Comedian Tommy Chong from "Cheech & Chong" and "That '90s Show" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Comedian Tommy Chong from “Cheech & Chong” and “That ’90s Show” joins us on Story & Craft.
Tommy is a comedian, musician, actor, writer, director and cannabis advocate. We talk about his career on stage and screen, his partnership with Cheech Marin, and the ups and downs of cannabis advocacy. We also talk about George Carlin, Tommy’s views on American culture, and a chance encounter with John Lennon.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Tommy Chong joins Story & Craft
Sushi Chef’s Biker Fanbase
Government Entrapment in Bomb Manufacturing
From Bodybuilding to Comedy
The Role of a Backup Musician
From Nightclubs to Comedy
Meeting Teech and Discovering Comedy Talent
Comedy and Cultural Sensitivity
Comedian Influence on Each Other
Stand-Up Comedy and Rodney King Reference
Cheech and Chong’s Comedy and Legacy
Cheech and Chong Documentary and Movie
Comedy Style and Jerry Lewis’s Influence
Promoting Health and CBD Use
Seven Questions
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Full Transcript
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The fiddle player that I worked with.
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Tommy Chong joins Story & Craft
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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: Hey, by the way, don't forget
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Marc Preston: Storyandcraftpod.com.
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Marc Preston: Have you been there?
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Marc Preston: Great, thank you.
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Marc Preston: Oh, you haven't.
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Marc Preston: Why not?
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Marc Preston: You got to go by.
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Marc Preston: Check out Storyandcraftpod.com, everything
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Marc Preston: new episode.
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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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Sushi Chef's Biker Fanbase
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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: 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: 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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Government Entrapment in Bomb Manufacturing
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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: 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: Basically, yeah, all the comedy bits into a
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Tommy Chong: Well, I, you know I don't work that way.
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Tommy Chong: And so one day I came, well, one night I
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Tommy Chong: Well, once it became the title of the movie,
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Tommy Chong: And so when I wrote Up and Smoke, then
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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: 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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Marc Preston: Yeah, no, you wrote, you also directed a
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, I directed that one too, but I
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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: 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: So I became known as a good backup guitar
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Tommy Chong: But I was more the business guy of all the
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Tommy Chong: You know, I had other interests, and my
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Tommy Chong: He taught me the basics of entertaining
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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: So he taught me that lesson.
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Tommy Chong: You know, not it wasn't my plan, but it was
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Tommy Chong: And so when I got into like comedy for
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Tommy Chong: Cheech came later I had been doing the
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Tommy Chong: months and then Cheech and I, then we got
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Marc Preston: Well, that's how you know you're really in
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Marc Preston: Yeah Well, how did you?
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Marc Preston: I know you've probably told the story a
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Marc Preston: But how did you meet?
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Tommy Chong: Well, in our we had, we had a app drawers
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Tommy Chong: club which was given to us, given to me.
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Tommy Chong: Basically I was the one that was interested
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Tommy Chong: We had a singer that was very flamboyant
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Tommy Chong: And then we had other instruments, other
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Tommy Chong: So when we got offered a nightclub I jumped
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Tommy Chong: on all over, you know yeah, Is this in Los
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Tommy Chong: No, this is in Vancouver, Canada.
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Marc Preston: Oh, that's right Cause aren't you from
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Tommy Chong: I was born in Edmonton and raised in
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Tommy Chong: Well, so so we're in Vancouver.
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Tommy Chong: The club was so successful.
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Tommy Chong: It became so successful that another club
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Tommy Chong: So so I turned that club the one that was
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Tommy Chong: And so the bikers you know a lot of bikers
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Tommy Chong: So when I got fired from Motown which is
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Tommy Chong: I started working the lights at the strip.
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Tommy Chong: The titty bar you know, the other after
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Tommy Chong: And then I realized that I could turn this
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Tommy Chong: which I did using the girls who were
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Tommy Chong: But I needed another partner.
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Tommy Chong: So I talked to Dormian his name was Dave
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Tommy Chong: and to I said I wanted him to be the MC.
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Tommy Chong: And then Dave said well, I'll do it if you
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Tommy Chong: And so he called my bluff and I said okay.
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Tommy Chong: So next thing, you know I'm on stage with
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Tommy Chong: And then we needed a straight man because
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Tommy Chong: then it was, you know, long hairs were like,
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Tommy Chong: So we had a straight man named Rick Lenz, a
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Tommy Chong: And then so I started to have an actor sing
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Tommy Chong: We were so popular that we got a front page
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Tommy Chong: After that picture Rick disappeared, his
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Marc Preston: Because he was like that's what you're up
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Tommy Chong: He told his wife that he was doing comedy.
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Tommy Chong: I mean theater, you know like what do you
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Tommy Chong: And so I needed a straight guy.
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Tommy Chong: that he said, I know the perfect guy for
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Tommy Chong: And I said he said come on out and meet him.
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Tommy Chong: He was Richard Merritt, right, right, and
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Tommy Chong: Richard was up in Vancouver, canada,
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Tommy Chong: He was trying not to go to get killed in
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Tommy Chong: And so we did.
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Tommy Chong: None of us knew the strippers or any of the
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Tommy Chong: was Mexican Because he had been such a good
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Tommy Chong: He was brown, something and so and so we
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Tommy Chong: I didn't really know he was Mexican until
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Tommy Chong: And that's when and I found out, when we
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Tommy Chong: the first time we found out that we were
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Tommy Chong: We had a band, we were gonna play music and
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Tommy Chong: and I did 45 minutes of comedy and found
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Tommy Chong: We were a comedy team, and so that's when I
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Tommy Chong: His nickname was Teech, because we were
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Tommy Chong: And then we snuck back into LA and the rest
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Marc Preston: Now is that where he's from originally?
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, he was from LA, yeah.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's one of the things I loved
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Marc Preston: about your movies when I was probably too
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Marc Preston: Way back when, was you know?
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Marc Preston: My view of LA was always the glitz, the
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Marc Preston: To me that was LA, it's like, but there was
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Marc Preston: this whole Chicano side, there was this
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Marc Preston: like you know, other side, he has a little
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Marc Preston: come in and enamored like, but no, what you
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Marc Preston: were saying before about how you supported
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Marc Preston: somebody, how you I kinda like the back of
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Marc Preston: up, I mean that's, there were scenes in
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Marc Preston: There's this scene and I don't know what
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Marc Preston: on the back of the car?
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Marc Preston: You know.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, isn't it on the bumper.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, and then you're, but see,
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Marc Preston: It's like, visually you're doing something.
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Marc Preston: You know you're always kind of in the
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Marc Preston: you're supporting him, so it's not like
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Marc Preston: You know, there's so much visual comedy
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Marc Preston: that I think was just, you know he was the
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Marc Preston: This one scene sticks out of my mind.
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Marc Preston: trying to get into the door.
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Marc Preston: Apparently you've got so many monitors
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Marc Preston: going he can't get the door open, you know,
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Marc Preston: and he's like but yeah, I think grossly
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Marc Preston: under underappreciated physical comedians.
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Marc Preston: I will say you know, you grew up in Canada.
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Marc Preston: Now your folks when they saw the kind of
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Marc Preston: mischief you were up to, did they
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Marc Preston: understand it?
534
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Marc Preston: Did they like?
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Marc Preston: Did they think it was cool?
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Marc Preston: They think it was just ridiculous?
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Marc Preston: What was your family thinking about your
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Marc Preston: endeavor?
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Tommy Chong: Well, you know, it was my dad really that
540
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Tommy Chong: encouraged me because you know the party to
541
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Tommy Chong: play guitar.
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Tommy Chong: My dad really, you know, he was very
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Tommy Chong: traditional Chinese, but he never spoke
544
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Tommy Chong: Chinese around the house, he never taught
545
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Tommy Chong: us anything.
546
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Tommy Chong: We were like his, his white, his Caucasian
547
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Tommy Chong: family, you know, because my mother was a
548
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Tommy Chong: very beautiful.
549
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Tommy Chong: Well, I found out later she was 25% native,
550
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Tommy Chong: but we always thought she was Scotch Irish
551
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Tommy Chong: and my dad was Chinese, of course, and so
552
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Tommy Chong: my dad, he treated us and mom and the
553
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Tommy Chong: family more like his white family, you know,
554
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Tommy Chong: and he would.
555
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Tommy Chong: So when I started, when we did, well, first
556
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Tommy Chong: of all when we did the night clubs, you
557
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Tommy Chong: know, my dad and mom, everybody came.
558
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Tommy Chong: My brother actually managed all the clubs,
559
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Tommy Chong: leaving me to go on the road, you know,
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Tommy Chong: with the bands and everything else.
561
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Tommy Chong: So my parents, my dad, he was very
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Tommy Chong: traditional, he was in the Second World War,
563
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Tommy Chong: he didn't have to go, he was in Canada and
564
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Tommy Chong: they didn't want Chinese in the war but in
565
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Tommy Chong: the army.
566
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Tommy Chong: But he enlisted with his friends and he was
567
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Tommy Chong: born and raised in Vancouver and Ableton
568
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Tommy Chong: too, where he met my mother.
569
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Tommy Chong: But my parents were sort of, you know,
570
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Tommy Chong: tradition, but they went along with me
571
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Tommy Chong: because, you know, one of the kids is an
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Tommy Chong: entertainer.
573
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Tommy Chong: You know, the whole world revolves around.
574
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Tommy Chong: I remember my sister.
575
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Tommy Chong: She was a tap dancer and she went on the
576
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Tommy Chong: road with a tap dancing crew one time and
577
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Tommy Chong: we followed her, or actually we drove her,
578
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Tommy Chong: and that's when I got a taste of the
579
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Tommy Chong: entertainment world, you know.
580
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Tommy Chong: And so, being an entertainer I was, you
581
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Tommy Chong: know I was.
582
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Tommy Chong: I was lopped into a.
583
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Tommy Chong: Let me tell you a story about my uncle.
584
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Tommy Chong: My dad had a brother who I was named after,
585
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Tommy Chong: tommy.
586
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Tommy Chong: My dad and my brother were opposites.
587
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Tommy Chong: My dad was rough and ready to go to war and
588
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Tommy Chong: he was a pool hustler one time.
589
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Tommy Chong: You know, he wasn't tall, he was five foot
590
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Tommy Chong: three, but he ended up being a big, distant
591
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Tommy Chong: truck driver, you know.
592
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Tommy Chong: So he was a macho kind of guy, very macho,
593
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Tommy Chong: very tough too.
594
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Tommy Chong: But my uncle Tommy was an academic.
595
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Tommy Chong: He never got out of school.
596
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Tommy Chong: He stayed in the University of Alberta
597
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Tommy Chong: until he died at the age of 80, something.
598
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Tommy Chong: He was a diving coach, even though he
599
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Tommy Chong: couldn't swim, but he was a gymnast and he
600
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Tommy Chong: was also an intellect, you know he was, and
601
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Tommy Chong: he wasn't really thrilled with my dad or
602
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Tommy Chong: his family until, until I started getting
603
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Tommy Chong: written up in the movie, the movie section,
604
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Tommy Chong: and then, and because I carry his name, all
605
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Tommy Chong: of a sudden I became his favorite nephew,
606
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Tommy Chong: you know.
607
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Marc Preston: So how many kids were in your family?
608
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Marc Preston: How many brothers and sisters did you have?
609
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Tommy Chong: I had a brother and a sister, and my
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Tommy Chong: sister's still with us.
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Tommy Chong: My brother passed a couple of years ago and,
612
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Tommy Chong: yeah, and we were named after him.
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Tommy Chong: My mother was very.
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Tommy Chong: She went to Chinese, moved when she met my
615
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Tommy Chong: dad and she just she adopted everything
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Tommy Chong: Chinese and she adopted.
617
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Tommy Chong: She had three kids, like my dad's family.
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Tommy Chong: There was my dad, stan, and my uncle, tommy,
619
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Tommy Chong: and my aunt Nelly, who I never met.
620
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Tommy Chong: She died before.
621
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Tommy Chong: But my mother had three kids too and she
622
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Tommy Chong: named them Stan, tommy and Nelly and yeah,
623
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Tommy Chong: so about what year?
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Marc Preston: what about was it?
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Marc Preston: Was it in 1969, 1970-ish, roughly?
626
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Marc Preston: Is that when you came to LA?
627
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Tommy Chong: We came to LA.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, it was actually, you named it right.
629
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Tommy Chong: We did 1969 in Vancouver and 1970, 71 in LA,
630
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Tommy Chong: application in thefluodance to
631
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Tommy Chong: sweetiewater們 BM-Marriageğlithololocee.
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Tommy Chong: And 71 was when we put out our first album,
633
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Tommy Chong: our first record.
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Tommy Chong: They're not here.
635
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Marc Preston: I think that's one of the things I love
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Marc Preston: that you share in your time here, because I
637
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Marc Preston: mean, not, I think there's a generation, my
638
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Marc Preston: kid's generation, hasn't really been
639
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Marc Preston: exposed to the things that you did or the
640
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Marc Preston: era of comedy albums, you know, and back,
641
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Marc Preston: how big of a deal they were back.
642
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Marc Preston: I was just watching the George Carlin
643
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Marc Preston: documentary that Javelin.
644
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Marc Preston: Tell did and as remembering, it's like man,
645
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Marc Preston: I remember sitting down, I mean, we'll
646
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Marc Preston: saying it now.
647
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Marc Preston: It's, of course, you know Bill Cosby, but
648
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Marc Preston: you know, sitting down listening to these
649
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Marc Preston: albums, that my father had this big old
650
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Marc Preston: collection and I would just be just, I
651
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Marc Preston: wouldn't understand half of what was going
652
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Marc Preston: on, but that was a big thing.
653
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Marc Preston: And then to transition from doing the
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Marc Preston: comedy albums to getting on camera and
655
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Marc Preston: bringing these characters to film how did
656
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Marc Preston: that come to be?
657
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Marc Preston: How did Javelin Tell decide okay, we're
658
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Marc Preston: going to start acting on camera now.
659
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Tommy Chong: That was me.
660
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Tommy Chong: I got really tired of going to Australia
661
Comedy and Cultural Sensitivity
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Tommy Chong: every year to work, because every time we'd
662
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Tommy Chong: go out of the country, you know, to a new
663
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Tommy Chong: country, I would have to write a new show
664
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Tommy Chong: and okay, you know, writing a show, doing
665
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Tommy Chong: an album is one thing.
666
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Tommy Chong: You know that takes a lot of work and time
667
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Tommy Chong: and everything else, but it's fun too.
668
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Tommy Chong: Live shows they're tough because you have
669
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Tommy Chong: to repeat it every time.
670
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Tommy Chong: You do a comedy album, it's done, you know,
671
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Tommy Chong: you can repeat it, maybe in a show, but for
672
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Tommy Chong: the most time it's done when you do live
673
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Tommy Chong: shows.
674
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Tommy Chong: You got to do a live show every night and
675
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Tommy Chong: so we'd been to Australia a couple of times
676
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Tommy Chong: and it was work, yeah, but we had, you know,
677
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Tommy Chong: we never had Mexicans there.
678
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Tommy Chong: See, when Cheech and Chong go on the road,
679
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Tommy Chong: unless we're going to, like a
680
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Tommy Chong: Spanish-friendly country, we're not
681
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Tommy Chong: accepted.
682
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Tommy Chong: The way we are seeing LA, you know, like in
683
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Tommy Chong: fact, we were killing them in LA.
684
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Tommy Chong: We had lineups around the block,
685
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Tommy Chong: celebrities, everybody wanted to see us in
686
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Tommy Chong: LA.
687
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Tommy Chong: We went to New York and we were teaching.
688
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Tommy Chong: I was very excited, you know, because we
689
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Tommy Chong: have, you know, we're, we're buying, you
690
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Tommy Chong: know, we're all over the place, new York,
691
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Tommy Chong: la doesn't matter, but the audience.
692
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Tommy Chong: If you don't have a Chicano audience, with
693
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Tommy Chong: Cheech and Chong, you're going to have a
694
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Tommy Chong: whole different show, and that's what with
695
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Tommy Chong: Australia.
696
,980 --> 00:31:05,291
Tommy Chong: And so New York New York was such a wake up
697
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Tommy Chong: because Cheech and I were basking in the
698
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Tommy Chong: glory of all the Chicanos, you know.
699
,785 --> 00:31:13,671
Tommy Chong: And then you get to New York and New York
700
,771 --> 00:31:15,213
Tommy Chong: is deadly.
701
,960 --> 00:31:18,845
Tommy Chong: If you're not funny, if you just show the
702
,926 --> 00:31:22,272
Tommy Chong: slightest bit of hesitation in New York,
703
,352 --> 00:31:22,973
Tommy Chong: you're dead.
704
,703 --> 00:31:26,348
Tommy Chong: People who will kill you there.
705
,141 --> 00:31:30,006
Tommy Chong: In fact, when, when Cheech and I you know,
706
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Tommy Chong: when Cheech and I broke up, my wife and I
707
,331 --> 00:31:34,983
Tommy Chong: were doing comedy and she was like starting
708
,043 --> 00:31:36,989
Tommy Chong: out on her own, doing doing stand up,
709
,069 --> 00:31:42,687
Tommy Chong: shelby, and we were in in the Dice Andrew
710
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Tommy Chong: Dice Clay's territory in New Jersey, deadly,
711
,442 --> 00:31:51,284
Tommy Chong: shelby went out, shelby went out and there
712
,404 --> 00:31:54,241
Tommy Chong: wasn't one laugh, it was.
713
,083 --> 00:31:59,683
Tommy Chong: I was horrible, and but that showed you how
714
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Tommy Chong: tough the the my lady is, because after I
715
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Tommy Chong: said, you know it was not one last nothing.
716
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Tommy Chong: You know, usually they're polite enough to
717
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Tommy Chong: to give him applause or something, but it
718
,301 --> 00:32:14,728
Tommy Chong: was they just, you know that's, that's the
719
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Tommy Chong: way the Andrew Dice Clay's crowd were, you
720
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Tommy Chong: know, just like you know they're horrible,
721
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Tommy Chong: they're like Trumpish, you know, and so so.
722
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Tommy Chong: So we ended up.
723
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Tommy Chong: So she, she never got one laugh.
724
,771 --> 00:32:29,095
Tommy Chong: And she's walking up and in my mind I said
725
,155 --> 00:32:31,259
Tommy Chong: well, this'll either make her break her,
726
,279 --> 00:32:31,840
Tommy Chong: you know.
727
,563 --> 00:32:35,377
Tommy Chong: And so I said to her as I went on stage, I
728
,398 --> 00:32:38,327
Tommy Chong: said pretty tough and she said F them.
729
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Marc Preston: She said you know she, she, she.
730
,751 --> 00:32:44,037
Marc Preston: You know she's kind of built up that callus
731
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Marc Preston: to be able to handle those folks now.
732
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Marc Preston: But like you know, that's one of the quite
733
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Marc Preston: you mentioned Andrew Dice Clay and you know
734
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Marc Preston: you go back to Sam Kinnison and you go back
735
,322 --> 00:32:55,246
Marc Preston: as I was coming up in the 80s watching
736
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Marc Preston: comedy.
737
,367 --> 00:32:59,372
Marc Preston: You had Eddie Murphy doing these big almost
738
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Marc Preston: like you know, these big arena shows.
739
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Marc Preston: Yeah.
740
,718 --> 00:33:03,640
Marc Preston: You had a lot of folks doing that.
741
,900 --> 00:33:05,799
Marc Preston: You don't hear about that nearly as much.
742
,542 --> 00:33:09,329
Marc Preston: I mean, it seems like the 80s was that a?
743
,409 --> 00:33:13,339
Marc Preston: Was that a real heyday for comics to put on
744
,359 --> 00:33:13,780
Marc Preston: just killer big shows?
745
,943 --> 00:33:16,426
Marc Preston: And what's the difference between then and
746
,507 --> 00:33:17,369
Marc Preston: now in your mind?
747
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Tommy Chong: Well, now it's more sophisticated and it's
748
,572 --> 00:33:24,880
Tommy Chong: more segregated.
749
,781 --> 00:33:30,165
Tommy Chong: You know, like that, one time Bill Cosby
750
,385 --> 00:33:33,608
Tommy Chong: was the opposite of Eddie Murphy, but
751
,648 --> 00:33:35,590
Tommy Chong: they're both black, you know.
752
,770 --> 00:33:38,293
Tommy Chong: But Cosby was appealed to the, to the
753
,353 --> 00:33:41,416
Tommy Chong: whiter blacks, and Eddie Murphy appealed to
754
,796 --> 00:33:42,417
Tommy Chong: all blacks.
755
,517 --> 00:33:45,246
Tommy Chong: You know, it's almost like the ones that
756
,286 --> 00:33:46,669
Tommy Chong: are in prison, the ones that are under
757
,710 --> 00:33:47,050
Tommy Chong: prison.
758
,641 --> 00:33:52,867
Tommy Chong: It's almost that ghetto or upper class, you
759
,907 --> 00:33:53,047
Tommy Chong: know.
760
,688 --> 00:33:56,551
Tommy Chong: But now there's.
761
,572 --> 00:33:58,614
Tommy Chong: So that, what's that culture?
762
,903 --> 00:34:03,209
Tommy Chong: I can never remember the phrase.
763
,362 --> 00:34:05,848
Tommy Chong: I hadn't changed my act.
764
,442 --> 00:34:08,330
Tommy Chong: Listen, you know I'm, I'm.
765
,691 --> 00:34:10,659
Tommy Chong: I never considered, you know, I mean, I was
766
,679 --> 00:34:10,880
Tommy Chong: married.
767
,322 --> 00:34:12,507
Tommy Chong: My first wife is black.
768
,940 --> 00:34:15,840
Tommy Chong: I got two black kids, you know daughters.
769
,621 --> 00:34:19,326
Tommy Chong: I never, ever, considered myself anything
770
,426 --> 00:34:21,851
Tommy Chong: less than you know a brother.
771
,572 --> 00:34:23,754
Tommy Chong: You know, I was there.
772
,843 --> 00:34:27,771
Tommy Chong: We did a bit called a blind melon chiming
773
,945 --> 00:34:31,578
Tommy Chong: and and it was a takeoff on a blind blue
774
,619 --> 00:34:36,147
Tommy Chong: singer and now I got the premise or the
775
,287 --> 00:34:40,012
Tommy Chong: idea from the committee was an acting group
776
,533 --> 00:34:41,715
Tommy Chong: out of the San Francisco.
777
,224 --> 00:34:48,629
Tommy Chong: They did a bit similar, but then I saw the
778
,669 --> 00:34:49,572
Tommy Chong: T-Bone Walker.
779
,421 --> 00:34:52,627
Tommy Chong: Now, I was a guitar, I am a guitar player,
780
,767 --> 00:34:56,222
Tommy Chong: and I saw T-Bone at his height and then I
781
,282 --> 00:34:58,807
Tommy Chong: saw him at his lowest part and it was the
782
,867 --> 00:35:01,712
Tommy Chong: lowest part that inspired us to do blind
783
,752 --> 00:35:02,434
Tommy Chong: melon chiming.
784
,940 --> 00:35:05,685
Tommy Chong: Well, I, I'm getting you know, to me it was
785
,705 --> 00:35:08,250
Tommy Chong: like it wasn't insulting or any of that
786
,712 --> 00:35:14,284
Tommy Chong: stuff, but I was ready to do a show in Reno,
787
,985 --> 00:35:17,949
Tommy Chong: teach that I am in Shelby and Herbie
788
,989 --> 00:35:21,473
Tommy Chong: Hancock, the great Herbie Hancock, the jazz
789
,493 --> 00:35:26,741
Tommy Chong: guy, he, he was a big fan and I knew that
790
,821 --> 00:35:32,308
Tommy Chong: because he one time he had us appear on his
791
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Tommy Chong: in Switzerland at the jazz concert.
792
,723 --> 00:35:41,450
Tommy Chong: Yeah, they had a jazz show there in
793
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Tommy Chong: Switzerland and teach and I were invited.
794
,562 --> 00:35:48,069
Tommy Chong: We came and worked a little bit, you know,
795
,290 --> 00:35:49,112
Tommy Chong: mc a little bit.
796
,342 --> 00:35:51,386
Tommy Chong: Herbie's a big fan.
797
,523 --> 00:35:55,887
Tommy Chong: So Herbie, we're talking because he's going
798
,907 --> 00:35:59,092
Tommy Chong: to appear in Reno after teach and I,
799
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Tommy Chong: charlie, and then Herbie, he said, he said,
800
,786 --> 00:36:09,372
Tommy Chong: you know, we kind of like a serious.
801
,253 --> 00:36:11,615
Tommy Chong: It was a serious discussion.
802
,900 --> 00:36:15,348
Tommy Chong: He was trying to get to me about my blind
803
,388 --> 00:36:18,801
Tommy Chong: melon chiming bit and the way he said it
804
,841 --> 00:36:19,061
Tommy Chong: was.
805
,601 --> 00:36:23,845
Tommy Chong: Hey, man, you know, when you do the blind
806
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Tommy Chong: melon thing.
807
,966 --> 00:36:27,388
Tommy Chong: He says you start off playing.
808
,548 --> 00:36:32,973
Tommy Chong: You know you got that really good jazz, you
809
,993 --> 00:36:35,855
Tommy Chong: know like good music, you know, and then
810
,895 --> 00:36:37,176
Tommy Chong: you get into that other shit.
811
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Marc Preston: He's like well, you mean the thing I do for
812
,527 --> 00:36:40,828
Marc Preston: a living.
813
,008 --> 00:36:44,445
Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and then he said,
814
,465 --> 00:36:44,868
Tommy Chong: well, he said that.
815
,837 --> 00:36:47,457
Tommy Chong: I looked at him.
816
,579 --> 00:36:51,723
Tommy Chong: I respect jazz guys more than you know.
817
,783 --> 00:36:57,811
Tommy Chong: To me they're the real spiritual leaders of
818
,831 --> 00:36:58,292
Tommy Chong: the country.
819
,332 --> 00:37:03,265
Tommy Chong: Yeah, indeed, and so it really struck home.
820
,658 --> 00:37:07,167
Tommy Chong: And so, even though I did Blame Melancholyn
821
,247 --> 00:37:09,595
Tommy Chong: after that, I changed the act.
822
,076 --> 00:37:12,343
Tommy Chong: See, when Cheech and I did it, I used it,
823
,684 --> 00:37:13,546
Tommy Chong: it was all visual.
824
,478 --> 00:37:17,577
Tommy Chong: He was too drunk to really play and so he
825
,617 --> 00:37:19,741
Tommy Chong: just did all these visual funny things that
826
,781 --> 00:37:22,926
Tommy Chong: were very funny and would get the crowd on
827
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Tommy Chong: the floor laughing.
828
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Tommy Chong: And then, when Cheech and I broke up, I
829
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Tommy Chong: started doing the Blame Melancholyn voice
830
,882 --> 00:37:33,644
Tommy Chong: and doing jokes bits.
831
,824 --> 00:37:37,247
Tommy Chong: You know, different, different black bits.
832
,307 --> 00:37:39,449
Tommy Chong: You know, in fact I was, you might as well
833
,489 --> 00:37:41,851
Tommy Chong: say, in fact I did appear in blackface,
834
,935 --> 00:37:46,440
Tommy Chong: still smoking, in the movie because I
835
,540 --> 00:37:51,527
Tommy Chong: always felt that that blind, you know, had
836
,567 --> 00:37:57,400
Tommy Chong: the soul of a black man and but obviously
837
,480 --> 00:38:01,026
Tommy Chong: not because her being, her, being a class
838
,206 --> 00:38:02,708
Tommy Chong: on, he saw through it.
839
,856 --> 00:38:05,467
Marc Preston: And so it's kind of like Mel Brooks.
840
,507 --> 00:38:06,635
Marc Preston: You know he had a lot of his comedy.
841
,896 --> 00:38:09,523
Marc Preston: It was never making fun of, it was trying
842
,563 --> 00:38:10,486
Marc Preston: to embrace the.
843
,899 --> 00:38:12,622
Marc Preston: It was parody.
844
,662 --> 00:38:14,568
Marc Preston: Yeah, it was trying to kind of celebrate
845
,588 --> 00:38:16,053
Marc Preston: the culture in a way where people like,
846
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Marc Preston: okay, I get it, he's not making fun of us,
847
,059 --> 00:38:20,426
Marc Preston: you know, but it's a fine line.
848
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Marc Preston: But I just don't think that that could
849
,742 --> 00:38:23,545
Marc Preston: happen today.
850
,816 --> 00:38:25,161
Marc Preston: You know, I don't think they comedy.
851
,655 --> 00:38:27,223
Marc Preston: I think the people are too quick on the
852
,263 --> 00:38:29,635
Marc Preston: trigger to not political correctness.
853
,279 --> 00:38:30,762
Marc Preston: I don't know.
854
,001 --> 00:38:36,768
Tommy Chong: Yeah, the culture stealing the culture,
855
,788 --> 00:38:37,770
Tommy Chong: something culture?
856
,853 --> 00:38:39,354
Marc Preston: appropriation.
857
,374 --> 00:38:43,037
Tommy Chong: I think yeah, I call it yeah yeah, all that
858
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Tommy Chong: all that weird talk, you know.
859
,500 --> 00:38:48,464
Tommy Chong: But then if you look at like I was what I
860
,484 --> 00:38:52,529
Tommy Chong: watched, all in the family and all the
861
,549 --> 00:38:54,791
Tommy Chong: family just showed Archie Bunker there and
862
,992 --> 00:38:57,615
Tommy Chong: another, you know, trump right up the bat.
863
,157 --> 00:38:59,181
Tommy Chong: You know, I mean this.
864
,261 --> 00:39:02,615
Tommy Chong: This guy was really sick in his hair.
865
,376 --> 00:39:05,299
Tommy Chong: Nobody believed but it was it was.
866
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Marc Preston: It was parodying that guy, but you're also
867
,024 --> 00:39:09,526
Marc Preston: empathetic and I think that's that's a
868
,627 --> 00:39:10,929
Marc Preston: great acting and great.
869
,129 --> 00:39:13,293
Marc Preston: You know, great comedy is you can be
870
,353 --> 00:39:14,635
Marc Preston: empathetic to the ridiculous one.
871
,056 --> 00:39:16,539
Marc Preston: You know you can kind of he's like all
872
,559 --> 00:39:19,845
Marc Preston: right, but but when you had the, the, the
873
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Marc Preston: offshoot, which is the Jeffersons, the
874
,010 --> 00:39:24,455
Marc Preston: interaction he had with his name is Kate
875
,475 --> 00:39:24,635
Marc Preston: George.
876
,518 --> 00:39:26,342
Tommy Chong: Yeah, George.
877
,775 --> 00:39:29,780
Marc Preston: Yeah, the interaction that they had was
878
,800 --> 00:39:31,042
Marc Preston: just like they're going at each other,
879
,142 --> 00:39:32,885
Marc Preston: which is the way kind of funny, because
880
,905 --> 00:39:34,167
Marc Preston: they're both being real from their own
881
,207 --> 00:39:35,148
Marc Preston: perspective, you know.
882
,408 --> 00:39:35,529
Tommy Chong: Yeah.
883
,635 --> 00:39:38,842
Marc Preston: But I think that the comedies is very it
884
,882 --> 00:39:40,975
Marc Preston: was nuanced, you know.
885
Comedian Influence on Each Other
,056 --> 00:39:43,218
Marc Preston: I guess you can say, but like you listen to
886
,679 --> 00:39:45,401
Marc Preston: you talk about Bill Cosby before and who he
887
,441 --> 00:39:47,644
Marc Preston: was appealing to, and I remember one of the
888
,684 --> 00:39:49,687
Marc Preston: bits that Eddie Murphy did.
889
,707 --> 00:39:51,770
Marc Preston: He was talking about how he got a call from
890
,795 --> 00:39:54,619
Marc Preston: oh yeah, got got a call from Bill.
891
,899 --> 00:39:56,382
Marc Preston: You know Bill Cosby saying, hey, you know
892
,402 --> 00:39:57,644
Marc Preston: you need to dial back on that.
893
,365 --> 00:39:59,928
Marc Preston: You know four letter words and all that and
894
,948 --> 00:40:01,070
Marc Preston: he calls up Richard Pryor.
895
,090 --> 00:40:02,192
Marc Preston: Is like Richard, what do you think you know?
896
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Marc Preston: Because Richard Pryor is like you know,
897
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Marc Preston: hell with him, man.
898
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Marc Preston: You know, I'm sure more colorful language
899
,339 --> 00:40:07,100
Marc Preston: like do your thing.
900
,140 --> 00:40:09,403
Marc Preston: You know it's like Richard Pryor was.
901
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Marc Preston: I think that that there's so many comedians
902
,869 --> 00:40:17,393
Marc Preston: now that you can trace back the DNA to you
903
,433 --> 00:40:18,615
Marc Preston: know, oh yeah, that Eddie Murphy.
904
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Marc Preston: Well, eddie Murphy traces DNA back to you
905
,486 --> 00:40:22,772
Marc Preston: know, richard Pryor.
906
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Marc Preston: So I don't know.
907
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Marc Preston: There, I think I love comedy.
908
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Marc Preston: I think that I think I grew up in a really
909
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Marc Preston: wonderful time and I think in the 80s it
910
,525 --> 00:40:32,270
Marc Preston: was all happening at Sam Kenneson, which is
911
,311 --> 00:40:35,322
Marc Preston: just you know, probably off the wall.
912
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Marc Preston: Yeah, you know, and watch that documentary
913
,981 --> 00:40:41,446
Marc Preston: that John Appetow did on George Carlin.
914
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Tommy Chong: I did, I did.
915
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Marc Preston: And I never knew this George Carlin had
916
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Marc Preston: seen Sam Kenneson and recognized wait a
917
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Marc Preston: minute, I need to make some adjustments
918
,010 --> 00:40:53,415
Marc Preston: because I don't want to be kind of an
919
,475 --> 00:40:56,063
Marc Preston: actress yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, left behind.
920
,159 --> 00:40:59,522
Marc Preston: Yeah, and the and George Carlin weren't you
921
,602 --> 00:41:00,404
Marc Preston: on his show once?
922
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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, back at the George Carlin show,
923
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Marc Preston: yeah.
924
,318 --> 00:41:07,221
Tommy Chong: I sure was, and I got to know George.
925
,715 --> 00:41:10,680
Tommy Chong: One thing about George that nobody really
926
,760 --> 00:41:13,304
Tommy Chong: talked about, even in the documentary I was
927
,344 --> 00:41:15,387
Tommy Chong: shocked that he's a piano player.
928
,068 --> 00:41:19,004
Tommy Chong: Really, I didn't know that he was once he
929
,044 --> 00:41:19,608
Tommy Chong: had a group.
930
,434 --> 00:41:22,125
Tommy Chong: One time he played in a group.
931
,709 --> 00:41:23,615
Tommy Chong: He can play piano.
932
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Tommy Chong: That's where he got all the word stuff from.
933
,956 --> 00:41:29,384
Tommy Chong: You know he's, he was very musical.
934
,815 --> 00:41:31,799
Marc Preston: Yeah, I always thought I came up in Dallas
935
,899 --> 00:41:33,322
Marc Preston: Radio and I always thought it was kind of
936
,342 --> 00:41:34,804
Marc Preston: cool because, like you know, George Carlin
937
,844 --> 00:41:36,187
Marc Preston: worked in Fort Worth Radio.
938
,287 --> 00:41:39,141
Marc Preston: Yeah, and I was like that's kind of cool.
939
,735 --> 00:41:41,219
Marc Preston: And this is where the seven words came.
940
,239 --> 00:41:43,224
Marc Preston: The FCC got their seven words from as this
941
,264 --> 00:41:43,846
Marc Preston: guy yeah.
942
,876 --> 00:41:47,041
Marc Preston: George Carlin, you know, one of the funny
943
,121 --> 00:41:48,525
Marc Preston: things I was wondering if you could kind of
944
,565 --> 00:41:51,813
Marc Preston: clarify that I saw was they were actually
945
,873 --> 00:41:53,438
Marc Preston: referred to Cheech in this and they said
946
,458 --> 00:41:54,822
Marc Preston: that there was some time in the 80s where
947
,842 --> 00:41:58,515
Marc Preston: they said Cheech said he was Get kind of
948
,535 --> 00:41:58,635
Marc Preston: passé.
949
,178 --> 00:42:00,705
Marc Preston: It's like, okay, you know George Carlin's
950
,725 --> 00:42:02,293
Marc Preston: the 1970s.
951
,313 --> 00:42:02,615
Tommy Chong: He's obsolete.
952
,056 --> 00:42:04,943
Tommy Chong: He said no, he said he was obsolete.
953
,217 --> 00:42:07,682
Tommy Chong: George Carlin was obsolete.
954
,675 --> 00:42:10,963
Tommy Chong: And Cheech Cheech denied saying that.
955
,496 --> 00:42:16,302
Tommy Chong: I asked Cheech about it, you know and, and
956
,943 --> 00:42:20,247
Tommy Chong: he denied saying he could very well upset
957
,327 --> 00:42:20,988
Tommy Chong: it one time.
958
,916 --> 00:42:25,682
Tommy Chong: But George Cheech used to do George, one of
959
,722 --> 00:42:29,537
Tommy Chong: George Bitts, really, george, yeah, just
960
,557 --> 00:42:31,460
Tommy Chong: pulled the twine something.
961
,520 --> 00:42:34,766
Tommy Chong: You know, cowboy, you don't take off on the
962
,806 --> 00:42:35,247
Tommy Chong: cowboys.
963
,815 --> 00:42:40,265
Tommy Chong: I, I, I then I knew George.
964
,076 --> 00:42:41,979
Tommy Chong: I was on a show.
965
,816 --> 00:42:46,838
Tommy Chong: I never got tight with him, you know, and,
966
,019 --> 00:42:50,056
Tommy Chong: and, by the way, I saw the last show George
967
,176 --> 00:42:55,143
Tommy Chong: did was there was a whole slew of comedians
968
,844 --> 00:43:01,439
Tommy Chong: at the Wadsworth Theater in Westwood and it
969
,499 --> 00:43:04,125
Tommy Chong: was George's last performance, really.
970
,145 --> 00:43:04,806
Tommy Chong: And you saw that.
971
,076 --> 00:43:07,882
Tommy Chong: Yeah, I saw that Norm Cosby was there.
972
,815 --> 00:43:10,659
Tommy Chong: Oh, what was the?
973
,699 --> 00:43:12,342
Tommy Chong: Remember the guy that used to have the
974
,402 --> 00:43:16,877
Tommy Chong: newspaper under his arm the very first?
975
,521 --> 00:43:19,382
Tommy Chong: What was his name?
976
,635 --> 00:43:28,366
Tommy Chong: He did commentary on God.
977
,387 --> 00:43:29,609
Tommy Chong: I can't think of his name right now.
978
,936 --> 00:43:31,140
Marc Preston: I think I know what you're talking about.
979
,200 --> 00:43:32,284
Marc Preston: I'm not wearing a curtain on it.
980
,635 --> 00:43:32,836
Tommy Chong: It was.
981
,038 --> 00:43:34,628
Tommy Chong: It was his, his last show.
982
,201 --> 00:43:37,879
Tommy Chong: In fact, it was because of that, it was
983
,899 --> 00:43:40,057
Tommy Chong: going to be his last show period and he
984
,097 --> 00:43:41,382
Tommy Chong: died shortly after that.
985
,958 --> 00:43:44,799
Tommy Chong: But yeah, I saw all those last shows and it
986
,839 --> 00:43:48,411
Tommy Chong: was quite a thrill for me because I, you
987
,431 --> 00:43:49,635
Tommy Chong: know, we grew up with all those guys?
988
,158 --> 00:43:51,826
Marc Preston: Well, yeah, but you also know how much goes
989
,087 --> 00:43:55,085
Marc Preston: into building an act and how many, how much
990
,145 --> 00:43:57,296
Marc Preston: is working it out over and over, and just
991
,757 --> 00:44:00,082
Marc Preston: till you get your show set, your HBO show
992
,162 --> 00:44:00,423
Marc Preston: set.
993
,483 --> 00:44:02,026
Marc Preston: You know they don't see all the time you're
994
,046 --> 00:44:03,469
Marc Preston: in these dark clubs working it out.
995
,976 --> 00:44:05,619
Marc Preston: But you know, george Carlin, I think
996
,400 --> 00:44:09,325
Marc Preston: starting in about 2016, I wish is like God,
997
,365 --> 00:44:11,609
Marc Preston: this is the time he was meant to be here.
998
,736 --> 00:44:14,570
Marc Preston: You know, 2016 forward, when, politically
999
,610 --> 00:44:15,996
Marc Preston: and everything going on in our world I mean,
Speaker:1000
,017 --> 00:44:19,199
Marc Preston: this is the stuff he was commenting on and
Speaker:1001
,240 --> 00:44:21,265
Marc Preston: people thought he was extremely cynical or
Speaker:1002
,305 --> 00:44:21,586
Marc Preston: whatever.
Speaker:1003
,635 --> 00:44:23,179
Marc Preston: I was like no, he's, he's got some
Speaker:1004
,199 --> 00:44:25,064
Marc Preston: perspective that maybe he was a little bit
Speaker:1005
,084 --> 00:44:27,960
Marc Preston: of a forecaster, you know, oh he was he was
Speaker:1006
,655 --> 00:44:30,058
Marc Preston: and what the truth is.
Speaker:1007
,262 --> 00:44:34,587
Tommy Chong: I think you got to be very careful when
Speaker:1008
,607 --> 00:44:35,409
Tommy Chong: you're a comedian.
Speaker:1009
,999 --> 00:44:37,480
Tommy Chong: I had a.
Speaker:1010
,185 --> 00:44:42,414
Tommy Chong: They honored me at the Skirball in Los
Speaker:1011
,454 --> 00:44:42,635
Tommy Chong: Angeles.
Speaker:1012
,197 --> 00:44:44,462
Tommy Chong: Do you know where the Skirball is?
Speaker:1013
,675 --> 00:44:46,221
Tommy Chong: I've never heard that about that before.
Speaker:1014
,177 --> 00:44:52,073
Tommy Chong: Skirball is a Jewish center, the community
Speaker:1015
,093 --> 00:44:52,595
Tommy Chong: center kind of thing.
Speaker:1016
,078 --> 00:44:53,722
Marc Preston: Oh, okay, I got.
Speaker:1017
,742 --> 00:44:55,595
Tommy Chong: You Is like all Fairfax or something, or,
Speaker:1018
,296 --> 00:44:59,663
Tommy Chong: yeah, no, it's up on 405, near the Getty
Speaker:1019
,703 --> 00:45:01,727
Tommy Chong: Museum, near the museum up there.
Speaker:1020
,148 --> 00:45:05,021
Tommy Chong: Okay, and as you go up, then it's Skirball
Speaker:1021
,081 --> 00:45:08,097
Tommy Chong: is called any, it's a Skirball center and
Speaker:1022
,277 --> 00:45:11,597
Tommy Chong: and and so they're going to honor me and
Speaker:1023
,697 --> 00:45:14,261
Tommy Chong: anytime anybody honors anybody.
Speaker:1024
,401 --> 00:45:18,067
Tommy Chong: It's just a scam really to get them to do
Speaker:1025
,107 --> 00:45:19,069
Tommy Chong: an act for nothing.
Speaker:1026
,655 --> 00:45:21,438
Tommy Chong: You know, you get a plaque, you get a
Speaker:1027
,478 --> 00:45:24,602
Tommy Chong: plaque or you get a meal, but and usually
Speaker:1028
,622 --> 00:45:27,606
Tommy Chong: they have a lot of other comedians on and
Speaker:1029
,927 --> 00:45:29,870
Tommy Chong: they're they're doing their act and
Speaker:1030
,890 --> 00:45:30,390
Tommy Chong: everything else.
Speaker:1031
,337 --> 00:45:35,407
Tommy Chong: So I got, I got they wanted to honor me.
Speaker:1032
,076 --> 00:45:38,759
Tommy Chong: Well, I'm kind of in.
Speaker:1033
,222 --> 00:45:45,287
Tommy Chong: I only went into comedy after when we broke
Speaker:1034
,387 --> 00:45:45,447
Tommy Chong: up.
Speaker:1035
,775 --> 00:45:51,404
Tommy Chong: See, I was always a part of a comedy team
Speaker:1036
,936 --> 00:45:54,103
Tommy Chong: and I was very comfortable with that.
Speaker:1037
,077 --> 00:45:58,341
Tommy Chong: When she and I broke up, I saw Dennis
Speaker:1038
,381 --> 00:45:58,642
Tommy Chong: Miller.
Speaker:1039
,762 --> 00:45:59,725
Tommy Chong: Remember Dennis Miller?
Speaker:1040
,806 --> 00:46:03,142
Tommy Chong: Yeah, absolutely, I saw Dennis Miller in
Speaker:1041
,182 --> 00:46:06,440
Tommy Chong: Vancouver and he was in this little comedy
Speaker:1042
,480 --> 00:46:06,721
Tommy Chong: club.
Speaker:1043
,801 --> 00:46:09,657
Tommy Chong: I knew the owner of the comedy club and he
Speaker:1044
,697 --> 00:46:10,999
Tommy Chong: said Dennis Miller's playing, oh.
Speaker:1045
,019 --> 00:46:14,325
Tommy Chong: So I went down and and I met Dennis and
Speaker:1046
,365 --> 00:46:17,516
Tommy Chong: Dennis is all nervous before the show, and
Speaker:1047
,536 --> 00:46:21,963
Tommy Chong: the little guy you know and and he said to
Speaker:1048
,023 --> 00:46:24,828
Tommy Chong: me he says do you, do you still get nervous
Speaker:1049
,868 --> 00:46:25,729
Tommy Chong: before you go on?
Speaker:1050
,795 --> 00:46:29,003
Tommy Chong: And I hadn't been on stage for years by
Speaker:1051
,043 --> 00:46:32,197
Tommy Chong: that time, yeah, doing movies and that, and
Speaker:1052
,438 --> 00:46:33,722
Tommy Chong: and he just caught me.
Speaker:1053
,755 --> 00:46:39,040
Tommy Chong: He just caught me in a net and and then I
Speaker:1054
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Tommy Chong: watched the show and I sat there thinking I
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Tommy Chong: got to do this, I got to do this.
Speaker:1056
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Tommy Chong: This is this is what I got to do.
Speaker:1057
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Tommy Chong: And so, right after Dennis Miller that was
Speaker:1058
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Tommy Chong: 90, christmas of 93, I believe Because as
Speaker:1059
,920 --> 00:46:57,967
Tommy Chong: soon as I got back to LA, I went on, I went.
Speaker:1060
,147 --> 00:47:00,693
Tommy Chong: I found, you know, the freebies, the comedy
Speaker:1061
,713 --> 00:47:02,820
Tommy Chong: club where you can go worse, and there was
Speaker:1062
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Tommy Chong: one in this.
Speaker:1063
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Tommy Chong: It's kind of a kind of poetic justice in
Speaker:1064
,284 --> 00:47:09,645
Tommy Chong: teaching.
Speaker:1065
,705 --> 00:47:11,067
Tommy Chong: I did a song one time.
Speaker:1066
Stand-Up Comedy and Rodney King Reference
,127 --> 00:47:12,470
Tommy Chong: You know that you're in my eye.
Speaker:1067
,036 --> 00:47:15,402
Tommy Chong: You know I'm so bloody rich on apartment
Speaker:1068
,442 --> 00:47:17,186
Tommy Chong: building, shopping centers.
Speaker:1069
,136 --> 00:47:20,420
Tommy Chong: Well, the comedy club that I was going to
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,460 --> 00:47:22,604
Tommy Chong: work in was the shopping center that we
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,644 --> 00:47:23,906
Tommy Chong: were part owners of.
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,538 --> 00:47:28,123
Marc Preston: You call the irony tour yeah.
Speaker:1073
,916 --> 00:47:32,586
Tommy Chong: And so I'm getting ready to go on stage, on,
Speaker:1074
,449 --> 00:47:35,635
Tommy Chong: on stage, for the first time by myself.
Speaker:1075
,276 --> 00:47:39,201
Tommy Chong: I got myself a nice sports jacket.
Speaker:1076
,342 --> 00:47:42,007
Tommy Chong: You know I was going to be like a standup
Speaker:1077
,067 --> 00:47:47,124
Tommy Chong: comedian, you know, like, like, like Dennis
Speaker:1078
,164 --> 00:47:47,404
Tommy Chong: Miller.
Speaker:1079
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Tommy Chong: Well, anyway, the night before Rodney King
Speaker:1080
,747 --> 00:47:55,368
Tommy Chong: got, whacked.
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,835 --> 00:48:01,007
Marc Preston: Oh, that's right, it was a 92 93 93, 93.
Speaker:1082
,538 --> 00:48:08,359
Tommy Chong: And that happened the night before I saw it
Speaker:1083
,699 --> 00:48:09,020
Tommy Chong: and then.
Speaker:1084
,921 --> 00:48:12,724
Tommy Chong: So I wrote down a few bits about it and
Speaker:1085
,164 --> 00:48:16,148
Tommy Chong: when I went on stage that was the first
Speaker:1086
,188 --> 00:48:18,430
Tommy Chong: thing I did was talk about the Rodney King
Speaker:1087
,911 --> 00:48:23,060
Tommy Chong: beating and I said it's funny how mothers
Speaker:1088
,200 --> 00:48:26,304
Tommy Chong: doesn't matter why you're on TV, mothers
Speaker:1089
,324 --> 00:48:28,488
Tommy Chong: will get excited just seeing their son on
Speaker:1090
,528 --> 00:48:28,828
Tommy Chong: TV.
Speaker:1091
,156 --> 00:48:33,620
Tommy Chong: And I say I could just visualize the cops,
Speaker:1092
,701 --> 00:48:36,806
Tommy Chong: mother you know saying oh, that's my boy,
Speaker:1093
,795 --> 00:48:39,959
Tommy Chong: that's my boy, look at him.
Speaker:1094
,520 --> 00:48:44,079
Tommy Chong: Oh yeah, and it got a.
Speaker:1095
,199 --> 00:48:45,202
Tommy Chong: You you laugh.
Speaker:1096
,563 --> 00:48:48,239
Tommy Chong: Yeah, and I got a few chuckles.
Speaker:1097
,679 --> 00:48:51,345
Tommy Chong: But the first thing a guy said after I did
Speaker:1098
,385 --> 00:48:54,058
Tommy Chong: that bit hey, where's cheats?
Speaker:1099
,579 --> 00:49:07,023
Marc Preston: Well, what is that like, though, being so,
Speaker:1100
,846 --> 00:49:10,189
Marc Preston: you know, independently of done?
Speaker:1101
,489 --> 00:49:12,138
Marc Preston: You know y'all definitely stand on your own
Speaker:1102
,158 --> 00:49:14,364
Marc Preston: two feet, had great projects and endeavors
Speaker:1103
,484 --> 00:49:16,458
Marc Preston: and entrepreneurial things that you've done,
Speaker:1104
,215 --> 00:49:18,879
Marc Preston: but what's it like to kind of spend a
Speaker:1105
,919 --> 00:49:21,806
Marc Preston: career that you've got a career brother, as
Speaker:1106
,846 --> 00:49:22,147
Marc Preston: it were?
Speaker:1107
,295 --> 00:49:24,260
Marc Preston: You know you get kind of hard to talk about
Speaker:1108
,581 --> 00:49:25,904
Marc Preston: one of y'all without thinking about the
Speaker:1109
,964 --> 00:49:26,105
Marc Preston: other.
Speaker:1110
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Marc Preston: What is that like?
Speaker:1111
,476 --> 00:49:30,644
Marc Preston: Is it, is it ever impeded you anything
Speaker:1112
,664 --> 00:49:32,057
Marc Preston: you've done, in a way, like it's like oh
Speaker:1113
,077 --> 00:49:33,421
Marc Preston: man, I'm trying to kind of break out of
Speaker:1114
,481 --> 00:49:33,622
Marc Preston: this.
Speaker:1115
,675 --> 00:49:36,140
Marc Preston: Like in that, like right there on stage,
Speaker:1116
,160 --> 00:49:37,704
Marc Preston: I'm just like where's Cheech, you know, is
Speaker:1117
,724 --> 00:49:38,126
Marc Preston: that something?
Speaker:1118
,837 --> 00:49:40,782
Tommy Chong: I think no no, not at all.
Speaker:1119
,983 --> 00:49:41,505
Tommy Chong: Not at all.
Speaker:1120
,255 --> 00:49:44,742
Tommy Chong: No, I'm like I said, I grew up backing up
Speaker:1121
,883 --> 00:49:45,204
Tommy Chong: people.
Speaker:1122
,585 --> 00:49:48,624
Tommy Chong: Yeah, so I totally understand, you know,
Speaker:1123
,945 --> 00:49:50,090
Tommy Chong: and me talking you know.
Speaker:1124
,130 --> 00:49:51,756
Tommy Chong: You know, when people found out I was a
Speaker:1125
,817 --> 00:49:53,262
Tommy Chong: comedian, they didn't believe it.
Speaker:1126
,415 --> 00:49:55,822
Tommy Chong: They thought it was somebody else because
Speaker:1127
,943 --> 00:49:56,525
Tommy Chong: I've gone.
Speaker:1128
,826 --> 00:49:58,671
Tommy Chong: You know, I've known people all my life
Speaker:1129
,032 --> 00:49:59,875
Tommy Chong: where I never talked.
Speaker:1130
,536 --> 00:50:00,777
Tommy Chong: I knew.
Speaker:1131
,897 --> 00:50:02,440
Tommy Chong: You know I was a backup guitar player.
Speaker:1132
,560 --> 00:50:06,669
Tommy Chong: You know I had nothing to say except and
Speaker:1133
,755 --> 00:50:07,096
Tommy Chong: whisper.
Speaker:1134
,317 --> 00:50:08,099
Tommy Chong: What corner are we in?
Speaker:1135
,155 --> 00:50:13,022
Marc Preston: He wanted to do more acting stuff.
Speaker:1136
,255 --> 00:50:13,698
Marc Preston: You know he was.
Speaker:1137
,939 --> 00:50:14,442
Marc Preston: You know that was.
Speaker:1138
,664 --> 00:50:15,227
Marc Preston: He was on the board.
Speaker:1139
,388 --> 00:50:17,377
Marc Preston: Like I want to say straight as opposed to
Speaker:1140
,798 --> 00:50:20,084
Marc Preston: you know but he's, he's one of you know,
Speaker:1141
,144 --> 00:50:21,207
Marc Preston: non comedic necessary.
Speaker:1142
,295 --> 00:50:23,021
Marc Preston: You know, maybe he was playing the kind of
Speaker:1143
,081 --> 00:50:23,824
Marc Preston: funny guy in it.
Speaker:1144
,975 --> 00:50:26,642
Marc Preston: But after that happened, what was kind of
Speaker:1145
,662 --> 00:50:28,607
Marc Preston: your, your, your, what were your endeavors,
Speaker:1146
,835 --> 00:50:30,201
Marc Preston: what were you up to at that point in time?
Speaker:1147
,435 --> 00:50:32,656
Tommy Chong: Whenever you were just doing his thing, I
Speaker:1148
,776 --> 00:50:36,123
Tommy Chong: was really on a roll because I had directed,
Speaker:1149
,524 --> 00:50:40,120
Tommy Chong: I wrote and directed what happened when we
Speaker:1150
,180 --> 00:50:42,669
Tommy Chong: got screwed out of the up and smoke money,
Speaker:1151
,211 --> 00:50:43,954
Tommy Chong: which was a good.
Speaker:1152
,974 --> 00:50:46,960
Tommy Chong: It was a good thing, because had we not,
Speaker:1153
,081 --> 00:50:50,107
Tommy Chong: had we, you know, cashed in, we probably
Speaker:1154
,187 --> 00:50:52,480
Tommy Chong: would not have done what we did, you know.
Speaker:1155
,815 --> 00:50:54,858
Marc Preston: And so I kind of made you hungry.
Speaker:1156
,918 --> 00:50:56,362
Marc Preston: I guess, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:1157
,895 --> 00:51:00,116
Tommy Chong: I mean, I got this in the game, so I don't.
Speaker:1158
,279 --> 00:51:05,545
Tommy Chong: The thing that really bothered me was when
Speaker:1159
,825 --> 00:51:09,637
Tommy Chong: I you know, like you said I teach got all
Speaker:1160
,657 --> 00:51:09,817
Tommy Chong: the.
Speaker:1161
,957 --> 00:51:12,182
Tommy Chong: You know all the, the, the lines.
Speaker:1162
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Tommy Chong: You know he was the lead guy, you know like
Speaker:1163
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Tommy Chong: the lead singer, you know I was a backup
Speaker:1164
,343 --> 00:51:25,426
Tommy Chong: guy, but when he had a chance, see, and I
Speaker:1165
,486 --> 00:51:28,894
Tommy Chong: wrote most of the bits, but when he had a
Speaker:1166
,954 --> 00:51:32,204
Tommy Chong: chance to write something, just on
Speaker:1167
,325 --> 00:51:35,093
Tommy Chong: percheach, that's all he did, he just wrote
Speaker:1168
,114 --> 00:51:35,535
Tommy Chong: it percheach.
Speaker:1169
,836 --> 00:51:39,118
Tommy Chong: He never included song, and I'm talking
Speaker:1170
,158 --> 00:51:40,487
Tommy Chong: about Born in East LA.
Speaker:1171
,849 --> 00:51:42,336
Marc Preston: Oh yeah, See Born in.
Speaker:1172
,436 --> 00:51:42,576
Tommy Chong: East.
Speaker:1173
,717 --> 00:51:46,824
Tommy Chong: Born in East LA was a takeoff of Bruce
Speaker:1174
,864 --> 00:51:48,888
Tommy Chong: Springsteen's song Born in.
Speaker:1175
,575 --> 00:51:50,299
Announcer: Born in the USA.
Speaker:1176
,655 --> 00:51:54,342
Tommy Chong: While Cheech turned it to Born in East LA,
Speaker:1177
,904 --> 00:51:56,717
Tommy Chong: which is fine, it was great.
Speaker:1178
,917 --> 00:52:00,223
Tommy Chong: Except when it came to put my part in, he
Speaker:1179
,283 --> 00:52:01,486
Tommy Chong: never had a part for me.
Speaker:1180
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Tommy Chong: And then he says, oh no, and I called him
Speaker:1181
,887 --> 00:52:07,615
Tommy Chong: out on it, you know, because he was telling
Speaker:1182
,655 --> 00:52:09,422
Tommy Chong: me, you know, he wrote the song Born in
Speaker:1183
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Tommy Chong: East LA.
Speaker:1184
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Tommy Chong: I was like, oh great, you know, no, that's
Speaker:1185
,481 --> 00:52:12,842
Tommy Chong: for him.
Speaker:1186
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Tommy Chong: But then he, you know, he was Cheech and
Speaker:1187
,263 --> 00:52:19,787
Tommy Chong: Chong at the time, so he put it down.
Speaker:1188
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Tommy Chong: It was written by Cheech and Chong and
Speaker:1189
,058 --> 00:52:25,522
Tommy Chong: everything is Cheech and Chong, cheech and
Speaker:1190
,542 --> 00:52:26,966
Tommy Chong: Chong, except the performance.
Speaker:1191
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Tommy Chong: And so I said to him well, where's my part,
Speaker:1192
,555 --> 00:52:32,856
Tommy Chong: you know?
Speaker:1193
,876 --> 00:52:34,742
Tommy Chong: He said oh, you play a cop.
Speaker:1194
,975 --> 00:52:39,421
Tommy Chong: Well, to me, you know, that's one of the
Speaker:1195
,481 --> 00:52:43,467
Tommy Chong: biggest insults you could do, unless you
Speaker:1196
,607 --> 00:52:44,669
Tommy Chong: add the comedy part.
Speaker:1197
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Marc Preston: Okay, you're a cop, but here's your
Speaker:1198
,202 --> 00:52:49,240
Marc Preston: committee, yeah, where his focus is very
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Marc Preston: narrow about how he's going to be coming
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Marc Preston: out.
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Announcer: You know you're thinking globally.
Speaker:1202
,759 --> 00:52:53,782
Marc Preston: You know you're thinking about the whole
Speaker:1203
,822 --> 00:52:54,364
Marc Preston: project.
Speaker:1204
,717 --> 00:52:57,242
Tommy Chong: That's and that's the way I thought about
Speaker:1205
,302 --> 00:52:58,838
Tommy Chong: everything, the movies, everything.
Speaker:1206
,898 --> 00:53:00,443
Tommy Chong: You know, I never, never think.
Speaker:1207
,095 --> 00:53:04,541
Tommy Chong: And it wasn't until you know, lately, that
Speaker:1208
,621 --> 00:53:07,988
Tommy Chong: I realized that he did his best he could do.
Speaker:1209
,975 --> 00:53:11,163
Tommy Chong: You know that that was the best he could do
Speaker:1210
,315 --> 00:53:12,881
Tommy Chong: and that was the best he could come up with,
Speaker:1211
,355 --> 00:53:18,084
Tommy Chong: and so, as a result, we, we just quit.
Speaker:1212
,986 --> 00:53:20,449
Tommy Chong: We could quit communicating.
Speaker:1213
,178 --> 00:53:22,919
Tommy Chong: I'm going to show them.
Speaker:1214
,059 --> 00:53:23,901
Announcer: Did you, did he come?
Speaker:1215
,061 --> 00:53:24,683
Tommy Chong: Yeah, he came.
Speaker:1216
,743 --> 00:53:25,584
Tommy Chong: He's going to talk to you.
Speaker:1217
,945 --> 00:53:27,107
Announcer: And he looked it over.
Speaker:1218
,388 --> 00:53:28,329
Announcer: Yeah, he's going to talk to you.
Speaker:1219
,370 --> 00:53:31,055
Tommy Chong: Okay, thanks, was that show.
Speaker:1220
,459 --> 00:53:35,758
Tommy Chong: Yeah, my darling wife just liked him oh.
Speaker:1221
,818 --> 00:53:37,302
Marc Preston: I love, you know, I love hearing y'all with
Speaker:1222
Cheech and Chong's Comedy and Legacy
,904 --> 00:53:38,726
Marc Preston: when y'all were doing the podcast.
Speaker:1223
,755 --> 00:53:40,601
Marc Preston: By the way, I want y'all to do the podcast
Speaker:1224
,642 --> 00:53:41,404
Marc Preston: of Paris again.
Speaker:1225
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Marc Preston: I used to love and Shelby would show up.
Speaker:1226
,636 --> 00:53:43,837
Marc Preston: That was.
Speaker:1227
,857 --> 00:53:44,379
Marc Preston: That was fun.
Speaker:1228
,980 --> 00:53:48,585
Tommy Chong: Well, you go way back with us.
Speaker:1229
,775 --> 00:53:49,417
Tommy Chong: Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker:1230
,717 --> 00:53:50,118
Marc Preston: I loved.
Speaker:1231
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Marc Preston: You know, listening to the two of y'all is
Speaker:1232
,286 --> 00:53:54,537
Marc Preston: like man, this is, this is some
Speaker:1233
,459 --> 00:53:57,646
Marc Preston: non-traditional but awesome father-son time.
Speaker:1234
,715 --> 00:53:58,878
Marc Preston: I love this, you know.
Speaker:1235
,978 --> 00:54:00,321
Marc Preston: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:1236
,361 --> 00:54:01,284
Tommy Chong: No, he is Paris.
Speaker:1237
,299 --> 00:54:04,881
Tommy Chong: All my kids.
Speaker:1238
,443 --> 00:54:06,687
Tommy Chong: That was the other thing too.
Speaker:1239
,707 --> 00:54:07,028
Tommy Chong: You know that.
Speaker:1240
,048 --> 00:54:08,011
Tommy Chong: That was with Cheech.
Speaker:1241
,071 --> 00:54:11,059
Tommy Chong: You know Cheech Well.
Speaker:1242
,079 --> 00:54:12,703
Tommy Chong: You know he's raised by policemen.
Speaker:1243
,184 --> 00:54:18,575
Tommy Chong: Really, yeah, his dad's was a LAPD and in
Speaker:1244
,616 --> 00:54:22,663
Tommy Chong: fact, as dad rose up quite high in the LAPD,
Speaker:1245
,683 --> 00:54:24,806
Tommy Chong: he became a teacher.
Speaker:1246
,895 --> 00:54:28,119
Tommy Chong: He was very well respected.
Speaker:1247
,115 --> 00:54:33,483
Tommy Chong: And so Cheech all his life had to deal with
Speaker:1248
,563 --> 00:54:35,067
Tommy Chong: his dad being a cop.
Speaker:1249
,735 --> 00:54:38,362
Tommy Chong: That's why, that's why the lowrider was was
Speaker:1250
,402 --> 00:54:39,365
Tommy Chong: a big stretch for him.
Speaker:1251
,295 --> 00:54:42,442
Tommy Chong: Cheech did not want to go down that route
Speaker:1252
,195 --> 00:54:45,561
Tommy Chong: and we never knew he was Mexican until he
Speaker:1253
,641 --> 00:54:47,807
Tommy Chong: came to to became Dalai.
Speaker:1254
,296 --> 00:54:50,325
Tommy Chong: And then one time we were working a club
Speaker:1255
,386 --> 00:54:52,194
Tommy Chong: and we weren't going over because we're
Speaker:1256
,214 --> 00:54:55,777
Tommy Chong: doing all our Canadian humor, and I said to
Speaker:1257
,817 --> 00:54:57,655
Tommy Chong: Cheech I said you're from here, man, come
Speaker:1258
,695 --> 00:54:59,420
Tommy Chong: on, there must be a character.
Speaker:1259
,720 --> 00:55:00,603
Tommy Chong: You know that you can.
Speaker:1260
,485 --> 00:55:03,719
Tommy Chong: And he said, yeah, there is one, but I am
Speaker:1261
,739 --> 00:55:04,160
Tommy Chong: not too.
Speaker:1262
,682 --> 00:55:05,485
Tommy Chong: I said what's matter?
Speaker:1263
,635 --> 00:55:06,618
Tommy Chong: He said, well, you know, a little
Speaker:1264
,658 --> 00:55:07,341
Tommy Chong: detrimental.
Speaker:1265
,716 --> 00:55:10,902
Tommy Chong: And he, he denied saying this conversation,
Speaker:1266
,962 --> 00:55:11,363
Tommy Chong: by the way.
Speaker:1267
,655 --> 00:55:14,598
Tommy Chong: And he says it's a little detrimental.
Speaker:1268
,079 --> 00:55:18,946
Tommy Chong: But and the Chicano, the top Chicanos, had
Speaker:1269
,006 --> 00:55:24,924
Tommy Chong: a meeting, the guy that, louis Spaldes, you
Speaker:1270
,964 --> 00:55:30,642
Tommy Chong: know, the director, anyway, he, the, the
Speaker:1271
,903 --> 00:55:33,567
Tommy Chong: intellectual Chicano community, did not
Speaker:1272
,627 --> 00:55:35,917
Tommy Chong: like the character Cheech was portraying.
Speaker:1273
Cheech and Chong Documentary and Movie
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Tommy Chong: You know which is why we never had no
Speaker:1274
,164 --> 00:55:41,796
Tommy Chong: writers up until Cheech and we haven't
Speaker:1275
,856 --> 00:55:44,783
Tommy Chong: really had a lowrider since, you know,
Speaker:1276
,284 --> 00:55:46,006
Tommy Chong: because they.
Speaker:1277
,467 --> 00:55:48,260
Marc Preston: I know y'all have done some things over the
Speaker:1278
,280 --> 00:55:49,103
Marc Preston: last few years.
Speaker:1279
,475 --> 00:55:51,641
Marc Preston: Are y'all kind of contemplating ever doing
Speaker:1280
,681 --> 00:55:55,205
Marc Preston: a project together, anything else?
Speaker:1281
,225 --> 00:55:56,135
Tommy Chong: anytime soon.
Speaker:1282
,175 --> 00:55:57,919
Tommy Chong: There's a movie out, there's a movie
Speaker:1283
,360 --> 00:56:01,406
Tommy Chong: getting prepped now that they want us in
Speaker:1284
,446 --> 00:56:03,699
Tommy Chong: there and Cheech will probably go for it.
Speaker:1285
,935 --> 00:56:06,839
Tommy Chong: It's an older version of us, you know.
Speaker:1286
,879 --> 00:56:08,403
Tommy Chong: It's now at our age.
Speaker:1287
,503 --> 00:56:12,160
Tommy Chong: Now you know we'll have to see how it looks
Speaker:1288
,200 --> 00:56:15,099
Tommy Chong: in that We've got a documentary that's
Speaker:1289
,159 --> 00:56:16,883
Tommy Chong: coming out, that's going to.
Speaker:1290
,706 --> 00:56:20,877
Tommy Chong: It's a Cheech and Jung documentary.
Speaker:1291
,298 --> 00:56:25,329
Tommy Chong: The backstory or the behind the scenes
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Tommy Chong: story is pretty funny because you know me,
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Tommy Chong: I'm sort of spur of the moment kind of guy,
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Tommy Chong: you know.
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Tommy Chong: And so it's my daughter, robbie, and her
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Tommy Chong: guy, dave.
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Tommy Chong: Now Dave's a very talented movie maker,
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Tommy Chong: work with Jim Carrey and the Slingblade.
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Tommy Chong: He did Slingblade and he's been done.
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Tommy Chong: He is definitely a movie maker.
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Tommy Chong: And they were doing a documentary on Cheech
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Tommy Chong: and Jung and it seemed like it was never
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Tommy Chong: going to get finished.
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Tommy Chong: And so one day I was driving home with a
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Tommy Chong: friend of mine, we did a golf tournament
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Tommy Chong: and I came up, I got high on one of my
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Tommy Chong: products and I came up with a great idea
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Tommy Chong: for the ending of a documentary.
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Tommy Chong: Because that's the way I kind of work, you
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Tommy Chong: know, if we got stuff to do, I'm an artist
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Tommy Chong: in a sense that if there's an empty canvas
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Tommy Chong: and people can't think of what to put on it.
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Marc Preston: I will eventually come up with an idea you
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Marc Preston: know, and so destination, and then you kind
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Marc Preston: of plot out the journey to get there.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Tommy Chong: Well, I came up with a real good ending for
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Tommy Chong: the documentary, To the point where I told
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Tommy Chong: my daughter I said listen, forget all this
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Tommy Chong: other stuff.
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Tommy Chong: I got an ending.
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Tommy Chong: The director comes back.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, oh, my God, that got such a riot
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Tommy Chong: because I am the guy they're doing a thing.
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Tommy Chong: I do have the power if I wanted to and they
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Tommy Chong: freaked they actually drove all the way to
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Tommy Chong: San Francisco to talk to Cheech to make
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Tommy Chong: sure that Cheech would not go along with me,
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Tommy Chong: because if Cheech went along with me that
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Tommy Chong: would be the end of the day.
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Tommy Chong: Anyway, Cheech would definitely not go
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Tommy Chong: along with me.
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Tommy Chong: Cheech and I really haven't seen eye to eye
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Tommy Chong: on anything.
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Tommy Chong: I mean, we've been on going.
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Tommy Chong: You know, we've been doing our live act
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Tommy Chong: with Shelby in that, you know, ever since
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Tommy Chong: the 08, actually, as soon as I got out of
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Tommy Chong: jail.
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Tommy Chong: We were supposed to do a movie before I
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Tommy Chong: went to jail, but then I went to jail and
Speaker:1342
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Tommy Chong: that kind of screwed everything up.
Speaker:1343
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Tommy Chong: It wouldn't have happened anyway.
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Tommy Chong: You know I didn't.
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Tommy Chong: They've had people write movies for us and
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Tommy Chong: I look at the first couple of pages and
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Tommy Chong: know that you know you can't write for
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Tommy Chong: Cheech and John.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I think a lot of people.
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Marc Preston: Probably they would come off as a parody,
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Marc Preston: almost.
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Marc Preston: You know.
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Marc Preston: I think people kind of see it as which.
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Marc Preston: What y'all did was, like I said, the
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Marc Preston: physical comedy.
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Marc Preston: It gave you a chance.
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Marc Preston: I mean, like you sitting next to him in a
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Marc Preston: car just slowly eating everything that you
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Marc Preston: had I mean, what was that movie?
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Marc Preston: You were eating everything so that the cop
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Marc Preston: would say it's just, I couldn't take my
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Marc Preston: eyes off you.
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Tommy Chong: It's like wait a minute.
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Tommy Chong: He has no lines, but it's hilarious.
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Marc Preston: And so, in other words, y'all do you think
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Marc Preston: it's that I don't want to, it's not
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Marc Preston: friction, but do you think it's that
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Marc Preston: contrast that kind of gave y'all the fuel
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Marc Preston: to kind of create what y'all have?
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Marc Preston: You know, not necessarily seeing eye to eye
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Marc Preston: on stuff, Two things.
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Tommy Chong: First of all, we're exploring new territory.
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Tommy Chong: You see, we're not rehashing anything.
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Tommy Chong: See, most a lot of movies are rehash,
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Tommy Chong: remake, redo, redot.
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Tommy Chong: You know, because then you know who the
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Tommy Chong: guys are and results going to be.
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Marc Preston: And it's a safe choice for a lot of people
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Marc Preston: especially.
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Marc Preston: I mean just look at all the remakes there
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Marc Preston: are in movies these days yeah.
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Tommy Chong: That's what I'm saying.
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Tommy Chong: I understand.
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Tommy Chong: You know all the moods, the dance and
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Tommy Chong: everything else.
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Tommy Chong: Cheech and I invented a new style of comedy
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Comedy Style and Jerry Lewis's Influence
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Tommy Chong: that only Cheech and I can perform.
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Tommy Chong: You know, I can't do it with anybody else,
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Tommy Chong: and that's the special thing about Cheech
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Tommy Chong: and Chong.
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Tommy Chong: That's why Martin and Lewis had the same
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Tommy Chong: thing.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah.
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Announcer: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Tommy Chong: It was very spontaneous, in fact, jerry
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Tommy Chong: Lewis gave me one of the best compliments
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Tommy Chong: ever.
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Tommy Chong: He said when they said you know they don't
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Tommy Chong: have comedy teams like you and Marc, you
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Tommy Chong: and Dino and Jerry said oh yeah, they do.
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Tommy Chong: He said Cheech and Chong.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, and the thing is, jerry Lewis, even
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Marc Preston: though he played the kind of the goofy guy,
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Marc Preston: he was the one really meticulously crafting
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Marc Preston: those acts and really Martin was the one to
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Marc Preston: show up and be Dean Martin.
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Marc Preston: You know that's right, that's right.
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Tommy Chong: He was the one to do the lines and do his
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Tommy Chong: things and be the handsome guy.
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Tommy Chong: No, I really respected Jerry's filmmaking.
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Tommy Chong: In fact, I used his technique.
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Tommy Chong: You know, he was the first to use video.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, he was the first one to kind of do
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Marc Preston: that, to kind of video monitor idea.
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Marc Preston: So he'd actually yeah, yeah, he was.
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Marc Preston: Isn't that crazy to think Jerry Lewis did
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Marc Preston: that.
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Marc Preston: I mean, it's like the most common thing now
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Marc Preston: that Jerry Lewis before him.
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Marc Preston: Nobody did that.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I was the second I was the second to
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Marc Preston: do it?
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, because when we did the next movie, I
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Tommy Chong: hired a video guy and the DP, king Baggett,
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Tommy Chong: was pissed off.
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Tommy Chong: Oh, he did not, he didn't want the
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Tommy Chong: cameraman.
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Tommy Chong: You know, they're like dogs, they don't
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Tommy Chong: want any other dog on the set.
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Marc Preston: But you, if you're in a scene, you've got
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Marc Preston: to see playback to see if it worked.
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Marc Preston: Yeah.
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Tommy Chong: But guess what, guess what?
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Tommy Chong: King Baggett ended up almost marrying Eric
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Tommy Chong: Wooster, my video guy.
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Tommy Chong: I would go to see the scene and King
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Tommy Chong: Baggett would be in there first.
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Tommy Chong: King was in there late budget, because King
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Tommy Chong: is not.
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Marc Preston: he's not worried about the performance,
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Marc Preston: he's worried about the lighting, yeah,
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Marc Preston: lighting composition and all that stuff,
Speaker:1443
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Marc Preston: yeah.
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Tommy Chong: Oh, he King loved it after that.
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Tommy Chong: And now, in fact, you don't even use a film
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Tommy Chong: camera anymore, you just use video.
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Tommy Chong: You know it's all video now.
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Tommy Chong: No, jerry was was an innovator in that
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Tommy Chong: sense.
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Tommy Chong: And the thing is about and Jerry and Jerry
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Tommy Chong: knew too.
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Tommy Chong: See what happened with with Jerry and Dean
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Tommy Chong: Dean, jerry kind of took over and that's
Speaker:1454
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Tommy Chong: what happened with Cheech Night 2.
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Tommy Chong: Because once you become a film director,
Speaker:1456
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Tommy Chong: that's like being anointed, god.
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Tommy Chong: You know you, everything depends on what
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Tommy Chong: the director says.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, everything's sitting on your
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Marc Preston: shoulders as well, because if it, if
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Marc Preston: something fails, it's all on you.
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Marc Preston: Yeah.
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Tommy Chong: I got so hooked on that that that Cheech
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Tommy Chong: and I just well, when we started having
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Tommy Chong: separate dressing rooms, you know, because
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Tommy Chong: up into the up into them we always shared
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Tommy Chong: the dressing room, you know, and because
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Tommy Chong: when we're in the dressing room we could
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Tommy Chong: talk, we could write, and I could tell
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Tommy Chong: Cheech, you know, give him, cheech, you
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Tommy Chong: know, direction, because with with Cheech,
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Tommy Chong: all you have to do is just he's like a, a,
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Tommy Chong: a psychopedia, because he, he can memorize
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Tommy Chong: so many things.
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Tommy Chong: And so I, I just show Cheech a direction
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Tommy Chong: and Cheech gets it right away.
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Tommy Chong: Well, oh no, I know what you mean, I know
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Tommy Chong: what you mean.
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Tommy Chong: And so when we weren't see what happened
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Tommy Chong: with Lou Adler after Up and Smoke, we got,
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Tommy Chong: you know, I directed and wrote right up to
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Tommy Chong: the end.
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Tommy Chong: And then Lou Adler says, you know, because
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Tommy Chong: he's a director and and I found out now
Speaker:1485
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Tommy Chong: that he wanted to take, take, take all the
Speaker:1486
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Tommy Chong: money too.
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Tommy Chong: So he, at the end of Up and Smoke, he, he
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Tommy Chong: kind of barred me from the set, you know,
Speaker:1489
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Tommy Chong: and there's.
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Tommy Chong: I said, are you ready?
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Tommy Chong: And they said, no, no, we've already shot
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Tommy Chong: that.
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Tommy Chong: And I said, oh, because usually they call
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Tommy Chong: me in, you know, to make sure everything
Speaker:1495
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Tommy Chong: was right.
Speaker:1496
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Tommy Chong: You know, I was really the director.
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Tommy Chong: Then Lou took over to the point where Lou
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Tommy Chong: says, okay, I, I, I, yeah.
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Tommy Chong: I got a good idea of yeah, working on the
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Tommy Chong: ending.
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Tommy Chong: You know we got enough.
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Tommy Chong: Like like Lou was the kind of producer that
Speaker:1503
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Tommy Chong: we run out of money stop, stop everything
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Tommy Chong: and we're finished.
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Tommy Chong: You know.
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Marc Preston: It's kind of like money's done, okay, cut.
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Tommy Chong: We're done.
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Tommy Chong: So.
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Tommy Chong: So what happened I?
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Tommy Chong: So I backed around back down and and, and
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Tommy Chong: they do, they edited the movie, they being
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Tommy Chong: Lou and Lou Lombardo the editor, and that
Speaker:1513
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Tommy Chong: and Then they showed us the rough cut, or
Speaker:1514
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Tommy Chong: the first assembled Part, and they showed
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Tommy Chong: Paramount to the same time.
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Tommy Chong: It was the worst fucking ending of any
Speaker:1517
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Tommy Chong: movie I'd ever seen.
Speaker:1518
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Tommy Chong: It was so bad.
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Tommy Chong: Everything that we had done might as well
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Tommy Chong: be, you know, forgot about it.
Speaker:1521
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Tommy Chong: Really.
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Tommy Chong: The ending, was it what he, what he did?
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Tommy Chong: I'll tell you, you'll know, no one will
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Tommy Chong: ever see it, but but the ending was that
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Tommy Chong: Lou came up with was that it was all a
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Tommy Chong: dream and that that when we were at the,
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Tommy Chong: when we're stopped on the PCH, and and
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Tommy Chong: that's where everything, everything after
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,684 --> 01:06:01,684
Tommy Chong: the PCH, was a dream, and we were sort of
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Tommy Chong: somehow, and Stacy shows up as a uniform,
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Tommy Chong: stacy Keech, yeah, I mean, it was the.
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,041 --> 01:06:15,321
Tommy Chong: Really, it was like it was.
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,462 --> 01:06:16,564
Tommy Chong: You couldn't get I.
Speaker:1534
,085 --> 01:06:19,630
Tommy Chong: I haven't really been able to have a
Speaker:1535
,690 --> 01:06:23,684
Tommy Chong: conversation with Lou since Period period
Speaker:1536
,845 --> 01:06:26,152
Tommy Chong: about anything you know other than hi,
Speaker:1537
,192 --> 01:06:26,855
Tommy Chong: how's everything?
Speaker:1538
,895 --> 01:06:29,041
Tommy Chong: Yeah, nice, the house of kids, how's that?
Speaker:1539
,342 --> 01:06:31,669
Tommy Chong: You know before that he was always
Speaker:1540
,729 --> 01:06:32,491
Tommy Chong: interested in.
Speaker:1541
,631 --> 01:06:35,453
Tommy Chong: You know, what do you want to shoot now or
Speaker:1542
,534 --> 01:06:36,340
Tommy Chong: what should we do now?
Speaker:1543
,463 --> 01:06:38,686
Marc Preston: And I was the one where y'all had that
Speaker:1544
,726 --> 01:06:41,032
Marc Preston: little van that had the marijuana sprayed
Speaker:1545
,092 --> 01:06:43,980
Marc Preston: on the side of it and the exhaust pipe was
Speaker:1546
,040 --> 01:06:45,583
Marc Preston: too Hot and yeah, I didn't get everything
Speaker:1547
,603 --> 01:06:48,349
Marc Preston: about, okay, I, because I forgot that was
Speaker:1548
,409 --> 01:06:50,173
Marc Preston: up in smoke or the next movie, yeah.
Speaker:1549
,844 --> 01:06:52,015
Tommy Chong: Yeah, well, he wanted to be.
Speaker:1550
,035 --> 01:06:55,535
Tommy Chong: I Mean his idea to save money was to.
Speaker:1551
,776 --> 01:06:58,446
Tommy Chong: It was all a dream and it was the biggest
Speaker:1552
,506 --> 01:06:59,590
Tommy Chong: fucking insult ever.
Speaker:1553
,112 --> 01:07:02,600
Tommy Chong: And so then I told, I said that was the end.
Speaker:1554
,562 --> 01:07:05,246
Tommy Chong: And so I thought I told everybody, as we
Speaker:1555
,286 --> 01:07:07,511
Tommy Chong: got to reshoot the ending I'm directing,
Speaker:1556
,212 --> 01:07:10,143
Tommy Chong: and that was it, and how much of it did you
Speaker:1557
,303 --> 01:07:10,383
Tommy Chong: do?
Speaker:1558
,444 --> 01:07:13,170
Marc Preston: how much of the of the final print?
Speaker:1559
,210 --> 01:07:14,753
Marc Preston: How much of that did you end up directing
Speaker:1560
,382 --> 01:07:16,228
Marc Preston: the ending?
Speaker:1561
,921 --> 01:07:21,033
Tommy Chong: The ending where I mean I wrote and
Speaker:1562
,294 --> 01:07:22,860
Tommy Chong: basically showed them what to do.
Speaker:1563
,724 --> 01:07:25,786
Tommy Chong: You know, I mean, you know I actually
Speaker:1564
,826 --> 01:07:28,051
Tommy Chong: directed the whole movie when it came right
Speaker:1565
,092 --> 01:07:28,613
Tommy Chong: down to it.
Speaker:1566
,673 --> 01:07:31,326
Tommy Chong: You know, the only thing I gotta give I'll
Speaker:1567
,346 --> 01:07:33,492
Tommy Chong: give Lou and everybody credit for is that
Speaker:1568
,974 --> 01:07:36,000
Tommy Chong: Stacey wrote his own lines.
Speaker:1569
,963 --> 01:07:37,103
Tommy Chong: I.
Speaker:1570
,524 --> 01:07:40,071
Tommy Chong: I give him an idea of what we wanted to do.
Speaker:1571
,553 --> 01:07:42,659
Tommy Chong: Strother Martin, you know, you get a job by
Speaker:1572
,739 --> 01:07:43,140
Tommy Chong: sundown.
Speaker:1573
,563 --> 01:07:46,200
Tommy Chong: Oh, that was all Strother Martin ad lib.
Speaker:1574
,102 --> 01:07:50,449
Tommy Chong: He wrote every bit of that, that monologue.
Speaker:1575
,669 --> 01:07:52,954
Tommy Chong: That was Strother Martin and he never got
Speaker:1576
,994 --> 01:07:55,945
Tommy Chong: credit for the Ajax ladies and ordnance.
Speaker:1577
,005 --> 01:07:57,950
Tommy Chong: That was all her stuff, you know.
Speaker:1578
,110 --> 01:08:01,082
Tommy Chong: And so what I would do, I would Get
Speaker:1579
,122 --> 01:08:03,108
Tommy Chong: gathered this stuff and teach a story,
Speaker:1580
,208 --> 01:08:06,825
Tommy Chong: teach painting the hamper, teach All the.
Speaker:1581
,564 --> 01:08:11,131
Tommy Chong: I love the keeping the beers in the fish
Speaker:1582
,191 --> 01:08:11,412
Tommy Chong: tank.
Speaker:1583
,453 --> 01:08:12,497
Marc Preston: That just made sense to me.
Speaker:1584
,517 --> 01:08:13,200
Marc Preston: You know, it's like that was me.
Speaker:1585
,240 --> 01:08:13,822
Marc Preston: That was me.
Speaker:1586
,620 --> 01:08:17,223
Tommy Chong: I was like that makes for a good cooler,
Speaker:1587
,284 --> 01:08:17,624
Tommy Chong: you know.
Speaker:1588
,526 --> 01:08:20,971
Tommy Chong: And washing, washing no, that was next
Speaker:1589
,991 --> 01:08:22,894
Tommy Chong: movie, but that that was yeah.
Speaker:1590
,160 --> 01:08:28,506
Marc Preston: So next movie really was me, me and she,
Speaker:1591
,047 --> 01:08:31,350
Marc Preston: and it's the best title for a sequel ever,
Speaker:1592
,431 --> 01:08:34,375
Marc Preston: because it is the Cheech and Chong's next
Speaker:1593
,435 --> 01:08:34,835
Marc Preston: movie.
Speaker:1594
,895 --> 01:08:37,385
Marc Preston: Is that Easy to remember, you know?
Speaker:1595
,545 --> 01:08:39,449
Marc Preston: Yeah, this, this trip down memory lane, is
Speaker:1596
,469 --> 01:08:41,032
Marc Preston: so much fun and I really think that.
Speaker:1597
,453 --> 01:08:45,624
Marc Preston: Have you noticed, like Jin Z, millennials,
Speaker:1598
,905 --> 01:08:47,368
Marc Preston: have they rediscovered your movies?
Speaker:1599
,468 --> 01:08:49,413
Marc Preston: Have you had any feedback for people that
Speaker:1600
,453 --> 01:08:51,747
Marc Preston: have Kind of started finding your stuff
Speaker:1601
,767 --> 01:08:51,968
Marc Preston: going?
Speaker:1602
,209 --> 01:08:53,855
Marc Preston: Oh yeah, I know it's like Tommy Chong is
Speaker:1603
,277 --> 01:08:55,903
Marc Preston: he's the weed guy, but it's like no,
Speaker:1604
,923 --> 01:08:56,865
Marc Preston: there's a thing.
Speaker:1605
,945 --> 01:09:00,595
Tommy Chong: Yeah, they, they know me from that sub
Speaker:1606
,656 --> 01:09:01,137
Tommy Chong: addition.
Speaker:1607
,859 --> 01:09:04,404
Tommy Chong: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they know me because,
Speaker:1608
,444 --> 01:09:06,768
Tommy Chong: see it, that's an extension of that
Speaker:1609
,829 --> 01:09:07,309
Tommy Chong: character.
Speaker:1610
,770 --> 01:09:08,231
Tommy Chong: That's what.
Speaker:1611
,432 --> 01:09:11,863
Tommy Chong: That's what I was trying to Get through, to
Speaker:1612
,924 --> 01:09:15,462
Tommy Chong: teach you know, which I never did Was the
Speaker:1613
,522 --> 01:09:19,330
Tommy Chong: fact that those iconic characters can live
Speaker:1614
,410 --> 01:09:21,354
Tommy Chong: forever, will live forever.
Speaker:1615
,541 --> 01:09:25,691
Tommy Chong: You can't kill him and and you can only,
Speaker:1616
,661 --> 01:09:29,007
Tommy Chong: you can only live off him, and I did that
Speaker:1617
,047 --> 01:09:31,172
Tommy Chong: with that, with my character.
Speaker:1618
,421 --> 01:09:38,865
Tommy Chong: See I, there was more To making the movies.
Speaker:1619
Promoting Health and CBD Use
,306 --> 01:09:42,153
Tommy Chong: I wanted to put a message out to the world
Speaker:1620
,181 --> 01:09:48,109
Tommy Chong: number one If you can smoke, dope and still
Speaker:1621
,189 --> 01:09:51,540
Tommy Chong: be healthy and still still work out.
Speaker:1622
,780 --> 01:09:53,785
Marc Preston: Oh, you've always been a really great shape.
Speaker:1623
,846 --> 01:09:55,830
Marc Preston: I mean, working out and lifting has always
Speaker:1624
,871 --> 01:09:56,632
Marc Preston: been a big thing with you.
Speaker:1625
,061 --> 01:09:57,563
Tommy Chong: That's it.
Speaker:1626
,724 --> 01:10:01,537
Tommy Chong: I mean, and to this day now I'm selling CBD
Speaker:1627
,577 --> 01:10:02,360
Tommy Chong: that it's good for you.
Speaker:1628
,761 --> 01:10:05,506
Tommy Chong: See, I don't want to do anything or even
Speaker:1629
,767 --> 01:10:08,472
Tommy Chong: leave the people down the wrong path with a
Speaker:1630
,512 --> 01:10:12,249
Tommy Chong: character, even If my, if a carry, I refuse
Speaker:1631
,470 --> 01:10:14,878
Tommy Chong: because I know the effect that I have on
Speaker:1632
,938 --> 01:10:15,420
Tommy Chong: people there.
Speaker:1633
,921 --> 01:10:18,788
Tommy Chong: They listen to me, you know, and and and
Speaker:1634
,808 --> 01:10:19,209
Tommy Chong: they read.
Speaker:1635
,289 --> 01:10:21,624
Tommy Chong: They not only listen to me, but they, they
Speaker:1636
,664 --> 01:10:23,471
Tommy Chong: will repeat what I would.
Speaker:1637
,572 --> 01:10:26,041
Tommy Chong: I do what I say, you know, like with the
Speaker:1638
,081 --> 01:10:29,729
Tommy Chong: CBD that I'm selling now, you know, that's
Speaker:1639
,789 --> 01:10:34,365
Tommy Chong: going crazy as far as people like in it and
Speaker:1640
,846 --> 01:10:36,811
Tommy Chong: and it's good for you, and that's the thing
Speaker:1641
,851 --> 01:10:37,353
Tommy Chong: about weed.
Speaker:1642
,762 --> 01:10:41,349
Tommy Chong: That's that's why I'd never promote any
Speaker:1643
,389 --> 01:10:44,305
Tommy Chong: kind of smoking, cigarettes, you know, a
Speaker:1644
,626 --> 01:10:47,440
Tommy Chong: tobacco or or alcohol.
Speaker:1645
,408 --> 01:10:51,244
Tommy Chong: I had a chance to, you know, to do a Beer
Speaker:1646
,885 --> 01:10:54,031
Tommy Chong: and and I went to, even right to the
Speaker:1647
,071 --> 01:10:56,658
Tommy Chong: brewery because I wanted to check it all
Speaker:1648
,799 --> 01:10:57,260
Tommy Chong: out, you know.
Speaker:1649
,802 --> 01:11:00,771
Tommy Chong: And then I then I had a flash of you know,
Speaker:1650
,302 --> 01:11:05,670
Tommy Chong: of a car wreck, with Chong beer scattered
Speaker:1651
,731 --> 01:11:10,569
Tommy Chong: around, you know, and and I said, no, I
Speaker:1652
,589 --> 01:11:12,293
Tommy Chong: don't want to be, I don't want that tag.
Speaker:1653
,082 --> 01:11:15,290
Tommy Chong: You can be the nicest guy all your life,
Speaker:1654
,123 --> 01:11:20,166
Tommy Chong: but you mess up one time, man, you're done
Speaker:1655
,451 --> 01:11:23,398
Tommy Chong: you know it's funny because I was talking
Speaker:1656
,479 --> 01:11:23,840
Tommy Chong: with my kids.
Speaker:1657
,840 --> 01:11:25,878
Marc Preston: My daughter is at college right now.
Speaker:1658
,920 --> 01:11:27,056
Marc Preston: She's gonna be a sophomore.
Speaker:1659
,139 --> 01:11:28,907
Marc Preston: My son's going to the same school next year
Speaker:1660
,990 --> 01:11:29,678
Marc Preston: as a freshman.
Speaker:1661
,082 --> 01:11:31,496
Marc Preston: And I was telling them I was trying to find
Speaker:1662
,516 --> 01:11:34,011
Marc Preston: a way to put it there's so much mischief
Speaker:1663
,071 --> 01:11:35,358
Marc Preston: going on, people spiking, drinks and all
Speaker:1664
,378 --> 01:11:35,519
Marc Preston: that is.
Speaker:1665
,539 --> 01:11:39,174
Marc Preston: Like, you know, if you were in a room and
Speaker:1666
,194 --> 01:11:40,018
Marc Preston: you and your girlfriends show up and
Speaker:1667
,038 --> 01:11:42,051
Marc Preston: there's some guys or you know, have a
Speaker:1668
,071 --> 01:11:43,198
Marc Preston: little get together and they're all just
Speaker:1669
,218 --> 01:11:45,310
Marc Preston: blackout drunk, they're just drinking, I
Speaker:1670
,330 --> 01:11:46,436
Marc Preston: said in a way, I would rather than be in a
Speaker:1671
,456 --> 01:11:47,140
Marc Preston: room with some guys.
Speaker:1672
,543 --> 01:11:48,715
Marc Preston: I've been smoking and that's it.
Speaker:1673
,735 --> 01:11:51,726
Marc Preston: That's the only thing, because I think it's
Speaker:1674
,127 --> 01:11:55,558
Marc Preston: ultimately, I feel like it's safer for them
Speaker:1675
,598 --> 01:11:56,200
Marc Preston: being that scenario.
Speaker:1676
,065 --> 01:11:58,253
Marc Preston: Then, with the guys that have been, you
Speaker:1677
,293 --> 01:11:59,379
Marc Preston: know, college and just drinking and all
Speaker:1678
,399 --> 01:12:01,350
Marc Preston: that I mean, I mean you know you're a
Speaker:1679
,430 --> 01:12:02,536
Marc Preston: parent, you know it's your job to worry
Speaker:1680
,557 --> 01:12:04,526
Marc Preston: about your kids all the time, no matter how
Speaker:1681
,546 --> 01:12:07,177
Marc Preston: they are, and but it's like I'm not
Speaker:1682
,197 --> 01:12:09,386
Marc Preston: advocating it necessarily, but I'm saying
Speaker:1683
,427 --> 01:12:12,218
Marc Preston: listen, the reality is the people that that
Speaker:1684
,238 --> 01:12:12,800
Marc Preston: are gonna sit back and smoke.
Speaker:1685
,222 --> 01:12:15,252
Marc Preston: They're, they're, they got a different
Speaker:1686
,272 --> 01:12:16,338
Marc Preston: mentality and people just pounding beers
Speaker:1687
,358 --> 01:12:18,748
Marc Preston: and you know alcohol, yeah, and and one
Speaker:1688
,928 --> 01:12:19,471
Marc Preston: thing, that's poison.
Speaker:1689
,551 --> 01:12:20,997
Marc Preston: I mean you really think about it.
Speaker:1690
,037 --> 01:12:24,518
Marc Preston: I mean it's you know it takes a toll on you
Speaker:1691
,538 --> 01:12:24,800
Marc Preston: after a while.
Speaker:1692
,445 --> 01:12:30,098
Tommy Chong: Well, the best way is by example.
Speaker:1693
,118 --> 01:12:32,753
Tommy Chong: You know, and that's what I've done all my
Speaker:1694
,773 --> 01:12:32,914
Tommy Chong: life.
Speaker:1695
,995 --> 01:12:33,579
Tommy Chong: It's just by example.
Speaker:1696
,068 --> 01:12:37,673
Tommy Chong: Now, you know, what I found out is that
Speaker:1697
,054 --> 01:12:38,556
Tommy Chong: they would, they will.
Speaker:1698
,576 --> 01:12:40,281
Tommy Chong: If you're doing something right, if you're
Speaker:1699
,301 --> 01:12:42,446
Tommy Chong: doing something right, they people will
Speaker:1700
,466 --> 01:12:44,751
Tommy Chong: pick up on it and they will copy you.
Speaker:1701
,931 --> 01:12:46,355
Tommy Chong: And I've had that happen.
Speaker:1702
,395 --> 01:12:51,323
Tommy Chong: You know, I've had people you know Not
Speaker:1703
,383 --> 01:12:55,091
Tommy Chong: exactly what I do, and to me it's, it's a,
Speaker:1704
,133 --> 01:12:58,718
Tommy Chong: it's a beautiful thing, like if someone
Speaker:1705
,079 --> 01:13:01,447
Tommy Chong: does teaching Chong bits, I don't get
Speaker:1706
,487 --> 01:13:04,680
Tommy Chong: offended, I take that, I'm very proud of
Speaker:1707
,720 --> 01:13:04,800
Tommy Chong: that.
Speaker:1708
,767 --> 01:13:08,312
Marc Preston: They're keeping it alive, and I think
Speaker:1709
,332 --> 01:13:09,777
Marc Preston: that's that's right.
Speaker:1710
,957 --> 01:13:10,720
Marc Preston: They're paying no much to me.
Speaker:1711
,085 --> 01:13:14,314
Marc Preston: I certainly appreciate, and I just want to
Speaker:1712
,354 --> 01:13:15,037
Marc Preston: wrap up real quick.
Speaker:1713
,057 --> 01:13:15,800
Marc Preston: I got a quick seven questions for you.
Speaker:1714
,907 --> 01:13:18,337
Marc Preston: These are just my fun questions.
Speaker:1715
,357 --> 01:13:18,800
Marc Preston: These are just okay.
Speaker:1716
,425 --> 01:13:21,789
Marc Preston: I always wrap up every interview with.
Speaker:1717
,809 --> 01:13:24,115
Marc Preston: The first one is what is your favorite
Speaker:1718
Seven Questions
,717 --> 01:13:25,038
Marc Preston: comfort food?
Speaker:1719
,058 --> 01:13:26,922
Marc Preston: That thing that's like you love Snack an
Speaker:1720
,942 --> 01:13:27,263
Marc Preston: honor.
Speaker:1721
,283 --> 01:13:28,165
Marc Preston: You just kind of go to it.
Speaker:1722
,225 --> 01:13:30,229
Marc Preston: It's just you know you always have to have
Speaker:1723
,249 --> 01:13:30,890
Marc Preston: it around the house.
Speaker:1724
,632 --> 01:13:35,964
Tommy Chong: Well, no, I guess.
Speaker:1725
,164 --> 01:13:40,447
Tommy Chong: Croissants, croissants, toast it, toast it
Speaker:1726
,527 --> 01:13:43,619
Tommy Chong: croissant is my, my favorite favorite.
Speaker:1727
,301 --> 01:13:45,764
Marc Preston: Yeah, my oldest daughter loves those.
Speaker:1728
,784 --> 01:13:47,388
Marc Preston: Yeah, those are tasty.
Speaker:1729
,408 --> 01:13:49,332
Marc Preston: Little butter, little little few calories
Speaker:1730
,372 --> 01:13:49,593
Marc Preston: in there.
Speaker:1731
,482 --> 01:13:51,164
Marc Preston: Oh, toast it.
Speaker:1732
,486 --> 01:13:52,248
Marc Preston: Oh, I love it.
Speaker:1733
,243 --> 01:13:54,451
Marc Preston: Now, if you're gonna sit down, next
Speaker:1734
,511 --> 01:13:55,136
Marc Preston: question three people.
Speaker:1735
,176 --> 01:13:55,780
Marc Preston: You can have a cup of coffee.
Speaker:1736
,406 --> 01:13:57,800
Marc Preston: You're gonna be talking story for a while.
Speaker:1737
,342 --> 01:14:01,091
Marc Preston: Who would those three people be living or
Speaker:1738
,151 --> 01:14:01,392
Marc Preston: not?
Speaker:1739
,593 --> 01:14:03,399
Marc Preston: You know, if you could sit down and have
Speaker:1740
,419 --> 01:14:05,606
Marc Preston: spent a few hours Is talking about life of
Speaker:1741
,626 --> 01:14:06,589
Marc Preston: three people, who would it be?
Speaker:1742
,583 --> 01:14:11,051
Tommy Chong: What's his name that's kept was messed up.
Speaker:1743
,272 --> 01:14:15,847
Tommy Chong: The In the wheelchair can hardly talk.
Speaker:1744
,208 --> 01:14:16,308
Tommy Chong: Oh.
Speaker:1745
,081 --> 01:14:20,143
Marc Preston: The doctor from England.
Speaker:1746
,604 --> 01:14:22,389
Tommy Chong: These the after-fifth this, that was a.
Speaker:1747
,409 --> 01:14:22,710
Tommy Chong: That's him.
Speaker:1748
,844 --> 01:14:25,647
Marc Preston: Oh, not see a thing.
Speaker:1749
,667 --> 01:14:27,093
Marc Preston: When I try to remember somebody's name,
Speaker:1750
,133 --> 01:14:28,780
Marc Preston: that's my brain goes nope, not gonna do it.
Speaker:1751
,421 --> 01:14:31,487
Tommy Chong: Yeah, hawking, stephen Hawking, hawking,
Speaker:1752
,527 --> 01:14:35,507
Tommy Chong: Stephen Hawking, stephen Hawking, moses.
Speaker:1753
,527 --> 01:14:41,151
Tommy Chong: I really identify with Moses and Just
Speaker:1754
,822 --> 01:14:45,148
Tommy Chong: Because he was so influential, still
Speaker:1755
,229 --> 01:14:48,216
Tommy Chong: influential in my life is Jesus, uh-huh
Speaker:1756
,737 --> 01:14:49,559
Tommy Chong: very good, very good.
Speaker:1757
,579 --> 01:14:49,619
Marc Preston: So.
Speaker:1758
,181 --> 01:14:52,668
Marc Preston: So next question, like when you're young,
Speaker:1759
,450 --> 01:14:56,385
Marc Preston: who is your Celebrity crush?
Speaker:1760
,686 --> 01:14:58,673
Marc Preston: The first one you know, maybe your teenager
Speaker:1761
,874 --> 01:15:00,178
Marc Preston: late, you know somebody who's like ah,
Speaker:1762
,258 --> 01:15:01,749
Marc Preston: first time it came, they came on your radar.
Speaker:1763
,790 --> 01:15:04,005
Marc Preston: You're just like all about him, besides
Speaker:1764
,085 --> 01:15:04,788
Marc Preston: Shelby, of course.
Speaker:1765
,542 --> 01:15:06,846
Tommy Chong: Marilyn, marilyn Monroe.
Speaker:1766
,926 --> 01:15:10,115
Tommy Chong: I gotta say I've always loved Marilyn
Speaker:1767
,135 --> 01:15:10,456
Tommy Chong: Monroe.
Speaker:1768
,476 --> 01:15:11,720
Tommy Chong: Oh my god.
Speaker:1769
,605 --> 01:15:14,748
Marc Preston: Now, if you're gonna be living next
Speaker:1770
,809 --> 01:15:16,995
Marc Preston: question on an island a year, you and
Speaker:1771
,035 --> 01:15:18,078
Marc Preston: Shelby hanging out.
Speaker:1772
,258 --> 01:15:19,402
Marc Preston: It's a beautiful island you have, but
Speaker:1773
,422 --> 01:15:20,908
Marc Preston: there's no streaming, there's no internet
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Marc Preston: and you can only bring one DVD of a movie
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Marc Preston: and you can only bring one album with you.
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Marc Preston: What would that DVD and what would that
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Marc Preston: album be?
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Tommy Chong: Okay, the album would be kind of blue by
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Tommy Chong: tear by tyranny Sutton.
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Tommy Chong: That's, that's my album.
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Tommy Chong: The movie would be badlands by Terrence
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Tommy Chong: Malek.
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Tommy Chong: Terrence Malek and Martin Sheen.
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Tommy Chong: That, that's a movie.
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Marc Preston: That's going back right there.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, what a great actor, martin Sheen.
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Announcer: Everything is in.
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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to define a perfect day?
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Marc Preston: You know, stem to stern, from time you get
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Marc Preston: up, to time you put your head on the pillow.
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Marc Preston: You know what are the component parts of
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Marc Preston: just a killer day for you.
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Tommy Chong: Oh killer day, I guess.
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Tommy Chong: Finishing Something that I've always meant
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Tommy Chong: to do but never got around to doing it
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Tommy Chong: Rearranging my garage.
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Marc Preston: It's a small things like that yeah.
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Tommy Chong: That would that would be a killer day.
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Tommy Chong: I started it.
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Tommy Chong: I started it and I'm part way there, but,
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Tommy Chong: but I got to finish it.
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Tommy Chong: I got a thing I'm a professional
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Tommy Chong: procrastinator.
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Marc Preston: And it's time for the May meeting of the
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Marc Preston: professional procrastinators association.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, we're gonna put it off till next
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Tommy Chong: month.
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Tommy Chong: Now, if you weren't, if you?
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Marc Preston: weren't doing this for a living, if you
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Marc Preston: weren't Acting, doing comedy, doing, you
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Marc Preston: know, being an, at being a cannabis
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Marc Preston: advocate.
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Marc Preston: What would your vocation be?
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Marc Preston: I would like to be a teacher.
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Tommy Chong: A teacher to see a philosophy.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, a philosophy teacher.
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Marc Preston: Very good, I think you definitely, you
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Marc Preston: definitely have the street cred for it,
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Marc Preston: without a doubt, I think you, I think
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Marc Preston: you're still, in a way, I think you've
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Marc Preston: already been doing that.
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Marc Preston: You know.
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Marc Preston: No, I have, I have.
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Tommy Chong: I've been writing too.
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Tommy Chong: I write down a lot of Philosophy.
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Tommy Chong: I was very lucky I got turned on to the
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Tommy Chong: spiritual world by a jazz musician Many,
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Tommy Chong: many, many, many years ago, and I have Yet.
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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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Tommy Chong: No, I guess it's in the other room.
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Tommy Chong: But yeah, I'm, I'm on that road yeah.
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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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Marc Preston: I said when I used to work on I worked on
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Marc Preston: the radio briefly in LA and I lived in San
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Marc Preston: Diego and in San Diego and in San I was
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Marc Preston: driving.
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Marc Preston: I would always drive.
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Marc Preston: I go get my shake at the In-N-Out Burger
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Marc Preston: Drive South, head back to San Diego and
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Marc Preston: listen Alan Watts on.
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Marc Preston: There was a radio Pacifica or something
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Marc Preston: like that.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, now, last question now, if you, we
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Marc Preston: could jump into a DeLorean and you could go
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Marc Preston: back in time, got a couple minutes with 16
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Marc Preston: year old Tommy Chaw, what piece of advice
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Marc Preston: would you want to give yourself to get you
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Marc Preston: on a better road?
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Marc Preston: Maybe bring more joy to your life in that
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Marc Preston: moment, just what piece of advice do you
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Marc Preston: think would be essential to share with 16
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Marc Preston: year old you?
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, I don't know.
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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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Marc Preston: somebody's because, I mean, there are going
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Marc Preston: to be people listening that are going to
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Marc Preston: want to know the answer to that question
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Marc Preston: and I feel like if I don't ask it, then you
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Marc Preston: know.
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Marc Preston: But who is that person and what's that
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Marc Preston: strain?
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Tommy Chong: Well, it's a.
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Tommy Chong: It was a guy that I, that I almost smoked
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Tommy Chong: with, but he was having immigration
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Tommy Chong: problems at the time.
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Tommy Chong: I walked into a room one time to light up a
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Tommy Chong: joint, which I did.
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Tommy Chong: I lit up this beautiful Mexican sativa, I
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Tommy Chong: guess it was, and it was pretty stinky and
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Tommy Chong: I'm smoking.
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Tommy Chong: I look down and there's John Lennon sitting
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Tommy Chong: on the floor and I looked at the joint to
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Tommy Chong: see am I hallucinating?
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Tommy Chong: That's John Lennon, and it was John Lennon.
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Tommy Chong: And so I walked over and I handed him the
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Tommy Chong: joint and he refused it.
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Tommy Chong: He goes I'm sorry, Nate, can't do it, you
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Tommy Chong: can't do it, I've got immigration problems.
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Tommy Chong: I would love to go back in that time and
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Tommy Chong: tell John John, forget the immigration,
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Tommy Chong: smoke, smoke this shit.
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Marc Preston: Oh God.
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Marc Preston: I can't even, I can't even imagine what
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Marc Preston: that would have been like.
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Marc Preston: But yeah, you know, and hey, feel free to
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Marc Preston: promote man.
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Marc Preston: I mean, you know, what do you think is the
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Marc Preston: strain that your favorite tire top strain?
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Marc Preston: And you've got your own line out now, don't
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Marc Preston: you?
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Tommy Chong: We do Cheech and Chong we got.
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Tommy Chong: Cheech and Chong pot we got Tommy Chong pot
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Tommy Chong: we got.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, my favorite thing really is the these
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Tommy Chong: CBD nice strain just helps you sleep.
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Tommy Chong: But advice, they say, put it down to your
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Tommy Chong: tongue.
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Tommy Chong: I don't.
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Tommy Chong: It kind of messes with my teeth somehow.
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Tommy Chong: The only thing I would say is put it right
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Tommy Chong: down the throat.
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Tommy Chong: You know, don't mess with under the tongue.
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Tommy Chong: It works.
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Marc Preston: What's the name of it?
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Tommy Chong: again it's a CBD, but it's called nice
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Tommy Chong: dreams, nice dreams, tommy Chong's nice
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Tommy Chong: dreams.
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Marc Preston: I am going to try and find some of that
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Marc Preston: down this way.
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Tommy Chong: Walmart was carrying somewhere.
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Tommy Chong: You know, that's how popular they are.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, it's a Tommy Chong CBD product and
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Tommy Chong: you can go online too.
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Tommy Chong: I think it's hate Tommy Chong or something,
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Tommy Chong: but Tommy Chong CBD, you'll find it.
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Marc Preston: Very good.
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Marc Preston: And what strain?
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Marc Preston: What strain are you recommending right now,
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Marc Preston: as as?
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Tommy Chong: a.
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Tommy Chong: Well, there's a.
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Tommy Chong: We got a strain called Labrador.
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Tommy Chong: It was from our, one of our bits.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, what kind of what am I smoking?
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Tommy Chong: Oh, labrador man, my dog.
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Marc Preston: I can't remember that.
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Tommy Chong: Yeah, so we got a strain called Labrador.
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Marc Preston: Oh, wasn't it because the dog pooped or
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Marc Preston: something and the weed was in the poop.
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Tommy Chong: No, the dog ate my stash.
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Tommy Chong: It took me a.
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Tommy Chong: I had to follow him around for a month
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Tommy Chong: before I got it back.
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Tommy Chong: Oh man.
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Marc Preston: Well, tommy man, thank you, this has been a
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Marc Preston: this.
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Marc Preston: I know my, my 13 year old self is going
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Marc Preston: dude.
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Marc Preston: This is awesome.
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Marc Preston: You know, it's such a pleasure to sit down
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Marc Preston: with you.
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Tommy Chong: I'm glad.
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Marc Preston: Give, give Paris a hug for me.
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Marc Preston: What a, what a man she is and I I will.
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Marc Preston: My friend, you have a great, have yourself
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Marc Preston: a great rest your weekend, weekend and I,
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Marc Preston: hopefully we'll catch up down the line.
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Tommy Chong: I really enjoyed talking to you, dude.
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Marc Preston: Well, there you go, Tommy Chong, a legend
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Marc Preston: and a really cool guy to sit down and talk
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Marc Preston: story with.
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Marc Preston: What a what?
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Marc Preston: a really cool career he's had and some cool
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Marc Preston: insights, some some things I didn't even
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Marc Preston: know about teaching Chong and kind of how
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Marc Preston: that came together.
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Marc Preston: And I tell you this was fun for me and my
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Marc Preston: inner 13 year old self.
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Marc Preston: Hopefully it was a lot of fun for you as
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Marc Preston: well.
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Marc Preston: Thank you very much again.
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Marc Preston: I want to extend my warmest, fuzziest, big,
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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 Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography about the exploits of the infamous duo’s smoke-filled world. This book serves as a follow-up to his New York Times Best-Seller The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint which chronicles Chong’s arrest for shipping bongs across the country as well as his days in jail and the humorous encounters of his 9 month prison stint. Earlier this year, the highly anticipated, award winning documentary A/K/A Tommy Chong was released worldwide. The documentary features the journey that Chong took after a fully armed SWAT team raided the comedian’s home in February of 2003. Tommy Chong was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute drug paraphernalia through “Chong Glass,” a family business specializing in handmade glass water pipes, or “bongs.” Making history this year, Tommy Chong reunited with his old comedy partner, Richard “Cheech” Marin to announce their first tour in over 25 years with Shelby Chong opening the show. The “Cheech & Chong: Light Up America & Canada” tour has proven to be one of the most successful comedy tours of the year, selling out multiple shows from coast to coast.