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Hi, everybody.

It's Bean. Welcome to an all-new great moments in weed history. Today on the podcast, we're going to have an enlightening and at times hilarious sesh with Simone Espinoza. He's a young comedy writer from Santiago, Chile, who turned a stoned text message chain with his brother into by far the largest Spanish language cannabis media platform on the planet.

And Vola, which literally translates to in-flight, started in 2013 as pretty much as a joke,

and then as a rudimentary website where stoners could post their most mind-bending and ingenious ideas.

Fast forward to today, about 14 years later, and Simone and his collaborators have accumulated over 62 million views, and that's on YouTube alone.

Now, for starters, I got to say that I always love to connect with cannabis enthusiasts from other parts of the world.

But more than that, this conversation with Simone really reminded me how quickly a shared love

of weed can bind us together.

It's definitely one of those episodes where I feel like I've made a really cool new friend.

And as you'll hear, Simone doesn't just create comedic weed videos.

He also works tirelessly to educate the community, push for legalization, and to bring

together culture and activism by organizing events at home in Chile and around the

world. I think you're going to really dig this conversation, so I want to get right into it,

shorter intros for the foreseeable future on this podcast. But first, I do have to and want to stop and say thank you

to everyone who supports this podcast on Patreon. Your reason we are still rolling along after all of these years.

And if you, yes, you, come on.

Oh, come on, man.

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