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Kids: High Times and Hard Truths: Why Today's Weed Isn't Your Parent's Pot

Eric Scott Gold Season 15 Episode 22

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Ever wonder what happens when you combine a wild youth, modern cannabis culture, and brutal honesty? DJ ESG holds nothing back in this raw, hilarious episode that starts with outrageous tales of his teenage exploits and transitions into surprisingly thoughtful commentary about today's high-potency weed landscape.

From accidentally peeing on a judge while blazing down Buck Road at 60mph, to hotboxing classroom snakes in Plants and Animals class, ESG establishes his credibility not as a finger-wagging authority figure, but as someone who's been there, done that, and lived to tell the tales. But beneath the laughter lies a deeper message about how today's cannabis bears little resemblance to what previous generations experienced.

"Weed back then wasn't the same beast," ESG explains, painting a vivid picture of modern products designed to appeal specifically to teenagers – gummies disguised as candy, vapes in flavors like "blueberry coma" and "SAT score destroyer." With unflinching honesty, he questions whether young people truly understand what they're doing to their developing brains, challenging the notion that cannabis automatically leads to focus, peace, or happiness. "The more we numb out early," he observes, "the harder it is to feel shit later."

What makes this episode special isn't just the wild stories or even the warnings – it's ESG's refusal to oversimplify. He acknowledges both his own survival of teenage experimentation and the unique challenges today's youth face, from social media to unprecedented potency levels. Whether you're a parent worried about your teen, a young person navigating peer pressure, or just someone who appreciates unfiltered conversation, this episode delivers equal parts entertainment and thought-provoking perspective.

Like, follow and share the Rock Bottom Podcast with someone who might need to hear this message – especially "the kid who thinks their weed strain is academic excellence." Your brain (and your future self) might thank you.

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Peace, Love & God Above! :-)

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Welcome to the Rock Bottom Podcast, the only place where flaming rants, fucked up facts and flying peace streams out of car windows all come together like a bad trip at Senior Week. And I'm your host, dj ESG. Today we're driving into that sweet, sticky subject Weed, the devil's lettuce, the jazz cabbage, the reason your teenager is failing Algebra 2. We actually still teach that in school. But before we go all dare officer with a porn stash, let me just say this'm no fucking saint. Just ask christopher fucking bush. Let me set the scene 1990 something.

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I was bad like chewing gum in church while letting a joint behind the confessional bed, and I was a fucking jew. One time I did six nitrous balloons at the same time. Six, that's not a party, that's a fucking dental procedure going rogue. My mom walks out, sees me floating like a helium balloon with my girlfriend Kelly at a fucking bar mitzvah and I straight up told her hey, ma, it's helium, I'm fucking having a good time While my buddy Sev's walking around with a fucking tank and my buddy Raj is sitting out there in a fucking keg of beer, and we told her it was root beer and she brought out fucking chips. Another time I smoked a whole goddamn ounce and then peed out of a car window on Buck Road while flying 60 miles an hour just blasting DMX. And who do I? Almost R Kelly splash by accident. Judge fucking Nashorn in his brand new SUV, the OG, judge of Newtown, the king before Judge Petrucci. And, oh my God, did that motherfucker not chase me to Village Shires? Man, he was pissed. He was pissed, he was fucking pissed. He let us go. It was me and my boy Ed. But I'll tell you this right now I'd still be in detention to this day in Graterford.

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And yo remember Ms Devlin from Plants and Animals. I think she's still in Counter Rock. I took a bong, hit so big one time in Plants and Animals she thought I fucking hotboxed the snakes. She damn near threw a funny kiss at me. Those poor reptiles were doing Snoop Dogg impressions. By the third period it was here that it because I threw one mouse in there with two of them and they were fighting over it. We were fucking cheering them on betting on which one would get it.

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Look, I know I turned out all right 30 years as a DJ. I own a home. I run a podcast where I drop F-bombs like TikTok Dan says. I have no criminal record. I have no problem shitting on the superintendent of the school. Why? Because he's a dick and because I'll say shit that you want to say but you won't say because you're too afraid to say it. But I'm not, because you only have one life and you know what I'm going to live it my way. But let me be real with you.

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Weed back then wasn't the same beast. That shit was sleepy earth levels that could tranquilize a fucking rhino. Gummies that taste like sour patch kids and hit like mike tyson before the paul fight. Vapes that come in flavors like blueberry coma and sat score destroyer. Let's keep it. 100 team brains are totally under construction. We throws a fucking wrecking ball like a nude miley cyrus through that site and plays bob marley while doing it.

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It messes with focus. Fucked memory, swiss cheese, motivation gone, just a couch, three half-eaten Pop-Tarts and a YouTube rabbit hole on how to become a fucking lizard. Does weed make you focus? I don't fucking know. Unless by focus you mean hyper-fixating on whether or not your pizza is haunted. Weed doesn't turn teenagers into Einstein, it turns them into Scooby-fucking-Doo, without the mystery-solving part. Yeah, it might make you feel calm, until it doesn't, until your paranoid anxious can't sleep and need it to function. Spoiler alert that's not peace, that's dependent.

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I can't remember one time where I was thrown out of my fucking mind and somebody went down on me and I actually performed. It just didn't happen. I was too tired. It didn't matter if it was j-lo, it wasn't happening now, listen, I've been there. I lived it and, yeah, I turned out okay. But you know what else I had? I didn't have social media. I didn't have have THC gummies that looked like fucking PEZ dispensers and no goddamn clue what brain damage was, until I was 35 and forgot my own fucking Wi-Fi password for six months. I'm not saying weed ruined my life, shit. I had a blast, especially at Wrightstown in somebody named CJ's house.

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I'm not saying if you're 14 and think hitting a dab pen in the school bathroom is your path to inner peace, maybe pump the brakes and be high. Or do I want to be happy? Because the more we numb out early, the harder it is to feel shit later. That's just facts. So, yeah, esg is for the children, so is Wu-Tang. They're okay, and by that I mean don't let your kid become a goddamn baked potato at 16. Let them fuck up, naturally, the old-fashioned way Bad dates, poor fashion choices and crippling other way, although Petrucci's really fucking cool.

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This has been ESG, the Rock Bottom Podcast. Like, follow and share it with the kid who thinks their weed strain is academic excellence. Until next time, fuckers, see you later. And kids, if you know me, listen next time you're outside with mom and dad. Puff, puff, pass, pass to the left too, man. I'll stop my Ford next to can be parents like you're not doing the same shit. I know a mom over here in holland who ate so many gummies. The one day she was upside down in the bathroom throwing up all over herself, and you know who I'm talking about. I'll be back, dj esg. Enjoy your vacation, don't get too stoned. Peace, love and God above, and I'm out bye.

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