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Green Empire: Colt Power's Journey from Real Estate to Hemp Industry Innovator
Ever wondered how a tumble from the world of real estate into the verdant fields of the hemp industry pans out? Well, saddle up, Funky Panthers, because Colt Power of Power Biopharms joins us for a riveting gallop through his journey from injury management with CBD to cultivating a blossoming business that's ready to adapt with Texas laws. We're cracking open the vault on CBD's medicinal marvels, the changing tides of cannabinoid products, and how a personal pivot can seed a green empire.
Strap in for a deep exploration into the kaleidoscopic world of CBD, where Colt unravels the thread from hemp flowers to the robust tapestry of Delta-8, Delta-10, and legal THC forms stirring the pot in today's market. We're buzzing over our collaboration with Martin House Brewing that's got the locals raving about our hemp-infused seltzer. If you've ever pondered the balance of THC to CBD or considered hemp as a tempting tipple alternative, this chat's got the insights to quench your curiosity.
And because we're always about the local love, we're dishing out the scoop on our upcoming 420 events that promise to light up Fort Worth like never before. From our chat with Colt, you'll gather why Power Biopharms is planting its roots deep in over sixty stores with a fleet of products and events that celebrate the green revolution. So, tune in, turn up, and let's ride this wave of hemp harmony together.
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Colt Power:Wow, I'm going to need a copy of that. I think we're going to put that to good use.
Tim:I will send that over your way, no problem, that is so much more than I was expecting.
Colt Power:That's fantastic.
Tim:I think you've got a promising career here in AI music, yes, and you know to. I guess. Kick us off, let's go.
Chad:Get in here. We've got to start the show. We've got to start the show.
Javier:That was fantastic.
Chad:Oh, hello everyone, and welcome to the Funky Panther coming to you from Fort Worth, texas. We have got a hell of a show for you here on episode 171. There it is. Yeah, I know we said the last episode was 169. Guess what we were wrong. It was 170. This is 171. Deal with it. We've got a fantastic guest with us here. We've got Colt Powers from Power, biopharm Powers or power.
Tim:Power, power, just power. Okay, yeah, it's Colt Power Okay yeah, it's cult power.
Chad:Cult power Because at first, for a second there, I was going to ask if you had any cousins named Austin, and then I just cut that out. No, it's okay, everyone always wants to put an S on it. Yeah, that's not the first Cult power of Power, bio Farms and so many other things. You want to say hi to everybody, hi, thanks again for having me. This has been a lot of fun already, so glad to have you. So let's get into it, sit back, relax and enjoy everybody.
Colt Power:I'm chad I'm javier and we are the funky panther again.
Javier:Ladies and gentlemen, this is a live show, so if you haven't already, go ahead and back and check us out on youtube for the first 30. Uh, it was pretty damn fun, and hopefully tim will insert that lovely song he made for cold 100 yeah, that's hitting the pod too.
Tim:That's gonna go. Yeah, it's go. Yeah, that's going to be all out there, cold open.
Javier:Man that is. That was I kind of I'm on your, I'm with you. I was like thinking it'd be shitty, but that was really.
Tim:Dude, I've been putting out nothing but bangers here lately. Okay, here's what I want to do. I'm going to ask you guys, how do you feel? Because we already got that thing with the funky panther right, right, right. So what if we just make a bunch of songs and and put that on on apple?
Chad:music listen. We already have, we already pay for it we already pay for it yeah so we already have the theme song out there.
Tim:We might as well just start stacking that shit we can create a whole album of just uh ai generated stuff we just call it the tfp ai bang.
Chad:I want to see this.
Tim:With a Z. It's no good unless it's got to have a Z, just like the boy has to have the I instead of the you.
Chad:Yeah, yeah, that was pretty funny. He's been pulling out some random ass songs and sending them to group messages, like once a day it's weird.
Tim:I got kind of a set and I found a cheat code and I don't know how I did it. So you're only supposed to have 50 credits a day, yeah, for free, and somehow I wound up with 500.
Chad:Nice Without paying Wow, so I haven't figured that out. How many credits does the song take?
Tim:Like I don't know, like 10 or 8.
Chad:So you can do like 50 songs a day, is that right?
Tim:Yeah, something like that. Am I doing my math right? It hasn't reset, okay, so it's been going down. Okay, mba, my ass.
Chad:I know right, I'm an idiot. It's not until next year. I have a lot of learning to do before then.
Tim:You don't, I know?
Colt Power:So Colt how you been, man Doing good, staying busy for sure, doing doing good yeah we have so many questions so we were talking about it before the show.
Chad:We were lucky enough to have sage on the pod early on. He was one of our our first 20, I think, you know episodes, or friend of the universe yeah, sage, and um, he got us in contact with you, which is what he does. He's just the nice guy that that likes connecting people, putting like-minded people together and and sometimes not like-minded, just to kind of see what would work. You know what I mean, and so love that about him.
Tim:Second person.
Chad:Yeah, dustin Massey's been on a few times, which he's coming on again next month and I feel like we connected Sage to Chris. Yes.
Tim:But then he tried to reconnect us to Chris.
Chad:You know, that's how good he is at making connections. He does it so often he forgets. He's like I must have already done this. So he put us in contact with you and I'm so glad because I have been seeing Power Bio Farms everywhere recently, like on Thrive and on Martin House and now, following y'all, y'all got all sorts of videos and cool stuff out there too.
Colt Power:So it is just kind of serendipitous that this all kind of came together. I love to hear that we're getting seen all kinds of places.
Chad:Kismet it's.
Colt Power:Kismet it's.
Tim:Kismet, kismet, kismet, kismet.
Colt Power:Kismet, you corrected me and you were wrong. No, kismet.
Chad:Whatever, I can't speak. So, Cole, tell us a little bit about yourself. How you got into the industry right and so what got you into wanting to do this?
Colt Power:so it started just kind of with the personal anecdote, like a lot of people were. You know, I had some lingering injuries from when I played lacrosse when I was younger and I still wanted to keep working out and I just kept, you know, having pain or swelling. And when the CBD stores started popping up around 2018, I was like, well, I'll try this out, and I didn't really really know, just looking for a solution and started taking it and my swelling in my knee went down and I was able to keep working out, and so I was pretty intrigued and I started to research more and learn more. And when COVID hit, I had kind of always had an entrepreneurial itch, wanted to do something a little bit different, but my career, which I built over the 10 years prior, was in commercial real estate, primarily focused on office leasing.
Power Song:Okay.
Colt Power:And when COVID hit I was like I don't know about the outlook of office leasing right now. It might be a good time to try something different. And, um, you know, it happened to be around around around the same time that Texas had announced they were going to allow hemp production, hemp cultivation and extraction, and just kind of started to go down that wormhole even more. And, yeah, one thing led to another and my wife got on board and she's the other co-founder.
Chad:And was that a hard sell, or was it? She was on board.
Colt Power:It took some time for sure. Yeah, I mean she, she saw it coming. She is in the medical world as well. She's been a nurse at Parkland ever since she graduated from TCU in their medicine ICU and yeah, I mean one side. I really showed her kind of where I thought things were headed and where we could fit in. And you know, I saw from pretty early on to that that CBD has has such amazing qualities and benefits in its own right. But the infrastructure that it takes to make CBD, or that we were going to use to make CBD, is all the things that we would need to qualify to be a medical license holder and really pursue that route as well. So it kind of was we can pursue this business and build the infrastructure that we can use right now that can also have us hopefully first in line to to qualify for um for medical marijuana when, whenever that program starts to expand here in the state, yeah, and that's kind of the approach we've taken Um, uh, yeah, as we've, as we've built the.
Chad:So you've thought about all of this. From the beginning you're just kind of like how can we get the pieces in place to be prepared for the future, right?
Colt Power:Not just one bit at a time. You're kind of looking at it holistically. Yep, I saw it. As you know, if you zoom out to like the national level, um, I mean even here within Texas, like the public sentiment of like this should be legal. This at a, at a, at a bare minimum, has such medicinal benefits to it, and you know that was really where I was sold.
Colt Power:Obviously there's a lot of money to be made in rec and nothing against like recreational consumption, but my passion and my wife's passion is in the medical side.
Colt Power:You know I'd had the personal anecdote of how it benefited me and then I've watched my dad have 20 something orthopedic surgeries. He was an athlete when he was younger, my mom has MS and I was just like man. There's so many people out there that are only being told about or only being prescribed classic pharmaceutical solutions or surgical interventions, and this can really help. And so I saw that it may not be this year, it may not be three years, it may be five years out to see in the speed of Texas, but I was like you know, that's where we can build all this on the CBD side, on the hemp side, and and be there for when it, when it all starts to change and as I'm sure we'll get to talking about the hemp side opened up way more than I ever saw, where it, you know, effectively is kind of a pseudo recreational market. Right now, alongside the, the, the restrictive medical program we have, yeah.
Chad:Yeah, yeah. I want to say, like it was around 2020, when you know CBD, like we thrive apothecary pops up and we're like, okay, we can go buy like flour, and we can buy like cones and stuff like that, like let's check this out. And then I don't think that I had ever had, have y'all ever had, cbdu until around that time.
Tim:So I bought. It's probably around the same time, but I found a company it was like up in portland or something as tweedle farms, um, and they were selling flour and so I didn't want to do, I didn't want to, I didn't want to partake in any of the weird stuff. I tried.
Chad:Weird stuff. Well, the stuff that I wasn't for sure about right, right right, on the edge of drug test type situation, right so?
Tim:I actually tried some CBD wax at one point and I was like I had to buy a whole rig for that and everything and I was like, oh, this is too much and I'm going to tell myself I've never gotten rid of it.
Power Song:But I had an old, uh old, water pipe.
Tim:We'll say um, still in my use only, yeah, tobacco use only still in my possession, and so I was like you know what, I'm gonna kind of venture into it. I found tweedle farms and they had these. I mean, they sold like actual. I got little nugs of right of hemp right and uh, that's whenever I first kind of started trying that and then thrive really started popping up here and it's our first business model because it was such a popular thing at the time, because people were just blown away about being able to buy.
Colt Power:You know what looks like marijuana flower right, yeah flower.
Colt Power:we, when we started, we were going to be, you know, a fully indoor farm which was set in the groundwork for us talking about pursuing kind of the medical model, because all the medical grows are all fully indoor, fully controlled. We were just going to sell eighths of hemp flower and you know be relatively small kind of craft scale, direct to consumer. And between the market shifting and us getting humbled pretty quickly on how hard it is to build a direct to consumer brand, things have changed. But yeah, that's it. I knew it was a popular thing, yeah for sure.
Chad:And the thing that I liked about it is that like I had not really, you know, done a whole lot of things I'm whatever, but like that's me. Uh. So I remember like smoking it and then like just sitting there and feeling calm and like this is doing something, and it it wasn't like a head high or it wasn't. It wasn't like I didn't know what was going on or anything like that, like high or drunk or anything like that. It was just like my body stopped vibrating.
Chad:I felt like I was always kind of going and it just stopped and I was calm. I'm like this is real. This isn't people saying that it's medicinal just so they can get high. This is a real thing.
Colt Power:Yeah, on that note of just like things that won me over, I mean, I had my personal story of where it helped me and I started to read more and the clinical research was starting to get there and so I could see that the science was there. It wasn't just purely anecdotal. But then actually we had two great Danes, and our younger one got a nasal tumor and it was terminal and they couldn't operate and they would have had to take like half his face out. It wasn't good, yeah. But that's when I started to have some more things at the house to experiment with and I used some hemp flower to make some dog treats for him, because I was just so fed up with how expensive the ones being sold in the stores were. No-transcript, that was probably more impactful than it should have been for me, but it really, really helped I was always concerned it was a placebo effect, right?
Tim:yeah and so like and and seeing that because I mean, I've I've seen like animals and stuff consume some of these CBD products and whatnot, and I'm 100% with you on that. But in my mind I'm like, all right, I smoke this and, oh, I actually feel kind of like slowed back down, but that entire time, until I actually witnessed it working with dogs, was that same concept of like. Is this really working?
Speaker 4:on me. Is this real?
Tim:Is this actually like and you start hearing about all the what is it? The terpens and all that stuff that go along with different variants of strains and all that stuff. I didn't really understand any of that. I didn't know if I really bought into that. Really making a difference, Right, Yep, but it seems like it actually truly does.
Colt Power:Yeah and uh. So I mean, I was on a pitch the other day with one of our investors. We were trying to explain what CBD does in its own right and he was like, look, I, he's a he's in his sixties and, uh, he'd never been a consumer before and so now he's been consuming CBD for a few years and he'll take Delta eight gummies in the evening to go to sleep. And he was like, you know, the best I can explain with CBD now that I take it every day, is like I take my dose and I don't really feel anything, but if I miss it for a day or two I just feel worse. Oh wow, and like that's, it's kind of that. That is the way CBD kind of generally works. Where it's like, if you're on it routinely, things just work a little bit better, you feel a little bit better. But it's very hard to put, put the finger on the nose of, like exactly what it's doing and where it's helping. So I've been out of the game for a while.
Javier:I like I. You know, one of our sage came on and you know we were taking a lot of CBD and, like we, some samples of your flower yeah, and even like um, I work down the street from the carol location and so I would regularly go in there, for this had to be maybe like three years ago. I want to say three years ago, but I haven't been back since. What has changed from whenever you know it was kind of legalized to now like what kind of growth has there been?
Colt Power:well, so first on before growth I mean the growth, I'll kind of explain as we go through it.
Colt Power:So like, as I was saying, when we started the company, we thought we were going to be selling just eighths of jarred flour and and leave it at that. Um, because that was pretty much all the market knew about. The farm bill said that anything that comes from hemp it's under 0.3 delta 9 thc by by weight or by potency is legal, and so first it was like sweet, we can grow this flower, and people understood that they could take an extract from that flower, dilute it with oil and make the tinctures and that was compliant. Well, before long, I think right about the time we finished building out our farm, came to market, that's when the market figured out the loophole with delta eight, and so that really increased sales, because then that was the first time that the market had actually like an intoxicating for lack of better word version of of thc from the hemp plant and, um, you know, when that first popped up I was like wow, that's not what they meant when they passed this law there's no way this is gonna get to stick around, right, right.
Chad:And so I didn't think it was going to. I thought it was gonna be like this short-lived thing, right, like yeah, I was almost afraid to buy anything because I'm like, okay, it's gonna be illegal in a week, like how we were terrified to jump into it.
Colt Power:We didn't want to be the first one selling it and you know, be sticking our heads out and, uh, worried about getting in trouble. And then it stuck around and so like, all right, well, we'll add it in. And then shortly after that, the market filled, it figured out that they are well, I guess before they even got to Delta nine, they were like, oh well, if there's Delta eight, there's Delta 10, there's Delta 12. There's like there's HHC and all these other things that are kind of lab created derivatives of the hemp plant. And then people figured out well, with the right size gummy, because of the way the law is written, you can just use Delta nine, the naturally occurring THC. That's the exact same thing. That's in any edible in Colorado or any legal state. Um, and so in that process it made the market much bigger.
Colt Power:Uh, cause people, you know you don't have to explain to people what getting high is for the most part, right If they're, if that's what they're interested in, if for some people that aren't there's more education there. But, um, so that opened it up. And then it just yeah, then in the market kind of got confused with all these different cannabinoids where it's like even the people that are in the industry are like what are these? And trying to keep up with education on. You know what's already a pretty new conversation for a lot of consumers.
Colt Power:Um, and then, and then it shifted again to Delta nine, the naturally occurring um edible, as the market continued to grow and brought even more people when they're able to be like oh, that's what I'm used to, this isn't some um synthetic or derivative chemical that's being made from the plant. It's much more straightforward. And then, most recently, um, there's an interpretation of the law that seems to be upheld thus far, that, uh, the thca content of flour and pre-rolls also does not apply towards that Delta 9 threshold, which basically means that pre-rolls and flour that will do the exact same thing because it effectively is the exact same thing as legal marijuana are able to be sold on the shelves. That's bizarre.
Colt Power:So, the Thrive Apothecary that you saw three years ago had much more limited product selection. Apothecary that you saw three years ago had much more limited product selection. I think at the time they probably had edibles that had one of the forms of THC in them. But now if you were to look at the product lineup in a Thrive Apothecary or really any of the hemp-derived dispensaries across the state, it's about the exact same lineup with slightly different terminology, as you'd see in a medical or rec dispensary in another state.
Chad:So what's St's Delta 8? Then Can we start and kind of go through these, because you mentioned yeah, I mentioned a lot there. There's a lot and I feel like there's a lot to unpack because like we, I feel like, are not like well, I don't want to say we Consumers, right, but like still don't quite understand the differentiation. Yeah, whatever Of def, yeah, whatever of each one of them right. And I know that delta 8 was the first right. It was the first that got really popular.
Colt Power:Yeah, okay, and that was, um, they figured out that you could take. Basically there was a glut because everyone that first came to market, all the all they knew about all that was being made with cbd, and so there's this massive supply of of cbd in the market and people could only sell so much cbd. People figured out in the lab you could run it through this process and turn it into really anything you wanted, but but, but uh, delta eight works like delta nine in the body. It's just not quite as strong per milligram. So it's, it's an isomer of the molecule that's like slightly rotated or like a hydrogen bond is in a different place. Okay, so it's almost the same, and when and when it fits in the molecule in your body, it binds not quite as strong, not quite as long, and so that's why, like, you have to eat a 25-milligram Delta-8 gummy to feel about like a 10-milligram of Delta-9.
Colt Power:Oh, okay, it's because per milligram it's not quite as strong, but yeah, it's being converted from CBD into Delta-8. And other than that, yeah, it's just a dosage difference really so it's not like a spray on a bud.
Colt Power:So Delta-8's interesting in that it can naturally occur, but everything in the market is being converted from CBD. Okay, some strains can make it, but it's going to show up in less than half a percent threshold. I don't think anyone's ever really bred a strain for Delta-8. Got it? Yeah, less than half a percent threshold. I don't think anyone's ever really bred a strain for delta 8. Got it? Um, yeah, so it's all being created from cbd. Uh, so to your point, any flour that's delta 8, flour that is being added at some point.
Tim:Okay, to regular cbd flour gotcha. Let me ask you this do you know, do you? I'm gonna? I'm gonna say, uh, a string of letters and numbers, and I want to see if you actually know what I'm talking about.
Colt Power:Jwh018 uh, my best guess is like that's some industrial hemp strain.
Tim:So it was a synthetic marijuana a synthetic or synthetic uh so that was the original.
Tim:K2 is jwh018 and it was. And if you look at it as a, as a molecule, it is extremely close to what thc looks like and it binds, very similar to delta 9 thc, to your uh cannabinoid receptors, right. So the dea was like no, you can't do that. Right, it was a research chemical, so they can't do that. So what they started doing was doing these bastardizations of these like chemicals, right. And so it started like let's just move this molecule here, let's just do this, it's still going to bind, it's going to get it.
Tim:But it got worse and worse and worse and worse. And so my original fear, whenever they started doing a Delta AIDS and all this stuff, is my mind's going down that strain and how that was right, because I'll be real with you, I spoke JWH 018. And I did too, and I didn't get all like it. It was pretty to me, it was pretty close to to smoking marijuana from whenever I was younger. I also smoked a bastardization of that and ended up tripping and having all sorts of crazy side effects of it I had the same experience yeah and it was you know.
Colt Power:I think I'm able to speak honestly about it now because I think it helps point to like why we should just allow marijuana and cannabis in its natural form. I was an athlete at Notre Dame and Notre. Dame went above and beyond the NCAA, where they would hair test us.
Power Song:Sure.
Colt Power:And I wasn't really into drugs, but occasionally people would want to smoke. You go home in the summer and want to smoke with your friends and I heard about K2, and I was like, oh, this is the perfect thing. And the first experience I had, I was like, wow, this was just like when I had smoked a couple times when I was younger and it was pretty normal. And then the next summer it was not at all.
Tim:Yeah, it changed right.
Colt Power:And no one knows what, that no one has any chemical history or safety profile on it, and it's like, yeah, something that we know is safe, why are we forcing people to try?
Tim:these other things that are more dangerous yeah, I mean potentially dangerous, and that's exactly what they were doing. They were, they were, you know, because the dea would say you can't do this, that's uh, that is going to be banned, right, and so they would come and change it, just enough to where it would skirt that band, yeah, but every time they did it, they made was, yes, it was binding to the same receptors and it was doing technically what it was supposed to do, right, but at a level that we didn't know and didn't understand, and you had these people acting like, I mean, zombies.
Chad:Just making it different enough, yeah.
Tim:It was just different enough to get past it.
Colt Power:And the reason that the Delta 8 and Delta 10 in particular I know're able to stick around is because those do occur, naturally right so they didn't have to prove that this isn't some lab chemical.
Colt Power:But there's some others that I've seen in the market that are in like the hemp derived space, called like thcjd and thcp, and I don't know that those aren't just the same type thing where, like this has never existed, yeah, in nature and like I don't know. I'm really not a fan of of any of the things that are not based on something that's naturally occurring, just because, I mean, people don't know, and like thc I think p is the one I'm thinking of it's like 25 to 50 times stronger than thc. God and and and like. That's just not like. That's not what people are educated about.
Colt Power:They don't know what they're getting into, like when they when they see, oh, one milligram of this, okay, well, it's like, yeah, but that's like 50 milligrams of what you are used to, and you know if they're buying it at a store that doesn't know what they're talking about so, coming in from the chat, uh, we have one of our people said we loved thc zero thco.
Tim:Yeah, that's one of the I think that's what I was talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, okay, yeah, so it's actually it's the letter O not the number Okay, okay, okay, so that's where I got confused.
Colt Power:But yeah, that one. The government did speak up on that one. They said they're not talking these other ones, but no more of this one, and I'm not sure exactly why, but it was very popular. I know it's Because they don't want to have fun. Yeah, THCO acetate is the full name for it, and so I knew that it's banned and we had to pull it off the shelves at all the Thrives.
Chad:So you all had some of that product.
Colt Power:Yeah, it was pretty well spread. We didn't have a lot of it. There was a couple skews that had it in there Primarily in vapes. Yeah, in there, primarily in in uh vapes. Yeah, that's where you're seeing a lot of the novel ones still stick around. No, I mean, that's what like the hhc? Um, I've only seen in vapes.
Colt Power:I think hhc is an interesting one, so there's no grounds in nature, but it's been around for a long time and people have known about it and actually might have, uh, a really good use case in medicine going forward. And that um delta 9, the naturally occurring one. It degrades over time, so the plant makes it as thca. Then with heat light time, um, it'll turn into delta 9, thc and then with more heat light time it turns into cbn, which you know. If you're trying to give someone a clinical dose of thc and some of it's over time converting to cbn, it's not exactly what you're trying to give, right? Cbn is not dangerous, but it's not what you're trying to give them. Tbn is not dangerous, but it's not what you're trying to give them. Hhc is they call it like the forever cannabinoid. Whatever they do to it in the process, it stays that way forever.
Tim:Oh, wow. And so for stability of a pharma-grade compound, it actually is extremely useful. Yeah, that's what my girlfriend typically uses, that and she'll use it to help her sleep or whatever, and she swears by it. She absolutely loves it.
Javier:So I want to talk about why you started taking it. Your injuries with sports, so what other? Your knees?
Colt Power:Yeah, I've got degenerative cartilage in my left knee, so on the front of the femur where the kneecap rides it's just completely gouged out yeah and I had a surgery to repair it okay, because my girlfriend has like no cartilage in her knees and yeah.
Javier:So it's not gonna get better, it's not yeah obviously it's gonna have to, you know, deal with it. But like is cbd something that would help with that pain?
Colt Power:it helps. It helps reduce the ongoing inflammation and thus the pain.
Colt Power:Yeah, that's what's what I've found? Is it like my? The nature of my injury and I'm not sure if hers is the same where, like, it never hurts when I'm doing something that is going to make it inflamed later. So I really I've learned now through experience what those things are. But when I routinely take CBD I can do a lot of those activities, not all of them and then I just I'm not. I don't get that swelling the next day and all the pain, because for me all the pain is from the swelling.
Javier:So what do you say to the people that are scared, like, well, you know, it's still marijuana and it'll get you high and it's not in the bio. I don't know how people are. You know how people here in Texas are yeah. What can you tell somebody about the product that have doubts or are against it? They're hard-headed to where. They're not going to want to change their mind. I know it's hard.
Colt Power:On the CBD side, I feel like it's pretty easy. We do make products that are completely void of THC. They're made with a CBD isolate. It's for two use cases One, the people that are scared of THC, and the plant in general, where it's a way to ease them into it and say hey look, take some of this every day for a week or two and just let me know if you're feeling better or not, and if not, you know, move on down the road. And if so, then maybe they're that much closer to seeing how the plant can help them more holistically. And then the other side too is for people that are drug tested for work or for any reason, and the other side too is for people that are drug tested for work or for any reason.
Colt Power:They can still benefit from the plant without the THC. Even really low doses of THC kind of help, the efficacy of THC. But you know THC even more than like alcohol. Everybody's body is very different, right, and how much like for some people.
Colt Power:We actually, we had a customer who was convinced that we gave him the wrong gummies because he kept getting high from our full spectrum CBD gummies which have about 25 milligrams of CBD and one between three quarters and one milligram of THC in each gummy. Sorry, 25 CBD and one of THC and that one was enough for him to actually get like a noticeable high that he did not want. So we switched him. We, we, we, we had him send back his gummies. We sent him to the lab, proved that they were exactly what they were supposed to be. Um, and you just happen to be a very sensitive consumer, um, but you know, with that it is uh, even people that are like I think I'm there and I want to try this Um and I think I think to get them there, it's just showing them the safety profile.
Colt Power:I mean you can get very uncomfortable if you take more THC than you meant to or the THC you meant to take is stronger than like for sure.
Colt Power:Then there's there's nothing that can you know. That is what it is, but it's a short amount of time and you're going to be okay. But I think, like, for as far as like the safety profile that's. That's ultimately what helped people get like, in comparison to other things, that you're very comfortable taking Tylenol, ibuprofen like Tylenol damages your liver if you take too much or for too long. Like ibuprofen can give you stomach problems if you take too much or for too long. You know alcohol we're all very comfortable with it doesn't have a very good safety profile.
Colt Power:Oh, it's not good for you at all, so you know, usually the education that gets people over that that hurdle, and then we try to be very careful in, like the, the conversation about how much you should take and how you need to ease into it right, because I mean I'll even say like before I got in the industry, when I went on a trip to colorado with my wife, like we, we bought a chocolate bar from dispensary and we're like, oh, it's a couple's bar, we'll split it.
Colt Power:Didn't even really look at the total number yeah, and uh, yeah, I don't know if we paid for dinner or not, so we went to Colorado.
Tim:Springs. It's been a few years, and so my girlfriend's brother went and he decided that he was going to try some of these edibles or whatever, and like he popped one, he's like, that didn't do anything, popped another one, that didn't do anything, popped another one, right. And so we get to the restaurant we're going to and it's at a point like he's like looking at us like man, you're just going to have to order. For me, this menu is too much, you know, and so like it's that kind of like I think, on the edible side of things, having to like educate people, like hey, these are the way it's processed and your body is different, and everything else.
Tim:But man, I have got so many different stories of whenever recreational marijuana kind of hit in Colorado and people started kind of getting it down here and stuff. I mean on the ambulance side of stuff I've taken, I've ran calls where you've had these people I had. I had this guy that he um ate some peanut butter because he was, you know, craving some peanut butter after he had some, you know an edible one does yeah and it really was.
Tim:It was getting to him because he was like I can't, I can't swallow it.
Tim:It was too thick right and so it was like really messing with him and I and I and I hear I literally I walked in. I walked up to him. He met us outside the door and he's telling us what's going on. I'm like, have you tried drinking some milk or something? And he just looks at me and it's just like I turned on the fucking light switch and he just turned around and went back inside and that was the last we saw of this guy you know he just disappeared, drinking half a gallon of milk.
Colt Power:Yeah, but it was his first time.
Tim:So literally this guy was like an Air Force vet or something like that from way back and it was his first time ever consuming anything like this and he didn't really know other than previous years in his youth of maybe smoking some. But he took an edible and it really hit differently, right, because it processes differently and it's a strength thing and all that.
Colt Power:The time thing too, too, will really get right. Right, even if they listen to the bud tender or whoever they talk to about it before they eat it with like hey, only eat one. They don't always internalize the like eat one and wait, right, wait at least an hour and a half because you have so many people get themselves in trouble. Be like, I'll take a second one.
Tim:I mean, if you, if you look at like the science of people, right, right, because everybody's different and the way your digestive tract is going to work differently. So you absorb everything in your intestines, your stomach processes it and dumps it down there. If you've got delayed absorption, it could be an hour and a half, it could be two hours, it could hit you two and a half, three hours down the road.
Colt Power:And all of a sudden you're just happened, yeah, and and from my experience and I think the science says too like it's kind of the opposite of alcohol. Like you know, alcohol you have a couple beers on an empty stomach it's gonna hit you way harder, right, like without food, without fat, oil or or alcohol. Um, you just basically won't absorb this very much, and then you put food on top of it, then it'll all hit at once yeah, that's what it is.
Colt Power:Yeah, the food makes a big difference because it's a fat-soluble compound and so until your body really starts to either have something in there with it, it'll just kind of sit there Now, that's not true with the drinks that we just made with Martin House, because that's made in a water-soluble form, they'll start to absorb pretty much immediately, which really we found is like a benefit for bringing in newer consumers where it's more of like all right, I've had like having a beer, right, you kind of feel it about the same rate. Yeah, yeah.
Javier:So perfect segue. Yeah, let's get into that Martin House drink.
Colt Power:Yeah, and I'm really kicking myself and feeling silly for not bringing any today. I would have loved to have a couple during the talk. But yeah, so we made friends with Martin House about a year ago. Probably most formally We'd been talking to them, but we co-branded a gummy with them for 420 last year and they co-branded a beer. They did a hemp-infused beer, no cannabinoids.
Chad:It was terpenes or something, right, yeah, hemp terpenes.
Colt Power:It was a prickly pear, watermelon sour and we already had a prickly pear, I actually think I drank that.
Tim:Yeah, it was good.
Colt Power:Yeah, power sour. It's pretty solid and we were like 4.20 is too low on alcohol content so we'll do 8.420. Genius. But yeah, after we really hit it off and had a great time with that, I kind of planted the seed sometime last summer or after that event and was like hey, I see the beverage space and the hemp side coming. We know all about licensing and formulation and stuff, but I know nothing about making a beverage. Would you guys be willing to to look at doing this with us?
Colt Power:And um, we spent, you know, moved slow at first but um moved, spent most of last year kind of working towards this and got them licensed and experimented with a few different concentrates and ultimately came up with uh, you know our pilot couple of flavors here that we went to market with on February 5th and um, it's been super cool. I think we timed the market just right. Like that category is really starting to to emerge. Um, starting to get picked up in some major sales sales channels like specs and total wine. Um, and yeah, and you know Martin house did their thing and they made it taste incredible.
Colt Power:Um, when they were asking me like, how do you want to brand it? What do you want to do on the label. I'm like you're an artist, I'm like I want them to do it. Your artist does the coolest stuff, like just you know, I'll tell you if I don't like it. But come back with something. And they came back with the dinosaur art the first time. Power House, power House infused seltzers. Yep, we got lemon, lime and strawberry right now in the talks to add a couple more fruit flavors, and these are all five milligrams right now.
Speaker 4:That's so sick.
Colt Power:We're talking about a couple different flavors. We may do a higher milligram, lower milligram, hit some different segments, but five is pretty good, whereas if someone regularly consumes well, they can have a couple, and if they don't, then they can split it with a friend or you know. It's pretty versatile.
Chad:So we went to Martin House last Monday for the Eclipse. Like the Eclipse, they had this big thing out by the river, which is awesome. We didn't even talk about the Eclipse, the Eclipse is awesome.
Tim:Oh yeah, it was pretty cool, we talked a little bit Beforehand.
Power Song:It was last week now though.
Chad:But yeah. So we got to go there and got to try, because I bought the strawberry ones Like a four pack From you, from y'all online and fantastic. And then I had the lemon lime there at the brewery and it was really good too.
Power Song:I'm like man.
Chad:They don't miss and that stuff is so good Like, and it's just a perfect balance, except five percent.
Colt Power:You feel good, you feel great yep, and we actually we entered, we, uh, entered that strawberry flavor because we we noticed after the first couple weeks the strawberry sells a little bit better. Um, it's a little bit sweeter, um, I don't know, just for different people. I personally prefer the lemon lime. But we entered that, that strawberry into a competition in la that's a national like hemp beverage thing and we won, I think, second place, or second or third place, but yeah, we were pretty, pretty thrilled just to see that like we knew we had something.
Colt Power:But between how the market received it and then like winning that award too, we're like okay, I think really and that was a first time entry into something like this.
Chad:Right, yeah, oh, I mean that's, you can't wish for anything better, really and the market like elsewhere, like I would say California, colorado, kind of already been there, ish right not taken off, but it's not taken off.
Colt Power:I think the beverage thing's really taken off now. Minnesota really did, did, uh has pioneered it well, where they set some laws in, where they made it very clear like the biggest problem with the hemp space is that, like they made this one rule in 2018 and then we've all been kind of operating on these loopholes without much re-clarification of you can do this, you can't do this.
Colt Power:And Minnesota went ahead and said all right, you can put 10 milligrams in a can, but it has to be two servings. Any serving has to be five milligrams. As long as you hit these thresholds you go to town. And so that's when a lot of the more corporate people started to jump in. Like that's where Total Wineverse adopted it. And, yeah, I guess like it kind of after seeing it flourish there like almost every craft brewery not that might be an overstatement, but a lot of craft breweries jumped on it pretty quickly and, uh, have done very well with it. And um, yeah, it's. I think that with the success in that market, people have been like oh well, this is under this hemp rules that apply everywhere, right? So yeah.
Chad:So what other products do y'all have? So obviously you've got that partnership with Martin house. Uh, what other products?
Colt Power:Um. So yeah, on the on the exclusively power biopharm side, we are our best selling and what we do best are gummies, um, uh, and we have some that are just Delta nine. We have a lot of different blends of Delta nine and CBD. Um, we still do sell some Delta eight gummies. Some people prefer those, um, and then we we also now sell pre-rolls and flour, um and um, we do pet treats and we do some topicals, uh, like a pain relief lotion and a cbd balm.
Chad:Um kind of do a little bit, a little bit, a lot um I will say the, the one, the one for one ratio, the cbd, thc, that's the best because I feel like you get what you want. But also like again, like I mentioned earlier, like that, that kind of medical benefit, like it evens you out, it's not too much you're not getting anxious or crazy, it's just, it's just perfect balance.
Colt Power:Yeah, the cbd helps take some of the edge off the less desirable effects of thc for people um, I bought a big canister this time first time I bought a couple packages, the 20 just to kind of see, or the 10, I think.
Chad:Yeah, just to kind of see what was what we liked and that one was the fave for sure, like here, for the past month I've been like wanting to like stop drinking.
Javier:Not like stop drinking, just replace it with something else.
Colt Power:Yeah, that's what I mean I was saying as much as I would love a beer, I told myself I give a year off of alcohol and it's been a very, I'd say, easy substitute to where. You know I take a gummy At the end of the day. It kind of comes on over the next couple hours and then maybe another one or two to go to sleep and yeah, it's been fantastic.
Javier:I always wake up feeling good and take a few home with you, even if it's just like a seltzer and one of these or something. I mean, I think, because I mean you know I don't drink a lot, but when I do I binge drink. And so I you know, I'm like with you. I was like man, I really need to just stop drinking for a year. You know, and cause I don't?
Speaker 4:that's another question I wanted to ask you.
Javier:So when I'm at work like I, I wander, like I have a it's.
Chad:ADHD Mentally or like physically.
Power Song:You lose where you are.
Tim:You catch him like he's down the road. He's made his way over to Thrive somehow.
Javier:And he just hops over to M&O's after that, like whenever Thrive first opened, like I was there, like that first week they were open, cause I was very intrigued and so I was like, oh, I'll buy everything. But like, what do you suggest I take during work hours that I can take where? Because I don't operate heavy machinery, like I run an office in a body shop. I work on cars, sometimes Hail damage, not anything crazy.
Colt Power:But what can I take to like kind of slow my mind down? I'd say probably like a low dose of something like a one-to-one or rfs plus, as even it's a, it's a two to one ratio of cbd to thc, and so it's slightly less thc.
Colt Power:That's usually what I recommend for someone who's familiar with thc but not wanting to get smacked in the face, especially like during the day yeah that's what I typically would go with, I mean, and then, quite honestly, just because the way it hits differently, it sounds maybe a little more aggressive, but I'm more comfortable smoking during the day yeah because the edibles really slow me down and get me just kind of more, more drowsy often, or they have the the chance to where smoking doesn't um and smoking is a shorter lasting shorter lasting thing, yeah yeah, um, and you know, it's like with the edibles too, like I pick something that is a lower content of thc, higher content of cbd, and like one of the pre-rolls we make is called the entourage effect, um, and it's got like eight percent of thca, um, like eight or ten percent cb, cbd and then CBG and CBDV everything.
Chad:You just threw everything in there.
Colt Power:The kitchen sink is what it is to me it helps really kind of anything I'm anxious about just helps bring that anxious volume down without knocking me out entirely. If you're smoking like a 25-30% THC, then you're probably going to be in the same situation as you would with an edible.
Javier:So flour versus vape that y'all have, which one do you think would be? Is it equally kind of the same, or?
Colt Power:They're very similar. It's hard to explain, like flour is always the most full expression of it and there's like you get I feel like you get the most clean feeling out of flower, but just realistically, like during the work day, it's kind of hard, you know, and it's stinky and like you know, and with kids I find myself doing more vape just for convenience and for you know you can go and have a quick hit and be back and you do y'all have vapes. They do yeah, thrive does yeah we don't, we uh, yeah, has them.
Colt Power:We don't make them yet we source those. So yeah, it's another fun layer of the law. Texas had a law that went all the way up to the Supreme Court. That said you can. The original law was from the Department of Health and Human Services and they said nah, we see this hemp thing happening, but there's going to be no manufacture, distribution, retail or possession of smokable hemp products. And a whole bunch of hemp folks sued the state and said that's not okay. Like this was made legal, you can't take away.
Colt Power:This whole thing Went all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to block the distribution, retail and possession of it, but they could block manufacturing. And so all the pre-rolls that we do, we have to do them anywhere else. We can grow the flour in our farm and we can sell the pre-rolls once they're made into a pre-roll, but we are not allowed to take flour and turn it into a pre-roll, so we send it to Oklahoma and we have to do the same thing for vapes. We just haven't set up that supply chain yet.
Chad:It's like the alcohol distribution laws for the longest time. It's like you could make it. You could send it anywhere but you couldn't sell it yourself, you couldn't have it on premises.
Tim:For the longest time. We take it for granted now. That's why the brewery tours were a thing. Right, right, yeah.
Chad:That's why the whole thing started.
Tim:That's crazy.
Power Song:Now hemp farm tours.
Colt Power:We put our farm in the middle of DFW for a reason we hadn't had the foot traffic yet and just learning about controlling pests and different things coming in and out. You've got to be careful with it, but yeah, we want it to be something where people can come see it and see that it's not scary.
Tim:We had the opportunity with Sage, whenever he was on with us, that we got to go out to his farm whenever he had it here in Aledo and actually harvest some flower, which was really cool. It was a very neat experience, right, and there was a lot more to it than what I expected.
Colt Power:Yeah.
Tim:And he did cover crops and all sorts of stuff.
Colt Power:It's a real art especially like doing what he's doing in greenhouses and outdoor.
Tim:Yeah, you have to work more with nature. In our indoor farm, we just exclude all nature. Yeah, we want only cannabis plants. So are you? Are you running like, a? Uh, like a hydroponics type setup?
Colt Power:it's, it's uh, we do a top feed. We use soil, so it's not full hydroponic, but yeah, we top feed on a regular interval and we've experimented with a lot of different systems.
Tim:Have you looked at the? What is it with the? I mean, it's like a hydroponic system but they have, like, actually fish inside the tanks and all that.
Colt Power:Yes, we actually looked pretty seriously at that because we try to do everything, you know, as renewable, sustainable as possible, and so we always we reuse our soil and things like that.
Tim:But we were looking at it it's called aquaponics. Yeah, that's what it is.
Colt Power:And I'd heard from people that have tried it that the bud can end up tasting or smelling fishy.
Tim:Oh, and that sounded horrible, that's weird, not okay.
Colt Power:So I was like I'm no longer interested in that.
Tim:Skunk's okay, but fish, I draw the line.
Colt Power:I'm not a big seafood guy so I was like, yeah, I'm out. That's not something I want in there.
Tim:Yeah, I mean, there's so many different ways to I guess, lack of a better term skin a cat right.
Colt Power:Right.
Tim:And there's so many different techniques and stuff and so it's always interesting to see what other people are doing and how they're doing and, like I said, sage was doing the whole outdoor organic greenhouse to grow and all that stuff. And then like hearing you all are indoors and doing this top feed system. I mean it's cool, it's innovative.
Colt Power:I was doing deep water culture when I was doing it at home. So when we first got licensed, we got licensed for my house and I took over our media room and put a whole bunch of grow tents in there and my wife was very patient and you know I knew it was important to use like filtered water. So I knew it was important to use filtered water so I was using filtered water from the fridge and having to carry that upstairs in these big jugs and everything.
Colt Power:But yeah, I was doing deep water culture where it's more traditional hydroponic like you're imagining, where the plants are kind of just hanging suspended over a big tub of water, and it's pretty remarkable to see how much faster things grow through that and a lot of benefits of it. I met Nick who runs our farm now. Uh, yeah, he humbled me early on about just. There's a big difference. It's called weed for a reason. You can get it to grow, but growing good, good bud and like high quality on a repeatable basis is a whole nother thing. Um, and we switched away from the the more hardcore hydroponic, mainly because of, uh, uh, like just preventative risk management. There's a lot more high risk for systems failure.
Tim:Sure.
Colt Power:If you lose circulation or the water temperature gets out of hand, like you can lose everything overnight, right and um, so with soil, as we were learning how to do things what what would that be for? Um, without the circulation, the water won't get oxygenated. It doesn't take long for the plants to die. Yeah, but with soil just, things move a little bit slower. And so, as we were expanding and going to a plant count that neither of us had ever been at before, we're like we need as many buffers as we can get.
Tim:And running continuous lighting in there, like the continuous grow light and all that stuff, yep.
Colt Power:Yeah, we do. Our veg plants plants, the younger plants and the mom plants are on 18 hours of light and then, once they switch to flower, they get 12 hours of light, 12 hours of dark that's cool.
Chad:Yeah, that's really nice, yeah, so when you were talking about, you know you're a regular user because of you know injuries, things like that what do you use like? Do you use like the topical stuff like I know I haven't used. I got that for you know. I guess you threw it in there. Thank you, or you know y'all did for getting some gummies and things like that, so I haven't tried it yet. But like, what do you use?
Colt Power:I do use that. So on a daily basis I take a cbd oil um, take it morning and night, um, and then I, almost every evening, will take a couple delta nine gummies to go to sleep. And then, yeah, if I've had a hard workout where either you know my knee or my neck or something hurts, I use that power relief lotion nice, um, and then, yeah, more more socially is that when, when the beverages come into effect.
Tim:For me, yeah, I'm just curious, like on the, the power relief lotion, is it? Is it strictly cbd, or is it that's actually delta 8, delta 8 yeah and so you do get some. I mean, like I know, absorption through the skin is not the best medium typically, but you do get some actual absorption through it.
Colt Power:In the localized area yeah, the CBD and really any of the cannabinoids Delta-8, Delta-9. We use Delta-8 because we don't have that potency cap that only applies to Delta-9. We're able to make a stronger lotion that way. But yeah, you won't get any systemic intoxication, just a little bit more, so my shoulders won't get any uh systemic intoxication.
Chad:just a little bit more, so my shoulders won't get high.
Colt Power:No, okay, no, okay, good, yep, just just a little bit stronger pain relief right there yeah, there's this.
Tim:I mean so a lot of like. Okay, going back in the medical industry, we used to do stuff called uh, nitro, pace or nitroglycerin that you put on a patient, put on the chest, absorbs through the skin and if you don't have good perfusion, so blood flow flow in those areas, you don't get that good absorption and the skin barrier is not really meant to absorb anything. Anyways, it's supposed to be a barrier. So I'm just curious. It's got my mind wandering like okay, so it's got Delta-8 in there, so is it going to absorb enough to like is it going to show up on a drug screen?
Speaker 4:or whatever.
Tim:Javier, I need you to try this. We're going to run a test and see what happens.
Colt Power:I've not tested it, but I've heard the answer is no. But I think to your point. Then it's like well then, how effective could it be if it's not actually being absorbed?
Tim:But I think it comes down to, it's probably being absorbed, localized, like you're saying, right, but it's probably not breaking down into what drug test looks for, which is like Metabolite yeah, it's the metabolite of THC, so it's not actually THC itself.
Javier:Well, I plan on getting a bunch of stuff, because I didn't even know that they made dog treats or anything like that.
Power Song:Yep.
Speaker 4:And I want to give some to.
Javier:Bubba.
Tim:Bubba needs some of that, yeah.
Javier:He's very anxious. He licks himself all the time and he's it helps a lot with that, like arthritis, so that our other great dane is still with us.
Colt Power:She's 11 years old now and, uh just, I've never seen a great dane that's incredibly old for a great day, wow yeah, she just had a toe removed. She had cancer on her toe but other than that like she's a very healthy dog and I can't prove it, but I'm gonna claim that our products
Power Song:are what, what do you?
Colt Power:give her.
Javier:What do you give?
Colt Power:her. I put oil so we make the pet treats. And then we make an oil that's just an unflavored, uh unscented oil. I put it on top of her. Uh food, okay, yeah. And so the thing with the, the treats. I mean, she's a big dog so I wanted to give her a higher dose and I would give her quite as many treats. Um but uh, some dogs are picky about if they want to eat that treat or not and with with it's it's.
Colt Power:I put it on top of her food. I know she's going to eat it. And now, uh, I don't know if it's just because she likes the fatty taste of the oil, but like she'll stare at me until I put it on. She waits for it. But yeah, I put it on her food morning and night and uh seems to help. She gets really anxious with storms too. It helps her with that.
Javier:Yeah, we got one of those Thunder Vests and we feel like it doesn't really Got them at Thunder Buddy, Thunder Buddy, yeah, yeah yeah, and we feel like it doesn't really do much. And are those sold at Thrive Do you also?
Colt Power:The treats are. I got to check on the oil. I think they have a pet oil as well.
Chad:Okay, and so where can people find Power Bio Farms products?
Colt Power:We sell them direct off of our website, powerbiofarmscom, and then Thrive and a bunch of other local stores carry our products. It kind of depends on which store which products they may have, but if you go to our website we have a map and it'll show and you can check if it's Power Bio Farms products or Powerhouse. So there's some of the places we sell that are, like you know, liquor stores or convenience stores that only have the, the, the drink um.
Chad:But yeah, I think we're in like 60 something stores around the area now man, it made me feel so good to see like every time y'all would post something with uh, you know um powerhouse and be like we're here now, we're here're here now.
Colt Power:I'm like damn, y'all are everywhere, like legit, everywhere it's awesome and we're, uh, we're we're working on a couple couple deals for for greater distribution, so hopefully, hopefully, be able to announce something with the next within the next month or so, we should be even yeah.
Colt Power:Oh yeah, we've got lots of stuff planned for 420. So Thrive is having its annual Carroll Street party, I think from 2 to 5 or 2 to 6, on Saturday. Martin House and us are throwing a half-Halloweed party. I'll be there, that's, I think, around the same hours middle of the day, and then Saturday night, back at our grow facility, nick, our VP of O ops and head grower, has put on a comedy show. It's actually a ticketed event.
Colt Power:We still have tickets available. You have to email nick at powerbiopharmscom. I don't know if you all are familiar with the comedy scene in Austin at all, but there's a show called Kill Tony.
Tim:Yeah, I'm a huge fan.
Colt Power:He's gotten a ton of the comedians that are either regulars or people that have been done well on the show.
Tim:And this is 420?
Colt Power:420. This Saturday it's at 730. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I might be emailing.
Tim:No, I'm going to be at, oh man.
Chad:There's a If it goes, as well as we're thinking it will.
Colt Power:this won't be the last I'm doing a crawfish.
Tim:I'm going to be in Corsicana for a crawfish, the whole concept of show it to grow seems to be pretty intriguing.
Colt Power:That's awesome. Yeah, that sounds amazing.
Chad:I will definitely be at Martin House, though. I'm pretty excited about that. But yeah, 420 seems like we should be having fun.
Tim:You should get tickets to go to that. Honestly, it I'm saying yeah it would be great.
Chad:So, yeah, you got a full day. Are you going to go to all the things?
Colt Power:Yeah, I'll split my time during the day between the two parties, and then I'll make it back for the comedy show Nice, which luckily is about five minutes from my house, so I can go crash after that. So you're that close to work, oh yeah.
Chad:Hell yeah.
Javier:That's fantastic yeah run home nice um, okay, so the one on carroll street. What time is that at?
Colt Power:I believe it's from two to six, two to six.
Javier:I will be there yep, I'll be there after work.
Chad:We'll just walk over there yeah, anything else that you want to plug. I know you you're all over social media in a couple of different facets, so anything you want to plug for the people to go check you out yeah, so we got uh for the drink at.
Colt Power:It's the at power powerhouse oh no, excuse me at drink powerhouse on Instagram. At power biopharms on Instagram. At Thrive Got a new account. Oh yeah, it's like an underscore Thrive Apothecary, I think.
Chad:Yeah, and it's drinkpowerhouse, drinkpowerhouse, Right.
Tim:I'm at ColtVPower on Instagram, but you'll pretty much just see my kids yeah, it's ThriveApothecary underscore we did have a question real quick before we get off of this when is the seltzer going to drop? Oh it's out. It's out, gladys, it's out. Go get it.
Colt Power:We're going to be having our third canning run here this next week. Yeah, I've been doing progressively larger batches as people have been coming to get it.
Javier:Also, oh sorry, go ahead.
Colt Power:I was going to say I believe it'll still be on tap. It's been on tap in the tap room at Martin House too. Yeah, both flavors were there Monday. And I think they have them for sale, for carry out there too.
Javier:What's your favorite restaurant in Fort Worth?
Colt Power:Took a weird turn.
Javier:All right, let's go here. I just wanted to do a funky five. We haven't done one in so long.
Colt Power:I'm a huge fan of Tim Love's restaurants. I think it depends on the day and the occasion, but I think it's easy for me to say Woodshed's probably in there If we were to go nice. I think Lonesome Dove's up there they have delicious palomas and then just right down the road from our studio you have gemelli. Right right there.
Speaker 4:I haven't had that yet yes, I need to try that. I just tried. Uh, what's it pluma?
Colt Power:suerte, I had a few weeks ago and I had, uh, caterinas, which, uh, that was funny. I didn't know that you had to wear a blazer, and if you don't wear a blazer, they give you a ridiculous blazer to wear what's ridiculous about it? I mean they must have given me like a 6x plaid blazer so people know this this guy didn't bring his fucking laser. They shame you for not.
Tim:I don't think we should do a full funky five, but I think we should. You want to do a full funky? Let's do a full funky five.
Chad:Well, hold on okay did, was the whole phone thing still real? Is that, like you, can't have your phone?
Colt Power:yeah, I didn't know about that either. Honestly, I wish more places would do that. I, I thought it was fantastic.
Chad:Did it go like this? No, put your phone away.
Tim:I did see a brewery at one point that had glasses made to where you had to put your phone underneath it for the glass to sit.
Colt Power:Interesting what.
Tim:So you didn't have your phone out, so you put it out for you to sit the cup down on the table.
Chad:Oh, so I guess it gets it on the edge or something it had a cutout, basically.
Tim:So if you removed your phone, it would fall.
Chad:That's a cool concept.
Colt Power:I love the idea of forcing people to get off their phones. It's just our default socially. Yeah, agreed.
Javier:It's like what Tyler the creator said during Coachella had Billboards said I would much rather I'd really love to see your face instead of the glares of your screens. So it was, you know, but yeah, um, so would that count as a date night option too? Like, do you pick a tim love restaurant?
Colt Power:yeah, yeah, that was actually when we went to cat arenas. It was, uh, we went to see the green river ordinance concert at tan hills and yeah had a little date night tan hills
Chad:also great tan hills fantastic and the food there's actually really good.
Tim:Another tim love institution yeah, just pumping tim love yeah, that's actually one of the best sounding venues other than Tulips, I think in our area.
Javier:Yeah, absolutely, we saw Ludacris over there.
Chad:All right, so we're going to really pump this out fast.
Javier:Let's pump it out baby.
Tim:Pump this out fast. We are at our hour. We got to wrap this up and I've already got a song lined up to send us out. Okay, thanks to.
Javier:AI.
Chad:AI.
Tim:All right, so you want to do we already did restaurant. You do the good thing about the movies. Okay, are we jumping straight to that?
Chad:No, what is your favorite? What was the other one?
Tim:It's been so long since we've done these.
Chad:Do you listen to podcasts or anything like that? Is it like grow podcasts or business podcasts? What's your favorite type and favorite podcast?
Colt Power:I mean, I listen to Joe Rogan. I listen to several from your mom's house studios. Yeah, comedy stuff there. Um, I usually watch it on youtube instead of listening to it. But kill tony every week, um, with my wife. And then, um, I listened to, uh, breaking points to get my international news fix, um, yeah. And then, uh, jordan peterson, like it's not too it was just in town yesterday. I'm just yeah, I went to.
Colt Power:I went to that last year dickies arena yeah I was trying to get tickets on my ticket master account. I think I actually tried three to three times to buy tickets and I wasn't sure. I don't think I ever got them, so is that where mitch was.
Tim:Yeah, mitch was there last night sidebar from that you like kill tony. I want to know what your take is on Casey Rocket.
Colt Power:So I love Casey Rocket. Me too, he was one of the first people I got to meet from Kill Tony. We went to one of his. He did a show here in Dallas and we got to hang out with him afterwards and yeah, fascinating character.
Tim:Him just walking around is like Putin's trying to get me the first time I saw him on stage in a small room.
Colt Power:I was like is this guy about to shoot up the place? He was moving so much and just darting around and then, you get that. That's just his act.
Tim:So this guy hasn't been on Kill Tony. I'm going way off here because I love comedians and man, I can't think of the guy's name, but I've seen a lot of his stand-up where the guy is in the military. He's actually autistic and has like severe anxiety and so if he's up public speaking he's like twitching and everything else. Dude is hilarious.
Colt Power:I know who you're talking about. Yeah.
Tim:Um, but they've got like him and a couple other guys that were in like the in in like the military world have their own podcasts and their. Their shit's hilarious too, but all right, so sorry, Sidebar.
Chad:All right, so I got the other two. So the first one. I know you haven't drank in some time, but when you did what was one of your go-to spots Martin House that's how we got here. Yeah, I love Martin House. Yeah, for sure. And then, who is your favorite local musician?
Colt Power:Ooh, you know I'm a huge. I don't know if he came up locally, but he lives here now locally. William clark green um, okay, from the texas country scene, yeah, okay, yeah, nice, um, big country fan, yeah, okay, yeah, the texas country in particular, not so much in nashville, but I mean I grew up on pat green and cory morrow and yeah, um, yeah, dude, I'm a huge fan of like colter wall and all like the outlaw, like more of the outlaw stuff.
Tim:Um, I really dive into that and and of course I mean I like my Texas country too. Right, yeah.
Tim:All right. So I'm going to paint a picture and, Colt, I don't know how old you are and I'm just not going to assume anything. I'm just going to paint this picture and I want you to think about it. Just take every word I'm saying in, okay, and then I want you to give me an answer. Are flipping through channels because we don't have TV guides or anything like that? No, netflix, anything. You're just flipping through the channel, right, and you come across that one movie. It doesn't matter where it's at, if it's 30 minutes in, it's an hour in two minutes, in whatever. You're going to stop on that movie and you're going to watch that movie, no matter what you've got going on. What is that movie?
Colt Power:I got two that are probably equal time.
Tim:Okay, got two that are probably equal time.
Colt Power:Okay, go for it. Gladiator, that's a good one.
Tim:Or forrest gump forrest gump is a good one too. We all said shawshank redemption that was. That was a consensus for us. But man forrest gump is.
Chad:We've had a couple forrest gumps.
Tim:We've yeah gladiator is a first.
Javier:I think yeah gladiator 2 comes out next year. Gladiator 2 yeah, they've already filmed it and all that stuff. What?
Colt Power:Is it a remake of the same story?
Javier:I think maybe it's a sequel.
Colt Power:It's got to be a sequel.
Javier:Gladiator 2. I know they showed like eight minutes of it. They had like a CinemaCon last week where they were previewing a bunch of new movies coming out and they said that it looked really good. They said it looked really good, so I'm really excited.
Tim:I think I still I still have the VHS of a gladiator. I want to thank Christie for coming in with our podcast restaurant.
Chad:Yeah, a little late, christie's probably cause she's taking one of these gummies and she's just a little bit slow on the draw.
Tim:All right, so we're on our hour a little bit over, play our outro music, which I came up with just like that because I'm so good.
Javier:And here it is Wait, hold on. Are we ending it and then playing the?
Tim:Oh, it's playing now and you're all going to hear it. Okay, Just let it cook for a second.
Power Song:Okay. Funky Panther Podcast, where stupid vibes Powered by your farm CBD Delta A Ignite In its sales words are feeling safe like Cold power. Oh, cold power On the funky Panther In this vibrant hour, cbd dreams Powered by your farm, it's triumphant Delta A whispers. This is so stupid. Triumphal I told him to make it epic. With every word he shares a vision unfolds Of power. Biopharm's journey breaking walls, CBD soothing embrace. Delta-8 gentle sway In Colt's world, miracles find their way. Cope Power, oh, Cope Power On the funky panther.
Chad:I hate you so much, tim, I just hate and love you so much.
Javier:I like that. It's ridiculous. I just want to say this that sounded like something they'd play in North Korea for kids.
Colt Power:It did sound a bit communist yeah it sounded very communist More commie, less epic.
Tim:I was going for the epic. You know what here?
Chad:we are. I got what he was going for. Well, cole, thank you so much for hanging out with us tonight. This has been an absolute pleasure. Love the products, love everything that you're doing. Cannot wait for this. Saturday, 420 Martin House Thrive, can I? Eat one At Power Bio Farms. Yeah, sure You're about to head home. We've already talked about where people can find you. Anything else that you want to plug before we close out tonight?
Colt Power:I don't think so I think just yeah, check us out. Support Thrive Apothecary.
Chad:They do a great job here in Fort Worth. Yeah, All right, man. Well, thanks again. Shout out to everybody following us on all things social media, at the Funky Panther, For everyone hanging out with us on YouTube. Thank you so much. Subscribe to our YouTube channel Really do us a lot of help. So what, what?
Tim:what Gladys's dog stood at attention when we played that song.
Chad:Well, thanks for that. Stay good everybody. I'm Chad.
Tim:I'm Javier and I'm Chad, and we are.
Speaker 4:The Funky Panther.
