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Aug. 10, 2022

Tommy Chong | Livin' By Example, Man

Tommy Chong | Livin' By Example, Man

On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with comedian, musician, actor, writer, director, entrepreneur and cannabis advocate, Tommy Chong.  It’s a great chat where we touch on his career on stage and screen, his comedy partnership with Cheech Marin and the ups and downs of being a cannabis advocate.  It’s an insightful look into how Tommy crafted a career as a backing man, but has always tried to lead by example.  We also take a few detours to chat about George Carlin, Tommy’s philosophies on American culture and even a chance encounter with John Lennon.  It’s a cool tour into the mind of the legend and cultural icon that is Tommy Chong.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

0:03:06 - Sushi Chef's Biker Fanbase

0:07:27 - Government Entrapment in Bomb Manufacturing

0:10:56 - From Bodybuilding to Comedy

0:13:39 - The Role of a Backup Musician

0:16:41 - From Nightclubs to Comedy

0:20:00 - Meeting Teech and Discovering Comedy Talent

0:29:17 - Comedy and Cultural Sensitivity

0:39:41 - Comedian Influence on Each Other

0:47:10 - Stand-Up Comedy and Rodney King Reference

0:53:36 - Cheech and Chong's Comedy and Legacy

0:55:36 - Cheech and Chong Documentary and Movie

1:00:15 - Comedy Style and Jerry Lewis's Influence

1:09:39 - Promoting Health and CBD Use

1:13:22 - Seven Questions

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Tommy Chong:

The fiddle player that I worked with.

 

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Tommy Chong: He taught me the basics of entertaining

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: people and he said first of all, you give

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: the people what they want, you know.

 

 

 

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

 

 

 

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Hey, how are you?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Welcome back.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Another episode of Story and Craft.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you here today.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: If this is your first episode, I want to

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: thank you for stopping by.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Really cool for you to check out the show.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Now, if you've been here before, welcome

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: back.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Love the fact you're here, especially today.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: A really cool episode, a legend, a guy you

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: know to use the phrase, someone who needs

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: no introduction.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Tommy Chong is that guy.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Everybody knows Tommy Chong.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Just in case you're not as familiar with

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Tommy Chong, he's a comedian, a musician,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: an actor, a writer, a director, an

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: entrepreneur.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: He's a cannabis advocate.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I mean, if you know Tommy, you know he is.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know Tommy's just a really interesting

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: guy, a lot of fun to talk to and I'm really

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: jazzed that I get to share this with you.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Okay, all right, so let's get after it.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: It is time for a legend.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: It is Tommy Chong Day right now on

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: StoryandCraft.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Thanks so much for taking time out.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: It means a lot to me.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: It's such a pleasure to sit down with you

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: and talk to you for a few minutes here, and

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: so many things to cover I don't even know

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: where to start, really.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: But first of all, did you have a nice

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: breakfast?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Did you get the day started nicely.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: How's everything going?

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know, my breakfast is the most

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: important meal of my life, Of my day, and

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: this morning was no exception.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I have a little problem with gout and

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: whenever I get a little taste of God I feel

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: that in my toes.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Yeah, I think it's a age, you know, and

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: it's excess of protein to this what I've

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: been told.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so this morning I found I go to Gelsons

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: near my house and I just started.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: It's a Marcet where Cheech and I share,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Because he lives in the highlands, and they

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: had one of the nicest display of sushi I've

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: ever seen and I'm trying to stay off of

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: sushi.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I think that's why I got goat, because I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: was such a sushi addict.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Anyway, they had some.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: They had some.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: My son's a sushi chef, Paris, Really.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, I know that.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Well, he's not practicing right now.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Actually, he learned how to do it because

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: he was working on my, my brother-in-law's

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: nightclub and they had a sushi bar there

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: and my son could have learned how to become

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: a bartender or a sushi chef, and so he

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: picked the sushi chef, which is very smart.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And anyway, when he was cooking, when he

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: was making sushi in the nightclub, the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: nightclub catered to a lot of Hell's Angels,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: the bikers, and my son would make this tuna

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: dish with spicy, spicy tuna dish, and these

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: guys, they loved it so much they couldn't

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: get enough of it.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Well, it takes time to do sushi and and if

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: he's, if he wasn't working fast enough, the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: drunk bikers would throw things at him.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Well, how long ago was this?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Was this a?

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: This was years ago and the this one he was

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: like just coming out of school, you know,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: looking for something to do with his life,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: but now he's he's.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: He still knows how to cook sushi, but the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: bottom line is that he made this beautiful

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: dish that, like I said, the bikers would

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: riot if he didn't get it too fast enough,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: and and Gelsen's happened to serve it and I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: so I bought some and that's what I have for

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: breakfast, and so what I'm, what I'm

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: looking at now, is just waiting to see if

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: my toe is going to react, and so far it has.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know, you know what?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I also heard that sometimes, and I don't

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: know and I'm no doctor, but I heard that if

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: you ever do this, you know, like some

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: people do, the intermittent fasting, like

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: if you don't eat, like for a day or

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: something that can kind of trigger it also,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: or something I don't know?

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Oh, I believe that.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I believe that, yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Well, you know what you're doing is your

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: body gets used to certain things and and it

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: gets used to rejecting certain things,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: especially as you get older.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know, when I was growing up you always

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: heard that like really wealthy people that

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: eat nothing but steak nonstop, you know,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: but that's actually like some kind of uric

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: acid or something, I don't even, or some

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: kind of acid.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: That's what it is, Uric acid.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You nailed it, yeah, but I was told.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: In fact I was in Japan and I was feasting

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: on.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: In fact, we were staying at a resort and it

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: specialized in seafood, you know, shellfish,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: and that's when I got probably one of the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: worst cases of goat in the history of goat.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: It was so bad I had to go to the emergency

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: room and the doctor looked at it and they

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: just put a needle right into it, right,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: right, right, right, directly into it.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And I was glad to get that needle because

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: it cured it, it cleaned it up.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I don't know what they put in it, but yeah,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I know I've been dealing with goat.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: That was, that was years ago, though.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: That was back in 07, actually 07.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Yeah, you know where I found out I had goat.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Where was that?

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: In prison.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I was in prison.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I've been there a couple of days and I'm

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: walking across the field now, Limpin, I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: thought I dropped a weight on my foot you

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: know weightlifting, and that's what it felt

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: like.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: But then I thought I haven't weight lifted

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: or anything, you know.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so I so, on my way to my cell or my

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: cubicle we weren't in cells I had three

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: doctors that were also doing time in jail.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: When I was in there, there was about seven

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: doctors legitimate MDs, you know doing time

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: for opioid.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Oh, prescribing huh.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Anyway, three of them told me I had goat

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: before I got to my bunk.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Oh you got goat, you got goat.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And I did hear an interview Now when we

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: were talking about you being which I think

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: is just such a travesty when you think

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: about it, that you weren't.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: It was for paraphernalia, it wasn't even

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: for any, it was just glass basically.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: No, it was for being Chinese.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Actually, that's my assessment.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: No, bush was looking for an excuse for the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: you know, to get the press off disaster in

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: the Iraqi war that he started, and so they

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: were going after the hippies, like Nixon

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: did back in the Vietnam days, and there was

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: nothing going on.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so they come up with this bogus claim

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: that the bomb business was funneling

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: billions of dollars into IKDA, billions,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: billions of dollars into IKDA.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And so when they say, when you look at the

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: profit margin on that.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: It's not you know you're going to do.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: There's no way.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: They went to great lengths.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know what.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: One of the things they did that was kind of

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: cool they embedded a financial expert into

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: our company.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Because this guy showed up all of a sudden

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: out of nowhere and he started showing my

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: son you know how to run the business more

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: effectively.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know, this guy really knew what he was

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: doing and then of us did I never knew, my

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: son never knew.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know, there was like the reason we got

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: in the bomb business is that my wife and I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: were on the road doing comedy and people

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: would bring up homemade Chongbongs and to

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: get them signed.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so my wife says, well, why don't we

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: start manufacturing our own bombs, you know?

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so we started the Chongbong company.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: But you know, with that, all the lives

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: going on about making billions of dollars,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: the government they embedded a financial

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: expert who actually helped us get out of

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: the red because we were operating so poorly

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: that the guy couldn't help it.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Wouldn't that be considered entrapment?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I mean basically Big time, Big time.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Not only that, they filmed everything, and

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: they had it turned it over to us, and so we

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: knew that I was being followed.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I was being filmed.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I was going to all sorts of head shops, you

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: know, signing my bombs, and what they

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: filmed was me admitting that the bombs

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: weren't really for tobacco use only.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: That was a big deal.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: They got me to admit that the bombs were

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: for marijuana.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: One of the questions I had for you was I

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: was thinking that, let's say up in smoke,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: you did that.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Was it like 78?

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Roughly 78 was the year.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: So would you say in 1978 that if somebody

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: said to you 44 years later we would still

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: be dealing with some aspect of a

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: prohibition on cannabis, cannabis products

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: and all that I mean granted it's, you know,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: california, oregon, I mean they're places

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: it's legal, of course, but would you think

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: by now we would still be dealing with this

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: big question of legalization?

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Well, you know, hindsight is 20-20, of

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: course you know so at the time.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I knew, see, I started bodybuilding when I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: was quite young, 16 years old, when I got

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: into bodybuilding, and then I met some

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: serious bodybuilders and the first thing

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: they did was make me quit smoking and

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: change my diet, you know.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: But I realized over the years that the only

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: substance that these healthiest people on

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: the planet would do was pot, was marijuana,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: and they wouldn't let me smoke cigarettes,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: they wouldn't let me drink alcohol, but

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: they had no problem with me getting high on

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: pot.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so I knew instinctively, or you know

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: from that amateur research, that the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: healthiest people on the planet would smoke

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: pot.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: So I knew, and so when we did Up and Smoke

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Up and Smoke wasn't supposed to be a stoner

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: movie, up and Smoke, lou Adler, our manager,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: our producer at the time he was a record

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: producer he just wanted us to do Cheech and

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Chong's greatest hits of all the, you know,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: put all our greatest hits Like all your

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: comedy bits.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Basically, yeah, all the comedy bits into a

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: movie.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Well, I, you know I don't work that way.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know, we're very improvisational with

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: everything we do, cheech and I.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so one day I came, well, one night I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: stayed home and I wrote a song called Up

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: and Smoke and then I sang it for Cheech and

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Lou the next day and Cheech says that's the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: movie, that's the title of the movie.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Well, once it became the title of the movie,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: then we started writing it with the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: characters that we put in there, because

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Cheech and I together we did a couple of

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: hundred characters, you know.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so when I wrote Up and Smoke, then

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Cheech realized that the Chacarno character,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: you know, the lowrider and the hippie, they

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: were the guys, they were the what Up and

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Smoke was all about.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so that's how we went in that direction.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: But as and what I wanted to show in the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: movie and I did very well, I did really

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: well because I wrote the movie.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know there's a lot of talk that we

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: never had a script.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Yeah, no, you wrote, you also directed a

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: few movies.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, I directed that one too, but I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: never got credit for it.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Yeah, see, the way I've always operated is

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: that I've always been in bands and I've

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: never been the best musician in any band

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: that I ever played in.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: In fact, most of the.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I got into music because I had the ability

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: to back up a fiddle player, and I was eight

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: years old and he found out I could play a

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: guitar good enough to be able to back up,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: back him up, and so so my whole career has

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: been helping other people in the music

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: industry, you know.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: So I became known as a good backup guitar

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: player, and so singers would hire me to

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: back them up, and that's how I ended up

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: with a band and that's how I ended up with

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: a nightclub.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: But I was more the business guy of all the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: musicians.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I wasn't that good of a musician.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I'm a good musician but I'm not dedicated.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know, I had other interests, and my

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: natural instinct was giving the people what

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: they want.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: I could sense what the audience was looking

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: for, and that came from when I was eight,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: nine years old, the fiddle player that I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: worked with.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: He taught me the basics of entertaining

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: people, and he had said first of all give

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: the people what they want.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know, don't switch and bait and switch,

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: you know.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Being a showman is its own craft, you know.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: Yeah, and he taught me and he says give the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: people what they want, and if they want the

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: same tune over and over again, give it to

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: them, you know, and be glad to do it.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: So he taught me that lesson.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: And so then, at an early age of my life, I

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: learned how to make people happy.

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong: You know, not it wasn't my plan, but it was

 

 

 

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00:15:48,006 --> 00:15:53,159

 

Tommy Chong: my ability to be a solid backup guitar

 

 

 

349

 

00:15:53,219 --> 00:15:55,311

 

Tommy Chong: player for these guys and that's what they

 

 

 

350

 

00:15:55,371 --> 00:15:58,092

 

Tommy Chong: needed and that's been my whole career.

 

 

 

351

 

00:15:58,745 --> 00:16:01,533

 

Tommy Chong: And so when I got into like comedy for

 

 

 

352

 

00:16:01,593 --> 00:16:04,470

 

Tommy Chong: instance, you know I was in the comedy

 

 

 

353

 

00:16:04,510 --> 00:16:05,252

 

Tommy Chong: before Cheech.

 

 

 

354

 

00:16:06,385 --> 00:16:10,150

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech came later I had been doing the

 

 

 

355

 

00:16:10,190 --> 00:16:14,731

 

Tommy Chong: comedy routine for about maybe six months

 

 

 

356

 

00:16:15,734 --> 00:16:19,632

 

Tommy Chong: and then Cheech joined and then we were

 

 

 

357

 

00:16:19,672 --> 00:16:21,407

 

Tommy Chong: together again for another maybe three

 

 

 

358

 

00:16:21,447 --> 00:16:24,366

 

Tommy Chong: months and then Cheech and I, then we got

 

 

 

359

 

00:16:24,427 --> 00:16:27,295

 

Tommy Chong: fired from my own club.

 

 

 

360

 

00:16:27,445 --> 00:16:28,550

 

Marc Preston: Well, that's how you know you're really in

 

 

 

361

 

00:16:28,570 --> 00:16:28,972

 

Marc Preston: the business.

 

 

 

362

 

00:16:29,045 --> 00:16:30,670

 

Marc Preston: You got to get fired that first time, you

 

 

 

363

 

00:16:30,710 --> 00:16:30,870

 

Marc Preston: know.

 

 

 

364

 

00:16:31,011 --> 00:16:32,656

 

Marc Preston: Yeah Well, how did you?

 

 

 

365

 

00:16:32,785 --> 00:16:33,949

 

Marc Preston: I know you've probably told the story a

 

 

 

366

 

00:16:34,029 --> 00:16:35,534

 

Marc Preston: million times, I've just never heard it.

 

 

 

367

 

00:16:35,625 --> 00:16:36,587

 

Marc Preston: But how did you meet?

 

 

 

368

 

00:16:37,650 --> 00:16:39,455

 

Marc Preston: How did y'all two connect initially?

 

 

 

369

 

00:16:40,505 --> 00:16:45,130

 

Tommy Chong: Well, in our we had, we had a app drawers

 

 

 

370

 

00:16:45,190 --> 00:16:47,948

 

Tommy Chong: club which was given to us, given to me.

 

 

 

371

 

00:16:48,008 --> 00:16:50,371

 

Tommy Chong: Basically I was the one that was interested

 

 

 

372

 

00:16:50,451 --> 00:16:50,652

 

Tommy Chong: in it.

 

 

 

373

 

00:16:51,705 --> 00:16:52,909

 

Tommy Chong: You know the band.

 

 

 

374

 

00:16:53,190 --> 00:16:55,156

 

Tommy Chong: We had a singer that was very flamboyant

 

 

 

375

 

00:16:56,288 --> 00:16:57,712

 

Tommy Chong: and not that good of a singer but he

 

 

 

376

 

00:16:58,414 --> 00:16:58,956

 

Tommy Chong: entertained.

 

 

 

377

 

00:17:00,385 --> 00:17:02,006

 

Tommy Chong: And then we had other instruments, other

 

 

 

378

 

00:17:02,066 --> 00:17:04,486

 

Tommy Chong: musicians that were just more or less into

 

 

 

379

 

00:17:04,526 --> 00:17:05,210

 

Tommy Chong: the music part.

 

 

 

380

 

00:17:05,625 --> 00:17:09,916

 

Tommy Chong: I was more into the business part of it,

 

 

 

381

 

00:17:09,937 --> 00:17:10,177

 

Tommy Chong: you know.

 

 

 

382

 

00:17:10,245 --> 00:17:13,208

 

Tommy Chong: So when we got offered a nightclub I jumped

 

 

 

383

 

00:17:13,369 --> 00:17:15,728

 

Tommy Chong: on all over, you know yeah, Is this in Los

 

 

 

384

 

00:17:15,808 --> 00:17:16,491

 

Tommy Chong: Angeles or?

 

 

 

385

 

00:17:16,785 --> 00:17:18,451

 

Tommy Chong: No, this is in Vancouver, Canada.

 

 

 

386

 

00:17:18,932 --> 00:17:20,248

 

Marc Preston: Oh, that's right Cause aren't you from

 

 

 

387

 

00:17:20,268 --> 00:17:21,092

 

Marc Preston: Edmonton originally?

 

 

 

388

 

00:17:22,047 --> 00:17:24,053

 

Tommy Chong: I was born in Edmonton and raised in

 

 

 

389

 

00:17:24,093 --> 00:17:27,371

 

Tommy Chong: Calgary and then I got deported to

 

 

 

390

 

00:17:27,953 --> 00:17:28,495

 

Tommy Chong: Vancouver.

 

 

 

391

 

00:17:29,185 --> 00:17:30,671

 

Tommy Chong: Well, so so we're in Vancouver.

 

 

 

392

 

00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:34,650

 

Tommy Chong: The club was so successful.

 

 

 

393

 

00:17:34,810 --> 00:17:38,148

 

Tommy Chong: It became so successful that another club

 

 

 

394

 

00:17:38,188 --> 00:17:40,815

 

Tommy Chong: was given to us by another Chinese friend

 

 

 

395

 

00:17:40,855 --> 00:17:43,512

 

Tommy Chong: of mine whose club wasn't doing very well.

 

 

 

396

 

00:17:43,605 --> 00:17:46,935

 

Tommy Chong: So so I turned that club the one that was

 

 

 

397

 

00:17:46,975 --> 00:17:49,853

 

Tommy Chong: given to us into a strip, a titty bar.

 

 

 

398

 

00:17:51,406 --> 00:17:54,568

 

Tommy Chong: And so the bikers you know a lot of bikers

 

 

 

399

 

00:17:54,668 --> 00:17:58,151

 

Tommy Chong: in Vancouver, so we had a very rough crowd

 

 

 

400

 

00:17:58,191 --> 00:17:58,351

 

Tommy Chong: there.

 

 

 

401

 

00:17:59,385 --> 00:18:01,772

 

Tommy Chong: So when I got fired from Motown which is

 

 

 

402

 

00:18:01,833 --> 00:18:04,691

 

Tommy Chong: another story I went back to the clubs and

 

 

 

403

 

00:18:04,731 --> 00:18:10,250

 

Tommy Chong: I started working the lights at the strip.

 

 

 

404

 

00:18:10,491 --> 00:18:12,487

 

Tommy Chong: The titty bar you know, the other after

 

 

 

405

 

00:18:12,548 --> 00:18:14,827

 

Tommy Chong: hours club was doing fine, but the titty

 

 

 

406

 

00:18:14,847 --> 00:18:16,072

 

Tommy Chong: bar was more fun to be in.

 

 

 

407

 

00:18:16,505 --> 00:18:19,234

 

Tommy Chong: And then I realized that I could turn this

 

 

 

408

 

00:18:19,334 --> 00:18:22,854

 

Tommy Chong: club into an improvisational comedy club,

 

 

 

409

 

00:18:23,545 --> 00:18:26,333

 

Tommy Chong: which I did using the girls who were

 

 

 

410

 

00:18:26,574 --> 00:18:29,532

 

Tommy Chong: beautiful and very funny as comedians.

 

 

 

411

 

00:18:30,245 --> 00:18:32,574

 

Tommy Chong: But I needed another partner.

 

 

 

412

 

00:18:32,765 --> 00:18:36,015

 

Tommy Chong: So I talked to Dormian his name was Dave

 

 

 

413

 

00:18:36,665 --> 00:18:40,355

 

Tommy Chong: and to I said I wanted him to be the MC.

 

 

 

414

 

00:18:40,745 --> 00:18:41,950

 

Tommy Chong: I was just gonna work the lights.

 

 

 

415

 

00:18:42,665 --> 00:18:44,311

 

Tommy Chong: And then Dave said well, I'll do it if you

 

 

 

416

 

00:18:44,331 --> 00:18:44,592

 

Tommy Chong: do it.

 

 

 

417

 

00:18:45,405 --> 00:18:47,413

 

Tommy Chong: And so he called my bluff and I said okay.

 

 

 

418

 

00:18:47,565 --> 00:18:49,752

 

Tommy Chong: So next thing, you know I'm on stage with

 

 

 

419

 

00:18:49,812 --> 00:18:50,133

 

Tommy Chong: Dave.

 

 

 

420

 

00:18:50,965 --> 00:18:53,346

 

Tommy Chong: And then we needed a straight man because

 

 

 

421

 

00:18:53,366 --> 00:18:55,868

 

Tommy Chong: Dave and I both had real long hair and back

 

 

 

422

 

00:18:55,928 --> 00:18:58,368

 

Tommy Chong: then it was, you know, long hairs were like,

 

 

 

423

 

00:18:58,549 --> 00:19:01,628

 

Tommy Chong: you know, the dirty hippies, and he always

 

 

 

424

 

00:19:01,668 --> 00:19:03,815

 

Tommy Chong: had a straight guy with a straight haircut.

 

 

 

425

 

00:19:04,305 --> 00:19:06,171

 

Tommy Chong: So we had a straight man named Rick Lenz, a

 

 

 

426

 

00:19:06,211 --> 00:19:08,568

 

Tommy Chong: real actor, because once I started the

 

 

 

427

 

00:19:08,668 --> 00:19:12,907

 

Tommy Chong: improv club it attracted actors and so I

 

 

 

428

 

00:19:12,947 --> 00:19:15,315

 

Tommy Chong: got all the acting community in Vancouver

 

 

 

429

 

00:19:15,425 --> 00:19:18,134

 

Tommy Chong: all excited about this club that I had.

 

 

 

430

 

00:19:18,265 --> 00:19:20,673

 

Tommy Chong: And then so I started to have an actor sing

 

 

 

431

 

00:19:20,773 --> 00:19:23,251

 

Tommy Chong: out and but the straight guy, rick.

 

 

 

432

 

00:19:24,606 --> 00:19:27,233

 

Tommy Chong: We were so popular that we got a front page

 

 

 

433

 

00:19:28,155 --> 00:19:31,453

 

Tommy Chong: picture of Rick with the strippers on

 

 

 

434

 

00:19:31,493 --> 00:19:34,251

 

Tommy Chong: either side of him, with the other titties

 

 

 

435

 

00:19:34,872 --> 00:19:38,609

 

Tommy Chong: in the Rick's ear, and so Rick's wife.

 

 

 

436

 

00:19:39,150 --> 00:19:39,992

 

Tommy Chong: We never saw Rick.

 

 

 

437

 

00:19:40,073 --> 00:19:42,850

 

Tommy Chong: After that picture Rick disappeared, his

 

 

 

438

 

00:19:42,930 --> 00:19:43,151

 

Tommy Chong: wife.

 

 

 

439

 

00:19:45,225 --> 00:19:46,691

 

Marc Preston: Because he was like that's what you're up

 

 

 

440

 

00:19:46,751 --> 00:19:46,872

 

Marc Preston: to.

 

 

 

441

 

00:19:47,325 --> 00:19:49,854

 

Tommy Chong: He told his wife that he was doing comedy.

 

 

 

442

 

00:19:50,265 --> 00:19:53,254

 

Tommy Chong: I mean theater, you know like what do you

 

 

 

443

 

00:19:53,274 --> 00:19:53,554

 

Tommy Chong: call it?

 

 

 

444

 

00:19:54,385 --> 00:19:55,530

 

Tommy Chong: You know community theater.

 

 

 

445

 

00:19:57,225 --> 00:19:59,513

 

Tommy Chong: And so I needed a straight guy.

 

 

 

446

 

00:19:59,985 --> 00:20:02,213

 

Tommy Chong: And so this one customer, a Russian kid,

 

 

 

447

 

00:20:03,045 --> 00:20:05,531

 

Tommy Chong: that he said, I know the perfect guy for

 

 

 

448

 

00:20:05,551 --> 00:20:05,872

 

Tommy Chong: your act.

 

 

 

449

 

00:20:08,125 --> 00:20:10,233

 

Tommy Chong: And I said he said come on out and meet him.

 

 

 

450

 

00:20:10,965 --> 00:20:12,973

 

Tommy Chong: And so I went out and I met Teech.

 

 

 

451

 

00:20:13,265 --> 00:20:16,105

 

Tommy Chong: He was Richard Merritt, right, right, and

 

 

 

452

 

00:20:16,166 --> 00:20:19,335

 

Tommy Chong: Richard was up in Vancouver, canada,

 

 

 

453

 

00:20:19,485 --> 00:20:20,510

 

Tommy Chong: dodging the draft.

 

 

 

454

 

00:20:21,586 --> 00:20:24,634

 

Tommy Chong: He was trying not to go to get killed in

 

 

 

455

 

00:20:24,654 --> 00:20:25,195

 

Tommy Chong: Vietnam.

 

 

 

456

 

00:20:26,325 --> 00:20:27,328

 

Tommy Chong: And so we did.

 

 

 

457

 

00:20:27,469 --> 00:20:30,408

 

Tommy Chong: None of us knew the strippers or any of the

 

 

 

458

 

00:20:30,809 --> 00:20:33,570

 

Tommy Chong: people in the club knew that Teech really

 

 

 

459

 

00:20:33,650 --> 00:20:36,552

 

Tommy Chong: was Mexican Because he had been such a good

 

 

 

460

 

00:20:36,672 --> 00:20:38,691

 

Tommy Chong: actor, you know, we thought we didn't know

 

 

 

461

 

00:20:38,732 --> 00:20:39,113

 

Tommy Chong: what he was.

 

 

 

462

 

00:20:39,265 --> 00:20:43,614

 

Tommy Chong: He was brown, something and so and so we

 

 

 

463

 

00:20:43,654 --> 00:20:44,055

 

Tommy Chong: didn't know.

 

 

 

464

 

00:20:44,625 --> 00:20:46,786

 

Tommy Chong: I didn't really know he was Mexican until

 

 

 

465

 

00:20:47,167 --> 00:20:48,492

 

Tommy Chong: we came down to LA.

 

 

 

466

 

00:20:49,405 --> 00:20:52,114

 

Tommy Chong: And that's when and I found out, when we

 

 

 

467

 

00:20:52,745 --> 00:20:55,153

 

Tommy Chong: the first time we found out that we were

 

 

 

468

 

00:20:55,173 --> 00:20:55,895

 

Tommy Chong: funny together.

 

 

 

469

 

00:20:58,225 --> 00:21:00,886

 

Tommy Chong: We had a band, we were gonna play music and

 

 

 

470

 

00:21:00,906 --> 00:21:03,549

 

Tommy Chong: Teech is a singer, and but we never got

 

 

 

471

 

00:21:03,589 --> 00:21:06,447

 

Tommy Chong: around to playing one note, because Teech

 

 

 

472

 

00:21:06,508 --> 00:21:10,428

 

Tommy Chong: and I did 45 minutes of comedy and found

 

 

 

473

 

00:21:10,488 --> 00:21:12,013

 

Tommy Chong: out that that was it.

 

 

 

474

 

00:21:12,205 --> 00:21:15,190

 

Tommy Chong: We were a comedy team, and so that's when I

 

 

 

475

 

00:21:15,230 --> 00:21:15,973

 

Tommy Chong: found out his name.

 

 

 

476

 

00:21:16,305 --> 00:21:18,647

 

Tommy Chong: His nickname was Teech, because we were

 

 

 

477

 

00:21:18,687 --> 00:21:20,745

 

Tommy Chong: trying to find a name for our group and

 

 

 

478

 

00:21:21,207 --> 00:21:23,113

 

Tommy Chong: Teech and Chong turned out to be the winner.

 

 

 

479

 

00:21:24,426 --> 00:21:29,138

 

Tommy Chong: And then we snuck back into LA and the rest

 

 

 

480

 

00:21:29,239 --> 00:21:29,660

 

Tommy Chong: is history.

 

 

 

481

 

00:21:30,105 --> 00:21:31,571

 

Marc Preston: Now is that where he's from originally?

 

 

 

482

 

00:21:31,945 --> 00:21:33,792

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, he was from LA, yeah.

 

 

 

483

 

00:21:34,645 --> 00:21:35,950

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, that's one of the things I loved

 

 

 

484

 

00:21:35,970 --> 00:21:37,628

 

Marc Preston: about your movies when I was probably too

 

 

 

485

 

00:21:37,689 --> 00:21:38,692

 

Marc Preston: young to be watching them.

 

 

 

486

 

00:21:39,625 --> 00:21:41,591

 

Marc Preston: Way back when, was you know?

 

 

 

487

 

00:21:42,674 --> 00:21:44,308

 

Marc Preston: My view of LA was always the glitz, the

 

 

 

488

 

00:21:44,349 --> 00:21:48,473

 

Marc Preston: glam, you know, the watching emergency, you

 

 

 

489

 

00:21:48,513 --> 00:21:50,799

 

Marc Preston: know, or chips, you know.

 

 

 

490

 

00:21:50,865 --> 00:21:52,807

 

Marc Preston: To me that was LA, it's like, but there was

 

 

 

491

 

00:21:52,827 --> 00:21:54,426

 

Marc Preston: this whole Chicano side, there was this

 

 

 

492

 

00:21:54,446 --> 00:21:57,248

 

Marc Preston: whole other like I was like, and so I was

 

 

 

493

 

00:21:57,509 --> 00:21:59,326

 

Marc Preston: equally enamored with others, this whole,

 

 

 

494

 

00:21:59,346 --> 00:22:01,427

 

Marc Preston: like you know, other side, he has a little

 

 

 

495

 

00:22:01,467 --> 00:22:03,086

 

Marc Preston: kid with this whole LA thing I started to

 

 

 

496

 

00:22:03,106 --> 00:22:05,907

 

Marc Preston: come in and enamored like, but no, what you

 

 

 

497

 

00:22:05,927 --> 00:22:07,729

 

Marc Preston: were saying before about how you supported

 

 

 

498

 

00:22:07,769 --> 00:22:10,832

 

Marc Preston: somebody, how you I kinda like the back of

 

 

 

499

 

00:22:10,972 --> 00:22:12,911

 

Marc Preston: up, I mean that's, there were scenes in

 

 

 

500

 

00:22:13,052 --> 00:22:14,308

 

Marc Preston: your movies that I can think of.

 

 

 

501

 

00:22:14,348 --> 00:22:16,008

 

Marc Preston: That Chich is, you know, he's got the lines

 

 

 

502

 

00:22:16,068 --> 00:22:17,926

 

Marc Preston: and it's kind of focused on him, like, for

 

 

 

503

 

00:22:18,046 --> 00:22:21,375

 

Marc Preston: instance, him getting pulled over.

 

 

 

504

 

00:22:21,885 --> 00:22:23,471

 

Marc Preston: There's this scene and I don't know what

 

 

 

505

 

00:22:23,511 --> 00:22:24,848

 

Marc Preston: movie it's from the policeman's, like I see

 

 

 

506

 

00:22:24,868 --> 00:22:26,869

 

Marc Preston: your license and he's like wait, isn't it

 

 

 

507

 

00:22:26,910 --> 00:22:27,712

 

Marc Preston: on the back of the car?

 

 

 

508

 

00:22:27,752 --> 00:22:27,953

 

Marc Preston: You know.

 

 

 

509

 

00:22:28,665 --> 00:22:29,388

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, isn't it on the bumper.

 

 

 

510

 

00:22:30,105 --> 00:22:32,547

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, and then you're, but see,

 

 

 

511

 

00:22:32,607 --> 00:22:33,209

 

Marc Preston: you're there.

 

 

 

512

 

00:22:33,229 --> 00:22:34,948

 

Marc Preston: It's like, visually you're doing something.

 

 

 

513

 

00:22:34,989 --> 00:22:35,510

 

Marc Preston: I think you're.

 

 

 

514

 

00:22:35,932 --> 00:22:37,228

 

Marc Preston: You know you're always kind of in the

 

 

 

515

 

00:22:37,268 --> 00:22:39,868

 

Marc Preston: background, yeah, Doing something, you know

 

 

 

516

 

00:22:39,908 --> 00:22:41,307

 

Marc Preston: you're supporting him, so it's not like

 

 

 

517

 

00:22:41,328 --> 00:22:42,527

 

Marc Preston: you're just sitting there letting him.

 

 

 

518

 

00:22:42,687 --> 00:22:45,638

 

Marc Preston: You know, there's so much visual comedy

 

 

 

519

 

00:22:45,698 --> 00:22:48,159

 

Marc Preston: that I think was just, you know he was the

 

 

 

520

 

00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,919

 

Marc Preston: boisterous one, but you know, but he did,

 

 

 

521

 

00:22:49,939 --> 00:22:51,249

 

Marc Preston: he had a lot of visual, like you know.

 

 

 

522

 

00:22:51,290 --> 00:22:53,361

 

Marc Preston: This one scene sticks out of my mind.

 

 

 

523

 

00:22:53,381 --> 00:22:53,985

 

Marc Preston: I don't know what movie it is.

 

 

 

524

 

00:22:54,249 --> 00:22:56,013

 

Marc Preston: You're playing guitar in the house and he's

 

 

 

525

 

00:22:56,033 --> 00:22:56,802

 

Marc Preston: trying to get into the door.

 

 

 

526

 

00:22:56,822 --> 00:22:58,323

 

Marc Preston: Apparently you've got so many monitors

 

 

 

527

 

00:22:58,344 --> 00:22:59,925

 

Marc Preston: going he can't get the door open, you know,

 

 

 

528

 

00:23:00,567 --> 00:23:03,555

 

Marc Preston: and he's like but yeah, I think grossly

 

 

 

529

 

00:23:03,615 --> 00:23:06,473

 

Marc Preston: under underappreciated physical comedians.

 

 

 

530

 

00:23:06,633 --> 00:23:08,365

 

Marc Preston: I will say you know, you grew up in Canada.

 

 

 

531

 

00:23:08,970 --> 00:23:10,824

 

Marc Preston: Now your folks when they saw the kind of

 

 

 

532

 

00:23:10,844 --> 00:23:12,038

 

Marc Preston: mischief you were up to, did they

 

 

 

533

 

00:23:12,079 --> 00:23:12,545

 

Marc Preston: understand it?

 

 

 

534

 

00:23:12,787 --> 00:23:13,391

 

Marc Preston: Did they like?

 

 

 

535

 

00:23:14,157 --> 00:23:15,125

 

Marc Preston: Did they think it was cool?

 

 

 

536

 

00:23:15,226 --> 00:23:16,385

 

Marc Preston: They think it was just ridiculous?

 

 

 

537

 

00:23:16,505 --> 00:23:18,753

 

Marc Preston: What was your family thinking about your

 

 

 

538

 

00:23:18,793 --> 00:23:19,114

 

Marc Preston: endeavor?

 

 

 

539

 

00:23:19,625 --> 00:23:23,315

 

Tommy Chong: Well, you know, it was my dad really that

 

 

 

540

 

00:23:23,415 --> 00:23:30,496

 

Tommy Chong: encouraged me because you know the party to

 

 

 

541

 

00:23:30,537 --> 00:23:31,218

 

Tommy Chong: play guitar.

 

 

 

542

 

00:23:31,826 --> 00:23:33,831

 

Tommy Chong: My dad really, you know, he was very

 

 

 

543

 

00:23:34,412 --> 00:23:37,409

 

Tommy Chong: traditional Chinese, but he never spoke

 

 

 

544

 

00:23:37,489 --> 00:23:40,648

 

Tommy Chong: Chinese around the house, he never taught

 

 

 

545

 

00:23:40,708 --> 00:23:41,351

 

Tommy Chong: us anything.

 

 

 

546

 

00:23:42,365 --> 00:23:46,295

 

Tommy Chong: We were like his, his white, his Caucasian

 

 

 

547

 

00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:49,271

 

Tommy Chong: family, you know, because my mother was a

 

 

 

548

 

00:23:49,332 --> 00:23:50,134

 

Tommy Chong: very beautiful.

 

 

 

549

 

00:23:51,625 --> 00:23:55,455

 

Tommy Chong: Well, I found out later she was 25% native,

 

 

 

550

 

00:23:57,167 --> 00:23:59,133

 

Tommy Chong: but we always thought she was Scotch Irish

 

 

 

551

 

00:24:00,186 --> 00:24:04,568

 

Tommy Chong: and my dad was Chinese, of course, and so

 

 

 

552

 

00:24:04,608 --> 00:24:08,624

 

Tommy Chong: my dad, he treated us and mom and the

 

 

 

553

 

00:24:08,645 --> 00:24:14,058

 

Tommy Chong: family more like his white family, you know,

 

 

 

554

 

00:24:14,780 --> 00:24:15,281

 

Tommy Chong: and he would.

 

 

 

555

 

00:24:17,267 --> 00:24:20,426

 

Tommy Chong: So when I started, when we did, well, first

 

 

 

556

 

00:24:20,446 --> 00:24:22,725

 

Tommy Chong: of all when we did the night clubs, you

 

 

 

557

 

00:24:22,745 --> 00:24:24,933

 

Tommy Chong: know, my dad and mom, everybody came.

 

 

 

558

 

00:24:25,265 --> 00:24:30,017

 

Tommy Chong: My brother actually managed all the clubs,

 

 

 

559

 

00:24:30,745 --> 00:24:32,432

 

Tommy Chong: leaving me to go on the road, you know,

 

 

 

560

 

00:24:33,926 --> 00:24:35,431

 

Tommy Chong: with the bands and everything else.

 

 

 

561

 

00:24:36,365 --> 00:24:38,993

 

Tommy Chong: So my parents, my dad, he was very

 

 

 

562

 

00:24:39,093 --> 00:24:42,833

 

Tommy Chong: traditional, he was in the Second World War,

 

 

 

563

 

00:24:42,893 --> 00:24:46,211

 

Tommy Chong: he didn't have to go, he was in Canada and

 

 

 

564

 

00:24:46,411 --> 00:24:49,689

 

Tommy Chong: they didn't want Chinese in the war but in

 

 

 

565

 

00:24:49,729 --> 00:24:50,230

 

Tommy Chong: the army.

 

 

 

566

 

00:24:50,350 --> 00:24:53,928

 

Tommy Chong: But he enlisted with his friends and he was

 

 

 

567

 

00:24:54,108 --> 00:24:58,379

 

Tommy Chong: born and raised in Vancouver and Ableton

 

 

 

568

 

00:24:58,419 --> 00:25:00,949

 

Tommy Chong: too, where he met my mother.

 

 

 

569

 

00:25:01,391 --> 00:25:03,206

 

Tommy Chong: But my parents were sort of, you know,

 

 

 

570

 

00:25:03,307 --> 00:25:05,995

 

Tommy Chong: tradition, but they went along with me

 

 

 

571

 

00:25:06,405 --> 00:25:10,656

 

Tommy Chong: because, you know, one of the kids is an

 

 

 

572

 

00:25:10,796 --> 00:25:11,418

 

Tommy Chong: entertainer.

 

 

 

573

 

00:25:11,805 --> 00:25:13,752

 

Tommy Chong: You know, the whole world revolves around.

 

 

 

574

 

00:25:14,265 --> 00:25:15,389

 

Tommy Chong: I remember my sister.

 

 

 

575

 

00:25:15,570 --> 00:25:19,268

 

Tommy Chong: She was a tap dancer and she went on the

 

 

 

576

 

00:25:19,328 --> 00:25:21,865

 

Tommy Chong: road with a tap dancing crew one time and

 

 

 

577

 

00:25:21,906 --> 00:25:23,993

 

Tommy Chong: we followed her, or actually we drove her,

 

 

 

578

 

00:25:25,047 --> 00:25:26,713

 

Tommy Chong: and that's when I got a taste of the

 

 

 

579

 

00:25:27,175 --> 00:25:31,710

 

Tommy Chong: entertainment world, you know.

 

 

 

580

 

00:25:32,472 --> 00:25:35,066

 

Tommy Chong: And so, being an entertainer I was, you

 

 

 

581

 

00:25:35,086 --> 00:25:35,627

 

Tommy Chong: know I was.

 

 

 

582

 

00:25:36,109 --> 00:25:37,633

 

Tommy Chong: I was lopped into a.

 

 

 

583

 

00:25:38,525 --> 00:25:39,931

 

Tommy Chong: Let me tell you a story about my uncle.

 

 

 

584

 

00:25:40,785 --> 00:25:44,275

 

Tommy Chong: My dad had a brother who I was named after,

 

 

 

585

 

00:25:44,335 --> 00:25:44,636

 

Tommy Chong: tommy.

 

 

 

586

 

00:25:45,205 --> 00:25:47,453

 

Tommy Chong: My dad and my brother were opposites.

 

 

 

587

 

00:25:47,645 --> 00:25:52,607

 

Tommy Chong: My dad was rough and ready to go to war and

 

 

 

588

 

00:25:53,028 --> 00:25:54,874

 

Tommy Chong: he was a pool hustler one time.

 

 

 

589

 

00:25:54,934 --> 00:25:57,050

 

Tommy Chong: You know, he wasn't tall, he was five foot

 

 

 

590

 

00:25:57,111 --> 00:26:01,755

 

Tommy Chong: three, but he ended up being a big, distant

 

 

 

591

 

00:26:01,975 --> 00:26:02,938

 

Tommy Chong: truck driver, you know.

 

 

 

592

 

00:26:03,985 --> 00:26:07,474

 

Tommy Chong: So he was a macho kind of guy, very macho,

 

 

 

593

 

00:26:07,574 --> 00:26:08,356

 

Tommy Chong: very tough too.

 

 

 

594

 

00:26:09,285 --> 00:26:13,676

 

Tommy Chong: But my uncle Tommy was an academic.

 

 

 

595

 

00:26:14,545 --> 00:26:15,769

 

Tommy Chong: He never got out of school.

 

 

 

596

 

00:26:15,829 --> 00:26:18,306

 

Tommy Chong: He stayed in the University of Alberta

 

 

 

597

 

00:26:18,808 --> 00:26:22,256

 

Tommy Chong: until he died at the age of 80, something.

 

 

 

598

 

00:26:23,465 --> 00:26:27,609

 

Tommy Chong: He was a diving coach, even though he

 

 

 

599

 

00:26:27,649 --> 00:26:30,987

 

Tommy Chong: couldn't swim, but he was a gymnast and he

 

 

 

600

 

00:26:31,007 --> 00:26:34,707

 

Tommy Chong: was also an intellect, you know he was, and

 

 

 

601

 

00:26:34,767 --> 00:26:37,654

 

Tommy Chong: he wasn't really thrilled with my dad or

 

 

 

602

 

00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:41,933

 

Tommy Chong: his family until, until I started getting

 

 

 

603

 

00:26:43,156 --> 00:26:47,875

 

Tommy Chong: written up in the movie, the movie section,

 

 

 

604

 

00:26:48,036 --> 00:26:53,350

 

Tommy Chong: and then, and because I carry his name, all

 

 

 

605

 

00:26:53,370 --> 00:26:57,621

 

Tommy Chong: of a sudden I became his favorite nephew,

 

 

 

606

 

00:26:57,821 --> 00:26:58,102

 

Tommy Chong: you know.

 

 

 

607

 

00:26:58,665 --> 00:26:59,951

 

Marc Preston: So how many kids were in your family?

 

 

 

608

 

00:27:00,286 --> 00:27:01,731

 

Marc Preston: How many brothers and sisters did you have?

 

 

 

609

 

00:27:02,425 --> 00:27:05,569

 

Tommy Chong: I had a brother and a sister, and my

 

 

 

610

 

00:27:05,629 --> 00:27:06,593

 

Tommy Chong: sister's still with us.

 

 

 

611

 

00:27:07,086 --> 00:27:11,148

 

Tommy Chong: My brother passed a couple of years ago and,

 

 

 

612

 

00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:12,974

 

Tommy Chong: yeah, and we were named after him.

 

 

 

613

 

00:27:13,245 --> 00:27:14,449

 

Tommy Chong: My mother was very.

 

 

 

614

 

00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:17,747

 

Tommy Chong: She went to Chinese, moved when she met my

 

 

 

615

 

00:27:17,828 --> 00:27:22,732

 

Tommy Chong: dad and she just she adopted everything

 

 

 

616

 

00:27:22,872 --> 00:27:25,418

 

Tommy Chong: Chinese and she adopted.

 

 

 

617

 

00:27:25,805 --> 00:27:28,774

 

Tommy Chong: She had three kids, like my dad's family.

 

 

 

618

 

00:27:29,765 --> 00:27:33,576

 

Tommy Chong: There was my dad, stan, and my uncle, tommy,

 

 

 

619

 

00:27:33,825 --> 00:27:36,673

 

Tommy Chong: and my aunt Nelly, who I never met.

 

 

 

620

 

00:27:36,753 --> 00:27:37,475

 

Tommy Chong: She died before.

 

 

 

621

 

00:27:38,305 --> 00:27:40,866

 

Tommy Chong: But my mother had three kids too and she

 

 

 

622

 

00:27:40,926 --> 00:27:44,635

 

Tommy Chong: named them Stan, tommy and Nelly and yeah,

 

 

 

623

 

00:27:45,686 --> 00:27:46,931

 

Tommy Chong: so about what year?

 

 

 

624

 

00:27:47,151 --> 00:27:48,126

 

Marc Preston: what about was it?

 

 

 

625

 

00:27:48,146 --> 00:27:51,275

 

Marc Preston: Was it in 1969, 1970-ish, roughly?

 

 

 

626

 

00:27:51,325 --> 00:27:52,750

 

Marc Preston: Is that when you came to LA?

 

 

 

627

 

00:27:53,565 --> 00:27:54,649

 

Tommy Chong: We came to LA.

 

 

 

628

 

00:27:54,669 --> 00:27:57,629

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, it was actually, you named it right.

 

 

 

629

 

00:27:57,909 --> 00:28:06,135

 

Tommy Chong: We did 1969 in Vancouver and 1970, 71 in LA,

 

 

 

630

 

00:28:06,525 --> 00:28:07,147

 

Tommy Chong: application in thefluodance to

 

 

 

631

 

00:28:07,167 --> 00:28:10,780

 

Tommy Chong: sweetiewater們 BM-Marriageğlithololocee.

 

 

 

632

 

00:28:13,706 --> 00:28:17,695

 

Tommy Chong: And 71 was when we put out our first album,

 

 

 

633

 

00:28:18,136 --> 00:28:18,838

 

Tommy Chong: our first record.

 

 

 

634

 

00:28:18,858 --> 00:28:19,860

 

Tommy Chong: They're not here.

 

 

 

635

 

00:28:20,722 --> 00:28:22,807

 

Marc Preston: I think that's one of the things I love

 

 

 

636

 

00:28:22,928 --> 00:28:24,491

 

Marc Preston: that you share in your time here, because I

 

 

 

637

 

00:28:24,512 --> 00:28:26,464

 

Marc Preston: mean, not, I think there's a generation, my

 

 

 

638

 

00:28:26,484 --> 00:28:28,389

 

Marc Preston: kid's generation, hasn't really been

 

 

 

639

 

00:28:28,449 --> 00:28:31,203

 

Marc Preston: exposed to the things that you did or the

 

 

 

640

 

00:28:31,383 --> 00:28:34,690

 

Marc Preston: era of comedy albums, you know, and back,

 

 

 

641

 

00:28:34,730 --> 00:28:36,233

 

Marc Preston: how big of a deal they were back.

 

 

 

642

 

00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,004

 

Marc Preston: I was just watching the George Carlin

 

 

 

643

 

00:28:38,044 --> 00:28:39,147

 

Marc Preston: documentary that Javelin.

 

 

 

644

 

00:28:39,188 --> 00:28:41,624

 

Marc Preston: Tell did and as remembering, it's like man,

 

 

 

645

 

00:28:41,664 --> 00:28:43,930

 

Marc Preston: I remember sitting down, I mean, we'll

 

 

 

646

 

00:28:43,970 --> 00:28:44,672

 

Marc Preston: saying it now.

 

 

 

647

 

00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:48,563

 

Marc Preston: It's, of course, you know Bill Cosby, but

 

 

 

648

 

00:28:48,583 --> 00:28:50,310

 

Marc Preston: you know, sitting down listening to these

 

 

 

649

 

00:28:50,410 --> 00:28:52,619

 

Marc Preston: albums, that my father had this big old

 

 

 

650

 

00:28:52,659 --> 00:28:54,605

 

Marc Preston: collection and I would just be just, I

 

 

 

651

 

00:28:54,645 --> 00:28:56,089

 

Marc Preston: wouldn't understand half of what was going

 

 

 

652

 

00:28:56,230 --> 00:28:58,707

 

Marc Preston: on, but that was a big thing.

 

 

 

653

 

00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,344

 

Marc Preston: And then to transition from doing the

 

 

 

654

 

00:29:01,385 --> 00:29:06,153

 

Marc Preston: comedy albums to getting on camera and

 

 

 

655

 

00:29:06,213 --> 00:29:10,357

 

Marc Preston: bringing these characters to film how did

 

 

 

656

 

00:29:10,398 --> 00:29:10,880

 

Marc Preston: that come to be?

 

 

 

657

 

00:29:11,141 --> 00:29:12,284

 

Marc Preston: How did Javelin Tell decide okay, we're

 

 

 

658

 

00:29:12,303 --> 00:29:14,309

 

Marc Preston: going to start acting on camera now.

 

 

 

659

 

00:29:14,750 --> 00:29:15,391

 

Tommy Chong: That was me.

 

 

 

660

 

00:29:16,541 --> 00:29:19,508

 

Tommy Chong: I got really tired of going to Australia

 

 

 

661

 

00:29:19,769 --> 00:29:24,740

 

Tommy Chong: every year to work, because every time we'd

 

 

 

662

 

00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,965

 

Tommy Chong: go out of the country, you know, to a new

 

 

 

663

 

00:29:27,005 --> 00:29:29,971

 

Tommy Chong: country, I would have to write a new show

 

 

 

664

 

00:29:31,983 --> 00:29:37,617

 

Tommy Chong: and okay, you know, writing a show, doing

 

 

 

665

 

00:29:37,657 --> 00:29:38,860

 

Tommy Chong: an album is one thing.

 

 

 

666

 

00:29:39,423 --> 00:29:41,915

 

Tommy Chong: You know that takes a lot of work and time

 

 

 

667

 

00:29:41,955 --> 00:29:44,426

 

Tommy Chong: and everything else, but it's fun too.

 

 

 

668

 

00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,353

 

Tommy Chong: Live shows they're tough because you have

 

 

 

669

 

00:29:49,373 --> 00:29:50,837

 

Tommy Chong: to repeat it every time.

 

 

 

670

 

00:29:51,158 --> 00:29:55,084

 

Tommy Chong: You do a comedy album, it's done, you know,

 

 

 

671

 

00:29:55,445 --> 00:29:58,857

 

Tommy Chong: you can repeat it, maybe in a show, but for

 

 

 

672

 

00:29:58,877 --> 00:30:01,103

 

Tommy Chong: the most time it's done when you do live

 

 

 

673

 

00:30:01,143 --> 00:30:01,604

 

Tommy Chong: shows.

 

 

 

674

 

00:30:02,266 --> 00:30:04,980

 

Tommy Chong: You got to do a live show every night and

 

 

 

675

 

00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,290

 

Tommy Chong: so we'd been to Australia a couple of times

 

 

 

676

 

00:30:09,321 --> 00:30:13,465

 

Tommy Chong: and it was work, yeah, but we had, you know,

 

 

 

677

 

00:30:13,485 --> 00:30:14,830

 

Tommy Chong: we never had Mexicans there.

 

 

 

678

 

00:30:15,161 --> 00:30:17,025

 

Tommy Chong: See, when Cheech and Chong go on the road,

 

 

 

679

 

00:30:17,726 --> 00:30:18,869

 

Tommy Chong: unless we're going to, like a

 

 

 

680

 

00:30:18,929 --> 00:30:22,964

 

Tommy Chong: Spanish-friendly country, we're not

 

 

 

681

 

00:30:23,686 --> 00:30:24,227

 

Tommy Chong: accepted.

 

 

 

682

 

00:30:24,247 --> 00:30:28,662

 

Tommy Chong: The way we are seeing LA, you know, like in

 

 

 

683

 

00:30:28,722 --> 00:30:31,450

 

Tommy Chong: fact, we were killing them in LA.

 

 

 

684

 

00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,344

 

Tommy Chong: We had lineups around the block,

 

 

 

685

 

00:30:33,545 --> 00:30:35,330

 

Tommy Chong: celebrities, everybody wanted to see us in

 

 

 

686

 

00:30:35,350 --> 00:30:35,430

 

Tommy Chong: LA.

 

 

 

687

 

00:30:36,422 --> 00:30:39,430

 

Tommy Chong: We went to New York and we were teaching.

 

 

 

688

 

00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,345

 

Tommy Chong: I was very excited, you know, because we

 

 

 

689

 

00:30:41,385 --> 00:30:45,378

 

Tommy Chong: have, you know, we're, we're buying, you

 

 

 

690

 

00:30:45,398 --> 00:30:48,282

 

Tommy Chong: know, we're all over the place, new York,

 

 

 

691

 

00:30:48,302 --> 00:30:51,283

 

Tommy Chong: la doesn't matter, but the audience.

 

 

 

692

 

00:30:52,185 --> 00:30:55,050

 

Tommy Chong: If you don't have a Chicano audience, with

 

 

 

693

 

00:30:55,090 --> 00:30:57,321

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech and Chong, you're going to have a

 

 

 

694

 

00:30:57,362 --> 00:31:00,763

 

Tommy Chong: whole different show, and that's what with

 

 

 

695

 

00:31:00,944 --> 00:31:01,446

 

Tommy Chong: Australia.

 

 

 

696

 

00:31:01,980 --> 00:31:05,291

 

Tommy Chong: And so New York New York was such a wake up

 

 

 

697

 

00:31:05,332 --> 00:31:07,519

 

Tommy Chong: because Cheech and I were basking in the

 

 

 

698

 

00:31:07,559 --> 00:31:10,304

 

Tommy Chong: glory of all the Chicanos, you know.

 

 

 

699

 

00:31:10,785 --> 00:31:13,671

 

Tommy Chong: And then you get to New York and New York

 

 

 

700

 

00:31:13,771 --> 00:31:15,213

 

Tommy Chong: is deadly.

 

 

 

701

 

00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,845

 

Tommy Chong: If you're not funny, if you just show the

 

 

 

702

 

00:31:18,926 --> 00:31:22,272

 

Tommy Chong: slightest bit of hesitation in New York,

 

 

 

703

 

00:31:22,352 --> 00:31:22,973

 

Tommy Chong: you're dead.

 

 

 

704

 

00:31:24,703 --> 00:31:26,348

 

Tommy Chong: People who will kill you there.

 

 

 

705

 

00:31:27,141 --> 00:31:30,006

 

Tommy Chong: In fact, when, when Cheech and I you know,

 

 

 

706

 

00:31:30,046 --> 00:31:32,291

 

Tommy Chong: when Cheech and I broke up, my wife and I

 

 

 

707

 

00:31:32,331 --> 00:31:34,983

 

Tommy Chong: were doing comedy and she was like starting

 

 

 

708

 

00:31:35,043 --> 00:31:36,989

 

Tommy Chong: out on her own, doing doing stand up,

 

 

 

709

 

00:31:37,069 --> 00:31:42,687

 

Tommy Chong: shelby, and we were in in the Dice Andrew

 

 

 

710

 

00:31:42,707 --> 00:31:47,635

 

Tommy Chong: Dice Clay's territory in New Jersey, deadly,

 

 

 

711

 

00:31:48,442 --> 00:31:51,284

 

Tommy Chong: shelby went out, shelby went out and there

 

 

 

712

 

00:31:51,404 --> 00:31:54,241

 

Tommy Chong: wasn't one laugh, it was.

 

 

 

713

 

00:31:55,083 --> 00:31:59,683

 

Tommy Chong: I was horrible, and but that showed you how

 

 

 

714

 

00:31:59,763 --> 00:32:03,569

 

Tommy Chong: tough the the my lady is, because after I

 

 

 

715

 

00:32:03,629 --> 00:32:07,014

 

Tommy Chong: said, you know it was not one last nothing.

 

 

 

716

 

00:32:08,101 --> 00:32:09,745

 

Tommy Chong: You know, usually they're polite enough to

 

 

 

717

 

00:32:10,307 --> 00:32:12,261

 

Tommy Chong: to give him applause or something, but it

 

 

 

718

 

00:32:12,301 --> 00:32:14,728

 

Tommy Chong: was they just, you know that's, that's the

 

 

 

719

 

00:32:14,748 --> 00:32:17,757

 

Tommy Chong: way the Andrew Dice Clay's crowd were, you

 

 

 

720

 

00:32:17,777 --> 00:32:18,780

 

Tommy Chong: know, just like you know they're horrible,

 

 

 

721

 

00:32:20,052 --> 00:32:22,463

 

Tommy Chong: they're like Trumpish, you know, and so so.

 

 

 

722

 

00:32:22,984 --> 00:32:23,845

 

Tommy Chong: So we ended up.

 

 

 

723

 

00:32:25,028 --> 00:32:26,691

 

Tommy Chong: So she, she never got one laugh.

 

 

 

724

 

00:32:26,771 --> 00:32:29,095

 

Tommy Chong: And she's walking up and in my mind I said

 

 

 

725

 

00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:31,259

 

Tommy Chong: well, this'll either make her break her,

 

 

 

726

 

00:32:31,279 --> 00:32:31,840

 

Tommy Chong: you know.

 

 

 

727

 

00:32:32,563 --> 00:32:35,377

 

Tommy Chong: And so I said to her as I went on stage, I

 

 

 

728

 

00:32:35,398 --> 00:32:38,327

 

Tommy Chong: said pretty tough and she said F them.

 

 

 

729

 

00:32:40,382 --> 00:32:42,731

 

Marc Preston: She said you know she, she, she.

 

 

 

730

 

00:32:42,751 --> 00:32:44,037

 

Marc Preston: You know she's kind of built up that callus

 

 

 

731

 

00:32:44,057 --> 00:32:44,880

 

Marc Preston: to be able to handle those folks now.

 

 

 

732

 

00:32:46,184 --> 00:32:48,390

 

Marc Preston: But like you know, that's one of the quite

 

 

 

733

 

00:32:48,410 --> 00:32:50,596

 

Marc Preston: you mentioned Andrew Dice Clay and you know

 

 

 

734

 

00:32:50,616 --> 00:32:51,880

 

Marc Preston: you go back to Sam Kinnison and you go back

 

 

 

735

 

00:32:53,322 --> 00:32:55,246

 

Marc Preston: as I was coming up in the 80s watching

 

 

 

736

 

00:32:55,947 --> 00:32:56,327

 

Marc Preston: comedy.

 

 

 

737

 

00:32:56,367 --> 00:32:59,372

 

Marc Preston: You had Eddie Murphy doing these big almost

 

 

 

738

 

00:32:59,392 --> 00:33:02,418

 

Marc Preston: like you know, these big arena shows.

 

 

 

739

 

00:33:02,478 --> 00:33:02,698

 

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

 

 

740

 

00:33:02,718 --> 00:33:03,640

 

Marc Preston: You had a lot of folks doing that.

 

 

 

741

 

00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:05,799

 

Marc Preston: You don't hear about that nearly as much.

 

 

 

742

 

00:33:06,542 --> 00:33:09,329

 

Marc Preston: I mean, it seems like the 80s was that a?

 

 

 

743

 

00:33:09,409 --> 00:33:13,339

 

Marc Preston: Was that a real heyday for comics to put on

 

 

 

744

 

00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:13,780

 

Marc Preston: just killer big shows?

 

 

 

745

 

00:33:14,943 --> 00:33:16,426

 

Marc Preston: And what's the difference between then and

 

 

 

746

 

00:33:16,507 --> 00:33:17,369

 

Marc Preston: now in your mind?

 

 

 

747

 

00:33:19,221 --> 00:33:22,512

 

Tommy Chong: Well, now it's more sophisticated and it's

 

 

 

748

 

00:33:22,572 --> 00:33:24,880

 

Tommy Chong: more segregated.

 

 

 

749

 

00:33:25,781 --> 00:33:30,165

 

Tommy Chong: You know, like that, one time Bill Cosby

 

 

 

750

 

00:33:30,385 --> 00:33:33,608

 

Tommy Chong: was the opposite of Eddie Murphy, but

 

 

 

751

 

00:33:33,648 --> 00:33:35,590

 

Tommy Chong: they're both black, you know.

 

 

 

752

 

00:33:35,770 --> 00:33:38,293

 

Tommy Chong: But Cosby was appealed to the, to the

 

 

 

753

 

00:33:38,353 --> 00:33:41,416

 

Tommy Chong: whiter blacks, and Eddie Murphy appealed to

 

 

 

754

 

00:33:41,796 --> 00:33:42,417

 

Tommy Chong: all blacks.

 

 

 

755

 

00:33:42,517 --> 00:33:45,246

 

Tommy Chong: You know, it's almost like the ones that

 

 

 

756

 

00:33:45,286 --> 00:33:46,669

 

Tommy Chong: are in prison, the ones that are under

 

 

 

757

 

00:33:46,710 --> 00:33:47,050

 

Tommy Chong: prison.

 

 

 

758

 

00:33:48,641 --> 00:33:52,867

 

Tommy Chong: It's almost that ghetto or upper class, you

 

 

 

759

 

00:33:52,907 --> 00:33:53,047

 

Tommy Chong: know.

 

 

 

760

 

00:33:53,688 --> 00:33:56,551

 

Tommy Chong: But now there's.

 

 

 

761

 

00:33:56,572 --> 00:33:58,614

 

Tommy Chong: So that, what's that culture?

 

 

 

762

 

00:34:00,903 --> 00:34:03,209

 

Tommy Chong: I can never remember the phrase.

 

 

 

763

 

00:34:04,362 --> 00:34:05,848

 

Tommy Chong: I hadn't changed my act.

 

 

 

764

 

00:34:06,442 --> 00:34:08,330

 

Tommy Chong: Listen, you know I'm, I'm.

 

 

 

765

 

00:34:08,691 --> 00:34:10,659

 

Tommy Chong: I never considered, you know, I mean, I was

 

 

 

766

 

00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:10,880

 

Tommy Chong: married.

 

 

 

767

 

00:34:11,322 --> 00:34:12,507

 

Tommy Chong: My first wife is black.

 

 

 

768

 

00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:15,840

 

Tommy Chong: I got two black kids, you know daughters.

 

 

 

769

 

00:34:16,621 --> 00:34:19,326

 

Tommy Chong: I never, ever, considered myself anything

 

 

 

770

 

00:34:19,426 --> 00:34:21,851

 

Tommy Chong: less than you know a brother.

 

 

 

771

 

00:34:22,572 --> 00:34:23,754

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I was there.

 

 

 

772

 

00:34:24,843 --> 00:34:27,771

 

Tommy Chong: We did a bit called a blind melon chiming

 

 

 

773

 

00:34:28,945 --> 00:34:31,578

 

Tommy Chong: and and it was a takeoff on a blind blue

 

 

 

774

 

00:34:31,619 --> 00:34:36,147

 

Tommy Chong: singer and now I got the premise or the

 

 

 

775

 

00:34:36,287 --> 00:34:40,012

 

Tommy Chong: idea from the committee was an acting group

 

 

 

776

 

00:34:40,533 --> 00:34:41,715

 

Tommy Chong: out of the San Francisco.

 

 

 

777

 

00:34:43,224 --> 00:34:48,629

 

Tommy Chong: They did a bit similar, but then I saw the

 

 

 

778

 

00:34:48,669 --> 00:34:49,572

 

Tommy Chong: T-Bone Walker.

 

 

 

779

 

00:34:50,421 --> 00:34:52,627

 

Tommy Chong: Now, I was a guitar, I am a guitar player,

 

 

 

780

 

00:34:52,767 --> 00:34:56,222

 

Tommy Chong: and I saw T-Bone at his height and then I

 

 

 

781

 

00:34:56,282 --> 00:34:58,807

 

Tommy Chong: saw him at his lowest part and it was the

 

 

 

782

 

00:34:58,867 --> 00:35:01,712

 

Tommy Chong: lowest part that inspired us to do blind

 

 

 

783

 

00:35:01,752 --> 00:35:02,434

 

Tommy Chong: melon chiming.

 

 

 

784

 

00:35:02,940 --> 00:35:05,685

 

Tommy Chong: Well, I, I'm getting you know, to me it was

 

 

 

785

 

00:35:05,705 --> 00:35:08,250

 

Tommy Chong: like it wasn't insulting or any of that

 

 

 

786

 

00:35:09,712 --> 00:35:14,284

 

Tommy Chong: stuff, but I was ready to do a show in Reno,

 

 

 

787

 

00:35:14,985 --> 00:35:17,949

 

Tommy Chong: teach that I am in Shelby and Herbie

 

 

 

788

 

00:35:17,989 --> 00:35:21,473

 

Tommy Chong: Hancock, the great Herbie Hancock, the jazz

 

 

 

789

 

00:35:21,493 --> 00:35:26,741

 

Tommy Chong: guy, he, he was a big fan and I knew that

 

 

 

790

 

00:35:26,821 --> 00:35:32,308

 

Tommy Chong: because he one time he had us appear on his

 

 

 

791

 

00:35:33,550 --> 00:35:37,735

 

Tommy Chong: in Switzerland at the jazz concert.

 

 

 

792

 

00:35:39,723 --> 00:35:41,450

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, they had a jazz show there in

 

 

 

793

 

00:35:41,490 --> 00:35:43,860

 

Tommy Chong: Switzerland and teach and I were invited.

 

 

 

794

 

00:35:44,562 --> 00:35:48,069

 

Tommy Chong: We came and worked a little bit, you know,

 

 

 

795

 

00:35:48,290 --> 00:35:49,112

 

Tommy Chong: mc a little bit.

 

 

 

796

 

00:35:50,342 --> 00:35:51,386

 

Tommy Chong: Herbie's a big fan.

 

 

 

797

 

00:35:53,523 --> 00:35:55,887

 

Tommy Chong: So Herbie, we're talking because he's going

 

 

 

798

 

00:35:55,907 --> 00:35:59,092

 

Tommy Chong: to appear in Reno after teach and I,

 

 

 

799

 

00:35:59,272 --> 00:36:04,765

 

Tommy Chong: charlie, and then Herbie, he said, he said,

 

 

 

800

 

00:36:04,786 --> 00:36:09,372

 

Tommy Chong: you know, we kind of like a serious.

 

 

 

801

 

00:36:10,253 --> 00:36:11,615

 

Tommy Chong: It was a serious discussion.

 

 

 

802

 

00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:15,348

 

Tommy Chong: He was trying to get to me about my blind

 

 

 

803

 

00:36:15,388 --> 00:36:18,801

 

Tommy Chong: melon chiming bit and the way he said it

 

 

 

804

 

00:36:18,841 --> 00:36:19,061

 

Tommy Chong: was.

 

 

 

805

 

00:36:19,601 --> 00:36:23,845

 

Tommy Chong: Hey, man, you know, when you do the blind

 

 

 

806

 

00:36:23,865 --> 00:36:24,586

 

Tommy Chong: melon thing.

 

 

 

807

 

00:36:24,966 --> 00:36:27,388

 

Tommy Chong: He says you start off playing.

 

 

 

808

 

00:36:27,548 --> 00:36:32,973

 

Tommy Chong: You know you got that really good jazz, you

 

 

 

809

 

00:36:32,993 --> 00:36:35,855

 

Tommy Chong: know like good music, you know, and then

 

 

 

810

 

00:36:35,895 --> 00:36:37,176

 

Tommy Chong: you get into that other shit.

 

 

 

811

 

00:36:39,322 --> 00:36:40,507

 

Marc Preston: He's like well, you mean the thing I do for

 

 

 

812

 

00:36:40,527 --> 00:36:40,828

 

Marc Preston: a living.

 

 

 

813

 

00:36:41,008 --> 00:36:44,445

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and then he said,

 

 

 

814

 

00:36:44,465 --> 00:36:44,868

 

Tommy Chong: well, he said that.

 

 

 

815

 

00:36:46,837 --> 00:36:47,457

 

Tommy Chong: I looked at him.

 

 

 

816

 

00:36:48,579 --> 00:36:51,723

 

Tommy Chong: I respect jazz guys more than you know.

 

 

 

817

 

00:36:51,783 --> 00:36:57,811

 

Tommy Chong: To me they're the real spiritual leaders of

 

 

 

818

 

00:36:57,831 --> 00:36:58,292

 

Tommy Chong: the country.

 

 

 

819

 

00:36:58,332 --> 00:37:03,265

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, indeed, and so it really struck home.

 

 

 

820

 

00:37:04,658 --> 00:37:07,167

 

Tommy Chong: And so, even though I did Blame Melancholyn

 

 

 

821

 

00:37:07,247 --> 00:37:09,595

 

Tommy Chong: after that, I changed the act.

 

 

 

822

 

00:37:10,076 --> 00:37:12,343

 

Tommy Chong: See, when Cheech and I did it, I used it,

 

 

 

823

 

00:37:12,684 --> 00:37:13,546

 

Tommy Chong: it was all visual.

 

 

 

824

 

00:37:14,478 --> 00:37:17,577

 

Tommy Chong: He was too drunk to really play and so he

 

 

 

825

 

00:37:17,617 --> 00:37:19,741

 

Tommy Chong: just did all these visual funny things that

 

 

 

826

 

00:37:19,781 --> 00:37:22,926

 

Tommy Chong: were very funny and would get the crowd on

 

 

 

827

 

00:37:22,966 --> 00:37:23,888

 

Tommy Chong: the floor laughing.

 

 

 

828

 

00:37:24,935 --> 00:37:26,977

 

Tommy Chong: And then, when Cheech and I broke up, I

 

 

 

829

 

00:37:27,598 --> 00:37:30,320

 

Tommy Chong: started doing the Blame Melancholyn voice

 

 

 

830

 

00:37:31,882 --> 00:37:33,644

 

Tommy Chong: and doing jokes bits.

 

 

 

831

 

00:37:33,824 --> 00:37:37,247

 

Tommy Chong: You know, different, different black bits.

 

 

 

832

 

00:37:37,307 --> 00:37:39,449

 

Tommy Chong: You know, in fact I was, you might as well

 

 

 

833

 

00:37:39,489 --> 00:37:41,851

 

Tommy Chong: say, in fact I did appear in blackface,

 

 

 

834

 

00:37:42,935 --> 00:37:46,440

 

Tommy Chong: still smoking, in the movie because I

 

 

 

835

 

00:37:46,540 --> 00:37:51,527

 

Tommy Chong: always felt that that blind, you know, had

 

 

 

836

 

00:37:51,567 --> 00:37:57,400

 

Tommy Chong: the soul of a black man and but obviously

 

 

 

837

 

00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,026

 

Tommy Chong: not because her being, her, being a class

 

 

 

838

 

00:38:01,206 --> 00:38:02,708

 

Tommy Chong: on, he saw through it.

 

 

 

839

 

00:38:03,856 --> 00:38:05,467

 

Marc Preston: And so it's kind of like Mel Brooks.

 

 

 

840

 

00:38:05,507 --> 00:38:06,635

 

Marc Preston: You know he had a lot of his comedy.

 

 

 

841

 

00:38:06,896 --> 00:38:09,523

 

Marc Preston: It was never making fun of, it was trying

 

 

 

842

 

00:38:09,563 --> 00:38:10,486

 

Marc Preston: to embrace the.

 

 

 

843

 

00:38:11,899 --> 00:38:12,622

 

Marc Preston: It was parody.

 

 

 

844

 

00:38:12,662 --> 00:38:14,568

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, it was trying to kind of celebrate

 

 

 

845

 

00:38:14,588 --> 00:38:16,053

 

Marc Preston: the culture in a way where people like,

 

 

 

846

 

00:38:16,113 --> 00:38:17,939

 

Marc Preston: okay, I get it, he's not making fun of us,

 

 

 

847

 

00:38:18,059 --> 00:38:20,426

 

Marc Preston: you know, but it's a fine line.

 

 

 

848

 

00:38:20,735 --> 00:38:22,682

 

Marc Preston: But I just don't think that that could

 

 

 

849

 

00:38:22,742 --> 00:38:23,545

 

Marc Preston: happen today.

 

 

 

850

 

00:38:23,816 --> 00:38:25,161

 

Marc Preston: You know, I don't think they comedy.

 

 

 

851

 

00:38:25,655 --> 00:38:27,223

 

Marc Preston: I think the people are too quick on the

 

 

 

852

 

00:38:27,263 --> 00:38:29,635

 

Marc Preston: trigger to not political correctness.

 

 

 

853

 

00:38:30,279 --> 00:38:30,762

 

Marc Preston: I don't know.

 

 

 

854

 

00:38:34,001 --> 00:38:36,768

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, the culture stealing the culture,

 

 

 

855

 

00:38:36,788 --> 00:38:37,770

 

Tommy Chong: something culture?

 

 

 

856

 

00:38:38,853 --> 00:38:39,354

 

Marc Preston: appropriation.

 

 

 

857

 

00:38:39,374 --> 00:38:43,037

 

Tommy Chong: I think yeah, I call it yeah yeah, all that

 

 

 

858

 

00:38:43,157 --> 00:38:45,240

 

Tommy Chong: all that weird talk, you know.

 

 

 

859

 

00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:48,464

 

Tommy Chong: But then if you look at like I was what I

 

 

 

860

 

00:38:48,484 --> 00:38:52,529

 

Tommy Chong: watched, all in the family and all the

 

 

 

861

 

00:38:52,549 --> 00:38:54,791

 

Tommy Chong: family just showed Archie Bunker there and

 

 

 

862

 

00:38:54,992 --> 00:38:57,615

 

Tommy Chong: another, you know, trump right up the bat.

 

 

 

863

 

00:38:58,157 --> 00:38:59,181

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I mean this.

 

 

 

864

 

00:38:59,261 --> 00:39:02,615

 

Tommy Chong: This guy was really sick in his hair.

 

 

 

865

 

00:39:03,376 --> 00:39:05,299

 

Tommy Chong: Nobody believed but it was it was.

 

 

 

866

 

00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,603

 

Marc Preston: It was parodying that guy, but you're also

 

 

 

867

 

00:39:08,024 --> 00:39:09,526

 

Marc Preston: empathetic and I think that's that's a

 

 

 

868

 

00:39:09,627 --> 00:39:10,929

 

Marc Preston: great acting and great.

 

 

 

869

 

00:39:11,129 --> 00:39:13,293

 

Marc Preston: You know, great comedy is you can be

 

 

 

870

 

00:39:13,353 --> 00:39:14,635

 

Marc Preston: empathetic to the ridiculous one.

 

 

 

871

 

00:39:15,056 --> 00:39:16,539

 

Marc Preston: You know you can kind of he's like all

 

 

 

872

 

00:39:16,559 --> 00:39:19,845

 

Marc Preston: right, but but when you had the, the, the

 

 

 

873

 

00:39:19,966 --> 00:39:21,990

 

Marc Preston: offshoot, which is the Jeffersons, the

 

 

 

874

 

00:39:22,010 --> 00:39:24,455

 

Marc Preston: interaction he had with his name is Kate

 

 

 

875

 

00:39:24,475 --> 00:39:24,635

 

Marc Preston: George.

 

 

 

876

 

00:39:25,518 --> 00:39:26,342

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, George.

 

 

 

877

 

00:39:26,775 --> 00:39:29,780

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, the interaction that they had was

 

 

 

878

 

00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,042

 

Marc Preston: just like they're going at each other,

 

 

 

879

 

00:39:31,142 --> 00:39:32,885

 

Marc Preston: which is the way kind of funny, because

 

 

 

880

 

00:39:32,905 --> 00:39:34,167

 

Marc Preston: they're both being real from their own

 

 

 

881

 

00:39:34,207 --> 00:39:35,148

 

Marc Preston: perspective, you know.

 

 

 

882

 

00:39:35,408 --> 00:39:35,529

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah.

 

 

 

883

 

00:39:36,635 --> 00:39:38,842

 

Marc Preston: But I think that the comedies is very it

 

 

 

884

 

00:39:38,882 --> 00:39:40,975

 

Marc Preston: was nuanced, you know.

 

 

 

885

 

00:39:41,056 --> 00:39:43,218

 

Marc Preston: I guess you can say, but like you listen to

 

 

 

886

 

00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:45,401

 

Marc Preston: you talk about Bill Cosby before and who he

 

 

 

887

 

00:39:45,441 --> 00:39:47,644

 

Marc Preston: was appealing to, and I remember one of the

 

 

 

888

 

00:39:47,684 --> 00:39:49,687

 

Marc Preston: bits that Eddie Murphy did.

 

 

 

889

 

00:39:49,707 --> 00:39:51,770

 

Marc Preston: He was talking about how he got a call from

 

 

 

890

 

00:39:52,795 --> 00:39:54,619

 

Marc Preston: oh yeah, got got a call from Bill.

 

 

 

891

 

00:39:54,899 --> 00:39:56,382

 

Marc Preston: You know Bill Cosby saying, hey, you know

 

 

 

892

 

00:39:56,402 --> 00:39:57,644

 

Marc Preston: you need to dial back on that.

 

 

 

893

 

00:39:58,365 --> 00:39:59,928

 

Marc Preston: You know four letter words and all that and

 

 

 

894

 

00:39:59,948 --> 00:40:01,070

 

Marc Preston: he calls up Richard Pryor.

 

 

 

895

 

00:40:01,090 --> 00:40:02,192

 

Marc Preston: Is like Richard, what do you think you know?

 

 

 

896

 

00:40:02,212 --> 00:40:03,635

 

Marc Preston: Because Richard Pryor is like you know,

 

 

 

897

 

00:40:04,196 --> 00:40:04,817

 

Marc Preston: hell with him, man.

 

 

 

898

 

00:40:04,837 --> 00:40:06,319

 

Marc Preston: You know, I'm sure more colorful language

 

 

 

899

 

00:40:06,339 --> 00:40:07,100

 

Marc Preston: like do your thing.

 

 

 

900

 

00:40:07,140 --> 00:40:09,403

 

Marc Preston: You know it's like Richard Pryor was.

 

 

 

901

 

00:40:10,624 --> 00:40:13,728

 

Marc Preston: I think that that there's so many comedians

 

 

 

902

 

00:40:13,869 --> 00:40:17,393

 

Marc Preston: now that you can trace back the DNA to you

 

 

 

903

 

00:40:17,433 --> 00:40:18,615

 

Marc Preston: know, oh yeah, that Eddie Murphy.

 

 

 

904

 

00:40:19,037 --> 00:40:21,446

 

Marc Preston: Well, eddie Murphy traces DNA back to you

 

 

 

905

 

00:40:21,486 --> 00:40:22,772

 

Marc Preston: know, richard Pryor.

 

 

 

906

 

00:40:22,812 --> 00:40:23,635

 

Marc Preston: So I don't know.

 

 

 

907

 

00:40:23,655 --> 00:40:25,462

 

Marc Preston: There, I think I love comedy.

 

 

 

908

 

00:40:25,655 --> 00:40:27,110

 

Marc Preston: I think that I think I grew up in a really

 

 

 

909

 

00:40:27,170 --> 00:40:30,505

 

Marc Preston: wonderful time and I think in the 80s it

 

 

 

910

 

00:40:30,525 --> 00:40:32,270

 

Marc Preston: was all happening at Sam Kenneson, which is

 

 

 

911

 

00:40:32,311 --> 00:40:35,322

 

Marc Preston: just you know, probably off the wall.

 

 

 

912

 

00:40:36,316 --> 00:40:38,961

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, you know, and watch that documentary

 

 

 

913

 

00:40:38,981 --> 00:40:41,446

 

Marc Preston: that John Appetow did on George Carlin.

 

 

 

914

 

00:40:41,746 --> 00:40:42,327

 

Tommy Chong: I did, I did.

 

 

 

915

 

00:40:44,857 --> 00:40:46,501

 

Marc Preston: And I never knew this George Carlin had

 

 

 

916

 

00:40:46,601 --> 00:40:49,306

 

Marc Preston: seen Sam Kenneson and recognized wait a

 

 

 

917

 

00:40:49,346 --> 00:40:50,990

 

Marc Preston: minute, I need to make some adjustments

 

 

 

918

 

00:40:51,010 --> 00:40:53,415

 

Marc Preston: because I don't want to be kind of an

 

 

 

919

 

00:40:53,475 --> 00:40:56,063

 

Marc Preston: actress yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, left behind.

 

 

 

920

 

00:40:58,159 --> 00:40:59,522

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, and the and George Carlin weren't you

 

 

 

921

 

00:40:59,602 --> 00:41:00,404

 

Marc Preston: on his show once?

 

 

 

922

 

00:41:00,665 --> 00:41:02,940

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, back at the George Carlin show,

 

 

 

923

 

00:41:03,655 --> 00:41:03,936

 

Marc Preston: yeah.

 

 

 

924

 

00:41:04,318 --> 00:41:07,221

 

Tommy Chong: I sure was, and I got to know George.

 

 

 

925

 

00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:10,680

 

Tommy Chong: One thing about George that nobody really

 

 

 

926

 

00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,304

 

Tommy Chong: talked about, even in the documentary I was

 

 

 

927

 

00:41:13,344 --> 00:41:15,387

 

Tommy Chong: shocked that he's a piano player.

 

 

 

928

 

00:41:16,068 --> 00:41:19,004

 

Tommy Chong: Really, I didn't know that he was once he

 

 

 

929

 

00:41:19,044 --> 00:41:19,608

 

Tommy Chong: had a group.

 

 

 

930

 

00:41:20,434 --> 00:41:22,125

 

Tommy Chong: One time he played in a group.

 

 

 

931

 

00:41:22,709 --> 00:41:23,615

 

Tommy Chong: He can play piano.

 

 

 

932

 

00:41:23,755 --> 00:41:26,464

 

Tommy Chong: That's where he got all the word stuff from.

 

 

 

933

 

00:41:26,956 --> 00:41:29,384

 

Tommy Chong: You know he's, he was very musical.

 

 

 

934

 

00:41:29,815 --> 00:41:31,799

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, I always thought I came up in Dallas

 

 

 

935

 

00:41:31,899 --> 00:41:33,322

 

Marc Preston: Radio and I always thought it was kind of

 

 

 

936

 

00:41:33,342 --> 00:41:34,804

 

Marc Preston: cool because, like you know, George Carlin

 

 

 

937

 

00:41:34,844 --> 00:41:36,187

 

Marc Preston: worked in Fort Worth Radio.

 

 

 

938

 

00:41:36,287 --> 00:41:39,141

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, and I was like that's kind of cool.

 

 

 

939

 

00:41:39,735 --> 00:41:41,219

 

Marc Preston: And this is where the seven words came.

 

 

 

940

 

00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,224

 

Marc Preston: The FCC got their seven words from as this

 

 

 

941

 

00:41:43,264 --> 00:41:43,846

 

Marc Preston: guy yeah.

 

 

 

942

 

00:41:44,876 --> 00:41:47,041

 

Marc Preston: George Carlin, you know, one of the funny

 

 

 

943

 

00:41:47,121 --> 00:41:48,525

 

Marc Preston: things I was wondering if you could kind of

 

 

 

944

 

00:41:48,565 --> 00:41:51,813

 

Marc Preston: clarify that I saw was they were actually

 

 

 

945

 

00:41:51,873 --> 00:41:53,438

 

Marc Preston: referred to Cheech in this and they said

 

 

 

946

 

00:41:53,458 --> 00:41:54,822

 

Marc Preston: that there was some time in the 80s where

 

 

 

947

 

00:41:54,842 --> 00:41:58,515

 

Marc Preston: they said Cheech said he was Get kind of

 

 

 

948

 

00:41:58,535 --> 00:41:58,635

 

Marc Preston: passé.

 

 

 

949

 

00:41:59,178 --> 00:42:00,705

 

Marc Preston: It's like, okay, you know George Carlin's

 

 

 

950

 

00:42:00,725 --> 00:42:02,293

 

Marc Preston: the 1970s.

 

 

 

951

 

00:42:02,313 --> 00:42:02,615

 

Tommy Chong: He's obsolete.

 

 

 

952

 

00:42:03,056 --> 00:42:04,943

 

Tommy Chong: He said no, he said he was obsolete.

 

 

 

953

 

00:42:06,217 --> 00:42:07,682

 

Tommy Chong: George Carlin was obsolete.

 

 

 

954

 

00:42:08,675 --> 00:42:10,963

 

Tommy Chong: And Cheech Cheech denied saying that.

 

 

 

955

 

00:42:12,496 --> 00:42:16,302

 

Tommy Chong: I asked Cheech about it, you know and, and

 

 

 

956

 

00:42:16,943 --> 00:42:20,247

 

Tommy Chong: he denied saying he could very well upset

 

 

 

957

 

00:42:20,327 --> 00:42:20,988

 

Tommy Chong: it one time.

 

 

 

958

 

00:42:22,916 --> 00:42:25,682

 

Tommy Chong: But George Cheech used to do George, one of

 

 

 

959

 

00:42:25,722 --> 00:42:29,537

 

Tommy Chong: George Bitts, really, george, yeah, just

 

 

 

960

 

00:42:29,557 --> 00:42:31,460

 

Tommy Chong: pulled the twine something.

 

 

 

961

 

00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,766

 

Tommy Chong: You know, cowboy, you don't take off on the

 

 

 

962

 

00:42:34,806 --> 00:42:35,247

 

Tommy Chong: cowboys.

 

 

 

963

 

00:42:36,815 --> 00:42:40,265

 

Tommy Chong: I, I, I then I knew George.

 

 

 

964

 

00:42:41,076 --> 00:42:41,979

 

Tommy Chong: I was on a show.

 

 

 

965

 

00:42:43,816 --> 00:42:46,838

 

Tommy Chong: I never got tight with him, you know, and,

 

 

 

966

 

00:42:47,019 --> 00:42:50,056

 

Tommy Chong: and, by the way, I saw the last show George

 

 

 

967

 

00:42:50,176 --> 00:42:55,143

 

Tommy Chong: did was there was a whole slew of comedians

 

 

 

968

 

00:42:55,844 --> 00:43:01,439

 

Tommy Chong: at the Wadsworth Theater in Westwood and it

 

 

 

969

 

00:43:01,499 --> 00:43:04,125

 

Tommy Chong: was George's last performance, really.

 

 

 

970

 

00:43:04,145 --> 00:43:04,806

 

Tommy Chong: And you saw that.

 

 

 

971

 

00:43:06,076 --> 00:43:07,882

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, I saw that Norm Cosby was there.

 

 

 

972

 

00:43:08,815 --> 00:43:10,659

 

Tommy Chong: Oh, what was the?

 

 

 

973

 

00:43:10,699 --> 00:43:12,342

 

Tommy Chong: Remember the guy that used to have the

 

 

 

974

 

00:43:12,402 --> 00:43:16,877

 

Tommy Chong: newspaper under his arm the very first?

 

 

 

975

 

00:43:18,521 --> 00:43:19,382

 

Tommy Chong: What was his name?

 

 

 

976

 

00:43:22,635 --> 00:43:28,366

 

Tommy Chong: He did commentary on God.

 

 

 

977

 

00:43:28,387 --> 00:43:29,609

 

Tommy Chong: I can't think of his name right now.

 

 

 

978

 

00:43:29,936 --> 00:43:31,140

 

Marc Preston: I think I know what you're talking about.

 

 

 

979

 

00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,284

 

Marc Preston: I'm not wearing a curtain on it.

 

 

 

980

 

00:43:32,635 --> 00:43:32,836

 

Tommy Chong: It was.

 

 

 

981

 

00:43:33,038 --> 00:43:34,628

 

Tommy Chong: It was his, his last show.

 

 

 

982

 

00:43:35,201 --> 00:43:37,879

 

Tommy Chong: In fact, it was because of that, it was

 

 

 

983

 

00:43:37,899 --> 00:43:40,057

 

Tommy Chong: going to be his last show period and he

 

 

 

984

 

00:43:40,097 --> 00:43:41,382

 

Tommy Chong: died shortly after that.

 

 

 

985

 

00:43:41,958 --> 00:43:44,799

 

Tommy Chong: But yeah, I saw all those last shows and it

 

 

 

986

 

00:43:44,839 --> 00:43:48,411

 

Tommy Chong: was quite a thrill for me because I, you

 

 

 

987

 

00:43:48,431 --> 00:43:49,635

 

Tommy Chong: know, we grew up with all those guys?

 

 

 

988

 

00:43:50,158 --> 00:43:51,826

 

Marc Preston: Well, yeah, but you also know how much goes

 

 

 

989

 

00:43:52,087 --> 00:43:55,085

 

Marc Preston: into building an act and how many, how much

 

 

 

990

 

00:43:55,145 --> 00:43:57,296

 

Marc Preston: is working it out over and over, and just

 

 

 

991

 

00:43:57,757 --> 00:44:00,082

 

Marc Preston: till you get your show set, your HBO show

 

 

 

992

 

00:44:00,162 --> 00:44:00,423

 

Marc Preston: set.

 

 

 

993

 

00:44:00,483 --> 00:44:02,026

 

Marc Preston: You know they don't see all the time you're

 

 

 

994

 

00:44:02,046 --> 00:44:03,469

 

Marc Preston: in these dark clubs working it out.

 

 

 

995

 

00:44:03,976 --> 00:44:05,619

 

Marc Preston: But you know, george Carlin, I think

 

 

 

996

 

00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,325

 

Marc Preston: starting in about 2016, I wish is like God,

 

 

 

997

 

00:44:09,365 --> 00:44:11,609

 

Marc Preston: this is the time he was meant to be here.

 

 

 

998

 

00:44:11,736 --> 00:44:14,570

 

Marc Preston: You know, 2016 forward, when, politically

 

 

 

999

 

00:44:14,610 --> 00:44:15,996

 

Marc Preston: and everything going on in our world I mean,

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:16,017 --> 00:44:19,199

 

Marc Preston: this is the stuff he was commenting on and

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:21,265

 

Marc Preston: people thought he was extremely cynical or

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:21,305 --> 00:44:21,586

 

Marc Preston: whatever.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:21,635 --> 00:44:23,179

 

Marc Preston: I was like no, he's, he's got some

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:23,199 --> 00:44:25,064

 

Marc Preston: perspective that maybe he was a little bit

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:25,084 --> 00:44:27,960

 

Marc Preston: of a forecaster, you know, oh he was he was

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:28,655 --> 00:44:30,058

 

Marc Preston: and what the truth is.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:32,262 --> 00:44:34,587

 

Tommy Chong: I think you got to be very careful when

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:34,607 --> 00:44:35,409

 

Tommy Chong: you're a comedian.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:36,999 --> 00:44:37,480

 

Tommy Chong: I had a.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:39,185 --> 00:44:42,414

 

Tommy Chong: They honored me at the Skirball in Los

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:42,454 --> 00:44:42,635

 

Tommy Chong: Angeles.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:43,197 --> 00:44:44,462

 

Tommy Chong: Do you know where the Skirball is?

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:44,675 --> 00:44:46,221

 

Tommy Chong: I've never heard that about that before.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:47,177 --> 00:44:52,073

 

Tommy Chong: Skirball is a Jewish center, the community

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:52,093 --> 00:44:52,595

 

Tommy Chong: center kind of thing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:53,078 --> 00:44:53,722

 

Marc Preston: Oh, okay, I got.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:53,742 --> 00:44:55,595

 

Tommy Chong: You Is like all Fairfax or something, or,

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:56,296 --> 00:44:59,663

 

Tommy Chong: yeah, no, it's up on 405, near the Getty

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:59,703 --> 00:45:01,727

 

Tommy Chong: Museum, near the museum up there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:02,148 --> 00:45:05,021

 

Tommy Chong: Okay, and as you go up, then it's Skirball

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:08,097

 

Tommy Chong: is called any, it's a Skirball center and

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:08,277 --> 00:45:11,597

 

Tommy Chong: and and so they're going to honor me and

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:11,697 --> 00:45:14,261

 

Tommy Chong: anytime anybody honors anybody.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:14,401 --> 00:45:18,067

 

Tommy Chong: It's just a scam really to get them to do

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:18,107 --> 00:45:19,069

 

Tommy Chong: an act for nothing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:19,655 --> 00:45:21,438

 

Tommy Chong: You know, you get a plaque, you get a

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:21,478 --> 00:45:24,602

 

Tommy Chong: plaque or you get a meal, but and usually

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:24,622 --> 00:45:27,606

 

Tommy Chong: they have a lot of other comedians on and

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:27,927 --> 00:45:29,870

 

Tommy Chong: they're they're doing their act and

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:29,890 --> 00:45:30,390

 

Tommy Chong: everything else.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:31,337 --> 00:45:35,407

 

Tommy Chong: So I got, I got they wanted to honor me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:36,076 --> 00:45:38,759

 

Tommy Chong: Well, I'm kind of in.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:41,222 --> 00:45:45,287

 

Tommy Chong: I only went into comedy after when we broke

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:45,387 --> 00:45:45,447

 

Tommy Chong: up.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:48,775 --> 00:45:51,404

 

Tommy Chong: See, I was always a part of a comedy team

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:51,936 --> 00:45:54,103

 

Tommy Chong: and I was very comfortable with that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:55,077 --> 00:45:58,341

 

Tommy Chong: When she and I broke up, I saw Dennis

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:58,381 --> 00:45:58,642

 

Tommy Chong: Miller.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:58,762 --> 00:45:59,725

 

Tommy Chong: Remember Dennis Miller?

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:59,806 --> 00:46:03,142

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, absolutely, I saw Dennis Miller in

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:03,182 --> 00:46:06,440

 

Tommy Chong: Vancouver and he was in this little comedy

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:06,721

 

Tommy Chong: club.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:06,801 --> 00:46:09,657

 

Tommy Chong: I knew the owner of the comedy club and he

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:09,697 --> 00:46:10,999

 

Tommy Chong: said Dennis Miller's playing, oh.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:11,019 --> 00:46:14,325

 

Tommy Chong: So I went down and and I met Dennis and

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:14,365 --> 00:46:17,516

 

Tommy Chong: Dennis is all nervous before the show, and

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:17,536 --> 00:46:21,963

 

Tommy Chong: the little guy you know and and he said to

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:22,023 --> 00:46:24,828

 

Tommy Chong: me he says do you, do you still get nervous

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:24,868 --> 00:46:25,729

 

Tommy Chong: before you go on?

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:26,795 --> 00:46:29,003

 

Tommy Chong: And I hadn't been on stage for years by

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:29,043 --> 00:46:32,197

 

Tommy Chong: that time, yeah, doing movies and that, and

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:32,438 --> 00:46:33,722

 

Tommy Chong: and he just caught me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:34,755 --> 00:46:39,040

 

Tommy Chong: He just caught me in a net and and then I

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,546

 

Tommy Chong: watched the show and I sat there thinking I

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:41,586 --> 00:46:43,622

 

Tommy Chong: got to do this, I got to do this.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:44,125 --> 00:46:45,595

 

Tommy Chong: This is this is what I got to do.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:46,296 --> 00:46:48,000

 

Tommy Chong: And so, right after Dennis Miller that was

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:54,880

 

Tommy Chong: 90, christmas of 93, I believe Because as

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,967

 

Tommy Chong: soon as I got back to LA, I went on, I went.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:58,147 --> 00:47:00,693

 

Tommy Chong: I found, you know, the freebies, the comedy

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:00,713 --> 00:47:02,820

 

Tommy Chong: club where you can go worse, and there was

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:03,020 --> 00:47:03,462

 

Tommy Chong: one in this.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:04,456 --> 00:47:07,922

 

Tommy Chong: It's kind of a kind of poetic justice in

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:09,284 --> 00:47:09,645

 

Tommy Chong: teaching.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:09,705 --> 00:47:11,067

 

Tommy Chong: I did a song one time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:11,127 --> 00:47:12,470

 

Tommy Chong: You know that you're in my eye.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:13,036 --> 00:47:15,402

 

Tommy Chong: You know I'm so bloody rich on apartment

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:15,442 --> 00:47:17,186

 

Tommy Chong: building, shopping centers.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:18,136 --> 00:47:20,420

 

Tommy Chong: Well, the comedy club that I was going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:20,460 --> 00:47:22,604

 

Tommy Chong: work in was the shopping center that we

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:22,644 --> 00:47:23,906

 

Tommy Chong: were part owners of.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:26,538 --> 00:47:28,123

 

Marc Preston: You call the irony tour yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:28,916 --> 00:47:32,586

 

Tommy Chong: And so I'm getting ready to go on stage, on,

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:33,449 --> 00:47:35,635

 

Tommy Chong: on stage, for the first time by myself.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:36,276 --> 00:47:39,201

 

Tommy Chong: I got myself a nice sports jacket.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:39,342 --> 00:47:42,007

 

Tommy Chong: You know I was going to be like a standup

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:42,067 --> 00:47:47,124

 

Tommy Chong: comedian, you know, like, like, like Dennis

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:47,164 --> 00:47:47,404

 

Tommy Chong: Miller.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:49,437 --> 00:47:54,006

 

Tommy Chong: Well, anyway, the night before Rodney King

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:54,747 --> 00:47:55,368

 

Tommy Chong: got, whacked.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:55,835 --> 00:48:01,007

 

Marc Preston: Oh, that's right, it was a 92 93 93, 93.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:02,538 --> 00:48:08,359

 

Tommy Chong: And that happened the night before I saw it

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:08,699 --> 00:48:09,020

 

Tommy Chong: and then.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:09,921 --> 00:48:12,724

 

Tommy Chong: So I wrote down a few bits about it and

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:13,164 --> 00:48:16,148

 

Tommy Chong: when I went on stage that was the first

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:16,188 --> 00:48:18,430

 

Tommy Chong: thing I did was talk about the Rodney King

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:18,911 --> 00:48:23,060

 

Tommy Chong: beating and I said it's funny how mothers

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,304

 

Tommy Chong: doesn't matter why you're on TV, mothers

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:26,324 --> 00:48:28,488

 

Tommy Chong: will get excited just seeing their son on

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:28,528 --> 00:48:28,828

 

Tommy Chong: TV.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:31,156 --> 00:48:33,620

 

Tommy Chong: And I say I could just visualize the cops,

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:33,701 --> 00:48:36,806

 

Tommy Chong: mother you know saying oh, that's my boy,

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:38,795 --> 00:48:39,959

 

Tommy Chong: that's my boy, look at him.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,079

 

Tommy Chong: Oh yeah, and it got a.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:44,199 --> 00:48:45,202

 

Tommy Chong: You you laugh.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:45,563 --> 00:48:48,239

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, and I got a few chuckles.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:48,679 --> 00:48:51,345

 

Tommy Chong: But the first thing a guy said after I did

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:51,385 --> 00:48:54,058

 

Tommy Chong: that bit hey, where's cheats?

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:04,579 --> 00:49:07,023

 

Marc Preston: Well, what is that like, though, being so,

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:08,846 --> 00:49:10,189

 

Marc Preston: you know, independently of done?

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:10,489 --> 00:49:12,138

 

Marc Preston: You know y'all definitely stand on your own

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:12,158 --> 00:49:14,364

 

Marc Preston: two feet, had great projects and endeavors

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:14,484 --> 00:49:16,458

 

Marc Preston: and entrepreneurial things that you've done,

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:17,215 --> 00:49:18,879

 

Marc Preston: but what's it like to kind of spend a

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:18,919 --> 00:49:21,806

 

Marc Preston: career that you've got a career brother, as

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:21,846 --> 00:49:22,147

 

Marc Preston: it were?

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:22,295 --> 00:49:24,260

 

Marc Preston: You know you get kind of hard to talk about

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:24,581 --> 00:49:25,904

 

Marc Preston: one of y'all without thinking about the

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:25,964 --> 00:49:26,105

 

Marc Preston: other.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:26,145 --> 00:49:26,806

 

Marc Preston: What is that like?

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:27,476 --> 00:49:30,644

 

Marc Preston: Is it, is it ever impeded you anything

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:30,664 --> 00:49:32,057

 

Marc Preston: you've done, in a way, like it's like oh

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:32,077 --> 00:49:33,421

 

Marc Preston: man, I'm trying to kind of break out of

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:33,481 --> 00:49:33,622

 

Marc Preston: this.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:34,675 --> 00:49:36,140

 

Marc Preston: Like in that, like right there on stage,

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:37,704

 

Marc Preston: I'm just like where's Cheech, you know, is

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:37,724 --> 00:49:38,126

 

Marc Preston: that something?

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:38,837 --> 00:49:40,782

 

Tommy Chong: I think no no, not at all.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:40,983 --> 00:49:41,505

 

Tommy Chong: Not at all.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:42,255 --> 00:49:44,742

 

Tommy Chong: No, I'm like I said, I grew up backing up

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:44,883 --> 00:49:45,204

 

Tommy Chong: people.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:45,585 --> 00:49:48,624

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, so I totally understand, you know,

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:48,945 --> 00:49:50,090

 

Tommy Chong: and me talking you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:50,130 --> 00:49:51,756

 

Tommy Chong: You know, when people found out I was a

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:51,817 --> 00:49:53,262

 

Tommy Chong: comedian, they didn't believe it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:53,415 --> 00:49:55,822

 

Tommy Chong: They thought it was somebody else because

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:55,943 --> 00:49:56,525

 

Tommy Chong: I've gone.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:56,826 --> 00:49:58,671

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I've known people all my life

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:59,032 --> 00:49:59,875

 

Tommy Chong: where I never talked.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:00,536 --> 00:50:00,777

 

Tommy Chong: I knew.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:00,897 --> 00:50:02,440

 

Tommy Chong: You know I was a backup guitar player.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,669

 

Tommy Chong: You know I had nothing to say except and

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:06,755 --> 00:50:07,096

 

Tommy Chong: whisper.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:07,317 --> 00:50:08,099

 

Tommy Chong: What corner are we in?

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:11,155 --> 00:50:13,022

 

Marc Preston: He wanted to do more acting stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:13,255 --> 00:50:13,698

 

Marc Preston: You know he was.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:13,939 --> 00:50:14,442

 

Marc Preston: You know that was.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:14,664 --> 00:50:15,227

 

Marc Preston: He was on the board.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:15,388 --> 00:50:17,377

 

Marc Preston: Like I want to say straight as opposed to

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:17,798 --> 00:50:20,084

 

Marc Preston: you know but he's, he's one of you know,

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:20,144 --> 00:50:21,207

 

Marc Preston: non comedic necessary.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:21,295 --> 00:50:23,021

 

Marc Preston: You know, maybe he was playing the kind of

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:23,081 --> 00:50:23,824

 

Marc Preston: funny guy in it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:23,975 --> 00:50:26,642

 

Marc Preston: But after that happened, what was kind of

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:26,662 --> 00:50:28,607

 

Marc Preston: your, your, your, what were your endeavors,

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:28,835 --> 00:50:30,201

 

Marc Preston: what were you up to at that point in time?

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:30,435 --> 00:50:32,656

 

Tommy Chong: Whenever you were just doing his thing, I

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:32,776 --> 00:50:36,123

 

Tommy Chong: was really on a roll because I had directed,

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:36,524 --> 00:50:40,120

 

Tommy Chong: I wrote and directed what happened when we

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:40,180 --> 00:50:42,669

 

Tommy Chong: got screwed out of the up and smoke money,

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:43,211 --> 00:50:43,954

 

Tommy Chong: which was a good.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:43,974 --> 00:50:46,960

 

Tommy Chong: It was a good thing, because had we not,

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:47,081 --> 00:50:50,107

 

Tommy Chong: had we, you know, cashed in, we probably

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:50,187 --> 00:50:52,480

 

Tommy Chong: would not have done what we did, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:53,815 --> 00:50:54,858

 

Marc Preston: And so I kind of made you hungry.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:54,918 --> 00:50:56,362

 

Marc Preston: I guess, right, yeah, yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:57,895 --> 00:51:00,116

 

Tommy Chong: I mean, I got this in the game, so I don't.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:02,279 --> 00:51:05,545

 

Tommy Chong: The thing that really bothered me was when

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:05,825 --> 00:51:09,637

 

Tommy Chong: I you know, like you said I teach got all

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:09,657 --> 00:51:09,817

 

Tommy Chong: the.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:09,957 --> 00:51:12,182

 

Tommy Chong: You know all the, the, the lines.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:12,202 --> 00:51:15,537

 

Tommy Chong: You know he was the lead guy, you know like

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:15,557 --> 00:51:17,962

 

Tommy Chong: the lead singer, you know I was a backup

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:18,343 --> 00:51:25,426

 

Tommy Chong: guy, but when he had a chance, see, and I

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:25,486 --> 00:51:28,894

 

Tommy Chong: wrote most of the bits, but when he had a

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:28,954 --> 00:51:32,204

 

Tommy Chong: chance to write something, just on

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:32,325 --> 00:51:35,093

 

Tommy Chong: percheach, that's all he did, he just wrote

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:35,114 --> 00:51:35,535

 

Tommy Chong: it percheach.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:35,836 --> 00:51:39,118

 

Tommy Chong: He never included song, and I'm talking

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:39,158 --> 00:51:40,487

 

Tommy Chong: about Born in East LA.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:40,849 --> 00:51:42,336

 

Marc Preston: Oh yeah, See Born in.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:42,436 --> 00:51:42,576

 

Tommy Chong: East.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:42,717 --> 00:51:46,824

 

Tommy Chong: Born in East LA was a takeoff of Bruce

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:46,864 --> 00:51:48,888

 

Tommy Chong: Springsteen's song Born in.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:49,575 --> 00:51:50,299

 

Announcer: Born in the USA.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:51,655 --> 00:51:54,342

 

Tommy Chong: While Cheech turned it to Born in East LA,

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:54,904 --> 00:51:56,717

 

Tommy Chong: which is fine, it was great.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:56,917 --> 00:52:00,223

 

Tommy Chong: Except when it came to put my part in, he

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:00,283 --> 00:52:01,486

 

Tommy Chong: never had a part for me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:03,475 --> 00:52:05,806

 

Tommy Chong: And then he says, oh no, and I called him

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:05,887 --> 00:52:07,615

 

Tommy Chong: out on it, you know, because he was telling

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:07,655 --> 00:52:09,422

 

Tommy Chong: me, you know, he wrote the song Born in

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:09,442 --> 00:52:09,883

 

Tommy Chong: East LA.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:10,015 --> 00:52:12,461

 

Tommy Chong: I was like, oh great, you know, no, that's

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:12,481 --> 00:52:12,842

 

Tommy Chong: for him.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:14,955 --> 00:52:18,243

 

Tommy Chong: But then he, you know, he was Cheech and

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:18,263 --> 00:52:19,787

 

Tommy Chong: Chong at the time, so he put it down.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:20,175 --> 00:52:23,998

 

Tommy Chong: It was written by Cheech and Chong and

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:24,058 --> 00:52:25,522

 

Tommy Chong: everything is Cheech and Chong, cheech and

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:25,542 --> 00:52:26,966

 

Tommy Chong: Chong, except the performance.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:27,535 --> 00:52:31,184

 

Tommy Chong: And so I said to him well, where's my part,

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:32,555 --> 00:52:32,856

 

Tommy Chong: you know?

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:32,876 --> 00:52:34,742

 

Tommy Chong: He said oh, you play a cop.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:35,975 --> 00:52:39,421

 

Tommy Chong: Well, to me, you know, that's one of the

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:39,481 --> 00:52:43,467

 

Tommy Chong: biggest insults you could do, unless you

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:43,607 --> 00:52:44,669

 

Tommy Chong: add the comedy part.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:45,355 --> 00:52:47,142

 

Marc Preston: Okay, you're a cop, but here's your

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:47,202 --> 00:52:49,240

 

Marc Preston: committee, yeah, where his focus is very

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:49,340 --> 00:52:50,824

 

Marc Preston: narrow about how he's going to be coming

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:50,925 --> 00:52:51,005

 

Marc Preston: out.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:51,416 --> 00:52:52,719

 

Announcer: You know you're thinking globally.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:52,759 --> 00:52:53,782

 

Marc Preston: You know you're thinking about the whole

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:53,822 --> 00:52:54,364

 

Marc Preston: project.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:55,717 --> 00:52:57,242

 

Tommy Chong: That's and that's the way I thought about

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:57,302 --> 00:52:58,838

 

Tommy Chong: everything, the movies, everything.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:58,898 --> 00:53:00,443

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I never, never think.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:01,095 --> 00:53:04,541

 

Tommy Chong: And it wasn't until you know, lately, that

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:04,621 --> 00:53:07,988

 

Tommy Chong: I realized that he did his best he could do.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:08,975 --> 00:53:11,163

 

Tommy Chong: You know that that was the best he could do

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:11,315 --> 00:53:12,881

 

Tommy Chong: and that was the best he could come up with,

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:13,355 --> 00:53:18,084

 

Tommy Chong: and so, as a result, we, we just quit.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:18,986 --> 00:53:20,449

 

Tommy Chong: We could quit communicating.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:22,178 --> 00:53:22,919

 

Tommy Chong: I'm going to show them.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:23,059 --> 00:53:23,901

 

Announcer: Did you, did he come?

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:24,061 --> 00:53:24,683

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, he came.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:24,743 --> 00:53:25,584

 

Tommy Chong: He's going to talk to you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:25,945 --> 00:53:27,107

 

Announcer: And he looked it over.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:27,388 --> 00:53:28,329

 

Announcer: Yeah, he's going to talk to you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:28,370 --> 00:53:31,055

 

Tommy Chong: Okay, thanks, was that show.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:32,459 --> 00:53:35,758

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, my darling wife just liked him oh.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:35,818 --> 00:53:37,302

 

Marc Preston: I love, you know, I love hearing y'all with

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:37,904 --> 00:53:38,726

 

Marc Preston: when y'all were doing the podcast.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:38,755 --> 00:53:40,601

 

Marc Preston: By the way, I want y'all to do the podcast

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:40,642 --> 00:53:41,404

 

Marc Preston: of Paris again.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:41,736 --> 00:53:43,182

 

Marc Preston: I used to love and Shelby would show up.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:43,636 --> 00:53:43,837

 

Marc Preston: That was.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:43,857 --> 00:53:44,379

 

Marc Preston: That was fun.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:46,980 --> 00:53:48,585

 

Tommy Chong: Well, you go way back with us.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:48,775 --> 00:53:49,417

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, no, no, no.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:49,717 --> 00:53:50,118

 

Marc Preston: I loved.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:50,158 --> 00:53:53,266

 

Marc Preston: You know, listening to the two of y'all is

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:53,286 --> 00:53:54,537

 

Marc Preston: like man, this is, this is some

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:55,459 --> 00:53:57,646

 

Marc Preston: non-traditional but awesome father-son time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:57,715 --> 00:53:58,878

 

Marc Preston: I love this, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:58,978 --> 00:54:00,321

 

Marc Preston: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:00,361 --> 00:54:01,284

 

Tommy Chong: No, he is Paris.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:04,299 --> 00:54:04,881

 

Tommy Chong: All my kids.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:05,443 --> 00:54:06,687

 

Tommy Chong: That was the other thing too.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:06,707 --> 00:54:07,028

 

Tommy Chong: You know that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:07,048 --> 00:54:08,011

 

Tommy Chong: That was with Cheech.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:08,071 --> 00:54:11,059

 

Tommy Chong: You know Cheech Well.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:11,079 --> 00:54:12,703

 

Tommy Chong: You know he's raised by policemen.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:13,184 --> 00:54:18,575

 

Tommy Chong: Really, yeah, his dad's was a LAPD and in

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:18,616 --> 00:54:22,663

 

Tommy Chong: fact, as dad rose up quite high in the LAPD,

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:22,683 --> 00:54:24,806

 

Tommy Chong: he became a teacher.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:26,895 --> 00:54:28,119

 

Tommy Chong: He was very well respected.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:30,115 --> 00:54:33,483

 

Tommy Chong: And so Cheech all his life had to deal with

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:33,563 --> 00:54:35,067

 

Tommy Chong: his dad being a cop.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:35,735 --> 00:54:38,362

 

Tommy Chong: That's why, that's why the lowrider was was

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:38,402 --> 00:54:39,365

 

Tommy Chong: a big stretch for him.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:40,295 --> 00:54:42,442

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech did not want to go down that route

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:43,195 --> 00:54:45,561

 

Tommy Chong: and we never knew he was Mexican until he

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:45,641 --> 00:54:47,807

 

Tommy Chong: came to to became Dalai.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:48,296 --> 00:54:50,325

 

Tommy Chong: And then one time we were working a club

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:50,386 --> 00:54:52,194

 

Tommy Chong: and we weren't going over because we're

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:52,214 --> 00:54:55,777

 

Tommy Chong: doing all our Canadian humor, and I said to

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:55,817 --> 00:54:57,655

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech I said you're from here, man, come

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:57,695 --> 00:54:59,420

 

Tommy Chong: on, there must be a character.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:59,720 --> 00:55:00,603

 

Tommy Chong: You know that you can.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:01,485 --> 00:55:03,719

 

Tommy Chong: And he said, yeah, there is one, but I am

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:03,739 --> 00:55:04,160

 

Tommy Chong: not too.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:04,682 --> 00:55:05,485

 

Tommy Chong: I said what's matter?

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:05,635 --> 00:55:06,618

 

Tommy Chong: He said, well, you know, a little

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:06,658 --> 00:55:07,341

 

Tommy Chong: detrimental.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:08,716 --> 00:55:10,902

 

Tommy Chong: And he, he denied saying this conversation,

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:10,962 --> 00:55:11,363

 

Tommy Chong: by the way.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:12,655 --> 00:55:14,598

 

Tommy Chong: And he says it's a little detrimental.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:15,079 --> 00:55:18,946

 

Tommy Chong: But and the Chicano, the top Chicanos, had

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:19,006 --> 00:55:24,924

 

Tommy Chong: a meeting, the guy that, louis Spaldes, you

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:24,964 --> 00:55:30,642

 

Tommy Chong: know, the director, anyway, he, the, the

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:30,903 --> 00:55:33,567

 

Tommy Chong: intellectual Chicano community, did not

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:33,627 --> 00:55:35,917

 

Tommy Chong: like the character Cheech was portraying.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:36,378 --> 00:55:39,144

 

Tommy Chong: You know which is why we never had no

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:39,164 --> 00:55:41,796

 

Tommy Chong: writers up until Cheech and we haven't

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:41,856 --> 00:55:44,783

 

Tommy Chong: really had a lowrider since, you know,

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:45,284 --> 00:55:46,006

 

Tommy Chong: because they.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:46,467 --> 00:55:48,260

 

Marc Preston: I know y'all have done some things over the

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:49,103

 

Marc Preston: last few years.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:49,475 --> 00:55:51,641

 

Marc Preston: Are y'all kind of contemplating ever doing

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:51,681 --> 00:55:55,205

 

Marc Preston: a project together, anything else?

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:55,225 --> 00:55:56,135

 

Tommy Chong: anytime soon.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:56,175 --> 00:55:57,919

 

Tommy Chong: There's a movie out, there's a movie

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,406

 

Tommy Chong: getting prepped now that they want us in

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:01,446 --> 00:56:03,699

 

Tommy Chong: there and Cheech will probably go for it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:04,935 --> 00:56:06,839

 

Tommy Chong: It's an older version of us, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:06,879 --> 00:56:08,403

 

Tommy Chong: It's now at our age.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:08,503 --> 00:56:12,160

 

Tommy Chong: Now you know we'll have to see how it looks

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,099

 

Tommy Chong: in that We've got a documentary that's

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:15,159 --> 00:56:16,883

 

Tommy Chong: coming out, that's going to.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:18,706 --> 00:56:20,877

 

Tommy Chong: It's a Cheech and Jung documentary.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:21,298 --> 00:56:25,329

 

Tommy Chong: The backstory or the behind the scenes

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:25,349 --> 00:56:28,818

 

Tommy Chong: story is pretty funny because you know me,

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,486

 

Tommy Chong: I'm sort of spur of the moment kind of guy,

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:32,526 --> 00:56:32,726

 

Tommy Chong: you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:33,935 --> 00:56:35,902

 

Tommy Chong: And so it's my daughter, robbie, and her

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:35,942 --> 00:56:36,564

 

Tommy Chong: guy, dave.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:37,056 --> 00:56:40,524

 

Tommy Chong: Now Dave's a very talented movie maker,

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:41,955 --> 00:56:45,065

 

Tommy Chong: work with Jim Carrey and the Slingblade.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:45,455 --> 00:56:48,062

 

Tommy Chong: He did Slingblade and he's been done.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:49,535 --> 00:56:51,298

 

Tommy Chong: He is definitely a movie maker.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,944

 

Tommy Chong: And they were doing a documentary on Cheech

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:53,984 --> 00:56:58,039

 

Tommy Chong: and Jung and it seemed like it was never

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:58,079 --> 00:56:59,043

 

Tommy Chong: going to get finished.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:00,076 --> 00:57:04,305

 

Tommy Chong: And so one day I was driving home with a

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:04,926 --> 00:57:07,872

 

Tommy Chong: friend of mine, we did a golf tournament

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:08,193 --> 00:57:12,704

 

Tommy Chong: and I came up, I got high on one of my

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:12,965 --> 00:57:15,892

 

Tommy Chong: products and I came up with a great idea

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:15,973 --> 00:57:17,757

 

Tommy Chong: for the ending of a documentary.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:18,057 --> 00:57:20,002

 

Tommy Chong: Because that's the way I kind of work, you

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:20,042 --> 00:57:24,438

 

Tommy Chong: know, if we got stuff to do, I'm an artist

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:24,498 --> 00:57:29,471

 

Tommy Chong: in a sense that if there's an empty canvas

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:30,032 --> 00:57:31,917

 

Tommy Chong: and people can't think of what to put on it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:32,438 --> 00:57:35,225

 

Marc Preston: I will eventually come up with an idea you

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:35,285 --> 00:57:37,779

 

Marc Preston: know, and so destination, and then you kind

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:37,819 --> 00:57:39,322

 

Marc Preston: of plot out the journey to get there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:39,382 --> 00:57:40,765

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:42,695 --> 00:57:44,300

 

Tommy Chong: Well, I came up with a real good ending for

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:44,340 --> 00:57:48,580

 

Tommy Chong: the documentary, To the point where I told

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:48,620 --> 00:57:51,707

 

Tommy Chong: my daughter I said listen, forget all this

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:51,787 --> 00:57:52,268

 

Tommy Chong: other stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:52,455 --> 00:57:53,358

 

Tommy Chong: I got an ending.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:55,615 --> 00:57:56,819

 

Tommy Chong: The director comes back.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:56,980 --> 00:58:01,398

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, oh, my God, that got such a riot

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:01,458 --> 00:58:05,047

 

Tommy Chong: because I am the guy they're doing a thing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:05,335 --> 00:58:09,216

 

Tommy Chong: I do have the power if I wanted to and they

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:09,357 --> 00:58:11,941

 

Tommy Chong: freaked they actually drove all the way to

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:12,001 --> 00:58:15,032

 

Tommy Chong: San Francisco to talk to Cheech to make

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:15,112 --> 00:58:17,178

 

Tommy Chong: sure that Cheech would not go along with me,

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:17,439 --> 00:58:19,122

 

Tommy Chong: because if Cheech went along with me that

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:19,142 --> 00:58:20,145

 

Tommy Chong: would be the end of the day.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:22,517 --> 00:58:24,483

 

Tommy Chong: Anyway, Cheech would definitely not go

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:24,503 --> 00:58:25,024

 

Tommy Chong: along with me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:25,735 --> 00:58:30,845

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech and I really haven't seen eye to eye

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:31,005 --> 00:58:31,667

 

Tommy Chong: on anything.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:33,456 --> 00:58:35,661

 

Tommy Chong: I mean, we've been on going.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:35,841 --> 00:58:37,304

 

Tommy Chong: You know, we've been doing our live act

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:37,344 --> 00:58:41,219

 

Tommy Chong: with Shelby in that, you know, ever since

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:41,780 --> 00:58:43,985

 

Tommy Chong: the 08, actually, as soon as I got out of

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:44,025 --> 00:58:44,246

 

Tommy Chong: jail.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:44,935 --> 00:58:46,262

 

Tommy Chong: We were supposed to do a movie before I

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:46,302 --> 00:58:48,614

 

Tommy Chong: went to jail, but then I went to jail and

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:48,634 --> 00:58:49,859

 

Tommy Chong: that kind of screwed everything up.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:50,795 --> 00:58:52,020

 

Tommy Chong: It wouldn't have happened anyway.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:52,415 --> 00:58:53,540

 

Tommy Chong: You know I didn't.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:54,535 --> 00:58:56,422

 

Tommy Chong: They've had people write movies for us and

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:57,024 --> 00:58:59,934

 

Tommy Chong: I look at the first couple of pages and

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:59,974 --> 00:59:02,301

 

Tommy Chong: know that you know you can't write for

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:02,341 --> 00:59:02,983

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech and John.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:03,524 --> 00:59:04,897

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, I think a lot of people.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:04,917 --> 00:59:06,722

 

Marc Preston: Probably they would come off as a parody,

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:06,802 --> 00:59:07,264

 

Marc Preston: almost.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:07,324 --> 00:59:07,605

 

Marc Preston: You know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:07,665 --> 00:59:09,980

 

Marc Preston: I think people kind of see it as which.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:10,100 --> 00:59:11,784

 

Marc Preston: What y'all did was, like I said, the

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:11,804 --> 00:59:12,626

 

Marc Preston: physical comedy.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:12,786 --> 00:59:13,808

 

Marc Preston: It gave you a chance.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:13,895 --> 00:59:15,258

 

Marc Preston: I mean, like you sitting next to him in a

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:15,278 --> 00:59:18,725

 

Marc Preston: car just slowly eating everything that you

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:18,765 --> 00:59:19,967

 

Marc Preston: had I mean, what was that movie?

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:20,775 --> 00:59:21,898

 

Marc Preston: You were eating everything so that the cop

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:21,918 --> 00:59:23,403

 

Marc Preston: would say it's just, I couldn't take my

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:23,463 --> 00:59:24,004

 

Marc Preston: eyes off you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:25,942 --> 00:59:26,746

 

Tommy Chong: It's like wait a minute.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:26,767 --> 00:59:27,993

 

Tommy Chong: He has no lines, but it's hilarious.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:30,059 --> 00:59:31,463

 

Marc Preston: And so, in other words, y'all do you think

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:31,503 --> 00:59:32,786

 

Marc Preston: it's that I don't want to, it's not

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:32,886 --> 00:59:34,138

 

Marc Preston: friction, but do you think it's that

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:34,198 --> 00:59:37,272

 

Marc Preston: contrast that kind of gave y'all the fuel

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:37,312 --> 00:59:38,998

 

Marc Preston: to kind of create what y'all have?

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:39,038 --> 00:59:40,501

 

Marc Preston: You know, not necessarily seeing eye to eye

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:40,541 --> 00:59:42,266

 

Marc Preston: on stuff, Two things.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:43,236 --> 00:59:48,475

 

Tommy Chong: First of all, we're exploring new territory.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:49,742 --> 00:59:51,795

 

Tommy Chong: You see, we're not rehashing anything.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:52,938 --> 00:59:54,863

 

Tommy Chong: See, most a lot of movies are rehash,

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:55,564 --> 00:59:58,191

 

Tommy Chong: remake, redo, redot.

 

 


Speaker:

00:59:58,231 --> 01:00:00,356

 

Tommy Chong: You know, because then you know who the

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:00,376 --> 01:00:02,984

 

Tommy Chong: guys are and results going to be.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:03,535 --> 01:00:05,104

 

Marc Preston: And it's a safe choice for a lot of people

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:05,144 --> 01:00:05,526

 

Marc Preston: especially.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:05,567 --> 01:00:07,196

 

Marc Preston: I mean just look at all the remakes there

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:07,256 --> 01:00:08,580

 

Marc Preston: are in movies these days yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:09,643

 

Tommy Chong: That's what I'm saying.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:10,455 --> 01:00:11,077

 

Tommy Chong: I understand.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:11,117 --> 01:00:13,423

 

Tommy Chong: You know all the moods, the dance and

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:13,443 --> 01:00:14,045

 

Tommy Chong: everything else.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:14,915 --> 01:00:19,483

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech and I invented a new style of comedy

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:20,285 --> 01:00:22,448

 

Tommy Chong: that only Cheech and I can perform.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:23,215 --> 01:00:25,241

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I can't do it with anybody else,

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:28,319 --> 01:00:30,184

 

Tommy Chong: and that's the special thing about Cheech

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:30,224 --> 01:00:30,625

 

Tommy Chong: and Chong.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:31,155 --> 01:00:33,660

 

Tommy Chong: That's why Martin and Lewis had the same

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:33,700 --> 01:00:34,001

 

Tommy Chong: thing.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:34,321 --> 01:00:34,943

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:35,243 --> 01:00:36,085

 

Announcer: Oh, yeah, yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:36,626 --> 01:00:39,218

 

Tommy Chong: It was very spontaneous, in fact, jerry

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:39,258 --> 01:00:41,164

 

Tommy Chong: Lewis gave me one of the best compliments

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:41,264 --> 01:00:41,465

 

Tommy Chong: ever.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:41,595 --> 01:00:44,101

 

Tommy Chong: He said when they said you know they don't

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:44,161 --> 01:00:47,067

 

Tommy Chong: have comedy teams like you and Marc, you

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:47,128 --> 01:00:50,284

 

Tommy Chong: and Dino and Jerry said oh yeah, they do.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:51,137 --> 01:00:52,280

 

Tommy Chong: He said Cheech and Chong.

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:53,123 --> 01:00:54,942

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, and the thing is, jerry Lewis, even

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:54,962 --> 01:00:57,193

 

Marc Preston: though he played the kind of the goofy guy,

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:57,294 --> 01:00:59,328

 

Marc Preston: he was the one really meticulously crafting

 

 


Speaker:

01:00:59,430 --> 01:01:01,730

 

Marc Preston: those acts and really Martin was the one to

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:01,833 --> 01:01:03,078

 

Marc Preston: show up and be Dean Martin.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:03,138 --> 01:01:04,843

 

Marc Preston: You know that's right, that's right.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:05,795 --> 01:01:07,420

 

Tommy Chong: He was the one to do the lines and do his

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:07,460 --> 01:01:09,045

 

Tommy Chong: things and be the handsome guy.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:09,916 --> 01:01:13,105

 

Tommy Chong: No, I really respected Jerry's filmmaking.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:13,575 --> 01:01:16,024

 

Tommy Chong: In fact, I used his technique.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:16,055 --> 01:01:18,082

 

Tommy Chong: You know, he was the first to use video.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:18,523 --> 01:01:20,460

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, he was the first one to kind of do

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:22,085

 

Marc Preston: that, to kind of video monitor idea.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:22,235 --> 01:01:25,316

 

Marc Preston: So he'd actually yeah, yeah, he was.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:26,018 --> 01:01:27,864

 

Marc Preston: Isn't that crazy to think Jerry Lewis did

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:27,884 --> 01:01:28,045

 

Marc Preston: that.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:28,115 --> 01:01:29,839

 

Marc Preston: I mean, it's like the most common thing now

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:29,879 --> 01:01:31,323

 

Marc Preston: that Jerry Lewis before him.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:31,383 --> 01:01:32,105

 

Marc Preston: Nobody did that.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:32,325 --> 01:01:36,379

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, I was the second I was the second to

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:36,419 --> 01:01:36,640

 

Marc Preston: do it?

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:36,660 --> 01:01:41,740

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, because when we did the next movie, I

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:48,488

 

Tommy Chong: hired a video guy and the DP, king Baggett,

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:48,568 --> 01:01:49,429

 

Tommy Chong: was pissed off.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:50,010 --> 01:01:51,998

 

Tommy Chong: Oh, he did not, he didn't want the

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:52,058 --> 01:01:52,560

 

Tommy Chong: cameraman.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:52,580 --> 01:01:53,996

 

Tommy Chong: You know, they're like dogs, they don't

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:54,016 --> 01:01:55,581

 

Tommy Chong: want any other dog on the set.

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:56,655 --> 01:01:58,359

 

Marc Preston: But you, if you're in a scene, you've got

 

 


Speaker:

01:01:58,379 --> 01:02:00,062

 

Marc Preston: to see playback to see if it worked.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:00,303 --> 01:02:00,483

 

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:00,503 --> 01:02:02,046

 

Tommy Chong: But guess what, guess what?

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:04,377 --> 01:02:08,785

 

Tommy Chong: King Baggett ended up almost marrying Eric

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:08,926 --> 01:02:10,348

 

Tommy Chong: Wooster, my video guy.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:11,356 --> 01:02:13,581

 

Tommy Chong: I would go to see the scene and King

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:13,621 --> 01:02:15,265

 

Tommy Chong: Baggett would be in there first.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:16,175 --> 01:02:18,045

 

Tommy Chong: King was in there late budget, because King

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:18,105 --> 01:02:18,467

 

Tommy Chong: is not.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:18,608 --> 01:02:19,935

 

Marc Preston: he's not worried about the performance,

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:20,397 --> 01:02:21,962

 

Marc Preston: he's worried about the lighting, yeah,

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:22,735 --> 01:02:24,360

 

Marc Preston: lighting composition and all that stuff,

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:24,380 --> 01:02:24,621

 

Marc Preston: yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:25,876 --> 01:02:28,284

 

Tommy Chong: Oh, he King loved it after that.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:28,695 --> 01:02:31,081

 

Tommy Chong: And now, in fact, you don't even use a film

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:31,121 --> 01:02:33,047

 

Tommy Chong: camera anymore, you just use video.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:33,616 --> 01:02:35,743

 

Tommy Chong: You know it's all video now.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:36,295 --> 01:02:39,984

 

Tommy Chong: No, jerry was was an innovator in that

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:40,025 --> 01:02:40,365

 

Tommy Chong: sense.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:41,175 --> 01:02:43,825

 

Tommy Chong: And the thing is about and Jerry and Jerry

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:43,986 --> 01:02:44,528

 

Tommy Chong: knew too.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:44,850 --> 01:02:46,856

 

Tommy Chong: See what happened with with Jerry and Dean

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:47,378 --> 01:02:51,696

 

Tommy Chong: Dean, jerry kind of took over and that's

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:51,736 --> 01:02:52,961

 

Tommy Chong: what happened with Cheech Night 2.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:53,735 --> 01:02:55,820

 

Tommy Chong: Because once you become a film director,

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:56,943 --> 01:02:59,368

 

Tommy Chong: that's like being anointed, god.

 

 


Speaker:

01:02:59,769 --> 01:03:04,421

 

Tommy Chong: You know you, everything depends on what

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:04,522 --> 01:03:05,504

 

Tommy Chong: the director says.

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:05,885 --> 01:03:07,056

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, everything's sitting on your

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:07,076 --> 01:03:09,281

 

Marc Preston: shoulders as well, because if it, if

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:09,342 --> 01:03:10,605

 

Marc Preston: something fails, it's all on you.

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:10,785 --> 01:03:10,945

 

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:12,155 --> 01:03:14,482

 

Tommy Chong: I got so hooked on that that that Cheech

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:16,176 --> 01:03:19,122

 

Tommy Chong: and I just well, when we started having

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:19,202 --> 01:03:22,949

 

Tommy Chong: separate dressing rooms, you know, because

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:23,049 --> 01:03:25,179

 

Tommy Chong: up into the up into them we always shared

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:25,199 --> 01:03:28,147

 

Tommy Chong: the dressing room, you know, and because

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:28,167 --> 01:03:30,643

 

Tommy Chong: when we're in the dressing room we could

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:30,683 --> 01:03:32,819

 

Tommy Chong: talk, we could write, and I could tell

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,265

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech, you know, give him, cheech, you

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:35,285 --> 01:03:37,778

 

Tommy Chong: know, direction, because with with Cheech,

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:37,899 --> 01:03:39,843

 

Tommy Chong: all you have to do is just he's like a, a,

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:39,863 --> 01:03:44,242

 

Tommy Chong: a psychopedia, because he, he can memorize

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:44,282 --> 01:03:45,085

 

Tommy Chong: so many things.

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:45,495 --> 01:03:48,904

 

Tommy Chong: And so I, I just show Cheech a direction

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:49,024 --> 01:03:50,347

 

Tommy Chong: and Cheech gets it right away.

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:50,818 --> 01:03:52,676

 

Tommy Chong: Well, oh no, I know what you mean, I know

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:52,696 --> 01:03:53,098

 

Tommy Chong: what you mean.

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:53,855 --> 01:03:56,300

 

Tommy Chong: And so when we weren't see what happened

 

 


Speaker:

01:03:56,340 --> 01:03:59,287

 

Tommy Chong: with Lou Adler after Up and Smoke, we got,

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:00,055 --> 01:04:03,003

 

Tommy Chong: you know, I directed and wrote right up to

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:03,043 --> 01:04:03,485

 

Tommy Chong: the end.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:04,195 --> 01:04:05,920

 

Tommy Chong: And then Lou Adler says, you know, because

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,306

 

Tommy Chong: he's a director and and I found out now

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:08,326 --> 01:04:11,884

 

Tommy Chong: that he wanted to take, take, take all the

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:11,924 --> 01:04:12,425

 

Tommy Chong: money too.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:13,075 --> 01:04:16,081

 

Tommy Chong: So he, at the end of Up and Smoke, he, he

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:16,462 --> 01:04:19,027

 

Tommy Chong: kind of barred me from the set, you know,

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:19,648 --> 01:04:20,717

 

Tommy Chong: and there's.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:22,202 --> 01:04:23,124

 

Tommy Chong: I said, are you ready?

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:23,535 --> 01:04:25,803

 

Tommy Chong: And they said, no, no, we've already shot

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:25,843 --> 01:04:26,064

 

Tommy Chong: that.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:26,235 --> 01:04:28,860

 

Tommy Chong: And I said, oh, because usually they call

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:28,900 --> 01:04:31,785

 

Tommy Chong: me in, you know, to make sure everything

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:31,825 --> 01:04:32,226

 

Tommy Chong: was right.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:32,286 --> 01:04:33,709

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I was really the director.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:34,175 --> 01:04:36,723

 

Tommy Chong: Then Lou took over to the point where Lou

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:36,784 --> 01:04:39,131

 

Tommy Chong: says, okay, I, I, I, yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:39,231 --> 01:04:42,802

 

Tommy Chong: I got a good idea of yeah, working on the

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:42,902 --> 01:04:43,203

 

Tommy Chong: ending.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:43,483 --> 01:04:44,445

 

Tommy Chong: You know we got enough.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:44,926 --> 01:04:47,571

 

Tommy Chong: Like like Lou was the kind of producer that

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:47,932 --> 01:04:50,364

 

Tommy Chong: we run out of money stop, stop everything

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:50,524 --> 01:04:51,367

 

Tommy Chong: and we're finished.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:51,709 --> 01:04:52,010

 

Tommy Chong: You know.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:55,941 --> 01:04:57,869

 

Marc Preston: It's kind of like money's done, okay, cut.

 

 


Speaker:

01:04:59,481 --> 01:05:00,003

 

Tommy Chong: We're done.

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:00,526 --> 01:05:00,807

 

Tommy Chong: So.

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:00,847 --> 01:05:01,731

 

Tommy Chong: So what happened I?

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:03,484 --> 01:05:06,844

 

Tommy Chong: So I backed around back down and and, and

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:06,864 --> 01:05:09,712

 

Tommy Chong: they do, they edited the movie, they being

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:09,772 --> 01:05:12,099

 

Tommy Chong: Lou and Lou Lombardo the editor, and that

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:12,119 --> 01:05:16,462

 

Tommy Chong: and Then they showed us the rough cut, or

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:16,503 --> 01:05:20,286

 

Tommy Chong: the first assembled Part, and they showed

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,605

 

Tommy Chong: Paramount to the same time.

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:23,146 --> 01:05:25,732

 

Tommy Chong: It was the worst fucking ending of any

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:25,832 --> 01:05:26,982

 

Tommy Chong: movie I'd ever seen.

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:27,603 --> 01:05:28,565

 

Tommy Chong: It was so bad.

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:28,886 --> 01:05:30,529

 

Tommy Chong: Everything that we had done might as well

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:30,569 --> 01:05:32,654

 

Tommy Chong: be, you know, forgot about it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:33,081 --> 01:05:33,522

 

Tommy Chong: Really.

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:33,563 --> 01:05:36,705

 

Tommy Chong: The ending, was it what he, what he did?

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:36,765 --> 01:05:38,891

 

Tommy Chong: I'll tell you, you'll know, no one will

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:38,931 --> 01:05:41,266

 

Tommy Chong: ever see it, but but the ending was that

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:41,326 --> 01:05:43,754

 

Tommy Chong: Lou came up with was that it was all a

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:43,854 --> 01:05:48,069

 

Tommy Chong: dream and that that when we were at the,

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:49,181 --> 01:05:54,686

 

Tommy Chong: when we're stopped on the PCH, and and

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:54,726 --> 01:05:57,383

 

Tommy Chong: that's where everything, everything after

 

 


Speaker:

01:05:57,684 --> 01:06:01,684

 

Tommy Chong: the PCH, was a dream, and we were sort of

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:01,785 --> 01:06:06,011

 

Tommy Chong: somehow, and Stacy shows up as a uniform,

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:08,861 --> 01:06:12,211

 

Tommy Chong: stacy Keech, yeah, I mean, it was the.

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:13,041 --> 01:06:15,321

 

Tommy Chong: Really, it was like it was.

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:15,462 --> 01:06:16,564

 

Tommy Chong: You couldn't get I.

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:17,085 --> 01:06:19,630

 

Tommy Chong: I haven't really been able to have a

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:19,690 --> 01:06:23,684

 

Tommy Chong: conversation with Lou since Period period

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:23,845 --> 01:06:26,152

 

Tommy Chong: about anything you know other than hi,

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:26,192 --> 01:06:26,855

 

Tommy Chong: how's everything?

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:26,895 --> 01:06:29,041

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, nice, the house of kids, how's that?

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:29,342 --> 01:06:31,669

 

Tommy Chong: You know before that he was always

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:31,729 --> 01:06:32,491

 

Tommy Chong: interested in.

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:32,631 --> 01:06:35,453

 

Tommy Chong: You know, what do you want to shoot now or

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:35,534 --> 01:06:36,340

 

Tommy Chong: what should we do now?

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:37,463 --> 01:06:38,686

 

Marc Preston: And I was the one where y'all had that

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:38,726 --> 01:06:41,032

 

Marc Preston: little van that had the marijuana sprayed

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:41,092 --> 01:06:43,980

 

Marc Preston: on the side of it and the exhaust pipe was

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:45,583

 

Marc Preston: too Hot and yeah, I didn't get everything

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:45,603 --> 01:06:48,349

 

Marc Preston: about, okay, I, because I forgot that was

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:48,409 --> 01:06:50,173

 

Marc Preston: up in smoke or the next movie, yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:50,844 --> 01:06:52,015

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, well, he wanted to be.

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:52,035 --> 01:06:55,535

 

Tommy Chong: I Mean his idea to save money was to.

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:55,776 --> 01:06:58,446

 

Tommy Chong: It was all a dream and it was the biggest

 

 


Speaker:

01:06:58,506 --> 01:06:59,590

 

Tommy Chong: fucking insult ever.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:00,112 --> 01:07:02,600

 

Tommy Chong: And so then I told, I said that was the end.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:03,562 --> 01:07:05,246

 

Tommy Chong: And so I thought I told everybody, as we

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:05,286 --> 01:07:07,511

 

Tommy Chong: got to reshoot the ending I'm directing,

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:08,212 --> 01:07:10,143

 

Tommy Chong: and that was it, and how much of it did you

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:10,303 --> 01:07:10,383

 

Tommy Chong: do?

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:10,444 --> 01:07:13,170

 

Marc Preston: how much of the of the final print?

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:13,210 --> 01:07:14,753

 

Marc Preston: How much of that did you end up directing

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:15,382 --> 01:07:16,228

 

Marc Preston: the ending?

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:17,921 --> 01:07:21,033

 

Tommy Chong: The ending where I mean I wrote and

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:21,294 --> 01:07:22,860

 

Tommy Chong: basically showed them what to do.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:24,724 --> 01:07:25,786

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I mean, you know I actually

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:25,826 --> 01:07:28,051

 

Tommy Chong: directed the whole movie when it came right

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:28,092 --> 01:07:28,613

 

Tommy Chong: down to it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:28,673 --> 01:07:31,326

 

Tommy Chong: You know, the only thing I gotta give I'll

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:31,346 --> 01:07:33,492

 

Tommy Chong: give Lou and everybody credit for is that

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:33,974 --> 01:07:36,000

 

Tommy Chong: Stacey wrote his own lines.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:36,963 --> 01:07:37,103

 

Tommy Chong: I.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:37,524 --> 01:07:40,071

 

Tommy Chong: I give him an idea of what we wanted to do.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:40,553 --> 01:07:42,659

 

Tommy Chong: Strother Martin, you know, you get a job by

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:42,739 --> 01:07:43,140

 

Tommy Chong: sundown.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:43,563 --> 01:07:46,200

 

Tommy Chong: Oh, that was all Strother Martin ad lib.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:47,102 --> 01:07:50,449

 

Tommy Chong: He wrote every bit of that, that monologue.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:50,669 --> 01:07:52,954

 

Tommy Chong: That was Strother Martin and he never got

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:52,994 --> 01:07:55,945

 

Tommy Chong: credit for the Ajax ladies and ordnance.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:56,005 --> 01:07:57,950

 

Tommy Chong: That was all her stuff, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

01:07:58,110 --> 01:08:01,082

 

Tommy Chong: And so what I would do, I would Get

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:01,122 --> 01:08:03,108

 

Tommy Chong: gathered this stuff and teach a story,

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:03,208 --> 01:08:06,825

 

Tommy Chong: teach painting the hamper, teach All the.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:09,564 --> 01:08:11,131

 

Tommy Chong: I love the keeping the beers in the fish

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:11,191 --> 01:08:11,412

 

Tommy Chong: tank.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:11,453 --> 01:08:12,497

 

Marc Preston: That just made sense to me.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:12,517 --> 01:08:13,200

 

Marc Preston: You know, it's like that was me.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:13,822

 

Marc Preston: That was me.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:15,620 --> 01:08:17,223

 

Tommy Chong: I was like that makes for a good cooler,

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:17,284 --> 01:08:17,624

 

Tommy Chong: you know.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:18,526 --> 01:08:20,971

 

Tommy Chong: And washing, washing no, that was next

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:20,991 --> 01:08:22,894

 

Tommy Chong: movie, but that that was yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:28,506

 

Marc Preston: So next movie really was me, me and she,

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:29,047 --> 01:08:31,350

 

Marc Preston: and it's the best title for a sequel ever,

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:31,431 --> 01:08:34,375

 

Marc Preston: because it is the Cheech and Chong's next

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:34,435 --> 01:08:34,835

 

Marc Preston: movie.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:34,895 --> 01:08:37,385

 

Marc Preston: Is that Easy to remember, you know?

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:37,545 --> 01:08:39,449

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, this, this trip down memory lane, is

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:39,469 --> 01:08:41,032

 

Marc Preston: so much fun and I really think that.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:41,453 --> 01:08:45,624

 

Marc Preston: Have you noticed, like Jin Z, millennials,

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:45,905 --> 01:08:47,368

 

Marc Preston: have they rediscovered your movies?

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:47,468 --> 01:08:49,413

 

Marc Preston: Have you had any feedback for people that

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:49,453 --> 01:08:51,747

 

Marc Preston: have Kind of started finding your stuff

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:51,767 --> 01:08:51,968

 

Marc Preston: going?

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:52,209 --> 01:08:53,855

 

Marc Preston: Oh yeah, I know it's like Tommy Chong is

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:54,277 --> 01:08:55,903

 

Marc Preston: he's the weed guy, but it's like no,

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:55,923 --> 01:08:56,865

 

Marc Preston: there's a thing.

 

 


Speaker:

01:08:56,945 --> 01:09:00,595

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, they, they know me from that sub

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:00,656 --> 01:09:01,137

 

Tommy Chong: addition.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:01,859 --> 01:09:04,404

 

Tommy Chong: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they know me because,

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:04,444 --> 01:09:06,768

 

Tommy Chong: see it, that's an extension of that

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:06,829 --> 01:09:07,309

 

Tommy Chong: character.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:07,770 --> 01:09:08,231

 

Tommy Chong: That's what.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:08,432 --> 01:09:11,863

 

Tommy Chong: That's what I was trying to Get through, to

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:11,924 --> 01:09:15,462

 

Tommy Chong: teach you know, which I never did Was the

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:15,522 --> 01:09:19,330

 

Tommy Chong: fact that those iconic characters can live

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:19,410 --> 01:09:21,354

 

Tommy Chong: forever, will live forever.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:22,541 --> 01:09:25,691

 

Tommy Chong: You can't kill him and and you can only,

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:26,661 --> 01:09:29,007

 

Tommy Chong: you can only live off him, and I did that

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:29,047 --> 01:09:31,172

 

Tommy Chong: with that, with my character.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:31,421 --> 01:09:38,865

 

Tommy Chong: See I, there was more To making the movies.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:39,306 --> 01:09:42,153

 

Tommy Chong: I wanted to put a message out to the world

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:43,181 --> 01:09:48,109

 

Tommy Chong: number one If you can smoke, dope and still

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:48,189 --> 01:09:51,540

 

Tommy Chong: be healthy and still still work out.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:51,780 --> 01:09:53,785

 

Marc Preston: Oh, you've always been a really great shape.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:53,846 --> 01:09:55,830

 

Marc Preston: I mean, working out and lifting has always

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:55,871 --> 01:09:56,632

 

Marc Preston: been a big thing with you.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:57,061 --> 01:09:57,563

 

Tommy Chong: That's it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:09:57,724 --> 01:10:01,537

 

Tommy Chong: I mean, and to this day now I'm selling CBD

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:01,577 --> 01:10:02,360

 

Tommy Chong: that it's good for you.

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:02,761 --> 01:10:05,506

 

Tommy Chong: See, I don't want to do anything or even

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:05,767 --> 01:10:08,472

 

Tommy Chong: leave the people down the wrong path with a

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:08,512 --> 01:10:12,249

 

Tommy Chong: character, even If my, if a carry, I refuse

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:12,470 --> 01:10:14,878

 

Tommy Chong: because I know the effect that I have on

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:14,938 --> 01:10:15,420

 

Tommy Chong: people there.

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:15,921 --> 01:10:18,788

 

Tommy Chong: They listen to me, you know, and and and

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:18,808 --> 01:10:19,209

 

Tommy Chong: they read.

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:19,289 --> 01:10:21,624

 

Tommy Chong: They not only listen to me, but they, they

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:21,664 --> 01:10:23,471

 

Tommy Chong: will repeat what I would.

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:23,572 --> 01:10:26,041

 

Tommy Chong: I do what I say, you know, like with the

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:26,081 --> 01:10:29,729

 

Tommy Chong: CBD that I'm selling now, you know, that's

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:29,789 --> 01:10:34,365

 

Tommy Chong: going crazy as far as people like in it and

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:34,846 --> 01:10:36,811

 

Tommy Chong: and it's good for you, and that's the thing

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:36,851 --> 01:10:37,353

 

Tommy Chong: about weed.

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:38,762 --> 01:10:41,349

 

Tommy Chong: That's that's why I'd never promote any

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:41,389 --> 01:10:44,305

 

Tommy Chong: kind of smoking, cigarettes, you know, a

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:44,626 --> 01:10:47,440

 

Tommy Chong: tobacco or or alcohol.

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:48,408 --> 01:10:51,244

 

Tommy Chong: I had a chance to, you know, to do a Beer

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:51,885 --> 01:10:54,031

 

Tommy Chong: and and I went to, even right to the

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:54,071 --> 01:10:56,658

 

Tommy Chong: brewery because I wanted to check it all

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:56,799 --> 01:10:57,260

 

Tommy Chong: out, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

01:10:57,802 --> 01:11:00,771

 

Tommy Chong: And then I then I had a flash of you know,

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:02,302 --> 01:11:05,670

 

Tommy Chong: of a car wreck, with Chong beer scattered

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:05,731 --> 01:11:10,569

 

Tommy Chong: around, you know, and and I said, no, I

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:10,589 --> 01:11:12,293

 

Tommy Chong: don't want to be, I don't want that tag.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:13,082 --> 01:11:15,290

 

Tommy Chong: You can be the nicest guy all your life,

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:16,123 --> 01:11:20,166

 

Tommy Chong: but you mess up one time, man, you're done

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:21,451 --> 01:11:23,398

 

Tommy Chong: you know it's funny because I was talking

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:23,840

 

Tommy Chong: with my kids.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:25,878

 

Marc Preston: My daughter is at college right now.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:27,056

 

Marc Preston: She's gonna be a sophomore.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:27,139 --> 01:11:28,907

 

Marc Preston: My son's going to the same school next year

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:28,990 --> 01:11:29,678

 

Marc Preston: as a freshman.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:30,082 --> 01:11:31,496

 

Marc Preston: And I was telling them I was trying to find

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:31,516 --> 01:11:34,011

 

Marc Preston: a way to put it there's so much mischief

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:34,071 --> 01:11:35,358

 

Marc Preston: going on, people spiking, drinks and all

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:35,378 --> 01:11:35,519

 

Marc Preston: that is.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:35,539 --> 01:11:39,174

 

Marc Preston: Like, you know, if you were in a room and

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:39,194 --> 01:11:40,018

 

Marc Preston: you and your girlfriends show up and

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:40,038 --> 01:11:42,051

 

Marc Preston: there's some guys or you know, have a

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:42,071 --> 01:11:43,198

 

Marc Preston: little get together and they're all just

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:43,218 --> 01:11:45,310

 

Marc Preston: blackout drunk, they're just drinking, I

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:45,330 --> 01:11:46,436

 

Marc Preston: said in a way, I would rather than be in a

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:46,456 --> 01:11:47,140

 

Marc Preston: room with some guys.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:47,543 --> 01:11:48,715

 

Marc Preston: I've been smoking and that's it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:48,735 --> 01:11:51,726

 

Marc Preston: That's the only thing, because I think it's

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:52,127 --> 01:11:55,558

 

Marc Preston: ultimately, I feel like it's safer for them

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:55,598 --> 01:11:56,200

 

Marc Preston: being that scenario.

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:57,065 --> 01:11:58,253

 

Marc Preston: Then, with the guys that have been, you

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:58,293 --> 01:11:59,379

 

Marc Preston: know, college and just drinking and all

 

 


Speaker:

01:11:59,399 --> 01:12:01,350

 

Marc Preston: that I mean, I mean you know you're a

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:01,430 --> 01:12:02,536

 

Marc Preston: parent, you know it's your job to worry

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:02,557 --> 01:12:04,526

 

Marc Preston: about your kids all the time, no matter how

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:04,546 --> 01:12:07,177

 

Marc Preston: they are, and but it's like I'm not

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:07,197 --> 01:12:09,386

 

Marc Preston: advocating it necessarily, but I'm saying

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:09,427 --> 01:12:12,218

 

Marc Preston: listen, the reality is the people that that

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:12,238 --> 01:12:12,800

 

Marc Preston: are gonna sit back and smoke.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:13,222 --> 01:12:15,252

 

Marc Preston: They're, they're, they got a different

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:15,272 --> 01:12:16,338

 

Marc Preston: mentality and people just pounding beers

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:16,358 --> 01:12:18,748

 

Marc Preston: and you know alcohol, yeah, and and one

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:18,928 --> 01:12:19,471

 

Marc Preston: thing, that's poison.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:19,551 --> 01:12:20,997

 

Marc Preston: I mean you really think about it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:21,037 --> 01:12:24,518

 

Marc Preston: I mean it's you know it takes a toll on you

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:24,538 --> 01:12:24,800

 

Marc Preston: after a while.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:26,445 --> 01:12:30,098

 

Tommy Chong: Well, the best way is by example.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:30,118 --> 01:12:32,753

 

Tommy Chong: You know, and that's what I've done all my

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:32,773 --> 01:12:32,914

 

Tommy Chong: life.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:32,995 --> 01:12:33,579

 

Tommy Chong: It's just by example.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:36,068 --> 01:12:37,673

 

Tommy Chong: Now, you know, what I found out is that

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:38,054 --> 01:12:38,556

 

Tommy Chong: they would, they will.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:38,576 --> 01:12:40,281

 

Tommy Chong: If you're doing something right, if you're

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:40,301 --> 01:12:42,446

 

Tommy Chong: doing something right, they people will

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:42,466 --> 01:12:44,751

 

Tommy Chong: pick up on it and they will copy you.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:44,931 --> 01:12:46,355

 

Tommy Chong: And I've had that happen.

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:46,395 --> 01:12:51,323

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I've had people you know Not

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:51,383 --> 01:12:55,091

 

Tommy Chong: exactly what I do, and to me it's, it's a,

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:56,133 --> 01:12:58,718

 

Tommy Chong: it's a beautiful thing, like if someone

 

 


Speaker:

01:12:59,079 --> 01:13:01,447

 

Tommy Chong: does teaching Chong bits, I don't get

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:01,487 --> 01:13:04,680

 

Tommy Chong: offended, I take that, I'm very proud of

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:04,800

 

Tommy Chong: that.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:06,767 --> 01:13:08,312

 

Marc Preston: They're keeping it alive, and I think

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:08,332 --> 01:13:09,777

 

Marc Preston: that's that's right.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:09,957 --> 01:13:10,720

 

Marc Preston: They're paying no much to me.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:12,085 --> 01:13:14,314

 

Marc Preston: I certainly appreciate, and I just want to

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:14,354 --> 01:13:15,037

 

Marc Preston: wrap up real quick.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:15,057 --> 01:13:15,800

 

Marc Preston: I got a quick seven questions for you.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:16,907 --> 01:13:18,337

 

Marc Preston: These are just my fun questions.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:18,357 --> 01:13:18,800

 

Marc Preston: These are just okay.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:20,425 --> 01:13:21,789

 

Marc Preston: I always wrap up every interview with.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:21,809 --> 01:13:24,115

 

Marc Preston: The first one is what is your favorite

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:24,717 --> 01:13:25,038

 

Marc Preston: comfort food?

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:25,058 --> 01:13:26,922

 

Marc Preston: That thing that's like you love Snack an

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:26,942 --> 01:13:27,263

 

Marc Preston: honor.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:27,283 --> 01:13:28,165

 

Marc Preston: You just kind of go to it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:28,225 --> 01:13:30,229

 

Marc Preston: It's just you know you always have to have

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:30,249 --> 01:13:30,890

 

Marc Preston: it around the house.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:31,632 --> 01:13:35,964

 

Tommy Chong: Well, no, I guess.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:36,164 --> 01:13:40,447

 

Tommy Chong: Croissants, croissants, toast it, toast it

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:40,527 --> 01:13:43,619

 

Tommy Chong: croissant is my, my favorite favorite.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:44,301 --> 01:13:45,764

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, my oldest daughter loves those.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:45,784 --> 01:13:47,388

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, those are tasty.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:47,408 --> 01:13:49,332

 

Marc Preston: Little butter, little little few calories

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:49,372 --> 01:13:49,593

 

Marc Preston: in there.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:50,482 --> 01:13:51,164

 

Marc Preston: Oh, toast it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:51,486 --> 01:13:52,248

 

Marc Preston: Oh, I love it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:53,243 --> 01:13:54,451

 

Marc Preston: Now, if you're gonna sit down, next

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:54,511 --> 01:13:55,136

 

Marc Preston: question three people.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:55,176 --> 01:13:55,780

 

Marc Preston: You can have a cup of coffee.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:56,406 --> 01:13:57,800

 

Marc Preston: You're gonna be talking story for a while.

 

 


Speaker:

01:13:58,342 --> 01:14:01,091

 

Marc Preston: Who would those three people be living or

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:01,151 --> 01:14:01,392

 

Marc Preston: not?

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:01,593 --> 01:14:03,399

 

Marc Preston: You know, if you could sit down and have

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:03,419 --> 01:14:05,606

 

Marc Preston: spent a few hours Is talking about life of

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:05,626 --> 01:14:06,589

 

Marc Preston: three people, who would it be?

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:08,583 --> 01:14:11,051

 

Tommy Chong: What's his name that's kept was messed up.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:11,272 --> 01:14:15,847

 

Tommy Chong: The In the wheelchair can hardly talk.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:16,208 --> 01:14:16,308

 

Tommy Chong: Oh.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:19,081 --> 01:14:20,143

 

Marc Preston: The doctor from England.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:20,604 --> 01:14:22,389

 

Tommy Chong: These the after-fifth this, that was a.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:22,409 --> 01:14:22,710

 

Tommy Chong: That's him.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:24,844 --> 01:14:25,647

 

Marc Preston: Oh, not see a thing.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:25,667 --> 01:14:27,093

 

Marc Preston: When I try to remember somebody's name,

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:27,133 --> 01:14:28,780

 

Marc Preston: that's my brain goes nope, not gonna do it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:29,421 --> 01:14:31,487

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, hawking, stephen Hawking, hawking,

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:31,527 --> 01:14:35,507

 

Tommy Chong: Stephen Hawking, stephen Hawking, moses.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:35,527 --> 01:14:41,151

 

Tommy Chong: I really identify with Moses and Just

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:42,822 --> 01:14:45,148

 

Tommy Chong: Because he was so influential, still

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:45,229 --> 01:14:48,216

 

Tommy Chong: influential in my life is Jesus, uh-huh

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:48,737 --> 01:14:49,559

 

Tommy Chong: very good, very good.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:49,579 --> 01:14:49,619

 

Marc Preston: So.

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:50,181 --> 01:14:52,668

 

Marc Preston: So next question, like when you're young,

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:53,450 --> 01:14:56,385

 

Marc Preston: who is your Celebrity crush?

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:56,686 --> 01:14:58,673

 

Marc Preston: The first one you know, maybe your teenager

 

 


Speaker:

01:14:58,874 --> 01:15:00,178

 

Marc Preston: late, you know somebody who's like ah,

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:00,258 --> 01:15:01,749

 

Marc Preston: first time it came, they came on your radar.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:01,790 --> 01:15:04,005

 

Marc Preston: You're just like all about him, besides

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:04,085 --> 01:15:04,788

 

Marc Preston: Shelby, of course.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:05,542 --> 01:15:06,846

 

Tommy Chong: Marilyn, marilyn Monroe.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:06,926 --> 01:15:10,115

 

Tommy Chong: I gotta say I've always loved Marilyn

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:10,135 --> 01:15:10,456

 

Tommy Chong: Monroe.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:10,476 --> 01:15:11,720

 

Tommy Chong: Oh my god.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:13,605 --> 01:15:14,748

 

Marc Preston: Now, if you're gonna be living next

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:14,809 --> 01:15:16,995

 

Marc Preston: question on an island a year, you and

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:17,035 --> 01:15:18,078

 

Marc Preston: Shelby hanging out.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:18,258 --> 01:15:19,402

 

Marc Preston: It's a beautiful island you have, but

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:19,422 --> 01:15:20,908

 

Marc Preston: there's no streaming, there's no internet

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:20,928 --> 01:15:22,696

 

Marc Preston: and you can only bring one DVD of a movie

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:22,736 --> 01:15:23,780

 

Marc Preston: and you can only bring one album with you.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:24,782 --> 01:15:26,606

 

Marc Preston: What would that DVD and what would that

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:26,646 --> 01:15:27,107

 

Marc Preston: album be?

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:27,769 --> 01:15:31,302

 

Tommy Chong: Okay, the album would be kind of blue by

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:31,362 --> 01:15:32,908

 

Tommy Chong: tear by tyranny Sutton.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:34,041 --> 01:15:35,366

 

Tommy Chong: That's, that's my album.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:35,989 --> 01:15:40,659

 

Tommy Chong: The movie would be badlands by Terrence

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:40,699 --> 01:15:40,800

 

Tommy Chong: Malek.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:43,465 --> 01:15:45,529

 

Tommy Chong: Terrence Malek and Martin Sheen.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:46,131 --> 01:15:47,133

 

Tommy Chong: That, that's a movie.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:47,353 --> 01:15:48,535

 

Marc Preston: That's going back right there.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:48,555 --> 01:15:51,409

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, what a great actor, martin Sheen.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:51,730 --> 01:15:52,332

 

Announcer: Everything is in.

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:54,022 --> 01:15:56,588

 

Marc Preston: Now, if you were to define a perfect day?

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:56,608 --> 01:15:58,872

 

Marc Preston: You know, stem to stern, from time you get

 

 


Speaker:

01:15:58,912 --> 01:16:00,716

 

Marc Preston: up, to time you put your head on the pillow.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:01,303 --> 01:16:03,236

 

Marc Preston: You know what are the component parts of

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:03,276 --> 01:16:03,800

 

Marc Preston: just a killer day for you.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:06,227 --> 01:16:11,147

 

Tommy Chong: Oh killer day, I guess.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:12,230 --> 01:16:16,449

 

Tommy Chong: Finishing Something that I've always meant

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:16,509 --> 01:16:18,635

 

Tommy Chong: to do but never got around to doing it

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:21,286 --> 01:16:22,732

 

Tommy Chong: Rearranging my garage.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:24,586 --> 01:16:26,412

 

Marc Preston: It's a small things like that yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:27,948 --> 01:16:29,538

 

Tommy Chong: That would that would be a killer day.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:29,558 --> 01:16:29,800

 

Tommy Chong: I started it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:30,262 --> 01:16:35,065

 

Tommy Chong: I started it and I'm part way there, but,

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:35,286 --> 01:16:36,430

 

Tommy Chong: but I got to finish it.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:36,631 --> 01:16:38,459

 

Tommy Chong: I got a thing I'm a professional

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:38,499 --> 01:16:38,780

 

Tommy Chong: procrastinator.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:39,943 --> 01:16:41,407

 

Marc Preston: And it's time for the May meeting of the

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:41,448 --> 01:16:43,473

 

Marc Preston: professional procrastinators association.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:43,534 --> 01:16:47,679

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, we're gonna put it off till next

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:47,699 --> 01:16:47,800

 

Tommy Chong: month.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:48,101 --> 01:16:48,785

 

Tommy Chong: Now, if you weren't, if you?

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:48,926 --> 01:16:51,559

 

Marc Preston: weren't doing this for a living, if you

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:51,579 --> 01:16:57,396

 

Marc Preston: weren't Acting, doing comedy, doing, you

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:57,416 --> 01:16:58,599

 

Marc Preston: know, being an, at being a cannabis

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:58,619 --> 01:16:58,780

 

Marc Preston: advocate.

 

 


Speaker:

01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:01,639

 

Marc Preston: What would your vocation be?

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:02,384 --> 01:17:03,471

 

Marc Preston: I would like to be a teacher.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:06,669 --> 01:17:08,679

 

Tommy Chong: A teacher to see a philosophy.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:11,313

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, a philosophy teacher.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:11,353 --> 01:17:14,205

 

Marc Preston: Very good, I think you definitely, you

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:14,225 --> 01:17:15,850

 

Marc Preston: definitely have the street cred for it,

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:15,890 --> 01:17:17,295

 

Marc Preston: without a doubt, I think you, I think

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:17,355 --> 01:17:22,569

 

Marc Preston: you're still, in a way, I think you've

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:22,609 --> 01:17:23,532

 

Marc Preston: already been doing that.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:23,712 --> 01:17:24,093

 

Marc Preston: You know.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:24,173 --> 01:17:24,915

 

Marc Preston: No, I have, I have.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:25,236 --> 01:17:26,198

 

Tommy Chong: I've been writing too.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:26,218 --> 01:17:30,549

 

Tommy Chong: I write down a lot of Philosophy.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:31,111 --> 01:17:33,236

 

Tommy Chong: I was very lucky I got turned on to the

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:33,256 --> 01:17:38,049

 

Tommy Chong: spiritual world by a jazz musician Many,

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:38,130 --> 01:17:41,238

 

Tommy Chong: many, many, many years ago, and I have Yet.

 

 


Speaker:

01:17:41,921 --> 01:17:45,338

 

Tommy Chong: You know, I've got books that I always

 

 


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Tommy Chong: refer people to Trying to see it.

 

 


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01:17:49,595 --> 01:17:50,519

 

Tommy Chong: No, I guess it's in the other room.

 

 


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01:17:50,539 --> 01:17:55,091

 

Tommy Chong: But yeah, I'm, I'm on that road yeah.

 

 


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01:17:55,151 --> 01:17:57,376

 

Marc Preston: I was a fan of you remember Alan Watts, by

 

 


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Marc Preston: any chance.

 

 


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Announcer: Yes, yes, I love Alan Watts, that's.

 

 


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Marc Preston: I still.

 

 


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01:18:02,148 --> 01:18:03,873

 

Marc Preston: I said when I used to work on I worked on

 

 


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01:18:03,893 --> 01:18:05,276

 

Marc Preston: the radio briefly in LA and I lived in San

 

 


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01:18:05,296 --> 01:18:07,401

 

Marc Preston: Diego and in San Diego and in San I was

 

 


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01:18:08,304 --> 01:18:08,765

 

Marc Preston: driving.

 

 


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01:18:08,885 --> 01:18:09,567

 

Marc Preston: I would always drive.

 

 


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01:18:09,707 --> 01:18:11,391

 

Marc Preston: I go get my shake at the In-N-Out Burger

 

 


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01:18:11,432 --> 01:18:14,038

 

Marc Preston: Drive South, head back to San Diego and

 

 


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01:18:14,319 --> 01:18:14,760

 

Marc Preston: listen Alan Watts on.

 

 


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01:18:15,403 --> 01:18:16,971

 

Marc Preston: There was a radio Pacifica or something

 

 


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01:18:16,991 --> 01:18:17,353

 

Marc Preston: like that.

 

 


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01:18:17,574 --> 01:18:20,185

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, now, last question now, if you, we

 

 


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01:18:20,205 --> 01:18:22,089

 

Marc Preston: could jump into a DeLorean and you could go

 

 


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01:18:22,129 --> 01:18:24,233

 

Marc Preston: back in time, got a couple minutes with 16

 

 


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01:18:24,253 --> 01:18:27,411

 

Marc Preston: year old Tommy Chaw, what piece of advice

 

 


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01:18:27,491 --> 01:18:28,458

 

Marc Preston: would you want to give yourself to get you

 

 


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01:18:28,478 --> 01:18:28,800

 

Marc Preston: on a better road?

 

 


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01:18:29,661 --> 01:18:31,302

 

Marc Preston: Maybe bring more joy to your life in that

 

 


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01:18:31,362 --> 01:18:33,063

 

Marc Preston: moment, just what piece of advice do you

 

 


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01:18:33,103 --> 01:18:35,124

 

Marc Preston: think would be essential to share with 16

 

 


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01:18:35,164 --> 01:18:35,645

 

Marc Preston: year old you?

 

 


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01:18:59,143 --> 01:19:00,163

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, I don't know.

 

 


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01:19:00,423 --> 01:19:04,206

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, I'm so, I just really love my life.

 

 


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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, I can be sure, because I know

 

 


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01:19:53,585 --> 01:19:56,571

 

Marc Preston: somebody's because, I mean, there are going

 

 


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01:19:56,591 --> 01:19:57,808

 

Marc Preston: to be people listening that are going to

 

 


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01:19:57,829 --> 01:19:58,760

 

Marc Preston: want to know the answer to that question

 

 


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01:19:59,141 --> 01:20:00,968

 

Marc Preston: and I feel like if I don't ask it, then you

 

 


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01:20:01,008 --> 01:20:01,148

 

Marc Preston: know.

 

 


Speaker:

01:20:01,881 --> 01:20:03,848

 

Marc Preston: But who is that person and what's that

 

 


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01:20:03,908 --> 01:20:04,169

 

Marc Preston: strain?

 

 


Speaker:

01:20:04,662 --> 01:20:05,305

 

Tommy Chong: Well, it's a.

 

 


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01:20:05,567 --> 01:20:08,239

 

Tommy Chong: It was a guy that I, that I almost smoked

 

 


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01:20:08,259 --> 01:20:10,686

 

Tommy Chong: with, but he was having immigration

 

 


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01:20:10,767 --> 01:20:12,532

 

Tommy Chong: problems at the time.

 

 


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01:20:12,962 --> 01:20:16,436

 

Tommy Chong: I walked into a room one time to light up a

 

 


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01:20:16,517 --> 01:20:17,199

 

Tommy Chong: joint, which I did.

 

 


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01:20:17,440 --> 01:20:21,510

 

Tommy Chong: I lit up this beautiful Mexican sativa, I

 

 


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01:20:21,551 --> 01:20:25,701

 

Tommy Chong: guess it was, and it was pretty stinky and

 

 


Speaker:

01:20:25,761 --> 01:20:26,403

 

Tommy Chong: I'm smoking.

 

 


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01:20:26,463 --> 01:20:29,582

 

Tommy Chong: I look down and there's John Lennon sitting

 

 


Speaker:

01:20:29,663 --> 01:20:33,547

 

Tommy Chong: on the floor and I looked at the joint to

 

 


Speaker:

01:20:33,587 --> 01:20:35,091

 

Tommy Chong: see am I hallucinating?

 

 


Speaker:

01:20:35,885 --> 01:20:39,327

 

Tommy Chong: That's John Lennon, and it was John Lennon.

 

 


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01:20:40,401 --> 01:20:43,790

 

Tommy Chong: And so I walked over and I handed him the

 

 


Speaker:

01:20:43,850 --> 01:20:45,887

 

Tommy Chong: joint and he refused it.

 

 


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01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:48,989

 

Tommy Chong: He goes I'm sorry, Nate, can't do it, you

 

 


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01:20:49,029 --> 01:20:51,086

 

Tommy Chong: can't do it, I've got immigration problems.

 

 


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01:20:52,660 --> 01:20:55,408

 

Tommy Chong: I would love to go back in that time and

 

 


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01:20:55,629 --> 01:20:58,645

 

Tommy Chong: tell John John, forget the immigration,

 

 


Speaker:

01:21:00,089 --> 01:21:01,853

 

Tommy Chong: smoke, smoke this shit.

 

 


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01:21:02,583 --> 01:21:03,011

 

Marc Preston: Oh God.

 

 


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01:21:03,052 --> 01:21:04,584

 

Marc Preston: I can't even, I can't even imagine what

 

 


Speaker:

01:21:04,604 --> 01:21:05,346

 

Marc Preston: that would have been like.

 

 


Speaker:

01:21:06,780 --> 01:21:09,068

 

Marc Preston: But yeah, you know, and hey, feel free to

 

 


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01:21:09,108 --> 01:21:09,650

 

Marc Preston: promote man.

 

 


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01:21:09,740 --> 01:21:13,090

 

Marc Preston: I mean, you know, what do you think is the

 

 


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01:21:13,391 --> 01:21:15,546

 

Marc Preston: strain that your favorite tire top strain?

 

 


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01:21:16,580 --> 01:21:18,326

 

Marc Preston: And you've got your own line out now, don't

 

 


Speaker:

01:21:18,346 --> 01:21:18,466

 

Marc Preston: you?

 

 


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01:21:19,048 --> 01:21:20,904

 

Tommy Chong: We do Cheech and Chong we got.

 

 


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01:21:20,944 --> 01:21:23,646

 

Tommy Chong: Cheech and Chong pot we got Tommy Chong pot

 

 


Speaker:

01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:24,641

 

Tommy Chong: we got.

 

 


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01:21:25,464 --> 01:21:30,622

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, my favorite thing really is the these

 

 


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01:21:32,086 --> 01:21:36,396

 

Tommy Chong: CBD nice strain just helps you sleep.

 

 


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01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:39,729

 

Tommy Chong: But advice, they say, put it down to your

 

 


Speaker:

01:21:39,789 --> 01:21:39,990

 

Tommy Chong: tongue.

 

 


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01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:40,501

 

Tommy Chong: I don't.

 

 


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01:21:41,003 --> 01:21:42,969

 

Tommy Chong: It kind of messes with my teeth somehow.

 

 


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01:21:43,340 --> 01:21:45,286

 

Tommy Chong: The only thing I would say is put it right

 

 


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01:21:45,326 --> 01:21:45,928

 

Tommy Chong: down the throat.

 

 


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01:21:46,660 --> 01:21:48,887

 

Tommy Chong: You know, don't mess with under the tongue.

 

 


Speaker:

01:21:49,529 --> 01:21:49,930

 

Tommy Chong: It works.

 

 


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01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:50,883

 

Marc Preston: What's the name of it?

 

 


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01:21:50,923 --> 01:21:55,269

 

Tommy Chong: again it's a CBD, but it's called nice

 

 


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01:21:55,349 --> 01:21:58,526

 

Tommy Chong: dreams, nice dreams, tommy Chong's nice

 

 


Speaker:

01:21:58,566 --> 01:21:58,947

 

Tommy Chong: dreams.

 

 


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01:22:00,121 --> 01:22:01,927

 

Marc Preston: I am going to try and find some of that

 

 


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01:22:01,967 --> 01:22:02,609

 

Marc Preston: down this way.

 

 


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01:22:05,060 --> 01:22:06,666

 

Tommy Chong: Walmart was carrying somewhere.

 

 


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01:22:07,268 --> 01:22:09,428

 

Tommy Chong: You know, that's how popular they are.

 

 


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01:22:09,500 --> 01:22:12,421

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, it's a Tommy Chong CBD product and

 

 


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01:22:12,461 --> 01:22:13,506

 

Tommy Chong: you can go online too.

 

 


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01:22:13,701 --> 01:22:17,160

 

Tommy Chong: I think it's hate Tommy Chong or something,

 

 


Speaker:

01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:19,307

 

Tommy Chong: but Tommy Chong CBD, you'll find it.

 

 


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01:22:19,668 --> 01:22:20,009

 

Marc Preston: Very good.

 

 


Speaker:

01:22:20,500 --> 01:22:21,282

 

Marc Preston: And what strain?

 

 


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01:22:21,402 --> 01:22:23,206

 

Marc Preston: What strain are you recommending right now,

 

 


Speaker:

01:22:23,286 --> 01:22:23,887

 

Marc Preston: as as?

 

 


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01:22:24,048 --> 01:22:24,108

 

Tommy Chong: a.

 

 


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01:22:24,148 --> 01:22:26,753

 

Tommy Chong: Well, there's a.

 

 


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01:22:29,460 --> 01:22:31,107

 

Tommy Chong: We got a strain called Labrador.

 

 


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01:22:32,380 --> 01:22:34,986

 

Tommy Chong: It was from our, one of our bits.

 

 


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01:22:36,891 --> 01:22:38,750

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, what kind of what am I smoking?

 

 


Speaker:

01:22:38,981 --> 01:22:40,647

 

Tommy Chong: Oh, labrador man, my dog.

 

 


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01:22:41,502 --> 01:22:42,266

 

Marc Preston: I can't remember that.

 

 


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01:22:43,686 --> 01:22:46,127

 

Tommy Chong: Yeah, so we got a strain called Labrador.

 

 


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01:22:46,962 --> 01:22:48,488

 

Marc Preston: Oh, wasn't it because the dog pooped or

 

 


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01:22:48,528 --> 01:22:50,466

 

Marc Preston: something and the weed was in the poop.

 

 


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01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:53,047

 

Tommy Chong: No, the dog ate my stash.

 

 


Speaker:

01:22:53,500 --> 01:22:54,243

 

Tommy Chong: It took me a.

 

 


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01:22:54,524 --> 01:22:55,869

 

Tommy Chong: I had to follow him around for a month

 

 


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01:22:55,940 --> 01:22:56,942

 

Tommy Chong: before I got it back.

 

 


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01:22:57,183 --> 01:22:57,805

 

Tommy Chong: Oh man.

 

 


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01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:03,023

 

Marc Preston: Well, tommy man, thank you, this has been a

 

 


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01:23:03,204 --> 01:23:03,425

 

Marc Preston: this.

 

 


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01:23:04,147 --> 01:23:06,205

 

Marc Preston: I know my, my 13 year old self is going

 

 


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01:23:06,266 --> 01:23:06,466

 

Marc Preston: dude.

 

 


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01:23:06,486 --> 01:23:07,269

 

Marc Preston: This is awesome.

 

 


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01:23:07,340 --> 01:23:09,006

 

Marc Preston: You know, it's such a pleasure to sit down

 

 


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01:23:09,026 --> 01:23:09,287

 

Marc Preston: with you.

 

 


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01:23:09,507 --> 01:23:09,949

 

Tommy Chong: I'm glad.

 

 


Speaker:

01:23:10,340 --> 01:23:12,067

 

Marc Preston: Give, give Paris a hug for me.

 

 


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01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:14,888

 

Marc Preston: What a, what a man she is and I I will.

 

 


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01:23:15,634 --> 01:23:17,002

 

Marc Preston: My friend, you have a great, have yourself

 

 


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01:23:17,022 --> 01:23:18,621

 

Marc Preston: a great rest your weekend, weekend and I,

 

 


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01:23:18,661 --> 01:23:19,986

 

Marc Preston: hopefully we'll catch up down the line.

 

 


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01:23:20,521 --> 01:23:22,305

 

Tommy Chong: I really enjoyed talking to you, dude.

 

 


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01:23:24,571 --> 01:23:27,345

 

Marc Preston: Well, there you go, Tommy Chong, a legend

 

 


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01:23:27,987 --> 01:23:30,102

 

Marc Preston: and a really cool guy to sit down and talk

 

 


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01:23:30,162 --> 01:23:30,785

 

Marc Preston: story with.

 

 


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01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:31,322

 

Marc Preston: What a what?

 

 


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01:23:31,342 --> 01:23:34,183

 

Marc Preston: a really cool career he's had and some cool

 

 


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01:23:34,263 --> 01:23:36,230

 

Marc Preston: insights, some some things I didn't even

 

 


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01:23:36,290 --> 01:23:38,687

 

Marc Preston: know about teaching Chong and kind of how

 

 


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01:23:38,707 --> 01:23:39,489

 

Marc Preston: that came together.

 

 


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01:23:40,020 --> 01:23:42,702

 

Marc Preston: And I tell you this was fun for me and my

 

 


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01:23:42,762 --> 01:23:44,067

 

Marc Preston: inner 13 year old self.

 

 


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01:23:44,340 --> 01:23:46,046

 

Marc Preston: Hopefully it was a lot of fun for you as

 

 


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01:23:46,127 --> 01:23:46,327

 

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Tommy Chong

Comedian | Actor | Writer | Director | Entrepreneur | Cannabis Advocate

Grammy Award winning comedian Tommy Chong is legendary for his invaluable contribution to American counter-culture as part of the iconic comedy duo Cheech & Chong. During their reign, the twosome recorded six gold comedy albums, including the 1973 Grammy winner “Los Cochinos,” and starred in eight films, most of which Chong co-wrote and directed. The first, Up In Smoke, was the highest grossing comedy of 1978, topping $100 million at the box office. Others were Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie (1980), Nice Dreams (1981), Things Are Tough All Over (1982), Cheech and Chong: Still Smoking (1983), and The Corsican Brothers (1984). Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Tommy began his entertainment career as a musician in a Canadian-based rhythm and blues band. Eventually, he landed a gig with the “Vancouvers”” and co-wrote the band’s 1960’s hit, “Does Your Mama Know About Me.”” From here, Chong eventually turned towards the life as an actor. The first step was forming “City Works,” an improvisational group where he consequently met his future comedic partner, Richard “Cheech” Marin. Throughout the 1970’s Cheech & Chong earned a massive following until eventually, the duo had run its lengthy and prosperous course and they both embarked on solo careers. Tommy has appeared in several films including 1990’s “Far Out, Man!”” and “National Lampoon’s Senior Trip” (1995). Chong has also starred, most notably, as “Leo” on Fox’s “That 70’s Show,” and has guest starred on ABC’s “Dharma & Greg” and “The George Lopez Show.” Chong recently released his new book entitled Cheech and … Read More

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