The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #166 | RICKY WILLIAMS | UNCLE JOEY'S JOINT with JOEY DIAZ

Episode Date: May 25, 2022

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no fucking idea anymore. I'm losing time. It is track of time lately. But it's a beautiful day to be alive. Thank you very much for enjoying the Chas podcast. It was fucking great. Having him come to your house with his son Dante, Mike, me. It was fucking great. It was really awesome, guys. It was a great experience. I've been speaking to him for a while and we finally put together. I'm going to go on his podcast in June.

He starts back up. We're going to do like two episodes. So that's where we're at. It's great to have something like that that you can learn from for a little while. That guy's seen it all. That guy struggled. That guy, you know, it's funny. Somebody reminded me at one of his early

movies and now I got to fucking watch it because of one of my favorite movies. The last motherfucking dragon with a... Do you like that too? I love that movie. Bruce Lye, Bruce Lee, Bruce Leroy. Bruce Leroy and the Shogun of Harlem and shit. That's a great fucking movie.

I got to see it again. I saw that in a movie. That's how old uncle Joe. Oh shit. Fucking Vanity's in it with a non-acting ass. Vanity, Mike Clark, Mike Star. Fucked. A lot of people in that goddamn movie.

In fact, I saw that kid my first night in L.A. I walked into fucking the comedy store. and I saw him talking to Eddie Griffin, the star in that movie, Bruce Leroy, I almost fucking died. I almost fucking died. But anyway, with all that aside, today we have a guest, Ricky Williams.

I don't know if you remember him from the Miami Dolphins. Great guy, we had to do a Zoom. He's in L.A. I'm in Jersey, but it was pretty interesting. It got me thinking because I didn't take care of myself to, like, as a human being, like, I didn't know what was, listen, we don't know what the fuck's going on. You know, you eat, you go to the gym, you're fucking sleep.

And every week somebody talks to you about carbs, this, I didn't know what was going on. But I didn't start taking care of myself mentally until I was like 31 years old. When I started, I don't know, when I got out of fucking jail, I had some doubts about myself and whatnot. Those two years that I had from like 89 to 91, looking back in those years, I fucking struggle a lot. I mean, once I got on stage, that took half the fucking, you know, like when you want to do something and you don't do it. With comedy, I wanted to do it so bad, but I didn't have the balls to do it. So by the time I got to do it, it was such a weight off my fucking shoulders. And I saw all this shit that I was going through, it was coming from because I would not go on stage for some reason or another.

And if I sit down and really talk to you guys about what made me go on stage, it was class. because I wasn't clear. Like I wasn't, I wanted to be a stand-up. I didn't have my, I didn't have my goals situated. I wanted to be a stand-up comic. That was it.

I didn't have what level, what degree. I didn't know what I wanted to get into. But the defining moment for me was when I was lost. I was lost as a human being, man. And I, I don't know, after prison, after I got married and separated,

that separation in 91, really, It just fucked up my head, guys. It just made me look in for the first time ever. And I'd seen the things I'd done. I remembered the kidnapping and all that shit. And I figured, you know, this is maybe a religious matter. So I looked in my religious fucking life and I said, oh, shit.

When I got into that altercation with Sister Heissant in the fifth grade, I got thrown out. And I never made my confirmation. And my confirmation is basically the Holy Spirit for you non-Catholics and whatever the fuck you are. Yes, I'm a Catholic geek, so what did I do at the age of fucking 31 after I got on stage? I went for my confirmation. I did it before I went on stage. Yeah, I did it before I went on stage. I went for my confirmation.

And that entered the spirit in me, but guess what? I didn't feel dick. If he entered me, he had a little dick. I didn't feel nothing. I didn't feel nothing. I was still a little bit less lost. And my brother, my friend, a dear friend of mine that took care of me, His name was Martinelli.

That was the last name. He was working at a kitchen at Naropa Institute in Boulder. And I went over to bullshit with him one day. They got a fucking free meal because I was a comic and I was broke. He would tell me, come by, get a free lunch. And, you know, it was a vegan place, but I still went in there, eight, seven grain bread and, you know, all that shit. Because it's free.

You got to eat what the fuck is free, you know? So I looked at one of the catalogs from the school while I was sitting at in the, whatever. in his restaurant and a table and they had some pretty interesting courses man and I went to see a speaker there that was my first experience there I went to see a speaker uh I forget what

the guy's name is if I showed you his picture you know I ate he's like a fucking well known I went to see two guys there but this was the first one and it was kind of hippie-ish I didn't think I belonged there but the dude was speaking my type of shit he was talking about spirituality

and how you have to connect and all this shit and i was lost man i was like i don't know what the fuck this dude's talking about i smoke ref i don't know what the fuck he's talking about so i fucking i signed up for a walking meditation class and they taught me how to breathe it was monday nights i never forget this and i would go there you got to take your shoes at the door you got to like fucking do something around the thing and then you would have to have a thought and walk around i never forgot this stuff guys i thought it was so interesting to me and i did it for a couple weeks and it got me by and it got me And you know what?

It got me over the hump. And then I didn't look back into that ever again. Like I just go, oh, I'm cooking with gas now. I don't really have to tear care myself. Yeah, we all do this shit, you know. Oh, once I hit 200 pounds, you know, and then we hit 200 and we don't go back to the gym. Once you get your blue belt, you don't go back to Jiu-Jitza.

You know, there's so many fucking things that. So from 90-1, 92 to 95, it was to get my head back. You know, it was the first time. ever I felt kind of weird in the mornings. And what I was going through last year when I moved here was this, I kept telling people it feels like when I got divorced, I was lost, I didn't have an anchor.

And man, when you don't have an anchor and you're fucking lost, and you just get up and, like I had, at that time, yeah, I was fucking into, you know,

writing stuff down, like my schedule. And I was doing everything I could to take care of myself that way. But the mind was where, and I always had Riefer. But the problem with the Rifa, was that I was doing cocaine. And that the refocan, nothing works when you're doing cocaine.

Nothing works. But that's what I got into. And then when I got into comedy, I said to myself, you know what? I can't even think about this spiritual world anymore because I'm going broke. I'm going broke. I got to get on the road. I got to do shit. So then you go on the road and I committed to cocaine.

I said, fuck it. I'm not going to go with this shit feeling wounded. I'm just going to do cocaine to whatever. And I never even looked at my. myself again until I was 44 years old. And that's when, you know, I had to go to Weight Watchers. I had a, you know, and I never, I never really spoke to anybody. But that's when I realized all the things that go together for you to do your job the right way. You know, last year I wasn't doing my job. And I'm still not doing my job the right way because I'm not 100% yet. But I'm

getting every day. And I do the same shit every day to take care of myself, my mind. I don't put no pressure on myself. I journal. I do a lot of fucking things, but the Rifa helps. You know, when I was in L.A., what I was doing on the church

was not the way you smoke Rifa. Guys, we were going, we were savages on that church, and everybody around us was savages. It's just the way it was. That's not the proper way to smoke Riefer, you know? And I found that out when I got here,

when I had to chase the fucking dragon all day, and now I smoke before I go to the gym, maybe before Mike comes, and then at night is when I need it. on the front of my house and I smoke my little fucking joint. I look at the trees and the mountains and I hear the deer running around and that's my peace of mind right there. You need peace of mind every day.

And sometimes, you know, the pandemic was the best thing that happened because some people got to look at their lives for the first time. But again, after the pandemic blew over and they switched jobs and whatever, they stop looking after your life. You got to look after your life. It's an everyday checking. It's an everyday check. with yourself. You know, when you get older, you're like, fuck, my ankle hurts, my ear hurts.

Last week, I had 15 pains. If you come to me in the morning and go, Joey, what do you feel? You know, my knee hurts, my ankle, you know, all that shit. But so is the insides of you. So are your insides. They're rough. You got to take care of them. I'm very happy that I signed up with better help and spoke to them about therapy. And I would never do this before. But now, ever since all this shit last year, I tell you what, man, I check up on myself more than ever. I'm very happy I walked away from comedy for a while to get my life in my head together and to just see what the fuck it happened

I needed to see what the bro when you're in it you're in it you think when these guys I read about these musical tours Guns and Roses did like a fucking eight year tour you know when you do that you ever see the Motley crew movie when he describes touring can you imagine doing that

and I'm exaggerating with Guns and Rose's eight years but all those guys Motley went on a huge two year fucking, you know, all these bands went on these huge, when you come back from that, you're a different person, guys. You've forgotten everything. You're a different person. You've just been in a fantasy for two fucking years. On a bus,

jet planes, going to London, hanging out with Lemmy, Ozzy, you don't even know what's what? You don't even know what the fuck you are. And that's why, when I got back, I was like, you know what, man, I'm not feeling it. I'm going to take a breathing. I'll tell you what, I'm not 150%, but I'm a lot better than what I was and I'm

consistent with it and I'm happy for right now it's working so if it ain't broken don't fix it cocksuckers listen it was a pleasure to have this guy on the show we had a great fucking talk enjoy it coxuckers Ricky Williams

what's happening a little brother what's going on welcome to Uncle Joey's joint what's happened Mr. Williams I'm just hanging out you looking good what's going on in your world what's going on a lot of A lot of stuff.

A lot of hustling. You teach yoga today? I did not teach you. I did a little bit of yoga, but I did a little bit of yoga, too, my man. So I'm taking your lead, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Great to have you on. Big fan, big believer in what you're doing now.

Wanted to talk to you for years now. Yeah. You're one of my guys that, you know, I'm falling into your web slowly but slow. I've been an acupuncture for 15 years. Wow. You know, because I was 418, I wanted circulation, and I used it for a cocaine addiction, you know, and it really worked. I mean, no rehab, no hugs, no crying, none of that shit. She just stuck me with needles, and she would put an earring on me every week, like an acupuncture thing, because that's an addiction thing.

Yeah. And I would fucking pop it. I would leave there and go do Coke. I did that for about a year, and I got sick and tired of popping an earring, and I said, fuck it, Dr. Amy, you got me. So I moved to Jersey now, and I got a great acupuncturist, the Japanese Italian lady. Oh, wow. The Japanese are very precise, you know.

They're very good at what they do. So, yeah, it's wonderful. I mean, just that whole way of looking at the body and understanding health is, to me, it's saved my life. Save my life, too. Well, I got one foot in the gray, one of banana peel, but I'm pushing every day, Mr. Williams. Amen to that. And we also have another thing in common, which I'm very happy you went. public with and that was social anxiety.

I'm a stand-up comic, Ricky. Yeah. You know, I go out, I do shows. You talk to people afterward in the last four years, like from 21 to the pandemic, I was starting to get social anxiety. Yeah. When there'd be too many people. And I've been doing this all my life, you know, cracking jokes.

I always have a thousand people around you cracking jokes, but this was something different. It was painful. Yeah. It was starting to get painful. I didn't my the people who came to the show probably thought that I just didn't want to talk to yeah I couldn't do it anymore yeah I couldn't hold the focus how did you find out you had it how did you found out yeah find out

you had it well I mean the whole thing the whole thing of anxiety is is you feel it you know something that felt comfortable you notice you know something doesn't feel right here and you know as a football player as a guy I just tried to push through it and say like I just got to push through it but I got to the point where I realized, you know, maybe this is trying to tell me something, you know. And I think, at least for me as a kid, I was always looking outside to see what I had to do or what I had to be to get acceptance from other people.

And I worked all the way up to being a professional athlete. And then I started to realize I actually needed to accept and love myself. And I realized Chase and other people's approval put me in a place where I didn't even know who I was. And so I needed to take some time off. and be by myself and get to know myself. And as soon as I did that, the anxiety, you know, 95% of it disappeared because I knew who I was and I started making choices based on what felt good to me,

not what I had to force myself to do in order to get other people's approval. You know, that's a beautiful thing because that's how I feel a lot. Yeah. You know, right now I'm dealing with the stand-up comedy thing. And I want to go back to it, but I want to go back to it on my terms. Yeah. You know? That's what happened.

That's what happened with me. That's exactly what happened with me. But I'm going to tell you something. Even at my terms, I don't think it's going to stick around long. I just don't, I don't know. Sometimes you, I did it. My wife, we had a child when I was 50. And that really turned, you know, I wanted to find myself, you know, when you see your child,

as your child is growing, you learn a lot from you about yourself from that child. Yeah. At least I did. I would look at that. Then I would compare myself like, man, at eight years old, I was running numbers for a bookmaker. My daughter doesn't have a fucking clue. You know, she has no resume, whatever. But, and that helped.

But I think that I wanted, once I got to see my child and I started finding little things out about myself, I want to explore those things too and see what's going on. And last week I was outside. I had a comedy show Thursday night, and I was outside with a bunch of kids and moms and just talking shit, you know, and the kids, running around, Austin, I got to get my car to go do comedy. That was terrible. Yeah. I felt awful, you know? Yeah.

Sometimes I think we do, you know, it's like going to college. It's like picking a major when you're 18. You don't know shit about fucking life when you're 18. But your parents was an attorney, you know, I'm going to go to the, and after two years, you're like, this ain't me. I just want to sell fruit. Yeah. I just want to sell apples and sell flowers on the fucking corner.

Yeah. And that's, but you get put into that pressure. and then the marriage, you know, the college sweetheart, and also in you out of college, kid, and it's just you have to, like for me, last thing I remember, Ricky was 1993. You know what? I know exactly what you mean because I was there. And that's when I woke up and I said, you know, there's got to be a different way

to live my life. And so I just started, I just, really, I just said, fuck it. I'm going to do me and see what happened. If it doesn't work, I'll go back to pretend it. but I said I want to at least try being myself and see how it goes. And it just became addictive. I started to enjoy everything. Even the stuff that I used to hate, I started to enjoy because it was about the experience

or what I could learn about myself. It wasn't about, you know, checking some box or doing something again to get other people's approval. It's a beautiful thing, man. And then how do you tie in? Because I bought, listen, I was a fucking geek, Mr. Williams growing up. I was a karate dude. I bowed.

I thought Bruce Lee was fucking God, you know. And then, like, I was a Catholic. I saw people getting high, and I didn't like it when I was a kid. But I knew there was nothing wrong with Reefer. Even as a kid, I'm like, they'd just make some giggle. Yeah. And I'd see my godfather do it and my mother do it, but I wasn't allowed to talk on the street what I saw in my house. Yeah.

If you came up to me, you were like, you know, I'm thinking of smoking pot. I'd say, fucking do it. Because it just makes you giggle. I look at my God. father. He just sits on the couch and giggles like a fucking idiot. You know, it doesn't really affect him like, how come my mother had a bar? I don't drink.

I saw the effects of alcohol. You ever been around somebody who's drinking? I can't handle it. I can't handle it. I can't do it either. That's what my social goes right to fuck up. I don't understand it. You know, when I go to a bar, I get anxiety. Why? Because I don't fucking drink. Yeah. I want to smoke 10 joints and I

can't sit at the bar and talk to it. It's just a clash. So, I think that's what really, like when I got back, When I moved here after, you know, I moved here in August of 2020, I was like, wow, I don't even know what the fuck I am. I moved back to New Jersey where it all started, and I didn't know who I was anymore. People coming up to me saying they want to take a picture with me. Why? I went to fucking prison.

There's a doctor out there that saved a little fucking kid. Nobody wants to take a picture with that fucking dude. So I didn't understand all these things. And all of them gave me anxiety. Like it just, and now I switched medications. I had a bad bout with Xanax. I switched medications. I go to a doctor.

And it's under control, man. Yeah. The gyms, acupuncture, a little refut. Not too. See, the edibles were killing me. I think the edibles, I'm dropping 1,500 milligrams of that devil. Goodness gracious. Yeah, I got a big tolerance, you know.

So it's just, I think that added to the anxiety. That's a little bit of fuel. Yeah. for sure. You know, it's a process to me. Like, you know, when I started really dealing with my social anxiety, I realized it was two things. It was one. It was, it was changing my internal habits of thinking, you know, it was because that's the main thing. When people say mental health, to me, what mental means is they're talking about what's on the inside, right? And I think, at least for me, the time I was born, I wasn't really worried so much about what was on the inside. I was so worried

about what I had to do externally. And so when I finally started to turn inside, and this is what cannabis really helped me do. You know, that's what happens. When we smoke, it makes us more aware of what's going on on the inside. And for a lot of people, if we haven't really been paying attention,

it's a lot. You know, it's that feeling when you haven't cleaned something for a long time, you kept the garage, you keep putting it off, and then finally that one day you say, okay, I'm going to go attack the garage, and then you step in and you're like, whoa, it's a lot. Okay?

I think that's when people get paranoid. or they get anxious when they smoke, it's because it's too much, right? And what I realize is that the aim is you have to love and know who you are on the inside. But there's a lot of stuff we've been piling in there. And so go slow is what I tell people. And having someone, it doesn't have to be a therapist, but just having someone you trust who you can really talk to,

because once you become more aware of the stuff on the inside, it can't just stay there. It actually has to move. And so having someone, again, doesn't have to be a therapist, but having someone you trust who you can, can actually talk to who's not going to judge you. That's the process is get in touch with what's going on on the inside and find someone you can talk to about it.

And then it starts to move and you start to see it. And then it's not so scary because it's buried. It's out on the front so you can actually do something with it. And did you, I speak to a therapist. Once a week just to, you know, keep everything balanced. I got my wife. I can tell her whatever the fuck I want. She's cool with me like that.

So I. But this is life though. This is life. To me, we pretend and we've been taught it's not, but this is life. And if you have like a wife that you can tell anyone, if you have any person in your life that you can talk to about anything, to me that's the most important medicine, most important medicine you can have in life.

It's just at least one person that has your back, that you can tell them anything and they're going to love you through it. To me, as soon as I had that, half of my anxiety disappeared, you know? Because I think as we're social beings, And we need connection. But even though we have a lot of friends, that's a superficial connection. You know, as social beings, we need a deep connection with someone.

And a deep connection means someone who's seen your ass, you know? Someone who's seen all of you and they still love you. When you have that, like, I think you can take on anything in the world. My wife smelled my feet. She loves me, dog. Yeah. Yeah. It's real.

I got that fungi toenail cheesy shit. That's not good. So if she stuck around for 22 years, I could tell her anything. Yeah. You're doing. Something right. You're doing something right. No, I dig what you're saying. And I dig, you know, when you first retired, you know, I was listening to you.

And I remember having conversations with Rogan about you on planes. We would just talk about you. And I'm like, you know, I go, you know what probably happened, man? Sometimes I think marijuana helps you. You know, the great Bill Hicks had a joke. I love this joke. He said marijuana don't make you lazy. It just makes you realize that what you're going to do ain't worth getting up.

Amen to that. A hundred percent. That's it. That's it. That's it. And the same thing. Sometimes you smoke a joint, you're like, whenever I got a problem, you know, before I started talking to therapy, I would just smoke a joint and go for a walk. That's the answer.

For me, that's what worked. A little walk. I need material. I smoke a little bit. Go for a walk. It's been working for thousands of years. Thousands of years. You know, if we look at our history, we were hunters and gatherers.

We were nomads. And so when we got to a place and all of the food and all of the water and everything dried up, we smoked one and we started walking right and we found a new place to settle and build it's ancient it's ancient medicine it's real you like that it's legalized now i know you were always going after it that was one of your main things like cypress hill well i think the main thing is you look at all the people not only the people that are still in prison but the people that have served time the people who's ruined their life who've lost their jobs all of the people that have been punished because of this has been illegal, that that's my, that's my biggest gripe is people are, I mean, we, we say in the,

in the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Like, if that's not what cannabis is about, then I mean, what are we doing? So to me, to be Americans and to say people can't consume a plant to help them, help them feel better, that's ridiculous. It's crazy. It's un-American. I also feel a lot better since I've been doing CBD every day. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sponsored by a great company, and they sent me a full spectrum, and, you know, I do two times a day.

I hit that, and my life's been a little bit more slower. Yeah. It's a little bit more tranquil, you know. I can feel it. I hate saying those words. People like Joy, what are you talking about? Yeah, it's a little bit more tranquil. At night, you know, I had to learn to reissue my sleep again,

and I think that helped me out also. You know, I gave up, you know, my tolerance is so high. I got to smoke, like, 35%. weed to get eyes. But now I got a system. I just smoke in the morning and I smoke at night and I'm good. When I would be snoop dog and smoke all day, all day, yeah. It wouldn't work for me. And this is after, like I said, I've been smoking since I was 13 and I hit it. For two or three years, I was ashamed to smoke, Mr. Williams. I'll tell you why, because I was a Catholic. But whatever I was feeling, that shit I had at that age, because in the 70s, nobody spoke about anxiety. It

disappeared whenever I smoked pot. Hmm. And after my mother died, I really dove into marijuana. That was my savior to keep my head in chill. And then I just came to terms that this is something I'm going to do the rest of my life. Yeah. This is something that I know. It keeps my powder dry.

Yeah. Like that dude, Trit Williams said in something. Some fucking movie I was watching, he kept saying, it keeps my powder dry. Yeah. That's important. You know? It is very important. Yeah.

Life is short, and if we, you know, our powder is wet too much, you know, we waste time. Waste time. Well, it takes you under and it doesn't let you grow and see life for what it is when you have. It's like acupuncture. You have a blockage. You have a fucking blockage. In one of your, you know, the sederidians, meridians. There's a blockage.

You can open up that blockage. Yeah. And we have blockages all over our body when we wake up in the morning. And throughout the day, we have different things. but still we have our breathing, our yoga, you know, walking on the grass with no feet on to connect to the earth. We have so many things.

My pool opens up this weekend, you know, and I'm so excited because I could walk on the grass barefoot. So how does it feel when you're around your old friends and you start talking like this? Like, do they look at you like you're crazy? Do you not talk about this stuff? Or like, how do you deal with that? Whatever my friends call me,

The Jersey ones, the fucking, you know, the knuckleheads that I love till the end of time. Yeah. Because California, you know, I went to Colorado first. I was a motherfucking bolder for 12 years. Okay. So you, yes, you got it there. You learn a lot in bold. I went to the Roper Institute, you know, and talked to those guys.

I learned how to meditate. I was always looking for an answer. I've always been looking for what makes you feel good. Spiritually and mentally. I'm a Cuban dude. So I got Santa Ria. Yeah. part of Santa Maria is the spiritual life.

The people who look over you. You know, the people that you pray for, that you light a candle for on Mondays, that they're your people who watch you. So I always understood all these things about life. I went to Boulder, I learned a lot there, and then you go to Cali, and you talk to people who are smarter than you, and they really open your eyes to a lot of things that makes sense. I'm so rooted in Catholicism, and my Santeria roots from Cuba.

But I, at heart, I'm a Buddhist. I really believe the whole thing. You know, I read a lot of the readings. I don't even know why I put the book after the move, but I really always have thought of that Buddhist lifestyle, you know, karma. What you put in, you get out. You know, all those things, they've always made sense to me. So I've always been in search of.

And, you know, at about 10 months from being 60, and I'll tell you what has always worked to me. if I got to say what has worked for me, it has been to my marijuana use. It kept my powder dry all those years. And then when I got locked up, I couldn't smoke for those 18 months or whatever. And I consider that a big help at that time. When I got locked up, I needed to absorb what the fuck was really happening. If not, I would be back out there doing the same shit I was doing, Ricky Williams.

I hear you. So you have to, you know, you have to clean everything out and fucking absorb. What's really happening? I'm getting punished for something I fucking did. This isn't a fucking joke. This isn't a fucking joke anymore, okay? I got people at home waiting for me. I got people I disappointed.

It's fucking time. But then I got out of jail and I started doing the same shit again. And then I realized I hadn't made my confirmation in 91, right before I got into comedy. And that's when I went to the Noropa Institute. And I joined up and two months later I got into comedy. and that's where a sort of a piece came. It was a piece,

but there were still skeletons that had to be taken care of. So since that time to now, you know, I tell people all the time, you got to check on your skeletons from time to time because those motherfuckers come on and check on you.

It's not good. It's too late. It's too late if they're checking on you. It's too late. Yeah. Yeah. So you have a medical marijuana company now? I do.

I have a medical marijuana and I have a recreational marijuana company. So my medical marijuana company is called real wellness. And it's really, when I started consuming cannabis, I started learning about other herbs and realize, you know, that herbs are a much more humane, safer way to go to take care of our body than pharmaceuticals. And then my recreational cannabis company is called Heisman, H-I-G-H-S-M-A-N. And it's not about a trophy. It's about having these kinds of conversations is talking about how getting high or consuming cannabis actually helps us find true happiness and achieve our

goals, meaningful goals. Because for me, I was chasing external goals and I reached them, but they weren't meaningful. I started consuming cannabis, getting more in touch with my internal goals. And as I've pursued and reached those, it's been much more fulfilling. And it's funny, you asked me before what happens when I talk to my friends about this. Whenever my friends call me and then a pinch, I refer, you know, acupuncture. I refer maybe a little reefer, maybe a little writing, you know. I think that they look at me and they think I'm fucking crazy.

I'm a big journaler. You know, if you don't have something on paper, you really can't see what your situation is. How many nights have I gone upstairs and gone to sleep, and this one fucking hang in the nail will not let you fall asleep. And then you toss and turn all night.

When that shit happens to me, all bets are off. I come downstairs, I open the notebook, let's talk about what the fuck is bothering me. Mr. Williams came over and took two joints instead of one. You know, what am I going to do about this? I have to call this motherfucker and tell him, come on, Ricky.

He took two joints instead of one. Those little, and that's me, but that's who I am. I get hung up on those little things, you know, when you smoke pot, it makes you look within. So when I go to an audition, you start looking within. And it's dangerous because you're going to get the truth. Yeah. When you do stand-up and you tape it, your performance,

and you take it back to your room, and you do a little reaffer, and then you listen to it because I don't want to watch me. But I'll listen to, like, pivotal jokes just to see if I'm saying them right. Jesus Christ, it makes, it cleans house. For me, Rifa has been a spiritual confession. That's how I call my consumption of Riefer. You know, there's recreational rifa for me, and then there's the rifa for my mind.

I smoke it, I take a walk around the park, I sit down on the bench, I breathe a little bit, you know, I focus on my third eye, you know, just little things like that. This is beautiful, man. This is beautiful. two men having this conversation. And I hope that people listen.

I hope people listening are getting curious about what the hell we're talking about. You know, because it's real. I mean, these little moments of when we can like reclaim a sense of peace and like balance ourselves, like everything lines up. See,

I don't think, I think enlightenment, I think we've all experienced glimpses of enlightenment. You know, and I think when they talk about the Buddha becoming enlightened, he was just able to hold it more consistently. But we all have had those glimpses where everything just feels like, you know, those times you look in the mirror and you're like, damn, you know,

everything's going well. That's enlightenment. It's just how can we, how can we keep it going? How can we make it more consistent? Now, where is your marijuana company located? California, obviously. We're based in California, but we also are in Oregon and we're in conversations right now with, you know, several other states.

So we're, you know, it's our, it's our intention to become a national brand and really get this conversation, this type of conversation going on, you know, not even only throughout the country, but really throughout the world. Because, you know, like you said, it's like, Reifer, you know, it's medicine. And I think people used to talk about medicinal marijuana and still people would laugh. But when we're, when you see two people who actually are using it this way and sharing their experiences, you know, and obviously people are interested enough in us to be listening to this. So I, you know, I think this is wonderful. I think this is wonderful. I think this is a wonderful I'd like to offer you whenever you want to come on,

you're always welcome if you want to promote anything, talk about anything, any new enlightments that you have. Yeah, that'd be great. Let me ask you a couple questions. I'll get you out of here. Is there any part of you that misses football at any level? There's not a part of me that misses football, but there is something I miss about football.

And the thing I miss about football is when you show up for work, there's no excuses. You know, everyone, like the, The coach tells you what your job is. And then you go out there and execute. And then after work, after practice, you go back in and you watch the film and you see, how am I doing? So just this attitude of excellence that there's no excuses. We just work towards excellence on a daily basis.

I miss that. I miss that. I mean, I have it within myself. I push myself that way. But, you know, in the football world, that that's what everyone is there for. But I find in the regular world is almost the opposite where people are always making excuses in pretending, you know, that they're not responsible for what's going on in their life. And so, you know, you talked about the law of karma, the law of karma.

That's what I loved about football. It was real. Like, the film doesn't lie, you know? The film doesn't, did you do your job? Right? You can see it right there. And if you didn't, right, you have help to help you get better. And I just love that idea because to me, that's life.

Is the linebackers, you know, the bills, the issues, the people, they don't stop, right? But your ability to meet all. all of them and do your job and handle them with dignity and respect. You keep growing and you keep learning and life becomes worth it. You know, it becomes worth it. You know, you were always a beautiful man and you become a more beautiful of a man. And the reason I asked you if you have any inclination about football ever, football's changing.

Football's changing across, you know, everywhere. I mean, it's you. They play in England, whatever, but it's changing in the United States. You know, when I was growing up, there were, I don't know, eight football teams for the town of North Bergen. Now there's like four. You know, moms are not putting their children. And even though we're getting extra helmets, we're getting better padding, the NFL's doing technology, whatever, I think that you would be a fucking tremendous coach to the youth. Yeah.

I think that you would build a different type of football player. You're right. be more complete and one that would be in charge and in connection with his body you know like if you got him at eight and nine and coach him until 13 14 then let him out into the world

the lesson you would give him because you didn't read a fucking book you would end the trenches you know one of the best you were there but I'm sure that you could have been better of your mind 100% I would love to see if I had an 8 year old son

even if my wife said no fuck fuck you he's going to rickie will and whatever coach him for two years until he gets to 12 because he's going to be a different man going into football you have enlightened yourself yeah to a fucking degree that is beautiful and it's not phony it's not a wokeness like everybody's well no it comes from your heart i could feel it i see it when you interviews you know so i think that you have a lot to offer young men man and i don't know how you felt about football but you have the ability to change you. I'm on the same page with you.

I mean, the way it was didn't work out for me, but I learned so much and it helped me become who I am so I feel like I do have a responsibility to give something back. And football is changing. And I've always thought because football trained me to be the man that I am today. And I think it's a

mistake to say that that football is not a positive thing because it teaches teamwork. It teaches toughness. It teaches how to take care of your body. It teaches how to take care of the person next to you. And I think if we cherish these values as using football to train young men to be leaders,

not millionaires, you know, I think that, I think that's going to be more useful. That's what happened. And that's what happened. It changed the game a lot with college and stuff. There's not,

you know, I watch, I'm a Cuban kid. I never spoke English. So when I came to the United States, I watched everything I could. And I watched football. And it's changed.

You know, I see in playing it on the, street and stuff like that but uh i think we can make way better football players i think football got away from itself i mean i was at the gym before and i'm watching a football player beat up a next football player beat up a guy at newark airport you see that yeah i did clocked the head the guy went over uh but it's funny that you know when you play football you're built to be rough and tough i think in life there's places to be rough and tough there's places to be gentle there's places to be gentle and rough and tough together.

Amen. That's the new men that are coming up. You know, that's what's coming up, you know. So if you ever coach, man, I'd be your number one fucking advocate. Even if you just did Ricky Williams football summer camp, I'll be there to coach with you. I love camps. I love five-star basketball camp. I went to Booz.

I went to Joe Namich football camp. I didn't even end up playing football. I went to offense, defense football camp in Pittsburgh. I saw Jack Lambert shaving and dipping his fucking razor in the toilet water as he was shitting. You know, you can't tell that. We got a shit.

Now, Jack Lambert's mentality, nobody could get true to a guy like that. You know, like, if you went to Jack and said, listen, I think you should add Buddhist and refa to your life. That motherfucker would take his teeth out. No, those were solid dudes, you know. Yes, yes.

The world is changing. The world is changing. Ricky Williams, you're a fucking master. And I love for what you did. Listen, you said something before that triggered me a little bit. You said that whatever happened with football. No, man, that was what you need. That's what needed to happen for you to get to where you are right now.

Amen to that. Clarity. You didn't fail. You didn't do nothing. It was just who you were then. Yeah. And this is who the motherfucker you are now. You can't put football down because it's a part of you.

When I look at you, I see the man. I see you running at me and me just fucking fainting, you know. Yeah, because it's probably, it's probably, going to hurt. Yeah. Well, this was great. This was great. It was good, good connecting with you and really having like a, like a heart to heart with another man. Thank you. Thank you. No, I didn't want this to be, I didn't, I didn't think, it was either going to be Rifa or whatever, but I always had a bone to pick with you because you opened my eyes

about the social anxiety. I didn't know what was going on. I looked it up and I read the article. This is two years ago. I read the article about the helmet. You didn't like taking that hand out of it to make eye contact and stuff. And that's when you discovered it and blah, blah, blah. My heart goes out to you and your family. You're a fucking gentleman and a half. When I come to California, I'm coming to visit in your office and shake your hand and give you a hug. And maybe we'll do a bong hit for Jesus together.

Let's do it. Let's do it. How strong is your reefer over there, that high smith? It's strong. We're above 30% all three strades. Oh, shit. So we're seeing the devil. Exactly.

We're seeing Tom Landry and shit. And I'm saying, who else we've got to come up on this? he's got a lot of knowledge for young players. I tried to talk to him on the phone. He was still a little Hollywood Henderson. Yeah. Ah. Yeah, I know Hollywood.

We connected when I was in Austin. Yeah. He did, he hit the lottery twice or something, didn't it? I know. It's crazy. That's a bad motherfucker. I still have his book.

I still got his book and I still have the original Playboy interview from 1980. I remember. That is the best interview I have ever read in my life, man. So, hey, it was always a play. pleasure. Thank you. God bless you and your family. And I love you, man. What's the name of the recreational spot? Heisman. Highsman. I love you, brother. Stay black and beautiful. Uncle Joey. All right. Joey. Yeah. Stay back. Bye.

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