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Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds out. I am Pablo Torre. And today we're gonna find out what this sound is.
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Man, this sucks.
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Now right after this ad.
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You'Re listening to Giraffe Kings. Hey, stop thinking about getting up, because getting up's not an option. Myrtle, once this starts, you're. You're here.
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You're locked in, you fat sausage. Are we rolling?
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If there's one thing I know about this podcast, it's always rolling.
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We haven't done this ever before.
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It's so funny being in your own house at 9:30 at night in your comfy clothes, doing a podcast.
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This is wildly invasive. I've never put my feet up on someone's. Is this okay?
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I feel like, yeah, it's great. That's actually exactly how Myrtle sit on it.
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Katie, Dan, Myrtle, thanks for having us.
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Yeah.
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Is Myrtle okay with what we're about to do?
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We're going to find out. We're hoping. She kind of just is chill about this.
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She's been around pots since she was a puppy.
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Yeah, she does. When Dan goes away and she misses him a lot and somebody in the street smells like weed, she, like, reacts to them, like, is that dad? It's like, no, it's just another person who smokes weed.
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That brings us to what we're doing here. We were supposed to do this a while back, and then Dan went on a journey of self discovery.
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I did. I did a what a lot of potheads refer to as a tolerance break, where you quit smoking pot. I, however, had never done one, so it was my first tolerance break ever and lasted about two and a half months.
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Yeah.
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And here we are.
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So, quick recap of your tolerance break.
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Yeah.
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What's the. How was it? How many stars would you give it?
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4 out of 5? There were some things that were lacking, but overall needed to do it. Did it. Glad I did it. Might do it again, but glad to be back smoking weed.
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I want to know about what it was like to end the break because we're. We're taping this at a time when you have reintegrated into polite weed society.
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So the first hit I took was with Katie on a holiday weekend. And we were. She was like, it's a long weekend. You've done very good the last two and a half months. Have a.
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Have a. You were supposed to break it the next week, but you were going to be on the road.
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Yeah. And so you were like, why not just do it here? So I had a hit. We love watching Pierce Brosnan's James Bond movies, because they're horrible. They did not age well.
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How dare you speak upon goldeneye in such.
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I thought so too. And then I watched him. I was like, my goodness, go watch Tomorrow Never Dies. They're. They're fun. They're certainly fun. Bites. What's her face.
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Zenya on a top, or is that.
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No, I'm thinking of Terry Hatcher.
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Yeah. When he bites her lip while they're kissing.
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Wild.
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Such a passionate kiss.
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Wild. I missed you.
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So I took a hit and we watched Tomorrow Never Dies. And it was beautiful. It was very fun. And then I went and got my hair cut.
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Oh, my God.
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And got out of getting a haircut and noticed that, oh, this is usually when Big J and the Bonfire Boys are hanging outside Sirius. And I called him. He's like, yeah, come and hang out. And Jay has these joints that are little mini joints dipped in Keith.
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You ever seen these?
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They're like joints dipped in more joints. And you're like, I don't think we.
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Heard you like joints. So we put some joints in your.
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Joints and then we put more joint in the joint and then rolled it in joint. And Jay was like, hey, smoke this joint. I was like, I'm kind of back. And I smoked a whole joint with him in front of serious. And then they were like, all right, we're going upstairs. And I was like, oh, no. And I had a very scared subway ride back here. And I came in the house and immediately went, katie, it happened so fast, but I'm real up.
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He came in and he was like, I was smoking like I used to smoke. And then they left. And all of a sudden I'm on the train and I realized I'm alone and I'm very, very high. Yeah, you looked very. You came in like the world had just happened to you. It was very scary.
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It was nuts.
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When was the last time you had felt like that before then, high school or college?
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I got high around 4:30. And I was high the rest of the day without smoking anymore.
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I was just like, smacked and wasn't on some level. Wasn't that glorious, though.
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It was. I went through so many emotions. First off, I got my haircut. Getting high.
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It was a stoned haircut.
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You just go, no, no, no. Put it all back. But then I got here and I was like, I'm gonna take a shower, because a high shower rules.
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Yeah.
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And we ran out of hot water.
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Shave your legs.
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Yeah. And it was facts. It was a good shower until the. The water went cold. And then it Sucked.
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Yeah.
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But it was great overall experience. 7 out of 10.
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Nice.
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Don't know if I'd do it again because of the subway ride. I didn't know which. I was so high, didn't know which arm to grab the bar with. I was like, does this look normal?
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I just started. Just started palming the ceiling or you.
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Don'T know when to move when people get off the subway and how to get back into your position. It's a delicate dance that you forget. And then when you're high, you see all the steps.
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So he's back.
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I'm back.
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Which means that we can do the thing that I wanted to do when I learned you were on this journey of self discovery.
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The bag of Cheetos and pizzas in the kitchen.
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Yes.
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Your magical satchel next to the chair.
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Promised this magical satchel next to your chair. Because we've traveled America literally, on a quest of finding out which athletes have sponsored weed that should be evaluated and reported upon.
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What? He has our favorite in his hand already.
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Are you gonna lay it out on the table?
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I think we should.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Like when cops sees it, we'll take a bust photo.
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Yeah, that's right. So we begin.
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Yeah. The best one.
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The Glove. The Glove. Gary Payton.
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My favorite strain of weed.
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Yeah.
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Outside of Golden Goat is Gary Payton.
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So I guess what we'll do on this episode is we will sort of introduce these things one by one.
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Sure.
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And we'll sample them in ways that are definitely legal.
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Well, we know Gary Payton.
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Yeah.
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So maybe last we could do that. Last as we know it is very good.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Yeah.
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And how many weeds do you have?
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Like how.
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How many weeds we're gonna smoke?
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18 weeds.
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Have you guys ever had this? So this is. This is a cannabis pre roll on the label. Magic Johnstone.
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Magic Johnstone. Love the parody.
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And so he has signed off on that.
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Undoubtedly.
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People have.
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Okay, almost.
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I thought these were like the athletes are cool with it. Because I assume Gary Payton's cool with Gary Payton.
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Yeah, I believe so. I believe so. I don't know if Carmelo Anthony has co signed this.
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Mellow. It better be an indigo.
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It is a hybrid.
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Huh?
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Here's the deal. For those of you that don't know about weed, Sativa's a head high. Indica's a body high. Indica tends to be more mellow. Hence why you would call it mellow.
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Have you guys seen? But they all look little like Man Jones Wheat.
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Now I know Pac man signs off on this because it's through Cookies.
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Yes, correct. And he has a whole, like, graphic on the top, an illustration where he's holding bags of weed.
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Can I tell you right now, that might be the one I'm most excited for.
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So I think we should start with Pac Man.
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This is great.
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Oh, this is what we have. I thought you had, like, so much more.
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Oh, we have a list of things that we tried to get.
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Oh, okay.
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We have to.
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This makes me feel so much better. This whole time, I thought we were doing like 17 of these. Yeah, I wish very.
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I was gonna prepare the bed for Katie just to land it at the end.
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Yeah, this isn't gonna go well for me. I don't smell smoke that much weed throughout the night. I like to smoke weed at night, but I usually do like a hit or two and then I'm good for an hour or two and then maybe I'll take another hit if we're doing a Rocket League tournament. Yeah. Smells good.
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Smells good, guys.
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He's told me, he's convinced me that if it smells good to you, it won't give you a bad high. If you don't like the smell of it, it will give you a bad high. But if you like the smell of it, you'll be fine.
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That's what, that's an old, that's an old, that's old stoner myth. But I, I, I've gone by that since I was a wee boy at the.
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That's why we got rid of that. One of them was named after a perfume once and you were like, get that out of the house. I do not like it.
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Yeah, this is one of those rules like how Dan thinks that vase and vase are two different things.
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No, this isn't.
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These are the things that under our roof. Pablo, you just have to accept are the way that things are.
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Number one. Vas. And vase was just information given to me, sir. I have spent my Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours smoking marijuana.
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Debunked theory.
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I have put in the reps for marijuana. The vase. Vase thing, that's just some bull pulled out the back of my head. This is pretty shaky science, but it's still, it's science.
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We still go by it.
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Myrtle, what do you think? She loves Pac, man.
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She's. Just to be clear, we're not. The dog's not doing any drugs. No, don't call PETA.
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Definitely not.
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She's just here. She's on her own drugs, actually.
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But if you see some of the dog she hangs out with at the dog park, say she kind of Had a joint near corner of her ear the whole time. They think she's cool. She. She wants to do it for the. For the dogs at the park.
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That's right. Starting with Pac Man.
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We're starting with Pac Man. But I. I do want to give a special shout out to some strains that I wanted to. Let's hear them to get for you. But.
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Honorable mention.
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Yeah. Michael Phelps, og.
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I like that because that guy's lung capacity is incredible. And he also pushes therapy with.
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Which makes say he's depressed.
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So that's what I meant. Mentally. He's been places that I'm like, where's your weed?
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Like, I would like to see Michael Phelps hit a gravity bong.
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Yeah, I bet he could clear it.
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Hayden Manning.
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What the. No.
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So according to the summary, it popped up around 2013 when he was with the Denver Broncos.
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Yeah.
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It was reportedly a cross between Chemdog 91 and San Fernando Valley OG.
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Okay.
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But it's just super rare.
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Anything to you.
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Super rare.
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It's super rare to get that.
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Do you wonder if.
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You wonder if Peyton's got. Got it, like at home, he's like, do you want. You want some of my hard to find Peyton Manning weed?
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I bet Peyton Manning litigated the intellectual property behind.
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Oh, yeah, absolutely. But it helped his neck too. He'd be like, I could throw.
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So Ricky Williams has something called the Heisman.
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That's the weed.
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I mean, we should be doing that.
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That's the weed you want. You want the guy that. His career took a hit because he was taking hits. But you want the Ricky. Ricky Williams is. I probably. That is our ideal.
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And the Heisman's a great name.
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It's a great name.
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Yeah. What happened? Why couldn't you get that?
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Journalistic integrity. So Ricky Williams is a friend of metal art media.
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Yeah.
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And so we said we cannot. Like, much like a chef who's friends with the, you know, Pete Wells at the New York Times, you gotta. You gotta draw boundaries. Like, it would be unfair for me to. To appraise his product.
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I'm not his friend. So you could have brought me.
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I have never met him. I want to try regulation.
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Yeah, I don't see why that's happening. That feels kind of like a selfish decision. It's okay. But we let you into our home.
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That's the difference between.
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Feels like you could have left us with a little bit of Heisman as like a.
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You could have been like, hey, I'm getting out of here and gone like this. Take that.
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Oh, that would have been great. That would have been great. Next time we should script your entrance and your exit.
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Yeah. This is called journalism.
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Yeah.
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Well, I hate it.
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So the one that I have been hunting for that I could not find, but I did do reporting around is Linsanity OG. I mean, that is so Linsanity OG, which popped up in 2012.
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Yeah.
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In California during Linsanity. I first saw it because Rick Ross had posted a photo of it on Instagram and I've been tracking it ever since. I know this for a fact. Jeremy. Jeremy Lin. I reached out to him. He had litigated this. He had wanted this to not be called Linsanity OG for copyright reasons. And so I ended up emailing a rapper, Stalli, former college basketball player himself. He was tagged in the Rick Ross Instagram. And so I asked him for a review of it. He said it's an og. So it's strong, but it tastes clean and sweet, gives you a heavier high. So I'll have you stuck for a minute. But once it sits with you for a while, it brings out the creative juices that allow you to work diligently.
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Whoa.
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Good write up.
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Really good write up.
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And he did not make a joke about how it only lasts for, like, two weeks and then it gets real bad.
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Nice.
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Which I appreciate it.
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Nice.
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So I think we should.
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Let's start with Pac Man.
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Start with Pac Man. So what are the rules here?
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Okay, well, so we smoke. Usually we lean out the window of our office. The, you know, New York City apartment. The window. Window only opens so much.
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Enough to get your head out of the window to blow smoke out.
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Because we don't want to get kicked out of our apartment. We like it here, but we're going.
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To load a bowl of Pac Man. Each of us take two hits.
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Yeah.
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See how we're feeling?
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We have the capability. This. I suggested that we play Rocket League because that's when I know if my high is hitting. And we have the ability to. To do that here. So it's an option.
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We do. That will be a six hour podcast.
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We're doing a. A, A weed quadra.
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Do we want to vote on order right now?
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I feel like draft.
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I figure we go Pac Man, Magic Johnstone, Mellow clothes with the glove.
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Yeah.
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Because we know how good Gary Payton is.
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We know it's going to fit it.
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Lockdown. Let's smoke this. Pac Man Jones.
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Okay. Myrtle's like. And I'm going to take a nap.
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Yeah.
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A Nat Man Jones.
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I really enjoyed that.
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I can tell.
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Yeah.
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That's not what you want to hear.
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Yeah.
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Here's the myrtle pipe. Myrtle pipe rules.
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The pipe is.
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Zoom in on it. Can you guys zoom in? And there's so many cameras in this tiny apartment right now. Very overwhelming.
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You guys can see. You guys get the shot. Loved it. Tastes really good.
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Yeah. I like it a lot. I like it quite. I'm really sorry for my behavior in this podcast. The eating on Mike. I would hate it, too. I'm really sorry.
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That was the right move.
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You have to understand. I was in my apartment and I'm really high. And that was what I was supposed to do.
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And also that was the assignment.
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I understood it.
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It's for health reasons. For brain health reasons. You're eating.
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Yeah. You don't want to meet the Katie that is not. Hasn't had any food. High on nice weed.
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Just violent.
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Well, no, I know.
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It's fine.
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Usually I curl up into a tiny ball.
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Violent.
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So Katie's in bed.
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Yeah. What are the stages that you're afraid of?
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We come back from the third one and we go, okay, so we're on cry patrol.
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First Cry patrol In the terror alert scale of Katie Nolan.
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I don't really cry.
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I don't cry unless I'm, like, having a bad one. And that's happened maybe three times to us.
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Yeah. We've been together for five years and I've only seen her have a bad one once.
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Try not to chew in the mic. You know, you see me twice. Definitely at least twice, but once.
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That was in Nashville. That was nuts. Where do you go? Bad wise.
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Yeah. So let's do this.
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Let's get high and talk about when it goes bad. Always the best way to make sure.
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Here's a question that I think Pac Man Jones will inspire.
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Yeah.
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When does, like, the notes app come out?
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Oh, that's when. Stands in the other room playing a video game that. I've already annoyed him a couple too many times. I've already come in and gone, hey, so I was thinking about. And he's like, trying to. I don't know, whatever it is you do. College football. Put pants on wrestlers, maybe.
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Pants on wrestlers, maybe. I'm trying to get it.
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The amount of times I've watched him be like, putting highlighters in a wrestling.
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What?
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You can customize your wrestler. And he loves Kenny Omega. And so there was a game that did Shinobi. Am I embarrassing you?
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One time. Yeah. Because you talk about it like I'm.
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In there excessively doing this one time that I came out and he Was putting highlights.
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I was giving him some blonde Kenny Omega.
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I'm just saying.
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And it was Seth Rollins in the shield.
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No, it was absolutely Kenny Omega. I watched stress.
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You were jealous.
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Kenny Omega. Yeah. Because that guy's gonna take you from me.
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Yes.
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Anyway, if I've gone into annoy Dan, if I feel I've gone into annoy Dan too much, then I'm like, no. In this thought I shouldn't let it go. That's when the notes app comes out. Because that's when I'm like, maybe later when I don't have anything to say to Dan, I'll tell him this. Like I ever open my notes app later looking to tell you stuff. But there's a lot in there. What happens when you die to your notes app is like, legally, does it go to Dan?
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It's a thing you type into your notes app.
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What?
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What?
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I don't.
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Your notes when you die.
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I think legally they can't go through your notes app.
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But I'm saying, can you?
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I think so.
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You're going to want to.
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Okay.
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Is there like good stuff? I think there is good stuff in there. I also think there's garbage in there.
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But there's like some of the best stuff that I've ever done is in my notes app.
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You're just going to see a lot of premises that are like, I'm glad this never saw the light of day.
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I doubt it. I bet if you went back and looked at your notes app, you'd be like, there's a premise that I should absolutely be.
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I do it all the time. There's never is just like, what is this? What is this?
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I do it every now and then. And when I do, I get a couple good ones and then the rest I'm like, you thought you needed to write that down.
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Yeah. Cuz your high brain is like, let's put this somewhere.
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I'm not always high.
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But it's. It's the. It's the breaker of writer's block for me.
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Okay.
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Which is every weed. It's like a shower or walk around the block or it's like looking at something from a different angle.
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Yeah. And it does do that.
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And that same guy. Like that is also potentially like a really bad generator of ideas that only the other guy can really.
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It's like it fires the bouncer. I feel like. So that like more gets out. And a lot of times you were stopping yourself from letting out the thing that was the idea you needed to get to. But you were also stopping a Bunch of bad ideas. And those are also coming through.
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I always want to correct my behavior after I get high. I was like, I was a dick earlier when I just drank coffee and was fired up saying ideas.
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It does make me evaluate my.
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I want to like, go back and edit my old self and be like, hey, you need to calm down. But then sometimes I smoke weed and I go, everyone's mad at me. I should probably get out of here. Everyone's mad.
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Which is crazy because I bet if you pulled every single person who's ever met or even just perceived Dan if they're mad at him, there would be. I'd be shocked if 1% was.
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That's very good weed.
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This weed rules.
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It's really good, man. I would tell you it's really good.
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Leave this weed.
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I love Katie.
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Just me with a finger.
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Drop the weed, Pablo. This stays here.
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I love the Gary Payton. So I'm not surprised that I like Pac man because it's done by cookies. They seem to have their together cookies as a.
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As a brand. And again, this is why the journalistic integrity is so important. Katie, you're like, why don't you review J school? I can't give an honest appraisal of a company if I.
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Fair enough.
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This though. No. No relationship to cookies.
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Right.
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But this.
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I've never met him. Have you met him?
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Pac Man?
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Yeah.
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No. On. All I know of him actually is like TMZ stories about him like fighting.
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People at the airport.
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At the airport with like plastic bags.
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I know Pac Man Jones is the man because that weed is. It's like.
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It's really good weed.
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It's almost like how George Foreman. A lot of people just gnome for being the grill and they're just like, yeah, it's a great grill.
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Yeah.
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Which.
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It was a great grill. The fat dripping off. I can't believe nobody thought of that.
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It timed out perfectly. Me going to college.
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Yeah. That I was like, that is a perfect college.
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George Foreman walked into a boardroom like Don Draper and. And showed him a protractor.
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Yeah.
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Was he heavily involved in the actual ideation or did he come on afterwards?
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Now I know Hulk Hogan story. That Hulk Hogan said they had a choice. You did the Trump kiss.
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You see him blow him a kiss.
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So that objectively weird, right? Like weird behavior. That is a unique behavior.
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I think you should catch on. I'm blowing.
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I always think that objectively and then that no one ever hears it objectively. So it doesn't.
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Is it your. Is that the defense of it Is There trump European. No. Is that a practice? Because it seemed.
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No, I think it's just a cool new thing to do. Just throw a kiss at someone aggressively.
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From the audience after they praised you.
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He goes, hey, your car's ready. But the rumor was that they, like, had a choice of the Foreman grill or spaghetti Maker. I think that was like a Hulk Hogan story, which most of the time is found out to be not true. I don't know if Foreman was like, like, bio picture thing where he was like, hey, this iron just pressed this chicken all the fat out of it. And like, George. That's it.
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The apple falling on someone's head is George Foreman accidentally inventing a sloped grill.
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I didn't get. Yeah, his eureka moment. I didn't get to see the George Foreman movie that recently came out.
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Oh, I didn't know there was.
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I didn't know there was one either. Georgia changed his name from Foreman to poor man to hurt. Down goes Frank. What's my name now, fool?
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Foreman is the new heavyweight champion of the world. I want to redo the Foreman movie and make it like boxing is the B story.
C
Exactly. I would love George Foreman the grill maker.
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Yeah. Instead of the knockout heavyweight.
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Yeah.
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My roommate in my first apartment after leaving home in Chinatown. It was a mouse infested apartment in one of the oldest townhouses, like a row house in, like, Chinatown on Bowery and Pell. And my roommate Juan, who I love, had a George Foreman grill that he would use virtually every night. And the mice could not have loved it more.
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Why?
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Because this. This the smell of some slope grease sizzling perpetually in an old ass building.
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Did they. Did they have, like a chorus? Was there like a bunch of mice lying down?
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Do they come out in a conga.
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Line from their newsies, like, barrel rolls?
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Oh, wow. Oh, wow.
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That's so fun. Over each other just for the grill. Yeah, man. I had a college roommate leave salmon on the George Foreman grill uncooked. Like he was gonna grill it, and then he, like, had to go do something, and he was just forgetful to him.
C
Was this your roommate that sold drugs?
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Yeah.
C
Okay. It makes more sense that way.
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He'd be like, yeah, a regular guy.
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Start without stop.
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But we just had a Foreman grill. And I remember I came home after class or something or like, maybe even the comedy club. And there was. I was like, in the kitchen, and I was like, is there something in the George Foreman grill? And I lifted it and it was just this, like, you know, when salmon goes bad, it gets that, like, Weird green color.
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Oh, my God.
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Like, coming from the outside in. And I was like. So I put it in, like, a Dwayne Reed bag, like a plastic shopping bag. And I went and I put it in his room.
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Oh, my God.
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I hid it in his room for, like, five days. So you're seeing this, Amir? My argument for the second strain is this. We go smoke a little bit of Magic Johnstone. I'm going to grab a slice of pizza. You two should play Rocket League.
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The argument for getting to the second strain is that I am now deeply self conscious about whether I am hosting anyway. Did you just make the driving noise? As if. I've never seen anything driven.
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This is reverse, but you're not going to need that.
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They're about to start playing.
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You're looking at the.
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Oh, my God.
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But no, he can't be.
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Me and Stinger scored a goal. They're down one nil.
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Pablo is can't listen and play video games.
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You're going to be all right. We're going to get you through it. Also, think about the Magic Johnstone you smoked. Go get it. There you go.
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I don't think I took enough of this weed. I don't think I smoked enough of it.
B
We each took one big hit.
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I'd go back for another hit.
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I took enough of it.
B
Yeah, you did Pac Man. We smoked Pac Man. We, like, had a full bowl.
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No, because we switched controllers. Exactly. For that reason.
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Now I realize you are on the right side. But now I'm not.
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Now you're on the left. Now you're Queen Teensy. You're me now. Oh, that was good. Did you do that?
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I did do that.
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Oh, my God.
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I know kung fu.
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This might start a lifelong obsession with Rocket League.
C
I mean, Pabo, is this not the greatest?
A
This is pretty good. Once I realized I was on the left, everything made more sense again.
C
You weren't originally. You were right at first.
B
When I first started dating Katie, she didn't smoke pot. And she was like, I don't really smoke pot unless I play. Unless I play Rocket League.
C
I guess what that meant. Can I tell you now that we've known each other forever, what that meant?
B
Yeah.
C
I don't have a person to buy weed from.
B
Got it.
C
So I only smoke if you're bringing.
B
Got it. Makes sense, you know? Well, and.
C
And he brought wheat.
B
He brought weed.
A
So I love this game.
B
Yeah. This game is.
A
I now that I have a sense.
B
Of, like, what's going to hurt is when you get better at this than I know.
C
I've been playing for years to fly because.
B
Yeah, I'm diamond and you're like. I can't even get past.
C
Also, if you're ready for more buttons, square can make you like. It's like a break. So you can take a sharper turn.
A
Yeah.
B
So if this is a positive review of Magic Johnson.
A
Yeah. So far. I.
B
Well, I'm interested to get to this Carmelo Anthony weed.
A
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
B
Called mellow.
A
Fly off this wall real quick.
C
Oh, Pablo. That's twice.
A
That was so fun.
C
That was twice.
B
There's one minute remaining.
C
My way.
A
That was so fun.
B
There's one minute remaining in the game. There.
C
Are you enjoying it, though?
A
I am.
C
No, we're up.
B
It says it's greenhouse Cannabis flower, an indica hybrid. So it is. It is mellow. They are going for the mellow. There's 40 seconds left in the game. It looks like Katie and Pablo are going to take this home. Pablo's first inaugural game of Rocket League. Katie Nolan, of course, coming with four goals. A hat trick. She's hat trick Zeta Jones. 10 seconds to go until we move.
C
On to Mellow Seasons against the box.
A
You did something incredible.
C
Thanks.
B
Look at that.
A
Can we narrow? Can you. Okay.
B
So she hits it off the side of the goal, bounces in front. She gets around, turns herself around, knocks the bot into the ball, who then scores the goal.
A
That was bad Ninja. You bad ninja'd them.
B
Yeah. You use their momentum against them. Job control. Can I tell you what's what I like about Mellow? Just from the looks?
C
Sure.
B
It's just little nuggets. They're just like a fun little.
C
Hey, wow. Mellow is just little nuggets.
B
Then he broke my heart.
C
Yeah, you got beef. You got real beef with Mellow.
B
It just hurt. If you're a Nuggets fan, that hurt. We were waiting for a superstar. We got Carmelo. We. He went to the 09 Western Conference finals. Lost because of two key steals from Trevor Ariza. And then you dis. You just dismantle the team. You make everyone go everywhere else. I mean, granted, we got.
A
You got Wilson Chandler.
B
Yeah, we did. I liked Wilson Chandler. He was nasty on NBA 2K. I loved Wilson Chandler. But that completely destroyed the franchise for a couple years. We were on the cusp. Now, granted, it did lead to us getting Nicole Jokic and then eventually winning a championship. But I will smoke this weed. Still a little angry at a trade that was forced when I feel as a Nuggets fan, it wasn't needed. You didn't need the trade.
A
Timothy Mozgov.
B
We got Fulton. We got. God, we got that whole Knicks team.
A
Yes. You got. You got a team that. In New York. We. We actually. Oh, yeah. We're kind of sad about losing a bunch of people loved.
B
Can I tell you the thing that upset me the most? I was waiting tables at the time, and they would play this package when Carmelo got traded, and it was. I'm coming home. That whole dramatic thing. And it was. Felt like it was just rubbing my face in it where I was like. Every time it'd come on, I'd be like, oh, he's from Baltimore. Like, it was the thing you just. But he was born in Brooklyn. But you're like, man, it hurt. That trade, as a Nuggets fan, hurt. That might be the most painful trade of my life.
C
Wow.
B
Yeah. And thanks for letting me smoke weed on it. Took a couple hits. It's an indica hybrid. It was a good bowl. Tasted good. I would say I enjoyed the taste of Pac man, but I also. Pac man went first. Well, hold on. Pause. Taste of the first weed. The marijuana.
C
I'm sorry, Mario Boy, not the Legos. Do you want me to move them? I can move them now.
B
We're good.
A
Your LEGO television Mario set.
C
I built this, and it works. Can everybody see it? Can you roll the.
B
Yeah. This is a wild thing to look at that.
C
I made that.
B
Come on, get behind that.
C
Give it up for me.
B
Good.
C
You almost. Oh, I was just joking. That was so cool. But it broke just then. That was really. Guys, did you really do that? Thank you.
B
So.
C
Okay. Everything's going. It's all falling apart. I broke it.
B
We'll be all right.
C
Well, where's that go?
B
I don't know. We'll get back to it.
C
I thought everybody would like that little.
B
That's a good working review of.
C
No, I should have built it better than that. I took it. I'm. You guys do a podcast. Let me sit for a minute.
B
What did you think of the mellow?
A
It's hard to know what I think. I'm susceptible to suggestion right now.
C
Okay.
A
Dan is leading with authority.
C
Yeah.
A
And I have enjoyed all of the strains we've had so far. The mellow is definitely the most indica y. Yeah. And Katie just burped.
C
No, I didn't.
A
Undoubtedly still on microphone.
C
I was over here.
A
So here's how I would compare and contrast what this is. So this feels like we're not playing Rocket League. This feels like we are. It's kind of. It Is nice. It's nice.
B
Cheetos showed up on the table. That's a.
C
While one of you is a.
B
That's a wild movie.
C
Cheeky. One of these real. I'm gonna get to him. Yeah, that's it.
B
Sorry, editor.
C
For all of it, actually, while we have you.
B
Yeah, for all of it. This has been very fun. I'm pretty.
C
Yeah, same. Here's my thing. Cause I don't think I've given a single review yet. They're. I'm high, so they're all good. I'm not, like, noticing once I. Is that. Are you guys doing that for the magic of podcasting? The mellow is more of like a. I think I'm just later in my.
B
High from fake asmr, though. Keep going off on this.
A
I believe that Melo is. It's. It's just the. It's probably what should have been the last insofar as it's going to put you to sleep.
B
Sleep.
C
You look. You look sleepy. You noticeably look a little. Do you want to put your head on a pillow?
B
Dude, please just pan out with just one light on. And it's just Pablo on the couch.
C
We've got a. That couch pulls out if you need it.
A
This is such a comfortable cast.
C
After Dan plays college football. I saw you noticeably go, well, Fabul can't stay here.
B
Well, Colorado State's taking on a 5 and 2 Wyoming, so why don't we just see. Why don't we see where that goes? Anybody playing college football. That video game knows. Yeah. Are you playing it?
C
You're counting down.
B
So you're just waiting for the podcast to end. You're like, yeah, some of us got dynasties at home. That's like the new children. Hey, some of us gotta get home to ours.
A
I gotta get Kennesaw State into a bowl game tonight.
B
Dude, I love it.
C
That's wild.
B
I love it. This game was the phenomena that it is.
A
It is a genuine phenomenon.
B
It's worth it. All the weight of having to wait for college football to come out. I thank you. What a. What a payoff. It's been awesome.
C
Okay. Your game froze, like, four times yesterday, and you got very mad at it. So maybe we don't act like it's the greatest thing that's ever happened, but.
B
Think about how many tables I didn't.
C
Break and you didn't, and they both are still here and they're being used in this. It was the number one reason I was worried I was going to lose one, because I'm like, We're doing a podcast here. But it's been frustrating. The game is a little glitchy and it'd be nice.
B
I had a game with Texas that was going to overtime and then it just shut down. The entire game shut down. And my childlike reaction of sadness made me think I was going to lose my fiance because I went, no, no. Like an unfair childlike thing. Like, hey, no. We were about to go to overtime. But we were. My freshman quarterback was cooking. Do you understand that? Not just dinking and Duncan. I'm talking about 41 yard shots.
A
Dude, are you. Are you. Are you, like doing back shoulder passes?
B
I learned how to throw. Now I was doing classic throw. Now I have it. Where you could put touch passes. Yeah, there's some throw.
A
You're feathering. You're feathering that.
B
I got a tight end that is just eating this season. He's a senior. He's just eating.
C
So now what he'll do is he'll come out and go, in case something goes wrong, because it's.
B
It's canceled.
C
My running back has 200 yards in the first half.
B
It was insane.
C
It was nuts. Give me a stat line and be like, just in case something goes wrong, you should know this kid really goes. In case the game freezes again. And he's like. He like files it with me. Like it's history.
B
I just was.
C
In case anything happens in there. Four carries.
B
I was kicking the. Out of Oregon State at Oregon State in Corvallis, and I come out going, hey, if this game gets shut down, I'm putting one on him right now. And my running back has 13 carries for 2:26 and three touchdowns in the first half. And I'm gonna run them a lot in the second half. And it. Thank God. What happened is it was shutting down so much. I deleted the game and redownloaded it.
C
And that worked.
B
And so far, so good. CSU is already a three star program. We're number two in the country.
C
Two in the country.
B
I mean, really. This podcast ends and a dynasty begins. I'm gonna move on. It's playoff. I want to get to the playoffs. It'll mean a lot to the city of Fort Collins and our board of regions. Now do we smoke some Gary Payton and do the SNL Goodbye. We stand there with Myrtle. Myrtle comes out and we're standing like, I want to thank so many people. I want to thank cookies. I want to thank Pac Man Jones and Gary Payton. I want to thank Magic Johnson, who probably doesn't even know this product.
C
Exists and prob. Now that he does, it's probably not going to exist anymore.
B
Sorry.
A
And Lauren. Lauren.
B
Lauren.
C
Yeah, and Lauren. Of course.
B
Gary Payton rules. If you can't tell, it's the classic Gary. It's so good.
A
I've sought it out because it was. It was something of a legendary thing. And plus, like now, like, there's. There's a Larry Bird strain, but it's like 33. There are like lots of references now.
B
Okay, so it's 33 THC.
C
That guy feels high.
A
The marketing should. Should require the accurate. Yeah.
C
His face tells me you came up with a good idea. Yeah, that was not the idea.
B
Yeah, the Gary Payton's like, kind of like just when you come back to it, you're like, damn, you are.
C
I don't know if it's just in my head. It tasted good. I was like, yeah, the.
B
The mellow was the mellow. I felt. I felt probably the most like in my body. I don't know. I'm talking like an idiot.
A
No, no, I. I'm. Yes, most. Most palpably different was mellow sitting in the couch.
B
Yeah. I just know stuff. I would explain it in stoner terms. Like with the Pac Man, I really wanted pizza, but with the Magic Johnstone, I really wanted to talk, but with the mellow, I thought of the future and all the college football I'm gonna play. And then with the Gary Payton, I wanted pizza again. So what does that say? Where are we going from here to there?
C
They were all good.
B
Yeah.
C
I don't have a negative thing to say. I don't think I smoked enough of Magic. So. Because I was like, hey, Katie, this is gonna be a lot of weed in a short amount of time. Maybe on the second one, when they take two, you take one. Just one this time. So I don't know if nothing happened.
B
Yeah.
C
But I never felt bad. And so nobody gets a ding in their record. And as much as me, lady who doesn't know anything about weed and doesn't smoke all the cool weeds. These ones are all. Okay.
B
Thank you for bringing all this. Great.
C
How much of it stays? Would you say because you don't want to get caught carrying this much, you could get in some real trouble.
B
Also, people got cell phones on them and they could call the cops.
C
But it's very funny that you showed up with a bunch of weed and we smoked it. This is how it should be. You're the best dealer I've ever had, I think is what I'm saying.
B
Typical dealer comes over, smoke Some of it eats some of your food, plays your video.
A
This is records everything you do and.
C
Publishes as a podcast.
B
Guy's probably wearing a wire.
C
I sense microphones in the room.
B
I don't know, man. Call it the weed, but I'm paranoid we're being recorded.
C
Like I'm being watched.
A
Are you guys stealing my weed?
B
Yeah, we're not.
C
You're not leaving with one.
B
Some of. One of them staying.
C
And if you want to fight that, I wouldn't recommend it, but you could.
B
Myrtle can get vicious.
C
If I say sick them, she'll come lick you and see if you want to take her. If you have any treats.
B
Yeah, it's true.
A
I love when dog owners have, like, a. A, like, foreign word that summons their dog.
B
Oh, yeah. Oh, like doc. Yeah. Like something in German. Yeah. And it's just there. Like a police dog.
A
Right. Because it has to be something that no one else would say.
C
It's got to be like her Manchurian Candidate word.
B
Yeah. Her activation. Yeah.
A
Right.
B
Ours is the T word.
C
No, that's just a word that she physically. Her ears will go from like, I'm a cute dog, to like, I'm the cutest dog you've ever seen in your whole life. She get little pigtails, and she's like, oh, my God, you should give me a treat. And it works sometimes on mostly him.
B
Yep.
C
Because she gets so cute, but I'm like, damn, you really know that word? I didn't train you that word, but we said it, and you knew what came right after it, so you'll simp for it. And she does. She does. This weed is good.
B
If we're picking. Are you telling us to pick one?
A
I. I'm telling you, it's hard not to.
C
I'm loyal. I'm a loyal. So I would pick Gary Payton, who reliably always gets me up, including the time that he handed me a pint glass of Jack Daniels with a straw and ice in it.
B
That's the real Gary Payton.
C
Real Gary. I asked. He had. Was asking people what they wanted to drink, and his eyes got to me, and I was like, I don't think I was supposed to be in this group, but I said, me. And he said, yeah. And I said, I'll take, like, a. I don't know, Jack Daniels. I panicked, thinking he'd get me, like, a Jack and Coke or, like a Jack Daniels. And he turned around with a pint glass with ice, and it was like. I don't know, it was dark where we were, so I thought like, maybe this is just a tall Jack and Coke. I took a sip and I was like, that is Jack Daniels. It was just a pint Glass.
B
Glass.
C
Jack Daniels.
B
Gary Payton. Thought you had a problem. I was like, Gary Payton's like, sure, tiny lady. Someone get eyes on her. She might be a little bit of an issue later drinking a pint glass of Jack Daniels. Thanks, Gary Payton. They call you the Glove. They call you the Glove. They call me the Boot. He's kicking with the.
C
Dude.
B
I love Gary Payton being like, Katie Nolan drinks dude. And Gary Payton, you make fantastic, lovable weed. Yeah, I would say Pac man is a close second, but that was a.
A
Good element of surprise. I didn't expect Pac man to be.
B
Yeah, Gary Pampar. It's just man. I'm gonna destroy whatever's left in that kitchen. Cheetos pizza wise.
C
That's. We haven't made one of those yet. You're gonna make a Cheetos pizza.
B
No, I understand why the where the confusion is. What I meant is whatever stands in front of me, I destroy.
C
Okay.
B
Basically a food Terminator.
C
So it was Cheetos slash, pizza wise.
B
Yeah, it's probably gonna go Cheetos pizza, Cheetos. Land the plane. Regroup.
C
Van Leeuwen.
B
Swiss cake roll.
C
Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right. Oh, we should make you eat that. Like a bite of it.
B
Yeah.
C
Dan's like, no, no, you should save it. It's so good. And you're high.
B
Piece of that.
C
Please don't.
B
No, of that. Of that Swiss roll. Why is everything gotta be sexual?
C
Please let also with this. Pablo. A piece of that as well.
B
Piece of the Swiss roll. Man, this sucks now. This absolutely sucks though.
A
Disagree.
B
No, of that Swiss roll. God damn it. I'm fight this whole room. Kind of. John. Wicked. I've never thought I'd have to John Wick my way out of my apartment. And the dog's still alive, so that is a win. Win. This is a Swiss cake roll from a restaurant called Cafeteria.
A
Oh, yeah, yeah, Cafeteria.
B
This. It's also red velvet Swiss cake roll.
C
Ah, just feed it. Here you go.
B
Thank you so much.
C
Yeah, you just eat it. Yeah, that's good stuff.
A
So wait, I.
B
Yeah, there wasn't anything specific. Oh, you're supposed to decode it then.
C
Oh, you didn't unroll it and lick the inside.
B
Oh, that's poison. Good job, Pablo.
C
It's like cutting the blowfish the wrong way.
B
Yeah.
C
Oh, you've just cut through the skin. Well, we're all dead.
B
Can I tell you what though? This is a great front row seat of watching someone eat that Swiss cake roll high. And you know what? It wasn't just Pablo. It was Magic Johnson. It was Gary Payton, Pac Man Jones, Carmelo Anthony. It was all of you guys. You were all there.
A
That's really good.
C
Isn't that nice? Life is good. You know, that's one of the things that when we partake in it, we both look at each other and go, look at where we live. Look at our life. We are eating. It was delivered to us a Swiss cake roll.
A
I suspected that it's the greatest.
C
We could get whatever we want right now. And we don't want a lot.
B
It's like a speech at the end of the movie. And what I want is sitting right here next to me. Thanks for getting us high, dude.
C
Yeah, dude.
A
What I found out today is that athlete weed is not good. Because of the strain or because of the illustration of a Pac Man Jones holding plastic bags full of weed. It's because of whatever dessert that was that I just ate. This has been Pablo Torre Finds Out a Meadowlark Media production and I'll talk to you next time.
Podcast: Pablo Torre Finds Out – Le Batard & Friends
Host: Pablo Torre
Guests: Dan Soder, Katie Nolan
Date: February 21, 2025
This episode is a playful, in-depth exploration of the burgeoning world of athlete-branded cannabis products. Host Pablo Torre joins comedians and pop culture commentators Dan Soder and Katie Nolan at their NYC apartment to sample and evaluate various cannabis strains endorsed (officially and unofficially) by athletes. Along the way, they share stories about weed, product branding, personal anecdotes, and the culture around celebrity pot.
"I was high the rest of the day without smoking anymore." — Dan (04:25)
Sampled first; Cookies brand
Sampled second
Sampled third; an indica hybrid, “little nuggets”
Saved for last; Cookies brand, a reliable favorite
While the hosts laugh their way through the athlete-weed taste-test, the real takeaways are about the culture of celebrity weed, the rituals surrounding recreational marijuana, and personal connections to both food and nostalgia. The athlete brands themselves? Well, Gary Payton’s “The Glove” stands above the rest in both weed and whiskey, Pac Man Jones surprises as a strong contender, and “life is good” when you’re high with good company, good snacks, and stories to share.
For listeners curious about athlete-endorsed cannabis, camaraderie, or just fans of good-natured podcasting, this episode is a haze of laughs, confessions, and snack-fueled revelations—delivered with the familiar wit and warmth of the Le Batard & Friends crew.