Can This Man Review A Book While Totally Stoned

- Mahalo, book nerds. I'm Jon Gabrus, and this
is Blazed Book Reviews. Yeah, I read. (Classical music) (water bong bubbling) My guest today is Nate Dern, author of Not Quite a Genius.

(Rock music) - Alright, thanks for having me. - Dude, don't you love books, man? Hey, have you ever read this book? - Ishmael by Daniel Quinn? Yes, I read that in high school. - Sick, dude. Gorillas teaching people stuff, people learning from gorillas and stuff? - It's pretty wild.

- [John] Yeah. It's pretty dope right? - I thought we were gonna
be talking about my book. - This is a new book, right? - Yeah.
- Yeah so, maybe the read-- you know, my watchers haven't read it. - I guess probably not.

- No. So there you go. But have you guys read this? - [Crowd Voiceover] Totally. Yeah.

Book. - This is sick. Me and Nate Dern, author of Not Quite a Genius highly recommend Ishmael. Alright, enough of this book bullshit.

It's time for Weed Pairings. (Upbeat pop music) For this week's Weed Pairing, I sought out a strain that would pair well with Not Quite a Genius by Nate Dern, and I found that strain in Sour Diesel. Sour Diesel! Or as I call it, Sour D. It's got a pungent, gasoline-like aroma, and its cerebral high? It is perfect for the
absurd and dark humor found in this book.

Now, I wouldn't smoke an Indica
before reading this book, because you might fall asleep. - That's not nice. - No no no, it's not a dig on your book. That's what Indica does.

Remember kids, Indica equals Into Couch. - Kids probably shouldn't be smoking any type of marijuana, right?
- Or reading. - Or reading? - This has been Weed Pairings. (Upbeat pop music) Thought experiment.

If you press this button, your book becomes a New York
Times number one Best Seller, but someone somewhere dies. Do you push it? - No. (Laser blasting)
Whoa. - A person died anyway.

And your book is not number one. - Oh, that's awful. - Shit. What if I died? - You didn't, though.

- Who knows? I could be dead already. Elon Musk. - What about him? - Not sure. He's the future car guy? - Yeah, Tesla.
- Tesla.

(Funky music) Alright this challenge is Stream of Consciousness. We have five hours to write whatever you want on this piece of paper. - Five hours? - Let's make it a minute.
- Okay. - Let the clock start now.

(Silly time passing music) Time. I'll read yours first. - Oh my gosh. - Here, just pass me your whole pad.

- Alright. (Clears throat) Oh good, sloppy handwriting. "I am talking to a high person. "But I myself am not high.

"This reminds me of every
party I went to in high school. "I did not smoke then "because I was on the cross country team." - It's true. And I ran out of time. - Oh.

That's pretty awesome. Okay. - Thank you. - Here's mine.
- I read yours? - Yeah, you read mine.
- Okay.

(Laughs) Okay. "Two german shepherds having sex." - Sick, right? - That's all you wrote. - Yeah, well, we only had a minute. (Sexy saxophone music) This has been Blazed Book Reviews.

I'm Jon Gabrus. Come back for next week's episode where I interview J. R. Tolkien.

- So thanks again for having me on. I appreciate it. Are you fake talking? You're fake talking because
it's the end credits? I think we can really talk. Maybe it was a mistake to be on this.

It's pretty early in the morning and you're already so high. (Soothing guitar music).