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Speaker 1: the show today, these guys, you see the logos on

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Speaker 1: the screen. You hear us talk about Elevation Nations and

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Speaker 1: now we have two extraordinary people from the organization. Alex Risk.

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Speaker 1: Is that how you say the last name? Is it

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Speaker 1: just r I v K A R I z K Risk? Yeah? Okay, Risk, Okay.

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Speaker 1: He's the CEO of Elevations Hotels and Resorts, Elevations Nations

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Speaker 1: really interesting after doing a little research about about you

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Speaker 1: intriguing right there, young man. I want to hear more

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Speaker 1: about that. And we also have Mary Catherine Shamazzi Shamisi.

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Speaker 1: What is that Hungarian? Canadian and Hungarian over here? It's

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Speaker 1: like my ex wife. Oh wow, well say that one

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Speaker 1: feel like I'm saying your last name. Well, and this

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Speaker 1: is interesting. She's the VP of business Development. She's also

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Speaker 1: an industry leader of over eighteen years, specializing in education

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Speaker 1: when I've seen that and read that after consulting from

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Speaker 1: and Impairment. Congratulations on that. Welcome you guys to the show.

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Speaker 1: uh and on the website Elevations Nations dot com. Teddy,

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Speaker 1: I love that sky It's beautiful, beautiful, and I had

428
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: a beautiful, you know, three sixty degrees view of the

429
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 1: city and it's just it's just nice. It's and it

430
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,239
Speaker 1: sounds beautiful just to open, you know, a facility up

431
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 1: for our our industry and our community. It's and it's

432
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,120
Speaker 1: dear to my heart because it needs to happen more

433
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: and and well normalize using a nice place because everything

434
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: you've described and when you were there, I've seen some video.

435
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 1: It's like, that's beautiful. There's nothing wrong with having a

436
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: beautiful atmosphere that now can you can use cannabis acts

437
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: And we're catering to the the alcohol industry, we're catering

438
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: to all all different industries, but this one's been like,

439
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 1: we can't yet. It's legal in our state, it's federally illegal,

440
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: and then some cities are it's illegal, you know, and

441
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: it's just kind of like, what is going on. But

442
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: as we move forward and it gets more progressive, it's happening,

443
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, we're seeing it happen. And and again, please

444
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: continue though well, that's to your point. You know, we

445
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to put cannabis in the light

446
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: in functions. You know, we have fundraisers, you know, at

447
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: children's hospitals that are all centered online and alcohol. Why

448
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: can't we do that in cannabis, And there's not a

449
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 1: place to do that, right, So working with these guys

450
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: to say, hey, you have an opportunity and I'm gonna

451
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: stick my head out and say and an obligation, right,

452
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,239
Speaker 1: because we need cannabis to be presented in the light

453
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 1: that it deserves to be presented in. All of these

454
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: people that are out fighting for it. You know, we

455
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: have Last Prisoner Project, you know, who have put truly

456
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 1: their lives on stay or on stake for this are

457
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 1: now depending on people like us to be the voice.

458
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 1: Right because let's be real, I grew up in Georgia.

459
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: You know you have certain people that are going to

460
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: listen to certain other people. You have the opportunity to

461
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 1: be that voice and articulate you know the benefits of

462
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: cannabis both recreationally and medicinally, and do it with groups

463
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 1: like this. Why not? So I pitched myself to them.

464
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: I called Bob and said, hey, I'd love to come

465
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: work with you guys. You know, I think there's a

466
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: lot that we could do together for everybody. Well, your

467
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: professional background, your whole look, your vibe, being a mother

468
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: as well, you know what I mean, all those things.

469
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: In my opinion, when I hear you and what I've

470
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: read about you is check mark, check mark, check mark,

471
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: check mark, Like, wow, she's not just your hippie woman

472
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: who's a white lady. But you mean yeah, and you

473
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: may be inside, which is fine, But my point is

474
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: it's a professional but which is good. But I think

475
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: but what I think is is that we all are

476
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: in our own way, and yet it's hard to express

477
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: that because of the professional right. I mean, you know,

478
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 1: when when we were dealing with real estate, you know,

479
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: we were always in suits, and it wasn't like, hey,

480
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: let's go smoke a joint, but yeah, you knew everybody

481
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 1: smoked the joint. And two and it was a too

482
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: you know what does he call it? A to um lunch?

483
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: To drink martini lunch? And you know, it's all those

484
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,239
Speaker 1: things and and it just hasn't been accepted, but it's

485
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: starting to. And so that's the beauty of it. And professionals.

486
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: And I always say this, professionals like yourselves. Um, you know,

487
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: it's nice to have you guys come into this industry

488
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: and help normalize it, right because you bring a level

489
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,959
Speaker 1: of expertise from the hotel industry, from you know, your industry,

490
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: and and and I've always welcomed that because we need

491
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: more operators because there are a lot of you know,

492
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: operators that are really intelligent growers and and um, you

493
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: really intelligent you know retail operators that are coming into

494
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: the space and that have been in this industry before

495
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: they came out of the closet themselves. You know. It's

496
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: like for me, you know, I could never you know,

497
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: as soon as I went on radio and I started

498
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: talking about you know, hey we're we're you know, I'm

499
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: in the cannabis industry. You know, all of a sudden,

500
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: it was like, hey, you can't really do both. Now.

501
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: You can't go sell weed in the in the closet

502
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: at the closet, you know. And and I did for

503
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: many years. It was it was part of my life.

504
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: You know, I can go work at a union and

505
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: move three hundred pounds and boom, make money and work

506
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: in my union and and now it's like, Okay, I can't.

507
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: I can't go out and do that. That coal is

508
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: like you all the radio, it's like rights you have

509
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: read on you. But but again, but but the union workers,

510
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: the teamsters, I mean I dealt with you know, um,

511
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: all the trade show installers, people coming in and out,

512
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: real estate professionals, all smoked cannabis through that whole period

513
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: of time. Yet again, we never talked about it, but

514
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: we Hey, let's go grab a bud lighter, let's go

515
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: take a shot. All the time. Teachers, doctors, I know,

516
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: doctors that don't that don't smoke as much, and they

517
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: do other recreational drugs you know that are probably but

518
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: further popping. Yeah, bill probbing lines of drugs and all

519
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: that other stuff, and and their their doctors and I'm

520
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: and I'm calling gosh, you know, I literally he was

521
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: with my doctor m at a and he was like, hey,

522
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: you got an E d M event. You know, I'm like,

523
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: E d M. What are you doing at that? He's like, oh, dude,

524
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: we were on so much ecstacy and this other stuff.

525
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at like, duck, are you kidding me?

526
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: That's not going to talk to their patient about cannabis. Absolutely, absolutely, yeah,

527
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: and and but we have a cool relationship. I don't know.

528
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 1: I'm pretty open with him. Yeah, but but but the

529
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: majority of them would never come out and say that.

530
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: But he's like, I don't even He's like, I wish

531
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: I could smoke, he said. The reason I don't smoke

532
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,239
Speaker 1: is because if I get tested, he says, But if

533
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: I do these other drugs, they're only in my system

534
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: for three days, I can get away with it, you know.

535
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,239
Speaker 1: So again that just normalizing it will help a lot

536
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: of those professionals and things of that nature. So so

537
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: as you met them a few years back, when was

538
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: this that when you walked in there and knocked on

539
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: that doors like two thousand, about a year early early,

540
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: and you were were you living? You you're from Seattle,

541
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: from Seattle. I was just lecturing at a neurology group

542
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: and I was on my way out to the airport,

543
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: and I can't remember if I saw a billboard or something. Now,

544
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: we make products in Seattle, so we also have products

545
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: in the market in Arizona and Seattle as well. In

546
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: the Rex stores. There this little brand called Polite, which

547
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: you know, functional cannabis use um. And so it was

548
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: really just you know, how can we again continue to

549
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: just build this muscle? Um And I'm always thinking of

550
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: what is beyond what I'm doing right now, right, and

551
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: again for the opportunity that they had at Elevation Station

552
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: with Clarendon to really get people talking about cannabis in

553
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: a different type of situation, not when they're walking and

554
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: getting a diagnosis. Right, they should be able to go

555
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: to an infused dinner and we should be able to

556
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: talk about cannabis. And then god forbid, if they get

557
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: that diagnosis, they say, oh, you know, I did hear

558
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: about that, and it is something that we should look into.

559
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: It's not getting all that information at once. So and

560
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: they were completely open to it, and but I did

561
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: want to also offer, you know, the potential opportunity to

562
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: protection because if you're not in the cannabis industry, and

563
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: we were talking about this before, you have people that

564
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 1: are coming to you and we all know smoking mirrors. Right,

565
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: we have to talk. You're gonna have eight meetings and

566
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: we're going to sign these papers. Nine months later, nothing

567
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: has happened, right, And I you know, you you want

568
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: you want to be progressive, you want to move things along,

569
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: but you want to do it again in a professional

570
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: manner and actually get done. You know, that's just it.

571
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: And even investors. I've had numerous investors come across my

572
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: path over the past, you know, twenty years, and they

573
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: think they're going to come in and change the game.

574
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: Cannabis is so different than you know, traditional business acumen,

575
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: and you have to understand how to bridge that. Gay

576
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: Alex for you would say something, well, I was going

577
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: to say that that you know, we brought me around.

578
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: So for the education piece, you know, like your normalization,

579
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: you wanted a big push to normalize anything is education,

580
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: understanding it, you know, and what it, what it's good for,

581
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: and either recreational or medical medically speaking. So, uh, Mary's

582
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: are you know, Cannabi's expert in our and our educator?

583
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: How hard I want to hear some of these difficulties

584
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: because I could only imagine the neighbor of one of

585
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: your guys hotels. Are people going, what are you guys

586
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: doing there? My kids walk by this hotel? You know,

587
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: how do you guys deal with that? When I, of

588
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: course work here on the show, I get it, But

589
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: what is your approach to that? When and I'm sure

590
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: it's happened, right, I mean, I can the dice and

591
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: like Alex. After this break, it's Cannabis Talk one on one.

592
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: We were right back after this break. We'll be right

593
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: back with Cannabis Talk one oh Oneaday, Welcome back to

594
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one. Advanced New Treats you guys

595
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596
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598
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: went to break Alack, Alex, you're talking about, you know,

599
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: some of the people that may have a different pot

600
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: on to think of this Ray Hotels that you've created.

601
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: Is it you yourself that this is all you were?

602
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: He was the partnership nas I mentioned before that we're

603
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: a big team. I've talked about some of the key

604
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: players like Bob, but I also wanted to talk about Darren.

605
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: Darren Brotherton is actually a partner in the hotel and

606
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: in the innovations, and he's a partner on the hotel

607
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: in Vegas as well, and he's the operator. He basically

608
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: takes Scarify all of the day to day. He's not

609
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: the general manager, Joan Andres, has his own role, but

610
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: he's basically overseeing all this and when this idea of

611
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: going candis friendly for the for the Clarendon specifically in Phoenix.

612
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: I leaned on him a lot because he was, like,

613
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, one of the main guy who wanted to

614
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: push this. He thought we had something here, So I

615
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure that he was well. No,

616
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: and not only that because as I mentioned this, he's

617
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: probably the one that had to convince you to do it,

618
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: because I could only imagine, like, we've never heard of

619
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: this being able to like we've always we say, we

620
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: those who smoke cannabis at a hotel, put the towel

621
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: on the floor, put the you know, I mean, we

622
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: we all done it, but it's we've never gotten to

623
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: the one of the sixteen rooms that like, I'm still

624
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: in awe with it. I feel like it's um Willie

625
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: walking on the chocolate factory when I go there, Like

626
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't been there yet, but I feel

627
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: like it's one of those types of scenarios. Wait a minute,

628
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: I could really smoke in here. It's how I felt

629
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: when I went to my first cigar lounge like I

630
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: could smoke inside here and just really puff away. So

631
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: for you to get that quote unquote green light, you know,

632
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: that's great from your partner for him to do that

633
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: and encourage you to do that. But I'm so curious

634
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: on how you deal with because I'm sure there's the

635
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: mothers against drunk driver so to speak, you know what

636
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: I mean, the mad families out there that go or

637
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: maybe not well, so for for the too hotels that

638
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: are going to be online right now, I don't think

639
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna run into that problem. First In Vegas, the

640
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: Cation it's just off the strip, right in the middle

641
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: of everything, but it's not really a residential type of place,

642
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: right and it used to be a crazy hotel to

643
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: the artisan hotel, is has any portation? Being a you know,

644
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 1: naughty place to be, I feel like I was, or

645
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 1: the place to be depending yea, I know naughty Isola

646
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 1: to be very very naughty. Yeah, I think I've ranted

647
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: that place naked twice. Literally here's the video. I counted four.

648
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: But people there too with you don't try that like

649
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: you weren't with me. And in the Phoenix, I mean

650
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,240
Speaker 1: that it wasn't a different vibe than the one in Vegas,

651
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: for sure, but it was It's also a hotel that

652
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: had a lot of crazy parties and everything, but you know,

653
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: cannabis or not. When we do a rooftop event, we

654
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: always have is a does a condo building a higher

655
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: mid rise, you know, across the street from us. It's

656
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: maybe a ten story higher than us. There's always that

657
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: same lady calls on us for anything, you know, the

658
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: tops comes four times and we have the permits and

659
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: she's just she's just looking one. I wish I could

660
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: be there. I'm gonna call on them. Mary has to

661
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: go talk to her again. Mary, can you go talk

662
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: to Karen please? Well everybody else was to but that's

663
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: pretty much it. We didn't we didn't run into that

664
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: many that many troubles. And you know, the most every

665
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,240
Speaker 1: hotels that we're going to be adding to this connection.

666
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: We really want to get into l A, probably two

667
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: or three in l A and and San Diego, Palm Springs.

668
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 1: This is going to be the kind of the box

669
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: that we want to go and attack. Right. Um, they're

670
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: gonna have different vibes, so maybe we will encounter this.

671
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: But I think that it's also my job as a hotel,

672
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: you know, specialist to broker to find those spots that

673
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: where we're gonna be able to build this out effectively

674
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: without having those problems. Right, how is that with the loan?

675
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: Like I'm curious, Alex's that's something you had to pre

676
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: explain as that's a new you know, format of a hotel, going, oh,

677
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna lean that way or or is it the

678
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: gray area. We'll talk about it later that before we

679
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: say this is what we're gonna do. We believe that

680
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: part out Yeah, well, well you know, well, you know,

681
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that. That's because you're doing it already.

682
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: Elevations Nations is a membership now, I mean, it's out there.

683
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: It's not like your name is not associated with this,

684
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's like when you

685
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: go for the loan, is that a whole different elements.

686
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: I don't touch the flower at all exactly. That's but

687
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: we don't either, but we have the worst time getting

688
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: anything for it. Well, the changes, you know, the changes

689
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: are happening, right, I mean, you know when you look

690
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: at loans for you know, commercial real estate and and

691
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: those things. I mean, ultimately it's a hotel first. You know,

692
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: and so that's a sector of the and I'm I'm

693
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: rolling the dice and saying their separate corporations and in there,

694
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: you know, separate, but you're you're absolutely right, I'm not.

695
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: I'll never buy a hotel based on the success that

696
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: the cannabis friendliness or cannabis includes clusivity will bring to

697
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: this hotel. I'm buying a hotel that with or without

698
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: correct that my brand on it is going to be successful. Uh.

699
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: I would say even furthermore that if my brand for

700
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: specific reason on that location is not working, I still

701
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: have a piece of real estate that I know how

702
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: to manage. I know how to turn it around, and

703
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: I can rend it with Marriott, Best Western, something anything

704
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: else that I want. So the loan is attached to

705
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: the performances of the hotel pre becoming an elevations hotel,

706
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: so I can just improve it, right And UH, there's

707
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: personal guarantees that goes with this and all that. So

708
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: that uh And and as you mentioned, you know, for

709
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: seventeen years of hotel brokering, the financing part of it

710
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: is something that we're very well versed in. UH. And

711
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: it's not an issue so far. What I was just

712
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: gonna say, you know, cannabis and hospitality industry is growing

713
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: exponentially and you know people are wanting to get into it.

714
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: So staying in compliance dount in your eyes crossings. You're

715
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 1: always gonna have somebody who has some kind of a problem,

716
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: but you're also going to have people that as long

717
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: as you're doing that and doing it in ways other

718
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: people aren't doing it, you're going to get that engagement

719
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: and they're going to be willing to take risk on

720
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: you and walk me through the process. I want to

721
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: become a member. I want to get my Elevations Nations membership.

722
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: What how does that work? Well, you either go online

723
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: or show up to one of our places and you

724
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: get signed up. It's very it's a fairly us simple process,

725
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: very easy, you know, step by step. It's like for

726
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: you signing up for itune right. You know, it's it's

727
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: pretty much what it is and it wouldn't take it

728
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: wouldn't take long at all. Uh, pricing is changing right now,

729
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: but you know it's very affordable. There's different levels, like

730
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: you can become a Diamond member. You can we're working

731
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: on deficient right now. It's gonna be it's it's all

732
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: one membership. We are making some strategic partnerships with other

733
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: uh private member clubs right now that would allow us

734
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,439
Speaker 1: to combine to private member clubs, for example, and you'd

735
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: pay less than with if you were their members, and

736
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: you'd pay less than if you're just our members, but

737
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: combine it's gonna be a little bit more expensive because

738
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: you don't have access to even more. So we're looking

739
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: at a few associations right now and not not not merger,

740
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: just truly pure associations where they stay there as we

741
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: stay ours, but we can combine benefits and they can

742
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: offer more to their members and we can offer more

743
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: to ours. Right So that's uh, that's that's that's being

744
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: dealt with as as we speak. I can see like

745
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: the country clubs getting more involved with you guys as well,

746
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: because I feel like every country club I've golfed at,

747
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: there's like the x amount of people that act like,

748
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, they don't smoke cannabis, and what do you

749
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: mean every country club they're smoking weed at they've been

750
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: doing that right of cannabis. Boom boom, got elevation nations

751
00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: exactly coming to counter, Gonna go and do another like

752
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of members at country clubs will

753
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: go to another country club somewhere else. And if you

754
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: can associate a hotel like your guys stayed at that

755
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: hotel and be a part of the country club, I

756
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: feel like it's a hand in hand marriage for you guys. Yeah, absolutely,

757
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: and we're open to growing that way as well, um

758
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: and helping you know, their name being out there also,

759
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: you know, an attached to our hotel. So UM, our

760
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: demographic and our target audience is so wide, you know,

761
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: it's it's it's uh everybody, Yeah, it's the world. Yeah.

762
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: So so you know, we we have a special launch

763
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: happening in Um in March, right, correct? And what is

764
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: the date you want to talk about that? And then

765
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: in the name of the change of the Artisan, are

766
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 1: we bringing that up? Sure, we'll do. We'll do it today.

767
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: So UM, as long as this doesn't error before that day,

768
00:40:53,840 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: we are we don't make it happen, don't press that. Yes, yes,

769
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: so we at the end of March, we're going to

770
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: be opening, uh the new hotel. So the Artisan Hotel

771
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: that we bought last March has been going through a

772
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: full blown renovations right now. It's going to be a

773
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: step up over the Clarendon Ibilie because we had, you know,

774
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: the money upfront to do it all at once and

775
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: in Vegas. And so the Artistan Hotel is going to

776
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: become the Lexei Las Vegas. The Lexei Las Vegas is

777
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: going to be our new hotel. Alexei and Alexei came

778
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: up with that name. Uh that's a girlfriend. Is that

779
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: she was a hot one, Alexei Alexei. Yeah, that there

780
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: was the goal. You know, we're gonna make it. We

781
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: gonna keep that same uh sexess coming from the Artisan.

782
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 1: The Artisan has such an ingrained uh reputation in history

783
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: in Vegas. The we actually kept the signage and we

784
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: named our lounge the Artist Lounge. So the after parties

785
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: are coming back. Everything about the you know, the this

786
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: hotel is coming back as well with with a full force,

787
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 1: and we rejuminated that hotel with everything that we're doing

788
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: to it. But the Artist and Lounge is still going

789
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: to be a part of it. So that's part of that.

790
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: And then we're we're deciding right now in a new

791
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: name for our our Cajuns Cajun inspired steakhouse with Jordan's

792
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: Valve chef or chef over there. She's um uh one

793
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 1: of the finalists of Health Kitchen. So we uh really

794
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: proud of this. We really probably this. We want to

795
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: make a big punch on the for the for the locals.

796
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: This this, this is going to be you know, what

797
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: the locals are are wishing and to come back as well,

798
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: and hopefully everybody that's gonna you know, travel through that

799
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: Vegas will stop by us. What's the whole story hotel? Yeah,

800
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: you know, especially for you know people that are in

801
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: the trade show industry, um that travel and and look

802
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: for you know, fun, you know, opportunity to have a

803
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: great time, let their let their hair down, if you will.

804
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,800
Speaker 1: And it's been that for for many years. I've thrown

805
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: parties there. I've I've previous to knowing you guys, um

806
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: I've been to many parties. There's been kicked out of there.

807
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure, no, no, no, no, no, no, I just don't.

808
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: It's a unique property and it's got a beautiful pull outdoor,

809
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: outdoor indoor you know activity location, and the way it's

810
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: it's designed. It it's well and if you're doing you know,

811
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: remodeling to it, it's gonna even be better. I'm excited

812
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: to see. And then there's the four twenty rooms, which

813
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: we talked the whole fort twenty floor and there's gonna

814
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: be four twenty A forwenty B thing that's right, that's

815
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It's

816
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: open for sponsorship and the rooms. Yeah, how do they

817
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: find out about that? Mary, say, someone's listening that has

818
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: a brand in Oklahoma? Can they do it as well?

819
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: They're absolutely And how do they inquire? So you can

820
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: go to our website Elevations Nation dot com and there

821
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: is a contact sheet that you just fill it out

822
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: and someone will get back with you and we'll talk

823
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: about what's the best fit for your brand, you know,

824
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 1: whether it might be the Artisan, whether it might be

825
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 1: the Clarendon, you know, all of them exactly. Some companies

826
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: are you know, looking to go mso right and so

827
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: they want to find that and with what we do

828
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: right now at the Clarendon, we've got our lovely events

829
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: team over here that throws something shout out to Liz

830
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,720
Speaker 1: and Stephanie that have really really elevated no pun intended,

831
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: or maybe the game over there. Um, so we'll have uh,

832
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: you know bud Tender Appreciation Nights on Mondays where bud

833
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: tenders from all overcome they talk about new brands. You know,

834
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: what better way to introduce your brand than at a

835
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: one of the properties and get the bud tenders talking

836
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,919
Speaker 1: about it because we all know, you know, there their

837
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, right and they want to share the

838
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: love a little bit um and then uh, and then

839
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: we do bud tender balls right now, and I know

840
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: the names are changing or we at bud tender balls,

841
00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: but bud Lovers balls that lovers so much more right

842
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: and so again being able to host at our properties

843
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: and and share new products coming out, you know it

844
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 1: really and educate the community like you guys are doing.

845
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: Everything I'm hearing you guys are saying is education for

846
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 1: the communities that are coming out there, and not only that,

847
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: educating the bud tenders that are learning from other bud tenders,

848
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: which then still helps the community in a fun atmosphere.

849
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: That's that's really where my passion is is. Hey, when

850
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: I get you know, I've been doing this skin for

851
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: years and years, but somebody comes in and says, oh,

852
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: you know, I can't get anything off my high You

853
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: want me to tell you why, you know, let's get

854
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: a little bit of science and here in a place

855
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: where it's fun and they want to learn. And you know,

856
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: it's it's it's so needed. So many people don't understand

857
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: how to use the plant but want to and and

858
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you it's it's a scary proposition for

859
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: someone because the moment they take too much and then

860
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: they go, gosh, this is horrible. I hate this experience.

861
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: And it's like, yeah, because whoever gave it to you

862
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: didn't give you the proper education. And it sucks, you know.

863
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: And it happened. It happened my mom, I mean, my

864
00:45:55,640 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: my nephew. Uh you know boder A. You know, it

865
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: took her to get some edibles and had some drinks

866
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: and and everything else, and so it's just it just

867
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: it just ruined it, you know. And she she she

868
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: took too much. You know. Well that was mining with

869
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: them and wanting to do the infusion dinners, right, you know.

870
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: The chefs are amazing. And my question was, have you

871
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: guys talked about what milligrams you're going to put in

872
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: the dishes? You know? And and it wasn't the chefs

873
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: that they had on staff. But I've seen it before

874
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: they'd say, oh, you know, we'll do you know, ten

875
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: milligrams pour a dirve. Well wait a minute, you know

876
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 1: you're not even going to get through the first course

877
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 1: if if you're passing around all these origins, right, So

878
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: looking at the pharmacokinetics of cannabis and what you're using

879
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: and again being in compliance, right, do this right so

880
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: we can continue it and not give a bad name

881
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: to and maybe even start with the CBD apptisers. It

882
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: just CG right, I mean when there are different compounds

883
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: you can utilize. So that's that's really something that I

884
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: was so appreciative of this group willing to embrace right

885
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: and again doing it right, giving a good name, and

886
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: just expanding everything about the industry. Well, listen, guys, it's

887
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: been it's been amazing having you guys on the show.

888
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 1: And I just want to, you know, ask you guys

889
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: before we let you guys get out of here. There

890
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: anything that we forgot um that you may or may

891
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: not have one to bring up or discuss with it,

892
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: I don't think. So I just want to say thank

893
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: you for you know, including us in your show and

894
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: all the great stuff that you guys are doing to

895
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: touch every part of the industry. Yeah, absolutely, same thing here. Um.

896
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: The only thing I would add is that you know,

897
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: this is obviously a kind of a centric show. Can

898
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: misstock one on one the greatest kind of a show

899
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 1: in in the in the world. Um, we you know,

900
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,359
Speaker 1: our brand is to really the word inclusive is really

901
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 1: what our brand is. There not necessarily a cannabis centric hotel,

902
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: it's a cannabis inclusive hotel. So we really want to

903
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: just like we talked about it, normalize it. But it's

904
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 1: all about the lifestyle, the the the the well being

905
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: of everybody that goes there. And that's why we're really

906
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: that your partaker Nott part taking cannabis. You know, you

907
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: got your place and your fun and your special experiences

908
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 1: that are at our hotels. Well it just to add

909
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: that us. I was there, you know, and I'm not

910
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: a huge smoker, but I'll smoke here and there. Um,

911
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: you generally want to buy myself for at home watching

912
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: TV or something. But um, you know, I didn't get

913
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: the impression and I want people to know this that

914
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: are listening, is that you know I didn't get the

915
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: impression that it was some stoner hotel that people are

916
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: just getting high at and having fun. It was a

917
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: very it's a very professional hotel. And and and your

918
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: staff is is is amazingly you know, um, respectful and

919
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: fun to deal with. And and they pay attention to detail.

920
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: The place is very clean. Uh there there's the professionals there.

921
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: It's not you know, like I said, I think I've

922
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: seen a whole you know, um, I want to say,

923
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: a college soccer team there the other day. You know.

924
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: There it's a normal hotel. It's just inclusive to the

925
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: cannabis industry. And and and they've done that very well.

926
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: And the separated consumption areas right again, it's about compliance right.

927
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 1: And and people don't smell even when I'm in the

928
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,320
Speaker 1: bar and it's not too far from the from the lounge,

929
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: I'm not smelling cannabis fly through the whole place. It's

930
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: not it's not it's not a kid's you know. You know,

931
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: but you do that at Planet, Hollywood and Vegas, no

932
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: matter what, feel like you're wherever else. It happens everywhere. Yeah,

933
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,879
Speaker 1: But but I think sometimes people's you know, thought process though,

934
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: is oh my god, I'm gonna go to this cannabis hotel,

935
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: they provide this and they have that that but they

936
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: exactly but that safe person will go to the planet

937
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 1: New York, you know, and it's it's yeah, it's different. Yeah,

938
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: it's no different. And it's it's it's very ancial areas

939
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: for this consumption. Yeah, I think that might be the

940
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: difference in ventilation. Ventilations are focused on. It's actually it's

941
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: actually smart because again, if not, people are going to

942
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: be outside doing it or anyone and every I mean times, yeah,

943
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: they're doing it any So you know, I have a

944
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: quick one though for you, Alex As I talked about

945
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: this at the beginning of the show, the military background

946
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: that you come from in college, Yeah, was there a

947
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: taboo so to speak for you mentally as you jumped

948
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: into this, because most cats that come from the military format,

949
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: you know, have this militant image of cannabis and it's

950
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: not where I started this fully at PARTI and that

951
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: you know, I had use cannabis maybe five times in

952
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: my life before I started this, you know. Um, so

953
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: I had a big education in a in a very

954
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: short period of time about you know, the benefits and

955
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: your partner saying let's do this. I couldn't imagine he

956
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: was not somebody who used cannabis either. My partner wasn't.

957
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:44,439
Speaker 1: He was just he had this idea and he knew

958
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: he was gonna work, and he thought that the hotel

959
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: was the best fit for it. So we embraced it. Um.

960
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not I'm not a big consumpture consumer neither,

961
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: but I still now I do it more often than

962
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 1: I did before. I enjoy it. Um And uh yeah,

963
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: I I was a military officer for eight and a

964
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: half years. I had nothing to do with cannabis stan Den,

965
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,359
Speaker 1: And when I left the military, I think it took

966
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,919
Speaker 1: another like six or seven years for me to take

967
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: a trip to Jamaica and tried for the first time then,

968
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,959
Speaker 1: you know, on the beach. But a great trip my world,

969
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: by the way. You know, for me, it was it

970
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: was nothing relaxing. It was the opposite. I felt like

971
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: it was back in the military. I had to clean

972
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: my room four times, you know, I don't know, but

973
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: so I did it. That was it. But I had

974
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: no to answer your question. I didn't have any I

975
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: have brothers that that used it, you know frequently, almost

976
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: daily back in Canada, and I didn't have any true Uh,

977
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: anything against it, I didn't have. I wasn't judgmental about it. Uh,

978
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: most people at the Clarinton were already using it and

979
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: it was we were charging them, you know, for extra

980
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: fees and whatnot. But that was happening like you mentioned,

981
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: you know, so it's not the thing that I was

982
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: against it. That would just need to be indicated though.

983
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're were glad, you're you're you're with it.

984
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: Thank you. Well, like I said, it's bringing your professional

985
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 1: you know, background into our space. It helps us solve

986
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: It really does. And it's it's it's it really does.

987
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: And I think that that's one of the key components

988
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: there is that we have, you know, professionals like yourself,

989
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: great operators that understand how to and when you have that,

990
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: you know, you you and and and you embrace our community.

991
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: It's if you become part of the community, and then

992
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: now the community gets bigger, stronger and better. And so

993
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 1: that you know, for that, we we and everybody listen.

994
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: Should you know, we all appreciate you. So thank you

995
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: guys so much for joining us. Thanks thanks for having

996
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: this is when this is a super well there it is, guys,

997
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: it's cannabis Talk one on one and remember this. If

998
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: no one else loves you, we do. Thank you for

999
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,800
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