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Speaker 1: the owner and operator of the Ball Family Farms, the

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Speaker 1: and strange such as which I just loved, because you know,

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Speaker 1: I've watched every single episode Daniel LaRusso, and I'm talking

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Speaker 1: So like Daniel Laruso Clever Lang Dog. When I think

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Speaker 1: just clever Lang. You're getting knocked up, bang bang bang,

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Speaker 1: in the seventies exactly. And you pick these names that

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Speaker 1: Chris Ball, CEO of Ball Family Farms. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: into a lot of things with you during this segment.

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Speaker 1: already got the kind of had the purse, got a

423
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: taste of it without getting the triple day workout. Yeah,

424
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,720
Speaker 1: I started to feel like, you know, I started to

425
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: feel like I was in the league already, you know.

426
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 1: So that kind of funked up my draft status because

427
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: after my first year, I was projected a second round

428
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: draft choice, you know what I'm saying. By the PAC tent,

429
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 1: I was male Kiper's I was my senior year, I

430
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: got cocky and got swaggy, you know, and I'm like, oh,

431
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the league regardless of yeah. God.

432
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: So then my draft status just fucking plummety, you know.

433
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: So I wind up going in as a free agent.

434
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 1: But um, I spent you know, the training camp there,

435
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: got released, Um they sent me over to NFL Europe.

436
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 1: So I played a year in NFL Europe in Berlin, Germany,

437
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,160
Speaker 1: which that was cool, played for the Berlin Thunder. Came

438
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: back and was waiting to get on get on the

439
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: team when I got a call from Canada. The CFL

440
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 1: called me. So I'm you know, when you're waiting to

441
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,439
Speaker 1: play man and you've been out the game for a

442
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 1: month or so, you start to panic. Yeah. I started

443
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 1: to feel like I'm not like this ship is over,

444
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,640
Speaker 1: my dream is over. So I took the job over

445
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 1: in Canada when it signed a two year deal, and

446
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 1: then I went to Vancouver to British Columbia. Vancouver in Canada. Right,

447
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: So if you know anything about British Columbia, you know

448
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 1: this is a cannabis and drug hub. What I'm saying,

449
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 1: this is a gateway for sure drugs to get That's

450
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: where it goes in. Yes, that's where everything comes. The

451
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: compressed flat ones like this is let's go ahead, Okay,

452
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: so we understand. So I get to Canada and this

453
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,920
Speaker 1: is where I got bit by the cultivation bug. Right,

454
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: this is where this was the first time I had

455
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 1: ever sawed from seed all the way to harvest. Remember

456
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 1: before I'm getting I'm buying weeds, getting the flower, and

457
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: I'm putting my points and I'm middleman. Right. Once I

458
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: get to Canada, I see see the harvest and I

459
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 1: fall in love with this process. And then i'm and

460
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 1: then I get I realized the numbers the above us,

461
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: the juicy juice, all the bweed right, and the price,

462
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: the price was crazy, like eight hundred dollars. Yeah, I

463
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: probably tested a lot of those ship Like these numbers

464
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: is crazy. So so in the off season, you know,

465
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: there's a couple of fellas that live in l A.

466
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: They you know in Canada, everybody's from everywhere across the

467
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: United States. We all migrate to play and then we go.

468
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: So I get hit, you know, the homies put me

469
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: on like yo, this is how we do this ship.

470
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 1: We get it from here, we whoop whoop, and we

471
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: do why here And I'm like, all right, let's run it.

472
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like it's offseason. We supplement income.

473
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You get your football check

474
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: and when it's trying to rock, you got your Canadian credicials.

475
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: You know, go back, you can. You can pop the

476
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: border as much as you want because you work out. Matter,

477
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go train. I'm Canadian football O t a

478
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: offseason workout, you know what I'm saying. So that we

479
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 1: start doing that, man, And I started to make a

480
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: name for myself and so cow because I had the

481
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: packs for so low. I was undercutting everybody because I'm

482
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 1: grabbing him for a hunted. So at this point I

483
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: stopped my clientele. My stock black tree starts to rise. Right,

484
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 1: it's a football player. He got to work well low,

485
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: Yeah with him? Right, No matter heard of that guy.

486
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know. I wont to

487
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: know what happened to him. Yeah, you know what, But

488
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: so I did this man for for the next few years, man,

489
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: until you know, I made a big enough name from

490
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: my self to where I caught my federal indict me.

491
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. In two thousand, Yes, I

492
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: did hear about this guy. Then you were that with

493
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: with with you know, Adam Adam Philby chaulk knew that name,

494
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: that different one. I had a real big one though.

495
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: Yeah I wasn't. I was. I was indicted with with

496
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: in two thousands ten. Yeah. Yeah, part of a whole

497
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: conspiracy that was moving it from Canada into the U

498
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: s and the Mexico back into cocaine. It was the

499
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: whole thing. So I don't wonder how I wonder how

500
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: we missed each other. Yeah, I was about to say,

501
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: because I never I didn't get um, I never got charges.

502
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: I actually stopped two years right before, like in in

503
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: oh eight, I ended up on the TV show Flipped

504
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: This House. So I started doing a TV show and

505
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: we were working on that show and then UM, and

506
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 1: then I had stopped for like two years, and I

507
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: had my brother and helped me out doing or whatever.

508
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: But I was like kind of out of the business

509
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:51,959
Speaker 1: because these guys came up and there like yeah, I'll

510
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: give you a hundred any grand a year, And I

511
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: was like, you know, they were saying a hundred. I

512
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: was like, give me a hundred eighty. I was like,

513
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: because I was realy making so much money, you know,

514
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 1: doing traps, I was like one eighty. He was like,

515
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: let's go and I was like, this is full is

516
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: full of ship. And then next thing, you know, he

517
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: was serious. So we ended up on the show doing

518
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: like seminars and you know, doing education for real estate.

519
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: But while I was on the road with them, you know,

520
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: about a year and a half, I got this letter

521
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: in the mail that says, hey, your phone's been tapped.

522
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: You were involved in this whole indictment and there's three

523
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: hundred people that went down and all this ship. And

524
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: I was just like a friends, my name was on

525
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: my name was on that list, you know, and I

526
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: was just like, holy sh it. And I thought and

527
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 1: I went to an attorney. He was like, well, this

528
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: means you didn't get arrested, you know, because he said

529
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 1: they would have rolled Yeah, they rolled up a bunch

530
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: of our friends. Yeah, they got all a bunch of

531
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: our friends. You know you probably would would you get

532
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: out three years ago? No? I got out. So I

533
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: I signed for three years. I signed a three year deal.

534
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: This was back in two thousand and ten when I

535
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: did my ship. So but I only wind up actually

536
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 1: end up doing about a month and a half where

537
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: they let me out. So I got out on bail.

538
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: What they kept you with? What they actually I was.

539
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: I got ar with conspiracy to distribute two thousand pounds. Yeah,

540
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: that's nothing of conspiracy of conspiracy, right, they just kind

541
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: of rope you in. I wasn't the target, right. So

542
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's a whole documentary, there's a whole documseries

543
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: coming out about this ship. But I'm gonna still give y'all.

544
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you some of it. Right. So when

545
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: they came, we were in the same network. We probably

546
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: had to be guaranteed because the guy the head of

547
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: the same brand you guys are talking about. So of

548
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: course the head of it is a very well known

549
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: drug lord in the United States. Yeah, White Cat. I

550
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: didn't know he not like no, no, no, no, he

551
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: know what, Okay, but I didn't know. I didn't know

552
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: I was working with him for him at the time.

553
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: I had no idea. That's how big his network is. Right,

554
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: I'm not at liberty to say his name, but if

555
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: you just think about our biggest one. He he Mexican, Mexican. Yeah, yeah,

556
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: you're talking about you're talking about well, he little little Mexican.

557
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, father, listen, it's one is he's a

558
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: little Mexican guy. Right. So I was a part of

559
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: the weed and it was the Weed department, right that

560
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't realize that until the indictment came

561
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: down and I'm looking at the affidavit and the discovery

562
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: and I'm reading and I'm saying, holy shit, who what? Wait?

563
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: Hold on, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, the people

564
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: that I was working with, I was only working with

565
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: them for about four months before this happened. Right, So

566
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: I was the fourteenth man on the fourteen man indictment.

567
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: Thirteen of them got roped up at the same time.

568
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: I was fourteen. They didn't even come get me first.

569
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: I was the pond. They kind of they knew who

570
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,959
Speaker 1: I was. When the Feds come, they know, so they

571
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: were they were looking for certain things and they couldn't

572
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: get what they were looking for out of the other

573
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: thirteen defendants. So they said, let's go get the black guy.

574
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: I was the only black guy on the indictment. Why

575
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: does that sound like a movie? But still so real? No,

576
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: it is. It's still so real like that, right, So

577
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: they come, you know, they they called me at first,

578
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: you know, and I never forget this. I tell this

579
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: story all the time. My phone rang and it was

580
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: just all zeros on my phone. I was in Miami

581
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: with buddy of mine. It's all zeros and I'm like,

582
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: what the funk? All zero? So I answered the phone.

583
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: I'm drunk, I'm in Miami having a great time. Hello.

584
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: They're like, Mr Ball, this is such and such from

585
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: the Drug Enforcement Agency and I'm like, wait, wait, who

586
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: is what? Yeah, we need to speak to you. So

587
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, what we need to talk about? They said,

588
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: we want to talk about this person, and I knew

589
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: exactly who that person was. I knew that they were

590
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: already locked up because I got wind of that. Yeah,

591
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta. Somebody gave me a Birdie came

592
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: and gave me. So I'm like ship. I said, okay,

593
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: meet me at my attorney's office. You know with me

594
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: that my attorney's office on Tuesday. This is like a Saturday.

595
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: So I get back to l A and I go

596
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: to my attorney's office and when I walk in the lobby, bro,

597
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: I walk in the lobby and it's people in the

598
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: lobby right, So I just go to hit the button.

599
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: I hit the button and I heard somebody say my name.

600
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: So as soon as I said, I heard what I say, Mr. Ball.

601
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: So when I turned around, all the people I thought

602
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: were regular people were agents. They women, men, short, tall,

603
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: like everything right, and they all start walking towards me,

604
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: with sixteen of them. They all pulled their badges out

605
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: from under their shirts. Said don't try to run your surrounding.

606
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: You know you're under arrest for the conspiracy to distribute

607
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: two thousand pounds of marijuana. Boo boo boo. The guy,

608
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: the agent who arrested me. Then he comes out and

609
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: I recognized his voice. Here, Hey, Chriss Mike. So wait,

610
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: I thought you said we was gonna have to meet.

611
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, I had to get you in custody first.

612
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: So he tricked me. And so at that point my

613
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: lawyer comes down and you know, we talk or whatever.

614
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: So now I go in, right, they drive me down

615
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: to San Diego. When I go in, um, I was

616
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: in for about a month. Before you know, you go in,

617
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: they they do processing. I had to stand processing by

618
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: myself for like two days because I'm down at mcc

619
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: down by the border. There's no black people in their

620
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: six black guys in the whole fucking prison right on

621
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: one floor. So I stayed in in processing by myself

622
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: for about three days because they're like, if we put

623
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: you anywhere else, it's not gonna be for you. Problems

624
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: southside Mexican Spics all that ship, right, So they leave

625
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: me in there so they can Finally they move somebody

626
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: off the floor where the Brothers is at, and then

627
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: they put me on that floor. When I walk in

628
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: on the floor, everybody knows the case cases on TV

629
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: and everything. The dude the Brothers on the floor is like,

630
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: it's a good thing you showed up here. I said,

631
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: why why? They said, because you everybody thought you was

632
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: the snitch. They thought you was the one talking because

633
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: you were the only one not here, right, So it's

634
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: a good thing you showed up here because it was

635
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: running around here that you was the guy. Right, you're

636
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: the only guy now here. I said, well, thank god, shit,

637
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: it ain't me here in here with the rest of you,

638
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I wind up being

639
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: in there for about a month. You know, you go

640
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: to see the judge the next day. Thank god, I

641
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: had the only black judge in the in the courthouse, right. Well,

642
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'm in there for about a month, just

643
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: kind of going through the case, going through the discovery

644
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: and after David with my attorney fourteen thousand pages of

645
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: phone taps, I was on eleven, right, So they're like, listen,

646
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: we know, we know about your football career, we know you.

647
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: You know you went to Berkeley, we know you're you're

648
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: a good guy. You just said weed what you're involved

649
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: in now this is way bigger than you. But we

650
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: need this information, so don't go down for all for

651
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: everybody else for this information. And as soon as he

652
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: said that ship, you know, all the rap songs, stuff

653
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: playing everything, and the homiesn't told you you know what

654
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: I'm saying that on the street. That ran through my

655
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: head and I'm like, listen, man, I don't I can't

656
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: help you. I don't have nothing. I don't I don't

657
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: know what the funk you want me to say. I said,

658
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: I'll admit to what I did. This is what I did, right,

659
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,479
Speaker 1: So I wind up everything I admitted to. I think

660
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: I copped out for like four hundred pounds that we

661
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: was getting from a Z trying to get him back

662
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: to Cali. So you know, we was doing popcorn and

663
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: all that ship. When I got when I got roped

664
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: up and so that's what I got charged with. But

665
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: during my case, um, after that I got they allowed

666
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: my brother to bail me out. So my little brother

667
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: who's now the CFO of my ball Family Farms can

668
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: bailed me to funk out right. And I was on

669
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: pre trial release and so once I signed my deal

670
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: for thirty months, my brother came and got me out,

671
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: and my lawyer worked out a deal and said, I

672
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: don't got a report for sentencing until the case is over.

673
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: Just said, okay, no problem, you know, we my and

674
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 1: my my. My lawyer was like, the strategy behind this

675
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 1: is that I want to see what the number one

676
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: through five get. I want to see how much time

677
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: they get, because in the beginning they was throwing a

678
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: tenure mandatory minimum at all. Everybody, you are looking at

679
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: a tenure mandatory minimum, right. So my lawyer was like,

680
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,959
Speaker 1: if the if the number one on the case gets

681
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: anything less than ten, I'm ana fight for you not

682
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: to have to do the entire thirty right, but if

683
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: he does, probably you might be fucked. Well, this case,

684
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: this ship went on for four years. They fought this

685
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: ship for four fucking years. But that's the first two

686
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: years my lawyers like, go get a job right now,

687
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: go get a job next week. So I went got

688
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: a job at Abercrombie and Fitch, fucking thirty two years old.

689
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm working in embarrassing as you like. I went exactly.

690
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: You know, my house is in um in Hollywood, like

691
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: North Hollywood. I went all the way to Thousand Oaks

692
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: so nobody would see working in the mall. Yeah. I

693
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: was come out from balling to that year, lad. So

694
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: I worked two years at Abercrombie, folding T shirts and

695
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: ship and then I got head hunted by Nike, somebody

696
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: from I helped somebody in Nike Abercrombie, and then they

697
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: called me like, yo, you know, somebody from our company

698
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: had a really great experience with you. Would you like

699
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: a job, you know at Nike. I was like, Fucky,

700
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: let's do it. So then they've got funny that the

701
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: best moral of the story right there. I didn't catch it, folks,

702
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: You really journey is crazy. So so man happened. I

703
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: go to Nike. Nike moves me to Vegas, right, puts

704
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: me up in Panorama Tower, you know, saying right off

705
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: the strip. I work at the store of Caesar's Palace,

706
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: the fucking hub. Now this is two thousand twelve, right,

707
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: the NFL is going back to Nike. They're getting They're

708
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: doing away with their rebound contract. They're going back to Nike.

709
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: So that Nike likes to hire Trager sport. So since

710
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: I have a sports background, they're like, once you come

711
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: run the NFL department in Caesar's Palace, at a at

712
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 1: a patrol store, I'm like, bat, let's roll. You look

713
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: like a straight outside of the lickground. Call it. I

714
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: mean I'm looking at you. I'm like, ship, God is good.

715
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: This is my life is fixed, you know what I'm saying. Like,

716
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: but I still got this case hanging over my fucking head.

717
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: But go back, hold on, did you tell the company? No?

718
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: I didn't. I'm not because yeah, I'm not guilty. You're

719
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: not guilty yet, so it's not showing up on my background.

720
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: So the whole time, I'm like fun, fun, fun man,

721
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: And I'm pissing in the cup twice a week. You

722
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm I'm working in Vegas. He's Nike.

723
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: We're able to go to Vegas. Yeah, I'm in Vegas. Yeah.

724
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: I called my call and they all no problem, because

725
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm paying my taxes, a job, I'm a rehabilitated citizen

726
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: at this point. Good point, because I ain't got it.

727
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: No more trouble with the law, having I failed one

728
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,439
Speaker 1: piss test in fucking two years, three years, four years

729
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: by the time, every every week. No, mrs, I'm on

730
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: my best behavior because I want to go back and

731
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: not have to do this thirty months right. Fact. But

732
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: but remember I only signed for three so and I'm

733
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: dealing with this ship before. Had I just sat, I

734
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: would have been done done, I would have been you

735
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: wouldn't be working. So boom, the case ends. Right now.

736
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 1: My lawyer calls me, I'm two years in with Nike.

737
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: I'm fucking I'm I'm I'm a manager. They're talking about

738
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: giving me my own fucking story like it's it's it's

739
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: going down, right. I'm like, funk man, God, please, when

740
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: I go back here, please let this judge have some

741
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: motherfucking sympathy on me. Right. The number one on the

742
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: case only got five years. Oh that's looking good. Fought

743
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: and then took the ford and took took five and

744
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: you only have to do five. So we go back.

745
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: I go back to court, go all the way back

746
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: down to San Diego. I walk in the courtroom. I'm

747
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: nervous and ship. Right, my mom's there, my brothers there.

748
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,720
Speaker 1: I go in. I got a thousand hours of community

749
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: service that I hadn't done over the course of four years. Right,

750
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: walk in a lawyer. At this time, there's a new U.

751
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: S attorney. The U. S Attorney that was prosecuting me

752
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: had retired, and so now there's a new one that's

753
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: only been in office for about a year. Right, So

754
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: I see him in the hallway. My lawyer, we see him,

755
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: and when we get in the hallway, he's like, listen,

756
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: Mr Ball, Like, we don't even. I'm not, as far

757
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, You're rehabilitated. So I'm not even gonna

758
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: ask for for you to have to do the thirty months.

759
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: It'll be up to the judge. I'm not even I'm

760
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: not even gonna gonna fight for it. You know what

761
00:38:53,480 --> 00:39:01,800
Speaker 1: I'm saying, this is the d give US attorney, the

762
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: US that Asian man look me right in my face

763
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: and said, listen, how much have made you feel good?

764
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: It's so good because I'm like he recognized all the

765
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: ship that I had been doing the past four years.

766
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So and me, when I

767
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: go in, my nerves is kind of set rewarding. So

768
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 1: now I'm going, Okay, I got I got the Asian

769
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: man telling me he's not gonna press. I got my

770
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: thousand hours of community service, and I got a black judge.

771
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: I hope, I think I'm in good shape. Go in

772
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: right now. Sure enough, the head agent who arrested me,

773
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: he's sitting over there on the other side. He kind

774
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: of looking at me and ship but he not he

775
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: I think he knew what was about to happen, but

776
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: he didn't want to let me know what was about

777
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: to happen. Give that week, so so he looking So

778
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: then the judge start talking, and judges like Mr Ball,

779
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you, I've never seen someone

780
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: do this many hours of community service and all of

781
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: my time I've been sitting up here, he said. I'm

782
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: really out of how you've been able to conduct yourself.

783
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of where you're working. I've read your

784
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: whole case. While the two years whatever from me, now

785
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: the two years with Nike, he said, as far as

786
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: I'm concerned, you are rehabilitated. And I'm gonna go ahead

787
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: and give you time served right hardest. That story is

788
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: so emotional. Hey Ca, you borrow some gear in five

789
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: hundred bucks because I want to tear it up. And great, man,

790
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: it was, it was a great It was a great moment.

791
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: Did a little I didn't pee a little, man, I

792
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: kind of. I did drop a little bit of I

793
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: did drop from my eye. Yeah, my age right now,

794
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: I think so I think, yeah, I P, I P.

795
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But it was it was

796
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: good man. I walked out, you know. Obviously my family,

797
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, was super fucking happy. My brother, thank god,

798
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: you know, because I bailed you out. So if something

799
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: happened and you took off, you know, that's on me,

800
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So boom, I leave, right, I go

801
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: back to Vegas. I'm in Vegas for about a month.

802
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 1: And now, mind you in Vegas. I had already saved

803
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: up a bunch of my bread while I was in

804
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: Vegas because I knew what I wanted to do right.

805
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: Corporate and corporate America wasn't for me. I'm a I'm

806
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: an ex athlete and drug dealer. I don't do well

807
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: with corporate authority, right, and you would think from working

808
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: at Nike. But fuck, all I'm doing is wearing short contendencies,

809
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: talking about football off day with a perfect job. You know,

810
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: I'm working for one of the most I learned how

811
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 1: to fot hey, don't steal this ship man, so boom.

812
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: I waited about a month and I quit. I just quit,

813
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: right wow. My brother and my parents did like, what

814
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: the fuck is your problem? Right? You just what? What

815
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: are you? What are you gonna do now? I said,

816
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to l A and I'm gonna

817
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: buying me a four. I'm gonna buying me a growth.

818
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy I mean an illegal girl at the time,

819
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: because back then it's pre I c O s so.

820
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: But I had a plan, right, I had a plan.

821
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: I haven't studying, right, I said, if I could go

822
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: back to l A and buy me, get me my

823
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: own gross situation and just be uh caregiver for dispensing

824
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: proposition doing business as a mutual benefit organization, I said,

825
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: that will protect me. But when I left court, my

826
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: the here's something I forgot to tell you. The judge

827
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: did tell me when I left. He said, listen, if

828
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: you get in any more trouble with weed or with

829
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,439
Speaker 1: any kind of drugs, you're gonna do three years right away.

830
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: We're not even gonna talk about it. Don't even come

831
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: back here. You just just know I'm telling you if

832
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: you get caught with one thing, because he's like, I'm

833
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: giving you time served because I believe in you. But

834
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: if you get caught with one fucking ounce of weed,

835
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: you're going back for three years. I said, no problem,

836
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: jud you got my word. I kept that word for

837
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: about a thirty days, five forty five days, right, So

838
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: I pack up. I quit Nike, car Earl, did Earl,

839
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: did car Earl this time? Because remember, girlaid, I didn't paid.

840
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: What I did though, was what I learned in Canada, right,

841
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: Remember I was. I learned how to grow when I

842
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: was in Canada. So I said, you know what, funking man,

843
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: when you in jail. When I was in jail for

844
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: them thirty days, I went somewhere called the law Library.

845
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: And the law library, you get to study other cases,

846
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: get to study how people got out, you get to

847
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: study what happened on their case, all this kind of ship.

848
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: And I was in there one day and I had

849
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: a conversation with these two older gentlemen man, and they

850
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: was like, Chris, let me ask you something. Your case

851
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: was for two thousand pounds, right, how much was you

852
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 1: making off for the two thousand pounds? I said, I

853
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: was making fifty bucks per pound? Right, So we're doing

854
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: the map. Okay, fifty dollars two thousand, okay, okay. What

855
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: would happen if you were making a thousand dollars us

856
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: off each pound? And I'm like, what, that's a whole

857
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: different number. That's different. That would be worth sitting in

858
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: here for what I'm sitting in here for saying, why

859
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: the funk don't you do that? You went you the

860
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: middle man, you have the clientele, you're selling it for

861
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: somebody else. Why don't you grow to ship yourself and

862
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: sell it yourself? And the light bulb went off in

863
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: my head, and I'm like, fuck, they're right. If I

864
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: would have been mad, if I would have been making

865
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars off of two thousand pounds, we're talking

866
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: some real money. We're talking money that's still waiting for

867
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: me when I come, when I get out. If I'm

868
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: doing that on a consistent basis, So I take that

869
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: knowledge right now, I'm I'm leaving Nike, and this is

870
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: what I have in my head that never left. So

871
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: I take my little savings. I go back to l A.

872
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: I pull up to Vanni's, California. Talked to one of

873
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: my homeboys who owed me some money from before from

874
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: the street he had to grow. I said, let me

875
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: get to grow instead of the money, instead of what

876
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: you owe me, just give me this and we'll call

877
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: it even. He said, all right, take it. So I

878
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 1: took it to grow and I started my journey of

879
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: being a cultivator right first year. I didn't even get

880
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: through a whole fucking I couldn't get through harvest the

881
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: first the first year I was doing it, kept burning

882
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: up plants, over water, underwater, over feed, fucking pests, man

883
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: I did. I failed in every fucking way you could

884
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: possibly fail in the grow rooms right until it finally clicked.

885
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: And one day it clicked and I finally got through

886
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: a harvest. Once I got through that harvest, I just

887
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: called up my homies that own the property compliance shops,

888
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: the pre c o YO. I got work and like

889
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: bring that ship, brought it hit. I had a skywalker

890
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: o G that changed my life. YEA from the next

891
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: you had that Skywalker OG Skywalker O G. That changed

892
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: my life? Did you know? O G? Louis the third Chip.

893
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: I know of him. We've met like once, but I

894
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: I he was he was popping. I wanted to be

895
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: like him. Well because it sounds like everything you're doing,

896
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: that's how That's how Louie thing started everything too. But

897
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: I mean, your story very similar to that backdoor story,

898
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: like that and blue story too. I mean there's some

899
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: similarities if I'm here that you and him. And so

900
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: that went on man for the next couple of years

901
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: until I got introduced to to the Social Equity Program

902
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eighteen, went down to the city,

903
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: figured out what was going on with that ship. I'm like,

904
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: there's no way they're gonna give a black guy with

905
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: a cannabis felony, you know, because I still have my felony.

906
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: You know, then we ain't you know, license. They're like, no,

907
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: yes they will, That's what that's what it's for people

908
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: like you. So I'm like, fuck it, I can't win

909
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: unless I'm in the game. So I feel the ship out,

910
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: just like, fuck it, We'll see lo and behold bro.

911
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: Two months later, I got to email, congratulate me and

912
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: here I am. Wow. Man, Come on, that's the what

913
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: you want to hear, folks, because when you think about

914
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: the journey and you think about how many earls you're

915
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: gonna meet in life, and you think about the loads

916
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,959
Speaker 1: that you go through in life and the humble pie

917
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: that you have to eat sometimes, and the full circle

918
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 1: from being bawling to fold and clothes to fucking doing

919
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: it all dogs, it is dope story. Well said, very

920
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: appreciate your vulnerability as well. It is just amazing to

921
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: hear you go this and see what you've accomplished. Now,

922
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: not only that, because you've also established this full on

923
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: fucking clothing line that becomes a beautiful quality. You've got

924
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: the flags thing, which I don't even understand the flags,

925
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: Like why are there the flags? Because I'm trying to

926
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: figure that one out, which in my head, because of

927
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: all the cool names, I'm gonna pick my own reason,

928
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: which my reason is the flags, Like the end of

929
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: the it's symbolic. And so my point is he's gonna

930
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: pick it. I'm gonna pick it because we're symbolic guys, right,

931
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: So we're seeing things and I know he thinks the

932
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: same thing, and he'll have a different answer than I am.

933
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: Bottom line is, what is this significant of the flags?

934
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: You wanna you wanna take a step out of it.

935
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: I think it's a race in your winner, you know

936
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's it's the it's you know, I

937
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: think it's it's I think, ok. Yeah, we're here from

938
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: the beginning and the end of the race. We're here

939
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: for the whole thing because there's two flags. It could

940
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: be one flag, and it's two flags. Significance for two

941
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: flags at beginning and then we're here for the whole thing.

942
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: So both of y'all are kind of right. Okay, you

943
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,280
Speaker 1: guys both touched on her a little bit. The flags

944
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: come from is a complete homage pay uh to Nipsey Hustle.

945
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: Nipsey and myself grew up or born in the same hood, right,

946
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: were right next door to each other, and Nipsey had

947
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: the same called the marathon continued, and so for me,

948
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: this was my way of paying homage to him. But

949
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: my slogan is the marijuana than nah hoovers. Yeah, yeah,

950
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: we're right next door. So mine was you know when

951
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: we lost him, you know, right, as all of this,

952
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: what's what's coming to fruition and coming about and the

953
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: way he was using his art in his music to

954
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: kind of give back to our hood in our community

955
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: and our people and try to uplift people and try

956
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: to show people, you know, I'm gonna teach you how

957
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: to charge more than for what they than what they're

958
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: willing to pay you. That's one of his lyrics. So

959
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: for me, he's an underdog, you know what I'm saying

960
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: that was coming up while I'm an underdog in the

961
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: cannabis industry. I'm a black grower with a with a felony,

962
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: with a drug conviction, getting a social equity license. So

963
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: when he when when I when I heard the marathon continues,

964
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: I was really moved by and then we lost him.

965
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: So I said, this is gonna be my way of

966
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: paying homage to my brother, you know, who's from the

967
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: same place and I'm from. But mine is the marijuana

968
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: than I want to be in the marijuana than from

969
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: the beginning during the race until till it ends. Chris Ball,

970
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: this is amazing. Not only that I love you, I'm

971
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: to the point where I love this dude. I through

972
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: my jal and grabbing him harder just the way like

973
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: I played left tackle, so you know, we'd be going

974
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: to get to each other, going at it literally blue

975
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: he would be. I would be trying to take, and

976
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: then you'd be coming at I'd be trying to But

977
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: either way we beat you and I would be hitting

978
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: each other's head every day, and we'd be brothers after

979
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: practice every day, you know what I'm saying. So that's

980
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: what's so funny that that's that feel I have when

981
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: when I see you and feel you, and then hearing

982
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: your work and hearing this emotional, true testimony of a

983
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: beautiful fucking logo that takes the extra mile, that I

984
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: felt that there was something else there to it because

985
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: it looks so cool, and not only looks so cool

986
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: that you going to Berkeley trying to look cool way

987
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,720
Speaker 1: with your guest shorts, but cool to no New school

988
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,320
Speaker 1: cool way, because your brand names the Ball Family Farms,

989
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: the way it's written, the way you're doing everything with it,

990
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 1: it's fucking cool. Thank you man, Thank you. Authenticity is

991
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: um It's something that we believe in, you know, and

992
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: something that I wanted to create. I feel like our

993
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: space is so cluttered, you know, with with fucking posers,

994
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: and impostors, right, And so for me, man, when it

995
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: comes to my products, you know, to Ball Family Farm products,

996
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: we're authentic, you know, to our genetics we grow, we're

997
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: living soil farmers were organic, We don't use pesticides. My clothes,

998
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: you know, they're made of great fucking materials. I'm not

999
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: just throwing my logo on some fucking cheapass shirts or sweaters.

1000
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: Like I really put thought and effort into every single

1001
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: thing we do. Um, the women in my company, you know,

1002
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: making sure that they have a voice, because there's some

1003
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: fucking fire ass women in can. I see a picture

1004
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: of this beautiful woman on your Facebook page, and the

1005
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: woman caught my eye at first, right, look at this picture,

1006
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: and then I looked at her beautiful physique and I

1007
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: was like, oh, look at that chick. And then I

1008
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 1: set in the shadow and going, but look at this

1009
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 1: dope picture in the shadowing right, that's a shadow, that's

1010
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: depth there, and then the shadow on her body here.

1011
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: It's just you guys are carring and doing that extra thing.

1012
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: And then I didn't realize that this beautiful model was

1013
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: here with you, and she's like, oh, thank you for

1014
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: recognizing and noticing all the other things, not just her

1015
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:54,439
Speaker 1: beautiful looks, which is beautiful, but it was and looking

1016
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: at her was it wasn't the first thing. I didn't

1017
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: even notice her. And then I looked up. I thought

1018
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: I was tripping because my glas just low right. I'm

1019
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: looking at this picture, going, oh, well, okay, pretty here,

1020
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: and then I look up and I see it like

1021
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: the black hair and the black hairs are hold on

1022
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: that wig looks like it. I ain't gonn front. I

1023
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: didn't see the eyes in the picture. Trip when I

1024
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 1: saw a picture. I didn't see that either. Keep it

1025
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: if you was, if you wasn't looking, I did something wrong. Yeah,

1026
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: I'm very happy about that. You know. That's how we

1027
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: keep the wall in to like that. But yeah, man,

1028
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: it's just you know, it's it's all about authenticity for us.

1029
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: So to hear you say those things to me, man,

1030
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: it means a lot, because that's what the funk I'm

1031
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,879
Speaker 1: in it for. Yeah, I'm not I'm recognized. Yeah, don't

1032
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. Man. Money's money is cool. You

1033
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Money is good, you know, but

1034
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer. I've had a lot of money.

1035
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that I lost that ship

1036
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: because I didn't have the mental capacity, you know, to

1037
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: maintain it and to hold it. I wasn't mature enough

1038
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: sure to hold my bread back then and get out

1039
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: of what I was in. So, like you said, having

1040
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: all of that, I've had money before, I've had a

1041
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,280
Speaker 1: ship ton of money before, and it all went away.

1042
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: And I was sitting in a fucking ten by ten

1043
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: by myself, trying not to get processed on the floor

1044
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: so I didn't get my ass killed or beat up.

1045
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: I had to go full T shirts, you know what,

1046
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: eighteen year olds. I had to eat that fucking humble pot. Bro,

1047
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: My fingers would hurt. I had to put side stickers

1048
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 1: on T shirts and ship working in the mall, doing

1049
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: dealing with retail customers. Bros are fucking worst, you know.

1050
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: And so I believe I've gotten back to this point.

1051
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: I'm a much wiser and I know a lot more,

1052
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: and I'm a lot more calm in my manhood and

1053
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 1: how I want to proceed with my business, you know.

1054
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: And I know authenticity means every fucking thing. The money

1055
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: is a byproduct of the way you think. If you

1056
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: think properly, bro, and you're trying to right frequency. The

1057
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: money will just come. The ship just shows up, Chris,

1058
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: you're speaking to Look. I often tell and I tell

1059
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: a lot of people this when we say it on

1060
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 1: the show, and it's important for people to hear. So

1061
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: I'd like to re regurrigitated because it's important for people

1062
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: to hear this. Ship is that you know, funk, your house,

1063
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: your car, don't mean ship to watch you have all

1064
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: the cool ship you have. It doesn't mean because the

1065
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 1: boss isn't someone that has all that. A boss is

1066
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: somebody that employs people. You know what I mean? And

1067
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,839
Speaker 1: you you you We have bodies here that we take

1068
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,800
Speaker 1: care of and and that's how we become successful is

1069
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: because they believe in what we're doing. And then we

1070
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: have a saying that the bear of life, which is

1071
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 1: believe energy action results. When you believe in something, there's energy.

1072
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: With energy, there's action, action, there's results. Don't ever forget

1073
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: who brought you to the dance, because you might not

1074
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: know how to get back. And then once your mind

1075
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: expands from its original form, it will never come back.

1076
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: Meaning that like you've already learned, you learned all I

1077
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: know your history because you've told me that right, and

1078
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: I lived that same that same ship, right. I went

1079
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: through that whole roller coaster and I just you know,

1080
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: I've I've I've lost it all. And it's like so

1081
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 1: when I put it on the line, it's not it's

1082
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: not a big deal to me because I know how

1083
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 1: to get it back. Can't you can't stop, man, Hey,

1084
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: we're in it's like this, like let's go, let's go out,

1085
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: like if we're dancing, like nothing you can take from me. Man.

1086
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: I I had shipped, so you know, I can lose

1087
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: all of it today and know as long as i've

1088
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: my mind's all right, you know, and my health is good,

1089
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: I can get all that ship back. Well, it's Cannabis

1090
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: Talk one on one. When we come back, I want

1091
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: to hear about what the ball farm is doing right

1092
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: now on the legal side. It's Cannabis Talk one on one.

1093
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: Will be right back after this break, We'll be right

1094
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: back with Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome back to

1095
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one. Together we can, folks at

1096
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: Canada Devices hashtag together we can that's at c A

1097
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: N N A D E V I C E S

1098
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: and together as this staff does, we do it all

1099
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: together here, and I appreciate everybody here that helps us

1100
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 1: out so much. Jan Erica, Daniel, Mr fell Al, Mark Karnes.

1101
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump you up quicker like the dog if

1102
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 1: you keep calling them and then I must start hitting

1103
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: me every time you do it to him? It's your

1104
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: pal ow? Is it my fault? He changed his name?

1105
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 1: Did he too? P? Did he? If I called did

1106
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: different names? I'm saying if I met the mothers did yeah?

1107
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: And then he goes he sometimes takes that disrespectful and say,

1108
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Please record, well, what is

1109
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: it your pal ow? Thank you? Because foul got killed

1110
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: exactly and that's the one I knew and I liked, Yeah,

1111
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: that's what I fall. Foul, the foul bastard, and I

1112
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: loved how foul he used to be. Col Christian, a Christian,

1113
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: asked great commercial Christians, Danny P. Connor, Gabriel's soccer of course,

1114
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: Jessica Cash, Cam Kimberly, Isaiah's laur Nadia, Ali Pitt, Devin,

1115
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: Chris Frank, you know, Jennifer Newlis. Thank you guys all

1116
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: for doing what you guys love. Chris ball Blue said

1117
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: it best. Where are you guys at now with the company.

1118
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: As we transitioned from that great beautiful story. Dude that

1119
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: journey was loved that story. It reminds me of real

1120
00:56:57,680 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: not only real ship. Ready for this. I can't wait

1121
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: to watch his Where is that now? I can't wait

1122
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: to a the ball movie? Yeah, and just what just

1123
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: to call the what you call it? It's called from

1124
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: the ground up. Yeah, that's what it's gonna be called. Yes,

1125
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. Yeah. I write the

1126
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: book first, Yeah, I do. Man, I really do need

1127
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 1: to write some ship. A couple of people have been like, man,

1128
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: you need to, you really need to write a book.

1129
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,439
Speaker 1: I got some ghostwriters help me. I wrote a book.

1130
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: I really should for sure, I love to. And it

1131
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: wasn't as hard as I thought, you know what I mean,

1132
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: because I just told him that story right there basically,

1133
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: and then they translated it and wrote it, and then

1134
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: they changed it a bunch of ways because I needed

1135
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: to sell it a certain way. But and I regret that,

1136
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: by the way, because I had some other you know

1137
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: what I mean, the dude that wasn't part of our

1138
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: culture that was like, you know, you know, you gotta

1139
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: do this, you gotta do that and you gotta create this.

1140
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: And I did that, you know, and I read back

1141
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: on it and I looked at it. I'm like, funk man,

1142
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: Like I should have just told my real he shouldn't

1143
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: have been it was, it was, it was true. But

1144
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: he put himself in the book, you know, I'm saying,

1145
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: and put it and put all this other ship in it.

1146
00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 1: And then and then the next thing, you know, he

1147
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: owned the buck and ship and yeah, yeah, yeah, but

1148
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though, It's true. I did and

1149
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: I called him. I called him my mentor though, right

1150
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: because because he he hustled me so good. We did

1151
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: about two million in sales and that year and um,

1152
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: and I got zero dollars out of it, you know

1153
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: what I mean. But I was out dancing on every show,

1154
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: doing I was speaking everything that was coming. So it

1155
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 1: was he took all of it. Yeah. And then when

1156
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: I put it all together, I did my Mexican math.

1157
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, dog, Like I pulled him in the

1158
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: Vegas and I'm like, look, I showed up and I'm like, hey,

1159
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: I need all the accounting, right, And then he showed

1160
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: up with the big stack of papers and dropped him

1161
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: on the table he was like, dude, the accounting then,

1162
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: So I fucking pushed that shut off and said the

1163
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: bubba gump, you know, I mean, I pushed it on

1164
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: the floor and I go, look, motherfucker. I said, you've

1165
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: been you've been doing this for fourteen plus years, you know,

1166
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: and this is your accounting. I said, this is the

1167
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: fucking accounting. You're gonna come at me with a confusing

1168
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: accounting that he wants. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he probably. Actually

1169
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: it's funny because one of my my guys, he wouldn't

1170
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: picked all that ship up, and he took it with us,

1171
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: you know, and then we started going through it, you

1172
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: know afterwards, right because had TVs and couches and and

1173
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 1: and in bed sets and all that stuff because he

1174
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: was moving into a new how I was just like, man,

1175
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: this guy's a clown. Man, you know, it happens. But

1176
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: he but but lo and behold though that that dude

1177
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: taught me the game. And then I did six million

1178
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: a year, um, you know, doing the same ship without

1179
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: him without And that's where that's where, that's why it's

1180
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: a good point. Yeah, and that's the he's that moment.

1181
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: You don't get that six that's it. Yeah, and he's

1182
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: now and he's now going to be in the next book. Perfect.

1183
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see him at the show. So

1184
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: I could just like say, fuck you, suck you, Chris.

1185
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: How many does ball Farms family have? Like what are

1186
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 1: you guys have now fully integrated? How many excused? So

1187
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 1: we're fully vertical. We have a cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution.

1188
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: The retail arm is the only arm that we're waiting on,

1189
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: so we're we're probably gonna your storefront. I didn't want

1190
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 1: to come out right away because we were a new,

1191
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: young brand. I wanted to build the relationships with all

1192
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: of my retailers first before I made a flagship you

1193
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: know location. Plus I'm self funded, so I didn't have,

1194
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, that type of bread to go and put

1195
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: up a dispensary. But um, so we do so, but

1196
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: we will get eventually go retail or delivery. You know,

1197
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm kind of looking at that as well. Um, we

1198
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: got two forty lights right here in the City of

1199
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, District fifteen. Um, and we got four strains.

1200
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: We've we've dropped a total of nine. But I've voted

1201
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: him like Miyagi though. Bruce Lee roy Um bonds eye

1202
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: those ones I voted last year. So right now we

1203
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: currently have Daniel Russo, which was our number one seller.

1204
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: That was the first strain we had that we have

1205
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: perfect time, Yeah dropped in that. That strain made us

1206
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: um So Daniel Russo, Laura Charles, which is the vanity

1207
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: character in the last Dragon Plays Bruce Lee Roy's Love Injury.

1208
01:00:55,560 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, bro, I pulled the character out

1209
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: of a movie that wasn't even there. That's what I

1210
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: mean of like those iconic movies we have shown, we

1211
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 1: have shown up too. We have shown enough strain to it.

1212
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: It's both came out two years ago. Kiss were the same,

1213
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: all the same and everything you show the Kiss my copy.

1214
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 1: So we got Russo, Laura, Dragonfly, and uh Nino Brown

1215
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: right now. So um, in the next over next month,

1216
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: we have a new strain drop, which is something that

1217
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: I want to talk about because this one is this

1218
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: one is big. Um. It's a strain called the Fanzie

1219
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: and it's everything everything, everything that I come with better

1220
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: not come with some of the vernon. I got the

1221
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: twists for you. I got the twists for you. So,

1222
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 1: so the Fonzie is after a buddy of mine. He's

1223
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,479
Speaker 1: actually our first brand ambassador. Right. His name is Jail

1224
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 1: Farns Nicholson. He's on a TV show on Stars right

1225
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 1: now called p Valley. Right. The P means pussy Valley.

1226
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen it, I would suggest you

1227
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: tune in. It's on a Star Stars Stars, so you

1228
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: can get to it from Stars, you can get to

1229
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 1: it from from Amazon. Right. He plays a gay rapper

1230
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: on the show. Now, jail Fonds Nicholson is straight. It's

1231
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 1: a straight married man with two children. Right. I had

1232
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: watched the show last two years ago, right, and I've

1233
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:30,919
Speaker 1: seen it and I became a fan of the show.

1234
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, this show was hard. It takes place

1235
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: like in Chuck a Lisa, Mississippi. That's something made up

1236
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: fucking from that place. Um. Cotr Hall, who's a Pulitzer

1237
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 1: Prize winner, she you know, created the show. You know,

1238
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: she's a show creator. Um. And so I fell in

1239
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: love with the show and I was like, I would

1240
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: watch this show and I would see this rapper who

1241
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: is straight, gutter thug as rapper, like the gutterss that

1242
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: that it gets. And then as the show progressed and

1243
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: I saw the dynamics actor I'm like, hold up, man,

1244
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 1: either this dude, you know, it's really a part of

1245
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community, right, and he's just an actor, or

1246
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: he's a hell of an actor if he's straight. Because

1247
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: the scenes and the show was just too fucking real.

1248
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 1: So I was a fan. Fast forward a year later,

1249
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: one of my boys texts me, Hey, man, there's this

1250
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: actor that I want to meet you. He's like a

1251
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 1: big fan of ball family farms, that's all. He wanted

1252
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: to smoke. So I'm like who. So he sends me

1253
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: a picture. It's JR. Fons Nicholson, right, and I'm like, oh, ship,

1254
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 1: that's a little murder from p Valley. Like, yo, set

1255
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: the meeting right for me in my hand. I want

1256
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: to meet him because I want to know, right, I'm curious.

1257
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: I gotta know, because bro, you you it feels too authentic, right.

1258
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: So he comes to my office, bro, and we meet

1259
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: for three hours, right, he smoked, We drink and we talk.

1260
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:01,320
Speaker 1: I find out we have to degree. He's a separation, right.

1261
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: His stepdaughter is the daughter of my college roommate. No

1262
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 1: way that at Berkeley. It's fucking trippy. It's it's it's

1263
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: it's it's creepy as fun. Right where he's from is

1264
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: where I was shooting packs the state now I statue

1265
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,959
Speaker 1: of limitation. So he from Charlotte. I can talk about

1266
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 1: this now, but I'm shooting to Charlotte. That's where he from.

1267
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 1: So mind you, before this, I've had plenty of celebrities

1268
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: and rappers and ship asked the Brandon Basketborball family, farms,

1269
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,479
Speaker 1: social equity, you black you No, no, no, it ain't

1270
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: about that celebrity. Don't sell weed. Weed sales weed, culture

1271
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: sales weed, right, but with this guy, that was just

1272
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: too much there right there, I felt like the universe

1273
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: was kind of pulling me, like this is your brand ambassador.

1274
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: So as we get to talk and he tells me, listen, man,

1275
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 1: my job. I love what I do, but don't get

1276
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: it sucked up. You know, I'm an artist and sometimes

1277
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: to tap into my character, to tap into my my drafts,

1278
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 1: to to read the scripts and know where I got coming.

1279
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: He's like, your weed is the only weed that helps

1280
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: me my anxiety, that gets me, that helps me get

1281
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: to where I need to get to where I can perform,

1282
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: you know. And no, He's like, in no slight to

1283
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community because we all you know that it

1284
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: ain't even about that. It's about just me being a

1285
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 1: straight man and having to do, you know, certain things.

1286
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: You know. So I said, Man, I fucking respect the

1287
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: funk out of you for that. First of all, I said,

1288
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 1: after these three eyes when we talked, I said, I'm

1289
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to you, bro, like I wanted to

1290
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 1: meet you because I wanted to know. I said, but

1291
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 1: now that I know, you're gonna be a big gass

1292
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: fucking actor, bro, because you you your chops, you on points.

1293
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: So the next strain I'm dropping is for him. It's

1294
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: called his name is Jail Farz and Nicholson, but I

1295
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 1: named it the Fonzie to kind of keep it brand.

1296
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: You know, I have to stay even more, you know.

1297
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: So we we were dropping his strain. That strain or

1298
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 1: dropping that month and history is a combination of the

1299
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: Bruce Lee Roy and the Laura Charles. We you know,

1300
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 1: I fucked him and birthed the funds for Wow. Right,

1301
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: so that's dropping in and that this dropped really real, grower, No,

1302
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm no, it's not a game now, you for real it? Yeah?

1303
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 1: We we we we do seriously, We gotta hook you

1304
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: with a Big Mike for advanced nutritions, so you could

1305
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: like like really chopping up. I know all about Big Mike. Yeah,

1306
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 1: I've been a couple of parties Mike as that do. Yeah,

1307
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure going to introduce you folks coming.

1308
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: He's available tomorrow. Yeah, I'm coming on come to We

1309
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 1: have event with the mayor here tomorrow and so um

1310
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 1: and so I'll find out if he's gonna be here.

1311
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: Either way you could come, but but I'll find out.

1312
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 1: I definitely know the staffson to be here, but I'm

1313
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 1: gonna make sure I'm finding out if he's gonna be here.

1314
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 1: We invited him personally. It usually comes out. So usually

1315
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if I think he's still in Berlin.

1316
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: They just came back whatever out of the country. Sound no,

1317
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,680
Speaker 1: he's back back. But my point is because you're doing

1318
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: that and like what I literally called him other on

1319
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: a Saturday with another owner on and like, yo, Mike,

1320
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: I got butter up from Grizzly peaks on and blah blah.

1321
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 1: Like me. At my point is like, and that's what

1322
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: we like to do with people like I I called

1323
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 1: Mike and like right now, here and you're going, dude,

1324
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: you gotta go, Mike, just because say prices and see

1325
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: it for work. We were speaking to us. I've spoken

1326
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: to his folks. They've reached out a couple of times. So,

1327
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 1: you know, with us, because we're living soil growers, were

1328
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: organic growers, they have to come up with certain things

1329
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: for us because it doesn't work the same as it

1330
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: does for like rock wool or or a cocoa or

1331
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 1: something else. We because our soil is living, there's worms,

1332
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: there's actual life beneficials inside the dirt. Some things you

1333
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: put will kill them, you know. So, but we've talked.

1334
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: We were actively they were working on some living soil

1335
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 1: stuff when we spoke they and they just came out

1336
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 1: with it. Do Yeah. I feel like your knowledge would

1337
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 1: Mike would love it because you've been a grower like

1338
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: that and thinking what you thought and coming up. I

1339
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 1: can just see, Mike, what do you think if you're

1340
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: just explaining, like, do what what we need? Mike's the

1341
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 1: type of well looks creative for guys like you two.

1342
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 1: There's a million guys you'll do it that we want

1343
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: to do it. The money exactly, and I believe you'll

1344
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 1: spend the exact type of whatever it takes to give

1345
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 1: you exactly what you are now about it. Yeah, sort

1346
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 1: of fansy thing. That's that will be our next big drop,

1347
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: big release, you know, and that's kind of targeted towards artists,

1348
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: you know, people in the creative space that need cannabis.

1349
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 1: You know that there's an actual need for your your

1350
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: ball family farm just so deep, you know. I like

1351
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:26,720
Speaker 1: that new thing is deep, that the names are deep,

1352
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 1: the whole story, purpose, everything it's for. It's for a reason.

1353
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:32,600
Speaker 1: When he says something, it's not like you know what

1354
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:34,720
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't just do ship on emotion that

1355
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: that that doesn't make sense, like someone comes in and

1356
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:38,640
Speaker 1: gas them up. It's like it has to be a

1357
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 1: real purpose, like you but why you know the same thing,

1358
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:45,479
Speaker 1: gas bro. Believe me, I've been fucking gas you know.

1359
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 1: When we went through COVID and we went through Black

1360
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: Lives Matter and my brand was fucking popping, Believe me.

1361
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to be in business with a black guy.

1362
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 1: You know, there was a lot of promote black businesses,

1363
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 1: promote black Everybody wanted to Chris faul I want to

1364
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:06,560
Speaker 1: help you. You're like would have called me you know,

1365
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 1: I would have took the meeting. Yeah, but all but

1366
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:18,599
Speaker 1: but but like you said, man, everything just just has

1367
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:22,200
Speaker 1: a purpose, you know, because my followers, you know, they

1368
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 1: depend on me for that, just like your crew. They

1369
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 1: depend on you guys to be authentic and to lead

1370
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: the way properly. Right. They're not gonna follow you lead

1371
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: them down the dark, dark path that doesn't speak any benefits,

1372
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: or it's not beneficial for they don't want to go.

1373
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 1: With my consumers and the people that follow Ball family

1374
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,639
Speaker 1: farms and the smokers that love us. It's really important

1375
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 1: to me that we stay authentic so that every time

1376
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 1: we drop something, they know Chris ain't gonna put out

1377
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: no bullshit. If he's getting behind this person, let me

1378
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: pay attention to what he's getting behind. Because time after

1379
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 1: time after time after again, the one after that is

1380
01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:00,080
Speaker 1: is our Ricky Williams collaboration. Yeah, rickhis me nice. You

1381
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:01,880
Speaker 1: guys are doing that too, What do you guys doing?

1382
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 1: Ricky's the real fun? So me and Ricky go back

1383
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: fifteen years right other purpose. Growing up, he grew up

1384
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:12,320
Speaker 1: in San Diego with Darryl Russell, the guy who out

1385
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 1: who was playing my big brother, who passed away. So

1386
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:17,679
Speaker 1: I met Ricky back when Ricky was the fucking guy.

1387
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:19,720
Speaker 1: He had just graduated from Texas and I'm a fan

1388
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: of his and now he's like Miami doing all this ship. Right.

1389
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: So Ricky, you know, lost his career over fucking cannabis, right,

1390
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 1: literally literally lost millions of dollars over cannabis. Right. So

1391
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: we had that history through Daryl. So we meet at

1392
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 1: Hall of Flowers last year. I'm at Hall of Flowers

1393
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 1: walking around and lo and behold, Ricky Williams walks up

1394
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 1: to me and says, Chris Baul I'm a fan. I said, well,

1395
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams, I'm a fan, right, So I'm got lane.

1396
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:46,880
Speaker 1: I meant Eric, I meet all the fabulous people over

1397
01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: at Heisman. Ricky's like, listen, I'm such I'm such a

1398
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 1: big fan of your brand and your weed, bro. Like,

1399
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 1: I would like to do something with you, I said, Ricky,

1400
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:57,080
Speaker 1: if you really fucking serious, we can start final hunting.

1401
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: I would love for Ball Family Farms to grow all

1402
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 1: of the wheat for Ricky Williams. It just makes sense

1403
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 1: our history, our football background together. We both played pro sports.

1404
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: I've now made a career out of the same thing

1405
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: that you lost your career over, right, so it makes

1406
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: sense a story, Yeah, it's another story. It makes sense.

1407
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 1: So we did it. We pheno hunted. He finally picked

1408
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 1: the strain. I got the artwork in my phone. I

1409
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 1: will show y'all all camera. But we named that one

1410
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,800
Speaker 1: Ricky Baker, right from Ricky from Boys in the Hood.

1411
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:30,000
Speaker 1: Yea favorite. Ricky Williams favorite movie was Boys in the Hood.

1412
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 1: So I said, think we're gonna name your strain Ricky

1413
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:36,920
Speaker 1: Baker Black running back from the Hood, favorite movie Ball

1414
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,759
Speaker 1: Family Farms. It all makes I'm a bit. I watched

1415
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: All American I want because of those that I love

1416
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And I watched the other movie, the

1417
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: other show, that spinoff of All American. I mean those

1418
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:56,880
Speaker 1: type of shows and vibes just like who we are,

1419
01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:59,560
Speaker 1: what we grew up on, right, it's like and that

1420
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 1: now has got the new vibe, which if those who

1421
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: don't know, if you listen to us and you were

1422
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:05,839
Speaker 1: a Boys in the Hood fan, we'll watch All America.

1423
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: It's the newer version of you go, it's really dope.

1424
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:11,680
Speaker 1: Catch up and then watch the spinoff because spinoffs great

1425
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 1: when they go to the old girl what's the Jordan's

1426
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 1: girlfriend Jordan always so good? Okay, you gotta watch the

1427
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: live version of the w B. So not just watch

1428
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: on Netflix now, you gotta go to w B if

1429
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: you're in Los Angeles folks watching this, that's something. I'm

1430
01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: a local fucking w B l A five talking local channels.

1431
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:40,680
Speaker 1: Angeli's dude, as you do this, but your whole like

1432
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:44,720
Speaker 1: motto was so in lane, in line and like to

1433
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,679
Speaker 1: open even as you say that new thing with Ricky

1434
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 1: ready for this random it's so left field, but I's

1435
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:53,680
Speaker 1: got to share it because my guts telling me these

1436
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 1: two flags on your fucking wrists are also significant for

1437
01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 1: his loss of his career and your start of your career.

1438
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 1: That's dope. Funk with that, you know what I'm saying. Okay, yeah, okay,

1439
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:07,800
Speaker 1: he lost his career and you started your career. So

1440
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 1: do I need to now? No, I'm giving that you give.

1441
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: That's my love, man, that's love. That's my love from

1442
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: one Los Angle. I'm a Bay Area mother. I'm saying

1443
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: on like you from the town. But hey, but you

1444
01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 1: listen to listen to my boys Big Vaughan and Hoodrat

1445
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:32,680
Speaker 1: Miguel Okay and doghouse. So you listen to all them

1446
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: cats that I'm from me and me and the big

1447
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:38,600
Speaker 1: homie Earl, and I'm talking to for yeah, you know

1448
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like that talking about when you say Earl,

1449
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 1: I think a forty year old you feel me? So

1450
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: that's I'm from the baby shot. And if Earl walked

1451
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 1: into here, it'd be like, what's up? Fan, Bam? I

1452
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: love it? You know what I mean? It wouldn't be

1453
01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 1: funny style each other. You know, I'm really good type

1454
01:13:55,800 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: with be legit, legit. I love ball family to do

1455
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:03,320
Speaker 1: something for him, So yeah, and that would be a

1456
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: perfect mix too. I love my Carlo Rossi. First, I

1457
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: was just about to say a story is that Forty

1458
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: was shooting a video here with Butch Cassidy and I

1459
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:16,080
Speaker 1: was at the park. We're all shooting the video. This

1460
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:18,759
Speaker 1: is fucking I don't know, ten years ago, lead maybe fifteen,

1461
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 1: no longer, maybe maybe fifteen and UH And I was

1462
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:25,680
Speaker 1: on the tour bus with with UH with Forty and

1463
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 1: his brother d Shot and We're sitting in there and

1464
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 1: they pull up the Carlos Rossi and I'm like, I

1465
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:40,639
Speaker 1: don't know what Carlos Rossi is but we're drinking that talk. Yeah,

1466
01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 1: mind you, I'm probably grew up drinking that was probably

1467
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 1: nine team twenty. But either way, I'm like, yeah, let

1468
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: me get some of that Rossy. And I started drinking

1469
01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:53,640
Speaker 1: that color Corlos Rossie. We were class Yeah, sick as

1470
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: I got sick as hell, but but I got druggers

1471
01:14:56,560 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: first and all. Strawberry Hill Boon. That was the first

1472
01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:04,160
Speaker 1: thing I got drunk off of when I was seventeen. Yeah,

1473
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: the Bones I snumbled into my parents house drunk off

1474
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: of Bones Farm. Yeah that one. Got that ship from Circle. Okay,

1475
01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 1: go ahead, and you want to really party, get your

1476
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 1: bell a little bottle of night Trade and then hit

1477
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:22,479
Speaker 1: yourself with the making And if we really get into

1478
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 1: old English, them still reserved. And that was heavy drink

1479
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 1: two of them. Motherfucker's bro, give me a right now,

1480
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 1: forget this ship. I drank to forty house two elevens

1481
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,880
Speaker 1: and I had on a pair of suede blue air

1482
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:45,559
Speaker 1: Max ninety five. Right. I passed out at my home

1483
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: girl's house on the couch. I took my my Airmax

1484
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:52,160
Speaker 1: off and laid them right there on the floor. Okay,

1485
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: I passed out. I drank TWI motherfucker's I woke up

1486
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 1: in the morning and there was throw up. My air

1487
01:15:57,360 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: max was pink stomach acid. That was all of at

1488
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 1: to eleven all over my air max. You ready for

1489
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:06,680
Speaker 1: this one, ready for this to get that story. That

1490
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 1: would have been the defensive tackle, the defensive outside linebacker

1491
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: doing that. Let me tell you what your left tackle

1492
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:15,720
Speaker 1: did eight forties ten beers and got rug burns on

1493
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: his knees because he was doing work so hard that

1494
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 1: he would just grind and then he was the next day. Right, No,

1495
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:29,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, no work, he does all that work he does.

1496
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: I was, you know, putty. So my part you had

1497
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:39,920
Speaker 1: was you had two out that wasn't look at the

1498
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:47,840
Speaker 1: un still got the news whatever war wounds. My point is,

1499
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,519
Speaker 1: when you think about those days, I remember doing time

1500
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: and it was the most idea was I don't see

1501
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: well because I don't remember anything. That's why I said

1502
01:16:57,960 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 1: I got rugburns from that. I didn't wake up a

1503
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:01,600
Speaker 1: throw up. I woke up with the girns on my

1504
01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:05,280
Speaker 1: knees because I hooked up with some check even that

1505
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:11,000
Speaker 1: was a big I want to get to the Ball

1506
01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 1: family mentioned how does that relationship work? Deal with because

1507
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: I could just talk about it. So so we we've

1508
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: I've had a couple of runnings. Um, I've run into

1509
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:26,040
Speaker 1: LaVar once at a Laker game. Um. Yeah, I was

1510
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 1: wearing my ship and you know, he looked. You know,

1511
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,799
Speaker 1: we paused, but it was we were in the bathroom,

1512
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 1: and yeah, I went to the I had a floor seat,

1513
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I went to go

1514
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:37,320
Speaker 1: to the bathroom and he just happened to be coming

1515
01:17:37,360 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 1: out and then he saw right and he said, man,

1516
01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 1: I've been hearing about this like you who you know them?

1517
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:44,599
Speaker 1: And I said, I'm Chris Ball, I'm the CEO. He said, okay,

1518
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 1: y'all y'all cannabis company. I said yeah, I said okay.

1519
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 1: I said it's funny because y'all you know you y'all

1520
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:52,160
Speaker 1: in Chino and we grew up in Diamond Bar. I

1521
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:56,400
Speaker 1: grew up in Rogan Heights. Many both you from Inglewood

1522
01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: and so was my pops. I said, so, I don't

1523
01:17:58,080 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: know if there's any relation there. He said, man, we met.

1524
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,680
Speaker 1: We may have to investigate that. So that was kind

1525
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 1: of our interaction. I wasn't about to go too handy.

1526
01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:08,360
Speaker 1: You got me, I see you you see me, well

1527
01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: see both balls in the period. One of somebody else.

1528
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's one of the boys. You know,

1529
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: they got a bunch of handlers and ship like that.

1530
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 1: But one of the people approached me and was like,

1531
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:19,560
Speaker 1: you know, if they were interested in doing you know,

1532
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:22,840
Speaker 1: a cannabis a cannabis line of brand or investing, would

1533
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:24,720
Speaker 1: you be open? And I was like, of course, you

1534
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:28,640
Speaker 1: know they I mean the sense in the world. So

1535
01:18:29,040 --> 01:18:30,599
Speaker 1: I get it a lot. Are you wait what ball

1536
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 1: are you? People walk up to me in the mall,

1537
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 1: they walk up to me, had eat dinner with my

1538
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:37,720
Speaker 1: fiance ball family? Are you the basketball? And I'm like, no, no, no,

1539
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: we're cannabis company. And then there's some people that walk

1540
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:43,360
Speaker 1: up and they go the Cannada LaRusso right now? Yeah? Yeah,

1541
01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, so you know, but that's it, that's that's

1542
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: that's about it. I ain't I haven't met any of

1543
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,600
Speaker 1: the boys yet, you know, I haven't got you know,

1544
01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:54,519
Speaker 1: they all know, they know, they all know. If somebody

1545
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 1: from their team asked me about it, they know, yeah,

1546
01:18:57,360 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: they know what's up. Yeah, and now that they did,

1547
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 1: just because they're up to the click and you gotta

1548
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:02,680
Speaker 1: be able to be h. I mean, it seems like

1549
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 1: it would be from a marketing standpoint, it would be

1550
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: a match made in heaven. But you know who know, No,

1551
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Actually, I feel like I feel like

1552
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 1: once they made you and they realized, Carmelo Carmelo is

1553
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: gonna be the one to do it too. Melo Carmelo,

1554
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 1: Melo Mellow Again, man, don't call me, did it? Ain't

1555
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 1: he called Carmelo mellow, don't do that's called Melo Carmelo.

1556
01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:27,560
Speaker 1: He probably would be excited about that because Carmelo is

1557
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 1: a legend. He young. You called Carmelo mello. He might

1558
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: be like what the fund called from I called him

1559
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: a legendary. It's funny that I got you, you see

1560
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: my back knowledge with Melolo. But because there is a

1561
01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 1: Carmelo that really played back in the day. Yeah, that's

1562
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:46,400
Speaker 1: our generation. That's that's that's funny that you call exactly

1563
01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:48,080
Speaker 1: who I did that I got you. I'm listening to you.

1564
01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: Thank you. It's mellow Ball, not Carmelo Bo. There's no

1565
01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: Carmelo Ball. By the way, he has LaMelo. I think

1566
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: that's his name, Melo Angelo LaMelo. Well, we do have

1567
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:02,760
Speaker 1: Cris Ball was the ceo Ball Family Farms. And now

1568
01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 1: we want to do the High five with you. Chris.

1569
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: It's a Chris Quick, just simple five questions. We kind

1570
01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 1: of know the first one was when you were younger,

1571
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 1: but we don't know the exact details, which is the

1572
01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: question Number one of the High five, Chris is how

1573
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: old are you the first time you smoked? I believe

1574
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: you said ten? And where were you exactly? Where'd you

1575
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 1: get it from? First time I saw weed was ten.

1576
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 1: First time I smoked weed, I was sixteen. It was

1577
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 1: the weed that Earl gave me. So I got this

1578
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 1: is this is this is a great story, but I

1579
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: will make it quick. I got in a fight with

1580
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:33,640
Speaker 1: my best friend at school over a girl, and I

1581
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:36,640
Speaker 1: had the weed in my pocket. So at lunchtime, all

1582
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 1: the stoners would go smoke off campus. So I got

1583
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 1: off campus and I went to smoke with the stoners,

1584
01:20:43,040 --> 01:20:45,160
Speaker 1: grabbed out my weed and had them rolled the weed,

1585
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: and they rolled blunts, you know, tobacco blunts. The first

1586
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:51,560
Speaker 1: time I ever smoking. I'm just I'm upset because I

1587
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 1: just got into this thing with my best friend, non

1588
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 1: physical fight. We just argue, So I'm stressed. At least

1589
01:20:57,479 --> 01:20:59,560
Speaker 1: I thought I was stressed at six team thought I

1590
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 1: thought that with stress. So we're passing, passing, passing it.

1591
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, I come back to school. It

1592
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 1: ain't hit me yet. You know, it's the beginning part

1593
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 1: where's fun. I get in the fifth period and then

1594
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 1: it starts to really hit and set in. I started

1595
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: looking around. I start to hear myself breathe. I start

1596
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 1: my taste buds went away. The cotton mouth comes in.

1597
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:26,360
Speaker 1: Now my heart is beaten to do like I got.

1598
01:21:26,640 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 1: I don't feel well. Can I go to the nurse? Yeah,

1599
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 1: no problem. Something happened that lunchtime. I go to the nurse.

1600
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 1: By the time I go from the class to the

1601
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:38,040
Speaker 1: nurse's office, I'm full on high as fun. I'm scared

1602
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:40,680
Speaker 1: as ship. I don't know what's happening right this is now.

1603
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:44,720
Speaker 1: I'm deaf. CAM five. You know that that there's a

1604
01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: some on Instagram where the dude calls the paramedics and

1605
01:21:47,520 --> 01:21:50,040
Speaker 1: he's like, I think where we're gonna die? That was

1606
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:53,040
Speaker 1: that was a cop. That was me? Yeah, that was me.

1607
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: I walked into the nurse office. I'm like, listen, I

1608
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:57,320
Speaker 1: need you to call my mom right away. She's like, Chris,

1609
01:21:57,439 --> 01:21:59,639
Speaker 1: what's the matter. I said, I was smoking weed at lunchtime.

1610
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:03,080
Speaker 1: I think I'm about to die. Yeah. She said, well

1611
01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: are you sure? And she kind of like how to smoke?

1612
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: I said, I'm positive, Mama, I'm about to die. I

1613
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 1: was like, Mom comes and picks me up, takes me home.

1614
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 1: Mom knows exactly what's going on. Come home, and I

1615
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: took a nap. I felt better that night. Yeah, that

1616
01:22:24,280 --> 01:22:27,439
Speaker 1: was the first great story. Question number two of the

1617
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 1: High five what is your favorite way to use or

1618
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 1: smoke cannabis? Now? My favorite way to smoke cannabis is

1619
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:37,639
Speaker 1: with my lovely fiance. Uh and we like to smoke.

1620
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:42,000
Speaker 1: Daniel LaRusso or Dragonfly Jones, I, I didn't smoke. If

1621
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 1: you know anything about my story, I didn't smoke. I

1622
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 1: was a CEO of a cannabis company, but I didn't

1623
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 1: smoke until I met my fiance a year ago. She

1624
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:52,840
Speaker 1: got me smoking. And now we you know, I smoke

1625
01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:56,640
Speaker 1: a little half grand with my fiance and that not

1626
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:59,000
Speaker 1: how long you guys been engaged. We've been engaged now

1627
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 1: since Valentine's Day. So where y'all meet? We met through

1628
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:05,680
Speaker 1: a mutual friend. I saw my fiance on TV. So

1629
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,879
Speaker 1: she was my celebrity crush. What you do a little badass?

1630
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:18,439
Speaker 1: Come yeah, yeah, come get on the mic and tell

1631
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:21,920
Speaker 1: us what show you were doing. Honey, go ahead with

1632
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:28,000
Speaker 1: that little gotta talk close to the mic. Okay. So, um,

1633
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:31,000
Speaker 1: my fiance saw me on the show on H one

1634
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:36,640
Speaker 1: called Cartel Crew that we're actually going on hopefully season four. Um,

1635
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:42,240
Speaker 1: it's it's the stories of children now older, of parents

1636
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:45,960
Speaker 1: that were involved in the cartel business. What you're doing

1637
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:49,320
Speaker 1: with my father? Who's your father? So my father is

1638
01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 1: his name is Jose But he was a Cuban from

1639
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:56,719
Speaker 1: Miami that used to transport through boats on the water

1640
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:58,640
Speaker 1: and make you know, he would do the deals with

1641
01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: the cartels of Columbia. Then he would meet them halfway

1642
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:03,320
Speaker 1: in the water and he would bring in kilos and

1643
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 1: kilo's not of marijuana but of cocaine. Um. And then

1644
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: my my dad was federally indicted but he uh, he

1645
01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:14,439
Speaker 1: was facing twenty years, but he did ten. Well, they

1646
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 1: broke it down. He did six years in federal prison,

1647
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:21,320
Speaker 1: three years after that of probation and two years or

1648
01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 1: a year and a half of halfway house. Nice. So

1649
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 1: is he still with us. He is still here, he

1650
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 1: is currently here. Um, we don't have the best relationship.

1651
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:31,840
Speaker 1: But the funny part of this entire story, I think

1652
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: is that let's tie this all together. I was on

1653
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:37,320
Speaker 1: TV I say my story, and I was very adamant

1654
01:24:37,400 --> 01:24:40,000
Speaker 1: that I would never be with a man that, you know,

1655
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 1: is any kind of illegal or drug I'm like, I'm

1656
01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:48,800
Speaker 1: never dating a drug dealer. I might have just put

1657
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: that a little too much in the universe, because here

1658
01:24:51,040 --> 01:25:04,760
Speaker 1: I am right. So, yeah, that is how we met.

1659
01:25:05,040 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: So so we're really quick. Put your hands together for

1660
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: her father, he's here like he has that is Who

1661
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:20,880
Speaker 1: was your name again? I'm sorry, So my name is Stephanie.

1662
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:25,600
Speaker 1: Stephanie last night I want to future miss Ball, but

1663
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,960
Speaker 1: my last name is asad or currently um. But we're

1664
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:33,800
Speaker 1: getting married in January, so hopefully soon, very soon, we'll

1665
01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:38,640
Speaker 1: get an invitation. Yeah, we need invitation. We could do

1666
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 1: it here. Let's have it here. We'll do it here.

1667
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:42,760
Speaker 1: If you want somebody, we'll play this, play this place out.

1668
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:44,960
Speaker 1: It'll be hey, it will be a less to be

1669
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:47,400
Speaker 1: on the water if you turn it into an ice

1670
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,000
Speaker 1: princess like on Frozen. Yeah, and turn it into an

1671
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:53,639
Speaker 1: ice house. Aren't going to really be flowers, dude, honestly,

1672
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 1: such a frozen canibas frozen fan like to let It

1673
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 1: Goes and the whole the way they make those I know, bullshit. Aside,

1674
01:26:02,080 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 1: when I see it on like FICX or whatever channels,

1675
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 1: I go to it, like even if the kids aren't there,

1676
01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 1: I go to watch it. I mean, you're a kid

1677
01:26:08,920 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 1: at heart, and I love that ready for what I

1678
01:26:11,479 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 1: love about just the empowerment of the woman because they

1679
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 1: made that show and I go, look at how they

1680
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:17,080
Speaker 1: made these wors. You got to deal with all the

1681
01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:19,040
Speaker 1: other kids, all the other kids, right, you guys will

1682
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 1: argue with each other and ship ar No, not you

1683
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:25,960
Speaker 1: guys I'm talking about on the show. Oh yeah, because

1684
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:28,840
Speaker 1: I have a lot to say and I'm very opinionated,

1685
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:32,000
Speaker 1: very strong, and loyalty is a really big thing for me.

1686
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:34,400
Speaker 1: So I want to go back to something you guys

1687
01:26:34,479 --> 01:26:36,600
Speaker 1: were talking about, and that was my picture of me

1688
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 1: very sexy repping ball family farms. When people see the picture,

1689
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:43,599
Speaker 1: it's it's a very sexy picture and that's just kind

1690
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 1: of like, you know, I use that to kind of

1691
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:48,599
Speaker 1: lure people in. You know, I have I know, my strengths, right,

1692
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 1: But the picture is more than that. For me, it's

1693
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:55,680
Speaker 1: actually representing Family Farms from like the bottom of my

1694
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: heart because not only is he my fiance, but I

1695
01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:02,640
Speaker 1: believe in his cannabis. Like I've smoked weed before and

1696
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:06,320
Speaker 1: his weed is something I've never experienced. It's clean, it

1697
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:09,120
Speaker 1: feels good, and I'm a woman. I need something that's soft.

1698
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:11,439
Speaker 1: I need something that's going to make me feel good.

1699
01:27:12,120 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: And I feel I feel like I can trust I'm sorry,

1700
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: I can trust his brand. So you know, Ball Family

1701
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: Farms does stand for Ball Family. Were very into family.

1702
01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:24,479
Speaker 1: Chris brings me and everything that he does he has

1703
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 1: my full support. You know, already have a platform. I'm

1704
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:31,320
Speaker 1: on TV, I do fashion modeling, I have over a

1705
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 1: million followers, and I do not mind, with nothing that's

1706
01:27:34,920 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 1: in my heart left that I give him all my

1707
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 1: exposure because not only do I believe in him, but

1708
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:41,840
Speaker 1: I believe in the brands. And it's just a thought

1709
01:27:41,880 --> 01:27:46,679
Speaker 1: of our family's thank you for And like I said,

1710
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:48,600
Speaker 1: I was so honored to see the picture and to

1711
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 1: see it and then to give you all the insights

1712
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:53,080
Speaker 1: that I gave you that I've seen that you pointed

1713
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:55,120
Speaker 1: out that was no, come back over here. You're not

1714
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:57,639
Speaker 1: done yet. You're not done. She's got and not only that, Chris,

1715
01:27:57,920 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 1: she says she likes something soft. I don't know if

1716
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:01,280
Speaker 1: that was a sawn. You are a commiment you but

1717
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 1: comment no, But that's the work, the working you get

1718
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:16,920
Speaker 1: on that picture though it's so dope. And like I said,

1719
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,240
Speaker 1: I've seen the other creative things because, like I point out,

1720
01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 1: without knowing it was you, I noticed all those creative

1721
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:24,439
Speaker 1: things off of just like real life ship that I'm noticing,

1722
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:26,560
Speaker 1: and I noticed the stuff that you put into that.

1723
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,680
Speaker 1: So it doesn't go and recognize what you're doing to

1724
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:32,080
Speaker 1: help the brand because those are the things that I noticed,

1725
01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 1: and he probably had no clue about, of course. And

1726
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:37,360
Speaker 1: I think that when you do things with love and intention.

1727
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: Everything we do with all family farms is it has

1728
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:43,840
Speaker 1: a purpose. It has intention when I when I shoot

1729
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:45,680
Speaker 1: for them, when I promote them, when I put them

1730
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:49,440
Speaker 1: on my story, I truly believe in what I am promoting.

1731
01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 1: I'm just not promoting it because he's my fiance. If

1732
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:56,320
Speaker 1: his products were okay, I'd be honest. We gotta do better, right,

1733
01:28:56,720 --> 01:28:58,680
Speaker 1: But I do it out of love. I do it

1734
01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:01,680
Speaker 1: because I believe in it. I think Family Farms is

1735
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:03,360
Speaker 1: the ship period. I think you should just sit up

1736
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:04,760
Speaker 1: here and he because you make the show set look

1737
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:08,639
Speaker 1: a lot better than us. Yeah, all of a sudden

1738
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:10,320
Speaker 1: we got a real show and now it's it's better.

1739
01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:12,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna continue Chris with this high five. Is your

1740
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 1: beautiful fiance jumps up here with us? Now? You exactly

1741
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:19,400
Speaker 1: and the favorite way? Now we get the question number three,

1742
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:23,360
Speaker 1: and that's the craziest place you've ever used or smoked cannabis?

1743
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:31,679
Speaker 1: Craziest place mm hmmm, I don't yeah that, I don't

1744
01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 1: know a bathroom. How about because you guys, remember, like

1745
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 1: I'm new, you know you should ask her, you know,

1746
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 1: ask her what the craziest place she first? First off,

1747
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:50,599
Speaker 1: give us your I G so people listening could look

1748
01:29:50,680 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 1: up this million following hot So it's a steps Understoore music.

1749
01:29:55,240 --> 01:29:57,639
Speaker 1: So I'm a I'm a singer as well. I used

1750
01:29:57,680 --> 01:30:00,240
Speaker 1: to be on a Little Wayne's record label Young Money.

1751
01:30:00,240 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys are from I mean

1752
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:04,080
Speaker 1: they know who it is. Yeah we know. Yeah, no,

1753
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:05,960
Speaker 1: we never met him. I don't know if you've seen

1754
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 1: the plaques are on the office. But he's gonna he

1755
01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 1: was signed. I we got plaques? Do you think? Actually?

1756
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 1: Me and Chris It's it's kind of a funny story

1757
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: because he loves music too. He didn't tell you these

1758
01:30:17,160 --> 01:30:19,960
Speaker 1: things on his story, but you know, coming up, he

1759
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:23,800
Speaker 1: was in a singing group and he was Bobby Brown.

1760
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 1: He's Bobby is a rapper and a singer. So we

1761
01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:32,639
Speaker 1: just did a remix to Okay, good Dick, good Dick Energy.

1762
01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna be okay. This song is big dick energy.

1763
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 1: We changed it up to good pussy energy. Yeah, but

1764
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:56,960
Speaker 1: don't give she's taking over on the show episode. So

1765
01:30:57,040 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 1: I'm a stripper in the video. You guys might ship

1766
01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:10,000
Speaker 1: you want to here, that's there, he said, gets in

1767
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 1: the buildings. Definitely throw a lot of ones on me.

1768
01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 1: But I mean that's going to be something we're dropping

1769
01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 1: in the next you know, week or so. So please

1770
01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:24,680
Speaker 1: we gotta catch up and catch up this How old

1771
01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:26,120
Speaker 1: are you the first time you smoked weed? And where

1772
01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 1: did you get it from? Let's just catch you when

1773
01:31:28,120 --> 01:31:30,560
Speaker 1: my dad high school. I feel like high school. You

1774
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:32,639
Speaker 1: know it's weren't pretty much. You're old enough, you think

1775
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:35,120
Speaker 1: you're old enough right to smoke some weed. I smoke

1776
01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:41,880
Speaker 1: something that had like branches like it was Mexican. It's

1777
01:31:41,880 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 1: called or yeah had I had a similar story to Chris.

1778
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:52,679
Speaker 1: I had a really bad experience. I was like slow motion,

1779
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:54,960
Speaker 1: like oh my God, like funk, I wouldn't. I would

1780
01:31:54,960 --> 01:31:57,760
Speaker 1: look in the mirror and it's gonna be okay. You're

1781
01:31:57,920 --> 01:32:02,439
Speaker 1: like like bad trips. But I kept smoking, Like you know,

1782
01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:06,439
Speaker 1: I'm no fucking quitter. I don't. My daddy raised me

1783
01:32:06,479 --> 01:32:11,120
Speaker 1: tougher than that. The craziest place she smoked, the craziest places.

1784
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:14,120
Speaker 1: You know, you skip school, you're not supposed to out

1785
01:32:14,200 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: a friend's house. I mean, it's really not crazy. It's

1786
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:19,519
Speaker 1: just I guess the skipping part, and I think my

1787
01:32:19,640 --> 01:32:21,360
Speaker 1: parents don't find out about it. Am I The only

1788
01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: one that smoked on a plane is the only one

1789
01:32:27,920 --> 01:32:30,200
Speaker 1: a private jet before? Yeah? Yeah, no, I mean I'm

1790
01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:32,599
Speaker 1: on a commercial. I'm hitting my pan like it ain't nothing.

1791
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:41,439
Speaker 1: I'm abuser private plane. It was like, what private plane?

1792
01:32:41,479 --> 01:32:47,280
Speaker 1: Where do you are they? I don't have those feelings,

1793
01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:49,719
Speaker 1: but I'm not. Ye, that's good. I did the private

1794
01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 1: Casey and Joejoe's private plane from that's leg So I'm

1795
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 1: on Casey and Jojo with Elvis. Yeah, flying from San

1796
01:32:58,200 --> 01:33:02,160
Speaker 1: Francisco to San Diego doing bumps, smoking blunts and just

1797
01:33:02,320 --> 01:33:05,479
Speaker 1: making it half. I mean that sounds like a great time.

1798
01:33:05,880 --> 01:33:08,479
Speaker 1: It was, it was, it was. It was doing bump

1799
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:10,880
Speaker 1: smoking blunts and we need to Alshall ask you what

1800
01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:14,680
Speaker 1: is your favorite way to use cannabis? Favorite way? Is

1801
01:33:14,720 --> 01:33:16,800
Speaker 1: there a different way? Sorry? You can smoke it in

1802
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:21,519
Speaker 1: the ball, rub it on your body. Family Farms has

1803
01:33:21,800 --> 01:33:25,800
Speaker 1: these pre roles that are wrapped in white and they're

1804
01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:29,519
Speaker 1: wrapped in rice paper. Yeah, that is dog walkers. Dog

1805
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:34,479
Speaker 1: walkers do ye and it's not it's not infused. We

1806
01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:36,559
Speaker 1: have We were about to drop some a few stuff.

1807
01:33:37,080 --> 01:33:38,920
Speaker 1: Question number four of the high five, what is your

1808
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:41,519
Speaker 1: favorite what does your go to munchie after you guys

1809
01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:44,160
Speaker 1: get high all ship minus potato chips with hot sauce?

1810
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 1: What barbecue ruffles? Nice with the ridges? Nice? I think

1811
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 1: I got some. I think I got some Red rooster?

1812
01:33:52,760 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 1: Oh nice, the red rooster. There is one that I like,

1813
01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:58,760
Speaker 1: let's call trapp Ease that MEXI pep oh. They just

1814
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:00,800
Speaker 1: have it. Now, that's a certain finds that Whole Foods.

1815
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:02,680
Speaker 1: If I'm not you found it there? I had to

1816
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:05,040
Speaker 1: order it. I had to talk about Yeah, I had that.

1817
01:34:05,479 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 1: I had to order that ship. I just found it

1818
01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:11,080
Speaker 1: up at little when I funny top right, that little

1819
01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:13,280
Speaker 1: dimensional trip when I can get the trappies. I funk

1820
01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 1: with that. But my wife spot it has like a

1821
01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 1: truffle oil fucking hot saucers, some random seen that she

1822
01:34:19,080 --> 01:34:21,559
Speaker 1: bought some weird random hot. She's the only white German

1823
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:23,719
Speaker 1: that got a lot of what's your favorite munch? Literally

1824
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:34,720
Speaker 1: that you need her. She makes me look good as

1825
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 1: everybody needs to get them a Beyonce like I turn

1826
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:41,439
Speaker 1: money because I'm ready to turn my money for one

1827
01:34:41,560 --> 01:34:45,680
Speaker 1: like that. I just did. I just did. But it

1828
01:34:45,840 --> 01:34:49,560
Speaker 1: was like you gotta go, oh that's great. So we

1829
01:34:49,680 --> 01:34:51,120
Speaker 1: hit him without to go too much. He said some

1830
01:34:51,360 --> 01:34:55,559
Speaker 1: d and some what do you say this? He could

1831
01:34:55,600 --> 01:34:59,320
Speaker 1: have said clam right, but I didn't know he was

1832
01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:02,760
Speaker 1: going that he could. He just went honest. My mind

1833
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:04,679
Speaker 1: as a man, my mind is always on some food.

1834
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:07,400
Speaker 1: My wife's mind is always on him, because you know

1835
01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:11,599
Speaker 1: what's a good woman. That's a little woman. My mind

1836
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:13,639
Speaker 1: is on well, the Ball family is on my mind

1837
01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:15,720
Speaker 1: right now. With question number five is that you guys

1838
01:35:15,760 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 1: are an integrated family doing big things, minority owned Chris,

1839
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:21,439
Speaker 1: It's great to have you here. Question number five with

1840
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:23,640
Speaker 1: the high five with you and your fiance. If you

1841
01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:27,679
Speaker 1: could smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would

1842
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:31,360
Speaker 1: it be? And at why Tupacs cor ahead and rock

1843
01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:37,160
Speaker 1: you just because of how legendary and instrumental he was

1844
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:41,200
Speaker 1: to my development as an artist as a young black

1845
01:35:41,280 --> 01:35:47,200
Speaker 1: man in America. Ums, just just just how prolific. You

1846
01:35:47,240 --> 01:35:48,599
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He want you have a song

1847
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 1: that's like, that's my song picturing me rolling in. My

1848
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:55,880
Speaker 1: favorite Tupac record is Macavelly and my favorite song is

1849
01:35:55,960 --> 01:36:03,880
Speaker 1: bombed First nice first one d Yeah, yeah, yeah, you

1850
01:36:04,439 --> 01:36:10,200
Speaker 1: come to fight tonight like in your life. Yeah. That

1851
01:36:10,320 --> 01:36:12,920
Speaker 1: ship just you know that that ship right there, and

1852
01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:17,599
Speaker 1: that was fun man, that was what nineties six seven.

1853
01:36:17,720 --> 01:36:20,639
Speaker 1: I was there. Yeah, I just got out of school.

1854
01:36:20,840 --> 01:36:23,720
Speaker 1: I'm fucking you know, playing ball that mount Sack and

1855
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:27,519
Speaker 1: that ship just right like I think I got my

1856
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:31,519
Speaker 1: scholarship because I was constantly playing that hit that ship.

1857
01:36:31,600 --> 01:36:33,920
Speaker 1: I was just I was. I was at Death Row

1858
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:37,320
Speaker 1: when when he recorded All Eyes on Me and and

1859
01:36:37,520 --> 01:36:39,920
Speaker 1: when West Side Connection did the West Side Can Be

1860
01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 1: Me bang West, Yeah, and I took I took ice

1861
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:46,439
Speaker 1: cubes tacos, and he damn near fucking killed me because

1862
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 1: they brought a lyric that our runner was. He brought

1863
01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: a bunch of tacos in and I was in the

1864
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:53,680
Speaker 1: studio just banging out this isn't this ship? And then

1865
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:55,360
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, I got these tacos and I was like,

1866
01:36:55,439 --> 01:36:56,960
Speaker 1: oh cool. So I went in there and grabbed two

1867
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:00,680
Speaker 1: fucking tacos, both of them. They're both chicken tacos, and

1868
01:37:00,760 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: I took the only two chicken tacos in there. So

1869
01:37:03,280 --> 01:37:05,599
Speaker 1: Cube comes in and so oh fu. He pours them

1870
01:37:05,600 --> 01:37:07,439
Speaker 1: all out and he's like, I forgot my Like what

1871
01:37:07,520 --> 01:37:15,679
Speaker 1: are my chicken tacos? And I'm like hey, it was horrible.

1872
01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:17,160
Speaker 1: But he was like bro, and I was like, ro,

1873
01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:19,800
Speaker 1: I'll go get yourself right down. He was like he

1874
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:22,040
Speaker 1: walked in there, piste off at lyric and ship. He

1875
01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:23,760
Speaker 1: wasn't mad at me. He was just like, who would

1876
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:26,040
Speaker 1: it be for you? It was hilarious. So I think

1877
01:37:26,080 --> 01:37:29,479
Speaker 1: that legendary well person that I really do look up to,

1878
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:38,720
Speaker 1: um is Selena Selina died you. I see that when

1879
01:37:38,760 --> 01:37:48,280
Speaker 1: you just say that anything. I love her music. I

1880
01:37:48,360 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: think that she died way too soon. She had so

1881
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 1: much more to give. She's an icon for our Latin people.

1882
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:59,519
Speaker 1: And I think cannabis is very stereotyped on females, Like

1883
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 1: I think they think that women don't smoke or something.

1884
01:38:02,360 --> 01:38:04,519
Speaker 1: So I think like smoking with someone like her, she

1885
01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:07,920
Speaker 1: would have smoked something. Really, I would definitely think I

1886
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:10,639
Speaker 1: would have loved to see you ever met her brother?

1887
01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:15,960
Speaker 1: Have you ever met her brother? A story I actually

1888
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:19,000
Speaker 1: opened up for you. The look a like did you

1889
01:38:19,120 --> 01:38:23,760
Speaker 1: do exactly? You know? It's funny because you out here

1890
01:38:23,800 --> 01:38:29,680
Speaker 1: and spin around. Let me see. I love it. So

1891
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 1: the King tanias uh, they don't let no one do

1892
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:35,479
Speaker 1: tributes on her, and they allowed me to do it

1893
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:39,200
Speaker 1: in San Antonio, Texas, which is the biggest mecca her

1894
01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: So I did. It was like a six seven minute

1895
01:38:42,640 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 1: just chopped up all her songs. Did it live? It was?

1896
01:38:45,800 --> 01:38:51,360
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. I want to I'm gonna give you

1897
01:38:51,400 --> 01:38:54,839
Speaker 1: my number an email. I want to like working perfect.

1898
01:38:54,920 --> 01:38:58,400
Speaker 1: I've watched every fucking Selena's Special show. There is the

1899
01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:01,400
Speaker 1: new ones that are watching a new one. I'm such

1900
01:39:01,439 --> 01:39:05,360
Speaker 1: a fan, like I q am the guy that special.

1901
01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:07,560
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Oh, look at who's doing it, Like,

1902
01:39:07,640 --> 01:39:09,840
Speaker 1: I'm that guy too. I was surprised. You should have

1903
01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:11,800
Speaker 1: you should have been actually her double in the movie.

1904
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:17,439
Speaker 1: That would have been dope. Well, a good job. We're

1905
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:21,599
Speaker 1: gonna say we're the newer, the newer one. We're cutting

1906
01:39:21,600 --> 01:39:24,840
Speaker 1: that out. Jennifer's done. You got a hot one. I do, man,

1907
01:39:24,920 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 1: I I'm lucky. That's everything else, everything else. Let's tell

1908
01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:34,120
Speaker 1: you guys, this is this. This is another dream of mine, manifested,

1909
01:39:34,479 --> 01:39:37,200
Speaker 1: just like my career, just like my cannabis company. Like

1910
01:39:37,320 --> 01:39:40,679
Speaker 1: I literally saw this woman on TV and told somebody

1911
01:39:40,760 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: sitting next to me that I'm gonna marry her. If

1912
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:45,960
Speaker 1: I ever meet her, I'll marry her. And eighteen months later,

1913
01:39:46,760 --> 01:39:49,599
Speaker 1: I finally got to meet her around We met through

1914
01:39:49,600 --> 01:39:55,280
Speaker 1: a mutual friend of ours and my boy cast yeah

1915
01:39:55,840 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 1: and so he um, he and I are very tight,

1916
01:39:58,439 --> 01:40:00,800
Speaker 1: and you know I always had a crush just watching her.

1917
01:40:01,160 --> 01:40:03,280
Speaker 1: He tried for eighteen months, and when I give him

1918
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:05,879
Speaker 1: the time of day, I was like, we'll be friends

1919
01:40:07,479 --> 01:40:10,400
Speaker 1: in Miami. Was even gonna work, you know, because you

1920
01:40:10,439 --> 01:40:14,080
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be living there, change your life? I said, no, sir,

1921
01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:15,840
Speaker 1: Like you know, I don't think this is gonna work.

1922
01:40:15,880 --> 01:40:18,559
Speaker 1: You'd come to Miami, take me on a date. Great guy,

1923
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:22,679
Speaker 1: great conversation, good energy. But there was just the best behavior. Timing.

1924
01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:25,200
Speaker 1: I feel like timing is everything. And he was so

1925
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:29,760
Speaker 1: like he was so persistent and so persistent. This man

1926
01:40:29,920 --> 01:40:32,960
Speaker 1: got me because he was that persistent and that many

1927
01:40:33,080 --> 01:40:34,960
Speaker 1: days and went to Miami and pulled it from Miami.

1928
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:38,640
Speaker 1: Now you're in l a Miami flowers every week, bro

1929
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:41,920
Speaker 1: for a every week for a year. Man every Monday,

1930
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:46,479
Speaker 1: every mon he said, just put it on the last

1931
01:40:46,560 --> 01:40:50,160
Speaker 1: straw that I guess the last Monday he stopped. The

1932
01:40:50,280 --> 01:40:52,640
Speaker 1: last time that he came to Miami, he showed up

1933
01:40:52,680 --> 01:40:55,680
Speaker 1: to one of my performances unexpectedly and I had a

1934
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:58,160
Speaker 1: bunch of people that I loved there, my family, my friends,

1935
01:40:58,280 --> 01:41:00,960
Speaker 1: and he showed up to win all these people over.

1936
01:41:01,439 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 1: And then there was a player. He's my My mother

1937
01:41:05,840 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 1: was like, you need to give this man a chance,

1938
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:08,960
Speaker 1: and I was like all right, so and then since

1939
01:41:09,040 --> 01:41:12,000
Speaker 1: then that was last year in July, it's been it's

1940
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:18,120
Speaker 1: been proposed that you know what's give a rat applause

1941
01:41:18,240 --> 01:41:21,360
Speaker 1: to Christo as a real man that goes and seeks

1942
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:24,120
Speaker 1: and does what a man is supposed to do. You know,

1943
01:41:24,160 --> 01:41:26,240
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you do. You found a bride,

1944
01:41:26,560 --> 01:41:30,040
Speaker 1: you gotta court him. Listening the old school. I look

1945
01:41:30,080 --> 01:41:32,720
Speaker 1: at that as courting. It's an old school job. I

1946
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:34,479
Speaker 1: really was. It's an o G chair. I was thought

1947
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:36,800
Speaker 1: that I was talking. I was too. I courted my wife.

1948
01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 1: I sent flowers, but she went back to Kansas. I

1949
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:43,560
Speaker 1: had to send ship and a goo. I worked. It

1950
01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:45,120
Speaker 1: was a long side of work before I got some

1951
01:41:45,200 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 1: mask I was. He asked me, he asked she should

1952
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:58,320
Speaker 1: put some headphones on. She can't, no, you Yeah, he was.

1953
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:01,200
Speaker 1: He was. So we did things right that he asked

1954
01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:03,200
Speaker 1: me to be his girlfriend in front of his entire

1955
01:42:03,360 --> 01:42:06,719
Speaker 1: family before we even had sex, and like we waited

1956
01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 1: and waited and just made sure that our foundation was

1957
01:42:09,240 --> 01:42:11,880
Speaker 1: so strong. This man, I'm telling you right now, like

1958
01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:14,000
Speaker 1: he just he's a man of his word. He's made

1959
01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:16,560
Speaker 1: true to everything he has said to me, and you know,

1960
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 1: just like it's business. He's got the best work ethics

1961
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:22,800
Speaker 1: and he's a really good in our relationship. Great man,

1962
01:42:23,320 --> 01:42:26,760
Speaker 1: and you're hearing it from your bride. Listen, let me

1963
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:29,599
Speaker 1: tell let me tell you to all y'all listening. Right.

1964
01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:32,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't born this way this. I've gotten this way

1965
01:42:32,960 --> 01:42:38,560
Speaker 1: from failure, Yeah, multiple failure after failure after failure, and

1966
01:42:38,760 --> 01:42:42,200
Speaker 1: just staying true to myself and learning from my mistakes. Right.

1967
01:42:42,280 --> 01:42:45,320
Speaker 1: It took me forty four years to finally find a

1968
01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:47,840
Speaker 1: wife and propose and do it the right way. So

1969
01:42:48,160 --> 01:42:50,559
Speaker 1: I made every other mistake that every person's made. I'm

1970
01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:53,280
Speaker 1: not perfect, but I'm in this chapter now man that

1971
01:42:53,360 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 1: I'm just feel like, you know, I can't lose as

1972
01:42:56,160 --> 01:42:58,519
Speaker 1: long as I stay the course. Right. So I got

1973
01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:01,400
Speaker 1: my business, I got my life, I got my brand.

1974
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 1: I'm ready to rock. You can't lose the baby. Now

1975
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:10,479
Speaker 1: we see the baby baby coming Uary six, she'll be

1976
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:15,280
Speaker 1: pregnant January seven. Yeah, that's you're waiting to have sex.

1977
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:20,760
Speaker 1: It's amazing. No, no, I said no, no, no, like

1978
01:43:20,880 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I hit that. I'll put that on God.

1979
01:43:25,160 --> 01:43:28,360
Speaker 1: You had to know that. I had to know that. Hey,

1980
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:30,519
Speaker 1: you guys, there anything we're forgetting before we let this

1981
01:43:30,560 --> 01:43:33,640
Speaker 1: has been a wonderful time. Yeah, thank you. Now when

1982
01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:35,880
Speaker 1: I look at you, it's a way better picture. Yeah.

1983
01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:38,559
Speaker 1: I mean I had her up here the whole time. Now,

1984
01:43:38,600 --> 01:43:41,479
Speaker 1: I just didn't know he hadn't no sloul. I just

1985
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:44,200
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you for allowing you know,

1986
01:43:44,320 --> 01:43:46,600
Speaker 1: sharing your platform with me. I've been a fan of

1987
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:49,840
Speaker 1: cannabis talking now for a while. I've always respected you guys,

1988
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:52,320
Speaker 1: just platform. I thought you guys always talked about real ship.

1989
01:43:52,439 --> 01:43:54,760
Speaker 1: I've watched it for a very long time before you

1990
01:43:54,840 --> 01:43:56,360
Speaker 1: had all of this. You know what I'm saying. So

1991
01:43:56,920 --> 01:43:59,240
Speaker 1: I'm listen. So just thank you for allowing me to

1992
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 1: come here man and tell my story and and uh

1993
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:04,679
Speaker 1: and and share my dream and my family with you guys.

1994
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:11,000
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thank you family now dogs, So

1995
01:44:11,080 --> 01:44:13,400
Speaker 1: we got to keep pushing together because the Ball family,

1996
01:44:15,280 --> 01:44:17,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't do it in the baby and

1997
01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:20,280
Speaker 1: Blues and to say the Dave's baby Blue, it's Joe.

1998
01:44:20,280 --> 01:44:22,160
Speaker 1: If it's a boy, we all know Christopher. We're gonna

1999
01:44:22,200 --> 01:44:32,680
Speaker 1: name Christopher Chris Jr. Yeah cha yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey,

2000
01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:34,960
Speaker 1: But seriously, man, anything we could do this push because

2001
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:37,559
Speaker 1: we're all minorities here. You know, yeah, you're a minority.

2002
01:44:37,800 --> 01:44:39,920
Speaker 1: We are all four of us up here are minorities,

2003
01:44:39,960 --> 01:44:42,640
Speaker 1: and and we all believe in that heavily, like like

2004
01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:45,400
Speaker 1: really do, and and we want to help out everybody.

2005
01:44:45,439 --> 01:44:48,519
Speaker 1: So boy, we like but we understand that. Sometimes I

2006
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:51,200
Speaker 1: forget I might understand that. Yeah, man, this is for me.

2007
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:53,519
Speaker 1: I always say, you know, black love and brown pride,

2008
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:56,040
Speaker 1: and so even like when you were saying my introduction,

2009
01:44:56,400 --> 01:44:58,160
Speaker 1: you know, we are black owned, but we are not

2010
01:44:58,280 --> 01:45:00,679
Speaker 1: black run. You know, my head of Jeanette is white,

2011
01:45:01,120 --> 01:45:04,400
Speaker 1: you know, and that is because the cannabis culture. Man,

2012
01:45:04,520 --> 01:45:08,160
Speaker 1: it ain't about color, right, It's about the weed. It's

2013
01:45:08,200 --> 01:45:12,760
Speaker 1: about the smoke. It's about the medicine like that. You know,

2014
01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:16,040
Speaker 1: I don't even see. I'm happy that you know that

2015
01:45:16,280 --> 01:45:18,840
Speaker 1: that black and brown folks get an opportunity, you know,

2016
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:21,800
Speaker 1: to participate in this legal framework now, you know, I'm

2017
01:45:22,080 --> 01:45:24,919
Speaker 1: glad that a person like myself who was negatively impacted

2018
01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:27,880
Speaker 1: by the War on drugs has this opportunity something better.

2019
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:31,160
Speaker 1: So I feel very responsible, you know, to to set

2020
01:45:31,200 --> 01:45:34,200
Speaker 1: a good example for black people and brown people. Yeah. Well,

2021
01:45:34,240 --> 01:45:36,519
Speaker 1: and you are a dog, you are so and want again,

2022
01:45:36,520 --> 01:45:38,200
Speaker 1: I just want to commend you on the mic before

2023
01:45:38,280 --> 01:45:41,759
Speaker 1: we walk away from here platform and sap. I'm whatever

2024
01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:43,519
Speaker 1: it's worth, very proud of you. Thank you. You're not

2025
01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:45,439
Speaker 1: knowing you as a young man, but no one hearing

2026
01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:48,520
Speaker 1: everything you are as a young man that's a minority

2027
01:45:48,640 --> 01:45:51,000
Speaker 1: representing us and making us look good. Thank you, brother,

2028
01:45:51,640 --> 01:45:59,000
Speaker 1: thank you, and thank you so much that being shaken. Well,

2029
01:45:59,120 --> 01:46:01,479
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very grateful that I got to come in

2030
01:46:01,600 --> 01:46:03,599
Speaker 1: the you know the last part of this interview. I've

2031
01:46:03,680 --> 01:46:05,960
Speaker 1: been sitting over there and just watching everything, and you

2032
01:46:06,040 --> 01:46:09,360
Speaker 1: guys are great, good energy, and I just want to

2033
01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:11,519
Speaker 1: say to everybody that is tuning in that we should

2034
01:46:11,720 --> 01:46:14,360
Speaker 1: we should definitely treat what we smoke like what we eat,

2035
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:18,080
Speaker 1: and you know, smoke clean and just you know, preserve

2036
01:46:18,200 --> 01:46:20,760
Speaker 1: the culture. And there's people like Chris that do that

2037
01:46:20,880 --> 01:46:22,840
Speaker 1: every single day, and that's what we need to push.

2038
01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:25,680
Speaker 1: It's more of that. Hell yeah, let's do that. Man.

2039
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:29,559
Speaker 1: Well there it is guys. Yeah, man, all Family farms

2040
01:46:29,720 --> 01:46:32,240
Speaker 1: right here on Cannabis Talk one on one. And remember this,

2041
01:46:32,520 --> 01:46:35,680
Speaker 1: if no one else lives you, we thank you for

2042
01:46:35,800 --> 01:46:37,800
Speaker 1: listening to Cannabis Talk one on one on the I

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