Joe Rogan Experience #1502 - Russell Peters

Joe Rogan 0:01 Russell.

Russell Peters 0:02 Joseph.

Joe Rogan 0:03 My man.

Russell Peters 0:03 Oh, we're live.

Joe Rogan 0:04 We're live. We're-

Russell Peters 0:05 I-

Joe Rogan 0:05 ... sort of live. Salud, brother.

Russell Peters 0:07 Oh.

Joe Rogan 0:07 Always good to see you, my friend.

Russell Peters 0:08 You too, thanks.

Joe Rogan 0:09 It's been a while.

Russell Peters 0:10 Midday drinking, I like it.

Joe Rogan 0:12 Sometimes you need it. I had a steak for breakfast.

Russell Peters 0:14 I saw you post-

Joe Rogan 0:15 Midday drinking.

Russell Peters 0:15 ... something about that.

Joe Rogan 0:16 Yeah. Yeah, I was like, "Fuck it. I don't wanna eat breakfast food today. I wanna eat a steak."

Russell Peters 0:20 What kind of steak?

Joe Rogan 0:21 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?

Russell Peters 0:30 Right. No, I've not.

Joe Rogan 0:31 Phenomenal. Bryan Callen took, uh, turned me on to it.

Russell Peters 0:34 Okay.

Joe Rogan 0:35 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.

Russell Peters 0:44 What kind of cut was it?

Joe Rogan 0:45 It was, is a T-bone, fat, big, thick T-bone. They were about to reopen, and now they got shut down again.

Russell Peters 0:51 Do they not have a patio they can open?

Joe Rogan 0:53 I don't believe they do, and I don't even think you're allowed to do that now.

Russell Peters 0:57 No, you're, I think you're allowed to patio still. You're just not allowed to eat indoors-

Joe Rogan 1:00 Yeah.

Russell Peters 1:00 ... as far as I, as far as I know.

Joe Rogan 1:02 Well, that's good.

Russell Peters 1:02 I went, I went to the, uh, 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 1:11 They were gonna do, uh, something at The Comedy Store where they were gonna serve chicken fingers and just food and allow people to drink.

Russell Peters 1:17 Yes.

Joe Rogan 1:17 You know? And just ser- start, uh, opening it as a-

Russell Peters 1:20 I s-

Joe Rogan 1:20 ... restaurant only.

Russell Peters 1:21 Yeah, I saw that. And then I guess it's not happening now?

Joe Rogan 1:23 No, they shut it down because right when they were about to do it, then LA shut down the restaurants.

Russell Peters 1:28 That's so shitty.

Joe Rogan 1:28 Well, it's wor- it's, it's real shitty, man. It's real shitty. Um, and what's extra shitty about it is, um, y- you know, they were almost out of the woods. They were right about to reopen again.

Russell Peters 1:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:38 But because of the uptick.

Russell Peters 1:41 Yeah, California spiked harder than everyone else almost.

Joe Rogan 1:44 Yeah, wow.

Russell Peters 1:44 It's like Texas-

Joe Rogan 1:45 We had a lot of protesters.

Russell Peters 1:46 ... California, and then, uh, Florida.

Joe Rogan 1:48 Yeah, there was a lot of protesting.

Russell Peters 1:49 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:49 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.

Russell Peters 1:55 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:56 America.

Russell Peters 1:56 I'll tell you what, boy.

Joe Rogan 1:58 Yeah, I mean, look, it's just natural, man. You get a few sick people in you get 10,000 people-

Russell Peters 2:04 (coughs)

Joe Rogan 2:04 ... 50,000 people huddled together, people are gonna get sick. It's just-

Russell Peters 2:07 Yeah, and they're that close-

Joe Rogan 2:08 ... how it goes.

Russell Peters 2:08 ... yelling at each other, you know?

Joe Rogan 2:09 Yelling, literally yelling.

Russell Peters 2:10 Yeah, screaming, so it's-

Joe Rogan 2:11 Yeah.

Russell Peters 2:11 ... spits flying.

Joe Rogan 2:13 Apparently particularly at night time is when it spreads because, uh, Brett Weinstein, um, who's a biologist who was on the podcast-

Russell Peters 2:18 I saw that one.

Joe Rogan 2:19 ... 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.

Russell Peters 2:28 Yeah, that's why it's ridiculous they closed the beaches.

Joe Rogan 2:31 Yeah.

Russell Peters 2:31 That's where you should want everybody.

Joe Rogan 2:33 Right. Just stay away from each other. Just stay-

Russell Peters 2:35 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 2:35 ... socially distanced.

Russell Peters 2:36 Out in the sun killing COVID.

Joe Rogan 2:36 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?

Russell Peters 2:47 Yeah, but I mean, still, I mean, fucking you got a much better chance of it dying out there by the beach.

Joe Rogan 2:52 Yes. Yeah.

Russell Peters 2:53 And, and you know 4th of July weekend they did it. It's only gonna rile people up further.

Joe Rogan 2:58 Yes. Yes. Yes. It's, uh, I mean, I'm really worried about the state. I really am. It's, uh...

Russell Peters 3:05 The state of California or the state-

Joe Rogan 3:06 Yeah.

Russell Peters 3:06 ... of the country?

Joe Rogan 3:07 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?

Russell Peters 3:16 Are they, have they moved them all there now?

Joe Rogan 3:18 They got a fucking tent village set up there. Jimmy, see if you can find photos of that.

Russell Peters 3:22 They used to have them under the bridges here in the Valley.

Joe Rogan 3:24 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.

Russell Peters 3:35 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 3:35 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.

Russell Peters 3:47 So it's basically an HOA under the bridge now. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 3:49 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.

Russell Peters 3:57 Right.

Joe Rogan 3:57 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."

Russell Peters 4:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 4:05 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.

Russell Peters 4:13 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.

Joe Rogan 4:21 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.

Russell Peters 4:29 Yeah, like w- finally.

Joe Rogan 4:31 Yeah.

Russell Peters 4:31 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 4:31 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-

Russell Peters 4:42 Especially in that neighborhood.

Joe Rogan 4:43 Yeah, that's a very valuable neighborhood, and if someone has invested-

Russell Peters 4:46 (coughs)

Joe Rogan 4:46 ... 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.

Jamie Vernon 4:57 I was gonna say, I thought there was a picture up there.

Joe Rogan 4:58 '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.

Russell Peters 5:06 There's sugarcoating, and then there's, uh, uh, and then there's the fucking overreactors.

Joe Rogan 5:11 Mm-hmm.

Russell Peters 5:12 Uh, it's v- it's a very insane time.

Joe Rogan 5:14 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-

Russell Peters 5:31 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 5:32 ... 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.

Russell Peters 5:39 Right.

Joe Rogan 5:39 Three days. Three days, he's fine.

Russell Peters 5:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:40 I don't know if it's a good idea to go on that bike ride, by the way.

Russell Peters 5:42 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:42 But I wanna see what happens, so I'm not saying anything.

Russell Peters 5:44 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 5:45 (laughs)

Russell Peters 5:45 I wanna... Hope, hope he wears a mask.

Joe Rogan 5:47 Yeah. I wanna see if it, uh, makes him feel like shit if he goes on the bike ride or if he feels great.

Russell Peters 5:51 I was talking to DL 'cause, you know, he just got diagnosed.

Joe Rogan 5:53 Yeah, I saw.

Russell Peters 5:54 And-

Joe Rogan 5:54 That was really scary, that video of him.

Russell Peters 5:56 And he was like, "No, I got nothing."

Joe Rogan 5:58 He's fine?

Russell Peters 5:58 Yeah. I haven't, he said, "I've felt nothing the entire time."

Joe Rogan 6:01 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)

Russell Peters 6:07 Yeah. Yeah, I saw that. It's 'cause he probably smoked a joint right before that. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 6:10 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.

Russell Peters 6:19 That's his, uh, road manager, I think.

Joe Rogan 6:20 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.

Russell Peters 6:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 6:27 '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?

Russell Peters 6:35 I did not see the video.

Joe Rogan 6:36 Let's see if we can find it. It's- it's, uh-

Russell Peters 6:38 I only just found out there was a video of it like two nights ago 'cause Cedric was at my house.

Joe Rogan 6:42 DL is a fucking great guy.

Russell Peters 6:44 He's a great guy.

Joe Rogan 6:45 He is a great guy.

Russell Peters 6:46 I used to open for him, you know that? In two-

Joe Rogan 6:47 No shit.

Russell Peters 6:48 ... 23 years ago. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 6:49 He's smart as fuck too.

Russell Peters 6:50 He's a really smart guy, but a really good guy too.

Joe Rogan 6:52 Yeah, really good guy. Really honest, and-

Russell Peters 6:55 Yeah, and I think-

Joe Rogan 6:56 ... open-minded.

Russell Peters 6:57 ... I think, uh, the, uh, a lot of the, uh-

Joe Rogan 7:01 Here it is right here.

Russell Peters 7:02 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:02 So he's on stage and, uh, I guess his road manager fellow, that right, that guy right there, gives him a drink of water. He puts the water down and, uh, he's... This doesn't have any volume, unfortunately. There it goes.

Unidentified in-studio guest 7:16 Ah.

Russell Peters 7:16 Here it goes.

Unidentified in-studio guest 7:19 (laughs) We've been in quarantine so long, remember, when we came back, uh, remember that, remember everyone wanted to get rid of Mexicans? They called them, uh, they, they were immigrants.

Joe Rogan 7:32 Right, everybody's like, "What?" Say, "Now what?" You hear that? "What?" But now watch. He just slowly-

Unidentified in-studio guest 7:38 Oh.

Joe Rogan 7:39 ... starts slumping. Look, that guy, that road manager is a fucking-

Russell Peters 7:43 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:44 ... hero, 'cause that guy was there. Lookit, see, he bounces-

Russell Peters 7:45 Oh, his head still hits the bound, yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:47 A little bit. But the w- what I was worried was a stroke, 'cause sometimes-

Russell Peters 7:53 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:53 ... that happens to people. But first of all, the way they drag him off the fucking stage, like, "Hey guys."

Russell Peters 7:57 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:58 "One of you pussies actually carry him?" Of course.

Russell Peters 7:59 Yeah, they didn't even let him finish his set though.

Joe Rogan 8:01 They're dragging him though, bouncing off the... I know, they didn't let him finish his-

Russell Peters 8:04 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 8:04 Just throw some water on him.

Russell Peters 8:05 Yeah, come on.

Joe Rogan 8:05 What was the problem?

Russell Peters 8:06 We're comics, we can get through this.

Unidentified in-studio guest 8:09 No, not that day. They said like, "We have everything okay." And they were then like, "Yeah right. You know nothing under control."

Joe Rogan 8:14 Yeah, nothing's under control.

Russell Peters 8:15 Joe Rogan meets a crazy stripper. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 8:17 This is not happening. Um, the- the- the real scary thing was the slurring of the words,

Russell Peters 8:22 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:23 ... 'cause, uh, you know.

Russell Peters 8:24 He was at my house about a m- less than a month before that happened. That one night, um, on May 30th, uh, I had them over, with cigars in the backyard, socially distancing.

Joe Rogan 8:34 Of course.

Russell Peters 8:35 You know. It was me, Cedric, DL, Jay Phillips, Duane Martin, and we're just hanging out and having drinks.

Joe Rogan 8:40 You like cigars? You want a cigar right now?

Russell Peters 8:42 Uh, midday cigar. Fuck it, let's go.

Joe Rogan 8:46 Fuck it. Fuck it.

Russell Peters 8:47 I'll do a midday cigar and a little midday bourbon.

Joe Rogan 8:50 Fuck it. Mike Binder gave me these. He came over when he was doing that, uh-

Russell Peters 8:55 Oh, in the documentary?

Joe Rogan 8:56 ... 000 documentary? Yeah.

Russell Peters 8:56 Nice, I like Mike. He's a good guy.

Joe Rogan 8:58 He's a good guy. That documentary looks really good, man.

Russell Peters 9:01 Yeah. I went into the store and did it.

Joe Rogan 9:03 Oh, did you?

Russell Peters 9:03 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 9:04 That's probably the best place for it. He came-

Russell Peters 9:05 Yeah, it's good because it gives the energy of the room, you know?

Joe Rogan 9:08 Yeah. He wanted to do it here though. He wanted to get he and I talking about it. There we go, follow. Take that.

Russell Peters 9:16 Take that, take that, take that.

Joe Rogan 9:18 This is an interesting one. Look at that. This is from, uh, Benchmade Knives. You get the coolest shit sent to you, dude. (laughs)

Russell Peters 9:25 Look at that.

Joe Rogan 9:25 Like a guillotine. (packaging tearing)

Russell Peters 9:27 It's my move, it's my move, a guillotine.

Joe Rogan 9:29 Is that your move?

Russell Peters 9:30 That's my move now.

Joe Rogan 9:30 Really?

Russell Peters 9:31 You know-

Joe Rogan 9:31 It's a good move.

Russell Peters 9:32 You know, um, because of you, my, uh, other move is an in-arm choke.

Joe Rogan 9:35 Mm. Head and arm choke?

Russell Peters 9:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 9:37 Yeah.

Russell Peters 9:37 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)

Joe Rogan 9:47 That's hilarious. Yeah, that, that choke fucked my neck up. I was using my neck so much to squeeze against dude's arms v'cause I became-

Russell Peters 9:53 Oh, 'cause you, 'cause you flatten out and do that, yeah.

Joe Rogan 9:55 Yeah, well it's, you're, you're actually using your arm, your, excuse me, your neck rather, to hold someone's arm into place. Mm. Mm. So it's nice to hear that you've been training, man.

Russell Peters 10:11 Yeah. It's nice to have been training.

Joe Rogan 10:14 Is it legal now? They gonna arrest you for training? What happens? Like it happened-

Russell Peters 10:18 It became legal, and then I don't know if it's still legal. But I was doing it, um, with, uh, Jay Zabellos and Mark Armstrong, whom you both know, I would imagine.

Joe Rogan 10:27 Oh yeah. Jay's great. Jay used to run the Malibu place.

Russell Peters 10:30 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 10:30 I was, uh, going over there for a while. It was a really easy drive.

Russell Peters 10:35 Yeah, so he's try-

Joe Rogan 10:36 He's a super nice guy too.

Russell Peters 10:38 Really slick on the ground too.

Joe Rogan 10:39 Yes. Oh, yeah.

Russell Peters 10:40 Really, it's-

Joe Rogan 10:40 High level black belt.

Russell Peters 10:42 Yeah. And, uh...

Joe Rogan 10:45 Real technical too. Those guys that teach, there's something to be said about teaching. I've al- I often wondered, like, whether or not that would actually translate to comedy as well, because teaching, um, martial arts makes you way better at it. When I, when I got really good at TaeKwonDo, one of the ways I got really good is I was teaching all the time, and there's something about that, teaching all the time.

Russell Peters 11:03 'Cause you break it, you end up, you end up breaking it down.

Joe Rogan 11:05 Yes, yeah. My friend Brent, he was, uh, one of, uh, Eddie Bravo's, uh, teachers.

Russell Peters 11:10 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 11:10 One of his instructors, and he... When I, when I first started rolling with him, we were both like, uh, purple belts together, and then he started teaching. He quit his job and started teaching, and when he started teaching, man, 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 roll. I was like, "Holy shit, man. This is amazing." And it was really just p- for a teaching. You know?

Russell Peters 11:44 Yeah, my- my game changed, um, training with Mark and Jay every day, um, 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. Um-... people, "How's it like rolling with Joe Rogan?" I go, "Have you ever rolled with a gorilla? That's what it's like, rolling with a fucking gorilla." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 12:05 Well, it's not fair. I've been doing it a long time, man.

Russell Peters 12:07 No, I know, but-

Joe Rogan 12:08 Been doing it since '96.

Russell Peters 12:09 Yeah. So my game was always just defend.

Joe Rogan 12:11 Yeah.

Russell Peters 12:11 You know, just defend, make sure you don't get got. I wasn't gonna get you, but you weren't gonna get me. Mind you, you got me. But, um-

Joe Rogan 12:19 (laughs)

Russell Peters 12:19 But, so that's what my game became after that as well, just-

Joe Rogan 12:21 Mm-hmm.

Russell Peters 12:22 And then it just changed. Something happened and I became from defensive to offensive now.

Joe Rogan 12:26 Yeah. Well, once you catch a few people-

Russell Peters 12:28 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 12:28 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 12:51 Right.

Joe Rogan 12:52 Yeah.

Russell Peters 12:52 I do get bored doing drills.

Joe Rogan 12:53 It's boring. Yeah. Boring.

Russell Peters 12:54 Yeah. 10 this way, 10 that way.

Joe Rogan 12:56 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, 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'll go knee to belly, they'll go to their back, you take the choke. And it's like when that stuff happens and it's so satisfying, like you learn. I made the biggest leap from blue belt to purple belt.

Russell Peters 13:43 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 13:44 And that was because I was hanging out with Eddie and we were drilling a lot. He was, he was maniacal about it.

Russell Peters 13:48 You guys start at the same time?

Joe Rogan 13:50 No, he was way ahead of me. He was, uh, he was really good before I started. He was a really good purple belt, um, when I first met him. Maybe, yeah, like purple. Yeah, around, right around purple. And then when he went off to, uh, in 2003 when he went to Sao Paulo, he was a brown belt. He was really good though.

Russell Peters 14:06 And that's when he, uh-

Joe Rogan 14:07 And then he, and then he tapped Royler, and then when he came back, Jean Jacques gave him his black belt.

Russell Peters 14:11 He gave him his own black belt.

Joe Rogan 14:13 He did. He took it right off his back.

Russell Peters 14:14 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:15 Yeah. He t- well he tapped two world champions. He tapped Ex- Gustavo Dantas in the first fight, and then he tapped, uh, Royler Gracie. Like it was crazy shit.

Russell Peters 14:23 And then I heard Royce chased him down in the parking lot or something after?

Joe Rogan 14:25 No, that was a different time.

Russell Peters 14:26 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 14:26 That was a different event. That was the, that was the second time he had a matchup with Royler. Royce... But it was, you know, he was never disrespectful to Royler. It's just sometimes people get things twisted and then, you know, you don't see each other in real life. If you talk to Eddie Bravo about Royce Gracie, it was never anything but respect.

Russell Peters 14:44 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:44 Royce is a cop now. Royce became a cop-

Russell Peters 14:46 He's actually a cop?

Joe Rogan 14:47 He's a cop in Idaho.

Russell Peters 14:49 What?

Joe Rogan 14:50 Yeah. Go to the Real Royce Gracie on-

Russell Peters 14:52 I thought he lived in California.

Joe Rogan 14:54 Well, you can shoot people in Idaho.

Russell Peters 14:55 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 14:57 I don't know. (laughs) I don't know, man. I mean, he's a real, uh-

Russell Peters 14:59 Could he not want a lot of action? (laughs)

Joe Rogan 15:02 I don't know. He's a very, he's a, a gun enthusiast. He's always been.

Russell Peters 15:05 I used to, I follow him on Instagram.

Joe Rogan 15:05 Yeah.

Russell Peters 15:05 There's a lot of gun stuff. And I'm like-

Joe Rogan 15:07 Yeah.

Russell Peters 15:07 I never really understood the connection. I'm like you're, but you... A lot of the fighter guys that I, a lot of fighter people that I follow are all into guns and I'm like-

Joe Rogan 15:16 Yeah. There's Royce-

Russell Peters 15:16 Some sort of survivalist mentality, I would imagine.

Joe Rogan 15:18 "Our newest reserve police officer spent hours in the rain going through training drills and completing the Idaho POST Firearms Qualification." Royce motherfucking Gracie, the GOAT.

Russell Peters 15:28 That's so weird.

Joe Rogan 15:29 If there's a Mount Rushmore of martial arts, there's only one face that is absolutely on there. And that's that guy.

Russell Peters 15:36 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 15:36 There's not a fucking doubt in my mind that guy's face needs to be on-

Russell Peters 15:40 And Martin Short too in the middle, apparently.

Joe Rogan 15:42 Ah!

Russell Peters 15:43 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 15:43 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?

Russell Peters 15:55 There's a lot, there's a lot of people that came in and changed the game.

Joe Rogan 15:57 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-

Russell Peters 16:21 And then he came back after retirement and beat Bisping.

Joe Rogan 16:24 (sighs) And beat Bisping at 85 and put him to sleep with a rear naked choke.

Russell Peters 16:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 16:27 He actually was better. He actually looked better after four years out.

Russell Peters 16:31 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 16:31 Yeah.

Russell Peters 16:31 It's a long time away too. It's not like a, you know, month off.

Joe Rogan 16:33 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.

Russell Peters 16:52 I remember that.

Joe Rogan 16:53 God damn, dude.

Russell Peters 16:54 That was crazy, that one.

Joe Rogan 16:55 Mighty Mouse when he was in his peak was something really special.

Russell Peters 16:59 I have a friend of mine who trains with Mighty Mouse. Um, this Indian kid who fights, Saint Lion.

Joe Rogan 17:05 Is he fighting for ONE FC?

Russell Peters 17:06 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 17:07 Yeah. ONE FC is amazing, man.

Russell Peters 17:09 Yeah. Gurdarshan.

Joe Rogan 17:11 Yeah. They're, uh, they have some really tough fighters over there and Mighty Mouse is still stomping them.

Russell Peters 17:16 Yeah. I'm hearing that one might, uh, try and start up by, uh, by the fall out here in America.

Joe Rogan 17:21 Really? In America?

Russell Peters 17:22 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 17:22 Good luck.

Russell Peters 17:23 That's what I said. I said it doesn't make sense. You might as well stick to Singapore.

Joe Rogan 17:26 Yeah. Singapore, they're huge. Are they allowed to do shows right now?

Russell Peters 17:31 I don't know, but I think the rest of the world's opening up, but they're not letting Americans in.

Joe Rogan 17:35 Isn't that crazy?

Russell Peters 17:36 Well, it makes sense.

Joe Rogan 17:37 What did we do?

Russell Peters 17:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 17:40 How did we fuck this up?

Russell Peters 17:41 It's funny because, you know, America was the one that was stopping everybody from coming in. (laughs) Now the rest of the world's like, "Hey, hey, wait there for a second, you fuckers."

Joe Rogan 17:47 What do you think it is? Is it that so many Americans are overweight? Is it the protests?

Russell Peters 17:52 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?"

Joe Rogan 18:10 Mm.

Russell Peters 18:11 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."

Joe Rogan 18:18 Mm.

Russell Peters 18:19 You know, I'm with you on this, but for the betterment of the rest of the country-

Joe Rogan 18:23 (laughs)

Russell Peters 18:23 ... if you could just wait a little bit.

Joe Rogan 18:26 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.

Russell Peters 18:33 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 18:34 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."

Russell Peters 18:43 Yeah, I th- I... Listen, I did the test on Monday. I had your guy come to my house.

Joe Rogan 18:46 Mm-hmm.

Russell Peters 18:47 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.

Joe Rogan 19:00 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 19:13 Yeah, but I never get those either.

Joe Rogan 19:14 It's not like those things go away.

Russell Peters 19:15 You know what I mean?

Joe Rogan 19:15 Yeah, but you can.

Russell Peters 19:16 That's true.

Joe Rogan 19:16 You're human, Russell.

Russell Peters 19:17 It's true, but... And then a lot of people, I think a lot of the, the, uh, testing results are getting marked wrong.

Joe Rogan 19:23 You think so?

Russell Peters 19:24 Yeah, it's, it's... Listen, I had a friend pass away during this whole thing.

Joe Rogan 19:28 From?

Russell Peters 19:28 Uh, he died of cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, and-

Joe Rogan 19:33 Oof.

Russell Peters 19:33 ... because they did a COVID test, they said it's COVID related.

Joe Rogan 19:37 Yeah, that's rough. They do that.

Russell Peters 19:38 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-

Joe Rogan 19:45 My doctor told me that there's, uh, quite a few cases of people that were literally at death's door from cardiopulmonary disease-

Russell Peters 19:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 19:52 ... and they got COVID and died, and they called it a COVID death. And he, he, 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, uh, uh, I never thought about hospitals. Did you?

Russell Peters 20:08 No. See, I'm from... Again, I'm from Canada where they're all government run.

Joe Rogan 20:11 Right, it's free.

Russell Peters 20:12 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 20:12 Yeah. Well, they have, 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 and 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-"

Russell Peters 20:38 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 20:39 "... it makes sense, but it all..." You know, it really highlights why a state-funded medical, uh, y- y- you know, some sort of a... If we had, like, the way Canada has it. Like, Canada's not perfect.

Russell Peters 20:55 No. I mean, it's not... Listen, it's not the best, but-

Joe Rogan 20:57 But it's pretty, pretty good that you don't-

Russell Peters 20:58 ... it's pretty efficient.

Joe Rogan 20:58 ... have to pay.

Russell Peters 20:59 It's efficient for what you need it to be.

Joe Rogan 21:01 Yeah.

Russell Peters 21:01 You need something extra done? Yeah, you might have a, you, you might be better off paying a little extra to get something done. But as far as, like, regular shit, you know, you got a cold? Go to the doctor.

Joe Rogan 21:10 Mm-hmm.

Russell Peters 21:11 You, you break your arm, you go to the doctor.

Joe Rogan 21:13 Yeah. Well, I have friends that have had, like, real problems, like shoulder problems and knee problems, like, they need surgery and they've come to America to get it.

Russell Peters 21:21 Oh, yeah, no, that's what, that's the way it works.

Joe Rogan 21:24 Yeah.

Russell Peters 21:24 Yeah, same with my dad when he had cancer. He... The, the treatment he wanted or needed was in Philadelphia.

Joe Rogan 21:29 Yeah. So it's like privately funded stuff, stuff that costs more money where the doctors get... They, they have an incentive to become excellent, right? Because they can make more money doing it.

Russell Peters 21:40 Right, like specializing.

Joe Rogan 21:42 Yeah.

Russell Peters 21:43 But then the Canadian government still picked up the tab for it.

Joe Rogan 21:46 Oh, really?

Russell Peters 21:47 Yeah, because it was, uh, a service that wasn't available in Canada.

Joe Rogan 21:50 That's sweet.

Russell Peters 21:51 Yeah. So they were like, "All right, we'll get it."

Joe Rogan 21:53 Yeah. That's a divisive thing over here, man. And that's where I go-

Russell Peters 21:57 It is weird that it's-

Joe Rogan 21:58 Uh-

Russell Peters 21:58 ... divisive too, because it's like, it literally benefits everybody.

Joe Rogan 22:01 Do you know why it's divisive? 'Cause the people that are healthy at the time are arguing about it.

Russell Peters 22:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 22:05 They don't wanna pay.

Russell Peters 22:06 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 22:06 It's the people that are healthy at the time. They're not looking at it long term.

Russell Peters 22:10 But you would think that these politicians would be for it too, 'cause they're all old as shit. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 22:15 Yeah, but they have money.

Russell Peters 22:16 That's true.

Joe Rogan 22:16 And they, they've been corrupt and taking money on the take. The, the... Like, I'm, I'm a Bernie Sanders fan, and that's one of the things that I really like about what Bernie Sanders was saying. Um, you know, Bernie Sanders was saying that it should be a fundamental right as an American citizen to have healthcare.

Russell Peters 22:33 It should be a fundamental right as a human being anywhere in the world.

Joe Rogan 22:36 Yes. The way I look at it, I mean, people have all these little weird arguments about it, but my... The way I looked at it was like, aren't we a community?

Russell Peters 22:43 (clears throat)

Joe Rogan 22:44 So if we're a community, shouldn't we... If we're gonna 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 healthcare, education? All those things should be... There should be all those things taken care of.

Russell Peters 23:01 Yeah. Yeah, I don't, uh... Again, I've only been here 14 years, so I'm learning about the education system now in America.

Joe Rogan 23:08 Hmm. Well, we thought Obamacare-

Russell Peters 23:09 And it's trippy to me.

Joe Rogan 23:10 We thought Obamacare was gonna cover it. That's what a lot of people thought when, you know, when Obama was talking about it and they were trying to get the Affordable Care Act passed and get everything... We, we thought, "Oh, this is gonna be it. We're gonna be s- we're gonna be cool." But it seems like, you know, what is it? Nine years later? It's like 12 years later?

Russell Peters 23:28 It's whatever-

Joe Rogan 23:28 How many, how many years is it now?

Russell Peters 23:30 Well, he's been gone for four.

Joe Rogan 23:31 When did he start it, though?

Russell Peters 23:32 (laughs) He started it, I think-

Joe Rogan 23:33 He had an eight-year term, but when did he-

Russell Peters 23:34 Yeah, wasn't it in the middle of or the beginning of his second term?

Joe Rogan 23:36 Is that when it started?

Russell Peters 23:37 Or the end of his first term, somewhere around there?

Joe Rogan 23:39 So let's just say it's seven years old.

Russell Peters 23:41 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 23:41 It's still... I mean, there's not much difference. Is it much different, Jamie? Do you know?

Jamie Vernon 23:46 What do you mean different?

Joe Rogan 23:48 I'm talking about-

Russell Peters 23:48 Oh, I know, like what part of it is different?

Joe Rogan 23:49 He's, he's spacing out. (laughs)

Jamie Vernon 23:50 No, I mean, what part of it is different?

Russell Peters 23:50 I mean, is it easier to get healthcare? Is it better?

Jamie Vernon 23:53 It was. Some people got it taken away from them already.

Russell Peters 23:55 Because of Trump?

Jamie Vernon 23:56 Yeah.

Russell Peters 23:56 That motherfucker. And then, and then there was also the, uh, the people that were against the Obamacare because they said it made their rates go up.

Joe Rogan 24:03 Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, there was that too. Yeah, there was a bunch of people that were doctors that were upset about it, that were saying it was, uh, too expensive for them.

Russell Peters 24:12 ... yet there, there's just so much fucking red tape and everything nowadays.

Joe Rogan 24:15 It's so hard to be a person.

Russell Peters 24:17 It's like being on a movie set, you know. "Hey, can I get a bottle of water?" "Uh, can somebody get, uh, talent a bottle of water?"

Joe Rogan 24:22 Yeah.

Russell Peters 24:23 Sure.

Joe Rogan 24:23 Don't plug that in, whatever you do.

Russell Peters 24:25 Yeah. Yeah, right?

Joe Rogan 24:25 You plug something in, the union electric guys...

Russell Peters 24:27 Yeah. Fuck, dude. (clears throat) It's so crazy.

Joe Rogan 24:31 I know.

Russell Peters 24:31 I did a movie last summer and, um, I became friends with all the drivers, 'cause they were all teamster guys, and they were all Italian. (laughs) And I would just break their balls when we were driving back and forth. (laughs) They said they fucking loved me and were like, "Hey, uh..." It's like lunchtime would come and they'd be like, "Hey, Russell, uh, Mikey C says don't go to lunch. He got you a sandwich from our spot." And I'm like, "Oh."

Joe Rogan 24:50 Nice.

Russell Peters 24:50 "Thanks, Mikey C." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 24:53 Nice.

Russell Peters 24:53 They were good guys.

Joe Rogan 24:55 There's something to be said for teamsters. Yeah, it's, um... We got a lot of people, man. I think that's part of the problem.

Russell Peters 25:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:02 Part of the problem with this country, we got a lot of people. If we're, uh... You know, 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 25:13 Yeah. Well, everybody wants to establish a dominance.

Joe Rogan 25:16 There's a little bit of that, too.

Russell Peters 25:17 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:18 And there's a bunch of different ways to live, and everybody wants to establish that their way is the best way.

Russell Peters 25:22 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:22 You gotta do it our way.

Russell Peters 25:23 Yeah. There's... And there's no one way.

Joe Rogan 25:25 (exhales) There's no one way.

Russell Peters 25:27 Fucking Eddie.

Joe Rogan 25:29 (laughs) Are you, uh, are you doing any shows right now? Are you-

Russell Peters 25:35 I did. I did, uh, Miami this past weekend.

Joe Rogan 25:37 What'd you do?

Russell Peters 25:38 Five shows.

Joe Rogan 25:39 The Improv?

Russell Peters 25:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:40 Wow.

Russell Peters 25:41 And, uh-

Joe Rogan 25:41 Is that the first time-

Russell Peters 25:42 (clears throat) .

Joe Rogan 25:42 ... in three months?

Russell Peters 25:43 No. Uh, a week, two weeks before that, I did the, uh, American Comedy Club in San Diego. That was the first time-

Joe Rogan 25:48 They're- they've been open for that long?

Russell Peters 25:50 Yeah. So that was good. It was like 75 people a show. (clears throat) .

Joe Rogan 25:54 The La Jolla Comedy Store is open again.

Russell Peters 25:56 Already?

Joe Rogan 25:56 Yep.

Russell Peters 25:57 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.

Joe Rogan 26:07 Hmm.

Russell Peters 26:07 Go to the show. Do my shows, no meet and greet, and bounce right back to the hotel.

Joe Rogan 26:12 Were you doing anything to take precautions? Were you taking supplements? Were you-

Russell Peters 26:16 Yeah, I'm on a bunch of shit, you know.

Joe Rogan 26:17 Yeah.

Russell Peters 26:18 I got this, uh, anti-aging doctor that I see.

Joe Rogan 26:21 Hmm. What are you taking? Vitamins, though?

Russell Peters 26:23 Yeah, I'm taking a bunch of vitamins.

Joe Rogan 26:24 Vitamin D?

Russell Peters 26:24 A bunch of vitamin E. Like, uh, some stupid amount, you know. Like two- 20,000 or something (laughs) like that.

Joe Rogan 26:31 (laughs) Really? Every day?

Russell Peters 26:32 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:32 Of vitamin D?

Russell Peters 26:33 Yeah. It's... Or maybe 10,000 a, a day.

Joe Rogan 26:35 That's a lot. I take 5,000. 5,000 IUs every day.

Russell Peters 26:36 Yeah, I take two 5,000, so yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:38 Damn. Look at you.

Russell Peters 26:39 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:40 Well-

Russell Peters 26:40 Getting the D. Hey, wait a minute.

Joe Rogan 26:42 Hey, hey. Ah.

Russell Peters 26:43 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 26:43 It's hard when 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 26:49 Yeah, with 15 minutes at a time or something. But I get dark as fuck when I go outside.

Joe Rogan 26:52 Yeah.

Russell Peters 26:52 And I got this stupid sunspot right here that I'm always paranoid about.

Joe Rogan 26:56 Oh, does it get darker when you get tan?

Russell Peters 26:57 It gets darker, yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:58 Yeah.

Russell Peters 26:59 It gets hyperpigmentation. I tried lasering it off a few times, but i- again, in, in California, it's, uh, uh, it's difficult when I go to these places. Like, they need a special laser for brown skin.

Joe Rogan 27:09 Oh, really?

Russell Peters 27:10 I'm like, "You're taking a brown spot off. How difficult can this be?"

Joe Rogan 27:13 (laughs)

Russell Peters 27:14 What is it from? It's just a birth thing?

Joe Rogan 27:16 No. (clears throat) I don't know. Just, it, it developed over the years.

Russell Peters 27:20 Hmm.

Joe Rogan 27:21 It was a, uh, a tiny light spot. Looked like a splash.

Russell Peters 27:24 But it wasn't something dangerous?

Joe Rogan 27:25 No. And then it just, you know, just hyperpigmentation. As you get older, your skin gets weaker, I imagine.

Russell Peters 27:31 Yeah, a lot of folks get those weird little black... Like, Morgan Freeman's got those weird little black spots-

Joe Rogan 27:36 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Russell Peters 27:37 ... that stick out of, of his face.

Joe Rogan 27:38 Yeah. He looks like he's got black sesame seeds (laughs) coming from-

Russell Peters 27:40 It's strange, right?

Joe Rogan 27:41 Yeah.

Russell Peters 27:42 What is that? I don't know. Again, ag- I think I'm getting them around, on, somewhere on my neck I've got one of those now.

Joe Rogan 27:47 On him, it kinda looks better, though.

Russell Peters 27:49 Gives him that, uh...

Joe Rogan 27:50 Distinguished.

Russell Peters 27:51 Distinguished speckled look.

Joe Rogan 27:52 Yeah. That guy can do no wrong. Has he ever been in a bad movie? What's a bad Morgan Freeman movie?

Russell Peters 27:57 What is a bad Morgan Freeman movie? I don't think he's-

Joe Rogan 27:58 I could see that... He's like one of those guys, he, he... If he's in a movie, I'm comforted.

Russell Peters 28:02 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 28:02 You know? I'm like, "Oh, right."

Russell Peters 28:04 It's gonna be a good movie. He will drive Miss Daisy.

Joe Rogan 28:08 Yeah. (laughs)

Russell Peters 28:09 (laughs) And he'll do it with class.

Joe Rogan 28:11 (groans)

Russell Peters 28:11 He's got great hair, you know. You notice that?

Joe Rogan 28:13 He's got a great voice.

Russell Peters 28:14 He's got a solid ha- head of hair and a great voice. He's like our generation's, uh, James Earl Jones. Not that our generation didn't have an (laughs) James Earl Jones, but he's like our second backup James Earl Jones.

Joe Rogan 28:25 That's interesting.

Russell Peters 28:27 Did you see they're doing a Jack Johnson movie?

Joe Rogan 28:29 Are they really?

Russell Peters 28:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:30 Who's playing Jack Johnson?

Russell Peters 28:31 Mahershala Ali.

Joe Rogan 28:33 I don't know that dude.

Russell Peters 28:34 Yeah, the guy from The Green Book. The Black dude, uh-

Joe Rogan 28:36 Oh.

Russell Peters 28:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:37 Really?

Russell Peters 28:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:38 Wow. Does he know how to box?

Russell Peters 28:40 I don't know. Um, apparently, he did s- Uh, uh, I think he did a Broadway version of Jack Johnson or something in 2000.

Joe Rogan 28:46 Oh, no shit.

Russell Peters 28:47 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 28:47 See if you can find some... That's crazy. That was 20 years ago.

Russell Peters 28:50 Yeah. Ten-

Joe Rogan 28:51 2000 is 20 years ago. Does that seem right?

Russell Peters 28:52 He seems so slight, though. Like he doesn't seem like a big dude, but he looks-

Joe Rogan 28:57 Wow.

Russell Peters 28:57 ... he looks a lot like him there.

Joe Rogan 28:58 There he is. Yeah, wow.

Russell Peters 28:59 But Jack Johnson had those giant 13-inch wrists.

Joe Rogan 29:03 Did he really?

Russell Peters 29:03 He has a massive wrist.

Joe Rogan 29:05 I didn't know that.

Russell Peters 29:06 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:06 Massive wrists, huh?

Russell Peters 29:08 Yeah, he had a little-

Joe Rogan 29:08 Wow.

Russell Peters 29:09 ... check that thing.

Joe Rogan 29:09 Unruly. Hold on. Go back up. It says HBO limited series. Oh, it's a series. Interesting.

Russell Peters 29:17 That's my favorite fighter of all time, Jack Johnson.

Joe Rogan 29:19 Well, you wanna talk about a brave man. I mean, that-

Russell Peters 29:23 Brave.

Joe Rogan 29:23 ... guy was knocking out white people at the turn of the 20th century.

Russell Peters 29:27 And holding- and he- and he would punish them.

Joe Rogan 29:29 Yes.

Russell Peters 29:29 He wouldn't just knock you out, 'cause he knew he could knock you out.

Joe Rogan 29:32 Right.

Russell Peters 29:32 He would hit you in the jaw so your knees buckled and stamp in and hold you up.

Joe Rogan 29:36 Yeah.

Russell Peters 29:36 And he would say shit too, "Not yet, boss. Not yet."

Joe Rogan 29:39 (exhales)

Russell Peters 29:39 "Little... You're gonna have a long night tonight, boss." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 29:42 Ooh.

Russell Peters 29:42 Just beat the shit out of them.

Joe Rogan 29:43 Ooh.

Russell Peters 29:44 He would hurt, hurt him and just hold him up.

Joe Rogan 29:46 Ooh.

Russell Peters 29:46 "No, no, no. Don't fall down and don't... I want you (laughs) to take this beating." That-

Joe Rogan 29:49 I know-

Russell Peters 29:50 That to me is like the ultimate fucking gangster move.

Joe Rogan 29:52 I have one of those Roots of Fight shirts with him.

Russell Peters 29:54 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 29:54 And it says, "The Galveston Giant."

Russell Peters 29:56 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 29:56 But when you look up how big he was, he wasn't very big.

Russell Peters 29:59 He was like 5'9" or 5'10".

Joe Rogan 30:00 No, no, no, no. I think he was more than six feet tall. But back then, he was a giant.

Russell Peters 30:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:06 But he-

Russell Peters 30:06 'Cause his wrists. He had big... He had thick... He was a thick dude.

Joe Rogan 30:08 I think he was only like 200 plus pounds. Like a little- like...

Russell Peters 30:12 Yeah. He wasn't o- he wasn't much over 200.

Joe Rogan 30:14 No.

Russell Peters 30:14 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:15 People just didn't have any food back then.

Russell Peters 30:17 No, he was dense though. Like his body was fucking...... he was in, uh, the stories about him are incredible, look at him.

Joe Rogan 30:22 There it is. Six feet tall-

Russell Peters 30:23 (clears throat)

Joe Rogan 30:23 ... 200 pounds.

Russell Peters 30:24 Yep.

Joe Rogan 30:24 And he was a giant back then. Isn't that crazy?

Russell Peters 30:26 Look at him. Look at him now.

Joe Rogan 30:26 The Galveston Giant.

Russell Peters 30:27 His fucking forearms are bigger than his, his biceps almost.

Joe Rogan 30:32 Damn, he did have some giant-ass forearms.

Russell Peters 30:34 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:35 You know, he fought, uh, middleweight Stanley Ketchel.

Russell Peters 30:37 Stanley Ketchel, yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:38 Yeah.

Russell Peters 30:38 In an exhibition bout.

Joe Rogan 30:40 And Ketchel tried to knock him out and dropped him.

Russell Peters 30:42 Yeah. And that's when he got right up and then knocked him out. And his teeth got embedded into his glove.

Joe Rogan 30:46 Yeah. (exhales) Well, back then when they had, uh, gloves, their gloves were like bag gloves. They were tiny-ass little gloves with horse hair in them.

Russell Peters 30:54 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:55 And you could pack the horse hair down and guys would squirt water into their... They'd make, like, a small incision and squirt water into their gloves and pack the horse hair down to make it hard.

Russell Peters 31:06 Yeah. It's a-

Joe Rogan 31:07 Rough way to live back then, bro.

Russell Peters 31:07 (clears throat) You ever felt those gloves and the leather's really coarse?

Joe Rogan 31:10 Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a rough way to live, man.

Russell Peters 31:13 Little Arthur, that's what they called him too, right?

Joe Rogan 31:16 Is that what they called him?

Russell Peters 31:17 Little Arthur.

Joe Rogan 31:18 Little Arthur?

Russell Peters 31:18 He had a bunch of nicknames. Little Arthur...

Joe Rogan 31:21 Imagine if you take a guy like that and train him today. You know what I mean? Just the, 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 31:36 He would, he would fight 45-round fights and shit like that.

Joe Rogan 31:39 Oh, they always have those.

Russell Peters 31:39 60-round fights.

Joe Rogan 31:40 Yeah.

Russell Peters 31:40 Him and Sam Langford and Peter Jackson and all those guys. But he wouldn't give, uh, Langford a, a title shot.

Joe Rogan 31:47 Why?

Russell Peters 31:48 I don't know. There's a something, something with that. I don't know what, what that was about, but...

Joe Rogan 31:53 Car accident claims Jack Johnson in 1946. That's when he died. Wow.

Russell Peters 31:57 Because he would, uh, he liked fast cars.

Joe Rogan 32:00 Oh, yeah.

Russell Peters 32:01 And he would always, uh...

Joe Rogan 32:02 There's that famous story of him getting pulled over by a cop.

Russell Peters 32:04 Yep, and gave him a hundred bucks. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 32:05 Yeah, he told him, "I'm going the same speed on the way back." (laughs)

Russell Peters 32:07 Yeah. And then there was the other one where he, uh, apparently he got into a taxi one time and the ci- guy said, "I don't drive the N words." And, uh, and so Jack grabbed him, threw him in the backseat (laughs) , got in the front, drove himself to where he had to get to.

Joe Rogan 32:21 Wow.

Russell Peters 32:22 And then the guy's like, "Hey, what about my fare?" He goes, "I drove myself." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 32:25 And look at the... He had, like, white wives back then too.

Russell Peters 32:28 Oh, yeah. He did that on purpose.

Joe Rogan 32:29 Imagine those chicks, how bold you had to be-

Russell Peters 32:32 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:32 ... back then.

Russell Peters 32:34 He was probably hung like a horse too.

Joe Rogan 32:35 Oh. Yeah, like multiple horses.

Russell Peters 32:40 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 32:40 (laughs) What a... Can you im- I would v- love to see what the world was like, like at various stages in history. I wonder if one day they're gonna be able to do that with virtual reality, where, you know... I don't know if you've ever used any of those Oculus Rift, uh, headsets or anything like that. Have you ever...

Russell Peters 32:56 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 32:56 They're really interesting. They got one now with, uh, Alex Honnold, who's that, uh, crazy, um, free solo climber.

Russell Peters 33:03 Right.

Joe Rogan 33:03 And, you know, he went up the side of a mountain with t- this camera apparatus on. So you're literally lo- looking at this climb from his perspective. It's fucking bonkers. But I wonder if they're gonna 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 and just-

Russell Peters 33:26 Hear it and see it.

Joe Rogan 33:29 Yes.

Russell Peters 33:29 And...

Joe Rogan 33:29 Yes.

Russell Peters 33:29 Um, there's, like, videos on you- on YouTube about, uh, what the world was like, uh, eh, you know, where if you can go back 10 million years, this is what it'd look like. And then they do this and what the world would look like in this many years.

Joe Rogan 33:43 Yeah.

Russell Peters 33:43 That's all speculation, but I guess the ones going back are more confirmed, so to speak.

Joe Rogan 33:49 Yeah. I just would love to... I, I mean, you're never gonna really be able to go there, but if they're g- I think they're gonna be able to simulate it in a way that's really, really close within our lifetime.

Russell Peters 34:01 Yeah, they're on it.

Joe Rogan 34:02 Yeah.

Russell Peters 34:03 They're on it. Especially now, they got nothing else to do. They might as well work extra hard on it.

Joe Rogan 34:07 I just think it'd be amazing just to get a glimpse of what it was like. Like, 1700s Paris, walking down the street in the 1700s, if they can recreate it perfectly.

Russell Peters 34:18 Yeah. And while they're building something that's like, uh, you know, you could be there when they're building the Colosseum or something in Rome, you know? (laughs)

Joe Rogan 34:24 Yeah, they don't know how they did that though, that's the problem. Like, if you wanna go back to like the Parthenon or something like that, like...

Russell Peters 34:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 34:31 How-

Russell Peters 34:31 How did they erect these-

Joe Rogan 34:32 Yeah.

Russell Peters 34:33 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 34:33 Who were the, who were the craftspeople?

Russell Peters 34:36 Yeah, 'cause that's the thing, there's a lot of s- 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, they're like, "Oh, we were wrong the first time."

Joe Rogan 34:47 Yeah. Do you think you're gonna stay in America no matter what?

Russell Peters 34:49 (clears throat) I, I-

Joe Rogan 34:50 You thinking about going back to Toronto? I know you love it up there.

Russell Peters 34:52 I love, I love my home, but, uh, I got two kids here.

Joe Rogan 34:55 Yeah.

Russell Peters 34:56 I can't just leave, you know?

Joe Rogan 34:57 Right.

Russell Peters 34:58 What are they gonna do?

Joe Rogan 34:59 Yeah.

Russell Peters 34:59 I'm not gonna bring two, uh, two baby mamas with me. That's not-

Joe Rogan 35:03 Right.

Russell Peters 35:03 That's not the way that's gonna go.

Joe Rogan 35:04 Oof, good luck.

Russell Peters 35:05 Yeah, so...

Joe Rogan 35:05 (laughs)

Russell Peters 35:07 You know what? You... I gotta lay in the bed that I made, buddy.

Joe Rogan 35:10 Or start a reality show. Two Baby Mamas in Toronto, that's the name of the show.

Russell Peters 35:13 Yeah, right, Two Americans in Toronto.

Joe Rogan 35:15 (laughs) Two Baby Mamas and Russell Peters in Toronto.

Russell Peters 35:20 And I gotta buy three houses? Fuck that. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 35:22 Oh, no, you don't. You buy one big house and that's how you film it.

Russell Peters 35:25 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 35:26 You have, uh, the East/West.

Russell Peters 35:27 Yeah, I'll take the center. You guys are Eastern West.

Joe Rogan 35:30 Yeah. Yeah, you have division.

Russell Peters 35:31 I'm the referee and I walk around with a Footlocker shirt on all day.

Joe Rogan 35:34 Yeah, y'all meet in the middle. You set up, like, a gymnasium for the kids in the middle. Everything's fun and games in the middle. Girls can talk shit to each other.

Russell Peters 35:41 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 35:48 Well, you gotta think, what are comedians gonna do if it gets to a point where there really is no more income from standup anymore? I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm legitimately concerned-

Russell Peters 35:57 I'm-

Joe Rogan 35:57 ... that this is gonna last a lot longer than people think.

Russell Peters 36:00 I'm definitely concerned.

Joe Rogan 36:01 Yeah.

Russell Peters 36:02 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 'cause I have to.

Joe Rogan 36:12 Yeah.

Russell Peters 36:13 You know?

Joe Rogan 36:13 Well, you, your income is solely from standup.

Russell Peters 36:17 Solely.

Joe Rogan 36:18 And we all thought that was fine.

Russell Peters 36:20 Yeah, everybody... I...

Joe Rogan 36:20 Everybody, I mean, w-

Russell Peters 36:21 Yeah, if this didn't happen, I wouldn't even be in any kind of situation right now.

Joe Rogan 36:24 Right. Yeah.

Russell Peters 36:25 Be like, "Yeah, everything's good."... but it, uh ... There's only certain people who really blossomed in this, and you're one of them. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 36:33 Well, Schulz.

Russell Peters 36:35 Schulz.

Joe Rogan 36:35 Andrew Schulz figured out how to do COVID comedy better than anybody. His, uh, videos that he does on Instagram-

Russell Peters 36:41 Turn the phone sideways.

Joe Rogan 36:41 ... are fucking amazing.

Russell Peters 36:42 Yeah, I, I watch every single one of those, and I'm like, "Goddamn, this kid's good."

Joe Rogan 36:46 They're so good. They're so well-written, and they're so fast, and the pace, and just his timing, and, and his-

Russell Peters 36:53 Yep.

Joe Rogan 36:53 ... insight.

Russell Peters 36:53 And he does a little, little lines-

Joe Rogan 36:55 Yes.

Russell Peters 36:55 ... little jokes in there.

Joe Rogan 36:56 Yes.

Russell Peters 36:57 I like when he takes little jabs at everybody and-

Joe Rogan 36:59 Yes. He's a, he's a wizard at this stuff.

Russell Peters 37:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:02 Yeah.

Russell Peters 37:02 How old is Andrew?

Joe Rogan 37:04 He's in his 30s, uh, some ... 36, maybe. You know. Just old enough to be smart enough. He knows what the fuck he's doing.

Russell Peters 37:10 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:11 But still young and wild.

Russell Peters 37:13 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:13 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.

Russell Peters 37:22 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:23 You know, in our day, when we were first starting-

Russell Peters 37:25 There were no rules.

Joe Rogan 37:26 ... there was no rules.

Russell Peters 37:26 It was, it was a fucking wild west back then.

Joe Rogan 37:28 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-

Russell Peters 37:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 37:39 ... 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.

Russell Peters 37:50 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.

Joe Rogan 38:02 Mm.

Russell Peters 38:03 They know how to-

Joe Rogan 38:03 The lines move, though. That's what's weird.

Russell Peters 38:05 Yeah. I mean, the lines are very blurred right now.

Joe Rogan 38:07 Yeah.

Russell Peters 38:07 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-

Joe Rogan 38:23 Yes.

Russell Peters 38:23 ... things that you say, that, uh, that takes-

Joe Rogan 38:25 But there's also-

Russell Peters 38:25 ... 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."

Joe Rogan 38:31 (laughs) There's also temporary thoughts that go down as permanent record.

Russell Peters 38:35 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 38:35 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-"

Russell Peters 38:46 Wait'll you see when-

Joe Rogan 38:47 "... forever."

Russell Peters 38:47 ... 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."

Joe Rogan 38:53 Mm.

Russell Peters 38:53 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 38:56 You haven't said one bad thing about America, though.

Russell Peters 38:57 Well, no, the minute you say anything and you're not American, you're automatic, "Get the fuck out," is what you get. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:02 Do you ... What do you have to do to be American-American? You're ... You have a green card.

Russell Peters 39:05 I have a green card.

Joe Rogan 39:06 What do you have to do to make the, make the league?

Russell Peters 39:07 I just gotta get a citizen-

Joe Rogan 39:08 And a tattoo.

Russell Peters 39:09 ... due in 10 years.

Joe Rogan 39:09 You need an eagle, an eagle tattoo.

Russell Peters 39:10 Should I get an eagle?

Joe Rogan 39:10 An eagle with a, a dick shaped like a gun.

Russell Peters 39:13 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 39:13 How about that?

Russell Peters 39:14 Wearing a gi.

Joe Rogan 39:15 Yes. I like it. But the gi is kind of originally Japanese.

Russell Peters 39:19 I know, but I think I ... Just in honor of.

Joe Rogan 39:21 Okay.

Russell Peters 39:22 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:22 American eagle with a gi.

Russell Peters 39:24 (laughs) American giagle, we'll call it.

Joe Rogan 39:26 Do you have any tattoos?

Russell Peters 39:27 None.

Joe Rogan 39:27 None?

Russell Peters 39:28 None.

Joe Rogan 39:28 You thought about it?

Russell Peters 39:29 I think about it now and then. I remember when you had none.

Joe Rogan 39:32 I had one. You got me.

Russell Peters 39:33 You had one little-

Joe Rogan 39:34 I had one on my shoulder, yeah.

Russell Peters 39:35 And that was like a ... And the past 10 years, you've definitely done a transformation.

Joe Rogan 39:39 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.

Russell Peters 39:49 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 39:50 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.

Russell Peters 39:56 What was it? What is your sleeve?

Joe Rogan 39:58 Well-

Russell Peters 39:58 The first one.

Joe Rogan 39:59 It's a lot. It's a dragon. It's wrapped around this Buddha that's holding a DMT molecule.

Russell Peters 40:04 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 40:05 It's pretty wild shit. Yeah, I just wanted, I wanted art, you know?

Russell Peters 40:09 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 40:10 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.

Russell Peters 40:15 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 40:16 Guess what? You know?

Russell Peters 40:17 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 40:18 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.

Russell Peters 40:23 Yeah. I at one point wanted a boxing glove holding a microphone.

Joe Rogan 40:26 Hmm. Glad you didn't do that? (laughs)

Russell Peters 40:29 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."

Joe Rogan 40:33 When I was in high school, everybody had a fucking Tasmanian devil with boxing gloves.

Russell Peters 40:36 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 40:37 That was the thing. I don't know why. (laughs)

Russell Peters 40:40 And then it became the tribal art, became the thing.

Joe Rogan 40:42 Oh, yeah. Or, uh, barbed wire around your bicep.

Russell Peters 40:45 Yeah. Yep.

Joe Rogan 40:46 Or your ankle if you're a gal-

Russell Peters 40:48 Yep.

Joe Rogan 40:48 ... or a dude who likes dudes.

Russell Peters 40:50 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 40:50 Yeah.

Russell Peters 40:50 And then they would do like the tribal zigzags all over their back, and I'm like-

Joe Rogan 40:53 Mm.

Russell Peters 40:53 ... "Listen, you can tell. That's like a timestamp on you now."

Joe Rogan 40:56 Yep.

Russell Peters 40:57 So you, you were, you weren't really big into tattoos 10 years ago, were you?

Joe Rogan 41:00 Yeah, the t- the tribal thing's weird, right? Like why did that come in and go out?

Russell Peters 41:04 Because it was white guys doing it-

Joe Rogan 41:06 (laughs)

Russell Peters 41:06 ... who were never part of a fucking tribe.

Joe Rogan 41:09 (clapping)

Russell Peters 41:11 You, you can't be tribal if you were never in a tribe.

Joe Rogan 41:14 That's so true.

Russell Peters 41:15 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 41:15 Like why do you have tribal shit up? "What tribe are you from?" "I'm fucking Los Filas, bro."

Russell Peters 41:20 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 41:20 (laughs)

Russell Peters 41:20 Not even from A Tribe Called Quest.

Joe Rogan 41:22 (laughs)

Russell Peters 41:23 Fucking ...

Joe Rogan 41:24 That's so true. White guys from a ... No tribe.

Russell Peters 41:27 Because the tribal people still do it. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 41:29 Do they, though? Not like those kinda tattoos.

Russell Peters 41:31 I mean like the Maori tattoos and all that-

Joe Rogan 41:33 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's-

Russell Peters 41:33 ... the Samoan shit.

Joe Rogan 41:34 That's different though.

Russell Peters 41:34 That shit's crazy though.

Joe Rogan 41:35 Yeah, that's different.

Russell Peters 41:35 That's like real hardcore tattooing. That's-

Joe Rogan 41:38 Oh, they tap it in there too.

Russell Peters 41:39 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 41:39 They ... A lot of guys ... Like there's a bunch of UFC fighters. Tai Tuivasa, who has that shit, um, from his waist down. Like his legs ... He's got like shorts made out of it. You know, a lot of those guys, and they, they do it tapping. So they, they lay there, and the guy has the stick. Have you seen the tapping?

Russell Peters 41:56 Yeah, yeah. It looks painful as fuck.

Joe Rogan 41:59 It's gotta be. Never done it. My buddy Sturgill, he has one of those, um ... He's got like a quarter sleeve that he's working on.

Russell Peters 42:05 I just like that his name is Sturgill.

Joe Rogan 42:07 Sturgill Simpson.

Russell Peters 42:08 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 42:08 That's a legit-

Russell Peters 42:09 That's an amazing-

Joe Rogan 42:10 ... southern there. And, uh-

Russell Peters 42:11 It's like they wanted to name him Sterling and Virgil, and they were like, "Okay, we're gonna call him Sturgill."

Joe Rogan 42:14 Yeah, it's a good name. For him, it's perfect.

Russell Peters 42:16 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 42:16 Like he's Sturgill. And, uh, he's got one of his tattoos he got from a Japanese master, and that's how they did it, with the tapping.

Russell Peters 42:24 Yep.

Joe Rogan 42:24 You know, it's a long, laborious process. But that's a thing. Like a lot of, um, people that are real ta- Japanese tattoo aficionados, they'll go to Japan to get tattooed in that tapping way.

Russell Peters 42:35 That's how the yakuza gets it, right?

Joe Rogan 42:36 Mm-hmm.

Russell Peters 42:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 42:37 Some of them. I'm sure some of them get it the other way now. But they, they can do shit with tattoos now. It's like ...... it's the art form has, has, has evolved this, to this crazy place where they can do, like, photo-realistic tattoos now.

Russell Peters 42:51 Yeah, it's incredible, some of them.

Joe Rogan 42:52 You ever see any Steve Butcher? You know who that dude is?

Russell Peters 42:54 No, but I've seen some of the guys that have your logo tattooed on them.

Joe Rogan 42:58 Dude, a lot of them.

Russell Peters 42:58 And it's incredible how fucking realistic it looks. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 43:02 I stopped posting them on Instagram because I was getting so many of them.

Russell Peters 43:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 43:05 And then someone posted... Yeah, that's Steve Butcher. He did me.

Russell Peters 43:09 That's, that's insane.

Joe Rogan 43:11 It's insane. Well, he's insane, period. He's really fucking talented.

Russell Peters 43:14 (laughs) Somebody got, somebody got the Michael Jordan-

Joe Rogan 43:17 Crying Michael Jordan. (laughs)

Russell Peters 43:20 (laughs) See, I would do some dumb shit like that if I got a tattoo probably. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 43:23 You know who's great too? Go to Ash Lewis. Ash, Ash Lewis Tattoo. He's got some amazing shit too. And there's, um, that whole style of tattoos now.

Russell Peters 43:34 Stan Lee.

Joe Rogan 43:35 Mm, look at that.

Russell Peters 43:36 Yeah, that's really incredible when they get that, like... Yeah, I guess if I was-

Joe Rogan 43:39 Click on that Stan Lee one, Jamie. Let me take a look at that. Look at that. Fuck, man.

Russell Peters 43:43 Like, if I was to do-

Joe Rogan 43:44 Incredible.

Russell Peters 43:44 If I was to do it, I would do one like that.

Joe Rogan 43:47 Oh, like a photo-realistic one?

Russell Peters 43:48 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 43:49 Of both your baby's mama giving you the finger.

Russell Peters 43:51 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 43:52 Uh, one on each thigh.

Russell Peters 43:54 I don't know if my thighs are big enough.

Joe Rogan 43:59 (laughs)

Russell Peters 43:59 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 44:02 Beautiful. Oh, yeah, Robin Williams.

Russell Peters 44:03 That's amazing.

Joe Rogan 44:04 Yeah, but he got the worst movie ever, Patch Adams.

Russell Peters 44:07 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 44:07 That's hilarious. That has to be a joke. Like Patch Adams. Have you ever seen Patch Adams?

Russell Peters 44:12 I didn't watch Patch Adams.

Joe Rogan 44:13 Bro.

Russell Peters 44:13 I mean, I probably did at the time, but I don't remember it, so.

Joe Rogan 44:16 It's... I don't remember the premise. It's something really ridiculous. Like a clown that works with cancer patients or something. Something along those lines.

Russell Peters 44:23 Yeah, yeah. No, he was a, he was a doctor who would, who would use co-... It was based on a real true story.

Joe Rogan 44:29 What'd you say, Jamie?

Jamie Vernon 44:29 It was a real person as well.

Joe Rogan 44:30 Yes.

Russell Peters 44:31 Yeah, who was a doctor who would come in and do silly things to make the patients laugh to try and help their spirits.

Joe Rogan 44:37 Yeah, but it was bad because they all died anyway.

Russell Peters 44:41 Yeah, but they died with great spirit. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 44:44 (laughs) Mm. Robin Williams.

Russell Peters 44:47 It was a really happy death they had.

Joe Rogan 44:49 He was a rough one, man. When that guy hung himself, I was like, "Oh, God."

Russell Peters 44:52 Yeah, you know, I never got to meet him.

Joe Rogan 44:54 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 45:01 How long ago was that?

Joe Rogan 45:02 Years ago. Obviously, he's dead.

Russell Peters 45:04 Yeah. So not, not recent?

Joe Rogan 45:06 (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."

Russell Peters 45:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 45:41 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.

Russell Peters 45:46 Right.

Joe Rogan 45:46 And then I realized in the middle of the conversation, this is Robin fucking Williams.

Russell Peters 45:50 Yep.

Jamie Vernon 45:50 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 45:50 Because he's got... He had this crazy thick-ass white beard.

Russell Peters 45:53 Yeah, he always grew a real bushy beard.

Joe Rogan 45:55 I think he was hiding, man. You know?

Russell Peters 45:57 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 45:57 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.

Russell Peters 46:09 That famous and known for, uh, whether you are or not, but you're known for being always like on.

Joe Rogan 46:16 Yeah.

Russell Peters 46:16 And then there's the pressure of having to be on now so you don't disappoint the illusion.

Joe Rogan 46:21 Yeah.

Russell Peters 46:22 And that's got to be fucking taxing.

Joe Rogan 46:25 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...

Russell Peters 46:36 I think one of the best recognitions I got was Bob Newhart.

Joe Rogan 46:39 Oh, that's a good one.

Russell Peters 46:40 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-

Joe Rogan 46:56 Oh. Wow.

Russell Peters 46:57 ... "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?

Joe Rogan 47:06 Uh-huh.

Russell Peters 47:07 Chuck Connors.

Joe Rogan 47:08 Okay.

Russell Peters 47:09 Yeah, I sat beside them while we were doing it, and I was like, "This is incredible." And then that they had a private dinner after and it was... And I was sitting at the table with Fred Willard and then, uh, the guy that was on Bosom Buddies with Tom Hanks.

Joe Rogan 47:21 Oh, wow.

Russell Peters 47:23 And then, uh...

Joe Rogan 47:23 Where's that guy?

Russell Peters 47:25 Uh, Peter Scolari, that's his name.

Joe Rogan 47:26 Oh, okay.

Russell Peters 47:27 Yeah, right. And then, uh, and then Don Rickles was there. And Bob was just so fucking fun... He's still alive and I, I actually been meaning to call him just to check in on the guy. But, um, but he was so funny. I remember he was about to make a... 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 gonna be funny? Is this a funny speech?" And, and everyone's like, "Who is this... (laughs) Who is this fucking broad yelling?" And goes, "Is this gonna be funny, Bob? Bob, is this gonna be funny?" (laughs) And Bob Newhart just goes, "Why don't we all find out together?"

Joe Rogan 47:57 (laughs)

Russell Peters 47:58 And I was like, "It's fucking perfect." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 48:00 It's perfect. (laughs)

Russell Peters 48:00 It's so perfect. The perfect response.

Joe Rogan 48:02 That is perfect.

Russell Peters 48:03 It wasn't like, "Hey, shut up." He was like, "Why don't we all find out together?"

Joe Rogan 48:07 God, that is just... That's some people are just so-

Russell Peters 48:09 It's like a master talking, you know. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 48:12 Yeah, I mean, that's a lob. She lobbed and he smashed it.

Russell Peters 48:15 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 48:16 Yeah.

Russell Peters 48:16 You know what-

Joe Rogan 48:16 Some people are just so dull minded. "Oh, we gonna... Is it gonna be funny?" Like she needed to know. She needed-

Russell Peters 48:22 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 48:22 ... to know from him-

Russell Peters 48:23 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 48:23 ... yelling at him.

Russell Peters 48:24 "Bob, Bob, how should we react to this?" You know. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 48:26 Ugh. Who's the first famous person that came to your show?

Russell Peters 48:30 Um...

Joe Rogan 48:31 Do you remember?

Russell Peters 48:32 I don't remember the first famous... Uh, 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. Uh, Kenny Robinson had the Nubian Disciples of Prior all-black comedy show.

Joe Rogan 48:47 (laughs)

Russell Peters 48:47 It was the ABC of NDP. It was... (laughs) And, uh...... that 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-

Joe Rogan 49:00 Wow.

Russell Peters 49:01 ... "Man, you're fucking killing me, dude." He goes, "Yo, don't, don't embarrass me when I get there. Make sure I'm on there." I'm like, "Fuck."

Joe Rogan 49:06 Oh, no. (laughs)

Russell Peters 49:07 And I'm like, I, I go, "Kenny, I gotta put, uh, so and so on the list there." And, "Well, is he gonna bring guns?" I go, "I don't know what he's gonna bring, but if he gets in and there's no problem, you'll have no problems." And ...

Joe Rogan 49:16 Oh, boy. Did you have, uh, metal detectors?

Russell Peters 49:19 No.

Joe Rogan 49:20 There was a shooting at the store one night.

Russell Peters 49:22 I remember that. That was, uh, a couple years ago. The guy shot a guy on the patio, right?

Joe Rogan 49:25 Different time. Yeah, that's a different time. That's someone ... That was a murder.

Russell Peters 49:29 Hmm.

Joe Rogan 49:29 That was someone came to kill somebody. There was a, a shooting in the main room one night. I think ... I believe Tupac was there.

Russell Peters 49:37 Really?

Joe Rogan 49:37 Yeah. Yeah. I was off that night. I wasn't there.

Russell Peters 49:41 Was that ... Uh, that must've been, uh, maybe Trippin' on Tuesdays or something?

Joe Rogan 49:44 I don't know. I don't know. Um, they used to have Phat Tuesday.

Russell Peters 49:49 Oh, Phat Tuesdays, that's right.

Joe Rogan 49:50 Yeah.

Russell Peters 49:51 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:51 Yeah.

Russell Peters 49:51 And then Guy Torry took it over and had Trippin' on Tuesdays.

Joe Rogan 49:53 Is that what it was?

Russell Peters 49:54 (clears throat) Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:54 Yeah.

Russell Peters 49:56 And then Chris Spencer-

Joe Rogan 49:57 Guy t-

Russell Peters 49:57 ... took it over.

Joe Rogan 49:58 Guy Torry used to get up in the morning and do East Coast radio from his home in LA.

Russell Peters 50:06 That's ... (laughs) I couldn't do that shit.

Joe Rogan 50:08 He would do it, like, five days a week.

Russell Peters 50:10 This guy's-

Joe Rogan 50:11 I'm, I'm mo- ... I'm most positive that he did that. I mean-

Russell Peters 50:14 I had, I had Guy and Joe over at my house as well. We were in the backyard having cigars.

Joe Rogan 50:18 Do you remember when Joe used to host Def Jam and he was jacked? Like, with a-

Russell Peters 50:21 Yeah, he's still in great shape, you know? He's like ... He does a lot of martial arts as well.

Joe Rogan 50:24 Does he?

Russell Peters 50:24 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:25 What'd he do?

Russell Peters 50:26 Uh, he did some, uh, some Taekwondo and he did some, uh, Greco-Roman wrestling and stuff like that.

Joe Rogan 50:30 No shit.

Russell Peters 50:31 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:32 Well, he was one of the first guys ever to be funny and jacked.

Russell Peters 50:35 Yeah, but I ... He ... Uh, 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 he ... I used to watch him do that and I'd go, "I love that."

Joe Rogan 50:43 Hmm. Yeah.

Russell Peters 50:44 I know you hate when I do it, but ...

Joe Rogan 50:46 Well, it's not that I hate it. It's, uh, if I go on afterwards, they wanna talk to me, too-

Russell Peters 50:50 No, see I don't get them talking.

Joe Rogan 50:51 ... and interrupt it.

Russell Peters 50:51 I just ask them questions.

Joe Rogan 50:53 Hmm.

Russell Peters 50:53 And, and the way I ask them questions doesn't make ... doesn't open it up for a conversation. It opens up so that they wanna shut up now.

Joe Rogan 50:59 Mm.

Russell Peters 51:00 I try to, uh, approach it that way, like a jab, you know?

Joe Rogan 51:03 I get it. I understand.

Russell Peters 51:04 I wanna make sure you're good when you go on.

Joe Rogan 51:06 I understand.

Russell Peters 51:07 I get it out of their system, Joe.

Joe Rogan 51:08 I understand. Well, you like to do that to ... That's how you form material, right? You like to fucking around-

Russell Peters 51:11 That's exactly how ... Yeah, that's exactly how I write. I remember you and I ... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 51:14 (laughs)

Russell Peters 51:14 Yeah, 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." What-

Joe Rogan 51:21 I definitely didn't yell at you.

Russell Peters 51:23 (laughs) Well, you know, you talked first.

Joe Rogan 51:24 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 51:31 It's true.

Joe Rogan 51:32 Everybody can write.

Russell Peters 51:33 Yeah. I mean, I used to write, but I need pen and a pad, I gotta go do it the old school way.

Joe Rogan 51:36 Yeah. Well, it's like, for us, we're also ADD. It's hard to just sit alone. Just to 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.

Russell Peters 51:49 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 51:49 You can write throughout the day, just have ideas then run them on stage. All that's great. But y- ... It's ... None of that ... Nothing's preventing you from actually sitting and writing as well. And, like, when ... I feel like when you sit and write, you have an opportunity to develop different concepts, different ideas.

Russell Peters 52:05 And I get it. And, and, uh, 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 gonna come out of this quarantine with an entire new act that was so fucking well-written. And everybody I talked to, they're like, "What'd you do?" "Nothing. I couldn't fucking sit down and do it."

Joe Rogan 52:21 I didn't write at all.

Russell Peters 52:22 No, me neither.

Joe Rogan 52:22 I didn't write at all on purpose. First of all, because I didn't know how I felt, 'cause it was like ... This was like ... When th- ... When this shit locked down, first of all, everybody thought it ... Like, large percentage of us were gonna die, right?

Russell Peters 52:35 Yeah, we didn't know what the fuck was happening.

Joe Rogan 52:36 Nobody knew. We th- ... We saw the footage from China where they're-

Russell Peters 52:39 Italy.

Joe Rogan 52:39 ... driving on the streets, spraying that stuff into the-

Russell Peters 52:42 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 52:42 ... the buildings. We didn't know. So we thought, like, "Man, what if we all ..." Like, "What if we're losing a lot of our friends?" I was worried about Diaz, I was worried about Tim Dillon.

Russell Peters 52:51 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 52:51 I was worried about big people, I was worried about older people, you know?

Russell Peters 52:56 Joey was one of the guys who checked on me weekly.

Joe Rogan 53:00 He checks on everybody. He's awesome.

Russell Peters 53:02 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 53:07 Yeah.

Russell Peters 53:08 Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 53:08 He's a beautiful person, he really is.

Russell Peters 53:10 He really is. I, I ... I, I ... It is, it is shocking what a sweet human being he is.

Joe Rogan 53:13 Yeah, he's so gruff on the outside and-

Russell Peters 53:16 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:16 ... his stories are so crazy-

Russell Peters 53:17 Yep.

Joe Rogan 53:18 ... that people get this, uh, distorted impression of who he is, but Joey Diaz is a saint.

Russell Peters 53:22 And you would wanna think that he's gonna wanna hang out with everybody and party. He does not like that shit at all.

Joe Rogan 53:28 He gets the fuck out of there.

Russell Peters 53:29 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:29 Yeah.

Russell Peters 53:29 "Too many people, I gotta go."

Joe Rogan 53:31 Yeah.

Russell Peters 53:31 "One person asks me the wrong fucking question, I'm out of there."

Joe Rogan 53:34 Yeah, he, he just likes to go in and crush and then get out of there like a legend. (laughs)

Russell Peters 53:39 (laughs) It's great.

Joe Rogan 53:41 Still drives a Subaru.

Russell Peters 53:42 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 53:42 I've been telling him forever, I'm like, "Joey, please get a nice car. Get a Cadillac. You make a lot of money."

Russell Peters 53:46 Fuck I need that for, Joe?

Joe Rogan 53:47 Yeah, that's him. He goes, "I don't give a fuck about that shit, Joe Rogan. What do I gotta do with a fucking Cadillac?"

Russell Peters 53:52 What did you get? Did you get anything, uh, to celebrate your Spotify thing? Did you buy a nice car for yourself?

Joe Rogan 53:57 No. No, haven't bought anything.

Russell Peters 53:59 No?

Joe Rogan 53:59 No. I have enough cars.

Russell Peters 54:02 Yeah, you do.

Joe Rogan 54:02 I think it's enough.

Russell Peters 54:03 Maybe a watch or-

Joe Rogan 54:04 No.

Russell Peters 54:04 ... something, something that says, "Hey."

Joe Rogan 54:06 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 on ... Just get real good guests and be prepared and ... I wanna, you know, I'm always trying-

Russell Peters 54:18 That's why I'm glad I'm on now, before you start getting good guests again. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 54:20 Fuck that. Okay, you're coming on, bitch.

Russell Peters 54:23 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 54:23 I'm try ... I'm always trying to, you know, do my best. That's what I concentrate on. I feel like the ... Whenever I ... If I steer away from that in anything, I fuck up.

Russell Peters 54:33 Yeah, no, you gotta just keep it, what you're doing.

Joe Rogan 54:35 Yeah, just keep trying to do my best and not even thinking about all that other stuff.

Russell Peters 54:39 I remember when they would be in your house. You'd walk in-

Joe Rogan 54:41 I know. (laughs)

Russell Peters 54:41 ... and it was right on the right-hand side-

Joe Rogan 54:42 I know.

Russell Peters 54:43 ... in that little-ass room.

Joe Rogan 54:43 My little office, yeah.

Russell Peters 54:44 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:45 That's the ... It was the studio. Yeah.

Russell Peters 54:46 Yeah. That was the first time I did it. It was, uh, December of 2010.

Joe Rogan 54:50 Nobody was watching.... nobody. Like, nobody.

Russell Peters 54:52 And you were like, "You wanna do it?" And I go, "Yeah, I don't even know what it is, but I'll do it."

Joe Rogan 54:55 We would have like 200 people viewing live. (laughs)

Russell Peters 54:58 Yeah. Yes, you were doing live ones too.

Joe Rogan 55:01 Yes, on YouTube.

Russell Peters 55:01 It was Redband who figured that shit out already.

Joe Rogan 55:03 Yeah. Well, that's how we started it. We started it on a laptop with Ustream, just answering questions.

Russell Peters 55:09 Ustream. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:10 Yes.

Russell Peters 55:10 That's what is was. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:11 Yeah, Ustream. And then we moved over to YouTube later on, but it was, uh, it was just for fun. It was-

Russell Peters 55:17 The YouTube clips keep me, um, very entertained on the road.

Joe Rogan 55:21 Yeah?

Russell Peters 55:22 Yeah. I, I'll go look for a subject that I wanna hear about and there'll be like a 12 to 15 minute clip. Like, "Oh, perfect. That's it."

Joe Rogan 55:27 Well, that's one of the good things about the Spotify deal is what Spotify's gonna do is they're gonna organize things. Like all the health and wellness, uh, podcasts are gonna be organized.

Russell Peters 55:35 Mm.

Joe Rogan 55:35 All the fitness ones, all the martial arts ones, all the ones with scientists, all the ones on archeology, animals, paleontology. All those... All the different ones are gonna be organized, so you could, you could actually search shit.

Russell Peters 55:47 No-

Joe Rogan 55:47 Have you thought about doing a podcast?

Russell Peters 55:49 I have thought about it, yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:50 Hey, this is the perfect time, Russell Peters.

Russell Peters 55:52 I, I mean I really want to, but I, you know-

Joe Rogan 55:54 Come on, baby.

Russell Peters 55:54 I... I need some-

Joe Rogan 55:55 What's up?

Russell Peters 55:55 Uh, can you put me on under your wing?

Joe Rogan 55:57 Everybody wants that. I always tell people, this is what I'll do-

Russell Peters 55:59 Not really a wing, just let me use a space or something.

Joe Rogan 56:01 Figure it out and I'll fucking, I'll tweet it for you. (laughs)

Russell Peters 56:04 Oh, (laughs) that'll help actually.

Joe Rogan 56:05 Yeah, I'll tell people. I'll add you on.

Russell Peters 56:06 I mean, I, you know, I do on Instagram Live a lot. I'll, I'll talk to like, uh, like I'll pull up like s- you know, I'll look who's there and I'm like, "Oh, look. There's Crazy Legs from Rock Steady Crew."

Joe Rogan 56:16 Mm-hmm.

Russell Peters 56:16 And I'll add him. We'll do like a live chat and we'll... And it's not the basic, "Hey, so tell me about break dancing." We just have a conversation-

Joe Rogan 56:22 Right.

Russell Peters 56:22 ... and it's actually really good.

Joe Rogan 56:23 Well, that's cool.

Russell Peters 56:24 And then I get like, you know, I'll have, uh, you know, uh, a rapper, uh, uh, one of my favorite rappers will be on or something.

Joe Rogan 56:30 Mm-hmm.

Russell Peters 56:30 You know, and it's just fun shit.

Joe Rogan 56:31 You know who I was hanging out with in Houston?

Russell Peters 56:33 Willie D. I saw that.

Joe Rogan 56:35 Yeah, it was Willie D-

Russell Peters 56:35 I saw that.

Joe Rogan 56:35 ... from the Ghetto Boys.

Russell Peters 56:36 Yep.

Joe Rogan 56:37 Dude, I hadn't done standup in like 90 plus days and Willie came down to the show and he's like, uh-

Russell Peters 56:43 That was this weekend, right?

Joe Rogan 56:44 This weekend, yeah. And he's like, "Which show should I come to?" I'm like, "Please come to the second show." (laughs)

Russell Peters 56:47 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 56:47 I don't wanna bomb in front of Willie D.

Russell Peters 56:49 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 56:49 But it was... Even the first show was f- 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 sure... I was with, uh, Brian Moses and Tony Hinchcliffe, and we weren't sure whether or not we were gonna even be able to do the show 'cause we got there-

Russell Peters 57:07 I've seen Brian Moses perform. I don't think he can do the show. I'm just kidding.

Joe Rogan 57:10 (sings)

Russell Peters 57:10 Come on dude.

Joe Rogan 57:11 (sings)

Russell Peters 57:11 Come on, Moses.

Joe Rogan 57:12 He killed. Um, but we, uh, got there and there was a stage one COVID alert that they had moved back to stage one, and I was... 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 gonna have to literally get on a plane and go back home."

Russell Peters 57:28 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 57:28 But then they said, "Nope, we're gonna just keep the shows rolling." And then, uh, Houston is Texas and Texas is different. They just, they have... You know, they're, they're closing down the bars, but they keep the restaurants open at 50% capacity.

Russell Peters 57:40 I really like Texas.

Joe Rogan 57:42 I love it there.

Russell Peters 57:43 I know. Well, I-

Joe Rogan 57:44 I love it there.

Russell Peters 57:44 Like I think I could move to Texas, but I couldn't go where you're gonna go, I guess.

Joe Rogan 57:48 Where would you go? Dallas?

Russell Peters 57:49 Yeah, Dallas.

Joe Rogan 57:50 I love Dallas.

Russell Peters 57:51 I like Dallas a lot. Or Houston maybe, but-

Joe Rogan 57:53 Yeah.

Russell Peters 57:53 ... Dallas probably more likely.

Joe Rogan 57:55 I love all of them, man.

Russell Peters 57:56 I-

Joe Rogan 57:56 I just love Texas. I love the attitude. I love-

Russell Peters 57:58 I do. It, it-

Joe Rogan 57:59 It's very diverse too. There's all kinds of-

Russell Peters 58:00 It feels like its own country.

Joe Rogan 58:01 Yeah, there's all kinds of shit in Texas.

Russell Peters 58:02 And I think it gets a bum rap for a lot of things. I mean, sure, those things exist over there, but, uh, I don't think that's what it's about over there.

Joe Rogan 58:09 Definitely not Austin. Austin is a really open-minded, interesting place.

Russell Peters 58:13 It's like a hipster city.

Joe Rogan 58:14 Yeah. It's an interesting place. It's, um, I just-

Russell Peters 58:17 I had a good time like going and watching live bands and shit in Austin, you know? They got some great music-

Joe Rogan 58:22 Yeah.

Russell Peters 58:22 ... and stuff like that.

Joe Rogan 58:24 6th Street.

Russell Peters 58:24 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 58:25 Yeah.

Russell Peters 58:26 But I got... I, uh... Listen, that heat is intense over there.

Joe Rogan 58:29 I like heat.

Russell Peters 58:30 No, I like heat too, but dude-

Joe Rogan 58:32 (laughs)

Russell Peters 58:32 ... it's a fucking dumb heat.

Joe Rogan 58:34 (laughs)

Russell Peters 58:35 Like I even... I, I'm like, "Goddamn. If an Indian guy's complaining about the heat, something's wrong with the heat, dude."

Joe Rogan 58:39 It's good for you though. It's good for you, that moist heat.

Russell Peters 58:43 It was, uh... We shot a movie there, me and Faizon, about five years ago.

Joe Rogan 58:47 Damn, I haven't seen Faizon in forever.

Russell Peters 58:49 Faizon's great. You should have him on.

Joe Rogan 58:50 He's good.

Russell Peters 58:50 You know you'd have a fucking great conversation with Faizon.

Joe Rogan 58:52 Oh, yeah.

Russell Peters 58:52 He's really intelligent. Despite his exterior, he's actually got a lot of, uh...

Joe Rogan 58:58 (laughs)

Russell Peters 58:58 He's got a lot of interesting, uh, perceptive thoughts.

Joe Rogan 59:02 Mm-hmm.

Russell Peters 59:03 Uh, very, very good dude too. He's a great guy. Solid guy.

Joe Rogan 59:06 And you guys were in Texas?

Russell Peters 59:07 Yeah, we were shooting. And one day... 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 59:14 Woo-hoo.

Russell Peters 59:16 And s-

Joe Rogan 59:16 But in T- Texas, 118's different.

Russell Peters 59:18 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 break dancing and then I jump in and break dance with them, so I had to like do a top rock and some waves and shit. But I'm like, "Dude." And then s- a- and, "Action," and reset. I'm like, "No, dude. I'm gonna fucking die if I'm gonna be doing this." So we shoot the whole day of this thing and I'm fucking dead and like my shirt... I'm wearing a blue shirt so you could see when I sweat and everything. Then I'm like, "Oh, thank God that's over." And they go, "Okay, we're, uh, relocating over there. You're gonna do the rollerskating scene." I go, "On the hottest fucking day of the year, you want me to rollerskate outside?" (laughs) "Yeah, we're gonna do it."

Joe Rogan 59:54 That's the thing about movies, right? They gotta jam those 12-hour days in.

Russell Peters 59:57 Oh, yeah. We were doing, uh, 14 to 15 hour days-

Joe Rogan 1:00:00 Oof.

Russell Peters 1:00:01 ... 'cause it was nonunion. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:02 Oh. Oh. Movies are hard, man. You know, it's not a hard like coal mining, but it's hard in that it's... It, it beats you up. A lot of comics-

Russell Peters 1:00:12 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:00:12 ... that wind up getting into movies, their act sorta suffers.

Russell Peters 1:00:16 Yeah, well it's one or the other.

Joe Rogan 1:00:17 Yes.

Russell Peters 1:00:18 You can't... You know, you can't be you on the movie set.

Joe Rogan 1:00:21 Right.

Russell Peters 1:00:21 You gotta be that character.

Joe Rogan 1:00:23 Well, it's... I always told everybody that I bet that's why Eddie Murphy stopped doing standup. I mean, it's just like his, his movies are doing so good and he... You're more insulated in that world too.

Russell Peters 1:00:34 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:00:34 He got too famous too. It's like... It's almost like it's a better way to do it.

Russell Peters 1:00:37 Yeah. What do you think his gonna be like when he comes back?

Joe Rogan 1:00:40 Who knows if he's gonna.

Russell Peters 1:00:42 I mean, it's... it's a lot of money on the line for him.

Joe Rogan 1:00:44 I'm sure he's got a lot of money.

Russell Peters 1:00:45 He's got a lot of money, but I mean, shit.

Joe Rogan 1:00:47 I watched Norbit the other night. I've been talking to people about it.

Russell Peters 1:00:49 (laughs) I saw you post about it.

Joe Rogan 1:00:50 Bro, it's fucking funny, man. It's funny. Watch Coming to America the next night. Family movie night.

Russell Peters 1:00:57 What was that movie he did with, uh, Owen Wilson? Lie Spy?... or something like that. Something spy.

Joe Rogan 1:01:03 I Spy, was it? Hmm. I don't know.

Russell Peters 1:01:06 It was actually a really good movie. (laughs) I enjoyed that movie a lot.

Joe Rogan 1:01:08 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, uh, what was that one he did with Steve Martin?

Russell Peters 1:01:19 Uh-

Joe Rogan 1:01:19 Bothfinger?

Russell Peters 1:01:20 ... Bothfinger. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:20 That is a fucking great movie.

Russell Peters 1:01:22 Do you know the story behind that, right?

Joe Rogan 1:01:23 No. (clears throat)

Russell Peters 1:01:24 That the Heather Graham character was allegedly Anne Heche, was supposed to ... It was based on Anne Heche.

Joe Rogan 1:01:30 Really?

Russell Peters 1:01:31 That's what I heard.

Joe Rogan 1:01:32 Based on her?

Russell Peters 1:01:33 Yeah. How she was dating Steve Martin, then she ended up with a woman.

Joe Rogan 1:01:36 Yeah.

Russell Peters 1:01:37 And then ended up-

Joe Rogan 1:01:38 Who did she end up with?

Russell Peters 1:01:39 And then she ended, she ended up with Ellen DeGeneres.

Joe Rogan 1:01:40 That's right.

Russell Peters 1:01:41 And then she ended up marrying a man after that.

Joe Rogan 1:01:43 That's right. Just keep it moving. (laughs)

Russell Peters 1:01:45 Yeah. Who, whoever's gonna take me, I'm good with it.

Joe Rogan 1:01:48 (laughs)

Russell Peters 1:01:48 But I actually met her and she's very nice, too. So I, you know. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:01:50 What ever happened to her, man?

Russell Peters 1:01:52 I don't know. She was shooting a series up in Canada for a little while.

Joe Rogan 1:01:54 Hmm.

Russell Peters 1:01:55 That's where I met her.

Joe Rogan 1:01:56 Wow.

Russell Peters 1:01:58 But Eddie ... You know, the problem with Eddie was ... Not the problem. What, what happened with Eddie was his movies in the '80s were so fucking huge.

Joe Rogan 1:02:05 Hmm.

Russell Peters 1:02:06 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 1:02:11 But so many of those movies were still really good, they just didn't get the respect, for some reason.

Russell Peters 1:02:16 Like Beverly Hills Cop-

Joe Rogan 1:02:17 Yeah.

Russell Peters 1:02:17 ... 48 Hours-

Joe Rogan 1:02:18 Yeah.

Russell Peters 1:02:18 Coming to America-

Joe Rogan 1:02:19 Yeah. 48 Hours.

Russell Peters 1:02:19 Trading Places.

Joe Rogan 1:02:20 Dude.

Russell Peters 1:02:20 I mean, hit after hit after hit.

Joe Rogan 1:02:22 Constant.

Russell Peters 1:02:22 And not, like, a little bit of a hit.

Joe Rogan 1:02:23 He was the man.

Russell Peters 1:02:24 And then, you know, you got f- another 48 Hours.

Joe Rogan 1:02:26 Yeah.

Russell Peters 1:02:26 And then you got Beverly Hills Cop II and III, even th-

Joe Rogan 1:02:28 Yes.

Russell Peters 1:02:29 Even they were good.

Joe Rogan 1:02:30 Yes.

Russell Peters 1:02:32 That was the first time I saw sequels that were like, "Wow, that's just as fucking good as the first one."

Joe Rogan 1:02:35 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 and ... ?

Russell Peters 1:02:43 Yeah. So I think, um, after ... He did that one movie, it was like a, like a military kind of movie-

Joe Rogan 1:02:51 Yeah?

Russell Peters 1:02:51 ... in the late '80s. It was somewhere around-

Joe Rogan 1:02:54 He tried to branch out or something?

Russell Peters 1:02:55 After Golden Child, it kind of fell apart a little bit.

Joe Rogan 1:02:58 Oh. Is that what it was?

Russell Peters 1:02:59 Yeah. There was a-

Joe Rogan 1:03:00 Was that pre or post My Girl Wants to Party All the Time?

Russell Peters 1:03:03 That was post.

Joe Rogan 1:03:04 Okay. So that was an issue.

Russell Peters 1:03:05 Yeah. (laughs) That was, uh ... But that-

Joe Rogan 1:03:07 << My girl wants to party all the time >>

Russell Peters 1:03:09 Do you ever ... Do you know Finis Henderson?

Joe Rogan 1:03:11 Yeah, sure.

Russell Peters 1:03:11 Yeah. You know, he wrote that for Eddie?

Joe Rogan 1:03:13 Really?

Russell Peters 1:03:14 Yeah, apparently. Finis, Finis told me he wrote it for him.

Joe Rogan 1:03:16 Wow.

Russell Peters 1:03:17 He goes, "I used to help Eddie with that back in the day." And ... 'Cause Finis was actually a really big ... He had a really big song back in the day called Skip to My Lou.

Joe Rogan 1:03:25 Really?

Russell Peters 1:03:26 Yeah. It was a really dope, uh, R&B track, like early '80s.

Joe Rogan 1:03:31 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."

Russell Peters 1:03:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:40 That was one of those things where, like, when a s- when a person does that, like ... Like-

Russell Peters 1:03:43 And Rick James produced it for him.

Joe Rogan 1:03:44 Did he really? Oh, that makes sense.

Russell Peters 1:03:45 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:03:46 Yeah. There's some of those guys who can just kind of do anything. They can do movies, they can do comedy.

Russell Peters 1:03:51 He's got a reggae album out now, you know that?

Joe Rogan 1:03:54 What?

Russell Peters 1:03:55 Yeah. (laughs) It came out, like, three years ago, I think.

Joe Rogan 1:03:56 What?

Russell Peters 1:03:57 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:03:57 Eddie Murphy?

Russell Peters 1:03:58 Yeah. A couple years ago, Eddie Murphy released a reggae album.

Joe Rogan 1:04:01 See, I always feel like with certain dudes, like, whether it's him or Jamie Foxx or dudes who have, just have the, like, this really diverse set of skills, they're probably just always doing something, whether you know about it or not.

Russell Peters 1:04:12 Mm-hmm. They got, uh ... They're, they're just creatives that-

Joe Rogan 1:04:16 Yeah.

Russell Peters 1:04:16 They can't stop creating.

Joe Rogan 1:04:18 Right.

Russell Peters 1:04:18 And then they get ... You know, I think the thing with a l- a lot of people are creative. And, uh, a lot of