Speaker 1: Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Everybody?
Speaker 3: Welcome to a new episode of My Canic Gass. I'm
Speaker 3: Canaday and I'm Groovy. Today's episode we have special guys.
Speaker 3: Matt from Michigan presents you or Matt Michigan presents his events.
Speaker 2: Uh Michigan with it. Uh.
Speaker 3: But he had the metric mash, the fire and Eyes
Speaker 3: and now he's got the Growers gallops the second time
Speaker 3: in the Growers Guys, I think that was your first
Speaker 3: event last year. Yeah, so we got him back here.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talking about the event upcoming. Uh, who's going
Speaker 3: to be there? What what to look for? Make sure
Speaker 3: you check out every room because me and Groovy did
Speaker 3: not true that's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well no, that's the thing I'll talk with the
Speaker 4: last bent because that it was honestly the first time
Speaker 4: I've been to Crowfoot for something that wasn't music, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Sure, and it's gonna be worn too, so it's gonna
Speaker 3: be not cold, so you're not gonna have ye well hopefully.
Speaker 4: Now and now it's jinked now it's if it's bad.
Speaker 5: I'm like every event we've done so far, we've been
Speaker 5: super fortunate with weather, like even the the frost and fire.
Speaker 5: It was like January thirty first, but we had like
Speaker 5: a week of like single digits and negative temperatures leading
Speaker 5: up to it, and then that day came and it
Speaker 5: was like sunny in like.
Speaker 2: Thirty eight degrees.
Speaker 3: We got super lucky it did, and it was like
Speaker 3: no snow, no ice storm because that that would definitely
Speaker 3: like hurt your vine because you have people coming all
Speaker 3: or from all over the Stateum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: And I was kind of worried about costs up. I'm like,
Speaker 5: what what if there's a massive snowstorm shuts everybody out?
Speaker 5: Like how how do we plan contingencies around it?
Speaker 4: So that does not so well? That too? Yeah, outdoor
Speaker 4: and and if you ever do outdoor, and thankfully you're
Speaker 4: not doing outdoors, outdoor is such another thing. Like I
Speaker 4: just did a good yesterday in the outdoor. It's how
Speaker 4: hard to weather you can't, right, So these storms come
Speaker 4: in backup plans. But I mean, you know, I mean
Speaker 4: just to reflect, I mean, compared to obviously the hot
Speaker 4: box social your first like will we the metric match
Speaker 4: that I went to, how is your experience at the
Speaker 4: crow foot throwing?
Speaker 5: It was amazing, Like yeah, just the club owner itself
Speaker 5: and like the people that worked the club, like we're
Speaker 5: like way more involved in, way more set up for
Speaker 5: us to walk into.
Speaker 2: So it gave us a lot off our plate.
Speaker 5: Like when we got there, like honestly, like there's a
Speaker 5: two hour period that we were like, Okay, I guess
Speaker 5: we're set up, you know, like we give us ourselves
Speaker 5: like a good amount of time to make sure that
Speaker 5: everything is uh playing properly, and like I was tables
Speaker 5: and set up and sponsors ready to come in and
Speaker 5: everything was pretty much done for us. So it was
Speaker 5: super convenient. And then like we weren't sure like how
Speaker 5: the new venue would play, and there's never been a
Speaker 5: cannabis event at that venue, right, like, so we were
Speaker 5: very nervous and however, think it was going to turn out.
Speaker 2: And then the event happened. I think we had closest
Speaker 2: six hundred people and it.
Speaker 4: Was just it was it was hard, it was slamming,
Speaker 4: it was back, and it was so back that we
Speaker 4: didn't know a whole room was going on.
Speaker 3: I don't And that gets props to you man, and
Speaker 3: how you threw the event, dude, Like congratulations, that was
Speaker 3: a well done event.
Speaker 4: The donut is the regular one. That's just the banger,
Speaker 4: just the bang ering, just the two t I gotta
Speaker 4: build up the buddy. I mean, been making this joke
Speaker 4: lately because like especially I haven't call myself coach Groovy
Speaker 4: because like even like because they will get in his
Speaker 4: head too much. I mean, I do the same thing,
Speaker 4: so we'll do it to each other. Really, but like
Speaker 4: realistically about the weed last year, he was like, man,
Speaker 4: I don't even know if it's good. I don't want
Speaker 4: to enter it. Bro was like take it from the podcast,
Speaker 4: just do it. And then he won. He's like, oh
Speaker 4: ship now and now it's like back to bag. It's
Speaker 4: created a monitor.
Speaker 5: But that's a hell of accomplishment. It's not easy to
Speaker 5: win events, and like it's something that people strive for.
Speaker 5: So congratulations.
Speaker 4: Mash batch Cup has been around and it's like I
Speaker 4: feel like what I love about hash bash Cup is
Speaker 4: it There's two things that I think interesting about it.
Speaker 4: One that everyone can enter. You got metric, you got
Speaker 4: care gamers, You've got people growing twelve plants just doing
Speaker 4: it for the hell of it, right, so you got
Speaker 4: a bunch of entries. Then also, it doesn't come down
Speaker 4: to the numbers, which can be like a little negative
Speaker 4: in some lights. But what it's kind of neat about it.
Speaker 4: It's like which one stuck out to you? Which two
Speaker 4: did you like the most? It's just old school, which
Speaker 4: one got me high? Which one of the flavors.
Speaker 2: Out the dope is dope?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean so thinking about it, like you said,
Speaker 5: the numbers, the numbers. Unfortunately, that's a game that's manipulated
Speaker 5: by privately owned businesses that want to survive. It's not
Speaker 5: a state run thing, so it's not consistent across the board.
Speaker 5: So it's like hard to judge if we do something
Speaker 5: based off numbers, it's hard to judge that it's going
Speaker 5: to be exactly what we're looking for, right And like
Speaker 5: competitions are tough, like and that's why I've kind of
Speaker 5: stayed away from them for right now. Like, uh, the
Speaker 5: people that put them on, like there's a lot that
Speaker 5: go into it, like tons of credit to them, but
Speaker 5: like the formats are always left open for people, the
Speaker 5: critics to come out and point out, like you know,
Speaker 5: you favored him, you favored And I'm not saying that's
Speaker 5: happening within the industry or within any of the competitions
Speaker 5: because the I know the people that put most of
Speaker 5: them on and they're not easy to do, and you're
Speaker 5: always trying to figure out ways to.
Speaker 2: Make it as fair as possible and like that.
Speaker 5: Again, that's kind of why I've stayed away from him
Speaker 5: a little bit, is because I don't want that like, oh,
Speaker 5: well you did this, so he obviously you wanted your
Speaker 5: boys to win or like something the London. It's like
Speaker 5: something that me and AI have to figure out, like
Speaker 5: how can we have the most transparent judging of any
Speaker 5: event that has happened in the past.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel because like back in even the high
Speaker 3: times days, those are such such pay to play, Like
Speaker 3: when that Lylee you'd be hearing like, oh, oh who
Speaker 3: was it? I think it was a I don't like
Speaker 3: I was that vape company. Church Church wasn't even in
Speaker 3: market yet and they like won awards or something like yeah, event,
Speaker 3: so like it does happen. Uh there, but again shouts
Speaker 3: the hashbatched cup. I did test this at Chiro, so
Speaker 3: it came back with three percent turps.
Speaker 2: Its very nice, that's pretty stoked. That's great.
Speaker 3: That's in like ninety nineteen point six seven percent came
Speaker 3: TC very good.
Speaker 4: No, no, that was awesome. And then again all that
Speaker 4: is actually pay to play. All those things are big.
Speaker 4: But I even mean like sometimes with numbers, like sometimes
Speaker 4: I'll like it'll look so good and smell so good
Speaker 4: that those numbers while weigh the actual taste sometimes when
Speaker 4: you do a straightia. That's why we try to do
Speaker 4: like a weighted scale, like with our with our with
Speaker 4: the dabs and then with the flower we've kind of
Speaker 4: have just a straight ten across. But it's it's one
Speaker 4: of those things where it's like, you know, numbers can
Speaker 4: skew things, you know where it's like again and they're
Speaker 4: all they're all unique, they're all different. Like you know,
Speaker 4: a High Times cup is you know, it's got prestigious
Speaker 4: to a degree because it's been around forever and you know,
Speaker 4: say what you want to say, it's still gets you
Speaker 4: a out of marketing, right, It's like any of these cups.
Speaker 4: And that's like why even like Dad Dave's learning, It's
Speaker 4: like even every cup has its own like little thing.
Speaker 4: It's why it's good. Market can't beat that type of publicity.
Speaker 4: Yeahs like, hey, a bunch of people thought my stuff
Speaker 4: was good.
Speaker 3: People like, oh, take it, I'm might try it. I'm
Speaker 3: living off the high for right now.
Speaker 5: And honestly, where this industry is right now, marketing is huge.
Speaker 5: Like the difference whether you market your brand or you
Speaker 5: don't market your brand is the difference in survival right now.
Speaker 5: Right like there you're able to demand more for your
Speaker 5: products and you create more demand for your products. So
Speaker 5: having a good marketing department, having good investment into that
Speaker 5: that side of the business like and everything flows together,
Speaker 5: like everything works as a wheel.
Speaker 3: My marketing will help put sales up. You know, good
Speaker 3: saying good product will help marketing, which will help sales.
Speaker 3: Like it's it's like a whole circle.
Speaker 2: And you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of brands that you see in the
Speaker 3: industry that don't put any dollars, not even a little
Speaker 3: bit of dollars towards it. And I understand it is
Speaker 3: very tough right now. It's hard in the industry. Prices
Speaker 3: per pounder like pretty low and stuff, but.
Speaker 5: That's let's be clear, it's like it's not even just
Speaker 5: prices per pound. Everybody is having a hard time, from
Speaker 5: the nutrient company to the lightning company to the grow
Speaker 5: to like everybody seems to be having the same type
Speaker 5: of spectrum of issues.
Speaker 3: You know, that makes sense. That makes sense, and much
Speaker 3: of the terrors aren't helping either too.
Speaker 5: In that that is, we haven't even necessarily like kicked
Speaker 5: that in in like seeing what that might look like
Speaker 5: with us.
Speaker 2: But it's something we have to be prepared for.
Speaker 5: So, like the interstage trends are always like like what
Speaker 5: is the next big trend?
Speaker 2: Right? Right, So in my.
Speaker 5: My futuristic view, in my projection, like I see the
Speaker 5: trend being to be able to grow the highest quality flower,
Speaker 5: and like it's weird because like this should make sense,
Speaker 5: highest quality flower for the lowest dollar, right, So it's
Speaker 5: not necessarily just bottoming out your your your cost per pound,
Speaker 5: like just race to the bottom, because there's a threshold
Speaker 5: there that uh quality, Like you have to be able
Speaker 5: you have to spend x amount of dollars to at
Speaker 5: least get to the quality of that is the level to.
Speaker 4: Be able to have good marketing behind it or you
Speaker 4: know what I right, you got to have a good
Speaker 4: product to sell because you need that to capital to
Speaker 4: market to with.
Speaker 5: So it's like, how can we drop the bottom line
Speaker 5: and not get down to like the guys that are
Speaker 5: producing like a thousand lights a week, right, like like
Speaker 5: thousands of pounds a month, like, sure they are. They
Speaker 5: are focused on absolute dollars, bottom dou dollar and they
Speaker 5: don't care where the quality is. They need it's a
Speaker 5: hit X Y Z in order to get their extractions
Speaker 5: or their biomass or whatever they might need.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So that's where I'm like, Okay, so like the guys
Speaker 5: that are surviving right now, right, the guys that are
Speaker 5: doing really well, maintain that quality.
Speaker 2: But figuring out how to reduce that bottom line is
Speaker 2: as far as possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got to be tough, it's it's it's gonna
Speaker 3: be interesting on the next this whole year place out
Speaker 3: moving forward with uh uh the industry, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3: But like events like years though, help these brands with
Speaker 3: marketing advertisement. And that's why I'm thinking, I think a
Speaker 3: lot of brands should look at into events because events
Speaker 3: are great for networking in for marketing, and not only
Speaker 3: do you get your brand out there, but then you're
Speaker 3: able to meet up people. But you got to vent
Speaker 3: the event though, because some events don't have as good
Speaker 3: like reach sure many people there? What do you whatever?
Speaker 3: You want to call it like yours. Like you said,
Speaker 3: you pretty much packed that place. I was like, I
Speaker 3: think it was solely you couldn't have anyone else in there.
Speaker 3: I like we could have, but like the top floor
Speaker 3: wasn't utilized at all. So this time, like when we
Speaker 3: talked about this earlier, like making sure everybody knows, hey.
Speaker 2: There's what's going on than just the ballroom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if you know, there's an upstairs, the big
Speaker 3: room on the side, which is the pike, No, the pikes.
Speaker 5: So there's there's the So you walking into the left
Speaker 5: is the ballroom and to the right is the front room.
Speaker 5: In the front room this time, we're gonna have Woljoe X.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have that front room. They're gonna have a
Speaker 5: dad bar, and they're gonna have doughnut bar. They're gonna
Speaker 5: have quite a bit set up in there. The ballroom
Speaker 5: on your left, and then straight ahead you can go
Speaker 5: into the verner's room.
Speaker 2: So that's them all on the main.
Speaker 5: Was that's right, okay, yes, okay, And then you can
Speaker 5: go upstairs over there, you can go upstairs, I believe
Speaker 5: you can get there from like where you walk into
Speaker 5: the facility, and then you can go upstairs through the ballroom.
Speaker 5: Then there's a balcony above the ballroom, there's the pike room,
Speaker 5: then is in the back room. And this time at
Speaker 5: the pike room, we're gonna put tables and chairs. We're
Speaker 5: gonna have a pizza bar back there, so we're gonna
Speaker 5: try to do things more things that push people up there.
Speaker 5: We'll have a dad bar up in the balcony area.
Speaker 5: I can't remember exactly who who we put up there
Speaker 5: for this one, but yeah, so there's more.
Speaker 2: There's more to the facility, so feel free to get
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 5: And then we talked about this too, right, So the
Speaker 5: last one was in the winter, we couldn't use the balcony.
Speaker 2: Or not the balcony of the patio area. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so now we'll be able to open the doors up.
Speaker 2: It's raining out that way as well.
Speaker 3: And that means you can walk to either side.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: One night, one night of the week is your event again.
Speaker 4: This one's on Thursday, because I'm going to say electricty
Speaker 4: can get bumping on a Friday and that's right next door.
Speaker 2: Oh that's the club.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they'll have patio DJs too, and like just
Speaker 4: on a Friday gig, you might go outside and be
Speaker 4: having riddom and like, well, that's.
Speaker 3: That's I think you're saying.
Speaker 2: I'll make that announcement right now. I haven't said this. Ye.
Speaker 5: By the next event is going to be the Summer
Speaker 5: Smoke Out August eighth. It's gonna be a Friday, so
Speaker 5: that one will be that Friday vibe. So we'll see
Speaker 5: kind of right on that one. And since we're rolling
Speaker 5: with it, then we're doing it back and back again
Speaker 5: Metric match again on October thirtieth, so the day before Halloween.
Speaker 2: Sick dude, is that a Thursday? That'll be a Thursday.
Speaker 3: That's a Thursday Friday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and last time, last time, and last time you
Speaker 4: had a musician. Are you doing the musician not just
Speaker 4: DJ background type of music to just show.
Speaker 2: The DJ going and doing what he's doing there in
Speaker 2: music playing, But.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the you know, the the I appreciate half coming
Speaker 5: out and doing this performance and like in uh, providing and.
Speaker 4: Maybe like a whole graw on masks and stuff too, exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So he's uh, he's got his own thing going
Speaker 5: on out there.
Speaker 2: He's there again.
Speaker 5: You're talking about marketing and you can check out some
Speaker 5: of their pages and he does a very good job.
Speaker 2: Uh cms cap cms CA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we appreciate him coming and doing what he did.
Speaker 2: It just like, are these events aren't for music?
Speaker 4: Like, oh for sure, no one percent. And that's the
Speaker 4: thing that it's just about a folcus. I mean I
Speaker 4: have DJed gigs where cannabis is the focus, where it's
Speaker 4: just the background music. Man, That's what it is, and
Speaker 4: that's all we need.
Speaker 2: That's everybody wants to talk catch up. You know.
Speaker 4: We've talked about sometimes music can also like cut the
Speaker 4: networking too down and a lot of times these events
Speaker 4: are used for networking. I'm telling you, like, like a
Speaker 4: lot of these events, people are like, hey, we what
Speaker 4: we mean to connect? That's right, let's connect. Like I've
Speaker 4: seen brains do that.
Speaker 5: And it's like I'm always considered like doing something with music,
Speaker 5: but you know, maybe it is like a hey, this
Speaker 5: is a music event, you know, so like geared towards
Speaker 5: that walking into it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I would agree with one. I think that's
Speaker 4: I think with your vibe.
Speaker 3: For me, in my opinion, I was like, this is
Speaker 3: meeting up people networking.
Speaker 4: We talked to so many people and we didn't even
Speaker 4: get to the official room. Yet like we were like
Speaker 4: we kept getting stuck and we were in the hallway.
Speaker 2: And like same, So it was I could do that.
Speaker 2: I gotcha. I started.
Speaker 5: I tried to get into the Murner's room like four
Speaker 5: different times, and.
Speaker 2: Like I'd make it like twenty feet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, I gotta go take some shit
Speaker 5: back downstairs. And I come back up and I'm like
Speaker 5: I looked at the Sea Junkie group and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 5: watch this, I'm gonna make it to the other side
Speaker 5: of the room, and like thirty five minutes later, I
Speaker 5: hadn't made one step past their booth yet. I look
Speaker 5: over and they're like laughing and like I told.
Speaker 4: You, because it's your event too. It's like learning me.
Speaker 5: So we ask ourselves constantly, like what is so different
Speaker 5: with our events? Like why why are they so great?
Speaker 5: Why do people have so much good a good time
Speaker 5: with it? And like there's no necessarily answer that I
Speaker 5: can come up with except for authenticity, Like I tried
Speaker 5: to be very authentic to every single person that walks
Speaker 5: in that door. My family is also who is behind me,
Speaker 5: my wife, my brother, my niece, actually my mom will
Speaker 5: be helping out in the setup. This time, my sister
Speaker 5: will be.
Speaker 4: Involved with Michigan mom, Michigan wife. I don't I do
Speaker 4: this like Canon mom, Canon Dad.
Speaker 5: My kids even came like at the first of the
Speaker 5: last one helped set up before everybody came in.
Speaker 2: We keep it, We keep it within within the within the.
Speaker 5: Family, and like we we try not to push corporate
Speaker 5: on onto assure that like the corporations and I don't
Speaker 5: even know if I want to call corporations, the businesses
Speaker 5: are the ones that allow us to put them on
Speaker 5: because they're sponsoring and giving me the money to be
Speaker 5: able to to uh do the certain things that I'm
Speaker 5: doing and like be able to innovate every time and
Speaker 5: like get a little bit better every time. But it's
Speaker 5: the authenticity, is I Like every single person that walks
Speaker 5: through that door is important to me and to smile
Speaker 5: and I'll shake anybody's hand. I might not remember your name,
Speaker 5: but I'm sure as hell will try. Like that's just
Speaker 5: you know, one of those things, especially as I should
Speaker 5: about to turn forty.
Speaker 4: You So I do think some people can like have
Speaker 4: that skill of like, hey, I remember a bunch of
Speaker 4: people names, but I don't think it's that common. I
Speaker 4: think a lot of people are like if I remember
Speaker 4: you from something, I'll associate you with like I met
Speaker 4: you at the bowling alley, so you're bowling alley rob right,
Speaker 4: like like you know what I mean? You know, you know,
Speaker 4: in my context, I'll be like, blah blah blah, name
Speaker 4: like name where I met him? Like that's half people
Speaker 4: contact in my home.
Speaker 2: Association is big.
Speaker 5: But it's like, uh, I'll you'll tell me your name.
Speaker 5: I'll say your name is, I'm shaking your hand, and
Speaker 5: then as soon as I'm done shaking your hand.
Speaker 4: I forgot Yeah shit, what are we just talking about?
Speaker 4: Who is that?
Speaker 6: Again?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I need to really. So that's why a lot of
Speaker 4: times i'll nickname people and that helps me. Like really,
Speaker 4: if I can nickname someone, I'll be I'll remember you
Speaker 4: by your name. But sometimes if it's like, hey, I'm John,
Speaker 4: Oh the three hundredth John I've met in my life, Okay, cool,
Speaker 4: Like no offense, I'm not trying to be rude. Sorry,
Speaker 4: if there's any Johns after you with any funny though,
Speaker 4: if everyone was like anti like John's against John's against
Speaker 4: M I C. C. You have like your community or John, damn,
Speaker 4: sounds like prostitution.
Speaker 3: Since you don't have an artist this year. All right
Speaker 3: at this event, do you do you have anything different
Speaker 3: that you're doing or is it just mainly you just
Speaker 3: got you know.
Speaker 2: These these events are very cut and paste.
Speaker 4: What's nice about crowfoids You can smoke though, I mean,
Speaker 4: like the consumption at the event is really nice because
Speaker 4: I mean, especially for a lot of people, like you know,
Speaker 4: I think when you're tied in the industry, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of more events. But as far as like this is,
Speaker 4: this is like was this invite only you're already done.
Speaker 4: This is that CAP right, Well that's what you're saying.
Speaker 4: People are reaching out to you and you're trying to
Speaker 4: help people out. But once you get to CAP.
Speaker 5: It's like keep an eye out the week up in
Speaker 5: case any's ticket's like damn, but yeah.
Speaker 4: We're smart to keep a little bit of hidden just
Speaker 4: in case.
Speaker 5: It's just like foremo is real and building and playing
Speaker 5: off FOMO is also a very good marketing strategy.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're talking about marketing.
Speaker 4: I'm saying days always thinking about marketing for not talking
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: It's big, you need it. I do digital marketing for.
Speaker 4: Prior to the just like this, so you get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so what brands you have at the advent of
Speaker 3: this upcoming one?
Speaker 5: So for this one to be an extra dad bar.
Speaker 5: So this time we got Wojo, Archive said brands seven
Speaker 5: ten and the east Side.
Speaker 4: Alchemy saw Browns. Yeah, like I meant say brand, maybe
Speaker 4: I said Bronze. I think it's not on like bronze.
Speaker 2: But those will be the.
Speaker 5: Ones that are behind the bar because we actually have bars.
Speaker 5: But we can set this up with I believe, So each.
Speaker 3: One's at a bar. So like seven ten was the
Speaker 3: dad bar in January, so they're behind them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well they also there was also Wojo to there
Speaker 4: was Wojo at the.
Speaker 5: Was in like the ballroom bar. It was like kind
Speaker 5: of like a little nook bar like inside up front,
Speaker 5: like in that front room like when you walk in,
Speaker 5: and right to the right there was Archive was.
Speaker 2: There last time? Yes?
Speaker 5: Archive was there last time? And then uh uh is
Speaker 5: there this time? They could be to the donut there
Speaker 5: they're like.
Speaker 1: Both.
Speaker 3: Donut, what's better than that?
Speaker 2: And then I believe I can't remember who's upstairs.
Speaker 5: We're gonna put up a dad bar upstairs this time,
Speaker 5: and then Roslyn Rossen got a table as well, and
Speaker 5: they'll be having their own little dad bar there as well.
Speaker 4: Donated donated hash for the roll bars, so that those
Speaker 4: will be.
Speaker 2: Is going to be doing theirs.
Speaker 5: These are the donut bars, right, so THEO will have theirs.
Speaker 5: But Hyman also comes in and we're gonna actually have
Speaker 5: two tables this time because last time we just had
Speaker 5: the one on the main floor. Uh, We're gonna have
Speaker 5: this additional one upstairs. Uh where they'll be live rolling
Speaker 5: doing us.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that was happening at the last one. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: So that's why I thought was going on the left
Speaker 4: in the front left when we were we were networking
Speaker 4: or we were talking. We were hanging out with DAP
Speaker 4: cow girls. Shout he shout her out, check her out
Speaker 4: from mass She puts out great content Flower. We were
Speaker 4: hanging out with her. Yeah Flower XBO shut them out
Speaker 4: like out or whatever. But good people. But I lost
Speaker 4: my train. Thought, Oh they were front left and I
Speaker 4: saw everyone lying and going over there. I was like, hey,
Speaker 4: we should go over there, and then we just like
Speaker 4: never went over there. We just but like that that's cool,
Speaker 4: that that's awesome. I didn't even over.
Speaker 5: There also was uh over cups and covert Cups had
Speaker 5: like a chocolate fun due that was like medicated.
Speaker 4: Dude, you got that free hoodie that night I did.
Speaker 3: I did shout out with christ from Ghostbusters. He gave
Speaker 3: me the Olympics HEDI, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Dude, I didn't even know you. I didn't miss cover Cups.
Speaker 2: You missed coverd Cups.
Speaker 4: Now telling you, man, we stayed. We like literally came
Speaker 4: in and stayed in the center and like walk back out.
Speaker 2: All right, So here's what we'll do. How about the
Speaker 2: Friday I find in August?
Speaker 5: Like we're we're creating things as we go here, right,
Speaker 5: So that one is just gonna have.
Speaker 2: To be longer, Like what time is it starting? And
Speaker 2: I was just about to ask you that.
Speaker 5: So we said with doors hurt seven for anybody who's
Speaker 5: not a sponsor, if you have a ticket. By the way,
Speaker 5: you must have a ticket to Nswer this time. If
Speaker 5: you don't have a ticket, you will not be allowed in.
Speaker 5: So please have a ticket. No like fuckery.
Speaker 4: Hey, I know a, I know a that.
Speaker 2: Happened last time.
Speaker 4: I could describe it.
Speaker 2: This time, we just have to be a little bit
Speaker 2: more sterned. Like, please have a ticket. Hear that?
Speaker 5: So let's make the next one longer. This one goes
Speaker 5: seven to eleven. But if we make it maybe starts earlier,
Speaker 5: goes a little later. This type of thing that gives
Speaker 5: people more opportunity to get around and see everybody and
Speaker 5: talk to more more people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if it was just us by,
Speaker 3: you might have had other feedback from people, because yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean that's a lot. We missed a couple of
Speaker 3: things until.
Speaker 4: Which is Thursday was just bumping. Man, it's great. Sometimes
Speaker 4: when it's bumping, it's like almost like all right, that's
Speaker 4: a little overwhelming. I'm gonna chill, you know, So that's
Speaker 4: up to you. Like we could have went over there.
Speaker 3: We were just like, damn, it's so much bigger than
Speaker 3: hot Box Social too. I I think that's a really
Speaker 3: good venue choice for you, like it no one does
Speaker 3: anything out here like.
Speaker 4: And I think it's it's right down the street from
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 3: Is everyone getting the free parking again?
Speaker 5: Free parking will be all I'll taken care of those
Speaker 5: announcements were come and you know, we reinvest a lot
Speaker 5: back into these parties, like it's my like making money
Speaker 5: off them is not my goal.
Speaker 2: My goal is.
Speaker 5: To throw a banger and like be better than the
Speaker 5: last time. So we have massive as massive budgets for
Speaker 5: like food, like the all the catering and stuff that
Speaker 5: we put out like this time giveaways. So we're actually
Speaker 5: just talking about it so we can bring this up to.
Speaker 4: The Cannon cam Ca Cannick thing.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna be giving away first one hundred people
Speaker 5: through the or will get one of these. It's gonna
Speaker 5: be a three pack of like mini donuts. There's no
Speaker 5: many donuts in there right now, but there will be.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be the container flower rolled by me, I
Speaker 5: mean grown by me, Peninsula Roslin.
Speaker 4: And Rolla Gardens just just clear up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the himen on the back. Oh that's actual, that's
Speaker 4: the whole packaging and everything. I really like this container.
Speaker 4: That's cool man, because you like who made it. It
Speaker 4: was really nice sticky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out the sticker guys that that made the
Speaker 2: wrap for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah that you said you did a pod with them
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 2: You're going to right, Yeah, that's just that's going to
Speaker 2: drop you shortly. We had this past.
Speaker 4: If you're listening, let's do something.
Speaker 2: I'll get you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that's really.
Speaker 2: Just making connections.
Speaker 4: And oh, I see what you mean by the raised
Speaker 4: I do like that. That is cool. Well what's really
Speaker 4: cool is like you buy this, you're just going to
Speaker 4: reuse it because it's a sat.
Speaker 2: That's the hat, that was the that was the goal.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I have a little I didn't you had a
Speaker 4: joint there? No, it don't even look yeah, oh damn,
Speaker 4: all right, pulled, pulling up on the pulling, put it
Speaker 4: back in.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't roll good joints. These guys have an art
Speaker 5: to it. I'm just like, fucking can't even get a
Speaker 5: guy in.
Speaker 4: Man Dave. Dave slows down and rolls. He can roll
Speaker 4: really good joint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 4: He really does some mights. He'll roll a banana, but
Speaker 4: he'll roll it in like six seconds. Like I'm knowing
Speaker 4: you like I'll go like this, but hey, man, so
Speaker 4: when do you want to roll the joint? All you
Speaker 4: have in his mouth as far.
Speaker 2: As yeah, I'm not like that. I can't. I don't
Speaker 2: do a filter. So I get done.
Speaker 5: Like the last little bit, I'm like, can smoke this
Speaker 5: anymore because it's too resonate. It's getting all over my teeth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's.
Speaker 3: My start putting filters. I go back and forth between
Speaker 3: filters and non filters.
Speaker 4: Shout out the sticky trap is dope.
Speaker 2: That's sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope we're first hundred people, first.
Speaker 5: Hundred people through the door, we'll get one of those,
Speaker 5: and it's going to be a three pack.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be three three mini donus.
Speaker 4: So we might be late. So first ninety no I
Speaker 4: might show, but I might show. Really, I'm gonna cut
Speaker 4: this part out so no one knows that part. I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna gonna make a puff and I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: show up early, like why'd you get it?
Speaker 5: So we'll have some T shirts to give away too,
Speaker 5: So actually getting a little bit in a merge too,
Speaker 5: and like starting to just like I said, reinvest back
Speaker 5: into these so we can keep putting them on. Like
Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, I want to be I'm a grower.
Speaker 5: I'll be growing my entire life. I'll probably grow my
Speaker 5: entire life. I got a lot of very expensive habit
Speaker 5: so I'll probably continue to do that.
Speaker 2: But one day I might want to be like out
Speaker 2: of commercial cultivation.
Speaker 5: Right like ten years from now, I'll be turning fifty
Speaker 5: years old, I don't know if I'm gonna still want
Speaker 5: to be a commercial cultivator, right, Like I'd rather travel
Speaker 5: and go see the world. So you know, that's where
Speaker 5: like the events thing kind of comes in and like
Speaker 5: if I can continue to carve out new lanes and
Speaker 5: new niches, and that's what I would encourage anybody to do,
Speaker 5: Like figure out other lanes that you can create for
Speaker 5: yourself and fucking go for them.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 3: I completely agree. Dude, do you go for your follow
Speaker 3: your passions. If you've got passions and something, try to
Speaker 3: follow that and do that. Like it feels great when
Speaker 3: you succeed in some of your passions and like going
Speaker 3: back to me winning you doing a successful event, like
Speaker 3: it feels great after doing like like, oh it's.
Speaker 2: Fucking great, It's good.
Speaker 3: No, dot, I can continue doing this moving forward, getting
Speaker 3: away from the event will jump right back into an account.
Speaker 3: Mid So, I saw you recently were on a podcast
Speaker 3: and then you're going on another podcast you mentioned before
Speaker 3: the show too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I did a little circuit.
Speaker 5: Uh well, I went are you talking about the one
Speaker 5: that I posted on Instagram?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So that was like the money Talks podcast or something
Speaker 5: like that. Okay, that was a booth that was in
Speaker 5: Minneapolis that just grabbed me and threw me on.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: That was a pretty interesting little show. What was that?
Speaker 2: What was the Minneapolis the Lucky Leaf Expo. So Minneapolis
Speaker 2: is like about to become licensed and they're about to
Speaker 2: like hit that.
Speaker 4: I've ever been to Minnesota? How far is that from here?
Speaker 2: That's it depends on driver.
Speaker 4: Fly like right over right there.
Speaker 2: But drive you got to go all the way around
Speaker 2: one way or another.
Speaker 4: Okay, damn yeah, go through Chicago.
Speaker 2: Or the right yep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So there are about to be licensed and they
Speaker 5: don't have any product in the state really yet. So
Speaker 5: there's this gonna be this big imbalance just like there
Speaker 5: was here. There's gonna be a big sublime demand curb
Speaker 5: that needs to be.
Speaker 4: They have a medical market out there. Did they pulled
Speaker 4: from the caregivers?
Speaker 2: Like they don't?
Speaker 5: No, I don't believe so, like and maybe the BAX
Speaker 5: was like twelve plants at this point. Anyways, I can't
Speaker 5: I can't exactly remember how their laws go, but they
Speaker 5: had they like they did something weird. Their last governor
Speaker 5: or their governor signed the created a bill and is
Speaker 5: worded wrong, so that way they could have edibles but
Speaker 5: nothing else and so like, and it was weirdly written
Speaker 5: that it was it's tied to maybe the liquor license
Speaker 5: or or like that, those type of establishments, because you
Speaker 5: would go into like a bar there and they'd have infused.
Speaker 3: Drinks like THD drinks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you couldn't have a weed, but they.
Speaker 4: Listen, you can't spark it where you can mix it
Speaker 4: with your drink.
Speaker 2: So it was like it was just weird like loophole that.
Speaker 4: Was when are they just using like hemp? No, Well,
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's just a fascinating mark. No, no,
Speaker 4: fair enough, no, and it's fair enough. I just I
Speaker 4: just think that's interesting to be like doing low dose drinks,
Speaker 4: but like smoking, it's not okay. Interesting.
Speaker 2: The event was interesting.
Speaker 5: The event was like filled with people from out of state.
Speaker 5: It's interesting people that had seen like the supplying day
Speaker 5: anchor already once be out of whack in those certain
Speaker 5: areas and like want to go and take advantage of
Speaker 5: the first thing. So there's a lot of people from Michigan,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of people from Oklahoma, there's a lot
Speaker 5: of people from Colorado. Like a few people from California, Washington,
Speaker 5: Oregon that I that I had spoke to, So it
Speaker 5: seemed like there's more of those type of people than
Speaker 5: there was locals.
Speaker 2: So it was kind of interesting.
Speaker 4: But people trying to get into local markets. You know,
Speaker 4: people here will go to Ohio or go to New York, right,
Speaker 4: I think I want Well, I also wonder if maybe
Speaker 4: it's written like that, so maybe people can't have like
Speaker 4: open consumption events like we do here. They can just
Speaker 4: only have like little drinks and go to bars. And
Speaker 4: that's like as far as you can really do it,
Speaker 4: And that was how they wanted to maintain it kind
Speaker 4: of control.
Speaker 2: There's always been not always.
Speaker 4: Our events here, like I mean, especially your event. That
Speaker 4: whole thing was smoked out. I've never seen the crow.
Speaker 5: But like that the reason the recent question is liked
Speaker 5: how yeah did they care?
Speaker 4: Did anything care about it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: He was like encouraged, like there was like because it
Speaker 6: was it really was like completely smoke's fact, there were
Speaker 6: local politicians that were there. Oh really yeah, like very local,
Speaker 6: like you.
Speaker 4: Know there's but there's some people in Pontiac that are
Speaker 4: open about I met someone at the hashbash last year.
Speaker 4: He was like a Pontiac official and he's like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm very supportive of this.
Speaker 2: Because very pleased.
Speaker 5: Like the police, like apparently the like drove by a
Speaker 5: few times and they just didn't like they were good.
Speaker 4: But there was no there's no pan a cops, there's
Speaker 4: open County. There's no pony cops anymore those years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're just open County. So I thought that's I remember
Speaker 4: I was here for the transition. They weren't. I don't know,
Speaker 4: just it makes senseless to say, but no, it's funny. No,
Speaker 4: it's just funny. They know that's open County was cool
Speaker 4: with it two. So that's pretty sweet because especially with
Speaker 4: the SEA, I mean, licensing wasn't so cool with events
Speaker 4: in the beginning. Now I feel like since the CIRA
Speaker 4: kind of like let their loose a little bit, everyone's
Speaker 4: kind of been like, all right, just well there they're
Speaker 4: making money for the city.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're not solid.
Speaker 4: You're also doing an event in the city. You know,
Speaker 4: you're bringing money here, You're bringing people, they're paying for parking. Well,
Speaker 4: I guess you got free parking, but you're bringing money
Speaker 4: to the city. No, that's what I'm saying. It's like
Speaker 4: there's money coming to the city.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: That's why I was realizing we didn't pay for parking,
Speaker 4: but you didn't, I.
Speaker 5: Say, like, but no, it's important that money is still
Speaker 5: like circulating.
Speaker 4: That's why why would they stop that. Panya doesn't necessarily
Speaker 4: it's not like it used to be here. Actually, when
Speaker 4: it was like the arts, beats and eats still here,
Speaker 4: it was least had that money coming in, they would
Speaker 4: fix thing, they would do things here. Ever since then, man,
Speaker 4: that was like the worst thing they could ever.
Speaker 3: I think they're tearing down the Phoenix Center too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think they're tearing that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, I heard. I heard it.
Speaker 2: So it'll be sweet.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of opportunity there and it's uh, that's
Speaker 3: it's a really good venue.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: We have both of them opened the upstairs and everything
Speaker 3: like it's.
Speaker 4: You filled it out too. It was a really good
Speaker 4: well and now I'm excited to see it. Hopefully weather
Speaker 4: holds out. And it's really nice because that would be
Speaker 4: cool to add the outside.
Speaker 3: Do because a lot of events are in Detroit based.
Speaker 4: You can smoke outside as well too, I imagine, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I figured to figure it's cool it's just cool.
Speaker 5: There's always the consideration being able to get a tent
Speaker 5: out there to just in case. But it's like a
Speaker 5: kind of a weird patio area.
Speaker 2: It's not like necessarily like he it's not that big.
Speaker 5: No, facilitates people moving around a lot better like not
Speaker 5: it's crammed halls.
Speaker 4: And then also if people do smoke cigarettes, cigarettes, it's
Speaker 4: always nice for those people, you know, war weather events
Speaker 4: are always the best.
Speaker 3: I love the word weather coming in.
Speaker 4: It is an age of vaping so so much, so much, small,
Speaker 4: so much. Only the cool people from just getting just
Speaker 4: looks so cool. I'm just Joe cool, all right, I'm sorry, joke,
Speaker 4: but no, it's the thing. I mean, no, it's really
Speaker 4: cool that like the Crowfoot's doing this because it's just
Speaker 4: showing you and they and honestly just everything's okay because
Speaker 4: it's just the advanced man. I wish they would do
Speaker 4: more things in honey, you know.
Speaker 3: I wonder if I'll see more and more other people
Speaker 3: want to throw events at the crow Foots. It to
Speaker 3: take time, though, you gotta build up the event, like
Speaker 3: you you did what to at hot box?
Speaker 5: I did to a hot box and then yeah, then
Speaker 5: I shifted over here, and this was like, what the
Speaker 5: consideration of one of my first events to do it
Speaker 5: at and we would not have been able to fill
Speaker 5: it the first time, you know, to learn that that's
Speaker 5: really just really good timing a thing too.
Speaker 4: But you throw an event, you know, more in the
Speaker 4: mouth caued people more want to go, and you just
Speaker 4: keep doing that. You know, every everyone tells another person,
Speaker 4: you keep just doubling your size. You know, it's kind
Speaker 4: of how it goes.
Speaker 3: Did you do a raffle at one of them?
Speaker 2: I have done?
Speaker 5: Uh so the metro mat had like a costume contest.
Speaker 5: That's a contests that at the contests that I've had, well,
Speaker 5: but we've done raffles at the other too.
Speaker 4: You know, you want to hear a funny story. We
Speaker 4: never told anyone about this. I want to talk about this.
Speaker 4: This is funny because this is kind of stupid and
Speaker 4: this is hilarious. How you were about to say it.
Speaker 4: I didn't think you're okay, so I thought he wasn't
Speaker 4: gonna but no, for me, you're your event. We literally
Speaker 4: we literally did. I didn't want to dress update, like, no,
Speaker 4: let's just dress up. We had these costumes. Fine, I
Speaker 4: put them on, and we walk up and I could
Speaker 4: see like the entrance, like the where everyone was at
Speaker 4: like through the back, and no one were in costumes. Like, dude,
Speaker 4: I'm not wearing this costume. I didn't want to wear it.
Speaker 4: He wanted to, and how I literally took mine off
Speaker 4: and then I can't he took his off because I
Speaker 4: took my off. So we literally were about you. And
Speaker 4: then I was like, nah, man, I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was sorry. There's like a thousand people dressed up.
Speaker 4: I would say it was a younger man. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: wasn't great.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe the next one. I don't know, Like that
Speaker 2: was that was weird.
Speaker 5: Like I had my first event, the first Growers Gala,
Speaker 5: right and like went and I wasn't planning on doing
Speaker 5: another event until after the.
Speaker 2: First of the year.
Speaker 5: Like I didn't want to butt up with any of
Speaker 5: the holidays. I didn't want to butt up with Halloween.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to butt up with uh any other
Speaker 5: events that might have been going on. But like the
Speaker 5: feedback that I got like compelled me to put on
Speaker 5: another one. So I said, all right, let's just copy
Speaker 5: and pastes, see what we can do. In eight weeks
Speaker 5: and then the Metric one came the Metric match came about,
Speaker 5: and yeah, that was that was great. And then uh again,
Speaker 5: I wasn't planning on doing anything until May, like this
Speaker 5: coming event, and people were like, dude, you got to
Speaker 5: get something going.
Speaker 4: And I love events, man, especially during the winter time.
Speaker 4: We all crave them because there's not that many. So
Speaker 4: especially because you did a successful one in the cold,
Speaker 4: like that's that's tough.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why I like the time.
Speaker 5: Like at the timing, I still think was really well
Speaker 5: because the people were craving something, like they're looking to
Speaker 5: do something.
Speaker 4: After the new year. And I's think Crowfits also uses
Speaker 4: infrastructure of events, right. They had coke check, like they
Speaker 4: have all these things where sometimes these other events they
Speaker 4: don't write. It's like it's I don't know, it all
Speaker 4: worked out.
Speaker 2: It was fun. I'm excited.
Speaker 4: So you have the dad bar, you have the food.
Speaker 3: Anything else we're missing.
Speaker 2: That's out there.
Speaker 5: And there's the roller bars, right, have a couple of
Speaker 5: roll bars going. There may be other boots with rolling
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how many boots do you are there?
Speaker 5: I think we have like fifteen right now spread between
Speaker 5: like advanced nutrients.
Speaker 2: See Junkie is going to have a booth, Grimace who
Speaker 2: they're a newer.
Speaker 4: Brand, but the guy from McDonald's the Purple Grin. Sorry
Speaker 4: that's what I was like. Yeah, sorry, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 4: didn't mean like the can of brands, Like, damn it.
Speaker 4: I'm just like, I don't know that's who I thought.
Speaker 4: I was a Grimace.
Speaker 5: I can go through the entire list, like there's there's
Speaker 5: a long list of sponsors that we have, but like
Speaker 5: we have a lighting company, we have a new shrink company.
Speaker 2: We have brands that are within the with.
Speaker 5: In the licensing like see Junkie and uh Miss Gramma's
Speaker 5: Guy and uh like wise Guys. Like Wise Guys is
Speaker 5: constantly supporting. Yeah, so though there are license brands that
Speaker 5: do still want to showcase their brains. But yeah, I
Speaker 5: I I you know, I'm not all about the money.
Speaker 5: Like if it was all about the money, that I'd
Speaker 5: pack it as hard as I can, with as many
Speaker 5: tables as I can, and i would sell it as
Speaker 5: all as much.
Speaker 2: As I can.
Speaker 5: And I'm just not like super interested in that. So
Speaker 5: if somebody asked me for the smile, like an interest
Speaker 5: in sponsorship I'll send them the deck. I'll maybe send
Speaker 5: them one follow up if I don't hear back, and
Speaker 5: if I don't, then if that's it, Like, uh, it'll
Speaker 5: come Like I'm prepared to take a loss on all
Speaker 5: these events, and the fact that I can maybe turn
Speaker 5: a little profit is great. Uh, what I really like
Speaker 5: to turn that money into one day is like maybe
Speaker 5: creating the event venue myself, like having my own venue
Speaker 5: where you know, I can put on a lot of
Speaker 5: different events and I could hope other people's events. So
Speaker 5: you know, there's other things in the works in the
Speaker 5: long term projection of it. But I also realized that
Speaker 5: the cannabis industry, like I said earlier, is in a
Speaker 5: very difficult time right now, and like I realized that
Speaker 5: there might become some time where it's gonna be tough
Speaker 5: for to get sponsorship. But I also feel like things
Speaker 5: like m J Biscon, canna Con, those types of events,
Speaker 5: So those those like true expos, they're going to become
Speaker 5: extinct eventually, whether it's just that people are just knowledgeable
Speaker 5: enough by this time point in time, or they did
Speaker 5: they just don't want to like spend the time at them,
Speaker 5: or the companies just don't start seeing the rois like
Speaker 5: they used to.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean the thing is, when before the consumption events,
Speaker 4: like before these consumption like almost like you know, business
Speaker 4: to business business and consumer like consumption events, that's all
Speaker 4: you had, right for cannabis was these expo So that's
Speaker 4: where everyone met. And now it's just the culture is
Speaker 4: in because the culture came from the street and from
Speaker 4: like the like the the farms and like the people.
Speaker 4: Like I feel like it's just kind of going back
Speaker 4: to like that that's casual socialing. And now and you know
Speaker 4: the internet, you can just reach out to people, set
Speaker 4: up a meeting, just go meet them rather than wait
Speaker 4: till m J biscon. Now you want to do international business,
Speaker 4: you still got a way for m J biscon, Right,
Speaker 4: you still gotta wait or go to spam bus or
Speaker 4: go to uh what is it, the one in Berlin
Speaker 4: or go to these bigger ones, right, different ones, I.
Speaker 3: Should say that.
Speaker 4: But but outside of that, that's why these local events.
Speaker 4: I feel like, this is where the local people do
Speaker 4: their business. So why go to not m J biscom.
Speaker 4: But was it one canna con? Right? They don't me wrong.
Speaker 4: I like they were nice people. It was great. You
Speaker 4: can't smoke. That's the one thing I think that's like,
Speaker 4: you know, the security is a little bit more like, hey,
Speaker 4: you can't smoke your outside, so it's not like you
Speaker 4: can have a smoking section like Biscom. Biscond just has
Speaker 4: a huge smoking sections.
Speaker 2: Well up until like this year, they didn't.
Speaker 3: They had they had it way in the way in
Speaker 3: the back, was in the front.
Speaker 5: Was advertised because they were like for a couple of years,
Speaker 5: right Biskuonau. There's a couple years where they're checking your
Speaker 5: bags and if you had weed, you had to go put
Speaker 5: that ship back.
Speaker 4: And yeah, that's happening. We just snuck it in and
Speaker 4: then we once you're once you have it in, they
Speaker 4: didn't care. That's what made no sense. Then you're smoking
Speaker 4: the smoketion. Everyone's just like the.
Speaker 5: Smoke section was was created by just us like walking
Speaker 5: outside by the docks and fucking smoking weed.
Speaker 4: Yeah you know what I mean, Well, that's that's true
Speaker 4: because the first year we went, there was no like
Speaker 4: to give people went on blaze. There was people like
Speaker 4: pretty much talking about trap events all over in Kelly
Speaker 4: events and like the Cali Plug and then the next
Speaker 4: year like whatever, then they started like getting you had
Speaker 4: a badge in to go to the smoking section. I
Speaker 4: was like, wow, game like a networking bar because they
Speaker 4: already knew. It's like that's not where that's the deals
Speaker 4: good different things. If you're a big groan, you're like, hey,
Speaker 4: we're looking for a trimmer, then you're gonna go get
Speaker 4: a trimmer. Right, Like there's still business at expos, but
Speaker 4: they're very very specific reasons.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so expos still have their place at least right now.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying that they're extinct right now, but you
Speaker 5: know it's it's possibly that they do over time.
Speaker 3: Essentially kind of in itself in years and what's like
Speaker 3: it's kind of smaller.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent smaller, Like the walls are getting
Speaker 2: smaller in.
Speaker 5: The shrinking, especially on the cultivation side, Like it's like
Speaker 5: like really shrunk down this you're going out there, events
Speaker 5: going out. Yeah, so like there's still a lot of
Speaker 5: business is still written at Biscon.
Speaker 4: And that's how I said for certain it's like business
Speaker 4: to business, but it's more specific. Right, you don't really
Speaker 4: get that like hang out VI. It's like if you're
Speaker 4: looking for something you can get it's but.
Speaker 5: You put out a good after party, and that's where
Speaker 5: the trend is head and that's what like, that's why
Speaker 5: it's like talking about regionalizing some of these things is
Speaker 5: like learning the laws of the dudes and don't sell
Speaker 5: these different areas and then like trying to capitalize on
Speaker 5: capitalize the wrong word, trying to throw an event in
Speaker 5: a spot where there's tons of people within there.
Speaker 4: Was hundreds of events in Vegas for Biscon. You don't
Speaker 4: even need to go to the conference, Like honestly, we
Speaker 4: were talking like why have we been here, like like
Speaker 4: we don't just to get a couple of interviews, but
Speaker 4: outside of that, like more stuff was in the events.
Speaker 5: And that's that again is reflected in how corporate that
Speaker 5: Biscon feel is right like culture and it's like it
Speaker 5: costs like six figures for a booth where you could
Speaker 5: like come to like my event, and you're paying fucking
Speaker 5: less than ten grand I can guarantee you like and
Speaker 5: you still get exposure of your brain and a lot
Speaker 5: of people and a lot of brands. So that's where
Speaker 5: I'm like, maybe that's where it shifts, is like there's
Speaker 5: gonna be more emphasis in these after parties could because
Speaker 5: that's where people want to go and be and consume
Speaker 5: like nobody, Like I don't know when I when I
Speaker 5: used to go to biscon Is as an attendee, like
Speaker 5: I would go, I'd have my set agenda. I knew
Speaker 5: who I wanted to talk to if like back in
Speaker 5: the day when I was going, it was what breakout
Speaker 5: sessions I wanted to listen to because I'm like trying
Speaker 5: to become a better girler at this time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the first couple of years, I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you lose value in that overtime and
Speaker 5: I started seeing like there's no reason for me to
Speaker 5: go into those anymore. And then it was like very
Speaker 5: specific reasons that I was going. And when I'm walking
Speaker 5: those events and like going to see the people that
Speaker 5: I'm going to see, I don't necessarily want to be
Speaker 5: stopped by a salesman that's like.
Speaker 2: Hey man, what do you do? Like yeah, I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, dude, Like I got my agenda, Like just I'm
Speaker 5: kind of I'm a little bit uh social anxiety, Like
Speaker 5: I don't necessarily want to talk to people all the time.
Speaker 2: Like I can't eat at my events.
Speaker 5: I'd be like putting all this money for all this food,
Speaker 5: but I can't eat any of it. It's like my
Speaker 5: my stomach shrinks up like the day of And yeah,
Speaker 5: that sounds similiar.
Speaker 3: You probably eat it's over though.
Speaker 4: We struggle with anxiety, man, especially when it's like I
Speaker 4: get it.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's where like it's like, hey, maybe these
Speaker 5: are heading into a different direction where we can like
Speaker 5: smoke a joints together and talk about like what we're
Speaker 5: like you like the kid, like the true people and
Speaker 5: like your true identities out. You know, it's not just
Speaker 5: like wearing this mask of business person for the day.
Speaker 4: Right, And that's that's exactly what it is. It's like
Speaker 4: you just can't be as one hundred percent. So it's
Speaker 4: like I just don't feel like as much real work
Speaker 4: gets done.
Speaker 5: And that's why it's like it's important to come with
Speaker 5: these things and if I can make them feel organic
Speaker 5: and make them like surrounded with a bunch of people
Speaker 5: who care and like to have good times and share, like,
Speaker 5: then we're gonna all have success and be able to
Speaker 5: keep continuing doing these things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you never know who you're gonna run into too
Speaker 3: at your events. Like I'll give a quick shout out.
Speaker 3: It's the metric match where we met Clay, our new
Speaker 3: partner smoking tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Awesome, so it's got value.
Speaker 3: He actually came up to us and I don't even
Speaker 3: know how we we've.
Speaker 4: He's been in the chat before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, but we did never hear and.
Speaker 4: Again shout out to smoking tomatoes Yeah.
Speaker 3: Shouts all the part.
Speaker 4: Dairy du.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out to Lost Coast, Plant Therapy, Kinship, Cannabis
Speaker 3: co Old School Organics, Cannopy Extracts, High nine and smoking
Speaker 3: tomatoes there. So like you find value at those events.
Speaker 3: And it's like we were just smoking, smoking, shoot and
Speaker 3: the ship talking and.
Speaker 4: That's how it gets done. That's how you meet people. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's how you can't just I think sometimes you know,
Speaker 4: you can send a pitch deck, but meeting people in
Speaker 4: networking and connecting more.
Speaker 5: So getting to like past the expiration date for me
Speaker 5: to continue to break that ceiling. I need to make
Speaker 5: sure that everybody has value going right. Everybody has an
Speaker 5: ROI return on investment for being there. That's the attendee
Speaker 5: and that's the sponsor. I want to make sure that
Speaker 5: each side has uh true. Like like I said, I
Speaker 5: don't mean be redundant of value. And in going to
Speaker 5: these these events not just to party and have a
Speaker 5: good time, but also to better themselves in their business
Speaker 5: relationships are they're where they're trying to take theirselves in their.
Speaker 4: Career because you have to do both at events right
Speaker 4: for the businesses, you have to create that networking community
Speaker 4: that they can feel like their brain was represented and
Speaker 4: got a lot of attention. Where it's like the other
Speaker 4: people have to feel like they had fun and got
Speaker 4: some freebies and hang got you know, and then that
Speaker 4: it's kind of like a you know, got to kind
Speaker 4: of find that balance, and I feel like you've done
Speaker 4: that because I really enjoyed that. People were like, hey,
Speaker 4: would you like some free wax in a pre roll?
Speaker 4: I was like, oh yeah, Like I was like, I
Speaker 4: guess pleas.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: That was like one of those special things to me.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, I love the nineteen twenties and
Speaker 5: like that era.
Speaker 4: That's kind of what you're going for, right.
Speaker 2: It's a cigarette girl like the cigarettes the clubs. No,
Speaker 2: we already want that one, wow? Did we?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Really?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: The doughnut girls or the cigarette girls would walk with
Speaker 5: all the different like cigarettes and cigars, cigarettes, you know, right,
Speaker 5: I'm like, how can I do that?
Speaker 2: But like weed, Yeah, yeah, it's cool. That was good.
Speaker 3: Is it hard to try to cater to everybody when
Speaker 3: you're set up these events?
Speaker 2: Do you think I can't cater everybody?
Speaker 4: You kind of just gotta do the best can and
Speaker 4: something it's gonna be like it was too loud, it
Speaker 4: was too quiet, like all right.
Speaker 2: Whatever, you have to just accept and like even.
Speaker 4: Events for so long, I get it. I mean I
Speaker 4: only do audio visual, but I hear, you know, from
Speaker 4: the people throwing events, and I'm like, yeah, man, it's
Speaker 4: like the same shit. You know, everyone's like it's too cold,
Speaker 4: it's too hot, it wasn't enough air, there's too much air.
Speaker 4: Why am I chill everyone?
Speaker 2: I don't know if.
Speaker 5: Every one person that complains, there's been two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty more that have said positive things, So like that's.
Speaker 4: Just a matter myself.
Speaker 5: That's because that gets that like speaks the loudest in
Speaker 5: your brain and they continue to. But you can't forget
Speaker 5: the people that are like, hey man, that this is
Speaker 5: fucking amazing, Like what you're doing is awesome, and like
Speaker 5: that speaks fucking everything to me. Like I'm not, like
Speaker 5: I said, I don't care about the money. I care
Speaker 5: about people having a good time and like relationship building,
Speaker 5: like the same thing with advanced nutrients. When I'm with them,
Speaker 5: I'm fortunate enough that I get to tour other girls
Speaker 5: and meet other growers and see how they do it,
Speaker 5: and some of them help and others like they helped me,
Speaker 5: Like I'm learning from them. So willing to learn too,
Speaker 5: willing to learn about the relationship building, like being able
Speaker 5: to be able to culture a positive relationship basis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's where we're going to.
Speaker 5: Be with these events too, and like we try to
Speaker 5: have a good time, bring everybody in. I have like
Speaker 5: just flood them with as much free shit as possible
Speaker 5: because we can't sell anything there.
Speaker 4: Like not that I but oh that almost gives an
Speaker 4: advantage though too, because it's like you know, for them,
Speaker 4: it's just mart they write they either they I don't
Speaker 4: know if they can't write it off, like I don't
Speaker 4: they can, but it's a loss to them. It's some sort.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they can consider it a loss. It's marketing
Speaker 4: for them. It's just for you. Then there's no issues
Speaker 4: with like legalities. It's super easy this way, and everyone
Speaker 4: else gets free stuck. That's like I say, it almost
Speaker 4: feels like it's a win win for everyone. I feel
Speaker 4: like it's given away because when you're selling it. If
Speaker 4: people go there for vendor fees, I've seen people get
Speaker 4: really mad if they don't make their money back, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean at the at the you know,
Speaker 4: because I've played campus events before and I don't always
Speaker 4: like yeah, yeah, they're just different ways to look at it.
Speaker 4: Investments versus profits.
Speaker 2: Marketing, Yeah, these are marketing events.
Speaker 3: People are there, like you should have people there that bullshit,
Speaker 3: none of.
Speaker 4: I'm not used to it. Dave's usually like right on
Speaker 4: the money, but I mean there is value.
Speaker 3: You just got to get your brands out there like
Speaker 3: these are something marketing needs to happen for some of
Speaker 3: these brands when it's tough out there. And I think
Speaker 3: if you get in front of five hundred, six hundred,
Speaker 3: seven hundred people, that's a lot of people that could
Speaker 3: look at or try your product or build a relationship
Speaker 3: with You're like, hey, I can get products to you
Speaker 3: at the store where you can try it or give
Speaker 3: them something like huge.
Speaker 4: You got to invest in your brand because putting your
Speaker 4: you know that it shows value to your brand too.
Speaker 4: You know, if you don't value, and then no one
Speaker 4: knows who you are. It's like why why would they
Speaker 4: invest in you if you don't. So sometimes it's it's
Speaker 4: a it's a it's a full circle thing with more
Speaker 4: investment in marketing and everything. That's why I say, man,
Speaker 4: but these events are I think more powerful because the
Speaker 4: consumer wins. They feel like they win more, so that's
Speaker 4: what they get to go home and they're like, woll
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try this brain out because I got free
Speaker 4: stuff from them, so I might as well try them
Speaker 4: this one or two times. So it's like I'm sad
Speaker 4: I sell. They may give you a pre roll or
Speaker 4: a joint or like a dab or a Grandma wax,
Speaker 4: but you may go buy a couple more later, you
Speaker 4: buy an eighth or a quarter or so.
Speaker 5: These events, aren't you? Like public events like that? I
Speaker 5: typically the public.
Speaker 4: Well I really I didn't know how that worked. If
Speaker 4: something got he'll reach out to you.
Speaker 5: So like yeah, sure, pastor like a like pastors get
Speaker 5: fucking past around. But in order to get the pastor
Speaker 5: to get the invite, typically I would like people to
Speaker 5: ask me, like most people are all right, So they
Speaker 5: got all the brands that get on the banner pretty much.
Speaker 5: For the majority of them anyways, are like friends and
Speaker 5: people that I've been in the industry forever, and I'll
Speaker 5: send them the initial invite, and we invite those groups.
Speaker 5: A lot of them are their employees and they'll maybe
Speaker 5: have a couple exture for some friends or something like that.
Speaker 5: And again I'm not ignorant to the fact that maybe
Speaker 5: the password gets passed around a little bit. But for
Speaker 5: the most part, people that hit me up for a ticket,
Speaker 5: my first question of them is, how are you involved
Speaker 5: in the industry?
Speaker 2: Like that's they say, Hey, I want to take it.
Speaker 2: I need ticket. I hate to be that need ticket,
Speaker 2: that's all they say.
Speaker 4: Well, some people, it's like, because you don't want to
Speaker 4: people there just for the money grab, right, you want
Speaker 4: to involve the industry who actually want to try some
Speaker 4: or even.
Speaker 5: We don't have we don't sorry, we don't have like
Speaker 5: tons of room, right, we don't have thousands of people
Speaker 5: for this event. Like there's like there and there's a
Speaker 5: lot of people in this industry. So that's I like,
Speaker 5: I would like to give them that initial screening of like, hey, like,
Speaker 5: how how are you involved? Hey, I'm a bud tender
Speaker 5: at x y Z. Hey I am a grower over here,
Speaker 5: or hey, my friends told me about this. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 5: but like that with your friend. Or it's like if
Speaker 5: they're like, hey, my friend is fucking x y Z
Speaker 5: and I'm like, all right, that checks out?
Speaker 4: Try right, okay, yeah no, And that's I appreciate the
Speaker 4: vetting service though, because it kind of like you said,
Speaker 4: like sometimes when it's just hey, it's free, sometimes you
Speaker 4: get everyone just going there for a weed grab and
Speaker 4: it's cool for the first hour or so. Then everyone's gone, yeah, right,
Speaker 4: Like when everyone's kind of involved in the industry, they're
Speaker 4: more patient, willing to say a booze, Hey, I actually
Speaker 4: want to try this hash, I actually want to try
Speaker 4: these week Oh I've been mean to talk to that person.
Speaker 4: Oh I remember that person, So.
Speaker 2: I worked with that person, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like then the conversations will happen better because I think
Speaker 4: sometimes you will get those I've been to weed grab events,
Speaker 4: don't me wrong. I get it you should. Those open
Speaker 4: invite ones are cool, but then a lot of times
Speaker 4: people are just there. What can I give free? I
Speaker 4: can't get really leave like.
Speaker 5: I'd love to do a public event, and at those events,
Speaker 5: I would love to be able to provide.
Speaker 2: Us well, so music, I'm going to provide.
Speaker 5: Brand awareness for the cultivators and processors, the guys that
Speaker 5: are actually getting it done, and like having an event
Speaker 5: where public is invited, but there's a lot more that
Speaker 5: goes into that, because like that would I would want
Speaker 5: to have like ticket sales for that one, and sure
Speaker 5: you can like invite people to buy tickets, sure, but
Speaker 5: like I can't go and advertise or I don't want
Speaker 5: to anyways right now, but at this type of event,
Speaker 5: like I'd want to like go on the riff and
Speaker 5: fucking advertise on the rift or go on a billboard
Speaker 5: or something like that and like really get it like
Speaker 5: a good draw because this is like these people are
Speaker 5: the people that would pay money to go to a dispensary.
Speaker 5: So like bringing those people into an event where they
Speaker 5: have and then giving all those brands like exposure and
Speaker 5: that type of event in a very affordable way. That would
Speaker 5: be like I think a pretty impactful like public style
Speaker 5: event one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: And then just what you're saying you have to do added,
Speaker 4: there's just levels to marketing and you have to kind
Speaker 4: of do more the bigger going, especially if you do
Speaker 4: music and outdoor events, your stage rental or security, there's
Speaker 4: ems there's so many other things that like bigger and
Speaker 4: bigger events have to deal with.
Speaker 3: So it's like and like let's get back get down
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 5: Like the Growers Gal the first one that I threw
Speaker 5: August last year, was literally supposed to be a celebration
Speaker 5: of growers, like and my my goal was like to
Speaker 5: only invite growers and then I'll get other companies the
Speaker 5: sponsor around it. But like the invites are growers and
Speaker 5: there's like two hundred people there, Like it was a
Speaker 5: very small event.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a bunch of fucking homies.
Speaker 5: It works, but like that was like the initial idea
Speaker 5: and set up for these events is like to celebrate
Speaker 5: the workers within the industry and like doing so uh
Speaker 5: not Like and buzz zunders are great, they're also invited.
Speaker 4: Uh you're being more inclusive though not just to growers.
Speaker 4: Now you're kind of inviting You're involved, come on down.
Speaker 5: There was already the bud Cender Appreciations IE aware of events,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, why aren't they celebrating anybody else? Like
Speaker 5: the growers, like the dudes that like fucking nobody would
Speaker 5: be here without right, like the plant that's my that's
Speaker 5: my favorite.
Speaker 3: I love that thank you thank.
Speaker 2: You event organically too.
Speaker 3: Literally no, literally, without the growers, there's no industry.
Speaker 2: There's no industry. So continue. Sorry.
Speaker 5: So the goal was to celebrate them, and then we
Speaker 5: grew and we got a little bit bigger, and now
Speaker 5: we can celebrate them on a higher scale. Well, I
Speaker 5: was some kind of cool giveaways for this one.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to the giveaways.
Speaker 3: We're coming up to an hour already, so I'll ask
Speaker 3: you one more question. Do you have Do you have
Speaker 3: anything that we didn't mention about the event? What make
Speaker 3: sure we covered everything? I know we talked about talk
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, No, just recap I mean was
Speaker 4: the day? I mean just I guess let's give a
Speaker 4: real quick recap the overview of the day at the time.
Speaker 5: So May one, it's actually like less than two weeks
Speaker 5: from now, uh seven pm. Doors vendors have four for
Speaker 5: checking contributors coming into like five thirty six o'clock if
Speaker 5: they're contributing like product to be handed out. Yeah, doors
Speaker 5: at seven party.
Speaker 3: Post to eleven he said, right, goes to eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there won't be any music.
Speaker 4: Crow foot there and just vibe.
Speaker 5: First one hundred people like get uh it's in that
Speaker 5: will be There will be mini donuts in there, like
Speaker 5: it's not just the film an empty pack, they will
Speaker 5: filled dots.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be there too.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good time. If you didn't go to
Speaker 4: the last ones, be there. Check out Michigan Matt all
Speaker 4: this stuff.
Speaker 3: Yea, at least were coming back on it.
Speaker 4: If you're going, I was a bust.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Pring back. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Give a quick shout to the partners again to make
Speaker 3: this possible. Lost Coast Plant Therapy, kin Chip, cannabis co
Speaker 3: Canaby extras, old school organics, high dide. It's smoking tomatoes.
Speaker 4: And it feels weird because we're not asking him the
Speaker 4: last question. But we've already asked you the genie question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, that's why I was like, that's why.
Speaker 2: Ask it again and we'll see if I come up
Speaker 2: with a different answer.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, so there's a genie, that's your question.
Speaker 2: That's why I have one more questions.
Speaker 4: So Genie comes out of the open up your you
Speaker 4: open up this mini pre Roald thing, and then a
Speaker 4: genie comes out and one wish on the canvas industry,
Speaker 4: what would it be?
Speaker 2: Longevity? I wonder if it is look at how much
Speaker 2: that I guarantee it's different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's something because there's always something evolving in this industry.
Speaker 4: It's never gonna be over.
Speaker 5: But longevity as far as like, uh, not a big
Speaker 5: necessary corporate takeover happening, and that that kind.
Speaker 2: Of pushes all the guys that brinded the band. The
Speaker 2: industry happened happened.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's kind of what I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, especially with like when they were trying to
Speaker 4: raise that tax. It's like you're you're stabbing people. They
Speaker 4: need to make their money, Like this industry is not
Speaker 4: that survival as is.
Speaker 3: We need to make a lot of ever taken the
Speaker 3: risks when it was illegal to be legal, and then
Speaker 3: you're just coming in here with the money and you're like,
Speaker 3: all right, he's the should be.
Speaker 2: Here ever going to happen and there was a employee
Speaker 2: for something else.
Speaker 4: That's just how politics politics, Yeah exactly has been saying
Speaker 4: well all right, well Matt, we'll see at the event.
Speaker 4: Everyone else you know. Hopefully you'll be there if you're listening.
Speaker 4: If not, you know, get in there early next time.
Speaker 3: This year recap and as always Grea, We're here to advocate, educate,
Speaker 3: and inspire to next time you on Bay, so you