"The Dumpling Shop!" Craig Carton is Creating His Own Weed Strain?! artwork

"The Dumpling Shop!" Craig Carton is Creating His Own Weed Strain?!

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

July 23, 2026

Craig Carton drops a massive, hilarious bombshell on Chris "Big Mac" McMonigle during this segment of The Carton Show!
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle
**Craig Carton** (0:00)
I could not find the spot, and I was like, eventually, I know I feel awful for me. Eventually, I had to just go to the lot, 80 bucks.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:06)
80 bucks, so one ride across the street on 34th.

**Craig Carton** (0:08)
Yeah, it was close enough.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:10)
$80.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:11)
I listen, expense it, tell the company there.

**Craig Carton** (0:13)
I should expense it from there. I had to be there. You didn't give me a choice, I had to go.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:18)
That's so weird, because I parked underneath the Javits Center in the loading dock next to Jake Paul.

**Craig Carton** (0:24)
How'd you do that?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:26)
You could have asked, but you didn't.

**Craig Carton** (0:28)
You could have offered. You knew I was going there. I wasn't there Saturday.
I was there on Sunday.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:33)
I just parked right underneath.

**Craig Carton** (0:34)
You had celebrity status for Llewain?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:36)
Came in on 40th. Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (0:38)
Very nice. Yeah, it was awesome.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:39)
Then they got in a golf cart, and then they drove me from the underground parking lot, right to the main stage and the Starbucks green room, where I was with Tiffany Haddish and a few other folks.

**Craig Carton** (0:54)
Like who?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:55)
I don't want to get into it really.

**Craig Carton** (0:56)
No, no, no.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:56)
No, it's not really. I mean, listen, if you let me.

**Craig Carton** (0:58)
I don't want to get into it.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:59)
I mean, Travis Scott, we were having those little lollipop donuts together.

**Craig Carton** (1:04)
Cake pops?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:04)
Yeah, cake pops. I had my first ever cake pop.

**Craig Carton** (1:07)
They're good. Yeah, they were good.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:08)
Yeah, I had that. Tiffany Haddish telling some jokes.
I'm sorry.

**Craig Carton** (1:14)
I'm not saying anything. I'm just hanging on. I like Tiffany Haddish, but that's like meeting with Tiffany Haddish, it couldn't have been that big a room.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:21)
Why do I make you feel worse?

**Craig Carton** (1:24)
Why would I feel worse? I hung out with Steve Apery.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:29)
It was great.

**Craig Carton** (1:29)
Look at you.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:30)
By the way, he's a good time.

**Craig Carton** (1:32)
He is a good time.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:33)
He's a great time. And he gives you things that allow you to have a good time if you want them as well. Oh yeah, that's my source right there.
That's my guy.

**Craig Carton** (1:42)
100%.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:44)
I'm in negotiations right now with my own strain of weed. Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:49)
Really?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:49)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:49)
The Carton Strain?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:51)
We haven't come up with a name for it yet, but we're in conversations right now where I might have my own strain of weed.

**Craig Carton** (1:58)
Who are you in conversation with?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:59)
I'm not at Liberty yet.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:00)
I will say it when I'm at Liberty.

**Craig Carton** (2:01)
A weed company?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:02)
Yeah. I'm coming up. They want me to come up with like the creative behind it. What do I want to call it? And I can pick my own taste profile.

**Craig Carton** (2:10)
Okay.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:10)
Which is like a dream come true.

**Craig Carton** (2:11)
Sure.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:12)
Bubble gum weed? Are you kidding me?
I'm your guy.

**Craig Carton** (2:18)
What's with you and bubble gum?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:19)
I want to have bubble gum flavored weed.

**Craig Carton** (2:21)
That's what you mask medicine with to get it down kids' throats.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:24)
I'm just saying. Imagine taking a hit off a joint and it tastes like bazooka?

**Craig Carton** (2:28)
Oh yes, sir.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:30)
Hey, Gallo, you get high all the time. If I came out with a strain of weed, because I'm in conversations with a company right now.

**Craig Carton** (2:38)
Are you? Yes, I may have my own strain of weed.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:42)
And I get to come up with the flavor profile and then like the creative behind it. This is, and we're at stage one of this. This is not happening like tomorrow. Once I agreed to it, they told me it's 60 days for them to be able to have it in stores, okay? I was thinking just aloud, bubblegum flavored weed.
What would you, would you smoke that?

**SPEAKER_3** (3:05)
You always pick the weirdest flavor.

**Craig Carton** (3:07)
So you would not smoke that? I would, I would. What if it was an edible?

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