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Speaker 1: Joe Grande and Mark and Craig Wasserman The Pot Brothers

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Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one at Pop Brothers at Law

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Speaker 1: has an underscore under each word right there, and little

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Speaker 1: brother Mark Washerman is at wash Law. Big brother Craig

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Speaker 1: Washerman is at wash Law. Dog Blue is at one

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Speaker 1: Christopher right and I and at Joe Grande fifty two

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I've been posting some workout pictures

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Speaker 1: there lately. I don't know if you guys can tell.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Can you tell thank you? Can you

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Speaker 1: tell a little bit? Thank you? Yeah? I was a

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Speaker 1: fat bastard at one point. Now I'm just a fat

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Speaker 1: before I'm just fat. Yeah, No, you know no, I

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Speaker 1: was even way bigger than you. That voice right there

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Speaker 1: is Mishka and his brother Slava from m m D Shops.

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Speaker 1: You can see the website m m D Shops dot com,

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Speaker 1: I g S m m D Shops, Twitter and Facebook,

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Speaker 1: m m D Hollywood. They got four locations, Hollywood, Long Beach,

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Speaker 1: when I say shops, they have dispensaries. They have a

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Speaker 1: great logo, you guys. I love. I was on the

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Speaker 1: So that's cool. How you guys let little kids go

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Speaker 1: your logo set up everything, and you guys started and

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Speaker 1: us down because in this show right here, these two

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Speaker 1: gentlemen have shops. If you're like wondering, and I'm gonna,

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Speaker 1: I want to hear the story on how you guys

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Speaker 1: came to find cannabis, how you guys decided to do

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Speaker 1: it not only one shop, but four locations, and you

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Speaker 1: started back in the day in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 1: So take me before then, of course, when you guys

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Speaker 1: just a crazy story, allegedly allegedly, you know. So how

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Speaker 1: does it all get started? And who's the older one? Misca? Slava?

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Speaker 1: I'm the older one? Really, wow, Slava, that's bad because

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Speaker 1: Misca looks older than you. Yeah, exactly, has more gray

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Speaker 1: I'm like, who's the older one? Misca ruined ruins his

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Speaker 1: day every way to go wait to funk it all up, Joe,

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Speaker 1: you fat bastard, Joe. You know what, of course, go

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Speaker 1: It's like we're brothers up here. Are you guys? Are

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Speaker 1: in theory and ull Allegedly my career got started. And

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Speaker 1: did he introduce it to you? Then? No? No, No,

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Speaker 1: he totally tried to get me in trouble. Yes, son

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Speaker 1: you're big brothers fucking ratting that little brother from doing good. Motherfuckers.

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Speaker 1: Slava from mm D shops You can see mm D

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Speaker 1: How hard has that been for you guys to consistently,

423
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Speaker 1: especially yourself, Slava with that medical background, figuring out more

424
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 1: about what the Better Business Bureau was trying to put

425
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 1: out there for everybody to be compliant? How hard is

426
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: it to stay compliant? And on top of it, it's

427
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 1: it's it's extremely difficult. I mean, we're we're thankful for

428
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,919
Speaker 1: the regulations because the regulation since allow us to do

429
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: what we do and allow us to you know, to

430
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,360
Speaker 1: be open and to actually do business and and plan

431
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 1: a you know, level playing field with other businesses somewhat.

432
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: But the regulations are crazy, you know. I mean they're

433
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: they're tough, they're tough, and you just the mindset has

434
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: to be uh, the mindset has to be right to

435
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: actually follow the regulations, read into him and and and

436
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: and just do business like it should be done. You know.

437
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 1: It's it's very difficult for a lot of operators from

438
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: back in a day to to be able to adjust

439
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: to that type of regulation. I mean, I don't think

440
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 1: it's a secret that we're in an overregulated over We

441
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 1: talked about that, Mark and Craig. We all sit there

442
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: and they get so piste off. I mean, including myself saying,

443
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: treat it like it's alcohol. Treat it like it's let

444
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: us treat it like it's a plant. You know, we've

445
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 1: had people running for sheriff. It's a fucking weed. Treat

446
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: it like it's a weed. For God's sakes. Treat these

447
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: stores like it's a liquor store. So, I mean, I

448
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 1: think you nailed it right there when I you said

449
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,199
Speaker 1: it's the mindset. As an owner, you have to be like,

450
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: this is a different market. It's not a fucking liquor store.

451
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: It's not a you know, dry cleaning shop. So you

452
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: guys going to take it on the chain, like, okay,

453
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: here we go. Look, look, I came from the medical

454
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 1: the medical field, medical business, you know, particularly dealing with

455
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: elderly people and adult day health care centers and and

456
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 1: and physical therapy centers and things like that, and and

457
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,360
Speaker 1: the regulations that they go through is enormous and they

458
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 1: get audited three times a year, four times a year.

459
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: So when you're coming to this industry with that mindset

460
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: knowing you're gonna get audited, you're you know, you have

461
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: to follow the rules and regulations and things are going

462
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: to change, and things are going to change, and keeping

463
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: keeping in mind that this is a new industry that

464
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: the BCC still doesn't have everything figured out yet, so

465
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: you are growing with a new industry, so you know,

466
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: keeping that mindset, you're able to adjust. And understanding that

467
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:57,679
Speaker 1: regulators and operators are two completely different uh people. You know,

468
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: the people putting together these regulations don't necessarily understand the

469
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: hurdles that the operators have to go through. And because

470
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: they're not even the cannabis king and vice versa. So

471
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: you know, you come in with an open mind and

472
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: you roll up your sleeves and you're ready to work. Yeah,

473
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be hard as fun,

474
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: But anybody can make it. If two immigrants from Russia

475
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 1: they came here with three dollars in their pocket, can

476
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 1: make it like you can make it. That's what I

477
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: love right now about your guy's a story. It makes

478
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: me so internally proud for you guys and your family

479
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: to think like that. And I mean, is that the

480
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: kind of advice you'd give Mishka as you just kind

481
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 1: of felt like you told everyone, dude, if we can

482
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: do it, so can you just have a smarter brother

483
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: who's a lot smarter than you, but be the hustler

484
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: that's gonna read the ship for you and make sure

485
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 1: you do it all right, most smarter younger brother, you

486
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean? The most important thing you can

487
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: do now? Yeah, I think you know we're very pro

488
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,199
Speaker 1: business and and and we love this industry. You know,

489
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: we wake up excited to go to work, although you

490
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,959
Speaker 1: know every morning could be different than the day before,

491
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: and sometimes you uh, you want to kick and scream

492
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. But then sometimes it's

493
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: it's very rewarding. Um, i'd say, just don't give up.

494
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: What are some of the things that you guys would

495
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 1: say that they can change for the industry to make

496
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: it better, Like if you had your hand over the

497
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,959
Speaker 1: b c C are the governor let alone the presidents?

498
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: You know, Congress can change things. What are some advice

499
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: that you say we can start here because God willing,

500
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: we all know, make it federally legal. There's like big

501
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 1: statements that we can say that are just big and grand,

502
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: and of course that will make everything great, but it

503
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: all needs to happen so small. You're not gonna turn

504
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,199
Speaker 1: a light switch on, right I think, I think, and

505
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let Slav take this because he's gonna he's

506
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: gonna have better opinions than me. But I think, uh,

507
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: I think we're over taxed, which uh creates a big

508
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: opportunity for the black market, which is still booming like crazy.

509
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: You see these numbers out there. Yeah, if if they

510
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, they still taxted because everybody, you know, they

511
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: want to make revenue from it, but taxed enough to

512
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: where we uh compete with the with the illicit markets

513
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: because nobody wants to go meet that corner in the

514
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: in the fucking shady alley. You know, everybody likes going

515
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: to a nice retail store, having options and having people

516
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: with opinion, having your product tested and regulated and giving

517
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: good advice for what the exactly educated bud tenders and

518
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: know what they're talking about. Nobody wants to go to

519
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: a back alley and buy their genes at a back

520
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: alley like people like going to the retail environment unless

521
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: they have to pay more for it, you know what

522
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: I mean. So I think that's one thing that we

523
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: could start working on. But I mean, yeah, I mean,

524
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: my opinion is a lot of people like to scream

525
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: legalize it, legalize it, But legalizing it means taxing it,

526
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: and it's already being taxing California, so even on a

527
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: federal level. So now you're looking at taxation on local

528
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: city level, state level, and then federal level. So when

529
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 1: you're screaming legalize it, you have to you know, you

530
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: have to keep legal though they have to lower the

531
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: other states and city and taxas. I mean, that would

532
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: be nicer for the states that are already legal Of course,

533
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: to answer your question, I think two things, uh to

534
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 1: make this industry actually, you know, show the fruits of

535
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: its of its labor. Is like like mis Casette is

536
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: taxation and the other one is banking. The funny thing

537
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: is and it's funny you said that, Slava because in

538
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: my opinion, as I see the cannabis game, I think

539
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: banking is even the most important from a starting standpoint,

540
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: because now mis Slava can have proof on a you know,

541
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: federally approved banking system and what are companies worth what

542
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: we made this year, what we made that month, rather

543
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: than we got that bag that bag, in that bag,

544
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: there's twenty grand in each bag right there, we're doing

545
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: well what you know, you may be doing well, but

546
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: you can show proof. And now you're buying another boat,

547
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: another house, because that's where that real money comes from. There,

548
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: or expanding the business and being able to go shop

549
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: real estate assets behind it, and and you know what

550
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: I mean, and actually being able to like work with

551
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: the regular creditor, you know, just just being able to

552
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: do business like you know you would if you opened

553
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: a liquor store, yeah exactly, or dry cleaners or any

554
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: any other type of business that that's scalable. You know,

555
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,719
Speaker 1: it's just funny to think how we mostly oh it's legal, right,

556
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: it's legal. It's like, yeah, but it's not. And these

557
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: people who own shops, so I want to get We're

558
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: gonna take a break real quick as we're talking to

559
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: Misca and Slava from M m D Shops. I got

560
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: four dispensaries. I want to get to the first one

561
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: North Hollywood. How you go to the second, third, and fourth.

562
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear that story when we come back. It's

563
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one on one. All right, it's the Miska

564
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: and Slava show from M m D Shops. They are here.

565
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: They're about to beat box and sing for us on

566
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one on one. Taking away Misca, I came

567
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: to play have fun in the club. So you guys,

568
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: uh walk take me down the lane of oh six

569
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: North Hollywood opens. What's the next location? How hard? What

570
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: are the struggles? Educate the people out there that are

571
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: sitting there going? But I really want to get in

572
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: the cannabis game. I mean, these two fucking dudes Russia

573
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: came with three bucks one fifty pop in their pocket.

574
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: One changes his name to Steve, one changes is the Michael,

575
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: and now they got sucking four dispensaries. How does that

576
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: ship happen? I've been born and raised here in the

577
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: United States. Educate me, fellas, walk me down that well,

578
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: I think, I think before in North Hollywood was a

579
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: very different situation. Before you just went down to the

580
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: two Office of Finance, got a business license, and if

581
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: you were smart enough to tell him that it was

582
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: for cannabis sales, you probably would have ended up. So

583
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: at this point, our first dispensary, the license cost us.

584
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: Oh how nice was that? It was nice? The first

585
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: How about this four dollars and a lot of balls.

586
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: Because John Smith was going around rating people. What was

587
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: your last license? Cars? A little more a little more

588
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: than fifty four bucks, a lot more zeros than that,

589
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: a lot more numbers. So North Hollywood was the fourth,

590
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: first one. What's the second location? So how many years after?

591
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: Let me just tay, I'll just take you through a

592
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: little bit of history. At least, how we do MMD

593
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: shops are growing and slave you can tell me to

594
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: shut the funk up if yeah, I don't allegedly too much. Well,

595
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: so that's how they all got going going. And now

596
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: now so in two thousand six, we uh, you know,

597
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: us and A and a partner and some help, uh

598
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, opened our very first store. By the time

599
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: two thousand nine came around, we decided that it's time

600
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: to to expand, expand our foot print a little more. Again.

601
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: We've gotten some partnerships, we would help consults and projects,

602
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: and we opened uh two back to back stores, UM

603
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: one I believe in like April, and then one the

604
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: month right after that in two thousand nine. Uh, a

605
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: couple of years goes by, we start working and then

606
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: between two thousand twelve and like two thousand eighteen, with

607
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: with all the movement, you know, between so much regulations

608
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: because they told you you're okay in this location, you're

609
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: not okay in this location. So you know, between two

610
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: thousand and twelve and two thousand and eighteen, we'd you know,

611
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: we'd open a footprint of I don't know, it was

612
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: a lot. It was probably over twenty retail doors. Really. Yeah.

613
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: We we we also did a lot of consulting for

614
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: for people that wanted to be in the business, and

615
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: we we taught a lot of people how to run

616
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: a retail store by because by that time we got

617
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: really really good at it. We knew the market, we

618
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: knew you know, we need the ins and outs of

619
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: of regulation, of how to get the customer and all

620
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,239
Speaker 1: of that. So a lot of people came to us

621
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: and as listen, guys, you know a lot of big

622
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: operators in today's space came to us and said, yeah,

623
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: can can you guys show us the light? And of

624
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: course in this space, um, you know, we're all just

625
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: kind of learning as we go, you know what I mean,

626
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: so literally, because then things change right away. Things change,

627
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: so as you go, you try to help each other.

628
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: You know. It's not like one of these spaces where

629
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: you hoard all your information because you want to talk

630
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: to people because they can give you some one of

631
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: the partners in this like, when we're in this game together,

632
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: I'm never We're never gonna be able to do it alone.

633
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: So so we we started helping people and uh, and

634
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: that's how that number twenty came to fruition inevitably. Now,

635
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: we never had twenty dispensaries. Of course, you know, there's

636
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts, you know what I mean,

637
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: But but you have four with licenses and all this

638
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: good stuff. There's four good solid ones exactly, and so

639
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: it takes a long time to get four of them

640
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: because you had to open some clothes, some get the light,

641
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: get this to move them to compliant locations. But there's

642
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: there's a you know, particularly in the city of l A.

643
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: You in two thousand thirteen, you had to move to

644
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: you had about a you know, less than a year

645
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: to move your existing license to a compliant location. And

646
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: we've had we we had to move all the people

647
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: that we consulted with, you know that we consulted and

648
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: our dispensary to a completely different location. We lost all

649
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: of our customer base. Um, you know, it was like

650
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: finding a needle in the haystack to try to find

651
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: the location wasn't around back then, so it's not like, hey,

652
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: just find us on maps exactly right. So so now

653
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: you guys have your shops, what are some of the

654
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: big selling items in your stores right now? What are

655
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: the big like, oh my god, mmd pops with what uh?

656
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: I mean? Honestly, we have anywhere between eight hundred and

657
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred different products on the board at any given time.

658
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: So anything that's new and relevant and hot and exciting

659
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: in the market we try to carry. You know. Right now,

660
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: one of the things that I'm really in love with

661
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: is our drinkable section. You know, we've got what you

662
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: guys brought here one of these drinks. So yeah, one

663
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: of those drinkables there, you know, uh, we got uh

664
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: you know, I think the drink of tea lemonade. Wow,

665
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: what a good flavor to Arnold Palmer. And then we

666
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: have non infused liqueurs, so they'll take the liqueur, they'll

667
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: take out the alcohol, they'll infuse it with cannabis. Uh.

668
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: I love that sector because it does a couple of

669
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: things that brings people kind of back to the market, uh,

670
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: back into the drinkable market when necessarily they can't be

671
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: drinking anymore. So it brings people back to the party.

672
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: And also it's just something new and cool and relevant,

673
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We carry some of the best,

674
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: if not the best flour brands in the market, um,

675
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: concentrate edibles, tinctures, topical screams, I mean, anything you can.

676
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: I know, you guys just got Marking Craigson Brandon their

677
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: West Coast Cure. Yeah, we've had West Coast Cure a

678
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: couple of times over the years, and uh, we just

679
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: brought him back really uh really hard, and he's kicking

680
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: ass man. He's they've got a great brand. They've got

681
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: they've got some great celebrity counterparts that work with them,

682
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: and and people really, uh they love that brand. I

683
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: I my hats off to US Coast. We're actually, you know,

684
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: we're we try to be very customer conscious. We we

685
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: don't you know, we don't like our buttenders to to

686
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: push a certain product. We we want the customer to decide.

687
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: We try to have all all the brands that we

688
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: have in there, all the products that we have in there,

689
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: are really curated for the customer. We're not you know,

690
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: we don't take you know, fees from the from the

691
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: brands to put their products up on our shelves. You

692
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: guys are shelving them yet, like like the grocery stores.

693
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: We're just not doing that. Yeah, we we we really

694
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: want the customer to be happy, to be happy into it.

695
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: And I look at that and I think sometimes back

696
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: in the radio days, when I first started in radio

697
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: and do an FM radio, I think of the you know,

698
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: the propaganda and the way that a lot of these

699
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: are should we payola is the correct term that used

700
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: to be used when a record label would come in

701
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: give you of money play that record I would almost

702
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: imagine it's is it tough to stop these brands to

703
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: go to your bud tenders and being like, hey, you

704
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: chop them, you know what I mean, chop them in

705
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: a second. But it's got to be I mean, I mean,

706
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: I know it is, but I mean it's part of life, right.

707
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: It's like, how do music get on the radio so quickly?

708
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: How do I mean it's like something that you guys,

709
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: like you just said you answer in a way that

710
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: makes me go, yes, you're gonna be all over that.

711
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: But it's almost like how do you prevent it? Almost?

712
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: I mean they probably come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays

713
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: to meet with the sales people and they're like, hey,

714
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 1: first things first is our Although our bud tenders are great,

715
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: they have nothing to do with the purchasing aspect of

716
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: the business. And when we're you know, our purchasing department

717
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: is curating product that is really kind of customer driven,

718
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, uh, you know, we

719
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: don't go after necessarily the the just the stuff that

720
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: has a celebrity push or or if it's good quality

721
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: and people are mentioning, it has to be good quality.

722
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: It has to look good smell, good test. Well, it

723
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: has to have good packaging like that. So are you

724
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: are you putting your own weed that you guys should

725
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: grow background on your Absolutely. It is the only way

726
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: I'm able to sell it. M like, okay, you buy

727
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: that eighth I'm gonna give you this one. Like, no,

728
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: thank you, we don't want that one that you've given us.

729
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: Now we do we We do have some product in

730
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: m M d jars. We also have a Mishka brand.

731
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: So you started growing again. Then you got better at it.

732
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: We we've partnered up with people who are better at it.

733
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: I would say, so you've got the brand, and he

734
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: just left you out slave and said I actually made him.

735
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: I don't care. So I got busted first, not you,

736
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: It's my brand. He was fighting it. I was like, no, bro,

737
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: I was like, mis Miska is the fucking name of

738
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: the brand. He's like, I'm not putting my name on

739
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: the brand. I'm like, shut the funk ups. Is going

740
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: to be the brand. It looks it actually sounds cool,

741
00:38:54,160 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: it sounds great. It sounds cute than I think Mishka

742
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: weed sounds very cute. Sounds to get you REALI high. Yeah,

743
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 1: so um you know, anything that's in the Miska jars

744
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: or or in the MMD jars will personally do the

745
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,919
Speaker 1: quality assurance on uh, you know, just because we can't

746
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: grow when you say we can't pick. When you say

747
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: quality assurance, what is it like if you don't like

748
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: to bring it back? No? No, like I check it

749
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,760
Speaker 1: myself and if I don't like it, I'm not putting

750
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: it in those jars. Oh nice, this is like approved.

751
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: Nice the stamp of approved. That's right. So what's in

752
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: the future now? Is it like, uh, four more shops,

753
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,959
Speaker 1: new location Arizona, this and that? What? What's what's what's

754
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: the big goal for you guys? Uh? Yeah, we're going

755
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: into a hyper drive of expansion as we speak. We're

756
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: going into a multi state platform probably in the next

757
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: couple of years, Thank you so much. We got a

758
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: couple of h couple projects we're working on all over California.

759
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna have probably a footprint up north inevitably, We've

760
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: got some stuff in Middle America. And what's the next

761
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: what's the first one that should be popping for you guys?

762
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: Um to be determined to like whatever however falls right,

763
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: so exactly, especially with COVID, A lot of states, a

764
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: lot of municipalities. You know, they've they've put their legislation

765
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: on hold. Or you know, if if we applied for

766
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: a license at a certain legislation, you know, in a

767
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 1: certain state or a city, now they've they were supposed

768
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: to give us an answer, but now that's on hold

769
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: because of COVID. So speaking of which number one pops

770
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: off first, you know Slava, as you mentioned COVID. How

771
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: did COVID affect mm D shops? Oh boy, I mean

772
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: COVID is very interesting because, um, you know, like one

773
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: of our main brick and mortars is Hollywood, and as

774
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood is nothing but tourism. So when COVID

775
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 1: hit the tourists of market and Hollywood, I mean died

776
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: out comes from that shop. So that shop was affected

777
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: the most. It it uh, yeah, I got hit probably

778
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 1: by about Yeah, which is which is a lot because

779
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: it's a really busy shop. Now, the other stores that

780
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: are kind of in the in the suburban neighborhoods, um

781
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 1: like kind of lifted up a little bit, so it

782
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: started picking up a little bit of the slack. But

783
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: eventually we we we got our head above water. It was.

784
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: It was a couple of months of real difficult uh,

785
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: real difficult struggles that we had to go through, but

786
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: we made it and thank God. I mean, being essential

787
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: is just like a blessing from God. Like, didn't that

788
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: crazy to think that we became essential cannabis. I can't

789
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: tell you how weird it is because like two of

790
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: our dispensaries our next door to beauty salons, you know,

791
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's so ironic to see a line

792
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: of people outside of the cannabis store while these people

793
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: are like giving people haircuts on the down low in

794
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: the beauty salons, you know what I mean, like kind

795
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: of like a switch, right. It's like, you know when

796
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: I was like, what fucking bizarre land are we living in? Right?

797
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: That it's next to a hair salon and Misca can't

798
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 1: get that fucking gray out of his hair. I mean,

799
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: here next to a fucking salon and he can't just

800
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,439
Speaker 1: go in there and say, hey, guys, can we cut

801
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: me a deal? They can. That's a girl. They're putting

802
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: the gray in the hair. He's doing that to look

803
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: older because he wants to look I wanna, you know,

804
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: I want to be prophisticated. It's really great to have

805
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: you guys. For those who don't know, it's Misca and

806
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: Slava from m m D Shops. Now it's time for

807
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: our high five. We like to do the high five

808
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: with everybody that comes in. We'll start with little brother

809
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: Misca and then Slava. You can do the questions at

810
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: the second after your brother. Okay, So question number one,

811
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 1: how old are you the first time you smoked weed?

812
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: And where did you get it? From? Twelve years old?

813
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: Um from my friend Rex Rex, Rex, next Rex and

814
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: you Slava nineteen years old with my friends that have

815
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: been spoken is fourteen. So your brother didn't give it

816
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: to you for who was it? Just? Your other other

817
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: friends have been smoking longer than him. But for some

818
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: reason I kept you know I did acid before I

819
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: did smoking weed. That's a long I just found this

820
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: out right now. I'm gonna tell mom allegedly he did.

821
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: All right. That is such a long one. Okay. Question

822
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: number two with Miska and Slapper from MMD Shops, what

823
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: is your favorite way to use cannabis? Um? So that

824
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: to me it changed is kind of often. I used

825
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 1: to love flower, then I got really into the dabs

826
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: and now, in like a post COVID world, I've been

827
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: really diving into micro dos edibles. Really really, I'm not

828
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: with the edibles that we have back there in the back.

829
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: You gotta let you see these. I gotta try it,

830
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: and so edibles for you then right now, micro dosing

831
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: edibles is kind of my uh my flavor. But I mean,

832
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: you know, listen, a good a good quality flower, you

833
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: can't we're going to join with it joint or a

834
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: bong or like if it's a nice water pipe or something.

835
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: Here's these buttable edible buds. You gotta try these. They're

836
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: like a rice crispy treat, cereal flavor, that's what they say.

837
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: And for and for you, Slava, what is yours? I

838
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: just love a hybrid joint. A hybrid joint. I don't

839
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: know if it's candy. It's candy right there? What do

840
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: you now? Now you're acting like Slava, Slava, I want

841
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: to meet your brother over here, the old guy. Yeah,

842
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: the old guy who can bring up to say, try

843
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: the candy over here? Question number three? Yeah, hold on eight?

844
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: Did eat? What's that? Slava's head? Which the craziest place

845
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Speaker 1: you ever used cannabis? I don't. I've never not used

846
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Speaker 1: cannabis anywhere. So do you ever go back home to

847
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Speaker 1: Russia or like Ukraine or something. I mean, that's that'd

848
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Speaker 1: be crazy. Okay. Allegedly I might have accidentally taken cannabis

849
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: to Japan with me once, but we've heard stories like

850
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: that are but totally accidental and now I swear to

851
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: God total accidental and uh and I threw I threw

852
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: it away on the plane because I just like, I'm

853
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: not going through customer, going to fucking jail because I

854
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: accidentally forgot a graham of weed in my bag. And

855
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: completely I would never because it's like a life sentence

856
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: over there. So I have no interest in that. Um. So, yeah,

857
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: that that might have been the craziest place you took it.

858
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: Is there like another crazy the top of a building,

859
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: something random crazy that you smoked at or didn't edible at.

860
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: Um gosh, man, I kind of smoke cannabis everywhere I go,

861
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 1: so it's hard to say the craziest place. I mean, yeah,

862
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean I guess, I guess a couple of foreign countries,

863
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: A couple of foreign countries and lava. I smoked of

864
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: ganny hash in Moscow at a club at the club

865
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: in Moscow off of a hot knife right in the cloud,

866
00:45:53,840 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: right in the club. Yeah, yeah, the mom, I got

867
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Speaker 1: a story. We're on Cannabis Talk. Listen to the podcast.

868
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Speaker 1: What is your go to munchies after you get high? Misca?

869
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 1: My go to munches after I get high? You know what,

870
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: I'm sucking totally down with some toaster shirtle really you

871
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: know what I mean with the fucking thing, and oh

872
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: my god, I want one right now. Oh yeah, you

873
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: met both and you Slava, you go to munchies, might

874
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: go to munchies, pancakes, bacon, eggs, breakfast, breakfast. You just

875
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: like breakfast, like breakfast. I love that kid. Oh dude,

876
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: I was three d fifty pounds. Come on, hold on,

877
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: let me pick up my lip right now as we

878
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: are doing the High five with Misca and Slava from

879
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: M M D Shops. They have four locations, Hollywood, Long Beach,

880
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: Marina del Ray in North Hollywood, if you're ever in

881
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: Good o'cally If not, they might be coming to a

882
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 1: city near you. Question number five of the High five.

883
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: If you could smoke weed with anyone dead or alive,

884
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: who would be Um? Probably uh, probably Bob Marley. Wow,

885
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: it's funny. I was thinking Bob. When I was looking

886
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: at your brother shirt as he has the Bob shirt,

887
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: I would say, probably Bob Marley. Um, you know, I

888
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: know who my brother is gonna say, and I just

889
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: didn't wanna. You don't want to take his I don't

890
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: want to take his. But and you really know your

891
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 1: brother that well, that you know what he's gonna say.

892
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: Let me write it down, write it down right there.

893
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: I want to see if you're gonna be right, because

894
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: if you already know what he's gonna say when you

895
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: said Bob Marley, that's gonna be awesome. Okay, And now

896
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,240
Speaker 1: you Slava, if you could smoke with anyone dead or alive,

897
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: I'm blinking right now, but I would smoke with I

898
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: would love to smoke with so many people. Um, I'm

899
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: never gonna forgive you. No, I realized. Misca said he knows,

900
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: and I have a name written down right here. No

901
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: idea what the is talking about? But he says he

902
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 1: knows his big brother that well, he knew you read

903
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: it on him, So now he knows who you would

904
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: choose to smoke with. If there was one person, slab,

905
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: one that you like, oh God, I want to smoke

906
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: a joint with this cat and just talking bullshit and

907
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: hang out. Who would it be? Willie Willie Nelson? Well,

908
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: I guess your little brother doesn't know you that well,

909
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 1: Miska wrote Howard Stern. Yes, I didn't say Howard Stern

910
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: because I was afraid I was going to take the

911
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: steam right out of my brothers. Well, write, I would

912
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: love to, you know, smoke with Howard Stern, but I

913
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: know he'd never smoke. You know, I've been listening to

914
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: the show long enough. He's never gonna. Well, you never know.

915
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: People have said, Jesus, you know who knows Howard Sternut, Yeah,

916
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: now you change it for Willie Nelson. I am. I

917
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: love Willie, but Howard Stern is Either one of those

918
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: guys would be great. I mean Willie has just been

919
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,720
Speaker 1: around forever doing it. And you know, I mean Howard

920
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: sterns God forgot. I love the guy. You know, everything

921
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: he's done, He's just amazing, his stories, movie, everything it's

922
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: great about Howard Stern. Matter of fact, no one has

923
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: said Howard Stern yet on this show, which is funny,

924
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 1: and I think Howard would be awesome. I mean Howard

925
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: would definitely be my like for sure, the first go

926
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: to like if you got the chance to pick right now?

927
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: Can you smoking with Howard stern Is, you know, just

928
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with. Yeah, it's almost as good

929
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: as hanging out with Jones. I mean that's pretty good too.

930
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: I would agree with you a matter of fact, let's

931
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: go smoke right after this. But anything else you guys

932
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: want to tell everybody out there. Of course you can

933
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: follow them on Facebook, Twitter, mm D Hollywood on Instagram,

934
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: m m D Shops, the website m m D shops

935
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,439
Speaker 1: dot com, anything else, miscan slava that you want to

936
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 1: educate the world out there. I mean, honestly, just just

937
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: want to want to invite everybody to come check us out,

938
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: come check out the shop. We you know, our our

939
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: shops are way cooler than our website or Twitter or Instagram.

940
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: I think you know. The type of vibe that we

941
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: have there is family, you know, it's it's customer oriented.

942
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: You know, we love our people, we love our customers,

943
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: and well you know you'll get treated like a keen

944
00:49:56,719 --> 00:50:01,720
Speaker 1: keen or a queen there where everybody knows your nice

945
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: and are they sell those shirts there? No yeah, it's

946
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: a Mishka shirt. Um. First, I'd like to thank you

947
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: Joe for having us on the show. This has been

948
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: a really fun experience. Uh we uh, we got really

949
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: excited when when you guys reached out. You guys are

950
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: doing the damn thing. There's this. It's clear why you

951
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: are the dominant uh cannabis. Uh what does podcast show

952
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 1: radio show? I mean there's I don't think there's anybody

953
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 1: else doing it quite like you guys. So hats off

954
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: to you. Thank you so much for letting us come

955
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: on the show to our pleasure. Thank you for coming. Yeah.

956
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: If if I was to promote anything, I would say,

957
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: just come out check out at m D shops dot com.

958
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,800
Speaker 1: Please come to any one of the stores you're liable

959
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: to see, uh me or this other crazy guy here

960
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: anytime you know mentioned cannabis one on one we'll hook

961
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: you guys up. And is there a is there a

962
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: store that you're at more than the other you know what?

963
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,760
Speaker 1: We bounced around very frequently. We're we're at North Hollywood. Often,

964
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: we're at Hollywood. Often we're kind of wherever the wind

965
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: takes us that day. Um, but you know, we we

966
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: got action happening every day over there. It's it's it's

967
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: a really fun environment. I'm looking forward to having to

968
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: come by one day. I can't wait to come by

969
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: you guys. Thank you so much. It's Cannabis Talk one

970
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: on one. Thank you for listening to the podcast. If

971
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: you ever want to be a part of it, make

972
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: sure you call us up eight. A matter of fact,

973
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: MIS would love for you just to call and leave

974
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: a stupid message eight hundred eight. Remember that phone. Never

975
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: because it's our phone, and we played voicemails. Hey Joe,

976
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: you fat bastard, and just hang up on me. I'll

977
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: do that every day from now. It's Cannabis Talk one

978
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: on one. If nobody else loves you, we do have

979
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: a good one. Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk

980
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: one oh one on the I Heart Radio app, Apple

981
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