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Today it's Shallly shy Shy Towns finest maybe the platform.
Two gentlemen behind Chicago's based cannabis company on a mission
not to be like R. Kelly, not from not the
Chicago base that. But these brothers right here are creating
more diverse and inclusive industry through hiring a career development practices.
Besides us now co founder Alex and Ambrose Boy chairman

(02:25):
and CEO of the nineteen thirty seven group off Top,
I just love I can't wait to get into the night.
I mean when I first heard it, right, and then
of course anthy.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
You got my folks coming in and I did there,
I was like.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh my god, somebody else would bring it up nineteen
thirty seven right, But I was like, I can't just
wait to hear what this even is and me, I
just I love the name dog. The nineteen thirty seven
Group a minority owned, vertically integrated cannabis entity. Now, the
nineteen thirty seven Group has extensive experience, a long standing
passion for the plant, you guys, a deep respect for
the opportunity to cultivate and of course make quality cannabis

(02:59):
products to just distribute them through license retail outlets in
the Good O'shi Town area. Make sure you check out
their website the thche one nine three seven group dot com.
So the nineteen thirty seven group dot com is the website,
or follow them on the gram of course at the
nineteen thirty seven group, check them out you guys and
their products on deck of course twenty four to seven. There,

(03:21):
without further ado, please give it.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Up for Alex and Amber Rose.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Mean like the names of your guys's A and A.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I mean everything about your names and all these little
things that are going on here, in my eyes, are
just dope with this company.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
So first off, the name nineteen thirty seven group. You
guys are entrepreneurs. How do you guys even come up
with this name and get into this venture.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, yeah, so I guess you know, first of all,
I just I just want to just say, you know, Chicago.
We're born and raised bridge out of Chicago, but we
do have roots here. Nineteen thirty seven Group has ruths
through Alex here in California. And so oh we're at.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Uh Irvine or yeah, I'm right there, I live right there,
I'm right next to doctor.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah. Right, yeah, So it's good. It's good to see that,
you know, as we continue to do what we're doing
in the midwestern Chicago that you know, a lot of
ears are perking up. People are seeing what we're doing,
and we're building a lot of relationships on the West
coast as well as the East coast. Right, so you know, again,
my name is Ambrose Jackson, the CEO of the nineteen
thirty seven Group. Got Alex go ahead.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
My name is Alex el Siba. I'm the co founder
and chief strategy officer of the nineteen thirty seven Group.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah. Yeah, And so you know, I think when it
comes to the nineteen thirty seven Group name, right, and
the meaning behind it, it's just a reflection of how
we operate just in general. Right, everything is very intentional
that we do, right, and I can call out many,
many examples so that you probably hear about it, you
know as we talk today. But you know, at the
end of the day, right, we're we're coming from, you know,

(04:51):
a history of this plant being weaponized against people that
look like us over generations. You know, we've seen the
impact between you know, a affecting our family, affecting our cousins,
affecting our dads, our grandpas and uncles, all of that, Right,
and you know the reality is it's it's been purposeful
in terms of you know, when we go back to

(05:11):
the ninth the Marijuana Tax Act of nineteen thirty seven, Right,
that's the reference that we're talking about here with the name.
You know, prior to that, cannabis was legal. You know,
hemp was legal. There was a lot of economies built
around it. And you know that Marijuana Tax Act in
nineteen thirty seven was put in place specifically for the
purpose of using this plant to start to lock out
black and brown folks in a very much racist way,

(05:33):
in a way to keep down you know, our people
and affect us negatively in terms of our economics. WHOA right,
you know.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's funny talking I had.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
I had like a ninety percent, like I think that's
the year that it happened, but I don't know for sure.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I need to hear from him, because I didn't want
to even come up eighth that the year that blah
blah blah.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
So I had a feeling that that's what it was about, right,
And it's just so crazy to really hear this nineteen
thirty seven, Like nineteen thirty seven kind of seems a
little far up, but it's not that far off, right,
Like I was born up me too, right, So like
you're looking at somebody that was born, what not even
forty plus years after that, right, So I'm not even
forty years from that me that you could touch that

(06:10):
forty years before I was born, it was fully fucking legal.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Dog, And you know what I'm saying that when started, right.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Well, the thing about it is too is, you know,
like again when I talk about the meaning of the
name I jaw I Drop, I talk about that pass
and the history, but for us, it's more about the
president of the future, right, you know, as this plan
has been legalized, and you know, if you look at
all the different states and territories, you know, I think
seventy five percent of them have some sort of legal
cannabis program. Right, There's billions and billions of dollars been
made year over year, and we're not seeing none of it.

(06:41):
We're locked up and we're locked out of this industry.
And so you know, for me, it's all about the resurgence, right,
And that's why I referenced nineteen thirty seven group, because
like at the end of the day, like now we're here, right,
we deserve not only to see the table, but to
see the front of the table, you know, being part of,
an active part of and leading this industry. And so
that's really what we're all about.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I love the name, and like you said, it's very
strategic and it says a lot. I come from the
theory of those who know the past could have a
better prediction of the future and have a better understanding.
So those who do know history, it doesn't hurt, It
only helps, is my thought and theory on life and period.
You know period, like you know why because if you
know about the economics, if you know about how to grow,

(07:20):
shit care what it is right you're growing? How did
they grow in the past, Those who know the history
could have a better outcome of the future if you
study it and learn it.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, And that's what I love about your name right there,
I got I got some questions for you guys. Man,
So let's let's run it back though. You know Chicago, right,
you know, like what high school did you.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
End up going to? You know, did you play sports
in school?

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Like?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
You know, where do you guys really come from? Like
who you know, who are you guys? Did you guys
go to college?

Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know?

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, I mean so so each of us have a
unique background. I mean, we can we can talk about it.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
You know.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
I think it's it's interesting and makes up really you know,
you know, the basis and the foundation of who our
company is. Right when I mentioned in nineteen thirty seven
group being born in Chica, like as a company, as
our brands that we're working on putting out, like that's truth. Personally,
I've been living in Chicago for like twenty five years.
I was born in Roa, which is near Chicago. You know,
I wasn't really big on sports, you know, I did.

(08:12):
I did a lot of different things, dibbling and dabbling
in this for money, including you know, weed, including getting
locked up. But at the end of the day. I've
always been a consumer, you know, and I always had
an appreciation and love for the plan.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we whole life. Okay, yeah, me too.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
I mean, I mean, he I think I think Alex
has a little bit more extensive resume with the number
of pounds that we're talking about. I let him get
into that. But you know, for me, living in Chicago,
it's a lot of other things that we had to
deal with, you know. And so you know, like for me,
I talk about like being shot, being a victim gang violence,
you know, having to go through that, and for me,

(08:49):
like the trauma and dealing with that over ten years afterwards,
really laid the foundation for a not for profit organization
that we created called the nineteen thirty seven Foundation. And
so you know, everything that we do is rooted in
authenticity and where we're coming from, you know, when it
comes to how we operate, you know, very very much
like multimedia focused, event focused, giving back to the community focused.

(09:12):
Like that's that's just because that's what we do on
a regular basis. So it's real easy to bring it
to our craft.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Amber Rose Jackson, CEO of the nineteen thirty seven groups,
so well Spoken and you just dropped two big fucking
bombs on us right there. Dog. A, you're incarcerated, b
you're shot. Break those stories down for us. I don't
think two things I could just walk over.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah, I mean, you know what I mean. I mean, okay, hey,
but I got gout in my InKo. I'm gonna tell you.
I don't even tell you the whole story. It's not
that big of a deal, like what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, I mean, I mean quite quite honestly, man, I'll
tell you. I'll tell you a little bit. But I mean,
just like the the details a lot of things that
I've been involved with, I don't really like to go
into a lot, a lot, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
I'm sure I can google it, though. I mean, I
know your name, dog I'll tell you if you want
me to.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, yeah, at the end of the day, right, like
my I grew up with family members that been in
and out of jail for for for you know, for slanging.
You know, I was locked up for doing the same
thing when I was a minor, you know, I was.
I was fortunate enough to not get a felony right
based off of that, and and I did that's a blessing. Yeah,

(10:15):
I did end up you know, doing.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Your nice slaps on the hand rather than I mean
I didn't. Yeah, I didn't not get the felony.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
I mean that's a big deal, right that. But that's
that's that's, that's where the cycle starts, though, you know
what I'm saying, when I start getting you in the
system like that, and so luckily I was I was
able to you know, throughout my life and not get
you know, locked up to that point right and in
and out is okay almost like when you get right
right exactly, it's not a big thing, I'll go back

(10:43):
to jail. It's not a bit like so what you
know what I'm saying, Like it just becomes a mentality,
you know, as part of your lifestyle. So yeah, for me,
I ended up going I did go to college and
went to University Illinois Chicago. Yeah what I majored in biology.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Really yeah, the one that's that's the one class I
fucking failed and couldn't get my degree in four years.
I had to go back and take my class twenty
years later to get my degree after I petitioned biology
for all classes.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Of God, quite honestly, man, I never I never really
like liked school and never fucked with it that much.
But I still I still went and I still did
good enough. Right, So did you finish?

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Well?

Speaker 4 (11:18):
I finished my bachelor's and I was like, man, what
the fuck am I gonna do with a biology degree?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Right?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
And my buddy's like, Yo, why would you want to
you know, do this? Why and that? When you could
run a hospital? I'm like, what they got? They got
school for that. He's like, yeah, they're starting up a
new healthcare administration program right here at our school. So,
you know, me and him ended up being part of
that first graduating class. I got my master's in healthcare administration,
you know. Yeah, yeah, So I mean I got a
lot of experience.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
That's really big.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, that's real bad. The hell kind of create, you know,
pave the way for what I'm able to do right
now in terms of running a multifaceted organization.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Like what logo is that on your hat?

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Is that this is just a Chicago, Chicago logo being sick? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:54):
I like a lot, you know, I thought it was
your guys. Well, I was like, damn, I love the
part of hell. I know the lighteteen thirty seven.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, yeah, I like it all and such a
great story, amber Rose. We're gonna take a break real quick.
Come back in here from Alex al Sabana.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
How you saying that?

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Alex el Sabah al Sabaaa?

Speaker 3 (12:11):
What is that el Saba?

Speaker 5 (12:13):
My father's from Koweit so apart Middle Eastern part White.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yea, yeah, but say it again, El Sabban al Saba
el Sabba, Alex el Saba.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
We'd come back.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's the nineteen thirty seven group, amber Rose Jackson. We
would keep going for about.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Probably three more hours.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I mean, that was really good, great information bottom line, folks,
that's the CEO cliff note version.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Of who the man is, what they're about. We're gonna
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Speaker 2 (12:38):
Of the products they are and who they you know,
what we're smoking and learn about it.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
But I like this because we.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Get to learn who the man is, where the company
comes from, and now we get to hear about the
other man. It's kind of just talk one on one.
We'll come right back out of the preak say.

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It's Ambrose, not amber Rose. Apparently my dyslexia is kicking in,
and I added the E between the B and the

(13:49):
R and Ambrose Jackson, the CEO of the nineteen thirty
seven group became a light skinned black girl named amber
Rose Jackson that was going out with Kanye West.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
So the Latino went.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
To Uh, that's how I said. I don't call it
out because like I'm used to it sometimes, especially with Latinos,
is like.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
You get another Mexican that called my fucking name ron Hey.
You know what, I'll it was probably a spell check
that just fixed it for you. No, no, it was
my fault. No, thank you for trying to defend me.
Thank you. It was very nice. You know.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I'm an idiot for that. My eyes and I fucked
it all up. It spelt perfectly the way your name
is said. And I'm sorry I missed did that?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Ambrose?

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Thank you, Ambrose exactly Ambrose. But Ambrose, you have a
good looking gentleman sitting next to you that you found.
Where did you find him? Where did you find Alex?
Because you're the CEO and for him to come in
as the co founder obviously Ambrose, you said, Alex, I
got an idea.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah. Yeah, So Alex was introduced to me from a
mutual acquaintance while we were in the process of writing
our cultivation application and transportation application. This is probably about
five years ago. Alex had already been Chicago doing his
thing in a number of fronts and and so like
he has, he's come to the table with experience. He's
coming to the table bringing a lot, you know, and

(15:09):
so could I immediately saw saw you know what it
is that he could add to the team, and like
we just like click, just move forward from there, you know.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
And Alex, what was it about Ambrose Jackson that said
I want to join this nineteen thirty seven group with him?

Speaker 5 (15:24):
I think, you know, Ambrose has a unique skill set,
you know, when it comes to cannabis in general, I
think a lot of cannabis companies just kind of operate
on a whim, you know, not really like structured. And
so when I met Ambrose and I saw what he
was building with a team he had already assembled, I
was actually was, you know, leading my own team. And

(15:44):
I had applied for some licenses and then on the
next round, which was cultivation licenses. As he mentioned, we
were introduced to a mutual friend. He was like, you
got to meet this this guy, Ambrose. He's building a
good team. You know, there's an area that I think
you can add value, you know, to the to the team. Uh,
mostly in cannabis. You know, firsthand experience, which I have
a lot a long history of, and I think immediately

(16:07):
like it was just a natural synergy, like I saw
how he was structuring the team, like I saw you know,
unique skill sets with his training. He's got a master's
you know in in in a unique skill set that
you just don't really see and in cannabis, right, and
there was still a flare that I really liked about,
you know, keeping and really holding together the cannabis culture

(16:32):
in an authentic manner. Manner.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Now, do you guys have a license? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yeah, we do.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
What license?

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Multiple licenses?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
What licenses are they?

Speaker 5 (16:40):
So initially, you know, we had applied for a retail,
cultivation and a transportation license and we actually won all three,
which was very very us.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Ambrose right here got the killer hand.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Yeah, to be honest, he does. Yeah, he wrote. He
wrote all of our apps. You know, that's a skill
set again that he's got a very technical skill set
with app writing and and it's proven successful in multiple fronts.
Even with the foundation. He wrote a grant and was
awarded two point three million dollars for the grant for
the foundation. So you know, a lot of groups I
think like, go the easier route.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
And write a grant for me. More of the craziest
thing is, though, you know what's beautiful about this. Ambrose's
like you're the perfect face. That's not the face for that,
right and for you to fucking do that, dog, I
just want to hug you and kiss you and hug you.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Like yeah, all yees, show ball.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
I want to put your fucking picture up on a
post and be like, this is the dude in Chicago
that's getting it done.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's what I
want to do for us.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
I want to do that for real, That's what we
need to do, Like we need to highlight this fucking
face right here and this dude, because this is the
type of fucking dude when you say that, dog w this.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
We need to highlight this and let the world know.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
That's why I got into it because I was like,
I'm getting shiels right now going when he said that
and then you put the masters, I was already putting
it together, you know. I was just laying it up
into the because nobody gets one, two, three in a
row like that in Chicago, and it's new and the
groups and let's just call it what they are, they're
the why call what they are?

Speaker 3 (17:58):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (17:59):
It was a it was a very difficult statistical probability
for us to win those three licenses. I think we
were one of three groups that actually won a license
in each category, and there were over seven thousand applicate applicants,
so it was a very like I said, there was
a little let hard hard did.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
You have to application? Did you get to come over?

Speaker 4 (18:21):
But I just I just you know, want to just
share that, you know, for us, Like that's just the start.
You know, we we stood up all three licenses, they're
all operational. Right now, we're in the process of standing
up seven more retail dispensaries. You know, you wanted how
to fuck we do that because we ain't even got
no money, you know, it's just like it's just what we.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Do it, you know, and multiple brands.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
How many do you have? Now?

Speaker 5 (18:43):
We have one retail store that's up, one craft cultivation
license that's up, and our transportation licenses operational. And then
we're in the process of rolling out seven more retail
stores currently and we're trying to get to ten. Try
in Illinois.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
They Illinois, they probably pretty good because them become monopoly
and you know, I mean I like that.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Actually it's just the same thing.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Well, the whole the whole strategy there was like, you know,
me and Ambrose locked in on a strategy very early
on when we won those licenses, because we recognized that
we had a unique position in the market because because
Illinois is very corporate dominated, and you know, they lacked
the cannabis authentic culture, you know, and like we wanted
to make sure that that was a staple in Chicago

(19:27):
and when people thought about cannabis in Chicago, that they
you know, automatically thought about the nineteen thirty seven group.
So we've been you know, very adamant about getting to
market quickly. We've been working on multiple brands. We have
four brands of our own that we're launching.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Is Bloom one of them.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
So Bloom is actually an LA based company. Yeah, as
I'm as you know, we talked about I'm from California.
And so once we won the licenses, we we kind
of took the distribution concept here, you know, in terms
of distrowing to retailers, and we partnered with a couple
of brands to get to market quickly because we didn't
want to rush our own brands, you know, Like cush

(20:03):
League is a brand that we've been working on Turp
Kings Outfitters, Higher Self. These are all brands that are
kind of uniquely positioned, you know, to serve a unique demograph,
demographic of consumers, not just you know, pigeonholed into one.
It's a very diverse strategy. But we wanted to take
our time and not just throw something out there. And
that's what a lot of people do. They rush to market.

(20:24):
They use Milar bags and the jar and just throw
a label on there and they think they've got a brand.
But as Zambro said, everything we do is very intentional.
So you know there's.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
A strategy behind these four. Please break them down. I'd
love to hear them.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
So this is actually one of one of our brands,
Cush League and Cush League.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
You know.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
For me, I was an athlete previously. I you know,
had a scholarship to play basketball in college, which is
where I started my cannabis ca yep, yep. And so
in two thousand and two, I got a scholarship to
go up to Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is a very
liberal hippie town and so that was like my first
real interest deduction.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Yeah, one of my one of my college teammates you know,
we had like a party and he showed me the
biggest jar of weed I'd ever seen, you know, because
I was like hustling half ounces in corners and then
I get to Santa Cruz and He's got this jar,
and I'm just like mesmerized.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
But did you ever go to any of the groves
in Santa Cruz?

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah, we actually, so that was I started. I started
growing in two thousands.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Those hills are very like they are like Humble in
my opinion, yep, like Santa Cruz mountains can be very
much like Humble him and.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
So like Kush League as a brand, as an example,
you know, it's it's a reflection of like me. Like
sports and cannabis specifically was a big part of my life.
I grew up with a single mom raising three kids,
and so I got to hustling at an early age,
and you know, keeping me busy with sports. I kept
myself active in playing a lot of sports, which led
to a scholarship later on. And then that was kind
of the turning point for where I really started going

(21:47):
hard in cannabis was a route that around that time,
and so when we when we came up with the
idea of building a brand. You know, I realized that
the sports lane in cannabis hasn't really been done, you know, correctly,
and so I like, for us, you know, cush League
is not only a product brand, it's going to be
a retail store and an apparel sports apparel line as well.
So we've been working on that for two years and

(22:08):
super exciting.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Are you looking at genetics in this cannabis as well?
That's more energy and pushing you out there like that
as well?

Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, So like our we have a chew which is
like an edible product that we're launching. What does it have,
Like it's hash rosen gummy or a chew that also
has added vitamin supplements. So to your point of like active,
we may add some THHCV, or for immunity, we'll add
some vitamin C and really playing off of more of
the you know, isolated health aspect and things like that.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
I love that, dude. I think that's lane missing in
as well, like a full lane. That's like there's so
many athletes out there. I mean, we have the recovery,
but we don't see the athlete that's pushing.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah, you know, I mean like let's go hard.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
It's like I like that there was a company called
Drotein that was doing like you know, like.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Protein exactly that. But I just feel like there's any
harder I can look at. I see the retail show already.
I see the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know, every color, every league, I could see every sport, hockey.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
Mean, people are crazy about their sports. It's a big
community and people are the Dodgers, the Lakers, Chicago, everywhere.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
I can see everything.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
That's the thing. You can see the branding right and
it all starts to click. And that's what we're talking about.
Even even the MSOs when it comes to building brands,
like they're not the ones that we should be looking to, right,
like when it comes to CpG and like you know,
incorporating creativity and linked in with the culture and like
hitting target target demographics, like you know, like this is
what this is what we do. Like I don't know,
I don't know if you've seen this right here, but

(23:39):
check check it out, open it up.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yeah, So I created that. It took me about a
year and a half to go through all the design iterations,
and we wanted to create a unique experience. And so
that's the proto type box for our kind of shoe
box concepts, Like we're going to open the region there, yep, yep.
So we're gonna do fresh drops, you know, with special
collapse with world class breeders people.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yep, that's so cool. So it's like a shoe BOXE.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
The whole sticker feels like the shoe box in your
closets if you're a sneaker.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
And I get it, I feel it.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
I see the vibe and I think it's fucking so dope,
dope and.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Cool and like it's a lane that I mean, it's
a mini weed shoe box.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
I mean this is like I'm saying, the whole lane
is like not there because you can see the whole
shop with stupid ship, Like did I say stupid shit
the most respectful by you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
I would go as far as this.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
You know what I'm saying is linking up with like
a shoe brand or another or another company for that matter,
and be like, yo, what's going to be in this month?
You know what I'm saying, Like twenty percent off of
your next Nikes or bla blah blah blah. You know
what I'm saying, Like because you can start marketing inside
the briting from my little recommendation too. For this one,
that's just how I want to see some fat dog
laces in that motherfucker.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Fat dog laces. So you buy your weed and you
got the fat dogs, you put ahead baan, you put
cush leg on the laces.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
We got some ideas, like some influencer boxes that are
a little bigger than that, where we can throw in
some Kush League, you know, merch in apparently.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
I just think it's cool, man.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
You guys got that. Let's hear the next one. What
else you have here? Is that all for now?

Speaker 5 (25:09):
You want to talk about like some of the other
brands we got going.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, I'm seeing on the website too, Like you guys
have the two G glass hip blunts.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yep, yeah, yeah yeah, so so yeah, so that's a
partnership with Lobo Rite, another brand that I think that
they really from the New York, New Jersey area, but
they came out to l A a number of years ago
to launch their brand and then they took it back
to New York now that it's legal over there, right,
But yeah, I mean, our other brands are all in
the process of development, so we're not. We don't have

(25:37):
them here for you, but like one of them is
called turp Kings. It's again, everything we do is kind
of like in its own unique space, right. So turp
Kings is really a brand that has different different type
of types of form and function. But the name you know,
says it all right. It's things products that like are
high end turpene percentage like flower high and turpines percentage,

(25:59):
or unique terpe profiles and using you know, this this
brand and this platform as a way to in a fun,
creative way, kind of change this narrative around how we
define quality in cannabis. Right, It's not just about looking
at that THAC percentage, right, And so you know, we're
doing that in a fun and unique way by incorporating art.

(26:20):
Like so we have a New York based artist as
doing all of our art. And it's like basically like we're
creating a turp Kings universe, so everything like Marvel Universe,
DC universe, Like there's five turp Kings, five categories, you
know what I'm saying, and so and so like it's
a real artistic play with like backstories to the turp
Kings and everything, right.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Keeps your vibe.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, not only that you're creating it exactly and people
will remember it. Why just like don't remember this, You
created it, You make it happen. We created this, You
create a cannabis talk. Wonder what does that created you? Listen,
you come on the show like get it and what
you're doing is fucking magical because it's part of the
culture's part of us. And when you said that, I

(26:59):
just mild because I can't imagine what these characters are
gonna look like.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
I cannot wait to see what you guys explore and
take me too, mentally, emotionally, physically, what I can buy.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
I'm already seeing this.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I could already see the fucking characters in the stores
and everything else.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Kudos to you guys.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Dude, man, you guys are doing it out there in Chicago.
I mean, this is like something that I'm looking at going.
I had no clue what you guys were up to,
didn't know who you guys are. I can't wait to
go see. I mean, we've never met each other, like
when we walked up Blue before we got on show.
Everyone we don't like to talk to the guests that
they're here, so it's like, you know, we don't like
to get to know you guys too much, and that's
just the way it is better for the show.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
So we could be this.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Impressed, hold it out to start hearing it out there,
and then we're like, we don't know where to go
because oh, yeah, we already knew, but you guys are
so impressive to know that. Are you guys leading the
pack out there in Chicago? Do you feel like that?
I feel like you are from the least amount of
companies that I've talked to.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
I mean, I would say we're moving fast, you know,
and we're trying to expand so that we're not so
you know, I would say Illinois is an area, as
I mentioned, corporately dominated space, and we never wanted to
have to be leveraged by a larger company and so
hence the vertical integration and trying to get you know,
kind of incubated from any of that outside.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
You know, you haven't take you haven't taken any investors
yet or yeah, all private investors.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
So yeah, we've been we've been scrappy.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
You know.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
When we say like we're a startup company, we're real scrappy.
We just we work our tail off NonStop.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
So but but the one thing I'll say, I mean, yes,
it's cool, we like, you know, we humble. I'm humble.
But at the same time, it's like when it comes
to our lane in Chicago in Illinois, like, yeah, ain't nobody,
ain't nobody doing what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, you guys got that field. I mean, you
guys got three licenses. You're vertically interviewed like that.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
That's to me, you guys are got to be looking
at as one of the bigger ships in the Illinois area, right.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
I mean, it's it's just not it's not just that too. Again,
it's just just like everything that we do. If you
look at like our presence, our brand ambassadors, how they're
in the community, if you look at you know, how
we're when it comes to events, like we're big and
we're big and throwing like events that are unique that
nobody else does. The types of types of types of
events that we do. You know, like as an example
of flower ball we did that's an annual event and

(29:11):
it's like essentially like a big cannabis expo. Uh, you know,
we we get brands from outside of Illinois, different states,
all coming, but then it's merged with a fashion runway show,
and so it's like kind of like everybody gives everybody
an opportunity to like, you know, dress up. You know,
do you know being in an environment that's a little
bit different smoking things down? Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly, So

(29:35):
everybody's like dressed up. It's a fashion runway show, like real,
real fucking designers like production like high production value. Put
a lot of money, a lot of time and effort
and creativity into what we do.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
And it's capped up with a musical performance. So we'll
usually bring in a high profile guests or an up
and coming like no Name in Chicago to perform. And
it's been great. I mean, it's been something that that
that market in particular has been lacking until we kind
of came on the scene and made it a pla
to like incorporate that part of the culture.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's interesting because we i mean, we do a lot
of like, you know, high end events.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
I'll give an example. You know, when we first moved
in here, you know.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
The the the the cops pulled up in the middle
of night, We're throwing a party, and and that might
have been even it was your birthday birthday. Yeah, your
birthday was the first party we threw. And you know,
we're having a we're having a party and there and
the local PD you know, we're just brand new. So
I got a security team out front. They're like, yo, hey, Blue,

(30:29):
you know, the cops are here. I was like, okay,
like so what's up? You know what I'm saying, like like,
let me go talk to him. Fuck, I should go.
So I go out there and I'm like, hey, what's up, guys.
And it's a chick. So I'm like, you know, and
I don't realize it's like, what's up, guys? I said
up on the thing and I look, oh, hey, what's up?
And she's like hey. She's like, I say, you guys
get a call or something. She's like nah, I'm like, well,
what's up? She's like, honestly, I just I've never seen

(30:51):
so many nice cars here in my life, you know,
in this area, you know. And and so since since
I'm seen that, I just kind of want not what's
going on? Like we're having you know, I'm like, we're
having a party, you know, Like it's like we're in
the cannabis industry. We just launched our location here and
it's you know, one of our hosts's birthday.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Why don't you come in?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
And she's like, all right, So she puts her car
in park, leaves it right there, and it comes walking
in and she's just blown away. I mean, you know,
we've got lighting, you know, just smoken, smoken, live performances
in the back. I mean, we've we've got stages, and
there's pop ups and stuff and and she's just kind
of no one's selling weed, you know, but but there's

(31:30):
a lot of activity, and I think, you know, her
mindset shifted right away, you know, into like this is cool,
you know, like this isn't a bad is real, you know,
it's like normal, And it'd be different if we were
all in here selling weed, you know. And I'm not
saying that we have a little been here doing that,
you know what I'm saying, we've all we've all obviously
we know the part. We're very we're very comfortable in

(31:53):
the cannabis industry, you know, and and and with what
it comes with, you know. But I think the understanding
is is that you are making the face of cannabis.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
A better place, a better face because.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Of how you're creating that the walk through the runway
models with live performances, letting people you know, smoke while
those those things are happening. This is what it should be,
you know, it shouldn't be you know, shut down because
they're letting people get drunk and do these things, right,
and they're doing the bathrooms in the bathroom, they're doing

(32:24):
everything else in the in the in the game.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
And at the same time, you can't smoke a joint
do that right, right?

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah? Yeah, I think I think for me that's part
of like the destigmatization a little bit, right, It's just
like for me, it's about I do the things that
I like to do anyways, that that makes that as
much work, right. So it's like we don't have events
where everybody comes together and it's like the purpose is
just to smoke we together, No, like, we come together
do things we like to do, and we just happen
to be, you know, consumed the same time, you know.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, or even with an edible in your system either way.
What other events have you guys done before? But I
want to talk about more events because when we go
to break to come back to the five, but I
wanted you guys to be able to brag a little
bit more. And I say that in the most humble
way because if you don't do it, nobody else is.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Right, Like, please share with us because we don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I would love love to be in Chicago with
cats like you, because you guys with the cats are
like well here in La that we go kick it
with and run with and we do things with right
like you're things that you're describing, So please share more
of us because I could tell you other events that
we do in Cali.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
But break down this and whereabouts are you guys in Chicago?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Because when I think of Chicago, I fly in, I
go downtown, you know what I mean, Like I go
to that North shrooms downtown.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
Where are you guys both on the south Side?

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, yeah, our headquarters is on the South Side and
the neighborhood called South Shore. You know he lives in
the south Side, live on the south Side. But I
mean the reality is like everything we got, we got
things going on all throughout the state, right, So like
when you talk about events, you know another space that
we were really kind of on the front lines in
front end, as is our or when it comes to
like like consumption lounges and consumption related events. Right. So

(33:55):
you know, we didn't mention this earlier, but our dispensary
is a really unique disp nentery, right. So it's it's
actually a fifteen thousand square foot ground up build that
was designed on the same roof to have a dispensary,
a three thousand square foot consumption lounge, and then next
to that a bar and a restaurant like full bar,
full restaurant, and we got a gaming license to an

(34:16):
area with game machines. And in the back there's an
indoor outdoor space. The outdoor patio is nice, but you
know it leads out to an acre and a whole
ancre of grassy area that's offense in. We got a
thirty by thirty foot you know stage that we built
out there to start running events, running concerts like.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Built yeah, hold on, and what's around the area is
your neighborhood or your industrial.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
It's a it's you know, kind of in a neighborhood area,
but it's in it's like a light light industrial.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
So we can be loude eleven oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, we can do whatever we want on midnight and
we get how many people fit in the backyard.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Like at least between two and three thousand were about
to run it up this this summer. You know what
I'm saying and testing.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Second player, guys, can we throw a party there together?

Speaker 4 (35:05):
Yeah? Man?

Speaker 5 (35:06):
And let me tell you the other good part about it.
It's right on the border of Indiana as well, so
it's you know, it's a it's a nice border town.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
I got some radio folks out there too that I
can get us some radio by my boy Dan Base
that've be out there. I got to connect you guys
before we leave. You leave here, make sure I connect
you with my boy Dan. He goes by Base.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Real.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
You just work with man Cal in the morning. You
guys remember Mankel, Yeah, in Chicago. So he was the
big boys guy from Mankel and now he still works
at a couple of radio stations. My mom to connect
you boys with. He's a good friend of mine.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Right.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
So, I mean, so, so you have a you have
a fully active facility that has a restaurant. This that
so many patients. So you guys are people you guys
see in the day there do you know.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Three three, three four hundred, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we
lost it in September. So I mean again, we just
we just running it up. This time. We haven't been
opened a whole year, we haven't seen the summer. So
there's a lot there that we we got a leverage,
you know, in terms of just like getting people there
and seeing what we got, because when they do, they're like, yo,
I ain't never going I ain't never going anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well no, that so your events based is a smoking
facility because it's private. You got to do because it's private,
So you can go by weed there, take its.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
People bounce back and forth, buy some weed, They go
to the lounge, they smoke, and then they go to
the restaurant bar and get some food. Then they go
buy some more.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
You guys got Disneyland Chicago. Whisneyland just a video. I
got see a video, right, I want to see the
whole place to this sounds sick.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Just just to be clear though, this kind of I
mentioned as we know, we're state wide, so this is
actually not in Chicago. It's in the area next to Danville.
It's called Tilting and so that the the the businesses
is called Parkway Dispensary. And then Miley's Joint is the Consumption, Lounges, bar, restaurant,
events space. It's about two and a half hours south
of Chicago.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Okay, where do you guys are at that were that location?

Speaker 5 (36:44):
Like just to talk about events too. This weekend, we
just had a car.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Show that we do.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
There where an automobile car show. We got their nice
cars out and you know cars showed up.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
What you said, over one hundred Yeah, yeah, parking park Man.

Speaker 5 (37:00):
Our party line has like two hundred fifty spots.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
You guys are doing it, dude, this is so dope.
I can't wait to go out there and check it out.
We'll come back.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
You're going to take a break. We'd take the high
five with the Gentleman from the nineteen thirty.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
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Speaker 3 (37:21):
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Speaker 4 (37:24):
Got Flaire on there.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
You don't know what he is.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
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Speaker 3 (37:34):
We'll be right back after the break.

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Speaker 2 (38:17):
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Speaker 3 (38:24):
I love that name, Ambrose. What did your parents tell you?
What is Ambrose come from? Because that's such a beautiful name.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I've heard this best book player, Like,
I wish there was a real story behind it.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
There is.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
Yeah. I think her response was to read it in
a book and like that's what.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Hey, what a good book it was? Because of your
fucking names. You're pretty dog, you know, I mean it's
a pretty name. I hands down, it's a pretty name.
I got a good name.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
It's cool, It's like and then you see it's a duty.
You're like, oh wow, I thought it was a girl
coming into dead right, all bullshit aside, and then I'm like,
what a beautiful name for a dude like I would
have loved to be able, Like, oh my boy, Ambrose
and that gets just cool.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
It's it's it's easy to remember. You don't like, how
about this, how many ambrose you ever met in your life?

Speaker 4 (39:01):
So like that's that's the thing too, that one thing
you don't realize you don't know. But Ambrose actually is
the name of a very big Latino street gang in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
It's even crazy or weird or cool. And she knows that.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
I don't think she don't think she knew it back then.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
No, okay, I was like, damn, she put you and this.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Happened to be from to Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I mean it's caused. It's caused issues all my life.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, so it's been a bad thing and a good thing.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
It's helped you. It hurts. You're like, Okay, they think
I'm down, but then that's just my name. Damn, I
can't even be not like down.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
It's just unique. I mean, I won't say it's helped
me in any way, but it.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Will, it will, it will. Usually those curses are blessing somehow,
you know.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
I mean, because what I think is the worst curse
is number Normally there's a blessing in this guy. There
always is. I feel like that's always. I feel like
that too. So it's now time for the high five.
I want to think everybody around here that makes it
happen Captain for Mary Demando, Salar, Kylie Logan, Gary Amy, Stay,
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(40:05):
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Jennifer Big d, Eric O'Connor, Big Boy, and Elvis. Thank
you guys all for doing what you do. The nineteen
thirty seven group out of shy Town, Chicago's into building, folks.
Five civil questions and Bros. You'll go first, Alex you'll
answer the same question right after him. Question number one,

(40:28):
How old are you the first time you smoked cannabis?

Speaker 3 (40:30):
And where did you get it from? Man?

Speaker 4 (40:34):
So, I feel like everybody in this fucking industry when
they do these things like they have this fucking story
to go to. Like for me, it's like, man, I
know I was probably fifteen, no older than that. As
far as where I got it from the in the scenario,
who knows. Man, I just you don't.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Remember if I was six and my brother gave it
to me and I was listening to the double Dutch Bus,
so I.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Can recall it like if it was yesterday and that
was six. So you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
If you don't remember, you don't remember, but I do,
like it was a fucking branded, fucking oh my back.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Yeah. I just I just remember stories when I was
like fifteen, sixteen, and like different things like that could
have went went wrong but didn't luckily.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Some I mean, ship the whole life, right, you know,
it's fun. It's funny. I I you know, I remember
too where I was at. I was.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
I was at across the street from my school at
a one of my buddy's house, tie Tyrone.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
He took off his shirt. I remember pulling off his
shirt and he's like, I'm like white taking off shirt.
It's like I don't want to smell. Like wall Mom
gets here, I'm like, we're smoking in your room.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Dog, you know what I'm saying, and he was taking
off his shirt in his room and he's hitting it
and I'm.

Speaker 5 (41:37):
Like, sounds like he already smoked before that.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Oh yeah, he had smoked all the times.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Like that just goes to show you how dumb we
were as kids, right, we never figured that out.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
I'm gonna trickle my shirt, but you were smoking in
the room and he's like no, but it's different.

Speaker 5 (41:50):
You know.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
That's how we think though as kids, Like you know,
we used to think we get away with it with
our parents, like, oh my kids now.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
And I'm like, was that that dumb?

Speaker 4 (41:58):
At least blow it out the window?

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Yeah, And that's that's exactly. I was like, let's go outside.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
He's like, no, no, we're good, just don't blow it
on my shirt, and you know me, because.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
It'll snow on my clothes. I'm like, okay, but you're
blowing it out like you know it was. You know,
it's funny, just we're just young and dumb.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
But you so I was. I was in eighth grade,
summer of eighth grade, going into ninth grade, and I
had a friend and his older brother was in high
school and had his license, and so I remember him
picking me up one day and and uh, I remember
smoking out of a can. His older brother was the
influence that kind of got us to start, you know.
And uh, I still remember the time. I really didn't

(42:38):
recognize whether I was high or not. I just remember
laughing a whole lot. But I just I was I
didn't really know what the feeling was, so I just
wasn't for sure certain that I was.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Highing that that doesn't remind me of one thing like
back in the day, Like okay, I remember smoking out
of cans and apples were like one thing when I
was younger, is which obviously we don't do nowadays. Just
use like uh like a pen and some.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Oh yeah, man, all we all did that and those
crazy is it's so bad. It's so bad.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
And then the net of the fucking screen on everybody's
home boys like screen you're.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Like, shoot the little razor.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Take it from the because you just roll it up
the way to it was great man. Question number two
of the High five, what is your favorite way to
use or smoke cannabis?

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Ambros?

Speaker 4 (43:24):
My favorite way to use or smoke cannabis, man, I
mean I just had to say, like the joints.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Great joint kind of papers raw lately, but hey, you
like what you like. They're a good paper man. They're good.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
They're a good paper man. Alex, Alex, what about you?

Speaker 5 (43:46):
Admittingly so, I'm a blunt guy. I don't know something
about the combination of cannabis and nicotine, you know, kind
of wrap. I grew up really heavy on Swishers, and
then over the last like probably five years, more more
of the wood guy.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
The woods. Yeah, backwoods.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
Woods at first were real like harsh, you know, and
then yeah, first.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Too right, and you get the grape one you can try.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
But I feel like it's more authentic, you know, Like
there's something about a Swiss or sweet the way that
it burns. I almost it goes so perfectly, and it
just I always think there's like something in there that
just isn't as natural as a real, you know, tobacco leaf,
you know.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
But nothing wrong with a good old fashioned blunt.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Question number three with the nineteen thirty seven group, Craziest
place you ever used cannabis or smoked ambrose?

Speaker 4 (44:34):
Craziest place I ever used cannabis or smoked? What's crazy
about it? Like, okay, crazy, it makes a place crazy?

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Whatever to you is crazy right. Crazy could be I
could have went to jail. Crazy could have been your
mom could have smacked the ship out of you. Crazy
could have been your grandma would have thrown a chunk
at you.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
You know what I mean. Crazy could have been a
dog would have bit you. What's crazy to you?

Speaker 4 (44:55):
I mean, all right, So I guess I can't. Again,
I don't. I don't. I don't think in terms of that,
Like I guess that's just do a lot of shit.
But yeah, and sometimes it's like okay, like you know,
maybe more risky now you know it is what it is, right,
But like I don't know. The one thing I can recall,
like I think it was like when I was younger,
I was at ah this bonfire like in the middle
of like nowhere, and it's like you had in order

(45:18):
to get onto the plateau area where the bonfire and
everybody was smoking, like you had to drive your car
over this one area like where where there's not a ditch.
It was like filled in right, but there was like
a ditch on both sides.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
You could have falled your death.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
No, I'm just I just knowing, like the next morning,
because I had my dad's car actually like until the
next morning when when he looked at his car, the
bumper was halfway ripped off, because when I was driving,
I missed that motherfucking spot and I drove like down
here we're were supposed to be supposed to be almost
ripped it back in my back, my fucking bumper.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
That to me is exactly what I mean by crazy,
Because your daddy's gonna beat your eye for fucking ruin
in the car and you're over there getting high, right,
That's the craziest fucking place I love something stupid ship
like that. I wrecked my mats card getting at the church,
backed up into a fucking pole, and for me, like,
you know, thinking about it, like I you know, and
I didn't think it was that crazy when I did it,

(46:09):
by the way, but but now I look back at it,
and I hear everybody else I smoked that court, you know,
so on the courts, you know, on the you had
to go up to like the twelfth or thirteenth floor
to do you know, uh for you know, I think
it was juvenile you know, criminal juvenile court was like
thirteenth floor. So I had to go up there and
I had I had some uh some weed in my
pocket and uh and like a little glass pipe or whatever.

(46:32):
And I walked through the metal of tech. I was like,
it's glass, you know what I'm saying, Like, I know,
you know what I mean, Like it's glass.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
And I got to get through it. But I was
just like I didn't even think.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
And then I and I walked out to this little
exit and I went into the exit and I looked
and I said, kind I open the door, and I
was like, Okay, the door is not going to lock
me out. So I walked out to the back patio
of this it's just a stairway that went down.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
I was on the outside, but I smoked it and
then walked back in.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
But when I walked in, I realized everybody else is like, dude,
this dude smells like a lot of weed. But you know,
but court, but I but in court, it's not a
big I mean, it's a big deal, you know what
I'm saying. Going to it's a judge. But like in
like real life, it was like I smoke every day.
It didn't matter, you know what. I like, fuck it,
you know what I mean, doesn't smell like weed, Like, yeah,
I smoked some weed.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
Like what the the first time they see me.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
You know, that is the truth hit about you, Alex.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
I'd say, probably in an airport or on an airplane.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Yeah, yeah, which are still crazy even when you do
a va va I mean, and it's still crazy.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
The safest best way to do just do an edible
up there, but it's still.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
You know, well, I'd say another time that was kind
of crazy was in in uh in Asia. We were
in Hong Kong on a on a trip and one
of my buddies we went to take a ferry to
go to Macau, which is like the Vegas of Hong Kong,
and he forgot he had the weed in him, forgot
he had it, and me and my other buddy went
we passed like to get on the ferry, and then

(47:56):
our other buddy who had the cannabis, which he didn't
even right remember that he had. We were like we
kept walking just thinking he was behind us, and and
he was taking an extra long time, so we had
to like walk around the corner. Thankfully, he just keeps
He came like running and we're like, dude, we thought
you got like arrested or something, you know, because over there,
they don't play, they don't play.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
You'll do over there, Yeah, you can do some time.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
You don't want to play that yet for a cool minute.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah, Question number four of the high five what is
your go to munchie after you get high?

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Two months?

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Yeah, you like to snack on.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
I like to snack out, man. I just I just
be random, Like like I'm the fucking car ride over
here from San Francisco. I was fucking high, and I
got a big ass deal pickle from the.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Like one of those guys pickle.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
I can't grab a pickle no more in my life.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
I used to as a kid, but now for somebody,
just the thought of that big as pickle, it just
makes me fucking I got a taste right now.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
If you really think about a pickled dog, you could
taste it.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Your mouth will even get watery if you really just
start thinking about that big ass fucking you got me kicking.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Up right now.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
And that's the thing right to me. It's everything like
it's about phases. So it's just like, yeah, all right,
that's what I fuck with right now. But like you know,
a year ago, two years ago, I wasn't fucking.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
With watermelon cannies exact really different. It's seasons brothers, it's seasons.
How want you guys get your experience there in Chicago?
What about you out?

Speaker 5 (49:23):
I'm gonna say, Cereal, I got a soft spot Cereal, cinnamon,
Toe's crunch my go to.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Just deal pickle in that motherfucker.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Question number five of the High five the nineteen thirty
seven group out of Chicago. It is great to have
you gentlemen here and get to know you. But if
you can smoke cannabis with anyone dead or.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Alive, who would it be? And why?

Speaker 4 (49:49):
I mean for me, I'm fucking going with Jesus, you
know what I'm saying. I like this so many people
who have these preconceived notions about what he would approve
of and what he doesn't approval of, you know what
I'm saying, and just sit down and chop it up
with him and get the real deal from him and
let people know, like yo, like this is like my
my my mission is about love, you know what I'm saying?
That division like hearing that face to face to me,

(50:10):
like that's that's what it's all about.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
That's Mike dropped my book shows over. What about you?

Speaker 5 (50:16):
I mean, yeah, I'm gonna say, oh, that's hard Bob Marley.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yeah, Buffalo, so ja you watch the movie? Have you
seen the movie?

Speaker 4 (50:32):
It came just recently, right.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
God bless you. Yes, it just came out not too
long ago. It is a very very good movie. I
felt like, well, Amazon, Paramount plus, thank you. Yeah, And
it's just a well put together movie that takes you
along the journey and if you love him like that,

(50:55):
like I do as well. When I watched it, it's
just a educational but yet like it's cool movie movie.
And then part of me, I don't know why I
want to say this, but I was borderline kind of
mad that it's taking this long. I want this one
to be the third one, you know.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
What I mean.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
I'm like, how fucking time I'm watching this, I'm watching
it that way the whole time.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
I'm borderline bitter.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
So I kind of got to watch it a second
time so I can get my bitterness out and be like,
But to tell you my reaction of it, I still
liked it, you know what I mean. I was like, Yes,
it was cool because it's everything you know and love
about the man. You already know the inding I.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
Wouldn't wanted to smoke with him, though, I feel like
it would have been dope to smoke in a session
when he's making some music.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Yeah, it's hard to be like that.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
I mean, just think about whatever concert you've been to, right,
like all of us when such and such dies, when
we were there, and I don't even want to say
the artist's names, but like we were just because I
don't want to wish death on any of them. But
you mean, imagine being at a concert that we've just
been at whatever last, when you're at and then that
person's gone and you were smoking, you were like that
was a great time. I mean, to be able to
do that with Bob, even to watch and perform would

(52:00):
have been fucking like one of those dude, when I
was at that concert in Santa Cruz, at Chicago, in
La wherever it's at, would have been one of those
memorable moments, because he is one of those icons that
no matter who comes on, his name always gets brought up.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
He was big in sports too, you know, like he
was into soccer. Yeah, and so like that kind of detent.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
He watched the movie Oh yeah, well now, and I mean,
I you think though soccer he died fucking foot like
ship and he died at such a young age. If
you think about it, like Bobb, you think was fifty
some years at the motherfucker thirty four years old, Like
you know, got lock down, he got a lot of.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
I mean that's like, that's like Tupac to me. You
know what I'm saying, how he died and how much
he accomplished that motherfucking didn't sleeping.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeah, yeah, I got to meet him. Yeah yeah, I
was in studio with him.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
I was one of the first Latin artists at Defo
Records in the nineties, So like, uh yeah, I got
to see Park working in the fucking room, you know,
all the time, and he he was just kind of sketchy,
you know what I mean. Just I think he was
had a lot of PTSD and everything going on, you
know what I mean. If I had to look back
at it, because I mean, you know when when you realize,
like you know, you said it earlier, you know what

(53:06):
I'm saying, like the things that you're used to, you know,
and the things your mindset, like you scan differently, you know,
and and.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
You move and thinking differently.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
A lot of us too, some of us is like
you know, getting hit something and it never comes back.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Some people can't just be normal. Man, what's up? Like, yeah,
what's up?

Speaker 2 (53:21):
So anything out there and that's that's your normal, you know,
I say that's normal.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
So is there anything that we uh that we forgot
to bring up before we let you guys get on
out of here?

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Man?

Speaker 5 (53:32):
Want to brand I'll just follow us at the nineteen
thirty seven group on this Instagram. Uh follow cush league official.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Like a referee with a whistle, baby, bro.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Yeah yeah, I mean, just like just keep looking out
for us, right because like we just were just getting started,
you know, like literally just get just getting started. So
you know, look at it, look at where we had
two years from now, man, it's gonna be nine and day. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Well, and not only that, I want to let you
guys know. Meeting you guys for the first time right
here on this said, I could feel you guys, and
I'm sure blue can't you? And I want to support
you brothers. Ambrose. Excuse me, I was about say amb
Rose again. Ambrose, you accomplishing what you're accomplishing and looking
like you could be my fucking younger brother. Is you

(54:15):
know I have my degree too, so it makes me
real proud.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
So I'm not.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
I'm not gonna not say that on the show and
look at you as another Mexican man and say, dog,
I respect that because I have my degree too.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
And then you went further.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
I know what it takes to get this BA and
you went further and got it and now you're doing
what you're doing, and that's what the cannabis industry needs.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
We bring this professionalism and this fucking color in. We're
gonna win. And I'm here.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
We're here to support your company for whatever the fuck
you're doing in Chicago, Multi States. We got your back,
like fucking Jack Porflot. I'm saying, like for real, for real,
like you just hollered at us. Hey, guys were doing
woop woop. I want to repost it. I want to
put your face on everything and say, look at this
like it's very impressive. And other companies do it to

(54:58):
their fucking white owners.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Can't we do it with you? You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Like you got real credentials, dog that need to be
fucking look at me and you should.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Why they do it to the other white man that
owns that company? Why can't we do it with you?
And I hope you do?

Speaker 4 (55:13):
Thank you well.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
There it is, guys. I appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Well, there it is guys. It's Cannabis Talk one on one.
And remember this, if no one else loves you, we do.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one on one
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