How’s it growing folks?! Welcome to the first of a few Thanksgiving Week episodes of Here Weed Go! I’m, your host Eddie Celaya, the cannabis reporter with TucsonMarijuanaGuide.com.

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For this episode I decided to take a look at a side of the cannabis media that’s close to my heart: the podcast industry!

As someone who literally does EVERYTHING to make this show happen, I wanted to let you all know what goes into making a podcast really work.

While I’m pretty happy with how well Here Weed Go! has done over 72 episodes, I wanted to reach out and speak with someone who has an even more established show.

Enter David Mantey, Editorial Director of Digital Media at Industrial Media and host of the Cannabis Equipment New Podcast.

Without stealing too much of the following interview's thunder, Mantey, who comes from a background of business-to-business trade publications, began covering cannabis the same way he approached the manufacturing industry.

However, during the pandemic, interviews that he began to record over Zoom eventually morphed into a podcast (the aforementioned Cannabis Equipment News Podcast, in fact) and video series that now has over 120 episodes to its name.

Clearly, he’s found an approach that works, even in a prohibitionist state like Wisconsin.

In our conversation, Mantey and I touch on how his sister’s experience battling cancer by using cannabis-based medicine helped shape his view on the plant, how he and his partners ended up starting Industrial Media, and what it takes to produce a podcast that stands out in the crowded field of cannabis media.

Our conversation begins with Mantey talking about his first experiences with cannabis…

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