Tommy Chong | Livin' By Example, Man

The fiddle player that I worked with.

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Tommy Chong: He taught me the basics of entertaining

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

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

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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

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Marc Preston: Hey, how are you?

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Marc Preston: Welcome back.

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Marc Preston: Another episode of Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you here today.

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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston.

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

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Marc Preston: thank you for stopping by.

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

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

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Marc Preston: back.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: no introduction.

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Marc Preston: Tommy Chong is that guy.

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Marc Preston: Everybody knows Tommy Chong.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: entrepreneur.

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Marc Preston: He's a cannabis advocate.

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

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: It is time for a legend.

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Marc Preston: It is Tommy Chong Day right now on

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Marc Preston: StoryandCraft.

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Marc Preston: Thanks so much for taking time out.

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Marc Preston: It means a lot to me.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: where to start, really.

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

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Marc Preston: breakfast?

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Marc Preston: Did you get the day started nicely.

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Tommy Chong: How's everything going?

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Tommy Chong: You know, my breakfast is the most

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

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Tommy Chong: this morning was no exception.

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Tommy Chong: I have a little problem with gout and

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

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Tommy Chong: that in my toes.

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

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

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Tommy Chong: been told.

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

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Tommy Chong: near my house and I just started.

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: sushi.

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

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Tommy Chong: was such a sushi addict.

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Tommy Chong: Anyway, they had some.

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Tommy Chong: They had some.

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

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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, I know that.

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: nightclub and they had a sushi bar there

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: was making sushi in the nightclub, the

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: get enough of it.

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

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

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Tommy Chong: drunk bikers would throw things at him.

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Marc Preston: Well, how long ago was this?

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Marc Preston: Was this a?

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

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: bottom line is that he made this beautiful

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: You know, you know what?

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: people do, the intermittent fasting, like

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

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

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Marc Preston: or something I don't know?

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Tommy Chong: Oh, I believe that.

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: gets used to rejecting certain things,

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Tommy Chong: especially as you get older.

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

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Marc Preston: heard that like really wealthy people that

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: kind of acid.

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: on.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: Where was that?

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Tommy Chong: In prison.

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Tommy Chong: I was in prison.

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: like.

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

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Tommy Chong: or anything, you know.

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: doctors legitimate MDs, you know doing time

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Tommy Chong: for opioid.

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Marc Preston: Oh, prescribing huh.

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

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Tommy Chong: before I got to my bunk.

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

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

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Marc Preston: were talking about you being which I think

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Marc Preston: is just such a travesty when you think

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: No, it was for being Chinese.

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Tommy Chong: Actually, that's my assessment.

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: were going after the hippies, like Nixon

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

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Tommy Chong: nothing going on.

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

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Tommy Chong: that the bomb business was funneling

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Tommy Chong: billions of dollars into IKDA, billions,

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Tommy Chong: billions of dollars into IKDA.

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

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Marc Preston: profit margin on that.

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

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Marc Preston: There's no way.

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Tommy Chong: They went to great lengths.

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Tommy Chong: You know what.

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

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Tommy Chong: cool they embedded a financial expert into

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Tommy Chong: our company.

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

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Tommy Chong: out of nowhere and he started showing my

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

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Tommy Chong: effectively.

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

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

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Tommy Chong: son never knew.

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

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

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Tommy Chong: were on the road doing comedy and people

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Tommy Chong: would bring up homemade Chongbongs and to

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Tommy Chong: get them signed.

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

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

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Tommy Chong: And so we started the Chongbong company.

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

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Tommy Chong: going on about making billions of dollars,

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Tommy Chong: the government they embedded a financial

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Tommy Chong: expert who actually helped us get out of

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Tommy Chong: the red because we were operating so poorly

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

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Marc Preston: Wouldn't that be considered entrapment?

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: knew that I was being followed.

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Tommy Chong: I was being filmed.

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

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

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Tommy Chong: filmed was me admitting that the bombs

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

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Tommy Chong: That was a big deal.

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

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Tommy Chong: for marijuana.

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Marc Preston: Was it like 78?

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: well because I wrote the movie.

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: In fact, most of the.

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

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: I could sense what the audience was looking

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Tommy Chong: He taught me the basics of entertaining

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

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

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Tommy Chong: So he taught me that lesson.

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

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

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Tommy Chong: Cheech came later I had been doing the

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

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

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Marc Preston: Yeah Well, how did you?

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

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Marc Preston: But how did you meet?

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

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

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Tommy Chong: Basically I was the one that was interested

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Tommy Chong: You know the band.

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Tommy Chong: We had a singer that was very flamboyant

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: I was born in Edmonton and raised in

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

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Tommy Chong: The club was so successful.

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Tommy Chong: It became so successful that another club

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: which I did using the girls who were

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Tommy Chong: But I needed another partner.

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

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Tommy Chong: I was just gonna work the lights.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: You know community theater.

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Tommy Chong: And so I needed a straight guy.

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

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

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

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Tommy Chong: Richard was up in Vancouver, canada,

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

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Tommy Chong: And so we did.

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

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

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Tommy Chong: we came down to LA.

466

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

467

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

468

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Tommy Chong: funny together.

469

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

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

470

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

471

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Tommy Chong: around to playing one note, because Teech

472

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

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

473

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

Tommy Chong: out that that was it.

474

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

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

475

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

Tommy Chong: found out his name.

476

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

Tommy Chong: His nickname was Teech, because we were

477

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

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

478

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

479

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

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

480

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Tommy Chong: is history.

481

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

482

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

483

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

484

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Marc Preston: about your movies when I was probably too

485

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Marc Preston: young to be watching them.

486

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

Marc Preston: Way back when, was you know?

487

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

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

488

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

489

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

Marc Preston: know, or chips, you know.

490

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

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

491

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Marc Preston: this whole Chicano side, there was this

492

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

493

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Marc Preston: equally enamored with others, this whole,

494

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

495

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

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

496

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

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

497

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

Marc Preston: were saying before about how you supported

498

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

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

499

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

500

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

Marc Preston: your movies that I can think of.

501

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

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

502

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

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

503

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Marc Preston: instance, him getting pulled over.

504

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

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

505

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

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

506

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

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

507

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

Marc Preston: on the back of the car?

508

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Marc Preston: You know.

509

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

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

510

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

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

511

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

Marc Preston: you're there.

512

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

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

513

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

Marc Preston: I think you're.

514

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

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

515

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

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

516

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

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

517

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

518

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

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

519

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

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

520

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

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

521

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

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

522

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

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

523

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

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

524

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

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

525

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

Marc Preston: trying to get into the door.

526

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

Marc Preston: Apparently you've got so many monitors

527

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

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

528

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

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

529

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

Marc Preston: under underappreciated physical comedians.

530

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

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

531

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

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

532

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

Marc Preston: mischief you were up to, did they

533

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

Marc Preston: understand it?

534

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

Marc Preston: Did they like?

535

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

Marc Preston: Did they think it was cool?

536

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

Marc Preston: They think it was just ridiculous?

537

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

Marc Preston: What was your family thinking about your

538

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

Marc Preston: endeavor?

539

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

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

540

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

Tommy Chong: encouraged me because you know the party to

541

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

Tommy Chong: play guitar.

542

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

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

543

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

Tommy Chong: traditional Chinese, but he never spoke

544

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

Tommy Chong: Chinese around the house, he never taught

545

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

Tommy Chong: us anything.

546

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

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

547

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

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

548

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

Tommy Chong: very beautiful.

549

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

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

550

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

Tommy Chong: but we always thought she was Scotch Irish

551

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

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

552

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

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

553

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

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

554

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

Tommy Chong: and he would.

555

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

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

556

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

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

557

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

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

558

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

Tommy Chong: My brother actually managed all the clubs,

559

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

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

560

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

Tommy Chong: with the bands and everything else.

561

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

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

562

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

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

563

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

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

564

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

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

565

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

Tommy Chong: the army.

566

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

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

567

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

Tommy Chong: born and raised in Vancouver and Ableton

568

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

Tommy Chong: too, where he met my mother.

569

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

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

570

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

Tommy Chong: tradition, but they went along with me

571

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

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

572

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

Tommy Chong: entertainer.

573

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

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

574

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

Tommy Chong: I remember my sister.

575

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

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

576

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

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

577

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

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

578

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

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

579

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

Tommy Chong: entertainment world, you know.

580

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

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

581

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

Tommy Chong: know I was.

582

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

Tommy Chong: I was lopped into a.

583

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

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

584

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

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

585

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

Tommy Chong: tommy.

586

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

Tommy Chong: My dad and my brother were opposites.

587

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

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

588

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

Tommy Chong: he was a pool hustler one time.

589

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

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

590

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

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

591

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

Tommy Chong: truck driver, you know.

592

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

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

593

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

Tommy Chong: very tough too.

594

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

Tommy Chong: But my uncle Tommy was an academic.

595

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

Tommy Chong: He never got out of school.

596

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

Tommy Chong: He stayed in the University of Alberta

597

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

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

598

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

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

599

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

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

600

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

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

601

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

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

602

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

Tommy Chong: his family until, until I started getting

603

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

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

604

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

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

605

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

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

606

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

Tommy Chong: you know.

607

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

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

608

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

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

609

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

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

610

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

Tommy Chong: sister's still with us.

611

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

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

612

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

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

613

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

Tommy Chong: My mother was very.

614

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

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

615

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

Tommy Chong: dad and she just she adopted everything

616

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

Tommy Chong: Chinese and she adopted.

617

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

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

618

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

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

619

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

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

620

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

Tommy Chong: She died before.

621

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

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

622

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

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

623

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

Tommy Chong: so about what year?

624

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

Marc Preston: what about was it?

625

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

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

626

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

Marc Preston: Is that when you came to LA?

627

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

Tommy Chong: We came to LA.

628

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

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

629

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

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

630

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

Tommy Chong: application in thefluodance to

631

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

Tommy Chong: sweetiewater們 BM-Marriageğlithololocee.

632

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

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

633

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

Tommy Chong: our first record.

634

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

Tommy Chong: They're not here.

635

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

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

636

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

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

637

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

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

638

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

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

639

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

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

640

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

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

641

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

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

642

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

Marc Preston: I was just watching the George Carlin

643

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

Marc Preston: documentary that Javelin.

644

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

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

645

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

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

646

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

Marc Preston: saying it now.

647

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

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

648

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

Marc Preston: you know, sitting down listening to these

649

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

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

650

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

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

651

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

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

652

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

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

653

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

Marc Preston: And then to transition from doing the

654

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

Marc Preston: comedy albums to getting on camera and

655

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

Marc Preston: bringing these characters to film how did

656

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

Marc Preston: that come to be?

657

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

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

658

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

Marc Preston: going to start acting on camera now.

659

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

Tommy Chong: That was me.

660

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

Tommy Chong: I got really tired of going to Australia

661

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

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

662

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

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

663

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

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

664

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

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

665

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

Tommy Chong: an album is one thing.

666

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

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

667

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

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

668

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

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

669

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

Tommy Chong: to repeat it every time.

670

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

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

671

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

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

672

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

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

673

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

Tommy Chong: shows.

674

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

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

675

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

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

676

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

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

677

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

Tommy Chong: we never had Mexicans there.

678

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

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

679

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

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

680

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

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

681

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

Tommy Chong: accepted.

682

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

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

683

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

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

684

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

Tommy Chong: We had lineups around the block,

685

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

Tommy Chong: celebrities, everybody wanted to see us in

686

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

Tommy Chong: LA.

687

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

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

688

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

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

689

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

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

690

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

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

691

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

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

692

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

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

693

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

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

694

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

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

695

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

Tommy Chong: Australia.

696

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

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

697

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

Tommy Chong: because Cheech and I were basking in the

698

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

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

699

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

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

700

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

Tommy Chong: is deadly.

701

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

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

702

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

Tommy Chong: slightest bit of hesitation in New York,

703

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

Tommy Chong: you're dead.

704

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

Tommy Chong: People who will kill you there.

705

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

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

706

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

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

707

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

Tommy Chong: were doing comedy and she was like starting

708

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

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

709

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

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

710

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

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

711

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

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

712

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

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

713

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

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

714

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

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

715

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

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

716

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

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

717

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

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

718

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

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

719

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

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

720

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

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

721

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

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

722

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

Tommy Chong: So we ended up.

723

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

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

724

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

Tommy Chong: And she's walking up and in my mind I said

725

00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:31,259

Tommy Chong: well, this'll either make her break her,

726

00:32:31,279 --> 00:32:31,840

Tommy Chong: you know.

727

00:32:32,563 --> 00:32:35,377

Tommy Chong: And so I said to her as I went on stage, I

728

00:32:35,398 --> 00:32:38,327

Tommy Chong: said pretty tough and she said F them.

729

00:32:40,382 --> 00:32:42,731

Marc Preston: She said you know she, she, she.

730

00:32:42,751 --> 00:32:44,037

Marc Preston: You know she's kind of built up that callus

731

00:32:44,057 --> 00:32:44,880

Marc Preston: to be able to handle those folks now.

732

00:32:46,184 --> 00:32:48,390

Marc Preston: But like you know, that's one of the quite

733

00:32:48,410 --> 00:32:50,596

Marc Preston: you mentioned Andrew Dice Clay and you know

734

00:32:50,616 --> 00:32:51,880

Marc Preston: you go back to Sam Kinnison and you go back

735

00:32:53,322 --> 00:32:55,246

Marc Preston: as I was coming up in the 80s watching

736

00:32:55,947 --> 00:32:56,327

Marc Preston: comedy.

737

00:32:56,367 --> 00:32:59,372

Marc Preston: You had Eddie Murphy doing these big almost

738

00:32:59,392 --> 00:33:02,418

Marc Preston: like you know, these big arena shows.

739

00:33:02,478 --> 00:33:02,698

Marc Preston: Yeah.

740

00:33:02,718 --> 00:33:03,640

Marc Preston: You had a lot of folks doing that.

741

00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:05,799

Marc Preston: You don't hear about that nearly as much.

742

00:33:06,542 --> 00:33:09,329

Marc Preston: I mean, it seems like the 80s was that a?

743

00:33:09,409 --> 00:33:13,339

Marc Preston: Was that a real heyday for comics to put on

744

00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:13,780

Marc Preston: just killer big shows?

745

00:33:14,943 --> 00:33:16,426

Marc Preston: And what's the difference between then and

746

00:33:16,507 --> 00:33:17,369

Marc Preston: now in your mind?

747

00:33:19,221 --> 00:33:22,512

Tommy Chong: Well, now it's more sophisticated and it's

748

00:33:22,572 --> 00:33:24,880

Tommy Chong: more segregated.

749

00:33:25,781 --> 00:33:30,165

Tommy Chong: You know, like that, one time Bill Cosby

750

00:33:30,385 --> 00:33:33,608

Tommy Chong: was the opposite of Eddie Murphy, but

751

00:33:33,648 --> 00:33:35,590

Tommy Chong: they're both black, you know.

752

00:33:35,770 --> 00:33:38,293

Tommy Chong: But Cosby was appealed to the, to the

753

00:33:38,353 --> 00:33:41,416

Tommy Chong: whiter blacks, and Eddie Murphy appealed to

754

00:33:41,796 --> 00:33:42,417

Tommy Chong: all blacks.

755

00:33:42,517 --> 00:33:45,246

Tommy Chong: You know, it's almost like the ones that

756

00:33:45,286 --> 00:33:46,669

Tommy Chong: are in prison, the ones that are under

757

00:33:46,710 --> 00:33:47,050

Tommy Chong: prison.

758

00:33:48,641 --> 00:33:52,867

Tommy Chong: It's almost that ghetto or upper class, you

759

00:33:52,907 --> 00:33:53,047

Tommy Chong: know.

760

00:33:53,688 --> 00:33:56,551

Tommy Chong: But now there's.

761

00:33:56,572 --> 00:33:58,614

Tommy Chong: So that, what's that culture?

762

00:34:00,903 --> 00:34:03,209

Tommy Chong: I can never remember the phrase.

763

00:34:04,362 --> 00:34:05,848

Tommy Chong: I hadn't changed my act.

764

00:34:06,442 --> 00:34:08,330

Tommy Chong: Listen, you know I'm, I'm.

765

00:34:08,691 --> 00:34:10,659

Tommy Chong: I never considered, you know, I mean, I was

766

00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:10,880

Tommy Chong: married.

767

00:34:11,322 --> 00:34:12,507

Tommy Chong: My first wife is black.

768

00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:15,840

Tommy Chong: I got two black kids, you know daughters.

769

00:34:16,621 --> 00:34:19,326

Tommy Chong: I never, ever, considered myself anything

770

00:34:19,426 --> 00:34:21,851

Tommy Chong: less than you know a brother.

771

00:34:22,572 --> 00:34:23,754

Tommy Chong: You know, I was there.

772

00:34:24,843 --> 00:34:27,771

Tommy Chong: We did a bit called a blind melon chiming

773

00:34:28,945 --> 00:34:31,578

Tommy Chong: and and it was a takeoff on a blind blue

774

00:34:31,619 --> 00:34:36,147

Tommy Chong: singer and now I got the premise or the

775

00:34:36,287 --> 00:34:40,012

Tommy Chong: idea from the committee was an acting group

776

00:34:40,533 --> 00:34:41,715

Tommy Chong: out of the San Francisco.

777

00:34:43,224 --> 00:34:48,629

Tommy Chong: They did a bit similar, but then I saw the

778

00:34:48,669 --> 00:34:49,572

Tommy Chong: T-Bone Walker.

779

00:34:50,421 --> 00:34:52,627

Tommy Chong: Now, I was a guitar, I am a guitar player,

780

00:34:52,767 --> 00:34:56,222

Tommy Chong: and I saw T-Bone at his height and then I

781

00:34:56,282 --> 00:34:58,807

Tommy Chong: saw him at his lowest part and it was the

782

00:34:58,867 --> 00:35:01,712

Tommy Chong: lowest part that inspired us to do blind

783

00:35:01,752 --> 00:35:02,434

Tommy Chong: melon chiming.

784

00:35:02,940 --> 00:35:05,685

Tommy Chong: Well, I, I'm getting you know, to me it was

785

00:35:05,705 --> 00:35:08,250

Tommy Chong: like it wasn't insulting or any of that

786

00:35:09,712 --> 00:35:14,284

Tommy Chong: stuff, but I was ready to do a show in Reno,

787

00:35:14,985 --> 00:35:17,949

Tommy Chong: teach that I am in Shelby and Herbie

788

00:35:17,989 --> 00:35:21,473

Tommy Chong: Hancock, the great Herbie Hancock, the jazz

789

00:35:21,493 --> 00:35:26,741

Tommy Chong: guy, he, he was a big fan and I knew that

790

00:35:26,821 --> 00:35:32,308

Tommy Chong: because he one time he had us appear on his

791

00:35:33,550 --> 00:35:37,735

Tommy Chong: in Switzerland at the jazz concert.

792

00:35:39,723 --> 00:35:41,450

Tommy Chong: Yeah, they had a jazz show there in

793

00:35:41,490 --> 00:35:43,860

Tommy Chong: Switzerland and teach and I were invited.

794

00:35:44,562 --> 00:35:48,069

Tommy Chong: We came and worked a little bit, you know,

795

00:35:48,290 --> 00:35:49,112

Tommy Chong: mc a little bit.

796

00:35:50,342 --> 00:35:51,386

Tommy Chong: Herbie's a big fan.

797

00:35:53,523 --> 00:35:55,887

Tommy Chong: So Herbie, we're talking because he's going

798

00:35:55,907 --> 00:35:59,092

Tommy Chong: to appear in Reno after teach and I,

799

00:35:59,272 --> 00:36:04,765

Tommy Chong: charlie, and then Herbie, he said, he said,

800

00:36:04,786 --> 00:36:09,372

Tommy Chong: you know, we kind of like a serious.

801

00:36:10,253 --> 00:36:11,615

Tommy Chong: It was a serious discussion.

802

00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:15,348

Tommy Chong: He was trying to get to me about my blind

803

00:36:15,388 --> 00:36:18,801

Tommy Chong: melon chiming bit and the way he said it

804

00:36:18,841 --> 00:36:19,061

Tommy Chong: was.

805

00:36:19,601 --> 00:36:23,845

Tommy Chong: Hey, man, you know, when you do the blind

806

00:36:23,865 --> 00:36:24,586

Tommy Chong: melon thing.

807

00:36:24,966 --> 00:36:27,388

Tommy Chong: He says you start off playing.

808

00:36:27,548 --> 00:36:32,973

Tommy Chong: You know you got that really good jazz, you

809

00:36:32,993 --> 00:36:35,855

Tommy Chong: know like good music, you know, and then

810

00:36:35,895 --> 00:36:37,176

Tommy Chong: you get into that other shit.

811

00:36:39,322 --> 00:36:40,507

Marc Preston: He's like well, you mean the thing I do for

812

00:36:40,527 --> 00:36:40,828

Marc Preston: a living.

813

00:36:41,008 --> 00:36:44,445

Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and then he said,

814

00:36:44,465 --> 00:36:44,868

Tommy Chong: well, he said that.

815

00:36:46,837 --> 00:36:47,457

Tommy Chong: I looked at him.

816

00:36:48,579 --> 00:36:51,723

Tommy Chong: I respect jazz guys more than you know.

817

00:36:51,783 --> 00:36:57,811

Tommy Chong: To me they're the real spiritual leaders of

818

00:36:57,831 --> 00:36:58,292

Tommy Chong: the country.

819

00:36:58,332 --> 00:37:03,265

Tommy Chong: Yeah, indeed, and so it really struck home.

820

00:37:04,658 --> 00:37:07,167

Tommy Chong: And so, even though I did Blame Melancholyn

821

00:37:07,247 --> 00:37:09,595

Tommy Chong: after that, I changed the act.

822

00:37:10,076 --> 00:37:12,343

Tommy Chong: See, when Cheech and I did it, I used it,

823

00:37:12,684 --> 00:37:13,546

Tommy Chong: it was all visual.

824

00:37:14,478 --> 00:37:17,577

Tommy Chong: He was too drunk to really play and so he

825

00:37:17,617 --> 00:37:19,741

Tommy Chong: just did all these visual funny things that

826

00:37:19,781 --> 00:37:22,926

Tommy Chong: were very funny and would get the crowd on

827

00:37:22,966 --> 00:37:23,888

Tommy Chong: the floor laughing.

828

00:37:24,935 --> 00:37:26,977

Tommy Chong: And then, when Cheech and I broke up, I

829

00:37:27,598 --> 00:37:30,320

Tommy Chong: started doing the Blame Melancholyn voice

830

00:37:31,882 --> 00:37:33,644

Tommy Chong: and doing jokes bits.

831

00:37:33,824 --> 00:37:37,247

Tommy Chong: You know, different, different black bits.

832

00:37:37,307 --> 00:37:39,449

Tommy Chong: You know, in fact I was, you might as well

833

00:37:39,489 --> 00:37:41,851

Tommy Chong: say, in fact I did appear in blackface,

834

00:37:42,935 --> 00:37:46,440

Tommy Chong: still smoking, in the movie because I

835

00:37:46,540 --> 00:37:51,527

Tommy Chong: always felt that that blind, you know, had

836

00:37:51,567 --> 00:37:57,400

Tommy Chong: the soul of a black man and but obviously

837

00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,026

Tommy Chong: not because her being, her, being a class

838

00:38:01,206 --> 00:38:02,708

Tommy Chong: on, he saw through it.

839

00:38:03,856 --> 00:38:05,467

Marc Preston: And so it's kind of like Mel Brooks.

840

00:38:05,507 --> 00:38:06,635

Marc Preston: You know he had a lot of his comedy.

841

00:38:06,896 --> 00:38:09,523

Marc Preston: It was never making fun of, it was trying

842

00:38:09,563 --> 00:38:10,486

Marc Preston: to embrace the.

843

00:38:11,899 --> 00:38:12,622

Marc Preston: It was parody.

844

00:38:12,662 --> 00:38:14,568

Marc Preston: Yeah, it was trying to kind of celebrate

845

00:38:14,588 --> 00:38:16,053

Marc Preston: the culture in a way where people like,

846

00:38:16,113 --> 00:38:17,939

Marc Preston: okay, I get it, he's not making fun of us,

847

00:38:18,059 --> 00:38:20,426

Marc Preston: you know, but it's a fine line.

848

00:38:20,735 --> 00:38:22,682

Marc Preston: But I just don't think that that could

849

00:38:22,742 --> 00:38:23,545

Marc Preston: happen today.

850

00:38:23,816 --> 00:38:25,161

Marc Preston: You know, I don't think they comedy.

851

00:38:25,655 --> 00:38:27,223

Marc Preston: I think the people are too quick on the

852

00:38:27,263 --> 00:38:29,635

Marc Preston: trigger to not political correctness.

853

00:38:30,279 --> 00:38:30,762

Marc Preston: I don't know.

854

00:38:34,001 --> 00:38:36,768

Tommy Chong: Yeah, the culture stealing the culture,

855

00:38:36,788 --> 00:38:37,770

Tommy Chong: something culture?

856

00:38:38,853 --> 00:38:39,354

Marc Preston: appropriation.

857

00:38:39,374 --> 00:38:43,037

Tommy Chong: I think yeah, I call it yeah yeah, all that

858

00:38:43,157 --> 00:38:45,240

Tommy Chong: all that weird talk, you know.

859

00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:48,464

Tommy Chong: But then if you look at like I was what I

860

00:38:48,484 --> 00:38:52,529

Tommy Chong: watched, all in the family and all the

861

00:38:52,549 --> 00:38:54,791

Tommy Chong: family just showed Archie Bunker there and

862

00:38:54,992 --> 00:38:57,615

Tommy Chong: another, you know, trump right up the bat.

863

00:38:58,157 --> 00:38:59,181

Tommy Chong: You know, I mean this.

864

00:38:59,261 --> 00:39:02,615

Tommy Chong: This guy was really sick in his hair.

865

00:39:03,376 --> 00:39:05,299

Tommy Chong: Nobody believed but it was it was.

866

00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,603

Marc Preston: It was parodying that guy, but you're also

867

00:39:08,024 --> 00:39:09,526

Marc Preston: empathetic and I think that's that's a

868

00:39:09,627 --> 00:39:10,929

Marc Preston: great acting and great.

869

00:39:11,129 --> 00:39:13,293

Marc Preston: You know, great comedy is you can be

870

00:39:13,353 --> 00:39:14,635

Marc Preston: empathetic to the ridiculous one.

871

00:39:15,056 --> 00:39:16,539

Marc Preston: You know you can kind of he's like all

872

00:39:16,559 --> 00:39:19,845

Marc Preston: right, but but when you had the, the, the

873

00:39:19,966 --> 00:39:21,990

Marc Preston: offshoot, which is the Jeffersons, the

874

00:39:22,010 --> 00:39:24,455

Marc Preston: interaction he had with his name is Kate

875

00:39:24,475 --> 00:39:24,635

Marc Preston: George.

876

00:39:25,518 --> 00:39:26,342

Tommy Chong: Yeah, George.

877

00:39:26,775 --> 00:39:29,780

Marc Preston: Yeah, the interaction that they had was

878

00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,042

Marc Preston: just like they're going at each other,

879

00:39:31,142 --> 00:39:32,885

Marc Preston: which is the way kind of funny, because

880

00:39:32,905 --> 00:39:34,167

Marc Preston: they're both being real from their own

881

00:39:34,207 --> 00:39:35,148

Marc Preston: perspective, you know.

882

00:39:35,408 --> 00:39:35,529

Tommy Chong: Yeah.

883

00:39:36,635 --> 00:39:38,842

Marc Preston: But I think that the comedies is very it

884

00:39:38,882 --> 00:39:40,975

Marc Preston: was nuanced, you know.

885

00:39:41,056 --> 00:39:43,218

Marc Preston: I guess you can say, but like you listen to

886

00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:45,401

Marc Preston: you talk about Bill Cosby before and who he

887

00:39:45,441 --> 00:39:47,644

Marc Preston: was appealing to, and I remember one of the

888

00:39:47,684 --> 00:39:49,687

Marc Preston: bits that Eddie Murphy did.

889

00:39:49,707 --> 00:39:51,770

Marc Preston: He was talking about how he got a call from

890

00:39:52,795 --> 00:39:54,619

Marc Preston: oh yeah, got got a call from Bill.

891

00:39:54,899 --> 00:39:56,382

Marc Preston: You know Bill Cosby saying, hey, you know

892

00:39:56,402 --> 00:39:57,644

Marc Preston: you need to dial back on that.

893

00:39:58,365 --> 00:39:59,928

Marc Preston: You know four letter words and all that and

894

00:39:59,948 --> 00:40:01,070

Marc Preston: he calls up Richard Pryor.

895

00:40:01,090 --> 00:40:02,192

Marc Preston: Is like Richard, what do you think you know?

896

00:40:02,212 --> 00:40:03,635

Marc Preston: Because Richard Pryor is like you know,

897

00:40:04,196 --> 00:40:04,817

Marc Preston: hell with him, man.

898

00:40:04,837 --> 00:40:06,319

Marc Preston: You know, I'm sure more colorful language

899

00:40:06,339 --> 00:40:07,100

Marc Preston: like do your thing.

900

00:40:07,140 --> 00:40:09,403

Marc Preston: You know it's like Richard Pryor was.

901

00:40:10,624 --> 00:40:13,728

Marc Preston: I think that that there's so many comedians

902

00:40:13,869 --> 00:40:17,393

Marc Preston: now that you can trace back the DNA to you

903

00:40:17,433 --> 00:40:18,615

Marc Preston: know, oh yeah, that Eddie Murphy.

904

00:40:19,037 --> 00:40:21,446

Marc Preston: Well, eddie Murphy traces DNA back to you

905

00:40:21,486 --> 00:40:22,772

Marc Preston: know, richard Pryor.

906

00:40:22,812 --> 00:40:23,635

Marc Preston: So I don't know.

907

00:40:23,655 --> 00:40:25,462

Marc Preston: There, I think I love comedy.

908

00:40:25,655 --> 00:40:27,110

Marc Preston: I think that I think I grew up in a really

909

00:40:27,170 --> 00:40:30,505

Marc Preston: wonderful time and I think in the 80s it

910

00:40:30,525 --> 00:40:32,270

Marc Preston: was all happening at Sam Kenneson, which is

911

00:40:32,311 --> 00:40:35,322

Marc Preston: just you know, probably off the wall.

912

00:40:36,316 --> 00:40:38,961

Marc Preston: Yeah, you know, and watch that documentary

913

00:40:38,981 --> 00:40:41,446

Marc Preston: that John Appetow did on George Carlin.

914

00:40:41,746 --> 00:40:42,327

Tommy Chong: I did, I did.

915

00:40:44,857 --> 00:40:46,501

Marc Preston: And I never knew this George Carlin had

916

00:40:46,601 --> 00:40:49,306

Marc Preston: seen Sam Kenneson and recognized wait a

917

00:40:49,346 --> 00:40:50,990

Marc Preston: minute, I need to make some adjustments

918

00:40:51,010 --> 00:40:53,415

Marc Preston: because I don't want to be kind of an

919

00:40:53,475 --> 00:40:56,063

Marc Preston: actress yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, left behind.

920

00:40:58,159 --> 00:40:59,522

Marc Preston: Yeah, and the and George Carlin weren't you

921

00:40:59,602 --> 00:41:00,404

Marc Preston: on his show once?

922

00:41:00,665 --> 00:41:02,940

Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, back at the George Carlin show,

923

00:41:03,655 --> 00:41:03,936

Marc Preston: yeah.

924

00:41:04,318 --> 00:41:07,221

Tommy Chong: I sure was, and I got to know George.

925

00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:10,680

Tommy Chong: One thing about George that nobody really

926

00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,304

Tommy Chong: talked about, even in the documentary I was

927

00:41:13,344 --> 00:41:15,387

Tommy Chong: shocked that he's a piano player.

928

00:41:16,068 --> 00:41:19,004

Tommy Chong: Really, I didn't know that he was once he

929

00:41:19,044 --> 00:41:19,608

Tommy Chong: had a group.

930

00:41:20,434 --> 00:41:22,125

Tommy Chong: One time he played in a group.

931

00:41:22,709 --> 00:41:23,615

Tommy Chong: He can play piano.

932

00:41:23,755 --> 00:41:26,464

Tommy Chong: That's where he got all the word stuff from.

933

00:41:26,956 --> 00:41:29,384

Tommy Chong: You know he's, he was very musical.

934

00:41:29,815 --> 00:41:31,799

Marc Preston: Yeah, I always thought I came up in Dallas

935

00:41:31,899 --> 00:41:33,322

Marc Preston: Radio and I always thought it was kind of

936

00:41:33,342 --> 00:41:34,804

Marc Preston: cool because, like you know, George Carlin

937

00:41:34,844 --> 00:41:36,187

Marc Preston: worked in Fort Worth Radio.

938

00:41:36,287 --> 00:41:39,141

Marc Preston: Yeah, and I was like that's kind of cool.

939

00:41:39,735 --> 00:41:41,219

Marc Preston: And this is where the seven words came.

940

00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,224

Marc Preston: The FCC got their seven words from as this

941

00:41:43,264 --> 00:41:43,846

Marc Preston: guy yeah.

942

00:41:44,876 --> 00:41:47,041

Marc Preston: George Carlin, you know, one of the funny

943

00:41:47,121 --> 00:41:48,525

Marc Preston: things I was wondering if you could kind of

944

00:41:48,565 --> 00:41:51,813

Marc Preston: clarify that I saw was they were actually

945

00:41:51,873 --> 00:41:53,438

Marc Preston: referred to Cheech in this and they said

946

00:41:53,458 --> 00:41:54,822

Marc Preston: that there was some time in the 80s where

947

00:41:54,842 --> 00:41:58,515

Marc Preston: they said Cheech said he was Get kind of

948

00:41:58,535 --> 00:41:58,635

Marc Preston: passé.

949

00:41:59,178 --> 00:42:00,705

Marc Preston: It's like, okay, you know George Carlin's

950

00:42:00,725 --> 00:42:02,293

Marc Preston: the 1970s.

951

00:42:02,313 --> 00:42:02,615

Tommy Chong: He's obsolete.

952

00:42:03,056 --> 00:42:04,943

Tommy Chong: He said no, he said he was obsolete.

953

00:42:06,217 --> 00:42:07,682

Tommy Chong: George Carlin was obsolete.

954

00:42:08,675 --> 00:42:10,963

Tommy Chong: And Cheech Cheech denied saying that.

955

00:42:12,496 --> 00:42:16,302

Tommy Chong: I asked Cheech about it, you know and, and

956

00:42:16,943 --> 00:42:20,247

Tommy Chong: he denied saying he could very well upset

957

00:42:20,327 --> 00:42:20,988

Tommy Chong: it one time.

958

00:42:22,916 --> 00:42:25,682

Tommy Chong: But George Cheech used to do George, one of

959

00:42:25,722 --> 00:42:29,537

Tommy Chong: George Bitts, really, george, yeah, just

960

00:42:29,557 --> 00:42:31,460

Tommy Chong: pulled the twine something.

961

00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,766

Tommy Chong: You know, cowboy, you don't take off on the

962

00:42:34,806 --> 00:42:35,247

Tommy Chong: cowboys.

963

00:42:36,815 --> 00:42:40,265

Tommy Chong: I, I, I then I knew George.

964

00:42:41,076 --> 00:42:41,979

Tommy Chong: I was on a show.

965

00:42:43,816 --> 00:42:46,838

Tommy Chong: I never got tight with him, you know, and,

966

00:42:47,019 --> 00:42:50,056

Tommy Chong: and, by the way, I saw the last show George

967

00:42:50,176 --> 00:42:55,143

Tommy Chong: did was there was a whole slew of comedians

968

00:42:55,844 --> 00:43:01,439

Tommy Chong: at the Wadsworth Theater in Westwood and it

969

00:43:01,499 --> 00:43:04,125

Tommy Chong: was George's last performance, really.

970

00:43:04,145 --> 00:43:04,806

Tommy Chong: And you saw that.

971

00:43:06,076 --> 00:43:07,882

Tommy Chong: Yeah, I saw that Norm Cosby was there.

972

00:43:08,815 --> 00:43:10,659

Tommy Chong: Oh, what was the?

973

00:43:10,699 --> 00:43:12,342

Tommy Chong: Remember the guy that used to have the

974

00:43:12,402 --> 00:43:16,877

Tommy Chong: newspaper under his arm the very first?

975

00:43:18,521 --> 00:43:19,382

Tommy Chong: What was his name?

976

00:43:22,635 --> 00:43:28,366

Tommy Chong: He did commentary on God.

977

00:43:28,387 --> 00:43:29,609

Tommy Chong: I can't think of his name right now.

978

00:43:29,936 --> 00:43:31,140

Marc Preston: I think I know what you're talking about.

979

00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,284

Marc Preston: I'm not wearing a curtain on it.

980

00:43:32,635 --> 00:43:32,836

Tommy Chong: It was.

981

00:43:33,038 --> 00:43:34,628

Tommy Chong: It was his, his last show.

982

00:43:35,201 --> 00:43:37,879

Tommy Chong: In fact, it was because of that, it was

983

00:43:37,899 --> 00:43:40,057

Tommy Chong: going to be his last show period and he

984

00:43:40,097 --> 00:43:41,382

Tommy Chong: died shortly after that.

985

00:43:41,958 --> 00:43:44,799

Tommy Chong: But yeah, I saw all those last shows and it

986

00:43:44,839 --> 00:43:48,411

Tommy Chong: was quite a thrill for me because I, you

987

00:43:48,431 --> 00:43:49,635

Tommy Chong: know, we grew up with all those guys?

988

00:43:50,158 --> 00:43:51,826

Marc Preston: Well, yeah, but you also know how much goes

989

00:43:52,087 --> 00:43:55,085

Marc Preston: into building an act and how many, how much

990

00:43:55,145 --> 00:43:57,296

Marc Preston: is working it out over and over, and just

991

00:43:57,757 --> 00:44:00,082

Marc Preston: till you get your show set, your HBO show

992

00:44:00,162 --> 00:44:00,423

Marc Preston: set.

993

00:44:00,483 --> 00:44:02,026

Marc Preston: You know they don't see all the time you're

994

00:44:02,046 --> 00:44:03,469

Marc Preston: in these dark clubs working it out.

995

00:44:03,976 --> 00:44:05,619

Marc Preston: But you know, george Carlin, I think

996

00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,325

Marc Preston: starting in about 2016, I wish is like God,

997

00:44:09,365 --> 00:44:11,609

Marc Preston: this is the time he was meant to be here.

998

00:44:11,736 --> 00:44:14,570

Marc Preston: You know, 2016 forward, when, politically

999

00:44:14,610 --> 00:44:15,996

Marc Preston: and everything going on in our world I mean,

00:44:16,017 --> 00:44:19,199

Marc Preston: this is the stuff he was commenting on and

00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:21,265

Marc Preston: people thought he was extremely cynical or

00:44:21,305 --> 00:44:21,586

Marc Preston: whatever.

00:44:21,635 --> 00:44:23,179

Marc Preston: I was like no, he's, he's got some

00:44:23,199 --> 00:44:25,064

Marc Preston: perspective that maybe he was a little bit

00:44:25,084 --> 00:44:27,960

Marc Preston: of a forecaster, you know, oh he was he was

00:44:28,655 --> 00:44:30,058

Marc Preston: and what the truth is.

00:44:32,262 --> 00:44:34,587

Tommy Chong: I think you got to be very careful when

00:44:34,607 --> 00:44:35,409

Tommy Chong: you're a comedian.

00:44:36,999 --> 00:44:37,480

Tommy Chong: I had a.

00:44:39,185 --> 00:44:42,414

Tommy Chong: They honored me at the Skirball in Los

00:44:42,454 --> 00:44:42,635

Tommy Chong: Angeles.

00:44:43,197 --> 00:44:44,462

Tommy Chong: Do you know where the Skirball is?

00:44:44,675 --> 00:44:46,221

Tommy Chong: I've never heard that about that before.

00:44:47,177 --> 00:44:52,073

Tommy Chong: Skirball is a Jewish center, the community

00:44:52,093 --> 00:44:52,595

Tommy Chong: center kind of thing.

00:44:53,078 --> 00:44:53,722

Marc Preston: Oh, okay, I got.

00:44:53,742 --> 00:44:55,595

Tommy Chong: You Is like all Fairfax or something, or,

00:44:56,296 --> 00:44:59,663

Tommy Chong: yeah, no, it's up on 405, near the Getty

00:44:59,703 --> 00:45:01,727

Tommy Chong: Museum, near the museum up there.

00:45:02,148 --> 00:45:05,021

Tommy Chong: Okay, and as you go up, then it's Skirball

00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:08,097

Tommy Chong: is called any, it's a Skirball center and

00:45:08,277 --> 00:45:11,597

Tommy Chong: and and so they're going to honor me and

00:45:11,697 --> 00:45:14,261

Tommy Chong: anytime anybody honors anybody.

00:45:14,401 --> 00:45:18,067

Tommy Chong: It's just a scam really to get them to do

00:45:18,107 --> 00:45:19,069

Tommy Chong: an act for nothing.

00:45:19,655 --> 00:45:21,438

Tommy Chong: You know, you get a plaque, you get a

00:45:21,478 --> 00:45:24,602

Tommy Chong: plaque or you get a meal, but and usually

00:45:24,622 --> 00:45:27,606

Tommy Chong: they have a lot of other comedians on and

00:45:27,927 --> 00:45:29,870

Tommy Chong: they're they're doing their act and

00:45:29,890 --> 00:45:30,390

Tommy Chong: everything else.

00:45:31,337 --> 00:45:35,407

Tommy Chong: So I got, I got they wanted to honor me.

00:45:36,076 --> 00:45:38,759

Tommy Chong: Well, I'm kind of in.

00:45:41,222 --> 00:45:45,287

Tommy Chong: I only went into comedy after when we broke

00:45:45,387 --> 00:45:45,447

Tommy Chong: up.

00:45:48,775 --> 00:45:51,404

Tommy Chong: See, I was always a part of a comedy team

00:45:51,936 --> 00:45:54,103

Tommy Chong: and I was very comfortable with that.

00:45:55,077 --> 00:45:58,341

Tommy Chong: When she and I broke up, I saw Dennis

00:45:58,381 --> 00:45:58,642

Tommy Chong: Miller.

00:45:58,762 --> 00:45:59,725

Tommy Chong: Remember Dennis Miller?

00:45:59,806 --> 00:46:03,142

Tommy Chong: Yeah, absolutely, I saw Dennis Miller in

00:46:03,182 --> 00:46:06,440

Tommy Chong: Vancouver and he was in this little comedy

00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:06,721

Tommy Chong: club.

00:46:06,801 --> 00:46:09,657

Tommy Chong: I knew the owner of the comedy club and he

00:46:09,697 --> 00:46:10,999

Tommy Chong: said Dennis Miller's playing, oh.

00:46:11,019 --> 00:46:14,325

Tommy Chong: So I went down and and I met Dennis and

00:46:14,365 --> 00:46:17,516

Tommy Chong: Dennis is all nervous before the show, and

00:46:17,536 --> 00:46:21,963

Tommy Chong: the little guy you know and and he said to

00:46:22,023 --> 00:46:24,828

Tommy Chong: me he says do you, do you still get nervous

00:46:24,868 --> 00:46:25,729

Tommy Chong: before you go on?

00:46:26,795 --> 00:46:29,003

Tommy Chong: And I hadn't been on stage for years by

00:46:29,043 --> 00:46:32,197

Tommy Chong: that time, yeah, doing movies and that, and

00:46:32,438 --> 00:46:33,722

Tommy Chong: and he just caught me.

00:46:34,755 --> 00:46:39,040

Tommy Chong: He just caught me in a net and and then I

00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,546

Tommy Chong: watched the show and I sat there thinking I

00:46:41,586 --> 00:46:43,622

Tommy Chong: got to do this, I got to do this.

00:46:44,125 --> 00:46:45,595

Tommy Chong: This is this is what I got to do.

00:46:46,296 --> 00:46:48,000

Tommy Chong: And so, right after Dennis Miller that was

00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:54,880

Tommy Chong: 90, christmas of 93, I believe Because as

00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,967

Tommy Chong: soon as I got back to LA, I went on, I went.

00:46:58,147 --> 00:47:00,693

Tommy Chong: I found, you know, the freebies, the comedy

00:47:00,713 --> 00:47:02,820

Tommy Chong: club where you can go worse, and there was

00:47:03,020 --> 00:47:03,462

Tommy Chong: one in this.

00:47:04,456 --> 00:47:07,922

Tommy Chong: It's kind of a kind of poetic justice in

00:47:09,284 --> 00:47:09,645

Tommy Chong: teaching.

00:47:09,705 --> 00:47:11,067

Tommy Chong: I did a song one time.

00:47:11,127 --> 00:47:12,470

Tommy Chong: You know that you're in my eye.

00:47:13,036 --> 00:47:15,402

Tommy Chong: You know I'm so bloody rich on apartment

00:47:15,442 --> 00:47:17,186

Tommy Chong: building, shopping centers.

00:47:18,136 --> 00:47:20,420

Tommy Chong: Well, the comedy club that I was going to

00:47:20,460 --> 00:47:22,604

Tommy Chong: work in was the shopping center that we

00:47:22,644 --> 00:47:23,906

Tommy Chong: were part owners of.

00:47:26,538 --> 00:47:28,123

Marc Preston: You call the irony tour yeah.

00:47:28,916 --> 00:47:32,586

Tommy Chong: And so I'm getting ready to go on stage, on,

00:47:33,449 --> 00:47:35,635

Tommy Chong: on stage, for the first time by myself.

00:47:36,276 --> 00:47:39,201

Tommy Chong: I got myself a nice sports jacket.

00:47:39,342 --> 00:47:42,007

Tommy Chong: You know I was going to be like a standup

00:47:42,067 --> 00:47:47,124

Tommy Chong: comedian, you know, like, like, like Dennis

00:47:47,164 --> 00:47:47,404

Tommy Chong: Miller.

00:47:49,437 --> 00:47:54,006

Tommy Chong: Well, anyway, the night before Rodney King

00:47:54,747 --> 00:47:55,368

Tommy Chong: got, whacked.

00:47:55,835 --> 00:48:01,007

Marc Preston: Oh, that's right, it was a 92 93 93, 93.

00:48:02,538 --> 00:48:08,359

Tommy Chong: And that happened the night before I saw it

00:48:08,699 --> 00:48:09,020

Tommy Chong: and then.

00:48:09,921 --> 00:48:12,724

Tommy Chong: So I wrote down a few bits about it and

00:48:13,164 --> 00:48:16,148

Tommy Chong: when I went on stage that was the first

00:48:16,188 --> 00:48:18,430

Tommy Chong: thing I did was talk about the Rodney King

00:48:18,911 --> 00:48:23,060

Tommy Chong: beating and I said it's funny how mothers

00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,304

Tommy Chong: doesn't matter why you're on TV, mothers

00:48:26,324 --> 00:48:28,488

Tommy Chong: will get excited just seeing their son on

00:48:28,528 --> 00:48:28,828

Tommy Chong: TV.

00:48:31,156 --> 00:48:33,620

Tommy Chong: And I say I could just visualize the cops,

00:48:33,701 --> 00:48:36,806

Tommy Chong: mother you know saying oh, that's my boy,

00:48:38,795 --> 00:48:39,959

Tommy Chong: that's my boy, look at him.

00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,079

Tommy Chong: Oh yeah, and it got a.

00:48:44,199 --> 00:48:45,202

Tommy Chong: You you laugh.

00:48:45,563 --> 00:48:48,239

Tommy Chong: Yeah, and I got a few chuckles.

00:48:48,679 --> 00:48:51,345

Tommy Chong: But the first thing a guy said after I did

00:48:51,385 --> 00:48:54,058

Tommy Chong: that bit hey, where's cheats?

00:49:04,579 --> 00:49:07,023

Marc Preston: Well, what is that like, though, being so,

00:49:08,846 --> 00:49:10,189

Marc Preston: you know, independently of done?

00:49:10,489 --> 00:49:12,138

Marc Preston: You know y'all definitely stand on your own

00:49:12,158 --> 00:49:14,364

Marc Preston: two feet, had great projects and endeavors

00:49:14,484 --> 00:49:16,458

Marc Preston: and entrepreneurial things that you've done,

00:49:17,215 --> 00:49:18,879

Marc Preston: but what's it like to kind of spend a

00:49:18,919 --> 00:49:21,806

Marc Preston: career that you've got a career brother, as

00:49:21,846 --> 00:49:22,147

Marc Preston: it were?

00:49:22,295 --> 00:49:24,260

Marc Preston: You know you get kind of hard to talk about

00:49:24,581 --> 00:49:25,904

Marc Preston: one of y'all without thinking about the

00:49:25,964 --> 00:49:26,105

Marc Preston: other.

00:49:26,145 --> 00:49:26,806

Marc Preston: What is that like?

00:49:27,476 --> 00:49:30,644

Marc Preston: Is it, is it ever impeded you anything

00:49:30,664 --> 00:49:32,057

Marc Preston: you've done, in a way, like it's like oh

00:49:32,077 --> 00:49:33,421

Marc Preston: man, I'm trying to kind of break out of

00:49:33,481 --> 00:49:33,622

Marc Preston: this.

00:49:34,675 --> 00:49:36,140

Marc Preston: Like in that, like right there on stage,

00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:37,704

Marc Preston: I'm just like where's Cheech, you know, is

00:49:37,724 --> 00:49:38,126

Marc Preston: that something?

00:49:38,837 --> 00:49:40,782

Tommy Chong: I think no no, not at all.

00:49:40,983 --> 00:49:41,505

Tommy Chong: Not at all.

00:49:42,255 --> 00:49:44,742

Tommy Chong: No, I'm like I said, I grew up backing up

00:49:44,883 --> 00:49:45,204

Tommy Chong: people.

00:49:45,585 --> 00:49:48,624

Tommy Chong: Yeah, so I totally understand, you know,

00:49:48,945 --> 00:49:50,090

Tommy Chong: and me talking you know.

00:49:50,130 --> 00:49:51,756

Tommy Chong: You know, when people found out I was a

00:49:51,817 --> 00:49:53,262

Tommy Chong: comedian, they didn't believe it.

00:49:53,415 --> 00:49:55,822

Tommy Chong: They thought it was somebody else because

00:49:55,943 --> 00:49:56,525

Tommy Chong: I've gone.

00:49:56,826 --> 00:49:58,671

Tommy Chong: You know, I've known people all my life

00:49:59,032 --> 00:49:59,875

Tommy Chong: where I never talked.

00:50:00,536 --> 00:50:00,777

Tommy Chong: I knew.

00:50:00,897 --> 00:50:02,440

Tommy Chong: You know I was a backup guitar player.

00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,669

Tommy Chong: You know I had nothing to say except and

00:50:06,755 --> 00:50:07,096

Tommy Chong: whisper.

00:50:07,317 --> 00:50:08,099

Tommy Chong: What corner are we in?

00:50:11,155 --> 00:50:13,022

Marc Preston: He wanted to do more acting stuff.

00:50:13,255 --> 00:50:13,698

Marc Preston: You know he was.

00:50:13,939 --> 00:50:14,442

Marc Preston: You know that was.

00:50:14,664 --> 00:50:15,227

Marc Preston: He was on the board.

00:50:15,388 --> 00:50:17,377

Marc Preston: Like I want to say straight as opposed to

00:50:17,798 --> 00:50:20,084

Marc Preston: you know but he's, he's one of you know,

00:50:20,144 --> 00:50:21,207

Marc Preston: non comedic necessary.

00:50:21,295 --> 00:50:23,021

Marc Preston: You know, maybe he was playing the kind of

00:50:23,081 --> 00:50:23,824

Marc Preston: funny guy in it.

00:50:23,975 --> 00:50:26,642

Marc Preston: But after that happened, what was kind of

00:50:26,662 --> 00:50:28,607

Marc Preston: your, your, your, what were your endeavors,

00:50:28,835 --> 00:50:30,201

Marc Preston: what were you up to at that point in time?

00:50:30,435 --> 00:50:32,656

Tommy Chong: Whenever you were just doing his thing, I

00:50:32,776 --> 00:50:36,123

Tommy Chong: was really on a roll because I had directed,

00:50:36,524 --> 00:50:40,120

Tommy Chong: I wrote and directed what happened when we

00:50:40,180 --> 00:50:42,669

Tommy Chong: got screwed out of the up and smoke money,

00:50:43,211 --> 00:50:43,954

Tommy Chong: which was a good.

00:50:43,974 --> 00:50:46,960

Tommy Chong: It was a good thing, because had we not,

00:50:47,081 --> 00:50:50,107

Tommy Chong: had we, you know, cashed in, we probably

00:50:50,187 --> 00:50:52,480

Tommy Chong: would not have done what we did, you know.

00:50:53,815 --> 00:50:54,858

Marc Preston: And so I kind of made you hungry.

00:50:54,918 --> 00:50:56,362

Marc Preston: I guess, right, yeah, yeah.

00:50:57,895 --> 00:51:00,116

Tommy Chong: I mean, I got this in the game, so I don't.

00:51:02,279 --> 00:51:05,545

Tommy Chong: The thing that really bothered me was when

00:51:05,825 --> 00:51:09,637

Tommy Chong: I you know, like you said I teach got all

00:51:09,657 --> 00:51:09,817

Tommy Chong: the.

00:51:09,957 --> 00:51:12,182

Tommy Chong: You know all the, the, the lines.

00:51:12,202 --> 00:51:15,537

Tommy Chong: You know he was the lead guy, you know like

00:51:15,557 --> 00:51:17,962

Tommy Chong: the lead singer, you know I was a backup

00:51:18,343 --> 00:51:25,426

Tommy Chong: guy, but when he had a chance, see, and I

00:51:25,486 --> 00:51:28,894

Tommy Chong: wrote most of the bits, but when he had a

00:51:28,954 --> 00:51:32,204

Tommy Chong: chance to write something, just on

00:51:32,325 --> 00:51:35,093

Tommy Chong: percheach, that's all he did, he just wrote

00:51:35,114 --> 00:51:35,535

Tommy Chong: it percheach.

00:51:35,836 --> 00:51:39,118

Tommy Chong: He never included song, and I'm talking

00:51:39,158 --> 00:51:40,487

Tommy Chong: about Born in East LA.

00:51:40,849 --> 00:51:42,336

Marc Preston: Oh yeah, See Born in.

00:51:42,436 --> 00:51:42,576

Tommy Chong: East.

00:51:42,717 --> 00:51:46,824

Tommy Chong: Born in East LA was a takeoff of Bruce

00:51:46,864 --> 00:51:48,888

Tommy Chong: Springsteen's song Born in.

00:51:49,575 --> 00:51:50,299

Announcer: Born in the USA.

00:51:51,655 --> 00:51:54,342

Tommy Chong: While Cheech turned it to Born in East LA,

00:51:54,904 --> 00:51:56,717

Tommy Chong: which is fine, it was great.

00:51:56,917 --> 00:52:00,223

Tommy Chong: Except when it came to put my part in, he

00:52:00,283 --> 00:52:01,486

Tommy Chong: never had a part for me.

00:52:03,475 --> 00:52:05,806

Tommy Chong: And then he says, oh no, and I called him

00:52:05,887 --> 00:52:07,615

Tommy Chong: out on it, you know, because he was telling

00:52:07,655 --> 00:52:09,422

Tommy Chong: me, you know, he wrote the song Born in

00:52:09,442 --> 00:52:09,883

Tommy Chong: East LA.

00:52:10,015 --> 00:52:12,461

Tommy Chong: I was like, oh great, you know, no, that's

00:52:12,481 --> 00:52:12,842

Tommy Chong: for him.

00:52:14,955 --> 00:52:18,243

Tommy Chong: But then he, you know, he was Cheech and

00:52:18,263 --> 00:52:19,787

Tommy Chong: Chong at the time, so he put it down.

00:52:20,175 --> 00:52:23,998

Tommy Chong: It was written by Cheech and Chong and

00:52:24,058 --> 00:52:25,522

Tommy Chong: everything is Cheech and Chong, cheech and

00:52:25,542 --> 00:52:26,966

Tommy Chong: Chong, except the performance.

00:52:27,535 --> 00:52:31,184

Tommy Chong: And so I said to him well, where's my part,

00:52:32,555 --> 00:52:32,856

Tommy Chong: you know?

00:52:32,876 --> 00:52:34,742

Tommy Chong: He said oh, you play a cop.

00:52:35,975 --> 00:52:39,421

Tommy Chong: Well, to me, you know, that's one of the

00:52:39,481 --> 00:52:43,467

Tommy Chong: biggest insults you could do, unless you

00:52:43,607 --> 00:52:44,669

Tommy Chong: add the comedy part.

00:52:45,355 --> 00:52:47,142

Marc Preston: Okay, you're a cop, but here's your

00:52:47,202 --> 00:52:49,240

Marc Preston: committee, yeah, where his focus is very

00:52:49,340 --> 00:52:50,824

Marc Preston: narrow about how he's going to be coming

00:52:50,925 --> 00:52:51,005

Marc Preston: out.

00:52:51,416 --> 00:52:52,719

Announcer: You know you're thinking globally.

00:52:52,759 --> 00:52:53,782

Marc Preston: You know you're thinking about the whole

00:52:53,822 --> 00:52:54,364

Marc Preston: project.

00:52:55,717 --> 00:52:57,242

Tommy Chong: That's and that's the way I thought about

00:52:57,302 --> 00:52:58,838

Tommy Chong: everything, the movies, everything.

00:52:58,898 --> 00:53:00,443

Tommy Chong: You know, I never, never think.

00:53:01,095 --> 00:53:04,541

Tommy Chong: And it wasn't until you know, lately, that

00:53:04,621 --> 00:53:07,988

Tommy Chong: I realized that he did his best he could do.

00:53:08,975 --> 00:53:11,163

Tommy Chong: You know that that was the best he could do

00:53:11,315 --> 00:53:12,881

Tommy Chong: and that was the best he could come up with,

00:53:13,355 --> 00:53:18,084

Tommy Chong: and so, as a result, we, we just quit.

00:53:18,986 --> 00:53:20,449

Tommy Chong: We could quit communicating.

00:53:22,178 --> 00:53:22,919

Tommy Chong: I'm going to show them.

00:53:23,059 --> 00:53:23,901

Announcer: Did you, did he come?

00:53:24,061 --> 00:53:24,683

Tommy Chong: Yeah, he came.

00:53:24,743 --> 00:53:25,584

Tommy Chong: He's going to talk to you.

00:53:25,945 --> 00:53:27,107

Announcer: And he looked it over.

00:53:27,388 --> 00:53:28,329

Announcer: Yeah, he's going to talk to you.

00:53:28,370 --> 00:53:31,055

Tommy Chong: Okay, thanks, was that show.

00:53:32,459 --> 00:53:35,758

Tommy Chong: Yeah, my darling wife just liked him oh.

00:53:35,818 --> 00:53:37,302

Marc Preston: I love, you know, I love hearing y'all with

00:53:37,904 --> 00:53:38,726

Marc Preston: when y'all were doing the podcast.

00:53:38,755 --> 00:53:40,601

Marc Preston: By the way, I want y'all to do the podcast

00:53:40,642 --> 00:53:41,404

Marc Preston: of Paris again.

00:53:41,736 --> 00:53:43,182

Marc Preston: I used to love and Shelby would show up.

00:53:43,636 --> 00:53:43,837

Marc Preston: That was.

00:53:43,857 --> 00:53:44,379

Marc Preston: That was fun.

00:53:46,980 --> 00:53:48,585

Tommy Chong: Well, you go way back with us.

00:53:48,775 --> 00:53:49,417

Tommy Chong: Yeah, no, no, no.

00:53:49,717 --> 00:53:50,118

Marc Preston: I loved.

00:53:50,158 --> 00:53:53,266

Marc Preston: You know, listening to the two of y'all is

00:53:53,286 --> 00:53:54,537

Marc Preston: like man, this is, this is some

00:53:55,459 --> 00:53:57,646

Marc Preston: non-traditional but awesome father-son time.

00:53:57,715 --> 00:53:58,878

Marc Preston: I love this, you know.

00:53:58,978 --> 00:54:00,321

Marc Preston: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:54:00,361 --> 00:54:01,284

Tommy Chong: No, he is Paris.

00:54:04,299 --> 00:54:04,881

Tommy Chong: All my kids.

00:54:05,443 --> 00:54:06,687

Tommy Chong: That was the other thing too.

00:54:06,707 --> 00:54:07,028

Tommy Chong: You know that.

00:54:07,048 --> 00:54:08,011

Tommy Chong: That was with Cheech.

00:54:08,071 --> 00:54:11,059

Tommy Chong: You know Cheech Well.

00:54:11,079 --> 00:54:12,703

Tommy Chong: You know he's raised by policemen.

00:54:13,184 --> 00:54:18,575

Tommy Chong: Really, yeah, his dad's was a LAPD and in

00:54:18,616 --> 00:54:22,663

Tommy Chong: fact, as dad rose up quite high in the LAPD,

00:54:22,683 --> 00:54:24,806

Tommy Chong: he became a teacher.

00:54:26,895 --> 00:54:28,119

Tommy Chong: He was very well respected.

00:54:30,115 --> 00:54:33,483

Tommy Chong: And so Cheech all his life had to deal with

00:54:33,563 --> 00:54:35,067

Tommy Chong: his dad being a cop.

00:54:35,735 --> 00:54:38,362

Tommy Chong: That's why, that's why the lowrider was was

00:54:38,402 --> 00:54:39,365

Tommy Chong: a big stretch for him.

00:54:40,295 --> 00:54:42,442

Tommy Chong: Cheech did not want to go down that route

00:54:43,195 --> 00:54:45,561

Tommy Chong: and we never knew he was Mexican until he

00:54:45,641 --> 00:54:47,807

Tommy Chong: came to to became Dalai.

00:54:48,296 --> 00:54:50,325

Tommy Chong: And then one time we were working a club

00:54:50,386 --> 00:54:52,194

Tommy Chong: and we weren't going over because we're

00:54:52,214 --> 00:54:55,777

Tommy Chong: doing all our Canadian humor, and I said to

00:54:55,817 --> 00:54:57,655

Tommy Chong: Cheech I said you're from here, man, come

00:54:57,695 --> 00:54:59,420

Tommy Chong: on, there must be a character.

00:54:59,720 --> 00:55:00,603

Tommy Chong: You know that you can.

00:55:01,485 --> 00:55:03,719

Tommy Chong: And he said, yeah, there is one, but I am

00:55:03,739 --> 00:55:04,160

Tommy Chong: not too.

00:55:04,682 --> 00:55:05,485

Tommy Chong: I said what's matter?

00:55:05,635 --> 00:55:06,618

Tommy Chong: He said, well, you know, a little

00:55:06,658 --> 00:55:07,341

Tommy Chong: detrimental.

00:55:08,716 --> 00:55:10,902

Tommy Chong: And he, he denied saying this conversation,

00:55:10,962 --> 00:55:11,363

Tommy Chong: by the way.

00:55:12,655 --> 00:55:14,598

Tommy Chong: And he says it's a little detrimental.

00:55:15,079 --> 00:55:18,946

Tommy Chong: But and the Chicano, the top Chicanos, had

00:55:19,006 --> 00:55:24,924

Tommy Chong: a meeting, the guy that, louis Spaldes, you

00:55:24,964 --> 00:55:30,642

Tommy Chong: know, the director, anyway, he, the, the

00:55:30,903 --> 00:55:33,567

Tommy Chong: intellectual Chicano community, did not

00:55:33,627 --> 00:55:35,917

Tommy Chong: like the character Cheech was portraying.

00:55:36,378 --> 00:55:39,144

Tommy Chong: You know which is why we never had no

00:55:39,164 --> 00:55:41,796

Tommy Chong: writers up until Cheech and we haven't

00:55:41,856 --> 00:55:44,783

Tommy Chong: really had a lowrider since, you know,

00:55:45,284 --> 00:55:46,006

Tommy Chong: because they.

00:55:46,467 --> 00:55:48,260

Marc Preston: I know y'all have done some things over the

00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:49,103

Marc Preston: last few years.

00:55:49,475 --> 00:55:51,641

Marc Preston: Are y'all kind of contemplating ever doing

00:55:51,681 --> 00:55:55,205

Marc Preston: a project together, anything else?

00:55:55,225 --> 00:55:56,135

Tommy Chong: anytime soon.

00:55:56,175 --> 00:55:57,919

Tommy Chong: There's a movie out, there's a movie

00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,406

Tommy Chong: getting prepped now that they want us in

00:56:01,446 --> 00:56:03,699

Tommy Chong: there and Cheech will probably go for it.

00:56:04,935 --> 00:56:06,839

Tommy Chong: It's an older version of us, you know.

00:56:06,879 --> 00:56:08,403

Tommy Chong: It's now at our age.

00:56:08,503 --> 00:56:12,160

Tommy Chong: Now you know we'll have to see how it looks

00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,099

Tommy Chong: in that We've got a documentary that's

00:56:15,159 --> 00:56:16,883

Tommy Chong: coming out, that's going to.

00:56:18,706 --> 00:56:20,877

Tommy Chong: It's a Cheech and Jung documentary.

00:56:21,298 --> 00:56:25,329

Tommy Chong: The backstory or the behind the scenes

00:56:25,349 --> 00:56:28,818

Tommy Chong: story is pretty funny because you know me,

00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,486

Tommy Chong: I'm sort of spur of the moment kind of guy,

00:56:32,526 --> 00:56:32,726

Tommy Chong: you know.

00:56:33,935 --> 00:56:35,902

Tommy Chong: And so it's my daughter, robbie, and her

00:56:35,942 --> 00:56:36,564

Tommy Chong: guy, dave.

00:56:37,056 --> 00:56:40,524

Tommy Chong: Now Dave's a very talented movie maker,

00:56:41,955 --> 00:56:45,065

Tommy Chong: work with Jim Carrey and the Slingblade.

00:56:45,455 --> 00:56:48,062

Tommy Chong: He did Slingblade and he's been done.

00:56:49,535 --> 00:56:51,298

Tommy Chong: He is definitely a movie maker.

00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,944

Tommy Chong: And they were doing a documentary on Cheech

00:56:53,984 --> 00:56:58,039

Tommy Chong: and Jung and it seemed like it was never

00:56:58,079 --> 00:56:59,043

Tommy Chong: going to get finished.

00:57:00,076 --> 00:57:04,305

Tommy Chong: And so one day I was driving home with a

00:57:04,926 --> 00:57:07,872

Tommy Chong: friend of mine, we did a golf tournament

00:57:08,193 --> 00:57:12,704

Tommy Chong: and I came up, I got high on one of my

00:57:12,965 --> 00:57:15,892

Tommy Chong: products and I came up with a great idea

00:57:15,973 --> 00:57:17,757

Tommy Chong: for the ending of a documentary.

00:57:18,057 --> 00:57:20,002

Tommy Chong: Because that's the way I kind of work, you

00:57:20,042 --> 00:57:24,438

Tommy Chong: know, if we got stuff to do, I'm an artist

00:57:24,498 --> 00:57:29,471

Tommy Chong: in a sense that if there's an empty canvas

00:57:30,032 --> 00:57:31,917

Tommy Chong: and people can't think of what to put on it.

00:57:32,438 --> 00:57:35,225

Marc Preston: I will eventually come up with an idea you

00:57:35,285 --> 00:57:37,779

Marc Preston: know, and so destination, and then you kind

00:57:37,819 --> 00:57:39,322

Marc Preston: of plot out the journey to get there.

00:57:39,382 --> 00:57:40,765

Tommy Chong: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57:42,695 --> 00:57:44,300

Tommy Chong: Well, I came up with a real good ending for

00:57:44,340 --> 00:57:48,580

Tommy Chong: the documentary, To the point where I told

00:57:48,620 --> 00:57:51,707

Tommy Chong: my daughter I said listen, forget all this

00:57:51,787 --> 00:57:52,268

Tommy Chong: other stuff.

00:57:52,455 --> 00:57:53,358

Tommy Chong: I got an ending.

00:57:55,615 --> 00:57:56,819

Tommy Chong: The director comes back.

00:57:56,980 --> 00:58:01,398

Tommy Chong: Yeah, oh, my God, that got such a riot

00:58:01,458 --> 00:58:05,047

Tommy Chong: because I am the guy they're doing a thing.

00:58:05,335 --> 00:58:09,216

Tommy Chong: I do have the power if I wanted to and they

00:58:09,357 --> 00:58:11,941

Tommy Chong: freaked they actually drove all the way to

00:58:12,001 --> 00:58:15,032

Tommy Chong: San Francisco to talk to Cheech to make

00:58:15,112 --> 00:58:17,178

Tommy Chong: sure that Cheech would not go along with me,

00:58:17,439 --> 00:58:19,122

Tommy Chong: because if Cheech went along with me that

00:58:19,142 --> 00:58:20,145

Tommy Chong: would be the end of the day.

00:58:22,517 --> 00:58:24,483

Tommy Chong: Anyway, Cheech would definitely not go

00:58:24,503 --> 00:58:25,024

Tommy Chong: along with me.

00:58:25,735 --> 00:58:30,845

Tommy Chong: Cheech and I really haven't seen eye to eye

00:58:31,005 --> 00:58:31,667

Tommy Chong: on anything.

00:58:33,456 --> 00:58:35,661

Tommy Chong: I mean, we've been on going.

00:58:35,841 --> 00:58:37,304

Tommy Chong: You know, we've been doing our live act

00:58:37,344 --> 00:58:41,219

Tommy Chong: with Shelby in that, you know, ever since

00:58:41,780 --> 00:58:43,985

Tommy Chong: the 08, actually, as soon as I got out of

00:58:44,025 --> 00:58:44,246

Tommy Chong: jail.

00:58:44,935 --> 00:58:46,262

Tommy Chong: We were supposed to do a movie before I

00:58:46,302 --> 00:58:48,614

Tommy Chong: went to jail, but then I went to jail and

00:58:48,634 --> 00:58:49,859

Tommy Chong: that kind of screwed everything up.

00:58:50,795 --> 00:58:52,020

Tommy Chong: It wouldn't have happened anyway.

00:58:52,415 --> 00:58:53,540

Tommy Chong: You know I didn't.

00:58:54,535 --> 00:58:56,422

Tommy Chong: They've had people write movies for us and

00:58:57,024 --> 00:58:59,934

Tommy Chong: I look at the first couple of pages and

00:58:59,974 --> 00:59:02,301

Tommy Chong: know that you know you can't write for

00:59:02,341 --> 00:59:02,983

Tommy Chong: Cheech and John.

00:59:03,524 --> 00:59:04,897

Marc Preston: Yeah, I think a lot of people.

00:59:04,917 --> 00:59:06,722

Marc Preston: Probably they would come off as a parody,

00:59:06,802 --> 00:59:07,264

Marc Preston: almost.

00:59:07,324 --> 00:59:07,605

Marc Preston: You know.

00:59:07,665 --> 00:59:09,980

Marc Preston: I think people kind of see it as which.

00:59:10,100 --> 00:59:11,784

Marc Preston: What y'all did was, like I said, the

00:59:11,804 --> 00:59:12,626

Marc Preston: physical comedy.

00:59:12,786 --> 00:59:13,808

Marc Preston: It gave you a chance.

00:59:13,895 --> 00:59:15,258

Marc Preston: I mean, like you sitting next to him in a

00:59:15,278 --> 00:59:18,725

Marc Preston: car just slowly eating everything that you

00:59:18,765 --> 00:59:19,967

Marc Preston: had I mean, what was that movie?

00:59:20,775 --> 00:59:21,898

Marc Preston: You were eating everything so that the cop

00:59:21,918 --> 00:59:23,403

Marc Preston: would say it's just, I couldn't take my

00:59:23,463 --> 00:59:24,004

Marc Preston: eyes off you.

00:59:25,942 --> 00:59:26,746

Tommy Chong: It's like wait a minute.

00:59:26,767 --> 00:59:27,993

Tommy Chong: He has no lines, but it's hilarious.

00:59:30,059 --> 00:59:31,463

Marc Preston: And so, in other words, y'all do you think

00:59:31,503 --> 00:59:32,786

Marc Preston: it's that I don't want to, it's not

00:59:32,886 --> 00:59:34,138

Marc Preston: friction, but do you think it's that

00:59:34,198 --> 00:59:37,272

Marc Preston: contrast that kind of gave y'all the fuel

00:59:37,312 --> 00:59:38,998

Marc Preston: to kind of create what y'all have?

00:59:39,038 --> 00:59:40,501

Marc Preston: You know, not necessarily seeing eye to eye

00:59:40,541 --> 00:59:42,266

Marc Preston: on stuff, Two things.

00:59:43,236 --> 00:59:48,475

Tommy Chong: First of all, we're exploring new territory.

00:59:49,742 --> 00:59:51,795

Tommy Chong: You see, we're not rehashing anything.

00:59:52,938 --> 00:59:54,863

Tommy Chong: See, most a lot of movies are rehash,

00:59:55,564 --> 00:59:58,191

Tommy Chong: remake, redo, redot.

00:59:58,231 --> 01:00:00,356

Tommy Chong: You know, because then you know who the

01:00:00,376 --> 01:00:02,984

Tommy Chong: guys are and results going to be.

01:00:03,535 --> 01:00:05,104

Marc Preston: And it's a safe choice for a lot of people

01:00:05,144 --> 01:00:05,526

Marc Preston: especially.

01:00:05,567 --> 01:00:07,196

Marc Preston: I mean just look at all the remakes there

01:00:07,256 --> 01:00:08,580

Marc Preston: are in movies these days yeah.

01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:09,643

Tommy Chong: That's what I'm saying.

01:00:10,455 --> 01:00:11,077

Tommy Chong: I understand.

01:00:11,117 --> 01:00:13,423

Tommy Chong: You know all the moods, the dance and

01:00:13,443 --> 01:00:14,045

Tommy Chong: everything else.

01:00:14,915 --> 01:00:19,483

Tommy Chong: Cheech and I invented a new style of comedy

01:00:20,285 --> 01:00:22,448

Tommy Chong: that only Cheech and I can perform.

01:00:23,215 --> 01:00:25,241

Tommy Chong: You know, I can't do it with anybody else,

01:00:28,319 --> 01:00:30,184

Tommy Chong: and that's the special thing about Cheech

01:00:30,224 --> 01:00:30,625

Tommy Chong: and Chong.

01:00:31,155 --> 01:00:33,660

Tommy Chong: That's why Martin and Lewis had the same

01:00:33,700 --> 01:00:34,001

Tommy Chong: thing.

01:00:34,321 --> 01:00:34,943

Tommy Chong: Yeah.

01:00:35,243 --> 01:00:36,085

Announcer: Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:00:36,626 --> 01:00:39,218

Tommy Chong: It was very spontaneous, in fact, jerry

01:00:39,258 --> 01:00:41,164

Tommy Chong: Lewis gave me one of the best compliments

01:00:41,264 --> 01:00:41,465

Tommy Chong: ever.

01:00:41,595 --> 01:00:44,101

Tommy Chong: He said when they said you know they don't

01:00:44,161 --> 01:00:47,067

Tommy Chong: have comedy teams like you and Marc, you

01:00:47,128 --> 01:00:50,284

Tommy Chong: and Dino and Jerry said oh yeah, they do.

01:00:51,137 --> 01:00:52,280

Tommy Chong: He said Cheech and Chong.

01:00:53,123 --> 01:00:54,942

Marc Preston: Yeah, and the thing is, jerry Lewis, even

01:00:54,962 --> 01:00:57,193

Marc Preston: though he played the kind of the goofy guy,

01:00:57,294 --> 01:00:59,328

Marc Preston: he was the one really meticulously crafting

01:00:59,430 --> 01:01:01,730

Marc Preston: those acts and really Martin was the one to

01:01:01,833 --> 01:01:03,078

Marc Preston: show up and be Dean Martin.

01:01:03,138 --> 01:01:04,843

Marc Preston: You know that's right, that's right.

01:01:05,795 --> 01:01:07,420

Tommy Chong: He was the one to do the lines and do his

01:01:07,460 --> 01:01:09,045

Tommy Chong: things and be the handsome guy.

01:01:09,916 --> 01:01:13,105

Tommy Chong: No, I really respected Jerry's filmmaking.

01:01:13,575 --> 01:01:16,024

Tommy Chong: In fact, I used his technique.

01:01:16,055 --> 01:01:18,082

Tommy Chong: You know, he was the first to use video.

01:01:18,523 --> 01:01:20,460

Marc Preston: Yeah, he was the first one to kind of do

01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:22,085

Marc Preston: that, to kind of video monitor idea.

01:01:22,235 --> 01:01:25,316

Marc Preston: So he'd actually yeah, yeah, he was.

01:01:26,018 --> 01:01:27,864

Marc Preston: Isn't that crazy to think Jerry Lewis did

01:01:27,884 --> 01:01:28,045

Marc Preston: that.

01:01:28,115 --> 01:01:29,839

Marc Preston: I mean, it's like the most common thing now

01:01:29,879 --> 01:01:31,323

Marc Preston: that Jerry Lewis before him.

01:01:31,383 --> 01:01:32,105

Marc Preston: Nobody did that.

01:01:32,325 --> 01:01:36,379

Marc Preston: Yeah, I was the second I was the second to

01:01:36,419 --> 01:01:36,640

Marc Preston: do it?

01:01:36,660 --> 01:01:41,740

Tommy Chong: Yeah, because when we did the next movie, I

01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:48,488

Tommy Chong: hired a video guy and the DP, king Baggett,

01:01:48,568 --> 01:01:49,429

Tommy Chong: was pissed off.

01:01:50,010 --> 01:01:51,998

Tommy Chong: Oh, he did not, he didn't want the

01:01:52,058 --> 01:01:52,560

Tommy Chong: cameraman.

01:01:52,580 --> 01:01:53,996

Tommy Chong: You know, they're like dogs, they don't

01:01:54,016 --> 01:01:55,581

Tommy Chong: want any other dog on the set.

01:01:56,655 --> 01:01:58,359

Marc Preston: But you, if you're in a scene, you've got

01:01:58,379 --> 01:02:00,062

Marc Preston: to see playback to see if it worked.

01:02:00,303 --> 01:02:00,483

Marc Preston: Yeah.

01:02:00,503 --> 01:02:02,046

Tommy Chong: But guess what, guess what?

01:02:04,377 --> 01:02:08,785

Tommy Chong: King Baggett ended up almost marrying Eric

01:02:08,926 --> 01:02:10,348

Tommy Chong: Wooster, my video guy.

01:02:11,356 --> 01:02:13,581

Tommy Chong: I would go to see the scene and King

01:02:13,621 --> 01:02:15,265

Tommy Chong: Baggett would be in there first.

01:02:16,175 --> 01:02:18,045

Tommy Chong: King was in there late budget, because King

01:02:18,105 --> 01:02:18,467

Tommy Chong: is not.

01:02:18,608 --> 01:02:19,935

Marc Preston: he's not worried about the performance,

01:02:20,397 --> 01:02:21,962

Marc Preston: he's worried about the lighting, yeah,

01:02:22,735 --> 01:02:24,360

Marc Preston: lighting composition and all that stuff,

01:02:24,380 --> 01:02:24,621

Marc Preston: yeah.

01:02:25,876 --> 01:02:28,284

Tommy Chong: Oh, he King loved it after that.

01:02:28,695 --> 01:02:31,081

Tommy Chong: And now, in fact, you don't even use a film

01:02:31,121 --> 01:02:33,047

Tommy Chong: camera anymore, you just use video.

01:02:33,616 --> 01:02:35,743

Tommy Chong: You know it's all video now.

01:02:36,295 --> 01:02:39,984

Tommy Chong: No, jerry was was an innovator in that

01:02:40,025 --> 01:02:40,365

Tommy Chong: sense.

01:02:41,175 --> 01:02:43,825

Tommy Chong: And the thing is about and Jerry and Jerry

01:02:43,986 --> 01:02:44,528

Tommy Chong: knew too.

01:02:44,850 --> 01:02:46,856

Tommy Chong: See what happened with with Jerry and Dean

01:02:47,378 --> 01:02:51,696

Tommy Chong: Dean, jerry kind of took over and that's

01:02:51,736 --> 01:02:52,961

Tommy Chong: what happened with Cheech Night 2.

01:02:53,735 --> 01:02:55,820

Tommy Chong: Because once you become a film director,

01:02:56,943 --> 01:02:59,368

Tommy Chong: that's like being anointed, god.

01:02:59,769 --> 01:03:04,421

Tommy Chong: You know you, everything depends on what

01:03:04,522 --> 01:03:05,504

Tommy Chong: the director says.

01:03:05,885 --> 01:03:07,056

Marc Preston: Yeah, everything's sitting on your

01:03:07,076 --> 01:03:09,281

Marc Preston: shoulders as well, because if it, if

01:03:09,342 --> 01:03:10,605

Marc Preston: something fails, it's all on you.

01:03:10,785 --> 01:03:10,945

Marc Preston: Yeah.

01:03:12,155 --> 01:03:14,482

Tommy Chong: I got so hooked on that that that Cheech

01:03:16,176 --> 01:03:19,122

Tommy Chong: and I just well, when we started having

01:03:19,202 --> 01:03:22,949

Tommy Chong: separate dressing rooms, you know, because

01:03:23,049 --> 01:03:25,179

Tommy Chong: up into the up into them we always shared

01:03:25,199 --> 01:03:28,147

Tommy Chong: the dressing room, you know, and because

01:03:28,167 --> 01:03:30,643

Tommy Chong: when we're in the dressing room we could

01:03:30,683 --> 01:03:32,819

Tommy Chong: talk, we could write, and I could tell

01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,265

Tommy Chong: Cheech, you know, give him, cheech, you

01:03:35,285 --> 01:03:37,778

Tommy Chong: know, direction, because with with Cheech,

01:03:37,899 --> 01:03:39,843

Tommy Chong: all you have to do is just he's like a, a,

01:03:39,863 --> 01:03:44,242

Tommy Chong: a psychopedia, because he, he can memorize

01:03:44,282 --> 01:03:45,085

Tommy Chong: so many things.

01:03:45,495 --> 01:03:48,904

Tommy Chong: And so I, I just show Cheech a direction

01:03:49,024 --> 01:03:50,347

Tommy Chong: and Cheech gets it right away.

01:03:50,818 --> 01:03:52,676

Tommy Chong: Well, oh no, I know what you mean, I know

01:03:52,696 --> 01:03:53,098

Tommy Chong: what you mean.

01:03:53,855 --> 01:03:56,300

Tommy Chong: And so when we weren't see what happened

01:03:56,340 --> 01:03:59,287

Tommy Chong: with Lou Adler after Up and Smoke, we got,

01:04:00,055 --> 01:04:03,003

Tommy Chong: you know, I directed and wrote right up to

01:04:03,043 --> 01:04:03,485

Tommy Chong: the end.

01:04:04,195 --> 01:04:05,920

Tommy Chong: And then Lou Adler says, you know, because

01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,306

Tommy Chong: he's a director and and I found out now

01:04:08,326 --> 01:04:11,884

Tommy Chong: that he wanted to take, take, take all the

01:04:11,924 --> 01:04:12,425

Tommy Chong: money too.

01:04:13,075 --> 01:04:16,081

Tommy Chong: So he, at the end of Up and Smoke, he, he

01:04:16,462 --> 01:04:19,027

Tommy Chong: kind of barred me from the set, you know,

01:04:19,648 --> 01:04:20,717

Tommy Chong: and there's.

01:04:22,202 --> 01:04:23,124

Tommy Chong: I said, are you ready?

01:04:23,535 --> 01:04:25,803

Tommy Chong: And they said, no, no, we've already shot

01:04:25,843 --> 01:04:26,064

Tommy Chong: that.

01:04:26,235 --> 01:04:28,860

Tommy Chong: And I said, oh, because usually they call

01:04:28,900 --> 01:04:31,785

Tommy Chong: me in, you know, to make sure everything

01:04:31,825 --> 01:04:32,226

Tommy Chong: was right.

01:04:32,286 --> 01:04:33,709

Tommy Chong: You know, I was really the director.

01:04:34,175 --> 01:04:36,723

Tommy Chong: Then Lou took over to the point where Lou

01:04:36,784 --> 01:04:39,131

Tommy Chong: says, okay, I, I, I, yeah.

01:04:39,231 --> 01:04:42,802

Tommy Chong: I got a good idea of yeah, working on the

01:04:42,902 --> 01:04:43,203

Tommy Chong: ending.

01:04:43,483 --> 01:04:44,445

Tommy Chong: You know we got enough.

01:04:44,926 --> 01:04:47,571

Tommy Chong: Like like Lou was the kind of producer that

01:04:47,932 --> 01:04:50,364

Tommy Chong: we run out of money stop, stop everything

01:04:50,524 --> 01:04:51,367

Tommy Chong: and we're finished.

01:04:51,709 --> 01:04:52,010

Tommy Chong: You know.

01:04:55,941 --> 01:04:57,869

Marc Preston: It's kind of like money's done, okay, cut.

01:04:59,481 --> 01:05:00,003

Tommy Chong: We're done.

01:05:00,526 --> 01:05:00,807

Tommy Chong: So.

01:05:00,847 --> 01:05:01,731

Tommy Chong: So what happened I?

01:05:03,484 --> 01:05:06,844

Tommy Chong: So I backed around back down and and, and

01:05:06,864 --> 01:05:09,712

Tommy Chong: they do, they edited the movie, they being

01:05:09,772 --> 01:05:12,099

Tommy Chong: Lou and Lou Lombardo the editor, and that

01:05:12,119 --> 01:05:16,462

Tommy Chong: and Then they showed us the rough cut, or

01:05:16,503 --> 01:05:20,286

Tommy Chong: the first assembled Part, and they showed

01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,605

Tommy Chong: Paramount to the same time.

01:05:23,146 --> 01:05:25,732

Tommy Chong: It was the worst fucking ending of any

01:05:25,832 --> 01:05:26,982

Tommy Chong: movie I'd ever seen.

01:05:27,603 --> 01:05:28,565

Tommy Chong: It was so bad.

01:05:28,886 --> 01:05:30,529

Tommy Chong: Everything that we had done might as well

01:05:30,569 --> 01:05:32,654

Tommy Chong: be, you know, forgot about it.

01:05:33,081 --> 01:05:33,522

Tommy Chong: Really.

01:05:33,563 --> 01:05:36,705

Tommy Chong: The ending, was it what he, what he did?

01:05:36,765 --> 01:05:38,891

Tommy Chong: I'll tell you, you'll know, no one will

01:05:38,931 --> 01:05:41,266

Tommy Chong: ever see it, but but the ending was that

01:05:41,326 --> 01:05:43,754

Tommy Chong: Lou came up with was that it was all a

01:05:43,854 --> 01:05:48,069

Tommy Chong: dream and that that when we were at the,

01:05:49,181 --> 01:05:54,686

Tommy Chong: when we're stopped on the PCH, and and

01:05:54,726 --> 01:05:57,383

Tommy Chong: that's where everything, everything after

01:05:57,684 --> 01:06:01,684

Tommy Chong: the PCH, was a dream, and we were sort of

01:06:01,785 --> 01:06:06,011

Tommy Chong: somehow, and Stacy shows up as a uniform,

01:06:08,861 --> 01:06:12,211

Tommy Chong: stacy Keech, yeah, I mean, it was the.

01:06:13,041 --> 01:06:15,321

Tommy Chong: Really, it was like it was.

01:06:15,462 --> 01:06:16,564

Tommy Chong: You couldn't get I.

01:06:17,085 --> 01:06:19,630

Tommy Chong: I haven't really been able to have a

01:06:19,690 --> 01:06:23,684

Tommy Chong: conversation with Lou since Period period

01:06:23,845 --> 01:06:26,152

Tommy Chong: about anything you know other than hi,

01:06:26,192 --> 01:06:26,855

Tommy Chong: how's everything?

01:06:26,895 --> 01:06:29,041

Tommy Chong: Yeah, nice, the house of kids, how's that?

01:06:29,342 --> 01:06:31,669

Tommy Chong: You know before that he was always

01:06:31,729 --> 01:06:32,491

Tommy Chong: interested in.

01:06:32,631 --> 01:06:35,453

Tommy Chong: You know, what do you want to shoot now or

01:06:35,534 --> 01:06:36,340

Tommy Chong: what should we do now?

01:06:37,463 --> 01:06:38,686

Marc Preston: And I was the one where y'all had that

01:06:38,726 --> 01:06:41,032

Marc Preston: little van that had the marijuana sprayed

01:06:41,092 --> 01:06:43,980

Marc Preston: on the side of it and the exhaust pipe was

01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:45,583

Marc Preston: too Hot and yeah, I didn't get everything

01:06:45,603 --> 01:06:48,349

Marc Preston: about, okay, I, because I forgot that was

01:06:48,409 --> 01:06:50,173

Marc Preston: up in smoke or the next movie, yeah.

01:06:50,844 --> 01:06:52,015

Tommy Chong: Yeah, well, he wanted to be.

01:06:52,035 --> 01:06:55,535

Tommy Chong: I Mean his idea to save money was to.

01:06:55,776 --> 01:06:58,446

Tommy Chong: It was all a dream and it was the biggest

01:06:58,506 --> 01:06:59,590

Tommy Chong: fucking insult ever.

01:07:00,112 --> 01:07:02,600

Tommy Chong: And so then I told, I said that was the end.

01:07:03,562 --> 01:07:05,246

Tommy Chong: And so I thought I told everybody, as we

01:07:05,286 --> 01:07:07,511

Tommy Chong: got to reshoot the ending I'm directing,

01:07:08,212 --> 01:07:10,143

Tommy Chong: and that was it, and how much of it did you

01:07:10,303 --> 01:07:10,383

Tommy Chong: do?

01:07:10,444 --> 01:07:13,170

Marc Preston: how much of the of the final print?

01:07:13,210 --> 01:07:14,753

Marc Preston: How much of that did you end up directing

01:07:15,382 --> 01:07:16,228

Marc Preston: the ending?

01:07:17,921 --> 01:07:21,033

Tommy Chong: The ending where I mean I wrote and

01:07:21,294 --> 01:07:22,860

Tommy Chong: basically showed them what to do.

01:07:24,724 --> 01:07:25,786

Tommy Chong: You know, I mean, you know I actually

01:07:25,826 --> 01:07:28,051

Tommy Chong: directed the whole movie when it came right

01:07:28,092 --> 01:07:28,613

Tommy Chong: down to it.

01:07:28,673 --> 01:07:31,326

Tommy Chong: You know, the only thing I gotta give I'll

01:07:31,346 --> 01:07:33,492

Tommy Chong: give Lou and everybody credit for is that

01:07:33,974 --> 01:07:36,000

Tommy Chong: Stacey wrote his own lines.

01:07:36,963 --> 01:07:37,103

Tommy Chong: I.

01:07:37,524 --> 01:07:40,071

Tommy Chong: I give him an idea of what we wanted to do.

01:07:40,553 --> 01:07:42,659

Tommy Chong: Strother Martin, you know, you get a job by

01:07:42,739 --> 01:07:43,140

Tommy Chong: sundown.

01:07:43,563 --> 01:07:46,200

Tommy Chong: Oh, that was all Strother Martin ad lib.

01:07:47,102 --> 01:07:50,449

Tommy Chong: He wrote every bit of that, that monologue.

01:07:50,669 --> 01:07:52,954

Tommy Chong: That was Strother Martin and he never got

01:07:52,994 --> 01:07:55,945

Tommy Chong: credit for the Ajax ladies and ordnance.

01:07:56,005 --> 01:07:57,950

Tommy Chong: That was all her stuff, you know.

01:07:58,110 --> 01:08:01,082

Tommy Chong: And so what I would do, I would Get

01:08:01,122 --> 01:08:03,108

Tommy Chong: gathered this stuff and teach a story,

01:08:03,208 --> 01:08:06,825

Tommy Chong: teach painting the hamper, teach All the.

01:08:09,564 --> 01:08:11,131

Tommy Chong: I love the keeping the beers in the fish

01:08:11,191 --> 01:08:11,412

Tommy Chong: tank.

01:08:11,453 --> 01:08:12,497

Marc Preston: That just made sense to me.

01:08:12,517 --> 01:08:13,200

Marc Preston: You know, it's like that was me.

01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:13,822

Marc Preston: That was me.

01:08:15,620 --> 01:08:17,223

Tommy Chong: I was like that makes for a good cooler,

01:08:17,284 --> 01:08:17,624

Tommy Chong: you know.

01:08:18,526 --> 01:08:20,971

Tommy Chong: And washing, washing no, that was next

01:08:20,991 --> 01:08:22,894

Tommy Chong: movie, but that that was yeah.

01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:28,506

Marc Preston: So next movie really was me, me and she,

01:08:29,047 --> 01:08:31,350

Marc Preston: and it's the best title for a sequel ever,

01:08:31,431 --> 01:08:34,375

Marc Preston: because it is the Cheech and Chong's next

01:08:34,435 --> 01:08:34,835

Marc Preston: movie.

01:08:34,895 --> 01:08:37,385

Marc Preston: Is that Easy to remember, you know?

01:08:37,545 --> 01:08:39,449

Marc Preston: Yeah, this, this trip down memory lane, is

01:08:39,469 --> 01:08:41,032

Marc Preston: so much fun and I really think that.

01:08:41,453 --> 01:08:45,624

Marc Preston: Have you noticed, like Jin Z, millennials,

01:08:45,905 --> 01:08:47,368

Marc Preston: have they rediscovered your movies?

01:08:47,468 --> 01:08:49,413

Marc Preston: Have you had any feedback for people that

01:08:49,453 --> 01:08:51,747

Marc Preston: have Kind of started finding your stuff

01:08:51,767 --> 01:08:51,968

Marc Preston: going?

01:08:52,209 --> 01:08:53,855

Marc Preston: Oh yeah, I know it's like Tommy Chong is

01:08:54,277 --> 01:08:55,903

Marc Preston: he's the weed guy, but it's like no,

01:08:55,923 --> 01:08:56,865

Marc Preston: there's a thing.

01:08:56,945 --> 01:09:00,595

Tommy Chong: Yeah, they, they know me from that sub

01:09:00,656 --> 01:09:01,137

Tommy Chong: addition.

01:09:01,859 --> 01:09:04,404

Tommy Chong: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they know me because,

01:09:04,444 --> 01:09:06,768

Tommy Chong: see it, that's an extension of that

01:09:06,829 --> 01:09:07,309

Tommy Chong: character.

01:09:07,770 --> 01:09:08,231

Tommy Chong: That's what.

01:09:08,432 --> 01:09:11,863

Tommy Chong: That's what I was trying to Get through, to

01:09:11,924 --> 01:09:15,462

Tommy Chong: teach you know, which I never did Was the

01:09:15,522 --> 01:09:19,330

Tommy Chong: fact that those iconic characters can live

01:09:19,410 --> 01:09:21,354

Tommy Chong: forever, will live forever.

01:09:22,541 --> 01:09:25,691

Tommy Chong: You can't kill him and and you can only,

01:09:26,661 --> 01:09:29,007

Tommy Chong: you can only live off him, and I did that

01:09:29,047 --> 01:09:31,172

Tommy Chong: with that, with my character.

01:09:31,421 --> 01:09:38,865

Tommy Chong: See I, there was more To making the movies.

01:09:39,306 --> 01:09:42,153

Tommy Chong: I wanted to put a message out to the world

01:09:43,181 --> 01:09:48,109

Tommy Chong: number one If you can smoke, dope and still

01:09:48,189 --> 01:09:51,540

Tommy Chong: be healthy and still still work out.

01:09:51,780 --> 01:09:53,785

Marc Preston: Oh, you've always been a really great shape.

01:09:53,846 --> 01:09:55,830

Marc Preston: I mean, working out and lifting has always

01:09:55,871 --> 01:09:56,632

Marc Preston: been a big thing with you.

01:09:57,061 --> 01:09:57,563

Tommy Chong: That's it.

01:09:57,724 --> 01:10:01,537

Tommy Chong: I mean, and to this day now I'm selling CBD

01:10:01,577 --> 01:10:02,360

Tommy Chong: that it's good for you.

01:10:02,761 --> 01:10:05,506

Tommy Chong: See, I don't want to do anything or even

01:10:05,767 --> 01:10:08,472

Tommy Chong: leave the people down the wrong path with a

01:10:08,512 --> 01:10:12,249

Tommy Chong: character, even If my, if a carry, I refuse

01:10:12,470 --> 01:10:14,878

Tommy Chong: because I know the effect that I have on

01:10:14,938 --> 01:10:15,420

Tommy Chong: people there.

01:10:15,921 --> 01:10:18,788

Tommy Chong: They listen to me, you know, and and and

01:10:18,808 --> 01:10:19,209

Tommy Chong: they read.

01:10:19,289 --> 01:10:21,624

Tommy Chong: They not only listen to me, but they, they

01:10:21,664 --> 01:10:23,471

Tommy Chong: will repeat what I would.

01:10:23,572 --> 01:10:26,041

Tommy Chong: I do what I say, you know, like with the

01:10:26,081 --> 01:10:29,729

Tommy Chong: CBD that I'm selling now, you know, that's

01:10:29,789 --> 01:10:34,365

Tommy Chong: going crazy as far as people like in it and

01:10:34,846 --> 01:10:36,811

Tommy Chong: and it's good for you, and that's the thing

01:10:36,851 --> 01:10:37,353

Tommy Chong: about weed.

01:10:38,762 --> 01:10:41,349

Tommy Chong: That's that's why I'd never promote any

01:10:41,389 --> 01:10:44,305

Tommy Chong: kind of smoking, cigarettes, you know, a

01:10:44,626 --> 01:10:47,440

Tommy Chong: tobacco or or alcohol.

01:10:48,408 --> 01:10:51,244

Tommy Chong: I had a chance to, you know, to do a Beer

01:10:51,885 --> 01:10:54,031

Tommy Chong: and and I went to, even right to the

01:10:54,071 --> 01:10:56,658

Tommy Chong: brewery because I wanted to check it all

01:10:56,799 --> 01:10:57,260

Tommy Chong: out, you know.

01:10:57,802 --> 01:11:00,771

Tommy Chong: And then I then I had a flash of you know,

01:11:02,302 --> 01:11:05,670

Tommy Chong: of a car wreck, with Chong beer scattered

01:11:05,731 --> 01:11:10,569

Tommy Chong: around, you know, and and I said, no, I

01:11:10,589 --> 01:11:12,293

Tommy Chong: don't want to be, I don't want that tag.

01:11:13,082 --> 01:11:15,290

Tommy Chong: You can be the nicest guy all your life,

01:11:16,123 --> 01:11:20,166

Tommy Chong: but you mess up one time, man, you're done

01:11:21,451 --> 01:11:23,398

Tommy Chong: you know it's funny because I was talking

01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:23,840

Tommy Chong: with my kids.

01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:25,878

Marc Preston: My daughter is at college right now.

01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:27,056

Marc Preston: She's gonna be a sophomore.

01:11:27,139 --> 01:11:28,907

Marc Preston: My son's going to the same school next year

01:11:28,990 --> 01:11:29,678

Marc Preston: as a freshman.

01:11:30,082 --> 01:11:31,496

Marc Preston: And I was telling them I was trying to find

01:11:31,516 --> 01:11:34,011

Marc Preston: a way to put it there's so much mischief

01:11:34,071 --> 01:11:35,358

Marc Preston: going on, people spiking, drinks and all

01:11:35,378 --> 01:11:35,519

Marc Preston: that is.

01:11:35,539 --> 01:11:39,174

Marc Preston: Like, you know, if you were in a room and

01:11:39,194 --> 01:11:40,018

Marc Preston: you and your girlfriends show up and

01:11:40,038 --> 01:11:42,051

Marc Preston: there's some guys or you know, have a

01:11:42,071 --> 01:11:43,198

Marc Preston: little get together and they're all just

01:11:43,218 --> 01:11:45,310

Marc Preston: blackout drunk, they're just drinking, I

01:11:45,330 --> 01:11:46,436

Marc Preston: said in a way, I would rather than be in a

01:11:46,456 --> 01:11:47,140

Marc Preston: room with some guys.

01:11:47,543 --> 01:11:48,715

Marc Preston: I've been smoking and that's it.

01:11:48,735 --> 01:11:51,726

Marc Preston: That's the only thing, because I think it's

01:11:52,127 --> 01:11:55,558

Marc Preston: ultimately, I feel like it's safer for them

01:11:55,598 --> 01:11:56,200

Marc Preston: being that scenario.

01:11:57,065 --> 01:11:58,253

Marc Preston: Then, with the guys that have been, you

01:11:58,293 --> 01:11:59,379

Marc Preston: know, college and just drinking and all

01:11:59,399 --> 01:12:01,350

Marc Preston: that I mean, I mean you know you're a

01:12:01,430 --> 01:12:02,536

Marc Preston: parent, you know it's your job to worry

01:12:02,557 --> 01:12:04,526

Marc Preston: about your kids all the time, no matter how

01:12:04,546 --> 01:12:07,177

Marc Preston: they are, and but it's like I'm not

01:12:07,197 --> 01:12:09,386

Marc Preston: advocating it necessarily, but I'm saying

01:12:09,427 --> 01:12:12,218

Marc Preston: listen, the reality is the people that that

01:12:12,238 --> 01:12:12,800

Marc Preston: are gonna sit back and smoke.

01:12:13,222 --> 01:12:15,252

Marc Preston: They're, they're, they got a different

01:12:15,272 --> 01:12:16,338

Marc Preston: mentality and people just pounding beers

01:12:16,358 --> 01:12:18,748

Marc Preston: and you know alcohol, yeah, and and one

01:12:18,928 --> 01:12:19,471

Marc Preston: thing, that's poison.

01:12:19,551 --> 01:12:20,997

Marc Preston: I mean you really think about it.

01:12:21,037 --> 01:12:24,518

Marc Preston: I mean it's you know it takes a toll on you

01:12:24,538 --> 01:12:24,800

Marc Preston: after a while.

01:12:26,445 --> 01:12:30,098

Tommy Chong: Well, the best way is by example.

01:12:30,118 --> 01:12:32,753

Tommy Chong: You know, and that's what I've done all my

01:12:32,773 --> 01:12:32,914

Tommy Chong: life.

01:12:32,995 --> 01:12:33,579

Tommy Chong: It's just by example.

01:12:36,068 --> 01:12:37,673

Tommy Chong: Now, you know, what I found out is that

01:12:38,054 --> 01:12:38,556

Tommy Chong: they would, they will.

01:12:38,576 --> 01:12:40,281

Tommy Chong: If you're doing something right, if you're

01:12:40,301 --> 01:12:42,446

Tommy Chong: doing something right, they people will

01:12:42,466 --> 01:12:44,751

Tommy Chong: pick up on it and they will copy you.

01:12:44,931 --> 01:12:46,355

Tommy Chong: And I've had that happen.

01:12:46,395 --> 01:12:51,323

Tommy Chong: You know, I've had people you know Not

01:12:51,383 --> 01:12:55,091

Tommy Chong: exactly what I do, and to me it's, it's a,

01:12:56,133 --> 01:12:58,718

Tommy Chong: it's a beautiful thing, like if someone

01:12:59,079 --> 01:13:01,447

Tommy Chong: does teaching Chong bits, I don't get

01:13:01,487 --> 01:13:04,680

Tommy Chong: offended, I take that, I'm very proud of

01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:04,800

Tommy Chong: that.

01:13:06,767 --> 01:13:08,312

Marc Preston: They're keeping it alive, and I think

01:13:08,332 --> 01:13:09,777

Marc Preston: that's that's right.

01:13:09,957 --> 01:13:10,720

Marc Preston: They're paying no much to me.

01:13:12,085 --> 01:13:14,314

Marc Preston: I certainly appreciate, and I just want to

01:13:14,354 --> 01:13:15,037

Marc Preston: wrap up real quick.

01:13:15,057 --> 01:13:15,800

Marc Preston: I got a quick seven questions for you.

01:13:16,907 --> 01:13:18,337

Marc Preston: These are just my fun questions.

01:13:18,357 --> 01:13:18,800

Marc Preston: These are just okay.

01:13:20,425 --> 01:13:21,789

Marc Preston: I always wrap up every interview with.

01:13:21,809 --> 01:13:24,115

Marc Preston: The first one is what is your favorite

01:13:24,717 --> 01:13:25,038

Marc Preston: comfort food?

01:13:25,058 --> 01:13:26,922

Marc Preston: That thing that's like you love Snack an

01:13:26,942 --> 01:13:27,263

Marc Preston: honor.

01:13:27,283 --> 01:13:28,165

Marc Preston: You just kind of go to it.

01:13:28,225 --> 01:13:30,229

Marc Preston: It's just you know you always have to have

01:13:30,249 --> 01:13:30,890

Marc Preston: it around the house.

01:13:31,632 --> 01:13:35,964

Tommy Chong: Well, no, I guess.

01:13:36,164 --> 01:13:40,447

Tommy Chong: Croissants, croissants, toast it, toast it

01:13:40,527 --> 01:13:43,619

Tommy Chong: croissant is my, my favorite favorite.

01:13:44,301 --> 01:13:45,764

Marc Preston: Yeah, my oldest daughter loves those.

01:13:45,784 --> 01:13:47,388

Marc Preston: Yeah, those are tasty.

01:13:47,408 --> 01:13:49,332

Marc Preston: Little butter, little little few calories

01:13:49,372 --> 01:13:49,593

Marc Preston: in there.

01:13:50,482 --> 01:13:51,164

Marc Preston: Oh, toast it.

01:13:51,486 --> 01:13:52,248

Marc Preston: Oh, I love it.

01:13:53,243 --> 01:13:54,451

Marc Preston: Now, if you're gonna sit down, next

01:13:54,511 --> 01:13:55,136

Marc Preston: question three people.

01:13:55,176 --> 01:13:55,780

Marc Preston: You can have a cup of coffee.

01:13:56,406 --> 01:13:57,800

Marc Preston: You're gonna be talking story for a while.

01:13:58,342 --> 01:14:01,091

Marc Preston: Who would those three people be living or

01:14:01,151 --> 01:14:01,392

Marc Preston: not?

01:14:01,593 --> 01:14:03,399

Marc Preston: You know, if you could sit down and have

01:14:03,419 --> 01:14:05,606

Marc Preston: spent a few hours Is talking about life of

01:14:05,626 --> 01:14:06,589

Marc Preston: three people, who would it be?

01:14:08,583 --> 01:14:11,051

Tommy Chong: What's his name that's kept was messed up.

01:14:11,272 --> 01:14:15,847

Tommy Chong: The In the wheelchair can hardly talk.

01:14:16,208 --> 01:14:16,308

Tommy Chong: Oh.

01:14:19,081 --> 01:14:20,143

Marc Preston: The doctor from England.

01:14:20,604 --> 01:14:22,389

Tommy Chong: These the after-fifth this, that was a.

01:14:22,409 --> 01:14:22,710

Tommy Chong: That's him.

01:14:24,844 --> 01:14:25,647

Marc Preston: Oh, not see a thing.

01:14:25,667 --> 01:14:27,093

Marc Preston: When I try to remember somebody's name,

01:14:27,133 --> 01:14:28,780

Marc Preston: that's my brain goes nope, not gonna do it.

01:14:29,421 --> 01:14:31,487

Tommy Chong: Yeah, hawking, stephen Hawking, hawking,

01:14:31,527 --> 01:14:35,507

Tommy Chong: Stephen Hawking, stephen Hawking, moses.

01:14:35,527 --> 01:14:41,151

Tommy Chong: I really identify with Moses and Just

01:14:42,822 --> 01:14:45,148

Tommy Chong: Because he was so influential, still

01:14:45,229 --> 01:14:48,216

Tommy Chong: influential in my life is Jesus, uh-huh

01:14:48,737 --> 01:14:49,559

Tommy Chong: very good, very good.

01:14:49,579 --> 01:14:49,619

Marc Preston: So.

01:14:50,181 --> 01:14:52,668

Marc Preston: So next question, like when you're young,

01:14:53,450 --> 01:14:56,385

Marc Preston: who is your Celebrity crush?

01:14:56,686 --> 01:14:58,673

Marc Preston: The first one you know, maybe your teenager

01:14:58,874 --> 01:15:00,178

Marc Preston: late, you know somebody who's like ah,

01:15:00,258 --> 01:15:01,749

Marc Preston: first time it came, they came on your radar.

01:15:01,790 --> 01:15:04,005

Marc Preston: You're just like all about him, besides

01:15:04,085 --> 01:15:04,788

Marc Preston: Shelby, of course.

01:15:05,542 --> 01:15:06,846

Tommy Chong: Marilyn, marilyn Monroe.

01:15:06,926 --> 01:15:10,115

Tommy Chong: I gotta say I've always loved Marilyn

01:15:10,135 --> 01:15:10,456

Tommy Chong: Monroe.

01:15:10,476 --> 01:15:11,720

Tommy Chong: Oh my god.

01:15:13,605 --> 01:15:14,748

Marc Preston: Now, if you're gonna be living next