January 25, 2024 • 39 mins
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(01:16):
and portability. I like what Rod's doing over there, you guys.
Besides us now is the owner Rod Santo, owner of
Stash Products, a company that specializes in producing high quality
rigs and accessories for the dabbing lifestyle, which is out
there and booming. The company was founded in twenty fourteen
by two friends who are passionate about emerging dabbing culture.
(01:38):
Stash Products offers a wide range of products including rigs, pipes, bangers,
and more. All of their products are designed with functionality
and style in mind. The company's goal is to provide
customers with the best possible dabbing experience. Whether you're a
seasoned veteran, aren't just getting started in the dabbing products.
(01:58):
You guys, Stash Product has everything you need to enjoy
the dabbing lifestyle. Make sure you guys check out their website.
If you're watching on YouTube, you know what I'm talking about.
Stash Products dot com or follow them on ig Stash
Products right there to secure yourself a dab rig and
anything else that you're gonna use to enhance that smoking
accessory and carrying it out today without further ado, please
(02:20):
put your.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Hands together for mister Rod Stewart.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Okay, I've gotten Rod Stett Before I get it, I've
gotten Rod STEI. I'm sure you have ros. Thank you
for joining us here today. Brother, I appreciate you coming
on Stash Products. Man, how do you and your partner?
I mean I read it there, I look at it.
There were you guys high going We need to make
(02:44):
this better. How did this come about for you?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, the me and my partner was we had a
head shop together Stash. I don't have any partners, it's
just me. But we started a head shop together in Bethesda,
Maryland where we were a lot of on veterans Triangle,
so we had a lot of veterans coming in and
buying you know, things to consume cannabis or back in
(03:06):
the day.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Quotation marks for tobacco.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Pipes.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Yeah, we don't have to use the quotation marks anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
So I started noticing that there was a whack of
things to use for the cannabis. You know, cannabis was
progressing every single day, oil, waxes, hashes, the flower was progressing,
and the only thing that you could find was, you know,
very minimal.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Old school things.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Sure, so.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I made my first product in twenty thirteen, fourteen around there,
and we're here today so far.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah, we love it, We love everything.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It was the first products.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It was a battery. It was a wax pen. It's
called the stash pen.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It was a wax pen, just like a little one
of these vape pins.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
No, man, you put your own wax inside of it.
And I failed miserably with it. It got copied left
and right, and I you know, I cried and got
many times.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
You know, why why why why?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
What do you mean? Because he got copied so many times?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Because I got copied, I failed. You know, other people
were successful with the copy of it, and.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh, right, right right, they just got it out faster.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well that and then I think It led me to
what we were making today, and I think if I
had success with that product, I would still be making
the same thing that everybody else is still doing. We
went and made a torch power product, something completely against
the current, had an amazing success with it, and then
it led us to making other products because we went
against the current yet again. We made a grinder instead
(04:32):
of having like those crazy teeth, we put these tiny
little bumps on it. You know, we have patents on
every single thing that we make, so we're not a
big on white labeling products. We create them with design
them through the Prinum all here in the United States.
We are a very small family owned a team too.
So it's just me and my wife, one of my
best friends to Adam, my best friend Reza. It's it's
(04:55):
an arena in sales. So we're not a giant team,
but we we bring giant giant team kind of products.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
To the table.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What do you guys store all this stuff?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Rockville, Maryland? Were a Yeah, we've been there and went
to high school there. You know, my son's going to
go to school around there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So you still live there now? Yeah, I just flew
in for this just for you. Guys.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Man, we got in I think it was one two
am yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nice, so you're tired, rock and still.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Rock ate up all night, took the Red Eye over here,
and okay, we got to wake up in the morning
and come to the show.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
We gotta we have in a couple of days, we
got to go to Vegas for TPE. Oh TP Vegas TP,
so we have glass Vegas and TPE, and then we
come home for eight days and then we go back
for Champs.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
So yeah, you know, absolutely, but this was definitely a
priority for us. We love we love it and we're
honored to be here too.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Thank you. Love Roger doing your thing.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Let's talk about all the other products that you guys
have here on the tour.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Absolutely, man.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, I was gonna say, I've been a fan of
your product for a while, dude. I've seen it out there,
you know, and you guys have put out for even
around for a while, Rightwy fourteen. Yeah, I've seen there.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I had a couple of smoke shops here and well
I had one here in Westminster smoking Go is mine smoking?
Go us say? And then my brother has uh what
is it called shorties? My brothers is a petrified smoke
shop in Arizona. OK. Yeah, so we have smoke shops
(06:21):
and stuff like that. And then I was in the
whole district downtown in LA where they, you know, have
all this stuff down there, so you get to see
all this stuff. But I've seen your products out there,
and you know, kudos to you for being out there.
But let's go over some of these products. Man.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Sure, man, So this was like actually one of my
oldest products right here. The this is our screw battery.
A lot of people have made something like this. We're
literally probably one of the first ones to make this
little concealed battery.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
The other ones have like magnets in it. Ours.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
We took the magnets up because people losing them. They
become a big pain when you have to keep looking
for magnets and things. So this one is screwed and
if it doesn't fit in there, we have secondary five
ten on the bottom. This is so this is a
work like literally a workhurse. It does not go bad
any with shape or form. It's it's the reviews from
it is like I've put it in the washing machine
and still works, or man, you know, it's it's I've
(07:07):
had it for like eight years and still.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I remember the last time my charge did really charge
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well, we we want we want premium products. We we
don't want these disposable things. They're they're destroying the world.
I think at the end of the day, you know,
we are we do come from that. It's our human
nature to one things that are one time used get
rid of instead of cleaning it. So, yeah, it is easier,
it definitely is. But we still know that, you know,
we make quality products. People are going to go out
(07:34):
of the way to take care of it and make
sure that it lasts for a long time. And we
don't overcharge we you know, I'm not an overpaid CEO,
you know. And uh we keep our prices uh reasonable
so that the American you know, dollar can stay in
the average consumer that lives in America. Inact exactly, man,
that's what we want. We want that money to stay
(07:56):
in your pocket. Always save that money, especially in the
sacon too. Is it kind of just tough right now?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah? What else?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Keep going down the line and keep talking about what
you got here.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Sure, the grinder is something we just kind of recently
came out maybe two years ago. It's been killing it. First,
we can't even keep these things in stock. We did
a big lab test on most of the grinders on
the market. They're created for tobacco in over ten plus
years ago. So they have this this shredding or this milling,
this this thing, this really destroys the flour and we
don't want to do that. Our grinder don't do any
(08:24):
of that. They just separate the flour from the stems.
So that's what our grinders really do. We did lab
results and put all these grinders on the market on
to marijuana test. They all had the same type of
same percentages. They all ground one gram, and then we
tested the flour after that and saw that the percentages
were dramatically getting changed when you used regular grinders, or
(08:48):
you're decreasing your THC, you're decreasing your turpens. And the
word that the lab used was that the tri combes
and the weed was being annihilated. And when you use
our grinders, those things aren't at aren't aren't doing that.
We went out of a way to make sure that
these grinders aren't destroying your weed.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
So fire weed.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Going in your grinder, fireweed coming out of here yet exactly.
So you know, you shouldn't be paying for a twenty
nine point nine percent THC lead and then when you
grind it and you put it in the Keith thinkfil.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I forgot about it. I just ripped out my headphones too.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Don't worry about it, man, I'll get you another one,
that's all. But that's the thing. You pay for a
twenty nine percent TC and then after you grind it
you ended up with like twenty two percent. You know,
what's what's the point of doing any of that?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So amazing. Don't bend in front of me. It's gonna
happen every time. I know. I don't discriminate. Oh, I know,
I know, Joe, Thank you for that, Rod. This is great.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
You you figured out something new that you know most
grinders are like, you know, to be honest with.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You, listen, I I get what you're saying. Yeah, you know,
I get it because the other ones are cutting right
through it and eh, and they're just ripping through. This
is kind of just lining over it and rolling in
the round and it feels nice. The quality is great
on that.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
That's aerospace antidize aluminum. We don't paint any of your
grinders We don't put any kind of coatings on it.
It's milled from a solid piece of aluminum. We anodize
every single one of them to add the change and
alter the color of them, but we don't do any
zinc alloys. We don't do any plastics in any way,
shape or form. And the biggest problem, you're not gonna
have an issue when you're using a grinder of plastic
(10:25):
or anything getting when you're doing doing this. But most
grinders that are two pieces are plastic, and when you
do this, after you grind your weed and you do this,
you're definitely breaking some plastic off inter your weed, and
then you're smoking that or zinc alloys that those zincs
are not good, good good metals in any way, shape
or form. That's not gonna It's gonna maybe bend, but
(10:45):
it won't chip off at the end of the day.
That's that's what we're We spend a lot of time
to make sure that again you're gonna get fire weed
when you use our grinders. When your weak coming absolutely
definitely is that one is an astray and then this
one or five piece a secret stash on the top
so you can store whatever you want in there so
you can put some more nugs in there when you're
(11:06):
going out.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
So it's a clean grinder. Yeah, you don't have So we.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Have a five piece, three piece, and then we have
the little baby tiny ones. Those are purse purse a
proof is what my wife says that in thew pocket
for you know, you're going out to a show. You
don't want to carry your grinder. You can easy put
like three grams in there. Well, yes, stores on the
top a nice you can store graham on top and
(11:30):
then on the bottom you grind up about a graham
grown half maybe two really stuffing in there.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, all ready to go a quarter the I mean
the eighth what's that one called right there?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So this is our real This is what everybody really
knows is for. And this is what I was talking about.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I feeled at the wax pin, so I went and
made this uh portable dab brig. But instead of electric,
everything is torch powered. So the torch comes out just
like this.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, I remember that one. Yes, one's been on for
a long time.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And the unfortunate thing about this is that it's one
of my favorite products, but it got counterfeited so bad
that it almost closed our businesses down. So again, I
have about five utility patents on this, a design patent.
Just like everything here, these are all awarded patents. This
isn't like me emailing myself a drawing that I made
and pretending to have a patent.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I spent eighty percent of our money in today year.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, like people like I have a pattern too, Like
I wrote myself a letter like yeah, so that so
then we have the glass comes out of it. Everything
is fully you know, modular, the torch comes out. So
we've been making this about think twenty eighteen, and this
is our fourth model.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
We just released it.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
We're having a very hard time keeping up with the
demand of it. Just like the grinders. I always tell people,
if the grinders and the reels are in stock, get them,
whatever color it is, whatever it is, just get it
while you can.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Again, we're not We're not Walmart. You don't We're not.
We never overstocked. We have We always.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Sell out at fully we never have like number one
and some and it's and we're again Ersenal Company. I
don't have any investors. I don't have anybody to answer
to other than my wife.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, I like absolutely, that's it big, you know, so,
so I want to I want to ask you man,
sure you know in the in the thought process of it,
like you know how many times? How many products never
made it to market? Is cannabis talking to one? We'll
be right back after this dress that follow.
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have Rod Santos, owner of Stash Products blue as a
great question on the way out, which was how many
products never made it to the site, never make it
to market.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Or just didn't make it because they just you thought,
this is it time?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
And you know none we were perfect everything. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I've had I've had I've always told people I've had
more tears and I've had smiles. But the tears of
what teaches you to leads you to your successful products,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
So if I didn't have my.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Failure products, you wouldn't have got there.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I would have got my successful products. So I always say,
if you're not failing, you're definitely not winning.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
But I would say ten times, what's on this table?
We have seven core products? Does at least I have
at least fourteen other patented products that have never been released,
And then I would say some of them have been
a failure because they got copied so quickly.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We have a lot of patent infringements.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
We have a lot of people to copy your product,
like that connector that thing was probably one of my
I think one of my best products, but it's it's it.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
It doesn't sell as well as it should because of that.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Which one is it?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
The one right in front of you?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yep? That one? What does that do?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So it's a battery attaches to that attachment. It makes
any battery on the market and netroc collector. So someone
that's used to using carts. You can attach that that
battery that they're already user it, so you just take
that cap off.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
We pull the cap off and they burn it. Yep, exactly.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
So any battery turn into a netric collector to tend
on our product and introduct Yeah, introduces people to waxes,
dabs and things like that. You can literally give it
away for dispensers to try to increase.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
There's just gets hot right here on the tip it
was pressed the button. Yeah, oh wow, Yeah didn't sell huh.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It does.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
So we sell a lot of them for us, but
they got copied like overnight, so like China came in
not yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
We have to maybe they still they still you got
the China pattern too.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, we have all all.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Toup It's hot. I'm just kidding you.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Unfortunately, where everyone believes you don't need to put another
hole in it, like in litigation right now too.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It sucks.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Actually we have like two a couple of litigations. You
can't really talk too much about it. But we had
distributors that would buy our products, you know, let's say
like ten of them, and then they would import like
a container of the fake one and then say our
products aren't selling anymore.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
You know, they're selling it from quarter of the price.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, And it's again it's I'm not they just.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Tell you, hey, your your product is down and then
you're like, oh ship and then you see it in
another store.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, says cookies are Backwoods on it. But it's not.
It's not those companies that are making it's fake.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, of course, they just.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Know how to market it like that everybody.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, it's still willing to take They're willing to take.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The Yeah, you know, to make the money literally to
take the l you know what I mean, and and
and to break you off. Rod Santos, I mean stash
products is great.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
What were you doing before this? How?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I mean, how did you lead into selling accessories? The
smoke shop? I know you said you had that, but
like were you did you go to college, did you
play sports? Did you grow up in your family was
selling drugs so you're like, oh, it's just part of
the family line like blue, I mean, how did you
get into this line of product? Because this could be
looked at its taboosh. Yeah, so we're from Brazil.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I was born in Brazil, came here in eighty nine set, but.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I was there follow went back for the UFC fight
while I took Frank Shammark's belts.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
In the ring that bottles crazy overigg huge, bigger than
New York.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
It's one of the biggest cities in the world. Yeah,
so became.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Bigger than New York.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Has more population than New York. Yes, it's craz dog
right when you get off what one. I went out
there right when I got off, we drove five minutes
and it's just third world country, like the village of
like nothing but a million you know, the thousands of
people in the shock houses and.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Like crazy out there.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
You know, like what the hood like people follow you're.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
From the I mean it's big city. It's a big city.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
There, but like there's like there's whole like camps of
like everyone here is quote unquote homeless, but.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And they're all like living under like TP's and ship
like that, like not even real tps. But yeah, it's crazy. Oh,
I was within five minute drive right when I landed.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
It's the first thing crazy. It's the first thing you see.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The mess with the tourists coming through.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
So talk on your cell phone when you're brazilt in public.
Don't have like change, don't wear Nike, don't wear stuff
that's a the taxi driver will see you. And then
when they and then later people know where you're staying.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yes, yeah, they'll just look. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's like I said, it's more people than New York
and Mexico City. You know what I'm saying. It's large, large, large, crazy.
So you came out from here, how old are you?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I came here when I was five and my parents started.
My mom was cleaning houses, my dad did construction. My
dad was a probably one of the best mechanics you
ever meet in your life. And I complained about toys
or and he said, if you're going to complain about something,
fix it. If you're not going to fix it, don't
say shit about it. So that I was always a tinker,
always tinker. Yeah, And before that, after that, I just
(19:33):
got into I dropped out in tenth grade. I got
caught smoking pot and they said I wasn't gonna graduate
on time. You can, you know, come back and get
it in the summertime. So I was like, I'm good.
So I just want to start waiting tables. And then
I managed restaurants for too long, like ten years something
like that. And then one day I saw a Vice
(19:55):
documentary on cops selling like they were transporting money in
California from the Spencer dispenser and I was like, cops
are getting weed. And this was like in twenty twelve.
I was like, cops are getting involved weed. I was like, yeah,
I got to get into involved the weed or something.
I made a Facebook post and I was like, who
wants to get involved in weed? And I was like
I don't want no likes, no hearts, no stupid comments
(20:16):
on this. I was like, DM me, I'm about it,
you know. And my friend was like, yeah, I don't
have anything to get in the weed. But he's like,
I've been making a bunch of signs for head shops
and vape shops. So we're like, all right, I guess
we'll do that. So we opened up our vape shop.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Because he was making signs and his house random.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
His family own a sign company. They're like, dude, I've
made like ten ten vape shop signs like this month.
He was like, it's like the next thing, and I
was like, cool, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
You know. Was that the vapes the other vapes just
like when you're dripping.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
And building your coil.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Still the good old days before these pods and stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
But those when people were making money.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah, right on the bottles and stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
So we did that for a long time, and I
waited tables still during the day, and then I did
that and then I worked there at night, and then
I started Stash in the back office, just making tinkering, tinkering, tinkering,
tinkering and tinkering, and it made my first pen, like
I said, in twenty like thirteen around then, and started
selling it. It took me man almost like a year
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and a half for some of my first five hundred units.
And you know, I borrowed money from here. From there
sold everything I had.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Didn't know. I thought, like, you open up your website.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And everybody finds out about that was it.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I was like, all right, this is it. The website
is open. I was like here we god that winter
and I was like, damn, I'm not getting any sales.
What's going on here?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, you know, it was just me like posting stuff
on Instagram and then I found out.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But you came up with the word stash. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I used to have a gigantic mustache too, like a
huge mustache, huge and like that twirled. So then my
pen had a storage on it, so it was a
stash pen a stash on it. So then I we
had more product.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
So I just change the stash products.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You miss your beer.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Every I can grow in like within a couple of
like hell weeks, you know, it's nope, like this is
like this.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Is two days the way. That's a full fucking stash job.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
So that's I can get it grown pretty good.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
But no, it's a it's a it's a resilient word.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
We're going to take a break real quick. We're going
to come back to see where the company is going.
Do the high five stash products you guys, great company,
great owner. Right here, Ron Pols is in the building.
We'll be right back after this break.
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for putting these great juices in our body shaate you
so much. Rod Santo's, owner of Stash Products. There's nothing
better than hearing an entrepreneur story like yours, you know
what I mean. And it's a short story like you're
short too, which is kind of cool. Donets hit for
(24:13):
exactly exactly, And I like it because you're the American dream.
You come from fucking Brazil with your mom and dad
working hard, and then you come here and your dad
gives you some very inspiring then quit your bitching, get
your fucking mind to fix it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Shut up. I love that you even shared that story because.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
That's what it takes, right, Like that's every kid, every
person should be like, quit your bitching, figure out a solution.
I am say that around here. Don't complain about something,
give me the solution. Don't complain about I don't want
to hear the complaint. I want to have a solution
to the plane. If you're gonna say it, do that.
So I love when your dad said that, and then
to see that you started, and of course so many
products like blue Ass not making it, but seeing the
(24:52):
ones that do make it, and it's quality, like that
torch thing that you have right there, dude, is nice,
good glass quality.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's why Schorch comes. They can't knock it off, no,
they well you can.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
So the old one got knocked off real easily.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Again, so now that I was telling you the new ones,
Now this glass is probably the heart.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
It's one there's no welds.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
We have an extremely hard time making it, so they'll
never make it. And look at like with this glass again,
and we're working on the V threes, the V fours,
you know, like something that you can replace. So let's
just say and I'll sneak peaky here on cannabis talk.
So you take this out and then you replace it
with a full electrical module, you know, like this could
be or not could be.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
The batteries can fit in here. They can fit two
battery cells right here.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
This could be a full screen here right now, and
then your coil goes right there. So it's very easy
for you to see how that can easily be replaceable
right here like that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So the fact that it's a modular system, we can
upgrade this until the end of the world in twenty years.
As long as this block is still here and it
can still have these reservoirs, we're good, yeah, good, And
we want that because the guy that bought my my unit,
you know, five years ago, if he wants to just
upgrade this glass or just this torch.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
He can't.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
He can.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And that's why that's why they want to buy stash. Yeah,
we want them not just anything.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
They buy the brand, Yes, the one and because you
know it's evolving and you're going to keep up with
the good thing. And that's why you're even here today,
because you're a company that's on the radar of people going, oh,
this ship's gope always.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah, we work We work with the biggest uh, the
biggest distributors in the United States and in some places
of the world. Uh, we work at some of the
biggest ms os are grinder is actually one of the
top selling grinders for Cresco. It's their top selling accessory.
Increase their accessory says by thirty percent overall. So we
(26:42):
we know that we make products that that that work
good for the consumer, whether it's a patient or for
recreational we care about them. My wife was a cancer survivor.
I had neck surgery. I don't take any opiate's inn
induay shape re form for pain and anyway, shape or form.
We really fully on cannabia. We love cannabis. Cannabis is
not just a dollar for me at the end of
(27:03):
the day, It's it's what I do every single day.
It's what I think about every single day. It's definitely
what I smoke every single day. So we'll be here
for We've been here for ten eleven years and we're
gonna be here for a very, very very long time.
So continue to innovate for them.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
And as you're innovating and creating what is next for
stash products.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I think we're working on something big is going to
be for mass production. We've noticed that, you know, with
our grinders, we saw that big, gigantic loss in TC
right and turpenes, and then we did some market study.
We saw that the biggest selling product right now in
dispensaries and recreationals, and that's for Wayne Powders oil is
anything you want.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Powders too, you want anything you want.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
You made that.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I'm sober now, but for a very long time I
wish I had that.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I've been sober twenty five years and I'm looking at
this going this is a perfect bumpers its.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Zero five all day.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, I mean, give me the but I mean, I
mean we all party. If you haven't, you haven't, God
blessed you. But for those who have, this is a
party man that comes. I mean, that's dope. Not only
that you're you're you'll never get too high because you
can weigh your rig out.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
And that's the point.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Nobody in our industry when you go to a dispensary
and they ask you a first time a person uses dabs,
they say how much should I use? The only way
people have to describe that, they say, oh, use a
little bit or you know, size of the rice, grain,
size rice or something like that. Native they with this
you can literally say, hey, with the digit toool, take
a point zero five and work your way to something
(28:36):
like that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
So that which is the right way to do it,
because you want a microdose up all the time.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Microdos is much bigger than the like what I do
is takeing a big dab bridge that's much. That's a
small market compared to the microdose market. And then the
market that we're losing because people over consume and they
have like this mini panic attack that they think they're dying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Like Blue, No, I actually had a heart attack, that's true.
I just had a heart attack. It was not a
drill because of that smoke too much. I know this
is not a drill. Yeah, I've been through the drills.
That's not to me.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Is one of the most innovative products right there as well.
Does it get hot too?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
On the tip.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Your banger's hat already and most of the things that
you're introducing that too is hot at the end of
the day, So we don't we don't.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Rely on that.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
There's other companies, there's different tips. We're working on.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
A flower tip so you can scoop like a joint
so for also for like mushrooms, so you can put
capsules and cap out mushrooms too. We're trying to but
again it's an underutilized product for us. At the end
of the day, people just.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
We don't.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
We put so much time and money on this and
we're a tiny company that at the end of the
day when and my wife has had marketing, you know
that fun at the end of the days where it's
it's it's where we don't have an abundance of it.
So we've been here for a long time. But you know,
there's people learning about us every single day because because
of that, you know, there's our biggest competitors, their budgets.
(30:01):
It's like, what ilse, what I've been paying myself for
ten years is they're there yearly budget for marketing and
I can't compete that. How do I compete with a
quarter of a million dollar quarter? You know, they spend
a quarter of a million dollars on marketing every three months.
You know, I'm like a quarter million dollars, like I
wish i'd yeah, yeah, unless that that sounds now you're
getting it out there though, And this this tool is
(30:21):
called the dig.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
We've always been self funded. It's just me.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
And then again, I have a lot of these products
and earlier we talked about failed products, right, so investors
see failed products as failures and that's it. So that's
a loss of money, loss of this, loss of that.
But I'm in at the end of the day, We're
gonna be here forever. And I know again we have
all these products that do very well. We're still in
agree we're cash flow positive.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
But it's it's.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Terrifying to to say have someone say, hey, look, I'm
want to give you this money, but then you have
to answer to me at the end of the day.
You can't make that. You can't do this. They can
bench mark your your products. I've had companies try to
offer to buy us. We had companies try to buy
our patents to try and sue other companies, and we're like,
we're not about that.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
We don't think they're tur infringing on you guys at all.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Like that's just like a pity patty kind of thing.
And I don't. I don't do that. You know, we.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Not enough right obviously, but no, I want I want
a good question though, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Want general, not not it's not it's not that not enough.
I want something to lead to I have a son,
you know, I have a two year old. I have
people that have been here with me since day one,
and I want them to be able to to to
have something, to have an option for the future too.
I want that generational wealth. And Jason Russell isn't isn't
held or had by selling out or not selling out
(31:46):
or selling in general. I know one day I'll need
investors like you say, where are we going? We're working
on industrial grinders. The joint that I was talking about
with the studies they were doing is I never one
sold product and dispenser recreation was a pre world joint.
But if that THC loss is in is in the joints.
We've visited these places that are you know, grinding pounds
(32:09):
at a time, and they're using like weed whackers, meat grinders,
corn tent like makes things into powder. So nothing that's
dedicated made for weed grinding. So we're working on a
product that should be able to do hopefully anywhere from
fifty to one hundred kilos an hour wow, without having
too much damage to the to the flower itself. So
(32:31):
that's where I think the future fistachuess this is. We're
going to continue to consumer product, but we we're happy here.
We're gonna start licensing more products of other people, making
batteries for big people. We want to start getting into
the industrial aspect of it and making those things affordable
for dispensaries too. So if I make that grinder too
expensive for a processor, they're not going to buy that.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
They're rather just lose the THC. They don't care, you know,
but I do.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I want that end consumer to have the best THC,
the best end result at the end of the day.
Know that medication it helps. It's the reason why I
don't have a cane here with me right now. Yeah,
it's the reason why I can literally go jog today.
You know, it's you're a real advocate. Your neck, your
wife with cancer.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You guys are living it, doing it every day, I
mean preaching it because of what you said your medical conditions,
which is dope. So folks, you heard the man, You
heard the reasoning between the.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Wife and him.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Stash Products dot com s T A C H E
P R O d U C T S dot com
also on Instagram Stash Products. Rob Santos, the CEO of
the company. We like to do the high five with
everybody that comes in here.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Rod.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So question number one, how old are you the first
time you smoked cannabis? And where'd you get it from?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
I was, I think thirteen years old, and I'm not
a narc so I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm just kidding that it was just heard the show.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I'm just a friend, just you know, neighborhood friends. You know,
I think it was a Coca cola. Can you know,
bent down into.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
That cut the net right there in the screen.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Boom, no, no screen, that's no upgrades.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yes, yep, Grael, we used to cut the holes in
the screens in people's houses and just give.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Me out V two.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
That's the V two And we had just a ben
can for a while, the cantit screen, I know, the feeling.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Question number two of the High five, what is your
favorite way to use or smoke cannabis?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Bong hits all day and then at the end of
the day when I do use hash, which is you know,
about fifty the time, I'll use the Rio. But I
like bong hits all day and narrow. Yeah it's the
Rio Rio Yeah, all day products.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Now you guys.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Question number three with Rod Santos, the CEO and owner
of Stash Products, craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis?
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I think, uh, Mexico where we graduated. Udo went to
Cancuon that the guy took us from high school said
two things you don't do Mexico and Cancun is smoke
weed and buyweed and uh and and ur name in public.
We didn't year name public, but we definitely smoked weed.
And we were like so paranoid.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
I literally thought, I was like, dude, we're definitely in jail.
They can smell it. We're done, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
But they're just trying to you. Yeah, but if it works,
but yeah, yeah, you still do it.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
We did it for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, but you'd be cautious about it though, you know
all the time. I mean, you can get the hookers,
but you can't smoke weed. Question number four of the
High five. What is your go to munchie after.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
You get any kind of like heady, exotic like snack
like those hardifying like Japanese snacks or like imparted chips
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Strawberry kit cats say that right now.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
You just took me on a different mental. It was funny.
It is when I had my store and they hit
you know, like they have the different chips and different
candies and and and the huge candies.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Like so there's an exact Sodas, there's a homies of ours.
Check them out if you guys know them exact?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah, yeah, I used to buy them, used to go.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
They had all kinds of cool different like old school
flavors and their own flavor stuff hard to find ship
like uh, you know the vanilla pop or whatever. Yeah,
I love it. Get me all hungry right now.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Question number five of the High five, rod if you
can smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Who would it be and why?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I was talking to somebody earlier today about this, and
it would either be the first person ever ever in
existence or the last person to ever to ever live
too anybody else I could probably read about, right, but
the first person that was ever here, you know, I
can never nobody would ever know. And then the person
last person that ever exists ever before we were all.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Kaboo, do we have a name for? Is the first one?
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Adam? No?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
I don't think so in anyone shape or form. I
think it was just, you know, I think some people,
just like us, they came from a place that ended
up being polluted, just like this place is going to
end up being one day, and they were just trying
to escape and their earth they made it, and the
earth case they came here and they're like, here, we're
about to die trying to survive here.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
It is.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
That's a deep one, right, makes you things start building,
it start building it.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It must have been a guy and a girl. Definitely,
I had to be right.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
I mean, I mean, there's either evolution or Adam and
Eve one of the other Big Bang theory.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
There's three theories out there.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, it's curiosity that gets me always wondering anything else
right that we forgot to mention?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
No, I mean, I just always want to say thank
you for everybody it's always supported us that give us
an opportunity to show us who we are, specifically people
like you guys to allow us to come on here.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
To really show that.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
And that's I don't know if a lot of people
don't know that, you know, that's for us to know
me do something like this, it would be something completely
unaffordable for us to do as a brand. But for
people like them to go out of the way allow
us to be here. That that that's that, that's that's huge.
That's that's like something I can't thank you guys enough for.
So when we meet people like that and angels like
(38:05):
that are are longer away, people like that on our team, people.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
That sacrifice things for us, that's what makes us who
we are.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
If you're going through it and you're trying to make
things right now and you're not getting your success for it,
just keep trying, don't don't stop. I promise you, if
you just don't stop, you'll get there. I promise that.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Well, thank you, Rob We're here for guys like you
and women, everybody out there that's in this community. This
cannabis industry is tough. I don't know how we found
out about you, but I'm glad we did because you're
a good dude and your company's.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Fucking solid and we wish you nothing but the best. Brother.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Thank you, guys. I appreciate you.
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(01:16):
and portability. I like what Rod's doing over there, you guys.
Besides us now is the owner Rod Santo, owner of
Stash Products, a company that specializes in producing high quality
rigs and accessories for the dabbing lifestyle, which is out
there and booming. The company was founded in twenty fourteen
by two friends who are passionate about emerging dabbing culture.
(01:38):
Stash Products offers a wide range of products including rigs, pipes, bangers,
and more. All of their products are designed with functionality
and style in mind. The company's goal is to provide
customers with the best possible dabbing experience. Whether you're a
seasoned veteran, aren't just getting started in the dabbing products.
(01:58):
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the dabbing lifestyle. Make sure you guys check out their website.
If you're watching on YouTube, you know what I'm talking about.
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Products right there to secure yourself a dab rig and
anything else that you're gonna use to enhance that smoking
accessory and carrying it out today without further ado, please
(02:20):
put your.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Hands together for mister Rod Stewart.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Okay, I've gotten Rod Stett Before I get it, I've
gotten Rod STEI. I'm sure you have ros. Thank you
for joining us here today. Brother, I appreciate you coming
on Stash Products. Man, how do you and your partner?
I mean I read it there, I look at it.
There were you guys high going We need to make
(02:44):
this better. How did this come about for you?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, the me and my partner was we had a
head shop together Stash. I don't have any partners, it's
just me. But we started a head shop together in Bethesda,
Maryland where we were a lot of on veterans Triangle,
so we had a lot of veterans coming in and
buying you know, things to consume cannabis or back in
(03:06):
the day.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Quotation marks for tobacco.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Pipes.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Yeah, we don't have to use the quotation marks anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
So I started noticing that there was a whack of
things to use for the cannabis. You know, cannabis was
progressing every single day, oil, waxes, hashes, the flower was progressing,
and the only thing that you could find was, you know,
very minimal.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Old school things.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Sure, so.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I made my first product in twenty thirteen, fourteen around there,
and we're here today so far.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah, we love it, We love everything.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It was the first products.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It was a battery. It was a wax pen. It's
called the stash pen.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It was a wax pen, just like a little one
of these vape pins.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
No, man, you put your own wax inside of it.
And I failed miserably with it. It got copied left
and right, and I you know, I cried and got
many times.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
You know, why why why why?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
What do you mean? Because he got copied so many times?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Because I got copied, I failed. You know, other people
were successful with the copy of it, and.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh, right, right right, they just got it out faster.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well that and then I think It led me to
what we were making today, and I think if I
had success with that product, I would still be making
the same thing that everybody else is still doing. We
went and made a torch power product, something completely against
the current, had an amazing success with it, and then
it led us to making other products because we went
against the current yet again. We made a grinder instead
(04:32):
of having like those crazy teeth, we put these tiny
little bumps on it. You know, we have patents on
every single thing that we make, so we're not a
big on white labeling products. We create them with design
them through the Prinum all here in the United States.
We are a very small family owned a team too.
So it's just me and my wife, one of my
best friends to Adam, my best friend Reza. It's it's
(04:55):
an arena in sales. So we're not a giant team,
but we we bring giant giant team kind of products.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
To the table.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What do you guys store all this stuff?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Rockville, Maryland? Were a Yeah, we've been there and went
to high school there. You know, my son's going to
go to school around there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So you still live there now? Yeah, I just flew
in for this just for you. Guys.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Man, we got in I think it was one two
am yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nice, so you're tired, rock and still.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Rock ate up all night, took the Red Eye over here,
and okay, we got to wake up in the morning
and come to the show.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
We gotta we have in a couple of days, we
got to go to Vegas for TPE. Oh TP Vegas TP,
so we have glass Vegas and TPE, and then we
come home for eight days and then we go back
for Champs.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
So yeah, you know, absolutely, but this was definitely a
priority for us. We love we love it and we're
honored to be here too.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Thank you. Love Roger doing your thing.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Let's talk about all the other products that you guys
have here on the tour.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Absolutely, man.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, I was gonna say, I've been a fan of
your product for a while, dude. I've seen it out there,
you know, and you guys have put out for even
around for a while, Rightwy fourteen. Yeah, I've seen there.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I had a couple of smoke shops here and well
I had one here in Westminster smoking Go is mine smoking?
Go us say? And then my brother has uh what
is it called shorties? My brothers is a petrified smoke
shop in Arizona. OK. Yeah, so we have smoke shops
(06:21):
and stuff like that. And then I was in the
whole district downtown in LA where they, you know, have
all this stuff down there, so you get to see
all this stuff. But I've seen your products out there,
and you know, kudos to you for being out there.
But let's go over some of these products. Man.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Sure, man, So this was like actually one of my
oldest products right here. The this is our screw battery.
A lot of people have made something like this. We're
literally probably one of the first ones to make this
little concealed battery.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
The other ones have like magnets in it. Ours.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
We took the magnets up because people losing them. They
become a big pain when you have to keep looking
for magnets and things. So this one is screwed and
if it doesn't fit in there, we have secondary five
ten on the bottom. This is so this is a
work like literally a workhurse. It does not go bad
any with shape or form. It's it's the reviews from
it is like I've put it in the washing machine
and still works, or man, you know, it's it's I've
(07:07):
had it for like eight years and still.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I remember the last time my charge did really charge
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well, we we want we want premium products. We we
don't want these disposable things. They're they're destroying the world.
I think at the end of the day, you know,
we are we do come from that. It's our human
nature to one things that are one time used get
rid of instead of cleaning it. So, yeah, it is easier,
it definitely is. But we still know that, you know,
we make quality products. People are going to go out
(07:34):
of the way to take care of it and make
sure that it lasts for a long time. And we
don't overcharge we you know, I'm not an overpaid CEO,
you know. And uh we keep our prices uh reasonable
so that the American you know, dollar can stay in
the average consumer that lives in America. Inact exactly, man,
that's what we want. We want that money to stay
(07:56):
in your pocket. Always save that money, especially in the
sacon too. Is it kind of just tough right now?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah? What else?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Keep going down the line and keep talking about what
you got here.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Sure, the grinder is something we just kind of recently
came out maybe two years ago. It's been killing it. First,
we can't even keep these things in stock. We did
a big lab test on most of the grinders on
the market. They're created for tobacco in over ten plus
years ago. So they have this this shredding or this milling,
this this thing, this really destroys the flour and we
don't want to do that. Our grinder don't do any
(08:24):
of that. They just separate the flour from the stems.
So that's what our grinders really do. We did lab
results and put all these grinders on the market on
to marijuana test. They all had the same type of
same percentages. They all ground one gram, and then we
tested the flour after that and saw that the percentages
were dramatically getting changed when you used regular grinders, or
(08:48):
you're decreasing your THC, you're decreasing your turpens. And the
word that the lab used was that the tri combes
and the weed was being annihilated. And when you use
our grinders, those things aren't at aren't aren't doing that.
We went out of a way to make sure that
these grinders aren't destroying your weed.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
So fire weed.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Going in your grinder, fireweed coming out of here yet exactly.
So you know, you shouldn't be paying for a twenty
nine point nine percent THC lead and then when you
grind it and you put it in the Keith thinkfil.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I forgot about it. I just ripped out my headphones too.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Don't worry about it, man, I'll get you another one,
that's all. But that's the thing. You pay for a
twenty nine percent TC and then after you grind it
you ended up with like twenty two percent. You know,
what's what's the point of doing any of that?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So amazing. Don't bend in front of me. It's gonna
happen every time. I know. I don't discriminate. Oh, I know,
I know, Joe, Thank you for that, Rod. This is great.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
You you figured out something new that you know most
grinders are like, you know, to be honest with.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You, listen, I I get what you're saying. Yeah, you know,
I get it because the other ones are cutting right
through it and eh, and they're just ripping through. This
is kind of just lining over it and rolling in
the round and it feels nice. The quality is great
on that.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
That's aerospace antidize aluminum. We don't paint any of your
grinders We don't put any kind of coatings on it.
It's milled from a solid piece of aluminum. We anodize
every single one of them to add the change and
alter the color of them, but we don't do any
zinc alloys. We don't do any plastics in any way,
shape or form. And the biggest problem, you're not gonna
have an issue when you're using a grinder of plastic
(10:25):
or anything getting when you're doing doing this. But most
grinders that are two pieces are plastic, and when you
do this, after you grind your weed and you do this,
you're definitely breaking some plastic off inter your weed, and
then you're smoking that or zinc alloys that those zincs
are not good, good good metals in any way, shape
or form. That's not gonna It's gonna maybe bend, but
(10:45):
it won't chip off at the end of the day.
That's that's what we're We spend a lot of time
to make sure that again you're gonna get fire weed
when you use our grinders. When your weak coming absolutely
definitely is that one is an astray and then this
one or five piece a secret stash on the top
so you can store whatever you want in there so
you can put some more nugs in there when you're
(11:06):
going out.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
So it's a clean grinder. Yeah, you don't have So we.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Have a five piece, three piece, and then we have
the little baby tiny ones. Those are purse purse a
proof is what my wife says that in thew pocket
for you know, you're going out to a show. You
don't want to carry your grinder. You can easy put
like three grams in there. Well, yes, stores on the
top a nice you can store graham on top and
(11:30):
then on the bottom you grind up about a graham
grown half maybe two really stuffing in there.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, all ready to go a quarter the I mean
the eighth what's that one called right there?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So this is our real This is what everybody really
knows is for. And this is what I was talking about.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I feeled at the wax pin, so I went and
made this uh portable dab brig. But instead of electric,
everything is torch powered. So the torch comes out just
like this.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, I remember that one. Yes, one's been on for
a long time.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And the unfortunate thing about this is that it's one
of my favorite products, but it got counterfeited so bad
that it almost closed our businesses down. So again, I
have about five utility patents on this, a design patent.
Just like everything here, these are all awarded patents. This
isn't like me emailing myself a drawing that I made
and pretending to have a patent.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I spent eighty percent of our money in today year.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, like people like I have a pattern too, Like
I wrote myself a letter like yeah, so that so
then we have the glass comes out of it. Everything
is fully you know, modular, the torch comes out. So
we've been making this about think twenty eighteen, and this
is our fourth model.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
We just released it.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
We're having a very hard time keeping up with the
demand of it. Just like the grinders. I always tell people,
if the grinders and the reels are in stock, get them,
whatever color it is, whatever it is, just get it
while you can.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Again, we're not We're not Walmart. You don't We're not.
We never overstocked. We have We always.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Sell out at fully we never have like number one
and some and it's and we're again Ersenal Company. I
don't have any investors. I don't have anybody to answer
to other than my wife.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, I like absolutely, that's it big, you know, so,
so I want to I want to ask you man,
sure you know in the in the thought process of it,
like you know how many times? How many products never
made it to market? Is cannabis talking to one? We'll
be right back after this dress that follow.
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Check them out online at califx dot com. And we
have Rod Santos, owner of Stash Products blue as a
great question on the way out, which was how many
products never made it to the site, never make it
to market.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Or just didn't make it because they just you thought,
this is it time?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
And you know none we were perfect everything. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I've had I've had I've always told people I've had
more tears and I've had smiles. But the tears of
what teaches you to leads you to your successful products,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
So if I didn't have my.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Failure products, you wouldn't have got there.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I would have got my successful products. So I always say,
if you're not failing, you're definitely not winning.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
But I would say ten times, what's on this table?
We have seven core products? Does at least I have
at least fourteen other patented products that have never been released,
And then I would say some of them have been
a failure because they got copied so quickly.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We have a lot of patent infringements.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
We have a lot of people to copy your product,
like that connector that thing was probably one of my
I think one of my best products, but it's it's it.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
It doesn't sell as well as it should because of that.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Which one is it?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
The one right in front of you?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yep? That one? What does that do?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So it's a battery attaches to that attachment. It makes
any battery on the market and netroc collector. So someone
that's used to using carts. You can attach that that
battery that they're already user it, so you just take
that cap off.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
We pull the cap off and they burn it. Yep, exactly.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
So any battery turn into a netric collector to tend
on our product and introduct Yeah, introduces people to waxes,
dabs and things like that. You can literally give it
away for dispensers to try to increase.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
There's just gets hot right here on the tip it
was pressed the button. Yeah, oh wow, Yeah didn't sell huh.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It does.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
So we sell a lot of them for us, but
they got copied like overnight, so like China came in
not yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
We have to maybe they still they still you got
the China pattern too.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, we have all all.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Toup It's hot. I'm just kidding you.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Unfortunately, where everyone believes you don't need to put another
hole in it, like in litigation right now too.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It sucks.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Actually we have like two a couple of litigations. You
can't really talk too much about it. But we had
distributors that would buy our products, you know, let's say
like ten of them, and then they would import like
a container of the fake one and then say our
products aren't selling anymore.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
You know, they're selling it from quarter of the price.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, And it's again it's I'm not they just.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Tell you, hey, your your product is down and then
you're like, oh ship and then you see it in
another store.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, says cookies are Backwoods on it. But it's not.
It's not those companies that are making it's fake.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, of course, they just.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Know how to market it like that everybody.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, it's still willing to take They're willing to take.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The Yeah, you know, to make the money literally to
take the l you know what I mean, and and
and to break you off. Rod Santos, I mean stash
products is great.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
What were you doing before this? How?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I mean, how did you lead into selling accessories? The
smoke shop? I know you said you had that, but
like were you did you go to college, did you
play sports? Did you grow up in your family was
selling drugs so you're like, oh, it's just part of
the family line like blue, I mean, how did you
get into this line of product? Because this could be
looked at its taboosh. Yeah, so we're from Brazil.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I was born in Brazil, came here in eighty nine set, but.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I was there follow went back for the UFC fight
while I took Frank Shammark's belts.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
In the ring that bottles crazy overigg huge, bigger than
New York.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
It's one of the biggest cities in the world. Yeah,
so became.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Bigger than New York.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Has more population than New York. Yes, it's craz dog
right when you get off what one. I went out
there right when I got off, we drove five minutes
and it's just third world country, like the village of
like nothing but a million you know, the thousands of
people in the shock houses and.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Like crazy out there.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
You know, like what the hood like people follow you're.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
From the I mean it's big city. It's a big city.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
There, but like there's like there's whole like camps of
like everyone here is quote unquote homeless, but.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And they're all like living under like TP's and ship
like that, like not even real tps. But yeah, it's crazy. Oh,
I was within five minute drive right when I landed.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
It's the first thing crazy. It's the first thing you see.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The mess with the tourists coming through.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
So talk on your cell phone when you're brazilt in public.
Don't have like change, don't wear Nike, don't wear stuff
that's a the taxi driver will see you. And then
when they and then later people know where you're staying.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yes, yeah, they'll just look. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's like I said, it's more people than New York
and Mexico City. You know what I'm saying. It's large, large, large, crazy.
So you came out from here, how old are you?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I came here when I was five and my parents started.
My mom was cleaning houses, my dad did construction. My
dad was a probably one of the best mechanics you
ever meet in your life. And I complained about toys
or and he said, if you're going to complain about something,
fix it. If you're not going to fix it, don't
say shit about it. So that I was always a tinker,
always tinker. Yeah, And before that, after that, I just
(19:33):
got into I dropped out in tenth grade. I got
caught smoking pot and they said I wasn't gonna graduate
on time. You can, you know, come back and get
it in the summertime. So I was like, I'm good.
So I just want to start waiting tables. And then
I managed restaurants for too long, like ten years something
like that. And then one day I saw a Vice
(19:55):
documentary on cops selling like they were transporting money in
California from the Spencer dispenser and I was like, cops
are getting weed. And this was like in twenty twelve.
I was like, cops are getting involved weed. I was like, yeah,
I got to get into involved the weed or something.
I made a Facebook post and I was like, who
wants to get involved in weed? And I was like
I don't want no likes, no hearts, no stupid comments
(20:16):
on this. I was like, DM me, I'm about it,
you know. And my friend was like, yeah, I don't
have anything to get in the weed. But he's like,
I've been making a bunch of signs for head shops
and vape shops. So we're like, all right, I guess
we'll do that. So we opened up our vape shop.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Because he was making signs and his house random.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
His family own a sign company. They're like, dude, I've
made like ten ten vape shop signs like this month.
He was like, it's like the next thing, and I
was like, cool, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
You know. Was that the vapes the other vapes just
like when you're dripping.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
And building your coil.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Still the good old days before these pods and stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
But those when people were making money.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah, right on the bottles and stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
So we did that for a long time, and I
waited tables still during the day, and then I did
that and then I worked there at night, and then
I started Stash in the back office, just making tinkering, tinkering, tinkering,
tinkering and tinkering, and it made my first pen, like
I said, in twenty like thirteen around then, and started
selling it. It took me man almost like a year
(21:20):
and a half for some of my first five hundred units.
And you know, I borrowed money from here. From there
sold everything I had.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Didn't know. I thought, like, you open up your website.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And everybody finds out about that was it.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I was like, all right, this is it. The website
is open. I was like here we god that winter
and I was like, damn, I'm not getting any sales.
What's going on here?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, you know, it was just me like posting stuff
on Instagram and then I found out.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But you came up with the word stash. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I used to have a gigantic mustache too, like a
huge mustache, huge and like that twirled. So then my
pen had a storage on it, so it was a
stash pen a stash on it. So then I we
had more product.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
So I just change the stash products.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You miss your beer.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Every I can grow in like within a couple of
like hell weeks, you know, it's nope, like this is
like this.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Is two days the way. That's a full fucking stash job.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
So that's I can get it grown pretty good.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
But no, it's a it's a it's a resilient word.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
We're going to take a break real quick. We're going
to come back to see where the company is going.
Do the high five stash products you guys, great company,
great owner. Right here, Ron Pols is in the building.
We'll be right back after this break.
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Adriana, Adriana really Adriana, Oh, Andrea, thank you so much
for putting these great juices in our body shaate you
so much. Rod Santo's, owner of Stash Products. There's nothing
better than hearing an entrepreneur story like yours, you know
what I mean. And it's a short story like you're
short too, which is kind of cool. Donets hit for
(24:13):
exactly exactly, And I like it because you're the American dream.
You come from fucking Brazil with your mom and dad
working hard, and then you come here and your dad
gives you some very inspiring then quit your bitching, get
your fucking mind to fix it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Shut up. I love that you even shared that story because.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
That's what it takes, right, Like that's every kid, every
person should be like, quit your bitching, figure out a solution.
I am say that around here. Don't complain about something,
give me the solution. Don't complain about I don't want
to hear the complaint. I want to have a solution
to the plane. If you're gonna say it, do that.
So I love when your dad said that, and then
to see that you started, and of course so many
products like blue Ass not making it, but seeing the
(24:52):
ones that do make it, and it's quality, like that
torch thing that you have right there, dude, is nice,
good glass quality.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's why Schorch comes. They can't knock it off, no,
they well you can.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
So the old one got knocked off real easily.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Again, so now that I was telling you the new ones,
Now this glass is probably the heart.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
It's one there's no welds.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
We have an extremely hard time making it, so they'll
never make it. And look at like with this glass again,
and we're working on the V threes, the V fours,
you know, like something that you can replace. So let's
just say and I'll sneak peaky here on cannabis talk.
So you take this out and then you replace it
with a full electrical module, you know, like this could
be or not could be.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
The batteries can fit in here. They can fit two
battery cells right here.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
This could be a full screen here right now, and
then your coil goes right there. So it's very easy
for you to see how that can easily be replaceable
right here like that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So the fact that it's a modular system, we can
upgrade this until the end of the world in twenty years.
As long as this block is still here and it
can still have these reservoirs, we're good, yeah, good, And
we want that because the guy that bought my my unit,
you know, five years ago, if he wants to just
upgrade this glass or just this torch.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
He can't.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
He can.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And that's why that's why they want to buy stash. Yeah,
we want them not just anything.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
They buy the brand, Yes, the one and because you
know it's evolving and you're going to keep up with
the good thing. And that's why you're even here today,
because you're a company that's on the radar of people going, oh,
this ship's gope always.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah, we work We work with the biggest uh, the
biggest distributors in the United States and in some places
of the world. Uh, we work at some of the
biggest ms os are grinder is actually one of the
top selling grinders for Cresco. It's their top selling accessory.
Increase their accessory says by thirty percent overall. So we
(26:42):
we know that we make products that that that work
good for the consumer, whether it's a patient or for
recreational we care about them. My wife was a cancer survivor.
I had neck surgery. I don't take any opiate's inn
induay shape re form for pain and anyway, shape or form.
We really fully on cannabia. We love cannabis. Cannabis is
not just a dollar for me at the end of
(27:03):
the day, It's it's what I do every single day.
It's what I think about every single day. It's definitely
what I smoke every single day. So we'll be here
for We've been here for ten eleven years and we're
gonna be here for a very, very very long time.
So continue to innovate for them.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
And as you're innovating and creating what is next for
stash products.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I think we're working on something big is going to
be for mass production. We've noticed that, you know, with
our grinders, we saw that big, gigantic loss in TC
right and turpenes, and then we did some market study.
We saw that the biggest selling product right now in
dispensaries and recreationals, and that's for Wayne Powders oil is
anything you want.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Powders too, you want anything you want.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
You made that.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I'm sober now, but for a very long time I
wish I had that.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I've been sober twenty five years and I'm looking at
this going this is a perfect bumpers its.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Zero five all day.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, I mean, give me the but I mean, I
mean we all party. If you haven't, you haven't, God
blessed you. But for those who have, this is a
party man that comes. I mean, that's dope. Not only
that you're you're you'll never get too high because you
can weigh your rig out.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
And that's the point.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Nobody in our industry when you go to a dispensary
and they ask you a first time a person uses dabs,
they say how much should I use? The only way
people have to describe that, they say, oh, use a
little bit or you know, size of the rice, grain,
size rice or something like that. Native they with this
you can literally say, hey, with the digit toool, take
a point zero five and work your way to something
(28:36):
like that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
So that which is the right way to do it,
because you want a microdose up all the time.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Microdos is much bigger than the like what I do
is takeing a big dab bridge that's much. That's a
small market compared to the microdose market. And then the
market that we're losing because people over consume and they
have like this mini panic attack that they think they're dying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Like Blue, No, I actually had a heart attack, that's true.
I just had a heart attack. It was not a
drill because of that smoke too much. I know this
is not a drill. Yeah, I've been through the drills.
That's not to me.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Is one of the most innovative products right there as well.
Does it get hot too?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
On the tip.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Your banger's hat already and most of the things that
you're introducing that too is hot at the end of
the day, So we don't we don't.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Rely on that.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
There's other companies, there's different tips. We're working on.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
A flower tip so you can scoop like a joint
so for also for like mushrooms, so you can put
capsules and cap out mushrooms too. We're trying to but
again it's an underutilized product for us. At the end
of the day, people just.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
We don't.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
We put so much time and money on this and
we're a tiny company that at the end of the
day when and my wife has had marketing, you know
that fun at the end of the days where it's
it's it's where we don't have an abundance of it.
So we've been here for a long time. But you know,
there's people learning about us every single day because because
of that, you know, there's our biggest competitors, their budgets.
(30:01):
It's like, what ilse, what I've been paying myself for
ten years is they're there yearly budget for marketing and
I can't compete that. How do I compete with a
quarter of a million dollar quarter? You know, they spend
a quarter of a million dollars on marketing every three months.
You know, I'm like a quarter million dollars, like I
wish i'd yeah, yeah, unless that that sounds now you're
getting it out there though, And this this tool is
(30:21):
called the dig.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
We've always been self funded. It's just me.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
And then again, I have a lot of these products
and earlier we talked about failed products, right, so investors
see failed products as failures and that's it. So that's
a loss of money, loss of this, loss of that.
But I'm in at the end of the day, We're
gonna be here forever. And I know again we have
all these products that do very well. We're still in
agree we're cash flow positive.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
But it's it's.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Terrifying to to say have someone say, hey, look, I'm
want to give you this money, but then you have
to answer to me at the end of the day.
You can't make that. You can't do this. They can
bench mark your your products. I've had companies try to
offer to buy us. We had companies try to buy
our patents to try and sue other companies, and we're like,
we're not about that.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
We don't think they're tur infringing on you guys at all.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Like that's just like a pity patty kind of thing.
And I don't. I don't do that. You know, we.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Not enough right obviously, but no, I want I want
a good question though, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Want general, not not it's not it's not that not enough.
I want something to lead to I have a son,
you know, I have a two year old. I have
people that have been here with me since day one,
and I want them to be able to to to
have something, to have an option for the future too.
I want that generational wealth. And Jason Russell isn't isn't
held or had by selling out or not selling out
(31:46):
or selling in general. I know one day I'll need
investors like you say, where are we going? We're working
on industrial grinders. The joint that I was talking about
with the studies they were doing is I never one
sold product and dispenser recreation was a pre world joint.
But if that THC loss is in is in the joints.
We've visited these places that are you know, grinding pounds
(32:09):
at a time, and they're using like weed whackers, meat grinders,
corn tent like makes things into powder. So nothing that's
dedicated made for weed grinding. So we're working on a
product that should be able to do hopefully anywhere from
fifty to one hundred kilos an hour wow, without having
too much damage to the to the flower itself. So
(32:31):
that's where I think the future fistachuess this is. We're
going to continue to consumer product, but we we're happy here.
We're gonna start licensing more products of other people, making
batteries for big people. We want to start getting into
the industrial aspect of it and making those things affordable
for dispensaries too. So if I make that grinder too
expensive for a processor, they're not going to buy that.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
They're rather just lose the THC. They don't care, you know,
but I do.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I want that end consumer to have the best THC,
the best end result at the end of the day.
Know that medication it helps. It's the reason why I
don't have a cane here with me right now. Yeah,
it's the reason why I can literally go jog today.
You know, it's you're a real advocate. Your neck, your
wife with cancer.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You guys are living it, doing it every day, I
mean preaching it because of what you said your medical conditions,
which is dope. So folks, you heard the man, You
heard the reasoning between the.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Wife and him.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Stash Products dot com s T A C H E
P R O d U C T S dot com
also on Instagram Stash Products. Rob Santos, the CEO of
the company. We like to do the high five with
everybody that comes in here.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Rod.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So question number one, how old are you the first
time you smoked cannabis? And where'd you get it from?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
I was, I think thirteen years old, and I'm not
a narc so I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm just kidding that it was just heard the show.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I'm just a friend, just you know, neighborhood friends. You know,
I think it was a Coca cola. Can you know,
bent down into.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
That cut the net right there in the screen.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Boom, no, no screen, that's no upgrades.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yes, yep, Grael, we used to cut the holes in
the screens in people's houses and just give.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Me out V two.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
That's the V two And we had just a ben
can for a while, the cantit screen, I know, the feeling.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Question number two of the High five, what is your
favorite way to use or smoke cannabis?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Bong hits all day and then at the end of
the day when I do use hash, which is you know,
about fifty the time, I'll use the Rio. But I
like bong hits all day and narrow. Yeah it's the
Rio Rio Yeah, all day products.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Now you guys.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Question number three with Rod Santos, the CEO and owner
of Stash Products, craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis?
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I think, uh, Mexico where we graduated. Udo went to
Cancuon that the guy took us from high school said
two things you don't do Mexico and Cancun is smoke
weed and buyweed and uh and and ur name in public.
We didn't year name public, but we definitely smoked weed.
And we were like so paranoid.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
I literally thought, I was like, dude, we're definitely in jail.
They can smell it. We're done, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
But they're just trying to you. Yeah, but if it works,
but yeah, yeah, you still do it.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
We did it for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, but you'd be cautious about it though, you know
all the time. I mean, you can get the hookers,
but you can't smoke weed. Question number four of the
High five. What is your go to munchie after.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
You get any kind of like heady, exotic like snack
like those hardifying like Japanese snacks or like imparted chips
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Strawberry kit cats say that right now.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
You just took me on a different mental. It was funny.
It is when I had my store and they hit
you know, like they have the different chips and different
candies and and and the huge candies.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Like so there's an exact Sodas, there's a homies of ours.
Check them out if you guys know them exact?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah, yeah, I used to buy them, used to go.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
They had all kinds of cool different like old school
flavors and their own flavor stuff hard to find ship
like uh, you know the vanilla pop or whatever. Yeah,
I love it. Get me all hungry right now.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Question number five of the High five, rod if you
can smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Who would it be and why?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I was talking to somebody earlier today about this, and
it would either be the first person ever ever in
existence or the last person to ever to ever live
too anybody else I could probably read about, right, but
the first person that was ever here, you know, I
can never nobody would ever know. And then the person
last person that ever exists ever before we were all.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Kaboo, do we have a name for? Is the first one?
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Adam? No?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
I don't think so in anyone shape or form. I
think it was just, you know, I think some people,
just like us, they came from a place that ended
up being polluted, just like this place is going to
end up being one day, and they were just trying
to escape and their earth they made it, and the
earth case they came here and they're like, here, we're
about to die trying to survive here.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
It is.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
That's a deep one, right, makes you things start building,
it start building it.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It must have been a guy and a girl. Definitely,
I had to be right.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
I mean, I mean, there's either evolution or Adam and
Eve one of the other Big Bang theory.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
There's three theories out there.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, it's curiosity that gets me always wondering anything else
right that we forgot to mention?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
No, I mean, I just always want to say thank
you for everybody it's always supported us that give us
an opportunity to show us who we are, specifically people
like you guys to allow us to come on here.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
To really show that.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
And that's I don't know if a lot of people
don't know that, you know, that's for us to know
me do something like this, it would be something completely
unaffordable for us to do as a brand. But for
people like them to go out of the way allow
us to be here. That that that's that, that's that's huge.
That's that's like something I can't thank you guys enough for.
So when we meet people like that and angels like
(38:05):
that are are longer away, people like that on our team, people.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
That sacrifice things for us, that's what makes us who
we are.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
If you're going through it and you're trying to make
things right now and you're not getting your success for it,
just keep trying, don't don't stop. I promise you, if
you just don't stop, you'll get there. I promise that.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Well, thank you, Rob We're here for guys like you
and women, everybody out there that's in this community. This
cannabis industry is tough. I don't know how we found
out about you, but I'm glad we did because you're
a good dude and your company's.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Fucking solid and we wish you nothing but the best. Brother.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Thank you, guys. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Guys. Well, there it is guys. It's Cannabis Talk one
on one. And remember this, if no one else loves youall,
we do.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
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