everybody that’s been through the chemo ex- perience, the biggest enemy we’ll ever face is cancer. One in three of us will get it, and it’ll mess up the whole family. There’s a huge can- cer community out there that understands that chemo is the big killer, not cancer. If you get cancer and you take chemo treatments you’re in a weakened state already; you can’t sleep; you can’t eat; your nauseous and dizzy all the time; these are exactly the symptoms that pot relieves. And now in Colorado they’re focusing on it. They have the right strain of pot for you, what will work for you. Because, if they can make you feel human again, you can beat cancer. Chemo will kill you, and any- one who’s lost someone to cancer pretty much knows that. And if you’ve got a drug that will help - and it has been shown to help many other things like MS and Parkinsons. And the only places that are pioneering it are Col- orado and Israel, which is actually giving pot to autistic children, to Alzheimers patients- who would have ever thought of that? And in the big hospitals in Israel, they’re giving pot to cancer patients. I’m going to make a pre- diction. Because of our current government, we are not looking into it very hard. Israel is, and I’m predicting the Israeli doctors will be the ones to get the Nobel Prize for medicine. Israel will do it because America didn’t want to, and we have all the facilities and money to do it. It just makes sense that we legalize it. I don’t even smoke it myself, unless I’m with Willie. The last time I smoked with Willie we were in Maui doing an acoustic show to- gether. I got so high I needed a step ladder to scratch my ass. My facial muscles were para- lyzed, I could not smile. And as we’re leaving his house, Willie jumps up and kicks this punching back that’s about six feet off the ground. And that’s why I said, you’re a freak of nature. It’s not right, it’s not even wrong. It’s just amazing. He did that so sponta- neously. And he said well, I’m a karate guy and just kind of acted like it was no big deal. I said yeah, but you’re about four feet tall and
how ever old you are. It’s like I said, at the end of the show the band, the younger guys are dragging and playing the walk off music for him and he goes off to sign autographs- he’s ready to go! So we did this show at a place called Charlie’s in Maui. and I urinated next to Willie outside in the alley...
No kidding? Yeah. I’ve also urinated beside Groucho Marx in New York, and Donald Rumsfeld, and I urinated next to Jimmy Page backstage.
You need to add that list to a book - Top Ten People I’ve Urinated Beside. (Laughs) Right. A friend of mine has urinated next to Sonny Liston, which kind of makes my list look a little bit pale. He’s a hard one to get. But anyway, back to the story. The crowd was walking on its knuckles, they weren’t lis- tening to anything. They wouldn’t shut up, they were so drunk, and of course we’re play- ing acoustically, no amps. So they maybe sang along with “On The Road Again,” but other than that it wasn’t cutting through. At the end of the show this young guy comes up to me, he’s really fucked
up.and he says “Hey dude, you’re better than that other guy.” (Laughs) Whether he was joking, or knew who Willie was, I have no idea. I did not tell Willie that. But if I did, he would take it the right way. You don’t have to worry what you say around him.
Another good thing about weed. It calms one down. That’s why Willie says he smokes it, it keeps down the rage.
So you are doing this awareness tour. It’s called A Journey in Time. It’s a more fo- cusses concert, but also with some stories. A one man show. But first I’m doing a tour in Texas next month called The Misunderstood Genius Tour. You never know what you’re gonna get on that one. It could be very differ-
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