TommyChong
Yaya Diamond : I want to welcome you back to dream chasers radio with me. Your host Yaga diamond I got for you. Oh my gosh, what's up people? I can't even express to you the joy that I'm having today just to be on a call with someone legendary like this gentleman. Oh my gosh. you're gonna love this show. So don't go anywhere. I swear.
Tommy Chong: You gotta love it
Yaya Diamond : Welcome back to the show. Okay, so listen, listen. My friend told me he says, Listen, you got to do this. You got to contact this person. And then this person is going to be on the show. I said, Right. No, he wasn't kidding. He was really serious. I have to just, I have to say it. I'm just gonna have to say it. I absolutely love Cheech and Chong. And I can't believe that I have Chong on my show right now. He is right here with us. Welcome to the show.
Tommy Chong : Thank you. Thank you for having me. Oh, thank Yaya Diamond: You're an extraordinary human and you're a pioneer. Tell me. I mean, tell me. I mean, I you. You're an extraordinary human and you're a pioneer. Tell me. I mean, tell me. I mean, I mean, where do you start?
Tommy Chong : Well, I was born in Calgary, Alberta. No, born in Alberta, Canada. Yes. And I found out just recently that my mother was quarter natives, quarter in Indian, or First Nations, what do they call it a quarter. That meant my grandmother was half. I just found this out. But what happened? My mother who's very beautiful. She passed away a few years ago, but she married a short Chinese guy, a real handsome guy named Stan charm. And so I'm half Chinese. And I thought growing up, that was it. And then I found out that my grandmother on my mother's side was half data. And, and so I'm 8% that means I can have my own place in the reservation up there. And a sovereign land. And yeah, I found out all these secrets, but the
DNA is so I found out my dad who was poor Chinese. But he's mixed with him. He says, South South Pacific Islanders, you know, he's mixed too. And so, yeah, we're a very mixed family. And then when I was my first wife was black. Canadian. Yes. Yeah. And only because, you know, you know, Calgary where I grew up was very racist, you know, from the 50s. But it was kind of racist that you live with, you know, a unit. I mean, it's not like now, you know, everybody's aware. But back then back then you just live with it. It was everybody. Yeah, no matter who you were you live with it, you know. And so there was a very small black community in Calgary. But for some reason, well, I started dancing when I was 15 years old, you know, going to community things and the drive and Lindy Hop and all that. So I got to dancing. And then of course, my, my favorite partner was this beautiful black girl named Ed Walton. And, she was getting beautiful, black, blue eyes. You know, there's a whole tribe of women from Nova Scotia. Gorgeous, gorgeous lady and dance, but attitudes like, oh, it's still the same, same app, dude. I think she's older than me. And she's still got the same attitude. We stay in touch. So anyway, you know, I met her at the dance and then I started kind of dating and at a date it was you just meet at the dance, we dance and then I took her home and we started little, had a little romance goal and so I brought her home. And my dad, I forgot you know that. You know that she's black, you know? Okay, so we're home. My dad takes me in the kitchen. And he goes, son, she's black. And I said, Dad, you're Chinese of course, but anyway, I, I tried to be a boy, but I was too young. I was too young. You know, I had no clue how to treat a woman. I took her. I took her to the drive in movies. One time, I bought a car. I got my dream car when the truck's heater wasn't working. So I took her to the driver theater, and she's freezing, so I finally had to take her home. And that was the end of that romance. But, but I threw her I met Tommy Milton, the football star in Calgary, and he was just saying he's saying it. So we hooked up. I played guitar. He's saying hi. So we ended up putting a band together. And in the band was this piano player named Bernie Sneed, he played the
piano. And Bernie had this 15 year old sister, Maxine, that was just gorgeous.
Yaya Diamond : And I can see where this is going.
Tommy Chong : And very Christian, okay, no, and that meant that I didn't go there. Okay. Very Christian. Okay. In fact, she played piano at church. But she still does. Most probably, to this day, the most decent Christian lady I'd ever met in my life. Wow. I fell in love with her. I know so. And so. But Y decent Christian lady I'd ever met in my life. Wow. I fell in love with her. I know so. And so. But she had her Christian life. I had a crazy music life. And when it came time out there, you know, we traveled with the band and went to Vancouver and we're saying cinco musicians, you know, but then then it got time. You know, as she got older. She wanted to get married. She called me up. She's okay. Want to get married? Okay. Yeah. So, we got married, and of course I had a girlfriend before that, who I got pregnant. Okay, who ended up giving me the daughter? Well, she gave the daughter to my mother. My brother was a saint, by the way. And so, so now I got married. And then we had our baby, Robbie. So I got Robbie, and radon and Maxine. And everything's cool. And then, being a musician, you know, I met our friend. She's just a friend. And that friendship turned into pretty, pretty serious. And so that's why I'm with my friend. Maxine. Maxine was so speeches we, I mean, we're still tight. Lips in LA, and we're as tight as we can be. You know, because everybody that I grew up with, we're still in touch. With the media, we're still in touch with my first girlfriend, even before Ed when I was an Army Cadets were still in touch. Yeah, well, I became so famous. And so that all the people that I grew up with, you know, I was there like they're there. They're a famous guy that they know. Yeah, no, this is Calgary's little, little last covered.
Yaya Diamond : Yeah, you gotta be you gotta be the one. You gotta be the one. Definitely. Yeah. Did you ever believe that
your success would be so big as it is today that you're today your legend?
Tommy Chong : You know, I kind of knew it. It wasn't me that knew it. Now, like, check this out. My life has been so blessed. There's something or that's ordained. Right? You know, when I was like I said, you know, I'm part native. And we grew up in a very very very rustic setting in the lake. We had outdoor plumbing.
Yaya Diamond : Okay, wow. Okay, so okay.
Tommy Chong : No electricity no little Coleman man are a little you know, in this there's a lot before that but, but this is the house that I kind of remember. And the only thing I had to amuse myself really was a guitar that my mother bought when she was pregnant with me. And so I learned how to play the guitar. And next thing, you know, I learned that I was good enough to play with the fiddle player. So I've been playing for parties and dances since I was eight years old. And so I, so I had that showbusiness thing. But when I was eight years old, I was walking, walking in a field. I've told the story a few times, but it's so incredible. Eight years old, in Calgary, in the summertime, no shoes. Same pants, you don't have a change of clothes, unless you're going
Yaya Diamond: to church. Okay.
Tommy Chong :And, and when in those days, you had to wash by hand in a scrub, you know, washed, washed up. And so there's, and the only entertainment was church, Sunday school. And that was the only entertainment: no movies, no television, radio, but the right one station. And I had the radio on my bed. No one else cared about it. So I started going to Sunday school. And because I was one of the only older guys doing it, you know, for the kids, I started teaching it and teaching it really was really reading the stories to the right of other kids. Okay.
Anyway, eight years old, I'm walking down the field with my brother. And a car pulling up in a car in the field is very rare. When we see the car coming over the dirt road, and and then there were missionaries, and they said, Hey, you kids want to go to summer camp? Of course, we said yeah. And so there's Okay, well get in the car and go get permission from your mom, that mom had, my mom had a sign of something and, you know, yeah, we got in the car. And they drove to our house. And then we got permission from my mother and, and then they took us and my brother nine. And you know, he was three years older than me. And so we drove there. We spent the night in the church office, or the little area there. The next day, we got on the bus, we got off to bible camp. And that was, I guess we're there for about six weeks, something like that. I'm not sure I'm not really sure. But that's where I learned everything. I just took to this whole spiritual thing. I just took it. I just ate it up. And then they had a little stage area, you know, the dining area, and that was where they put on plays. And you know, and we had little cabins, each of us had a cabin, you know, different cabinets and the cabins would put on the place and, and then at night, there'll be a bonfire and the guys singing Christian songs, you know, around the campfire. And then in the daytime. We would be the older, the teachers, young girls, but take us we walk in the field, find a nice place to sit down. And she would read from the scriptures, you know, read the Bible stories And I just loved it. I loved it so much. I couldn't get enough. And then at night, the first thing they did was teach us how to pray. You know? And so I learned how to pray. And it was everything. It was meant to me. It was meant to be and so and then you're used to the camp, you know and then because we're it was beautiful out there. never wore a shirt, never wore shirt, just pants and no shoes just and that that's bible camp. So I remember the last last day where they're, I'm leaning standing up, and they're given out for wards. And I'm standing up reaching over to get the butter or something. Something and they said that's the right Tommy to keep standing. Laces boy and in camp told me that was the first first thing I wanted. Nothing. Yeah, it was just that he was the
nicest guy. Yeah. And so that stayed with me. To this day to this day. Wow. Because I thought I was taught how to pray. That's the key. So okay, flash forward. We're in England with Bobby Taylor in Vancouver. We just played it. We just played a gig. Jimi Hendrix came and sat in what? Not as guitar because he wanted to play bass. He knew my group. He knew Bobby Taylor in the Vancouver's, you know, we had a reputation. And so Jimmy was in England, ears were there, he came down to sit in. And he played bass. guitar. I played rhythm guitar, and we had Eddie Patterson, on the other guitar. We played until the manager pulled the plug on us.
Tommy Chong : The next day, we're in a limousine going home. And everybody's going, Wow, Jimi Hendrix man, you believe that? I said something that to this day, it just shocked, shocked everybody. I Y said, I'm going to be bigger than Hendrix one day. I don't. I said, everybody. It stopped the conversation. Everybody stopped and the drummer who was not the nicest guy in the world, he says, but you're going to be a better guitar player than Jimmy. And I said, No. I said, No, not not guitar. I had a premonition that I was going to be bigger than Hendrix. Here we are. Yes. Yaya Diamond; Yes. You know, and you're right. You're right. I mean, look at Cheech and Chong. That's an institution
Tommy Chong : around the world around Yeah, Yaya Diamond :definitely. Definitely. My mom hated when I watched your face. Because surely she Well, yeah. And it was like, I would ask her mom, what's all the smoke inside the car? She's like, darling, that's just they're just smoking. There's just cigarette smoke at
Tommy Chong : in the car. They had Yaya Diamond came up with some kind of excuse to give me and I just thought you guys were just hilarious. I thought you
were funny. I thought the whole scenery was just amazing. Your chemistry was amazing. And I mean, I know that you guys kind of vibed off each other. And I saw an interview where you said that you guys tried to kind of script it but it didn't work and you found out that your characters as people just kind of worked with each other and that's how you did it. I mean, tell me, I mean, tell me how were those years and then today you guys have a documentary that you're talking about soon.
Tommy Chong : We got a documentary coming out. We're gonna do some dispensaries or dispensaries as we're going to call them. We're looking at a show where we're delivering a takeout delivery service. It'll be Cheech and Chong. The old old school Cheech and Chong, driving around getting lost and having fun. No, you know what, what I learned when teaching I got together, he was like, Encyclopedia of crazy stories about his family. Yeah, the funniest family, you know, growing up in the funniest childhood, and, and I always hung out with was really funny, guys. I always had a partner, I always had to cheat. I always, I always could, you can't do it alone, you know. And I was shocked I like I never said until I got with Bobby turning into Vancouver's, you know, saying good. And Bobby told me Come on. You can see it hit that note. You know, brothers can be you know, come on, man. What do you say? Come on. Yeah And you always call me Chuck Come on, gentlemen Say yes So, so is everything. It's like Michael Jackson, you know, when I met Michael Jackson, he was an old man. He was a little adult. I mean, he acted like he did everything, everything. He was like a grown man. And then older he got the younger he got. And when he died, he was like a kid. He was like he was a little boy smearing everything else. But before that he was what you would like. And, and I kind of understand it. You know, because you think back to those days, man. That's when you're really connected. You know, you're not, you didn't care about anybody. You just cared about what you know. So we teach them our humor. We made it so that kids would laugh. uncontrollably. We did it purposely. And then we added all the adult stuff in there. But we never made a
distinction between kids and adults. It was all it was all kids is all kids humor. Yeah. Because basically, we're adults, just old kids. That's yeah.
Yaya Diamond : I know. Because yeah, my daughter and I, we love going to the music parts and riding all the big roller coasters and the 91 degree drops and my husband's like, why are you going there? I said ticket away. But I love it. I absolutely love it. I love the whole thing. I love walking for hours. I just love it. It's just something so yeah, I can relate. Definitely relate to it. And I, you know, I have to say this is seeing you today and seeing you back then, you know, you really don't realize how many years have passed by, you know, because I'm the same way. I'm like, wait a minute, I graduated high school when you can't, time doesn't really exist when you have so many wonderful memories. And now that your grandfather, what is that? Like? Because I mean, I mean, the baby, the cheeks, and the whole thing is just wonderful.
Tommy Chong : Well, what I was telling people, you know, when you get old people have a tendency to get grumpy. Yeah. And the reason we get grumpy is because no one hears us. You know, it's like a vacuum. Because young people are so involved in their world, that old people, they're, they're like antiques, you know, they look at him and polish, dust them up. But they really don't. And I've been telling people I do cameos a lot and I tell people, you know, enjoy being ignored Enjoy it Enjoy it Enjoy it. Enjoy it. Enjoy being able to, like I can sit a lot of football no one no one says a word. Grandpa's watching football or whatever grandpa's doing. Don't bother to leave him alone. Husband, no husband, you got to do this. You got to do that. You got to carry this, you got to pick up this, you got to do that. You have so many things to do when you're young and you have the energy. But when you get old, don't just find the idea. You know, when I was in prison, in prison, you get the old guys, you know they did, they carried around a little square piece of foam that's deeply carried this foam around under their arm wherever they went. And I found out really quickly why there's
no soft seats in prison. Everything's hard. So when you get old and you have to sit for a long time, you can't sit in our chair for a long time. So you get this piece of foam. And then when you leave, you find an old guy in your hand on the phone all right. So what you do when you get a hold of what I do I mean, my buddies when we go to dinners, you know like, and I got an old buddy. He's not as old as me, but he's worse helped me so. And Sugar Ray Leonard, you know the boxer, right? We all hang out together. Because we're all if you look from outside in you think there's three henpecked husbands. But it's not the way it is. Whereas three very intelligent husbands. Yes. Because we get told where we're Y going, what to wear. Who's going to be there? What they're going to eat, we get told everything. We don't even drive. We don't even drive anymore. We sat back. And then when we get together, we don't talk. They're not the same. There's nothing to gossip about. Everyone's playing. What do you like? That's the women there get together. Did you see someone going like this? You guys were sitting there. Time to go. Oh, okay. Okay, let's go.
Tommy Chong : Oh, wow.
Tommy Chong : Joy. Enjoy. Enjoy your life, man. Now I'm into art. I do. I'm learning how to draw, you know, things I know how to draw, but the whole thing about art is practice. You gotta do it. Do I practice a lot? So if I write songs, I still write songs, or have more and more, more poetry and poetry. I'm not really good at the melody at the end of it yet. But, you know, I've written a few, you know, but I'm not driven that way. You know, I learned to enjoy your life. And especially when I give advice about you know, your wife, you know, the one thing instead of Happy New Year, I say Happy wife happy lights. Yes, that's, that's, that's what I say. Happy wife. Happy life.
Yaya Diamond Yes.
Tommy Chong : It's so true. No, no, I've been. I've been so blessed. Especially like getting back. You know, when you learn
how to pray that everything good will happen to you. It's just the law. Because you don't think of doing wrong. There's no need to write. There's no need to there's no need to steal. Because when you're going to steal, like, sometimes people will, like comedians, you know, they will steal bits, you know, you get a show and next thing, you know, someone else is doing it. I have been, you know, it my comedy, because I never shared out to be anything. Like, I never, I never intended to be a musician, right? It's just that I could play. And, and that's my life, like I never intended, dreamed that I'd be directing movies. But I've directed movies. It's the same as writing songs, right? I mean, the only reason I wrote that one song that became a hit, was that I was high. It was the first time we did cocaine. I did a little shot at cocaine. And next thing you know, I'm writing a song. And what I would do, I'd write, like, like a book of poetry. And so, one time we had the music producer over and NEA saw my lyrics, and he started summons, Rooney found, does your mama know about me? He found the lyrics. He goes, Hey, do you mind if I take that? So he took it home and composed this beautiful, beautiful song. And next thing, you know, it's on the r&b charts. Wow. And that was that that's what put Bobby Taylor and all of us and Diana Ross ended up singing the song and wow. And yeah, yeah, back there was Diana Ross that discovered our band. Wow. We're in an after hours club and, and she came to the after hours club after their gig in Vancouver. And then she called Barry Gordy on the phone and said, Barry, upon this group, you got to come and see him. Well heard. Heard very, we're having a little affair anyway. It's a very I think he was married at the Y time or he was with another very okay, outside. I don't know. So he flew. And he saw us as scientists and forgot about us and decided to forget about it Well, you also town Yeah Wow. That was very Gordian. So we, so we made our way to Detroit, you know, we got to go all the way to Detroit. And we stopped off in LA Oh, my God. We had it again, you know, cuz Bobby Taylor had this voice, right. I mean, just incredible. But he was one of those crazies. You know, the entertainment field. I do wonder why he
never made it bigger than he did. Then you find out that he's crazy. Bobby was one of those crazies.
Yaya Diamond You know, I have a friend of mine that was on the Motown label. The Commodores. Did you have a motion? Yeah, well to orange I did and I did songs with them that went up for Grammys. And also, Mr. Glenn Leonard, I sang eight years in a Hitsville live show with him because he used to see the temptations of being a tenor. So being in the Motown thing, I kind of like I was never signed with Motown, but indirectly, I've worked with a couple of Motown artists and you guys are amazing. I mean, think about it. I mean, you're, you're like half Indian. half Chinese or motel you're not black.
Tommy Chong :We were the first. Black. Yeah, it was a huge deal. Yeah. In fact, we were in Detroit during the riot right after the riots. Wow. Detroit was like a warzone. And, I had my girlfriend with me. I was still married, but I had my girlfriend with me. I'm a musician. So my girlfriend, she came with me. She was pregnant, and she would take a bus in Detroit. She got bored sitting at home, and she wanted to go downtown. And she got on the bus in Detroit, in the middle of the ghetto in the middle of the but she was this beautiful, blonde, white, white fur coat. She looked like a mirage. Yeah. And that yeah, we did Detroit there And then my wife did Berry Gordy It was probably somebody anyway, so they sent it to my wife. So I had both my wife and my girlfriend there. But the musician
Yaya Diamond Oh my gosh. Okay, wait, we have to do a disclaimer not you don't Don't Don't do this at home. It might cause very bad damage to you. Don't Don't do this.
Tommy Chong :Don't Don't do the no double double life.
Yaya Diamond No, no, don't do it. Because that might end up very bad. If nowadays
Tommy Chong : like I said, Maxine, my first wife. She was, to this day, a very sweet Christian lady. Right. And she and they were friends. There shall be Maxine our friends on this Yaya Diamond day. You lucked out then you locked out. You locked out. It's a Tommy Chong : power of prayer. There you go. It's the power of prayer. Yaya Diamond But you have beautiful children. I mean, come on. I mean, all over. Yeah, who can regret that? I mean, you know,
Tommy Chong : Are you radon? Radon? Radon Chong. She became a big movie star. Yes, she did. And she's got Morgan. And Morgan's beautiful and Morgan married a Chinese girl, Tracy, and they got to Little Mix by Chinese. Harper and biomes miles. This is a little guy and my house. I can have my house bathroom like crazy because, you know, his little guy knows how to make little games loud. Yeah. Like I'll start growling when I eat. And he looks at me, he looks at me like oh, he loves it. He loves it. Oh, yeah. Oh, I have a family. That Robbie. Robbie. She was the top Parisian model for a long time. And then she was in a show called poltergeists. Yeah. And then she was also with us. She's also Bill Cosby's assistant in You Bet Your Life when did that show? So I got to know Bill pretty well. And same as the daughters. So yeah, yeah. Yeah, we got a nice little history going. Wow.
Yaya Diamond I can't wait for the documentary to come out. Because all of these tidbits that the life that you live the prayer and how that's incorporated and all the things that you've gone through. And also, you know that she can chunk. I mean, you know, I mean, it's just an amazing adventure. And like you said, you knew you knew you were gonna be big. No one knew it. You
Tommy Chong : knew it. It wasn't an ego. It wasn't none of that stuff. Because I never promoted myself. I was always the backup guitar player. So I always had a body or a cheat sheet or a Tommy or deck or all these guys that I back wasn't until teaching I broke up. My church went with Don Johnson to do Nash Bridges. And so
I lost my partner. And so I started doing stand up and Then I got bored doing stand up alone. Not only was it boring, but it was a helpless feeling because you're alone. You don't have an excuse. You know, I always had an excuse, I gotta do this, you know, but I couldn't do it. And so then, and my wife was trained to be an actress at the time, Shelby. And, and so, one time I was going to do a gig in Guam, you know, a beautiful place. And so I said to Sean, once you come with me, she goes, I don't want to hang out as well. How about if I put you in the show? And hurt her, she, okay? Because she cannot turn down the job. She's very, very conscious about the money in her eyes. And I said, Yeah, I'll put you in the show. She's work as well. You can start by introducing me. And then add a bit as you go, as we go. And during the show. What a great, great move. That was. Really, I went from being just this one guy, to being Shelby and telling me the chunks. And she's got just a great business head. Because before I used to go to comedy clubs, do the show. And then I was selling their T-shirts. Oh, and their hats, you know? Just because I had no dates. Will you sign this next day? No, I'm selling the club's T shirts. That ended as soon as she got there. Oh, yeah. We gotta get her own t shirt. Yaya Diamond Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah.
Tommy Chong : I guess it was 9394 where we made more money with our merch than any other comic. On the road. Yeah, we had boxes sent to us on the road, and we sold out everything everywhere we went. And she Oh, man. I mean, everything changed when she got it? She was with me. And then when she wanted to come back, you know? She said, You know, I'm not. You're not going to lose me. No, baby, you know, you're part of the deal. And my son, Paris, ended up being our
manager in Paris. Told the teacher, told everybody you know that this is the deal. And so, she's always been in the show.
Yaya Diamond 37:44 That's wonderful. Keeping it in the family. You know, having your family with you, your son, your what? That is, that is just a blessing. Oh, Tommy Chong : yeah. Yeah. Other than that, other than that, you grow another family, you know, or you don't have any? Or you're just out there on the road and you're doing these one nightstand things. And that gets very dangerous. And oh, yeah. You know, it's not good for the head. No, no, the family I mean. To this day, yeah. Then we got the lock down, and then everything stopped. But it was Yaya Diamond meals every night. home cooked meals. I mean, you don't have to drive anywhere. You don't have to go anywhere. Literally, you're on camera, doing your interviews. You don't have to even leave your house. How's that feeling right now? to even leave your house. How's that feeling right now?
Tommy Chong : You know, I can if you're young, I can understand, you know, you get a little crazy, but I'm not young. And I got shit to do everywhere I look. In fact, that's my big problem. I'll walk from one room to another and I'll start another project there and I'll come back and Oh, I forgot. Here I gotta show you my partner. Okay.
Yaya Diamond Oh my gosh. 39:09 Don't keep me chances. I don't want kisses. Oh. Hey, say hi. You say hi. See every once in a while he needs attention. Yes, Yaya Diamond he does. He needs attention.
Tommy Chong : He's designed by my wife by the way. Okay. Don't cut his hair. Don't cut his fur. And she tells us Oh, don't
you dare cut him and so he's got this beautiful. He's gorgeous. This is Captain Yaya Diamond captain. Oh
Tommy Chong : whenever I'm doing a photo shoot. Yes to get in the picture. Yaya Diamond 39:50 Oh my gosh. 39:52 Y Y Y Y You will find those ways to get into the kitchen. Yes, like he just did. He just did. Oh, he's so cute. Oh, so he was my rebound dog. Okay, my son Paris. Yeah. Before you get married, yeah, this is gorgeous. Six foot model is gorgeous. EJ, just gorgeous but beautiful, crazy and she was beautiful. You know, EJ had a little dog named also. So EJ in Paris got together. Also found Valentina in Paris. To the point that when they broke up, also, what was EJ? But she missed Paris. He missed Paris. He went on his hunger strike, didn't he? He wouldn't need Oh my God, and he got Paris's t shirt and he would lay there with a T shirt. So EJ said, Well, you better take it so she brought him back and Paris was also in Paris is happy because he loves that I love each other. Well. No one knows but then parents start seeing another girl and they break up. AJ says I want my dog back. So she also came back. And so then our parents said so we bought a captain. Oh, my wife, now we buy Captain little puppies for our parents. Wow. Also went on another hunger strike EGS you got him? She brought him two dogs Oh my gosh. She was fine with her parents. Yeah. He gets married to Rama and to dogs and Rama already had a daughter. And then they had the new baby. Two dogs too much. And I did it. I needed a partner. Yeah, so then Captain. Captain came and my dog Yaya Diamond 42:15 no more hunger strikes.
Tommy Chong : No. Beaune on. He's funny because they're both comedians. Shelby can make Captain smile.
Yaya Diamond Oh my gosh, Tommy Chong : It's up there. Nice. Looks like a little Jewish guy doing a little dance for oh, he's funny. He's got it. He's got
a great sense of humor. Oh, the trouble is he drops a little bombs in here and there. You know, I don't take enough time. But He's really He's Yaya Diamond Oh, my gosh, it was such a pleasure having you on this show. Oh, my God. Now I can say that. I mean, I know more about you now. As a person. And as that, that, that, that. That legend. Because you knew it wasn't something that you thought you knew, or that just happened? No, you knew. And that makes it all different for me. You know what I mean?
Tommy Chong : You know what the secret was? That? It's not me alone. See? See, I always had a Cheech, I always had a Bobby Taylor always had a Mel. Mel was the first federal player. I always had a Bobby Taylor always had a Mel. Mel was the first federal player. I was always a backup. And, and then I became because I had to do it, you know, had to stand up and do stand up. Even when Cheech and I were together. It was like, we were a parent, we would do skits together. You know, there wasn't a time when I started doing stand up a little bit on my own, you know, you know, just like I did with my wife. But I always end then, then my wife and Shelby. You know, I always have a partner. That's the whole point of life, is that you count your wealth by how many friends you have. That's your real wealth You know, if you don't have any, you know, then it yourself You have to be your own best friend. Yeah. You know, because you know, you're never alone. Alone. You're never alone. Because whatever you're going through is what you're supposed to be going through. Because this is a physical world. We're here to learn. And what we're here to learn, we're here to learn to love and what you do with love Do you think about how people, you know, mistakenly feel bad for the poor guy that has to dig a ditch, for instance, you know, but if you knew how to dig a ditch like he did, you would understand that that's where he he, that's where his happiness lies, you know, because we're all on this planet, to do different job. And we're all individuals. And so we're all individually looking to do a different job. And that's the whole thing about the physical planet. The physical universe is
that, like the green, like, you look at the Sahara Desert, that Sahara Desert is made up of individual little sand curled, little sand particles, individual ones, individual ones. And then together, they become a rock, and together, the more they become a mountain, but whether they start with individuals, and that's, and that's what we are, we are individuals, we are a city, within ourselves. And when you learn that, you can ever be bored. There's so much to learn. There's so much to taste so much to feel so much to see. There's so much to do. And even if we're here for a reason, you know, if something happens to you, it usually is a blessing. Like so many like athletes, pro athletes, you know, they get hurt. And at first they're going, Oh, God, then they realize, man, it's the best thing that ever happened to me. Because while I was hurt, I regrouped like Muhammad Ali when he was forced to quit boxing, that that that prolong his career, because he had that moment in time where he wasn't getting punched in the head, you know, and so he could be who he was, you know, then then when it came back, time to do it again, you do it again. And that's what that's what we learned. If we learn how to how, how precious life is, and you can remember this. It's eternal. It never ends. It just changes. It only changes. That's right. Just like us, we're going to end this broadcast, but it's not going to stop your life and my life. Okay, just gonna just remember that one little episode in here that we had together. And then everything goes on, it goes on forever So we'll do it again
Yaya Diamond It's such a blessing. I'm telling you, you have blessed me today. You've shown me so much. And you've taught so many people that life is about living.
Tommy Chong : Yes, yeah. Good. Yaya Diamond Living and then
Tommy Chong : If it gets tough, you know what I used to do when I went to the dentist, I had all these teeth because I had the worst teeth in the world. All these are implants. But it took
three months. Now, going to the dentist I used to hate it. It was horrible because it hurt yourself. I had to come up with a way to go to the dentist and you know what it was? When I was walking is when I was walking in the door. I would picture myself walking out okay, and then within it just seemed like a moment. All said I'm walking out. I'm done. I'm finished. I'm working out. And it seems an insane thing is prison. When I went into prison. I just automatically say you know, I'm going to remember this because I'm going when I'm leaving prison. I'm going to remember this day. And next thing I know. And think about this. I was in prison for nine months. What? How many? In all three? Okay, that's how that's how long it was. What do we know? What are we now? 2021? Yeah. 21. So that's how long it's been. See? In my life. My life was okay.
Yaya Diamond Yeah, no. Yes, definitely. And filled with joy and love and just so much. I mean so much more than people ever thought that you know what I mean, people don't think about the lives of the people that we admire and I totally admire you. I totally admire what you've done. And I'm so grateful that you did what you did and today being on the show, it's just such a blessing to have you here. Thank you so much.
Tommy Chong : I wanted to hear you sing Yaya Diamond 50:14 really right now okay, yeah 50:18 steady bead that's what I feel now. Let's go on song exactly you buddy sitting will get his whip in it with a Fennec upside Sit yourself down and you can you take care about it while I give Rocksteady 50:41 Oh I love it okay you're gonna be you're gonna be in my my dream band you're gonna be okay bye bye bye
Yaya Diamond and thank you guys so much for tuning in and don't forget to dare to be different
Tommy Chong : made mistakes I try my I didn't buy oh and my way I want been through some ups and downs in my role
Tommy Chong : you changed you saved you
Tommy Chong : now you all have been through so me yours and you changed you saved you wish me luck windriver always happens this time I always here it was you
Tommy Chong : You changed me. You saved You
Tommy Chong : Today
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DR. DAVID STEENBLOCK, D.O. AUTHORITY ON STEM CELLS AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE WWW.STROKEDOCTOR.CO M CURRICULUM VITAE @PERSONALIZEDREGENERATIVEMEDICINE @DAVIDSTEENBLOCK @DR.DAVIDSTEENBLOCK
Dr. David Steenblock, D.O. is the interdisciplinary medical genius taking roads untraveled to find ultimate healing for his patients with a focus on stem cell therapies.
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private library with an amassed collection of over 60,000 medical books and millions of research papers,
Dr Steenblock often does just that Whether he is credited or not with his long line of incredible breakthroughs in the medical realm, he has devoted his career to the diseases which most ail and traumatize the human condition Known often as the ‘Stroke Doctor ’ he is credited with implementing adult (non embryonic) stem cells to significantly repair blood flow to the brain, gifting patients with a revitalization of balance, faculties and normal sense of self Stem cells, the earliest type of cell in a cell lineage, have the ability to promote growth and healing throughout the entire human body, in turn giving Dr Steenblock the ability to heal and regenerate the body from the inside out in an unlimited number of procedures He has used stem cells to significantly heal patients suffering from ALS, Alzheimers’and Dementia, Chronic Pain, Strokes and Traumatic Brain Injury, Heart Disease and Cerebral Palsy, including the discovery of brain barrier breach and cervical spine damage in patients with ALS.
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grew from his early years on his family farm in Northern Iowa, where he viewed his natural environment as a great source of education. “When I was four years old we had one instance of a horse who died at an early age, and in those times living on a dirt road on a 40 acre farm the veterinarian decided to do an autopsy right there in the yard. The vet started to show me the insides of the horse and how the systems worked together, and I decided it was very complicated. I decided then and there to study enough to learn about these systems within humans.
love for humanity and desire to relieve suffering
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“I’M ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD WHAT IS THE GREATEST THING THAT WE CAN DO WHICH HASN’T YET BEEN DONE?”
It is within this beautiful environment that Dr. Steenblock’s moral foundation was set in stone. “I was very much intrigued and in love with my parents and family, and wanted everything to stay like it was because I was having a good time. That is how I became interested in anti aging and trying to see what I could do to help my parents stay alive. My interest in preservation continues to this day,” and the practice has seen booms in not only utilizing regenerative medicine to heal debilitating injury and disease, but also from the set of individuals who are interested in staying, looking, and feeling young forever.
The doctor has created a break-through supplement called Stemgevity which utilizes encapsulated stem cell growth activators to help patients relieve pain, promote tissue regeneration, stimulate collagen, and see fast results in overall youth factors. Within his practice, he is able to mobilize over 760 different genes involved with forming new blood vessels and capillaries for growth, repair, and regeneration one of the many reasons that patients are known to travel from all over the world to see the famous doctor.
Dr. Steenblock has studied extensively at Iowa State University, and has completed residencies at Providence Hospital in Seattle, Washington; Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with Anatomic and Clinical Pathology; at the University of Oregon, Health Sciences Center in Portland; has served as National Undergraduate Research Trainee under John Mutchmore, Ph.D; National Science Foundation Cardiovascular Trainee; Teaching Assistant, Biochemistry and Physiology at the University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa;Research Assistant, Biochemistry Research Lab University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa under David Celander, Ph.D., co-discoverer of Urokinase; as a Research Assistant in the Hematology Division at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA under L. Harker, M.D; developed a general practice model for Washington/Alaska Regional Medical Program; has worked in emergency medicine in various hospitals in Cleveland; worked alongside Dr. Carl Ebnother, Cardiologist in general practice; served as the Director of the Nutribar Laboratory in Foster City, CA for over twenty years; founded the The Brain Therapeutics Medical Clinic in Mission Viejo, California; founded The Steenblock Research Institute, Inc in 2003; and has worked in his own practice for regenerative medicine providing bone marrow therapies for patients with chronic degenerative disease and/or interests in anti aging in San Clemente, California since 2006.
Dr. Steenblock is the recipient of several awards including but not limited to: National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participant 1963; Fellowship at the National Institute of Health Cardiovascular Fellow; Charles H. Farr M.D., Ph D Pioneer Award For Outstanding Achievement in Research and Development of Oxidative Medicine in April of 2002; and the Lifetime Achievement Award “To the betterment of mankind and the advancement of integrative medicine’ from the Academy of Comprehensive Integrative Medicine (ACIM) in Orlando, Florida on October 23, 2015.
He has written two books: Chlorella: Natural Medicinal Algae, and Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Therapy, The Gift of Healing from Healthy Newborns co authored with Anthony G. Payne, Ph.D.Dr. David Steenblock is the global expert on stem cell medicine and regenerative therapies, and his heart is morally in a place that goes far beyond the basics of scientific discovery. “My eighth grade teacher had a sign in our classroom that said, ‘If you want to want to leave your footprint in the sands of time, you’d better wear work boots.” Dr. Steenblock is a stellar example of a man, utilizing all of his time and resources, in an effort to greatly contribute to the quality of life of those he serves.
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