EP 76 - The History of Amsterdam's Cannabis Culture

Felipe and Butch set sail for knowledge and they ended up at the canals of Amsterdam. Felipe traveled there no too long ago and soaked so much culture and its history, especially that of cannabis. Amsterdam is infamous for its culture in the flower that is still controversial. The guys talk about how Amsterdam got its hands on the green and how it put it's grip into social life and order.

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Felipe Esparza: @FelipeEsparzaComedian (IG) @Felipeesparzacomic (TT)
Butch Escobar: @ButchEscobar
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Felipe Esparza is a comedian and actor, known for his stand-up specials, “They’re Not Gonna Laugh at You”, “Translate This”, and his latest dual-release on Netflix, “Bad Decisions/Malas Decisiones” (2 different performances in two languages), his recurring appearances on Netflix’s “Gentefied”, NBC’s “Superstore” and Adultswim’s “The Eric Andre Show”, as well as winning “Last Comic Standing” (2010), and his popular podcast called “What’s Up Fool?”. Felipe continues to sell out live stand-up shows in comedy clubs and theaters around the country. About Butch - Butch Escobar is one of the most prominent comedians in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has performed throughout the country and for the troops overseas. His energetic performances and unapologetic views on contemporary society have made him one of the most in-demand comedians on the West Coast.Butch is a featured regular at the world famous Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco, and Punch Line Comedy Clubs in San Francisco and Sacramento. You can catch him at The Hollywood Improv.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:44):
History for Foods. Welcome to History for Fools with Jessco
bar felipees Barza. If you're like doing research on an
actual subject and tune into this show because the algorithms
centraal here. Oh god, totally wrong, but might well just
go page because.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
You know what, I do research for our show, and
sometimes I'll stumble upon a couple of idiots who have
no fucking clue what they're talking about, and like, I'll
get halfway through and I'll be like, these guys are
full of shit, and that's us. Oh wow, yeah, don't
fucking listen to us, dude, because this is sort of
half assed, is what we call it History for Fools,

(01:24):
because it's better than saying but in Philippe's book report right,
because that's what we read a few books, we watched
some videos. In this case today's episode. Uh, one of
us got to experience.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
One of the had to experience actually being there, while
the other one has to read about it. Right. Well,
I was reading about East Berlin.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, which is gonna be our next subject.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Next subject next year. Next episode would be the the
tear down of the East Berlin Wall and the Soviet Walk, right,
but not mostly souch about what happened when it brought
when it brought it down. Man, we're gonna see the
German version of it, like what really went down in
either side.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Because we have our side that we all think we know.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Here. Yeah, tim down the wall Garba.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yes, mister tear down that wall that's there.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
In America World building was maybe one day the building
when when it finished the wall, then somebody will say
tear down that wah, they tear it down.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
And mister Trump, tear down that wall. It's a horrible
Mexican person.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
When I was doing when I was when I was
doing research, I was doing a we're doing a shooting
a pilot like a comedy show pilot where I perform
along the border to the border wall. They perform Mexico too.
We went to the lady who lives in America and

(02:52):
an American lady who lived in Tijuana. She's an artist.
She took us to a place where they have somebody
has the five prototypes of the Trump's wall and they're
all they're outside.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Of oh actual protoc Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
They're outside of that town. The little old tie look
look look tie o tie Trump Walls prototypes So I
guess whoever was baiting for the wall to build it.
So one bitter build their wall right there, right, and
it's like exactly real height. And then there's another wall bidder.

(03:34):
So there's like five walls and they're all lined up,
but they never got a chance to build any of it. Anyways.
The wall that I was standing on watching that wall
was all right there, like swatches of clothing. Yeah, they're
like wall paper. There were an no tie. Yeah, bro
see They're like, okay, there's that one. But they said, nah, man,

(03:58):
what do they go through these tunnels? You know? Then
there's that one.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Those round ones to me look like the like those
would be the hardest.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, well, you do all the prototypes for the wall,
but then they were those round ones look like they
would be the hardest. I wonder.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I mean, I don't I'm not rooting for any of
these walls, obviously, but if I were to want to
climb over any of these, it would be the round ones.
That spiky one you just hang off the side and
come back down for you to like have some upper
body strength. And then that middle one ain't nothing going on.
You totally get over that.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Thing, The one with the tube would be cool, man,
like if you put water in it and you have
allegated running through it just in case.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Just in case someone like climbed through it and there's
like an alligator waiting.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
In there for you make it a video game bro b. Yeah,
but those walls were the prototypes. I saw them like
years ago before the pend Wow.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
And are they still there?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Whoa that they're there? But those orange cones are Okay,
they don't show you that because the actual wall is
the actual wall, it's on the other side of that.
It's only like seven.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
She lives on the side of the see it clearly,
clearly her backyard and the.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Wall on the TJ side. When I was there, it
was the side of this room that high, and there
was chickens probably on the.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Chickens could come over back and forth.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Like country country area. It's just the humans. But they
have they have roosters now black roosters patrolling the border
now gotta be black because of their suits. But they're

(05:57):
like little minute men. Yeah, because I've been through that
wall where you can put your hand in and touch
someone else.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, how is that? Is that like a cool experience
or did nothing happen when.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
You went like, well, did we get our equipment stared?
Immediately you'll get a new camera. We had that cops,
you didn't say nothing.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
What is Oh that's the okay, and then that's the
Mexico side.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I was. I was out there by those trees.
That a little wall behind.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
There, So there's that Okay, I know what you're talking about,
being in that space where you could put your hand
through the wall. There's a park, right, and then they
close it every once in a while for a long
period of time, and then they opened it back up.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, fucking weird. So yeah, man, I was, I was
an amsterdamn fool, And.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's where we're we're we're that's what we're getting into today.
Is your trip to Amsterdam kind of triggered this interest?

Speaker 1 (07:03):
So what happened in Amsterdam was from what if I'm
just talking to people, shout out to the greenhouse in Amsterdam. Okay, bro,
they hooked me up. Bro that guy eton I guess
other they saw mostly California, but they're at the greenhouse
in Amsterdam and cookies.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Is it imported from California or is it the seeds
grown there from California?

Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know what? Man, according to the Amsterdam law. We
don't know how it got there. We're not gonna ask
that questions. Oh that's raight, but this way, okay, man,
this is what the guy. Some guy broke it down
like this. Some guy broke it down like this, Amsterdam.
It's two hundred and fifty rain a year. Oh wow,

(07:50):
we better give our fucking people weed and prostitution before
they rebel raw? Is that what he said? From Holland
right right where you from. He's from Turkey, He's actually
from Holland. He said that. That's what he was said that,

(08:12):
you know, fifty days out of the year range.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh yeah, it's it's that's the thing. Is it rains
like pretty heavily. It's not a great place to grow marijuana.
But there's there's a reason why there's like great weed there,
you know. But I think we should start all the
way back as to why there is a weed culture,

(08:37):
why weed is a lot there? What made Amsterdam Amsterdam
was so more interesting to me because I because it
goes back because when you read about this culture, when
you go when you go, okay, well, why is it
like that, It's because they're they're very liberal people and
so that was the thing that was interesting to me,
was like, because there's there there's so liberal that there's
a conservative liberal and then there's a liberal liberal party

(09:01):
and that's the two parties there, and so I was like, well,
what makes them so liberal? So you got to go
back to World War two and these are the kids
of World War two people. But the thing was is
that at the time one Holland, when you go through
Amsterdam like he did and it's so beautiful, that's because
they had a thing called the Dutch Golden Era, and

(09:22):
that's a word they're trying to get rid of because
that's the Dutch were the biggest slave traders in the
world at the time, and so they made a fuck
ton of money.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
They don't hide that, by the way. I was, Oh,
they don't hide that. No, No, it's open. They're not
a shame of that. Yeah, they're a shame of it.
But they when they tell their history, like when they
do the tour. Yeah. And I said that because the
guy was he goes, does anybody know how how Holly
became Holland? And I said, slave trade and spice trade

(09:55):
is dude, And the guy said, you're exactly correct, Yes, yes,
that is a targ in our history, right, but we
don't hide from it. You know, a lot of this
we were. And then they talk about how they were
the first to also abandon.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
It, right, yes, they're the first. They abandoned way so hundreds.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
A year before Great Britain in America.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, so world War One they're like, we're gonna stay neutral,
and they didn't get fucked with the entire time, because yeah,
world War two they were like, you know what we're
gonna do again. We're gonna stay neutral again, and the
same thing's gonna happen. And Hitler was like, hey man,
we're going to respect that. Okay, we're gonna respect that.
Your neutral. And the very next day he rolls into
town and occupies Holland for five years and seventy eight

(10:38):
percent of of Amsterdam Jews were killed because of this.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
He bombed, He bombed Rotterdam, he bombed. Yeah, how was Rotterdam? Well, Rotterdam,
My first time I went to Rotterdam. He bombed up.
They talk and they talk about that bombing like it
was yesterday too.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, Well it was pretty packful because it changed.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
There were message of theosted to get to the total
fools to get don't really don't fight, you know, because
they were because on the ground they were already fighting
Dutch rebels. They didn't want the Nazi to come in
on the ground. On the ground, they were already fighting
in Rotterdam, right, So the signals didn't get across and

(11:25):
on time you know that they man, they don't, We're
gonna be surrender. So the Hitler bombed the ship out
of them. Man. Also he wanted Rotterdam. Rotterdam has a port,
and the Nazi wanted that port would bring in their ships,
to bring in their Nazis ship and when they got

(11:46):
to Amsterdam, they got through.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Land right yeah, yeah, it's Amsterdam is in a weird.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
So the port they fucking destroyed the Rotterdam. If you
go to Rotterdam, matter quickly. Rotterdam look like a modern
city like Los Angeles, the same type of buildings, modern
building Los Angeles, and it no, that's them now, oh,
that's them now. No. I was saying that Rotterdam is
a modern city compared to Amsterdam. Compared Okay, no canals, yes,

(12:18):
because he everything was obliterated.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah all right, okay.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
So that's why I Rotterdam looked like a modern city
already compared to Amsterdam.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
That's like Dresden, how dress had like you.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Go to coffee houses. I used to look like that,
oh man. But then now it's all modern, bro, with
brand new buildings. And okay, all.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Right, how did you like Rotterdam versus versus Amsterdam?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Sucked up in Rotterdam? Did you think? Did you like
get Rotterdam? Moore? Did you like Amsterdam? More? Amsterdam? Moore? Okay, right, Amsterdam,
you're right, bro, Amsterdam. You know it's crazy. But I
went to that place where those Jews used to.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Live, okay, oh and Frank's house.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Where where they grab all the Jews, the neighborhood ghettos, no,
the ghetto, they put them in ghetto. The namps were
dam right, and that neighborhood all those Jews man like,
they didn't come since when when the war was over,
those Jews never came back. They were all murder They

(13:29):
were murdered, right, And then there was like a after
there was like a famine, bro and Holland so they
were grabbing pieces of the Jewish homes make fire brotart
a firesh it.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
And then imagine, bro, they took all the all the
whole neighborhood gone, and they were so hungry that they
went in there ran sap and.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Then you're coming out of your Auschwitz prison or whatever,
and you got all these motherfuckers burning your house to
keep warm.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, they were not coming out.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh that's right, they weren't coming out because they were
burned themselves. Man, that's fucking wild, dude.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
But that's the railroad tracks in Amsterdam. As soon as
even my first time there, I looked, I turned around
and I said, this is where they grabbed a dude. Doesn't
that creep you out a little bit? Out? Bro? Party
in the movie. And I looked it up in my
map and I said, let me see it looked here

(14:27):
and Bro, they had a S S guard and every entrance. Bro,
just eyeballing motherfucker looking for any type of Jews. Was
Juan Yeah, nine, yeah, I saw.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
While I was doing this research, it kind of dove
into World War two little bit.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know, liberated on Amsterdam. What's that? You know? Who
were liberated Amsterdam and Holland? Who? Canada?

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Canada did no fucking ship, no way. They came in
and liberated They were the liberators of Amsterdam. Yeah, fucking see.
Everybody sits there and makes fun of Canadians for being
a bunch of pussies.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
They're not.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
They fight alongside us. There's some tough Canadians out there.
Beat me up when you see me, come out me boys,
yam bro, that's crazy. But this is what leads to
Amsterdam being so liberal is that these are kids of see,

(15:29):
because we're kids of of of heroes, right, our our
people came home and we rejoiced in our victory with them.
But they were kids of fucking cowards, of people that
gave in and like let shit kind of happen to them,
the people of Amsterdam. This is why they're so This

(15:50):
is why I was saying they're so liberal because like.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Part of right.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
But that was the thing, though, is that there was
still shame going around from what I that they were, like, dude,
we kind of just let the fucking Nazis have their
way with us, and nobody did anything. None of us
stuck up for the Jews, you know, and so there
was a bit of shame from that, and that led
to all these fucking hippies, you know. Like that was
the thing, is that the pro So what caused marijuana

(16:19):
to be decriminalized? Because it's not legal in right, it's
not legal and.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
A two hundred or one hundred eurofine if you're smoking
public somebody rats and they're very strict.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's not like here in California, where you're not supposed
to smoke, but you smoke anywhere you want, like if
you get if you get caught.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
And they smoke anywhere you want in California, I mean
you can't.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
But if I'm walking down the street right now and
a cop pulls up, Bro, I've been walking down the street.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
What am I talking about?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
And the cops never they go right by me. I'm
puffing a joint like it's obviously a joint, and they
just go right by me. I mean maybe in a
smaller town that would happen here in California, but I'm
from fucking up the Bay Area and I'm living in LA.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
There's no coffee shops yet in East Berlin or no
actually in Germany where I was at. But we is everywhere, bro,
but just hard to find. You didn't know anybody, right,
but they're smoking. They're smoking everywhere. As soon as I
went to my outside, my hotel, my hotel right by
the wall, right, and the people there by the river,
bro like these people just having like a show couterie

(17:28):
right there, Bro. They were smoking a joint and drinking wine.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
And they open see and you can't do that in Holland.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Were not doing nothing. You can't have no And there
were a lot of people. Everybody was smoking. They when
I when I did a guest I did. I did
a comedy show in that boat and Germany in Berlin. Okay,
I was walking out of my hotel room and I
saw American comedy, English comedy, right, So I said, okay, man,

(17:55):
I'm gonna just chill, go eat. Then when I went
back in there, I went in and I I think,
like the hose when he got off, if I could
go up, put me last killed him.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
They loved you. Of course they were all foreigners. Dude,
you did it on a boat. On a boat. There's
some girl. There's some comic there named Ceci from New York.
She's a teacher. She hooked it up, Bro, She smoked
me up like a.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
G Nice dude. How was the weed out there?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I felt like I was in Denver, bro at that shop.
Oh wow, the shop that they kicked you and Rachel
Wilson out.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, because Rachel got mad about the weeds smelling like
shit fucking Greenway.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
But it's all good, Bro. When I got to the concert,
they get hooked me up.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
With but nice and he went to the Cypress Hill concert,
had a good time.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Where the concert was that it used to be an
old palace back in the day, and there it is, Bro,
look good. I don't even know, Bro, just chilling. Hey,
what's up? Like in the backyard. We're gonna bring a
homie Philippe's parts that come up home?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
What?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Oh wait? No, ship? All right, I'll say good night.
Oh they ready, brother to pull my pants up? Oh ship?
Oh yeah, dog.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
You can see on your face too, you're like, what
the fuck?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, Bro, looking at brothers up there and ship Nice.
I throw a joint into the audience. Nice, dude, Oh yeah,
look at that, I said, should do a little set,
said now, motherfucker get back in the away from secret here.

(19:34):
Should if they could smell that crowd? Yeah, Bro, you
know what's weird about going going to that concert? There
were no cops walking around, no police. How big it is, Bro,
that's fucking dope. And was there is that right there,
that's where the audience is. That's the long pathway to

(19:58):
get into the palace, because if you go further down,
there's more like little little gates to get into the palace.
And then over there we're facing there's there's another building
and then a drawbridge to get in and then but
what in nineteen forty five, look it up, bro, that
was a prison. That was a prison, bro, that they

(20:20):
held the last Nazi criminal there. Oh really, so we're
performing They held the last Nazi criminal, the guy who
orchestrated the extermination.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Oh fuck, what's his name, dude?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yes, Gerbo the doctor he was he did the test
on all the Jews. Oh okay, all right, like he
was testing their teeth without even know no fucking, no
fucking without numbing your mouth, bro, just going in there.
Oh my god, Bro, you know a lot of the
stuff that he researched, even though he mastered a lot

(20:57):
of people in that research, we benefit from We got
all the other the they did all the hard work,
and we got there. We got their their fucking, their
fucking their medicine. Yeah, the idea, it's crazy without Himmler.
Himmler hmmler was there? Find out where? Yeah he was,

(21:19):
find out where he was locked up at? No, he was,
he was trying in Nuremberg. So yeah, yeah, bro, if
if it was weird how they were set up because
they had Cypress here and this whole little area just
hanging out, and then they had little bungalows I guess
I guess that's where the guards used to live, right,

(21:39):
And then all the sound people were there. Oh. DJ
Lord was a DJ bro from Public Enemy that no ship. Wow, dude.
As soon as they went up bro their first song,
everybody just exploded though that they knew all the lyrics.
There was like young people and those are just pure fans, right,
young and old people. Bro. The most dirtious tennis shoes

(22:01):
I ever seen audience.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
How was the audience though? Were they fucking cool as fucke?

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Like cool dog, like you would ask somebody for a
joint handed to you. Wow? Great? And there's some people
wanting to take my picture and they were asked me
what I do?

Speaker 2 (22:18):
They didn't even know who you were. They just wanted
to take your picture.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
What do you do? Yeah, we're penaltons and go out
and stay in wade.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Did anybody recognize you over there though, they were like, hey,
holy ship, yes here, that's fucking dope.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
The owner shout out to the owner of Vegan Sleigher
and forresno I saw that for in Berlin. Oh was
he there?

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Really no ship?

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Wife, dude, that's amazing. That's amazing, talk about the so
here it is when I was okay, every time I
go my second time is there in Germany? No, in Amsterdam,
I think a boat trip. It's the Bulldog Cannabis night
boat trip and that's the only boat trip that leads

(22:59):
to weed the whole time there, and they gave you
free beer and wine.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's like ferry that goes up and down the canal, the.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Little Canal bro. They go all over the place and
they give you a little tour of the of the
canals because one of those there's there's a part. There's
a place where everybody that gets married or wants to
take a picture, they take a picture in this canal
because it's called the Seven Canals. But if you're if

(23:26):
you're standing perfectly, and if you look straight ahead, you
can see the seven canals behind you seven and that's spot.
That's the only spot in the canal where you could
see the seven where they all meet up. Wow, okay
they all crossed back to back to back to back. Yeah,
because the because the Amsterdam, the canals. If you could

(23:50):
draw it, anybody could draw it, if you know how
to draw a spider web.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yes, yeah, I was looking at the map of Amsterdam.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
There it is, it is, and it does.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
It looks like like a fucking giant spider web. That's
fucking amazing.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
But there's part there's this place whore you maybe that's it.
You look under the you look under the bridge and
you could take a photo of it and your photo
would take a perfect.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'd love to see that. That's pretty amazing.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
So the Bulldog boat cruise ships say that they started
they legally marijuana. They were the first coffee house right
in nineteen seventy something, right, they say, and the rule
was the reason they left. They started off with a
coffee house, right right. But they were letting people smoke there, right,

(24:37):
and they were and but not sell at first, I think.
But the people that at Boatdog who sowed the BUTD
would wear these denim jackets, oh right club and then
said the denim jackets it had like they sewed in
three pockets, so they had they had nine pockets and

(24:57):
then one side was I guess the tiba on the
other side was whatever. They were all nine pockets. So
when the cop would show up, they would take off
their jacket and hang it in the colt wreck right
and run and run right. So that if you go
to the original Bulldog, that one bro is one of

(25:18):
like the it's kind of works well as applicted by
a week because you go in there, Bro, there it
is that jacket, but they have another jacket that's more
than when it's opened, that they made for themselves with
a bunch of pockets. And so the week sund only
wore denim jackets.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Ah, because they were called dealers. They weren't called they
weren't called blood tenders.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Dealers, dude.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
One of the things that I had read that when
these places started, because they had wore down the police
so much, there was this one guy named Robert Grudenfeldt
who was the head of the Provocateer movement, and what
he would do is he would call the cops and go, hey,
there's a bus full of kids headed to fucking Belgium

(26:04):
and it's filled with weed. Everybody has weed, and then
when they pull the bus over, they'd run out to
Belgium border and they pull them over, there's just dog
food in their bags. And then it makes the cops
look dumb. Or he would call the cops on different places.
They just would wear them down, and they would do
a lot of protests and stuff, like one time the

(26:26):
government said you cannot protest anymore. So they handed out
flyers with nothing on it, and they handed out like
they had signs that had nothing on it, and so
he kind of wore down the government. To the government
was like, all right, you could have one place to
chill and one dealer in the place, and he can
only deal weed. Because that was the other thing is
that all the drugs drugs were together under one law,

(26:47):
and then they separated the drugs. There was hard drugs
and soft drugs, and weed was one of the soft drugs,
and so it was like, you can only sell soft
drugs here. So they had one guy that sold weed.
It was a coffee shop like the boat that you said,
the bulldog boat, and that kind of started the coffee
shop movement. That's where all these like coffee shops started

(27:08):
springing up.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Every bro when I was that bulldog, and I said,
I at the guy after paying for my my cannabis,
do I walk over that guy or or the security guard?
Just joking, but the guy passed out on the outside
the eggs of dog. So no, so that full mate,
you okay mate? Well so the consecurity and they picked

(27:32):
that full up and they sat him down one of
those cheerleads, like he's having coffee and then you get
the fuck out of here or nothing, nothing that you
made him relaxed somewhere? Was he drunk or just too
high as fuck high and drunk? Oh my god. So
when you go to the Bulldog, the original Bulldog, you

(27:52):
that you meet up right there right, and they saw
right there, they saw coffee immediately, they saw coffee right
the coffeehouse and vegan shakes, bro, all kind of shakes.
Some stuff is vegan, not a lot, but they got
everything there bro. Then downstairs is the arrow Yep, it's

(28:14):
a little circles, a narrow stairs. You go downstairs and
right there where you could buy a butt and sit
down and smoke.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
How much does it cost for like a gram over here?
Twenty bucks?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah? Nice? And you're allowed to stop buy five grams
right at any spot, right, I don't know how much
or one ounce, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
But no, it's five grams is what I read here.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
So when you when you buy a different person, I
guess this is the original spot. Right. As soon as
you buy it, you make a left and their stairs
and you're already outside. Bro, No ship, it was simple
outside and then you smoke outside, right, you smoke inside too, Okay,
But you can smoke on their patio. They're okay with that. Yes,
you can smoke any patio and after them. Okay, now,

(29:04):
but you cannot buy weed, and you cannot like a
person that that salas that has a patio for food,
they're not allowed to smoke cigarettes, right, I hear. They're
like kind of a smokes. Yeah, and alcohol too, like
off that person they provide alcohol. It has to be

(29:24):
away from the coffee house to be outside.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Okay, let me ask you this. What happens when you
smoke all five grams in that place? You can't go back, right,
you go to another spot? You just go too and yeah,
totally right. But everybody trades is there like a real
social culture there where people sit down with each other
who don't know each other and start talking. Or does

(29:46):
it seem like it's just you and Lisa sitting at
a table and no one's like paying.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Attention to you.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Guys, you talk, they want to talk, right, So it's
pretty social. You could like get down and bullshit with
people about weed and Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
But at that place, Greenhouse, it's known I guess for
for famous people. I guess because the separate. Then they
go there all the time, right, and they have their
own little section reserve, and they hooked them up and
there's these big long paper they gave me right, looking
like they didn't take them out. I guess they treat

(30:19):
anybody who takes one out has to put out with weed,
ok everybody out?

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Oh no, okay, So how big is the paper? That's
fucking huge, dude, that's more than five grands.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
The roach, the little the tip of this thing. So
the guy put on all the stuff. Okay, so remember
one thing you could grow in your house. But now
with that without a without a light.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Ah, it has to be no UV lights nothing, dude,
you got actual light. Get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
There's two and fifty rainy days.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
I was just gonna say that with two hundred and
fifty rainy the.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Way of telling you don't grow motherfucker. Right. Yeah, you're
not allowed to grow there, but you're allowed to grow
your house. Yes, you're allowed to have a think enough
in your house to smoke with you. But you're like,
you're smoking in public, they'll get you bro right.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah, well there's a term they had.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
They want to be a dig right. But see what
happened when they legalized marijuana. They as they legal life marijuana,
it became much easier to catch heroin dealers, which was
a big fucking problem. That's what they were saying problem, right.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
That they had a heroin problem, and the cops are
wasting all their time with weed people. And weed is
only legal just so everybody knows, weed is only illegal
in other countries because of UN mandates from UH from
the Nixon era. Here in the United States, weed was
never a problem in all these countries until the United

(31:47):
States was like, no, it's bad, and the UN better
say so. And then the UN was like all right,
And in nineteen fifty three, Holland was like, fuck dude,
one of our biggest exports is fucking hashish. And then
when they outlawed it, people started doing fucking heroin. And
so that's when they kind of figured out like, oh, ship,
maybe we should keep this thing around.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
You can't smoke tobacco in the coffee house either, like
we trying to make a spliff with tobacco and it
get the hell out of here. They don't even But
you can smoke a blunt wrap with a bunch of
wheat in it, but no tobacco in it.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
That makes sense. So that so they saw one. They
got one one pre roll bro that full of keith
and full of shake, the full of oil and then
full of ash. Fifty dollars. Was it worth it?

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, Shelley's shaking her head like that's a lot.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
And mushrooms, bro are are It's a different law on
that one too. Everybody about mushrooms. They're called truffles nice
because not mushroom because europeans baby, but mushrooms like the
whole mushroom patch. Yeah, that's illegal, okay, because they don't

(33:09):
use the whole mushroom. They use a part of the mushroom. Yes,
it doesn't make you too crazy, but if you have
a shipload of them, your back.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
So instead of happening, you got to do a full
eighth to get to go to space.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, because I went. There's a place. There's actually a
right next to a place that sells crapes or pancakes
on the corner just has a mushroom on it and
you go insidebro and has mushroom, baby cakes, mushroom everything.
They suck you up and you didn't try them and
try them.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Did you shroom at all while you were there?

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yes? I did. Me and Lisa we had these little
tabs nice and we went to the jazz Ball was
this jazz bar Brother that closed at three in the morning,
and luckily there was there was there was chairs, so fuck,
we're in the back, Bron. I was tripping. Yeah, I
don't know what. I don't know what they were playing, Bro.
I just heard.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
You were fucked up.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Bro. I kept thinking of the base, who's gonna kick in?
But of that place. It cost five euros to get in,
and then outside people were smoking cigarettes and smoking weed
and coming in and out. That's fucking rad, dude, that's
fucking rad, Bro. I want to And then those a
place called Cafe du Val It's like the club Devil Duvals,

(34:26):
and that place had hip hop DJ Bro even though
there was two people in there twenty four hour all
day long, except there were closed Sunday and Monday. That
place was They're the one with the red they have
hip hop.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
How many uh, how many weed coffee shops are in
Amsterdam Man?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
The Greenhouse has at least four? Oh wow, yeah, okay,
that's the one that probably the biggest because they're they
get So. I was chilling, bro, and guess who I
smoked with Schoolhouse Q oh.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
School Boy c Yeah, oh yeah, dude, that's right. You
told me about that. He came and sat next to
you and fucking just chilled. Fucking uh.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
I think he's grammony. He was doing a showing till
guard chill guard, Yeah, Bro, school By accused the ship
when they were smoking dog yeah fuck yeah, that's fucking round.
I know.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
When you told me about that, I was because he
couldn't remember the name, and I'm all school By cute,
and he was like yeah, I'm all oh fuck yeah, dude,
Like I think.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
I'm dying broke, like school Boy dying, I am dying
from And it was raining, bro, and people were coming
into the coffee shop, you know, to get away from
the rain. Hard dog, and I said, man web bags
coming in. He choked. Funny, dude.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Was there a lot of talk because I I wonder
how let me just look it up real quick, because
I know that there was a big boom in the nineties.
How many dispensaries are in Amsterdam? Okay, there's between two others.
There's two hundred, around two hundred and thirty currently. During

(36:28):
the nineties there was seven hundred. And the reason why
was prior to that, during the eighties, after the Nixon
administration and everything, and we had hardcore prohibition here. See
before that, in the twenties, in the thirties and forties,
there were tea houses. Do you remember when I can't
remember what we were reading for, but we read about

(36:49):
a guy who sold weed to all the jazz players
in New York and he had a tea house. That's
what the coffee shops are modeled after, is the nineteen twenties,
thirties tea house. And so what happened with all these
guys that were dealing weed and it was not a
big deal, and all of a sudden it became super illegal.
In the sixties and seventies, they moved to Amsterdam, and

(37:11):
there's a wave of Americans that hint Amsterdam. And most
of the time when you hear Americans taking over a place,
it's not a good thing. But in this case it
is because we had knowledge of hydroponic weed that they
didn't have, and so we went out there and what
was very needed. But the other thing is is that
a little sidetrack that I went on was that there

(37:32):
was a thing called the tulip craze during the sixteen
hundreds where a tulip, one tulip was worth the same
amount as one of those houses, like the expensive houses
on the river. And that was because the tulips were
really rare. But that created this growing culture within Amsterdam

(37:52):
of people who knew how to grow. Plus when you
add that to the eighties and nineties, you have Americans
who are bringing in exotic strains of weed that could
only be grown.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
There a seed store in Amsterdam by steeds.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Okay, so that's the next thing that happens is that
they start handing out seeds to people. They start sending
out seeds. I don't remember reading high Times back in
the nineties, it was like you can buy one hundred
seeds for like ten bucks or something, and so that
was sending out seeds globally and this was creating this
huge culture that exploded in the nineties. And this is
what I was talking about before we started, was that

(38:27):
there was this huge So the marijuana we see today,
the legalization in California, the legalization in Spain, the legalization
in Germany, comes from this era in the nineties where
we were all pushing for legal weed. And that was
because it was inspired by what was happening in Amsterdam.
And so I didn't know this, but we're all smoking

(38:48):
weed up a good time in the nineties. That was
a huge movement for weed and it all kind of
took place in Amsterdam.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Passed out those normal IDs. Yes.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yes, So if you ever went to a normal which
I went to millions of not knowing that this was
a movement. I just went because there was free weed
and people were like, we need to legalize this. So
I was like, I'm on board. But I'm a stupid
thug at the time, not knowing what the fuck is happening.
I'm just fucking partying and smoking weed.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
I met Gallagher once and he showed me his ID
and he had a normal ID. Yeah, yes, he said
back then and it gave too many people. He said, right,
but my only last and that that could smoke weed.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
No shit, My girlfriend's dad, who's like super conservative, was
dating the lady who started normal.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Before she started normal, she was like a chill old
lady and like the chatwoman. As they said, don't be lying.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
I know I get this all the time. Yes, I'm
sorry that I have. What's funny is that people that
I'm lying. But you gotta remember, I worked for this guy.
I made it all the way to hear I made
it all the way to like being on the road.
And if I want to tell people, yeah, I worked
for this famous comic name Felipe Sparza, they would be like,
don't be lying, dog, you're a lie. This was Assi

(40:03):
opens for phelipez Barza.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
But I am so flopping with a normal license anyway.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
But that's the thing is that that was the movement
that started in the nineties, and I just wanted to
touch on that because like, when we look at legal
weed everywhere in the world right now, and what's even
crazier is the United States, which isn't progressive in any
part of the world, is the most progressive when it
comes to marijuana legislature, which is also weird because we're
the ones that started the illegalizing weed a long time

(40:30):
ago in the fifties, and then we're also the first
ones to be like, hey, wait a minute, by the way,
that that shit that you could pretty much go to
prison for half your life for in Japan that came
from us. But also now it's cool, so you don't
have to fuck be so stressed out about weed. But yeah,
that's where it all started. That's where the legalization movement,

(40:52):
where our generation started.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Oh, I don't think I think oil like dabs are
illegal and after them, Oh really no dabs?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Bro Well, because it's hash though, right, I mean no.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
No, there's no oil like the oil oil oil like
the dab oil. Yeah, there's there's hash. There's no like
bay pans anywhere, no way. Really, Yeah, they don't saw
bake pans. They saw space cakes.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
That was space cakes. Those are legendary.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
What happened with the space cake. I knew when I
went to Bojom with Lisa like a year ago and
I was supposed to save my space cake. No, there's
gonna be no weed, so I ate half of it.
Broka and a stupid cleaning lady to the other half.
No murder that bitch. I would kill that. I'm trying

(41:39):
to ask something, bro, for free.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
You were pissed, Holy, because how did you deal with
not having weeds?

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Running a car and drove back to Alan. That's my
boy right there, dude, Because I said, I looked at
the map, what's the nearest town? Was that town? You
said it was right next door? Bro, No, but it
was like thirty eight miles. We tracked, tracked thirty a mile.
Do it in thirty and I did, yeah, And then
that play was it was weird, bro. If we were

(42:10):
a little tiny car and felt like we were being
chased by were felt like I was Jane Bond. It
was so tiny and you were on a mission. He said,
it was driving and we didn't hit no walls, bro Right,
we were like, if I put my hand out, I
could have scraped my walls. I could have scrapped a
bilty with my pat my hands. Did you you had

(42:31):
to go like grather of food and go like this
by That's how tiny it was. So then we get there, Bro,
they said nine They said no, Bro, only for like locals.
But then he told me to go to Tilgurt, which
is another town down right, and that place bro, I
followed all that Monapello, California over there. Ship it's a
regular city, and we just stood in line and bought

(42:54):
a bunch of weed.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Why did they tell you nine and New Wrecked.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Without that place? You said?

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Right, But I'm just kind of baiting you. But there's
laws there that won't allow certain places to sell to
people other than locals.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Right, yeah, here for my Dutch ideas, I don't have one. Yeah,
they're like, you're going fuck out of here. Then I
was gonna stand outside and goro, here's the what a
year for you? I mean five grounds in there?

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Right? Yeah, we'rett done it for sure, someone would have
done it for sure.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Even forty forty year old right gave me an ounce.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
So the interesting thing about that town, I sent you
the information, but you were deep diving on something else.
This is a controversial thing, so I'm not trying to
piss any Hollanders off. For people who are really crazy
about this, Like supposedly Mellow Yellow and the Bulldog were
the first coffee shops, right, Mellow Yellow, Yeah, Mellow Yellow
and the bull But which isn't there anymore? Yellow Mellow

(43:52):
Yellow got closed down because they passed the law that
you can no longer have coffee shops in your schools.
And it was near a beauty school which was filled with.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
You know, you said that about the tea houses in Amsterdam.
A lot of them are gone now, yes, because red
has gone high. So upright that three grands three euros?

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Yeah, Amsterdam's expensive to live in.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Rise. Yeah, some renegade the face was a thing or
a musk, one of them by a whole building, bro,
of course, but like five or fifty million. I don't
know how much it was. Fuck got it? So they
just jacked Yeah, so every floor if you want to
buy a I was thinking like when it comes to
live there, but if you want to buy your own
floor alien probably, But you want to rent and rent

(44:36):
three thousand a.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Month insane dude, that's insane, bro.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
And there's like there's no carrying your furniture up there.
There's a hook on top of the building. Yeah, you're
everything up into the window.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
It's actually kind of easier though, right, I feel like,
have you fucking brought up a couch upstairs?

Speaker 1 (44:58):
But narrow stairs at the they're like narrow. I'm too
fat for those stairs too.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah, I've heard that when I've made for small people.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
When I go when I go down the stairs and
just lean to the on the wall and slide down, bro.
And then when I'm growing up, I use the left
side to keep me from dragging down. No, no, no,
I'm just walking all the way up.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
That's hilarious, dude. Yeah, I heard the architectures made for
smaller people.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Oh you know the prostitution and answerdam how they got
away with it? It's legal, yeah, it's legal. But it
started off they they take it on a tour. You
see it, bro, when you're on the boat, there's a
big fucking church. Bro.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Okay right, oh okay, keep going, a.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Big fucking church right, and there was a lot of
prostitutes like all over right. They were like no more prostitution.
So the church, the nuns, they came up with an
idea and say, you know, man, we'll let you guys
sell your body outside of the church, you know, right
the property on our property. And then and then the sailors,
after they were done, they will go confessed and donate money. Bro.

(46:08):
That church is really get money.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Yeah, that's so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
No, way Bro.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
So it was like a business for the church was
pimping get the funk.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Out of and and and the brothels. The red light
district is still outside that church, bro. And at nighttime,
like all the little building light up and ship red
light district.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
I wonder if this is the same church because right there,
oh really okay.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
If you're hunger, you're like fries. You look that side
of the that side of the red light district by
the church. Now it's for like the if you're into
like the ticker foreign chicks and like from Kurasao and
ship from if you're Latina, you're from that's because you

(46:58):
know how you have a immigration Every every country that
colonized someone had an immigration problem. Now you know, the
roosters came back to whatever that landing is.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
The chickens came home to roost chickens came.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Home to rust. So since the Dutch, which is Amsterdam,
they colonized surinam Guyana, fucking.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Why people are there?

Speaker 1 (47:28):
So look at they speak Dutch there and you can
you could just go with there a lot of pass
in the Bahamas and there with a lot of passport.
If you're from ut you're from Holland.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
The Dutch Islands, wow.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
To other and then like a lot of their a
lot of their comedians, bro, the famous ones like look,
look look for a let's look for a movie called
bond Bibi in in Thailand bomb bb okay. And this
guys I'm from Surinam. He like the Tyler Perry of

(48:04):
of Oh yeah, you showed me.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
This guy dude, and he's like from Holland though ye
like he's a nationale, like it's his raised, but he's
born and raised in Holland, right.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
It's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
So that led that red light district bro is like
cheeks got it? Oh ship.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Each part of the district has a different type of girl.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Yeah. Man. And then if you get a purple light,
it's like the gay area. Nice okay. And then the
when I was drunk the first time they're in O five,
I made it to the fucking fans area, oh ship. Okay.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
We got one of those in Oakland.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Too, Yeah, bomb Biebie Bro Yeah Bombanie Holland yeah brouh Yeah.
That guy right there, he does all these characters, bro,
but he's like Tyler Perry over there. He has like
five Bombibie and Holland, Bomb Beanbe and Bangkok. And it
started off with him having a show about uh fucking

(49:09):
a chicken shack and then like it became popular.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
And then they made a chicken a real chicken shack
from right.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Yeah. Yeah, so that's their peep the race sas commercials,
trust me. Wow, bro, that's great. You can't find her
that show in America though, you have to be over there.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
How much did you love Amsterdam? Like is it a
place that you would regularly go to, like like a
lot of other people did, Yeah, go back, dude, or
is it just kind of like it's worth visiting once
or twice. But because the laws are strict there still,
like I said, like you you can go anywhere else
now to legal places.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
And there's a lot better smoke from what I heard,
And there's a lot of illegal straight straight dogs are illegal.
It can't be dumping your dog. You can't do that. No, No,
they'll find hard you can't your dog poops, they'll find
your heart. The bike culture there, there's there's nowhere to park,
so man's everybody. I won't gonta hit by every day.

(50:06):
I won't get hit by bike. Also, I think my
name was Octune.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Oh wow, because you were just walking around.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
I think my name was Octune. Bro. That means watch out, baby, attention, Yeah,
and I was not paying attention.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
I mean we're Americans. We just look out for cars.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
And even now I'm gonna hit by a bike, bro.
And then like I forgot how they say that look out?

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Did you ride a bike yourself out there?

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Or are you like funk that? No? Bro? When I
got on that fucking boat, the driver said, does anybody
who want to ride a boat? And I said, I do.
It's on that boat. You got to drive the boat.
And a boat everything away here man was built by
the hard working slaves. And you know, I started to
give you a little tour, Doug. That's hilarious, dude, that's great.

(51:00):
Oh and after them and shrink is I'm sinking by
the way, Yes. And if you know some of the
buildings you see, they're they're like tilted to the side,
you know, like like the Tower of Pizza. Yeah, exactly so,
and they're not gonna fix them. So what they add
they might add like a loas to man block to

(51:21):
keep it from tilting more. But pretty much we have
after them falling down on the ground.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
We have that sinking building in San Francis.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
You can see it right there in that one building
right there, how crooked it is.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
We have, So we have a sinking building in San
Francisco right now, and they brought in experts from Holland,
UH to work on on putting like some support beams
underneath it. But I was also watching another documentary during
because I wanted to know more about the history of
Holland as I was doing this, and I read that

(51:55):
so like when they first started there, it was like
just a huge water basin. It was like a bunch
of bogs. Really, it wasn't even like rivers. And the
rivers are man made because they needed to channel the
water because when the tide would get high, it would
flood the town and.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
They suck underwater. They're literally under the yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Yeah, and those huge walls keep like like sometimes the
water rises above the level of the city, and that's
what the canals are there for, to drain the water
in and then drain it back out. But there's times
where the water is so overwhelming that the walls are
just what's keeping the water out. And what's interesting about
that is that that shit only is gonna last so
long and Holland is aware of this, you know, but

(52:38):
that that at some point.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
How long to spain? Right? Yes?

Speaker 2 (52:43):
By the oh the family remember the family of the
family of inbreds. I was telling you about that one time. Yeah,
they are called the not the breithewaits what were they called? Uh?

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Can you look up real quick? Can you look up
like inbred family that ruled Europe something? Yes, dude, something
like that, inbred people that ran Holland. Yes, what is
that guy's last name? Habsburg's. So the Habsburgs. Uh, there's

(53:26):
a little side note.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
I'm hey put in the comments if you guys want
to hear more about this. The Habsburgs were the longest
running royal family in Europe and they own every and
the reason why those look just look up Habsburg jaw.
The reason why they look like that is because they

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inbred over and over because the family they didn't want
the family line to run out and they wanted to
keep it in the family. So these people looked all
fucked up because they were all inbred. And the last
day that that huh, dude, that's probably not far off
because we can these people were such a huge like

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genetic influence in white.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
People that there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
It's like, uh, Genghis Khan's genetics as well are in
people because they ran for so long. And the reason
why they ran for so long is because they never
let the bloodline die out, because they were fucking each
other on purpose to keep the bloodline going. And the
last bastion for them of ruling was Holland in Amsterdam,

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and so the Habsburgs were like a big deal there.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Yeah. Man, they were defeated by Admiral Trump in battle.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
But it was the Habburg Habsburgs uh Spaniards that rather right.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Yeah, But after that it was a guy named Captain Trump.
Are you serious, dude?

Speaker 2 (54:54):
That brought it down?

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Jesus Christ. I wonder if there's any like relationship, no
no relation.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
See, okay, well there goes your blood.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
He had good on bone structure, so great line. Great. Yes,
Like everything that that John Travolta said about marijuana and
perfection was actually factual. It was okay, I said legal,
it's legal to smoke, but legal to possess. But the
cop can't stop you for it, right unless you're smoking policy,

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somebody rat you out and.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
You can't be a source either the sources.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Like they're like they're like they can they cannot even
like there's a weird law, like there's pounds coming in,
but it's illegal to bring those pounds. Right, the cock
would catch them on the pound. It's over, you know,
over over over, but you could have pounds instead of place. Right.

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Also getting very expensive to have a coffee shop.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Right because of the taxes.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
I'm sure they're adding an extra food now.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Oh really, So I was reading that there's a guy,
this is the one I wanted to tell you about,
a guy named Harry Hassenbo and that city Utrecht that
we were talking about, uhrect or whatever. This guy was
like a son of a sex worker from Rotterdam, and

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at twenty two he decided to just buy this place
in Urect or udirect or whatever it's called. And it's
I've dude, my Dutch, it's so bad, so obviously, but
so he buys this place and it actually belonged to
a circus, like an ancient like, dude, an ancient circus. Fuck, dude,

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I can't remember the name of it now, Holly Hassenbou Okay,
so he ran, So he bought this place that had
a man.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Now you're just.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Fucking up bad, Butch, you're just fucking up bad. What
happened to my notes on this guy?

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Sorry? Sorry? Sorry sorry?

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Yes, the guy on the left, I think the name
was Sarah Annie, Sarah, Sarah Sawni.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
So that place you see behind him, he owned that
building and underneath it is a boat house with the tunnel.
You see the tunnel near the water that belonged to
a circus, an ancient circus that just closed down and
left that building for what it was. He went in
there and renovated the building, but renovated that little boat house.
The cool thing was on the outside there was all

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kinds of like lizards and dragons and shit that were
left from the circus, so it made it look dope.
And that guy people claimed to be the first coffee
house because he just started selling fucking hash out of
that house. And one of the things that made it
unique was that he had an alligator pit and that's
where he kept the weed, and so people couldn't get

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so people couldn't get to the weed. But that guy
supposedly ran the first like copyhouse, and they would they
would arrest him, they'd fuck him up. Like he was
kind of the example as to why weed. They started
to make weed more tolerable because unlike the United States,
they don't really like people getting their asses whip by

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the cop, no matter who they are. And in the end,
this guy had a shootout with the cops. And go
back up, go back up. Okay, see that one in
the middle right there below your arrow, one more down
that one. Can you click on that one. That's what
it looked like when he first moved in, and it
turned into this like and then if you go to
the one on the top left, the purple area of

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one right there, that one, that's what it looked like inside.
And they would have bands there and they would play
there and he would get arrested, he'd come back out,
he'd start selling hash again. See if you look in
the lower right hand of that picture, that's where the
alligator pit was. But yeah, he would just throw parties there.
And then at some point the cops got tired of

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fucking with them, so they kept like so the cops
like started a new campaign to just harass him. Well,
he was like fuck that. He went about a three
fifty seven magnum and he shot it out with the
cops and died. But after that happened, that's when like
Amsterdam Holland were like, all right, we don't want violence
over weed. This is fucking crazy. So that's when they
that's kind of the rumor that triggered them reevaluating their

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laws and stuff like that. So I just want to
throw that in there. Never forget Henry Hassenbo. That place
stayed open until two thousand and seven. After his death,
his family kept it running, but they got busted selling
over one hundred pounds to some German guy.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
So they had to shut down their property.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
That was you got all I learned. That's what I got, Dad.
That was a whole week's worth of reading about Amsterdam.
What's funny is you hit me up in the middle
of this and I already know this is Like, dude,
this is such a felipe thing.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
I bet he's the top in my mind.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
I bet he's talking to someone about the history of
Amsterdam right now. And he starts setting me and he's
like we should do this, and I'm like, yes, I'm down,
let's do it. And that was the last conversation we
had about it, and then like two three days ago,
You're like, what are.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
We working on again?

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
And I had already been reading about it, I'd studying it,
and I was like, motherfucker fucking Amsterdam, dude. He's like, oh, okay,
because I'm working on uh on East Berlin, so that's
gonna be our next one, which I'm excited about me too. Yeah,
that's an interesting That is a super interesting subject in

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my mind, because you have two different worlds in one city,
and you have people from families that are separated from
each other, you know, and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
I know people who have to waste seventeen years for
a car.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Fuck, dude, that's crazy. But it's crazy there now right.
I mean, it's kind of like the electronic music capital
of the world.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Man, after damn World. There's people walking around all night,
walking up you want to buy coke, Yes, buy cocaine, right,
and I'm thinking, man, it would be the worst cocaine
ever if you have to like announce it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
That that solid in the middle of the night. Yeah,
I'm good, bro, you need you need no way, really,
holy ship dude.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
In my mind, you know how you say that? Where
I was staying at my hotel room is called the
flower Shop District. And that's like I make our left.
I make a left and then another left, and there's
like a whole flower market, bro, And now do it
so two lips? Yes, it's twulips. And it's like it's
two lips seeds in right now. So that's how GGO seeds.

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Bro for two lips.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Yes, it would probably be a very boring episode.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
But probably the biggest commodity besides marijuana. Yes, I think
tulip is bigger than marijuana. Are huge.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Well, I got to dive into a little bit about
the I saw.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Far video the farms, yes, a different color, huge, bro,
huge farms. And then they're like, from my hotel is
right there. I'm staying on the side of that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
That's fucking rat dude. See that's the thing, man is like,
you know, that's it. This had a huge part.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
I'm staying behind that. Yeah, it's right right next to
the flower mark. Yeah. Wow, did you guys go in there?
It must have smelled amazing. Yeah. They got not just tulip,
they got everything, bro, all types of plants, and then
they got like a little plant to go. You know,
you gotta fucking tell custom you have a tree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Well, they're known big time for propagation, which is basically
taking one plant and then and then cloning it and
repopulating it into your garden.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
And so they were kind of like the masters of
proper tulips. Yeah, fucking and that was the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
And there's so there's a whole history on tulips and
hauland and the Dutch craze of tulips of sixteen hundreds,
of the sixteen hundreds.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
You know what I noticed touring to them. When you
buy a whole pizza, they don't slice it, bro is
get a knife, bro Like? But I guess in America
they want to get your fat asses. It's enough for
the whole family.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
That doesn't make sense to me, though, That doesn't make
what kind of animal lets a pizza out of there?
There are pizza shop that doesn't cut it. Have you
ever gotten a pizza?

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Huh? Terrence Share? Yeah, bro, they were.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
They were cutting in like this, Shelly said, Terrence Share.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
And Dutch pank, Dutch apple pie. Bro. It is like
different from over here. Oh really it's dry, but it's
already dry here, yeah Bro' is that gooey like over here?

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
So it's like sever kind of cold, but a dollar
of cool run on the top, bro with cream, Damn bro,
exactly like that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Dog that coffee Bro. That makes me like, I don't
know why. How is the coffee culture there by itself?
How is because you're a.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Coffee If you like filter coffee, you're gonna have the
worst time in your life. Oh really, because you say
you can have a coffee everything Americano Americano, even though
what is Americano? When you're getting expressed on you put
water in it?

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Ew, Yeah, it's just diluted. It's just be concentrated.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
You. You gotta ask you when you order your coffee,
you have to ask you have filter coffee?

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Get the fuck out of here when they don't pour
it in a little.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Cone like we dude. Also, man, God bless America. We
have filtered if you get like you, if you're lucky
enough to get a hotel room that has a dryer
coumbo and like one dryer and then it's a washing machine.
But then when you're ready to dry it, tune into
a dryer.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
The washing machine turns into a dryer.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Yeah, and title bro, it takes a billion. If you
have jeans in there, take them out when you're drying
your clothes, put the gill, keep everything wet. That's so backwards,
like you could really like you gotta it's my clothes
are still drying right now over there. That's at a

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revolution knocked down this wall.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
I'm kind of like. Since the thing is, sometimes people go,
you know, in Holland they do this, you know in
this country, in.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Germany they do this stuff. You gotta give back.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Yeah, there's a ton of other trade offs, you know what, dude,
and and and this is not in respect. Someone commented
last week that I hate americ I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
I love this country with a big trade off.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
But there's a and that's why, because there's this is
a dope place to live. After overall, you could drive
your car anywhere the fuck you want, like in Japan.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
You know they have free minute care over there. Yeah,
but you get up early a ton of line because
everybody stick that day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Well like so, like Japan, you can only drive your
car for fifty five thousand miles before you have to
get a new engine.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Like in America, we don't have.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
To do that like in Holland. Again, Holland's great. Go
to fucking Amster and have a good time. I want
to go to Amsterdam, but I'm gonna tell you right now,
like I'm going for the flowers and the fucking and
frank house and you know, but I would not go
for the weed. The weed here in America is from
what I heard, even in interviews from people in Holland,

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our weed is better. Our we laws are fucking better.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
Go for the experience, but don't forget this fucking country.
Let's do what the fuck you want. You know, you
can even come over here as an immigrant and get
chased around by ice. That's how fucking good it is.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Get in shape, brot.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
In shape, dude, fucking throw some rocks at what's gonna
happen to you nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
The prostitutional is different over there, because a girl could
just deny people all day lawn.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Right, that's the other thing you were telling, and.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Make money on her only fans and just keep her.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
That's gonna beat the fuck out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Once you're in that little room, that booth, you pay
a certain rent for it, and you share the rent
with three other girls, maybe to keep the costs down.
But if you have only fans and you got people
from all over the world sending your money already you
keep it's smart to keep that red light booth for
your health insurance because you're not gonna that woman probably

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can't get another job somewhere to get the health and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Given no pussy away. She's selling no pussy.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
She don't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
She don't have to. She's just locking it down for
her health insurance.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Yeah, maybe she can sleep with one guy instead of
sleeping with multiple.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
And then she gets to sleep with whoever she wants.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Yeah, she goes picking chunes now because if she's making
money and only fans, it's paying for the rent right booth.
Yeah fuck yeah, bros, only fans, they legal over that right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
But then she's also got her TikTok. She's got her
fucking her Instagram, her ready account, you know, like dude,
like there's a that's.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
A but they'll beat your arasth bro, if you're passing
by either taking a photo or bato tape.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Yeah yeah they well, I mean even here in America,
if you go down figure out with your video camera out,
not that I've done it, they will fucking throw rocks
at you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Bro. I don't want to rock hit your house. Huh.
He's all live, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
I live like ten blocks from there.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Dude, you dolegally immigrants, so you could get arrested for harboring.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Huh, not me because I don't own the house, but
my landlord might be able to. What's crazy is my
fucking landlord voted for.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Trump, but his lead, his his lease is just like
a notepad. Your name and adres bro. They don't even know. Yeah,
they like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
The guy that lived above me owed me a lot
of money and he got removed by the sheriff the
other day. And I was like, do you have his name, bro,
because I want to get that fucking money back. And
he was like, his name was Jake. That's all I got,
Jake Dole, you know. But I'm I don't even have
butch Escobar under my place. I give the guy a
thousand bucks a month and he lets me stay in

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that room with unlimited air conditioning.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
I'm fucking happy. Well, he could just shut it all
down and you can never get your stuff back if
you wanted to, if you wanted to, but I don't
know if you wanted to have They made him the
cops said, you know what, man, shut it down.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
They would I don't think they would do that because
right now. They just want to go after immigrants.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
They get him for something that had nothing to do
with immigration.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Oh yeah, they can shut me out of my own stuff.
I don't lose my computer. I'll lose my fucking my PlayStation,
which are the most important things, I guess to me,
and the pound of weed that's in my room as well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
But you know, like, yeah, live on the listener, Can
I live on? Let me find out where my fucking
biggest enemy lives. No.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
We got it scare though, because we had a guy
that was living there and he didn't show up for
immigration court, but he didn't live there anymore, and we
kept getting his notices, so we had to like change
the locks on everything.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
We had to fu.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
You know what's dude, My landlord and I kind of
here's the thing, man, I think we should take away
the whole like, well, this is what you voted for,
because my landlord was like I voted for Trump. But
now he's kind of like, oh fuck, they're removing because
the other thing is now is he's happening to compensate.
My landlord's a good dude because he's letting these people
live there right now pretty much rent free because they're

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not going to work anymore. And he's like, they can't
go to work, they don't have anywhere to fucking like.
They go to work, they're gonna get scooped up. And
so he's paying them to clean his houses. He's paying
them to work around the house. He's trying to alleviate
as much pressure as he.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Can on them right now.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Kind of dude like in a weird way, like a
like a very light by light version of that. But
I do feel him, bro, because he feels bad about
I could tell that he's like, fuck, Bro, I didn't
think this was what was gonna happen, you know. And
again I want to be like, yeah, well he said
that that's what was gonna happen, you know. But again,

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we can't do that at this point. We kind of
just need all the help we can get. And I
do feel like this guy is a toning a little
bit because these people feel safe, you know. The the
the English guy that lived above me that owned me
on a hundred bucks pulled the knife out on somebody
and we were like should we call the cops, and
all the residents were like, don't.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
Please, rabbits.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
He had this It was like a tiny little knife, bro.
It wasn't like the guy at the last place. It
was like a tiny little knife. I remember, like the
guy that he pulled on was just laughing at him,
was like, dude, get the fuck out of here with
that thing. And then, uh, the problem was that the like,
here's the thing, dude, is we all live harmoniously. Everybody

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has like someone has a pet. There's like all have
different walks of life. This guy walks in with his
fucking German shepherd. The dog shits everywhere. They just cleaned
the apartment out yesterday and the lady had to come
out every few minutes to get fresh air because it
was so fucking disgusting, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
And and out of all these.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Brown immigrants, who's the only one jacking this place up all,
I want to say.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
A German shepherd? Yeah, dude, So I mean it's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
I saw Martine Moreno yesterday coming out of the Louis Spot,
and I didn't realize that he had moved to Texas,
and his his mind was blown, bro, because he was like,
where is everybody? He's all this place is empty because
when you go to the Louise Spot, it's in the
part of down.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
And there's flow.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
It's pretty much it's pretty much bro like, it's a
fucking ghost town. And when you roll through there's only
like every other door is open or like it would
be like one open spot, two close spots and then
an open spot, you know, and and so yeah, it's
it's uh, it's kind of a ghost town.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
I like to go walking around wearing bro his nipples,
this big fat.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Because all I see is whenever I see his Instagram,
it's just him naked with his nipples. He was wearing
his hippie stuff well, along with his Buddhist stuff, along
with his Catholic stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
Right history for fools man, you're already here. First tune
in next week

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
Some sa