May 18, 2023 • 32 mins
Nicole of DOPE KITCHEN™ is an American TikToker and content creator based in Los Angeles. She is best known for her @dope__kitchen TikTok and Instagram accounts. Dope Kitchen™ is primarily a TikTok cooking show, which highlights delicious healthy recipes while Nicole is both high and hilarious. She is teaching her audience how to eat to fuel their bodies and use cannabis in a healthy way. Combining her background in marketing and entertainment with her interest in fitness and food, she created Dope Kitchen™ and started her social media journey in April 2020. Before that, she got a master’s degree in Entertainment Industry Management. She has shared videos with music by Gibbz, Armani White, Meghan Trainor, Shaq Rayes, Taylor Swift, and many more. She has also collaborated with Amanda Forth, the founder of The Crystal Boutique, in creating a jewelry collection. Be sure to check out her Snipfeed to be on top of everything she's got going on!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Cannabis Talk one oh one featuring Blue with
Joe Bronda, the world's number one source for everything cannabis.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is Chucky Fuego.
Speaker 5 (00:09):
Yeah, yeah, the highest of Hi Marty Grimes, and we
want to welcome back to our.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Show, Toking with the Stars. On Toking with the Stars,
we chill with the dopest people and smoke the finest
slavers around. And today our guest is none other than
Dope Kitchen. What's something to call how we doing risk chilling? Yeah? Yeah,
thanks for having me, of course, No, I mean ever
since I saw your content, I was like, we need
to have this show on the show now for our
(00:35):
audience that might not know about you. Give us a
little bit of background on yourself.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Yeah, I'm Nicole. I run a TikTok and Instagram and
YouTube account called Dope Kitchen, and Dope Kitchen is just
where I get stoned before I cook and it's a
lot of fucking fun. And I share so much of
my life with my audience to beyond just cannabis and food,
So I talk a lot about mental health and habit changes,
psychedelics sometimes whenever I too, going to be a little
(01:02):
secretive about it though, of course, because you know, social
media will and me. But yeah, I I just share
a lot of my life and my love for cannabis
and food with my people and it's a wonderful time.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Now, now, tell us how you got to this point,
because when I met you, you had a full time job,
you were working kind of that life, and you were
you were thinking about making that transition. Give us a
little background on that.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah, So I started kitchen at the beginning of the pandemic,
and I was just bored and lonely and depressed. I
needed something to do with my time. So I decided
to get stoned and bake a pie and I filmed
it just to share with my friends and make them laugh,
and they encouraged me to post it on the internet,
so I did. It started to go viral and pick
(01:48):
up steam, and here I am, you know, over a
million followers later, and it's fucking surreal.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yes, I get to just get high and cook amazing
food and just eat it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
But for a long time, for about two and a
half years after starting Dope Kitchen, I was still working
full time and I worked a job in marketing as
a project manager, and it was a lot of fun.
I really loved my career, but it started to become
so exhausting to be making content on top of having
a full time job. And I have found ways to
kind of monetize what I do, and I finally took
(02:25):
a leave of faith and trusted that I would make
everything work and still be able to pay the bills.
And here I am. It's congratulating a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
That's funny because again we were talking about exactly this earlier,
exactly like having to not have that security, put yourself
in a like fight or flight, and then just hustle
figure it out. Like now you have no choice because
the nine to five ain't there. If I me that
paycheck that you news always.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Come, and it is not coming no more.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So you got to go out and get it. But
that's lovely because they really bring it out of you,
like it does.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It really does.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So I feel like that was my turning point too
when I quit my job, like every thing was just
like all right.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You gotta go, Yeah, you gotta go. So did your
last job involve involve content creation?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Yes, kind of. I used to be a social media manager,
for like some TV shows and movies back in the day,
and then for the last three and a half years,
I've been a project manager at a food media company,
so so it totally fit exactly what I do now.
But I was a branded project manager for any branded
(03:27):
content that came through our company.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Amazing, that's very, very cool.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I know that definitely helped you, like you know for
sure with your own Heliah.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Yeah, it has definitely helped me learn how to like
structure a business, how to negotiate with brands, how to
properly integrate products into my.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Early integrate Let's go back to that. This is this
is we got to touch on this, not yeah, I
love that. I love that because most people don't even
think about that, you know what I mean. But yeah,
give us a little bit of insight on that. What
do you mean properly integrate?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I mean like having any sort of product in your
content should feel as natural to your normal content as possible.
I think in the past, I've seen content creators maybe
read directly from a script instead of figuring out how
to I'm not that I'm kno getting anyone for doing that,
but it's just it's better to really strategize about how
to find a way to integrate a product into your
(04:17):
usual content in the most natural way possible. And it
also helps to just partner with brands that you actually
like because then it just naturally fits into content.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yes, that part right there is not always worth for
the bag.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, really it's really not. I'm not going to sell
my soul for like some product that I never use
just for a paycheck.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Drink this fuzzy drink it will make So, Yeah, what
you just said is really funny. I've actually seen creators.
I don't know if it was in our community, but
I've seen creators actually read from a script and actually
say things that they shouldn't have said, like from that script,
like you know, like skip this, and they write skip this.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I've seen that.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I've seen that happen. Have you ever seen that happen
because I haven't seen it in a while, but I've
seen I've seen one or two influencers do that. Ship.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
We got to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Y'all may be high man like you, I'd be thinking
about like what have you just super duper focused on
the paper? You just reading lines?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You just like I'm killing it. I think they're just
phoning it in. I think they don't even care. They
have this, their friends holding the script in front of
the camera.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I should like them.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And there it was. It was Marty.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That's why I saw no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I need to be stone cold sober when I'm posting branded.
I don't want to funk anything up.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I have the right tags. So with the landscape being
what it is in social media, how was it coming
into it, because I mean it was it was, you know,
like growing from where you you started to where you're
at now. I mean it was very quick, was it not?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
So I have what do I have? Almost a million
followers on TikTok and I have just hit two hundred
k on Instagram recently. But we're talking about this earlier
that my most recent one hundred k on Instagram came
so quickly, but it took me like two and a
half years to grow to the first hundred k. So
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things are happening with social media where like they're starting
to prioritize different kinds of content. And I still can't
really predict what which one of my videos is actually
going to go viral. Sometimes it just happens out of nowhere,
and then all of a sudden, I have like an
extra fifty k followers. It's fucking wild.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
The first time, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
So I was stuck at like ninety five thousand followers
for a long long time on Instagram, and I posted
a video which had very normal views for the first week,
and then after a week it just picked up steam
and just blew up, and I had maybe a million
views on that video within like twenty four hours after
I started to pick up steam, and that led to
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over fifty five thousand new followers in the course of
a week. And that was just such a shock to
me because I had Yeah, I had not seen that
type of growth on my account ever. So it kind
of almost felt like when I started TikTok and how
that felt to grow a huge following like overnight on
(07:19):
TikTok It. It reminded me of those feelings. It's a
little anxiety inducing thinking that so many new people are
going to be brand new to my page, like I
have to reintroduce myself. Are they going to like my content?
Are they going to like the things I post outside
of like my silly cooking content. So it was very
nerve wracking but also so exciting and so reassuring that
(07:42):
I was on the right path because this happened right
after I quit my job. Yeah, the first gave me
one hundred thousand followers.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So here you go, deal with it what you will.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Let me ease the second for you.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Yeah, but yeah, it was wild. It's very very strange
to grow such a large audience in such a short
pan of time. I don't think the human brain can
truly handle the emotions that come with that, because I
was just a normal ass bitch, like I was just
an average the same person.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Now I hell, did people finally see?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
It comes so strange about it.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
It's very hard to like comprehend that number of people
know like intimate things about me.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Wild And so a lot of friends, Now, yeah, I
got a lot a lot of friends, over a million friends,
I would say, was it I guess what one point three?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Probably close to one point three.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Yeah, if you total everything across.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's a lot of friends. And so TikTok, I need
to ask you. Cannabis is not friendly on TikTok. So
how'd you get around it? What do you do?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I made a lot of mistakes at first, and I
had to learn from those mistakes because videos would be
taken down and I would learn something about that video, Like, Okay,
I said that word in that video, I'm no longer
allowed to say that. Let me think of a code
word to represent weed or THHC or whatever. I can't
even say edibles confidently.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I usually say adult candy or some other type of
like code word.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Understand.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, So I yeah, I made a lot of mistakes
at first, and then I've just kind of learned to
change my lexicon a little so that I could fit
the community guidelines.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, and you got up track the code.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, got deleted every time I posted it and something
started to pick up. You're deleted.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, you got to learn to use secret language.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I mean, it's it's exactly like Instagram. I mean, like
you know, to a certain I don't know about it.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Instagram is way more lenient. Like I see people smoking
on Instagram, but you can't even pop smoke from off
screen on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I probably fifty sixty million views smoking a pound joint.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So yes, I was gonna say. It's it's the same
in the sense that they have their land minds that
you have to watch out for. It's definitely a different
landscape because I where Remo completely on Instagram. But yeah,
like how you were saying, like you can't use certain words,
you can't use, you know, put certain things in because
then it might look like it's a sale or something
like that. It's it's it's vastly, vastly hard, and that's
(10:12):
why we have to kind of like figure out like
how do we kind of you know, like you say,
integrate that product and not make it seem like we're punching.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
The naturally that you like exactly.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
So I've got a question for you as far as
TikTok goes. Do you think it'll be like banned from
use use here?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And if it does, because it did it did get
banned in what state?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Montana?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Montana.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Yeah, yeah, I have a feeling that's going to go away.
But it's not going to be like something that happens
next month. It's going to take a long time to
completely ban TikTok from our phones, however they're going to
do it. So I'm not super worried right now, but
I know, like I probably have at least a year
to figure out my plan. I TikTok goes away, and
(10:53):
I should start working on that plan.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Now do you think all those users are just gonna
come right back to Instagram or what?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I don't think so Twitter. I don't know. There's some new.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Apps temographic, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, And I don't know where people are gonna go
in terms of the new apps, Like there's one called
Lemon eight, and then there's another one called Clapper, which
I hate that name.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Who Ever named that app needs to be fired. Clapper Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
There Clapper Clapper?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Whoa watch my videos on Clapper.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Clapping? What clapper cells?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It's crazy?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Isn't Facebook rolling out like their version of reels? Also?
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, and oh so it's so weird. I've been cross
posting my Instagram stuff to Facebook since January and I've
gained over one hundred and eighty five thousand followers on
Facebook with a zero effort. Damn it's I have I
have no idea what's going on on Facebook, but people
are still there.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I've heard a lot of people use Facebook for show.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Yeah, I don't anymore. Like maybe once a quarter I'll
check up on people from high school to see who's pregnant.
Whose birthday is, yeah, exactly birthday.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's how it helps me, is like the emails on
the birthdays. Yeah, but no, yeah, I mean I think
Facebook is trying to ramp up their side of videos,
and I know that YouTube shorts is definitely like gaining steam.
Like a lot of people, a lot of people use
YouTube shorts. Now it's crazy, it's crazy you use YouTube shorts.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
I have, and I haven't really been able to grow
a following on YouTube. Yeh, so I'm still figuring out.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It is so like it's it's very information, you know,
like it's very like.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
But it's it's more entertaining than it is informational, I think.
I mean, I'm not trying to teach people that much.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean, are you putting recipes?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Recipes yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And that's what's great about the content is that her
content is both comical, but then you get to learn,
like how to cook something, like you know, she puts
a recipe with something. And you're also starting to do
a lot more traveling now right.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Yeah, I've definitely been hitting it hard on the travel
front because I just need to get the fuck out
of just get me out of here. But yeah, I
feel like, wait, what was the question again?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
The traveler.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
She started to think about everything like that.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Your content is so great because it's both comedic, but
with your traveling, where's it going to go in that direction?
Speaker 6 (13:45):
I mean, I have always loved the outdoors, and a
lot of my travel is kind of focused on getting
outside and doing cool things in nature. So a huge
part of my platform is just to share not only
my love of cannabis and cooking, but also my love
of nature. And I talk about mental health a lot.
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I talk about, you know, like building healthy habits, and
sometimes I'll talk about psychedelics or you know whatever. But
I share so much of myself because it's it feels
really nice to bond with an audience in many aspects
of life, in many areas of time. So well, oh
thank you, I do it.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Very very well.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
We speak about psychedelics.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
On this Oh for sure, I'm just down. But I
just felt that it was more authentic for me to
create content that fully represented me and not just like
one or two things that I like. So I share
so much of like my my travel and my stories,
and I try to bring people on trips with me
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just because I want to show people that you can
be a badass like stoner chick and still be like
out in nature doing really awesome things, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Like cooking on a skilling.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And I guess when I started Dope Kitchen as well,
I knew I was kind of entering the world of
cannabis influencers, and I wanted to be someone who's completely
different than the type of people who are out there
making content. I wanted to show people that you don't
have to fit the stereotype of what a stoner is
in order to consider yourself a stoner. So sharing so
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much of my life from strength sports, hiking, like art,
whatever else I'm into, it just shows people that you
don't have to fit the mold. You can like be
whoever the fuck you are most proud of being. Said.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, we don't just sit on the couch and smoke.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we've came a long way.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Well how long have you been smoking cannabis?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Not long at all. So I smoked for the first
time when I was eighteen. I'm thirty two now, and
it was right after senior prom and my best friend
Matt rolled me. My first joint and that's when I
smoked cannabis for the first time.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And I only shut.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Out still one of my best friends today, let's go.
But I touched it a little bit in college, but
not too much because I kind of grew up thinking
that I never wanted to disappoint my parents, So getting
in trouble for weed or even underage drinking was like
so terrifying to me, So I rarely touched weed only
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when I felt like most safe and comfortable with the
people I was with. But yeah, and then I only
like really started getting into cannabis about four to five
years ago when it became recreationally legal here in California.
I started smoking instead of drinking with my friends and
then we kind of got over like oedibles and smoking
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and it started to become obviously a much bigger part
of my life during the pandemic when I started Dope
Kitchen and yeah, and my love for cannabis has just
grown and I'm still trying to learn so much. I
feel like there's so much knowledge out there that I
haven't even absorbed yet.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, I love that beautiful.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Oh yeah, that's a dope story.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, so do you no pun intin do you remember.
I didn't want to interrupt your story, but do you
remember the first strain? What was the strain?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It was like I always like to ask, you didn't
know at eighteen?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, I think I think mine was like banana something.
I remember him saying banana something, and it was a
waterfall when I was nineteen in college. Well yeah, it
fell straight back, fell straight back to the ground, laid
there and I was just like, yeah, this is great.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I'm good. So mushrooms. You're talking about.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Mushrooms not just mushrooms.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
No, no, no, I know, but yeah, you mentioned mushrooms.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Talk to us about mushrooms. Which in your journey with mushrooms.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Oh, I love mushrooms. I did them on the beach
this weekend and had a really good cry.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I was wonderful.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
But yeah, the first time I ever did mushrooms was
I think back in twenty seventeen someone gave them to me,
like for a night out. Yeah, and I had many giggles.
But I didn't really know much about mushrooms. I didn't
know like the mental health effects that mushrooms can have
on a person, So I didn't touch it again until
twenty twenty. A friend of mine had started getting into
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mushrooms for mental health reasons, and she took some with
us on a trip to Mammoth, California. We were out
in nature and we took mushrooms on the lake and
it was just such a beautiful time, Like life just
felt so amazing and beautiful, and I felt just so
happy to be alive. So after that, I started talking
(18:26):
to my friend about mushrooms a little bit more, learning
a little bit more about it. I was picking up
books and watching documentaries and anything I could find on YouTube,
just to understand why I felt so happy on this
little planet. Yeah, I did. And that's when I started
to use them a bit more regularly. And they've helped
me process so many, like deep wounds that I haven't
(18:49):
even thought about in years. I feel like I've healed
a lot of my relationship with myself with mushrooms and
same with LSD. I absolutely love that substance. It has
changed my life in many ways. The most recent time
I did it, and it's not something I do too often,
(19:10):
but did it back in December. I was kind of
going through a rough time. It was just a couple
months after quitting my job, and I just felt very lost.
So my friend and I did an LSD trip at
my house. We painted, we went for a walk down
to the beach, and it was such a transformational experience,
like life just felt so beautiful. I found joy in
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every little thing that was around me and every little
thing I was doing. And after that trip, you know,
there's always a lesson that you have to learn when
you're on psychedelics, and from that LSD trip, I learned
that there's a way for me to find joy and
everything that I do on a daily basis, and that's
through like building better habits. So I started to overhaul
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a lot of my bad habits and replace them with
better habits. So I'm trying to go to bed at
the same time every night, I'm trying to read before
that every night. I get up at the same time
every day and try to work out in the mornings.
I change like how I approach cleaning an apartment. In
my apartment, I've changed a little bit of my relationship
with cannabis for a little while, and all of that
(20:14):
has helped me love and appreciate living life so much more.
And that was all rooted in that LSD trip.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oooh yeah, I never I mean yeah, that was a journey, transformation,
that was a journey.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, I've been there too.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, I've never loved that story. I've never taken LSD before.
So this is a good to know about, Alice.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
It's a commitment. You need a whole day plus a
couple of days to process what has happened to you. Yeah,
so i'd block off a solid three days.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's good to know.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
That's good to know. Yeah, you're sitting there like, oh
my god, what the fuck? Just hap.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yeah, it's so weird, Like coming down from any psychedelic trip,
you just have to be an adult again and like
do the dishes. It's so weird to go from like
being in outer space in this beautiful land of color
and wonder, and then you have to do the dishes.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I was just about to make. I was like, you
have to step back off the space ship.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah, back on Earth.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Have you done al No? No, no, from only shrooms. Yeah,
I'm a big shrim a one time, but yeah because.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Acid, Yeah, yeah, the same.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
This is what I never did again because it wasn't
my thing.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
But thing Okay, Yeah, legend allegendly, So we now we
now know your past about cannabis.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
How do you feel like your palette is when it
comes to knowing what you're smoking?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
I would say it's not great, okay, because I have
a cart full of cannabis products, and sometimes I don't
really think about what I'm reaching for when I grab
it and start packing a bowl. So yeah, I don't
really pay attention to the name as often as I should,
or the strain whatever I So I don't think I
(22:17):
have a very refined I smoke what's in front of
me and what's easiest.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
When we give back, we'll go put that palette to
the test. All right, we'll be right back. We'll see Nicole.
Blindly Baked yea.
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Speaker 4 (22:45):
Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
All right, guys, So we are back and now joke kitchen,
we are about to play some blindly Baked. Are you ready?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I'm I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Okay, So just to let you know the rules real
real quick. We've got We've got three joints right in
front of you. Okay. Each joint is packed with the
flower that corresponds sitting right next to it. So there's
a nug right next to each joint. Each joint is
also labeled one, two, and three. We're gonna give you
three strain names and you're gonna pinpoint where they go.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Okay, all right, so.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Let me give you You could dry drag the joints.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yes, you could do whatever you need to do, but
the nug does correspond to the joint that it's sitting
next to you. Okay, all right, So in no particular order,
here are the three strings. We've got gorilla glue number
four that's from Sky Club. We've got Gelatto forty one
that's from West Coast to Cure. And then we've got
(23:43):
Gary Payton and that's from Black Tye CBD.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Gary Peyton Gelato. And what was the first one.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Gorilla glue Gorilla number number four. Yes, all right, so
you can go ahead and go through the nugs if
you want. You can do it I drag and then
whenever you want to the first joint and go and
spark the first joint that are you squeeze.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
From the side.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Okay, all right, she's smelling and you can crunch those
nugs if you want. Those are your nugs to have
so lovely? Yes, you can take them home with you,
you know, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I'm literally just gonna make random guesses.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You know what. Listen. She told us before we started
that she's most likely going to randomly guess. But you
know what, no one's gotten all of them right yet,
so maybe a random guess is what we need to
get them all right? So all right, so do you
want to spark them?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Not right now, I'm sufficiently stoned?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Should I should? Am I supposed to spark them before?
I guess?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
You can do?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Okay, I'm going to take a.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, you can just taste the turps a little bit,
do this squeeze? Yeah, that's a DuPont right.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Still, just have a lighter. I'm very basic.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
We got super lucky.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
We ran into this company at mj biscom and they
were just really dope people and they were talking about
how they're trying to integrate into the cannabis industry with
their amazing lighters. But they gifted us that I would yeah,
I would say, asked my favorite lighter right now.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
It's a good lighter. So that was Joint number one,
Joint number one. All right, So she just took a
toke from joint number one. Now, excuse me. The one
question I want to ask you is you were about
to make a guess. You were about to full out
make a guess before we said to hit those joints.
Is your guest still standing where it stands after you
took the hit from the first joint?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yes, oh, I like it.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Okay, you want to hit joint number two?
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
All right, she's going for joint number two. She seems
to be very confident, even though she's saying she's guessing.
She seems very confident about this. All right, Joint number two.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
This one is interesting. It's kind of almost flavorless, and
it didn't really have a strong smell.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
The other Yeah, okay, I'm.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Gonna call that one Gary Payton.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Okay, So you think you think number two is Gary Payton?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
And I'm just gonna go ahead and guess the other two.
I'm gonna number one is is it gorilla glue?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah? That's the other one, okay.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
And then number three is uh what was that one
called gelato? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Okay, final answer.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
No, No, I'm gonna switch. Look at that switch Gelato's
number one, and then Gorilla Glue is number three.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Okay, fuck, okay, So just to make sure you said
number one is Gelatto, number two is Gary Payton, and
number three is the Gorilla Glue.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yes, all right, final answer here we go.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Just to let you know, do kitchen, you got one right?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh, just and it was on the switch.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
It was on the switch.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Great job with the switch, Great job with the switch.
Just to let you know. Number one was actually the
Gary Payton. Wow, that's the Black Eye CBD. That's th
h c A Flower. Number two is West Coast Cure
and that was Gelato forty one. Seems like you didn't
get too much flavor out of that album. Number three
is the Sky Club Gorilla Glue number four. You got
that one right?
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Interesting there you doard?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh wow?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Second technically well second to me, yes, but first amongst
all the guests, she's tied first amongst all them. So
we we we actually do do vapes and dabs and
stuff like that. Do you partake in those things too?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Sometimes?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Okay, so maybe next time when we have you on
the show, we'll switch to Thank you so much for
being on Blindly Baked. You're officially in tied for first place.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Perfect, let's go all right, guys, We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah yeah, very nice.
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Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah yeah, Welcome back to talking with the stars, hosted
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Speaker 3 (28:27):
Let's love Cannabis Talk. But before we get out of.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Here, is there anything else that you wanted to let
the fans know about was coming in the future, anything
you want to shine some light on, because I'm sure
this new path that you started has got a lot
of like a lot of different ways you're gone with
everything that you do.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Yeah. So, I currently have a limited edition product for
sale and it is a cheese shaped pipe and it's
from Canna Style, So check out Canna Style. There are
only probably a few dozen left at this point, so
all you can. And then I do host trips for
female travelers who want to go out and explore with
(29:09):
other solo traveling women. So I keep an eye out
for those posts about upcoming trips in my Instagram stories
because that's usually where I promote those.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
So you know a lot of people do need travel buddies. Yeah,
go explore the world. Go check that out? Is the
cheese pipe?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
And like, what is it?
Speaker 5 (29:28):
A triangle cheese and it's orange too, Go check out
the cheese pipe.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I might have to go grab one.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
You said, can of Style, right, can of style? Can
of Style? Lovely? And can you tell us at all
where you're you're planning on maybe traveling this next year.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
I'm not quite sure yet, but probably at least one
domestic camping type of trip and maybe two international trips
with some sort of nature focus.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
How long are the trips.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Usually usually around a week.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah, that's nak nice break, go hiking or some somewhere
way far out of gatic.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I'm a beach hopper. I love chasing beaches.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Beaches are great.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, every eye.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Take me to a island or beach somewhere with the
sun and I can be in the water, away from
the sharks, away.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
From the sharks, away from the sharks.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
What's your favorite place you visited.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
I just got back from Costa Rica, and that was
pretty amazing. But I also went to Nepal last year,
which was absolutely insane. It was a really incredible experience.
The time of the year was it was October, so
it was nice fall weather, some hot days, some cooler days,
but nothing too unbearable.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Burf Costa Rica, How was that?
Speaker 6 (30:39):
That was an amazing experience. It was just so nice
to be, you know, sitting in the middle of the
jungle watching the heavy rainfall and hearing those sounds. Just
it was incredible.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
I got to experience that too, I feel like last
year or the year before.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Last, and it was the same experience. That was, man,
so dope, just to be out You don't you don't
see no houses or nothing.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You're just out there.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Did you get to travel through like hop into like
the little pits of water or whatever what do you
call it them?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oasis?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
What do you call it?
Speaker 6 (31:07):
I don't know, Oh, like a hot spring.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Well it wasn't hot, but it was just like we
had hiked through like some portion of the I don't know,
the jungle wherever we're at, and then all of a sudden,
there's a waterfall in the middle of it.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Oh yeah, we found a couple of waterfalls that we
were swimming around in, but we were whitewater rafting down
the Paquari River and that was amazing. It was really
wonderful and the water was just the perfect swimming temperature.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
So it's great.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
That's amazing. Well, tell everybody where they can find you at,
you know, where they can find all your content to
follow you.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Yeah, I'm on Instagram as Dope Underscore Underscore Kitchen. I'm
on TikTok as Dope Underscore Kitchen. I'm on YouTube just
as dope Kitchen. And where else am I? I guess
I'm on Clapper Dope Kitchen on.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Clapper Clap that my profile.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Yeah, come find me and hang out.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well, thank you so much for being on the show.
Like I just when I when I saw your content,
I was just like, she's doing something different here, and
I like this, like because I have not seen something
like this in our space yet. Yeah, you know, so, Marty,
what do we tell everybody at the end of every episode? Here,
(32:26):
stay high and goodbye, stay hi and goodbye. Thank you
so much, Nicole, go check out Dope Kitchen.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Lady.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Guys, thank you for
Speaker 1 (32:34):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is Chucky Fuego.
Speaker 5 (00:09):
Yeah, yeah, the highest of Hi Marty Grimes, and we
want to welcome back to our.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Show, Toking with the Stars. On Toking with the Stars,
we chill with the dopest people and smoke the finest
slavers around. And today our guest is none other than
Dope Kitchen. What's something to call how we doing risk chilling? Yeah? Yeah,
thanks for having me, of course, No, I mean ever
since I saw your content, I was like, we need
to have this show on the show now for our
(00:35):
audience that might not know about you. Give us a
little bit of background on yourself.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Yeah, I'm Nicole. I run a TikTok and Instagram and
YouTube account called Dope Kitchen, and Dope Kitchen is just
where I get stoned before I cook and it's a
lot of fucking fun. And I share so much of
my life with my audience to beyond just cannabis and food,
So I talk a lot about mental health and habit changes,
psychedelics sometimes whenever I too, going to be a little
(01:02):
secretive about it though, of course, because you know, social
media will and me. But yeah, I I just share
a lot of my life and my love for cannabis
and food with my people and it's a wonderful time.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Now, now, tell us how you got to this point,
because when I met you, you had a full time job,
you were working kind of that life, and you were
you were thinking about making that transition. Give us a
little background on that.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah, So I started kitchen at the beginning of the pandemic,
and I was just bored and lonely and depressed. I
needed something to do with my time. So I decided
to get stoned and bake a pie and I filmed
it just to share with my friends and make them laugh,
and they encouraged me to post it on the internet,
so I did. It started to go viral and pick
(01:48):
up steam, and here I am, you know, over a
million followers later, and it's fucking surreal.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yes, I get to just get high and cook amazing
food and just eat it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
But for a long time, for about two and a
half years after starting Dope Kitchen, I was still working
full time and I worked a job in marketing as
a project manager, and it was a lot of fun.
I really loved my career, but it started to become
so exhausting to be making content on top of having
a full time job. And I have found ways to
kind of monetize what I do, and I finally took
(02:25):
a leave of faith and trusted that I would make
everything work and still be able to pay the bills.
And here I am. It's congratulating a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
That's funny because again we were talking about exactly this earlier,
exactly like having to not have that security, put yourself
in a like fight or flight, and then just hustle
figure it out. Like now you have no choice because
the nine to five ain't there. If I me that
paycheck that you news always.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Come, and it is not coming no more.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So you got to go out and get it. But
that's lovely because they really bring it out of you,
like it does.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It really does.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So I feel like that was my turning point too
when I quit my job, like every thing was just
like all right.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You gotta go, Yeah, you gotta go. So did your
last job involve involve content creation?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Yes, kind of. I used to be a social media manager,
for like some TV shows and movies back in the day,
and then for the last three and a half years,
I've been a project manager at a food media company,
so so it totally fit exactly what I do now.
But I was a branded project manager for any branded
(03:27):
content that came through our company.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Amazing, that's very, very cool.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
I know that definitely helped you, like you know for
sure with your own Heliah.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Yeah, it has definitely helped me learn how to like
structure a business, how to negotiate with brands, how to
properly integrate products into my.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Early integrate Let's go back to that. This is this
is we got to touch on this, not yeah, I
love that. I love that because most people don't even
think about that, you know what I mean. But yeah,
give us a little bit of insight on that. What
do you mean properly integrate?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I mean like having any sort of product in your
content should feel as natural to your normal content as possible.
I think in the past, I've seen content creators maybe
read directly from a script instead of figuring out how
to I'm not that I'm kno getting anyone for doing that,
but it's just it's better to really strategize about how
to find a way to integrate a product into your
(04:17):
usual content in the most natural way possible. And it
also helps to just partner with brands that you actually
like because then it just naturally fits into content.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yes, that part right there is not always worth for
the bag.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, really it's really not. I'm not going to sell
my soul for like some product that I never use
just for a paycheck.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Drink this fuzzy drink it will make So, Yeah, what
you just said is really funny. I've actually seen creators.
I don't know if it was in our community, but
I've seen creators actually read from a script and actually
say things that they shouldn't have said, like from that script,
like you know, like skip this, and they write skip this.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I've seen that.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I've seen that happen. Have you ever seen that happen
because I haven't seen it in a while, but I've
seen I've seen one or two influencers do that. Ship.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
We got to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Y'all may be high man like you, I'd be thinking
about like what have you just super duper focused on
the paper? You just reading lines?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You just like I'm killing it. I think they're just
phoning it in. I think they don't even care. They
have this, their friends holding the script in front of
the camera.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I should like them.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And there it was. It was Marty.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That's why I saw no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I need to be stone cold sober when I'm posting branded.
I don't want to funk anything up.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I have the right tags. So with the landscape being
what it is in social media, how was it coming
into it, because I mean it was it was, you know,
like growing from where you you started to where you're
at now. I mean it was very quick, was it not?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
So I have what do I have? Almost a million
followers on TikTok and I have just hit two hundred
k on Instagram recently. But we're talking about this earlier
that my most recent one hundred k on Instagram came
so quickly, but it took me like two and a
half years to grow to the first hundred k. So
(06:17):
things are happening with social media where like they're starting
to prioritize different kinds of content. And I still can't
really predict what which one of my videos is actually
going to go viral. Sometimes it just happens out of nowhere,
and then all of a sudden, I have like an
extra fifty k followers. It's fucking wild.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
The first time, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
So I was stuck at like ninety five thousand followers
for a long long time on Instagram, and I posted
a video which had very normal views for the first week,
and then after a week it just picked up steam
and just blew up, and I had maybe a million
views on that video within like twenty four hours after
I started to pick up steam, and that led to
(06:59):
over fifty five thousand new followers in the course of
a week. And that was just such a shock to
me because I had Yeah, I had not seen that
type of growth on my account ever. So it kind
of almost felt like when I started TikTok and how
that felt to grow a huge following like overnight on
(07:19):
TikTok It. It reminded me of those feelings. It's a
little anxiety inducing thinking that so many new people are
going to be brand new to my page, like I
have to reintroduce myself. Are they going to like my content?
Are they going to like the things I post outside
of like my silly cooking content. So it was very
nerve wracking but also so exciting and so reassuring that
(07:42):
I was on the right path because this happened right
after I quit my job. Yeah, the first gave me
one hundred thousand followers.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So here you go, deal with it what you will.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Let me ease the second for you.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Yeah, but yeah, it was wild. It's very very strange
to grow such a large audience in such a short
pan of time. I don't think the human brain can
truly handle the emotions that come with that, because I
was just a normal ass bitch, like I was just
an average the same person.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Now I hell, did people finally see?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
It comes so strange about it.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
It's very hard to like comprehend that number of people
know like intimate things about me.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Wild And so a lot of friends, Now, yeah, I
got a lot a lot of friends, over a million friends,
I would say, was it I guess what one point three?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Probably close to one point three.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Yeah, if you total everything across.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's a lot of friends. And so TikTok, I need
to ask you. Cannabis is not friendly on TikTok. So
how'd you get around it? What do you do?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I made a lot of mistakes at first, and I
had to learn from those mistakes because videos would be
taken down and I would learn something about that video, Like, Okay,
I said that word in that video, I'm no longer
allowed to say that. Let me think of a code
word to represent weed or THHC or whatever. I can't
even say edibles confidently.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I usually say adult candy or some other type of
like code word.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Understand.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, So I yeah, I made a lot of mistakes
at first, and then I've just kind of learned to
change my lexicon a little so that I could fit
the community guidelines.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, and you got up track the code.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, got deleted every time I posted it and something
started to pick up. You're deleted.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, you got to learn to use secret language.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I mean, it's it's exactly like Instagram. I mean, like
you know, to a certain I don't know about it.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Instagram is way more lenient. Like I see people smoking
on Instagram, but you can't even pop smoke from off
screen on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I probably fifty sixty million views smoking a pound joint.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So yes, I was gonna say. It's it's the same
in the sense that they have their land minds that
you have to watch out for. It's definitely a different
landscape because I where Remo completely on Instagram. But yeah,
like how you were saying, like you can't use certain words,
you can't use, you know, put certain things in because
then it might look like it's a sale or something
like that. It's it's it's vastly, vastly hard, and that's
(10:12):
why we have to kind of like figure out like
how do we kind of you know, like you say,
integrate that product and not make it seem like we're punching.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
The naturally that you like exactly.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
So I've got a question for you as far as
TikTok goes. Do you think it'll be like banned from
use use here?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And if it does, because it did it did get
banned in what state?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Montana?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Montana.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Yeah, yeah, I have a feeling that's going to go away.
But it's not going to be like something that happens
next month. It's going to take a long time to
completely ban TikTok from our phones, however they're going to
do it. So I'm not super worried right now, but
I know, like I probably have at least a year
to figure out my plan. I TikTok goes away, and
(10:53):
I should start working on that plan.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Now do you think all those users are just gonna
come right back to Instagram or what?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I don't think so Twitter. I don't know. There's some new.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Apps temographic, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, And I don't know where people are gonna go
in terms of the new apps, Like there's one called
Lemon eight, and then there's another one called Clapper, which
I hate that name.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Who Ever named that app needs to be fired. Clapper Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
There Clapper Clapper?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Whoa watch my videos on Clapper.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Clapping? What clapper cells?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It's crazy?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Isn't Facebook rolling out like their version of reels? Also?
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, and oh so it's so weird. I've been cross
posting my Instagram stuff to Facebook since January and I've
gained over one hundred and eighty five thousand followers on
Facebook with a zero effort. Damn it's I have I
have no idea what's going on on Facebook, but people
are still there.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I've heard a lot of people use Facebook for show.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Yeah, I don't anymore. Like maybe once a quarter I'll
check up on people from high school to see who's pregnant.
Whose birthday is, yeah, exactly birthday.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's how it helps me, is like the emails on
the birthdays. Yeah, but no, yeah, I mean I think
Facebook is trying to ramp up their side of videos,
and I know that YouTube shorts is definitely like gaining steam.
Like a lot of people, a lot of people use
YouTube shorts. Now it's crazy, it's crazy you use YouTube shorts.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
I have, and I haven't really been able to grow
a following on YouTube. Yeh, so I'm still figuring out.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It is so like it's it's very information, you know,
like it's very like.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
But it's it's more entertaining than it is informational, I think.
I mean, I'm not trying to teach people that much.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean, are you putting recipes?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Recipes yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And that's what's great about the content is that her
content is both comical, but then you get to learn,
like how to cook something, like you know, she puts
a recipe with something. And you're also starting to do
a lot more traveling now right.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Yeah, I've definitely been hitting it hard on the travel
front because I just need to get the fuck out
of just get me out of here. But yeah, I
feel like, wait, what was the question again?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
The traveler.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
She started to think about everything like that.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Your content is so great because it's both comedic, but
with your traveling, where's it going to go in that direction?
Speaker 6 (13:45):
I mean, I have always loved the outdoors, and a
lot of my travel is kind of focused on getting
outside and doing cool things in nature. So a huge
part of my platform is just to share not only
my love of cannabis and cooking, but also my love
of nature. And I talk about mental health a lot.
(14:06):
I talk about, you know, like building healthy habits, and
sometimes I'll talk about psychedelics or you know whatever. But
I share so much of myself because it's it feels
really nice to bond with an audience in many aspects
of life, in many areas of time. So well, oh
thank you, I do it.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Very very well.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
We speak about psychedelics.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
On this Oh for sure, I'm just down. But I
just felt that it was more authentic for me to
create content that fully represented me and not just like
one or two things that I like. So I share
so much of like my my travel and my stories,
and I try to bring people on trips with me
(14:50):
just because I want to show people that you can
be a badass like stoner chick and still be like
out in nature doing really awesome things, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Like cooking on a skilling.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And I guess when I started Dope Kitchen as well,
I knew I was kind of entering the world of
cannabis influencers, and I wanted to be someone who's completely
different than the type of people who are out there
making content. I wanted to show people that you don't
have to fit the stereotype of what a stoner is
in order to consider yourself a stoner. So sharing so
(15:22):
much of my life from strength sports, hiking, like art,
whatever else I'm into, it just shows people that you
don't have to fit the mold. You can like be
whoever the fuck you are most proud of being. Said.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, we don't just sit on the couch and smoke.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we've came a long way.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Well how long have you been smoking cannabis?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Not long at all. So I smoked for the first
time when I was eighteen. I'm thirty two now, and
it was right after senior prom and my best friend
Matt rolled me. My first joint and that's when I
smoked cannabis for the first time.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And I only shut.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Out still one of my best friends today, let's go.
But I touched it a little bit in college, but
not too much because I kind of grew up thinking
that I never wanted to disappoint my parents, So getting
in trouble for weed or even underage drinking was like
so terrifying to me, So I rarely touched weed only
(16:22):
when I felt like most safe and comfortable with the
people I was with. But yeah, and then I only
like really started getting into cannabis about four to five
years ago when it became recreationally legal here in California.
I started smoking instead of drinking with my friends and
then we kind of got over like oedibles and smoking
(16:42):
and it started to become obviously a much bigger part
of my life during the pandemic when I started Dope
Kitchen and yeah, and my love for cannabis has just
grown and I'm still trying to learn so much. I
feel like there's so much knowledge out there that I
haven't even absorbed yet.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, I love that beautiful.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Oh yeah, that's a dope story.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, so do you no pun intin do you remember.
I didn't want to interrupt your story, but do you
remember the first strain? What was the strain?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It was like I always like to ask, you didn't
know at eighteen?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, I think I think mine was like banana something.
I remember him saying banana something, and it was a
waterfall when I was nineteen in college. Well yeah, it
fell straight back, fell straight back to the ground, laid
there and I was just like, yeah, this is great.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I'm good. So mushrooms. You're talking about.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Mushrooms not just mushrooms.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
No, no, no, I know, but yeah, you mentioned mushrooms.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Talk to us about mushrooms. Which in your journey with mushrooms.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Oh, I love mushrooms. I did them on the beach
this weekend and had a really good cry.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I was wonderful.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
But yeah, the first time I ever did mushrooms was
I think back in twenty seventeen someone gave them to me,
like for a night out. Yeah, and I had many giggles.
But I didn't really know much about mushrooms. I didn't
know like the mental health effects that mushrooms can have
on a person, So I didn't touch it again until
twenty twenty. A friend of mine had started getting into
(18:06):
mushrooms for mental health reasons, and she took some with
us on a trip to Mammoth, California. We were out
in nature and we took mushrooms on the lake and
it was just such a beautiful time, Like life just
felt so amazing and beautiful, and I felt just so
happy to be alive. So after that, I started talking
(18:26):
to my friend about mushrooms a little bit more, learning
a little bit more about it. I was picking up
books and watching documentaries and anything I could find on YouTube,
just to understand why I felt so happy on this
little planet. Yeah, I did. And that's when I started
to use them a bit more regularly. And they've helped
me process so many, like deep wounds that I haven't
(18:49):
even thought about in years. I feel like I've healed
a lot of my relationship with myself with mushrooms and
same with LSD. I absolutely love that substance. It has
changed my life in many ways. The most recent time
I did it, and it's not something I do too often,
(19:10):
but did it back in December. I was kind of
going through a rough time. It was just a couple
months after quitting my job, and I just felt very lost.
So my friend and I did an LSD trip at
my house. We painted, we went for a walk down
to the beach, and it was such a transformational experience,
like life just felt so beautiful. I found joy in
(19:31):
every little thing that was around me and every little
thing I was doing. And after that trip, you know,
there's always a lesson that you have to learn when
you're on psychedelics, and from that LSD trip, I learned
that there's a way for me to find joy and
everything that I do on a daily basis, and that's
through like building better habits. So I started to overhaul
(19:53):
a lot of my bad habits and replace them with
better habits. So I'm trying to go to bed at
the same time every night, I'm trying to read before
that every night. I get up at the same time
every day and try to work out in the mornings.
I change like how I approach cleaning an apartment. In
my apartment, I've changed a little bit of my relationship
with cannabis for a little while, and all of that
(20:14):
has helped me love and appreciate living life so much more.
And that was all rooted in that LSD trip.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oooh yeah, I never I mean yeah, that was a journey, transformation,
that was a journey.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, I've been there too.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, I've never loved that story. I've never taken LSD before.
So this is a good to know about, Alice.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
It's a commitment. You need a whole day plus a
couple of days to process what has happened to you. Yeah,
so i'd block off a solid three days.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's good to know.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
That's good to know. Yeah, you're sitting there like, oh
my god, what the fuck? Just hap.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yeah, it's so weird, Like coming down from any psychedelic trip,
you just have to be an adult again and like
do the dishes. It's so weird to go from like
being in outer space in this beautiful land of color
and wonder, and then you have to do the dishes.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I was just about to make. I was like, you
have to step back off the space ship.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah, back on Earth.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Have you done al No? No, no, from only shrooms. Yeah,
I'm a big shrim a one time, but yeah because.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Acid, Yeah, yeah, the same.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
This is what I never did again because it wasn't
my thing.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
But thing Okay, Yeah, legend allegendly, So we now we
now know your past about cannabis.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
How do you feel like your palette is when it
comes to knowing what you're smoking?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
I would say it's not great, okay, because I have
a cart full of cannabis products, and sometimes I don't
really think about what I'm reaching for when I grab
it and start packing a bowl. So yeah, I don't
really pay attention to the name as often as I should,
or the strain whatever I So I don't think I
(22:17):
have a very refined I smoke what's in front of
me and what's easiest.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
When we give back, we'll go put that palette to
the test. All right, we'll be right back. We'll see Nicole.
Blindly Baked yea.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
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Speaker 4 (22:45):
Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
All right, guys, So we are back and now joke kitchen,
we are about to play some blindly Baked. Are you ready?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I'm I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Okay, So just to let you know the rules real
real quick. We've got We've got three joints right in
front of you. Okay. Each joint is packed with the
flower that corresponds sitting right next to it. So there's
a nug right next to each joint. Each joint is
also labeled one, two, and three. We're gonna give you
three strain names and you're gonna pinpoint where they go.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Okay, all right, so.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Let me give you You could dry drag the joints.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yes, you could do whatever you need to do, but
the nug does correspond to the joint that it's sitting
next to you. Okay, all right, So in no particular order,
here are the three strings. We've got gorilla glue number
four that's from Sky Club. We've got Gelatto forty one
that's from West Coast to Cure. And then we've got
(23:43):
Gary Payton and that's from Black Tye CBD.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Gary Peyton Gelato. And what was the first one.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Gorilla glue Gorilla number number four. Yes, all right, so
you can go ahead and go through the nugs if
you want. You can do it I drag and then
whenever you want to the first joint and go and
spark the first joint that are you squeeze.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
From the side.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Okay, all right, she's smelling and you can crunch those
nugs if you want. Those are your nugs to have
so lovely? Yes, you can take them home with you,
you know, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I'm literally just gonna make random guesses.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You know what. Listen. She told us before we started
that she's most likely going to randomly guess. But you
know what, no one's gotten all of them right yet,
so maybe a random guess is what we need to
get them all right? So all right, so do you
want to spark them?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Not right now, I'm sufficiently stoned?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Should I should? Am I supposed to spark them before?
I guess?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
You can do?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Okay, I'm going to take a.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, you can just taste the turps a little bit,
do this squeeze? Yeah, that's a DuPont right.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Still, just have a lighter. I'm very basic.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
We got super lucky.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
We ran into this company at mj biscom and they
were just really dope people and they were talking about
how they're trying to integrate into the cannabis industry with
their amazing lighters. But they gifted us that I would yeah,
I would say, asked my favorite lighter right now.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
It's a good lighter. So that was Joint number one,
Joint number one. All right, So she just took a
toke from joint number one. Now, excuse me. The one
question I want to ask you is you were about
to make a guess. You were about to full out
make a guess before we said to hit those joints.
Is your guest still standing where it stands after you
took the hit from the first joint?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yes, oh, I like it.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Okay, you want to hit joint number two?
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
All right, she's going for joint number two. She seems
to be very confident, even though she's saying she's guessing.
She seems very confident about this. All right, Joint number two.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
This one is interesting. It's kind of almost flavorless, and
it didn't really have a strong smell.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
The other Yeah, okay, I'm.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Gonna call that one Gary Payton.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Okay, So you think you think number two is Gary Payton?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
And I'm just gonna go ahead and guess the other two.
I'm gonna number one is is it gorilla glue?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah? That's the other one, okay.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
And then number three is uh what was that one
called gelato? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Okay, final answer.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
No, No, I'm gonna switch. Look at that switch Gelato's
number one, and then Gorilla Glue is number three.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Okay, fuck, okay, So just to make sure you said
number one is Gelatto, number two is Gary Payton, and
number three is the Gorilla Glue.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yes, all right, final answer here we go.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Just to let you know, do kitchen, you got one right?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh, just and it was on the switch.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
It was on the switch.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Great job with the switch, Great job with the switch.
Just to let you know. Number one was actually the
Gary Payton. Wow, that's the Black Eye CBD. That's th
h c A Flower. Number two is West Coast Cure
and that was Gelato forty one. Seems like you didn't
get too much flavor out of that album. Number three
is the Sky Club Gorilla Glue number four. You got
that one right?
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Interesting there you doard?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh wow?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Second technically well second to me, yes, but first amongst
all the guests, she's tied first amongst all them. So
we we we actually do do vapes and dabs and
stuff like that. Do you partake in those things too?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Sometimes?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Okay, so maybe next time when we have you on
the show, we'll switch to Thank you so much for
being on Blindly Baked. You're officially in tied for first place.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Perfect, let's go all right, guys, We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah yeah, very nice.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
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Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah yeah, Welcome back to talking with the stars, hosted
by the very lovely Cannabis Talk one on one. Shout
out Cannabis Talk, shout out.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Let's love Cannabis Talk. But before we get out of.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Here, is there anything else that you wanted to let
the fans know about was coming in the future, anything
you want to shine some light on, because I'm sure
this new path that you started has got a lot
of like a lot of different ways you're gone with
everything that you do.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Yeah. So, I currently have a limited edition product for
sale and it is a cheese shaped pipe and it's
from Canna Style, So check out Canna Style. There are
only probably a few dozen left at this point, so
all you can. And then I do host trips for
female travelers who want to go out and explore with
(29:09):
other solo traveling women. So I keep an eye out
for those posts about upcoming trips in my Instagram stories
because that's usually where I promote those.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
So you know a lot of people do need travel buddies. Yeah,
go explore the world. Go check that out? Is the
cheese pipe?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
And like, what is it?
Speaker 5 (29:28):
A triangle cheese and it's orange too, Go check out
the cheese pipe.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I might have to go grab one.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
You said, can of Style, right, can of style? Can
of Style? Lovely? And can you tell us at all
where you're you're planning on maybe traveling this next year.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
I'm not quite sure yet, but probably at least one
domestic camping type of trip and maybe two international trips
with some sort of nature focus.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
How long are the trips.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Usually usually around a week.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah, that's nak nice break, go hiking or some somewhere
way far out of gatic.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I'm a beach hopper. I love chasing beaches.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Beaches are great.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, every eye.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Take me to a island or beach somewhere with the
sun and I can be in the water, away from
the sharks, away.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
From the sharks, away from the sharks.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
What's your favorite place you visited.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
I just got back from Costa Rica, and that was
pretty amazing. But I also went to Nepal last year,
which was absolutely insane. It was a really incredible experience.
The time of the year was it was October, so
it was nice fall weather, some hot days, some cooler days,
but nothing too unbearable.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Burf Costa Rica, How was that?
Speaker 6 (30:39):
That was an amazing experience. It was just so nice
to be, you know, sitting in the middle of the
jungle watching the heavy rainfall and hearing those sounds. Just
it was incredible.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
I got to experience that too, I feel like last
year or the year before.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Last, and it was the same experience. That was, man,
so dope, just to be out You don't you don't
see no houses or nothing.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You're just out there.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Did you get to travel through like hop into like
the little pits of water or whatever what do you
call it them?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oasis?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
What do you call it?
Speaker 6 (31:07):
I don't know, Oh, like a hot spring.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Well it wasn't hot, but it was just like we
had hiked through like some portion of the I don't know,
the jungle wherever we're at, and then all of a sudden,
there's a waterfall in the middle of it.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Oh yeah, we found a couple of waterfalls that we
were swimming around in, but we were whitewater rafting down
the Paquari River and that was amazing. It was really
wonderful and the water was just the perfect swimming temperature.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
So it's great.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
That's amazing. Well, tell everybody where they can find you at,
you know, where they can find all your content to
follow you.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Yeah, I'm on Instagram as Dope Underscore Underscore Kitchen. I'm
on TikTok as Dope Underscore Kitchen. I'm on YouTube just
as dope Kitchen. And where else am I? I guess
I'm on Clapper Dope Kitchen on.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Clapper Clap that my profile.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Yeah, come find me and hang out.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well, thank you so much for being on the show.
Like I just when I when I saw your content,
I was just like, she's doing something different here, and
I like this, like because I have not seen something
like this in our space yet. Yeah, you know, so, Marty,
what do we tell everybody at the end of every episode? Here,
(32:26):
stay high and goodbye, stay hi and goodbye. Thank you
so much, Nicole, go check out Dope Kitchen.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Lady.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
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