Well, hello, Jim, how are you. I'm very good, how
are you excellent? Well, this is my first time actually getting to interview
you, so I'm kind of excited, and I mean, there's so many
things I want to ask and say. But first of all, thanks for
everything. I've so enjoyed you over the years of all your movies. And
my mom is like, literally she watches your canine movie Jerry. She watches
that on like every other week. She's she knows it, and I just
need to like bring that up because well, tell her thank you, and
Teller, I still have a German shepherd. And actually the German shepherd,
his name is Paul, is on Growing Belushi also, so he's got a
little cameos in the TV show. That's what I want to talk about now.
In your third season Congratulations. By the way, it already premiered her
already April, Thank you, thank you. Yeah, it's been out since
April fifth. It's on Wednesday nights as six episodes, and you go to
Discovery Plus and see the first two seasons. But tonight it's on Discovery Yeah,
and then it'll it'll all end up there eventually, But if you want
to catch up that's a good point to do that. But you know here
in Connecticut now they've just legalized recreational marijuana. Everybody. You know, we
have X amount of dispensaries opening up here and there. What have you learned
trial by error in doing what you're doing because there's so many rules to follow.
So in starting all of this, what was the research like and doing
all of it? Oh my god, that is a big, big question.
Because I've been doing this for seven years and it's a constant research and
it's a constant education. I think that's why I like it, because I
like all the challenges and overcoming the challenges and through that being educated myself.
And I'm trying to show that education on growing pollution because it's not just about
me growing cannabis. It's about me growing as a man and you know,
spiritually as a man, but also growing as a businessman and a person.
And this relationship with the cannabis has been great. But by the way,
congratulations Connecticut for going legal. It's about time and everybody there. It's really
going to make a difference in people's lives. So you're a legal cannabis farmer
way, and I know you're I'm not bringing up anything, trust me on
this one. But you know you and your neighbors. We'll just leave it
at that. But like, how was that received? I mean, where
is your farman? How did that all come about? Well, I'm in
the southern Oregon and an agricultural area along the Road River, and if you
watch the first episode, you'll see about the neighbor. The neighbor, unfortunately,
it was victimized by a organized crime outfit that kind of intimidated him to
grow, they said to him. But what they were doing was growing,
uh, cannabis illegally and my barn down mysteriously. In the first episode,
we expoil the possibility of this organized crime organization burning it down. It's it's
it's in Oregon. My neighbors are all oregan. It's part of their state's
economy. They support it terrifically. And there's some conservative people there. You
know. The thing about the medicine of cannabis is that it reaches over the
blue and the red states and conservatives and liberals because everybody has one thing in
common. Everybody knows somebody who's struggling, screaming inside, whether it's from anxiety
or PTSD or Alzheimer's or you know, going through chemotherapy and losing your appetite
and seizures. And also people want to feel good. There's nothing wrong.
You should never feel guilty about feeling that. We go through the day trying
to feel good, you know, whether we have a drink or we go
see entertainment and we go out to dinner, and so cannabis is a very
safe way to feel good and there's a lot of medical benefits to him.
Now let's talk a little bit about bringing your family into this. Is this
is you know, some people have certain legacies they leave behind. You know,
maybe yours would have been comedy or singing and or acting or however,
did you, in your believe any of that. I didn't leave any of
that behind. I'm doing a TV show about cannabis, so I'm blending the
two. That's true. That's that's true, So that the legacy would be
the legacy is still the farmer, though, because this is something that you're
cultivating that is generational at this point with with the land, right, yes,
yes, I mean the land. As a farmer. They used to
go hey there, uh you know, soybean, and now I have a
bunch of cattle on it, having babies. By the way, I got
fifty little little cute little cabs one around and having so much fun. And
I'm going cannabis, you know, cannabis. I'm going on like one acre
and I have a ninety three acre farm. So, oh my gosh.
What's that like being the head of you know, like you you are living
the yellow Stone life right if you will. But what is it like to
have that I'm a cannabis cowboy girl? How can people follow you on social
I mean, I have all this information. It's so stupid to add,
so automatic that we ask these questions. But you know, I've got all
the links up to follow you the farm and everything like that. And of
course, currently in season three on Discovery you can watch Discovery Plus for the
first two. Uh this is it's a great show. And the comedy is
still in there, and the acting is still in there and the the interaction
I love. But if people want to get more information about you, will
follow the farm. What's the best place to do that? Well, yeah,
you know, just Jim Belushi. Just type in Jim Belushi, you
know, and it'll show you Belushi's farm on Instagram and TikTok and Facebook and
you know Jim Belushi or Jim or Belushi's farm all right, and it'll lead
you to all the information you need. I know you got to go live
in just a bit. But I want to get back to German shepherds.
We all have German shepherds. I've got my German shepherd puppy Wolfgang right behind
me right now. Um are animals where they always like something for you,
because I always like to talk to my guests about, you know, the
relationship and the impact of having you know, dogs, cats, pets.
Now you've got cattle, what that means to you in your life. I
have really two special relationships. One with cannabis because it's really been an interactive
thing. And the feminized plant brings a beautiful feminine energy into my life and
has healed me in so many ways. But the main thing it's been my
My, My Tara. You who is in the show by the way,
you got a little cameos. He is, uh, you know the guy
I can't go to the bathroom about him playing in front of me. I
mean he follows me everywhere, he protects me, and he's just a real
ass. About the ball. That's all you know. Blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I mean, even now,
I swear in the sound of his bark is starting to sound like ball.
I mean he's starting to put the bee on it. German shepherds are
so no, like you could paint your body in meat, but they're like,
oh, ball instead. No, I totally get that, but oh
my gosh, my German shepherd. He will literally paint the house for a
ball, the ball, doing the ball, paint the ceiling, paint the
ceiling up on netline, and I'll give you the ball. I love it
all right. I know you gotta go growing, Belushi, I'll discover you've
been a pleasure. I have a great day. Thank you so much for
joining us. Please please give my love to your mother. Tell her thank
you for her support. Oh my gosh, she's gonna die with this.
Thank you so much.