Growing Belushi (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - A Mission from God - full transcript

Yes! I'm excited!
I got it! I saw the light!

Lord knows I see the light!

Captain jack strain was my edge.

There isn't a strain like this
in the country, in the world!

I've made a big mistake,

And I burned
captain jack's plants.

Every dispensary in the states
waiting for it.

How can you do this?

You could use blues brothers
as a brand.

It kind of goes with what you're
trying to do with the grow.

I mean, that can be useful.



That is genius!

You got to get permission first.

The blues brothers!

I'm dressed like
I'm going to the bank

For a loan from dan aykroyd
and judy belushi.

I'm gonna ask them to loan me
the blues brothers.

It's gonna save people.

It's gonna help our community.

And it's gonna save a farm.

I mean, danny, you know,
invited me 25 years ago

To sing in the blues brothers.

I'm brother z
in the blues brothers band.

I'm a guest blues brother.

I mean, I don't know
what they're gonna say.



Yes, yes, yes! Yes!

If they say no, that's me.

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- Chris?
- Yeah.

- Did you get the box?
- I got it.

Let me see. Let me see. Okay.

Yeah!

- Nice, right?
- That is beautiful!

What do you think
danny's gonna think?

I think he's gonna
think it's great.

Look at it. It's classic.

It's... this is from the poster
right out of the movie.

Blues brothers is a great idea,

So I have to talk to danny
and I have to talk to judy.

They've had this brand
for over 40 years,

And I cannot come to them
without a plan,

So I have to make it
a good presentation.

This is gorgeous. 0.25 joints.

Six of them.
Working man's brand.

- Hi, jamie.
- Hey, dad.

Let me zip up my jacket.

- Uh, look.
- What is that?

That's the blues brothers pack.
Do you like it?

- Yeah.
- It's cool, right?

Yeah, it's super cute.

I'm gonna see danny
and the blues brothers,

And I'm gonna take them this.

- Okay.
- Okay?

Okay. I love ya.

I love you, too.

- Bye.
- Bye.

- How sweet is that?
- Very sweet.

Calls me every day.

Okay. You hold onto that.
All right.

I'm gonna see danny at the
blues brothers concert in idaho,

So I'm gonna ask him.

Okay. I got it.

Come on. Let's go.

He'll either go, "aw, jimmy.
This is, uh, genius.

This is fantastic. What didn't
you think of this before? Ah!"

Or he'll go, "ah.
Very nice. Very pretty.

Aw, jimmy,
let's sing the blues."

He's got a beautiful mind,
but you just never know

Where that beautiful mind's
gonna lay when you talk to him.

- You're gonna show them this?
- Yeah.

I mean, look at it.

That's john, danny.
"working man's brand."

I'm gonna have to explain
to them the type of strains

That I have that would be
suitable for blues brothers.

I have to explain to them
about the mission from god

And the medicine,
which I think they will love.

For me, it brings me back
to the healing of john.

Here is a medicine
that if john had taken it,

We all know he'd be alive today.

He's gonna love it.

How are you doing?
I'm checking in.

Last name aykroyd...

Able young kilo
royal oval young delta.

Daniel.

- There's danny.
- Oh...

- Danny! You're here.
- What's your name?

Oh. Hey. Aww. Good to see you.

- Oh, you too, man.
- Hey, danny.

Chris. Great to see you.

- How are you?
- Beautiful.

Hey, you know
what I got for you?

- What do you got?
- I got the mini...

Oh, my favorite!

Oh, yes. You know
the little ponies.

Keith richards' favorite, too.
- That's great.

Nobody makes a bottle like that.

Crystal head vodka.
No additives.

One for me, one for the wife.

Um, we all set? Yeah?

Yeah. Okay, very good.

Hey, danny, you got a second?
I wanted to talk to you.

Oh, sure, sure, sure.
There's lots of time.

Can you make sure
this gets to the stage?

- Yeah.
- That's the million-dollar hat.

Chris! What's up, buddy?

You got, like, grandkids now?
Like, so many? What's going on?

I got the grandkids.
Seven grandkids.

Oh. Chris' new best friend.

Six girls, one boy.

So you got married early, then.

21.

You good with that?

Two, two, two, two. One, two.

Just... Oh. Just for the mix,

You can drop out...
Drop out guitar, horn.

Everything to the minimum
except a little bit of jimmy.

And I'm fine here.
So drop everything out.

- Oh, yeah.
- Check it. One, two.

Hey, danny. Danny. Danny?

Would you test
those microphones, please?

Yeah.

I've been wanting to talk to you
about the blues brothers.

You know, I have this idea
about a blues brothers...

No talk now. Blues now.
One, two, three, four!

Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen!

And welcome to
the venue tonight...

Ohh. My timing's off.

When I put on
that blues brothers suit

And I stand with danny,

The excitement
is just overwhelming.

I'm a magic chaser.
I love playing with danny.

We are the blues brothers!

Are you ready?!

I've spent 40 years
with the blues brothers.

We had 10 records, john and I.

Quadruple
platinum-selling record.

That's 4 million copies. Rihanna
would be happy with that.

Very high-quality entertainment.

After john died, I didn't
know if the act would work,

But I said, "look.

This music never dies.
The songs don't die.

Celebrate the legacy of john."

And so I said, "I'm going to
recruit john's brother.

I know he can do it.

I know this illinois alpha male
named jim belushi

Can sing and dance
and acquit himself."

Jimmy and I have
a musical association

And a brotherly friendship

That will endure
through all time, I hope.

Thank you!

I'm scared.

I don't want to put danny
and judy in the position.

I mean, I'm...
I'm just john's brother.

They don't
have to give it to me.

So, danny...

Look. I've spent
40-some years with this brand.

I know how to police
my own brand.

I know when I go up there
to sing or dance or play,

I will play at the best
of my ability.

I know when I record a record
or do a movie,

I'm gonna have the best crew,
the best script,

The best soundtrack.

I don't know how to make
the best out of cannabis.

So, of course,
my instinct is to say

I can't authorize
placing this brand

Onto something which
I can't police the quality of.

I mean, he said, you know,
"I got to think about it.

I got to think about it.
I got to think about it."

And that's...
Well, there you go.

He didn't say no.

Well, he's canadian.

That is "no" for a canadian.

I saw him watch the box. It
looks like he liked the box.

He was smiling.
He did like the box.

He had a huge smile on his face.

I'm proud of you.

You gave it a great pitch today.

Right? Yeah.

It wasn't even a pitch.
It was real.

It was... it was real.

It's what you believe in,

With or without
the blues brothers.

Gentlemen.

- Hey, dan.
- Hey, man. How you doing?

I need a word with my bro here.

All right. All right.
Good night, jim.

- Great show.
- Yeah, it was fun, right?

- Well, how about that band?
- Yeah, yeah.

And the people were happy,
and it was a great cause.

I'm glad we were
able to sound...

Yeah, yeah, man.
I love dancing with you, danny.

And it just brings
so much joy to me.

Well, I'm ruminating on
what we were talking about.

Here it comes...
The canadian "no."

First of all, you agree
the blues brothers is a...

It's a legendary property.
It's iconic.

There's a...
There's a legend there.

There's a myth. There's a story.

You're proposing and asking

That judy and I marry

That legend, that story

To your product.

So to...

I guess the best way
to put it is,

Where is the legend
in your product

That can live up to the legend
of the blues brothers?

So, you know I grew up
in ottawa, canada, right?

- Yeah.
- Government town.

The canadian federal government
had a prescient notion

That what they were gonna do
is research cannabis

Just for the consumable public.

They searched around, and
they researched all the brands

That were being brought
into canada illegally.

And they found these strains
in colombia.

The three strains
were santa marta gold,

Mango biche...

Mango biche.

...And punto rojo.

Punto rojo.

And they grew these
massive, beautiful plants.

And I had a friend named andy r.
I'm gonna say "andy r."

And one day,

He does a barefoot raid
over the fence

With five garbage bags,

Brings it all back
to our communal house.

And there are these beautiful
colombian strains, dried.

I was driving a mail truck
at the time,

And I would get up at 6:00 in
the morning in the winter,

Smoke one of these things,
go to work,

Be happy to work a double shift
in ice and cold.

- Danny!
- And then I shared it

With the boys
at the post office.

They were all happy.
There was euphoria there.

But you could get
your work done.

It was really
working man's weed.

You must match the legend
of the blues brothers

With the legend
of the santa marta gold,

The punto rojo,
and the mango biche.

You are gonna
have to go to colombia.

You're gonna have to
find these strains

And build that legend
into our story for branding.

I think I can get judy
to sign off on it,

And I... I give you
my half of that license.

Oh, danny.

I had my reservations,
but in the end, you know,

He's not walking
into this frivolously.

He's really researched it.

He's got the knowledge.
He's passionate.

Sometimes we've got to set...
Business aside

And we've got to embrace
emotion and camaraderie

And family.

And jimmy's my brother.

Thank you for believing in me.

Now, there's one proviso.

As long as I don't
have to go to colombia

In the next year or so.

I'll go to colombia.

Let's go have a chocolate
martini at the bar,

For... Sake. Okay.

It's a "yes"!

I'm going to colombia!

And that chicken chris
is coming with me.

Here we go.

We don't have to work
the whole time, right?

No. No. We can go out.
We can go to a museum.

A little sightseeing.

I'm gonna try and have fun.
I'm gonna try and enjoy it.

We have a mission
to get these seeds...

Santa marta gold,
the punto rojos,

And the mango biche.

We are on this trip, all right,

To find some great
landrace indigenous seeds.

Danny wants this.

This is how we get
the blues brothers I.P.

Just be patient with me 'cause
I get a little nervous, man.

It's like a third-world country.

Colombia is a beautiful country.
It's a luscious country.

It's a safe country,

Not the journey we're on

When we're looking
for these seeds.

You've got to go
up in the mountains.

You got to go in these
red zones, which I've read

People get killed,
helicopters get shot down.

We're not going to the red zone.

You'll be fine. We'll be fine.

All right. You got everything?

Colombia, mon.

Well, that's more like hawaii.

I'm in colombia.

They got festivals here.

Land of little cakes.

Lots of ice cream.

That's great.

And, of course, pablo escobar.

I'm gonna meet with a couple
indigenous growers here.

I know if I can get
the santa marta's gold,

This unique strain
from the mountains,

I know it's gonna help the farm.

I just don't know...
If I'm gonna find it.

I don't know
where the hell we are.

You know what's very upsetting?

What?

Nobody's wearing
a hat like mine.

I thought this hat
would be very colombian.

I thought I saw in one of
those episodes of "narco"

Pablo wearing a hat like this.

That's why I got this hat.

People are staring at me.

Is it because I'm old
or is it because it's the hat?

It's pretty here.

- Steve!
- Welcome to bogotá.

Oh, man!

I got a good friend
named steve deangelo.

He is the godfather of cannabis,

Number-one activist,
number-one historian,

And the number-one guy
who can find the punto rojo,

The santa marta gold,
and the mango biche.

Colombia has been a large-scale
cannabis producer

For decades
and decades and decades.

What I wanted to come down here
for was to find

Some of that original
colombian seeds

In order to bring it
up onto the farm.

Mm-hmm. Here's what's
complicated, okay?

Colombia is a country
of many different regions,

And different things happen
in different regions.

- Right. Correct.
- Okay?

But then there's whole
other areas of the country

That are in some cases
ruled by armed groups

Who are still in a state

Of semi-conflict
with the government.

The weed that we want
is deep in that territory.

If it's around,

It's in a really, really,
really remote spot,

And it's hard to find.

Steve didn't say
that they don't exist.

He just said it's hard to find.

Hard is easy for me.

My buddy condor,
he lives way up in the hills.

He's been close to
the indigenous people there

For a long, long time.

He might be able to find it.

So, we found condor
in a parking lot.

Okay, so, what is this one?

Okay. This is the mango biche.

Oh, my god! That's awesome!

This is mango biche.

This is six months
in vegetation. Mango biche.

All the kush, lemon haze comes
from the mango biche strain.

It's like a citrus flavor.
It smells like mangoes.

And this is from punto rojo.

Punto rojo.

Punto rojo is a landrace seed.

Very powerful, very pure.

It's very sativa,
very energetic,

And doesn't knock you out.

I only have a couple
of these at the moment.

Oh, that's all right.
We'll take a couple

And take really good care
of them.

Whoo! Yeah. Baby!
Do you have any little bags?

Yeah, yeah. I got bags here.

Okay. Those went in. Good.

Oh, chris.

Here. Take these.

I know what they are.

So, now what about
the santa marta gold?

No.

I've got to get
that santa marta gold.

You know, this santa marta gold
is very difficult to find.

I'm gonna find it.

I'm not gonna leave colombia
without it.

The santa marta gold strain
is really difficult to find.

It really is hidden deep
into the sierra mountains

Where the indigenous natives
grow it

And use it for their rituals.

It is a product of the soul
and mystics.

I believe that
the santa marta gold exists.

Santa marta gold.

Where is it? Does it exist?

A lot of people
we've been talking about

Said yes, some say no.

Some say it's impossible to get,

That it's only held
by a small tribe.

But I believe it exists,

And I'm not gonna give up
until I find it.

So, I'm looking for
santa marta gold.

Is it a myth or is it real?

...Loco.

Me? Loco?

Do you have any
santa marta gold?

Santa marta gold?

Oh.

I'm going to medellín, baby.

Medellín
is the center of colombia.

And it's beautiful.
It's mystical.

And if I'm gonna find that seed,
I think I can find it there.

And you know what else it has?

That's where pablo lived!

I got to find out
what pablo's deal was.

I mean, he was a man of vision,

A business man
who had no education

But just had the street smart
and he was just a thug.

He scared everybody
in this country,

Including the government.

Behind, that's where
pablo escobar

Just declared war
on the government of colombia.

This one! He took a tank!

And ran it right through there!

He wanted to burn
all the records

That showed
any of his drug activity

Because he didn't want
the united states

To get ahold of that

And have him extradited
to the united states.

This guy's got balls!

Do I look like
pablo escobar to you?

This is the barrio
that pablo escobar rebuilt.

This was the poorest barrio
in all of medellín.

Oh, wow.

I understand there's
about 480 of these homes

Were properties that he
signed over to them to own.

But about a thousand people
benefited from it.

- Oh, wow.
- I mean, there's pablo

Building homes for families.

- ¿cómo está?
- Muy bien. ¿y tú?

Bien. Bien. Bien.

Uh...

Español, uh, not so good.

Poco. Muy poco.

Imuy poco!

How long have you lived here?

Wow! 37 years.
And you feel good here?

Wow. Wow.
How he changed your life.

Pablo saw her and took heart
to her, took kindness to her.

But pablo was a bad guy.

Pablo made a big difference
in your life.

Sí.

Today we looked
at all of this stuff

That pablo did
for this community.

And the question really is,
you know, why did he do it?

Was it out of the goodness of
his heart or was there a motive?

I don't buy that it was
because he was a good guy.

I think he was trying
to buy loyalty.

He took siege on the government.
He killed people and families.

He killed children.

And this woman still had
a spiritual experience,

Even though pablo was...
Was a bad guy.

Thank you.

Two dollars.

Two dollars.

Colombia!

Colombia, mon! Yah!

Is that smoke or is that fog?

Looks like smoke to me.

What's going on here today?

Looks like there's
a lot going on.

Well, basically,
everybody's joining today.

We've got a cannabis walk.

So these are
all cannabis supporters?

Exactly.

It's a pot festival!

Do you have
the santa marta, the gold?

- The seeds?
- The seeds.

Yeah. Around.
Yeah. Yeah. I have it.

"around"?

Yeah. Go green!

Whoo! Look at the smoke.

Wow. This is a party!

The middle of medellín.

It's "medda-yeen."

Medda-jeen.

Yeen. Medda-yeen.

Medda-jeen.

One, two, three.

Is there such a thing
as santa marta gold?

Yeah. Santa marta gold
is very good

For a good... good high.

This is jim belushi, man!
This is jim belushi!

Hey. How are you?

Wow.

This is all right.

Look at that joint.

Are you happy now that
we're here in the parade?

- Yeah. I love it.
- It sucks.

I love it.

- It sucks.
- I love it.

- It sucks.
- I love it.

- It sucks.
- I love it.

- Sucks.
- I love it.

That's enough.

This is the most exciting thing
in the world

In colombia right now.

There's estimates
of 100,000 or 500,000

People in the streets.

It was a sea of people.

Where are we going?

I'm just walkin', baby.

When we were in bogotá,

A lot of different people
gave jim some weed.

And before we got on the plane
at the airport,

He asked me
to get rid of the weed.

So I threw the weed
in the garbage,

And I think I mixed the seeds
with the weed,

And I ended up
throwing them out,

And I haven't told jim yet.

I don't know what the
he's gonna do,

But I got to tell him
that I lost the seeds.

I can't believe it.

Where are those seeds?

I have to fess up.

Where are those seeds
that we got?

I lost them. I can't find them.

Where are those seeds?

I have to fess up.

Where are those seeds
that we got?

I lost them. I can't find them.

I keep thinking they're gonna
show up somewhere in my room,

Right, like, in a jacket pocket
or something.

But, you know, no such luck.

This whole trip is about finding

Some really great
indigenous seeds,

Some land-strain seeds,

We found two seeds
from a guy named condor.

I gave them to chris.

I said, "chris, hold these.
This is the trip."

And he lost 'em.

I can't find them.
I had them this morning,

I told you. Because
I remember the name on them.

But when we get to the airport,
I took some of the weed out.

I may have thrown those two out.

It's the only thing
I can think of.

No, no. The only thing
we came down here for...

You threw out.

I believe so. I believe so.

I wasn't gonna tell you.

I looked everywhere.
I'll continue to look.

But I can't find them. I went
through all of my clothes,

Everything that I had.

I looked, jim.
What do you want me to do?

I mean, I love chris.
I love him. He's my cousin.

He's helped me on the farm.

He's the greatest guy.
Blah, blah, blah.

The son of a bitch
lost my seeds!

You never lost anything?

Not seeds!

Not marijuana seeds from
the mountains of colombia, no!

I know it's a big item.
I realize it.

I won't give him a dollar
to hold anymore.

Let him hold my cellphone
for a minute? No.

Hold my purse? If I had a purse,

I wouldn't let him hold it,
'cause he'd lose it!

Hey. I can't walk alone here.

After I told him
I lost the seeds,

50 yards ahead of me
the whole time,

Like I wasn't even there
in colombia, right?

You know, I got the classic
"belushi cold shoulder."

Brutal. Brutal.

Deangelo! Deangelo!

Funny meeting you here.

Is this incredible, man?

This is incred...

There's like 150,000
young colombians

Out here in the street
all celebrating cannabis.

It's one of the most
amazing things.

I've never seen
anything this big

And this amazing
in my whole career.

Hey.

Gun shot off
or someone said, "bomb."

Someone said this or that.
And it was like a stampede.

And I got yanked to the side
of the building.

Keep it rolling.
Keep it rolling.

Oh, my god.

This is trouble.

We're dodging bullets here.

It's not a bullet.

There was fired... shots fired.

No! That's what they say.
That's talk!

There were shots fired!
It's talk!

I didn't hear a shot.

Well, it turned out
some car backfired.

You know, I mean...
It's nothing.

But I did enjoy
watching chris squirm.

You know what?
He deserved to squirm...

For losing danny's seeds.

Didn't you get enough now?

You want to go home?

He's gonna put me in every
dangerous situation possible.

I know it.
I need to buy a helmet I think.

Do you feel safe now
behind this?

It's much better.

You want us to
carry this with us?

I'm trying to see if we can
put casters on this.

And just kind of roll it.

Somebody can push it
in front of me, right?

Wait a minute! What's that?!

Thought it was hysterical
because I got scared, right?

He was more interested
in watching me get scared

Than anything else.

Look out, look out!

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Miserable day today.
Tons of stress.

We went on a treasure hunt
this afternoon...

The hunt for a seed.

An hour and a half
into the mountains,

Driving on the bumpiest road.

This was a long drive.

Bumpy roads. Very narrow.
A lot of construction going on.

So it was a journey,
to say the least.

But we got on this farm.

These guys used live soil...

- There's worms in there he said?
- Yeah.

...Filled with nutrients.

They actually produce
nutrients on that farm

That are 100% organic
and keep the soil alive.

Worms in it, pieces of fruit.

The burning of the undergrowth.
They use bat guano.

What is the pest
that most aggravates you?

A lot. We are the most

Probably diverse country
in the world.

Well, this is quite impressive.

Very clean. Beautiful.

Uh, sativa.
From santa marta. And...

- Ah. From santa marta?
- Yeah.

It's not santa marta gold?

So, you say
you don't like to smoke.

"got so high in high school
in 1975."

With edibles,
you can control your experience.

I want a controlled experience!

He wants
a controlled experience!

Wouldn't you?

Edibles are gummies, chocolate,

Cookies, brownies.

But don't ever take a cookie
and a brownie from a friend

Because the dosage
is not controlled.

Go to a legal, registered

Recreational dispensary.

Dosage!

You get a 100-milligram
candy bar.

This is my favorite
chocolate. Bhang chocolate.

Childproof.

Unless your kid can wield
a hammer, don't worry about it.

Here is 100 milligrams.

Way too much!

You break it down. It's scored.

Most people
like a 5-milligram dosage

Because it's like a warm hug.

Start slow and wait.

Don't need an edible
then 10 minutes later

Go, "ah, I don't feel nothing.
I'm gonna need some more."

The next thing you know,
you're gonna be on the couch

Or over a steering wheel
in a parking lot.

Make plans to stay home
and watch a movie

With your lover,
your wife, or both.

Well, this is quite impressive.

Very clean. Beautiful.

Uh, sativa.
From santa marta. And...

- Ah. From santa marta?
- Yeah.

It's not santa marta gold?

No, it's not santa marta gold.

Well. I know it exists.

And I'm gonna keep
looking for it on my own.

This flight is gonna show us
the countryside of colombia.

It's gonna be beau... have you
been on a helicopter before?

No.

Oh, it's the greatest thing.
All of a sudden,

You just take off, and the
ground just drops below you.

It's the most exciting ride
you can ever...

You've never been
on a helicopter?

I've never been in a helicopter,

Nor am I ever gonna be
on a helicopter

'cause I'm going
back to the hotel.

It'll be less weight,
which will make it safer.

I'm 205. It's a big difference
for the pilot. Ask him.

He'll love it
that I'm not going.

I felt okay about him not going

Because he just
was a little off,

And it might be just based
on a pure fear of flying.

I mean, you know,
copters can go down.

Medellín!

Condor. Condor. Yeah.

I'm in medellín.

I didn't get on the helicopter,

One, because I'm not fond
of getting in a helicopter,

Two, I know jim is gonna try
and go to that red zone,

And there's no way I'm going
to the red zone, right?

You can get shot down
in that red zone.

And, thirdly,
and most importantly,

I got to reach condor.
I got to get those seeds back

So the cold-shoulder
belushi thing can stop.

Listen. I'm gonna
send you a flight.

Take off!

I got to replace
those seeds. Thanks. Bye.

I wanted to go
into the red zone.

I wanted to see the coca fields.

You know, it's cocaine.

This is where they grow
their coca plants,

And it's in the north,

And so it's closer
to the border of venezuela.

So they can just flip it
right over to venezuela.

Venezuela takes it to mexico.

Or venezuela
has avenues to go to europe

And russia and anywhere.

And as I was flying,
I... I don't know.

I felt a little off.
There was something wrong here.

Started looking at the fields
and looking at the coca,

And there's small little patches
that belong to families,

And it was farming to them.

And as I stared down
at the coca field, I realized...

I wonder if the cocaine
my brother had...

Came from one of
those little fields.

So I went through
a transition of seeing this

As a family farming thing to...

Looking at a cemetery, really.

And then I realized that
the reason I came to colombia

Was to get closer to john.

I wanted to go
right to the roots.

I wanted to get down
in that, like, coca field

And pull it up
and look it in the eye...

...And just say, you know,

"stop hurting people
and families."

If they could turn those fields
into cannabis fields,

Those families could
make their money farming,

And they could make a plant
that could heal people

Spiritually, physically,
emotionally.

And all that cocaine
could just, like, disappear

From those hillsides,

And beautiful plants could grow.

So instead of killing people,
it should heal people.

I can't figure out
what my obsession is

With this pablo escobar.

Why am I doing here?

Medellín!

I'm gonna ask everybody
in this damn town

Until I find that seed.

Condor, do you have the seeds?

A harmless party!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
The police are here!

Ow!

Yes!