1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,500 Welcome to cannabis school. I'm your host Jessie Angeles and 2 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:10,600 I'm Brandon Elder and we're here to talk to you about everything 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:15,100 pertaining to cannabis from bait, flower Edibles, strains 4 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:24,100 and everything in between. Oh, we're visiting with Dustin 5 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:27,700 Hawksworth from fat nugs magazine tested. 6 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:29,600 Thank you so much for being here. 7 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,400 We're very excited to have you on dude, let's get right into 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,400 it. How did you come up with nugs, 9 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,400 what pushed you to that point where you're like, I'm going to 10 00:00:38,408 --> 00:00:40,400 release a publication about cannabis. 11 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:44,800 That's a great question. So my history with the plant 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,900 dates back to when I was born basically, I have 22 family 13 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:51,100 members that are either current or former military. 14 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:54,500 So as they were coming back from Vietnam, we had a ton of issues 15 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:58,200 in my family, right. PTSD issues is what we would 16 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:00,700 refer to it. Now we didn't know it was PTSD 17 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:03,000 back then, but that's what we know it is now. 18 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:08,200 So we'd let's call it. What it was was always consumed 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,300 in my family was always smoked in my family. 20 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:12,100 So it was always normalized. Yeah. 21 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:16,700 So my earliest childhood memories are of my aunts and 22 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,300 uncles and my dad and everybody just consuming. 23 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:22,400 That's just what it was. I also With an indigenous 24 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,400 stepfather for nine years in st. Louis. 25 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,900 Missouri. And he was a consumer and let's 26 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:31,400 just say, I saw a plant or two around the house. 27 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:35,800 Haha, I ended up putting myself through college by running 28 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,700 pounds from Atlanta, Georgia Down to Georgia, Southern 29 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:41,700 University as well. So the plant has always sort of 30 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:45,900 been in my life from my earliest childhood moments of seeing my 31 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:50,500 family, consume to putting myself through getting my 32 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:53,300 education putting Myself through college and then I became a 33 00:01:53,308 --> 00:01:56,900 daily smoker in 95 or daily consumer in 95. 34 00:01:56,900 --> 00:02:01,500 So again, it's been a long time that I've been around this 35 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:05,700 plant, I ended up after school after graduating college, 36 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:09,400 surprisingly enough and actually played college volleyball as 37 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,800 well. So even though I'm a daily 38 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,300 consumer, I'm still extremely active. 39 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:17,700 And it's one of the things that I like to focus on in this, with 40 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:20,200 this magazine is sort of punching people in the face, 41 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,200 with that term Stone. And anybody that thinks there's 42 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,000 a negative connotation to it. Because I can tell you right now 43 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,500 that I am a fucking Stoner, but I graduated from college, I am, 44 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,600 extremely active, I played college sports, I am, you know, 45 00:02:34,300 --> 00:02:36,600 very creative, you know, that kind of stuff. 46 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,700 So, I've done things in my life. So that's one of those things 47 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,500 with this magazine. That's very important to me. 48 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:47,100 So anyway, after my grafter, graduating college ended up 49 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:53,200 doing 14 years in the corporate world, Lee living that good life 50 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,300 living that dual life, that a lot of us live, we put on our 51 00:02:56,300 --> 00:02:59,200 nice clothes during the day and so that we can, you know, come 52 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,800 home and rip the bong at night and fucking day ourselves for 53 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,400 wants, you know, that's kind of how I lived for a very long 54 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,600 time. And I think a lot of us do, I 55 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,400 think a lot of us that have been around cannabis most of our 56 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,400 lives or since our childhood, or teenage years? 57 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:15,500 We realized that we're probably going to have to get like normal 58 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:19,000 jobs and not be able to smoke, you know, all the time or at all 59 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,500 or will have to go through. Tests and all that kind of shit. 60 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,300 So yeah, I experienced all that stuff over 14 years. 61 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:27,600 I did fail. A drug test. 62 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,300 I passed drug test. All kinds of stuff. 63 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:32,500 The corporate world was definitely not for me, even 64 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:35,400 though I had to do it. I also learned a lot of stuff, I 65 00:03:35,408 --> 00:03:40,900 focused on CX, customer data consumer insights, that kind of 66 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:45,200 stuff, so customer experience. I ran a lot of really big 67 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,900 programs for companies like apple Abercrombie, & Fitch, Home 68 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:51,300 Depot, low CenturyLink, and the list goes on and on. 69 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,600 On dude. I finally got shit cans of the 70 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,300 last time in 2018 from my last real job, right? 71 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:01,800 And I ended up going into the film industry. 72 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,800 My here in Atlanta. The film industry is huge. 73 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,100 Yeah, your you did, like the banker and what women want. 74 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,800 Yeah. What women want. 75 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,000 Banker Godzilla vs. Kong? 76 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:16,600 Dude. That's cool. 77 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:18,700 We did a lot of. I did a lot of cool stuff over 78 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:22,400 the four years that I was there. I am very, very lucky. 79 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:26,000 And extremely privileged to have my best friend is one of the 80 00:04:26,008 --> 00:04:27,500 greatest filmmakers in the world. 81 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:34,200 So I owe a big gratitude of debt to him for taking care of me for 82 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,900 four years. Basically is what he did was 83 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:38,900 kind of show me the ins and outs of what he does. 84 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:42,100 And the things that are important within the industry 85 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:45,900 and being a part of the film Union and all of that kind of 86 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:49,100 stuff, it was a really cool place to be because I was 87 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,900 surrounded by a bunch of really fucking creative people on a 88 00:04:51,907 --> 00:04:53,100 daily. Basis. 89 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:57,500 It was rad to be in that in those settings with a lot of 90 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:02,300 people that just created things from scratch all day long. 91 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:07,500 So what that did was really kind of cement a lot of the creative 92 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:09,300 things that I've always done in my life. 93 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:13,000 It really cemented it in place, and it told me that I need to 94 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,700 make sure that I'm being creative on a daily basis. 95 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,800 I've written and released three albums on my own. 96 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,600 I've played in bands, I do some painting blah blah blah. 97 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,700 So I'm always looking King for some sort of creative Outlet. 98 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:26,900 Creative dump is what I like to call it. 99 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:30,400 So, when the pandemic kid, I was like, what the hell do I do now? 100 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:33,900 So I thought to myself. Well, I've been around the plant 101 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:38,400 my entire life. I consume this fucking thing. 102 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:43,500 I know a lot about the plant. I have grown in my life. 103 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:48,300 There's nothing that I haven't done touched talked about 104 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:52,100 discussed consumed, when it comes to the plant period 105 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:53,800 through. Throughout my entire life. 106 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,400 So I said, why don't I take my knowledge into the legal side? 107 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,700 Instead of always having my toes dipped into the Legacy or 108 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:06,200 traditional side of things and I thought it was kind of a perfect 109 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,500 time to do it. So really over the past I guess 110 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:12,500 it's about nine months now. Eight or nine months you know 111 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:16,000 after I've been in the industry for a little while, I started to 112 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,800 want to build up this network in connecting and Linkedin is a 113 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,000 huge part of that, right? LinkedIn is the number one 114 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:30,600 platform that I know of that allows cannabis to exist in its 115 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,200 purest form. We can talk about smoking, we 116 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,400 can show smoking. We can you know, whatever we got 117 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,700 to do, we can soak, we can show consumption. 118 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:41,600 We can talk about all the things that cannabis can do. 119 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:47,700 So it was a really important thing for me to realize that 120 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:51,300 LinkedIn was going to be key to me building this magazine 121 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:55,000 because that's where are a lot of the decision-makers live. 122 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,000 That's where a lot of the sort of influencers. 123 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,100 I hate to use that word in the industry live. 124 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,900 And I don't mean that by just an influencer, I mean, people that 125 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:09,900 have been around this plant for a long time, that are part of 126 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,400 this culture that have been the part of this culture that have 127 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,400 been respectful to the people that got us here. 128 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:17,400 Maybe you're one of the people that got us here. 129 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,200 You know, some of these people actually live on LinkedIn. 130 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,200 That's where they operate. So I I had to use LinkedIn first 131 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,100 and foremost. And when I did that it helped me 132 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:31,000 to develop my voice even more so in the industry itself. 133 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:35,700 So about eight or nine months ago, I started looking for a new 134 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:38,100 creative dump. I'm stoned sitting on my couch 135 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:41,100 at night just like most of us are you know watching a TV you 136 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:44,700 know watching TV wasting time, whatever it is I'm doing playing 137 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:50,500 with my fucking cat and I just started to create these covers 138 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:52,000 so to speak. Yeah. 139 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:56,900 And It was a way for me to really communicate on a larger 140 00:07:56,900 --> 00:08:00,300 scale to it. Might to my wider Network to all 141 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:03,500 of my connections at once because one that allowed me to 142 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:06,300 be creative as hell. I could just put a bunch of cool 143 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:10,900 cannabis stuff on a cover and start to create, maybe some 144 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:14,800 titles of things of articles that I would want to talk about. 145 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:20,400 And I released it on a Friday and it just got huge a huge 146 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,100 response. And I was like, what? 147 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,400 I was not expecting this. This was this kind of cool, you 148 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,500 know, as cool in the response to it was so big that I couldn't 149 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:31,500 catch up to the DMS and on LinkedIn. 150 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:35,299 I was like, holy shit. What the fuck is going on? 151 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:38,100 And people were asking me, how do I get this? 152 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:41,799 Where do I read these articles? This is fucking dope as hell. 153 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:43,900 All of that. Kind of, can you send me the 154 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:46,100 magazine? And I'm like, wait, this doesn't 155 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:48,600 exist. You have some real hard? 156 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:49,900 Yeah for sure. Thank you. 157 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:51,700 Thank you. You know, and I had to tell 158 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:53,900 people when I first Started this, I was like, this isn't 159 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:55,600 real. This isn't a magazine, this is 160 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,200 just a creative dump, a creative outlet for me. 161 00:08:58,700 --> 00:09:05,400 And so I realized after about the third Friday, I call it fat 162 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,500 nugs Friday. I've been I started. 163 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:08,600 Papa was like okay, that was cool. 164 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,200 So I'm going to do it again on next Friday. 165 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:15,200 Friday came posted, another one, blew up again next Friday came. 166 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,900 Plus it posted another one and it got such a large purse Ponce 167 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:22,200 that I had a couple of cannabis media companies approach me 168 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,300 know. Shit and they were like we would 169 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:27,300 like to possibly talk to you about bringing this tin house 170 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:30,200 and I was like, bringing what in-house. 171 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,000 This doesn't fucking exist. You realize that this is this is 172 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,500 not a real magazine yet. Now, this is only the third week 173 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:39,000 that I had, you know, posted something about it. 174 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,200 So people weren't cool, really familiar with what it was yet 175 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:50,100 and through some conversations, I ended up realizing very 176 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:52,500 quickly that I needed to make this thing. 177 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:57,800 NG be real because it fills an enormous Gap that we have in 178 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,900 this industry. And that enormous Gap is 179 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:04,000 something that people were telling me about and it was 180 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:10,100 really something I hadn't realized it's we don't have or 181 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:14,600 and I please excuse me, I don't mean to bash or belittle 182 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,500 anyone's work in this industry at all. 183 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:20,600 I would never do that. But from what I have been told a 184 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,400 lot of people believe and feel that they don't have a voice in 185 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:29,400 this industry that being culture side of things, small farmers 186 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:34,600 Equity, applicants mom-and-pop shops, women-owned businesses 187 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:37,100 Legacy and traditional owned businesses. 188 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:39,400 They don't have a voice in this industry. 189 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,400 A lot of it is run by very large companies and people that can 190 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,900 donate to politicians to control the game. 191 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,700 Right. I think we all know that. 192 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,600 Yeah. So I said okay well this is 193 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,400 perfect because my grandparents owned a farm. 194 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:57,800 I came from a military family background. 195 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,700 I've always been fucking poor always been around a plant like 196 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:04,800 this is my community right? This is right fucking Community. 197 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,600 These are the people that I connect with I smoke with, I 198 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,500 hike with I play sports with these. 199 00:11:11,500 --> 00:11:15,400 This is my community. So I said, okay, let's do this 200 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,000 and starting to build the magazine from scratch right 201 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:18,600 there. And there. 202 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:23,200 So it took me probably from the time that I first posted 203 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,000 something and I could be totally wrong. 204 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:31,000 I think this was back in late March early April, the very 205 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,200 first real digital publication of fat. 206 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:40,000 Nugs magazine was released on May 6th, so, that's how quickly 207 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,700 it came about. That's how it came about. 208 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:48,300 Now, the name itself. It's sort of our our stoner 209 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:50,900 vernacular, right? It's that's a fat sack. 210 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,300 Those are fat joints, that's a pets, fat blood, those are fat 211 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:56,200 nugs, that's a fat blunt, you know. 212 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,400 So it just kind of came naturally. 213 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,700 There is actual there's a magazine called nugs. 214 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:05,700 I knew that but there's not a magazine called fat nugs, but 215 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:08,200 there is that there is now, where is he? 216 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,800 Exactly there is now. So that's basically how it came 217 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,500 about guys. And, you know, some of the 218 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:18,700 things that we really focus on. Obviously, what I said before is 219 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:22,500 much of the culture as possible and uplifting people voices and 220 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:27,700 businesses that are doing really good things in this industry and 221 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:30,400 for people, and they're focused on education and Science and 222 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,600 understanding and all of that kind of stuff. 223 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,100 So it's trying to spread uplifting positive messages 224 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:38,600 about the plant. The people that are in this 225 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:43,100 culture and really taking cannabis and Stoner culture to 226 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:46,400 the rest of the world, being that bridge and Having people 227 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:51,000 understand that even if you're not in the know or understand 228 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,300 cannabis and Stoner culture or what the fuck that is when you 229 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:58,900 read, what is in this magazine and the things that we release, 230 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,200 even though they might be a little educational or 231 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,800 scientific. There's always a personal spin 232 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,600 to those things. It's a way that we connect. 233 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:11,000 How do you connect with people with cannabis, on a personal 234 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,400 level? It's not science and education 235 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,300 and I'm sorry to tell people that But are you can talk 236 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:20,500 science and education to your next-door neighbor till you're 237 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:24,200 blue in the fucking face. But until you say my mom was 238 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,800 here yesterday. She 75 and smoked a joint 239 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,100 because she has back pain, they don't know, one really gives a 240 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:33,400 shit you have to be able to connect with people on a 241 00:13:33,408 --> 00:13:36,200 personal level. You really do storytelling is 242 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,200 huge. You have to have those elements 243 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,700 when you are releasing content in cannabis, in my view because 244 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:47,500 that's how we bring people in. And that's how we win over 245 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:50,000 hearts and Minds, all of that positive stuff. 246 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,200 So those are the things we focus on and we do that by being a 247 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,000 global perspective of cannabis culture, we have Riders from all 248 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,000 over the world. Kenya Ireland, Scotland, 249 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,400 Bermuda, Spain, Canada. He's naming up a list of all of 250 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,700 our where our listeners Heredia you go. 251 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:13,700 There you go. So you know, we do our best to 252 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:19,500 be as inclusive as possible. You have lgbtq+ Riders, black, 253 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:23,000 white, red pink, whatever fucking color you can pick. 254 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:28,200 We are a part of that and we like to have it that way and we 255 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,400 like to uplift the voices that really, we believe people should 256 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,800 be here and in this space. Yeah. 257 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,800 You know, when you talk about exactly what this, the voice of 258 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:42,000 the Cannabis Community, one of the things that is done so much 259 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,800 for those people that are like sitting right on the fence. 260 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,900 I mean, we create Our content 100% for consumers of cannabis. 261 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:51,300 Not the many other ones out there. 262 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:54,200 I mean, hey, I like being a starter, but I am a functional 263 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,600 stone or just like you, like, I get shit done. 264 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,500 I'm a creative. I mean, just like when you're 265 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:02,000 talking about creative dumps, I've got to have constant just 266 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,100 stimulation because if I stay still, I literally start getting 267 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:08,100 depressed because I have nothing to do. 268 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,200 I'm like II can create something right now. 269 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:15,100 Yeah, when you when you are talking about being able to be 270 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,700 Publication for the Cannabis Community, it goes those for the 271 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:22,600 consumers because those new people getting involved the 272 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,100 sometimes that you know that part of their mind where they're 273 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:27,600 just like, I know. But Society, you know, the War 274 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,000 on Drugs. We just have this interview 275 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:34,100 yesterday with this awesome, professional retired, rugby 276 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,100 player this woman out of she lives. 277 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:38,900 She never went away. Yeah, but she was from Northeast 278 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:43,500 and I mean, come on, just dude, like breaking down those 279 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:45,600 barriers. Like I mean she was a 280 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:50,800 Professional athlete using cannabis on the regular and it's 281 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,800 so cool. Yeah, it's absolutely necessary 282 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,600 to be able to do that these days right at. 283 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,200 You have to be able to break down barriers even though and I 284 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:03,000 know a lot of people that have been smoking weed for a long 285 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,500 time, sort of hate to have these conversations because it feels 286 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:15,200 so uncool right but to have an ability to bring people in to 287 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,800 the plan, Welcome them here, make them feel comfortable, you 288 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:25,300 know, breakdown stigmas, or doors or anything else are any 289 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:27,700 hurdles or anything else that's in the way of people. 290 00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:31,200 Just understanding that the plant is just a, it's just a 291 00:16:31,208 --> 00:16:34,400 fucking plant. It's just like a, it's just like 292 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,600 broccoli, it's just like a tomato. 293 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,500 It's just like anything. You can grow. 294 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:43,000 It's not going to kill you. It's never killed anyone, unless 295 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,600 a big plant falls on you and you die out. 296 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:48,700 It cold, there was the first part of me. 297 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:53,300 There is the first death from Cannabis that and it's hang on, 298 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:55,300 let me finish. That's because when I read it I 299 00:16:55,308 --> 00:16:57,400 was like the hell that's not a thing. 300 00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:01,800 But it was from a lady in a joint rolling company and there 301 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,400 was so much Keith in the air that the masks or whatever, 302 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,700 like, it coated her lungs and she died from like, basically 303 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:11,599 being suffocated but not from that. 304 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,599 Good anymore. Anything that wasn't you? 305 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,500 Connected. It should be regulated by the 306 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:22,200 business. It's but the first like actual 307 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,700 death from Cannabis, but it's not like, you're not. 308 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:29,200 It's not from consumption. No, no, no, right. 309 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,800 So, and that's the worry, that's the fear. 310 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,500 That's the, the fear-mongering that it's that's, that's the 311 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:39,000 Reefer Madness part of this is if you write Sumit, oh my God, 312 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,500 you turn into whatever. But I think we're, I think, for 313 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:45,600 the most part, most of our country, in a lot of the world. 314 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:51,000 You know, as individual people. We understand again, for the 315 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,400 most part, right? Plant is not harmful smoking 316 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,100 weed, isn't going to kill you. It's not going to turn you into 317 00:17:58,100 --> 00:17:59,800 anything stupid. It's not good. 318 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:05,900 You know it we mostly understand that it becomes this group thing 319 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:10,000 when it's used in political ways or when it's used basically in 320 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:15,200 political and in I guess law enforcement circles, right? 321 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,700 At that When it's used the most to sort of manipulate and 322 00:18:19,700 --> 00:18:22,400 mindful of people. But it's only on the story. 323 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,400 That's being told because behind the closed doors, there's tons 324 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,500 of those officials. And police officers who are 325 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:32,500 using cannabis all the fucking time. 326 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:34,500 And it's, I know those people firsthand. 327 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:40,300 I know, cops firsthand, who do blow who smoke weed get fucking 328 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:43,900 wasted and bust people for doing the same exact thing that they 329 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:48,200 do. So, I know the I have family 330 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:54,000 that, you know, are sort of in that law enforcement realm that, 331 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:58,900 you know, say some stupid shit. And I think we all know that 332 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:03,500 judges lawyers doctors and everyone else that you can think 333 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:10,000 of down to the guy who's cutting Lawns, and digging holes and 334 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,700 ditches on the side of the road. We're all cannabis consumers, 335 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,400 period. Cannabis culture, welcomes us 336 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,700 all. But we need people to be willing 337 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:27,300 to, I guess, Step Up and Scream a little louder because even 338 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,200 though again it's not always that cool. 339 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,000 You know for people like us who have been consuming the plant 340 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,600 for a long time. I am assuming, by the way that 341 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,000 at least a week or not. Oh yeah, a couple of days. 342 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,200 You know, it's not always fun or cool to have those conversations 343 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,300 but they Our fucking necessary, you know, we have to be able to 344 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:51,000 remind people that, you know, your next-door neighbor. 345 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,800 Who is a judge, just got through rolling me a big fatty. 346 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:59,200 So, yeah, it's important. Well, even my mom, so we had a 347 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,400 conversation over Sunday dinner the other day and it started by 348 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,000 my brother and sister going, hey, you know, their dogs like 349 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,900 eight and she's getting seizures and I just was like, you know, 350 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,400 you should give her CPD because high-dose CBD is actually one of 351 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,100 the biggest things that helps with Zap, electives epileptic 352 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:20,000 seizures, and she was like, really and Mike. 353 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,400 Yeah, every and my brothers, like, dogs can take CBD, you 354 00:20:23,408 --> 00:20:26,700 know, my, every single mammal has an endocannabinoid system. 355 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:30,500 That means that every single mammal has that system that 356 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:33,300 helps their body returned to homeostasis and if they're 357 00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:36,700 stressed or depressed or have this pain in their it's hurting, 358 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:38,600 that they're not going to return to that. 359 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:43,100 And so if you give me a CD, yeah, if you can give them that 360 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:46,000 CBD. I can help with these epileptic 361 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,900 seizures, and they were like, what that's crazy. 362 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:52,400 And so I sent an out of that conversation. 363 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,800 My mom was like, well, one of the, this family friend that we 364 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,800 have, her son can't work. He has so many epileptic, 365 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,900 seizures that the medications and side effects, he can't work 366 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,500 and she was like, can you send me something on this? 367 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:10,200 And I'm like, yeah, I pulled it up in like two seconds. 368 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:15,000 It's produced by the Epilepsy Foundation going into Ow, CPD 369 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,300 helps. I sent it over and I'm a if they 370 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:20,800 have questions, let me know. And it's as simple as like a 371 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,200 basic conversation. It's not hard. 372 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:27,200 No, it it's not hard to find the documentation you need these 373 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:32,900 days we have 30 to 40,000 documented documented, studies 374 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,900 articles are studies Korean the last 20, 30 years alone. 375 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:39,100 Yeah, yeah. Actually so it's been one of the 376 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:44,900 most studied things that we consume these days. 377 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:47,600 Yeah, it's not hard to have those really simple 378 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,000 conversations. It's always nice when you can 379 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,900 put personal face-to-face, this is my experience with it. 380 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:57,300 Here is an article that will tell you about it. 381 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,300 Yeah. It's it's important that we have 382 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:05,000 those conversations these days. Speaking of CBD, I consume CBD 383 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,200 on a daily basis as well. It's helped me tremendously in 384 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,600 my life. It's taken. 385 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:14,900 So I was on Oh my goodness. I was on. 386 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:21,400 Let's see, Xanax for probably 10 plus years and the moment well 387 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:26,000 within about I would say about four to six weeks of me, taking 388 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:32,600 a, an extremely high quality. Broad-spectrum, CBD, CBD, CBN 389 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:39,500 product that I take every day, I came off of Xanax immediately 390 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,300 it, which is something you're not supposed to do at all 391 00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:45,200 because it can cause seizures and all kinds of stuff. 392 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,200 Yeah. So anecdotally CBD has CBD has 393 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,500 really changed my life as well. That's fantastic. 394 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:56,700 It really does. I take it several times a day 395 00:22:56,700 --> 00:23:00,300 for the inflammation in the pain in my back because while THC is 396 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:04,000 a great pain management system like it still doesn't hit those 397 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,600 sharp pains and that That I have in the middle of my back. 398 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:12,300 And so using CBD multiple times a day, it allows me to still 399 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:16,900 like, hit both sides or multiple sides of that pain. 400 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:18,700 Help me function on a much better level. 401 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:22,000 Yeah, you just explain why it's so important to consume full 402 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,200 spectrum product, right? So or or even a cultivar like 403 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:30,100 Harlequin where it's a one-to-one. 404 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:36,400 So, you know, and that way I wouldn't have to always My DVD 405 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,700 and regular weed together, you know. 406 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,300 Yeah. But yeah, it's important. 407 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:45,500 I think for people to realize that CBD and other minor 408 00:23:45,500 --> 00:23:50,600 cannabinoids are just as important to consume and to 409 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,900 consume them on a regular basis, you're constantly feeding your 410 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:58,600 ECS to keep you from being sick and to feeling off or to have 411 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,700 back pains or any of that kind of stuff, it's important to get 412 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:03,700 on a regiment. People need to be using it on a 413 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:06,200 daily basis, consuming it on a daily Basis. 414 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:08,900 Yeah. Almost as like, I mean, I think 415 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:12,100 about it a little bit more. Now, like we talked about it all 416 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:14,800 the time. If you get your stomach hurts, 417 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,700 you get a headache or you got some random pain like just come 418 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:21,800 out of nowhere. Achiness you smoke, the plant. 419 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,100 It goes away. It's so incredible. 420 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:27,100 When you start getting. I mean, just like you, you know, 421 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:29,200 your entire life. You've tried so many different 422 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,600 strains and I know the idea that said, you know, stranger kind of 423 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,500 bullshit. But at the same time, it's a way 424 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:38,300 for us to identify I certain things to us as individuals 425 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:41,000 going, because as much as we would like it to be just like, 426 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,500 yeah, it's awesome. It's a great plant. 427 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:45,100 We're going back in time now. Now with all these different 428 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:48,100 strains, we actually started thinking about the terpenes and 429 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:52,100 and what are the cannabinoids in each one that really start to be 430 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:54,200 able to create what you're looking for. 431 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:59,500 So it's not necessarily one way or the other with this, when 432 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:02,300 people say that strains are varieties or cultivars the 433 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:05,100 names, their, don't necessarily mean anything. 434 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:08,400 It's a yes and a no and it depends on what it is that 435 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,600 you're referring to what you're talking about. 436 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,400 All that kind of stuff. But the most important this is 437 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,800 what I usually tell people, regardless of the name that you 438 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,000 have on your back or your bottle or your jar or whatever, you're 439 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:27,600 consuming that day you you need to know or what is great to know 440 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,100 is the actual profile of the cannabinoid and terpene profile. 441 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,900 And then the way because you know, one And Mac may be 442 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,600 completely different than another person's Macon that 443 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,800 cannabinoid in terpene profile scale. 444 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,500 Right. So that Mac is this person's 445 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:49,000 back, could completely put you to sleep and this one could you 446 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,700 know make you stay up all night doing whatever it is you need to 447 00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:55,600 do so yeah it's all about the profile the names. 448 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:58,800 Yes. They don't mean necessarily 449 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,100 everything that we wish they did, right? 450 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:05,500 So at the same time they do mean some things so you know it's A 451 00:26:05,508 --> 00:26:08,200 complicated thing every once in a while the way that we talk 452 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,700 about the planner of the refer to the plant but I think overall 453 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:16,800 as long as we all kind of know that we're all talking about 454 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,800 sort of the same thing which is the cannabinoid and terpene 455 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,300 profile that's basically what it comes down to no matter what 456 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:26,900 strain variety or cultivar you're consuming its that 457 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:30,800 profile that's going to make you as a person feel particular way. 458 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,100 And if you know what that profile is you can start to hone 459 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:41,000 in On those particular varieties that tend to lean that way, 460 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,300 right? And then you can hone in on 461 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:46,500 those and really get your profile that you're looking for 462 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:50,000 over and over again. So on find the cultivar that 463 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,800 matches, what it is you're looking for because like you 464 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,400 said from cultivar to cultivar, it's not necessarily the same, 465 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,600 it's very similar but you might have different terpenes and 466 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,300 cannabinoids that are present. Yeah. 467 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:04,000 Just depending on the grow and it's like looking at the 468 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,400 medicine part 2. I mean it. 469 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,900 It is, it's a medicine. Wouldn't it be wonderful for 470 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:11,000 most people who consider you like Western medicine pills, all 471 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,200 those things? Like that's what I have to take 472 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,700 because that's what I've been told for years but where you can 473 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:18,000 match each of these. I mean just like you're talking 474 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,400 with the full profile of the plant, can be able to match your 475 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,700 ECS and figuring that out land along the way. 476 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:28,300 It's like it's designer Pharmaceuticals if you will. 477 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,600 Yeah. And which is the pharmaceutical 478 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,900 company fucking hates because you can actually grow your own 479 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:37,600 medicine in your house to the Zack specifications right here. 480 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,200 If you know what that is you can you can grow it that way. 481 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,500 It's a really cool thing to be a part of and to steer this plant 482 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:50,800 kind of develop and grow as much as it has over the past few 483 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:55,000 years I guess since it became. What is about 2014? 484 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,500 I think Colorado was the the full legalization buddy. 485 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:03,300 Come on, get off me, probably sorry, that that's awesome. 486 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:27,800 Then over the years because with how long you've been using 487 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,900 cannabis since. I mean I think you had said your 488 00:28:30,900 --> 00:28:33,700 first use was around nine. Ten years old with the very 489 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:35,500 first time you're handed a joint. 490 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:39,700 Yeah, so I think the first time that I really smoked was 491 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:42,600 probably 12 years old. The first time that I was handed 492 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,800 a joint as a kid and my brother is six years older than I am. 493 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,700 So of course, when he's in high school, he would have parties. 494 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:53,500 I can remember this particular instance, I was getting passed 495 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,600 up the stairs. My parents were out of town that 496 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,000 I was getting passed up the stairs along with my buddy, we 497 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,400 had just come home from the skating rink, you know, back in 498 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,800 st. Louis, we did the whole skating 499 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:09,500 ring thing and And so crowded, as they're passing me up the 500 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:12,600 stairs there, like here, kid hit this, you know, and I'm like, 501 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,600 oh, what the hell is this? I don't think I ever really 502 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,800 smoke it at 9 years old, but I know at 12 years old, I did 503 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,200 whether it did anything to me, I don't think so, but that's sort 504 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:28,200 of how we'd works, right? Very first time start to smoke. 505 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,800 You're like, I don't know if I'm up, I'll know if this does 506 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,000 anything and sometimes it doesn't do anything and it takes 507 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,900 your ECS a minute to kind of Kick in, you know, sometimes you 508 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:39,600 need it two or three times for your ECS to realize. 509 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,200 Oh, okay. This is the fuel that I'm 510 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,600 supposed to be using. And then, so you get that those 511 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,300 feelings and, and get the medicated part that you're 512 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:52,900 supposed to get. So, I have seen the different 513 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:57,300 ways that people consume or I guess the The View on 514 00:29:57,300 --> 00:30:01,000 consumption change since being a little kid. 515 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,400 Really kind of in a few different ways and some weird 516 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:07,900 ways that I never thought I would. 517 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:10,400 So when I was young, it was very normal, right? 518 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,000 It was everywhere for me, it was not. 519 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,900 It was not it. Yeah, it was not a problem 520 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:18,500 because of my family, my, you know, my military background 521 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:24,000 family, and being sort of, I guess poorer in st. 522 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,300 Louis the city that, you know, we were just smokers. 523 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:29,800 That's what we did not. I say we not me. 524 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,800 I was a kid, but it, my family. And so it was always normalized 525 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:39,400 and kind of not a big deal. Then as you get into the high 526 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,700 school years, you're fed the, you know, dare bullshit, and all 527 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:46,900 of that stuff. So, obviously, the look on 528 00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:52,300 consumption is a lot different. From the time I was up until I 529 00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:57,200 was 11 years old, and then from 11 to 16, it was like, oh my 530 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,200 God, it's the devil's lettuce, right? 531 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,100 That's kind of, when they start pumping you. 532 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,200 All of that shit or at least that's when I realized it and 533 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,300 maybe it was because I moved from st. 534 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:12,700 Louis down to Atlanta, Georgia. And maybe that was sort of much 535 00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:15,500 more of the focus here in the deeper. 536 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:19,700 South was that dare program in all of that crap? 537 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,700 Yeah. Same here. 538 00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:24,400 The Utah. Very much pushing even into. 539 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,300 Yes, the 90s. And yeah, yeah, no doubt and 540 00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:30,100 Utah. I'm surprised you guys could do 541 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:32,800 anything in Utah. You know, they have shackles 542 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,800 around their legs, you just can't see him right now, you 543 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,400 know what, it's a big surprise for most people they come here. 544 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,900 Like, oh, it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be just, 545 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,700 it's like, yeah, not everybody is wearing Bonnets and blue 546 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:46,200 dresses. Yeah, exactly. 547 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:48,400 Mine's in the closet. That's like weekend. 548 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,100 It's a hell. Yeah, for real. 549 00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:54,800 So, in a dude, it's not much different than the South here 550 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,100 there. People think when you come here 551 00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:59,000 it's you know, the KKK is running around still. 552 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,800 The I still get those kind of like Are still half ass 553 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,700 backwards but teeth or no teeth kind of like no we're all from 554 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:12,400 some Atlanta is is sort of the New York of the South, it that 555 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,700 it's where the it's the Melting Pot of melting, pot of the 556 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:17,900 South, you know, everybody is from everywhere. 557 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:27,100 So anyway, I saw it, you know, normalized as a very young child 558 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:30,700 and then in high school, it kind of went away until I was about 559 00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:34,200 six. 18 or 17 years old and, of course, you're sneaking around 560 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,200 with your friends and stuff, but it's still very much quiet. 561 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,500 You don't know if your parents are smoking, you don't know if 562 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:43,700 your parents friends are smoking for the most part, you know what 563 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:44,900 I mean? So it was hidden. 564 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,500 And then of course, in college in the 90s, I went to school in 565 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:52,600 93. That's when it really blew up 566 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:57,400 where we had much more of the cultures in your face, with 567 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:04,100 hip-hop coming on board and Snoop Dogg, and yeah, We had to 568 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:08,200 park Dr. Dre all we're talking about like smoking weed. 569 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,700 Yeah. Lutely Wu-Tang. 570 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,100 You know? So Outcast and you so you had 571 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:17,700 hip-hop sort of, really push the culture forward in the 90s I 572 00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:24,900 believe and that kind of made this the snowball start I think, 573 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:28,000 is how it really began in the 90s. 574 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,300 I think Hip-hop kind of pushed us forward as far as As 575 00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:35,700 consumption and normalizing it more and more as sort of went. 576 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,700 So really it kind of went from our Farmers to our hippie 577 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:46,000 culture to, you know, more or less hip hop culture and that 578 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,800 pushed us forward. And really since the 2000s, I 579 00:33:48,808 --> 00:33:52,800 think you've seen a really large concerted effort from a lot of 580 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:57,800 different, you know, special groups to help cannabis, you 581 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:02,900 know, further, help push it into And Norms of consumption. 582 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:06,800 So, you know that it's been a rollercoaster. 583 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,400 So to speak. As far as the differences from 584 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,400 really, from decade to decade when it comes to consumption and 585 00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:21,199 it's, we're now in a place where I see, you know, super 586 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:24,500 conservative people here in this state where it's not legal. 587 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:27,800 By the way, we don't have legal cannabis in Georgia, it is 588 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:32,400 decriminalized in the city where I live Atlanta But we have 589 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,199 extremely conservative, people who are consuming, they do it 590 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:40,900 much more, discreetly wouldn't be one to sit here and smoke a 591 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:43,500 joint with me, right? Like I have been with you all, 592 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,800 but they would be one that maybe after their work. 593 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,699 They go to the kitchen, they grab their gummy, or they grab 594 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:56,000 their, their beverage, or their beverage enhancer or whatever, 595 00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:58,900 and it's one of those things and that's another thing. 596 00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:02,800 It's my consumption. The middle of the modalities 597 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,400 over the last few years have changed significantly for me. 598 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:13,600 So even though I smoke a lot still, I'm now at a place where 599 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:21,900 I have access to water soluble THC drops basically and really 600 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:25,600 it's more of a full-spectrum product than that, but that's 601 00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:29,300 kind of what it is. Yeah, so I'm able to make any 602 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:34,800 drink water. A tea liquor beer, I don't give 603 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,900 a shit what and to infuse dude into an infused, exactly into an 604 00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:44,200 infused cannabis, drink. Excuse me, which is it's sort of 605 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,500 game changing because I don't necessarily need to walk around 606 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:51,800 or take a break from whatever. I'm doing to go smoke somewhere. 607 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,700 If in fact, I have to do that if I'm in a place where I can't 608 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:57,300 consume. Yeah, I just have a very 609 00:35:57,300 --> 00:36:00,100 discreet bottle where I'm like, okay, all you guys are out here 610 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:03,100 drinking Don't really want any liquor today. 611 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:06,900 So I'm gonna have this water and I'm going to infuse it myself. 612 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,200 So it changes the game a little bit and so my modalities have 613 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,800 changed a little bit. You know, I'm always still a 614 00:36:14,808 --> 00:36:18,200 smoker so bong, rips and joints and stuff like that kind of 615 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,000 please my heart. It's hard. 616 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,400 Not to love that method of like combustion and flower. 617 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,000 Like I agree. It's hard to piece the cleanest 618 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,500 flavor, man. I mean, it's I mean, we talk 619 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:32,500 about all the time. You know, like if you if you 620 00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:37,100 puff on carts regularly and there's a ceiling you hit, ya 621 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,400 can't go past it. It's like nope, it's like a 622 00:36:39,408 --> 00:36:41,100 little governor on your engine filling. 623 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:46,100 Yeah, dude, I mean it's awesome. It's close, but not its to 624 00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:51,000 maintain right to maintain travel and it's it's for the 625 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,700 convenience of it. So they're sitting at a bar or 626 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:56,300 whatever, you can rip your fuckin pain and no one gives a 627 00:36:56,308 --> 00:36:58,000 shit. You sure as hell, can't light up 628 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,500 a joint but no one really cares. If you have a pen, they I don't 629 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:04,800 know if it's what it is. Anyway, you know, they don't 630 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,400 know if it's tobacco or THC or whatever the hell it is. 631 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:13,500 So that's more of what pens do for me, where cartridges do for 632 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:15,900 me. So, I tend to not, I don't have 633 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:18,700 a single cartridge. I haven't had a cartridge in 634 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,300 probably six months in this house. 635 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:27,800 That's also most of mostly, what I do is consume flower period 636 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,300 and then I have my drops for my drinks. 637 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:32,800 That's kind of what A I do it was gonna ask you about that 638 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,600 what's the what's the name of the product? 639 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,700 And where do you mean, you get it over there locally or know? 640 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:46,000 So I have a buddy, let's just say that he we you might know 641 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,600 him you might be connected to his name's Blake, Vila, he is on 642 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,000 LinkedIn. Quick liquids is the company. 643 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,700 This with they make quick drops. I met him in person for the 644 00:37:56,707 --> 00:37:57,900 first. I've been connected to him for 645 00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,900 probably about a year or so maybe a little more. 646 00:38:00,100 --> 00:38:03,600 I met him for the first, First time at MJ Biz super fucking 647 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,200 rad, dude, really supportive? He's really nice. 648 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:11,400 What Villa VI L LA. I'm going to save that for 649 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,200 later. Cool, very cool. 650 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,700 Dude. And we are currently working 651 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:22,100 with him to figure out some possible business opportunities 652 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:25,200 with his product because it's fucking bad-ass. 653 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:30,300 You guys, it kicks in and it, and I mean, kicks in, within 654 00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:32,900 like, 10 minutes. It's or so that's bent. 655 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:36,500 Yeah, that's fast. It's not like it's not a regular 656 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:38,700 cannabis beverage it's where you're waiting. 657 00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:42,400 Twenty Thirty you know the dosing is it / like is it enough 658 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,000 like a 30 ml dropper bottle or is though it's in it here I'll 659 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000 grab the container for you real quick. 660 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:53,000 Or is it more like a powder? Yeah, I've seen those okay as 661 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,600 like I've seen some really cool sugars and that I've actually 662 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:03,600 made infused sugar before. Yeah, and that's really easy to 663 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,900 do and I actually have a thing of infused sugar this point. 664 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:14,200 So what it is? This water soluble they have the 665 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,100 tech that makes this stuff and when I say water-soluble I mean 666 00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:23,400 it I mean you can stir it into anything, it's fantastic and 667 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:28,300 it's this is the bottle itself. Oh yeah, that's not that big. 668 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:32,900 So, no, it's about a to wait about two ounces or so, okay. 669 00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:36,500 And and the dropper itself, you can control the amount of drops 670 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:41,900 its, you know, build in dropper. It's there's 1,000 milligrams of 671 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:44,700 THC in this little tiny bottle 1,000. 672 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,600 That's fantastic. So he'll need is a drink doing 673 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,400 her drop. One drop is one milligram, okay, 674 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,500 to so it's fantastic. It's phenomenal, it's perfect. 675 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:57,400 What am I? Anchor dosing to for people who 676 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,200 want to get like exact dosing, dude. 677 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,500 It's perfect for medication like medical application. 678 00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:07,000 It's perfect for people in the hospital. 679 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,700 It's perfect for people in an old folks home or whatever you 680 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,200 call those things these days. I'm sorry if this is living 681 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:15,800 centers. I have Assisted Living. 682 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:16,900 Yep. Absolutely. 683 00:40:17,900 --> 00:40:23,300 It, this is something you can take with you anywhere have an 684 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:27,500 anything. It's in I said it kicks in, 685 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:33,800 within 10 to 15 minutes at the most, dude, it is in its strong. 686 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:39,500 So I've been sort of dosing myself, so to speak for the past 687 00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:42,500 since I've had it for the past couple of weeks to really get a 688 00:40:42,508 --> 00:40:45,400 gauge on the product test the product out. 689 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,300 Make sure it's exactly what I want it to be and what it should 690 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:50,700 be. And what it says it is and it is 691 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:52,800 man. It's it's pretty badass. 692 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,300 I'm have been impressed with it to be honest with you and then 693 00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:58,800 like we'll have that in the show notes will put that link for 694 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,300 that. Awesome. 695 00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:02,700 Have you ever have you ever seen the Heavy Hitters tincture? 696 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,000 No. No. 697 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,900 What is that? So that's this is 1000 mg 698 00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:12,000 teacher, looks like liquor. Okay, and it's really, really 699 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,800 good. I know you can't see inside the 700 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,200 bottle or anything but looks like it's like a liquor bottle. 701 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,800 It's who doesn't so Kick-Ass. Good, it smells amazing. 702 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,800 It tastes amazing. It has like a citrusy earthy. 703 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,700 Flavored. Oh wow, send us the link will 704 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:32,400 throw that, it's dope. So, Heavy Hitters is what it's 705 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,100 called, they're on their archive, they're everywhere, 706 00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:37,000 they're everywhere. They're all Linked In, they're 707 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,300 on Instagram, they're all. They're all over the place and 708 00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:42,500 then around for a minute from what I've been told. 709 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,800 So Blake was nice enough to I've been looking for a Heavy Hitters 710 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,100 bottle for a while. Blake was nice enough to give me 711 00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:51,000 one as well. So that was really cool of him. 712 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:56,300 But from what I've been told because California is changing 713 00:41:56,300 --> 00:41:57,700 some of their laws for the new year. 714 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,400 This will no longer be available. 715 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,300 I'm not quite sure why. I don't know if it's because of 716 00:42:04,300 --> 00:42:08,500 the amount of THC, the thousand milligrams or whatever, the in 717 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,100 such a sized bottle, or whatever the case may be. 718 00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:14,300 I don't know what it is, what those new regs are that are 719 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:18,100 making this particular. This specific bottle. 720 00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:21,300 I believe, go away, but that's what I've been told. 721 00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:23,800 I could be wrong about that, but that's what I've been told. 722 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,200 So if you can get your hands on a heavy, otters bottle, get it 723 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:28,900 as soon as possible. Yeah. 724 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,800 Dad, those are. Okay, so now we got a. 725 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,800 So what's some of the coolest things that you've seen lately 726 00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:39,400 within? Not only just the products, but 727 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,900 in maybe even the cultivar area. Hmm. 728 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:46,500 So those are great question. That's a great question. 729 00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:49,000 And I have a couple of answers actually. 730 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,900 So that's really cool Shango, I went to Shango in Phoenix. 731 00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:58,300 If you aren't familiar with Shango, they are a fully 732 00:42:58,300 --> 00:43:01,800 integrated company. If they would be an MS. 733 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,700 Oh really? They have operations in five 734 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:08,800 states. I believe they are growing some 735 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,800 things that I've never in my life thought were possible. 736 00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:20,000 The smell the nose on some of the cultivars that they are 737 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,700 currently growing insane. No, not insane. 738 00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:29,600 Papaya, insane plantain, Oh, stuck. 739 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,500 I stuck my head in a bag of five pound bag of this stuff to get a 740 00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:38,100 good whiff of it when I was there and I've never smelled 741 00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:44,000 something that made my mouth water like that, and it was this 742 00:43:44,300 --> 00:43:49,600 really earthy edible. It make me want to like, pick it 743 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,300 up and eat it. Kind of, it wasn't really 744 00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:54,200 citrusy. It's hard to put my it's hard to 745 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,100 put words to what I was experiencing but that I think 746 00:43:58,100 --> 00:44:02,800 it's called Same plantain. They also have something called 747 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:07,100 modified banana which I had never seen before, which was 748 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,100 really cool. Extremely flavorful really 749 00:44:11,100 --> 00:44:17,800 bright notes, does it smell a lot like bananas not necessarily 750 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:22,600 again it's more of that earthy have this earthy thing stuck in 751 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,300 my head since I went there last was it last week of the week 752 00:44:25,300 --> 00:44:29,800 before? So not Well, I tell you what did 753 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,100 smell like bananas so I lie. Oh they were they were making 754 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:37,700 live rosin bag. Fuck what they were making live 755 00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:41,500 rosin with it and delicious. I was like holy it was so 756 00:44:41,500 --> 00:44:43,100 concentrated. Yeah. 757 00:44:43,100 --> 00:44:45,200 Oh dude the Turks were so concentrated. 758 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:49,400 It was sick. So those are a couple of cool 759 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,400 cultivars that I've run into and I'm actually smoking one along 760 00:44:53,400 --> 00:45:00,900 with this Georgia pie that came from them called Sour garlic, 761 00:45:00,900 --> 00:45:05,400 cookies. And again, it was I keep it and 762 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,000 I think that were this aligned with in GMO somehow. 763 00:45:09,500 --> 00:45:13,900 I honestly don't know exactly the lineage of it, to be honest 764 00:45:13,900 --> 00:45:16,200 with you. That would be one for Daniel 765 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,700 Crawford to answer. I don't know if you know who 766 00:45:18,700 --> 00:45:22,000 Daniel Crawford is. So he's one of the three Good 767 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,800 Buds. So I also run a company, our own 768 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,900 a company called three good buds on the CEO of Daniel. 769 00:45:26,900 --> 00:45:33,100 Crawford has to see 00. And Aaron Wiese is the CMO and 770 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,400 that's what we were doing in. Phoenix was we went down there 771 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,800 as a company to tour Shango and you know talk business and stuff 772 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,600 like that. So that's cool. 773 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,800 Yeah, three Good. Buds is like seems like a very 774 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,300 good cannabis Community. Tell us a little bit more kind 775 00:45:49,300 --> 00:45:51,500 of about that. Yeah, absolutely. 776 00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:53,300 That's exactly what it is. So you nailed it. 777 00:45:53,300 --> 00:45:57,100 It's we've built this company as a community. 778 00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:02,600 First, it was too. B, a space for people to look. 779 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,100 All of us have been sort of isolated for over the past few 780 00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:09,800 years, right things changed. Let's just be honest, it's not 781 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:19,900 any secret and we also have a lot of not so much outgoing 782 00:46:19,900 --> 00:46:23,300 people, introverted folks, right? 783 00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:26,800 Introverted people need to have a space to connect with people 784 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,200 in ways that sometimes are More comfortable for them. 785 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:35,700 So really the company came about back in May of this year because 786 00:46:35,700 --> 00:46:41,100 May is mental, May is mental health month and we thought I 787 00:46:41,107 --> 00:46:44,700 thought of the saying, sesh with friends, it's important because 788 00:46:44,700 --> 00:46:47,100 I was checking up on some of my friends. 789 00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:50,600 I was talking to a couple of friends that were going through 790 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:55,100 some hard times and it all kind of coincided and I was like, you 791 00:46:55,107 --> 00:46:57,200 know, I need to, I need to go see my friends. 792 00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,600 I need to go check up on my friends and Messing with my 793 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:00,600 friends. It's important. 794 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:06,200 Kind of kind of came about so we created three Good Buds because 795 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:11,000 the three of us got on the initial platform together to 796 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,100 smoke. So we were smoking together. 797 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:16,000 We were creating a small community was just three of us 798 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,400 session together. He's in one of them's in 799 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,300 Arizona, the other ones in in Virginia and I'm in Atlanta, 800 00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:25,400 Georgia. So we connected that way and we 801 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,100 were like, well, why don't we just do this? 802 00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:30,500 And we created three, goodbye. Odds since then it sounds kind 803 00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:34,000 of ridiculous. Since then we've created a 804 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:38,000 community and hold these live sessions where tons of people 805 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,800 come on they smoke with us. We introduced really cool people 806 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:46,100 to them that are doing cool things in the industry like 807 00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:48,700 Kristen Yoder talked about for blood. 808 00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:52,700 Yeah, we had David Tran on talk about what he was doing with 809 00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:56,200 Fairchild. We always have so to really 810 00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,800 bring value to just your normal average. 811 00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:02,200 Everyday consumer, like you and I or a person in the industry, 812 00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:06,900 excuse me, that might be looking for a job or something new to do 813 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,000 trying to grow their Network or connections or whatever. 814 00:48:10,300 --> 00:48:16,900 We always have special guests, that list will always contain 815 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,600 recruiters because recruiters having a recruiter that you can 816 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,200 see face to face while you're smoking and you're comfortable, 817 00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:28,400 right. Breaks down the barrier. 818 00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:32,500 Yeah, it breaks down, those barriers, that that a lot of us 819 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,300 when we're looking for work, or were looking for someone to help 820 00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:39,400 us find work, or our next gig or whatever. 821 00:48:39,500 --> 00:48:42,000 When you see that person on the other side of your screen and 822 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,300 everybody around them as fucking smoking, we're talking cannabis 823 00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:49,300 and it creates this Comfort level for a job Seeker. 824 00:48:49,300 --> 00:48:52,700 That just doesn't exist anywhere else and I thought dude that is 825 00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:55,200 so fucking important. Let's continue to do that so we 826 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,100 continue to do that. As it evolved. 827 00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,200 We've created a community where people are very uplifting 828 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,300 trusting and helpful and supportive of each other. 829 00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:11,000 We have a channel. We have a couple of channels on 830 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:15,100 telegram, where people come in. We share videos photos, talk 831 00:49:15,100 --> 00:49:17,200 back and forth. Tell everybody, good morning. 832 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,600 Say what's up? We have a job channel on 833 00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,400 telegram as well, where we shared jobs, pretty much every 834 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,700 single day, so people have joined that telegram channel so 835 00:49:27,700 --> 00:49:31,600 they can see all sorts of jobs. Abs from all kinds of different 836 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,800 companies within the industry, and it's us kind of stealing as 837 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,100 much as we can from online and posting it in one place. 838 00:49:38,100 --> 00:49:40,400 And being like, here you go check this fucking job. 839 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,800 Out your New York, here's five right here. 840 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:47,700 So doing trying to help bring some help and bring value to the 841 00:49:47,700 --> 00:49:50,300 community. So, to the Cannabis community. 842 00:49:50,300 --> 00:49:54,200 So that's what we did with three Good Buds and in doing so, we 843 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:58,700 have now created partners that have brought us in and they are 844 00:49:58,700 --> 00:50:03,600 trusting Us to help build out training. 845 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:09,300 SOS basically. So we're going into, we've 846 00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:12,100 partnered up with a company called black thumb, they're out 847 00:50:12,100 --> 00:50:15,800 of Australia. They are doing some really cool 848 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,500 stuff with their software for both grow and post-production 849 00:50:19,900 --> 00:50:23,800 and getting it in a way that is in one place, it can do 850 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,700 everything you need track. Everything that needs to be 851 00:50:26,700 --> 00:50:29,800 tracked. It's really a sort of this one. 852 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,800 Stop shop for what is it from like seed to sale or is it? 853 00:50:34,500 --> 00:50:37,500 Bingo. Okay, so it's basically your 854 00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:40,400 one-stop-shop for everything that you're growing. 855 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,200 Your production, your post production needs, so they've 856 00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,200 partnered with us or we partnered with them to be their 857 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,600 training arm. Here in the US, there's also 858 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,300 another company that's joining them called weaves there in New 859 00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:57,500 Mexico, but basically three Good Buds is going to be doing most 860 00:50:57,500 --> 00:51:01,100 of the us and we're going to be training grow and 861 00:51:01,100 --> 00:51:03,900 post-production businesses companies. 862 00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:07,900 To use this software so they can improve what it is that they're 863 00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:09,900 doing. So it's developed three. 864 00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:13,000 Good Buzz has developed because we came in here with the idea to 865 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,400 help period. We just wanted to fucking help. 866 00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:18,300 I just wanted to smoke with cool people. 867 00:51:18,500 --> 00:51:22,200 Connect with cool people and just talk about cannabis and 868 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,200 it's developed into something to where we now get your introduce 869 00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,500 people to really cool stuff that's going on in the industry 870 00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:31,500 like Bud for blood like Fairchild. 871 00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:33,700 There's other things that are going on as well. 872 00:51:33,900 --> 00:51:38,900 So, So it's it's been a really cool opportunity to build with 873 00:51:38,900 --> 00:51:42,300 those two and it's turning into something much more than I 874 00:51:42,300 --> 00:51:46,000 thought. I thought it would and becoming 875 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,500 sort of referral partners, and actual training arms for a 876 00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:54,800 companies because we have the understanding of cannabis Daniel 877 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,400 working with Shango. There a fully integrated, he's 878 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:03,700 in that facility all day long. Understands its needs where it 879 00:52:03,700 --> 00:52:08,100 has its Pain points and having him sort of being able to plug 880 00:52:08,100 --> 00:52:14,700 in the software and completely understand how it can help is 881 00:52:14,700 --> 00:52:17,900 everything. So you know we're going to be 882 00:52:17,900 --> 00:52:21,300 able to make a big difference in this industry by helping with 883 00:52:21,300 --> 00:52:24,400 that portion with some technology and stock lower 884 00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,900 portions. So we're pretty excited to do 885 00:52:26,900 --> 00:52:28,200 that, man. That's way. 886 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,300 Cool. That's how often do you do the 887 00:52:30,300 --> 00:52:33,300 three? Good Buds, smoke sessions, once 888 00:52:33,300 --> 00:52:35,600 a month. We did. 889 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,100 Once our last one was, at MJ B. Is it was relatively huge. 890 00:52:39,500 --> 00:52:41,200 Yeah. Yeah. 891 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,300 It was actually really cool. We had a ton of people show up, 892 00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:48,000 it ended up being all over LinkedIn and all over social 893 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:52,000 media and it was a really big kind of like family get-together 894 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,400 to be honest with you guys. I just realized it's 4:00 and I 895 00:52:55,408 --> 00:52:57,800 have a hard stop. You're a good man good. 896 00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:02,700 We is there anywhere that you need or any where people can 897 00:53:02,700 --> 00:53:06,700 find your stuff anywhere? That you want to plug real fast? 898 00:53:06,700 --> 00:53:08,900 Yeah, absolutely. So of course, Dustin Hawksworth 899 00:53:08,900 --> 00:53:11,200 on LinkedIn, fat, nugs Magazine on LinkedIn. 900 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:13,900 Fat mugs. Mag.com is our website. 901 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:19,800 Instagram is, is fat underscore, nugs underscore mag. 902 00:53:19,900 --> 00:53:23,300 So, yeah, Instagram that'll be in the show notes. 903 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,600 Awesome, definitely, appreciate it. 904 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,300 That's pretty much, that's pretty much everywhere. 905 00:53:27,300 --> 00:53:30,500 And I'm I try to make myself available to as many people as 906 00:53:30,500 --> 00:53:33,500 possible. So feel free to reach out. 907 00:53:33,500 --> 00:53:35,200 You can always do DM me on LinkedIn. 908 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:39,700 I'm I kind of live there times. So yeah, I love to connect with 909 00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:41,100 folks. So if anybody wants to connect, 910 00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:43,600 I'm always open badass. Thank you so much. 911 00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,300 Dustin for joining us, everybody, again, you'll get all 912 00:53:46,308 --> 00:53:48,000 the show notes over there brother. 913 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,400 Thank you for doing what you're doing. 914 00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:51,700 Appreciate your time and thank you guys. 915 00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,500 Y'all have a great afternoon talk as well.