Tommy Truong: [00:00:00] Welcome to Kaya Cast the podcast for cannabis businesses looking to launch, grow, and scale their operations.
2026 I, I cannot believe we're in 2026. I just cannot believe that 2025 is over. What a year. I hope you guys had a fantastic holiday. There's just so many things to look forward to this year. I just, I don't even know where to start. You have Schedule Three.
It's gonna happen this year, hopefully. And I have so many questions. I have a lot of questions and I'm sure everybody does. In our industry, we operate in a state of uncertainty. That's our normal state. And Schedule Three gives us more uncertainty. What does this do for banking? What's gonna happen with banking?
Does this allow big banks to come in? I hope so. [00:01:00] I hope, and we know that Schedule Three opens the the door for research, which is great, but after research, it also opens the door for big businesses to come in. So what happens then? What happens when pharmaceutical companies or other big companies come in?
Does that allow big beverage companies to come in? Does open the door for that. What happens at the state level, if any? Does do things change at the state level?
What happens on the federal level? Do they now allow certain Schedule Three drugs to be sent across state lines?
I'm sure that the plant itself, the natural form, maybe not, but what about a pharmaceutical drug? I'm sure that can be shipped across state lines. And does that open the door for everything? Don't know, just a lot of questions. I hope that, the federal government or this administration. Sits down and really goes through the uncertainty [00:02:00] that the industry faces and maybe add some clarity to some of the questions that we have. But all in all good things. Good progress. 2026. We are sitting on a debt currency crisis right now, and a lot of people aren't really aware of this. I hope you guys are the people that are listening, but it's.
You see it, you feel it. You know, you, you see what's happening with precious metals. You see what, how other companies are positioning themselves. They're selling a lot of US dollar, they're acquiring precious metals. You see big institutions, what they're doing with their money. It's interesting and I nobody can predict when a crisis is going to happen.
But from the information that's in front of us or from what I can see that it will, it's just a matter of when, and it's a matter of how big. [00:03:00] I don't think the Fed can have a, can navigate us towards a soft landing. We're well beyond that, so we'll see. But we're also gonna see what happens with, when the government repositions themselves to crypto.
Uh, so it's, it's, it's, it's, it's an interesting year. You know, we're sitting not on with Schedule Three. You have a debt and currency crisis. You also have an asset bubble crisis. You have an AI asset bubble crisis, but also you have AI productivity too, and which one's gonna come first, right? Very interesting year.
I was thinking to myself, with our podcast, we've been traditionally really focused on cannabis operations, bring on guests, talk about how other companies are scaling their cannabis operations, but just where we are today. [00:04:00] I, I want to expand in 2026 to have conversations about everything that we think will impact businesses.
You have so many things to draw in on. I want to have a lot more conversations on how we are leveraging AI to scale our operations. Where we think or where, at least where I think the debt bubble is happening and how we're positioning ourselves accordingly for a crisis. There's a lot to be learned in 20, in 2008, how other companies position themselves during that crisis and how they.
One, and there's a lot of companies that lost during oh eight. Now, if things are different now than oh eight, very different. But there's a lot to be learned on, on what happened before. But more than ever, information is power, and the more information you have, the better position you can be and the better odds that you have to win.[00:05:00]
Like any crisis, there's gonna be winners and there's gonna be losers. There's gonna be people and companies that make a ton of money. By being positioned accordingly before a crisis happens, there's gonna be a lot of people and businesses that are gonna be caught with their pants down when a crisis happens, and they're going to be in survival mode.
So the more information you have, the better position you can be. And. Hopefully you're in the right side of history when something happens. So in 2026, I, I wanna focus more on things, uh, like this, things that I think that everybody should know if you're running a business or if you're not on, um, what other people are doing today, what big money is doing, what countries are doing to position themselves in 2026 and beyond.
Last year I wanted to do more solo episodes and I failed miserably. [00:06:00] It was not a good year for solo episodes last year, I don't think I did one. So this year, one of my New Year's resolution is to do more and to at least give information to you guys on what I see that's happening and maybe bring on some mentors and some guests,
talk about what we see in the world and how we are positioning ourselves, and, hopefully will help you guys in positioning yourself in today's world. So expect more of that. I ended 2025 just feeling really grateful. I am grateful, I'm grateful to be alive in such, in a time of such large change. A lot of change is happening.
It's so different today. Things are happening so much faster. In the early two thousands, you had the internet in today you have ai, and AI is just moving light years faster [00:07:00] than internet adoption. You have bubbles in both worlds, but at least today's bubble, there's applications and. You know, there's commonalities.
You have a crazy, crazy currency in debt crisis that has really started in '08 and expedited itself during the pandemic. And then you have Schedule Three. So there's just so much happening in today's world and I'm just grateful 'cause I feel as though by being grateful, I'm mindful, and by being mindful, I'm informed.
And by being informed. I'm positioned and I hope you guys feel grateful too. So as always, we're so grateful that we have you guys as listeners. Without you, we would not be here and I'll be talking to myself, which is sometimes I feel like I am, so I'm really grateful for, for everybody listening. Uh, 2026.
Expect more content like this. We'll dive [00:08:00] deep into certain things that we feel that you guys should know. Information is power. Especially today, things are happening and you guys need to be informed. So please go out there and read. Do a lot of reading, do a lot of podcasts listening. Follow a lot of people on YouTube, on X, et cetera.
Be informed. Position yourselves accordingly. 2026, let's get it. Let's be on the right side of the ledger. I'll talk to you guys soon.
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