First Smoke of The Day

Welcome to First Smoke of the Day – The Ultimate Cannabis Industry Podcast! First Smoke of the Day is your go-to podcast for Exclusive insider Access to Cannabis Culture, Cultivation, Entrepreneurship, and more. Tune in for behind-the-scenes interviews with Cultivators, Hashmakers, Breeders, Brand owners, Athletes, Musicians, Smugglers, and the Fearless Hustlers shaping the cannabis industry. Discover Untold stories, expert tips, and valuable lessons from cannabis legends and innovators. From navigating underground movements to uncovering entrepreneurial success stories, we bring you real stories, hard truths, and actionable insights from the people driving cannabis culture forward. Why Subscribe? • Hear Stories from Industry Disruptors & Legends • Learn From Experts Shaping the Cannabis Space • Dive Deep into the Passion, Hustle & Culture Subscribe now and join the First Smoke of the Day community! <a href="htt

First Smoke of The Day is a business podcast hosted by Blackleaf & PackGods, with 243 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Blackleaf & PackGods hosts First Smoke of The Day, a business show with 243 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  First Smoke of The Day

  Puffco's First Brand Collab Was Mine | HopeLord

  Sep 17, 202617 min

  The whole thing is at fsotd.com Hopelord's first paycheck in cannabis came from Puffco. The job was seeding and talent relations, which in practice meant handing Puffco products to artists he met while touring. In this episode he traces the whole relationship. Finding Puffco through a producer friend in the ASAP camp, visiting their second office in Carroll Gardens when it was seven or eight people and Roger lived upstairs, leaving to focus on Talking Terps, and coming back years later as the brand behind Puffco's first co-branded collab. He also gets into PuffCon taking over entire city blocks and why he thinks 420 should move to Miami. Then a real argument about New York: he believes it already has the best cannabis laws in the country, lounges or no lounges, and explains why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  First Smoke of The Day

  One Rule Built Talking Terps. Steal From Everyone | HopeLord

  Sep 15, 202617 min

  Hopelord's father taught art for 47 years. He passed six years ago, and Hopelord only learned his most repeated lesson by reading what former students wrote on his Facebook wall. One of them, 36 years later, was still applying it: steal from everyone. Get up from your seat, walk the room, see what everybody else is doing, take what you like and make it your own. That's the lens he uses now when people copy Talking Terps. He made a toy, and within a year other people were making toys. He posted a lighter case and started seeing ads for them from companies in France. His read is collective consciousness, not theft. Inspiration is free and what matters is execution. The brand itself started by accident. A line in a song Juice and Erick the Architect were making after a Red Rocks show. It became a hashtag, then a logo, and the first person to wear a Talking Terps shirt was Snoop Dogg. He couldn't design shirts, so he made a two foot plush instead, and TP Crawford came out of that. The name came from a creative partner who's a boxing fan and was thinking of Terence "Bud" Crawford. His dad got a signed first edition before he passed. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  First Smoke of The Day

  Weed Got Me Into Rooms Money Couldn't Buy | HopeLord

  Sep 14, 202617 min

  It started with a tweet. Someone in the ASAP mob posted that he'd just gotten a G Pen and was looking for wax. Hope saw it, brought some over, and by the end of that week he was with the whole crew after the show. That one post turned into years of access. Touring with Flatbush Zombies from Seattle to Santa Ana. Meeting Ted before Alien Labs was Alien Labs, back when it was Lemon Fuel OG and a six lighter in Reading. Running around High Times Cups collecting flavors like Pokemon cards and coming home with fifteen jars at a time. Then the Mendo run. In 2016 he convinced Greener Fields to sell the original Skittles cut, took $20,000, called Ted, and drove up in the middle of the night. That cut plus an OZ Kush seed became Brainwash, the collab they finally did last year. He also has a documented photo from backstage at a Smokers Club show at Best Buy Theater, him with Rocky, Playboi Carti, Ian Connor and others, showing them Skittles for the very first time while everyone was still on OG. Plus the Toad Venom deal with The Flowery in Florida, and how the Talking Terps merch relationship turned into a strain drop. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  First Smoke of The Day

  I Documented How Cookies Was Built | LMC Media

  Sep 11, 202620 min

  LMC made the documentary on how Cookies got built. He says what Berner created is legendary, and the timing may never be repeatable. Still illegal, then legal. Streetwear first because it moves across borders easier and costs less to support. The Wiz vlog era that put Berner in front of an entire generation, including LMC himself, who watched it in middle school. And Berner walking on stage with the plant, a clip he still remembers. He breaks down what he sees now that he's had the curtain pulled back. Berner as a promoter and a selector is elite, and LMC is direct that he's genuinely from the culture. Where it gets complicated is the back end, and what happens when you're managing over 200 licensing partners through other people. They also get into the DOA and Ryan situation, the trademark that should have been locked down, and why LMC thinks the whole thing has become a waste of resources for both sides. Then the bigger lesson: maybe long-term full partnerships between two public-facing people in weed just don't work. LMC makes the case for short-term collabs instead, the way two actors do one movie and then go their separate ways. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  First Smoke of The Day

  I've Spent 4,000 Hours on the Phone About Weed | LMC Media

  Sep 9, 202616 min

  LMC estimates he's spent three to four thousand hours on the phone with people in cannabis, hearing their version of events. His read: a lot of them are straight up lying, and most of the rest are incentivized to shape it. He talks about why he's developed a strange compassion for some of the people this industry treats as villains. Not all of them, some earn it. But walk back far enough on most and you see how they got there. Lance gets into his own version of the problem. Someone says something on the podcast that stops the room, and within 24 hours he gets the call. On our friendship, on everything we've built, do not let that go out. Some of these are people he's known ten years before they ever sat down. He says the show would be fifty times bigger if he just ran everything unedited. They both talk about what doesn't make it out and why. Manic episodes. Fiancés calling. Two weeks of footage documenting somebody's life falling apart that neither of them will ever publish. Plus the real reason LMC has stepped back from investigative work: the model doesn't pay. Thousands of hours, real enemies, and no revenue at the end of it. He explains what he's rebuilding first. Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com. Subscribe for new episodes every week. RAW Rolling Papers. King size wides, the uncreased fatties, the RAW king size blacks, and the Phoenix flintless lighter with a windscreen and poker. Grab authentic through https://rawthentic.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  ListenShow Notes

Recent guests on First Smoke of The Day. Study who booked and why before you pitch.

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.