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welcome to the show. Legendary. Cheech and Chong, man.

5:39

Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank

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5:47

thank you guys for being here. We're going to

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5:52

setting and trend setting things you guys did

5:54

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5:56

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5:58

first I woke up. And

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then here I am We're

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doing a bunch of things man. We got

6:05

this business going this this kicking ass, you

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know We just we've got it all over

6:09

the country now. Yeah, we

6:11

were doing what you were talking about revitalizing

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other Pot

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shops and Rebranding

6:18

them so that's going good and what else

6:20

we just did we're both married to real

6:22

strong women So we don't do a whole

6:24

lot of anything. No I Just

6:29

say how does this look? Okay. Yeah, the

6:31

power of a strong mind No

6:38

touring though, right? No. No.

6:40

No, we know we find it when I went

6:42

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6:44

shit out of myself and messed up

6:46

my knee And he

6:48

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6:51

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6:53

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6:55

because then they put you on first

6:57

and anybody with you The

7:04

strippers do it everywhere now Oh the strippers you if you

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7:10

if you know In

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Miami I

7:19

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7:21

wife is Russian born and raised in

7:23

st. Petersburg Russian Russians all these Russians

7:25

are so beautiful and and Educated

7:28

and you know that my wife just

7:30

got her doctorate from SE music and

7:32

and the public abilities together I'll strip

7:34

all the Russians. I know we're strippers

7:38

There's the other side, you know, they're

7:40

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7:42

strippers. You guys remember LaWanda

7:45

Paige Yeah,

7:47

and Esther on uh, red

7:49

fox red Googler

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don't tell me she used to be she used

7:57

to be a top stripper. Yeah

7:59

exactly dancer. I've worked with her

8:01

in Canada in the 50s and

8:03

she had an act where she

8:06

had a live bow

8:08

of snakes and trouble is a

8:10

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8:12

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8:15

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8:18

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8:21

called gorgeous beautiful woman but she had

8:23

a sense of humor that was

8:26

funny. I knew her, I knew her

8:28

there. Yeah she kept that snake. Miller

8:35

who was with Red Fox too and she

8:37

was a dancer in the well

8:40

the guys you know the bebop,

8:43

the old bebop when right at the end

8:45

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8:48

and beat and dancing was the thing to

8:50

do. Yeah well Norma Miller was one of

8:53

those documentaries when she

8:55

was dancing on the day, she was

8:57

it. Yeah so she ended up being

8:59

a MC at Red Fox's comedy club

9:02

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9:05

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9:07

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9:09

Fox's club and so Norma

9:11

says what's your name and so we told

9:13

her you know Cheech and Chong and so

9:15

when it's time to announce her she goes

9:18

and ladies gentlemen here they are give it

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9:22

who do you want to be the night

9:24

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9:26

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9:29

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9:31

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9:33

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9:36

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9:39

everywhere they had nowhere to follow.

9:41

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9:43

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9:45

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9:47

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9:49

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9:53

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9:55

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9:57

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10:01

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10:03

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10:06

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10:08

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10:10

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10:12

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10:14

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10:16

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10:19

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10:21

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10:23

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10:25

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10:28

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10:32

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10:34

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10:42

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10:44

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10:48

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10:51

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10:53

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10:56

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11:00

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11:02

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11:09

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11:11

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11:13

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11:17

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11:19

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11:21

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11:24

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11:27

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11:30

soon. Well, one of the things

11:32

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11:35

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11:38

when we were there looked around and this

11:40

would make a great comedy club Because what

11:42

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11:44

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11:46

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11:48

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11:51

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11:53

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11:55

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11:58

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12:00

know, that wants to go on stage

12:02

and then we're gonna introduce

12:05

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12:08

then charge them 10%. We're gonna

12:10

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12:12

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12:14

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12:16

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12:20

it would be like what dispensaries

12:22

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12:24

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12:26

Even though we had a cannabis

12:29

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12:32

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12:54

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12:56

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12:59

What did we call it? Do you remember? I don't know. Pot

13:01

Cafe. I don't know what it was. Yeah,

13:04

it had a name on it.

13:06

I can't remember. Yeah, Pot Cafe.

13:08

Something like that. But times have

13:10

changed and now Amsterdam's... Bulldogs. It's

13:13

almost illegal there. Really?

13:15

Yeah, it flipped around. I

13:17

just came from there and I stated the

13:19

dispensary of the restaurant cafe the

13:21

whole day and smoked all day, everything.

13:24

Yeah, isn't that nice? I love Amsterdam.

13:26

That's nice. That was great. Yeah. We

13:28

shot a movie there, you know, they heard... I

13:31

directed it, you know, they heard, oh man,

13:33

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13:36

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13:38

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13:41

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13:43

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13:46

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13:53

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13:56

Man, those Dutch guys, man. They

14:00

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14:02

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14:04

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14:06

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14:08

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14:10

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14:12

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14:14

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14:16

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14:18

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14:21

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14:23

life like some fish. I was like, what the

14:25

fuck is going on here? I thought I'm good,

14:27

right? Oh. Well, Amsterdam was crazy back then. I

14:29

couldn't imagine. They had squatters. Has it always been

14:31

not to cut you off? Has it always

14:33

been legal out there, I'm guessing? Yeah, sorry.

14:35

It comes as old. Yeah, it does. Depends

14:38

on who you've got in

14:40

power. Right now they're leaning toward the

14:42

right wing kind of. Oh, okay. So,

14:44

yeah. See, Amsterdam was always what everybody

14:46

else was doing. They would do the

14:48

opposite. Okay. You know,

14:51

that's really the nature. Interesting.

14:53

You guys announced also that you guys have

14:55

a biopic. Yeah. Can

14:58

you tell us a little bit about that? I know. No.

15:01

Oh, that's why I'm still saying

15:03

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. The

15:06

biopic. See,

15:09

a biopic, he didn't have to be in it. Yeah.

15:13

I'm dead already in this biopic. My

15:17

kids take over. If

15:20

he's in it or if he's gonna be in it, he'll scroll

15:23

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15:25

it. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. My

15:27

line. Okay.

15:29

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15:31

in Europe? March. March? March?

15:34

Oh, coming up. We're gonna be doing it in

15:36

March. No. Oh,

15:39

that, oh, the biopic. It's

15:41

not a biopic, it's actually a

15:43

documentary. It's a documentary, okay. It's

15:45

a documentary, yeah. More of a

15:47

documentary, but after the, it's called

15:49

Cheech and Chong's Last Movie. Okay.

15:52

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15:56

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15:58

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16:00

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You grew up a straight A student, a son of a

21:58

police officer. Yeah. The By

22:00

way So Calgary the last week we have

22:02

a brain cells live. I live were young

22:04

Calgary? Yeah yeah. Cameo and I wasn't born

22:07

in Calgary. Area

22:09

but I went to Cal Grant when

22:11

I went to Canada though I got

22:13

deported. That and co agree with this

22:15

idea if if if activities we have

22:17

a band we're the first. So bad.

22:20

In Western Canada. The. Soon

22:22

we got so popular with not resemble

22:24

I have a question of the seeds

22:26

have the same that band to see

22:28

this Yes everybody was a different color

22:30

and beset on all day as we

22:33

found ourselves the same boat as though

22:35

but we're all athletes like we had

22:37

a sax player that could have been

22:39

a probe. Pro. Football player, year

22:41

old dad died and Anna in the

22:44

right the singer. Was. The

22:46

star running back that there were

22:48

grooming him for the Pros: Tommy

22:50

Milton. The. Skies thing was that

22:52

you kick the ball Noom! he'd run

22:54

it back for a touchdown, but for

22:57

the junior and so so he became

22:59

the singer and my brother was a

23:01

linebacker at the time and so. My.

23:04

Brother became the bass player because we

23:06

needed a car is it said he

23:08

couldn't play bass but he media guys

23:11

and I know so we had on

23:13

our end the piano player Bernie. He

23:15

was like a. He

23:18

played football too, but he was more

23:20

of a body builder. Give Mr. Everything

23:22

and and so we had a

23:25

tough as bad but we. Were.

23:28

So popular. Of. And

23:31

and. I. Don't know. Had

23:33

everything with that happened to me?

23:35

Very Serendipity. For.

23:37

Some reason. I

23:39

say oh I know what happens it was

23:41

there I got caught with a friend. A

23:43

friend of mine stole the car. And

23:46

installed near my house. So he called

23:48

me up his they got a car

23:50

but it's not run in and so I

23:52

went down to help them get the

23:54

car started. A course the cops Connors.

23:57

And. that we i ran home we ran

23:59

home and they followed the

24:01

footprints. So I went to

24:03

jail. I

24:06

went to jail for the first time

24:08

that night. Both

24:12

of us did. And it was funny

24:14

too because we both jumped into bed with our

24:16

clothes on and the cop came

24:18

to the door and my mom says, oh they've been here all

24:20

night. And the

24:22

cop said, excuse me ma'am, why follow

24:25

the snow into that bed? The cracks were in the

24:27

house. Took

24:29

us to jail. Well, in the end it

24:32

was called joyriding, $100 fine. But

24:39

my social kind

24:42

of mind said, well the reason people get in

24:44

trouble at Cal get there was nothing

24:46

for teenagers to do. And

24:48

so I went to the

24:50

magistrate that sentenced me, I went

24:52

and I had a talk with him. You know,

24:55

just knocked on his door

24:57

one day and I went in

24:59

and talked to him and I told him there was nothing for kids

25:01

to do. And he looked at me and he

25:03

says, weren't you just in front

25:05

of me? And I said,

25:07

yes. And he

25:10

says, the kids need something to

25:12

do? He says, well go find something to do.

25:15

He says, go do it. It's

25:17

your idea. And so I

25:19

started the teen club, the shades

25:21

teen club. It was a

25:23

stroke of genius because we got everything

25:25

donated. We got a hall donated

25:27

in the, right downtown, the Legion Hall, the

25:32

best hall you could get. And so

25:34

our band, that's where we started playing. And

25:36

so our band was Arm, first R&B, first

25:39

time they heard Chuck Berry or Bo

25:41

Dilly or anything in Calgary. And

25:44

we've had people come in from everywhere

25:46

in Alberta packing the place. Trouble

25:49

is they shut us down at midnight

25:51

and midnight, you got all these rock and roll

25:53

people with nothing to do in Calgary.

25:55

So they went and just terrorized the city.

25:58

And so the cops called. Those in into

26:01

the office of two weeks

26:03

before Christmas. Nineteen. Fifty

26:05

Eight. And they said the. Kid.

26:08

You guys got to the hell let

26:10

down? Relief? yeah, forget for how long

26:12

like. Forever. So the So as

26:14

a we lived at each other is it's

26:16

i see if a kid's year over were

26:19

young right and so we went to Vancouver

26:21

and and that's when we got That's when

26:23

my career really started was in Vancouver and

26:25

sustained gives us all we did was play

26:28

music and then sleep all night long you

26:30

know work all night and sleep all day

26:32

and when of so L a L a

26:34

I did the exact same thing and we

26:37

that arrest him. From Saudi. Hard

26:39

on different thanks hours and when we met.

26:42

With started playing since Essence at the

26:44

Same Story Right Get together right and

26:46

as. I

26:48

read as you thought you was, it was

26:50

it. You didn't want to go to the

26:52

war so you took off to Canada. I

26:54

did. So. Tell us about that part.

26:57

Know you don't want an hour in

26:59

on Saturday? Ocala, Florida? Sit Mississippi. I

27:02

was that it was I was I was

27:05

he he gets nervous years When we first

27:07

snacks we had to sneak into Canada originally

27:09

out a to go so really I do

27:11

as from Canada right after the satellite yeah

27:14

they they were you expecting a make sense

27:16

they can hear from Canada to rebuild stays

27:18

in I'd say are any of the I

27:21

people here note them. Fox was a shutout

27:23

bit of novels and by the A vow.

27:25

That with as the. As

27:28

though so am I was part of the

27:30

draft resistance. A Moon, David Harris, a Large

27:32

or Mohamad a little Mohammed Ali signed my

27:34

draft card no actually I'm with you if

27:37

you with me And thus when you quit,

27:39

right? ah love that some

27:41

i was like my last semester and

27:43

in school and and kelsey northridge or

27:45

valley stance that us ah valleys that

27:47

back then it was valley stay back

27:49

to africa earlier and i i took

27:51

a pottery class cause as as really

27:53

two girls since when are you doing

27:55

from this glass animals on the think

27:57

partnering with me okay stillness of to

27:59

pottery I flipped out. I was

28:01

like, pottery is my life now and I

28:03

quit all my other classes, quit my job,

28:05

got a loan and did pottery. So

28:08

I wanted to be a potter. But at the same time

28:10

I was this draft resister and so they

28:12

were after us. They were starting to send the –

28:14

Correct. Yeah, they were starting to send people to Leavenworth

28:16

and shit. And I was a

28:18

student. I was a 2S student, but they changed

28:21

our classifications and then

28:24

said, we're going to be the first ones drafted

28:26

and sent to the front lines in Vietnam. So

28:29

I said, well, that's a really good plan.

28:31

So I wanted to continue pottery. So

28:34

my pottery teacher said he had this student

28:36

in Canada that's starting a pottery, ex-student, and

28:38

maybe he needs a – I got

28:41

on the dog and went to – I went into

28:44

Canada and I was there for the next three years

28:47

awaiting my pending trial that was going

28:49

to come, which happened, which came. Three

28:52

years later we got – when we came back to – the

28:56

case went to court and got thrown

28:58

out, which we knew

29:00

was going to happen. Well, we hoped they would happen.

29:03

They got thrown out. That week they

29:05

sent me another notice to appear for physical.

29:09

This is three years later. And then a week later they sent

29:11

me another notice to – fuck.

29:13

But I had broken my leg really

29:15

badly skiing in Canada, which I never

29:18

skied before. Well,

29:20

you took Mexican lessons. Explain

29:24

what that means. Mexican

29:26

lessons. Sir, you need skis. You need

29:28

skis. And proper ski clothes. Those jeans

29:30

won't cut it. You need jeans. He

29:32

was out there with jeans and a

29:34

t-shirt on. You

29:37

know, I had jeans. I

29:39

had the money to buy ski clothes. And

29:42

so I came back. But it got

29:44

thrown out. So then

29:46

we were free to do cheats and chongs. But in

29:48

the interim, man, it was kind of a little dicey

29:50

because I was back in the country

29:52

illegally. I

29:55

was illegal both ways. Well, there's

29:57

no joke. What do you call a – A

30:00

musician without a girlfriend. Homeless.

30:04

On the road. And now I

30:06

heard that. It wasn't for girls. We

30:09

wouldn't be here today. I mean, you

30:11

kind of see that in the movies. You hang with

30:13

a lot of girls and kind of find your way.

30:15

How did you guys meet though? Like how did you,

30:17

you're clean, you're already there. I had

30:21

a couple of clubs, again, very serendipity.

30:24

Night clubs. I had two nightclubs

30:26

literally given to me. Hey,

30:29

because of the band, we had the hot

30:31

band and a guy bought

30:33

a nightclub or a building and he

30:35

wanted to shave. No,

30:38

this is another one. Okay. And so they,

30:41

would you like a club? Yeah, of

30:43

course. So I started after hours club,

30:46

which that's where I met Red Fox. And

30:48

so I met all the, you know, Motown

30:50

people and everybody. And,

30:53

and it was because our

30:55

band was so, so good that

30:58

we got discovered by Diana

31:00

Ross and the Supremes. They

31:02

came down and, and it was, again,

31:05

sex has a lot to do with it.

31:08

Cause Barry Gordy was doing

31:12

Diane at the time. And

31:14

so Diane said, Hey, I saw

31:17

this band as incredible band. And so Barry

31:19

said, okay. I'll come and check

31:21

them out and get a little booty call in the

31:23

meantime. So, so Barry showed up

31:26

and he saw us, signed us and

31:28

then forgot about us. Then forgot about

31:30

you. And so then we

31:32

gigged our way to Detroit and I wrote

31:34

a song called Does Your Mama Know About

31:36

Me? Diana Ross. Everybody

31:41

recorded it. Yeah. Really? And,

31:44

uh, yeah, Diana Ross

31:46

recorded it. And that's,

31:48

and that put me in good graces

31:50

with Barry, but, uh, but

31:53

then Bobby, Bobby was

31:55

old school, uh, rock

31:58

and roll singer, you know, old school. R&B

32:00

singer in other words, you had a couple

32:02

of jobs when you're old school and

32:04

one was being a pimp Part

32:07

the foremost. Yeah, and Again,

32:10

part yours don't have a

32:12

girl in your homeless. Yeah, you know

32:14

and uh, and so bobby's mentality couldn't

32:17

fit in with success on Big

32:19

scale on a big scale So

32:23

bobby Went his

32:25

way and then I got fired from

32:27

Motown Mmm, yeah, because I had another

32:29

gig to play. I had to get

32:31

my green card and that's all me too

32:35

Where are you getting your green card at? Ah,

32:38

what's that? Just laying there just wherever it was just

32:40

laying there They didn't have my name on it, but

32:42

it was just laying there So

32:45

I got my green card and then uh And

32:48

then we met he was running a his

32:50

family owned. It was a family owned It

32:53

was another club that was giving it was a

32:56

dinner club in chinatown in vancouver

32:59

So I turned it into a strip club And

33:02

we're doing good. That's why I knew about lavanda and all

33:04

that, you know, because strippers were good and everything But

33:07

after I got fired from Motown, I went back

33:09

to work the clubs to put

33:12

another band together actually and

33:14

then uh Then I was watching

33:16

the strippers because I had a choice that I

33:18

could work in the after hours club or

33:22

Be with the naked girls and I thought tough

33:24

decision. I think i'll do with the girls So

33:27

now watching I realized that they look

33:29

more beautiful when they come on

33:32

with their street street clothes. Exactly And

33:34

so I said wow And

33:36

they're good actresses, you know, because when you're a

33:38

stripper you're as an act and

33:40

so I said So I

33:42

wanted so I created a improvisational

33:45

acting Troupe with

33:47

the with the girls still doing

33:49

their strip, but they would have

33:51

street clothes on We'd we'd do

33:53

sexy bits that we got from

33:55

playboy magazine And

33:57

uh, But fully closed. The

34:00

street man we had a I had a partner

34:02

that had long hair in a straight guy that

34:04

look like a cop. While. He got

34:06

fired because we had publicity, was

34:09

too busy shut taken on the

34:11

front page of the paper with

34:13

Rick Land in the girls duties

34:15

on either side for the process

34:17

assistants to and is it is

34:19

Christian wife says no I don't

34:21

love what he was done in.

34:25

Cook County we call me that

34:27

bad I can't I can't work

34:29

anywhere is So there was a

34:31

mutual funds that san a a

34:34

Russian. Their. Own the hippie news

34:36

for Ukrainian. You cringe

34:38

green other it and and so he

34:40

told me his use a big fan

34:42

of the show he says i know

34:44

just a guy that you need a

34:46

new show and so I went down.

34:48

I met teacher at his that the

34:50

hippie newspaper thing. And. When I first

34:53

met teacher. At

34:55

I couldn't figure out what he was and he was.

34:57

It's. Become you know he's

34:59

hiding the fact that he was

35:01

Mexican. You know, since he was

35:03

a ah ah ah you if

35:05

you didn't hear an age and

35:07

richard mirror and. He

35:09

wasn't written Martin we didn't hear

35:12

the mighty know until we got

35:14

doubt about that would allow that.

35:16

Ah, is that how to pronounce.

35:20

Ethnicity. Or

35:22

them. Other side little that's

35:25

true in he was never in a

35:27

band in the sub know we we'd

35:29

like you said there was a friend

35:31

as that this magazine called pop in

35:33

and and I was writing for the

35:35

magazines. And. Reduced us and

35:37

we have incomes writing billie both sites other

35:39

we both do. What? Are you

35:42

in? Okay let's is. I like

35:44

a Mongolian biker. Early hours the less

35:46

you know what he would like A

35:48

moonie doesn't have shorter than sufficient

35:50

amount of the words. matter of my

35:53

phone and by her sister. i

35:56

thought i'd love to the little bland

35:58

the thunder He said he was a

36:00

blimp or something. Yeah. And

36:03

so he says, well, come on down. I told him

36:05

I was this great writer for an improv. So

36:09

he says, come down and see the show. And I did. And

36:11

it was OK. But

36:14

there's one bit that they did that just cracked

36:16

me up. So I go, OK, I'll join this

36:18

thing as a writer. And I

36:20

started writing for the improv company.

36:22

And then filling in for people

36:25

that weren't there, I do every

36:27

part in the show. So finally,

36:29

I could do the whole show.

36:32

At the end of the day, the troops split up.

36:35

And Tommy and I were ones left together. So what

36:37

do we do? Well,

36:39

we performed one time for

36:42

the Three Dog Night. Remember the Three

36:44

Dog Night, that band? Not

36:46

familiar. Really? OK. You are

36:48

a youngster. A youngster. Anyway,

36:51

they were very popular. They

36:53

were bigger than the. They had more hits

36:55

than. They had like

36:58

some 30 top 10

37:00

hits or something. Anyway, the

37:03

drummer was my first

37:05

wife was a beautiful

37:07

black lady from Calgary named Maxine.

37:10

Well, her brother Floyd Sneed was the drummer

37:12

of Three Dog Night. And

37:14

so they came to town. And

37:19

so we put a show together for them with

37:22

the improv. It was the last show we did with

37:24

all the girls and everything. And

37:26

then then Cheech and I put a

37:28

band together. And we're going to

37:30

do. We got a gig

37:32

at the Gardens Battle of the

37:34

Bands. And so we went

37:36

down there to play the Battle of the Bands.

37:39

We had our bass player and everybody all ready

37:41

to go. But we went

37:43

on and did comedy instead. To

37:45

begin with, we're going to do a few comedy

37:48

bits then go to music. We

37:50

never got to the music. Went so well,

37:52

huh? We just played the comedy, took a

37:54

bow. And then the bass player goes, oh,

37:56

when's our next gig, boss? Because

37:59

they never played it, no. And then on the

38:01

way home, we're driving in my

38:03

dad's car and the windshield wipers weren't

38:06

working it so we're taking turns leaning

38:08

out with a coat hanger working the

38:10

windshield wipers trying to figure out what

38:12

to call ourselves And

38:15

it was like Richard and Tommy nah Maren

38:18

and Chong my name so fine. I

38:20

said I

38:22

said Don't you have

38:24

a nickname and he said Cheech

38:30

And it was never Chong and Cheech

38:32

cuz being musicians we knew that it

38:34

scanned better teaching Chong. Mm-hmm Yeah,

38:38

and so that's what it was Yeah,

38:40

we're gonna kick over the world. See what we can get these

38:42

wipers fixed So

38:45

obviously starting in the music space transitioning to

38:47

improv and then ultimately comedy like who was

38:49

some of you guys earlier influences was it

38:52

was it strictly music or did You like

38:54

people on the comedy side as well. Yeah,

38:56

I grew up loving comedy In

38:59

every formation of everybody's every committee was on

39:01

the Ed Sullivan show and any of those

39:03

guys I've been I love comedy I've been

39:06

memorized all their routines and stuff and my

39:08

cousins and I we some others

39:10

brothers by by Tommy He

39:12

just died And

39:15

they were they were heroes and millenia

39:17

bruce and all those guys many Bruce.

39:19

Yeah, and so So

39:22

we we had the same Frame of

39:24

reference, you know I think that because I

39:26

grew up in an all-black neighborhood half my

39:28

life as South Central and then on all

39:30

white neighborhood And come out of here. So

39:33

one day everybody was black and then the

39:35

next day everybody was white What

39:38

happened in the nighttime You

39:41

went from hey, man chicken to

39:44

excuse me, sir That

39:46

was Canada Canada's

39:49

gonna fuse be sir So anyways,

39:51

you know But because you know

39:53

when when you have this you really listen to

39:56

the same records have the same comedy influences it,

39:58

You know, It it makes

40:01

it easier Cubs you have this this

40:03

background the you know everybody's talking to

40:05

someone. we are together. let me know

40:07

when we like the same people. listen

40:10

to the movie yom encyclopedic about them

40:12

long lost brother says Ripper and Seventy

40:14

One you got drop Your first Call

40:17

Me Adam self titled teaching trunk in

40:19

that have been nominated for six Grammys.

40:21

He took home one arm. Do you

40:24

think that Art of Comedy is has

40:26

kind of lost. Know

40:28

Nile Six I think of as if

40:30

I'm from an album standpoint. O L

40:32

was a yeah problem. Albums yeah I'm

40:35

the last. Decision is in general there

40:37

is kicked off. Know as soon as

40:39

you instead were hour and half album

40:41

you got twelve second bit. Different.

40:44

Than what it is that for her

40:46

visit. Funny too because the one time

40:48

he the singles had to be under

40:51

two minutes and then macarthur park come

40:53

along and like a twelve minute bitter

40:55

some and that that changed it. It

40:58

but now inside Tic Toc nor

41:00

albums of people Bring albums. the

41:02

little the little know I say

41:05

your entire might have a about

41:07

your son. Was

41:09

Danny were in front of. I

41:11

bought this old console a record

41:13

player that you could pick up

41:15

for not been sitting there. Whatever.

41:17

scissors useless as large as your

41:19

homework, The who they are laid

41:21

a meeting, Canada and myself standing

41:23

there with album looking for a

41:25

slight to stick it in a

41:27

Cd he didn't know how to

41:29

worship. Yeah, earth of funny Reddit.

41:31

What's the backstory of Basketball Jones?

41:34

Hours. Out to the that was, we're

41:36

on our way to the Laker game.

41:40

You. Know and you tell it. The.

41:42

You do it. Because. To do want

41:44

to tell. Yeah, ok cool. Tell it. Were.

41:47

Underway to solicit. always

41:50

he does believe the have we should

41:52

i say ah success and were always

41:55

of our or even when he believes

41:57

it then he'll steal it So

42:01

we're on our way to the Laker game and

42:04

Cheech is in the

42:06

back seat. I'm in the

42:09

passenger side. Nicholson is

42:11

driving. Jack Nicholson. And

42:13

we're late getting there

42:16

of course. And so Jack drives

42:19

on the wrong way on

42:21

Manchester Avenue for about three

42:23

miles on the

42:26

wrong way. And I teach us

42:28

in the back singing, I got basketball Jones.

42:31

I got a basketball Jones. There

42:33

was this record album called Love Jones

42:35

out. And Cheech

42:38

is singing, basketball Jones. I got

42:40

basketball. And it just stuck in

42:42

my mind. Ah, that's funny. We

42:44

got to record that show. So

42:48

we did the next day. We

42:50

went in there recording it. That's the great

42:52

thing about record industry in those days. I

42:55

mean, you make a movie, it takes forever to

42:57

make it. And then it takes forever before it comes

42:59

out in the record industry. You go in the studio

43:01

and it could be on the air the next day.

43:03

We were. So it was like fast, you

43:06

know, so you could really describe

43:09

what was going on in the scene around

43:11

you. And that's what made it so fresh. You

43:14

know, so that was, that was, I

43:16

miss records. And we used to play

43:18

basketball, you know, at Pickup Games. So they're right.

43:20

We played at UCLA one time. Oh yeah, that's

43:22

what we went to UCLA. Did you? Yeah.

43:26

And that was always when it came out. They

43:28

had this one game where they had, it was

43:30

a charity game where they had all the UCLA

43:33

guys that had gone on to the pros with

43:35

celebrities and they split them in half, you know,

43:37

half of the stars and in for Aunt

43:39

Polly and Marvin Gaye. Marvin Gaye.

43:41

Marvin Gaye played with us. Yeah.

43:43

He was the most guaranteed. He

43:46

looked, he said, you're looking at him. He said,

43:48

who was good back then? Who didn't really play?

43:50

They used to call me Wilton Stump. When

43:53

We were touring, we... The

44:00

around to the way of see a

44:02

gonna be like alive i'm a man

44:04

and we got some of the best

44:06

comedy there were other they can replace

44:08

a couple a ghetto guys you know

44:10

and lose one brothers tell me done

44:12

any saunders finger up when and is

44:14

partly goes what the for several. Years

44:17

later with that we've analyzed. We gotta

44:20

play that game. I'll have a sister.

44:22

Sister is out A lot of lives

44:24

we've like. they're Zola. Back to Jack

44:26

Nicholson. Driving down the wrong way on

44:28

Manchester, head into the. Form that ended

44:31

safely apparently Officer know so travel Z

44:33

r Mr. Nicholls A. My retinas were

44:35

selected live alongside on our streets. Oh

44:37

no news is that what? What what?

44:39

What was the for like back in

44:41

the day Because we hadn't we've had

44:43

magic on here. We were hoping to

44:45

get curry but we've heard legendary stories

44:48

about that that the club inside the

44:50

form and all games and with cheerleaders

44:52

our with the we're seeing Jerry Buss

44:54

the owner. He. Was one

44:56

of the people with whom and he

44:58

never had a box from the and

45:00

seats with the people of new site

45:02

of what we did see what is

45:04

it would juri but now me see

45:06

the game the Ss we had we

45:08

have forceful seats are dizzy also times

45:10

you know if it wasn't the was

45:12

on the court but the next and

45:14

then another was an island when we

45:16

had those seats for a long time

45:18

and although blink was were buds of

45:20

really nails and widow my her i

45:22

had a friend that had seat said

45:24

of the clippers and. Will do. They

45:28

know they pry. Nothing in the high

45:30

school drives a voice have been like

45:32

this is has ended and and a

45:34

ringside with her and Charles Barclay was

45:36

of the other guy. And

45:38

I saw that. Barkley.

45:40

Could be good effect as if the if

45:42

you are heckle him. But you

45:44

gotta heckle him properly in the way the heck

45:46

of them says you. Talk

45:49

new normal voice. Because he

45:51

can hear everything and some sitting there

45:53

and see what sparkly. Watch. Him. He's.

45:56

Ball Hog. he won't pass up

45:58

on comes to And the

46:00

next thing you know And

46:06

I do it in such a way that I wouldn't be

46:08

looking at him I'd be just talking What

46:35

were the comedy scene like in LA as you

46:37

guys are you know climbing climbing the ladder It

46:40

was bubbling there was a lot of communities out

46:42

there, you know, cuz there were these These

46:44

comedy clubs started appearing you were in one

46:46

of the very first one It was like round

46:49

right on Sunset Strip and and

46:51

all tiny little rooms But there was a

46:53

ton of comedians out there man everybody, but

46:56

we were the only kind of hippie Talking

46:59

about weed or what it was going on the

47:01

scene. So we were unique in that sense

47:03

There's a place on Sunset called Canopos

47:05

Yeah And it was written it

47:07

was a steakhouse and the only

47:10

the kid the father the

47:12

son of the owner Decided he wanted to

47:14

get in the comedy and so he got

47:17

a microphone up in the steakhouse and he

47:20

had they had an upstairs where you could use

47:22

his address room and so he'd have like a

47:26

About six years seven comedians and

47:29

so we joined the group But

47:32

when we did a bit called the dogs now

47:34

to forget this is a steakhouse and

47:36

the dogs were I'm We're

47:39

smelling each other's but and

47:41

it was so funny and so shocking,

47:43

but it's still a steakhouse The

47:46

waitresses would get embarrassed. They would run

47:48

outside when we did the bit It

47:52

was so rank right back we

47:54

got paid 50 quid in London

47:56

not to do the bit Do

48:00

it not do it ever was the

48:02

judge is Ronnie Scott Ronnie Scott. It's

48:04

good. You see hit boys great show

48:07

Here's 50 quit don't do that bit Don't

48:11

leave that one out. I mean

48:13

you guys were against the grain from a standpoint

48:15

of cannabis and

48:17

in movies in Your

48:19

bits and your stand-up was there pushback at

48:21

all or it was fucking I mean you

48:24

guys are doing motion pictures Why would you

48:26

need in the 70s? I went to jail

48:28

for it through nine months off that bit

48:30

of a push-up pushback. Yeah

48:33

That might be in Chong Everybody

48:36

else got house arrest. Uh-huh. So I had the

48:38

good sense not to be Chong. Uh-huh. You were

48:40

the other Yeah, teach

48:42

you but no what we attacked

48:45

more than anything right from the

48:47

get-go was racism That's

48:50

what we attacked. We changed the conception

48:52

of Chicano's

48:54

with the with the headband, you

48:56

know being the game the headband

48:58

the gang guys Yeah, and and

49:01

we did it purposely like my character

49:03

in up in smoke was a rich

49:05

Jewish kid You know and

49:08

and here I am, you know Rich

49:15

What was a rich Chinese kid What was

49:17

what was your cousin's name in that movie

49:19

that you went to the house red? Yeah,

49:22

yeah The Wayne

49:24

Mendoza. Yeah Mission

49:28

to find some tree. Yeah Tom's

49:32

carrot. Yeah. Yeah, that

49:34

was Tom's current. No, I was

49:36

I was red. Oh In

49:39

no no or the other

49:41

character. No the next movie. Yeah. No, what was

49:43

it strawberry? What was it? Strawberry

49:46

strawberry Tom scared. Yeah. Yeah

49:48

strawberry was yeah He's

49:51

still alive. He's 90 Just

49:57

gotta get my Joe

50:01

legal crack which I remember Bob Pee-wee

50:03

Herman We

50:08

Herman He was a

50:10

member of a group called the groundlings, which was

50:13

a very first Improv group

50:15

in LA still here. Yeah, they're still there

50:17

I mean and everybody came out of the

50:19

groundlings and so we we saw them and

50:21

kind of raided the whole company and put

50:23

them in our movies Pee-wee Herman Edie McClurg

50:27

Phil Hartman all those guys And

50:30

it was because they knew how to play improv.

50:33

They were jazz musicians and

50:35

comedy And so we got along great

50:37

and Pee-wee was great He

50:40

had that character right from the beginning always

50:42

always interesting That wasn't the only thing he

50:44

did but he had that character in the

50:46

beginning We just okay. Well put that character

50:49

here and be the clerk in the office

50:51

or be the guy in Uh-huh, you know,

50:54

so worked out really well. He was

50:56

funny guy How easy was it in

50:58

copper rain cannabis into your movies and

51:01

to everything? it

51:03

was We got away with it

51:05

because it was over before

51:07

anybody could do anything You

51:12

know In and

51:14

out we never really smoked We

51:16

never broke any laws. Yeah, did you guys really

51:18

smoke weed in the movies though? In

51:21

between takes okay, so wasn't any of the

51:24

real stuff was Indian no

51:26

we couldn't But

51:32

we we could smoke before the take

51:35

and sometimes they'd say okay We're

51:38

rolling and we'd be yeah, we're

51:40

rolling too and so we Missed

51:44

the cue and their runt and back

51:46

in the day was film right? And

51:48

so they were wasting all this money

51:51

on film and there are you guys

51:53

ready? Oh Yeah,

51:55

okay. Oh, then we'd wake up and do the

51:57

shot how much would be ad-libbing and how much?

51:59

be script once you guys kind of start going.

52:01

But we'd ad lib on the script. Put your

52:03

touch on it. Because

52:07

the scene in the car, we did

52:09

that every night on stage. But

52:11

there was stuff that we did for the film that

52:13

we never did before. And it was only captured because

52:15

we were doing it on film. But

52:18

we would improvise all those parts. It's

52:20

like taking I want to play my

52:22

funny Valentine, but

52:25

Miles Davis plays a different

52:27

business. And

52:29

all the actors that we had were phenomenal

52:32

writers as well. Like

52:35

Stacy Keach, Sargent Stedanko.

52:38

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52:41

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52:43

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year I was born. 78

56:01

Up in Smokey turned a small budget into

56:03

44 million and two more films. This is

56:06

Y'all Was Born. Really? That's

56:08

how long y'all been smoking.

56:11

And that's how much money they said they made. Yeah. Right,

56:14

right. They even asked for money. They really

56:16

made? Right, right, right. That's crazy to think.

56:19

Woo. You put on a lot of

56:21

people. What does the trilogy rank in your eyes? Up

56:23

in Smoke definitely. I like

56:26

Next Movie too. It's actually a

56:28

funnier movie. Yeah. You know, Laugh

56:30

for Laugh. And what's one you

56:32

like? Still Smoking. Still Smoking. Still Smoking.

56:34

Still Smoking has all our old bits

56:37

that we never got around to shoot

56:39

a movie about. Yeah. And

56:41

so we put them in there and we knew that we wouldn't be

56:43

doing those bits anymore. So like

56:45

the Invisible Rastler and all those

56:48

great bits, man. They're

56:50

classic. You mentioned going to

56:52

jail. Were you in jail with Jordan Belford? Yeah. Talk

56:55

to us about just you guys back

56:57

and forth and kind of friendship and how that kind of

56:59

turned into... Well, he wouldn't preach

57:01

kiss right away. It took a while. It

57:06

took a while. It took a while. It's just

57:08

lamb, man. No,

57:14

he was great, man. It

57:16

was the other prisoners that had problems with

57:18

him. I had

57:20

no problem with him. It wasn't anybody. I was a

57:22

celebrity. So I was

57:24

like, Jesus walking around. I

57:29

had everybody. The warden,

57:31

one time we shot a podcast

57:36

for the documentary and we were

57:38

using the warden's office in

57:40

the main building. But you

57:43

know how movies are. You know, you're the king. So

57:46

they were setting up and I could hear the warden and

57:48

them walking around in the other room. So

57:51

I yelled, hey, quiet in the back. We're

57:53

shooting in here. And everybody

57:57

got all quiet and tippy too. And here's a

57:59

warden. Tippie doing around for no

58:01

reason, man. He knows just that.

58:04

Here's one of his

58:07

con men in there telling him,

58:09

fucking with him. I'm running shit now. Yeah.

58:12

Being at both of you guys are basically trendsetters

58:15

in the stoner comedy space, but it's

58:17

just really comedy. Do

58:19

y'all get offended when people say

58:22

stoner comedy? And did it affect

58:25

our relationship with being in the face? So many

58:27

people judging y'all and saying different things could ever

58:29

affect our relationship? No.

58:33

Not really. I mean, I

58:36

couldn't get into Disneyland one time because

58:38

I had a t-shirt that was obscene,

58:41

you know, and I held a grudge for a

58:43

while. And in fact, when I got offered

58:45

to do with Lion King, I said, no. I

58:50

missed over it. Brilliant move there.

58:52

Yeah. Right. Hey,

58:56

Tuppie, since check I got from life. Holy

58:58

Jesus. But

59:01

the racism, I realized

59:04

myself, you know, over the years, I

59:07

was really brought up as

59:09

a white supremacist. Seriously.

59:13

I had all my friends from

59:15

the country. And even

59:17

though I found out

59:19

now that I'm part Native, I

59:24

was half Chinese originally. You know,

59:26

that's when I started out. But

59:29

not anymore. I'm more now. But

59:32

it was always racism that

59:34

we encountered. You know, that's why my brother

59:37

is three years older than me. And he

59:39

fought going to school and coming

59:41

home. And that's the way

59:43

it was back then. You know, you'd look at

59:45

the toughest guys would see each other and make

59:47

a date and go out in the back and

59:50

fight, you know. And it

59:52

was brutal, you know, coming

59:54

up like that. And

59:57

when I was a teenager, I saw...

1:00:02

the trend was to become

1:00:04

a pachuko. Pachuko

1:00:07

is a Mexican gang guy. The

1:00:09

zoot suit, you know, baggy pants.

1:00:12

Blood in, blood out. Yeah, yeah.

1:00:14

And they always had a tattoo

1:00:16

right there in the middle. Right

1:00:19

there and it was funny because

1:00:22

tattoos are like advertising for criminals,

1:00:24

you know. You'd have the

1:00:27

white supremacy tattoo. And

1:00:30

so my white supremacy tattoo, my

1:00:33

house was also used as a

1:00:36

halfway house for people getting out of jail.

1:00:38

And this one guy got out of jail. And he gave me

1:00:43

this tattoo. Wow. It's

1:00:45

a white supremacy tattoo. He didn't know it was just

1:00:47

a tattoo. He ain't got a free tattoo. I didn't

1:00:49

know it for years until those on

1:00:51

TV. You were in jail. No,

1:00:56

the guy told you. No, it wasn't down.

1:00:58

It was on TV. It was on TV?

1:01:00

Oh really? On television. And the guy looked

1:01:02

at me, biker. He goes, that's a white

1:01:05

supremacy tattoo. Really? Oh shit. But

1:01:10

it was free. No, but I put

1:01:12

it up here. It's a homemade needle.

1:01:14

Take a needle, put them

1:01:17

together over a pencil and stick it in

1:01:19

India ink and then jab. That's

1:01:21

a good way to stay healthy. That's

1:01:23

what that's what you have. That's it hurt down there. So

1:01:26

I was going to get it covered

1:01:28

up, you know, change everything. And my

1:01:30

son, Paris, no, dad, that's OG. That's

1:01:32

art. Because one wing is bigger than

1:01:34

the other. What

1:01:38

year was that? What years you get that tattoo? That

1:01:41

had to be 50, probably 55, 56. That

1:01:47

was 20 years before you were born. It was 23 actually. Yeah.

1:01:50

A little bit of time. In the 50s. All

1:01:55

done. Yeah. Yeah, I've

1:01:57

seen a lot. Movies

1:02:00

like Friday, Half Baked, Harrow

1:02:03

and Kumar, all co-classics.

1:02:07

You have to feel like y'all pioneers in it. Well,

1:02:09

of course. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Of

1:02:11

course. And all those guys come up to us and

1:02:13

tell us that. Yeah. Everybody was in every one of

1:02:15

those movies. Chris Tucker, I

1:02:17

met him on the... ...all that. We used to

1:02:19

do these guys all the time. We

1:02:25

were big in the Black community always. Yes.

1:02:27

Because we grew up in the Black community.

1:02:30

You know, and other communities, but

1:02:33

Black people really related to us. It wasn't

1:02:35

just because of the weed, it's because we

1:02:37

played that kind of music. And the struggle

1:02:39

too. And the struggle y'all would do. Yeah.

1:02:41

And growing up in Calgary, it was really

1:02:43

hard to be around Black people. Because

1:02:46

there weren't none. There

1:02:53

were like five families. And

1:02:56

I swear to God, you know. And then

1:02:59

when I started dancing

1:03:01

to Lindy Hop, and of

1:03:03

course my partner became this really good

1:03:06

dancer, Black girl. And she was the one

1:03:08

that introduced me to the football player, Tommy. And

1:03:12

then we had a show one time where Tommy

1:03:14

heard we dance and we'd play music. And we

1:03:16

did a floor show with that. So

1:03:19

my introduction was more like

1:03:22

schooling. Because it

1:03:24

wasn't just... I knew I had Black friends.

1:03:26

I had a man. I

1:03:30

got to the point where I got my

1:03:32

own racist name. Hey

1:03:34

Chinaman. That's

1:03:38

what Bob Marley said. That's what Bob

1:03:40

Marley said. Bob Marley? Yeah. It was in

1:03:42

a dressing room with a smoke filled. And

1:03:45

all of a sudden I hear, hey Chinaman,

1:03:47

say something funny, man. Bob

1:03:51

said that on one of his friends. No,

1:03:53

it was Bobby. Bob said it. Hey,

1:03:55

bye Chinaman, say something funny. No,

1:04:01

you stay on your own deals. No,

1:04:04

but everybody else. No,

1:04:07

we had, we had no, I got, you

1:04:10

know, I earned my, my, uh, your

1:04:12

stripes, my, my

1:04:15

prison sentence. I earned it, man. You know,

1:04:17

I went through it and that's why Motown,

1:04:20

you know, when I see Smokey, now Smokey

1:04:22

gives me big hugs, man. Cause he knows

1:04:24

that I was in that secret songwriting

1:04:27

little cadre that they

1:04:30

have, you know, and I got in

1:04:32

there, you know, when you get one of them

1:04:34

Motown stars to record your song,

1:04:37

you know, everybody recorded it. There's

1:04:39

Diana Ross, the Jermaine Jackson, Stephanie

1:04:41

Mills, the Harlettes. You know

1:04:44

who the Harlettes are? The, they were the backing group

1:04:46

for Bette Midler, Bette Midler and

1:04:48

the Harlettes. And in that group was,

1:04:50

uh, uh, uh, Katie,

1:04:53

Katie Seagal, Katie Seagal

1:04:55

from Marywood children,

1:04:57

uh, Linda Hart, who was costar

1:04:59

was my girlfriend and 10 cup

1:05:02

and the some, uh, Norwegian or a

1:05:04

Swedish girl, but they recorded and had

1:05:06

a hit. Does your mama know

1:05:08

about me too? You

1:05:10

guys obviously came out the gates with the, once you

1:05:13

connected with a lot of success, you guys parted ways

1:05:15

for a while. We don't have to get into that

1:05:17

part, but while I want to ask you guys as,

1:05:19

as being able to come back together, what did you

1:05:21

learn about yourself, um, during

1:05:23

your guys' time apart? Well,

1:05:27

you can't make it in California. The

1:05:30

Klan, it goes

1:05:32

everywhere. Yeah. No,

1:05:35

I, uh, I

1:05:37

appreciate the fact that we

1:05:39

broke up long enough so

1:05:41

that we could become individuals, you

1:05:44

know, instead of just being,

1:05:47

you know, relying on someone

1:05:49

there that's always there, you

1:05:51

know, this way you have to do both

1:05:53

parts yourself more or less. And,

1:05:55

uh, I, I, I, I appreciate that and

1:05:58

I, and I respect it too. I

1:06:00

respect the, the,

1:06:03

the aloneness. Yeah. Being, being able to stand on

1:06:06

your own, on your own, then come back together.

1:06:08

It just makes you strong. It makes both of

1:06:10

you strong. It's like we, you know, when we

1:06:12

came back together, it was like we never left.

1:06:14

I mean, it was like, it said,

1:06:16

come down here and join me in this club in La Jolla.

1:06:18

They were, you and Sylvia were doing a club and

1:06:21

I said, come on and just

1:06:23

sit in with us, okay. So

1:06:25

they go on stage, they start to then, and then, then

1:06:27

they, I don't know if you even announced it. And I

1:06:29

just came to the audience and

1:06:31

got on. I don't remember. I know they went crazy. God

1:06:34

said, and we never

1:06:36

rehearsed, never even talked about it. That was your guys first

1:06:38

time back together. Yeah. Wow. In 20 years. And,

1:06:41

and then just tilled at nine,

1:06:43

you know, so it's okay. Like

1:06:45

you never left. Like we never left. I read it

1:06:48

times you guys would, you don't kind of have some

1:06:50

conflict off the stage, but when you came together for

1:06:52

your acting, it was like, who would, no one would

1:06:54

ever know. Yeah. And what do you guys attribute that

1:06:56

to? Just your willingness to get the job done or.

1:06:59

Greed. Greed.

1:07:02

Greed. I indulged. My son said, you

1:07:05

know, you're doing fine dad, but you know what

1:07:07

you could make of Cheech and Chong were back

1:07:09

there. And

1:07:12

so my son actually got us back together. We

1:07:14

had a meeting and it didn't go that

1:07:16

well. You know, we had our old argument

1:07:18

came out, but then I, I text Cheech

1:07:21

and I said, you know, it was nice seeing, hadn't

1:07:23

seen you for a while. It was really nice seeing

1:07:25

you. You know, too bad we couldn't work

1:07:27

things out. Well, my son intercepted

1:07:30

my email and he wrote

1:07:32

his own in my book.

1:07:34

Please don't do anything, anything.

1:07:38

Hey, let's get together and we can do this

1:07:40

and that and everything else. Really? So then my

1:07:42

son told me, he says,

1:07:44

first of all, he says, how did it go with Cheech? I said,

1:07:46

oh, he's not so well. He says, he's

1:07:48

coming over. You're back together. It's

1:07:52

happening. I said, what? Then he

1:07:54

told me what he did. I got your

1:07:56

email. And I'm glad he

1:07:58

did. World says thank

1:08:00

you. Yeah. Yeah, I've got a hold of

1:08:02

my emails one time and did some things

1:08:05

you shouldn't have did Luckily

1:08:08

your guys have worked out in a different way I've

1:08:14

heard those stories we should talk before

1:08:16

they roll the film then we sometimes

1:08:18

the movies would be talking Hey,

1:08:20

you really got the camera rolling here Daily

1:08:27

Funny uh stigmas throughout over the

1:08:29

years about cannabis and and

1:08:32

how do you feel of the progress? over

1:08:34

the last few decades It's

1:08:37

you know, it's everyday use. I mean

1:08:39

see this which is more popular bear

1:08:41

weed Weed

1:08:44

weed, you know, I mean it's I It

1:08:48

crosses every single line and

1:08:50

race gender

1:08:53

Anything old young I mean, you know,

1:08:55

there's guys that are hundred

1:08:58

years old still smoking weed, you know, so

1:09:01

It just it just enters into every

1:09:03

and and the fact that does

1:09:05

changes your perception. Well, it's it's Yeah,

1:09:08

it's a burning bush. Yeah a good path 100

1:09:10

years this month. You're on a good path for

1:09:12

that Yeah, it's a Bernie Bush that is

1:09:14

mentioned in the Bible You

1:09:17

know when Moses took a hit of the

1:09:19

burning burning bush and God talked to

1:09:21

him and God said hey,

1:09:23

Mo Yo Yo,

1:09:25

move past that suit This

1:09:29

buds for Jews And

1:09:42

that's how it got in the Bible Well,

1:09:46

the Bible was written on a hand paper, yeah

1:09:50

All the signs were there and it

1:09:52

was medicine four thousand years ago And

1:09:55

it's medicine now still man. You never stopped being

1:09:57

med do any of you guys still consumed? Well,

1:10:00

yeah, I do. Yeah, so I

1:10:02

was my job now so after we can consume

1:10:05

together Oh, yeah, so I can I just wanted

1:10:07

to gotta stop Blaze

1:10:09

one up with cheeky chomp. Yeah Even

1:10:12

if we just blow the smoke on you Blow

1:10:16

it up his butt One

1:10:23

question the strength of

1:10:25

the plant from when you guys first started getting used

1:10:27

to be hard to kind of come across a good

1:10:29

Weed back then obviously you guys always had

1:10:32

it now you guys kept it all I said Mexican

1:10:34

weed man But

1:10:36

the strength from then to now It's

1:10:38

much stronger. Yeah, I mean much stronger because they're

1:10:40

breeding it for the right Yeah, you know, they

1:10:42

didn't weed was weed you get a brick like

1:10:45

that with a rat in the middle Well,

1:10:50

we specially bred this No,

1:10:53

you got whatever it was in there But

1:10:56

now there's specifically blending

1:10:58

it for raising Do

1:11:00

you like some of the strong stuff? Oh, yeah Because

1:11:03

you don't take as much. Yeah, when the

1:11:06

last time you bought weed Was

1:11:11

in my youth I bought weed 2016

1:11:16

because it was a little vendor

1:11:18

thing and you put money in and That's

1:11:25

the only time I've ever bought

1:11:27

I can remember I got a

1:11:29

friend now he's grow freak, you

1:11:31

know Case

1:11:35

Stacy Keats his brother James

1:11:39

James Keats, he's he's crazy

1:11:41

about growing everything And

1:11:43

so he give him some marijuana seeds and

1:11:45

here put this in your garden and

1:11:47

see what happens He's growing

1:11:49

the best weed. Oh, really

1:11:52

Malibu And then James

1:11:54

says yeah, I give it to my friends and keep

1:11:56

coming back for more. I think the

1:11:58

best don't feed him Then they'll stay away Right

1:12:00

because of the climate. I don't know what it

1:12:02

is, but it's like John Michael Vincent You know

1:12:04

who it is actor so he was my buddy

1:12:06

and he comes over one day and he has

1:12:08

these two plants He said I'm going over a

1:12:11

hundred plants over here in my place and so

1:12:13

I don't give you to Put

1:12:16

him over there outside on the tree and

1:12:18

I went on tour The

1:12:20

next day here in the couple days later

1:12:22

He got gets raided and they

1:12:24

got all the plants and so these are the

1:12:27

only twos that have survived and I didn't

1:12:29

do Anything to them. I just

1:12:31

put them in pots in

1:12:33

the ground and I can went on tour and

1:12:35

I came back They had grown through the bottom

1:12:37

of the pots and now they were eight feet

1:12:39

tall and colas on them that that long man

1:12:43

And it was like seaside since me that's what we call

1:12:45

this With

1:12:55

a swimming pool and So

1:12:58

I but I didn't do anything that none talk to

1:13:00

you do it, you know, not even water So

1:13:04

wow. Yeah So when

1:13:06

I have a little fun with this next segment feel

1:13:09

free to just Blurt out you at

1:13:11

the highest you've ever been. Do you remember where you were

1:13:13

who was around? Do

1:13:22

a show but the matters your way Definitely.

1:13:24

All right. The matters your wife. I like

1:13:26

that Hmm

1:13:29

the birth Your

1:13:32

birthday 70 is birthday

1:13:34

when I turned 70. Yeah We

1:13:38

had my son took care of

1:13:40

the dessert and he had it

1:13:42

all medicated but he didn't tell anybody Oh shit,

1:13:45

that's fucking and we never served enough food So

1:13:48

when the dessert came every was

1:13:50

starving And so

1:13:52

everybody dove into the edibles

1:13:56

And next thing you know, they're people

1:13:58

throwing up all over the place and

1:14:01

they couldn't figure out what's going on.

1:14:03

I have the burmese, too, you know.

1:14:06

Oh, it was just crazy. Paul

1:14:10

Reiser and his wife were there. Next

1:14:13

thing you know, Paris

1:14:16

is my son's ex-girlfriend, kind

1:14:19

of wild young chick. She's in there

1:14:22

promoting a threesome with Paul and his wife.

1:14:24

And they're going for it. She's

1:14:27

going good. Everybody's going for

1:14:29

it. It's so crazy if

1:14:32

we're passing out. Oh,

1:14:34

it was fun. Wow.

1:14:38

It's going to be a biopic. We're going

1:14:40

to do a movie about it. I

1:14:42

love it. Because that's what, from now

1:14:44

on, after we release our documentary, it'll

1:14:47

be biopics. And we'll go back

1:14:49

and teach this history, my history, right

1:14:53

back to the Aztecs and the Africans,

1:14:55

you know. If you guys ever need

1:14:57

a great guy right here, my guy,

1:14:59

Deion Taylor, this is his office. But

1:15:02

if he makes movies, he makes the best movies. Oh, yeah.

1:15:05

If you need some help. I

1:15:07

need to stone a brother in the movie. I'm ready.

1:15:10

I'm ready. I'll be the stone a

1:15:12

brother in the movie. I'm ready. You can be tall

1:15:14

back in the day. You got holes

1:15:16

in the knees, though. That's the only problem. I got holes

1:15:18

in the face. Right here. Remember, you used to have the

1:15:21

holes in right here. Who

1:15:23

would want to smoke off back in

1:15:25

your heyday? When you guys are in your heyday,

1:15:27

between you guys, Snoop, Willie

1:15:30

Nelson, Wiz Khalifa, be

1:15:32

real. Who would we

1:15:34

want to? No, who would smoke off?

1:15:38

Oh, who? When you guys are in your heyday. What

1:15:40

do you think? Oh, Willie. Neither

1:15:42

one of us were. No. It was

1:15:44

all an act, man. All an act. I

1:15:48

swear to God, man. It

1:15:50

was all an act. I got a

1:15:52

little breath mint that I do

1:15:54

now. It's only 10 milligrams. Tell

1:15:56

me about that, man. You

1:15:58

know? And that'll... Like

1:16:00

a mortal put my ass in But

1:16:04

even back in you guys younger days, it

1:16:06

wasn't about the clock

1:16:08

the quantity was about the

1:16:10

quality. Yeah Because

1:16:12

people give us stuff all the time. Yeah, that's

1:16:15

why I've never bought any weed in these

1:16:17

years That's like mountains of it. Where do

1:16:20

you go? And we're musicians back then and

1:16:22

musicians You

1:16:24

never bought people would either give it to

1:16:26

you or Any next to the guy that

1:16:28

had it, you know waiting for your turn

1:16:33

And back in the day They

1:16:36

used to make what they called

1:16:38

pinners. Mm-hmm. It was

1:16:40

a marijuana dust and

1:16:43

you Broke in the tiniest

1:16:45

little pinner and but it would be

1:16:47

good for Musicians because you didn't

1:16:49

get to stone fucked up, you know, you just get

1:16:52

that little buzz and a lot of memory because that's

1:16:54

all you need remember

1:16:57

Pamorita used to keep that little folding

1:16:59

pipe in this underwear. Yeah one hitter.

1:17:01

Yeah, there was a little pipe and

1:17:03

it had Pamorita, you know, I've

1:17:05

heard the name after mr. Miyagi The

1:17:11

hip nip that was his Japanese

1:17:15

Maybe what used to flood not to cut you off

1:17:17

what you fly back then like what you can say

1:17:19

and what you can Somebody has evolved into like you

1:17:21

can't really say anything right now I've

1:17:25

heard his red boy boy red pot Pat

1:17:29

marina. Yeah. Yeah They

1:17:32

were all in that same thing. What red

1:17:34

red give him money. Yeah And

1:17:42

he was kind of a mentor a little bit You

1:17:44

know when we first met him to us because he

1:17:46

was a professional comedian at the time He

1:17:48

did something to me that I'll never forget

1:17:50

man the night before

1:17:53

I'm going into jail I

1:17:55

just finished talking to my lawyer who actually

1:17:59

told me I can't talk now I'm watching the

1:18:01

Laker game and he hung up on me. Next

1:18:04

thing I know I get a call phone rings I

1:18:07

pick it up it's Pat Morita and

1:18:10

he's Mr. Magala. Magyagi.

1:18:12

Magyagi, yeah. Magyagi, yeah. And

1:18:15

he says you're gonna be okay, you're gonna be fine, you

1:18:18

know, just take it, do what you

1:18:20

gotta do, you know. And he just gave

1:18:22

me the, it was. A little pep talk.

1:18:24

Serendipity. Yeah, I knew at the time it

1:18:26

was gonna be okay in jail too. I mean I knew

1:18:28

it was gonna be fine because he grew up with those

1:18:31

people. I mean so did I, my

1:18:33

dad was a cop man so I grew up with

1:18:35

those juvenile delinquents, you know. So you know how to

1:18:37

navigate. Well we were in jail together one time. Yeah.

1:18:40

Really? In Tampa. Tell

1:18:43

us about it. Well okay. They busted

1:18:45

Jim Morrison earlier because he

1:18:47

showed his wiener on stage, you know.

1:18:50

And so they, and it got

1:18:53

dropped for lack of evidence by the way. Yeah,

1:18:57

that was a good one. And

1:19:01

so they came up with a

1:19:03

$5,000 performance bond. And

1:19:05

if we got any trouble on

1:19:07

stage at all the promoter got $5,000. And

1:19:11

so Chichin Chong they thought for sure they're

1:19:13

gonna grab some money. And so

1:19:15

we did our whole show, no problem. Except

1:19:18

at the end and the cops were lining

1:19:20

the stage as if they

1:19:22

were, the crowd was gonna riot or something, you

1:19:24

know. Standing in front of the stage. And so

1:19:26

we're doing the dogs and Chichin's on his hands

1:19:28

and knees and he walks over to one of

1:19:30

the cops that were facing away from him and

1:19:33

picked the cops hat up with his teeth

1:19:36

like a dog and goes running back. Well

1:19:39

the cop did not think that was

1:19:41

funny. And

1:19:44

so they're on the phone saying we're gonna, we're

1:19:46

busting Chichin Chong. And then all the cops started

1:19:48

saying hey I want to bust him, I got

1:19:50

all their records. Right. Right.

1:19:52

Let me be a part of this. So

1:19:54

they ended up taking us to jail. Yep.

1:19:57

And at first, you know, we're still off the show. happy

1:20:00

and after a while we're sitting there

1:20:03

with all these other people man they kept

1:20:05

dragging people into the hole in cell unconscious

1:20:07

and the dragon mountain for drunk the highs

1:20:10

start coming down oh yeah and then they

1:20:18

separated us at first

1:20:21

teachers being funny guy

1:20:23

blonde cop you know we got

1:20:26

it goes oh jail tendie oh

1:20:29

jail tendie could we have some

1:20:31

pink toilet tissue and

1:20:35

then next thing you know the guy

1:20:37

the sale gel tendie comes up to

1:20:39

teach you the you come with me

1:20:43

and all I heard she's saying my

1:20:46

dad's a cop you know got

1:20:48

that out you get in the elevator they're

1:20:50

gonna take up the second Florida put you

1:20:52

in the cell and you get in the

1:20:54

elevator it's like you know metal the whole

1:20:56

thing and there's big dance all over this

1:20:58

fucking thing man but on every wall and

1:21:00

that this guy's looking at me and

1:21:04

you get up to the second floor and it's noisy and

1:21:07

it's hot and it's fully lit

1:21:10

and and everybody's okay here we go

1:21:12

don't put me in the lying

1:21:14

cage yeah real yeah awful quick you

1:21:19

guys kind of crossing so many barriers on

1:21:22

your rise to fame who are some people

1:21:24

that you thought like damn I'm smoking with

1:21:27

obviously they probably thought that about you guys but were

1:21:29

you guys in awe of anybody you know you just

1:21:31

told a quick Bob Marley story but anyways you guys

1:21:33

were in awe of and you guys got a chance

1:21:35

to sit down I used to smoke up with George

1:21:37

Harrison all the time George Harrison

1:21:40

out Wow George yeah George

1:21:42

cool guy I one

1:21:45

day I'm smoking when we're smoking and you

1:21:47

know the joint gets passed over to

1:21:50

Tony Dow you know Tony leave it to

1:21:52

be me with the beep Why

1:21:56

was Wally Yeah and he turned out

1:21:58

to be a. The

1:22:00

decor and sculptor is an artist

1:22:02

you know and so the three

1:22:04

of us were there smuggling why

1:22:07

we got a George played the

1:22:09

on no avail. last. What's.

1:22:13

To did George Harrison play. On

1:22:15

are nice A Basketball Jones basketball don't

1:22:17

gentle Turnbull basketball do I use the

1:22:19

gully join are very dangerous the up

1:22:21

because he was in the studio say

1:22:23

don't we were and so a George

1:22:26

do the intro you know right and

1:22:28

and they said the do you think

1:22:30

they're from teaching so in the will

1:22:32

disable someone said would you think teaching

1:22:34

chong enjoys his I supposed to funny

1:22:36

as yesterday I said if if if

1:22:38

if this my for your guy was

1:22:40

Karim a moon lung and that as

1:22:42

with is the south are days. Yeah

1:22:44

right on N N n the of

1:22:46

my wife and i reckon we we

1:22:49

lived in his house when i was

1:22:51

mint making up in smoke oh really

1:22:53

didn't want to go out and eat

1:22:55

everyday element in my calls are so

1:22:57

he he be removed as into his

1:22:59

guest house with their and when he

1:23:01

was always been a friend and can

1:23:04

butter the a long reach a bakery

1:23:06

able that with everything of the dharma

1:23:08

grabbed his mum morocco restless and a

1:23:10

brainless food a whole chicken and he

1:23:12

reaches over the whole and grabs. A

1:23:14

whole chicken looks like that at this address.

1:23:16

Okay dining room. which is he that business

1:23:18

was out of. My

1:23:21

what he doesn't eat Nice really

1:23:23

is very hard intelligent but we

1:23:25

would exchange ah we'd if we

1:23:27

had different weed and then they

1:23:30

attacked. The. Day that

1:23:32

Elvis Presley died. I

1:23:34

got a call from Korean almost the same

1:23:36

time on Much and T V Elvis is

1:23:39

dead. Cream says hey man, come on down

1:23:41

I got some weed. And

1:23:43

so I walk down. Has lived on the

1:23:45

street from of I Don't I got to

1:23:47

the. To. The mailbox.

1:23:50

In a went to ring the bell in

1:23:52

the mailbox split opened up. And.

1:23:54

as big had colored supposed

1:23:57

to reassess at the fat

1:23:59

i am And I said,

1:24:01

oh, thank you. I never saw him. You

1:24:04

even think of me. You even want

1:24:06

to give me some leaves. You got the weeds. Okay,

1:24:10

Karim. It was like lurch came out of

1:24:12

the thing. I guess you're not dressed yet.

1:24:14

Okay, I'll catch you later. I'll take this

1:24:16

back to my house. Yeah. But wasn't that

1:24:18

weird? Albus died in. Soon

1:24:21

after they were having a... Everything on

1:24:24

television was Elvis. And my

1:24:26

daughter's friend was Lisa Marie. They

1:24:29

were best friends at the time. And

1:24:31

so they're showing Elvis on TV.

1:24:33

And I'm sitting there and my precious...

1:24:36

My daughter and Lisa are playing in

1:24:38

the... Behind us. And

1:24:41

when they showed their dad, I kind of looked to see how

1:24:43

Lisa would react. That's her dad.

1:24:45

Right. She just glanced at her

1:24:47

a little bit, then gone. She

1:24:50

did not relate to that guy. Wow. It

1:24:53

was still... It was weird. So... And sad

1:24:55

too. Coming up,

1:24:57

who's your first celebrity crush? Celebrity

1:25:00

crush. Celebrity crush. Celebrity crush.

1:25:03

Wow. What do you say? Celebrity

1:25:05

crush? Crush? Who was the

1:25:07

first guy you went out with? He's thinking.

1:25:15

It makes more sense why we dress because we

1:25:17

act... You're an asshole

1:25:19

just like that. They're dressed like that. They're

1:25:24

dressed like that. They're the exact...

1:25:26

There's a reason. Celebrity crush. What

1:25:28

a guy. I don't know. Annette

1:25:31

from the Musketeers. Musketeers.

1:25:34

She's developing there. Bousketeers.

1:25:40

Mine would be Susan Sheridan. Really?

1:25:44

Yeah. Remind me of who she is.

1:25:47

Boa Durham. Boa Durham.

1:25:49

Boa Durham. Pretty Baby. Susan's

1:25:51

a real name. Atlantic City. Yeah, okay.

1:25:54

That's her real name. Yeah. The Rant...

1:25:56

Rocky Horst show. Rocky Horst show. She

1:25:58

was the original. Interesting. Yeah,

1:26:01

so I see why he didn't get your name right for a little while though,

1:26:03

right? I'm used to it One

1:26:07

of your guys's favorite snacks or

1:26:09

munchy when you guys are really on what's

1:26:12

a go-to snack I Can

1:26:14

tell you now because my used to be

1:26:16

exact rated so Like

1:26:20

ice cream ice cream I like ice cream it's bad

1:26:22

for it, but I like it what

1:26:25

do You Pistachio

1:26:28

nuts Interesting

1:26:31

because you're good for the eyes. I say healthy

1:26:33

on the healthy side. Yeah, they're good for the

1:26:35

eyes in there They're salty so that makes you

1:26:37

thirsty. So we forgot to

1:26:39

ask you about your daughter Which

1:26:42

one Ray? Are

1:26:44

you here legend? Yeah. Oh, yeah, she's

1:26:46

here she's here she's

1:26:49

having a Struggle

1:26:51

with her career now, you know a little

1:26:54

bit, you know, she hasn't worked for

1:26:56

a while But she's here

1:26:58

and she's doing well and she's happy

1:27:03

She always she's She's

1:27:06

the most talented of

1:27:08

the gang, you know It always

1:27:10

has been right from the beginning. She

1:27:13

was crazy. She used to give advice

1:27:16

at three years old What

1:27:19

did he call the girl manage, you

1:27:21

know the manage boy, yeah What

1:27:24

would be the girl? I don't know

1:27:26

the girlish man bossy bossy

1:27:33

No, she's good and her her son

1:27:35

Morgan's doing really well and Morgan

1:27:38

married Chinese girls, so I got

1:27:41

cross granted Rainbow

1:27:46

Reading beautiful. Oh, I got

1:27:48

I got a beautiful

1:27:50

beautiful family now as

1:27:53

does teach to That's

1:27:55

great. That's a phrase that this world is Who

1:27:59

do you two guys think? would benefit from smoking.

1:28:02

Oh. Smoking?

1:28:04

My mother-in-law. Bob? My

1:28:11

mother-in-law? Yeah, she,

1:28:14

because my wife

1:28:16

is Russian, born and raised, and so my

1:28:18

mother-in-law speaks no English, and blah,

1:28:21

blah, blah. And she's always honest

1:28:23

about something. And she

1:28:26

roams the refrigerator. She opens the refrigerator and

1:28:29

stands in front of her for an hour

1:28:31

and looks and sees, so whatever we're saying.

1:28:33

And so we have some edibles out there

1:28:35

in the desert, and her daughter tells them

1:28:37

to do whatever they do. Don't eat anything

1:28:39

in the refrigerator. Just ask me and I'll

1:28:41

get it for you. We come

1:28:44

one day and we're out in the desert, she's

1:28:46

in front of the refrigerator looking and chewing. At

1:28:48

the same time, she found the brownies, man,

1:28:51

and went fucking right to him. She's like

1:28:53

old and Russian and can't... And

1:28:57

so Natasha,

1:28:59

my wife, tells her what she did. I said, so what should

1:29:01

we do? She says, well, let's

1:29:04

see what happens. And

1:29:06

so she was just like, cool. So it was time

1:29:08

to drive her home. And

1:29:11

I says, wow, how

1:29:13

long is Sunset Boulevard? It's like,

1:29:16

mommy taking it every day. I'm trying to put the...

1:29:19

And so we did... After a

1:29:21

while, we told her that she

1:29:23

got this gun of gleaming her eye. And

1:29:26

I said, where was that again? I was like,

1:29:28

what was that, the candy or the things that

1:29:30

she wanted to go around?

1:29:33

But she freaked... The most surprised I've

1:29:35

ever been in my life, she

1:29:38

speaks no English. No English. I mean,

1:29:40

she's been here 20 some years to

1:29:42

say, I want a glass of water. It's half an hour

1:29:44

to get that out. And

1:29:47

so we're at the table, this is during COVID,

1:29:49

and we're at the table and I went out

1:29:51

and got some Chinese food. Came

1:29:53

back, distributed all around, we're eating Chinese

1:29:56

food. It was great. And I

1:29:58

see her reaching into the bag with a fortune. cookies

1:30:01

and she pulls one out and cracks it and we call

1:30:03

her Bob. In

1:30:06

Russian grandmother is Babushka, not Babushka,

1:30:08

Babushka. So I ain't saying that

1:30:10

every time. So you're Bob now.

1:30:12

And so it says, Hey,

1:30:14

Bob, what does your fortune say? She goes, you

1:30:18

will have a very auspicious day

1:30:20

today as the third trimester of

1:30:22

your Baba. The fuck? And

1:30:26

I said, well, this is a set up, man. You

1:30:28

know, her daughter put, read

1:30:30

another one. What

1:30:33

a glorious day. She

1:30:36

reads the whole fucking thing. That's in hard language too.

1:30:40

She took English in

1:30:42

college in Russia.

1:30:46

She can read it, but doesn't understand what she's

1:30:48

reading. But read

1:30:50

it perfectly. I sat there

1:30:52

like, And she can

1:30:54

use firearms, right? Oh yeah. She's

1:30:56

a great shot. And can throw an ax too.

1:30:59

I don't know. KGB. That's what I'm

1:31:01

thinking. KGB. I

1:31:04

believe it. In America. I believe

1:31:06

it. Yeah. That's

1:31:08

what I'm thinking. Those are her book club meetings. She

1:31:11

goes to book club meetings and sharpens

1:31:13

her tools. Yeah. That's what she does.

1:31:15

That's funny. Cause her family, they were

1:31:18

all geniuses. Did you guys

1:31:20

have a particular strain you liked in

1:31:22

your heyday? I liked weed. Just in

1:31:24

general. Yeah. That's it. That's what they

1:31:26

call weed. I liked that one. My

1:31:28

favorite was anything given to me by

1:31:30

a naked woman. Even

1:31:33

better. I feel you. What was your guys's

1:31:35

favorite movie you guys did? Each of you guys,

1:31:37

your favorite movie that we did

1:31:39

together. Yeah. Together. Oh, up a smoke. I

1:31:43

mean, it's the first one. Yeah. What do you

1:31:45

like? What about your favorite? What's your favorite movie?

1:31:48

I liked them all. She liked them all. I

1:31:51

liked them all. I liked, uh, yeah,

1:31:54

all of them. All of them had something up

1:31:56

in smoke at everything. Wildest

1:31:58

place you've been on vacation. Vacoima? Vacoima.

1:32:06

Where has the wildest place you been on

1:32:08

vacation? You've been a bunch

1:32:10

of places. Vacoima? Not joking, man. It

1:32:13

was a vacation, like with palm trees and shit.

1:32:16

Well, to me, Palau,

1:32:19

the island of Palau. South

1:32:21

Guam. It's 200

1:32:23

miles from Guam. And

1:32:27

it's skin capital.

1:32:29

You know, you can...

1:32:32

those giant shells that you see in

1:32:34

Disney movies, you know? Clamshells. I

1:32:38

was out with a local one time with his boat, and I

1:32:40

found a clamshell, and I struggled with

1:32:42

it, got it up. You know, I had to swim underneath

1:32:44

the water and got it up, put it

1:32:46

in the boat. I went back down,

1:32:48

and all of a sudden I hear a splash. My

1:32:51

shell. The boat captain. Nah, I don't want

1:32:53

that shit in my boat. He

1:32:56

threw it up. Palau. No,

1:32:59

that was crazy. I liked it

1:33:01

very, very native. I like Costa Rica. I

1:33:04

used to go to Costa Rica a lot. I feel...

1:33:06

it's a real jungle, you know, where we used to

1:33:08

go. That was cool. This

1:33:12

is the final question. If you

1:33:14

could see one guest on our show, who would

1:33:16

it be? On

1:33:18

your show. Cool.

1:33:21

Who'd you want on their show? Ray Don. Ali

1:33:25

Wong. Ali Wong. Ali

1:33:28

Wong. Yeah, yeah. She would

1:33:30

be good. There you go. There

1:33:33

you go. As long as we're doing... You

1:33:35

might have to act right here if you think... But it's the

1:33:37

second part of the question. You have to

1:33:39

help us get your answer on the show. Yeah,

1:33:43

yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Sure. I

1:33:45

go, yeah, yeah. No problem. Cassandra

1:33:48

Peterson. Cassandra

1:33:51

Peterson is Elvira. She

1:33:54

was part of the Groundlings. Oh, really? She

1:33:56

was one of the original Groundlings. And she

1:33:58

was also a Las Vegas showgirl. And

1:34:00

you think while with Elvis Yeah

1:34:08

Yeah, oh man Yeah,

1:34:13

you would get a lot of stories out of her that's cool

1:34:15

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1:34:18

It was an honor to be able to sit down and share some

1:34:20

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1:34:22

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