November 16, 2023 • 37 mins
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one zero two. Today on this show, I'm so interested
to hear about you, young lady, because you just look
so damn fly and everybody was talking about you. But
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we have a lady who's one of the driving forces
behind the brand that's quickly becoming one of the go
to destinations for og bud smokers in the LA County.
Joining us on the table, you guys. Russa Martinez, the
inventory manager and event coordinator at og Nation of brick
and Mortar Cannabis Dispensary in good Old Maywood, California, soon
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to be in al Monte as well, that offers the
best OG strains in the game, grown and harvested by
experts in the industry and a. Og nations commitment to
quality and customer satisfaction is unmatched, as their knowledgeable staff
will guide you through og nations extensive selection to find
the perfect product for you, guys, whether you're looking for flowers, edibles, concentrates,
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Make sure you check out their websites og nationca dot com,
are the IG page, og Nation Maywood or just go
check them out yourself if you're in the area six
one four to two Walker Avenue and Maywood, California nine
zero two seven zero and experience the og Nation difference.
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Tell them you play a pot as at Cannabis Talk
one oh one sent you without further ado. Give it
up for Rossa Martinez. Wow, wait to go, guys, welcome
to the show, rol soon.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I mean, I'm looking at og Nation and not realizing
what a close nextion we have over here. I see
big Boy all over your guys' stuff, which is crazy.
I mean, pull up this good old ig real quick.
I mean, look at big Boy on there, just off
the top off the he's talking. He's gonna be there
and come meet him. You guys got exhibit George Lopez,
(03:18):
I mean, just the hot spot. Are you putting all
these together?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So Carl, who's one of the owners, he's really good
friends with Big Boy. So we work really closely with
Big Boy, and you know, we send them off his
goodie bags and then he gives them off to you know,
his interviewees.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah. I seen him with Usher and all kinds of folks.
So the owner of the company is good folks were
big Yeah, who's the owner.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So there's three of them's three partners.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's gonna be Carl Mandoya and Sacred Lopez and Jimmy Majeu.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, I wonder if I know these guys. I don't
know if you know I used to work with Big Boy,
Okay for years. You didn't know that, Huh?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yes, I did?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh you did we met before though? You were at
my birthday party. I was told, yes, yes, and I
was realizing you didn't tell me that in the room,
going Joe slapp me right in the face. Boy, Joe,
I was here for your party, bend the whole and
I was like, oh my god, I remembered you, But
then I didn't remember you. And then right now when
I came up and I was like, now I remember
you as I'm staring at you more. I just kind
of walked in there and said.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Hello, Yeah, I was really stoned.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You're really stoned.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It was like hard for me to even talk to
anybody honestly.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well that's a good thing. So how did you get
involved with this company?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I actually was working at a chop shop back in
twenty twenty. My main source of income before that was
in night life. I was bartender still am and during
the pandemic, I got a job at a chop shop
and you know.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Shit went down.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
They busted it like.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
More like some gang bang type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh so it got shut down kind.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Of not really. I ended up getting into like a
huge fight.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Oh really Yeah, And so I ended up leaving the company.
And a friend of mine was working at this when
it was under an another name, and I started off
but tending and then from there I got moved on
to management, and then from there I got moved up
to be the buyer slash event coordinator.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I mean, the buyer is a key role there. Everybody's
on you. Everybody wants to know you, everybody wants to
be your buddy because they want their product in the store.
So that's a big role to have. That's like the
key role to have at a dispensary, Like, Oh, who's
the buyers? I mean, you're getting invited to events, You're
getting invited everywhere because you're the buyer. Everybody wants to
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give you free product because why you're the buyer. Yeah,
it's not a bad gig at all for those who
are wondering, like if you wanted to get that job
in a dispensary. I think the buyer is probably one
of the coolest ones, but yet one of the most
stressful ones as well. Absolutely, yeah, because it's like if
the products shit in there, who do we blame myself? Exactly?
The buyer? And og Nation has been known to have
(05:52):
some quality flower in there. Let's talk about the products
that you guys do have in there, and what are
you like in there?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I mean I'm a flower smoker, mainly flower. I like blunts,
so my top is flower.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
When I'm out and about, and you know, you can't
just be smoking blunts everywhere. It's good to have a
cool little pin on you. So I like to hit
my plug and play here and there.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Plug and Plays a good one. Shut up, yeah, yeah, yeah,
well these are good because you got a choice of everything.
You got plug and Play, you got down, you got
every freaking brand you could imagine. I mean we have
Gelatto here today right now too. I mean, so like
you can get anything and everything. What do you find
to be the best seller at o g Nation in
Maywood at the moment?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
It's pods pot really yeah, why do you think that is?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think maybe because it's discreete.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You know, it's easier to just take a hit, go
on about your day or about whatever you're doing, So
people just tend to gravitate more towards those.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's Plug and Play the bigger one selling.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
For you guys, Dizzy and plug and Play.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Dizzy's a huge brand name. Plug and places big brand
names as well. But it's just funny that like different regions,
different areas, different cities, everything's different, right, Like we have
these multi operators and oh yeah, our biggest sell over
here is pods. Our biggest sell over here is flower.
But the majority that we do here is mostly flour.
So it's really interesting to hear that og Nation is
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mostly pods.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, but we do have a house brand that is
one of our top sellers as well.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So oh, really, your guys is well and is probably
cheaper as well, because now you guys are manufacturing exactly,
putting out good quality and able to give it out
for a cheaper price. Like what does the eighth go
for there?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Ooh, the eights go from anywhere between thirty to forty dollars.
And then we do happy hour twice a day twenty
percent off, and then we do deals.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What are what are the happy hour times?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So we do seven am from open to eleven and
then from four to seven.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's dope. Yeah, you find people coming in and capitalizing on.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Those Oh absolutely absolutely, Yeah, that is really really fun.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
We're gonna take break real quick. When we come back, Rosa,
I want to find out a little bit more about
this store, how these guys open it, where they come from,
and where you come from, because I know you're born
in Mexico. I know you lived in Boston, but you've
been basically here since a few months old. So I
want to get him to the head of Rossa Martinez.
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after this break.
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inventory manager and event coordiner Nator at og Nation. It's
cool to hear a little bit how you got that
from a trap shop to go in there, but do
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you know the story of how these guys created this
brand and this brick and mortar of a dispensary that's
popping over there in Maywood.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Quite frankly, Uh, it's gone through a few transitions. I'm
not exactly sure. I came in when it was already established.
I just know that as soon as it became O
G Nation just took off.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, because the name alone, it just sounds cool.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, you know what I mean. I it's very inclusive.
You know, it's og Nation.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's everybody, and everybody's in OG like twenty five yere
in og for conxactly. It's like you lived at twenty.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Five Maywood too. You know, we're in the body.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So yeah, that's what you do if you don't know
Maywood folks. Exactly. It's very very ethnic area where mostly
black and Mexican by far right. I mean that's are
you guys buy the mall there to you or we're exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh I think we're not exactly by the mall which
one is talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Isn't it the Maywood shopping center there that I remember
going to? Or there's a I remember going there in
Maywood before when I haven't been to your guys.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
There's a bunch of little plazas around there, but not
not really a mall.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So you guys stay busy. Then oh yeah, it's a
popping spot.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
We keep getting busy.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I mean to see what you guys are doing as
far as having like exhibits other artists. Getting Big Boy
to show up, that's not you know, that's the little
paper right there. He guys been because you guys are
obviously doing well, but it's there in the hood and
you guys get these cats to show up like that,
that's a good sign, right absolutely, And it's good ownership,
that relationships because I got to figure out who these
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owners are because if they know them Big for a
long time, like I said, I wonder if they know
you got to drop the Joe Grande when you go
back to the office and say, Joe Grande is over here,
and who the hell knows Big that they should know me?
You know what I mean to tell them next time
to get their asses on the show. Nick, where are
they at but Bucker's but show exactly. So, now that
you've been working there, are you guys training your butt tenders?
(11:36):
How do you guys do that? To educate your guys'
staff to treat the community.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
So we're big on customer service. We always want to
make sure that you know, whoever we hire. We're also
very strict on who we hire. We probably hire like
one in every twenty people that we interview. My boss
wants to make sure that he always hires the right
people with good attitudes, positive you know, don't come in
with any drama, any kind of stuff like that, are
excited to come to work as well.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
You know, my role with the position.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You know, whenever I bring any brand in or even
with the existing brands that we have, I always want
to make sure that since we do ten, especially at
the moment that we're hiring for the new location, we
want to make sure that our staff is always educated.
So therefore, as soon as we onboard a new brand,
we immediately set up the tender trainings and the pads
and you know, get them sampled out. That way they
can try the product and you know, because at the
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end of the day, they're a Our soldiers are the
ones in front selling the products, and we want to
make sure that everything's moving.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So how hard is it to get a job at
a dispensary, let alone o genation you said one at
ten twenty.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, you know what, I don't think it's hard to
get a job at a dispensary.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
To get a job at our dispensary, it's hard.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It's a little different because you know, we want to
make sure that we're hiring the right people.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You know, from what I've seen, we have like.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
A zero turnover rate because we also take care of
our staff, you know, our bosses big I'm making sure
that our staff is taking care of and our vendors
are taking care of So we pride ourselves on that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh so you guys ain't knowing vendors in Huh, you
guys ain't no inventors.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, everybody gets paid.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Everybody get you bring your stuff in, you're buying it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Everybody gets paid, and.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You're the buyer. You're like, okay, we buy this up front.
We ain't gonna put this on a lease and wait
to pay you. So therefore it makes it nice and everybody.
No one's talking crap, because Lord knows, in this game
it happens. There's a million I've seen it dispensaries out there,
a million people that are owed money, and you know
it just it becomes a terrible game.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah. No, I've seen it. I've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, and it's tough. So let me ask you this,
what are some of the anecdotal stories that you've seen
from patients that come in and even from when you
were just working as a bud tender at the trap shops,
where you've seen cannabis really help patients.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I've had a lot of patients come in, like you know,
with anxiety or even with eating disorders, you know, cancer patients,
and and they resort to cannabis because it's natural and
they're looking for a different way to like help them
with either they're eating, or they're sleeping, or their pain.
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So you know, that's when the education comes in because
we want to make sure that we're also referring them
to the right strains, to the right product.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You know, is there something that comes into O g
nation more than not meaning a typical problem that you
guys are like, okay, this is more for this like
typical symptoms of Is it an anxiety that comes in more?
Is it stress? Is it back pain?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Uh? You know, I cancer? Like what are the majority
are is there not a majority of patients that come
in it's just always a variety.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
It's always a variety. It's always a variety. Definitely a
lot of sleep.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
People want to just get some good rest, and that's
becomes stress. I mean when you look at it, it's like,
I can't sleep, why because it's too stressed in the day.
What made you rossa in cannabis? What led you to
this field?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I mean, I've been smoking since I was hella young,
and I think for myself. I when I was really young,
I to myself had an eating disorder. So one of
my friend's mom's like, sorry, mom, but my friend's mom
forced me to smoke weed so that I would gain
an appetite.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
And then once you know, I got through.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That, you're all flocker or what.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, really, I used to be a ballerina, so I
was really consumed with like my body weight and you
know how I looked and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Like that, and so.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I stopped taking dancing as serious as seriously as I was.
And my like I said, my friend's mom was like, no,
You're gonna smoke this every day, and she would leave
food in front of me and eventually got to the
point where I started getting an appetite and I started
getting healthy again. So and it waits like I almost
see like it saved my life, I mean very possible,
right yeah, and then you know yeah, since then, it's
helped with my anxiety, it's helped with with my sleeping.
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And so therefore, the more that I started getting involved
in cannabis, the more I started seeing how good for
you it is, not just.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
In a recreational way, but in you know, a healthy way.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Like where did you grow up in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Who?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I moved around a lot. So I was in Bell Gardens,
and then in Whittier, and.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Then where the girls are prettier Hello.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And then I lived in downtown LA. And now I'm
in North Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Now, as you've been in those areas, and especially when
you were with your family and you started smoking weed
at a young age, I mean growing up, most homes,
most neighborhoods, you know, I don't know about most A
lot of neighborhoods, a lot of people. It would be
looked at the this and that, especially for as Latin folks,
you know what I mean, No get away from that.
Was your family more that way? Or like Blue Blue
(16:50):
grew up, it was second nature. His dad sold it
grew and loved it. It was good. How was it
for you and your household?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
In my household, it was like the gateway drug. It
was all bad. You know.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, there there was no way you could bring that
around my family because it would just be like look
down upon.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So really, like who what would they say?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
My mom would say that I'm gonna end up being
homeless or you know, I'm gonna be all strung out
and you.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Know, resort to other types of drugs.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And before you know, you're gonna be appropet to me yep,
the streets, Like isn't it crazy?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Like that little mentality of the propaganda of what they've
learned and taught certain families didn't matter Mexican, black, white, Asian.
Some folks literally thought this way about cannabis. And then
you're realizing, going, so, were you hiding it from your
family when you were using it?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Fuck? Yes, I hid it from my parents.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And what's funny is that my little brother came home
one time faded as fuck.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And my mom caught him and I'm in the back room,
like you know.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
And it wasn't until it was like in my twenties
that I told my mom that I smoked weed, and
she just broke down like what did I do wrong?
And this isn't that? And I'm just like, oh god, Mom,
like what you mean. I'm not in the streets, I'm
not doing other drugs. And then I started educating her
on you know, the benefits of cannabis and how it
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can help certain things and pain and this, this and that,
and now my mom won't even let me come home
unless I have a bag of gummies for her.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Shut your mouth right now, Rosa.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, she wants her what does she call her cheuros?
She calls him cheutrohs her joints.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Right, and she smokes weed?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Now, oh yeah, so I got her from smoking cigarettes
to smoking wheed?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
How great is I actually.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Got my whole family into smoking weed except my dad.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
He Pop still doesn't do it.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
No, my dad won't.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He just still like and what does he do when
he looks at your mom and everybody else smoking?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Just my dad just shakes his head.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
My god, I can't believe you guys are doing this shit. Really,
He don't do no edibles at night to try to
make him relax and nothing, but they'll have a fucking beer,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
No he's straighted.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
No, how dope is that though.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
He just watches ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Ain't nothing wrong with it, especially if he doesn't need
it or know that, you know. I mean, not even
the CBD, not even creams.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I tried.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I've given him so many types of CBD because my
dad is diabetic, so I've tried to give him different
types of cvds, like topicals or vabes, gummies, anything like that.
One time I did give him gummies and it did
help him along. He said he was able to like
get out of bed without his joints hurting so much,
and he was able to grip things, you know. But
he's so paranoid about cannabis that he just stopped taking
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it because he was scared to get tested.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
He's a drug driver.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh, I was just gonna ask that too. Going he
probably has a position in life where he doesn't look
at it, where I can just do this freely, let alone,
even CBD. And a lot of truck drivers. It's funny.
I have a good friend of mine named Randy Flores
who we talk all the time, and he's a truck
driver as well, And oh, I want to use this,
and he has bad back and it's I go, do
your truck driver or dog? I go, I wouldn't even
(20:04):
recommend using CBD just in case you get tested. Why
because there it could show up. Like you're in a
position that you know it could show up. It's unfortunate,
but that's the position truck drivers are in.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yeah, but I mean I've tried to give him, like
hep rive CVID, which is different, right, come up as
but he still won't do it.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I mean, the creams and rubs, you would hope they
wouldn't show up, but you don't know for sure. I
mean you would think they wouldn't show up. But for
God's sakes, it's one of those random tests that you
look at and go, I mean, this is your job.
So that's so funny, dide you family went from no
miha to give me some miha. That's got to be
like validation for you that you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Absolutely, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And everybody and the family, where do you fall in
you said, brother, younger, older? What do you fall in line?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I'm the second oldest out of four. It's boy girl,
boy girl.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
And nice and they all engage in cannabis as well.
Make sure everyone does. So everyone looking at roach when
you got there.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
All the time there, every time I come over, it's like, well,
do you have anything? Hey?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Can I get the happy hour? Even though it's fucking
two o'clock, he's nine pm? Can I do get the
happy hour?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Deal?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Like?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Can I get the Sister Hook?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Can I get your discount?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Please?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Please please? It's Cannabis Talk one oh one. We're here
with the folks from og Nation. I want to talk
about the events that you guys are doing over there,
as you are the event coordinator and the buyer there.
And I will also want to be able to say
do you give out your information for people that are
trying to get in there?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I mean anybody can't email me Rosa at ognationc dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And I want you to give some tips when we
come back on what people should do that are out
there pitching their products. It's Cannabis Talk one on one.
When we right back after this, I want to hear your.
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sitting here with Rosa Martinez, the inventory manager and event
coordinator at og Nation out there in Maywood, California. If
you ever want to stop by and say hello to
I think you should, guys, because you know she's really
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easy on the eyes, six four to two Walker Avenue, Maywood, California,
nine zero two seven zero. You are a beautiful young lady, though,
and it's good to have you here and hang out
with you. Good good vibes. And since you're here on
my birthday, now I gotta flirt with you even more
and have fun with you and bullshit with you because
I'm like, oh, we're folks, folks now at this point,
you know what I mean. But ross up, when I
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went to break I wanted to give some people some tips.
You're the buyer, You're looking at brands that come in
and I'm sure or does it matter their pitch or
is it all about the brand? Is it the story
and the pitch? Is it all the above? What is
it that can set a brand apart to help get
on the shelves?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Ultimately? For me, is the support the support from the brand?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
What do you mean eborate?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Whenever a brand comes I you know, I have a
set of questions that I ask most of the time.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I maketure, like, you know social media.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Are you able to promote us on your social media
so people know where to find your product?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Are you able to offer promos?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Do I have to have a huge following.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It don't.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
But as long as it's organic and as long as
you're engaging with customers and you know, you're able to
pot something out there like hey, look now we're o
g nation and people are asking about it, you know,
like in a way that we can benefit off of it.
There's other ways also that we never thought about. That.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's smart though, that's really I didn't think that's you know,
are you guys doing that? That's I mean, everybody should
be at this point. But that's a great question.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
From the virus My marketing is is it's a big
part of why we are successful because we you know,
we're big on marketing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, and everybody who follows brands, they need to know
get yeah, come and to a pop up or whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And there are brands that are startup brands, so therefore
they might not have that type of following, But do
are they open to, you know, for instance, like a
text blast, like sponsoring a text blass, or making sure
that the buttenders are educated, making sure that we have
samples starting up in order with promo so that the
customers are introduced and incentivized to want to try something new.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So you know, for events.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Also as well, you know, I like to put goodie
bags together for our customers. So especially for startup brands
that want to get their products out there, they'll send me,
you know, yeah to putting these bags. And then therefore
we've had a lot of people get little goodies or
new product in their little goodie bags and like, hey,
so do you guys sell these?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And then you know, we'll go from there.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And what kind of events have you been doing there?
And do you guys do it? Og Nation in Maywood.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So we like to pride ourselves on our weekly takeovers.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
So pretty much what that consists of is that we
will allocate a day, which for the most part it's
on Saturdays, and we do them from like four to eight,
which is our heaviest foot traffic because of our happy hour,
and that's a day for the brand to take over
the entire store. So you know, we encourage like the
pop up tens, some people who will bring vendors, I
mean food vendors.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
They will sponsor food. DJs do a dope ass deal.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
We had one recently this past Saturday from Dabwoods where
you know there make color is orange, so they put
an orange carpet throughout.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
The whole store.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
They put display cases, they had games, DJs, food, merch raffles, incentives.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
For the staff. Like it was really dope.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
So we like the brands to take over the store
like that every weekend and therefore where it's something for
the customers to come and you know, check out, learn try.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Are you doing these every single.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Week every week?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh so you stay busy planning and doing ship yeah?
Oh wow, so it's every Saturday.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
You guys are doing something every Saturday.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh so that's horrible Saturday. Oh yeah, you're like, Okay,
I'm up Monday Tuesday, but Saturday is I'm there?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
So that and then on top of that, we have
like our O G Nation days, which those are our days.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I will book a crapload of vendors. We'll have We've partnered.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Up with dirt dog La, so they'll come, set up,
give out hot dogs. That's when we'll have celebrities come
and stop by, say what's up. Great customers, bogos, all
day games.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, we got to do some stuff with you guys.
I can't believe we haven't been out there.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I know. Is it a party?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah? I mean, can't you want to get come? Yeah,
we have this bus, our double decker bus. We'll pull
it out there and we just come out and then
we'll tell the listeners we're going to be there for
a meet and greet or whatever and have a barbecue
and hang out. Although we're not a brand that sells anything,
we just come listening to a podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
It's always good to have that presence though.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and we always have a big pool.
Like you, well, you've been here to my party, but
have you been to hear to any other parties that
we've had here.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I would remember you too. I was thinking, I remember Rosa. Boy,
look at Rosa coming in here. Daniel, He goes, did
you see Rossa? I go, no, she's here. Yeah, she's
in the other room. You got to go talk to her.
I go, He goes, Dude, she's so fucking pretty. I go,
oh my god, Daniel, that's one way to remember how
well she's nice too. You just talked to her. Well,
she just she seems nice as well, but she's just
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so pretty. Joe, she's right up your alley. I go, hey, thanks, Daniel,
you're right, do they? He wasn't lying. I was like, hey,
who's this girl? I walked into a photo shoo going
on here today? Jeez, I love it. She's camera ready.
I love this. Are you like this at work every
day too?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Sometimes?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh god, I got to go to Maywood then just combine.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Hey, I like to be comfortable that so you know, yeah,
I won't slap on a full face of makeup, but
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
But hey, you're doing the show today, Rosa. Everybody that
comes in here, we like to do the high five
that comes in here. We want to thank everybody that
helps us here from a mirror to Adrian, alex Ci,
alex A Mondo, Madison, Albert, Teddy the show Dog, Daniel Connor, Ve,
Kinky Cam, Baxter, Beach Barcelaar, Ellie Muffins, Sunday, Cassie Ruby,
Lah Goldie Brother, Pitt, Mark Carnes, Chris, Frank, Keno, Jennifer,
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Erica and Elvis. Thank you guys all for doing what
you do. And now it's time for the high five
with Ross some Martinez, the inventory manager and event coordinator
at O g Nation. And by the way, do you
guys sell gelato at O Genation? We used to, you
used to, You don't do it no more?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Wow? Can we get some gelato on the shelves over there?
I think I know the owner. I see him around
here somewhere. Geez, he's that good looking gentleman in the
back over there.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well, the good thing is Rosa's right here, So I
guess you could talk to you don't have to talk
to a rep. You could talk to the owner with
to figure out how we can get that back on
the shelves. But five simple questions, Rosa, just some good
answers from you? And how old are you the first time?
You smoked cannabis? And where'd you get it from? I
know you said you're young? How young? Mom?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Here we go, sorry mom? Thirteen wow?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And from a friend's mom who said you should do this.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Actually, no, that was when I was a little older.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I actually got it of a friend who got it
off a friend.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Who is the friend.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I have no fucking clue.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You don't remember the friend.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You do dumb shit when you're a kid. Oh, that
was probably one of those things.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yes, I do you know that? Very well? Yeah, very
very well. Question number two of the High five, what
is your favorite way to use cannabis?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Once?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Really?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Which do you smoke them in? What? What? What? Wrap? Um? Backwards?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Backwards?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh? That tells me like a harsh you go dade, Okay,
I want me a dignity. Question number three rosa the
High five. If you want to go check out O
G Nation, go check it out over there. Good people,
good staff, they're educated, they're going to treat you right.
Craziest place you ever used are smoked cannabis?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Oh shit, I did it in a classroom. I think.
I think that's the craziest.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
In high school, college, college, where'd you go to college?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I went to Riohando.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Oh really yeah? Oh nice? You graduate? You went there
for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I went there for a couple of years. Well, my
main growing up, I mainly wanted.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
To be a dancer, a professional dancer, so that wasn't
really something that you needed.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
To go to college for. You had to be in
the industry, audition and doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But I did go to college, and obviously I wasn't
that interested, so I would show up high as hell.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I get it, I get it. It's something, you know,
we're gonna still see if you got that ballerina flexibility?
Do you still have it a little bit more than
most girls?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I'm old?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Are you a yogi though? Do do you still do yoga?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I just left weights?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Oh really? So she just went from that. She just
lifted hard and just okay because you do look strong.
But I'm wondering if you're still flexible like that because
ball arena is a no joke.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah. No, I stopped dancing over ten years ago. Really okay,
I just got over it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Started. What hell are you? When you started five? That happens?
You know? That happened with me with baseball. I started
when I was five years old. Playing baseball, and I
no more. I couldn't do it no more after I
got into high school.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I love dancing, but it's just not something.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Do you still go out and just Bonda or anything?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Or just yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
God?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I can't wait to take you out one night?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Oh no, no, no?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
What is you go too much? Is after you get high?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I love chips?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What kind.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Cheetos?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Baked or just regulars? No spicy?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Spicy?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Oh yeah? Did you watch the movie how they made those?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I sure did.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
That was such a great movie, wasn't It just made
you feel all proud, like yes, especially when they started
giving them out in the hood, like when they thought
it was no good, and it's like, watch this, let's
just get people onto it, Like do the fucking marketing
behind this? And now look at it's probably the number
one seller still till this day. With these brands, it's
just such a good.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
My way of eating them though.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I like the cheesy puffs and then I'll get a
bag of the hot Cheetos and I'll make them together,
check them up.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
The big fat cheesy puff, the rounder big ones like that,
and then you're licking your fingers afterwards, your.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Nails cheesy and spicy.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And why is my mouth watering? Right now? That's how
fat I am. My mouth is so watering because you
just said that right now. Oh I love that roll.
So question number five with the high five. If you
can smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would
it be? And why?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Shit? Probably my grandma?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Why grandma? I love that answer, But why grandma?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Because I just kind of want to get in her head.
I felt like I didn't get to really ever as
a kid. I didn't really get to like sit down
and have conversations with her, just talk about life.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So she smoked hell, but i'd want to, right. Do
you remember good memories with your grandma?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, I never smoked with my parents' grandparents, none of
that stuff either, but it's always fun to think about
that and if they did. I remember as a kid,
my parents used to put cannabis in the rubbing alcohol
and it was always in the alcohol, like just the
weed in there. So when we use it and it
just was flowering there, it was like I didn't know
what it was. I thought it was just a Mexican myth.
But if you think about it, it's like the old school
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early stages of you know, CBD rubbin right, And I
never until I got older. It was like I didn't
know even at the time what was in there. But
they used to get it from our cousin, Vince down
the stop we got to get somewhere. We know, whatever
they'd say, I never knew, but I knew they got
it from Vince to put in that rubbing alcohol because
we were boys, always fucking getting hurt and scratching ourselves
and always having to rub alcohol in our bodies.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Never, I would have never thought of that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I mean now just you CBD, but I mean but
putting Actually I would still do it now. Put I
don't have any rebkn alcohol at home, but I don't
think we do. But if I did, I think I
need to put some weed in it, just because just
because doesn't it sound like something to do like an
old Mexican myth? But it was like that's what my
family did. As you said, your grandma just made me
think of the old myths and how people would do things.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, my grandma was probably just the same as my mom,
thinking wheed was bad.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
But I mean, what's your mom's favorite strain? Now, what
does she like, besides the gummies.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
So my mom likes Indiga because she mainly uses it
to sleep. So you know what's funny is that her
favorite gummies are the Apish Gummies, which is Jimmy's, who's
one of the owners brand, that's his brand, and she
loves those Apish gummies.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
She'll take now.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
You know what's funny is that she started off by
taking out taking one and recently she texted me and
she was like, miha if I take two.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Will I die?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh my god? I love it?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Like, no, mommy can't die off of weed. Okay, Well
what if I take three? I'm like, no, mommy can't die.
She's like, okay, because I took the.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Because I already did it. Five. Oh, she's up to thirty.
She had a good night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
You know what's funny is that when I was younger,
I played a uh yeah, uh.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
What's it called a prank on her.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
She asked me to make her tea and I had
a cannabis tea and I put it in her tea
and I gave it to her and she drank it
and like I want to say, maybe like an hour later,
just passed it on the couch.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
She never sorry, Mom, I think I just exposed myself again.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
That is so awesome. She wakes up and she's like,
I little, you're right, I don't know, I know what,
I don't know. What are you looking at me for?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
So how great is that? And what a story of
anecdotal evidence of the family who goes from no cannabis, No,
don't come by without the fucking gummy is great? Rosa?
Is there anything we forgot to mention or you want
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to mention about your guys' shop over there o g Nation,
because I know we have a new store opening up
soon in a month.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yes, we're getting ready to open the shopping all money
and we do have a lot of projects lined up.
You know, A big shout out to Carl Sig, Jimmy,
the whole operations team. It would not be as successful
as it is if it was not for the whole
operations team and our staff.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well that's great, you guys. Anything else you want to
say before we let you out of here.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
And check us out, come to our next event. We
have an Ogah Day coming up in November.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
We're going to have a good amount of surprises that
we're actually working on I just got to work yesterday
from Carl that we're going to have a good amount
of entertainment and surprises for.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Oh really, Yeah, you gotta get DJ Quick out there too,
and we got to get.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Us out there November. I want to say November eighteen,
remember eighteen to Saturday.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah, well, let's keep us locked and loaded. I want
to come out and hang out. Representation. We'd love to
have you, guys, russa og nation. It's Cannabis Talk one
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to hear about you, young lady, because you just look
so damn fly and everybody was talking about you. But
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we have a lady who's one of the driving forces
behind the brand that's quickly becoming one of the go
to destinations for og bud smokers in the LA County.
Joining us on the table, you guys. Russa Martinez, the
inventory manager and event coordinator at og Nation of brick
and Mortar Cannabis Dispensary in good Old Maywood, California, soon
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zero two seven zero and experience the og Nation difference.
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up for Rossa Martinez. Wow, wait to go, guys, welcome
to the show, rol soon.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I mean, I'm looking at og Nation and not realizing
what a close nextion we have over here. I see
big Boy all over your guys' stuff, which is crazy.
I mean, pull up this good old ig real quick.
I mean, look at big Boy on there, just off
the top off the he's talking. He's gonna be there
and come meet him. You guys got exhibit George Lopez,
(03:18):
I mean, just the hot spot. Are you putting all
these together?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So Carl, who's one of the owners, he's really good
friends with Big Boy. So we work really closely with
Big Boy, and you know, we send them off his
goodie bags and then he gives them off to you know,
his interviewees.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah. I seen him with Usher and all kinds of folks.
So the owner of the company is good folks were
big Yeah, who's the owner.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So there's three of them's three partners.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's gonna be Carl Mandoya and Sacred Lopez and Jimmy Majeu.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, I wonder if I know these guys. I don't
know if you know I used to work with Big Boy,
Okay for years. You didn't know that, Huh?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yes, I did?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh you did we met before though? You were at
my birthday party. I was told, yes, yes, and I
was realizing you didn't tell me that in the room,
going Joe slapp me right in the face. Boy, Joe,
I was here for your party, bend the whole and
I was like, oh my god, I remembered you, But
then I didn't remember you. And then right now when
I came up and I was like, now I remember
you as I'm staring at you more. I just kind
of walked in there and said.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Hello, Yeah, I was really stoned.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You're really stoned.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It was like hard for me to even talk to
anybody honestly.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well that's a good thing. So how did you get
involved with this company?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I actually was working at a chop shop back in
twenty twenty. My main source of income before that was
in night life. I was bartender still am and during
the pandemic, I got a job at a chop shop
and you know.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Shit went down.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
They busted it like.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
More like some gang bang type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh so it got shut down kind.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Of not really. I ended up getting into like a
huge fight.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Oh really Yeah, And so I ended up leaving the company.
And a friend of mine was working at this when
it was under an another name, and I started off
but tending and then from there I got moved on
to management, and then from there I got moved up
to be the buyer slash event coordinator.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I mean, the buyer is a key role there. Everybody's
on you. Everybody wants to know you, everybody wants to
be your buddy because they want their product in the store.
So that's a big role to have. That's like the
key role to have at a dispensary, Like, Oh, who's
the buyers? I mean, you're getting invited to events, You're
getting invited everywhere because you're the buyer. Everybody wants to
(05:30):
give you free product because why you're the buyer. Yeah,
it's not a bad gig at all for those who
are wondering, like if you wanted to get that job
in a dispensary. I think the buyer is probably one
of the coolest ones, but yet one of the most
stressful ones as well. Absolutely, yeah, because it's like if
the products shit in there, who do we blame myself? Exactly?
The buyer? And og Nation has been known to have
(05:52):
some quality flower in there. Let's talk about the products
that you guys do have in there, and what are
you like in there?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I mean I'm a flower smoker, mainly flower. I like blunts,
so my top is flower.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
When I'm out and about, and you know, you can't
just be smoking blunts everywhere. It's good to have a
cool little pin on you. So I like to hit
my plug and play here and there.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Plug and Plays a good one. Shut up, yeah, yeah, yeah,
well these are good because you got a choice of everything.
You got plug and Play, you got down, you got
every freaking brand you could imagine. I mean we have
Gelatto here today right now too. I mean, so like
you can get anything and everything. What do you find
to be the best seller at o g Nation in
Maywood at the moment?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
It's pods pot really yeah, why do you think that is?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think maybe because it's discreete.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You know, it's easier to just take a hit, go
on about your day or about whatever you're doing, So
people just tend to gravitate more towards those.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's Plug and Play the bigger one selling.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
For you guys, Dizzy and plug and Play.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Dizzy's a huge brand name. Plug and places big brand
names as well. But it's just funny that like different regions,
different areas, different cities, everything's different, right, Like we have
these multi operators and oh yeah, our biggest sell over
here is pods. Our biggest sell over here is flower.
But the majority that we do here is mostly flour.
So it's really interesting to hear that og Nation is
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mostly pods.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, but we do have a house brand that is
one of our top sellers as well.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So oh, really, your guys is well and is probably
cheaper as well, because now you guys are manufacturing exactly,
putting out good quality and able to give it out
for a cheaper price. Like what does the eighth go
for there?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Ooh, the eights go from anywhere between thirty to forty dollars.
And then we do happy hour twice a day twenty
percent off, and then we do deals.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What are what are the happy hour times?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So we do seven am from open to eleven and
then from four to seven.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's dope. Yeah, you find people coming in and capitalizing on.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Those Oh absolutely absolutely, Yeah, that is really really fun.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
We're gonna take break real quick. When we come back, Rosa,
I want to find out a little bit more about
this store, how these guys open it, where they come from,
and where you come from, because I know you're born
in Mexico. I know you lived in Boston, but you've
been basically here since a few months old. So I
want to get him to the head of Rossa Martinez.
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inventory manager and event coordiner Nator at og Nation. It's
cool to hear a little bit how you got that
from a trap shop to go in there, but do
(09:32):
you know the story of how these guys created this
brand and this brick and mortar of a dispensary that's
popping over there in Maywood.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Quite frankly, Uh, it's gone through a few transitions. I'm
not exactly sure. I came in when it was already established.
I just know that as soon as it became O
G Nation just took off.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, because the name alone, it just sounds cool.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, you know what I mean. I it's very inclusive.
You know, it's og Nation.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's everybody, and everybody's in OG like twenty five yere
in og for conxactly. It's like you lived at twenty.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Five Maywood too. You know, we're in the body.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So yeah, that's what you do if you don't know
Maywood folks. Exactly. It's very very ethnic area where mostly
black and Mexican by far right. I mean that's are
you guys buy the mall there to you or we're exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh I think we're not exactly by the mall which
one is talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Isn't it the Maywood shopping center there that I remember
going to? Or there's a I remember going there in
Maywood before when I haven't been to your guys.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
There's a bunch of little plazas around there, but not
not really a mall.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So you guys stay busy. Then oh yeah, it's a
popping spot.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
We keep getting busy.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I mean to see what you guys are doing as
far as having like exhibits other artists. Getting Big Boy
to show up, that's not you know, that's the little
paper right there. He guys been because you guys are
obviously doing well, but it's there in the hood and
you guys get these cats to show up like that,
that's a good sign, right absolutely, And it's good ownership,
that relationships because I got to figure out who these
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owners are because if they know them Big for a
long time, like I said, I wonder if they know
you got to drop the Joe Grande when you go
back to the office and say, Joe Grande is over here,
and who the hell knows Big that they should know me?
You know what I mean to tell them next time
to get their asses on the show. Nick, where are
they at but Bucker's but show exactly. So, now that
you've been working there, are you guys training your butt tenders?
(11:36):
How do you guys do that? To educate your guys'
staff to treat the community.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
So we're big on customer service. We always want to
make sure that you know, whoever we hire. We're also
very strict on who we hire. We probably hire like
one in every twenty people that we interview. My boss
wants to make sure that he always hires the right
people with good attitudes, positive you know, don't come in
with any drama, any kind of stuff like that, are
excited to come to work as well.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
You know, my role with the position.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You know, whenever I bring any brand in or even
with the existing brands that we have, I always want
to make sure that since we do ten, especially at
the moment that we're hiring for the new location, we
want to make sure that our staff is always educated.
So therefore, as soon as we onboard a new brand,
we immediately set up the tender trainings and the pads
and you know, get them sampled out. That way they
can try the product and you know, because at the
(12:25):
end of the day, they're a Our soldiers are the
ones in front selling the products, and we want to
make sure that everything's moving.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So how hard is it to get a job at
a dispensary, let alone o genation you said one at
ten twenty.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, you know what, I don't think it's hard to
get a job at a dispensary.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
To get a job at our dispensary, it's hard.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It's a little different because you know, we want to
make sure that we're hiring the right people.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You know, from what I've seen, we have like.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
A zero turnover rate because we also take care of
our staff, you know, our bosses big I'm making sure
that our staff is taking care of and our vendors
are taking care of So we pride ourselves on that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh so you guys ain't knowing vendors in Huh, you
guys ain't no inventors.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, everybody gets paid.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Everybody get you bring your stuff in, you're buying it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Everybody gets paid, and.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You're the buyer. You're like, okay, we buy this up front.
We ain't gonna put this on a lease and wait
to pay you. So therefore it makes it nice and everybody.
No one's talking crap, because Lord knows, in this game
it happens. There's a million I've seen it dispensaries out there,
a million people that are owed money, and you know
it just it becomes a terrible game.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah. No, I've seen it. I've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, and it's tough. So let me ask you this,
what are some of the anecdotal stories that you've seen
from patients that come in and even from when you
were just working as a bud tender at the trap shops,
where you've seen cannabis really help patients.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I've had a lot of patients come in, like you know,
with anxiety or even with eating disorders, you know, cancer patients,
and and they resort to cannabis because it's natural and
they're looking for a different way to like help them
with either they're eating, or they're sleeping, or their pain.
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So you know, that's when the education comes in because
we want to make sure that we're also referring them
to the right strains, to the right product.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You know, is there something that comes into O g
nation more than not meaning a typical problem that you
guys are like, okay, this is more for this like
typical symptoms of Is it an anxiety that comes in more?
Is it stress? Is it back pain?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Uh? You know, I cancer? Like what are the majority
are is there not a majority of patients that come
in it's just always a variety.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
It's always a variety. It's always a variety. Definitely a
lot of sleep.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
People want to just get some good rest, and that's
becomes stress. I mean when you look at it, it's like,
I can't sleep, why because it's too stressed in the day.
What made you rossa in cannabis? What led you to
this field?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I mean, I've been smoking since I was hella young,
and I think for myself. I when I was really young,
I to myself had an eating disorder. So one of
my friend's mom's like, sorry, mom, but my friend's mom
forced me to smoke weed so that I would gain
an appetite.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
And then once you know, I got through.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That, you're all flocker or what.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, really, I used to be a ballerina, so I
was really consumed with like my body weight and you
know how I looked and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Like that, and so.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I stopped taking dancing as serious as seriously as I was.
And my like I said, my friend's mom was like, no,
You're gonna smoke this every day, and she would leave
food in front of me and eventually got to the
point where I started getting an appetite and I started
getting healthy again. So and it waits like I almost
see like it saved my life, I mean very possible,
right yeah, and then you know yeah, since then, it's
helped with my anxiety, it's helped with with my sleeping.
(16:00):
And so therefore, the more that I started getting involved
in cannabis, the more I started seeing how good for
you it is, not just.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
In a recreational way, but in you know, a healthy way.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Like where did you grow up in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Who?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I moved around a lot. So I was in Bell Gardens,
and then in Whittier, and.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Then where the girls are prettier Hello.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And then I lived in downtown LA. And now I'm
in North Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Now, as you've been in those areas, and especially when
you were with your family and you started smoking weed
at a young age, I mean growing up, most homes,
most neighborhoods, you know, I don't know about most A
lot of neighborhoods, a lot of people. It would be
looked at the this and that, especially for as Latin folks,
you know what I mean, No get away from that.
Was your family more that way? Or like Blue Blue
(16:50):
grew up, it was second nature. His dad sold it
grew and loved it. It was good. How was it
for you and your household?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
In my household, it was like the gateway drug. It
was all bad. You know.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, there there was no way you could bring that
around my family because it would just be like look
down upon.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So really, like who what would they say?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
My mom would say that I'm gonna end up being
homeless or you know, I'm gonna be all strung out
and you.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Know, resort to other types of drugs.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And before you know, you're gonna be appropet to me yep,
the streets, Like isn't it crazy?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Like that little mentality of the propaganda of what they've
learned and taught certain families didn't matter Mexican, black, white, Asian.
Some folks literally thought this way about cannabis. And then
you're realizing, going, so, were you hiding it from your
family when you were using it?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Fuck? Yes, I hid it from my parents.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And what's funny is that my little brother came home
one time faded as fuck.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And my mom caught him and I'm in the back room,
like you know.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
And it wasn't until it was like in my twenties
that I told my mom that I smoked weed, and
she just broke down like what did I do wrong?
And this isn't that? And I'm just like, oh god, Mom,
like what you mean. I'm not in the streets, I'm
not doing other drugs. And then I started educating her
on you know, the benefits of cannabis and how it
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can help certain things and pain and this, this and that,
and now my mom won't even let me come home
unless I have a bag of gummies for her.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Shut your mouth right now, Rosa.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, she wants her what does she call her cheuros?
She calls him cheutrohs her joints.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Right, and she smokes weed?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Now, oh yeah, so I got her from smoking cigarettes
to smoking wheed?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
How great is I actually.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Got my whole family into smoking weed except my dad.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
He Pop still doesn't do it.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
No, my dad won't.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He just still like and what does he do when
he looks at your mom and everybody else smoking?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Just my dad just shakes his head.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
My god, I can't believe you guys are doing this shit. Really,
He don't do no edibles at night to try to
make him relax and nothing, but they'll have a fucking beer,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
No he's straighted.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
No, how dope is that though.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
He just watches ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Ain't nothing wrong with it, especially if he doesn't need
it or know that, you know. I mean, not even
the CBD, not even creams.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I tried.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I've given him so many types of CBD because my
dad is diabetic, so I've tried to give him different
types of cvds, like topicals or vabes, gummies, anything like that.
One time I did give him gummies and it did
help him along. He said he was able to like
get out of bed without his joints hurting so much,
and he was able to grip things, you know. But
he's so paranoid about cannabis that he just stopped taking
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it because he was scared to get tested.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
He's a drug driver.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh, I was just gonna ask that too. Going he
probably has a position in life where he doesn't look
at it, where I can just do this freely, let alone,
even CBD. And a lot of truck drivers. It's funny.
I have a good friend of mine named Randy Flores
who we talk all the time, and he's a truck
driver as well, And oh, I want to use this,
and he has bad back and it's I go, do
your truck driver or dog? I go, I wouldn't even
(20:04):
recommend using CBD just in case you get tested. Why
because there it could show up. Like you're in a
position that you know it could show up. It's unfortunate,
but that's the position truck drivers are in.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yeah, but I mean I've tried to give him, like
hep rive CVID, which is different, right, come up as
but he still won't do it.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I mean, the creams and rubs, you would hope they
wouldn't show up, but you don't know for sure. I
mean you would think they wouldn't show up. But for
God's sakes, it's one of those random tests that you
look at and go, I mean, this is your job.
So that's so funny, dide you family went from no
miha to give me some miha. That's got to be
like validation for you that you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Absolutely, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And everybody and the family, where do you fall in
you said, brother, younger, older? What do you fall in line?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I'm the second oldest out of four. It's boy girl,
boy girl.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
And nice and they all engage in cannabis as well.
Make sure everyone does. So everyone looking at roach when
you got there.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
All the time there, every time I come over, it's like, well,
do you have anything? Hey?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Can I get the happy hour? Even though it's fucking
two o'clock, he's nine pm? Can I do get the
happy hour?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Deal?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Like?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Can I get the Sister Hook?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Can I get your discount?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Please?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Please please? It's Cannabis Talk one oh one. We're here
with the folks from og Nation. I want to talk
about the events that you guys are doing over there,
as you are the event coordinator and the buyer there.
And I will also want to be able to say
do you give out your information for people that are
trying to get in there?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I mean anybody can't email me Rosa at ognationc dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And I want you to give some tips when we
come back on what people should do that are out
there pitching their products. It's Cannabis Talk one on one.
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(22:35):
easy on the eyes, six four to two Walker Avenue, Maywood, California,
nine zero two seven zero. You are a beautiful young lady, though,
and it's good to have you here and hang out
with you. Good good vibes. And since you're here on
my birthday, now I gotta flirt with you even more
and have fun with you and bullshit with you because
I'm like, oh, we're folks, folks now at this point,
you know what I mean. But ross up, when I
(22:55):
went to break I wanted to give some people some tips.
You're the buyer, You're looking at brands that come in
and I'm sure or does it matter their pitch or
is it all about the brand? Is it the story
and the pitch? Is it all the above? What is
it that can set a brand apart to help get
on the shelves?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Ultimately? For me, is the support the support from the brand?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
What do you mean eborate?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Whenever a brand comes I you know, I have a
set of questions that I ask most of the time.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I maketure, like, you know social media.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Are you able to promote us on your social media
so people know where to find your product?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Are you able to offer promos?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Do I have to have a huge following.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It don't.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
But as long as it's organic and as long as
you're engaging with customers and you know, you're able to
pot something out there like hey, look now we're o
g nation and people are asking about it, you know,
like in a way that we can benefit off of it.
There's other ways also that we never thought about. That.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's smart though, that's really I didn't think that's you know,
are you guys doing that? That's I mean, everybody should
be at this point. But that's a great question.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
From the virus My marketing is is it's a big
part of why we are successful because we you know,
we're big on marketing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, and everybody who follows brands, they need to know
get yeah, come and to a pop up or whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And there are brands that are startup brands, so therefore
they might not have that type of following, But do
are they open to, you know, for instance, like a
text blast, like sponsoring a text blass, or making sure
that the buttenders are educated, making sure that we have
samples starting up in order with promo so that the
customers are introduced and incentivized to want to try something new.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So you know, for events.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Also as well, you know, I like to put goodie
bags together for our customers. So especially for startup brands
that want to get their products out there, they'll send me,
you know, yeah to putting these bags. And then therefore
we've had a lot of people get little goodies or
new product in their little goodie bags and like, hey,
so do you guys sell these?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And then you know, we'll go from there.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And what kind of events have you been doing there?
And do you guys do it? Og Nation in Maywood.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So we like to pride ourselves on our weekly takeovers.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
So pretty much what that consists of is that we
will allocate a day, which for the most part it's
on Saturdays, and we do them from like four to eight,
which is our heaviest foot traffic because of our happy hour,
and that's a day for the brand to take over
the entire store. So you know, we encourage like the
pop up tens, some people who will bring vendors, I
mean food vendors.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
They will sponsor food. DJs do a dope ass deal.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
We had one recently this past Saturday from Dabwoods where
you know there make color is orange, so they put
an orange carpet throughout.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
The whole store.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
They put display cases, they had games, DJs, food, merch raffles, incentives.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
For the staff. Like it was really dope.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
So we like the brands to take over the store
like that every weekend and therefore where it's something for
the customers to come and you know, check out, learn try.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Are you doing these every single.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Week every week?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh so you stay busy planning and doing ship yeah?
Oh wow, so it's every Saturday.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
You guys are doing something every Saturday.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh so that's horrible Saturday. Oh yeah, you're like, Okay,
I'm up Monday Tuesday, but Saturday is I'm there?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
So that and then on top of that, we have
like our O G Nation days, which those are our days.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I will book a crapload of vendors. We'll have We've partnered.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Up with dirt dog La, so they'll come, set up,
give out hot dogs. That's when we'll have celebrities come
and stop by, say what's up. Great customers, bogos, all
day games.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, we got to do some stuff with you guys.
I can't believe we haven't been out there.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I know. Is it a party?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah? I mean, can't you want to get come? Yeah,
we have this bus, our double decker bus. We'll pull
it out there and we just come out and then
we'll tell the listeners we're going to be there for
a meet and greet or whatever and have a barbecue
and hang out. Although we're not a brand that sells anything,
we just come listening to a podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
It's always good to have that presence though.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and we always have a big pool.
Like you, well, you've been here to my party, but
have you been to hear to any other parties that
we've had here.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I would remember you too. I was thinking, I remember Rosa. Boy,
look at Rosa coming in here. Daniel, He goes, did
you see Rossa? I go, no, she's here. Yeah, she's
in the other room. You got to go talk to her.
I go, He goes, Dude, she's so fucking pretty. I go,
oh my god, Daniel, that's one way to remember how
well she's nice too. You just talked to her. Well,
she just she seems nice as well, but she's just
(27:40):
so pretty. Joe, she's right up your alley. I go, hey, thanks, Daniel,
you're right, do they? He wasn't lying. I was like, hey,
who's this girl? I walked into a photo shoo going
on here today? Jeez, I love it. She's camera ready.
I love this. Are you like this at work every
day too?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Sometimes?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh god, I got to go to Maywood then just combine.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Hey, I like to be comfortable that so you know, yeah,
I won't slap on a full face of makeup, but
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
But hey, you're doing the show today, Rosa. Everybody that
comes in here, we like to do the high five
that comes in here. We want to thank everybody that
helps us here from a mirror to Adrian, alex Ci,
alex A Mondo, Madison, Albert, Teddy the show Dog, Daniel Connor, Ve,
Kinky Cam, Baxter, Beach Barcelaar, Ellie Muffins, Sunday, Cassie Ruby,
Lah Goldie Brother, Pitt, Mark Carnes, Chris, Frank, Keno, Jennifer,
(28:28):
Erica and Elvis. Thank you guys all for doing what
you do. And now it's time for the high five
with Ross some Martinez, the inventory manager and event coordinator
at O g Nation. And by the way, do you
guys sell gelato at O Genation? We used to, you
used to, You don't do it no more?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Wow? Can we get some gelato on the shelves over there?
I think I know the owner. I see him around
here somewhere. Geez, he's that good looking gentleman in the
back over there.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well, the good thing is Rosa's right here, So I
guess you could talk to you don't have to talk
to a rep. You could talk to the owner with
to figure out how we can get that back on
the shelves. But five simple questions, Rosa, just some good
answers from you? And how old are you the first time?
You smoked cannabis? And where'd you get it from? I
know you said you're young? How young? Mom?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Here we go, sorry mom? Thirteen wow?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And from a friend's mom who said you should do this.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Actually, no, that was when I was a little older.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I actually got it of a friend who got it
off a friend.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Who is the friend.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I have no fucking clue.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You don't remember the friend.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You do dumb shit when you're a kid. Oh, that
was probably one of those things.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yes, I do you know that? Very well? Yeah, very
very well. Question number two of the High five, what
is your favorite way to use cannabis?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Once?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Really?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Which do you smoke them in? What? What? What? Wrap? Um? Backwards?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Backwards?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh? That tells me like a harsh you go dade, Okay,
I want me a dignity. Question number three rosa the
High five. If you want to go check out O
G Nation, go check it out over there. Good people,
good staff, they're educated, they're going to treat you right.
Craziest place you ever used are smoked cannabis?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Oh shit, I did it in a classroom. I think.
I think that's the craziest.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
In high school, college, college, where'd you go to college?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I went to Riohando.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Oh really yeah? Oh nice? You graduate? You went there
for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I went there for a couple of years. Well, my
main growing up, I mainly wanted.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
To be a dancer, a professional dancer, so that wasn't
really something that you needed.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
To go to college for. You had to be in
the industry, audition and doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But I did go to college, and obviously I wasn't
that interested, so I would show up high as hell.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I get it, I get it. It's something, you know,
we're gonna still see if you got that ballerina flexibility?
Do you still have it a little bit more than
most girls?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I'm old?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Are you a yogi though? Do do you still do yoga?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I just left weights?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Oh really? So she just went from that. She just
lifted hard and just okay because you do look strong.
But I'm wondering if you're still flexible like that because
ball arena is a no joke.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah. No, I stopped dancing over ten years ago. Really okay,
I just got over it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Started. What hell are you? When you started five? That happens?
You know? That happened with me with baseball. I started
when I was five years old. Playing baseball, and I
no more. I couldn't do it no more after I
got into high school.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I love dancing, but it's just not something.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Do you still go out and just Bonda or anything?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Or just yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
God?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I can't wait to take you out one night?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Oh no, no, no?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
What is you go too much? Is after you get high?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I love chips?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What kind.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Cheetos?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Baked or just regulars? No spicy?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Spicy?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Oh yeah? Did you watch the movie how they made those?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I sure did.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
That was such a great movie, wasn't It just made
you feel all proud, like yes, especially when they started
giving them out in the hood, like when they thought
it was no good, and it's like, watch this, let's
just get people onto it, Like do the fucking marketing
behind this? And now look at it's probably the number
one seller still till this day. With these brands, it's
just such a good.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
My way of eating them though.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I like the cheesy puffs and then I'll get a
bag of the hot Cheetos and I'll make them together,
check them up.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
The big fat cheesy puff, the rounder big ones like that,
and then you're licking your fingers afterwards, your.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Nails cheesy and spicy.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And why is my mouth watering? Right now? That's how
fat I am. My mouth is so watering because you
just said that right now. Oh I love that roll.
So question number five with the high five. If you
can smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would
it be? And why?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Shit? Probably my grandma?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Why grandma? I love that answer, But why grandma?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Because I just kind of want to get in her head.
I felt like I didn't get to really ever as
a kid. I didn't really get to like sit down
and have conversations with her, just talk about life.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So she smoked hell, but i'd want to, right. Do
you remember good memories with your grandma?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, I never smoked with my parents' grandparents, none of
that stuff either, but it's always fun to think about
that and if they did. I remember as a kid,
my parents used to put cannabis in the rubbing alcohol
and it was always in the alcohol, like just the
weed in there. So when we use it and it
just was flowering there, it was like I didn't know
what it was. I thought it was just a Mexican myth.
But if you think about it, it's like the old school
(33:33):
early stages of you know, CBD rubbin right, And I
never until I got older. It was like I didn't
know even at the time what was in there. But
they used to get it from our cousin, Vince down
the stop we got to get somewhere. We know, whatever
they'd say, I never knew, but I knew they got
it from Vince to put in that rubbing alcohol because
we were boys, always fucking getting hurt and scratching ourselves
and always having to rub alcohol in our bodies.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Never, I would have never thought of that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I mean now just you CBD, but I mean but
putting Actually I would still do it now. Put I
don't have any rebkn alcohol at home, but I don't
think we do. But if I did, I think I
need to put some weed in it, just because just
because doesn't it sound like something to do like an
old Mexican myth? But it was like that's what my
family did. As you said, your grandma just made me
think of the old myths and how people would do things.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, my grandma was probably just the same as my mom,
thinking wheed was bad.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
But I mean, what's your mom's favorite strain? Now, what
does she like, besides the gummies.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
So my mom likes Indiga because she mainly uses it
to sleep. So you know what's funny is that her
favorite gummies are the Apish Gummies, which is Jimmy's, who's
one of the owners brand, that's his brand, and she
loves those Apish gummies.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
She'll take now.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
You know what's funny is that she started off by
taking out taking one and recently she texted me and
she was like, miha if I take two.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Will I die?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh my god? I love it?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Like, no, mommy can't die off of weed. Okay, Well
what if I take three? I'm like, no, mommy can't die.
She's like, okay, because I took the.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Because I already did it. Five. Oh, she's up to thirty.
She had a good night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
You know what's funny is that when I was younger,
I played a uh yeah, uh.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
What's it called a prank on her.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
She asked me to make her tea and I had
a cannabis tea and I put it in her tea
and I gave it to her and she drank it
and like I want to say, maybe like an hour later,
just passed it on the couch.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
She never sorry, Mom, I think I just exposed myself again.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
That is so awesome. She wakes up and she's like,
I little, you're right, I don't know, I know what,
I don't know. What are you looking at me for?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
So how great is that? And what a story of
anecdotal evidence of the family who goes from no cannabis, No,
don't come by without the fucking gummy is great? Rosa?
Is there anything we forgot to mention or you want
(36:08):
to mention about your guys' shop over there o g Nation,
because I know we have a new store opening up
soon in a month.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yes, we're getting ready to open the shopping all money
and we do have a lot of projects lined up.
You know, A big shout out to Carl Sig, Jimmy,
the whole operations team. It would not be as successful
as it is if it was not for the whole
operations team and our staff.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well that's great, you guys. Anything else you want to
say before we let you out of here.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
And check us out, come to our next event. We
have an Ogah Day coming up in November.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
We're going to have a good amount of surprises that
we're actually working on I just got to work yesterday
from Carl that we're going to have a good amount
of entertainment and surprises for.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Oh really, Yeah, you gotta get DJ Quick out there too,
and we got to get.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Us out there November. I want to say November eighteen,
remember eighteen to Saturday.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah, well, let's keep us locked and loaded. I want
to come out and hang out. Representation. We'd love to
have you, guys, russa og nation. It's Cannabis Talk one
oh one. If nobody else loves you, we do.
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