WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:23.760 Yo, it's going out, everybody. Welcome to a new episode 2 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:26.399 of My Cannic Cast. I'm Canda Dave, and. 3 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.399 I'm Groovy and I'm Summer Sky and we are special guys, 4 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:33.640 damn cow Girl today. 5 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:35.679 Yes, sorry, I was freaking up volume still and there's 6 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:37.600 a little bit more mic stuff going on today with 7 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:39.920 a well, but we got. 8 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.679 Two stars here, yes we do. I'm super excited for 9 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.000 this episode. I'm glad you came out. You're here in Michigan, 10 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.000 got you live in the studio, we got Summer in 11 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:48.479 the studio. 12 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:49.280 I'm bad. 13 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:50.280 Yeah, he's bad. 14 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:55.799 Let's go then a pause, Yeah, yeah, yeah, right right, 15 00:00:58.119 --> 00:00:59.920 I'll be honest with how the hedgeholds. 16 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:07.359 It's really weird. But let's let's dive into yeah. 17 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:08.439 Okay, yeah. 18 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:10.959 First off, if you haven't seen Summer, follow Summer underscores 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.719 guy four wives just because she's been doing her thing. 20 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:16.920 But we're glad she's back. We're excited. 21 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:18.680 Yeah, I'm hearing you. 22 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:21.040 The little tipping about who you are and all about 23 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:22.239 like what you're about. 24 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:23.159 And I'm looking there. 25 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:28.159 Yeah, yeah, Masure, I didn't check before. I'm deab Cowgirl. 26 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:33.760 I come from Massachusetts. I work with the Flower Expo 27 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.599 out in Michigan, which is a business to business cannabis 28 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:41.040 expo that started in Massachusetts three years ago. When I 29 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:46.120 met them, I was working in field marketing and for 30 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:48.879 a ape company that when I left a couple months 31 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:54.200 later to go on an extended vacation, Jason was one 32 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:55.640 of the first people to reach out to me. 33 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.920 To ask to work with me. So he was like, Hey, 34 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.480 will you be the face of my brand? And I 35 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.599 was like, absolutely, what a dream, But I'm going on 36 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:06.280 vacation first. So that was kind of when I started 37 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:09.159 with Flower Expo, and it was really like a slow burn, 38 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:11.599 but it brought me out to Michigan, which is actually 39 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:14.319 where my mother grew up. 40 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:22.800 She grew up in Warren and then went t Yeah, 41 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:19.280 we grew. 42 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.319 So that's where my mom grew up too. She was 43 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:28.360 born in the nineteen fifties. Actually, my mom's like seventy three. 44 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:33.000 She's really cool. She's actually like one of the first 45 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.400 female patent attorneys in the world. So lots of the 46 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:40.199 time people ask like Francesca, like how have you like 47 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:43.199 come so far in like the five years since, like 48 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:45.719 you started in the industry, like as a bud tender 49 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:48.680 and I'm like, well, like listen, like my mom's really impressive. 50 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:50.240 I kind of like don't have a choice. I gotta 51 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.199 work really hard. I work seven days a week, like 52 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:55.840 I can't live down. She's really cool. I gotta do 53 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:58.520 something with my life. And she's also older than most parents, 54 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.240 so I gotta get it done fast, like. 55 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:05.120 Are the best. That's all I gotta say. 56 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:09.800 Yes, I actually have like the luck of being raised 57 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:13.599 by lesbians. So all I got or moms. Unless you 58 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:20.400 follow me on my side account, egg cowgirl, I always see. 59 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:24.080 I always see it every every morning, different eggs. 60 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.120 So aside from the eggs, I'm documenting on there that 61 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:29.479 I got like some sort of ancestry or twenty three 62 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.360 and me, I can't remember. I think it's ancestry. And 63 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:37.159 I found like a relative and I can't remember her name, 64 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:40.479 but she is like definitely like the sister of the 65 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:44.439 sperm donor that my parents like used to create me. 66 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:48.879 And I want to clarify an actual sperm donor because 67 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:49.759 some people will. 68 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.560 Call, you know, deadbeat dads and stuff. 69 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.000 I just want to clarify which is you, Like, my 70 00:03:55.080 --> 00:04:00.280 culture is not a costume, okay, got you, Like they're 71 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.439 really you know. They my parents went to the sperm bank. 72 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.719 They read through binders and binders worth of information. They 73 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.039 actually saved all of the research that they did. And 74 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:13.439 when I was like eight years old, my mom handed 75 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.000 me a binder like this thick and goes here, this 76 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.279 is everything it took to make you. It took years. 77 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.920 I was like, damn, that's crazy. I'm like such a 78 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:31.839 I'm such a wild group project, absolutely nuts. 79 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:33.279 They picked hair. 80 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:38.079 It's so wild that they were able to genetically engineer that, 81 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:43.399 and I green hair green. I was I meant to 82 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:47.360 do this, you know, I'm surely blest. But one of 83 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:51.240 his sisters, one of my sperm donor's sisters, reached out 84 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:56.040 to me on like that ancestry thing and was like, hey, 85 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:59.439 who are you and why does it look like you're 86 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:06.079 my knee? And I messaged her back and I was like, so, like, 87 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.240 my parents are lesbians, So like one of your three 88 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.759 brothers has to be my sperm donor, because she mentioned 89 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:15.079 that she had three brothers and she only had one 90 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.600 niece that she knew of, And I was like, don't 91 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:20.600 you know him? But like one of your brothers didn't 92 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:23.079 tell you that he was up to making money in 93 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:24.800 some different ways. 94 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:27.399 It's my favorite background we've ever had. Usually people were like, 95 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:29.319 you know, I got in the weed industry. No, She's like, 96 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:30.079 check this out. 97 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:39.279 I got the weed industry. They made. We'll get into 98 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:41.639 the weeds step later. Like it's nice to meet you. 99 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.160 Like my name's friend. I was raised by lesbians, which 100 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:48.759 just makes me a second generation queer person, which is 101 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.040 really cool. There aren't that many of us like that. 102 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:54.879 My parents came out and I'm also out. Like that's very. 103 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:58.600 Cool, absolutely, you know, yeah, that is I like it. 104 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:03.920 Yeah, Like I'm very proud to be the child of lesbians. 105 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:09.160 And my mom like found me and my friends smoking 106 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.040 weed in my room when I was fourteen, and when 107 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.480 she started, was it your first? So actually I started 108 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.240 smoking weed when I was like thirteen or fourteen years 109 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:21.079 old because my group of friends stopped hanging out with 110 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.439 me because they thought I wouldn't smoke weed with them 111 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.560 because I had said I had no interest in smoking 112 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.040 weed in the past. And then they as soon as 113 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.800 all of my friends stopped hanging out with me for 114 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:32.399 two weeks, and I hit them up and I was like, 115 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:34.360 I think it was like Facebook Messenger or something, and 116 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.560 I was like, hey, like why you dude, Like, why 117 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.279 don't you guys hang out with me anymore? Because I 118 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.199 can see you're hanging out and like you're not inviting me, 119 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:43.240 and you're all like in my neighborhood. Because that's like 120 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:45.439 why we're friends is because we ride the bus together 121 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.800 one real and they were like and they were like, 122 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:52.439 we just thought you wouldn't want to hang out with 123 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.360 us because we're smoking weed. And I was like, I'll 124 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:56.399 literally do whatever drugs I have to in order to 125 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.800 make friends. I really don't care. I was like, please 126 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:00.639 don't leave me out out, Like literally, I was like, 127 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:02.240 whatever it is you're doing, I'll do it. I'll jump 128 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:03.639 off the bridge if I have to. I don't care. 129 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:10.720 Just don't hang out with me. So I smoked weed 130 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.399 for the first time, didn't get it. I was like okay, 131 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:17.360 and like there then I would like smoke weed at 132 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:19.519 parties with my friends because they wanted to smoke weed 133 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:21.519 and I could get it, and that made them like 134 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:25.279 me more. There was a little peer pressure there, you're 135 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:27.839 saying in the beginning, for sure, fear pressure, like wanting 136 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:31.000 my peers to like me. That kind of stuff was 137 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.959 kind of like why I did it in high school. 138 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:35.519 That's a social aspect of cannabis, and like it. 139 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:37.480 I'm glad you brought this up because there is that 140 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.240 kind of social pressure when you're young, right to do that. 141 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.480 I feel like now it's like babing, but it's the 142 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:43.000 same idea. 143 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:43.240 I think. 144 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.639 I don't babe anymore. I quit babing. Oh really, yeah, yeah, 145 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:53.160 I actually I saw a meme uh that was making 146 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:56.000 fun of people who vape, saying that it's an adult 147 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.319 pacifier and that you should be embarrassed if you're a 148 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:02.759 full an adult and you're sucking on a passy in public, 149 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:05.680 and that like knocked it out of me. I just 150 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.560 started bullying myself, you know. 151 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:13.279 And yeah, and honestly, with vaping with cannabis, I felure. 152 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.600 I never quite get high either, like the same way 153 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:17.000 you do off just like a dab or weed. 154 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:18.639 I don't think it quite hits the same. Yeah, it's 155 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:19.519 like a little tease. 156 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.360 Yeah. I have vape, like cannabis vapes because like they're 157 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:24.120 gifted to me and stuff like that. But I meant 158 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:27.879 like nicotinevapes oh yeah, yeah, like and the cannabis vapes, 159 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.800 I don't use them as a main method of consumption, 160 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.919 but like if you're traveling or something like if you're 161 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.159 in a rental car, like summer, when'd you start smoking weed? 162 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:37.960 How old were you? Oh? 163 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.480 I was sixteen, Okay. 164 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:40.519 So you weren't that far off. 165 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:45.679 And it was seventeen because you were at spring break. 166 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:47.399 So you were a spring break And then I smoked 167 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:48.639 with my aunt once. 168 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.720 I think I forgot which one was before, and then 169 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.039 I got into it when we got into college together. 170 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.600 So we're both pretty or we were older, we were 171 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:58.440 old or not young. At seventeen, we were about. 172 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:00.879 I'm younger, so I've been smoking. We'd probably the least 173 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:02.519 amount of time we heard all of you. 174 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:04.480 So are you old folks? 175 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:09.759 I've been smoking mom since seventeen eighteen. We're thirty five. 176 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:10.919 We're gonna years. 177 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.559 I know that's a long time. 178 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:18.799 We don't need to do that. The important thing is 179 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:21.879 that we're all timeless. 180 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.720 Age ages of mindset facts. 181 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.679 Yeah, so I got many a couple we talked talking 182 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.679 about what we got to ask this. We ask everyone 183 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:31.360 what's your favorite way to consume? And I'm going to 184 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.879 assume because of your name, but what's your favorit way 185 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:35.279 to consume? 186 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:41.360 Cannabis, dabbing. My dog summer is dab or too, right. 187 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:50.399 I think every everybody eventually, like a flower, everyone eventually 188 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.639 is going to fall a little bit in love with dabbing, 189 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.039 you know, if they hang out with people who dab enough, 190 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.840 like in good concentrats. You know, yeah, exactly you. 191 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:02.120 Yeah, Dad used to fuck me up. 192 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:05.159 Yeah. 193 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:07.399 Whatever was in that ship in the beginning was not 194 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:08.600 all weed. Like. 195 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:12.120 That ship was oh, no chemical butane wax a tain 196 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:13.559 tained turps. 197 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:15.720 Yeah, dude, that was not good. 198 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.480 It tasted if I closed my eyes and stuff was 199 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:19.600 so bad back in the day. 200 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:22.120 I remember when I took my first das change a lot. 201 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:23.960 Now, look at this ship that frame brought, so it's 202 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:24.879 it's changed a long. 203 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.600 Yes, I took my first dab and I was with 204 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.399 a bunch of friends and like I was like requesting 205 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.080 like room temperature water. I was like really, I was 206 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:35.240 like giggling. I was just like I. 207 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:35.799 Was having fun. 208 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:38.000 I was like, oh my god, I need water, but 209 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:39.799 I have to be like room temperature. 210 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:41.080 It was a whole thing. 211 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:42.519 Room temperature. 212 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:43.480 That's what Dad did you. 213 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:45.399 I was literally hot. 214 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:46.600 Like I wanted too cold. 215 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.759 I was sweating so bad. I ripped off my shirt. 216 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:50.720 I was sweating so bad. 217 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:51.559 Yeah, I think you're with me. 218 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:53.759 I was on your floor exactly where I was at 219 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:57.000 your living room, Flora. 220 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.960 I was in San Francis. I was living in San France. 221 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.240 I was with my friends black. Yeah, I was living 222 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.519 in San Francisco. I was with my friend Alexi. Shout 223 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:07.159 out to my friend Alexi dad, so you can find 224 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:12.039 her on Instagram. She uh met me at Starbucks. We 225 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.600 were like working at Starbucks together, and we like very 226 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:17.320 quickly became friends because we just have like the same 227 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:21.279 kind of like wild energy and spirit about us. And 228 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.519 we would smoke a lot of weed together because I 229 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:28.440 discovered living in San Francisco when I was exposed to 230 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:33.600 weed in California through like the medical system that I like, 231 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.639 I very quickly I smoked at once one time, actually 232 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.320 after a DVT class with a girl who got into 233 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:43.080 the elevator with me and went, do you smoke weed? 234 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.759 And I, having no friends in the city, went absolutely, yeah. 235 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:53.519 Can we go hang out bowl? Yeah? I was like 236 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:58.039 I would literally do anything. Let's be friends, please. So 237 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.000 we smoked weed in her mini and I was like, 238 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.639 what is this? This is amazing. I was like, they 239 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:07.840 don't have this where I'm from because I had grown 240 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.440 up in Rhode Island. I lived in California until I 241 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:13.200 was six and then I moved to Rhode Island. 242 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.080 Over I go different. 243 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.519 This is my first time being like in the Midwest 244 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:24.000 for like long periods of time. So that musician, let's. 245 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:26.159 Bring it to like why you're here because you're from Boston. 246 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.039 You've been all over, so a little bit of history 247 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:29.480 on your cammus. So what are you doing here in 248 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:30.120 the Midwest. 249 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.840 I am here working with Flower Expo and then also 250 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:39.440 free Lancing. So Flower Expo is a business to business 251 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.240 cannabis xpo. What is like? 252 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.559 What what was all about it? Because I know you 253 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:44.679 went last year, right. 254 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:45.440 Yeah, I went. 255 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:47.039 I made it one of the days. I think it 256 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:49.159 was the second day I made it, and it was 257 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:52.399 in Lancing. It was a pretty cool experience because it's 258 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:55.440 a consumer or just going in there. 259 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:57.080 Is the one where they sold the front two bucks. 260 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:58.279 Yeah, everything was like. 261 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.200 And that's the only state where we've ever done it 262 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:02.919 like that. 263 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:05.960 Usually they just gifted, right yeah, And that's. 264 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:08.720 That's how we're doing it this year too. Things where 265 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.759 we were with the cra I remember here is we're 266 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:15.960 doing gifting. Yeah, this the CRRA is what the regulatory 267 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:22.519 agency is called in Michigan. Right, nailed it. So like 268 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:26.399 they way the way that they do, like the type 269 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:32.080 of event that we are classified as they had us 270 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:35.159 do a dispensary, but we're doing a private event this time. 271 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:39.519 That's how a little bit with at least that's how 272 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.879 I understand it, to be honest, Like you can't take anything. 273 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:45.519 Then I say with that like one hundred percent because 274 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:49.840 I work on like Flower Expo has five people who 275 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:53.720 work like full time hours with the team, and so 276 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:57.320 all of us are like very very dedicated to exactly 277 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.360 what we're supposed to be doing it all the time. Yeah, 278 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.519 So like I don't understand sports, but I do know 279 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:05.559 who Lebron James is, so I do very much like 280 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.919 when Jason uses this metaphor. But the founder of the 281 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:13.879 Flower Expo, Jason bellows to flatter me. Of course, he 282 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:17.240 says that I am like a Lebron James. So I'm 283 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.679 really good at like going out and talking to people. 284 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:22.399 So that's what he has me do instead of worrying 285 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:29.759 about the other things. So ask me like really detailed questions. Brother, 286 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:32.799 my job is to like make sure that you like 287 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:34.679 me and like us enough to come to the show. 288 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:39.320 Everything else is like, you know you're doing in Detroit 289 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.759 this time. Yes, I think we had feedback from people 290 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.000 that like we needed to do the show in Detroit, 291 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.120 like people who are really insistent on it. 292 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.279 That's coming here for events already, so the people are 293 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:53.919 kind of already kind of used to figure out what 294 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:55.519 he has to do that through time and time again, 295 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:57.279 Lancing is just there's not. 296 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:58.480 A lot of events. 297 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:04.320 I'm not knocking Lance by any. 298 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:03.480 I just moved to Lansing. 299 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:08.960 No, no, no, no, I don't like. 300 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:14.159 I love you, no, but for real, it's more or 301 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.240 less just like I think people come used to getting 302 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:18.480 Metro Detroit or sometimes you'll get the Grand Rapids, but 303 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:19.960 even then it's harder to get people out there. 304 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:21.679 People are used to coming to Metro Detroit. 305 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:23.600 So I think you're doing that great And I just 306 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.799 want to clarify because that's awesome that you Yeah. 307 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:29.440 I think I think I recommended Detroit. When I was 308 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:31.320 talking to him, I was like, when I went last year, 309 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:32.600 I was like, I was hoping to be in Detroit 310 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:34.519 this year, and where's it at in Detroit this year. 311 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:36.279 At the Detroit Shipping Company. 312 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.159 Okay, the event as well to August. 313 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.480 Twenty seventh and twenty eighth. 314 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.960 So I believe it's next week. If you're listening to 315 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:45.720 this right now, I believe it will be next week. 316 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.799 So yeah, you'll be the your calendar. Yeah, it's going 317 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.039 to be a great time. Even though it is next 318 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.000 week at the time that you're listening to this, you 319 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.120 can still apply for a ticket at the Flower Expo 320 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:58.559 dot com and we're gonna try to put some social 321 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.159 clips out center so you might be hearing, oh you 322 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:05.320 might be wearing a sinner. Hi. Friends, twenty seventh and 323 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:09.480 twenty eighth of August, please come to the Flower Exo. 324 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:11.879 Come hang out with me. It's a consumption event, it's 325 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:18.559 a it's a retailer focused event, so everybody from inventory, 326 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:23.960 bud tenders, owners, managers, buyers, reception, We want you guys 327 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.080 to come out to the show and just like really 328 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.399 get to enjoy learning about cannabis in an environment where 329 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.360 you're not worried about going back to work in ten 330 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:36.039 minutes to go deal with customers for ten hours, because like, 331 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:40.320 there are many struggles in retail and it's important to 332 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:43.919 have a show that's dedicated to retailers. So that's what 333 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:46.639 the Flower Expo is all about. And as somebody who 334 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.240 was working in like I guess Starbucks is kind of 335 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:54.240 like food retail, right, and then I went into bud tending, 336 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:58.399 right when I went into cannabis, I really appreciate having 337 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:02.240 a show that is focused on retailers in the retail experience. 338 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:04.400 So that's why you'll find that if you do look 339 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.200 to buy the general admission tickets to Flower Expo, which 340 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:12.359 are only available to people who work in the cannabis industry. 341 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:16.200 We are also like industry exclusive. We are not just 342 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:20.279 the industry focused. We're not open to consumers. I dig 343 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.279 it though, because that's how the that's how like the 344 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:23.839 actual business is getting made. 345 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:27.200 You know, sometimes when you get the B two see events, 346 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:29.160 there's nothing wrong with them, but you tend to sometimes 347 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:32.960 get tend to sometimes you sometimes get those like just 348 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:34.960 trying to get there to grab as much product as 349 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.400 I can, where those these shows are dediticated by hey, 350 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:39.759 I'm giving out product, but I'm giving out product in 351 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:41.960 the sense of like hey, you'll do a buy, you'll 352 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:46.359 meet someone exactly, or you know, media that we'll talk 353 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:46.680 about it. 354 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:49.000 There's some reason between marketing or. 355 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:52.480 Sales, right, So you're there to generate revenue for businesses, 356 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:54.279 you know, and so that makes sense. So you're here 357 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.759 spreading the good word because we're doing in Detroit and 358 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:58.480 now I know this for a fact, but I'm going 359 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.319 to reiterate this for the podcast and all if we 360 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:02.079 where else are. 361 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:05.319 They We're also in Illinois. You can come to our 362 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:10.440 Chicago show. That one's in September. Yeah, you can come 363 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:12.759 to our Chicago show in September. If you work in 364 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.519 the cannabis industry, if you work in retail, you get 365 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:17.440 a free ticket. All you have to do is apply 366 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:20.039 for your pass. Our Illinois show is going to be 367 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:23.319 at the Garrity. It's going to be gorgeous, really awesome. 368 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:25.599 So basically like bud tenders and like there's like. 369 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.640 Really yeah, buttenders get free tickets. Even if you are 370 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.640 a bud tender who is hearing this episode the day 371 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:35.000 before the show, you can get a free ticket. Just 372 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:37.720 email us if it's if the application is already closed. 373 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:40.680 The email ops at the flowerexpo dot com. Like if 374 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:42.240 you're a bud tender and you just got a job, 375 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.319 the day before, have your manager send an email for 376 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:46.000 you if there's no way for you to verify your 377 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.559 employment yourself. You know, like we want to get you 378 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:51.799 out there because you can get years worth of education 379 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.519 by talking to those brand reps in person. You have 380 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:58.559 an opportunity as a bud tender to talk to the wholesalers, 381 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:02.200 talk to the marketing team and get your questions answered. 382 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.559 And when you try new products, sometimes you have a 383 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:06.079 question right off the top of your head. And if 384 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:08.119 you're bud tending all day and then you get home 385 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.000 and you have the energy to try a new product 386 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.200 and like actually use your brain to think about it, 387 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:14.319 so that way you can tell your customers about it tomorrow. 388 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:17.880 If there's something that's like bothering you about it or 389 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.240 something that's really wowing you about it, you're not really 390 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:23.960 going to have the energy to look for the email 391 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:28.640 on the box and then send an email for feedback. 392 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:33.759 So like as like somebody who's exhibiting. I fell in 393 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:36.799 love with Flower Expo as an exhibitor. I was working 394 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:41.039 for pack Labs and we launched our gummies okay for 395 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:44.519 the first time, Like the national launch was at the 396 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.799 first Flower Expo in Massachusetts, and it was just such 397 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:50.960 a great way to launch a new product because by 398 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.119 the time it got to the disensories, there were already 399 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.000 so many bud tenders who had tried it. All the 400 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.599 buyers who would come had had samples. 401 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.400