Sour Diesel Put NYC on the Weed Map

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sour Diesel first surfaced at a downtown hippie rock club, and ascended into being the premier smoke among New York City's celebrity set and lit-erati. Talk about making it big in the Baked Apple! Sourcing, buying, selling and eventually growing this game-changing strain was an obsession for a young weed scenester named AJ (a.k.a "Asshole Joe"), whose fortunes rose and fell as part of Gotham's rough-and-tumble underground cannabis scene. For decades, AJ kept his hustle a secret from even his closest friends, but now he's ready to tell all. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our Great Moments in Weed History podcast feed for 60+ episodes of our classic format, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video shows and seshes, plus access to cool rewards like a signed book or signature lighter. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean.
0:02.8	And welcome back for another episode of great moments in weed history.
0:08.7	This time around, we've got another interview that Bean and I did
0:12.5	with a progenitor of a very, very important strain in American cannabis history.
0:18.7	We're going to be talking with AJ Sour. Sour Diesel, the AJ stands for asshole Joe,
0:25.3	namely to differentiate him from a few other Joe's.
0:28.5	And also, we should note, really nice guy, asshole Joe, right?
0:32.6	And also, the person most responsible for the proliferation of Sour diesel. And he's also the first guy we've
0:39.6	had on this show who is a true weed hustler. Isn't that right, Bean? Yeah, absolutely. You know,
0:45.0	and we say that term with love, especially going back to this underground era when in essence,
0:52.3	everybody was on the hustle. Not everybody was wandering around New York City with
0:56.9	$10,000 cash in his pocket, constantly looking for the best weed the city had to offer. But
1:02.7	we wouldn't be where we are today without weed hustlers and we salute them all starting with
1:08.6	AJ today. Yeah, absolutely. And also let us point out that there's a
1:13.6	distinct difference between a Chad and a hustler, right? Chads are a bunch of like not so
1:19.9	weedy opportunists who entered the space at its nascent legal stages to use their privilege and
1:26.3	get ahead and take advantage, right?
1:28.5	But a hustler is someone who holds the plant and its quality above all else, and AJ is truly
1:34.8	this guy, who didn't just want the best weed. He wanted to hold the best weed. He wanted to
1:39.5	move the best weed. You know what I mean? And he's really succeeded in that for his entire career. He's not the altruistic hippie, you know what I mean? And he's really succeeded in that for his entire career.
1:45.7	He's not the altruistic hippie, you know what I mean? He represents a different generation of
1:50.6	cannabis person who is going around in New York trying to have access to the best possible weed
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