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Yo, what's going on? Everybody? It's Candid Dave right over at MJ

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Biscow on twenty twenty three, and
we'll guess who we're with. We're with

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Exotic Genetics. Mike. Thank you, man, I appreciate this. You're

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very welcome. Happy to be with
you. A huge fan, love your

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product. But I want to get
to get to know you a little bit,

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and what got you into cannabis?
So like, what can give me

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a little back history? What got
you into the cannabis? For sure?

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So I was going to school for
some computer degree that I had no business

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going to school for. I was
finding ways to get good grades on my

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test, but not knowing anything about
the actual content that I was I was

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taking the test for. So at
the time I would always you know,

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I've been smoking weed for many years. And at the time I found out

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I could get a medical card for
you know, for cannabis, and I

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was like, wow, I can
I can get a card and start growing

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my own flour. So I started
growing my own flour, and after a

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while I started working at a hydro
shop just to kind of fund some of

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the things I was doing. Continue
to go to school, change my degree,

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to plant biology. So started going
on this plant biology path. And

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then I started dabbling while I was
at the hydro store of making some seeds

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experimentally in my garage. And after
a while, people will come in the

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hydro store trying to find Hey,
I got bugs, Hey I have pottery

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mildew. I need some juice for
that. How do I get rid of

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it? It didn't matter what they
bought, they would always be back in

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the next week looking for some more
shit to try to fix it. So

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after a while, I just started
saying, you know what, go home,

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burn it all down, sterilize everything, don't let anybody in your garden

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or take in the clone, and
just pop these seeds. You won't have

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any of those problems. So I
started giving people seeds like that, and

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to my surprise, they started just
coming back every month, every two months

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with success stories. Mike, that
was great, it was amazing, Can

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I have more seeds. Some of
these guys would come in and like we

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would hug it out and high five, and it like greatly changed their life,

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because you know, these guys are
growing medicine for themselves, and growing

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medicine with problems isn't exactly the best
medicine. So when it changed that for

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them, it was huge. So
people would come in teared up, so

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I would just I gave seeds out
for several years just in the hydro store,

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and then one day it's so nice
is helping everybody out? I was

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trying to at the time man.
And one day this this gentleman met the

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gentleman at the hydro store who was
the owner, and his name was Rick

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Cusick. God rest his soul and
said he worked for High Times. Do

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you want to come to this competition? So I went to the competition.

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I entered one of those first strains
I ever made, and we took second

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place at the High Time Cup for
Besativa with super natural. What was that

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against? It was supernatural super natural
and it was We took second place best

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at Tiva, And at that point
I had that little taste of oh my

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god, this is great little recognition
for something I worked really hard at.

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So the next year we entered cups
for the rest of the year in many

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different places, and the next year
I took third place, and then another

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year went by and finally I won
my first Cup in Denver, And at

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that point that's when it kind of
just really took off. I started to

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have a real passion for doing this
and it just I mean, there was

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a snowball effect from that point on. That's a wonderful story, man.

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I love the backstory on that,
and I love that you're helping out people

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with when you're there dealing with pests
and bogs. I mean that's a common

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problem for many home growers. And
when you feel confident and you get some

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seeds that might protect against that and
there it's quality genetics, as we've now

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seen through the through the last years. With all your placings, you make

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it. You make it easy for
the growers, and that's why I love

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it. I use your bangering and
placed out at the organic cup third place

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or soil with bangering, and that's
the fire. It's got lemonone taste and

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it was off of one of your
drops, like a year and a half

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two years ago. Do you have
like a personal favorite strain that you've bred

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or created, because I mean you
have so many different genetics, like you

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have different lineups, like maybe not
your favorite, maybe got like one too,

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But I'm curious there's so many of
them. I tell everybody the same

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thing when they ask what my favorite
is, it's like asking what your favorite

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kid is. So it's hard to
actually put a favorite. And I'm constantly

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going through new I'm trying to evolve
and make things better and better, at

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least for my genetics, and I
always find things better and better, because

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let's be real, if we're not
finding things that are better and better,

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are we really doing any service to
you know, actually breeding the plant.

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And look, we can throw a
with B and come out with C.

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And that's the idea, that's the
fun, that's the art of it.

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But the number one thing that no
matter what you're doing, you should be

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making. Whatever you're finding in the
end should be better than the first two

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things you start with. And if
it's not, then maybe you go back

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to the drawing board on that specific
strain. But with that being said,

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there are so many that I've created, I mean, over the years.

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Cooks and Cream was one of my
first favorites early on, and went to

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Grease Monkey was another favorite for many
years. We went to Red Pop for

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so many years too. From the
original Strawberries and Cream. I mean,

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we've just had so many different variations
and directions to you know, we have

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the next level here the unreleased lineup, and on top of in January,

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we got the big Grape Jubilee that's
coming out that I'm very excited about.

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And it's gonna be a new twist
on grape that most people haven't seen,

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smelt or smoked. So is it
grapey like grape grape? It's sour grapes,

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sour grapes, sour grapes that a
lot of strains I've done in the

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past. Is it tinges your nose, not on the smoke, but when

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you smell it, it's powerful,
It's intense. It makes you like kind

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of move your face back because it's
so pungent and that So we got on

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this Grape Jubilee. It's finally a
not just a grape smell or oh it's

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a little fruity. This thing powers
You're right in the face, You're like,

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whoa, you got to take your
head back from the grape. So

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excited to get that one out there. You know what that means, I'm

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probably have to be buying some new
genetics come January. I just I love

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your drops. I appreciate what you
do for the industry and the whole community

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as a whole, Mike, and
thank you for doing this interview shot.

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It's at Groovy, but back there
doing all the filming for this and yeah,

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that was it man. I just
want to thank you. I appreciate

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you having me and uh yeah,
I love all you guys out there.

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Peace and as always Groovy, We're
here to advocate, educate and inspire the

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next time y'all. Peace,