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Sweet Home Cannabama 7-29-24 fifth anniversary show, guests, Sean, Tom, Isaiah, Tyler
It's time for Sweet Home Canabema, a show that will answer all your questions, provide accurate information, and dispel the myths of cannabis, and have your specific questions answered by emailing jennifer@canabema.com. Or text or call 3430106. And now, for all things cannabis in Alabama, here's your host, Jennifer Buser. Welcome to the show everybody, I'm your host, Jennifer Buser, owner and founder of Canabema in Downtown Mobile. We are located at 558 St. Francis Street, just to block up from Winzels. Our phone number is 251-255-5155 website is canabema.com. And you can find Sweet Home Canabema on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, all the things. So we're all there on all the social media things we're trying to stay on. I got kicked out of Facebook this week for a post from a year and a half ago. So yeah, right after the broadcast, coincidentally. So who knows if I'm going to get thrown back into jail again? Real quick, before we get to our 5th anniversary show, which is very, very special to me, I do have a little bit of news and it's not fun. So I'm just going to spit this out and then we're going to go on to the party part. Just this weekend, I got an article from AL.com that basically are as illustrious attorney general, Steve Marshall, is opposing federal marijuana changes. That's rescheduled, descheduled, legalization, all of it. And says cannabis use is linked to welfare dependence. And he stated it's linked to rising homelessness and welfare dependence. Nowhere did he mention the housing crisis, inflation, opiate and prescription abuse, alcoholism. All the things, all of us are what, a month away from homelessness at this rate. And I think it's incredibly insulting to people who do have successful lives like me, who use cannabis every day. And I really just think that he thinks we're stupid. So anyway, I know that I've heard rumblings of him running for governor eventually. So I'm just trying to let y'all know right out of the gate how this man feels. So he thinks we're all going to be on welfare and homeless. If cannabis has even loosened up, not even legalized, just loosened up and available to more people medically on a federal level. So boo, Steve Marshall and happy 5th anniversary to sweet home, Canabama. Our first guest tonight, I want to welcome to the studio is Sean Sullivan. He is the owner of FM Top 1065, host of midday mobile and radio extraordinary. Welcome to the show, Sean. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Good to be in this very familiar place. Right. It's a little weird. It's on the other side of the board here. We've done radio together before, but it's always you asking me the questions. So this is, this is interesting. Yeah. These chairs are different. The chair here is nowhere near as comfortable as over there. So I got. Yeah. It's like sitting in the passenger seat of your own car. Right. No, and that does stink. I have a daughter with a permit and I spent a lot of time in the passenger seat now. Well, let's get going. I want to ask you. First of all, congratulations. Oh, well, thank you. Well, thank you. So what made you decide that this station in this city needed a show about CBD five years ago on the cusp of this movement? All right. You know, I like to watch what's going on that's new, but not just running after everything that's new, something that seems to have some sustainability. And I saw this push, I had read a bunch about CBD and I said, this is going to be big. Yeah. Lord knows you were on it too, but I was, I said, this can be big. I said, the things I'd read, this is going to, this is going to help folks out there. Right. And there's going to be people out there that grow the number of people that might be interested in it. It may not go year one, two, three, four, five, it may grow in time with an education on this. Anyway, people were talking about this, this is things that's growing. This is something that we should at least talk about. I knew that, you know what? I don't know what it is. I just know that it's something that's catching on. Let's figure out some way to make this part of what we do on FM talk. Right. And I know even back then there were, they, they've been trying for a long time before 2021 to legalize. And so I know that legalization in itself, you know, can't, the whole shebang of cannabis was sort of a hot topic back then too. And I guess you're known for informing this whole area, you know, like a tri-state area. Everybody knows Sean Sullivan is where you find out the stuff, you know. And so I imagine it made it easier for you to be able to, when those new stories come up, you know, because I've come on your show whenever these things, when legalization happened and things like that, it gives you some better information when you're speaking on it. Jennifer, so it started for me launching UAB, a study, I mean, you're probably well versed in this, in cannabinoid oil with children with epilepsy. Yes. And I'd like to look at it, I look at it truly from the medical side and the research side. And so they did this study and then they did a study on the study and they kept coming back and saying, this is, this is working, this is helping these kids. And I said, you know, with all the things that we prescribe out there as medicines, if this thing is helping these kids. And I said, you know, back then I said, hey, it's a specific wedge. I don't know beyond this, but I know what UAB, pretty smart guys and gals up there that are saying, hey, this helps these kids with epilepsy. So why should we not research this? Right. And so that started to grow. And I guess from there, my interest in it, it's just kind of a third party watching this new technology, this old, old thing, right, it's not new, it's new to us. But being applied differently, I said, this is very interesting. So let's find a way to talk about it. And since then, my gosh, the way it's grown, it's really, really big. Yeah. And I mean, I got to ask, are you a little bit proud that you are the station that has the only show of its kind in this country? There used to be two of us, but now there's not. I think that that is really cool. Yeah. I got that one at the other station. Yeah. Sorry, Daniel. Yeah. I am proud of that in doing what we do, trying to inform people locally, you know, I'm most concerned with what happens here in our area. But yeah, is the benefit, the fact that this is the only one in the country? Yeah, sure. That's great. But the bigger benefit is you're doing your show, you're informing people talking about these subjects here at home where the people I care about. Right. And most people, you know, count Alabama out of everything. Yeah. And they assume we're dumb, and we all share one full set of teeth and all that good stuff. And I think it is something that more people should take notice of is that the people of Mobile, Alabama, at least, are pretty hard educated. They're at least not afraid. I can see it in the tide turning with people's attitude toward it. They don't whisper when they come in the store anymore. Right. You know, they talk about it openly and then having the show and being able to educate people that would never set foot in the store has really helped legitimize our sort of foundation of education because people do come and say, okay, if they're willing to teach everybody for free, then there must be something there. It is so important. A lot of people fight for legalization and normalization in their own way. And they have rallies and they have organizations and they do all these things and sell t-shirts. This is my way because in my humble opinion, I believe that until people know what it really is and isn't, there's always something to be afraid of. And that tidal wave of propaganda that's been happening since the 1930s is still strong. Jennifer, you've moved the discussion along at a faster pace, moved the overton window of what's acceptable. If like these things have watched it over decades of doing this, something will come that is new. And controversial and controversial. And then you look at this subject two, three, five years later and the conversation has changed. But it's taken people that in year one, year two, year three, whatever the conversation is, get a lot of pushback because it's new and it's different. Oh, yeah. But if you go in the time machine and go back and go, heck, they were saying this thing back then. That's right. And now this has become more common, absolutely, and more accepted. But back in the, you know, back five years ago or beyond, it was like pretty shocking. You know, it was still people like backing away from me and parking lots. No, sure. It's fair. But I'm not kidding. But you've, you've moved this conversation. Yeah. You're a very brave person and you've moved this conversation at a faster pace where people here at home were way ahead of the rest of the country because of what you've been talking about. And why shouldn't we be? I think Alabama should be on the forefront. We're a farming state, you know, we have this deep, dark Delta soil and we should be, people should be asking for that good Alabama stuff in Colorado. We should be really, this whole part of the country, you know, and Mississippi is a lot further along than we are. And so is Louisiana. But I think it's important that the people understand, especially like 2026, we got to do something different in the state. I know people get discouraged about the voting, not having voter initiatives and being able to make their own voice heard, but we have to at least change who's speaking for us so that we can have things like this medicine instead of a state sanctioned cartel. Yeah. And it's, you know, people can make their own decisions about whether they want to do something or not. Exactly. Absolutely. But the key is on the CBD side, to get the information out how this is helping people and then people can say, yeah, you're nay, this is something that I want to, I mean, it's informed decision. Correct. People can say this is the thing and it doesn't have this, this atmosphere wrapped around it where it's something that's so controversial. People get educated and then they do, they come into the shop, they feel, they feel okay with it. They feel okay discussing with other people. So yeah, I'm proud of you. You move the conversation along a lot faster here than elsewhere. I hope so. Well, thank you so much. I know that we, we, has anybody given you any kickback? Anybody ever said, how dare you kickbacks? I'll take my address is 900 Western, but pushbacks. You know what I mean? You know what I meant. Pushback. Absolutely. Believe me. People call me pushback against everything. I don't bend easily. I know you said in the beginning, if, if, if I'm not being called a Nazi once a week, I'm not doing my job. That's correct. Thank you so much, Sean, for being with us and for letting us do this. Thank you. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Sweet Home, Canada. Now, with all the information you want about cannabis, here's your host, Jennifer Booser. Welcome back, everybody. Tonight, we are celebrating the fifth anniversary of this show, Sweet Home, Canada, the only cannabis radio talk show on FM radio in the country. And I'm very proud to say that when Sean, the station came to me out of the blue, he sent a rep and Lauren came and said, Hey, we interviewed a doctor who talked about CBD. It was crazy popular. And we want to do a show and we'd like it to be you. And I'm so grateful to have the had this opportunity. Let's go now to our next guest, Mr. Tom Clackston. Tom is a radio veteran. He hosts multiple shows. You host the Scuttlebutt Show, four veterans by veterans on Thursdays at 8 p.m. right here on FM Talk, 1065. And then the car doctor show is 43 years old. We're about to get on regular. Tom, I'm 46. And that is right after Sweet Home, Canada, about my every Monday night at 8 o'clock. And so you guys talk about fixing cars and all kinds of stuff, right? One thing related to the automobile industry, and I've been in the industry over 50 years myself and named y'all co-host is the car doctor. It's Kevin Rayway, and he's the current shop foreman for UT Shovela. And he only has 1,200 and some certification, so I call him the car doctor. Well, I'm probably going to be calling. Well, if I didn't have a new car, I'd be calling you all the time. Well, we're going to get you aimed in the right direction. All right. Well, so when Sean did decide, let's do this, I was like, OK, great. I'll do anything once, but how do I do it? And so they put us together. Oh, you know, Laurie called me out of the blue and I'm going like, oh, this might not be good. Right. OK. So when they asked you to help, what was your initial reaction? I said, I don't have a problem with it, but I don't know nothing about the product. Did you think that people would find it controversial? Well, I didn't, you know, I was kind of on that page. What would you think some of the listeners, the more conservative listeners would be upset? Yes. You did? Yeah, but you know, because I've been on that one heckler and that I'm aware of. I've had one heckler in five years. Hey, that's you lucky. I've had several of those. Well, lucky for me, nobody's brave enough to call in, so we don't even bother half the time. I just tell them to get in line. Right. Well, I wish people would call and ask questions. Your neighbor doesn't recognize your voice as much as you think they do. So let's talk about those first three shows. We prerecorded. Right. So you basically had to give me trial by fire. We got in here and we did it in an environment where we could stop and edit if we needed to. Well, I had to talk with you for a little while to see if you knew your product. Oh, yeah. If, you know, that's true. That's where you're at when you're working on a show like this is that you want to make sure that whoever you're interviewing knows your product. Yeah. And the same would be in reverse. If you don't know your product, you can't get on that microphone and try to reach the people because we have some serious listeners. Well, and I think, I think if they would call in and challenge me, I think I could rise to the occasion every time I would love to show that off because I do. I do this so much all day every day and I love it. And I love it. I found it to be true. I found it to be true. You're extremely knowledgeable and for me to learn more about the product and what you were selling and your business in general, that I actually had to give you erroneous questions. Right. Yes. That was my next thing. So I could open you up and then that way I could learn from that. Right. But at the same time, you knew your product. Yeah. So you were readily available to go ahead with your conversation and then you got that natural flow. Yeah, and it actually helped me because you would, there are words that lots of people mispronounce or that they don't, they're like, what does that word, they never heard that word. Right. So you would say them wrong. Right. And give me an opportunity because I didn't know how to sort of engage at first. But that was my education as well as our listeners. Right. Right. And they were. Because if you hear it, can avoid the way you said it, run, you want it to sound like cannabinoid and that's what we did, but y'all can't avoid it, y'all kill it. Yeah. Exactly. What? But you also, you also had a knack because I guess it's just like breathing to you. You had a knack of asking me simple questions and then giving me the space to explain it so that I could sort of get comfortable with the microphone in my face. It did help that for the first five years we did not have video. Right. Well, now I say you're stepping way out here and you, you know, I'm just trying to make it more engaging and read more people. Yes. Yeah. I had the occasion to talk to the other gentleman out there now that's doing some recording and taping and I was very interested in that. So this is a new venue. You should do this. This is a new venue for, you know, especially you can show car parts when you're talking about cars. Well, you know, I did that when I was on live TV and then I got this radio face. So I'm, I've got to have a trouble with it with a camera tonight because I don't have a way to change this radio face. I know. I used to not get that stressed out before shows and now I'm like, and I'm sweating and I have makeup on dead. Gummy. I know. She used to be casual, you know. I have a face for radio. Yeah. Yeah. You know, sweats, sweats and tennis shoes when you can do the radio. Exactly. Taintop. That's right. Exactly right. Well, and I think that I appreciate you. I want to be able to publicly say that you started this with me and sort of gotten me on this path and, and you gave me such solid foundational building blocks and made me put me at such ease and showed me and encouraged me. You can do this. So after only three shows, I went live by myself. And so I do enjoy being able to deliver the educational material in a conversational real human way. So they need that about the product. Yes. I can stand up here and be real scientific and teacher-y, but that's also not me. I'm a hands-on individual. Let me say it, do it, show it in a way you understand and, you know, it was a learning experience for me as well as our listeners were. And I was able to utilize some of the product. Yes. I still use the product. Yes, you do. And it's just unbelievable. And the preventative medicine that it is, as well, you know, it seems like, you know, doctors don't prevent anything, doctors, but, you know, they have a clean-up crew, they, you know, they want to come in with a room, you know, yeah, but, and they want you to come back. Right. Yeah. That's right. So I had rather be able to use a preventative product like this and like it's involved with all the CBD products. You can choose whether or not you're going to have to go and do the appointments and the co-pays and the expensive meds and then the side effects. And you should have enough information anytime you're sick or having a condition or have a problem. And there is a medication, natural or not involved. Right. You should walk away with, "Why did this happen? How did it happen? How can I fix it? How can I prevent it from getting worse?" You know that about the food you eat, the stress level you have, the other emotional issues in your life, your environment, there are so many other things to my knee hurts and I don't know why. Right. And, and you can get real bad off if they go down the wrong road and it was something simple or preventative in the first place. Yeah. But see, this, this is where you filled the gap. You have been able to bring that information forth to the public and then, you know, we're, we're within, we're within a 100 mile radius of this station. We're one of the strongest stations on the coast. Right. You know, we're 50,000 watts. Right. I mean, we don't have 10,000 watts and try to get out over the belt line, you know? Right. So we're in Florida and we're in Mississippi and we're in Washington County and yeah. Right. But that being said, then this, the product itself is the new innovation within the medical number, the digital industry and the information that you have and able to get out here on a weekly basis and usually go into a different direction to some extent, or the different products each show is, I think it's very advantageous to our listeners. Well, and now also on the flip side of that and I've had to do so much more of this lately, but during like the legislative session and right now with the farm bill hovering over in federal legislation, state legislation, there's constantly a fight that has nothing to do with the products or the store or even the show that, you know, we have to get involved in and what do you think about, I mean, I don't you think there's just as much value in informing the people of Alabama and America, what your elected officials are trying to do. I'll give you an insight to that. Your people and the people that are listening to you on your shows and the people within your industry have educated the field out here more so that our public officials know about it. Right. They have no knowledge. They'll have no interest in you and they have no interest and yet they are not interested in getting to the bottom of it and investigating it. I think the problem is that they have gotten to the bottom of it, just like the rest of us have, and it is a threat. That's the only thing that makes sense is it's a threat to the big bull. Well, it is to the big bull. It's a threat to a lot of industries. Sure. A lot, not just pharmaceutical, but you know, if Henry Ford could make biodiesel that runs a car in 1940, why we fought wars over oil, why are we, why are we paying $4 a gallon? We can grow it in our backyards and make it and it's sustainable. But you know, it's just like the erroneous information we've been given about fossil fuels. Oh, yeah. And we think, we think oil is made from fossil oil. It's not. Yeah. So oil is regenerating us after having the country. All wells that we had to dry are coming back. Really? Yes. So, I mean, why are we buying from it? Another another place. Well, there's a control. It's a control. If our government let us believe that we already have all the tools we need to be healthy, to be happy, to be prosperous, and to sustain whatever way of life we want, then why would we need them? Look, your product and what it's doing is rocking the big boys. It is. It's rocking them hard. It's rocking the big farmers. It's rocking the big guys. It's rocking the money that are back in these politicians and they don't want you rocking their boat. Well, the hemp industry coming along and me getting on the front end of that way. They're going to stop going away. Any market nature of how it was done is what needs to happen with cannabis. It's not going away. The way everybody who wants to and can afford a business license and a place can go into business. This is America. Right, right. You should be able to have any kind of business you want and you should be able to consume or use any kind of medicine you want. Capitalism is what makes this country go. Thank you so much, Tom, for helping me find my voice. Thanks to Sean, FM Top 10065, and helping me make sure my voice was heard so I could speak to and for the people of Alabama. You're doing a good job. Thank you. Keep getting the information out. We need it. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Sweet Home, Alabama. Now with all the information you want about cannabis, here's your host, Jennifer Boozer. Welcome back to the show everybody. You're on Sweet Home, Alabama right here every Monday night at seven o'clock on FM Top 10065 and live streaming from the Sweet Home, Alabama social media pages. I want to go ahead, we're celebrating five years tonight, and I said I was going to give away five prizes of $100 each, and so I want to go ahead and we pulled two names on the break. So the first two winners are Angela Campfi and Michelle Moore, Michelle with 1L Moore. So these people have been sharing the post last week's show, this week's show, to help us get all this information that we're trying to teach about cannabis out further and further and help us build our listenership and celebrate this anniversary. So they will each get a bag of our new heavy creamy gummies, a couple of vapes, a pre-roll, and maybe a little extra, maybe a t-shirt or something. I haven't finished packing the bags, but those will be available at the store anytime if I call your name during the show as a winner you can pick that up starting tomorrow at the store in downtown. My next guest, it's my favorite guy in the whole wide world, my son Isaiah, welcome to the show. Thank you. Glad to be here. I can tell for you, those of you who don't know, Isaiah just got married about two months ago? Yeah, May 13th. May 13th. That's right. He and his new wife just got into a new house and they took my dogs, but I forgive them. We still bring them over. Yes, they do. They're at my house right now. So I wanted to have you on. You've been on the show a couple of times. You live with me. What a special thing for you to experience. But I wanted to talk to you mostly because you started working at the store and even before we did the show in 2019, you were 18 and it was the beginning of your senior year of high school that summer before. So because there isn't a 21 age limit in the hemp industry for people who work in the dispensaries, he was able to come and work for me. And so you've been now my longest running employee. You just had five years in May. So let's talk about that. I mean, when you were in school, like you're in school in the morning with your uniform and your letterman jacket on and what's the reaction from the people that you got to school with your friends? What would they? Boozers mom sells weed. Yeah. A lot of people just joked around about me selling weed. I had my history teacher, which was also my soccer coach. He would joke around if I were not paying attention in class or if I were sleeping with my head down, "Hey, you on that CBD?" And so yeah, I got picked on in a good way, very light hearted away. Right. Everybody was cool about it. Nobody questioned it. They knew what we were doing. There's always been legit. Right. It was just... Oh yeah, sometimes it was like you used to keep topical cream in your sports bag. So when your friends got hurt or you got hurt, you'd whip out that pain cream. And I think you ever remember you coming home and saying, "Some kid had a big pimple on his nose and you gave him some CBD for his?" Yeah. Yeah, I kept sad on me. Yep. Yep. Well, that... And when you broke your ankle and your leg and tore all ligaments in your foot at 16, and that was when we were first using... That was before Kanabama and everything, and we used CBD to help your break, and that was a huge improvement in the way your body healed and so your coach after every game. They didn't think he was going to play or maybe not run ever again. So when he got cleared for full contact sports after two months... You know, two months early, every game afterwards, we would be walking to the car and his coach from across the field would go, "Sibini!" And they were amazed. They would say, "I can't believe he's not even limping." So, Isaiah has experienced personally what the point of what we do here is. Tell me what has been one of the most surprising experiences, shocking experiences? Give us a good, funny story or something crazy from the store. So we had this one customer. He was a regular for quite a while. Kanabama and I, dude, didn't talk very much, put his head really close to the counter when he was looking at what he wanted. But one day he had come in and asked to use the bathroom, so, you know, he went and used the bathroom, and he came out. And while he was in there, you know, I could hear that not everything was making it, you know? And so... To the bowl! Yeah, it was a little suspicious, so he came in... You could tell that there were some showers and storms going on in the bathroom. And so after I checked him out at the counter, before he got out the door, I went to the bathroom and looked and there was urine everywhere in the bathroom. Oh, so gross! And so I stopped him and I was like, "Hey, you know, can you come clean this up?" And he was like, "Well, I didn't do that." I didn't do that. And I was like, "Yeah, you're the only one that's used to the bathroom today." And he was like, "Oh no." It was like 10, 15 in the morning, too. Your first customer. And so I told him, I was like, "Well, look, if you don't clean this right now, you can't come back. Like, this is unacceptable." Yeah, you kicked him out. And so the next time he showed up, I had to tell him he couldn't come back. And then not too long after that, we started getting these weird phone calls from our store number. And you know, this guy talks a certain way, so we could tell his... He recognized his voice, yeah. And the first time he called, he was acting as if he were a federal agent. And so I was like, "Okay, well, what's your name? What's your... What's your badge number?" You got a badge number? And he was like, "I don't have to give you that." And I was like, "Oh, okay." And so that turned into a violent conversation. And so... Yeah, and then he called the cops on us. He called the police that night and claimed that we were lacing our flower. And being racist. Yeah. And being racist. And so I explained to the cop that this is what happened and they were super relaxed and took down the description. And the next time he showed back up, I had to call the police again. And he scuttled off. And then didn't he even call and pretend he was his own father? Yeah. Yeah. Same guy. Similar situation. The cops didn't get called that time. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was probably two years ago. He was... He was trying to convince us that we must have somehow laced the flower because he was hallucinated. He would come in the store. And we're like, "Yeah. I don't think so." Or after buying CBD flower and be like, "Hey, is this supposed to make you have weird dreams?" And I was like, "Ah, no. If you're having weird dreams, you probably just don't smoke it for a little while." And then he'd buy a gram and leave. He kept coming back. Yeah. He kept coming back. He kept coming back. Over and over. Yeah. Like... Even though he thought we were spiking or lacing the flower, he still kept coming and buying his gram and leaving. And I don't know if he just regretted the purchase and wanted... He never even asked for his money back. No, it was... He figured out what was going on. But yeah, that's one for the books. Yeah. Well, how often do you get people into the store who say that they heard us teaching on the radio? Quite often. At least a couple of times a week, I'll have somebody come in that's either new or regular that mentions hearing us on the radio or that they listen to the radio show. Right. And most of the time, it's new people that come in throughout the month that have been listening for quite a while or they heard our ad on the radio. Right. And they came in after hearing it so many times. Right. I know that there are plenty of listeners and we appreciate everyone. But I know because of talk to them, they don't shop there, they've never been there, they have no intention of. But I know that those people, they appreciate the educational value of... We're teaching about something like Sean said earlier when he said new. He said it's not new, it's new to us. It's been here longer than we have. But it was so stigmatized and locked away and lied about for so long. We were talking generations, 85, 90 years, generations of people. And things like the war on drugs and the DARE program and education just help fuel that. And so it's new to us to be able to use it. But I think there are people that maybe still have never come in. But I know that if they find themselves in a time of need, that they will come. Because we want to give you the information that you need first and the best service. Everywhere I go lately, service is horrible. Let me tell you, back me up on this, other than that guy and maybe one other, we don't have Karen's. No, yeah, everybody's pretty happy when they come in. You do not get people I rate and maybe make mistakes. We overcharge you or forget to give your change back just like anybody else. But we never have people freak out on us or act entitled and I'm so grateful for that. And I know that has a lot to do with how you handle them. He's got secret handshakes and he has different nicknames for people and they come in. And even when they see me, they're like, now, wait on Isaiah, because he is, because I'm here doing this, because I'm traveling, because I'm trying to lobby, do all the things that can't be done in the midst of the store. There are customers that don't know me nearly as well as they know you. And then there's Evan and Zane is our new one. You know, talk about them and how they're catching on. We hired, Evan's in a similar position I was when I started because- He was 18. He just turned 19 and we hired him a couple of weeks before Artie Graw. And he took on really quick. He handles the aspects of the store and how to talk to customers very similarly to the way I do. Yeah, he's like a younger version of you really, and it's a miracle to have two great guys like that. Everybody has accepted him as an employee at our store and has really enjoyed his company and now Zane's on board and we're about two months into training him. So he's about 90% ready and- Zane's big on like going to cons, anime cons, and he likes to do cosplay stuff and he adds a really great interesting element to our dynamic. Evan is a whole lot like you, maybe a little more shy, but and Zane's just totally opposite of the spectrum. And so I think that you guys have a great dynamic and I'm really proud. It's funny because I had older employees in the beginning that were, you know, five years ago they were in their mid to late 20s. Yeah, I was around. And yeah, you remember? Yeah. Not so great. Mm-hmm. I have found that- Not after a few months. My very youngest employees, the ones that came on right at 18, 19 years old. The kindest, most just sponges about the information, they found this passion for it in their own way. And you guys all have your own style and I really appreciate that because our customers are all different. Mm-hmm. And each, I think they each kind of develop a favorite bud tender, somebody they connect with. You know, I've had a lot of people say, "Oh, well I spoke to Evan last time more and more." And so I think that that's great. These young men are very committed to this. They don't just come and clock in, you know, we're a family. We are literally a family, but Evan and Zane and Tyler, you know, Tyler's right here, you can't see him. He's making sure that we look good. I hope we do because I can't see. But you know, all of you guys are the thing you have in common and I'm so proud of my crew is that big heart. You lead with compassion and you're logical enough to disseminate information but compassionate enough to see people where they are and know how to anticipate their needs and I really appreciate that about you. And thank you very much for coming on the show tonight. I know it wasn't exactly something that was your idea, but I really appreciate you. Isaiah has been my biggest supporter. He and his sister Bella have been with me and they have to hear this at 10 o'clock at night and on Sunday morning and, you know, at the beach and I know it gets old. And so the next time you're in the store and you see Isaiah, throw a little dollar to me in his tip jar and show him five years worth of appreciation for everything that he's done. He just got married. He got a new place. He needs the money and so, yeah, thank you, son, for being there for me. I love you very much and I'm very proud of you. Thank you for giving me my job. Yeah. When we come back from the break, we're going to give away some more stuff. Stay with us. Welcome back to Sweet Home, Canabema. Now with all the information you want about cannabis, here's your host, Jennifer Boozer. Welcome back, everybody. Tonight we're celebrating the fifth anniversary of Sweet Home, Canabema with all of our friends. We've spoken to the owner of the station, Sean Sullivan. We spoke with Tom Claxson, who is Mr. Radio here in Mobile and who taught me the ropes. We spoke to my son, Isaiah, and now here's my producer, Tyler. Y'all have never seen Tyler. There he is. Hey, how you doing? Let's see you. So let's give away some stuff first. Oh, that's everything I do. Three more things to give away. So the first winners were Angela Canfie and Michelle Moore. Congratulations. Our next winners are Dion Shambly, Niket Beach, and then we'll have one more at the end of the show. Okay. All right. Leave before surprise. So that was Dion Shambly, C-H-A-M-B-L-E-E, and Niket Beach. Congratulations to you both. You can pick up your prizes at the store. I happen to know Ms. Shambly is not in Alabama. She is a listener from Louisiana. And so we will ship you your prizes tomorrow. I'll probably have to call you up and get your address, but we'll ship your product tomorrow. So let's get back to the show. It's five years. You've been here subbing in, co-hosting, helping out, yeah, two years. We've done a couple, four twenties together. Yeah, those have been fun. We've survived things like Mardi Gras and legislation, and Tyler, he hears more, probably more than my kids do, but Tyler, you're the chef at Ruby Slipper. For sure. And you and your wife Stacey have two beautiful boys. Xavier is five. He's five. And Ezekiel is three months. He's about three months. That's what I thought. He's now he's three months. He's right after mine. He's three months old. He's about to be four months old. I will tell you, he is 16 pounds. Oh, yeah. Oh, look. I say it was 27, 10 at nine months. We wore 18 to 24 month clothes before we could walk. Yes, my kids were chunkers. So I want to say thank you to the station. I know my radio rep Lauren left me a beautiful red velvet cake from nothing but cakes. That was very sweet. And they always have a great product. Oh, yes. Their cream cheese icing is a scandalous. I appreciate this. This is a red velvet one. It's a red velvet. My daughter is probably going to fight me for it. I do want to say thank you for helping with the show. And I don't know what's your favorite thing about what we're able to do with the show. What has your been has been the highlight for you? You know, coming on, I didn't realize the reach of the show about exactly how much range the show has. Right. I thought it was just going to be a weed show. A weed show and a rinky dink pote on time. Hey, I was down for that and I was OK with that. But now we've gone into politics. We've gone into legislation. We've gone into, we've got some sneak preview. We've got some guests coming down the pipeline that are going to be like very big names in the can of industry. Very influential people with the legislation we have going on. So it's like, you know, I think seeing the scope and the range that the show actually has that's been. Right. Well, because we talk about everything from terpenes and CBD to infused cooking, to social justice and policy. Yeah. I think if we had a segment for everything, this show would be like four hours long. I don't even know if we could pull it off. Honestly, I've thought about ways to sort of go into a rotation of one week. We'll do education, one week politics. Our politicians won't allow for that. Well, you know, at least six months out of the year, they're all we talk about. And I have to respond. Everybody out there is listening. If there's anything you want to hear about. Let us know. Right. We're always open. We're the only cannabis radio show on the air. So if you want to hear about it, you're going to hear it from us. Right. Right. Yeah. Everybody else does podcast. And we've had challenge technical challenges, you know, hopefully the quality of the sounds better tonight, the camera quality is a little better. We've got some help from the janitor. And that's what he told me to call him. So shout out to the janitor for all of the help on trying to improve how the show sounds, how it looks. Hopefully we're going to do some some location. To clean everything up. Yeah. Hopefully we're going to try to do, I don't want to say we are a thousand percent going to broadcast from my store next week. But that's the goal. If we can pull it off, I am technically, I'm not, I barely make use of my cell phone. Sweet home, Canabama studios. Yes. And, and, you know, we'd love your feedback on, you know, how do you like being in that environment, being able to see where we do what we do. And then, you know, would anyone be interested in doing an online only, like a Q&A? You know, if we have a topic, then, then after the show comes off of the radio, we can continue. Yeah, we can have a little studio after our smoke session. Right. We can do, we can review products. I can stand there for an hour and pull products off the shelf and explain them to you. I can answer all your questions. We can go category by category. Let's talk about edibles today, let's talk about vapes next time. We could set up a camera outside. I could spark one up and let you know how that works. Right. Yeah. That's, well, that's part of the plan was putting a camera on the outside so people know what the building looks like and where our corner is. We have a pretty busy little corner where a block off of Dauphin in the entertainment district. And we have a ton of parking, which is why, free parking, which is why I chose that location because I wanted to be accessible and I didn't want people have to pay or walk through blocks. And so we get a lot of people that park where we are and walk past to get to Dauphin Street, to get to the parade. We've got a huge thing. So we see lots of people. Anybody who's been downtown mobility knows exactly the parking situation is good. The more you get to the closer part, the more busier parts of downtown, you're not going to find any parking. Yeah. You're going to pay for everything. It's going to be $15 apart, no matter where you go. Right. And we're right off the beaten path. We have two parking lots and we have street side on three sides, both lanes of traffic. So you're going to find a parking spot, you're not going to have a truck and that's unheard of. And we're there till seven till you get off work and have time to come down. I know our biggest complaint with Ruby Slipper even having a parking garage right next to it. Yeah. No, I always have to struggle for parking when I go to Ruby Slipper and I expect when I eat out downtown, when Bella goes, let's go to a load of beer garden for the pretzels. I'm like, yeah, but it's $10 to park. And if an event is happening within 24 hours of you parking there, they're going to check it up to 21 bucks for one hour or 12. And so that is a challenge. And that's why I love that location. But we want to broadcast from the store so that those of you who can't come here because you live far away or who are just curious, I'm sure even my competitors will watch to see what the heart of Canabama looks like. I happen to love my store location and the atmosphere, like Isaiah and I were talking about, we don't have upset customers and we don't look like a sketchy place. It's not somewhere you wouldn't feel comfortable whether you're wearing jogging pants or a three-piece suit and that is exactly the scope of our clientele. And so we want to do that. Well, I will say that going into some of the places that are immobile, that sell similar product, you go in there, you feel just a little sketchy. Now, I bring my children in the Canabama. Right. And we encourage that. Yeah. All right. We are at the end of the show. And I want to say again, thank you to FM Talk 106 5. We're here every Monday night at seven o'clock. We've been here for five years. We will continue to do this for as many years as is necessary. And at the speed of things changing in Alabama, I'll see you when I'm 75. So our last winner real quick of the $100 prize is Cameron Mackenzie. So Cameron, if you're listening, we'll post a tag everybody after this, come and get your prize or call us and we'll ship it to you if you do not live in mobile. And I do want to thank the listeners, most of all. Sometimes I wish I knew who you were and could see your faces. I've had these weird fantasies of getting to meet my listeners and really know who they are. But if you've been with us for one week or every week, I love you from the bottom of my heart. And if there's something else I can do to make it better or make it more valuable, I'm totally open to suggestion and I'm here to serve. And I just want to say thank you again for sticking with us. Thank you to Phil, my producer who you cannot see on the radio board. He keeps us on the air and makes me sound good and Tyler makes me look good and Derek's sorry. The janitor. The janitor's making me look even better even though I'm embarrassing myself right now. But join us every Monday night and let us know what you think. And one thing we are going to be doing up and coming, SS Christmas Bodega, Tony Davis with Secret Scientist, is doing a Christmas fundraiser and toy drive. But he's drawing in businesses for all over mobiles so that together we can do more and give more as a whole. So get on board with that. We're going to help sponsor that and that'll be in December and we'll have more information for that coming up. But thank you again for being with us right here on Sweet Home, Canada. We'll see you next week. All right. Good night. Bye. Bye. (upbeat music)