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So yeah, opened up at all
these stores. The you were just saying,

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has that giving you so much experience
now to feel confident running Emerald,

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like being headman, head lead.
It sounds like i'man operating operations that's pretty

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high up there within the company.
I wo'd assume. Yeah, when we

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met you, you guys were like
relatively new. Yeah that's two years ago

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now, yeah, that's almost on. My fiance Kate, she's actually who

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runs Emerald with me. Um.
It's crazy because I never actually finished you

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know, getting I thought someone i'd
need a bachelor's masters be doing all these

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kind of things, And it's just
the experience, I mean, working with

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people doing what I've done in the
food industry. You know you can ask

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that customer service right right right,
having that work ethic, it's really the

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biggest thing I was not making very
much. Shoot, still not, you

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know, when trying to build those
things. But uh, there's people that

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were driving these Mercedes Bends past me. You know, there only for an

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hour and then all of a sudden, here I am. You know,

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three weeks, no one's visited me
anything trying to open the store. Uh

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used YouTube to self teach metric.
You know, trying to write acronyms on

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your palm while you're trying to do
things. So yeah baby, oh yeah

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yeah. And then even before you
know, doing med to wreck transfers and

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trying to know what you can and
can't do, and um, the biggest

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thing in the industry is nobody knows
what the heck they're doing. I was

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gonna say, I think we heard
that you can transfer after like a month

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or something, but yeah, it
usually after like thirty to sixty days.

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So some people will do the hold
and stuff, but um, before you

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know, when you're just getting into
it, there's some people that they do

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the get away with it the day
of you know, you just get your

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product in and you have almost five
hundred stores doing these sending these emails.

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So it is an emails say hey
can I do this? You know,

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so you're just waiting for somebody who
maybe just got the job yesterday that's going

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to reply to you from serious and
yeah geez. So yeah, and that's

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that's stuff me. I mean when
I was first over there, and like

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I said, it's a big corporate
based so you'd have to shoot up almost

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a big shed warehouse full of just
junk that you got a year ago that

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they're still you know, hey,
why where hasn't this gone? Like,

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what do you mean why hasn't gone? I don't want to put that on

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the floor. So just having that
kind of quality check too, it is

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the biggest issue. So good.
There's just so much that I've seen between

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the inventory delivery and so it's definitely
nice to have those backing and then be

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able to teach those people. But
the biggest thing is you're still learning every

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day in this industry. I mean
I gotta check, you know, every

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time I wake up in the morning
and see if there's a new Bolton posted

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for a lot. And that's true. The industry is always evolving, stuff

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changing all the time. Specially the
series got drafted up some new propolsions and

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stuff. Yeah, they can evenigure
out their name, you know, just

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changing the names right, true,
So trying to get those bases and stuff,

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but making everybody happy to so.
Um, the biggest thing I've learned

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is communication, and um, that's
that's the one thing, you know,

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whether it's with the staff or someone
that you're trying to purchase from, or

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even the CIRA in general. I
have no problem with shooting the questions saying,

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hey, is this is this good
to do? Um? So I'm

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pretty good with my agent. You
know before I used to be that person.

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Shoot, I've been through different raids
at the house and stuff like that,

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and you know, so you have
that kind of mentality You're like,

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shoot, I don't want to talk
to anybody with the law, but that's

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what they're there force. You got
to build that relationship. So I knew

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knew trying to develop that like trusts
that side. Yeah, especially when you

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talk to me he's like, I'm
an ex state trooper. I'm like,

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okay, okay, But then I
go to think back, I'm like,

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shoot, I had to stay troopers. Trooper White, if you're listening,

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you're awesome. But uh, he
would show up to our our high school

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and he was the coolest dude to
walk through. So you have those kind

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of people. You gotta remember there's
the good and the bad. So just

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ask your questions, communicate to him. That's the biggest thing, so he'll

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come through. You know, Hey, here's my paperwork. What do you

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need for me? Um? The
inspection shouldn't be something that you're you're nervous

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for every time, so uh,
that. That's the one thing that even

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my staff, you know, I
got them. I think it's just the

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fear of like getting shut down.
It's like an ocean violation for a construction

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site or for a restaurant. It's
just that fear of like, oh god,

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I'm messing up everyone's money. But
the rules are there for for a

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reason, so exactly exactly, everything's
got that leeway. So as long as

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you're communicating, hey, you know, why is this the thing? Can

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we try this out? I've had
a few different places, especially when we

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first of allving that cis say let's
try here. So we'll do it at

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this place, you know, and
see how it goes, and then we'll

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go U from there and shoot,
sometimes you get a call two weeks later,

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don't do that, Let's not do
that. So just being talking to

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him and how he yeah so um, but yeah, no, that's that's

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yeah. Um what's your guys?
As a mission statement for Emerald Fire,

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like, what's you guys? Though, honestly, it's just just talking to

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the customer, being there for him. That the biggest thing is customer service.

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Um. I don't see it enough
in the industry especially, you know,

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I'm doing around. I do our
sales too, so helping run our

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dispo. You know, I see
our people talk and then I go to

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other dispensaries and it's you know,
it's like you're going to a gas station.

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It's what do you want? A
lot of times it's like that.

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A lot of times it's like what
do you want? Or like? Or

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my my worst favorite is what do
you like? I'll tell you what you

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want, like no, I just
want to smell it, like no,

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no, no, you don't need
you like no I do. Yeah,

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that'st thing. You'll go to someplace
and it's just a quick fulfillment, Like

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I want to see what I got. So that's one thing that we make

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sure at our stores. You're always
going to see what you got if you

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want to check it out, I'm
gonna penny out a display. I'm gonna

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make sure that you're seeing it.
But UM appreciate that. Yeah, and

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we do the same every customer.
Yeah, we do the same thing for

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a grow I mean, I do
a case of thirty two eights, but

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I'm gonna send them thirty three because
that that thirty third, that's the one

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you're gonna open up. You're gonna
show your customer. Um, you know,

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I make sure that you have that
availability too, So yeah, exactly,

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that's good. You gotta know what
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and a couple of grams to look
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yep. So uh and that's one
thing, you know, even when I

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was back, because that's nice though, because really like you because they need

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to know, you know, they
need to know. Yeah, it's it's

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that's the best thing. So the
pre pact, you know, I try

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to stay away from that, but
that's why I make sure I send that

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that out. But if we do, usually it's bulk that we like to

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push, so bulk pre rolls.
Uh. I was talking to Day a

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little bit. We've got carts coming
with Legit laps. He so appreciate.

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Those guys are unique, man,
Like the flon taste is just unique.

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Well, I enjoyed because I like
solving less, so you're not really getting

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any of that that harsh additives you
get with some of those guys. So,

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um, well that's what confused me
too, because it keeps saying live

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resident but then it's solving less.
So yeah, I'm still trying to learn

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the whole science of it. I
I've always been whatever. Yeah, yeah,

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my my buddy's always been the growers
and the guy's making it. And

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then I was the plaid backpack kid
you know over there in college everyone'd be

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like, where's Brandon. He's over
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was never shy about it. So
that's the one thing. So it definitely

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carried over into my profession of actually
jumping onto cannabis. So it was it

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was great. It was my talent
at that point, sou. But yeah,

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we have a few different brands coming
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telling you guys, we just started
working on some of the Yeah we thought

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those yeah, which when Solvent list
gonna hit, do you know when you're

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getta So we have we actually have
some concentrate with them already. We sent

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I want to say, about three
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a few different things being made with
that. We had missed mister sticker spot

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oh yeah, well that's uh so
those ones I was too for the trade

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sample. So we uh, like
I said, we do our dispo and

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there so some people like the sticker
themselves. Some people like that that barcode

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so the whole compliance of it.
I you know, usually when I'm doing

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sales, I said, what do
you prefer? You want to sticker at

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yourself? Great, but I'm still
gonna have my spot there, so then

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I leave it open. So um
yeah, because when I go to stickering

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things, the worst thing is that
usually it's always concentrates you get. They

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don't have their compliance, they don't
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able to booking my sticker somewhere,
and usually it's always this little flappy wing

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hanging on the edge of the concentrate
when you're going, So it's always ugly.

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So make sure you have that availability. I like the pat I really

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like that. Whoever designed it,
it's an artistic Braxton, so shout out,

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Yeah, looks nice. He's actually
a local seam you graduate, so

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it's nice thing too, so um, you know, being right from that

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area from out pleasant and he's actually
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So yeah, pretty excited. Scraph
you design you you designed the Trailblazer

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pack too that we have that's our
five packs. So the Trailblazer is fire

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here. Actually you can pull up
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think about that. Oh yeah,
here I was out with that us.

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Yeah, yeah, I was gonna
showcase that. That's right, showcase right

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where you're the tray is, That's
where it is. That's my showcase.

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Some of your button the out even
spin it. Oh god, I'm messing

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this all up. Yeah, I'm
trying. I should have probably set this

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up prior up here you go bring
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is over to me? There it
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Yeah, so that's gonna be a
froster cherry cookies that we have right there.

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Uh, that's one of our mainstreams. Between that our skittlements. Uh.

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Then I want to say our carbon
fiber as well have been some of

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our biggest sellers. Right now,
we just hit I want to say,

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over thirty different locations in the state
total in the last year. But right

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now we're really working with just a
couple of our main people, the you

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know, the ones that I feel
like I deserved to just constantly being that

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that treatment. You know, I
want to make sure they have that brand

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and that availability. But we're just
the one class C So we're not like

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some of these guys that you know
have thirty licenses for an outdoor triple stacking.

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And then you know if they don't
know what's going on with every other

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strand so everything's hand touched by us. That's the one thing I really enjoy.

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And then it's just triple checked.
There's always a quality to it.

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There's always a check. You know, if it goes from one room to

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another, there's two people looking at
something. So that that's what I really

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enjoy. I mean, we got
about eleven people back in our row.

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So between the mom room and I
know, you guys actually said you had

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the tour. I'm gonna have to
get you guys on the tour because we're

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about to expand that mom room.
So the amount of genetics that we just

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started pulling through, we we told
boys, let's go crazy, let's start

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working with some different things. So
I like it, yep. So they're

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trying to pop some and things from
seeds. You know. We we were

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going with different clones from stuff and
the clones. You know, it's it's

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a hit or miss. You know, you're gonna pay so much money for

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this, And is ID even gonna
call you back when you said nothing happened?

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You know, coming through a right
probably not yeah, and so that's

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what we've just seen. But we
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own genetics from some of our actual
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He actually popped up on High Times. You guys met Levi there, so

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yeah, yep, so Levi's Levi's
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and then we actually just came through
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well. So the one thing you
wanted to make sure I brought up,

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you guys are definitely gonna have to
try his black black cherry cheesecake and ka

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Ultra mka Ultra. Yep. That
takes me back to like when the mad

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market just hits. Remember one there
was I was helping hands used to have

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his own kay Ultra. That was
fun. So about twenty seventeen, twenty

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and eighteen is actually that strain get
posted on the High Times Instagram. So

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he you know, even when he
was just a legacy cultivator based So but

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like I got, like I was
telling you guys, he was somebody that

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worked with me out with my last
place. And you can always tell when

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my bud tenders are spending, and
all of a sudden, you know,

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I hire him on in a week. Two weeks later, I'm noticing or

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the hell, no one's shopping anything. And it was like a month after,

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you know, working with them and
stuff, and we're sitting at the

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bar and he goes, Hey,
have you tried any of my stuff yet?

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So what do you mean have I
trying new stuff? I say,

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you work at the dispo. You
know what you're talking to? Stuff we

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sell I grow myself. I'm like, you son of a bitch. Okay,

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So I said, he's got ros
and gummies for me. He's got

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so many different strange wax so um. He literally looks like the zig zag

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Man. So you guys that you
shoot use yeah, the big big family.

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So you guys see him on the
Instagram and stuff. I love him.

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He's just the most wholesome person.
So um. But I'm excited to

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bring his genetics time because, like
I said, he's you know, he's

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been in it for Shoot since med
Market was a med market and so he's

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always just been working on those things
and bringing in the people that really want

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to work with them. Cool like
family ties. Oh yeah, we're very

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family oriented. I mean, you
shoot Blake and working. They're part of

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our row. They're they're the heads
over there. So they're married. It's

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actually family from our owner. Two. And then uh have my fiance Kate.

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She's, uh, congrats by the
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very That was that was nerve wrecking, that's for sure, I imagine.

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So we didn't realize that, you
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of Florida trip and like now he
gets it. Yeah, and she's she's

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somebody like, uh, if I'm
going camping, she packs me my snacks,

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you know. So I she knew
every detail on the bag, so

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I had to make sure I hit
it in like the wheelwell area, got

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it to her friend to put it
in her luggage. Legit like call some

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effort there. Yeah, so I
complan, that's for sure. So that

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was a good time. And like
we were talking about the cannabis down there.

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That was that was depressing. So
was it in Florida? I bed

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it's all corporate. I think it's
just all MAD still, but even boys

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still corporate there though. I don't
know if you Yeah, so I'm one

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of those losers that I was like, oh, it's it's I don't need

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my MAD card. Anymore. So
I didn't even have my mad card going

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down. So but we had some
connections. So it was pretty nice.

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You know. I was talking to
somebody, was like, oh, yeah,

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I got my puff Co. He
goes, what are you smoking?

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As what I brought down? And
he goes, I got buddies here,

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He's got a whole place here,
he does this and this. All right,

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all right, I'm down here.
These are my people. So it

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was pretty cool cool. Um,
no night it was too hot, so

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I enjoyed my Michigan for a reason. So but then it was still just

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hot. We haven't had any rain
for a while, so it's depressing.

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Yeah. Yeah, we see that
proxy over there. That's really nice.

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I can see in the corner the
Yeah this was so have you tried the

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puff co peeks? Yeah? Okay, so compared what's what do you think?

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Uh? Last a lot longer for
sure. The battery life, okay

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sucks. But when you're talking portable
wise, I mean not saying if I

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were whatever smoke on the road,
but this guy is definitely a lot more

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feasible to bring with you and just
honestly on the beach and stuff too.

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So um, I enjoy that guy, though for just the whole basis.

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I mean, if I'm at home, you know, I like the puff

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go, I like to sitting on
the table. You know, it's a

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little bigger, but you're talking to
so many that's just I like my torch

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and courts. So okay, right
and true. Okay, so I was

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curious, but so okay on these
Trailblazers real quick, what is this?

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It's a five package joints. Yeah, so our trailblazers are gonna be our

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their cardboards, so we try to
make sure the biggest thing, like I

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said, I was talking, Um, it was like a month after opening

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at the one of the corporate places
up by Honor Traverse City. I'm sitting

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on the beach, go and take
a lunch, and all I see it's

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just literally three of our label joints
packaging right there, just plastic on the

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beach. And I was like,
okay, we got to do a little

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better. So this one is going
to be recyclable cardboard, and we try

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to make sure we actually don't do
any of the glue. So we always

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make sure even if customer pop the
button, so it's you know, they're

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there for sales and then after that
you're good, but it's all gonna be

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recyclable. We do our own in
house pre roll own role and then we

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do nice little messages in between.
But the one thing I enjoyed when we

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do these is the Bovida pack So
you don't see enough of that with a

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lot of the industry. Um,
you say, don't litter on that box.

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Yeah, I like it. I
like in promoting good stuff, don't

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litter. Yeah, we enjoyed it. But this is something Braxton designed as

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well. So he's got a nice, le nice little image video where the

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guys actually it's a moving stick man, you know, going to enjoy himselves.

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So he's working on some fun stuff. So uh, I gave him

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a list of all the strains we
have coming up and he's like, oh

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man, I got some ideas already. So we're getting excited with that.

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But no other than that, I
really tried to keep it small and simple

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with our packaging. Um, other
than the bright bags, I mean that's

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one thing I like, the artistic
bags. Yeah. Yeah, well that's

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one thing is I always hate the
prepact. You know, like I said,

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you can run into that quality and
stuff. That's why we do the

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bovidos because I came from a place
that literally would order thirty thousand dollars with

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the product, and then you're yeah, yeah, so so who knows when

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it's actually going to go on the
shelf. Um. That's one thing I

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like about us is where a class
t so we can have limited orders.

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You're not gonna be all ordered fifty
thousand of our packaging, but I'll tell

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you what I can get you in
order every every two weeks of actually good

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fresh quality. So the quality over
quantity is the biggest things. I mean

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then that we all want, right, yeah, we all want cool little

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tips in their drink water breathe,
Yeah, were two necks. I think

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it's like breathing breathe, deep breathe
or something. But that's those are pretty

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cool. So you say you're in
thirty stores, Yeah, you say ye.

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Our flower has been hit hit about
thirty stores. I honestly want to

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say about fifty. But right now
we're on a constant basis about about thirty

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stores. So we've been all over
where down downstate. Uh, we down

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here, I want to say Green
Farm over at Hazel Park. We'll go

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over. Um and then they just
open one ann Arbor's not too far from

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here. We're over in Green Farm
a little bit there, but mostly it's

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up in the up and the North
that we try to play with a little

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bit more. Um. Yeah,
it's it's it's been pretty fun. But

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we have our own dispo and then
we have a second store coming up soon

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too, So like I said,
we're not stressing to get to a lot

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of other places. It's really just
getting our brand and ourselves there and then

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the carts and the concentrate or what
I want to get to a lot of

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other people. So our flower can
be more for myself, but you know,

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being able to open that brand up
for other people and like I said,

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working with legit Labs and getting things
out there too. So um,

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you say concentrates as a you go
when you said you have carts coming,

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are you having like Rosin and resident
like that. So I've just worked on

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getting some freezers, actually get some
freshtrozon on the back now, so we're

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gonna have. Um. But when
when you're doing the class Sea and you

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know, we're just getting these guys
going, I mean we just hit almost

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two years of being open for just
our grow there, so you know,

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just always been to Coleman like that, you're like home location, where's the

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new one. It's not too far
actually, it's going to be from Alma

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over by own on Riverdale. Okay. So so we're trying to stay more

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central Michigan, I mean down here
to college out there though, yeah,

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yep, yep, so and not
too far still from some of the other

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places. We kind of looked on
our map and seeing where people shot from,

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and it's still mostly mid Michigan,
but we have people from an hour

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and a half north, an hour
and a half south. So we figured

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if we can kind of push more
in the central area and still have that,

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you know, we're more travel area. Everybody's always going up north or

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you're driving down south. If you're
going there, it's it's just a nice

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focal point. So right, it
makes sense. Yeah, and then we're

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working on Minnesota, so we uh
stay Minnesota. Yea, Minnesota just passed

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there in Minnesota, the city I
don't know there might be to us,

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maybe Minnesota. Michigan sounds that we're
talking right now. It's like I wouldn't

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have expected to un dropped Minnesota.
So to me, I was like,

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go ahead now, So Minnesota that's
cool, exciting. Why Minnesota, that's

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h where our owner's family actually is
originated from. He's got people there.

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And then uh, for myself,
I actually, uh you know, I

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see you got the alien where so
I'm assuming a game. Uh So I

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like South Park games, I like
little games. So one of my gaming

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buddies actually, uh, you know, I'm known him for like ten years,

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and he's always been somebody that I
want to say, he was in

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cannabis fore I was man. Yeah, and he's he's over there doing uh

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cell phone sales, you know,
just sick of it. And uh.

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The one thing is I was really
excited to tell my owner said, I've

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I've got buddies. I've been gaming
with it, I trust for eight to

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ten years. I've got people I
can go over there, let's set something

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up, let's do this. So
having those yeah, So it's hard because

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you know, hiring you know,
I don't know if you guys have had

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to hire somebody before. But it's
a gamble. Um. Well, we've

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worked with freelancers and stuff, so
I hear you. Sometimes it's winning.

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Sometimes it's oh my god, get
what you get. Most of the time

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it's it's not winning. So so
that's true. Onyn't you find someone?

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Yeah, you stick with him shout
yeah. Yeah. That's where Kate and

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myself we're really able to trust.
So we can step off and kind of

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explore these things because we have these
people that we worked with for almost two

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here. So right, Um so
these are people game buddies, man,

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Like you're like tight with them too. Oh yeah, I love seeing those

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videos. Again, I know a
little tangent here, but we've seen the

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videos. Were like we've been gaming
together for twenty years and they never met,

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and they met and they were hugging
each other like they know each other.

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Well, I'm bastard. So he's
somebody that can literally just text me

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and be like buy this game.
I'm like, all right, I got

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it. Episode then I'll tell my
girlfriend and I got we'll fiancy out,

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but I'll be like I got it
for free, don't worry. Or I

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sold some cards and I got this. So I'm buying too many games because

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of him. But um so it's
nice though, because he's always asking me.

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Usually he's one step ahead of me. He's like, have you heard

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about CpG? And I'm like,
all right, now i gotta Google this,

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and so there's there's always something I'm
learning from him, and it's nice

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because he's still part of that black
market, so he's always sending me photos

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and doing stuff. And then,
like I was kind of telling you guys,

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he actually went to Vegas for the
first time. It was the first

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time trying recreational product and man,
not in Vegas. Yeah, but but

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the crazy thing is yeah, and
it was dry, yep, but it

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was I was blowing away because he
was like, Bro, this is the

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best highs I've ever had, some
of these pre roles and things like that,

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and I'm like, man, I
cannot wait to bring you some Michigan

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product. Oh from Vegas. He
was saying. It was that fire.

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Yeah, I mean there are there. We had a couple of good strains

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out there, like the Grower Circle, right, yeah, but a lot

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of it was just the wax and
stuff. So he's so used to these

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people that who knows what you're adding
being to it when you're doing this processing.

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I mean, I've watched my buddy. He was a shoot. I

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think it was pretty much a pressure
cooker and some weird nass shit he was

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blowing through and He's like, try
this and it was brown as hell,

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and I'm like, I'm gonna wait
a second, man, Yeah, thank

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you, thank you. So yeah, I mean going when you are going

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from kind of like the black market
stuff to the recreation and you see it,

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there is a little bit of a
difference in that concent trade market for

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sure. I mean even when we
switched here in the state, it was

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like, like you just said,
it was brown. It was like that

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black taint. It was like that
black soup he had for the longest time

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here. And then it's because people
don't want to do it right, yea.

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You know, they know how the
basic steps and they learn how to

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in a lot of times they started
with that team. I think now that

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Rosin has become more like a powerhouse. I think you're going to see a

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lot of people skip those steps and
just go right to it. But you

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don't get as much pull, you
know. Yeah, I'm so excited for

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the Rosin stuff though, because I
was so sick of seeing seventy eighty dollar

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grams a rosin and now I have
people that are bringing me forty things that

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can actually get to people that are
you know, it's that personal. We're

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all hurting you know at the end
for our water pocket and some people can't

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afford that stuff, so yeah,
we still have. When I see seventy

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eighty dollars grams a rosin now,
I'm like, how are you competing with

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everyone? Because if people are selling
pretty good stuff for forty fifty, yeah,

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like it's border hopping. That's that's
what those guys are. They're people

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that are they're trying to get the
uneducated market. Yeah, they're saying braining

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yep, as the same person.
I used to buy that that schwag for

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four hundred ounce when you know you
can get the same stuff for one hundred

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and fifty people, Yeah, I
think sometimes it's like we'll get me spending

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the money type of vibe. Yeah, yep, so and and I used

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to get that all the time.
When I opened up a couple down shoot

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over an Adrian Monroe area, it
has most people coming through. How much

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00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:00.920
can I get for a pound?
I'm like, I can't sell you a

407
00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:03.119
pound? First off? Where do
your shop normally? Yeah? You know

408
00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:06.240
you'd be like, well, I'll
do it for six hundred. I'm like,

409
00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:07.839
I do are purchasing too. I
don't think you understand. I don't

410
00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.920
even purchase it for six hundred.
So now some people do, which is,

411
00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.279
you know, pretty kind of sucks
but pretty great. Yeah. Well,

412
00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:17.160
and and that's again you're asking about
the Minnesota thing. Why that it's

413
00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:21.440
it's an open market, it's brand
new, Michigan's almost tainted in a way.

414
00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:23.000
Uh. And it's really just a
big corporate base. You have too

415
00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:26.039
many of these guys trying to rush
open these stores, driving the bottom dollar.

416
00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.680
I do our wholesale too, and
I'm going to meet some of these

417
00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:33.200
guys that you really sound promising,
and they're like, okay, yeah,

418
00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:34.200
I'd love to meet you. And
then all of a sudden you're meeting with

419
00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:37.039
them and they just literally almost spitting
in your face, like this is garbage.

420
00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:40.079
What do you mean? Oh you're
bud, You're so yeah, yeah,

421
00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:41.680
they're just say this is garbage.
You know, you were telling me

422
00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:44.680
it's worth thirty und pound Almo again, send six fifty, And then all

423
00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:48.480
of a sudden you have someone still
saying they'll send six fifty, but buy

424
00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:49.400
all of it out. And I'm
like, okay, so you're telling me

425
00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:52.640
it's garbage, but you want to
buy all of me out. So you're

426
00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.759
having too much of that in the
state. That's why all these concentrates gummy.

427
00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:00.359
It's everything regulating two hundred milligram dropped
out and you've seen them go from

428
00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.440
thirty a package down to twelve a
package. Yeah, that's true. A

429
00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.160
lot of everything a whole markets drop
prince wise yep. So and and and

430
00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.160
that's the biggest thing is that people
trying to drive that bottom dollars. So

431
00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:14.079
you have all these grows and processing
that game and keep up because they're i

432
00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:17.160
mean shoot, their price points just
too low for how you sustain you know,

433
00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:19.039
yeah, yep, So now you're
difficult. And what sucks those is

434
00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:22.000
then at that point, most of
these indoor grows that are giving that quality

435
00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:26.119
product to it aren't gonna bill sustain. And now you've got people with outdoor

436
00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.720
grow next to these farms with nothing
but pesticides all of these things. And

437
00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:33.079
I mean, if you're going to
have a testing standard, most of them

438
00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:36.799
process it. There you go,
you've cleaned it in a sense clean.

439
00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:38.039
Yeah. Yeah, I know they
get away with things for sure. And

440
00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:41.960
I mean at the end of day, like see, I know people are

441
00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.119
going to hate this statement, but
a lot of times sometimes outdoor stuff isn't.

442
00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:48.480
It's not necessarily not take care of
as well. It's just that sometimes

443
00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:52.279
outdoor stuff it's so much cheaper to
make, so not it's not always just

444
00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:55.880
why I said, people are are
gonna hate this. I feel like indoors

445
00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:59.799
such an easier controlled environment, so
it's more predictable how good the quality is.

446
00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:02.319
We've you where I saying outdoor can
be very good. Sometimes it's not.

447
00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:03.720
I just feel like it's not consistent. I've had some good outdoor come

448
00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:07.119
to me, but I consistency though, Yeah, not on a consistent basis,

449
00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:10.759
that's the thing. So it's usually
one good strain and then the rest

450
00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:14.319
of all just feltered. And that
most of that's because they didn't give it

451
00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.759
that actual hand attention that it should
have. It's just in this massive field

452
00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:19.599
like, okay, this is the
ones that are going good, let's focus

453
00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:23.279
here. So um. So,
I for myself, when you mentioned n

454
00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.839
K, how's it going? I
love them? So I try to work

455
00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:29.720
with someone yeah, yeah, I
appreciate nick Um. You know, trying

456
00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:32.400
to work with someone who has more
of those small batches and that pay attention

457
00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:36.240
to what they're actually doing. I
get some of that time it's a gamble

458
00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:37.519
right now, I'm you know you
work on leaf Link. I'm not sure

459
00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.000
you gets familiar with leaf Link.
I know of it. We've talked about.

460
00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:41.880
It's like we can kind of put
your butt on the air and people

461
00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:45.319
can Yeah, yep. It's it's
basiness the business. Yeah, it's the

462
00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.480
legal wholesale market for it. So, um, it's the same thing as

463
00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.359
any other pretty much like weed maps, but for you know this wholesale marketer.

464
00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:55.319
So you still have that top slot
you can purchase, you have all

465
00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:57.000
these things, you see all the
pricing, and you see your pricing and

466
00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:59.799
so. But that's the crazy thing
is when you're going on this, you'll

467
00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:03.160
see people that go sixteen hundred pound
but don't list any THHD percentages. So

468
00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:06.200
then you know, okay, now
that's a communication like now I got to

469
00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:08.359
talk see what you're actually wanting.
Most time it will be eleven hundred and

470
00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:12.279
it's an eighteen hundred or eighteen percent. So it's actually trying to figure out

471
00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:15.240
what you're looking at. And it's
gamble too, is wow, you don't

472
00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.200
get an image. You don't get
so you think because it's legal and metal

473
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:22.079
cold that it's like oh, it's
you know, it's probably more per you

474
00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:25.200
still just reaching out and going let
me see your shy Yeah, yeah,

475
00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:26.440
you know, it's it's all trying
to actually go through. So a lot

476
00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:30.240
of times people that we purchase from, we actually tour the facilities. UM.

477
00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.839
If I purchase with the offer of
I purchased with the A lot,

478
00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:36.359
put you on my top. I
gotta know what you're doing, right,

479
00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:40.000
Let's have some visibility. Let's see
how clean your facility is. UM.

480
00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:45.279
And it's pretty funny because I I
thought that we had an okay facility,

481
00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:48.200
you know, I never really got
into the massive growing place and I was

482
00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:49.960
like, but you're working with plants, so you're always gonna have that.

483
00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:55.000
But we have such a phenomenal clean
facility compared to some of these ones that

484
00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:57.839
I've visited. It blows me away. So seeing some of how some of

485
00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:02.000
this stuff and the standards to pass, so it made me want to just

486
00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:04.079
say, hey, okay, I
gotta see where it I'm actually purchasing from.

487
00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:07.000
And I know who you are,
what you're doing. Why am I

488
00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.519
helping you out? If you know
you're gonna do some garbage? Oh?

489
00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.519
I mean yeah? And honestly,
like when we when we meet these these

490
00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:18.480
big facilities too, it's about how
much care goes into every step. So

491
00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.160
I think when you see the cleaning
is it shows what other steps you know

492
00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.519
you're looking at, you know what
I'm saying, but you're skipping here where

493
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.319
else you skip it? You know, it's small things, they all add

494
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:30.359
up. So that's that's we're always
telling the staff to, you know,

495
00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.359
make sure the bulls are cleaning your
tongues, all of that. I mean,

496
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.599
we do deli style, so I
try to make sure this deli style.

497
00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:38.000
You don't see that as much.
You really don't. It's about that

498
00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:41.359
bottom dollar. I mean, you're
gonna make more money. You're gonna push

499
00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.480
more customers out quicker if you can
just throw a prepack D eighth and say

500
00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:48.200
see you, um yeah, and
then but then control you can't keep the

501
00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:52.559
bud is like oh exactly, yeah, And that's that's one thing. I

502
00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:55.200
get the packs and they do the
best they can. But it's like there's

503
00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.119
still nothing to just open. And
you'll see these places with this giant wall

504
00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:00.720
of bud, but nothing but bright
ass lights right on the butt. Like

505
00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:04.039
God's a good point. It keeps, it keeps it good. You know,

506
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:07.519
it keeps it bright looking. Yeah, yeah, so that's yeah,

507
00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:08.720
and then I'll send your browned out, you know, three days later.

508
00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:11.359
So that's why we don't do a
window on any of our packaging. So

509
00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:15.400
I send you that sample. Well, I like that you send an extra

510
00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.240
eighth though for the for them to
open up and to showcase the butt and

511
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.720
then that's PrePex so you'll be able
to tell as a consumer. Okay,

512
00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:23.839
that's exactly what that is. That's
the frost of cherry for the frost cherry

513
00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:26.799
cookie. I think it was there
any like go to strain you like my

514
00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.880
favorite by far as our schitlements.
That you didn't have it when we were

515
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.880
there, that's because it sells out
so quick. Uh yeah, we I

516
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:37.359
just pushed them. We actually have
two rooms coming of that here soon.

517
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:41.880
So it's yeah, we're we're excited
specifically, and when you're talking to Terpans,

518
00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:44.480
I mean we're almost at three percent
in the turps for that. It

519
00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:48.240
was a high tester. Or it's
just the flowery very good. And shoot,

520
00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:49.480
even when we got the shake and
trim, most time you get that

521
00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:52.200
and it's like ten percent. When
we get this one, it's like twenty

522
00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.279
twenty one percent. So yeah,
I mean you're you're you're talking to make

523
00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:59.440
butter. That's what you're using there, so um so when it comes to

524
00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:03.240
it's just overall really smooth turkey.
It's by far my favorite strain when you're

525
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:04.839
coming in to try to do anything. If you're a big blunt guy and

526
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:08.599
you want to infuse something, it's
gonna make your garbage blunt taste even better

527
00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:11.759
now because you got that. So
it's just not something that ever has the

528
00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.359
bed must have heard a review on
the El Blunt though, jeez, that

529
00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.799
thing was I was not a fan
of the blunt long story. Sure,

530
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.960
yeah, I don't think it's in
our store. So yeah, the infused

531
00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.400
and like the pre brow markets,
such a it's such a hit or miss,

532
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:27.839
like uh right, because some of
them are some of them are really

533
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.759
good, like he actually one of
the best ones that we mean, still

534
00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.160
holds up to a lot of them. I can't say it's the best,

535
00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.279
but I really love the Holy Canolis. I love those Holy Cano wins Man

536
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:41.359
shout out to Jordan. I always
enjoy them. That that was one of

537
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:45.480
the first ones that we had in
um for my infusing I'll always carry them.

538
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:47.599
It was that Flower Power Cloud that
we tried. That guy. Yea,

539
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.440
I was so see all these people
with their their own donuts, you

540
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.480
know, the first that they're always
saying, come on, get out of

541
00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:56.799
here. It's like, no way, you're a hind dude. I'm excited

542
00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.279
to get some more of He actually
just sent some hash hats I think s

543
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:02.839
packaging for that. So yeah,
we're gonna try to get some of that

544
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:07.160
in for seven to ten, which
seven tents coming so oh yeah yeah,

545
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.720
but we are ex yeah no,
so with him pretty selective on that and

546
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:14.240
that. I don't want to name
drop them, but Kate and I we're

547
00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:15.839
smoking one of our favorite brands last
night. It was our first time trying.

548
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:19.160
They're infused. I love their Flower. I've really been enjoying the concentrates

549
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:22.519
coming out that Okay, disposable.
But then I go to hit this this

550
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.599
pre role and I'm thinking, you
know, I've got high standards for this,

551
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:29.480
you know, I'm thinking it's gonna
be awesome. I threw it out

552
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.920
after like three hits. You know, Kate was sitting there dying. I'm

553
00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:36.119
just off afcord. Yeah, so
I yeah, so I asked, you

554
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.039
know, send a team's message out
to the crew. That's how we communicate.

555
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:40.519
I'm like, all right, you
know, hey, who thought of

556
00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:44.000
this? We had any bad responses? So we have different channels for the

557
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.400
staff. You know, products you
want to see, products that we think

558
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.720
we should drop, you know,
so that way we can communicate on that

559
00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:52.359
um because the staff sell it.
You know, they're the ones who,

560
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.079
right, yeah, they're the front
facing. Yeah. You know people,

561
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.400
people you know, don't give enough
credit to the bud tenders. I mean

562
00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.359
because a lot of times they don't
care. But you know, but I

563
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.359
think it's fifty fifties. And then
as you get those people who really care,

564
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.759
the face of the retail shot people, people who's that's why I love

565
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:10.079
about them. I can I can
literally be away. I wasn't even worried

566
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:12.119
once on vacation. I knew they
were going to be hardly taken care of,

567
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.000
and I think we had our reviews
even went up more when I was

568
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:17.720
gone, So I was like,
Okay, I need to be here.

569
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.279
More vacation. Yeah, more vacation
for me. So you know when it

570
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:22.680
comes into I mean, they're they're
there, they want to make sure they

571
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:25.599
even let them know on the way
out. If you have any questions,

572
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:27.200
call me, I said, we're
open most of night. Call me.

573
00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:30.400
Shoot, they have my business cards
that they hand out to some customers,

574
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:34.559
my personal numbers on there. I
don't shy from it, so I always

575
00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:37.759
tell someone text me. Hopefully that's
really unique because like I was actually just

576
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.799
about I ask you, what do
you think set you apart from other dispensaries,

577
00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.880
Like how do you people give that
personal touch of like that really personal

578
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.400
connection. And I'm not gonna I
guess that. I can't knock all bud

579
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:49.559
tenders because I literally it's about fifty
fifty. Some of them care like so

580
00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:52.319
much, and they're like, have
you tried this lemon ne tterpetes like they're

581
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:57.359
so they so care. And then
there's some some dispose or some buodtenders who

582
00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:00.960
were like, what do you want? Have you tried to Indica? How

583
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.440
much TAC do you need? You
know what I mean? It's just like

584
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:06.759
come on, well A lot of
that leads up to your leadership too,

585
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:08.759
though, like, oh that's true, that's true. People care enough to

586
00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:11.000
make sure that you care. I
think that I think you're onto something there

587
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.039
because I think that's like with most
things. If your leaders bleed I love

588
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.880
this, I care. It just
motivates it of energy passes to people where

589
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.480
they're like, you know what,
all right, yeah, let's do this

590
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:23.599
right, you know what I mean? Like it's it's just more of a

591
00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:26.279
lot of passion for it when it
comes from the top. I think it's

592
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.720
hard to like motivate if you're not
like passionate. If you're a person at

593
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.000
the tops just like showing up,
just sell, just sell, then you're

594
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.079
just gonna be like, oh all
right, I'm just gonna sell. Yeah.

595
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:38.039
And that's the biggest thing too,
is that there isn't a week that

596
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:45.119
I don't butt ton. So I'm
not I'm constantly there. Most of the

597
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.480
customers know me just as much as
the staff. Um. Like I said,

598
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:51.200
I've always been a front man.
So even though I'm constantly doing this

599
00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:52.759
paperwork, I'm in the back end. I'm gonna make sure I at least

600
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:57.200
spend ten to twelve hours a week
how my sales for UM, there's always

601
00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.920
something new to learn. Making sure
the staff were talking about those things.

602
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:05.960
Um, it's a sales industry,
and the biggest thing is being repetitive sucks.

603
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:07.720
So how do you qushen it up? How do you make things new

604
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:10.519
for somebody? Now? Should we
change our floor up? Do I have

605
00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:15.480
customers that constantly want something new?
So, um, you're not always going

606
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:17.039
to see something from behind the curtains. You got to be up there too,

607
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:21.400
so yeah, yeah, oh it's
that's where you learned what your customers

608
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:23.119
really want with the how they're talking, how your bud tenders are working,

609
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:27.160
all that jazz. We use a
whole note system too, So someone normally

610
00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:30.279
prefers a product in a Turpene profile
as soon as you pop up on our

611
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:31.720
system, we have asked for that
feature. So you click on their name,

612
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:35.839
it says, hey, don't recommend
this, don't suggest you. Kind

613
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:38.799
of like a little preference thing.
Um, and it was knocked over my

614
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:43.680
ship. No, a little preference
thing for your system. That's that's smart.

615
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:45.720
I mean, I imagine a lot
of places have notes, but I'm

616
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:47.920
sure it's like this guy asked too
many questions candidate. Yeah, no,

617
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:51.640
I I That's one thing I get
annoyed about is if you don't ask me

618
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:52.480
a question while I'm bud tending.
You like, come on, bro,

619
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:54.759
yeah, like how much do you
care. Yeah, yeah, what's the

620
00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:59.440
cheapest? Oh yeah, I still
get those, but then I'm always letting

621
00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:00.359
them know, so this is why
it's cheap, just so you know.

622
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:04.680
All right, but I always got
this, but um, I never like

623
00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.519
to use cheap in our store.
Actually, affordable is what I like talking

624
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:08.680
about. That's good. Yeah,
well you know what I mean, Like

625
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.519
that's that's how people will come in
bad. What is it the best value?

626
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:15.839
We try to say value too,
because also sometimes it's like if I

627
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:17.359
paid twenty bucks, but it tastes
like shit, well okay, it was

628
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:20.640
you know, it was marked low
for a reason. Like if I paid

629
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.920
twenty bucks it taste amazing, Well
damn, that's high value. Yeah.

630
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:27.559
No, my bud tender, Tyler. You guys meet Tyler yet Milkman.

631
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.599
He's got the long beard. Milk
is his last name, but we call

632
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.240
milkman. But he's probably one of
my favorite bud tenders because he's so honest

633
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.680
with people. See. I have
a couple of brands on there that myself,

634
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.079
I think a garbage, but they're
so asked often by customers, and

635
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:44.480
I'm like, okay, I gotta
I gotta have up there at least make

636
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:46.240
you happy. Yeah, but every
time someone else, just for one of

637
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:50.599
those, I'm gonna say, hey, this is this is what I'd recommend

638
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:52.519
over this. And he's by far
my favorite person for it because he'll look

639
00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:55.039
at somebody and he'll he'll almost roll
his eyes, but not to like that,

640
00:33:55.240 --> 00:34:00.359
you know, like being a dick
again. Okay, so let me

641
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:02.440
let me tell you why. And
then he'll spend twenty minutes with somebody even

642
00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:07.440
though we got a full lobby trying
to educate them. Oh my gosh,

643
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:09.000
I love him. Yeah, so
I would love him as my yeah,

644
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:12.280
yeah, you know, he's great. But then sometimes I always got to

645
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:14.119
look at him like, Tyler,
we had a lobby full of people,

646
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.280
what are you doing? So yeah, so education education, I'm like trying

647
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:20.239
to be behind the customer, just
going come on, come on, come

648
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.039
on, repeat business. Yeah.
But uh and that's what I love about

649
00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:27.119
it so and that it's so infectious
because even some of my other people are

650
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.519
not like that, you know,
so um having that kind of knowledge and

651
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:32.679
stuff, and even some of the
customers that come in that he's taught those

652
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.800
things, it annoys the shit out
of me because they'll be coming in talking

653
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:38.760
to the person that we're talking to
you. They'll be over there and they'll

654
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:42.039
be like, oh, actually did
you recommend this? Because I was told

655
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:43.960
this the other day and I'm like, all right, all right, so

656
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.320
now you're a bud tending okay.
So um so even even the customers,

657
00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:50.360
you know, the way they communicate
to people, and um, it's such

658
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:52.039
a small community, Coleman. But
like I said, we I've had people

659
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:55.360
from almost two hours that drive to
us weekly. Um yeah, I feel

660
00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:58.760
great about that. Oh I love
it. And especially with so many kids,

661
00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:01.599
that's dedications. Yeah, exactly,
because you know nowadays there's probably one

662
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:05.239
within an hour now days. Well, and the biggest thing that I post

663
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.840
too is I asked business owners to
said, well, if you shop with

664
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:09.679
me, I want to know if
you're local because here's what I do.

665
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:13.199
And we we actually have a list
right up in the front of our store

666
00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:15.719
that said, if you have a
receipt from this store in the last twenty

667
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:17.559
four hours, I'm gonna three or
free gift. So usually a penny out

668
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:21.440
a pre roll for somebody. You
know, he's just like something to be

669
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:23.519
like, hey thanks, yeah,
promote a local business and uh. Some

670
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:27.320
of my favorite people that have known
throughout the year's shoot. I've even coached

671
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:29.920
their kids and stuff. I love
seeing them just come in and I'm like,

672
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:30.519
oh my god, I know you're
a store owner. First off,

673
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.760
you smoke weed and the yeah.
Yeah. So I'm like, hey,

674
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:37.679
it's coach, how you know?
And they just kind of put their head

675
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:40.840
down. So I'm an obnoxious guy
went around public sometimes. So it's pretty

676
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:44.639
funny too. Yeah. I love
to embarrass people if I can, so,

677
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.239
yeah, that's great. I don't
know why I shouldn't thrive a little

678
00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:52.719
smile here. So but those are
the people from the community I like to

679
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.400
involve with the like. For us, we honestly give more money away than

680
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:59.760
we take in. I have a
little line on my sheet saying how much

681
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.199
money can I literally just give away
this month? So we've done stuff between

682
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:06.880
our Turkey Driver Thanksgiving. We've sponsored
the Whole Boy Scout. They do a

683
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:09.760
lot with pets dogs and yeah,
yeah, some Midland County pitstops. We're

684
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:14.960
actually Midland County's only dispensary right now. We've had the Midland Mayor in.

685
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:16.719
I mean, when you're coming,
if you live right in Midland, we

686
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:20.559
are the closest thing to you even
if you drive to base City. So

687
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:22.840
and basically is just like down here
in Detroit, it's oversaturated. You go,

688
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:27.800
oh my gosh. Yeah, and
I see a new dispo pop up

689
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:30.079
and drop out every other day and
you got to look, and sometimes five

690
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:32.440
of them are owned by the same
person. They're just trying to make that

691
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:36.320
bottom dollars. So those are guys
I still don't work with. Oh oh,

692
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:37.880
you'd be surprised, man, Yeah
serious, Oh yeah, yeah,

693
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:44.360
oh yeah, we'll talk after the
record. But yeah, yeah, so

694
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.159
knowing those are the people that are
just being greedy and and faced about who

695
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:51.400
they are. Yeah. So um. But that's the one thing is we

696
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:54.880
were constantly working with people in the
community. Uh. We helped sponsor a

697
00:36:54.960 --> 00:37:00.559
bike for someone with they their son
was disabled. It was like five thousands.

698
00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:02.519
We made sure we posted up on
our store for that and you could

699
00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:06.360
donate and I think they got it
within like two weeks. It was so

700
00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:10.519
cool. So we've we've done the
dog adoptions. Boy Scout. We literally

701
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:14.000
paid for all of their fees for
that. We had to Dad reach out

702
00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:15.480
to us say hey, we're not
gonna be about boy Scout. So I

703
00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:20.159
was a boy Scout myself. So
yeah, boy, Scouts are nine five,

704
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.960
you know, But so it was
just really cool to be have those

705
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.920
kind of people that are okay with
reaching out. So we're about to sponsor

706
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:29.719
some football helmets this year, give
back so much. Yeah, it's good.

707
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:34.360
Well, your community, it's your
community focused, centered centered. I

708
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:36.440
feel like it's a good way to
say, because you're always doing stuff with

709
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:38.960
community and around and I mean you
definitely see a lot of dispensaries doing things

710
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:42.360
like you know, vendor days,
which again you do those two. Yeah

711
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.280
I'm saying you don't do the dispo
thing, but I do see a lot

712
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.800
more community involvement, not than like
every dispo because you know dispos are doing

713
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:50.639
it, but I do see your
above the average for sure. Yeah.

714
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:52.320
Well, and the way we want
to do it those we wanted to let

715
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.400
people know. I mean, we're
never promote the smoking in an event.

716
00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:59.000
So even at our four twenty event, we had a field next to us,

717
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:01.119
people brought their kids for the live
band, we had t shirt,

718
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:04.360
tie dye. You know, we
want to make sure that's it's an open

719
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.920
community. I mean, people should
know what it is, how how it

720
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.119
is. You know, if you're
smoking it your kids should know you're smoking

721
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:14.000
it. You know, they should
know what what's going on and how those

722
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.000
situations are. So that's what I
loved. When I mentioned those dads that

723
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:17.599
came in, I was like,
oh my gosh, you know, but

724
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:20.280
you hide it. You know.
He's actually no, my kids know.

725
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.960
I just don't want their coaches now. So I'm like, okay, so

726
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:27.000
it's cool knowing those people you don't
want, like teachers and coaches to like

727
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.400
Johnny's got weed problems every because of
the kids. You know, you don't

728
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:31.519
know who. It's cool and well, it's the same reason why you know,

729
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:35.039
you don't know, he don't know
you. Yeah, So it was

730
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:37.480
just cool. But knowing like those
people that like I, Like I said

731
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:38.760
when we were talking earlier, there's
people that I was saying, Hey,

732
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:42.400
I'd love for you to come and
promote I want to open a storing area.

733
00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:45.119
Actually i'm law enforcement, or I'm
actually a nurse the doctor. I'm

734
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.719
like, oh shit, okay,
so you partake. Cool, that's awesome.

735
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.760
So but they can't openly say those
kind of things or you know,

736
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:54.880
getting into that just like, was
it is it the NBA that just finally

737
00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:59.639
said yeah, yeah, so you
know what the NBA like smoke. Oh

738
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:01.800
my gosh, it's probably more than
idiot. They've at least tried it,

739
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:06.320
so yeah, but but it's cool, so it's not hal Yeah. So

740
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:08.159
seeing those kind of things that open
up. Um. But my worst thing

741
00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:10.679
is I have those people that are
truck drivers even that you're like, oh,

742
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:14.760
I can't use c THHC, but
I want to get you a CBD

743
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.159
thing, And I'm like, bro, you sit for like forty hours a

744
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:21.800
day and there's not even forty hours
in a day. Yeah, yeah,

745
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:23.920
and your back's just killed. Like
you see these guys kind of crumping in.

746
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:27.079
I just want to be able to
recommend the actual stuff because i mean,

747
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.480
let's see, CBD is a miracle, but they were not. They

748
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:32.039
were Yeah, I'm try wrecked out. So so trying to make sure we

749
00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:35.920
get those people on there and yeah, so I'm either when they come in,

750
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:37.679
my people know to talk about CBD
and then they let them know,

751
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:40.679
hey, this is what you're gonna
want to use when when you're able to,

752
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:44.360
when you're like ready, or when
this is yeah yeah, or if

753
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:45.159
you retire. You know, that's
a big thing too. A lot of

754
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.760
people retire and then it's like to
do what you want. Oh my gosh.

755
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:51.079
Yeah, that's the one thing I
opened my eyes up in this industry

756
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:53.679
is I didn't realize how awesome the
elder they were. Um, yeah,

757
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:58.639
what do you mean by that?
Because they're a lot. Yeah, they

758
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:00.719
are by far my favorite customers.
They are my least favorite on the road,

759
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:06.199
but they're by far my favorite customers
I have. I'm gonna give a

760
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:09.960
shout out Calendaum she comes in almost
every other day with the most infectious vibe

761
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:14.519
and nice and it's just great because
it passes on to other customers. And

762
00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:15.920
um, you always you're talking about
the leader, you know, I mean

763
00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:19.960
it always trickles down and he passes. It's the same thing. This lady

764
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.440
comes in. She just lightens up
your place. And a lot of them

765
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.559
come in with these lists, like
a whole written out list. And I

766
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:29.239
actually my bud tender, Kelly,
she she saves all the list that they

767
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:30.800
bring in, so she wants to
make a whole little collage of them and

768
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:34.440
you know, be able to do
that. But um, just the way

769
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:37.320
that they come in and they're open
about it and having to do and then

770
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:39.159
also you see this nervous kid that's
like twenty two, just trying to like

771
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.199
keep his head down, and you
got old Calenda just putting her arm around

772
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.440
him, going, you're smoking weed, Like yeah, it's just it's just

773
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:50.199
hilarious. And then even some of
them, your more business owners or stuff

774
00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:52.639
that I see grandparents and stuff that
you're just like, man, you smoke

775
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:54.800
and talking to them. It's just
so normal. It's just been hidden for

776
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:58.639
so long. I still think there's
that like everyone's a little nervous to just

777
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:00.800
be open. Oh yes, well
that's I got my grandma and some wild

778
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:02.800
gummies. You know. I was. I was excited about that. I

779
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:06.840
was like, oh, you're gonna
use you just don't tell dad, you

780
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:08.239
know, so, Dad, if
you're watching this, sorry, but um,

781
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:13.360
she's not Yeah she's not a CBD. But no, I mean that's

782
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:15.960
all. Oh she loves them.
I mean I should. I take her

783
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:17.639
trash out every Thursday, and usually
I'm always having to bring a tincture now

784
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:21.880
or something on that. That way, she went to hit my pen the

785
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:24.159
other day. I left it on
the table, and uh, I go

786
00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:27.320
take trash out and I just see
it in her hand and just cloud of

787
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.039
smoke. I'm like, Grandma,
that's the rosin pen. And she goes,

788
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:31.480
oh, what's the rosin pen.
So she goes, she goes,

789
00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:36.920
she goes. I thought you were
so that's Kate that smokes the breezes Graham.

790
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:38.960
But for me, so I'm sitting
there, I was like, I

791
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:40.559
call Kate and I'm like, hey, I'm gonna be a minute. I

792
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:43.719
just want to chill. Grandma seal
she doesn't. Oh my god, She's

793
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:45.719
sitting there stroking the dog, just
having a good time. I think she

794
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.800
started making sausages for him at one
point, and I was like, she's

795
00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:53.280
for the dog. Oh, my
Grandma's dogs should the fattest dogs ever.

796
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:57.719
I boiled. Oh yeah, I
love it because Kilo spoiled. But well

797
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:00.039
I've gone Australian Shepherd two and uh, she's got two of them. Man,

798
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:06.800
they are just round. I mean
they are so my dog just runs

799
00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:08.760
circles around him. She's super super
active. And then you got my Gramdma

800
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:12.239
just overfeeds them. But I remember, like, part of it's my problem

801
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:14.920
now because she's just stone half the
time. But um, she's retired,

802
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:16.199
you know, she's had all these
meet and back problems and then here I

803
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:19.360
am hitting her with all these things, and I love it because now she's

804
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.280
actually out gardening. I'll dry buy. And it's just such a shame that

805
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:27.199
people like nurses and ems people can't
use cannabis and police officers because they feel

806
00:42:27.199 --> 00:42:30.559
like that's that's such a big community. That would help normalize cannabis as a

807
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:34.039
whole way. To me, as
long as they're not on the job,

808
00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:36.920
Like I don't give a shit if
the cops at home, like smoke a

809
00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:37.519
joint at the end of your day, you know. I mean, I'll

810
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:39.679
be honest, like I won't.
You know, I have family members that

811
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:43.719
are policed, and it's like after
he after a long day, he's like

812
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:45.840
having glass of vodka, you know
what I mean, not like shot they

813
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.679
That's what I'm saying, Like,
you know, like that ship would help,

814
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:52.360
you know, Like this stuff is
like you know, I don't know.

815
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.480
That's one of my Do you guys
remember Disjointed on Netflix? Yeah?

816
00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:59.320
With with was a Kathy Bates.
Yeah it was. It was the stupidest

817
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:02.039
show. Yeah. They only lasted
two season, and honestly, I liked

818
00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:05.320
it at certain points of ago it
was a good show, and then it

819
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.760
would just come in with some dumb
scene. Yeah, damn. The one

820
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.440
thing I really enjoyed about was the
security guard. Disjointed had Kathy Bates,

821
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:14.239
I think it was about Netflix,
right, yep, yep. She was

822
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:16.280
like, Uh, it was when
Recreation was really just getting going to Michigan

823
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:19.239
and stuff, and I was like, oh, I know, I'd love

824
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:21.920
this. And it just had its
moments like you said. But the one

825
00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:23.360
thing I love so much about was
the security guard. You know, he

826
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:27.880
wasn't using at all, and you
can see he was having his issues throughout

827
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:30.400
the show. We'd go into like
these little flashbacks and like, you know,

828
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.239
have issues and then a sudden he
goes to to smoke and just clear,

829
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:37.679
you know, just mind's clears out, settles um And we get those

830
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:39.400
a lot too. And that's the
one thing I love about this is we're

831
00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:43.599
actually part of the hero's network.
Um So, a lot of people vets

832
00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:45.920
and stuff that run in a PTSD
drug issues, they actually get sent to

833
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.559
US. Um So. Even one
of my own cousins, Joe, he

834
00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:52.480
was shot in the chest. Uh
you know, so those kind of crazy

835
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:54.639
things, you know, people run
into those things, and that's what our

836
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:59.159
law enforcement people that are forced to
drink now, and that's how they take

837
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:01.000
care of themselves well. And again, if you want to drink by choice,

838
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:04.639
that's cool, but they shouldn't be
forced that's what I don't like,

839
00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.840
or forced to take pills taste.
Now, you got a viking addiction you,

840
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:12.679
I mean people, police officer people
too, right, they can still

841
00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.360
have addictions. People like act like
these they're just because they're cops, like

842
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:16.960
they're they're special. They're not like
they're just people, you know what I

843
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:20.000
mean. They can still face these
things. So it's like, I think

844
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.239
you should just be able to have
the option. Plus, like I said,

845
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.599
like that's a huge sector that has
always been kind of closed minded to

846
00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:29.679
cannabis if you can get and I'm
not saying like not all nurses smoke,

847
00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:31.119
because I know some nurses that'll smoke. I know some nurses that don't.

848
00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:35.960
But it's like if we get it
to just be okay, that's such a

849
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:37.480
big part of the big sector.
The biggest drive of that too is a

850
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:39.880
big pharma. I mean, you've
got the medical industry. I mean,

851
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:45.079
there's money to be made. It's
the same thing as it's why I try

852
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.000
not to work with brokers in my
industry because I know that broker's making a

853
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:51.880
bottom dollar on top of what I'm
purchasing as well. And that's the same

854
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:54.280
thing for some of these doctors and
places. I mean, they literally sign

855
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:58.440
up for some of these drugs to
sell these new drugs and things, and

856
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:00.440
then all of a sudden they're pushing
it. Why are they pushing it so

857
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:04.679
much? You know you get these
kickbacks, yeah, kickbacks yep. So

858
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:07.159
things like that, and it's it's
awful to see. So you shouldn't have

859
00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:10.400
to be forced to have that in
your industry. And that's that's where you're

860
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:13.840
going to get that, Like you
said, fifty fifty. But I love

861
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:15.639
it because lately I've been seeing some
people. The doctor told me to come

862
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:19.159
over and try Yes, it's your
doctors, he said. Not to say,

863
00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:22.280
Okay, I love that though.
The doctor's kick ass. Yeah yeah,

864
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:24.079
so I say, your doctor's awesome, So doctor green dumb? So

865
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:27.239
yeah. So there are some of
those out there that you know, are

866
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:29.760
trying to say, hey, I
don't think you should be using all of

867
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:31.519
these pain pills. Try cannabis,
you know, go over to this place.

868
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:35.559
I've heard good things from them,
so it's nice to be that story.

869
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:37.360
And there's a place, there's always
a place for those pills, like

870
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:40.400
they definitely exist. And that's why
it sucks that big farmers afraid of lose

871
00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:44.400
their money because it's like they're not
going to go away. It's not even

872
00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:46.440
if cannabis exists, Like people are
still going to break their legs. You

873
00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:50.880
can't smoke a joint that way.
Ketting will becoming nice. Oh, I

874
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.599
just I just recently got introduced into
the panic of not having your insulin pump

875
00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:59.280
stuff. My fiance's a little brother. He went to stay up with us

876
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.320
and we could and find an insulent
piece. So here I am on Facebook,

877
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:04.280
you know, for two days trying
to find a piece. I'll say,

878
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:06.800
I'll drive all the way over here, just because you have to wait

879
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.639
three days, four days to get
something ship that you need to survive.

880
00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:12.920
So it was crazy seeing that kind
of thing, you know, someone depended

881
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:15.760
on that. Those are the things
that really we should be driving and spending

882
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:19.199
more focus on instead of just you
know, how can we profit? Yeah,

883
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:22.199
profit, that's the thing about They're
not going to learn to lose out

884
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:24.559
on two billion dollars learning upset about
it. You know, it's like where

885
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:27.840
if you come into the canvas industry. I mean someone comes in they said

886
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:29.679
a brand new I said, great, here's a free eighth, here's a

887
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:31.599
joint, here's some gummies. Let
me know what you think? You know?

888
00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:36.039
So that's where you should get that
mindset in the industry here. Yeah,

889
00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:38.719
I messed up rote. I don't
know what happened. Sorry, I

890
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:44.440
know I grabbed it somewhere and where
I wasn't supposed to. Definitely taking blame

891
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:46.719
on that one. But that's cool
that you hook up someone when that's new

892
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:51.039
and like to like the world because
they don't know what they're getting yourselves,

893
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:52.960
so should be. I mean,
yeah, it's the same thing my most

894
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:55.199
of my butt tenners is when I'm
picking up something new if someone doesn't send

895
00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:59.280
me samples, usually losing out one
hundred dollars either because I'm gonna penny it

896
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:00.960
all out for my staff. Um, how are they supposed to know what

897
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.519
they're selling if they don't get an
option to try? I see that's awesome

898
00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:07.719
because I know I don't think every
dispot does that because sometimes you'll go in

899
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:09.320
like, what is that like,
dring? I don't know, Oh,

900
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:13.000
they don't. Some of these guys
I've I've gone and you know sent bud

901
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:14.480
too. I'm like, well,
how many staff you got? And they

902
00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:16.880
get don't worry about it? So
okay, all right, sure that's fine.

903
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:20.880
Still I usually end up visiting a
manager and getting some pre rolls off

904
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:22.679
to the side. But you know, I how you take care of your

905
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.199
people, it's the best way.
And that's where you're going to be is

906
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:29.440
how how do you sell those things? So doctors and nurses, you know,

907
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:32.360
unfortunately there's going off descriptions or what
they're given. For us, we

908
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:36.760
have a little bit different of an
opportunity where we can actually just consume every

909
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:38.639
freaking thing that comes on herself and
now I can give you an actual good

910
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:42.039
description. So, like I was
telling you before, we have a little

911
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.079
list of you know, what's good, what tastes like this? How how

912
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.199
do you have this profile? It's
it's nice to have my bud tenders just

913
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:51.800
constantly communicating, sometimes knowing because they'll
be like two am and someone's going,

914
00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:53.119
oh, dude, this bananog and
I'm like, dude, it's two in

915
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:59.280
the morning. Yeah, come on
man for the morning care. Ye soog

916
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.880
yourself is yeah. But again,
the one thing I like with that there's

917
00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:05.599
a passion that comes with it.
Absolutely. I mean, they know that

918
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:08.000
they're in a job that they can
you know, it's not like you're sitting

919
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:10.800
at coals or Walmart or somewhere.
You're just standing there scanning something. You're

920
00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:15.280
literally scanning something you love to talk
about, right, you care about right,

921
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:17.320
you think it's doing, it's making
you believe, at least most people

922
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:21.440
believe that are working in this industry
believe that it makes a difference in people's

923
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:23.920
lives in some way. Yep.
And that's a cool thing. So that's

924
00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:27.400
that's that's why even when I chop
with my car, you know, I

925
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:30.719
like to buy from a guy that
knows his cars. You know, he

926
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:32.119
loves it. It's not so kind
that goes Yep, this is what I

927
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:36.000
got for you here. You go
like, okay, right right now,

928
00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:37.440
that's true. Passion speaks a lot, man, that's true. It gives

929
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.880
you confidence in your purchase. Yeah, confident with it for sure. And

930
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.440
you guys, you guys do a
lot, uh all all together? How

931
00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:49.559
big is your team? Because you've
been given a shout out to them,

932
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:51.960
like, how how many people are
you even on there. So on my

933
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:54.440
grow there is eleven people back there. Actually we just added two more.

934
00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:58.639
So at thirteen. Packaging has been
like I was telling you guys, it's

935
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:01.239
been kind of crazy. The brands
out so um. But then on the

936
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:06.440
dispo side, including myself and Kate, there would be twelve of us.

937
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:07.519
Still not a big team out,
No, no it's not. And uh,

938
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:10.840
I mean we go nine to nine
on the weekdays and nine to ten

939
00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.920
and then um, I've been looking
on I just designed a curbside so I'm

940
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:17.840
gonna have a drive through curbside,
but we do run out curbside you can

941
00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:22.960
pull in. So um. We
just signed up for debit pen so I'm

942
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.320
finally jumping on the debit card where
people can do that. I've always been

943
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:30.400
a little bit tad was got Bay
in the cash eight team thing. Yes,

944
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:31.960
so people are still doing so yeah, that's so we're doing it.

945
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:36.960
You can do it through Duchy and
it's like a pre pay but not until

946
00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:42.199
you really cash out, so it's
like your money sitting there but it's not

947
00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:45.239
really through us and a day it's
going to take it a couple of seconds

948
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:46.960
later. Yep, So I I
you know, I spent freaking I think

949
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.639
we spent less three weeks going through
all of this trying to learn, make

950
00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:52.559
sure it's good and all that.
So um, but it's just been the

951
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:57.599
biggest drives people want to have.
That and then focusing on the ATM is

952
00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:00.599
My biggest issue too, is halftime. We've been so busy it runs how

953
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:07.000
you know stock Yeah, so that's
a good problem having me absolutely so.

954
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:12.280
We when we started last year,
I want to say, there was maybe

955
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.239
thirty people that come through a day. I mean we're in't Coleman, So

956
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:17.039
I mean, if anybody knows it's
a mush country, it's a very small

957
00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:20.800
town. We've been out there,
it take, it takes, it's back

958
00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:23.000
there. Yeah. Um so now
we're sitting at two hundred and fifty to

959
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:27.880
almost three hundred a day. So
that's yeah ten x man. Yes,

960
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:31.360
So the amount of people that we
have, it just speaks volume for how

961
00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:36.079
we come through, how we you
know, just overall communicate with our customers.

962
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:37.679
And then the marketing is the one
thing that kind of drives me a

963
00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:42.599
wild is we really don't market much. Um. I learned when some of

964
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.760
these other big industries, I thought
that eighty percent of you know, the

965
00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:47.920
whole business had to be marketing.
But it's it's just talking to the people.

966
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.079
It's being relatable. It's not just
having that best deal and the fifteen

967
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:57.039
for one hundred of some garbage.
I feel like that's also different because you're

968
00:50:57.079 --> 00:50:58.960
not You're like, well, you're
the only one in Midland, right Like

969
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:00.960
I feel like when you have like
thirty in like one city like Detroit,

970
00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:05.320
that's where you might have to face
out another dispo just five minutes away,

971
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:08.679
and another one fifteen minutes away.
And then we have Mount Pleasant where you

972
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:13.000
have two looms and the jars.
So um so for me, I've got

973
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:17.440
within a half or thirty minute drive
radius, we have eight competitors. Well,

974
00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:21.000
it's good that you're doing loyal you
have loyalty. Then yeah, it's

975
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:22.920
like, yeah, I'm just saying
I just assumed. That's what drives up

976
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:27.000
competition is just the amount of like
you know, some of these dispos are

977
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:29.239
literally across the street from other Dispoh
yeah, you know what I mean.

978
00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:30.960
Out here it's crazy. Yeah.
So, and that's the one thing I

979
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:34.719
enjoys. People drive by and I
always ask us, well, what made

980
00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:36.880
you want to drive by that place, you know, and they're usually like,

981
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:37.880
well they don't give a crap,
you know, Or it was a

982
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:42.239
forty five minute wait and there's only
three people back in the line. We

983
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:44.440
said two looms. Oh there,
I got you. Oh my gosh.

984
00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:51.079
Yeah. Yeah, so tired.
So no when it comes into it though,

985
00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:52.039
and that's what people see is they're
like, Okay, you know,

986
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.239
now I'm driving past the McDonald's on
a Starbucks to go actually check out a

987
00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:00.920
family restaurant. Exactly. That's exactly
right. Be more person and actually knowing

988
00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:04.280
that. I have two pictures of
my owners right up on the lobby.

989
00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:07.039
One of them has his arm around
someone's smoking to join at one of our

990
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.119
I think it was the rock for
Vets that we did last year. And

991
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:14.880
then the other one is our other
owner literally in his grow in the garage

992
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:17.119
back in the days, just waving
to you. He looks like I always

993
00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:22.679
for Home Improvement, the guy with
the fence down Wilson. Wilson. Yeah,

994
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:23.280
he literally reminds me of Wilson.
When you look at that, you

995
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:27.679
just see it kind of his eyes
and this just poofy little hair and it's

996
00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:30.039
just great. So so I was
looking at your website here, nice website.

997
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:34.280
Are you guys hiring it all?
Or how if you were hiring where

998
00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:36.639
how would they know get a hold
of you? Yeah? So, like

999
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:39.480
I said, we're expanding over to
Riverdale here soon. And then we just

1000
00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:45.039
posted the Minnesota we are on that
article and mistakenly my email is there,

1001
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.159
so we need to create a different
one because holy crap, I've gotten over

1002
00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:51.880
one hundred different inquiries about that and
we haven't even like dropped you know that

1003
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:54.840
we were hiring yet. So for
there, we've post mining Kate's email on

1004
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:58.679
the website. Like so, we're
pretty personal. I'm not gonna ammilfires you

1005
00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:00.360
see. Yeah, yep. So
it's you can brand in that Emerald fire

1006
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:02.760
or Kata Demerald fire. And we're, like I said, we're very open.

1007
00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:06.039
I'm not going to put you through
three different channels. You want to

1008
00:53:06.079 --> 00:53:07.760
talk to me, and we're gonna
talk. I appreciate them. And then

1009
00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:10.440
I always recommend people drop off a
hard copy too, Like I said,

1010
00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:14.280
I got one hundred emails, So
if you wanted me to put a face

1011
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:16.079
to a name and be more personal, that's the person I'm looking for impost.

1012
00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:17.840
My mom told me that years ago. And I was like, okay,

1013
00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:21.079
like go put that extrafford in.
You want to work there, you

1014
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:22.280
go show them yep. And then
and then the one thing that I always

1015
00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:24.880
want to recommend people in this industry
is I always had people going, well,

1016
00:53:24.880 --> 00:53:28.519
what can I put them a resume? What can you put on your

1017
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:30.639
resume and say weed's legal? Now? I said my resume, said,

1018
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:34.599
I was the backpack kid. That's
so, that's what I told these guys

1019
00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:37.519
that you don't these these people that
were trying to give me a job to

1020
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.079
manage their their story, I literally
told them, so this is what I

1021
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:42.880
did. I was backpack kid,
said, I've watched my buddies grow,

1022
00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:45.360
I've done this, I've done pizza, done pipeline. These are my skills.

1023
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:49.119
What do you want for me?
And this is an industry I mean,

1024
00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:52.559
Sue, we've only been open almost
two years now, recreational three years,

1025
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.239
so there's so much growth to it. I like I said, I've

1026
00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:58.920
got to read every day. And
you've learned so much because you've been doing

1027
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:00.519
this for what like whatever X amount
of years now since we've met you,

1028
00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:04.400
and we see I've seen you just
talk like you'd know so much more any

1029
00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:07.440
advice you'd give to someone just getting
into the cannis industry or the dispensary game,

1030
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.559
like don't be afraid to try.
That's that's literally just ask questions,

1031
00:54:10.599 --> 00:54:15.840
communicate. If I don't know something, I'm gonna call That's even what my

1032
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:17.719
butt unders. No, I mean
they know my phone's always on me.

1033
00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:20.760
If they have a question, they're
in the middle of a sale, they

1034
00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:22.079
call me. If I don't know
what I'm say, hold on, let

1035
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:24.679
me google it. All right,
So we're gonna make sure we get that

1036
00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:28.320
because we're in an industry, like
I said, we still don't know what

1037
00:54:28.360 --> 00:54:30.840
the hell's going on. There's so
much growth, so there's so many people

1038
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:34.599
that are collapsing, growing, falling. It's so true. Yeah, so

1039
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.960
you're gonna be always evolving market chances
are you going to be with somebody that

1040
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:40.320
sucks to learn as much as you
can with them because we're in an industry

1041
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:45.519
where the grass is always greener.
So yeah, nice. So it's it's

1042
00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:47.639
it's just nice to have that that
knowledge and that growth to it and just

1043
00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:51.159
don't be afraid because you staly give
a lot of cool things. Going up

1044
00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:54.239
to next year with the new dispensary
and getting into concentrates and I just in

1045
00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:58.159
general all the concentrates. Yeah,
I don't sleep much. If I do,

1046
00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:00.760
it's usually I'm gaming. So but
we're, like I said, we're

1047
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.480
looking to do it. I think
how he does. He says, if

1048
00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:06.239
I don't sleep much, but if
I do, I'm gaming. Yeah what

1049
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:12.199
Yeah, that's not sleeping right now. That's exactly here we are. But

1050
00:55:12.559 --> 00:55:14.800
it's just having fun with it too. Is I love what I do,

1051
00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:17.559
so even my people love what they
do. So we're always different getting different

1052
00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:21.239
ideas. Uh, I was about
to roll with you guys. We're gonna

1053
00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:23.599
talk about our dodgeball tournament that I
got coming up. So we're gonna be

1054
00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:30.480
walking around to I think inviting twenty
dispos and twenty brands. Yeah overright there

1055
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:31.679
and Mount Pleasant we get more.
How many man team? How big a

1056
00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:35.519
team? I want to do?
So I'm still trying to learn all the

1057
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:40.639
rules and stuff on that. I
just want to throw seen. I'll believe

1058
00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:45.679
me, I'm gonna be yeah.
Yeah, Um, but it's it's suppostedly

1059
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:49.280
getting the whole community and everything involved. But um, that's the one thing

1060
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:51.760
is everything we've always been to see
like a music fester, a big smoke

1061
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:54.880
thing. Like athletics have yet to
be really involved and Mount Pleasants. You

1062
00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:59.000
know, they have CMU there,
they have all these special Olympics that they

1063
00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.000
actually host there. Uh yeah,
Kate, Kate, she's done coaching special

1064
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:06.360
Olympics like forty different years now,
so um, she's she's always been heavily

1065
00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:08.199
involved. So that's one thing that
we want to make sure we get cannabis

1066
00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:12.440
is how do we get it open
to the athletics. You know, see

1067
00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:15.000
basketball? Yeah, man, what
is NBA? Like? This was to

1068
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:16.679
say people act like it's not there, but it is there because it's not

1069
00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:20.360
like you're smoking cigarettes where you smoke
need when every five ten minutes, So

1070
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:22.800
it does actually mess the owner.
You know, smoked a mus joints a

1071
00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:23.800
couple joints today, you know,
like, well, I was that good

1072
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:27.920
kids in high school. Honestly,
I was always the person that you could

1073
00:56:27.960 --> 00:56:30.440
call it two in the morning if
you were drunk er, Hi'd come get

1074
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:32.599
you. I think it was like
twenty when I first smoked, and it

1075
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:37.639
was after I had about five six
different pills a week from high greets.

1076
00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:38.960
So I was like kid, I
did like four or five sports. You

1077
00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:42.559
know, I think attack a little
too much with my head down. Um,

1078
00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:45.440
but I was taking all these pills
in my buddy Harris, he goes,

1079
00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:46.440
hey, smoke a joint and I
was like, all right, I

1080
00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:50.079
don't know man, he goes he's
by the way, he's the king of

1081
00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:55.440
peer pressure. So so so here
you are. Yeah, thank you Harris.

1082
00:56:55.480 --> 00:56:59.840
Yeah um and uh so I sit
there and I smoke it and I

1083
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:02.760
I just felt such a good relief
and it wasn't even like that paranoid high

1084
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:05.360
you know that I thought it was
gonna get. You know. It was

1085
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:07.159
with the right people when I first
tried it, And I think that's a

1086
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:12.119
lot of people's you're a lot to
you assume the worst. Oh yeah yeah,

1087
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:14.519
or especially it's like maybe you do
get the fear, so you think

1088
00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:16.360
it's always going to happen. It
was to schedule one drug that you're giving

1089
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:20.920
me here so so um, but
it's it was just really being with the

1090
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:23.559
right people. And that's what,
you know, having that effect and stuff.

1091
00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:27.199
So that's what we tell everybody even
that comes in. I've I've got

1092
00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:30.280
like you're asking about the elderly,
I've got brand new seventy year olds that

1093
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:32.719
come in that go, I want
to smoke some weed. I've never done

1094
00:57:32.719 --> 00:57:36.320
it. You've never done it,
not even back in the day. No,

1095
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:38.760
I said, I'm retired. I
can do what I want. It's

1096
00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:42.760
legal. Now, let's talk.
And so, you know, telling those

1097
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:45.079
people and those are the people like
in my business card for sure, I'm

1098
00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:45.760
like, please call me. I
said to you, let me know.

1099
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.440
I said, Margaret, you're freaking
out, let's talk. Okay. So

1100
00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:52.480
I put the ice cream in the
mic. Yeah yeah, so uh yeah,

1101
00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:57.239
so uh, just being open with
those people and knowing that they they're

1102
00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:00.159
trying something new and saying it's okay, that's yeah, yeah, one hundred

1103
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:02.920
percent. Now you're seeing more and
more people who you think never would do

1104
00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:05.719
it, and you're an, oh
crap, they're opening your mind to it.

1105
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:07.159
But that's just because it's not looked
at so crazy. Bill. People

1106
00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:10.760
are not as scared of it,
yep, so and stuff. Yeah.

1107
00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:13.960
So, and then looking back into
athletics thing, that's where we want to

1108
00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:15.639
make sure we get into that.
So moll pleasants always been a heavy thing.

1109
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:20.519
More courts, uh, they are
like an indoor court. There's six

1110
00:58:21.199 --> 00:58:23.800
basketball courts they have the gym,
they do racquetball. Um, they're very

1111
00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:27.840
involved with everything. It's always where
was it the Gusmacker? I don't know

1112
00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:30.599
if you ever remember those. It
was like a three on three tournament.

1113
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:32.960
So terrible at basketball, but I
was always that dude just sat there.

1114
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.320
I think I shot too much when
I have fun, I was like this

1115
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:40.119
guy over here's but they always do
so much cool. That doesn't that make

1116
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:43.679
you have? You lost me?
Oh, get out of here with good

1117
00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:45.599
it's fair. She's like a foot
and a half toner. I mean he's

1118
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:49.280
still barely Oh I was. I
was our key in high school. Man,

1119
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:52.039
I'm like five eight, and I'm
going against guys that I mean we're

1120
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:54.159
from you know, class class C. I think we were. So I'm

1121
00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:57.599
going to get guys are like six
five and I mean I was king at

1122
00:58:57.599 --> 00:59:01.480
Elbows, that's for sure. Seven
there. Yeah, but uh no,

1123
00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:05.400
So making sure that we're involved with
that stuff. And that's where we're exciting

1124
00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:07.679
a dodgeball and get some people presented. So if you're a dispoa or a

1125
00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:12.000
brand, you want involved, let
me know. So I'm reaching out to

1126
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:14.280
a couple of people. I'm gonna
try to keep it small. Um,

1127
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:15.159
sponsor wise, I don't need a
lot of money, you know, I

1128
00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:19.920
can do it myself. I'm looking
to do a nice after party somewhere.

1129
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:22.679
Probably there's a bar right there in
my pleasant we're paying. They have an

1130
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:27.840
outdoor little courtyard and stuff too,
so um yeah. But other than that,

1131
00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:30.280
I mean, shoot, there's even
a bowling alley that we're doing some

1132
00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:34.000
events and sponsoring over there. So
trying to be involved with more of the

1133
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:37.119
athletics is where I want to go
with right now. Cool. So about

1134
00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:39.800
the athletics though, that's cool.
I'll see that aspect with it. Yeah,

1135
00:59:39.880 --> 00:59:43.360
pushing that with it. I mean, do you I guess, like

1136
00:59:43.480 --> 00:59:45.559
towards we get towards the end here? Is there anything you think where you

1137
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:50.960
if you were to say cannibis was
going in any direction, like where,

1138
00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:53.199
what would you think it was going
like in Michigan or anywhere in general?

1139
00:59:53.239 --> 00:59:57.679
Do you think the edibles are like
any I'm trying to ask that question better,

1140
00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:01.159
Is there anything that think is the
future of cannabis that's coming? Because

1141
01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:04.840
you see the inside the market like
you know, so nows some people saw

1142
01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:07.840
like trop cherry was coming, right, and then people saw drinkables as a

1143
01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:09.360
thing. Do you think there's anything
new or anything that's going to be hit

1144
01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:14.280
in the industry. I really just
think that the open consumption is going to

1145
01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:15.199
be the one thing that we're going
to see more of. I mean,

1146
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:17.880
you got lounges that are for that
awfully ask question. But I'm glad.

1147
01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:21.880
Yeah, that's the one thing that
I see so often. It's like even

1148
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:25.039
alcohol, uh, you know,
we're you're you can buy it almost anywhere.

1149
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:27.679
You know, you can go to
your grocery store, you can go

1150
01:00:27.719 --> 01:00:30.519
to your gas station. Cannabis you
have to go straight to a dispo.

1151
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:34.719
So I'm expecting to see more stores
that are open to that kind of thing,

1152
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:36.840
you know, where you can get
your groceries, you can get those

1153
01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:39.000
things. Was it Weeds? The
last episode of Weeds? I don't know

1154
01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:44.440
if you guys ever seen that.
Oh yeah, goes up into the gas

1155
01:00:44.440 --> 01:00:46.119
station, goes let me get a
packet those you know. So that's that's

1156
01:00:46.159 --> 01:00:50.760
where I'm definitely seeing. And you're
already seeing some dispos attached to gas stations

1157
01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:52.760
and things like that. I mean
you can literally walk in McDonald's, go

1158
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:55.639
over and get your gas and then
go get your other gas, you know,

1159
01:00:55.719 --> 01:01:00.199
soya. So it's it's cool to
see that kind of grow, but

1160
01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:04.239
it's also kind of scary because who
are the people that are going to control

1161
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:06.559
that. Who are the people that
are going to try to make that growth?

1162
01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:07.639
And then are they going to do
it right or they're going to ruin

1163
01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:12.159
it for everybody else? So um, I think that's the biggest thing is,

1164
01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:15.400
you know, people like myself and
people like my ownership, these are

1165
01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:17.920
the people that need to make sure
they're doing the drive and doing those things

1166
01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:22.559
and not letting other people step on
our toes and making sure that hey,

1167
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:24.519
this is how it should be done. I actually consume, I actually listen

1168
01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:29.119
to the person that is consuming.
You know, you're just some dude that

1169
01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:32.079
sitting behind a curtain that's just telling
people to push a button. So right,

1170
01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:35.840
So being being more in control of
the industry is what I'd like to

1171
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:38.719
see. And I think that's where
having open consumption is gonna gonna push because

1172
01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:43.320
now not everybody is limited to just
this dispoint. I mean, not everybody

1173
01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:46.840
has fifty six thousand dollars to open
up a license, and that's that's shoot.

1174
01:01:46.880 --> 01:01:51.119
I think it's going up this year. So and then even general yep.

1175
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:53.079
And then even with purchasing in terms, I mean, you got to

1176
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:57.239
have that money or either discuss terms. Hey, i'll pay you in two

1177
01:01:57.280 --> 01:02:00.239
weeks, you know, let me
get this money first on my opening day.

1178
01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:04.239
So seeing other people being able to
make those sales would be nice,

1179
01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:07.199
you know, not just us dispensaries. Uh, you know, I'm not

1180
01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:08.880
worried about competition on that. You
know, Hey, let's see if your

1181
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:12.599
gas station down the road can sell
it better than me. But either way,

1182
01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:14.920
I'd like to see it kind of
open up in that market. That's

1183
01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:17.079
interesting may early because especially running a
dispenser, you're like, I do want

1184
01:02:17.079 --> 01:02:20.000
to see it go that way?
You know. It's interesting, Yeah,

1185
01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:22.639
because you think you're like, no, no, competition is healthy. No.

1186
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:24.599
Well, plus the stuff you get
the gas stations that's gonna end up

1187
01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:29.159
being that cheap garbage that I won't
say the companies, but some of that

1188
01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:32.920
that really crappy Comspen up your knowledge
and open up that market, and it's

1189
01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:37.880
gonna make people like us, you
know, hey, stick out right because

1190
01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:40.559
we really care. We love we
that's just boring, basic ass bulls.

1191
01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:44.480
It's the same thing as your it's
your mom and pop restaurant that you go

1192
01:02:44.519 --> 01:02:47.519
to in town. You skip the
other kind of percent. I uh,

1193
01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:51.639
we got one more question for you. Yeah, it's a funny question here

1194
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:57.840
ask every guest that. So I
know you love your dabs. So imagine

1195
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:04.400
you're getting your proxy, getting your
proxy ready, heating it up, and

1196
01:03:04.440 --> 01:03:07.679
all of a sudden, the ten
pops up, pops out, and grantee

1197
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:14.039
one wish for the cannabis industry.
What would you do so one thing you

1198
01:03:14.079 --> 01:03:16.239
could just change with one wish?
One thing? Oh man, instant?

1199
01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:22.280
Oh man, that's almost a hard
one. Yeah, if I could change

1200
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:24.880
it, I would probably. I
would, honestly say, the testing testing

1201
01:03:24.920 --> 01:03:31.400
industry, oh I wish that it
was controlled by a different branch of people.

1202
01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:36.800
Um, that's been the hardest thing
for everybody, I guess, yeah,

1203
01:03:36.840 --> 01:03:39.239
because I think I standard like one
company test everybody. If you can

1204
01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:45.119
give me a list of who actually
consumes in the CIRA and it's over five

1205
01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:47.400
people, I'll give you a million
dollars, right, right, I hear

1206
01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:51.239
you. Right. If people making
the rules don't even try it and they

1207
01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:53.039
don't know what's going on with the
actual industry, like I said, if

1208
01:03:53.039 --> 01:03:57.360
they step in they're they're there for
five minutes, or they're just viewing it

1209
01:03:57.360 --> 01:04:00.639
over a computer and saying, okay, it's someone else just making a bottom

1210
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:02.760
dollar. Yeah. Oh so also
in regulation you're talking about too, Yeah,

1211
01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:05.159
yeah, I just I wish that
there was a better control and a

1212
01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:10.400
better visual over that aspect. And
I feel like if people like ourselves that,

1213
01:04:10.920 --> 01:04:13.199
you know, we're able to get
our foot in that door, other

1214
01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:16.039
than some just government douchebag that was
right, right, just speak government talk,

1215
01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:19.239
right, someone who actually cares about
cannabis. Right. So that's one

1216
01:04:19.239 --> 01:04:21.880
thing I was asking anybody I ever
meet from the the agency, I'm like,

1217
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:25.639
hey, do you actually consume?
No, I don't. I don't

1218
01:04:25.679 --> 01:04:28.639
do that garbage. I've heard that
a few times. So yeah, garbage.

1219
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:30.199
Yeah, yep, so we hear
that stuff. But I drink liquor

1220
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:34.599
every day. Yeah, but so
um yeah, so it's it's been hay,

1221
01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:38.360
it's breeze vape. Yeah. So
that that would be the one thing

1222
01:04:38.639 --> 01:04:41.480
I think I would like to change. So not too much of a funny

1223
01:04:41.559 --> 01:04:43.360
answer, to be honest, No, no, No, we just meant

1224
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:45.239
it's like a funny random question and
we try to hit we know we've been

1225
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:48.840
asking questions about the market and animals, fire and the future of cannabis.

1226
01:04:48.840 --> 01:04:50.960
So this is kind of one way
to be like, what do you feel?

1227
01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:54.880
What is something that you see?
Sometimes it's something kind of nice to

1228
01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:58.559
hear what personally because we've heard answers
all across the board. Yeah, from

1229
01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:02.639
legalization to dec him to bringing back
old strains to you know, you know,

1230
01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:05.960
anything regulations, so we hear them
all sorts. Like honestly, it's

1231
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:10.000
it's just kind of a fun answer
to see what people think. Oh yeah,

1232
01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:12.719
you know that's it because it has
nothing. It's not really an Emerald

1233
01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:15.239
What does Emerald Fire think? I'm
asking Brandon's Brandon thing. You know,

1234
01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:18.239
it's up with the campas industry,
you know, so that's why. Yeah,

1235
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:21.840
I know, appreciate it. So
yeah, yeah, this is a

1236
01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:27.000
fun episode man. Yeah, yeah, came on finally had this conversation,

1237
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:29.679
learned a lot about Emerald. Guy's
got a lot of things popping off.

1238
01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:31.199
I'm excited to see cer. Anyone
you want to shout out before we get

1239
01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:35.920
out, you know, you twelve
people? I mean really I like shout

1240
01:05:35.960 --> 01:05:40.000
out too, So Tristle Haley,
Um, I really appreciate both of them

1241
01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:42.840
because they are the people. Um, they came with me from my last

1242
01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:45.519
place. UM, and that was
more of a loyalty base. It wasn't

1243
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:47.199
when they stuck with you. Yeah. I mean we're talking pay cuts to

1244
01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:50.400
start, I mean coming in they
want to. I literally told them,

1245
01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:54.239
I say, if you're gonna come
respect, you're starting something brand new.

1246
01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:57.400
Yeah. And so there have been
somebody that like, those are the two

1247
01:05:57.400 --> 01:06:00.639
people as to take that vacation.
We're gone ten days. I was so

1248
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:02.239
nervous the whole time, and I
came back the eleventh day and I was

1249
01:06:02.280 --> 01:06:04.559
like, oh my gosh, the
hell is that nervous spelled? Um?

1250
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:09.719
So those are two people that the
most hardy apparently even their newborn for the

1251
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:12.559
first time, Like honest just calls
mom and dad all the time. That's

1252
01:06:12.599 --> 01:06:15.960
so funny. Um. But just
being able to trust those people, and

1253
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:18.440
that's that's again. Those are two
people that took that step. They didn't

1254
01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:24.400
come from cannabis before. There's shoot, I think Hayley did hair and Tristan

1255
01:06:24.519 --> 01:06:27.400
was working different odd jobs and stuff. So there are people that took that

1256
01:06:27.440 --> 01:06:30.440
step. They learned they were involved
with cannabis. Uh. They're two of

1257
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:32.280
my shift leads now and they're about
to be two of our actual store managers.

1258
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:35.360
So you go passion man speaks.
Yeah, and that's the biggest thing,

1259
01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:38.199
is like, that's why I want
people know is take that step,

1260
01:06:38.320 --> 01:06:41.480
take that extra initiative. Ye take
that, and it should be passionate about

1261
01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:44.639
it because the chances are there,
there's growth, there's so many different states

1262
01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:45.800
opening up. Don't feel like you're
stuck in the city, you're in the

1263
01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:49.480
town, you're in take that chance. So oh yeah, I like it.

1264
01:06:49.840 --> 01:06:51.559
Well, shout out to the whole
team over there. You guys do

1265
01:06:51.559 --> 01:06:55.639
a quality work. Man. Appreciate
you. Um yeah, anything you like

1266
01:06:55.679 --> 01:06:58.679
to mention, I appreciate you.
Yeah, shout out. Got to where

1267
01:06:58.719 --> 01:07:00.840
my Armorial fire had I've been.
I've been literally had this since a big

1268
01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:03.119
fan last year. So oh yeah, no, that's what. Oh I

1269
01:07:03.119 --> 01:07:05.679
guess I was gonna shout ut to
movie Tyler Dutcher too, because honestly,

1270
01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:09.519
I gave him a half a year
ago. Every photo I see from vid

1271
01:07:09.559 --> 01:07:13.719
Farms, their every photo I see
he's always wearing our hat brand. Yeah

1272
01:07:14.199 --> 01:07:16.239
he trusts us love Yeah, Yeah, sorry, I appreciate it. But

1273
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:19.239
that's awesome. Well, thank you, Thank you for coming on. This

1274
01:07:19.280 --> 01:07:21.800
was a fun sash, looking forward
to coming out. We gotta come back

1275
01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:25.480
out to your facility. See you
said you're about to expand, So like

1276
01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:28.400
the mom bro, we're we're we're
excited for that. So a lot more

1277
01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:30.119
genetics coming through, That's what I'm
excited for. I'm excited to see some

1278
01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:33.760
more of these genetics. And then, as always Groopy, we're here to

1279
01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:38.159
advocate and inspire. So next time, y'all pay