A 4/20 “JCW archive” clip turns into a nostalgia-fueled, comedy-heavy chat about weed culture—starting with coworkers calling in sick and an “answer machine” full of stoned messages. The conversation quickly shifts to childhood stories: a third-grader encounter with a guitarist who offered marijuana, and a high-school keg party moment where a girl abruptly leaves after realizing what she’s seeing. The tone then becomes more reflective with a teen intern’s take on today’s vaping/THC landscape, plus a parent’s real-life discipline story and debate over whether cannabis helps focus or “dumbs people down.”
Topics:420 call-in chaosnostalgia stories about first weed encountershigh school keg party marijuana culturevapes replacing joints in schoolsparental catch-and-consequences storydoes weed improve focus or slow you downself-medication and adhd discussionweed strain effects (head high vs body high)
Puff, puff and pass your time with JCW and the crew as they do their best to recount their fondest memories of the devil's lettuce with some of our best herb crusted bits. From the crew voicemail to John's own kids, everybody is celebrating in the sky! Won't you spark one up and join us this weekend??
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What's going on?
Hey, I'm 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 Dubb sack and let's celebrate the holidays, you know what I'm saying? Check it out.
Nationally, people named Roves didn't show up for work.
Oh, 420?
Yeah, 420.
Yeah, Renee called in. She actually told us the day before that she wasn't because it was a holiday for her.
She's a toad.
She's a tea toad.
A tea toad, huh?
So what were you saying to early, the answer machine?
Well, yeah, 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.
Hey guys, what's going on?
Randy!
I'm stoned. He's a big Jesus bell. I don't know if I can make it for Saturday.
Saturday?
I stole 4 pizzas from the Domino Man. I might not be done with those till Monday. God, I'm high.
John, it's Old Rushbowl. Just wanted to say I've had a couple of extra vikings this morning.
It's really 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 going to try to come see you maybe like next Tuesday.
I've got an appointment with my psychiatrist and then my physical therapist too.
And I'm going to get a pedicure with my mom.
My dog Squishy says hi.
Squishy.
She's not hi.
Maybe Squishy, are you hi?
She is, she's hi.
Okay, bye.
Buenos dias, mis carros. This is the Tony Mexican rumble.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
What the hell?
Hey, J.C. Navier, spabo man.
What's going on, man?
What was I calling you for?
I'll call you back.
So Randy won't quit calling.
Hey guys, this is John.
I don't know if I'm going to make it in this morning until like 11 or something.
Jack in the box open.
Hey, get Turley to grab me a couple of cheeseburgers.
And Venti Pike from Starbucks.
Oh, and get cookies at Gallagaskins.
Got him about starved to death.
Okay, see you in a minute.
Yeah, buddy.
That's a lot of co-workers not going to show up.
Well, y'all don't drug test.
Clearly.
I guess that's what you get, huh?
That was the 420 answering machine.
Yeah, Randy wore that machine out.
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 it all.
I used to go up to stop and go on my Mongoose bicycle and pick up albums.
Mm-hmm.
Like 12-inch, what, are they 12-inch?
How big are albums?
And there was this dude in there.
He's talking 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.
It's starting to get weird.
It's getting weird?
Yes.
And then he was playing the guitar.
And I was, you know, I mean, I was third grade, dude.
Sure.
And then he whipped out a joint, fired that baby up.
Okay.
And I was scared the hell out of me.
Yeah.
So when I left, I called the police.
You did?
Oh, my God.
I called the police on the stoner, dude.
They 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.
We were at a keg party one time.
My friends and I, we had a band and they had big keg parties.
We were standing in a circle, 14 feet across, right?
Seven or eight of us.
Party at the moon tower.
Our friend, Sean, brought a, we said a little freshman girl.
She was about to be a junior in 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.
Okay.
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.
It's going around.
And Sean was right next to me.
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.
Hey Max, put the camera on the high one and come in here.
I want to talk to you.
The high one is the high one, man.
My 16 year old high school son.
I've got some questions for him now that you bring this up.
There's a high one, man.
So smart.
He makes me feel so stupid.
I'm so glad you said that.
I felt like the world's biggest idiot when he was talking about Russia.
Every time he talks, I'm just like, oh my God.
He made me wish I'd paid attention in school.
He is very well informed for his age.
No doubt.
Max the intern.
Good morning, Max.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
Are you on?
You are on, son.
I can't hear anything.
I thought we'd left all this.
Here.
Sorry about that.
Sorry about that.
So hi.
Hi.
Bobo 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's going on.
So like in my high school, when 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 a keg in high school.
You're asking the wrong person.
I do not get invited to parties.
But what do you, what do you hear?
Like 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?
I don't know anyone who smokes marijuana.
All right.
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.
But are they using THC vapes or regular vapes?
Regular.
But like everyone's like, when you think about it, it's just you've got.
Do you remember when we caught that jewel thing?
Your sister had a little jewel problem with that thing going.
Yeah.
Do you want to know what the craziest part was?
What?
Nolan came up and she was, and he was like, Tab would, Tab paid me $40 to not tell you.
And I was like, I did not say anything.
I didn't get paid at all.
Okay.
If I knew that she was paying Nolan off and not me, I would have snitched right away.
Oh wow.
That's, that's kind of sorry.
I didn't get paid at all.
Why is he getting paid in me?
Snitches get stitches, and I bet she never paid him.
I bet she just told him she'd pay him to shut up.
Yeah.
Nobody likes a narc max.
Right.
Yeah.
So, so Gigi, your boys in high school at that age in California, was it legal then?
No.
Okay.
What was it a problem?
Was it a problem?
Yes, it was a problem.
I caught my son smoking weed upstairs.
You know what I mean?
And he, um, so I, I smelled it.
I know what I smelled.
Right.
And so then this is my older son who has a 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 got to go back and I'm like, damn homie.
Did you go to the belt this time?
Okay.
Is this what we're doing?
No, he's like six four.
So I'd have lost that battle.
Okay.
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.
My deal with weed is like I had friends and 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.
Okay.
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 going to put it out there.
You know what I mean?
But I did my, 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, your, your makeup.
You know what I mean?
So maybe some yes and some no.
Well, the people that I know well that smoked a lot of weed were extremely slow starters
until they ditched it in their mid twenties.
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.
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.
Mexican ditch is all I ever knew.
Mexican ditch weed.
All right.
Airee, another day has risen and another celebration rings true.
Happy Easter on behalf of the John Clay Wolf Show crew.
I want to smoke up blood and get high and get high and get high and then I eat everything
inside.
All right.
Thanks for watching.
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