Wendy Bronfein of Curio Wellness gets Nestor for fall flavors and more cannabis education
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SPEAKERS
Wendy Bronfein, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore, positive. Yes, it is football season. If you’re watching, I’m wearing my purple here. I do not have the Raven scratch offs yet, but I will have them soon. They have the Gold Rush sevens, doublers. What a month we have ahead here with whether it’s orange or purple, or whether it’s playoffs in October, and these huge football games going on all month, we are getting all around the state, really, 26 oysters in 26 days, 26 ways, all the brought to you by our friends at curio wellness, in conjunction with our friends at Liberty, pure solutions, keeping my water clean, because we have well water here, and that’s what the oysters do to the bay, they keep the bay clean so we can eat crab cakes on the crab cake tour. So we’re going to be doing that at Cocos this week. We’re going to be at Cooper’s next Friday the 13th. Gonna be good luck, because I got Dave shining from the Washington Post stopping by and joining me, as well as Chad weaseling. We’re gonna be talking some sports there, talking some oysters there, talking about where they come from, all of that stuff’s gonna be happening on the 26th I’m gonna have real oyster farmers on on the 26th down at the piano Railroad Museum. So get out. Check it out. It all starts with my cousin John shields, over at Gertrude this week. MD, oyster tour is the hashtag on that. It is now our 26th anniversary. I have promised Wendy bronfen, if curio wellness and foreign daughter, then I’m gonna have the oyster crab 26th it’s not gonna be a cupcake. We just decided it’s gonna be a crab and an oyster. And I’m this close to making it official in our 26th anniversary. We also be brought to you by you, because you brought our 25th anniversary pretty well. It’s pretty good year, but it’s over now, and Labor Day’s over. We got football. You com concerts, Pearl Jam, Springsteen stay, all this stuff’s going on since we got together. And end of summer I got a tan. We started football season, and I missed a couple pretty good concerts. I know,
Wendy Bronfein 01:54
yeah, it’s it. I think it’s really exciting where we’ve this time of year. We got ravens back and Orioles, I’m still holding that. I was there the other day for that 13 to three that was, that was great. And, yeah, I’m doing Pearl Jam too. I’m excited for that. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 02:11
I got Pearl Jam tickets last week. So there’s maybe this much of a chance Jeff Amon is going to call it, maybe I, I hit Nils. I hit all the rock stars I know all in the same week, because they’re all here, you know, Nils, Lofgren, I’m just hoping some something comes through. Just any of these guys get back, but if I get to go to the show, I’m good, like that. I missed Usher. I was out of town. My wife was like, how much Usher? Oh, 300 doing that. But we’ve had a nice little concert summer. I know we’re getting into fall, and I know everything you’re doing, we always talk about the educational part of what we do here in regard to what you do and but then there’s the fun part of fall, and I must ask because, you know, I’m starting the new royal farms ads here, and it’s Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin and all that. And I’m getting all the apple spice I like eating this time here. I’m a little sad about the peach stuff going away. I gotta be in the fresh corn, but it is a really, kind of a fun time of year, and I know we talked flavored stuff with you so much, and the things that you do this is where you really get to put this to test, because you have nice flavors in all of your products. Yeah, pumpkin and apple and spice. This is a eggnog. You had an eggnog yet too early.
Wendy Bronfein 03:19
No, no eggnog. But we do have, we do have a fireball chew, which, when it is eggnog season, I actually like the traditional form that the the the liquor version of fireball. Love that, right? Yeah, yes, yeah. So the fireball chew is essentially a chew that has a like a red hot a hot cinnamon flavor. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 03:42
all right, well, you know, I mean, fall is a good time to be sick. The other day, I had it. I was in wise they had a Chantilly icing. And I’m like, What are these? Hey, they’re making me Google stuff to see what it tastes like, you know. But I do know what pumpkin and spice days. It’s been a couple weeks since we got together, you know, Warner, thank you. Your name’s on a bunch of stuff. And I got, you know, living classrooms and maritime magic coming up in a couple of weeks. And I know I want to talk about that. We’re going to do that next week, but just in a general sense of,
04:11
um, I’ve
Nestor Aparicio 04:12
got points now on my app and, and you said to me the whole time to push, because you teach me how to do these things. And this is kind of a new summer thing. I have 367 40 happy Eddie and 30 cast. I have a bunch of points. And you keep saying to me, I can get good stuff. And I thought I busted this one out. This is a couple years old. It barely fits me. I got it’s got a little weathered feel to it. But you guys do Fun, fun things. I saw your partners down at Mako last month, the folks that make a whole bunch of your Maryland thing, that good looking piece that you have, you’re doing some really cool stuff when people come in and shop in Timonium and foreign daughter to swag them out a little bit here next couple weeks.
Wendy Bronfein 04:49
Yeah. Well, there’s two ways also for the for the swag. So one is what you’re talking about, the curio rewards, scanning the QR code on all of your products and collecting points. Them. The other is at our dispensary, is whether it’s in Timonium, at foreign daughter or farm ken up in Elkton. Both of those stores, you collect points when you shop. So if you open up the app, if you use like the foreign daughter app for shopping, or you go online, you can see your point count there. So, like, I’ve got, like, I’m a squirrel, I’ve got like, 7000 points at foreign daughters,
Nestor Aparicio 05:27
and I only have three, but that’s your curio rewards that you’re teaching me. Okay, yeah, so
Wendy Bronfein 05:34
you can, you can. So what? So the store side, you can turn it in and use it all, like, take money off your purchase, put it towards a pre roll, the the curio reward side, where you’re just where you’re scanning products that you bought, regardless of where you bought them, that’s all. That’s all different kinds of swag and merch. But, I mean, I would say now that it’s fall, and you talked about, like, those flavors, you know, there’s a the fuse brand that we make, which is a one gram disposable, kind of sleek, discrete vape unit that is has a pumpkin spice coming out soon. The Edie Parker line that we also make has kind of these little, small, fits nicely in your pocket. Disposable vapes that are, they have candied apple and peppermint hot chocolate, lemon Danish. So really getting into that, that holiday season, and then our friend, a happy Eddie,
Nestor Aparicio 06:30
I was going to say, How’s he doing? I mean, because it’s football, I’m wearing purple, I you know, he I threatened that he would have to come back in the fall and talk about, for sure. Well, it’s going to be a good luck thing. You let him know that we the week he comes on, they lose, he can’t come back until the end of the season, you know? So, um, and it’s a tough month for that, because he’s a man. The ravens are just the beginning of the season is going to be kind of crazy for them next couple weeks. But what’s Eddie up to? I He’s, um, he’s tried to come have a crab cake with me, actually, the last time we got together. So we should bring him up here to do that. Oh,
Wendy Bronfein 07:01
yeah, definitely. Well, when he comes, you guys should talk about his collaboration with caviar. So caviar, the infused pre rolls that we produce, and we connected happy Eddie brand and caviar brand, and so now they are going to be an ex like, an exclusive offering of that product. So that’s really exciting that’s coming out real soon.
Nestor Aparicio 07:22
Wendy brown fine is our guest. She is our chief cannabis officer here. She’s the Chief Brand Officer for all things at Curia wellness and and foreign daughter. And you see them around town trying to educate folks here and all the stuff that we do. You know, my move product, I went to reach for it a minute ago in a segment, and my wife took the bomb. I don’t like the bomb’s gone, so all I have is the gel, because neither, neither one of us love the gel. We’re bomb people. I can only tell you, we’ve bought many of the bombs, but not the gels. But I went on vacay last week. I did a lot of yoga, like, you know, there’s literally a lot of outdoor sort of Sun yoga, and this as an aftercare product for me. Talk so much about smoking this and eating that, and like all that your family’s background was in the real pharmaceutical business and Neighbor Care and and providing all sorts of pills for this and rubs for that, this has become like a real go to product for me. And I think I talk about it three out of every four times we get together, yeah, because I think this is the one thing for me to say, this is nothing to do with anything you’ve ever associated with Reefer Madness, or anything you’ve ever associated with any of the stigmas that may be there, that there are things inside of this plant that help people every single day. And I guess that’s really at the crux of what you’re trying to do as a company. What I’m trying to do is really an educational person, to take something that was elicit all of my life as a 55 year old, say, how are we using what you would always say are the tools in the bag and, you know, and not using opioids, not using these other kinds of things, not using things that smell bad too, like my dad with the exorbitant Junior and the Ben gay and all and all that. This is a product that feels good and it works. Yeah.
Wendy Bronfein 09:07
I mean, I’m a huge proponent of the topicals. You know, I’m almost like, the dad and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, who’s like, put Windex on it. Like, that’s how I’m, like, put some bomb on it. Anything that happens, put some bomb on it. It makes it better. I mean, I do the same thing, like, I use it after any sort of exercise where I feel like, oh, that workout is going to make me sore. And it really either dramatically minimizes or totally removes any kind of follow along of that, like that DOMs issue of the delayed muscle pain, and I can’t say enough good things. And, yeah, to your point, it’s like, there’s no high, right? It’s just like you said, it’s like, really good Ben gay. You’re just making inflammation and muscle aches and pains feel better. And you can, you know, rub it anywhere on you.
Nestor Aparicio 09:55
Well, I know you guys were big into this with Baltimore running at one point. What, because it is we speak from an athletic standpoint. I mean, I don’t feel like in any way I’m an athlete when I’m at Planet Fitness, but, but I do feel the ache space my wife did a workout the other day. Oh my gosh, could move and but I think for real athletes, for for runners, for bike, for people that do even just walking in the woods, but grabbing groceries, for crying out loud, it, it’s nice to have something like that laying around that you can use, that you can rely on. And I, and I’ve been the two years since I think I’ve started using it. And I mean, there’s no five days a week I use it, and certainly after showers and after after a real workout, and it, it really helps me, in the middle of the night to sleep, I wake up feeling a lot better, having it on me.
Wendy Bronfein 10:46
Yeah. And I mean, I like, even when it’s not a workout thing, if it’s like, oh, I’m all like, it’s like, I sat at the computer too long and weird, and the shoulders and everything like, and anything that’s achy I feel, I find it’s, it’s very useful in in getting rid of that I know a lot of like golfers, tennis and and pickleball. People keep them in their bags. Like pickleball,
Nestor Aparicio 11:11
everybody’s playing pickleball but me, me too. I got offered to play on I’m on vacation. Guy comes up today. We need another guy for pickleball over and I’m like, I think you got the wrong guy, you know? I mean, I don’t know why I thought I would. I mean, you know, I do look really athletic and like all that. And I did. I played a lot of tennis, but my body doesn’t let that. I mean, the golf swing, I see these guys in the batting cages, and I think, you know, every day, people are out doing stuff a little more, maybe not more strenuous than my hot yoga, but certainly much more lending itself to being like that hurt. I try to do things that don’t hurt so therefore or get me hurt. But yes, I’m old and I’m falling apart, and I’ve had surgeries and all that stuff. But I think for people that are on the go, and younger folks and and folks that really do right, I see it when I drive around really doing things like pickleball, which you play pickleball?
Wendy Bronfein 12:03
I do not, yeah, I have a desire to, but I don’t have time
Nestor Aparicio 12:08
your kids too busy trying to get the gunner Henderson haircut out. Do you still have the orange? Are you just putting the orange away at foreign daughter for the month? Because you gotta have the orange out now. I mean, this is no, we have a weird time that these teams are taking our attention in this what’s wonderful. It’s why they’re here. Quite frankly, yeah,
Wendy Bronfein 12:25
we have, I think even this week they’re still, they were still offering the orange and black T shirt giveaways this week with purchases, Yeah, cuz it’s, you know, it could, you know, let’s get to those playoffs. Let’s make this happen. It could be really exciting. I always
Nestor Aparicio 12:41
wonder, if my mom were alive, she saw my I’m a blunt person shirt. How much she would love that. But I’m going to put that shirt away for a month. I’m either going to go purple when they win and you bring happy Eddie on, or I’m going to go orange, because they really can’t lose till October. You know what? I mean, they’re still in this thing we got the Yankees two weeks from now. Um, last thing for you, and I’ll let you talk a little bit more about this specific issue next week. But you’ve come on with James Bond from living classrooms. You came on a couple Super Bowl back in February for planning again in February for to talk about charities and talk about the community. Your name’s going to be on that thing, but you’re kind of a newish business, and you know, the stigmas and legalities and all of those kinds of things, just in a general sense, to try to be involved in the community and do good things. Nobody does better work than living classrooms. And I have been involved in really fortunate enough that when Brian Billick came to Baltimore 25 years 26 years ago, he became involved. And it got me involved from the very, very get go, and I’ve, I remember the old building, I remember all of that about what they grow there, but I know this is important you and your family,
Wendy Bronfein 13:48
yeah, so I mean, we have giving back is part of our value set, and something we’ve done since we started, and something we’ve done in any other business we’ve Ever been in. And when we got to know living classroom even better than we already knew them, kind of just a general as Baltimoreans a couple years ago, we decided that we were going to kind of make them our marquee philanthropic partners. We give to a lot of different organizations, but we were going to kind of make a substantial gift with them and have an ongoing relationship. And so I’ve joined their board, which has been really wonderful and is made up of a lot of great Baltimoreans. But the work that they do really touches all of kind of key areas for us. They do serve the Washington community as well, but I think a lot of us think of them as really many of their initiatives supporting Baltimore, and so the way that they give back to the city, the centers that they have to bring communities together, the schools that they have for children, the robust workforce development, things that they do, whether it’s related to the shipyard they have a man. A factoring area. They have a healthcare services area where they’ve literally created like, environments where people can train in what it would be like to be in the field in these like kind of mini setups. It’s very cool. And I think they just do really amazing work to change the trajectory of people’s lives in our city.
Nestor Aparicio 15:17
I can’t agree with you more, in over 25 years, I could probably do an hour without you, without James to someone else to tell them about all the things I’ve seen, experienced on the boats down at the harbor with kids, kids, kids, I think of kids, not just troubled kids, but just kids learning kids right, all of that, but putting kids up on the constellation overnight downtown, where my wife and I be taking a walk. We lived at the harbor, and see, it was like, that’s living classrooms. Living classrooms, their their work. It’s not just something you put your name on. And, you know, next week, I’ll talk about how you met your hobby at maritime magic. You know, I’m trying to think of, I think I met John Waters at maritime magic once, but I didn’t meet my didn’t meet my wife. They’re taking my wife to maritime magic, which is coming up in a couple of weeks, which is one of the really special nights in special nights in Baltimore. Brian Billick, my partner’s talked about it for years and years, and a lot of cool people are involved in it. Mark, not whole bunch people I know over the coming weeks, and I think I’m having James Piper bond on next week as well, so we will talk more about that. Wendy joins us every week. She’s our chief cannabis officer, or Chief Brand Officer at curio wellness and far and daughter. Sometimes they’re rocking and rolling. Sometimes they’re at the the Orioles games. How you feeling about the Orioles? I mean, I just got to throw a little bit of sports in the pitching, the injuries, all. I’m trying to be like Oriole positive this month, and just say they’re going to get Rodriguez, they’re going to get the pitching back. They’re going to figure and the bats are either going to be there or not in Octa if they don’t hit the ball in October, they’re going to go home. I’m worried about the bullpen, but I think in a general sense, they’re going to get a chance as anybody else next month. There’s no super teams. So I still, I am bullish that they’re going to play some baseball in October, and I don’t think anything that’s happened in July or August. Bad things have happened to lessen their chances. But I’m still, I don’t think all hope is lost in any way. I don’t believe that yeah,
Wendy Bronfein 17:07
I’m on Yeah, I’m not interested in going back to that, that decade, or two decades, or however long it really was, like, yeah, it’s uh, I’m like, I’m on this side of the fence now. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt until they show me otherwise. And honestly, when I was at that game, and it was like, the 13 to three, I was thinking to myself, the White Sox look like all those years that we were dealing with the Orioles, and we were so hopeful they were going to be better, but like, it wasn’t. I was like, we don’t look like that anymore. So like, you know, like, let’s I’m just, I’m holding out for him
Nestor Aparicio 17:41
see that white sox attendance. Last week, they had a game where, like, no, again, okay, no, I mean, I mean, like, literally, like, I’ve never seen anything. I mean, I’ve seen something like, because we played a game empty here 10 years ago. But, like, it was, did
Wendy Bronfein 17:55
you see the collision the other night? Yeah. I
Nestor Aparicio 17:57
mean, it there.
Wendy Bronfein 17:58
I was like, oh, that’s making the blooper,
Nestor Aparicio 18:00
right? I felt great for, you know, Cage slim Povich to throw seven things, but I’m like, he’s pitching against a double a team, you know? So, hey, we’ll have real big leaguers to deal with here in the coming weeks. Got the Yankees, and then, of course, just big games in October, they have the orange and black over far and daughter. They also have the purple out, no matter the outcome against Kansas City or Las Vegas, weird Las Vegas Raiders, that doesn’t roll off the tongue, but Dallas buffalo, Cincinnati all coming. We got maritime magic at Pearl Jam. We got Springsteen in town. Next week, my buddies from sticks are here and please, we always tell everybody, get responsibly educated about the plant, about cannabis, which we try to do that around here. We try to do that last year with the 25th anniversary. We’re going to do that with our oyster tour and all trying to educate everybody about all sorts things around here, including the harbor. But Wendy, I always appreciate you coming on. And how’s the kids hair? Is it growing out for the gunner Henderson thing? I mean, he’s not trying to grow like a man stash or anything, right?
Wendy Bronfein 18:58
He hasn’t figured out that that could be an option, yeah, but
Nestor Aparicio 19:01
no, it is gonna be gunner on Halloween. Can you at least say that? Uh, no,
Wendy Bronfein 19:05
he’s going to be the demon from Kiss, and he wants us all to be kiss, which, so I’m trying to figure out
Nestor Aparicio 19:13
that wants to be Gene Simmons. Yes, I’ll be Peter Chris. I was Peter. Chris, 7778 79 I was Peter Chris for like, five years.
Wendy Bronfein 19:21
He’s, oh, well, I might need to borrow some of the costume pieces you have. He is that idea has been in play for, I think, since the late spring at this point. Well, you
Nestor Aparicio 19:31
know, you see my documentary, seen all the rock stars and all that stuff. There was something about me taking an elevator at the Hyatt down in Fairfax to have dinner with Paul Stanley and I, they had a show. I was supposed to interview him before the show, but I knew him a little bit. See, he’s like, just, just come by have dinner after the show. And I’m like, okay, so I came by him up in his suite. He had his robe on, his hair like and he was like, the nicest guy. And I sat down, and I put my little tape recorder between us, and I have the tape. It’s you can go. Listen to it. It’s at Baltimore positive. I launched it when they did their farewell tour at the CFG Bank Arena, where you were there and rocking and rolling all night and partying every day. And I remember the first thing I thought when I sat and looked at him with makeup off. It was that era, and I thought Peter Chris was my favorite. I was always a Peter Chris guy, I don’t know, you know, and they throw them out of the band at 79 so I felt bad about that, but you’re going to be your hair. I mean, to me, you could be a good ace. If you want to be, you want to be ace. I
Wendy Bronfein 20:29
think, yeah, well, I think, though, based on, if we go for, like, true costumes, I think John will be Paul, he’ll do sergeant, because he’s got to wear that open. That’s not going to be for me, right? Yeah, it seems most appropriate for the baby to be cat man, because, I mean, what else I become? Ace, yeah, that’s where it leaves us. But yeah, it’s, I’m trying to figure it out. It feels like a really big crafting project that I’m not sure I have time for. But we’re going to he want, he’s been saying it forever,
Nestor Aparicio 21:03
yeah? Rock and Roll all night, party every day. See, he’s
Wendy Bronfein 21:06
a big I was made for loving you. That’s his. Well, this
Nestor Aparicio 21:09
is the disco era, right? Yeah? Um, Wendy brown fine is here. She is the Chief Brand Officer at Curia wellness. You’d never know that from our segments, but she is. She’s also at the front at Baltimore positive, we try to educate, inform and and help people in their journey to wellness. That’s what they do at curio wellness. It’s what they do over foreign daughter. And you can get all the education you need up at foreign daughter.com as well as curiowellness.com. Got to be of the age, but all of you are anyway. Wendy, take care. We’ll have more football to talk about next week. Well, maritime match, talk back next week and Pearl Jam. And I’ve been, I’m in that groove now where I’ve been listening to Pearl Jam for like, four days straight. So I’m really, once I got the credits, I’m like, I’m, yeah, I’m pre gaming. And it’s, you know, we’re a week and a half out on this. So it’s not often that Eddie brings the lads here to our fair hometown. That all happens next week, our friends. Out of curiosity, wellness sponsor, curiosity, wellness sponsor, our 25th and now our 26th anniversary, we’re going to replace that the cupcake with an appropriate oyster for the oyster tour, oysters and beer and crab cakes and conversation and football and baseball. We are wnst am 1570 Taos in Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore. Positive. You.
