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The Real Story of Sour Diesel: Its Creation, Name, and Sudden Disappearance / AJ Sour Diesel — Transcript

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  1. 0:00starting at around 200 like 8 or
  2. 0:039 UM New York just started getting
  3. 0:07hammered with weed from California yeah
  4. 0:11and Growers who grew sour had come to
  5. 0:15expected they were going to get paid at
  6. 0:17least $6,000 a pound but when there was
  7. 0:20like indoor weed all over New York City
  8. 0:23for 2500 a
  9. 0:25[Music]
  10. 0:28pound welcome to stage one podcast stoop
  11. 0:32to store Legacy to
  12. 0:35legal here with my man Jason
  13. 0:38lrx Scotty Knox what up and the man
  14. 0:42himself AJ Sour Diesel hello and we are
  15. 0:46here to talk about this product I mean
  16. 0:49just in general New York cannabis and
  17. 0:52how far we've come and the importance of
  18. 0:56Sour Diesel as a strain in New York
  19. 0:58cannabis and uh from like a long time
  20. 1:02ago before it was legal and
  21. 1:04um just ask the guy who brought this
  22. 1:08who's like known as The Man Behind this
  23. 1:11this uh this myth of a of a plant that
  24. 1:14we've all been chasing for the last
  25. 1:16decade and now he's bringing it back to
  26. 1:18the market with flowerhouse so thank you
  27. 1:21very much uh for joining us AJ we really
  28. 1:24appreciate you being here it's is
  29. 1:27amazing yeah and um so let's uh just
  30. 1:31want to start out by asking you about
  31. 1:33the importance of Lark Street cuz we
  32. 1:36talked a little bit uh before the show
  33. 1:38about that and I so I really kind of
  34. 1:40want to dive into the importance of Lark
  35. 1:42Street cuz I'm from Lark Street so when
  36. 1:43you mention that that that uh Sour
  37. 1:47Diesel uh and lar Street I have a link I
  38. 1:50was very like it pequ my interest I'm
  39. 1:51like oh man I need to hear about this so
  40. 1:54uh any any uh you want to care to
  41. 1:55elaborate on that for me uh well yeah
  42. 1:58sure um
  43. 2:00I guess back in like
  44. 2:031992 um a couple friends of mine uh and
  45. 2:08I were living in the city and
  46. 2:12um and occasionally we would come up to
  47. 2:15Albany to see you know fish concerts at
  48. 2:18the palace or something like that you
  49. 2:20know and uh and so I think '92 or n or
  50. 2:25maybe it was early 93 fish was playing
  51. 2:29like a two night run at the palace and
  52. 2:32so my friend Colin said he knew these
  53. 2:37guys who lived in Albany and that they'd
  54. 2:39be at the show and that we could stay at
  55. 2:41their house you know so we could take
  56. 2:42the train up here or drive or whatever
  57. 2:45we did but like we wouldn't have to go
  58. 2:47all the way back down to the city we
  59. 2:49could stay up here so that was the first
  60. 2:52time I met uh uh the Albany crew guys
  61. 2:57and uh and they had an apartment on L
  62. 3:00Street and so I met those guys after the
  63. 3:04fish show uh the first night and I
  64. 3:07stayed at their house on Lark Street and
  65. 3:11eventually you know I would get to know
  66. 3:14those guys real well cuz they would come
  67. 3:15down to the city I would I was always
  68. 3:18finding good weed in the city so I would
  69. 3:20like uh uh hook them up with head nugs
  70. 3:24sometimes you know they'd come they'd
  71. 3:25always stop and see me if they were in
  72. 3:27in New York and um yeah and and and then
  73. 3:31eventually uh uh they became like a
  74. 3:34group of guys that I hung out with on um
  75. 3:37on Grateful Dead tour you know
  76. 3:41throughout the next uh uh two years and
  77. 3:44it was really like during that time that
  78. 3:48um
  79. 3:49that I was hang I started hanging out
  80. 3:52with those guys that
  81. 3:54like that not only was getting like good
  82. 3:56weed so important but it was like super
  83. 3:59competitive
  84. 4:00like to like always like Flex and be
  85. 4:03like yo I got you know like whoever
  86. 4:05everybody R to it we didn't have the
  87. 4:08Cannabis Cup all right it's like if
  88. 4:10you're all at my apartment I won first
  89. 4:12place you know so um so we all kind of
  90. 4:16like we through our communally we placed
  91. 4:20an even higher value on good weed to the
  92. 4:23point where it became the most important
  93. 4:25thing in our in all of our Lives was
  94. 4:28like getting that good weed yeah and so
  95. 4:31um and so yeah it kind of like uh a huge
  96. 4:36part of the story is like getting
  97. 4:38together with the guys on L Street and
  98. 4:40that's awesome they were [ __ ] weed
  99. 4:41Maniacs like we thought we were like
  100. 4:43crazy but they were like you know
  101. 4:45obsessed with weed you know they spend
  102. 4:47their last [ __ ] Dollar on on weed and
  103. 4:50uh and so yeah it was kind of infectious
  104. 4:53when we all got together cuz we we were
  105. 4:55all weed dealers and and we were all
  106. 4:58hunting down the best the best phenomes
  107. 5:00right the best yeah um now correct me if
  108. 5:04I'm wrong um those guys got it from a
  109. 5:06bag seed of chem dog right true and uh
  110. 5:09came from some guy named weasel correct
  111. 5:12is that true no it it was all it's like
  112. 5:16it's so funny it's like uh I'm telling
  113. 5:18you it's like that us getting together
  114. 5:20with the L Street guys really did like
  115. 5:22create a monster
  116. 5:25because I met um I met JJ from Top Dog
  117. 5:31uh in wetlands in like 1992 when I was a
  118. 5:34I was what in ' 92 I was 19 right and he
  119. 5:37and and he was about 10 years older than
  120. 5:39me and he had good weed so I kept buying
  121. 5:42weed from them weed from from JJ and
  122. 5:44then eventually I met Mike klopp who was
  123. 5:47one of JJ's plugs uh at a nightclub in
  124. 5:52New York and so then I started getting
  125. 5:55Cham dog from uh from Mike Klo and then
  126. 5:59I get the chem dog and then I would call
  127. 6:00the Albany kids and I didn't even make
  128. 6:03money off them right for me it was like
  129. 6:05I just want I just want that I want to
  130. 6:07be like yo come on
  131. 6:08over diesel so so cuz so uh so
  132. 6:14basically uh you know they started
  133. 6:17coming to see me every time I got the
  134. 6:19they they get in their cars drive from
  135. 6:20from Albany down to New York City yeah
  136. 6:23the second I I said it's here so um I
  137. 6:26remember those days man so uh so so um I
  138. 6:31was in in
  139. 6:331994 I was spending the
  140. 6:36summer living in Amsterdam and
  141. 6:40so uh one of the Albany kids was like
  142. 6:44fing for the diesel so he decided that
  143. 6:48he was going to go down to the same
  144. 6:50nightclub cuz you know I told him I met
  145. 6:52this guy at the club so he went down to
  146. 6:55the same club which is wetlands and um
  147. 6:58and he just staked that place out and he
  148. 7:02shook that place out until eventually he
  149. 7:04found the guy and once that happened
  150. 7:08then he started getting you know Diesel
  151. 7:10from him too at first it was like me and
  152. 7:12JJ fighting over it and now this dude
  153. 7:15now this dude uh V now he's getting it
  154. 7:17too so we're like oh why you going to
  155. 7:19give him any you know and uh and so we
  156. 7:22uh we so competitive and uh yeah yeah
  157. 7:26and so um when I got back from Amsterdam
  158. 7:29I had a friend who had diplomatic
  159. 7:31immunity so I mailed him a kilo from
  160. 7:33Amsterdam so when I got back it was
  161. 7:36waiting for me and so uh you know I was
  162. 7:39running around with a kilo of really
  163. 7:41good weed that I bought I found there
  164. 7:43and and and I saw Mike CL the weasel
  165. 7:47right uh in Central Park and and I
  166. 7:49showed it to him and i' just gotten back
  167. 7:51from living there and I'm like oh damn
  168. 7:53you should go there it's so great man I
  169. 7:55you know and he was asking about seeds
  170. 7:57and what strains and how what he could
  171. 8:00acquire there potentially and I was like
  172. 8:02dude you just got to go there and check
  173. 8:03it out so he flew to Amsterdam a couple
  174. 8:06days later and came back with a whole
  175. 8:08slew of seeds and um and
  176. 8:13so yeah there's like you know maybe like
  177. 8:16five or six you know
  178. 8:19potential fathers of the seeds that got
  179. 8:22out to me that got out to uh
  180. 8:25V and uh and another guy uh who were
  181. 8:29living up here and so we all we all
  182. 8:32automatically were like well we got to
  183. 8:33start growing weed now because we need
  184. 8:35to have as much diesel as possible so we
  185. 8:37all went out and got grow lights and
  186. 8:39started growing weed just because we had
  187. 8:41these seeds and um and so I I had one
  188. 8:47seed that I started growing and I you
  189. 8:49know in like a dman building in
  190. 8:51Manhattan and then uh and then where I
  191. 8:55was living and then uh V and uh uh and M
  192. 9:00up in uh who were living who had rented
  193. 9:02a house and moved from Albany to the
  194. 9:05Catskills uh to build a grow they were
  195. 9:09growing uh their plants which were they
  196. 9:12were calling diesel one and Diesel
  197. 9:142 and
  198. 9:16um and uh when you talk to them they
  199. 9:20think you know they they think diesel
  200. 9:24two pollinated diesel one despite that
  201. 9:27they were both females because diesel 2
  202. 9:30had a couple tendency to make uh male
  203. 9:32flowers and it was from a diesel one
  204. 9:36Harvest somewhere in the cat skills that
  205. 9:39uh I think it might have been
  206. 9:41Windam uh Windham or tannerville
  207. 9:46uh a couple or two or three other seeds
  208. 9:50were born and it was one of those seeds
  209. 9:52that became the sour diesel which
  210. 9:54planted in sked which was planted in
  211. 9:58SKC yeah for real that's where
  212. 10:02he you know mountains connected right so
  213. 10:06when like the when the city and uh
  214. 10:08Upstate connect it's
  215. 10:10it's York New York State seriously I
  216. 10:13have a question for you kind of related
  217. 10:15to what we were just talking about how
  218. 10:17did you come up with the name Sour
  219. 10:22Diesel
  220. 10:24well we used to sell there used to be
  221. 10:28this guy Larry
  222. 10:30who owned Wetlands right and we all we
  223. 10:33worked me and my friends we worked in
  224. 10:35the Echo office downstairs so we knew
  225. 10:37Larry our office was right next to his
  226. 10:41and uh and
  227. 10:43so um you
  228. 10:46know one of us sold Larry some weed one
  229. 10:49time and uh and it was it wasn't even
  230. 10:53cam dog it was like something else but
  231. 10:55he was like yo you know cuz he had never
  232. 10:58smoked weed that tasted good and like
  233. 11:00you know that like worked really like
  234. 11:03that well and so he he started like
  235. 11:06getting all crazy and warning us that
  236. 11:07like we're smoking laced weed and we got
  237. 11:09to stop and go cuz it was it was laced
  238. 11:13with Tarpin it was like but he just like
  239. 11:16never smoked smoked before we knew our
  240. 11:19weed wasn't Lac so so
  241. 11:22um so it just made me nervous like
  242. 11:26because I'd gotten that reaction from
  243. 11:28other people before people weren't aware
  244. 11:30of like you know like good quality weed
  245. 11:35and what it's actually supposed to be
  246. 11:37like they their whole concept of it was
  247. 11:40like Mexican weed early 9s yeah and then
  248. 11:44colan mids breed up seaweed too that if
  249. 11:48they were lucky then you know you
  250. 11:50probably didn't even see B seaweed
  251. 11:51unless you already knew what weed looked
  252. 11:53like you know so true so um so we we I I
  253. 11:57decided to call it the diesel because I
  254. 12:00just didn't want
  255. 12:02to it was such a good thing and I didn't
  256. 12:05want it to be spoiled by the fact that
  257. 12:06it had the word cam in it cuz people
  258. 12:08thought that like chemicals people were
  259. 12:11treating weed with chemicals that's what
  260. 12:13when I say GMO well that's there's
  261. 12:15people in the dispensary here about GMO
  262. 12:17they're like wait yeah I'm not too sure
  263. 12:18about that yeah I'm like no it's the
  264. 12:20name of the Str the name of the garlic
  265. 12:23mushroom onions and then they're like oh
  266. 12:25okay so um so I changed it to the diesel
  267. 12:29so we called all the iterations that
  268. 12:31came out of chem dog diesel because
  269. 12:35people were like fanatical and crazy
  270. 12:37they're like I want the diesel I want
  271. 12:38the diesel so you know you didn't bother
  272. 12:41explaining this is a seed of the diesel
  273. 12:43you're like does it have that gas smell
  274. 12:45this is the diesel yeah that's what I
  275. 12:47want so we I called it the diesel and um
  276. 12:51it was the Albany kids who um when the
  277. 12:54one one of the Albany kids used an a
  278. 12:57bucket allegedly I wasn't there that had
  279. 12:59a number five on it and it had been
  280. 13:03labeled uh uh our diesel because it was
  281. 13:07like the two guys from the can skills it
  282. 13:09was there this is our diesel CU we made
  283. 13:13these seeds from diesel 2 and Diesel one
  284. 13:16right so so this is our Diesel and so so
  285. 13:19but someone who was visiting the grow
  286. 13:21saw that there was like a five on the
  287. 13:24bucket and that said hour diesel and the
  288. 13:26guy said what's Sour Diesel
  289. 13:29and that's literally how that's how it
  290. 13:31was made aming I was and I wasn't there
  291. 13:34but that's but that's you that's the
  292. 13:36firsthand story of how it all play out W
  293. 13:39so it's really sour with the five it's
  294. 13:41hour yeah the sour with the five that's
  295. 13:44sick that's super dope man but it's just
  296. 13:49but like it was the perfect name cuz it
  297. 13:51did make everyone sour it spoiled
  298. 13:54relationships it made people everyone
  299. 13:57was mad at every the sour the sour it's
  300. 14:01like oh you gave my you gave this guy
  301. 14:03sour you didn't give me any it's so
  302. 14:05funny that the sour sour is like that
  303. 14:08has that side of it and then there's
  304. 14:09like the the debate of like sour or Haze
  305. 14:13for New York strains it's like one of
  306. 14:15the top New York strains legendary of
  307. 14:17all time and you have Like Rappers
  308. 14:19debating like is sour what's the best
  309. 14:23one sour or Haze you know it's and and
  310. 14:25it's like it's always in the top it's
  311. 14:27all fun Gam they love sour and Haze the
  312. 14:31real war is like between like sour and
  313. 14:34hay and OG exact and everybody loves it
  314. 14:38all and nobody's hating on any of it
  315. 14:40it's just like what's the it's like
  316. 14:42all like it's that competitiveness that
  317. 14:45you were talking about though you know
  318. 14:46and it's like even that even in the
  319. 14:48world but it's like sour is always a
  320. 14:51contender you know Kendrick versus Cole
  321. 14:54right cuz if you like Kendrick you like
  322. 14:56Cole and if you like Cole you like
  323. 14:57Kendrick but people like to put them
  324. 14:59next to each other so it's better yeah
  325. 15:02the weed version of that
  326. 15:05yeah no doubt speaking of uh like the
  327. 15:08classics and whatnot what do you think
  328. 15:10about some of the modern tur profiles
  329. 15:12like the candies and and you know like
  330. 15:15the gelato family and all that new stuff
  331. 15:17what do you think of that I think I know
  332. 15:19what you're going to say already but I I
  333. 15:21want to know what you think if if it's
  334. 15:23good it's good right and I'm not like
  335. 15:27I'm not dissing anything that
  336. 15:28specifically that you're going to name
  337. 15:30or anything like that but it's just it's
  338. 15:34almost like it's
  339. 15:36today I don't know a a variety of
  340. 15:39cannabis can only be popular for like a
  341. 15:42year and then it's like it's [ __ ]
  342. 15:45whack it's p and now you have to have
  343. 15:48the it's always the next the next the
  344. 15:50next you know we where we came from a
  345. 15:53time when like you know like C wanted to
  346. 15:56keep things certain STS rained Supreme
  347. 15:59for like decades cuz they cuz let's talk
  348. 16:02about genetics like what can the
  349. 16:04genetics improve throughout the years
  350. 16:08and stuff to make so you can work on it
  351. 16:10and make the make the flower even better
  352. 16:12right so it's
  353. 16:13like how how can it become past a after
  354. 16:17amount of time you know things don't
  355. 16:18things get better with with time in
  356. 16:21general how do you feel about that I
  357. 16:26mean I think that like
  358. 16:29that there's a lot of things to work
  359. 16:32with now right so if you want say if you
  360. 16:34want to breed something you know you
  361. 16:36have a huge pallet to work with right uh
  362. 16:40genetics have never been this
  363. 16:43accessible where you know if I if I want
  364. 16:45to
  365. 16:46have you know some specific varieties of
  366. 16:49weed I I'm willing to pay for it I can
  367. 16:52track that within I can track it down
  368. 16:53and be growing it within like you know a
  369. 16:56week whereas it used to be
  370. 16:59that you know you had to go through
  371. 17:00great pains and links and beg people to
  372. 17:04to get gentics you got know a guy or you
  373. 17:05had to go to am to hope that you know
  374. 17:08that you were getting what you paid for
  375. 17:10right
  376. 17:11right with that being said I'm curious
  377. 17:14are there any cross strains that you did
  378. 17:17enjoy like do you have a favorite like
  379. 17:19for example we have the Lilac diesel or
  380. 17:22any type of variations that might have
  381. 17:24standed stood out to
  382. 17:26you um what you saying like diesel cross
  383. 17:29diesel cross
  384. 17:32diesel in the later years yeah I mean
  385. 17:36you know yeah like mine you know but I
  386. 17:38mean I've seen a lot of stuff over the
  387. 17:40years you know I've seen so much I've
  388. 17:43forgotten you know like more than I can
  389. 17:46remember but uh as far as what I've seen
  390. 17:49in the last uh 10 years you know living
  391. 17:52on the west coast it's like it's insane
  392. 17:55you know like how much weed you see it's
  393. 17:57like it's like remember ing every shirt
  394. 17:59you saw at the store you know it's
  395. 18:02like going to happen but yeah you know
  396. 18:04there's there's been you know good
  397. 18:06things I like um you know who you know
  398. 18:08who makes great [ __ ] is um uh hey
  399. 18:12monster you guys know who he is the Pink
  400. 18:14Starburst that's a great sour cross
  401. 18:18um um yeah I mean I see I but people
  402. 18:22especially be because you know it's me
  403. 18:27like like people see me I guess and you
  404. 18:29know sometimes they're if they're into
  405. 18:31sour they they probably recognize me and
  406. 18:33they come up to me and they're like yo
  407. 18:35check this out you know people
  408. 18:38show so much different dies and it's
  409. 18:41great you know and then and anytime I
  410. 18:43can smell sour and anything it's great
  411. 18:46and you're like oh it's in there
  412. 18:47definitely and that that's always the
  413. 18:49like the test like the smell test is it
  414. 18:52in there I don't know man it's and when
  415. 18:54it's in there you're like but this this
  416. 18:56cut right here you can you're like this
  417. 18:58is it you know it's like it's not not
  418. 19:01it's not in there it's this is it right
  419. 19:03here so really excited to have have it
  420. 19:06have you in here how important is uh the
  421. 19:11genetics in terms of where you're
  422. 19:13growing like regionally so like you know
  423. 19:16it like so for example sour is from here
  424. 19:20it's from New York it's from I know
  425. 19:22you're it was growing in Doris mainly
  426. 19:24but you're still battling all sorts of
  427. 19:28New York [ __ ] when you're growing
  428. 19:30your weed here so yeah no I mean I think
  429. 19:32that it I noticed that it's different
  430. 19:35every time things change it's different
  431. 19:37living in California this hour grew
  432. 19:39different different water right um and
  433. 19:42also I mean I've changed lights like
  434. 19:45three times since I left New York you
  435. 19:48know I uh I've I've grown through like
  436. 19:52every iteration of grow light you know
  437. 19:55we went from the
  438. 19:57old uh
  439. 19:58magnetic heavy
  440. 20:01ballasts uh to uh digital ballasts and I
  441. 20:04saw qualitative change the way things
  442. 20:07Grew From that it changed the way the
  443. 20:10bulb lights up and then going into all
  444. 20:13the different uh uh
  445. 20:15uh you know evolutions of it like the
  446. 20:19double-ended then the LEC and then you
  447. 20:21know that's what I mean like all the
  448. 20:23years that you've been growing you're
  449. 20:25like you're you're experimenting with
  450. 20:27different methods and you're like you
  451. 20:29know your genetics are are are moving
  452. 20:32down the line with you and you're trying
  453. 20:34new things and I feel like the flower
  454. 20:36just you know has the potential to be
  455. 20:38the best it can be now so I feel like
  456. 20:42that's why the strain these strains like
  457. 20:44this will be popular forever you know I
  458. 20:46think sour just smells better in New
  459. 20:48York too I like you know it's too dry
  460. 20:50out west like you know is there
  461. 20:53something about the musty stank that and
  462. 20:55I think that's that's part of the like
  463. 20:57the way the genetics respond well to its
  464. 20:59environment right and and so when you
  465. 21:01have genetics that are born here you
  466. 21:05know land R [ __ ] it's like you're
  467. 21:07dealing with you know uh I think it's
  468. 21:10just going to be better here which is
  469. 21:13why I'm excited to have it back in New
  470. 21:15York MH me too yeah definitely me too
  471. 21:18it's good to be back yeah I'm curious if
  472. 21:23you have any um any perspective on this
  473. 21:28new way of people shopping now that
  474. 21:31dispensaries are on the rise like people
  475. 21:33shopping strictly by THC percentage have
  476. 21:36you noticed that any difference from
  477. 21:39back in the day to now like one thing I
  478. 21:42like to say to people is like when they
  479. 21:44ask for like what's the highest th
  480. 21:45percentage I'm like did you ever ask
  481. 21:47your person before you started coming to
  482. 21:49a dispensary what the th percentage is
  483. 21:51and nobody ever has you know what I mean
  484. 21:53but I think it's a shift you know yeah
  485. 21:55but people who are like my age they
  486. 21:57never ask about that they say let me see
  487. 21:59it and let me smell it right that's how
  488. 22:02you buy weed you see it you smell it and
  489. 22:05you know right away is it good do I is
  490. 22:07this do am I going to enjoy smoking this
  491. 22:09and uh that's how it is so I don't know
  492. 22:12I mean that's an odd way to shop for
  493. 22:15weed but that's look the right the
  494. 22:19market can only like Advance at the rate
  495. 22:22that the consumer is educated mhm
  496. 22:24exactly definitely so that's why we're
  497. 22:26trying to do this so we can help to push
  498. 22:28that consumer education forward and let
  499. 22:30people know what it's really all about
  500. 22:32and that it's you know the tpes play a
  501. 22:35huge role out we always talk about this
  502. 22:37every episode that it's not all about
  503. 22:39thp THC percentage it's the Entourage
  504. 22:41effects it's the tpine percentage it's
  505. 22:43the it's uh you know the minor
  506. 22:46cannaboids and the way it all works
  507. 22:47together that shapes the high and colors
  508. 22:50the high it's a very I mean it's now
  509. 22:53hopefully we can get some science on
  510. 22:55that now that they're studying and
  511. 22:57they're going deeper you got
  512. 22:58universities publishing studies on it we
  513. 23:00can get we can get down to the bottom of
  514. 23:02it all but we've known anecdotally for a
  515. 23:05long time that that's we never we would
  516. 23:07never shop by percentage necessarily
  517. 23:10it's like no but I think like I think
  518. 23:13people eventually
  519. 23:16like figure out the best way to get high
  520. 23:19that's one thing that you don't have to
  521. 23:20worry about people not figuring out
  522. 23:23knowen the dispensary already people
  523. 23:25coming back and they're like yeah I'm
  524. 23:28starting to realize I smoked this higher
  525. 23:29percentage stuff and didn't feel nearly
  526. 23:31as good as I did off this I'm like or
  527. 23:34they'll ask why this higher percentage
  528. 23:35stuff is cheaper than this stuff that's
  529. 23:37only 19% like yeah and I think a lot of
  530. 23:41most people are going to be dabbing but
  531. 23:43first they have to like not be confused
  532. 23:45on what it is and how to do it and you
  533. 23:47have to learn how to operate new stuff
  534. 23:49and machinery and like people so but
  535. 23:52people eventually learn cuz they want to
  536. 23:54get high yeah and it's a it's in a new
  537. 23:56market like this it's it's it's our job
  538. 23:58to educate them and put them on how to
  539. 24:00do it right so yep definitely yeah man
  540. 24:04do you have a favorite way of getting
  541. 24:06high I just I smoke joints and I smoke
  542. 24:09hash out of a hookah typically nice nice
  543. 24:12old school hash out the hook hash out
  544. 24:14the
  545. 24:16hookah little glass hookah nice little
  546. 24:19Hash Pipe yeah yeah that's SEC so uh the
  547. 24:25genetics it like had been or I don't
  548. 24:28know if the genetics were lost for sour
  549. 24:30for a while or whatever like it but you
  550. 24:33know you couldn't find the real Sour
  551. 24:35it's like we were hunting for it for a
  552. 24:37long time so can we uh talk a little bit
  553. 24:40about how like what happened what like
  554. 24:43what how did it like fall out and there
  555. 24:46wasn't real Sour and like how are you
  556. 24:48bringing back your um no look the sour
  557. 24:51didn't go anywhere yeah I think the
  558. 24:55availability of sour came to an end cuz
  559. 24:58you
  560. 24:59know in like 2000 starting at around 200
  561. 25:03like 8 or
  562. 25:059 UM New York just started getting
  563. 25:08hammered with weed from California yeah
  564. 25:13and Growers who grew sour had come to
  565. 25:17expect that they were going to get paid
  566. 25:18at least $6,000 a pound but when there
  567. 25:21was like indoor weed all over New York
  568. 25:24City for 2500 a
  569. 25:26pound right I just think that like a lot
  570. 25:29of these systems were built upon A5 to
  571. 25:32$6,000 pound guarantee and when they
  572. 25:36they couldn't afford to stay in business
  573. 25:37and sell weed it wasn't worth it they
  574. 25:39they found a new racket there was like
  575. 25:42organized crime syndicates were
  576. 25:45manufacturing weed instead of doing
  577. 25:47other drugs because it was it was easier
  578. 25:49and made more profitable you know I mean
  579. 25:52I certainly built my fair share of like
  580. 25:55uh commercial grows for people uh back
  581. 25:57in the day cuz you know I mean I was
  582. 25:59like a consultant for hire if people
  583. 26:01wanted yeah why not right like there's
  584. 26:04money in there there's money in that
  585. 26:05right now like there's like legal money
  586. 26:08in that right now you know like the the
  587. 26:10the commercial grows that are coming
  588. 26:12online need Consultants to teach them
  589. 26:14how to [ __ ] grow weed some of them
  590. 26:16like to be honest with you so you know
  591. 26:18that's uh do the fact that you're like
  592. 26:20so far ahead of the curve you're doing
  593. 26:22that yeah I mean I I was in I lived out
  594. 26:25west from 2014 to
  595. 26:28you know this year but
  596. 26:30um but I never stopped growing sour and
  597. 26:34people back here all my friends that
  598. 26:37were growing it when I left they're
  599. 26:38still growing it yeah it just the
  600. 26:40availability became limited due to price
  601. 26:43constraints and they were like well
  602. 26:45we'll just grow Sal for ourselves then
  603. 26:46[ __ ] you
  604. 26:48[ __ ] you're I get it there
  605. 26:50there they were sending uh you know ,000
  606. 26:53a pound a $1,000 a pound in California
  607. 26:55and they're selling it for $3,000 a
  608. 26:57pound out here and it and yeah and the
  609. 26:59good [ __ ] was going for5 $6,000 a pound
  610. 27:02before that and I remember warehouses
  611. 27:07pumping out sour and all over Brooklyn
  612. 27:10All Over Queens uh and all over the
  613. 27:12state
  614. 27:13probably cuz there was an insatiable
  615. 27:16appetite for sour you know in the mid
  616. 27:192000 you could not supply enough that's
  617. 27:22why can can you tell us about the uh the
  618. 27:24highest you ever got for a pound back
  619. 27:26then I mean everyone I heard a story I
  620. 27:29heard a story I just want yeah one time
  621. 27:33years many many years ago that did I did
  622. 27:35sell I think 3bs for 45,000 that's yeah
  623. 27:40and there was a bit War happening and
  624. 27:43you
  625. 27:48know but that's not the record I mean
  626. 27:51like uh uh I had a friend and he used to
  627. 27:54go down to uh he was from Baltimore and
  628. 27:57the Lowery side and he would go down to
  629. 27:59Baltimore and sell 02 pieces for uh $20
  630. 28:05to the crack dealers in the crack houses
  631. 28:09so they were selling crack to the
  632. 28:12crackheads he was selling little tws to
  633. 28:14the crack dealers and they would put
  634. 28:16like the point two in their frontt just
  635. 28:18to make it like better so so the the $20
  636. 28:23point2 is like the best one I think I've
  637. 28:25heard that's wild
  638. 28:28$20 point to and there was another guy
  639. 28:31who was selling $100 grams also yeah
  640. 28:34downtown so there are people that who
  641. 28:36did who did their
  642. 28:39num who did their numbers huh that's
  643. 28:41crazy man used to be 720s for me that's
  644. 28:45how I would sell it 720s I used to buy a
  645. 28:48so smoke some for not an absurd amount
  646. 28:51of money in 1990 I would in 91 right I
  647. 28:55when I was in in boarding school I would
  648. 28:57come home back to New York City for the
  649. 28:58weekend and there was a guy that would
  650. 29:00sell you7 of haze for 35 bucks and we
  651. 29:04used to buy like 10 of those [ __ ]
  652. 29:06bags and uh and we'd pull our money
  653. 29:10together and he bought those 7s for
  654. 29:1320 he was no listen you you beep this
  655. 29:17guy he called you back and then he like
  656. 29:20delivered to you within like 15 minutes
  657. 29:22like Domino's Pizza even if you just
  658. 29:24wanted one so like he was I mean yeah he
  659. 29:27was he had a great Enterprise but um but
  660. 29:30it was worth it you and the Gramps were
  661. 29:33fat cuz it was like real Haze Haze yeah
  662. 29:35fluffy [ __ ] yeah those those ounces used
  663. 29:39to be so they used to be so fluffy with
  664. 29:41the with the long hairs like what the
  665. 29:43[ __ ] never seen [ __ ] looks like some
  666. 29:45alien weed yeah sh was gorgeous yeah
  667. 29:48gorgeous love it yeah all and all that
  668. 29:51stuff you know you can find it around
  669. 29:52you know I've seen I've I've seen been
  670. 29:55seeing some hazes quite a bit few years
  671. 29:58yeah all the the the Uptown like the
  672. 30:00piff the Cuban all that stuff is back
  673. 30:02hard back yeah it is it
  674. 30:05is yeah it's in the market there's a
  675. 30:08couple there's a couple uh uh you know
  676. 30:11Growers and you know in the legal Market
  677. 30:13bringing some Haze product so and
  678. 30:16there's a couple people saying that
  679. 30:17they're bringing sour but Crossing it
  680. 30:19though yeah they are crossing yeah yeah
  681. 30:23yeah there it's like missing one of the
  682. 30:25you know it's like it'll have the nose
  683. 30:28it'll have the bag appeal but it won't
  684. 30:29have like the taste you know what I mean
  685. 30:32or or there's something that'll have the
  686. 30:34taste and the and the bag appeal but the
  687. 30:37nose isn't quite right you know what I
  688. 30:38mean it's like missing one of the one of
  689. 30:40the elements one of the elements but
  690. 30:42it's not easy to get everything right I
  691. 30:44know it is it is it's it's not easy yeah
  692. 30:50as we can see yeah but you've clearly
  693. 30:52perfected it yeah I mean yeah it's it's
  694. 30:54it's but yeah it's just hard it's it's
  695. 30:57hard to get everything perfect and uh as
  696. 31:00is anything that's special you know you
  697. 31:02got to work hard to get it for sure once
  698. 31:05you do get it though yeah you got
  699. 31:07something amazing and you got to keep
  700. 31:09doing it so shout out to flowerhouse by
  701. 31:11the way for the bringing the AJ Sour
  702. 31:14Diesel to the market you know we got
  703. 31:16some other strains from we got ounces
  704. 31:19believe we have quarters and 8 so uh we
  705. 31:23killing it do we have the half ounces of
  706. 31:25the sour to or is it just the
  707. 31:28and and the E
  708. 31:29right yeah they going though yeah yeah
  709. 31:33oh yeah moving
  710. 31:35already absolutely they are yeah the
  711. 31:38word is out the word is out all loves
  712. 31:41real official sour so oh uh one last
  713. 31:45question and I'm going to let you go cuz
  714. 31:46I know your time is valuable and we
  715. 31:47really appreciate you spending this much
  716. 31:49time with us
  717. 31:51um what does AJ stand
  718. 31:54for um [ __ ] Joe all right that's what
  719. 31:58I thought my uh my cousin my cousin
  720. 32:01Lindsay says what's up she uh she
  721. 32:04actually knows the Catskill crew and
  722. 32:06knew you through them and knows you
  723. 32:08through them uh with her her late
  724. 32:10husband Greg I don't know if you yeah I
  725. 32:13know who she is yeah all right well you
  726. 32:15know she she told me that that AJ stood
  727. 32:18stood for [ __ ] Joe so I just wanted
  728. 32:20to hear from from you um if that was the
  729. 32:23truth I didn't want to ask you there was
  730. 32:25like a few Jo around back in the day you
  731. 32:28know so somehow I got called [ __ ] Joe
  732. 32:32all right seemed like a pretty nice guy
  733. 32:33to me I'm going be honest with you but
  734. 32:34uh yeah you know I don't I didn't know
  735. 32:36you 20 years ago so yeah well you know
  736. 32:39if you didn't get your sour I was a
  737. 32:41[ __ ] [ __ ] I guess you know like I
  738. 32:43couldn't yes that's I had to be an
  739. 32:45[ __ ] to somebody fair enough fair
  740. 32:48enough well uh once again we really
  741. 32:50appreciate you spending this time with
  742. 32:52us AB um stage one podcast from uh stoop
  743. 32:56to store Legacy the legal once again
  744. 32:58let's uh give it up for AJ no congrats
  745. 33:02on this store too man it's it's booming
  746. 33:05in there yeah we're we're we're
  747. 33:06definitely blessed we're happy to be
  748. 33:08serving the community that we are
  749. 33:10everybody's really great um and we're
  750. 33:13just hoping to keep doing it for as long
  751. 33:14as possible and I think with products
  752. 33:17like uh AJ sour coming to Market we're
  753. 33:20not going to have too hard a time
  754. 33:21keeping people coming back for more so
  755. 33:24all right all right guys you guys got to
  756. 33:26get back work usually we do this after
  757. 33:28work right now we're literally doing it
  758. 33:30during work so um shout out to J and
  759. 33:32Scotty for taking their time out of
  760. 33:34their busy schedule yeah that's why I
  761. 33:36didn't have the wine today I got to go
  762. 33:38back
  763. 33:40wiha all right peace y'all all right
  764. 33:42peace thank thank you both of y'all
  765. 33:44everybody
  766. 33:45[Music]
  767. 33:55rap
  768. 34:01[Music]
  769. 34:08be on green Mario
  770. 34:12[Music]
  771. 34:15Yi

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