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Welcome to First Smoke of the Day – The Ultimate Cannabis Industry Podcast!

First Smoke of the Day is your go-to podcast for Exclusive insider Access to Cannabis Culture, Cultivation, Entrepreneurship, and more. Tune in for behind-the-scenes interviews with Cultivators, Hashmakers, Breeders, Brand owners, Athletes, Musicians, Smugglers, and the Fearless Hustlers shaping the cannabis industry. Discover Untold stories, expert tips, and valuable lessons from cannabis legends and innovators. From navigating underground movements to uncovering entrepreneurial success stories, we bring you real stories, hard truths, and actionable insights from the people driving cannabis culture forward.

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Thank you so much for tuning into First Smoke of The Day. A cannabis and culture podcast giving you insight into the mind and lives of growers, extractors, playmakers, street brands, and underground culture in the global cannabis industry. Be sure to subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you consume podcasts. Make sure to also leave a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts and follow us on Instagram.

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Everyone Told Us Not to Use Real Fruit | Super Chill Goods Sep 01, 2026

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Everyone told Super Chill real fruit wouldn't pass testing. Too expensive, too unstable, not worth it. They did it anyway.

Their process starts at the Hollywood Farmers Market on a Sunday morning, not in a kitchen. Baby Crawford peaches from Ryer Farms, a third generation grower whose stand runs $10 a pound with a sign telling you not to touch the fruit unless you're buying it. Wiser Farm melons. Harry's Berries. Wong Farms mangoes with a line 40 people deep before the market even opens, and they still got sold out two people ahead of Jen.

Then it goes into a hydraulic press. They clarify the juice with agar, a red seaweed that pulls the pulp out and leaves a concentrated essence of the fruit. The new line runs 45% juice with nothing but sugar and tapioca syrup. No flavoring at all.

The herbs come from their own backyard: eight garden beds, roughly 90 herb varieties, 25 to 30 fruit trees, and 80 to 90 vegetables. Strawberry two basil. Mango serrano rosemary. Raspberry thyme. Peach and sage.

Lance has traveled Germany, Spain, and Italy chasing food. He said these are the best gummies he's ever had, weed aside.

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Every Employee Quit the Day We Moved In | Super Chill Goods Aug 31, 2026

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They did the walkthrough and the office was fully staffed. Graphic designers, compliance officers, the whole team. The day they moved in, everyone was gone. What was left was the owner's little brother and his friend from high school.

Super Chill had just landed a statewide Stizzy launch across 50 stores plus delivery, with Catalyst and others already placing orders. All they needed was a kitchen and SOPs. Instead they found out none of the compliance had been filed. Three months of production got logged in a single weekend, the BCC flagged it, and an audit came down.

Two days after they showed up asking questions, the facility got robbed. Only the facility's product was touched. Theirs was untouched.

Then Jen went into labor. She was prepped for a scheduled C-section, in the room, fielding texts about batch sizes, labels, and metric tags. Product took two to three months to hit shelves. They never got paid.

They also get into why kitchens are so hard to partner with in the legal market, the pay-to-play shelf system they refuse to participate in, and why after seven deals that didn't work, they now look at it as a superpower instead of a loss.

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Chapters:

0:00 So many promises

1:00 Zoning maps and landlords

1:55 Every kitchen fell through

2:47 The one year saga

3:38 Everyone jumped ship

4:30 The Stizzy launch

5:20 No compliance was filed

5:43 Flagged by the BCC

9:08 Why kitchens won't partner

11:54 We don't pay for shelf space

12:36 Then the spot got robbed

13:17 In labor, working compliance

15:14 Why it's a superpower now

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They Won't Let me Put Samurai On My Weed Bag | Turtle Pie Co Aug 27, 2026

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Turtle named a strain Giant Fuyu after a Japanese persimmon. The state told him he couldn't put it on a label because it appeals to children.

His response: what kid in America is asking their mom for persimmons. The samurai artwork had to go too. Two Chinese food boxes smoking blunts for Purple Sticky Rice, gone. Now most of his strains are just words on a bag, and he says it's taken a lot of the fun out of making packaging.

He came up from retail, stocking end caps at a grocery store, and learned that bright and flashy is what people grab on the way out. That instinct built the brand. Now the regulations have taken the tool away.

He also gets into the era when a strain had to be named after a dessert or it wouldn't sell, how they took cues from Cookies coming up in Frisco, why he refuses to just mash two parent names together, and where Black Orchid actually came from: sitting at the symphony watching West Side Story with his daughter, taking notes instead of paying attention.

Plus how he works with his designer Kevin, why he sits on a logo for two days before responding, and the trick for finding the right designer when you're starting from nothing.

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One of the brands we trust:

Woodward Collective. Custom cut and sew hoodies, shirts, hats, plus brand design and packaging. Low minimums, big or small. Use code FSOTD. https://www.thewwco.com/fsotd

SlapHub LA. Custom bags, mylars, jars, branding, logos, and 3D imagery, all designed and produced in house in Los Angeles. Use code FSOTD. https://www.slaphub.la/

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Nobody Grows Weed for Stoners Anymore | Turtle Pie Co Aug 26, 2026

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Turtle smokes for how weed makes him feel, not how it tastes. He says the market stopped caring about that a long time ago.

He gets into the two things killing good flower: THC percentage and the camera. Strawberry Melon sold fine for years until numbers became the deciding factor. It never got past 26%. Green Dog's verdict was blunt: it's good weed, it tastes good, it gets you high, nobody buys it. And if a jar doesn't photograph well, people won't post it, and if they won't post it, it's almost not worth running.

He tells the full Turtle Pie origin story too. One anomaly OG plant in a room of cookies back in 2010. A tiger stripe nobody could explain. They thought they'd found new Kush genetics. It became Sweet Cooks, got crossed back to SFV, and turned into Turtle Pie right before the gelato wave pushed gas cookies out of favor.

Plus the Harborside red light day that changed how he thought about selling, why an 18.5% OG was once the best they'd ever seen, and the two strain blend he swears by: a gram and a half of Turtle Pie with a half gram of Skittles.

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RAW Rolling Papers. King size wides, the uncreased fatties, the RAW king size blacks, and the Phoenix flintless lighter with a windscreen and poker. Grab authentic through https://rawthentic.com/

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We Ran 105 Seeds. Six Made It. | Turtle Pie Co Aug 25, 2026

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Turtle ran 105 phenos with the Green Dog team. Six made the final cut.

The reason wasn't yield or structure. Keegan set one rule: if it's not better than Purple Sticky Rice, it doesn't get garden space. Doesn't matter how many A's or A minuses it pulled. When your competition is already that high, you can't afford to run it.

Turtle breaks down the whole hunt. Why the 30s hit hard for three rounds and then fizzled by the fourth. Why 69 looked like nothing early and became the one he's most excited about. Why you have to run a pheno three or four times before you trust it. And the moment Keegan and Drew sat him down and told him they didn't want their name on 20 of his strains, because people know who grows his weed and they'd get judged for it.

He also gets into showing up with 60 clones when he was told to run all of them, why every seed in a pack is its own snowflake, and what he actually wants from anyone who bought one: if you got a pack, bring him on the journey.

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Faven Lighting. Under canopy lighting that's changing how facilities and grow rooms get built. They'll put together a full layout for your setup, whether you're running HPS, double-ended, fluorescent, or LED. Use code FSOTD. https://favenlighting.com/

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I Quit My Job With $22,000 of Weed in My Car | Turtle Pie Co Aug 24, 2026

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The dispensary went under owing $300,000 across their entire vendor roster. As the buyer, he was told to call 40 people and tell them they weren't getting paid.

He quit on the spot. Then he went to both dispensaries, pulled all the Green Dog off the shelves and out of the vault, took the Gold Drop carts and a topical from a vendor named Canicare, double bagged it, and walked out. His words: call the cops, beat my ass, I'm leaving with this.

He called Drew in tears. They owed him 30 bands. He got 22 of it back in product. That single move is why, a year later, Drew offered him 10% of the business and a spot on the market.

He also gets into the harder lesson that came after: the partnership that nearly folded the company. Why starting a brand with your homies is one of the worst things you can do, how share-everything turned into eat-what-you-kill, and what happens when some partners are risking everything and others are doing water changes and getting lunch. Plus the test his stepdad taught him for whether someone should be a partner at all: knowledge, time, or money, and if they only bring one, that's a loan, not a partnership.

Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com.

Subscribe for new episodes every week.

One of the brands we trust:

HGV Elevated. Nutrients built for heavy yields, strong terpene profiles, and consistent quality batch after batch. Tested through every stage so there's no guesswork. Use code FSOTD for 10% off. https://hydrobuilder.com/pages/fsotd

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He Flipped A Sample on TikTok & Got Millions of Views | JBoogz Jul 13, 2026

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24 years old. Staten Island. No label. No manager. Just beats and a vision.

JBoogz pulls up to First Smoke of the Day and breaks down what it actually takes to build an independent music career from scratch in 2026. He flipped a Mac DeMarco sample on TikTok and hit 2 million views. Now he is in LA cooking with artists and stacking percentages over upfront cash.

We get into how sampling actually works, why the MPC changed everything for independent producers, how TikTok built his career before Instagram did, why he takes royalty percentages over upfront money, and what a 24 year old producer from Staten Island would tell anyone starting from zero right now.

For the music heads, the producers and anyone building something real without asking permission.

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We Smoked 100 Strains to Find the Best Jul 06, 2026

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70 plus phenos. One room. The most elite pheno hunt panel we have ever assembled. Jordan from Trinity Association brings 900 popped Oishi seeds worth of work to the table.

This is what real pheno hunting looks like with the right people in the room.

Trinity Association, Blueprint Cannabis, HYTEK Michigan, Exotic Matter, Twist and Wizard Trees.

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Green Dawg: Taking Investor Money Is The Fastest Way To Ruin Your Cannabis Brand Jun 15, 2026

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No investors. No outside money. No compromise. Ever. That is the Green Dog way and it is exactly why the weed hits different.

Drew from Green Dog and Barney sit down with First Smoke of the Day for one of the most honest conversations about building a craft cannabis brand that actually lasts. Self funded, multi state, 350 plus genetics in the library and zero intention of changing the formula.

We get into why they never took investor money, how they failed in Arizona and won in Florida, the real MSO blueprint, ego death as the biggest SOP gap in craft cannabis, why they run old ugly green genetics nobody else wants, the Frog Poison and Drama Weed breakdown, how to build a team you want to see leave and win, and why the lore behind a strain builds a brand faster than any marketing ever will.

If you know Green Dog you already know. If you do not this is where it starts.

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Phresh Harvest: He Left California With 250 Plants In A U-Haul With Cops Right Behind Him Jun 08, 2026

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250 plants hanging in the back of a U-Haul. Cops right behind him on the hill. He busted a left and drove all the way to safety.

That was the last day Jay from Phresh Harvest grew in California. Within four months he packed his life in a box and moved to a dirt lot in Oklahoma with no building and no plan. 259 days later he had a facility up and his first harvest in the ground.

This is one of the rawest grower stories we have ever sat down with.

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