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Joe Rogan Experience #1650 - Russell Peters

Russell Peters is a standup comedian, actor, and the host of the "Culturally Cancelled" podcast.

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  1. 0:002:45

    Reuniting on the podcast: gifts, friendship, and Russell starts his own show

    1. NA

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

    2. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day.

    3. NA

      (instrumental music)

    4. JR

      Hello, Russell.

    5. RP

      Hello, Joseph.

    6. JR

      Good to see you, my friend.

    7. RP

      How are you, pally?

    8. JR

      I'm fucking great.

    9. RP

      (clears throat) So-

    10. JR

      Better now that you're here.

    11. RP

      I know. I, I called you and I said, "Joe, I really wanna do your podcast again." You said, "Sure."

    12. JR

      "Anytime, buddy."

    13. RP

      I know. It was great. And I was, I was very happy (laughs) . I thought you were gonna be like, "Oh, man. You know, I got so many people I gotta-"

    14. JR

      Come on.

    15. RP

      (laughs)

    16. JR

      Russell, you and I go back, my friend.

    17. RP

      I know, it's true.

    18. JR

      And I tell everybody I wear the watch you gave me every special. And I have since 2014.

    19. RP

      Oh, really?

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. RP

      I didn't, I didn't know that detail. That's an-

    22. JR

      Yep.

    23. RP

      ... interesting detail.

    24. JR

      You gave me a watch once. It was the s- the most ridiculously generous thing ever. I was looking at your watch and go, "That's a nice watch." You go, "You want it?"

    25. RP

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      And you took it off and gave it to me. I'm like-

    27. RP

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      ... "Jesus Christ." So I've worn it every special I've ever done.

    29. RP

      I've tried, I've tried that with you. I was like, "Joe, that's a really nice Porsche." "Yeah, it is."

    30. JR

      (laughs)

  2. 2:456:13

    Podcast formats, Ari Shaffir’s themed storytelling, and how comics get “in trouble” online

    1. JR

      Yeah. Well, uh, I don't know, though. The, the... Some, some people do... Like, Ari has a theme for most of his podcasts.

    2. RP

      Ari's a very themed, thematic guy.

    3. JR

      Yeah.

    4. RP

      Even when he came up with the TV shows, you know?

    5. JR

      Mm-hmm. Yeah.

    6. RP

      He would always have a theme. And when he would have those shows at the store, "Okay, we're gonna do this night. Do you have a blah, blah, blah story for that?" And I'm like-

    7. JR

      Yeah.

    8. RP

      ... you know, which is good. Uh, and, and, uh, it, you know, it, it challenges the guest a little bit.

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. RP

      Which is nice, but...

    11. JR

      Well, that's how he came up with his show. The, he came up with the idea for his show when he was, um, he was just trying to figure out ways to work on bits that are storytelling form. So he said, "You know what I'll do? I'll just do a whole storytelling show where you don't do your act, you just tell a story."

    12. RP

      Right.

    13. JR

      And then he set it up in the lab, the old lab before it became that weird lab in the Improv.

    14. RP

      Oh, yeah, yeah. On Melrose there.

    15. JR

      Yeah. And then he started doing it there. And then, um, next thing you know, it was a fucking Comedy Central show.

    16. RP

      I know. I did a couple-

    17. JR

      Damn.

    18. RP

      ... of those. The, uh-

    19. JR

      This Is Not Happening.

    20. RP

      I always... Um, I did This Is Not Happening, but then he had the other ones that he would do live before he was recording them.

    21. JR

      Yeah, what did he call those?

    22. RP

      Um...

    23. JR

      Were those called This Is Not Happening as well?

    24. RP

      No. One of, I think one variation of it was, but the earlier ones were some sort of, like, road stories or whatever.

    25. JR

      I can't even remember why he stopped doing the show now.

    26. RP

      I think it was because that, that little, uh, episode happened with, uh... When, uh... Who died?

    27. JR

      No, it was before that.

    28. RP

      It was before that?

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. RP

      Somebody else died. I think it, they canceled him basically. And then they replaced him with somebody else.

  3. 6:137:32

    Can you still make comedies like Step Brothers? Movies, “woke” rules, and offensive nostalgia

    1. JR

      Dude, I watched Step Brothers the other day.

    2. RP

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      You could not make that movie today. You could not make it-

    4. RP

      You could make... Yeah.

    5. JR

      ... and it was so good.

    6. RP

      You can't make a lot of things that we made five years ago today. (laughs)

    7. JR

      You... Can you imagine if they tried to make Step Brothers today? But by the way, here's a question. When was the last time you saw a really good funny movie, like a recent funny movie?

    8. RP

      We have not. We have not.

    9. JR

      They don't exist.

    10. RP

      It's, it's hard, because they're trying to incorporate too much.

    11. JR

      Well, you're trying to be woke.

    12. RP

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      You're trying to apply these rules that are created by these people that just want to kind of control peoples' ability to express themselves.

    14. RP

      Well, they want you show this world that matches their imaginary world, and you're like, "But that's not my world."

    15. JR

      Not only that, it's like come on, man. You, you, do you really get offended when you watch Step Brothers?

    16. RP

      (laughs)

    17. JR

      Does that offend you?

    18. RP

      If you got offended by Step Brothers, you've got issues. That's why I feel like the people that are getting offended have their own things that they're dealing with-

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. RP

      ... and they just need somebody to blame.

    21. JR

      Well, they're just deciding what people can and can't say, and don't, you know... The, the, whatever they think is non-acceptable now in this new world of just calling out everybody for everything.

    22. RP

      I think about my act when I started, like-

    23. JR

      Oh. (laughs)

    24. RP

      ... 32 years ago-

    25. JR

      Jesus.

    26. RP

      ... and I'm like, "Holy shit."

    27. JR

      Jesus.

    28. RP

      What the fuck was wrong with me? (laughs)

    29. JR

      So many problems.

    30. RP

      Oh, my God.

  4. 7:3211:54

    Boxing deep dive: Canelo’s evolution, Wilder’s rebuild, and the meaning of real power

    1. JR

      So problematic. Hey, uh, did you watch the Canelo fight this weekend?

    2. RP

      I was working.

    3. JR

      Ah. You didn't see it at all?

    4. RP

      I wasn't... I wa- Mm-mm. I saw the highlights.

    5. JR

      Jesus Christ.

    6. RP

      He broke his face.

    7. JR

      Bro, he hit so hard.

    8. RP

      Broke that orbital bone.

    9. JR

      He's one of those guys that, like, you know, some guys just have power, right? But he works on it all the time.

    10. RP

      That's what I say, he's the most im... Every fight, he's the most improved fighter. He always goes back-

    11. JR

      So good.

    12. RP

      ... and fixes anything he saw wrong.

    13. JR

      Yep. Well, the-

    14. RP

      He, every-

    15. JR

      ... the Danny Jacobs fight? Remember his head movement?

    16. RP

      Yep.

    17. JR

      It's, I mean...

    18. RP

      It gave Danny problems.

    19. JR

      (laughs) It would give anybody problems. But it was also like he was showing his head movement in that fight.

    20. RP

      Yeah, 'cause they used to say he just walked right in-

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. RP

      ... and then he fixed it.

    23. JR

      Oh my God, did he fix it.

    24. RP

      And there was a video of, uh ... There's a video of Deontay Wilder, uh, yesterday I saw it, and he's looking really good. Malik, Malik Scott King is training him now.

    25. JR

      What is he doing with him?

    26. RP

      Oh, he looks like a completely different fighter. I think if you could find that, uh...

    27. JR

      Oh, is he, like, using a lot of jabs? Is it that video?

    28. RP

      Jabs and-

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. RP

      ... he's planting his feet and he looks like a boxer now.

  5. 11:5416:34

    Language pet peeves and combat-sports culture: ‘cheers,’ shakas, oss, and Portuguese

    1. JR

      That's the thing about Canadians. You've, you've adopted ... Canadians have adopted some of the vernacular of the Englishmen.

    2. RP

      Well, my dad grew up in India under British rule, so ...

    3. JR

      Mm. But people-

    4. RP

      And we're mixed, so.

    5. JR

      But I knew a girl from Canada, and she used to say she was going to the loo.

    6. RP

      Oh, she was just trying to be special.

    7. JR

      Oh, you think so?

    8. RP

      I don't like when people say cheers either. All right, cheers, pal.

    9. JR

      What, you don't like cheers?

    10. RP

      No, when ch- when they're saying thank you, you know? Oh, cheers, man. Thanks.

    11. JR

      Oh.

    12. RP

      You know?

    13. JR

      Oh, right. Not like cheers with a glass.

    14. RP

      Cheers for the drink. Uh, but, hey-

    15. JR

      Cheers, mate.

    16. RP

      Cheers for the cig- ... No, motherfucker, thank you.

    17. JR

      Yeah. Oh, right, right. I see what you're saying. Yeah.

    18. RP

      'Cause the, the term cheers for, like, a thank you bothers me.

    19. JR

      Yeah. Cheers.

    20. RP

      Because it's like, are you really gonna fucking cheer?

    21. JR

      Right.

    22. RP

      Hey, Joe gave me a cigar. Hooray. (laughs)

    23. JR

      Well, it's, it's like aloha. It's got a lot of names, a lot of, like, words.

    24. RP

      This, this bothers me. Unless, unless you're Hawaiian this bothers me.

    25. JR

      Does it?

    26. RP

      It bothers the shit out of me.

    27. JR

      You better not surf.

    28. RP

      I know, people that take pictures of me, like ... And I'm, like-

    29. JR

      The surfers love that shit.

    30. RP

      I get it for them and, and Hawaiians. I get it.

  6. 16:3419:53

    Training habits, parenting/custody stress, and Russell’s turnaround from a dark year

    1. JR

      How, how often are you training these days?

    2. RP

      Not as much as I want to.

    3. JR

      What do you want to? How many days a week?

    4. RP

      I wanna train three times a week, four times a week.

    5. JR

      What have you been doing? Like, one or two?

    6. RP

      Yeah, one- once ... L- uh, lately it's been, like, once a month.

    7. JR

      Are you doing other stuff? Do you, do you have, like, a personal trainer or anything like that?

    8. RP

      Nah, I just got my, uh, yoga ball and some dumbbells.

    9. JR

      Dude, get a personal trainer. Get someone who you're accountable to so you have to show up, you know.

    10. RP

      Right.

    11. JR

      Like, they show up at your house. Like, if y- ... All you need is a yoga ball and some dumbbells. I mean, you get a good trainer, that's ... You don't need a lot of equipment.

    12. RP

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      Get someone who, like, makes you do stuff.

    14. RP

      Yeah, I just want to jitz. I, I, like la- ... Otherwise, I have no time right now.

    15. JR

      Right.

    16. RP

      It's like I get my kid ... I finally got my kid back, so-

    17. JR

      There's a lot of people that are rewinding this, going, "Did he say he wants to jizz?"

    18. RP

      (laughs) Yeah.

    19. JR

      "What'd he say?"

    20. RP

      I wanna pouha all over the place.

    21. JR

      I just wanna jizz.

    22. RP

      I just wanna jizz. That's-

    23. JR

      Just wanna jitz. You just like doing jujitsu.

    24. RP

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      So, you got your kid back?

    26. RP

      I got my kid back, yeah, finally.

    27. JR

      Yeah?

    28. RP

      Well, I get him ... You know, I get him, you know, eight hours a day.

    29. JR

      Every day?

    30. RP

      Not every day.

  7. 19:5326:33

    Biohacks and recovery tech: hyperbaric oxygen, telomeres, float tanks, and sauna routines

    1. RP

      So wait-

    2. JR

      ... get up, I always say goodbye to my kids in the morning. And, um, lately I've been doing hyperbaric chamber sessions.

    3. RP

      Really?

    4. JR

      Yeah. I didn't wanna talk about it until I know whether or not this is legit.

    5. RP

      And?

    6. JR

      And I don't know. I don't know whe- whether or not it's legit.

    7. RP

      Wasn't Michael Jackson doing that at one point?

    8. JR

      No. He ... Maybe.

    9. RP

      Yeah, before he was-

    10. JR

      Actually, yeah.

    11. RP

      ... doing the protocol, he was doing hyperbaric chambers.

    12. JR

      That's right. That's right. Yeah, you're right. You're right. He was. It's, uh, supposed to, uh, lengthen your telomeres. There's a study out of Israel where they, they did 60 sessions over 90 days. And one measure of biological health and age is the length of your telomeres.

    13. RP

      What are your telomeres?

    14. JR

      Your telomeres, it's ... I'm ... I'll bu- I'll butcher it, so there it is.

    15. RP

      Oh, there it is.

    16. JR

      There's Michael Jackson.

    17. RP

      That's the old-school one with the walkie-talkie on it.

    18. JR

      Yeah, that's a weird one, right?

    19. RP

      (laughs)

    20. JR

      'Cause it's all glass. The one on-

    21. RP

      That's just ... What is it, just high oxygen?

    22. JR

      It is, uh, yes. Here. W- Well, let's go to telomeres first. Google, google the, the term telomeres 'cause I don't wanna fuck it up. But it's ... It, it's ... It has something to do, I believe, with your mitochondria, and it ... The length of your telomeres indicates ... It's ... You're ... It, it's an indication of health and of biological age. Although the biological age aspect of it is disputed, but people like David Sinclair think it's a good indication of your biological age. He's, uh ... He's been on the podcast a couple times before. He's a professor at Harvard, and he studies ... And most of his study is in anti-aging.

    23. RP

      Right.

    24. JR

      Yeah, but go to telomeres, pl- please, just so-

    25. RP

      Oh, that's how you spell telomeres. Nice.

    26. JR

      Yeah, but I mean, I wanted to know the, the, uh, definition-

    27. RP

      (clears throat) I had it all wrong in my head.

    28. JR

      (clears throat) Just, just telomeres, just so I can figure out how to say it. Okay. It's the end of a chromosome, right?

    29. RP

      Ah.

    30. JR

      Telomeres are made of repetitive sequences of noncoding DNA that protect the chromosomes from damage. Each time a cell divides, the telomere becomes shorter. Eventually, the telomeres become so short, the cell can no longer divide. So this is as you get older, your telomeres become shorter. And now google telomeres hyperbaric, the thing that you had already. And what this is, for the first time, hyperbaric oxygen therapy proven to reverse biological aging in humans.

  8. 26:3344:15

    Extreme survival history: Cabeza de Vaca, early America, and why safety enables innovation

    1. JR

      Yeah, I only hav- I have a, one pair that I wear just when I'm inside the sauna. And they don't burn up. So you can listen to books. So I'm listening to this book on, uh, Cabeza de Vaca, who's a, uh, Spanish-

    2. RP

      Cow Head?

    3. JR

      Yeah.

    4. RP

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      He's a Spanish, uh, sh-, uh, explorer that landed in North America in the 1500s and walked across the country. It's a crazy... You ever wanna complain about the weather?

    6. RP

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      You ever wanna complain about your life?

    8. RP

      Yeah, right.

    9. JR

      "Oh, fucking COVID kicked my ass." Listen to me. Read this fucking book. It's called A Land So Strange. It's amazing. My friend Hank, uh, told me about it. He's, uh, the security guy at, um, Kill Tony.

    10. RP

      Mm-hmm.

    11. JR

      Big giant Native American cat.

    12. RP

      Oh, that got the hat on?

    13. JR

      Yeah, that dude.

    14. RP

      Yeah, I met him last night.

    15. JR

      Great guy. Uh, Hank told me about, uh, this book, and he was raving about it. And boy was he right. It's amazing.

    16. RP

      So are these, um, uh, uh, the stories told from-

    17. JR

      Yes.

    18. RP

      ... notes he left?

    19. JR

      Yes, notes he left, and then, uh, you know, him telling a story back home when he got, when he eventually, uh, got rescued. Or made it back to Spain, which I believe happened. I don't know, 'cause I'm always-

    20. RP

      Wait, where did he s-

    21. JR

      ... They landed s-

    22. RP

      In modern day...

    23. JR

      They landed in Florida.

    24. RP

      Okay.

    25. JR

      And they made their way across Florida, and then they w- got to the Gulf of Mexico. They did all this with rafts. They, they sailed, like, I don't know how many fucking miles in rafts. And then they got attacked multiple times by Indians when they would get to shore. And some Indians took care of them, and some Indians attacked them and killed them. And, oh, what a fucking harrowing journey, man. I mean, I'm on chapter, I think I'm on chapter eight now. And so far, they've been at it for 10... I think he's been in America for 10 years at this point.

    26. RP

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      Or close to it.

    28. RP

      How many people are with him?

    29. JR

      Six years? Seven years? Well, they got down to four. 'Cause it-

    30. RP

      Started with-

  9. 44:151:08:14

    Lost civilizations and uncontacted tribes: Amazon ‘cities,’ disease collapse, and Sentinel Island

    1. JR

      Dude, the, do you know that... Here's what's crazy. Do you know a lot of the Amazon rainforest, which is this fucking insanely dense, incredible rainforest, a lot of it used to be populated and a lot of the growth there is actually because of humans. A lot of the plants and the reason why it's so dense is because of the stuff that human beings planted there thousands of years ago.

    2. RP

      And now we're trying to get rid of it.

    3. JR

      Well, it's not even just that we're trying to get rid of it. They're just starting to understand like the whole ecosystem of that area, like why these, why it's so dense and what, what caused all this, what caused all this intense, uh, like vegetation and brush, and they think it's possible that a lot of it was caused by human beings. See, find out what tree that is that they planted, but there's some insanely prolific tree that they were, uh, that they were harvesting and planting in these areas and it took over. Like y- you ever hear of that s- The Lost City of Z? You ever remember that?

    4. RP

      The movie, yeah.

    5. JR

      Yeah. That movie apparently was based on what, what would happen when these explorers had originally come there. Supposedly pristine, untouched Amazon rainforest was actually shaped by humans. Over thousands of years, native people planted a strong, played a strong role in molding the ecology of this vast wilderness. So, we assume that you see this dense jungle, oh, it's untouched, but it, it actually, they don't think it was. Um, so here it goes. Uh, described region of the world in 1991 book making, marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus v- uh, voyage to the New World. The native people were transparent in the landscape, living as natural elements in the ecosphere. Their world was a world of barely perceptible human disturbance. But was it really? In a less... How do you say that word? Rhapsodical-

    6. RP

      (clears throat)

    7. JR

      ... rhapsodical verse.

    8. RP

      There is that word.

    9. JR

      Scholars in the past quarter century have shown that this mythical image of untouched nature is just that, a myth. Like humans everywhere, Native Americans shaped their environments to suit them through burning, pruning, tilling and other practices, and the Amazon is no different. If you look closer, you see the deep impressions that humans have made on the world's largest tropical rain f- rainforest, scientists reported yesterday in the journal Science. De- despite its vastness, the Amazon stretches more than two million square miles and an estimated 390 billion trees. This rainforest is hardly the untamable, unstoppable force of nature that the romantics opined, says Jose Iriarte?

    10. RP

      Iriarte.

    11. JR

      Yeah, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter. In fact, humans have inhabited the Amazon for roughly 13,000 years and have been domesticating plants for at least 8,000, and recent archaeological studies, especially in the last two decades showed that indigenous populations in the past were more numerous, more complex, and had a greater impact on the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforests in the world than had previously thought, than previously thought.

    12. RP

      What's the, uh, lifespan of the, uh, those, those untouched humans?

    13. JR

      I don't know, man. Not, not so good. But hold on a second, here's a... Stop right there. Um, colleagues were ta- taking inventory of the vast diversity of the Amazon, uh, trees. They sampled 1,100 scattered plots far from modern human inhabitants to identify more than 16,000 different species among those 390 billion individual plants, then they noticed something odd. Despite the broad diversity, over half of the total trees were made up of just over 1% of the species. About 20 of these hyperdominant plants were domesticated species such as the Brazil nut, the Amazon tree grape, and the ice cream bean tree. That was five times the amount researchers expected if the chances were the only fact- if chance was the only factor. The hypothesis came up that perhaps people might have domesticated these species which would have helped their abundance in the Amazon. So the thing, they think they had domesticated these species that they used for food and then these species took over and just dominated the, uh, the ecosphere.

    14. RP

      ... like a wild weed?

    15. JR

      Yeah. They, they've also started using something called LiDAR. And LiDAR is something that they use from planes, and they scan the rainforest. And underneath this insane, dense, vast jungle, they-

    16. RP

      The LiDAR can see through-

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. RP

      ... the bush, the, the thickness?

    19. JR

      It can see through everything into the ground, and they've found these grids that indicate that there were cities there.

    20. RP

      Mm-hmm.

    21. JR

      So, all this shit that's incredibly dense and, and filled with trees now, at one point in time had complex, like, roadways and irrigation systems. And they think that the, the latest theory is that explorers-

    22. RP

      (clears throat)

    23. JR

      ... when they came there, like this, uh, Cabeza de Vaca-

    24. RP

      Mm-hmm.

    25. JR

      ... dude and these others that came from Europe, probably gave these people the plague. They probably gave these people diseases, just like they did to... 90% of all Native Americans were wiped out by disease-

    26. RP

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      ... brought by European explorers.

    28. RP

      By the blankets.

    29. JR

      They think that... That's, I don't think that's true. I think the blanket part is fake. It's just being around them that killed.

    30. RP

      The smallpox and all that?

  10. 1:07:411:35:05

    Boxing nostalgia and judging controversies: Chávez, Pernell Whitaker, and the economics of comebacks

    1. RP

      I was getting mad at people who were talking shit after this.

    2. JR

      Here it is. June 19th-

    3. RP

      Wait, who's Chavez Senior fighting then?

    4. SP

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Oh, boy. Hector Camacho Junior.

    6. RP

      (laughs) Wow.

    7. JR

      Wow.

    8. RP

      And Checo Chávez-

    9. JR

      Julio Cesar Chávez Senior is fighting. That's kind of crazy.

    10. RP

      Yeah, Senior beat up, uh, Camacho, that's why, didn't he?

    11. JR

      Wow. That's crazy.

    12. RP

      He, he beat up Junior's dad.

    13. JR

      Did he?

    14. RP

      I think he did, like, in the '90s.

    15. JR

      What?

    16. RP

      Did that not... Did he, did he fight him? I think he might... Check BoxRec. He may have.

    17. JR

      I do not think that-

    18. RP

      I remember when Edwin-

    19. JR

      ... Hector Camacho beat Julio Cesar Chávez.

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