June 30, 2012 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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| Don't forget to turn your volume off, meow. | ||
| That meow means we're going? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay, my volume's totally off. | ||
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Shh! | |
| Everybody settle down. | ||
| Settle down. | ||
| There's no way to say the same shit every goddamn time and not get bored with it. | ||
| I wish I had something new to say about the fleshlight, but I don't. | ||
| You know what it is. | ||
| What the fuck is that, Brian? | ||
| Oh, that's somebody from Sinister Props. | ||
| Our friend over there sent us another thing today. | ||
| Wow, that is dope. | ||
| And that's the same guy that made the Exorcist one? | ||
| Yep, Exorcist one. | ||
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This is a zombie Hitler. | |
| Well, it's Nazis. | ||
| He's not allowed to sell it with a mustache for legal reasons, so I have to put something on there. | ||
| He can't sell dummies with a mustache? | ||
| I'm just joking. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's Hitler without a mustache? | ||
| He could just be a random Nazi dude. | ||
| Like some other scary Nazi dude. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then he moves. | ||
| He does this creepy thing when it's hung upright where he just moves down and moves up. | ||
| It's kind of weird. | ||
| And his eyes turn on and off. | ||
| Yeah, that would be the worst. | ||
| A Nazi zombie. | ||
| Like, it was a cunt in life. | ||
| You know, what is it going to be like in death? | ||
| You know, a Nazi's easier than the cuntiest humans have ever lived, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If someone's being a cunt, what do you say to them? | ||
| What are you, a fucking Nazi? | ||
| You say that. | ||
| Like, that is the thing that you say when someone's just an utter cunt. | ||
| And that, along with being... | ||
| The only thing that could be worse is if they were gay. | ||
| Rapist. | ||
| Zombies. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Not just gay. | ||
| Just gay rapists. | ||
| There's nothing wrong with being gay. | ||
| I mean, it would probably be your best quality if you're a zombie and a Nazi. | ||
| And gay. | ||
| You'd be like, well, gay is the only part that's not even a problem. | ||
| But, if it was a rapist zombie and it was gay, that would be like the worst. | ||
| If it was a Nazi rapist, like if it fucked you and just said horrible anti-Semitic shit to you. | ||
| Well, that's why you better obey the first rule of Zombieland. | ||
| What is the first rule of Zombieland? | ||
| Cardio. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That movie. | ||
| If you're a fatty, you're going to get hit by one of those guys first. | ||
| Yeah, that was a smart movie. | ||
| That was a great movie. | ||
| That was a fun movie. | ||
| Somebody told me to see it. | ||
| I was like, come on, man. | ||
| I can't see another zombie movie. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| I just don't have the interest. | ||
| I know whoever I'm watching in the beginning is going to be there at the end. | ||
| They might lose a few friends along the way. | ||
| Blah, blah, blah. | ||
| I can't watch it. | ||
| They usually lose a few of the douchey ones, right? | ||
| They get wiped out. | ||
| Of course, yeah. | ||
| As soon as someone shows any unfavorable characteristics, you know, there's zombie bait. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But that was a great example of what is still possible with the genre. | ||
| No, I brought the wife to that one, and she normally would never go to see that shit. | ||
| And she actually, by the end, was like, that was actually not bad. | ||
| Yeah, that was a good movie. | ||
| That was fun. | ||
| You know what wasn't a good movie? | ||
| Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. | ||
| Oh, Jesus. | ||
| Well, thank you for saving the money of going. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| It was fun for a little while. | ||
| It was fun for, like, the first hour. | ||
| And then I was like, okay. | ||
| This shit's just getting ridiculous, man. | ||
| Once he started going through history and fighting... | ||
| Okay, come on. | ||
| Just silly. | ||
| This is fucking commercials. | ||
| We haven't even gotten to the podcast, Adam Scorgy. | ||
| I'm really stoned. | ||
| Yeah, you might be. | ||
| The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast. | ||
| As I was saying before, I got so rudely interrupted with my own shenanigans. | ||
| We are brought to you by The Fleshlight. | ||
| If you go to JoeRogan.net, click on the link for The Fleshlight, enter in the code name ROGAN, you will save yourself 15% off the number one sex toy for men. | ||
| Oh, people have been asking us, are we sponsored by Alienware? | ||
| There was a thread where people were saying that you say you only have two sponsors, but it seems like you have three now. | ||
| Alienware is not our sponsor. | ||
| Alienware hooked us up and our sponsor is Sucker Punch Entertainment. | ||
| So the story behind it is I wanted to switch to Alienware computers because Because Alienware computers are supporting a lot of MMA fighters. | ||
| There's a lot of guys that are getting sponsored by Alienware. | ||
| And I think that's awesome that a huge company like Dell has the balls to do something like that. | ||
| And so I looked for a way to do a deal with Alienware computers. | ||
| But the way we're doing it is I'm doing a deal through Sucker Punch Entertainment. | ||
| So that is the answer to that question. | ||
| And it's primarily to support a company that supports MMA fighters. | ||
| And I think that's a good thing for all of us. | ||
| And if it takes me an extra 15 seconds on a podcast to do that, I would like to do that. | ||
| Because I think it's one of the coolest things that we can do as consumers is support companies that support the things that we enjoy, the things that we like. | ||
| Especially companies that take a chance on MMA, which of course is a very big passion of mine. | ||
| So, that's the answer to that question. | ||
| We are also sponsored by Onnit. | ||
| Onnit.com. | ||
| If you go there, you can check out the new kettlebells that we have in. | ||
| We just got them. | ||
| They're fucking awesome. | ||
| They're the best kettlebells you can buy. | ||
| These York kettlebells, they're the shit. | ||
| They're really badass. | ||
| And they're heavy as fuck. | ||
| So you have to send these things through the mail. | ||
| The whole thing is a very cuntified process. | ||
| I mean, if you can't imagine, you're sending cannonballs, essentially, cast iron cannonballs through the mail. | ||
| I mean, it so sucks for the UPS lady. | ||
| I mean, it's fucking, you get one of those... | ||
| They must spill up the ass for that, too. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, it's brutal. | ||
| But... | ||
| They're the best we can sell at the lowest price we can sell. | ||
| You get them and they last for the rest of your life. | ||
| And I swear, you don't need anything else to get a workout. | ||
| My best workouts, I use a chin-up bar and three kettlebells. | ||
| I don't need to do anything else. | ||
| I can do everything with these fucking things. | ||
| And when you do kettlebells, you get like a functional strength that I never felt that I got from regular lifting. | ||
| From regular lifting, like when you isolate things, like isolate triceps and isolate biceps, a lot of times that can lead to injury, especially bicep tears. | ||
| Happens on a lot of guys who used to do a lot of curls because you stress out the muscle from that weightlifting like that, you know, the isolating one particular muscle. | ||
| It's an unnatural thing to do. | ||
| And then when you go and box and actually use your arms, that's where guys were blowing out their biceps tendon. | ||
| Well, I had not my bicep, but my shoulders have clicked the last. | ||
| Because for a while, when I was in New York, and I had started my career in modeling, then went to film school, You sexy bitch. | ||
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No, no. | |
| You sexy bitch! | ||
| I'm a fat dad now, but... | ||
| How dare you. | ||
| I did a lot of just, you know, training just to make the physique look good, and then went back to boxing, because I used to box when I was younger. | ||
| I was like a Western Canadian champ when I was younger, but... | ||
| So now my shoulders would click, right? | ||
| I had to go get prolotherapy. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Have you heard about that? | ||
| Yeah, I've had that. | ||
| I've had that on my wrist. | ||
| Did it work good for you? | ||
| It worked great. | ||
| It worked fantastic for me. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Yeah, that's considered like... | ||
| If you don't... | ||
| Yeah, folks, if you don't know what it is... | ||
| Well, is it considered hogwash? | ||
| Is that what you were saying? | ||
| Well, every time I mention... | ||
| Like, my naturopath is a good buddy of mine from high school. | ||
| And I'll mention him to regular doctors. | ||
| He'll be like, oh, my naturopath said this. | ||
| And my real doctor will stop right and be like, you shouldn't listen to what they have to say. | ||
| Yeah, that is a tricky thing, right? | ||
| Like, doctors don't want to listen to any herbal talk. | ||
| Like, show your herbal hole, natural physician, or whatever the fuck you're calling yourself. | ||
| You know, because there's too much of it that is just fuckery. | ||
| That's why. | ||
| You know, a lot of it might be legit. | ||
| There's probably a lot in herbal medicine that is legit. | ||
| There's a lot of fuckery going on with that, too, though. | ||
| No, man, they... | ||
| Naturopaths, what? | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| Come on, son. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| It seems like it should be an honorable occupation. | ||
| Get people to live their life in a healthy way and eat healthy vitamins and take healthy nutrients. | ||
| That's what my buddy told me. | ||
| He said, you know, when you go that way... | ||
| You have to come halfway. | ||
| Half of it is you living right, eating right, looking after yourself. | ||
| But my naturopath also does prescriptions. | ||
| When you get sick, you need an antibiotic. | ||
| I try to make it so your body doesn't get there. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, that is smart, right? | ||
| But why does it seem like fuckery? | ||
| When you bring it up, I mean, I'm trying so hard to not be judgmental. | ||
| But if someone says naturopath, I'm like, okay, maybe he's one of the good guys. | ||
| I mean, it's like anything else. | ||
| When you get into astrology or any time you go down weird streets, There's just too many people that are shitting in the alleys. | ||
| I'm sure a few people down Weird Street have a point. | ||
| I'm not saying they don't. | ||
| I'm definitely not saying they don't. | ||
| But goddamn, a lot of them seem to... | ||
| It seems to be crazy. | ||
| Yeah, and then they ruin it for all of them. | ||
| They ruin it for everybody else. | ||
| But you had the prolo done. | ||
| I mean, I had it done on my shoulders. | ||
| I would just pick up a milk jug out of the fridge quick, and it'd slip a little bit, right? | ||
| For people who don't know what prolotherapy is, if you have ligament problems, a lot of people recommend this thing called prolotherapy, which they inject like a glucose solution directly into your ligaments and your tendons. | ||
| And it actually forces them to swell and grow, and they strengthen by as much as 30 to 40%. | ||
| I'm pretty sure that's been proven. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, and the way that it started, my naturopath was telling me that the way that he... | ||
| That got into is in the United States when you'd have to go, you get approved for insurance to go get shoulder surgery and they estimated 60 grand. | ||
| They would try to put you on the prolo first. | ||
| They're like, well, this is only five grand, so why don't we try the prolo therapy first? | ||
| Then if that doesn't work, then we'll book you in. | ||
| It works for a lot of people. | ||
| Some of the mistakes in the industry can actually turn out to have positives in other ways. | ||
| I'm not saying for everybody, there's not... | ||
| The way he put it to me, it made so much sense. | ||
| He said, listen, Adam, he's like, before you go get surgery, and they hack and chop, and they take stuff out that you can't get back, try my process. | ||
| He's like, I've had former NHL players and stuff that have had it done, have had wicked, wicked results. | ||
| If mine doesn't work, then go get your shoulder chopped. | ||
| Well, what exactly was wrong with your shoulder? | ||
| Should we get out of these commercials real quick? | ||
| Yeah, these commercials are fucking gigantic. | ||
| This is still a commercial. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Is it really a commercial? | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| It's a fucking show. | ||
| And in the show, this is the beginning part. | ||
| And in the beginning part, we do commercials. | ||
| But sometimes we talk, too. | ||
| It's okay. | ||
| It doesn't... | ||
| For the serious. | ||
| It takes it out of serious. | ||
| Well, this would be just the internet's mystery. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Onit.com. | ||
| Kettlebells. | ||
| They're awesome. | ||
| My point before all that was just that isolating muscle groups is kind of an unnatural thing. | ||
| And the natural way to work out with weights is to use your whole body. | ||
| And that's the benefit of kettlebells. | ||
| The exercises allow you to use your momentum and explosive energy. | ||
| It's all like... | ||
| You know, they're like real power lifting exercises like cleans and snatches. | ||
| Did he say snatches? | ||
| Yes, I did. | ||
| Squats and alternating cleans. | ||
| There's so many badass Turkish get-ups. | ||
| There's so many badass exercises you can do with kettlebells. | ||
| And go check them out. | ||
| They're for sale on it.com. | ||
| O-N-N-I-T. Also, get yourself some Alpha Brain or you'll sound stupid. | ||
| That's my new approach. | ||
| What's alpha brain? | ||
| I found out that you didn't give me the new alpha brain, Joe. | ||
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I thought I did. | |
| The new one has a sticker on it that says, now with something else. | ||
| I might not have that yet. | ||
| Do you guys have any of that here? | ||
| Not on me. | ||
| Brett tried it. | ||
| I think I have some in my car. | ||
| Brett tried it and said he loved it for his writing. | ||
| He liked it. | ||
| It's legit. | ||
| Look, it's very controversial. | ||
| I can't talk about this any other way other than this way. | ||
| So even though it sounds very repetitive, some people, this might be the first podcast they've ever heard. | ||
| So please forgive me. | ||
| But what they are is nutrients that have been shown to have a positive effect on your brain's ability to produce neurotransmitters. | ||
| Your brain's ability to work in a smooth fashion. | ||
| What are those? | ||
| You want some gummy bears? | ||
| No! | ||
| Those are scary as fuck. | ||
| I know what those are. | ||
| Those are those dangerous gummy bears. | ||
| Be careful, Adam Scorgy. | ||
| Yeah, don't throw those over here. | ||
| If you have any questions about the nutrients or anything, the research on the nutrients, if you go to Onnit.com, all the information is up online. | ||
| It's all explained in as scientific a manner as we are capable of doing. | ||
| If you try it and you don't like it, we have a 100% money back guarantee on your first order of 30 pills. | ||
| You know, just say this wasn't for me. | ||
| You don't even have to return the product. | ||
| You get your money back. | ||
| We just don't want anybody to feel ripped off, but it's good shit, and I use it. | ||
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| Get yourself some brain pills, you dirty bitches. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Adam Skorgy's here, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
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get down to business Joe Rogan Podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan Podcast by night all day yo - Whoa. | |
| What's going on? | ||
| People are getting mad at me for my fucking commercials. | ||
| What, man? | ||
| I like the way you do your commercials because they actually get into it. | ||
| Listening to your podcast, I'll get lost in your career. | ||
| I'm like, oh shit, they're still in a commercial. | ||
| They've got to bring it back yet. | ||
| I'm not very professional, but it is what it is, folks. | ||
| I think it's a better way of doing it. | ||
| Let it fucking fly. | ||
| Who gives a shit? | ||
| I think it's a better way of doing it. | ||
| Yes, I agree. | ||
| Holla! | ||
| Adam Skorgy, ladies and gentlemen, my friend from another country. | ||
| Yeah, well, not too far. | ||
| He's from up north. | ||
| Our cousin to the north. | ||
| Is that what we are? | ||
| Are we brothers and sisters or are we cousins? | ||
| Because that's fucked up. | ||
| We live right next door. | ||
| We can't be brothers and sisters. | ||
| I think we've got to be brothers and sisters. | ||
| Then you've got to let the Mexicans in, too. | ||
| That means... | ||
| Hey, you know what? | ||
| Honestly, without... | ||
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Without how hard I have to work on my yard, we'd welcome... | |
| I'm not trying to be... | ||
| Oh, how rude. | ||
| How dare you. | ||
| How dare you suggest that Mexicans work on yards? | ||
| Man, the ones down from my parents in Texas, they do a magical job, and they're $40 a week. | ||
| They cut out sod and replace it. | ||
| You couldn't get someone to do what they do for $500 a week. | ||
| Yeah, that's a lot of fucking work, man. | ||
| Being a gardener? | ||
| Goddamn. | ||
| Think of how hard it is to be a goddamn gardener. | ||
| That shit's brutal. | ||
| Digging ditches all day out in LA. Holy shit, man. | ||
| LA is kind of a crazy place to live, if you really stop and think about it. | ||
| We've got a lot of people here, and there's no fucking water. | ||
| We have to steal the water from the Colorado River. | ||
| We call our thing the LA River. | ||
| That is the most hilarious river ever. | ||
| It is like the perfect example of what's wrong with LA. It's cement. | ||
| The LA River literally is a cement tube, and they call it the LA River. | ||
| Like, that is not a fucking river! | ||
| You assholes! | ||
| That's a fake river! | ||
| And you know, you guys get power from Canada, actually, from dams not far from where I live. | ||
| We steal it or do we buy it? | ||
| No, we buy it. | ||
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We steal it. | |
| Dangerous weapons in Canada next. | ||
| How do you guys make the power? | ||
| Through big hydroelectric dams in the mountains. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So then you sell it to the United States? | ||
| What parts of the United States? | ||
| California is one. | ||
| We brought it up in the Union. | ||
| Remember, Mayor of Vancouver, Larry Campbell, he says, he's like, I don't think the trades would stop. | ||
| He's like, do you want L.A. in the dark and thirsty? | ||
| Because we ship water, too, right? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So, that's incredible. | ||
| So, the dams make so much electricity that you can power LA? Yeah. | ||
| Well, I don't think it powers the whole... | ||
| I don't even know how they ship it or how it works, but we sell it. | ||
| Do you even understand electricity? | ||
| Yeah, I... No, I don't. | ||
| Do you even... | ||
| I do know that this... | ||
| Because I don't... | ||
| Yeah, I have no idea how they save it in turbines. | ||
| It's a mindfuck. | ||
| It's a mindfuck. | ||
| Our fucking houses are, at every moment... | ||
| Electrocuted. | ||
| There's fucking cords, and if you lick them, your head would explode. | ||
| It's just shooting this shit that powers up TVs and air conditioning. | ||
| You don't even think about it. | ||
| You just plug in. | ||
| You're plugging into the nuttiest fucking thing you could ever possibly imagine. | ||
| Some sort of an electrical pulse, an electrical field, an electrical... | ||
| There's a wire, and it's connected to Somehow down the river, there's a fucking nuclear explosion. | ||
| It's connected to a fucking nuclear power plant and it's in your house. | ||
| There's a direct line from that thing down to some fucking sun in the middle of downtown San Diego, wherever the fuck that power plant is. | ||
| Man, you always get people thinking deep. | ||
| Dude, that's a terrifying thought. | ||
| Well, I was trying to think, how do they ship it? | ||
| How do you store it? | ||
| Do you put it in a can? | ||
| Obviously, it has to come through a line that then goes through it. | ||
| I didn't even understand it a little tiny bit. | ||
| There was a girl in the Starbucks the other day, and I was getting my coffee, and she was talking to her boyfriend, and she was like, what if it was fucking total chaos, like if the power never came back on? | ||
| And I was like, wow, isn't that incredible that what we think of as total chaos is the grid? | ||
| That if we lost this crazy thing that we've constructed, there's no way we could live without it. | ||
| That's a weird fucking combination of human and machine and technology and relying on it all, all the time, and just being terrified of the idea of being forced to live off the land, use tools, catch your food. | ||
| Like you said, it is Skynet. | ||
| Isn't that crazy? | ||
| What a weird thing that we've become that we haven't even noticed. | ||
| It sort of snuck up on us and we became like a hybrid. | ||
| We're like part people and fucking part technology. | ||
| We're constantly on the tit of technology. | ||
| All day. | ||
| Paul Day. | ||
| All fucking day. | ||
| How do you do it with your... | ||
| Joe, you're pretty good with your Twitter getting back to everybody. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| I can't get back to everybody. | ||
| It's impossible. | ||
| I mean, I would get nothing done. | ||
| If I did, I would like... | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I mean, I try to. | ||
| I get back to people occasionally. | ||
| But I can't commit to doing it to everybody. | ||
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It's just impossible. | |
| But I think you do a pretty good job. | ||
| I'm always able to hit you up there and you get back to me. | ||
| I think you do a pretty good job. | ||
| I mean, I'm looking at mine. | ||
| I only have like 11,000 followers. | ||
| And I'm finding it hard to just try to be... | ||
| It can get pretty nutty. | ||
| I wonder how a dude like Justin Timberlake rocks it. | ||
| I think they just have guys run it. | ||
| That's so sad. | ||
| That's what I don't like. | ||
| People like that, it just seems like it's their generic tweet where they're like, my show is here, I'm playing here, tickets hit. | ||
| There's none of them just saying, oh shit, I just saw the craze. | ||
| You're like, okay, that's just someone running it on a generic program. | ||
| It's not them anymore. | ||
| Well, I think they just give it, they hand it over to the publicists. | ||
| Some people do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, that's unfortunate. | ||
| You know, because I like Kevin Smith's tweets. | ||
| I know Kevin Smith's writing those tweets. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like Jim Norton. | ||
| I love Jim Norton's tweets. | ||
| I know he's writing them. | ||
| No, and that's the same. | ||
| I'd stop following the people that I don't think is writing them when it's just these great quotes all the time and stuff like Will Smith's quotes every day. | ||
| And I'm like, okay, like, that's, I think, Joe, I think that's, I was talking to Brian earlier, like, the community you guys built is because you guys are, like, interactively and you do do it yourself. | ||
| You're not having a publicist, like, checking everything you tweet and saying, shouldn't do this and shouldn't, and doing it for you. | ||
| But we should all totally have that. | ||
| It's really dumb that I don't, I do the things I do. | ||
| Brian wants an intervention. | ||
| Someone save me from myself. | ||
| Well, maybe I missed it, but you haven't done a tweet that's so bad. | ||
| No, look, we're nice people. | ||
| No, I'm fast deleting. | ||
| The bottom line is that we're nice people. | ||
| You've got to be a nice person, man. | ||
| Life can throw you some situations that could go one way if you choose to be a nice person or it could go horribly wrong if you choose to be a douchebag or choose to... | ||
| Be weird about it or not be considerate about another person's feelings. | ||
| It's these little moments where we decide who we are. | ||
| It happens. | ||
| You can go down the wrong road. | ||
| It doesn't mean you're a bad person. | ||
| You made a mistake. | ||
| You might have overreacted. | ||
| You might have been stressed out about something. | ||
| Doesn't mean you still can't be a good person. | ||
| You just gotta reset and realize you're not the past. | ||
| You're not all your fuck-ups. | ||
| You're what you've learned. | ||
| You're now. | ||
| You're the you now that gets it. | ||
| So move forward. | ||
| Move forward and let that shit go. | ||
| Well, I have to bring it up for the people listening, Joe. | ||
| I mean, how cool you were when we first came to do The Union, right? | ||
| Todd called you. | ||
| We needed someone that we knew. | ||
| We needed someone that knew the subject matter that was a celebrity punch. | ||
| And, you know, three guys from Canada. | ||
| You said, yeah, no problem. | ||
| We come to your house. | ||
| I mean, still people are like, what was the first time you met Joe? | ||
| I was like, we came to the house and he's like, how long to set up the lighting? | ||
| And we're like, oh, 20 minutes. | ||
| He's like, oh, the kitchen's over there and I'll be right back. | ||
| I'm just going on my computer. | ||
| And I was like, man, we're just three random guys from Canada and you're... | ||
| Todd is a very good friend. | ||
| He's done a lot for the whole legalization process. | ||
| I shouldn't even say that. | ||
| I should say the awareness process. | ||
| He's got a great book on how to grow hemp. | ||
| He's a brilliant guy when it comes to the history of it. | ||
| And it's helped him personally through cancer. | ||
| So he's very passionate about it. | ||
| So when he brought it up to me, I was just like, okay, let's do it. | ||
| It was awesome, man. | ||
| Because, I mean, you're the number one asked-for guy to interview for the next one. | ||
| Like, that's how everyone's like, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe. | ||
| Oh, that's cool. | ||
| I was like, I'll talk to him. | ||
| I was like, they're like, you gotta have him. | ||
| And, I mean, Joe, I mean, I had to watch the film 1,000 times, but when I'd go to, like, sold-out theaters, and every time you're thinking, like, I could count. | ||
| We knew the spots where people would laugh. | ||
| We're like, okay, cheeseburger thing coming up here. | ||
| Let's nerf the world. | ||
| And I'd just literally go to the person I watched and crowd will laugh now. | ||
| And they would every time, man. | ||
| It was... | ||
| To see that reaction. | ||
| And when we did the union, it came out. | ||
| I don't think a lot of people had seen you in that context. | ||
| They knew you was a UFC guy. | ||
| Not a lot of people knew you from news radio unless they were a diehard fan. | ||
| And then they knew you from Fear Factor. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So they didn't see it. | ||
| Because I remember a lot of people were like, Fear Factor guy? | ||
| Smokes weed? | ||
| They were so shocked when you said that. | ||
| In the opening part we have you saying, I realized when I was 30 years old that I'd be fucking tricked. | ||
| You've got to be fucking kidding me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's really what it is. | ||
| I was just being honest about it. | ||
| I didn't think doing it was anything other than what I had to do. | ||
| When you know something about something, like when you have an experience, especially an experience about something that has such a tainted name like marijuana, you're just like, Oh, marijuana. | ||
| What is he, a loser? | ||
| Just listless and no spine and no motivation. | ||
| It's just got this terrible connotation and connection to it. | ||
| And I bought it hook, line, and sinker until I was 30 years old and Eddie Bravo got me high. | ||
| Yeah, I remember when you brought Eddie over that day the first time we met. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I was the same way when we did the union. | ||
| I think that's why the union turned out so good, is that we weren't activists or anything in the beginning. | ||
| Yeah, you weren't a pot smoker at all, and that's what I tell people. | ||
| They're like, oh, what is he like? | ||
| Is he a stoner? | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
| No, he's like a clean-cut, Kirk-looking Barbie motherfucker. | ||
|
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What's his name? | |
| Ken. | ||
| That's the guy. | ||
| Well, thanks. | ||
| I'll tell you. | ||
| You're like a Ken. | ||
| You're like a Ken, though. | ||
| Why am I saying Kirk? | ||
| Kirk? | ||
| Kirk. | ||
| I don't know where I got Kirk from. | ||
| Has there been a black Barbie guy yet? | ||
| There should be. | ||
| What the fuck, man? | ||
| Has there? | ||
| They're scared. | ||
| White people are so scared. | ||
|
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So scared of a black man. | |
| Has to be. | ||
| I bet there probably have. | ||
| I mean, there must be. | ||
| Ken must have a friend. | ||
| I bet he has really white features, though. | ||
| Let's see what his features look like. | ||
| I don't know if there's any black men. | ||
| I think I remember some of the black Barbie friends, but I mean, there wasn't my toy by choice. | ||
| Black Barbie? | ||
| They must have black Barbie. | ||
| Yeah, they do, and it's No, it looks pretty creepy. | ||
| Now, how does that work? | ||
| I mean, that's pretty creepy. | ||
| Oh, shit. | ||
| That's like Tyrese. | ||
| No, or Tyson Beckford. | ||
| Yeah, that's a handsome black man. | ||
| Look, you just gotta accept that. | ||
| If that girl meets that guy, he's gonna fuck her. | ||
| That's a representative in doll form of what would really happen. | ||
| Look at his body. | ||
| He's a super athlete. | ||
| I wonder if the white guy's got a body like that. | ||
| Pull up a white pen. | ||
| See if they only gave the black guy a body like that, because that would be hilarious. | ||
| Because if that was a human being... | ||
| I think that one's just a spoof one that someone made. | ||
| Oh, stop, stop, stop. | ||
| It's real, it's real. | ||
| It's real, man. | ||
|
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That's Brian fucking with you. | |
| You son of a bitch! | ||
| You son of a bitch, Brian! | ||
| That's a Tyson Bexford. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize. | ||
| I've been trolled. | ||
| He got me. | ||
| Brian, that was pretty good. | ||
| Son of a bitch. | ||
| Are boys supposed to have the Ken doll? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Or girls buy the boy doll? | ||
| I thought they tried to sell it as that, but I don't think it ever... | ||
| I don't think it was. | ||
| I think it never was for guys at all. | ||
| A few dudes must have bought it and been like, what the fuck did I do? | ||
| I did G.I. Joe fucking Barbie in the hot tub. | ||
| I was going to say, every time I go over to my cousins and there'd be Barbie and Ken, I'd strip them down and put them in a sexual position. | ||
| I was like seven, so you only knew missionary, right? | ||
| You'd just always be a guy on top. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Barbie. | ||
| Ken. | ||
| I would buy Hulk dolls and shit like that. | ||
| Why is that any better? | ||
| Why is that any better than Ken? | ||
| It's the Hulk. | ||
| UN saw Avengers. | ||
| All good was Avengers. | ||
| If you had a Ken doll, that's how you'd get into the Barbie party. | ||
| If all those little girls are hanging out and partying, you want to party with them, you've got to get a Ken doll. | ||
| It's like your car. | ||
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It's like your vehicle for getting into the little girl party. | |
| I would have tried more of the approach of just Hulk smash his way in there. | ||
| Oh, that's what you do? | ||
| You can't do that when you're 12, man. | ||
| I just don't think I would have been that slick to think about the hook line to get into the place. | ||
| Actually, that's ridiculous because 12-year-old boys are not playing Barbie. | ||
| I wouldn't have been that slick, right? | ||
| They usually still insult each other when they like each other at that age. | ||
| Yeah, but I'm just saying 12 years old is way too old. | ||
| They gave up on Barbie. | ||
| I think kids give up on Barbie real early. | ||
| Especially now with technology. | ||
| So any boy who buys a Barbie doll is probably just being tricked if he buys a Ken doll. | ||
| He's been tricked by marketers. | ||
| I think he's only been tricked. | ||
| Marketers have got him. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| I mean, I collected G.I. Joe's, Masters of the Year. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| I had all those. | ||
| I had all the Marvel superheroes. | ||
| I had all them, too. | ||
| I was a big Wolverine junkie. | ||
| I had his first 50 comics. | ||
| Yeah, men are dorks. | ||
| Somewhere along the line, though, you feel real guilty about that. | ||
| I got rid of my comic book collection when I was poor, and I needed money. | ||
| I sold my entire comic book collection. | ||
| It was just one of those desperation, I need food moves. | ||
| And there was a part of me that was like, this is good because you really have to grow up. | ||
| Like, what are you doing reading comic books? | ||
| You're in your 20s now, and you're struggling out here. | ||
| You can barely feed yourself. | ||
| You're rolling nickels to eat, you know, like finding change in your house. | ||
| Get rid of the comic book, bitch. | ||
| Then once I got rid of them, I'm like, man... | ||
| Did you guys ever experiment with Visionaries? | ||
| Excuse me? | ||
| The toy, it was like right after G.I. Joe, and they were like a beefier G.I. Joe, but they had like holograms all over them, like a hologram of a wolf, and it looked pretty sweet. | ||
| I have no idea what that is. | ||
| I've never even heard of it. | ||
| I only, once they stopped G.I. Joe's, I was pissed. | ||
| That was about when I grew out of it, and it was just video games after that, and sports. | ||
| I was a huge comic book fan for a long time. | ||
| I wanted to be a comic book illustrator at one point, so I was always like buying... | ||
| Can you draw? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| I used to draw real good when I was young. | ||
| But I had a really douchey high school art teacher that kind of turned me off. | ||
| He kept emphasizing that, yeah, if you want to be an illustrator, you're going to have to draw things you don't want to draw. | ||
| You're going to have to draw diaper ads. | ||
| He's like, diaper ads was the one thing that he kept bringing up. | ||
| You're a professional artist. | ||
| You might have to work and do a diaper ad. | ||
| I was like, this guy's just so negative. | ||
| Fuck artists. | ||
| He was a really dour dude. | ||
| It sucks when you had those kind of teachers in high school, whether it was art class or whatever, that you look back now and realize how they really shouldn't have been there and didn't put in the time. | ||
| Yeah, he was gross, man. | ||
| Even if you drew your interpretation of something, like a weird sort of interpretation of something, he would be like, if they want you to draw something for an advertisement, you draw what they ask you to draw. | ||
| I'm like, dude, you're gross. | ||
| This is gross. | ||
| You're putting this weird fucking spin on what is and isn't cool to draw. | ||
| I like comic books, bitch! | ||
| You're telling me there's something wrong with that? | ||
| Yeah, and look, the comic industry, now they're all transferring to video game industry, which is huge, so... | ||
| Those people that were telling them not to do that is stupid. | ||
| But then you get that one good teacher that actually takes a little bit of time and you're like, whoa, I can learn so much when I just get that little bit of respect. | ||
| I remember I had an English teacher and it was in the 10th grade and I didn't know how to write essays properly because I didn't pay attention in my other classes and Instead of just giving me C- or D, she came up to me after class, she's like, Adam, has anyone ever told you that you write your opening statement and your argument of how to do it? | ||
| And I was like, no. | ||
| And she's like, oh my god. | ||
| She's like, okay, well, I'll help you with that. | ||
| But I thought that was so simple, that was the first teacher to just ask. | ||
| Instead of just giving me a flunking grade, being like, do you know how to do this? | ||
| Yeah, I had a really, really cool English teacher that everybody tried to get into her class. | ||
| And when they got in their class, they were psyched. | ||
| Because she was really generous with the grades. | ||
| But she was just the sweetest, nicest lady. | ||
| And when you would go into her class, it would be a completely different vibe than all the other classes. | ||
| Everybody was happy. | ||
| They were all relaxed. | ||
| Because there was no, like, authoritarian. | ||
| But she was such a nice person, you would never want to get her upset with you. | ||
| If she had to quiet you down because you were talking in the back of the room or something like that, you would feel genuinely bad. | ||
| You'd apologize because she was a sweet, sweet person. | ||
| She was so inspirational. | ||
| There's one lady teacher, and I had one Spanish teacher that was a bad motherfucker as well. | ||
| But right, he was like, he wasn't like, I think he was a fairly young guy, and he was handsome. | ||
| And like, the girls were like all over him, man. | ||
| And the dude, like, I know he had to dodge like a lot of 17-year-old girls. | ||
| Because he was a really handsome guy. | ||
| I don't think he was any older than 23 or 24. That's a scary situation to be in. | ||
| Really interesting, man. | ||
| Because he was not much older than us. | ||
| I remember that feeling. | ||
| He was so much closer to us than all these other teachers. | ||
| The math teacher was in her 50s. | ||
| This guy was still alive. | ||
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He was still pulsing. | |
| Because all the rest are dead. | ||
| Dude, there were some dead people that was teaching high school, man. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I mean, I wasn't the greatest in high school. | ||
| It's hard. | ||
| It doesn't pay well. | ||
| The kids aren't behaved. | ||
| The kids are like me. | ||
| I wasn't not behaved. | ||
| I was an idiot. | ||
| I was, too. | ||
| I mean, I used to get into fights all the time because I was insecure, and so I was always getting in trouble for that. | ||
| But I'll tell you that teachers, what they told me later on is that they used to hear so many bad things about me in the staff room that they were terrified of me in their class. | ||
| But the teachers that were cool, I never ever, like you said, if I had a teacher that showed me respect from the beginning, if she asked me, I would feel guilty, like you said, or he, I'd be like, oh, I let him down, because this guy treats me, he's really teaching me, and he treats me as an adult, and is trying to get me to, instead of, like you said, coming in like a dictator and slashing you down, I never responded well with those teachers. | ||
| Yeah, I don't like anybody that's a douchebag. | ||
| And I don't want to be them when I grow up. | ||
| You know, that's how I would feel. | ||
| I'd be in their class, I'd be like, shut down! | ||
| Boom! | ||
| Not paying attention. | ||
| Barely squeaked through. | ||
| That was my strategy for basically every class. | ||
| Mine too. | ||
| I barely... | ||
| It was funny because one of the teachers, my buddy works at a bank and they're getting a loan. | ||
| And she brought up, she's like, where's that Adam Scorgy kid? | ||
| Is he in jail or is he... | ||
| With the bikers now? | ||
| And then my buddy's like, no, actually, he's going to be on TV this week. | ||
| And they're like, what? | ||
| And even her husband grabbed her and was kind of like, yeah, he's doing well. | ||
| So people thought you were going to grow up to be a psycho. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I grew up in a different, like, I mean, my dad owned a strip club when I was going through high school and just after high school. | ||
| It was a nightclub first, then a strip club. | ||
| And then that was the madness that I inherited when he passed away in 2003. Jesus Christ. | ||
| And I had been away in New York. | ||
| How old were you? | ||
| I was 23. Jesus Christ. | ||
| And you have to take over this crazy strip club in Vancouver? | ||
| Is that where it was? | ||
| No, Kelowna. | ||
| Kelowna? | ||
| Yeah, and it was... | ||
| I mean, that was... | ||
| There's like biker gangs rolling through there and shit. | ||
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Yes, yes. | |
| You're 23 years old. | ||
| Well, you see, most of the agencies that send the girls in BC are owned by MC clubs. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So my dad had worked in... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| When I took over, it was... | ||
| We've been trying to put together a screenplay for years. | ||
| Damn. | ||
| It was, you know, 23 years old. | ||
| I'm thrown at this. | ||
| I was living in New York for four years. | ||
| Came back. | ||
| Hadn't been in that environment forever. | ||
| What is that environment like? | ||
| Does Vancouver just have a lot of motorcycle gangs? | ||
| Is that like a real common thing? | ||
| Yeah, they're the number one. | ||
| There's an article in the McLeans at the HA where it was rich and powerful in BC, some of the richest out of – they don't have as many rivals. | ||
| It's smaller. | ||
| I mean, there's more people in the state of California than the entire country of Canada, right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| So it's just smaller, so there's less competition, and they are the number one. | ||
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Wow. | |
| So that's like the organized sort of situation up there? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How dangerous is it? | ||
| Well, I mean, I know some of them, like, you know, that I went growing up through the bar that I knew that are great, and, you know, I'm friends with them. | ||
| Is it an accepted part of the culture up there? | ||
| Super accepted. | ||
| Like, actually, when you look at them as a young guy, and you're like, oh, my God, like, when they say crime doesn't pay, and you see these guys that are well-built, in shape, beautiful girlfriends, they have $60,000 Harleys, $60,000 boats, they're in their 20s, and you're like, damn, right? | ||
| Like, they're the rock stars of Kelowna. | ||
| Like, when you go to my hometown, it's like, that's... | ||
| That's the guys. | ||
| They'll have a boatload of beautiful women. | ||
| Is it possible to get in trouble for talking about this? | ||
| Well, that's why I haven't said the actual name. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But to you guys, it's like when Vegas ran the mob? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Rather, the mob ran Vegas? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In Kelowna, where I live, there's 150,000 people and there's three MC clubs. | ||
| Now, do they have, like, shootouts and shit? | ||
| Or do they generally get along? | ||
| Well, just BC's had a lot of shootings in general with the drug trade coming up right now. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| All could be avoided. | ||
| You saw that, I mean, I think it made national news where there was that shooting downtown Vancouver in the hotel and... | ||
| There's like a women's national soccer team staying up. | ||
| It was broad daylight right in the restaurant. | ||
| Five-star, four-star hotel right in the lobby. | ||
| Vancouver's getting back. | ||
| What was it about? | ||
| Of course, it's all the drug trade. | ||
| It just hits. | ||
| They put a hit on somebody or something. | ||
| Something to do with that, yeah. | ||
| Oh, that's so scary, man. | ||
| That's a scary culture to be crisscrossing with, you know? | ||
| Man, and then you put booze in that mix and you're running and you're dealing with this ticking time bomb. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Right? | |
| It was a real test. | ||
| I mean, my wife I'm with now, I mean, she's stuck there with me and helped me through all those headaches when we were going through the place. | ||
| And I mean, all this happened, like I had a bad, I did a bad deal with a childhood friend on the club, so I didn't get paid. | ||
| So you were 23, and all of a sudden, you've taken over this crazy little situation. | ||
| And sharks just everywhere, right? | ||
| And even some that don't, they don't realize they're going to be a shark, some friends that, because of the club and what that kind of brought for them, they're like, oh, Adam, you should never sell it, it's your dad's legacy, and... | ||
| Because I wanted to just go back to New York and continue with my film career. | ||
| I already was starting to do well there, and I wanted nothing. | ||
| And then I'd be like, oh, it'd sell. | ||
| And then I'd get convinced to stay, keep it, because my dad left it. | ||
| And so at the end of the day, I didn't get half of what I was supposed to get out of it. | ||
| And I was shooting the union. | ||
| I was planning on using the rest of that to finish. | ||
| So I had to go back to my stepfather like two or three more times to get the financing we needed to finish. | ||
| And it was, you know, my first film. | ||
| So people are starting to think I'm kind of crazy like the astronaut farmer, right? | ||
| Like you've been working on this film for a year and a half. | ||
| You've sunk everything into it. | ||
| You sold your house. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It was a really well done movie. | ||
| You did a really good job of editing it. | ||
| It was very entertaining. | ||
| I've seen a bunch of cannabis documentaries and I think yours is the best. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| It's a really well done piece. | ||
| You show so many points and so many sides of it that are just irrefutable. | ||
| And it's all just laid out there. | ||
| And people can choose to make their own decisions of what they should and shouldn't do with their body. | ||
| But if you think that that cannabis should be illegal, you're insane. | ||
| You're complete. | ||
| Well, how about that? | ||
| The film was done so well in Parliament's eyes, I just got invited to Parliament Hill in Canada. | ||
| That's Canada's White House, for those who out there don't know. | ||
| I got invited by the Liberals to help show the other MPs the pros and cons of cannabis prohibition with the Union. | ||
| The way it happened is Aaron Kotler, who is the former, Erwin Kotler, former Attorney General of Canada under Jean Chrétien, He had originally looked to put a decriminalization bill in when Gretchen was ending his term. | ||
| But then it didn't go through and his son, Oren Collar's son, was actually really pissed off and was like, man, I can't believe you do that. | ||
| It gets kids addicted. | ||
| What are you thinking about? | ||
| So then when it came up recently that now the Liberals in Canada are looking at putting what they call the most comprehensive legalization bill that's been tried to be passed in Canada... | ||
| His dad mentioned this in an interview, and his son called in, and he's like, hey, why'd you say that I was so against it? | ||
| And he's like, well, that's what you told me last time. | ||
| He's like, no, I watched this movie called The Union, and I've totally changed my perspective, and I want you and Mom to see it. | ||
| So these MPs kept hearing about it, and they kept getting letters from people saying, like, from this, and you should watch it. | ||
| So they sent me an email and said, hey, can you come out? | ||
| I thought I was getting punked at first. | ||
| Like... | ||
| Think about the topic. | ||
| Could you see that happening here in the US? Oh, the White House would like to... | ||
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Impossible. | |
| This fucking corrupt cunt farm. | ||
| Well, there's pictures of me and Brett and we're both just standing there going like, really? | ||
| You really invited us here? | ||
| That's incredible. | ||
| What was it like? | ||
| Who were you dressed like? | ||
| I put on a suit. | ||
| I went to go be professional. | ||
| Business attire suit? | ||
| Yeah, full business attire suit. | ||
| I've got some pictures, Brian, if you want to pull them up. | ||
| They did a cool way of doing a screening. | ||
| They had a square table and they had TVs on the inside that were like this. | ||
| So no matter what side you sat on, you could see them. | ||
| And then on the tables, there's also the big screen. | ||
| So everybody's sitting there with their mics and they can all look like they're sitting in the thing looking forward and then... | ||
| What about the bolo tie? | ||
| That shit's ridiculous. | ||
| Which one's the bolo tie? | ||
| The bolo tie, that little string tie that was super popular for a while. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| They tried to pass it off as a tie, though. | ||
| It was a bolo tie. | ||
| You could even sneak into a lot of restaurants that you're supposed to have a tie on with a bolo tie. | ||
| It's kind of cheating. | ||
| Brad got nailed at the Parliament Hill restaurant because we went to go there and he just wore a dress shirt and like dress pants but they're like oh no tie. | ||
| So they had this drawer and I swear they got the ugliest ties ever made just to be like don't you ever forget your tie when you come in here. | ||
| They were hideous. | ||
| How silly are times? | ||
| Come on. | ||
| How silly is it to say to someone, you're not done. | ||
| You don't have your full outfit on. | ||
| You don't have your full outfit. | ||
| You have a shirt. | ||
| You have a jacket. | ||
| No, he didn't have a jacket. | ||
| Did he have a vest? | ||
| No, he just had the dress shirt and dress pants. | ||
| Just a dress shirt and dress pants. | ||
| I came in the full suit. | ||
| Not enough. | ||
| That's not enough. | ||
| You must have this extra thing, this extra piece of cloth so I know that you're a gentleman. | ||
| Because only a gentleman wears this extra formal piece of cloth. | ||
| I don't expect you, with your tie clip, to be calling anybody a cunt or telling people to go fuck themselves. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| That's when they know they can trust you. | ||
| There's a lot of stuff when you go in there and you look at the old chairs that they sit in where the queen, if she comes, and you kind of look at all this and you're like, really? | ||
| Does that matter? | ||
| Well, what about in the olden days when they wore those crazy wigs? | ||
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Those dudes wore those crazy powdered wigs? | |
| What was that about? | ||
| When they were in court and shit, they would wear crazy wigs. | ||
| It was hot and sexy. | ||
|
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What are you talking about? | |
| Could you imagine how much it must have sucked dick to live back then? | ||
| It might have been cool to have wigs on. | ||
| Get the fuck out of here to live. | ||
| These assholes with wigs on are deciding your future and fucking knocking sticks on the ground. | ||
| Hear ye, hear ye. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Everyone would look so weird and mysterious, though. | ||
| And you'd die of the flu. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| Yeah, but has law got much better now? | ||
| Like, maybe there's not the show, but, I mean, it's a game when you get married. | ||
| Oh, it's certainly a game. | ||
| Law is confusing, man. | ||
| It's like, God, who is this benefiting to have so goddamn many of them? | ||
| Even lawyers. | ||
| I mean, folks, let's just... | ||
| We need balance. | ||
| We need balance. | ||
| We can't have people just struggling to try to sue people. | ||
| We need some balance in this. | ||
| Well, that was the other thing is after I had dealt with all the shit with my dad's club and took over, then my half-sister sued me for the estate because my dad had left everything to me. | ||
| That's when shit gets crafty. | ||
| I couldn't even believe, you know, going that. | ||
| And, like, we hadn't talked in years, and I, you know, really reached out, and I bought her a car and done things to try, like, oh, you know, maybe out of this tragedy we can build a relationship. | ||
| And, oh, man, it just went for the money. | ||
| She wanted more. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| People are, you know, people look at other people sometimes like a lottery, you know? | ||
| They don't think they're ever going to be able to make money on their own. | ||
| This is a certain amount of people, and they have this sort of, like... | ||
| It's almost like a victim's rights mentality that life has fucked them so hard that they're going to go after you because they can. | ||
| Is that what you felt? | ||
| Oh, I felt that in the club scene. | ||
| I just put a fucking thought into your head, man. | ||
| I'm just asking you a very specific thing. | ||
| Is that what you felt? | ||
| How sumptuous of me. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Because when I had the club, there's a lot of people when I was running it that felt that, well, if you could fuck the customer, good for us. | ||
| We're making money. | ||
| And I'm just like, man... | ||
| Yeah, that's a bad karma situation, man. | ||
| I've met people that are real nice people. | ||
| Like, how about Bob, the owner of the Ice House? | ||
| Perfect example, right? | ||
| Super nice. | ||
| Super nice person. | ||
| Owns this club. | ||
| He's putting out good karma, you know? | ||
| Real nice to people. | ||
| Always very friendly. | ||
| Very generous guy. | ||
| Just a cool guy. | ||
| So, out of that comes good, you know? | ||
| You control your environment, you know? | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Well, that was when, you know, when my dad ran the club, it did well because my dad was the owner. | ||
| They'd be out there shaking everybody's hand. | ||
| He was like, he had... | ||
| So was it resentment? | ||
| No, there's... | ||
| When you took over? | ||
| Well, here's what it is. | ||
| There's a ton of cocaine being sold all throughout my place, right? | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| So when I took over, you know, eyes have been, you know, people are turning a blind eye for a while. | ||
| I... I look like the kingpin, right? | ||
| Everybody's working there, moving, and hey, I know people did what they have to do to do in the club, so I said that stops in the club, and then all my staff left. | ||
| Oh, shit. | ||
| You were at a cocaine operation. | ||
| You didn't even know it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Wow. | ||
| You inherited a cocaine operation. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I inherited a mess. | ||
| And you were 23! | ||
| 23. And I was producing The Union, my first film. | ||
| That was my only chance to get out of the hole. | ||
| How old were you when I met you? | ||
| I was 24. Or 25. Well, for Todd to have that much faith in you guys, it showed. | ||
| Well, it showed once I met you, but it certainly showed with your final work where his head was at. | ||
| It's really good, man. | ||
| It's very entertaining. | ||
| It moves well. | ||
| I always said if people could see the story of what it took to put that together, that would be a more entertaining doc. | ||
| Nah, maybe just to you. | ||
| It's no way the making of your fucking movie could be as entertaining as the reason why pot is illegal. | ||
| No way, dude. | ||
| Get serious. | ||
| It might be to you. | ||
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Well, no. | |
| Well, that's why we're... | ||
| It might be like a wedding video or something that's awesome to you, but nobody else wants to talk with it. | ||
| No, it's definitely not, man. | ||
| It's an honor to see the impact it's had. | ||
| I mean, my stepdad was the one that lent me the money to do it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And for me, it was really cool. | ||
| One day, we were down at P.F. Chang's in Houston. | ||
| We were eating, and I had my Union shirt on, and the waiter comes over, and he's like, Man! | ||
| That movie's fucking awesome. | ||
| He's like, I Netflixed it. | ||
| I got 10 friends coming over. | ||
| I'm going to show it to all them. | ||
| And I was like, oh, cool, thanks. | ||
| Because I had my hat and glass and he was like, thanks. | ||
| And he's like, wait, you're the fucking guy? | ||
| He wasn't swearing, but he's like, you're the guy. | ||
| Oh, so he thought he was just saying it was cool. | ||
| Yeah, because he saw the logo right on my shirt. | ||
| And then, you know, I had that before and it's always flattering. | ||
| I can't believe anybody knows my work that well. | ||
| But then for my dad to see, right? | ||
| Because he took this huge gamble on us, right? | ||
| Gave us $200,000 cash. | ||
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Oh, my God. | |
| Yeah, to go shoot it. | ||
| Whoo, that's some pressure, son. | ||
| Oh, and I had to go back two or three times because when I got screwed over at the club, I was anticipating to have money from that that I didn't get. | ||
| And now the film was the only thing I could use to pay back. | ||
| I'm like, well, if I'm ever going to pay him back, I have to get the film finished. | ||
| Otherwise, I'll never get out of the hole. | ||
| So I had to keep going back and back. | ||
| And only now, recently, that's why it's funny. | ||
| Some people ask me, how much have you made off the union? | ||
| I was like, I still owe my family some money. | ||
| Do you really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wow, so that movie still hasn't gotten to the black? | ||
| Well, the distributors made money, right? | ||
| But, you know, there's the marketing, shipping, and then at the end of the day, we have not seen... | ||
| I've been able to pay off my dad a majority of his stuff, thank God. | ||
| And there's still residual checks coming in. | ||
| They're pretty small, but it didn't do millions of dollars or these numbers that some people might think. | ||
| I think a lot of people might have stole your shit online, too. | ||
| Oh, if we got a quarter for every pirate bay and stuff, we'd be in the green. | ||
| Yeah, you know, it's funny because people go, yeah, well, you know, he's not losing any money because I wasn't going to download it. | ||
| I mean, I wasn't going to buy it anyway. | ||
| So I would have never bought it. | ||
| So it's not like he's losing any money, but it was okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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It's all... | |
| I know, it's... | ||
| It's tricky. | ||
| Well, it's tricky. | ||
| But then at the same time, you know, a lot of people did see it because of that. | ||
| The viral, like Facebook and social media is the main... | ||
| Because we had no money for marketing. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's what made it go... | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Super viral, so... | ||
| For a first film that was, you know, to get the exposure is great and we weren't that, you know, as long as we could pay our families off, we're happy about it. | ||
| I've seen a bunch of memes from that documentary. | ||
| You know, like those internet memes where you quote somebody and there's a photo of them. | ||
| Oh, there's tons. | ||
| And there's tons of where they've just cut your clips, where it's just the Joe Rogan clips from the union. | ||
| And then it's like quotes, like pictures of you that'll say, like, let's nerf the world. | ||
| You caught me in my most indignant moment, too, because when we did that, it was when I really had just started smoking. | ||
| What year did we do this? | ||
| 2005, we would have interviewed you. | ||
| So I had only been smoking for like five years. | ||
| So I was gearing up with my frustration with the whole situation. | ||
| It was really like you caught it at the exact right time where I was having these conversations with people where they would say there's something wrong with pot and this and that and I don't think it should be legal. | ||
| I'm like, what are you even yapping about? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| You're saying that it should be illegal to have a beer? | ||
| Because do you know how that worked out? | ||
| Did you ever hear about that prohibition thing? | ||
| Yeah, it went fucking crazy. | ||
| An organized crime got a foothold in our society. | ||
| And I go, and guess what? | ||
| That's exactly what's going on right now. | ||
| It's the exact same thing. | ||
| It's just with marijuana, and it's with a bunch of other different substances that are somehow or another still getting sold everywhere all the time. | ||
| They've got to legalize everything. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| You can't, I mean, you gotta let people know exactly what everything does to you. | ||
| You gotta take a massive amount of taxes from the sale of anything, whether it's marijuana or whether it's, you know, I don't know if you should be able to sell the hard shit, you know, but I think you should be able to sell mushrooms. | ||
| I don't think you should be able to sell, like, dangerous narcotics that we know are devastating to actual life and to our society. | ||
| But if you can prove that something has a history of human use, like mushrooms, and you can prove that there's a massive amount of anecdotal evidence that people have, like, changed their lives. | ||
| John Hopkins University had this long-term study. | ||
| People did one mushroom trip, and 20 years later, they're fucking still, like, they're a better person because of the experience. | ||
| It's like that kind of shit. | ||
| You hear those kind of stories over and over and over and over again. | ||
| No one's dying. | ||
| In this instance, the argument's ridiculous. | ||
| It's ridiculous that you would try to make this obviously massively beneficial thing illegal. | ||
| There's gotta be something going on. | ||
| You gotta see what we have in store for the next one. | ||
| Brett wants to take it to a whole new level that's talking about some of the think tanks of why we get into this. | ||
| Are we least effective when caught up in group mentality? | ||
| Even when we were in Parliament Hill, we were talking to some of the guys there, and Brett was asking some questions, key questions. | ||
| He said they had to put a bill through the day before, and it was a thousand pages. | ||
| And he was like, how often is it that sometimes things just get missed, and they get passed? | ||
| And the guy was like, more often than you'd think. | ||
| Just because people don't want to read. | ||
| It's at the end of the week, and they're like, oh, there's a 1,000-page bill that you want to read. | ||
| And you go through it, and then that's the stuff where the schmear campaigns come up years later. | ||
| And they're like, he signed this thing 10 years ago. | ||
| And he was working for whether it's the conservatives. | ||
| And they were like, okay, we're all signing. | ||
| And he's going to go home, and after all the work he's done, 16-hour day at the Hill, go home and read 1,000-page bill. | ||
| Boringest language ever, too, right? | ||
| Like, we're not talking anything. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| And then try to make sure that you understand every line before you put your signature on it. | ||
| Is it really a thousand pages? | ||
| That was the one that had just been passed, yeah. | ||
| And how many days did this guy have to work on that? | ||
| Like, they'd have a decision at the end of the week, he was saying. | ||
| And then they have a four-hour vote. | ||
| It had been worked on for a long time, but by the time it got to that stage, then it's like they... | ||
| So do they have to read the whole 1,000 pages? | ||
| Well, that's what I said a lot of times. | ||
| It depends on who's dealing with it. | ||
| Who would ever expect someone to be able to do that? | ||
| I was looking at just the workload they have. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| We were leaving at 6, and they were going into a four-hour vote. | ||
| I was just like, oh, my God. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| And they almost like we went to look through... | ||
| And the guy's like, oh, if you come through here, you have to stay through the whole thing. | ||
| So if you come past this point, then you cannot leave because it's in session. | ||
| I was like, well, I'm not going near there. | ||
| Four hours. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
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I'll die. | |
| That'll be the... | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Did you see that recent video of the woman from the DEA fielding questions? | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| I posted it on the union page. | ||
| The gentleman from Colorado who was asking... | ||
| If marijuana was less dangerous than heroin. | ||
| All drugs are bad. | ||
| And she wouldn't respond. | ||
| She was just like, well, we feel that all illegal drugs are bad. | ||
| Have you seen it, Brian? | ||
| Oh my god, pull it up. | ||
| Because it's preposterous. | ||
| What would you Google? | ||
| What would be the word? | ||
| I'd just put DEA. DEA agent stumped marijuana. | ||
| It was a lady with particularly sad eyes. | ||
| She really did. | ||
| She had particularly sad eyes. | ||
| I don't think there's any joy in that job. | ||
| And when you know that all you're doing is trying to keep people from smoking pot because that's what they're telling you to do. | ||
| There's no joy in that, man. | ||
| That lady had no joy in her art. | ||
| Well, look at even Leap. | ||
| Leap has members of the DEA. She's just doing her job. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Yeah, that's her. | ||
| Pull that up. | ||
| I just checked by the dopey eyes, hilariously enough. | ||
| What is this gentleman's name? | ||
| Because he's a bad motherfucker. | ||
| What is his name? | ||
| He's from Colorado. | ||
| Let's give him props. | ||
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I believe all illegal drugs are bad. | |
| Is methamphetamine worse for somebody's health than marijuana? | ||
| I don't think any illegal drug is good. | ||
| Is heroin worse for someone's health than marijuana? | ||
| Look at her eyes. | ||
| You should know this is the Chief Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Agency. | ||
| I'm asking you a very straightforward question. | ||
| Is heroin worse for someone's health than marijuana? | ||
| All illegal drugs are bad. | ||
| Does this mean you don't know? | ||
| Heroin causes an addiction that causes many problems and is very hard to kick. | ||
| So does that mean that the health impact of heroin is worse than marijuana? | ||
| Is that what you're telling me? | ||
| I think you're asking a subjective question. | ||
| No, it's subjective. | ||
| Just looking at the science, this is your area of expertise. | ||
| I'm just asking you as an expert in the subject area, is heroin worse for someone's health than marijuana? | ||
| I'm answering as a police officer and as a DEA agent that these drugs are illegal because they are dangerous, because they are addictive, because they do hurt a person's health. | ||
| So heroin is more addictive than marijuana? | ||
| Is heroin more addictive than marijuana in your experience? | ||
| Generally, the properties of heroin, yes, it's more addictive. | ||
| Is methamphetamine more addictive than marijuana? | ||
| Well, both are addictive. | ||
| Is methamphetamine more highly addictive than marijuana? | ||
| I think some people become addicted to marijuana and some people become addicted to methamphetamine. | ||
| You mentioned that your top priority, I believe you indicated to us, is abuse of prescription drugs. | ||
| Is one of the main classifications of prescription drugs painkillers that you're concerned about? | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| And are those painkillers addictive? | ||
| Yes, they are. | ||
| Very addictive. | ||
| Are those painkillers more addictive than marijuana? | ||
| All illegal drugs in Schedule 1 are addictive. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| It's amazing that that person is in charge of anything that has anything to do with the legality of marijuana. | ||
| Well, see, that's what we want to show in the culture high, right? | ||
| There seems to be this global cultural shift in the way people are looking at cannabis laws. | ||
| And the people that are coming out now are more intellectuals and stuff than ever. | ||
| You're seeing some big names, like several members of the DEA that are now part of LEAP that are talking out against it big time. | ||
| Well, it's a crime. | ||
| It's a criminal thing, what they're doing. | ||
| What they're doing is somehow or another they're being forced into a situation where they're ignoring the science and ignoring the health benefits and ignoring the medicinal benefits and just the fact that people enjoy it. | ||
| And the fact that virtually no one has ever died from it, ever. | ||
| Really, realistically, no one has ever died from it. | ||
| Just that... | ||
| Anybody keeping you from that? | ||
| Anybody keeping you from that? | ||
| That's not your friend. | ||
| That's not your friend. | ||
| That's craziness. | ||
| It's craziness that they think they can keep you from an experience. | ||
| Because that's really, at the end of the day, what it really is. | ||
| You're still responsible for your actions. | ||
| You shouldn't be driving when you're baked out of your fucking head and forget which way to turn in the middle of an intersection and cause a fucking car. | ||
| Man, you shouldn't even have too much NyQuil. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| But you should be responsible for your actions. | ||
| That is what... | ||
| Being a human being should be all about. | ||
| Carry your own weight. | ||
| Take responsibility for the shit that you fuck up. | ||
| If you fuck up something because you're high, like you go and smash a window, it's not the high. | ||
| A lot of people could have been high and they walked right by that window and didn't want to break it at all. | ||
| You are an asshole! | ||
| And you should have to pay for that fucking window! | ||
| But it has nothing to do with weed. | ||
| Joe, come run a nightclub and you want to see a ticking time bomb. | ||
| Oh my god, I couldn't imagine. | ||
| There's people on booze where I've had this conversation a million times when I used to work the door and you have to escort them out because they're too drunk, right? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And then they're like, what? | ||
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What do you mean? | |
| This is a bar. | ||
| And I'm like, yeah, where you're allowed to drink but you can't get wasted, right? | ||
| But then this goes around in a circle and they'll be like, fine, fine. | ||
| They get out the door and then they forget and they come like, so why did I get kicked out, man? | ||
| Because you're too drunk. | ||
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Oh my god. | |
| Dude, it's a bore. | ||
| I'm like, I just went through this wreck. | ||
| I honestly can't understand. | ||
| I'm like, are you that? | ||
| Is it really just goes and it goes blank and then goes blank and keeps coming? | ||
| And then they start getting, as you keep being nice, and you're like, listen, you're done for tonight. | ||
| Come back tomorrow. | ||
| I'll even pay your cover tomorrow if you come back. | ||
| But tonight, you're done. | ||
| That's very generous of you. | ||
| No, and that was always the offer. | ||
| Be like, I hope you get a cab, and I'll waive your cover if you come back tomorrow, but tonight you're done. | ||
| And then they take your kindness reading, and they start being like, yeah, well then you're fucking, and the booze start, like, you see them morph into this person, and I bet when he was sober, he would have just been a nice guy, but in there all of a sudden, it's like, he gets too drunk, he wants to be an ass, you start off as polite as you can, they'll be polite, and then their emotions shift, and The dumbest thing to do, too, is when you're out and you're drunk and you be a douchebag to a bouncer. | ||
| It's such a bad move. | ||
| It's such a bad move. | ||
| I've worked the door and I never got that logic where someone's like... | ||
| Do you know what you make 10 bucks an hour? | ||
| You're trying to get the gold star? | ||
| Some people are just assholes. | ||
| I have a... | ||
| I mean, it sounds ridiculous, but I have great respect for cops and great respect for people who are working at security in a club or a nightclub or something like that. | ||
| That's a difficult position. | ||
| It's a dangerous position. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| That's how I feel about it. | ||
| So, if ever I'm in a situation, if I ever was, I never are, but if I was, I would be very polite. | ||
| Like, no, sir. | ||
| No craziness. | ||
| No wanting to fight the cop. | ||
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No. | |
| You know, like, Jesus fucking Christ! | ||
| Those people are assholes! | ||
| You know, you can't blame alcohol for those people. | ||
| I don't know what it is. | ||
| I don't know what causes it. | ||
| But you can't blame alcohol when a guy tries to punch a cop. | ||
| You know, those guys, like... | ||
| Some people, it's just a... | ||
| Like, that's the thing you're serving. | ||
| You see, in Kelowna, there's a lot and a lot of growers. | ||
| That's how I knew so much about the details of the union, right? | ||
| How it all broke down. | ||
| I looked at getting into it when my dad first died and he passed away. | ||
| Like, It's to supplement me to go to film school, right? | ||
| I looked at being the landowner that would buy the house, have people that would grow for me. | ||
| I'd come back every three months, split the cash 50-50. | ||
| How dangerous is that? | ||
| Dangerous, right? | ||
| Canada's much more lenient than it is in the US, for sure. | ||
| But I didn't do it, and that was originally the beginning of the union. | ||
| We cut my story out because we thought, at the end of the day, the union's so much bigger than my story. | ||
| It's not, who cares? | ||
| So we cut it out, but That's what got us into that. | ||
| And originally when we were going to do the union, we were just going to do an expose of the BC industry and how it's so evolved and how there's a mortgage broker that'll help you because you got bad credit and they'll send you to this banker to help put it through and you've got a realtor. | ||
| They all know. | ||
| Even one of my friends worked at a car dealership. | ||
| So it's under their discretion whether or not things get flagged? | ||
| Is that how that works? | ||
| Well, at the banks... | ||
| Why am I asking this? | ||
| Am I going into organized crime? | ||
| Yeah, what's the deal? | ||
| What the fuck am I so nosy for? | ||
| No, it's interesting. | ||
| It's one of some people's favorite part of the union, right? | ||
| But that was where I felt guilty, is that a lot of these guys would come in. | ||
| In the wintertime, Kelowna's dead. | ||
| It's a summer town. | ||
| And they would come in, and they got the most disposable income because they got some cash that they can't always put into things. | ||
| So then they come in and spend two or three grand, and that's awesome for us, right? | ||
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Right. | |
| It's good for the economy. | ||
| Yeah, but I'm like, okay, who's the bad guy here? | ||
| A lot of people say he's bad. | ||
| He's a drug dealer. | ||
| He's growing. | ||
| But then I know what he does, and I'm gladly taking his money to serve another drug, right? | ||
| So then I was like, how am I any better, right? | ||
| He's not a drug dealer. | ||
| He's selling weed, all right? | ||
| That is a completely different connection than someone who will sell you something that's fucked up. | ||
| True. | ||
| Because there are dudes who are real drug dealers who are casual about it, get people hooked. | ||
| There's people that are real clever about it. | ||
| I've known the guys that have sold coke and stuff. | ||
| I owned a club through that that saw that. | ||
| The problem is that while it's still the way it is, a lot of them are controlled or they get ripped off by gangs and stuff. | ||
| So dangerous. | ||
| That's where it's... | ||
| Like now in Canada, you can get a federal license. | ||
| That's the way a lot of guys are going. | ||
| If they don't have a criminal record, they can get a federal license. | ||
| So there's no... | ||
| Like here, you have a state license and the feds come in. | ||
| You get a federal license and you can grow. | ||
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What? | |
| For medicinal reasons, yeah. | ||
| Okay, but don't you have a dispute in certain parts of Canada where they're far more conservative? | ||
| They don't feel the same way about marijuana? | ||
| Yeah, they do. | ||
| But that is a federal license that they're looking now to try to shut down. | ||
| But it's to grow because there's people... | ||
| Who's looking to try to shut it down? | ||
| Well, the government's looking to change it. | ||
| They're looking to change it back to make it not available? | ||
| I'm not sure of all of it. | ||
| We have to dive into that once we get into the research. | ||
| But they're trying to pull it back. | ||
| But it was interesting. | ||
| I just went into a huge grow-up just outside of my town that was a total legal one. | ||
| And it had like 19 permits for... | ||
| They could do the clones. | ||
| They could store for others. | ||
| They could do... | ||
| Huge, huge operation. | ||
| I'll show you pictures on my phone. | ||
| I think they said they had 150 lights. | ||
| High times they were doing an article because they were getting 2.2 pounds of light. | ||
| So they're getting like 150 pounds, 170 pounds. | ||
| But completely legal. | ||
| They had cameras. | ||
| When I was there, the cops were coming through it with them and this thing was so clean. | ||
| Joe, Brian, they had opera music playing in the thing because it enhances their growth cycle. | ||
| Oh my god, I want to move to Canada. | ||
| I want to move to Canada. | ||
| So they wanted me to come because I was a uni guy. | ||
| They're like, ah, yeah, you can film anything you want in here. | ||
| And it was beautiful. | ||
| I'll show you guys some pictures I got on my phone. | ||
| It's too fucking stupid to let that happen. | ||
| But that would be of great benefit to people. | ||
| It would provide jobs. | ||
| It would change the economy. | ||
| And once marijuana became legal, then hemp would become legal. | ||
| Well, hemp's legal in Canada too. | ||
| Which I know. | ||
| We're selling it on it. | ||
| We're going to start selling this hemp protein powder. | ||
| It's fucking awesome, man. | ||
| There's a dark chocolate. | ||
| I forget the company's name. | ||
| But I've been drinking this stuff really steady for like a couple months now. | ||
| Hemp protein doesn't give me terrible gas. | ||
| It doesn't fuck with me. | ||
| It feels like really healthy. | ||
| It's like a really easily digestible plant protein for me. | ||
| I really love it, man. | ||
| I've really been getting into it. | ||
| But we can't get any fucking hemp hearts. | ||
| It's really hard. | ||
| You can only get 50 pounds a day. | ||
| That's the most you can order. | ||
| The hemp part is just so bizarre to me because that makes just zero sense. | ||
| Like we explained in the movie, you can use it, manufacture it, ship it, everything, but grow it here in the U.S. It's so stupid because what people don't even understand is hemp is not psychoactive. | ||
| You can't even get high from it. | ||
| It's like a cousin plant to the psychoactive version of marijuana. | ||
| Although, you could use marijuana as well. | ||
| You could use the stems and the sticks. | ||
| It's the same shit as hemp. | ||
| It's just that the flowers of the marijuana plants are the ones that get you high. | ||
| So, it's not whether or not people could, I mean, I guess someone could pretend, like, oh, this is just a non-psychoactive hemp. | ||
| I have to, flowers, I don't see any flowers. | ||
| What did you say? | ||
| Oh, what happened here? | ||
| This is a mistake. | ||
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Oh, how did this live marijuana tree, oh, well, let me pull this out. | |
| This is the devil. | ||
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But the rest of them are just for making underwear and paper and oil. | |
| Well, I think the thing is, once it gets impregnated, then you can't keep just the one or two like that. | ||
| I don't know enough about the botany of how it grows. | ||
| I don't know that shit. | ||
| But I think a lot of people think, too, is they don't realize, like, have you seen some of the products it's being used for? | ||
| Like in the new Bugattis and stuff like that, the interiors being done with that? | ||
| Well, did you see that Lotus thing? | ||
| They made out of hemp? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They made this badass lotus and it's like part of it was like just the actual fiber, not even colored, the actual fiber of hemp. | ||
| Brian, see if you could pull up a picture of that because it really is dope. | ||
| Like lotus hemp car. | ||
| Did you know that Henry Ford's, is that your movie? | ||
| Is that your movie? | ||
| No, that's not mine, but there's a little clip like that. | ||
| I know about Henry Ford's stuff. | ||
| I think it was in the No, we do have an opening bit that talks big about hemp and not Henry Ford. | ||
| His video is just that little clip that's up there on its own. | ||
| For folks who don't know, Henry Ford's first car was made out of hemp. | ||
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Is this it? | |
| Like he made hemp body panels. | ||
| You see that Lotus for folks who are following us on Ustream. | ||
| If you're not, just Google hemp Lotus. | ||
| There's a couple other pictures of this thing that maybe you can see a little clearer, Brian. | ||
| But what it is, is they made a car instead of like, like Corvettes are made out of fiberglass. | ||
| You know, and like really expensive cars. | ||
| A lot of them are made out of carbon fiber. | ||
| Well, this car is made out of hemp and it's stronger than fiberglass. | ||
| It's a natural product. | ||
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It's lighter too. | |
| It's lighter. | ||
| There's a car in Canada built called the Crestle that's an electric car that's all the interior and the majority of the body That whole brown strip down the front, that's the actual hemp color. | ||
| That's the actual fiber. | ||
| It's so badass, man. | ||
| And it's really fucking durable. | ||
| It's a crazy plant. | ||
| You could get a stalk, and it's really thick, And it's light as fuck. | ||
| Like, you pick it up, it feels like nothing. | ||
| But it's so dense. | ||
| Like, it's really weird. | ||
| If you've never seen a hemp stalk before, it really does feel like, okay, maybe this is an alien plant. | ||
| This is not like any plant I've ever come in contact with before. | ||
| If you pick up an oak log, you know the thickness and the hardwood that feels like? | ||
| It's heavy as shit. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Well, the hemp stalks feel like the hardness of an oak log, but it's like really light. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| It's like, where the fuck did this thing come from? | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I mean, I knew nothing about pot and hemp when I started in the union. | ||
| I only wanted to do... | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| I just wanted to do, like I said, the expose, the BC industry. | ||
| And then when we discovered all these things, that's why some people that really knew everything in there was like, well, like a lot of the activists, like I knew everything in the union. | ||
| It was like, yeah, but me and like 99% of other people don't. | ||
| There's a lot of people that, you know, they think that everybody should catch up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I knew all that stuff. | ||
| Well, and here's the kudos that I even... | ||
| I didn't really... | ||
| It really clicked with me when we were at Parliament Hill is that how entertained they were, right? | ||
| And there was four of them that weren't going to stay. | ||
| They were going to be there for 15 minutes and they were going to leave. | ||
| And they stayed throughout the whole film. | ||
| And at the end, they were saying, like, I didn't know it would be that funny and I didn't know it would be... | ||
| And Brett was like, well, that's the key to getting you to absorb information. | ||
| It still has to be... | ||
| It's still a movie. | ||
| It has to be entertaining. | ||
| If it was just a blurb and it was like, here we are... | ||
| Sometimes people forget that most people don't know that information. | ||
| Most people don't. | ||
| And you cannot tell the story without giving that information. | ||
| If you want things to be reached by a giant gang of people, you cannot assume that they already have this information. | ||
| It's too potent. | ||
| It's too important. | ||
| It's too significant in the story. | ||
| Well, that's why we're diving into the second one. | ||
| We're going all out. | ||
| And what is the second one going to get involved with? | ||
| The culture high, we're looking much more global this time. | ||
| Like I said, looking at the cultural shift that's starting to happen with regards to the way people look at cannabis. | ||
| What do you accredit? | ||
| Do you think the internet is responsible for that? | ||
| Is that what you... | ||
| Yes. | ||
| The distribution of the truth about... | ||
| Marijuana? | ||
| That's exactly. | ||
| That's actually a part in it. | ||
| We want to interview Sean Parker and some of those people to talk about how the internet's even the playing field. | ||
| Remember in the union, we have Ronald Reagan saying, and I'm surprised these scientists haven't brought up this new information that says that marijuana could be the most dangerous drug that is in use in our society today. | ||
| When he said that in the 80s, unless you're going to go call a medical facility and pull their old records, you're like, hey, man, that's a president. | ||
| He must know. | ||
| He has a team that's giving him that information. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he's got it, right? | ||
| But now, you can go on Google and you can look at... | ||
| And of course, you get the good with the bad. | ||
| There's a lot of fake and haters, people going back and forth and saying this. | ||
| But you can pick or choose through 10 or more articles. | ||
| And that's what we did in the union. | ||
| We put all the links and stuff up there. | ||
| So if you didn't believe what we said, and like, hey, we're filmmakers. | ||
| There's one or two little mistakes in there that we made. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| But if it got you to research it and start doing it, that's a great movie. | ||
| Because you're thinking about it after you've watched it. | ||
| What were the factual mistakes that you missed? | ||
| Oh, they're very, very slight. | ||
| It was like with the original Declaration of Independence, it was actually the first two drafts, not the one that's in the museum. | ||
| The one that's in the museum is made with Hyde, but the first two drafts were written on hemp. | ||
| So a lot of us clever were. | ||
| And then same with the 30 days of marijuana being in your system. | ||
| Lester Grinspoon, the first Ivy League doctor to come out and talk about the real medical findings that he discovered. | ||
| He said not always 30 days. | ||
| If you smoke all the time and it's in your fat cells, but it could be if you just smoke once in the first time, there's a good chance in two weeks it wouldn't be in your system. | ||
| So when you hear about a guy like Nick Diaz getting popped and he's got the non-psychoactive metabolites, what does that mean? | ||
| That means he's barely got any weed in his system, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Barely, barely, barely. | ||
| Man, I think that if they're going to... | ||
| I mean, those guys go through so much pain, and you've seen a lot of tragedy with the painkillers now. | ||
| A friend of mine, Derek Bugard, who was an NHL enforcer for the New York Rangers, had an accidental mix. | ||
| You'd wish that there would be that alternative for pain. | ||
| So maybe Nick Diaz, his knuckles are sore. | ||
| He hits people, he hits dudes a lot of times in a fight, like more than anybody else. | ||
| They just don't stop, right? | ||
| So, you know, maybe he's got arthritis in his hands or from training. | ||
| If that's what he wanted to use... | ||
| How about he uses it for whatever the fuck reason he wants to use it? | ||
| But I'm saying even if that's... | ||
| But that's my take on it now at this point. | ||
| It's like, of course he should be able to use it for anxiety. | ||
| Of course he should be able to use it for insomnia. | ||
| Of course he should be able to use it, but really he should be able to use it for whatever the fuck he wants to use it for. | ||
| And this idea that there's any reason why it should be illegal is just crazy talk. | ||
| It's crazy talk. | ||
| It makes you a nicer person. | ||
| It does. | ||
| It might make some people a little dopier, but guess what? | ||
| It probably means they need to get their shit together. | ||
| They're probably thinking a bunch of dumb, stupid shit when they're sober. | ||
| When they're high, there's not much to spin around in there. | ||
| Maybe it's good for them to feel stupid. | ||
| Well, think about, for pain, I'm sure you know fighters, Joe, that have taken, like, the hard painkillers, and then a lot of times they don't even realize. | ||
| I know guys that have fucked up their whole careers because of that stuff. | ||
| And they don't even know how addictive it is, right? | ||
| The doctor says, take this for pain. | ||
| They get hooked to it. | ||
| So, I mean, just that, when I've seen in athletes, like, they have to go through a lot of pain in these contact sports. | ||
| A dude who was a really, like, completely clean guy. | ||
| He didn't smoke cigarettes. | ||
| He rarely ever drank. | ||
| He was really healthy and he was a professional pool player. | ||
| He hurt his back and he got hooked on pain pills and became a complete, total mess and then died. | ||
| I mean, they literally took this dude's life. | ||
| This dude got swamped up in that world of pills. | ||
| He's younger than me and now he's gone. | ||
| And I knew him. | ||
| I knew him when he was totally healthy and I knew him when he was gone. | ||
| And that's crazy. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It's a sad thing. | ||
| He was a proud guy. | ||
| And he would fall asleep in a plate of mashed potatoes. | ||
| Like that kind of shit. | ||
| And that's legal. | ||
| Man, you should see how many people I saw like that in the bar, Joe. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| You'd see it all the time. | ||
| You'd see these beautiful girls come in. | ||
| And then like four years later, they're like, hey. | ||
| And a lot of the dancers, and you're like, hey, oh my god. | ||
| You look like you've died and come back to life already. | ||
| It's so sad. | ||
| Those kind of drugs are so terrible. | ||
| They're so sad in your body. | ||
| It's a shitty... | ||
| I wouldn't recommend owning a nightclub if someone said to me, like, hey, I don't ever want to be in that business again. | ||
| Yeah, that business is rough, man. | ||
| I'd rather be a challenging filmmaker that's working three jobs like I am than go back to that. | ||
| Yeah, well, you're dealing with groups of drunks on a regular basis. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| And then seeing the sad stories like that or seeing times when a guy just got out of line and bumped into the wrong person and got smashed. | ||
| Yeah, that sucks too. | ||
| I watched a guy get hit in the face with a bottle once. | ||
| I never expected this to happen the way it happened. | ||
| The way the guy hit the guy in the face, it was like there's no way he just did that for that reason. | ||
| It was like nothing. | ||
| And this guy smashed him in the face, cut his face. | ||
| And I remember thinking that. | ||
| Always be aware that it's possible that someone out there is so fucking crazy that they would do that for no reason like that. | ||
| Oh, that's why when I work the door, I never let someone get to the odd side of me or anything like that, right? | ||
| And a lot of the times, if someone's aggressive and their hands clench, you don't see it. | ||
| I mean, we would... | ||
| I always tell my guys, like, listen, you're not supposed to strike and hit guys, but if you're really threatened, right, and some guy, you're going to corner, like, you do what you got to do to look after yourself, right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| We'll try to get there as fast as we can, but I mean, we had a doorman stabbed. | ||
| Oh, shit. | ||
| He got stabbed three times, and probably the only time in your life you like to hear this, they told him, they're like, it's a good thing you're overweight, because if you would have been an inch thick or inch thinner, it would have pierced major... | ||
| Because the guy, they threw these guys out, the guys went out to the car, came back, and then they went at the doorman, and one of our doorman knocked the first one out. | ||
| Then he went with the other one, he was tussling with him, and he said he'd put him down, and then when he put him down, he saw the blade hit the ground and blood all over it, and then he thought he was getting punched in the side, and then he looked. | ||
| And he was like, holy, it was just porn hunting. | ||
| And I remember him telling this story that really scared me as he sat down and he went to our other doorman just being like, if I pass out, please make sure I get to the hospital. | ||
| Because you don't know what's going to happen if your body's going to shut down or you might just faint out. | ||
| So it's shitty. | ||
| I'd never want another nightclub. | ||
| Fuck that. | ||
| There's just too many douchebags that can't keep it together. | ||
| There's too many people out there. | ||
| Roadhouse. | ||
| Yeah, Roadhouse. | ||
| Pain don't hurt. | ||
| Really, at the heart of it, at the bottom of it all, is really people doing a shitty job of raising people. | ||
| People doing a shitty job of having a community and doing a shitty job of raising people. | ||
| And what do you make? | ||
| You make shit kids. | ||
| Those shit kids grow up to be gigantic fucking problems. | ||
| And if you run a nightclub, congratulations, you're the new babysitter. | ||
| You're the new babysitter for the drunken douchebags. | ||
| Oh, and then anything that they do, like, they're not held responsible. | ||
| Like, if they... | ||
| That's where, going back to the responsibility thing, you're saying people should just be held to their actions for what they do. | ||
| Well, you can get them drunk, and you can get sued if they crash their car. | ||
| Not just that. | ||
| They go out and fight or hurt someone, or they attack our bouncers, and then they get hurt on the way out. | ||
| And, yes, of course, there's other sides of that where sometimes the doormen are excessive. | ||
| But there's times where a guy's so drunk that, like, you carry him out, you go to let him go, and he stumbles and smashes his face on the concrete and caves his cheekbone in, right? | ||
| Like... | ||
| I worked as a security guard at Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts. | ||
| It's like in Mansfield or something, Massachusetts. | ||
| I think that's where it's at. | ||
| And it's this outside performance area. | ||
| So part of it is inside and part of it is covered. | ||
| But then there's a back area that's open that's like a lawn area. | ||
| And I was security there. | ||
| And we did it for a whole summer. | ||
| And I tell you, man... | ||
| After a while, you really develop this us versus them mentality. | ||
| And it's really stupid, but I was 19. I was an idiot. | ||
| I shouldn't have been in that sort of a job in the first place. | ||
| And the guy that I was working for was crazy aggressive. | ||
| I mean, oh my God. | ||
| I saw him on the first day I worked there tackle a guy and beat him with a walkie-talkie. | ||
| Because the guy stole their golf cart. | ||
| They had a golf cart they would drive around the Great Woods with. | ||
| So these guys tackled him and they beat the shit out of this guy with a walkie-talkie. | ||
| The dude was a classic. | ||
| His name was Alley Cat. | ||
| And he wanted to open up this bar. | ||
| He had this dream. | ||
| He was the head security guy with a dream. | ||
| And his dream was to open up this bar. | ||
| Alley Cat's libations and victuals. | ||
| That was the title? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| That's tough marketing. | ||
| Victuals is like a cool name for food. | ||
| And Libations is like a cool old name for liquors and drink. | ||
| And so that was his dream. | ||
| And he was a crazy motherfucker. | ||
| And he ran the security thing. | ||
| And it was me and a friend of mine who was... | ||
| We were... | ||
| On the same competition team, the same Taekwondo competition team. | ||
| He got a job there and they said, do you have any of the other guys that are martial arts guys that want a job? | ||
| And so they essentially hired all the top martial arts guys from this J. Kim Taekwondo Institute. | ||
| And they were all the security for this place. | ||
| But I was like, this is the craziest idea ever. | ||
| There's like seven or eight people that have these security jackets on. | ||
| And It's like fucking thousands and thousands of crazy assholes. | ||
| And I could always wear a jacket over my security jacket. | ||
| I would just try to blend in as much as possible. | ||
| I'm like, I'm way too short for this, too. | ||
| I'm only 5'8". | ||
| I can't be around big, giant dudes with a security jacket on. | ||
| That shit's ridiculous. | ||
| I don't want to have to fucking punch and kick my way out of this. | ||
| I remember there'd be slow nights where you'd have a big, rowdy sports team come in, and it'd be like, The bartender and you'd have one doorman on because it's a slow night or two. | ||
| And then you'd literally... | ||
| They'd be getting rowdy and starting to smash glasses. | ||
| And then literally we'd have to think like, okay, like, be ready. | ||
| Like, be ready to jump over the bar if you have to help, right? | ||
| If these guys get to a point where they really want to... | ||
| Because sometimes you say it can be so weird that you just politely ask them to do something and then they get super aggressive. | ||
| Well, I always... | ||
| And then they just really look at size where they're like, fuck, there's like nine of us and we're all in good shape and there's only two or three of them. | ||
| Like... | ||
| Why do I have to respect this guy? | ||
| Yeah, shit can get creepy. | ||
| It can get bad. | ||
| But what a lot of people didn't know was in a small town is a lot of the people hanging out were really good friends with the staff. | ||
| They come there all the time. | ||
| So the odd times that that happened when I was doing it... | ||
| You'd have people jump in from outside, right? | ||
| So you serviced the community, more or less? | ||
| Well, you'd have friends. | ||
| When they're regular, you treat them good, and then they come in. | ||
| I'll tell you, the one time my dad was friends with a lot of the big MC guys, and when they used to come in, there was never a problem in the bar. | ||
| Because everyone was worried about bumping into one of them or some idiots wrestling and they fall into a table. | ||
| So it was weird. | ||
| On those nights, it was usually the young, just starting to slang, little yang bangers that think that they're all that and they have something to prove. | ||
| And they're doing something for somebody else where they've got some kind of connection. | ||
| Dude, what a nutty gig for you, man. | ||
| And to be only 23 years of age and having to handle all that... | ||
| Oh man, my wife, that's why I married her. | ||
| She was a trooper through that too. | ||
| How long did it last before you got rid of it? | ||
| Oh, I had to get... | ||
| My dad passed away in 2003 and we were out of there by 2005. So for two years you had to run that motherfucker. | ||
| I had to get proper books because my dad didn't do proper books. | ||
| Oh no. | ||
| So to sell to a legit buyer, they wanted at least two to three years of books, right? | ||
| I should have talked to my friend Bad Bobby. | ||
| Yeah, well that was what some of the... | ||
| Smoothed over the situation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, trust me. | ||
| There's lots of bad Bobbies coming around, but my thing was like, okay, if I took a... | ||
| There's only one bad Bobby. | ||
| You don't know bad Bobby. | ||
| I've got to tell you. | ||
| I mean, bad, but guys that would come with a cash offer, right? | ||
| And then if there's a cash offer... | ||
| That sounds like bad Bobby. | ||
| Yeah, well, but then in three years, if it doesn't do the numbers, they think, and they say, well, I think I overpaid. | ||
| I want some back. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So that's why I was like, okay, I don't want to go that option. | ||
| So I tried to work it out with a childhood friend and then didn't do that right either because we didn't put everything on paper, so I got screwed. | ||
| I remember my wife was eight months pregnant with Riley, my daughter, and we had negative $400 in our account and I needed $45,000 to finish the union. | ||
| And I didn't know where I was going to get it. | ||
| Suck that dick, son. | ||
| Did you? | ||
| Think about it? | ||
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No, fuck at all. | |
| Think about if you can find a rich guy and suck his dick for a million. | ||
| I was in New York and worked around those guys. | ||
| There'd be no way. | ||
| Yeah, what if, you know, like for whatever reason, you got flown to John Travolta's house to film some sort of... | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| Man, I got bad stories about those ones. | ||
| People magazine and, you know... | ||
| Man, I did that stuff in New York. | ||
| I lived in a model house in New York. | ||
| So you did that stuff? | ||
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Not that. | |
| I don't want to get you in anything you don't want to talk about, man. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| So just give me a nod. | ||
| Shit gets too gay. | ||
| Never, for the record, never did any gay shit. | ||
| I'm sure you did. | ||
| I'm sure you did. | ||
| No, I lived in a model house because I used to work for men's fitness. | ||
| I'm only fucking around. | ||
| Thank you for not getting upset. | ||
| Oh, I know. | ||
| Why would I get upset? | ||
| I've listened to your show. | ||
| I've listened since you guys had snowflakes. | ||
| I know what the show's about. | ||
| Yeah, well, we've hung out a bunch of times, man. | ||
| It was fun, the UFC up in Vancouver, but right now, I don't think they can come back. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I think there's some problem with the regulatory mission or something. | ||
| Well, I want to try to come see when you're in Calgary. | ||
| There was some sort of ruling against MMA in Vancouver, I'm back. | ||
| What? | ||
| I'm trying to remember what the actual problem was. | ||
| Please, no. | ||
| Let me Google this real quick. | ||
| What is that all about? | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| It's a fucking problem all over the world, dude. | ||
| But they had two successful shows there. | ||
| New York that want to see the UFC, and somehow or another it's been... | ||
| Do they still sell players' cigarettes in Canada? | ||
| Oh, you bet. | ||
| What am I Googling again? | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| UFC now going back to Vancouver. | ||
| UFC Vancouver, right? | ||
| Well, you guys are coming to Calgary soon. | ||
| That's not far from where I am. | ||
| Well, 8-hour drive. | ||
| I got so upset. | ||
| All I could think of was Bob Riley. | ||
| I started thinking about New York. | ||
| I completely spaced on Vancouver because the New York thing drives me fucking crazy. | ||
| I can't believe that. | ||
| It's so illogical, and it's so corrupt, and it's so gross. | ||
| The people of New York would make a lot of fucking money if the UFC came to Madison Square Garden. | ||
| It would be fucking huge. | ||
| How about this? | ||
| John Jones vs. | ||
| Anderson Silva or Anderson Silva vs. | ||
| George St. Pierre. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| Inside Madison. | ||
| Fucking Square Garden! | ||
| Are you shitting me? | ||
| Some cunts are keeping that from happening! | ||
| That could fucking happen! | ||
| What's the hole back there? | ||
| Some cunts! | ||
| I don't even want to name names. | ||
| Political bullshit, nonsense, culinary union, fucking whatever, whatever. | ||
| A lot of corruption. | ||
| People are getting greased. | ||
| The desire of the people is getting ignored. | ||
| People want to have it in the state. | ||
| It generates money. | ||
| The amount of fans that they have in New York City alone is fucking through the roof. | ||
| Everywhere you look, there's a jiu-jitsu school in New York. | ||
| There's MMA gyms, boxing gyms. | ||
| People are allowed to enjoy it. | ||
| Asshole politician with some fucking backing by whatever creepy organization that's trying to keep this shit out. | ||
| It's ridiculous because it violates the will of the people. | ||
| Anybody that does that is a shit politician. | ||
| That's a sad statement. | ||
| That's an anti-American thing to do. | ||
| You're trying to keep something away from people that want it. | ||
| You're trying to block a business. | ||
| You're trying to do it because you're in cahoots with a different business. | ||
| That should be illegal. | ||
| That's corruption. | ||
| I can't picture... | ||
| It's not American. | ||
| There better be a mistake with it and not come back to Vancouver. | ||
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It's not American! | |
| Leaving Vancouver for Calgary. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| When you guys are coming to Calgary, that's all good. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I feel like... | ||
| I still want you in BC, but... | ||
| Okay, here's the latest. | ||
| Legislation opens door for Ultimate Fighting Championship. | ||
| Okay, so this sounds good. | ||
| Maybe I read that wrong. | ||
| I know. | ||
| People always go with me. | ||
| Some people try to come up with the toughest questions about marijuana and be like, what do you think about this law that was passed in Missouri two weeks ago? | ||
| And I'm like, man, sorry, I do my best to try to stay up to date on everything, but it is physically impossible. | ||
| I don't know what's going on in Missouri. | ||
| Okay, so they did stop it. | ||
| There was an introduction of a provincial law designed to break the deadlock over regulation and supervision of combat sports. | ||
| So originally they stopped it, and now they're trying to figure out the correct way to regulate it. | ||
| That's what's going on now. | ||
| No, it seems like they're opening the door to it coming back. | ||
| I think people, you know, ultimately they hear the will of the people, especially today. | ||
| It's so popular in Canada. | ||
| People don't even understand. | ||
| It's hugely popular in America, way more popular in Canada. | ||
| No, it's like in Canada, it's not like when there's a UFC, it's not like, are you watching the fights? | ||
| It's like, where are you going to watch the fights? | ||
| Dude, we were at the fucking Rogers Arena, that gigantic Rogers Center, whatever it is. | ||
| What is it called? | ||
| Is it the Rogers Center? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The crazy building. | ||
| It's so big there's a hotel inside of it. | ||
| There's a hotel inside of it and they used to play baseball indoors. | ||
| That's how big this place is. | ||
| And it was filled. | ||
| I don't know if they could do that in America. | ||
| Maybe they could. | ||
| If it was George St. Pierre and Anderson Silva, I guarantee you they could do that in America. | ||
| But that's a big goddamn crowd. | ||
| No, Canada's nutty for it. | ||
| And Canada has less people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I think that comes a lot with the hockey culture, right? | ||
| There's been fighting in the hockey culture for years, which is like our national sport. | ||
| I hate to say this, but I think there's more fucking manly men per capita in Canada. | ||
| Or more condoms. | ||
| I just think, you know, I think you come from a country, first of all, that has to survive the cold, right? | ||
| And I think that's good for your character. | ||
| You know, I've always compared people that have it soft to people that had it tough, and you always see the people that have had, like, the most interesting people that I know are all people that had it tough. | ||
| You know, when you have it soft, it's easy to just come out fucking useless. | ||
| Well, they got those battle scars, even if they're not physical ones, right? | ||
| The wounds of going through that. | ||
| That's a lot of times people said, I have an old soul for... | ||
| That's one of the gayest things someone can ever say to you. | ||
| You need to get away from them because they're probably trying to fuck you. | ||
| Right? | ||
| If it's a dude especially... | ||
| It was a woman. | ||
| It was a woman. | ||
| Okay, she's definitely trying to fuck you. | ||
| Look at you, you handsome bastard. | ||
| No. | ||
| I was at a restaurant once and I actually heard that hack line, that old soul. | ||
| A guy was like reading a book. | ||
| It was the weirdest thing, man. | ||
| He's an actor that was in... | ||
| I don't even want to say his name. | ||
| Just some weird old actor that was in a bunch of movies and then he probably went crazy. | ||
| So he's sitting by himself with a book, which is what you do at a restaurant if you go to a nice place. | ||
| And so there's this couple next to him. | ||
| He just starts introducing himself. | ||
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What'd you do? | |
| Sorry. | ||
| Is that a glitch? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He starts introducing himself into their conversation and talking to them, and then he's like telling this man that he has an old soul. | ||
| Oh, that's lame. | ||
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And I'm like, come on. | |
| Now you make me feel bad I used that choice of words. | ||
| No, it's okay. | ||
| I mean, look, you said what you mean, you know? | ||
| Nothing wrong with it, but I had a funny old soul story. | ||
| So yeah, they drew up a funny image. | ||
| He like wore a bandana. | ||
| He's one of those assholes, sit by himself, eating dinner with a bandana on his head. | ||
| Okay, what the fuck are you doing? | ||
| Reading a book. | ||
| We used to get those guys in the nightclub too. | ||
| They'd come in and sit in the corner, read a book. | ||
| It's like, really? | ||
| It's probably the loudest, most annoying place to read it. | ||
| You're better off just to have a drink and stare at the girls because that's what you really want to do. | ||
| Well, some people like that though. | ||
| You know, it's like some people like to work at Starbucks. | ||
| They want to hear people come in and come out. | ||
| That I can understand, but a nightclub like... | ||
| We can't even hear yourself think. | ||
| People like that shit, man. | ||
| People are weird, you know? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| People are weird, dude. | ||
| I don't have to tell you. | ||
| You were running a goddamn cocaine strip club connection at 23 years of age. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How did you avoid getting sucked into the clutches of organized crime? | ||
| I just... | ||
| Well, I left originally when I was younger and went to New York, and I wanted to get into the film industry and stuff like that, so I... I don't know, when I came back, I never was much of a big drinker and wasn't into the party scene, so luckily I didn't fall into that trap. | ||
| So the union was like the first thing you ever did, really? | ||
| Yeah, the first thing I'd ever produced, yes. | ||
| Did such a fucking bang-up job of it, man. | ||
| And you went to some real creepy places. | ||
| You were like sort of an investigative reporter in that movie. | ||
| When you went to those places where you went to those underground... | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| Explain that, because that's kind of crazy. | ||
| Well, we knew the people that were busted in there, and obviously... | ||
| Well, explain what the situation was. | ||
| Okay, well, for the people listening at home to know, there was 20 full-size, like, those square... | ||
| They're not actual train carts, but they're the cargo carts that they put on the trains. | ||
| And they'd actually buried them and connected them together, so that if you were to look at them, that it'd be, you know, five rows with two each way. | ||
| Or, no, ten rows with two each way, so... | ||
| Like, 20 full-size train carts buried underground, and they had a giant grow-op under there, and it was 10 miles in the mountain where there isn't a neighbor. | ||
| You want to hear the craziest part, Joe? | ||
| The guy that got that busted actually snuck in there and took pictures one night to show the cops. | ||
| Oh, no, he didn't. | ||
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Yes, he did. | |
| Oh, my God, balls of steel. | ||
| Way up in the bush, like, way the fuck out there. | ||
| Balls of adamantium. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| But, yeah, that had 287 lights. | ||
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Adamantium. | |
| What does Wolverine's bones mean? | ||
| Animantium. | ||
| That's how I always said it. | ||
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Animantium. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Jesus, that guy had balls. | ||
| 287 lights. | ||
| And they were both going to make, just the growers that I knew in there were going to make half a million each in one year. | ||
| Oh my goodness! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so what happens now? | ||
| Because it's not legal. | ||
| They got ratted. | ||
| So what happens? | ||
| They got very lucky. | ||
| One of them got nothing. | ||
| Got it totally wiped. | ||
| The lawyer got her off. | ||
| And the other guy just got house arrest and had to pay a big fine. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Canada is going at it gangster style. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| Well, because they also have a lot of money to fight it in court, right? | ||
| Well, not only that, man, I think Canada is probably, it's very obviously been influenced by the policies of the United States. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| And the United States has like, you know, they've set parameters for Canada and told them very specifically. | ||
| They don't want them making marijuana illegal, or making it legal, rather. | ||
| I mean, it's been held up like a carrot, you know? | ||
| And whatever, you know, discussions we have, diplomacy, I mean, what kind of diplomacy do we have? | ||
| We're, like, completely connected, you know? | ||
| I mean, we will never, you know, Canada and the United States, it's so weird that we're two separate countries. | ||
| Really, it is, yeah. | ||
| Because we're connected. | ||
| You can drive there. | ||
| Everywhere. | ||
| The whole thing is drivable. | ||
| Well, that's why I see where... | ||
| I mean, not really. | ||
| This woods and shit. | ||
| Well, where Kelowna is, Kelowna's right on a border there in the lake. | ||
| And there's a lake in Asuyas that's got... | ||
| Half of it is in the U.S. and half of it is Canada. | ||
| So you can drive your boat out, right? | ||
| That's crazy, man. | ||
| You've got to pull out a passport? | ||
| And they're there. | ||
| Yeah, the Marine guys are like, all day long. | ||
| Oh, that's so gross. | ||
| That's so fucking North Korea, man. | ||
| And it's, yeah, it's bizarre when you think about it. | ||
| But there was guys I knew from Kelowna that were smuggling. | ||
| They'd get these one-body submarines and go underneath it so they could get into the U.S. Oh, my God. | ||
| That's so gangster. | ||
| Submarines. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| It's literally, if you see Kelowna, they're the rock stars. | ||
| If they're doing well, especially in the late 90s when the US dollar was like 55 cents on the Canadian dollar and they were getting like 4,500 US a pound and then that was transferring to like 6,000 Canadian. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| They were making a killing. | ||
| It's amazing, man. | ||
| And in Cologne, like in BC, a lot, like we said, it's like one in seven is what the economists said, of like living dwelling units, or one in 100 has it, and then the grow-ups, like, when you say there, and you almost, you see... | ||
| One in 100 has it... | ||
| Has a potential grow-up in it. | ||
| So every hundred houses, there's one house that's a grow-up. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And what is the one in seven? | ||
| The one in seven in certain blocks in outer small towns of where there's grow-ups in these farms. | ||
| That it's one in seven in those areas? | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| There's been small towns that they've done articles on that literally the town had nothing, everything was dry. | ||
| Then some guys came up there with a big grow-up. | ||
| They're paying all the guys to do construction, good cash. | ||
| And of course, that's the whole thing of why this union evolved because the guys building the shed or the electrician setting up the lights, that's not illegal, right? | ||
| As long as you're not stealing the power. | ||
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Right. | |
| So if he gets come to wire it all, and the guy's like, oh, here, here's six grand cash, call it even. | ||
| Well, of course, even the electrician's like, sweet. | ||
| I'm not going to declare all that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So there's a love-hate relationship that's built around the business of it, right? | ||
| Which we break down in the union. | ||
| I'm raveling on about that. | ||
| No, it's a real strange sort of a situation because it's much, much more illegal in certain parts of America. | ||
| Like if you had to try to run an operation like that in Texas, they'll fucking... | ||
| They'll get you, man. | ||
| They'll come and get you. | ||
| Don't mess with Texas. | ||
| I lived in Texas, too. | ||
| But it's a shame. | ||
| I fucking love Texas, man. | ||
| Texas is one of my favorite places to visit. | ||
| I did my first CD in Houston. | ||
| That's where I lived in Houston. | ||
| I did my first DVD in Austin. | ||
| I mean, I fucking love Texas. | ||
| But... | ||
| Make no mistake about it. | ||
| That's a really fucking suppressive situation they have there when it comes to marijuana in Texas. | ||
| If you get caught with medical marijuana, if you're like some dude with a prescription, you could still get in trouble there. | ||
| They don't respect any doctor's recommendation or any nonsense. | ||
| Like, you got some drugs on you, boy. | ||
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I don't want to hear no faggotry about your fucking prescription. | |
| You ain't getting no prescription here in Texas. | ||
| Yeah, no, don't mess with Texas. | ||
| Other than that, it's great. | ||
| Meanwhile, everybody could use some weed. | ||
| If all of Texas, it's the irony of it all, is that if all of Texas had weed, the cops' jobs would be way fucking easier. | ||
| Way easier. | ||
| That's a fact, man. | ||
| People would chill out. | ||
| They would get all paranoid and shit, and they'd do less crime because of that. | ||
| And then they would also just be a little bit more sensitive to what the fuck is actually going on. | ||
| What are the repercussions of your evil actions out there robbing people? | ||
| Settle the fuck down, dude. | ||
| For real. | ||
| They've already proven that it's had a decline in automobile accidents in places where medical marijuana is legal. | ||
| I can't wait to dive into the cult. | ||
| Like, for me... | ||
| That may or may not be true. | ||
| Because you know what? | ||
| I did no research on that whatsoever. | ||
| I just read it online. | ||
| So, I can't wait... | ||
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A study done by Dr. Rogan. | |
| It absolutely doesn't mean that I'm endorsing smoking pot and driving. | ||
| Some people can't handle life, okay? | ||
| I would never say that everybody is the same when it comes to tolerance of aspirin, alcohol, coffee. | ||
| I've seen it with alcohol. | ||
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For sure. | |
| I've seen it with everything. | ||
| You can never tell anybody to do anything because some people can't do shit. | ||
| Some people are binge eaters. | ||
| You give them one little piece of sugary something and they'll go crazy. | ||
| It's a voracious thing. | ||
| I've watched people polish down ice cream sundaes that shouldn't have had an ice cream sundae and it's like, wow. | ||
| It's orgasmic. | ||
| This guy's fulfilling some just deep, This is like sexual almost. | ||
| Like he's fucking this ice cream. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Well, it's tough. | ||
| Like when you look at junk, like I wish, you know, when you go look at something, for me, I'm a pastry guy because my grandmother was Italian, right? | ||
| So like when I see that stuff, I'm like, oh, I could just eat a tray of it, right? | ||
| What is your shit? | ||
| Do you like... | ||
| Those napoleons, man. | ||
| The three layered chocolate with the chocolate top. | ||
| That was one of my favorite from my grandmother. | ||
| I just called them the three layer cookie. | ||
| I used to eat those things. | ||
| That was the only time my grandma would get mad is when she'd save them for the big Christmas parties and I'd go in and raid them and go to lay out the tray spread for all the family and there'd be like six left. | ||
| My grandmother used to make these other ones that had like a black licorice. | ||
| They were like a little biscuit. | ||
| You know what someone fucked up and forgot to bring to the West Coast? | ||
| Good rice pudding. | ||
| See, I always have a bad thought about rice pudding. | ||
| When I lived in New York, we used to go to little diners to eat. | ||
| Like if I was doing stand-up or something, I'd stop at a diner. | ||
| They all had a cheeseburger deluxe. | ||
| And the cheeseburger deluxe was usually two patties. | ||
| And they would give you some coleslaw with it. | ||
| And for dessert, if you wanted to, they had a little glass thing with like, that cake looks good. | ||
| What's that over there? | ||
| You guys got any rice pudding? | ||
| Yeah, we got some rice pudding. | ||
| Rice pudding and whipped cream. | ||
| And it's fucking ridiculously delicious. | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| And you can't find it out here. | ||
| It's real rare that you see rice pudding. | ||
| It was so common on the East Coast. | ||
| Yeah, I don't, that's not, mine has always been the pastries. | ||
| My grandmother made everything homemade. | ||
| Homemade bread, homemade jam. | ||
| You're healthy, dude. | ||
| Do you watch what you eat? | ||
| Now I'm getting back out. | ||
| I just started on the isogenics, actually, to get back in shape here. | ||
| What is isogenics? | ||
| It's like the, it's protein shakes. | ||
| Are you in Scientology now? | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| It's the weight loss thing. | ||
| I got up to 224 at 6 foot and I'm like, I'd be fighting Cain Velasquez right now. | ||
| I'm like, hell. | ||
| Not that my ideal weight that I want to get down to is 190. Not that that would be much better because it would be Anderson Silva. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The way I really think like that, guess what? | ||
| You don't have to fight any of those guys. | ||
| And if you did, the weight wouldn't matter. | ||
| But you see, what I think with Anderson is at least it would just be like a ninja finish, right? | ||
| Like, bang, you'd finish me before I could breathe. | ||
| Kane, I just picture this savage brutalizing before it would be like... | ||
| A slam and a crunch. | ||
| And he never gets tired. | ||
| I'd be a mangled pretzel. | ||
| His dismantling of Bigfoot Silva was really disturbing. | ||
| Because everybody knew before Kane ever came to the UFC, everybody in the know knew about this kid, a former Arizona State wrestler who they would say was tearing it up at AKA. They're like, this guy is a beast. | ||
| I mean, I heard a bunch of guys talk about it. | ||
| Chael Sonnen, who is pretty fucking honest with praise or criticism when it comes to fighters. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Said, everybody knows the best heavyweight in the world is Cain Velasquez. | ||
| This is before he ever fought Brock for the title. | ||
| And so when he mauled Brock, the people in the know were like, wow, yeah, that guy's for real. | ||
| Which makes Junior Dos Santos' fight and victory over him in the first round even more staggering. | ||
| Junior is such a bad motherfucker, man. | ||
| For real. | ||
| It's just so exciting now with all the great guys that are there. | ||
| I could watch every weekend. | ||
| I'm so pissed off the Ream fight didn't happen. | ||
| That would be a really fantastic fight because that would be one of the first fights where a guy wants to stand up with him. | ||
| And that's where it gets really crazy because guess what? | ||
| Junior can take guys down too, man. | ||
| He took Shane Carwin down. | ||
| Well, that's why it'd be interesting to see what happens if DeSantis gets taken down. | ||
| I know he's trained, but I haven't seen him yet. | ||
| Yeah, you know, he's such a fucking great athlete, man. | ||
| Junior has some amazing hand speed. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| He's really, really going to be hard for a lot of guys to deal with because he has an advantage over almost everybody when it comes to the thing that's the easiest to land, which is your hands. | ||
| It's hard to kick somebody. | ||
| It's real hard when you're worried about guys taking you down, especially hard if a guy's a real good wrestler. | ||
| It's hard to get those kicks off. | ||
| But when you're nervous and you're not sure with your footing yet, you don't have your timing down yet, you're not going to throw a wheel kick. | ||
| You're going to throw a jab. | ||
| You're going to throw a jab. | ||
| Well, Junior's jab is like you getting caught in the end of a telephone pole. | ||
| And he throws that shit perfect. | ||
| Right in your face. | ||
| He pops you a couple times on the chin with that shit. | ||
| You're still in the fight, but you're significantly diminished. | ||
| I was there for the Carwin fight that was in Vancouver. | ||
| I watched that. | ||
| That was just like, bang, bang. | ||
| Amazing performance. | ||
| Amazing Carwin's face stayed together. | ||
| Carwin is a beast, dude. | ||
| That guy is so fucking tough. | ||
| If that didn't convince everybody, he could have quit in between rounds. | ||
| His face was smashed up. | ||
| They could have called that fight. | ||
| They could have called that fight. | ||
| I thought they were going to call it earlier. | ||
| He looked like he was going to come close. | ||
| He's just so fucking tough, man. | ||
| He is just so fucking tough. | ||
| He's an animal, man. | ||
| He's a tough, tough dude. | ||
| And a nice fucking guy, too. | ||
| Shane Carlin is one of the nicest people you could ever meet. | ||
| Super friendly. | ||
| Genuinely nice to everybody he meets. | ||
| I've heard you talk on the podcast, Joe. | ||
| It seems right, too, because I had a boxing background, and when you go in there, even the best guys have taken a lick, and they know what that feeling's like, and to get challenged in there, and you can get caught on any given night, that you are more humble because you go work it out, and you've been through there. | ||
| I like to go. | ||
| I went to go try jujitsu for my first time a few months ago because I did boxing and fought and stuff when I was younger. | ||
| I'm so enthralled by... | ||
| I watch these young kids on YouTube now that are doing jujitsu moves and slamming guys. | ||
| Have you seen the headbutt knockout of the kid on the one? | ||
| I've seen every fight that's ever been thrown in there. | ||
| I got a problem, dude. | ||
| It's like a little ninja... | ||
| Okay, you've seen this one? | ||
| The guy has his shirt off. | ||
| If you type W into my browser, WorldStarHipHop comes up. | ||
| Okay, that's how many fights I've seen. | ||
| That's the first thing Google Chrome says. | ||
| Oh, bitch, I know where you're going. | ||
| What's your first Twitter? | ||
| Because mine's like, for some reason, it's like something I used to tweet a long time ago, but I haven't been on that for a long time. | ||
| But for some reason, that's always the first one. | ||
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If I hit T, it comes up Twitter, but then it's like backslash something I don't... | |
| I shouldn't... | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| So it'll come up weird, like a page that you never visit before? | ||
| Or rarely visit? | ||
| I used to visit all the time, an ex-girlfriend. | ||
| Yeah, that does happen sometimes, right? | ||
| Yeah, it's an ex-girlfriend. | ||
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But every time I press T, it's the first one that comes up. | |
| I'm like, Jesus. | ||
| Because you're a stalker. | ||
| You don't realize it. | ||
| I think it has something with the cloud. | ||
| I think it's in the cloud. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| It's because I use Safari or something. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Oh, yeah, probably. | ||
| Does Safari take its cookies from the cloud, too? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Who the fuck knows? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't understand that. | ||
| I thought you were going to ask me. | ||
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Don't ask me. | |
| This is what we've got to do, people. | ||
| We've got to all be nice to each other because we're getting absorbed. | ||
| We're all going to be one thing. | ||
| It's happening. | ||
| It's happening right now. | ||
| We've got to learn to be nice to each other. | ||
| Learn to do your fucking part here. | ||
| Pull your own goddamn weight because we are one crazy thing. | ||
| And that shit is slowly being brought to light technologically. | ||
| Oh man, look at the funny story today. | ||
| Or not. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| I just fucking got high and made that shit up and read some Ray Kurzweil and got all excited. | ||
| I was getting on the plane today from Vancouver. | ||
| What's her name? | ||
| She was Kelly Taylor on 90210, the blonde, Janine Garth. | ||
| Jenny Garth. | ||
| I was looking, I was like, I think that's her. | ||
| And then I went online, right? | ||
| And I'm like, what does she look like now? | ||
| I'm on my phone. | ||
| I'm like, okay. | ||
| And then I saw on her Twitter, it said that she just wrapped filming a movie in Canada. | ||
| So I was like, okay, that's her. | ||
| So then I said, oh, I tweeted, oh, I'm in YVR, and I see this blonde, and I think it looks familiar, and I find out it's her. | ||
| Oh, she still looks beautiful for her age. | ||
| Why'd you say the age part? | ||
| No, I didn't say age. | ||
| I just said beautiful. | ||
| Actually, I just said beautiful. | ||
| I said, still looks beautiful. | ||
| No age. | ||
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Didn't fit. | |
| You can check my Twitter. | ||
| I dare you. | ||
| Yeah, no, no, because I tweeted her in, and then she tweeted. | ||
| Backtracking, motherfucker. | ||
| No, you can check. | ||
| It's there for evidence. | ||
| I believe you. | ||
| I believe you. | ||
| I fuck my own quotes up all the time. | ||
| Yeah, but then I put her in it, and then she was like, oh, hey, you must have been on my flight. | ||
| Ha ha, thank you. | ||
| And I was thinking about that weird. | ||
| You never had that connectivity. | ||
| Right there, if you made contact with a star, if you were a big fan of 90210, that would have... | ||
| Could have made your year just by going through... | ||
| Have you followed up? | ||
| So what's up? | ||
| Nothing's up with me. | ||
| Trying to get freaky with my girl? | ||
| No, man. | ||
| Married two kids. | ||
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There's no freaky left here. | |
| I feel like... | ||
| Of course. | ||
| We're just joking. | ||
| There's nothing wrong with going to the Olive Garden with the beautiful woman. | ||
| I feel like for some reason, I felt like she had a talk show that maybe I was going to be on. | ||
| I don't know if I did it. | ||
| But I did the Donnie and Marie show. | ||
| I did a lot of shows, man. | ||
| When I was on news radio, we would do as many shows as they would ask us to do because our show was not doing that well in the ratings. | ||
| So I wound up doing the Donnie and Marie show. | ||
| I did it twice. | ||
| I did it with Chastity Bono before she became Chaz. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Before or after, which one felt best? | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Before or after, which one felt best? | ||
| I didn't see her. | ||
| I never met her after. | ||
| But it was fascinating. | ||
| I was listening to him now talk about the effect that turning hormonally into a man has had on what he likes and doesn't like. | ||
| It was really interesting. | ||
| Yeah, really fascinating. | ||
| And that mindless babble became incredibly irritating to him. | ||
| Whereas he enjoyed it when he was female. | ||
| So it's not just a stereotype you're saying? | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| It's silly. | ||
| It's real clear in almost all primate cultures that men and women are different. | ||
| You've got to accept whoever the fuck we are. | ||
| Just don't try to change each other. | ||
| Accept the fact that we're absolutely, completely different things. | ||
| And just be nice to each other. | ||
| That's not always easy. | ||
| It's fucking hard, man. | ||
| That's the hard thing. | ||
| We have to admit, first of all, we're in a corrupt system. | ||
| So we have to figure out how to fix that without arresting every single fucking human being that's in power and every facet of government that could be responsible and corrupt. | ||
| We have to figure out a way to make this system make more sense. | ||
| This is not the right kind of system. | ||
| This seems too complicated, this whole representative government thing. | ||
| I don't know how you guys rock it up in Canada, how you feel about special interest groups. | ||
| Well, no, you can't. | ||
| In politics in Canada, you can't have big business give them money like they can in the U.S. You can't do that. | ||
| It's like the maximum they can take from one company is like... | ||
| I don't know the numbers correctly, but it's not very much. | ||
| Don't make a motherfucker move to Canada, dude. | ||
| I know you're a Canada fan. | ||
| You bring it up. | ||
| It's the best country, man. | ||
| When I go there, I always tell people it's like 20% less douchebags. | ||
| It's like I never understand why people can't be that cool in America. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| One of the big differences I see now living in the U.S. and then coming here is there seems to be... | ||
| A bit more care in Canada. | ||
| I hear lots in the U.S. It's like, well, if he didn't make it, well, fuck him. | ||
| It's my right. | ||
| Instead of being like, yeah, but if everybody's not doing well and you're like, fuck your neighbor, well, if you run out of power and shit hits the fan and you need help, well, is it going to be fuck your neighbor then? | ||
| No, it's going to be like, hey, can we help each other out? | ||
| So, man, ambition is very good. | ||
| But ambition without compassion is empty. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| That's not the proper use of your karmic resources. | ||
| Because you've got to have a nice community. | ||
| You've got to be happy when you're doing well and when he's doing well. | ||
| And everybody enjoys each other's company. | ||
| And that's why you create a community. | ||
| The whole idea is that we could all do that if we accepted every one of us as if it was us leading another life. | ||
| See, all that shit, that's why weed's illegal, man. | ||
| Start thinking like that. | ||
| I'll tell you, from listening to your guys' show from the beginning and seeing what you guys have built up, you and Brian, I mean, this amazing community that supports each other, the other comedians, when people are on, you let them pull plugs for their stuff, and you see how well you guys are doing. | ||
| I've seen when you guys had your first one, it was snowy screen, and it was all over the place. | ||
| Now, and the kind of people, I genuinely look forward to it. | ||
| When you had Ricky Ross on here, talking to us, it was fantastic. | ||
| It's fascinating. | ||
| I can't wait to hear this. | ||
| Did you see Graham Hancock? | ||
| Oh, man, that's one of my favorites. | ||
| 142. I know it off by heart. | ||
| I'm always like, yeah. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| Have you been paying attention to this object in the bottom of the Baltic Sea? | ||
| I got it because of you, right? | ||
| I follow through. | ||
| Your tweets are the ones I look through the most. | ||
| Well, I'm just a portal, sir, because people deliver it to me first. | ||
| They know if they send me something weird, it gets out there. | ||
| That's what I mean. | ||
| Through your podcast, people know, right? | ||
| They know that you're doing that kind of stuff. | ||
| It's the power that you have. | ||
| I mean, even just the first couple times you retweeted me when I was building my Twitters, like up a couple thousand followers because I retweeted. | ||
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It's like, boom. | |
| People are like, oh, it's a union guy. | ||
| And then it goes. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| Beautiful. | ||
| Yeah, so like the first time you retweeted me because I'm like, check out this article. | ||
| And you're like, yeah, I retweeted my phone all day. | ||
| I was like, what's wrong? | ||
| I'm like, Twitter. | ||
| That's when I finally got into it. | ||
| I was like, oh, I see how this works now and started going through it. | ||
| Create a little community. | ||
| I mean, for the most part, and this is not bullshit, almost all the tweets I get are positive. | ||
| You do get a lot of positive people. | ||
| They're really nice people, and you sort of can kind of cultivate that. | ||
| I mean, you're going to run across the occasional grumpy pants. | ||
| On a smaller level, we did that for the union. | ||
| I mean, we built this Facebook page with no money or anything like the studios have that has like 40,000 people that follow it. | ||
| That's nice. | ||
| And, you know, they always, like when, you know, right now we're... | ||
| Well, there's a real meme to it. | ||
| Excuse me, Ari Shaffir. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Dressed like a crazy person. | ||
| Just walking in on a podcast. | ||
| What's up, brother? | ||
| Come have a seat, man. | ||
| Jump in. | ||
| What the hell is up with you? | ||
| Ari Shaffir, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| What the hell is up with you? | ||
| My man. | ||
| My man. | ||
| We met in Vancouver. | ||
| Hey, what's up, dude? | ||
| Is this podcast over? | ||
| What the fuck's going on? | ||
| It's only 9.15. | ||
| Yeah, we usually start at 9.30. | ||
| Okay, that's cool. | ||
| Ari, sit down and join us, man. | ||
| So you have a Kickstarter for your new film, which is The Culture High, and they can find it at kickstarter.com. | ||
| And is this trailer worth checking out? | ||
| Yeah, the trailer's really good. | ||
| We worked hard on it. | ||
| How could you say, is it worth checking out? | ||
| Well, I didn't know if it was a very long trailer. | ||
| It's only like four minutes. | ||
| Silly. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| economic, scientific, and political operations. | ||
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Its preparations are concealed, not published. | |
| Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. | ||
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Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. | |
| No expenditure is questioned. | ||
| No rumor is printed. | ||
| No secret is revealed. | ||
| In 2007, a small independent documentary unveiling the breakdown of marijuana prohibition entered the North American film festival circuit. | ||
| The union, the business behind getting high, would find itself accepted into 33 international film festivals in the span of a year. | ||
| The film went on to win numerous awards and garner critical acclaim across the globe. | ||
| With little to no support from big studios, the union stormed the internet round reaching out to millions of viewers. | ||
| Witnessing this overwhelming response, the filmmakers took it upon themselves to evolve the documentary from a simple motion picture into the beginnings of a movement. | ||
| And so, the Union's social networking Facebook page was born, quickly growing to serve over 35,000 active users. | ||
| Armed with groundbreaking numbers on what many had said to be a dead topic, distributors and broadcasters were forced to take notice. | ||
| Five years after conception, the union and the issue of cannabis prohibition was launched into the mainstream as the film was released into video stores, universities, and media outlets across the world. | ||
| With newfound exposure, the film went on to claim the attention of Canada's highest level of government as it was chosen to be screened on Parliament Hill in order to educate senators and members of Parliament on the ramifications of marijuana prohibition. | ||
| The rest is history. | ||
| Now in the twilight of a public shift of awareness, the Union's makers have set into motion plans to create what they hope to be the most prolific and relevant marijuana documentary to date. | ||
| The follow-up film to the Union, entitled The Culture High. | ||
| Having had six years to grow, to adopt new stories, new heroes, new villains, and an entirely evolved insight into society and who we are as a human species, The Culture High will break down the boundaries that prevent marijuana prohibition From being stripped down to its very core. | ||
| Are we least effective when lost in the emotion of group mentality? | ||
| Has the emergence of the internet equalized the political playing field? | ||
| The Culture High will raise the stakes with some of today's biggest celebrities, gain access to previously unattainable footage, and reveal incredibly moving testimonies from both sides of the spectrum. | ||
| The Culture High is the documentary that will tear into the very fiber of the longest fought war of our time. | ||
| But in order to make this documentary come to fruition, we need your support. | ||
| By August 1st, we must raise $190,000 to kickstart the remaining funding necessary to produce this film. | ||
| What we seek from you is not charity, but the pre-pledged support of your copy of the film. | ||
| It's that simple. | ||
| You pre-purchase your DVD copy of The Culture High for $35, and by doing so, you will give the film the ability to be made in the first place. | ||
| That's brilliant. | ||
| That's a great idea. | ||
| The Kickstarter thing alone is the way to go for all these projects. | ||
| Well, this is a great way to do it because you have a great track record. | ||
| Like I said, your first piece. | ||
| If you haven't seen it, folks, go out and get it. | ||
| And if you can, if you're not fucking starving, please pay for it. | ||
| Because Adam's a good dude. | ||
| And it's a really well-done piece. | ||
| And it took a long time. | ||
| I know you... | ||
| It was a labor of love for a long time. | ||
| Four years in total. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, I never thought about it, man. | ||
| We did it, and then it was a while after that before it actually got released. | ||
| Like, how long was it? | ||
| Two years. | ||
| We were done in 2007, but it didn't come out until 2009 because we couldn't get a distribution deal. | ||
| We didn't know how, right? | ||
| It was our first time. | ||
| Now, this time, with the culture high, we already have a theatrical deal in place. | ||
| Well, we have to pay for it. | ||
| That's what the gap is. | ||
| Are you going to be in the movie movies? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| In America or in Canada? | ||
| No, no, America. | ||
| We've got Phase 4 films that picked up Kevin Smith's Red State. | ||
| So, like, instead of Abraham Lincoln, the Vampire Hunter, you could go see the culture high. | ||
| We'll get only two days unless it sells out, and then it'll stay a week. | ||
| But are you going to be able to go to, like, those mainstream cinemas that, like, play... | ||
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It will. | |
| They distribute. | ||
| Like, it'll be with, like, say, whoever it's AMC or whatever, and then they'll pick their certain locations. | ||
| Does that work, though? | ||
| I mean, if you have a crazy, you know, controversial documentary like that, does that get censored? | ||
| No, it doesn't get censored. | ||
| But the hard part is getting the money for it. | ||
| I'm saying, does it get censored? | ||
| Does it keep you from being in certain malls? | ||
| Oh, definitely. | ||
| There's certain countries that wouldn't even touch my thing because of its subject. | ||
| Certain territories are just like, no, it's about that. | ||
| In Canada? | ||
| No, not in Canada. | ||
| But there's certain markets. | ||
| It would never be on Air Canada's flights, right? | ||
| I wasn't sure if you said counties or countries. | ||
| No, countries. | ||
| Like territories, right? | ||
| Like if you sell certain parts of Europe... | ||
| That's where I saw it in the distribution game. | ||
| I'm like, wow, so there are going to be certain types of films that just don't get out there. | ||
| So that culture won't see it. | ||
| They know if it's an action or whatever, certain ones are just not allowed. | ||
| Certain characters are like, don't even sell me that. | ||
| I'm looking for family movies. | ||
| But could you put it in like an AMC multiplex cinema? | ||
| That's what we're doing. | ||
| In America. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| With all the regular movies, like Avengers and right next to it, the culture guy. | ||
| It might be one of the small, like say there's two AMCs, it'll probably be the smaller one. | ||
| And one of them smells like feet, and that's the one. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
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| But still, for a doc, that's so hard to do. | ||
| Right, yeah. | ||
| But if you do them like this, like what you guys have done, where you build this community that follows, and you make sure that the few dates that they come out are targeted in targeted areas, and the people go see them, then it makes sense. | ||
| Well, you know, this is also a community that would want to support something like this. | ||
| So, you know, them being able to see that video and say, hey, man, I would love to get a copy of that and, you know, have the pride and it's a nice feeling to know that, you know, you purchased something that you actually want and you allowed something to get made because of the fact that you purchased it in advance. | ||
| You gave, like, you know, a vote of trust, which is, you know, I mean, you're an honorable man. | ||
| It's a worthy investment. | ||
| I know you're going to put out a good product. | ||
| So it's cool. | ||
| The way you're doing it, I like it. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| It's a good sentiment. | ||
| Well, in our first eight days, we've raised $58,000. | ||
| Damn! | ||
| In the first eight days. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| The support has been phenomenal. | ||
| Even it shocked everyone. | ||
| Even Todd was like, dude, he's like, everybody in the marijuana industry. | ||
| How much do you need to make total? | ||
| $190,000. | ||
| $190,000. | ||
| And you're already at? | ||
| We've got 35 days to go. | ||
| We're at almost $57,000. | ||
| There it is right there. | ||
| Do you have an arbitrary number of days to go on this thing? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Kickstarter makes it you have to do it because then you can just always be kind of accepting money from Google. | ||
| Oh, right, right, right. | ||
| And then it's all or nothing, right? | ||
| We have to hit the whole goal or we get nothing. | ||
| When you get to 190, do you stop? | ||
| Pardon? | ||
| When you get to 190, do you stop? | ||
| No, you can go over, which is great. | ||
| If we go over, then we can put it into more theaters, right? | ||
| Are there laws now on begging for money on the internet? | ||
| Do they have very specific laws, like you're not allowed to fuck people over too much, asking for money on the internet? | ||
| Probably can't defraud people. | ||
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| That's the one thing, and then just go to Vegas. | ||
| Yeah, you can't probably defraud them. | ||
| Well, that's the thing, is Kickstarter has a good way that they have to approve your project and approve you. | ||
| You don't just get to put it up there. | ||
| Well, you could also make a Kickstarter that will fund my lifestyle for a year. | ||
| Yeah, if you did a good enough video and people wanted to do it. | ||
| There's not just for docs. | ||
| There's people that are creating video games or they have a new watch and you pre-buy the watch and you get it. | ||
| I have a Kickstarter to make a new Kickstarter type kind of website. | ||
| How long before these Google Lenses, these Google Goggles will be a subscription service where you can pay to look through someone's eyes? | ||
| Hopefully soon. | ||
| That's going to happen, right? | ||
| Technology keeps happening. | ||
| How much would it be worth to look through Tom Cruise's eyes for a day? | ||
| I would pay $2,000. | ||
| $20,000. | ||
| Well, you know some celebrity would sell that for sure, right? | ||
| How much is a gay porn cost? | ||
| I would take a chance. | ||
| I would take a chance that the day I tune in is the day he decides to just break his fast and suck a cock. | ||
| Wouldn't it be nice if he could just come out? | ||
| Wouldn't it be beautiful? | ||
| Do you think he's gay? | ||
| Oh, Borat made fun of him when he's like, oh, I realized all these major guys are straight, right? | ||
| And it showed guys that clearly have reputations for Boston. | ||
| It's so weird, man. | ||
| Remember when Rock Hudson was gay? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it was like, what? | ||
| Devastating to people. | ||
| And then afterwards it was like, oh yeah, of course. | ||
| And I gotta tell you, if Tom Cruise is not gay, he is the victim of the worst fucking horrendous smear campaign ever. | ||
| Him and Travolta. | ||
| And you've just become a part of it. | ||
| Well, I'm denying that part right now and I'm apologizing for my ignorance. | ||
| How do I know what the fuck he does? | ||
| Norton had a great joke about it. | ||
| About Travolta reaching out and grabbing that guy's cock. | ||
| First he fondled his balls. | ||
| The guy said, first he touched my balls. | ||
| And then he reached out and grabbed my... | ||
| And then? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| And then minutes later. | ||
| That's what he said. | ||
| And then minutes later. | ||
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What do you mean minutes later? | |
| The fuck are you talking about minutes later? | ||
| You still in the room, you asshole? | ||
| The guy just grabbed your dick. | ||
| Norton was on the last podcast. | ||
| He was... | ||
| Fucking amazing. | ||
| My friend listened to it and said it was hilarious. | ||
| I'm so happy that Norton exists. | ||
| He's one of those guys. | ||
| I'm so happy there's a Norton. | ||
| He was so funny. | ||
| When he was going over his different perversions, I was crying laughing. | ||
| He's so entertaining to me. | ||
| The way he's so honest about it and the way he relishes in it. | ||
| You're getting to experience it through him. | ||
| How he liked girls' asses. | ||
| Just a little stinky. | ||
| Just a little. | ||
| Not a terrible smell. | ||
| Just a little smell. | ||
| I like a little smell. | ||
| He's so funny. | ||
| I like underarms. | ||
| He likes the little feet smell. | ||
| He likes when a girl's feet smell a little bit. | ||
| I would love Adrian. | ||
| He's a crazy guy, man. | ||
| I love him. | ||
| It's so nice that there's a guy like Jim Norton. | ||
| Where would you be without comedians, R. Shapiro? | ||
| Without comedians? | ||
| Yeah, if you were forced to hang out with the average folk. | ||
| If you didn't have a guy like Jim Norton in your life. | ||
| If you didn't have a guy like Joey Diaz in your life. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'd just be bored. | ||
| You ever stop and think about that? | ||
| I realized this recently. | ||
| I thought of this yesterday, I think, where I was like, I don't really have any friends that aren't comedians. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I gotta make some friend friends. | ||
| I have jiu-jitsu friends. | ||
| I have quite a few friends that aren't comedians. | ||
| You hang out with them or just at jiu-jitsu? | ||
| Well, at jiu-jitsu. | ||
| Well, some of them I hang out with them. | ||
| And then I have some pool friends that are just... | ||
| What the fuck is that? | ||
| Oh, the Nazis looking at you, man. | ||
| The Nazi zombie zoned in on our Jewish friend, Ari Shafir. | ||
| How rude of the Nazi zombie. | ||
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This is creepy, man. | |
| Imagine if that shit was real life. | ||
| Imagine if that was what you had to deal with out in the streets. | ||
| Just this? | ||
| Nazi zombies? | ||
| Just fucking Nazi zombies everywhere, man. | ||
| Trying to eat you. | ||
| We're so lucky. | ||
| We're so soft. | ||
| Everywhere we go, we just drive around in our cars, listen to satellite radio. | ||
| Complain if our internet's not fast enough on our phone. | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| Meanwhile, we could be living in that movie. | ||
| What's that TV show? | ||
| The Matrix. | ||
| Walking Dead? | ||
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Walking Dead. | |
| That could be real, man. | ||
| It could have happened ten minutes ago. | ||
| We just don't know it yet. | ||
| Do you know... | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Do you know him? | ||
| Yeah, we met once at a restaurant. | ||
| We met in Vancouver. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| When you guys did Yuck Yucks that time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That place is awesome. | ||
| What is it called now? | ||
| Didn't you just do that recently? | ||
| Sell it the fuck out! | ||
| R.I. Spear! | ||
| It's great. | ||
| It's called... | ||
| Comedy Mix? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Comedy Mix. | ||
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What happened to your hair? | |
| R.I. Spear pummeled that place. | ||
| You have a chaplain. | ||
| He's looking sexy. | ||
| R.I. Spear's looking sexy. | ||
| That's what happened. | ||
| Zombie Hitler here. | ||
| That's what happened. | ||
| He's just being the fabulous... | ||
| Ari Shaffir. | ||
| You're fabulous as fuck, dude. | ||
| Look at you. | ||
| You're rocking it. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| It's so creepy. | ||
| I like what you're doing. | ||
| It's perfect. | ||
| Just go straight to nothing? | ||
| Not fucking around for three days? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You need to hang out at Starbucks and just sit there and read something. | ||
| Have you been doing some road gigs, man? | ||
| Yeah, I'm going to Ottawa where you just showed in your documentary. | ||
| I'll be at that place. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| It's beautiful there in the summer. | ||
| And the Irish Fear will also be with me and Duncan Trussell in Calgary. | ||
| And I think that is, what is that, July 20th? | ||
| It's July 20th is the date. | ||
| And then the next day starts Shroomfest 2012. Oh, snap. | ||
| Who's fighting in Calgary? | ||
| The UFC and Shroomtech together. | ||
| Shroomfest. | ||
| Bring your battle ropes. | ||
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Wait a minute. | |
| Bringing it back to sure. | ||
| Yeah, those will give you very different performance enhancements there, I think. | ||
| I expect everyone at the UFC to be on mushrooms. | ||
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Every fighter must test positive or you're queer. | |
| Can you imagine? | ||
| If there was like a day that you had to do it, no matter what. | ||
| Everything you do, the whole culture just agrees. | ||
| There's only one way to get through this. | ||
| 100% of us have to do mushrooms on this day. | ||
| That way nobody's vulnerable, nobody drives around. | ||
| From the period of 12 noon to 8 p.m., there is no fucking activity done. | ||
| Get everything you have to get done before 12 noon, then everybody in the whole fucking city takes mushrooms. | ||
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Wow. | |
| That would be amazing. | ||
| A beam of light would just go straight up to heaven. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, we would all evolve a hundred years in one day. | ||
| A hundred years. | ||
| Remember how nice people were after 9-11? | ||
| How like everybody was like, especially in New York, people were super friendly. | ||
| They like jolted a bolt of humanity into people. | ||
| Like they wanted to be kind. | ||
| They wanted to appreciate each other because they really did realize that, wow, we really are at war and fucked up things can happen at any moment right now. | ||
| Just hug somebody and say you love them and be nice and be friendly. | ||
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It did unite the nation for a while, for sure. | |
| The Mushroom Day would be like that times a million. | ||
| Yeah, it would. | ||
| It would be like that times... | ||
| And I'm not bullshitting. | ||
| If people who haven't... | ||
| And people who don't agree with me, the only reason why you don't agree with me is if you've never done mushrooms. | ||
| Because if you did do mushrooms and you thought about it and you thought of how crazy an experience it was and how much it is a shared experience when you deal with other people that do mushrooms... | ||
| Drink? | ||
| No, no, drink. | ||
| I just realized that you were doing the mushroom talk. | ||
| Any mushroom talk at all is drink? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Everyone needs to do mushrooms. | ||
| I think together one day, it's not going to hurt anybody. | ||
| That would be the greatest holiday of all time. | ||
| One day, the whole population does mushrooms. | ||
| In the meantime, 2012, July 21st, 22nd, or 23rd. | ||
| Shazam. | ||
| So the Mayan calendar was off by several months, bitches. | ||
| The portal will be open July 21st. | ||
| Where will you be? | ||
| We're doing a Shroom Fest show in Montreal. | ||
| Oh, Jesus Christ, son. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| Montreal's a cool city. | ||
| You're going to lose Ari that weekend? | ||
| Me and Brandon. | ||
| And then a bunch of other people doing mushrooms. | ||
| I think the Canada ones. | ||
| I've got a couple more coming up, too, if you want to do any more of them. | ||
| I love Canada. | ||
| You want to do Toronto? | ||
| I'm going to be there at the same time. | ||
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| Oh shit, son! | ||
| So is Tom and Brendan. | ||
| So you have a show at the same day that I have my show? | ||
| I think around the same time. | ||
| Do you think you could bolt over from one to the other and do both places? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| Would they get mad at you? | ||
| As long as they don't announce it. | ||
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Whoops! | |
| It's on the internet! | ||
| Nobody heard it. | ||
| Either way, I can't get Joey up there, but I'll come regardless to hang out. | ||
| Yeah, it should be amazing, man. | ||
| That Massey Hall is the fucking coolest old building, too, man. | ||
| It's a really historical place in Toronto. | ||
| It's one of those places where you find out other people that have played there, and you're like, wow. | ||
| I don't even feel like I should be allowed to walk around here, man. | ||
| Forget about it. | ||
| I actually go on stage. | ||
| It's just like a historical monument. | ||
| That's how I felt at Parliament Hill. | ||
| I thought it was a joke. | ||
| I thought at any time they were going to come out and say, okay, we punked you. | ||
| Did they laugh at my shit? | ||
| Man, they loved it. | ||
| They thought it was hilarious. | ||
| Did they laugh when I was talking shit? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Did you leave in all my bad words? | ||
| Everything. | ||
| You played the union for Parliament? | ||
| Yeah, in Parliament Hill. | ||
| In the clip there, we're in a square room. | ||
| You're a bad motherfucker. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| Me and Brett were just waiting to get attacked. | ||
| And then when we start talking about politicians and kind of the corruption, how it works, we're like, ooh, how are they going to... | ||
| But they were giggling and laughing. | ||
|
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Wow. | |
| Wow. | ||
| They were probably all on drugs. | ||
| No, no, now, Erwin Kotler. | ||
|
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I smoke pot right outside there and I got really nervous. | |
| That's hilarious. | ||
| Trust me, the building, when you walk in, the security was worse than the airport. | ||
| It actually picked up the titanium in my jaw. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Right? | ||
| So they were like, oh, beep, beep. | ||
| Did it pick up the steel in your balls? | ||
| No, it didn't pick that up. | ||
| That's that new adamantium shit. | ||
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Undetectable. | |
| It's amazing that you pulled that off, man. | ||
| It's amazing that seeing that, seeing those people sitting there watching that video, it's really bizarre to me. | ||
| To see my face on that screen is really strange. | ||
| That's a strange thing. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| For us, too, sitting there right next to me, I had an MP right next to me, three conservatives over here, Senator Art A. Because I'm going to be honest with you, man. | ||
| When you came over to my house, you were friends with Todd. | ||
| I'm like, who the fuck's going to watch this thing? | ||
| I'm like, yeah, I'll do your documentary. | ||
| This would be just like all the other documentaries I did that nobody saw. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I did like 20 of those things. | ||
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Nobody... | |
| I probably said the same fucking thing. | ||
| There's probably some dude who's got some... | ||
| Over 20 copies in circulation. | ||
| Shit on the cutting floor somewhere from some other shitty documentary that I did where I said the exact same shit. | ||
| I'm so repetitive. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| When it comes to that subject... | ||
| That's why you need to do mushrooms. | ||
| Nerf the world, bitch! | ||
| It also comes... | ||
| It clicks. | ||
| It's all in how you edit it, too, right? | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| You did a brilliant job. | ||
| You guys did an amazing job. | ||
| You really put it together perfect. | ||
| Listen, fuckheads... | ||
| I love you guys. | ||
| I don't really mean to call you fuckheads. | ||
| I say that like I treat you like I treat us. | ||
| This thing's got to end at some time, and then now is that time. | ||
| So Adam Skor, you, sir, are the shit. | ||
| You did a fucking tremendous job. | ||
| You took the ball. | ||
| You ran with it. | ||
| You did an amazing job, man. | ||
| Let's smoke some pot now. | ||
| That's a good idea, Ari Shafir. | ||
| You did a really incredible documentary, and I can't wait to see this. | ||
| The culture high. | ||
| It's going to be badass. | ||
| But you're going to be in it, right? | ||
| Fuck yeah. | ||
| Son! | ||
| It goes without asking. | ||
| We should do something from here. | ||
| We'll do it about the podcast. | ||
| We'll do it. | ||
| We'll interject some podcast footage in it. | ||
| And we'll promote it through the podcast, too. | ||
| I'll help you out. | ||
| Man, you're awesome. | ||
| Holla! | ||
| Spread the word, buddy. | ||
| Spread the word, man. | ||
| You're doing an awesome job of just doing that. | ||
| Getting that real information out there, the truth out there. | ||
| And, you know, it's not about hippies, folks. | ||
| It's about fucking personal liberties, and we've been co-opted by shit corporations that don't really give a fuck about you. | ||
| And we need to recognize that. | ||
| It's not patriotic to support that. | ||
| It's unpatriotic. | ||
| It's tough sometimes to buck up and say the situation's fucked. | ||
| But the people that are going to benefit, it's not just going to be people like us that want to smoke weed. | ||
| It's going to be those people that are suppressing people, too. | ||
| Because it shouldn't be within the law to allow them to suppress people. | ||
| It is, in fact, an injustice. | ||
| It's a terrible thing where people are allowed to tell other people what they can and can't do that doesn't hurt anybody else. | ||
| And when you're doing it because there's some sort of a financial gain that you're allowed to make some sort of a loophole judgment and make money from that, that's wrong. | ||
| You know it's wrong, and I know it's wrong. | ||
| And the sooner we get you off this evil tit, the better your own personal life would be. | ||
| Because I guarantee you, if you're running around out there making money off of keeping weed illegal, you're a cunt. | ||
| You live a cunt life, and you hate yourself. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Because you realize you're doing something really creepy, and you're stopping progress. | ||
| And if you, in fact, stop doing that, and instead, embrace the psychedelic experience. | ||
| Instead, take a fucking yoga class. | ||
| Go work out before you open your mouth in the morning. | ||
| Alright? | ||
| Get your shit together, bitch! | ||
| It's not our fault that we can handle it. | ||
| Alright? | ||
| Step the fuck up! | ||
| And follow Adam Scorgie on Twitter. | ||
| His real name is S-C-O-R-G-I-E, but he thinks you're retarded. | ||
| So he spells it different. | ||
| He goes S-C-O-R-E and then a big G. You were brilliant. | ||
| You did it phonetically. | ||
| Well, it was because I have Scorgie Productions, right? | ||
| So then I kept that... | ||
| Oh, that's your production company. | ||
| Makes it slightly less clever. | ||
| Not because I'm a G, but just also it's the only Twitter handle I could get. | ||
| The other one I'd used on the union one by accident, so I had to use that one. | ||
| Oh, but you still have the union on Twitter as well? | ||
| Can they follow that as well? | ||
| They can follow that as well, and then also the culture is on there already. | ||
| Nice, nice. | ||
| And when are you planning on getting the ball fully rolling with this culture high thing? | ||
| Well, August 1st is when the deadline ends for the Kickstarter run, and then we go into production in September. | ||
| Powerful production in September. | ||
| Well, Brian and I hope to be a part of this. | ||
| Correct, Brian? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Are we down? | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| 100%, bitch. | ||
| Ari Shafir. | ||
| Powerful Ari Shafir. | ||
| Please follow him. | ||
| Smuggles weed all over the country. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| Oh, Ari. | ||
| Lies. | ||
| I can tell you all about it. | ||
| Me and Ari just added a new day to the San Diego show. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| What day is this? | ||
| Is this Thursday? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So Thursday, Friday. | ||
| I will be there on Friday. | ||
| I do not know if I'll be there on Saturday. | ||
| Right now, it doesn't look like it, but I'll be there on Friday. | ||
| You're going to be there on Saturday? | ||
| Yeah, we'll do that at American Comedy Company. | ||
| I'm gonna go see the Comic Con. | ||
| I've never been to Comic Con, man. | ||
| It's like Mecca. | ||
| I gotta go there before I die. | ||
| Before the Mayans correctly predict Nibiru's presence in our atmosphere. | ||
| Do you believe in Anunnaki? | ||
| I've heard your theories about it. | ||
| I got no theories, son. | ||
| I got no theories. | ||
| Did you see Prometheus? | ||
| Yes, I did. | ||
| It was good, eh? | ||
| I did not think it was good. | ||
| You didn't like it? | ||
| No, I did not like it. | ||
| Man, people are split on that thing. | ||
| Man, I like it. | ||
| I thought it was brilliant in moments, and I thoroughly enjoyed it for long chunks, but ultimately, as a whole, I felt like you got way too many cut-the-shit scenes for me. | ||
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Yeah, it was. | |
| You fucked me with the fucking spaceship landing on the chick, and she's okay? | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Sorry. | ||
| Spoiler. | ||
| Spoiler. | ||
| But I would see it again because I'm a retard and I love sci-fi movies and Ridley Scott is still God. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's so fucking dorky to say someone is God. | ||
| Ozzy is God! | ||
| You know? | ||
| Ridley Scott is God. | ||
| He's an amazing director. | ||
| I'd love to talk to him about how... | ||
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How he fucks a fleshlight. | |
| How that guy would love to be cuddled by the inside wall of the fleshlight. | ||
| Because, ladies and gentlemen, there is no better feeling... | ||
| The love of your friends is number one. | ||
| Family, right up there. | ||
| Then there's the fleshlight, folks. | ||
| It's like the best vagina you really could ever invent. | ||
| And if it just moved on its own, it would be too perfect, and that's all you would do all day. | ||
| You should be lucky that it's a manual thing. | ||
| The lazy cunt that I know you are, you know, you're going to give it a couple of thrusts, and then you're going to throw it in the corner and pass out. | ||
| Probably without even pulling your pants up, you sick fuck. | ||
| What if they had a fleshlight that, you know, the cousin it, that would do that, like, crawl over to you in the Oh yeah. | ||
| That would be fabulous. | ||
| And again you'd have guys never leave, right? | ||
| You would start feeling jealous, or rather you would start feeling guilty that you were doing this and this is no way to live your life, just getting sucked off every day by a robot. | ||
| Would you? | ||
| You're the most religious girl possible. | ||
| It would probably completely ruin your actual real sex life because you will completely disassociate sex from being like a physical need and instead it will become like this really heavy-duty emotional thing. | ||
| So you'll find some chick who's in the Fifty Shades of Grey and you'll find her and then together you guys could just slow kiss and you never come ever again. | ||
| And then we thank the fleshlight. | ||
| You go to JoeRogan.net and you enter in the code DaveRogan and you save yourself 15% off. | ||
| The number one sex toy for men. | ||
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Yee-haw! | |
| I'm doing it all like a cowboy now. | ||
| Go to Onnit.com. | ||
| O-N-N-I-T. Get yourself some battle ropes. | ||
| Battle ropes is the latest thing. | ||
| The fucking latest goddamn fitness craze. | ||
| Crazy 40 foot long ropes that you swing around like a fucking savage... | ||
| Pirate-type character from a thousand years back! | ||
| And get yourself some kettlebells, too, so you can be a manly man. | ||
| And stop doing your bicep curls, you little bitch. | ||
| And if you're fat, just do a push-up at least. | ||
| Do some push-ups. | ||
| Well, you don't have to do anything, really. | ||
| Some of my best friends don't work out at all. | ||
| Do whatever the fuck you want to do. | ||
| That's all I'm saying. | ||
| If you want to get down with the kettlebells, go to Onnit.com. | ||
| Do the best possible construction. | ||
| They will last you a lifetime. | ||
| Archaeologists 5,000 years from now will try to figure out what the fuck these things were in your basement, okay? | ||
| Because they're going to still be here. | ||
| It's hard to ship. | ||
| Oh, AlphaBrain. | ||
| Go buy some AlphaBrain, too. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| Go to Onnit.com and all your answers will be solved. | ||
| Thanks to Punch Drunk Entertainment. | ||
| Sucker Punch? | ||
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What am I... Fucking thing. | |
| Sucker punch, is it? | ||
| This is sucker punch. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm calling it punch drunk. | ||
| That's me. | ||
| Punch drunk is my support. | ||
| Nobody's punched me for years and I'm still stupid. | ||
| This is the end of this podcast, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We want to thank you very much. | ||
| If you are podcast starved and you're like, God damn it, I wonder what those guys talked about right after that podcast is over. | ||
| We got another fucking podcast! | ||
| It starts any second now, and it is called the Ice House Chronicles, and it is only available on Death Squad. | ||
| If you go to iTunes and subscribe to Death Squad, or go to deathsquad.tv, and you can find the Vimeo links, and you can find all that good juicy shit. | ||
| If you want to watch it live, it'll be on this same channel, ustream.tv forward slash Joe Rogan. | ||
| Holla at your boy. | ||
| So the Ice House Chronicles. | ||
| Ari Shafir will be here. | ||
| Brian Redband will jump into the frame. | ||
| Who else? | ||
| Brendan Walsh. | ||
| Oh, my man! | ||
| Maria Shahada. | ||
| Randy Licky's here to talk to you. | ||
| Randy Licky wants to smack me, I heard. | ||
| Why? | ||
| This might be the end. | ||
| This might be like a Doors song. | ||
| Alright, we love you guys. | ||
| Thank you for everything, and we will see you as soon as possible. |
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