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I'm talking to three hundred plus club. So that's the three hundred plus club. But I see somebody over three d oh. I just want to Oh, I have a jacket in my car that's over three hundred plus that I brought. I have one that's I got to get it out of my car today. That being said, we're a waistline connected. We are, Yes, we are. Brother Gabriel Race, the current mayor and that city of Adelanto. He's the second youngest caron, I mean, the mayor and history of California. This guy is the youngest, folks that I said, the second that's so dope to be the song. Yes, it's big, you mean, tightened up a little bit right here. I mean, the second youngest mayor in the history of California. You guys, that is really big. Spit right there, gave it. And the fourth youngest mayor in the United States, the fourth top five the big things right there. I'm very impressed. Such a young age it. There's an honor to be with you right now, you know what I mean, because you've got a lot of big things, dude, for doing that at such a young age, because that's where it has to start, right And if you're one of the four top four doing it, I mean you're obviously gonna go somewhere. Almost want to see the list of the other three goons. You know what they're up to, Probably some good stuff. But not only that. He also oversees multiple successful businesses and is a youth leader in his beloved city, serving the community of Adelanto. Mr ray Is is an investor, mentor, serial entrepreneur that's just killing it out there and a motivational speaker. The Spanish meaning of Adelanto transfers to advance, really rings true with the mayor himself, Senor Reyes. One of his ventures inspired mindsets educates people how to grow financially by becoming resilient traders. And I'm not talking on the streets, I'm talking on the boards there and on the web and learning some real stuff. He is also the President's that you are solar plug, helping residents in business save money while becoming energy efficient, which I'm a huge fan of, by the way, eliminating the need for fossil fuels. Gabrielle Reyes and the City of all Alanto will be hosting can x Is, the World Series of Cannabis and the Burning Trees Festival in August and twenty seven at the Autlanto Events Center. We are grateful to become and welcoming this gentleman and his council, as we are honored to have you on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the mayor and everything that you do that you make possible for your city. Brother, give it up for this man. Thank you, fam. That was I'm sitting here like, bro, who are you talking about? That's an introduction of introductions. Yeah, I appreciate it. I've been wanting to get down here for a while. You know, COVID you know, did its thing. But now we're here, and you know, I'm a firm believer that the tea and timing is far greater than the tea and talent, right because we were trying to do this in two thousand nineteen early right, right when you got it, right when you got exactly. But the timing of it now is like, now we have three years worth of knowledge, three years worth of success, three years of things that we've done in the city to yeah, write something like trials and tribulations of this work. This didn't I want to go back scale though? Where do you come from and how do you get in the game and becoming the third this and fourth this? Like where does that politics? Love come from? So it comes from because I'm from Atlantho, like my family just raised. Yeah, I've been up to Sunny two. I was born in East l A. You know, typical Latino family. Parents are first uh, first generation immigrants. You know, my mom is from Echo Con my dad is from Chihuahua Wasting. Raised in in Dallas for Worth area. And you know, I'm the last of the Mohicans. I'm the last of the bunch. And my parents are just like, hey, typical Latino story. Let's get them out of the city, getting you know, let's move them away. Heyah, we're going out to the middle of nowhere, right, And I've been up to since I was five in and I loved him. Man, you know, it was different and just like any young kid, you know, when there's not allowed to do, you find things to do. Right. So that led to some you know, young dumb decisions. Had some amazing parents. But you know we're men. We we we we challenge everything, challenge everything, experience exactly life lessons. Right. So then I moved to Hawaii when I was about That's what I remember. My beautiful wife, Charity. Ya. Shout out to my amazing wife for being supportive and you know putting. So yeah, they really went out there. I wasn't as big, right, um, but got me the rights, the goods, right, the food, the man it was it hit me, but um, you know, when I was out there, it was just I adapted to the culture because I really think I was coming back home. Like when I left to Hawaii, I had no ambitions, no plans, you know, to to come back. But you know, everything happens for a reason. You know. I come back home because my dad got really sick, and uh, you know, um, thank you, you know, and I don't enjoy um, I enjoyed five years. Right. I moved back home in about two thousand and sixteen, right in the beginning of stuff going on with cannabis and avalantho and uh, you know, he passed away here in twenty one, my father in law passed away. At the end of it was it was a tough time, right. It was for sure a crazy um shift in my family, right with my immediate family, you know, and then when with my in laws and and everyone else. But you know, that's what brought my what brought me and my wife home was being there for my dad. Right. My mom called me, She's like, mijo, I know you got your stuff going out there in Hawaii, but you know, I think your dad's about to go. You know, I need you to come home. I need your help. So I came out first, and then my wife came out when we realized that it was pretty serious. And uh, the crazy part was, I think my my dad just needed that that that spunk, right, he needed that youth. You need me, yeah, you know, and right, so you me and my wife are there and you know, we get involved the ministry with church, being the youth leaders and stuff like that. And then you know, I had my businesses had a credit repair company, business lending company, financial literacy like the financial markets and stuff like that, teaching the younger kids, like really what it's about? What real financial literacy? The stuff they don't teach us in school, right, just putting people on game and showing them back and um and yeah, man, everything happened. You know, I'm not going to focus on the on the on the past, but it most definitely I was challenged to, uh, you know what, this is my city. I grew up here. Let's just say, you know the streets of the city very well, very well, very very well. You know, absolutely right. I grew up of a Crippen's called the Chamberlain Way. Now, but it was mold On, there was a boulevard called Crippin explain that. So so on the north side of the town where I grew up, it was called Crippin Avenue, right, but what was cripping that It was really called Cripping Avenue. Right. I'll go when I go back home, and I can't live on this street. That was a big That was a big issue because they actually named the street after one of the Air Force captains, which his last name was Crippen, right, But because of just that mind, like that mind to the life. Right, there's a lot of people that didn't want to invest on the north side of town because of the gang affiliation, and so that's what we changed the name to Chamberlain right, And that was after the former mayor Chamberlain Right. So we did all of that, man, But it was some great times, and uh, you know everything happened around you know, seventeen ish, right, that brought some quote unquote concern to the community. And I said, you know what, if it's meant to be, it's up to me. And I went to prayer about it and seek like my my my pastor's advice and and talk to the family, and everything was like that and anything you slowly happened, man, everything slowly happened. And uh, and I was like, you know what I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna run from mayor, you know. And uh, and let's see where it goes. First run you you you took took office. You know, first of all, your your family and your stuff. You should be proud of yourself, man, sincerely, you know, because one, you know, you are Latino, you know what I mean. And and and that's already you know, for for a lot of cities is not as common, right, but the two you're one of the top four. Yeah, but we're one of the top five. Okay, youngest right. And then and then having the ability to care enough to to rebuild your city and make sure that you put in that effort is so powerful, you know. And a lot of us, you know, growing up, you know, we we have you know, done or been involved in silly ship in our in our in our area. And then and then and it's it's it's those people that can understand that area so well to come back and go, this is what's up, like this is what I know. It needs to be fixed. And and for you and and and you know, for even for me, a lot of people, we we have this ability to really care. And I and that's what when when we met, I think you were either running for or had just got in office, and and I remember just sitting with you, and I'm like, man, dude, I really like this guy. Like you know, your your your consciousness and your care just you know runs right out of you. You can see it. And and and so thank you for being on the show, thank you for having me. Because it's bigger. And that's the thing that I try to stress, right, is that it's bigger than I make. The title. The title doesn't make me, right, I Gabel's gonna be Gabriel with or without the title of mayor. Period. I'm going to make the impact with without the tire of the title of mayor. But with the title gives me it's just that access, right, and it allows those people to open up those doors, all these snaps the mayor's coming in. Oh, let's have a meeting with the mayor. Right. It gives me the access to share the vision on what I have for the city. I really want all alonga to be everything that I didn't have, right because for me, me and my friends we were board, we would we would go out to the desert with you know, and statue of limation, right, but I would go out to the right allegedly and friends. No, no no, there'll be a bunch of kids going out to the middle of the desert with us. You know what I mean. We had nothing to do, right, so I must have sat. That's we're gonna be. We're gonna be knuckle ahead, right. So I don't want this next generation right when me and my wife are are fortunate enough to be would have kids. I want my kids to be like dang, dad, you were a part of that. So you reveal them like a gas tank down the middle of nowhere, thinking break. We got the mayor here where it is, We're gonna come back. We're talking more to about how it is like the hub of cannabis and how it created this medal cannabis. It's the mecca of growing and showing. It's Cannabis Talk one on one with Blue and Joe Grande, the world's number one source for everything cannadas even locked. We'll be right back with Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome back to Cannabis Talk one oh one. All of Canada AIDS products are made from the purest top shelf cannabinoids. But you don't have to take it from me, folks, Oh no you don't. All their products are third party tested and have a QR code better than my word, but on the label that anyone can scan and see. Help here. Their stuff really is hashtag Canon Factory at Canada Shop and the website of course, Canada shop dot com. How you spell that, Joe, that's c A N N A A I D s h O. Pete. The mayor of Adelanto, Gabriel riz Blue. You said it so well. Everything you said about it was on point, all the praises so well said, and honor without just the amount of respect that just you absorb and and and and get, and the love that you push you out as well is appreciated that I see from a Latino. That's the mayor, let alone any mayor. That's I'm saying. So there's a bigger deal for us, for us as I look at you and get this, like anything I can do for you, sir, im here for that you need me to hold a sign on the corner when I'm out there, I will do it for for you because the mayor because that's what we're doing. Right. So that all being said, folks, it is the mecca. We said before we went to break of cannabis. When and how does this even start? Take me back and educate me on the first grow are legal anything in Adalanto? How does this happen before it becomes the mecca? So shout out to those who started it, and I'll never I'll never take away from those who established them. Right. The city was in a painful, painful position, right, and there are some key people who believed and wanted to do something different. Right. So the last administration that the other thing they brought they started off with with medical advance, move forward with recreational and it took it to the voters. This was in two thousand sixteen when it took it to the voters and it passed like almost sevent like yes for it. Right, and it was where they were they were because we needed the excise tax. Right. The issue with Atlantho, come to find out, was just failed leadership, failed administration, people with no vision and just sitting there unfortunately doing nothing right and it was just sinking the city away. And here comes uh, an aggressive group that has a vision, and and and here comes cannabis, right, and and they come in they're doing their thing, and uh, you know, there's a couple of hiccups along the way. But where isn't there hiccups when you start something new? Right? This is a new industry, this is a new venture. This is something that Remember one of those big hiccups wasn't two thousand and six at the city? Oh no, like what was one of those big ones? Uh? They're growing, we I mean like they we really realized this was one of the big ones. Um, I'm really not OK. I'll say this right, I'll say this right. The hiccups are very well known. Change right, big changes, big stuff. Wasn't there a mayor that was there? We go, Yeah there was. Yeah, there was a mayor that was indicted for something, right, I don't grow for everything. No, he I think he was taking some kind of money and bribes and stuff like that. And this house was raided. It was all over the news. Yeah I don't remember the details. I mean, you know, but I heard about it, you know, and that really hurt the industry, right because of that area too. For a minute, for a minute, because people were concerned here go all these investments to goes, all these opportunities, and now everyone's just like, oh, were you the next mayor after this? Yeah? Which is which is like it's like and then I remember seeing him and they he took after the dude that we heard all the drama about. I never seen that from a distance that people were name his name was Rich Kerry. No, his stuff is actually finalizing the mayor pro tim He was actually just officially sentenced. And I think they hit him with like a like a heart thirty like years. Another thing was like a minimum of ProTem um back in September, Rich has uh I think they hit him with uh didn't he corroborate hundred and sixty five years or something like? Well the charges all totaled up to like a hundred plus for like seven charges and his court his hasn't started nothing like that. But we're just you know, with with with my administration and the council and staff were just like, you know, let's move forward for sure, like we can't feed no, no, you can't even take any of that. Yeah, right, it happened, but you have to have on it, but move forward. And that's not us. And this is what we're doing to go past that. And you know, and because your mayor, like every other mayor, the book's open. It's all gonna come outs. Caught him, folks, You're gonna catch me too. So don't get it twisted. If it comes out, it comes out. There's a lot of there's there's a lot more positivity. And yeah, then then the negative, right, the negative is easy to look at, you know, and and call. But if you look at like people like Freddie that you know that brought in you know, um, you know, different growths and and and and you know, I can remember Freddie, uh says, pulling me in and saying, you know, hey, so he him and I didn't even know each other, but I got a call that there's an attorney that's working out there. And this is before any girls were built, and that they were gonna let it be legal and licensing. Everyone was talking about it, but no one was really moving. Atlanto, if I'm not mistaken, was the first city in the state of California to actually sanction grows and dispensaries the sale. Yes, right, so we were the first for a lot. They truly embraced the industry. Yeah, that's where like I said, I'll tip. I had to him, I'm gonna I was. I like to think I was a prioneer in the two because I met Freddy there and and Freddie and I had known each other from being around, but weren't really friends. And and and I remember someone giving me a call. I think it was like Rascal or g Rascal or some and he's like, yo, Blue, you gotta get out there. There's yeah, and then you're going out there to see the grows. And there wasn't a grow there. They were talking about grows and I didn't even believe it. And I'm standing in this like I don't know a hundred and fifty thousand square facility. I mean, this place is massive. And they're like, we're gonna grow a double decker grow here. We're gonna do this. And I'm like in this building, I'm going, well, how much you guys trying to raise? And it was like thirty or sixty million dollars and I'm like, man, like you know, for someone to be And I always tell people this, when when you're talking to an investor and you're asking for money, you know, whether you're the investor or you're the person looking for that money. If you ask someone for thirty million dollars, and let's just say they're worth sixty, you're asking them for half of their wealth, you know what I mean. So you got to ask somebody for thirty million dollars, it has at least three or four hundred million dollars, it's willing to gamble, you know, ten percent of his money. Yeah, not yet, but but but so I was there and I think I don't remember thirty fifty million or whatever they're looking for. And in my head I was like, damn, Like, I know investors, and the investors that I would bring in could spill ten million, they could even spill the thirty but they're not going to because again, if they're worth a hundred million dollars, it's it's a thirty year money. Like it's too big of an investment, even if you can start leveraging it. But but the fun fact was is that shortly after you've seen a girl come up, you've seen a dispensary pomp up, you've seen extraction labs pop up, you've seen distribution pop up, and and then the city started embracing it, and then it was all public news and there was these things going on, and then you know, you you now have a full ecosystem in the city's orowing if I'm not mistaken, right, you know, And and that's something that you now. You you were in in the awakening of it all. You watched it all happen, and then now you get to kind of make sure it's growing in a in a way that makes sense for the city and the community. And give me some of those things that you guys have done that you feel proud of for helping your city out. So the biggest thing that I say is with everyone, like they started building the plane, right, the plane of cannabis, and it's on the runway, and my administration came in and we tied en up the bolts and we made sure that it took off right. You have to. And I would say two of our biggest successes is, you know, prior administration was maybe collecting two thousand a year in excise tax um the last two years for us in Atalento. Last year we did four point five million dollars and excise tax this year finished off at four point seven, right, So what the residents voted for we were able to accomplish we're able to bring in that revenue, were able to start balancing our budget. This my administration is the first administration in ten plus years that balance the budget without borrowing money from other accounts. To that is a computer. Being physically you know, being physically responsible is something that Alva Lampo hasn't seen in years, right, So that's why they brought the company. You guys were going in the negative. Oh yeah, we were losing money, right and now this, this city now is making all this from one grow like blue walks out there was Freddy to one grow to how many grows and how many different how about this even to make the number bigger, how many different cannabis different likes to grow. And there's also different things with entities. How many different cannabis entities and licenses. I would say we have about a hundred and twenty, like a hundred and thirty five different type of licenses in the city. So we have more than a million and a half square of cannabis cultivation that's active. Once we finish off some things that we have to address, right, we're probably like operable when it comes to like our licenses and grows. Right, So once we we we finish off what we have to finish off. You know, there's one of one of my aggressive goals is from the cannabis industry alone, I want to get ten million dollars coming into our general fund. Yeah, that's why I saved the Mecca. Right, It's not one of these things. Just how back in the day, everyone thought about Humble and everybody thought about Amsterdam when it came to when it came to marijuana, right, and I want them now that it's cannabis, and yeah, it's gonna be alt another the only Well, it's funny that we say that because in my book, mhm, it's third right now, it's those two and three. I mean in my book. Well, but I alway go as far as saying it's actually, you know, bigger in a sense that licensed right, licensed activations, real real companies and and and more than not though even bigger than the cannabis spectrum. You know, one thing that you should be proud of that your city has been doing and that you're part of of making history, is that you guys are building the city. I mean, I I drive into that town now, and and I believe me, when I was there in fourteen or thirteen fourteen. Whenever that was going on, there was no building going on, Like I was hearing the town's going bankrupt. So I thought, you know, my mind was like, man, this is a several times because I worked at Power one O six at the time, and I remember hearing that several times. And we should drive through the Vegas and I remember being a topic of conversation as you say that, now, yeah, the town in the town was hurting, We were hurting. Yeah, and now the property values way up through the roof. So here's an example, right, And when I got elected, properties are going for like homes are going for like a hundred and eighty to like two hundred thousand. Right, no homes. Now when you look on Zello and everywhelse around another Antho, brand new homes being built. Fo that. Don't get me wrong. I know we got a little bit of inflation in the number, right, but the fact that we grew at a hundred thousand dollars right, just in Cannabis alone, we've done two point six billion dollars of tended improvements in the city of al Antho. Right, But I would say, wow, were bringing home, We're building homes, We're bringing in jobs, you know, and and livable weight job career type jobs. Right. But I would say probably one of the biggest things that I'm that that that I'm I'm grateful for and that I'm I would say I'm extremely proud of of our of our council is that vision over politics. What do I mean by that, right, it's vision over politics. We have exercised three percent of all of our tax to create a cannabis scholarship fund. And I want to give a shout out to my mayor pro Tim Daniel Ramos. You know, he spearheaded this. He looked at some things from from Colorado and you know, kind of mimic what they try to do, but they went small. They're like, you know what we want to help, you know, like fifteen hundred, two thousand dollars, right, two kids to go to college and in Pueblo County and things like that. He said, Man, man, let's go big. Let's go big. Let's bless like ten fifteen kids with like ten fifty likes. Let's change their life. Let's bless them education. And I'll tell you what Daniel had told me that the last time we linked up, you know, and I want to cover that. Dude, I want to help push that because you know, I thoroughly believe when you're when you're giving back to your community like that, like that's something you didn't have to do. We didn't. You guys created that and made that a mandatory thing. And now is the narratives is changing because there's more cities need to start getting on board and doing that. Right interview, Why you want to know why we do it? The reason why we did it was because I understand enough that the schools still don't get it right or still don't support it. And there's politics in and that's why I say vision over politics. There's politics and why they don't want to take the quote unquote cannabis money. Right, So you're gonna allow politics to limit you impact in the future generation. Because let's be real, when kids leave by the luntho part of us, they were leaving not wanting to come back. If they went to college and Irvine, they went to college in San Diego, they went to college in Frisco. They're going and they're not coming back, deuces. So for us, it's just like, what are we gonna do to bring these kids back? Right? What are we gonna do, you know, to provide jobs education. This city actually helped me goes. It may not be the first bunch, it may not be the second, but you got some good weed growing. They might come back for that. They want to look at that like because it's not just agriculture, right, we looked at it as a whole and said, like criminal justice, you know, software engineer. There's there's about twelve different industries. And I'm not gonna take too much from my mayor prop time because I want him to come here. Really, but it's one of those things where there's twelve different industries that you can pick from that you can go to college for, just in hopes that one day you're like, you know what, man, let me take my talents back to Avalonto, right, let me come back and let me give back to the end of the next marriage. I don't want to be the best mayor. That's not my goal. My goal is not to be the best mayor. My goal is still that when you look at the history at Alanto ten twenty years from now, thirty years from now, you go back to the Rais administration, things changed. May want to be wholeheartedly believe and I feel that you've already changed the image. And look, because I forgot about the negative venuendo of the city, but then now I wanted to remember, and then I remember exactly where I was at when I seen you from a distance and me and the group of people talking about that was the mayor of that that's taken over. And since that conversation you have shined nothing but great light and respect on the city of Atlanto. I appreciate that you know what I mean, and you bring the level of like, this is the way it's supposed to be done. Yeah, and it's not even like, oh, look what I know. Just thank you for your professionalism, because that's what we need as a man, as a professional mayor, as a city that's leading by example in cannabis and a quote unquote Caboo city, stay whatever in the city of Atlanto. Look what we did. Look what you've been doing now so successfully and turning it around so much. The seat now is so much built and it's so nicer, The roads are nice. We've paved over ten million dollars in capital improvements. There's a lot that we've done. You know, energy, more energy, more energy. We completely offset all of our solar in the city by going you know, with solar, right, bringing over seventeen million dollars back to the general fund over the next twenty years. It's just being financially responsible, looking at things a different way, right, just how we did it with cannabis. We looked at in a different way. We saw the benefits, we saw the pros and some cons. But it takes good leadership. It takes people who really understand that this is the long term play, this is a long term vision. Right. I look at Atlantho. You know, cannabis for sure is a gate way drug for the city, right, you know that's a stigma whether they put out there. Right, But but what but what the way? What do I mean by I'm I love to change the meaning of words. Right, It's bringing in the gateway, right, it's bringing in the developers, is bringing in the investors and bringing in everyone, right who who would have normally just driven past other Lanthor and Gona Vegas never even know about, never even known about the city. Right, So now they're here, now they're growing now there and that's why that's why for me, it's like showing that love back to the back to the industry back to the community because we can't do this alone. We can't. It's a community, right. It takes a village to raise a child, right, So I know the cannabis industry is in the mazing industry. I got some amazing people in the city. And guess what they're gonna say once that cannabis adventure is established and doing good. Hey, Mayor, do you need some affordable housing? Hey Mary? Can we do this? Hey Mayor? How can we help here? Hey Mayor, how can we do this? Hey Mary? Let me introduce you to my other friends who are specialists in robotics and AI. Yeah, it's gonna build my new business out there because I was over here and now I need to build it over there. Well that's a huge point, right because you talk about like, you know, the cost for square foot in California is still one of the best places in the world to build. I mean, I'm talking with Freddy earlier and he's saying, you know, look like where can you where do you have that much land that you can actually build in California? That's not so far. I mean, you know, I used to know. I used to think to drive on man, we gotta drive out there. You know. Now I'm like, oh, we're going out there. Boop, It's not it's nothing. It's really used to complain about it every time. And now he's the Thursday we're going. But you know, I'm going out there all the time because and then I'm like, you know, it's not that far. And and honestly I've already like I'm here up here talking right now and comtemplating myself like I'm gonna buy a house there. I'm gonna buy some property, which we're talking about, you know, buying some land there rights. But now that's the same thing I'm saying now that you're gonna be so mad that you didn't do it now because you're in What I thoroughly believe is we know that Victorville is out there. Victorville got developed fairly quick. Apple Valley, right, what's next, So Avelanto, We're gonna be the gem of the Victor Valley, right, because the gem of the Victor Valley, right, because the Victor Valley is a commuter region. Everyone drives to Ontario, everyone drives to Rantricalmo for the jobs. The jobs are down the hill, right. Well, if I can build industries like my cannabis industry, like traditional manufacturing, traditional industrial jobs, bringing in robotics, bringing in artificial intelligence, bringing these cyber security, crypto things of that sort. Bringing that to Alolanto gets the people are gonna be looking for career ships. Right if I don't got to drive down the Rancho, but I don't gonna drive to Ontario, and I can just transfer my career and transfer my skills to Alolanto. Now we got the workforce. Now moms and dads can be moms and dads because they're not stuck three hours a day on the road. It's gonna go down the hill. They'll be home, They'll be able to get their family time back, right, They'll be able to go to the practices. We'll be able to be with their children are because the reality is sometimes parents got to work a second job, a third job, not just to provide, but to make ends meet, you know. So if we can have the workforce, the workforce development, the workforce creation, and now the lantho that that's our role. Right. I'm not trying to be Victorville, not trying to be up of Valley. I'm not trying to be a Sparria. We got our own identity. We're gonna blossom, We're gonna blow up. Literally, you know, we're gonna grow the city, no pun intended, but we're gonna grow the city and play our role. You've already ten nexted. I mean, if you look at what's what what's out there again? I mean I remember, and we're talking about from fourteen too. It hasn't been that long. I mean it's made leaps and back. But here's the crazy part, right, here's one thing that I don't want people to neglect. Two years we were dealing with a global pandemic, for sure. You know what. It wasn't like I just had a full three years of these hunky dory, easy smooth sailings. Like I'm one year into mayor and that time happens. So for us, right, it gave me more time. It was actually been official, right because I'm used to zooms. I've been on zoom, I've been on webinars, I've been on on all these teleconferencing services for like the last eight years. I've been doing business virtually in Australia, New Zealand, you know, Japan, all over the world. I'm already used to it, right, So when it shifted to having to work from home. You know, A busy day for me my city manager was like three meetings. We'd have one in Atlanto, we'd have one in in in like Upland, and we have one like in the city down here in l A. And we're like, oh man, we had a productive day because we had so much time on the road. Well, now that everyone is shifted to having to do business on zoom and do business from home every you know what I mean? It was like every hour, like we got six meetings today and we got six meetings. We gotta, we gotta we got eight o'clock, nine o'clock, at ten o'clock, two or three and four? Is that cool? Bet? Let's running, you know. So that's why all those things that I do, the you know, the motivational speaking, the solar, all the different niches that I'm a part of it because I need my time, right you know, And I understand that that I have skill sets that I can apply to buy me my time. What do I mean by that is like I can go and help four or five families out switching a solar and switching to renewable energy, and that doesn't I don't have to stress about providing for my family because there ain't no money in in in the mayorship like this is a legacy move, this is a purposeful move, right, So I'm able to do what I gotta do and still be able to go you know, hand in hand and and and and talk to investors and talk to you know, and really showcase and sell the city of Alno via zoom. So that just helps us. Going to tell you, Mayor, I am such a fan of solar. I look at people who don't have solar because, in my opinion, everything we can talk about up here unless it's number and not factual, anecdote or whatever. With solar, the numbers don't live folks. When they tell your bill goes down. And here's why. If you were paying, it's just you simple numbers, one d dollars a month, right, and then you get solar. Oh they're making me pay for my solar loan. How much is that? You're paying a hundred bucks a month? They're making me pay seventy Okay, so now you're paying seventy bucks a month instead of the hundred off and then you're done paying. Thank you Blue. That's the kicker it paid off, you're getting a rebate you and you've got a rebate off top for it. Down in my head, I don't work for those Solar like. I believe it that much. I love Solar. I think it's a it's the best thing out there, and it's a utility that continuesly has gone up four percent year over year over year over year. Sure, And if you look at it, if you pull up a soul like with with with you know PDF, right, you look at a bill for this one, and you look at the bill three or four years ago, you're gonna notice peaked tears. Especially, you know up there in the high desert, you're look at forty one. It's a kill a lot be four it was like nineteen. What a difference, You see what I'm saying. So it's just we can go on and on and on, but it's just finding the waste to be able to make sure that I'm available, to be to be able to showcase and promote my city. You know what, Listen, we gotta go to break. But when we come back, I want to talk about you know, it's what your relationship is with cannabis. It's cannabis talk on one. We'll be right back after this break, We'll be right back with Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome back to Cannabis Talk one oh one. Are you ready for the biggest concert of the year. I feel like I'm doing my real commercial right It's the Burning Trees Festival August Rick Ross in Atalanta, California, performing live on stage. It's Rick Ross, the boss Man himself, Ludicrous plus the Rhymes Too Short, Big Draco, a k A Soldier Boy, Exhibit Havoc from the Infamous mom d Planet Asia and Corrupt Young Guardy, all live on stage August seven at the Adelanto Plasan event. Senators Bambu plus three have the World Series of Cannabis going down there, presented by can Xes, I Heart Radios, Cannabis Talk one on one, Game Day, Green Holding Groups, Dude, the Blacklist, Sweet Maps, all these go get your tickets for this great event at can exis dot com, bat C A N N e x S dot com. As we are here with the beautiful Mayor of Adelanto. Mayors, Uh, this is in your cawn, This is in your city, and thank you for having in Thank you, and not only that you constantly have been one of those venues that I look at as one of those first places that was holding cannabis functions in Atlanto. So not only the first grow that Blew and Freddie go out to a grow house. You're sitting as big building. They're gonna do a double decker. But then I remember going there going everyone's just standing out to your smoking weeds, crazy one, and then like all these events would happen out there, and now we're doing the Burning Trees festival. Yeah, this is huge, like just some of those names, right, it's almost you know, the beautiful thing about Manifestation, right and saying that we want to bring renown, world renowned names Lando, like you would have thought Grammy Winners, Sammy winners, like what fifty Grammys just on this lineup like Rick Ross, Bust the Rhymes, Luda too Short exhibit Like these are not average average names. These are like Mecca, like Metropolitans, you know any of those songs. I know most of these. Right. With that being said, advanced you she have some rocket Seeds are gonna be presenting this event. Man, there'sna be some major major people out Fire Game Day, Blacklist, There's gonna be so many different folks out there. You know, m It's gonna be one of those things where you know, wide Engel Farm is gonna be out there. Obviously, I heart and all the people that have been supporting us for for the big event, the biggest event in Alanto history will be this event. You think, absolutely this is And I'm I'm a I'm a I'm a realist. I'm an optimist, but I'm a realist at the same time. Right, this will probably pull thirteen fifteen thousand people. Yeah, man and shout Grizzly Peaks and napalm. You know, uh buddy, you know, buddies, these are the sort of the people that are have decided to support us Weed maps UM. You know, some of the best of the best are getting behind this UM. You know, Green Holdings, you know all the people that are really behind it, Connects UM, you know, they they've taken their their energy and shifted it into Alanto. And I think that's well deserved, you know, I think it's so well deserved from from the work that you're doing UM and the and the the community embracing the cannabis community. And I want people to to know this. I mean, most of our listeners know because you know, you know, most of our listeners are are are you know, advocates for cannabis, right, I mean, they're not the guys that are against it, but we do have some that that that are still trying to learn and get themselves out of the green closet. Maybe they smoke, but they can't talk about it or they have an opinion towards it. And it's funny that I still get challenged with people as early as last week that we're here, and then, you know, we were having an event and these guys are like, you know, he's like, man, I would never have my kids. You know that my kids are asking me all these questions about it and this and that. And I sat with them and I go, listen, man, I really want you to come to the building. I really want you to I'm having an event, you know. And he's like, yeah, there's gonna be a bunch of weed there. And I'm like, I'm having an event. I need you to come by and I need you to sit with us and have an event here. And he's like yeah, but I don't want to get stone. I'm like, look, dude, just come here and sit down. And this guy pulls up and there's you know, there's you know, Rolls Royces Ferraris out front, there's nice vehicles out front. People are sitting here, ceo CEOs of companies that are that are not only just cannabis, but have crossed over into this industry. Attorneys, you're talking about real estate agents, you know, investors, doctors, Yeah, real community you know people. And and then I sat with this gentleman and he's just I'm like, listen, you know, you have to realize our country would never come out and say there was a medicinal value unless there was. There's no way. So for them to say there's medicinal value, and you're still gonna play that card on me, I said, you better check your facts. You know, I love you, I appreciate your you know. And he wanted to be a police officer. But you know, and I said, listen, your your your mindset is okay to have not mad at it. But again, remember if they're saying there's medicinal value, you better believe the United States is not just so there's medicinal value for a cash grab. Ain't putting that because the game is too smart. The world's gonna call it out like they see it. And this is why the world, our world knows, but there's so many people. But this is why, you know, our elders, you know, in the community need to you know, educate themselves because there's so many children out there with epilepsy and cancer and and different things that are being helped and treat it with cannabis now. And some of them are unsanctioned, meaning that they're doing it with people that are you know, what you might think as a witch doctor, you know, but the truth is is that the anecdotal evidence, the proof that they're watching getting done isn't ripping through their child. And and what I mean by that is that you know, there's a kid that may get something from the from the hospital that helps him, but it also says, hey, if your child uses his has to use it for the next six months, he may have brain brain damage. And but and so you're gonna give him that or heard that and let them have some kind of brain damage instead of saying, hey, you can provide cannabis to your child and it's non addictive and it will definitely suppress the you know, the problems that you're it may have. So this is this is where you know, people like yourself, and being young, you know, turns into something special because you're somebody that doesn't have this old mentality that grew up in a town. And if you and I thoroughly believe if you thought that this was bad, you would turn it around. Now he'd be there turning in around. He's one of the guys that's in his church, he's one of the guys that's one of the businesses. He's one of the guys that really wants to help and come back and help his community because he was young kids doing the right things. And as the mayor, he's doing the right things. And you hear it in his walk. By everything you just said, I agree all those character and analysis of those of your walk. The church demanded this the business owner. Those are character analysiations, analyzing somebody going this is what he does. And now you're the mayor and looking at what you're doing with the mayor and hosting events like this, Do you get to pick and choose what goes on in the city. Just people come to you, hey, can we do this big concert, Can we do this event that event? Can we do something at a different event? How many different event are there in Atlanta. So one thing that I love to do is put the aces in their places, right. And I have an amazing stadium manager and Darryl Courtney, who has really gone above and beyond to bring world class entertainment to a stadium that was fading away. Right, it was a baseball stadium. Uh, the world work. He's converting that CEWED because we're a team, were converging, converted over to an event plaza to really bring in these these events, not just amazing cannabis events, right, but like my my family and I, we threw an event in May called Major Vibes. We brought a Polynesian festival to Ala Lantha. We brought people to enjoy a taste of Hawaii and Ala Lantha. Right. We bought the Common Kings, we bought Fiji, Sammy j A, Ailea Brown, David Thomas, like, we threw a festival and an authentic lue while because there's more there. The thing about the region is we've got six hundred thousand people in the Victor Valley and no major entertainment component has been identified in the region, So why not the other land the events center, right, and it's been amazing. We like I said, we're about people we had back in the day. Festival Darrel was doing a great job and embracing everything world renowned dog shows, Um, you know car shows, boat shows. Uh, you know the Burning Trees festival. We have a more Ton events in September, so we're for sure some monster massive, Monster Master. You have a big d M festival that's coming. Uh. You know. An idea that I pictured Darrel was to try to front of people do like an October fest, like a beer fest. Do some the different sports sports team they got the Raider Nation event take off should have been a Niner Nation. But it's okay all day but okay, yeah, take Joe Montana jury. I don't even want that thing. I appreciate. Well, you know one thing we don't just real quick. I don't know if it's ever been done, but and and it may it may not be good actually, but but is bringing like four or five of the major you know, football teams out like you'll have a rams, you know, Raiders, uh, forty Niners and and putting them all in one place. I don't know, I'm working on called the game fight. Oh really, yeah, you might some people to take a little more serious. But we've got comedians coming out there. I mean, there's some some great stuff man. And and I think your vision is what helped propel that, right because you know, you and Darryl's communication, and you know I was blessed to be a part of that. Um, bless you, thank you, thank you, Yeah, thank you for putting shirt not just on my face, towards you and what I towards you, Not the mayor started my faith, No, but but I think it was your vision that that propelled a lot of this to happen, and that bottom line, brings more revenues to the city. You know, you've got gas people pulling in for gas groceries about the break ground. Really, we're moving, man, and we're growing. Um, we're making stuff happening. No, we'll have them all over invictive what we do, right, but we're most definitely bringing it all in full circle. Right. But it starts. It starts with livabool jobs. It starts in then the housing and all those other things, and we're there. You guys got the landed building more developed is fifty square foot miles and we're less than eight percent developed. We're not rebuilding, we're building a city. It's legit field the dreams. If you build it, they will come. That's the mindset. That's the mindset that we have. Right. And what else about what you're talking about, like, and I want to touch on this, just like to show my support to the industry, is you know the stigma? Right. I just had a conversation like last week with with the with with with the father about Canada's right And I said, what do you want to hear Gabriel's point of view or the mayor's point of view? Because I have two different point of views, right, Like, well, let me hear Gabriel's point of view. And I was like, okay, cool, pick your plant if you really want to get down to it. What a pharmaceuticals made from plants? What plants exactly? What real life addictions? Right? Just because someone vouches for it doesn't mean it's good for the body. So pick your plant, cannabis or all the other ones where you can see true struggles and true addictions and things that people really don't know how to get off of. Right. I'm not saying that one is right and one is wrong, But what I'm saying is, if you're gonna scrutinize and attack in the grain, and the little one treat the same way the other one exactly. Well, anything about that? And again, if they trusted in the United States, they trusted in what the people have said. And so they've said that, hey, OPIOI is what we're gonna use to help you with your pain, saying and now I'm saying, Hey, they're coming out saying this plant can help you with your medicinal you know issues. I'm a true testimonial for pain. I have it down now. I just figured out my anecdotal Edible. I've never done edibles. I was on the phone before the show talking to the edbility in their company. My wife's never done edible in her life. Are you ready for this? She just didn't edible for the first time. Not only did she do it edible, I never did an edible. Well, I did brown back and I have illegal license edible. You know what I'm saying. How about that? I never done illegal one, right, I've only done the bootleg ones back in the day, and therefore now I've micro ghost up to uh an edible and a half. But I've only done the edible and a half. I did the other half. Like an hour into my first edible point, No, it's really still hurt and I need more because I cleaned the garage and I anecdotally figured this out, and that's the most I've done so far. I don't suppose to it, but I've done that with the pins, and I've shared this with my wife that made her do in edible because I've in a much elaborate form of baby because when I first started doing it, I for sure hitting the pin. I just walked her through my whole process. I just took about an hour and a half, to be honest with you, because I have it so down of how I use it for medicine that I explained it to my wife that way and then said to her, do you want to try an edible? Because she just had a no sceptum where she can read better now and she's in pain, and she's taking these meds that I could still be taking the same pills I could still be taking taking and I go, look, I'm not taking those. I'm eating edibles and I'm hitting this pin throughout the day. I don't just sit there and get twenty hits in a row, you know what I mean? And keep it pushing and keep it. And my point is, I did my research with everybody we've interviewed, and I found out that that would be a periodical. What it does is it keeps me less pain. I'm still in pain, just like if I took that other pill, but except the differences. Ready for this, When I take the other pills, I have a magnet that goes from my nose to my top lip, and it goes with that pill because you get all stupid face when you're on those pills, you know what, and you have what When I take those pills, the pain pills, I feel like, oh god, I get a magnet. Was like, well, yeah, I've never heard of that. I feel like I get him, you know how? Yeah, you get this feeling because you're on I know, my lip goes in my lip, my top lip goes in my nose. Feel and I'm like, I don't want to feel that way. Sure, I found out how my body feels when I take those pills because I've just been on the surgery. So I told my I don't want to feel that way. And now when I take this cannabis, I can get to the same pain relief because I know what the pain relief is now, and I can get there on cannabis, which is crazy to think because I never get it was over twenty three years. I still feel like I'm sober twenty three years. I'm just using this as medicine. You know, I'm saying that I hadn't crack my sobriety. I freached this to the world. I'm anecdotally using cannabis as medicine. And here's my regiment. And the thing is is prior to that, you were how many years, So we're in just general just in know. I'm still I'm still running to you because twenty three plus years, I've never and I still don't smoke joints, and I'm not gonna join our blunt what's the other dabs and all that other good stuff that I like and want to smell and love it and courage go ahead. But to me, the pins are in a fork, cleansing, relaxing, pain relieving, feeling that makes me feel, not that magnet field, and then the stomach, oh, and then and the sweats and the diction. I mean, there's so much more that goes into this. I mean, you know, if you start taking I'm I've been in pain, right, and and then I've taken it for recreation. Used to write like I'm like, oh, I'm gonna try this. You know, I'm at the river. No, I'm talking about hills, right, I like, yeah, like like I've been out in the river, you know what i mean. And I'm like it would partying and drinking and they're like, yeah, take a pill, and I'm like, oh, whatever, you know, I try one. Next thing I'm trying to and I'm like wow, you know. And there was a point where because I had a major back pain during this and I was taking it and it wasn't from a dark I was just like whatever, And there was a point where I felt that pain go away, and I was on more Viking than ever took in one setting. But it went away, and I was like holy shit. You know, They're oh, I felt so good. I was like, holy cow. But the next day, not even the next day, several hours later, I'm over here sweating and feeling all sick on on what the hell did I Why do I feel this way? And someone's like you gotta take more? And I'm like if that you know what I mean, Like I'm not you know, what I mean, I'm not taking more like the problem with those drugs. How about this, though, let's contradict and everything. I'm still having to do that with cannabis. With the difference is it's not sucking me up like those pills. So let's let's go then, say with cannabis, folks, there's no difference. If you've gotta keep taking it, right, you have to keep taking it in these in these scenarios of whatever medicine you're using, the differences with that medicine that you have to keep doing it sucks you up worse than this medicine. Yeah, I was like a personal test one in the family, right. I had a brother who got diagnosed with cancer. And this was back in the like nineties, like late nineties, early two thousand's, right, And he went that natural route, right really when he got a medical card and he didn't he chose not to do the chemo or anything else like that. And he smoked, he smoked, and he smoked. And you know, my mom struggled with the typical latina, you know what I mean. And sure enough, man, my brother to this day, oldest, old oldest in the bunch, he's about to hit sixty five, you know what I mean. He did it for his treatment got curative cancer and had probably no he doesn't here smoking smoke a He literally the minute the doctor said he was curative cancer, he stopped smoking. So so I was like, yesterday, I have a very similar story I want to share is that yesterday there was a gentleman that that was on the phone with us randomly and we know Ralph. Ralph actually introduced us to him. Yeah this and he introduced me. He's like, oh my boys, a fighter and um, you know, He's like you need to meet him. And I was like cool. He didn't even tell me about this story. But yesterday I finally met him on you know, on FaceTime. You know, Mark and I were in here, you know, as he's an influencer and he's cracked jokes and stuff like that. Right, he's hilarious, but he says, you know, I really he says, I really gotta get on your show. And you know, we we tried to bring people on that that it makes sense to bring him on for right and and I was like, oh cool. You know, I was like, I'll let you on. You know, you've got a good following. It be you know, good mutual benefit for us or whatever. But he's like, I have had I had one of the most rarest cancers in the world. And there's to this day, there's out of seventy there's been seventy cases of people that have it. I'm the only one that survived it. And yeah, well here's this story. So God, not only did I give me turn my stomach in a different way way, Dude, he says to me, He says, you know what's crazy, he says. He says, I was looking for the answers, and he said, I met this older gentleman, he says, And the guy says, I'm gonna tell you the secret about how you can save yourself. He said, it's up to you from this point forward. He says, but I promise you follow this regiment, you'll be fine. And says, okay, you know, and he didn't think of it as too much. And the guy goes fast all day and eat one time a day. He says, eat high proteins, fast once once it ever, just eat, don't eat anything, just eat once a day within an hour window. And he goes, that sounds crazy, you know what I mean, Like I've never done that you know so and he says. The second thing is drink only alkaline water. And he said, and the third thing is optional, he says, but highly you know, um aggressive and it will help. Is in just cannabis. Did he see alkaline water throughout the day or just through that one hour? He said, alkaline only one It's crazy. I've heard the alkaline I've heard the fasting not in one hour, but fasten eat one meal. But everything I've heard and probably of course eat the natural good foods. But I've heard, but not cure cancer and not only cannabis that and it cured him so so he yes, and he survived. He was the only survivor out of seventy seventy people that have had this. It's one of the rarest for him. And the doctors everybody else was like, you're gonna die and he said, well, well, you know what do I how else to lose? And that was his story And I can't wait to happen on the show and and you know, but but the thought process is is again those stories is what makes us continue to do what we're doing. This is why I have no conscious, you know what I mean, I don't know about like, I don't feel bad about sitting here, you know, preaching you know, the good about cannabis. I I feel that there is more people that need to be enlightened, and I feel it's a natural source. But with that being said, let's get into that high five and we are enlightening so many. As a random story that I just wanted to share with you guys is I don't know how it just came to me. My nephew. Shout out to you, Jackson, if you're listening to this. I went to my cousin's funeral who just passed away from cancer. I arnk in the Bay Area this past week or whatever, and he tells me, out of left field, this is my sixteen year old nephew who I I know he smokes weed, but I don't know if he knows. I know he knows Uncle Joe's has the cannabis talk show. Yeah, I don't expect my sixteen year old nephew listened to be honest with him. Right I'm at the funeral. He pulls me aside and says to the educator, Uncle Joe, I realized shows what it was like. I'm really enjoyed. I see you guys. You guys really educating me on some rendom stuff that I know nothing about about cannabis. So that's what made me think about, as you said, we're doing this to educate and do that my nephew sixteen years old. I love this little son of I love him so much. When he told me that I could, I wasn't gonna call you, you the service wait to tell you, because that's what we want to hear, right, Like, Oh, that's why you just touched my heart. I couldn't wait to share the story with you. That being said, I'm glad you reminded me. Is now time for the high five with the mayor about Alto? Mayor, rais hold you the first time you smoked cannabis? And where did you get it from? On those main streets about Alantal. I hope it wasn't Crippen Street, of course it was. If it really was. And me and my friends were young, like I said, mischievous kids. I think we were ten. Yeah, that's really yeah. I mean the fact that I was older brothers, you know what I mean, all of us shout out to my childhood friends, right, but just how many of you at the time of us. Five of you guys spoke for the first time. Was it all five of you guys this first time? To Oh, that's a big decision to get five people to do certain friends, man, we even friends who were like six and now they're all running the city. Yeah, they're all in different parts of the world. Godless once a firefighter out there in New Mexico and other ones just like yeah, yeah, yeah, that happens. Man. Question number two of the High five, what is your favorite way to use or smoke cannabis? When you did, I'll say this right, I even go to like a current tens you talk about like a back pain. Um. I got a horrible car accident in two thousand eighteen. Um, I fell asleep behind the will of a car up in Seattle, and I rolled the car five times. I didn't have my seatbelt on, and I'm alive. Americle man. I walked away with a nod of my head, a cut on my hand, and uh, I slipped my L three and L four, and um. You know when I know that I'm gonna have days I'm heavy on my feet where I will be walking like when the wife wants to go to Disneyland or she wants to go do some stuff where I gonna be walking and walking and walking. Um, there's these drops that that I was given right they go under my tongue and as long as they do it the night before the morning of and when I get home literally eliminates like six sending my back And you don't know what I want to I have. I have an empty drive the house. But it's one of those things for me is just like again, that's why I tell people, right like, do your research. I'm never gonna be one to say one is good when it's bad, right um. And I'll never be one to tell parents what to do with their own kids. But for me myself, I do not want to take something that I don't know what it is, or something that I don't trust in the prescription base. So yes, when I am when I am active, when I'm out on about, when I know that I'm gonna be on my feet and I do not want to have my back kill me for the next three or four days. Most definitely I have used drops having in the past. You know what's funny is another conversation that just had with my wife about using the drops now and now I brought home, just as you said, use your research. I explained to her the difference between isolate and disolate and how they're making it and going this just the baby. I'm bringing home this really good stuff that companies we believe it and we know that are doing the research and making it with the ice. I this is the way I like it. I like these things because of these reasons that the research that you just said, which is people, and that means just because it's at the store doesn't mean it's research. Folks don't get it twisted. Look on how they're making that. That's a great way. Craziest place you ever used or smoked cannabis that I can only imagine when you were younger with them five kids, man um at a park that's now a church, and it was probably in uh my buddies broken down van back in front of his house getting caught. Yeah, I got a story that uh, me and my buddies were, uh we had parked like down the street from our houses, you know, and it was it was a truck with the with the shell on the back. But his dad, his dad was a sergeant at the Annahand Police Department. So so you guys had the best. So no, so so we were we were we were sitting there and we had we were just getting ready to to uh. We were rolling. We were literally rolling a joint we had. We had one like the broke just broke up the weed and literally this isn't like the cannabis that is now. It's not all bomb and fresh, and it was more of that, you know, the whole nine rights, the stress. And we only had I mean we were young, so we had about enough for like it was a Graham you on. It was like a gram of just some random and then all of a sudden, no, and then all of a sudden it was and I'm like police department. You guys come out of the vehicle, and I'm just like, oh ship, you know. And I'm holding it and I'm rolling it, you know, and I'm like, I had the joint, I had the weed. It was in my I literally was breaking it up into the I just broke it up into the paper and I had like a little nug in my hand. So I took the paper, I put the rest of the weed in my in my hand and I threw it in my mouth and I started chewing it and I'm eating it and it was the driest thing ever. And then and then I'm and then everybody's looking at me like you do eat, you do like you know. And then it's like the vehicle, yeah, and I'm like and I'm going like, give me some something to drink, you know. We're looking around for water, dude, and there's nothing in the car. And the last second, my friend just ops me with this little, you know, water bottle and it's got like a quarter of this water in it. And as the windows opening up, the back, you know, the back of the shell opening up, I'm drinking the water down. And then I'm still I've got it all over my teeth. Everything. They're asking us all of her names, and I'm looking down going Chris, you know, and you know, we don't know what to say. He's like, I smell a weed, you know what I mean, because you can smell the breaking up of the weed. He did smell fresh with cannabis, not the burnt cannabis. And then he's like, who's who's you know who who? Well, because they knew the car, the truck was registered to a police officer, so he was like, who's your father, Who's whose dad? Is this? Who kids in his car, and I'm just over there like licking my teeth and trying to get as much of this down, eating stems the whole nine, and um, finally I get it all down, and I'm kind of like acting a little more normal. Everybody's kind of looking around the guys like I'm gonna find it, you know what I mean, I'm gonna find this camp. And we're like, what are you talking about. Everybody's playing dumb, you know. And he looked the whole like this guy had us on the curve front our dug through everything in our pockets, searched all of us, I mean, cup checked after cup check. I couldn't find anything. It was like, I want to call your dad right now. He's like, but all I had five kids in the back of a truck, you know what I mean. And he was just like, but I know, you guys got wet somewhere, and and we all just like him, and I swear my friends are like, you smiled, bro. That was the biggest jump. It was the biggest chump forever because they were like, you smiled, bro, and you had all your front tooth. You had just a big old leaf right there. Some kind of dug. They were laughing. Literally all of our friends are like, bro, it was on your tooth. You know, it was just like what they're like, grab it. It was like stuck to my mouth. Debe we got away man. Question number four of the high five what is your go to munchie when you used to get high or after you get high as a kid? Man, I don't even know the difference they were talking about when this was stress. Yeah, yeah, the stuff I was eating. But you know, I remember getting high being like, okay, why do you eat that? Like I remember going like randomly to uh it wasn't It was like you save liquors and getting the nachos from there at quick stopping. Yeah. I can't think that because this is we're kids, like, oh we're doing Oh we're cool, you know what I mean, we're work. I don't remember. Yeah, what's your favorite food? My mom's flowers fresh job, I'm not fresh, didn't wash that. I'm gonna request can I have what could I when y'all come up? I love me some flowers. I'll tell you this much like all jokes aside, my mom makes the best flower. Ready ready for this, Like in my head, there's one man, there's a man that makes the best flower. My great uncle banto Via, uncle, uncle, uncle Frank No, they Frank Va is his name contro Vas, his name Frank Via, but you know frank Via Bantos, but you thought, yeah, he was like my uncle ponto VIA's his real name, but you know Frank Via uh and exactly uh. And he was my great uncles who was the he was the older one, right, and he used to meet on. He used to make the best like there's no one that's when you say that, I'm like, can please try it? Because I have the best homemade to work head and I want to try to. Let me come on, let me up. I'm killing you there. Check this out. I'll be out Alanta August seven. I'll let you know this much, right, And I say this, my mom makes the best Mexican should have side. I'm not no one to do this. Maybe I am. Can we come over for dinner? And I would love to break read with mama. Yeah, I mean I wanted to. Yeah, I feel like I feel like she would be because like how you are, I feel like moms would be and I want to know yeah, I mean yeah. So the question number five of the High five with mayor raise out there and not a lot. I cannot wait to eat your mama. Yeah, don't put some pork on yeah. Man, oh well, and then I just need to have one with butter on it. Yeah. I literally thought of the butter too, And then you wanted for this. My dad used to do randomly, but I don't do too often. But because it's a homemade, I just might do it, just get that taste out. He always used to randomly do it. I don't know nobody who does this with homemade tortillas. And my dad would only do the peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter, peanut butter. My apostle put peanut butter, and I don't. I still don't do it. I hate I haven't done it ever. I've only taken I'd probably cry making it, and I'm thinking about cording to your mom. What would Yeah, dude, I I did the peanut butter, and then I got slick and I put a real thin layer of the jelly on it, you know what I mean, And just roll it up and on the fresh tortillas, and just roll it up and eat it like a burrito, dude. And and and that with butter too. I had had the butter one, just the butter, and it would just be like that last bite where it all goes to the bottom and it's just that right off. What are you saying, pizza? They're dreaming too. What do you say? But a ciamon? A little sugar, butter and cinnamon? First old school, I never got no, but was exactly that sugar, some brown sugar and cinnamon, and that to me. And then I went to somewhere I don't even know where I was. What, Mom, that's like the carthos you make hunt you know that's called wow. I didn't know. I thought that's what. This is a special thing. Question number five with the special man right here. If you could smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would it be? And why? May raise this was a little personal. Uh but my dad passing away, Um he was. He was a big Bob Marley fan. Really yeah, my dad was a big smoked Yeah. He trying to gave it away from me and try to keep it away from me. And I think that's what as a young rebellious thing, right, he know, we know when you're out there doing what your friends, right, you know you're smoking to joint with your boy, with your uncle, it would be Marley Man, just because, like I said, it was so my dad was a big fan. His dream vacation would be go to to go to Jamaica and play dominoes, just chilling chi. You know, for me, as you paint that picture, that was my like college life, I feel like I was listening to Bob Marley playing dominoes, kicking it at barbecues and hanging out with folks. It was such a big era the time that I love. That's and that's a beautiful thing. And because why because it's something you do when you go on vacation. You got to picnics, you got a family function. It's love. Like everything you just describe it. It is bonding and love. But sure talk about Bob Marley's great shout out to your dad. Man. Maybe you rest in peace, may or is there anything that we forgot before we let you get on out of here that you want to talk about? Just continue to support man, you know, shout up to you guys. You really are Cannabis Talk one on one. You are the best number one podcast out there. Thank you. I'm just really continue doing what you're doing. Thank you for all the love, thank you for all the support. You know, and just continue to be the best man and you keep doing it because we're just trying to follow each other better. Appreciate you, yeah, man, thank you so much. Man. There it is guys. It's Cannabis Talk one oh one. We've got four more years with Senior Gabriel and let's do it. Remember that if no one else loves you, we do. Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one oh one on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.