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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Cannabis Talk one oh one, the

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Speaker 1: we're all the way live in Long Beach. We have

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Speaker 1: some very special guests joining us on the show set

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Speaker 1: right now. They are from Veterans Cannabis Group, Aaron and Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for sitting down with us,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for your service as well. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: guys did in the military. First off, awesome, Well, thank

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Speaker 1: active duty and thank you, thank you for your service. Guys.

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Speaker 1: Let's give him around him. Applause. Vetro now here, guys,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much and yourself. Yeah, same army. Uh

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Speaker 1: what do you think could have been done well? Now,

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Speaker 1: like most of the veteran nonprofit organizations in the cannabis

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Speaker 1: There it is, folks, It's Cannabis Talk one on one.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back peace. We'll be right back with

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Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome back to Cannabis Talk

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Speaker 1: one oh one. Welcome back to Cannabis Talk one on one,

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Speaker 1: all the way live in Long Beach, California. Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you this. IMMERCIA Blacklist catalysts. You know, everybody that's

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Speaker 1: involved in this, all the sponsors, all the Rockets Seed

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Speaker 1: Rocket Seeds, all the beautiful people that are here that

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Speaker 1: are actually putting in this effort to support our veterans

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Speaker 1: right here, this is unbelievable. Guys, sincerely, I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you guys, Yes, definitely want to thank them all.

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Speaker 1: And I want to thank these other guests that just

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Speaker 1: come to join us. They've been waiting around and I

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Speaker 1: love reading everything about him Arnold Strong Army Colonel Ranger,

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Speaker 1: as well as Andre Andrews Jr. Of just reading the

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Speaker 1: stuff on you and you right here from your whole

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Speaker 1: life of growing up in New Jersey. Is he uh

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Speaker 1: meeting your wife, going to film school in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: to being a nerd and working of Godzilla to teenage

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Speaker 1: mutant Ninja Turtles? Who knew this brother had all that

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Speaker 1: in this country boy right here? Yeah, from your Jersey

447
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Speaker 1: And I'm like reading that, going, Okay, I didn't expect

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Speaker 1: to read what I see. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, wow, that's beautiful. On top of the

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Speaker 1: fact that you guys are veterans, On top of the

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Speaker 1: fact that you guys are soldiers. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for doing what you've done. And and then you guys

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Speaker 1: start warriors road. I mean, you guys are just doing things.

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Speaker 1: How did you two come to meet each other, Arnold, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Andre and I first met about ten

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Speaker 1: years ago. Um I had come back to Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: where I'm from. I'm a native Los Angeleo wan't a

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Speaker 1: graduate of b c l A congratulations, yeah, um. I

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Speaker 1: was a regular army officer for a decade, got out,

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Speaker 1: came back in after nine eleven. Was initially in the

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Speaker 1: Guard and then the Reserve. I stood up basically like

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Speaker 1: an army startup. Was a public affairs unit that was

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Speaker 1: brand new. When I stood it up, it was just me.

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Speaker 1: It was like an army startup. I came to Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Film School where Andrea was a student, and Los

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Speaker 1: angele Film School u c L A Film School USC

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Speaker 1: because I was recruiting media people, you know, writers, producers, directors,

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Speaker 1: camera operators. And Andrea wasn't interested, but he was interested

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Speaker 1: in being a friend. He was like, man, you're cool, sir,

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Speaker 1: or let's like let's like hanging. That was like we

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Speaker 1: known each other for like a decade. Yeah. You know

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Speaker 1: what's cool is that the way you expressed it, Like

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Speaker 1: he wasn't interested, but he was interested in being a friend. Yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 1: that dude. Like it was the community. Um, the American

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Speaker 1: Legion really brought us together, totally. American Legion kind of

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Speaker 1: like saved my life. It was just like one of

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Speaker 1: the largest UM veteran VSO organizations in the country. It's

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Speaker 1: like a hundred and five years old. Oh yeah, we

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Speaker 1: know the my next door, my next door neighbors and

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Speaker 1: the Legions and yeah, so I'm very aware. Are your

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Speaker 1: parents and grandparents and military? Yes, my my dad was

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Speaker 1: in the Navy, you should be too. So when you

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Speaker 1: want to spot, now what post you're gonna join next?

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Speaker 1: Join points three? Okay, you up next week. What were

485
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Speaker 1: you at the military? What do you do? Um? I was.

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Speaker 1: I went to the Navy in two thousand one. I

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Speaker 1: went in as a supply clerk and Bahrain, I went

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Speaker 1: I wasn't wasn't supposed to go overseas, but the towers

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Speaker 1: fell when I graduated high school. So I graduate high

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Speaker 1: school and made two thousand one. I went to the

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Speaker 1: Navy in August and then um towers fell in September,

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Speaker 1: so they sent me to Bay Rain. When I went

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Speaker 1: to by Rain for two years, it was just phenomenal

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Speaker 1: experiences travel in the world and just seeing new parts

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Speaker 1: of the country. And then I went to my second

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Speaker 1: ship was a destroyer and Mayport, Florida right after that,

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Speaker 1: so I tried. I've seen like twenty three countries total,

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Speaker 1: and just seeing a new country just gave a new

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Speaker 1: perspective on on life. Come back to America, understanding what

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Speaker 1: we was fighting for. It just made me want to grow.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I'm canteeing my service awards road. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: And now you guys are doing the healing our heroes.

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Speaker 1: You guys are what what is that exactly? So Warriors

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Speaker 1: Old is a five oh one c free nonprofit um

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Speaker 1: founded by Andre I mean, he's got me on his board,

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Speaker 1: but really what what our entire sort of realization is

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Speaker 1: is that, you know, we talked a lot about postra

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Speaker 1: medic stress. We talked a lot about the reintegration challenges

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Speaker 1: of veterans. We talked about the fact that first responders,

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Speaker 1: you know, be the police, fire, paramedic, or military veteran.

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Speaker 1: For the last twenty years that we've off like faced

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Speaker 1: through nice through all that is, uh, we also deal

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Speaker 1: with horses that I got similar issues. So uh, Andre,

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Speaker 1: who really discovered equine only in the last decade less

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Speaker 1: than that, realized this is what I really want to do.

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Speaker 1: And he called me up and just said, Colonel Strong,

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Speaker 1: you ever been around horses? And I'm like, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: I used to ride all the time out there in

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Speaker 1: the Bellasys when I needed to come out and check

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Speaker 1: something that and not like i'll you should. My family's

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Speaker 1: organization and my family was into horses to my grandfather.

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Speaker 1: My great grandfather had horses, but I didn't really get

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Speaker 1: it opportunity to and the rack with horses like I

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Speaker 1: wanted to in North Carolina. So when I came out

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Speaker 1: head of California and with this other lady who's on

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Speaker 1: my board to her name is Ashes, she gotta ranch

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Speaker 1: and terra bella um. When I'm at her, it was

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal opportunity and she kind of got reintroduced me

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Speaker 1: to equestrian lifestyle and it was something I never forget.

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Speaker 1: So having that opportunity, being able to bond with horses,

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Speaker 1: it's something I can't really describe to you until you

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Speaker 1: get opportunity to do it yourself. You know, you meet

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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred pounds of flesh. That's give you the ability

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Speaker 1: to work with it and dance with it and and

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Speaker 1: control it in its own lifestyle. Um, it's life changing.

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Speaker 1: So being a part of Warriors Roll and starting words

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Speaker 1: and it would help out the world of this country

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Speaker 1: for good's sake, you know, I mean people on horseback.

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Speaker 1: You gotta think about it and think about what those

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Speaker 1: horses literally did from their backs. He was doing that

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Speaker 1: for thousands of years before a hundred years ago, you

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Speaker 1: was riding horses for you know that when you invite us. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I know you go out immediately. Is out there on

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Speaker 1: the ranch daily. But I will tell you though, the

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Speaker 1: thing that Andrea advocates for the most that really I

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Speaker 1: had to learn into lean back towards was, Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: talked about our needs to reintegrate and to be healed.

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Speaker 1: But these horss got stuff too. I mean a lot

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Speaker 1: of these horses a lot like veterans. You know, we

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Speaker 1: come in we're like, hey, I used to be a

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Speaker 1: you know, shopkeeper on a destroyer. I went to seven

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Speaker 1: thirty seven countries. It's like, hey, I was an airborne ranger.

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Speaker 1: I was an infantry guy. These horses are like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I used to be a race horse. Yeah, Hey, I

555
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: used to be a show horse. Hey I used to

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Speaker 1: be a polar We got a couple of We got

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Speaker 1: a couple of horses with a few horses with some

558
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Speaker 1: unique backgrounds. We got a draft horse that's come from

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Speaker 1: Texas that was a driving horse and now service veterans

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Speaker 1: on on the front line. We got a previous polo

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Speaker 1: pony come from Santa Barbara Polo Club and she was

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Speaker 1: she's been a phenomenal horse within our program. So we

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Speaker 1: got some incredible horses that have unique stories behind themselves

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Speaker 1: as well that help veterans because we all got unique

565
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Speaker 1: stories ourselves. You know, you know when when you say that,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I look at you know, veterans that

567
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Speaker 1: have a horse as their pet, like their dog, like

568
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Speaker 1: their brother, like their sister, like their family opinion. It's

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Speaker 1: not just a pet, it's a family member. It's all

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Speaker 1: those things. And so you know, let me ask you

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Speaker 1: a deep question. Do you give any of these pets CBD,

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Speaker 1: th HC or any of these family members for any

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Speaker 1: pains or illnesses that they might occur. We do. We

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Speaker 1: got a couple of horses that's getting kind of up

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Speaker 1: their age. So we have been like dabbling in an

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Speaker 1: opportunity and like CBD products for like a questry in

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Speaker 1: their horses and stuff like that, and then trying to

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Speaker 1: feed him in and it's been seemed like it's been

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Speaker 1: helping a lot of their bones and to keep them

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Speaker 1: going too. So we do it as well. But after

581
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Speaker 1: we smoke a group of veterans, we kind of do

582
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Speaker 1: the same thing to smoke and reflect on the opportunity

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Speaker 1: what we just had with these, with these with these

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Speaker 1: phenomenal animals. Now, as a five oh one three c

585
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: and and a company that's you know, not for profit,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that and just just having that, you know,

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Speaker 1: that infrastructure of a of a company's a as a

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00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: job in itself, right because obviously you know, you don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily own it. It's owned by the world if you will,

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Speaker 1: or whomever. What is your guys number one mission right now?

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Speaker 1: Our number one mission is to change a veteran in

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Speaker 1: the first responders life one horseback ride at the time. Man,

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Speaker 1: you come out here, there's no other opportunity to kind

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Speaker 1: of get this a question and experience. There's no other

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Speaker 1: place to get this horse to human experience at all.

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Speaker 1: So we want you to invite you out the Three

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Speaker 1: Kings Ranch and come out here and where Warriors rode

598
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Speaker 1: and take partners program and see what these horses can

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Speaker 1: and how these horse can change your life. Where is

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Speaker 1: Warrior's Road? How can people get in touch with you guys?

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Speaker 1: Right now? We are on Facebook, We at Warriors Roa USA, Instagram,

602
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: we at Warriors Row USA. UM exactly and if you

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Speaker 1: want to go out there to the camp where we're

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Speaker 1: is exactly located right now, we're located, and we just

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Speaker 1: moved to a two hundred acre ranch in Fraser Park.

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Speaker 1: So we got some phenomenal you know, landscape scenery that

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00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: should come out there and walk with us. We got

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Speaker 1: a you know, a two hour trail rode to some waterfalls.

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Speaker 1: If that's what your interest in too, so yeah, hang

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Speaker 1: out with it. Yeah, it's it's I mean, it's so

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Speaker 1: funny because the first time we went out there, we

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Speaker 1: only moved to that property, that extraordinary property, you know,

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Speaker 1: two months ago, and went out there and I told him,

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Speaker 1: I remember I was passing Magic Mountain. I'm like, bro,

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing like, I got another forty five minutes and

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Speaker 1: I know, sir, I know, I know, I know. As

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Speaker 1: soon as I made that exit, it's like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: this is what. Well, whereas we're we're abudding the Los

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Speaker 1: Padres National Forest, can I camp there too? Totally? We

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Speaker 1: were doing so That's why I'm matches. So now I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: like I'm bringing my motor home out first. But that's

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00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: where I'm feeling back camp out and we do adorn

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Speaker 1: ride in the morning and after we brought out the telescope.

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Speaker 1: You know, we do like Star Tour and stuff like that.

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00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all about being in that healing space,

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Speaker 1: you know. I I love it. I love that actually,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's something that I'd love to to explore

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Speaker 1: and I'm down to take a trip on. We was

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Speaker 1: thinking about even having y'all come out and maybe shoot

630
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Speaker 1: episode of y'all show out there with us at the

631
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Speaker 1: you know you come set up Warriors Road USA. We

632
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Speaker 1: are on our way player, come on home. Know it's

633
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's gonna happen, No, sincerely, Like like I'm

634
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: looking to bring like my whole staff, all our employees

635
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: are team that people that really care about. Are are

636
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: rounding our existence. Bring them out there to enjoy your

637
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: guys facility, bring out some motor homes and trailers and

638
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: just spend a weekend getaway. You know, we like a

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Speaker 1: one hour l A rod out. If I'm gonna live

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Speaker 1: in the valley, to take me one hour to go

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Speaker 1: from the valley to say, oh, it's nothing, so to

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Speaker 1: take your hour to get to us. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, you're getting outside of l A. And which

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Speaker 1: you're going to experience is something you experience in Montana, Utah, Colorado,

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Speaker 1: and it's funny to think that California has that and

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Speaker 1: people don't realize that to get out of l A.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing and it's not that far, which is funny.

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Speaker 1: So people are out there and you want to find

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Speaker 1: it once again, you can find them on Instagram and

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Speaker 1: Facebook and the webs. Side again is Warriors Warriors Road

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Speaker 1: Us say, you guys are doing your thing. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you there anything else do you guys want to talk about?

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Speaker 1: I would tell you that it's It's what makes it

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Speaker 1: such an honor for Andrea and I to like, ultimately

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Speaker 1: wrap your show is to realize this is ultimately in

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Speaker 1: sync with you know, the veteran cannabis group, you know,

657
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: and so you guys are veterans, like it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: Veterans Day. We promote TC instead of opioids. You know

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Speaker 1: what that's tearing. So let's promote Yeah, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: It's a great way to close up the shop. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. Thank you guys again for your service. Guys,

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Speaker 1: and remember this it's Cannabis Talk one on one and

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Speaker 1: if no one else loves you, I'll be right back

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Speaker 1: after this, we'll be right back with Cannabis Talk one

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Speaker 1: oh one. Welcome back to Cannabis Talk one oh one.

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Speaker 1: Take a hit, get lit, sit back, and enjoy cannabis

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Speaker 1: to one on one live right here on Pine Street

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Speaker 1: in Long Beach, Beau Veterans all day for the veterans.

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Speaker 1: You guys. If you're looking out there and you want

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Speaker 1: Baby born and raised right down the street in Venice Beach,

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Speaker 1: being said, we also want to give a shout out

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Speaker 1: to everybody out here that's made this happen. G four Live.

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Speaker 1: If you don't go, you don't grow, going down in

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Speaker 1: May all the way live in Las Vegas, of course,

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Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg performing with Travis Barker. G four Lives gonna

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Speaker 1: Chronic expos out there, White Label Farms, I'm Mercia, Catalysts, Easy,

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Speaker 1: the Blacklist, Veterans, Cannabis Group, Humanity Heroes, Left Coast Extracts,

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Speaker 1: the Roll Up Show, Loomis, Smoke Deville, and Mobile Media

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Speaker 1: Kings all out here making this beautiful event as beautiful

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Speaker 1: as it can be. And as we talk about this event,

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Speaker 1: you guys who have another special guest joining us with

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Speaker 1: us on the last part of this show and Blue.

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Speaker 1: You didn't get a chance to meet this dude, but

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Speaker 1: he is just everything I mean, Brian, when I talk

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Speaker 1: about you, I talk about you with the most up

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Speaker 1: respect because I call you the literally a term that

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Speaker 1: we use when like, what was his name again? What

697
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 1: was his name again? I texted my phone you ready

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Speaker 1: for this? Yeah? Badass? So let me tell you. Brian

699
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: Buckley comes up. That's how I have you in my

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00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: phone and we're like, what's his name? Oh my god, badass.

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00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: I looked up badass and Brian shows up. Doc. That's

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00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: how I have you from your story. But you've shared

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Speaker 1: with us and of course everything you're you're a veteran,

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00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: you've done so much, of course with your brand which

705
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: is Hellman Valley Growers and your product that's out here

706
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: that you're doing for the community. How great is it

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00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: to come out here and see Long Beach do this

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Speaker 1: for the veterans and this is incredible. I mean literally,

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Speaker 1: it was like a last minute thing where I had

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to come to hang out with you guys,

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Speaker 1: and I always however one Cannabis talk whatever one is like,

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Speaker 1: my grace Land, thank you, this is great. I'm just

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Speaker 1: humbled to be here. Let's get at it. You know, really,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank Immercia Blacklist, catalyst for for making

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Speaker 1: this happen for our veterans here in Long Beach. It's

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Speaker 1: such a beautiful thing. Like you know, I've sat with

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Speaker 1: John Reese and been able to really sit like break

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Speaker 1: down in tears because it's near and geared to my

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Speaker 1: heart and and and I can only explain it from

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Speaker 1: the sense that my my uncle was a veteran that

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Speaker 1: lived down here and went through um the Vietnam and

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00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 1: blew off his stomach and literally was homeless here my choice,

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Speaker 1: because we all offered him homes and whatnot. And it

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00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: was such a dear moment for my to sit here

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Speaker 1: in the streets of Long Beach on Pine for five

726
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: and six because I used to search these streets right

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Speaker 1: here for my uncle just to hang out with them

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Speaker 1: through the holidays and give him money because he would

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00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: not come home, he would not do it. He lived

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Speaker 1: here and and got him, and it got him. It

731
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Speaker 1: got him, and you know, we got rest his soul.

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Speaker 1: Jose Negron, I appreciate you, I love you, I miss you.

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Speaker 1: And uh wow, Brian, you know Joe has spoke so

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Speaker 1: highly about the stories and the things that you've done

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Speaker 1: and the things that you're doing for for veterans and

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Speaker 1: the community. Let's dive into some of them, share with us. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: that's a a little bit of touch, share just here

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Speaker 1: in your story. I mean, that's what that kind of

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00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: drives me every day is you know, before I go

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Speaker 1: to bed every night, I think about what have I

741
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: done for a veteran today? And it just it just

742
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: blows my mind where you have men and women who

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Speaker 1: raise their right hand, willing to go sign a blank

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00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: check for their nation's uh for the country payable on

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Speaker 1: their death, and we're not doing everything possible to help

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Speaker 1: them live the American dream they fought so hard to defend.

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Speaker 1: Payable under death, what a great term, parable under death?

748
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Speaker 1: And then we don't give them the proper tools. And

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Speaker 1: this is that there's some people once again that do

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Speaker 1: choose to be like your uncle Blue. What's a prime example.

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00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: And we all know that and that's be true, but

752
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: we should be trying to do everything possible to help

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00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: these veterans out there. And Brian, please share with Blue

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Speaker 1: how your whole team. What happened to you guys which

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00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: meant would like Mr Love, I mean when you said popcorn,

756
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: when you guys got blown upstand so we were Um,

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00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: what I did in afghan Stand was I had an

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Speaker 1: amazing opportunity in my life and I thank God all

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Speaker 1: the time for this, because not everyone gets to serve

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Speaker 1: with their heroes, and I did. And you know, not

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00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: only did I become a marine and I got to

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Speaker 1: serve in the Marine corps um that was rad and um,

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00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: you know things where I look at the Marines as

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00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: being an elite fighting force. But then we got into

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Speaker 1: the special operations game and I was able to make

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Speaker 1: a marine special operations as a marine raider. So what

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00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: we did in Afghanistan was what we called the commando mission.

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Speaker 1: So we would take the Afghan Special Forces or commandos.

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Speaker 1: We get on black helicopters in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: night and we would go, uh eliminate high value individuals

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Speaker 1: who worked for the Taliban. And I'll never forget the

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Speaker 1: time we were flying into an area that we thought

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Speaker 1: was called Northern shake But this is where the elderly

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Speaker 1: American comes up, where we make lines on the map,

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Speaker 1: and the actual people who lived there were like, I've

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Speaker 1: never heard of a place called Northern Suri. You're in

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Speaker 1: a spot called Kaligas, which was literally the capital of

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Speaker 1: the Taliban in the Hellman Province. So we flew in

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Speaker 1: there and we came in under fire. I remember, I'm

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Speaker 1: stick on the back of the ramp and I'm just

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Speaker 1: seeing RPGs rip up at me and people are like, well,

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Speaker 1: what were you thinking at that point? I'm like, I

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Speaker 1: was hoping my hair looked good. There's that point, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, I'm just riding it out.

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Speaker 1: And we came in and as the ramp dropped, I'm

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Speaker 1: the first guy off the helicopter since I was a

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Speaker 1: ground force commander, so soon as my foot hit the deck,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell the pilots you know, I'm on the deck,

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Speaker 1: and then they would say, hey, transfer power over the

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Speaker 1: ground first commander, because the air combat element had commanded

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Speaker 1: while we're flying. And I tripped and fell on my ass,

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Speaker 1: and next you know, you hear rounds going over my

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Speaker 1: head and I looked down at this black Chinook helicopter

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Speaker 1: and he had a guy on his mini wheel basically

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Speaker 1: a machine gun, just ripping right into a tree line.

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Speaker 1: And literally one of the pilots pulled out his weapon

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Speaker 1: and started shooting in the air, and he didn't have

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Speaker 1: it against his shoulder, so his his bulls were going everywhere.

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Speaker 1: But he knew how bad and fight we're in. And

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Speaker 1: we had the little birds. If you saw a black

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Speaker 1: hawk down, the little things that put their asses up

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00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: and he shoot rockets and guns. They called me up

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Speaker 1: and my my call sign was copper head. There a

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Speaker 1: copper head. You got shipped all over you. And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: head clear him hot And they came in and ripped

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Speaker 1: apart everything. And I remember just getting on the radio

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Speaker 1: with the boys and I'm like, hey, boys were earning

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00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: our stories on this one, and we were trading fight.

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00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: Uh you know, casually is back and forth for about

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Speaker 1: forty eight hours. And we got into a spot where, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, next you know, I knew, uh what they

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00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: call underbowl grenade launcher flew over my head. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: a baseball flying Vyou knew they had me. I went

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Speaker 1: fuck and uh cranked off shrapnel throughout my body and

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Speaker 1: to my teammates. Went down. One of my teammates he

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00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: took it in his stomach that we had to grab

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Speaker 1: him get on her fire. But at that point we

818
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: were in such a heavy tree line that looked like

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00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: giants were shaking the trees and the amount of Robert

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00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: propelled grenades and small arm fire that was coming out.

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Speaker 1: I literally felt like I was in a popcorn machine

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Speaker 1: because everything Undeathan me was just popping and exploding. And

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Speaker 1: we got in there, took a couple of deep breaths.

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00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 1: We were about to be overran. I told by higher

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00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: command about that. They provide the support they had to

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Speaker 1: with aircraft, and we took the fight to the enemy,

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Speaker 1: and the people who started to fight no longer live

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Speaker 1: on this earth, and we won. And that was it.

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Speaker 1: So you know what a story I mean. First of all, again,

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Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough um for your service. Now,

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Speaker 1: thank you like for letting me serve. I honestly believe that.

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Speaker 1: Like every time someone comes up to me and says

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Speaker 1: thank you for your service, I'm like, you gotta be

834
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Speaker 1: kidding me. Do you know what I was able to do.

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Speaker 1: I was able to fight for a country I love

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Speaker 1: and believe in so much in and I got to

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Speaker 1: serve as such a high level with amazing Americans. Thank

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00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: you for paying your taxes. That's how I got paid.

839
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: And now you're out here with Hellman Valley Growers. You

840
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: have your brand? Is it going for you. Where's it going.

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00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: What's the latest and greatest with the brand? You know,

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00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: it's been great. Uh. We got amazing partners, you know,

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00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: guys who really took us under their wing for a

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00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: long time. And you know, you know, it's just very

845
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: hard to get into this industry. And we met two

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00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: gentlemen named George and Cody Sadler, and they brought us in.

847
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: They recently just sold a company called Platinum Vapes, and um,

848
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: they took care of us, gave us their shot. I

849
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: didn't know if people are gonna believe in the brand. Um,

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00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: it was a little bit touch and go for a while.

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Speaker 1: But I think after we got that Institutional Review Board

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Speaker 1: to say we are going to do medical cannabis research

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Speaker 1: with veterans. We've been approved by the federal government. This

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Speaker 1: is the real deal. It took on and it's just

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Speaker 1: been a blessing. Where one thing I love about the

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Speaker 1: cannabis community. You know, me being with my background of

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Speaker 1: athletics and military, you think competition in terms of like

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Speaker 1: I got to destroy my opponent. Well, what I love

859
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Speaker 1: about the candabis community, if you're doing the right thing

860
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Speaker 1: for the right reason, they will embrace you and they'll

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Speaker 1: bring you in. If you're a bad actor, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get called out. So the entire cannabis community has been

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Speaker 1: tremendous towards us. It's helping us succeed to our goal

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Speaker 1: to prove the medical benefits of cannabis and to show

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Speaker 1: that it can reduced simples, to push max stress and

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Speaker 1: my ultimate goals one day is you go into a

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Speaker 1: v A, you go into a pharmacy, You're gonna see

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Speaker 1: Humming Valley Grower's product, and that's what bets are going

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Speaker 1: to be prescribed. And you're pushing to on a bigger level.

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Speaker 1: You're sitting there going to Congress. You're sitting there trying

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Speaker 1: to fight the fight on the biggest level for the

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Speaker 1: federal level. How is that fight going for you? You

873
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Speaker 1: know it's been going well, it's slow. I mean obviously

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Speaker 1: the government moves at a molasses pace. I I have

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Speaker 1: a great opportunity. Um I'm you know, people ask me

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Speaker 1: are you a Republican or you a Democrat. I just

877
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: tell him I'm an American and it blows her mind.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't care if you have a D

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Speaker 1: or in R. I have a Yeah, I have a mission.

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Speaker 1: To accomplish. So I have a great opportunity. I sit

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Speaker 1: on a veteran advisor board for a representative about Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: named Madeline Dean. I talked to her a lot. I've

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Speaker 1: We've worked with people like Senator Schultz off Hawaii. We're

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Speaker 1: working with senators in Arizona. And again I don't care

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Speaker 1: if you have a Republican Democrat. There is a problem

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Speaker 1: here with our veterans. Again, they raised their right hand.

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Speaker 1: They said, I will go forward, I will die for you.

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Speaker 1: Why are we not doing everything possible to let them

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00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: live that dream. So it's been a lot of um,

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Speaker 1: you know, some headaches, but again very positive momentum. And

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Speaker 1: again I'm not gonna wig in the government. That's why

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Speaker 1: we want to prove the facts ourselves and to show

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Speaker 1: them the numbers and numbers don't lie, numbers never lieing.

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Speaker 1: What you're doing, in my opinion, has been the most

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Speaker 1: positive effect as far as going about it from a

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Speaker 1: logistics standpoint of a strategic way, which is going after

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Speaker 1: these congressmen, convincing the people that make the change. And

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Speaker 1: that's one thing I loved about you that I was

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Speaker 1: even telling Blue after the time we talked to go, dude,

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Speaker 1: This dude has a protocol that to me is on

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Speaker 1: point to making change. There's so many people that are

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Speaker 1: doing so many great things, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: different ways to go about it. And of course, just

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Speaker 1: dealing with helping the veteran community itself is one thing,

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Speaker 1: but going at it from a Congress level is another way.

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Speaker 1: And that's one thing that you're doing. And what him

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Speaker 1: we're uh him were what is it again? Hell made Valley? Well,

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Speaker 1: it helps record, read and talk. That's what you guys

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Speaker 1: are doing. And that's what I commend you for because

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Speaker 1: that approach, in my opinion, is a very strategic and

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Speaker 1: smart approach, you know, and I really appreciate that. And

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Speaker 1: that was a big thing when I sat down with

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Speaker 1: Congress in sixteen, saying what do you need me to do?

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Speaker 1: Bottom line, I don't want to hear the bullshit anymore,

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Speaker 1: Just what do you need? And they're like, all right,

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Speaker 1: we need data, we need American doctors. So we brought

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Speaker 1: in Nyamedic Healthcare and research services at Israel. We all

918
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Speaker 1: know how far ahead they are on research, and then

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Speaker 1: we were able to bring in U c Irvine Health.

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Speaker 1: Now I got my American doctors. So there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: no if and or, But we know it works. Nimica

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Speaker 1: has already proving it. Now I just need to put

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Speaker 1: an American face on it and let's get on with

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Speaker 1: it and let's help our veterans. Wow, you know it's

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Speaker 1: it's so important again. You know, like Joe and I

926
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Speaker 1: are super big on data, making sure that you know,

927
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Speaker 1: we get the research, the proper research, and it goes,

928
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Speaker 1: you know, through the process so that we can really

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Speaker 1: make a change. You know, it doesn't you know, it's antaldot.

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Speaker 1: We all have ancdotal proof that this works, that it

931
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Speaker 1: helps people, that it's something that's near and dear to

932
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Speaker 1: our heartspit when you have that data, that actually the

933
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Speaker 1: research from the professionals and you have that those numbers

934
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Speaker 1: and everything starts making sense. Is when the curve you know,

935
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Speaker 1: becomes aligne and everybody aligns what we're doing in this

936
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Speaker 1: industry and it's super important to us. So thank you

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Speaker 1: for for that fight and everything else. Is there anything

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Speaker 1: that we missed that you want to you know, shout

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Speaker 1: out there for us. No, I mean, I just want

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Speaker 1: to appreciate everyone for supporting at Howmboie Growers company. We

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Speaker 1: do have a nonprofit called Batter Brothers Foundation, which our

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Speaker 1: Institutional Review Review Board falls under. So lease look it

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Speaker 1: up battle Barters Foundation dot org. Please donate, help us out.

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Speaker 1: We're all in this fight together and we're gonna make

945
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Speaker 1: this happen. Appreciate you, brother, always keep fighting the fight

946
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Speaker 1: at this something we can do for you. Know We're

947
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Speaker 1: always here for you. You know it. Well, there it is, guys,

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Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one, and remember this. If no

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