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00:00:53.000That's that's hard to say right cuz I mean It's it's just hard to trust any politician these days man I mean, my friends have hit me up like, hey, when are you gonna run for mayor?
00:01:06.000I'm like, I'm better running for mayor.
00:01:19.000Yeah, they'd find a bunch of liars, distort a bunch of facts, come up with a narrative.
00:01:24.000As much of an open book as I've been, you know, and open about everything I've done, yeah, they'll always dig deeper to try to find more, especially when you're in that kind of spot, you know?
00:02:08.000Then it's a shame because people that would actually maybe do the work, they don't even got a chance to get in there because they don't want to be famous.
00:02:17.000They're trying to get in there to do the work.
00:02:19.000While others like, you know, they're like, I got this seat.
00:03:47.000They don't ever tell you where it goes, but I could tell you there's a bridge up there on 6th Street Had to get the money from somewhere, right?
00:05:17.000But she was talking about one of the problems with California is it's so difficult to get a license to sell weed regularly that illegal sales of weed are up way more than regular.
00:05:30.000So they're not getting taxed on that because they made it difficult for people.
00:05:33.000Yeah, the people that operate legally are the ones getting tapped the hardest because you got to pay for all these regulations and all these fees and the taxation, whether you're in the cultivation aspect of it or you're the retail,
00:05:49.000manufacturer, distribution, any of it, man.
00:05:52.000I mean, it's the taxation to operate is high and the taxes on the consumer as well.
00:06:00.000So when you have that factored in and you got these guys that are trapping, as they call it, right?
00:06:35.000We're doing the End of the World podcast during the election, live at the Comedy Store, and then it came out that marijuana passed, and it's legal.
00:06:51.000You know, what's crazy is that more states are rolling over, like, you know, because the federal government is leaving it up to the state to decide, right?
00:07:00.000And some states are seeing what's happening in places like Colorado, where the taxation ain't so high, and they are actually making a lot of money, or the state is making a lot of money through cannabis.
00:07:13.000They're starting to consider it, right?
00:07:15.000So you're seeing states roll over one at a time, like New York.
00:07:20.000For instance, we thought that should have been like way sooner.
00:07:25.000But we thought, okay, when New York rolls, and let's just say Florida and Boston roll, everywhere else will roll over slowly.
00:07:51.000You know, what's crazy is the studies that they've been coming up with as of late, like how they've been using microdose and moderate dose to treat people with depression and anxiety and all the other business,
00:08:49.000For curing addictions and people that are dealing with like real serious problems with PTSD and people that are dying and have massive anxiety.
00:08:59.000It alleviates end-of-life anxiety for them.
00:09:04.000I mean, you know, people that pop off for any given reason, man.
00:09:09.000You give them some micro doses and they're the nicest people in the world.
00:09:14.000Yeah, I mean, that's for sure a factor with cannabis, too, man.
00:09:20.000I mean, cannabis makes people so much friendlier.
00:09:24.000I think it puts you in a relaxed state, whether you choose it or not.
00:09:32.000I've stood out of a lot of altercations being as high as I am, because somebody might throw an insult here and there, and I may not even be paying attention to them.
00:09:43.000Whereas if I'm not, I'm totally paying attention to that.
00:10:25.000Yeah, you know like we used to do mushrooms a lot and I told that I told a couple of stories when I was on the last time I was here But you know that it used to be a part of our our journey man like we'd get on stage Mushrooms and like just go on the ride.
00:10:40.000Yeah After a while, I couldn't do it anymore.
00:10:45.000I couldn't be on stage and be totally in the melt, we call it, where it's above micro, it's above moderate, like you're a full melt, as they say.
00:10:56.000And it was harder for me to be in front of people differently.
00:11:00.000Because I had these issues deeply rooted that I was angry about, and every time I got to that place, that's what I'd focus on.
00:11:09.000And I didn't want to feel that ugliness, so I waited until I got over whatever that issue was.
00:11:16.000And then I started, you know, slowly doing mushrooms again, micro dosing first and then moderate.
00:11:23.000And I started feeling good about it again.
00:11:26.000And I realized how much, you know, it actually helped me push away from whatever that issue was when I did it the first time.
00:11:34.000Yeah, just something you were focusing on, right?
00:11:38.000Yeah, I often say, if you're going to try mushrooms beyond micro, try to deal with whatever issues you got before you go in and have a friend there to help you, to be in the world there with you, you know?
00:11:52.000That's what everybody used to use, a sitter.
00:11:55.000If you did mushrooms, you should have a sitter.
00:11:58.000In the best case scenario, you would have qualified professionals that would assist in psychedelic therapy, which is what happens for a lot of people.
00:12:09.000I know people that have done that in other states where it's legal or illegal.
00:12:14.000And where it's legal, I mean, it's amazing.
00:12:17.000You can go to a place and someone who understands the experience and knows what to do can help you through it.
00:12:21.000And I know people that have made some big breakthroughs in their life and just really just sort of reassessed how they interface with the world because of that.
00:12:30.000I mean, if you could find something that would help you get past whatever is, you know, holding you back or troubling you, weighing you down, man, I mean, better than taking any of these over-the-counter drugs for that that might suppress those feelings or thoughts than have you deal with them and get past them.
00:13:28.000And then you have other companies that do the knockoff versions of what they do to sell more of it to you.
00:13:33.000It's just, you know, I've been paying a lot of attention over the years about the opiate crisis and the pill problem.
00:13:41.000That's something we talked about with Mariana Van Zeller, too, because when I first met her, I had her on because she did this thing called the Oxycontin Express.
00:13:49.000Where she explained the pill mills in Florida and how people would buy the Oxys and bring them up the highway to Kentucky and all these places and people with horrible addictions and horrible overdose stories and it was all coming from Florida.
00:16:11.000But if you think about what happens to someone when they get really hooked on meth, I mean, how much different is that than being captured by a demon?
00:16:19.000You're captured by a chemical demon that's ruining your life, wants you to get in a fistfight with cops, wants you to drive with no fucking tires.
00:17:00.000We'd be walking to the parties and stuff like that from Cyprus or whatever.
00:17:05.000And every now and then, you would come across a couple of gangsters that were PCP'd out.
00:17:13.000And these dudes, I mean, if you got into some shit with them, you were dealing with someone who didn't know their strength and their abilities at that point.
00:19:14.000Well, because it's not a big conspiracy, PCP. Well, I would say that had he not been on it, he would have went into shock and sure enough died right there on that porch.
00:22:03.000But if ketamine's like next door neighbors to that, that's what's crazy because I know a lot of people did ketamine and they did sensory deprivation tanks on ketamine.
00:22:11.000That was what John Lilly used to do, apparently.
00:22:18.000The way I've heard about ketamine is, you know, it's only a bunch of different descriptions, but people say, like, you can do, they can do IV-assisted ketamine for depression, and Neil Brennan did it, you know, Neil Brennan, the comedian.
00:22:33.000Neil, who's a hilarious and interesting dude, so he's the perfect guy to, like, he can describe this, and he's trying to figure out what's wrong with him, why is he depressed.
00:24:17.000There's a lot of anecdotes for sure of them saying that they would break their bones and do things that they wouldn't feel because it was such a powerful anesthetic that they wouldn't feel shit until it wore off.
00:24:50.000And so there's this thing about PCP that says if people believe that it would make them...
00:24:55.000They believe the public will go along with use of any force to make the claim that the person was under the influence of PCP. That it's so dangerous that any means to subdue.
00:25:58.000So when we were spending a lot of time in Southgate before, we eventually start touring and moving around and being a part of the industry more than being in the streets, right?
00:26:12.000Just before that, we used to hang out at this spot In Southgate, at this jack-in-the-box.
00:26:19.000Like, for some reason, everybody went there.
00:26:21.000And it was on Firestone in California.
00:26:24.000And City Hall is just down the street, and Southgate Police Department is just right there.
00:26:29.000And we just happened to be there on this day where they were trying to take down this, like, dude that was, like, probably, like, 6263 Kenny Loggins-looking motherfucker, you know, scraggly beard.
00:28:29.000Well, also, it's a huge thing up there.
00:28:32.000Wrestling's like this long-standing tradition in the Midwest, but also, there's a lot of fucking farmers out there, and those kids are savages.
00:36:11.000Like so many people with PTSD. Yeah, you know so many people like my friend assault victims I think that I think there's a real potential that it can help but it's dangerous Yeah, it's like everything where you're you're monkeying with your mind.
00:36:48.000And some people are trying to actually get You know a benefit from it in the way that will help them With whatever issue that they're having that they they feel it could help for So, you know, I think there's there's a different sort of responsibility On on each shoulder and I think the user knows that right?
00:37:09.000So like if you're partying on it, you know where your limits are when you're using it for a medical use You're sort of like afraid to step on the gas, you know what I mean?
00:37:19.000So I think you go a little slowly in that aspect there, you know?
00:37:24.000Because I think people still are genuinely afraid of it because they don't know about it.
00:37:28.000They've only ever heard and they're trying to experiment with it.
00:37:31.000But that's when you need someone who's experienced in it who can actually guide you through.
00:37:37.000So if you want to do a little bit more and get a little bit more of the experience or you want to pull back.
00:39:49.000I value your freedom as long as you're not hurting me.
00:39:52.000And if you can show that that thing actually has a benefit to a lot of people and it's being explored like in legitimate scientific circles and legitimate therapy circles, Shouldn't we take a fucking look at making that legal?
00:41:05.000That's what John Marco Allegro said is the birth of Christianity.
00:41:09.000He said it was all about psilocybin mushrooms.
00:41:11.000He was this guy who was an ordained minister who became agnostic as he was studying theology, and he was one of the people that was hired to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:41:21.000So for 14 years, this guy worked in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:41:24.000And then he wrote this book, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.
00:41:27.000And in the book he was saying this was all about consumption of psychedelic mushrooms and fertility rituals.
00:41:33.000That's what these original stories were about.
00:43:23.000And so many kids were going out there and just picking mushrooms off cow shit and just tripping their fucking balls off that they had to put a stop to it.
00:43:31.000You goddamn hippies are going to ruin this town!
00:44:23.000I mean, you see more acceptance of it as of late and the fact that they're willing to study it and talk about the actual good it's been doing in those studies.
00:44:34.000I mean, it seems like it's a move in the right direction.
00:45:22.000I rarely drank, and if I did, I was always mad at myself.
00:45:25.000I was like, you're going to fucking slow your body down, this is going to fuck you up, and you're not going to be able to achieve your goals.
00:45:30.000I was too maniacal in this mindset, and I thought that weed was for losers.
00:45:35.000Until I started hanging out with Eddie Bravo, and Eddie Bravo and I were doing jiu-jitsu together at John Jock Machado's, this is like 98, somewhere around then, and he starts talking about how much weed influences his music, and I go, really?
00:45:50.000And he goes, yeah, he goes, jiu-jitsu techniques, like I think a lot of them up when I'm high.
00:45:55.000I'm like, that's crazy because I thought weed just slows you down.
00:46:03.000So we went, got high, and then we went to Baskin and Robbins.
00:46:08.000And I remember this is like me high for the first time in, I don't know, More than a decade probably, right?
00:46:14.000Eating this fucking ice cream going, dude, this is the greatest fucking flavor I've ever experienced in my life.
00:46:22.000Ice cream sundae when you're high for the first time.
00:46:26.000Literally, I had never been high before because the time before that was like, maybe I was like in my early 20s, like 21 or something like that.
00:48:37.000Because there was one time these guys from Weedmaps, I was doing a 420 show in Colorado, and the dabs were new to us still, you know, and they weren't as clean yet, and they were just new in the culture, but not new to these guys,
00:48:54.000We all go to my hotel room, because I know these guys and stuff like that, but everybody's got their own dab rig, their own dab torch, and their own concentrates.
00:49:04.000It's like they're Jedi's of dabbing, right?
00:49:08.000We start off with one, and it's a hot dab.
00:49:11.000This is before we start doing the low temp dabs.
00:49:13.000Like, you know, that means heating the nail and then letting it cool down for about 40 seconds and then taking the hit so it's not hot as fuck, right?
00:49:22.000This is when we're like heating the nail, let it cool down 10 seconds, and then go for it.
00:49:27.000And man, that is the most devastating way you could do this, right?
00:50:15.000I went and did a fucking show, you know?
00:50:18.000But after that, that's when I decided, okay, well, I don't, you know, dabs ain't my thing, but I'm gonna keep up on it so that I don't get my fucking head taken off again.
00:50:31.000Other rappers, you know, have gone through the same thing where it's like, you know, they either don't try it at all because of the way it looks.
00:50:38.000The torch to the nail, you know, is very cracky to us, you know what I mean?
00:50:42.000So, like, a lot of them don't fuck with it that way, but some of them now and then will try.
00:50:48.000And then they'll love the taste, but the high is so fucking extreme after that they don't want no part of it.
00:51:06.000Like watching people like Snoop Dogg put down blunt after blunt and roll them, roll them himself, spark them up, put down another one, roll another one, spark it up.
00:52:12.000But when I saw them both, I said, if I'm going to go at them, I'm going to have to be getting my role together for about six months before I try these guys.
00:52:21.000Because they're rolling high numbers up there.
00:52:40.000It makes sense that you would like a better feeling of where the ball's going to go if you're high.
00:52:44.000For me, any physical activity when you're stoned, when you're an avid stoner, right?
00:52:49.000To me, it puts you in a zone where you can concentrate more on the shit you do.
00:52:53.000So, for instance, I do archery with my daughter, and beforehand, you know, I'll go smoke out before we go, and I'll just be comfortable.
00:53:04.000As opposed to when I've tried it when I wasn't.
00:53:08.000And there's just something like, it settles me in, my targeting's better, my breathing is better, all that.
00:53:16.000And even as it relates to workouts, I feel like I could work out longer than if I'm, like, put it this way, for example, if I'm not stoned, I'll set the time that I'm gonna work out, hour and a half, and on that hour and a half,
00:53:33.000But if I'm stoned, I'll lose myself in it, and I'll go longer than that hour and a half.
00:53:40.000And that's sort of what it does to me.
00:53:42.000It just gives me that hyper-focus where I'm just locked in.
00:53:45.000When I'm stoned, I'm getting more information.
00:53:49.000It feels like I'm more, when I'm doing physical things like martial arts, for example.
00:53:55.000When I'm stoned, I feel like my timing better.
00:53:59.000I feel like when I'm supposed to move into something better.
00:54:03.000I've had breakthroughs in technique from being high and hitting the bag because you realize there's just a perfect timing to the way it impacts.
00:54:24.000Yeah, it makes you feel the technique.
00:54:26.000Like, you feel your body moving, like, in a little bit more harmony.
00:54:30.000Because sometimes when I'm not warmed up or maybe when, you know, I'm, you know, maybe I'm a little sore or something like that, you can kind of force things the wrong way.
00:54:39.000And you can even hurt yourself doing that.
00:54:41.000But when you're high, you almost like feel the way your muscles are.
00:54:45.000Like when you do chin-ups when you're high, it's like you feel your back, you feel everything in it.
00:54:50.000It just makes everything very hypersensitive.
00:54:52.000Yeah, I always felt like when I went into the dojo when I was training, you know, when I went in sober, Yeah.
00:55:20.000I would absorb it, like you said, absorb it more and focus on everything that I was doing, like, from the snap of the punches to the blocks and kicks and all that stuff, like, instead of rushing it and trying to go out and impress Sensei or,
00:55:36.000you know, All that that you do because ego comes in as well when you're in a doji.
00:55:41.000I want to be the best student in here.
00:55:44.000It's almost like a competition sometimes, right?
00:55:47.000But when I'd go in stone, I wouldn't even think about that.
00:55:50.000It was just all about absorbing what he was giving to us that day and then trying to do it and slowing my mind down to do it right.
00:56:26.000If you were fucking high as fuck on hash, stand there.
00:56:30.000I would love I would do it I mean sometimes like sometimes I'll meditate and I'll be high as fuck when I'm meditating and that that allows me to go longer yeah because sometimes you know like I'm a gemini and if I'm not high man I'm high strong and I try to rush I'll rush through shit so like if if I mean to like meditate for 10 minutes and I'm not stoned before I do it I'll be trying to rush the meditation I'm like looking at the time is it 10 minutes yet You know what I mean?
00:57:24.000I would imagine if you were hashish high, and you're eating nothing but lentils, and you're on this vegan diet, and just everyday home, everyday stretching, everyday doing it, you're probably tripping balls.
00:59:07.000Like, we all want cannabis, and it seems like cannabis is going to happen.
00:59:10.000It seems like it's on the way to happening.
00:59:12.000I think you have to educate people more and be open to educate them properly instead of propaganda education, where you're just telling them half-truths to let them know what you want them to know.
00:59:24.000Like, in Europe, they're a little bit more with the shits in terms of...
00:59:29.000How they deal with alcohol, how they deal with drugs, how they deal with nudity on TV, just little things like that.
00:59:38.000We are so uptight over here that we're afraid to teach people about these things because maybe that education will lead them there as opposed to being upfront with them.
01:00:37.000And you can get it at the click of a finger, you know, click at a key on your computer, you know what I mean?
01:00:43.000You just got to also take into account that people that live like us today, humans listening to this in 2023, This is a new type of person.
01:00:52.000This is a new type of informed person.
01:00:56.000People are so much more informed, even misinformed, than they've ever been before.
01:01:00.000You're dealing with an information overload that's never, never existed before.
01:01:04.000And, you know, if you just go back a couple generations, like my grandparents came from Italy, so we're talking about, you know, they came over here during the Depression.
01:02:49.000And they end up going to Montana, but...
01:02:53.000Seeing how they trekked from one side of the country to the other and the shit they had to deal with with bandits all along those trails and just the elements, man.
01:03:05.000Coming into the country and having to go across it.
01:03:09.000In the 1883 one, it's like they're going with a group of people.
01:03:25.000All they have is what they have with them that they brought from Germany.
01:03:30.000They're prospective parts of Europe, and they're trying to get from wherever they're at to Oregon, and on the way, man, the shit that they go through.
01:03:40.000And it gives you sort of like that idea of what people were dealing with in that time.
01:03:46.000Yeah, we can't even imagine living like that, and that's the only way you could live.
01:03:51.000That's the way people lived back then.
01:03:53.000So what we're talking about today in 2023 is just a few generations removed from that.
01:03:59.000I know it doesn't seem like it, but I had this joke that I used to do about the United States was founded in 1776. People lived to be 100. That's three people ago.
01:04:37.000I mean, it's going to be a power struggle and there's going to be a lot of fucking weirdness with people trying to dictate how you think and feel and what to do and what not to do.
01:04:45.000But at the end of the day, more people are being heard than ever before.
01:04:49.000More people's voices are being heard than ever before.
01:04:52.000More important issues are being raised that people weren't aware of.
01:04:57.000More shit that you're not hearing about mainstream news that's really affecting your life.
01:05:01.000And you're finding out more about people.
01:05:09.000Before these platforms existed where you could be a voice, maybe you didn't intend to, but you became one through one of these platforms.
01:05:19.000Before they existed, all you ever had were the articles that might pop up on this website by this writer or that writer or whatever they got on the news.
01:05:29.000And obviously, they don't ever always tell you the full story on anything.
01:05:34.000But when you got people that now can go on to any social media platform and tell you exactly what they saw without worrying about what the FCC is going to say about the reporting or what your senior editor and staff is going to say about how you brought this story,
01:07:00.000David Goggins says he takes all of his haters, like all the shit that they said to him, and he puts it on like a soundtrack, and he listens to it when he runs.
01:07:16.000Dude, he puts shit that people say about him, he puts it on an audio track and runs on it.
01:07:22.000You know, I would imagine that's likened to a boxer putting up the picture of the other boxer that's been talking shit the whole time, or MMA fighter, you know what I mean?
01:07:33.000Like, boom, here's this fucker on the wall.
01:07:35.000And in the movie, on the day of the fight, he rips the poster down, you motherfucker.
01:07:58.000And one of the things about the books that's so amazing is you realize what he endured as a child and what he went through, the abuse that he received.
01:08:08.000How he came out of that this like unstoppable dude And he was like fat at one point in time.
01:08:15.000He's open about all these like 300 pounds just drinking milkshakes and he couldn't even run around the block And then he turned himself into that dude.
01:08:23.000Yeah You know that goes to show you the strength that the human spirit has you can be shit on your whole life Deprived of these opportunities here there Maybe not have the guidance from your parents or whatever,
01:08:40.000or maybe not even have any, because some kids get abandoned and stuff like that.
01:08:45.000And to be able to pull out of that and that not be the anchor that holds you down for the rest of your life, and that's your excuse.
01:08:53.000Like, oh, well, the reason I wasn't able to do this was because of...
01:09:21.000They want a great story and You know, you don't want all the ugliness, but sometimes life is ugly and we deal with it as people, depending how you grew up, your upbringing or, you know, you grew up in poverty or whatever.
01:09:37.000These are things that you deal with, but it doesn't define you.
01:09:41.000You could look within and unlock that shit that unlocks your full potential to take you out of that situation and put you in a better place and allow you to evolve and grow and to be a better person.
01:09:56.000And not perpetuate any of the shit you went through to now your kids or whoever else.
01:10:09.000And then, you know, there's people that take it to different levels.
01:10:13.000Some people just improve their life and then there's guys like Goggins who's just always trying to push the boundaries of what's physically possible for a human body to endure.
01:10:23.000Which is just a nutty way to live your life.
01:12:31.000And the people that were in Camp 1, they got stuck up there for some time because when the earthquake hit, like, they had no idea on that day what was happening for them, right?
01:12:44.000But the people that were at base camp, what happened there, a lot of them got wiped out.
01:14:26.000After World War I, America became an isolationist nation in December 1920. In the context of isolationism, the international influenza pandemic, and a post-war economic recession, the US House of Representatives voted to end all immigration to the United States for one year.
01:14:46.000So it got interesting right down here.
01:14:47.000Quota Act 1921. They called it midnight races, where boats had to get into the shore by midnight, or they were going to get fined for bringing people that exceeded the quota.
01:16:12.000How crazy is it that there's a thing that if you become president, you can decide that you're gonna take a person who's in jail for the rest of their life and go, nope, not anymore, Frank.
01:17:52.000And you know, like, what's different than state and federal is that state, you can get released early based off of what you do in that time.
01:18:01.000If you're an ideal inmate, you know, working and educating yourself and, you know...
01:18:09.000Good behavior, right, as they call it.
01:18:11.000You might be able to cut some of your time off in state time, but federal time, you do pretty much 95% of it.
01:19:20.000They're still figuring out how they let some of these people out that they were supposed to let out for cannabis in some of the states where it's legal.
01:19:30.000That's why the Last Prisoner Project exists, so that they can go and help those folks in those states.
01:19:45.000Let's say a violent crime attached to it, you know, obviously they're trying to get a lot of these people out.
01:19:52.000Because I think if you got obviously a violent crime attached to your cannabis charge, they're not just letting you out.
01:20:00.000You've got to deal with whatever that is.
01:20:02.000But anything that was just cannabis-related possession that didn't have any of that, I mean, they're trying to get a lot of these people released.
01:20:23.000He was a young kid and I want to say he's 20, 21 years old and he sold weed to this undercover cop a couple times and then they got him for selling more than an ounce Because he had a prior with something else,
01:20:42.000like an assault, but that he did his time.
01:20:45.000Here, a South Phoenix kid got 16 years in a slammer for one ounce of weed.
01:20:50.000So 16 years, they're punishing him for this.
01:22:20.000Like, get the group of people that will go out there and do the work and put this on the state legislation and legalize it or decriminalize it in your state so that shit like that does not happen.
01:23:44.000And all these fucking movies that show people smoking pot and going crazy and losing their fucking minds and just lets you know, this is going to take hold of your children!
01:23:53.000So they turn this thing that everybody had always used into this new drug.
01:24:47.000Fortunately, it stopped at our parents.
01:24:50.000A lot of people got open after that and actually turned their parents on because when you go into dispensaries now, you see cats our age, right?
01:25:00.000And obviously younger people, but you see seniors up in there as well.
01:25:05.000Whether they're in there for edibles or they're going to smoke flower or even concentrates, which trips me out.
01:25:19.000And fortunately, that's because there's a lot of information out there now that if you're not sure about that propaganda that you grew up to, you can always now do your own diligence and do your own homework and find other articles based on cannabis that will tell you positive things.
01:25:38.000And this is things they've never realized or thought of or heard before, and it opens up their world.
01:25:45.000Now, it's not enough of them, because I think if it was, you know, if it was common knowledge amongst everybody that this is a healing plant, and aside from casual use, it can benefit people, more people would embrace it.
01:26:01.000And you see that happening, but it's just slow, for some reason, still.
01:26:07.000Everything's slow, man, because, like we were talking about before, I think people have preconceived notions that they don't want to dismiss, they don't want to let go of.
01:26:14.000Even when they're confronted with new evidence, they want to, like, still stay, nah, weed is for losers!
01:27:46.000How many folks that, like, are just the average Joes, you know, that are, like, on the everyday, and then you think about the celebrities that have been taken by the shit.
01:27:58.000So in 2021, it's 70,601 people died from a fentanyl overdose in the U.S. Holy shit.
01:28:06.000That figure is up 25% from 2020. Did you see that news story last week where they seized a shipment that had enough fentanyl to kill every American?
01:28:24.000Deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, primarily fentanyl, continued to rise with 56,516 overdose deaths reported in 2020. So it just keeps going up.
01:28:39.000So it's nearly double the amount of fentanyl overdoses in 2019 and 2020. That should scare the shit out of cokeheads, but, you know, some of them are not fazed by this.
01:32:32.000And Rome wanted to hit it because he had seen me hit it with Doug and You know we took we took a hit of that bong and Rome had to like He had he had to leave the party for a while and collect himself.
01:32:46.000That looks ridiculous That's just too much that bong right there is too much.
01:32:50.000That's too much I'll be honest with you when Bobo started like hitting it.
01:32:54.000I stopped hitting it I was like I used that as a no no well Bobo wants to hit it let him do it look at the size of that thing Well, yeah, it's a thick tube all the way down.
01:39:50.000Dude, I would drink a cup of coffee and not even notice and almost kind of forget that it had the hash oil in it and then an hour later I'm reading minds.
01:40:00.000An hour later I'm like seeing intentions in people, I'm feeling tenseness and relaxation.
01:41:25.000Like when you're using it, like so cancer patients, when they're starting to use this, they tell them to use like, you know, they go with micro dosage, right?
01:42:04.000And I started going up a little bit, and one day, I really did it to myself, right?
01:42:11.000I keep them in the fridge to keep them fresh and stuff like that, but they're a little bit hard to get through the syringe because it's oil, so it's a little...
01:42:21.000You gotta warm it up for it to like go through the syringe quicker.
01:44:20.000Well, people that ain't used to it, that they don't have the tolerance yet, they catch the anxieties and have a bad experience, and then they don't want it again.
01:44:28.000And your bud tenders have to know this.
01:45:03.000You don't want to, like, push them away from that because they're looking at this for an alternative.
01:45:09.000And if you're just trying to blow them out and get them high and you're not even focused in on what they're there for, I mean, you lost someone, you know what I mean?
01:45:17.000So it all boils down to education and the willingness to do that.
01:50:05.000I'm just so curious to see him come back because you got to think three years out, building up his frame, becoming a heavyweight, doing it the right way, doing it slowly, getting accustomed to the extra mass.
01:50:17.000Do you feel like he's doing like what Evander Holyfield did before he became a heavyweight?
01:50:22.000Because Evander was a cruiserweight before he became a heavyweight.
01:51:42.000I mean is with Mike would people forget everybody remembers the knockouts everybody remembers the destruction But people don't remember is the head movement and the foot movement was extraordinary his footwork extraordinary work was crazy It was almost like like almost like a martial artist if you look a hundred percent like the way that his twitch Muscle ability to like move his feet and shift.
01:54:12.000So what we're looking at is a guy who goes he goes from lying on his stomach to Pulling his body weight off the fingertips and going into a standing handstand watch that again How much strength is involved in doing that?
01:54:26.000And then throws his legs all the way back, backwards until they almost touch the ground, then spins around.
01:54:31.000There's this one clip where he looks like Patrick Beverly.
01:56:50.000I believe it's slated to go into the Olympics for this next run.
01:56:55.000When did these guys become this athletic?
01:56:58.000Because it didn't used to always be like that, right?
01:57:00.000I think as every art form evolves, I think they just started challenging themselves and trying different things and seeing what cats were doing on the gymnastic floor.
01:57:14.000Trying to figure out how do I develop these new moves and stuff like that.
01:57:18.000And just trying to take it to a new level.
01:57:20.000And I think they discovered within that They could do these power type moves as a part of it because you didn't see a lot of the freezing that you see now where he's pausing and holding that up, you know, it was all about the movement on the floor like the spins to the head the hands and You know up up top when you're doing a 1990 or whatever you see a lot of that in the combinations But now you're seeing more strength Along with those combinations.
01:57:49.000It's a mixture of the combinations you see of the aerial moves or the floor moves into a power move that he did on his fingers like that.
01:58:05.000Power style moves like that that existed and I don't know where it came from man I just I just know that like you see the way that they do this they just they The fact that they they kept it going There was no place to go but evolve and do some different things and what were you just showing us Jamie?
01:59:16.000Their abilities are crazy, and you know, it's great that they're finally getting recognized for that, like by, you know, putting them into the Olympics somewhere, you know?
02:00:13.000It's nuts like the kind of strength involved in something like that is It just spun around his head 30 times He's gonna wear a bald spot on his head for sure, right?
02:01:27.000If you look at this movie called Wild Style, it documents that.
02:01:32.000And there's another one, I think, called Style Wars that documents that.
02:01:36.000I don't know when those came out, but I know that it's been around from the late 70s, right at the birth of when they used to throw the parties at the park.
02:01:47.000I think it's the Bronx and the other boroughs, like Queens.
02:01:51.000There was cats getting down back then.
02:01:55.000Interesting and so what kind of music were they dancing to back then?
02:01:59.000I think it was breaks like from what like when they explain it in some of the hip-hop documentaries is that guys like Cool Herc and in Grandmaster Flash and the other DJs that were like the Kings of the boroughs in the DJs they were taking like R&B records that had breaks that were like like To them,
02:03:10.000That was 1898. It says 1877. There's a quote of a young man quite alone who was practicing over and over the most inexplicable leap in the air.
02:03:19.000He swung himself up and then round on his hand for a point when his upper leg described a great circle.
02:04:05.000It's one of those things where they just gotta try to innovate new moves.
02:04:10.000The way Tony Hawk would innovate when he brought out the 900, right?
02:04:16.000And guys like that, they're constantly pushing To create a different combination, different move that no one's seen or a freeze or a strength move like that guy with the two fingers and he's like stuck like that.
02:04:42.000You got to be as strong if not stronger and come up with something completely different which you know they managed to do.
02:04:49.000Yeah if you just like let them be creative they'll come up with new stuff.
02:04:52.000Just over time, one guy figures out a move, another guy figures out a better way to do that move, and then they're all innovating and feed off each other.
02:05:10.000I mean, you're running around to a routine and doing the flips and the tumbles and all that stuff, and they work their floor routine to the music.
02:05:50.000The guys that do the B-boy shit, it takes them hours to get all that down and to get those moves down and get those combinations down and having the strength to actually pull it all off.
02:06:04.000I'm just glad that they're finally getting theirs because it's a great art form that was derived from hip-hop and to see it now, it's like a world sport.
02:06:35.000You know, it's dope that the Grammys just recently celebrated the 50 years of hip-hop, because it's now the birthday of hip-hop, I guess, this year, this month, that it's been 50 years.
02:06:52.000Yeah, they left a lot of groups out, but I thought the representation was pretty cool, like that they started with the actual pioneers of this, you know, and seeing Run DMC and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 and Rakim and all those guys do their thing and be celebrated.
02:08:32.000Some think that I'm a flake, but I'm no fake nigga, cause I take a bitch, make a man with your burners ass at the stake, with the 44 mag, it's so simple, put it to his temple, fuck how'd I give a nigga permanent dibble?
02:08:48.000Brand new headsets on the tracks, G-Rap on a wax coat, bummer got motherfuckers doing jumping jacks, you motherfuckers lost it, I'll bake your ass like a cake, and all your flakes get frosted, cause when G-Rap is on the mix, niggas start shitting, He was amazing,
02:11:10.000It was crazy that the song that influenced that was from a rapper named Schooly D based out of Philly and he had a thing called PSK and so that 6 in the morning was a play from PSK which was actually the first gangster song in hip-hop but the first West Coast gangster song was the 6 in the morning See,
02:13:20.000The difference is, on the West Coast shit, we used more 808, like that.
02:13:26.000The bass-driven shit, because that was more L.A. Like, in L.A. at that time, you'd see cats riding around with sound systems bumping.
02:13:37.000And so, when guys like Dr. Dre were making, you know, when they were producing, they were adding that bass in there, that 808, so that people can feel that shit in their system.
02:13:48.000How many times does a dude come up to you and went insane in the membrane?
02:14:59.000So a lot of his influence was from New York.
02:15:02.000You know, his favorite production was like the Bomb Squad, which were producing Public Enemy and all their shit.
02:15:07.000They had like some of the most complex production at the time with bridges and brakes and these crazy sounds and stuff like that.
02:15:14.000So, you know, that's what Muggs got down with.
02:15:17.000Now, when he moved out here and we start hanging out, he's introducing us to New York music, you know, hip-hop music that we heard.
02:15:26.000We heard some of it via the radio on KDAY, an AM station that was playing a lot of hip-hop in the mix, and some of it mixed with R&B and soul throughout the day.
02:15:38.000So, This is where we got our first introduction to hip-hop, but Muggs being from New York, whenever he'd go back, he'd come back with new records and he'd introduce us to stuff like that.
02:15:48.000And so when it came time to working on an album, he had all that influence.
02:15:55.000And being from New York and absorbing all that culture, it sounded sort of like New York-style production.
02:16:02.000Mixed with a little bit of LA influence, especially with, you know, what Sen and I were kicking in terms of vocals, because we were using a combination of LA and New York slang, you know, merged as one.
02:16:14.000So that's why a lot of people were confused, like, where are these guys from?
02:16:18.000You ask people in New York, they thought we were from East New York, and they were from Cypress Hills, New York.
02:16:24.000And people that were from LA, they were like, well, wait a minute, they kind of sound West Coast-ish.
02:16:31.000But they didn't really know until we came out and said, you know, yeah, we're from LA. Our boy's from New York, and we're sort of a bridge, you know, between LA and New York with the sound.
02:16:42.000Yeah, it was always a New York-influenced sound because, I mean, that's where it was from.
02:16:48.000But I think that's what added to us being different because most things that were coming out of Los Angeles in that time or Southern California sounded like gangster rap, sounded like a version of N.W.A. or Compton's Most Wanted or something like that.
02:19:26.000So, you know, like, it's the development.
02:19:28.000And fortunately, you know, when we got assigned to Rough House Columbia, we had the power of Columbia backing us up Because they sort of believed in what we were doing.
02:19:40.000Well, they, not sort of believed, they believed in what we were doing and got behind it and allowed us to be as creative as we wanted to be and pushed us.
02:19:49.000And, you know, along with having Joe and Chris on our side creatively, like, pushing our line and saying, hey, these guys are doing great.
02:19:59.000We don't want to intervene and, you know, change anything they're doing.
02:20:04.000I mean, that was everything because, you know, most of the time they want an easy layup.
02:20:09.000So if, let's just say, you know, there's a group over here that's doing well, hey, how come, why don't we make a record like this over here?
02:20:18.000It's like, well, why don't you go sign that shit over there?
02:22:06.000They got CSIs in a bunch of different cities.
02:22:07.000Yeah, I think there's like six or seven franchises of those in the Law& Order close to the same.
02:22:14.000Bro, they can show hardcore shit on TV now.
02:22:16.000I watched one of those CSI shows and they were dealing with this autopsy and I was like, Jesus Christ, this is regular TV? It's wild what people's access to things like HBO and Netflix, what it's done to regular TV. They'll show gore and violence now.
02:24:46.000It's like the Hulk like you you know, you made him mad now all of a sudden he's unstoppable every yeah, everybody's like oh you fucked with yeah That's everybody want that's what people love.
02:24:54.000They love this like one person that can't be stopped Yeah, you know in some way whether it's because of the Hulk like he's got some fucking genetic thing They zapped him with rays and change his body.
02:25:08.000I mean, it's the same thing when they were running Stone Cold Steve Austin on the WWE. His character or his persona was that you could not stop Stone Cold.
02:25:38.000He's so much bigger than Bruce Banner.
02:25:41.000Bruce Banner is like a little unassuming scientist who's built like Ben Shapiro and then all of a sudden he turns into that guy and the pants somehow still fit.
02:30:17.000But it's fucking like the scene in the Hulk when he grabs Loki and he smashes him left and right like Loki who says he's a god and the Hulk grabs him and pile drives him into the concrete back and forth and back and forth and goes, puny man.
02:30:32.000I mean, puny god, is that what he says?
02:31:00.000It wouldn't be better if he actually looked exactly like the original Hulk, and he could talk like a super smart guy, but he could turn it on or off.
02:32:51.000Like, you don't really get too many new superheroes.
02:32:54.000Like, we kind of have enough superheroes, we're kind of done.
02:32:57.000Yeah, not in the DC and Marvel universe, because, I mean, you know, it's been for so long and they developed so many characters to come up with new ones and try to put those over.
02:33:17.000Because some bands, they'll tour 20 years after their last album and they'll just still have all those hits to choose from and they don't ever write new songs and the audiences love it.
02:34:35.000Yeah, I've learned from watching others, like, when you don't play the popular songs in your, you know, the pantheon of your library, your musical library as an artist, man, they're gonna shit on you heavy.
02:34:51.000Like, yo, man, how come you didn't play insane in the brain or whatever.
02:39:10.000And learning that, as an artist, seeing how he did that, and how a lot of us were like, yo, this is fucking ridiculous.
02:39:20.000I never wanted any of our fans to feel something like that leaving a Cypress Hill show.
02:39:26.000So like we, you know, we definitely will play some new shit, but we'll strategically place it to where it's not bothersome to the fans.
02:39:35.000Like, oh man, I wanted to hear the hits.
02:39:37.000I don't want to hear this shit over here.
02:39:39.000So like we're hitting them with hits from the start, sprinkle some new shit, some more of the old shit and Here and there, just so that, like, artistically, yeah, you want them to have the new material, but, like, they're there to really realistically hear the shit that they fell in love with you for,
02:43:19.000Look at the difference between Jennifer Lopez, who's flawless, and Giselle DeBlanco, who looks like Mark Hunt.
02:43:28.000Look, with Catherine Zeta-Jones, she tried to put a different look in, but for some reason, the acting in that particular one wasn't there, man.
02:43:38.000Well, I think legitimately they should put prosthetics on her if they wanted to be that way.
02:44:08.000Oh, man But this that was part of the story was that this lady couldn't be crossed But that she was seduced by this guy who was remember what she she had this boyfriend the boyfriend was Banging other chicks and she found out and things got ugly.
02:46:23.000And when you, like, in the interview, the hitmen, and the hitmen were telling them what Griselda was telling them to do, it was like, yikes.
02:47:57.000All that all of it that mean if you're high on coke and you're digging holes in your backyard, you're not gonna remember where those holes are.
02:48:03.000You better be planting little flags, little pinpoints.
02:48:28.000If you buy a dude, he's a coke guy, goes to jail in the 1980s and he builds his fucking mansion, the mansion's still there, you would buy it and go, okay, has anybody ever done any renovations in the backyard?
02:48:47.000And you better be there when they fucking peel that shit up, because those construction companies are going to be like, ah, we didn't find anything, sir.
02:52:10.000It says he was charged with intent to distribute cocaine after embarking on a treasure hunt to uncover 70 pounds of buried white gold in Puerto Rico.
02:52:19.000But does that mean he found it, or he was charged because he was trying to find it?
02:52:24.000Arrested after he attempted to recover and sell the cocaine that had been buried on the island.
02:53:13.000I bet once you start getting high from that coke, you're like, oh, this is great, and then you're a bear, you're a glutton, so you're just diving in there, eating the whole bag.
02:55:48.000Dr. Edward Domino, who participated in the early testing of PCP, documented that the drug produces an adrenaline release resulting in a fight-or-flight reaction with an increased heartbeat, high blood pressure, and raised body temperature.
02:56:25.000Key factors that determine whether a PCP user becomes violent are the user's personality, the physical settings, and the external stimulants.
02:56:49.000You're like in a zone and then the cops come fucking with you.
02:56:52.000I mean, immediately you're going to be reactive.
02:56:56.000They cite the case of West Covina police officer Ken Bread, who was killed in 1983 by a PCP user who was unfazed by both mace and baton blows.
02:57:08.000In a powerful display of force, he uprooted a sapling and its eight-foot stake, which he hurled at the officer.
02:57:17.000Then he managed to grab a shotgun out of the officer's car and kill him.
02:58:34.000The one thing that says it's the most popular post off of a bodybuilding message board, the thread on PCP and bodybuilding and powerlifting.
02:59:40.000Well, I'm looking up deeper discussions on it.
02:59:43.000It says there's no evidence that it increases strength, but because it's a disassociative, do you think that maybe you can't feel the pain?
03:00:41.000Like you ideally would want to be in shape and have very little adrenaline because adrenaline jacks up your heart rate unnecessarily sometimes.
03:00:48.000And so if you're really juiced up with adrenaline, your heart's at 170 beats per minute.
03:00:51.000If you start engaging in physical activity when you're already kind of gassing because your heart rate's already jacked, you're going to get tired quick.
03:01:24.000When you go through those smaller shows, like the LFAs and these other small promotions, and you finally get that call, the moment they close that cage, you realize, oh my god, I'm on fucking pay-per-view.
03:01:41.000You've got to maintain composure and you're calm in there.
03:01:45.000And sometimes when you're new to it and you're excited and the adrenaline rises, man, it's hard to stay composed.
03:01:52.000I mean, that happens with young rappers out there, right?
03:01:55.000First show in front of like 10-20,000 people.
03:01:59.000They, let's say, rehearsed for weeks, a month, and they got the song down, and their breath control is there, and they sound great, but the minute they get on that stage and they see the enormity of it, It changes.
03:02:14.000The inexperience makes them forget everything they learned and all of a sudden they're breathing heavy.
03:02:21.000They're trying to keep up with the song.
03:02:23.000They don't sound like the tone that's on the actual record and it's all that nervous energy because of the inexperience.
03:02:32.000I would imagine with an MMA fight, going through that, man, that's got to be the toughest because you trained, you put the work in.
03:03:15.000I think if you've got a different sort of voice and you've got to maintain it and not let it get damaged and things like that, you've got to find ways to strengthen it.
03:03:28.000For me, I knew some of the stuff that was causing damage to my voice.
03:03:34.000One was I was smoking blunts and I was drinking whiskey before the shows and things like that.
03:03:40.000And then carbonated shit like sodas and stuff like that.
03:03:43.000That whole combination had my shit raspy.
03:04:00.000And then someone referred me to the lady.
03:04:02.000I think her name was Elizabeth Sabine.
03:04:05.000She taught a bunch of different singers, but her thing was opera.
03:04:10.000And to teach you how to breathe so that you don't have to over-project from your vocal cords and all that stuff from the throat.
03:04:18.000And so getting rid of the whiskey and the blunts and the sodas, that was one thing that definitely helped.
03:04:27.000But like with the breath control and not over projecting and staying in key and in tone, whatever, she taught me that.
03:04:35.000And that preserved my shit so that I could sound like what I sound like on the record, even to this day.
03:04:43.000I didn't really suffer too much damage like a lot of people do where they cannot sound like they do on the record because they've pretty much blasted out their shit.
03:04:54.000By partying and not taking care of the muscle, not taking care of the tool, any of it, you know what I mean?
03:05:01.000So, I always respected the fact that I got this gift, so, like, I'm gonna do what I got to to protect it, and that was one thing, man.
03:05:09.000Like, I was going hoarse every damn, every other show, like, And not sounding the way that I should on records.
03:05:18.000And when I would hear the playback to that, I'd be like, oh my fucking God, what is this?
03:05:24.000And then finally I reached out to somebody who knew a coach and they were like, hey, put me on to your vocal coach.
03:05:32.000I want to try to strengthen what I got going on here.
03:05:36.000Fortunately, man, I paid attention to her and I didn't blow it off.
03:06:12.000I mean, folks that could sing, like, let's just say Patti LaBelle, right?
03:06:15.000I'm not the biggest Patti LaBelle fan, but she's made great music in her time.
03:06:21.000But in relation to her tool, which is her voice, I mean, she's taking care of it to where she sounds amazing right now to this day in her 70s.
03:06:34.000And not everybody her age that possesses that talent and has a voice still have a strong voice because they didn't take care of it like she did.
03:06:49.000If you want to have longevity in this game and you want to sound good, man, you take care of the tools.
03:06:53.000on the flip side i like the way johnny cash sounded in his last days yeah he sounded good i love the hearing the life in his voice i love hearing the living yeah in his voice like that guy lived a hard life he sure did and johnny cash lived a hard life And it was a dope record,
03:07:15.000Just hearing that voice at the end of his life, and knowing that he doesn't have much time left, and knowing that he knows he doesn't have much time left, and he's singing that.
03:07:43.000I mean, Folsom Prison Blues, one of the original.
03:07:46.000I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that's real The needle tears the hole The old familiar sting Try
03:08:17.000to kill it all away But I remember everything.
03:11:24.000But, I mean, we do our Dr. Green Thumb show Monday through Friday on YouTube, so you can find us there, and we're constantly, you know, giving up our schedule and the shit we're doing, man.
03:11:34.000It's very random, but, yeah, right there.