Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1285 - B-Real
Uploaded: 2019-04-24T01:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1285 - B-Real' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1285 - B-Real' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-24. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1285 - B-Real

three two one boom what's up brother how are you good to see you my friend
always thanks for
having a while man yeah we've both been busy it's crazy and in the meantime we
became legal yes you
guys were at the forefront man you guys were way ahead you were ahead of
everybody you know we took
a shot we took a shot you know as stoners and advocates and whatnot you know we
were stoners
at first right you know that's how you start like you know your friend says hey
man try this or
you're the one who says try this right it's one or the other and you know
eventually you start
getting into the high times magazines and stuff like that and looking at the
you know the centerfold
pictures of the weed but also we like we like to read to occasionally so you
know we'd get into some
of the activism aspect of it as well and that's when we heard names like jack
career who pretty
much opened our eyes to everything and then you know i think we became real
advocates you know at first
you know we thought we were yeah you know sort of we read the high times
magazines that we were stoners
so we thought we were advocates but like in reading what other freedom fighters
were actually doing out
there and protests and rallies and all that stuff you know we we really weren't
advocates like we
thought we became that later for sure yeah jack was way way way ahead of the
curve he's such an
interesting story uh rest in peace because he was uh a goldwater republican you
know he was uh just a
button-down old-school republican yeah and then he got a girlfriend and then
his girlfriend got him
smoking weed yeah and then all of a sudden he's like man this is amazing god
why am i such a dick what's
wrong with me who am i what am i doing my life absolutely it totally flipped
his life around yeah
the emperor wears no clothes is a great book man yeah it holds it holds strong
to this day because
everything that he said in the book is sort of happening right now all the
stuff that they you know
they they uh tried to prevent from happening through all the anti-cannabis
propaganda yeah you you see it
now and now you see those very companies trying to get into the industry yeah
they were always on the
outside waiting you know there was like at the launching block not quite ready
to run but any minute
now it's gonna get legal yeah exactly i mean you know they're they're lying in
wait with fields like
acreage that no one can ever come close to probably right yeah i mean the the
thing i heard maybe like
five years ago before it was legal in denver or it was a bit longer than that
before we got legalization
here um that you know companies like phillip morris and and you know companies
like that were already
buying land and already um trademarking names yeah you know for some of the
cannabis that we know today
so that when they come into the game you know they have ownership on some of
the names and some of the
brands and and so in trademarks and stuff like that to that and obviously the
acreage to you know
grow vast sums of cannabis yeah you know who knows how true that is but i don't
doubt some of that
i don't doubt it either the sneakiest was ohio ohio was they were trying to
make it legal but
if they were going to make it legal there's only like it was like two companies
that were out jamie's
from ohio i think like four but i think that is how it went yeah they were the
only ones gonna be
allowed to grow it and sell it like you monopoly that is not legal weed that is
you being a that's
monopoly yeah that's crazy you know yeah because you know you had like people
that got those uh licenses or
permits or whatever that had no knowledge on on on the cannabis culture or or
business how to cultivate
and and how to run retail stores or any of that they didn't have any of that
knowledge and you know
they'll usually give it to an insider because they know how much money they
stand to make like that
that's like if there was just one distribution center right and everybody has
to go through that
distribution center how much money does that distribution center make because
you got to pay
for your to go there and then you know who knows if it well you know if it
passes because you know
as a cultivator what you did so you'll know it'll pass because it's clean but
you still got to pay that
fee every time and it's got to go through them fortunately here in california
you know they've allowed
people to have distribution licenses so that there's not one distribution
center because that would be a
a monopoly for sure and that's what they wanted to supposedly you know the
lobbyists that that put 64
together were trying to stop it from being a monopoly and uh corporations
coming in and taking over and
stuff like that you know so interesting because pot is such a non-corporate
drug you know it's such a non-corporate
thing that these corporations were trying to get a a grip yeah on weed it just
it seemed
it seemed obscene you know it seemed it seemed disgusting yeah it's it's a
little out of place
you know a lot out of place right you know because you you think about where it
comes from and it's
been outlaw for so long it's kind of like you know the way alcohol was for for
so long way longer than
alcohol but it's been demonized longer yes yeah and now you know you have
people trying to come in and
throw money into it and and they got you know and some of these guys don't
realize it's it's not just
about the money into it you got to do the diligence on what this business is
you can't cut corners on the
cultivation you know you can't cut corners on quality because people you know
they're they're um
there's more information out there yeah you know so people know you're even if
they're not a connoisseur
as a consumer you know they can they can read about they can learn about stuff
so if you're
getting over on them or if you're putting some quality product out there i mean
people are going
to know and and all that money that these guys put into to trying to get into
the cannabis business
they're just throwing it into the fire yeah some of them will come out of it
you know they'll partner
up with brands that exist and and people that have knowledge but you know it's
it's the corporations
that come in in the next five years it's going to be it's going to be
interesting because i do think
that it's set up for them to come in the taxes are so high right now for the
consumer and for the
cultivator and for the retail shop that you got to survive this wash right now
that's happening
in order to still be you know doing business when the corporate structure comes
in because
please believe they're going to lobby so that those taxes come down because the
margins are not right
you know as 40 percent taxes is that what it is now it was 39 in denver right
yeah but in here in
california it's you know 40 percent but to the consumer the consumers like who
gives a you know
if i could just pull in and get some weed they should give a they should but in
comparison to alcohol
like how much it costs if you go out for a night for some drinks it costs way
more you get high for
a month yeah what it takes to get pretty much a few drinks in a night it
depending where you go
those drinks are even double yeah yeah you know yeah and with less alcohol well
the other thing is that
these companies they don't understand the culture it's a different culture you
can't us like you
can't us with marketing and advertising that's just not going to work you can't
have like the most
interesting man in the world selling weed stay stay thirsty my friends no no
that ain't going to work
you got to get somebody like michael phelps yeah man for right michael phelps
man i would buy weed from
michael phelps how funny was that that he got in trouble for that you know what
i find it funny is
how how um you know they they put these uh stereotypes on stoners for so long
like that
we're lazy unproductive and all that stuff this guy's one of the most decorated
olympians in the
history you know what i mean what does he got like 15 gold medals something
preposterous yeah mr big lungs
that's what we call him mr big lungs that guy probably could take a rip on a bong
think about
it oh my god i mean right he had probably his crazy capacity there it is
probably snap a two
gram bowl this guy who was the person who ratted him out some low kid some kid
some yeah little
dickhead what a piece of yeah imagine it's going to a party trying to have a
good time some kids there
with his phone that's social network for you though they want to go viral so
they'll they'll get you in
that moment where you know you're supposed to be a friend but that was like
before a lot of that was
happening like what year was that let's guess what gear was that 12 2012 well
before yeah before uh
let's just say before you know uh instagram kicked off but there was still
youtube and twitter yeah you
know if you wanted to put somebody on blast or you wanted to have a viral video
youtube has been there for
a long time yeah twitter was like 2007 right wasn't it i believe so yeah yeah i
think when was michael
when was michael phelps when did he get in trouble i'm looking it's i i'm
seeing different stuff so
i saw a picture of it on youtube from 2009 so that means it would have been in
2008 olympics but oh that
seems like it was a long time ago yeah that makes sense though because then he
came back right yeah
he retired and then he came back well i think he was suspended i think it was
suspended yeah 2009 is
when he got caught and then uh and then he had to you know do the suspension
and he came back and got
some more medals like haha you right i love that was he suspended because of
the weed yeah oh well you know
hey listen on on in a lot of places it's still on a banned substance list oh
yeah texas texas is real
bad february two thought well 2009 he was only 23 apologize for an incident
where he's caught on camera
to party smoking a bomb that was allegedly marijuana he should you know he
shouldn't have apologized for
that he shouldn't have had to have apologized for that thing is that they have
those guys bent over
a box because they're all just trying to get that sponsorship money right
because yeah you have to
be squeaky clean if you want to be on the wheaties box yeah if you're an olympian
yeah they're not going
to put cypress hill on the wheaties box just yet wouldn't that be great though
but take the the th out and
add a e and put a d and i e s at the end let's go wheaties yeah i don't know
man you guys were so far
ahead of the curve though you know i mean you you were you had weed songs like
when like what year
that was uh the the first album was in 91 and we started writing for that album
probably uh
four years prior wow and uh you know the weed songs those came about because we
were weed heads
you know we just it let's be ourselves right it's a different thing though for
people that were were
fans because uh i when i was listening to you i was uh just getting ready to
move from boston to new
york and uh back then you would hear about new hip-hop bands from like friends
yeah like you did like
yeah it was word of mouth yeah man for sure i would hear about it like somebody
that i i think somebody
i worked out with had it and i was like what the is this and then like that's
cypress hill it's like
damn yeah we were trying to be different you know um not sound like a typical
west coast you know group
right because a lot of a lot of west coast groups at that point you know what
the labels were looking
for were nwa you know types and you know things like that like either you know
gangster west coast
gangster rap they were looking for that or either the the kid frost chicano
type yeah and we don't
want to do that we don't want to uh foothold ourselves like that you know mugs
being from new
york he wanted to sort of blend both worlds right so you know we went with with
the east coast type sound
with la you know type of slang mixed with with ea