Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE REVIEW of 1303 with Tommy Chong

Episode Date: May 31, 2019

Tommy Chong is a legend of the marijuana community. Star of the Cheech and Chong movies. He's now 81 years old and still trucking on. He has a really chilled conversation with Joe and shares a lot of stories from his life. This was a pleasure to review.   Enjoy my review folks!   Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

Hello guys and welcome to today's episode of the JRE review. A bit of a catch up from last week. This is episode 1303133 Tommy Chong, the legend. Still trucking, 81 years old. Obviously he is the star of the Cheechin Chong movies, which if you haven't seen those and you also happen to smoke weed, that is a must see. They're a bit old now, but for what they were back in the day and growing up, I love watching those funny as fuck, they're hilarious.

They least still hold up for me, but I remember seeing them when I was younger, so maybe I don't know if they'd be all that funny to The new generation if you haven't seen them, but I still say worth a look. They had a lot of them So check them out. So yeah, let's start this review Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Room View! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? I loved during this conversation how he sounded, like how he would talk. He's so chilled and you know he's like he has the full process

that I'd love to have at 81 years old. Just like he has no hate. You know there's some frustrations mostly with Donald Trump from what I could tell of what he was saying but he's just a calm, of what he was saying, but he's just a calm, cool guy. And that's, that says a lot because he went to jail for kind of bogus charges, and you would think that he would hate a lot of people because of that. But he seems to not, and that's impressive. And obviously important, right? You want to let things go. Obviously smoked a ton of of weed in his life so maybe that's kind of enlightened him a little bit and taught him to forgive. But yeah, he went to jail back in the day. I don't know if you guys remember that, but it was for selling bongs, I think, online, not even weed, just like something to smoke weed in. And yeah, they took him to jail and he said even in there there was a lot of

people on kind of bogus charges in jail you know and a lot of IRS stuff too you don't fuck with the IRS people they will come for you for sure he didn't have all that bad things to say about jail though I don't know it didn't sound like his jail was quite like everybody else's he almost made it seem like a bit of a country club I'm sure it wasn't great but he found the positive in it and uh he would play pool they had a pool hall he could like uh what else did he say that he did he had like areas to kind of write and and uh did he play an instrument I don't remember damn it I should have wrote that down. But yeah, it wasn't like his worst experience. He actually kind of got a lot of benefit out of it

and met some really cool people. And the sad part of his conversation, you'll hear it when he's talking to Joe, is that for some people when they left, people with bad yoga dictions, like they could live in jail, they could survive, they could be clean, but as soon as they hit the streets again, it became a mess and I guess somebody he knew that happened to him, he was worried about leaving, and as soon as he did, you know, OD'd and sad stuff in that case. Talk a little bit about fitness in later age, you know, Joe talks about, he works out all the time because he's scared that everything's gonna fall apart. You know, he's 50, what, one now? No spring chicken.

And, you know, you have my age to his and that's the same as Tommy. So it doesn't take long to get up there. And I guess Tommy stays pretty active for 81. It's so impressive. I can't imagine. Like unbelievable. Get for him. It's probably what keeps him, you know, healthy in that sense.

And his mind seemed really sharp. It really did. He was saying some wacky things after a while, but yeah, it kind of was. He had a really interesting theory on Donald Trump and kind of a conspiracy to get him into office as a way to take him down. Definitely check that out when you're listening to that bit of the podcast. Joe kind of accused them of being a little bit too high, which I thought was hilarious. He was kind of losing me on that theory a little bit but maybe that's just because I'm too dumb to understand it.

It's probably it but it was a little wacky. One really cool thing that he talked about is getting high with Arnold Schwarzenegger back in the day and that these bodybuilders would take massive bomb reps like massive. They used to get high as fuck. And that's cool as hell, I think, to be able to get high with honest fortune. You probably can't do it anymore. I don't know if he smokes weed now. Probably that maybe does actually. Oh, and did you guys see that online video recently of Arnold in South Africa where some dude just ran up to him and double-leg kicked him? That is so fucked up. Why would you do that to Arne? He's like 70 years old. I still love the fact he didn't even move. He just just barely moved and just turned around like what the fuck was that? I love it. He's a beast. Good

old Arne. Oh and then Arne is watching. He actually trains at a gym just down the road from me. My neighbor sees him all the time, training down there. I think that's bad ass that he's like every day down there. And I think that's badass that he's like every day down there. And supposedly really approachable. You can just go say, hi, you know, he has like a bodyguard there, but it's not like he has a closed-off section. He's down to chat with people, which is, which is badass, but he loves that place. That's that was like the original pump and iron gym, you know. I really should check that place out now that I think about it.

I should go down there. I'm gonna go down there. I'll do it. I'm heading down. Tommy also had a bit of a theory about life on Earth, being the only life in the universe. I don't really know where he was going with that, but he was just kind of making that point.

Interesting theory. Give me some feedback on that. I don't know what where he's going. It seems like there's just too many planets for that to be possible. But it could be, it could be, right? I mean, I think he was just talking more about the human experience and that we're here

to work together and be nicer and treat people right. And he was going on a bit of a preachy thing, which is okay. He's a good guy. He's an old guy. He's probably a grandpa or a great grandpa. He's just telling his story. This is kind of how grandpa's talk. At least mine used to. And again, it talks a lot about that prison situation. And he knew the War for Warstreet guy too, the guy, the actual guy that was in jail. And he said he kind of inspired him to write a book, which became that movie, which is cool.

And something he said about writing, which I really liked, he said, he was talking to Joe and he said, uh, that there's really one rule to writing. And it's called the most of the most of. And it just really means what he was saying is you don't get high, you get your highest. Like you do your very best bit of it, the most extreme version of whatever you're doing. I don't know if I truly understand the the whole ins and outs of that one. I kind of get it. It seems kind of good. I don't know exactly how to apply that to say some writing that I'm doing. You know, shoot me an email if you if you understand that well. I'd like to know. Shoot me an email if you understand that well. I'd like to know. The email, of course, is always in the description.

I really should make it a link so you can just push it quick and then go straight to your email, but I think you have to copy and paste it. So sorry about that. That's just because I'm dumb and I'm not very good with those link things. I'll solve that out. I'll figure it out.

And then, comments towards the end, it was kind of summing it up with just like, you know, us as human beings and when we get sad or when we complain a lot or when we have a lot of stress, it's like, it's so hard to really, you know, accept that because, you know, we're being born now, right? So we're lucky because we're being born now. So we're lucky because we've inherited a kingdom. And I've never thought about it that way. I thought it was really intuitive.

And Joe knew exactly what he meant. And it was just that we're not born in the Middle Ages. We just happen to be born now on the backs of all this technology and cities and economy and everything that other people died for, the worked hard for, that put it together, and now we get to reap it all. And it's nice to hear those things because then you can say to yourself, oh, I don't want to lose track of that. I mean, and how lucky we are in that sense.

You know, I'm not trying to get all Gary Vee, but it is important to have those things in your mind when you're going through like stressful events, just to kind of try and slow it down and take a minute and say, yeah, you know what? We're fucking so lucky. If it gets hot, we got air conditioning. None of us singly built that. we wouldn't know how to do it. We just taking technology that was here and just making it a little bit better. And we're so lucky to have that all by. But anyway, that's enough of my preachy shit. Thank you guys as always for listening and downloading, and have a great day! you