If all of the stress, merriment and family of the holidays has you a little anxious, Wendy Bronfein of Curio Wellness discusses some ways the folks at Far & Dotter in Timonium can help. The science of chews, the reality of the harvest and expiring bonus points at holidays in our continuing series on cannabis education.
Nestor Aparicio and Wendy Bronfein discuss the busy holiday season at Curio Wellness and Foreign Daughter. Wendy explains that the holiday season begins early, driven by stress, merriment, and family social anxiety. They highlight the popularity of chews, which offer discreet consumption options and targeted effects. Wendy clarifies the loyalty programs: Foreign Daughter points expire annually, while Curio points last a year from the last qualifying activity. They also discuss the “Shoe Fest” promotion, offering discounts on chews. Wendy emphasizes the importance of understanding product names and effects, recommending consultations with their pharmacist for personalized guidance.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
holiday season, stress management, family social anxiety, Edie Parker, cannabis lifestyle, loyalty program, points expiration, chew promotions, flower products, vape products, mood management, body aches, personal education, strain names, product availability
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Wendy Bronfein
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 tassel, Baltimore and Baltimore, positive. Happy holidays. Everybody out there. I’ve been crazy running around giving away Marilyn a lottery scratch offs ravens, and I’m getting the peppermint ones for next week. We’re going to be a cost this. We’re also going to be don’t tell anybody, but we’re having the crab cake tour at a place doesn’t have a crab cake, but it’s a me cheese, so it’s good, no problem. We’re gonna do meatballs, gonna do the Pawnee rotundo, and it is the most popular stop on all of my my holiday tours. They’re like, you’re doing it at amicis. I gotta go there. We’ll be in amicis on Tuesday. We’ll be at at Costas on Wednesday, running around trying to track down Gina shock and bring her out. We brought her to curio wellness in the foreign daughter last year, right around this time, and our friends at Jiffy Lube, multi care, obviously powering Luke back and forth, up and down, Owings Mills, New York, Pittsburgh, Houston, before Christmas, all of this going on with football. I’m wearing my purple curio. This is, this is the zero. That’s not the roquan Smith. That’s the a spoken like hey, the way we said it last week at Cocos. Wendy brown fine is our defending champion. She’s our chief cannabis officer. She is the Chief Brand Officer with her family business, local Maryland business at Curia wellness, as well as foreign daughter. You know about their work, you know this move bomb on my back is me, right? I’ve been searching strange like, Where have you been? I haven’t talked to you. I thought you were hiding at the Mariah Carey concert at CFG banks. Turns out you weren’t even doing that. You were like, putting sales on, doing shoe stuff, getting holidays ready, uh, how have you been? I missed Thanksgiving. I I ate all the leftover pumpkin pie because you weren’t here to help me.
Wendy Bronfein 01:40
Hello. I know it has been crazy. This is definitely a really busy time of year for us in our business, always
Nestor Aparicio 01:49
new, right? I mean, I often wonder, like I’m 33 years into doing this, and I’m still trying to figure it out, make it up as I go along. You guys are a year and a half into adult use and just trying to figure out what sells. What time of year is it like booze in December, where the liquor stores were crazy on Christmas Eve and New Year’s, I don’t really know. Do you know or where? Or is there enough history to know? Is December like a big month? For some reason,
Wendy Bronfein 02:16
I would say as soon as the holiday season begins. So even ahead of, like, going into Thanksgiving so and we saw this in medical and it carries over, essentially. It’s a lot of the conversations around sort of three areas, either the stress of like, preparing, dealing, hosting, all kinds of holiday thing, the the the merriment of, like, I have lots of things to do and enjoying those activities, or it’s the family social anxiety kind of situation, like, everyone’s coming to my house. I got
Nestor Aparicio 02:54
a story for you. I’ll let you keep going, but I got we’re going to go back to that. So, Thanksgiving,
Wendy Bronfein 03:01
yes, so the so since medical, that theme has played, and it definitely carries through it. Just now, more people you know, can have the ability to shop.
Nestor Aparicio 03:11
I guess in the modern era, I’m 33 years into this. It’s legal. We talk about it. We really do this as an educational thing, because I’m trying to figure it out on a daily basis. Just learn about the plan. I mean, I’m I’m interested in it, just naturally interested, but so are family members of mine, and I’m not going to out anybody, but it was not my wife. I’ll just say this, we were over. We had a Riesling wine. We had a 22 pound turkey, and they were like four of us turkey every day after we had Turkey piccata we were doing five days later. So we were thinking things through, and at some point your name came up. The show curio, whatever, and family member x, not y, hold said item out of pocket that was Edie Parker and went on a diet tribe about how cute these things were and this. And then my wife gets into it, and then starts talking fuse, this and this and that. And it became a family conversation, not in the Clark Griswold like I’m stressed out I need relief. Here it was more like a conversation about your brands and strains and usages and things. And then every time I’m in your shop, and I was in your shop this week, and we’ll discuss this, I got a little stuck behind some traffic, because you’re having one of these big sales you’re always having. So some people in this in the showroom in foreign daughter and I walk around your place, and your place is so well appointed that it would be two women talking Edie Parker stuff up and saying, I love what you’re doing. I like the products. But there is a vibe about it that I don’t want to say, dare I say, Starbucks or some brand, that people have this affinity for Edie Parker brands. And I have brought up happy at. And I’m still chasing you down, Eddie, you know that to have you on crab cake, Mr. Pikesville dude, Mr. Local guy. But this is an interesting thing, because I think what you’ve tried to do is go above and beyond whatever the preconceived notions of how it will be packaged, what the information would be. And then when you and I get together to say, How’s that working for you? You know? And when people get together, they’re like, I like this product because it makes me feel blank, and it may make you feel that way, too. And I think that that becomes an open discussion in families, where, in the modern era, it becomes a conversation, literally, we had over the corn pudding.
Wendy Bronfein 05:39
Oh, yeah. Well, so Edie Parker is really began as a women’s fashion brand, right? And so, and if you were to go to the website, there’s tons of traditional accessories. They’re very well known for a certain style of women’s purse that they create. And shout out
Nestor Aparicio 05:57
to the brand. It’s not a clothing brand, but it’s a it’s a women’s lifestyle, like, Yeah, I know Coach, I know Betsy Johnson. I know, you know, I know Robert Graham from the male side, because you’ll see me in nice shirts, but I don’t know the brand in that way, you know, from the mall or whatever. You know
Wendy Bronfein 06:12
well. And the and the founders career came through the fashion industry, right? And so then they, they migrated and created this flower by Edie Parker offshoot. And so they kind of, they dabble in sort of two ways. One is they do product line. So we have the license in Maryland to produce their products, and similarly, we’ll be doing that in Missouri. And so that’s their the flower and the vapes that you see, but then they cross
Nestor Aparicio 06:43
all lines, right? They’re doing indica hybrid sativa. It’s not a our brand is a blank brand, and that’s right, okay, so just trying to understand that as well,
Wendy Bronfein 06:53
yeah, and then, and then they have a whole suite of accessories that are kind of more cannabis lifestyle, and we sell those in the front of our store. And that is kind of in speaking to those, or even like we have this new line we brought in in the holiday season called token Jew
Nestor Aparicio 07:11
that has I saw that stuff at the front right, like they’re
Wendy Bronfein 07:15
just these quirky things. And so the way that I sort of related to people is, if you think about to a certain extent. When people get married, you know, and you register and you think, well, I want these wine glasses. I want this shaker set, or this decanter, or something like that. These, this is a sort of same thing. They’re artifacts in your home that you may or may not use, but they sort of have a nod to the sector so, you know, they have Edie Parker has an ashtray that looks like a of watermelon cut in half, right? They have, it’s very hard. They’re just, right, yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 07:52
here’s the word I’m using.
Wendy Bronfein 07:54
I have a on a table in my house. It looks like there’s this, like glob of of glass grapes, like a bunch of grapes with a stem, but if you actually picked it up and looked at it, you’d notice that one of the grapes is a bowl and that you could put your mouth on the stem. But if you didn’t know that, you would just think, hey, there’s a glass sculpture of some grapes sitting there. So it’s kind of quirky things like that that are sort of fun. They actually have a fantastic purse that they created that actually, you know, if you think about the the retractable leash for your pet, it has on the side a unit where you put your lighter, and it’s on that same sort of retraction so that you can’t lose your lighter, because you can pull it off and use it to light yourself or someone else, but they can’t steal your lighter. Party
Nestor Aparicio 08:40
tricks, man, you know, where was this stuff? At the beach when I was a kid. Wendy bronfen is here. She is a career wellness she is the Chief Brand Officer. Sort of knows a lot of stuff. We talk sometimes we talk about the government, sometimes we talk about products. Sometimes we talk about holidays or discounts. I want to take a moment to just, not just talk about the store, but it’s the end of the year, so I must say, I was in I’m shopping. I’m trying some strains on your behalf and recommendations in places where you know when I’m in the quiet of my place, what can make me I don’t need sleep issues. We’ve talked about this. My wife is more and you do amazing work with time elapsed, things that allow people to sleep through the night, especially people to get up middle of night and pee. That’s not my issue. Mine’s more creativity, relaxation, stress level, those kinds of things. And there’s a strain called cheetah piss that you have that you’re like, can we say that on the radio? I just did. I don’t know what else to call because that’s what it is, cheated. PP, and I don’t know how these things get their names or whatever, but if you’re going to rename one and fix it. I opt through nasty Nestor in for that one. But when I was there, I had a little issue with last time I was in and I talked to me, and they looked up my points, and they’re like, you get a lot of points, dude. And I’m like, you want to use them. I’m like, Well, how many points do I have? And they’re like, Yeah, you got a lot of points. You gotta get to the end. The year. And I’m like, Whoa, I gotta talk to Wendy about this, because I need to understand two kinds of points. First off is I use, and I tell everybody about this. As a CEO guy trying to develop a better app on my own, you use this lucid ID QR code that when you buy a move product, there’s a QR code on it. You zap the QR code. You get points for use, for products and goods in your store. Then there’s the actual like, I bought stuff at foreign daughter and I have foreign daughter points. Do they? Both of these expire at the end of the year? Do tell? Because it’s December, something I’m worried.
Wendy Bronfein 10:34
So the I got shop, yes. So the so the curio. The curio, the sorry. Let’s start with the store. Store, the foreign daughter has a loyalty program, and you earn those points. They do. Those do expire at the end of the year. If you, when you open up the app, you can see your points count. You can also ask in the store, and I’ll tell your points count. Points count, and and then you can use, I think it’s like 2000 points is $100
Nestor Aparicio 11:10
correct? They told me, yeah.
Wendy Bronfein 11:13
And so I believe it’s every seven days, you can kind of burn through them. So like, I know I was having this conversation the other day, because I think here, let me open up mine. I think I have 5000 points. Yeah, I have like, 5800 points sitting there, right? So the good news is, is that you can, just like I went in yesterday and use and that’s what I’m saying. I’m down to 5800 I used them yesterday, but, and was like, I did that 100. And so I just got, like, exactly $100 worth of stuff. And, like, took the points out, and then, you know, I’ll do it again next week. So the way I see it is like, okay, between now and the end of the year, I could essentially shop and not spend
Nestor Aparicio 11:52
if I want that grape thing. You’re talking about, the glass thing that, you know that, oh
Wendy Bronfein 11:57
yeah, you can use it in the front as well. Nice. All right. Wendy
Nestor Aparicio 12:01
bronfize here. So then the actual zap that I do afterward, those are more curio has to be a curio product. If you zap the wrong thing, it just says it’s not it. It doesn’t work. These are curio points, correct? Yeah.
Wendy Bronfein 12:15
So those are, and those are, no matter where you shop. So you could be getting, you could be buying products to get
Nestor Aparicio 12:27
any curio product in any dispensary, any
Wendy Bronfein 12:29
dispensary, yeah, yeah. And then the the curio points. So if you go on the website where it says curio awards, there’s like a Terms and Conditions link, so those expire one consecutive year from the last qualifying activity. So as long as you keep participating, oh,
Nestor Aparicio 12:49
those points don’t expire. Then essentially,
Wendy Bronfein 12:51
yeah, if you go to a certain extent, if you go dormant, they can but based on the terms, it’s one consecutive year from the last qualifying activity,
Nestor Aparicio 13:01
alright, it says redeem online. I’ve never redeemed them, which is always look I, you know, I thought wise giving me a free ham at Christmas was kind of cool. I’m trying to figure this out, but knowing that they expire, and certainly, you know, everyone that shopped in your store this year probably has them, I haven’t really redeemed them. So this is a giddy up to get folks in this next couple redeem them with
Wendy Bronfein 13:24
the lucid. So there’s sort of two things that with the lucid one even say, you just, you’re listening now, and you’re like, wait, if I scan that QR code on the bag, I could start collecting some points. It doesn’t matter. I mean, if you are looking around your your closet, and you’re like, Wait, I got this. I just found this old container that I didn’t even know I still had, and it’s got a QR code, you can still claim it as long as it’s never been scanned before. You can scan it is important to know that you can’t scan it until you leave the dispensary like it won’t work in a certain perimeter. You’ve got to get farther away from the building. But the those when you do that, the redeem online there, there. You’re telling us what you want, and it’s sending us a message. So those items will be shipped to you if they if you choose to to redeem it for a gift card that you can use at one of our dispensaries, then you’ll get that as like, an E gift card. Wow,
Nestor Aparicio 14:17
clicked on redeem. Now I just did, and it shows me everything I could buy, travel bag, fanny pack, E, gift card, E, gift card, vape, battery, grind like, it’s all here, dog collar, all sorts of things are here. Yeah, nice, yeah, I
Wendy Bronfein 14:32
did. I did the dog collar, and I didn’t realize that it’s like, I have a very small dog, and the collar is like, more of like, like, the band is, like, thicker, so if your dog is in it, like, I would say at least, like, maybe 15 pounds, which mine is not, like, the color is ridiculous looking, but
Nestor Aparicio 14:50
I’m like, whatever. I don’t need the dog collar. I bet I’d be more about the fanny pack or something like that wedding. Brad fine is here last thing, just on the stores and on where. We are. You’re doing a ton of sales. Like, I didn’t have you on, like, around Thanksgiving, and I really wanted to have you on because I was seeing stuff he did, like, a week long thing that was a black friday thing, but it lasted, like, longer than that story, okay. I mean, you were rebranding everything. You’re the brand manager, so do tell through the holidays. It just feels like every day when I’m getting dailies from you guys there, there’s just a lot of deals to be had at the end of the year. Yeah.
Wendy Bronfein 15:26
So it so November and then into December, we have something called shoe fest going on. So regardless of whether you’re shopping at our store elsewhere, there’s, there’s a series of dispensaries that are all participating around the state. And there you can, if it’s like if you buy one chew, you get 10% off. If you get by two choose, you get 20% off. By three different choose, or three of the same two, you get 30% off. So sort of, the more you’re more, you buy you more, you save, sort of thing. And so if you’re near us, if you’re near nature’s care and wellness, rise dispensaries, Nirvana, dispensary works. Ascend the dispensary in Carroll County, true. Leave health for life. Bunch of different places you can you can take advantage of that at those dispensaries as well. Talk to you.
Nestor Aparicio 16:21
I always talk about farm daughter, and I know farm Kent’s up more in Elkton a little bit, you know. And I’ve been by there on Route 40 as well. But your stuff is 90% of the dispensaries, any if anybody walks into a dispensary in the state, there’s a strong chance that your strains, your products, especially the really cool like the move product that I’m holding up on the just products like that, that they’re they’re kind of everywhere. Curio brand, yes, right? Yeah,
Wendy Bronfein 16:47
you can. You were in virtually every dispensary in the state. And then the the only other thing in our dispensary, at least right now, inside of this current week, like in the up till Thursday, they have this happy hour thing going on from three to seven with choose. So they have, like, a different, like an additional kind of way to explore chew promotions at our own store. And we also have, if you it’s, you know, if the weather is not great, it’s getting colder, it’s been rainy, whatever it is, there’s curbside at our Timonium location, there’s lots of spots, big parking lot. You pull up, we can bring it out too. Don’t even have to come inside if you don’t want also people really interesting, right?
Nestor Aparicio 17:33
Because it was something like nobody had any access to. And flower was something we could talk about the legality for years, but and brownies and like things like that. But like your shoes, and I’ve toured your facility and and we’ve talked so much about flavor profiles and the way, the way that they’re made these days, that they do taste really good, that trying them out is something that a lot of folks didn’t have any access to ever try them, I would think that this is a really a growing part every time I talk to you, even when I talk to your sister, sometimes it’s Flower, flower, flower, and that’s where it is. But it would feel to me that the that the chew part of this, and the trouble you all go through to harvest material make things taste good, and also the fact that it, it doesn’t affect your lungs. You know that the fact that if you’re anti smoking for whatever reason, and there’s plenty of reasons to be anti smoking, that the Choose would be a place people bet if they’re enjoying the product, seeing it, feeling it, knowing about the medicinal purposes, all of that, the shoes would be the growth, I would think,
Wendy Bronfein 18:40
yeah, yeah, I It’s the so the top three categories are flower Chews and vape. So essentially, two that are form of inhalation and one that’s a form of consumption. But yeah, because I think you have, you can see more variation of potency, right? So when you have flower, you do have variation of potency because you have different percentages in that THC profile. But here you’re talking about anything from likely some as low as two milligrams of THC to, depending if you’re if you’re going in the medical sector, it could be up to 40. But from an adult use, the 10 you could high as you can be 10. Then you also get into the presence of more targeted products, like when we talk about the the terpene shoes that we make, and then even the the products that we do, where they’re they’re around a certain issue you’re trying to tackle. Is it like your mood management or stress during the day or evening? Is it sleeping? Is it body aches and pain those products that we make, or even GI issues, all have ratios. So now you’re talking about THC with a minor cannabinoid like CBG, CBN, CBD, that aren’t psychoactive but relate more to what you’re trying to solve for. So like a good day chew that we produce that is two. Milligrams of CBD and two milligrams of THC. It’s very good for somebody who’s not looking to be high, but is looking to take the edge off, right? Things that would irritate you, you need to de stress. You just want to improve your mood, right? You’re not You’re not getting a psychoactive effect, but you’re getting a mood corrective effect.
Nestor Aparicio 20:20
People think I’m irritable, but I’m not. Wendy bronfen is here. She’s from curio wellness and foreign daughter, getting ready for the holidays, educating as well. And I would just say some of the things you just said, we can have an annoyed and you know, you know, I know Nina’s on a property there. I see the little sign up about doing different things. There is a point where I learned that on the internet. And then there’s the Well, where am I going to buy these products, and who do I trust? And curio wellness. And I come in and this is working, or this could work better, but every time I’m in your place, I think there are people on premise all the time, ready to talk to you about these things, and give you a little bit of time once you’re there, to talk through a lot of products. I don’t want to compare you to the Cheesecake Factory. You got your menus bigger than that. It’s just for you know, it’s huge, right? And and I do think that you could be a little overwhelmed by all in finding the right product. I mean, you and I have been at this a couple years, and we laugh and joke about names and strange and stuff like that. And it turns out, the strain that I’m like that, I I think the cheetah piss the one for me. But I do think there is a little trial and error. There’s also just a First off, the stigma, get by that the legality were there. But then there’s this, the education, the personal education of what you’re trying to do. And it really is different for everybody. And I think you and I have talked about terpene profiles and things that move you in a certain way that might move another person in a different way that it, it is personal, and it’s something that you have to immerse a little bit in order to get the most benefit. I would say,
Wendy Bronfein 21:49
Oh, absolutely. And I think, you know, you mentioned Nina, so she’s the pharmacist who’s at our location in Timonium and also in Elkton. And she, she’ll also do via zoom, so you can consult with her at no expense, to really understand if you want to kind of deep dive, just relative to understanding the category in general, or if you’re if you’re looking for things that lean a little bit more therapeutic, she’s going to be able to give you guidance, because she’s also going to have that deeper understanding of any current medication that you’re taking to treat things and and how this can be an additive resource.
Nestor Aparicio 22:27
You know, doing this 33 years, as I do, and you sponsoring our 26th anniversary, I’ve had almost all of my living teachers on the ones who like my I have my eighth grade English teacher. She’s still hiding out in Arizona for me, but sending me all sorts of messages. But all of my teachers come on, and when they would give me homework, I didn’t like homework. But when it comes, I think in your space, you got to take a little homework home, and you have to do a little research, and you there needs to be a level of homework put in, uh, you know, once you leave the store to work on it, and I think, um, you know, I’ve come to cheat a piss who named that one is, Are you responsible for that one? Or no, no,
Wendy Bronfein 23:02
that’s, you know, I don’t know officially, but I think that came with the name. A lot of them come with a name. And if the name is, because sometimes there’s just strains that are just known, right? And they and so you don’t,
Nestor Aparicio 23:16
and I see you making strains that are known. And then I see things like blissful wizard, which I think is yours, right?
Wendy Bronfein 23:20
Yes, blissful wizard. But blissful wizard is ours. But blissful wizard did come with that name. We did not name it.
Nestor Aparicio 23:27
Oh, how many of you named in the store? Percentage wise? Um,
Wendy Bronfein 23:32
oh, God, I don’t know. Be very few, right? No, no, there’s a no, there’s a decent number in there that we have named. Um, yeah, yeah. Because at one point I was I sort of laugh, because there’s been strains that have come out, and I don’t know if we’ve named them or not, but they have, like, these weird I have zero to do with the fact that these names, but they have connection like they relate to, like my husband, my child, my dog, one of my favorite foods that are just like, random things that have come up that I have nothing to do with. And I’m like, That’s so weird that they named
Nestor Aparicio 24:08
it Wendy’s delight, or something like that. People would know what it is, right, right? When it’s cheetah piss. I’m like,
Wendy Bronfein 24:14
Alright, I mean, don’t sure that came with the name. Well, some if you So, most of them I don’t like. I’m just going to make this up as potentially where the name comes from, because I don’t know their name. I don’t know what it is, but a lot of times the names come from have, have to do with something that, that that deals with, like the look, the smell and the effect, right? So if, when you’re growing that strain, there is a that has an aroma from the terpenes that maybe is more for lack of a term, urine like that could be where the piss is coming. And if, if it’s stimulating, the cheetah might be because of the speed. Like, if it is a stimulating, I’m just making this up, but, like, it
Nestor Aparicio 24:56
is very high energy strain, I would say that, yeah. Because
Wendy Bronfein 25:00
other times you’ll have things where, you know, like anything that’s a diesel is because that terpene aroma is has a lot of that kind of gassy smell to it. That’s, that’s why that name is in there. So then you have, like, the treats, right? Things that have fruity names or cakey names or cookie names. It’s because they give off a sweet smell. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 25:20
Chad ochos cinco once said that he pissed excellence. That was his, you know, sports, that’s how great he was. So when I see cheetah P I think, I think a shadow to Cinco. I don’t know why, but I just think excellence curio wellness is the Excellence in cannabis in our state, and certainly the the experts to guide you through what is a new space, an educational space. It’s thing we talk about a lot around here. You’re the ads talking. Go out to foreign daughter.com put your birthday in go to curio wellness. Which birthday in? If you are a customer, we appreciate that. Folks say hello to me in the dispensary from time to time as well. Make sure you’re getting your points, and make sure you’re redeeming your points, and make sure that you’re like my wife being a cheapskate. Know what days the deals are? So you can go in there and stock up for the end of the year. I know you’ve been really busy, you know, doing all this stuff. I would just say the one thing for any of these strains, especially if you like a strain, is knowing it’s going to be there the next time. And I know, above and beyond everything, it’s one of the harder things, because this is a plant and it is, there is a point where people do find a strain and then come back, not necessarily yours, but anywhere, and say, I’m having a hard time getting that again, sort of like when beer goes away after stout season or something. Well.
Wendy Bronfein 26:36
So I think the there is a cadence to the garden. So certain strains do appear like so, for example, you’re wearing the the purple shirt. We do cannibals, right? Cannibals, we usually only have out in the time that is football season, right? That one is intense. See,
Nestor Aparicio 26:52
I thought your O thing was only going to be Valentine’s Day, and then I saw it all summer.
Wendy Bronfein 26:56
No, you got it. You gotta look. You know? You need that Viagra like effect,
Nestor Aparicio 27:00
365 Yeah, 366 in a leap year, yeah.
Wendy Bronfein 27:05
So no, I but there is, there is a cadence. So things do sort of come and go. If you do really like something, I would recommend that it, that you stock up on it. But most of them that are kind of in our standard production just throughout the year, kind of you appear then, appear again, appear again. So
Nestor Aparicio 27:26
you make that sound really easy in 30 seconds, but I don’t think it is for growers, right? I mean, across the industry, that’s the hard that that’s a really difficult issue, yeah. Well, I
Wendy Bronfein 27:36
mean, look, if you walk what we’re in December, right? So if you walk the garden right now, and you start looking at things that are young. You’re looking at plants that are going to harvest like, you know, when spring is coming, right? We everything takes a very long time to grow. So there’s a certain there’s always an oddity when you’re in the the garden, where sometimes it’d be like you’re touring somebody in the summer, and suddenly all the tags are relating to a harvest that’s happening like, this time of year, right? And you’re like, wait, like, the whole year is already over, so the planning is very far out, right? You’ve got, like, you know, to flower. The plan alone is eight to 10 weeks, and there are stages of growth before that.
Nestor Aparicio 28:15
See, I’m just a guy that bought some gingerbread chocolate snaps from Germany, and they’re delicious, but I’m thinking these things had to been made in July. Gotta get five months out on Christmas. Snacks, curio, wellness, always thinking ahead. We do appreciate them, our partnership, all the education we do around here. Just a reminder, if you got points, go use them. Get into the store and please use the plant responsibly and medically, and know what you’re doing before you get into it. It’s part of the, one of the reasons we’re doing this, because it is such a new thing, and, and, and, quite frankly, an unending a garden, as you would say, of information. And I think the more you learn, and I’m still learning along the journey, and I think that’s part of why you and I get together. I’m not the only one, right? Nobody’s got this figured out yet, right? No,
Wendy Bronfein 29:03
it’s, it takes a while, I think I and eventually you know what you like, and and then you just don’t want to be so rigid that you only get what you like, right? Because there always can be something interesting, but it is a problem at every restaurant, yeah. But I mean, like, you know, it’s like, the move, right? Like, the, I’m the same way with the topicals. Like, I’m never going to leave that, because it’s just too useful. It’s always going to be in my medicine cabinet.
Nestor Aparicio 29:23
It’s, it’s really right next to my deodorant and right next to the, you know, it literally sits there with everything I do after I shave and do things. And it’s, you know, lower back l4 you know, I have a bad issue, as everybody knows. I talk about it for years, Dr Steve and all of that. But this really does. It helps, especially when I’m like, in the car, sitting in the car, traveling, going long distances, anything, I got to sit around for an hour or two, but over the river and through the woods. For the holidays, we go and over to foreign daughter. It is on York Road, just south of Timonium road. Jump off, say hello. Our friends at Coopers north are over that way. I’ve been going over that way. We’re gonna be doing a cup of. Soup or bowl there, as well as a lot of other places. We’re going to have Maryland lottery scratch offs to give away as well, and we rev the engine back up. Next week, we’ll be at amicis on Tuesday. We’re going to be on Wednesday, wrapping things up, really, with Costas in in Dundalk, in the homeland. It’s been a month long of lottery tickets winners, fun, our friendship field, multi care, sending us out as well, and our 26th anniversary, sponsored by our friends at curio wellness and far and daughter, Wendy, I appreciate Don’t be strange around here. We gotta get we gotta get together through the holidays at some point here and move into the new year. And we don’t even talk any ravens or anything like that. We got a lot of football here to watch. Next couple weeks, things have been teetering ever since, ever, ever. Since you stopped doing the show, they’ve been losing and talkers for missing kicks. Yeah,
Wendy Bronfein 30:41
that I don’t like to talk about that kick thing. It that’s, it’s uncomfortable. What’s going on over 15
Nestor Aparicio 30:47
point favorites. They better went up in New Jersey. I’m Nestor. We are W, N, S, T, A of 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive. I.
