#1650 - Russell Peters

Russell Peters (0:16)

Hello, Joseph.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Good to see you, my friend.

Russell Peters (0:18)

How are you, Pally?

Joe Rogan (0:20)

I'm fucking great. So better now that you're here.

Russell Peters (0:23)

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

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Anytime, buddy.

Russell Peters (0:28)

I know, it was great. I was very happy. I thought you were gonna be like, oh man, you know, I got so many people out here.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Come on, Russell, you and I go back, my friend. I tell everybody I wear the watch you gave me every special, and I have since 2014

Russell Peters (0:42)

Oh really?

I didn't know that detail. That's an interesting detail.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

You gave me a watch once. It was the most ridiculously generous thing ever. I was looking at your watch, you go, that's a nice watch. You go, you want it? And you took it off and gave it to me. I'm like, Jesus Christ.

So I've worn it every special.

Russell Peters (0:57)

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

And you walked away.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Oh, it's a ploy. I see how it works.

Russell Peters (1:05)

Well, it never worked. It never worked.

So I took your advice, and I started my podcast.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

I heard. Well, how many have you done so far?

Russell Peters (1:15)

I think I've done maybe eight or nine, maybe.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Are you enjoying it?

Russell Peters (1:19)

I'm having a good time with it.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

Why did you wait so long?

Russell Peters (1:23)

I don't know. I really don't. It really wasn't until you're prompting that I started to look into it.

And then you said you'd be my first guest, but I was like, let me get some people under my belt first.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

Get rolling.

Russell Peters (1:35)

Yeah, let me get rolling.

That's like becoming a white belt and go, hey, let me roll with you. You're like, no, don't do that.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Do you have a studio at your house? Where do you have your studio?

Russell Peters (1:45)

There's no studio. I just do it in my backyard.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

Oh, nice.

Russell Peters (1:48)

I have a little porch area with a humidor, and then we sit around like this. We smoke cigars. We have some drinks.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

I like outdoor podcasts. Anthony Kumier used to do his in his backyard.

Russell Peters (2:00)

That was by force, not by choice.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

Well, when he left New York, when he left Opie and Anthony.

Russell Peters (2:06)

When he went back to Long Island and built his little-

Joe Rogan (2:10)

The compound.

Russell Peters (2:10)

His compound.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

But he used to do it just like sitting out by the pool.

Russell Peters (2:15)

Yeah, the pool's right there. And you'll hear planes go by and stuff. It's nice.

But it's like this. It's just conversation. It's just hanging out. I took a page out of your book. I was like, what's it going to be about? I go, I just want you to hear me and my friends hanging out and talking. I want a little fly on the wall business there.

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Yeah, that's all it needs to be, this idea that it needs to be something very specific.

What are you going to talk about? You need an angle. You need a hook.

Russell Peters (2:40)

Yeah, I'm like, there's no... I go, I'm going to have a tough time fucking sticking to that script.

Joe Rogan (2:45)

Yeah. Well, I don't know.

Some people... Ari has a theme for most of his podcasts.

Russell Peters (2:53)

Ari's a very themed, thematic guy. Even when he came up with the TV shows, he would always have a theme, and when he would have those shows at the store, okay, we're going to do this night. Do you have a blah, blah, blah story for that? And I'm like, which is good, and it challenges the guest a little bit, which is nice, but...

Joe Rogan (3:13)

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

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