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Speaker 1: On the show, these guys have been out here hanging

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Speaker 1: the founder of we Smoke, Inc. A social media networking

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Speaker 1: application and websites downloaded today. Go check them out online

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Speaker 1: on I g at we smoke app dot com or

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Speaker 1: New York. He's been supporting the cannabis culture for a

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Speaker 1: long long time. Thank you for coming on the show. Brother.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm doing great? How you doing? I'm

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Speaker 1: doing okay alive Today we're trying to make it happen captain,

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Speaker 1: So tell us about the app. Man, How did you

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Speaker 1: social media. When Instagram decided to shut us down, we

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Speaker 1: Were that great? Is that? What happened? You got literally

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Speaker 1: cannabis events. Like I tell people, they're the best crowd

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Speaker 1: to have, you know what I'm saying. Cannabis events always

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Speaker 1: go smoothly, which is different when people get drunk, they

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Speaker 1: get rally. When people get high, they just want to chill.

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Speaker 1: So we was doing cannabis events from there. I did

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Speaker 1: a four event. I did culture Fest twenty nineteen, which

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Speaker 1: was the first open cannabis music event in New York City.

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Speaker 1: Right if you look it up, you you could google it.

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Speaker 1: It was a cannabis music event in nineteen before it

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Speaker 1: was legal, that was promoted on radio. It was promoted

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Speaker 1: in magazines. We did it in the warehouse. It was

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Speaker 1: cannabis friendly. We had over a thousand people show up.

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Speaker 1: It was a gigantic success. So we went for near

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Speaker 1: two uh continuing to do events and then decided, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's do this this this app. Of course, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: easy to get people. It's gonna be difficult to get

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Speaker 1: people to switch over from Instagram to an app they

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Speaker 1: don't know of, right, But the benefit is if you

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Speaker 1: really know business, the benefit is this, if you promote

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, one, they're gonna shut you down. But too

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Speaker 1: if you promote on Instagram and a thousand people see

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Speaker 1: your posts, right, how many of those people are cannabis people?

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Speaker 1: Maybe a hundred. If you just promote on our app

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Speaker 1: and a thousand people see your post, all thousands of

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Speaker 1: them are cannabis people. It's hyper focused, right, So as

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Speaker 1: a business person, you're gonna understand that this is my market.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm promoting directly to my market. So it makes

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Speaker 1: sense from a business perspective. So what we did was

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Speaker 1: instead of focusing on the people, we've been focusing on

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Speaker 1: the companies, on the businesses, Let's get them on the app.

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Speaker 1: And then once we get all the businesses on the app,

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Speaker 1: we promote them so that they can engage with each

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Speaker 1: other learn from each other. Then we worry about getting

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Speaker 1: the masses of people more. So that's why we go

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Speaker 1: to these events to get the businesses on there so

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Speaker 1: that they can utilize the app. And once they begin

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Speaker 1: utilizing the app, then we bring them their customers. Come

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Speaker 1: in here. What the resources are, dude, brilliant strategy, by

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Speaker 1: the way, you know, it makes the most freaking sense ever.

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Speaker 1: And and you know, and how how is the businesses

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Speaker 1: been adopting your app? They love it, love it. It

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Speaker 1: makes sense. It's just so simple. It's just like you know,

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Speaker 1: and just you give me notifications and all that stuff

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Speaker 1: as well. So it gives you notifications, you can DM people,

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Speaker 1: you can um, you can share, you can share, you

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Speaker 1: can get followers. Everything that you can do in any

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Speaker 1: of these others apps you can do here. And because

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Speaker 1: we haven't done the promoted post, everything is basically free.

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Speaker 1: So you you download the aff for free, You create

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Speaker 1: your own page, you control your own content, you post

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Speaker 1: and we will repost to make sure that everybody sees it,

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Speaker 1: and you guys will repost it from your pages. The

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Speaker 1: way it works is this, you have a page. You

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Speaker 1: got five hundred followers right on your on your resmoke page.

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Speaker 1: When you post, all five hundred people see it. Right

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Speaker 1: when we post on resmoke page, everybody. So if you

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Speaker 1: post five hundred people see that, we if we post

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Speaker 1: and we got two thousand people on, everybody sees it,

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Speaker 1: so we will repost your post. Is there any way

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Speaker 1: to get kicked off of yours? Yes? Doing anything illegal?

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Speaker 1: Okay traffic? Okay, question is not a marketplace? Right. You

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Speaker 1: can promote and you can send people to YO, to

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Speaker 1: your site, you can send people to your store. You

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Speaker 1: can do all of that. What you cannot do is

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Speaker 1: transac overthrough it, through through that are you reading their messages?

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Speaker 1: Whatever happens in the DM. So if I say, come

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Speaker 1: big of announced, talent, bounce, do whatever you need. If

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Speaker 1: it's an open ounce, you feel like y'all get announced

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Speaker 1: on a comment or something like that, then you know

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Speaker 1: and then you'll be like, yo, you can't do that.

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Speaker 1: And then if they continue doing that, then we like,

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Speaker 1: because we don't want to get the we don't want

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Speaker 1: to get nobody jammed up, and we definitely don't want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, be in caught having to Hey, this is

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Speaker 1: the this is the information. Whatever happens in the d M,

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Speaker 1: we don't get it. We don't see it, right, respect,

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Speaker 1: That's that's what you'll. I love everything you guys are

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Speaker 1: saying about it. Before we let you guys go, I

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Speaker 1: want to do the high five with you guys, because

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Speaker 1: you guys the first time on the show and you're

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Speaker 1: from New York and do your thing. We'll just ask

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Speaker 1: you this question. We'll go Chabaka and then Alonzo you'll

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Speaker 1: answer right there. Next first question is how old you

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Speaker 1: the first time you smoke cannabis? And where'd you get

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Speaker 1: it from? The first time I smoked, I was twelve

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Speaker 1: years old. Where'd you get it from? From? My older

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Speaker 1: cousin Nice Nice? I was about and I was in college.

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Speaker 1: One of my friends rush it nuver. Two of the

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Speaker 1: high five, what is your favorite way to use or

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Speaker 1: smoke cannabis? I wrote blunts. I like the like the

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Speaker 1: juices and ship like yeah. Yeah. That's my effects for

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Speaker 1: having by Will today. Let let me tell you this

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Speaker 1: real quick, right, So, remember how he was talking about

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Speaker 1: how he got hurt two years ago. I told my

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Speaker 1: whole knee up in a motorcycle accident. Like literally I

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Speaker 1: had to get surgery and everything right when I told

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Speaker 1: my knee up, I went back to um to my

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Speaker 1: ball and my knee was literally almost hanging off, and

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Speaker 1: he was like, yo, you gotta go to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: I said, just rote me a blunt blunt and I

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Speaker 1: was like good. And then I went back to my

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Speaker 1: house and my knee has swolled up like this, and

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Speaker 1: my girls like, you gotta go to hospital. And then

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Speaker 1: I went to the hospital, but I smoked. The blunting

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Speaker 1: was good. He's crazy. That is great? And that was

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Speaker 1: your favorite way to use cannabis? There we go. Question

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Speaker 1: ever through the High five, craziest place you ever used

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Speaker 1: cannabis or smoked? My craziest place probably had my friend's

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Speaker 1: baby shower. No, I was lit up like that. I

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Speaker 1: was the baby wasn't there yet? Yeah? Thank And what

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Speaker 1: about you? I think the craziest place would probably be

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Speaker 1: when I was in prison. We would take our break

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Speaker 1: from our drug program and going the bathroom and smoke.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta take a break from that. Question number

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Speaker 1: four of the High five, what did your go to

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Speaker 1: munchy after you get hig I'm a sweets person, so

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Speaker 1: like I I got like honey buns and all that

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Speaker 1: in the house. Uh, Like was it the Swiss rolls

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff? That's me honey buns. I am

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Speaker 1: still and have always been a serial person. I put

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Speaker 1: a bowl of seial apple jacks. I heard that one

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Speaker 1: question never five with a high five. I'm gonna ask

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Speaker 1: this question. I'm gonna step to the right because my

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Speaker 1: bladder is going crazy here. You guys just war my

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Speaker 1: third water and I'm sorry, But if you could smoke

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Speaker 1: cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?

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Speaker 1: And why? I would go Bob Marley. I know it's

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Speaker 1: probably like a famous popular one, but I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: big into history. Um, the people before us, the mlk's that,

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Xus those, I'm big on that. So Bob Marley

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00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: was clearly instrumental in multiple things in our in our life. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I would just want to pick his brain and

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Speaker 1: what was going on and at that time, you know,

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00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: it's a legendary you know lyricists and you know people

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Speaker 1: that have the ability to write like that. You have

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Speaker 1: to imagine where their mindsets are, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And I would probably say Snoop Snoop ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: Snoop dog godfather week. Yeah, stupid is one of the

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Speaker 1: all time favorites. Man. Listen, guys, it's been a pleasure

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Speaker 1: of having you on the show. Is there anything else

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Speaker 1: that we wanna, you know, touch Before we let you

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Speaker 1: get get on out of here, we just want to

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Speaker 1: tell everybody download the app. The app is free. Download

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00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: the app, start your app page Instagram group. Not because

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00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: anything Instagram did, but because the people decided, hey, let's

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Speaker 1: get on this page and and utilize it. Here's an

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Speaker 1: app that's specifically for the cannabis community. Get on it

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Speaker 1: and utilize. It's important that the cannabis industry, you know,

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Speaker 1: does this. Uh you know I I mean that we

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Speaker 1: have to support these things. Uh, it is a platform

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Speaker 1: for our community. Is there anything else, my man? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I just want to tell people just one thing. As

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Speaker 1: you're crying and complaining about your page, and this is

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00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: your fourth or fifth Instagram page, do why continue to

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00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: go somewhere where you're not wanting. They're not allowing you

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Speaker 1: to eat at their restaurant. We have the buffet for you.

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Speaker 1: Come eat with me, bring you people, that's gold Man.

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

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Speaker 1: And remember this if no one else loves youall, we

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one oh one

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Speaker 1: on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast or wherever

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00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.