Brief Bio: Judah is the coconut bong man of Venice Beach, California. His family picks coconuts in Jamaica and sends them to him in the United States. Judah carves the coconuts, fashions them into a "chalice" or bong, paints them and sells them on Venice Beach in California. There’s no doubt that Judah is an AwYeah! kind of guy. We felt compelled to interview him.

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Joe - Hi Judah.

Judah - Heeeey, Jooooe. How ya doin’, mon? (*Read with appropriate Rasta/Bob Marley intonation.  Small talk ensues).

So give us your philosophy on life, sir.

My philosophy? Okay. Sex is marriage.
You cannot go downtown and put a ring on a woman’s finger, then think she yours.

Hmmm.

Thou shall not have sex before marriage.
If a woman have sex, she is married to that man she have sex with first.
Otherwise than that, Life is just two things, right and wrong.

(Head-nod)

We cannot choose two masters.
Its whether we try to do good,
Or we do bad.
God didn’t say he come to save the righteous.
He come to heal the sinners.
[pause]
Now the knowledge of what I am giving you here is that
Eve will crave for Adam as long as she lives
Whether he is far or near
Because right now we don’t have a lot of man.

What are you talking about? There’s plenty of men.

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Nooooo, we got plenty of man and there’s still 80 woman to one man in this world.
[emphasis] Eigh-ty-wo-men-to-one-man.

According to whom?

Did you get your 80 yet?

No I haven’t had my 80 yet.

Well they are robbing you.

Yeah? Yeah! What hell! Wait…have you had your 80 yet?

Yes, I’ve had my eighty!

And have you had 160.

Well, I am looking for that.

So *you’re* robbing me, not them!!!

Well the whole situation is that you supposed to get your 80, and they are out there for you.
[Said with a high pitched tone of encouragement.]
Now, a man can have as many wives as he have as long as he can maintain them. If you cannot maintain them, it’s a sin… if you have more than one wife you should be able to share and love them and, and, and, and give them all of the things. Right? Now – go ahead, what you got to say?.

How many woman do you think one man can maintain?

Well, Solomon had 1000, Solomon had 1000 and he had three hundred concubines. And he give all these women all the loving. Now you know sex is not all. Because when Solomon was on his dying bed he asked for twelve virgins. He said "My Lord, what can I do? It’s just the presence of them being here."
You understand that?

Yeah.

It’s not just physical. People need more than one people around them. If we’re going to build something and be more constructive, we need more than one person. We need several persons to really get what we are after.

But what about women, don’t they need several people too?

Well woman need several people, but not sexually.

But men do?

But men do. You understand?

Yeah.

Now it’s not every man that can handle the story. That is just as I will tell you. Now if you have two woman or three woman and you cannot support them it don’t make no sense having them. Its better you look for one woman.

Now let’s say you have 100% men, right?

Right?

Twenty five percent incarcerated, 25% is drug addicts who don’t favor no woman, 25% who dead and who is all over and don’t give shit. And the other 25% is born lovers. We are born lovers, not fighters, so we have, all the girls. [Laugh laugh laugh]

I’m not so sure about your numbers. But I’ll go along.

Yesss…its all averages. There’s 100% men in this world, and only 25% of the men is real men.

So than it should be 4 to one, not 80 to one.