October 18, 2023 • 38 mins
Gardenhouse Brands™ is a cannabis entity based in California that evolved from DomPen, a leading all-in-one vape brand to their KOA 10-pack pre-rolls. Visit the website at www.gardenhousebrands.com!
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But Fire event and they're just cool folks. Man, I
really like them guys today on the podcast as a
brilliant guest, I think he's brilliant. He's done great with
(01:14):
this company so far, besides us as a man behind
a company that holds a truly inspiring story where him
and a couple buddies, you guys, started a multi million
dollar business out of his aunt's guesthouse in Los Angeles.
With us today is Jake Cat, which just sounds like
a fake name. Ja Hey, what up Jake Cat? It
(01:35):
just sounds fake, But he's the co founder CEO of
this isn't fake right here. Garden House Brands, a cannabis
entity base in California, offering retailers a curated menu of
affordable premium brands of their business. Greenhouse evolved from dom Penn,
which is a leading all in one vaight brand with
efficient and licensed in house manufacturing and sales, which was
(01:57):
Jake's initial introduction to the game. And now they got
pre rolls and so much more we're gonna find out.
Make sure you check out the website at Gardenhouse Brands
dot com and follow them on the IG at dompenn
dot co and get involved and bring your brand and
check out what they're doing because they're very successful. Not
only that, dude, I don't know if you've seen that
on the IG, but they got Mike Tyson, which we're
(02:19):
going to talk about how they did a collab with
Iron Mike hitting the pin, going hard, knocking it out,
all kinds of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Without further ado, please put it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Together for Jacat in the building, Go Jake, Jacat.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
What a fucking great name.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, I know this cat named Jake, you know
what I mean, And he's a cool Jacat. That's just
I mean, I would just love being your friend as
a kid.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I'm happy that I have the last name that I
have because I feel like I know so many Jakes,
but I don't know any.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, that's what's so cool about it. Like this cat
is no, he's a cool cat. You know what I mean,
and it's like they just rolls off the tongue and
to be forever A just just called Did anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Call you that?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Or yeah? Growing up growing up people, That's.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What I mean. I feel like if we're growing up.
Oh dude, this is our cat writer. What do you mean?
It's just like a it's a real name. So, Jake,
where are you from? Get? I've never met you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So it's funny that you have this company in Los Angeles.
I don't feel like we've crossed paths. So let us
know who you are, brother, and where.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Are you from?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yes, I'm from Washington, DC. Originally I moved here out
here about almost ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, to launched the business.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Thanks for saying hi, asshole. Sorry, I've been by been
actually working huh Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I've been busy, Yeah, dealing with this this industry.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So out of Washington. You went to school there, high school, college, everything.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Why did you just stay in Washington.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Because I wanted to sell weed.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, and at the time DC it wasn't it wasn't legal,
so I moved out.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I moved out here about ten years ago. I went
to high school there, grew up there. My co founder
is also from DC, so you guys grow up together. Yeah,
we grew up in the same neighborhood. And actually before Cannabis,
I was doing media content, mostly in hip hop. So
I actually came out here once before the before coming
out here for the business to do that specifically. But yeah,
(04:12):
you we met doing that. I worked with shot videos.
I was mainly working with Logic.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah. Yeah, well intrigued about that.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Now we want to go in a whole different direction
out we're both we're both old hip hop heads.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Really, what'd you do my hit too?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is like, I want to pry on that as well.
Tell me more about the hip hop stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So when I was in when I was in high school,
when I was about fourteen or fifteen, I met I
met Logic, and at the time, he was, you know,
living in a basement, you know, not really doing not
doing much, putting out a bunch of music. But uh,
and then so I connected with him and started doing
(04:50):
his album covers, all of his original mixtape covers, branding,
started doing his music videos, partnered up with my old
business partner, and so for me that was in high school,
you know, so it was a pretty crazy experience, traveling
around going to all the shows. I ended up actually
moving out here with him for a little bit. But yeah,
(05:14):
so i'd say that was kind of my real education
more so than high school.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It kind of got you in and ready for the
cannabis game, I would imagine too.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Definitely, Yeah, definitely, I learned so much. And I feel
like with entrepreneurship starting businesses, you can't really you have
to kind of learn it by doing, and it's really
hard to learn that in school. So I always kind
of struggled in school because I had all these projects
and things that I was doing outside.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's funny is a lot of people don't realize, like,
you know, how much effort like logic. I mean, I
remember him being around quite a bit, and like you said,
you didn't have much going on, but yet he is
performing in a lot of places and always out doing
shows and opening for a lot of acts. Really really
challenged gat name for himself and huh good name for
himself too, oh, I mean as an underground art Then
(06:02):
all of a sudden, when it hit, it was just boof,
you know, it was off to the races, you know.
But I've known him for many years before he actually
blew up right. I mean that was just kind of
you know, you see him out there doing this thing,
you know if you're in the hip hop Yeah, doing shows,
I mean from the cotton Mouth Kings to you know,
insane clown posse shows back in the day day. And
(06:24):
then he started doing you know, more stuff with like
just you know here locally, key clubs, whatever. But you know,
I mean I seen him do a lot of those
little shows and then and then all of a sudden,
I think he you know, found his niche and that
whatever record it was that freaking put him on the map.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Was yeah, maybe Young Sinatra or one of the.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I wouldn't know exactly what it was. I just remember saying,
oh man, I remember him, you know what I'm saying,
And it was all of a sudden back you know.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, Yeah, it was pretty pretty crazy just going through
that again at such a young age.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah. Well, you know, it's a good experience, great experience
for you. And then does any of that, I mean
when I look at now I'm looking at this, are
you the one that that that designed these logos here
as well?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, so I do all of our all of our
packaging our branding, uh design, in addition to you know,
being the CEO, so management and raising money all all
of that.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, I bet that's got to be hard too for
you to even pass it off to somebody because you're like, fuck,
I can do this, I know how to work photos.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I want to do this almost and yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Someone's like, hey, why don't we do this? Come on, cat,
want't you go do that? I do like to like, oh,
let me just fix that real.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Quick, exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, it can be tough because I'm so integrated. I've
been doing it for so long and for me it's
just so second nature. So yeah, it can be hard
sometimes to pass that off.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And then now let's get into you and your buddies,
because if I'm not mistaken, I read on the website
it's like you your buddy a few other cats, not
literally cats, because you're the real cat, but a few
other cats got together and in your aunt's garage.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
So we moved out here in the very beginning of
twenty fifteen. So my co founder Dom of dom Pen,
we were buddies from high school. He ended up going
to college in Boulder at CU Boulder. When legalization happened, there,
and so at the time, there are no vapes really
(08:20):
on the market. There were a couple, there were no
flavor vapes at the time, no all in one vapes,
and so he started mixing E juice with BHO and
realized that, you know, you could flavor cannabis oils, which
again no one was doing at the time. So he
decided to drop out to pursue that. I left school separately.
(08:42):
I was actually working on developing a virtual reality camera,
so completely different, but I left to pursue that. He
left to pursue what was called dom juice at the time,
what people were calling dom juice. So I connected with him.
At that stage he had started infusing it was actually
similar to their original model of the blue E cigarette. Yeah,
and so he was infusing that with this flavored juice,
(09:06):
and I was just blown away. And I immediately knew
that it was the future, that vaping was the future,
flavored vapes. Because growing up in DC, we were always
hiding from the cops, you know, discretion was so important,
and it was also a big reason why people weren't consuming,
especially older people, because because of the taste and the smell,
(09:27):
and they wanted something that was more discreet, so immediately
knew that it was something I wanted to do. We
linked up, moved out to California and I have an
aunt out here, so we lived in her backyard. She
has a little guest house, and yeah, didn't know anyone.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Came to get business.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Just yeah, moved out west and we went to the
Cannabis Cup. This was in twenty fifteen. Wow, and linked
up with our third co founder, Issue, who has been
He's from California and is an experienced extractor, had been
extracting for many, many years, and yeah, just got got rolling,
started expanding. Now we're sold all across the continent and
(10:08):
also internationally.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
We're in Thailand as well.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, you guys are huge.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I was looking at your website, looking at where you
guys are distributed, and go and look at this blue
I mean there's.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Dots all over the place. Doc look at this, I
mean it is nuts. I had no idea you guys
are this freaking big.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Thanks, just been pretty low key, just growing, you know, chyinga.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Dude, and you're not growing, You're growing huge.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And I want to know who came up with the
name and how did garden House Brands come to be.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
So originally we were dom Pen, which is this product
right here, So it's.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
A it's a flagship pin right there, right, that flagship.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Our flagship product. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
So we were the original all in one date pen. So, uh,
this was our original product. But our plan was to
always expand into other categories, to launch other brands as well.
So we've always you know, thought about our company as
a great your brand house. And then a few years ago,
I'd say about like three years ago, we expanded into
(11:08):
the pre role category. We launched CoA, which is our
second brand, has been growing really fast and doing really well.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
How many pre roles come in that box right there
of CoA?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It's ten many pre rolls.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Ten many like dog walkers. Yeah great, I find those
to be like perfect for people.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And this pre roll that blues opening up here. The
feel on the packaging a loan, the print, the fingerprint
right there.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Oh yeah, what is that? Like?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
What what's resistant packaging.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So you can push it up better? You pinch it
and swiss? Oh, is that what it's for? To help
you open it? It's to help you. That is such
a cool little element. I've never seen that. I've never
seen that.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, we do that to to make the boxes thinner.
For us, it's really important to have kind of a sleek,
sleek packaging and everything. That's our collaboration with PhD Design.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
We just launched. I believe that's the crescendo.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm sorry, Can I open this?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Sorry? Can I hit this mouth full of it here?
You want this back? It's cool if I hit this here,
you're gonna go sell this somewhere now. Yeah? Put this yeah,
put this back in? Zip it up? Yeah, that's great.
Smells good too. How that tastes? Just good? Yeah? Just good.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So you guys started with the first pin in the name,
so who said garden House and then brands.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So we were trying to come up with the name,
and you know, we thought, yeah, it's kind of ties
into the story of us launching and my my aunt's
garden and that's kind of our origin story. So we
decided to go by Gardenhouse brands. We don't really put
Gardenhouse brands out there that much.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
That's more on the back end.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
It's mainly our our two brands, Coha and dom Pen.
Then we actually have a third brand we've been working
on as well well.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I think the brand is awesome. I love the ig.
We're gonna take a break real quick. We're gonna come back.
We have Jake kat from Garden House Brands, and I
want to know how you guys hooked up with Mike
Tye and to hit your pin like that and say
it's a knockout.
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Gardenhouse Brands. I'm looking on the ig and I see
the one and the only iron Mike Tyson sitting there
(13:56):
with a pin of yours. I mean, it's not easy
to get a superstar like this to come on your
ig to do anything for you guys, period, or for anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
How did this collab happen and work out?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
So we're pretty close with the people on the Tyson team.
They actually have other celebrities that they license out and
you know, they're kind of the bridge between a lot
of the big celebrities and cannabis.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
So we're pretty close with them, and.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
They gave us the opportunity to collaborate with with Mike,
so we took it and it's been really, really great.
And we actually have another celebrity partnership that we're launching
within the next month with Future the Wrapper, So that's
we're really excited for that, and that's through the same
group as well. And we also have other celebrity collaborations
(14:51):
that we are in the works.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And how does this work? I mean, are they coming
up with their own pain? Are they just using your
pain and filling it up with their product? What is
this exactly?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So for us, you know, we handle the hardware and
the oil for when it comes to the collaborations. We
like to focus the collaborations were our side on on
the hardware. So that's, you know, primarily what our focus is.
We bring our hardware to the table. Oftentimes we collaborate
with either boutique growers or brands that have their own
(15:22):
strains and we let them handle that. Our our hardware
is custom and we've worked for many years to fine
tune it and make it really great. So that's normally
what we come to the table with. As well as branding.
We handle a lot of the media content, the design,
and the commercials like the one you saw of Mike.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So, you know, I like you that you say that
because a lot of people I don't think they put
a lot of thought and effort into the hardware. I
think they just look for something cool and they buy it. Yeah,
and then they and then they find out that you know,
it sucks. I mean, as long as you've been in
the game, you know you understand it better than most.
But not only does it suck, there's there's you know,
(16:03):
issues they leak, they they have you know, metals and
so on and so forth, and so for you to
stop and and and and focus on that, you know,
this is a very sleek pin. You know, I've never
really hit this one, you know, like this and it
hits great, you know, thank you. I'd be interested in
seeing you know how well it you know, but I
do like how it's very sleep well.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Not only that it's not your cannabis looking pin, so
to speak, right, it looks like a regular pin that
you could write with.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Even that's so discreet.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Like everyone soccer mom, soccer dad, business dad, lawyer, doctor,
whoever can pull that out, hey have it in their
top pocket for God's sake and be hosting an interview
and no one to take a second lip.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
It's a pointer totally looks make the next one a pointer?
Is that?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Was that, your guys, is like thought and model behind this,
keeping it so like everybody could use it to where
it doesn't have a feel of what it is isn't Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
So our mission is to destigmatize cannabis, and that's it's
always been that we really believe in this plant. We've
seen how powerful it is and how it just has
such a strong ability to change lives. So for us,
we feel that giving people an experience with a product
(17:21):
is the best way to destigmatize the plant. You can
do it through media like this, or there are other
ways you can do it. But we feel that if
you can give someone experience, a really positive experience with
something that's not intimidating, that's the one of the best
ways to destigmatize the plant and open people's minds. And
(17:41):
we've seen and we've seen the effect that the pen
has had. I know lots of people, even my family members,
who their first experience with cannabis was with with dompen
or people We've met thousands of people in our dispensaries,
you know, that have had their first experience with dompen.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
So I would hear some of those anecdotal stories that
you say have had the experience and what that is
from a family member or from a patient out there.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I've heard the dumping, you know, from from far back.
You know, I recognize it, you know, I just I
didn't put two and two together until you're here, right, Yeah,
you know. So it's like I've seen it. I've heard
heard of it throughout the years. But it's nice to
again hear that story. Yeah, you know, these young guys.
I've seen the brand too, you know, I've seen the brands.
(18:26):
I just you know, I just in in. I guess
with retrospect, you know, it's like you've probably heard a
cannabis talk, but until you meet us, it's kind of different.
You know. Well, I feel like i've met him before.
Well you didn't hear this. Have we met before?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I mean over the years, like all the conferences and stuff,
I feel like I feel like we've met.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Down, He's like, I've heard the podcast, but I didn't
know you guys had a whole production studio here, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It was all this same kind of concept. Right, somebody
comes and doesn't know. So what have you heard from
people that hit the pin and what's the stories behind those?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So I remember one. There's one memory that really stands out.
I was at it doing a patient appreciation day.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
This was.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Maybe about six or seven years ago, and this a
guy came up to me and he was almost in tears,
and he told me that his that his partner was
addicted to opiates, you know, opioids, and use dompen to
(19:27):
wean off and is now you know off, you know,
gone past his addictions. So that that to me stands
out as a memory. Some other memory, some other experiences
like that, talking to people, people who are using cannabis
to get through their addiction and to you know, help
(19:51):
people who have cancer. We've worked with people who have
terminal cancer and they're using cannabis, you know, to help
with the nausea, for the end of life anxiety, that
type of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So, you know, I think that a lot of people
don't realize. And for us, it's again exactly we're trying
to get the word out there. We have to be
intelligent enough to know that the United States government said
that this is medicinal for a reason. You know, it's
not just a bunch of kids out here saying it's medical. No,
the United States came out and said that, yes, medicinal, right. So,
(20:26):
but but I think you know it, you know, for
us that have had been able to see so many
anecdotal evidence of people that are using it for you know,
health care and for pain management, and for PTSD and
for glack homa and for the many, many, many illnesses
that are out there that this plant helps. Uh, it's
(20:48):
such a different you know lane for us, But for
everybody else it's just you know, they're they're so new
to it, their their mindset hasn't expanded, and so they
haven't understood it yet. And so I I think it's
a blessing kind of for all of us, you know
that we get to share these stories and thank you
for sharing those stories because I hear that what it's
a man, Yeah no, And we get to hear these
(21:08):
stories so much, but it's sometimes we forget to talk
about those stories because you know, we want to drive
home the many you know who came up with this logo.
I mean, it's fantastic by the way, I and I
love it. I love you just I mean, even the
way your can pops open. I mean, it's different, you
know what I mean. It's cool, it's different, you know,
but there's so much in it. There's so much more
(21:31):
to it though, Yeah, you know what I mean. And
for us, you know, and again, but I guess for
some of the new people out there, I think it's
so dear to my heart that they do hear those stories,
and I'm glad you're able to share those with us, because.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
What are these costs normally? Jake like this, you said
it's a pack of how many twelve.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
It's a pack of ten ten. Yeah, so it's an
age total, so they're each point three.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
To five dog walker style.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Yeah, are so so you need right here a.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Couple of heys. Okay, cool, let's go inside.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
And about They retail at about thirty or so, twenty
five to thirty.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That is.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Are you guys on the more of a premium style
or is it just you know or is it just handcraft?
I mean sun grown? What are you guys typically going after?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
So the cohs are indoor, that's a big part of
that brand. Premium. They all test it around forty percent.
Oh really yeah, they're infused with live resin aht.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, little clubbers right there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
So with that brand, with that brand, we realized that
most infused pre roles they're too big for most people
to finish in one sitting, and the dog walkers aren't
potent enough.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
So we wanted to.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Create that, you know, product that bridges those two things.
That's potent and you know, smaller so you can finish
it in one sitting. And then there's also the ten
so you can easily see how many you have left.
And then once you're done, the tins are actually reusable
like this right here, I'm using this as my wallet
right now.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, so nice.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
And then the design there's different ones. Why yeah, and
and what is that an owl on there?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Or what is it?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
It's a sloth? They're all, yeah, they're all sloths.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
What is the story behind that?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
So we we wanted to have a mascot for our brand,
and so we talked to all of our employees asked
them what animals they identified with, and sloth was the
number one. So yeah, we decided to go with the sloth. Yeah,
and we actually just recently adopt adopted a few sloths. No,
(23:32):
they're cost in Costa Rica. Wow, but we have a
sloth family, mother son. No, they're they're actually in the wild.
They're in the wild in Costa Rica.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Spend money and somebody taking care of them out there.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, Clunking and Pie and then there's also names Pumpkin
and Pie. Yeah, we tried to name it CoA but they, yeah,
they wouldn't let us pie. And so each of the
tins is limited edition. So the goal is that eventually
in twenty years or so, people will be you know,
(24:07):
reselling in these collector tins and so that's that's the goal.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
These are a cool field and it has that collector fiel.
They really do, they really do. And it because I
remember growing up I had what it's like an ash tray.
You put your roaches.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
In there back in the day. You're using it as
a freaking wallet, for God's sakes. It's like, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Use it for Coulen Sting. I don't know if that
was designed on purpose, but like when we move it,
like you see that, Oh yeah, they the way they
shine in the fields.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
It has texture to it, so it's not just a
piece of metal with a print on it.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It actually has some texture.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And the nose on that one actually kind of looks
like an alien if you look closely at it.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
You can't see it once you've see it. Unsee it
once you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you said that because I would
have never seen that. I was looking more at the eyes,
not the nose, sure, because the eyes were coming at me.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Jake, this is cool, brother. We can't wait to come
back with you. Do the high five.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
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How many other things do we see though, because I
see different boxes of different things.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
How many other things does your guys' line have?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I know CoA is the pre rolls, we have the
dom pen is there several different dompins that are collabs.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yeah, so we do.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
We do a ton of collaborations, so that's a big
part of our brand. We have a few collaborations that
we recently launched. We have our THHC Design collaboration. That's
a big one, right, Yeah, and they put out really
amazing flower. Yeah, so we're really excited about that. We
actually just sold out of that that that one did
really well.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
That's the one I'm hitting right now.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, So the Crescendo is there is their most popular.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
It's helping with his workout pain. I'm sure he needed
for sure. It was saying how stiff he was.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'm sure a couple of hits of that help that
out definitely.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
And then we also have we do a lot of
charitable collaborations. So with a lot of our collaborations, we
like to have a charitable component. And we also do
collaborations with social equity brands, So we actually have two
of those. We have La Juice, which is somewhere on
that actually it's right here and that that's a really
cool one. We have three strains and each of the
(27:37):
strains is tied to a different neighborhood in La and
a portion of the profits go to giving back to
that specific neighborhood. Yeah, and then we also did murals.
We have three murals that we've done. One of them
is on one of the Catalyst stores and we have
a couple others and in each of those neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
So there's that collaboration.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
And we also have a collaboration with Padre, another social
equity brand is right in front of me. So we
do a lot of and then also we have that
Mike Tyson, and then we have Future as well, which
should be coming out within the next couple of weeks
and that I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And you guys are sold in so many different states countries.
All those are collapsed because you guys are the hardware
for these and then those are just different entities that
are putting their juice in there so to speak their THCs.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, so we own the hardware company too.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
So we license out our brand.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
So we license out our hardware and are packaging our
strained formulations to licensed operators and other territories.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
And that's how we expand.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That's why we've been able to expand so quickly, just
because having the overhead necessary for setting up these massive
operations in.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Other states really difficult.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
So taking this asset light approach has been been great
for Ustic.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Hell, yeah, everybody needs your pin go, okay, cool, this
is what we're putting out.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So what's next for you guys.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
We've been developing actually non cannabis THHC products, So we
have we actually have a line of home goods and
personal care products really that isn't cannabis, and so we're
we actually just that's a partnership with family owned business
(29:23):
in North Carolina. So we're pitching that to target right now.
And so the goal is with that to establish big
box distribution. So eventually once federal legalization happens all this,
then we're ready.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Through these other brands, we also have a hemp derived
cannabinoid products that we're we've been developing that we're going
to be launching pretty soon, so that will open us
up to smoke shops and that's great because you can
go international with that without dealing with the same hurdles
that we deal with and plant touching cannabis.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Where does where does the unent of for newer and
you come from?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I think I've just just naturally I've always I've always
been an entrepreneur. I've always I've always had it, even
when I was in even when I was in school,
it was really hard for me to focus on my
homework and school. I was always just learning by doing
and going out and launching products. Yeah, and I was
(30:27):
doing the video, the video stuff that opened my eyes,
the design stuff, launching different companies, and that's just always
it's always been my path.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Well it's a nice path, Jake.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I think what you're doing is amazing, the collaborations, and
I love the give back that your company is doing,
especially in those neighborhoods like that.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I mean in la As. We all know that live
out here.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You know there's some hood cities that need some help definitely,
So it's dope that you guys are giving some ship back.
So check out go back there. And support this guy's company.
You just heard a little bit about him. We're gonna
do the High five with you, Jake. Five simple questions.
How old are you the first time you smoked cannabis?
And where'd you get it from?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
I was fifteen fifteen and from I got it from
a friend.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
What's his name or her name?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
His name was Will good old Will in d C. Huh, yeah,
I believe I believe it was. It was out of
an apple. Actually it isn't an apple.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Nice. Question number two of the high five, what is
your favorite way to use or smoke cannabis? Mister cat.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Oh, the pen de dom pen. Yeah, although the codes
are great too, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You know, if you weren't going to answer that, I
was gonna smack you with my mic. I'm like, you
better answer might be too much for me, you know
what I mean? Like, even though it's just a little
dog walker, it's late. Yeah. When he said that, you know,
I was like, oh, probably some diamonds pink.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, dog walker means dog knapper for a lot of
people for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
That's now. This is a simple dog twitch for the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yeah, yeah, let me try that hit again right there.
Question number three of the high five with this cat
right here. Craziest place you ever used our smoked cannabis.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Well, growing up in d C when I was in
high school, we're because it was so illegal, Like we
were always like behind bushes or under bridges. Yeah, you know,
weird places like that.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Probably probably that just in random Smithsonian, like.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Right in front of the White House. I mean in
front of the.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I probably smoked in front of the White House.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I want to board.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I don't know if I can say that.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Say whatever you want. There's just so much about d
C that I love.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Like every time I hear people are from d C
and I think I went there only one time so far,
and I'm just so intrigued by how much history is
there and what's there for our country.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It's just it's truly one of those places where I'm like,
I want to go back again. I'll take another tour
and another tour. Yeah, you know, I spend several days
there just figuring things out. And even the architecture is
so old. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So when you look at like one of these roads,
like dude, this road's been here for how long?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Like wow, Yeah, it's definitely a power Center similar to
LA but but different and so different.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Different than culture. I mean, the.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Culture is completely different. And for me, you know, being
an entrepreneur and an artist, I needed to be out here.
Like growing up in DC, it's like the path to success.
You go to school and then you go to grad school,
and then you go to the law school, and then
you go to law school on top of your law school,
and then you go to join law for you know.
That's that's what it's like there. You know, we're out
(33:42):
out here people again.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
It's like the wild West.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
You just can kind of do do whatever and no
one really judges you exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Question number four of the high five what is your
go to munchie after you get.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
H the watermelon sour patch.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Kids the class and thank god they sell those in
the big bags now.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I know, and you can.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Put those in the freezer and they're just like horrible.
Just grab a couple of the time. My mouth is
all water those are.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
They have the smart sweet versions of them now that
are like.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Sugar free, but really are they good? They're good, but
they're not. They're not.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
They're not those watermelon ones.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Those you can't really replace us.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, we're here with Jake kat, the co founder CEO
of Gardenhouse Brands. You guys, you want to check them
out on the I G and see what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
It's at dom pen dot co. D O m p
e N dot co.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Now, Jake, if you can smoke cannabis with anyone dead
or alive.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Who would it be and why?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Leonardo da Vinci?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Probably da Vinci.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Because I hear that he was really strange dude, and
I feel like he also.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Seemed kind of like a trippy guy. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I feel like he did so much in so many
different areas, and he like used to write backwards stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Why didn't hear that one? So? Really? Yeah, maybe too
would be kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yeah, I have to understand what's going on? What went
on inside his head?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
You wrote backwards?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Yeah, so no one could see what he was writing.
So the only way you could read what he was
writing is through a mirror.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I bet Blue would be able to read that perfectly.
It's funny to say that because in school I used
to flip my my paper upside down and read it backwards.
Oh really, yeah, because I could I could see it
faster because of my my But I have both, I'm sure,
but yeah, no, I used to and I could read
(35:47):
a lot faster, to the point where I had teachers
yell at me and be like, hey, what do you
do when you think this is a joke? Because I
had turned it over and I couldn't read. Really, they
buster balls about it. Oh for sure, my whole entire
the unselers my principle. I'm not screwing around. I like
this over. I would turn it over and read it,
and then when I read it normally, I would sit
(36:09):
there and have such a hard time reading it, and
then I flip it over and I don't even know,
you know how I noticed. Actually I came up on
somebody and I was looking at it reading it from
you know, from sitting in front of them, and I
was looking down and I was like, holy shit, and
I could see it how much faster I could read it.
And so when I was when they tell me to
read out loud in front of the class, I flipped
(36:29):
my page over and read it from the bottom up,
and then they would just be such an easier to
read for me that once one of my teachers called
me out on it. Well, Blue da Vinci.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Now I know, maybe he's like a distant relative. I said, right, though,
you're great, great, great, great Graham.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
No, I'm great, that would be the right brothers. I'm
Christopher Wright.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yeah, actually you could be both.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
If there might be there may be a little something there.
But the reality though to that is though that I
didn't never know how to write that way. Though I've
never tried to write backwards.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Yeah, I write from bottom to top too. I have
to scrap you. So I'm oh really yeah, I'm also
just crazy like me.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sitting next to a couple of
weirdos up here. You guys talk well, no, when you
said something like it, you know, Joe and I were
arguing about this the other day and you said it
just right now, You're like, I learned by doing things.
I don't learn by you know, oh listen, readition figures.
That's not me. I don't learn that way. I learned
by going out there and falling flat on my face
and learning. That's how I've learned. That's how I've built
(37:30):
this machine, you know, by just trial and error, you know.
So it's just I'm a different person like that though,
And and a lot of people don't get that because
they don't use that type of brain, you know, to
to build what they're doing. And that's okay. I'm not
saying it's any better or any worse. It's just my
way of learning as well.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Yeah, everyone's different.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Well, Jake, is there anything that we didn't mention that
you want to mention on the podcast before we let
you get out of here?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Because your products look great. It's damn near worldwide.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
You're doing your thing and I love everything about what
you're doing. Anything we could do to help some it, brother,
we're here for you. Seem like a great guy.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Nothing else.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Just go out, buy some dompens, buy some copaks.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Support. Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Well, as you should get that little bat right there
that's a bank.
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this company so far, besides us as a man behind
a company that holds a truly inspiring story where him
and a couple buddies, you guys, started a multi million
dollar business out of his aunt's guesthouse in Los Angeles.
With us today is Jake Cat, which just sounds like
a fake name. Ja Hey, what up Jake Cat? It
(01:35):
just sounds fake, But he's the co founder CEO of
this isn't fake right here. Garden House Brands, a cannabis
entity base in California, offering retailers a curated menu of
affordable premium brands of their business. Greenhouse evolved from dom Penn,
which is a leading all in one vaight brand with
efficient and licensed in house manufacturing and sales, which was
(01:57):
Jake's initial introduction to the game. And now they got
pre rolls and so much more we're gonna find out.
Make sure you check out the website at Gardenhouse Brands
dot com and follow them on the IG at dompenn
dot co and get involved and bring your brand and
check out what they're doing because they're very successful. Not
only that, dude, I don't know if you've seen that
on the IG, but they got Mike Tyson, which we're
(02:19):
going to talk about how they did a collab with
Iron Mike hitting the pin, going hard, knocking it out,
all kinds of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Without further ado, please put it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Together for Jacat in the building, Go Jake, Jacat.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
What a fucking great name.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, I know this cat named Jake, you know
what I mean, And he's a cool Jacat. That's just
I mean, I would just love being your friend as
a kid.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I'm happy that I have the last name that I
have because I feel like I know so many Jakes,
but I don't know any.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, that's what's so cool about it. Like this cat
is no, he's a cool cat. You know what I mean,
and it's like they just rolls off the tongue and
to be forever A just just called Did anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Call you that?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Or yeah? Growing up growing up people, That's.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What I mean. I feel like if we're growing up.
Oh dude, this is our cat writer. What do you mean?
It's just like a it's a real name. So, Jake,
where are you from? Get? I've never met you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So it's funny that you have this company in Los Angeles.
I don't feel like we've crossed paths. So let us
know who you are, brother, and where.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Are you from?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yes, I'm from Washington, DC. Originally I moved here out
here about almost ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, to launched the business.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Thanks for saying hi, asshole. Sorry, I've been by been
actually working huh Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I've been busy, Yeah, dealing with this this industry.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So out of Washington. You went to school there, high school, college, everything.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Why did you just stay in Washington.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Because I wanted to sell weed.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, and at the time DC it wasn't it wasn't legal,
so I moved out.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I moved out here about ten years ago. I went
to high school there, grew up there. My co founder
is also from DC, so you guys grow up together. Yeah,
we grew up in the same neighborhood. And actually before Cannabis,
I was doing media content, mostly in hip hop. So
I actually came out here once before the before coming
out here for the business to do that specifically. But yeah,
(04:12):
you we met doing that. I worked with shot videos.
I was mainly working with Logic.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah. Yeah, well intrigued about that.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Now we want to go in a whole different direction
out we're both we're both old hip hop heads.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Really, what'd you do my hit too?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is like, I want to pry on that as well.
Tell me more about the hip hop stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So when I was in when I was in high school,
when I was about fourteen or fifteen, I met I
met Logic, and at the time, he was, you know,
living in a basement, you know, not really doing not
doing much, putting out a bunch of music. But uh,
and then so I connected with him and started doing
(04:50):
his album covers, all of his original mixtape covers, branding,
started doing his music videos, partnered up with my old
business partner, and so for me that was in high school,
you know, so it was a pretty crazy experience, traveling
around going to all the shows. I ended up actually
moving out here with him for a little bit. But yeah,
(05:14):
so i'd say that was kind of my real education
more so than high school.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It kind of got you in and ready for the
cannabis game, I would imagine too.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Definitely, Yeah, definitely, I learned so much. And I feel
like with entrepreneurship starting businesses, you can't really you have
to kind of learn it by doing, and it's really
hard to learn that in school. So I always kind
of struggled in school because I had all these projects
and things that I was doing outside.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's funny is a lot of people don't realize, like,
you know, how much effort like logic. I mean, I
remember him being around quite a bit, and like you said,
you didn't have much going on, but yet he is
performing in a lot of places and always out doing
shows and opening for a lot of acts. Really really
challenged gat name for himself and huh good name for
himself too, oh, I mean as an underground art Then
(06:02):
all of a sudden, when it hit, it was just boof,
you know, it was off to the races, you know.
But I've known him for many years before he actually
blew up right. I mean that was just kind of
you know, you see him out there doing this thing,
you know if you're in the hip hop Yeah, doing shows,
I mean from the cotton Mouth Kings to you know,
insane clown posse shows back in the day day. And
(06:24):
then he started doing you know, more stuff with like
just you know here locally, key clubs, whatever. But you know,
I mean I seen him do a lot of those
little shows and then and then all of a sudden,
I think he you know, found his niche and that
whatever record it was that freaking put him on the map.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Was yeah, maybe Young Sinatra or one of the.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I wouldn't know exactly what it was. I just remember saying,
oh man, I remember him, you know what I'm saying,
And it was all of a sudden back you know.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, Yeah, it was pretty pretty crazy just going through
that again at such a young age.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah. Well, you know, it's a good experience, great experience
for you. And then does any of that, I mean
when I look at now I'm looking at this, are
you the one that that that designed these logos here
as well?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, so I do all of our all of our
packaging our branding, uh design, in addition to you know,
being the CEO, so management and raising money all all
of that.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, I bet that's got to be hard too for
you to even pass it off to somebody because you're like, fuck,
I can do this, I know how to work photos.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I want to do this almost and yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Someone's like, hey, why don't we do this? Come on, cat,
want't you go do that? I do like to like, oh,
let me just fix that real.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Quick, exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, it can be tough because I'm so integrated. I've
been doing it for so long and for me it's
just so second nature. So yeah, it can be hard
sometimes to pass that off.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And then now let's get into you and your buddies,
because if I'm not mistaken, I read on the website
it's like you your buddy a few other cats, not
literally cats, because you're the real cat, but a few
other cats got together and in your aunt's garage.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
So we moved out here in the very beginning of
twenty fifteen. So my co founder Dom of dom Pen,
we were buddies from high school. He ended up going
to college in Boulder at CU Boulder. When legalization happened, there,
and so at the time, there are no vapes really
(08:20):
on the market. There were a couple, there were no
flavor vapes at the time, no all in one vapes,
and so he started mixing E juice with BHO and
realized that, you know, you could flavor cannabis oils, which
again no one was doing at the time. So he
decided to drop out to pursue that. I left school separately.
(08:42):
I was actually working on developing a virtual reality camera,
so completely different, but I left to pursue that. He
left to pursue what was called dom juice at the time,
what people were calling dom juice. So I connected with him.
At that stage he had started infusing it was actually
similar to their original model of the blue E cigarette. Yeah,
and so he was infusing that with this flavored juice,
(09:06):
and I was just blown away. And I immediately knew
that it was the future, that vaping was the future,
flavored vapes. Because growing up in DC, we were always
hiding from the cops, you know, discretion was so important,
and it was also a big reason why people weren't consuming,
especially older people, because because of the taste and the smell,
(09:27):
and they wanted something that was more discreet, so immediately
knew that it was something I wanted to do. We
linked up, moved out to California and I have an
aunt out here, so we lived in her backyard. She
has a little guest house, and yeah, didn't know anyone.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Came to get business.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Just yeah, moved out west and we went to the
Cannabis Cup. This was in twenty fifteen. Wow, and linked
up with our third co founder, Issue, who has been
He's from California and is an experienced extractor, had been
extracting for many, many years, and yeah, just got got rolling,
started expanding. Now we're sold all across the continent and
(10:08):
also internationally.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
We're in Thailand as well.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, you guys are huge.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I was looking at your website, looking at where you
guys are distributed, and go and look at this blue
I mean there's.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Dots all over the place. Doc look at this, I
mean it is nuts. I had no idea you guys
are this freaking big.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Thanks, just been pretty low key, just growing, you know, chyinga.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Dude, and you're not growing, You're growing huge.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And I want to know who came up with the
name and how did garden House Brands come to be.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
So originally we were dom Pen, which is this product
right here, So it's.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
A it's a flagship pin right there, right, that flagship.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Our flagship product. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
So we were the original all in one date pen. So, uh,
this was our original product. But our plan was to
always expand into other categories, to launch other brands as well.
So we've always you know, thought about our company as
a great your brand house. And then a few years ago,
I'd say about like three years ago, we expanded into
(11:08):
the pre role category. We launched CoA, which is our
second brand, has been growing really fast and doing really well.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
How many pre roles come in that box right there
of CoA?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It's ten many pre rolls.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Ten many like dog walkers. Yeah great, I find those
to be like perfect for people.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And this pre roll that blues opening up here. The
feel on the packaging a loan, the print, the fingerprint
right there.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Oh yeah, what is that? Like?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
What what's resistant packaging.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So you can push it up better? You pinch it
and swiss? Oh, is that what it's for? To help
you open it? It's to help you. That is such
a cool little element. I've never seen that. I've never
seen that.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, we do that to to make the boxes thinner.
For us, it's really important to have kind of a sleek,
sleek packaging and everything. That's our collaboration with PhD Design.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
We just launched. I believe that's the crescendo.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm sorry, Can I open this?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Sorry? Can I hit this mouth full of it here?
You want this back? It's cool if I hit this here,
you're gonna go sell this somewhere now. Yeah? Put this yeah,
put this back in? Zip it up? Yeah, that's great.
Smells good too. How that tastes? Just good? Yeah? Just good.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So you guys started with the first pin in the name,
so who said garden House and then brands.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So we were trying to come up with the name,
and you know, we thought, yeah, it's kind of ties
into the story of us launching and my my aunt's
garden and that's kind of our origin story. So we
decided to go by Gardenhouse brands. We don't really put
Gardenhouse brands out there that much.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
That's more on the back end.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
It's mainly our our two brands, Coha and dom Pen.
Then we actually have a third brand we've been working
on as well well.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I think the brand is awesome. I love the ig.
We're gonna take a break real quick. We're gonna come back.
We have Jake kat from Garden House Brands, and I
want to know how you guys hooked up with Mike
Tye and to hit your pin like that and say
it's a knockout.
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The Bear Flag Group is your white label partners. They
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They've been launching brands in California since twenty fifteen and
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Bear Flaggroup dot com. Jaycatt, the co founder CEO of
Gardenhouse Brands. I'm looking on the ig and I see
the one and the only iron Mike Tyson sitting there
(13:56):
with a pin of yours. I mean, it's not easy
to get a superstar like this to come on your
ig to do anything for you guys, period, or for anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
How did this collab happen and work out?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
So we're pretty close with the people on the Tyson team.
They actually have other celebrities that they license out and
you know, they're kind of the bridge between a lot
of the big celebrities and cannabis.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
So we're pretty close with them, and.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
They gave us the opportunity to collaborate with with Mike,
so we took it and it's been really, really great.
And we actually have another celebrity partnership that we're launching
within the next month with Future the Wrapper, So that's
we're really excited for that, and that's through the same
group as well. And we also have other celebrity collaborations
(14:51):
that we are in the works.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And how does this work? I mean, are they coming
up with their own pain? Are they just using your
pain and filling it up with their product? What is
this exactly?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So for us, you know, we handle the hardware and
the oil for when it comes to the collaborations. We
like to focus the collaborations were our side on on
the hardware. So that's, you know, primarily what our focus is.
We bring our hardware to the table. Oftentimes we collaborate
with either boutique growers or brands that have their own
(15:22):
strains and we let them handle that. Our our hardware
is custom and we've worked for many years to fine
tune it and make it really great. So that's normally
what we come to the table with. As well as branding.
We handle a lot of the media content, the design,
and the commercials like the one you saw of Mike.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So, you know, I like you that you say that
because a lot of people I don't think they put
a lot of thought and effort into the hardware. I
think they just look for something cool and they buy it. Yeah,
and then they and then they find out that you know,
it sucks. I mean, as long as you've been in
the game, you know you understand it better than most.
But not only does it suck, there's there's you know,
(16:03):
issues they leak, they they have you know, metals and
so on and so forth, and so for you to
stop and and and and focus on that, you know,
this is a very sleek pin. You know, I've never
really hit this one, you know, like this and it
hits great, you know, thank you. I'd be interested in
seeing you know how well it you know, but I
do like how it's very sleep well.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Not only that it's not your cannabis looking pin, so
to speak, right, it looks like a regular pin that
you could write with.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Even that's so discreet.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Like everyone soccer mom, soccer dad, business dad, lawyer, doctor,
whoever can pull that out, hey have it in their
top pocket for God's sake and be hosting an interview
and no one to take a second lip.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
It's a pointer totally looks make the next one a pointer?
Is that?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Was that, your guys, is like thought and model behind this,
keeping it so like everybody could use it to where
it doesn't have a feel of what it is isn't Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
So our mission is to destigmatize cannabis, and that's it's
always been that we really believe in this plant. We've
seen how powerful it is and how it just has
such a strong ability to change lives. So for us,
we feel that giving people an experience with a product
(17:21):
is the best way to destigmatize the plant. You can
do it through media like this, or there are other
ways you can do it. But we feel that if
you can give someone experience, a really positive experience with
something that's not intimidating, that's the one of the best
ways to destigmatize the plant and open people's minds. And
(17:41):
we've seen and we've seen the effect that the pen
has had. I know lots of people, even my family members,
who their first experience with cannabis was with with dompen
or people We've met thousands of people in our dispensaries,
you know, that have had their first experience with dompen.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
So I would hear some of those anecdotal stories that
you say have had the experience and what that is
from a family member or from a patient out there.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I've heard the dumping, you know, from from far back.
You know, I recognize it, you know, I just I
didn't put two and two together until you're here, right, Yeah,
you know. So it's like I've seen it. I've heard
heard of it throughout the years. But it's nice to
again hear that story. Yeah, you know, these young guys.
I've seen the brand too, you know, I've seen the brands.
(18:26):
I just you know, I just in in. I guess
with retrospect, you know, it's like you've probably heard a
cannabis talk, but until you meet us, it's kind of different.
You know. Well, I feel like i've met him before.
Well you didn't hear this. Have we met before?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I mean over the years, like all the conferences and stuff,
I feel like I feel like we've met.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Down, He's like, I've heard the podcast, but I didn't
know you guys had a whole production studio here, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It was all this same kind of concept. Right, somebody
comes and doesn't know. So what have you heard from
people that hit the pin and what's the stories behind those?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So I remember one. There's one memory that really stands out.
I was at it doing a patient appreciation day.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
This was.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Maybe about six or seven years ago, and this a
guy came up to me and he was almost in tears,
and he told me that his that his partner was
addicted to opiates, you know, opioids, and use dompen to
(19:27):
wean off and is now you know off, you know,
gone past his addictions. So that that to me stands
out as a memory. Some other memory, some other experiences
like that, talking to people, people who are using cannabis
to get through their addiction and to you know, help
(19:51):
people who have cancer. We've worked with people who have
terminal cancer and they're using cannabis, you know, to help
with the nausea, for the end of life anxiety, that
type of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So, you know, I think that a lot of people
don't realize. And for us, it's again exactly we're trying
to get the word out there. We have to be
intelligent enough to know that the United States government said
that this is medicinal for a reason. You know, it's
not just a bunch of kids out here saying it's medical. No,
the United States came out and said that, yes, medicinal, right. So,
(20:26):
but but I think you know it, you know, for
us that have had been able to see so many
anecdotal evidence of people that are using it for you know,
health care and for pain management, and for PTSD and
for glack homa and for the many, many, many illnesses
that are out there that this plant helps. Uh, it's
(20:48):
such a different you know lane for us, But for
everybody else it's just you know, they're they're so new
to it, their their mindset hasn't expanded, and so they
haven't understood it yet. And so I I think it's
a blessing kind of for all of us, you know
that we get to share these stories and thank you
for sharing those stories because I hear that what it's
a man, Yeah no, And we get to hear these
(21:08):
stories so much, but it's sometimes we forget to talk
about those stories because you know, we want to drive
home the many you know who came up with this logo.
I mean, it's fantastic by the way, I and I
love it. I love you just I mean, even the
way your can pops open. I mean, it's different, you
know what I mean. It's cool, it's different, you know,
but there's so much in it. There's so much more
(21:31):
to it though, Yeah, you know what I mean. And
for us, you know, and again, but I guess for
some of the new people out there, I think it's
so dear to my heart that they do hear those stories,
and I'm glad you're able to share those with us, because.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
What are these costs normally? Jake like this, you said
it's a pack of how many twelve.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
It's a pack of ten ten. Yeah, so it's an
age total, so they're each point three.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
To five dog walker style.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Yeah, are so so you need right here a.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Couple of heys. Okay, cool, let's go inside.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
And about They retail at about thirty or so, twenty
five to thirty.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That is.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Are you guys on the more of a premium style
or is it just you know or is it just handcraft?
I mean sun grown? What are you guys typically going after?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
So the cohs are indoor, that's a big part of
that brand. Premium. They all test it around forty percent.
Oh really yeah, they're infused with live resin aht.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, little clubbers right there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
So with that brand, with that brand, we realized that
most infused pre roles they're too big for most people
to finish in one sitting, and the dog walkers aren't
potent enough.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
So we wanted to.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Create that, you know, product that bridges those two things.
That's potent and you know, smaller so you can finish
it in one sitting. And then there's also the ten
so you can easily see how many you have left.
And then once you're done, the tins are actually reusable
like this right here, I'm using this as my wallet
right now.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, so nice.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
And then the design there's different ones. Why yeah, and
and what is that an owl on there?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Or what is it?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
It's a sloth? They're all, yeah, they're all sloths.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
What is the story behind that?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
So we we wanted to have a mascot for our brand,
and so we talked to all of our employees asked
them what animals they identified with, and sloth was the
number one. So yeah, we decided to go with the sloth. Yeah,
and we actually just recently adopt adopted a few sloths. No,
(23:32):
they're cost in Costa Rica. Wow, but we have a
sloth family, mother son. No, they're they're actually in the wild.
They're in the wild in Costa Rica.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Spend money and somebody taking care of them out there.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, Clunking and Pie and then there's also names Pumpkin
and Pie. Yeah, we tried to name it CoA but they, yeah,
they wouldn't let us pie. And so each of the
tins is limited edition. So the goal is that eventually
in twenty years or so, people will be you know,
(24:07):
reselling in these collector tins and so that's that's the goal.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
These are a cool field and it has that collector fiel.
They really do, they really do. And it because I
remember growing up I had what it's like an ash tray.
You put your roaches.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
In there back in the day. You're using it as
a freaking wallet, for God's sakes. It's like, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Use it for Coulen Sting. I don't know if that
was designed on purpose, but like when we move it,
like you see that, Oh yeah, they the way they
shine in the fields.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
It has texture to it, so it's not just a
piece of metal with a print on it.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It actually has some texture.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And the nose on that one actually kind of looks
like an alien if you look closely at it.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
You can't see it once you've see it. Unsee it
once you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you said that because I would
have never seen that. I was looking more at the eyes,
not the nose, sure, because the eyes were coming at me.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Jake, this is cool, brother. We can't wait to come
back with you. Do the high five.
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How many other things do we see though, because I
see different boxes of different things.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
How many other things does your guys' line have?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I know CoA is the pre rolls, we have the
dom pen is there several different dompins that are collabs.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yeah, so we do.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
We do a ton of collaborations, so that's a big
part of our brand. We have a few collaborations that
we recently launched. We have our THHC Design collaboration. That's
a big one, right, Yeah, and they put out really
amazing flower. Yeah, so we're really excited about that. We
actually just sold out of that that that one did
really well.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
That's the one I'm hitting right now.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, So the Crescendo is there is their most popular.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
It's helping with his workout pain. I'm sure he needed
for sure. It was saying how stiff he was.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'm sure a couple of hits of that help that
out definitely.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
And then we also have we do a lot of
charitable collaborations. So with a lot of our collaborations, we
like to have a charitable component. And we also do
collaborations with social equity brands, So we actually have two
of those. We have La Juice, which is somewhere on
that actually it's right here and that that's a really
cool one. We have three strains and each of the
(27:37):
strains is tied to a different neighborhood in La and
a portion of the profits go to giving back to
that specific neighborhood. Yeah, and then we also did murals.
We have three murals that we've done. One of them
is on one of the Catalyst stores and we have
a couple others and in each of those neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
So there's that collaboration.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
And we also have a collaboration with Padre, another social
equity brand is right in front of me. So we
do a lot of and then also we have that
Mike Tyson, and then we have Future as well, which
should be coming out within the next couple of weeks
and that I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And you guys are sold in so many different states countries.
All those are collapsed because you guys are the hardware
for these and then those are just different entities that
are putting their juice in there so to speak their THCs.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, so we own the hardware company too.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
So we license out our brand.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
So we license out our hardware and are packaging our
strained formulations to licensed operators and other territories.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
And that's how we expand.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That's why we've been able to expand so quickly, just
because having the overhead necessary for setting up these massive
operations in.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Other states really difficult.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
So taking this asset light approach has been been great
for Ustic.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Hell, yeah, everybody needs your pin go, okay, cool, this
is what we're putting out.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So what's next for you guys.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
We've been developing actually non cannabis THHC products, So we
have we actually have a line of home goods and
personal care products really that isn't cannabis, and so we're
we actually just that's a partnership with family owned business
(29:23):
in North Carolina. So we're pitching that to target right now.
And so the goal is with that to establish big
box distribution. So eventually once federal legalization happens all this,
then we're ready.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Through these other brands, we also have a hemp derived
cannabinoid products that we're we've been developing that we're going
to be launching pretty soon, so that will open us
up to smoke shops and that's great because you can
go international with that without dealing with the same hurdles
that we deal with and plant touching cannabis.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Where does where does the unent of for newer and
you come from?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I think I've just just naturally I've always I've always
been an entrepreneur. I've always I've always had it, even
when I was in even when I was in school,
it was really hard for me to focus on my
homework and school. I was always just learning by doing
and going out and launching products. Yeah, and I was
(30:27):
doing the video, the video stuff that opened my eyes,
the design stuff, launching different companies, and that's just always
it's always been my path.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Well it's a nice path, Jake.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I think what you're doing is amazing, the collaborations, and
I love the give back that your company is doing,
especially in those neighborhoods like that.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I mean in la As. We all know that live
out here.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You know there's some hood cities that need some help definitely,
So it's dope that you guys are giving some ship back.
So check out go back there. And support this guy's company.
You just heard a little bit about him. We're gonna
do the High five with you, Jake. Five simple questions.
How old are you the first time you smoked cannabis?
And where'd you get it from?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
I was fifteen fifteen and from I got it from
a friend.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
What's his name or her name?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
His name was Will good old Will in d C. Huh, yeah,
I believe I believe it was. It was out of
an apple. Actually it isn't an apple.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Nice. Question number two of the high five, what is
your favorite way to use or smoke cannabis? Mister cat.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Oh, the pen de dom pen. Yeah, although the codes
are great too, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You know, if you weren't going to answer that, I
was gonna smack you with my mic. I'm like, you
better answer might be too much for me, you know
what I mean? Like, even though it's just a little
dog walker, it's late. Yeah. When he said that, you know,
I was like, oh, probably some diamonds pink.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, dog walker means dog knapper for a lot of
people for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
That's now. This is a simple dog twitch for the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yeah, yeah, let me try that hit again right there.
Question number three of the high five with this cat
right here. Craziest place you ever used our smoked cannabis.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Well, growing up in d C when I was in
high school, we're because it was so illegal, Like we
were always like behind bushes or under bridges. Yeah, you know,
weird places like that.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Probably probably that just in random Smithsonian, like.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Right in front of the White House. I mean in
front of the.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I probably smoked in front of the White House.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I want to board.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I don't know if I can say that.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Say whatever you want. There's just so much about d
C that I love.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Like every time I hear people are from d C
and I think I went there only one time so far,
and I'm just so intrigued by how much history is
there and what's there for our country.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It's just it's truly one of those places where I'm like,
I want to go back again. I'll take another tour
and another tour. Yeah, you know, I spend several days
there just figuring things out. And even the architecture is
so old. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So when you look at like one of these roads,
like dude, this road's been here for how long?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Like wow, Yeah, it's definitely a power Center similar to
LA but but different and so different.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Different than culture. I mean, the.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Culture is completely different. And for me, you know, being
an entrepreneur and an artist, I needed to be out here.
Like growing up in DC, it's like the path to success.
You go to school and then you go to grad school,
and then you go to the law school, and then
you go to law school on top of your law school,
and then you go to join law for you know.
That's that's what it's like there. You know, we're out
(33:42):
out here people again.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
It's like the wild West.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
You just can kind of do do whatever and no
one really judges you exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Question number four of the high five what is your
go to munchie after you get.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
H the watermelon sour patch.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Kids the class and thank god they sell those in
the big bags now.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I know, and you can.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Put those in the freezer and they're just like horrible.
Just grab a couple of the time. My mouth is
all water those are.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
They have the smart sweet versions of them now that
are like.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Sugar free, but really are they good? They're good, but
they're not. They're not.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
They're not those watermelon ones.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Those you can't really replace us.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, we're here with Jake kat, the co founder CEO
of Gardenhouse Brands. You guys, you want to check them
out on the I G and see what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
It's at dom pen dot co. D O m p
e N dot co.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Now, Jake, if you can smoke cannabis with anyone dead
or alive.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Who would it be and why?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Leonardo da Vinci?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Probably da Vinci.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Because I hear that he was really strange dude, and
I feel like he also.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Seemed kind of like a trippy guy. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I feel like he did so much in so many
different areas, and he like used to write backwards stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Why didn't hear that one? So? Really? Yeah, maybe too
would be kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yeah, I have to understand what's going on? What went
on inside his head?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
You wrote backwards?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Yeah, so no one could see what he was writing.
So the only way you could read what he was
writing is through a mirror.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I bet Blue would be able to read that perfectly.
It's funny to say that because in school I used
to flip my my paper upside down and read it backwards.
Oh really, yeah, because I could I could see it
faster because of my my But I have both, I'm sure,
but yeah, no, I used to and I could read
(35:47):
a lot faster, to the point where I had teachers
yell at me and be like, hey, what do you
do when you think this is a joke? Because I
had turned it over and I couldn't read. Really, they
buster balls about it. Oh for sure, my whole entire
the unselers my principle. I'm not screwing around. I like
this over. I would turn it over and read it,
and then when I read it normally, I would sit
(36:09):
there and have such a hard time reading it, and
then I flip it over and I don't even know,
you know how I noticed. Actually I came up on
somebody and I was looking at it reading it from
you know, from sitting in front of them, and I
was looking down and I was like, holy shit, and
I could see it how much faster I could read it.
And so when I was when they tell me to
read out loud in front of the class, I flipped
(36:29):
my page over and read it from the bottom up,
and then they would just be such an easier to
read for me that once one of my teachers called
me out on it. Well, Blue da Vinci.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Now I know, maybe he's like a distant relative. I said, right, though,
you're great, great, great, great Graham.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
No, I'm great, that would be the right brothers. I'm
Christopher Wright.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yeah, actually you could be both.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
If there might be there may be a little something there.
But the reality though to that is though that I
didn't never know how to write that way. Though I've
never tried to write backwards.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Yeah, I write from bottom to top too. I have
to scrap you. So I'm oh really yeah, I'm also
just crazy like me.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sitting next to a couple of
weirdos up here. You guys talk well, no, when you
said something like it, you know, Joe and I were
arguing about this the other day and you said it
just right now, You're like, I learned by doing things.
I don't learn by you know, oh listen, readition figures.
That's not me. I don't learn that way. I learned
by going out there and falling flat on my face
and learning. That's how I've learned. That's how I've built
(37:30):
this machine, you know, by just trial and error, you know.
So it's just I'm a different person like that though,
And and a lot of people don't get that because
they don't use that type of brain, you know, to
to build what they're doing. And that's okay. I'm not
saying it's any better or any worse. It's just my
way of learning as well.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Yeah, everyone's different.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Well, Jake, is there anything that we didn't mention that
you want to mention on the podcast before we let
you get out of here?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Because your products look great. It's damn near worldwide.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
You're doing your thing and I love everything about what
you're doing. Anything we could do to help some it, brother,
we're here for you. Seem like a great guy.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Nothing else.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Just go out, buy some dompens, buy some copaks.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Support. Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Well, as you should get that little bat right there
that's a bank.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yes, well there it is. Guys. It's Cannabis Talk one
on one and remember this if no one else.
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Speaker 1 (38:28):
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