Todd Wayne is a New Yorker, fashion expert & founder of the luxury cannabis company "Freeminded". On this episode, Todd discusses his personal cannabis experience, growing up in New York, his passion for intersecting high fashion & heightened experiences...and introduces Timmy & Mj to a mind-blowing collection of high-quality cannabis accessories!
CONNECT WITH FREEMINDED Instagram / freeminded.co
**During this interview, Todd shows us many of the Freeminded products. The Youtube version of this discussion will be available on Thursday, March 17 at 2:00pm - Link Below**
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ABOUT THE PODCAST:
He’s from the Church. She’s from the garden...of Weeden. They’re from different worlds with the same goal. To engage & explore the cannabis culture...from both sides.
Join medicinal user, model & advocate Marijane Baker and non-consumer, former youth pastor & current clean comedian Timmy Boyle for a unique, funny & educational look into the magical, controversial and, for some, forbidden world of weed.
Timmy & Mj (a real life “mixed” couple) bring their cannabis pillow talk into the public domain as well as inviting guests, from inside & outside the weed community, to help educate, entertain & inspire the other noobies & doobies who are tuning in.
Todd Wayne is a New Yorker, fashion expert & founder of the luxury cannabis company "Freeminded". On this episode, Todd discusses his personal cannabis experience, growing up in New York, his passion for intersecting high fashion & heightened experiences...and introduces Timmy & Mj to a mind-blowing collection of high-quality cannabis accessories!
CONNECT WITH FREEMINDED Instagram / freeminded.co
**During this interview, Todd shows us many of the Freeminded products. The Youtube version of this discussion will be available on Thursday, March 17 at 2:00pm - Link Below**
====================
PODCAST INFO AND LINKS:
Cannabis model Marijane Baker & non-consuming comedian Timmy Boyle have joined forces to explore the wonderful world of weed...from both sides. Be sure to subscribe, turn on notifications, like, comment & share! And please connect on social media & consider becoming a patron to help support this podcast experience. Thank you so much!
"On The Spot" YouTube Playlist / Podcast Website / RSS Feed (Apple Podcasts, Spotify...)
Instagram / Facebook / Patreon / All links
Email 👉 thenoobieandthedoobie@gmail.com
THE DOOBIE: Model, advocate & artist Marijane Baker Instagram / All Links
THE NOOBIE: Comedian, speaker & coach Timmy Boyle Booking / Instagram / All links
====================
ABOUT THE PODCAST:
He’s from the Church. She’s from the garden...of Weeden. They’re from different worlds with the same goal. To engage & explore the cannabis culture...from both sides.
Join medicinal user, model & advocate Marijane Baker and non-consumer, former youth pastor & current clean comedian Timmy Boyle for a unique, funny & educational look into the magical, controversial and, for some, forbidden world of weed.
Timmy & Mj (a real life “mixed” couple) bring their cannabis pillow talk into the public domain as well as inviting guests, from inside & outside the weed community, to help educate, entertain & inspire the other noobies & doobies who are tuning in.
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[Music] this podcast is for adults only should
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not be used as a meal replacement and may contain nuts
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[Music] hey everybody and welcome back to another episode of the newbie and the
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doobie my name is timmy i am the newbie mary jane i am the dewey today on the
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spot we have with us todd wayne from free-minded the intersection of high
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fashion and heightened experiences todd i love that description um thank you so
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much for joining us on the show today pleasure thank you for having me so tell us tell us a little bit like has has
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this intersection been always a part of your life like is as growing up were you the kid that would that wanted was the
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high fashion kid and everything was elevated in terms of its quality and style you know i've been using cannabis
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since i've been a little child okay and i've now been a fashion
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recruiter owning a fashion agency on 34th street and 7th avenue for the last 34 years
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15 years find that i'm in manufacturing of apparel with a family-run business
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i've had the pleasures in my life career to work with some of the finest
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pharmacists on the planet on all continents
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and really placing the designers and the atelier rooms and all nothing
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and everything that fashion needs on 7th avenue in new york
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i've filled these jobs for the last 34 years
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and just like donut commercial i got to make a donut well
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after doing this job for as many years as i have i find myself in that revolving door
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every day saying i gotta make a donut i needed to change in my life
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seven years ago i went skiing in colorado and i walked into a dispensary
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and literally my mind got away i just could not believe i could walk into a
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building that looks like neiman marcus it's displayed as beautiful beautifully
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as they would display their product and i could walk into the store and buy
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cannabis and not just walk in and buy it i can now take it and roll a joint and smoke
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it outside that you know as a young child
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you know i'm buying the stuff in the back seat of you know the parking lots
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and cars hiding it from the top and stashing underneath my floorboards you
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know sitting in dark alleys in the room smoking the stuff so i didn't get busted
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and my friends have gotten arrested as young kids on the product so to have this metamorphosis
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and see that experience was just eye-opening it was just something that
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you know i never thought would have happened and in the last seven years you now start seeing all the other states
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legalizing it new yorkers just to prove that new jersey's approved it
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so it's it's really unbelievable to see this in my lifetime with that said i i needed to make a
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change and um i was working with some of the best leather factories and production teams
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on the planet i'm also a star smoker so i walked into matt sherman on 42nd
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street and asked a really nice sales person what do they have for cannabis and they said absolutely nothing i said
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like this has nothing for cannabis um i ended up
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flying out to colorado into la for a three four day weekend and i hit between 50 and 60 dispensaries
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and a couple of major retailers like max fields and fred siegel
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and just kept on asking you know the backtenders and the sales managers what do you have and
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nobody had anything maybe a couple marble types and just little head-end products
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so i worked with some technical design teams looking something on trainers try to get some inspiration going with some
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design concepts and once i did that i realized i was onto
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something and what i recognize is that there's nobody out there right now
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that is at the level that i'm sitting at i i wanted to take cannabis and bring it
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to a level that was totally respected and create a new
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um product line called cannabis couture lifestyle accessories
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i want to be the omiz of of cannabis i want to be at the workmanship at the taste level
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at the design the functionality i want this product to be field tested
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i want the best artisans in the world to tone my product and tell me where my mistakes are
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i want people to critique me to a point that excites me to the point of no return
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so my credentials is that i have friends in some of the highest design studios in the world
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and i bring them into my office and say i just created this now i'm a temple development 5
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ten different samples i'll make in one product and i'll go to my first sample i'll field
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test it after i feel tested i'll get a comment from the person that's working with my product
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and then i'll make a sample and then bring a designer or a technician and say i don't like the way you did this you
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need to fold it this way you need to you know cut it this way you've got to skive it that way so they're critiquing the
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product and making it better and elevating it so i've done that for the last five years
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just told me my product making sure that it's functional it's beautiful artwork
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it's creative and then on the other side of it is that i'm a user of the product the mindset so
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now i start worrying about my my consumer
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is going to purchase my product and then next thing you know they're going to start losing top you know parts you know
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they're gonna break things they're gonna stain things you know so everything in my product
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has that concept behind it that i need to protect my consumer from themselves
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really that don't break it or destroy it or get callous with the object
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it's interesting sorry i sort of cut you off it's interesting you talk about durability because as you were talking about testing it in the market i'm like
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i am the person that you want to test your ability with i i told my friend um shadow riser uh i
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will break your product and they're like there's no way you can break this product two weeks
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i broke the product like so they improved on on the durability so it's nice to see the durability is i really
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practically try my best listen everything is breakable if you want to abuse it you know oh i didn't i didn't
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try to break it you know i this is luxury so if you if
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you watch people that buy luxury i'm not walking into a head shop and
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buying a plastic joint tube and throwing it around all right now i have joined two it's a 300 bucks
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you know so you know you look at a person that goes into a chloe a chanel gucci prada and
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they dropped three five ten thousand dollars on a bag all over the floor and using it as mom
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right yeah you know yeah they're always very protective of it you know so the more money people spend on luxury
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the more they they're prideful of it you know they don't want to have it completely dirty but you know a woman
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that buys an hermes bag you know for ten thousand dollars it's not getting stoned
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you know in the clubs and dropping your back on table and [ __ ] spills on it
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you know but my products that will happen so i i try to protect it as best as i can just
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knowing that things like that could happen yeah so i noticed also todd mentioned that
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you've been consuming since you were a child and smoking and like buying it in back seats of cars
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and that was because of the legality of it um so was there like was it purely
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recreational when you started or like is that why you consume or is it a medical
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oh it was only recreational and it was a good way to you know bring friends together
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you know we would go out and buy a quarter pound and then divide it up and then after we divided it up you know
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everybody would go out and sell their share they're out and then they had to come back with 50 bucks and then when we had 200 dollars
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more we went out and got another quarter pound you know that's awesome he was in business even when he was younger
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you know come up with 200 bucks 50 bucks an ounce and then you know you roll your joints
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you know distribute what you need to distribute and get rid of it and get your 50 bucks back bring it back to the pool and then we'll
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go out and buy some more there was a way that we could get our head on you know it's a way that we could you know
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embrace our friendships together you know and we were always getting a good head on
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you you weren't just a consumer you i mean you were like you were in the industry already at that point like
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you're already running a business i wasn't in it for profitability you know i was more entrepreneurished than
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most of my friends so i always had the means to find them and create you know
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but what i would end up doing is is fronting the the funds up
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and then giving it to my high school buddies and then you know it's funny i'd have like the names on cards and you know
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every every day or so they'd bring me back ten dollars after they sold you know
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you get maybe 10 joints out of an ounce you know so you know they would dig it up they would smoke five and sell five
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you know get ten bucks a joint and we would just we would just run our
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our high school years you know doing that which was smoking pot in the 70s
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yeah yeah i was foolishly paying somebody else i was probably buying off your buddies dude like i'm like paying
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your buddy to smoke and you know yeah your plan was
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yeah you know completely different than today i live and work in manhattan and i've been a new yorker my whole life and
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now you know the last two years that i literally walk from my apartment to my office and i smell cannabis every day
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and not back as a kid you wouldn't ever smell it ever yeah that world to me when i hear these
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when i when i when we do these interviews and when do i see mj um just communicating with their friends in the
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industry because i grew up i grew up in the church i was i was the golden child you know like like like weed was was up
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there with you know heroin cocaine
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well to be fair uh quite honestly and i've tried to share this very openly is
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that um just by doing this podcast just by taking a positive stance
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not even by being a regular consumer i have received emails and text messages
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so i perform as a as a clean comedian as well and a lot of my gigs were within
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the church uh the church world because that's where my my roots were so that's where my connections were when i started
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doing comedy and i have i have received emails and texts basically saying are
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you going to continue to do this once kovid's over i'm sorry but we're not going to be able to book you for future events like just
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by being here it is it is not just seen as rebellion like i've pretty much given
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my soul over which is which is really sad it shows you how deep the stigma is yeah it's a huge stigma which is another
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reason why i'm loving you know in my business it took me almost probably a year and a
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half to weed out my design teams and my production teams
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at the beginning was glorifying the
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designer companies in new york like if a major designer in the world let's say
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ralph lauren called me up and said he needed another accessory designer i would find that designer for them or
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their technician and what i've noticed is that cannabis is is a product that you know you're a
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circle or you're a square and the two never come together all right
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so i hired a um a designer and he didn't smoke canvas
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and i was very leery about bringing him on staff and i told him that you're not a
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consumer and and that's the problem that i have with you and he made a
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comment to me and he goes you know jews wrote christmas songs
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all right but what he didn't realize after i turned it is that
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the jews wrote the songs but the gaium was sitting in the back and it really wasn't snow it was cocaine and they were
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sniffing and sniffing it at night they were partying right he couldn't put
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the circle in the peg together he would design things that were not functional that the products didn't fit in it
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it was really beautiful and the design concept was there but once you start putting the functions into the product
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you start you went from like a a a little purse to a suitcase you know yeah
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and the whole stack was completely gone so you know i i spent a lot of money a lot of time a lot of energy and now
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anybody that's on my team has to you know indulge in the product because they need to understand what it does
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they'll come together and you'll see my mind in the next few minutes on how in
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depth and how detailed and how you know how functional it is to the user and
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unless you use it you would never figure this out you would never see it you wouldn't know it right
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you know i mean i need to know you're how hot your torch needs to be when you're burning things you know
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yeah well when i went online and uh i checked out some of your products um i've never
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seen anything like well i mean like i've seen cases i've seen duke tubes so you were saying
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you you see the plastic boob tubes that you chuck around these are not that these are like
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my god if i pulled one of these out at a party like just the single dupe tube i would have a crowd of people around me
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going oh my god what is that because i haven't seen anything if you'd like i'll show you some of the product
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yeah yeah i mean yeah it looks like a like a candy like stuff i like the green i'm looking
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at the green you know the first thing about my product is that i i really and
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i i really want to protect my consumer i know i'm getting so
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i'm protecting them in every way shape that i can find in my product all right
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the design concept and and the vision of my product is what do you do during the day
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so there's different there's different product ranges within cannabis all right you've got you know
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cannabis flour you roll joints with it you can smoke it in pipes you know you
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have oils you have resins you have hash you have edibles and then so many other
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product ranges so with each product okay i designed i found that category
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i'm starting with cannabis uh flower and the concept there is what do you do
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during the day what do you do during the weekend what do you do what you do travel and it will follow through all
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the other categories so on a daily basis what do i do during the day
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i take a beautiful stingray i go to
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i wrap it it has my camellia color which is my signature color for the whole product
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it will pop open lock down easy access for cleaning
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so you can unscrew this this is all made in new york city
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i use the same tanneries that every major contour design in new york with this is what you do during the day
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i make them in two sizes and make them in joint size which is 98
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by 12 millimeter and one size which is 110 by 14.
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that's the days and then you can come into what you do on the
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weekends should be my american alligator doubles
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work the same exact way yeah okay i like the sound of me lock them down
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now in i guess five different shapes
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i do them in
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three french caskins in singles doubles joints and blunts
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everything is named after birds and this would be um swan
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and gold's finch okay so i do that in calfskin
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i do one stingray right now and then i do
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alligators okay on your and also
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and then i do five colors of lizard
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which would be a black lizard a brown beautiful blue
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yeah a neon pink and a beautiful neon green
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yeah and again these caps are really strong and really durable
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but they're not gonna break they're not gonna fall off and that they snap down an airtight why
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the bird why the bird names for everything you can go on my website and read about
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it but it's one of the two things in the world that you know it has the control of the earth
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it controls the skies the lands and the water you know it walks on land it swims
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in the ocean and flies in the sky there's nothing more beautiful than a bird you know with the colors and and
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and just how they are around the world and and just the most magnificent colors and
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chasing fighters you know it's just it's just nothing more beautiful the only thing maybe more beautiful is fish
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if you're lucky enough to see them because they live under the water so i generally don't go down there my owl is
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my my company logo wait when you first started um how many years ago when when
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did free minded startup you know this is around seven years from concept to you know okay product what was your launch
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product what was the thing that that you you invested in to get it off the ground and to enter this luxury market what was
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what was that product you know that's an interesting question and the answer is is everything that you
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see right now it takes so much time to develop yeah no doubt you know i just can't come
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out again okay so to come up with the design the concept the hardware you know the
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developing of it and and finding the skins at work and then you know the field testing it takes a year or two
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just to develop that you know and i'm not sitting home just saying well let's see what the factory does
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this week and hopefully i can launch with it yeah so you know i keep
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on firing different design concepts i keep on executing different design concepts
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you know everything is evolving so you know you got the two joints right
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so on my on my trip out to colorado and also out
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to la i walked into a store called max fields and i walked out of there saying
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to myself what would happen that willie nelson was in town
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and his roadies walked into max fields and wanted to buy him a canvas for
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and the the buyer in the store i asked that question and she shows me
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old tiffany cigarette boxes so i i went home and i started thinking
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to myself how do i design something that he would be proud of throwing on the table and
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people would say what is that right so my inspiration is max field's willie
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nelson is in silver peaks in colorado what i've come up with is i'm working with a factory in
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florence italy and i've created a crocodile three joint case holder
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looks like this very small
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but you can see here let's see if i can find the camera there's no stitch work anywhere on this
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product it's all handmade all hand molded a little hand tipped
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it's not beautiful yeah and on top of that you open it up
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wow and then i have this beautiful cherry wood in there nice hardwood and the reason why that's
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in there is because i worry that somebody's going to sit on it and crack it that's the technology
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well the nice thing about it is that this comes out oh wow okay you can come in there
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take your blunts and you can put blunts in there if you like okay lock it and close it
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so this is something else that i've been designing i have to have a beautiful
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pink and the really cool thing about it is if you take it to the clubs at night it will glow
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so it's reflective oh that's awesome so something very different
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do the neon green tubes also glow in the uv light i'm curious
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those are made in florence italy okay okay i would love to try to get that color i've actually asked my
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factory to try to get me some more some more skins to test yeah
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you know but those are very expensive those products you know they're all handmade hand molded you know they're
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also all hand lined inside there's no mold you know the work inside there is yeah
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it's work at all it's just amazing when you're paying for quality craftsmans craftsmanship like this is
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this is high quality product clearly it looks beautiful need to go for 2100 the
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neon and the alligator will go a crocodile brown will go for 2 000. if
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you go to dunhill and you want to buy one of these in a cigar case there'll be 5500. yeah
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wow which is just off the wall what else can i tell you show you i mean excuse me so this would be my home
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product for my travel case okay this is baskin all hand made in florence italy
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it has a hard shell so it won't crush this is all magnetic
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so it has magnetic fields to it all right open it up this is my storage box
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that's cool what i like about it is let me go this way
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is that it's this is friend excuse me turkish lambskin and again i'm worried about people's
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abuse to my product so you know the thc the cbd oil nicotine flavors saliva even
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windex for a day won't stain it so if you're at the clothes you get sloppy and you wake up in the morning you can clean
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it it won't be damaged inside is this beautiful you can stuff it with anything that you
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want inside i have here my joint tubes you know one hitter another joint two some rolling
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papers you can stash all your joints in there if you want three whole gallons whatever you like this is all magnetic
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so the box comes out come in here
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you got the cannabis inside yes you can lock it magnetic drops back in here you can
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put this in your bag your suitcase you stick it in your drawer you can stick it in the house anywhere to hide it from
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the kids that's awesome and it's a lot smaller than my little chocolate thing isn't it
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that's awesome and i make them in three colors same exact three colors before black
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navy and gold yeah see i can see you carrying my stuff
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yeah like this sorry there's a little bit of a delay um i i'm blown i'm blown like i'm
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mesmerized by this right now and and i think i i'm assuming that it's
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probably true for for maybe maybe mary jane as well but i mean i grew up because of the environment i
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grew up in and seeing all the pop culture stuff and that
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the the stigma that was there about the dark everything was dark dingy smokey
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dirty yeah like that was that was so much my perception like like what you're
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doing here is like is like and i've already seen in the short time i've been within the industry
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and and meeting with people that use cannabis and i've seen that oh you know there is a higher level there is a
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raising of the bar that is out there but this is like i i it's like i'm watching
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like some like amazing movie like i'm watching i'm watching what you've designed here and it's it's destroying
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that that stigma and it's clearly high fashion it's quite amazing i really want
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to elevate it and really show the beauty that we can bring to cannabis
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yeah i love that because you remember the commercials in the 70s with nancy reagan
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you know she drops an egg and she goes you know um you know this is your mind yeah this
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is drugs you remember that commercial you know and they put cannabis in that product range so you know
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that if you did this drug you would eventually go to another drug yeah and that's why it was so dark and
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scary you know yeah but in the 70s you got caught with a joint you know walking down the street
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it wasn't like a walk through the woods in a in a culture that is
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unfortunately feeds its its own stigma by remaining in that kind of
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that's that subculture did you did you see the risk though of investing in this and going would the
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regular cannabis user invest you know that much money into the
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product or would most of them just say look not at not my world you know i have four different people
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that look at my product i have some people look at my product and go wow 119 dollars for a joint tube
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too much money yeah then i have other people that look at my product
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and say i spend between two and three thousand dollars a month on cannabis
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and there's not enough storage in your product that i can put my stuff in
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then you have the consumer that i've been looking for which is the jet setters people that have money
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people that like accessories people that like to buy bags and shoes and watches you know and melts they like to
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accessorize when they see an accessory most people when they see an accessory they don't look where it's made they
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just say wow it's beautiful i have to have it okay those are the people that i look for so
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when people i just went on a couple shows and before the end of the show i had a couple of california growers come
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to me and it goes i don't care what you tell me but i'm going home with all this
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you know and that you can't right on the spot yeah and then my other consumer is wow
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this is really beautiful i have a friend of mine that i like to buy it for you know right
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so those are the kind of people that are into this bike it's not the everyday consumer most people are not going to
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spend 300 for a joint you know but for my valentine's day you
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know some gentleman is going to buy one of these
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they'll do something like that so you know you create product you know i'm
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also doing a vegan line so you know i'm doing my significant colors okay but i'm going to be doing it and
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vegan in the next couple of months because i know it's a big market that people have really been asking me for i want vegan they don't want animal
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products so vegan will definitely be on the line most probably another two months you'll start seeing it you know
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hit the website and possibly some of my you know retail stores that i'm going into well it's definitely like i um you
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know mj and i talk a lot about the uh the concept that not everything is
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for everybody so as a professional comic you know people are always saying you know does it does it bother you you know
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if a show doesn't go well and i'm like you know my responsibility is to provide the best comedy that i can provide and
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comedy is very subjective and there's some people that won't pay my fee to bring me in and there's some people that
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won't enjoy my comedy but there are other people who who will and
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um i think some people are afraid to like i know say for example in the comedy industry there are a lot of
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comics who lower their price way too much because they're like well no one's going to spend that much but then you realize
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that there are i come out of fashion and i watch companies do
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you know markups that are just ridiculous yeah you look at some of these big design bags a perfect example
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dunhill is selling the same exact piece that i'm selling for 5500
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and go right now on the website dunhill you know alligator crocodile cigar case
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same exact technology absolutely breathtakingly beautiful 5500 bucks i'm 2 000.
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yeah you know so yeah you know my market
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is my market i i have a direction that i'm trying to bring people to and show it and elevate it yeah you know do i
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have a lot of people on my bandwagon i think a lot of people are respecting what i'm doing you know yeah i think i want to see that
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i want the product or can't afford the product and i'm okay with that you know yeah i'm trying to bring this world to a
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luxury cat not just a head shop have you talked to justin bieber i'm an
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apparel i'm not in i'm not in music i'm not in comedy i'm not in in the arts
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i've been trying to get influencers to get to my desk you know i have my list of people i love to partner with
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you know i think i need to face a serious space behind my product that wants to promote it with me
31:48
what was the other thing that you were going to show us that you had in your hand before i went down a tangent so the uh apothecarist also has a vape
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case which is called the uh the traveler
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little tiny case exactly the same way all the magnetic locks
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the only difference is i'll get up
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this whole
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and then you can see here you can keep all your products in there
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lock it down magnetically i love the magnets all magnetic
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take your vape hands out if you like drop your case in here
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yeah and bring a pendant black shirt black pen doesn't help sometimes you see on a camera
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oh that's great lock it down again it comes in beautiful blue and also brown
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yeah
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and then the last one let me see if i can uh i'm gonna change the camera
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see this is the one i've been eyeing up the whole time yeah
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this one is called the diplomatic pouch okay i've seen this one online it's french cat skin
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it takes a man a whole week to create just one this has been field tested most probably
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now for the last four years probably around a dozen samples have
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been created you open it up
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and it's like a wallet the cool thing about it is all these pieces are magnetic
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so this is my stash box yeah this is my my joint holder on my pen case
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and this is my rolling tray oh wow
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beautiful workmanship yeah inside you can put your money or your credit
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cards in here the stitch work is just amazing
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yeah again the stitch work is just really really beautiful i love that just open the top
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buckle yeah i have a very special material that holds back the hem
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slide and slide down it you can keep your cannabis in here or
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you can keep your joints or you can keep some rolls if you like has a very high edge
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so it holds back the smell locks down nice and tight
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put that in there this is my
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joint case holder holds the joint tube
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sliding lined inside you can put a bait pen in here if you like
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or joint two or a joint snap it down
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right here is my grinding card which is this on the back of my grinding card
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is tools that's awesome
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that's great we'll take your rolling paper and pull it out okay
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it's just like cleaning it like filters you can use some hold this here
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a little white part here is for filters drawing filters you can keep filters in there if you
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open this up this will be your only trade very high ridge edge right in this
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corner so when you're rolling it won't fall off i feel like this is
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like a magical cannabis and you can grind it
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when you're done grinding it all you do is tap it and then when you're ready
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you'll like this feature oh my god and you just loaded your funnel right
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there you take the funnel cannabis and you drop it down in there
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come back awesome do your role on the tray you could do this on the beach you can do this any way that you want yeah
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if you don't like rolling papers then the cool part about it is that you can see if you use sticking on
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tubes fill it down with that tool what you the stash down your product into it
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now if you're not a cannabis user there's no way you would think of this no
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i feel like it's so funny last time was like now you can
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take my product and you can just take this and put it in your bag or your pocket during the day
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if you want yeah take a roll tray just alone by itself or if you want you can combine them
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stick that in your pocket and go so this is where all the field test is
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kept on telling me after you start creating the product you know
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and then when you're done just lock it down
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yeah see and this is why my storage case is so large because in order to fit the
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papers the filter the trays and
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how wait how much did you say how much did you say that was that that would be twelve hundred and ninety five dollars
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you have to realize well it's under price it's not machine made it's a guy's
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salary for a whole week is in there if you go to my competitors that would cost you five six thousand dollars
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no doubt i i feel like i've just watched the magic show todd like i didn't seem a little mad i felt like like i was i
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think she was laughing because i was leaning forward going i i don't even know what all that stuff does but every
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time you pulled out another contraption i'm just like this is amazing in fairness that's because he was getting
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into the the rolling part and as he was kind of like doing with the rolling tray like this i could see that there was a
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little opening where i just assumed you were going to just dump dump the cannabis out but like then hold
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on a little right now i was like oh yeah cones i was like this this is crazy not only is it luxury
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but it's functionable yeah it's functional are the best materials in the world in the best factories on the
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planet you know this is what you buy when you buy luxury you know the only difference is that i'm
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not making wallets i'm not making belts i'm not making handbags i've created a new cat a new category of luxury
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i don't think i would be able to break any of that stuff that i seen i think if anything i would lose it and then as i
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was thinking that i'm like no there's no way i would lose that because that would be like
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it would be more important than my phone it legitimately would because like that that would you call it the uh exec the
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executive they're showman pieces you know willie nelson pulls us out of his
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pocket and throws on the table and people go by yeah yeah especially if he pulled the pink one
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could you imagine i like like my beyonce or brianna you
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know yeah yeah oh it's gorgeous they're beautiful i'm doing them in leathers also i'm
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trying to bring the price points down what's the big all-in-one thing called again that's called the diplomatic pouch
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i actually make it in an alligator oh yeah see that was the one i was i was
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eyeing up the blue oh sexy that is that yeah sexy is the best word
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for this right now todd sex we like sexy as a word to describe what we're seeing
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yeah well you can see that i'm picking the best parts of the alligator
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this is the belly it's perfectly balanced in the pattern
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you can see here you know what is couture it's when you take something and you make art out of
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it you know not just cut it off so if you look at this box you can see that it's just one piece of belly alligator
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actually rolled it so it's still one skin completely around the whole thing oh wow
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i couldn't tell it's not even on that and made it cheaper but you want to make it really beautiful the
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same exact thing here with the join pen if you look at the join pen
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when i open it up it's going to change it's going to be belly skin the side side of the alligator
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oh this perfectly matches even down to the joint case
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so it's going to match here but then when you flip it over it's going to be a different
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afternoon oh yeah completely lined
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that's great so you know i'm really trying to elevate the privately elevate the industry with the product
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this comes in two colors which is the cobalt and also in the brown you asked me which was the first product
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that came to market and i came to market with four products
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and the reason why i came to four products but the time of evolution took so long to
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develop it that everything all my eggs were ready at the same time
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and even while i i'm developing even now that i perspective this i'm now
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you know trying to perfect an underwater waterproof joint tube
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nice as we speak you know there's so many other ideas and
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directions that i'm bringing this into you know that it just keeps on coming to the
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table you know the more people i talk to you know people i communicate with
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i see their interests i've been doing all the shows give me something for underwater give me some
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vegan you know those are easy to accommodate yeah you know but some of the other design concepts are very very you know
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you have to find the manufacturing you have to find the locations and you have to do all the field testing and then you
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have to make sure that your product is going to hold up to the quality in the workmanship that you expect to hand it
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to somebody you know every time i hand this it's me handing this to you
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yeah that's how i look at it it's me handing this to you this is an intention of my hand to give it to you
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so if i'm doing that it has to be absolutely beautiful it has to be the best
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and if it's not i'm just going to take it back and no questions asked here's another one well you're definitely uh
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um you're definitely achieving that goal like it's it's it's really my it's really mind-blowing
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and i'm sure i mean the sky is the limit now right i mean the number of products although that all in one case covers it
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all anyways but the number of products that you can elevate um and raise the bar in uh is is pretty substantial oh
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i'm going to be making you know wallets purses for women that's going to have
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trays in it and stash boxes and lighters it'll be just like this one
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magnificent bag that you can just go out at night and everything will be in there in in in the most beautiful
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designer bag and shapes and colors that you can find and guys that go to work
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will be having their little you know their little pouches with all their accoutrements sitting
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inside it also there's endless areas i can keep on going humidors breathtaking
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humidors that i'll end up doing when when you were showing off that all-in-one um
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diplomatic pouch i was already in my head i'm like if i had a pair of shoes
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that matched that pouch like so i'm like you need to make the shoes that match the pouch
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right because you know what the shoes on the couch the pouch in the hands
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too many sizes and shoes oh that's a good point or you could find a designer that you work with and be like yo you
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have the shoes and i have the pouch and we promote each other and yeah i will co-brand with anybody you
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know there's always mlqs but at the end of the day you know for me to kill brandon i am doing some
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co-branding with some some nice influencers you know so i'm doing tubes with them and other
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products that we're creating together so hopefully the next five to six months you'll start seeing some of the stuff in
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the market it takes time this is all hand done yeah you know if you gave me you know a five million dollar order and
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say have it in two months and it never happened it takes a week for a guy to make one yeah production line i have in a
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production line i must probably have five or six people making it now after their belt
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product you know pieces but at the end of the day if if you ask me to make a sample it
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will take me a week to make one sample right and imagine that you uh you
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you can kind of save some money on trying to hire a sales force because if you just go into any sort of gathering
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and put that down on the table like you were saying how willie nelson just drops it down or whatever you bring that you bring that
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diplomatic case and you just put it down somewhere i mean that that that sells itself i would immediately be coming
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over going um tell me about this thing how do i get that like like when you got a product that sells itself as much as
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this seems to be doing in my mind and i'm not even a consumer i'm just looking at going this is this is art and it's high quality and it'd be like that's
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that's beautiful um that's amazing what i really love about the diplomatic pouch is after i had my field test it was um
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you know designed and created with me and i've given it to some people that i
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i have tremendous respect for that are cannabis users and i'm waiting for their feedback you know like oh it's
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not enough you know space my cannabis oh the rolling tray is no good oh i don't like this oh i don't like that
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you know after you go into production and you finally dropped one in somebody's hands you're sitting there
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waiting for me to come out and say okay yes or no and when they come back the
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words amazing to me then you know i i figured i got something going on you know
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and they said it was amazing to find out why and then change it to those specs
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and you field test with a bunch of different people that you that you respect you feel tested with men and women young
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and old you know and also different group settings you know the old fees down to you know young
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levels and then seeing what those feedbacks and needs are from them it's just not like one guy and i say what do
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you think yeah you know you're trying to get the world's you know the potheads around the world you know brain
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you know what part of the mind and what part of the energy that you see in this product that you want to see more of you
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know let's just use the uh the diplomatic case as an example here
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um you've said how it takes about a week to make if you had to make one sample how
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long do you think it it was from from concept to going through that field testing process to
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you going this is it this is this is amazing like like is that like you know was that a
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couple years like i can imagine it doesn't happen overnight but i can tell
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you that from concept to production
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three and a half years possibly maybe four
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and i'll tell you also that my next generation there'll be a little
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twitches and little changes you won't notice but i will right like this bothers me
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you know you all recognize it but to me i know you know
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i know that i brought it to a 98 i can get to a 99 i don't know if i could ever
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perfect anything but i know i can get as high as i possibly can imagine to get
48:29
it too i have many beautiful eyes look at my products and critique me you know
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trained eyes not just mine but trained guys so i have trained that see i'm a fashion recruiter
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so i have the skill that most people don't have on the planet which is
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34 years of relationships of placing some of the finest artisans in fashion
48:54
and i can make a phone call and just say who does this what does this
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where can i get it and within one phone call you know i'm already in the factory where
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you get there tens of thousands of dollars to find it and then you have to beg the guy to get in the door
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yeah i just take one phone call and i'm in the door and then on top of that
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i place those people in the last 34 years so if i have a technical problem i can call my technicians up and say hey i
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need your help can you take a look at my product and tell me what i need to do so that's why i'm at this elevation of
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canada you know and the other thing is i love people i'm a personnel recruiter you know and i've
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helped so many people in their career paths that it's just the love of the people that i've taken care
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of have given back to love to me with their knowledge and just
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and and walk me through the process of designing and creating this magnificent product range
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you know just an absolute compliment to have them come back with the love that i've given them well it definitely goes
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to show um you know i i've been a big believer in the fact of
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you know using using your past you know the failures and the successes and and
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you never underestimate any human being you come across because you don't know how they're going to play a role in the
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future i mean and what you're showing here with this story is that you know all these different
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experiences and paths and people that you met all come together um to this place and who knows i mean 10
50:30
years ago did you think you were going to be making high quality cannabis accessories i would probably not i would
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imagine no no not at all i sit at this desk even today and saying oh my god i was using
50:42
the stuff smoking the stuff like crazy and now i'm back in the stuff you know
50:48
you never know where like you you know you just look at everything calibrated and try to make the best decisions and
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you know my career path that i took as a young man to be a high-end couture
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faculty food on 7th avenue in new york city you know it it metamorphosed me into the
51:08
direction of doing this it was like i'm always a believer that you don't go into a business unless you are an expert
51:15
in the field because in my business you'll lose your shirt if you spend the money
51:21
you know if you don't know the product and you don't have the knowledge of the product then you can't really understand
51:26
the product you hire people that's going to teach you and train you it's going to be very costly yeah but i have two things that
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that demanded me to stay into this field is my role that's the people
51:39
that i can just tap into and get i also come from a family-run apparel
51:44
manufacturing business so i understand about manufacturing and on top of that because i'm a fashion
51:51
recruiter i understand how to manufacture because i i place the
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people i understand the lingo i understand the knowledge of it and then
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for you you need to be a user of the product if you want to be in the game because you don't have to understand it
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yeah you know and for you to be better at something you have to be completely involved with it
52:12
yes and it can't be a sideline you know sideliners are never going to win you know because you're gonna drop
52:18
the ball you'll never figure out to put a funnel in that you know you'll never figure out to get a grinding tool and
52:23
put it on the tray yeah you know it's just you know you figure out other things maybe hinges and
52:28
things like that but at the end of the day to get down to the little tiny details that people love
52:35
you won't find unless you use products well i think if anything today todd you've you've managed though to
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uh to to talk to a newbie on adobe you've got the doobie who
52:48
is you know all all like open-eyed regarding like those little tiny details
52:53
and you've got a newbie who's just going um i i may not understand all those little intricate details of the cannabis
53:00
use but i understand art and high quality and passion
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and all of what you are exhibiting in terms of the product uh
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like you've ta you've show you've showed us something today that that has i think captured uh the attention of both the
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newbie and adobe which which is very difficult to do in the cannabis industry well i i personally um i've always
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believed that it's either fashionable or functional it's never both
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and i think you've just proven me wrong with your your line there because it's beautiful it's high quality and it's
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functioning it's got everything you could possibly need you wouldn't have to carry
53:42
like i was just telling timmy earlier actually i carry around um an ammunition box is what i carry my
53:49
cannabis in when i travel it's got my tray it's got my like my papers my filters everything um
53:56
take a picture please that that case the diplomatic um case is
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it's incredible it does everything that her ammo box does yeah and it's
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mine's like it's an ammo box i was telling timmy i need a makeup case a pull-along makeup case to carry all of
54:14
my stuff because i do the trade show is everybody comes over to me and shows me
54:19
their storage units yes of how they they carry their products and i'm just
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laughing the whole time i'm like how can i be the only person to figure this one out
54:30
you know it just doesn't make sense you know i've
54:35
seen some interesting little boxes made for people but it's just garbage there's no design
54:42
into it it's just like hard plastic it's always something that a stoner has seen somewhere
54:48
it was something we've seen somewhere and thought i could put wheat in that right it's nothing it's nothing
54:54
beautiful or whatever it's just yeah it's it's functional it's not fashionable that's why i'm saying this
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is both it's got everything well i was a kid we were making we were making bonds out of our um
55:08
we would steal beacons out of outside out of school a little hard black plastic a little
55:15
backward plastic we drilled two holes put a screw in one screw a bowl on it
55:20
right and then we would take that you know the drip rot the drip uh tubes
55:26
right yeah put it onto the thread and then we would take a knitting needle and we would cut the back of that and put it in
55:32
as a mounties and then we would drop a tube down and put water in it make bombs out of it
55:38
because there was a lot of just nothing but when we were kids it's one thing that i've noticed about about the cannabis
55:44
brain uh it finds a way to um accomplish the task like like she's
55:51
taught me on the show here we have a section called oh she will find a way to take care of your head absolutely
55:58
well she she's taught me how to like you know how to make a bong out of a water bottle and a pen and i'm just like man
56:04
you you cannabis people you got a brain that that is at is a another level well clearly look at this product
56:14
you would think i smoked a lot of it as a kid i just don't care well todd we uh did my share
56:21
we we we really thank you for uh spending time with us today and showing this stuff like uh mind blown um just just amazing
56:29
amazing art and functionality and uh we really we wish you the best in this we know
56:35
clearly it's it's one of those things that's it's not for everybody but there is definitely an audience for it and i'm
56:42
just excited every time i come across somebody who is attempting to raise the bar and
56:49
you're not just raising the bar here but what i've seen here today is is lifting the bar you know here's where the world
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record was and you went i'm not gonna go here i'm gonna go one more up and uh it's just it's so exciting to me to see
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people um really taking the level of quality um to to a place that uh hasn't
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been done yeah fixing those tweaking those little things that only you will notice but
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thank you because as a consumer i'm sure those differences do make you know they make the difference
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you have to love the product we're going to put links to all of your stuff uh in the
57:26
podcast and in the youtube um is there anything though that you would like to to share
57:32
um in particular i think you mentioned like youtube channel if there's anything you'd like to share to our listeners and our and the people watching right now
57:38
about how they can best find you and find out about your products what would that be you know i'm located at uh 34th
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street seventh avenue in manhattan i'm underneath new yorker my whole life
57:49
and um free minded is definitely the crossroads of the fashion industry
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you can find me at freeminded.com or you can find me on instagram
58:02
we are free-minded um even if you don't buy just please take a
58:08
look at my website if you like the product you can just click on the website and say what you like
58:13
dislike i love recommendations you know people have creative design
58:18
concepts and ideas i'd be more than happy to work with you guys
58:24
to create some more beautiful products the concept behind my business is really elevated to
58:30
a level that nobody's ever seen before i'm hoping that i've done that i know i have done that because the
58:38
accolades that i get from everybody is just really fantastic and i'm going to continue to do this process
58:45
my team around me is just maybe they see maria who's just off the wall helping you all the time
58:51
you know it's just uh you can see the pudding it's it's really beautiful
58:56
it has a great taste to it so everybody uh please uh connect yourself with free mind at freeminded.co or um there's a we
59:04
are free-minded on instagram as well they're on youtube stuff so uh find them take a look the product and i thought
59:09
that was a great point you just said there todd even if you're not um you know maybe you're not even a
59:14
consumer um but you know somebody that i mean these are these would be some amazing gifts you don't even have to
59:21
understand all the intricacies but uh but the person you're giving it to would and probably would really appreciate it
59:26
so thank you again todd uh we really appreciate it uh listeners and watchers connect with free-minded and
59:32
see what else is going on there thank you so much
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