and having the restrictions of everybody should go through this process,

477
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 2: because when you look at edibles like that, you're so right.

478
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: I mean, how does a rice Christ we treat last

479
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 2: that long that has this oil and cannabis in it

480
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 2: like that? Right? How does a cookie last that long

481
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 2: without doing the right preservatives? Like you're not chips away

482
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 2: for God's sakes, that is packing it up with a

483
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 2: bunch of preservatives and a little thing. So I agree

484
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 2: with that one hundred percent. I mean, we're always about

485
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 2: making sure you can get the most quality out of everything.

486
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 2: And I can't wait for it to be just all regular,

487
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 2: like mandatory for every state should do it this way,

488
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 2: because you guys have to figure out what state's doing

489
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 2: it one way and constantly change for you guys, right,

490
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe one state won't allow your wooden tops

491
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 2: on your glass jars you're like, oh shit, now we've

492
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 2: got to change this.

493
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it.

494
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Speaker 4: There's a bunch of exams, right, I mean we launched

495
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 4: Nature's Heritage and Maryland early and it was a seat

496
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 4: we want to show off the bud, right, I mean

497
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 4: see through glass jar, and then we launch in mass

498
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 4: and the regulation is you can't see the product, right,

499
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 4: so it's got to be an opaque jar. The good

500
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 4: news is that we care so much about the flower

501
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 4: inside that we use you know, we literally use that

502
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 4: as an advantage and say you don't it doesn't with

503
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 4: the Nature's Heritage jar, it doesn't matter if you can't

504
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 4: see inside, you know, and kind of have that swagger

505
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 4: behind it and know we have that have that confidence.

506
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 4: But you know, to that point, like you know, the

507
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 4: Betty's Eddie's bag that our shoes come in has to

508
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 4: look different in almost every state that it goes to business.

509
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 4: And so we spend a lot of time, you know,

510
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 4: like Benny's Ben and Jerry's did on the flavor names,

511
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 4: you know, making people have a little smile when they

512
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 4: hear the flavor names and really you know, get have

513
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 4: a little love in their heart when they see the

514
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 4: bag and see how much effort went into the designs.

515
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 4: And you know, as you go state to state, there's

516
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 4: different states that don't allow fruit, or there's different states

517
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 4: that don't allow.

518
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 3: This or that or this ingredient or that ingredient.

519
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 4: And you know, you've got to be agile, you've got

520
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 4: to be willing to change, but you got to know

521
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 4: what you stand for or else these states will really

522
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 4: kind of apart and before you know it, you don't

523
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 4: really have a brand that stands for anything. So you know,

524
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 4: we really are focused, laser focused with everyone, not just Betty's,

525
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 4: every one of our brands, on making sure that the

526
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 4: ingredients matter. You know, I don't want to sound like

527
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 4: a broken record, but the quality matters. You know, we

528
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 4: want to make sure that when we make a product

529
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 4: that we always you know, we do non in few

530
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 4: samples of all of our products, and we're very proud

531
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Speaker 4: of it.

532
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: Because we feel as though, you know.

533
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 4: The products have to be delicious when they're not infused.

534
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 4: And then we got to take into account how the

535
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 4: cannabis is going to taste, what type of cannabis we're using,

536
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 4: and then we go through a whole second trial of hey,

537
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 4: now these products are infused that they just as delicious

538
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 4: as the ones that are not infused. Right, And we're

539
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 4: not using distill it in the most point, for the

540
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 4: most part, in any of our products.

541
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 3: Right, we're using full spectrum oil.

542
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 4: So we realize as a company that it's not just

543
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 4: about taste, it's not just about how the product look,

544
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 4: but it's about how the consumer feels. Are they getting

545
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 4: the best possible experience from the milligrams that are putting inside?

546
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 4: Are they getting the best possible medicinal benefit? And so

547
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 4: you know, we we we're different than a lot of

548
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 4: these other cannabis companies. I mean, I don't want to

549
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,959
Speaker 4: name names, but almost everybody's using distill it in their edibles.

550
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 3: We don't.

551
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 2: Well, that's awesome, you guys. Check out the website. Merimde

552
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 2: dot com, m A R I M A D I

553
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Speaker 2: n C dot com. Are on Instagram, m E R

554
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Speaker 2: I M E D underscore I n C. Ryan's here

555
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 2: with us. We're gonna come back. We're do the high

556
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: five and figure out what his favorite product is that

557
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 2: they have. It's Cannabis Talk one oh one. We right

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Speaker 2: back after this.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you like, follow and subscribe to Cannabis talk

560
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Speaker 1: one on one. Now, now back to the number one

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Speaker 1: tennabis show on the planet. You know what gets Now

562
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Speaker 1: Tonnabus Talk one oh one.

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Speaker 2: Y'all know what time it is, folks, Dime time, Think

565
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Speaker 2: higher with Dime Industries. Find them in California, Arizona and Oklahoma.

566
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Speaker 2: Check out their website. Dime Industries dot com are on

567
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Speaker 2: Instagram Dime dot Industries. Ryan Cranfield, the chief revenue officer

568
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Speaker 2: at MERIMD, It's so cool to talk to you man

569
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 2: and hear everything that you're saying about this company, how

570
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 2: much they care, you know, I could feel I feel it.

571
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 2: I feel it from you. It doesn't feel like it's

572
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: you're forced to say it because your boss is sitting

573
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: there this and that. I mean, why would you join

574
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 2: a company that you know bought your product that was

575
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: you're making it so high end? So I'm gonna imagine

576
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 2: that you'd want to work with a company that's doing

577
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 2: the same thing. Right, So I love when I hear

578
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 2: all that, and as you guys are a multi state

579
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 2: operator dealing with all the bullshit that I like to

580
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 2: say that you got to change the back, can do this,

581
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 2: do that, everything else. And on top of now having

582
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 2: retail stores in different states that oh you got to

583
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: have a lock on this one. You don't need to

584
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: have a lock in that state, but in this one

585
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 2: you need a lock, and in this one you need this,

586
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: and you can't have that on your window seil and

587
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 2: just it's just so crazy how much you guys got

588
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: to deal with it. I of course, I know I'm

589
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 2: in the industry that I talk to a bunch of

590
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: people and I know what it's like to go through.

591
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 2: But for you guys to care so much for the people,

592
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 2: because it comes down to the patients. Let's just face it.

593
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 2: This is a you know, everyone's here to make some money,

594
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 2: but you guys are out to put a good product out.

595
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 2: And it seems like you guys have been putting some

596
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: great products out. They buy your product. It seems like

597
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 2: the flower like you mentioned, having a wood ca I'll

598
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 2: just it looks good when I'm looking at the website,

599
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: it looks great. I'm curious if Ryan's putting a bag together.

600
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 2: His boy's coming and his brother's coming into town, and

601
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 2: they go Ryan go through the shelves and grab us

602
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 2: some stuff for this weekend. What are you bringing home? Oh? Man?

603
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 3: It depends on the group of friends first off, but

604
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 3: for the.

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00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 2: Most part, like it's a good friends.

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Speaker 4: I like, you know, it's uh, from the from the

607
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 4: from the folks that I grew up with. It's blunts,

608
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 4: right like we all we all do smoke blunce. And

609
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 4: whether it's woods or whether it's you know what you know,

610
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 4: mostly it's woods.

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00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 3: But I would say, yeah, I.

612
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Speaker 4: Mean, I I yeah, packing Godfathers right like all that

613
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. But yeah, I mean, man, like I think,

614
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 4: you know, blunts are definitely the thing. I think we

615
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 4: you know, we got an Infuse pre roll that's like

616
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 4: Infuse six Ways to Sunday outside of the paper Like

617
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 4: it's beautiful and it smokes amazing. That tends to it's

618
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 4: out of Nature's Heart brand. That tends to be my

619
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 4: favorite product today.

620
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 3: But if I'm.

621
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Speaker 4: Going and going to hang the boys snowmobile and or

622
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 4: skiing or something like that, or summer stuff, you know,

623
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Speaker 4: we're typically rolling blunts with some of the Nature's Heritage

624
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 4: flower that's great.

625
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 2: And Nature's Heritage also is that a CBD brand I'm

626
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 2: seeing as well?

627
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 4: No, we have some CBD flower that we grow within it.

628
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 4: But no, I mean it's not predominant. It's predominantly THHC flower.

629
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Speaker 4: There are some one to ones and some CBD centrics,

630
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 4: but for the most part ISDHC.

631
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Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, because I see on the website Nature's

632
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 2: Heritage Cannabis, but it looks like a CBD cartridge style

633
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 2: or or actually like a bile or something. So so

634
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 2: many great products. So when you're saying those snicker doodle cookies, dude,

635
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 2: my mouth is still watering from it. That expatium me

636
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: is just like, would you say snicker doodles?

637
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 3: Guy's gotta get out here, come out of the East coast.

638
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so funny as you say that, because we've

639
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 2: been talking to so many different companies in Missouri. Seems

640
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 2: like the state that is just popping so hard that

641
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 2: we can't wait to do some things out there. But

642
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 2: we're actually as a show going to be out at

643
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: this rugby tournament that we're hosting and being a part

644
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: of in New York ironically, So I don't know if

645
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: you're going to be too close to the area, but July,

646
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 2: I believe we're going to be out in New York

647
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 2: at the red Bull Theater for a big international rugby tournament,

648
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 2: million dollar cash prize for the country that wins. It's

649
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 2: gonna be huge. It's gonna be dope that we got

650
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: involved with this, and they're bringing cannabis involved, So maybe

651
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: there's something for merrior men to join us out there

652
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 2: with and do something.

653
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd love to talk to you more after this

654
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 4: interview about it. I think that does sound pretty awesome.

655
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 2: Love. Yeah, we're constantly trying to do other things out

656
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 2: in the box. I mean, you know, I mean we

657
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 2: look at sports and cannabis and golf and cannabis and

658
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: we've done things a Super Bowls already, and we've done

659
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 2: concerts with all kinds of things. So, you know, just

660
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: liking to get the name out and people need to

661
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 2: realize it's normal and it's good.

662
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 3: So we'd like to do the highest MMA. Have you

663
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 3: guys done anything with MMA at all?

664
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, tons of things with some MMA, Like a

665
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 2: lot of fighters have come on our show, and you know,

666
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 2: we haven't done anything directly with the UFC. But ironically,

667
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 2: Scott Cocher from Bellator is a good friend of mine.

668
00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 2: I used to fight back in the day. I got

669
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 2: eight fights under my belt where Scott used to sanction

670
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: all my fights. So but when he had Strike Force

671
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: before he sold that to the UFC. So me and

672
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 2: Scott go way way way back when he first started promoting,

673
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 2: and we're trying to do some things with him with that.

674
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 2: But I mean other than that, I just go to

675
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 2: the fights and say, hey, I'm here at the fight.

676
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 4: But dude, I watch all the fights. I'm a huge

677
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 4: fight man. I got buddies that fight. And you know,

678
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 4: I was a karate guy earlier. I never fought professionally,

679
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 4: but I definitely have studied manchal arts and I would

680
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 4: just say, man, I love that MMA has taken a

681
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 4: leadership position, you know in cannabis adoption and testing, and

682
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 4: like it makes me so proud to be a fan

683
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 4: of that park. And regardless of the organization.

684
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, MMA and cannabis and everything go hand in hand.

685
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 2: And I just love like when you've seen I think

686
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 2: it was Nick or Nate Diaz when he smoked that

687
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: CBD joint when he did the way in Dude, it

688
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 2: was so dope. And you know, I got eight fights

689
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 2: under my belt that I fought in and I'll just

690
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: give you this one quick story of UFC and my

691
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 2: how deep I go with it? Uh? I carried the

692
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: belts in the ring for Frank Shamrock in the UFC

693
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 2: seven in Brazil. Wow. Man, Yeah, so you know I'm

694
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: a lot older than I look, I know I loved

695
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: but Frank and I that's my guy. That's my guy.

696
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 2: Frank Shamrock.

697
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 3: He he wanted he won you F seven, didn't he?

698
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 2: I mean I think yea seven a half? Yeah? Yeah,

699
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 2: he won that in Brazil and it was awesome. I

700
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: was with him, Maurice Smith, Javier Mendez for American Kickboxing

701
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 2: Academy and uh, dude, it's just awesome. I mean I

702
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 2: literally I have right now, ironically at the office my

703
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 2: boxing bag right with all my stuff in it. And

704
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 2: it's funny because I told the guys that at the

705
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 2: office and two are messing around. I go, let's let's

706
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 2: best best, let's far a little bit, that's absolut I go,

707
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: let me bring my boxing bag, like go huh, I go,

708
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 2: oh you don't have a fight back. Oh, let me show.

709
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:54,760
Speaker 3: You, guys.

710
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 2: It's fun. I'm into it too, And not only am

711
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 2: I into it, it's just it's one of those sports

712
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 2: to that you know, you either have it or you

713
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 2: don't in my opinion. But it's great training and great

714
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: to do. And I'm so old now though. Man, I'm like, hey, man,

715
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 2: don't spart so hard, Like just take it easy on me,

716
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. When I'm a younger, boom boom.

717
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 2: Oh you have mother, let's go boom boom. But now

718
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, I just my my eight year old

719
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 2: son hits me. I'm like, dude, what are you doing?

720
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 2: Put picking on your dad like.

721
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 4: Young kids in karate, and I'm saying.

722
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: Oh, it's the best man'st It literally is. And there's

723
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: nothing like I mean, I've been to so many fights

724
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 2: in Vegas, like I said, let alone in Brazil. But

725
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 2: it's just it's a great time. And the more we

726
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 2: do with the UFCL, we'll hook up and connect and

727
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 2: try to do some stuff together. Man, Let's see if

728
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 2: we can get the companies.

729
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 3: And I would love to. I would love to. It's

730
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 3: a passion of mine.

731
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well not only that, so with sports, and that

732
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 2: is hand in hand for us. I used to do

733
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 2: sports talk radio for like NBC Sports, Fox Sports. I

734
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: did the Raider pregame for years. I worked with the

735
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 2: Lakers for years. I know you're a big Celtic fan,

736
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 2: so that might just burn you a little bit. But

737
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 2: I can show you pictures of me, Kobe and Shaq

738
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 2: when they won the three pet all the good stuff.

739
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 2: I was literally in the locker room when they won.

740
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 2: It was so great. But the point behind that is

741
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 2: we as Cannabis talk one on one, have just done

742
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 2: some stuff with the NFL, and we're signing to do

743
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 2: more things with him. This next year, we're going to

744
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 2: be in Vegas doing a big golf tournament with Jaws

745
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 2: and the big Dick buckets and all that. It's just

746
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 2: we do so many great events that are gonna be awesome.

747
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: We'd love to tell you tie you guys into it,

748
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 2: so you know, especially since you're a big sports guy

749
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 2: and love it because in Vegas, I'm sure he'll be

750
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 2: a lot of fighters.

751
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: Would love to. I would love to, and I appreciate.

752
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: That no doubt. Well, Ryan, I like to do the

753
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 2: high five with everybody that comes on the show. Ryan

754
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 2: crandall the chief revenue officer at Merrimad. We already heard

755
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 2: he likes to smoke blunts, but we're gonna hear about

756
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 2: and see where he comes from with his cannabis hues. Ryan,

757
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 2: how old are you the first time you smoked cannabis

758
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 2: and where'd you get it from?

759
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 3: Oh?

760
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 4: Man, I was sixteen years old. I was a sophomore

761
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 4: in high school and I can't give.

762
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 3: Up my source was?

763
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 2: That? Was that in Colorado? No?

764
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 3: No, that was Massachusetts.

765
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: Oh really? So you actually grew up in Massachusetts. You

766
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 2: just went to Colorado as a young adult. Yes, awesome. Okay,

767
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: Well what's your favorite.

768
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 3: Way to use?

769
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 4: Yeah? So we just started We started betty C locally,

770
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 4: but we brought it out to Colorado first because it

771
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 4: was the first legal market that we could we could

772
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 4: bring the brand to. So we did it from afar

773
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 4: and uh and helped another business out there try and

774
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 4: get their license and get their whole thing up and running.

775
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 4: And you know, there was it wasn't a great business

776
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 4: uh out there that we.

777
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 3: Were partnered with.

778
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, Now that makes sense to me. I thought

779
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 2: you went out there for a lot of fun and

780
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: who knows what.

781
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 3: So a little of that, a little of that, A little.

782
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 2: Bit of that too. I mean, you gotta you gotta mingo,

783
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 2: You gotta mingo when it comes down to business. What's

784
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 2: your favorite way to use cannabis?

785
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 3: You know, my favorite way to use cannabis. I mean

786
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 3: I I dab every now and then.

787
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 4: I you know, as I've gotten older, I I and

788
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 4: it's not because it's the hot, high dose dabs. It's

789
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 4: because of the amount of vapor that you got to

790
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 4: take in. I just I feel like blunts are taking

791
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 4: its toll on my on my respiratory system, so I

792
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 4: try and minimize the amount that I inhale. So dabs

793
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 4: kind of get me to that place with the least

794
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 4: amount of impact the respiratory.

795
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 2: Right. It's it's you know, it's the a lot more

796
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 2: in a lot less time, yes, and a little easier

797
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 2: not too often, right. Craziest place you ever used or

798
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 2: smoked cannabis?

799
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 3: Oh? Man?

800
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 4: I uh, you know, moab before doing like an off

801
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 4: road thing for like six hours and man, like I'm

802
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 4: pretty cool under pressure when I'm high. That was pretty stressful,

803
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 4: Like being on a jeep on a two hundred foot cliff,

804
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 4: not being able to see where the wheel is and

805
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 4: at the edge, like man, and with my wife and

806
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 4: like another couple in the back, Like I felt pretty irresponsible,

807
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 4: you know, to be honest with you. I'm not sure

808
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 4: one again, but uh, it was. It was a great experience.

809
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 2: Sorry babe, Sorry buddy, but fuck, I don't know what's

810
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: going on right now.

811
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife knew that I had consumed.

812
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 4: The couple in the back didn't, but they knew I was,

813
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 4: you know, involved in cannabis at the time, so they

814
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 4: were all worried that I was.

815
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 3: So Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't the best situation.

816
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 2: Isn't the best. Everybody just assumes you're high all the time,

817
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 2: right Like, No, I'm medicated. I'm not high. I'm medicated

818
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: right now.

819
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

820
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 2: That's pretty fun and crazy. Question number four of the

821
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 2: High five with Ryan, what is your go too munchies

822
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 2: after you get high?

823
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 4: And I, you know, I the favorite food question? Yeah,

824
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 4: I mean I mean wings, I wings of any type

825
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 4: sort or you know, whether I'm high or not. Really,

826
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 4: I mean, I have a hard time saying not to

827
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 4: checking wings, So it's a it's a weakness of mine.

828
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 2: Are they naked?

829
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 4: I mean you could, you could. I'll tell you what

830
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 4: I like more if they're in front. But you know,

831
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 4: I honestly I haven't met too many chicken wings that

832
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 4: I don't like.

833
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 2: Dude, you know what's funny is like chicken wings or

834
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 2: one of those. I mean borderline like crack right, like

835
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 2: you see it and it's like a crack at. Oh yeah,

836
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 2: you want those? You I'll take one like it's like

837
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 2: a bite of dessert. You want a chicken wing, I

838
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: could eat one.

839
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 3: I mean I'm making baths.

840
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 4: I make fried dry rub sauces, you know. And you know,

841
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a bad chicken wing out there.

842
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 2: I literally buy the big bag from Costco and I

843
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 2: just get the naked sometimes I just like to put

844
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: them in the air fire and just with nothing on

845
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 2: them too. And then I get some blue cheese and

846
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 2: I do the rims. Then I get some hot sauce.

847
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 2: Oh I'm with you on that, brother. I used to

848
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: be three hundred and fifty pounds, so you know I

849
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 2: got that back card.

850
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hard tough. It's like, chicken wings are not

851
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 4: a healthy food. So you like them as much as

852
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 4: I do. You gotta stay away.

853
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get your chicken bone necklace. Question number five

854
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: with the high five, Ryan Crandle, the chief revenue officer

855
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 2: at merrimd. Ryan, if you can smoke cannabis with anyone

856
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 2: dead or alive. Who would it be? And why.

857
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 3: I got one of each? Okay dead, you know, yeah,

858
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 3: one of each?

859
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 4: So dead guy Bradley Noel, the lead singer Sublime, I

860
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 4: would have loved to smoke weed with that dude and

861
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 4: and kind of understand you know, what he was all

862
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 4: about more so than just his music. And then alive, Uh,

863
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 4: Joe Rogan. I'd love to speak with Joe Rogan and

864
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 4: uh and cut it on his podcast someday.

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Speaker 3: That'd be amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, those are big ones right there, and not only that,

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Speaker 2: the fighting talk that you can chop it up with

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Speaker 2: him about everything out from all the great bustin stuff.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's there's plenty of magic there ready to happen.

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Speaker 2: I could see that. I could see that. Brother. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's great, man, Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything Ryan that we left out that you

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Speaker 2: want to talk about or anything before we let you go?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: I think, uh, well, I think so yeah.

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Speaker 4: Actually, I mean I know I listened to a bunch

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Speaker 4: of your podcasts Cannabis Talk one on one, and I

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Speaker 4: think what you and Bluetoo is awesome. I mean, you

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Speaker 4: guys really give a platform for folks to get inspiration,

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Speaker 4: you know, from a lot of folks that have a

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Speaker 4: lot of knowledge in this industry. So you know, this

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Speaker 4: industry has gone through a transition where you know, it's

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Speaker 4: been taboo to less taboo. But you guys have been

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Speaker 4: around for quite a while and it takes the effort

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Speaker 4: of the entire community to continue to push this forward.

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Speaker 4: So I appreciate everything that you do and the platform

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Speaker 4: that you get people like me and others.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much, brother, I appreciate that. Ryan,

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Speaker 2: you have a great day, man, and if nobody else

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Speaker 2: loves you, folks, we do.

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