Russell Crowe

And I could see he was still affected by it.

And it was about his family and the question, you mean?

It was about the effect of the situation on his family.

And that took him to a place and I could see him just get, you know, emotional.

I realized he's still, all these years later...

is carrying this around, you know?

So it was a big thing for him to do.

As you say, he risked everything in his life, risked his professional reputation, the health and safety of his family, you know, to put that information in front of us.

The weird thing for me about all of that is that this legal loophole kind of situation you get into where

If you admit something is unsafe, then you're liable for the fact that you peddled something that was unsafe.

Because there's a whole lot of things that you can do to make these less...

potent in terms of how they damage you you know you can take out the chemicals you can return the tobacco to its more natural state you know but we don't do any of that because that would be admitting that it's an unsafe product

And it opens up a whole bunch of more legal bullshit.

But, you know, it's a funny thing.

I don't want to be an advocate for cigarette smoking.

But there are, you know, there is a long, long history of us and, you know, wanting to smoke things.

Yeah.

Every major mathematician, every major scientist, they all smoke.

There is something in that nicotine opening neural pathways that they might not have access to normally.

I use Redman plug on long-haul flights.