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July 3, 2020 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1502 - Russell Peters
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russell peters
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unidentified
Russell!
russell peters
Joseph!
joe rogan
My man!
russell peters
Oh, we're live.
joe rogan
We're live.
We're sort of live.
Hello, brother.
Always good to see you, my friend.
russell peters
You too, thanks.
joe rogan
It's been a while.
russell peters
Midday drinking, I like it.
joe rogan
Sometimes you need it.
I had a steak for breakfast.
russell peters
I saw you post something about that.
joe rogan
Yeah, I was like, fuck it.
I don't want to eat breakfast food today.
I want to eat a steak.
russell peters
What kind of steak?
joe rogan
I got it from Evan Funke, who's the head chef of Felix, and they were preparing to reopen.
Felix is my favorite restaurant in Venice.
Have you ever been?
russell peters
No, I've not.
joe rogan
Phenomenal.
Brian Callen turned me on to it.
Okay.
And they came in, him and the owner, Janet, came in to do a podcast and they gave me some steaks.
So I cooked one of them today.
russell peters
What kind of cup was it?
joe rogan
It's a T-bone, fat, big, thick T-bone.
They were about to reopen and now they got shut down again.
russell peters
Do they not have a patio they can open?
joe rogan
I don't believe they do and I don't even think you're allowed to do that now.
russell peters
No, I think you're allowed to patio still.
You're just not allowed to eat indoors, as far as I go.
Well, that's good.
I went to the deli by my house yesterday, and I went, can I sit inside?
And they were like, no, it's not allowed anymore.
I go, oh.
So I had to sit on the patio, but it was fine.
joe rogan
They were going to do something at the comedy store where they were going to serve chicken fingers and just food and allow people to drink.
russell peters
Yes.
joe rogan
And just start opening it as a restaurant only.
russell peters
Yeah, I saw that and I guess it's not happening now?
joe rogan
No, they shut it down because right when they were about to do it, then LA shut down the restaurants.
russell peters
It's so shitty.
joe rogan
Well, it's real shitty, man.
It's real shitty.
And what's extra shitty about it is You know, they were almost out of the woods.
They were right about to reopen again.
Yeah.
Because the uptick.
russell peters
Yeah.
California spiked harder than everyone else almost.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's like Texas, California.
A lot of protesters.
russell peters
And then Florida.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was a lot of protesting.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
And people want to pretend it's not the protesting.
I'm 100% for the protesting.
Don't get me wrong.
But I'm also 100% for freedom!
America!
russell peters
I'll tell you what, boy.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, look, it's just natural, man.
You get a few sick people, and you get 10,000 people, 50,000 people huddled together, people are going to get sick.
russell peters
Yeah, and they're that close yelling at each other.
joe rogan
Yelling.
unidentified
Literally yelling.
russell peters
Screaming, so it's spits flying.
joe rogan
Apparently, particularly at night times when it spreads because Brett Weinstein, who's a biologist who's on the podcast, sent me a paper that said that there's a recent study that shows that COVID-19 dies almost instantly when it hits sunlight.
russell peters
Yeah, that's why it's ridiculous they closed the beaches.
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
That's where you should want everybody.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Just stay away from each other.
russell peters
Just stay socially distanced.
Out in the sun, killing COVID. Right.
joe rogan
Wear your mask when you're getting up and leaving, and then when you're sitting down, stay away from everybody, and everybody will be fine.
It's not rocket science.
The problem is that people are not going to listen, you know?
russell peters
Yeah, but I mean, still, I mean, fucking, you got a much better chance of it dying out there by the beach.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
And, you know, Fourth of July weekend, they did it.
It's only going to rile people up further.
joe rogan
Yes, yes, yes.
I mean, I'm really worried about this state.
I really am.
russell peters
The state of California or the state of the country?
joe rogan
Well, the state of the country, for sure.
But California, in particular, because there's so many cases.
And then the homeless population.
Have you ever been by Brentwood lately?
russell peters
Have they moved them all there now?
joe rogan
They got a fucking tent village set up there.
Jimmy, see if you can find photos of that.
russell peters
They used to have them under the bridges here in the valley.
joe rogan
My friend Matt was talking about it.
He works down there, and he was telling me how insane it is.
He's like, they're never going to leave this.
They have it set up now or they have like a community.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then you have to stay socially distant inside the tent community and a bunch of people don't want to follow the rules.
So they're outside the tent community.
So you have fences.
So you have the people inside the tent community that are set up with, you know, six foot distance.
russell peters
It's basically an HOA under the bridge now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it's not under the bridge.
They're using the veterans something or another, the VA. They have some large yard.
russell peters
Right.
joe rogan
And then outside of the fence, they have the people that are rule breakers.
So they set up their tents just outside.
They're like, fuck you, pussies.
We're over here making out.
Like, they don't want to have any rules.
They don't want to deal with the socially distanced.
If you're inside the tents that they've set up and created for you, you have to follow the rules.
russell peters
So the ones that are following the rules are probably the homeless people that just, you know, Took a bad turn financially, and then the other ones that are acting up, probably the drug ones.
joe rogan
LA is getting a government-run tent city.
All it took was 40 years and a pandemic.
But they're saying that like it's a good thing.
russell peters
Yeah, like, finally!
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what they're saying.
But, you know, this is going to, first of all, this is going to crush property values.
This is in Brentwood.
Not that property values are the most important thing, don't get me wrong, but they're an important thing.
russell peters
Especially in that neighborhood.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a very valuable neighborhood.
And if someone has invested all their money into their home, and they're hoping to sell their home, and then all of a sudden the home values drop radically because nobody wants to live right next door to a tent city.
See if there's any photos of that fucking thing.
Because the photos are pretty dramatic.
Maybe they're trying to hide it because they're trying to make it...
You know, that's one of the things, man.
Everybody's sugarcoating everything out here.
russell peters
There's sugarcoating, and then there's the fucking overreactors.
It's a very insane time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know why people overreact, though?
It's because...
It's not the same for everybody.
I have a friend who got COVID. He's 37. He was clear of it in three days.
In three days.
He felt like shit.
He couldn't smell.
He couldn't taste.
Three days later, he was on Z-Pak and something else and just stayed home and he got vitamin IVs every day.
And then three days later, he's going on a 25-mile bike ride.
Three days!
Three days, he's fine.
I don't know if it's a good idea to go on that bike ride, by the way.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I want to see what happens, so I'm not saying anything.
russell peters
I hope he wears a mask.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I want to see if it makes him feel like shit if he goes on the bike ride or if he feels great.
russell peters
I was talking to DL, because, you know, he just got diagnosed.
joe rogan
Yeah, I saw.
That was really scary.
russell peters
And he was like, no, I got nothing.
joe rogan
He's fine?
russell peters
Yeah.
He said I've felt nothing the entire time.
joe rogan
Well, he coughed a little today.
He had a video, a little bit of video.
He was hilarious.
He's like, oh, my Colvis is acting up.
russell peters
Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
It's because he probably smoked a joint right before that.
joe rogan
Probably, right?
But it was scary watching him just slump into unconsciousness on stage.
And whoever that guy is that caught him, that guy's a fucking hero.
russell peters
That's his road manager, I think.
joe rogan
Well, his road manager is a fucking hero, because if D.L. fell, he would have smashed his head on that stage, and you got real problems then.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because he was just sitting there, and he slurred his words, and the audience was like, what the fuck did you just say?
Like, they couldn't understand what he said.
You saw the video?
russell peters
I did not see the video.
joe rogan
Let's see if we can find it.
russell peters
I only just found out there was a video of it like two nights ago because Cedric was at my house.
joe rogan
DL is a fucking great guy.
russell peters
He's a great guy.
joe rogan
He's a great guy.
russell peters
I used to open for him, you know that?
joe rogan
No, shit.
russell peters
23 years ago.
joe rogan
He's smart as fuck, too.
russell peters
He's a really smart guy, but a really good guy, too.
joe rogan
Yeah, really good guy.
Really honest and open-minded.
russell peters
I think the...
A lot of the...
joe rogan
Here it is, right here.
So he's on stage, and I guess his road manager fellow, that guy right there, gives him a drink of water.
He puts the water down, and this doesn't have any volume, unfortunately.
There it goes.
Here it goes.
unidentified
We've been in quarantine so long, and we came back.
Remember, I wanted to get rid of the Mexicans.
They were immigrants.
joe rogan
Right, and everybody's like, what?
See, now what?
You hear that?
What?
But now watch.
He just slowly starts slumping.
Look, that guy, that road manager is a fucking hero.
Because that guy was there.
russell peters
Look, his head still hit the bone, yeah.
joe rogan
A little bit.
What I was worried was a stroke.
Because sometimes that happens to people.
But first of all, the way they drag him off the fucking stage, like, hey guys, one of you pussies actually carry him?
russell peters
They didn't even let him finish his set, though.
joe rogan
They're dragging him, though, bouncing off the...
I know, they didn't let him finish his set.
Just throw some water on him.
russell peters
We're comics, we can get through this.
unidentified
They said, like, we have everything okay.
russell peters
And they were like, yeah, right, you don't have nothing under control.
joe rogan
Yeah, nothing's under control.
russell peters
Joe Rogan meets a crazy stripper.
joe rogan
This is not how bad.
The real scary thing was the slurring of the words.
russell peters
Yeah.
He was at my house about less than a month before that happened.
One night on May 30th, I had them over with cigars in the backyard, socially distancing.
Of course.
It was me, Cedric, DL, Jay Phillips, Dwayne Martin, and we're just hanging out and having drinks.
unidentified
You like cigars?
joe rogan
You want a cigar right now?
russell peters
Midday cigar.
Fuck it.
Let's go.
unidentified
Fuck it.
joe rogan
Fuck it.
russell peters
I'll do a midday cigar and a little midday bourbon.
joe rogan
Mike Binder gave me these.
He came over when he was doing that...
russell peters
Oh, in the documentary?
joe rogan
Nice.
russell peters
I like Mike.
He's a good guy.
joe rogan
He's a good guy.
The documentary looks really good, man.
russell peters
Yeah, I went to the store and did it.
joe rogan
Oh, did you?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's probably the best place for it.
russell peters
Yeah, it's good because it gives the energy of the room, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He wanted to do it here, though.
He wanted to get he and I talking about it.
unidentified
Here we go, fella.
joe rogan
Take that.
russell peters
Take that, take that, take that.
joe rogan
This is an interesting one.
Look at that.
This is from Benchmade Knives.
russell peters
You get the coolest shit sent to you, dude.
joe rogan
Look at that.
Like a guillotine?
russell peters
It's my move.
It's my move.
joe rogan
Is that your move?
russell peters
That's my move now.
unidentified
Really?
russell peters
It's a good move.
You know, because of you, my other move is the in-arm choke.
joe rogan
Mmm.
Head and arm choke?
Yeah.
russell peters
And so whenever I get it, or I get in position for it, Sean Jack will be like, Joe Hogan choke!
The Joe Hogan choke!
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
Yeah, that choke fucked my neck up.
I was using my neck so much to squeeze against dude's arms.
russell peters
Oh, because you flatten out and do that?
joe rogan
Yeah, but you're actually using your neck rather to hold someone's arm into place.
So it's nice to hear that you've been training, man.
russell peters
Yeah.
It's nice to have been training.
joe rogan
Is it legal now?
They're going to arrest you for training?
What happens?
russell peters
It became legal, and then I don't know if it's still legal.
But I was doing it with Jay Zabellos and Mark Armstrong, whom you both know, I would imagine.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Jay's great.
Jay used to run the Malibu place.
I was going over there for a while.
It was a really easy drive.
He's a super nice guy, too.
russell peters
Really slick on the ground, too.
High level black belt.
joe rogan
Real technical, too.
Those guys that teach, there's something to be said about teaching.
I've often wondered whether or not that would actually translate to comedy as well.
Because teaching martial arts makes you way better at it.
When I got really good at Taekwondo, one of the ways I got really good was I was teaching all the time.
And there's something about that teaching all the time.
russell peters
Because you end up breaking it down.
joe rogan
Yes, yeah.
My friend Brent, he was one of Eddie Bravo's teachers, one of his instructors.
And he...
When I first started rolling with him, we were both like purple belts together.
And then he started teaching.
He quit his job and started teaching.
And when he started teaching, he jumped up, like, huge!
Like, he had made this...
Like, before, we used to...
I don't remember how we used to go, but it was close.
But then once he started teaching, man, he became fucking super dangerous, man.
I remember it was like a way harder role.
I was like, holy shit, man, this is amazing.
And it was really just for teaching.
russell peters
Yeah, my game changed.
Training with Mark and Jay every day for like a month and a half.
Like my game completely changed from, I used to just, you know, you rolled with me last year, so, and I always tell people what a fucking gorilla you are.
People, how's it like rolling with Joe Rogan?
I go, you ever rolled with a gorilla?
That's what it's like, rolling with a fucking gorilla.
joe rogan
Well, it's not fair.
I've been doing it a long time.
russell peters
No, I know.
Yeah, so my game was always just defend, you know.
Just defend, make sure you don't get got.
I wasn't going to get you, but you weren't going to get me.
Mind you, you got me.
So that's what my game became after that as well.
And then it just changed.
Something happened and I became from defensive to offensive now.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, once you catch a few people.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, the real secret is drilling.
And that's the thing that people don't enjoy doing.
People really enjoy rolling.
They really enjoy sparring because it's so fun.
Eddie Bravo explained that to me once a long time ago.
He's like, everybody loves to spar because it's so fun, but they don't work enough time, spend enough time, rather, on really developing new moves.
But if you spend enough time on developing new moves, then the sparring becomes so much better.
But you just have to be disciplined to do the drilling.
russell peters
Right.
I do get bored doing drills.
joe rogan
It's boring.
russell peters
Yeah.
10 this way, 10 that way.
joe rogan
But if you do it, and you do it with sincerity, you have to do it like almost think about it like you're actually pulling it off.
Because a lot of times guys go through the motions with drills, and they don't think of it as something that they are really doing.
They're just kind of like, oh yeah, this is how I do it.
But they don't think they're actually applying the choke.
But if you could think of it as like, this is really happening.
I'm really passing the guard.
I'm going knee on belly.
They buck.
I take the back.
I get the choke.
I sink it in.
They tap.
And then you do it again.
And you do it again.
And you do it again.
And then one day, you'll be sparring.
And in that sparring, the same thing will happen.
You'll pass the guard.
The person will move.
You go knee to belly.
They'll go to their back.
You take the choke.
And it's like, when that stuff happens, it's so satisfying.
You learn.
I made the biggest leap from blue belt to purple belt.
And that was because I was hanging out with Eddie, and we were drilling a lot.
He was maniacal about it.
russell peters
You guys started at the same time?
joe rogan
No, he was way ahead of me.
He was really good before I started.
He was a really good purple belt when I first met him.
Maybe, yeah, like purple.
Yeah, right around purple.
And then when he went off to, in 2003, when he went to Sao Paulo, he was a brown belt.
He was really good, though.
russell peters
And that's when he...
joe rogan
And then he tapped Hoyler, and then when he came back, Sean Jock gave him his black belt.
russell peters
He gave him his own black belt.
joe rogan
He did.
He took it right off his back.
Yeah.
Well, he tapped two world champions.
He tapped Gustavo Dantes in the first fight, and then he tapped Hoyler Gracie.
It was crazy shit.
russell peters
And then I heard Hoist chased him down in the parking lot or something.
joe rogan
No, that was a different time.
That was a different event.
That was the second time he had a matchup with Hoyler.
But he was never disrespectful to Hoyler.
It's just sometimes people get things twisted and then you don't see each other in real life.
If you talk to Eddie Bravo about Hoist Gracie, it was never anything but respect.
Hoist is a cop now.
Hoist became a cop.
russell peters
He's actually a cop?
joe rogan
He's a cop in Idaho.
russell peters
What?
joe rogan
Yeah, go to the real Hoist Gracie.
russell peters
I thought he lived in California.
joe rogan
Well, you can shoot people in Idaho.
I don't know, man.
I mean, he's a real...
russell peters
Did he not want a lot of action?
joe rogan
I don't know.
He's a very...
He's a gun enthusiast.
russell peters
I follow him on Instagram.
There's a lot of gun stuff.
And I'm like, I never really understood the connection.
I'm like, a lot of the fighter guys that I... A lot of fighter people that I follow are all into guns.
And I'm like...
Some sort of survivalist mentality, I would imagine.
joe rogan
Our newest reserve police officer spent hours in the rain going through training drills and completing the Idaho post-firearms qualification.
Hoist, motherfucking Gracie.
russell peters
That's so weird.
joe rogan
If there's a Mount Rushmore of martial arts, there's only one face that is absolutely on there, and that's that guy.
There's not a fucking doubt in my mind that guy's face needs to be out.
russell peters
And Martin Short, too, in the middle, apparently.
joe rogan
They really can't be a Mount Rushmore of martial arts because there's not enough heads.
Even if you had a Mount Rushmore of MMA, how are you only going to have four heads?
russell peters
There's a lot of people that came in and changed the game.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's too many people.
You have to have GSP. Have to.
You have to.
Two-division world champion, dominated the welterweights, revolutionized the way people think about athletes training for MMA. When he was at the peak of his championship skills, he was unstoppable, man.
When he beat John Fitch, when he smashed BJ Penn, like, those days...
russell peters
And then he came back after retirement and beat Bisping.
joe rogan
Then beat Bisping at 85 and put him to sleep with a rear naked choke.
He actually was better.
He actually looked better after four years out.
russell peters
It's a long time away, too.
It's not like a month off.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's Mount Rushmore for sure.
Mighty Mouse has to be Mount Rushmore.
You know, people forgot.
You forgot.
But you watch those Mighty Mouse fights back when Mighty Mouse beat Cejudo for the first time, when he beat, I mean, fucking the Ray Borg one when he threw him to the air and caught him in an arm bar on the way down.
russell peters
I remember that.
joe rogan
Goddamn, dude.
russell peters
That was crazy, though.
joe rogan
Mighty Mouse, when he was in his peak, was something really special.
russell peters
I have a friend of mine who trains with Mighty Mouse.
It's an Indian kid who fights.
A saint lion.
joe rogan
Is he fighting for 1FC? Yeah.
Yeah, 1FC's amazing, man.
russell peters
Gur Darshan.
joe rogan
Yeah, they have some really tough fighters over there, and Mighty Mouse is still stomping them.
russell peters
Yeah, I'm hearing that 1 might try and start up by the fall out here in America.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
In America?
Good luck.
russell peters
That's what I said.
I said it doesn't make sense.
You might as well stick to Singapore.
joe rogan
Yeah, Singapore, they're huge.
Are they allowed to do shows right now?
russell peters
I don't know, but I think the rest of the world's opening up, but they're not letting Americans in.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
russell peters
Well, it makes sense.
joe rogan
What did we do?
How did we fuck this up?
russell peters
It's funny, because America was the one that was stopping everybody from coming in.
Now the rest of the world's like, hey, hey, wait there for a second, you fuckers.
unidentified
What do you think it is?
joe rogan
Is it that so many Americans are overweight?
Is it the protests?
russell peters
It's that blind...
Entitlement.
As a Canadian, I could tell you this.
There seems to be like a blind entitlement with a lot of Americans where they...
I'm American.
I can do whatever I want.
I'm like, yeah, you can.
But can you just listen to a little bit of reason for a minute?
Here's why this is happening.
I'm like, no, you're invading my rights.
And I'm like, I get that.
We're all frustrated with it.
I'm with you on this.
But for the betterment of the rest of the country, if you could just wait a little bit.
joe rogan
We just wish there was an awesome treatment.
So if he got it, it was like...
My friend who's 37, I don't want to say his name because I don't think he's talked about it yet.
But when he got it, he was a little bummed out at first.
And then two days later, he's like, this ain't shit.
Three days later, he was like, no symptoms at all.
russell peters
Yeah, listen, I did the test on Monday.
I had your guy come to my house.
Well, he sent somebody.
And I was negative.
I did the finger one, the blood one, and the nose swab.
Negative on all of them.
unidentified
But...
russell peters
I think I had it, dude, in January.
And I had like a brief one.
joe rogan
Yeah, but dude, if you had it, that FDA-approved antibodies test that concierge MD uses, they would catch it.
I think that a lot of people thought they had it because there's the regular flu and there's regular colds.
russell peters
Yeah, but I never get those either.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah, but you can.
russell peters
You're a human, Russell.
It's true.
And then a lot of people, I think a lot of the testing results are getting marked wrong.
joe rogan
You think so?
russell peters
Yeah.
Listen, I had a friend pass away during this whole thing.
From?
He died of cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer.
And because they did a COVID test, they said it's COVID related.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's rough.
russell peters
And I'm like, come on, that's fucking bullshit.
Because I spoke to the doctor less than 24 hours before he passed away, and the doctor said he's got three to six months.
joe rogan
My doctor told me that.
There's quite a few cases of people that were literally at death's door from cardiopulmonary disease, and they got COVID and died, and they called it a COVID death.
And he was upset about it.
He was like, I understand because a lot of these hospitals are privately funded.
Privately owned, and that's something I didn't really even consider.
I always thought a hospital was like some sort of state-run thing.
I mean, I never thought about hospitals.
Did you?
russell peters
No.
See, I'm from, again, I'm from Canada where they're all government-run.
joe rogan
It's free.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, they have to make money, you know?
And basically, this guy was saying, look, the doctors are doing their best.
And it's not that they want to be deceptive, and it's not that they're doing it anyway.
But he goes, but...
Hospitals are like any other business.
There's a bottom line.
They have to make money.
And if there's an incentive for them to call something a COVID death and they receive extra funds, especially in a time like this, where they're really hurting financially, it makes sense, but it really highlights...
Why a state-funded medical, you know, some sort of a...
If we had, like, the way Canada has it.
Like, Canada's not perfect.
russell peters
No, I mean, listen, it's not the best.
joe rogan
But it's pretty good that you don't have to pay.
russell peters
It's efficient for what you need it to be.
You need something extra done, yeah, you might be better off paying a little extra to get something done.
But as far as, like, regular shit, you know, you get a cold, go to the doctor.
You break your arm, you go to the doctor.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, I have friends that have had real problems, like shoulder problems and knee problems.
They need surgery and they've come to America to get it.
russell peters
Oh yeah, no, that's the way it works.
Same with my dad when he had cancer.
The treatment he wanted or needed was in Philadelphia.
joe rogan
Yeah, so it's like privately funded stuff.
Stuff that costs more money where the doctors get...
They have an incentive to become excellent, right?
Because they can make more money doing it.
russell peters
Like specializing.
But then the Canadian government still picked up the tab for it.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
russell peters
Yeah, because it was a service that wasn't available in Canada.
joe rogan
That's sweet.
russell peters
Yeah, so they were like, all right, we'll get it.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a divisive thing over here, man.
russell peters
It is weird that it's divisive, too, because it literally benefits everybody.
joe rogan
Do you know why it's divisive?
Because the people that are healthy at the time are arguing about it.
They don't want to pay.
It's the people that are healthy at the time.
They're not looking at it long-term.
russell peters
But you would think that these politicians would be for it, too, because they're all old as shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, but they have money.
russell peters
That's true.
joe rogan
And they've been corrupt and taken money on the take.
Like, I'm a Bernie Sanders fan, and that's one of the things that I really like about what Bernie Sanders was saying.
You know, Bernie Sanders was saying that it should be a fundamental right as an American citizen to have health care.
russell peters
It should be a fundamental right as a human being anywhere in the world.
joe rogan
Yes.
The way I look at it, I mean, people have all these little weird arguments about it, but the way I looked at it was like, aren't we a community?
So if we're a community, shouldn't we, if we're going to take care of things, we should take care of fire department, right?
You should have a fire department, tax dollars pay for that.
You should have a police department, tax dollars pay for that.
What about health care, education?
All those things should be, there should be all those things taken care of.
russell peters
Yeah, I don't...
Again, I've only been here 14 years, so I'm learning about the education system now in America.
joe rogan
And it's trippy to me.
We thought Obamacare was going to cover it.
That's what a lot of people thought.
When Obama was talking about it and they were trying to get the Affordable Care Act passed...
We thought, oh, this is going to be it.
We're going to be cool.
But it seems like, you know, what is it, nine years later?
It's like 12 years later?
How many years is it now?
russell peters
Well, he's been gone for four.
joe rogan
When did he start it, though?
russell peters
He started it, I think.
joe rogan
He had an eight-year term.
russell peters
Yeah, wasn't it in the middle or the beginning of his second term?
joe rogan
Is that when it started?
russell peters
Or the end of his first term, somewhere around there?
joe rogan
So let's just say it's seven years old.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's still.
It's not much different.
Is it much different?
Jamie, do you know?
I mean, is it easier to get healthcare?
Is it better?
unidentified
It was.
joe rogan
Some people got it taken away from him already.
Because of Trump?
Yeah.
That motherfucker.
russell peters
And then there was also the people that were against the Obamacare because they said it made their rates go up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, there was that too.
Yeah, there was a bunch of people that were doctors that were upset about it.
They were saying it was too expensive for them.
russell peters
There's just so much fucking red tape and everything nowadays.
joe rogan
It's so hard to be a person.
russell peters
It's like being on a movie set, you know?
Hey, can I get a bottle of water?
Can somebody get a bottle of water?
joe rogan
Sure.
Don't plug that in, whatever you do.
russell peters
Yeah, right?
joe rogan
You plug something in, the Union Electric guys.
russell peters
Yeah, fuck, dude.
It's so crazy.
I did a movie last summer, and I became friends with all the drivers because they were all Teamster guys, and they were all Italian.
And I would just break their balls when we were driving back and forth.
They fucking loved me.
It's like lunchtime would come, and they'd be like, Hey, Russell, Mikey C says don't go to lunch.
He got you a sandwich from our spot.
And I'm like, Oh, thanks, Mikey C. Nice.
They were good guys.
joe rogan
Is there something to be said for Teamsters?
Yeah, we got a lot of people, man.
I think that's part of the problem.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Part of the problem in this country, we got a lot of people.
Humans are designed to live in little villages, I think.
I think when you get us into these big, large groups of people, shit gets weird.
russell peters
Yeah, well, everybody wants to establish their dominance.
joe rogan
There's a little bit of that, too.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
And there's a bunch of different ways to live.
Everybody wants to establish that their way is the best way.
You gotta do it our way.
russell peters
Yeah, and there's no one way.
joe rogan
There's no one way.
russell peters
Fucking Eddie.
joe rogan
Are you doing any shows right now?
No.
russell peters
I did.
I did Miami this past weekend.
joe rogan
What'd you do?
russell peters
Five shows.
joe rogan
The improv?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
So that was the first time in three months?
russell peters
No.
Two weeks before that, I did the American Comedy Club in San Diego.
joe rogan
That was the first time.
They've been open for that long?
russell peters
Yeah, so that was good.
It was like 75 people a show.
joe rogan
The Hoya Comedy Store is open again.
russell peters
Already?
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
It was good, though.
I had a good time.
And then Miami, I was getting a little leery of the numbers and the stats coming out, so I would literally stay in my hotel room until showtime, go to the show, do my shows, no meet and greet, and bounce right back to the hotel.
joe rogan
Were you doing anything to take precautions?
Are you taking supplements?
russell peters
Yeah, I'm on a bunch of shit, you know.
I got this anti-aging doctor that I see.
joe rogan
Were you taking vitamins, though?
russell peters
Yeah, I'm taking a bunch of vitamins, like some stupid amount, you know, like 20,000 or something like that.
joe rogan
Really?
Every day?
russell peters
A vitamin D? Yeah, or maybe 10,000 a day.
joe rogan
I take 5,000.
5,000 I use every day.
russell peters
Yeah, I take two 5,000.
joe rogan
Damn, look at you.
unidentified
I'm getting the D. Hey, wait a minute.
joe rogan
It's hard and you can't go outside.
That's one of the really rough things, right?
The best way to get vitamin D is really from the sun.
russell peters
Yeah, was it 15 minutes at a time or something?
But I get dark as fuck when I go outside.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And I got this stupid sunspot right here that I'm always paranoid about.
joe rogan
But does it get darker when you get tan?
It gets darker, yeah.
russell peters
It gets hyperpigmentation.
Tried lasering it off a few times, but again, in California, it's difficult when I go to these places.
They need a special laser for brown skin.
unidentified
Oh, really?
russell peters
I'm like, you're taking a brown spot off.
How difficult can this be?
joe rogan
What is it from?
It's just a birth thing?
russell peters
No, it developed over the years.
It was a tiny light spot, looked like a splash.
joe rogan
But it's something dangerous.
russell peters
No, and then it just, you know, just hyperpigmentation.
As you get older, your skin gets weaker, I imagine.
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of folks get those weird little black, like Morgan Freeman's got those weird little black spots that stick out of his face.
russell peters
Yeah, it looks like he's got black sesames.
joe rogan
It's strange, right?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
What is that?
russell peters
I don't know.
Again, I think I'm getting them somewhere on my neck I've got one of those now.
joe rogan
On him it kind of looks better, though.
russell peters
Gives him that distinguished speckled look.
joe rogan
Yeah, that guy can do no wrong.
Has he ever been in a bad movie?
What's a bad Morgan Freeman movie?
russell peters
What is a bad Morgan Freeman?
I don't think he's...
joe rogan
He's like one of those guys, if he's in a movie, I'm comforted.
I'm like, right.
It's going to be a good movie.
russell peters
He will drive Miss Daisy.
And he'll do it with class.
He's got great hair, you know?
You know, he's got a solid head of hair and a great voice.
He's like our generation's James Earl Jones.
Not that our generation didn't have any James Earl Jones, but he's like our second backup James Earl Jones.
joe rogan
That's interesting.
russell peters
You see they're doing a Jack Johnson movie?
joe rogan
Are they really?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who's playing Jack Johnson?
russell peters
Mahersha Ali.
joe rogan
I don't know that dude.
russell peters
Yeah, the guy from the Green Book, the black dude.
joe rogan
Oh!
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Really?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
Does he know how to box?
russell peters
I don't know.
Apparently he did...
I think he did a Broadway version of Jack Johnson or something in 2000. Oh, no shit.
joe rogan
See if you can find some...
That's crazy.
That was 20 years ago.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
2000 is 20 years ago.
russell peters
Does that seem right?
He seems so slight, though.
Like, he doesn't seem like a big dude, but he looks a lot like him there.
joe rogan
There he is.
Yeah.
russell peters
But Jack Johnson had those giant 13-inch wrists.
joe rogan
Did he really?
russell peters
Yeah, it's a massive wrist.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Massive wrists, huh?
russell peters
Yeah.
Wow.
joe rogan
Unruly.
Hold on.
Go back up.
It says HBO limited series.
Oh, it's a series.
Interesting.
russell peters
That's my favorite fighter of all time, Jack Johnson.
joe rogan
Well, you want to talk about a brave man.
I mean, that guy was knocking out white people at the turn of the 20th century.
russell peters
And he would punish them.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
He wouldn't just knock you out because he knew he could knock you out.
joe rogan
Right.
russell peters
He would hit you in the jaws of your knees, buck, and snap in and hold you up.
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
And he would say shit to them.
Not yet, boss.
Not yet.
You're going to have a long night tonight, boss.
Let's just beat the shit out of him.
He would hurt him and just hold him up.
No, no, don't fall down.
I want you to take this beating.
That to me is like the ultimate fucking gangster move.
joe rogan
I have one of those Roots of Fight shirts with him, and it says the Galveston Giant.
But when you look up how big he was, he wasn't very big.
russell peters
He was like 5'9 or 5'10"?
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
I think he was more than 6 feet tall.
But back then, he was a giant.
russell peters
Yeah.
Because of his wrists.
He had thick.
He was a thick dude.
joe rogan
I think he was only like 200 plus pounds.
russell peters
Yeah, he wasn't much over 200. Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
People just didn't have any food back then.
russell peters
No, he was dense, though.
Like his body was fucking...
The stories about him are, look at him.
joe rogan
Six feet tall, 200 pounds.
And he was a giant back then.
Isn't that crazy?
The Galveston Giant.
russell peters
His fucking forearms are bigger than his biceps almost.
joe rogan
Damn, he did have some giant ass forearms.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, he fought middleweight Stanley Ketchel.
russell peters
Stanley Ketchel, yeah.
In an exhibition bout.
joe rogan
And Ketchel tried to knock him out and dropped him.
russell peters
Yeah, and that's when he got right up and then knocked him out and his teeth got embedded into his glove.
unidentified
Yeah.
Whew.
joe rogan
Well, back then when they had gloves, their gloves were like bag gloves.
They were tiny ass little gloves with horse hair in them.
russell peters
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
And you could pack the horse hair down and guys would squirt water into their, they'd make like a small incision, squirt water into their gloves and pack the horse hair down to make it hard.
russell peters
Yeah.
It's a rough way to live.
You ever felt those gloves and the leather's really coarse?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a rough way to live, man.
russell peters
Little Arthur.
That's what they called him too, right?
joe rogan
Is that what they called him?
russell peters
Little Arthur?
He had a bunch of nicknames.
Little Arthur...
joe rogan
Imagine if you take a guy like that and train him today.
Just the character that you would have to have to be the heavyweight champ in the world when, I mean, racism back then was probably magnified by hundredfold, right?
russell peters
He would fight 45 round fights and shit like that, 60 round fights.
Him and Sam Langford and Peter Jackson and all those guys.
But he wouldn't give Langford a title shot.
joe rogan
Why?
russell peters
I don't know.
There's something with that.
I don't know what that was about, but...
joe rogan
Car accident claims Jack Johnson in 1946. That's when he died.
unidentified
Wow.
russell peters
Because he liked fast cars.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
There's that famous story of him getting pulled over by a cop.
russell peters
Yep.
Gave him $100.
joe rogan
Yeah, I told him I'm going the same speed on the way back.
russell peters
Yeah.
And then there was the other one where apparently he got into a taxi one time and the guy said, I don't drive the N-words.
Yeah.
And so Jack grabbed him, threw him in the backseat, got in the front, drove himself to where he had to get to.
unidentified
Wow.
russell peters
And then the guy's like, hey, what about my affair?
He goes, I drove myself.
joe rogan
And look at the, he had like white wives back then too.
russell peters
Oh yeah, he did that on purpose.
joe rogan
Imagine those chicks, how bold you had to be back then.
russell peters
It's probably hung like a horse, too.
joe rogan
Like multiple horses.
I would love to see what the world was like at various stages in history.
I wonder if one day they're going to be able to do that with virtual reality.
I don't know if you've ever used any of those Oculus Rift headsets or anything like that.
They're really interesting.
They've got one now with Alex Honnold, who's that crazy free solo climber.
russell peters
Right.
joe rogan
And, you know, he went up the side of a mountain with this camera apparatus on.
So you're literally looking at this climb from his perspective.
It's fucking bonkers.
But I wonder if they're going to get to a point, I would love it if they got to a point, where you could go back in time.
Like, you could go to, like, 1920s New York City and see what it looked like.
russell peters
Hear it and see it.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
Yes.
There's like videos on YouTube about what the world was like.
You know, if you can go back 10 million years, this is what it looked like.
And then they do this and what the world would look like in this many years.
That's all speculation, but I guess the ones going back are more...
Confirmed, so to speak.
joe rogan
I just would love to...
I mean, you're never going to really be able to go there, but I think they're going to be able to simulate it in a way that's really, really close within our lifetime.
russell peters
Yeah, they're on it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
They're on it, especially now.
They've got nothing else to do.
They might as well work extra hard on it.
joe rogan
I just think it would be amazing just to get a glimpse of what it was like, like 1700s Paris, walking down the street in the 1700s if they could recreate it perfectly.
russell peters
Yeah, and while they're building something that's like, you know, you could be there when they're building the Colosseum or something in Rome, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, they don't know how they did that, though.
That's the problem.
Like, if you want to go back to the Parthenon or something like that.
russell peters
Yeah.
How did they erect these?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who were the craftspeople?
russell peters
Yeah, because that's the thing.
There's a lot of...
Again, that always changes too.
That's the beauty of science is that there's never really the answer.
There's what they think the answer is.
And then when they find out the answer, like, oh, we were wrong the first time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Do you think you're going to stay in America no matter what?
Do you think about going back to Toronto?
I know you love it up there.
russell peters
I love my home, but I got two kids here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
I can't just leave, you know?
joe rogan
Right.
russell peters
What are they going to do?
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
I'm not going to bring two baby mamas with me.
That's not the way that's going to go.
joe rogan
Good luck.
russell peters
Yeah, so...
You know what?
I gotta lay in the bed that I made, buddy.
joe rogan
Or start a reality show.
Two Baby Mamas in Toronto.
That's the name of the show.
russell peters
Yeah, right.
Two Americans in Toronto.
joe rogan
Two Baby Mamas and Russell Peters in Toronto.
russell peters
I gotta buy three houses?
Fuck that.
joe rogan
No, you don't.
You buy one big house, and that's how you film it.
You have the East-West.
russell peters
Yeah, I'll take the center.
You guys are East and West.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have Division.
russell peters
I'm the referee.
I walk around with a Foot Locker shirt on all day.
joe rogan
Yeah, you all meet in the middle.
You set up like a gymnasium for the kids in the middle.
Everything's fun.
The game's in the middle.
Girls can talk shit to each other.
russell peters
Oh yeah.
No, that's no good.
That's no good.
I don't want that to be my life.
It's already my life.
I don't want it to be any further my life.
joe rogan
Well, you gotta think, what are comedians gonna do if it gets to a point where there really is no more income from stand-up anymore?
I mean, I'm legitimately concerned that this is gonna last a lot longer than people think.
russell peters
I'm definitely concerned.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
I mean, you know, this thing kicked me in the nuts pretty good, this whole thing.
And there's a reason I'm out there doing dates, you know, putting it on the line, just because I have to.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, your income is solely from stand-up.
russell peters
Solely.
joe rogan
And we all thought that was fun.
Yeah.
russell peters
If this didn't happen, I wouldn't even be in any kind of situation right now.
unidentified
Right.
russell peters
I'd be like, eh, everything's good.
There's only certain people who really blossomed in this, and you're one of them.
joe rogan
Well, Schultz.
Andrew Schultz figured out how to do COVID comedy better than anybody.
His videos that he does on Instagram are fucking amazing.
russell peters
I watch every single one of those, and I'm like, God damn, this kid's good.
joe rogan
They're so good.
They're so well-written, and they're so fast, and the pace, and just his timing, and his insight.
russell peters
And he does the little lines, little jokes in there.
I like when he takes the little jabs at everybody.
joe rogan
Yes!
He's a wizard at this stuff.
russell peters
Yeah.
How old is Andrew?
unidentified
He's in his 30s, 36 maybe?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Just old enough to be smart enough.
He knows what the fuck he's doing.
Yeah.
But still young and wild.
You know, he's one of those...
There's a few of those guys that are coming up that are...
In this day and age with social media and cancel culture, it's very hard to be a wild comedian.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, in our day...
When we were first starting.
russell peters
There were no rules.
joe rogan
There was no rules.
russell peters
It was fucking Wild West back then.
joe rogan
You were wild because everybody else was wild and that was what you enjoyed.
I enjoy wild comedy.
I've always enjoyed Kinnison and Pryor and when Joey Diaz is going off.
That's my favorite.
That's what I like.
And so that's what we all did.
But to be a guy like Schultz today, it's a lot riskier.
To be Tim Dillon today, a lot riskier.
russell peters
Yeah.
These guys, but they figured it out, you know, because they're from the culture that is canceling people.
So they know the inside of it.
They know, like, they kind of know the lines in it.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
russell peters
The lines move, though.
joe rogan
That's what's weird.
russell peters
Yeah.
I mean, the lines are very blurred right now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And I keep thinking, you know, I say it on stage, too, but I'm like, you know, if they're going to cancel it for what you're saying, they're not paying attention to intent.
They're not looking at the look in your face when you say something.
They don't look in your eyes.
They don't hear, you know, there's a lot of cadence involved in a lot of things that you say that take the sting right out of it.
And then I even said, if I was to read a transcript of everything I said tonight, I'm like, this guy's a piece of shit and let's get rid of him.
joe rogan
There's also temporary thoughts that go down as permanent record.
You know, especially if you're doing a podcast, you're just riffing.
You're talking shit.
You're trying to make each other laugh.
And if you take that and make it a permanent record, like, this is how this person feels forever.
russell peters
Wait till you see when this one airs, how many people...
Get that son of a bitch!
Get the fuck out of America if you don't like it here!
That's what I'm gonna hear.
You're gonna get a lot of that, and I'm like, no you fuck.
I love it here.
joe rogan
You haven't said one bad thing about America, though.
russell peters
Well, no, the minute you say anything and you're not American, you automatically get the fuck out is what you get.
joe rogan
What do you have to do to be American-American?
You have a green card.
russell peters
I have a green card.
joe rogan
What do you have to do to make the leap?
russell peters
I just gotta get a citizen, dude.
joe rogan
And a tattoo.
You need an eagle.
unidentified
An eagle tattoo.
russell peters
Should I get an eagle?
joe rogan
An eagle with a dick shaped like a gun.
russell peters
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
How about that?
russell peters
Wearing a gi.
joe rogan
Yes.
I like it.
But the gi is kind of originally Japanese.
russell peters
I know, but I think I'm just in honor of.
joe rogan
Okay.
American Eagle with a gi.
russell peters
American Giggle.
joe rogan
Do you have any tattoos?
russell peters
None.
joe rogan
None?
russell peters
You thought about it?
I think about it now and then.
I remember when you had none.
joe rogan
I had one.
russell peters
Yeah, you had one little one.
joe rogan
I had one on my shoulder, yeah.
russell peters
And that was like, in the past 10 years, you've definitely done a transformation.
joe rogan
Well, what I did was I wanted to get a sleeve, and I did want it to be patchwork.
So I wanted to do it all one piece.
So I went to Aaron Della Vadova down at Guru Tattoo in San Diego.
And we planned it out, and he drew all these sketches of what it would look like.
And, you know, it was a thought-out thing.
russell peters
What was it?
What is your sleeve, the first one?
joe rogan
Well, it's a lot.
It's a dragon.
It's wrapped around this Buddha that's holding a DMT molecule.
It's pretty wild shit.
Yeah, I just wanted art, you know?
And everybody's like, oh, you got a tattoo.
You're going to keep it for the rest of your life.
Well, that's not that long.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Guess what?
You know?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, what's better?
Old skin?
People are like, what's it going to look like when you're old?
Well, guess what?
All old skin looks like shit.
russell peters
Yeah, I at one point wanted a boxing glove holding a microphone.
Glad you didn't do that?
No, I'm not glad because I never got it.
Every time somebody would draw it for me, I was like, it doesn't look good.
joe rogan
When I was in high school, everybody had a fucking Tasmanian devil with boxing gloves.
That was the thing.
I don't know why.
russell peters
Then it became the tribal art, became the thing.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Or barbed wire around your bicep.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Or your ankle if you're a gal or a dude who likes dudes.
russell peters
Yeah.
And then they would do the tribal zigzags all over their back.
And I'm like, listen, you can tell.
That's like a time stamp on you now.
joe rogan
Yep.
russell peters
So you were really big into tattoos ten years ago, were you?
joe rogan
Yeah, the tribal thing's weird, right?
Why did that come in and go out?
russell peters
Because it was white guys doing it, who were never part of a fucking tribe.
You can't be tribal if you were never in a tribe.
joe rogan
That's so true!
Like, why do you have tribal shit out?
What tribe are you from?
I'm fucking Los Feliz, bro.
russell peters
You're not even from a tribe called Quest.
joe rogan
That's so true!
White guys from no tribe.
russell peters
Because the tribal people still do it.
joe rogan
Do they, though?
Not like those kind of tattoos.
russell peters
I mean, like the Maori tattoos and all that?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
russell peters
That shit's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's different.
russell peters
That's like real hardcore tattooing.
joe rogan
Oh, they tap it in there, too?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
A lot of guys, like, there's a bunch of UFC fighters.
Tai Tuivasa, who has that shit, from his waist down, like, his legs, he's got, like, shorts made out of it.
You know, a lot of those guys, they do it tapping.
So they lay there, and the guy has the stick.
Have you seen the tapping?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
russell peters
It looks painful as fuck.
joe rogan
It's gotta be.
Never done it.
My buddy Sturgill, he has one of those, he's got like a quarter sleeve that he's working on.
russell peters
I just like that his name is Sturgill.
joe rogan
Sturgill Simpson.
That's a legit Southern there.
russell peters
It's like they wanted to name him Sterling and Virgil, and they were like, okay, we're gonna call him Sturgill.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a good name.
For him, it's perfect.
He's Sturgill.
And he's got one of his tattoos he got from a Japanese master.
And that's how they did it, with the tapping.
It's a long, laborious process.
But that's a thing.
A lot of people that are real Japanese tattoo aficionados, they'll go to Japan to get tattooed in that tapping way.
russell peters
That's how the Yakuza gets it, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Some of them.
I'm sure some of them get it the other way now.
But they can do shit with tattoos now.
It's like...
The art form has evolved to this crazy place where they can do photorealistic tattoos now.
russell peters
That's incredible.
joe rogan
You ever seen Steve Butcher?
You know who that dude is?
russell peters
No, but I've seen some of the guys that have your logo tattooed on them.
joe rogan
Dude, a lot of them.
russell peters
And it's incredible how fucking realistic it looks.
joe rogan
I stopped posting them on Instagram because I was getting so many of them.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then someone posted, yeah, that's Steve Butcher.
He did me.
russell peters
That's insane.
joe rogan
It's insane.
Well, he's insane, period.
He's really fucking talented.
unidentified
Somebody got the Michael Jordan Trump.
russell peters
See, I would do some dumb shit like that if I got a tattoo, probably.
joe rogan
You know who's great, too?
Go to Ash Lewis.
Ash Lewis tattoo.
He's got some amazing shit, too.
There's that whole style of tattoos now.
russell peters
Stan Lee.
joe rogan
Look at that.
russell peters
Yeah, that's really incredible when they get that.
joe rogan
Click on that Stan Lee one, Jamie.
Let me get a look at that.
Look at that.
russell peters
Fuck, man.
Incredible.
If I was to do it, I would do one like that.
joe rogan
Like a photorealistic one?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Of both your baby's mama giving you the finger.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
One on each thigh.
russell peters
I don't know if my thighs are big enough.
joe rogan
Beautiful.
Oh, look at Robin Williams.
russell peters
That's amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he got the worst movie ever, Patch Adams.
That's hilarious.
That has to be a joke.
Like, Patch Adams.
Have you ever seen Patch Adams?
russell peters
I didn't watch Patch Adams.
I mean, I probably did at the time, but I don't remember it.
joe rogan
I don't remember the premise.
It's something really ridiculous.
It's like a clown that works with cancer patients or something.
Something along those lines.
russell peters
Yeah, yeah.
No, he was a doctor who would use...
It was based on a real true story.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What'd you say, Jamie?
Yes.
russell peters
Yeah, it was a doctor who would come in and do silly things to make the patients laugh to try and help their spirits.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it was bad.
Because they all died anyway.
russell peters
Yeah, but they died with great spirit.
It was a really happy death they had.
joe rogan
He was a rough one, man.
When that guy hung himself, I was like, oh.
russell peters
Yeah, you know, I never got to meet him.
joe rogan
I met him once at the improv.
It was crazy.
I didn't know I was meeting him until like five minutes into the conversation and I realized it was Robin Williams.
russell peters
How long ago was that?
joe rogan
Years ago.
Obviously he's dead.
russell peters
Yeah.
So not recent?
joe rogan
No.
I don't remember but I did a show at the improv.
It was quite a few years ago.
It was during the time of the podcast.
I did a show at the improv and then afterwards I'm shaking hands with people and taking pictures and this very slight Older man with a beard, a heavy beard, wearing a baseball hat comes up and he's like really complimentary, but he obviously knows a lot about stand-up.
He's asking me questions about writing and questions about certain bits, like really laughing.
And then I'm like, holy fuck, this is Robin Williams.
I was like, oh, thanks, man.
I really appreciate it.
That's really cool.
I just think he's some cool guy.
And then I realized in the middle of the conversation, this is Robin fucking Williams.
russell peters
Yep.
joe rogan
Because he had this crazy, thick-ass white beard.
russell peters
Yeah, you always grew a real bushy beard.
joe rogan
I think he was hiding, man.
You know?
I think for a lot of folks that are real sensitive, and he's obviously a real sensitive guy, that place of being that famous is fucking overwhelming.
russell peters
That famous and known for whether you are or not, but you're known for being always like on.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And then there's the pressure of having to be on now so you don't disappoint the illusion.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And that's got to be fucking taxing.
joe rogan
It's got to be.
Always on.
And then just also, you know, it's just the pressure of everyone recognizing you everywhere you go and...
russell peters
I think one of the best recognitions I got was Bob Newhart.
joe rogan
Oh, that's a good one.
russell peters
Like 10 years ago, he...
I didn't even know he knew I existed, but he invited me to be...
He was getting inducted into the Television Hall of Fame for 50 years in the business or something.
And he wanted me to be there on behalf of the younger generation.
And I'm like, are you serious?
And I remember I sat with Fred Willard and Mannix, what's his name?
Tom Connors, is that his name?
Chuck Connors.
joe rogan
Okay.
russell peters
Yeah, I sat beside them while we were doing it, and I was like, this is incredible.
And then they had a private dinner after, and I was sitting at the table with Fred Willard, and then the guy that was on Bosom Buddies with Tom Hanks.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
Where's that guy?
russell peters
Oh, Peter Scolari, that's his name.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
russell peters
Yeah, right.
And then Don Rickles was there, and Bob was just so fucking...
He's still alive, and I've actually been meaning to call him just to check in on the guy.
But he was so funny.
I remember he was about to make it.
He got up to make a speech.
It was like this private dinner we had.
He gets up to make a speech and this woman is like, Bob, is this going to be funny?
Is this a funny speech?
And everyone's like, who is this?
Fucking broad yelling at me.
Is this going to be funny, Bob?
Bob, is this going to be funny?
And Bob Newhart just goes, why don't we all find out together?
And I was like, it's fucking perfect.
It's so perfect.
The perfect response.
joe rogan
It is perfect.
russell peters
It wasn't like, hey, shut up.
It was like, why don't we all find out together?
joe rogan
God, that is just, that's some people.
russell peters
It's like a master talking, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, it's a lob.
She lobbed and he smashed it.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, some people are just so dull-minded.
Oh, again, is it going to be funny?
Like, she needed to know.
She needed to know from him.
russell peters
Yeah.
Bob, how should we react to this, you know?
joe rogan
Ugh.
Who's the first famous person that came to your show?
Do you remember?
russell peters
I don't remember the first payments.
Well, back in the mid-90s, the Raptors used to come to my shows in Toronto.
A lot of them, because we would do this black comedy night once a month.
Kenny Robinson had the Newbie and Disciples of Pryor all-black comedy show.
It was the ABC of NDP. And it started in April of 1995. And those shows would sell out every month to the point where I had every gangster in the city calling me, yo, I need you to put me on the list.
I'm like, man, you're fucking killing me, dude.
He goes, yo, don't embarrass me when I get there.
Make sure I'm on the list.
And I'm like, I go, Kenny, I got to put so-and-so on the list.
Is he going to bring guns?
I go, I don't know what he's going to bring.
But if he gets in and there's no problem, you'll have no problems.
joe rogan
Oh boy.
Did you have metal detectors?
russell peters
No.
joe rogan
There was a shooting at the store one night.
russell peters
I remember that.
That was a couple years ago.
The guy shot a guy on the patio, right?
joe rogan
Different time.
Yeah, that's a different time.
That was a murder.
That was someone who came to kill somebody.
There was a shooting in the main room one night.
I believe Tupac was there.
russell peters
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I was off that night.
I wasn't there.
russell peters
That must have been maybe Trippin' on Tuesdays or something?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't know.
They used to have Fat Tuesdays.
russell peters
Oh, Fat Tuesdays.
That's right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And then Guy Torrey took it over and had Trippin on Tuesdays.
unidentified
Is that what it was?
russell peters
Yeah.
And then Chris Spencer took it over.
joe rogan
Guy Torrey used to get up in the morning and do East Coast radio from his home in LA. I couldn't do that shit.
He would do it like five days a week.
I'm most positive that he did that.
russell peters
I had Guy and Joe over in my house as well.
We were in the backyard having cigars.
joe rogan
Do you remember when Joe used to host Def Jam and he was jacked?
russell peters
Yeah, he's still in great shape.
He does a lot of martial arts as well.
joe rogan
Does he?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
What does he do?
russell peters
He did some taekwondo and he did some Greco-Roman wrestling and stuff like that.
joe rogan
No shit.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he was one of the first guys ever to be funny and jacked.
russell peters
Yeah, but listen, he was one of my favorites.
I think he's one of the reasons, too, that I talk to the crowd so much, because I used to watch him do that, and I go, I love that.
I know you hate when I do it, but...
joe rogan
Well, it's not that I hate it.
If I go on afterwards, they want to talk to me, too.
russell peters
No, see, I don't get them talking.
I just ask them questions.
And the way I ask them questions, it doesn't open it up for a conversation.
It opens up to that they want to shut up now.
I try to approach it that way, like a jab, you know?
joe rogan
I get it.
I understand it.
russell peters
I want to make sure you're good when you go on.
joe rogan
I understand.
russell peters
I get it out of their system, Joe.
joe rogan
I understand.
Well, you like to do that.
That's how you form material, right?
russell peters
That's exactly how I write.
I remember you and I felt bad after last time we had dinner.
He yelled at me like, just fucking stop being lazy.
And I go, listen, Joe, this is my process.
joe rogan
I definitely didn't yell at you.
russell peters
Well, you know, you talk very...
joe rogan
But you said, no, you said I can't write.
And I said, you definitely can write.
Don't say you can't write.
You definitely can write.
You just don't do it.
russell peters
It's true.
joe rogan
Everybody can write.
russell peters
Yeah.
I mean, I used to write, but I need pen and a pad.
I got to go do it the old school way.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it's like for us, we're also ADD. It's hard to just sit alone.
Just sit alone with your thoughts.
But I feel like there's a bunch of different things you can do.
You can write on stage, which is great.
You can write throughout the day, just have ideas, then run them on stage.
All that's great.
But nothing's preventing you from actually sitting and writing as well.
I feel like when you sit and write, you have an opportunity to develop different concepts, different ideas.
russell peters
And I get it.
And I've been meaning to this whole quarantine, but I thought I would be the most motivated guy.
I think every comic thought we were going to come out of this quarantine with an entire new act that was so fucking well written and everybody I talked to was like, what'd you do?
Nothing.
I couldn't fucking sit down and do it.
joe rogan
I didn't write at all.
russell peters
No, me neither.
joe rogan
I didn't write at all on purpose.
First of all, because I didn't know how I felt.
When this shit locked down, first of all, everybody thought a large percentage of us were going to die, right?
russell peters
Yeah, we didn't know what the fuck was happening.
joe rogan
Nobody knew.
We saw the footage from China where they're driving on the street spraying that stuff into the...
The buildings.
We didn't know.
So we thought, man, what if we're losing a lot of our friends?
I was worried about Diaz.
I was worried about Tim Dillon.
I was worried about big people.
I was worried about older people.
russell peters
Joey was one of the guys who...
Checked on me weekly.
joe rogan
He checks on everybody.
He's awesome.
russell peters
Yeah, he's fucking great.
He was like, I love you, brother.
I'm just checking on you.
How's everything?
Tell me something good, cocksucker.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's a beautiful person.
russell peters
He really is.
It is shocking what a sweet human being he is.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's so gruff on the outside and his stories are so crazy that people get this distorted impression of who he is.
But Joey Diaz is a saint.
russell peters
And you would want to think that he's going to want to hang out with everybody and party.
He does not like that shit at all.
joe rogan
He gets the fuck out of there.
russell peters
Yeah.
Too many people.
I got to go.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
One person asked me the wrong fucking question.
I'm out of there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He just likes to go in and crush and then get out of there like a legend.
russell peters
It's great.
joe rogan
Still drives a Subaru.
I've been telling him forever.
I'm like, Joey, please get a nice car.
Get a Cadillac.
russell peters
Fuck, I need that Ford, Joe.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's him.
I don't give a fuck about that shit, Joe Rogan.
What am I going to do with a fucking Cadillac?
russell peters
What did you get?
Did you get anything to celebrate your Spotify thing?
Did you buy a nice car for yourself?
joe rogan
No.
No.
I haven't bought anything.
unidentified
No?
joe rogan
No.
I have enough cars.
russell peters
Yeah, you do.
joe rogan
I think it's enough.
russell peters
Maybe a watch or something that says, hey.
joe rogan
No.
No.
I'm just living like I always lived.
Just trying to concentrate on doing good shows.
Trying to concentrate on when, especially when Spotify launches, I want to just get real good guests and be prepared.
russell peters
That's why I'm glad I'm on now before we start getting good guests again.
joe rogan
Fuck that.
You're coming on, bitch.
I'm always trying to, you know, do my best.
That's what I concentrate on.
I feel like if I steer away from that in anything, I fuck up.
russell peters
Yeah, no, you gotta just keep it what you're doing.
joe rogan
Yeah, just keep trying to do my best and not even thinking about all that other stuff.
russell peters
I remember when they would be in your house.
You'd walk in, and it was right on the right-hand side in that little ass room.
joe rogan
My little office, yeah.
That was the studio.
russell peters
Yeah, that was the first time I did it.
It was December of 2010. Nobody was watching.
joe rogan
Nobody.
russell peters
And you were like, you want to do it?
I go, yeah, I don't even know what it is, but I'll do it.
joe rogan
We would have like 200 people viewing live.
russell peters
Yes, you were doing the live ones, too.
It was Red Band who figured that shit out already.
joe rogan
Well, that's how we started it.
We started it on a laptop with Ustream, just answering questions.
russell peters
Ustream!
That's what it was.
joe rogan
Yeah, Ustream.
And then we moved over to YouTube later on.
But it was just for fun.
russell peters
The YouTube clips keep me very entertained on the road.
joe rogan
Yeah?
russell peters
Yeah, I'll go look for a subject that I want to hear about, and there'll be like a 12 to 15 minute clip.
I go, perfect.
joe rogan
Well, that's one of the good things about the Spotify deals.
What Spotify is going to do is they're going to organize things like all the health and wellness podcasts are going to be organized, all the fitness ones, all the martial arts ones, all the ones with scientists, all the ones on archaeology, animals, paleontology, all the different ones are going to be organized so you can actually search shit.
Have you thought about doing a podcast?
russell peters
I have thought about it, yeah.
joe rogan
This is the perfect time, Russell Peters.
russell peters
I mean, I really want to, but I... Come on, baby.
What's up?
Can you put me under your wing?
joe rogan
Everybody wants that.
russell peters
Not really a wing, just let me use a space or something.
joe rogan
Figure it out, and I'll tweet it for you.
russell peters
That'll help, actually.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'll tell people.
russell peters
I mean, I do on Instagram Live a lot.
I'll talk to, like...
Like, I'll pull up, like, you know, look who's there and I'm like, oh look, there's Crazy Legs from Rocksteady Crew.
And I'll add them, we'll do like a live chat and we'll, and it's not the basic, hey, so tell me about breakdancing.
We just have a conversation and it's actually really good.
joe rogan
Well, that's cool.
russell peters
And then I get like, you know, I'll have, you know, a rapper, one of my favorite rappers will be on or something, you know, and it's just fun shit.
joe rogan
You know who I was hanging out with in Houston?
russell peters
Willie D, I saw that.
joe rogan
Yes, Willie D from the Ghetto Boys.
Dude, I hadn't done stand-up in like 90-plus days, and Willie came down to the show.
russell peters
That was this weekend, right?
joe rogan
This weekend, yeah.
And he's like, which show should I come to?
I'm like, please come to the second show.
I don't want to bomb in front of Willie D. But even the first show was fantastic.
It was fun.
It was great.
It went great.
First of all, the audience was so enthusiastic.
People were so happy to be out and so happy to do things.
And the day we got there, we weren't even with Brian Moses and Tony Hinchcliffe, and we weren't sure whether or not we were going to even be able to do the show.
russell peters
I've seen Brian Moses perform.
I don't think he can do the show.
Come on, Brian.
Come on, Moses.
joe rogan
He killed.
But we got there, and there was a stage one COVID alert that they had moved back to stage one.
Or phase one.
I was like, what does that mean?
And they're like, well, they're closing down all the bars.
I'm like, oh, fuck.
I thought we were going to have to literally get on the plane and go back home.
But then they said, nope, we're going to just keep the shows rolling.
And then Houston is Texas, and Texas is different.
They're closing down the bars, but they keep the restaurants open at 50% capacity.
russell peters
I really like Texas.
joe rogan
I love it there.
russell peters
I know.
I think I could move to Texas, but I couldn't go where...
You're going to go.
joe rogan
Where would you go?
unidentified
Dallas?
russell peters
Yeah, Dallas.
joe rogan
I love Dallas.
russell peters
I like Dallas a lot.
Or Houston, maybe.
But Dallas, probably more likely.
joe rogan
I love all of them, man.
I just love Texas.
I love the attitude.
russell peters
I do.
joe rogan
It's very diverse, too.
russell peters
It feels like its own country.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's all kinds of shit.
russell peters
And I think it gets a bum rap for a lot of things.
I mean, I'm sure those things exist over there, but I don't think that's what it's about over there.
joe rogan
Definitely not Austin.
Austin is a really open-minded, interesting place.
russell peters
It's like a hipster city.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's an interesting place.
russell peters
I had a good time going and watching live bands and shit in Austin.
They've got some great music and stuff like that.
joe rogan
Sixth Street.
Yeah.
russell peters
But listen, that heat is intense over there.
joe rogan
I like heat.
russell peters
No, I like heat too, but dude, it's a fucking dumb heat.
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
Like, I'm like, God damn, if an Indian guy's complaining about the heat, something's wrong with the heat, dude.
joe rogan
It's good for you, though.
It's good for you, that moist heat.
russell peters
It was, uh...
We shot a movie there, me and Faison, about five years ago.
joe rogan
Damn, I haven't seen Faison forever.
russell peters
Faison's great.
You should have him on.
You know you'd have a fucking great conversation with Faison.
He's really intelligent.
Despite his exterior, he's actually got a lot of interesting perceptive thoughts.
Mm-hmm.
Very, very good dude, too.
He's a great guy.
Solid guy.
joe rogan
And you guys were in Texas?
russell peters
Yeah, we were shooting.
So one day we were shooting.
It was like the hottest day of the year that day.
It was like in July.
I think it was like 118 or something like that.
joe rogan
So Texas 118 is different.
russell peters
Oh, it's not a good 118. So we were supposed to shoot the scene outside.
They were like, fuck, it's too hot.
We'll shoot it under this bridge for shade.
And it was a scene where these kids are breakdancing and then I jump in and breakdance with them.
So I had to do a top rock and some waves and shit.
But I'm like, dude.
And action.
And reset.
I'm like, no, dude.
I'm going to fucking die.
So we shoot the whole day of this thing.
And I'm fucking dead.
I'm wearing a blue shirt so you can see when I sweat and everything.
Then I'm like, oh, thank God.
That's over.
And they go, okay, we're relocating over there.
You're going to do the roller skating.
It's going to go, on the hottest fucking day of the year?
You want me to roller skate outside?
Yeah, we're going to do it.
joe rogan
That's the thing about movies, right?
They gotta jam those 12-hour days in.
russell peters
Oh yeah, we were doing 14 to 15-hour days because it was non-union.
joe rogan
Movies are hard, man.
You know, it's not hard like coal mining, but it's hard in that it beats you up.
A lot of comics that wind up getting into movies, their act sort of suffers.
russell peters
Yeah, well, it's one or the other.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
You can't be you on the movie set.
joe rogan
Right.
russell peters
You've got to be that character.
joe rogan
Well, I always tell everybody that I bet that's why Eddie Murphy stopped doing stand-up.
I mean, it's just like his movies are doing so good, and you're more insulated in that world, too.
He got too famous, too.
It's almost like it's a better way to do it.
russell peters
Yeah.
What do you think he's going to be like when he comes back?
joe rogan
Who knows if he's going to?
russell peters
I mean, it's a lot of money on the line for him.
joe rogan
I'm sure he's got a lot of money.
russell peters
He's got a lot of money, but I mean, shit.
joe rogan
I watched Norbit the other night.
I've been talking to people about it.
russell peters
I saw you post about it.
joe rogan
Bro, it's fucking funny, man.
It's funny.
Watch Coming to America the next night.
Family movie night.
russell peters
What was that movie he did with Owen Wilson?
I Spy?
Or something like that?
Something Spy.
joe rogan
I Spy?
Was it?
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
I don't know.
russell peters
It was actually a really good movie.
I enjoyed that movie a lot.
joe rogan
He's done a lot of fucking movies, man.
He's one of those guys where his movies don't get the respect that they deserve for some strange reason.
Like, what was that one that he did with Steve Martin?
russell peters
Bowfinger.
joe rogan
That is a fucking great movie.
russell peters
Do you know the story behind that, right?
unidentified
No.
russell peters
That the Heather Graham character was allegedly Anne Hesch.
It was based on Anne Hesch.
joe rogan
Really?
russell peters
That's what I heard.
joe rogan
Based on her?
russell peters
Yeah, how she was dating Steve Martin, then she ended up with a woman.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And then ended up...
joe rogan
What did she end up with?
russell peters
She ended up with Ellen DeGeneres.
joe rogan
That's right.
russell peters
And then she ended up marrying a man after that.
joe rogan
That's right.
Just keep it moving.
russell peters
Yeah.
Whoever's going to take me, I'm good with it.
I actually met her and she's very nice, too.
So, you know, what happened to her, man?
I don't know.
She was shooting a series up in Canada for a little while.
That's where I met her.
But, you know, the problem with Eddie was not the problem.
What happened with Eddie was his movies in the 80s were so fucking huge.
You know, it's like opening with a phenomenal joke and then the rest of your act, you can't follow it, despite how good the rest of the jokes are.
joe rogan
But so many of those movies were still really good.
They just didn't get the respect for some reason.
russell peters
Like Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hours, Coming to America, Trading Places.
I mean, hit after hit after hit.
Not like a little bit of a hit.
joe rogan
He was the man.
russell peters
And then, you know, you got another 48 Hours, and then you got Beverly Hills Cop 2 and 3. Even they were good.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
That was the first time I saw sequels and I was like, wow, that's just as fucking good as the first one.
joe rogan
But wasn't there like a time period where he wasn't doing films or they weren't as popular and then you get films like Bowfinger?
russell peters
Yeah, so I think after he did that one movie, it was like a military kind of movie in the late 80s.
It was somewhere around after Golden Child, it kind of fell apart a little bit.
joe rogan
Oh, is that what it was?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is that pre or post My Girl Wants to Party All the Time?
russell peters
That was post.
joe rogan
Okay, so that was an issue.
russell peters
Yeah.
My Girl Wants to Party All the Time.
You know Finest Henderson?
joe rogan
Yeah, sure.
russell peters
Yeah.
You know he wrote that for Eddie?
joe rogan
Really?
russell peters
Yeah, apparently Finest told me he wrote it for him.
joe rogan
Wow.
russell peters
He goes, yeah, I used to help Eddie with that back in the day.
Because Finest was actually a really big, he had a really big song back in the day called Skip to My Lou.
unidentified
Really?
russell peters
Yeah, it was a really dope R&B track, like early 80s.
joe rogan
I remember I was in New York City and Eddie Murphy had that song.
No, I was in Boston.
I was in Boston and Eddie Murphy had that song come out and I was like, this guy can do anything.
That was one of those things where when a person does that...
russell peters
And Rick James produced it for him.
joe rogan
Did he really?
Oh, that makes sense.
There's some of those guys who could just kind of do anything.
They could do movies, they could do comedy.
russell peters
He's got a reggae album out now, you know that?
unidentified
What?
russell peters
Yeah, it came out like three years ago, I think.
What?
joe rogan
Eddie Murphy?
russell peters
Yeah, a couple of years ago, Eddie Murphy released a reggae album.
joe rogan
See, I always feel like with certain dudes, like whether it's him or Jamie Foxx or dudes who just have this really diverse set of skills, they're probably just always doing something whether you know about it or not.
russell peters
They're just creatives that can't stop creating.
joe rogan
Right.
russell peters
And then they get...
You know, I think the thing with...
A lot of people are creative.
And a lot of people...
I think what you need is the...
joe rogan
What is this?
Eddie Murphy.
russell peters
That's the reggae.
joe rogan
Red Light featuring Snoop Dogg.
Whoa!
unidentified
Look at this!
joe rogan
He's playing guitar?
russell peters
Yeah, he plays instruments and shit.
joe rogan
Okay, we can't play any of it, but I'm gonna have to go and get this now.
But I'm not shocked, man.
I'm not shocked.
And I know he was thinking about doing stand-up again, but I do not know if he's actually doing stand-up again.
russell peters
So, I was at his house January of last year, January 2019. Tiffany Haddish took me to his house.
And it was this night that I was really not supposed to be there.
I wasn't invited, but Tiffany was like, come with me!
And I'm like, hell yeah!
So I went, and it was this incredible fucking night at Eddie Murphy's house where I walk downstairs.
The first place I see is Jamie Foxx.
He's like, hey man, what's up?
I'm like, what's up, Jamie?
And he's like, yeah.
And then I turn, I see Neil Brennan, and then I look at the bar, and I see Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher sitting at the bar, and I'm like, what the fuck have I... And then I see Kimmel, then I see Bill Hader, and then I hear behind me, yo, is this what you comedians always do, hang out with each other?
And I turn around, and it's Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest, and I'm like, what up, Tip?
And they're like, what the fuck is going...
What have I walked into?
joe rogan
Wow.
Wow.
russell peters
And then Jeff Ross was there, and then Chappelle came, Chris Rock came.
And I was like, what have I fucking walked into?
But the good thing is, you know, because you were comics, we all know each other.
And then, you know, I'd only met Eddie once for like a split second at a fight.
And he knew my name then, but when I walked in the basement, he goes, hey, Russell, thanks for coming.
unidentified
I'm like, Eddie Murphy knows my name!
russell peters
That's all I kept thinking.
Holy shit, Eddie Murphy knows my name!
joe rogan
I met him once with Charlie.
I ran into Charlie.
russell peters
Charlie was so great.
He was such a sweet guy.
joe rogan
Charlie and I did a tour together for Maxim, the Bud Light comedy tour with John Heffron.
And then, just randomly, I was in Maui, and just Charlie was in Maui.
And I went over and sat with him, and Eddie Murphy was weird.
It was so strange.
russell peters
How was he when he was with Charlie?
joe rogan
He was real friendly, man.
russell peters
Yeah, he was really nice.
There was nothing weird about him.
joe rogan
No, he's super friendly.
His first words, he goes, you're a funny motherfucker.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I was like, oh my god.
russell peters
Yeah, these are the things.
joe rogan
I might faint.
russell peters
Yeah, dude.
That whole night, I honestly didn't say a fucking word to anybody.
I was just in shock the entire time.
I was just like...
joe rogan
I know, right?
russell peters
Every time I turned my head, and then I was standing in a doorway.
Like that.
And it's me standing beside Eddie, and then Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, and Neil Brennan, and they're all trying to convince him to do stand-up again.
unidentified
Wow.
russell peters
And I'm just there, like...
I have nothing to add to this conversation.
Like, I'm not on Jamie's level.
I'm not on Chris's level.
You know, Neil credits.
I'm like, I'm just there.
But they didn't make me feel like, what are you doing here?
They made me feel included.
So that was nice.
joe rogan
That is nice.
russell peters
But, you know, Eddie was like, I haven't done it in 30 years.
I'm like, I'm pretty sure you've still got it.
joe rogan
Oh, he's got it.
russell peters
He said he's got about five minutes.
I got about five minutes.
But, you know, you guys are out there doing it every day.
And I know he wants to do it.
But it depends on how he approaches it.
joe rogan
Well, it depends on how he feels.
If he just decides he wants to do it.
The thing about stand-up is that you have to do it in front of people.
You've got to go out there and do it in front of people.
russell peters
Yeah, there's no theory to it.
joe rogan
Right.
It's not like music.
You can create an album with just you and your friends.
You can't really create a comedy set without being at a place where you're going to have random people come and pay money to see you talk.
russell peters
And that's the other problem he's got to overcome, is that people are going to be coming expecting, you know, maybe they're expecting delirious or raw coming out of him.
But he's a 60-year-old man now.
He's got fucking 10 or 11 kids.
joe rogan
I think he does, yeah.
russell peters
When I met him, when I was at his house, his baby was only maybe a couple months old, or a month old.
joe rogan
Wow.
russell peters
And then, end of the night, I got stuck in the basement of his house.
joe rogan
What happened?
russell peters
Well, everyone was leaving, and I didn't know where Tiffany went.
And I'm literally standing against the wall, and I'm the only uninvited guy there, really.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, all the Netflix people were there, and I'm like, oh boy, I don't know what the...
And I'm looking around going, I don't know where the fuck Tiffany went.
And finally, like, it was me and then eight of Eddie's kids were sitting at this one table.
And I'm just standing there like a creep, like right across from them.
And I see Kenya Barris going upstairs.
And I was like, Kenya, don't leave without me.
So I left.
I went up with him.
And as you walked up, they had the door open to suggest, just get the fuck out of the house.
And I was like, um, said the lady, hey, uh, I came with Tiffany and she's kind of my ride.
She did.
She picked me up.
And I'm like, I don't know where she is.
And then they were like, oh, I think she went to the backyard.
I go, okay.
And I'm like, what am I supposed to do with that?
I'm not going to go walking around the guy's house.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
How do you get to the backyard?
russell peters
Thank God one of his sons was walking by and goes, oh, I'll take you to the backyard.
And I said, oh, thank goodness.
So I go to the backyard.
It's a massive backyard.
This fucking house is insane.
Where does he live?
Beverly Hills.
joe rogan
Of course.
russell peters
Yeah.
But in that really exclusive gated community there, like where Denzel lives.
joe rogan
Stallone.
russell peters
Yeah, in these massive houses.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Like, I think honestly it was about 30,000 square feet, the house.
joe rogan
How weird must that be to be that guy?
To like, you know, know those people, who those people are when you're young, and then all of a sudden you're one of them people?
russell peters
It's, listen, I mean, I'm still aghast from it a year and a half later.
joe rogan
I can only imagine.
I mean, there's like an exclusive A-list celebrity group of humans.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
And there's like, I guess like when a guy like him has a party like that, like those are the only people that are just going to be semi-normal around him.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, he can't have that like, Eddie, is this, is this going to be a funny speech?
russell peters
Yeah, no, none of that.
You can't have no fucking weirdos.
Can't have any.
And that's why I didn't want to say anything because I wasn't sure what I'm, like, am I going to say something stupid and be like, who brought this guy?
joe rogan
You can't have any normies.
russell peters
Yeah, and I felt too normal.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Isn't that funny?
It felt like a mortal.
joe rogan
Isn't that funny?
Like, if you go to the comedy store, you fit right in.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
But if you go, like, when you're around too many celebrities, you do feel like a fraud.
russell peters
Yeah, well, and that's the thing, too.
Like, you and I are both friends with Chappelle.
I've known Dave 25 years.
And when it's just me and him hanging out, it's literally like me and Dave hanging out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And then, you know, then you go somewhere, and then he gets spotted by people, and he elevates.
And then you become like, hey, I'll be over here.
You just carry on over there.
joe rogan
Dave took me to one of the weirdest parties ever.
He took me to this Naomi Campbell party in the Hollywood Hills.
And we had a drive up to the house, and then you had to take, like...
Some weird elevator from the downstairs house to the upstairs house.
And as we're driving up the upstairs house, there's a photo of Naomi Campbell that's like 40 feet tall that's on the side of this building, and it's her naked.
It's a 40-foot tall, naked Naomi Campbell.
And then you're riding on this elevator.
You get up there.
Demi Moore's there, and Lenny Kravitz is there.
I'm like, this is so strange.
Dave said one of the funniest things ever.
He goes, man, I would never want to be this famous.
I go, look at me, motherfucker.
You're the most famous person here.
He's like, no way.
I go, yeah, you're the most famous person here.
And we were both laughing about it.
He became famous or maybe doesn't realize it or maybe doesn't think about it, which is why he's so funny because he just concentrates on just life.
russell peters
He's still Dave.
When you hang out with him, he still has the same...
Sensibilities about him.
joe rogan
100%.
russell peters
Like when he was shooting Half-Baked in Toronto maybe 24, 23 years ago, I was with him every day on set.
I would hang out in his trailer, hang out with his dog.
He had a little white Pomeranian back then named Thelonious.
And I would take him for drives to my hometown, Brampton, Ontario.
He goes, where the fuck are we going?
I go, I'm going to take you to this magnetic hill out in Caledon.
So I took him to this hill.
You drive down and the car rolls up.
What?
It's an optical illusion.
I still can't figure it out even when you're there, but it looks like you're driving down and the car rolls up the hill.
You put your car in neutral and it rolls up.
joe rogan
But it's not really rolling up.
russell peters
No, it looks like it is.
And you can't unsee it.
You're like, it is rolling up.
But then when you get out and stand there, you kind of see that, no, it's kind of on an angle, but because there's a road going up like this above it.
joe rogan
Oh.
russell peters
So it looks like it's going down, but it really, it's not.
joe rogan
Okay.
russell peters
Yeah, it's pretty wild.
joe rogan
I can't even imagine what that looks like.
russell peters
And then there's a road right there that we used to call the rollercoaster road.
It's like a really windy road with all these fucking humps, and we would drive, play like drum and bass, and I would drive really fast over this road and feel like a rollercoaster.
joe rogan
Do you hear they're doing a new one?
russell peters
What?
Half-Baked 2. Are they really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Shut up.
With Dave?
joe rogan
No.
Someone's playing Dave's son.
russell peters
Who, Little Duvall?
joe rogan
I don't know.
He's too old.
unidentified
He's too old, but it would be perfect if he was younger.
joe rogan
What is this?
Is this the road?
jamie vernon
He's rolling backwards up a hill.
russell peters
That's not it.
unidentified
Not it?
joe rogan
No.
russell peters
It's not a tree-lined road like that.
joe rogan
Magnetic hill?
russell peters
But it is very much like that.
joe rogan
Okay.
russell peters
It looks like that, and then you roll up and it fucks your whole head up.
unidentified
Hmm.
russell peters
Interesting.
But then we went out there and was like, man, what the fuck are we doing all the way out here?
And I'm like, don't worry about it, man.
I'll show you this.
And we took him on the road.
He's like, oh, that's it right there.
That's it?
That's actually it.
joe rogan
Okay, it looks like you're rolling downhill.
You guys are idiots.
russell peters
No, you're driving.
You drive downhill.
Now watch you roll up.
joe rogan
Dude, you're rolling downhill.
unidentified
Now it's a backwards seat.
joe rogan
What?
jamie vernon
I think they show you they put the car in neutral and then the car starts going backwards.
joe rogan
Right, because it's going downhill.
Jesus Christ.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
He's going backwards up a hill.
That's not up.
unidentified
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
That is definitely not up.
russell peters
When you're there, your eyes will deceive you.
joe rogan
Okay, I believe you.
I don't know.
russell peters
Maybe something wrong is Canadian education.
You know, it's free.
Hey, at least it's free, right?
joe rogan
It's free here, too.
It's terrible.
They're cutting the budget.
That's one of the responses to COVID. They're going to cut the education budget.
How about you cut your salary, you fucks?
russell peters
I don't think they have a good salary, the teachers, do they?
joe rogan
Not the teachers.
I'm talking about the politicians.
russell peters
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It's not the teachers' call to cut their salaries.
I guarantee you that.
russell peters
Sure, the teachers are like, hey, guys, just take my money.
It's fine.
joe rogan
I don't think that letter works anymore.
russell peters
It did.
joe rogan
It'd be a sad time to be in school in L.A. They all have to wear masks, and the teachers have to wear shields over their face.
russell peters
My daughter's been Zooming.
And then my fucking ex-wife signed her up for summer school.
I'm like, that sucks, dude.
You got her on summer school Zoom.
I'm like, that's not even...
joe rogan
Oh, that's not school.
russell peters
Yeah, I know, that's shitty.
joe rogan
But they're doing camp for some kids.
They're doing, like, temperature checks and shit, and they're going to do camp.
russell peters
Really?
No, not her.
She's doing, like, the day before school starts, Daddy, is it too late if I don't want to go to summer school?
I go, Baby, I would never have signed you up for summer school, but Mommy did, so we got to do it.
I mean, she means well, you know.
joe rogan
The mommy does.
Yeah.
No, I'm sure.
It's also like, I think mommies want a little bit of a break.
russell peters
I would have taken her.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
You know, she's fine.
She could have been with me.
joe rogan
Well, this is a good time to really bond with your kids.
russell peters
Well, that's what I mean.
My daughter, like, you know, wants to be in my house 24-7 now.
Daddy's house is the fun house.
That's why.
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
Oh, I don't have to shower till 10 at night?
This is awesome.
joe rogan
Are you going to continue to go on the road?
And if you do go on the road, are you getting tested, like, every time when you come back?
russell peters
Yeah, I think that's the way it's going to have to go.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what I've been doing.
I'm not doing it anymore, though.
I'm not doing any more road gigs.
Not for months.
I decided after this Houston one, I was like, if I brought it back, I'm like, I'm just doing this for fun.
It's like, yeah, we're doing stand-up again.
This is amazing.
And then I thought about it.
I'm like, yeah, but if I bring it back, you know, if I catch it...
russell peters
Did you fly commercial and everything?
joe rogan
No.
russell peters
Oh, I see.
Smart.
unidentified
No.
russell peters
And you didn't do any meet and greets?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
No, I tried to do it.
I did it just for the experience.
The whole idea was like, let's just go there.
Let's have fun.
We'll do it for the experience.
And then when we come back, we'll reassess.
But then what freaked me out as coming back is like, if I gave it to other people.
That's the number one fear that I have.
You know?
russell peters
I had your guy come and test me on Monday.
Abe.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he'll get it in 24 hours.
russell peters
Yeah, he did the...
He sent somebody, they did the finger one, which was immediate, and then they did the other one that came...
Yeah, I got the results the very next day, which I thought was really great.
joe rogan
I've been tested...
Nine times, I think.
Nine times since this thing started.
russell peters
Have you been microdosing at all?
joe rogan
A little bit every now and then.
Want to do some right now?
russell peters
I've never done it.
You know, I'm the CCO of a company that does...
joe rogan
A microdosing company?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
How do they do that if it's all super illegal?
russell peters
Well, no.
So what it is, it's a company called Red Light Holland.
And it's the truffle.
joe rogan
The truffle.
russell peters
So it's the top, the mushroom cap is the illegal part.
joe rogan
What?
russell peters
The stem, which is the truffle, is not illegal.
joe rogan
They're going to jail.
Okay, listen to me.
russell peters
This shit's all illegal.
We're in the process of getting it all legalized and done the right way.
And it'll be available in the Netherlands first, microdosing.
And then eventually, we're hoping it goes the way of marijuana.
joe rogan
Well, I think it can.
Right now, everything's in flux.
Everything's all fucked up right now.
Particularly in California.
russell peters
Chappelle wanted me to do mushrooms with him.
He said, you gotta do mushrooms.
I go, I've never done it.
Because you gotta do it with me and John Mayer.
I'm like, um...
Whoa.
joe rogan
It's heavy.
I hope John starts singing.
russell peters
Yeah, I go, you guys are both professionals at this.
I don't want to be the guy fucking crying in the corner.
joe rogan
Are you nervous about it?
russell peters
Yeah, I don't know what it does.
joe rogan
Just do a little bit.
Just do a little.
Do a little and you're fine.
russell peters
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, you build it.
You just try it out.
You do a little...
russell peters
Should I be alone when I do it?
joe rogan
The first time you should do it with a friend.
russell peters
Who knows how to...
joe rogan
Yeah, I would say just to take one cap.
Just something light.
You'll feel good.
The mushrooms want you to like them.
And so the first time you do it, they're going to welcome you.
They're going to be like, oh man, this is what you should be doing.
I'm going to straighten out all your personal problems.
All these weird personality tics that you got, all this strange shit, the trouble you keep getting yourself into.
russell peters
I fucking do, too.
joe rogan
We'll help you.
The mushroom's gonna talk to you.
We'll help you.
And then one day they're gonna trick you into taking a large dose, and then you're gonna meet the aliens.
Then you're gonna realize that this dimension that we live in is...
It's connected to neighboring dimensions that are accessible through certain psychedelics.
And then once you see that, you can never unsee it.
Regular life loses its seriousness.
It loses like 20% of its seriousness.
Serious, still regular life, but 20% of it goes away forever because you know that that's possible.
You know that these other worlds exist and that other people are just out there running through their entire life from birth to death and they never experienced those worlds.
It's that's a that's weird because like you're running around like I run into people because people know that I've done a lot of psychedelic drugs So I'll run into people That know and they've done it too and they look at you and they'll talk to you like hey man You know I did this because of you like a buddy of mine said that to me the other day You gave me the courage to try this Psychedelic drug and I was like, oh shit.
What was it like?
russell peters
What did he take?
He took DMT and he was like That's a little bit more advanced, I would imagine.
joe rogan
And this guy, he's a bad motherfucker, he's a Navy SEAL, but never had any experience like that.
russell peters
What was his experience with it?
joe rogan
Well, I mean, I would have to talk to him more in depth, but when everybody does it, What you get when they're describing it is just sort of like trying to use words to describe something where there's no references.
The words don't work.
You could kind of tell me what it was like and I could kind of go, yeah, okay, I kind of see that because I've done it.
But if I hadn't done it, there's no way.
I have nothing.
russell peters
It's like somebody trying to explain their dream to you.
joe rogan
Well, that's what's similar.
This stuff, DMT, is actually endogenous.
It exists in the human body.
And they believe that it comes out in your dreams.
They believe that when you're dreaming, your body is releasing some of that stuff.
They don't totally understand it, right?
It's one of those weird things where they really only found out that mammals created in the pineal gland within the last few years.
The Cottonwood Research Foundation, which is connected to Rick Strassman, who wrote that book, DMT the Spirit Molecule.
He ran a bunch of FDA approved, I believe the only FDA approved tests on DMT, where they shot it into people in A clinical setting.
russell peters
How did you consume it?
joe rogan
I was freebasing it.
You freebase it.
russell peters
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Like a fiend?
joe rogan
Yeah, like a fiend.
It's like a glass bowl connected to like a tube.
And you light the bottom of the bowl.
The DMT sits inside the bowl.
russell peters
What is the...
joe rogan
It looks like a white powder.
Like a white, almost yellowish white powder.
Depending on which one you take.
The 5-methoxy DMT is white.
And then the other stuff was more like white with like a little bit of yellow to it.
And you take it.
It tastes like burnt plastic.
It tastes terrible.
And you take a big deep breath.
You want to take like three big inhales.
The first time I did it, I only took one.
And I just got to the door.
I got like to the door of the DMT dimension.
I was like, what is this?
This is weird.
It was really weird, but I didn't even know what weird was.
Because like 20 minutes later, I did a second one.
And the second one, I took way more.
I took like three big hits.
And then it was almost like you're in a slingshot or a catapult.
It was like you could feel the tension.
And all of a sudden, you shot through these colors and lights into what felt like some new place.
russell peters
What is your physical doing during all of this?
joe rogan
Just laying there.
Laying there.
One time recently, I did it.
The last time I did it was a couple years ago.
I opened my eyes.
In the middle of it was very strange.
It's like I can almost see reality, but it was all real pixelated and it was like I was seeing life through like a Dirty saran wrap or something.
It was all was very strange and then I closed my eyes back and I went it's the experience of the psychedelic realm is more vivid than regular life Which is real strange because it doesn't feel like you're on a drug Because you're still you.
That's another part of it.
It doesn't change your...
Like when you're drunk, it changes the way you think.
Like you think different.
This is not that.
This is like you think the same way, but you're being confronted with something that's insanely alien.
Just alien to everything that you know to be true.
And then there's all these things around you that seem to be alive.
And they seem to be talking to you and communicating to you.
The last time I did it was a bunch of jokers that were giving me the finger.
Like jesters.
Jesters with like, you know, they have little bells.
They were all like shaking and giving me the finger and like spinning around like going, fuck you!
They were mocking me.
And the thing that I got from it was like, oh, I take myself too seriously.
I need to be mocked.
And they were mocking me.
And as they were mocking me, I relaxed.
And then they pointed at me like, ah, you get it.
You get it.
You get it.
Because you can get lost.
You can take yourself seriously and you want others to take you seriously.
What is the grossest kind of man, the kind of man who wants everyone to He wants to tremble when he walks into a room, wants rose petals thrown at his feet.
He wants everyone to call him sir.
russell peters
And be uncomfortable.
joe rogan
Yeah, everyone to be uncomfortable because he's a fucking man.
And that kind of guy responds very poorly to being mocked, right?
So I think that it was like letting me know, like, hey, bitch, you got a little of that in you.
You need to get that out of your system.
Especially as a person who's a professional mocker.
I'm a mocker of things.
russell peters
We are stand-up mockers.
joe rogan
There's a lot to be mocked.
russell peters
How long does it last for?
joe rogan
15 minutes.
russell peters
That's it?
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
And what about the microdosing?
joe rogan
That's similar.
This video that you're playing?
It's kind of like that, but way more intense.
unidentified
I don't know how this...
joe rogan
It's a VR experience called ayahuasca.
I don't know how exactly it works.
russell peters
I haven't tried it.
Is ayahuasca different?
joe rogan
No, it is and no.
See, the thing about ayahuasca is it lasts longer because it's orally...
See, that's probably more similar.
And you can get there on ayahuasca and DMT. It's the same thing.
It's dimethyltryptamine.
It's just when you're taking it with ayahuasca, your body is processing it orally, and you take it with something called an MAO inhibitor.
MAO is monoamine oxidase that's produced by your gut, and it processes DMT naturally that exists in plants.
So there's a lot of plants that have DMT in it.
And if you were eating grass, like some sort of phalaris grass or something like that, it's really rich in DMT. So if you were eating that, you would get high as fuck.
But monoamine oxidase that's produced by your gut, It breaks that stuff down so it's not orally active.
So if you took some DMT that you would freebase and just ate it, it wouldn't do anything to you because your gut would break it down.
But then if you took it with an MAO inhibitor, preferably the kind of plant-based MAO inhibitor that they use in ayahuasca because they know...
Those MAO inhibitors that people take, sometimes people take them as a medication, those can be dangerous.
They're much more potent.
And there's all sorts of weird side effects.
I've heard of people taking...
Pharmaceutical MAO inhibitors and then they take mushrooms or something else with them and they really can fuck them up like real bad.
russell peters
Yeah, because they're cross-pollinating their fucking drug use.
joe rogan
You're doing all kinds of wacky shit to your brain that your brain is probably not really designed.
You're redlining your brain.
Your brain may stay together or you might go fucking shine on you crazy diamond.
russell peters
Yeah, you go off the deep end.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Have you had any kind of experience with MDMA or anything?
unidentified
Nope.
joe rogan
Nothing?
russell peters
Nothing.
unidentified
Pot?
russell peters
Not good experiences.
joe rogan
Even the bad ones are good.
The bad pot experiences teach you that regular life is okay.
russell peters
I hit the CBD before I go to bed.
joe rogan
That's great.
russell peters
With some THC in it.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
Just a little bit to crash you?
Yeah.
russell peters
And I have the fucking weirdest dreams when I'm on them.
joe rogan
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
russell peters
CBD. Really fucking weird dreams.
joe rogan
Just CBD alone, I'm so happy that that stuff's legal for folks with, like, anyone with arthritis or weird aches and pains.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fucking CBD is a game changer.
russell peters
It really is.
Yeah, especially the creams.
You know, Tyson's one is really good.
joe rogan
It's really good.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
He gave me a bunch of it.
russell peters
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll call Mike.
I'm like, I need some more.
joe rogan
His weed is stupid strong.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's got crazy weed.
russell peters
Well, it should be.
joe rogan
Yeah, probably.
russell peters
If you're Mike Tyson, your weed better not be fucking weak.
unidentified
Right, right.
joe rogan
You can have Mike Tyson weak weed.
What do you think about him fighting?
russell peters
I mean, listen, I'm friends with him, but I'm also a fan.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And to see him look how he looks now is exciting.
unidentified
It's crazy.
russell peters
And I talked, you know, it's funny is I talked to him before the video came out of him hitting pads and shit.
We were FaceTiming and I said, Mike, you look good.
He goes, yeah, man, I've been boxing, man.
I feel really good.
And I said, that's great.
He goes, yeah, man, I bet I've felt in a long time.
I might even have a fight.
I said, what?
I go, yeah, man, I may have like an exhibition or something.
You know, you want to work my corner?
I was like, yeah, that'll go well, Mike.
Fucking something bad happens.
Russell Peters fucked up Mike Tyson's...
joe rogan
Well, he'll have, I'm sure, Javier Cordero, who's been working with him, he'll probably have him in his corner.
You know?
russell peters
Yeah.
There's talk of that John Jones fighting him.
joe rogan
No, John's just fucking around.
I guarantee John's fucking around.
He even said he would fight him in a boxing match as long as Mike would fight him in an MMA fight.
russell peters
Yeah, no, that's not good.
joe rogan
He said, but he promised he wouldn't hurt him.
He wouldn't break anything on him.
russell peters
Yeah, no, like, listen, the boxer cannot go into an MMA ring.
joe rogan
Not with John.
As much as John kicks your legs, John would probably just wrestle him to the ground and take him down.
russell peters
That's like when James Toney fought Randy Couture.
joe rogan
That was a rough one, man.
That was a rough one.
I kind of knew that James wasn't really training for that, though.
He just took the payday.
russell peters
Yeah, but he's naturally a tough guy, James Toney.
joe rogan
Sure.
russell peters
Never been knocked down.
joe rogan
You know what that does for you?
That gets you beat up longer.
russell peters
Yeah, it does.
It makes your brain get really fucking messy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
You're scrambling those eggs.
joe rogan
Nobody talked better shit during sparring sessions than James Toney.
russell peters
Oh, those are my favorites.
joe rogan
There's so many videos.
What you got, bitch?
unidentified
That's it?
joe rogan
That's all you got?
That's all you got?
Come on, bitch.
russell peters
I talk shit when I'm rolling with people.
joe rogan
Oh, do you?
russell peters
But I talk funny shit.
Oh, right, right, right.
Something will happen, I'll lose position or something, and I'll go, oh, that was a mistake.
And I'll do anything I can to fuck with their mood, to make them laugh so it throws them off.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
russell peters
Even with John Jack, I do it.
joe rogan
I'm going to remember that.
russell peters
When I'm rolling with John Jack, I'll be like, you were made for hitchhiking, not jiu-jitsu.
You see the people in the class like, oh my god!
I'm like, we're friends.
John Jack's the godfather of my son.
joe rogan
Is he really?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's a great person.
russell peters
He is a great guy.
joe rogan
He really is.
I feel real lucky that I met him.
You could run into any jiu-jitsu instructor.
I just stumbled upon him because it was closer to my area.
It was closer to my house.
russell peters
And then he turns out to be one of the best ever.
joe rogan
One of the best ever.
And just so technical, too.
Like, just the way he breaks things down.
And his ego is so healthy.
Like, he's, like, real easy to roll with.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he's a rare guy that's, like, 50 years old that still rolls all the time and doesn't get hurt.
russell peters
Doesn't get hurt.
joe rogan
Kind of amazing.
russell peters
I think he hurt his knee for a little bit, but it's gotten better, I think.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Meniscus tear.
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
He never had to get it operated on.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
How did he fix it?
russell peters
I don't know.
Just healed, I guess.
He went to the doctor and...
He said it's fine now.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
russell peters
Yeah.
How's your shoulder?
joe rogan
Everything's good, man.
It's all good.
russell peters
When my finger's better, we'll roll again.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What's wrong with your finger?
russell peters
I fucking...
This middle one, I jammed it.
unidentified
Oh.
russell peters
I got swept by Mark Armstrong.
And I went to post.
And when I went to post, instead of my hand hitting like this, my finger went straight.
unidentified
Ooh.
joe rogan
Have you ever used tape on it?
russell peters
No, you know what's funny is I usually have those...
Finger grips?
Yeah, the fucking ones that I use.
joe rogan
But you know what you could do is you take athletic tape and you tape two fingers together to protect it.
russell peters
Well, I usually have those on.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
russell peters
The Aluta gear, that shit.
I usually have it on.
And that fucking one day I didn't wear it.
joe rogan
Oh.
russell peters
I don't know why I didn't wear it that day.
And then that's the fucking day I did it.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you jam one, you can just tape two together.
russell peters
I jam both of these.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah?
russell peters
This one's fine now, but this one's still really sort of like I'm holding a cup of coffee and it hurts because this angle, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, just tape them all up.
So if you tape them all up, it'll almost be like you have like one grip, which is all you need anyway, you know?
Like you very rarely use like individual fingers.
russell peters
Yeah, no, no.
joe rogan
Yeah, just tape them all up.
Tape them together.
Get some of that white athletic tape.
Or they have jiu-jitsu tape.
Like, I think it's called monkey tape.
Monkey grip.
See if you find that shit.
Monkey grip tape.
russell peters
Probably sell it at that fight supply store.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm sure.
But, yeah.
I mean, a lot of guys.
Like, that was...
Hickson was famous for that.
You'd go to see him.
He's always injured because he was constantly rolling.
So he had...
Tape all over the place and everything.
russell peters
Yeah, Hickson's back is fucked and his knees.
joe rogan
It's real bad.
russell peters
Eddie's got bad knees, though, doesn't he?
joe rogan
Yep, yep.
Yeah, there it is.
Monkey tape.
That's it.
So that's tape just specifically designed for jiu-jitsu.
russell peters
The monkey tape mafia.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Yeah, I should get that.
Good stuff.
I do need that.
It looks really thin.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's also so you can move it around the joints.
It's still solid.
Look, they know what the fuck they're doing.
They have thick stuff, too.
But a lot of guys like that thin stuff because you can get in between the fingers real good and tape it up nice.
russell peters
I'm going to get that zebra pack.
joe rogan
There you go.
Get a little white, a little black.
Mix it up.
russell peters
I need that done.
Yeah, fucking that hurt.
That shit hurt.
I screamed.
joe rogan
Yeah, it hurts.
That's the thing about jujitsu you're gonna have to deal with.
You're gonna get injured.
russell peters
Yeah, and then one day I was rolling and I I don't know my fucking my foot or ankle cramped And it just started to turn on its own.
The muscle spasmed.
unidentified
Oh no.
russell peters
My ankle was turning in on itself.
Everyone was like, did you break his ankle?
I can't fucking stop my foot.
It's just turning.
joe rogan
Just a cramp.
russell peters
A cramp.
But the muscle spasmed and my ankle just kept turning in like the fucking exorcist.
joe rogan
I used to get cramps and then I started taking electrolytes like regularly every day.
russell peters
Yeah, I think that's what I need to do.
joe rogan
Changed everything.
Liquid IV. It's one of my sponsors.
I'll give you something.
russell peters
Yeah, please.
joe rogan
Dude, changed everything.
Complete game changer.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because I used to get cramps.
I used to get cramps when I was working out.
I just thought it was part of working out.
But then I started drinking this stuff in my water before I work out, during my workouts.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
I drink it after I get out of the sauna.
russell peters
I get the cramp in the back of the hamstring there, sometimes in the calf.
joe rogan
Dude, electrolytes are everything.
It's so, so important for your body.
You know, hydration and electrolytes.
russell peters
Sometimes I'm trying to, you know, I put somebody in a body lock or something, and then I can't hold it because I get in a cramp.
joe rogan
Like, fuck!
russell peters
The same cramp you get when you're fucking.
You know that one?
unidentified
Ooh, that one.
russell peters
The fuck cramp.
joe rogan
The toe one.
unidentified
Ah!
russell peters
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
The bottom of the foot.
russell peters
Yikes!
Yeah, the toe Disney.
I hate that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, cramps are rough, but you could do something about that, and it's pretty quick.
You take that stuff for a few days and your cramps will go away.
You can work out real hard and never get cramps again.
russell peters
I'm definitely going to take some off you.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's potassium.
The one that I like, there's a bunch of really good ones, but Liquid IV is one of my sponsors, and it's got all kinds of great shit in it.
B vitamins, potassium.
It tastes good, too.
russell peters
Flavor they got?
joe rogan
A bunch of different flavors.
They got acai.
russell peters
For the Brazilians?
joe rogan
Yes.
My friend, Poha.
russell peters
Oh, did I ever tell you that story?
joe rogan
Which one?
russell peters
I think one time after I did one of your podcasts, a guy hits me up on Instagram.
He was like, hey, I'm so excited that you're doing jiu-jitsu, man.
I make mouth guards.
I want to make you a personal mouth guard.
That's great, man.
He goes, what do you want on it?
I go, oh, I know exactly what I want on it.
So I tell him what I want, and he sends it.
joe rogan
Poha?
russell peters
I get to the academy, and I go, JJ, I got a mouth guard.
He goes, good, you're going to need it!
And then I put it in, and I get on the mat, and I smile, and he goes, ha!
Why do you want cum in your mouth?
I go, what?
He goes, poha, it means cum.
I go, why do you say it all the time?
Yeah, it doesn't mean it when we say it, but that's actually what it means.
joe rogan
It means a bunch of things.
russell peters
Yeah, but the actual word means cum, and I'm like, ah, fuck, I never wore the thing again.
joe rogan
But it means different things.
Like Gilbert Burns, who's fighting Kamaru Usman for the title, he always yells it after he wins.
He wins and he yells, poha!
russell peters
Yeah, because they use it like that.
joe rogan
But it means different things.
russell peters
But it's the same way Malacca means jerk-off in Greek, but they'll say to him, Malacca, what are you doing?
Hey, how you been, Malacca?
joe rogan
That's like a Joey Diaz thing.
You call you jerk-off.
Hey, jerk-off.
russell peters
Yeah, it's the same thing, but it doesn't mean it.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
russell peters
But the actual meaning of this apparently is fucking cum, and he's laughing hysterically.
You ever seen Jean-Jacques laugh like that?
It's pretty fucking funny.
Hey, why don't you go put the cum back in your mouth?
joe rogan
Oh, man.
That's hilarious.
russell peters
So if the guy is listening who made me the mouthpiece, can you make me another one that just says my name?
joe rogan
Just deal with it.
Just deal with cum in your mouth.
That's the big deal, bro.
Girls have been dealing with it for years.
russell peters
You know.
joe rogan
Just handle it.
russell peters
Like a fucking gentleman.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Who made your mouth guard?
russell peters
I forgot their name.
joe rogan
Oh, there's a guy, the mouthpiece guy, makes dope shit.
russell peters
I wonder if that was him.
joe rogan
It'll fit perfectly.
russell peters
This one didn't fit perfectly, though.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
russell peters
It was a spec, I guess.
joe rogan
A spec?
russell peters
A spec one.
He was like, hey, he didn't measure me or nothing.
joe rogan
Oh, they have to do the mouth print, though.
russell peters
I had one of those from boxing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And I left that at my old guy I was training with out here.
I left it at his gym years ago.
I don't think I want it back now.
joe rogan
No.
No, you need a new one.
But what they'll do for like a guy who makes professional ones, like the mouthpiece guy, makes them for a lot of MMA guys.
It's like you have this thing that you sit your teeth into.
russell peters
Like a dentist.
And it's nasty.
joe rogan
Yes, it's nasty.
And then it'll form, and then they'll put the design around it.
russell peters
Make a top and bottom one?
joe rogan
They can make a top and bottom one, yeah.
russell peters
What do you like?
joe rogan
I like just a top one for jiu-jitsu, but for striking, I'd like a top and bottom one.
russell peters
Because I do need it now, because I find I'm grinding my teeth when I'm rolling.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's hard to breathe out of your nose, but there's a lot of real benefit to breathing out of your nose.
There really is.
You know, sometimes you're going to breathe out of your mouth, but there's real benefit to primarily breathing out of your nose.
And I'm reading a book now.
I think James Nestor.
It is a book that's about...
Yeah, sure.
Get in there, son.
It's a book that...
It's called Breath, and it's by this guy James Nestor, and I've been listening to it on audiobook.
russell peters
Is your nose broken at all?
joe rogan
Yes, but I got it fixed.
I got it fixed like 10 years ago, and it made a huge difference.
russell peters
Mine is still broken.
joe rogan
So you can't breathe out of it well.
russell peters
Not properly.
joe rogan
Get it fixed, man.
russell peters
I want to.
joe rogan
While you're on lockdown, now's the time.
russell peters
That's what I thought, but they're like, no, I can't do that right now.
That's elective, right?
joe rogan
Oh.
But I think they can do elective surgeries now.
I think there's something to eat in a knife.
russell peters
No, it's...
joe rogan
You alright?
You know what you're doing?
russell peters
Yeah, I'm a little...
joe rogan
Struggling.
russell peters
I am fucking struggling.
joe rogan
Need some help?
russell peters
Yeah, go ahead, Joe.
unidentified
Get your fucking monkey grips all over it there, kid.
russell peters
Jesus Christ, Rambo.
I didn't think you'd pull that fucking thing out.
unidentified
Tuck more custom knives in the house.
russell peters
You also have the best shit.
It's so dope.
Every time you post something, I go, it's so fucking cool.
Like the fridge you posted the other day.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's Kill Cliff.
You gotta try those things, man.
CBD drinks.
Get your 25 milligrams of CBD with each little serving there, fella.
russell peters
Does it do anything?
Yeah.
joe rogan
CBD is a fucking great period.
Get as much of it as you can.
Take 100 milligrams at a time.
russell peters
For me, it equates sleep for me now.
joe rogan
It does that too.
It alleviates anxiety, but it's really good for people that have joint issues.
Really good for people with arthritis.
russell peters
I used to have really bad arthritis in my fingers.
It seems to be gone away.
I've been taking these curcumin pills.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
russell peters
Curcumin.
joe rogan
Curcumin.
That's turmeric.
Same thing.
Yeah.
russell peters
Yeah, apparently the curcumin is 500 times more absorbable, like faster absorbency.
joe rogan
That makes sense.
Yeah, there's a lot of natural things for inflammation, but the big one is avoiding things that cause inflammation, like with your diet.
Like get rid of bread.
Take bread and pasta out of your diet.
So many of your little aches and pains will go away.
russell peters
Yeah, I don't really have many aches and pains anymore.
It's kind of nice.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Are you doing just jujitsu or do you supplement it with any calisthenics or weightlifting or anything?
russell peters
Well, no.
I just do jujitsu and then I ride my bike now.
unidentified
Oh, that's cool.
russell peters
I go for these five-mile bike rides.
joe rogan
Around your neighborhood or something?
Yeah.
russell peters
And I got that motor assist one, so it's kind of nice.
unidentified
Oh, that's not real.
russell peters
The power assist one.
No, it's good because those fucking hills in my community are killer, dude.
joe rogan
You can't handle the hills?
russell peters
No, hell no.
joe rogan
That's where it's supposed to work.
russell peters
You still have to work.
It's not like it's pedaling for you.
joe rogan
Oh, I know.
I got a buddy of mine who has one.
russell peters
I love that bike.
It's awesome.
joe rogan
They're fun.
They're okay.
It's better to have a regular bike.
Don't suffer.
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
I'll take, you know, I'll wait until it gets too easy and then I'll step it up from there, you know?
joe rogan
Dude, just get one kettlebell.
russell peters
I've got one.
I think, I don't know if you sent it to me.
Onnit sent it to me.
They sent me the Iron Man one.
joe rogan
Okay.
Beautiful.
russell peters
Yeah.
It's good.
joe rogan
That's a good one.
It's 45 pounds.
It's a good size.
russell peters
And they sent me one of those, two of those jugglers bats.
Those are fucking deadly heavy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Those are great.
russell peters
I got weak wrists, so that shit hurts when I do those.
joe rogan
They're really good for your shoulders, really good for your forearms, grip strength, all that stuff.
Yeah, we have a bunch of programs that John Wolf, the head fitness instructor at Onnit, put together during this quarantine so people can work out at home with minimal equipment, home workouts for six weeks.
They're big.
Get on that, buddy.
russell peters
Well, I was dropping good weight off the jiu-jitsu.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Jiu-Jitsu plus stress equals weight loss for me, really.
joe rogan
Regardless of what you eat.
russell peters
Yeah.
I went from when I started back at Jiu-Jitsu, I was 240 pounds, which is fucking huge.
joe rogan
You got big, huh?
russell peters
Fat.
You saw me.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
You knew I was fat, but you're just too fucking nice to say it.
joe rogan
I'm not nice to everybody.
russell peters
I know.
Well, listen, you know what?
I don't know that because I've only seen you be nice to people.
Except for a couple of times I've seen some rando stranger end up in the green room.
You're like, dude, you got to get the fuck out of here.
No, but I'm a big fish.
Yeah, that's fine.
Thank you.
Can you get the fuck out of my green room now?
Get out of the green room.
joe rogan
Well, there's a few of those guys who made it to the back of the main room.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
They just walked back there, and then they would ask for stuff, and you'd be like, who is this guy?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
What are you doing here?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's the old days.
The Comedy Store's pretty tightened down, or was before COVID, tightened down with security.
I'm wondering when they're going to open up again, man.
russell peters
Well, they were talking September, weren't they?
Late September, early October?
joe rogan
Is that what they're saying now?
russell peters
Well, that's what I had heard before this double lockdown now.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
russell peters
Speaking of lockdown, that's what you tried to do to me when we rolled.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
And I tapped on the way to it.
You had me in a calf slicer.
joe rogan
No, you thought it was a calf slicer.
russell peters
Well, you know who thought it was a calf slicer?
My fucking calf thought it was a calf slicer, Joseph.
joe rogan
I was just using, I was going into a twister role.
I was going to put you in a twister.
russell peters
Yeah, why would you do that to me?
You know, you're nice to me, but why would you want to twist me like that?
joe rogan
It's not that bad!
It's not that bad.
russell peters
For the guy doing it, it's not that bad.
joe rogan
I've been caught in a twister multiple times.
It's just you tapped in the roll.
That's what happened.
russell peters
Yeah.
It was my calf.
I was like, ah!
joe rogan
You didn't enjoy it.
But that's probably because you need electrolytes.
That's probably what it is.
russell peters
Or maybe I don't need a fucking shin.
Your bitch-ass shins, by the way, on my fucking calf.
joe rogan
You just need to know how to defend it.
You can't let me roll you in that way.
russell peters
Well, now, I mean, now I probably have better defense for it.
joe rogan
It's a natural instinct, really.
It's like what people don't want to do is give up their back, right?
So if you're inside controlling a person, what they don't want to do is give up their back.
So they don't want to roll away from you.
So they roll towards you.
But when they roll towards you, you take that top leg, which would be their left leg, and I lace my left leg over and under and I lock it down.
Then I sit up and I roll towards your butt.
And then as I roll towards your butt, it spins you and I wind up on your back.
russell peters
Yes.
I remember.
Remember clearly.
joe rogan
That's Eddie Bravo.
That's all Eddie Bravo shit.
russell peters
Fucking Eddie.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's trying to figure out different ways to get to the back and get to the twister and then get to, there's a bunch of leg locks you can do from those positions too.
russell peters
I'm not a leg locker, yeah.
joe rogan
That's it.
russell peters
Looks like Eddie and Andrew Schultz doing jiu-jitsu.
joe rogan
It does look like Andrew Schultz, but it's not.
That's Henner Gracie.
russell peters
I saw Henner Gracie on my Instagram feed selling sweatshirts.
joe rogan
Yeah, he made up his own sweatshirt.
russell peters
It's kind of a cool idea.
joe rogan
Yeah, it becomes a backpack.
It folds up into a backpack and it's like if you're on the go...
I kind of get it.
russell peters
I mean, I don't see...
I've never been in that desperate...
Where I'm like, fuck, this sweatshirt is killing me!
joe rogan
What am I doing?
You have no storage?
unidentified
Son of a bitch!
joe rogan
You don't have a car or a hotel room or something?
russell peters
Give it to somebody.
Hey, you cold?
You look chilly.
You want to wear this?
joe rogan
Wrap it around your neck.
It's a big deal.
Tie it around your waist.
russell peters
I, um...
Oh, fuck.
Oh, did you ever download that mix I sent you?
joe rogan
What mix?
russell peters
I sent you a metal mix, like an 80s metal mix.
It's actually really dope.
joe rogan
When did you do this?
unidentified
How long ago?
russell peters
In December I sent it to you.
When we were having dinner, I said, John, I'm going to email it to you.
joe rogan
Dude, my brain is so foggy.
russell peters
You'd really like it.
joe rogan
Whatever happened from December on?
russell peters
It's still probably in your inbox somewhere.
joe rogan
Probably.
I'll go find it.
But what is it?
russell peters
It's a buddy of mine, Scotty Fox.
He's a DJ and he does these really dope, really well put together mixtapes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
And it's not like a lot of, there's no scratching.
It's just like really well programmed and mixed to the point where you're like, that flowed from beginning to end fucking incredibly.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You are big into being a DJ. 35 years.
Are you doing any of that while you're in lockdown?
Are you having like little parties at your house or anything?
russell peters
No, I go on live every now and then and DJ for a little bit.
Instagram locks, shuts people out when they're playing music and they try to claim...
joe rogan
They do?
russell peters
Yeah, dude.
They kick you off and they say you violated copyrights.
joe rogan
Did you see the RZA and DJ premiere when they did it?
russell peters
How awesome was that?
joe rogan
That was fucking amazing.
russell peters
And I love both of them, but I really feel like Primo went easy on RZA. Oh my goodness.
I do.
joe rogan
Is that what you really think?
russell peters
I do.
Listen, I'm friends with both of them, but...
joe rogan
What are you trying to say?
russell peters
I'm trying to say that...
Primo had a lot more ammo in his fucking arsenal that he didn't use.
joe rogan
I didn't understand it was a true battle.
I thought it was just a performance.
russell peters
No.
joe rogan
A battle.
russell peters
It's a battle.
Song for song.
And it's like, oh, you got that?
I got this.
And then RZA did pull out something, and I'm embarrassed that I didn't fucking know he produced it.
It was Long Kiss Goodnight by Biggie.
I didn't know RZA did that beat.
joe rogan
I didn't know that either.
russell peters
And I was like, fuck, that's one of my favorite Biggie songs, too.
joe rogan
It was just cool because you were watching these two hip-hop legends that were making the most of the pandemic.
They were in the middle of this weird thing where everybody's at home, and so you knew so many people.
Millions of people were watching live.
russell peters
Yeah, well, Swiss Beats started that, the Versus thing.
And then they did Teddy Riley versus Babyface, which was incredible as well.
The first one was hilarious.
I didn't get a chance to watch the Jada fabulous one yet.
The fucking Beanie Man vs.
Bounty Keller was incredible.
joe rogan
What is this page, Jamie?
russell peters
It's Versus.
jamie vernon
Yeah, it turned into a whole platform and brand, and now it might even be a show, and they're linked to Apple.
joe rogan
What is the name?
Go back up so we can see that.
Versus with a Z. Yeah, versus.
V-E-R-Z-U-Z TV. Versus TV. Yeah, versus.
russell peters
It's so-and-so versus, versus, versus.
joe rogan
And how many followers do they have on this?
russell peters
1.9 million.
It's crazy.
joe rogan
Well, you know, it's fun how things arise from necessity, from things like COVID. Like we were talking about Andrew Schultz created that COVID comedy, like he's doing these videos.
And it arrived from not being able to create and do stand-up.
russell peters
Well, you know, he was already on the way to setting up that studio that he has.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
And then it just fucking, you know...
joe rogan
Perfect timing.
russell peters
Perfect timing.
And the kid's incredible.
I'm a fan.
I'm a big fan of him.
Before all of that, I was a fan.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's a hustler.
russell peters
He's a hustler and he's really fucking good.
joe rogan
Yep.
Yeah.
russell peters
Not mad at that guy's success at all.
But I feel that he should have way more success than he has.
joe rogan
He's got a lot of success and will have more.
Yeah, he will.
russell peters
He's the future.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
There's a good crop.
There's a good crop of up-and-coming guys.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
I just love the fact that people make lemonade.
They figure out a way.
They're like, okay, what can I do here?
I've got some lemons.
This ain't good, but let's figure out how to make this into something good.
russell peters
This is really sour.
What should we do with this?
joe rogan
And that's something that you don't always see from people.
There's a lot of woe is me guys when the shit hits the fan.
russell peters
I feel a woe to myself sometimes, but I'm also very aware that I am the reason I'm woeing.
Even when I text you, I'm like, you know, that sucks.
And I go, it's my fault, Joe.
I'm all about accountability, you know?
joe rogan
You are.
Yeah.
And your fault is your fault.
russell peters
You can't pass the buck.
No matter what situation you're in in your life, you fucking got yourself there.
joe rogan
Sometimes it's good to go through that shit though, right?
It's a personal growth moment.
russell peters
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Opportunity for you to recalibrate.
russell peters
I think I used to be a pussy hound.
What?
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
You?
russell peters
But not anymore, that's for sure.
I got fucking PTSD, dude.
I'm not fucking...
joe rogan
PTSD from pussy.
russell peters
I'm literally like, you know what?
I'm good.
I got Pornhub.
I'm quite happy with that.
My selections.
I know how to love myself.
Whoa.
joe rogan
We're getting heavy here, bro.
russell peters
We gotta do something.
There was dead moments and it's my fault.
joe rogan
What are you gonna do?
It's hard, man.
russell peters
Some good cigars, man.
joe rogan
They're good, right?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Shout out to Mike Binder.
russell peters
I like Mike Binder.
Such a good guy.
I'm looking forward to that doc when it comes out.
joe rogan
It's going to be interesting, you know, because it details so many generations and so many different versions of the store, you know, from the very early days in the 70s to what was really the last, you know, the last few years was this incredible boom that was unprecedented.
russell peters
By the way, I mentioned you in that when I was doing the interview.
He said, what do you think is one of the reasons for the renaissance here at the Comedy Store?
And I said, I'll be honest, I think it's Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan came here, came back, and he brought a lot of people with him.
And he swears by this place.
And I said, I really don't think it would be what it is without him.
joe rogan
That's very nice of you.
russell peters
Well, it's true.
I wouldn't just say it to say it, but I said it.
joe rogan
I appreciate that.
russell peters
It's a fact.
joe rogan
Well, it became a, you know, a better place.
You know, when Adam was running it then, and then...
russell peters
I like Adam.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Despite what a lot of people don't like Adam.
joe rogan
He's great.
russell peters
He's great with me.
I've known him for a long time.
joe rogan
I had him on the podcast.
You know, he used to be a cult.
russell peters
Did he really?
Oh, you know, his parents and him, right?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
russell peters
Yeah, he grew up...
That's fucking weird.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Grew up in a cult.
Yeah.
And didn't really realize it.
russell peters
No, I guess you wouldn't because you didn't know anything else.
joe rogan
Right.
russell peters
What cult was his?
joe rogan
Did you grow up...
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
What was it called again?
Do you remember?
russell peters
Branch Davidians, I believe.
Speaking of Texas.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was something along those lines.
Waco is always going to be that place now.
russell peters
Yeah, no matter what.
joe rogan
It was Sea-Doo.
Sea-Doo, right.
russell peters
You know who grew up in an ashram was Abbey.
You know Abby Roberge?
joe rogan
No.
russell peters
You know, he's at the store.
Young kid.
joe rogan
Okay.
russell peters
Nice kid.
He grew up in an ashram.
joe rogan
Wow.
russell peters
I was like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
That's heavy.
So his parents were Buddhists?
russell peters
Yeah, like hippie types, you know?
unidentified
Oh, wow.
russell peters
He's not even old enough to have hippie parents, so it's kind of weird.
joe rogan
Wow.
russell peters
But he was telling me that.
He goes, yeah, I grew up in an ashram.
joe rogan
Any age, you could be old enough to have hippie parents.
russell peters
Yeah, I suppose.
joe rogan
Especially in this day and age.
There's a lot of kids up there right now that are growing up with hippie parents.
This is a new renaissance for hippies.
Yeah.
But there's so many of them online now.
They find these little communities and they connect with each other.
russell peters
There's too much out there.
joe rogan
There's too much out there.
russell peters
Too many weirdos can connect with other weirdos.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Is that bad, though?
russell peters
It's good and bad.
It's a double-edged sword.
It's good that they found somebody.
Remember like George Carlin used to say, I think we should, you know, the homeless people that you see on the street talking to themselves, they should pair them up so at least they look like they're talking to each other.
joe rogan
I think the possible good things outweigh the possible bad things.
I think they get together and maybe they can improve each other.
Maybe they can grow together.
If you're a hippie by yourself, you're fucked.
russell peters
If you're doing anything by yourself, it's not good.
That's why when I see the homeless people under the bridge and they see them together, I'm like, well, I mean, it sucks, but at least you're not alone in this, you know?
joe rogan
Right.
If you had a measurement of happiness scale, you know, I bet some of them are probably happier than people that work constantly.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, I mean, what actually makes you happy?
russell peters
And it also depends on which makes you miserable.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Which part of this don't you like?
In fact, you know...
joe rogan
Being alone is a big one, man.
Being alone makes you very miserable.
russell peters
Yeah.
I mean, I'm quite happy being alone right now, but...
joe rogan
But that's a different situation.
russell peters
Different situation.
joe rogan
You like being alone because it's better than wishing you were alone.
russell peters
Yes.
I'm not alone by force.
I'm alone by choice.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's probably the worst is wishing you were alone.
Like being with someone who you wish you weren't with is worse than being alone.
russell peters
Yes.
Because you feel alone.
joe rogan
You know what's really fucked up?
It's like, it's very difficult to figure out how do you get back, if you're with someone you don't want to be with anymore, it's very difficult to figure out how do you get back to where you were when you enjoyed them.
Is that possible?
Can you do that?
Some people know.
russell peters
It needs to be both of you that want to go back.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
And it's never, there's, you know, one of you is going to hang on to something.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
And you're both going to hang on to different parts of something, and that's what's going to stop the reversal of fortune.
joe rogan
That's why you got to do mushrooms together.
russell peters
All right.
Do you have?
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
Give me some before I go.
joe rogan
Okay.
russell peters
And I'll take a little microdose.
joe rogan
We'll see what's up.
russell peters
At my leisure.
I'm going to call you when I'm about to do it, though.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, I'll walk you through it.
Do it on a night that I'm not going anywhere.
russell peters
Okay.
joe rogan
I'll stay on the phone with you.
russell peters
I'll come to your house.
joe rogan
It'll be a strange conversation.
About an hour in.
russell peters
You know, you should just come to my house and hang out in the backyard.
joe rogan
Okay.
russell peters
It's not far from you.
joe rogan
I'll be your babysitter.
russell peters
That'd be great.
joe rogan
Okay.
russell peters
I couldn't ask for a better babysitter.
joe rogan
That's what you got to do sometimes.
They actually call it a sitter.
russell peters
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, when someone does psychedelics, the other person will be a sitter.
russell peters
Yeah, because I can't trust Eddie, my assistant.
He'll fucking...
Nah, fool, I just have to go like, I had to make a phone call.
I'm like, well, why am I in the fucking pool upside down then?
Who told you to go in the pool?
The fucking voice in my head told me to go in the pool.
joe rogan
The voice in your head is not going to tell you to go in the pool.
It's going to tell you to lie down in the grass.
Just relax.
Stare up at the sky.
It's going to be okay.
Until it's not okay anymore.
And then it's not going to matter.
russell peters
And then what?
joe rogan
Then you go into the next stage of existence.
russell peters
How long do the microdosing last?
joe rogan
Microdosing is easy.
You barely notice it's happening.
The thing about true microdosing is you're supposed to take it at really almost like sub-perceptible levels.
So you're taking it at a level where it's like you just barely get like a tiny rise from it.
And for many people, you know, Ron White is into that.
russell peters
Fucking Ron White makes me laugh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Dude, he has no clue half the time what's happening.
joe rogan
He's the best.
russell peters
I remember one night I dropped him home from the comedy store.
We were there.
Everybody was drinking.
I don't know if you know, he has drinks every now and then.
What?
I was feeling good.
He was feeling good.
And he came outside.
He's like, I gotta get home.
Who can drive me?
Can somebody call me an Uber?
And I go, I'll get you home, Ron.
He goes, are you gonna drive?
You're drunk.
I go, no, I'm not.
My buddy will drive my car.
All right, let's go.
And I realized...
You get in the front, Ron.
I sat in the backseat of my car.
My buddy drives us.
I go, where do you go?
Beverly Hills.
So he gets us to his house.
And he's like, all right, thanks, fellas.
unidentified
Hey, you want to come in and see what comedy can buy you?
russell peters
And I'm like, in my head at that moment, I went, he doesn't realize it's me.
And I go, yeah, sure, I'll come in.
So I go in his house.
He goes, yeah, this is it.
It's all comedy.
And I go, nice.
And in my head I'm thinking, my house is bigger than this.
Right?
And then he goes, and his girlfriend walks in and goes, oh, hey, honey, this is, I'm sorry, bud, I forgot your name.
And she goes, oh, my God, Russell Peters.
unidentified
And he goes like this, ah, fuck.
joe rogan
He was that drunk you forgot your name?
russell peters
He forgot.
He didn't recognize me.
I don't know what it was.
As soon as he heard me, he goes, ah, fuck.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
That's blitzed.
russell peters
I thought it was pretty hilarious.
joe rogan
That's a high level of blitzed.
russell peters
Hey, call me, man.
Just here's my number.
Give me a call.
joe rogan
That is, by the way, the worst Ron White impression I think I've ever heard.
russell peters
Possibly.
joe rogan
This here's what comedy can buy you.
He's a character from a movie.
russell peters
He's a really fucking funny guy too, though.
joe rogan
Oh, he's ridiculously funny.
russell peters
I've been on flights with him and he didn't...
I sat like in the...
He was on the other aisle across from me.
And I didn't even say anything to him.
He looked right at me and didn't recognize me again.
I'm like...
joe rogan
Last time he did this podcast, we were talking and I go, how often do you get fucked up?
He's like, every fucking night.
I go, you get drunk every night.
He goes, every fucking night.
We had this conversation afterwards.
I was like, you don't take any days off?
unidentified
No.
russell peters
I don't think his liver would accept him taking a night off.
unidentified
But you imagine getting drunk every night and he doesn't look bad.
russell peters
No.
joe rogan
For a guy...
russell peters
Great fucking hair.
joe rogan
Hair's amazing.
russell peters
It's got great.
I got fucking hair envy.
joe rogan
And he's a killer.
Like, on stage, he's a fucking killer.
Like, it doesn't affect his stand-up.
In fact, it probably enhances it.
And the guy's been doing it forever.
russell peters
Yeah.
I'm what, 31 in?
You're 31 in, aren't you?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
How do you tell a guy like that to change it up?
russell peters
You can't.
Because it's not a problem.
He's a functioning alcoholic.
joe rogan
He's living in Austin now.
russell peters
Is he really?
joe rogan
Yep.
russell peters
Wow.
So everybody knows where you're going?
unidentified
Shh.
Don't tell anybody.
russell peters
Nobody will hear this.
Don't worry about it.
joe rogan
We're going to be fine.
unidentified
Shh.
joe rogan
Keep it You think you're going to stay here though?
You're going to stay here?
russell peters
I have no choice.
joe rogan
Talk those broads into moving.
russell peters
I can't.
It will cost me a fortune that I do not have right now.
joe rogan
Podcast.
You need to get that Russell Peters podcast rolling.
What would you call it?
russell peters
I don't know.
What would you call it?
joe rogan
The Russell Peters Show.
russell peters
Sure.
joe rogan
Why not?
unidentified
Sounds good.
joe rogan
It doesn't need another name.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everybody wants to come up with these fucking, like, Brian Callan had mixed mental arts for a while.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Me and Schaub were torturing him.
We were like, what are you doing?
unidentified
Ugh.
russell peters
I was just with Brian at Frank Grillo's birthday at Frank Grillo's place.
And it was like...
joe rogan
Did you see he's got his eyelids done?
russell peters
Yeah, I couldn't tell.
joe rogan
Yeah, nobody could tell.
russell peters
No.
joe rogan
He looked like he got the fuck beat out of him for about three days.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
And now he looks normal.
russell peters
Yeah, he did have kind of like a purple-y thing under.
I thought he was from sparring or something.
From Vanity.
And I think Gerard Butler was there that night.
joe rogan
Gerard Butler's a really nice guy.
russell peters
He's a good guy.
joe rogan
I met him at a few UFCs.
russell peters
Super nice guy.
And at the end of the night, I said to Brian, I go, well, you killed tonight, man.
You won tonight's party, that's for sure.
joe rogan
Oh, he's great at a party.
russell peters
Oh, yeah, he's great.
joe rogan
He's one of the best guys for being funny in groups of people.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because that's when he comes alive.
Like, if he never did stand-up again, but he just went to dinner every night, he'd be fine.
russell peters
He could be a professional guest.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah.
A professional dinner guest.
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
Hey, listen, this dinner might be boring.
How much does Callan charge for dinner?
joe rogan
Dude, the first time I ever went hunting, I went hunting with Callan, me and him and Steve Rinell and the meat-eater crew, and we went to Montana, and it was seven days of hysterics.
It was like one long shit, dick, or gay joke.
It was just him being- No, dude, let's just make out.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
That's the whole thing.
unidentified
I'm like, what would you do right now if I just started sucking your cock?
Just me sucking your cock.
joe rogan
He's just such a...
You know, people think about comedians, oh, they're on all the time.
That's so annoying.
It's not annoying with Callan.
russell peters
No, he knows how to do it properly.
joe rogan
Well, it's a different kind of on.
It's Brian Callan on.
He'd be a great professional dinner guest.
You know how people do Cameo?
russell peters
Yeah.
I do Cameo.
joe rogan
Someone pays you to do a little shout-out.
russell peters
Matter of fact, I have one I have to do when I'm done here.
unidentified
Oh, let's do it real quick.
joe rogan
But with Callan, Callan should do that, but with dinner guests.
He should be a dinner guest.
russell peters
He should, yeah.
I bet you he could make a fucking fortune.
joe rogan
Oh, for sure.
How many rich guys would love to hang out with Callan?
russell peters
Yeah, and even if they don't know him, once they get him, I'm like, oh yeah.
Because I saw Gerard Butler go, hey, we need to hang out.
And I'm like, I'll hang out too, man.
I didn't say shit all night.
I shut up in a lot of those situations because I'm like, I'm watching everything.
I'm always like, what's going on in here?
joe rogan
But when a lot of people are talking, there's nothing wrong with shutting up.
It's fun.
russell peters
Hey, you don't learn when you talk, you learn when you listen.
So that's what I was trying to do.
joe rogan
Yeah, look at you, wise man.
You should write that down somewhere and put it on an Instagram page.
russell peters
Get Reddit somewhere.
joe rogan
Motivational quotes.
Yeah.
russell peters
I miss Jack Handy quotes.
Those were my favorite.
joe rogan
Jack Handy?
russell peters
Remember Jack Handy from SNL? No.
It would always be like a Hallmark kind of quote.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man who's crying.
Stuff like that.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
russell peters
You pull those up there, Jamie?
joe rogan
Nothing has been better for those kind of things than the internet.
russell peters
Oh, yeah.
That's the thing now, yeah.
You see people fucking write one line like, fuck, that would have been a great bit.
Now I can't do it because this fucking idiot posted this.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
And it's also just that memes on the internet is a different style of comedy.
It's like a whole new kind of comedy that didn't exist before.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, when something goes wrong, like little memes.
russell peters
Those are my favorite.
joe rogan
They're fucking great.
russell peters
I screenshot them and then I sent them to my brother.
I sent one today to him, I think.
There was one I saw that said, my wife's gone into labor.
I called the hospital.
My wife's gone into labor.
What should I do?
Is this her first child?
No, this is her husband.
I love dumb shit like that, though.
joe rogan
You're a throwback.
russell peters
I'm old school.
joe rogan
That's a Jeff Ross type.
russell peters
I spoke to Jeff last night.
joe rogan
How's he doing?
russell peters
He's doing good.
Yeah, he's doing good.
I love Jeff.
He's such a sweet guy.
joe rogan
Everybody's in suspended animation.
russell peters
Everybody.
joe rogan
The only thing that's been connecting me to everybody is doing this.
Being able to sit down with guys, shoot the shit with them, other than last weekend with Tony and Moses when we went to Houston.
That felt like the old days again.
It was crazy.
russell peters
You did the Houston Improv?
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
I was there.
joe rogan
It was my first time ever there.
russell peters
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Stage is really high.
joe rogan
It's great.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a great club.
russell peters
I like it.
joe rogan
I like it a lot.
It was really fun.
russell peters
What was capacity?
50?
75?
joe rogan
They were up to 75. Yeah.
Yeah, 75%.
russell peters
I think that's what they were doing in Miami, too.
joe rogan
It was pretty packed.
russell peters
Yeah, it looked full.
joe rogan
So Kreischer's on the road, right?
And he's doing drive-in movie theaters.
russell peters
I saw that.
And he's got Jesus with him.
joe rogan
Yes.
And in between, and he did the drive-in with Miss Pat as well.
russell peters
Hilarious.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I love Miss Pat.
russell peters
She's great.
joe rogan
In between, he did some clubs.
And he did a club in Oklahoma.
It was supposed to be 120 seats, socially distanced.
They stuffed 343 people in there.
russell peters
Hilarious.
joe rogan
And they lied to him about the number.
So Jesus went around counting heads, and he counted 343 people, and they were like, that count was grossly inaccurate.
russell peters
Wow.
I have my assistant count at the club, too.
I'm like, Eddie, go count every fucking scene.
joe rogan
He's got a ticker on his phone.
russell peters
I don't want to be fucking shortchanged by their book, because I'm already getting shortchanged.
The money's bad now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
The money's less, they're charging less.
joe rogan
But in their Burt situation, Burt was worried about catching COVID. He's like, look, man, I did drive in movie theaters for a reason so that I would be away from everybody.
They're in their car, I'm over here, everybody's safe.
And he's like, now I'm in this club.
He goes, I don't feel safe at all.
He goes, this is not good.
They just stuffed it, dude.
I'll show you a picture.
He sent me a picture of it.
I mean, it's fucking stuffed, man.
Like, full on stuffed.
russell peters
Fucking Bert and Tom called me a couple of weeks ago.
Hey, is Hindi a religion?
I go, no.
No, Hindi's a language, you fucking idiot.
Hindu's the religion.
Yeah, that's the one I like.
joe rogan
That's the one I like?
russell peters
That's the one I like.
joe rogan
What the fuck does that even mean?
russell peters
That's literally what Bert called to ask me.
joe rogan
What does that mean?
That's the religion I like?
russell peters
That's the religion he likes.
joe rogan
What's your favorite part?
russell peters
What do you like about that one?
joe rogan
That's the one with Shiva?
russell peters
Yeah, that's the one I like.
joe rogan
Look at this.
russell peters
Like it's a fucking trilogy.
joe rogan
Look how packed that place is.
russell peters
Oh, Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
He sent me that.
He goes, fuck!
He goes, I don't feel safe.
I'm like, yeah.
russell peters
That's in Oklahoma?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I'm like, yeah, you shouldn't feel safe.
russell peters
I like that there's one guy with the mask on.
joe rogan
Yeah, one guy.
Meanwhile, the fucking...
The cases in Oklahoma are through the roof.
russell peters
Are they really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Here, I'll put this up on...
I'll send this to you, Jamie, so that you can put it online.
Shame these people.
We don't even have to say who it is.
But, you know, there's a lot of people that'll tell you...
You know, they'll tell you that they've got X amount of...
People in the audience, but then once you actually get there, man.
russell peters
I think once you get to middle America, they're not as ball-busting the authorities.
joe rogan
Well, the thing is, I don't think it's the authorities, man.
I think it's the people in the club.
They're fucking hurting, man.
And they're willing to do anything.
I just sent it to you, Jamie.
The people that are...
I mean, imagine if you've gone...
10 years in the business.
There it is.
russell peters
Look at that, folks.
joe rogan
That guy looks like an employee, too.
That is fucking preposterous, the size of that crowd.
That they told him it was only going to be 120 people socially distant.
They're stuffed in there.
Your count is grossly inaccurate.
I bet someone online can count 340 people from that photo.
russell peters
Yeah, that's a lot of fucking people really close to each other.
See, the clubs I've been playing, I've noticed they've been paying attention.
Like in San Diego, the American Comedy Club, they had no front row at all.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're doing it right.
russell peters
Yeah, no front row at all, and then it was after that, it was tables.
joe rogan
Yeah, San Diego's doing it right.
Now, see, that wouldn't bother me nearly as much.
347. That's the count.
russell peters
Jesus Christ.
That's a full club.
joe rogan
It's a full club.
russell peters
It's very much a full club.
joe rogan
That's a packed house.
San Diego is smart.
That's a good...
See, as long as there's enough space between you and them, so if they're laughing, you're not getting it in your mouth.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
You know?
russell peters
And you're higher than them already, so...
joe rogan
That's what you need.
And you also probably should have a shield.
russell peters
I spit a lot.
I spit a lot when I'm on stage.
unidentified
Wow.
russell peters
And that's why I would say, like, there's a reason you're back there and I'm here because I'm...
joe rogan
We've got to get to a point where there's a test that you can take immediately.
So if they have that saliva test, there's a saliva test...
russell peters
The saliva test makes the most sense to me because that's where it's transmitted.
That's why the blood test seems a little...
I mean, I get what you're doing, but saliva seems like the most direct way you would get it.
joe rogan
Where'd you get your medical degree?
russell peters
I'm a doctor.
I don't know if you know about this.
I'm a doctor of the mix, motherfucker.
joe rogan
I think that they're going to have those soon.
And apparently they're really quick, like within a few seconds.
You could lick something and it'll tell you.
russell peters
Because you're more likely to get spit on you from somebody else than blood.
joe rogan
But bro, that would be amazing.
Everybody wears a mask in line, you get to the door, you lick the thing, it says you're clean, and everybody can come in and be a normal person.
If we can get to that, we can open up everything.
Restaurants, movie theaters, comedy clubs.
russell peters
Beaches?
joe rogan
Yeah, they should put all their effort on that, and I know they're apparently real close to that.
Someone was telling, Trump was telling someone that they're real close to doing that.
russell peters
And it's gotta be true.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's gotta be.
He wouldn't lie.
russell peters
Never.
jamie vernon
A couple states today have issued statewide facial covering requirements in public spaces, including Texas and I think Ohio.
joe rogan
Well, California's had that for a while, right?
russell peters
We just did that, yeah.
Yeah, I have my mask in the car.
I wear it as needed.
I understand why I'm wearing it.
joe rogan
Dude, I was busting Bill Burr's balls about it.
Like, you don't wear a mask?
CDC says, you know, I was just trying to rile them up.
russell peters
Right.
joe rogan
And they started writing all these articles.
Like, I'm seriously, like, I'm a mask denier or something.
russell peters
A mask denier.
unidentified
People are so silly with what they decide to...
joe rogan
It's just one of those things where people are just looking for things to be upset about.
russell peters
I would love to hear Billy's version.
Oh, he's the best.
Nobody rants better.
joe rogan
Well, he's also got rant muscles because he's ranting every week.
He does his podcast solo, which is amazing that he can produce that much content.
I mean, every fucking week he's doing two podcasts, the Monday morning podcast on Monday and he does it on Thursday too.
So he's doing two long rants Every week.
russell peters
And now he's doing one with Burt.
joe rogan
Yes, the Bill and Burt Show.
russell peters
Bill Burt.
joe rogan
Bill Burt, yeah.
russell peters
That's a great name.
joe rogan
It is perfect.
Bill Burt Podcast.
russell peters
And they're so complete fucking polar opposites.
joe rogan
Yes.
russell peters
That's what makes it great.
joe rogan
Well, Bert's a hustler, man.
You gotta give it up to Bert Kreischer.
I mean, he's the one who figured out how to do this drive-in movie theater thing.
He's got that Two Bears, One Cave he does with Tom.
That's doing really well.
He's got his own podcast.
He's fucking hustling.
russell peters
I did Bert's podcast maybe six years ago.
He came to my house when I was in Malibu, and we did it in my house.
We did it up in my bedroom, I believe.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
russell peters
Yeah, we sat on the couch out there.
joe rogan
That's cool.
Yeah, man, you should do your own.
russell peters
I really should.
unidentified
100% should do your own.
joe rogan
Now's the time.
russell peters
I think on a worldwide scale, mine would do pretty well.
joe rogan
You're just going to do pretty well here, too.
But the thing is, you've got to get going.
Because it takes a few months for them to really get cooking and really get a bunch of people into it.
But if you think about it now, we're here in June.
It's almost July.
I don't see us opening any comedy until September or October.
russell peters
I'm scheduled to be in...
Stand Up Live in Phoenix next weekend.
joe rogan
Whoa.
russell peters
But literally day by day I'm getting a text closed, open, closed, open, closed, open.
joe rogan
About them?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh.
Well, Arizona's wild.
russell peters
Arizona is wild.
joe rogan
That is the Wild West, son.
I mean, they are connected to Mexico.
They give zero fucks.
They survived Indian attacks.
They have an open carry state.
russell peters
First of all, I've never attacked anybody.
joe rogan
That's a different kind of Indian.
russell peters
We're the real ones.
joe rogan
You are the real ones.
Is that offensive that other people call themselves Indians and never even been to India?
russell peters
You mean the Native Americans?
unidentified
Yeah.
russell peters
The Native Americans do not accept the word Indian.
joe rogan
They do.
That's why you're wrong.
I had a Native American lady on this podcast talking to me about Native American tribes, and they actually use the term Indian.
They like Indian.
American Indian.
russell peters
We don't like that.
Because they were only called that because he was looking for India.
joe rogan
Yeah, he fucked up.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
What a fuck up, too.
russell peters
I know.
joe rogan
Jesus.
russell peters
He knew this wasn't India.
joe rogan
You don't think so?
russell peters
Yeah, he fucking knew.
He was like, oh, that must be India.
He was like, they don't know.
That must be Indian.
Those must be the Indians.
joe rogan
Really?
russell peters
Yeah, of course.
Christopher Columbus was fucking lost.
That's why I was like, what do you do on Columbus Day?
She's getting your car and she's turning your GPS off?
joe rogan
Well, didn't they land in the Bahamas?
russell peters
Possibly.
joe rogan
I think they landed in the Bahamas.
russell peters
Who, Christopher Columbus?
joe rogan
I think the first people that were...
Amerigo Vespucci.
Did he land here?
That's where America comes from, right?
The name Americas.
Amerigo Vespucci.
russell peters
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
I'm very ignorant to that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
That's why I like talking to you, because you do give me information of shit I didn't know.
joe rogan
Very little, and I'm often wrong.
russell peters
That's fine.
joe rogan
Don't get your information from me.
russell peters
Yeah, but your confidence is within.
I'm confident I'm wrong a lot.
joe rogan
Trust me.
But yeah, I think they landed...
I think they didn't even land in America proper.
I think they landed in the Bahamas first, if I remember correctly, which is ridiculous.
russell peters
In when?
1600s?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I mean, 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, right?
russell peters
That's what they say.
joe rogan
That's what happened.
russell peters
We didn't learn that in Canada.
unidentified
It says actually neither of them landed in America.
joe rogan
Where'd they land?
unidentified
I'm trying to remember.
joe rogan
Bahamas for Columbus.
Yeah, there we go.
See, I know some things.
I occasionally know some things.
But you know what's crazy is that we still celebrate Columbus Day when we know he's a fucking serial killer.
I mean, the guy was a ruthless murderer.
A horrific person.
The shit that they did to the Native Americans that was documented by the missionaries that came along with them.
russell peters
Yeah, but in Outer Mongolia, they have Genghis Khan Day, which is really a nice day.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
russell peters
The fireworks are incredible.
joe rogan
The rapings, the murders.
russell peters
The skull.
joe rogan
Lighting people on fire.
russell peters
The skull pyramid.
joe rogan
Yeah, dude.
Have you ever listened to The Wrath of the Khans from Dan Carlin from Hardcore History?
I didn't know much about Genghis Khan.
I knew he was a conqueror and all that stuff.
russell peters
I knew he was ruthless as fuck.
joe rogan
Ruthless as fuck, but when you listen to the Wrath of the Khans from Hardcore History, I think you can only get it on Dan Carlin's website now.
Dan Carlin has a system where he keeps a certain amount of them, it makes them available for free on his iTunes page, but then once they get to a certain number, then he archives them on his website and then you have to pay, but it's only a dollar an episode.
And they're amazing.
He's got a podcast, but to call his podcast and my podcast the same thing is ridiculous.
Like, his podcast is really like an amazing, super entertaining audio history book.
Whereas this is just you and me talking shit.
russell peters
Yeah, but yours, I think you're underestimating how entertaining yours is.
Because I could put it on with no matter who the fuck your guest is.
No matter, even if I'm like, I don't know who that is, but I'll watch it.
And then I watch it, I go, I just learned so much.
joe rogan
Well, that's good.
russell peters
It's good.
And it's, you know, and sometimes I find even when you have the more, the people that you think you're going to get more from you, like, that wasn't it.
joe rogan
Sometimes, yeah, you never know.
You never know who's going to be a good guest.
russell peters
It's good that you got Elon to fucking talk.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Because I've met him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
Not a talker.
joe rogan
Well, he likes me, and he knows I like him, and we can talk.
He knows that I respect him very much.
russell peters
I respect the shit out of him.
joe rogan
And I'm very curious, and so I know how to pull things out of him.
And after we did the first one, the first one was a little rough at first, man.
If you go back and listen to the first one, the first...
Maybe, you know, 15-20 minutes is kind of pulling teeth and doing heavy lifting, but then he got comfortable.
He was super comfortable when I first met him.
When he came to the studio, he was real warm and friendly, gave me the flamethrower.
It was good times.
unidentified
That one?
joe rogan
Yeah.
But then, once he settled in, and then we started, we drank, that was one of the reasons why we started drinking right away.
I wanted to loosen him up.
And then once he got loosened up, then we had a good time.
russell peters
I met him from Jon Favreau, so I figured Fav and him are really good friends.
I thought he'd be like, you know, oh, cool, you're friends with Fav.
It was like, hey, that's me.
joe rogan
Dude, he's almost too smart.
He's like talking to dogs.
russell peters
Yeah, I mean, he's got a different level of way of looking at things and making things happen.
joe rogan
Yeah, you and I are a couple of collies.
russell peters
Yeah, we're fucking idiots.
I mean, me for sure.
For sure, both of us.
I'm a chihuahua.
I'm not even a fucking collie.
joe rogan
We're morons.
And he's digging tunnels under LA and shooting rockets into space.
Meanwhile, he's making electric cars and solar panels and SolarCity.
Like, what the fuck, man?
russell peters
Yeah, he's the Dr. Dre of science.
joe rogan
He's the Nikola Tesla of 2020 is what he is.
That's why he named it after him, right?
It's important to have guys like that around.
It's funny when people talk shit about him.
russell peters
And he's our age.
That's the fucking crazy part.
joe rogan
Younger than us!
russell peters
Yeah, he's younger than us.
joe rogan
I think he's like 46 or something.
russell peters
I did a Canadian talk show and his mom was on with me.
This was earlier this year, I think.
joe rogan
Did they have to plug her in?
Was she a robot?
russell peters
She's beautiful.
joe rogan
Really?
russell peters
Yeah, she's like 70, but she's really...
She was a model, and you could see it.
You're like, oh yeah, she's...
I felt awkward.
I'm like, hey, she's fucking hot.
Not too awkward, because I was like, I would take a run.
I'd have had the chance.
joe rogan
Maybe get the rub.
Get a little smarter.
russell peters
But yeah, I don't think I was smarter.
joe rogan
Imagine if you fuck a smart person, you get a little smarter?
russell peters
That'd be amazing.
joe rogan
That would be amazing.
russell peters
Yeah, because I think I've definitely gotten dumber.
joe rogan
As you got older?
russell peters
No, by fucking dumb women.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, you get dumber.
russell peters
Yeah, you make dumb choices.
Because you gotta dumb it down to make yourself get in there.
joe rogan
Right.
russell peters
You go to their level.
joe rogan
Right.
russell peters
And then when you go to a smarter woman's level, You elevate yourself, but then because they're smarter, you can't get away with the same bullshit.
joe rogan
There's nothing more embarrassing than if you think a girl is not so smart, and then you find out she is smart.
russell peters
That's how you know she's smart, because she played it like she's not smart.
You know, Suzanne Somers was like that.
She's a very intelligent woman who understood, I'm going to use this to my advantage.
joe rogan
That makes sense.
russell peters
As was Farrah Fawcett.
joe rogan
Really?
She's real smart?
russell peters
She was a very intelligent woman who knew that it was like, okay, I see.
I see what you're looking for.
joe rogan
Callan told me he did a movie with Megan Fox, and he said he made that mistake.
He was talking to her like she was a dummy, and then she turned on him, rattled off a bunch of facts and information.
He realized, like, oh.
russell peters
Yeah, there's a reason these people are in the place they're in.
joe rogan
Not always.
russell peters
Well, a lot of times.
joe rogan
Some of them are hot.
russell peters
True.
joe rogan
Some of them are fucked their way.
russell peters
True.
joe rogan
That's true, too.
russell peters
I remember Whitney got mad at me one night at the Laugh Factory.
joe rogan
For what?
russell peters
I don't know.
I was showing another comic, like, pics.
This was years ago.
Pics that girls had sent me.
joe rogan
Right.
russell peters
Nudes and shit.
And she goes, I want to see.
And I go, it's just naked women.
She goes, let me see what the girls sent you.
And I show her, and she got fucking mad.
She was like...
You know, you gotta stop dating fucking stupid women, Russell.
This is disgusting.
You go, I didn't want to show you this.
She was like, no, you need to do better.
You're not an idiot.
Why the fuck are you dating idiots?
I go, alright, I fucking felt bad after.
joe rogan
But you know why she gets like that?
Because she's really smart.
russell peters
No, I know.
joe rogan
So she probably gets upset at dumb women, like setting a bad example.
Because I'm sure she gets treated like she's a dumb woman.
And she's not.
So she probably sees dumb women and sees that you give them attention.
russell peters
She's like, you're helping.
You're hurting us.
joe rogan
You're hurting the cause.
russell peters
And I'm like, you know what?
And I get it.
And, you know, the thing with female comics, I don't look at them as female comics, I look at them as comics.
unidentified
Right.
russell peters
Because I'm like, if you're able to do the same job, there's no male or female in my eyes.
We are doing the exact same job.
The gender's irrelevant.
joe rogan
Well, comedy, stand-up comedy's very much a meritocracy.
Very much.
russell peters
Yes.
joe rogan
The ones who are really good get a lot of respect.
russell peters
Right.
joe rogan
No matter what they are.
Gay, straight, male, female.
russell peters
Sarah Silverman's one of my favorite comics of all time.
joe rogan
Bro, she's a murderer.
russell peters
Fucking incredible.
joe rogan
Incredible.
russell peters
And that's gender-free.
That's male, female, doesn't matter.
She's a fucking beast.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, she's a killer.
russell peters
Same with fighters.
Female fighters.
I don't look at them as female fighters.
Look at them as fighters.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
russell peters
Because they have the balls to do something I'm not going to be able to do.
Get in there and put it on the line.
joe rogan
Do you think you'd do a jiu-jitsu match?
russell peters
I was supposed to do the Worlds this year.
joe rogan
Cut the fuck out of here.
russell peters
I was going to do the Masters.
joe rogan
Really?
russell peters
Yeah, in August.
Wow.
I was so excited for it because I had dropped weight and I was going to go down to 205 because I think the weight limit's 212 with the gi on.
And I'm already at 210. I'm like, fucking five more pounds, not a big deal.
joe rogan
Wow.
So Blue Belt Masters.
russell peters
Blue Belt Masters, under 50, because I'll be 50 in September.
joe rogan
Wow.
russell peters
I was so excited about it.
I was so pissed.
I'm like, come on.
joe rogan
It's not even July.
russell peters
I know.
joe rogan
Come on, baby.
russell peters
It's not going to happen this year.
joe rogan
It's not going to happen?
No event?
russell peters
No, they're not happening.
It's not happening this year.
The Olympics are canceled this year.
joe rogan
Is that real?
russell peters
Yeah.
The Olympics for this year, right?
Yeah, they're not happening.
The Olympics aren't happening.
If the Olympics aren't happening, then no fucking world master jiu-jitsu is going to happen.
No.
joe rogan
Well, there have been some grappling competitions, though.
Submission underground.
russell peters
The EBIs and all that kind of stuff.
joe rogan
Well, Chael Sonnen's event.
Submission underground.
russell peters
Is that gi or no gi?
joe rogan
No gi.
russell peters
Listen, I like no gi, but I'm not ready for no gi.
joe rogan
Yeah?
How come?
russell peters
I don't train enough no-gi.
I'll train no-gi every now and then.
And I enjoy it, but it's a much faster game.
joe rogan
It's definitely different with grips and stuff.
russell peters
Grips are different.
A lot of the neck grabbing that I don't like.
joe rogan
You don't like neck grabbing?
russell peters
Because I get pimples on my necks.
I'm always fucking, get your fucking hand away from me.
It's like boxing for me.
When I see the hand come out, I push it out of the way so I can get their neck.
joe rogan
Well, John Jack always says, don't ever trust your neck.
russell peters
That's what he always tells me.
unidentified
He goes, don't ever trust your neck unless you have my neck.
russell peters
And then the guy that gave you the Iron Neck?
Yes.
You've used those?
He came to the gym shortly after I did the podcast last time, and he was dropping off one to John Jack.
joe rogan
Oh, beautiful.
russell peters
And he was like, hey, I just heard you on Rogue.
And I go, so can I get one of these fucking things or what?
He's like, yeah.
And I never got it.
I definitely need to.
joe rogan
I'll give you one.
russell peters
Please.
Here?
joe rogan
I have one here.
I have four of them.
I have one here, and I have three at my house.
Because he keeps sending me the newest versions of it, but I still use the old version.
russell peters
Yeah, I just need one.
joe rogan
I haven't even set up the...
Look, the old version's amazing.
I'm sure the new version's better, but I haven't even bothered taking it out of the box.
russell peters
I would like to just tighten this shit up here.
joe rogan
We'll lose some weight.
We'll tighten that shit up.
russell peters
No, it's already...
Listen, I used to look like a fucking...
Like a nice sandwich.
Looked like an Arby's sandwich here before.
joe rogan
Have you used it?
The Iron Neck?
russell peters
No, no.
joe rogan
You never used it?
russell peters
No, but I could definitely enjoy it.
I'm pretty sure I would love to use it.
joe rogan
We'll go do it right now.
Right when we're done here.
I'll take you.
I'll show you.
It's real easy to use.
Real simple.
And it's the best exercise ever for strength.
And it's the safest for strengthening your neck.
russell peters
Yeah, in boxing we used to have to lay at the end of the ring with your head hanging off.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
And then lift weights with the weights.
russell peters
Yeah, just that shit.
And it wasn't even like a thing that was secure.
It was like a fucking leather strap belt with some weights hanging off your forehead.
You had to be careful it didn't slip off.
joe rogan
I have one of those too, but I don't like it.
No, I didn't like it either.
I don't think it's natural to put extra weight on your head and then bend it and put all that pressure on your discs of your neck.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
The beautiful thing about the Iron Neck is it strengthens your neck without having to bend it in any weird way.
You keep your neck totally straight.
So your posture is straight like this and you have the halo that goes on the head and then the 50-pound bungee cord.
So as you back up, you're never doing weird shit like this, which puts that additional pressure on your discs.
russell peters
Right.
joe rogan
It's easy, buddy.
russell peters
I'm looking forward to this.
joe rogan
Alright, we'll do it.
Anything else?
Let's wrap this up.
Anything else we need to talk about?
russell peters
No, I'm good.
Whatever you like.
joe rogan
Let everybody know.
The Russell Peters Show will be premiering.
russell peters
Let me read you what I want to tell you.
joe rogan
Did you write some shit down?
russell peters
I wrote some shit down.
Did you?
joe rogan
It's a nice watch, by the way.
russell peters
Thank you.
You want it?
joe rogan
It's very sporty.
russell peters
I gave you a watch once before.
joe rogan
You did.
You gave me a Breitling.
And I wear it every time I do a special.
russell peters
Do you?
joe rogan
Yep.
It's my good luck watch.
russell peters
Oh, I appreciate that.
joe rogan
If you look at Triggered and Strange Times, I'm wearing your watch.
russell peters
Oh, that's awesome.
You know, whenever I'm watching UFC, I go, what's he wearing?
And I noticed you're always wearing this stainless Roli.
I'm like, fuck, that's not my watch.
joe rogan
I wear your watch all the time.
russell peters
I know.
That makes me happy.
joe rogan
That makes me happy, too.
russell peters
I still have the watch you gave me for that.
joe rogan
I just had a watch on.
russell peters
You had a watch on.
joe rogan
You had a leather strap.
You said it smelled.
russell peters
It fucking stinks.
Holy shit.
It fucking stunk.
joe rogan
It's an old-ass watch.
But when you gave me that watch, like legitimately, I think my Comedy Central special from 2014 has that watch on too.
That's my good luck watch.
russell peters
Oh, that's awesome.
joe rogan
I wear it for every special.
russell peters
That makes me really happy.
joe rogan
Makes me happy too, bud.
russell peters
Let's see.
What do I want?
Different psychedelics, blah, blah, blah.
I said to my guy, I said, hey, Todd, I'm doing Rogan today.
I want to talk about our company.
And he goes, oh, that's the one I'm working with, the one I'm CCO of, Red Light Holland.
And I'm like, oh, great.
And then I go, send me some talking points.
This fucking guy sends me...
I'm like, these aren't points.
This is a paragraph.
I don't know.
I need something I can look at and get the information real quick.
joe rogan
That's more than a paragraph.
That's many paragraphs.
russell peters
It keeps going.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a lecture.
He sent you a TED talk.
russell peters
Fucking Todd Shapiro.
Anyway, redlighttruffles.com.
That's what I wanted to know.
joe rogan
I can't imagine how the truffles are legal and then the caps are not.
russell peters
Maybe it's a Holland thing.
Because it's the root.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's still psilocybin.
russell peters
Right, but, for some reason, it's the loophole, and we're taking advantage of the loophole.
joe rogan
Okay, I'm all in.
russell peters
And we're doing it in a way that it doesn't fuck you up.
joe rogan
How's that?
russell peters
We're taking the right amounts for the microdosing.
It's microdosing only at this point.
joe rogan
Well, a lot of people in San Francisco, before San Francisco imploded, they were all doing the microdosing in tech communities.
They were doing it.
It was really big.
russell peters
That'd be great, yeah, because you open up your mind, you get some ideas.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
What does Elon do then?
Because he's got some fucking wild out there ideas.
joe rogan
Bro, Elon's on another level.
He's the next stage of evolution.
That's what I think.
I think we're all like chimp people and he's like this new thing.
russell peters
Yeah.
And then he named his kid then.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
russell peters
I saw a meme.
It said, Elon Musk's kid will not have birthdays.
It'll have updates.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's too fucking smart.
I don't want to be that smart.
That's one of the things that I asked him, too.
I was like, what is it like?
You're like, you wouldn't want to be me.
He literally said that.
russell peters
I can't imagine him getting sleep.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, I think ideas are just bouncing off his head like a fucking Super Bowl.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The inside of his head just...
russell peters
Yeah, it's like Pong.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
But when you get it stuck between things...
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Rough.
Better off being dumb, I guess.
Right?
russell peters
I mean, you're, to me, you are, I don't know if you know this, but to me and a lot of people, I would say almost all of your listeners, you are the guy that a lot of people go to to find out information.
joe rogan
Yeah, because I have a good memory.
But that's it.
russell peters
You have a good memory and you're non-biased.
joe rogan
I try.
I try very hard.
That's one thing that I've learned from doing this podcast.
I've learned how to look at information for what it really is.
And I've learned there's zero benefit in not admitting you're wrong and zero benefit in pretending you have information that you don't have.
Like, if I don't know something, I ask.
It's very important.
russell peters
Yeah, you're very good at retaining things.
joe rogan
Some things, ask my wife, a lot of shit I don't keep.
russell peters
I mean, you didn't remember to download Scotty Fox's mix that I sent you, but I mean...
joe rogan
When you told me, I was probably high.
russell peters
We were at dinner, it was you, me, the hunter guy, and the black guy who makes me feel bad about sleeping in.
joe rogan
Oh, Goggins.
That's hilarious.
So is it Cam Haynes and Goggins?
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's right.
We're in Vegas.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's right.
russell peters
It was the four of us.
joe rogan
That's right.
That's right.
And Chuck Zito had that crazy jacket with the tassels, the crazy Native American jacket.
So he comes over to hug everybody and his tassels are getting into everybody's drinks.
russell peters
It's got gravy on them and stuff.
joe rogan
Chuck Zito's such a character.
russell peters
I love Chuck.
He's, you know, despite his hard exterior, he's the sweetest guy in the world.
joe rogan
Sweet guy.
russell peters
I could count on him at any time of the day.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's quite a character too.
russell peters
67 years old.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
He looks great.
russell peters
Looks great.
joe rogan
He had a health scare a while back, right?
russell peters
A few, four or five years ago.
Prostate cancer.
Got it removed.
joe rogan
Bounced back.
russell peters
Bounced back.
joe rogan
Beautiful.
russell peters
The old school, you know, the old school guys are like, you know, it's about honor and their word.
And I appreciate that.
I think I'm a little old school in that regard.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think you are too.
I would say that.
russell peters
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
russell peters
All about my word.
Fuck it.
joe rogan
Fuck it.
Russell Peters show coming soon.
When can people plan on it?
September?
russell peters
Oh, you tell me.
I'm going to need you.
joe rogan
September.
russell peters
September?
joe rogan
Let's do it.
Yeah, we'll work it out through this month in August.
russell peters
Joe's going to guide me through this.
joe rogan
Start doing some dry runs.
I'll be guest number one.
How about that?
russell peters
That'd be fucking amazing.
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
We'll get you high on mushrooms.
We'll figure it out.
russell peters
You know, we'll get high on mushrooms and do the first one.
joe rogan
That sounds good.
russell peters
That's amazing.
unidentified
Let's do that.
joe rogan
Russell Peters, ladies and gentlemen.
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