Hey, Scottie, you know what? Today we have a Know Your Breeder. I'm super excited about it. You may not remember, but we had some strawberries and cream up here. You smell it. It smells like strawberry ice cream. Dude, you are like a strain geek, man. Exotic Mike. Exotic Mike. Exotic genetics. We got him on today. So we're super excited about that. Hang on the Royal. Give me a fist bump, man.

You got him on, man.

Thanks, James Bean.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're super excited. And, by the way, James Bean is giving away a pack of the original cookies and cream. We'll talk about, we'll give the details out a little bit later in the show. I think I remember running around at one of the cannabis cups looking for that.

Like on a dish.

Cookies and Cream 13.

It's a pretty well-known famous cup. It won a cut, or sorry, cut, and it won a cup 2014, I want to say. I think that's about when I remember running around looking for the packs. Mike will know better than me. All right, man. Come on. Let's do it, man. All right. Come on. Let's get to know your breeder.

Oh, my.

Thank you there, brother.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're kind of a big deal in the breeding community, or at least I've been told that, sir.

I appreciate that for me, fellas, but I'm just a regular guy who likes to make cool stuff.

That's awesome. Hey, man, tell me the whole premise here is I really know very little about breeders. As a matter of fact, we were talking earlier. I was trying to introduce a little bit about me to you. And so let's just do it on the show. I'm a guy that's, you know, been stuck in, not stuck in, but working in, you know, my own 20 lighters for, I don't know, past 20 years or so. And people just gave me clones. So I didn't really, oh, that's a great clone. Thanks. That's a great clone. But I just didn't have an appreciation for where the clint clones came from and all the work that went into it. And so, yeah, that's just, and when I look at a catalog, I can't make sense of it. You know, it all just looks. I'm like, okay, this one, this one.

And so the best way I could think to start understanding it is put people and faces with the seeds and the strains.

So I'm trying to get to know the breeders, brother.

Yeah, it's funny you say that about clones because I think we've all started there with getting a clone from a friend or clones from, you know, medical spot or whatnot.

And that's actually how I started is, you know, we wanted to, I'd get clones and I'd run them.

And, you know, I also didn't want to get rid of them.

So I kind of started breeding for one of the reasons was kind of locked down some of those

clones so I can come back to them later, so to see.

When was this?

How early were you in the game?

Because yeah, I'm curious about that.

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