Tommy Chong

My wife Shelby.

You know it. I play my cards right.

When do you want to play?

Oh yeah. One memory is that they had me drive the van recklessly but they didn't tell me where to finish. And so when I careened around the corner there were a bunch of Japanese tourists that had come to watch the shoot right in my pathway... I stopped just inches from them. The look on their faces though, they were taking tourist photos. I learned I'm a pretty good stunt driver that day.

Peter Boyle! I love that guy. I didn't get to meet the other Python's we didn't have a scene together.

Either or. Doesn't matter, whatever's there when I reach for it man.

It's coming back. Oh wow.

It died with the show :(

Let's see, growing up.. that was a veryy long time ago..

OK: Lenny Bruce was the first, Redd Foxx, and Richard Pryor.

I like Chewbacca. (bias? http://imgur.com/l8Cgevr)

Actually I've never really seen the Star Wars movies. I went and saw the original one in theaters the first time my son cried during the screening and everyone in front of me turned and was telling me to shut my kid up. After that I never really tried to go see it again.

Years before I was born.

I'm very excited. Very excited. I knew it was coming eventually.

Smoke a shit ton of weed. That was easy.

I dropped out of school in 11th grade. I got part of my 11th grade done thought. I failed my GED in prison, I couldn't pass algebra, and they wanted me to cheat but I refused to... I have morals.

I would not have sold my Venice beach house that I bought in 1972 for $30,000...

Nobody in the cast smoked...with me, at least. However, I would get high with all the cameramen a lot.

The producers and Katie Couric were talking while we were filming and I went over to them to ask them to quiet down. We weren't actually filming and I just wanted them to be quiet because they were loud. Same thing happened in prison. I was shooting a documentary in prison and the warden let us shoot the documentary in there and while we were shooting I peaked my head out the cell and asked everyone if they could quiet down. That time I was actually filming, and it worked then too. The power of cinema really does affect every part of the world.

Thank you!

My new years resolution is to remember to keep my last year's new years resolution.... To lose weight. Actually, I did. Cancer is truly the new Hollywood diet.

When you get older you just end up making the same resolution each year and forgetting it.

Come over. See you soon.

In my dreams. It's hard to get away from the flashbacks.

I was around but I was from Vancouver, so I wasn't really in Toronto for that scene. But yeah, I knew the Yorkville scene. For those who don't know, the Yorkville scene was Neil Young and all those guys from that era. Toronto's a really good music scene. Nothing changes and it hasn't there.

Smoke a ton of weed.

Pass me that virtual joint.

Let's see...who's outsmoked me...

Mike Stetler from Pueblo Colorado and he owns Marisol Therapeutics, a cannabis dispensary. He knows what he's doing.

Led Zeppelin. Never was a Pink Floyd guy. I was once with Robert Plant and I drove a Citroen at the time and he told me "You drive the nicest car in the world, Tommy"

I got a pair of Blue Nikes, I guess. Not a big shoe guy.

Tough question.

Indica when I want to sleep. And Sativa when I want to stay awake.

Always when I'm watching the news. It helps make the awful things that are going on in the world easier to digest.

I also hate all the commercials that are on the news these days, especially during the daytime. One thing I've noticed is that they are all marketed to my age demographic and they want to remind you how fucking old you're getting.

Every commercial...pharmaceutical brand, life alert, cialis.. I know that my erectile dysfunction is real. If you're not getting the news from the actual news broadcast you're getting all the other news about your impotence and old age from the commercials.

Not sure if that answered your question but I smoke a lot.

My two dogs are always running around the house. Who knows. Yeah, probably.

Pretty frisky.

That's a difficult one... I've been around for a while and I've definitely met a lot of people in strange places, but I've got a good story about Jimi Hendrix, who I think is one of the most interesting people I've ever met.

He was so mysterious, and so far ahead of everybody in his industry, but so humble. So humble. I met him because he wanted to sit in with the band I was in, Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, and he came to the club when we were in England and the club was empty and the door opened and Jimi walked in and there was about 300 people behind him.

He walked up to the stage and he called me by name, he said "Hey Tommy," I handed him my guitar but he only played left handed guitar, and I was right handed, but he could play a right handed bass despite all that. We played the show and then we partied after, at the hotel room. He spent a long time in the bathroom. But we smoked weed outside waiting for him. He was a man of few words. So cool.

18 years old in Calgary Alberta Canada...

Let me take you on this journey with me.

I had a jazz club. It was at night.

Raymond Mah gave me a Lenny Bruce record and my first joint.

I was listening to an Ornette Coleman record to a tune called "The Lonely Woman."

Changed. My. Life.

Just letting you guys know I'm watching golf right now. It's some kind of PGA tournament. It's a nice, cool, overcast afternoon in the Pacific Palisades at my house in my office. I'll send a pic with this comment in a minute. Wish you were all here with me...

My favorite movie is Rampart.

Pineapple, of course.

r/TIL kind of always surprises me. I like to get shocked by news and interesting stories I didn't expect I'd want to learn about.

Other than that, obviously r/BlackPeopleTwitter is my second favorite. That's the funniest page you guys got.

There's so much potential for hemp in other industries, and I do see a lot of future for hemp in those fields.

Building materials is a major, key one. They've got hemp cement that's stronger, lighter and more durable than normal cement!

The fabric industry as well, nothing beats hemp canvas when it comes to fabric.

Also, did you know that canvas is a derivative of cannabis? Canvas was always made of hemp.

There's countless uses of hemp in various fields. It's proven at this point that the usage of this plant goes far beyond what we typically give it recognition for and it's a generally accepted fact at this point.

I like to inhale.

It was part of my contract while I was on Dancing With the Stars, actually. But no, not really.

Very scrambled.

I heard about it a little while back before it was released and got to see it before it came out. It is just really flattering to still see music videos and recognition like this. Especially a full out "Up In Smoke" music video like they made. It was pretty funny and I liked the production quality of the music video and the song they made.

Got any papers for me? I don't know if the rocks or scissors are going to be that helpful.

Yeah sure I would definitely consider it.

My..favorite..song..right..now. "Drop It Like Its Hot" by Snoop Dogg. I've been relistening to it and it's become better with time. Truly a classic. Whattup Snoop!

Coconut. Next question.

Wes Montgomery was my guitar influence and Hendrix, of course.

And to get good at guitar its just practice, practice, practice.

Bong and rip it all at once. I've never run into this problem though, I never run out of weed. So I might not be much help.

Yeah, actually, we see a big change. I am not by blood hispancic, but I do consider myself hispanic.

Yes I see a big difference in cultural change, back then if you had a headband you were like a gangbanger, and they considered most hispanics racists, murderers, and drugdealers. Cheech & I have showed them that we can also be famous actors.

Absolutely.

DMT: Probably once or twice.

Depends.

No, but I've been to Winnipeg. Never been to Iceland. But I want to go though. Let's smoke when I'm there.

Performing with Cheech for the first time. That was in 1973. We were at the Jubilee Hall at the time.

Granola is my favorite munchies these days, to be honest, gotta worry about my health.

I smoke the most. Without a doubt. It's my job.

Snoops a rapper. Willie's a singer. I'm just a dope smoker.

I did smoke with Jimi. But nope, never Jim. Came close with Jim, he was living at the beach when I was out there but I never got to.

Trying to hide from an irate husband with a gun.

I don't have anymore. I think they're out of print now. Otherwise I would send you one. Check ebay.

As soon as I smoke some Christmas Kush SantaChong will be back down the chimney with some more stories he might forget.

Looked down on pot smoking. No, never. I was always looking up.

Because I've hotboxed most vehicles in production from 1960-2015.

Kogi. Roy Choi's place. It's Korean/Mexican fusion and they're in Venice a lot and they started the modern taco truck movement which has spread across the country. Love that spot and what they've done.

Hired.

I don't remember. But it was awesome.

Merry Christmas to you too!

I guess black. Because of the blues.

Dave...Dave got deported. Thanks to Donald Trump.

Probably my favorite movie was Still Smokin. Made the most money. We were in Amsterdam where weed was legal and we were there for like a month and everybody kept bringing us more weed that we could smoke while we were filming. Gooood times.

Probably Moses. I was going to say Jesus but he was such a Pacifist. Probably Moses. I like Moses. He was a badass. And he had a great publicist. God even appeared to him as a burning bush.

How about that Ronda Rousey...Man... She got whipped. I'm watching ESPN now and they're playing that fight. She should have been moving her head a little bit more. Jesus. Poor girl.

Same as hash. Everything's the same as it boils down. Wax is just more refined. I love the high...It'll fuck you up.

Yep.

I'm a fan of a whole lot of movies these days, I loved This Is The End, and I loved Narcos.

Break out of the monastery first of all. And then start with just a tiny little bit of sativa...or a huge dab.

Hahaha. Funny.

I have an iPhone. But I'm impartial.

Yeah, I can. I know exactly how you sound.

I guess my guitar. It's been my passport to fame and fortune.

That's true. Played a show with Chong & The Family Stoned. That was my band back then - my sons Paris, Gilbran, and myself. We would party at the Nelson Ledges. Play music and party.

You had to be careful not to pass out in the bushes because you would get run over by a tractor. Everybody there was stoned, even the tractor drivers.

Typical bureaucrats. Australian bureaucrats all wear t-shirts showing their ass from a hole in the ground. Because they don't know the difference.

Yes. Absolutely. Please send it to me. I'll smoke it with you next time you're here.

Depends on where I'm eating. On Christmas Eve I'll be eating Chinese food.

Saturday Night Live. Because we've been barred there.

The last thing they wanted back then when Belushi and Aykroyd were doing dope jokes was Cheech & Chong to come on there and represent that culture. But they've parodied us plenty.

John Lennon. He was a huge lightweight. He wouldn't smoke. He was scared of getting deported.

Depends on the flavor. If it were fried cheese, then yes. Or maybe a moon quesadilla, mmm.

Nope. Went to high school at Crescent Heights in Calgary. And I dropped out in 11th grade.

Jordan's one of the few geniuses that I've met. He could multi-task like crazy, just a genius. As he's proven now, he's not only an author, he also lectures.

I was writing my book and Jordan asked me what I was doing one day in there, that was how he decided that he was going to write a book. Later on he showed me one page of what he had written, and I kind of looked it over and critiqued him and he got a little pissed off but he listened to me and he ended up writing a bestseller, "The Wolf of Wallstreet." Kind of crazy how that worked.

Blondes. (see: my wife.).

Not having enough pot to smoke.

'57 Chevy. Roomier and lots of style. Classic. That was before bucket seats and seatbelts.

Scalloped potatoes. French fries. Scalloped potatoes are great though, love those. I've always loved them. Love potatoes in general though. I'm part Irish, in case you guys didn't know. A quarter Irish, to be exact.

Yes. Many times. Love Snoop! And he always bogards the joint. He always forgets he has it in his hands while we're talking, and we talk a lot when we hang out and get high.

Let's go on this journey together.

1974.

Denver Colorado.

Actually it was Aspen. No, it was Denver.

Took a tab of Window Pane.

Then went and saw Thumbalina with my wife and 3 year old daughter.

The movie freaked me out, I mean the story was about a woman marrying a rat. The showing we wsaw was a matinee so there were kids everywhere at this screening and they were running up and down the aisles. Being on acid, you can imagine this freaked me out quite a bit. A lot, actually.

So we left right after that and my 3 year old daughter had to call me and my wife a cab to get us home.

Tony Dow from Leave it to Beaver. Now that's a good one. He was Leave it to Beaver's big brother.

Me too.

Because I know what I'm doing.

We're always working on one. I've been working on one for many years.

Looking forward to hearing this new Wu-Tang album.

It's almost 4:20 so I think I'm going to call an end to my AMA since I've got some other business to attend to.

My biggest fear is... Being on stage at a comedy store, about to nail them with a big punch line and the microphone goes dead.

Andrea the dance teacher? George the surfer? I remember them.

Memories... Too many, it's so nice to hear from you. George played in a band, he was one of the first punk bands that I'd heard. I had heard his band was pretty awesome.

I can't really remember the wedding, I was too stoned to remember.

Great Question! As far as directing goes... be true to your vision. Directors are like headlights on a car, they show you where to go.

Absolutely. I'll be up there in Edmonton.

While I was going through cancer treatment I got cannabis oil massages, unlimited weed from friends/family. It's always good to get support from the ones you love.

Alcohol. I'm not much of a drinker. And cocaine. It makes you think you know what you're doing. Whereas when you're smoking weed you know that you don't know what you're doing, which makes you learn new things.

It was Dr. Dre's idea.