Today we have a special featured episode of First Smoke of the Day with our guest “Up the Hill'' exclusive. Straight from Northern California with stories that will keep you glued to your seat. What is life like in Northern California when you have this passion for Cannabis Cultivation and you're in Mecca?! Not many people know what it’s like carving out a way in Northern California up on the Hill Aka Emerald Triangle. We get into the stories and way of life when grow is life. We get to try out ...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 28 min
Today on FSOTD we have two of the most passionate, knowledgeable, and hands on experienced cannabis cultivators giving a life’s worth of free grow game. Ramsey and Josh of “JR CropTech” are special guests on this episode, a gift for all the knowledge seekers who listen to First Smoke of the Day. Ramsey was previously associated with companies like “Aroya” and “Grodan”. The hands on large scale cultivation knowledge comes off as a priceless conversation for any want to be cultivato...
Feb 20, 2023•2 hr 22 min
Welcome Sean from Stiiizy to First Smoke of the Day. The Head cultivation director at Stiiizy with many years of high end, large scale cultivation experience. Very few cultivators have the experience that Sean can speak on. Designing and Building some of the largest cultivation facilities in Los Angeles over his career, We get to hear first hand account of his experiences and wild journey that starts in Lithuania and lands in Los Angeles. The way Sean was raised by a strong parents and team...
Feb 13, 2023•2 hr 22 min
Welcome 4thumbs to First Smoke today. He is a Hmong Grower with overflowing passion for the plant and people in the business. Before we started recording the podcast he brought us 100 hand made egg rolls from his family. They where amazing and the hospitality and journey is a rollercoaster and history lesson in Culture and personal redemption. Growing up with a very difficult life turned to drugs and gang activity. Trying to get past rebellion and drug use to find cannabis and help save his life...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 46 min
Known for strains like Duck Sauce, Garlic Shrimp Girl, Big Squid, Revenge of the Squid, White Plum Mochi, WowDatsFire, Zuckaz, and Uni.. Teds Budz stormed the California market in over 350+ stores statewide and growing. They offer high end cultivators elite brand collabs and help launch new strains into the atmosphere of sought after winners. We originally heard about the Teds Budz brand when we where shopping and asked a budtender at a very popular LA dispensary which is the best Rec flowe...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 16 min
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Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Connect with Johnny Mitchell IG - Johnny IG - The Connect FSOTD Sponsors Grow Generation | IG Drip Hydro | IG The Diamond Mine | IG FSOTD Links Website | Patreon | YouTube Make sure to tell all your friends and family to subscribe! Go register on the website or Patreon for all the exclusive ad-free content, BTS, tutorials, and more! Please leave a 5-Star review! We appreciate your support, First Smoke Family! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Al Harrington AKA Viola sits down with the First Smoke of the Day crew and talks what it’s like growing up with love but in harsh conditions. Drafted straight from Highschool into the NBA. An elite player who was always on teams with other stars. Great insight by one of the top players in the NBA. Stories you won’t hear anywhere else! This episode of First Smoke is such a unique dive into Al’s life and how he created one of the largest multi state brands in the United St...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Fly Trap Big Gumbo & Alexis Major come to First Smoke of the Day with passion and purpose. We get into growing up in New York and how Gumbo made his way from slanging T-Shirts, CD’s and hustling to creating a network that is undeniable. Raised by a true hustler with a mentality that has stuck in him since Day 1. The Journey is a wild one that goes from New York to Atlanta and back. Alexis Major also sits with us and talks her back story and how the journey built so much character between the...
Jan 09, 2023•2 hr 11 min
They call him the Saltwater Cowboy. He has earned this title from years of smuggling and living through some of the craziest stories we have heard on First Smoke of the Day. Roll Up a few this episode is two parts of a Real New Age Pirates Life. The Caribbean smugglers who ran the seas to make sure the 70s & 80’s were smoking good! Ya that much cannabis! Listen in close to hear rare first hand accounts from Tim McBride himself in detail you rarely get. This is an inside look into what it rea...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 43 min
They call him the Saltwater Cowboy. He has earned this title from years of smuggling and living through some of the craziest stories we have heard on First Smoke of the Day. Roll Up a few this episode is two parts of a Real New Age Pirates Life. The Caribbean smugglers who ran the seas to make sure the 70s & 80’s were smoking good! Ya that much cannabis! Listen in close to hear rare first hand accounts from Tim McBride himself in detail you rarely get. This is an inside look into what it rea...
Dec 26, 2022•2 hr 21 min
Pull out that jar and pack a bowl for this week. Turtle Pie Co episode with Matt. Owner and cultivator of the brand Turtle Pie Co, Matt attributes his name to his nickname he got wayyyy back in school. Known as one of the top quality flower brands in California and unique in so many ways. We have heard some about Turtle Pie Co through GreenDawg’s FSOTD episode. Tune into that one for some back history on this episode. We talk strains, grow life, the new industry and what’s to come. Tune In and R...
Dec 19, 2022•2 hr 23 min
Roll up, today we have Jon from High Times Magazine. The words alone “High Times Magazine” have so much cultural relevance in cannabis. News, articles, nationwide pricing, grow and hash tech along with so much more. Over the years High Times had the grower and hashmaker’s highest sought after trophy competition. We dive deep into the history along with where they are now and what happened in between. Sit down at the table for an inside scoop on Jon’s passion for the plant and how he is rede...
Dec 12, 2022•3 hr 7 min
Puffco has distinguished itself as the leading maker of innovative, consumption devices for cannabis concentrates. Founded in 2013, the award-winning company has grown its team to more than 130 people with an emphasis on industry-leading non-traditional approaches to product development. Today, Puffco boasts an attractive, intuitive and sophisticated line of products, ranging from the iconic Puffco Peak to the Proxy modular vaporizer pipe to the Plus portable concentrate pen and the discreet Cup...
Dec 05, 2022•2 hr 21 min
Connect with Coffeeshop Family First IG Website FSOTD Sponsors Grow Generation | IG Drip Hydro | IG The Diamond Mine | IG FSOTD Links Website | Patreon | YouTube Make sure to tell all your friends and family to subscribe! Go register on the website or Patreon for all the exclusive ad-free content, BTS, tutorials, and more! Please leave a 5-Star review! We appreciate your support, First Smoke Family! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 30 min
This very special Smugglers episode of First Smoke of the Day is brief but explosive. With a Netflix special (Bad Sport) Out everywhere Randy Lanier, one of the largest smugglers in US history, sits down to talk about what life was like smuggling over 661,000 pounds into the US. From small moves to big and how life took that wild course that ended with a Life Sentence in Prison. But, before all that, he was able to stay under the radar for decades from when he started smuggling at An early age o...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr
You’ve seen his smile, and know his laugh. A Big Smokey Welcome to “Thomas” Dope As Yola. He’s been a bright and funny cannabis Personality for years and years on all social media and YouTube. If you've heard of Push Trees you know the man behind it. From being featured on the No Jumper Show as well as Steve O’s Wild Ride Podcast and so many more well known shows. We dive into Thomas “Yola” himself on growing his fan base and having such a successful canna centric YouTube and Instagram platform ...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 42 min
Love for the industry is where all this passion comes from. When you see the memes hitting so hard people start to change the way they do business and stop doing dirt. The memes help start the Convo and insight that needs to happen within our evolving space. The new way of spreading the word on fuckery and shaming wrong doers is a fire heavy hitting meme. That fire Meme that goes viral gets the word out faster than anything else someone can do. They are also used to lighten the mood and bring La...
Nov 14, 2022•2 hr 33 min
What do you get when you dedicate your life, your time, and your everything to making the best hash you possibly can year after year? You get to be “Your Favorite Hash Makers, Favorite Hash maker.” Let’s welcome Trichadelics, a world renown hash maker, terp chaser, gas gambit, and all around nice guy to First Smoke of the Day podcast. Trichadelics with so many major hash competitions wins around the globe and so many passionate smokers all talking about this man’s dedication to the art of making...
Nov 07, 2022•2 hr 4 min
From Colorado’s top quality producer and dispensary (CAM) to one of California’s most sought after Rec market brands. This is a great journey inside the mind and life of a female cannabis entrepreneur that has had massive success in the space. The history and journey through multiple states and multiple cannabis businesses is a roller coaster ride of emotion, money and knowledge. Welcome Anna from “CAM” to First Smoke of the Day Podcast! Connect with Anna of CAM Dispensary IG Site FSOTD Spo...
Oct 31, 2022•2 hr 4 min
This very unique Candy maker turned full scale brand and overall mystery Wizard comes into the game like a whirlwind of terps. Made infamous by his Freeze Dried “Medicated” Skittles that explode with terps into your mouth and then take over your mind. First Smoke Family, let’s welcome Jelly Wizard on the First Smoke of the Day Podcast, roll one up to puff on and munch on some edibles because this one’s a VIBE! Connect with Jelly Wizard IG Site FSOTD Sponsors Grow Generation | IG Drip Hydro...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 59 min
The Big Apple smells like fresh weed?! Partly because of passionate smokers and dank aficionados like the man in this interview Smoke Up 212! Let’s start by saying one of the nicest and giving homies we have had the pressure to link with as first smoke family. It’s 6 AM, we land in NYC on 4/19 the day before our national holiday 4/20. We keep getting told we gotta link with the “UnOfficial” cannabis mayor of NYC Smoke Up 212. The Candy Gas King that always has those bags popping up. So Smo...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 12 min
There is a man named Heisenbern. He’s known as the “Walter White” of weed around his parts. It all started way back when having the top terp’d out strain that no one else had was a game changer. Ohhh wait, that's still exactly the same today. That’s where this story starts and where our man Heisenbern comes in. His flavors are mind stamping palette quenchers that always blow minds. Flavors with twists on original dank you’ve known to love but always a special pheno or cross that ALWAYS has his o...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 44 min
Weed so dank it came from another planet! Or did it…..? Welcome Ted of Alien Labs back on First Smoke of the Day. Alien Labs known around California and the country as top shelf flowers over years and years based out of NorCal. Our First Smoke Family and the original cannabis Alien himself owner of Alien Labs gets into all the industry changes happening and big waves throughout the entire industry. We have already talked for the first time smoking so we skip that with guests we have spoken with ...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 55 min
FSOTD Family roll up, this one gets deep! From his name alone you now know where this man is representing and the journey it must have taken to get here. From police task force raids and wondering how much jail time he would do in prison to a single DM message on Instagram from a company called Trolmaster that turned everything around and into millions and millions of dollars, at exactly the right time! Let’s welcome Miami Mango to the First Smoke of the Day Podcast and just take a second to say...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 56 min
There is a real field of dreams and it’s run by a guy named “Dave”. He’s friendly, hardworking, and one of the best cannabis growers on the planet! We got to discover what TOP SHELF Greenhouse truly looks, tastes, smells, and smokes like. Energy and positivity is what we felt at the Preferred compound all day long with his whole team. The journey that Dave and his team has been on is nothing short of dreams and prayers and a ton of hard work. This whole episode and extra footage on Patreon ...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 57 min
Light up two joints for this one. The journey of a grower is always a rollercoaster of emotion and danger, and not just any grower. One of the lead cultivators for a long time at Connected, one of the biggest and best cannabis companies in the country based in California. Currently running the cultivation at Blueprint a new startup cultivation with veteran cannabis founders absolutely storming the market with fire strains and products. It’s all about learning and all about the chase for quality....
Sep 12, 2022•2 hr 10 min
Today we welcome B-Eazy Buds, someone we had been hearing about for weeks before he came on the show. So many followers reached out to the First Smoke crew and said you have to hear this man’s story. It’s a journey that will have you tied up in knots and asking why? What ? Noooo? And damn really? So much passion and so much emotion gives way to a beautiful story about wanting it so bad and prevailing through all of it. We talk about what it’s like being on rock bottom and losing everything to pu...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 57 min
A controversial figure because of his outspoken takes on cannabis and the industry. Welcome the man behind Greasi Genetics (Mr. Greasi) known in Northern California for flavorful flowers and a lot of self bred genetics. This interview will have growers mad, sad, happy and in the end you take away and learn. It’s always great to have cultivators on first smoke who are as passionate about the plant and all aspects of high end cultivation as Greasi. We dive into what it is to grow organic and take ...
Aug 29, 2022•2 hr 43 min
The first hash rosin dab ever taken. Just think about that for a second! And now you're in the Dab Life, welcome to the family. A passion for the chase of Fire Resin and Pursuit of Clean Dabbing turned into a high end hash company all based on one thing: PASSION. Passion for all forms of resin. Solventless has taken over the game and for a good reason based on quality, legality and safety. Dab Life is one of those companies looked at really putting out consistent fire in California for hash head...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 29 min
