1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Welcome the Cannabis Talk one oh one featuring Blue with 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,119 Speaker 1: Joe Bronde, the world's number one source for everything cannabis. 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: Hello, welcome to Cannabis Talk one oh one, the world's 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 2: number one source for everything cannabis. 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 3: My name's Blue. 6 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 2: Alongside of me is mister Joe Grande, and you are 7 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,639 Speaker 2: now tuned into the greatest cannabis show on the planet. 8 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 4: That's right, folks. 9 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to our talk show all around 10 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: the world, and of course make sure you check out 11 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: our website, Cannabis Talk one oh one dot com. 12 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 4: There's so many great articles and blogs of the site. 13 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 2: And feel free to give us a call anytime and 14 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: say hello and leave us a voicemail one eight hundred 15 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 2: and four twenty nineteen eighty And of course check us 16 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: out on YouTube. 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We're gonna 38 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 2: circle back with him and which is great to see 39 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 2: you too, by the way, brother, And of course he 40 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 2: brings along with him a gentleman behind the world's largest 41 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: cornhole tournament, you guys, besides us today is the owner 42 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: and operator of Spencer Mackenzie's Fish Company and the host 43 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 2: of The Throwdown, the world's largest cornhole tournament. 44 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 4: John carry on. 45 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 5: Got it? Carryon? You're close here, car. 46 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 2: How do you want to ask, because I wanted to 47 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: give it a shot. Carrion and besides him, of course, 48 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,919 Speaker 2: is a legendary z the director of Wielhouse Cannabis Dispense. 49 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 2: If you don't know who's he is, folks, Blue sold 50 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 2: them his first license in the cannabis space. 51 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 4: They go way back in the game. 52 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: So and like Blue set off Mike and they're still friends, 53 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 2: which is actually a. 54 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 3: Very big true statement. 55 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 2: For both of them, not even just for him, for 56 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 2: him too, Like both of these guys, what first license 57 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 2: that long ago and they're still friends and it's a 58 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 2: big point. 59 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 6: In the industry. It's tough, right, yes, And for. 60 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 2: Those who've caught our conversation with Little House, you could 61 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,559 Speaker 2: check that out. And of course he has a dispensary 62 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 2: allounge all over the place. Willhouse addresses community issues based 63 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,679 Speaker 2: on so many things that are needed in the community, 64 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: you guys, so go check them out as they give 65 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: a bunch of educational programs as well as community activism. 66 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 2: Their high standards of customer service has led Willhouse to 67 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: receive the twenty twenty and twenty twenty one Best Marijuana 68 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 2: Dispensary Award for the Ventura County. 69 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 4: I mean, you're doing it out there. Bottom line. 70 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 2: Go check out his Willhouse dot vip or check out 71 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 2: the website will. 72 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 4: House eph pH excuse me. 73 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, will houseph dot com and dropping on zet any 74 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 2: of his dispensaries. You guys, if you're in the area, 75 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 2: you know where they're at. And of course in Orange 76 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: County coast to Mesa. And I'm gonna be in Venice 77 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 2: coming up soon. So if you're out there in Ventora, 78 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 2: go hit him up out there, and besides him, the 79 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 2: big one. I gotta tell you, this whole thing about 80 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 2: fish is great, but this cornhole thing you did, I mean. 81 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 4: The safe the giant talks. 82 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 2: Everything you did over there on eight oh sixty Stompson 83 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: Boulevard Inventor that makes all. 84 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 4: The big money is fucking great. And that's a great 85 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 4: restaurant that has everything happy and pays all the bills. 86 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: But let's just talk about really what you got going 87 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: on over there, because this the Throwdown Cornhole Tournament dot 88 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 2: Com and that's the website. 89 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 4: The IG is the throw Down Cornhole Festival. 90 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: I didn't realize how big cornhole was until we went 91 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: to Arizona that one time. 92 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 4: And we've seen one and this was popping in. 93 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 5: This small ass community. 94 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 4: And then I started poking my nose around. 95 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 2: And then now I get to meet the man who's 96 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 2: behind the world's largest cornhole tournament. 97 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 4: You know what I mean? It almost makes you want 98 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 4: to smell your thumb. 99 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: Without further ado with you guys, let's give me they 100 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 2: got a long meeting. 101 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 4: I could tell without further ado. 102 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 2: We got Ze in the house and John Kay in 103 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: the building, command the myth, the legend, Spencer Mackenzie's Fish Company. 104 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 2: That's a great business. We're gonna get to that too. 105 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 2: But let's just go right into the cornhole. I mean, 106 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: how do you come up with something that becomes so big. 107 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: There's camping, there's thousands of people, there's it's just awesome. 108 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 7: I don't know if you talk about I don't know 109 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 7: if it's a passion, addiction or a or nont know 110 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 7: what it is. 111 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 3: It's a bad habit. 112 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 5: It's a bad habit. 113 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 7: You know you talk about you see you have things 114 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 7: that making money, have things that you try to make 115 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 7: money with. 116 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 5: There's a difference, right, I got very fortunate. 117 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 7: In two thousand and nine, we threw a old school 118 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 7: block party on our street at the restaurant, just just 119 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 7: to have fun, beach community, you know, bring awareness to 120 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 7: the building, to the business. Grill of marketing, we're talking 121 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 7: about grial of marketing. Like I just money a recession 122 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 7: did not have. I mean, we're just trying to make it. 123 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 7: So you have to gorilla market. You don't have this 124 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 7: huge marketing budget. You do everything you can to build 125 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 7: a brand. So we had band local bands. They made 126 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 7: me put my beer garden in my parking lot and 127 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 7: wouldn't let us have beer on the street. The next year, 128 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 7: I realized we got to do something else than just bands, 129 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 7: so we threw a small Cornel tournament thirty two teams. 130 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 5: Nobody hardly knew. 131 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 7: What cornwall was in two thousand and nine in southern California, 132 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 7: but everybody loved it. And then the next year we 133 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 7: went to sixty four teams, and then it just like 134 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 7: it just is like magic. 135 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 5: It just grew grow. 136 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 7: This year we'll probably have a thousand teams, so it's 137 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 7: one thousand and eighty eight. Thousand and eighty eight teams 138 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 7: is a set. Last year we had about thousand teams, 139 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 7: three hundred fifty thousand in person money, forty grand. 140 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 5: The first place. 141 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 3: Ran a fifty thousand person money. That's because of all 142 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 3: the different. 143 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 7: That's ninety payout. So I have I hired the a 144 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 7: CL to run the tournament for me. They get ten 145 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 7: percent to be the governing inteed to run the tournament, 146 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 7: and ninety percent gets paid out. So all the money 147 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 7: that comes in gets paid out based on the amount 148 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 7: of entries, but guaranteed. First place walks away with forty 149 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 7: grand guaranteed. 150 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:39,679 Speaker 4: For being able to toss a corn hole. You came exactly. 151 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 6: You want to be on the team? Can we try 152 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 6: at least forty thousand than. 153 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 3: I'm cross the joint. 154 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 2: That's a great question, right registration Okay, so we uh, 155 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 2: that's a great question. 156 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:52,559 Speaker 4: We're going to get several teams. 157 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 5: So we started off on the street. 158 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 7: We grew it, grew it, grew it, got larger, got larger, 159 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 7: moved it to the park across the street. Then took 160 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 7: it to the County Fair rounds where I could take 161 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 7: it to the level I wanted. 162 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 5: I had a dream for this whole thing. 163 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 7: So it's three hundred dollars for a team. So it's 164 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty bucks apiece for the for the tournament. 165 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 7: Aspect of it, and then it's ninety percent and it 166 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 7: pays deep. And so the thing I love about tournaments 167 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 7: was explained earlier. I'm a bass fishing my fish bass tournaments. 168 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 7: Touching on, I wanted to do what the bass angler, 169 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 7: as me, being an angler, wanted from the tournament director. 170 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 7: I wanted, so first place gets a big prize, but 171 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 7: pay deep. If there's one hundred people in the tournament, 172 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 7: not only paid first and second paid deep, right, so 173 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 7: we pay all the way down like it's like one 174 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 7: in eight. So for my tournament, you could come in 175 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 7: thirtieth place and win three thousand dollars Like that's deal. 176 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 4: That's that's thirty Is this real numbers? Are you just 177 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 4: talking about it? 178 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 5: It's that's the allure, right. 179 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 7: So now in the mind of us all competitive people, 180 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 7: Well maybe I can't win it, but I know that 181 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 7: could come in the top ten. 182 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, I know that I could beat And so that's that. 183 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 2: And if that's the case and you get in the 184 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 2: top ten, you're still going to get like, you. 185 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 6: Know, times of money. 186 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I. 187 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: Think, and have a great time at least it sounds 188 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 2: like I mean, Jesus, if it's one hundred and fifty 189 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 2: a person. Right, that's a good get. That's a good get. 190 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 2: And then it's the two days or the three days. 191 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 2: At the first day you pull up and camp if 192 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 2: you want to go camping there, and then the two 193 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 2: days what else? 194 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, So the way it works is, so I had 195 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 5: this dream I wanted. 196 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 7: I I started doing food atchilla and events back in. 197 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 4: Start doing what say that Chill must coach? Okay. 198 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 7: I was always intrigued by going to those events. And 199 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,599 Speaker 7: it's an experience totally. So where do you sell out? 200 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 7: Who sells out a concert and you don't even know 201 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 7: who's playing? Right, You buy a ticket. You don't even 202 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 7: know if it's going to be Snoop Dogg or some 203 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 7: guy at the local bar, but you're gonna a ticket 204 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 7: because you want to be at that event. I emulated 205 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 7: that with the Throatdown. I want to be an experience. 206 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 7: So I tell people, yeah, it's about winning money, but 207 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 7: it's about having that one ticket to be involved in 208 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 7: the tournament. And then all the experiences. We have guys 209 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 7: from every state and United States. You get to meet 210 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 7: people from from Florida, from North Carolina, we have we 211 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 7: have eighty people from Hawaii, coming over, so and you 212 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 7: have you know, you have bands and music and bars, 213 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 7: and then we added camping and it's it's an experience, right, 214 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 7: and you get to go play corn hole in the 215 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 7: biggest term in the world. But you get to have 216 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 7: this experience where you're meeting people and you're networking. It's 217 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 7: like the it's a super Bowl cornhole, right, And so 218 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 7: the people that are involved in the cornal industry, that's 219 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 7: where they want to be. If I own bags, if 220 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 7: I do anything in the corner industry, I want to 221 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 7: be there to meet you the network I want to So. 222 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 6: It's and there's plenty of people that do that, and 223 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 6: then there's a prize money. 224 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 8: But you're adding something new this year that we're talked 225 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 8: about in back room. What are you doing new this year? 226 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 8: You're gonna do something ahead of time a little bit. 227 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 8: You're gonna have a little some fun uh pre party. 228 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 8: Actually we're doing a pre party. 229 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 7: So we're gonna do a Crown Plaza hotel is one 230 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 7: of my kind of came my hotel sponsor so on 231 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 7: in town. So we're gonna do a pre party on 232 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 7: up in their sky room. We're gonna have a national 233 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 7: comedian Sean Laidtham, who is my host. We're gonna do 234 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 7: all the sponsors, all the bad sponsors are going to 235 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 7: do a kind of a private show for them, and 236 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 7: then we have a band playing on the pool deck 237 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 7: on the beach. 238 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 5: That's a kickoff party. 239 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 3: That's Friday. 240 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 7: So that's on Thursday night night. It's a it's everybody 241 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 7: comes into town for the week. We pack the town 242 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 7: of them. They come and they stay their vacation. They 243 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 7: bring their families. So you play a corn hole and 244 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 7: you play all the time and your wife's getting tired 245 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 7: of it. But then you tell your wife, Hey, I 246 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 7: want to play in California to throwdown, and she says, 247 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 7: of course you do, because I'm going with you and 248 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 7: sort of the kids. 249 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 2: And it becomes a family And what a great place 250 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 2: to do that in Ventura, California. 251 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 3: I mean it's a. 252 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,439 Speaker 2: Beautiful beach, beautiful location right there, central California. 253 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 4: The weather is impeccable. I don't care if it's too 254 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 4: hot or too cold. 255 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 2: It's still gonna be one of those like, oh this 256 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 2: is fine, too hot, this is why too cold? 257 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not that bad of a weather. 258 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 2: And the location, I can't imagine how much the neighbors 259 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 2: love you there now, I mean because you not only 260 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 2: are are you. 261 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 5: A local boy from Ventora? 262 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you're a local boy. Well, let's come 263 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 4: back with this toy. 264 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 2: We're gonna come back and hear more about you because 265 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 2: I'm just impressed with what you're because they think about it. 266 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 4: You're bringing all these people to Ventura and all of that. 267 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 2: Z gets to capitalize on it because they're all gonna 268 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: want to get some cannabis. 269 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 4: So I mean people. 270 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 2: Who everybody right, Like everybody capitalizes on us. But my 271 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 2: point is on a good family function that more people 272 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 2: across the country need to be doing. 273 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 4: Like this is the type of fun that everyone. 274 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 3: Can go to. 275 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 4: It's not alcohol friendly fun crazy. It's not the cannabis 276 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 4: fun crazy. It's sports are going to be probably an 277 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 4: Olympic sport one day. 278 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 2: I think the the you know, it's not you know, 279 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 2: it's not cannabis focus. It's not alcohol focus. It's cornhole focus. 280 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 2: And it's family, family focused now, so it's important. 281 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,079 Speaker 3: It's cannabis talk one on one. We'll be right back 282 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 3: after this break. 283 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: Follow Blue at one Christopher Wright. Follow Joe Grunde at 284 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: Joe Grunde fifty two. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter on 285 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: our website, Cannabis Talk one o one dot com. Welcome 286 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 1: back to Cannabis Talk one on one number one. 287 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 2: Canada. If you want to turn your typical into something special, Folks, 288 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 2: when it comes in to use products, the flavor youca 289 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 2: should be just as enjoyable as the feeling you experience. 290 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 3: Check out the website. 291 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 2: Lorraineoils dot com. We're sitting here with the big cornhole 292 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: tournament you guys. To throw Down Cornhole Tournament dot Com 293 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: is the website. Follow them on ig at the throw 294 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 2: Down corn Hole Festival, and of course we have Z 295 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 2: over here hanging out with us from Willhouse. 296 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 4: John. We're talking off here. There's so much to talk 297 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 4: about about what you're doing because I just find it 298 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 4: so intriguing. 299 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 2: Before we went to break two, I was saying how 300 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 2: much everyone benefits from this, right and the whole community 301 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 2: like the z as well as everyone else, and being 302 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: born and raised there where does this entrepreneurial like I'm 303 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 2: going to give back to the community, give back to 304 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 2: my local because not only are you local that you 305 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 2: gave back? Did your dad have the shop like where 306 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 2: does that come from, dude, this is amazing story for 307 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 2: you out in Ventura. 308 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,679 Speaker 7: Well, it's named after my first two kids, Spencer Mackenzie. 309 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 7: Spencer's going to be twenty one, Mackenzie's going to be nineteen. 310 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 7: So it started with they were three and one when 311 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 7: I started the business. 312 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 4: This is the fish company. 313 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 7: Fish company that my dad just worked for, Edison, the 314 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 7: public utility. I've worked for myself since I was twenty. 315 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always been entrepreneur. I work for myself my 316 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 5: whole life. 317 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 7: I started framing on as nineteen, got my contractor's license 318 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,719 Speaker 7: at twenty four, and it's just always been I've been 319 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 7: intrigued by business. I've own apartment buildings with some friends. 320 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 7: I've owned a laundry mat. I just I'm intrigued by 321 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 7: being an entrepreneur. And probably I think the strength of 322 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 7: being an entrepreneur is the failures make you better. 323 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 5: Right, I can tell you that the failures make you. 324 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 7: Stronger, you know, to get to be in strive more 325 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 7: for entrepreneurism. 326 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 2: I would agree with that as well, And that's why 327 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: you probably put a so much back into this event 328 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 2: like this. 329 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 7: Yeah, and I I really have a kind heart, and 330 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 7: I love giving. I'd rather give than receive, and so 331 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 7: with the restaurant and the throwdown, we're able to I 332 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 7: don't use the throwdown as a tool to say, a 333 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 7: lot of people like to wear this's on a sleeve. 334 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 7: It's a fundraiser. It's a business I'm trying to grow 335 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 7: and trying to be successful with. But I use it 336 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 7: as a tool. We donate sixty five hundred dollars to 337 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 7: the Chamber of Commerce in Santa Paula, which is a 338 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 7: town right next to Venture that I grew up in 339 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 7: as a kid. They they use half that money for 340 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 7: a car show they need a funding for. They have 341 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 7: a huge car show the first Friday of the month. 342 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 7: They have three hundred, four hundred vehicles. 343 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 5: I give money to. 344 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 7: We have a program called Ambassadors and Venture that go 345 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 7: around and help with the transient population around the beach 346 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 7: and keep a good relationship between the tourists and the 347 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 7: public and the transients and try to keep a good 348 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 7: and they need funding. So I donate money to that 349 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 7: every year through the through the Throwdown. So I don't 350 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 7: use it as this is a fundraiser, you know, nonprofit. 351 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 7: It's a business, but we have opportunities to do things 352 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 7: in the community. 353 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 4: Which is great. 354 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 7: And then the great thing about the event is Ventura. 355 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 7: You got to there's a lot of people that are 356 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 7: a little concerned about events that bring a huge impact 357 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 7: on the city, maybe not being it into it so much. 358 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 5: And then you have the people that love the events. 359 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 7: And the great thing about my event is it's just 360 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 7: it's a perfect storm. We have this probably sixty five 361 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 7: hundred people that come from across the nation to stand Ventura. 362 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 5: They stay in the hotels, they walk. 363 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 7: To the event, they walk downtown, they spend money, but 364 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 7: they don't congest the streets. Its beautiful, it's amazing beautiful. 365 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 7: So it's a great thing for the community. So they 366 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 7: support There's a lot of money spent in town. There's 367 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 7: a lot of exposure. There's people that come from Hawaii, 368 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 7: North Carolina. They they've made it their destinations for vacation now. 369 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 7: But it's not overwhelming to the community that doesn't want 370 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 7: their street packed with cars, And it's I think it's 371 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 7: just a great great, a great you. 372 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 2: Know, to share some of those special things that we're 373 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: going to have there, Like you said, you were sharing 374 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 2: with Blue saying something that you're going to have there 375 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 2: at the place if people. As he was saying, he's 376 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 2: not going to have a team, but you know, go there, 377 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: and then you were saying, oh, I'm going to have. 378 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 3: This you want to conversation. 379 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, I want to give him some credit though, 380 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 8: he's got auxiliary things that are happening to the local community. 381 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 8: Oh oh yeah, so and the local stuff because again, 382 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 8: like Industry Horror was one of the nonprofits that sponsors us, 383 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 8: so now they got to be part of this entire gig, 384 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 8: which now they got recognition for. Again, these are the 385 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 8: people that help with the adult autism and giving them 386 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 8: jobs in the local community too. So this guy is 387 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 8: not only just doing what he does with those items. 388 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,199 Speaker 8: He's providing auxiliary items for example, in this where I 389 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 8: get to be participating in and my nonprofits get to 390 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 8: be included and get that recognition and the visibility, and 391 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 8: they're doing all our shirts in our jerseys too. 392 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 7: Which amazing thing is I wasn't aware of his nonprofit. 393 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 7: I mean, I live there, I'm a huge in the community. 394 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 7: I support every anybody that comes to my into the restaurant, 395 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,679 Speaker 7: I donate, I donate gift cards to anybody else. I 396 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 7: give away about fifty thousand dollars in merchant gift cards. 397 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 7: It doesn't matter if it's the local high school or 398 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 7: any charity group. 399 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 5: And I wasn't aware. 400 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 7: So after meeting his after meeting his nonprofit and learning 401 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 7: about it, because I love kids. They do such great 402 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 7: things for autistic kids and adults. Like now I'm able 403 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 7: to I'm giving them a free booth to promote what 404 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 7: they do and then support what they do. It's not 405 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,719 Speaker 7: to try to get exposure to the dentists, because it's 406 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 7: an opportunity for me to support something that's great as 407 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 7: the community. Right So, but so the event, it's not 408 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 7: you got this giant Cornal tournament, but also anybody. It's 409 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 7: a Cornal Festival experience. So you can come play cornwhill. 410 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 7: You don't have to be in the tournament. You can 411 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 7: come play games, pay ten dollars, they draw you a partner, 412 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 7: you win prizes. 413 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 5: You can just play Cornal for fun. 414 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 7: There's bars, there's we have a car show on Saturday 415 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,400 Speaker 7: with with probably two hundred and fifty to three hundred 416 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,360 Speaker 7: vehicles this year. Nineteen sixty to nineteen eighties. Chevy Blazers, Broncos. 417 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 7: I love old Blazers and Broncos. So basically I'm doing 418 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 7: this for yeah, my dad O J Bronco. But you know, 419 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 7: it's it's funny. I get to do things. If there's 420 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 7: a band I like, I hire the band for myself. Yeah, 421 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 7: I love Blazes and Broncos, so why not, you know. 422 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 7: And these we've got guys someone from Arizona, Nevada with 423 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 7: their trucks. Now, now we're building this big car show 424 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 7: that's very well put together. We added a ax throwing competition. 425 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 7: That ax throwing is just barely starting to get kind 426 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 7: of mainstream, so we're gonna we're gonna help this. The 427 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 7: Mighty Acts the local ax throwing venue and he does tournaments. 428 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 7: We're gonna our goal is to show the country how 429 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 7: you can have an exciting acts throwing tournament. He's he's 430 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 7: got guys coming from across the country to play in it. 431 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 4: That gives me anxiety when I think pumping. 432 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 7: Obviously, the restaurant's always been in the presenting sponsor, so 433 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,719 Speaker 7: the restaurant has food there. But on Sunday we're doing 434 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 7: a food experience with twenty food vendors to bring. You 435 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 7: don't want to go, pay twenty dollars and watch Cornhole 436 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 7: all day. You want to, you want to pa twenty 437 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 7: bucks to come in and have an experience and walk 438 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 7: out of there with like, Wow, twenty dollars. I got 439 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 7: to watch bands and have a great time and see friends, 440 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 7: and watch axlling and see broadcasts on an ESPN Professional 441 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 7: studio and be on and get my face on on 442 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 7: our podcast. 443 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean that's the other part that you know, 444 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 2: this is so major that it's gonna be broadcasted nationally 445 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 2: on ESPN. That becomes a whole different animal. That is 446 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 2: this the first year that's gonna be broadcasting on ESPN. 447 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 7: This will be the third year. So it was ESPN 448 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 7: Plus the first year, last year's ESPN Prime Time Wow, 449 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 7: and then this year will be ESPN Plus. Also on Saturday, 450 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 7: we have a celebrity match with influencers TikTokers we have. 451 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 3: They're all playing against each other. 452 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 7: They're gonna paired up with the pro and they're going 453 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 7: to play on a two hour broadcast on an ESPN 454 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 7: Plus stream broadcast, and then they'll also be in our 455 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 7: VIP area on our live shame courts. We have two 456 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 7: Tody with the Duck, which is He's crazy awesome, entertainer 457 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,719 Speaker 7: Chuck Ledell, Shamar Moore, David Lamb, and a bunch of 458 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 7: famous tik talkers. 459 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 5: And that's just another element too to the you know. 460 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 3: John, you own tournament now. 461 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 5: I tell people. 462 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,479 Speaker 4: Earlier, yeah, not a player. 463 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, earlier he was like, you know, if if I 464 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 2: know I'm gonna win, you know, I was like, is 465 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 2: he in there. 466 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 3: Just wrangling everybody up the best? 467 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 4: You know, he's are there real pro? 468 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 2: So you said that you'll get an entertainer with a pro, Like, 469 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 2: there's some real pro cornholders. 470 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 5: And that's what I kind of wanted to, you know, 471 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 5: talk about the ESPN. 472 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 7: So I created this, you know, two thousand and nine, 473 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 7: and it got larger and large and larger. We ranted 474 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 7: ourselves the first few years. Then I had an entity 475 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 7: OVC Joe Schwartzen's wife, Becky. They ran it for for 476 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 7: several years, and then I had an opportunity to take 477 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 7: it to another level and collaborate with the a c 478 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 7: L American Cornhole League. Do they bridge the gap? I 479 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 7: tell people, if you got to give you know, props 480 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 7: to the a c L. They they put cornhole on 481 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 7: the map on the map on television. Right, So yes, 482 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 7: I throw the biggest corner tournament in the world, but 483 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 7: they run my tournament and I would never have got 484 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 7: it to the level of the ESPN without because. 485 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 4: It takes a team. 486 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 2: Do you hear that great modest too, what's just about 487 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 2: give it up When you give it, when you're giving 488 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 2: it back, it's for it's for the community, it's for 489 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 2: your people, it's for a good time, so people could 490 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 2: experience something that that has been lost. Quite frankly, we 491 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,199 Speaker 2: talked about it too, just earlier when we're like, you know, 492 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 2: we just like sometimes want to read a magazine or 493 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 2: you know, things. 494 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 3: Of that nature. 495 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 2: Those are like real life, like day to day activities 496 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 2: that keep families together in my opinion. So so when 497 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 2: you have that ability to be able to kind of 498 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 2: watch these things happen and produce them, you know, and 499 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 2: then you're doing it for the right purposes, like with 500 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 2: wheel House here, you know, donating back to them because 501 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 2: they're working with you know, children that are that have 502 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,479 Speaker 2: autism and things like that. Answer this is this is 503 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,479 Speaker 2: just a class act. I mean, you know, what, what 504 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 2: are you looking at this year in attendance? 505 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 3: How many people you think are coming to this event? 506 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 2: And and where where's the uh, who's the winner? Who's 507 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 2: the who can I bet on. 508 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 8: The call member of the six year old? The six 509 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 8: year old? 510 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 7: So you know what's crazy is you know you asked 511 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 7: the question, Yes there are there are pros, and it's 512 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:41,199 Speaker 7: amazing that it's crazy that they and I'm I know 513 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 7: the corner work pretty well, but I'm not that in 514 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,719 Speaker 7: tune to it to where every year, like if we 515 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 7: were here the night before the tournament, having some beers 516 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 7: and you really knew about what's going on, you would 517 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 7: probably be able to tell me, these three guys are 518 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 7: probably gonna, their teams are gonna, they're hot right now. 519 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 7: And it's amazing how a difference in elevation of those players. 520 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 7: So last year Jay Rubin and his partner won and 521 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 7: it was very animated. If you went to ESPN to 522 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 7: watch the broadcast, it was emotional. It was like, you 523 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 7: don't realize cornholes like that. It's competitive and it's you've 524 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 7: got there's technique. It's not just throwing a bag down 525 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 7: there right, there's there's guys that they throw their bag 526 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 7: specifically exactly where they wanted to land on what they 527 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 7: want to do with it. 528 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 2: They can roll over the top of a bag. 529 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 7: They blocked. They some guys are are you know, some 530 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 7: guys have different types of games. They air mail, they slide. 531 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 7: They like I said, I'm not an expert on. 532 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 2: You sound like, please lace me up with some more lingo. 533 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 4: Dog, You're great. 534 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 5: I'm an expert on promoting it. 535 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 2: But so they have announcers going to guys listen up 536 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 2: there and that was a beautiful toss of the. 537 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 7: A c L right now as we speak for having 538 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 7: their World Championships and in North Carolina, and it's a 539 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 7: ten day event and it's filmed on ESPN, and you know, 540 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 7: I suggest if you want, if you're not familiar with 541 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 7: you know, go go tune into what they're doing right 542 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 7: now with the world and just watch the level of 543 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 7: some of these people and the crazy I've watched. 544 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 3: I've watched it on ESPN. 545 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 2: I've probably seen it, and I've sat and watched it, 546 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 2: and you know, I geeked out probably through the whole show, 547 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 2: and I was just blown away. 548 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 3: One they were they were drinking, you know what I mean. So, 549 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 3: Two they were they were. 550 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 4: Probably eating something before drinking. 551 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 2: They were exactly during their day, but they were and 552 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 2: very very emotional like you said very like, or yes, 553 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 2: okay or very it's just quiet and knocking them ninjas down, 554 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 2: knocking them in those holes. 555 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 3: And and I realized. 556 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 2: I was like, these guys are serious, and this is 557 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 2: before you know, I knew you were coming on the show. 558 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 3: But it's nice to see that because it's a real sport. 559 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 3: It's not you know, it's. 560 00:25:58,560 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 5: It is a real sport. 561 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 4: And I didn't get emotional like that too. 562 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 3: It's a real sport. 563 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 2: I would have megine, Well, how about this. I knew 564 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 2: it was when we went to that place in Arizona. 565 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 2: Then I've caught it on TV. I started catching on. 566 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 2: Then I started thinking about it. And let me tell you, 567 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 2: when I thought that this cornhole thing is going to 568 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 2: be bigger than anything else. When corn holes are sold 569 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 2: at Walmart, targets and Costcos and every you could buy 570 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 2: them anywhere now right, Yeah, So it's like everybody has 571 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,239 Speaker 2: access to this sport. It's not golf. You don't need 572 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 2: to be expensive golfer. You have your daddy's have a 573 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 2: membership or so, you know, it's not expensive. 574 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 4: It's people can learn how to play. 575 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 2: And now you're getting me tournaments that I can win 576 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 577 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 4: Now money's gonna start talking. 578 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 7: The best thing about all of it is you're talk 579 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 7: about community, is that it's a fun thing that anybody, 580 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 7: anybody at any level, any physical capability, well that you 581 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 7: don't have arms with them, well, actually not because your feet. 582 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 5: We have. 583 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 7: We had a pro last year that was born and 584 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 7: I apologize and I can't know exactly the term of 585 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 7: what his but he has he has knees and elbows 586 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 7: and he is one of the one of the best 587 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,239 Speaker 7: players in the world, no way. Yeah, and he's a 588 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 7: great guy. And so that's the whole thing. There's all 589 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 7: these stories about in cornhole, right, There's all these stories, 590 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 7: and it's going back to the the products. So, yeah, 591 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 7: you can go to Walmart, and but really, if you 592 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 7: look at the difference and a three hundred and fifty 593 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 7: dollars set of boards and the ones you buy at Walmart, 594 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 7: it's night and day. But you can go buy a 595 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,719 Speaker 7: three hundred and fifty dollars set of corner boards and 596 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 7: that's your investment. Can you play all your long and 597 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 7: then and then you get you get addicted to collecting 598 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 7: the bags because as you get into Cornhole. 599 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 5: You want different. 600 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 3: Bags, different ways, different beads. 601 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 7: Different you know, ones that are fast, ones that are 602 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 7: slow car and so. 603 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 4: People complain when they come to yours, I want these type. 604 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 7: So a great, A great backstory about the event was 605 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 7: we when I first started, you could not buy bags, 606 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 7: didn't We didn't have this back then. There was no 607 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 7: you know that Instagram or this is twenty ten, right, 608 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 7: We made our own bags and so they weren't the best. 609 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 7: And then as things have evolved, so when I first started, 610 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 7: the ACL didn't exist in twenty fifteen, right, so whole 611 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 7: not twenty fourteen, we had bags start getting better and 612 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 7: we went to an actual professional type of bag, and 613 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 7: they always had to use the bag all cornhole was 614 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 7: my sponsored for years. 615 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 5: They used the bag we provided. 616 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 7: Then guys said, well why don't you let us use 617 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 7: the bags that sponsor us and these So in twenty 618 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 7: twenty one, I allowed sixteen companies. There's hundreds of Corno 619 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 7: bad companies. So you we have seventeen certified bad companies 620 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 7: this year. So you have to use the bags that 621 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 7: are certified. You can buy them in advance and practice 622 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 7: with them and break them in. They break them in 623 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 7: to make them play better. But if you don't want 624 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 7: to bags, you can still check out a set of 625 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 7: bags that I provise you known't. We're not forcing me 626 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 7: to buy them, but guys want to play with those bags, right, 627 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 7: So that's a big deal. The bad thing is is 628 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 7: golf ball, right. And then and then going back to 629 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 7: you know, talking about the A c L. When I 630 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 7: when we started our talks for collaboration, Stacy, the owner 631 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 7: is very protective of what he's created. I mean, he 632 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 7: created something amazing, right, And for a long time he 633 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 7: baby was threatened by what I was doing, like this 634 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 7: is the biggest tournament in the world, right, And they 635 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 7: reached out a few times and want to collaborate and said, no, 636 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 7: I don't want any partners. I don't And I finally 637 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 7: flew out to meet with them, and I was prepared. 638 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 7: I was prepared for a conversation, and so we sat down. 639 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 7: I had this whole show put up, you know that 640 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 7: I put up on the TV, and I kind of 641 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 7: explained the beginning of it. And Stacey was thinking, like 642 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 7: he's using my I'm thinking in his mind, he's using 643 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 7: my pros to promote what he's doing to get people 644 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 7: to come to this event. Right, So I start showing 645 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 7: and I looked see him look over at Trey, which 646 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 7: is market director, and he's like, oh, that's that's so 647 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,719 Speaker 7: and so like, and Trey's like, yeah, these guys were 648 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 7: playing in John's event before we existed, and they were 649 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 7: and they were pros. But you know, and then people 650 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 7: told me be careful. You don't want to you know, 651 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 7: you know, ACL is gonna overpower. You don't want to collaborate. 652 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 7: And I say, you know, the way I look at 653 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 7: the business, We're a businessman. I look at business as 654 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 7: if you have something to offer somebody and they have 655 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 7: something to offer you. 656 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 3: You don't want to break that together. 657 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 7: You guys can do something benefits of both of you, right, 658 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 7: And that's and that's what's happened with our relationship is 659 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 7: we you know. 660 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 5: We have something to each other, stronger to offer each other. 661 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 7: And but so we're at the bar last year at 662 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 7: the World and this is a funny story. I'm at 663 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 7: the bar and it's a party with Shamar Moore and 664 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 7: David and it's a pre party for the TV show. 665 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 7: And this girl sitting next to me and she goes, 666 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 7: we've met before. I'm Stacy's sister. Stacy's the owner of 667 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 7: I go really, she goes, yeah, my brother sent me 668 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 7: out to your event to check it out. The spy 669 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 7: the spy And then she's sitting about for me to 670 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 7: you and he looks. 671 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 5: Over me at this smile like. 672 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 4: A well, you got the Patriots. 673 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 6: Inspection. 674 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 2: It was an inspection, just this And dude, I I 675 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 2: did the same thing. 676 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 3: I I you know, I threw a festival and at 677 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 3: the end of the night and I'll cut her short. 678 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 2: And at the end of the night. 679 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, what are you doing here? 680 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 2: You know, And I'm talking to change all these different 681 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 2: people from Brilliant Union. 682 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 3: I'm like all of you guys were and they're like, oh, yeah, 683 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 3: we're there. You know, they're always there. 684 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 2: You know, people come in, especially when there's the white 685 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 2: buzz in the right movie. 686 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 3: I want to go look at it. I want to 687 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:49,719 Speaker 3: see what's going on. 688 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, when I was talking, I was like, 689 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 2: I don't want to play. I want to play, but 690 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 2: I would I'm more of I have. 691 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 3: To field this whole thing, tend the vibe the. 692 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 4: First time, so you can implement some kind of like oh. 693 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 3: I can see where there's values here there. 694 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 2: But listen, we're gonna go to break, but when we 695 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 2: come back, I want to get an idea of you know, 696 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 2: the dates, because I know we haven't talked about them. 697 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 3: It's Cannabis Talk whome right back up to this breaking. 698 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 2: You want to hear your name counting out live on 699 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 2: the hill. 700 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 3: Come on Penny Time nineteen eighty. 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It's a weekend, 718 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 5: always the weekend before Labor Day weekend. 719 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 2: And as you say that, just to get people the 720 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 2: heads up if they're listening right now. 721 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 4: People used to I caught you say. 722 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 2: People come out a week before and are usually camping 723 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 2: out that whole week leading into it. 724 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 3: The week like what's the local. 725 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 2: Vibe, real story of if you're gonna come and you 726 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 2: want to do this, you should probably do this. 727 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 7: Well, they're making vacations out of it. So they're gonna fly, 728 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 7: They're gonna travel, right, they don't. They're gonna be events. 729 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 4: They're not a Disneyland with the family. 730 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 5: They come to Ventura, they get to go. 731 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 7: They'll go and check out California, right or they these 732 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 7: players have on made relationships with locals are friends now, 733 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 7: I mean they they you know, everybody wants to host 734 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 7: a barbecue their house or do something in town or 735 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 7: there's local bars. 736 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 5: We have a lot of breweries. They want to go downtown, 737 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 5: check the breweries out. 738 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 7: They want to check out the beaches, they want to 739 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 7: check out the surroundings. Right they it's it's a vacation. 740 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 7: So they typically start coming into town on Tuesday. They 741 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 7: leave on Monday. We also have eighty camp site, so 742 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 7: they can come in on Thursday. But that's just a 743 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 7: small that eighty camp sites is a small portion of everybody. 744 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 7: They're staying in Airbnb's, they're staying hotels, they're staying in campgrounds, 745 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 7: they're they're staying at people's houses. 746 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 3: Is that all there is is eighty or is that? 747 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 3: Is that just what? 748 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 2: No? 749 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,120 Speaker 7: I only wanted eight because I wanted to create a 750 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:23,960 Speaker 7: good experience. 751 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 5: I didn't want to. Last year was fifty. This year 752 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 5: it's eighty. 753 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 3: Were scaling up. 754 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 7: It's pretty much sold out. I think there might be 755 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,319 Speaker 7: one spot available. But and so I want to give 756 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 7: them a good product. So I don't want it to 757 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 7: be a ship show for a sense, right, like I 758 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 7: want to give them. 759 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 2: You want to be able to control the eighty and 760 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,799 Speaker 2: the environment and everything for fifty, let me do it 761 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 2: for eighty. 762 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 5: They're in their barbecue and they're in there doing their 763 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 5: own little. 764 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 3: Making sure they're having a good time. 765 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 7: It's an it's an experience, right, so nice, But yeah, 766 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 7: it's you know, another thing since we're on the cannabis. 767 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 7: You know, we talked earlier about what's and I call 768 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 7: a couple of friends on the way down here one 769 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,880 Speaker 7: of my one of the the bad manufacturers, one of 770 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 7: his best friends name is Smokey, And I said, I 771 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 7: just want to pick your guy's brain. 772 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,120 Speaker 5: And Sean laid them who is he's a. 773 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 7: Host and he's he's does the hosting for the ESPN 774 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 7: for the ACL said, tell me kind of what the connection. 775 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,240 Speaker 5: You know, I when. 776 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 7: I first had the first dispensary, came to me because 777 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 7: they wanted to promote their dispensary. And I was a 778 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,359 Speaker 7: little bit hesitant, like, I don't I have little kids. 779 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 7: I don't know if I want to have a dispensary 780 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 7: be a presenting sponsor of my cornal tournament that was 781 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:35,680 Speaker 7: six years ago. 782 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm ready for that yet. But 783 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:38,360 Speaker 5: I learned. 784 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,879 Speaker 7: I educated myself, and then they brought out the first year, 785 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 7: they brought out all these different cannabis companies and they're 786 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 7: educating people like we have these CBD oils, this is 787 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 7: a flower. I'm a novice, right, So I've I've learned 788 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,399 Speaker 7: through the years and I've accepted it more and I've 789 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:55,760 Speaker 7: learned more about the industry. 790 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 5: And so when when Zee and I. 791 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 7: Got connected, you know, he took me down to Wheelhouse, 792 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 7: And I was telling you when I walked in as 793 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 7: a novice, I mean, I've taken gummies and and I'm 794 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,960 Speaker 7: trying to educate myself on it. I felt I want 795 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 7: to be the person that can go to the average 796 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 7: person like me and say it's a don't you can 797 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 7: feel comfortable. You're not going into somewhere You're looking over 798 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 7: her shoulder like, oh, I'm going into a dispense Like 799 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 7: you're walking to the strip club. 800 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 2: You know so, but you actually go to strip clubs? John, 801 00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,800 Speaker 2: So how. 802 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 5: Many I called Sewan? 803 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,439 Speaker 7: I said, what's the connection? Why has it been so such? 804 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,719 Speaker 7: It's become such a big part of the corner, having 805 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:43,040 Speaker 7: dispensary there. Well, you know, the the players, it's all 806 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 7: walks of life. 807 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,760 Speaker 5: It's everybody. It's it's from the janitor, like I said, 808 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:47,920 Speaker 5: to the CEO, to. 809 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,480 Speaker 7: A guy that serves, a guy that fishes, to a 810 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 7: guy that plays pickle ball, to it's a culture. And 811 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,759 Speaker 7: and some people drink, some people in cornhole. You're talking 812 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,240 Speaker 7: about these pros and people that you got to really focus. 813 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 7: And a lot of guys like to smoke. This is 814 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,040 Speaker 7: what I'm being told because they want to level themselves 815 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,560 Speaker 7: and they want to focus and they know exactly what 816 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 7: product to take to focus. Last year, we actually did 817 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 7: a package three different types of gummies and cornhole bag 818 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,879 Speaker 7: packaging and one was we call it. 819 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 5: Like air mail. 820 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,359 Speaker 7: One was an air mail, one was a slide whatever 821 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,560 Speaker 7: they were, and they were for like different Okay, I'm 822 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,240 Speaker 7: getting to the finals. 823 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 5: They need to mellow out. 824 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 4: It's a long days packages. That's so dope. 825 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,800 Speaker 5: So and that's what's great. It's not you nailed. 826 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,319 Speaker 7: It's this isn't like I'm promoting come and drink and 827 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,680 Speaker 7: get hammered and come smoke and like no, this is 828 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,560 Speaker 7: beat as greet as you like, bring your kids, bring 829 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,359 Speaker 7: your family, Come do what you typically do in your 830 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 7: daily your daily life, and if you know, come play 831 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,520 Speaker 7: cornhole and if you like to smoke a little bit 832 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 7: to get yourself, smoke a little bit. 833 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,320 Speaker 2: And you know it's that's that's what's that would be 834 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 2: such a family Cannabis alcohol friendly, but not cannabis and 835 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:02,720 Speaker 2: alcohol focused. 836 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the key way. 837 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 5: But I love you said that because that's. 838 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:06,359 Speaker 3: That's your will. 839 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 2: You have to say, you know, and I have to 840 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,240 Speaker 2: go through that exercise with you know, all the vendors 841 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,239 Speaker 2: that I deal with and people that I deal with 842 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 2: so that I'm transparent with them, or if they ask questions, 843 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 2: I don't have to tell them who's going to be 844 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,000 Speaker 2: at my place. 845 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 3: But when they ask, hey, what are we doing with 846 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:21,680 Speaker 3: this cannabis? 847 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,319 Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're alcohol friendly, we're cannabis friendly, but 848 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 2: we're porn whole focused, community focused, we're disfocused. And if 849 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 2: you stay in that lane, it's very They understand it 850 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,880 Speaker 2: very well and they go, Okay, that makes sense. 851 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 1: You know. 852 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,400 Speaker 7: One thing I've taken away from those relationships, including Z, 853 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 7: is that and this is great for people that don't 854 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 7: understand obviously if we listen to the show is loves cannabis. 855 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:52,439 Speaker 5: But the industry to me is unbelievably professional, right, It's 856 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,839 Speaker 5: very very very it's very professional. 857 00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 3: It's not right in the eighties, not professional guy, you know. 858 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,919 Speaker 7: So it's it's people like Z and and the guys, 859 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,840 Speaker 7: and I still love the guys from the Tree Factory. 860 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:09,920 Speaker 5: We're still great friends. 861 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,120 Speaker 7: You know. Sponsorships change, but everybody carries themselves very well, 862 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 7: very professional. 863 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 2: This isn't about it weird though, John, that we have 864 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,680 Speaker 2: to even say that though, right, Like we don't say 865 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,760 Speaker 2: that about the alcohol industry. We don't say that about 866 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,000 Speaker 2: the clothing industry. We don't say that about the shoe industry. Yeah, 867 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 2: but yet we say that about the cannabis industry. 868 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,000 Speaker 3: It's everywhere else. 869 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 2: You see how that is in our heads though it's 870 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 2: such a man and I'm not it's not you, it's 871 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 2: us you. I mean, we say it, I say it. 872 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 2: I think the same way. I'm not pointing you up. 873 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 2: I know, mean you you have to explain yourself in 874 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,719 Speaker 2: this industry. You're like, well, I'm in the cannabis. 875 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,759 Speaker 4: But exactly you have to say that. 876 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,759 Speaker 2: We have to say that anywhere, like like it's still there. 877 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,400 Speaker 7: I think it's I think it's because it's like I said, 878 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 7: I'm it's coming from a person that's I'm you know, 879 00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,719 Speaker 7: I smoke marijuana high school, like like a lot of 880 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 7: people coming from a person that I don't smoke pot daily, 881 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 7: so I drinking to write. I have a friend that 882 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,879 Speaker 7: smokes pot but doesn't drink. So he's like, oh, those 883 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,920 Speaker 7: people are drinking over there, so well that's bad, but 884 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:13,960 Speaker 7: you're smoking. 885 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, ye pot, right. 886 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,000 Speaker 5: But I think it's because it do what you want 887 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 5: to do. 888 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:22,920 Speaker 3: I think it's. 889 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,960 Speaker 7: Still new that that it's becoming just kind of a 890 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 7: mainstream legalized it in a sense. 891 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,160 Speaker 5: Right, how long has it been since. 892 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,680 Speaker 3: Yeah or something like that. 893 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,520 Speaker 2: So, I mean, I live with somebody who will still 894 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,080 Speaker 2: look at people and they're smoking or like, oh they 895 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:36,719 Speaker 2: have a oh they're doing edible, Like it's just not 896 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,000 Speaker 2: still not socially perfect yet you know what I mean, 897 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,120 Speaker 2: and like, and everyone else could be. 898 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,440 Speaker 4: Drinking, let alone four drinks too many on a man 899 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,400 Speaker 4: or a woman and nobody's. 900 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 3: Looking at them. 901 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, and no one's looking at that person. 902 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,680 Speaker 2: And I'm talking about people that I'm around sometimes, so 903 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,320 Speaker 2: I still see this and that. 904 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 4: But yet you see some guys. 905 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,399 Speaker 3: Go there smoking during the corn that are. 906 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 4: Yeah whatever, they'll say something to do, and I still 907 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:00,920 Speaker 4: see it. 908 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:05,040 Speaker 2: I'm like, really, the heavy tongue just so you're fucking 909 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,960 Speaker 2: Warner out judging everybody I just call. 910 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,640 Speaker 5: But I also think because. 911 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,319 Speaker 7: Growing up when I was a kid, my dad was 912 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,319 Speaker 7: my dad was in Vietnam, and he had some things 913 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,640 Speaker 7: he didn't like about people smoking weed from his probably 914 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:24,400 Speaker 7: experience in Vietnam. So but what I see now is 915 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,239 Speaker 7: especially with the CBD and the gummies and more of 916 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:33,160 Speaker 7: my friends parents and grandparents that that they weren't smoking 917 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,319 Speaker 7: potlard in high school, but all of a sudden, now 918 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,240 Speaker 7: all of them were going to the sensory getting gummies 919 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 7: and getting like this. And the kids are like, well, 920 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,320 Speaker 7: you know, I take a gummy once a whole, and 921 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,279 Speaker 7: the mom's like, I take one. 922 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,200 Speaker 8: Every night because they're using it for medicinal purposes. They're 923 00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,239 Speaker 8: using it for a certain uh cause and effect. So 924 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,920 Speaker 8: like we said, the sleep and like the flight, we 925 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,800 Speaker 8: have all those, but like my favorite customers are the 926 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,279 Speaker 8: mature adults that are coming in once a week. They're 927 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,879 Speaker 8: coming to get their CBN to get a good sleep, right, 928 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 8: and they get their CBD to get the anti inflammatory. 929 00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,400 Speaker 8: And then, don't get me wrong, there are the adults 930 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:06,640 Speaker 8: that do like getting high. 931 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, just announced for the head. 932 00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:11,040 Speaker 4: They keep coming in. 933 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,640 Speaker 2: But I love what you say, Z because I'm now 934 00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,720 Speaker 2: that man right who was sober and still sober twenty 935 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,160 Speaker 2: six years. I haven't had a drink, I still don't smoke 936 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,399 Speaker 2: a joint. I went to the dispenser of the day 937 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,440 Speaker 2: and got me some things, and I'm like, this is 938 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 2: the medicine now that I know, and I use I 939 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,320 Speaker 2: love this stuff why because I use. 940 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,919 Speaker 3: It for medicinal So what do you eat? 941 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,520 Speaker 2: So like, I use a pin with a sativa in 942 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,040 Speaker 2: the morning and the daytime with a gummy as well, 943 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,759 Speaker 2: and I've been using a lot of dying products as well. Right, 944 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,799 Speaker 2: So Dime they have a great cb V which was 945 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,439 Speaker 2: the energy one that they added right for their daytime one. 946 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,160 Speaker 8: C CBV also doesn't give you the munchies. So the 947 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,240 Speaker 8: good news as you speak, So I feel like I feel. 948 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 2: Like I'm working out right, so I take and I 949 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,880 Speaker 2: take it before my workouts. So then I do that 950 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,400 Speaker 2: for the workouts, and I take their CBD in for nighttime. 951 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:03,440 Speaker 2: So it's like but become a great ritual of what 952 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,640 Speaker 2: medicine that I'm using, rather than like, look at my arm, 953 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,480 Speaker 2: I'm scraped up here, right, So this is a four 954 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,840 Speaker 2: advil every minute, you know, pain that I'm not doing anymore, 955 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:13,799 Speaker 2: which is the pain that you can't see, which is 956 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,960 Speaker 2: the two hips in the ankle where I was taking 957 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,520 Speaker 2: four advils all the time. Anyways, So my point is 958 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,839 Speaker 2: I'm that patient that came off of those advils and 959 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 2: now I'm using products where. 960 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 3: I'm actually. 961 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, that are natural and. 962 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:35,000 Speaker 2: So I'm the man woman you're describing that, and I 963 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,440 Speaker 2: feel better off it rather than you know, just feeling 964 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,160 Speaker 2: like okay and the little whatever I've been feeling that 965 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,600 Speaker 2: I can feel better and I'm I'm dropping weight, I 966 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 2: think from the CBV whatever, so I feel like it's working. 967 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:47,560 Speaker 5: There's something to drop weight. 968 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,080 Speaker 4: I need people cannabis and this is manny. 969 00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,440 Speaker 8: People actually think that cannabis. Look, I'm a daily consumer. 970 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:59,480 Speaker 8: If it made you hungry, look at you. I think 971 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,680 Speaker 8: if you hung were you gonna eat? 972 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:02,680 Speaker 4: I mean, it might kick in. 973 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,640 Speaker 2: There's the to answer that too, is that there's the 974 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,480 Speaker 2: lazy stoner, right, But that person is not a lazy stoner. 975 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,480 Speaker 3: He's just lazy, do you know what I mean? Like, 976 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:12,920 Speaker 3: there's gonna be lazy people in. 977 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,360 Speaker 8: Every little I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna give the 978 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 8: same shot. I'm gonna get the same shout out to 979 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:18,640 Speaker 8: the same guy. Remember last time I was here, I 980 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,319 Speaker 8: talked about my boy. He's one of my partners and consultants. 981 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,960 Speaker 8: His name is Hirsch Harvard graduate J Day. Yeah, yeah 982 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,480 Speaker 8: you guys, Yeah, you had him on the show. 983 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 4: He just texted me he's doing something Venice next week. Yeah, 984 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:29,319 Speaker 4: with us. 985 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's us this show. 986 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,640 Speaker 2: I just oh, hey, welcome to the show. I don't 987 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,360 Speaker 2: know you guys just texted me. 988 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,080 Speaker 8: So he's doing the Chamber of Commerce event, which is 989 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,239 Speaker 8: the Chamber and so they're gonna be their venists at 990 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,600 Speaker 8: the Cobo thing. But that his story is at fifteen, 991 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,480 Speaker 8: when the first time he smoked weed is when he 992 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,400 Speaker 8: finally became smart. Just like you said, Johnny, he finally 993 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,160 Speaker 8: became focused. All of a sudden, he went from an 994 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,760 Speaker 8: average student to the number one debater in the nation, 995 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:56,320 Speaker 8: not the state. 996 00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:02,839 Speaker 2: Yeah boy, but they went to as well. Yeah, I 997 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:04,760 Speaker 2: know this cat. He stood out of my head. 998 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:09,120 Speaker 8: Dude, Hurs and he's one of the nicest guys to him, 999 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:10,360 Speaker 8: so humble and so smart. 1000 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:10,839 Speaker 6: There you go. 1001 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,840 Speaker 8: Does cannabis make you lazy? No, in this case, it 1002 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 8: made him smart. See really, who you are and what 1003 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:16,959 Speaker 8: you want to be. If you're an entrepreneur, you're gonna 1004 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:17,920 Speaker 8: go after When you're talking. 1005 00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,120 Speaker 4: About a guy who at Berkeley heart Yale. 1006 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,040 Speaker 8: I mean, but here's the funny thing is he's a 1007 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:27,120 Speaker 8: very You can look up his uncle. His uncle who's 1008 00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,880 Speaker 8: the first one they came into this country. M t 1009 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,000 Speaker 8: three master's degrees in three years. Still has the record 1010 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,440 Speaker 8: for the highest and graduate PhDs and master's degrees in 1011 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,440 Speaker 8: m I t all in the same time at the 1012 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,080 Speaker 8: same like three, three and three? 1013 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,640 Speaker 6: Are you kidding me? How smart? Are you? 1014 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:45,040 Speaker 5: All right? 1015 00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,040 Speaker 4: When do you rest? I mean, how do you choose that? 1016 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,240 Speaker 6: If you're that smart? It's just that easy. 1017 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,720 Speaker 2: I want to get to the high five, John, everybody 1018 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,080 Speaker 2: that comes on, we'd like to ask these questions. You 1019 00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,320 Speaker 2: kind of lingered around him a little bit, but bottom line, 1020 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,040 Speaker 2: there's a great event going down on the throw Down, 1021 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,520 Speaker 2: the world's largest cornhole festival. 1022 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:04,880 Speaker 4: You've heard all about it. 1023 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,160 Speaker 2: Check it out and of course big props to the 1024 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,440 Speaker 2: Spencer Mackenzie's Fish Company, which are named after his two 1025 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,960 Speaker 2: beautiful children. What a great story that is. Dude, you're 1026 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,560 Speaker 2: an amazing man giving back to the community. And Z 1027 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,959 Speaker 2: thank you for bringing him along and tagging. 1028 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:19,399 Speaker 4: Along with him too. 1029 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:19,880 Speaker 5: Thank you. 1030 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,920 Speaker 2: This love connection is amazing how this all comes back together. 1031 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:24,640 Speaker 2: But we want to do the high five with you, John. 1032 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,360 Speaker 2: As we heard Z's last time, question number one, you 1033 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,359 Speaker 2: said high school, you did it, But exactly when and who? 1034 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,200 Speaker 2: When was the first time you smoke cannabis? And where'd 1035 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,719 Speaker 2: you get it from? Good old Johnny Boy, This Hey John? 1036 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:40,200 Speaker 4: Was it after that Shepherd's Pie? 1037 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:41,440 Speaker 5: The eighties? 1038 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,279 Speaker 7: The eighties are a lot different, right, So eighty I 1039 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,960 Speaker 7: graduated eighty eight from high school, so I think I 1040 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,840 Speaker 7: drank my first beer in eighth grade. 1041 00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:55,640 Speaker 5: My kids aren't going to watch this. I think the 1042 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:56,400 Speaker 5: first time I saw. 1043 00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:57,040 Speaker 4: Why don't you yell at me? 1044 00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:57,560 Speaker 3: They're dead? 1045 00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:02,680 Speaker 7: I'd have to say I was probably probably a junior 1046 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:03,480 Speaker 7: in high school. 1047 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:07,000 Speaker 5: Probably you remember who brought it. Well, I'll tell you 1048 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,360 Speaker 5: a crazy story. So my teacher, which was a horticulture teacher, 1049 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,080 Speaker 5: this is the eighties, he was teaching the kids how 1050 00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,920 Speaker 5: to how to germinate it and grow it in the 1051 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,440 Speaker 5: on Truesday. Yeah, I'd go fishing with him after school 1052 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,120 Speaker 5: and he'd be and he'd be smoking a joint and 1053 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,160 Speaker 5: he'd hand me a hand me a little puff. So 1054 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,840 Speaker 5: it was probably with my ahead. 1055 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:29,680 Speaker 3: Of that it is. 1056 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:31,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, I love it. 1057 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,960 Speaker 2: Question number two of the high schools, what is your 1058 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,360 Speaker 2: favorite way to use or smoke cannabis? 1059 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:37,480 Speaker 5: My favorite? 1060 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:42,280 Speaker 7: So I don't smoke much. The last time that I 1061 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,759 Speaker 7: smoked marijuana, my buddies caught when we fish these tournaments, 1062 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,120 Speaker 7: they their little code words, like he wants to go 1063 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:49,440 Speaker 7: in the in the room and have some milk. 1064 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,640 Speaker 5: So it's probably probably. 1065 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,319 Speaker 7: A couple of years ago, two years ago, and I 1066 00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,960 Speaker 7: was coughing so bad there and making fun of me. 1067 00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:05,239 Speaker 7: So gummies I probably is. 1068 00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:06,040 Speaker 5: You know. 1069 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,000 Speaker 7: I had a gummy probably three four months ago my 1070 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,400 Speaker 7: friend's house. We're playing cornhole and they somebody had some 1071 00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:12,279 Speaker 7: gummies and that's you. 1072 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:13,759 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think. 1073 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,680 Speaker 2: So it's very easy that way, so nice and simple, 1074 00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:17,439 Speaker 2: and they taste good. 1075 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,480 Speaker 5: I just got to figure out what. Like I said, 1076 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:20,080 Speaker 5: I gotta get. 1077 00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:23,640 Speaker 7: Educated because it it makes me feel hung over in 1078 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,399 Speaker 7: the morning if I take it too much. 1079 00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:25,759 Speaker 3: That's what. 1080 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,839 Speaker 4: Yeah, I've learned it. I started with my dying one. 1081 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,640 Speaker 2: Like I said, I went a quarter a half to 1082 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,360 Speaker 2: now a whole one of that night I could do 1083 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,920 Speaker 2: two at the Mutt Max. So yeah, you just got 1084 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,880 Speaker 2: to microdose up and figure it out, because that's gonna. 1085 00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:37,160 Speaker 4: Be the key way. 1086 00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,360 Speaker 2: Question number three, Good old Johnny boy. I love it 1087 00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,960 Speaker 2: that you your kids are listening and watching going Dad. 1088 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,640 Speaker 2: I didn't know you were that old when you smoke 1089 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:45,120 Speaker 2: and drank. 1090 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:46,360 Speaker 3: Why do you yell? Let me? 1091 00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,040 Speaker 2: But now we heard you smoke with a teacher. That 1092 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,799 Speaker 2: might be the craziest place. But where is the craziest 1093 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,239 Speaker 2: fucking place you ever smoked or use cannabis? Because with 1094 00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,040 Speaker 2: your teachers up there, I mean, if there's something crazy, 1095 00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,239 Speaker 2: crazy story. 1096 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,239 Speaker 7: Okay, I got a crazy story. So this is a lot. 1097 00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,279 Speaker 7: This is probably in nineteen ninety two or three. We're 1098 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,600 Speaker 7: down in San Diego working, me and. 1099 00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,279 Speaker 5: Some doing construction. 1100 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,719 Speaker 7: Construction, were just and these and these girls walk through 1101 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,000 Speaker 7: the parking lot and they you know, and we're we 1102 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:16,640 Speaker 7: kind of talked to them. 1103 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:17,799 Speaker 5: They said, I'll come up to our room. 1104 00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,200 Speaker 7: And they there, and I'm not a plot smoker, right, 1105 00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,040 Speaker 7: They roll a joint and they said, weren'll be down 1106 00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,040 Speaker 7: in your room in a few minutes. They come down 1107 00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,640 Speaker 7: in our room, and me and my buddy were trying 1108 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:30,080 Speaker 7: to be cool, so we smoke a bunch of the joint. 1109 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:31,640 Speaker 7: They probably I don't even know if they smoked any 1110 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,640 Speaker 7: of it, and then they took off about it hour 1111 00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:36,120 Speaker 7: or two later. All of a sudden, our hearts are 1112 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:38,840 Speaker 7: just going like this, yeah, and then and then like 1113 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,479 Speaker 7: and then my buddy makes me called nine. 1114 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,520 Speaker 5: One one, Oh no, it was lace with PCP. 1115 00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:50,680 Speaker 7: It was yes, And I didn't touch marijuana for twenty years. 1116 00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,760 Speaker 5: Literally for twenty you met. 1117 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:56,000 Speaker 3: Not a good experience. 1118 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,920 Speaker 5: The next that was at eight o'clock at night. 1119 00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:01,120 Speaker 7: The next morning at noon, we are barely coming down 1120 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:02,520 Speaker 7: off of it. 1121 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:03,799 Speaker 4: It was not a good Did you get any of 1122 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:04,320 Speaker 4: that anymore? 1123 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:10,840 Speaker 3: Joint? 1124 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,000 Speaker 7: I felt like I felt like my heart was going 1125 00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,359 Speaker 7: like it wasn't good shirt for that, like. 1126 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,319 Speaker 6: The movie The Roger Rabbit with Oh yeah. 1127 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,320 Speaker 4: Question number four of the high five, what is your. 1128 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,000 Speaker 3: Go to munchiet after you get high. 1129 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:34,480 Speaker 5: Can Why do you think we sell some fish tacos? 1130 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:35,799 Speaker 5: Got a bunch of surfers coming in. 1131 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,600 Speaker 4: Oh my god, I love I thanks for bringing some asshole. 1132 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,200 Speaker 4: You have to go to this exactly? You know it 1133 00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:44,759 Speaker 4: better that way, better that way rather than. 1134 00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,520 Speaker 8: Guys the parmesan crusted tacos. He didn't even bring about 1135 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,680 Speaker 8: of those up. And that's your favorite and he has 1136 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,799 Speaker 8: his own salsas. And it's really it. 1137 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:54,880 Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's an iconic spot, That's what I mean. 1138 00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,160 Speaker 2: Everybody knows about your spot. That's what I and I 1139 00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:58,520 Speaker 2: know of it. And I say it that way because 1140 00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,640 Speaker 2: it's been there forever. Uh, I you know, it's it's 1141 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,160 Speaker 2: it's great to know. Question number five though, John of 1142 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,880 Speaker 2: the High Five, if you could smoke cannabis with anyone 1143 00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:09,239 Speaker 2: dead or. 1144 00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:10,920 Speaker 3: Alive, who would it be? 1145 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:12,239 Speaker 5: And why other than Z? 1146 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:14,560 Speaker 4: Other than Z in the place to be? 1147 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,880 Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. Probably I am a massive, massive 1148 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:18,799 Speaker 5: Kid Rock fan. 1149 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,160 Speaker 4: I love favorite song. 1150 00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:26,760 Speaker 5: Uh, I don't know. I love them all. I probably. 1151 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:30,840 Speaker 7: All summer long. Probably he's a good one. But you 1152 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,919 Speaker 7: know the one with machine gun Kelly's pretty good too. 1153 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,440 Speaker 4: I love the one with him and Sheryl Crow. Picture 1154 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,000 Speaker 4: Pictures my favorite song of him. 1155 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:43,480 Speaker 2: I could picture picture picture. 1156 00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:44,080 Speaker 5: Put him on the map. 1157 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:52,479 Speaker 6: He supported Uncle Crocker to supporting I like. 1158 00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,640 Speaker 7: I'd say, if I could, like, if I could have 1159 00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,560 Speaker 7: like a dream, you know, like call kid Rock and 1160 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,120 Speaker 7: say hey, can I you know houses and and how. 1161 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,480 Speaker 4: He was wrapping back in the day to just killing it. 1162 00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,080 Speaker 5: It was kid Rock and Hnkhams Junior and. 1163 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, good old boys right there. 1164 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:12,479 Speaker 7: Do it. 1165 00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,239 Speaker 4: Like you, Johnny, I want to go to the corner. 1166 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:18,640 Speaker 4: But no, that just hearing everything you do. 1167 00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,840 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, give the man his flowers 1168 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,920 Speaker 2: because you know him best. You already said how he 1169 00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,720 Speaker 2: found out about your dinnery. We hear how he doesn't 1170 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,359 Speaker 2: give me some other insight that that you know, he's 1171 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,000 Speaker 2: so humble. You're right, he's so giving it back to 1172 00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,439 Speaker 2: where he you know, he blues term he gives up 1173 00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:37,399 Speaker 2: to who brought him to the dance floor by Brent 1174 00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,480 Speaker 2: mentioning that other company, right, like it's not all Johnny, 1175 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:41,160 Speaker 2: that's done at all. 1176 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,200 Speaker 4: It's a whole team. But like who else is out there? 1177 00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:46,640 Speaker 6: Here's the best way to describe it. 1178 00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,319 Speaker 8: He mentioned the other predispensary that was there with just 1179 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:55,160 Speaker 8: three factory and great guys, great company, They're amazing, But 1180 00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,200 Speaker 8: we know what happened to Its just trying. 1181 00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:58,120 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's tough. 1182 00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:02,440 Speaker 8: So I was refer by somebody and they said, if 1183 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,360 Speaker 8: you're going to go talk to somebody else in Canadas, 1184 00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:05,279 Speaker 8: go ahead and speak to Zee. 1185 00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,200 Speaker 6: When we met the reason. 1186 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,840 Speaker 8: I literally told them I said this, I said, listen, 1187 00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:13,480 Speaker 8: I walked out. I said, if my partner said now, 1188 00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,279 Speaker 8: it doesn't matter, I'll write you to check personally. And 1189 00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,040 Speaker 8: he's like, what's that about, Like how much you said 1190 00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,440 Speaker 8: you were going to be loyal to your partner? He 1191 00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,960 Speaker 8: could have if the engagement was working out correctly, he 1192 00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,359 Speaker 8: would have let Tree Factory come in for free. And 1193 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,280 Speaker 8: I said, what he goes, yeah, we have a partnership. 1194 00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,120 Speaker 8: So that means if I'm now your partner, I'm going 1195 00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:37,440 Speaker 8: to get that same damn treatment. 1196 00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:38,960 Speaker 6: And so that's what really got me. 1197 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,000 Speaker 8: It was like he's a true loyal business guy, and 1198 00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:43,680 Speaker 8: everybody says he's a good guy. 1199 00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,160 Speaker 6: Everybody says he gives back. 1200 00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,680 Speaker 8: Then what got me on the icing on the cake straightforward, 1201 00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:53,439 Speaker 8: it was just this last Saturday. Even when he's busy, 1202 00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:57,319 Speaker 8: he's promoting marketing, he still answers his text and how 1203 00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:02,160 Speaker 8: he treated his kids while at that event. They were engaged, 1204 00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,719 Speaker 8: little kids that were happy to be there. And he's 1205 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,200 Speaker 8: a family man and his family supports what he does. 1206 00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,600 Speaker 8: And I think that is a true strength of any man. 1207 00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,160 Speaker 8: If your family is pushing you there, you could there's 1208 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,360 Speaker 8: no limit to what we can do, right, But he 1209 00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,160 Speaker 8: supports them, he loves them, he cares for him. And 1210 00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,480 Speaker 8: then he also is there teaching him how to fish. 1211 00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:26,080 Speaker 8: And he just told me the story back there, he goes, Mike, kids, 1212 00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:26,960 Speaker 8: listen to this. 1213 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:28,600 Speaker 6: This is what boom. 1214 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,680 Speaker 8: My kids put all their phones down themselves and said 1215 00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:33,040 Speaker 8: the no more phone for the next hour. It is 1216 00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:36,239 Speaker 8: gonna hang out. The kids are putting their phones down. 1217 00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,640 Speaker 8: The parent is saying, get out of your phone. The 1218 00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:40,920 Speaker 8: kids are saying, hey, it's time. We're about to go fishing, 1219 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,560 Speaker 8: We're about to hang out with dad. Let's go have 1220 00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,200 Speaker 8: a group of time. We're putting our phone down. Yeah, 1221 00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:46,640 Speaker 8: he's taught them the right way. 1222 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,800 Speaker 4: How old are these kids? Thirty? 1223 00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,080 Speaker 7: No growth eighteen fourteen to n But you know what 1224 00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,520 Speaker 7: I do want to mention, so you know one thing 1225 00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,920 Speaker 7: I haven't talked about is I if this isn't and 1226 00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:00,879 Speaker 7: I talk if you look at all the things I've done, 1227 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:02,640 Speaker 7: if you look at all these things I've done, I 1228 00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:06,000 Speaker 7: always mentioned David. David is a person that helped has 1229 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,440 Speaker 7: helped me market this. I look at him as a partner. 1230 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:12,920 Speaker 7: It's all my vision and my grind, and but I 1231 00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,359 Speaker 7: could have never taken this event to the levels is 1232 00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:20,280 Speaker 7: at without David from Gods Design. He does all my branding, 1233 00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:23,520 Speaker 7: my marketing. You're asking all these questions earlier about how 1234 00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,520 Speaker 7: we market how well David does all that? I mean, 1235 00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:27,600 Speaker 7: I put my faith in him to I have these 1236 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,120 Speaker 7: great ideas, I do all these crazy videos, and but 1237 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,160 Speaker 7: we would not be where we're at if David didn't. 1238 00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:35,439 Speaker 7: He's the one that in the very beginning, started learning 1239 00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:38,160 Speaker 7: the names of the Corno players and getting relationships and 1240 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:41,520 Speaker 7: phone numbers and talking and and when I was distracted 1241 00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,960 Speaker 7: by the by the whole event and not and not 1242 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,840 Speaker 7: being able to have that time to really pull it 1243 00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:50,560 Speaker 7: all together. So even though the Throwdown Productions is my event, 1244 00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,640 Speaker 7: I it's mine and David's event. Like to the end, 1245 00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,040 Speaker 7: we own this event together because I could have never 1246 00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:58,759 Speaker 7: got up to where it's at without David. 1247 00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,719 Speaker 5: He's he's a busy, this partner that helps me go 1248 00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:02,920 Speaker 5: to these meetings. It helps me. 1249 00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:06,040 Speaker 7: He writes all the contracts. You know, I can barely 1250 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:07,280 Speaker 7: turn on my phone like we're talking. 1251 00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,000 Speaker 8: So let me just put this away. While we're filling 1252 00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,759 Speaker 8: out your application. He goes, what's my he literally asked me. 1253 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,960 Speaker 8: He goes, what's my domain, what's my website? What's my handle? 1254 00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:16,560 Speaker 5: I didn't go straight to David. 1255 00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,120 Speaker 8: I'm like, David, send it out within thirty seconds, David 1256 00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:20,480 Speaker 8: said it all and give. 1257 00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:20,719 Speaker 6: It to us. 1258 00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,600 Speaker 7: Yeah, and really David should be on the show too, 1259 00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,440 Speaker 7: because I look at if you, like I said, you 1260 00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,279 Speaker 7: go back and look at all the things we talk about. 1261 00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,919 Speaker 7: I always talk about, you know, David and I built 1262 00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,600 Speaker 7: this together. I'm the face of it, you know. 1263 00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,680 Speaker 6: But so why don't we get Chuck and David to 1264 00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:34,719 Speaker 6: come replace you with me? 1265 00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,440 Speaker 2: We come in to the show, guys, is there anything 1266 00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:40,920 Speaker 2: else you want to say before we let you get 1267 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:41,440 Speaker 2: on out of here? 1268 00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,520 Speaker 7: I just I'm really I'm blown away by I just 1269 00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,520 Speaker 7: mentioned earlier. So I come to this building and not 1270 00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:48,279 Speaker 7: know what I'm gonna get. 1271 00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,400 Speaker 5: I walk in. I'm like, I'm very impressed. 1272 00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,680 Speaker 7: By your production, about you, about your professionalism, and then 1273 00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,520 Speaker 7: just meeting you and learning our personalities. 1274 00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:59,440 Speaker 5: It's it's a great you guys do great great things, very. 1275 00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,160 Speaker 7: Similar, a great connection talking about we're kind of I'm 1276 00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,040 Speaker 7: a little bit older, but we have the same values, 1277 00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:05,640 Speaker 7: right Like, I think we're at the age where we 1278 00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,600 Speaker 7: want to get rid of this and go back to 1279 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:12,720 Speaker 7: reading the magazine Real life, right right, So. 1280 00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,239 Speaker 3: And I think there's a place for it. You know 1281 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:15,879 Speaker 3: it's coming. It's it has to fret a little older. 1282 00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,160 Speaker 4: I gotta go piss is. 1283 00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,800 Speaker 2: Guys, Cannabis Talk one on one and remember this, if 1284 00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:22,480 Speaker 2: no one else loves you, we. 1285 00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,880 Speaker 1: Do follow Cannabis Talk one on one on all social 1286 00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,720 Speaker 1: media and Cannabis Talk one O one. Thank you for 1287 00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:30,960 Speaker 1: listening to Cannabis Talk one on one with Blue with 1288 00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:34,920 Speaker 1: Joe Grande, the world's number one source for everything cannabis, 1289 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,000 Speaker 1: and make sure you like, follow, and subscribe to Cannabis 1290 00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:39,200 Speaker 1: Talk one on one now