Seize an opportunity to traverse the path less taken with Julius, Puff, and Dante, the enterprising trio behind Baltimore's innovative cannabis business. As we start our conversation, they shed light on their journey, from the inception of their idea to their pursuit of the perfect location for their venture. Brace yourself as they reveal their struggles in shaking off traditional cannabis stereotypes, handling countless rejections, and carving out a unique identity in this burgeoning industry.
Dive deeper into the nitty-gritty of steering a cannabis business amidst the prevailing stigma and ensuring the legality of their enterprise. Get ready as our guests open up about the significance of educating themselves and their clientele about cannabis laws and benefits. The discussion takes a dynamic turn as we explore the potential role of parents in familiarizing their children with this industry and the possible risks involved. Further, the conversation incorporates the decision-making process and the ingenious strategies they've deployed to edge out the competition.
As we pull up the curtain on this enlightening conversation, our guests retrace their encounters with the Baltimore police while steering their business. We delve into the legal repercussions and the paramountcy of operating within the legal boundaries. Finally, we engage in a fascinating discussion about their future plans and the ongoing expansion of their business. So, seize this golden opportunity to learn about the cannabis business from the pioneers who're smashing through barriers and setting the pace in Baltimore.
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Seize an opportunity to traverse the path less taken with Julius, Puff, and Dante, the enterprising trio behind Baltimore's innovative cannabis business. As we start our conversation, they shed light on their journey, from the inception of their idea to their pursuit of the perfect location for their venture. Brace yourself as they reveal their struggles in shaking off traditional cannabis stereotypes, handling countless rejections, and carving out a unique identity in this burgeoning industry.
Dive deeper into the nitty-gritty of steering a cannabis business amidst the prevailing stigma and ensuring the legality of their enterprise. Get ready as our guests open up about the significance of educating themselves and their clientele about cannabis laws and benefits. The discussion takes a dynamic turn as we explore the potential role of parents in familiarizing their children with this industry and the possible risks involved. Further, the conversation incorporates the decision-making process and the ingenious strategies they've deployed to edge out the competition.
As we pull up the curtain on this enlightening conversation, our guests retrace their encounters with the Baltimore police while steering their business. We delve into the legal repercussions and the paramountcy of operating within the legal boundaries. Finally, we engage in a fascinating discussion about their future plans and the ongoing expansion of their business. So, seize this golden opportunity to learn about the cannabis business from the pioneers who're smashing through barriers and setting the pace in Baltimore.
This show is sponsored by @bubbledgalorme #1 soap lady of the dmv
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Welcome back to another episode of the Vibes podcast. Man, as you can see, the shirts is different, the people are different. Man, listen, I got some marvelous brothers here. For all the smokers and wannabe smokers, I'm not even going to say they're now, you should know where they're at. They got the police, they got the security and they got the plants. So I'm going to go ahead and swing it to my guy before we swing it to the rest. Who are you, brother.
Speaker 2:My name is Julius Franks. I'm the Chief Operations Officer for Lottie Puff and Baltimore Hydroplastics.
Speaker 1:Alright, brother, you changed your accent, but that's cool. Yeah, yeah, I'm Julius, but that's cool. Go ahead, brother.
Speaker 3:My name is Puff, I'm a CEO.
Speaker 1:And that's on you, brother.
Speaker 4:My name is Dante and I'm the Vice President of Entertainment for Lottie Puff.
Speaker 1:Man. So with this new wave that happened in Maryland, would we become illegal? Tell people how this goes. How did this, like you called it? You want to say y'all was the Power Puff Girls, the Wee and that I'm saying.
Speaker 3:They never liked the Power.
Speaker 1:Puff Girls. They never liked them in a bottle Chemical X. So how does it happen? Like you put it to him like who made, who made who.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean pretty much. Puff came to me he wanted to start a business because I help people create businesses and their filings and stuff.
Speaker 2:So, I was going to help him out, but then normally I don't listen to people, but he said the name and I was like man, that's. So you can do a lot more than what you want to do with that. Just give me a day and I'm going to get back with you. So last in a day, I called him up and I was like Puff, it's going to be crazy. This is way bigger than you can even imagine. We can teach people how to grow, we can sell plants, we can do all kinds of stuff. This is before the law even came out. I just knew what the law was going to be, just the way it was structured.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you knew what was coming. I just knew it.
Speaker 2:And so he was like all right. And then we kind of I say that was about the 5th of November. Then on the 6th is when we actually decided to say we'll do it. So coming to 18th of November we filed for the company. Come to 29th of November we got approved for the company and from there we just been running ever since. And then we hit Dante. In December we figured out we needed one more person to bring out something else to us.
Speaker 2:So, we met him in the back of his house in his alley.
Speaker 1:What the fuck that?
Speaker 2:deal. Was this what you mean? You know, phone calls in 2023 is a thing bro, Nah, nah, nah. This is all face to face.
Speaker 1:I got to feel you and man, I said, come to the alley.
Speaker 2:I wasn't in the way I swear to you.
Speaker 1:What the fuck you went, oh, man. So y'all all came together, man, the big thing people want to know, since this was your brainchild and you assembled all the Avengers around you. Okay, I'm talking to you now. How much did this cost? Because I know the entry to get all this is crazy.
Speaker 3:One thing when you chasing success in a dream, you got to sacrifice, whatever it is that you got to.
Speaker 5:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:It's hard work, it comes with sacrifice. Okay, and that's just what it is. I miss bills and some more stuff.
Speaker 5:Put it on the line for it.
Speaker 3:Because we see what this vision is. We want to build a community of our own and help everybody become more self-sufficient. We ain't got to depend on nobody. It's bottom or turn, so that's how we come in.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you this why did you come up with the name Loudie Puff Loudie.
Speaker 3:Puff Boys and Girls Club. It's the name.
Speaker 2:Okay, All right bro.
Speaker 3:Boys and Girls Club. It's Loudie Puff for short Okay.
Speaker 1:So when you, when I was talking to your manager with the Boys and Girls Club, this is a weed brother.
Speaker 3:I mean you were turned to Roman and Women's Club. I'm just saying like we want to be inclusive and include everybody. Everybody's into weed. I mean I've been in the weed my damn, damn whole life.
Speaker 1:So you, so you was so before you was selling weed legally, you was doing your thing, Safe to say.
Speaker 3:I've been involved with weed my whole life. Good answer, good answer, good answer. I've been around weed my whole life.
Speaker 1:I love to smoke it, so how was it for you coming on? It was you. Was you apprehensive at first?
Speaker 4:As soon as they came to me with the idea. You know, it took me less than what, less than a minute to say man, I'm all in, and I mean so. I went all in, man, as soon as he came to my, as soon as you met my ally.
Speaker 1:She said it all started from that ally.
Speaker 4:I was all in after that man.
Speaker 1:So what have y'all learned so far starting this business in Baltimore, like, explain us what's the hardships of this, because y'all been in this for a little bit now, not too long.
Speaker 2:The biggest hardships is just people just being still stuck in the old ways of thinking marijuana or now cannabis is illegal and it's not as legal.
Speaker 1:Just trying to get everybody to understand that we still scared to smoke outside Everybody. Not Puff, though.
Speaker 2:I want to.
Speaker 1:Puff was in front of a children's center. I'm like bro, can we move please? Right in front of the kids.
Speaker 3:It helps anybody with those children. They don't even think about it.
Speaker 1:So what made y'all choose the location? Because I'm aware that y'all got three levels.
Speaker 2:Well, actually just a brief story about the location. That's just crazy how it started. We were trying to get into a new horse shop center. They refused to talk to us. They wouldn't even give us a reason why. They just said well, we really can't deal with your business. Then we called other places in Baltimore County. They wouldn't respond to us.
Speaker 2:You know, the county ain't going for that shit. No, but we went out to try to get to a flea market and they were talking with us back and forth and it looked like things were going good. We were studying the law.
Speaker 2:Just to give more information to our supporters and then at the last minute they said no. Out of frustration, we walked down a fell's point and we went past the location, came back, saw the number and was like that's called. Well, puff said let's call. And our first was like nah, why? What they didn't do to say no. It was like nah, let's just see. I was like you know what? What's the worst thing they can do? To say no, that's the worst thing they can say. So we called. Next day the guy called us back. He said hey, you want to set up a tour Next day.
Speaker 1:we took the tour and then it was gone from there.
Speaker 4:The story. I mean, it was our vision. It was like, honestly, it was like an adventure, because we was walking frustrated. Man as soon as we said. It was like you know how the skies open, like how it was like this is it right here?
Speaker 5:This is what we're looking for.
Speaker 4:So when we saw it, it was like it was no more, it was just go more.
Speaker 1:It was right then and there. So, with that being said, man, we'll separate y'all from all these other dispensaries. I want to hear from each one of y'all, for the TCU, what's separate y'all?
Speaker 2:Well, for one, we're not a dispensary, we're a hydroponic store. We teach people how to grow.
Speaker 1:I say I don't know what that word mean, bro, you can look, we did in my face and I still don't know.
Speaker 2:Hydroponic, basically, is growing soilless. Okay, just using different methods and means or mediums like coca-cord rock wall stones, but just basically different methods on growing without using actual soil, oh yeah, so we want to do a hydroponic store and with us we sell plants. We basically can teach you how to grow from seed to smoke, how to cure your plants. Anything you need to do with marijuana we can teach. Everybody in the 80s is upset right now. Yeah, yeah, we know one.
Speaker 1:For a fact. So I'm going to ask the brain child what separates you from? We are not a dispensary. So what separates y'all from everybody else?
Speaker 3:The fact that we're not here to step on nobody toes we're not in competition with nobody. We're the first and Baltimore, and we want to teach everybody to be their own bosses. Become your own resource. And you gotta keep spending your money with the dispensary or these other people you know. Outside you can't trust everything that's out there. They're lacing their shit.
Speaker 1:They're fitting all in some of these packs.
Speaker 3:You can't smoke, so weed out here. It's crazy. You can't even buy a regular weed out here.
Speaker 1:Hell no.
Speaker 3:Everything got an exotic name to this shit, but people don't understand. Plants are living and it's kind of like I ain't never thought I was going to be a farmer back in the day, but just to have your own hands into growing your own and knowing exactly what's into it. You gotta actually get up care to it, and then it makes the end result even more worth it. It's good we know exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 1:And how about you VP?
Speaker 4:Yeah, man, I got a piggyback off him. It's just knowing what you smoking. Like I said, I was going to the dispensary some years ago when I first got my medical marijuana cut. It's just like a total difference. When they first introduced me to the pot that they grew, it was like he said this shit Like that. It was a total different experience. And not only that from the stuff that you grow that you can actually taste the difference. You know what.
Speaker 4:I mean Just dealing with weeds, you know, is just like the things that they taught me was just like. This is how the ash spools will look when it burns. This is how this spools will look.
Speaker 1:It was a sign to this. I was just smoking weed, so are y'all about to teach me?
Speaker 5:I wasn't, I'm in the government.
Speaker 1:I don't smoke weed, but so let me get y'all individual experiences. What, when was the first time y'all smoked?
Speaker 2:Oh, this is the dopest thing ever. The first time I ever smoked was with this guy.
Speaker 1:Wait wait, wait. So you took this goddamn vet and you gave him weed.
Speaker 2:Hey man, look, this is in the home store. I know this guy since I was in third grade.
Speaker 1:Oh shit. So how was your first time smoking?
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely, he took me. We went for a walk. You hit the alley, I know him, but I didn't even I didn't. I thought I wasn't high. We dipped off and left. I said, all right, peace. I was so nervous because paranoid, because I thought my mom was going to smell it, cause I could smell it in my nose. So I walked home about a mile and a half Still could smell it, got in front of my door. I stood in front of my door for 30 minutes Like panicking. I thought I was going to die. I had a panic attack. I think my mother was right there waiting for me Getting the house. She's asleep, walking, pass out. That was my first experience and you loved it ever since. Nah, nope, nope, I was done. I didn't smoke again until about, maybe about six months later, when I had him again.
Speaker 1:So you're really the bad influence in the group? Okay, all right. So he got paranoid. How about you, man? Where were you at? How old were you when you first started smoking? I was about 12.
Speaker 3:Damn man.
Speaker 1:All right, Run the store to me bro.
Speaker 3:That's funny. They, my nephew, got me high. We like the same age. I'm like three months old.
Speaker 1:We're not even going to go to X. How y'all, you and your nipples, we're like three months older than each other.
Speaker 3:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're not your nipples.
Speaker 3:So the crazy boy was me, him and another homeboy. We smoked in your backyard, okay, because I used to be out with the homies all the time. They always smoking weed. I was like no, no, no. I smoke like blacks or something a little lame At 12, bro. We live in Baltimore. Oh, all right, bro, you was going to fucking throw it, all right. So look like. So we in the backyard we smoke it, and it's crazy because we started with like some good shit Okay, like silver haze and like purple.
Speaker 1:Oh, back when we had seas and the shit.
Speaker 3:But this was like the exotic back in the day I say. I had the giggles. I kept smiling, I couldn't stop. I'm like, bro, I feel good, I can't stop smiling, I'm giggling and all that. I'm like. It'll feel like I'm swimming, but I'm not. I just felt comfortable outside. They tripping on me right Because they been smoking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that first time smoking weed is crazy, I get home look, because me and my nephew was on my grandma's Right.
Speaker 3:I get home, I get to sing and I believe.
Speaker 5:I can fly.
Speaker 3:He recorded me. I was tripping, he tripping on me talking to shorty or whatever man tripping on me, and ever since then I'm like I like this. I was like this whatever I get my hands on this, it's what.
Speaker 1:I'm doing Fucking blacks, man. How about you, man? Because you clearly the bad influence brother.
Speaker 4:My first time was with my brother, Probably about the ages around 13 years ago with my brother. He went to New York, came back with some chocolate tie.
Speaker 1:He remembered that they remember this Like that. Shit was like that.
Speaker 4:My first one was smoked with him and after that man, it was off to the races. It was like I met up with this guy. I ate man. Look, we used to take bus trips, man. Yeah, we used to get it in. So we used to take bus trips, man, get weed. But yeah, that's when the first time I've enjoyed myself smoking marijuana.
Speaker 1:Are your family and friends, especially the older generation, cool with what y'all doing, or they still like you doing what?
Speaker 2:Oh well, so here's the thing you don't know I've been growing since 2007.
Speaker 1:So you've been a criminal since 2007.
Speaker 2:Actually, I was a patient, self-medicating patient, oh okay, self-medicated.
Speaker 1:We all self-medicated in 2007.
Speaker 2:Chief operations officer. Again, I was never came. I was the police officer.
Speaker 1:Wait. So he hooked you up with smoking weed and then he was like, no, I'm gonna grow my shit, yeah. So you just went to the next level. Absolutely. You say jail time is for me.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I actually read the law and the law said it was a 5-year max Again if you had low convictions. But at first time offense you look at that probation. So I was worth the risk. So you risked that shit 100%.
Speaker 1:How many plans you have at one time.
Speaker 2:The highest was about 99.
Speaker 1:99 what Plans?
Speaker 2:Oh, you was In my house.
Speaker 1:You was the plus.
Speaker 2:Oh, let me just say this, like from 2008 to 2012, December, if you lived in Nundalk on.
Speaker 1:Essex, I was getting my weave from you. Oh, you had the city on lock. Oh, what line. Okay.
Speaker 2:I knew a guy in the county I used to go to school with Okay, so you was a James St Patrick or Baltimore.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, that's power, by the way, yeah, that's reference to power.
Speaker 1:I know you need to know.
Speaker 3:I'm like all right, all right.
Speaker 1:I'm damn damn. So it was smokey, chris Rock, you know you Smoky.
Speaker 3:More like big wine. Oh damn Big more.
Speaker 2:I wasn't chasing, I wasn't choking, I wasn't smoking.
Speaker 1:Nah, were you grown before this situation?
Speaker 3:Me. Yeah, no, I learned how to grow from this guy. He taught me and it's a crazy part I tried to. Before this even became a thing, I tried to get him to do some growth for me. Right, I'm good, like you need some tips.
Speaker 1:Look, look the plug said no, I'm good, yeah, I'm saying because at this point he was chilling you know what?
Speaker 5:I'm saying you weren't on that. He was tired.
Speaker 3:No, I'm like oh okay, and then we've revisited the conversation at a certain conversation later and I'm like I'm in, you know what I'm saying, I'm in. Whatever you need to do, I'm step by step.
Speaker 3:My eyes are like brothers. I don't know why I ain't been did this. The crazy part is my other, my homeboy. I had him like yummy digging into the growing. Situation was so it's really me and him. But now I used to try coming him like some tips because you know, he was kind of new, my man, he's always try to get me because I'm gonna give him some credit now Because he's always try to get me to grow and I'm like I get to it. I get to.
Speaker 3:I get some time, I get to. Yeah, you ever say. But then when it was time to start clicking, it was like bro, I'll be crazy not to know this.
Speaker 1:Mmm. So do you now, with all y'all having your own business and y'all locked into this, do y'all only smoke your own brand?
Speaker 3:No, no, we don't only because we do reviews. We like to do reviews.
Speaker 5:I'll do reviews.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like that figure out. I mean, what else going on in the city.
Speaker 1:So we are doing reviews. I'm gonna ask you, you want to hear what they say, to influence you. Right now, we're gonna say top three.
Speaker 4:We should top three products right now from us is gotta be white rainbow, cindy 99 and Alien curtains.
Speaker 1:Do you think y'all got the best in the city? Absolutely hands down, so nobody else can be like without a question.
Speaker 4:I know as the smoke we all over the city, right, it's who I understood what we was and how it's supposed to look. Smell, right, I know that we got the best product in the city.
Speaker 1:Do y'all how long y'all had this business? Y'all say a couple, what? Seven and nine months since November? Since November, do y'all feel as though that y'all have really taken over the city market? Because, like I was telling you Before y'all reached out to me or whatever, I was seeing y'all a fucking a lot and I was like who the fuck is this? It would be podcast, having interviews is all his loudie puff, loudie puff. Y'all gotta give that loudie puff. And I'm like this shit not even legal yet what's what's happening? It's it's me what's going on. But y'all have stamped your name so loudly in Baltimore that y'all are.
Speaker 1:And now did my reviews. Y'all people love y'all and it's different from what y'all was saying. Y'all not a dispensary, but far as just noise making, y'all Make the most noise. So when I went to your page and I was like no shit, not right. I know y'all bigger than this. I know for a fact because everybody I asked it was like loudie puff, that's why I go. I was like y'all go to the dispensary and done dog. It was like no, loudie puff is where I go. And the people that went to your events and your seminars, they was like gasmo we. But I'm learning shit now like it's different here, because even with your memberships, when I'm gonna let you speak on, when you told me a membership a couple days ago, I was like wait the fuck a minute, this shit, this shit might be on to something. I want to get a membership now. So who I did wasn't to have a membership. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean as far as I, as far as what the memberships going for the education portion? We knew that going to the event you'll get the information. You might take some notes, but you won't be able to retain all that information a lot.
Speaker 2:So we decided to do a website and at a website a lot people know it took us about a month and a half to do that Website. We literally did everything on there by ourselves. We didn't pay anybody, step us up, every words, our words, we did it all. We wanted to make sure it was done. Right, right. This man right here was like he was adamant. We got to make sure it's right before we put it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, business man, yeah, and so we take the time. We did it right. So, on the website, if you go there, you can learn how to grow step by step. I mean that shit week by week, you can learn how to cure, you can learn how to clone, you can literally take the step that we don't need anybody else, hmm, but yourself to grow.
Speaker 1:When I was doing my research and I asked about y'all, everybody said the same thing sorry to our city, but we we kind of got a little corrupt situation going on. So they was asking me to ask y'all how do y'all make sure y'all stay outside of the corruption with the police, mayor, senators, whatever and actually run a legitimate business, because everybody thinks like a fucking drug front, money laundering pretty much.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I love that's an excellent question. Well, the one thing is, if people understood how the law works. I mean, we were allowing on the 2018 farm bill as well as the actual house bill 0837 that Maryland just passed. Hmm which gives us the legitimacy to do what we do without having to rely on Anybody's extra help.
Speaker 5:Hmm.
Speaker 2:So for us, we were strictly running by the books, without any help easily because we know what we're doing and we studied before we got to this point. We didn't just jump in, we knew we're getting into before we got here.
Speaker 1:How do y'all work out security with your business will make it sure y'all have never been robbed before. I mean.
Speaker 3:You gotta think about it.
Speaker 1:I gotta write. I mean, you gotta think about it.
Speaker 3:Right. So if you was the Rob us, not only do you gotta get the plans, but you got to take care of it and then make it bud, but you probably come to our store, thank you.
Speaker 2:Newtune crazy flex how to grow from us. So yeah, we'll give you the plan.
Speaker 3:Maybe come a member online, get a study guy. See the flower.
Speaker 1:I was learning about the whole weed situation and I was talking to my own girl by that. I was like yo, what's more expensive, to have a plan or to have weed? She was like you got a plan out and I don't know nothing about weed, so this is my thinking. I was like, yeah, I can get a plan. I was like I might sell it cuz I don't know how I grow it. She was like I sell for how much? I was like $80. She looked at me and laughed in my fucking face. She said boy, you want to sell a weed plan for $80. I didn't know the plan. If you actually take care of it is you will make money continuously, continuously.
Speaker 2:That's what we want people to teach. The standard building, you literally can continue to grow forever. And if you want to switch up your strange, you can come to us right now. We got 13 account.
Speaker 5:We're about to add a couple more next week.
Speaker 2:The fact is, we won't continue to keep growing, to keep growing, and we want to grow with everybody here, baltimore period.
Speaker 1:So y'all for what I see right here, y'all really for the people like 1000%, because we know, you know, I mean just being in this avenue here- there's a lot of people that was doing it under the shadows and now that we here man come out. Do y'all feel like at some point we are reach our maximum, that y'all want to branch out from Baltimore? Or do y'all want this to be a home home base, like we got one mega store, cuz I gotta got their mega store. So how do y'all?
Speaker 2:want this to work. I mean, we want to, we want to branch out, but the main, but Baltimore is it. It's gonna be Baltimore hot upon its Wherever that is, it's not gonna be anything else. It's gonna be Baltimore hot upon its wherever right, whether it be in Colombia.
Speaker 4:What.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Do y'all have kids?
Speaker 4:I have a son, 16 year old son now I don't.
Speaker 3:I'm forcing my daughter past the way 2017. She's like four months.
Speaker 2:How about you rubber? I got two daughters birthdays the same day. Three is apart, same baby mother. What's mother of my children?
Speaker 1:pardon me, yeah About that. So how do y'all feel with y'all being in this business? Are y'all gonna let your kids smoke?
Speaker 4:Me personally absolutely when my son gets to the right age when he's responsible enough.
Speaker 1:He's gonna be able to. What the hell is the right age to smoke weed?
Speaker 4:I started when I was 12. All right, yeah, he did too 13 years old, and so I'm my son 16, so I'm pretty much he pretty much of. He's not into it yet. He want to know the business, but he's not into the smoking part yet and whenever he's ready. I like I told him his first experience what I would like for to be that's crazy.
Speaker 1:For your first experience, we smuggled with your pops look, my first.
Speaker 4:Well, like I said, my first experience with my brother, my uncle's, in that we used to still have weed. That's when the weed was in the little manila. We had to steal his weed and go out in the playground and fake smoke. So I would rather for my son to come to me like hey dad, look, I'm ready to try now you got a son, so I expect that response.
Speaker 1:You got daughters and we know what come with weed with women, so how do you go with this? Because most girls will smoke weed with dudes.
Speaker 2:This is I treat weed like I treat guns. Oh my daughter's been. My daughter's been shooting since she was nine years or ten years old. She started practicing at nine 11 now, but we've been practicing with guns since she was nine years. Oh, so when she got it she wasn't scared of it Hmm same thing with we. My kids have been around we, since. They've been infants Like I. My oldest daughter used to always talk about it. She lived in a forest. Everybody thought she was playing. She really was playing.
Speaker 1:Sir, we know, I know, I hope you do your daughter wasn't going to school saying she lived in a forest brother?
Speaker 2:She did, but everybody thought she was playing in the man. Thank God, thank God, god, yeah, my kids always been around. We so for them and they don't really have an interest in it. Oh, yeah, for them. They just looking at my, my youngest over.
Speaker 3:She just wants to get in the business as far as the money side, I'll do her. She got snowball business there.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, she's gonna have a snow ball stand right there on the side of oh y'all, y'all really making moves out here when part of Baltimore y'all from.
Speaker 4:Well, I'm a. I'm a. I spend most of my time in East Baltimore.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you was like Towson prairie hall type shit.
Speaker 5:Oh.
Speaker 4:I white marsh type shit got you.
Speaker 1:I like how you chose the good areas. That's what's up. You was close to this man. How about you, brother? I'm from Park Heights too, fuck it is dummy.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do, I see you before you 36, I live, I'm 32.
Speaker 3:Oh, I live the Rockfield Oakford Avenue over there. No, oh I, he was getting how you live. Yeah, man, that's what I mean. But we've been over east for a while, though, so I met this guy yeah.
Speaker 1:So, with all this going on, how does the business run like? Do all of y'all have to agree? Is it two out of the three? How does this? Who makes the final? Final say has to be to one.
Speaker 3:Even if it's like a disagreement, like we got to be broken down.
Speaker 5:We gotta be explained and it would come around.
Speaker 3:Like I said, shout out to tip me.
Speaker 5:Shout out the tips.
Speaker 3:A couple days ago, not even like two weeks ago.
Speaker 1:I was right, I was tall as fuck.
Speaker 3:I'm like no, I ain't with all that getting on camera and all that, right. She's like, all right, I'm gonna take it as a slow yes. I'm gonna say I'm gonna just put your ID. But yeah, we'll get around to it, look at it. Yeah, because the idea.
Speaker 4:But you got the idea first was not why? Because it was just like one of those things we was just talking, we all discussed it. It was like I had we go to do it. You know, when we first came out, when I first saw these guys, they was wearing masks. So it was like, you know, they didn't know we involved until, like we got to be the faces of the burn, like they got to see all three of us together and you know I was talking to tip me before we get to her.
Speaker 1:I was saying, yo, you know how hard it is. I cannot find a picture with all of you what. It's only it's only handful, it's a handful like y'all really run y'all operations separately, whatever y'all in control of y'all handle. That Wouldn't made y'all choose tippy though. Man because I got my own story about tippy. But what made y'all choose that?
Speaker 2:I can't say this one.
Speaker 1:Well, you want to say by it's?
Speaker 2:a group decision. I mean when. The second one. I mean the reason why was is when I second know a third event. I want to say a third event. We had some comedians. We had comedians that really good comedians, but we were new to having comedians that I've met and we just happened to reach out to her. I've known her for a long time and she came through for us in a big, in a big way and she found out that one of the comedians were basically gonna cancel us and wasn't gonna tell us she's oh, that was gonna do y'all dirty like that yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was my cousin. Oh, tell me my own cousin, okay, I wasn't doing that I wasn't going to go there. But no, she can't. She let us know what was going on, right, it was that look, do you want me to come through and take it? I'm like, yeah, and she did like like immediately, so then came back. We was getting this situation. We realized we needed some help with Our social presence.
Speaker 2:We just put in our work in, but we was missing some things and she came in your presence and she came in and just from what, how she did before and how she's come through so far, it wasn't even a hard choice.
Speaker 1:What made you choose tip?
Speaker 3:because your cousin was a piece of shit, lab I ain't gonna see a piece of shit shot out to my cousin, but it was a. It was a no-brainer. It was a no-brainer like the field that she's in. She's connected with so many people. She says a great person and she be, she's stand on business like and she do the extra stuff, your acts of the year, like just a small stuff and I had to really tell I appreciate it.
Speaker 3:Yeah simple shit just like, oh, helping clean up, putting some food in the fridge of a like simple stuff. It's checking. That just speaks on character and I just I really appreciate and glad that we did me. Yeah she definitely helped put us together.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna say my story about tippy man. I ain't got the same good-ass fucking story, but oh okay. So, oh, way back. I want to say about 2021. Ish, right, I reached out to tipi. I like how y'all made the shit work. I reached out to tipi a couple times. I was like yo, tippy, come on the show. Do you know? Hello, ass, tall ass was sitting there, just read my message. Rat did me dirty, but I will say she's staying on business. She made sure that y'all had everything y'all needed. She made sure she caught. She FaceTime me at night. She was like, hey, I just want to make sure we good, we good, 530. Yep, all right, here's the pictures. I ain't like the promo you did.
Speaker 1:I don't like that. You gonna put this one out. I said, yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, whatever you say, she's staying on business. She will make sure. Not only does she call you, she wants to your face, she want to make sure. We got locked eyes. I was like, okay, so the fact that y'all have all came together and found this woman right here, y'all built a nice fucking team. So with every team got to come this question what is the disagreement y'all had the most?
Speaker 4:Man right now was like, for a now is who won't be at the shop first.
Speaker 3:Are we gonna close the latest?
Speaker 4:we gonna close like honestly to a clock. Honestly, like these group of guys right here is like it was God sent man. No, because like our disagreements we might have different. The biggest disagreement we ever have is like basically, who's gonna do what on what? Hmm that's the biggest disagreement far as, like, the money issue is no money issues, there's no trust issues. We trust each other to the fullest, like it's just man Like. This is most beautiful as partnership I've ever been in. I've been trying to do business for a long time.
Speaker 1:How do y'all smoke weed? I want to know how do y'all do it, because when I smoke when I did smoke when I smoke, it does burn it by right here. If I'm right here, so tell me why I'm fucking up back.
Speaker 2:It's probably the weed it's the weed Well. I would. We cuz I mean, if it's cured properly, is gonna burn smooth, you ain't gonna feel nothing but it's like cool a going down your throat, right I mean pause.
Speaker 5:We gotta say that.
Speaker 2:But no, seriously, like if you have good weed, you won't have that problem. I'm probably cured, drive properly, it's gonna burn smooth and you won't have those issues right. It is that the same.
Speaker 3:And I smoke hemp wraps, you smoke hemp wrap. Oh shit why, cuz a, I don't smoke no tobacco.
Speaker 1:Is that by choice, or you did by choice by choice?
Speaker 3:I don't smoke no tobacco Other than when I can't. Even my smoke is like back will leave for something like that. But I really depend on like from around. But I like hemp hemp wraps because it's smooth with smoke. It got less of the extra little stuff, that being to back.
Speaker 1:Mmm. So if I asked you right, if you had to talk, I'm gonna ask all three of y'all if you had to talk to your younger self right now and tell him something, what would you tell him?
Speaker 4:Well, I had to talk to my younger self. Man, I would tell my young yourself that I knew was gonna happen.
Speaker 1:Hmm.
Speaker 4:I mean for just for the simple fact of what we put me through. You know, I mean it was like Getting locked up just cuz nobody would say was there we sitting in the middle of the console spending time down central booking. You know, I mean just just for weed, simple weed possession. So if I would tell my younger self now, I would tell my other self, it was gonna happen.
Speaker 1:So you ain't even know back then getting put in those situations, that it's, it's putting you in a direction of where you gonna be at Regardless so I take the mindset of that we owe me. We owe me got you put your time in for this shit.
Speaker 4:So I'm getting everything that we never took from you. I'm getting it back. That's how I look at it.
Speaker 1:How about you pop?
Speaker 3:It's the crazy part, right. I like nothing bad happens, like anytime something bad happens to us as far as the business it turns around and still happens to be good for us. So like I really wouldn't even really say much other than like I would be like more proactive, like less Procrastinating, less right being less lazy about stuff.
Speaker 5:Yeah, in general.
Speaker 3:It's in general, but literally, like he said earlier, it's like it was divine to happen. Like you, literally, anytime something bad happens, I'm something bad happens, I'm going into a greater thing Because if we ain't get the nose that we was getting, we would never ended up at 701. So Broadway Right on the corner next to chop tank prime real estate to when I seen that, when she told me the location, I was like you fells point with the whites.
Speaker 1:What so y'all be jumping on the weekends when I'm here jumping?
Speaker 2:Wow. I mean it's my. It's basically reality TV show right there in front of shop. Oh, from well, it's about nine to about two thirty three.
Speaker 4:Hmm.
Speaker 2:Whole reality show right in front of shop. This is our first business. I've ran a nine. We've all ran business, but one. That is this level. That's my first. What?
Speaker 1:business used to run.
Speaker 4:Oh God, first trust. Back about 2016 I started that company and the rate around COVID that's when it started fizzling out. Just entertainment gigs Wasn't going on everybody's in the house, so we had a lot of overnight successes in the house going there.
Speaker 1:How about you use on a business before this?
Speaker 3:Yeah and no, it's like. No it's like, yeah, I had my hands behind. Some other businesses have been going Cold, actually, branched out and put my face right attached to like was really going are you proud of yourself, absolutely. Look, this is crazy part. So look, my stepfather, you want them old, okay yeah, he don't fuck that.
Speaker 3:We should know that you don't do nothing, man, for the first time in my life oh shit, this nigga. Look at my money so you might have a millionaire. He actually happy about what's going on. I'm telling. I'm showing the videos of us smoking, shown going we like, yeah, they should be frowned upon plants Like oh, you need some. I got you like plants and it's like, but I never would imagine to Meet me with these guys that this will happen and it couldn't happen with no other people.
Speaker 1:Are you proud of yourself? Because you was really. I mean you, sir, but when?
Speaker 2:she was doing. I mean, yeah, I guess, yeah, you let me give me no confidence now what you mean I'm cuz, I'm just working. I mean I'm always just working. I mean these guys say, I see, for the shop I'm always grinding, every day trying to find the next thing to keep us going. So I mean I'll be proud when I'm sitting on the beach in Miami chilling for about 10 days Then.
Speaker 1:I'll be good. So let me ask y'all a tough question. If let's say you or puff Wanted to Get out the business they wanted, you like no what I'm on, branch off, make another business with just me. How does that work? How does the separation of business work?
Speaker 2:It's generation there's no, that's not even an issue that we.
Speaker 2:Y'all just see the iceberg. One thing. Well, I mean lock, you know, but what's up here? It's been about a shot. Nobody bought over the smoking lounge on the bottom floor on the right hand side. Talk to him about it. Now, this smoking lounge will be the only smoking lounge and fells point at the time, and what that means is when you come in there, you can bring you whatever, right? Yeah, I mean, you can sit down rolling with you, can get enrolled for you if you want, y'all got a pearl.
Speaker 2:Listen, yeah, if you want some, if you want to get you we rolled for you. We need that taken care of now. We also, later this year we're gonna be introducing the VIP club now with that as members only. Mmm. I'm gonna plop it at, and with that one comes a certain perks that will, let's just say, the kind of person you would like to get with a membership from a company like us.
Speaker 1:So so so. So now you, anybody, anybody, put that on there cuz we want to show oh no no, no. What's the guy? What the goddamn is the perks? What's the perks? Sell that shit. What's the perks?
Speaker 2:I Mean what for one. You get exclusive access To the second floor. Oh God, and the second floor is gonna be. When I say it's gonna look like a million dollars, they, when you in there, you can feel like a million bucks, and if you there, you probably got a million bucks.
Speaker 1:It's all I'm saying. So.
Speaker 2:How much is it? The start membership's gonna be five thousand a year First of all.
Speaker 1:First of all, who stay right there? Who came over the pricing? Don't say nothing. Who came over the pricing? We did. You didn't speak in monthly terms. You said 5000 a year. That was some cool shit that you did. Listen, I know it sounds like a lot, but for all the people that went to school I don't know about Baltimore City, but everybody went to school you bust that down. That is not a lot of money. But you said, starting how high does this go? Let's say a year. Ain't no pauses on this shit. I mean ten, fifteen, thirty, about twenty five thousand twenty five, and you ain't gonna tell. You ain't gonna tell nobody will come with this.
Speaker 2:I'm not a man. I know you're gonna come for anything for that, that's definitely gonna be invite on this invite on what? I can say, is I mean during the week, money to Thursday will be members only, but a Friday through Sunday you can bring a guest Got pay for. Yes.
Speaker 1:So let me get this right, let me get this right. Y'all said I this is some good shit. So y'all saying y'all got heaven interview with all three of you. Well, just one of you conduct these interviews.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 1:What's happening, these interviews, bro?
Speaker 2:I never Know you can be tell. My memories is gonna be in the, so you're part of this, the actual club. This is gonna be actual association. Oh, okay, so you're gonna be an official member of a private club.
Speaker 1:Do people? Can people donate to y'all?
Speaker 2:It will be a 501, see a 501 3c, so people can donate to us. First of all, I don't know what the fuck.
Speaker 1:That is Okay. So y'all say like y'all got all your businesses in line and you were saying that if you only knew was under the iceberg. I just seen this man over here Don't drink. Yeah, I don't know, puff, don't drink. But I'm gonna ask him Bob, give me something that's underneath the iceberg there people might not gonna know, that's jumping into this.
Speaker 4:Man you want to tell him about the initiative?
Speaker 1:boy, you talking, we hear you might as well.
Speaker 4:We're gonna try to do the urban grow, the urban growers. So we basically want try to get initiative with the schools to teach them how to Grow at home, just roots and vegetables.
Speaker 2:Roots and vegetables.
Speaker 1:Boys, a girls club.
Speaker 2:I know where we was going with this Deep it's deep now, melissa, we're looking at basically having a lot of boys and girls club foundation, so we basically teaching kids how to actually grow and be self-sustaining boy at home as well.
Speaker 1:What made you, what made y'all want to want to do this? We have kids, oh.
Speaker 4:And I would rather for my child to know how to grow, that he can grow in his backyard, in his house or in his basement. We're happy you can grow where nobody can take you. If it's out, they rely on what's going on in the supermarket.
Speaker 1:Do y'all feel like the violence, with the weed becoming legal now, it's going to drop now because weed is so accessible now.
Speaker 2:I Would believe so, because I mean, that's one less thing to argue about, to deal with. I mean, and I've been telling the young guys for the past eight months that, like, look, it's about to come legal, and when I get legal, that means that that should you know. Like it's gonna be. I mean, you gonna have this, all this weight right here that ain't nobody gonna buy y'all.
Speaker 1:Can we kill in the Virginia?
Speaker 2:You got like that by their best bet and people who don't got they.
Speaker 3:They pit works and what I'm gonna be having issues too far like venus is. Y'all know what y'all doing. Got your peas and queues and what I like.
Speaker 1:So can people, if they want to have consultation, to spit that game me, or can they talk to y'all 1000%. You told me right when I was talking to you that you never thought that you'll be where you are right now. Right now, with the trajectory that y'all are on, y'all are and probably will become millionaires with everything y'all have. Are you excited for that?
Speaker 3:Absolutely, because there's eight live motherfuckers who spoiled it. Getting it, how you getting it? You got to envision it.
Speaker 5:You got to believe it.
Speaker 3:That's all we've been preaching to each other.
Speaker 5:Like bro, you got to envision it.
Speaker 3:You got to see it before the dollar signs get there. And then everybody else in the beginning that doubted it that they ain't see that was going to get where it was at. Listen, it was a rude awakening for everybody because we had to stay Baltimore's own homegrown never flown.
Speaker 1:How was it Because you was talking to me about it that y'all had to have the meetings with the commissioner and everybody like that? How was that?
Speaker 4:Man well, I'm going to let him speak on it, but for me Hell. No, no, I'm going to give you a speak on it, man it was just like I'm going to tell you it felt good. Just for them to look in their face and let them know, for them to know it, there's nothing they can do.
Speaker 4:It was absolutely nothing and with Jules, having all the Jules, it was just like it was just stuck man and it just felt so good man, Just to have the police look at us and say like, basically, man, like there's nothing that we can do, oh, and Timmy, you want to say something.
Speaker 1:Timmy, you want to say something. You want to come on the camera. It's a mic right here. You want to say something. You cool for that, I got it. No, no, I don't want you to have it, I want you to have it.
Speaker 2:No, I want you to have it. I handled it.
Speaker 1:Listen Alee she's my wife.
Speaker 3:She was in there with the boxing gloves. On what?
Speaker 2:happened, all right. So basically the first time I guess, the commissioner came over, the acting commissioner came over. I wasn't there. I was in the inside of the shop. I walked up as he was walking away and they told me what was going on.
Speaker 5:I was going to say something.
Speaker 2:at the time I said I don't worry about it.
Speaker 2:So we just out there with the plans doing our thing and I guess he told them that he was going to send somebody over later. So later, it was like about 15 minutes later, and they sent about 15 police officers over there. They sent me over to the whole unit, everything walking over there in force, and that was fun and it was a simple question. I was asking them how could we help you guys? And they were talking about are we selling? I'm like no, we're just simply here promoting our business on the street as we do legally.
Speaker 2:We're just promoting our business, and then I explained to them why the plans of the league went broke down the 2018 Farm Bill, the House Bill, the memo from the DEA. I gave them the whole rundown. They kind of looked at me and they looked back and forth and it was well, but you're on the street, Okay?
Speaker 2:And then they had to move into the the awning, we moved into the awning and then they left. Then the next night, I guess, the lieutenant came and he had. They brought some more police officers over there to ask the same questions and this time we had everything ready for them, all ready to go. They took copies of everything on the phone talking back and forth. What do we do? So then the lieutenant comes in and our table was literally one inch on the red block on the sidewalk and that was his only issue. They, they brought another about 10 police officers over there in force and it was. It was a heated confrontation, I guess he emotionally was. Everybody was charged Explain this, run it down, run it down. What was the heated exchange.
Speaker 2:Well, basically, I can't think of his name. Okay, sir, we just call him sir the lieutenant. He came over there.
Speaker 2:I mean this dude was jacked up Like I mean literally he was a big dude but, anyway, he came over here stepping up on the table or not on the table, stepping up to the table and he was basically asking us what we were doing, what we were selling, and I gave him the whole run down of the laws that allows to do this and basically, and even found out about the transient vendors. Regulation allows you, if you're just selling produce or seafood, you don't need a license, you can just sell it right down. The sidewalk period gave him that. Then there's another back and forth and then they basically said I just need to move it off the sidewalk two inches. So we moved off the sidewalk two inches and then they still stood there Two fucking inches bro.
Speaker 2:Two inches and then it was like okay. Then it was so staying. I was like so what else is the problem? Why are you still here? And then had a little bit of a light exchange, nothing too crazy, and then he went ahead. Well, there was another officer there that started talking about that. The plants were a control dangerous substance and the lieutenant said no, they are not controlled dangerous substance. This is not why we're here. We're only here because the table's on the sidewalk. That's the only issue. Get them, come on with the bullshit.
Speaker 1:Come on with the bullshit. Do y'all think they cracked down on y'all because y'all was a black business with weed?
Speaker 4:Absolutely man 100% Come on now, and then it was even shocking when they knew that we wasn't buzzing and we knew what we was talking about. That's the only made it them. You know, appreciate us, because they say, okay, we can't push these guys around.
Speaker 1:Puff. How'd I make you feel?
Speaker 3:I feel good Right. I don't know if you familiar with the fells point activities, when they get late on certain times.
Speaker 1:Tell them about it. If you not from this city, that's your camera.
Speaker 3:Talk to them right there. Listen, it's real lit. It goes crazy on the weekends. It's night and day. Night and day. At night time it gets lit twerking in the middle of the streets. Yeah, niggas driving standing up, ghost riding or whatever it gets crazy. So look, when they get too late, the police, they form a line and you can't go past that line.
Speaker 1:Like they do at the Baltimore Street with the strippers.
Speaker 3:They form a line and sometimes they advance the line. Yo, it felt so good to go walk past that line. I said screw you, boss, Let me get past it. I said that's my building, right here.
Speaker 1:Say it again for them, it's what.
Speaker 3:That's my building right here. He said, okay, he can highlight whatever his boss. Oh, this is building, I'm right here. I got a couple of homeboys Make sure he good, he good, they with me, everybody else forward. That's why we get to walk past. I said, man, you can't get, come on, man. Then look, we had to run it back around too, right, right, we further up the street, oh God, because we was thinking about doing something with some fire.
Speaker 2:That's coming to get me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was coming to get him. So you know they advance the line up a block. Here we go walk past the line again, they trying to stop us. Oh, look the police stepping up for us now. No, he wanted to be in his own, is he good? Yeah, look, they try to touch my man. No, he good, don't touch him. Don't touch him. They got nothing to do with this. Let's go, man.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love Baltimore City Police. I love you, guys, I love you all too man.
Speaker 3:I appreciate that we need two cranes and we got some waters and power rays for y'all. He said we love you, we love when they get outside.
Speaker 2:They take campus out there.
Speaker 1:Why do y'all think they crack down on y'all though I want to hear y'all individual why do y'all think?
Speaker 4:they crack down on this man Because it was new. Let me just ask people on the camera have you ever seen a weed plant sitting in the middle of Baltimore?
Speaker 5:City? Absolutely not.
Speaker 4:Right. So I was new to that and for them to see it, it was a shock that we was out there just so brazen and we stood on it and we knew what we were talking about. They come pushing us around when they can't push you around and when they know that you're standing on and what you know, they just let you be.
Speaker 2:I love Baltimore City Police. I love them too, gatorade's in water Power rays as well 701 on our self-browway.
Speaker 4:We got everything they need, man.
Speaker 1:Why did they ran down on y'all like that, Pa?
Speaker 3:You gotta think about it. They hold career, they been taught. You got some weed locking it up.
Speaker 1:But they know the law now they know that shit changed.
Speaker 3:Come on oh fuck state no. Everybody don't do their due diligence. Like they, should you know what I'm saying, which explains why you got lawsuits with the police.
Speaker 5:You'll be cashin' in or whatever sometime.
Speaker 3:But everybody don't do, I ain't gonna say they not ordered to learn it, but everybody don't do their hard work and study and see what's going on like we did Because it seems so foreign to so many people, just for, like us three black owners, to really be like hey, you want us to ask the police that they want to learn? If they want to learn, I teach them to. We teach any and everybody Listen. They pass this law for everybody because there's a lot of more medical benefits to cannabis.
Speaker 3:You're way better off smoking weed than tobacco or drinking liquor. I just a fact.
Speaker 1:That's just a fact, especially you doin' the hemp shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, I smoked the hemp rap since I was getting free from all the tobacco or stuff like that. But Maryland should have been did this.
Speaker 1:Y'all you know the laws. I'm gonna style you up with the you. How old do you have to be to buy something from?
Speaker 2:your store 21. Well, no, no, no, you can buy the product store. You can be, however it's just to buy a cannabis plant, you have to be 21 years of age. I mean-. Would you like to see that lowered? I mean, well, here's the thing. There really isn't a guideline on that right now, right, kicker?
Speaker 1:But the fact is For the 18, you can do whatever the fuck you want, right.
Speaker 2:We're just going by 21 because, again, if they decide midway to change it, we want to at least already be where they would be at and at 21,. So we basically require everybody if you're going to buy a plant from us to be at least 21 years of age.
Speaker 1:How do y'all feel about especially you, pap, from coming from around the way that everybody that got locked up and really not seeing their families again for weed what do you say to them? That's really in there, like yo, so I got locked up for this, but now my homeboy out here selling it, selling plants. You got people out here selling weed and I'm still locked in a box.
Speaker 3:I mean that's great, but somebody still locked up behind weed charges? That's an issue on its own. Anybody that's locked up behind weed should be on release, no question. Like I said, weed do less damage than alcohol and tobacco Every single stuff and my advice to anybody that's still in that field learn how to grow Right, Instead of you spending thousands of dollars, shopping, outsourcing. You know what I'm saying. Grow it yourself, Do what you want with it. You know what I mean. Keep people out of your business, and they knew what it was. Just like the white folks taking advantage of the N.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like when you drink, Go ahead, pop they making money stuff like that.
Speaker 3:They knew exactly what it was. Yeah, and that was our turn. They finally opened the door for us to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1:That's how I feel, because when the dispensaries first jumped off and can't in and fells, point and everything like that, when I used to talk to guys a lot of black people was like man, I can't get into that, that's a white man's game. They never gonna let me get into that the price is too high.
Speaker 1:I was talking to one guy. He was like man to even start this. You got a dare and they had $500,000 to a million dollars when you talk about the fees, the taxes, everything that goes with that. So y'all, on that standpoint, that y'all kind of lucked up with you knowing him, you knowing you met the biggest goddamn plug in the city. So what do you say to people that want to start getting into this business and don't know how much capital I got to have, what I got to do?
Speaker 4:Well see, for us, our niche is a little different. So what we do is, like you said, we don't have any regulations. Our sky is the limit. You? Know, what I mean, so what we decide to do with it. They got to follow our blueprint. So, whatever they want to try, they can reach out to us. We give consultation classes and all that, but basically, since we're the first, they got to follow us.
Speaker 1:And we don't deal.
Speaker 4:Yeah, absolutely. So we try to avoid anything that got too many regulations or anything like that. That's smart. We try to find the in between, man, that's what we do.
Speaker 1:Are y'all brothers ever going to leave Baltimore? Just personally, are y'all business still being? Y'all still be a part of business? Do y'all want to leave Baltimore? Because what I find out with the celebrities and with these business owners, everybody says, yeah, you can start a business here and yeah, it might flourish a little bit or might flourish a lot, but there's a ceiling to where you can go in Baltimore. So the great migration is what I call it. We won't go to Atlanta, we won't go to Houston. Shit, you want to go to the Mecca, you want to go to Colorado, you want to go there, go ahead.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying I'm from Baltimore. I left, I came back to Baltimore, we did this. It's Baltimore. It ain't Atlanta, it ain't LA or whatever else, it's Baltimore. It's always Baltimore.
Speaker 3:We bringing loud back.
Speaker 1:Say that again we bringing loud back.
Speaker 3:They can keep all that Zanzai out of town language. Listen, we bringing loud back. It's loud dummy. Baltimore's on Baltimore's first homegrown never phone.
Speaker 1:That's just what we did I want to say to your brothers and to Tippi right here, that made all this happen. She told me, as you were saying earlier, y'all don't do interviews. Y'all might not do interviews great separately, but when y'all come together there, before the cameras started rolling, y'all had an initiative for everybody. You know him's the business. I still am confused about you, but you know your shit. Back alley Jim, you know your shit as well. I would just like to say when I first found out about y'all and everybody talked about the loud puff from Tippi to Stalettos to my homeboy and Cali, who came all the way out here to go to your event when I seen them I was like they got you out here the fact that your brand has reached as far as it has without really any marketing, what does that say about your brand? Because y'all don't really market. Y'all proud of good Coke speaks for itself, absolutely. Y'all not to market. Y'all are doing goddamn good.
Speaker 2:It's a good business. Yeah, we, it's a good business, and that's what we stand on.
Speaker 4:man, we do, just like some of the events here, like we pay everybody. We don't care if you were the guy who was, you know, but that's got three files behind you. You come to our event, you're going to get a couple of dollars out of the bank.
Speaker 2:You're going to see the stuff from us. I like that.
Speaker 4:Not only that man is. That is the people if you were to see how many knows we got or people just canceling on us, people that just it's causing. Yeah, man, we had like if people say, like I said, people just look and take a step back and see what we go through and how things still right so it's it, it, it. It mess with their head, man, Honestly.
Speaker 1:So what is next for y'all individually, Puff. What's next for you?
Speaker 3:It's nothing individually, it's a group effort. Talk that shit Loud, dummy. Yeah, this is what we doing. This is what's coming in the future. There's more Lottie Puff, boys and Girls Club, more products, more services, like we just started. Smoke Lounge is coming soon. The Hot your Pond is still open super soon. You can order online right now, today as we speak. Plants equipment.
Speaker 2:Oh, real quick. Grand opening, 701 South Broadway on August 5th.
Speaker 1:Wait, grand opening. Grand opening, Ain't y'all open.
Speaker 2:Oh no, we're getting, we soft.
Speaker 1:Soft.
Speaker 2:Soft, soft. What the fuck. We got to go big time. We got to have people from bottom or end.
Speaker 1:With the grand opening looking like real big.
Speaker 2:It's looking real big down the block.
Speaker 1:Man, this is what I want to say for people that want it, because people reach out to me, matter of fact, because you know I tried to start a business, but we going to hit them real quick. Listen, y'all. We got a couple sponsors, man, listen, the right therapist man. She started a children's book. Man, this is my home girl. I watched her jam out the trunk of her car to make these products work. Man, so shout out to the right therapist Checking her book. She got calming gel. She got cups. She got pens. Check out the right therapist man. Mental health is important. And listen, if you want to smoke and then go to the right therapist, please you can do that. Right therapist man. Now let's get back to the show. How do people partner with you guys? How does that work out? Because I talk to you, so I want to know.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, so they can reach out to Lollipuff underscore events, they can get at me on Instagram or they can get at me with events at Lollipuffcom. So I basically take care of all the events. Get all the events took care of, get all the people lined up to help with tippy. You know what?
Speaker 1:I mean, and y'all had how many events so far?
Speaker 3:Four, four Since March, right yeah.
Speaker 1:So do y'all have like annual events, or is this just some shit y'all? Be, thinking of like Tuesday. No, no, I mean actually, since you said that we'll talk about our first event real
Speaker 5:quick Go with it.
Speaker 2:Our first event that actually was done in 11 days.
Speaker 5:11 days People were there.
Speaker 3:I apologize, I'm looking at him crazy. When he said 11 days, he said the day I said but we got 11 days. Like listen to him saying I woke up.
Speaker 2:I mean, we've been doing all this, we've been getting the website up and we had everything going. We've been getting things together and I was like, look, we got to take bold action, we got to do something big. And I was like we got to do an event.
Speaker 2:It was like event hard win and I was like March 11th, march 11th, like, bro, that's 11 days. Yeah, I know Like we got to work fast. And the first thing you said, bro, we ain't got enough time. I was like listen, don't talk to me about time, talk to me about effort. And we put in a lot of effort in that 11 days and nobody showed up. But shout out to Ms Darlene down below for her. She bought our first ticket.
Speaker 1:Oh, nobody showed up.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no. Nobody bought tickets right away. Okay, Ms Darlene bought the first ticket, Okay, and as she bought that ticket, it was like bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. We sold like 30, about 35 tickets in 24 hours.
Speaker 3:30, 40 people came out, the first event we put together 11 days.
Speaker 1:Daz. Who's Ms Darlene?
Speaker 3:Oh, that's a great family member of mine. This is his mother, who's mother? Our artist we got artist Dope Lane.
Speaker 1:Okay, shout out to him. His name is right here Dope.
Speaker 3:Lane, dope Lane is our artist, lottie Puff artist.
Speaker 1:Y'all got an artist. Y'all got an artist Iceberg.
Speaker 3:Absolutely Iceberg.
Speaker 5:Before we get on Iceberg, what the fuck Shout out to.
Speaker 3:Dope Lane. I think it's Dope Lane, under School, under School. Dope Lane, dope Lane, baltimore. Artist. He's lit, he's on our videos.
Speaker 2:He's on our videos.
Speaker 4:Basically, you're all just compared to him.
Speaker 2:He's doing our last event, absolutely you say bumping his music on our videos?
Speaker 3:What?
Speaker 1:the fuck is going on here. So y'all got a smoke lamp just about to kill Phel's. Point your events off. Listen, fire. Well-produced, educational, as fun as fuck. Y'all got artists. Y'all got plants. Y'all got memberships. Y'all got fucking police.
Speaker 4:You got a foundation. Also, we want to have a foundation, so the police now.
Speaker 3:they walk past, they give us the deduces, they protect the building. It's all good. You said we love.
Speaker 1:Baltimore City.
Speaker 3:We love.
Speaker 2:Baltimore City. We love Baltimore City.
Speaker 3:It makes it look crazy when you see 2010, 2015, police outside one day and the next day we still open, and now they coming by saying, hey guys, how y'all doing what's up?
Speaker 1:What's going on? Is it a surreal experience for you, from in you also, I don't know about you because you was an ally, but for y'all to have to do what y'all had to do before this legalization and now to be like, well, shit, I've been doing this for however long I've been doing it, and now I'm profiting off this. I ain't got no scare in the world of the police. I'm a fan of the police. How does that feel for you now?
Speaker 2:I mean, for me it's incredible. I saw it. It's just incredible, I mean because I knew it was going to be this way. That's all it is. It just lets me know that everything we worked for, everything we thought about November 5th, on December 18th, that it was all exactly what we said it was going to be yeah.
Speaker 1:And how about you to come from Spaulding and how that life was to be like yo it's crazy.
Speaker 3:It's crazy, like I said, the back, what I said before about to be able to walk past the line.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Set up and can't. Nobody pass that. But you can, but I can't in my homies can. I let them come through.
Speaker 1:He said it's my section. Yeah, respect, don't need any name.
Speaker 3:Like come on bro.
Speaker 1:Well, listen, breva, tell people where they can find your app, because listen, I shout out this man. I love everything about their products. They gave me an edible. I'm scared out my fucking life to take this out of it Because I eat the whole thing. I'm not a micro doser. So, I don't know what's going to happen to me after this show, but if I end up on. Laudipuff with the police. I'm going to loud dummy.
Speaker 5:So that's all we want you to say, right.
Speaker 4:We got people take the other ones telling us that is ring, whatever that means.
Speaker 1:So where can people find y'all man Individually, y'all boys and girls, club, everything man Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Are we at the Laudipuff complex? 701 to 705 South Broadway.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Allison in Broadway Fell's point. We right there. You can't miss it. The big store is loud Dummy.
Speaker 3:Laudipuffcom. Everything you need is available, from the equipment to your nutrients, to your membership 35,000 a month. You get your grow guy from seed to flower and you get discounts on products. So we advise everybody to become part of the community. Join the membership and come be part of something great.
Speaker 5:It's awesome what's going on in.
Speaker 3:Baltimore City and it's been, it's past due, like it should have been happening. You know what I mean Baltimore's on Baltimore's first grown, never flown.
Speaker 1:How was you brother?
Speaker 4:So, yeah, you can read us that Laudipuff Boys and Girls Club on Instagram and also Laudipuff underscore events on Instagram. You check us out on all those social media networks just to see what's going on and what we got planned. But those are the points of contact you can reach us at.
Speaker 1:And, before anything else, the woman, the queen, that is behind Laudipuff. If you don't come in here and tell people where they can find you at, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Yeah, you can, you can come right in the damn camera. Come on, yeah, it was hell of a space right there. But come on, you come. That way too. We got Tippi. Come on, tippi. Yeah, you go Tippi. All right, look, I can even get in the damn frame.
Speaker 5:I'm so damn tall Okay.
Speaker 3:Tippi too damn tall.
Speaker 5:Don't get in every much. Shout out to Thicke Champagne Poppy. But you can find me Tippi Tallgirl, just put the tip in if you're a little spicy with it. Or comedian Tippi Tallgirl. I got like five different pages so you know I'm here, I'm proud of them, shout out to them. So God did it.
Speaker 3:Appreciate it Definitely.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you, we appreciate you. Shots the limit.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Wow, man. Listen, this has been another lovely episode of the Vibes podcast. Man, if y'all don't see these brothers, no way else they might have billboards. They run in the city right now. It's loud dummy. They are starting something new in the city. Nothing like this has ever been done and you know, when nothing like this has ever been done, the ceiling is the limit. Anything else is a copy. Man, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 4:Go ahead, man. You got something to say up your chest. Man, I would just like to thank you for having us out, man. You know what I mean Getting our brand out. Man. We really appreciate all the support from the community. Man, once again, thanks for having us out.
Speaker 1:No problem, man Listen, I say everything on air. I want to sponsor them, I want to be a branded bouncer. That gave me a shirt that gave me a weed. They fuck missed the plan, but we ain't going to talk about that.
Speaker 3:We ain't going to talk about that.
Speaker 2:We want to get back.
Speaker 1:Hey y'all. You want to get back Yo, please. Anybody want to shout out? Go ahead, brother.
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, I just want to shout out to these brothers right here Like I'm telling you, people don't understand. Like we have here, you can only happen to wish for once in a lifetime. You know what I'm saying. A lot of us had to lose people to fall in the right place, to be where we at so. I'm thankful that I want to give a shout out to Mark Ross. And this gentleman really, really supported us and gave us some guidance to get us to where we are.
Speaker 4:I really appreciate him Alex too man.
Speaker 2:Alex Alakani, this gentleman, he really believed in us. When everybody else kept telling us no, this gentleman stepped up and gave us the opportunity. It gave us that one yes that we needed to put us where we're at.
Speaker 4:So those are a couple of people. I mean Joe from Common Connection, oh, Joe from Common Connections.
Speaker 2:I mean this guy was the first person to reach out to us and to show up for us. So definitely, Joe at Common Connection. He's right there in fellas point. We definitely want to give a special shout out to him.
Speaker 3:Smoke shop. They got a lot of stuff Y'all can get to from the good Bongs, lights, feeds, all of that.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Common Connection on Broadway. Well, from the man himself, the brainchild of the symbol, the avengers of what we see today, what you want to say to your brothers, man, man, listen, I love y'all, man, you know.
Speaker 3:but like, yeah, I'm saying, like it took, it took a lot of cojones to jump out here and make the sacrifices that we, that we made to really get us to where we're going and the skies Love it. We know in there where we, where we heading, that you know what I'm saying. Like he said, man he broke down to me know his next opportunity. You know what I'm saying Because sometimes I do get frustrated in entrepreneurial out here because especially in this line of business cannabis alone basically it get difficult because, you know it's a gray area and a lot of a lot of situations, but, man, it couldn't have been between no other people.
Speaker 3:I literally, if any one of us was different this would not be where.
Speaker 1:Well, listen man you already know it's the family over here, brother. So listen, this has been another lovely episode of the Vibes podcast. Man, we do this every week and my God, don't have a mic, but I'm going to say this. I'm in another magazine coming up, man, For a fifth one, fifth one, fifth Baltimore magazine man. And I would like to say to all the guests appreciate you for taking a chance on me and letting me show you all the light that you already had.
Speaker 1:Shout out to JS media for the studio that you see, he gave us, he gave me a chance to make my dreams a reality. And shout out to the man that nothing happens without him Chas Moody media. Man, Listen, I put this man in position as he has put me in position. This is my God. None of this is possible without him and I want that to be known before anything else. And my family member to the right you, I want to say thank you for always stopping with you doing, stopping your meals just to come in and make sure this shit happens. I want to say thank you to you. I want to say thank you to all the fans, no matter where you at. It's loud dummy and y'all want to see this coming very soon. When's your next event for people to show up?
Speaker 2:Well, the next event going to be August 14th, when we go ahead and jump off the opening of our lounge.
Speaker 4:It's going to be on a Monday.
Speaker 2:I know, I know it's a Monday, but I mean, why not what you doing on the Monday?
Speaker 1:Ain't doing shit, but getting loud dummy so listen, this has been another episode of the VODC.
Speaker 3:Please go ahead, just for everybody there to be you, there to be yourself. You don't let nobody pressure you to be anybody else that you is. I knew this man for about eight years. It took one conversation and that led to everything that was going on. It was a very specific conversation, a specific topic that led, like he said from the beginning like sometimes he don't necessarily listen to everybody's ideas and stuff like he might help you get cracking Right it took one conversation that started a generational business. There to be you, be yourself y'all, don't let nobody make you. You don't got to be no killer, you ain't got to be in violence, you don't got to do none of that other stuff, man.
Speaker 1:Be you, be you, and just like that man. This has been another lovely episode of the VODC, and you want to catch me at the next on a Monday Y'all gonna catch me at the next event man, I'm gonna bring the team brainchats. We gonna make everything possible. I love y'all brand, so anything I can do to entice this brand I don't know about that, I was. I'm gonna let y'all know later how that goes.
Speaker 1:And if my job? Listen, I don't do drugs, so listen, man. This has been the right. There they sell planes. This is my body hurt. This has been another lovely episode of VODC, this podcast man catches on the next one and we out of it, loud dummy.