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Speaker 1: Well, thank you guys for being here.
Speaker 2: We're going to get into your just the ground setting
Speaker 2: and trend setting things you guys did in your past,
Speaker 2: but a house current life. What's going on with you
Speaker 2: guys today today?
Speaker 4: First I woke up and then here I am. Uh,
Speaker 4: we're doing a bunch of things.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: We got this business going. That's that's kicking ass.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: We just we've got it all over the country.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were doing what we were talking about, revitalizing
Speaker 4: other of pot shops and rebranding them. So that's going good.
Speaker 4: And what else we just did.
Speaker 5: We're both married to real strong women, so we don't
Speaker 5: do a whole lot on anything. No, we just how
Speaker 5: does this look?
Speaker 4: Okay, it's the power of a strong mind. You get
Speaker 4: strong women.
Speaker 1: That's super.
Speaker 6: Still touring though, right, No, no, no, we know we
Speaker 6: finally when I went into the monitors at one show,
Speaker 6: cut the ship out of myself and messed up my
Speaker 6: knee and he.
Speaker 5: Didn't want to do the wheelchair thing, and we told,
Speaker 5: are you kidding at the airport, man, do the wheelchair thing,
Speaker 5: because then they put you on first and anybody with you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: convince them to.
Speaker 3: You know, the strippers do it everywhere.
Speaker 1: Now the strippers.
Speaker 3: Have you go to the airport, the strippers and figured
Speaker 3: it out. They act like they hurt and they get
Speaker 3: on the plane person, you.
Speaker 1: Know, that's why take it over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do that, not now, especially in Miami.
Speaker 4: Strippers are smart. I ran into this guy that my
Speaker 4: wife is Russian born and raised in Saint Petersburg, Russian
Speaker 4: russ All these Russians are so beautiful and educated and
Speaker 4: you know, my wife just got her doctorate from s
Speaker 4: Music and and yeah, all the Russians I know are strippers.
Speaker 4: There's the other side. You know, they're smart. Yeah, they're smart.
Speaker 5: Just speaking of strippers, do you guys remember La Wanda Page.
Speaker 4: Yeah, aunt ast on Red Fox.
Speaker 5: Remember google her?
Speaker 4: Google her.
Speaker 3: Don't tell me she used to be she.
Speaker 5: Used to be a top stripper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exotic answer.
Speaker 5: I worked with her in Canada in the fifties and
Speaker 5: she had an act where she had a live boa snakes,
Speaker 5: snake and trouble is a snake died, but she kept
Speaker 5: using it.
Speaker 1: You gotta gotta google her, the one the page.
Speaker 5: She was the funnish, gorgeous, beautiful woman, but she had
Speaker 5: a sense of humor that was killer. I knew her,
Speaker 5: I knew her there. Yeah, she kept that.
Speaker 4: Miller Miller, Norman Miller, who was with Red Fox too.
Speaker 7: And she was a dancer in the in the well,
Speaker 7: the you know the bebop, Yeah, the old bebop when
Speaker 7: at the end of the war, you know, and jazz
Speaker 7: and beat and dancing was the thing to do.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 3: Norman Miller was one.
Speaker 4: Of the documentary when she her dancing and the days
Speaker 4: was it.
Speaker 5: So she being the MC at Red Fox's Comedy Club.
Speaker 5: And so the first time the Chief and I were
Speaker 5: ever on stage, ever in a comedy setting, was at
Speaker 5: Red Fox's Club. And so Norma says, what's your name?
Speaker 5: And so we told her, you know, Cheech and Chong.
Speaker 5: And so when a time to announce her, she goes,
Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen here there give it up for a geek.
Speaker 4: And I said, who do you want to be tonight?
Speaker 3: Geek?
Speaker 1: A guy?
Speaker 4: I'll be the other guy.
Speaker 5: Lenny Bruce's whole into entourage was there. Lenny had just
Speaker 5: died a couple of months earlier, and it's entourage used
Speaker 5: to follow Lenny everywhere. They had nowhere to follow, nobody
Speaker 5: to follow, and so they they were at the comedy
Speaker 5: club and when we were there, and Tony Bescuara Lenny
Speaker 5: Bruce's mother.
Speaker 4: No Len Bruce's father and father in law.
Speaker 5: He was a young Chicano that married Lenny's mother, Sally
Speaker 5: mar I think said she was like forty and she
Speaker 5: was like sixty. And Tony lied said he was thirty
Speaker 5: when he was like eighteen. And they got married and
Speaker 5: they went on a year honeymoon, and that at the
Speaker 5: end of the year, you know, they decided, you know,
Speaker 5: the age thing and everything. But they remained really good friends.
Speaker 5: And so Tony was Lene Bruce's road manager, and he
Speaker 5: was the one that bought Lenny the heroine that took
Speaker 5: him out. Yeah, And so after we got to know that,
Speaker 5: Tony saw us right away he adopted us and he
Speaker 5: became our manager, although we had to support him.
Speaker 4: And that's the way I worked with managers.
Speaker 1: Man And I.
Speaker 5: Asked, I asked Tony, I said, you know, because he
Speaker 5: was the one that gave Lenny the start. And so
Speaker 5: I said to Tony, I said, what's the big deal
Speaker 5: with heroin?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 5: It's taken out so many people?
Speaker 4: And Tony didn't.
Speaker 3: Say a word.
Speaker 5: He reached in his pocket and pulled out a packet
Speaker 5: the heroin and gave it to me. And so I
Speaker 5: took it, put it in my pocket as I always do,
Speaker 5: and then I hit it in my sock drawer. And
Speaker 5: then about a month later I took it out and
Speaker 5: flushed it down the toilet.
Speaker 3: I said, this took out too.
Speaker 5: Many, too many, and it's going to crush me. I
Speaker 5: know that if I did anything, and I just flushed
Speaker 5: it down the toilet.
Speaker 2: Tell us about Up in Jokes debuts soon.
Speaker 5: Well, well, one of the things that we noticed we
Speaker 5: opened some uh dispensaries in Boston, and when we were there,
Speaker 5: I looked around, Man, this would make a great comedy club,
Speaker 5: because the thing about comedy clubs, you just need a
Speaker 5: place that's warm, with a little stage and a mic.
Speaker 5: Not even a stage, you just need a microphone. And
Speaker 5: so we're going to start doing comedy and up in Jokes,
Speaker 5: and we're going to get all the new Cheech and
Speaker 5: Chong type or anybody you know that wants to go
Speaker 5: on stage and then we're gonna introduce the world to
Speaker 5: some then charge.
Speaker 1: We're going now more than flick business. Now we learned.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so up in jokes is going to be uh,
Speaker 5: you know, it would be like what dispensaries should.
Speaker 1: Be, whether they are or not.
Speaker 5: See, I was never really even though we had a
Speaker 5: cannabis cafe in Winniberg movies, what was it still smoking?
Speaker 5: We had we built a cannabis cafe in Amsterdam, and
Speaker 5: and when we you know, we finished the movie, the
Speaker 5: guy kept the cafe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he kept it going.
Speaker 3: What's the name of it?
Speaker 4: It was Bolgar's yacht. That was the artist Bulgar. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that made the backwards watches. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah that
Speaker 4: was but I don't know that what we call it?
Speaker 4: Do you remember no cafe? Yeah, I had a name
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 8: I can't remember.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but times have changed and now Amsterdam's bulldogs. It's
Speaker 5: almost illegal there. Yeah, flipped around.
Speaker 3: I just got I just came from there and I
Speaker 3: stated the dispensary, the restaurant cafe the whole day and
Speaker 3: smoked all day every day, like yeah, nice. I love
Speaker 3: that's nice.
Speaker 8: That was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, movie shot a movie there.
Speaker 5: You know they heard I directed it, you know, and
Speaker 5: they heard, oh man chunks coming, you know, so all
Speaker 5: the big potheads and in Amsterdam they got together, you know,
Speaker 5: we're going to take Chong up for a night.
Speaker 1: I made it. I made it for a but a
Speaker 1: half hour. It's different.
Speaker 5: They literally had to carry me, yeah, to my room
Speaker 5: and put me on the bed.
Speaker 1: I saw two people and the next morning they still
Speaker 1: haven't been to bed. They're still a party.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Those rush, those Dutch guys, man, they go hard.
Speaker 2: I was in a cafe out there one time, smoking
Speaker 2: and I saw two people kind of just lose consciousness,
Speaker 2: and they carried them outside, lift them upside down and
Speaker 2: poured like water on their neck.
Speaker 1: And on their head, and they came back to That
Speaker 1: must be the tradition.
Speaker 5: The man.
Speaker 2: That hold them upside down and poured water here and
Speaker 2: on their face and started coming back to life like
Speaker 2: some fish.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the fuck is going on? Right?
Speaker 1: Was crazy?
Speaker 3: Back today?
Speaker 5: I can imagine they had squatters.
Speaker 2: Has it always been not to cut you off? Has
Speaker 2: it always been legal out there? I'm guessing yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: depends on you know who you got in power right
Speaker 2: now they got sort of they're leaning toward the right
Speaker 2: wing kind of.
Speaker 5: Okay, so see Amsterdam was always what everybody else is doing.
Speaker 8: They would do the opposite.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's real nature.
Speaker 2: Interesting you guys and else also that you guys have
Speaker 2: a biopic. Yeah, can you tell us a little bit
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 9: I know, no, go, yeah, doesn't have to be in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm dead already in this biopic, my kids take over.
Speaker 5: If he's in it, or he's going to be in it,
Speaker 5: he'll scroll down to his part, learn it.
Speaker 4: Bullshit bullship my line. Okay, that's funny.
Speaker 1: So when did that be dropping?
Speaker 2: And I don't know, Mark, we're going to be doing
Speaker 2: it in March.
Speaker 4: But oh that the oh the bio. It's not a bio.
Speaker 1: Pick.
Speaker 4: It's actually a documentary.
Speaker 5: It's documentary. Okay, it's more of a documentary. But after
Speaker 5: the it's a it's called Cheating.
Speaker 3: Chong's Last movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, and so it's going to.
Speaker 5: Be uh, it's a it's a document It started out
Speaker 5: to be a documentary. But the guy Dave that does that,
Speaker 5: he's done a lot of good movies, sling Blade those
Speaker 5: and so he winded him and his editors.
Speaker 1: They took it and they made a real movie.
Speaker 5: Okay, and they got they got us in there fighting
Speaker 5: and really and so the people that have seen it
Speaker 5: have really like the act.
Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 3: You grew up a straight, a student, son of a
Speaker 3: police officer. You grew up a biracial Calgary can y'all
Speaker 3: speak on your upbringers. Tell us a little bout how
Speaker 3: y'all grew up.
Speaker 5: Yeah in Calgary, Yeah, yeah, Calgary.
Speaker 4: I wasn't born in Calgary, but I went to Calgary
Speaker 4: when I went to Canada.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got deported out in Calgary.
Speaker 1: We had a band.
Speaker 5: We had the first soul band in Western Canada, and
Speaker 5: we got so popular.
Speaker 4: Wasn't I wasn't the shades, the shades. Everybody was a
Speaker 4: different color.
Speaker 5: We called ourselves the Shades, but we were all athletes,
Speaker 5: like uh. We had a sax player that could have
Speaker 5: been a pro pro football player, you know, tight end.
Speaker 5: And then the singer was a star running back that
Speaker 5: they were grooming him for the pros, Tommy Milton. This
Speaker 5: guy's thing was that you kicked the ball to him,
Speaker 5: he'd run it back for a touchdown for the junior
Speaker 5: and so so he became the singer. And my brother
Speaker 5: was a linebacker at the time, and so my brother
Speaker 5: became the bass player because we needed a car. He
Speaker 5: couldn't play bass, but he so we had a lot
Speaker 5: of and the piano player Bernie. He was like a
Speaker 5: uh he played football too, but he was more of
Speaker 5: a bodybuilder, you know, mister everything. And so we had
Speaker 5: a tough ass band. But we uh, we're so popular.
Speaker 5: Oh and and I don't know how everything that happened
Speaker 5: to me very serendipity for some reason.
Speaker 1: Oh I know what happened.
Speaker 5: I got caught with a friend. A friend of mine
Speaker 5: stole the car and it stalled near my house.
Speaker 1: So he called me up.
Speaker 5: He said, I got a car, but it's not running,
Speaker 5: and so I went down to help get the car started.
Speaker 5: Of course, the cops caught us, and I ran home.
Speaker 5: We ran home, and they followed the footprints.
Speaker 1: So I went to jail. I went to jail for.
Speaker 5: The first time that night, but both of us did.
Speaker 5: And it was funny too, because we both jumped into bed,
Speaker 5: you know, with their clothes, and the cop came to
Speaker 5: the door and my mom says, oh, they've been here
Speaker 5: all right, And the cop said, excuse me, man, walk
Speaker 5: why followed the snow into it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, took us to jail.
Speaker 5: Well, when I got we got in the end, it
Speaker 5: was like it was called joy riding. One hundred dollars. Fine,
Speaker 5: but I my social kind of mind said, well, the
Speaker 5: reason people get in trouble at colgot there was nothing
Speaker 5: for teenagers to do. And so I went to the magistrate,
Speaker 5: the magistrate that sentenced me. You know, I went and
Speaker 5: I had to talk with him, you know, just knocked
Speaker 5: on his door. And one day and I went in
Speaker 5: and talked to him and I told him there was
Speaker 5: nothing for kids to do.
Speaker 1: And he looked at me.
Speaker 5: He says, weren't you just in front of me, yes,
Speaker 5: And he says, the kids need something to do, well,
Speaker 5: go find something to do.
Speaker 1: Go do it. It's your idea.
Speaker 5: And so I started the Team Club, the Shades Team Club.
Speaker 5: It was a stroke of genius because we got everything donated.
Speaker 5: We got a hall donated in the Break downtown, the
Speaker 5: Legion Hall, the best hall you could get. And so
Speaker 5: our band that's where we started playing. And so our
Speaker 5: band was first R and B, first time they heard Chuck.
Speaker 1: Berry or Bo Dilley or anything in Calgary.
Speaker 3: And we've packed, We've had.
Speaker 5: People coming from everywhere Alberta pack in the place. Trouble is,
Speaker 5: they shut us down at midnight. And midnight you got
Speaker 5: all these rock and roll people had nothing to do,
Speaker 5: and Calgary. So they went and just terrorized the city.
Speaker 5: And so the cops called us into the office two
Speaker 5: weeks before Christmas nineteen fifty eight, and they said, you
Speaker 5: guys got to get the hell out of town, really, yeah,
Speaker 5: for good?
Speaker 1: For how long? Like forever?
Speaker 5: And so so we looked at each other with yeah,
Speaker 5: because you know, we're young. And so we went to
Speaker 5: Vancouver and that's when we got That's when my career
Speaker 5: really started.
Speaker 1: Was in Vancouver interesting.
Speaker 5: Because that's all we did was play music and then
Speaker 5: sleep all night, you know, work all night and then
Speaker 5: sleep all day.
Speaker 4: And so L A L A I did the exactly
Speaker 4: same thing and we got arrested.
Speaker 1: Doing different things.
Speaker 4: Was and when we met, we started telling each other
Speaker 4: that's exactly the same story.
Speaker 2: Should get together, right, And so I read how you
Speaker 2: so you was? It was it you didn't want to
Speaker 2: go to the war, so you took off the Canada.
Speaker 2: I did, so tell us about that part. No, you
Speaker 2: don't want to know, you don't want to share today, Okay, Well.
Speaker 4: It was it was?
Speaker 1: I was. I was.
Speaker 5: He gets nervous because when we first snuck, we had
Speaker 5: a sneak into Canada.
Speaker 3: I L A.
Speaker 5: Us from Canada, right, Yeah, they weren't inspecting a Mexican
Speaker 5: sneak in through Canada. So we'd be on stage and
Speaker 5: I'd say, any FBI people here at night.
Speaker 4: A shut up the shut no bullshit.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I was after.
Speaker 4: And so so anyway, I was part of the draft
Speaker 4: resistance move under David Harris and our Muhammad at least
Speaker 4: signed my draft card. I'm with you if you with me.
Speaker 5: And that's when you quit, right.
Speaker 4: Uh no, no, that's what I was. My last semester
Speaker 4: in school at cal State Northurg Valley State at the
Speaker 4: time then it was Valley State back then, Okay, and
Speaker 4: I took a pottery class because there's this really cute
Speaker 4: girl that says, what are you doing for this class?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm take pottery with me, okay boom,
Speaker 4: and took pottery, flipped out. Pottery is my life now.
Speaker 4: And I quit all my other classes, quit my job,
Speaker 4: got a loan, and did pottery. That's so I wanted
Speaker 4: to be a party. But at the same time I
Speaker 4: was this draft resist and so they were after us.
Speaker 4: You know, they were starting to seventy Yeah, they're starting
Speaker 4: to send people living were and ship and I was
Speaker 4: a student. I was a two S student, so they
Speaker 4: but they changed our classifications and then said we're gonna
Speaker 4: be the first one's drafted and sent to the front
Speaker 4: lines in Vietnam. And so I said, well, that's a
Speaker 4: really good plan. So I wanted to continue pottery. So
Speaker 4: my pottery teacher said he had this student in Canada
Speaker 4: that's starting a pottery ex student. Maybe he needs a
Speaker 4: I got on the dog and went to men and
Speaker 4: went into Canada, and I was there for the next
Speaker 4: three years awaiting my pending trial. It was going to come,
Speaker 4: which happened, which came three years later. We got when
Speaker 4: we came back to the the case went to court
Speaker 4: is and and got thrown out, which we knew was
Speaker 4: going to have it. Well, we hoped they would have it.
Speaker 4: You know, they got thrown out. That week, they sent
Speaker 4: me another notice to appear for physical you know, this
Speaker 4: is three years later. And then a week later they
Speaker 4: sent me another notice. Fuck so, but I had broken
Speaker 4: my leg really badly skiing in Canada, which I never
Speaker 4: skied before.
Speaker 1: But you took Mexican lessons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, explain what that means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: You need skis and proper ski clothes. Those jeans won't
Speaker 4: cut it.
Speaker 1: He was out there with jeans and a T shirt off.
Speaker 4: You know, I had jeans, have money to buy ski
Speaker 4: clothes and so and so. I came back, but it
Speaker 4: got thrown out and so then we were free to
Speaker 4: do teaching song. But in the interim, man, you know,
Speaker 4: it was kind of a little dicey because I was
Speaker 4: back in the country illegally being you know, I was
Speaker 4: illegal both ways.
Speaker 5: But there's no joke, you know that what do you
Speaker 5: call a musician with other girlfriend homeless.
Speaker 8: Road?
Speaker 5: And I heard that it wasn't for girls, we wouldn't
Speaker 5: be here today.
Speaker 2: I mean you kind of see that in the movies.
Speaker 2: You hang with a lot of girls and kind of
Speaker 2: find your way. How did you guys meet though? Like,
Speaker 2: how do you mean you're well, you're already there.
Speaker 1: I had, I had.
Speaker 5: I had a couple of clubs again, very simplicity, nightclubs.
Speaker 5: I have two nightclubs literally given to me. Hey, because
Speaker 5: of the band. We had the hot band, and a
Speaker 5: guy bought a nightclub or building and he wanted to say, no,
Speaker 5: this is another one, and so they.
Speaker 1: Would you like a club?
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, So I started After Hours club, which
Speaker 5: that's where I met Red Fox, and that's where I
Speaker 5: met all the you know, Motown people and everybody you know,
Speaker 5: and uh and it was because our band was so
Speaker 5: so good that we got discovered by Diana Ross and
Speaker 5: the Supremes. They came down and it was again, sex
Speaker 5: has a lot to do with it, because Barry Gordie
Speaker 5: was doing Diane at the time, and so Diane said, hey,
Speaker 5: I saw this band, an incredible band, and so Barry said, okay,
Speaker 5: I'll come and check him out and get a little
Speaker 5: booty call in the in the meantime. So so Barry
Speaker 5: showed up and he saw us, signed us and then
Speaker 5: then forgot about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And so then we gigged our way to Detroit and
Speaker 5: I wrote a song called does Your Mama Know About Me?
Speaker 5: Everybody recorded it, yeah, and uh yeah recorded it, and
Speaker 5: that put me in good graces with Barry. But but
Speaker 5: then Bobby, Bobby was Bobby old school uh rock and
Speaker 5: roll singer, you know, old school R and B singer.
Speaker 5: In other words, you had a couple of jobs when
Speaker 5: you're old school, and one must being a pimp and
Speaker 5: foremost yeah, and again, don't have a girl and you're
Speaker 5: homeless you know. And uh, and so Bobby's mentality couldn't
Speaker 5: fit in with success on a big on a big scale,
Speaker 5: you know. So so Bobby went his way. And then
Speaker 5: I got fired from Motown. Yeah, because I had another
Speaker 5: gig to play. I had to get my green card.
Speaker 5: And that's all too.
Speaker 1: Where are you getting your green card at? Laying there wherever?
Speaker 4: It was just laying there. I didn't have my name
Speaker 4: on it, but it was just.
Speaker 5: So I got my green card and then uh.
Speaker 8: And then we met.
Speaker 4: He was running his family owned It was a family owned.
Speaker 5: It was another club that was given. It was a
Speaker 5: dinner club in Chinatown, Vancouver. So I turned it into
Speaker 5: a strip club and we're doing good. That's why I
Speaker 5: knew about Levanda and all that, you know, because strippers
Speaker 5: were good and everything. But after I got fired from Motown,
Speaker 5: I went back to work the clubs to put another
Speaker 5: band together. Actually, and then uh, then I was watching
Speaker 5: the strip is because I had a choice that I
Speaker 5: could work in the after hours club or be with
Speaker 5: the naked girls. And I thought, I think I'll do
Speaker 5: with the girls. So now watched and I realized that
Speaker 5: they look more beautiful when they come on with their
Speaker 5: street street clothes, and so I said, wow. And they're
Speaker 5: good actresses, you know, because when you're a stripper, you're
Speaker 5: it's an act And so I said, so I wanted,
Speaker 5: So I created an improvisational acting troupe with the with
Speaker 5: the girls still doing their strip, but they would have
Speaker 5: street clothes on. We'd we'd do sexy bits that we
Speaker 5: got from Playboy magazine and.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And so I had a straight man. We had I
Speaker 5: had a partner that had long hair and a straight
Speaker 5: guy that looked.
Speaker 1: Like a cop.
Speaker 5: Well, he got fired because we had publicity with publicity
Speaker 5: shot taken on the front page of the paper with
Speaker 5: rick Lands and the girls titties on either side. And
Speaker 5: his Christian wife says, no.
Speaker 4: I found out what he was up.
Speaker 1: So he called me.
Speaker 5: He said, man, I can't, I can't work anymore. And
Speaker 5: so there was a mutual fan, a Russian that owned
Speaker 5: a hippie newspaper Ukrainian Ukrainian was Ukrainian, uh and and
Speaker 5: so he told me he was a big fan of
Speaker 5: the show. And he says, I know just the guy
Speaker 5: that you need in your show. And so I went
Speaker 5: down I met Cheecht at his the hippie newspaper thing.
Speaker 5: And when I first met Cheech, I couldn't figure out
Speaker 5: what he was. And he wasn't coming. You know, he's
Speaker 5: hiding the fact that he was Mexican, you.
Speaker 8: Know, because he was.
Speaker 5: You get to Richard Marron, he wasn't Richard Marien. We
Speaker 5: didn't hear the man in until we got down.
Speaker 1: Understood how to pronounce it. Yeah, okay, are you done?
Speaker 4: Okay, So none of that's true. He was never in
Speaker 4: a band, and no, we we like he said it
Speaker 4: was a friend who had this magazine called Poppin' and
Speaker 4: I was writing for the magazine introduced us and we
Speaker 4: hear Tim's writing. When we both saw each other, we
Speaker 4: both looked at what are you? You know, like it's
Speaker 4: like a Mongolian biker.
Speaker 3: Was he looked like a mooney.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just come out of the woods man. That's
Speaker 4: what I thought. Man like look because he was a
Speaker 4: blend or something.
Speaker 1: He was a blend of something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so he says, well, come on down. I
Speaker 4: told him I was this great writer for an improv
Speaker 4: So he says, come down and see this show. And
Speaker 4: I did, and it was okay, you know, srippers, and
Speaker 4: but there's one bit that they did. It just cracked
Speaker 4: me up, you know, So I go, okay, I'll join
Speaker 4: this thing as a writer. And I started writing for
Speaker 4: the for the improv company, and then and then and
Speaker 4: then filling in for people that weren't there. I do
Speaker 4: every part in the show is so finally, you know,
Speaker 4: I could do any of the whole show. At the
Speaker 4: end of the day, the troops split up and Tommy
Speaker 4: and I were ones left together. So what do we do?
Speaker 5: Well, we performed one time for the Three Dog Night.
Speaker 5: Remember the Three Dog Night.
Speaker 1: That band not familiar real, Okay, you are a youngster.
Speaker 5: Youngsters Anyway, they were very popular. They were bigger than
Speaker 5: they had, more hits than they had like some thirty
Speaker 5: top ten hits or something. Anyway, the drummer was my
Speaker 5: first wife, was a beautiful black lady from Calgary named
Speaker 5: Maxine Well. Her brother, Floyd Snead, was the drummer of
Speaker 5: the Three Dog Night and so they so they came
Speaker 5: came to town, and so we put a show together
Speaker 5: for them with the improv. It was the last show
Speaker 5: we did with all the girls and everything. And then
Speaker 5: then Cheach and I put a band together and we're
Speaker 5: gonna then we got a gig at the Gardens, the
Speaker 5: Battle of the Bands, and so we went down there
Speaker 5: to play the Battle of the Bands. We had our
Speaker 5: bass player and everybody all ready to go, but we
Speaker 5: went on and did comedy instead, you know, to begin with,
Speaker 5: We're going to do a few comedy bits then and go.
Speaker 1: To the music.
Speaker 5: We never got to the wind We just played, did
Speaker 5: the comedy, took a bow, and then the bass player goes, oh,
Speaker 5: when's our next gig? Bos because they never played a note.
Speaker 5: And then on the way home, we're driving to my
Speaker 5: dad's car and the Winschild wipers weren't working, and so
Speaker 5: we're taking turns, leaning out with a cold hanger, working
Speaker 5: the windshield wipers, trying to figure out what to call ourselves.
Speaker 5: And it was like Richard and Tommy, Mirron and Chong.
Speaker 5: So I said, don't you have a nickname?
Speaker 8: And he said Cheech and that was it.
Speaker 4: And it was never Chang and Cheach because being musicians,
Speaker 4: we knew that it scanned better teaching Chong, and so
Speaker 4: that's what it was. We're gonna take over the world
Speaker 4: as soon as we can get these wipers fixed.
Speaker 2: So obviously, starting in the music space, transitioning to improv
Speaker 2: and then ultimately comedy. Like, who were some of you
Speaker 2: guys earlier influences?
Speaker 3: Was it?
Speaker 2: Was it strictly music or did you like people on
Speaker 2: the comedy side as well?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I grew up with loving comedy, you know, like in
Speaker 4: every form. Everybody, every comedian was on the Ed Sullivan Show,
Speaker 4: and any of those guys I've been, I loved comedy,
Speaker 4: and I memorize all their routines and stuff, and my
Speaker 4: cousins and I some mothers, brothers. Bye Bye Tommy, he
Speaker 4: just died, and they were they were heroes. And Millennium,
Speaker 4: Bruce and all those guys, Bruce Man and so so
Speaker 4: we we had the same frame of reference. You know.
Speaker 4: I think that because I grew up in an all
Speaker 4: black neighborhood half my life at South Central and then
Speaker 4: on all white neighborhood and Granadi Hills. So one day
Speaker 4: everybody was black and then the next day everybody was white.
Speaker 4: What happened in the nighttime.
Speaker 1: Went from hey, Michigan to.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, sir, That was Canada.
Speaker 1: That was excuse me sir.
Speaker 4: So anyways, you know, but because you know, when when
Speaker 4: you have this, you listen to the same records, have
Speaker 4: the same comedy influences. You know, it makes it easier
Speaker 4: because you have this this background that you know where
Speaker 4: everybody's coming into. So when we got together, like you know,
Speaker 4: we like the same people and listen to them and
Speaker 4: we're you know, encyclopedic about them.
Speaker 2: Long lost brothers. Yeah, in seventy one, you guys drop
Speaker 2: your first comment. The album, self titled Teaching Show ended
Speaker 2: up being nominated for six Grammys. You took home one.
Speaker 2: Do you think that art of comedy has kind of lost?
Speaker 4: No? No, I don't think something.
Speaker 1: From an album standpoint.
Speaker 4: Oh was yeah? Probably albums? Yeah, albums are lost.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just in general.
Speaker 5: There is TikTok now, so you instead of an hour
Speaker 5: and a half album, you got twelve second bite it done.
Speaker 1: That's what it is.
Speaker 5: Is it funny too, because at one time the singles
Speaker 5: had to be under two minutes, and then MacArthur's Park
Speaker 5: come along and it was like a twelve minute bit
Speaker 5: or something and that that changed it.
Speaker 1: But now it's like TikTok.
Speaker 3: No albums.
Speaker 5: People bringing albums and they don't you know, they don't know.
Speaker 5: One time, my twelve year old son was standing in
Speaker 5: front of I bought this old console record player that
Speaker 5: you could pick up for nothing, and.
Speaker 1: You know what it was because there was youth listen.
Speaker 5: And I came home one day in the l a,
Speaker 5: I mean in Canada, and my son standing there with
Speaker 5: an album looking for a slot to.
Speaker 1: Stick it in like a CD. He didn't know how
Speaker 1: to work out. Yeah, that's funny. What's the backstory of basketball?
Speaker 3: Jones? Oh?
Speaker 5: That that was. We're on our way to the Laker game.
Speaker 3: Do you want to tell it? No?
Speaker 4: No, you tell it?
Speaker 1: Do you tell it?
Speaker 4: Because do you want to tell it? Yeah, okay, we'll
Speaker 4: tell it.
Speaker 1: We're on our way to the Laker No.
Speaker 5: He always he doesn't believe that half the ship, I say,
Speaker 5: you know, we're on the way to or when he
Speaker 5: believes it, then he'll steal it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we're on our way to the Laker game and
Speaker 5: Cheaches in the in the back seat. I'm in the
Speaker 5: in the but the passenger side. Nicholson is driving Jack
Speaker 5: Nelson and Jack Nicholson and we're late getting there, of course,
Speaker 5: and so Jack drives on the wrong way on Manchester
Speaker 5: Avenue for about three miles on the wrong way. It
Speaker 5: Cheaches in the back singing I got basketball Tones go
Speaker 5: to basketball Tues.
Speaker 4: There was called es out and.
Speaker 3: Basketball Jones.
Speaker 5: I gotth and it just stuck in my mind, that's finny.
Speaker 1: We got to record that ship. So we did the
Speaker 1: next day we went in the recording. It was so easy.
Speaker 4: That's a great thing about record industry in those days.
Speaker 4: I mean, you make a movie, it takes forever to
Speaker 4: make it, and then it takes forever before it comes out.
Speaker 4: In the record industry, you go in the studio and
Speaker 4: you could be on the air the next day. We
Speaker 4: man so it was like fast, you know, so you
Speaker 4: could really uh describe what was going on in the
Speaker 4: scene around you. And that's what made it so fresh,
Speaker 4: you know. So that was that was I missed records.
Speaker 5: And we used to play basketball, you know, pickup games
Speaker 5: played at.
Speaker 3: U c l A.
Speaker 1: Went you that was That's that's what we went to.
Speaker 1: U c l A. Did you always.
Speaker 4: They had this one game where they had it was
Speaker 4: a charity game where they had all the u c
Speaker 4: l A guys that had gone onto the pros with celebrities,
Speaker 4: and they split them in half. You know, half of
Speaker 4: the u c l A guys wanted to and then
Speaker 4: and celebrities and everybody was there and Michael Jackson, No, no, no,
Speaker 4: Jackie Jackie. We used to play with him and all
Speaker 4: the Hollywood stars, and then Paul and Marvin Gaye.
Speaker 8: Marvin gay.
Speaker 2: You look, he said, you're looking at him? He said,
Speaker 2: who was good back then? Who they really played?
Speaker 4: Call me Wilt the Stump.
Speaker 5: When we were touring, we go around to the y
Speaker 5: m c. A Man and we got some of the
Speaker 5: comedy there. We're playing a couple of ghetto guys, you know,
Speaker 5: and there's one brother timming down and he's holding his
Speaker 5: finger up and his partner goes, what.
Speaker 1: We gotta play that? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't want to play with people like that.
Speaker 2: So hold on back to Jack Nicholson driving down the
Speaker 2: wrong way on Manchester heading to the form that ended safely,
Speaker 2: no trouble.
Speaker 5: Mister Nicholson, Come on, would you like to drive on
Speaker 5: the wrong side on our street?
Speaker 1: Oh? No? It was what what? What?
Speaker 2: What was the form like back in the day, because
Speaker 2: we had we've had magic on here.
Speaker 1: We're hoping to get kareem.
Speaker 2: But we've heard legendary stories about the club inside the
Speaker 2: form and the game and.
Speaker 5: The cheerleaders we're seeing Jerry Buss, the owner. He was
Speaker 5: up the people man, and he never had a box.
Speaker 5: He had seats with the people man.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 5: We did say he wanted to sit with Jerry, but no, man.
Speaker 4: See the games we had, we had first little seats,
Speaker 4: did you all showtime? You know, it wasn't the ones
Speaker 4: on the court, but the next the next time there
Speaker 4: was an isle. But we had those seats for a
Speaker 4: long time. And all the Lakers were our buds.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: One time I had I had a friend that had
Speaker 5: seats at the Clippers when they were like they've kind
Speaker 5: of they've seen in the high school drives.
Speaker 1: They've always kind of been like this on the ring
Speaker 1: side one and Charles Barkley was the other guy.
Speaker 5: And I saw that Barkley could get affected if you
Speaker 5: heckle him. But you got to heckle him properly. And
Speaker 5: the way that heckle them, especially your ring side talk
Speaker 5: on your normal voice because he can hear everything. And
Speaker 5: so I'm sitting there and say, watch Barkley. Watch him.
Speaker 5: He's ball holling. He won't pass the ball until it's
Speaker 5: too late. Watch and the next thing you know, he
Speaker 5: passed the ball and it's too late. He got so pissed.
Speaker 5: And I'd do it in such a way that I
Speaker 5: wouldn't be looking at him.
Speaker 10: I'd be just talking looking, So we didn't know where
Speaker 10: it was coming. Come over to the guy next to me, Mama, yeah.
Speaker 5: Went away, and the guy's looking at him like that,
Speaker 5: so he started coming down again. I started back again
Speaker 5: and got shut up.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: What was the comedy scene like in la As you
Speaker 2: guys are you know climbing climbing the ladder?
Speaker 4: It was bubbling, man. There was a lot of comedians
Speaker 4: out there, you know, because there was these these comedy
Speaker 4: clubs started appearing. We were in one of the very
Speaker 4: first one. It was like right on Sunset Strip and
Speaker 4: all tiny little rooms. But there was a ton of
Speaker 4: comedians out there, man, everybody. But we were the only
Speaker 4: kind of hippie talking about weed or what it was
Speaker 4: going on the scene. So we were unique in that sense.
Speaker 5: There's a place on Sunset Canopos and it was writing.
Speaker 5: It was a steakhos and the owner, the kid, the father,
Speaker 5: the son of the owner, decided he wanted to get
Speaker 5: into comedy, and so he got a microphone up in
Speaker 5: the steakhouse and he had they had an upstairs where
Speaker 5: he could use his a dress room, and so he'd
Speaker 5: have like a about six or seven comedians.
Speaker 1: And so we joined the group.
Speaker 5: But when we did a bit called the Dogs, Now
Speaker 5: to forget, this is a steakhoust and the dogs were
Speaker 5: were smelling each other's butt and it was so funny
Speaker 5: and so shocking, but it's still a steakhouse. The waitresses
Speaker 5: would get embarrassed. They would run outside when we did
Speaker 5: the bit because it was so right right. In fact,
Speaker 5: we got paid fifty quid in London not to do
Speaker 5: the bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that paid you not to do it.
Speaker 4: Scott's boy, it's a great show.
Speaker 1: Here's fifty quick. Don't do that bit. Don't leave that
Speaker 1: one out.
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys were against the grain from a
Speaker 2: standpoint of cannabis and and and movies and in your
Speaker 2: bits and your and your stand up, was there pushback
Speaker 2: at all? Or it was fucking I mean, you guys
Speaker 2: are doing motion pictures. Well I went in the seventies,
Speaker 2: I went to jail for nine months off the bit
Speaker 2: of a push up. Pushback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody being chong.
Speaker 5: Everybody else got house and rest.
Speaker 4: So had the good sense not to be.
Speaker 5: Chong we the other Yeah, no, what we What we
Speaker 5: attacked more than anything, right from the get go, was racism.
Speaker 5: That's what we attacked. We changed the conception of Chicanos
Speaker 5: with the with the headband, you know, being the game.
Speaker 1: Head, the gang guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we did it purposely. Like my character in
Speaker 5: Up and Smoke was a Jewish kid, you know, and
Speaker 5: and here I am, you know, and rich?
Speaker 8: What was a rich Chinese kid?
Speaker 2: What was what was your cousin's name in that movie
Speaker 2: that you went to the house Red?
Speaker 1: Yes, ye, Red? Yeah, d Wayne Mendoza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wayne, missioned to find some tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's his name?
Speaker 5: The actor Tom Skerrett?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that was Tom Skirtt. No, I was I
Speaker 8: was Red?
Speaker 1: Oh no? Or the other character? No?
Speaker 3: The next movie? Yeah, no, what was it?
Speaker 1: Strawberry?
Speaker 3: What was it was? Strawberry?
Speaker 1: Strawberry? Tom skar Yeah, yeah, Strawberry was Yeah. That's about
Speaker 1: He's still alive.
Speaker 5: He is a ninety Yeah, just gotta get my there
Speaker 5: you go.
Speaker 3: Legal crack, which I remember about Pee Harmon.
Speaker 1: He's the great Pee Wee Herman. He was a member of.
Speaker 4: A group called the Groundlings, which was a very first
Speaker 4: improv group in l a. Yeah, they're still there. I mean,
Speaker 4: and everybody came out of the groundlings and so we
Speaker 4: we saw them and kind of rated the whole company
Speaker 4: and put them in our movies. Pee Wee Herman and
Speaker 4: Dy mcclerk, Phil Hartman, all those guys who put them
Speaker 4: in the movie. And it was because they knew how
Speaker 4: to play improv. They were jazz musicians and comedies and
Speaker 4: so we got along great.
Speaker 1: And Pee was great.
Speaker 4: He had that character right from.
Speaker 2: The beginning, always always interesting.
Speaker 4: That wasn't the only thing he did, but he had
Speaker 4: that character right from the beginning, which is okay, well
Speaker 4: he put that character here, be the clerk in the office,
Speaker 4: or be the guy.
Speaker 1: On the stage.
Speaker 4: You know, worked really well.
Speaker 8: He was, he was He was a funny guy.
Speaker 3: How how easy was it incorporating cannabis into your movies,
Speaker 3: into everything?
Speaker 5: It was We got away with it because it was
Speaker 5: over before anybody could do anything, you know, you know,
Speaker 5: in and out, we never really smoked. We never broke
Speaker 5: any laws.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you guys really smoke weed in the movies
Speaker 2: though in between takes, so it wasn't any But the
Speaker 2: real stuff was Indian.
Speaker 1: You know, we couldn't stunt weed. It was horrible, horrible.
Speaker 5: But we would get smoked before the take and sometimes
Speaker 5: they'd say, Okay, we're rolling and we'd be yeah, we're
Speaker 5: rolling too, And so we we missed the queue and
Speaker 5: their run back in the day was film, right, and
Speaker 5: so they were wasting this money film and there are
Speaker 5: you guys ready? Oh yeah, Okay, then we'd wake up
Speaker 5: and do the shot.
Speaker 2: How much would be ad living and how much would
Speaker 2: be script? Once you guys kind of start going ok.
Speaker 4: But we'd ad lib on the script right right right
Speaker 4: the scene in the car. We did that every night
Speaker 4: on stage. But there was stuff that we did for
Speaker 4: the film that you we never did before, and it
Speaker 4: was only captured because we were doing it all film.
Speaker 4: That we would improvise all those parts. You know, it's
Speaker 4: like taking I want to be my same play, my funny,
Speaker 4: funny Valentine, but Miles Davis plays a different than time.
Speaker 5: And all the actors that we had were horm and
Speaker 5: writers as well. You know, Stacy Keach sergeants to Danko. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he basically wrote his his, his and his troop and
Speaker 5: he put his own jokes in there.
Speaker 1: What what a priest?
Speaker 5: Ondriday what kind.
Speaker 1: Of meat, dude, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Tell us.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, I was born seventy eight, Up and Smoky
Speaker 3: turn a small budget. It's a forty four million, two
Speaker 3: more films. This is yeah I was born.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's and that's how much money they said they
Speaker 5: made right right money.
Speaker 1: They really made.
Speaker 3: Right right right. It's crazy to think you put on
Speaker 3: a lot of people. What does the trilogy rank in
Speaker 3: your eyes?
Speaker 8: Smoke definitely?
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: I like the next movie too. It's it's a funnier movie,
Speaker 4: you know, laugh for laugh and uh, what's one?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 5: Still Smoking? Still Smoking has all our old bits that
Speaker 5: we never got around to shoot a movie about, and
Speaker 5: so we put him in there there and we knew
Speaker 5: that we wouldn't be doing those bits anymore. So so
Speaker 5: like the Invisible Wrestler and all those great bits. The
Speaker 5: classic you mentioned going to jail. Were you in jail
Speaker 5: with Jordan Belford?
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to us about uh, just your guys back
Speaker 2: and forth and kind of friendship and how that kind
Speaker 2: of turned into.
Speaker 5: Well he wouldn't prinche kiss right away.
Speaker 3: It took a while while just like.
Speaker 1: No, he was, he was great man.
Speaker 5: It was the other prisoners that that had problems with him.
Speaker 5: You know, I had no problem with it. Wasn't anybody.
Speaker 5: You know, I was a celebrity, so I was like
Speaker 5: Jesus walking around. I had everybody the warden. One time
Speaker 5: we shot a podcast for the documentary and we were
Speaker 5: using the warden's office in the main the main building.
Speaker 5: But you know how movies are, you know, you're the king,
Speaker 5: you know, So so we were they were setting up
Speaker 5: and I could hear the warden and then walking around
Speaker 5: in the other room. So I yelled, hey, quiet, and
Speaker 5: we're shooting in here, and everybody got all quiet. Tippy too,
Speaker 5: And here's a warden, Tippy, you know, Tippy doing around
Speaker 5: for no reason. Man, you know, just that there's one
Speaker 5: of his his klim men in there.
Speaker 1: Tell him I'm running ship now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, being that both of you guys are basically trendsetters
Speaker 3: in the Stone of Comedy space. But it's just really comedy.
Speaker 3: Do y'all get offended? And when people say Stone of
Speaker 3: comedy and was it did it affect your relationship with
Speaker 3: be in the face like so many people judging y'all
Speaker 3: and saying different things, Did ever affect your relationship?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: Uh not really?
Speaker 5: I mean I couldn't get into Disneyland one time because
Speaker 5: I had a T shirt that was obscene, you know,
Speaker 5: and I held a grudge.
Speaker 3: For a while.
Speaker 5: And in fact, when I got offered to do Lyone King,
Speaker 5: I shaid, know, I.
Speaker 1: Missed moved there.
Speaker 4: Hey she was checked. I got from Holy Jesus, right.
Speaker 5: But the racism I realized myself, you know, over the years,
Speaker 5: I was really brought up as a white supremacist, you know, seriously.
Speaker 5: I had all my friends from the country, and and
Speaker 5: even though I was found out now that I'm part Native,
Speaker 5: uh we were. I was half Chinese originally, you know,
Speaker 5: that's what I started. But it was always racism that
Speaker 5: we encountered.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: That's why My brother is three years older than me,
Speaker 5: and he fought going to school and coming home, you know.
Speaker 5: And that's the way it was back then.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: You look at the toughest guys would see each other
Speaker 5: and make a date and go out in the back
Speaker 5: and fight, you know, and it was brutal, you know,
Speaker 5: coming up like that. And when I was a teenager,
Speaker 5: I saw the trend was to become a pachuco. Pachuca
Speaker 5: is a Mexican gang guy. The Zoot suit, you know, baggy.
Speaker 3: Pants, blood and blood out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they always had a zoo tattoos right there
Speaker 5: in the middle there, right there. And it was funny
Speaker 5: because tattoos are like advertising for criminals.
Speaker 1: You know, you'd have a.
Speaker 4: White tear drop tattoo.
Speaker 5: And so my white supremacy tattoo. My house was also
Speaker 5: used as a halfway house people getting out of jail.
Speaker 5: And this one being honest and he and he gave
Speaker 5: me this tattoo. Wow, that's a white supremacy tattoo.
Speaker 4: He didn't know it was a tattoo, and I didn't
Speaker 4: know it.
Speaker 5: I didn't know it for years until I was on TV.
Speaker 5: The guy told you, no, it was down It was
Speaker 5: on TV.
Speaker 1: I was on TV on television.
Speaker 5: The guy looked at me, biker, that's a white supremacy tattoo.
Speaker 4: Oh shit, but it was free.
Speaker 5: No, but I put it up here. It's it's a
Speaker 5: homemade needle taking needles, put them together over a pencil
Speaker 5: and stick it in India ink and then jabbing.
Speaker 1: A good way to stay healthy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what that's that. Yeah, hurt down there. So
Speaker 5: I was going to get it covered up, you know,
Speaker 5: change everything. And my son Paris, No, Dad, that's o G.
Speaker 1: That's art.
Speaker 4: It was because one wing's bigger than the other.
Speaker 1: Right, what year was that? What year did you get
Speaker 1: that tattoo?
Speaker 8: That had to be fifty.
Speaker 5: Probably fifty five, fifty six.
Speaker 4: That was twenty years before you were born, twenty three actually.
Speaker 11: Fifty Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen a lot real movies
Speaker 11: like Friday, Half Baked, Harold and Kumar, all called classics.
Speaker 3: You have to feel like your pioneers and that.
Speaker 4: Well, of course, and all those guys come up to
Speaker 4: us and tell us that everybody was in every one
Speaker 4: of those movies. Chris Tucker, you know, I met him.
Speaker 4: We used to you guys all the time, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, we we were big in the black community
Speaker 4: always because we grew up in the black community, you know,
Speaker 4: and other other communities. But black people really related to us.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just because of the weed. It's because we
Speaker 4: played that kind of music and the struggle too, and.
Speaker 5: Yea, and growing up in Calgary it was really hard
Speaker 5: to be around black people.
Speaker 1: Both were.
Speaker 5: There were like five families and I swear to God,
Speaker 5: you know, and then when I when I I started
Speaker 5: dancing Lindy hop and of course, my partner became the
Speaker 5: really good dancer black girl, and she was the one
Speaker 5: that introduced me to the football player Tommy and and
Speaker 5: and then we had a show one time where Tommy
Speaker 5: her would dance and we'd play music, and you know,
Speaker 5: we did a floor show with that, you know. So
Speaker 5: so my introduction was more like schooling, you know, because
Speaker 5: it wasn't just I knew.
Speaker 1: Had black friends.
Speaker 5: Man, I had I had a Yeah, I got to
Speaker 5: the point where I got my own racist name. You know, Hey, chinaman,
Speaker 5: that's what Bob Marley says. That's what when we met
Speaker 5: Bob Marley. Yeah, it was in a dressing room with
Speaker 5: a smoke filled and also I hear, hey, chinaman, say
Speaker 5: something funny, man.
Speaker 1: Bob said that on one of his friends.
Speaker 4: No, it was Bobby Bob something. No, he was on
Speaker 4: their own deal.
Speaker 1: Everybody else, you know.
Speaker 5: No, we had, we had, no I got you know,
Speaker 5: I earned my my.
Speaker 2: Uh stripes, my.
Speaker 5: My prison sentence. I earned it, man, you know, I
Speaker 5: went through it. And that's why motown. You know that
Speaker 5: when I see smoking smoking, it gives me big hugs man,
Speaker 5: because he knows that I was in that secret song
Speaker 5: writing Little Cadre club that they have, you know, and
Speaker 5: I got in there. You know, when you get one
Speaker 5: of them motown stars to record your song, you.
Speaker 4: Know, everybody recorded, Diana Ross, the Jermaine Jackson, Steffan, your Mills,
Speaker 4: the Harlett's, you know who the heart Lets are. The
Speaker 4: they were the backing group for Bete Midler, Bette Midler
Speaker 4: and the har Lets. And in that group was uh
Speaker 4: uh was on Katie, Katie sagal Kiss from Mary with Children,
Speaker 4: Linda Hart who's co starred with my girlfriend in tin
Speaker 4: Cup and the some the Norwegian or a Swede girl.
Speaker 4: But they recorded and had to hit how does your Mama.
Speaker 1: Know about me?
Speaker 2: You guys obviously came out the gates with once you
Speaker 2: connected with a lot of success.
Speaker 1: You guys parted ways for a while.
Speaker 2: We don't have to get into that part, but I
Speaker 2: want to ask you guys as being able to come
Speaker 2: back together, what did you learn about yourself during your guys'
Speaker 2: time apart?
Speaker 5: Well, you can't make it in California with out of Mexican.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care what you're doing.
Speaker 5: I don't care what you're doing.
Speaker 4: And it took him that long to figure it out.
Speaker 5: And sometimes you say are you Mexican and the guy
Speaker 5: will go, okay, say he's from Guatemala. There's there's racism
Speaker 5: amongst the clans. It goes everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I uh.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the fact that we broke up long enough
Speaker 5: so that we could become individuals, you know, instead of
Speaker 5: just being you know, relying on someone there that's always there.
Speaker 5: You know, this way you have to do both parts yourself.
Speaker 8: More or less.
Speaker 5: And I appreciate that and I respect it too, you know,
Speaker 5: I respect the the the aloneness.
Speaker 3: Yea, being able to stand on your loan, yeah, on
Speaker 3: your own. They come back together just makes it strong strong.
Speaker 4: It's like we you know, when we came back together,
Speaker 4: it was like we never left, right and it was
Speaker 4: like it said, come down here and join me in
Speaker 4: this club in La Joya. They were you and so
Speaker 4: we were doing the club and I said, come on
Speaker 4: and just sit in with us. Okay. So but they
Speaker 4: go on stairs they started, and then then then I
Speaker 4: don't know if you've even announced it, and I just
Speaker 4: came through the audience and God, remember they went crazy,
Speaker 4: God said, and we rehearsed.
Speaker 1: Never even talked about you guys. First time back together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in twenty.
Speaker 4: Years and and he just killed it. You know, it's okay,
Speaker 4: like you never.
Speaker 5: Left, like we never left.
Speaker 1: I've read it times.
Speaker 2: You guys would you know, kind of have some conflict
Speaker 2: off the stage, but when you came together for your act,
Speaker 2: it was like no one would ever know. And what
Speaker 2: do you guys attribute that to? Just your willingness to
Speaker 2: get the job done or agreed?
Speaker 4: Agreed, I indulged.
Speaker 5: You know, you're doing fine, dad, but you know what
Speaker 5: you could make of Cheat and Chong were And so
Speaker 5: my son actually got us back together because we had
Speaker 5: a meeting and it didn't go that well. You know,
Speaker 5: we had an old argument came out. But then I
Speaker 5: text Cheat and I said, you know, it was said,
Speaker 5: hadn't seen you for a while. It was really nice
Speaker 5: seeing you, you know, too bad we couldn't work things out. Well,
Speaker 5: my son intercepted my email and he wrote his own
Speaker 5: in my mind, he don't do anything, and he let's
Speaker 5: get together and we can do this and everything else.
Speaker 5: And so then my son told me he said, first
Speaker 5: of all, he said how to go with not so
Speaker 5: he's he's coming over. You're back together, beautiful, it's happening.
Speaker 5: Then he told me what he did. I got your email,
Speaker 5: and I'm glad he did tell you. Some in the
Speaker 5: world says thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife got ahold of my emails one time
Speaker 2: and did some things she shouldn't have did. So luckily
Speaker 2: your guys worked out in a different way.
Speaker 4: I've heard those stories. We used to talk before they
Speaker 4: roll the film that sometimes the movies will be talking
Speaker 4: blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: They got the camera rolling.
Speaker 4: Here we see it at daily.
Speaker 1: You know. That's funny.
Speaker 2: U stigmas throughout over the years about cannabis, and and
Speaker 2: how do you feel that the progress, you know, over
Speaker 2: the last few decades.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's you know, it's everyday used. I mean's
Speaker 4: which is more popular?
Speaker 3: Bear weed?
Speaker 5: Weed?
Speaker 8: Weed?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I mean it's it crosses every single line, the race, gender, anything, old, young.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know there's guys that are one hundred
Speaker 4: years old.
Speaker 1: Still smoking weed.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: So it's just it just enters into every and and
Speaker 4: the fact that it does changes your perception.
Speaker 12: Well, it's it's yeah, it's a burning bush A good
Speaker 12: path for that. Yeah, it's a burning bush that is
Speaker 12: mentioned in the Bible, you know, when Moses took a
Speaker 12: hit at the burning.
Speaker 5: And God talked to him and God said, hey, mo,
Speaker 5: past that snoop. This buds for juice.
Speaker 1: And that's how it got in the Bible.
Speaker 5: Well, the Bible was written on him paper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there, all the signs were there, and.
Speaker 5: It was medicine four thousand years ago and it's medicine now.
Speaker 1: Still never stopped being. Any of you guys still consume, Well,
Speaker 1: yeah I do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's my job now.
Speaker 1: So after we can consume together.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so I just want to got to say,
Speaker 3: blaze one up with.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 1: Even if we just blow the smoke on you.
Speaker 3: Blowed up his butt.
Speaker 5: Jat, mind don't work anymore, got that job.
Speaker 2: One question, the strength of the plant from when you
Speaker 2: guys first started getting it used to be hard to
Speaker 2: kind of come across a good weed back then. Obviously
Speaker 2: you guys always had it. You guys kept I said,
Speaker 2: Mexican weed man.
Speaker 1: But the strength from then to now.
Speaker 4: It's much stronger now, I mean much stronger because they're
Speaker 4: they're breeding it for that. You know, they didn't weed
Speaker 4: was weed. You get a brick like that was a
Speaker 4: good rat in the middle of you. Yeah, we especially
Speaker 4: bred this no it was just you got whatever it
Speaker 4: was in there. But now let's specifically blending it for
Speaker 4: raising it.
Speaker 3: Do you like some of the strong stuff?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: You like some strong stuff, yeah, because you don't have
Speaker 4: to take as much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: When's the last time you bought weed?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: I was in my youth.
Speaker 1: I bought weed.
Speaker 5: Twenty sixteen, really because it was a little vendor thing
Speaker 5: and you put money in.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I had to do it.
Speaker 5: Really, that's the only time I remember bought I don't,
Speaker 5: I can't, I can't remember. I got a friend now.
Speaker 5: He's a grove freak, you know, k Stacey Keach.
Speaker 3: His brother.
Speaker 5: James, James James, She's uh, he's crazy about growing everything.
Speaker 5: And so you give him some marijuana seeds. Here, put
Speaker 5: this in your garden and see what happens. He's growing
Speaker 5: the best weed Malibu. And James says, yeah, I give
Speaker 5: it to my friends and keep coming back for more.
Speaker 4: I think the best.
Speaker 1: Stay away right because of the climate.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but it's like Jermichael Vincent,
Speaker 4: you know who is actor. So he's it was my
Speaker 4: buddy and he comes over one day and he has
Speaker 4: these two plants. I'm going over one hundred plants over
Speaker 4: here in my place, and I don't give you too great,
Speaker 4: So put him and just put him over there outside
Speaker 4: under the tree, and I went on tour the next day.
Speaker 4: Here a couple of days later, he gets raided and
Speaker 4: they got all the plants. And so these are the
Speaker 4: only two that survived. And I didn't do anything to them.
Speaker 4: I just put them in pots in the ground, and
Speaker 4: I went on tour, and I came back. They had
Speaker 4: grown through the bottom of the pots and now they
Speaker 4: were eight feet tall. And Cola is on them that
Speaker 4: that long man, and it was like Seaside sent to me,
Speaker 4: that's what we called it. Didn't use him in the movie, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think so we did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we used him in really the.
Speaker 4: Next movie because I had them, you know that crazy.
Speaker 5: Nice dreams, nice dreams with a swimming pool and and so.
Speaker 4: But I didn't do anything none to do it, you know,
Speaker 4: not even water.
Speaker 8: So wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So when I have a little fun with this
Speaker 2: next segment, I feel free to just blurred out at
Speaker 2: the highest you've ever been, Do you remember where you were?
Speaker 1: Who was around? That wasn't too long ago. I'm just
Speaker 1: doing show them.
Speaker 3: What the mad your wife business.
Speaker 1: Definitely your wife. I like that.
Speaker 5: The birth birthday story, your birthday, the seventy birthday when
Speaker 5: I turned seventy, we had my son took care of
Speaker 5: the dessert and he had it all medicated, but he
Speaker 5: didn't tell anybody ship and we never served enough food.
Speaker 5: So when the dessert came, every was starving, and so
Speaker 5: everybody dove into the edibles and next thing you know,
Speaker 5: there are people throwing up all over the place, and
Speaker 5: and and they couldn't figure out what's going on.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was just crazy.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 5: Paul Riser and his wife were there, and next thing
Speaker 5: you know, Uh, Paris is my son's ex girlfriend, kind
Speaker 5: of wild young chick. She's in there promoting a threesome
Speaker 5: with Paul and.
Speaker 1: They're going for it. Everybody's going for it.
Speaker 5: So it was crazy. Oh it was. It was fun. Wow,
Speaker 5: it's going to be a bio pick. We're going to
Speaker 5: do a movie. I love it because that's what from
Speaker 5: now on, after we release our documentary, it'll be biopics
Speaker 5: and we'll go back and cheach his history, my history,
Speaker 5: you know, right back to the Aztecs and.
Speaker 1: Africans.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: If you guys ever need a great guy right here,
Speaker 2: My got Deon Taylor.
Speaker 3: This is his office.
Speaker 1: But he makes movies. He makes the best movies here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you need some help, you need to stone
Speaker 3: the brother in the movie.
Speaker 4: I'm ready, Yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 5: That's the only problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right here, Remember you used to have the holes
Speaker 2: right here? Who would want to smoke off? And you're
Speaker 2: back in your heyday and you guys in your heyday.
Speaker 2: Between you guys Snoop, Willie Nelson, whiz Khalifa.
Speaker 4: Be real, who would we want to know?
Speaker 3: Who would who would? Oh?
Speaker 1: When you guys in your heyday?
Speaker 4: What do you think.
Speaker 5: Maybe neither one of us were. It's all an act, man,
Speaker 5: I swear it was all on that I got a
Speaker 5: little breath mint that I do now it's only tell
Speaker 5: me the ground, you know, and that that will anymore
Speaker 5: to put my ass.
Speaker 1: But even back in your guys younger days.
Speaker 4: It wasn't about the quantity of the quantity, was about
Speaker 4: the quality. Yeah, because people will give us stuff all
Speaker 4: the time. That's why I've never bought any weeding in
Speaker 4: these years, man, because like the mountains of it wherever
Speaker 4: you go.
Speaker 5: And we're musicians back then, and musicians you never bought.
Speaker 8: People would either give it.
Speaker 5: To you or and you just stand next to the
Speaker 5: guy that had, you know, waiting for your turn. You know,
Speaker 5: back in the day, they used to make what they
Speaker 5: called pinners. It was a bear one of dust based
Speaker 5: and you broined in the tiniest little pinner. But it
Speaker 5: would be good for musicians because you didn't get too stone.
Speaker 5: You know, you just get that little buzz, that little memory,
Speaker 5: because that's all you need.
Speaker 4: Remember, Pat Mariner used to keep that little folding pipe
Speaker 4: in his in his underwear.
Speaker 1: One hitter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a little pipe and they had Pat Marina.
Speaker 4: You know, I've heard the name after mister Miyagi.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 4: He was a stand up the hip nip that was his.
Speaker 4: It was Japanese crazy.
Speaker 1: What used to fly, not to cut you off?
Speaker 2: What used to fly back then like what you can
Speaker 2: say and what you can and has evolved into like
Speaker 2: you can't really say anything right now. I've heard his boy,
Speaker 2: Red Fox, Pat Marina.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they were all in that same thing.
Speaker 5: Well Red Red give him money, yeah something, get him
Speaker 5: some money. Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He was kind of a mentor a little bit you
Speaker 4: know when we first met him, to us because he
Speaker 4: was a professional comedian at the time.
Speaker 5: He did something to me that I'll never forget. Man,
Speaker 5: the night before I'm going into jail, I just finished
Speaker 5: talking to my lawyer, who actually told me I can't
Speaker 5: talk now. I'm watching the Laker game and he hung
Speaker 5: up on me. Next thing I know, I get a call,
Speaker 5: phone rings. I pick it up. It's pat Rita and
Speaker 5: he's mister mcgogg and he says, you're gonna be okay,
Speaker 5: You're gonna be fine, you know, just take it, do
Speaker 5: what you gotta do, you know, And he just gave
Speaker 5: me that. It was pep up serendipity.
Speaker 4: I knew the time he was going to be okay
Speaker 4: in jail too. I mean I knew he was good,
Speaker 4: he'd be fine. It's because he grew up with those people.
Speaker 4: I mean, so did I. My dad was a cop man,
Speaker 4: so I grew up with all the juveni of delinquents,
Speaker 4: you know, so you know how to navigate.
Speaker 5: We were in jail together one time.
Speaker 1: Really tell us about it.
Speaker 5: They busted Jim Morrison earlier because he showed his wiener
Speaker 5: on cheat in the stage, you know, and so they
Speaker 5: and it got dropped for lack of evidence by this,
Speaker 5: and so they came up with a five thousand dollars
Speaker 5: performance bond, and if we got any trouble on stage
Speaker 5: at all, the promoter got five thousand dollars. And so
Speaker 5: with Cheech and John, they thought for sure they're going
Speaker 5: to grab some money. And so we we did our
Speaker 5: whole show and no problem except at the end, and
Speaker 5: the cops were lining in the stage as if they
Speaker 5: were the crowd was going to riot or something, you know,
Speaker 5: And so we're doing the dogs and cheeches on his
Speaker 5: hands and knees and he walks over to one of
Speaker 5: the cops that were facing away from them and picked
Speaker 5: the cops hat up with his teeth like a dog
Speaker 5: running back. Well, the cop did not think that was funny.
Speaker 5: And so they're on the phones and we're gonna we're
Speaker 5: busting Cheech and Chong, and then all the cops started, Hey,
Speaker 5: I want to bust him.
Speaker 1: I got all their records. Alright, let me be a
Speaker 1: part of this.
Speaker 5: So they ended up taking us to jail. And at first,
Speaker 5: you know, we're still off the show. We're still happy.
Speaker 5: And after a while we're sitting there with all these
Speaker 5: other people.
Speaker 4: Man, they kept dragging people into the hole in selled unconscious.
Speaker 3: And for drunks, you're sitting that sail, the highs start
Speaker 3: coming down.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then they separated us. At first Cheech was
Speaker 5: being funny, this guy blonde cop, you know, and he goes, oh,
Speaker 5: jail tend, oh jail could we have some pink guys.
Speaker 1: In jail man?
Speaker 5: And then next thing, you know, the guy the jolt
Speaker 5: and deacons up the teachings that you come with me,
Speaker 5: and all I heard Chief saying, uh, my dad's a cop.
Speaker 4: You know, I got that out of it. You get
Speaker 4: in the elevator, you gonn take it up to the
Speaker 4: second floor. It puts you in the solf And you
Speaker 4: get in the elevator. It's like, you know, metal the
Speaker 4: whole thing, and there's big dance all over this fucking thing, man,
Speaker 4: but on every wall, and this guy's looking at me.
Speaker 4: And you get up to the second floor and it's
Speaker 4: noisy and it's hot and it's fully lit and and
Speaker 4: everybody's okay.
Speaker 1: Here you go.
Speaker 4: No, don't put me in the lion cage.
Speaker 2: She got real yeah off al quick, you guys kind
Speaker 2: of crossing so many barriers on your rise to fame.
Speaker 2: Who were some people that you thought like, damn, I'm
Speaker 2: smoking with. Obviously they probably thought that about you guys,
Speaker 2: But were you guys in awe of anybody? You know,
Speaker 2: you just told a quick Bob Marley story, but anybodys
Speaker 2: You guys were in off when you guys got a
Speaker 2: chance to sit.
Speaker 5: Down to smoke up with George Harrison all the time? George, Oh, George, Yeah,
Speaker 5: George's cool guy.
Speaker 1: One day I'm smoking.
Speaker 5: We're smoking, and next thing you know, the joint gets
Speaker 5: passed over to Tony Dow. You know, Tony leave it
Speaker 5: to leave it to be.
Speaker 1: He was walling, he was.
Speaker 5: And he turned out to be, Uh, what do you
Speaker 5: call a sculptor? He's an artist, you know. And so
Speaker 5: the three of us were there smoking away. We got
Speaker 5: George played.
Speaker 1: On Huh.
Speaker 4: What tune did George Harrison play on our Basketball Jones?
Speaker 5: Basketball Jones talk about basketball joint? George play the intro
Speaker 5: because he was in the studio at the same time we were.
Speaker 5: And so, hey, George, do the intro?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: And they said, do you think they're cheaching tongue?
Speaker 1: And what do you say?
Speaker 5: Someone said, what do you think of cheach? And Chong
Speaker 5: and George is I suppose the funny.
Speaker 4: My favorite guy.
Speaker 2: Was Kareem I'm doing bar and with this the showtime days.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah right yeah.
Speaker 4: And and and uh my wife and I Ricky We
Speaker 4: we lived in his house when I was making up
Speaker 4: and smoke because I didn't want to go all the
Speaker 4: way out to the beach every day. And I was like,
Speaker 4: because my call was early. So he moved us into
Speaker 4: his guest house back there. But he has always been
Speaker 4: a friend. And but he had a long reach. They
Speaker 4: could reach across the table.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: One time we took him to Dharmo grab this Morocco
Speaker 4: restaurant and they bring all this food, a whole chicken,
Speaker 4: and he reaches over the whole and he grabs the
Speaker 4: whole chicken. It looks like that in his hand.
Speaker 3: Round.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very much. What you guys his mind?
Speaker 1: What are you guys gonna eat?
Speaker 4: No, it really is a very smart intelligence.
Speaker 5: We would exchange weed if we had different weed. And
Speaker 5: one day, in fact, the day that Elvis Presley died,
Speaker 5: I got a call from Korean almost the same time.
Speaker 5: I'm much on TV and Elvis is dead. Cream says, hey, man,
Speaker 5: come on down. I got some weed, and so I
Speaker 5: walked down. I'll live down the street from him. I
Speaker 5: walked down and I got to the to the mailbox
Speaker 5: and I went to ring the bell and the mailbox
Speaker 5: lid opened up and this big hand colern with a bag.
Speaker 1: Of weed at the end.
Speaker 5: And I said, no, thank you, I never saw.
Speaker 1: You. Just want to give me some weeds.
Speaker 5: Okay, cream.
Speaker 7: It was like Lurch came out, Yes, you're not dressed yet, Okay,
Speaker 7: I'll take this back to my house.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it wasn't that weird. Alvis died and soon
Speaker 5: after they have no Everything on television was Elvis and
Speaker 5: my daughter's friend was Lisa Marie. They were best friends
Speaker 5: at the time. And so they're showing Elvis on TV
Speaker 5: and I'm sitting there and my precious, my daughter and
Speaker 5: and Lisa are playing in the behind us. And when
Speaker 5: when they showed their dad, I kind of looked to
Speaker 5: see how Lisa would react to her dad. She just
Speaker 5: glanced at her a little bit. Then she did not
Speaker 5: relate to that guy.
Speaker 8: Wow, it was weird.
Speaker 5: So insad.
Speaker 3: Coming up? Who is your first celebrity crushes?
Speaker 1: Celebrity crush, crush.
Speaker 8: Celebrity crush? Wow?
Speaker 4: Celebrity crush. Who was the first guy you went out with?
Speaker 3: It makes more sense why we dress, because we act.
Speaker 1: Just like dress.
Speaker 4: There's a reason celebrity crush. God, I don't know Annette
Speaker 4: from the Musketeers. She's developing there.
Speaker 5: Mine would be Susan Saradon.
Speaker 1: Really remind me who who is she?
Speaker 5: Baby Atlantic City?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's her.
Speaker 4: That's her real name. Yeah, Rocky Horseshow Rocky horse Show?
Speaker 1: She was the original? Interesting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I see why he didn't get your name
Speaker 2: right for a low wao.
Speaker 8: Right, I'm used to right.
Speaker 2: One of your guys's favorite snacks or munchie When you
Speaker 2: guys are really on, what's what's the go to snack?
Speaker 5: I can tell you now because I used to be actuated.
Speaker 1: I like ice cream, ice cream.
Speaker 8: I like the ice cream.
Speaker 4: It's bad for it, but I like it.
Speaker 5: Pustachio nuts interesting because I was about say healthy on
Speaker 5: the healthy side for the eyes, and there they're salty
Speaker 5: so that it makes you thirsty.
Speaker 3: So we forgot to ask you about your daughter?
Speaker 5: Which one right here?
Speaker 3: Legend?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, she's here, she's here. She's uh having a
Speaker 5: struggle with her career. Now you know a little bit.
Speaker 5: You know, she hasn't worked for a while, but she's
Speaker 5: here and she's doing well and she's happy.
Speaker 3: About it.
Speaker 5: She always she's she's the most talented of the gang.
Speaker 5: You know, I always has been right from the beginning.
Speaker 8: She was crazy.
Speaker 5: She's to give advice at three years old, advice.
Speaker 1: Right, life advice.
Speaker 5: You know, she's what the bo Diddley called him, managed boy,
Speaker 5: and he managed you know, the manash boy. Yeah what
Speaker 5: what what would be the girl?
Speaker 3: I don't know, the girlish man bossy bossy.
Speaker 5: No, she's good and her her son, Morgan, is doing
Speaker 5: really well. And Morgan married Chinese girls. So I got
Speaker 5: uhcross grand.
Speaker 4: Rainbow retrogreeding raw beautiful.
Speaker 5: Oh, I got, I got a beautiful, beautiful family. Now
Speaker 5: as does Chech too.
Speaker 3: That's as crazy as this world is. Who do you
Speaker 3: two guys think will benefit from smoking?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: From smoking?
Speaker 4: My mother in law, Bob, my mother in law. Yeah,
Speaker 4: she because because my wife is Russian born in Reisling.
Speaker 4: So my mother in law speaks no English, and she's
Speaker 4: always honest about something or and we but she she
Speaker 4: roam's defrigerator, She opens refrigerators, stands in front of for
Speaker 4: an hour and looks to see so whateverything. And so
Speaker 4: we had some some edibles out there in the desert
Speaker 4: and her sister and her daughter tells him to do
Speaker 4: whatever you do, don't don't eat anything in the refrigerator,
Speaker 4: just you know, ask me and I'll get it for you.
Speaker 4: We come one day around the desert.
Speaker 8: She was in front of the fresser.
Speaker 4: Looking and chewing at the same time, and she found
Speaker 4: the brownies. Man went fucking right to She's like, you
Speaker 4: old and rust can't uh and so and so uh, Natasha,
Speaker 4: my wife tells him what she did. I said, so,
Speaker 4: so what should we do? She says, well, let's see
Speaker 4: what happens. And so she was just like cool. So
Speaker 4: there was time to drive her home and and he says, wow,
Speaker 4: how long is Sunset Boulevard? It's like taking every day, And.
Speaker 8: So we did.
Speaker 4: After after a while we told her and she got
Speaker 4: this kind of glimming gleaming her eye and where was
Speaker 4: that again? I would is that the candy or the thing?
Speaker 4: So she wanted to go, but she she freaked the
Speaker 4: most surprised I've ever been in my life.
Speaker 8: She speaks no English, no English.
Speaker 4: I mean, she's been here twenty some years and to
Speaker 4: say I want a glass of water. It's half an
Speaker 4: hour to get that out. And so we're at the
Speaker 4: durnwhere at the table, and I went out and got
Speaker 4: some Chinese food, came back, distributed all around eating Chinese food.
Speaker 8: It was great at the end.
Speaker 4: And I see her reach into the bag with the
Speaker 4: fortune cookies and she pulls the one out and cracks
Speaker 4: it and whip out the thing and say, and we
Speaker 4: call her Bob. And in Russian grandmother is Babushka, not Babushka. Babushka.
Speaker 4: So I ain't saying that every time. So you're Bob now.
Speaker 4: And so he says, hey, Bob, what does your fortune say?
Speaker 4: She goes, you will have a very auspicious day today
Speaker 4: as the third trimester of you. But the fuck? And
Speaker 4: I said, well, this is a setup, man, you know
Speaker 4: it's this. And her hear your daughter read another one, what.
Speaker 7: A glorious day, reads the whole thing.
Speaker 4: That's in hard language too. She took English in college
Speaker 4: in in in in Russia. She can read it but
Speaker 4: doesn't understand what she was reading, but read it perfectly.
Speaker 5: And I sat there like, and she can use firearms, right.
Speaker 4: Oh, Yeah, she's a great shot and can throwing acts too, KGB.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm thinking, KGB.
Speaker 5: I believe it in America, I believe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: Those are her book club meetings.
Speaker 2: She goes to book club meetings and sharpens her tools.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what she does. Funny because her family old geniuses.
Speaker 2: Did you guys have a particular strain you liked in
Speaker 2: your heyday?
Speaker 1: I liked weed just in general.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: That might call weed.
Speaker 1: I like that one.
Speaker 4: My favorite was anything given to me by a naked woman?
Speaker 3: Even better, I feel you.
Speaker 1: What was your guys's favorite movie?
Speaker 3: You guys?
Speaker 1: Did each of you guys your favorite movie we did together?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Together up in Smoke, Up Smoke.
Speaker 4: I mean it's the first one. Yeah, yeah, what do
Speaker 4: you like?
Speaker 1: Abe?
Speaker 5: I like them all liked I liked them all. I liked,
Speaker 5: uh yeah, all of them. All of them had something.
Speaker 5: Up in Smoke had everything.
Speaker 3: While this place you've been on vacation Pakoma.
Speaker 1: Wild?
Speaker 4: Where's the wildest place you've been on vacation? You've been
Speaker 4: a bunch of places.
Speaker 5: I'm not joking, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not It was a vacation, like you know, with palm
Speaker 4: trees and ship.
Speaker 5: Well to me Pulau into the island of Pao. That's
Speaker 5: off Guam. It's two hundred miles from Guam and it's
Speaker 5: it's uh skin cat little you know.
Speaker 3: You can.
Speaker 5: Those giant shells that you see in Disney movies, you know, climbshills.
Speaker 5: I was out with a local Wini with his boat
Speaker 5: and I found a climb show and struggle with it,
Speaker 5: got it up, you know. I had a swim underneath
Speaker 5: the water. He got it up, put it in the boat.
Speaker 5: I went back down. All of a sudden, I hear
Speaker 5: a splash my show the boat. Captain.
Speaker 3: No, I don't want that ship in my boat.
Speaker 1: He's threw it up.
Speaker 5: No, that was crazy, like a very very native.
Speaker 8: I like Costa Rica. I used to go to Costa
Speaker 8: Rica a lot. It's real jungle, you know where we
Speaker 8: used to go. So that was cool.
Speaker 3: This is the final question. If you could see one
Speaker 3: guest on our show, who would it be on your show?
Speaker 8: Who'd you want on their show?
Speaker 4: Ray Don Alli Wong Ali Wong. Yeah, she would be good.
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 3: So you might have to a few. But it's the
Speaker 3: second part of the question. You have to help us
Speaker 3: get your answer on the show. Yeah, oh yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 1: Probably.
Speaker 4: Cassandra Peterson. Cassandra Peterson is Alvira. She was part of
Speaker 4: the Groundings. Oh really, she was one of the original
Speaker 4: Groundings and she was also a Las Vegas showgirl used
Speaker 4: to with e us.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, being the Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh man, it's a beautiful girl.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would get a lot of stories out of her.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 2: Well, man, we appreciate you guys this time.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Uh, it was an honor to be able to sit
Speaker 2: down and share some time for you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: That's a rat burn one cheech and chong. You can
Speaker 2: catch this on all the Smoke Productions and DraftKings Network.
Speaker 2: We'll see y'all next week.
Speaker 8: Be's Out.