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Play Hi Stay Hi Get Hi w/ Guest Elizabeth Becker | HiBnb, 420 Rentals, Vapourizers & Cancel Culture | Ep24
The Noobie & The Doobie are joined by HiBnb founder Elizabeth Becker to discuss this much needed void filler within the cannabis space. Timmy & Mj also discuss vapourizers, the power of branding and things that should be banned...including cancel culture.
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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.
On this weekly podcast, 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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hi i'm timmy and i'm mary jane he's the
newbie she's the doobie and this is the
show where we'd we tote cannabis talk
from both sides is that even possible
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hey everybody welcome back to another
episode of the newbie and the doobie my
name is timmy i am the newbie mary jane
also goes by the name the doobie coming
up on today's show we've got our high
five we have a word of the week and we
i'm so excited we have elizabeth from
high b and b
hi b b there's there's so much that we
uh we want to find out about high b and
b we've had we've as traveling
especially with touring as a comedian um
we started using um airbnbs yes um as to
kind of a trial after coming off of you
know hotels and just kind of that
transition and there are some very
um some nice places oh this is very nice
places but there were there were things
that we found right away
that as a cannabis
with you as a cannabis consumer that
high b and beef uh is i think it's i
think it's ingenious and it definitely
there is a need for it ingenious so
we're going to talk with uh with
elizabeth about high b and b in a little
bit um
mary jane it is uh before we get to that
it is
a banned books week
yes and we wanted to take a little bit
um a time just to to talk briefly before
we get into the show we thought it was
an interesting you know for me the first
thing i thought of when we found out it
was banned books week and by the way um
love your outfit and i know you've kind
of connected it to banned books week so
maybe bring that up here before i go
into where i'm going was the librarian
yeah i went with the librarian yeah yeah
that is that's see the high school
librarian people say hey oh i don't like
to read it it's like well maybe your
librarian you know
should have looked like me
maybe you should have had a i don't know
maybe you shouldn't say that anyways
the point is um
growing up how i grew up in a very
conservative um
religious uh church um environment
um
cannabis to me was one of the
uh forbidden fruits the the a band item
yep
you you it's like like let's let's not
only
uh not talk about it let's pretend it's
simply not there like it's just go let's
let's ban this this this it's all banned
now
what we find is when you ban span people
from so especially when you're young the
things that are banned you can't hang
out with that friend
yeah that's the friend that you want to
end up go hang out with right
so when we found out it was banned books
week um there is that connection to the
world of cannabis and how in some
people's lives it is seen as this you
know don't go there
let's ban that and i think there's
there's a whole lot of conversation
missing when you ban anything i think
you know the concept isn't
not to get rid of stuff but it's about
to have the discussion about those
things and hopefully mature people
evolving people cultures whatever it may
be can have those discussions
that
can then deal with those things but i
don't i don't think necessarily
hiding them banning them burning them
and pretending they never existed um is
the answer i think conversation is and
that's why we do this show
you need to learn from your mistakes not
just erase them
right that's actually a great way to say
it uh did you know that canada actually
doesn't ban books did you know that i i
didn't until you started researching
because i was like well what books have
been banned in canada and they're like
i'm not finding them because canada
doesn't ban them no there's a bunch of
books out there that are have been
challenged but we currently don't ban
and i stan i stand by
something like that like we said i don't
think banning is necessarily a good
thing it's like that cancel culture
right yeah
absolutely i'm going to actually talk
about that a little bit oh is that in
your high five maybe who knows uh we're
gonna do a high five list here we're
gonna do word of the week we're gonna
bring elizabeth becker in from high b
and b it's gonna be a great show thank
you so much for joining us whether it be
on youtube or through um whatever pod
catcher is out there right now but i'll
tell you what if you want to see the
librarian and other outfits we've worn
over the last 20-plus shows
youtube really is the place to see us um
so my high five list today is um
high five
five things that i would ban i know you
just said but timmy you said you don't
ban anything listen
there are certain things i okay
um
i'm curious to hear this i will i will
be inconsistent
on this i think everybody's inconsistent
in everything anyways we like to pick
and choose like the word irregardless
yeah right that's inconsistent in
inflammable is that flammable or not
flammable is it inflammable that means
it's flat no it means it's flammable
well that doesn't make sense exactly
okay it's like irregardless
five things that i would ban okay okay
number five
recreational speedos i'm not going to
say ban speedos completely not sports
speedos no listen just right australians
invited the speedos good idea gone bad
okay they invented them for olympic
swimmers helping to go faster in the
pool it's the people though who end up
buying and wearing speedos um that would
never be confused for an olympic athlete
or a casual walker in most regards
that that is why we need to to abandon
this big beer bellied men yeah and it's
not necessarily banning the speedo in
general it's banning the uh maybe it's
banning the lack of educating the the
person selling the speedo there should
be just certain rules and guidelines
like we were just at uh wonderland yes
there was a guy listen usually it's the
older larger mostly hairy gentleman
wandering the beaches scarring our
innocent children right it's usually
that this guy was a a young guy fit
wearing the speedo but in general making
everybody else
okay so
i need to just point this out if you
have not seen the movie grown-ups
you need to go just look up grown-ups
saskatchewan
just google this on youtube
grown-ups saskatchewan and there's this
guy
and he is legit
that's who was at wonderland not like
the actor but but like physique wise
and and he comes over hey ladies
from saskatchewan and just his poor
friends one of his friends was standing
beside him uh covering his belly one of
them one of them was like arms over his
chest the other one was like hands over
his stomach the other one had his hands
over his his like lower like don't don't
do that to your friends so can we let's
just ban the recreational no there's no
need unless you're unless you're
literally planning to go into that
children's water park and do like laps
and try to beat your best time i'm like
my eyes got big no no if you're going to
the children's water park do not wear a
speedo
yeah exactly so ban those i don't think
anybody's going to disagree
ban the tooth fairy now listen to me
what oh i would agree with that okay
here's the thing but i don't know if
it's the reason that you would say i ban
the tooth fairy because of this
the tooth fairy causes one major problem
okay we all know look i don't know where
you're all at in life okay so i'm not
here to confirm or deny things but well
maybe i should let's just say it look
we're all adults now look the two we
know the tooth fairy is not real but
here's what the tooth fairy does the kid
sits there loses teeth people bring them
money in my can my my kids case um they
would get like uh what do they call the
what were those animals webkinz a
full webkin that's what that that's what
inflation did by the way so number one
tooth fairy
no tooth fairy is like went from a
quarter when i was a kid to like like 25
stuffed animals the inflation rate of
the tooth fairy is killer the second
thing though it does is that it causes
people to doubt the existence of santa
claus so you put this thing in they
trust this tooth fairy thing they find
out as real or fake and then they start
doubting santa claus there is no place
in our world to raise children up in a
world that causes them to doubt santa
claus the tooth fairy is a main cause of
that rid the world of the tooth fairy
number three on my list of things that i
believe should be banned elongated
exercise counts listen i do a yoga
course online
i cannot stand when she does this it's
like you're down there you're holding
your plank and she's like three
two
hang in there you're doing great and in
my head i'm like you're supposed to be
at one already do not start your
countdown do not start your countdown if
you're a lot ready to actually play out
the countdown ready we only got three
she does this sometimes she got we got
one more of those to do then we'll go
through a rotation and she's like now
let's do one more but with our breath
and i'm like no you've said one already
like so my mind is prepared to only do
one elongated exercise counts if you do
that you should be banned from the
exercise mentoring community and like
their union you know what i'm saying
yeah i don't know the last time i tried
to work out from some video from youtube
i'm pretty sure she forgot
she did three on the left side and two
on the right and then she just moved on
and i was like
i don't think that's right
basic request it was left
that's not right but it was left yeah
basic requirement for teaching exercise
learn how to count and learn how to do
rhythm you just you got to do that do
not be consistent don't go three
two
just count three two one mentally it's
what we need number two on our list of
things that should be banned clowns get
rid of them the world doesn't need them
at all they are literally the scariest
thing in the world nobody ever i would
never say if somebody showed up in a
clown outfit to my birthday party i
would never ever say hey
great news everybody a clown is here
that would never come out of my mouth
clowns are the scare you watch movies
you why you read book clowns are
absolutely terrifying they made a whole
movie about a scary clown it
it
excuse me and uh wasn't there like
clowns going around
scaring people a couple of years ago
yeah because the clowns are terrifying
concert they this is before the pandemic
i don't know how they've squeezed clowns
through our children's system but i
think we ban clowns maybe they served a
purpose at some point back in black and
white television or something but not
not anymore now that you can see them in
full color scary no matter what you look
at ronald mcdonald everyone said oh look
how a fun little clown no no it
literally kept me from buying hamburgers
for the longest time and number one
thing that i think should be banned in
our world don't ban books
don't ban music but ban
people that ban things ban cancel
culture i want cancel culture ban
banning ban banning cancel culture is
one of the worst things that has
happened to our society every single one
of us has done something in our past
that we don't want brought up even the
people who are trying to cancel other
people for things that they've done in
the past let's not wipe out the past
let's let's recognize the past let's
let's accept change let's see if people
are still the people today that they
were 10 years ago don't look at a tweet
that i sent 10 years ago and cancel me
because of that check to see if what i'm
doing now still lines up with that tweet
and then make a decision but this whole
cancel culture that is not based on what
is currently happening but on stuff
that's been dug up from people's past
don't cancel old books don't cancel old
music don't cancel old tweets
realize that people
as cultures do we grow
we change and we make mistakes along the
way but those mistakes are all important
in helping us get to where we are and if
you cancel all those things and you
erase them from history then the next
generation has nothing to look back on
to learn from so we need those mistakes
so you read a book and you're like i
don't agree with this book don't burn
the book don't get rid of the book don't
ban the book have a conversation with
your children have a conversation with
the people in your community and go you
know what
let's talk about why this was wrong but
let's not try to pretend it didn't
happen let's not try to pretend that
people didn't think that way let's talk
about it and and so i think this cancel
culture should be banned and people that
want to ban things should be banned
let's understand that we all are growing
and every single one of us has something
in our past that we wouldn't want
somebody to know about not because
we we necessarily are like that now but
because we we just real don't want that
effect how people see us now because we
have changed we have bettered ourselves
i want to go one step further and maybe
maybe say that we might be ashamed
that we would have even done or thought
or said
anything like that because i feel like
just like when you learn to walk
you fall
and you're gonna fall you scrape your
knee and you're gonna have scars um
people are learning how to walk
and they're falling and they have some
nasty scars but they don't need people
to point it out
it's a scar it's a it's a past wound and
and we have to deal with that deep down
inside ourselves that's why i say it's
change it's it's abcdefg
h i j k l m n o p always be changing to
eventually finding growth i love that
always be changing eventually finding
growth so there you go band cancel
culture i've said it right here on the
show
cancel cancel culture cancel cancel
culture all right let's do your word of
the week and all right and hey let me
just say this elizabeth becker with a
high b and b yes um when she comes in
here
that is that is a example
of um
changing and adapting
a culture from hotels moved into airbnb
and then someone like elizabeth comes
along go wait a minute there's still
another way to
there's still something missing to
branch off of that to improve it to you
know to fill in another gap yeah and
that transition happens in all things
yeah and that's what that's that's what
we're going to talk about today and and
my word of the week would have been very
handy that time you and i went to stay
at
that airbnb that we had trouble with
okay because my word is vaporizer
oh okay okay so a vaporizer can be
portable or stationary it can be like a
bigger desk model or a small portable
one
excuse me well i
it can be for
portable dried flour extremely portable
and small
it can be
for dried flour or concentrates this one
here is
just a little pod a pax pod this is the
pax era
that you literally just purchased this
from the
cannabis store local to you or the
ontario cannabis store and you pop it in
and you would just inhale it has a lip
sensor technology anyways enough about
that
so how it works if you were to have a
dried flower it works a little
differently you would put the flower
inside
but there's a heat element
and what that heat element does is it
raises the temperature of the product
that you put in there to a certain
temperature without actually putting it
past the point of con combustion
so
if you've ever heard the phrase
it's not smoke
it's vapor
right yeah yeah that's what people are
referring to it's not a smoke so there's
no actual
carcinogens that are being burnt in the
process so they say it's supposed to be
healthier
so you're getting less carcinogens less
smell
and because it's a vaporizer chances are
unlike a joint it's not burning the
smokes not running up the joint and up
your hand it's not gonna like you're not
gonna smell it as much
and the beautiful thing about a dry herb
vaporizer
is
if you vape the cannabis until a dark
green or a light brown color
you can then take that dried flower and
set it aside
so i'm getting pasty mouth here
is that a side effect of consuming i
thought it was of course dry mouth
cotton
cottonmouth
um so if you take your uh
already vaped material and set it aside
you can then use that to infuse your
butt up
butter i just tried to confuse infuse
butter and edibles together
butterballs
not not something that would no i
wouldn't although it sounds funny
butterballs okay so you would you would
take that flower and infuse your
cannabis
butter or into cannabis butter i'm like
getting lost in my words right now
however um
what you're doing when you're vaporizing
the product in your vaporizer is you're
actually decarboxylating it
which is an important step i think we
might have talked about decarboxylation
yeah so uh
it's it's extremely important when
you're making edibles to take the time
to decarboxylate and you can do that by
already vaping your material
so then you get twice as much usage out
of the same flower
so once again vapor you're maximizing
and eat it yeah all right yeah vaporizer
and less smell
helps when you're in um and last thing
before we bring in elizabeth here so so
you can can you legally use a vaporizer
in a
non-smoking building
if it's a non-smoking building it's a
non-smoking building
so even though it's vapor not smoke
yeah
okay
all right
we'll get into that maybe elizabeth can
talk to us about that i will say that
the volcano
was one of the only
devices that the government actually
said
yes that is a medicinal cannabis device
and they actually allowed it to be a
write-off on certain people's taxes okay
so they did see it as a extreme
medicinal okay so there's there's some
work to be done there yeah are we ready
can we bring in elizabeth elizabeth
becker from high b and b all right
okay producer
yeah let's bring in elizabeth
and there she is elizabeth becker with
high b and b all around you good to see
you hi
hello hi thanks for having me do you
like saying hi at the beginning when
people say hi b and b is that kind of
like a branding thing now
you know what we're kind of using the
word hi to um as an adjective as an
adjective for a high b and b adventure
so like you're become a high host or
take a high adventure
or a high accommodation
so it's kind of we're working it into
the language a little bit soon you're
going to be able to copyright hi
everybody's going to be so mad
well i actually tried to so i mean it
may not work if if if we can't go
forward but hostiles international uses
the word high in front of
names of cities like high toronto is
hostiles international toronto
so we're using it in a slightly
different way but we couldn't copyright
it
we may have to stop i wonder if it's a
spelling thing
could you add the gh
and if it would change it
could but our high b and b is h i b and
b then we have to change our change it
to h i g h people will be confused right
that's all branding i understand
so
elizabeth talk to us about high b and b
like we we have traveled and we talked
about at the beginning of the show i
toured professionally as a comedian for
over a decade um hotels were the thing
to do for the longest time airbnb became
this weird and wonderful world to try
and then when i when i went into the
airbnb world with mj as a non-consumer
i never thought it would be an issue but
very quickly we realized that there were
some places that caused issues or
maybe they didn't cause it we just
weren't aware of all the situations
around it and then high b and b comes in
and right away we recognized it as a
filling a great need uh in the world so
talk to us about how it got going why
you started it and where you think it's
going
well that's great thanks so much i'm
glad you get it some people don't get it
you know we're finding that some people
are like well why don't they they just
can't really understand
the need so much people can walk outside
or maybe they can vape but
um
i i i did it to celebrate the community
actually
uh cannabis culture and cannabis
community we
like
i don't think that we need to be
traveling and just like brushing it
under the carpet
uh we don't need to do that anymore
right and it's okay i'm a cannabis user
and
i want to be open about that and i want
to know that the person's cool about it
where i travel to
so
i just wanted to get behind that a
little bit
um i i love cannabis culture the best
times in my life is when i get high with
people because they accept me for who i
am
right and for me that's the intimacy
that's the feeling of closeness and
i love the plant the plant does um
you know brings me lots of little
wonders and things like that so i just
kind of got carried away in like
honoring the plan and wanting to give it
away to people and encouraging people to
give it away a little bit or at least
encouraging people to connect
socially and and support
you know the lifestyle
without having to
be in you know hiding in in any way
because it's legal right so
that's how i feel yeah i am
i have lost security deposits from
hotels because they thought i consumed
in the hotel room
even though
i just rolled a joint in there
we had an issue with an airbnb
because i rolled a joint inside and left
my weed box inside the house and they're
non-consumers and he called me freaking
out
i can smell it from the third floor
okay but i didn't smoke it i didn't do
anything wrong like you said it's legal
now all of a sudden i'm stuck at this
person's house because i can't get a
refund
because
i'm uncomfortable now
like and you never know when you're
gonna come in touch with somebody who is
like highly like can't um tolerate it in
any way you don't know when those people
are gonna
come across them like joey yeah like
imagine if that was joey's house yeah a
comic that uh i brought up here for a
tour
we found out very quickly that he was
highly allergic to it and mj went to
extreme um
extreme circumstances whatever maybe to
make sure that she was washed up and
cleaned every time before interactions
with them but that's that's the thing
with something like hotels and
airbnbs so it's nice to have places that
that really have it and it's surprising
to me that there are people that don't
understand
the need for that or for the concept
behind here because it seemed pretty
obvious to me
well and it goes a step further it's not
just accommodations like you were saying
hi adventures right that itself like
cannabis consumers we like
stoner comedy for example but we also
just like comedy but we want to smoke a
joint before
we like yoga we like paint classes we
like walks in the park we just want
things to do with a safe space to
consume and not to have people look at
us
like we're
we're bad people
right
so what what was it that was the actual
spurring on moment like you have you
been consuming for like your life
um
i would say yeah okay since i was a
teenager
and he's always attracted to it for some
reason um
recreationally i'm guessing
recreationally at that age i liked it
because it made me feel slightly out of
control
and i actually felt more comfortable
feeling slightly out of control and
needing to control myself all the time
like there was some freedom in the way
that i felt that i could just
let go of that you know so i i've always
liked that and i moved to from ontario
to british columbia
uh when i was about 20 years old and i
was
couldn't believe the difference in
attitude there
you know there there was not a negative
stigma on it like the police just looked
away really
everybody could acknowledge the positive
benefits of it and i could feel like
there was every year everybody you know
the people would get together towards
legalization of cannabis and i knew it
was coming
i could just feel it you know
so did you have did you have a moment
though a bad experience in in say the
accommodation world if we just look at
high b and b
that made you go you know what i i i got
to be the agent of change here
no i didn't have an experience like that
you just you just said hey i gotta i
gotta do something
yeah it mostly happened when canada
legalized and i was so excited about it
legalization and i think everybody was i
wanted to like i i come from the film
industry so i wanted to see the
commercialization of cannabis that got
me really excited i want to watch like c
plus tv commercials where it's on
cannabis right i don't know it's visual
i just got excited about the
commercialization of what does it mean
it's going to be legal and it didn't
really happen like that like you could
only buy the products that have certain
words on them and the big disclaimers
and they all look exactly the same and
you can legally buy it but you can't
legally do anything else and there's
still stigma that pertains them and i
thought this isn't what legal looks like
you know i was so upset a lot of people
were disappointed right and it was there
are even not that many places where you
could buy it and and
i just feel like something sort of weld
over me in me and i said well god i'm
gonna do this before and the americans
come and do it for us because i lived in
la for five years right and they've got
such a great attitude towards making
money and entrepreneurship and and
they like buy our wood and then sell it
back to us they buy our water and then
sell it back to us
yeah that's right i mean the canadians
we just get totally overtaken by the
americans and i'm so proud to be
canadian and loving cannabis and so
excited for what we could do
and um that's that's was really you know
my disappointment and then i just got so
frustrated well i'm not going to sit
around and wait and watch and then tell
you i told you so and i just jumped in i
i started looking at a business plan i
started trying to raise funds and
i came into a lot of people who said i
love that how can i help
yeah and so
that to me those were the signs okay
let's keep going let's keep going and
it's gotten bigger and and harder and
i'm still you know working it and
modeling it um and that that was sort of
my plan it's like okay well step in
try to get into the industry and i
didn't know anybody in the industry at
all i'm not sure how i was going to get
in
and then just adapt to how the industry
needed us to because it was so early
nobody knew how it was going to develop
we're still in really early years
yeah no i mean you're a trailblazer i
guess you you had some at least you had
a similar model out there like an airbnb
obviously it created a sense of like
when that came out people were like whoa
what is this thing so you had you could
see that somebody tested it you know the
model works
but uh certainly hard to be the
trailblazer on any sort of tangent
um
did was was the high adventure and the
high
fill in the blank was that always part
of the vision
like all the pieces of hi something
no
no that just evolved really
so it started out as
accommodations and well it started just
modeling it after airbnb so like just
taking airbnb exactly and making it for
for the cannabis community so that would
be accommodations and what their
experiences were but i didn't feel
comfortable calling it experiences
because for me if you
um you know introduce cannabis then all
of a sudden it's an adventure whatever
you're doing is an adventure right so
it's just more fun and so
i focused on accommodations and
adventures and then
i understood that there was an
advertising side an opportunity for
advertisers who couldn't con who
couldn't connect with the market because
of all the legislation
um and as i was explaining before i have
a passion for
for commercialization
kind of you know
and so i saw that there are three
different arms right there
accommodations adventures and
advertising and it was only as we were
developing the website that trying to
figure out you know with the copywriter
what words should we go what you know
how should we how should we say it and
um i think a marketing company maybe
came back with with a stay high term and
so we just
realized that it could be adapted to
play high and then for advertising i
assigned get high to it so when you go
to the site you can do three things you
can play high stay high or get high and
i think that's the strength of the of
the business really it's so simple you
get to the website and you know what you
know it's very clear what you can do
although get high is like looking at
advertising and connecting with cannabis
businesses adjacent businesses and
producers and retailers sounds like
you've nailed the branding part
yeah
that's so awesome yeah i like the smiley
face
yeah no because who's not happy when
they're high when they're high except me
when my bowling score drops no i meant
this high
like when they're you know on a high
adventure or
you know a high b b
so elizabeth
um some people
would perceive the
the cannabis community or kind of even
the cannabis friendly community as being
a very very small community and are you
surprised at how many
accommodations
were able to like connect with you like
it was was there more than you thought
did you think it was gonna be harder to
find those places
oh it's definitely harder to find those
places we haven't connected with near
enough
so we've got our work cut out for us not
just going forward to the cannabis um
community to say hey who wants to
support the community so the canada fam
can stay here we have a lot of people
who are sort of cannabis um
enthusiasts
and and we're getting some listings from
them but but really when most people
travel they want to go to high-end
places it doesn't necessarily want like
a room in somebody's house or or
somebody who's who's has a grow
operation in their house although those
things are that's a great way to travel
too
but we need to connect with what what's
called the professional host
so it's just taking a lot of time it's
all in in the pipelines we've been
working with uh consultant in europe
where airbnb is huge and there's a lot
of companies who have kind of come
together to go against the airbnb
uh monopoly and so they they created a
system with the back end of the site
that brings on the electronic host like
when you're um a property an owner you
connect to a property manager and
property managers connect to these
channel managers and so we have to build
um integrations to the various channel
managers and there's there's hundreds of
them
to connect with the software systems
where the
owners are connected and so then they
can just
click a box and come over to our site as
well
when we assign certain values on them we
ask them all where is smoking permitted
um
you know what are your attitudes towards
smoking do you have a dispensary that
you can recommend near you can you
connect
um people who are coming to the cannabis
community and so those are those are
some of the variables and factors that
we assign and discuss with the hosts
which i'm curious because
i think it's just stupid let's just say
it's just stupid for a hotel
to not contact high b and b
all you need to do is provide somebody
with an outdoor space where they are
able to consume cannabis
most cannabis consumers are responsible
we're not throwing our butts on the
ground
not leaving bottles lying around
put out ashtrays advertise it as a
cannabis friendly
hotel
no smoking inside
and i guarantee you you would sell out
every weekend
that's that's amazing i have to say that
there is still a lot of stigma and we
talked to to property managers and some
of them have a knee-jerk reaction it's
like i don't want a cannabis user in my
place you do you've already had them i
guarantee it
i know
that's here do you have something to say
there
no i was i was just thinking that that's
actually a really good point is
people would be surprised i was
surprised as a newbie
um at how many people
were consuming cannabis that you never
knew were consuming cannabis
like
but i often talk about the pop culture
like image right with the the person who
uh is lying on their couch half dress
just playing video games with a slab of
pizza beside them um that's the cannabis
user and then you know as as i've grown
up and matured and met more people and
and as i've been in mj's world over the
last few years you know you see the the
doctors the lawyers the entrepreneurs
the very successful businessmen
and women and you get um and then we're
talking we had mimi cannabis on who was
talking about the 55 year olds and over
who now are finally like embracing this
thing they had to hide for years because
of stigmas in their communities
um and you realize that
a lot of us have been dealing with
cannabis smokers for our entire life
and people are just like oh i don't want
to talk to cannabis smokers it's like
they literally
are living next door to you you just you
just don't know and they're nice people
right why is there a line between us and
them that's the stigma right if there's
some kind of stereotype or immediate
association negative association do you
have
any way i don't even know if you would
have a way to know this base unless you
had personal conversations but
are there people
hosting on high on high b b
that
don't consume but are like but i'm
cameless friendly i'm i'm okay with this
yeah there's lots of people interested
in that okay
i i've heard back from a host saying
look i allow smoking people in why
wouldn't i allow cannabis users and i
don't use it myself but we shouldn't
discriminate them
which is funny because they don't ask
you when you book a room at a hotel
if you smoke cigarettes they just say
there's no smoking in the room
so why would they not be willing to
advertise on another venue that's crazy
so what what what is your what is your
goals going forward here like um we've
been wanting to talk to you for a little
while we've been wanting to just kind of
connect with you in general we think
your idea is amazing we think what what
you're doing is very cool
this is the first time i'm hearing about
i figure there are struggles in every
business but being able to hear some of
your struggles now
what what what needs to be done what can
be done what are your next steps like
how do you break through
the walls that are currently there
well we i think we need to have a bigger
awareness
it's hard to market we don't have a lot
of marketing dollars so if everybody
could tell their friends that we exist
that would be really helpful because
there's just a lack of awareness we
already have some great adventures
listed there
um the ones where the hosts have like
their in house
um email list and where they're
promoting on their own sending the link
these are all selling out but we're not
able to reach to such a big you know
group of people so we need help to
to promote really and and
let other people know that we exist
that's where we're at right now we've
got um
an activation happening on one of our
adventures art in the park and we're
partnering with
shelter cannabis and
spirit leaf little italy so that's sort
of you know not
in terms of my vision for the business
it's not just offering accommodation but
it was really bringing together the
industry and so i'm excited to be able
to have this opportunity where we can
and our hosts are excited to have this
opportunity where we can promote legal
products
support the producer
benefit also because the dispensary is
offering discounted
cannabis
you know specifically associated with
this promotion to the host and to the
guests of the event
and that's you know from for me that's
that's it and i can't wait until it goes
down and and hope that other people can
see it so that we can start
exercising it a little bit more and i
just i'm looking for people to help i'm
looking for people to work i just wish i
was making enough money that i could pay
the staff that i need to start building
it because these are the growth pains
like we're across canada right now which
is great but our us site is next week
going to be open and available oh wow
we've raised about half a million
dollars and gone through it all at this
point we're about to launch on both
sides of the border and
our sea capital hasn't come through yet
so i'm spending all my time raising
raising to continue
you know paying for what what's called
our burn rate and how long our runway is
so working really hard networking and
and
putting together all these plans moving
into the states so it's huge there's a
lot going on but really what we need is
like the focus in a few little centers
to get it get it going within a
community because it would just not
saturated enough at this point but it's
coming wow
this might be a weird question you may
not even have an answer for this but
what lessons
did you learn down in la which is a
really interesting world in its of
itself especially in the film and you
know television world that you were able
to translate and bring into starting
this business
i guess to be fearless i learned that
down there
you know
nobody's going to make fun of you it's
good good on you to try it
all you can do is fail
you know that's what i learned in in la
yeah
um but that but to gain energy in that
right like so so
so just to to
jump in and from that fuels me that
feeling of developing something on the
fly i guess when you make a movie um
it's interesting you first start the you
write the script and then you
budget it schedule it get all the
different practitioners and while you're
shooting it all comes together and i i
seem to remember like you line up all
these pieces but at the very end they
suck together like a magnet
so
it's kind of like a creative process for
me so i've created high b and b i'm
seeing how the industry is
moving and changing seeing what's
possible and lining up all of the all of
the blocks
um as it gets closer and tighter so it's
very creative process for me
what um
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what do you see what do you see
ultimately like do you ha
are you a goal setter long term with
this like do you see yourself
being you know head to head with an
airbnb does that even matter to you
um
yeah well i have to know where i'm going
you know and have the entire vision in
place our advantage right now
is before federal legalization in the
united states which i estimate is going
to be around four years at least it's
not going to happen with biden
and so um you know that's the time that
we have to build our network and and
build the data you know and at the time
that it legalizes we would be pushed out
of the market by airbnb possibly but
it's
you know what we're looking at as our
extra exit strategy is as an acquisition
to a pre-existing
um
short-term rental site that wants to
expand to include
cannabis that is easier for them to
purchase you know us than to build it
all out on their own so that's that's
kind of where we're going um that's why
i want to be in the states you know then
that i have sort of the bigger vision to
to grow it and scale it on a pretty big
you know
large
large platform that's awesome well i can
tell you like we we spend a lot of time
talking not only here on the show but in
real life about the importance to find
people who
really love what they do and i can tell
you that i mean
unless you learned a lot of great acting
skills in la it seems to me that you you
are passionate about this you love it
you're driven by it and that's always
encouraging to me i i've told my kids um
you know like just find something that
you love and it's gonna be difficult and
it's gonna it's it's gonna cause maybe
fear and you're gonna have to overcome a
lot but if you're not pursuing something
that you love and are passionate about
uh it could be a giant waste of your
life and so it's encouraging to me to
see somebody like yourself who is is i
believe meeting a need but has that
drive and passion and love behind it
i feel very lucky that
you know the first
first half of my life more than the
first half of my life it was it was hard
i was i felt that i wanted to have a
voice that's why i went into film is
that i wanted to say something i wanted
to resonate with an audience i wanted to
affect people's lives in a positive way
in some way
and i never was able to
find what i was looking for in film
because i was in working in kids tv
writing burping and farting jokes right
like the reason why i went into
when i went into film was to was for a
bigger area so i wasn't happy for a long
time and looking for some way to
transition out and not sure where to or
or how and i and and
before that i
had a
a small career in tv like in um
magazine style tv on ytv so i feel like
when i found high b and b it's like all
the pieces in my life sort of lined up
and this is what i was here for right i
i have my ability to um connect with
people on it you know and affect them in
a positive way and resonate on it in a
big term and i'm able to talk to people
meet you
you know talk to the media
i i had that in my background too so i
just feel like all these things lined up
this is my purpose and
absolutely i'm passionate about it i
love it that's all i have to rely on
right if i start doing it because i'm
trying to meet some
expectation from society or what i think
people are looking for from me then
then i shouldn't be in it i'll take it
as long as i can as long as it's fun
right
and see i would like to see
high b and b be a combination of airbnb
hotels.com
um
like every other event oh eventbrite
where places where you just go to like i
want to do something tonight what is
there
and i can just go there and know hey man
i can bring my weed i don't have to
worry
yeah
whether it's a hotel or things
what time
absolutely well there's more interesting
things like if you're looking for
something to do on high b and b there
might be like an elevated belly dance
class yes i would never consider to look
for a belly dance class on booking.com
or get your guide because i'm not a
belly dancer but all of a sudden if you
you know add cannabis to it then i know
that this is about having fun yeah i've
never tried it it's okay if i'm an idiot
and it's a different kind of activity
well that's funny you say the activities
vary because the one that i seen that
like piqued my interest was a poker
game and cannabis was included which
some of them are some of them aren't
this was this host just or decision
and um
it was i was like ooh poker with a bunch
of like you know people that would
that'd be cool
well i think i think what you just said
there is is key is that
you wouldn't necessarily even look for a
belly belly dancing class like i i i
mean i'm i'm pretty expert at it but
it's that's in my past don't worry about
that but
the thing is is that
cannabis becomes this really interesting
door
that cannabis users are looking for
first
a place that they can consume and so by
entering into that door like you said
now you start putting belly dance
classes and and all this other activity
they're gonna find all that stuff
whereas if you're not going through that
door
you might not never like it's it's a
tremendous opportunity because people
first aren't looking for a specific
entertainment thing they're looking for
something to meet the smoking cannabis
need and from there you could open
people's eyes to so many interesting
opportunities that they would never
think of off the top of their head
that's what i love about it that's you
know that i feel really lucky that i'm
able to offer this gift to other people
well i'm gonna like to think that i'm
i'm not gonna start consuming again but
um
but i what i might do
is
go hey i'm looking for something
interesting to do and because i am
able to be with people well because
you're dating well and i'm dating one
but say i just wanted a night out with
myself every once in a while you need
that you understand elizabeth
um but
say on and even on nights that if i was
going to take her out or if i was just
looking for something okay let me speak
to about somebody who's a non-consumer
not me so i don't get in any trouble
here
a non-consumer
who
is okay with other people consuming
this becomes a great portal to just go
let me find some interesting events all
through one door
um so even if you're not a consumer but
you're at least okay with the person
beside you smoking
what a tremendous you have so you have
so much potential in this i'm very very
excited about it so um i like i'm i hope
this thing blows up
in a good way
thank you
thank you now that was a really
great point that you made thank you
it's what i do
you're smart you're really smart
okay enough elizabeth i gotta ride home
with him we don't need his head so big
he won't fit in the car
that's
that's true we needed to get a bigger
car recently
um where where can everybody find you i
know obviously high b and b is marketed
so incredibly well but um
how can people find you let's let's do
our best to make sure we can drive
people your way
thank you it's hi b and b h i b n b dot
c a okay
but when we're in the states it'll be
dot u s
oh not doc it's kind of also dot life
yeah high b highbnb.life we can't get
highbmb.com unfortunately
that's a little bump somebody else
bought that respond to us
somebody else bought it and they're not
responding
oh they got some leverage like it's been
years they haven't been responding it's
actually it's a little place in taiwan
it's a bnb that's high b and b
well i think i'll go out and talk to
them granted i actually like that name
too hi
that's funny you should get them to
advertise on your site just be like give
me the name yeah
yeah wow i like that yeah right of
course well thank you elizabeth for
joining us today and we like i said
we're we we stand behind high b and b
and uh hopefully we'll get a chance to
run into you in person um maybe
we're definitely going to some events
for sure
we're gonna be on there
yeah well next week there's an art in
the park event and i should tell
everybody that on socials we are at
experience high b and b right i hope
everybody will come visit us and tell
your friends please
well we we definitely will
the newbie and the dubies support high b
and b
we do
thanks elizabeth why are you the newbie
like what about you is new uh-huh what
about you is new
um
well
lots has changed like when i used to be
human there were certain things i
couldn't do that now i can do due to new
additions
so that's a big part of it but i am
i i'm a newbie because i don't consume
is is that where you were going with the
question
oh yeah yeah i get it okay yeah yeah so
i um she she got me to try cannabis
three times
so i'm not a
virgin of cannabis
but um those three times were more than
enough and so now i'm just in a position
where i want to learn but i i don't i
don't have much experience nor do i know
much about it so that's why i'm the
newbie
cool that's a great perspective awesome
well thank you so much for having me on
your show it's been fun nice to get to
know you and i'd love to do it in person
sometime absolutely we will we will
definitely arrange that yes thanks for
coming elizabeth
thanks elizabeth have an awesome day
well that was elizabeth becker isn't she
awesome she's so high spirited um hi
hi here it is hi
b and b
that was so funny a little little little
b b in taiwan she said yeah
yeah that's cute she's got all this bra
that's that's the crazy thing about
branding
right you know in in the in the
the small world in which we now live yes
right you brand something and then you
find out that a little tiny shop in
taiwan as as the as the element that's
well see we did a little better with the
newbie and do because you made me
check
everything everywhere first although i
just want to say
us is not a bad website
that's that's great well no i mean
because it's in the u.s now people
people have the different dots all the
time but it is well ca is canada yes it
is why would the states be dot com it
should be dot c or dot u s not because
they started it
yeah there's a hands
started it never started against it
um but uh well the branding is really
good i love the name i love the way that
the i love the logo did you notice the
colors
is teal and orange oh yes i did notice
that yeah
i figured yeah it's catchy no everything
about it and and and like like we just
said on the show
when we weren't just saying that um
because it was the show and she was our
guest but um
right away when it came out based on our
own personal experiences i was like oh
that's a no-brainer that's a no-brainer
good for her for for coming up with that
idea that you know what i had the same
idea i won't lie elizabeth i love you i
had the idea to but i don't have the
drive nor the money nor the resources or
the time or the dedication or the
anything that you had to make that
my baby and i'm so freaking happy that
you did because we need it we do yeah
no it's great and i and i do i do see it
as a like she was saying like if i if i
was looking for a night out you got to
google all these events you say like you
got to think belly dancing and type
belly dancing and find out all the
places that are well like she said
generally you wouldn't you'd check
bowling you'd check the movies that's
exactly right you might check mini pud
but you can't type in unlike
unlike typing in cannabis events
where you could find all these cool
events under like say this thing yeah
nobody goes
non-cannabis events
to find all the events that aren't
canvas right so ha just having it with a
cannabis base
and having that portal to these
adventures into these experiences and
stuff like that is is there's so much
potential and uh i'm very excited for it
i really feel like the the true
potential comes from outside the
cannabis industry
if people outside the industry
non-cannabis users could just wrap their
heads around the fact
that
if they were to be a little bit more
progressive
and just see give it a trial period give
it like a couple a couple guests or a
couple events or whatever say you have a
comedy show
i have a comedy show and there's a
sidewalk out front where people can
consume their joints prior to your show
put your show on high b and b
advertise to a whole crowd of people
that you generally didn't probably even
think would come yep and like you said
we'll go online because we just want a
place that we know we can smoke we don't
be like oh hey
there's a comedy show
let's go
yeah and a lot a lot of that a lot of
that is going to be held back by the um
the unwillingness to
um the stigma being to fight through
that stigma that's there right
um that's what we that's what we're
trying to do right now weed is on the
banned list
um we are trying to do that and that's
what our show is about um you know it's
funny it's funny because i think that
was a legitimate question she had um i
just assumed everybody would know that
i'm the new because i don't smoke
cannabis but but that's why i'm the
newbie everybody
he's new to the cannabis industry due to
the cannabis world yeah in the whole
world the whole the whole cannabis
culture
new to it i wish you would have been
around while the strain hunters were
like
a thing like on television and
but we lost franco franco is no longer
with us
franco so
i don't know who franco is but i feel
lost rest in paradise rest in paradise
franco
uh that is it um that's it that's the
end of another awesome episode don't ban
the past folks and uh let's embrace
let's embrace the cannabis
community and realize that they're not
the devils they're made out to be
they're just looking for a place to
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