Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #639 - Russell Peters
Episode Date: November 29, 2018Russell Peters, stand up comedian and actor seen in the movie, "Chef," joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt LIVE in studio. This podcast is brought to you by: ... Quip - Go to getquip.com/joey and try their dentist designed electric toothbrush. When you go to getquip.com/joey you get your first refill pack FREE with a quip electric tooth brush.  Hellotushy.com - Go to Hellotushy.com/muffler for 15% off of your portable bidet order.  Recorded live on 11/27/2018.

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Russell Peters
the Christ killer
Uncle Joey
Taking it with Chris Cornell listen to this one here. Oh, yeah
You fucking kidding me, Russell Peters, just like suicide fucking tremendous
I
Have said it on this show
First of all, it's
Russell Peters. It's an honor to have you on the show. Thank you very much. Thank you, Joey
Because I've been wanting to be on this damn show. Yeah, I just want to hook up with you
When I first bought house of the holy, mm-hmm at the age of 12 or 13
When I first tried marijuana and dabbled with it, I would put
How's it a holy on mm-hmm, and I will listen to
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, is it's that one another one then it's no quarter. Yeah, it's the ocean. Yeah, I would skip over no quarter
Too trippy. It was too much for uncle Joey at the age of 13. It was the devil music
I didn't start listening to no quarter. I was like 18. Yeah, that's when I was when I started really feeling it
It was too strippy for me and I asked the reality by black Sabbath. Yeah bought it brought it home
Little too much for me number of the beast scared me when I got scared this shit out of me
I was raised Catholic and I was like, uh
Nice to get goosebumps from Vincent Price's voice. Let me ask you a question because it's interesting. You said you're raised Catholic
So I know you a couple years. I don't know nothing about you. You know, I know your name is Russell Peters
I look at you. I know you're not Mexican. I know you're fucking something Indian. I don't know what it is
So boom you think you're Indian
And then today I just said, you know what I don't know be the answer around the guy and
Shake him down. Let me just look him up. And also when I find that you're from Toronto, you know, I didn't know I thought you
If I do you're some some fucking country
I had no fucking idea and something your family is white somewhere, right?
So Anglo angle Indian and you're something out. What country are you from from India? Both my parents is the funny thing
Like I thought Peters was short for
Mike out. No, I thought that you said fucking I'm gonna change it to a Hollywood. No, no, no
You said you went to you went to a Peters
But no, no, that's not the case of you but later on you did do a movie meet the potatoes
No, something you got a credit for it some TV shows think some some movie
I probably they probably put my name on it. I don't know if I'm in it. Oh, yeah, no, it's crazy
But so you know what? Yeah, I think I am in that one. So this whole time. I'm thinking your name is Rosselli
Masaluni
Fluckin whatever that name is but tell Patel and today I find out this whole different thing that I had illusions about you
You know Russell Dominic Peters. Jesus Christ and you were raised Catholic raised Catholic. You still go to church. No, I'm atheist now
Now you're an atheist. You don't know when I say raised Catholic Church
And you know follow important ones communion confirmation
Confession and then you're like you read the book and you go, okay, that's how old were you when you said that said I'm done
I think when I was a kid and I wouldn't was being church and I would look at everything in the church
I'm like, it doesn't make any sense. It's really morbid for a kid to look at this
See, I thought
couple years ago
I went to church and I saw a young couple with a child and the child was unsettled and I said, you know what?
This is bullshit because that was me. Why are you here? My mom used to force feed me on church. Oh, yeah
Why was I here? My mom was a?
Whatever fanatic
Like if you were dead, she would do something for you
So after my father died she would drop in there like like we'd be in the city and she'd go
Let's go see the priest and we drop in and she'd give the priest like a 50 in a bottle of scotch
Yeah, and the priest would come up with a phony casket and put a ribbon over it
They do like a quick fucking mass and I believe that my father was in that casket. It was the creepiest fucking. Oh, yeah
It's very morbid sitting sitting now from a different angle and looking at it that whole thing, but I gotta tell you man. I
still believe
Yeah, no, I don't fuck the pedophilia fuck all that other stuff and what happened because when there's good sometimes it's bad I
Still believe there's something I talked about this is Duncan the other day
I believe there's something there's a karma force. There's a boom go with that good karma something
There's something out there that makes you a couple
You know just makes you think about things. I might have a theory that I think that
Whoever loved you when they were alive when they die
The love can't be broken. So wherever or whatever they're doing. However, they're
Their spirit is there their energy is moving on or whatever it's doing it stays connected to you
So are you spiritual on a certain level? Yeah, see that I am the other certain spiritual
Ever since I was a kid. I always knew my father was dead
But he was always close to me. Yeah, cuz he loved you as creepy as it sounds and on Mondays
On the Cuban tradition. I put our glasses of water. I have a I have a
An altar for anybody who was my friend that died. I have a picture of them
I put water a lot of candle. I pray every Monday for them. It's just something. It's called an ancestor altar
Mm-hmm, because I believe the same thing. I believe they watch over you. I don't know why I was as creepy and as crazy
It was you know work if it works for you, then I say work. Yeah, if it works for you, then fuck it
Yeah, so you grew up in Toronto grew up in Toronto born in my favorite fucking cities used they love you there
Bollywood there. What was the name of the club up there? Oh yuck yucks. No, there was another club comedy would
Comedy would know I that was I was a yuck yuck sky comedy would started way late. I started in 89
Jishin. Yeah, yeah Boris Boris the magician Boris tremendous
Yeah, we weren't allowed to play there if you played yuck yucks run allowed to play
Yeah, it's a different like I
You have to like sign like someone had a very low level signs with yuck yucks, right and they can't do any other club
Yeah, I don't know if it's like an actual signature because I never signed anything
But it's just understood they they they'd sell to you like look if you work a burger
Can you don't finish your shift and go work at McDonald's after?
I mean, I was like that's how many clubs is yuck yuck sad back in the day
They were the largest chain of comedy clubs in the world
All through Canada all through Canada. They had them in like Rochester, New York and Buffalo
They had them all on the all the border cities. They had them too, but
That's subsequently gone
Well, you can't control that many comedy clubs. Yeah, no, especially if you're not paying people properly
No, I started in the late 80s. So, you know, it was like you started comedy in the late 80s
89 I started 89 really. Yeah
So how did I bump into you somewhere? I was just there. I was around. Where were you? You started in New York?
I started in Denver 91. Okay, went to New York in 93 for about a tenth month stint
That's it. I went back to Colorado said fuck this shit. Hmm back to Colorado developed to 95 went to Seattle
Met Yoshi Josh Wolf
Brody Stevens
Brody was out in Seattle back in 95 and then there was what's his name?
The black comic from there was tie Barnett
He came later. There was Darrell
Lennox, yeah, Darrell Lennox was there because he would always be up in Canada Darrell Lennox
Yes, Darrell Lennox was a Canadian dude. He was guy. He was American, but he would always end up in Canada. Yes
He's the only American I know who got
Deported from Canada for staying in Canada too long
Like I'm like, are you in this business? You're in the wrong country. You're hanging out in the wrong country, bro
It's crazy how I used to get into Canada even in the early days
Like I've only been to Canada three times all of them for comedy all of them. I got snuck in illegally
Really before 9-11
You haven't been back since no, not even Montreal. Oh, no, no, they never wanted me Montreal at all
Oh, they're gonna want you one time. No, they now they want me, but I can't go. There's no way. What do you got?
There's no I got everything. I got herpes. I gotta read I got everything
I got a fucked up tow. You were gonna the train in New York. There's always that homeless guys got everything
Oh, yeah, I got herpes. I got hepatitis C. I'm deaf in one ear. I got shot in the leg
You just give me a call and he smells like piss. Oh, he smells terrible. No
In the old days, I used to have a friend in Miami. That was a fucking door guy
He had a Puerto Rican girlfriend. I got along with him and uh, and one day we were talking about Canada
And she just told me right now if you want to go to Canada or get you into Canada
So I got a call from Roger Paul. Mm-hmm. And he goes that club wants you to go up there
Remember Russia
Club want you to go up there for two weeks at the comedy wood. Uh-huh. It paid shit
Oh, yeah
On top of bar one week and you stayed in his brother's basement the other and his brother drove hookers at night
He wake you up in the middle of the night. I got a hooker who just got shot
She wants to know you want to have price on the blow job. You know I'm saying that's got an extra hole
Yeah
But you know what Toronto was a beautiful fucking city. It's weird how they were way advanced
In 97 98 they already had delivery service for weed
My member I remember when the the chronic tour came to Toronto in like
2099 and I used to sell weed back then and
I went and hooked up Warren G with some weed that night
You a DJ. No, I was no I was still DJ. I was doing comedy. I was DJing
But I was I used to sell a little weed to make some money on the side
So he wanted weed and I was like, I got you I took him to the weed spot
Yeah, at that time had a girl that came up to me at the comedy called the first night
She gave me a number
And she goes if you got one we they think it's dirty. It's 35 dollars. I could be wrong
But I went and did that the smoke the weed room the little one right and Toronto and I'm blanking on the name
But the woman who owns it puff mama told me that was her
Probably
At the comedy at the comedy club or something comedy would maybe comedy would was up at young and steals
Yes
Yeah, young and I used to walk over the Blanc Street
Blur and that was the best
Second best trip
Was the first best the one in Jersey the one that you could stick a bottle in the chicks
Oh, I see you go to you if you go just outside the city in Toronto, you go to strip join anything goes
Are you serious anything goes cuz that Blur Street everything went what we used to do is I when I first started getting money
And I was living here and I would go home every now and then I had a fucking big fucking pocket full of money
I was young at a hard dick and no fucking dependence
So we would go to the landing strip right by the airport and I would get all my friends
And we would get the VIP room which is about size of this place with two couches in it
And it'd be like eight of us and we get 16 chicks in there
And I would call it Vajanga because it was just pussy everywhere in every angle
You know, she's sucking off your friend over there your finger in a while. She's sucking off your friend
My friend my friend's making out this one chick and squeezing it tits and I'm fingering her from the back and and he goes
So what's your name? She goes Marisa and he goes get the fuck off me. That was his mom's name
Oh
My god fucking strip clubs. What a disgusting. I know now I call them wants to toots. It's it's
It's like I got out of them early
Like I got him my boxing coach took me to a strip club for the first time in like 87 the night of the Hagler-Herns fight
Hack no Hagler Leonard fight
86 was that 86 87
Yeah, my boxing coach took me and I was I looked I looked like a child in Toronto
Yeah, just outside of Toronto. How old were you? I was 16
No ID no no ID nothing walked in yeah walked in I sat down and we're gonna watch the Hagler Leonard fight
And he paid the ten bucks cover to get us in because it was on close circuit TV back then and
And I was just I'd never seen naked women before in my life. I
Just sat there fucking like completely amazed. They're spreading wide open. I was like this is incredible
And then the they never got the fight
So people start throwing bottles and writing in the place
But I didn't even notice cuz I was just staring at the sick on stage
There's bottles flying over my head. I don't hear nothing my coach sneaks out
He he leaves to go to another bar to go watch the fight. I turn around. There's barely anybody left in the club
I walk out and they give me ten dollars on the way out there get nobody the money back
So I got the ten dollars and I walked back in the club from the front
I looked at some more pussy and I got another ten dollars on the way out
Then I remember I just jogged home and I remember being so happy and I remember when I jerked off that night
I could have fucking stuck out my ceiling. It was
You walk home fast. Oh, yeah, I jogged like it was nothing
It was about a three four mile jog, but I didn't feel nothing. It gets hot at that age
Oh, yeah, see it and yeah, just get me. I remember one time. I had this
In fact, my mother was still alive
So I had to be around 15 14 and I had one of those bagged jacks that you know the sperm don't come out
Right. Like you got so like something happened like a chick showed you a tit blue balls
It's like there's something because my balls swell up. Oh, I never had that. I didn't know who to ask
So I woke my mother up at like six in the morning when she was on home. It's like, what do you want?
I'm like, wow, look at my nuts. There's something wrong. I mean, she's like, what is wrong with you?
Do you ask her in Spanish? Huh? You ask her in Spanish? Oh, yeah
Yeah, I'll never forget. She was asleep with that. Can you just say it in Spanish the way you asked her me Mike?
I don't get it because it was dark in the room. I don't know. Well, I keep
Can look ahead to
And she got up and she looked at it all weird. She goes, huh, no say anything. Well, I don't have a medical
And whatever you said doctor to me, whatever element I had went away. Yeah
You just busted a knot right all you gotta say to me is doctor and the element goes away
magically
It's fucking crazy. I don't I don't like going to the doctor. You're like my daughter with medicine even at this age
I don't like going daughter will not I go. He's a great guy. I love him to death
When I bring an iPod because if they're gonna draw blood, I gotta bring an iPod I
Get mobile blood draws at my house. I went there one today. They go to your house. Yeah, they come to my house and do it
And what do you lay on your bed? No, I just sit at the dining table give my arm
They take it and what do they do with the blood they take it they ship it back to where they got to ship it to and oh
You do that like a physical at the house. Yeah, why do they I do these like every three months of mobile blood
They come and take blood check. I need to do that. Just to make sure I'm all right
So you do the checks. You don't do it for the other reason. No, no, it's different. See I do it for the fucking changing of the oil
Yeah, well, I'm gonna change the oil and make new blood. That's where the party starts
Oh, yeah, go sit in an overthrow bed
You got a fucking pine taking out and you go sit in an overthrow bed
Let's get some Chinese gotta throw a couple needles in you. Hmm. You get some new blood cells
That's why women don't die a heart attacks because they bleed every month
We're the only assholes that die a heart attack because we don't bleed it out
But if we change that blood every six or seven months, you'd be tip-top my good. That's why Keith Richards is still alive
Yeah, all those blood transfusions a lot of needles in it
Fucking needles a lot, but you gotta be willing to do that should take a pint out every 60 days
Good. What do they replace it with new blood? No, your body forces you you go to morning
You're gonna stay get through crawling mashed potatoes. Get the chocolate cake. Yeah, I'll see you on Wednesday
Just go home and let the fucking body recover. I'm gonna do that. Get up and you start from scratch
I'm gonna do that
That's how they only take little fucking vials. They only took four of these
You feel it nah, you feel like fainting at all. No, I'm not sensitive. They put it in the pump
They got that they just did they stick it in just start shooting out. Oh, Jesus Christ
Just they find the vein they go after after Portland. I gotta start going down there like December is my
Kill your insurance money month
That's when the doctors are packed in December because everybody's trying to use their insurance money, right?
So tomorrow I'll call tomorrow make an appointment for fucking Bob Hope dope and
Go down and get my blood taken. He wants to give me a tetanus shot. That's killing me
But what would you hurt yourself? No, but you gotta take what he said when you're 50
Because if not you might get one nice. I read one of the latest tweets
He said he got a tetanus shot three weeks ago and his arm still hurts that doesn't help my cause. Yeah, no
You're almost 56. Yeah, that means I'll go to your six years late. I don't know
It's miss you do the prostate at 50. Yeah, I did it twice already
Second time for fun. You got to do it. Yeah, I got two years. I'm waiting. Yeah, no, no do it now
48 I'm not rushing in there. It takes five minutes. You come up. They knock you out, right?
They knock you out. Yes, they do. They do and they're gonna need to knock you. He's getting in my ass
Oh the camera. I thought you meant just the finger on the ass me. I kept thinking when I said we're knocking me out
I'm like, how they gonna flip me over
This is gonna be tremendous. They got these three little Chinese kids exactly where to pull
Fucking the dog. They send you back page by page of shot by shot of the camera going into the asshole
You see it start from an inch away
They say they stick a camera in there now. Yeah, it's no more finger. It's not the thing is the finger
You should be getting the finger now. How old are you? 48? Yeah, you should be getting the finger once a year now
They stopped doing it for a reason something happened. There's some sexual act of 1956
But it's been working. It's a fucking caveman stick that finger up my ass doc
One time they stuck seeing you with blood needles. That doesn't mean with anything around my ass. Oh, dog
You think I enjoy it?
You think I enjoy the fucking manhood. I'm come from you have to
Doctor tells you to cradle up in a ball and it feels your balls next, you know
You feel something go up your ass you leave you you leave there you go
You cancel the rest of the day
Just cancel the appointment I had X girlfriend
We did a colonic once and yeah, we got out of there. We were fucking quite a shit in the car
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, I don't believe in nothing. No that shit that that too
But my it took me a lot but I had a friend who was fine in April
And she was dead in November. Yesh
Do you understand me because she wouldn't go
She was 50 something or something overweight
You got to go especially with this lifestyle today fucking your buddy called me Eric
He's a gay friend of mine. Oh, yeah, he goes on bees and go hobbies
That'll do worse damage to you than a 12 inch blank dick
That Arby's horseradish. That's like black sperm from the 70s
That and pray dates you that fucks. Yes, long dong silver. Yeah, you ain't what that muscle ain't adjusted
Obbies will fuck your ass all over here. You're gay. You're gang raped by the Warriors
You're fucking done you eat at Arby's
They don't even know what they do anymore when I was a kid. It was roast beef and that wasn't good
Now they got Cuban sandwiches and ham sandwiches. You don't want to go to fucking Arby's
I don't think I've ever ever craved Arby's in my life. Never had no idea. You're so against Arby's dog
I'm against all that shit firehouse John fucking even Jersey. I'm done
I like Jersey Mike's Jersey Mike's is tolerable. But for me, I gotta get and Jimmy John's you like Jimmy
John's I'll go to Jimmy John's
I don't have Jimmy John's where I go. I go, you know, which one I like that fucking one at the airport in Chicago
Those ones they have on some places. They have them at the Addison improv across the street
I was just there the one across the street to have my
Chicago's a sub shop. Yeah, they make like you put like peppers in it and they have my airports and they
Run them through an oven and they have milkshakes quiz. No, it's not quiz. No, I think quiz
Which which?
No, one day I got to an airport. I was starving. I
Was fucking high as fuck and I knew I don't trust those fucking that plain food
Mm-hmm, and they had one of those places. I go Tommy you're making regular sandwiches now like yeah
Make your regular sandwich. I was like
Done and let me get a vanilla shake the boot
They made me a vanilla shake at six in the fucking morning. Oh, I think I've had this place too
Yes, you have because I had the shake one day in the morning. I'll go. Yeah. Yeah, exactly what was I was I hadn't slept
The main airport in Chicago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's right. It's in the fucking corner of like six. Yes
Yeah, I know the one you walk out there. It's right down the corner. You really got a line
They I owe they got a tuna fish with pepper Chinese
But you don't want to eat tuna before you go on the plane. You can't take that type of chance
That's not gonna pop by his chicken. You can't take that type of chance. Yeah, you got a six-hour flight
Yeah, so might ride on the fucking plane tuna makes you fart
Well, you don't know what if it's bad to and you got a plane you're sick from the fucking tuna
Then it turns into the movie airplane. Yeah, who had the fish? No
You start coughing up eggs in that position
Even in first class, it's not the bathrooms aren't better. It's not even if it's the first you don't want to be in that position
Okay, why would you put yourself in that position? That's like eating fucking sushi from Ralph's before you go to the plane
That's like eating sushi from Ralph's anytime anytime. You know I'm saying you go to Ralph's you see sushi
It's like when I go to Toronto my friends go you want to go for sushi go
There's no ocean around us. Where the fuck is this fish coming from in Toronto?
I'm gonna go eat sushi. No, there's no
And you know what and you want me to tell what the sad thing is it's probably really really good fish
They're gonna flown in every day. I don't know
No, can a candidate likes to take a little shortcuts on that stuff really bad the price is too much
You'll keep it for one more day. Yeah, how's the sushi in Toronto? I don't know. I won't I don't want to find out
Really, I hear good things, but we live here or I can get good sushi
Okay, I'm not gonna go there and what do you eat when you're growing you're growing up and see yeah in Toronto
What the fuck were you eating? I would eat a lot of Jamaican food, which is just like Cuban food a lot of rice and beans
No, I'll sit up tail
Love ox tail rice and bees
And the fucking jerk chicken all that shit
Every goat I don't like goat. Yeah, that seems like a weird one. No, they make curry goat and I don't like it
I don't like curry period you son of a bitch. It's no fucking bad now. You got to get the good stuff
You're gonna make good stuff. Yeah, you don't like Indian food at all. I don't like even walking in there
What about butter chicken? No, I don't want to walk in there
What if I brought you like the fucking best shit? I throw it away. I was like just taste it Joey
I throw it away. I swear to God. I hate all that fucking Thai food
No, no, I hate all that shit coconut milk in my food. I
Hate all that I don't mind coconut milk in my
Don't like Carrie. I want the smell of it. What's the other one because it's like a 10 during curries
No, no, there's curry is curry. It just depends on what meat you put in it when I was and there's all kinds of different stuff
when I was a roof and estimated what is Russian there was these
Irish guys Scottish guys and that's all they fucking ate was
No, yeah, cuz that's all chicken vendor Lou. Oh, that's shit spicy
Chicken vendor Lou they would talk about it and I would smell it in their clothes
And I would go you're with that fucking vendor Lou place again. Why don't you little cock suckers?
Don't come by my house. I was I used to get mad make them over and that when I was a kid growing up
Like when I was a teenager I would have to do the dash like if my mom was cooking
I'd have to make sure my bedroom door was closed because I didn't want to get in my clothes
I was gonna go to a club. I don't want to be the fucking Indian guy
That's my like Indian food
So I was like real paranoid about it. So I would I would time it so that I would get in the shower
Run straight out get dressed and run the fuck out of the house. I couldn't smell
Oh, I can't I can't do it. There's a lot of foods. I don't eat
There's a lot of foods. I don't eat though. Really you're very very finicky very finicky and you never think it
You're like, what's your favorite Cuban food? I
Got a lot of different Cuban
Dishes, but I'm real picky on the Cuban food
Real picky on the Cuban you like your fried platanos. Yeah, I love that shit. I like I like
And the rice and beans. It's really weird. I've gotten this thing that like different things from different places
Like when I was growing up if you wanted to move from the tempani sound, I got a spot
Don't go in there and all the fucking chicken whatever, you know, I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah, like this one makes this one good
Down to a science when I was growing up in New York where a good Cuban sandwich at night
Who had a good Cuban sandwich at three in the morning? Yeah, I had all that slants down. I don't live there no more here
Nobody's got good food as fucking 10. No, it's got it's closed. There's nobody's got food
Yeah, nobody's got a good food at 10 and no, you know, you're starving after 11 a nla. You're eating a mouse done
Yeah, you know how many times I've gotten a Morton's and I've talked to that guy
why don't you stay open to one and
You keep the fucking bar man, you go into a fucking one, you know how much I would you know how many times I'm hungry at 11
I'm not in the mood for a fucking 16 and steak
But I'll eat three little pieces of tenderloin with a piece of bruschetta bread
At a bar and have a drink with four guys after you do a podcast. I
Would do that all day long and then go with Cliffs whenever I go visit my funny things to this place. It's like a piano bar
It's like, you know, it's a real heavy-duty state joint
But I live in the clock Russell. You go in there and get a shrimp cocktail
You get like carnita tacos. They call it something they charge $18. I don't give a fuck
I don't give a fuck. I just want to be able to eat and watch TV and I get really hungry at night
And that's why I like to talk shit and eat
You ever do that like talk shit neat, but now you can't do it like you go to Casa Vega at all
Casa Vegas down the block from yeah, yeah, yeah on sunset there. No, no, no adventure every once in a while
They got a dark in there. I that's my beef with my beef in there is that you don't know
I think I'm gonna fucking I think I'm gonna fucking
Looks like an old mob movie in there. Yeah, I think I'm in one of those
I think I'm a man on fire and and he's gonna come out from my thing and shoot me in the fucking head then so watch
You can't even look at the menu in there. It's fucking dark in here. I didn't got close for a health violation
I don't mean to throw it under the no, no, no, I mean my my assistant goes there religiously
So I said hey they closer for a rodent infestation
Is that what it was and he goes now they had like a little mice bar like like whatever. I don't care
Listen, let me explain something to you
When I go into a place and you got to be we can't do business and I'll tell you why
Because you got to be a retard to fail that test
You got to be a retard to fail that test. It's not like a fucking they don't walk in they tell you
They call you and they tell you we're coming down in six weeks
You got six fucking weeks get together thing and you still fail
Sometimes you got to read between the lines because sometimes you fail for stupid shit
Yeah, like the temperature of the water wasn't hot enough or there's always something fracture there
But when you're in I can't I can't deal with that. They tell you they're gonna come
How can you not have an A rating see? I don't know my parents are from a third world country
So when I'd go to India as a kid, I would eat on the street. It didn't bother me
Well, you got a stomach of a Billy go away. We're friends. I do
But I did get sick when I was there last time. Oh fuck. Yeah, you're gonna
But I wish we were shooting a TV show and we were shooting in the slums and the biggest slum in the world
And it was like fucking I mean you see rats this big just running through the trit's a piles of trash everywhere
Just people living amongst piles of trash like big fucking piles
What a Russell Peters decide to eat from the street. So what happened they at nighttime when it gets dark all these vendors show up
And they turn on their deep fry like they have hot oil and and everything smells fantastic and I'm like fuck smells so good
I'm like it's being cooked right in front of me. It's hot. I mean how fucking dangerous can this be?
Well, I found out Joey
How the fuck I'm I had the trots for two weeks. What did you I was eating whatever the guy was cooking right beside me. Oh
It tastes a good going in well, it helped me lose weight going out
When I was a kid I had a bunch of friends that right from high school. They got a high place called on chemical
What we call on chemical hmm chemical, you know, you want it in you breathe whatever
In those days nobody had a mask on right and they paid you good money, but the clink it was
And if you signed up to travel that was the thing
But the first stop they took you to the test your willingness was India really and all of them quit
Yeah, I can get you and they all came back with horror stories and these are Jersey boys that were tough
The one and I still remember the one guy's story that he moved in he went to work
And when he came home when he pulled up his car, he couldn't count how many rats
Were in front of his house
Like they were just scattering
You got to pick the right place to live he said he went up to the
Chemical put him in there. Oh, then they fucked he said he went upstairs
He got his luggage and he went to the airport. He didn't make the fucking day. I guess still remember that story
I don't like none of that stuff you could get some of that out there
You want me to tell you something bro? I want to shoot a movie in Jamaica, right and between you and me
I made them fire me on purpose. Yeah, because I couldn't eat that food at the hotel
Did they not have you at a five-star? It just it was I just could not eat the food at the hotel
The chickens on the mom was driving to the hotel. You see the chickens on the street on the street
That's why I don't need meat in India. Listen to me dog. I don't like I can't go internationally
But between you and I there's reasons because I would drive people crazy. I don't like a lot of stuff
I
Watched that one fag on TV the one gay guy that
fucking
Ball sperm and all that dude
Ball they fucking they catch a fish out of the ocean eats the eyeball
Andrew Zimmer that guy you better pay him every dollar he fucking deserves the bald guy, right?
Because yeah, I wouldn't eat after shitty yeah, no, I'm not I'm not I'm not playing the fucking guessing game
Oh, he fucking eats everything. I
Cannot when I was a kid. What's that bird? Guinea? Guinea chicken a guinea fowl guinea fowl
Used to they use them for Santa Maria things
Yeah, yeah, right at the rear rituals and then afterward you cook it needed
I wouldn't even touch that type of chicken like that brown skin chicken. I don't like a whale either my mother would go nuts
I don't like quail. I don't like pigeon. No, I don't like fucking. I don't like fucking to Duncan
I don't need duck. I don't like nothing. I like chicken beef lobster
Pork fuck with some pork. I'll fuck this important. I won't look at the cook
I gotta make sure I'm look at the cook. We have some cooks at the same evening and
In Addison, Texas one time I worked hyenas in the other they used to be too hyenas. This was the dirty hyenas
Not Fort Worth, but the other one and there was a guy outside bigger than Ralphie May 600 pounds
That's sold pork chops for a dollar one lunder bread. His hands were filthy. Let me tell you something
I ate like six pork chops
And I went home and should I got three more
I could there was that good with the ball in them and you put them on a piece of bread you put Frank's hot sauce on it
You have no idea that grilled that been cleaned in years
Yeah, that's what I say the dirty of the joint the better the food
Yeah, the dirty of the joint the rather fucking food sometimes. It's more marinated. Yeah
Well, that's what I was gonna say about B. I don't go in for like a chain
The only thing I'll do is some Asian food like Chinese food like that's what I learned when I moved out here
That some Chinese food is okay. Where'd you move from Boston? Hmm. Listen, if there's a bad restaurant
This guy will pay no I
Get a stand every dumpling is a vast rest. If there's a bad restaurant
He will pick up just on purpose
Just on purpose. What kind of bad restaurants you like?
I don't he told me that when I go to Korea time to get dumplings that all of its cat
Yeah, I don't fuck with that shit. Oh, thank you
Thank you, but there's Koreans in there. I don't give a fuck. Well, what they are
I don't give a fuck stomach is doing listen like I told you last night when we're doing it
Whatever his fucking name was when I go to Chan's Dragon, and I know there's mice
Meat and somebody's cat. I know I might beat some of these dog, but I go in there with the understanding
You go in there thinking like they're all my Anthony Bordain ain't there that don't mean nothing
Somebody's cat is fucking missing in fucking Silver Lake and you're eating a fucking thing
You don't even if you take the shell off that dumpling you will not know what's in that meat. It's mystery. It is gray
It's like eating a hot dog. It's gray meat. It's like eating a wonton. You're taking your chances
Where you eat them from? Ah, that's the story
You know
Maybe maybe I just trust people too much, but I can't think someone's gonna put cat. There was everything in there
There's a thing called filler Lee
Filler everything about filler whether you fucking do coke or fucking whatever. There's filler
They gotta dope the fucking dish up
Where do you go for Indian food then where should I go if I like Indian food Indian food
I can't I haven't found the right place out here
There used to be a place right down the road in in a in Studio City called the great India cafe
And then they changed the name. I don't know if the food's still the same, but they changed the name
It's right next door to a porn shop on Ventura before lemonade in Studio City before before you get the Jerry's
Okay
Same side
Cross the street. What do you get?
You get the chicken tikka masala. Okay, first you get a chicken biryani
I don't know the other side of chicken tikka masala
Then when your biryani comes you take the chicken tikka masala gravy and you pour it all over your biryani
You'd like biryani. It's just fried rice basically. It's just rice with chicken baked into it
It's pretty damn good
Well, you put that fucking gravy on it. You're taking it to another level. Okay, I
Love it. I think Joey might like that. No
Just just just a fucking look on his face was the best. You have no fucking idea
You have no idea. I have one day a guy wanted to meet with me like a fucking script, dude
And they called me they kept telling me they were gonna meet at one place
Not the last man. I got a tax assessment. I had a tax
pager
And I pulled over they told me that they were meeting at that place around the corner from toy
No
Toy, I'll go into what's toy toy. I'll go in there and get the pad thai shrimp. I
Don't like the pad thai shrimp. It's on sunset. It's open till 4
We got to take your shoes off right there. I don't like that either right thing. I think they'll take your shoes off
Yeah, I think those filthy white people know nothing Hollywood
I'm not gonna eat fucking Thai food and then smell bad feet at the same time
So what what happened with that page what page you got the page from them saying they changed the restaurant
They changed the restaurant to a fucking curry restaurant. I
Told them I wasn't going they could not understand that I would not step foot in there. I can't smell that stuff
It drives me crazy. Yeah, yeah, Ethiopian food all that shit
Now I went for Ethiopian food recently. I didn't know no no no no even the Jamaican stuff cuz I love Jamaican food
No, the jerk chicken. That should have made my ass whole bleed
Like none of that shit
Love that shit. Oxtail is my favorite. I like Oxtail how my mom made it when my mom died mom make it as stew like a brown
stew. No, she made it like
She chopped it. Yeah, it was like in a stew and it's really tender
You got like a chick she she made it real tender and you had Frank's hot sauce and no matter how old I was
She let me drink a little bit of loam bra with it
She'd make white rice with red beans with the fucking oxtail and I'd pour the hot Frank's hot and suck the little tails
Well, yes, it was fucking brilliant. Yeah, I could taste it in my mouth
My girlfriend just made it for me recently and she made it incredibly. She Jamaican. Nope
Honduran. Oh, yeah, yeah there. I started Rome motherfuckers. She made it. She never she never made it before in her life
I just told us what I like and she figured out the recipe and really
And she made the rice and beans perfect really and that Jamaican my Jamaican friends from Toronto at my house at the time
They were like, yo, you sure she's not fucking Jamaican. This shit is incredible
That's good to get on the first try. Oh my god. She bought the big ax tails like you can fucking big chunks of meat
She didn't buy the little bullshit ones. You know you get the little bullshit oxtails. She bought the big fuckers
What's up, Peter? You don't fuck around Dave. No, it's no fucking around here, Joey. I
I read your I read your inspirational quotes every fucking morning
It's time to wake up and grab life by the balls and kick it in the cock you cocks
You got to get them going. That's why I tell myself every morning. So why not spread the fucking
Reading I go, you know what he's right. You know, it's fucked up. What you feel like in the morning
You know, like with the stages of your life what you felt like in the morning
When you were a kid you hate it waking up for a while
No, I still hate it then you get up because you had to watch cartoons at a certain time
Mm-hmm, then you you know the summer will come and then you have you were forced to get a job
Like I remember one of my first fucking jobs was getting up at three in the morning
When I was around eight, maybe seven to go get flowers
in New York City
My stepfather had a side business shop and we would get up at four maybe four thirty
In the summers four three times a week
That was brutal. I had to deliver newspapers on the weekends
Saturday and Sunday edition in my neighborhood
And I'd have to wake up fucking like five in the morning because you'd have to put them together
Yes, yeah, because they would send you the inserts earlier in the week
So you get the entertainment section and the tv guide
And then they would deliver the fucking the front page and everything
That that morning then you'd have to get up
Put it all together and then deliver it so people could have it for their morning breakfast
I was 11 12 around then and you ate again not fucking hated what time do you get up now?
As late as possible
Fuck yeah, if I can get up around
Shit if I can get out of bed two o'clock, I'd be very happy with that
But I'm up around noon now
What time do you go to bed?
I tried to go to bed early, but I always fuck it up somehow
Sometimes I'm trying to jerk off and I can't I'm not going to sleep till I get that nut
If I can four thirty the one I'm dozing off still trying to get at it
You watch tv at night? No, not even a computer. I go on the computer. I watch uh
Watch a lot of uh
science shit on the computer
you have
Insomnia by no no no I can fall asleep. I just
Something stupid inside me goes no no hold on just gonna miss something stay awake for a second
And then I wake myself back up and the minute I wake myself back up or say I'll fall asleep nice quick and easy perfectly
I'll have the laptop open then I'll just open my eyes to close the laptop and that's it. I'm awake again
Now when you do your world tours you get up at 12 also and I'm on tour
I would do I wake up as late as but if it's showday. I won't leave my hotel room
I'll wake up around 3 34 o'clock
And then I'll be all right. I'm fresh for the show. I'm good
And what time do you go to bed the night before?
Yeah, three two three, you know, when is your next tour start? I'm still on tour. I just got the month off
So
I get back out on the road in january and what is this tour take you how far deep is the fucking creators of the world
We're gonna we'll start back in america
January february
And then late february we head out to the middle east and india
and then may
So late february march april i'll be in middle east and india
And then in may i'll do africa
In july i'll june and july i'll do some more american dates and i think we'd pack it in
That's it taping my new special in march. We're at in mumbai india
No, shit never been done. So i'm gonna do it
Fucking tremendous rossel pay this they got to what's never been done
I want to be the first guy to walk on that moon
Good for you, man. Yeah, what is mumbai india like? I love it. It's one of my favorite cities new york's my favorite and mumbai is my second
What is it like? What does it have? What's the appeal of it? I don't know. It's just alive, you know
It stinks sometimes like what?
It depends on what time of year it is could smell like fuck as there's an ocean right there and sometimes the fishermen have just pulled in a
Big hall and it's so hot and humid that the fucking city smells like content asshole, but
I love it drugs
No, not really
It's not it's not a detail alcohol strip clubs. What's that?
Everything is there if you want it
Food is incredible there. What kind of food it's indian food, you know
But everything's good there. I mean, but beef is now illegal
They've made beef illegal in mumbai
So you can't order beef in a restaurant can't get it. It's gotta be like come here. Yeah, basically it's like beef dealers
What do you want? You want to go? I got it
You want one ounce too? What's the population of mumbai india mumbai's population is about
Can you figure this one out and it's how big comparison?
Well india's population is 1.3 billion right. That's what i'm saying and and mumbai's one of the biggest cities
If not the biggest city you've done comedy there before yeah
And it's just been tremendous. It's been always amazing for me. I always managed to get in trouble when i'm there
Like for my mouth I say something, you know, they ask me about something and I just tell them as I see it or hear it
And then I used to people who are like in the spotlight being honest and real so it kind of throws them off guard
Do you speak indian? No
I understand I understand
Most of it. I would say I understand about 60 percent
I think I understand more spanish
How big is comedy in india now? It's now very huge. Yeah, it's now. It's very big
When I first started going over there it didn't exist. I was the one
And then youtube that I think it's 22 million. That's it. That's what it's saying. Yeah
But that's in one city. Yeah, just in mumbai. Yeah, what's next to it?
Another place, I don't know
Somewhere else and this moon by theater or no, it's uh, I end up having to do
Yeah, there's an indoor arena. I did an indoor stadium and then I did an outdoor one once the outdoor one was a trip though because we had to have
Fans blowing at me the whole time because uh of the insects
Because the lights attract all the insects and you would look and the fuck it would just be
The lights would be covered with insects just swarming at the light
And then I would need the fans on me to blow them away from me so that they wouldn't fucking get in my mouth while I'm doing
My show. I'm sure the fans in the dustfield type thing. Yeah, big fucking fans
And I felt like Beyonce on stage my fucking clothes are blown away and
But it's necessary when they were setting up that gig it was funny a wild boar
Right through the fucking while they were setting up that they're chasing this wild boar through this field
That is crazy
I love how the fuck you do it else when they do the field it makes you nervous because there's fucking snakes out there
There's cobras. There's pythons. There's all kinds of crazy shit
You don't want that crawling up on you while you're fucking doing it. Somebody's sitting out there enjoying the show and
Bam, you know
That is crazy
You thought these you thought the fucking show at ocean side was hard. Yeah, the little Samoans throw a knife at you and shit like this
A wild boar a wild boar running through we have a picture but somewhere
I should send it to you one day when I find it
And when you go and where else do you go in Africa?
Africa we're doing uh, South Africa, Kenya
Uh, I think we might do Tanzania
We're gonna be doing Nigeria
Possibly Ghana and you've done all these before no, I've only done South Africa and Kenya before
I did Djibouti years ago
with the USO
Jesus Christ
Gotta get out there, man. It's a big world we live in Joe
And if you weren't so goddamn finicky, I'd take you with me. I'm scared
I'm a scared shitless
It's crazy how finicky I am
In these hotels, I'm telling you in these other countries like in these so-called third world countries
They're fucking five-star hotels are better than anything you've ever seen here
Food spotless tidy everything service service incredible incredible. Yeah
We don't know nothing about customer satisfaction. No, no, these
It's different phone call. We passed the block yet. I had a butler in one of my suites in in Mumbai
Because I had a suite so they gave me a butler and I wouldn't see him
I would be like look and I go the fuck did he go and I would just be like my crew and I would be sitting there go
You want to go eat lunch? And they're like, yeah, let's go eat lunch and then uh
And then before I could even say his name, he'd just pop out of nowhere. Like shall I make a reservation and you're like, yeah
What the fuck were you?
Pretty wild like in deep mr. Deeds. Remember mr. Deeds. I would just show up out of nowhere. Wasn't it John Titoro? Yeah, it was John Titoro
That's fucking crazy do all those great cities. How long is the flight?
Um
Um, probably about 20 hours
He'd break it up
You go I usually go LA to Dubai
Dubai, however, I need to go to because I fly with Emirates
You fly Emirates first class. It's gonna change your life. No shit. They have a shower and shower in first class
The bathroom's about the fucking size of this room in first class for yourself for yourself
You're going to the bathroom. I get buck ass naked the floor is heated
Fuck it. You can stretch out. You know what I mean? It's fantastic. Jesus Christ
How long is the flight to Dubai?
Flight from here to Dubai is about what maybe 14 hours
That's nothing
And you you actually don't want the flight to be any shorter because you'd be like uh, uh, this is fantastic
You got a bed you got a door on your suite. They give you pajamas
Order whatever you want whenever you want
They give you the menu. Go. Let's let us know whatever you want whenever you want. We'll make it for you
And the food's fantastic
And you fly right into Dubai flying to Dubai. You go into the lounge. You take another shower if you want
And then in Dubai you connect to india and all those other places
Amazing. You just you live your own fucking life, Russell. It's fantastic. You know, I have on tour with me in Canada just now was Jason Collings
He was killing it. You know, Jason. Yes. Yes hilarious
So you just finished the canadian tour just finished can and how long was the canadian tour three weeks
How many nights a week?
It was every other night and then on the last week was like five in a row bam bam bam bam bam
Jesus christ
And you're fucking tight by that time. Oh, yeah, you're good. But there was something I had by the second last show I
Skipped a whole chunk out of my act because I wasn't sure if I'd done it or not
That's what happens when you do two shows in one night. Not even but it was like back-to-back shows. So it was like, oh shit
It was the next night
But I was like and then I look at my my DJs on stage
I looked at him and they looked at me like you forgot something. I was like, okay, good
All right, then I I'm just put it at the end and you're on stage with a DJ also
Yeah, I got my two DJs on stage two DJs. Yeah, one plays instrumentals the other one plays acapellas and they mix together live
They don't practice. They just do it
The jam they just jam up there
And then you go up there and do your thing. Yeah for how long hour and a half. I do hour 20
Jason goes up to 20. I do an hour 20 hour and a half sometimes
And you're on the road constantly you don't go back home. No, I just came home Wednesday and I'm leaving again thursday
What we do what we do Joe crazy that's what we do
See how long you've been doing comedy about a year. Oh, it's what you will do. Yeah
I've been doing it 27 years. Yeah
At fucking nine years ago seven years ago
I was just gonna quit
There comes that point at all every time we're just gonna do local comedy
Act and go on the road to rogan
That was my plan. That was it
I didn't want to go to the funny bones. They want to do nothing that shit
I didn't want to do all the rogan states
But I didn't mind doing a couple of them. Some of them are fun. My first introduction to you was the longest yard
Really? Yeah
And I was like wow and I I thought it was Vincent pastore
Yeah, everybody did. I was like, hey fucking big pussies in this
And then I say joey Diaz. Wait a minute. That's joey Diaz because I had heard your name
I hear Coco Diaz and I was picturing a little guy. You hear Coco. You think I'm a little guy? No, no, no, no
I was Coco because of the color of my skin. I was so white when I was a kid
Right compared to the rest of my family. So this is I was white like the inside of a coconut
So the name stuck and the rest is fucking history. My ex-girlfriend's father was cuban
She's cuban to Salvadorian, but she always only identified with the cuban side and his name growing up was uh
The fuck was his name because he had blue eyes and uh blonde hair
Yeah, they call you Rubio. Yeah, they call him Rubio
Yeah, Rubio. Where were they from? Miami? No, from from here from the valley. The valley. Yeah
You're a fucking animal of a guy, dog
And all this started out. When did the sensation start?
Started in 2004
I did a special in 2003 that aired in 2004
So 2000 from february 2004
Uh, uh, how long were you doing comedy at that point 15 years 15 years? Yeah
So I uh
I do this show at the paul university in february of 2004 11 people come they pay me 700 bucks and i'm thinking fuck
It's a lot of money. I feel bad, you know, but I did the show. I did did a good show
They enjoyed it and then the special aired like that night
in canada
and somebody recorded it
And started file-sharing it
Like i'm bear share or lime wire, you know and that kind of shit and all the file-sharing
um
rooms
and started getting cut up into
Bits of like, uh, here's him doing jamaicans. Here's him doing indians. Here's him doing chinese. Here's him doing this
And then it would just get chopped up and sent to the people who I'd be talking about
So then you cut to
November of 2004 I go back to chicago and I sell out three nights at some theater and I made like 40 grand and i'm like
What the fuck just happened?
I was just here like nine months ago and I couldn't sell a fucking I couldn't give a ticket away
And I knew something was happening
And then in 2000 june of 2005 youtube starts and then my shit ends up on youtube and it was over from there
And I still to this day don't know who did it. I don't know who put it on there
Ain't that trippy and they tell you here's the part that you can appreciate
my dad died
March 2004
And right after my dad died is when all the file sharing started
And I mean and so it's like some like I said the people that love you
I think they could pull a string or two on the other side, you know, I mean like
You know, they see you coming and they just cut none of them to this way go this way
You know, they don't do much. They just kind of just push you a little bit. So you end up going in the right direction
But from youtube to sell them out the h2o in toronto
The uh, whatever the fuck it is. It was the air canada center then the scocia bank arena right
Like how does that fucking happen? I sold out seven times now. I'll show you the uh
I'll show you the uh picture. You'll like this
You don't follow me on instagram joe. I don't know nothing about nothing. You don't make dog
Yes, this was uh two weeks ago
And
That's how many people that's one fifteen thousand
Fifteen so this last time you did how many shows did you do with this one?
Just one
The first two times I did uh, they are canada center. I did it two nights in a row
twice
And then uh, I scaled back down to one
One and then another one now. So I just do what's every time every time you're at the county store today in the main room
And there's 450 people in there and you've just done 15 000 that's saturday night
What are you feeling in your head? What are you feeling?
This time I was very relaxed
All the other times I was nervous. I was
In my head, you know, I don't want to this that I was very relaxed this time
I was always questioning my material before this can be good enough. Is that gonna be good enough for now?
I'm like very confident with it. It's like I know I've got a good product and I know you're gonna like it. So
Fuck it. Let's just do this
Are you one of those guys that right stays home for six months? No
I get on stage and just spit until I like it. And then once you have an hour, then you take it out. Yeah, okay
I'll go do a club run when I'm trying to write
I'll go do like fucking three three weekends six six six or eight shows a weekend
With nothing and then by the end of the thing I've got about 25 30 minutes
And what clubs do you go to whatever I'll go to play I go to places where it doesn't like where I don't usually go
So I'm out of my comfort zone
I'm like, you know, you got to be uncomfortable
You need to be uncomfortable to make yourself comfortable
No, I believe in all that. Yeah, I believe in all that stuff
You know, I'll go to like not not they're not bad rooms, but anyways, I'll go to charlie. Good nights and start writing there, you know
I go to like places where
They don't really give a shit if you're there
You're not gonna really sell out these places, you know, I mean
Really you have a hard time. No, I mean I sell them out, but like it's not guaranteed
That's crazy, man, I don't want the easy
I don't like the easy road. It's not then you don't learn anything that way
What do you mean by the easy road? I mean going where you know, you're gonna kill
What are you gonna learn?
It's like training with the guys, you know, you can beat. What's the point?
You're not getting better. You're just
Just doing what you know. I mean, you gotta you gotta challenge yourself all the time
When I first got here
I was very lucky that the first month I became a regular at the store
But like everybody else you have to do spots everywhere else. Yeah
You have to go to the empire you have to go laugh actually have to go to
To the mexican bar in silver lake
You gotta go to the mexican place and by king taco up to five. Oh, yeah, but then you find where you specialize it
So you did the comedy works in denver then back then, right? I started the comedy works in denver
Yeah, that's the downtown club first love that club first time I got on stage that the comedy works in denver
And then I pursued it and then I got banned for life from the comedy works
And that's what made me leave colorado. Now they're not banned anymore. No, no, I'm not banned
But it was funny because I bumped into her
And we spoke from the heart like I hadn't spoken to her since the banning. She was the manager
She wendy was the owner at the time and I didn't get banned. I got banned because of
it
It wasn't lee going to you and going joey grabbed my ass, right? It was
You going to me and going hey, I saw joe rogan grabbing lee's ass the other day
Then when they called the girl the girl because I don't know if he grabbed my ass or not
You know, we were all drinking the manager pushed it and they said, you know what let's just
Uh, ban him. That was the easy thing. It was the best neck that could have happened to me in retrospect
Oh, yeah, where I was at that point. I was two weeks away from getting arrested
Yeah, in retrospect if you really look at it. I was six months away for going to jail for 10 years
I was about to do something stupid. I didn't know what it could have been anything
It could have been driving with cocaine in the car. It could have been me stabbing my ex wipes
Boyfriend he could have been in the range of things
And she came to me and said you're banned from me
And I had two options. I had the two other clubs
Which no disrespect to total garbage at the time, right? You're working with shit
And then there was another club in colorado springs that wasn't burning down the house either
So I said at least let me go to a market where there's a good club for me
It was the comedy underground in seattle at the time
Ah, that was a good that was a great club
A lot of people Mitch was there, right? Mitch was there a lot of people stan hope was there a lot of people were up there
That's a great place and they used to book it out of san francisco
So san francisco had a great comedy pool. Oh, yeah, so you were featuring for great people when you were up there
You know, so did you work with jake johansson back then?
I have not worked with jake, you know, I took jake on tour with me on this tour as well. No, you did not sure did I took him
To australia. I took him to asia. I took him to one of the best writers in Europe
He's amazing one of the best comics in the game, you know
What a lot of comedians don't understand that at one time, you know, it'd be very relevant
Yeah, and then there's gonna come a time when you're not relevant anymore. Oh, yeah, it's not because you're not funny
Yeah, it's just because the tides aren't with you anymore. Yeah, there's nothing you could do
You're always gonna have your 50
To 100 per show diehard fans, right? But that
Mania that was once
One day is no longer gonna be there
Most guys quit most guys have nervous breakdowns
I I talked to jake via phone one day. In fact, we spoke about him coming on the podcast
Oh, yeah, he wants to do it. He's training jujitsu now, too. Is he really training with hanato?
I did an aftermarket. No, is he really I was down there a couple weeks ago. You know, I got him into it
He was asking me about it. And I said, yeah, you gotta you should just do it
You're gonna love it. Jake's a great comedy writer. Let me tell you something. I learned a lot
He's phenomenal from watching that guy
You watch that guy and it's like a knife
Cutting through butter. That's the way to describe his comedy. Yeah, it's like a hot knife
Cutting does he still have the record for letterman appearances? He probably does he does
He I used to tape him
You too. I used to tape him. I used to watch him. I was a fan
I was like, fuck I would watch him live at the comedy works. I think I paid to watch him
Yeah, rogan always says he paid to see sam. I think I paid to see uh
Jake joneson when I was still an open miker. I paid to see eddie murphy in 86 and chris rock and
in 2000 and uh
Carlin I you know paid. I paid to see some people now. You were tight with carlin. No, you met I I met him twice in my life
Where did you bump into a man first time was in toronto in 1992 when the blue jays had won the world series
Were you doing comedy there? I was doing comedy. I was three years in and where'd you bump into?
Everybody was partying up and down the street man young street in toronto
I was 22. I was like a punk ass kid and I'm walking up and down the street
Everybody's having a great time and I see this old guy with a ponytail walking towards me and I'm being a smart ass
Look at my friend and go. Holy shit. This guy looks like George carlin
And he walks past me. How you doing George? I'm just being a dick. How you doing George?
And he goes, how you doing kid? And I was like, holy shit. And I ran after him. It was really him
I walked him back to his hotel. I gushed over. I'm like, oh man
If you want Indian food, my mom will cook for you
Anything fucking anything
And I said he gave me his autograph. He gave me some advice and then he said I said, hey, maybe one day
We'll work together because hey, you never know kid this crazy fucking business
And then I worked with him 10 months before he died
Where a comedy magic club I got the host he was getting set
He was getting his new set together for hpo
Did you remind them? I told I told the whole story when I introduced him
I got all glassy eyed and chit quivered and it's horrible. It's horrible people like that do that type of shit
It's oh, yeah, I was fucking so emotional
And I cried when he died
You have to yeah, you have to it's not a lot of people but you know, some people get you
They do they really do
Like I'm being a kid when I can't wait. I can never imagine a world without Charles Bronson
Like when Charles Bronson died I fucking cried like like two minutes
Like it was no big fucking deal like I shed a tear like when I watch Rocky and he wins at the end
Yeah, I shed a tear, you know just because you get emotional you get I got sucked into that the pool
Today I took the kid to the pool over at the pool. I thought about something
And my wife looked at me. She caught me wiping my eyes. She was what is it now?
You know that as we get older we get more fucking sentiment. No, I've always been one of those dude
Really? I I I try to fight it. I hate when it happens like
You know like a fight like when a fight happened when I'm watching boxing like remember when Bernard Hopkins won became the oldest
Person to win a title
I think it was like 40s 45 or 46 when he won like a light everybody title. He beat Tito something
No, he beat Tito's before that but
He and I remember crying when he won I was like, I don't even know Bernard. I don't know I'm crying
I just was overwhelmed for him. I was like, what a great moment in life, you know
It's weird what makes me cry
It ain't it ain't it's the weirdest thing. Yeah, it's not things I was supposed to make you cry
It's like happy moments make you cry like seeing somebody win makes me cry like I but it's not sad
It's like I'm happy for them. I get overcome with emotion
The worst is when you think you're going
To cry a lot and you don't
And then you start doubting your love or whatever. Have you ever had that situation?
Not even 10 days ago one of my all-time favorite cats died
Who his name is dibby. I had a cat. Oh a cat actual cat
I thought you wanted to catch a girl with
and for 14 years
He was just a smart
Devious little douchebag of a cat like he was just a fucking skull of cats too. I love this motherfucker at all my heart
And I got home from new york
And as I was hauling the luggage
I looked at him on the couch and I knew
Because the whole time his brother had been sick his brother's got cancer
But his brother's been gaining weight. We got him back on steroids
The brother's as tough as nails like I kept saying, you know, wow
I hate for it to be the seat because if Harry goes
That their litter mates. Mm-hmm. He's gonna lose his mind
The whole time I'm thinking about harry. I get back from new york and tell my wife
There's something wrong with dimmy. He's getting fucking fat
And my wife touched him and he me out
And we knew something wasn't right the next day he had
Once they start hiding, you know, it's not good. So we took him to the event on tuesday and they said
He was really in bad shape. Well lucky we brought him when we did he was having problems breathing
and that day
I got on my hands and knees on him on the floor
You know, his back was to me. He was he was so proud and he wanted to die in peace
That he went in the cage headfirst
Like he didn't want nobody to see him in that shape. The cats didn't want to be around them
He finally came on his own
And I kept talking to him
And he came closer to me
And I started talking to him talking to him talking to him
Just saying how good of a cat you were you were my friend
How many nights like i'm home and I smoked pot with you
And then we played that stupid game and at one point
He wasn't moving like he was just staring onto the abyss
And he was breathing heavy
So he was puffing and I said something to him bro and he turned his head towards me
Like that like for me to kiss his head. I kissed him. I cried a little bit. I got up and I said goodbye
And my wife put him in the cage. She cried all the way to the car
And that was hitting I cried a little bit later and two days later. I was like, I didn't cry enough
And I'm like that's bullshit when you see people cry real fast as bullshit because nobody you're in shock
Yeah, you don't even realize it's always dead three months. That's when it really hits you
Yeah, when my mother died it didn't hit me for five years four years
How old were you when that happened 16? Oh damn and I went off the rails
At 21
Or I mean it was two different worlds
The realization that you're not going to see anybody again. You know today. I went to call you and I
When I popped up
Ralphie, I still have a phone number in my phone. Yeah, same
You know, you don't you as a human being they're dead, but they're still alive in your heart
Yeah, Ralphie would stay at my house in Malibu when he would come back. Yeah. Yeah, and I still have his number in here
It's like
It hasn't even hit me in my world. He's probably on the road. Yeah when Ralphie when I somebody told me about Ralphie
I called him. I don't know the fuck. I was I was just hoping he would answer, you know
Well, we always do that. Yeah, I was like, please come on answer the phone. Please
Every time I hear somebody dying. I call them. Please answer the phone. I think I called them too
I let me know this isn't real as soon as he called me. I call him a patrice. I was like, please answer the phone patrice
Call me a fucking asshole or something. You know what I mean?
Tell me I'm not funny do something that you do
Yeah, like that's I don't think your mind
Like I saw the
The video and I hate bringing this up because it's really bad
But the video
Of the black kid that got shot in Mississippi the mistake. Mm-hmm the guy that was a soldier
Put them all
The one who stopped the shooter and then got shot when they at the press conference
It's always the fat black lady who faints
Why do always fat black people always faint? What's the
I faint blood pressure
Did you she just fainted like six black dudes trying to hold all of them Tarzan's
Not one of them could hold this one
She had a little bonbon on her head
What was the point of this story I have no idea why black people always faint they're in the funeral
I've got a thousand funerals. Nobody ever fainted. You know what I am?
Oh my god
I hate fucking funerals. I hate all that shit because that's where the real falling this comes out
Yeah, well my mother died. I I learned a big experience. So those four days because there was a Cuban funeral
So they keep you alive in the casket for four days. They just keep throwing fucking
That dust now the high mouth the high dust on you have to maintain you
So, you know, I mean that don't bury you till the arm pops up. Yeah, I think they break the reed
Did you know that they they've got to break your spine? What they break your spine during the fucking whatever
So you don't pop up and uh, oh, they were ring of mortars or whatever. Yeah. Oh, wow. I didn't know that part
Well, juice go in the next day. Huh juice go in immediately
Well, then like 24 hours they go they get burnt buried. Yeah Muslims, too
Really? Yeah, you guys are the same. Okay. Yeah, probably
Yeah, Cubans, they'll keep you in the room for a week
Yeah, until you start kicking them people drinking and doing food and put a mask off a carbon
Put the food in your fucking casket when they picked my mother up. There was an extra hundred pounds of bottles
Like everybody kept putting bottles of pinching there. She probably got buried with an ounce or two of coke
I remember being like being a coke fiend. How was your mom?
48 times my people were putting coke inside the fucking casket. She was partying back then
Yeah, she was partying. So people were putting coke inside the casket. You don't know how many days I sat there thinking of digging around
Like one night I was like, I'm gonna dig her up. She's got an ounce is still good. I did
There's a little creepy green hand and shit
Thank god you didn't can you imagine if he does that using your razor blade to get the dirt out of the coke
Fucking embarrassing god, please fucking help me
You know, it's just really weird Russell that
And I can tell you this to your face that one person has ever said a bad word about you
Like this is why it was important for me to get you on the show
And talk to you a little bit. They just get to know you like I didn't I never witty peded you till today
And there was an educate. I've heard that you pop up at places and DJ
Yeah, like I've heard this but I didn't know for sure. Oh, yeah
I thought you were just fucking copying Anzi Anzari or something like that because it's like a fake fucking
I'm the first guy. You're the first guy. I understand understand something. I did everything for everything first
I was boxing from 85 to 94. Were you really? Yeah
I was I was deejaying from 85 till now
I've been doing comedy since 89 the boxing amateur amateur you get beat up. Oh, yeah, you love it though
I loved it. I had Lennox. Those and I were amateurs together. No, we've been friends since like 86
About a very long time up there in Canada. Yeah
Fuck you've had a very interesting
Yeah, when I was home recently
I found a picture of me and Lennox in like 96 or something
Because he came to my show again a couple weeks ago. I was in Toronto and uh
But I found this picture of him and I like so this is him and I like last two weeks ago, right? Wow
and uh
Then I found this picture of us from like 96 and I was fucking you guys see the size of this guy's fist
It's ridiculous. It's the reason why he was heavyweight champ
I literally made my
You know, I don't have a small I got a pretty big fist for a smaller guy
I don't know if I'm a smaller guy, but look at the size of his fucking fist compared to mine
It's looking like I look like a child. That was a long fucking time ago. He was huge. Yeah
He was huge and look I got a big fist. Yeah, what what's worse bombing or getting punched in the face bombing
Oh
My god, I can't that was not gonna be my guess some seven years older than you. Yeah, so our music will taste very similar
Really from rock to disco love disco hip hop to hip hop
Do you want did you watch hip hop evolution on netflix? No, I just documentary series
Is it good? I executive produced it. So we want a peabody and an emmy for it
Once how long has it been on uh, it's on season two right now, but it's four episodes each season
You'll love it especially from being from new york. Yeah. Yeah, it starts in 82
What starts it starts in 72? That's when you trace it back. Yeah, we go back to cool hurt coming to america from jamaica
And then we go to when he threw the first party at 15 15
1520 cedar sedgwick avenue in the brocks
And that's what spawned hip hop that night
No, shit. Yeah, you take it that deep we go right to right right back
Because I was right there for the disco
hip hop
Yeah infusion
Did you go to studio 54 at the end? Yeah, not when it was now rogers and our good friends
Okay, and i'm legal uh not legally i'm uh officially chic's official dj
So remember chic fuck i dj with them on stage fucking songs. It's a chic shit. Oh, yeah, they're doing to do
I'm in the fucking eighth grade. I'm a freshman maybe
Eight grade freshman
I'm a basketball kid like i'm a basketball guy
Have you been tall already then?
Uh, no, but I was I had good legs. I could jump that was a good rebound
I could grab the rim in the eighth grade
And I could barely dunk in my neighborhood. It was nine foot
Instead of 10 inches it was in 10 feet
It was nine feet 10 inches right and I could barely hit the ball like my freshman year
Like if it hit off the rim I could jump
So I went to see
My high school against this whole bokeh
Just sensational team
Rank number two in the state behind camden forget about cam camden was like fucking everybody was six foot eight already
Yeah, camden they didn't fuck around they played down there by Philly. They did it's a Philly neighborhood. Yeah
And I'll never forget that my high school went into whole bokeh
And the whole bokeh and the only led the
The went the county and wins
They led the county and slam dunks
In high school. They had a junior and a senior at that time. This is 79
80 yeah
What is she she had come out?
78
That's that's the album. Yeah, and might have been 77 even north bergen came out for like, you know, boy, I was
Born a rambling man
Yeah, and the lights went down and all of a sudden the whole bokeh came out to chic shea
And the guy that was a slam dunk guy was juicy
And he came out with a tomahawk fucking slam dunk who tomahawk in high school
Nobody fucking tomahawk in high school
In fact, one of the great covers of our time that nobody talks about is a cover of uh
I can't remember his name of him on sports illustrated
You know the tomahawk is
No, when you come from I can't even oh
When you come from here and go like that. Yeah over your head and there's one of the one of the covers of sports illustrated had it on my wall
I forget who the player was not dr. J. No, it was a college basketball player. He was a fucking
college fucking sensation
Never went pro what you think it was
78 77 he was a razor back
His name was he was uh an average not an arizona razor back
But the other one
Fuck you got to see this cover of him about the tomahawk
He's taking off and you can see the players on the bench
Like getting up like with their towels in their hand like no, he's not gonna do it. It's fucking tremendous
But anyway, they came out to chic shea. I didn't know that you were friends with
How long have you been friends with fucking chic for for nyle nyle and I've been friends about uh
Say about eight years now. And how did you make you the music industry? Oh, yeah. Well, he was turned out. He was a fan
And I was like what now rogers is a fan of mine. How the fuck did that happen?
That doesn't make sense to me. I bought every record this man did
From fucking david bowie to madonna to steve windwood to the b-52s everything he ever did
What did he do steve windwood 83 85? He did when you see a chance. Okay. No, no, he did higher love higher love
Yeah, he did higher love
Who sang with it when I love chaka club
Maybe I don't know. I don't know that chaka was on that
I went to go, you know, so
You found it. Oh, no, I'm looking for I can't I'm
Nothing popping up yet
We do this thing where I have my turntable set up with the band
And now stands in front of me and plays the guitar lick for la freak
So I'll show you I'll show you the rehearsal video if you want look for razor backs
Famous razor backs. Okay. Uh, what's a razor back? What what where they for? I don't know where the fuck is khaki arkansaw
arkansaw
Famous arkansaw basketball plays
And it'll tell you his fucking name
What's arkansaw? What are they?
Um
Razor backs. Okay. Yeah razor backs
So what the famous razor back basketball players from the 70s put razor back from
sports illustrator cover
Why didn't you see this?
Here's nile and I do a rehearsal so he plays guitar for la freak and I scratch the aw
Go ahead
Put on the microphone
Oh
Look at this
Sidney
Sid the squid monk reef mon creek look at the people sitting look at the guy with the brown shirt on
I got with the stripes looks like yeah, it looks like frank Stallone. Look at that fucking guy. I bumped into him on an airport once
Recently squid. No, this is he went on to be a fucking tremendous pro. But look at that. That's what 78 February. What is 78?
I can't fucking see here
February 13th. Yeah, that's when the that's when the tomahawk got popularized with that one dollar. That's expensive back then
A dollar for a sports illustrator. That's expensive and you got like it came out every week
So you got like 52 copies for 48 dollars
And you had to pay it up front with the money order. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that
I didn't even know what a money order was you had to get sport magazine was the other one. So it was sport
and this
So how long were you deejaying before you turned into comedy?
Um three years no four years before I started doing comedy. It's amazing russell
I thought you were doing comedy like you started like in 2000. No 89
I've been without that bang of that. I'm blowing the fucking hard road
Good for you, man. The hard road. I did those fucking gigs where they don't want to see you
You know all that shit when people like you want to go do this room and something I did that already. I'm good. Thanks
I don't need to fucking relive my
My my my fucking painful moments now before
You hit were you coming to the states a lot to do not much. No
96 I came to new york
and uh
I slept on keith robinson and patrice o'neill's couch
in woodbridge, new jersey
And I remember they just fucking tore me apart
I brought my special that I shot in 95 in canada. That was like a big hit in canada in 95
I brought it on vhs. I was like, yo check it out. They watched it and they looked at me after the go
The fuck was that?
And I go what because that was shit and I'm like, why are you kidding me?
Are you being just being a hairless? It was trash. What was so good about it? And I'm like
Damn, they made me rethink everything
They made me get in my head and made me made me work harder
If they didn't do that, I wouldn't be here today
I'd have been doing all the fucking mediocre shit. I was doing
Where's the special now?
I haven't seen it in years. I don't know where to probably exist somewhere. I've never I've never even seen it online
So I was putting up your good shit didn't put up the badge. Well, I'm appreciate that
Thank god for small fucking famous. Yeah, right. Well, they put the second special on in 97
That was kind of shit, but whatever and how long were you in new york for?
About a month a month and a half at that time
It couldn't afford to see so Neil and those guys
I met Keith because he was shooting a movie in toronto that summer
He was shooting the movie called rebound the Earl Manigault story
And I ended up hanging out with him
And a bunch of other dudes and we all became friends
And then Keith was a comic and it's all took from like 96 to like 99
They were shooting a lot of movies in toronto
Yeah, then sars hit and then it all ended then it all ended
And falcon all moved to vancouver. That was crazy. I remember going to bollywood and seeing
To our bollywood. I keep calling it bollywood comedy would come you look at it me and picture in bollywood. You said, oh
I kept going to comedywood and one time I was there
And I was outside for 10 minutes. I saw three movie stars
Yeah, it was it was crazy back in the day. So Andy Garcia
George went
And angeline joe lee's father going into a hotel. Oh, yeah, I remember I was with um when 9 11 happened
I was with mark wallberg
And uh, everybody at the uh, because it happened during the uh, toronto film festival
And every time I see mark wallberg, he never remembers me from that day. I'm like, I was there at a pivotal moment
Mark wallberg mr. Flight
He his story was that he was supposed to go to new york that day or supposed to be on that flight for boston
But i'm like
There's no way you were supposed to be on that flight from boston because I was with you the night before in toronto
Yeah, because that was a big thing that he was supposed to be on that flight. Yeah, no, he wasn't he was in toronto
He was already there. I was on the night before
I don't know them nine ten
I remember I was wearing a beige suit and he goes nice suit
I don't know if he's been a smart ass or if he really liked the suit, but I really like the suit
so
I wonder if there's documentation that they had that money for that plane ticket or that was just a fucking lot
It was a little exaggeration
Maybe if he wasn't in toronto, he was supposed to be on that flight or
But no, he was in toronto then
I know because I was with him
I gotta tell you something bro. So you've had an interesting fucking road. Hey man. I love it
I'm happy that you came on and talked a little bit just i'm glad I keep watching and I keep seeing the people
We have on ago. I want to fucking be on the church. Yeah. Yeah, I wish I could have you for two with four hours
We'll do it. I know that you you have that many fucking stories
Yeah, and now you just do all these calm any time somebody bails. I'll fucking drive in now. You just do these fucking arenas
You do whatever you don't even give it. I don't even care. So when you do oxnard, that's like a throwaway weekend
Yeah, it's just me getting back in shape, you know
sparring
Doing new material. No, I'll do my axe still. I want to tighten it up
I got to change it up now because
when I started the act in in february
My life changed so much from february to now that I got to rewrite a lot of the act
I mean, it was started off. I was 16 17 pounds heavier than
So I was like, yeah, I got fat and now i'm back in better shape now
You know, it started off. I was engaged. Well, now i'm not engaged, you know
I started off with I didn't want any more kids and if I and I didn't want a son
Well, now I've got a pregnant girlfriend and I have a son coming. So I gotta fucking rewrite the one that was engaged
No new girl
You moved that quick. I may have been double dipping a little bit
At least you're honest, you know, you're very honest. You're very honest. You can't hide shit in life. Fuck you
It is what it is, you know
Yeah, I'll fuck you. You lie. You're gonna get found out and then people think you're a liar
I'm from the era of your word is your word. That's it. That's it. If I did something wrong
I did something wrong. You know, you lied about why would I lie? Why would I lie about something like that?
So many fucking better things to lie about and I'm I'm not gonna do it. I didn't know about the child. Congratulations. Thanks. Yeah
How far along five months
Oh my god, bro. So you're a savage and heat
I freak without warning
Your appetite for love makes me so horny. I'm sitting in my head going. I know these lyrics
How great are those fucking lyrics?
So many good ones. Remember, uh, you know, it's fun song. Let's new rated x by cool g rap
Rated x by cool g rap or x rated whatever it was called
You know, it's hard
You know, we'll get you back on here with dean del rain. We'll smoke some pot
Yeah, and we'll you'll have me and dean the fucking sober. I'll drink with you. How about that?
I really want to hear about your take on this hip hop. I saw one take like I didn't know about 1972
But I didn't know
About as soon as I heard
I said a hip the message whatever the message. Well the rappers the life
Rappers delight. That was 79. That was 79. You know, it's funny about rappers
It's in it's in if you get a chance and yes, no, no, no download watch on the play. It's on netflix. Yeah, watch on the plane
That's my thing is in season one. We talk of we talked to grandmaster cas
Because they stole grandmaster cas's lyrics for rappers delight
When big bank hank says i'm the c a s a the na o v y whatever the the rest is f l y
Casinova fly he spells out fucking grandmaster cas's name
I'm six foot one. He's like you fucking took my height
Like you took everything that I said in that song and used it for your own purposes
So they talked like we talked to cas because they were like they stole the lyrics from him
They made this huge song
And then meli mel who cas and meli mel are like really really close friends of mine
And then it cuts to meli mel because he was on sugar hill records
Grandmaster flashed the various fiber signed the sugar hill records and sylvia robinson said to meli mel
We need you guys to do a song with rappers delight
And then it cuts to meli mel going we couldn't make a piece of shit like that
That's why we did the message because I was like i'm not making no bullshit. I'm gonna make a real fucking song
And then message was just brilliant and then white lines and all that shit. That was all mel
That is crazy
But i'm living in new york you're in there. You're in the fucking mix city
Copping are you going to tunnel? Do you have to go to the tunnel latin quarter? I went to the tunnel
Yeah, I went to the latin quarter, but I went to the tunnel. That was an old like
Music joint. Hey, yeah, you ever go to the fever?
No, I think the fever was in the Bronx. No, I heard just disco fever disco fever
I was more of a manhattan guy. Yeah, I went wherever the cocaine was right which was everywhere
Which was chitchat of shit
but I saw
the growth of that music
like I saw the growth of
Uh, you know going to the Bronx to cop coke at a special price
And seeing guys in the corner returned from the Mao Mao's in the Bronx the Puerto Ricans
Yeah, like seeing guys in the corner
Spinning yeah, and like taking the power from the light pole
And by you know going to the bodega and getting the bag of plantain chips
And like a can of coke for the ride back to jersey
Yeah, but being mesmerized by this thing
And then it was black guys wrapping on the corner
Yeah, like I saw that happening and I saw guys you'd go to cop in the brooklyn norsen
They'd have a linoleum floor
They'd come out I had my I used to break dance. I had my little I couldn't afford linoleum
So if I would I would walk around my neighborhood and see if somebody bought a fridge or stove
And I would steal a cardboard box and take it home when they would throw it out
You know the evolution
You know a couple days ago somebody said well you guys seen the growth
Here with the medical marijuana. I saw the growth
with the music
And I saw the growth of
marijuana
Getting replaced by crack. Okay. Yeah that quick
Like it overstepped the powder like forget the powder. We went right from marijuana to crack. Okay. Yeah
So it was all an evolution all at the same time again. Grandmaster cas tells me about he was on crack for 10 years. He told me
He said he doesn't know how to fuck. He survived that shit. He doesn't know how he never got aids from that shit
Because he'd be fucking crackhead bitches in the in the crack houses
You know what I mean? He was like, I don't know how to fuck. I never got nothing
I don't know. You don't know what life is till you walked into a crack house. Oh, yeah, he was telling me all
I went and won one night the cop like I went into the city the cop all fucked up
And as soon as I got to the building there as I go up the corner
They got raided so you went up the corner
And the guy up the corner goes my name is like flock. Oh, you know, they all have
Blanco or whatever
If you want what do you want? You know, I told the guy go, I'm just not giving you cash
I gotta go upstairs with you
So we went
And it was like we went through a good building
To go into this fucking den of fucking death
And stinks stinks you could smell piss. Yeah, and man they had to be
This is 1984. They had to be like nine people in a corner
That looked at me like I was a fucking cop
Just smoking
Whatever like a pipe whatever the fuck they were doing at that time. Yeah, and then there was a guy there that would sell the coke to
There was a guy that would stay there all night with like three bodyguards
And had them going in there at fucking four in the morning and buying
Maybe an ounce and a half a coke from him
It's a lot of coke him searching me and shit asking me if I was a cop
And I started talking to spanish or one of the guys they knew I wasn't a cop
But that's the first and only time
I saw a real crack man. My friend's father was a crackhead in the 80s. It was a trip, dude
we'd go to his house and uh
You could tell when his dad was rocked out because he'd be like, well, yeah
Go to the store and get us some fucking chicken. There's a fucking lock job and like a motherfucker
Go go to the fucking rest. How you doing?
Tell will you take a fucking mug and get some chicken?
God damn. I remember going I sleeping over. I sleep on his couch. I woke up in the middle of the night one day
I had to go to take a piss I go in the bathroom
His dad's in there with a chick and some dude and they're shooting up heroin in the bathroom. I'm like, I hope in the dark
Oh, sorry
Let's go back to bed. I'll be uh 14. Did you tell your parents like like, no, no
I'm not gonna snitch that was your own little fucking treasure chest. I was like, wow
I've never seen that shit before. Oh my god, Russell. Russell, you're the real deal, man
I'm happy you took the time. I know you got a show tonight. I gotta be down there too. You're on. Yeah
That's 45. That's a hell of a lineup. Yeah, it's gonna be great. That's you need a ride. No, no, I'm good
It's crazy because you said something
Before I shot the Netflix special I was fucking around
I was fucking around Russell and I went to other places
And as soon as I finished shooting
And I got on the plane. I said I fucked up. I'm not going to the store every night
Because I took the easy route
Right instead of going to the store every night and banging it out
You go to the store five nights a week for six weeks
You come out of that animal. Tell Adam you want to go up at midnight, too
Yeah, just tell him Adam I want to go over to the midnight every night. You come out an animal
Yeah, they wouldn't be able to that's what I'm doing next time. I got a special offer to me
You gotta go. You're going to the belly of the beast. I'm going into the belly of the beast. I'm changing it all up
Different training regimen. I trained wrong and that's why now I just only go to the comedy store
I only go to the comedy store. Yeah, I don't ever see you nowhere else. That's it. There's no reason to anymore
I think I'm gonna be anywhere else. I go now. I just get depressed
So why am I gonna be there the home comedies might I want to always perform like I do at the comedy store
I have to always be in that state of mind when I go to the comedy store. It's a kill somebody
It's a I love watching it's to kill somebody when I go over that hill and Laurel King and I don't listen to the radio
I just go deep deep deep into my thoughts and I think about getting beat up. I think about mugging people
I think about bad shit. I think about good shit. I laugh at him
About the fly that came out of his bag last night
I go through I go through a bag of emotions on Laurel King
So when I get to the store, it's like fucking. I know I'm I'm at
That gym with Muhammad Ali went with Angel Dundee trained Muhammad Ali. I was in Miami
That was a fourth 14th straight gym. So like that, you know, that's where you're at the street gym
So, you know, that was that that's what it was. So that was at the pool. Yeah
And they called me from the store and she goes you have a 1045 spot
And are you doing the or original rule? But if I go down there at nine triple, it'll put you out
No, yeah, you know, come on
Uh, you know, I was going through the twitter and I was at the pool with my daughter
And I looked at the lineup brown white
crystallia whitney
Joe and I'm on this lineup and I'm like
I'm fucking 55
You know what I'm saying? Yeah
Like I'm 55 years old and I'm still on these fucking lineups
And I got like emotional. That's why I cry, you know, you know, who's uh, you know, also is a good person to
For that is and that appreciates the game still and has been in it forever is dom
Yeah, you have to appreciate it. Dom is the best dom has I don't think dom has a fucking bitter bone in his body
You shouldn't
He's so amazing when I got here
I all I talked to a bit economics. Oh, yeah, that's all I mean, I swore to myself
I would not become that person
This is a gamble if you give it the best you got
If you know, you're giving it the best you got it'll give it back to you
He'll give it back to you. If you're fucking around, you ain't gonna get deck
Yeah, but if you give it in if you go all the fucking
They'll give back to you and then you won't have any regrets
You know when you work B rooms and C rooms on the road, you work with all bitter l.a. Come on. You work with bitter everybody
You gotta be gay
You gotta know people. I know the worst is the club owners. They're like, you know, you're in fucking wichita and they're like trying
To act like they know comedy better than you like
Yeah, no, come on. It's good. You're the fucking one who's staying out here. You know, I mean don't don't fucking look at me
Like I'm the jerk off
It's so weird how I'm very happy about one thing now when it comes to my career
That I just stick to my work like I don't break my anything
Like this is how it is
This is how we're doing it
And that's it. No questions if we can't do it that way then let me know and we'll find the weekend when I can do it
That way. Yeah, and they'll change that tune right away
Like I love, you know, I don't bully him. I'm not a bad person
But I explained to him this is how we're doing it
And if we don't do it this way
Then that's fine. Like I love when they call me to go. You can't bring a feature. We already have okay. No worry cancel the week
Let me know when I can bring my feature. Let me tell you when I can bring my feature
And then they call you back. Okay. There was a misunderstanding
That's always what it is a misunderstanding. That's what I that's my favorite thing to hear
I know you got to go. I love you. I love you. Joe. Where can they go find you?
russelpeters.com at russelpeters on instagram. It was a real pleasure having you, you know, you're uh
You're a champion in and out of the fucking ring in my eyes and now that we cleared that air up
I will be up to do a private session with you. I'm training tomorrow if you're in
I got a 130 not tomorrow. I got
9 10 30
And 12 30 tomorrow and then four o'clock karate and tomorrow night's pizza night because i'm leaving thursday
We do this easy tomorrow come on the last two days. I've been running
Let me know when you're back and you got some time off in december. Yes, I lifted and I went to muay thai
Nice, I go to muay thai at nine
I go to muay thai conditioning to get out of the way. I'm 55. You know, I get it
I can't I don't have time to wait till six o'clock to do fucking rolls. Yeah, you got me early
You got to get me early eight o'clock. I can't roll
Nine o'clock. I can't roll. It's a little too early to roll. Yeah, but 10 10 30. I could roll
I roll at 130. I feel good about that and roll that 130 is good
I like roll but I like rolling on an empty stomach. Yeah, so do I I don't eat a lot of stomach
That's when I do my best when I'm hungry and and I end up farting if I fucking roll with all
I love when people get on top of me and I blow a fart
And then I try to sweep them when they get away for that fucking fart
And fucking and they they go for it if I can't sweep you once I fart you're going done
You know Rico Rodriguez. Yeah. Oh my god. I rolled my brother. I rolled with Rico one day about a year ago
And uh, I rolled with John jack for an hour
And then at the end of the session Rico was there and I was making fun of Rico at the beginning of the class
Out loud not to myself. Just I was like, you know breaking his balls in front of the class. Was he big?
It's a big fuck. Oh, he's a big former UFC. Yeah, no, please
But was he big like oh, he was he was big at the time. No, he's now he's a little smaller
I saw him on saturdays a little smaller, but he was big. He gets big and not fat either like fucking diesel
Yeah, he gets big. So I
And then John jack was you want to roll with somebody else? I go. Yeah, sure. He goes. Hey, rico and I go
Fuck I was a white belt at the time too
So he calls rico around I go shit
So, you know, you shake your hands and I just pull guard right away because I'm like, I'm not trying to find
I'm not trying to get thrown around this this gym
So I just pull grabbed his ski and his wrist and I pulled guard right away
He's on top and he just stands up
He starts pushing down on me
You know and my neck is on the ground. I'm like, oh fuck and he's folding me
And then my body decided to release whatever air it had left in it and I sharded
I ship myself did you tap tap? No, I told her go rico. I just shit. He goes
It's funny. I go no, no, I'm serious. I shit myself. He's laughing and I in a couple of seconds
I was like, what the fuck is that smell? I told you I just shit myself
Oh my god, Rico, you literally beat the shit out of me. I've never shipped myself, but I've come close
You run in the house when they get on top of you and mount
Oh, man, and you try to do that two time umpa
And then going nowhere and you're mounted and they're creeping up like a snake
And their ass is pushing on every organ together. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a masses of that. Yeah
Once you get over brown belt, you know how to torture people. It's called invisible jiu-jitsu. Yeah, that's uh, rexons
So yeah invisible jiu-jitsu is the worst. Yeah, they're not even doing nothing to you. Yeah, they're just way there
It's like john jock. I hear john jock's mount
You're in no danger
Like you're in no danger once he mounts you he always says
If somebody passes your god, you messed up two steps ago. Yeah, isn't that all of his sayings?
He'll do this. He'll just uh, he'll get on top of give me sick against side control on me
And then he'll go
Okay, let's see how you deal with this and then all of a sudden you just feel like a fucking
Anvil landed on you like the fuck is that you're 175 pounds. How did this happen?
They know exactly how to fucking. Yeah, and he'll do it. He'll be like, okay. You can't breathe up here
Now you can't breathe down there. Now you can't breathe up here and you'll just keep shifting it so that
My breathing gets fucked up. It's fucking crazy. It's insane. How good he's like a fucking Jedi
I love you, brother. You too, brother. Thank you very much for taking the time
Your family knock them dead at the store. I'll see you there. I'll see you there
I want to thank my man Russell Peters. I want to thank my man the christ killer most importantly
I want to thank you guys for supporting me and having my back boiling
I'm coming but the tickets are sold out and next week I'm in La Jolla and the tickets are sold out through
It's a small joint. I'm just trying to work on new stuff. You know, you know how we do it here
But there's still tickets available December 12th for the temblor
Brewing company up in fucking bakersfield up there in matt bacon territory up there in true
Blue bjj not fucking around so I'll be up there wednesday
uh December 12th eight o'clock the temblor and then I got oxnard after the holidays
Well, we'll talk to that later the levity live up an oxnard. That's it. That's done. It's been a great week
I want to thank Anthony cool me for coming on. I want to thank Russell Peters
But most importantly, I want to thank you motherfuckers in the church family for having our back
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