Hi, everybody.

Hi, everybody!

It's been, welcome to an all new, great moments and weed! Welcome to an all-new great moments in weed history. Right off the top, I'm just going to come out and say it. What you are about to hear is absolutely one of my favorite interviews in the long and somewhat storied history of this podcast. That's because my guest is somebody

who's not only been a self-described weed aficionado for the past four decades, but who has

also played a leading role in documenting and depicting cannabis culture all along the way, particularly through the prism

of two emerging art forms that he came up with as a youth in New York City, graffiti and hip-hop.

Plus, we just had a lot of laughs together telling the tale. In fact, you got to make sure that you

keep it locked till the very end of this episode, because after it seems like we're all

wrapped up with this conversation, well, we just kind of kept talking a bit. And I actually

ended up sharing a tale of my own weedy, youthful misadventures in New York City that had our highly esteemed guest

in stitches, which was a real honor for me because Fab Five Freddy, the one and only, is somebody

that I actually grew up watching on television. And he also starred in and helped produce one of my

favorite films. So, yeah, a real honor. I mean, this man is the THC-infused brain behind Wild Style,

the first ever hip-hop movie, which came out in 1983, and really gave most people around the world their

earliest glimpse of a culture that would not only change music forever, but also weed, as you

are about to hear. And then in 1988, he was the first ever host of Yo MTV Raps,

where such champions of cannabis culture as Snoop Dog, Cypress Hill, Method Man, and Redman, and many more Biggie Tupac all got their first national exposure.

And most recently, Fab Five Freddie directed the documentary film Grass is Greener on Netflix. If you haven't watched it, you're going to have to after this episode.

It is a film that reached literally millions of people around the world with the story of how musicians

and artists use their free expression going all the way back to the jazz era and through

hip hop and into today to push back against the government's racist and oppressive war on marijuana, as we discussed.

You know, so many activists, advocates, people doing the hard work of public policy

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