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Speaker 1: It's now time for Cannabis Talk one oh one with

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Speaker 1: Blue Joe Grande and Marken Craig Wasserman the Pot Brothers

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Speaker 1: at Law. We're the world's number one podcast for everything cannabis.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue Joe

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Speaker 2: Grande and Mark and Craig Washerman, the Pop Brothers at Law.

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Speaker 2: one oh one at Pop Brothers at Law has an

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Speaker 2: underscore under each word right there. And our little brother

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Speaker 2: Mark Washerman is at Wasslaw. Big brother Craig Washerman is

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Speaker 2: at waslaw Dog. Blue is at one Christopher right, and

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Speaker 2: I am at Joe Grande fifty two. Matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: I've been posting some workout pictures later lately. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you guys can tell. I don't know. Can

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Speaker 2: you tell thank you? Can you tell a little bit?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? Yeah? I was a fat bastard at one point.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm just a fat It's like before, I'm just fat. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 2: you know no, I was even way bigger than you.

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Speaker 2: That voice right there is Mishka and his brother Slava

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Speaker 2: from MMD Shops. You can see the website MMD Shops

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Speaker 2: dot com, ig is MMD Shops, Twitter and Facebook, MMD Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: They got four locations, Hollywood, Long Beach, Marina, del Rey,

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Speaker 2: and North Hollywood. And you know, so when I say shops,

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Speaker 2: they have dispensaries. They have a great logo, you guys.

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Speaker 3: I love.

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Speaker 2: I was on the website and I actually wanted to

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Speaker 2: see what happens. I clicked I wasn't twenty one at

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Speaker 2: the first time, just to see if it kicked me off.

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Speaker 2: And it didn't. So that's cool. How you guys let

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Speaker 2: little kids go on there first.

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Speaker 4: And I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 2: I love how you guys have your logo set up everything,

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Speaker 2: and you guys started in two thousands. So I want

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Speaker 2: you guys to walk us down because in this show

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Speaker 2: right here, these two gentlemen have shops. If you're like wondering,

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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna, I want to hear the story on

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Speaker 2: how you guys came to find cannabis, how you guys

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Speaker 2: decided to do it not only one shop, but four locations,

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Speaker 2: and you started back in the day in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and six, So take me before then, of course, when

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Speaker 2: you guys were playing that crazy illegal game, because let's

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Speaker 2: just face it, you couldn't open up back in the

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Speaker 2: day without playing in the little gray market. I mean

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Speaker 2: you had to. It's just a crazy story and allegedly

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Speaker 2: allegedly you know. So how does it all get started?

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Speaker 2: And who's the older one, Miska or Slava?

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Speaker 3: I'm the older one, Slava?

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Speaker 2: Really? Wow, Slava? That's bad because Miska looks older than you. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 2: Miska like has more gray in his beard. Is that

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Speaker 2: the problem?

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Speaker 3: People say?

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Speaker 2: I looked over here, I'm like, who's the older one?

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Speaker 3: Miska ruined ruins the day?

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Speaker 2: I meanod way to go way to fucking all up, Joe,

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Speaker 2: you fat bastard, Joe, you know what love of course,

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Speaker 2: go ahead and call me an asshole right now exactly.

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Speaker 2: Oh day, it's like we're brothers.

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Speaker 5: Up.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys?

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Speaker 2: Where are you guys from? First off?

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Speaker 4: Belarus? Russia?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so boots it off? First off?

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Speaker 3: I you know to Belarus for former s Union.

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, My first cat that I met from the

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Speaker 2: Soviet Union. I was seventeen years old, and he taught

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Speaker 2: me bootsto office. We were shooting vodka the whole time,

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Speaker 2: just boosted off. Yes, yes, to love to live whatever

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Speaker 4: Should have brought a bottle of vodka exactly.

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Speaker 2: I would have been going crazy going over here. So

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Speaker 2: from did you guys come here as a kid? Give

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Speaker 4: So we actually came last night, learned English.

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Speaker 4: Right, brought a back full of weed and we got started.

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Speaker 2: I mean, are you guys born here? You guys from there?

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Speaker 2: Give me the background.

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Speaker 6: So we came here in eighty nine, in ninety eighty nine,

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Speaker 6: I was about twelve, Okay, immigrated from Belarus. You know,

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Speaker 6: Our dad actually realized and came to LA for a

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Speaker 3: We're moving to LA. And ever since then we've been

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Speaker 2: Was it just you four?

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Speaker 6: It know, we have an older brother, our grandma, and

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Speaker 6: our parents. So our six, six of us, six of

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Speaker 6: you guys came. You guys come on a boat, a

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Speaker 6: play and how to come?

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Speaker 3: We came. We we immigrated.

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Speaker 6: It it takes about a year to immigrate from from

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Speaker 6: Soviet Union. Back then we went through Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy,

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Speaker 2: And this was like the real American dream story, right, yeah.

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Speaker 6: And came here and you know, we started selling with yeah,

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Speaker 6: our yeah, right, cousins, uncles, dog, Walker's aunt had rented

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Speaker 6: us an apartment and gave us a visa, so she

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Speaker 6: was already here refugee visa through some relatives that were

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Speaker 6: here for the past twenty years, came here to Cleveland.

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Speaker 6: Then they just moved us into an apartment full of

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Speaker 3: And we literally the school.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we we just went to school and with our

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Speaker 2: And fresh off the boat and fresh off the boat, right,

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Speaker 2: you know, do you guys look back and just go damn.

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Speaker 2: We come from literally one hundred and fifty bucks and

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Speaker 6: I mean it's kind an accomplishment the drug dealers, you know,

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Speaker 6: coming from nothing and become becoming drug I love immigrants

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Speaker 6: parents dream, but how did it know?

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Speaker 2: Then you come on the boat, your you go to

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Speaker 2: then your dad on the boat, well exactly okay, well yeah,

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Speaker 2: fresh off the boat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, you guys come to Cleveland, you go back to

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Speaker 2: New York and Pops comes to La Where did you

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Speaker 2: guys first.

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Speaker 3: Land in La La? I think about ninety one.

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Speaker 2: And then where'd you guys stay? What are you west?

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Speaker 3: Hollywood? The Russian Hood?

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Speaker 2: The Russian Hood? And are you guys still out there too?

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Speaker 3: No, we will miss in Hollywood and I'm in I'm

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Speaker 3: in the valley.

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Speaker 2: I'm mean, you guys don't live together no more.

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Speaker 7: You guys finally separated at He lives in my garage.

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Speaker 7: My big brothers in the garage, the little brothers. Just

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Speaker 7: he's just sitting there smoking bonglows. Hey come out here,

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Speaker 7: twelve kids and all.

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Speaker 2: That's beautiful. So at what point does cannabis come in

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Speaker 2: to the Miska and Slava household?

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Speaker 4: I think I could take that story. So when uh

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Speaker 4: talking to your big Yes, that's not the mic.

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Speaker 2: It's over there though. Sorry when we're having to my

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Speaker 2: fun here, just guy talking about blast.

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Speaker 5: When I was twelve years old, everybody asked me. I

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Speaker 5: think I was turning twelve or thirteen years old, and

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Speaker 5: everybody asked me, Uh, you know, it was my birthday

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Speaker 5: coming up. Everybody said, what do you want for your birthday?

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Speaker 5: I said, it's pretty simple. I just want money. So

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Speaker 5: everybody gave me money. I got like two hundred bucks.

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Speaker 5: I got my friend to drive me down to Venice Beach.

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Speaker 5: I bought a scale, I bought little baggies and a

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Speaker 5: half an ounce a weed. And that's how my career

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Speaker 2: Little brother started it.

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Speaker 4: Wow, I was the first MMD. Now I'm just kidding there, but.

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Speaker 3: Boy, you're not.

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Speaker 4: But kind of what do you call it in theory,

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Speaker 4: And allegedly, allegedly my career got started.

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Speaker 2: And that's literally all you have to say is allegedly,

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Speaker 2: because therefore you're in the clear that way. So at

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Speaker 2: twelve years old, cannabis gets introduced to you, and then

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Speaker 2: did he introduce it to you? Then?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 5: No, no, he totally tried to get me in trouble.

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Speaker 5: You yes, son of a bitch, radded on me so

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Speaker 5: many times.

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Speaker 2: So your big brother's fucking rating that doing good?

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Speaker 4: Motherfuckers?

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Speaker 2: How about this, what's the first time, what's the what's

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Speaker 2: the first one you remember going?

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Speaker 4: I don't remember? Is I found out later?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: I was making money. Some of us were hustling.

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Speaker 5: That's kind of yeah. I was not doing great in school.

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Speaker 5: I was, you know, selling weed. I was taking girls

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Speaker 5: to Olive Garden. I was golfing every single day. I

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Speaker 5: had different priorities, you know.

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Speaker 2: Right, your big brothers.

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Speaker 5: My brother was hating on me, so he told parents.

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Speaker 5: Got You know, parents were very strict. Cannabis growing up

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Speaker 5: was not something that they were okay with.

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Speaker 3: You could equate it to like crack. Yeah in their minds.

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Speaker 2: How so many that the whole week for manage. So

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Speaker 2: let's get there real quick. What did your parents say

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Speaker 2: when they finally figured out when Slava rots out on

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Speaker 2: Miska going he's showing weed.

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Speaker 4: Mom. Uh, you know, they got extremely mad, You're going

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Speaker 4: to hell the devils to get you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It was never like a religious thing, but it was

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Speaker 5: kind of like, oh, you're gonna be a drug addict,

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Speaker 5: and we didn't come to this country to raise drug addicts,

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Speaker 5: and you know, and and then there was like I

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Speaker 5: thought that they threatened to send me over to like

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Speaker 5: a military school and the whole thing. So, you know,

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Speaker 5: so I learned from that experience, right, I gotta be honest.

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Speaker 5: I learned I got really really good.

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Speaker 2: Don't tell your big brother stuff.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, let me tell you before, before our dad threatened

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Speaker 6: him all that stuff, he actually twisted both of his

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Speaker 6: nipples because I didn't want to like put his hands

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Speaker 3: So the one thing twisted.

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Speaker 6: Nipples twisted him and he, you know, Miska looked like

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Speaker 6: he was about to you guys like a butterfly.

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Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't mind, Yeah, I would. I mean

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Speaker 2: they're still twisted. Are they like silver dollar areolas? Are

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Speaker 2: they quarters?

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Speaker 4: Nipples get skinny and all of a sudden there's a.

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Speaker 2: I'm mister, let me check out your nipples. So, Slava,

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Speaker 2: when you've seen Mishka getting tortured for that, did you

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Speaker 4: He laughed, He pointed, I know he didn't just kidding

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Speaker 6: It wasn't it wasn't like it wasn't like a rat out,

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Speaker 6: our older brother, and you know, he was basically telling

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Speaker 2: And this is pretty really what she hates. Different right here,

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Speaker 2: your brother here, Damn you look great. But I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 2: His headphones are working? Thinking who fixed these pits? Why

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 2: We're with Miska and Slava from M M D Shops.

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Speaker 2: Mishka and Slava. I would imagine growing up that these

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Speaker 2: got real popular when the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse came around,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure super cool, right, you're like the super thank

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Speaker 2: it was not a pedophile.

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Speaker 4: It was always Michael.

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Speaker 5: And then I think I was in junior high school

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Speaker 3: Steve? Steve?

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Speaker 2: So your American name was Steve. You're like the Kim

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Speaker 6: Basically when I went when we immigrated here, and we

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Slava.

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Speaker 6: So somebody in the back, you know, they heard, they

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Speaker 3: And I said, okay, it's Steve because it starts with

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Speaker 4: You want to hear something funny?

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Speaker 5: Yes, So allegedly, when we started in this business, you know,

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Speaker 5: you have dancer names, right, I like a stripper name,

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Speaker 4: So like we were super creative.

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Speaker 5: With our stripper names, you know, Michael, Steve, and then

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Speaker 5: it became a Dave and John.

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Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, so you had a few of them.

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Speaker 4: So we were super creative, you know, Dave and John,

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Speaker 5: And then like we come out of the you know,

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Speaker 5: we're Mesha and Slava and our staff is.

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Speaker 3: Like, fuck you.

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Speaker 2: We've been selling here forever.

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Speaker 3: Dave, pick a name, Dave.

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Speaker 2: That is so funny. You know, we're gonna break real quick.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna come back and we're gonna hear how it

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Speaker 2: all started. In two thousand and six, it's Cannabis Talk

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Speaker 2: one oh one with Miska and Slava from m m

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Speaker 2: back with Dave and John and we also have Michael

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Speaker 2: is Mishka and Slava, their government names from back in

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Speaker 2: the good old Ukraine from MMD shops dot Com. Now

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Speaker 2: that they can go by their you know, belly button

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Speaker 3: Damn gave everything away.

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Speaker 2: That's so awesome, you guys.

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Speaker 3: I love this.

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Speaker 2: Go check their side out MMD shops dot Com, Instagram

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Speaker 2: is MMD Shops Twitter, Facebook, MMD Hollywood. They got four locations, Hollywood,

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Speaker 2: we heard the family dynamic. I want you to take me.

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Speaker 2: Just before two thousand and six, and how you go

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Speaker 2: about because we know now Mishka started telling we had

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Speaker 4: So two thousand and six comes around.

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Speaker 5: You know, I decided, allegedly a couple of years before that, like,

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Speaker 5: My brother and my parents were pissed. I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: So we decided, let's go visit my boys over in

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Speaker 5: We go into his garage and it was like, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's like opening the white pearly.

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Speaker 4: Gates, you know what I mean. He was like like,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's no so great.

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Speaker 4: Now, by the way, this was like two lights and

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Speaker 4: So on the way home, we looked.

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Speaker 4: So, uh, you know, we started good careers.

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Speaker 5: Legally, keep in mind we had six plants each. I

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Speaker 4: We go eighteen plants there. We sucked at growing weed.

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Speaker 5: Really, we were so fucking bad, dude, if you could

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Speaker 4: And then were horrible. I can't even fucking believe we decided.

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Speaker 2: To pop were smoking your wed like, dude, this is

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Speaker 3: Nobody smoked that weed because it didn't actually came from it.

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Speaker 2: We're in the game, man, the game, right.

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Speaker 5: And this is when medical cannabis the dispensaries had started

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Speaker 5: Stuart Richland.

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Speaker 2: Uh, maybe he can come on the show. We're looking

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, shut the fuck up.

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Speaker 2: Oh so you followed Mark Craig.

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Speaker 3: They don't follow you, little bit.

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Speaker 2: They didn't come here to Davin bastards. They did a

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Speaker 4: Son up a bitches, thanks Mark, correct. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And uh and then we started talking about opening a dispensary.

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Speaker 3: His experience came into play. Looking for real estate. My

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Speaker 6: But we did you know, we went to the city,

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Speaker 2: The first one was in Hollywood, North Hollywood. Now dealing

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Speaker 5: So we totally got the threats we had. We had

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Speaker 2: He would inside those guys, right, like everybody knows.

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Speaker 4: He would look at the window and he'd look and

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Speaker 6: a security guard in the front, and and that's it.

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00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:51,160
Speaker 3: And then one day, I think all of l A had.

445
00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,200
Speaker 6: Maybe forty shops or forty five shops, and like twelve

446
00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:55,680
Speaker 6: shops get raided in one day.

447
00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,600
Speaker 4: All of the West Hollywood stores got raided.

448
00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,840
Speaker 2: So your guys was in there and we were not,

449
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,040
Speaker 2: and we were not to thank god to the Russian

450
00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 2: mob or who we think, thank god to North Hollywood.

451
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,400
Speaker 2: Nobody came over there, came over the hill.

452
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,800
Speaker 4: Nobody knew we existed at that point, just over there. Yeah,

453
00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,880
Speaker 4: and all twelve. So imagine, like right now, twenty five

454
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,240
Speaker 4: percent of the industry gets raided, right, and they shot

455
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:18,239
Speaker 4: a big raid recently too.

456
00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,200
Speaker 2: I've just seen that. But you know those are one

457
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,040
Speaker 2: of those are the illegal.

458
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,080
Speaker 5: But imagine, you know there's one hundred and forty three

459
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,879
Speaker 5: legal operating dispensaries in Los Angeles. Imagine twenty you know,

460
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,760
Speaker 5: forty of them forty or fifty of them get raided today.

461
00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,800
Speaker 5: We were scared shitless. You know, the whole staff quit

462
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,720
Speaker 5: really shows up to work. Security doesn't want to be there.

463
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,119
Speaker 5: Avengers don't want to show up. We're like, what the

464
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 5: fuck do we do? We got to pay this rent,

465
00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? So we fucking show up

466
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,359
Speaker 5: to work. We opened the doors, scared Shitlessen.

467
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 2: And just you and your brother to work. Miska and

468
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 2: Slava behind the desk with dresses ongoing. We're but tenders.

469
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,119
Speaker 2: We take tips. How can we help you?

470
00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:58,200
Speaker 3: Popular?

471
00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:00,280
Speaker 2: Right now?

472
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:00,520
Speaker 1: Now?

473
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,399
Speaker 2: Dealing with it back in the day like that? How

474
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 2: did you guys intermingle with the other cats, like you

475
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 2: know doctor Dina for instance, I mean she was around

476
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,639
Speaker 2: early on that. Did you guys intermingle with her?

477
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:14,160
Speaker 5: How was you we were pre doctor Deana probably, uh, yeah,

478
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 5: all the uh we got to know all the medical doctors.

479
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:17,479
Speaker 1: Uh.

480
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 5: They used to send us a lot of business. We

481
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:23,080
Speaker 5: were We always had the uh. We always wanted to

482
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 5: be like the legal guys and and uh and and

483
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,399
Speaker 5: bigger picture and I gotta be honest. In the beginning

484
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 5: of our career, we weren't necessarily loved for that reason.

485
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, we charged taxes when nobody

486
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:34,440
Speaker 5: else would charge taxes.

487
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 2: We uh, you know, we haanced compliance. You're just following

488
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 2: all the compliants, Like dude, we got to do.

489
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 3: It this way.

490
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 6: I think we we lost a lot of profit that way,

491
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,920
Speaker 6: you know, where other guys were making a lot of money.

492
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,160
Speaker 6: But we just always wanted to do it that way

493
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,920
Speaker 6: because we knew we would be here today.

494
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you would.

495
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 2: Now you have four locations and for those who don't know,

496
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 2: we're talking to Miska and Slava from MMD shops and

497
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,400
Speaker 2: uh in Hollywood Long Beach, Marina del Rey in North Hollywood.

498
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,879
Speaker 2: It it's just funny how so many cats though, just

499
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 2: want that quick buck and there's so many quick ways

500
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,439
Speaker 2: to make it in this game.

501
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,119
Speaker 3: Course. Yeah, but you know, it's not sustaining.

502
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,120
Speaker 2: It's not only not sustaining, but people get that rep

503
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 2: I mean, let's just face it. For those who don't

504
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 2: know that there's a lot of backdoor deals. Even at

505
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,880
Speaker 2: a lot of these legal shops, there's still a lot

506
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,119
Speaker 2: of deals that go down that are like uh huh,

507
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 2: and it's hard to understand and play all the games

508
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 2: that the Better Business Bureau of cannabis controls stowing out there,

509
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,160
Speaker 2: because sometimes it's like it's not so black and white clear.

510
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 2: Sometimes I feel like when you're looking at it and

511
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 2: then it changes right after they do something, then you

512
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 2: go to that compliance and then it changes to another compliance.

513
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 2: Correct after you did this, You're like, wait a minute,

514
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,119
Speaker 2: how can I keep up with this? How hard has

515
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 2: that been for you guys to consistently especially yourself Slava

516
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 2: with that medical background, figuring out more about what the

517
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 2: Better Business Bureau is trying to put out there for

518
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 2: everybody to be compliant. How hard is it to stay compliant?

519
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 6: And on top of it, it's it's extremely difficult. I mean,

520
00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 6: we're thankful for the regulations because the regulation allow us

521
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 6: to do what we do and allow us to you know,

522
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 6: to be open and to actually do business and and

523
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,120
Speaker 6: plan a you know, level playing field with other businesses somewhat.

524
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 6: But the regulations are crazy, you know. I mean, they're

525
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 6: they're tough, they're tough, and you just the mindset has

526
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 6: to be the mindset has to be right to actually

527
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 6: follow the regulations, read into them and and and and

528
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 6: just do business like it should be done.

529
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 2: You know.

530
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 6: It's it's very difficult for a lot of operators from

531
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 6: back in the day to to be able to adjust

532
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 6: to that type of regulation.

533
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think it's a secret that we're

534
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 5: in an overregulated over time.

535
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 2: We talk about that, Mark and Craig, we all sit

536
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 2: there and they get so pissed off. I mean, including

537
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 2: myself saying, treat it like it's alcohol. Treat it like

538
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 2: it's let us treat it like it's a plant. You know,

539
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 2: we've had people running for sheriff. It's a fucking weed.

540
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 2: Treat it like it's a weed. For God's sakes. Treat

541
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 2: these stores like it's a liquor store. So, I mean,

542
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 2: I think you nailed it right there when you said

543
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 2: it's the mindset as an owner, right, you have to

544
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 2: be like, this is a different market. It's not a

545
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 2: fucking liquor store. It's not a you know, dry cleaning shop.

546
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 2: So you guys have to take it on the chain,

547
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 2: like okay, here we go.

548
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

549
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 6: Look, I came from the medical the medical field, medical business,

550
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 6: you know, particularly dealing with elderly people and adult day

551
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 6: healthcare centers and and and physical therapy centers and things

552
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 6: like that, and and the regulations that they go through

553
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 6: is enormous, and they get audited three times a year,

554
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 6: four times a year. So when you're coming to this

555
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 6: industry with that mindset, knowing you're gonna get audited, you're

556
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 6: you know, you have to follow the rules.

557
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 2: And regulations and things are going to change.

558
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 6: And things are going to change, and keeping keeping in

559
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 6: mind that this is a new industry that the BCC

560
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 6: still doesn't have everything figured out yet, so you are

561
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 6: growing with a new industry, so you know, keeping that mindset,

562
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 6: you're able to adjust.

563
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 5: And understanding that regulators and operators are two completely different,

564
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 5: uh people. You know, the people putting together these regulations

565
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 5: don't necessarily understand the hurdles that the operators have to

566
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,719
Speaker 5: go through and because they're not even in the cannabis

567
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 5: gamp yeah, and vice versa. So you know, you come

568
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 5: in with an open mind and you roll up your

569
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 5: sleeves and you're ready to work. Yeah, it's not going

570
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 5: to be easy. It's gonna be hard as fuck, but

571
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 5: anybody can make it. If two immigrants from Russia they

572
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 5: came here with three hundred dollars in their pocket, can

573
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:20,879
Speaker 5: make it, like you can make it.

574
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 2: That's what I love, right, now about your guys' story.

575
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 2: It makes me so internally proud for you guys and

576
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 2: your family to think like that. And I mean, is

577
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 2: that the kind of advice you'd give Mishka as you

578
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 2: just kind of felt like you told everyone, dude, if

579
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 2: we can do it, so can you just have a

580
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 2: smarter brother who's a lot smarter than you. Yeah, but

581
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 2: be the hustler that's going to read the shit for

582
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 2: you and make sure you do it all right.

583
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 5: I'm a smarter younger brother, you know what I mean.

584
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 5: It's the most important thing you could do now. Yeah,

585
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 5: I think you know, we're very pro business and we

586
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 5: love this industry. You know, we wake up excited to

587
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 5: go to work, although you know every morning could be

588
00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 5: different than the day before, and sometimes you uh, you

589
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 5: want to kick and scream at the end of the day.

590
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 5: But then sometimes it's it's very rewarding. I'd say, just

591
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 5: don't give up.

592
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 2: What are some of the things that you guys would

593
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 2: say that they can change for the industry to make

594
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: it better, Like if you had your hand over the

595
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 2: BCC are the governor, let alone the president? You know,

596
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 2: Congress can change things. What are some advice that you'd

597
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 2: say we can start here because God willing, we all know,

598
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 2: make it federally legal. There's like big statements that we

599
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 2: can say that are just big and grand, and of

600
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 2: course that'll make everything great, but it all needs to

601
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 2: happen so small.

602
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 5: You're not gonna You're not gonna turn a light switch on, right,

603
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 5: I think, I think, and I'm gonna let Slop take

604
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 5: this because he's gonna he's gonna have better opinions than me.

605
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 4: But I think, uh, I think.

606
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 5: We're overtaxed, which creates a big opportunity for the black market.

607
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 2: Which is still booming like crazy. You see these numbers

608
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 2: out there.

609
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 5: Yeah if if they you know, they still taxed it

610
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 5: because everybody, you know, they want to make revenue from it,

611
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 5: but taxed enough to where we can compete with the

612
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 5: with the illicit markets. Because nobody wants to go meet

613
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 5: that corner in the in the fucking shady alley. You know,

614
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 5: everybody likes going to a nice retail store, having options

615
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 5: and having people with opinion, having your product tested and regulated.

616
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: Giving good advice for what they think is good for Yeah, exactly,

617
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 2: educated but tenders and know what they're talking about.

618
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,239
Speaker 5: Nobody wants to go to a back alley and buy

619
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 5: their Janes at a back alley, like people like going

620
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 5: to the retail environment unless they have to pay fifty

621
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 5: percent more for it, you know what I mean. So

622
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 5: I think that's one thing that we could start working on.

623
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 6: But I mean, yeah, I mean, in my opinion is

624
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 6: a lot of people like to scream legalize it, legalize it.

625
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 3: But legalizing it means taxing it.

626
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 2: And it's already being taxing in California that work, so.

627
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 3: Even on a federal level.

628
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 6: So now you're looking at taxation on local city level,

629
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 6: state level.

630
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 3: And then federal level. So when you're screaming legalize it,

631
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 3: you have to you know, you have to.

632
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: Keep legalize it, though they have to lower the other

633
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 2: states and city and taxes. I mean, that would be

634
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 2: nicer for the states that are already I legal of course.

635
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 6: So to answer your question, I think two things to

636
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 6: make this industry actually, you know, show the fruits of

637
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 6: its of its labor is like like Mish Cassette's taxation.

638
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 3: And the other one is banking.

639
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: The funny thing is, and it's funny you said that, Slava,

640
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 2: because in my opinion, as I see the cannabis game.

641
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: I think banking is even the most important people from

642
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 2: a starting standpoint, because now Slava can have proof on

643
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 2: a you know, a federally approved banking system, and what

644
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: are companies worth what we made this year, what we

645
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 2: made that month, rather than we got that bag that

646
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 2: back in that bag, there's twenty grand in each bag

647
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: right there, we're doing well, which you know, you may

648
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 2: be doing well, but you can show proof. And now

649
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 2: you're buying another boat, another house, because that's where that

650
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 2: real money comes from.

651
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 5: Or expanding the business and being able to burn the shop, yeah,

652
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 5: real estate assets behind it, and and you know what

653
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 5: I mean, and actually being able to like work with

654
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 5: regular creditor, you know, just just being able to do

655
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 5: business like you know you would if you opened.

656
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 2: A liquor store, yeah exactly, or dry cleaners or.

657
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 4: Any any other type of business that that's scalable.

658
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 2: You know. It's just funny to think how we mostly

659
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: oh it's legal, right, it's legal. It's like, yeah, but

660
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: it's not. And these people who own shops, so I

661
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 2: want to get well, we're gonna take a break real

662
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 2: quick as we're talking to Mishka and Slava from MMD shops.

663
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 2: They got four dispensaries. I want to get to the

664
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 2: first one's North Hollywood. How you go to the second, third,

665
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: and fourth. We're gonna hear that story when we come back.

666
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 2: It's Cannabis Talk one on one. All right, it's the

667
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 2: Miska and Slava show from MMD shops. They are here.

668
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 2: They're about to beat box and sing for us on

669
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 2: Cannabis Talk one on one. Take it away, Miska I

670
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: came to play have fun in the club on me.

671
00:29:53,600 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 2: Miska I was good. So you guys, U walk like

672
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 2: them out right by the power?

673
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 3: Would that be?

674
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 2: Take me down the lane of six North Hollywood opened?

675
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 2: What's the next location? How hard? What are the struggles?

676
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 2: Educate the people out there that are sitting there going

677
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 2: I really want to get in the cannabis game. I mean,

678
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: these two fucking dudes from Russia came with three hundred

679
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 2: bucks one fifty a pop in their pocket. One changes

680
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: his name to Steve, one changes his to Michael, and

681
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 2: now they got fucking four dispensaries. How does that shit happen?

682
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: I've been born and raised here in the United States.

683
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: Educate me fellas, walk me down that well.

684
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 6: I think I think before in North Hollywood was a

685
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 6: very different situation. Before you just went down to the

686
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 6: Office of Finance, got a business license, and if you

687
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 6: were smart enough to tell them that it was for

688
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 6: cannabis sales, you probably would have ended up.

689
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 5: So at this point our first dispensary, the license cost

690
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 5: us fifty four dollars.

691
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 2: Oh hell, life was that it was nice. First license

692
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 2: was fifty four How about dollars in a lot of balls?

693
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 3: Because John Smith was going around raiding people.

694
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 2: What was your last license?

695
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 4: Costs a little more, a.

696
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: Little more than fifty four bucks, right, A lot more

697
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 2: zeros in that, and a lot more numbers.

698
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 4: Couple.

699
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 2: So North Holly was the first one. What's the second location?

700
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 2: So how many years after?

701
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 5: Let me just tell I'll just take you through a

702
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 5: little bit of history of how we do MMD shops

703
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 5: are growing and slav You could tell me to shut

704
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 5: the fuck up.

705
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: If yeah, don't, don't allegedly allegedly say too much fun.

706
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 4: Out just stop now, just talk about well that was fun.

707
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 3: So that's how they all got going, how they all

708
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 3: got going.

709
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 4: And now we're right now.

710
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 5: So in two thousand and six, we uh, you know

711
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 5: us and a and a partner and some help, uh

712
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 5: you know, uh opened our very first store. By the

713
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 5: time two thousand and nine came around, we decided that

714
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 5: it's time to uh to expand, expand our footprint a

715
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 5: little more.

716
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 4: Again.

717
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 5: We've gotten some partnerships, we would help consultant projects, and

718
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 5: we opened two back to backstores, one I believe in

719
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 5: like April, and then one the month right after that.

720
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 5: In two thousand and nine, A couple of years goes by,

721
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 5: we start working and then between twenty twelve and like

722
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 5: two eighteen, with all the movement you know, between with

723
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 5: so much regulations, much regulation because they told you you're

724
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 5: okay in this location, you're not okay in this location.

725
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 5: So you know, between twenty twelve and twenty eighteen, we'd

726
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 5: you know, we'd open a footprint of I don't know,

727
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 5: it was a lot.

728
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 4: It was probably over twenty retail doors.

729
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 2: Really.

730
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 4: Yeah.

731
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 6: We also did a lot of consulting for people that

732
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 6: wanted to be in the business. Yeah, and we taught

733
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 6: a lot of people how to run a retail store.

734
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 6: But because by that time we got really really good

735
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 6: at it. We knew the market, we knew you know,

736
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 6: we knew the ins and outs of regulation of how

737
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 6: to get the customer and all of that. So a

738
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 6: lot of people came to us and listen, guys, you

739
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 6: know a lot.

740
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 5: Of big operators in today's space came to us and said, yeah,

741
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 5: can you guys show us the light? And of course

742
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 5: in this space, you know, we're all just kind of

743
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 5: learning as we go, you know what I mean.

744
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: So literally, because then things change right away.

745
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 4: Things change, So as you go, you try to help

746
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 4: each other.

747
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 3: You know.

748
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 5: It's not like one of these spaces where you hoard

749
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 5: all your information because you want to talk to people

750
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 5: because they can give you some.

751
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: One of the partners in this like, when we're in

752
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: this game together.

753
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 4: I'm never we're never going to be able to do

754
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 4: it alone.

755
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 5: So so we started helping people and and that's how

756
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 5: that number twenty came to fruition inevitably. Now, we never

757
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 5: had twenty dispensaries. Of course, you know, there's a lot

758
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 5: of moving parts, you know what I mean, But.

759
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 2: We've been Now you have four with licenses and all

760
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 2: this good stuff. There's four good solid ones exactly. Yeah,

761
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: And so it takes a long time to get four

762
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 2: of them because you had to open some close some

763
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 2: get the light, get this, get.

764
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 6: To move them to compliant locations by you know, there's

765
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 6: a you know, particularly in City of la in twenty thirteen,

766
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 6: you had to move to You had about a you know,

767
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 6: less than a year to move your existing license to

768
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 6: a compliant location. And we've had we had to move

769
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 6: all the people that we consulted with, you know that

770
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 6: we consulted and our dispensary to a completely different location.

771
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 6: We lost all of our customer base. You know, it

772
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 6: was like finding a needle in the haystack to try

773
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 6: to find a location.

774
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: Right.

775
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 2: Weed Maps wasn't around back then, so it's not like, hey,

776
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 2: just find us on weed Maps exactly right. So now

777
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 2: you guys have your shops, what are some of the

778
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 2: big selling items in your stores right now? What are

779
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 2: the big like, oh my god, mmd pops with what.

780
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 4: I mean?

781
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 5: Honestly, we have anywhere between eight hundred and thirteen hundred

782
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 5: different products on the board at any given time. So

783
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 5: anything that's new and relevant and hot and exciting in

784
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 5: the market we try to carry. You know, right now,

785
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 5: one of the things that I'm really in love with

786
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 5: is our drinkable section.

787
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 4: You know, we've got Is that what you guys brought here?

788
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 2: One of these drinks?

789
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 4: So yeah, one of those drinkables there. Uh, you know

790
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 4: we got you know, I think the drink of sea lemonade.

791
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 2: Wow, what a good flavor too, Arnold Palmer.

792
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 5: And then we have non infused liqueurs. So they'll take

793
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 5: the liquor, they'll take out the alcohol, they'll infuse it

794
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 5: with cannabis.

795
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 4: Uh.

796
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 5: I love that sector because it does a couple of things.

797
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 5: It brings people kind of back to the market, uh,

798
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 5: back into the drinkable market when necessarily they can't be

799
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 5: drinking anymore. So it brings people back to the party.

800
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 5: It Also it's just something new and cool and relevant,

801
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. We carry some of the best,

802
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 5: if not the best flower brands in the market, concentrate edibles, tinctures,

803
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 5: topical screams, a minute, anything.

804
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 3: I know.

805
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 2: You guys just got Mark and Craig Sun brand in

806
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 2: their West Coast Cure.

807
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've had West Coast Cure a couple of times

808
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 5: over the years, and we just brought him back really

809
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 5: uh really hard, and he's kicking ass man.

810
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 4: He's They've got a great brand.

811
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 5: They've got uh, they've got some great celebrity counterparts that

812
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 5: work with them, and and people really, uh they love

813
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:09,959
Speaker 5: that brand.

814
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 4: I I I, uh, my hat's off to us. Cost Care.

815
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 6: We're actually, you know, we're we try to be very

816
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 6: customer conscious. We we don't you know, we don't like

817
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 6: our butttenders to to push a certain product. We we

818
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 6: want the customer to decide. We try to have all

819
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 6: all the brands that we have in there, all the

820
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 6: products that we have in there, are really curated for

821
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 6: the customer. We're not you know, we don't take you know,

822
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 6: fees from the from the brands to.

823
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 3: Put their products up on our shelves.

824
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: You guys are shelving them yet like like the grocery store.

825
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 3: We're just not doing that.

826
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, we we we really want the customer to be happy,

827
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 6: to be happy where they come into it.

828
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 2: And I look at that and I think sometimes back

829
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 2: in the radio days, when I first started in radio

830
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 2: and doing FM radio, I think of the you know,

831
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 2: the propaganda and the way that a lot of these are.

832
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 2: Payola is the correct term that used to be used

833
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 2: when a record label will come in give you money

834
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 2: play that record. I would almost imagine, is it tough

835
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 2: to stop these brands to go to your bud tenders

836
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 2: and being like, hey.

837
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 3: Chop them, you know what I mean, though, chop them

838
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 3: in a second.

839
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 2: But it's got to be I mean, I mean, I

840
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 2: know it is, but I mean it's part of life, right.

841
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 2: It's like, how do music get on the fucking radio

842
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 2: so quickly?

843
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 3: How?

844
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like something that you guys, like you

845
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: just said, you answered in a way that makes me go, yes,

846
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 2: you're gonna be all over that, But it's almost like

847
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 2: how do you prevent it? Almost? I mean they probably

848
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 2: come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays to meet with the

849
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 2: salespeople and they're like.

850
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 5: Hey, first things first are although our buntenders are great,

851
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 5: they have nothing to do with the purchasing aspect of

852
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 5: the business. And one we're you know, our purchasing department

853
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 5: is curating product that is really kind of customer driven,

854
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So, uh, you know, we

855
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 5: don't go after necessarily the the just the stuff that

856
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 5: has a celebrity push or or.

857
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 2: If it's good quality and people are mentioning it to

858
00:37:58,920 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 2: you guys.

859
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 4: It has to be good quality.

860
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 5: It has to look good, smell good, test well, it

861
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 5: has to have good packaging like that.

862
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 2: So are you are you putting your own weed that

863
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: you guys you should grow back around on.

864
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 4: Your Absolutely, it's the only way I'm able to sell it.

865
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 3: AMMD.

866
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 2: You're like, okay, you buy that eighth I'm gonna give

867
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: you this one. No, thank you, we don't want that

868
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 2: one that you've give him this. No, we do.

869
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 4: We do have some product in m md jars. We

870
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 4: also have a Mishka brand.

871
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 2: Well, so you started growing again and then you got

872
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 2: better at it.

873
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 4: We we've partnered up with people who are better at it.

874
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 4: I would say, so.

875
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 2: You got the own brand and he just left you

876
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 2: out slov and said you I actually made him. I

877
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 2: don't care. I got busted first, not you. It's my brand.

878
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 3: He was fighting it. I was like, no, bro, I

879
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 3: was like, is the fucking name of the brand. He's like,

880
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 3: I'm not putting my name on the brand.

881
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 2: I'm like, shut the fuck up.

882
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 3: Is going to be the brand?

883
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: It looks it actually sounds cool, It sounds great. It

884
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 2: sounds cute than I think sounds very cute. You know

885
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 2: we're no longer sounds I gonna get your MILLI high.

886
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, So you know anything that's in the Miska jars

887
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 5: or or in the m m D jars, will personally

888
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 5: do the quality assurance on uh, you know, just because

889
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 5: we can't grow you say, we can't quality assurance.

890
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 2: What is it like if you don't like to bring

891
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 2: it back?

892
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 3: No?

893
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 4: No, no, like I check it myself and if I

894
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 4: don't like it, I'm not putting it in those jars.

895
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 4: Oh nice, this is like.

896
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 2: Approved, nice stamp of approved.

897
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 4: That's right.

898
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 2: So what's in the future now? Is it like four

899
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 2: more shops, new location Arizona, this and that? What? What's

900
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 2: what's what's the big goal for you guys?

901
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: Uh?

902
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're going into a hyperdrive expansion as we speak.

903
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 5: We're going into a multi state platform probably in the

904
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 5: next couple of years, Thank you so much. We got

905
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 5: a couple couple projects we're working on all over California.

906
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 5: We're gonna have probably a footprint up north, inevitably. We've

907
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 5: got some stuff in Middle America.

908
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,959
Speaker 2: And what's the next what's the first one that should

909
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 2: be popping for you guys, to be determined, to be

910
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 2: determined like whatever however it falls.

911
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 3: Right, We're so.

912
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 6: Rough to all the exactly, especially with COVID, A lot

913
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 6: of states, a lot of municipalities.

914
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 3: You know, they they've put their legislation on hold.

915
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 6: Or you know, if if we applied for a license

916
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 6: at a certain legislation, you know, in a certain state

917
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 6: or a city, now they've they were supposed to give

918
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 6: us an answer, but now that's on hold because of COVID.

919
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 2: So speaking of which, everyone pops off first. You know, Slava,

920
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 2: as you mentioned COVID. How did COVID affect MMD shops?

921
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 5: Oh boy, I mean, COVID is very interesting because you know,

922
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 5: like one of our main brick and mortars is Hollywood,

923
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 5: and as you know, Hollywood is nothing but tourism. So

924
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 5: when COVID hit the tourists of market and Hollywood, i

925
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 5: mean died out come from that shop affected the most.

926
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 4: So that shop was affected the most. It yeah, got

927
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 4: hit probably by about sixty percent. Wow.

928
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, which is which is a lot because it's a

929
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 5: really busy shop. Now, the other stores that are kind

930
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 5: of in the in the suburban neighborhoods like kind of

931
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 5: lifted up a little bit, so it started picking up

932
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 5: a little bit of the slack. But eventually we we

933
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 5: we got our head above water.

934
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 3: It was.

935
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 5: It was a couple months of real difficult uh, real

936
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 5: difficult struggles that we had to go through, but we

937
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 5: made it and thank God. I mean, being essential is

938
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 5: just like a blessing from God.

939
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: Like, isn't that crazy to think that weed became essential cannabis.

940
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 5: I can't tell you how weird it is, because like

941
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 5: two of our dispensaries are next door to beauty salons,

942
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 5: you know, and it's it's it's so ironic to see

943
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 5: a line of people outside of the cannabis store while

944
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 5: these people are like giving people haircuts on the down

945
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 5: low in the beauty salon, you know what I mean, like.

946
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 3: Kind of like a switch, right, It's like, you.

947
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 4: Know where the I was, like, what fucking bizarro land

948
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 4: are we living in?

949
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 7: Right?

950
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 2: I just ship that it's next to a hair salon

951
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: and Miska can't get that fucking gray out of his hair.

952
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,439
Speaker 2: I'm here next to a fucking salon and he can't

953
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 2: just go in there and say, hey, guys, can we

954
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 2: cut me a deal?

955
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 3: They can?

956
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 7: They keep a hound back on the asphole gray, you know,

957
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 7: the that's the girl they're putting the gray in the hair.

958
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: He's doing that to look older because he's twenty four.

959
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 3: Wants to Yeah, he wants to link.

960
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 4: I want to, you know, I want to bephisticated.

961
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 2: It's really great to have you guys. For those who

962
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 2: don't know, it's Miska and Slava from MMD Shops. Now

963
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 2: it's time for our high five. We'd like to do

964
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 2: the high five with everybody that comes in. We'll start

965
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: with little brother Miska and then Slava. You can do

966
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: the questions at the second after your brother. Okay, So

967
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 2: question number one, how old are you the first time

968
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: he smoked weed? And where did you get it? From?

969
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 4: Twelve years old from my friend Rex Rex Rex.

970
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 6: Next, you're Rexy and you Slava nineteen years old with

971
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 6: my friends that have been spocused since fourteen.

972
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 2: So your brother didn't give it to you for who

973
00:42:59,320 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 2: was it?

974
00:42:59,520 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 6: Just?

975
00:42:59,600 --> 00:42:59,959
Speaker 2: Your other.

976
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 6: Friends have been smoking longer than him, But for some reason,

977
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 6: I kept you know, I did acid before I did

978
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 6: smoking weed.

979
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: That's a long ey. I just found this out right now,

980
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell mom allegedly he did allegedly right, That

981
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 2: is such a long one. Okay. Question number two with

982
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 2: Mishka and Slapper from m m D Shops, what is

983
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 2: your favorite way to use cannabis.

984
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 4: So that to me, it changes kind of often.

985
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 5: I used to love flower, then I got really into

986
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 5: the dabs, and now in like a post COVID world,

987
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 5: I've been really uh diving into microdos edibles.

988
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 4: Really really, I'm not.

989
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 2: With the edibles that we have back there in the back.

990
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 2: You gotta let you see these. They gotta to try them,

991
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 2: and so edibles for you then.

992
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 5: Right now, micro dosing edibles is kind of my uh

993
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 5: my flavor. But I mean, you know, listen, a good

994
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 5: a good quality flower. You can't smoking a joint with it,

995
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 5: or joint or a bong or like if it's a

996
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 5: nice water pipe or something, you know what I mean.

997
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 2: Here's these butterable edible buds. You got to try these.

998
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 2: They're like a rice crispy treat, cereal flavor, that's what

999
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 2: they say. But and for and for you, Slava, what

1000
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 2: is yours? I just love a hybrid joint, A hybrid joint.

1001
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 4: I don't know if these are really it's candy.

1002
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 2: It's candy right there. What do you do now? Now

1003
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 2: you're acting like Slava? Hey, Slava, I want to meet

1004
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:27,879
Speaker 2: your fucking brother over here.

1005
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 3: Slava, junior, the old guy.

1006
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, the old guy who's try the candy over here?

1007
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 2: Question number three, Yeah, hold on, what's that Slava's head.

1008
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 2: What's the craziest place you ever used cannabis?

1009
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 4: I don't. I've never not used cannabis anywhere.

1010
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 2: So do you ever go back home to Russia or

1011
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 2: like Ukraine or something? I mean, that's that'd be crazy.

1012
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 4: Okay.

1013
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 5: Allegedly I might have accidentally taken cannabis to Japan with

1014
00:44:59,160 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 5: me once, but.

1015
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 2: We've heard some stories like that, all right, but totally.

1016
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 5: Accidental and why was it sho No, I swear to God,

1017
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 5: totally accidental and uh and I threw it away on

1018
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 5: the plane because I just.

1019
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 4: Like, I'm not going through customers, going to fucking jail.

1020
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 5: Because I accidentally forgot a gramma weed in my bag

1021
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 5: and completely I wouldn't never because it's like.

1022
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 4: A life sentence over there.

1023
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 2: It's crazy.

1024
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 4: So I have no interest in that. So, yeah, that

1025
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 4: that might have been the.

1026
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 2: Craziest place you took it. But is there like another

1027
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 2: crazy the top of a building, something random crazy that

1028
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 2: you smoked at or did an edible at.

1029
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 5: Gosh, man, I got kind of smoke cannabis everywhere I go,

1030
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 5: so it's hard to say the craziest place.

1031
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I mean, I guess. I guess A

1032
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 4: couple of foreign countries, A.

1033
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 2: Couple of foreign countries and Slava.

1034
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 3: I smoked of gany hash and Moscow a cloud.

1035
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, at a club in Moscow, off of a hot knife,

1036
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,479
Speaker 6: right right in the club.

1037
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 3: It was amazing.

1038
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 2: Mom, I got a story. We're on canvas Talk one on.

1039
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 2: Listen to the podcast. What is your go to munchies

1040
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 2: after you get high?

1041
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 5: Miska, my go to monchies after I get high? You

1042
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 5: know what, I'm fucking totally down with some.

1043
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 4: Toasters, turtle.

1044
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 2: Oh really, you know what I mean?

1045
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 4: What the fucking thing? And oh my god, one right now?

1046
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you wouldn't eat both? And you Slava your

1047
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: go too munchies.

1048
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 3: My go to munchies, pancakes, bacon, eggs, breakfast, breakfast.

1049
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 2: Oh you just like breakfast, like breakfast. I love that.

1050
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 2: To be a fat kid. Oh dude, I was three

1051
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty pounds. Come on, lact hold on, let

1052
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 2: me pick up my lip right now. As we are

1053
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 2: doing the high five with Miska and Slava from MMD shops,

1054
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 2: they have four locations, Hollywood, Long Beach, Marina del Rey

1055
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 2: in North Hollywood, if you're ever in good ol' Cally.

1056
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: If not, they might be coming to a city near you.

1057
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 2: Question number five of the high five. If you could

1058
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 2: smoke weed with anyone dead or alive, who would be.

1059
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 4: Probably, uh, probably Bob Marley.

1060
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 2: Wow, it's funny. I was thinking Bob. When I was

1061
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 2: looking at your brother's shirt, as he has the Bob.

1062
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 5: Shirt, I would say, probably Bob Marley. You know, I

1063
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 5: know who my brother's gonna say, and I just didn't

1064
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 5: want to You didn't.

1065
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 2: Want to take his I don't want to take his.

1066
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 2: But and you really know your brother that well that

1067
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 2: you know what he's gonna say. Let me see write

1068
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 2: it down, write it down right there. I want to

1069
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 2: see if you're gonna be right, because if you already

1070
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 2: know what he's gonna say when you said Bob Marley,

1071
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 2: that's gonna be awesome. Okay, And now you Slava, if

1072
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 2: you could smoke with anyone dead or alive.

1073
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 6: I'm blinking right now, but I would smoke with I

1074
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 6: would love to smoke with so many people.

1075
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 4: I'm never gonna.

1076
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 2: Forgive you no realize Miska said, he knows, and I

1077
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 2: have a name written down right here.

1078
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 3: No idea what the is talking about? Right?

1079
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 2: But he says he knows his big brother that well,

1080
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 2: he knew you rad it on him, So now he

1081
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 2: knows who you would choose to smoke with. If there

1082
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 2: was one person slav one that you like, Oh God,

1083
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 2: I want to smoke a joint with this cat and

1084
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 2: just talk and bullshit and hang out. Who would it be?

1085
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 3: Willie? Willie Nelson?

1086
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 2: Well, I guess your little brother doesn't know you that well,

1087
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 2: wrote Howard Stern.

1088
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 5: Yes, I didn't say Howard Stern because I was afraid

1089
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 5: I was gonna take the steam right out of my brothers.

1090
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 6: Right. I would love to, you know, smoke with Howard Stern,

1091
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 6: but I know he'd never smoke. You know, I've been

1092
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,919
Speaker 6: listening to the show long enough. He's never gonna smoke.

1093
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 2: Well, you never know.

1094
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 3: People have said, Jesus, you know who knows Howard Stern?

1095
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,280
Speaker 2: Oh, now you change it for Willi Nelson.

1096
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 3: I am Miam. I love Willie, but Howard.

1097
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 2: Either one of those guys would be great. I mean

1098
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Speaker 2: Willie has just been around forever doing it, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean Howard Stern's radio God forgot. I love the guy.

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Speaker 2: You know, everything he's done, He's just amazing, his stories, movie,

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Speaker 2: everything's great about Howard Stern. Matter of fact, no one

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00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 2: has said Howard Stern yet on this show Shoe, which

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Speaker 2: is funny, and I think Howard would be awesome.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Howard would definitely be by like for sure

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Speaker 5: the first go to like if you got the chance

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Speaker 5: to pick right now, are you smoking with Howard Stern?

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Speaker 5: Is you know, just to have a conversation with Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's almost as good as hanging out with Joe.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's pretty good too. I would agree with you.

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Speaker 2: Matter of fact, let's go smoke right after this. But

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Speaker 2: anything else you guys want to tell everybody out there.

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Speaker 2: Of course you can follow them on Facebook, Twitter, MMD

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00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 2: Hollywood on Instagram, MMD Shops, the website, MMD shops dot com,

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Speaker 2: anything else, Miska and Slava that you want to educate

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Speaker 2: the world out there.

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Speaker 6: I mean, honestly, just just want want to invite everybody

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00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 6: to come check us out, come check out the shop.

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00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 6: You know, our shops are way cooler than our website

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Speaker 6: or our Twitter or Instagram. I think you know the

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Speaker 6: type of vibe that we have there is family, you know,

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Speaker 6: it's it's customer oriented. You know, we love our people,

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00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 6: we love our customers, and well you know you'll get

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Speaker 6: treated like a king or a queen there.

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Speaker 4: Everybody knows your sh.

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Speaker 2: Nice And are they showing those Miska shirts there? No,

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Speaker 2: but is this I just realized it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a Miska shirt. First, I'd like to thank

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Speaker 5: you Joe for having us on the show. This has

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Speaker 5: been a really fun experience. Uh we We got really

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Speaker 5: excited when when you guys reached out. You guys are

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Speaker 5: are doing the damn thing.

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Speaker 2: There's this.

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Speaker 5: It's clear why you are the dominant UH Cannabis UH

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Speaker 5: podcast radio show.

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Speaker 4: I mean there's I don't think there's anybody else doing

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Speaker 4: it quite like you guys. So hats off to you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for letting us come on the show.

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Speaker 2: It's our pleasure. Thank you for coming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: If if I was to promote anything, I would say

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Speaker 5: just come out check out MMD shops dot com. Please

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Speaker 5: come to any one of the stores you're liable to

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Speaker 5: see uh me or this other crazy guy here. Anytime

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Speaker 5: you know mentioned cannabis one on one We'll hook you

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Speaker 5: guys up.

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Speaker 2: And is there is there a store that you're at

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Speaker 2: more than the other?

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Speaker 5: You know what, we bounce around very frequently. We're we're

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Speaker 5: at North Hollywood often, we're at Hollywood. Often we're kind

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Speaker 5: of wherever the wind takes us that day. But you know,

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Speaker 5: we we got action happening every day over there. It's

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Speaker 5: it's it's a really fun environment. I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 5: having your comeby one day.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to come by you guys. Thank you

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00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 2: so much. It's Cannabis Talk one on one. Thank you

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00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 2: for listening to the podcast. If you ever want to

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Speaker 2: be a part of it, make sure you call us

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Speaker 2: up eight hundred for twenty nineteen eighty. As a matter

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00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 2: of fact, me Scott would love for you just to

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Speaker 2: call and leave a stupid message eight hundred four twenty

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty. Remember that phone number because it's our phone

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00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 2: and we played voicemails. I'll do it. Hey, Joe Mishka,

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00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 2: you've fat bastard and you just hang up on me.

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Speaker 1: You got it.

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Speaker 4: I'll do that every day from now on.

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Speaker 2: It's Cannabis Talk one on one. If nobody else loves you,

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Speaker 2: we do have a good one.

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Speaker 1: Pete Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one on

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Speaker 1: one on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts.