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Kim of Elevated Taste Buds. Howyou feel them, I'm doing good.
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I'm doing great. Now you hitin the Twin Cities and we're talking
about edible foods that is TAC anda fusee. Now, some people when
they hear this phrase, they automaticallythink something in their head and sometimes with
what they think isn't even what itis. So we're talking about THHC and
fuse products of food. What arewe exactly talking about. We are talking
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about a euphoric experience that is unlikesmoking a regular flower. It has health
benefits. Is we're talking about somethingthat's for the future. Now, it
feels like you're ahead of the gameas far as Minnesota's concerned, because when
I look at your products, they'rejust you know, they feel a lot
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more unique than a lot of otherpeople. You know, the basic gummies,
the basic lollipops, but you're doinga lot of different other things.
Let's talk about that. Yeah,that's why I kind of try to do
things that is outside of the box, because it's a niche, you know,
if everybody's getting into it. Alot of people are making edibles and
stuff like that. So I wantedto do things that stood out, things
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that I remember from like childhood.Like I do twinkies. I call them
twinkies. Yeah, I do umbanana flips. I do a lot of
old school snacks, and I dosome stuff that I just kind of created
on my own just to stand outand in front of the crowd so to
be noticed. That's pretty much whatI do. Now. Now, how
did you start getting into that?Because I mean, I mean personally,
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I don't I don't even know whereto starting something like that, But like,
how did you get into like whatwas passion behind you? Well,
you know what, I started cooking, hello young with my oldg So cooking
has always been an outlet for likecreativity and stuff like that. So I'm
not really I guess I want tosay it was I just find woke up
one morning and decided to do it. I always had a heart for cooking,
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but I am a stoner, soI've had a heart for that too.
So I just decided one day,you know, with everything going on
with the way that marijuana is progressedthrough the world and as far as legally
and stuff, I just figured,why not do what I know how to
do best and what I like todo. No, that definitely makes sense
that, you know. I don'tknow I people feel this way, but
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it's hot feel. You know.The barreed water culture is tac culture is
really strong here, you know,say, especially right now, but it's
soda even though they fully utilized allthat. But you know, it's still
growing. Where do you see thetac a bare water culture going in the
next few years, especially with youbeing somebody that's working at the inside.
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I really just see this industry takingoff so fast, Like man, I
see I see just the future andTHHC just being common. Like you know,
how people go to the liquor storeand buy liquor, They're gonna be
going to the corner stores and buyTHHC. You know what I'm saying.
Just good food people just finding itany and everywhere. You know what I'm
saying, accept it. People won'tbe turning their nose up or you know,
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acting crazy about smoking a weed.Like I think it's gonna be for
everybody, like everybody uses low key, but I think it'll be more publicity.
I think it'll be more just moreaccepted. As far as in all
communities, you know, from thetop of the hill to the bottom of
the hill, everybody pretty much indulged. So I think it's gonna just blow
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up, like yeast be twelve,just get it. And I think that's
good because one thing that bothers methe boasts we could be here in Minnesota
and the brothers and sisters as lockedup for bare water possession is selling weed
that you go to Illinois, whichis less than those six seven hour drive,
right, Yeah, people over therethey get released because it's legalized.
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Yeah, So I mean it's reallycrazy. Man. They talk about United
we stand and all this other stufflike how united all we or federal regulation
to weed. So it'll be interestingto see how it turns out, you
know. I think that I thinkas far as like legally and federally,
it's they're just really about the dollar. You know what I'm saying if it
makes the dollar and it makes somesense to them, didn't they looking into
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it right now? It's just theyfeel like I think they feel like they're
making more money on the illegal sidelocking folks up about it versus they would
think they would make on the legalside with it. So it's just a
trial and error thing with them.I think once they see the difference in
how the money come in versus illegallyand legally, I think it'll be very
much more accepted federally state, Imean, just legally period. That makes
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sense. Thanks for breaking that downto the financial standpoint, But let's also
talk about a health standpoint, becauseI feel like a lot of these people
that are overly conservative or even liberal, they forget about the great help betterfits
a couple of law would products likethis. Yeah, it's true. It's
a ton of benefits. You know, um, cbdn THHC is medically accepted
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and used for different treatments people likewith chromes, you know, different gi
excuse me GI infectual trans GI infections, my back, uh, my grain
headaches, anxiety, eating disorders,all kinds of stuff that THHC and CBD.
Do you know it? Does ithelps with a lot of inflammation.
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It has a lot of positive medicalaspects to it. Now, I think
that's good. I think, youknow, for b as I see the
cultural pushing forward, I see alot of people let go there, Bougie,
and this is about tac we andedibles. Once they start realizing how
much can affect their body. Betterto have the pills it to take it
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it off. So that's true,that's true. Pluses are more natural thing.
You know what I'm saying. Naturalways of healing is always better than
those peels and prescriptions. That stuffis really just put out here just to
keep you attached and coming back toget it. It don't really help you
to just keep you moving through theday. I definitely agreed out take us
through a day sometimes, like whatare some things that somebody like you has
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happened behind the seas because you know, we only see the final product,
but we don't really get to seea day to day. What's some stuff
that happens to day to day withyou, though created and doing what you
do that we probably wouldn't even thinkof though whom day to day. You
know what I'm gonna tell you,I really wake up I start off,
and I smoke because that's what Igot to do to get my brain going,
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you know. And I stand upin the middle of my kitchen and
I look at what I had,you know what I'm saying, and I
come with those ingredients. I justtry to figure out what I could do
next. Like the other day ago, I was in the kitchen talking to
my son and he was talking aboutdonuts, and I'm like, hey,
y'all probably could do that a doughnut. And I flipped out some banana on
us the other day and they wasbusting like it just on a day to
day basis, Like depends on whatI'm doing, you know, what I'm
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saying or what I'm interested in.I make my moon rocks and my high
pies, and I make my cookiesand my baked pops with his cake pops.
I make those pretty much on adaily basis. Those moon rocks go
crazy. No, that's definitely dope, man, And I'd be seeing you
on social media as well, Likeyou you'll be doing your thing. Now
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you've been doing the business, butnow you're also grow it and capitalizing war
with this event you have covered up. Let's talk about that, man,
I'm so excited. This is myfirst public event for twenty two at the
Minnesota Expo. I will be therevending. I am so excited for this.
Like I've been, you know,I've been indulging for a while,
so I've attended a bunch of differentvenues and things like that. But my
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first time doing that, I washit up, man from some lady.
I don't even know her. Shejust had been like you did, seeing
my posts, looking at my stuff, following me, and she was like,
hey, I got this event.Do you want to? And I'm
like, of course, I dude, what do you mean? I'm all
that. Yeah, man, I'mjust kind of I'm just taking up back
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because you know, I quit.I quit my job back in December,
and I just really went hard bassto the paint for this, you know
what I'm saying. And I'm blessed. I still got my crib, I
still got my car, I'm gettinggood health, I don't need nothing,
and my bills just paid and elevatedtaste buds been doing that. Now I'll
take us back to where you hadto quit your job, Like what was
going through your brain? Did youdown with yourself? Did you have to
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plan already together. Lord, doyou take a week of facete walk us
through that, because so many ofus that want to do that, but
we just don't it. Here,we have a person that actually did it
to take us through that real quick. Okay. So it was like a
Friday at the job, right,I'm looking around at all the people,
and I've been here for five yearsalready, you know what I'm saying.
I'm looking around at all the people, and I'm like, you've been here
for twenty five, you've been herefor seven, you're working up. I
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don't want to be like y'all typething, you know what I'm saying.
So I'm looking around like, yeah, I think I'm just gonna go ahead
and do what I want to do. So that Monday, I got up
that morning and I contacted a legalzoom and boom. I've just been rolling
ever since. It was really mucha step out on faith I take.
Man, God have walked me allthe way through this. Every single day
I don't wake up and not thankthem. I don't go to sleep and
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not tell them I appreciate what's happeningtoday, because without him, I would
you know where God really have walkedme straight on into this. And it
was that just that I walked outon faith. I just believed in the
Lord, and I believed in meand what I had, my abilities,
and I just did it. Youknow you. Sometimes we'd be scared,
we'd be nervous a failure, youknow what I'm saying. But you don't
fail if you don't try. Ihad to try. That's definitely worth it.
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We never don't what we do it. It's just like like you,
I just do it. Just reallydo it for real, for real,
just really do it. It's justit's just all in you. You know
what I'm saying. If you gotthe heart, you got the passion,
you forget about your nerves, Godo it. Put it out there.
Somebody gonna see it, somebody gonnawant it. You know what I'm saying.
Everybody got something type of talent,and if you know where your talent's
lying, you know where you're mosthappy. It's like, oh, pretty
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much. It was a hobby cooking, you know what I'm saying. I
cooks every day. But my kidsis grown now, you know what I'm
saying. My song twenty six,my daughter twenty one, they've grown.
So I'm not cooking every day.It's just me. So when I get
inspired, I'll get in the kitchenand get it done. You know what.
And it just clicked my brain.It's like, though I was gonna
say, it's like your artist,but you are an artists, Like you're
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putting things together and create a creation. That's what it really are. It's
really hippy. Now I say,that's dope. It definitely is an art
you know what I'm saying. Becauseplate presentation and you know, how you
preserve while you put your stuff outthere is make a real big difference,
you know what I'm saying. Ifyour stuff looking buglers, ain't nobody gonna
be checking for you. But ifyou put your creativity to it, you
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know what I'm saying, people gonnabe like, oh, you know,
people eat with their eyes first.Anyway, when you see it, you
want it. You don't even knowwhat it takes like because it looks so
good. I want it. Soif the visual part of it is is
the best part about the food Igot Because people see my like the monkies,
they see them and they go allthe way back to childhood, like,
oh my god, who does that? And it's adulted? Oh Okay,
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let's get it. Take them allthe way back, man, take
them all the way back. Andit's it's just you know, for me
and I like to see how peoplereact to my stuff, you know what
I'm saying, Like, Man,some of my responses online is go they
go hand, people going hand formy stuff. I'm just blessed, Like
I'm really appreciative. I am.I'm really a blessed and appreciative of where
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I'm at right now. This Minnesotais opening so many doors for people like
me and all kinds of other people. You know what I'm saying, Like,
it's it's going down, So putyour foot in the water so you
could test it might be the oneyou're looking for for sure. Now where
do you see elevated Taste bus goingto the next two to three years,
because you're definitely making a lot ofwhooping the ground. Okay, so this
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this the rest of this year.I know, I got a couple of
pop up events I got too thatI was invited to out in Vegas this
June. I gotta pop up beingout in Houston and my cousin gonna be
hosted for me. I'm gonna bedoing that the week of my birthday,
which is August. In another coupleof years. I really just see me
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somewhere else opening up another function ofits elevated Taste buzz thing. You know,
I'm just growing, you know whatI'm saying. I'm trying to have
something to leave to my grandson.You know he too. I just want
him to have something when he getup there. You know what I'm saying,
show my kids how to get theirown and have they only keep it.
You know what I'm saying, justsome generational wealth, and I'm just
trying to make sure b and mighthave that. So I just really see
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us blowing up like yeast, likeI see us making it happen. And
another five or ten years, Ithink we'll have about three or four branches.
I definitely feel that I can seeher. I can see that covered.
I definitely have to respect that aswell. Now, for people that
I listened, let's talk a littlebit more about the expot where's the expert
of to be at? How canthey come to the table, how can
they come check you out? Ofall that? First that could hit me
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up on Facebook, make it hitup my elevated Taste buzz page. I
have tickets and I have my ownCounty cold so they can get straight directly
at me through Facebook, Instagram orSnapchat. Elevated Taste Budds of course,
Uh and uh, just hit meup. It's downtown at the Music Cafe.
I believe that's the name of it. And what is his name?
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D D Nice? I believe it'sthe host of that one. I don't
want to lie to you. Iwas just excited that they invited me.
I promise you. I don't wanta lot of nobody, but come on
down because it's gonna be going downat the Minnesota Expo on Saturday. Elevated
Taste Budds will be in the buildingand it's gonna be everything you imagine any
more. Well, I definitely gottasay, man, I appreciate you coming
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through and spend a time with uson BTC iHeart Radio. I've already I'm
too did, I'm too did.I'll be seeing what you got gold or
I have a couple best with youbecause you know, I actually have crows
disease and so what you're talking aboutit lines up with meat. I'm tired
to have to go through this medicalcar process and all that where we got
people like you out here. Youfeel me right, and you know what
I mean. I got so food. I got all the things that you're
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looking for, all them homemade dishesthat you know, you know I do
food and everything. I'm I startnext month on May thirteenth is my first
brunch. So I'll do a privatebrunch of seating the fifteen to twenty people
all in Fuse with a Mimosa bar. So that's gonna be real, real
nice. Oh you're not playing around. I need that young little invite.
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Yeah, I got you. Justlink up with your girl. You know
how that girl? I got you. Yeah, link up with your girl.
I got privacyats available for that again. Just hit me up on Facebook,
Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, allof that elevated taste budds. I'm
there a Ben's the power our FNTCbest the music, elevated taste buzzs.
Make sure I'll stay too. Man, We out