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Willie Nelson Is "Chief Tester" at His Weed Company - YouTube
Channel: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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-Congrats. This past weekend,
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you just kicked off
the Outlaw Music Festival.
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And this thing is
going all over the country now.
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You have June, July, September.
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I saw you -- You parked your
tour bus outside on 49th Street.
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-Yeah.
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-And there's like thousands
of fans out there
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waiting to say hi to you.
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-Yeah. It's cool.
-Yeah.
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Do you like the touring life?
Do you like the --
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-Yeah, I enjoy, you know,
living on the bus.
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-Yeah. You do -- 'Cause if you
haven't seen Willie's bus --
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There's probably photos
of it somewhere.
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It is nicer than my first --
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many of my apartments
in New York City.
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It's better than my home now.
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But it's, like, the most --
It's beautiful.
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And it feels like home, right?
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-Yeah, it's kind of like,
you know, my home 2.
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-Yeah. You've got
a good group of people
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on the lineup with you here.
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I know you've been playing
with your family,
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Willie Nelson and Family.
Your sons are there.
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Alison Krauss, Avett Brothers,
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Nathaniel Rateliff
& The Night Sweats.
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-Fantastic.
-Oh, man.
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-They're great.
-They are bad ass.
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That's fantastic.
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I listen to "Willie's Roadhouse"
all of the time on SiriusXM.
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-Oh, do you? Cool.
-Dallas Wayne is fantastic.
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-He's great.
-I love that guy.
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But if he's watching or
if you see him, he's the best.
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And so I listen to
the station all the time.
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So I know you have
this big tour coming up.
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And I know if you go to
willienelson.com,
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you can check out
all the stuff you can do.
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Go check him out on tour,
if you can,
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because it's the one-and-only
Willie Nelson.
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I've got to
talk about this, too,
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because you're on the cover of
a magazine, "Rolling Stone."
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And it's -- Yeah, I love it.
This is the weed issue.
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And this is --
[ Cheers and applause ]
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[ Both laugh ]
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That is a great photo.
-That's all you got to say.
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-That's all you got to say.
It is a great photo.
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And there's
a quote from you here.
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It says,
"Marijuana saved my life."
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-Yeah.
-Is that true?
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-I used to smoke two or three
packs of cigarettes a day
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and drink whatever there was
there to drink, you know?
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And I had pneumonia
four or five times.
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My lung collapsed.
I almost died.
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So I said, "Wait a minute.
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You know, I ain't
getting that high
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off them Chesterfields."
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-Yeah. Yeah.
Chesterfields. Wow. Geez.
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-So I throwed out the
cigarettes, rolled up 20 joints,
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stuck it in there, and I haven't
smoked a cigarette since.
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-You haven't had
a cigarette since.
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Wow. Good for you.
Now, do --
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[ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you.
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-Was that always
the way it is now
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or have you seen just the world
kind of just totally change
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in the past couple years
with it being legalized?
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-Well, yeah.
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You know, people are kind
of getting another look at it,
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and one of the main looks
they're getting is --
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there's money in there,
you know, so --
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-Yeah. Once that's involved...
-Yeah, yeah.
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-Well, you have your own --
Is it --
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-Willie Reserve.
-Willie Reserve.
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-Yeah.
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-Now, I was lucky enough
to be gifted this.
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-You what?
-Yeah.
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-Yeah.
-And it changed my life.
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[ Laughter ]
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Wow! And I really apprec--
Thank you very much...
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-Yeah, my pleasure.
-...for that gift.
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Yeah, I was -- Yeah.
Oh, I was floating for weeks.
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I've got to say -- No.
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And just to see that
and to see the business
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that it's become, but it's
the quality that goes into it.
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And you have
assigned yourself CTO.
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Is that correct?
-Chief tester.
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-Yeah.
So chief testing officer.
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Yeah, so you get to see if it's
the real deal or not.
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-Absolutely.
-Yeah.
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-I haven't run across
any that I didn't like.
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-Oh, that's unbelievable.
-Yeah.
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-Talk to me about
your new album here.
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"Ride Me Back Home."
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There's you
and a horse right there.
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-That's me and old Blue.
-That is your horse?
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-Well, it's my neighbor's horse,
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and I borrow it
every now and then.
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-And does your neighbor know
that you borrowed his horse?
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-Well, I'm not sure.
-Yep. Sorry.
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If you're looking for old Blue,
Willie has him.
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Don't worry about it.
It's all good.
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And why did you kind of dedicate
this one to the horses?
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-Well, me and some more folks,
Habitat For Horses, a group,
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rescued a bunch of horses
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that were scheduled
to be slaughtered.
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And I already had
maybe 15 or so of my own.
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-Wow.
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-And then I bought
50 of these horses.
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So then I got a few horses.
-To save them, yeah.
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But yet -- Yeah, still...
[ Applause ]
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It's still not enough
to borrow old Blue.
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I'm just saying.
I think you have enough there.
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It's a beautiful record.
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And it's new some songs
that you co-wrote,
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but also some covers.
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I've got to say, your cover of
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"Just the Way You Are,"
Billy Joel --
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-Great song.
-It is a great song.
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But you do
a great version of that.
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I'm just like --
Wait till you hear it.
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This is -- And I know you
probably can't say
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if you have any favorites,
because it's like --
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-Well, I do have favorites.
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Of course,
"Ride Me Back Home" is,
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but, also, there's a song
in there that Guy Clark wrote.
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In fact, there's a couple of
Guy Clark songs in there,
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but one of them
is "My Favorite Picture."
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And that song
is just kind of infectious.
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You hear it
and you want to hear it again.
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-Yeah.
-At least I do.
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-Do you ever hear songs
that aren't you,
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but country classics
where you go like,
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"Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
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I forgot about that one."
-Oh, yes, yes.
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-You do.
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And I heard that when you go on
tour, that, sometimes,
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you go, "I don't really know
what I'm going to play.
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I'm just going to do --
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I start with this song,
end with this song.
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We'll just have fun."
-Well, I do.
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And I kind of go with the crowd.
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And I know there's, you know,
a few songs
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that they've come to hear
that I will do
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before the night is over.
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"On the Road Again,"
for instance,
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and "Always On My Mind."
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-Oh, yeah.
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-But other than that,
I just kind of let it happen.
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-Yeah. And I think that's what's
fun about seeing you live.
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If you've never seen
Willie Nelson in concert,
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I can't even recommend it more.
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He's on tour now.
And it is unbelievable.
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It's exciting, and you don't
know what you're going to get.
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And I just love you for that.
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And, yeah, you know
I'm the biggest fan of you.
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So thank you for being here
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and thanks for playing later
on in the show.
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-My pleasure.
-We love you, buddy.
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Willie Nelson.
[ Cheers and applause ]
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