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I am an opinionated son of a bitch.
My eight year old grandson is a
lively joy, but he has an appetite
for thrills, BMX bike
ramps, knocking down beehives,
taunting neighborhood dogs.
That makes me worry that he's some
kind of adrenaline junkie.
There's nothing wrong with that
until he gets older and realize that
his biggest chemical thrills come
from drugs and alcohol.
Am I wearing too much?
Probably, yeah.
You probably are.
All eight year olds have
first. Really?
I don't mean to blow your mind here,
but any eight year old has
an appetite for thrills.
He wants to be able to fly, jump off
the building, be 20 feet tall.
He wants to go under the ocean.
He wants to be at the top of the
mountain. He wants to experience it
all.
So I would not be
worried just when he
bangs his head or his arm or his
elbow, you know, nurture him,
tell him he's going to be OK and hug
him and stuff and try to keep him
from really doing real damage to
himself.
But he's going to be out there
adventuring. It's the nature of
eight year olds that they will do
that.
Settle this once and for all.
Beatles or Stones, Beatles.
Mainly because of the
the range of stuff that he did,
the Stones did have a
fairly wide range that they did,
but the Beatles had a much wider
range of writing that they could
do and the Beatles could sing
Harmony.
Stones can't do that for squat,
but the Beatles can do it really
well. It's a matter of personal
taste, of course, but for me,
Beatles, no question.
I feel like there's something
fundamentally wrong in America that
cannot be fixed.
After all, this is a country that
elected Donald Trump.
Everywhere I go, I see greed, hatred
and a complete disregard for the
environment that makes me want to
flee the only country I've ever
known and start over in someplace
like Iceland, Finland or Norway,
where people seem more rational and
have a greater sense of their
collective good.
Is this impulse crazy?
I want to stay and try to fix this
place, but I think it's too late and
maybe time to jump off this sinking
ship.
You wrote that.
Before Donald Trump was defeated in
this last election, there are
things wrong with America right
now.
Democracy is still the best
way to go about this.
Greed is driving us down.
Greed drives the people who are
willing to make compromises morally
and ethically in our government,
they want everything.
They want to get laid, they want to
be rich, they want to be famous.
They want to be powerful.
They have agreed for power more than
almost anything.
Now, maybe I'm just an old hippie
and it's all bullshit.
But I do not think
it's past being fixed, I think
that we can.
Make our country be
a wonderful place for human beings
to live in and bring their children
up in, and I think we
can do it together and
I think we will.
I have to believe that.
So I do believe that here.
David, I'm a recently
widowed R.N.
who was married to a career pilot.
We both had lots of restrictions to
carry our license.
So we never tried anything more
stimulating than beer or booze.
I've never smoked.
But I wonder what you think about
THC edibles.
Sounds like sublingual are
the way to go for a quick or high.
What milligrams per item would you
recommend at my being ridiculous.
Looking for a little fun.
OK, edibles find
one that you like an edible
either a commercial one that
somebody makes or that you make
yourself and take a little
bit. It's called titrating.
You take just a little bit
first and
see how strong it is.
Then if it's not strong enough,
you take a little more and weight.
Once you establish what your dosage
is, then you can do that dosage
any time you want.
You know what will happen?
I do edibles every
night. I eat ginger snaps that
my wife makes.
They're wonderful and
they get you high, which can't be a
bad thing cause I've heard
you talk about knowing all the great
songwriters of your generation and
how hard they worked.
But how do you know?
Did you live with them?
Are you just talking out your ass?
No, I know these people.
I mean, Joni Mitchell, probably
best singer songwriter of our
generation, was my old lady.
We lived together for
about a year and I produced her
first record.
I brought her to California,
introduce her to everybody, said,
hey, this is the best songwriter I
ever heard. And it's pretty much the
same with the others.
Mama James Taylor, my
good friend, Bob Dylan, who
is my good friend, Paul Simon, Paul
McCartney, Randy Newman, Sean
Colvin, Mark Cohen, Jackson Browne,
Neil and Steven and Graham.
They're all good writers, you know.
So, yeah, I do think I do
know most of the good songwriters of
our generation, and I think I'm
a fair judge of them.
This is fun.
Do it with me again.
I really like it.
Send me some weirder questions.