Joe Rogan Experience #1502 - Russell Peters

Russell Peters is an actor and stand up comedian. His latest stand up special "Deported" is now available on Amazon Prime. @RussellPeters

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Jul 3, 20202h 28mWatch on YouTube ↗

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0:01 – 1:45
Steak for breakfast, shutdown whiplash, and why LA keeps closing
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Russell.
2. RPRussell Peters
  Joseph.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  My man.
4. RPRussell Peters
  Oh, we're live.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  We're live. We're-
6. RPRussell Peters
  I-
7. JRJoe Rogan
  ... sort of live. Salud, brother.
8. RPRussell Peters
  Oh.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Always good to see you, my friend.
10. RPRussell Peters
  You too, thanks.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  It's been a while.
12. RPRussell Peters
  Midday drinking, I like it.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Sometimes you need it. I had a steak for breakfast.
14. RPRussell Peters
  I saw you post-
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Midday drinking.
16. RPRussell Peters
  ... something about that.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Yeah, I was like, "Fuck it. I don't wanna eat breakfast food today. I wanna eat a steak."
18. RPRussell Peters
  What kind of steak?
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Um, I got it from Evan Funke, who's the head chef of Felix, and they were preparing to reopen. Felix is, uh, my favorite restaurant in Venice. Have you ever been?
20. RPRussell Peters
  Right. No, I've not.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Phenomenal. Bryan Callen took, uh, turned me on to it.
22. RPRussell Peters
  Okay.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Um, and, um, they came in, him and, uh, the owner Janet came in to do a podcast, and, uh, they gave me some steaks. So I cooked one of them today.
24. RPRussell Peters
  What kind of cut was it?
25. JRJoe Rogan
  It was, is a T-bone, fat, big, thick T-bone. They were about to reopen, and now they got shut down again.
26. RPRussell Peters
  Do they not have a patio they can open?
27. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't believe they do, and I don't even think you're allowed to do that now.
28. RPRussell Peters
  No, you're, I think you're allowed to patio still. You're just not allowed to eat indoors-
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
30. RPRussell Peters
  ... as far as I, as far as I know.
1:45 – 3:07
Protests, sunlight, and the logic of outdoor COVID risk
1. JRJoe Rogan
  We had a lot of protesters.
2. RPRussell Peters
  ... California, and then, uh, Florida.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, there was a lot of protesting.
4. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  And people wanna pretend it's not the protesting. I'm 100% for the protesting. Don't get me wrong, but I'm also 100% for freedom.
6. RPRussell Peters
  (laughs)
7. JRJoe Rogan
  America.
8. RPRussell Peters
  I'll tell you what, boy.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, I mean, look, it's just natural, man. You get a few sick people in you get 10,000 people-
10. RPRussell Peters
  (coughs)
11. JRJoe Rogan
  ... 50,000 people huddled together, people are gonna get sick. It's just-
12. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, and they're that close-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  ... how it goes.
14. RPRussell Peters
  ... yelling at each other, you know?
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yelling, literally yelling.
16. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, screaming, so it's-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
18. RPRussell Peters
  ... spits flying.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Apparently particularly at night time is when it spreads because, uh, Brett Weinstein, um, who's a biologist who was on the podcast-
20. RPRussell Peters
  I saw that one.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  ... sent me a paper that said that, uh, they've, there's a, a recent study that shows that COVID-19 dies almost instantly when it hits sunlight.
22. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, that's why it's ridiculous they closed the beaches.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
24. RPRussell Peters
  That's where you should want everybody.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Right. Just stay away from each other. Just stay-
26. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  ... socially distanced.
28. RPRussell Peters
  Out in the sun killing COVID.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Right. 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, it's not rocket science. The problem is the people that aren't gonna listen, you know?
30. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, but I mean, still, I mean, fucking you got a much better chance of it dying out there by the beach.
3:07 – 5:14
Homeless tent ‘villages’ in Brentwood and unintended consequences
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, the state of the country for sure, but California in particular because it's so many cases. And then the homeless population, have you ever been, you've been by Brentwood lately?
2. RPRussell Peters
  Are they, have they moved them all there now?
3. JRJoe Rogan
  They got a fucking tent village set up there. Jimmy, see if you can find photos of that.
4. RPRussell Peters
  They used to have them under the bridges here in the Valley.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh, my friend Matt was talking about it. He, he works down there, and he was telling me how insane it is. He's like, "They're never gonna leave this." They're like, they have it set up now where they have like a community.
6. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  And then you have to stay socially distant inside the tent community, and a bunch of people don't wanna 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, a six-foot distance.
8. RPRussell Peters
  So it's basically an HOA under the bridge now. (laughs)
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Well, it's not under the bridge. They, they're using the veteran's something or another, the VA, they have some, some large yard.
10. RPRussell Peters
  Right.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  And then outside 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."
12. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Like they don't wanna have any rules. So they don't, they don't wanna deal with the socially dist- because if you're inside the tents that they've set up and created for you, you have to follow the rules.
14. RPRussell Peters
  So those are prob- 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.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  LA is getting a government-run tent city. All it took was 40 years and a pandemic. But they're saying that it, like it's a good thing.
16. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, like w- finally.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
18. RPRussell Peters
  (laughs)
19. JRJoe Rogan
  That's what they're saying. But you know, this is gonna, first of all, this is gonna crush property values. This is in V- this is in Brentwood. Not that property values are the most important thing, don't get me wrong, but they're an important thing. But-
20. RPRussell Peters
  Especially in that neighborhood.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, that's a very valuable neighborhood, and if someone has invested-
22. RPRussell Peters
  (coughs)
23. JRJoe Rogan
  ... all of their money into their home and they're hoping to sell their home, and then all of a sudden the home values drop radically 'cause nobody wants to live right next door to a tent city. See if there's any photos of that fucking thing.
24. JVJamie Vernon
  I was gonna say, I thought there was a picture up there.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  'Cause the photos are pretty dramatic. Maybe they're trying to hide it 'cause they're trying to make it... You know, that's one of the things, man. Everybody's sugarcoating everything on here.
26. RPRussell Peters
  There's sugarcoating, and then there's, uh, uh, and then there's the fucking overreactors.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
28. RPRussell Peters
  Uh, it's v- it's a very insane time.
5:14 – 8:40
COVID experiences in comedy circles: quick recoveries and scary moments
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. You know why people overreact though? It's because it's not the same for everybody. Like 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-
2. RPRussell Peters
  Mm-hmm.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  ... 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.
4. RPRussell Peters
  Right.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Three days. Three days, he's fine.
6. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't know if it's a good idea to go on that bike ride, by the way.
8. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  But I wanna see what happens, so I'm not saying anything.
10. RPRussell Peters
  (laughs)
11. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
12. RPRussell Peters
  I wanna... Hope, hope he wears a mask.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. I wanna see if it, uh, makes him feel like shit if he goes on the bike ride or if he feels great.
14. RPRussell Peters
  I was talking to DL 'cause, you know, he just got diagnosed.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, I saw.
16. RPRussell Peters
  And-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  That was really scary, that video of him.
18. RPRussell Peters
  And he was like, "No, I got nothing."
19. JRJoe Rogan
  He's fine?
20. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. I haven't, he said, "I've felt nothing the entire time."
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, um, he coughed a little today. He m- he had a video, a little bit of video, he was hilarious. He's like, "Oh my covis is acting up." (laughs)
22. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. Yeah, I saw that. It's 'cause he probably smoked a joint right before that. (laughs)
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Probably, right? Uh, 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.
24. RPRussell Peters
  That's his, uh, road manager, I think.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, his road manager's a fucking hero, 'cause if DL fell, he would've smashed his head on that stage and you got real problems then.
26. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  'Cause he was just sitting there and he, 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?
28. RPRussell Peters
  I did not see the video.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Let's see if we can find it. It's- it's, uh-
30. RPRussell Peters
  I only just found out there was a video of it like two nights ago 'cause Cedric was at my house.
8:40 – 15:43
Cigars, jiu-jitsu training, and why teaching makes you better
1. JRJoe Rogan
  You like cigars? You want a cigar right now?
2. RPRussell Peters
  Uh, midday cigar. Fuck it, let's go.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Fuck it. Fuck it.
4. RPRussell Peters
  I'll do a midday cigar and a little midday bourbon.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Fuck it. Mike Binder gave me these. He came over when he was doing that, uh-
6. RPRussell Peters
  Oh, in the documentary?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  ... 000 documentary? Yeah.
8. RPRussell Peters
  Nice, I like Mike. He's a good guy.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  He's a good guy. That documentary looks really good, man.
10. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. I went into the store and did it.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, did you?
12. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  That's probably the best place for it. He came-
14. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, it's good because it gives the energy of the room, you know?
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. He wanted to do it here though. He wanted to get he and I talking about it. There we go, follow. Take that.
16. RPRussell Peters
  Take that, take that, take that.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  This is an interesting one. Look at that. This is from, uh, Benchmade Knives. You get the coolest shit sent to you, dude. (laughs)
18. RPRussell Peters
  Look at that.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Like a guillotine. (packaging tearing)
20. RPRussell Peters
  It's my move, it's my move, a guillotine.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Is that your move?
22. RPRussell Peters
  That's my move now.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
24. RPRussell Peters
  You know-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  It's a good move.
26. RPRussell Peters
  You know, um, because of you, my, uh, other move is an in-arm choke.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm. Head and arm choke?
28. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
30. RPRussell Peters
  And, uh, and so when we're, whenever I get it, uh, or I get in position for it, Sean Jackable's like, "Joe Hogan choke. The Joe Hogan choke." (laughs)
15:43 – 17:47
MMA Mount Rushmore debates and ONE FC’s growth
1. JRJoe Rogan
  It really can't be, it can't be a, a Mount Rushmore of martial arts because there's not enough heads. Like you, you couldn't... Even if you had a Mount Rushmore of MMA, how are you only gonna have four heads? You know?
2. RPRussell Peters
  There's a lot, there's a lot of people that came in and changed the game.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. There's too many people. You know, you have to have GSP. Have to. You have to. Two division world champion, dominated the welterweights, revolutionized the way people think about, uh, athletes training for MMA. Um, when he was at the peak of his championship skills, he was unstoppable, man. When he beat Jon Fitch, when he smashed BJ Penn, like those days-
4. RPRussell Peters
  And then he came back after retirement and beat Bisping.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  (sighs) And beat Bisping at 85 and put him to sleep with a rear naked choke.
6. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  He actually was better. He actually looked better after four years out.
8. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
10. RPRussell Peters
  It's a long time away too. It's not like a, you know, month off.
11. JRJoe 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, uh, Mighty Mouse beat Cejudo for the first time, when duh, he beat, uh, 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.
12. RPRussell Peters
  I remember that.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  God damn, dude.
14. RPRussell Peters
  That was crazy, that one.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Mighty Mouse when he was in his peak was something really special.
16. RPRussell Peters
  I have a friend of mine who trains with Mighty Mouse. Um, this Indian kid who fights, Saint Lion.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Is he fighting for ONE FC?
18. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. ONE FC is amazing, man.
20. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. Gurdarshan.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. They're, uh, they have some really tough fighters over there and Mighty Mouse is still stomping them.
22. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. I'm hearing that one might, uh, try and start up by, uh, by the fall out here in America.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Really? In America?
24. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Good luck.
26. RPRussell Peters
  That's what I said. I said it doesn't make sense. You might as well stick to Singapore.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Singapore, they're huge. Are they allowed to do shows right now?
28. RPRussell Peters
  I don't know, but I think the rest of the world's opening up, but they're not letting Americans in.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Isn't that crazy?
30. RPRussell Peters
  Well, it makes sense.
17:47 – 25:29
Why America struggled: entitlement, testing doubts, and healthcare comparisons
1. JRJoe Rogan
  What do you think it is? Is it that so many Americans are overweight? Is it the protests?
2. RPRussell Peters
  It's the, uh, it's that blind entitlement. And as a Canadian I can 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?"
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
4. RPRussell Peters
  You know, here, here's why this is happening. And like, "No, you're invading my rights." And I'm like, "I get that. We're all frustrated with it."
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
6. RPRussell Peters
  You know, I'm with you on this, but for the betterment of the rest of the country-
7. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
8. RPRussell Peters
  ... if you could just wait a little bit.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  I wish, just wish there was an awesome treatment so if you got it, it was like... My friend who's 37, I don't wanna say his name 'cause I don't think he's talked about it yet.
10. RPRussell Peters
  (laughs)
11. JRJoe Rogan
  But, uh, he... When he got it, you know, he was like 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."
12. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, I th- I... Listen, I did the test on Monday. I had your guy come to my house.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
14. RPRussell Peters
  Well, he sent somebody. And, uh, I was negative. I did the finger one, the blood one, and the nose swab. Negative on all of them. But, uh, I think I had it, dude, in January and I had like a, a, a, like a brief one.
15. JRJoe 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.
16. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, but I never get those either.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  It's not like those things go away.
18. RPRussell Peters
  You know what I mean?
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, but you can.
20. RPRussell Peters
  That's true.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  You're human, Russell.
22. RPRussell Peters
  It's true, but... And then a lot of people, I think a lot of the, the, uh, testing results are getting marked wrong.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  You think so?
24. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, it's, it's... Listen, I had a friend pass away during this whole thing.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  From?
26. RPRussell Peters
  Uh, he died of cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, and-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Oof.
28. RPRussell Peters
  ... because they did a COVID test, they said it's COVID related.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, that's rough. They do that.
30. RPRussell Peters
  And I'm like, "Come on, that's fucking bullshit." 'Cause I spoke to the doctor less than 24 hours before he passed away, and the doctor said he's got three to six months, and then-
25:29 – 37:13
Standup in a pandemic: touring risks, supplements, and the Texas contrast
1. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) Are you, uh, are you doing any shows right now? Are you-
2. RPRussell Peters
  I did. I did, uh, Miami this past weekend.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  What'd you do?
4. RPRussell Peters
  Five shows.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  The Improv?
6. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
8. RPRussell Peters
  And, uh-
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Is that the first time-
10. RPRussell Peters
  (clears throat) .
11. JRJoe Rogan
  ... in three months?
12. RPRussell Peters
  No. Uh, a week, two weeks before that, I did the, uh, American Comedy Club in San Diego. That was the first time-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  They're- they've been open for that long?
14. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. So that was good. It was like 75 people a show. (clears throat) .
15. JRJoe Rogan
  The La Jolla Comedy Store is open again.
16. RPRussell Peters
  Already?
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yep.
18. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. It was good, though. I had a good time. And then, uh, Miami, uh, uh, I, I was getting a little leery of the numbers and stuff and the stats coming out, so I would literally stay in my hotel room until showtime.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm.
20. RPRussell Peters
  Go to the show. Do my shows, no meet and greet, and bounce right back to the hotel.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Were you doing anything to take precautions? Were you taking supplements? Were you-
22. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, I'm on a bunch of shit, you know.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
24. RPRussell Peters
  I got this, uh, anti-aging doctor that I see.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm. What are you taking? Vitamins, though?
26. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, I'm taking a bunch of vitamins.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Vitamin D?
28. RPRussell Peters
  A bunch of vitamin E. Like, uh, some stupid amount, you know. Like two- 20,000 or something (laughs) like that.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) Really? Every day?
30. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
37:13 – 39:26
Cancel culture, comedy’s changing rules, and why quarantine didn’t produce new acts
1. JRJoe Rogan
  You know, he's one of those ... There's a few of those guys that are coming up that are ... Look, in this day and age, with social media and cancel cult- culture, it's very hard to be a wild comedian.
2. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  You know, in our day, when we were first starting-
4. RPRussell Peters
  There were no rules.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  ... there was no rules.
6. RPRussell Peters
  It was, it was a fucking wild west back then.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Y- you were wild because everybody else was wild, and that was what you enjoyed. Like I enjoy wild comedy. I've always enjoyed Kinison and Pryor and when Joey Diaz is going off. Like that's-
8. RPRussell Peters
  (laughs)
9. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that's my favorite, that's what I like. You know, and so that's what we all did. But to be a guy like Schulz today is ... It's a lot riskier. To be Tim Dillon today, a lot riskier.
10. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. These guys ... But they figured it out, you know, 'cause they're from the culture that is canceling people, so they know the inside of it. They know, like ... They kinda know the lines in it.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
12. RPRussell Peters
  They know how to-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  The lines move, though. That's what's weird.
14. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. I mean, the lines are very blurred right now.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
16. RPRussell Peters
  And I keep thinking, you know, I, I, I, I say it on stage too, but I'm like, you know, if they're, if they're gonna cancel you for what you're saying, th- 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 that there's a lot of cadence involved in a lot of-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
18. RPRussell Peters
  ... things that you say, that, uh, that takes-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  But there's also-
20. RPRussell Peters
  ... the sting right out of it. And then I even said, "If I was to read a transcript of everything I said tonight, I'd be like, 'This guy's a piece of shit,' and let's get rid of him."
21. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) There's also temporary thoughts that go down as permanent record.
22. RPRussell Peters
  Mm-hmm.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  You know, when you're ... 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-"
24. RPRussell Peters
  Wait'll you see when-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  "... forever."
26. RPRussell Peters
  ... when this one airs, how many people are gonna, "Get that son of a bitch. Get the fuck out of America if you don't like it here."
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
28. RPRussell Peters
  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."
29. JRJoe Rogan
  You haven't said one bad thing about America, though.
30. RPRussell Peters
  Well, no, the minute you say anything and you're not American, you're automatic, "Get the fuck out," is what you get. (laughs)
39:26 – 44:49
Tattoos, hyper-realism art, and the fading tribal trend
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Do you have any tattoos?
2. RPRussell Peters
  None.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  None?
4. RPRussell Peters
  None.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  You thought about it?
6. RPRussell Peters
  I think about it now and then. I remember when you had none.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  I had one. You got me.
8. RPRussell Peters
  You had one little-
9. JRJoe Rogan
  I had one on my shoulder, yeah.
10. RPRussell Peters
  And that was like a ... And the past 10 years, you've definitely done a transformation.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, what I did was I, I w- I wanted to get a sleeve, and I didn't want it to be patchwork. So I wanted to do it all one piece, so I went to Aaron Della Vedova down at Guru Tattoo in San Diego.
12. RPRussell Peters
  Mm-hmm.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  And we planned it out, and he drew all these sketches of what it would look like and ... You know, it was a, it was a thought-out thing.
14. RPRussell Peters
  What was it? What is your sleeve?
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Well-
16. RPRussell Peters
  The first one.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  It's a lot. It's a dragon. It's wrapped around this Buddha that's holding a DMT molecule.
18. RPRussell Peters
  (laughs)
19. JRJoe Rogan
  It's pretty wild shit. Yeah, I just wanted, I wanted art, you know?
20. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Just ... Uh, and everybody's like, "Oh, you got a tattoo. You gotta keep it for the rest of your life." Well, that's not that long.
22. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Guess what? You know?
24. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Like what do ... What's better, old skin? People are like, "What's it gonna look like when you're old?" Well, guess what? All old skin looks like shit.
26. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. I at one point wanted a boxing glove holding a microphone.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm. Glad you didn't do that? (laughs)
28. RPRussell Peters
  No, I'm not glad, 'cause I never got it ... Ev- every time somebody would draw it for me, I was like, "It doesn't look good."
29. JRJoe Rogan
  When I was in high school, everybody had a fucking Tasmanian devil with boxing gloves.
30. RPRussell Peters
  Mm-hmm.
44:49 – 1:17:48
Comedy legends, fame pressure, and surreal A-list hangouts
1. JRJoe Rogan
  He was a rough one, man. When that guy hung himself, I was like, "Oh, God."
2. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, you know, I never got to meet him.
3. JRJoe 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.
4. RPRussell Peters
  How long ago was that?
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Years ago. Obviously, he's dead.
6. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah. So not, not recent?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) No. Um, I don't remember, but I did a show at The Improv. It was quite a few years ago. I was... It was during the time of the podcast. I did a show at The Improv and then, um, 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 standup. He's asking me questions about writing and questions about, you know, like certain bits, like really laughing and wh-... And then I'm like, "Holy fuck, this is Robin Williams."
8. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Like I did... I was like, "Oh, thanks, man. I really appreciate it. That's really cool." And I'm like... I just think he's some cool guy.
10. RPRussell Peters
  Right.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  And then I realized in the middle of the conversation, this is Robin fucking Williams.
12. RPRussell Peters
  Yep.
13. JVJamie Vernon
  (laughs)
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Because he's got... He had this crazy thick-ass white beard.
15. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah, he always grew a real bushy beard.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  I think he was hiding, man. You know?
17. RPRussell Peters
  Yeah.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  I think for a lot of folks that are like real sensitive, and he's obviously a real sensitive guy, that, um, that place of being that famous is fucking overwhelming.
19. RPRussell Peters
  That famous and known for, uh, whether you are or not, but you're known for being always like on.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
21. RPRussell Peters
  And then there's the pressure of having to be on now so you don't disappoint the illusion.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
23. RPRussell Peters
  And that's got to be fucking taxing.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  It's got to be. Always on. And then just also, you know, it's just the, just the pressure of everyone recognizing you everywhere you go and...
25. RPRussell Peters
  I think one of the best recognitions I got was Bob Newhart.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, that's a good one.
27. RPRussell Peters
  Like 10 years ago, he... (clears throat) 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, uh, and he wanted me to be there on behalf of the younger generation. And I'm like-
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh. Wow.
29. RPRussell Peters
  ... "Are you serious?" And I remember I sat with, uh, Fred Willard and, uh, uh, Mannix, what's his name? Tom Connors, is that his name?
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh-huh.