JCW ARCHIVE: The 420 Special

Summary

Podcast Summary: The John Clay Wolfe Show – JCW ARCHIVE: The 420 Special

Introduction

In the April 18, 2025 release of The John Clay Wolfe Show, titled "JCW ARCHIVE: The 420 Special," host John Clay Wolfe delves into nostalgic discussions surrounding marijuana culture, particularly focusing on personal anecdotes, high school experiences, and the broader impact of cannabis use. This archived episode, peppered with humorous interludes and candid conversations, offers listeners an engaging exploration of marijuana’s role in social settings and individual lives.

1. Reflecting on 420 Celebrations and Participation

The episode opens with John Clay Wolfe addressing the turnout for the 420 celebration, highlighting a surprisingly low attendance.

• John Clay Wolfe [01:08]: "Check it out nationally, people, mean droves didn't show up for 420."

He humorously recounts a call from Renee, a self-described "totter," who chose not to participate, setting the tone for a lighthearted yet insightful discussion.

2. Personal Anecdotes and High School Memories

John shares a personal story from his elementary school days, illustrating an early and unsettling encounter with marijuana.

• John Clay Wolfe [04:22]: "I used to go up to Stop and Go on my Mongoose bicycle and pick up albums... And then he whipped out a joint, fired that baby up. And I scared the hell out of me."

This anecdote underscores the unexpected exposure to drugs at a young age and the subsequent actions taken, such as calling the police, which unfortunately went unnoticed.

Turley adds to the narrative with a high school memory involving keg parties and the casual passing of joints among peers.

• Turley [05:00]: "We were standing in a circle, 14ft across... passing two joints around for a half an hour."

This recollection paints a vivid picture of the social dynamics and the pervasive nature of marijuana use during high school years.

3. The Impact of Marijuana on Personal Development

John and his co-hosts discuss the varying effects of marijuana on individuals, particularly its impact on cognitive abilities and personal growth.

• John Clay Wolfe [11:01]: "Wake and bake guys, guys that smoked a lot of weed, it dumbs them down. There's no question. It absolutely dumbs you down."

Conversely, DJ Pre K offers a nuanced perspective, suggesting that marijuana's effects can depend on usage patterns and individual differences.

• DJ Pre K [11:14]: "It depends on how much you smoke... It depends on what kind you smoke. It depends on, I think, your makeup."

This contrast highlights the complexity of marijuana’s influence, acknowledging both detrimental and, in some cases, neutral or even beneficial effects based on context.

4. Modern Perspectives: Vaping vs. Marijuana Use in Schools

Max, the show’s intern, provides a contemporary viewpoint on substance use in schools, indicating a shift from marijuana to vaping.

• Max [08:46]: "Vapes are everywhere. Like, half the grade uses them... regular vapes."

He notes the prevalence of vaping compared to marijuana, suggesting changing trends in substance use among students.

5. Parental Experiences and Interventions

DJ Pre K shares a personal account of confronting his son about marijuana use, highlighting the challenges and emotional dynamics of parental interventions.

• DJ Pre K [09:54]: "I caught my son smoking weed upstairs... He gives me this long... I can't believe you're doing this."

This narrative emphasizes the struggle parents face in addressing substance use with their children and the complexities of effective communication.

6. Societal and Legal Implications

The hosts briefly touch upon the legality of marijuana during their high school years and its ongoing societal ramifications.

• DJ Pre K [09:53]: "No, it was a problem. I caught my son smoking weed upstairs."

The discussion reflects on the evolving legal landscape and its impact on youth behavior and parental concerns.

7. Humorous Interludes and Community Engagement

Interspersed throughout the episode are humorous clips and messages from various characters, including Rustbowl and Randy, adding levity and a sense of community to the conversation.

• Randy [12:36]: Performs a playful rendition of a Bob Marley song, blending humor with cultural references.

These segments enhance the episode's engaging atmosphere, making it relatable and entertaining for listeners.

Conclusion

"JCW ARCHIVE: The 420 Special" offers a multifaceted look at marijuana culture through the lens of personal stories, generational shifts, and societal changes. John Clay Wolfe and his co-hosts provide a candid and reflective discussion that balances humor with serious commentary, making the episode both informative and entertaining for listeners seeking insights into the cultural and personal dynamics of marijuana use.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• John Clay Wolfe [01:08]: "Check it out nationally, people, mean droves didn't show up for 420."
• John Clay Wolfe [04:22]: "I scared the hell out of me."
• Turley [05:00]: "We were passing two joints around for a half an hour."
• John Clay Wolfe [11:01]: "Wake and bake guys... it absolutely dumbs you down."
• DJ Pre K [11:14]: "It depends on how much you smoke... it depends on your makeup."
• Max [08:46]: "Vapes are everywhere. Like, half the grade uses them."
• DJ Pre K [09:54]: "He gives me this long... I can't believe you're doing this."
• Randy [12:36]: (Performs humorous song lyrics related to getting high)

These quotes encapsulate the episode's key discussions and provide snapshots of the hosts' perspectives on marijuana use and its effects.

Transcript

[John Clay Wolf]

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[DJ Pre K]

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[Max]

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[Randy]

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[John Clay Wolf]

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[DJ Pre K]

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[John Clay Wolf]

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[Turley]

The John Clay Wolf show has appeared on terrestrial radio for a really, really, really long time. So we dug into our pockets and on the other side of our we found something funny. And yes, it's contagious. Gather round as the wolf pack goes on this throwback adventure.

[Randy]

What's going on? This is your boy DJ Pre K with the John Clay Wolf Show. Straight smoking out the archives for 420, baby. So I wanted to load up the bong of nostalgia a few times and float away on a cloud of high time classics. So take a hit out this JC Dub sack and let's celebrate the holidays. You know what I'm saying?

[John Clay Wolf]

Check it out nationally, people, mean droves didn't show up for 420. Yeah, 420. Yeah, Renee called in. She actually told us the day before that she wasn't because it was a holiday for. For her. She's a. She's a toter. She's a teetoter. So what? So what were you saying, Turley? The answer machine? Well, yeah, that the answer machine's on all the time. And apparently we had some other co workers that wanted to call in too on 420. Really? Yeah.

[Rustbowl]

Hey, guys.

[John Clay Wolf]

What's going on? Randy, I'm stone to the bejesus belt.

[Rustbowl]

I don't know if I can make it for Saturday. I stole four pizzas from the Domino Man. I might not be done with those till Monday.

[John Clay Wolf]

God, I'm high.

[Rustbowl]

John, it's Rustbowl. Just wanted to say I've had a couple of extra Vicodins this morning and God, it's really. It's not going well with that Colombian pot I got from Bill after he got the bad news. We're having fun, but we may not see you Saturday. I'm like, give me a call. Hey, John, this is strip club. I'm gonna try to come see you maybe. Maybe like next Tuesday. I've got an appointment with my psychiatrist and then my physical therapist too. And I'm gonna get a pedicure with my mom. My dog Squishy says hi. She's not high.

[John Clay Wolf]

She's.

[Rustbowl]

She may be. Squishy, are you high?

[Max]

She is.

[Rustbowl]

She's high. Okay, bye. Mr. Wolf. This is the Tony Mexican R. What.

[John Clay Wolf]

The hell?

[Rustbowl]

J.C.W. it's Bobbo, man. What's going on, man? What was I calling you for, huh? I'll call you back. Hey, Jedi. Man, this stuff is too good, man.

[John Clay Wolf]

So Randy won't quit calling.

[Rustbowl]

Hey, guys, this is John. I don't know if I'm gonna make it in this morning till like 11 or something. Stacking the box open. Hey, get Turley to grab me a couple of cheeseburgers and Venti pike from Starbucks. Oh, and get cookies at Gallagaskins. God, I'm about to starve to death. Okay, see you in a minute. Yeah, buddy.

[Randy]

A lot of co workers not gonna show up.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, y'all don't drug test. I mean, clearly.

[Turley]

I guess that's what you get, huh?

[John Clay Wolf]

Randy's that was the 420 answering machine. Randy wore that machine out.

[Randy]

Hey, man, I'm going to Taco Bell. You want anything? All right, cool. Here's another clip to hold you over till I get back. Okay. Don't smoke at all.

[John Clay Wolf]

I used to go up to Stop and Go on my Mongoose bicycle and pick up albums. Like 12 inch. What are they? 12 inch? How big are Alice? Yeah. And there was this dude in there. He said he's talked like him, but he was probably 15 and he was a guitar player. We got to talking. I was in maybe third grade and I went with him. He lured me back to his apartment behind Stop and Go. His parents were gone and he was going to play some electric guitar for me. It's getting weird. It is getting weird, isn't it? Yeah, it's getting weird. Starting to get weird. It's getting weird. Yes. And then he's playing the guitar. And I was, you know, I mean, I was third grade dude.

[Turley]

Sure.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then he whipped out a joint, fired that baby up.

[Turley]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I scared the hell out of me.

[Turley]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So when I left, I called the police.

[Max]

You did?

[Turley]

Oh, my God.

[John Clay Wolf]

I called the police on the stoner dude that was just trying to jam and be cool to a little kid. And they didn't care. The police didn't care. They're like, what? I'm like, this guy's got marijuana. He's got marijuana. Did he make you smoke it? No. Did he offer it to you? No, but I smelled it. Do you feel funny? A little bit.

[Turley]

We were at a keg party one time, my friends and I, we had a band and they had big keg parties. We'd play. We're standing in a circle, 14ft across, right? Right. Seven or eight of us party at the moon tower. Our friend Sean brought a. We said, little freshman girl. She was about to be a junior high school and we were all high school kids. And we're in a circle and we're passing two joints around for a half an hour.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay?

[Turley]

I mean, it's going around. Every time one's gone, somebody's got a new one, you know, keg party, keg party. And Amber wasn't privy to what was going on. And she would just go by her. Nobody even tried to hand it to her. It's going around. And Sean was right next to him. I mean, he's hitting that nub man, that tiny little roach man, right? Lips wide open. And she looks at him and it clicks. And her little light bulb came on and she said, and this is the Amber phrase, we referred to it forever after. Is that marijuana? I'll see you guys later. All right. She was out of there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, Max, put the camera on the high one and come in here. I want to talk to you.

[DJ Pre K]

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[Randy]

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[Turley]

It's the high one man.

[John Clay Wolf]

My. My 16 year old high school son. I've got some questions for him now that you bring this up.

[Turley]

High One man, so smart.

[John Clay Wolf]

He makes me feel so stupid.

[DJ Pre K]

I'm so glad you said that. I felt like the world's biggest idiot when he was talking.

[John Clay Wolf]

I know every time he talks I'm.

[Turley]

Just like, oh, God.

[DJ Pre K]

Made me wish I'd paid ATT it in school.

[Turley]

He is very well informed for his age, no doubt.

[John Clay Wolf]

Max the intern. Good morning, Max. How are you?

[Max]

Good. Are my on?

[John Clay Wolf]

You are on, son.

[Max]

Oh, okay. I can't hear anything.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hold on. Oh, well, I thought we'd left all this.

[Max]

Okay, okay. Here. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. So. Hi.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hi. Well, Babo is talking about high school and a keg party in high school and how kids were passing around a joint. Marijuana joint. And you're in high school and I wanted to ask you what is what. What's going on? So, like in my high School. And I was in public school, weed was not the deal. Like, it was. It was risque, and we all drank plenty of beer, but nobody whipped out a joint and started passing around a campfire or keg in high school.

[Max]

You're asking the wrong person. I knock. Invited parties.

[John Clay Wolf]

But what do you. What do you hear? Like, in. In. I mean, obviously, we don't need to talk about any school names or any kids names or anybody's names, for that matter. Just. But you what. What is the marijuana usage in your grade or your high school?

[Max]

I don't know anyone who smokes marijuana.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right?

[Max]

But if you want to talk about something that's everywhere, and you've probably heard about that, and this isn't so much as my school, but, like, in public schools and stuff, vapes are everywhere. Like, half the grade uses them.

[John Clay Wolf]

But are they using THC vapes or regular vapes?

[Max]

Regular.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Max]

But, like, everyone's like. When you think about it, it's just. You've got.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do you remember when we caught that jewel thing? Your sister had a little jewel problem? Little vape thing.

[Randy]

Yeah.

[Max]

You want to know what the craziest part was? Nolan came up, and she was. And he was like, tab was. Tabs paid me $40 to not tell you. And I was like. I did not say anything. I didn't get paid at all.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Max]

If. If I knew that she was paying Nolan off and not me, I would have snitched right away.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, wow, that's. That's kind of. Sorry.

[Max]

I didn't get paid at all. Why is he getting paid?

[John Clay Wolf]

Snitches get stitches. And I bet she never paid him. I bet she just told him she'd pay him to shut up.

[Turley]

Yeah. Nobody likes a narc, Max.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right?

[DJ Pre K]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So. So, Gigi, your boys in high school at that age in California, was it legal then?

[DJ Pre K]

No.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. What? Was it a problem? Was it a problem?

[DJ Pre K]

Yes, it was a problem. I caught my son smoking weed upstairs. You know what I mean? And he. So I smelled it. I know what I smelled, right? And so then this is my older son who has the gift of gab. Like, you know what I mean? Anyways, so I go to his room. I'm like, what are you doing? I can't believe you're doing this. Blah, blah, blah, right? He gives me this long. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe I let you down. And I'm so sorry about that. And I can't believe this, right? So I'm like, okay, it's cool and everything. I Walk back to my room, and like 10 minutes later, I think he thought I had left. He blazes it up again, you know what I mean? So I gotta go back and I'm like, damn, homie, did you go to.

[John Clay Wolf]

The belt this time?

[DJ Pre K]

Okay, is this what we're doing? No, he's like six'four so I'd have lost that battle, you know what I mean? So I'm like, is this what we're doing? Okay, so he puts it out. Then he comes into my room with this long speech. Mom, the look in your eyes, you were so disappointed and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, you know what? Just miss me with that BS because you lit it up after I said don't, right? So, yeah, it was a bit of a problem.

[John Clay Wolf]

My deal with weed is, like, I had friends. I did have. I went to two different schools. But Wake and bake guys, guys that smoked a lot of weed, it dumbs them down. There's no question. It absolutely dumbs you down.

[DJ Pre K]

I guess it just depends on how much you smoke and what you're doing. I mean, that's how I got through undergraduate school. I'm just gonna put it out there, you know what I mean? But I did my work and I didn't know. It helped me focus. So it depends on how much you smoke. It depends on what kind you smoke. It depends on, I think, your makeup. You know what I mean? So maybe some yes and some no.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, the people that I know well that smoked a lot of weed were extremely slow starters until they ditched it in their mid-20s. And they finally realized that the reason that they were behind everybody else, because they were stoners. And there's still a few of them that are just still stoners and they're just, you know, they're happy being what they are, but. But they can't bear. They can barely support themselves.

[DJ Pre K]

Yeah, but, you know, there's also. There's a whole category of people who have undiagnosed, like, ADHD and things like that. And they gravitate towards that because it slows them down and it does help them focus. So they kind of. They kind of self medicate, and now they have different strains to do different things, you know what I mean? A head high, a body high, and so on and so forth.

[John Clay Wolf]

So Mexican ditch is all I ever knew. Mexican ditch weed.

[Randy]

All right, Iri. Another day has risen and another celebration rings true. Happy Easter. On behalf of the John Clay Wolf Show Crew. Shabbat.

[John Clay Wolf]

Enough.

[Randy]

Respect. Jean Clay Wolf Show Shout Out Original Bob Marley I want to smoke a blood and get high and get high and get high and then I eat everything inside I want to smoke a blood and get high and get high and get high Chocolate ice cream and pizza pie oh la la la la Feeling so hungry the weed give me demonshi I look into the cabinet Everything I see but trail mix Hot Pockets and Cheetos Beef jerky and stem chips A whole box of frozen burritos I want to smoke a lot and get high and give high and give high and then I eat everything inside oh.

[John Clay Wolf]

Lord, you know that I do I.

[Randy]

Want to smoke a blunt and get high and get high and get high I want a burger and french fry all right, y'all know what to do. Hit us up on John Claywolf.com youm can check out old episodes on there. You know, stay up to date with what we got going on. Get cool gear. We got hats, shirts. All that hit us up on Facebook. You know, search John ClaywolfShow. We're on Instagram. John's on Twitter. You know, you can holler at all of us. Okay. You know how to spell it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Randy]

We appreciate y'all listening. Keep on rocking with us.