Gary Payton Pulled Up MAFIA Style on Berner Over His Weed Strain
All The Smoke
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The first cannabis executive to grace the cover of Forbes pulls up on ALL THE SMOKE. Berner is impossible to put in a box: rapper, entrepreneur, and one of the most innovative minds in the game. From building Cookies with $19k from his mother's inheritance to battling cancer to his next chapter in film, he's always moving. Hear how he spent over $20 million in legal fees fighting for his brand, why he turned down Diddy trying to buy into Cookies, and what's next. This one will have you ready to get up and build something.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.1 | Listen up. |
| 0:06.2 | I got an announcement. |
| 0:08.2 | I want to shout out the Webby Awards. |
| 0:09.9 | We've been nominated for two Webby Awards this year for all to smoke the show and then also all the smoke socials. |
| 0:18.8 | So we appreciate all the love. |
| 0:38.7 | Stay tuned, man. We're just getting started. He didn't know about Gary Payton until I told him. Oh, really? We can call him right now. When I was with Cookie, I called him. I'm like, bro, they got a strand called Gary Payton. And that shit, five. We was in the big three. He was like, for real, I'm like, yeah, bro, you probably be checking that shit. |
| 0:39.2 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:40.1 | That shit, that shit fire. |
| 0:41.5 | And he told me he reached out to y'all. |
| 0:43.0 | He had no idea, bro. |
| 0:43.8 | He had no idea. It was so mafia, though. Gary's a G, though, because the way it happens, it's mafia, bro. Welcome back, all the smoke. |
| 0:49.6 | Jack, we're back in the bay, bro. |
| 0:51.0 | Man, happy to be back in the bay, home, sweet home. |
| 0:53.2 | And the weather's like 80 degrees out here today, man. |
| 0:55.8 | Drop to top. We was out there in the bay, home, sweet home. And the weather's like |
| 0:54.5 | 80 degrees out here today, man. Drop the top. We was out there with the phantoms around this time, too. Everybody had it. It's playoff time. Playoff time, dog. The best time of the year. Man, this is long overdue. This is someone I've been cool with for a very long time. someone that's so instrumental in the culture. |
| 1:12.5 | Really, if you want to talk about, he kind of started this weed shit when it comes to commercializing it and making it in a real business for black and brown people. Welcome to the show, man, our brother, burner. Yeah, you got to put these out on the name. He alleged, man. Yeah, yes, sir. That's sir. let's get to us since stezie are our cannabis managers |
| 1:29.4 | in the building yeah talk to us about your uh you have a 420 show coming up this year so in a couple |
| 1:34.2 | weeks yeah right here in sf um myself be legit who's a cannabis legend as well to having to do |
| 1:40.6 | my favorite smoking buddies a couple other cats on there with us too. Mm-hmm. |
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