1 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Now it's time for Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue, 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: Joe Grande and Mark and Craig Wasserman, the Pot Brothers 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: at Law with special guest comedy and cannabis legend Tommy Chong. 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Cannabis Talk one on one. My 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: name is Blue, alongside of me or of the world 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: famous Pot Brothers in Law and Mr Joe Grande, and 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: you are now tuned into the greatest cannabis show in 8 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: the country the world. I say, at least this block. 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: What do you think, gay man all over this is 10 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: the one. We have an amazing show for you guys today. 11 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: Joe let us know who's on the show. Well, thank 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: you guys for listening to our podcast, Cannabis Talk one 13 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: oh one all over the world. We appreciate you. If 14 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: you ever want to be a part of the show, 15 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: give us a call. Eight. Make sure you check out 16 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: our Instagram pages for daily news, all kinds of great information. 17 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: Check out the pictures of Mark's wife as she looks 18 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: so hot. Oh eight, that's on a different page. Having 19 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: House at Cannabis Talk one oh one at Pot Underscore 20 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: Brothers Underscore at Underscore Law, Mark's at wass Law. That's 21 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: the page. You can see your wife and her and oh, 22 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: here we go. Craig's at wash Law dog you could 23 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: actually see his puppy, and Blue was at one Christopher 24 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: Wright and I am at Joe Grande fifty two and 25 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: the gentleman on the show today, you guys, is an icon, 26 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: a legend in the cannabis world, let alone in the world. 27 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: Give it up for Tommy, Cha please please sit down, Tommy. 28 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: They're going crazy everywhere, especially inside your bank, explained to us. 29 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 1: First off, how are you doing this interview inside the bank? 30 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: Is the money that big for you right now? Well, 31 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: what happened? I had a call from my son. He 32 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: needs some money, of course, and I thought the call 33 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: with us was that three, and uh it turned out 34 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: to be too And so you know, I'm at the 35 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: bank and uh it's empty. So I'm cool. That could 36 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: go sit in someone's cubicle if I wanted to know 37 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: a man of his word, he's going out of his way. 38 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: And it's funny how you say that your son calls 39 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: for some It seems like life never ends for that 40 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: as a dad, right, no matter what age they are period, 41 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: especially nowadays, you know, because you know, there's no work, 42 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: there's no you know. Yeah, it's it's a tough light 43 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: out there. A good thing. He's got a rich dad, 44 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: hapending dad. Yeah, speaking of a rich dad. Your life's 45 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: been amazing. We want to touch on it. You've been 46 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: an advocate of cannabis, it seems like forever. I want 47 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: to get to when it first started in your iconic brand, 48 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: Tommy Chong's and of course the Chief and Chong dispensaries 49 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: that are out. But the first thing that I want 50 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: to touch on that's very inspiring is that you're a 51 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: cancer survivor and you're giving all the credit to cannabis, 52 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: which is beautiful. And that's where I want to start 53 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: talking to you about and explain this. First off, how 54 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: did you know you had cancer, what were the feelings, 55 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: and how did you treat it? Well? The first cancer 56 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: I got was prostate and uh, when you got prostate cancer, 57 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: you know it when when something's wrong with the big fella, 58 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you know, he starts complaining a little bit. 59 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: But I I really didn't take it serious until I 60 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: tried to get on h G h W and growth hormone. 61 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: And when you do that, you know, for I'm a bodybuilder. 62 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: So when you do that, before they'll let you on it, 63 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: you have to do a real extensive cancer search. And 64 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: that's what I did. That's when I found it. That's 65 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: when I found out I had prostant But you know, 66 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 1: it was that that old and I cannot It kind 67 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: of bugs me when they say that, you know, they say, well, 68 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: it's that slow acting cancer. By the time it does 69 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: any damage, you'll be dead. So I didn't like that, 70 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: you know that that kind of attitude didn't didn't sit 71 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: well with me. So I did all the straight cancer stuff, 72 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: you know. But the trouble is, I got a biopsy, 73 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: and the biopsy I think spread it to the rectum 74 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: and then I ended up with rectal cancer. And then, uh, 75 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: now I could mess around with that, you know. So 76 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: I did the best doctor. I did the research, found 77 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: the best doctor cancer doctor, uh surgeon, and so he 78 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: took out the tumor and then they radiated the areas, 79 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: both areas while they're down there and they're side by side. 80 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: So so I got cancer and SI and cancer free 81 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: of of the boats that prostate and the rector and um. 82 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: You know, I got a bag, but it's better than nothing. 83 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: And uh, you know I have to do with my 84 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: poop anyway, so they're one way or you know what 85 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 1: went into or another. Now, did cannabis help you have 86 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: a better quality of the process? I mean, let me 87 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: explain very carefully, you know, to people, because I almost 88 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: made the same mistake that people do, you know, where 89 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: they think, well, I'm just gonna go holistic and just 90 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: treat it with with you know, Wick Simpson oil and 91 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But don't do that. Uh, if 92 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: you have cancer, you go to the doctor, go to 93 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: the specialists, do what they tell you to do, and 94 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: use the cannabis. At least was for me, use it 95 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: after to help you heal. Because that's see, I think 96 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: what happened to me because I was in jail for 97 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: nine months without weed. I think what happened when I 98 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: was without weed. That's that's when I got the prostate cancer. 99 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: And even even even right now during this pandemic. You know, 100 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: I'm spoken more than I usually do because I'm home, 101 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,799 Speaker 1: and I think. I think what happens when you get high. 102 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: The cannabis affects the brain, and the brain is is 103 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: the master. Uh, you know, it rules our body, it 104 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: rules our life. Without a brain, you don't have a life. 105 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: And and the cancer, I mean, the cannabis goes right 106 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: to the brain and so and what happens, it brings 107 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: the You have to be in the moment when you're 108 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: high on pot. You're in the moment. Now that moment 109 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: might be sitting in a chair where you can't get 110 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: out because because you're a little bit too to whack 111 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: to do anything. But what it does it relaxes the body. 112 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: And when the body is relaxed, then the immune system 113 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: kicks in and takes care of any problems that you 114 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: have in your body. Like when when animals get especially dogs, 115 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: they don't go to the doctor. They crawl off. They 116 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: don't eat, they don't drink, they crawl off in the 117 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,119 Speaker 1: whole somewhere and they wait and then they climb down, 118 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: let the body's immune system take care of it, and boom, 119 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: they're better. And that's really what happened to me is 120 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: after I was cured, you know, with the radiation, then 121 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: I used the cannabis to get off the opioids, because 122 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: that's the big problem with any kind of serious operation 123 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: is the opioids they put you on after and that 124 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: can be a problem that can be a life uh 125 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: threatening problem. And so that's my advice is to study, 126 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: make sure you know what you're doing, make sure you 127 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: know what kind of cancer you got or what kind 128 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: of helmet you got, and make sure that the doctor 129 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: clears you to do the cannabis treatments. And when you 130 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: do that, you'll be like me. And then, uh, then 131 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: I want everybody out there that listening to me to 132 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,119 Speaker 1: go buy some platform Chong's Choice not Chongs to Tommy 133 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: Chong dispensaries, and then it'll make me feel even that 134 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: will make me feel even better. Tell tell us real quickly, 135 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: and I know we'll do this little later. Where where 136 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: are your stores? How many do you have? Now? Go on? 137 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: Go on, Uh, we don't have any stores yet. Go 138 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: on my website, Hey Tommy Chong or Tommy Chong dot com, 139 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: and it'll tell you where my products are available, and 140 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: they're they're available a lot of head shops in l A. Anyway. 141 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: Our first store will be in San Francisco. It will 142 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: be open uh hopefully uh within a couple of months 143 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: because we're we're buying existing places. And then the second 144 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: one will be in Los Angeles on Highland isn't it? 145 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy? I'm the oldest guy up here. I'm 146 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: the one who's talking right now, and you know I'm 147 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: about twenty years behind you, but still all above them. 148 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy that you're opening the store where someone 149 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: can walk in and you can sell weed bay you know, 150 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: thinking back in the day when a joint was a 151 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: felony out here, when he's been a jail for it, 152 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: well you don't know that jailed jail, jail for the 153 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: for the for the isn't isn't it crazy? What a 154 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: day it is that you can open up a store? 155 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: God bless, it's so crazy. Listen. I did a movie 156 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,959 Speaker 1: was Snoop Dogg and Dr dre called car Wash, And 157 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: I thought I was being clever because what I was 158 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: doing my job was to deliver weed to him. And 159 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: so so when I when I delivered them, I delivered 160 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: the weed, I said, Okay, here's the deal. The weeds free, 161 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: but the bomb costs three dollars, right right, yeah, And 162 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: I thought I thought I was really being clever. I 163 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: think a couple of months later they must me not 164 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: for weed. That's insane. They used that movie as evidence. 165 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: You know, hey, listen, they wouldn't be so bad. They 166 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: put it in the in the indictment that the reason 167 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: I should go to jail was because I made fun 168 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: of law enforcement agencies in my movies exactly. And you 169 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: did so well because those early up and smoke ones 170 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: when you guys pissed on the guy too. I mean, 171 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,719 Speaker 1: that was one of the best movie scenes. Every he 172 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: turned towards the guy and you're pissing on his leg 173 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: and he's kind. They had nothing else. They had no 174 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 1: other reason, you know, because that's criminal. Yeah, it was. 175 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: It was buns, it was and it was Bush Bushes, 176 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: uh guys, you know Ashcot And that's why you know 177 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: when when Trump started doing isn't everybody said Bush? Even 178 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: Bush said, boy that boy, that guy makes me look 179 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: pretty good. Well, thank you, Tommy. It's Blue Joe, Grande 180 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: Mark and Craig Washingman, the Pop Brothers at Law, and 181 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: we will be right back with more Tommy Chunk after 182 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: this break. Welcome back to Cannabis Talking one on one 183 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: with Blue Joe, Grande Mark and Craig Washingman, the Populars 184 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: a Law and Mr Tommy Chong. At what point in 185 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: age were you when you read the first Cheech and 186 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: Chong script and what did you think, because there's no 187 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: way you could have thought it would have been the 188 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: iconic movies that they were. What was that process? Well, 189 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: first of all, we wrote I wrote that movie, and 190 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: so that was the script that we were writing it. 191 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: And when you're working on a movie, you don't think 192 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,439 Speaker 1: of anything else. There's no other thought in your mind 193 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: other than you know, you gotta get up, and you 194 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: gotta because you've got like a hundred grand the day 195 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: writing on what you wrote and what you performed. And 196 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 1: so we were kind of busy right up until the 197 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: until we found out it was a hit. That's when 198 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: we started going Wow, who would have thought, right? But 199 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: but yeah, it was you know. The most like changing 200 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: thing I think for me was that I could buy 201 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: a brand new car for the first time in my life. 202 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: I could walk in and cash out a brand new car, 203 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: which I did. You know, well, actually I did that 204 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: with the records when we when we got to hit record, uh, 205 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: and with the movies. I started buying houses. Every time 206 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 1: we do a movie, I'd buy a house and so 207 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: I got three houses around How long did it take 208 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 1: you to right up and smoke? We wrote it as 209 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: we went. It was about a month. We had about 210 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: a month we had we know, we yeah, as we 211 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: were filming, for sure, Oh for sure. Oh yeah, because 212 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: uh teaching now, we were always together and we'd be writing, 213 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: you know, from one shot to another, and then he'd 214 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 1: tell me a funny story and oh, we got to 215 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: put that in the movie, you know, like him him 216 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: peeing in the hamper. That wasn't written in the movie, 217 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: but when he told me about it, we put it 218 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: in the movie, you know. And and it seems like 219 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: my father, you know, uh, what's a great name, Struthers Martin, 220 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: you know my father. You get a job by the 221 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: sundown or I'm shipping you off the military school with 222 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: that Finkels thing. Kid Well, Struggle wrote every line. He 223 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: had lived, that whole speech, that whole speech, Stacy Keach. 224 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: I don't think I wrote any lines for him. He 225 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: had lived his He he wrote his own section. That 226 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: was That was the magic of that movie, because everybody 227 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: in that movie more or less, we give them the idea, 228 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: and you know, they're all professional actors, you know, and 229 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: so they just tore it up. Are referenced. I mean, 230 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: I literally use references from those movies such as Hey man, 231 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: when you meet my homie, don't look at his neck, 232 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: you know, like I used that out of nowhere all 233 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: the time, and it's from a teaching tong up and slow. 234 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: How did that go to the movie? Like, I swear 235 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: to god, Tommy, I used that reference once a month 236 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: at least. And I'm going low ball because you're gonna 237 00:13:58,040 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: meet my boy Craig, don't look at his bolt spot 238 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: on his Yeah, how did that come about? Well? Again, 239 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: you know, Cheech and I. You know, we we we 240 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: had what seven years of doing albums records, and so 241 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: you know, we got to the point, well, you know, 242 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: we never did rehearse. We rehearsed one one time and 243 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: it became the Dage not Hearing record. So created who well, 244 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: we we create as we go, you know. Uh. It 245 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: was It's an improvisational technique that I picked up from 246 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: the Committee. There's a acting group called the Committee and 247 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: the Groundlings a little bit of the grounds but mostly Committee. 248 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: Second City. When I was a blues musician, I used 249 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: to travel around with Motown and instead of going to 250 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: blues clubs, I had to go to the improv clubs 251 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: and I spent a lot of time in the in 252 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: the SA San Francisco, Second City, I mean, uh committee, 253 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: and so I you learned how to improv. You learn 254 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: how to create on stage. And so so we did 255 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: it with the movies. We had Robert Altman movie people. 256 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: And that's the way Robert Altman always worked. You know, 257 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: he would give give his people an idea and outline 258 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: and then let him loose, and then you just did it. 259 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: And then when you found something better, you changed it. 260 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: If not, you just went with the first take A 261 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of up and smoke. It was 262 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: first take stuff because you don't have time to mess 263 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: it up, or there's nothing if your ad lib, there's 264 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: nothing to mess up. Whose idea was the truck made 265 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: out a pot? Whose ideas it was from an old joke? 266 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: An old joke. Uh. The Polish guy was was crossing 267 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: the rushing border every morning and take this wheelbarrow and 268 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: takes it across the border. And every day they would 269 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: search that wheelbarrow for contraband, and they never found any. 270 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: And so when he retired, they asked the guy, what 271 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: were you smuggling? Because we knew you were smuggling something, 272 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: And the guy said, wheelbarrows Oh and and that was 273 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: the joke I used when about the truck, because who 274 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: would have suspected truck made of grass going through it 275 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: catches on fire and everybody's what are some of the 276 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: product lines? What are some of the new product lines 277 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: that you do carry under the Tommy the Tommy Chong's name. 278 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: We got breast trips that everybody loves. All my straight friends, 279 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: all my trumpy friends, all that you know they have 280 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: probably friends, Oh I got I got a ton of 281 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: trumpy friends. They're they're there's the rich guys that have 282 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:07,360 Speaker 1: the you know that tax break. I got a bunch 283 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: of those. It comes, It comes leads to interesting conversation 284 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 1: because they forget sometimes that I'm anti Trump to a fault. 285 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: But here here's the strips. These are made especially for 286 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: me because they're they're a little little powerful. There's a 287 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: little higher dose. Yea, this is twenty I think, and 288 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: they're usual. They're usually about fifteen or ten. My wife 289 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: takes the hat. Well, she doesn't do mine. It's too 290 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: too powerful. But they we got somewhere the girls take 291 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: a half and they sleep through the night, and you 292 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: know it's really you know, and you're not smoking anything. 293 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: And it's really good. Yeah, I I that's one of 294 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: our products. The big seller we're Tommy Chong products is 295 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: a CBD. Oh man, that CBDs gone wack, gone crazy, 296 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: because we're in like we're in Walmart, We're in all 297 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,439 Speaker 1: sorts of straight straight stores with the CBD and so 298 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 1: taken off. Hey, pretty soon you're gonna have to be 299 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: talking too much, secretary to get me to come on. 300 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 1: We already did, Tommy. Yeah, that's how we got you. Anyways, Tommy, 301 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. What do you mean pretty fucking soon? 302 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: Who were you? Don't try to be modest over there. 303 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 1: But he's not my secretary, he's a partner. Well you're paying, Well, 304 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: he's doing good job. I'm taking on some I'm talking 305 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: about someone that works for me and gives all the 306 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: excuses you like, you're sorry. I'm sorry. He's in a meeting. 307 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: You need somebody to hold your phone so you could 308 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: do these interviews, right? I hate my arms getting tired. 309 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He's at the bank right now, Tommy, go ahead. 310 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: I want to ask you, and I say this in 311 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: a respectfully way, what took so long to get the 312 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: Cheech and Chong dispensaries. That seemed like the know either 313 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 1: way your dispensaries. It seems like that was the no 314 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 1: brainer from Jump Street. Why did not somebody partner up 315 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: with you guys early on and partner with you we 316 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: did right up the bat. I got approached and I 317 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: had a chunk's choice lying out. Unfortunately the guy turned 318 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: out to be a flake, and and they were just 319 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: in it to raise money. And so luckily I think 320 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: those people we didn't. We didn't. I didn't lose any money. 321 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: He took us to court because we we can right away. 322 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: And then he you know, he did the you know, 323 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: the Donald Trump legal thing. He doesn't lie all over 324 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: the place. Yeah, yeah, that's what they did. But the 325 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: reason they never grabbed us they were so busy with 326 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: was Willie and and and Snoop and and uh, you know, 327 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: it was too soon. We felt it was too soon. 328 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: And so when you know, when medmen fell because uh, 329 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: you know, hanky panky with the money raised, you know, 330 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: and and over what do they call they went, Uh, 331 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: they over promised, you know, and they rolled raised too 332 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: much money. And then the people that wrote raised the money, 333 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: they were doing weird things like buying stuff and then 334 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: selling it back to the to themselves stuff. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, 335 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: that's not good. And any any time you start doing 336 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 1: that in any project, I don't care what it is, 337 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: the project's doomed to fail, you know, because, uh, you know, 338 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: we're we're a nation of laws, and it's not arbitrarily 339 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: you know, we're in nature or we're a nation or 340 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 1: a race of people. You know, this physical universe is 341 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 1: built on laws, physical laws, and we have to obey 342 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: those laws. And then there's a moral law that also 343 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 1: that needs to be o bid and you can't miss 344 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: with it, you see. I mean it'll be for a 345 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 1: short term you'll uh, you know, you look like you're 346 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: you'll you'll be prospering, but in the long run you 347 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: fall down. Yeah, I mean there's nothing to sustain a lie. 348 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to do. I mean, it's funny 349 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: because I think without mentioning names, we did have a 350 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: klimer to working with that same potential company, and they 351 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,479 Speaker 1: were trying to use people's locked people up and use 352 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: their name to raise money, and the money wasn't getting 353 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: accounted for where it was going, what they were doing 354 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 1: with it. It was a real and a lot of yeah, yeah, 355 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: and a lot of people were doing that in the beginning. 356 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: Now going forward, how I mean, how much do you 357 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: get involved with the legal end of it and all 358 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: the all the hurdles you have to go through to 359 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 1: get a license of your own for your own dispensaries 360 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: such as up in San Francisco, if you had to 361 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: be very involved in that, no, no good for you. 362 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: My son, Paris Chong, he's my front man for that. 363 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 1: And then I have a retired UH Wells Fargo banker 364 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 1: UH working for us too. He's part of our company, 365 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: Chunk Sun and UH and that's the ones that handling 366 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: the CBDs and well he was a bank manager for 367 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: many years and he's got all the expertise, got a 368 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 1: couple of degrees in financing, doctorate, you know. I mean, 369 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: the guy is a genius and he's a ward bit too, 370 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: and he's really sweet. He was in Vietnam, uh in 371 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: the Vietnam War. He was a pilot and he got 372 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: shut down and he because of the medicine that he 373 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: lost hearing in both years and so he can't hear 374 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 1: without a hearing it and so so we can talk 375 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: about him behind his back, and you can still have 376 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: fun talking. It's gotta be top one on one with 377 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: Blue Joe Grande and Market, Craig Washingman, the Pot Brothers 378 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: that Law. We'll be back with more Tommy Chong after this. 379 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue Joe, Grande, 380 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: Mark and Craig the Pop Brothers at Law. And we 381 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 1: want to give special thanks to Pick Peanuts, Jen and Elvis. Elvis, 382 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: I love that guy, Tommy, Tommy, let let's ask you this. 383 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: Do you consider yourself a comedian as well? I mean sincerely, 384 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: like I feel like you're full on comedian and you 385 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 1: should do stand up too, because the things that come 386 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 1: out are just a point. Yeah, they're hilarious. I mean 387 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: so I mean is it? Oh yeah, yeah. You can't 388 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: get away once, you know. I took the commedity course. 389 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: I did my five minutes and in the beginning, and 390 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 1: I worked my way up to a couple of hours. No, 391 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: I oh yeah, definitely. You don't lose that. You don't 392 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: lose that. That's our when you've got that just a gap. Well, 393 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: look at Trump, as you mentioned shump a few times. Tommy, 394 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,719 Speaker 1: what became how did you become not a fan of him. 395 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 1: What was the turning point for you? Oh when he 396 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: shared the crap about Mexicans coming across the border, the 397 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: rape and pillage and and uh bringing drugs. You know, 398 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: as soon as he said that, you know, come on, 399 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: I'm Mexican. Uh cheaches, pull Mexican. He's talking about cheach 400 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: you know. And for the longest time there, I used 401 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 1: to I used to do a bit about you know, 402 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: I was trying to be nice to Trump because we 403 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: had a lot of Trump fans, and I used to say, 404 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: you know, when I first heard he wanted to build 405 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: a wall, I thought he meant mall, and I thought 406 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,479 Speaker 1: that was a great idea. You know, got you pick 407 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 1: up supplies that you're sticking across the border, you know. 408 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 1: But you know, I was in jail with a lot 409 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: of con man and I grew up you know in Canada. 410 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: Uh you know the stock market. That's where all the 411 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: gangsters hung out, the Canadian stock Market. So so I've 412 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: been around gangsters all my life. And I got a court. 413 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: I took a course. They taught me. They taught me 414 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: all the scams, you know. And then when I was 415 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: in jail myself, I was in a halfway house and 416 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: and and gangsters. They can't they got They bragged about 417 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: how they robbed people, and they got to tell you. 418 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: They gotta tell you, They gotta tell somebody, and they 419 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 1: just love having you in there, right, Oh my god. 420 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: And I'm and I'm such a good listener, you know. 421 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: But but no, I know, I smelled the con right away, 422 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 1: right away, And and then I knew, you know, because 423 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: these guys they don't like anybody. They only want the money. 424 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: And they don't really want the money, They only want 425 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: the ability to pull somebody to get the money. Because 426 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: if you look at Trump, if you're using anything for 427 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: the money, he he'd be so rich and so so famous, 428 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: he'd be the most popular president in history. All he 429 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: had to do is show a little empathy and hired 430 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: the right people. That's the only thing he had to do. 431 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: But instead he just wanted to He's a Mike hog. 432 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: He just wanted you know. Can't get him off the stage. Yeah, 433 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: you know, at least now we've got forty seven states 434 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: that in some form or another they're allowing cannabis. Yes, 435 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: you know, we got the three holdout states. What do 436 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 1: you what do you think about that? What do we 437 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: need to do to get Utah, Nebraska and Kansas. That 438 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: is New York one of them, New York and New York. 439 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: It's Utah in Kansas, New York. Sit on medical. Who 440 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: who's that in Utah, Kansas and Nebraska? Yes, isn't it? 441 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: Isn't it? You know? The biggest, the biggest hip producer 442 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: was Utah. Can't Kansas, we can't? Oh is Idaho? Nebraska? Humble, 443 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: Kentucky they've got medical, got medical? Yeah, okay, yeah, No. 444 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: Kentucky was the biggest hamp producer ever because it would 445 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 1: grow hamp to help revitalize their tobacco fields. Uh. Kansas, 446 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: they used to grow himp like crazy there too. In fact, 447 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: the ditch weed. You can go anywhere in Kansas and 448 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: Marcolond the ditch and that's what's called. That's what it's called, right, Yeah, 449 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: I heard the stories. Those places they'll they'll they'll pick 450 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: up or not or not. Look at look at tenses. 451 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 1: It is still a dry there's still got drug counties 452 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 1: in Texas where you can't buy a beer. So well, Tommy, 453 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: this is this is where we do one of our 454 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: favorite parts of the show. It's called the High five. 455 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 1: So what We're gonna do is give you five questions 456 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: about the cannabis your uses, and I want you to 457 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,199 Speaker 1: answer with as honest as you can be. Here you go, Tommy, 458 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: Tommy Chungy, It's now time for the High five. How 459 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: old are you the first time you smoked weed? And 460 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: where did you get it from? I was seventeen years 461 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: old and a jazz bass player from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 462 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: He was down in Los Angeles. He came back with 463 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 1: a Lenny Bruce record and a couple of joints, and 464 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: he gave me a joint Jeremy on for the first time. Exactly. 465 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: That's right, Tommy Chong. Number two on the High five, 466 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: what is your favorite way to use cannabis? Uh? Smoke it. Yeah, 467 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: it's still my favorite. And a joint bonger pipe? No, 468 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: I've got little one hitter is saying that. I do 469 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: know it's a pintoys will say a pike. I'm I'm 470 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: a very lightweight, but I'm a very loyal lightweights The 471 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: one hit or quitter Number three of the High five 472 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: with Tommy song, craziest place you've ever used or smoked cannabis? Wow? Right? 473 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I want to know everything going through your mind. Well, 474 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: I thought it's a little um this. The singer and 475 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: I were at these young ladies who we met the 476 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: singer better, and they invited us over, and we were 477 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: in the process of getting high when the phone rang 478 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: and and the girl answered it and she goes, oh 479 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: my God, hung up and she said to her friend, 480 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: they're coming over. And it was a little and we 481 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: had nowhere to run, and we had the joint, so 482 00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: we we both hit under the bed. And and if 483 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: you saw the movie which one Nice Dreams? Is it 484 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: Nice Dreams where the biker comes over? Yeah, that's the movie. 485 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: That's where we got it from a real life experience. 486 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: They're coming over, but who was the singer? Who's not here? 487 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: And while we were under the bed, the phone rang 488 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: and you could hear the husband's talking and yelling and 489 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: and so we pushed the polling out so they could 490 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: didn't have to look for it. Alright, Tommy John, Question 491 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: number four of the Cannabis Talk one on one high five, 492 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: what is your go to Munchie's after you get high? Well, 493 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: it's gonna be boring, but it's carrots Rock carrots ahead, 494 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 1: Mr Bucks, Bunny. Yeah, Well, that's why. That's why you're 495 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: so hungry. Everything tastes good. Gotta be careful, and so 496 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:09,719 Speaker 1: what you do your substitute like carrots or celery and 497 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: and and they're really good. It's like anything. You could 498 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: be a stick of candy, but it's the carrot and 499 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: it's so good for you. Carrots on a bad thing. 500 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: It's the high five with Senior Tommy Chong. Tommy, if 501 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 1: you could smoke cannabis with anyone dead are alive, who 502 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: would it be? And why? Okay, Yeah, I was gonna 503 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: say Moses, but I think I'll pick Jesus. It's time. Yeah, 504 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: I've already smoked with Moses. I but I think I 505 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: think Jesus because I think to see what kind of 506 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: dope he could conjure up, you know, I mean he 507 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: may have been passionate around there on that final meal 508 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: right there. He may have broke bread and smoked a 509 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: little people right after that. You know what I mean. Well, 510 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: it's that is backing call. All he had to do is, 511 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: you know, just leg snappers fingers and there it is 512 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, Tommy, I want to ask you this. 513 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: Since you've been growing up, you've been smoking like you said, 514 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: since seventeen made all these iconic movies with all this 515 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: weed around you, has the weed gotten or how much 516 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: better do you say the weed's gotten since you first 517 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: started smoking. It's it's only gotten cleaner. It hasn't gotten 518 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: any stronger or weaker or anything, just cleaner. Because back 519 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: in the day when you bought weed, you bought seeds. 520 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 1: You got mostly seeds, stems, yeah, everything else. But it's 521 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: the same power. You know, it does the same thing 522 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: to us. Yeah, you know the you know that old saying, 523 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: you know your grandfather, we you know, there's much stronger. No, no, no, no, 524 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: I was there. I was there in the beginning, that 525 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: first joint that I got, the first tok I took. 526 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: It lasted all night. I barely got home. And that 527 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: that was back in the fifties. That was fifty seven. 528 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: So it's it's it's nothing's changed. It's like saying, you know, 529 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: apples or oranges, I'm going to use them as an example. 530 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: They got bigger or something, but they never got sweeter. 531 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 1: Back in the seventies, the same thing. There was axiety, 532 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: There was crappy, and there was stuff that knocked you 533 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: off your butt, and the crappy is we'd usually was 534 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: the good they do. They would dry out the leaves 535 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: and crumble that up and stick that in, you know, 536 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yeah, they don't remember the lids. They 537 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: don't remember the Yeah, you know what the lid. You 538 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: know where the lid came from from the coffee can? Right, Well, 539 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: it was in Canada. It was a player's cigarette can. 540 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: But it was the same kind of size. Yeah, that's 541 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: how you measured it out because he never had majoring. Still, well, 542 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: just do a lid, fill up a lid, and that's 543 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: that was announced. And back then, back then when I 544 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: remember that too was on the I think it was. 545 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: It was a lot of it was shake anyways. And 546 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 1: you know when you much today, Tommy, any chance for 547 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: a Cheech and Chong reunion movie? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm 548 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 1: working on. I'm working on. I was working on what 549 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,439 Speaker 1: we wanted, was working on. How far are we away? 550 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: If you want to stoner lawyers on it, just give 551 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,440 Speaker 1: us a call. Yeah, and then are you a lawyer? 552 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: They are? Yeah. Oh. I had the biggest argument about 553 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 1: with my trumpy friends. You know they were they were 554 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,400 Speaker 1: asking me, you know, what what made Biden? What makes 555 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 1: Biden is so good. I see he's a lawyer. Well 556 00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,040 Speaker 1: you should have heard him explode the lawyers. Lawyer and 557 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,240 Speaker 1: they tell me, hey, listen, you know you know lawyers, 558 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,839 Speaker 1: I've got no respectful the no respect for I tell 559 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: and this is what the guy said, I tell lawyers 560 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 1: what to do. In order to tell him what to do, 561 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: you probably have to pay him to Yeah, that's a 562 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: great point to listen. Listen. The reason you tell lawyers 563 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 1: what to do, they may not do what you tell 564 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:32,359 Speaker 1: them to do because they're smarter than you. You know, 565 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,879 Speaker 1: that's why you're hiring them. And that's what I try 566 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: to tell these guys, I said, listen. Trump never went 567 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 1: to finishing school. He never been got out of school. 568 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: And Biden, he's got a lot of degree, I said, Obama, 569 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 1: he was teaching law. You know, these guys and lawyers, 570 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 1: they learned the rules. That's their job. They learned the rules. 571 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: That's how Trump he got away with paying little taxes. 572 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,320 Speaker 1: It was his great idea. It was some lawyer that said, 573 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 1: you know what, you could probably do this. And we 574 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 1: still haven't seen his taxes. Come to say that, I mean, geez, 575 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,800 Speaker 1: when we can't wait to see him we're going to 576 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: see him now. There's so many things that I can't 577 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 1: wait to see that happens. It's like we're going to 578 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 1: We're gonna see too much, you know that, Like what 579 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 1: was going on now? You know when I was one 580 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 1: dancing with the Stars, you know, when I was you know, 581 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: performing and getting you know, voted up, voted up, I 582 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 1: had I had a girl that all her job was 583 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: was gold and get my tea because I only I 584 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,959 Speaker 1: didn't drink coffee, drink team. When I got voted off, 585 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: I turned to the girl and I was just joking 586 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,319 Speaker 1: with her. I said, where's my team? She said, get 587 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: it yourself. That's that's gonna happen to Trump. Dad's where 588 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 1: Trump is. When you get voted off, no one wants 589 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 1: to talk to you. That's it, man. I'm sorry, loser. Yeah, 590 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,359 Speaker 1: but uh no, no, actually we're shut down here. Uh 591 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 1: Donald as Donald, isn't it? Yeah? Donald, why don't you 592 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: Why don't you go to Fox? Even if Fox is 593 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: going to put him down? They're going to him down. Yeah, 594 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:23,080 Speaker 1: And I think I'm loving that so good. You know, Temmy, 595 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: I want to go back to your parents and I 596 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: want to ask what were they thinking? And saying to 597 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 1: you as you came up with these movies, you know, 598 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,879 Speaker 1: cheech and chung up and smoke all this. Were they 599 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: like in Canada going what the hell are you doing 600 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 1: in the States over there? How was that reaction from them? No? No, 601 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,520 Speaker 1: we we were a very very close knit family, very poor. 602 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: My dad was a truck driver. He was in the 603 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: he was in the first Second World War, a Canadian. 604 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,799 Speaker 1: Uh he was a hero. It wasn't tall five ft three. 605 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,879 Speaker 1: Uh oh Man never talked to me. I don't think 606 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:04,799 Speaker 1: you talked to me till I made it very very 607 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 1: said anything to me. My mother was we were very close. No. 608 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: When I started doing stand up for the Records and 609 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,719 Speaker 1: then stand up, I took my mom and dad to 610 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,759 Speaker 1: see us one time, and my dad come to me 611 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,319 Speaker 1: after he goes and he had an accent kind of 612 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,399 Speaker 1: a Brooklyn accident, even though it was Chinese. E goes Son, 613 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:33,000 Speaker 1: you talk pretty rough up there, my mother, my mother. 614 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,680 Speaker 1: You know, mothers are man. You know, I did a 615 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: bit one time. Mothers they love no matter what you've done, 616 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 1: they love you. And then when that night Randy King 617 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 1: got beat, you know, I did a bit where the 618 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:45,960 Speaker 1: mother was saying did you see my son? He was 619 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,399 Speaker 1: one hit them with this club. You know, he looks 620 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:54,560 Speaker 1: so happy. We got my mother was phenomenal. You know, 621 00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: we'd love to have you down here in studio as 622 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: well man and and work with you on any other 623 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,920 Speaker 1: project to got it. We got some ideas for you 624 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,520 Speaker 1: here in studio. Um, we we got a couple of 625 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,880 Speaker 1: little skits that we'd like to do with you. But 626 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,520 Speaker 1: you're at the bank, so we can't ask you to 627 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 1: take your shirt off. But we were going to. I 628 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: can't take my shirt off anyway. You know. We had 629 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:20,400 Speaker 1: a bag I got, I got a bang and for 630 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 1: a while there I had a picture of Donald Trump 631 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,359 Speaker 1: on the bag. That's exactly what we want you to do, 632 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,640 Speaker 1: is take your shirt off with the picture Donald Trump 633 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:35,120 Speaker 1: on it. I mean, how badass that? Nothing like a 634 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:42,359 Speaker 1: ship bag. We're gonna go viral for sure. Anything else 635 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,360 Speaker 1: you want to promote, Tommy Chung. Since we have you 636 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 1: on the show right now, you're in ninety two different countries, 637 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:51,520 Speaker 1: what do people need to know about you? Uh? Well, 638 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:55,000 Speaker 1: you know, check out the strips. Those uh those those 639 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: the best strips I got ye. Check out everything and 640 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:02,120 Speaker 1: be ready when when dispensaries open there. They're gonna be 641 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 1: so much fun. So where can people go find those strips? On? What? 642 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,840 Speaker 1: They can find? Where to get them online? When can they? 643 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,360 Speaker 1: I think, Hey, Tommy Chong is one of the things, 644 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,720 Speaker 1: or Tommy Chong dot com. It's on there. You know, Hey, 645 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,640 Speaker 1: if you want it bad enough, you'll find. You know, 646 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,200 Speaker 1: all my rich trumpy friends and they always say, man, 647 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,200 Speaker 1: I tried all over to get your strips, and you 648 00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:30,800 Speaker 1: know I couldn't find. Come on, you ain't tried that hard. 649 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:36,719 Speaker 1: You want the right Just Google Google, You're here's the 650 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 1: more free one rich billionaire. Hey, Tommy, can I get 651 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,480 Speaker 1: some of the ones that are in your glove box? 652 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 1: Your secret stash? Freeloaders, All good freeloaders. Well, thank you 653 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 1: for joining the show, Tommy. We appreciate you. Man. It's 654 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,920 Speaker 1: Kinnabis Talk one on one. Remember this. If no one 655 00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: else loves you, we do. I love that. Here you guys, 656 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: thanks for listening to another podcast of Cannabis Talk one 657 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: oh one, the world's number one source for everything cannabis, 658 00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,200 Speaker 1: featuring comedy and cannabis legend Tommy Chong.