 All right, everybody, what is up? What's up guys? Welcome back to another video. And look, first of all, let's just sort that shit out. Easy as that. Boom! I'm wearing a beanie when it's 43 degrees Celsius outside but because of my beautiful air conditioner, it's 21 in here and it's fucking beautiful. And it's the only reason why I'm actually able to wear a beanie right now because this has not come out for six months. Alice Springs, Alice Springs as a whole is a very strange place, you know? But if we're talking about weather, I mean strange as far as people go, but look, if we're talking about the weather, if we're talking about mother nature, it's a place of extremes. In winter it gets freezing, but the days are so beautiful. The days are so crisp that there's no wind. It's beautiful clear blue sky, not a cloud in the sky, whether it's in summer or winter, it's just that in winter the overall temperature is nice and fresh. It's, you know, early 20s. It gets into summer, there's still no clouds in the sky but the temperature basically doubles to like 40, 42, 43. So at the moment we're, you know, on a run of about two weeks worth of 40 plus degree heats and it's actually Christmas Eve today. Yeah, we're right bang smack in the middle of summer and I hate it. So that's why we're inside doing these reaction videos. I love winter here and that's the thing that I was going to say is that I absolutely love the winters in Alice Springs. That three month stretch from like May, June, July, even August into the start of September is, it's beautiful and I guess if I could design my life, if I could custom design my life and my work schedule and, you know, where I could live I'd live in Christchurch in New Zealand for six months throughout the summer where the days are fucking beautiful man, the days are long at the moment, you know, in Christchurch where I'm from it's getting dark at, I don't know, 9pm, 9.30pm which means that the evenings are long and, you know, it's not that really intense disgusting heat that we have here in Australia. It's, you know, mid to high, mid to high 20s, sorry, long nights. Beautiful time to be in New Zealand. My ideal situation would be the six months of summer spend in New Zealand, the six months of winter spend in Alice Springs and I would actually, you know, not mind spending in Alice Springs and not even in Melbourne or Sydney or any of those other more popular places because the weather here is very unique and it's absolutely beautiful throughout the winter and that's something I'll always say and another thing I'll always say is that if anyone around Australia or New Zealand is ever struggling for work come to Alice Springs, pay for your ticket, arrive here in Alice and you've got a job within a week, guaranteed, guaranteed guys so anyone around Australia or New Zealand struggling for work I will always recommend Alice Springs as a springboard it's a place where you can come and reset and re-evaluate save a bit of money and then move on that's what a lot of people do, it's just I got stuck here for nine long years so, anyway, another thing that helps me pass the time whilst I'm here in Alice Springs with not a lot else to do is to smoke a little bit of weed, a little bit of ganja a little bit of pot, a little bit of dank a few spots here and there, a few buckies, a few bongs, a few joints I never had a dab though, never had a dab that's one thing I am still yet to try but what I am going to do guys, this year, January the 1st I will be embarking on another 30 day self-imposed break from smoking weed and I've been through it all I've been through the rollercoaster of being a marijuana addict you know, four reasons that each individual have my reasons to hate on myself for smoking too much weed would be because I give up other things that I know I'd enjoy but I decide to smoke instead and people will say, and I've said this in the past that, you know, smoking weed is just going to enhance what your personality already is so if you're a lazy person, you like just sitting around watching movies all day you most probably continue to do that but if you're quite creative, if you play music, if you play sport whatever you enjoy, you know, smoking weed is basically just going to enhance that depending on your environment of course but if you're in a comfortable environment I feel like it just enhances anything that you already find enjoyable so that plays on, you know, what I said before about it's just going to enhance whatever kind of personality you are but there does come a time when you have been a regular smoker for years and years and years and years when you just get sick of it you just get sick of it, you get sick of being in that vice the vice that marijuana has and it's an addictive substance, it's psychologically addictive it makes you feel good, it takes away your problems it numbs out certain feelings if you want to it gives me a good sleep, increases my appetite so there's loads of reasons why I would enjoy it but at the end of the day there's nothing like actually having a nice fresh, clear sober mind there's nothing like it so, 1st January 2020 we're embarking on at least a month sober but what that means is that before then I've got a bit of weed and I've got a bit of time and I've got some videos to watch so what we're going to do, I've got a selection of like six videos to do with marijuana in sports and it's most likely going to talk about the benefits so while I enjoy some of my final times for the next month smoking we're going to watch these videos and so I'm going to enjoy, well I guess a few puffs of a joint at the start of each video, we're going to sit back and watch it at the end of it, I'm going to give you my opinions and I feel like I am quite qualified for this type of video I feel like a few of you out there would also be quite qualified to comment on these videos and I encourage you to do that so I've talked enough we've got my green beanie on for reasons you will now be aware of and let's get into this guys actually I've still got a roll of fucking joint I've got a grinder full of green here people ask me, oh what kind of green is that I've got no fucking idea I've never had any idea I've only really realised that I've only really started to understand the difference between a sativa and an indica and then some people are saying that they're so cross blended now that there is no such thing as a difference between a sativa and an indica plant if I could choose, I would stay the hell away from any of these heavy heavy heavy strains of marijuana, the ones that do you know, regardless of whether you're a creative person or not you're going to want to just sit down and possibly fall asleep and that is the kind of weed that I don't want I like that, I like the weed that uplifts you I like something that's going to uplift me, you know I guess get that sparkle in your eye, literally so that is a little bit of talk on marijuana, the substance the first video we're going to watch today is going to be called The Biggest Stoners in Professional Sports following that we're going to watch a video called Snoop Dogg Rants About Marijuana in Sports and Antonio Brown and that's going to be interesting third video, I think 85% of the league smoked which is a round table session former NBA players on Cannabis and the NBA the fourth video is going to be called Using Weed to Save Football Chasing Strain, so I think that's about American football so we're going to watch, it's by Vice Sports Vice is a fantastic channel if you don't watch Vice Documentaries, please get onto it fifth video is a Steven A and Max Kaliman having a heated debate over marijuana in the NBA and the final video of the day is called Carving on Cannabis with a Snowboard Gold Medalist and that looked interesting because I feel like it's going to be following very successful snowboarder who also smokes weed and most probably does it whilst snowboarding which I can tell you right now guys sounds like the most fun anyone could ever have in their entire fucking life getting up to the top of a mountain with a couple of joints in your pocket with a mate sitting down on the top of the mountain in that fresh, fresh white snow enjoy a wee smoke, put the lighter away and say right, let's go and enjoy a 10, 15 minute ride down the hill I mean, you talk about buzzing that's buzzing alright so I'm going to roll this up I'll be back here shortly to watch Stoners in Professional Sports by a YouTube channel called TYT Sports and the description says we put together a list of the pro athletes who smoke weed the most Rick Strom and Brett Erlich break it down so I guess I guess as far as marijuana in NFL the one name that was always thrown around was Ricky Williams and now I know why and I really enjoyed that video actually if you haven't seen it, I did a reaction on Ricky Williams 30 for 30 it was pretty long, it was about an hour long and people had recommended Ricky Williams but never said why and so I watched it with an open mind and it was obviously about his choice to what did he do? he failed two drug tests because he couldn't stop smoking then he did stop smoking but then he purposely failed his third drug test so that he would be kicked out of the NFL and in his year post being kicked out he went and discovered himself spiritually and then decided no, you know what, I'm not done, I'm coming back I can't remember the intricacies of it but anyways guys we're about to watch a video The Biggest Stoners in Professional Sports it's gonna be good Welcome back everybody, my name is Rick Strom I'm Brett Erlich, this is Ellen DeGeneres and we're not just talking about it with anyone we're talking about it with you and I feel like over the course of this show we really bonded as people I agree and souls, yes what's your sign? Pisces Sagittarius WKR Peace anyways so what are we talking about I forget, this conversation kind of leads into what we're talking about on this segment which is the highest athletes in sports not rankings and my blood is on this list we'll get to it and I'll tell you which guess which person on the list of Rolling Stones highest athlete when we get to it say, I think this is your cousin I didn't put them in order by the way but here is what was it Cheech or Chong, which one's the smaller one Cheech, alright so Cheech was asked by YouTuber Ellie Sekback a good channel on sports mainly boxing, a lot of good interviews as well so he interviewed Cheech on what it is about athletes using marijuana here was Cheech's answer you know a lot of fighters, MMA fighters like to smoke eat the pain, what do you think about that? not just MMA fighters, the greatest athlete in the world Michael Phelps I mean he won more gold medals than anybody and the first thing he did was suck on a big ball just fighters but entertainers you remember that? you remember when Michael Phelps got busted at a party smoking on a bomb so do I by me, Tommy Chong Cheech, that was Tommy Chong dude oh I thought it was Craig, that was Chong bro we don't need studies, we don't need references it's proven you said who's the smaller one and I was like well Cheech Marin is the smaller guy Tommy Chong is the bigger guy or at least to me anyway maybe it's just because Tommy Chong talks like this and Cheech talks faster and like I'm sorry, that's Tommy Chong this is the guy who's the voice of in the movie Zootopia which is a film for kids essentially plays like the stoned ass yoga instructor he's like oh I remember she showed up man the other day that was it he was? that's Tommy Chong so Tommy Chong was talking about the highest, how athletes get high I just love how he's like sucking on a big bomb here's some people I'd like to throw under the bus bring that door Jabbar he seems pissed off this guy on the left actually seems genuinely pissed off right now it's like brah, I think you need that bong he made Rolling Stones list he was caught carrying 6g of marijuana at the Toronto airport that's never a good idea but in 1998 so he played 20 years he's a Hall of Famer doesn't he have the point scoring record or maybe second instant one caught carrying 6g of marijuana at Toronto airport paid $500 fine and that would be completely legal now I believe incident number 2 arrested on DUI charge is that under the influence of drugs or alcohol all you had to do was pay like a $500 fine and they're like alright we'll see you later and the second time he was arrested on a Dewey charge in 2000 obviously nothing ever really occurred why are we even looking at this this is 10 years after he finished playing for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar he has said by the way terrible migraines which could be true I think a lot of these athletes they have some general pain that they suffer from during and after their career and so I think that's why NBA NFL who is on our list so yes I would have to agree I think that's totally fine I'm sorry guys I'm feeling right now the exact way that most of you do when you're watching my videos when I keep talking and keep talking and keep talking and all you want to do is get into the fucking meat and potatoes of the video the video they're doing the exact same thing I'm hoping they've got a comprehensive list of athletes that's what I wanted to know let's go through the list oh boom there you go so bronze receiver Josh Gordon also made the list he estimates he was bringing in $10,000 a month into weed sales while in college he told SI Gordon had previously told GQ in a recent article they smoke marijuana and drink alcohol probably before probably every game in college he drunk as well that wasn't the worst thing going on at Baylor by the way that's how you get away with that I can't remember what happened he got cut from the Browns then they brought him back the Patriots and has he got cut from them as well they are briles Nate Diaz went so far to call himself the number one athletic stoner besides Michael Phelps there you go so Nate Diaz is the one that threw Michael Phelps under the bus has no qualms lighting up his vape in front of the spotlight of TV cameras meanwhile brother Nick has become the ultimate marijuana martyr after years of bong inspired braggadocio the guy even once told the LA Times I can pass a drug test in 8 days with herbal cleansers I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water that's the thing is this argument the argument against smoking weed would be not one of performance enhancement unless I can see like basketball shooting if it slows the game down for you if it gives you more feel if it relaxes you in the moment to focus but we always say so if anything they are trying to say that any performance enhancement in sports through marijuana would be psychologically enhancing not physically enhancing not performance enhancing not athletic performance enhancing did I just say enhancing like 6 times in a row enhancing sounds weird to me now to focus it's not for focus Michael Phelps it's obviously not slowing him down those things are if you smoke weed you'd be afraid that someone wouldn't become an Olympic athlete these guys prove it wrong I think it's a messaging thing that's out there I just don't think there's any like negative effect to it really quick we have two more one more excuse me I could well we could go down a rabbit hole talking about the negative effects because well actually I've made videos in the past talking about them but I have actually deleted them from my channel due to I don't know just went through a phase where I thought I basically saw videos of me talking about weed even though I did talk very openly and honestly about you know the good and the bad I think that any videos discussing marijuana on my channel was going to hurt my chances of I guess being picked up by some sort of sports team obviously hasn't happened anyway so I'm bringing weed back to the channel but like I've just mentioned I'm going to have a break next month so yeah Ricky Williams turned to the sticky there he is that's a sticky yeah after getting diagnosed with clinical depression and social anxiety disorder Williams was in and out of the league falling not one not two but three failing excuse me all in two years time and bouncing between the Saints Dolphins Ravens and the CFLs Toronto and then there's also Damon Stottmeyer who when they were driving from Seattle to Portland after a game he got pulled over with the sheet walls there was marijuana residue found on the floor of the yellow homer and then also we tried to bring one and a half fucking hell it was wrapped in aluminum foil even Craig is laughing one and a half ounces oh my god I was going to say I've definitely taken a bud or two onto a plane but not one and a half ounces and definitely not wrapped in aluminum foil yeah so much weed you know foil it's like sir we can all smell that you're just wrapping it in foil they're like oh it's my sandwich sorry it's that sandwich I'm ringing why don't you wrap it in foil I don't know my cousins on the list Bill Lee Boston Red Sacks weed on his pancakes and they would throw when he played in Canada or he played after his MLB career they would just throw weed at him on the field names of space man Lee well that's a waste of weed he would get it he would take it he said thank you and then if you read his book have a glove will travel he talks about trying to buy weed in Venezuela after he finished the pros and just going to I tell you what I will be writing a book of actually you know there was a book title I was going to start writing but I haven't yet I haven't actually reached the age of 30 but it was 30 mistakes I made before the age of 30 and how you can avoid them 30 mistakes I made before the age of 30 and how you can avoid them if I ever do pen that book I'll let you know but I've definitely got some overseas weed stories and that's where I was going with that like these drug dealers places where they put like a giant bag of it like that's all we sell is in bags and trying to scare and he would do peyote it was back in the day of like the 70's MLB where people were just really really stoned peyote is a real hardcore Phil Jackson drug you know it's what he would do when he was with when he was at Minnesota no Montana that's where he's from I got that right in trivia once he did I'm sorry mate but I learnt absolutely nothing from that in fact I kind of already gave you the major story which was Ricky Williams myself but anyways guys I hope you enjoyed that video I will be back very shortly to continue this series the next video on the list is called Snoop Dogg Rants About Marijuana in Sports and Antonio Brown all I've got to say about that is you know whether you smoke or not how could you not want to watch that video so I'll see you back here shortly and we'll crack into it peace out