First Smoke of The Day

Blackleaf & PackGods
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Welcome to First Smoke of the Day – The Ultimate Cannabis Industry Podcast! First Smoke of the Day is your go-to podcast for Exclusive insider Access to Cannabis Culture, Cultivation, Entrepreneurship, and more. Tune in for behind-the-scenes interviews with Cultivators, Hashmakers, Breeders, Brand owners, Athletes, Musicians, Smugglers, and the Fearless Hustlers shaping the cannabis industry. Discover Untold stories, expert tips, and valuable lessons from cannabis legends and innovators. From navigating underground movements to uncovering entrepreneurial success stories, we bring you real stories, hard truths, and actionable insights from the people driving cannabis culture forward. Why Subscribe?  •   Hear Stories from Industry Disruptors & Legends  •   Learn From Experts Shaping the Cannabis Space  •   Dive Deep into the Passion, Hustle & Culture Subscribe now and join the First Smoke of the Day community! Instagram YouTube BlackLeaf IG PackGods IG Website Thank you so much for tuning into First Smoke of The Day. A cannabis and culture podcast giving you insight into the mind and lives of growers, extractors, playmakers, street brands, and underground culture in the global cannabis industry. Be sure to subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you consume podcasts. Make sure to also leave a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts and follow us on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 4d ago

    I've Spent 4,000 Hours on the Phone About Weed | LMC Media

    LMC estimates he's spent three to four thousand hours on the phone with people in cannabis, hearing their version of events. His read: a lot of them are straight up lying, and most of the rest are incentivized to shape it. He talks about why he's developed a strange compassion for some of the people this industry treats as villains. Not all of them, some earn it. But walk back far enough on most and you see how they got there. Lance gets into his own version of the problem. Someone says something on the podcast that stops the room, and within 24 hours he gets the call. On our friendship, on everything we've built, do not let that go out. Some of these are people he's known ten years before they ever sat down. He says the show would be fifty times bigger if he just ran everything unedited. They both talk about what doesn't make it out and why. Manic episodes. Fiancés calling. Two weeks of footage documenting somebody's life falling apart that neither of them will ever publish. Plus the real reason LMC has stepped back from investigative work: the model doesn't pay. Thousands of hours, real enemies, and no revenue at the end of it. He explains what he's rebuilding first. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. RAW Rolling Papers. King size wides, the uncreased fatties, the RAW king size blacks, and the Phoenix flintless lighter with a windscreen and poker. Grab authentic through https://rawthentic.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 5d ago

    Why Almost Every Celebrity Weed Brand Fails | LMC Media

    Celebrity weed brands keep dying and LMC has a theory about the room where those deals get made. Everyone at that table is incentivized for the deal to close. Nobody gets paid to say no. So even when someone in there knows cannabis works nothing like liquor licensing, there's no reason for them to speak up. He walks through why the ones that survive all have the same thing in common: they live it. Wiz with Khalifa Kush. Method Man out there in the story feeds gifting boxes. TCA reps working events. Compare that to Jay-Z and Monogram, where the D'Ussé playbook got copied into an industry that doesn't work that way. Then the Drake and Canopy Growth story. LMC interviewed Bruce Linton, Canopy's founder, who told him the deal was a promo vehicle. Canadian rules block direct brand advertising, but you can advertise through news, so every press release about Drake was the actual product. He doesn't think they ever seriously intended to launch a brand. Plus why running a cannabis company like a tech company doesn't work, and his actual advice if a celebrity asked him how to enter the space. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Faven Lighting. Under canopy lighting that's changing how facilities and grow rooms get built. They'll put together a full layout for your setup, whether you're running HPS, double-ended, fluorescent, or LED. Use code FSOTD. https://favenlighting.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. 6d ago

    I Made a Documentary About Spray Packs. They Buried It | LMC Media

    LMC dropped a documentary warning people about spray packs. It hit 400,000 views in two days. Then YouTube age restricted it. He appealed. It's journalistic, it's educational, it's not promoting anything, it's literally warning people about a dangerous product. Denied. In the year and a half since, that video has done under 50,000 more views. Age restriction cuts off suggestion and advertising entirely, so growth just stops. He looked up what a video with those numbers typically pays a creator. Just under a million dollars. He's been paid $50,000 in AdSense across everything. Lance gets into FSOTD's side of it too. They archived 150 videos and applied for monetization, denied. Archived 500 videos, reapplied, denied again. The reasons they were given: smoking on camera, breaking down flower on camera, and pointing people toward where to buy. When they asked whether federal legalization would change it, the answer was essentially no. Meanwhile CNBC runs cannabis coverage fully monetized. Both of them break down what that double standard means for anyone building in this space, and why relying on AdSense makes creators fragile in the first place. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. Sep 3

    The 50mg Fortune Cookie By Every Dispensary Register | Super Chill Goods

    Before Super Chill, there were medicated fortune cookies. Vanilla or chocolate, 50 milligrams, five bucks, sitting in a jar right by the register at TLC and Zen Healing. They pitched dispensaries on customizing the fortunes. Put a promo inside, a free joint on the next visit, $25 off, and suddenly every patient walking out has a reason to come back. One shop in Marina Del Rey ran a quarter pound giveaway through them every month. The very first fortune was an Eddie Huang quote from Fresh Off the Boat. They wrote the rest themselves, keeping a notepad while watching movies and listening to music, collecting anything that could work. They were also early on rosin. Their first R&D jar came from Hash Era, he dropped it on the floor, and there wasn't any more for months. Food grade rosin barely existed for edible makers at the time. Plus the 500mg tie-dye cookies, poured in five separate batters by hand. The Art Basel Vice party where a DJ described his fortune cookie like a mushroom trip and got them written up. And why Super Chill started as a throwaway project while they waited on fortune cookie licensing, then became the whole thing. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Brands that we only trust: SlapHub LA. Custom bags, mylars, jars, branding, logos, and 3D imagery, all designed and produced in house in Los Angeles. Use code FSOTD. https://www.slaphub.la/ Woodward Collective. Custom cut and sew hoodies, shirts, hats, plus brand design and packaging. Low minimums, big or small. Use code FSOTD. https://www.thewwco.com/fsotd Chapters 0:00 It started with fortune cookies 1:32 Discovering rosin early 3:44 The jar he dropped 5:20 The friend with lupus 6:06 How they found edibles 7:46 There's no money in edibles 8:50 They said nobody wants this 11:40 The first fortune ever sold 12:32 Who wrote the fortunes 13:41 Five bucks by the register 14:03 The 500mg tie-dye 15:18 The Art Basel writeup #SuperChill #FSOTD #FirstSmokeOfTheDay #CannabisEdibles #FortuneCookie #CannabisHistory #Prop215 #LiveRosin #HashRosin #CraftCannabis #cannabispodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Sep 2

    You Can Buy an Entire Edible Brand Off a Website | Super Chill Goods

    Lance brought in a tray of the cheapest edibles he could find, 50 cents to a dollar each, different brands across the board. Super Chill's read: most of them are coming out of the same manufacturers running the same SOP. Same recipe, different mold. They explain how it actually works. Mold companies publish recipes on their websites. You can buy pre-flavored, pre-colored gelatin in bulk with instructions telling you to mix in rosin or distillate. Link up with a graphic designer and you have a brand. That's the whole barrier to entry. They also get into why nobody in edibles gets critiqued. The space is all pats on the back and gassing people up, and they've been blocked and unfollowed just for posting about natural coloring and their own process. Not naming anyone, but people take it personally. Plus the blue raspberry story, a flavor that only exists because of a red dye shortage and was never a real fruit at all. Why they've never had to reformulate for the no-artificial-color trend, since they never used it. And a hard look at monocrop agriculture versus growers like Murray Farms running 400 varieties. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. One of the brands we trust: RAW Rolling Papers. King size wides, the uncreased fatties, the RAW king size blacks, and the Phoenix flintless lighter with a windscreen and poker. Grab authentic through https://rawthentic.com/ Chapters 0:00 The dollar edible tray 1:17 Same SOP, different mold 2:26 Making a tier system 3:10 Nobody critiques anybody 3:30 Blocked over ingredients 5:09 RAW Rolling Papers 5:48 Underground sets the trend 6:51 Blue raspberry isn't real 8:18 Reverse engineering flavors 9:01 Built for shelf life 10:01 The booth stands out 12:09 You can buy the whole recipe 12:55 Don't be afraid to look dumb #SuperChill #FSOTD #FirstSmokeOfTheDay #CannabisEdibles #CannabisGummies #ArtisanEdibles #RealFruit #FoodDye #Red40 #CannabisIndustry #CraftCannabis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. Sep 1

    Everyone Told Us Not to Use Real Fruit | Super Chill Goods

    Everyone told Super Chill real fruit wouldn't pass testing. Too expensive, too unstable, not worth it. They did it anyway. Their process starts at the Hollywood Farmers Market on a Sunday morning, not in a kitchen. Baby Crawford peaches from Ryer Farms, a third generation grower whose stand runs $10 a pound with a sign telling you not to touch the fruit unless you're buying it. Wiser Farm melons. Harry's Berries. Wong Farms mangoes with a line 40 people deep before the market even opens, and they still got sold out two people ahead of Jen. Then it goes into a hydraulic press. They clarify the juice with agar, a red seaweed that pulls the pulp out and leaves a concentrated essence of the fruit. The new line runs 45% juice with nothing but sugar and tapioca syrup. No flavoring at all. The herbs come from their own backyard: eight garden beds, roughly 90 herb varieties, 25 to 30 fruit trees, and 80 to 90 vegetables. Strawberry two basil. Mango serrano rosemary. Raspberry thyme. Peach and sage. Lance has traveled Germany, Spain, and Italy chasing food. He said these are the best gummies he's ever had, weed aside. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Faven Lighting. Under canopy lighting that's changing how facilities and grow rooms get built. They'll put together a full layout for your setup, whether you're running HPS, double-ended, fluorescent, or LED. Use code FSOTD. https://favenlighting.com/ #SuperChill #FSOTD #FirstSmokeOfTheDay #CannabisEdibles #ArtisanEdibles #RealFruit #FarmersMarket #CannabisGummies #CraftCannabis #CannabisPodcast #WeedPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Aug 31

    Every Employee Quit the Day We Moved In | Super Chill Goods

    They did the walkthrough and the office was fully staffed. Graphic designers, compliance officers, the whole team. The day they moved in, everyone was gone. What was left was the owner's little brother and his friend from high school. Super Chill had just landed a statewide Stizzy launch across 50 stores plus delivery, with Catalyst and others already placing orders. All they needed was a kitchen and SOPs. Instead they found out none of the compliance had been filed. Three months of production got logged in a single weekend, the BCC flagged it, and an audit came down. Two days after they showed up asking questions, the facility got robbed. Only the facility's product was touched. Theirs was untouched. Then Jen went into labor. She was prepped for a scheduled C-section, in the room, fielding texts about batch sizes, labels, and metric tags. Product took two to three months to hit shelves. They never got paid. They also get into why kitchens are so hard to partner with in the legal market, the pay-to-play shelf system they refuse to participate in, and why after seven deals that didn't work, they now look at it as a superpower instead of a loss. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. HGV Elevated. Nutrients built for heavy yields, strong terpene profiles, and consistent quality batch after batch. Tested through every stage so there's no guesswork. Use code FSOTD for 10% off. https://hydrobuilder.com/pages/fsotd Chapters: 0:00 So many promises 1:00 Zoning maps and landlords 1:55 Every kitchen fell through 2:47 The one year saga 3:38 Everyone jumped ship 4:30 The Stizzy launch 5:20 No compliance was filed 5:43 Flagged by the BCC 9:08 Why kitchens won't partner 11:54 We don't pay for shelf space 12:36 Then the spot got robbed 13:17 In labor, working compliance 15:14 Why it's a superpower now Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. Aug 27

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

    Turtle named a strain Giant Fuyu after a Japanese persimmon. The state told him he couldn't put it on a label because it appeals to children. His response: what kid in America is asking their mom for persimmons. The samurai artwork had to go too. Two Chinese food boxes smoking blunts for Purple Sticky Rice, gone. Now most of his strains are just words on a bag, and he says it's taken a lot of the fun out of making packaging. He came up from retail, stocking end caps at a grocery store, and learned that bright and flashy is what people grab on the way out. That instinct built the brand. Now the regulations have taken the tool away. He also gets into the era when a strain had to be named after a dessert or it wouldn't sell, how they took cues from Cookies coming up in Frisco, why he refuses to just mash two parent names together, and where Black Orchid actually came from: sitting at the symphony watching West Side Story with his daughter, taking notes instead of paying attention. Plus how he works with his designer Kevin, why he sits on a logo for two days before responding, and the trick for finding the right designer when you're starting from nothing. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. One of the brands we trust: Woodward Collective. Custom cut and sew hoodies, shirts, hats, plus brand design and packaging. Low minimums, big or small. Use code FSOTD. https://www.thewwco.com/fsotd SlapHub LA. Custom bags, mylars, jars, branding, logos, and 3D imagery, all designed and produced in house in Los Angeles. Use code FSOTD. https://www.slaphub.la/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to First Smoke of the Day – The Ultimate Cannabis Industry Podcast! First Smoke of the Day is your go-to podcast for Exclusive insider Access to Cannabis Culture, Cultivation, Entrepreneurship, and more. Tune in for behind-the-scenes interviews with Cultivators, Hashmakers, Breeders, Brand owners, Athletes, Musicians, Smugglers, and the Fearless Hustlers shaping the cannabis industry. Discover Untold stories, expert tips, and valuable lessons from cannabis legends and innovators. From navigating underground movements to uncovering entrepreneurial success stories, we bring you real stories, hard truths, and actionable insights from the people driving cannabis culture forward. Why Subscribe?  •   Hear Stories from Industry Disruptors & Legends  •   Learn From Experts Shaping the Cannabis Space  •   Dive Deep into the Passion, Hustle & Culture Subscribe now and join the First Smoke of the Day community! Instagram YouTube BlackLeaf IG PackGods IG Website Thank you so much for tuning into First Smoke of The Day. A cannabis and culture podcast giving you insight into the mind and lives of growers, extractors, playmakers, street brands, and underground culture in the global cannabis industry. Be sure to subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you consume podcasts. Make sure to also leave a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts and follow us on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Blackleaf & PackGods
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    240
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Blackleaf & PackGods
  • Show Website
    First Smoke of The Day