September 13, 2023 • 68 mins
What's up everyone!!! I can't even believe the words that are about to come out of my mouth. Stopping by to chop it up with your boy, is non other then the Legend himself Mr. Tommy Chong!!
Don't ask, I don't know how I did it either.
Join us as we journey down the path of the life of Tommy Chong, at least the stuff he's willing to share. From how he got started in Comedy along side Cheech Marion, to being a voiceover on my son's favorite Disney movie "Zootopia". I've followed this man from the wonderful age of 13 when I stole the "Cheech and Chong's Greatest Hit" cassette tape from my Grandpa's cassette collection and have been a fan ever since. Yes, we will be talking cannabis and probably smoking a little too. What an episode this is going to be, fasten your seat belts, get your weed ready and kick the kids out the house. It's Go Time!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Really on the move on the map.
Never slip.
Keep your hands to your lips,don't talk about it.
Real eyes, real eyes, real eyes.
All the time.
Stand on it.
If we set it we won't walkaround it.
Lose lips ain't ships.
Red cup, blue strips, new phonewho dis know?
We don't allow it.
Really on, go.
I don't know what's the off daynow.
We on road keep on smoking inthe hallway.
Now we got shows.
(00:50):
Boys falling like Broadway.
Always look both ways, even ona crossway coming down cross-bay
.
Our town park lays Really on.
Big teams came up a small way.
Championship rings baby, that'sa ball game.
Oh, she want a lil bag.
Baby, that small chain.
Yeah, that money talked.
If we ain't cool, then cut meoff.
No, breaking news.
Don't run your mouth.
Thought it was a plug, now herunning off.
(01:11):
Thought it was a plug, now heain't running off.
What you gon do when you at whoyou with?
You ain't really bout this.
Don't talk about it.
Really on the move on the map.
Never slip.
Keep your hands to your lips,don't talk about it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Real eyes, real eyes, real eyes, all the time Cheech
(01:53):
and Chong still smoking Cheechand Chong's next movie.
You might also recognize himfrom the lovable hippie from
that 70s show, leo, or, if not,if that doesn't work, maybe
squirrel master from Half Baked.
And all your kids out thereprobably recognize his voice
from the Disney movie Zootopiaas Yax.
My son loves him and he alsohas his own cannabis brand out
(02:17):
there called Chong's Choice.
We're gonna talk about thatlater and without further ado.
Everyone.
He is an actor, writer,producer, comedian and legend in
the cannabis industry.
Mr Tabi Chong, everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Please, everybody sit down.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yes there will be an around applause you will hear a
round of applause.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Thank you so much for coming on and spending so much
some time out of your day.
It's on my schedule.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So I'm a good guy.
I will, yeah, do what I said Iwas gonna do.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, yeah, well, we, I appreciate it, we appreciate
it, and all the people out therelistening.
Thank you so much.
Now, uh, I have been listeningto you, for I think I stole my
grandfather's cassette tape outof his, out of his little
cassette collection when I was12 years old.
Yeah, Cheech.
(03:19):
And.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Chong's greatest hit.
I just got that joke.
Instead of hits, it's Cheechand Chong's greatest hit.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yep, greatest hit, yep.
Yeah, I didn't realize thateither until I actually was
older and I was like greatesthit, like that makes sense, like
they does.
The vinyl does come with a biggiant paper in it, yeah, but
yeah, but yeah, it was.
It was uh, but it was um, sistermary elephant.
(03:49):
No, yeah, was the skit that,like the very first skit that I
listened to, made you laugh.
Now, how did you it?
Oh yeah, like hysterically, Iwould like I said I was 12 years
old at the time and I didn'tknow any of this.
I said any of this even existed.
Um, and it's, how did you andcheech get get started with each
other?
(04:09):
How'd you guys come up pastcross?
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We, we met in Vancouver, canada.
Cheech was up, okay, recoveringfrom a skiing accident and he
was in Vancouver, uh, deliveringcarpets for a living and
working in a in a uh Like ahippie magazine.
(04:41):
You know, he was, uh, he wasthe uh entertainment Critic.
Yeah, okay, music critic forfor this hippie magazine.
And yeah, um, I had a improvgroup going In a strip club it
(05:01):
was the very first, and onlythat I know, of strip club.
It was like a burlesque show,you know, we had the naked girls
.
We also had, you know, thefunny, funny guys.
And uh, we had another we had Ihad a partner named Dave and he
was a long-haired hippie.
And then we had a straight mannamed rick and he was glasses.
(05:25):
He was the one that would playthe narc in the cop and All
those characters.
And well, he, his wife, foundout what he was doing because we
got good publicity, and shemade him quit because it was
disgusting what he was doing.
And so then, uh, this, theeditor of the hippie magazine
told me about this funny guythat worked for him, that would
(05:48):
be perfect for the show, and sohe invited me out to his office
and I went out there and Ibrought my gorgeous girlfriend
Shelby and my little daughter,precious, and we met cheats for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh wow.
And then right from and was itlike just from, like jump
straight, you guys just starteddoing, like doing stuff together
, or no, no, actually joined.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
He joined as the straight guy.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And he became like a writer and, uh, really like the
third guy on the show, and so hewatched us do the show and
because cheats is a singer aswell, you know a musician guitar
player and singer uh cheatslearned every all the daves
moves.
And then when the we got fired,you know my, my brother, who was
(06:48):
running the strip club, firedus because he wanted to get the
girly show back.
And we put the girly show backand the group broke up and
cheats night everybody went backworking for the girly show and
I um, cheats now were the onlyones that wanted to keep doing
the entertainment part so thenwe hooked up and that's when he
(07:12):
became cheats because up andthen we never knew.
We.
We always knew him as RichardRichard.
Richard, that was his name,richard.
Okay and then when cheats and Iperformed Uh, and we've decided
that we were going to become ateam.
(07:33):
That's when I found out asnicknamed was cheats.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh wow, oh wow.
So now, now, when we guysstarted doing improv together,
was it?
What was what?
When did you?
What was that moment that madeyou know that you guys had like
good chemistry together, likethis was gonna be something.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, we started, we we put a band together.
You know, the gap to petition Italked to, the comedy thing was
a spur of the moment thing anduh, because I was uh, a musician
really looking for a gig butnot looking that hard, you know,
because I had the clubs and uh,and so I thought, you know, I
(08:22):
thought cheats and I could.
You know he's a singer and wecould do a little comedy and a
lot of music, and that's whatwe've done all our lives.
But what we did, we gottogether, we found out we were
comedians.
We found out, we put, we had anact and and we went around the
(08:43):
country, you know, doing ouropen mic nights and everything.
And then, and then we heard no,we did one showcase for, uh,
the movie producer, a recordproducer, and this other record
owner came to see us and he kindof swooped in and Said he'd
(09:06):
like to meet with us, and so wemet with him and Decided we'll
do a comedy record and okay.
That's it.
The rest is history.
The very, very first thing thevery first thing we recorded
became our biggest hit.
Oh, wow very first, very firstwhat was?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
what was the very first thing that you recorded?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Dave's not here.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Dave, that's hilarious too.
That's like the one of thefunniest skits on that album do
yeah.
Dave's not here, yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And it was given to us by an angel of comedy, of
comedy, the comedy, god, he, uh,he said here, try this one.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And it worked now Did you and you and cheats wrote
your own material.
Is that, am I correct, or itwas everything Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
we, yeah, yeah, everything was but, but we did
it like, uh, like a rock band,in fact we were more like a See,
I was in a really been bluesband.
Okay and a rock band.
I guess you'd call them wenever call it rocked in, just
(10:29):
rock and roll, right, and that'sreally what I was, and and so
when I got into comedy, I justwe just did comedy like we do
music, you know, we get somefunny bits and put them in it
together and and they end withmusic.
That that was our, you know, goup with, uh, with the song.
(10:51):
I can't go wrong, uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, the, I remember the song.
I don't remember the titleexactly, but I remember the song
.
It goes Um teacher talking tome, trying to tell me how to
live down in it down in it andI'll.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You're right, that was irate my eye.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, there you go, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, yeah, that was the music was written by a
guitar player named gay d'alarm.
Oh, okay, he was staying withcheech one day and he, he came
out of the bedroom and he goeshey, listen to this Mama talking
to me, trying to tell me how tolive.
Did it that, that, that, that,that that's all he had.
And so then I that's it thelyric.
(11:33):
I wrote the rest of lyrics Uhand uh.
And then cheech sang and Done,boom, boom, boom, boom.
Then I produced the album, the,the the record itself.
I produced it and it was quitea quite a decent hit.
You know, quite a decent hit,legend in the rock, in the rock
(11:56):
and roll world.
You know, a lot of bandscovered it, loved it.
You know, wow, because it was akiller song?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, is it.
Was that the idea that in thein the up and smoke movies when
he were guys, when you're doingthe uh Mexican-American song
like the Mexican American bitand he's just like at the like
midway through he goes andthat's all I got.
Was that like an inspirationfrom the past song?
(12:29):
Yeah, this is not knowing.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well, I mean, that's the way we wrote everything you
know you get a few words here,and there you know, get an idea
and then next thing, you know,you got a song or a parody of
another song.
You know, like Cheech did, Bornin East LA, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And it became more famous and born in the USA.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, exactly, yep, yep.
You do hear that song more thanyou hear the Born in USA song.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, you do hear.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Cheech more yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, it's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Now yeah, Born in East LA.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
What Cheech and I did was introduce weed and low
riders Yep Into the straightworld of comedy, where it really
belonged.
You know, Right Up until then,everything was always.
You know, cops and robbers anddrug dealers and cartels, and
(13:34):
you know killing and robbing andkilling, and Cheech and I come
along and we just did a potmovie where only when Nolan got
hurt and everybody got high,exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Now, when you're shooting like the pot in the
movies because it was back inlike the days where the pot was
frowned upon and demonized andlegal as all hell.
And was it real pot on the setsor did we get a shot?
Was it real pot on the sets ordid we guys smoking fake pot?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
We had our supply, you know we always had a joint
not to ready, but everything was.
We didn't do anything tojeopardize the movie and so all
the pot you know was fake.
Okay, but you know, it readreal.
(14:34):
That was the main thing.
I didn't want to give away any.
Hollywood secrets, but yeah, Imean fake pot, but real actors,
yeah it worked out.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, it was.
Yeah, both, all, yeah, all five.
I think all five of the moviesI've watched like repeatedly,
and they're just amazing.
Like I'm a hysteria.
I'm laughing every time.
I can't do it now, so much thatI'm a father and my six year
old runs around a lot, so Ican't watch him so much anymore,
but I can throw on theheadphones every once in a while
.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That was nice.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, it's nice to like, have like.
I don't think cannabis would bewhere it's at today if it
wasn't for Cheech and Chunk, ifit wasn't Nope.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Nope, I mean, it probably would be, but there'd
be another Cheech and Chunksomewhere in there.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Like somebody.
You think somebody else wouldhave snatched it up first.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Maybe Seth Rogen or somebody you know.
Possibly James Brown, I'vewatched Pineapple Express for
the first time, oh, wow, to seeit all the way through.
Yeah, it was hard watching orremembering pot movies, you know
.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But when you see him you know like academically, you
know straight, then it's a wholedifferent number.
So yeah, pineapple Express,that was quite a exciting movie,
good movie.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, it's very intense for a Stoner movie.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That was the whole point.
Yes, it was the whole point andI loved the way it enhanced
everything.
You know, he got more intense,he got more paranoid, he got
more crazy.
It was funny, man.
Yeah, All that energy.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It's like, yeah, the part where he's on the, where
he's on like I think it was thetalk radio, and he's like, if
anything, pot makes anythingbetter, it makes shitty movies
better.
It makes shitty music better.
It just makes everything better.
And he's bright.
He was very bright, absolutelyRight.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Absolutely my art.
When I do my art and I'll comealong well, I treat it that way.
You know, I treat it like whatit is.
You know it's like yeah, if youput it in a frame you could
call it art, but for the mostpart it's almost like a ghetto
(16:59):
family.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know there's no room for everything.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So everything is where you're supposed to be.
There's no special place foranything, and so it just crowd
everything.
It just crowd everything, yeah,yeah.
And then it's a party as longas they all get along and they
do All my belongings and stuff.
No, I'm, what do you call it?
(17:26):
No, I'm, what do you call it?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
A hoarder Pack rat.
I like to say pack rat becauseI'm the same.
Exactly no pack rat.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, it's a rat, it's still a rat, you know.
No, no, a hoarder.
A hoarder, it's a guy thathoard shit, you know.
But you know the trick is don'tbe a garbage hoarder.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, exactly yes.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You know, be art hoarder, you know, or certain
things you know, but make sureit's sanitary, you know it
doesn't attract varmints.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, like mice.
Yes, don't keep food.
I always found that weird thatpeople keep food Like every
hoarder move.
You know, I've ever watched allthe hoarders keep food and I
don't understand that and it'slike just throw out the food.
You're not gonna eat it later,throw it out.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's the sickness.
You see, Mm-hmm, that's whenyou see the.
There's a sickness with withtilts.
Look at that, Cause I guess insome ways it's a way to attract
company.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Maybe, yeah, attention, maybe.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But yeah, I don't think it's the kind of attention
you want, but I don't know.
But yeah, to an extent I amalso a hoarder, like electronics
, like I still have all myelectronics I've ever owned.
Then like half of them don'twork but I still have yeah,
throw them away.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
What's the birth size ?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Aries.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh, aries, okay, yeah , yeah, that's March.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's late March, early April.
My birthday is April, lateApril Eight.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yep Three eight.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Four eight.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I mean four, eight, four, eight.
Yeah, yeah, my, my brother wasApril 3rd and then my grand son
is April 3rd is birthday.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, now do you go by the news odiac, that news
odiac thing Like I guess there'sthat there was a new sign that
that would make me a Pisces andI wasn't having it.
Oh, like way back when.
I don't know if they're correct, I'm still with the old Chinese
one.
Yeah, that's why I go off.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I'm still there.
I'm still there, no Right.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, there was a zodiac.
They found a different zodiacsign in the sky, apparently, and
it's like two weeks long and itjust throws a wrench in
everything, like if you were inareas you're Pisces, if you were
Gemini, or like a Leo orScorpio or something like that.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Oh, yeah, and I was just like.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I was like why?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
why mess with us?
Now?
It's all mathematics, so right.
Somewhere down the line there'ssome numbers attached.
So have you ever done theE-ching?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
No, I have not.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Okay, this is your homework for this E is like I
capital, I G-H-I-N-G.
Okay, and the one you want isby Hannah Mogue.
Okay, let's see.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Hannah Mogue.
Now is that the author?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well the.
E-ching is an ancient book thatwas written King Wen, I think
was his name, it's a.
Chinese fortune-telling thing.
This is the book, and see thewriters at the bottom.
This edition is the best.
I've done.
(21:18):
A few of them, and this onetells you.
And what it is they started outby dropping wheat stocks or
yarrow stocks, but now you do itwith coins.
You get three coins and youflip them, okay, and you add
them up and it gives you ahexagram and then, when you find
(21:42):
the hexagram, it tells you,tells you your fortune,
basically.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Oh, okay, and.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I hadn't done it until I went to jail.
I hadn't.
I did it in 60, I guess it was68, 69.
Okay, when I met, you know, theguy that wrote Erie Mama
talking to me, well, he was verymystic and he turned me on to
(22:09):
the E-ching back when.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I met him.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And we threw the coins and with me it came out
perfection.
Whatever I was doing, it wasgoing to be the most perfect
perfection.
That's what it was.
Then, years passed, I ended upin jail.
My brother-in-law, my son, yeah, brother-in-law sends me the
(22:35):
E-ching.
I throw the coins, it comes upyou are in jail for a reason.
That's what it said.
You are in jail for a reason.
Corrections are where you go tochange your behavior.
(22:57):
How cool is that?
What you're in jail for isyou're there to change your
behavior.
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It'll do it to you.
Yeah, it will do it to you too.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, and so I read that.
And then my last one was prettynice.
I got to do it again.
But and then when I was inprison, after I threw the
E-ching and found mine, thisinmate was looking at watching
(23:35):
me and he said what is that?
He thought it was a game, hewanted to try it.
I was like, oh well, let me getyour fortune.
And so he threw the coins andthen I don't know I'd have been
stink or something, I didn'tread it, I just found it and
then I handed it to him and heread it himself.
(23:57):
Then he handed me the book backand he went, got on his bunk,
crawled up on his bunkers likeit stared out the window.
And so then I read what he,what his fortune was, and it
said you have suffered a greatmisfortune and a tragedy, a
(24:23):
terrible tragedy.
You've just experienced aterrible tragedy, and I think it
was a week before his wife andchild was killed in a car
accident, coming out to see himat prison.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So that's a crazy and dead on that book so this
E-ching thing, so this thing islike spot on, like whatever it
says is gonna have spot on.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And what he did?
He see, back in the day, theChinese were so advanced spirits
they were the ones that areConfucius, you know and they
embraced Buddhism.
You know, they're very, very,very advanced and that's what
(25:23):
came with it, because at thetime they had emperors and kings
.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And so you had they would.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
They would subsidize, just like the aristocrats and
the wealthy in Europe subsidizedall the arts.
You know Mozart and Beethoven,you know all the.
All the musical grants werealways the rich people and it
was usually done either with thewealthy or the church.
(25:52):
The churches were all verywealthy and the churches would
support all the arts and andeverything.
It was quite a good system backin the day.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Wow, yeah, wow, that's amazing.
We're gonna have to get thatbook and try it out.
Thank you.
Yeah, thank you for bringingthat to me.
Yeah, definitely Well you'reready?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You're obviously ready.
It's a turn on.
And the only thing, you do isyou're turning it on to someone
that you know that'll need it,That'll appreciate it.
Right, it's like a, like aOuija board.
Now, if you start fucking withit, it will it knows, you know
(26:35):
you talk about.
Ai.
The each thing is okay.
And so the each thing if youstart you know, seeing you know
who won the game or any bullshitlike that there.
The each thing spots it rightaway and next thing you know it
tells you fuck off.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It's powerful.
Yeah, yeah, quit quit, quit,quit doing what you're doing.
You know just, it ain't working, it's not working.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's not gonna, but yeah, it was.
You were also sorry aboutstarted to switch the topic on
you, but we are also.
You're also on one of my, alsoone of my other favorite movies
and it's with Dr Dre and SnoopDogg and it's called the Wash.
Oh, the Wash, the Wash.
(27:30):
Yep, you are, you play.
D's connection in that, like inthat movie, is just I don't
know, a lot of people don't likeit because it's just I don't
want to say a little bunch offilm, but it's like a B rated
movie, but it's still.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
It's still funny, a funny movie Like now, I haven't,
really I've never seen it allthe way through.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Oh really, yeah, I've watched that movie like 20
times it was like a favor.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
you know, hey, you gotta be in my movie.
I've been on all the I've beenon Dr Dre's albums and Snoop
Dogg, and Snoop Dogg, you know,being homage to us with the up
and smoke tour and then.
And so when, dr Dre, when theyasked me to be in the movie, it
was like yeah, of course.
But I yeah, I haven't.
(28:23):
I haven't had occasion to seethe movie yet.
I love to see it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, it's really good.
I watch it all the time.
Oh good it's.
I believe it's on 2B right now,so you can watch it on 2B.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You know the the amazing thing.
There's a couple of things thatwas amazing.
When I was on Chapelle's movieyou know the half-baked nasty
Nate I ended up with a groundsquirrel pet in the movie.
Well, guess what?
I ended up feeding having a petin tap ground squirrels.
(28:58):
That's what the inmates woulddo with their food.
The food was so bad we'd takeit and feed the ground squirrels
, and the ground squirrels gotso fat they couldn't get back in
the hole, and so the hawks hada field day.
You know the big fat groundsquirrels out for their life.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It is the pure entertainment, pure
entertainment.
Value right there, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
And what other one did I do Come back to?
No, the wash and the wash.
I was given the weed away free,but I was selling the bar.
And I ended up going to jailfor selling bombs.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I am gonna ask you about that too.
Yeah, what happened with all Iseen you on?
This is not happening.
Comedy Central and you weretelling your story about that.
Like what happened, likesomeone with the end of CIA
infiltrated your company andthen did something illegal and
you got in trouble for it.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, no, what they did?
They infiltrated the companyand one of them actually helped
the company, because they wereaccusing us of funding the
Taliban with billions of dollarsmade from illegal bomb sales.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
The Taliban.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And so they sent a finance guy to see where all the
money was going.
Well, the finance guy found outthat the company was losing
money because they weren'trunning it like a company should
have been run.
And so he literallystraightened our company out.
But they also sent someundercover people to Vancouver
(30:47):
to buy a shitload of weed andthen to have them ship the bombs
.
No, they came to LA fromPennsylvania and bought a ton of
bombs and then talked the guyinto shipping them back to us,
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and then that's how they got mebreaking the law.
Up until then the company neverbroke the law, and so it was.
I could have beat it, but Irealized the publicity from the
bust in the experience.
So I really wanted thatexperience going to jail.
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I was looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
And I was right.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
It was a memorable experience.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Not any of the times have I gone to jail that I wanna
go, tommy.
It's like you know what, justto see what jail's like.
I never wanted to go to jail.
I've been there a handful oftimes, nothing for anything
major, but a handful of times,but it just never was.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yeah, so you know that side of it.
No, I knew that side of it too.
That's why I was the only onethat got sentenced.
You know a bomb, because I knowwhat they did.
They went and checked my record, even though it was juvenile.
They'd check it all and findout what really went down, and
(32:22):
found out that I'd been arresteda few times, and so I
automatically got enhanced.
I was gonna go to jail.
That's the way it works, youknow, I can't deny that.
I can't bitch about it.
I guess I could.
Nah, I wouldn't be worth goingthrough the trouble, the
(32:45):
lawsuits and shit, you know.
But I think I think we, youknow, I got a lot out of going
to jail, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
You think it was?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
easier.
They took from me.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Okay.
Do you think it was easier justto serve the time than it would
be just to like drag the silentcourt for like years?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
No, they won, they didn't they?
The government knew that theynever had a case against me.
The only way they could get mein jail would be to threaten my
wife and my son, which they did.
But that's the governmentthreatening your wife and your
son, you know.
That's the United Statesgovernment, you know, and then
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you're not gonna win, and so Ifold it, you know, but that was
good, that was good.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh yeah well, geez, that's it's just insane how it
went down right.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Okay, I said, it was just insane how it went down.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
It's just but yeah, yeah, no, it was so meant to be,
because it was like I actuallyI laid a trap for the government
and they fell right into it.
Think about it you know,because we've done more to
legalize weed than anything,than anybody.
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There's us in.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Sandra.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Gupta.
When Sandra Gupta showed upbaby hugging its mum for the
first time after using THC asmedicine, charlotte's Web.
Then, within months, wellbefore the election, marijuana
was legal all over Colorado, allthe states, you know,
(34:39):
california, and the ball andit's rolling, it's getting
bigger and bigger and thelegalization is gonna it really
is going to mellow out theplanet Right.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Are you worried about the federal becoming legalized
at the federal level, like howit would do to like the quality
of the product, or do you thinkit wouldn't change at all?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
You can't fuck with weed.
No, you can't.
If you could, if you people try, Right, I mean the biggest and
the greenest, whatever, it don'tmean shit, right.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It's what it does to you.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
That's why you can't sensitize it.
You know you can't repeat it.
It's a magical one of a kind.
Just think about this Everyplant starts off with a tiny
little seed and it grows intothis enormous plant with all the
(35:41):
beautiful THC all over theplace.
You can't fuck with it, youknow.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
You can fuck with people's minds but why?
And yeah, and off of that oneseed, you can create hundreds of
others, just like, yeah, justby cloning it, just by cloning
it, just stepping it off andcloning it.
Yeah, it is, it's meant to beon the plant.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
It's not meant to be for people to say, just put a
toll on it.
You know Right, but you do withcivilization.
You encourage everybody to havewealth.
That's what you want Everybodyto have wealth and then you use
your talent to get people toshare, to give you, for you to
(36:30):
improve on your entertainment orwhatever it is.
You know Right, that's the ideaof getting more money so you
can do more art.
Mm-hmm, because that's what weare.
We're in the world of art.
Yep, be it doing a podcast, theart of the podcast or doing a
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movie, or doing a painting, ordoing a writing a song, you know
singing and what you do thinkabout what entertainment does?
It brings people together andmakes them smile, yep.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Makes them smile or cry.
If you want to cry, if you'rein the mood to cry or cry, yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Or just to be very happy or sad or whatever.
But it's what we're supposed todo on the planet, you know.
We're supposed to get alongwith our neighbors, mm-hmm.
And no one's person should haveany more power over the next
Right and just play by the rulesthat have been written many,
(37:33):
many, many years ago.
That work, and that's whatwe're doing, and that's why
we're here.
We're here to learn, we're hereto learn and I'm here to burn.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yep and Canvas does that.
It brings people together, itmakes you feel happy, it brings
on amazing feelings and it's arelaxation.
If you have it in pain, you'lltake that away.
If you can't sleep, it'll makeyou sleep.
If you can't eat, it'lldefinitely make you eat.
Fed my favorite fair share ofmunchies.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
No, why.
Why does it work that way?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I think because it's supposed to.
That's why it's here.
You know why it's why it's here.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
It affects when you do THC.
It affects the brain.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Our cannabinoid sensors that's right, sensors in
our brain and your senses.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Send out messages.
How's everybody doing?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
He's back.
Sorry, guys.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
The thirst.
The one in charge of hydrationwill tell you hey, get me
something to drink now.
Yeah, the hunger is said.
Oh, I'm ready, I want to tastesomething.
I want to taste somethingcrunchy and sweet maybe, but I'm
ready, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
But what's your go-to munchie, when you're all stoned
out?
What's your go-to?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Oh, I guess they're called hard-tack crackers.
They're not saltines, they'rebig, big size, big, nice size
cracker white cracker.
I worked in a cookie factoryfor a while and making all the
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cookies and all the cracker andthey used to make this hard-tack
and it was for the Inuit andthe people up north.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
And I got a taste for them, and so this cracker that
I get it's a white cracker.
I'm trying to think of the name.
I can't think of the name rightnow, but and I'll share it with
my dog, my poodle, and it'sjust nothing on it Just because
(40:00):
I realized.
The human body responds to, youknow, physical movement, like
the crunch, like Cheetos orpotato chips, crunch activates
taste buds, salaba buds, in your, in your jaw, in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
See.
So when you crunch something,all of a sudden the taste buds
in your whole mouth come alive,and so that's why they crunch in
the salt.
The salt reminds you to drinkwater, drink something, stay
hydrated.
That's why the salt is soimportant, and so my go-to yes,
(40:53):
it's a cracker, because it can'thurt me.
Sugar is not.
Sugar is not.
It's not good to get addictedto sugar.
No, it's not.
No, or alcohol, or anythingthat'll hurt you.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I do.
I have a problem with sugar,and throughout the day I'm fine,
I won't eat any sugar.
It's at night.
Yeah, get up in the middle ofthe night and I raid the covers
and I eat all my son's snacks inthe middle of the day, at night
, because I went to bed high andnow I have a sweet tooth and
the brownies are now gone.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
That's why.
That's why Halloween used to besuch a happy occasion for
little kids.
But no, no no, they have to.
They have to hide their goodiesfrom their parents Because the
parents there's so many of themaddicted to it, because once you
start, you can't stop.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, you can't have one reason Bad, yeah, yeah, you
can't just have one reason, yougot to have both.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Well, that's why these gummies are so important,
because when you, when you urge,when you get a little, you know
a bunchy thing going orhydration.
You know your mouth gets drywhen I do these podcasts.
I'll do one of these andthey're just.
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They'll just make the tastebuds come alive.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
So you make your mouth water a lot.
Get the saliva going yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Very nice, Keerah cut mouth.
Keerah, yeah, we were sellingthose going through the roof.
Oh, nice yeah we're in talksnow with some big distributors
Budweiser, I believe.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Now, how are we going to be?
Yeah, we're.
We're merging with some prettyserious companies.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Okay, cool Now.
Is that Chong's Choice?
Is that the Chong's Choicebrand?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
No, Chong's Choice is dead.
Oh okay, that's done.
No, it's just Tommy Chong orCheechin Chongcom.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Cheechin Chongcom Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah, Cheechin Chongcom, really that sort of
thing.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
They're still doing Chongbongs.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
That's a separate company.
And then I got the CBD, thesleep aids and and uh, awake,
you know the energy.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
I got those, but the gummies, the Cheechin Chong
gummies, they're just, they'remy favorite.
Oh, and we got a drink, a THCbeer.
Oh, wow, so instead of beer youdrink this.
It's flavored soda water mostly, but it's got enough uh hemp in
there to give you a buzz.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
And it's a nice and and I guess you can for some
booze heads.
You know, mild booze heads,it'll be enough.
Right, you know it'll nevertake the place of real booze,
but, uh, but it'll take theplace of the need or the want of
real booze.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
But for, like, recovering booze heads like
myself, recovered, yeah,recovered I can consider myself
recovered.
It's been like 12 years now.
So are you recovered?
I think so.
Yeah, it's been 12 years sinceI've had a drink.
I've spoken a lot of weed, butI don't I don't drink alcohol.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Yeah, Well, it just takes one trip off the cliff to
kill you.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
but it was jail.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's likedone.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Well, you, you want to get yourself to the point
where being straight is anotherhigh.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Exactly, yeah, we can just get up and enjoy your life
and that's your high rightthere.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Yeah, yeah, just just , for whatever reason.
When you don't smoke, you don'tdrink, do nothing, and just
feel the reality.
I did that for three years,yeah, but I went to pre-trial
jail jail nine months.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
And then a year probation after.
So for three years I was cleanas a whistle.
Oh wow, that's when I gotcancer, by the way.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Oh wow, and when you stopped smoking, that's when.
That's when it happened.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
I got prostate when I was in the joint.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
And then it morphed into rectal and so I had to have
the operation and now I'mcancer free and it was all.
I didn't just use weed, I usedthe CBD more for healing and not
to be able, you know, not havepain Right.
(45:48):
I never had any problems issueswith pain or discomfort, where
you end up on the OxyContin oror the morphine.
I never went that route at all.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
That's good.
Glad to hear that.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
It's just I don't want to get too into it, but
it's just insane.
To the stuff they peddle andthey can just hear smoke a joint
and it's.
It's good, you're fine.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
Yeah, but that's what you know.
Back in the day, the Mexicanswould smuggle the weed across
the border, not just for for thesale, Okay, Although they
didn't do that, that would payfor their their way over but for
their own medicine and use.
(46:38):
You know, right, Like you say,it helps with sleep, helps with
everything.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
It helps everything.
It helps you do anything youwant and it makes it better.
Like Seth Rogen says, it makesshitty things better.
Yeah, but yeah, but real quick.
I want, I do want to touch baseon this before I have to let
you go.
Um, we do have.
Uh, I was a big fan of that 70sshow and it just seems like
(47:04):
that show took another leapforward once Leo was introduced
into it.
Now, what did you enjoy likeworking on that 70s show and
what was it like working with?
Speaker 3 (47:14):
all those people.
I loved every minute of it.
What I loved about it was thatI was like a visiting relative,
almost.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
On vacation.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
And so I would come to the set and I'd watch them
work and you know, like going toschool, going to film school,
you know I'd sit in the audienceand learn what everybody did
like actors, watch how thedirector talk to the actors and
the writers and, you know, watchthat whole thing.
(47:51):
So I was, I loved every momentof that that 70s show and I made
a lot of great, really niceclose uh friends with, uh, with
the crew.
Yeah, we were a family for manyyears four or five years, five
years yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
And we actually had that 70s show's parties, like I
think I believe it was everyTuesday at like eight o'clock.
We were to get together and wewill watch the new episode of
that 70s show and just get lit,just get blitzed off our asses.
Just we're smoking, some peoplewere drinking, but most of you
were just chiefin' out andwatching that 70 show.
It was like a ritual.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
So that explains why my character got so popular.
Yeah, because, because, nomatter what I said, I everybody
understood what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Where I was going, right, yeah, uh, what was it
like?
Uh, with working with I don'tknow his real name and God
forbid me and God forgive me forthis, but uh, but working with
Al Borland.
I'm going to call him AlBorland because his real name is
escaping my mind at the moment.
So when you guys, when he wasplaying your uncle and he was an
(49:04):
artist, and you guys wererearranging or redoing,
remodeling- Um the tool man thetool?
Yeah, and he moved everythingtwo inches to the left, and that
was it.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
And you know that was , that was my uh, I think that
was my only ad-lib in the wholeshow.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Yeah, yeah.
Everything too much is to theirleft.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was justlike oh my gosh it was great
Because the whole show,everything was so well written.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
Uh huh, you know that there was nothing to ad-lib.
Yeah, there was no room.
They never left any room for it.
No, I guess I know they wrotethat.
They wrote that.
No, I can't take credit forthat.
I thought if anywhere where Iwould be able to improv, would
be with him in a scene.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
But it never happened .
No, everything was written.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
That's really one of the reasons, you know, I found
so much respect for writers thatI never had you know.
Because you don't, because youknow it's like magic.
You don't want to know how theshit works.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
And that's like writers too.
All of a sudden, you meetsomeone that wrote it.
You look at them and you'relike, oh, you don't look like
like a writer, right.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Like a lot of like the standup comedians that are
like popular nowadays.
We're like writers for SNL andstuff like that too.
So it's just crazy how you are.
You loved their material beforehe even knew who they were, and
it's just amazing how that justrenovates when it comes in yeah
.
But awesome, but awesome.
(50:55):
But yeah, I don't want to takeup too much more every time and
I do appreciate you coming inand chaffing it up with me.
We had a great time today.
Yeah, yeah well, I mean Thankyou very much.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
I'm kind of stolen all the time.
I got to do one more bit beforetoday.
I think Okay, I don't know, Idon't know I'm supposed to be
doing.
They're doing a documentary onRenaldo Rey.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
The black.
Do you know who Renaldo Rey is?
Speaker 2 (51:31):
I.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
Comedian.
Okay yep, been in a lot of.
I had him in a movie called.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
Far Hope.
Speaker 3 (51:38):
Man, okay, and anyway he died and they went to do.
You know my memories of him.
Uh huh, but so that's what'snext on my plate.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
That's your agenda Now.
Are you going to be coming outwith, like any more, any more
skits or anything, or anything?
I think I believe when I lookedup your filmography, it was
like an animation version ofCheech and Chong.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
Well, no, there was a book, a book Like a superhero
book.
Okay, cheech and Chongsuperhero.
We've got a documentary in thecan.
Basically, okay, it's like amore.
It's a movie more than adocumentary, but it's a.
It's about Cheech and Chong.
(52:27):
You know about some of the highpoints and a lot of the low
points.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
You know Right.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
The disagreements that's coming out.
And then we've got all ourdrinks.
You know the sodas and that.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
They're coming out.
I'm really working on becomingone of the richest men in the
world Me, do you both, bro?
No, but I mean I have a path todo it.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
You know, not just a no, it actually is a pipe dream.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
There you go it is a pipe dream.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:05):
Because what I want to do, the reason I want to
become so wealthy, is because Iwant to start a movie company.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
Where I hire everybody, and I'm talking about
everybody.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (53:23):
And because a movie company will find out who you
are, where you are, what you,what you are, what you need,
everything about you.
But it's done not for thegovernment, it's done for for
the movie company itself,because everybody on the planet,
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as Trump showed during theinsurrection that everybody has
a camera and everybody is amovie actor.
That's true, and therefore theworld, our civilization, needs
to be treated like a moviecompany, because we are a movie
(54:08):
company.
Okay, now the thing back in theday of Metro Gold Mayor.
You know all those movie moguls, you know they were.
They were like maniacs.
You know they were God, likefigures, Okay, but they got
(54:30):
everything done.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
It's okay.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
All right, All right.
What's going on?
Okay, I got it.
No, the old movie guys, theyruled everything.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
And that's that's what I want to do.
But and I want to deal with ourproblems like immigration I
want to everybody that wants tocome in the country can come in
the country Right and beregistered, be an employee of
the movie company Peace FightVentures and be assigned
(55:15):
according to who you are.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (55:18):
So if you're a child, you're a child.
You got to go to school.
You got to, you got to betreated like a child, right?
According to American law, ifyou are a mother, and that's all
you are as a mother, then yougo down as extra.
(55:38):
You're an extra, okay, andyou're going to get paid a base
pay for it, for being an extra.
Speaker 2 (55:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (55:47):
An extra is someone that a body that you need to
fill in a space for a scene, forwhatever.
Doesn't take talent, just takesto be alive.
Speaker 2 (55:59):
You know, no, now is this like a Truman show type
thing.
What like a Truman show typething where you just live in
your life but you're gettingpaid for it?
Speaker 3 (56:12):
Not, really Not to make that extent, I mean no, no,
what I'm gonna do, I'm gonnashoot it first as a presentation
.
Okay and then the presentationis gonna become real as I shoot.
Okay and then, for instance, oh, hiring all the migrants that
came to the border.
(56:33):
You know that I think they getthe first Shot, those ones that
were waiting there the longestokay bring him into the country,
hire them, sort them out, putthem where they're supposed to
be.
A lot of them will be, you know.
In fact, all of them will beworth something, because you
(56:54):
don't migrate from one place toanother Unless you have to,
exactly and if you have to,usually it's for To stay alive,
one to feed your family to andto Be safe from harm.
(57:15):
That that's, that's really whyyou're.
You're escaping Mm-hmm.
Now, the fact that you gotmajor way to the border shows
that you are qualified right.
Qualified at least, do a lot ofhardships, a lot more hardships
that you'll never find doingmovies right, because movies
(57:37):
regulated, you see, and so you.
But you want those kind ofpeople in in your movie company,
mm-hmm.
And so you bring him in becausethe need to be here is really
great.
And so the Saturday, thegratification you're going to
get, and I learned this when Idid my first Movie by myself.
(58:00):
I hired a first-time cameraman,okay, and he gave me a hundred
thousand percent.
We shot the whole movie in suchrecord time.
We did, we had the first day wedid 42 setups, 42, wow and one
(58:20):
day the first day if you gotthrough one or two or three,
maybe five ball that's me 42,because we were on a roll.
But so when you get that kindof energy coming, that's the
energy you want to use.
And a movie company, they needpeople.
(58:43):
They need people to To supportthe people they got in.
They need teachers.
Movie companies need Childprotection agencies.
We need Mental health People.
(59:04):
We need ordinary health people,you know this, general health
people.
A movie company so it gives youall that, okay, all of that,
mm-hmm, and plus they give you apaycheck and plus they give you
a legal reason to be in thecountry and and and they give
you Accommodations, becausethat's another thing, that that
(59:27):
you know that we're starting tohave problems in America and and
so what I want to do it withpeace, fight pictures again.
Solve the Homeless problem bymaking a documentary drama of
the homeless Starring, right,the homeless, right, okay, now
(59:52):
there's a few actors in theretoo, to make a legitimate movie,
right.
But you have to know, here'sthe beauty you take a homeless
camp, for instance, and you hireeverybody in the camp.
Now there's your employees.
You use the homeless camp as aset For whatever drama, comedy,
(01:00:17):
whatever you want to shoot onthat set.
If we're, however long you wouldtakes to shoot it.
But once the the movie is over,the set gets taken on.
Okay, because it belongs to themovie company, and the person
that used to live in the moviecome in.
(01:00:38):
The set has time now becausehe's an actor, writer, whatever
he is.
Extra, whatever he is, he, withthe help of the movie company
itself, has found a new suitableLiving quarters for the once
homeless guy on this on thestreet right.
(01:00:58):
Now we go from street to streetdoing this and eventually guess
what you got a City, because Iremember LA, I remember all
these cities without homeless.
Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Oh, wow, remember.
Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
I remember when it was illegal to be homeless, it
was called loitering, right, andyou went and you went to jail
For loitering if you didn't movealong.
So right, it's not a newproblem, it's a very old problem
.
And the problem they have nowis they got no room to put them.
(01:01:36):
See, back in the day, nobodywanted to go to jail Because
jails were pretty funky and youjust moved along.
Now there were hobos and theylived in the bush, but they
couldn't let anybody know wherethey were living.
They couldn't be out there,because if they did, they got
attacked.
They got all sorts of bad shithappen, right, you know, because
(01:01:57):
they had no protection mm-hmmbut the, but the homeless.
Now they're protected, you know,because they're out there, help
us out there in there and andall.
Yeah, a lot of it is aboutdrugs, a lot of it, most of it
is about mental health, butthere were a lot of it's a, it's
(01:02:19):
a mixture of everybody in thereright here, bad luck, or
abusive, fucked up family or orIllegal being illegals.
You can't, you know Now shecould do about it.
So so what I, what I Invisiondoing?
(01:02:40):
See what a movie company does,more than anything it files, put
, puts a number and a file onevery person, everything they
have in that movie company.
Right, there's a place for it,you know, it doesn't get lost.
You see, it has to be.
There's a filing system becauseall you need so and so, from
(01:03:04):
what movie?
All that movie?
Okay, oh, there, they are here,she is there, they are, you
know, right, and so so everybodybecomes important, mm-hmm.
The problem right now, andthat's a spiritual problem that
that people are learning,because this is how you learn
that that there is a God rightis when shit happens to you.
(01:03:30):
There's no other explanation.
Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Yeah, they I was.
I always tell people I like, nomatter what your belief system
is, whatever you believe, nowthere's gonna come a time in
your life where you're gonnalook up and you're gonna you're
gonna say, help me, and it'sgonna happen.
It's an evidence inevitable,it's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
Well, they said there is no atheists in the foxholes.
That's right.
It's true when they're fightingoverseas.
You know and imagine and I seethe, I definitely see what's
going on Today.
I really see it.
I don't see it as a Tragedy, Idon't see it as an anomaly.
Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
I.
Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Just see it as a another Adventure, because
that's what.
That's what we're doing.
We're on an adventure, and it'scalled life.
And as long as you stay in theadventure, enjoy it If you can,
and if you can, you willeventually.
Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Eventually yep that's the way it works.
Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Yep, you only get one , so you might as well make the
most of it.
Shoot for the hip, shoot forthe stars.
Even if you don't get there,shoot, do your thing.
Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
Well, no, you get more than one Right, but you get
one okay.
You get one at a time.
Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Okay, we we could go down a deep rabbit hole on the
afterlife thing, because I'mobsessed with it, but Could you
what?
I am obsessed with like whathappens to us after death, like
I have a million possibilitiesof what could possibly happen to
us, but I don't know.
I don't know if we have thatmuch time.
Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
Well, first of all, we don't know that's the one.
We can only guess yeah, and theway the human mind is wow, the
possibilities are endless.
Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Exactly.
That's why I always tell peopleand it's like you don't know
what happens when he died, butyou can just look up and imagine
, like you don't know whathappens, but there's so much
that could, like you can't justnarrow it down to one thing.
There's so much you got toexpand it, there's so much more
that that can actually happen,but we just don't know what.
Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
You know that phone.
It's, it's the people you love,not money and stuff.
That's rich.
Yes, that's what makes you rich, yep, and if you got people you
(01:06:15):
love, you're wealthy, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
So, as you have family, family and friends that
are very close to you think isin love everywhere, yeah,
there's nothing else you can,anything else you could want,
really, you don't need anythingthat makes your feeling there's
not a lesser feeling than love,love.
Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Love is a greatest feeling in the world.
I know, that that's why that's,that's, that's the Carrot on
the stick.
You know, for us, that's whatwe, whether we know it or not,
that's what we're looking for.
Right, you know we're seekingit.
(01:06:57):
That's why the spotlight for alot of people it's so wow,
mm-hmm, rip.
You know, because, wow, youmean the spotlight, you get that
attention on you and it's all,and it's a love attention, it's
all positive.
Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Yeah I'll positive energy coming towards you,
coming your way.
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I do want, I do want
to think huh.
Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Oh, go ahead.
I'm sorry, let me get you out.
Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
I gotta go now.
I think, okay, I gotta getready for my next adventure.
Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Alright, it sounds good.
Buddy, I do appreciate youcoming on and taking time out of
your day to talk to me, and Ifyou ever want to come back on
this, reach just this holler atme, I'll bring it back.
Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Okay, thank you, it sounds good.
Thank you very much, buddy.
Do the each thing okay.
Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
I will for sure.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
check check it out, Okay thankyou, sir, mr Tommy Chong giving
me homework after after today'sepisode, and I can't thank him
enough to be in on here.
Like I said, I've been a fan ofTommy Chong's inch each and
Chong for Since I was 12 yearsold and it's just amazing that I
(01:08:13):
got that opportunity to talk tohim.
So it just proves the matter.
Everyone out there, if you'dnever give up, I just gonna
sound corny cliche.
I'm doing it right now.
But don't give up on what youlove, but do what you love and
don't ever give up, because younever know.
You never know when you'regonna hit that treasure.
So just keep digging, guys.
(01:08:33):
Just keep digging and with that, I will see you guys next week.
We will be live again next weekon Saturday, so Keep on the
lookout.
Thank you, guys for tuning in.
Make sure to smash that likeand subscribe button and I will
see you Next week.
Stay up, friends later.
Really on the move on the map.
Never slip.
Keep your hands to your lips,don't talk about it.
Real eyes, real eyes, real eyes.
All the time.
Stand on it.
If we set it we won't walkaround it.
Lose lips ain't ships.
Red cup, blue strips, new phonewho dis know?
We don't allow it.
Really on, go.
I don't know what's the off daynow.
We on road keep on smoking inthe hallway.
Now we got shows.
(00:50):
Boys falling like Broadway.
Always look both ways, even ona crossway coming down cross-bay
.
Our town park lays Really on.
Big teams came up a small way.
Championship rings baby, that'sa ball game.
Oh, she want a lil bag.
Baby, that small chain.
Yeah, that money talked.
If we ain't cool, then cut meoff.
No, breaking news.
Don't run your mouth.
Thought it was a plug, now herunning off.
(01:11):
Thought it was a plug, now heain't running off.
What you gon do when you at whoyou with?
You ain't really bout this.
Don't talk about it.
Really on the move on the map.
Never slip.
Keep your hands to your lips,don't talk about it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Real eyes, real eyes, real eyes, all the time Cheech
(01:53):
and Chong still smoking Cheechand Chong's next movie.
You might also recognize himfrom the lovable hippie from
that 70s show, leo, or, if not,if that doesn't work, maybe
squirrel master from Half Baked.
And all your kids out thereprobably recognize his voice
from the Disney movie Zootopiaas Yax.
My son loves him and he alsohas his own cannabis brand out
(02:17):
there called Chong's Choice.
We're gonna talk about thatlater and without further ado.
Everyone.
He is an actor, writer,producer, comedian and legend in
the cannabis industry.
Mr Tabi Chong, everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Please, everybody sit down.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yes there will be an around applause you will hear a
round of applause.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Thank you so much for coming on and spending so much
some time out of your day.
It's on my schedule.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So I'm a good guy.
I will, yeah, do what I said Iwas gonna do.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, yeah, well, we, I appreciate it, we appreciate
it, and all the people out therelistening.
Thank you so much.
Now, uh, I have been listeningto you, for I think I stole my
grandfather's cassette tape outof his, out of his little
cassette collection when I was12 years old.
Yeah, Cheech.
(03:19):
And.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Chong's greatest hit.
I just got that joke.
Instead of hits, it's Cheechand Chong's greatest hit.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yep, greatest hit, yep.
Yeah, I didn't realize thateither until I actually was
older and I was like greatesthit, like that makes sense, like
they does.
The vinyl does come with a biggiant paper in it, yeah, but
yeah, but yeah, it was.
It was uh, but it was um, sistermary elephant.
(03:49):
No, yeah, was the skit that,like the very first skit that I
listened to, made you laugh.
Now, how did you it?
Oh yeah, like hysterically, Iwould like I said I was 12 years
old at the time and I didn'tknow any of this.
I said any of this even existed.
Um, and it's, how did you andcheech get get started with each
other?
(04:09):
How'd you guys come up pastcross?
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We, we met in Vancouver, canada.
Cheech was up, okay, recoveringfrom a skiing accident and he
was in Vancouver, uh, deliveringcarpets for a living and
working in a in a uh Like ahippie magazine.
(04:41):
You know, he was, uh, he wasthe uh entertainment Critic.
Yeah, okay, music critic forfor this hippie magazine.
And yeah, um, I had a improvgroup going In a strip club it
(05:01):
was the very first, and onlythat I know, of strip club.
It was like a burlesque show,you know, we had the naked girls
.
We also had, you know, thefunny, funny guys.
And uh, we had another we had Ihad a partner named Dave and he
was a long-haired hippie.
And then we had a straight mannamed rick and he was glasses.
(05:25):
He was the one that would playthe narc in the cop and All
those characters.
And well, he, his wife, foundout what he was doing because we
got good publicity, and shemade him quit because it was
disgusting what he was doing.
And so then, uh, this, theeditor of the hippie magazine
told me about this funny guythat worked for him, that would
(05:48):
be perfect for the show, and sohe invited me out to his office
and I went out there and Ibrought my gorgeous girlfriend
Shelby and my little daughter,precious, and we met cheats for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh wow.
And then right from and was itlike just from, like jump
straight, you guys just starteddoing, like doing stuff together
, or no, no, actually joined.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
He joined as the straight guy.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And he became like a writer and, uh, really like the
third guy on the show, and so hewatched us do the show and
because cheats is a singer aswell, you know a musician guitar
player and singer uh cheatslearned every all the daves
moves.
And then when the we got fired,you know my, my brother, who was
(06:48):
running the strip club, firedus because he wanted to get the
girly show back.
And we put the girly show backand the group broke up and
cheats night everybody went backworking for the girly show and
I um, cheats now were the onlyones that wanted to keep doing
the entertainment part so thenwe hooked up and that's when he
(07:12):
became cheats because up andthen we never knew.
We.
We always knew him as RichardRichard.
Richard, that was his name,richard.
Okay and then when cheats and Iperformed Uh, and we've decided
that we were going to become ateam.
(07:33):
That's when I found out asnicknamed was cheats.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh wow, oh wow.
So now, now, when we guysstarted doing improv together,
was it?
What was what?
When did you?
What was that moment that madeyou know that you guys had like
good chemistry together, likethis was gonna be something.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, we started, we we put a band together.
You know, the gap to petition Italked to, the comedy thing was
a spur of the moment thing anduh, because I was uh, a musician
really looking for a gig butnot looking that hard, you know,
because I had the clubs and uh,and so I thought, you know, I
(08:22):
thought cheats and I could.
You know he's a singer and wecould do a little comedy and a
lot of music, and that's whatwe've done all our lives.
But what we did, we gottogether, we found out we were
comedians.
We found out, we put, we had anact and and we went around the
(08:43):
country, you know, doing ouropen mic nights and everything.
And then, and then we heard no,we did one showcase for, uh,
the movie producer, a recordproducer, and this other record
owner came to see us and he kindof swooped in and Said he'd
(09:06):
like to meet with us, and so wemet with him and Decided we'll
do a comedy record and okay.
That's it.
The rest is history.
The very, very first thing thevery first thing we recorded
became our biggest hit.
Oh, wow very first, very firstwhat was?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
what was the very first thing that you recorded?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Dave's not here.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Dave, that's hilarious too.
That's like the one of thefunniest skits on that album do
yeah.
Dave's not here, yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And it was given to us by an angel of comedy, of
comedy, the comedy, god, he, uh,he said here, try this one.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And it worked now Did you and you and cheats wrote
your own material.
Is that, am I correct, or itwas everything Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
we, yeah, yeah, everything was but, but we did
it like, uh, like a rock band,in fact we were more like a See,
I was in a really been bluesband.
Okay and a rock band.
I guess you'd call them wenever call it rocked in, just
(10:29):
rock and roll, right, and that'sreally what I was, and and so
when I got into comedy, I justwe just did comedy like we do
music, you know, we get somefunny bits and put them in it
together and and they end withmusic.
That that was our, you know, goup with, uh, with the song.
(10:51):
I can't go wrong, uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, the, I remember the song.
I don't remember the titleexactly, but I remember the song
.
It goes Um teacher talking tome, trying to tell me how to
live down in it down in it andI'll.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You're right, that was irate my eye.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, there you go, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, yeah, that was the music was written by a
guitar player named gay d'alarm.
Oh, okay, he was staying withcheech one day and he, he came
out of the bedroom and he goeshey, listen to this Mama talking
to me, trying to tell me how tolive.
Did it that, that, that, that,that that's all he had.
And so then I that's it thelyric.
(11:33):
I wrote the rest of lyrics Uhand uh.
And then cheech sang and Done,boom, boom, boom, boom.
Then I produced the album, the,the the record itself.
I produced it and it was quitea quite a decent hit.
You know, quite a decent hit,legend in the rock, in the rock
(11:56):
and roll world.
You know, a lot of bandscovered it, loved it.
You know, wow, because it was akiller song?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, is it.
Was that the idea that in thein the up and smoke movies when
he were guys, when you're doingthe uh Mexican-American song
like the Mexican American bitand he's just like at the like
midway through he goes andthat's all I got.
Was that like an inspirationfrom the past song?
(12:29):
Yeah, this is not knowing.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well, I mean, that's the way we wrote everything you
know you get a few words here,and there you know, get an idea
and then next thing, you know,you got a song or a parody of
another song.
You know, like Cheech did, Bornin East LA, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And it became more famous and born in the USA.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, exactly, yep, yep.
You do hear that song more thanyou hear the Born in USA song.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, you do hear.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Cheech more yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, it's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Now yeah, Born in East LA.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
What Cheech and I did was introduce weed and low
riders Yep Into the straightworld of comedy, where it really
belonged.
You know, Right Up until then,everything was always.
You know, cops and robbers anddrug dealers and cartels, and
(13:34):
you know killing and robbing andkilling, and Cheech and I come
along and we just did a potmovie where only when Nolan got
hurt and everybody got high,exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Now, when you're shooting like the pot in the
movies because it was back inlike the days where the pot was
frowned upon and demonized andlegal as all hell.
And was it real pot on the setsor did we get a shot?
Was it real pot on the sets ordid we guys smoking fake pot?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
We had our supply, you know we always had a joint
not to ready, but everything was.
We didn't do anything tojeopardize the movie and so all
the pot you know was fake.
Okay, but you know, it readreal.
(14:34):
That was the main thing.
I didn't want to give away any.
Hollywood secrets, but yeah, Imean fake pot, but real actors,
yeah it worked out.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, it was.
Yeah, both, all, yeah, all five.
I think all five of the moviesI've watched like repeatedly,
and they're just amazing.
Like I'm a hysteria.
I'm laughing every time.
I can't do it now, so much thatI'm a father and my six year
old runs around a lot, so Ican't watch him so much anymore,
but I can throw on theheadphones every once in a while
.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That was nice.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, it's nice to like, have like.
I don't think cannabis would bewhere it's at today if it
wasn't for Cheech and Chunk, ifit wasn't Nope.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Nope, I mean, it probably would be, but there'd
be another Cheech and Chunksomewhere in there.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Like somebody.
You think somebody else wouldhave snatched it up first.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Maybe Seth Rogen or somebody you know.
Possibly James Brown, I'vewatched Pineapple Express for
the first time, oh, wow, to seeit all the way through.
Yeah, it was hard watching orremembering pot movies, you know
.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But when you see him you know like academically, you
know straight, then it's a wholedifferent number.
So yeah, pineapple Express,that was quite a exciting movie,
good movie.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, it's very intense for a Stoner movie.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That was the whole point.
Yes, it was the whole point andI loved the way it enhanced
everything.
You know, he got more intense,he got more paranoid, he got
more crazy.
It was funny, man.
Yeah, All that energy.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It's like, yeah, the part where he's on the, where
he's on like I think it was thetalk radio, and he's like, if
anything, pot makes anythingbetter, it makes shitty movies
better.
It makes shitty music better.
It just makes everything better.
And he's bright.
He was very bright, absolutelyRight.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Absolutely my art.
When I do my art and I'll comealong well, I treat it that way.
You know, I treat it like whatit is.
You know it's like yeah, if youput it in a frame you could
call it art, but for the mostpart it's almost like a ghetto
(16:59):
family.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know there's no room for everything.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So everything is where you're supposed to be.
There's no special place foranything, and so it just crowd
everything.
It just crowd everything, yeah,yeah.
And then it's a party as longas they all get along and they
do All my belongings and stuff.
No, I'm, what do you call it?
(17:26):
No, I'm, what do you call it?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
A hoarder Pack rat.
I like to say pack rat becauseI'm the same.
Exactly no pack rat.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, it's a rat, it's still a rat, you know.
No, no, a hoarder.
A hoarder, it's a guy thathoard shit, you know.
But you know the trick is don'tbe a garbage hoarder.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, exactly yes.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You know, be art hoarder, you know, or certain
things you know, but make sureit's sanitary, you know it
doesn't attract varmints.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes, like mice.
Yes, don't keep food.
I always found that weird thatpeople keep food Like every
hoarder move.
You know, I've ever watched allthe hoarders keep food and I
don't understand that and it'slike just throw out the food.
You're not gonna eat it later,throw it out.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's the sickness.
You see, Mm-hmm, that's whenyou see the.
There's a sickness with withtilts.
Look at that, Cause I guess insome ways it's a way to attract
company.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Maybe, yeah, attention, maybe.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But yeah, I don't think it's the kind of attention
you want, but I don't know.
But yeah, to an extent I amalso a hoarder, like electronics
, like I still have all myelectronics I've ever owned.
Then like half of them don'twork but I still have yeah,
throw them away.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
What's the birth size ?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Aries.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh, aries, okay, yeah , yeah, that's March.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It's late March, early April.
My birthday is April, lateApril Eight.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yep Three eight.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Four eight.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I mean four, eight, four, eight.
Yeah, yeah, my, my brother wasApril 3rd and then my grand son
is April 3rd is birthday.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, now do you go by the news odiac, that news
odiac thing Like I guess there'sthat there was a new sign that
that would make me a Pisces andI wasn't having it.
Oh, like way back when.
I don't know if they're correct, I'm still with the old Chinese
one.
Yeah, that's why I go off.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I'm still there.
I'm still there, no Right.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, there was a zodiac.
They found a different zodiacsign in the sky, apparently, and
it's like two weeks long and itjust throws a wrench in
everything, like if you were inareas you're Pisces, if you were
Gemini, or like a Leo orScorpio or something like that.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Oh, yeah, and I was just like.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I was like why?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
why mess with us?
Now?
It's all mathematics, so right.
Somewhere down the line there'ssome numbers attached.
So have you ever done theE-ching?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
No, I have not.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Okay, this is your homework for this E is like I
capital, I G-H-I-N-G.
Okay, and the one you want isby Hannah Mogue.
Okay, let's see.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Hannah Mogue.
Now is that the author?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well the.
E-ching is an ancient book thatwas written King Wen, I think
was his name, it's a.
Chinese fortune-telling thing.
This is the book, and see thewriters at the bottom.
This edition is the best.
I've done.
(21:18):
A few of them, and this onetells you.
And what it is they started outby dropping wheat stocks or
yarrow stocks, but now you do itwith coins.
You get three coins and youflip them, okay, and you add
them up and it gives you ahexagram and then, when you find
(21:42):
the hexagram, it tells you,tells you your fortune,
basically.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Oh, okay, and.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I hadn't done it until I went to jail.
I hadn't.
I did it in 60, I guess it was68, 69.
Okay, when I met, you know, theguy that wrote Erie Mama
talking to me, well, he was verymystic and he turned me on to
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the E-ching back when.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I met him.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And we threw the coins and with me it came out
perfection.
Whatever I was doing, it wasgoing to be the most perfect
perfection.
That's what it was.
Then, years passed, I ended upin jail.
My brother-in-law, my son, yeah, brother-in-law sends me the
(22:35):
E-ching.
I throw the coins, it comes upyou are in jail for a reason.
That's what it said.
You are in jail for a reason.
Corrections are where you go tochange your behavior.
(22:57):
How cool is that?
What you're in jail for isyou're there to change your
behavior.
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It'll do it to you.
Yeah, it will do it to you too.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, and so I read that.
And then my last one was prettynice.
I got to do it again.
But and then when I was inprison, after I threw the
E-ching and found mine, thisinmate was looking at watching
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me and he said what is that?
He thought it was a game, hewanted to try it.
I was like, oh well, let me getyour fortune.
And so he threw the coins andthen I don't know I'd have been
stink or something, I didn'tread it, I just found it and
then I handed it to him and heread it himself.
(23:57):
Then he handed me the book backand he went, got on his bunk,
crawled up on his bunkers likeit stared out the window.
And so then I read what he,what his fortune was, and it
said you have suffered a greatmisfortune and a tragedy, a
(24:23):
terrible tragedy.
You've just experienced aterrible tragedy, and I think it
was a week before his wife andchild was killed in a car
accident, coming out to see himat prison.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So that's a crazy and dead on that book so this
E-ching thing, so this thing islike spot on, like whatever it
says is gonna have spot on.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And what he did?
He see, back in the day, theChinese were so advanced spirits
they were the ones that areConfucius, you know and they
embraced Buddhism.
You know, they're very, very,very advanced and that's what
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came with it, because at thetime they had emperors and kings
.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And so you had they would.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
They would subsidize, just like the aristocrats and
the wealthy in Europe subsidizedall the arts.
You know Mozart and Beethoven,you know all the.
All the musical grants werealways the rich people and it
was usually done either with thewealthy or the church.
(25:52):
The churches were all verywealthy and the churches would
support all the arts and andeverything.
It was quite a good system backin the day.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Wow, yeah, wow, that's amazing.
We're gonna have to get thatbook and try it out.
Thank you.
Yeah, thank you for bringingthat to me.
Yeah, definitely Well you'reready?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You're obviously ready.
It's a turn on.
And the only thing, you do isyou're turning it on to someone
that you know that'll need it,That'll appreciate it.
Right, it's like a, like aOuija board.
Now, if you start fucking withit, it will it knows, you know
(26:35):
you talk about.
Ai.
The each thing is okay.
And so the each thing if youstart you know, seeing you know
who won the game or any bullshitlike that there.
The each thing spots it rightaway and next thing you know it
tells you fuck off.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It's powerful.
Yeah, yeah, quit quit, quit,quit doing what you're doing.
You know just, it ain't working, it's not working.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's not gonna, but yeah, it was.
You were also sorry aboutstarted to switch the topic on
you, but we are also.
You're also on one of my, alsoone of my other favorite movies
and it's with Dr Dre and SnoopDogg and it's called the Wash.
Oh, the Wash, the Wash.
(27:30):
Yep, you are, you play.
D's connection in that, like inthat movie, is just I don't
know, a lot of people don't likeit because it's just I don't
want to say a little bunch offilm, but it's like a B rated
movie, but it's still.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
It's still funny, a funny movie Like now, I haven't,
really I've never seen it allthe way through.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Oh really, yeah, I've watched that movie like 20
times it was like a favor.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
you know, hey, you gotta be in my movie.
I've been on all the I've beenon Dr Dre's albums and Snoop
Dogg, and Snoop Dogg, you know,being homage to us with the up
and smoke tour and then.
And so when, dr Dre, when theyasked me to be in the movie, it
was like yeah, of course.
But I yeah, I haven't.
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I haven't had occasion to seethe movie yet.
I love to see it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, it's really good.
I watch it all the time.
Oh good it's.
I believe it's on 2B right now,so you can watch it on 2B.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You know the the amazing thing.
There's a couple of things thatwas amazing.
When I was on Chapelle's movieyou know the half-baked nasty
Nate I ended up with a groundsquirrel pet in the movie.
Well, guess what?
I ended up feeding having a petin tap ground squirrels.
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That's what the inmates woulddo with their food.
The food was so bad we'd takeit and feed the ground squirrels
, and the ground squirrels gotso fat they couldn't get back in
the hole, and so the hawks hada field day.
You know the big fat groundsquirrels out for their life.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It is the pure entertainment, pure
entertainment.
Value right there, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
And what other one did I do Come back to?
No, the wash and the wash.
I was given the weed away free,but I was selling the bar.
And I ended up going to jailfor selling bombs.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I am gonna ask you about that too.
Yeah, what happened with all Iseen you on?
This is not happening.
Comedy Central and you weretelling your story about that.
Like what happened, likesomeone with the end of CIA
infiltrated your company andthen did something illegal and
you got in trouble for it.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, no, what they did?
They infiltrated the companyand one of them actually helped
the company, because they wereaccusing us of funding the
Taliban with billions of dollarsmade from illegal bomb sales.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
The Taliban.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And so they sent a finance guy to see where all the
money was going.
Well, the finance guy found outthat the company was losing
money because they weren'trunning it like a company should
have been run.
And so he literallystraightened our company out.
But they also sent someundercover people to Vancouver
(30:47):
to buy a shitload of weed andthen to have them ship the bombs
.
No, they came to LA fromPennsylvania and bought a ton of
bombs and then talked the guyinto shipping them back to us,
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and then that's how they got mebreaking the law.
Up until then the company neverbroke the law, and so it was.
I could have beat it, but Irealized the publicity from the
bust in the experience.
So I really wanted thatexperience going to jail.
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I was looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
And I was right.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
It was a memorable experience.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Not any of the times have I gone to jail that I wanna
go, tommy.
It's like you know what, justto see what jail's like.
I never wanted to go to jail.
I've been there a handful oftimes, nothing for anything
major, but a handful of times,but it just never was.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yeah, so you know that side of it.
No, I knew that side of it too.
That's why I was the only onethat got sentenced.
You know a bomb, because I knowwhat they did.
They went and checked my record, even though it was juvenile.
They'd check it all and findout what really went down, and
(32:22):
found out that I'd been arresteda few times, and so I
automatically got enhanced.
I was gonna go to jail.
That's the way it works, youknow, I can't deny that.
I can't bitch about it.
I guess I could.
Nah, I wouldn't be worth goingthrough the trouble, the
(32:45):
lawsuits and shit, you know.
But I think I think we, youknow, I got a lot out of going
to jail, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
You think it was?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
easier.
They took from me.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Okay.
Do you think it was easier justto serve the time than it would
be just to like drag the silentcourt for like years?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
No, they won, they didn't they?
The government knew that theynever had a case against me.
The only way they could get mein jail would be to threaten my
wife and my son, which they did.
But that's the governmentthreatening your wife and your
son, you know.
That's the United Statesgovernment, you know, and then
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you're not gonna win, and so Ifold it, you know, but that was
good, that was good.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh yeah well, geez, that's it's just insane how it
went down right.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Okay, I said, it was just insane how it went down.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
It's just but yeah, yeah, no, it was so meant to be,
because it was like I actuallyI laid a trap for the government
and they fell right into it.
Think about it you know,because we've done more to
legalize weed than anything,than anybody.
(34:13):
There's us in.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Sandra.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Gupta.
When Sandra Gupta showed upbaby hugging its mum for the
first time after using THC asmedicine, charlotte's Web.
Then, within months, wellbefore the election, marijuana
was legal all over Colorado, allthe states, you know,
(34:39):
california, and the ball andit's rolling, it's getting
bigger and bigger and thelegalization is gonna it really
is going to mellow out theplanet Right.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Are you worried about the federal becoming legalized
at the federal level, like howit would do to like the quality
of the product, or do you thinkit wouldn't change at all?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
You can't fuck with weed.
No, you can't.
If you could, if you people try, Right, I mean the biggest and
the greenest, whatever, it don'tmean shit, right.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It's what it does to you.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
That's why you can't sensitize it.
You know you can't repeat it.
It's a magical one of a kind.
Just think about this Everyplant starts off with a tiny
little seed and it grows intothis enormous plant with all the
(35:41):
beautiful THC all over theplace.
You can't fuck with it, youknow.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
You can fuck with people's minds but why?
And yeah, and off of that oneseed, you can create hundreds of
others, just like, yeah, justby cloning it, just by cloning
it, just stepping it off andcloning it.
Yeah, it is, it's meant to beon the plant.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
It's not meant to be for people to say, just put a
toll on it.
You know Right, but you do withcivilization.
You encourage everybody to havewealth.
That's what you want Everybodyto have wealth and then you use
your talent to get people toshare, to give you, for you to
(36:30):
improve on your entertainment orwhatever it is.
You know Right, that's the ideaof getting more money so you
can do more art.
Mm-hmm, because that's what weare.
We're in the world of art.
Yep, be it doing a podcast, theart of the podcast or doing a
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movie, or doing a painting, ordoing a writing a song, you know
singing and what you do thinkabout what entertainment does?
It brings people together andmakes them smile, yep.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Makes them smile or cry.
If you want to cry, if you'rein the mood to cry or cry, yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Or just to be very happy or sad or whatever.
But it's what we're supposed todo on the planet, you know.
We're supposed to get alongwith our neighbors, mm-hmm.
And no one's person should haveany more power over the next
Right and just play by the rulesthat have been written many,
(37:33):
many, many years ago.
That work, and that's whatwe're doing, and that's why
we're here.
We're here to learn, we're hereto learn and I'm here to burn.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yep and Canvas does that.
It brings people together, itmakes you feel happy, it brings
on amazing feelings and it's arelaxation.
If you have it in pain, you'lltake that away.
If you can't sleep, it'll makeyou sleep.
If you can't eat, it'lldefinitely make you eat.
Fed my favorite fair share ofmunchies.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
No, why.
Why does it work that way?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I think because it's supposed to.
That's why it's here.
You know why it's why it's here.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
It affects when you do THC.
It affects the brain.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Our cannabinoid sensors that's right, sensors in
our brain and your senses.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Send out messages.
How's everybody doing?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
He's back.
Sorry, guys.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
The thirst.
The one in charge of hydrationwill tell you hey, get me
something to drink now.
Yeah, the hunger is said.
Oh, I'm ready, I want to tastesomething.
I want to taste somethingcrunchy and sweet maybe, but I'm
ready, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
But what's your go-to munchie, when you're all stoned
out?
What's your go-to?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Oh, I guess they're called hard-tack crackers.
They're not saltines, they'rebig, big size, big, nice size
cracker white cracker.
I worked in a cookie factoryfor a while and making all the
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cookies and all the cracker andthey used to make this hard-tack
and it was for the Inuit andthe people up north.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
And I got a taste for them, and so this cracker that
I get it's a white cracker.
I'm trying to think of the name.
I can't think of the name rightnow, but and I'll share it with
my dog, my poodle, and it'sjust nothing on it Just because
(40:00):
I realized.
The human body responds to, youknow, physical movement, like
the crunch, like Cheetos orpotato chips, crunch activates
taste buds, salaba buds, in your, in your jaw, in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
See.
So when you crunch something,all of a sudden the taste buds
in your whole mouth come alive,and so that's why they crunch in
the salt.
The salt reminds you to drinkwater, drink something, stay
hydrated.
That's why the salt is soimportant, and so my go-to yes,
(40:53):
it's a cracker, because it can'thurt me.
Sugar is not.
Sugar is not.
It's not good to get addictedto sugar.
No, it's not.
No, or alcohol, or anythingthat'll hurt you.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I do.
I have a problem with sugar,and throughout the day I'm fine,
I won't eat any sugar.
It's at night.
Yeah, get up in the middle ofthe night and I raid the covers
and I eat all my son's snacks inthe middle of the day, at night
, because I went to bed high andnow I have a sweet tooth and
the brownies are now gone.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
That's why.
That's why Halloween used to besuch a happy occasion for
little kids.
But no, no no, they have to.
They have to hide their goodiesfrom their parents Because the
parents there's so many of themaddicted to it, because once you
start, you can't stop.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, you can't have one reason Bad, yeah, yeah, you
can't just have one reason, yougot to have both.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Well, that's why these gummies are so important,
because when you, when you urge,when you get a little, you know
a bunchy thing going orhydration.
You know your mouth gets drywhen I do these podcasts.
I'll do one of these andthey're just.
(42:14):
They'll just make the tastebuds come alive.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
So you make your mouth water a lot.
Get the saliva going yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Very nice, Keerah cut mouth.
Keerah, yeah, we were sellingthose going through the roof.
Oh, nice yeah we're in talksnow with some big distributors
Budweiser, I believe.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Now, how are we going to be?
Yeah, we're.
We're merging with some prettyserious companies.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Okay, cool Now.
Is that Chong's Choice?
Is that the Chong's Choicebrand?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
No, Chong's Choice is dead.
Oh okay, that's done.
No, it's just Tommy Chong orCheechin Chongcom.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Cheechin Chongcom Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah, Cheechin Chongcom, really that sort of
thing.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
They're still doing Chongbongs.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
That's a separate company.
And then I got the CBD, thesleep aids and and uh, awake,
you know the energy.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
I got those, but the gummies, the Cheechin Chong
gummies, they're just, they'remy favorite.
Oh, and we got a drink, a THCbeer.
Oh, wow, so instead of beer youdrink this.
It's flavored soda water mostly, but it's got enough uh hemp in
there to give you a buzz.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
And it's a nice and and I guess you can for some
booze heads.
You know, mild booze heads,it'll be enough.
Right, you know it'll nevertake the place of real booze,
but, uh, but it'll take theplace of the need or the want of
real booze.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
But for, like, recovering booze heads like
myself, recovered, yeah,recovered I can consider myself
recovered.
It's been like 12 years now.
So are you recovered?
I think so.
Yeah, it's been 12 years sinceI've had a drink.
I've spoken a lot of weed, butI don't I don't drink alcohol.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Yeah, Well, it just takes one trip off the cliff to
kill you.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
but it was jail.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's likedone.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Well, you, you want to get yourself to the point
where being straight is anotherhigh.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Exactly, yeah, we can just get up and enjoy your life
and that's your high rightthere.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Yeah, yeah, just just , for whatever reason.
When you don't smoke, you don'tdrink, do nothing, and just
feel the reality.
I did that for three years,yeah, but I went to pre-trial
jail jail nine months.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
And then a year probation after.
So for three years I was cleanas a whistle.
Oh wow, that's when I gotcancer, by the way.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Oh wow, and when you stopped smoking, that's when.
That's when it happened.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
I got prostate when I was in the joint.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
And then it morphed into rectal and so I had to have
the operation and now I'mcancer free and it was all.
I didn't just use weed, I usedthe CBD more for healing and not
to be able, you know, not havepain Right.
(45:48):
I never had any problems issueswith pain or discomfort, where
you end up on the OxyContin oror the morphine.
I never went that route at all.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
That's good.
Glad to hear that.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
It's just I don't want to get too into it, but
it's just insane.
To the stuff they peddle andthey can just hear smoke a joint
and it's.
It's good, you're fine.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
Yeah, but that's what you know.
Back in the day, the Mexicanswould smuggle the weed across
the border, not just for for thesale, Okay, Although they
didn't do that, that would payfor their their way over but for
their own medicine and use.
(46:38):
You know, right, Like you say,it helps with sleep, helps with
everything.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
It helps everything.
It helps you do anything youwant and it makes it better.
Like Seth Rogen says, it makesshitty things better.
Yeah, but yeah, but real quick.
I want, I do want to touch baseon this before I have to let
you go.
Um, we do have.
Uh, I was a big fan of that 70sshow and it just seems like
(47:04):
that show took another leapforward once Leo was introduced
into it.
Now, what did you enjoy likeworking on that 70s show and
what was it like working with?
Speaker 3 (47:14):
all those people.
I loved every minute of it.
What I loved about it was thatI was like a visiting relative,
almost.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
On vacation.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
And so I would come to the set and I'd watch them
work and you know, like going toschool, going to film school,
you know I'd sit in the audienceand learn what everybody did
like actors, watch how thedirector talk to the actors and
the writers and, you know, watchthat whole thing.
(47:51):
So I was, I loved every momentof that that 70s show and I made
a lot of great, really niceclose uh friends with, uh, with
the crew.
Yeah, we were a family for manyyears four or five years, five
years yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
And we actually had that 70s show's parties, like I
think I believe it was everyTuesday at like eight o'clock.
We were to get together and wewill watch the new episode of
that 70s show and just get lit,just get blitzed off our asses.
Just we're smoking, some peoplewere drinking, but most of you
were just chiefin' out andwatching that 70 show.
It was like a ritual.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
So that explains why my character got so popular.
Yeah, because, because, nomatter what I said, I everybody
understood what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Where I was going, right, yeah, uh, what was it
like?
Uh, with working with I don'tknow his real name and God
forbid me and God forgive me forthis, but uh, but working with
Al Borland.
I'm going to call him AlBorland because his real name is
escaping my mind at the moment.
So when you guys, when he wasplaying your uncle and he was an
(49:04):
artist, and you guys wererearranging or redoing,
remodeling- Um the tool man thetool?
Yeah, and he moved everythingtwo inches to the left, and that
was it.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
And you know that was , that was my uh, I think that
was my only ad-lib in the wholeshow.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Yeah, yeah.
Everything too much is to theirleft.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was justlike oh my gosh it was great
Because the whole show,everything was so well written.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
Uh huh, you know that there was nothing to ad-lib.
Yeah, there was no room.
They never left any room for it.
No, I guess I know they wrotethat.
They wrote that.
No, I can't take credit forthat.
I thought if anywhere where Iwould be able to improv, would
be with him in a scene.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
But it never happened .
No, everything was written.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
That's really one of the reasons, you know, I found
so much respect for writers thatI never had you know.
Because you don't, because youknow it's like magic.
You don't want to know how theshit works.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (50:23):
And that's like writers too.
All of a sudden, you meetsomeone that wrote it.
You look at them and you'relike, oh, you don't look like
like a writer, right.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Like a lot of like the standup comedians that are
like popular nowadays.
We're like writers for SNL andstuff like that too.
So it's just crazy how you are.
You loved their material beforehe even knew who they were, and
it's just amazing how that justrenovates when it comes in yeah
.
But awesome, but awesome.
(50:55):
But yeah, I don't want to takeup too much more every time and
I do appreciate you coming inand chaffing it up with me.
We had a great time today.
Yeah, yeah well, I mean Thankyou very much.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
I'm kind of stolen all the time.
I got to do one more bit beforetoday.
I think Okay, I don't know, Idon't know I'm supposed to be
doing.
They're doing a documentary onRenaldo Rey.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
The black.
Do you know who Renaldo Rey is?
Speaker 2 (51:31):
I.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
Comedian.
Okay yep, been in a lot of.
I had him in a movie called.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
Far Hope.
Speaker 3 (51:38):
Man, okay, and anyway he died and they went to do.
You know my memories of him.
Uh huh, but so that's what'snext on my plate.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
That's your agenda Now.
Are you going to be coming outwith, like any more, any more
skits or anything, or anything?
I think I believe when I lookedup your filmography, it was
like an animation version ofCheech and Chong.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
Well, no, there was a book, a book Like a superhero
book.
Okay, cheech and Chongsuperhero.
We've got a documentary in thecan.
Basically, okay, it's like amore.
It's a movie more than adocumentary, but it's a.
It's about Cheech and Chong.
(52:27):
You know about some of the highpoints and a lot of the low
points.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
You know Right.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
The disagreements that's coming out.
And then we've got all ourdrinks.
You know the sodas and that.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
They're coming out.
I'm really working on becomingone of the richest men in the
world Me, do you both, bro?
No, but I mean I have a path todo it.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
You know, not just a no, it actually is a pipe dream.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
There you go it is a pipe dream.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:05):
Because what I want to do, the reason I want to
become so wealthy, is because Iwant to start a movie company.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
Where I hire everybody, and I'm talking about
everybody.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (53:23):
And because a movie company will find out who you
are, where you are, what you,what you are, what you need,
everything about you.
But it's done not for thegovernment, it's done for for
the movie company itself,because everybody on the planet,
(53:46):
as Trump showed during theinsurrection that everybody has
a camera and everybody is amovie actor.
That's true, and therefore theworld, our civilization, needs
to be treated like a moviecompany, because we are a movie
(54:08):
company.
Okay, now the thing back in theday of Metro Gold Mayor.
You know all those movie moguls, you know they were.
They were like maniacs.
You know they were God, likefigures, Okay, but they got
(54:30):
everything done.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
It's okay.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
All right, All right.
What's going on?
Okay, I got it.
No, the old movie guys, theyruled everything.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
And that's that's what I want to do.
But and I want to deal with ourproblems like immigration I
want to everybody that wants tocome in the country can come in
the country Right and beregistered, be an employee of
the movie company Peace FightVentures and be assigned
(55:15):
according to who you are.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (55:18):
So if you're a child, you're a child.
You got to go to school.
You got to, you got to betreated like a child, right?
According to American law, ifyou are a mother, and that's all
you are as a mother, then yougo down as extra.
(55:38):
You're an extra, okay, andyou're going to get paid a base
pay for it, for being an extra.
Speaker 2 (55:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (55:47):
An extra is someone that a body that you need to
fill in a space for a scene, forwhatever.
Doesn't take talent, just takesto be alive.
Speaker 2 (55:59):
You know, no, now is this like a Truman show type
thing.
What like a Truman show typething where you just live in
your life but you're gettingpaid for it?
Speaker 3 (56:12):
Not, really Not to make that extent, I mean no, no,
what I'm gonna do, I'm gonnashoot it first as a presentation
.
Okay and then the presentationis gonna become real as I shoot.
Okay and then, for instance, oh, hiring all the migrants that
came to the border.
(56:33):
You know that I think they getthe first Shot, those ones that
were waiting there the longestokay bring him into the country,
hire them, sort them out, putthem where they're supposed to
be.
A lot of them will be, you know.
In fact, all of them will beworth something, because you
(56:54):
don't migrate from one place toanother Unless you have to,
exactly and if you have to,usually it's for To stay alive,
one to feed your family to andto Be safe from harm.
(57:15):
That that's, that's really whyyou're.
You're escaping Mm-hmm.
Now, the fact that you gotmajor way to the border shows
that you are qualified right.
Qualified at least, do a lot ofhardships, a lot more hardships
that you'll never find doingmovies right, because movies
(57:37):
regulated, you see, and so you.
But you want those kind ofpeople in in your movie company,
mm-hmm.
And so you bring him in becausethe need to be here is really
great.
And so the Saturday, thegratification you're going to
get, and I learned this when Idid my first Movie by myself.
(58:00):
I hired a first-time cameraman,okay, and he gave me a hundred
thousand percent.
We shot the whole movie in suchrecord time.
We did, we had the first day wedid 42 setups, 42, wow and one
(58:20):
day the first day if you gotthrough one or two or three,
maybe five ball that's me 42,because we were on a roll.
But so when you get that kindof energy coming, that's the
energy you want to use.
And a movie company, they needpeople.
(58:43):
They need people to To supportthe people they got in.
They need teachers.
Movie companies need Childprotection agencies.
We need Mental health People.
(59:04):
We need ordinary health people,you know this, general health
people.
A movie company so it gives youall that, okay, all of that,
mm-hmm, and plus they give you apaycheck and plus they give you
a legal reason to be in thecountry and and and they give
you Accommodations, becausethat's another thing, that that
(59:27):
you know that we're starting tohave problems in America and and
so what I want to do it withpeace, fight pictures again.
Solve the Homeless problem bymaking a documentary drama of
the homeless Starring, right,the homeless, right, okay, now
(59:52):
there's a few actors in theretoo, to make a legitimate movie,
right.
But you have to know, here'sthe beauty you take a homeless
camp, for instance, and you hireeverybody in the camp.
Now there's your employees.
You use the homeless camp as aset For whatever drama, comedy,
(01:00:17):
whatever you want to shoot onthat set.
If we're, however long you wouldtakes to shoot it.
But once the the movie is over,the set gets taken on.
Okay, because it belongs to themovie company, and the person
that used to live in the moviecome in.
(01:00:38):
The set has time now becausehe's an actor, writer, whatever
he is.
Extra, whatever he is, he, withthe help of the movie company
itself, has found a new suitableLiving quarters for the once
homeless guy on this on thestreet right.
(01:00:58):
Now we go from street to streetdoing this and eventually guess
what you got a City, because Iremember LA, I remember all
these cities without homeless.
Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Oh, wow, remember.
Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
I remember when it was illegal to be homeless, it
was called loitering, right, andyou went and you went to jail
For loitering if you didn't movealong.
So right, it's not a newproblem, it's a very old problem
.
And the problem they have nowis they got no room to put them.
(01:01:36):
See, back in the day, nobodywanted to go to jail Because
jails were pretty funky and youjust moved along.
Now there were hobos and theylived in the bush, but they
couldn't let anybody know wherethey were living.
They couldn't be out there,because if they did, they got
attacked.
They got all sorts of bad shithappen, right, you know, because
(01:01:57):
they had no protection mm-hmmbut the, but the homeless.
Now they're protected, you know,because they're out there, help
us out there in there and andall.
Yeah, a lot of it is aboutdrugs, a lot of it, most of it
is about mental health, butthere were a lot of it's a, it's
(01:02:19):
a mixture of everybody in thereright here, bad luck, or
abusive, fucked up family or orIllegal being illegals.
You can't, you know Now shecould do about it.
So so what I, what I Invisiondoing?
(01:02:40):
See what a movie company does,more than anything it files, put
, puts a number and a file onevery person, everything they
have in that movie company.
Right, there's a place for it,you know, it doesn't get lost.
You see, it has to be.
There's a filing system becauseall you need so and so, from
(01:03:04):
what movie?
All that movie?
Okay, oh, there, they are here,she is there, they are, you
know, right, and so so everybodybecomes important, mm-hmm.
The problem right now, andthat's a spiritual problem that
that people are learning,because this is how you learn
that that there is a God rightis when shit happens to you.
(01:03:30):
There's no other explanation.
Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Yeah, they I was.
I always tell people I like, nomatter what your belief system
is, whatever you believe, nowthere's gonna come a time in
your life where you're gonnalook up and you're gonna you're
gonna say, help me, and it'sgonna happen.
It's an evidence inevitable,it's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
Well, they said there is no atheists in the foxholes.
That's right.
It's true when they're fightingoverseas.
You know and imagine and I seethe, I definitely see what's
going on Today.
I really see it.
I don't see it as a Tragedy, Idon't see it as an anomaly.
Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
I.
Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Just see it as a another Adventure, because
that's what.
That's what we're doing.
We're on an adventure, and it'scalled life.
And as long as you stay in theadventure, enjoy it If you can,
and if you can, you willeventually.
Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Eventually yep that's the way it works.
Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Yep, you only get one , so you might as well make the
most of it.
Shoot for the hip, shoot forthe stars.
Even if you don't get there,shoot, do your thing.
Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
Well, no, you get more than one Right, but you get
one okay.
You get one at a time.
Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Okay, we we could go down a deep rabbit hole on the
afterlife thing, because I'mobsessed with it, but Could you
what?
I am obsessed with like whathappens to us after death, like
I have a million possibilitiesof what could possibly happen to
us, but I don't know.
I don't know if we have thatmuch time.
Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
Well, first of all, we don't know that's the one.
We can only guess yeah, and theway the human mind is wow, the
possibilities are endless.
Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Exactly.
That's why I always tell peopleand it's like you don't know
what happens when he died, butyou can just look up and imagine
, like you don't know whathappens, but there's so much
that could, like you can't justnarrow it down to one thing.
There's so much you got toexpand it, there's so much more
that that can actually happen,but we just don't know what.
Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
You know that phone.
It's, it's the people you love,not money and stuff.
That's rich.
Yes, that's what makes you rich, yep, and if you got people you
(01:06:15):
love, you're wealthy, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
So, as you have family, family and friends that
are very close to you think isin love everywhere, yeah,
there's nothing else you can,anything else you could want,
really, you don't need anythingthat makes your feeling there's
not a lesser feeling than love,love.
Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Love is a greatest feeling in the world.
I know, that that's why that's,that's, that's the Carrot on
the stick.
You know, for us, that's whatwe, whether we know it or not,
that's what we're looking for.
Right, you know we're seekingit.
(01:06:57):
That's why the spotlight for alot of people it's so wow,
mm-hmm, rip.
You know, because, wow, youmean the spotlight, you get that
attention on you and it's all,and it's a love attention, it's
all positive.
Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Yeah I'll positive energy coming towards you,
coming your way.
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I do want, I do want
to think huh.
Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Oh, go ahead.
I'm sorry, let me get you out.
Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
I gotta go now.
I think, okay, I gotta getready for my next adventure.
Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Alright, it sounds good.
Buddy, I do appreciate youcoming on and taking time out of
your day to talk to me, and Ifyou ever want to come back on
this, reach just this holler atme, I'll bring it back.
Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Okay, thank you, it sounds good.
Thank you very much, buddy.
Do the each thing okay.
Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
I will for sure.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
check check it out, Okay thankyou, sir, mr Tommy Chong giving
me homework after after today'sepisode, and I can't thank him
enough to be in on here.
Like I said, I've been a fan ofTommy Chong's inch each and
Chong for Since I was 12 yearsold and it's just amazing that I
(01:08:13):
got that opportunity to talk tohim.
So it just proves the matter.
Everyone out there, if you'dnever give up, I just gonna
sound corny cliche.
I'm doing it right now.
But don't give up on what youlove, but do what you love and
don't ever give up, because younever know.
You never know when you'regonna hit that treasure.
So just keep digging, guys.
(01:08:33):
Just keep digging and with that, I will see you guys next week.
We will be live again next weekon Saturday, so Keep on the
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