February 5, 2024 • 43 mins
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Affected, and reliable.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You guys, very effective and reliable cannabis in order to
continually elevate the healthcare conversation through education or experiences that
are truly transformative. Now joining us via zoom, we have
Rebecca Raphael and Wendy Braunfin of Curio Wellness, Maryland's emerging
medical cannabis brand and trusted healthcare partner. Now, curi Your
(01:31):
Wellness is cultivating a better way of life for the
community from ceed to retail with Curier Wellness as flower
named best in Maryland. You guys, bi leefly. So this
isn't like some Oh, I wonder what they're doing out there?
They new no hygienically cultivated to deliver high quality products
with cannabinoid and terpene rich repeatable profiles. Be sure to
(01:53):
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that cur iow E L l n e SS dot
com or check them out on Instagram right their curial
Wellness brand. Just add the brand there, or just simply
visit your nearest foreign daughter is what they're called Faar
and dott Er to shop at their nine cannabis product
(02:14):
lines over there. I mean, they're doing their damn thing.
Books without further ado, please give the audience a bit
of insight on how this company is dominating the cannabis
market out in Maryland. Please welcome you guys, the chief
revenue Officer, Rebecca and Wendy, the chief brand officer, Director
of public Policy. Thank you ladies for joining us via zoom.
Appreciate it. So how are you guys doing today?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Great?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Thank you for having us. That was an extraordinary intro.
I'm gonna take you guys everywhere I go.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We'll be in Maryland next weekend performing on the ships
and the boats exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So what is this company? How long has it been around? Exactly?
And how did you guys get involved with it?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So let me start. Because it's her brain child.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
So we're sisters, like real sisters.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
No way, I didn't realize this. Okay, go ahead, who's older.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So I, oh, cute.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I shouldn't admit to that, but yeah, Joe's exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Go ahead, babe.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
So we started back in twenty fourteen as a nights
and weekends project myself, of my father and a couple
other people, as Marilyn was exploring bringing on a cannabis
program at that time would be medical. We ended up
winning a license when they announced licenses in twenty sixteen,
and we've been the market leader since then. My sister
(03:46):
joined my dad and I about a year into the operation,
and our brother joined us almost two years ago.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Now that's it.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
We don't have any more siblings. We do have a mother,
but she doesn't work with us.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Do you want another sibling? Yeah, you want another sibling?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah, so yeah, So it's an interesting dynamic.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
It's not you know, we all obviously as young people
probably we're using cannabis and hiding it from our parents,
and now we grow it and make products out of
it together. But it's been a really exciting ride. It's
a great experience to do this together. And here in
Maryland we cultivate. We're a processor. We have two dispensaries,
(04:34):
and then we sell to like ninety eight percent of
the dispensaries in the state. And we're about to launch
in Missouri as a cultivator and processor next month.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I heard you guys got one hundred and thirty
thousand square foot facility out in Missouri.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yes, the Missouri that's cultivation and manufacturing. And then here
in Maryland we have one hundred and sixty thousand square
foot cultivation facility and then about thirty plus thousand square
foot manufacturing facility.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And why the cannabis industry, I mean, you know, is
this something that your family's kind of been involved with,
or you know, is it completely new to you guys?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And if so, what industry do you come from?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
So I came from television on the production, branding marketing side.
Our father comes from healthcare, pharmaceutical distribution and healthcare innovation.
And so when Maryland was talking about a medical program,
that sort of spawned this idea of, well, you know,
(05:38):
I have branding marketing, you have healthcare.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Particularly regulated industry.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
What if we came together around this medical cannabis category. Initially,
he was not bought into that, coming from traditional kind
of HEALTHCAREMA. But as we learned more about the plant
and its viability and it's there peutic nature, and also
kind of his frustrations with that traditional sector where drug
(06:05):
costs were getting higher and higher and it was not
really favorable to the patient, became more inclined to explore this.
And as we did, it was sort of nothing turned
us away. Everything pushed us forward, ended up applying, ended
up winning and going through this process. And then now
here in Maryland in July, we switched to be both
a medical and an adult use state.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Gotcha, And as you were doing the medical, where was
that like love for patients, Because when you get into
the medical aspect of it, there's got to be a
love to help people.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Where does that love come from?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
So that was or Nate just innate just in the
sense that we came from this. I mean even as
children like we grew up with our parents working in
this pharmaceutical health care space, so we were really connected
to that world. And I think with even when when
you think about how we execute our dispensary model, it
was all through the lens of if someone's coming to cannabis,
(07:02):
they've either become frustrated or exhausted, or need something different
than what Western medicine has to offer. How can we
kind of elevate that experience, give them something that's effective
and reliable, And the reliability there means like it's always available.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Rights That's part of the hole we.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Tried to plug when we started in that when we
looked at other markets, you might go to a dispensary
and the thing you liked last week is not there
this week, And if somebody's using it as medicine, it
has to be there every week. Like until we had
the pain, we didn't know from like going to the
grocery store and like, you know, the catchup you wanted
just wasn't there. So we really built this business on
(07:40):
having a full wagon and having this robust product portfolio
that's always available to our consumers.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
I also think that we when when we started to
talk about it, when she went to our dad and
said he was like semi retired at the time, and
none of us enjoyed that version of him, so we
were kind of badgering him together job and he she
came to this, She came to him with this idea,
and he poo pooed it at first because he was like,
(08:07):
I've always been in highly regulated drug markets. I am
like absolutely not going to sell weed, right, and she
convinced him to speak with scientists. And so because we're
in Maryland, we had access to really renowned doctors and
pharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and in other medical institutions. So
the more people he spoke to, he became convinced that
(08:28):
there were really breakthrough things you could do with the plant.
And one of the gentlemen, chrisaul Snyder, effectively said to him, like, Michael,
this is a miracle drug. And at that time in
our lives, our mom was really not sleeping well every
there were a host of other physical ailments that people
we knew were going through and like didn't want to
go on biologics and prescription drugs for them. And so
(08:52):
part of this venture involved developing a scientific advisory board
where we have world class pharmacists, pharmacaulogist scientists who developed
drugs outside of cannabis that's how they made their lives work,
and doctors where they help us crack the code on
how to use active cannabinoids and minor cannabinoids and turkeens
(09:13):
and botanical blends to address condition specific problems. So our
commitment at the Jump to our mom was if you're
going to be cool with all of us basically taking
him on this like later in life journey, and you're
not going to have like a retired husband that you
can travel with or like spend time with, like he's
going back to the office, will work really hard to
(09:34):
develop something for your insomnia. So the first product that
we created was our good Night Pulse release tablet, and
it was this homage to our mom, who effectively said, like,
I can't be on ambien for the rest of my
life and I don't sleep, so you have to help me.
We're going to do this, like I need something tangible
out of it that can help me and other women
like me, And that foundation has kind of informed all
(09:56):
the other products that we've developed.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Over the Here, Rebecca, what a joy to sit there
and watch that and to see and hear the love
from the family that comes like that, and to help
mom and knowing that what your dad has and the
resources and the pool that your dad has because of
the field that he was in so long before he retired,
he'd us understand it all to where I can't wait
(10:18):
to try their products because this is the type of
company that you look in and go by the head
by hearing you guys are doing the research that we
want to see then hear about, and I can't wait
to hear what else you guys are looking into.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
We're gonna take a break real quick.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
When we come back, I want you guys to break
down kind of what you just did Rebecca on what
else you guys are working with, what you're lying a
product can do for certain situations, because Blue and I
are that's what we're craving.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And for this cannabis space to have.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Like, okay, we already know the sleeping elements been attacked
very well. We hear a lot about this for diabetes
and that we know pain in general. But I can't
wait to hear what you guys are dialing and dialing into.
It's Cannabis Talk one on one. We'll be right back
after this break.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
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Speaker 3 (11:18):
On one World Number one Canna.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I don't know if you guys see the latest edition
of the Cannabis Talk magazine.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
But we're gonna get Rebecca and Wendy in this one soon.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I'll tell you that the man these sisters over here
are the truth. But if you haven't seen it, you
guys's got great articles, very cool stories in it. Get
yourself a hard copy day at your local dispensary of
smoke shop near you. If they don't have one, have
them call us up and get one, or check it
out online Cannabis Talkmagazine dot com and subscribe. Now we
have Rebecca and Wendy, sisters of an amazing company out
(11:49):
of Maryland called Curio Wellness. And before we get into
the other elements, as we were just talking before break,
why the name Curio?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
See you r Io? What does it mean? I know
it's I'm so curious why Curio?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
So so we went so back in twenty teen with
our marketing in Concy, went through this exercise to come
up with a name. And so my background was in branding,
marketing and television, and so they gave us like a
lot of buckets of names, like things that sounded like
plants and things that sounded like crazy pharma drugs. And
(12:24):
one of the buckets was I said, I want a
name that doesn't mean anything, that we have to make
it mean everything. And I wanted it to start with
a hard consonant sound and that in that first point.
It was like the example I gave them was like
and this was lofty, but it was like Starbucks, Google, Kleenex,
Like when you say that word, it like owns the category, right.
(12:47):
And so they sent us this whole big list of names,
and there were about five of us at the time,
and I said, everyone, look at the document and get send.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Me back your top five picks. And on everyone's list,
sure appeared.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And so I was like, guys, we all regardless of
where it was, it was like we all had Curio.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Can we agree on that? And they're like yes, Like okay, good,
We're done.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Wow. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's a good that's good product research and development for
the team.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Like what stands out everybody? I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, that's great anecdotal evidence of this stands out Well,
It's it's funny because it does stand out. It's like Curio,
Oh yeah, I know them for sure, Like it stills,
it's well and it's it's and it's their own name,
you know what I mean. So once you've heard it
one time, you'll definitely not like I've heard of them,
Yeah for sure, Maryland right, yeah, good call girls and
Rebecca you were saying these stories so well, Wendy, you
(13:37):
guys have I believe nine other products that you guys
are pushing, and are we developing these products for certain things?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
As you guys were talking about with your dad what
was his name again, Nick? Or what was your pop's name? Michael?
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
What a great guy. I don't know why I like
Michael so much. I just feel like my son's name. Yeah,
but it's just like and not only that, I can
only imagine Rebecca you watching Wendy going, what is my
older sister getting my dad into? Is he really gonna
start pushing this Canabi stuf?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
So jealous? I was like basically when I started working
with them, I was on maternity leave after having my
third child, and Wendy was like a one man band
of like four different departments, and so in my free
time I would just make the Instagram like post content
for her. It was like, I'm I'm a pro maternity
(14:24):
leave at this point, what do you want me to do?
I'll be your intern? And so when I went back
to my former job. I basically said, like, I can't
keep doing this because I have three kids, including a newborn.
I have a full time job, Like at some point
I need to sleep. But when whenever I can join
the party, whenever it makes sense, like you have my number.
(14:45):
And so when we went from having about thirty customers
in Maryland to like overnight we were going to have seventy,
I got that phone call that was like, I know
I was selling art at the time. You know, I
know you can sell fine art, but can you sell
a twenty five dollars eight?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Probably the rest?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
The rest is history because apparently I'm still selling them well,
because I'm still here.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But are you at the shop now? You working at
the shop.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I'm not at the shop. I work out of my
home in upstate New York, and then I have to
travel to the various markets where we're in. So this
is just a fabulous digital background of all of our
product line.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Oh fantastic.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It looks so dope. That's a very good digital background.
I thought she was at the spot for really, yeah,
I mean, you couldn't tell me you weren't at the dispensary.
I was like, that's so cool. You're just like right
in front of the cash register, is what I felt like. Yeah,
she's done a live Yeah, that's so. That's a That's
one of the best backgrounds I've ever seen. I got
to tell you because I sort of God, I didn't
think it was a fake background. Yeah, I thought it
was so legit. So tell us about the other products
(15:46):
that you guys have.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
So go on, I was gonna say, I was gonna say,
Rebecca can kind of van of white behind you.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
We we have everything that you in.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
The cannabis category in terms of like your traditional products
like flour vape, we call them chees gummies. But some
places where we really have some interesting things are our
terpene choes, which Rebecca just pointed to. So it's really
common in the in the chewer gummy space for people
(16:18):
to categorize uff as like sativa into the hybrid. But
when you see when you buy a product, you see
the lab results, you don't necessarily see those terpenes come in.
And we've figured out a way when formulating to have
the terpenes come in through the final production. So when
we test the product, if the product is supposed to
be rich in limoning and balancing. You're seeing that lintl
(16:40):
lul and miercine. You see it, and so we get
a repeatable effect. So we have three different chees that
are rich in and give you a very targeted effect
that happens every time you eat it. So, for example,
our mango and orange, you could think of them as uppers.
They're great for daytime. They're also good for like a
Friday Saturday night. The pineapple is is more relaxing, a
(17:02):
good like take your edge off your mind and relax
your body and like loosen it up. And then the
lemon lime would be kind of considered your hybrid space
some pain relief, some mental relaxation. But rather than all
about the cannabinoids, this is all about the terpene experience.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Gotcha.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Below the terp.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Is the good night Sweet Rebecca spoke about, which comes
in that pulse release tablet that we created so that
hits in thirty minutes and then again in three hours,
so it helps people fall and stay asleep.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
And then you can also get that product in a
chew and innovate.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So you're actual it's a gummy that hits like that,
or is that a vape?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
No, it's it's a tablet in a kill. So it's like,
I love tablet. That's score. Yeah, and you can break
it in half, break it in half, you still get
the pulse system in both halfs.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
But it we trial the product withations here in Maryland
and you take it thirty minutes before sleep. It helps
you fall asleep, and then three hours later a second
pulse hits and it helps you stay asleep.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Boom. I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's huge, And coming to mail, I'll take a couple.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just my trip. Knock me out like that,
I'll always wake up. You know, let me ask you
this is that?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So that's a high end CBN obviously, but now is
there is there any melatonin or anything else in that?
And then and then you know what made you guys,
you know, create the three hours and three hours. I
love that concept of it, and I think it's something
that I've never heard either.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I've never heard of.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
So there's no melatonin in any of the sleep formulas.
And the formulation, like the pulse release tablet is ten
milligrams THHC five milligrams of CBN. The gummy is actually
the inverse ten milligrams of CBN only five milligrams of
THHC and the formulas are guided by the scientific board
which I mentioned. But then also every product create we trial.
(19:01):
In our former life, before adult use, we were with
all medical certified patients in Maryland. Now, because it's adult
use in Maryland, we have a much bigger panel of
people we can solicit for their input. But we never
bring anything into product or to market that we haven't
validated the results with a trial group. So like with Goodnight,
a perfect example of that is we actually trial two
(19:23):
formulas to start and we learned through those trials that
actually one of the formulas allowed you to fall asleep
faster and stay asleep longer. So rather than coming to
market with two tablets, we only came to market with
the one that actually proved itself out in those trials.
And so that learning of how to develop a product
kind of as closely as like a standard pharmaceutical product
(19:46):
would be made and meeting all of those activaty requirements
to the best of our abilities, that's now the prescription
that we follow for any of the other products we
bring to market. Because we can't make claims in this business.
We also can't do the level research that you know
standard drugs can do. But we're trying to do as
best we can to make sure that the products that
(20:06):
we have have integrity so that the customer who's taking
it can trust that we've done the due diligence and
what it says on the bottle is legitimate. It's not
just you know, I slapped a few adjectives on this,
so like, go and try it.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And Rebecca, when you guys say you guys do these
research projects, what does a research project look like? What
is approximately how many people approximately?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
What are you guys doing in one of these scenarios.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Works We're about to launch for our GI Comfort tablet.
So after the good Night product came out, the order
of new products has been our gi Bi Curial Line,
which is a suite of four gastrow and testinely focused products,
two for anti nauja, one to stimulate, our Stimulate chooser
(20:51):
for people going through chemotherapy treatments. We actually developed it
with the nurses at the Green and Bald Cancer Center
at the University of Maryland Medical System. And then a
GI Comfort Tablet, which is that same puls release technology
and the good Night's Tablet is in GI comfort. It's
intended for chron's patients or people who deal with IBS
(21:11):
and IBD.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So like a very strong probiotic enhancer, Well it only has.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
It has a really high dose of CBG, so seventy
five milligrams of CBG per tablet, thirty milligrams of CBD,
and only one point seventy five milligrams of THHC. And
it's intended to be what I like to call functional candidates.
I'm not trying to get you high. I'm trying to
ease all the symptoms associated with chrones that impact your sleep,
(21:37):
that create anxiety, that disrupt your day to day. So
we trialed it for a year with a single patient,
and in that instance, trial was only with a single
patient because you it's very expensive. We did blood work
with this patient for a full year, we went through
his gastroentroology, so that we had some real definitive data
(21:59):
that the drug was actually helping his chromes, so they're
not what's up pulenoscopes too. And so the most definitive
data we have is that the number that measures the
severity of your crone disease is called your CDAI index number,
and his was in the three hundreds, which basically like
(22:19):
severe chrone disease, like you're miserable all day long. After
taking the product for I think it was six weeks,
his CDAI had come down to twenty four, which is
essentially remission. And he's been in that low two digit
number ever since for three years now. So like still
drinks alcohol, eats for all vegetables like a terrible chrome's patient,
(22:42):
not helping himself with any other change, right, but takes
this tablet twice a day and is like an entirely
new person, live in life exactly. And it's taken us
two years, but we finally have identified a partner to
do one hundred and fifty person blind study where we'll
actually have three versions of the tablet, including a placebo version,
(23:05):
so we'll run it like a clinical trial with an
review board, and it's a three month trial, and at
the end of it a paper gets published, good, bad,
or ugly that says it works or it doesn't, So
it's a calculated risk. We feel very confident that it's
going to show that the nabinoid versions do make a difference,
but it's taken two years and a lot of investment
(23:28):
to get to this place.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So you're doing one hundred and fifty uh, you know,
patients on placebo one fifty on the product and then
running it huh and another one I think she's on
fifty and oh yeah, is that what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Can you break that with you?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
It's one hundred and fifty patients where you do fifty
on one version.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Fifty fifty okay, okayah, perfect on the three that you're describing.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Gotcha. And then and when of you guys are proposing
to do this, we're starting.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It imminently and the goal is to have the entire
study completed by the end of June, and then you
have your independent investigator like reviews all the results and
they publish a paper inside of like twelve weeks after
the study officially completely.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Can we continue doing this with you? Can we get
involved in that live as it happens. When you're getting it,
you guys come back on and say, hey, what happened?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
This is this is exactly what the industry needs.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You know, and and basically, not only are you putting
your brand and your money and every time risk to
put you know, I mean not everything, I mean just
risking that product line, right, I mean to be whether
in the company name, they'll look at the company debate.
It could go bad, Like you said, good bad. I
don't see it going back. I don't either, But don't
get wrong. It shows a lot of balls on their part.
It can only show that it didn't win, right, it
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didn't do anything, and they're not going to do that.
So you know, the ship's got to be good. Yeah,
that's that's fantastic. Yeah, that that's amazing. You guys, I'm
I'm you know, I think we need more of this
in our industry, you know, And and truthfully, it's it's
super important to find, you know, people like yourselves that
take the energy, the time and again the finances to
and researched it to actually do this versus just putting
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out a nice product that makes you go to sleep
or and there's a lot of good things. But what
his family does, which I like, is they have a
father that really toes deeper than blues.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Dad taught him.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
About cannabis too, totally different way your dad taught to
you guys about medicine.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Blues Dad was growing selling and making money for the family.
It was a side gig and it was a good
cannabis thing. They're learning about medication. I'll get it to
you in New York exactly. They're learning about.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Medication, but then they get to take it the step
further and their dad knows all the pharmaceuticals, and they're
doing trials the way. We want to be seen the
way and maybe not at the massive scale like Johnson
and Johnson would do, of course. But you know, cannabis
isn't Johnson and Johnson now, and I don't know if
there'll ever be a company that's Johnson and Johnson.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
There will be possibly Johnson Johnson trillions. That's that's the
big time.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
On's Cannabis Talking one on one. We're gonna come back.
We're to do the high five with these ladies. Hear
a little bit more about where this company is going,
because now we already see it in Maryland, we also
see it's moving to other states. What's next, you guys,
It's Cannabis Talk one on one. We'll be right back
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zero eight four. We got the sisters some curial wellness.
Rebecca and Wendy. It's such a joy to talk to
you guys and hear what your company is doing and
how Rebecca, you and your father started this and you know,
coming from the television industry, your data pharmaceutical industry.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Wendy was just having babies everywhere doing her thing.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
But it's you know, learning to be a mother, which
is awesome and take care of a family. Now you
can run a business after having three kids. Any woman
could do anything after that. In my opinion, when you.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Have three kids, what can you do anything? Why could
you've had three kids?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Like I get it to believe me, I have three
kids as well, so you know it's it's commendable. But
you joined the family and this and that, and you
guys are doing very well. All this research, we got
this and that. But now it's February. You guys have
a Valentine's Day package that you're putting out. And I
can't wait to hear how that conversation started and who
brought up Hey, Dad, I got a great idea, Hey Blue.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Make a sex package? Yeah? Is it the girl with
three kids? Or was it Rebecca going let's make some lube?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You didn't have any kids at the time.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
How did that go?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
So we were aware that there were some products in
the space that were in like the intimacy zone, right,
So we wanted to make something that we could put
out here in Maryland that would be a similar product.
And so this was back when we're medical, right, So
we have people who work for us who are patients
who can Like we said, we always do trials so
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God bless these people who went through a few two
different rounds of us making this oil and me sending
them surveys where they had to tell me how their
sexual experience was.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
They had to tell me if if applicable, how is
the taste like all give me adjectives to describe it.
And then we would.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Sit in leadership meetings, which obviously included my father, and
talk about the effectiveness of our sex products. So not
an experience I expected to have in my professional career.
But the product is called oh oh like with the
carry and so the magic of it is like it's
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good for anyone male or female. It was developed through
the lens of like as females age, there can be
more like dryness and painfulness with sex. And so it
was how do you create something that is both lubricating
to the area, has an analgesic property and in anti
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inflammating property, but also like really gives you that good
glide cannabinoids in you, right, And so what happened was
long before we made this intimacy oil is we grew
this strength called golden strawberry, and it started to be
as it came out as flour and ultimately invape that
(30:02):
when people smoked it it had like a viagra effect.
So that was the active ingredient that we put into
this this oil. And we used to have this older
couple who would come to our dispensary who tell us
a little too much about what happened when they needed
to come and get if.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
They're seventies older, Yeah, yeah, like a way older.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
God bless them.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, I mean only if we can be that way
when we're in our seventies for sure.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
For sure something here.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
In my fifties and I'm not talking about it.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
So now it's a dull use in Maryland.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
And so this Valentine's season, not only will the Intimacy
Oil be there, but she'll be able to get it
in free rolls, in vape and in choose and the
chews similar chees are really activated by those terpenes that
lower your like, create the relaxation, get you in the mood,
and increase your libido.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Oh nice, I like the product, you guys, curio wellness,
I'm gonna have to give me some oh.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
To smoke, rubs, roll on and everything else to it.
I mean, how cool is that for the vibe? I mean,
just come home Hey, babe, you know what I got
you for Valentine's Day? Oh, it's we have a we
have a we have a uh you know, a speakeasy
here called Club one oh one and it's spelled oh
(31:40):
as well. I love that you guys. The story behind
you guys's company is great. I love what you guys
are doing. You guys are staying with the curve. And
not only that, you know the moral of cannabis, which is,
you know, to help others. In my opinion, yes, it's
beautiful to smoke and have a good time, but you
guys are really doing curial wellness the job that we
need to move this cannabis plant forward for the world
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in my opinionship not just our country, but to have
more research and with you and your father, both sisters,
your brother.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I salute you guys. I thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
If you're out in the Maryland area, please go check
out their products. If they don't have curial wellness on
the shelf, as for it, because you just heard what.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
They're doing and how they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And if you're ever in the Wichita area, coming soon,
they'll be out in not Wich you talk shooing Missouri
that's the state line next to it, not Kansas, but Missouri.
Go to good old Missoo and take a look at
When will you guys be putting out product out there
in missou.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Hopefully in the next six weeks we'll have our first shipments,
but we already have established relationships with dispensaries from Kansas
City to Saint Louis down in the boot Heel, over
in Springfield and Joplin. So our mission is to make
curio products convenient to the cannabis consumer. We don't want
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to have we don't want you to have to drive
far to get it, so we try and be in
as many dispensaries as possible so that it's easier for
the customer.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Well go find it, you guys. It's time for the
high five.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I want to thank everybody around here that makes the
show happen and all the hard work they do, from
Adrian to Amy, Autumn, Andrea, Amir, Mary Magazine, Mondo. Thank
you Mary for everything you do overseas too. All the
videos you've been sitting are just amazing. Michelle, Elizabeth, Teddy,
the show Dog, ic Dog, Zeus, Daniel, my brother, Diego, Lupita, Logan,
Gary Carly Connor, cam Beach, Barcelar, Brandon, t Ali Muffins, Hudson,
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Sunday Og, Skinny Ruby, Goldie Brother, Pitt, Mark Carnes, Chris Frankino, Jennifer,
Erica and Elvis. Thank you guys all for doing what
you do for Nichell Greats. Yeah, Andrea Love Nutritionis, thank
you for helping us saving blues life. My brother right
here next to me just had a heart attack a
couple of weeks ago, so.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Here.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
So if you can make some cannabis that helps us
our heart attacks, we'll be on the lookout for that.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I don't know what cb H. Yeah, he needs disease
CBH for his heart.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
We're gonna ask five questions you guys, and you'll be
answering it. We'll start with the older sister first. Rebecca,
you'll give the first answer. Wendy you'll give the same
question answer right after Rebecca. On these five how old
were you the first time he smoked cannabis? And where'd
you get it from?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Rebecca?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
I was probably fifteen from Ali.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Buckles, Alie, huh, Ali Buckles, it's your girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
She was like her like fast friend in high school.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
She had all the bad stuff Yeah, how's she doing now?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
She's a medical professional, but.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
As she should be.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That's a good ali Baby number two.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Then I'm sorry, Wendy, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I was yeah, fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
I don't know who had it, but it was a
classic gathering at a house where parents were away and
friends were together.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Did you tell your sister Rebecca? Did she know? Did
you hide it from her?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
When was the first time you two smoked with each
other as big sister and little sister?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I think that was the That was the I.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Think in my best friend's parents driveway and they're like,
we had a party at their house because the friend's
parents weren't home. My friends smoked with Wendy and her friends.
We went back to our parents' house and proceeded to
get caught because there was like copious amounts of McDonald's
on the kitchen island.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
They're like, what are you guys doing? I love it?
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Question number two I remember.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Mom was like, is anyone else high besides Wendy?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm not high, Mom. Huh. Question number two of the
high five, what is your favorite way to use or
smoke cannabis?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Uh? It's a tie. Between one of our Edie Parker
pre rolls, which are these zo point five Grand Spuds
pre rolls, or a fused peaches and cream disposable babe.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Nice. I like that, rote, Wendy.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
Definitely smoking pree rolls are probably the most normal. A
classic bonghand isn't terrible, though. I do love our churp
cheese because I like that specificity. That's definitely my Friday
night going out thing. But I do have to say
in the non getting highway, I am the Queen of topicals.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I love a cannabis topic.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Nice Oh all day? Yeah me too, great, me too.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
But I'm curious, Wendy, you mentioned the word bong. Do
you have a name for your boon that you use?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Oh the way you said it, I was almost like
she's got a special bong at home.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Well, you know you know what I was.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
The twinkle in my eye was in like twenty maybe
like twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen. Can remember I went to
on a trip to Europe with a couple of girlfriends
and we were in Amsterdam and I was like, there
was this one place where they had bongs that you
could use. And I sat there and just like ripped bong.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
It's and I've never felt more like the American in
my life.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
But yeah, I could hang out there by myself, but
was like so happy.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Oh, I could only imagine. That is great.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Question number three of the High five with the ladies
from Curio Wellness at a good old Maryland you guys,
craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis? That story
sounded pretty crazy right there, though, Wendy, Rebecca, what about you.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
I was not using, but it was when we were
right at the beginning of founding the business. We went
to Colorado when it went adult use, and I was pregnant,
so I was sober for an entire trip with Wendy,
both of our parents and our really good friends who
we always travel with, and it was awesome because they
were full time and I just got to watch them
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make foolos of themselves. So that's probably my fondest cannabis
memory apart.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
From any of That's a good story. That's a great story.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
I love that, Wendy, So mine is a big kind
of fingers crossed for this karma to come this way again.
We were in New Orleans for the Super Bowl when
the Ravens were in it, and we went as a
family and we went to see Snoop Dog at the
House of Blues and obviously we smoked there, and also
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a huge guy in a dog costume came out who
had a big fake joint as well.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Oh, you're talking about what's his name, the big dog,
Fredo or whatever is.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'm hoping.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
I'm hoping that's a that's a plug for another super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
We know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
That's a good time. That's a fun one. That's a
very memorable moment. Question number four of the High five
what is your go to munchie after you get high?
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Oh? I was joking with Wendy when we were preparing
that to be like a wife and a mother, it
was like a grilled cheese, French fries and vanilla milkshake
from the local diner that's been delivered to us in
New York City. Now it's like Pirates booty and and
you know, fruit snacks because it's just a kid.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, I know the feeling when you said Pirates broody
is just too like we always have it and we
still do still have Pirates body. I got a nine
and ten. I don't even know what that is Oh
you don't. Oh, it's just like that little popcorny. Yeah,
it's I gotta bring some. You e've had it, you
know what it is. But yeah, I'm sure you do.
That's so funny, Rebecca, like when you said that. It's
just oh, yeah, the kids in the house, all the
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fruity things, and I'll make them special by leaving them
in the freezer sometimes and now they're frozen, and oh,
I got a frozen candy, Wendy, what about you?
Speaker 6 (39:48):
So I have a little concoction I sometimes make, which
is a bag of popcorn like an air pop, like
a microwave popcorn, and then I throw some cinnamon, some
hot honey and like crush up some nuts on there
and toss it around.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Ah, that sounds spicy honey is a new thing.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
I barely found out about it.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
It's so funny you say that, Wendy, because I just
got put on it honey exactly.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Do you can buy it spicy honey?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
I never knew that dog and it's spicy honey, and
you put it on stuff and it's just delicious. Ended
up getting some. I have some at the house right now,
barely for the first time in my life. It is
my first time I ever bought it, so I know
what you mean now, Wendy, and it's very tasty.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I never put it on my popcorn like that. I
gotta try that.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Question number five with a high five, Rebecca and Wendy.
It's been a pleasure having you guys on. Make sure
you go out and check out their products in the
Maryland area. Curial wellness Ladies. If you could smoke cannabis
with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And why?
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Miyus Martin Sheen because The American President is my most
favorite movie and I love the West Way, and so
I just want to smoke a joint with President Bartlett.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I see that. That's a good one. That's great. That's
a first, Wendy.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
So there's like a handful of luminaries that I honestly
believe that if we met, we could be good friends.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
So it's that group, which would.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
Be John Waters, Tina Fay, Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Jay
z Wy.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
You're just an eighties baby so much, I mean even earlier.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Just I love that you named all the names and
I'm like, oh my god, that's all the songs that
grew up with all the people that I know. I'm like,
oh my goodness, that'd be a great group right there.
You're sitting there with a nice pow wow. Yeah, I
like that.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Ladies.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Is there anything that we forgot to mention about your guys'
wonderful company? And make sure you give a big shout
out to your father and say thank you from us Cannabis.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Keep going on to date on those trials, you know,
your clinical trials. Literally, you guys.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I want to know when what happens next as you
guys find something, keep us up to date, even if
we could just come on the show and as we're
doing another interview or doing another show, Hey, guys, just
to keep you guys up to date with curial wellness.
I just talked to Rebecca or Wendy and they said,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
It's huge. It's huge. It's huge. It needs to be
introduced into our mainstream.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
So I would want to go on IG with it
and do like a story's on IG. That's a huge
you know what I mean, it's a good storyline.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
Well, you're welcome to come to Missouri or Maryland anytime.
We'll show you how it's made. We always like to
close these out with banking Mom because she's the kind
of cake crusader behind the scenes. We like to call
her CEO of babysitting because she makes sure that the
four of us can do what we get to do
and love every day and she never complains. But we
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definitely couldn't do it without Mom.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Is the real backbone. Yeah, shout out to Mom. Keep
everybody safe and sound. Well, there it is guys.
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Books without further ado, please give the audience a bit
of insight on how this company is dominating the cannabis
market out in Maryland. Please welcome you guys, the chief
revenue Officer, Rebecca and Wendy, the chief brand officer, Director
of public Policy. Thank you ladies for joining us via zoom.
Appreciate it. So how are you guys doing today?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Great?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Thank you for having us. That was an extraordinary intro.
I'm gonna take you guys everywhere I go.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We'll be in Maryland next weekend performing on the ships
and the boats exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So what is this company? How long has it been around? Exactly?
And how did you guys get involved with it?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So let me start. Because it's her brain child.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
So we're sisters, like real sisters.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
No way, I didn't realize this. Okay, go ahead, who's older.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So I, oh, cute.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I shouldn't admit to that, but yeah, Joe's exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Go ahead, babe.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
So we started back in twenty fourteen as a nights
and weekends project myself, of my father and a couple
other people, as Marilyn was exploring bringing on a cannabis
program at that time would be medical. We ended up
winning a license when they announced licenses in twenty sixteen,
and we've been the market leader since then. My sister
(03:46):
joined my dad and I about a year into the operation,
and our brother joined us almost two years ago.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Now that's it.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
We don't have any more siblings. We do have a mother,
but she doesn't work with us.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Do you want another sibling? Yeah, you want another sibling?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah, so yeah, So it's an interesting dynamic.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
It's not you know, we all obviously as young people
probably we're using cannabis and hiding it from our parents,
and now we grow it and make products out of
it together. But it's been a really exciting ride. It's
a great experience to do this together. And here in
Maryland we cultivate. We're a processor. We have two dispensaries,
(04:34):
and then we sell to like ninety eight percent of
the dispensaries in the state. And we're about to launch
in Missouri as a cultivator and processor next month.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I heard you guys got one hundred and thirty
thousand square foot facility out in Missouri.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yes, the Missouri that's cultivation and manufacturing. And then here
in Maryland we have one hundred and sixty thousand square
foot cultivation facility and then about thirty plus thousand square
foot manufacturing facility.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And why the cannabis industry, I mean, you know, is
this something that your family's kind of been involved with,
or you know, is it completely new to you guys?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And if so, what industry do you come from?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
So I came from television on the production, branding marketing side.
Our father comes from healthcare, pharmaceutical distribution and healthcare innovation.
And so when Maryland was talking about a medical program,
that sort of spawned this idea of, well, you know,
(05:38):
I have branding marketing, you have healthcare.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Particularly regulated industry.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
What if we came together around this medical cannabis category. Initially,
he was not bought into that, coming from traditional kind
of HEALTHCAREMA. But as we learned more about the plant
and its viability and it's there peutic nature, and also
kind of his frustrations with that traditional sector where drug
(06:05):
costs were getting higher and higher and it was not
really favorable to the patient, became more inclined to explore this.
And as we did, it was sort of nothing turned
us away. Everything pushed us forward, ended up applying, ended
up winning and going through this process. And then now
here in Maryland in July, we switched to be both
a medical and an adult use state.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Gotcha, And as you were doing the medical, where was
that like love for patients, Because when you get into
the medical aspect of it, there's got to be a
love to help people.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Where does that love come from?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
So that was or Nate just innate just in the
sense that we came from this. I mean even as
children like we grew up with our parents working in
this pharmaceutical health care space, so we were really connected
to that world. And I think with even when when
you think about how we execute our dispensary model, it
was all through the lens of if someone's coming to cannabis,
(07:02):
they've either become frustrated or exhausted, or need something different
than what Western medicine has to offer. How can we
kind of elevate that experience, give them something that's effective
and reliable, And the reliability there means like it's always available.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Rights That's part of the hole we.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Tried to plug when we started in that when we
looked at other markets, you might go to a dispensary
and the thing you liked last week is not there
this week, And if somebody's using it as medicine, it
has to be there every week. Like until we had
the pain, we didn't know from like going to the
grocery store and like, you know, the catchup you wanted
just wasn't there. So we really built this business on
(07:40):
having a full wagon and having this robust product portfolio
that's always available to our consumers.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
I also think that we when when we started to
talk about it, when she went to our dad and
said he was like semi retired at the time, and
none of us enjoyed that version of him, so we
were kind of badgering him together job and he she
came to this, She came to him with this idea,
and he poo pooed it at first because he was like,
(08:07):
I've always been in highly regulated drug markets. I am
like absolutely not going to sell weed, right, and she
convinced him to speak with scientists. And so because we're
in Maryland, we had access to really renowned doctors and
pharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and in other medical institutions. So
the more people he spoke to, he became convinced that
(08:28):
there were really breakthrough things you could do with the plant.
And one of the gentlemen, chrisaul Snyder, effectively said to him, like, Michael,
this is a miracle drug. And at that time in
our lives, our mom was really not sleeping well every
there were a host of other physical ailments that people
we knew were going through and like didn't want to
go on biologics and prescription drugs for them. And so
(08:52):
part of this venture involved developing a scientific advisory board
where we have world class pharmacists, pharmacaulogist scientists who developed
drugs outside of cannabis that's how they made their lives work,
and doctors where they help us crack the code on
how to use active cannabinoids and minor cannabinoids and turkeens
(09:13):
and botanical blends to address condition specific problems. So our
commitment at the Jump to our mom was if you're
going to be cool with all of us basically taking
him on this like later in life journey, and you're
not going to have like a retired husband that you
can travel with or like spend time with, like he's
going back to the office, will work really hard to
(09:34):
develop something for your insomnia. So the first product that
we created was our good Night Pulse release tablet, and
it was this homage to our mom, who effectively said, like,
I can't be on ambien for the rest of my
life and I don't sleep, so you have to help me.
We're going to do this, like I need something tangible
out of it that can help me and other women
like me, And that foundation has kind of informed all
(09:56):
the other products that we've developed.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Over the Here, Rebecca, what a joy to sit there
and watch that and to see and hear the love
from the family that comes like that, and to help
mom and knowing that what your dad has and the
resources and the pool that your dad has because of
the field that he was in so long before he retired,
he'd us understand it all to where I can't wait
(10:18):
to try their products because this is the type of
company that you look in and go by the head
by hearing you guys are doing the research that we
want to see then hear about, and I can't wait
to hear what else you guys are looking into.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
We're gonna take a break real quick.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
When we come back, I want you guys to break
down kind of what you just did Rebecca on what
else you guys are working with, what you're lying a
product can do for certain situations, because Blue and I
are that's what we're craving.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And for this cannabis space to have.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Like, okay, we already know the sleeping elements been attacked
very well. We hear a lot about this for diabetes
and that we know pain in general. But I can't
wait to hear what you guys are dialing and dialing into.
It's Cannabis Talk one on one. We'll be right back
after this break.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
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Speaker 3 (11:18):
On one World Number one Canna.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I don't know if you guys see the latest edition
of the Cannabis Talk magazine.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
But we're gonna get Rebecca and Wendy in this one soon.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I'll tell you that the man these sisters over here
are the truth. But if you haven't seen it, you
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have Rebecca and Wendy, sisters of an amazing company out
(11:49):
of Maryland called Curio Wellness. And before we get into
the other elements, as we were just talking before break,
why the name Curio?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
See you r Io? What does it mean? I know
it's I'm so curious why Curio?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
So so we went so back in twenty teen with
our marketing in Concy, went through this exercise to come
up with a name. And so my background was in branding,
marketing and television, and so they gave us like a
lot of buckets of names, like things that sounded like
plants and things that sounded like crazy pharma drugs. And
(12:24):
one of the buckets was I said, I want a
name that doesn't mean anything, that we have to make
it mean everything. And I wanted it to start with
a hard consonant sound and that in that first point.
It was like the example I gave them was like
and this was lofty, but it was like Starbucks, Google, Kleenex,
Like when you say that word, it like owns the category, right.
(12:47):
And so they sent us this whole big list of names,
and there were about five of us at the time,
and I said, everyone, look at the document and get send.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Me back your top five picks. And on everyone's list,
sure appeared.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And so I was like, guys, we all regardless of
where it was, it was like we all had Curio.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Can we agree on that? And they're like yes, Like okay, good,
We're done.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Wow. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's a good that's good product research and development for
the team.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Like what stands out everybody? I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, that's great anecdotal evidence of this stands out Well,
It's it's funny because it does stand out. It's like Curio,
Oh yeah, I know them for sure, Like it stills,
it's well and it's it's and it's their own name,
you know what I mean. So once you've heard it
one time, you'll definitely not like I've heard of them,
Yeah for sure, Maryland right, yeah, good call girls and
Rebecca you were saying these stories so well, Wendy, you
(13:37):
guys have I believe nine other products that you guys
are pushing, and are we developing these products for certain things?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
As you guys were talking about with your dad what
was his name again, Nick? Or what was your pop's name? Michael?
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
What a great guy. I don't know why I like
Michael so much. I just feel like my son's name. Yeah,
but it's just like and not only that, I can
only imagine Rebecca you watching Wendy going, what is my
older sister getting my dad into? Is he really gonna
start pushing this Canabi stuf?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
So jealous? I was like basically when I started working
with them, I was on maternity leave after having my
third child, and Wendy was like a one man band
of like four different departments, and so in my free
time I would just make the Instagram like post content
for her. It was like, I'm I'm a pro maternity
(14:24):
leave at this point, what do you want me to do?
I'll be your intern? And so when I went back
to my former job. I basically said, like, I can't
keep doing this because I have three kids, including a newborn.
I have a full time job, Like at some point
I need to sleep. But when whenever I can join
the party, whenever it makes sense, like you have my number.
(14:45):
And so when we went from having about thirty customers
in Maryland to like overnight we were going to have seventy,
I got that phone call that was like, I know
I was selling art at the time. You know, I
know you can sell fine art, but can you sell
a twenty five dollars eight?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Probably the rest?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
The rest is history because apparently I'm still selling them well,
because I'm still here.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But are you at the shop now? You working at
the shop.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I'm not at the shop. I work out of my
home in upstate New York, and then I have to
travel to the various markets where we're in. So this
is just a fabulous digital background of all of our
product line.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Oh fantastic.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It looks so dope. That's a very good digital background.
I thought she was at the spot for really, yeah,
I mean, you couldn't tell me you weren't at the dispensary.
I was like, that's so cool. You're just like right
in front of the cash register, is what I felt like. Yeah,
she's done a live Yeah, that's so. That's a That's
one of the best backgrounds I've ever seen. I got
to tell you because I sort of God, I didn't
think it was a fake background. Yeah, I thought it
was so legit. So tell us about the other products
(15:46):
that you guys have.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
So go on, I was gonna say, I was gonna say,
Rebecca can kind of van of white behind you.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
We we have everything that you in.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
The cannabis category in terms of like your traditional products
like flour vape, we call them chees gummies. But some
places where we really have some interesting things are our
terpene choes, which Rebecca just pointed to. So it's really
common in the in the chewer gummy space for people
(16:18):
to categorize uff as like sativa into the hybrid. But
when you see when you buy a product, you see
the lab results, you don't necessarily see those terpenes come in.
And we've figured out a way when formulating to have
the terpenes come in through the final production. So when
we test the product, if the product is supposed to
be rich in limoning and balancing. You're seeing that lintl
(16:40):
lul and miercine. You see it, and so we get
a repeatable effect. So we have three different chees that
are rich in and give you a very targeted effect
that happens every time you eat it. So, for example,
our mango and orange, you could think of them as uppers.
They're great for daytime. They're also good for like a
Friday Saturday night. The pineapple is is more relaxing, a
(17:02):
good like take your edge off your mind and relax
your body and like loosen it up. And then the
lemon lime would be kind of considered your hybrid space
some pain relief, some mental relaxation. But rather than all
about the cannabinoids, this is all about the terpene experience.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Gotcha.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Below the terp.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Is the good night Sweet Rebecca spoke about, which comes
in that pulse release tablet that we created so that
hits in thirty minutes and then again in three hours,
so it helps people fall and stay asleep.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
And then you can also get that product in a
chew and innovate.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So you're actual it's a gummy that hits like that,
or is that a vape?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
No, it's it's a tablet in a kill. So it's like,
I love tablet. That's score. Yeah, and you can break
it in half, break it in half, you still get
the pulse system in both halfs.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
But it we trial the product withations here in Maryland
and you take it thirty minutes before sleep. It helps
you fall asleep, and then three hours later a second
pulse hits and it helps you stay asleep.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Boom. I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's huge, And coming to mail, I'll take a couple.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just my trip. Knock me out like that,
I'll always wake up. You know, let me ask you
this is that?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So that's a high end CBN obviously, but now is
there is there any melatonin or anything else in that?
And then and then you know what made you guys,
you know, create the three hours and three hours. I
love that concept of it, and I think it's something
that I've never heard either.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I've never heard of.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
So there's no melatonin in any of the sleep formulas.
And the formulation, like the pulse release tablet is ten
milligrams THHC five milligrams of CBN. The gummy is actually
the inverse ten milligrams of CBN only five milligrams of
THHC and the formulas are guided by the scientific board
which I mentioned. But then also every product create we trial.
(19:01):
In our former life, before adult use, we were with
all medical certified patients in Maryland. Now, because it's adult
use in Maryland, we have a much bigger panel of
people we can solicit for their input. But we never
bring anything into product or to market that we haven't
validated the results with a trial group. So like with Goodnight,
a perfect example of that is we actually trial two
(19:23):
formulas to start and we learned through those trials that
actually one of the formulas allowed you to fall asleep
faster and stay asleep longer. So rather than coming to
market with two tablets, we only came to market with
the one that actually proved itself out in those trials.
And so that learning of how to develop a product
kind of as closely as like a standard pharmaceutical product
(19:46):
would be made and meeting all of those activaty requirements
to the best of our abilities, that's now the prescription
that we follow for any of the other products we
bring to market. Because we can't make claims in this business.
We also can't do the level research that you know
standard drugs can do. But we're trying to do as
best we can to make sure that the products that
(20:06):
we have have integrity so that the customer who's taking
it can trust that we've done the due diligence and
what it says on the bottle is legitimate. It's not
just you know, I slapped a few adjectives on this,
so like, go and try it.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And Rebecca, when you guys say you guys do these
research projects, what does a research project look like? What
is approximately how many people approximately?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
What are you guys doing in one of these scenarios.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Works We're about to launch for our GI Comfort tablet.
So after the good Night product came out, the order
of new products has been our gi Bi Curial Line,
which is a suite of four gastrow and testinely focused products,
two for anti nauja, one to stimulate, our Stimulate chooser
(20:51):
for people going through chemotherapy treatments. We actually developed it
with the nurses at the Green and Bald Cancer Center
at the University of Maryland Medical System. And then a
GI Comfort Tablet, which is that same puls release technology
and the good Night's Tablet is in GI comfort. It's
intended for chron's patients or people who deal with IBS
(21:11):
and IBD.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So like a very strong probiotic enhancer, Well it only has.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
It has a really high dose of CBG, so seventy
five milligrams of CBG per tablet, thirty milligrams of CBD,
and only one point seventy five milligrams of THHC. And
it's intended to be what I like to call functional candidates.
I'm not trying to get you high. I'm trying to
ease all the symptoms associated with chrones that impact your sleep,
(21:37):
that create anxiety, that disrupt your day to day. So
we trialed it for a year with a single patient,
and in that instance, trial was only with a single
patient because you it's very expensive. We did blood work
with this patient for a full year, we went through
his gastroentroology, so that we had some real definitive data
(21:59):
that the drug was actually helping his chromes, so they're
not what's up pulenoscopes too. And so the most definitive
data we have is that the number that measures the
severity of your crone disease is called your CDAI index number,
and his was in the three hundreds, which basically like
(22:19):
severe chrone disease, like you're miserable all day long. After
taking the product for I think it was six weeks,
his CDAI had come down to twenty four, which is
essentially remission. And he's been in that low two digit
number ever since for three years now. So like still
drinks alcohol, eats for all vegetables like a terrible chrome's patient,
(22:42):
not helping himself with any other change, right, but takes
this tablet twice a day and is like an entirely
new person, live in life exactly. And it's taken us
two years, but we finally have identified a partner to
do one hundred and fifty person blind study where we'll
actually have three versions of the tablet, including a placebo version,
(23:05):
so we'll run it like a clinical trial with an
review board, and it's a three month trial, and at
the end of it a paper gets published, good, bad,
or ugly that says it works or it doesn't, So
it's a calculated risk. We feel very confident that it's
going to show that the nabinoid versions do make a difference,
but it's taken two years and a lot of investment
(23:28):
to get to this place.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So you're doing one hundred and fifty uh, you know,
patients on placebo one fifty on the product and then
running it huh and another one I think she's on
fifty and oh yeah, is that what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Can you break that with you?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
It's one hundred and fifty patients where you do fifty
on one version.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Fifty fifty okay, okayah, perfect on the three that you're describing.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Gotcha. And then and when of you guys are proposing
to do this, we're starting.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It imminently and the goal is to have the entire
study completed by the end of June, and then you
have your independent investigator like reviews all the results and
they publish a paper inside of like twelve weeks after
the study officially completely.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Can we continue doing this with you? Can we get
involved in that live as it happens. When you're getting it,
you guys come back on and say, hey, what happened?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
This is this is exactly what the industry needs.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You know, and and basically, not only are you putting
your brand and your money and every time risk to
put you know, I mean not everything, I mean just
risking that product line, right, I mean to be whether
in the company name, they'll look at the company debate.
It could go bad, Like you said, good bad. I
don't see it going back. I don't either, But don't
get wrong. It shows a lot of balls on their part.
It can only show that it didn't win, right, it
(24:40):
didn't do anything, and they're not going to do that.
So you know, the ship's got to be good. Yeah,
that's that's fantastic. Yeah, that that's amazing. You guys, I'm
I'm you know, I think we need more of this
in our industry, you know, And and truthfully, it's it's
super important to find, you know, people like yourselves that
take the energy, the time and again the finances to
and researched it to actually do this versus just putting
(25:03):
out a nice product that makes you go to sleep
or and there's a lot of good things. But what
his family does, which I like, is they have a
father that really toes deeper than blues.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Dad taught him.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
About cannabis too, totally different way your dad taught to
you guys about medicine.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Blues Dad was growing selling and making money for the family.
It was a side gig and it was a good
cannabis thing. They're learning about medication. I'll get it to
you in New York exactly. They're learning about.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Medication, but then they get to take it the step
further and their dad knows all the pharmaceuticals, and they're
doing trials the way. We want to be seen the
way and maybe not at the massive scale like Johnson
and Johnson would do, of course. But you know, cannabis
isn't Johnson and Johnson now, and I don't know if
there'll ever be a company that's Johnson and Johnson.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
There will be possibly Johnson Johnson trillions. That's that's the
big time.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
On's Cannabis Talking one on one. We're gonna come back.
We're to do the high five with these ladies. Hear
a little bit more about where this company is going,
because now we already see it in Maryland, we also
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zero eight four. We got the sisters some curial wellness.
Rebecca and Wendy. It's such a joy to talk to
you guys and hear what your company is doing and
how Rebecca, you and your father started this and you know,
coming from the television industry, your data pharmaceutical industry.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Wendy was just having babies everywhere doing her thing.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
But it's you know, learning to be a mother, which
is awesome and take care of a family. Now you
can run a business after having three kids. Any woman
could do anything after that. In my opinion, when you.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Have three kids, what can you do anything? Why could
you've had three kids?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Like I get it to believe me, I have three
kids as well, so you know it's it's commendable. But
you joined the family and this and that, and you
guys are doing very well. All this research, we got
this and that. But now it's February. You guys have
a Valentine's Day package that you're putting out. And I
can't wait to hear how that conversation started and who
brought up Hey, Dad, I got a great idea, Hey Blue.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Make a sex package? Yeah? Is it the girl with
three kids? Or was it Rebecca going let's make some lube?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You didn't have any kids at the time.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
How did that go?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
So we were aware that there were some products in
the space that were in like the intimacy zone, right,
So we wanted to make something that we could put
out here in Maryland that would be a similar product.
And so this was back when we're medical, right, So
we have people who work for us who are patients
who can Like we said, we always do trials so
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God bless these people who went through a few two
different rounds of us making this oil and me sending
them surveys where they had to tell me how their
sexual experience was.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
They had to tell me if if applicable, how is
the taste like all give me adjectives to describe it.
And then we would.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Sit in leadership meetings, which obviously included my father, and
talk about the effectiveness of our sex products. So not
an experience I expected to have in my professional career.
But the product is called oh oh like with the
carry and so the magic of it is like it's
(29:19):
good for anyone male or female. It was developed through
the lens of like as females age, there can be
more like dryness and painfulness with sex. And so it
was how do you create something that is both lubricating
to the area, has an analgesic property and in anti
(29:40):
inflammating property, but also like really gives you that good
glide cannabinoids in you, right, And so what happened was
long before we made this intimacy oil is we grew
this strength called golden strawberry, and it started to be
as it came out as flour and ultimately invape that
(30:02):
when people smoked it it had like a viagra effect.
So that was the active ingredient that we put into
this this oil. And we used to have this older
couple who would come to our dispensary who tell us
a little too much about what happened when they needed
to come and get if.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
They're seventies older, Yeah, yeah, like a way older.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
God bless them.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, I mean only if we can be that way
when we're in our seventies for sure.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
For sure something here.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
In my fifties and I'm not talking about it.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
So now it's a dull use in Maryland.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
And so this Valentine's season, not only will the Intimacy
Oil be there, but she'll be able to get it
in free rolls, in vape and in choose and the
chews similar chees are really activated by those terpenes that
lower your like, create the relaxation, get you in the mood,
and increase your libido.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Oh nice, I like the product, you guys, curio wellness,
I'm gonna have to give me some oh.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
To smoke, rubs, roll on and everything else to it.
I mean, how cool is that for the vibe? I mean,
just come home Hey, babe, you know what I got
you for Valentine's Day? Oh, it's we have a we
have a we have a uh you know, a speakeasy
here called Club one oh one and it's spelled oh
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as well. I love that you guys. The story behind
you guys's company is great. I love what you guys
are doing. You guys are staying with the curve. And
not only that, you know the moral of cannabis, which is,
you know, to help others. In my opinion, yes, it's
beautiful to smoke and have a good time, but you
guys are really doing curial wellness the job that we
need to move this cannabis plant forward for the world
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in my opinionship not just our country, but to have
more research and with you and your father, both sisters,
your brother.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I salute you guys. I thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
If you're out in the Maryland area, please go check
out their products. If they don't have curial wellness on
the shelf, as for it, because you just heard what.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
They're doing and how they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And if you're ever in the Wichita area, coming soon,
they'll be out in not Wich you talk shooing Missouri
that's the state line next to it, not Kansas, but Missouri.
Go to good old Missoo and take a look at
When will you guys be putting out product out there
in missou.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Hopefully in the next six weeks we'll have our first shipments,
but we already have established relationships with dispensaries from Kansas
City to Saint Louis down in the boot Heel, over
in Springfield and Joplin. So our mission is to make
curio products convenient to the cannabis consumer. We don't want
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to have we don't want you to have to drive
far to get it, so we try and be in
as many dispensaries as possible so that it's easier for
the customer.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Well go find it, you guys. It's time for the
high five.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I want to thank everybody around here that makes the
show happen and all the hard work they do, from
Adrian to Amy, Autumn, Andrea, Amir, Mary Magazine, Mondo. Thank
you Mary for everything you do overseas too. All the
videos you've been sitting are just amazing. Michelle, Elizabeth, Teddy,
the show Dog, ic Dog, Zeus, Daniel, my brother, Diego, Lupita, Logan,
Gary Carly Connor, cam Beach, Barcelar, Brandon, t Ali Muffins, Hudson,
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Sunday Og, Skinny Ruby, Goldie Brother, Pitt, Mark Carnes, Chris Frankino, Jennifer,
Erica and Elvis. Thank you guys all for doing what
you do for Nichell Greats. Yeah, Andrea Love Nutritionis, thank
you for helping us saving blues life. My brother right
here next to me just had a heart attack a
couple of weeks ago, so.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Here.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
So if you can make some cannabis that helps us
our heart attacks, we'll be on the lookout for that.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I don't know what cb H. Yeah, he needs disease
CBH for his heart.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
We're gonna ask five questions you guys, and you'll be
answering it. We'll start with the older sister first. Rebecca,
you'll give the first answer. Wendy you'll give the same
question answer right after Rebecca. On these five how old
were you the first time he smoked cannabis? And where'd
you get it from?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Rebecca?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
I was probably fifteen from Ali.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Buckles, Alie, huh, Ali Buckles, it's your girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
She was like her like fast friend in high school.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
She had all the bad stuff Yeah, how's she doing now?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
She's a medical professional, but.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
As she should be.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That's a good ali Baby number two.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Then I'm sorry, Wendy, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
I was yeah, fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
I don't know who had it, but it was a
classic gathering at a house where parents were away and
friends were together.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Did you tell your sister Rebecca? Did she know? Did
you hide it from her?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
When was the first time you two smoked with each
other as big sister and little sister?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I think that was the That was the I.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Think in my best friend's parents driveway and they're like,
we had a party at their house because the friend's
parents weren't home. My friends smoked with Wendy and her friends.
We went back to our parents' house and proceeded to
get caught because there was like copious amounts of McDonald's
on the kitchen island.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
They're like, what are you guys doing? I love it?
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Question number two I remember.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Mom was like, is anyone else high besides Wendy?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm not high, Mom. Huh. Question number two of the
high five, what is your favorite way to use or
smoke cannabis?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Uh? It's a tie. Between one of our Edie Parker
pre rolls, which are these zo point five Grand Spuds
pre rolls, or a fused peaches and cream disposable babe.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Nice. I like that, rote, Wendy.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
Definitely smoking pree rolls are probably the most normal. A
classic bonghand isn't terrible, though. I do love our churp
cheese because I like that specificity. That's definitely my Friday
night going out thing. But I do have to say
in the non getting highway, I am the Queen of topicals.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I love a cannabis topic.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Nice Oh all day? Yeah me too, great, me too.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
But I'm curious, Wendy, you mentioned the word bong. Do
you have a name for your boon that you use?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Oh the way you said it, I was almost like
she's got a special bong at home.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Well, you know you know what I was.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
The twinkle in my eye was in like twenty maybe
like twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen. Can remember I went to
on a trip to Europe with a couple of girlfriends
and we were in Amsterdam and I was like, there
was this one place where they had bongs that you
could use. And I sat there and just like ripped bong.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
It's and I've never felt more like the American in
my life.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
But yeah, I could hang out there by myself, but
was like so happy.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Oh, I could only imagine. That is great.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Question number three of the High five with the ladies
from Curio Wellness at a good old Maryland you guys,
craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis? That story
sounded pretty crazy right there, though, Wendy, Rebecca, what about you.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
I was not using, but it was when we were
right at the beginning of founding the business. We went
to Colorado when it went adult use, and I was pregnant,
so I was sober for an entire trip with Wendy,
both of our parents and our really good friends who
we always travel with, and it was awesome because they
were full time and I just got to watch them
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make foolos of themselves. So that's probably my fondest cannabis
memory apart.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
From any of That's a good story. That's a great story.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
I love that, Wendy, So mine is a big kind
of fingers crossed for this karma to come this way again.
We were in New Orleans for the Super Bowl when
the Ravens were in it, and we went as a
family and we went to see Snoop Dog at the
House of Blues and obviously we smoked there, and also
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a huge guy in a dog costume came out who
had a big fake joint as well.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Oh, you're talking about what's his name, the big dog,
Fredo or whatever is.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'm hoping.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
I'm hoping that's a that's a plug for another super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
We know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
That's a good time. That's a fun one. That's a
very memorable moment. Question number four of the High five
what is your go to munchie after you get high?
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Oh? I was joking with Wendy when we were preparing
that to be like a wife and a mother, it
was like a grilled cheese, French fries and vanilla milkshake
from the local diner that's been delivered to us in
New York City. Now it's like Pirates booty and and
you know, fruit snacks because it's just a kid.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, I know the feeling when you said Pirates broody
is just too like we always have it and we
still do still have Pirates body. I got a nine
and ten. I don't even know what that is Oh
you don't. Oh, it's just like that little popcorny. Yeah,
it's I gotta bring some. You e've had it, you
know what it is. But yeah, I'm sure you do.
That's so funny, Rebecca, like when you said that. It's
just oh, yeah, the kids in the house, all the
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fruity things, and I'll make them special by leaving them
in the freezer sometimes and now they're frozen, and oh,
I got a frozen candy, Wendy, what about you?
Speaker 6 (39:48):
So I have a little concoction I sometimes make, which
is a bag of popcorn like an air pop, like
a microwave popcorn, and then I throw some cinnamon, some
hot honey and like crush up some nuts on there
and toss it around.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Ah, that sounds spicy honey is a new thing.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
I barely found out about it.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
It's so funny you say that, Wendy, because I just
got put on it honey exactly.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Do you can buy it spicy honey?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
I never knew that dog and it's spicy honey, and
you put it on stuff and it's just delicious. Ended
up getting some. I have some at the house right now,
barely for the first time in my life. It is
my first time I ever bought it, so I know
what you mean now, Wendy, and it's very tasty.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I never put it on my popcorn like that. I
gotta try that.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Question number five with a high five, Rebecca and Wendy.
It's been a pleasure having you guys on. Make sure
you go out and check out their products in the
Maryland area. Curial wellness Ladies. If you could smoke cannabis
with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And why?
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Miyus Martin Sheen because The American President is my most
favorite movie and I love the West Way, and so
I just want to smoke a joint with President Bartlett.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I see that. That's a good one. That's great. That's
a first, Wendy.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
So there's like a handful of luminaries that I honestly
believe that if we met, we could be good friends.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
So it's that group, which would.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
Be John Waters, Tina Fay, Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Jay
z Wy.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
You're just an eighties baby so much, I mean even earlier.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Just I love that you named all the names and
I'm like, oh my god, that's all the songs that
grew up with all the people that I know. I'm like,
oh my goodness, that'd be a great group right there.
You're sitting there with a nice pow wow. Yeah, I
like that.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Ladies.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Is there anything that we forgot to mention about your guys'
wonderful company? And make sure you give a big shout
out to your father and say thank you from us Cannabis.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Keep going on to date on those trials, you know,
your clinical trials. Literally, you guys.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I want to know when what happens next as you
guys find something, keep us up to date, even if
we could just come on the show and as we're
doing another interview or doing another show, Hey, guys, just
to keep you guys up to date with curial wellness.
I just talked to Rebecca or Wendy and they said,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
It's huge. It's huge. It's huge. It needs to be
introduced into our mainstream.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
So I would want to go on IG with it
and do like a story's on IG. That's a huge
you know what I mean, it's a good storyline.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
Well, you're welcome to come to Missouri or Maryland anytime.
We'll show you how it's made. We always like to
close these out with banking Mom because she's the kind
of cake crusader behind the scenes. We like to call
her CEO of babysitting because she makes sure that the
four of us can do what we get to do
and love every day and she never complains. But we
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definitely couldn't do it without Mom.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Is the real backbone. Yeah, shout out to Mom. Keep
everybody safe and sound. Well, there it is guys.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
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