June 22, 2023 • 49 mins
Club Lay Low they provide Merchandise, apparel, and California compliant cannabis flower, vaporizers, concentrates, edibles, CBD, hookah, and also just released their new Fun Stik this year, a cannabis infused straw that disintegrates into any beverage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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but that doesn't matter. We have two sexy men that
are joining me today. They're not just laying Low, but
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they all from the Laylow crew. Right here today on
the show, we have a piece of art extended cannabis
talk one oh one family. Not only are they our
beloved partners around here, but there are nosy neighbors. They're
my noisy neighbors. Noisy neighbors right down the hallway. Thank god.
They're laying tile and laying everything else when I'm not
here at the campus, which is beautiful here in Orange County, California.
The CEO, robert Is Sigolian, Is that close, Yes, sir.
(01:14):
There we go and Nico Bitzer in the building for
the next time, second time, third time vice president of
Club laylo At Club Lailo. You guys. They provide merchandise
Sapero and California compliant cannabis flower bapes, the whole nine concentrates, edibles,
CBD hookah, and also just released their new fun stick
(01:36):
this year, a cannabis infuse straw that disintegrates into any beverage,
which Nico, I see you take these out to. I
think I see them in Arizona or something at the
I think you hand to me so before I left.
We're here in California, You're like, oh, check these out.
Lailo's team is composed of medical experts to ensure a
product with purpose. You guys here to speak about Club
(01:56):
lay Loo as well as their future endeavors for the
twenty twenty three year. Please welcome to the show CEO
Senior Robert and Vice President Nico in the building of
Club lay Loan you guys, Joe, it is always good
to have you here. First off, I like you both
a lot. You're both very very cool. Going to hang
out with you Rob one night on the late night
and then around here and we talked food and Raffi's
(02:19):
and you didn't fucking bring me any but whatever, I'm
not gonna hold it against you. You bring it up too.
It's like, Joe, I was gonna bring you Offi's great.
I was gonna have a sale and everybody's gonna buy
all your club stop.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Like, what does that do for me?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Geez, Nico, You're always fun to hang out with, exactly.
It really is the thought that counts. We always hang
out and you're always such a pleasure to hang out with.
Because one memory just off the top of my head,
as we were in Geez, where were we at? Where
was that when we went to a we went to
something and we went to that karaoke bar and we
ditched everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I believe that was out in Arizona or was that?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I may have been MJ.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Biscon No, maybe it was Arizona, a different Arizona trip,
right and yeah, and we just had a good time,
you know. It was one of those fun ones the.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Girls right, Oh my god, Okay, going.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Going back and we said, yes, yes, yes, it was Arizona.
So it's good to have you guys here. Talk about
this company though, Club Lailo. Robert, how do you come
up with this? Is this something personal about the Club
Lailo that you just like to do? How do you
even come up with the name?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Actually, we were standing at my office, uh, which is
in downtown, with two of my friends, and I asked
him what are we going to call our office? We
got to have a name, and everybody said some names,
and I said, I like somebody's name that he comes
in shop with us. His name is Lailo.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
His name is Lailo.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, he calls himself Lailo. And I called Lailo and said, hey, Lailo,
can I have permission to use your name? And he
goes for sure, why not? So that's how Lailo starts.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's somebody's name. Yes, I was like, what is Leilo CuPy? Like,
I just like the name.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'll tell you he's a cool cat too.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is he?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh yeah, old school og.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh you gotta love that.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
So and then we were like, okay, we gotta have
a slogan. And my friend says, oh, let me google it.
He goes, rall, I have a slogan for you. It
says boss up because I always wear Boss shirts and
stuff like that. So he goes, this is you. So
that's how we came up. Laylo boss up.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh I love it, dude. It's so funny how people
come up with these names and stuff like that. How
long ago was that?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
This is a year and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
A year and a half ago, so is it a
year and a half You guys have been in this
business together? And then how did you find Nico? How
did you guys come together?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Actually? I got connected with Nico through his partner Daniel,
which we started working together and they became our distributor,
and ever since then having Nico in our team, nothing
but good things has happened to us LA.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Because he's thanks Robert, I agree and ditto to him.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
That's why I joined him and took on the product,
and we've been doing the design of the products together,
the packaging.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We work on everything from soup to nuts with Lailo.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
So it's it's been more like a family rather than,
you know, a business partnership, which most importantly it is
a business relationship, but we also treat it like a
family a lot like the Cannabis Talk team here.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
As you guys are here and see this, it is
like family. We sit here, we break red, we hang out,
we talk, and then we try to execute everything exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You guys are going to rob that thing. Don't worry
about it. I got you covered.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Have you ever had rafie Chechnique?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh I have.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I have one of the If anybody is listening and
you're in the Glendale area, you know what I'm talking about.
If not, folks, if you're Persian, you've heard of it.
I don't care. If you live in New York, you've
heard of Rockey.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
This is so funny though.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
This is the second time we've been on the show
now for Calijuana, and we're here to announce the launch
of Lailo. But we've given Raffi's the plug each time
we've been on this show. That's how good they are.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And not only that, it's that good. And I love
the owner that love the establishment. I don't mind saying
their name and giving them the free plug all the time.
How about this, Anybody whoever goes there would not be disappointed.
You know what I mean? You're like, Oh, I see
why they talk about this place.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Recommendation.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, and it's just as good as your Morton steakhouse.
I don't care what you want to do or high
end anything, but it's it's Persian food. It's the kebab,
it's the lula and the chicken.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
And oh, I just so I know what the men
for you. You named everything already exactly. I like it.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, I go hard on it. I love the lamb too.
And I got a place out where I live to
in Orange County. You're making me want to go get
it tonight. Actually, I think I have to go get
some person to night. One of my favorites. But Robert,
you start this company. You have so many products right here,
and you guys are announcing something new? Is that what
it are? Just the launch of the brand.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Well, we are establishing a new building and oh is
that lifestyle in the cannabis industry that we're going to
be developing within the lay Low realm.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So Laylo is going to have a space here at
this building.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
But realistically, what we're trying to do is pull everything together.
So Calijuana's kind of been the idea of one stop shop. Right,
You're gonna come and see me, and I'm going to
be able to help your brand grow from.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Zero to hero.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And just like I've done for my brands, except skipping
all the hard steps that I've had to endure through
these last five years. So now what we've done and
I was able to partner with these guys, Robert has
access to a huge building in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And we wish say huge. How huge are we talking?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
How huge? Are we talking about?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
One hundred thousand square feet three stories with a rooftop?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
What and the forty thousand square foot club on top of.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Forty thousand square foot nightclub to loom style with a
backdrop of the downtown skyline.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Wow, And that's going to be called Club Laylow.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No is going to be called totally different. We have
not finalized the name, but.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Leila will have an office inside.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
A huge cosport office is going to be there because
we're going to have a manufacturing license, distribution license, we
are going to have a dispensary there, we are going
to have a delivery license, and we are trying to
get a test lab for the building. So it would
be a one stop shop for any small company like
(08:28):
us that wants to start, they can join us and
be part of the growth. One stop shop. You are.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
We going to have an officer too.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
We're supposed to believe you guys have one of the biggest.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Ones right now, so can't that could be the I
heart of the building, if you will, And I think
that could be the beating drum that will keep that
building operating and just moving forward, because you.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Know, who doesn't need media, who doesn't want to advertise?
And why not with the best in the business.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
I mean, where are you going to get everything cannabis
all over the world?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Number one source right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Here and have a nice place in downtown Because now
we're out here in Orange County and then we have it.
It's like two different countries right here. When you've got
to come to Orange County, it's like it's only about
thirty five miles but could take you an hour and
a half if not two hours to get here.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Well today it took us hour on fifteen.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
What we just described to you though, with that club style,
I think is going to be more of an after
party event space for what I believe is the biggest
attraction to this location.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And it's the very next building over our sister building,
which happened to be it.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
If you're a history buff of La a few years
ago burned down in one of the greatest big.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Fires of LA and wow, it was a huge scene.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
And now it's just four walls, one story, four walls,
open ceiling, concrete floor. The walls are beautifully decorated with
l graffiti, and it is the perfect space for a venue,
a cannabis venue.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Cannabis one on one venue, anabs one.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
On one, cannabis talk, one on one venue, for concerts,
for cannabis events, for private events, parties.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You name it, that's what it'll be there for.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And then you guys have that whole building too next time.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yes, same landlord, same Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's big, such a big ware. So you can.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Essentially have two hundred thousand square feet of space.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Actually, no, the total score footage of the building each
property is fifty thousand. One of them is three stories.
I'm considered it at one hundredround fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Score foot sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Uh. And the next property is a fifty thousand score
foot flat that we can have events there if we
choose to. Actually, if you guys, choose two, so.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm sure we will. Right, It's like, let's break it
in and just do it right. We'll be able to
get a big stage in there, till the sound system
in there and just keep it rocking, keep it there permanent, sure,
and then rent it out to other people that want
to have it.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
That's sure because we have two years until there's a
six story building would go up there and another club
on top of that building.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So where exactly is this located?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
What's the product in Alameda on forty eighth Street in
Los Angeles in the industrial area, so we don't have
no sound barriers, we don't have any any issues the neighbors.
It's an industrial complex. So we can have the club
run on the building that I went to before. Yes,
like ten minutes away from the other building.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, So it's just right there down this beautiful area
where you could come on off the ten or the
sixty or the one ten. If you're going to.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Traves very very close from all the freeways.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh, I love it. I can't wait to make this happen.
We're gonna start doing some big events. Maybe should do
some international events, right, Everybody from all over the place
flying to Lax and let's go.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
That's it. We'll have them the idea, you'll have the
little company pick them up and bring them to the building,
right to your office.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
So this is that next level thinking right here though,
right you guys, I mean, you guys are sitting there
getting a building in a facility where you're like, Okay,
a lot of people have let's just say this place
here a cool location, but we're in Orange County. Let's
just face it, right. It's everyone comes down a like,
oh you either love Orange County or damn it, I
have to go to Orange County. Right, It's one of
those If you're in downtown Los Angeles, that's a whole
(12:13):
different ball game.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yes, So the way we think about this building really
and this kind of goes back to my original vision
for Calijuana was to keep that one stop shop available
and to skip the hurdles, right, So you guys have
kind of done it here where you have a you know,
printing guys, you have a packaging guy, You've got an
in house attorney, you know your general counsel.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You guys have a lot for a corporate business.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
You would say, here at Cannabis, talk one to one,
and I can see that I've seen the corporate world
and I know what it's like there.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is what we're going to provide for all of the.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Cannabis brands out there that may or may not have
the extensive knowledge of growing a business or understand maybe
how this state operates with licensing and deliveries and products
and compliance and utilizing the metric system and purchasing a
property and then dealing with a landlord that you know,
(13:04):
understands that you're in cannabis. They're jacking up your rates,
and then you have to deal with the ever increasing
taxes and the licensing issues.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So it's a lot, right.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
We want to have all of that avoided for these
folks at one low cost that's affordable for an incubator.
Do we want if you're a New York brand, or
or you're somebody in Vermont that wants to create a
brand and get a stepping stone here in California.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You come to us, we will make that happen.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And you're looking for about thirty to forty brands if
I'm not mistaken, Core and that'll.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Fill those offices right.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Each office is about eighteen or eight hundred square feet
and we are able to knock down walls to upgrade
those offices to have two, three or four of those
if you need larger space. So the idea behind that
is have a presence there, make sure that your presence
is known, pull in the referrals of the business, utilize
our networking events and the parties that we're going to
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have there to build your brand, and then utilize the
packaging guys, the printing guys, my sales team which will
be there for every single brand to get into stores,
my collections team so that you don't have to go
out there and collect those horribly. We're out there occasionally
so we can handle those things for you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
As well as wealth management.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
We're going to have a financial advisor in office through
Calijuana that'll be there for any type of personal or
business wealth management to set up your.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Business succession planning.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
That's one of the most important things that other companies
haven't thought about.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And partnerships, because if you ever thought about it, I mean,
if we're partners.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And we have fifty to fifty ownership of a company
and which we do, what happens if one of us
gets injured, can't perform their duties.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Or even passes away, God forbid? We have to deal
with the other person's spouse. They now own half of
that company.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
And they're upset if you can imagine, So what are
they going to do?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Let's sell it. I need the money and in your trouble,
so protecting yourself from preparing for that. I know, we
don't want it to happen. We don't think it's going
to happen, but life back, you have.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
To be prepared for it.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Got to be prepared. So that's what that'll be there for.
We'll also have an in house attorney there, a cannabis attorney.
We'll have a cannabis accountant to help set up the business.
To make sure that you are set on every aspect.
You're going to have your website designer there, your graphic
designer there. I mean, if I could think of another one,
I'll add it. But maybe I can take some advice
if anybody needs a service.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
There we have room for it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So this is, like you said, your one stop shop
there in downtown Los Angeles. If you're a business out
there and want to get connected with them Nico, how
do they get involved? How do they contact you?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Robert I believe we should have get in touch with Nico, so.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
We can call the Calijuana number or the Calijuana website.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
You can reach us there through the real estate section
of our website and as well on our Instagram. The
call's rec phone number or my email as well.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Would be there. I'll give that information here at the
end of the day of our show.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Done deal right there. Let's take a break real quick.
It's Cannabis Talk one on one, hanging out with Club
Lailo with a great venture they're doing in downtown Los Angeles,
one hundred thousand square feet with a club on top.
If you're a brand that wants to come out there,
do you have to already be California licensed or not? Brand?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
No, As I said, we have filed for a distribution license,
a delivery license, manufacturing license, So if you come and
rent a space from our building, you'll be covered under
the license that we're going to provide you. So that
there is a fee for that, but you do not
have to go file to go all filing the licenses
(16:42):
and everything. So you're going to be under our umbrella.
So we are trying to bring small companies that they
want to start, and the number is so big that
they can ever start. So we're going to give that
opportunity to use people exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Like if I can't wait the guy who went and
changed the other day.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
I didn't get it cool, but I.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Heard it looks amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It's gonna be awesome. Hopefully when you guys are part
of the king, it would be the top notch.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I can't wait to get it to some one. We'll
be right back after this break.
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I see all these products on my table right here.
(17:51):
What are we looking at? And what are we I mean,
there's every color I can imagine, pretty colors, there's pins,
there's three rolls. What do we've got here?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
So really what we.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Have is a lifestyle of all types of cannabis brands.
So when you look at going out as with your friends,
or going out to a.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Classy restaurant or just being in public in general, you
want to be able to feel like you're comfortable and.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You're in the zone.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So to get into that zone, you want to have
some lay Loo. You need to boss up a little bit, right.
So we have our number.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
One product, which is our first product, the Laylow Puff.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And what you do is just do it.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Just hit it.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
You just hit it, and you hit this vape just
without pressing a button, and it comes out perfectly delicious flavor.
The formulations we've come through over the last couple of
years actually to make this product absolutely delicious with all
natural terpenes from cannabis plants derived and usually it is
(18:57):
what they like to call high terpene extracts, so they
get just the terpenes extracted out of the cannabis plant
and they reintroduce that to the oil.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That is pretty much as.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Close to ninety nine percent THC you can get, But
as you add the terps, it takes the THHD down
a little bit, so it's really not all the THC
that gets you high out there, just for a brief
educational piece.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's kind of the euphoric effect of.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
All the cannabinoids involved, and we try to put that
full spectrum here as best as possible in a clean,
compliant manner.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
So this this product is one of our favorites. Everybody
loves it. It's discreet.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I mean it fits in your hand, fits in your pocket,
easily goes in a purpose.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Doesn't it look like a cannabis It looks like one
of the nicotine vapes.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Did you guys do that on purpose?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Absolutely, just to make the people feel more comfortable. Yes,
the whole lay low right.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
A lot of ladies love these because if it's in
their purse, it looks like a makeup. It really does
look like a makeup, so they put in that makeup.
Versus I have friends that they call them, Hey, Robert,
I want to travel to overseas or here. What should
I do? Just drop it in your makeup case. They go,
they have their fun, and they come back no problems.
(20:11):
So it's pretty and it's disposable.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Go have fun and throw it away. Exactly how many
hits are you getting off that?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Usually about two hundred and fifty puffs probably, but it
all depends what kind of puffs do you do.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
The best part is it's rechargeable as well, so you
could put your.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Normal seed battery I'm not sure which one.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It is the same one that would be on a
Samsung I believe, and that'll charge.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
If the battery goes off. See so there is some
devices but you still have oil in it, but the
battery goes out and you cannot charge it. So what
do we have? Actually you can recharge if the battery
goes one.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Thing that sucks undisposable. So yeah, wait, I know there's
still more in here, yes, and left around for a while.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
No, but with this device probably you'll get everything out
of the puff. One full milligram that it's.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
In there, So it's one milligram there, full miliground. And
how many different flavors do you guys have?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
We have presently about ten different flavors four on the
shelves currents.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yes, we have a few R and ds that we're
working out.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
We will have ten on the shelf, but right now
they're in R and D and we have to make
sure that they're compliant.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Before they launch.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
So right now we have you can find four of
our flavors on which are We've got the King Louis og,
We've got the black Cherry Gelato, we have the super
Silver Haze, and we also have the pink Cotton candy.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Nice. Yes, sounds delicious.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
They are delicious. My favorite one is the black cherry Gelato.
I enjoy that one.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That's what I'm smoking right now.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
That's the black cherry.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, the red color one is the black Cherry Glata.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And then what other what other things do we have
up here?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We have gummies, so.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That was another thing.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
It stays with the lay Low style here, right. So
the gummies are your version of your are edible to
where literally you can eat that anywhere.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Nobody has a clue what you're eating.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
It's clearly that you know it's just a jar, delicious flavor,
delicious coloring. You know, it's very attractive, but you just
open it up eat a gummy, you won't even.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Taste the cannabis.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
There's zero distillate in this, which is usually what things
are made with, and you can taste that flavor heavily.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
But our proprietary blend of actual.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Water soluble water soluble solution as well as a method
of isolation and a cannabinoid that only gets you to
that extended high that you appreciate without the flavor. So
that's about as far as I can say it without
giving away too much information. The people that heard that
that know what it is, know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But at the end of the day, as a.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Consumer, you're gonna feel great and you're not going to
taste anything but candyous.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That it's also vegan, yes, And like you said, it's
so discreete because it looks like a Surbert type of
candy jar, so to speak. You know, you got this
pink that's not hot pink, it's not so bright. It's
not your cannabis pink. It's not your cannabis orange. It's
not your cannabis purple or red or turquoise that I'm
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looking at. It's more like a starboards, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
You can't see inside the jar. So we did it
to where it's the same color. We didn't want to
just put a label around it. But the jar is
you can't.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
See through it. You won't be able to see what's
inside of this jar.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
And the whole point there is for compliance first of all,
but secondly discrete.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You want to be discrete.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
This jar could end up holding anything at the end
of the day after your gummies are gone.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Hang on to it, but you're changing it.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
It. Yeah, weeding it.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So it also has then the gummies and what else
do we have.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
We have the three rolls, and we have another product
that is we are going to be rolling out very soon.
Is going to be our hookah infused hookah without any
tobacco or nicotina in it, but it does have the
t seed. You will not smell it or taste it,
and it's going to be ready within like four weeks.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I believe I've never seen that anywhere has that even.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You have one here I showed you at my office.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It literally works just like regular hookahs.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You will not know that you're smoking catabis if it
no smell, no taste.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
But out of the hookah, it's a nice, friendly, enjoyable experience.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Everyone could hit it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I would not recommend for you to see them finish
the whole hookah by yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Oh I bet it is, because then it's going to
last a long time to getting I.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Mean, you'll be pretty high by the time you're done
with that, the whole hookah.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And then thinking with the coals on top of it
to the different flavor it would kick in. Yeah, so
the hookah? What type of flavors are you guys telling.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It right now? We have like four flavor that we
are going to roll out, so it's all fruit flavors.
I believe we have mango, blueberry, sour apple, and double apple.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's funny because before I got married, I used to
go to hookah bars all the time, especially when I
lived out in the Glendale area moved out here, you
know what I mean. It was just oh, and then
I meet some guys, let's.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Go to who what who?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, let's do it so relaxing, so fun, and of
course some people would just sprinkle some wheating there every
once in a while. But to think that you guys
are actually making how long did that take to do?
And how to figure that out?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I mean, it's been We were working on it about
six months already to how make it to flavor it
that you will not taste it and it's compliant.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Really, it was after we came out with the gummies
we found out that isolation method and all of a
sudden it was.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Like product because we were just like, what else can
we put this in?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
And so we figured out the straw, We figured out
a drink, We figured out the powder right in front
of you, which you can add to your own drink
and make it like a little kool Aid, you know,
your own kool Aid mix and just poured into water
and boom.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Those are actually there are one hundred milligram compliant kool Aid.
You just poured in an eight ounce bottle of water
and good morning, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh it literally looks like cool.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
No, it is kool Aid infused to be At the cannabis,
we have eight different flavors. Again, this is something new
that we are going to be rolling out. So we
are waiting all of these products. We are waiting the
packaging to arrive.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So pink lemonade, lay low cool.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yes, you guys are just innovating a bunch of shit
over there, we are trying what else.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Is different today and that's a huge, huge thing about
our business model.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Again, it goes back to the one stop shop.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
You've got to innovate, you have to be different, and
there's a lot of competition out there that there's some
huge companies, there's some small companies, and we're all fighting
for the same business, which is very slim.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
In the state.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
You know, we're only we're only in this state for now.
We're going to expand, but once we expand, then we're
only in that state. Based on you can't cross state lines, right,
so we have to redo everything that we've done here there,
and we're willing to do that eventually. But here, you know,
there's probably seven eight hundred stores max across the entire
state we're in right now with Cali row on about
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forty stores, and that's by design because we don't.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Want to be on top of each other with our
products and the same area.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The more exclusive surface there satin areas.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
So that our customers forward to finance, we can always
build through those.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Vacations, pump those locations, swag or some free products, make
sure the customers actually getting.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know, taking care of two because they're the ones
buying the product.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
We got to a little bit take care of the customer.
Make sure customer Appreciation days coming your way.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
That you ever see me, you'll know I've got something.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, and you usually always do. You always have a
car full of random gifts.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
That's just what I don't know even talk about it.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I don't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Don't look at the black tesla which one is? Then
take a break. We're going to come back. Club Lailo
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Speaker 2 (28:39):
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Speaker 4 (28:59):
Is yes, I believe we have the front cover for it.
I think you guys have the back no front cover
for it, front cover.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Sikes is going to take the front cover because this
is the launch of Laylou. And then we also have
our cali.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Wana page which we were.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
In the first issue in Calijana's page will be in
the second issue as well as far as talking about
our branding, our manufacturing, our white labeling, and then also
our sales team which is huge. And this is something
that I'd like to touch on because it's really a
service that not too many people are providing out there.
In one house, they're doing it, but you got to
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go to different services, right and then it's hard to
get those services to communicate, for instance, who's doing your
cold calling, set up your appointments, and then whoever sets
up those appointments, who's going to follow up and actually
run the appointment. The sales team, and then if they
sell something, who's delivering it and making sure that it
gets there, and then the pad team make sure it
gets sold and then on the full circle, who's doing
the collections in the reorder. I mean, there are four
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different companies in this state currently that do that don't
communicate with each other. I lived it the hard way,
so I made my own and here we are today
now with seven brands under our belt, with a great menu.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We've got buying power, our selling power really with our buyers.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Because of this, now we have brands that trust us
to sell their products and market and solicit their products,
and that's really the name of the game.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
As you say that, Nico, what are some of the
biggest headaches that you've had to go through that someone's
listening to going what kind of crazy shit have you
had to go through that you had to learn all
this so that you're going, no, I'm going to put
it all in one house for these smaller companies to
come and learn. And you too, Robert, what's some of
the crazy things that have gone through where you're like, oh,
this is what we're going to make sure that you
don't go.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Through, Nikol, Well, a lot of it is the growing pains.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
The biggest one to me was the building, you know,
finding a good landlord, licensing, finding out how long that
licensing issue takes and knowing the people inside, and it's
a lot of lobbying that has to go on. Believe
it or not. This is it's a young business. But
that'll never end. That'll never end. You have to know somebody,
to know somebody to get something in, to get it
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passed through Congress or whatever it may be. And it's
the same here with this small government agency in California.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
You still got to know somebody to get that license through,
how to fill out that paperwork right, what to say, and.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
That's how you get it pushed ahead because if you're not,
you could be sitting there paying your rent on your building.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
That's the biggest part to just paying the landlord.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
And you got to pay that rent regardless, and you
can't operate.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
So what are you going to do? Just sit there
and wait. It's what are your thumbs? You're going to
go broke. So that was the biggest turtle was finding
that home and being able to say, look now I
don't have to I don't have to you know, hustle
and bustle. I don't have to be on the streets.
I've got my spot now and now we can build.
So that biggest issue was finding that and then finding
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a good printer somebody that wasn't trying to take advantage
of you again because you're a cannabis company. You know
you're illegal. I only print legal brands kind of stuff.
So then you got the cannabis specific printers who have
already raised their rates a little bit higher, so you
can kind of jog around those things.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Then you're packaging.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
That was another huge issue China, delivering from China, especially
with the tariffs and now the issues between China and
Russia and well they're partnership really and them kind of
pushing us out a little bit and having deliveries delayed
and customs issues, and it's a nightmare. You have to
wait sometimes six weeks to maybe even twelve weeks to
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get your packaging delivery.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We're living that right now actually, as.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
We've still been in this business this long, we still
have to deal with some of these headaches, but we
try to nip them in the bud as best we
possibly can by having extra resources. So if I wanted
to get it faster, I could have, and I could
pay just a little bit more and I'd get it
done like right now. Then again, if I wanted to
put in a huge order and save saves a lot
(32:57):
of money, then I might be willing to wait that
time and just prepare for it.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But then if you're preparing like that, that's part of
the thing that you're going to give these people that
want to come in and rent one of these thirty
or forty spots there exactly, and you're gonna be able
to give them that advice.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
And opinion and try to give them the product not
to have in so many high quantities as people cannot
afford to do something because imagine if you're doing ten
flavors and they're asking you ten thousand piece per flavor,
that's one hundred thousand units. You have to import, and
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you have to store those and you have to feel
those things. Small companies, a lot of us, we don't
have that capability to fill up on hundred thousand bags
of gummies, so it becomes impossible. So what we're trying
to do in that location to try to help even
packaging part of it not to be such a burden
on people, not to be able to put their brands
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into the stores large.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Numbers, and we'll be able to take everybody's orders in
at once a similar organized packaging orders together save people
money that way is, and.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
They all get to come in under your license. Yeah,
we're going to do that for the price obviously, Yes,
you pay. You can get under this and you can
work under this license.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
So that also, being that we're under one license means
we're under one book of revenue. Right, So if you
look at it that way, we're all one business. We're
working together cohesively to build this building's business revenue up
and its valuation up. Because the end goal and I
believe somebody right here before me said it today, My
good friend George said that it's all about the money.
(34:36):
We are here for the money, and anybody that wants
to come to California to build a business in cannabis
knows that it's going to get purchased one day because
this is the mecca of cannabis.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
So you guys are building something big that you can
put a bunch of brands underneath you and then get
it bought and give everybody their little piece of If
you're coming in under this, this is your percentage if
we get bought.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Out, Yes, and hopefully say.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Your brand just blows and you increase your valuation above
some of the other brands that are there. You'll get
your rightful piece of that sale once it happens. If
you choose to you own your brands.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
You don't have to be a part of the roll up.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
We would want it to because it'll help the valuation
of the company and it'll help you sell to a
publicly traded company at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
So it really is the conglomerate, the consortium.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Idea and putting this thing together is.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Going to be huge, And we're going to duplicate this
in a couple other states to do the same thing,
same help to other people that they are struggling in
other states.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
What states are you looking at next?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
I believe the talk was Arizona and Nevada because on
both states I have people that they own properties that
we can duplicate what we're going to do here.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
What is your background? What did you guys come doing
before you guys got into canvas.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Oh, I have been in clothing industry since I've been
nineteen years old. I've builted two companies, then got sick,
left a clothing industry and got strictly in the cannabis industry.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Is that what led you to cannabis because you got sick.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
No, I was in cannabis industry since twenty years ago,
first fifty thousand that I invested at that time, and
then I was always in the background in the cannabis industry.
But I was in my main business in clothing.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Industry, clothing like selling suits.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
No, we used to purchase stock lots from Kmart Walmart
and sell it to secondary stores. So we used to
have fifty hundred thousand score food warehouse full packed with
merchandise that we would sell it to secondary stores. And
then that got me traveling all over the world. I've
been maybe in like thirty countries in my lifetime. So
(36:53):
and then I couldn't travel no more, and I got
stuck in LA. What to do? Let's go full timeline cannabis.
Why not? That's what I know.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
That's a good thing. What about you, Nico, What were
you doing before cannabis?
Speaker 4 (37:06):
So?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
I was in the risk management and wealth management world
for probably fifteen years of my life. And I was
in Florida and in Ohio. I grew up in Ohio.
I went to college in Florida and stayed in Florida
to develop a business.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
There. I worked in the corporate world for about eight.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Years and then took my book of business opened up
my own shop called American RM Solutions RM for risk Management.
Then I was approached by one of my clients, actually
one of my largest clients at the time.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
We used to golf all the time, and in Florida,
you understand, that's just pretty much all you do. It's
two o'clock, it's time to hit the teas.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
We've got to go out here and play some time.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Right, No, I'm down. I'd love it.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I honestly, since i've been here, I haven't had time.
I've been so busy, I haven't even I lived right
across the street from a golf course. I look at
it every day I leave to court.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
You're in Orange County, right, your south Ornge County.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, I'm over in the Anario, Okay, and uh, we've
got a course, just public course, nice track though it's adulated.
It's beautiful, greens are beautifl We.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Got to go hit it.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I'm right there in Lake Forest, I'm just down the
road from you.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yeah, and it's a nice track, nice track, pretty expensive.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I noticed that here in California just about.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Everywhere is is uh private club pricing?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
You're one hundred bucks around out here?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Easy?
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah, easy.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
It's like we're gonna play hundred bugs, hundred bugs, one
hundred and twenty five, okay, Twilight sixty five.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
And when you're thinking about that, and I heard the
conversation earlier as well, some of the guys that we
had at the golf tournament aren't like, you know, I'm
a four whole, nine whole kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Man. I'm like, if I'm paying one hundred and twenty
five dollars.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
I'm playing thirty six nineteen, at least let me play
this twice exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
We take a break, I'll come back and play again.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Can I just exact kind of have lunch and then
playoff another eighteen? Totally I'm the same way, and I've
done it.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Get access to the pool after.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Oh yes, that's the best part about it.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
So yeah, that was where I was approached.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
And my friend and I we went golfing and he's like, Nico,
I need some help. I'm like, yeah, what can I
do for you? You know, new policy insurance?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
What do you need?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
That's where I was My head was.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Obviously he was my client he's like, no, no, no,
He goes, You've built an awesome sales team.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
He goes, You've done it twice in two different businesses.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Before I did that, I had a recruiting team as well,
for accountants and for basic staff members kind of like
administrative staff. And so we did kind of hourly staffing
for those jobs. And in the accounting positions, the finance
and accounting positions, we did full placement and I built
a team of ten people in a boiler room that
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was dialing for dollars and we did an awesome job.
That was about two and a half years of my life.
And then I moved over to the corporate I was
partners in that business. My friend sold it and I
got my cut and I left and went over to
the wealth management side.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
But I digress.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
When I was out in the golf course, he said,
you've built a great team there, and your insurance team
right now at American Arm is awesome. You've got a
couple agents under you license, You've got your staff members
for the back office that help you do all.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
The policies and the open enrollment meetings and this, that
and the other.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
You're organized.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
You got it down and your guys are always on
the phones, he goes, In fact, I get annoyed. I'm
already your client. They can stop calling me, he said.
I was like, you got to stay relevant.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Man, So exactly got to do something new, because.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
That's why I brought this up.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
He goes, I own a business out in California and
it's struggling badly and I need your help.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Can you build a team for me? He goes, you
can build it here because it can be remote.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
You guys are just going to be doing phone sales.
I was like, I could probably think about it. You know,
Let's go out and see the business and see if
I can get my you know, feet wet a little bit.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Understand what you're talking about because you didn't want to
tell me what it was there.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
So we took a flight out to Cali. We go
into San Francisco, drive down to Salinas and I was like,
I look at the place.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
This is during spring too.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
I was like, wow, like this is like the heaven
I was.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
I said, What's what it was?
Speaker 5 (41:00):
At the Hidden Valley Ranch bottle, Like this is the
scene They took this picture right here for the right
It was beautiful, just green on all sides.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
So he pulled. We go into a.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Not so beautiful location, this lot that was just pure
dirt with a bunch of huge buildings, like rose buildings,
is what I thought.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
So it was like, there's a rose garden or something.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
He had four of these huge venlos They were about
seventy thousand square feet each monsters. We walk intside one
of them and it's full of cannabis plants. It's the
first time I've ever seen anything like this. I've seen
a plant or two before.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
You know, and I've got before that. This was another
level I thought.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
I mean, this is what you would see in a
rose garden, you know, and you go to a rose garden,
you see all these plants.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
That's what I was thinking going to California.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
Right, Well, it was cannabis, and I was like, so
what are we doing, man, I don't sell cannabis, dude,
It's like why not.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
I was like, well, I know the first thing about
it except you smoke it and get high.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
Right, I'm like, I just don't know anything. This isn't
my realm because it doesn't matter. You could build a team.
The knowledge will come. Don't worry about it. You just
will have the products. You got to just sell it.
Just get the doors open, Just open the doors. I said, all.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Right, fair enough. I was like, so what are your
products look like? What do you have?
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Now?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
He didn't have anything. There's some packs. I said, well,
this is a problem, but I want to take on.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
I want to take on this challenge, right because now
I'm thinking, I'm just like I can do the branding
of this.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I could build a brand behind the name.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
It was called Canifornia, and I'll give him the plug
because this is an awesome name and an awesome company.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Except the CEO screwed up the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (42:35):
And that was my buddy. So he and I are
kind of on the for it a little bit. But
he got me into the business and I stayed here.
So once I did that with him, I built a
sales team in Florida. We had about fifteen people in
southern and South Florida all in the office.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Every single day.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
We got in there at twelve o'clock in the afternoon
because it was East Coast time when it was nine
o'clock here. We dialed for about seven hours and it
would be nighttime. Then we go out to the bars
afterwards talk about our sales, talk about just blah blah
and it with the team and really built an awesome
company because we just kept expanding the product lines he had.
They were doing about out of those four vendlows, i'd
(43:15):
say three hundred to four hundred pounds of flour.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Every other week. So we were killing it.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
We had eights, we had ounces, we had joints, and
that was really it because we didn't have license to
do manufacturing yet.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
But I then started getting phone calls about, hey, you
want to partner here? Do you want to do some
toll processing? So I started to build the build that
part out.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
We started doing our vape line, so we got to
disol it and I sold our trim to make the
disolate and stuff like that, and I got it back
and we packaged it.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
So then we came out of the dislant line.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
We got up to about three and a half million
dollars in sales per month for two straight months. Then
we got up to our next goal was five million.
I hit the five million. Our CEO and COEO go
up to Canada for a money raise. They get ten
million dollars out of our sales. Not bad. That was
(44:04):
supposed to go to pay the grower. I was supposed
to pay the grower. It was owed a lot of money,
and our sales team was owed a little bit of
money as well, and a few other people that were
taking the back seat to watch his company grow. CEO
goes and buys a couple of penthouse suites in the SLS.
Anybody who knows what I'm talking about right now knows
who I'm talking about. I don't need a name drop.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
But at the end of the day, this happened.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
And you know, hey, God bless him. He had a
fun time, He did well, and he was making a
lot of money. But we all thought that was his money,
but it was the company's money. And sure enough, the
grower didn't get paid. So the grower quit and actually
sabotage the plants, and we had a really bad issue
of not being able to refill orders. So I went
from my hero to zero in the next couple of months,
(44:48):
and I had to hold off, and then I lost
clients because we held off too long, and now we couldn't.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Now we were just trying to make sales to pay
the staff. We couldn't.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
We probably had one hundred and sixty people on that farm.
And that's a lot of money to keep that amount
of people paid without cash flow.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Yeah, nothing to sell anymore, too.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
To sell anymore, and the kid he was empty.
Speaker 5 (45:10):
So it was tough man, and I had I took
a step back and time still lived in Florida.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
I was traveling back and forth.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
I was like, I think I can handle this business
pretty much on my own. I don't have the building,
I don't have the instructure, I don't have the license,
but I got to know how and I have the
connections now. And so I went down to a friend
of mine that I had met in Los Angeles. He
had a license that he wasn't operating with, wasn't using it,
he was just paying for it. He was like, man,
can you turn this around for me like you did
(45:38):
that one? Yes, I can't. And that's really how it started.
And I stayed so I didn't go back to Florida.
I got a house here and now I rent out
my house in Florida. I everybody's looking for an everything.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
I may want to take the kids out there one day.
But that's a great story.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
I want to do the high five with you, Robert,
because your first time on Nico has done it before.
But you can answer this exactly so question number one, Robert, Yes,
and great stories by the way you guys hold you
The first time you smoked cannabis? And where'd you get it?
Speaker 4 (46:10):
From? Nineteen right next to a police station and who
gave it to you? A Mexican schwag dealer eat seeds
Field Van Nuys and the victory.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
Oh I know the exact area.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
Wow. And then what happened? Two double doubles with chili
from Tommy's Chili Fries and a large coke and me
and my partner passed out for twelve hours after that.
That was my first experience. We read What a.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Good time that was?
Speaker 4 (46:47):
Right?
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Awesome, that's funny. Question number two of the high five,
what is your favorite way to use cannabis joints? Joints?
Just the old school joint with the.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
Paper because raw paper, because there is no chemical on it.
I like the turping. I like the real flower, the.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Real taste of that. Yes, I like that too. Craziest
place you ever used are smoked.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Cannabis business class amaruts, flying to do I.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Another place where you just can't have it in Dubai either.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
No, it was like it was laylo, you know, it
was laying low and taking a puff.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
There it is laylo. These pins are real lay low too.
You can get away with something like that there. Just
hit it, yeah, exactly, just hit it, blow it down.
That's crazy, Robert from Club Lailow. What's your go too
much after you get high?
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Oh? Cheetos baked, just the normal bait, Just the normal
normal cheetos.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
I love how they get your fingers and you gotta
you have to lick them.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
You gotta lick them.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yeah, And I like that at your place you have
a lot of chips over too. I love that question
number five with a high five with the cats from
Club Laylow. If you could smoke cannabis with anyone Robert,
dead or alive, who would it be and why?
Speaker 4 (48:06):
It would be my best friend, which he's thirty five
year of my friend and we talk to each other
every day, and it would be the person.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
You still talk to him every day. And if you
don't smoke, where does he live?
Speaker 4 (48:20):
Where he lives in the run now, but he comes
and goes back. So in order for us to communicate
every day we are on FaceTime.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
What he do eat?
Speaker 4 (48:28):
What did you do, so he would be the person
I would I would want to do that because he's
my brother.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Oh that's cool. You gotta make that happen. When he
comes down to the stage.
Speaker 4 (48:37):
He'll be here shortly, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
I can't wait to meet this buddy. And you guys,
it's always a pleasures or anything we didn't talk about
about the brand or anything else you want to mention
on the podcast before we let you guys go.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
Well, actually, one other thing, Leila, we are going to
have a lot of merchandise in clothing.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
And you love your guys tolling. By the way, I
have a nice sweatsheet that I have with your guys.
I love it.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
So we are going to have a lot of merch
for love. Leila too. That he's going to be rolling
out where.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
He's saying, well, make sure you guys laces us up.
You know what I mean, and that allars here, Come on now,
let's go, let's go. Well, thank you guys for joining
the show. Everybody listening, appreciate you guys, and remember this
if nobody else loves you, we do.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
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they all from the Laylow crew. Right here today on
the show, we have a piece of art extended cannabis
talk one oh one family. Not only are they our
beloved partners around here, but there are nosy neighbors. They're
my noisy neighbors. Noisy neighbors right down the hallway. Thank god.
They're laying tile and laying everything else when I'm not
here at the campus, which is beautiful here in Orange County, California.
The CEO, robert Is Sigolian, Is that close, Yes, sir.
(01:14):
There we go and Nico Bitzer in the building for
the next time, second time, third time vice president of
Club laylo At Club Lailo. You guys. They provide merchandise
Sapero and California compliant cannabis flower bapes, the whole nine concentrates, edibles,
CBD hookah, and also just released their new fun stick
(01:36):
this year, a cannabis infuse straw that disintegrates into any beverage,
which Nico, I see you take these out to. I
think I see them in Arizona or something at the
I think you hand to me so before I left.
We're here in California, You're like, oh, check these out.
Lailo's team is composed of medical experts to ensure a
product with purpose. You guys here to speak about Club
(01:56):
lay Loo as well as their future endeavors for the
twenty twenty three year. Please welcome to the show CEO
Senior Robert and Vice President Nico in the building of
Club lay Loan you guys, Joe, it is always good
to have you here. First off, I like you both
a lot. You're both very very cool. Going to hang
out with you Rob one night on the late night
and then around here and we talked food and Raffi's
(02:19):
and you didn't fucking bring me any but whatever, I'm
not gonna hold it against you. You bring it up too.
It's like, Joe, I was gonna bring you Offi's great.
I was gonna have a sale and everybody's gonna buy
all your club stop.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Like, what does that do for me?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Geez, Nico, You're always fun to hang out with, exactly.
It really is the thought that counts. We always hang
out and you're always such a pleasure to hang out with.
Because one memory just off the top of my head,
as we were in Geez, where were we at? Where
was that when we went to a we went to
something and we went to that karaoke bar and we
ditched everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I believe that was out in Arizona or was that?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I may have been MJ.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Biscon No, maybe it was Arizona, a different Arizona trip,
right and yeah, and we just had a good time,
you know. It was one of those fun ones the.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Girls right, Oh my god, Okay, going.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Going back and we said, yes, yes, yes, it was Arizona.
So it's good to have you guys here. Talk about
this company though, Club Lailo. Robert, how do you come
up with this? Is this something personal about the Club
Lailo that you just like to do? How do you
even come up with the name?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Actually, we were standing at my office, uh, which is
in downtown, with two of my friends, and I asked
him what are we going to call our office? We
got to have a name, and everybody said some names,
and I said, I like somebody's name that he comes
in shop with us. His name is Lailo.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
His name is Lailo.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, he calls himself Lailo. And I called Lailo and said, hey, Lailo,
can I have permission to use your name? And he
goes for sure, why not? So that's how Lailo starts.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's somebody's name. Yes, I was like, what is Leilo CuPy? Like,
I just like the name.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'll tell you he's a cool cat too.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is he?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh yeah, old school og.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh you gotta love that.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
So and then we were like, okay, we gotta have
a slogan. And my friend says, oh, let me google it.
He goes, rall, I have a slogan for you. It
says boss up because I always wear Boss shirts and
stuff like that. So he goes, this is you. So
that's how we came up. Laylo boss up.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh I love it, dude. It's so funny how people
come up with these names and stuff like that. How
long ago was that?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
This is a year and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
A year and a half ago, so is it a
year and a half You guys have been in this
business together? And then how did you find Nico? How
did you guys come together?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Actually? I got connected with Nico through his partner Daniel,
which we started working together and they became our distributor,
and ever since then having Nico in our team, nothing
but good things has happened to us LA.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Because he's thanks Robert, I agree and ditto to him.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
That's why I joined him and took on the product,
and we've been doing the design of the products together,
the packaging.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We work on everything from soup to nuts with Lailo.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
So it's it's been more like a family rather than,
you know, a business partnership, which most importantly it is
a business relationship, but we also treat it like a
family a lot like the Cannabis Talk team here.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
As you guys are here and see this, it is
like family. We sit here, we break red, we hang out,
we talk, and then we try to execute everything exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You guys are going to rob that thing. Don't worry
about it. I got you covered.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Have you ever had rafie Chechnique?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh I have.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I have one of the If anybody is listening and
you're in the Glendale area, you know what I'm talking about.
If not, folks, if you're Persian, you've heard of it.
I don't care. If you live in New York, you've
heard of Rockey.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
This is so funny though.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
This is the second time we've been on the show
now for Calijuana, and we're here to announce the launch
of Lailo. But we've given Raffi's the plug each time
we've been on this show. That's how good they are.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And not only that, it's that good. And I love
the owner that love the establishment. I don't mind saying
their name and giving them the free plug all the time.
How about this, Anybody whoever goes there would not be disappointed.
You know what I mean? You're like, Oh, I see
why they talk about this place.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Recommendation.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, and it's just as good as your Morton steakhouse.
I don't care what you want to do or high
end anything, but it's it's Persian food. It's the kebab,
it's the lula and the chicken.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
And oh, I just so I know what the men
for you. You named everything already exactly. I like it.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, I go hard on it. I love the lamb too.
And I got a place out where I live to
in Orange County. You're making me want to go get
it tonight. Actually, I think I have to go get
some person to night. One of my favorites. But Robert,
you start this company. You have so many products right here,
and you guys are announcing something new? Is that what
it are? Just the launch of the brand.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Well, we are establishing a new building and oh is
that lifestyle in the cannabis industry that we're going to
be developing within the lay Low realm.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So Laylo is going to have a space here at
this building.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
But realistically, what we're trying to do is pull everything together.
So Calijuana's kind of been the idea of one stop shop. Right,
You're gonna come and see me, and I'm going to
be able to help your brand grow from.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Zero to hero.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And just like I've done for my brands, except skipping
all the hard steps that I've had to endure through
these last five years. So now what we've done and
I was able to partner with these guys, Robert has
access to a huge building in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And we wish say huge. How huge are we talking?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
How huge? Are we talking about?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
One hundred thousand square feet three stories with a rooftop?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
What and the forty thousand square foot club on top of.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Forty thousand square foot nightclub to loom style with a
backdrop of the downtown skyline.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Wow, And that's going to be called Club Laylow.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No is going to be called totally different. We have
not finalized the name, but.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Leila will have an office inside.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
A huge cosport office is going to be there because
we're going to have a manufacturing license, distribution license, we
are going to have a dispensary there, we are going
to have a delivery license, and we are trying to
get a test lab for the building. So it would
be a one stop shop for any small company like
(08:28):
us that wants to start, they can join us and
be part of the growth. One stop shop. You are.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
We going to have an officer too.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
We're supposed to believe you guys have one of the biggest.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Ones right now, so can't that could be the I
heart of the building, if you will, And I think
that could be the beating drum that will keep that
building operating and just moving forward, because you.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Know, who doesn't need media, who doesn't want to advertise?
And why not with the best in the business.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
I mean, where are you going to get everything cannabis
all over the world?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Number one source right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Here and have a nice place in downtown Because now
we're out here in Orange County and then we have it.
It's like two different countries right here. When you've got
to come to Orange County, it's like it's only about
thirty five miles but could take you an hour and
a half if not two hours to get here.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Well today it took us hour on fifteen.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
What we just described to you though, with that club style,
I think is going to be more of an after
party event space for what I believe is the biggest
attraction to this location.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And it's the very next building over our sister building,
which happened to be it.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
If you're a history buff of La a few years
ago burned down in one of the greatest big.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Fires of LA and wow, it was a huge scene.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
And now it's just four walls, one story, four walls,
open ceiling, concrete floor. The walls are beautifully decorated with
l graffiti, and it is the perfect space for a venue,
a cannabis venue.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Cannabis one on one venue, anabs one.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
On one, cannabis talk, one on one venue, for concerts,
for cannabis events, for private events, parties.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You name it, that's what it'll be there for.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And then you guys have that whole building too next time.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yes, same landlord, same Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's big, such a big ware. So you can.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Essentially have two hundred thousand square feet of space.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Actually, no, the total score footage of the building each
property is fifty thousand. One of them is three stories.
I'm considered it at one hundredround fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Score foot sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Uh. And the next property is a fifty thousand score
foot flat that we can have events there if we
choose to. Actually, if you guys, choose two, so.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm sure we will. Right, It's like, let's break it
in and just do it right. We'll be able to
get a big stage in there, till the sound system
in there and just keep it rocking, keep it there permanent, sure,
and then rent it out to other people that want
to have it.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
That's sure because we have two years until there's a
six story building would go up there and another club
on top of that building.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So where exactly is this located?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
What's the product in Alameda on forty eighth Street in
Los Angeles in the industrial area, so we don't have
no sound barriers, we don't have any any issues the neighbors.
It's an industrial complex. So we can have the club
run on the building that I went to before. Yes,
like ten minutes away from the other building.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, So it's just right there down this beautiful area
where you could come on off the ten or the
sixty or the one ten. If you're going to.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Traves very very close from all the freeways.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh, I love it. I can't wait to make this happen.
We're gonna start doing some big events. Maybe should do
some international events, right, Everybody from all over the place
flying to Lax and let's go.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
That's it. We'll have them the idea, you'll have the
little company pick them up and bring them to the building,
right to your office.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
So this is that next level thinking right here though,
right you guys, I mean, you guys are sitting there
getting a building in a facility where you're like, Okay,
a lot of people have let's just say this place
here a cool location, but we're in Orange County. Let's
just face it, right. It's everyone comes down a like,
oh you either love Orange County or damn it, I
have to go to Orange County. Right, It's one of
those If you're in downtown Los Angeles, that's a whole
(12:13):
different ball game.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yes, So the way we think about this building really
and this kind of goes back to my original vision
for Calijuana was to keep that one stop shop available
and to skip the hurdles, right, So you guys have
kind of done it here where you have a you know,
printing guys, you have a packaging guy, You've got an
in house attorney, you know your general counsel.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You guys have a lot for a corporate business.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
You would say, here at Cannabis, talk one to one,
and I can see that I've seen the corporate world
and I know what it's like there.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
This is what we're going to provide for all of the.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Cannabis brands out there that may or may not have
the extensive knowledge of growing a business or understand maybe
how this state operates with licensing and deliveries and products
and compliance and utilizing the metric system and purchasing a
property and then dealing with a landlord that you know,
(13:04):
understands that you're in cannabis. They're jacking up your rates,
and then you have to deal with the ever increasing
taxes and the licensing issues.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So it's a lot, right.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
We want to have all of that avoided for these
folks at one low cost that's affordable for an incubator.
Do we want if you're a New York brand, or
or you're somebody in Vermont that wants to create a
brand and get a stepping stone here in California.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You come to us, we will make that happen.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And you're looking for about thirty to forty brands if
I'm not mistaken, Core and that'll.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Fill those offices right.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Each office is about eighteen or eight hundred square feet
and we are able to knock down walls to upgrade
those offices to have two, three or four of those
if you need larger space. So the idea behind that
is have a presence there, make sure that your presence
is known, pull in the referrals of the business, utilize
our networking events and the parties that we're going to
(13:53):
have there to build your brand, and then utilize the
packaging guys, the printing guys, my sales team which will
be there for every single brand to get into stores,
my collections team so that you don't have to go
out there and collect those horribly. We're out there occasionally
so we can handle those things for you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
As well as wealth management.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
We're going to have a financial advisor in office through
Calijuana that'll be there for any type of personal or
business wealth management to set up your.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Business succession planning.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
That's one of the most important things that other companies
haven't thought about.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And partnerships, because if you ever thought about it, I mean,
if we're partners.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And we have fifty to fifty ownership of a company
and which we do, what happens if one of us
gets injured, can't perform their duties.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Or even passes away, God forbid? We have to deal
with the other person's spouse. They now own half of
that company.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
And they're upset if you can imagine, So what are
they going to do?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Let's sell it. I need the money and in your trouble,
so protecting yourself from preparing for that. I know, we
don't want it to happen. We don't think it's going
to happen, but life back, you have.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
To be prepared for it.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Got to be prepared. So that's what that'll be there for.
We'll also have an in house attorney there, a cannabis attorney.
We'll have a cannabis accountant to help set up the business.
To make sure that you are set on every aspect.
You're going to have your website designer there, your graphic
designer there. I mean, if I could think of another one,
I'll add it. But maybe I can take some advice
if anybody needs a service.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
There we have room for it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So this is, like you said, your one stop shop
there in downtown Los Angeles. If you're a business out
there and want to get connected with them Nico, how
do they get involved? How do they contact you?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Robert I believe we should have get in touch with Nico, so.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
We can call the Calijuana number or the Calijuana website.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
You can reach us there through the real estate section
of our website and as well on our Instagram. The
call's rec phone number or my email as well.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Would be there. I'll give that information here at the
end of the day of our show.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Done deal right there. Let's take a break real quick.
It's Cannabis Talk one on one, hanging out with Club
Lailo with a great venture they're doing in downtown Los Angeles,
one hundred thousand square feet with a club on top.
If you're a brand that wants to come out there,
do you have to already be California licensed or not? Brand?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
No, As I said, we have filed for a distribution license,
a delivery license, manufacturing license, So if you come and
rent a space from our building, you'll be covered under
the license that we're going to provide you. So that
there is a fee for that, but you do not
have to go file to go all filing the licenses
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and everything. So you're going to be under our umbrella.
So we are trying to bring small companies that they
want to start, and the number is so big that
they can ever start. So we're going to give that
opportunity to use people exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Like if I can't wait the guy who went and
changed the other day.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
I didn't get it cool, but I.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Heard it looks amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It's gonna be awesome. Hopefully when you guys are part
of the king, it would be the top notch.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I can't wait to get it to some one. We'll
be right back after this break.
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I see all these products on my table right here.
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What are we looking at? And what are we I mean,
there's every color I can imagine, pretty colors, there's pins,
there's three rolls. What do we've got here?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
So really what we.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Have is a lifestyle of all types of cannabis brands.
So when you look at going out as with your friends,
or going out to a.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Classy restaurant or just being in public in general, you
want to be able to feel like you're comfortable and.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You're in the zone.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So to get into that zone, you want to have
some lay Loo. You need to boss up a little bit, right.
So we have our number.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
One product, which is our first product, the Laylow Puff.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And what you do is just do it.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Just hit it.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
You just hit it, and you hit this vape just
without pressing a button, and it comes out perfectly delicious flavor.
The formulations we've come through over the last couple of
years actually to make this product absolutely delicious with all
natural terpenes from cannabis plants derived and usually it is
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what they like to call high terpene extracts, so they
get just the terpenes extracted out of the cannabis plant
and they reintroduce that to the oil.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That is pretty much as.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Close to ninety nine percent THC you can get, But
as you add the terps, it takes the THHD down
a little bit, so it's really not all the THC
that gets you high out there, just for a brief
educational piece.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's kind of the euphoric effect of.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
All the cannabinoids involved, and we try to put that
full spectrum here as best as possible in a clean,
compliant manner.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
So this this product is one of our favorites. Everybody
loves it. It's discreet.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I mean it fits in your hand, fits in your pocket,
easily goes in a purpose.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Doesn't it look like a cannabis It looks like one
of the nicotine vapes.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Did you guys do that on purpose?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Absolutely, just to make the people feel more comfortable. Yes,
the whole lay low right.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
A lot of ladies love these because if it's in
their purse, it looks like a makeup. It really does
look like a makeup, so they put in that makeup.
Versus I have friends that they call them, Hey, Robert,
I want to travel to overseas or here. What should
I do? Just drop it in your makeup case. They go,
they have their fun, and they come back no problems.
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So it's pretty and it's disposable.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Go have fun and throw it away. Exactly how many
hits are you getting off that?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Usually about two hundred and fifty puffs probably, but it
all depends what kind of puffs do you do.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
The best part is it's rechargeable as well, so you
could put your.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Normal seed battery I'm not sure which one.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It is the same one that would be on a
Samsung I believe, and that'll charge.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
If the battery goes off. See so there is some
devices but you still have oil in it, but the
battery goes out and you cannot charge it. So what
do we have? Actually you can recharge if the battery
goes one.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Thing that sucks undisposable. So yeah, wait, I know there's
still more in here, yes, and left around for a while.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
No, but with this device probably you'll get everything out
of the puff. One full milligram that it's.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
In there, So it's one milligram there, full miliground. And
how many different flavors do you guys have?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
We have presently about ten different flavors four on the
shelves currents.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yes, we have a few R and ds that we're
working out.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
We will have ten on the shelf, but right now
they're in R and D and we have to make
sure that they're compliant.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Before they launch.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
So right now we have you can find four of
our flavors on which are We've got the King Louis og,
We've got the black Cherry Gelato, we have the super
Silver Haze, and we also have the pink Cotton candy.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Nice. Yes, sounds delicious.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
They are delicious. My favorite one is the black cherry Gelato.
I enjoy that one.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That's what I'm smoking right now.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
That's the black cherry.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, the red color one is the black Cherry Glata.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And then what other what other things do we have
up here?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We have gummies, so.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That was another thing.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
It stays with the lay Low style here, right. So
the gummies are your version of your are edible to
where literally you can eat that anywhere.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Nobody has a clue what you're eating.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
It's clearly that you know it's just a jar, delicious flavor,
delicious coloring. You know, it's very attractive, but you just
open it up eat a gummy, you won't even.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Taste the cannabis.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
There's zero distillate in this, which is usually what things
are made with, and you can taste that flavor heavily.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
But our proprietary blend of actual.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Water soluble water soluble solution as well as a method
of isolation and a cannabinoid that only gets you to
that extended high that you appreciate without the flavor. So
that's about as far as I can say it without
giving away too much information. The people that heard that
that know what it is, know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But at the end of the day, as a.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Consumer, you're gonna feel great and you're not going to
taste anything but candyous.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That it's also vegan, yes, And like you said, it's
so discreete because it looks like a Surbert type of
candy jar, so to speak. You know, you got this
pink that's not hot pink, it's not so bright. It's
not your cannabis pink. It's not your cannabis orange. It's
not your cannabis purple or red or turquoise that I'm
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looking at. It's more like a starboards, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
You can't see inside the jar. So we did it
to where it's the same color. We didn't want to
just put a label around it. But the jar is
you can't.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
See through it. You won't be able to see what's
inside of this jar.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
And the whole point there is for compliance first of all,
but secondly discrete.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You want to be discrete.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
This jar could end up holding anything at the end
of the day after your gummies are gone.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Hang on to it, but you're changing it.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
It. Yeah, weeding it.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So it also has then the gummies and what else
do we have.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
We have the three rolls, and we have another product
that is we are going to be rolling out very soon.
Is going to be our hookah infused hookah without any
tobacco or nicotina in it, but it does have the
t seed. You will not smell it or taste it,
and it's going to be ready within like four weeks.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I believe I've never seen that anywhere has that even.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You have one here I showed you at my office.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It literally works just like regular hookahs.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You will not know that you're smoking catabis if it
no smell, no taste.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
But out of the hookah, it's a nice, friendly, enjoyable experience.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Everyone could hit it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I would not recommend for you to see them finish
the whole hookah by yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Oh I bet it is, because then it's going to
last a long time to getting I.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Mean, you'll be pretty high by the time you're done
with that, the whole hookah.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And then thinking with the coals on top of it
to the different flavor it would kick in. Yeah, so
the hookah? What type of flavors are you guys telling.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It right now? We have like four flavor that we
are going to roll out, so it's all fruit flavors.
I believe we have mango, blueberry, sour apple, and double apple.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's funny because before I got married, I used to
go to hookah bars all the time, especially when I
lived out in the Glendale area moved out here, you
know what I mean. It was just oh, and then
I meet some guys, let's.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Go to who what who?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, let's do it so relaxing, so fun, and of
course some people would just sprinkle some wheating there every
once in a while. But to think that you guys
are actually making how long did that take to do?
And how to figure that out?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I mean, it's been We were working on it about
six months already to how make it to flavor it
that you will not taste it and it's compliant.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Really, it was after we came out with the gummies
we found out that isolation method and all of a
sudden it was.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Like product because we were just like, what else can
we put this in?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
And so we figured out the straw, We figured out
a drink, We figured out the powder right in front
of you, which you can add to your own drink
and make it like a little kool Aid, you know,
your own kool Aid mix and just poured into water
and boom.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Those are actually there are one hundred milligram compliant kool Aid.
You just poured in an eight ounce bottle of water
and good morning, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh it literally looks like cool.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
No, it is kool Aid infused to be At the cannabis,
we have eight different flavors. Again, this is something new
that we are going to be rolling out. So we
are waiting all of these products. We are waiting the
packaging to arrive.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So pink lemonade, lay low cool.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yes, you guys are just innovating a bunch of shit
over there, we are trying what else.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Is different today and that's a huge, huge thing about
our business model.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Again, it goes back to the one stop shop.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
You've got to innovate, you have to be different, and
there's a lot of competition out there that there's some
huge companies, there's some small companies, and we're all fighting
for the same business, which is very slim.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
In the state.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
You know, we're only we're only in this state for now.
We're going to expand, but once we expand, then we're
only in that state. Based on you can't cross state lines, right,
so we have to redo everything that we've done here there,
and we're willing to do that eventually. But here, you know,
there's probably seven eight hundred stores max across the entire
state we're in right now with Cali row on about
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forty stores, and that's by design because we don't.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Want to be on top of each other with our
products and the same area.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The more exclusive surface there satin areas.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
So that our customers forward to finance, we can always
build through those.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Vacations, pump those locations, swag or some free products, make
sure the customers actually getting.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know, taking care of two because they're the ones
buying the product.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
We got to a little bit take care of the customer.
Make sure customer Appreciation days coming your way.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
That you ever see me, you'll know I've got something.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, and you usually always do. You always have a
car full of random gifts.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
That's just what I don't know even talk about it.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I don't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Don't look at the black tesla which one is? Then
take a break. We're going to come back. Club Lailo
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Speaker 4 (28:59):
Is yes, I believe we have the front cover for it.
I think you guys have the back no front cover
for it, front cover.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Sikes is going to take the front cover because this
is the launch of Laylou. And then we also have
our cali.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Wana page which we were.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
In the first issue in Calijana's page will be in
the second issue as well as far as talking about
our branding, our manufacturing, our white labeling, and then also
our sales team which is huge. And this is something
that I'd like to touch on because it's really a
service that not too many people are providing out there.
In one house, they're doing it, but you got to
(29:34):
go to different services, right and then it's hard to
get those services to communicate, for instance, who's doing your
cold calling, set up your appointments, and then whoever sets
up those appointments, who's going to follow up and actually
run the appointment. The sales team, and then if they
sell something, who's delivering it and making sure that it
gets there, and then the pad team make sure it
gets sold and then on the full circle, who's doing
the collections in the reorder. I mean, there are four
(29:57):
different companies in this state currently that do that don't
communicate with each other. I lived it the hard way,
so I made my own and here we are today
now with seven brands under our belt, with a great menu.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We've got buying power, our selling power really with our buyers.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Because of this, now we have brands that trust us
to sell their products and market and solicit their products,
and that's really the name of the game.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
As you say that, Nico, what are some of the
biggest headaches that you've had to go through that someone's
listening to going what kind of crazy shit have you
had to go through that you had to learn all
this so that you're going, no, I'm going to put
it all in one house for these smaller companies to
come and learn. And you too, Robert, what's some of
the crazy things that have gone through where you're like, oh,
this is what we're going to make sure that you
don't go.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Through, Nikol, Well, a lot of it is the growing pains.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
The biggest one to me was the building, you know,
finding a good landlord, licensing, finding out how long that
licensing issue takes and knowing the people inside, and it's
a lot of lobbying that has to go on. Believe
it or not. This is it's a young business. But
that'll never end. That'll never end. You have to know somebody,
to know somebody to get something in, to get it
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passed through Congress or whatever it may be. And it's
the same here with this small government agency in California.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
You still got to know somebody to get that license through,
how to fill out that paperwork right, what to say, and.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
That's how you get it pushed ahead because if you're not,
you could be sitting there paying your rent on your building.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
That's the biggest part to just paying the landlord.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
And you got to pay that rent regardless, and you
can't operate.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
So what are you going to do? Just sit there
and wait. It's what are your thumbs? You're going to
go broke. So that was the biggest turtle was finding
that home and being able to say, look now I
don't have to I don't have to you know, hustle
and bustle. I don't have to be on the streets.
I've got my spot now and now we can build.
So that biggest issue was finding that and then finding
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a good printer somebody that wasn't trying to take advantage
of you again because you're a cannabis company. You know
you're illegal. I only print legal brands kind of stuff.
So then you got the cannabis specific printers who have
already raised their rates a little bit higher, so you
can kind of jog around those things.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Then you're packaging.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
That was another huge issue China, delivering from China, especially
with the tariffs and now the issues between China and
Russia and well they're partnership really and them kind of
pushing us out a little bit and having deliveries delayed
and customs issues, and it's a nightmare. You have to
wait sometimes six weeks to maybe even twelve weeks to
(32:32):
get your packaging delivery.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We're living that right now actually, as.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
We've still been in this business this long, we still
have to deal with some of these headaches, but we
try to nip them in the bud as best we
possibly can by having extra resources. So if I wanted
to get it faster, I could have, and I could
pay just a little bit more and I'd get it
done like right now. Then again, if I wanted to
put in a huge order and save saves a lot
(32:57):
of money, then I might be willing to wait that
time and just prepare for it.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But then if you're preparing like that, that's part of
the thing that you're going to give these people that
want to come in and rent one of these thirty
or forty spots there exactly, and you're gonna be able
to give them that advice.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
And opinion and try to give them the product not
to have in so many high quantities as people cannot
afford to do something because imagine if you're doing ten
flavors and they're asking you ten thousand piece per flavor,
that's one hundred thousand units. You have to import, and
(33:31):
you have to store those and you have to feel
those things. Small companies, a lot of us, we don't
have that capability to fill up on hundred thousand bags
of gummies, so it becomes impossible. So what we're trying
to do in that location to try to help even
packaging part of it not to be such a burden
on people, not to be able to put their brands
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into the stores large.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Numbers, and we'll be able to take everybody's orders in
at once a similar organized packaging orders together save people
money that way is, and.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
They all get to come in under your license. Yeah,
we're going to do that for the price obviously, Yes,
you pay. You can get under this and you can
work under this license.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
So that also, being that we're under one license means
we're under one book of revenue. Right, So if you
look at it that way, we're all one business. We're
working together cohesively to build this building's business revenue up
and its valuation up. Because the end goal and I
believe somebody right here before me said it today, My
good friend George said that it's all about the money.
(34:36):
We are here for the money, and anybody that wants
to come to California to build a business in cannabis
knows that it's going to get purchased one day because
this is the mecca of cannabis.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
So you guys are building something big that you can
put a bunch of brands underneath you and then get
it bought and give everybody their little piece of If
you're coming in under this, this is your percentage if
we get bought.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Out, Yes, and hopefully say.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Your brand just blows and you increase your valuation above
some of the other brands that are there. You'll get
your rightful piece of that sale once it happens. If
you choose to you own your brands.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
You don't have to be a part of the roll up.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
We would want it to because it'll help the valuation
of the company and it'll help you sell to a
publicly traded company at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
So it really is the conglomerate, the consortium.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Idea and putting this thing together is.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Going to be huge, And we're going to duplicate this
in a couple other states to do the same thing,
same help to other people that they are struggling in
other states.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
What states are you looking at next?
Speaker 4 (35:37):
I believe the talk was Arizona and Nevada because on
both states I have people that they own properties that
we can duplicate what we're going to do here.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
What is your background? What did you guys come doing
before you guys got into canvas.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Oh, I have been in clothing industry since I've been
nineteen years old. I've builted two companies, then got sick,
left a clothing industry and got strictly in the cannabis industry.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Is that what led you to cannabis because you got sick.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
No, I was in cannabis industry since twenty years ago,
first fifty thousand that I invested at that time, and
then I was always in the background in the cannabis industry.
But I was in my main business in clothing.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Industry, clothing like selling suits.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
No, we used to purchase stock lots from Kmart Walmart
and sell it to secondary stores. So we used to
have fifty hundred thousand score food warehouse full packed with
merchandise that we would sell it to secondary stores. And
then that got me traveling all over the world. I've
been maybe in like thirty countries in my lifetime. So
(36:53):
and then I couldn't travel no more, and I got
stuck in LA. What to do? Let's go full timeline cannabis.
Why not? That's what I know.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
That's a good thing. What about you, Nico, What were
you doing before cannabis?
Speaker 4 (37:06):
So?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
I was in the risk management and wealth management world
for probably fifteen years of my life. And I was
in Florida and in Ohio. I grew up in Ohio.
I went to college in Florida and stayed in Florida
to develop a business.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
There. I worked in the corporate world for about eight.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Years and then took my book of business opened up
my own shop called American RM Solutions RM for risk Management.
Then I was approached by one of my clients, actually
one of my largest clients at the time.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
We used to golf all the time, and in Florida,
you understand, that's just pretty much all you do. It's
two o'clock, it's time to hit the teas.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
We've got to go out here and play some time.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Right, No, I'm down. I'd love it.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I honestly, since i've been here, I haven't had time.
I've been so busy, I haven't even I lived right
across the street from a golf course. I look at
it every day I leave to court.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
You're in Orange County, right, your south Ornge County.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, I'm over in the Anario, Okay, and uh, we've
got a course, just public course, nice track though it's adulated.
It's beautiful, greens are beautifl We.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Got to go hit it.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I'm right there in Lake Forest, I'm just down the
road from you.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yeah, and it's a nice track, nice track, pretty expensive.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I noticed that here in California just about.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Everywhere is is uh private club pricing?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
You're one hundred bucks around out here?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Easy?
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah, easy.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
It's like we're gonna play hundred bugs, hundred bugs, one
hundred and twenty five, okay, Twilight sixty five.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
And when you're thinking about that, and I heard the
conversation earlier as well, some of the guys that we
had at the golf tournament aren't like, you know, I'm
a four whole, nine whole kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Man. I'm like, if I'm paying one hundred and twenty
five dollars.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
I'm playing thirty six nineteen, at least let me play
this twice exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
We take a break, I'll come back and play again.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Can I just exact kind of have lunch and then
playoff another eighteen? Totally I'm the same way, and I've
done it.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Get access to the pool after.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Oh yes, that's the best part about it.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
So yeah, that was where I was approached.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
And my friend and I we went golfing and he's like, Nico,
I need some help. I'm like, yeah, what can I
do for you? You know, new policy insurance?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
What do you need?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
That's where I was My head was.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Obviously he was my client he's like, no, no, no,
He goes, You've built an awesome sales team.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
He goes, You've done it twice in two different businesses.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Before I did that, I had a recruiting team as well,
for accountants and for basic staff members kind of like
administrative staff. And so we did kind of hourly staffing
for those jobs. And in the accounting positions, the finance
and accounting positions, we did full placement and I built
a team of ten people in a boiler room that
(39:38):
was dialing for dollars and we did an awesome job.
That was about two and a half years of my life.
And then I moved over to the corporate I was
partners in that business. My friend sold it and I
got my cut and I left and went over to
the wealth management side.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
But I digress.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
When I was out in the golf course, he said,
you've built a great team there, and your insurance team
right now at American Arm is awesome. You've got a
couple agents under you license, You've got your staff members
for the back office that help you do all.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
The policies and the open enrollment meetings and this, that
and the other.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
You're organized.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
You got it down and your guys are always on
the phones, he goes, In fact, I get annoyed. I'm
already your client. They can stop calling me, he said.
I was like, you got to stay relevant.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Man, So exactly got to do something new, because.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
That's why I brought this up.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
He goes, I own a business out in California and
it's struggling badly and I need your help.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Can you build a team for me? He goes, you
can build it here because it can be remote.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
You guys are just going to be doing phone sales.
I was like, I could probably think about it. You know,
Let's go out and see the business and see if
I can get my you know, feet wet a little bit.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Understand what you're talking about because you didn't want to
tell me what it was there.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
So we took a flight out to Cali. We go
into San Francisco, drive down to Salinas and I was like,
I look at the place.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
This is during spring too.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
I was like, wow, like this is like the heaven
I was.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
I said, What's what it was?
Speaker 5 (41:00):
At the Hidden Valley Ranch bottle, Like this is the
scene They took this picture right here for the right
It was beautiful, just green on all sides.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
So he pulled. We go into a.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Not so beautiful location, this lot that was just pure
dirt with a bunch of huge buildings, like rose buildings,
is what I thought.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
So it was like, there's a rose garden or something.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
He had four of these huge venlos They were about
seventy thousand square feet each monsters. We walk intside one
of them and it's full of cannabis plants. It's the
first time I've ever seen anything like this. I've seen
a plant or two before.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
You know, and I've got before that. This was another
level I thought.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
I mean, this is what you would see in a
rose garden, you know, and you go to a rose garden,
you see all these plants.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
That's what I was thinking going to California.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
Right, Well, it was cannabis, and I was like, so
what are we doing, man, I don't sell cannabis, dude,
It's like why not.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
I was like, well, I know the first thing about
it except you smoke it and get high.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
Right, I'm like, I just don't know anything. This isn't
my realm because it doesn't matter. You could build a team.
The knowledge will come. Don't worry about it. You just
will have the products. You got to just sell it.
Just get the doors open, Just open the doors. I said, all.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Right, fair enough. I was like, so what are your
products look like? What do you have?
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Now?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
He didn't have anything. There's some packs. I said, well,
this is a problem, but I want to take on.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
I want to take on this challenge, right because now
I'm thinking, I'm just like I can do the branding
of this.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I could build a brand behind the name.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
It was called Canifornia, and I'll give him the plug
because this is an awesome name and an awesome company.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Except the CEO screwed up the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (42:35):
And that was my buddy. So he and I are
kind of on the for it a little bit. But
he got me into the business and I stayed here.
So once I did that with him, I built a
sales team in Florida. We had about fifteen people in
southern and South Florida all in the office.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Every single day.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
We got in there at twelve o'clock in the afternoon
because it was East Coast time when it was nine
o'clock here. We dialed for about seven hours and it
would be nighttime. Then we go out to the bars
afterwards talk about our sales, talk about just blah blah
and it with the team and really built an awesome
company because we just kept expanding the product lines he had.
They were doing about out of those four vendlows, i'd
(43:15):
say three hundred to four hundred pounds of flour.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Every other week. So we were killing it.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
We had eights, we had ounces, we had joints, and
that was really it because we didn't have license to
do manufacturing yet.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
But I then started getting phone calls about, hey, you
want to partner here? Do you want to do some
toll processing? So I started to build the build that
part out.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
We started doing our vape line, so we got to
disol it and I sold our trim to make the
disolate and stuff like that, and I got it back
and we packaged it.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
So then we came out of the dislant line.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
We got up to about three and a half million
dollars in sales per month for two straight months. Then
we got up to our next goal was five million.
I hit the five million. Our CEO and COEO go
up to Canada for a money raise. They get ten
million dollars out of our sales. Not bad. That was
(44:04):
supposed to go to pay the grower. I was supposed
to pay the grower. It was owed a lot of money,
and our sales team was owed a little bit of
money as well, and a few other people that were
taking the back seat to watch his company grow. CEO
goes and buys a couple of penthouse suites in the SLS.
Anybody who knows what I'm talking about right now knows
who I'm talking about. I don't need a name drop.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
But at the end of the day, this happened.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
And you know, hey, God bless him. He had a
fun time, He did well, and he was making a
lot of money. But we all thought that was his money,
but it was the company's money. And sure enough, the
grower didn't get paid. So the grower quit and actually
sabotage the plants, and we had a really bad issue
of not being able to refill orders. So I went
from my hero to zero in the next couple of months,
(44:48):
and I had to hold off, and then I lost
clients because we held off too long, and now we couldn't.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Now we were just trying to make sales to pay
the staff. We couldn't.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
We probably had one hundred and sixty people on that farm.
And that's a lot of money to keep that amount
of people paid without cash flow.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Yeah, nothing to sell anymore, too.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
To sell anymore, and the kid he was empty.
Speaker 5 (45:10):
So it was tough man, and I had I took
a step back and time still lived in Florida.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
I was traveling back and forth.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
I was like, I think I can handle this business
pretty much on my own. I don't have the building,
I don't have the instructure, I don't have the license,
but I got to know how and I have the
connections now. And so I went down to a friend
of mine that I had met in Los Angeles. He
had a license that he wasn't operating with, wasn't using it,
he was just paying for it. He was like, man,
can you turn this around for me like you did
(45:38):
that one? Yes, I can't. And that's really how it started.
And I stayed so I didn't go back to Florida.
I got a house here and now I rent out
my house in Florida. I everybody's looking for an everything.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
I may want to take the kids out there one day.
But that's a great story.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
I want to do the high five with you, Robert,
because your first time on Nico has done it before.
But you can answer this exactly so question number one, Robert, Yes,
and great stories by the way you guys hold you
The first time you smoked cannabis? And where'd you get it?
Speaker 4 (46:10):
From? Nineteen right next to a police station and who
gave it to you? A Mexican schwag dealer eat seeds
Field Van Nuys and the victory.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
Oh I know the exact area.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
Wow. And then what happened? Two double doubles with chili
from Tommy's Chili Fries and a large coke and me
and my partner passed out for twelve hours after that.
That was my first experience. We read What a.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Good time that was?
Speaker 4 (46:47):
Right?
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Awesome, that's funny. Question number two of the high five,
what is your favorite way to use cannabis joints? Joints?
Just the old school joint with the.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
Paper because raw paper, because there is no chemical on it.
I like the turping. I like the real flower, the.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Real taste of that. Yes, I like that too. Craziest
place you ever used are smoked.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Cannabis business class amaruts, flying to do I.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Another place where you just can't have it in Dubai either.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
No, it was like it was laylo, you know, it
was laying low and taking a puff.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
There it is laylo. These pins are real lay low too.
You can get away with something like that there. Just
hit it, yeah, exactly, just hit it, blow it down.
That's crazy, Robert from Club Lailow. What's your go too
much after you get high?
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Oh? Cheetos baked, just the normal bait, Just the normal
normal cheetos.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
I love how they get your fingers and you gotta
you have to lick them.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
You gotta lick them.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yeah, And I like that at your place you have
a lot of chips over too. I love that question
number five with a high five with the cats from
Club Laylow. If you could smoke cannabis with anyone Robert,
dead or alive, who would it be and why?
Speaker 4 (48:06):
It would be my best friend, which he's thirty five
year of my friend and we talk to each other
every day, and it would be the person.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
You still talk to him every day. And if you
don't smoke, where does he live?
Speaker 4 (48:20):
Where he lives in the run now, but he comes
and goes back. So in order for us to communicate
every day we are on FaceTime.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
What he do eat?
Speaker 4 (48:28):
What did you do, so he would be the person
I would I would want to do that because he's
my brother.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Oh that's cool. You gotta make that happen. When he
comes down to the stage.
Speaker 4 (48:37):
He'll be here shortly, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
I can't wait to meet this buddy. And you guys,
it's always a pleasures or anything we didn't talk about
about the brand or anything else you want to mention
on the podcast before we let you guys go.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
Well, actually, one other thing, Leila, we are going to
have a lot of merchandise in clothing.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
And you love your guys tolling. By the way, I
have a nice sweatsheet that I have with your guys.
I love it.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
So we are going to have a lot of merch
for love. Leila too. That he's going to be rolling
out where.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
He's saying, well, make sure you guys laces us up.
You know what I mean, and that allars here, Come on now,
let's go, let's go. Well, thank you guys for joining
the show. Everybody listening, appreciate you guys, and remember this
if nobody else loves you, we do.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
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