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Just in time for Hey Watch This, rolling out on 4/20 – iRATEfilms crossed over three time zones to wake and bake with the legendary master of the plant, Mr. Tommy Chong!

Our new writer, David Limacher popped his interviewing cherry to an energetic, vibrant, batteries included, Tommy.  Yours truly screwed up the technical mumbo jumbo – and was not, nor is not, under the influence of any narcotic – unless you count KFC’s newest creation – the double cardiac chicken monster – at least that is why I call it!

Without further nonsense, I give you Mr. Tommy (Anthony) Chong!

Click the image below for the audio .wav file – it is 22 minutes long [takes awhile to load, sorry] because who am I to edit Tommy FUCKING Chong?  In me, he has at least one republican who has a sense of humor – some of his answers will amaze you and educate you . . . guaranteed.  Rather than transcribe the whole interview into writing, here are some choice moments:

David Limacher (DL):  So is Hey Watch This a straight-up concert movie?

Tommy Chong (TFC):  Yea, it’s a concert movie, but there are some characters that weren’t in the concert – they sit on the sidelines and critique the movie.  It’s a movie within a movie, it’s very funny.

DL:  Excellent, I can’t wait to see it.   I have a question for you, will this be releasing in PA knowing the troubles you have had there before?

TFC:  Yea, you wanna hear something funny?  I am going to Pittsburgh to address the democrats there, because Mary Beth Buchanan is running for Congress as a  republican.  They hired me to, ya know, get on her case a bit.  Cinco de Mayo!

DL:  So, what is it like being back on the road with Cheech again?

TFC:  It’s quite nice, I am really enjoying it – I call it twice the money for half the work.

DL:  My editor, Rick Swift was wondering what you miss the most about the 70s?

TFC:  Nixon!  Yea, I miss Nixon, he was like the first Sarah Palin – he was a republican who recorded his own crimes, man.

DL:  Not cheaper weed?

TFC:  No, the weed is much better nowadays – I don’t miss that old 70s weed man, it was hard on the throat, hard on the eyes – stunk like crazy and too many seeds.

DL:  What do you think of Sarah Palin?

TFC:  Well, I have an answer for why she needs those bendy straws – so she can breathe – cuz she has her had up her ass.  [Rick Swift loves Sarah Palin - and TFC says the same about Cheech's head later on - that'll teach him to sleep in!)

DL:  So, I read recently that you said within the next four years, Marijuana will be legal in the United States?

TFC:  Yea, that's right - it is gonna hit, CA I think will pass - and this will signal the politicians to get on board and the other states will snowball.  The biggest winners will be the people that deal with hemp, because hemp is bio-degradable and can replace plastic.  Plastic replaced hemp, so hemp can replace plastic - and that is better news to me than people just getting stoned watching a Cheech and Chong movie.

DL:  I'm looking forward to everything new, and I see you are doing Earache My Eye, so that is gonna be on there too?

TFC:  Yea, that's a big one, part of it.  It's in the new show too, we have a new show called Get it Legal [You can link to their twitter page: here].

DL:  I saw something you guys did on a Monday night and I noticed you guys did a thing with hallucinogenic Lucky Charms, is that your new thing, or are you smoking pot as well?

TFC:  Oh, I smoke – I am actually experimenting with drugs, and the jury is still out, supposedly, but they should fire that jury cuz I have been smoking for fifty years.

DL:  Yea, pot is my favorite thing.

TFC:  Yea, Cheech uses suppositories now, he likes the feeling, he’s gonna be sorry he never got in on this interview, heh.  I’m gettin’ his ass.

DL:  Yea, you are ripping him a new asshole for his suppository.

TFC:  Yea, him and Sarah Palin – they need more room.

DL:  What is your favorite experience going on the road again, working with Cheech?

TFC:  Watching my wife grow as a comedian, she is actually in the show now, she started opening – but she is in this one.  And Cheech’s son, Joey provides music to the show as a DJ and a bass at the end.  Seeing the show evolve from just Cheech and Chong to, ya know, a group is really satisfying.

DL:  Excellent, What is it like to know that there are so many people out there that miss you and have totally embraced the new movie, you guys going back out on tour and everything you have, what is that like to you personally, how does that make you feel?

TFC:  Well, you know when Shelby introduces us, every night we get a standing ovation, and it’s like people standing there and just throwing up all this love to us on stage, and it’s overwhelming – the first night it happened I actually had tears in my eyes.  It was so emotionally gratifying, ya know, we get that every night – I will tell ya right now, after that standing ovation I could just walk off and go home – cuz I just feel really good about everything.

DL:  Yea, you know, we always hear that pot destroys brain cells . . .

TFC:  Yea, that is a big misconception, Cheech went on Jeopardy and beat everyone, beat Anderson Cooper – I never went to film school and directed, what, six movies.  It’s a big misconception, it’s fear and lies, from the republicans.  Man, I have been smokin’ for fifty years and I’m not addicted.

DL:  Exactly, I was wondering, how it feels to see like the movies you see today taking on the pot theme?

TFC:  Oh, I love it, ya know I was in a pot movie with Dave Chappell, Half Baked, ya know, pot is very giving, and you share it, and acting is like that too, you are generous.

DL:  Well, what is it like to have new generations of fans, because you still have your original fans, but now you also have new generations on fans who grew up to your movies – just like I did.

TFC:  Yea, we have all kinds of fans now, you know Cheech gets his fans from his TV stuff, and I got fans from That 70s show – it’s amazing – and we always have our Cheech and Chong crowd . . . everyone loves us.

DL:  I remember watching Up in Smoke, and it has to be one of my favorite movies of all time.

TFC:  Yea, it wasn’t one of those that was an in-joke, ya know where you had to know pot – it was just, we did funny stuff, that was the great thing about it.

DL:  Loved Up in Smoke, now, my dad was a big fan of Mike Hammer – Stacy Keach was in all your movies, is he going to be in this one?

TFC:  Possibly, I might put him in.  Yea, we have to have Stacy.

DL:  I recently saw, you have your Facebook fan page, and I saw something with Cheech holding you on dog-collar or something?  [Link to that, here]

TFC:  Oh, yea, that’s in the movie – that’s Dougie Dougie – the gay movie critic.  Yea, two thumbs WAAAY up.

DL:  This is classic, well, Tommy, it was great talking to you today, and I look forward to checking out Hey Watch This and your other new projects.

TFC:  Thank you, man.  It’s been great talking to you too.  Take care.

So, be SURE and check out Hey Watch This on Four Twenty – you can find it through so many ways – no excuses!   What?  You’re sick?  What’s wrong with you now Prince Charming?

P.S. We both wanted to ask him what he thought about the South Park Legalize It episode but the moment passed, heh – but I will say our balls increased like the Grinch’s heart after this interview.

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