Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, I got some show dates and I want
Speaker 1: you to come and see me. Let me give you
Speaker 1: the details so you can get tickets and make plans.
Speaker 1: On November five, I'll be in Ben Salem, Pennsylvania at
Speaker 1: Parks Casino basically Philly, but like Ben Salem. Then from
Speaker 1: November eleven to thirteen, I'll be in Tacoma, Washington. That's
Speaker 1: Super Funny Comedy Club. That's the name of it. It's
Speaker 1: a super funny comedy club. Next up, I'll be in Portland,
Speaker 1: Oregon at Helium Comedy Club from November eighteen to for
Speaker 1: one night only. I'll be in Calgary at Southern Alberta
Speaker 1: Jubilee Auditorium on November for a cool night. It's a
Speaker 1: fundraiser for the Owen Heart Foundation, Brett Hart's uh brother
Speaker 1: who passed away. And it's it's gonna be a great
Speaker 1: time and I'm doing my whole new act. You're gonna
Speaker 1: love it. I mean, I'm doing my whole new act everywhere,
Speaker 1: but this is a special thing. And from December nine
Speaker 1: through the twelve, I'll be in Sacramento at the punch
Speaker 1: Line in California. More shows are always being at so
Speaker 1: just keep checking Russell Peters dot com or my Instagram
Speaker 1: at Russell Peters. Follow me as well because it's free.
Speaker 1: All right, you freaks now, I enjoy the shot. Welcome
Speaker 1: to this episode of Cultural Accounts. It's been a while
Speaker 1: since we've done an episode. Has it been almost a month?
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, I've been on the road like crazy,
Speaker 1: like insane. And when I say like been on the road,
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, I haven't had a day off this
Speaker 1: This last week, I had a couple of days off
Speaker 1: for the first time in a long time, and I
Speaker 1: was literally stretched so thin. I was literally at my
Speaker 1: breaking point. I was ready for a nervous breakdown. It
Speaker 1: was right there, it was looming, and my blood pressure
Speaker 1: was crazy high. I was supposed to go to Amsterdam
Speaker 1: on Wednesday because, um, I'm the c CEO of Red
Speaker 1: Light Holland. It's a truffle mushroom truffle company out of
Speaker 1: Canada via Amsterdam, and it's a micro dosing mushroom company,
Speaker 1: and I, um, I've never done mushrooms or micro dosing.
Speaker 1: So as per the company, they kept asking me, can
Speaker 1: you talk about it? Can you talk about I said,
Speaker 1: I can't talk about something I've never done. So I
Speaker 1: was going to go to Amsterdam on Wednesday to do
Speaker 1: mushrooms with a guide done the right way, you know,
Speaker 1: just not like some random guy on the street and
Speaker 1: hear some mushrooms. Then I trip out and fall into
Speaker 1: the canals and in in the red light district. So
Speaker 1: so I was supposed to go with Todd Shapiro, the guy,
Speaker 1: one of the guys who created the company out of Toronto,
Speaker 1: and he was gonna go a couple of days ahead
Speaker 1: of me, and and you have to do a COVID
Speaker 1: test when you leave the country. So he took his
Speaker 1: COVID test and turns out he tested positive for COVID,
Speaker 1: and then his kids tested positive. Could It was like, damn,
Speaker 1: this sucks. So in a very odd way, I I
Speaker 1: I was relieved that I didn't have to go. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that I didn't want to go to Amsterdam. I
Speaker 1: just didn't want to go at that moment because I
Speaker 1: was just so burnt out, was exhausted mentally and physically,
Speaker 1: but more mentally, which is worse. But how do you feel,
Speaker 1: How do you feel today today? I feel great, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like I had a few days off,
Speaker 1: I took my daughter trick or treating. I got to
Speaker 1: see my son last week. Um, we've had some sex
Speaker 1: with each other. Um and um it's all been great now.
Speaker 1: So as you can see, I'm at a little more chill.
Speaker 1: I'm not even smoking a cigla right now because I
Speaker 1: don't actually feel like one. Oh wow, that might be
Speaker 1: a first on this show. I don't think that's ever happened.
Speaker 1: It might change give him five minutes a little later.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't feel like right now a
Speaker 1: little I don't feel like wow. Okay, that's good. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you got some rest. Yeah, it was necessary rest, assary,
Speaker 1: rusty invest in rest. So, um, Ali's here with us
Speaker 1: again today. It's me Ali and Courtney. And uh, it's
Speaker 1: just nice to have you do two ladies with me.
Speaker 1: You know, each of you bring a different element to this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nice. It's a little a little balance in the room.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, there's been a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of ladies on the show recently. Yeah. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know It's funny is the ladies have been really bringing
Speaker 1: it on the show. That's why a lot of the
Speaker 1: dudes kind of like who I'm like, oh boy, they
Speaker 1: needed a vacation too, They needed a minute. But it
Speaker 1: seems like it seems like whatever women are doing nowadays,
Speaker 1: they're excelling in. Even in the m m A world. Um,
Speaker 1: there's no easy fights for women out there. Like when
Speaker 1: a woman fights in an m m A fight, it's
Speaker 1: real deal. And when two dudes get in there, they
Speaker 1: might take the night off and go a little slow
Speaker 1: and easy on each other, like lame, you know. So
Speaker 1: you know, women have definitely stepped up everything. And it's
Speaker 1: not that they stepped it up. They did it in
Speaker 1: a way where they made it like, look, if you
Speaker 1: guys aren't going to do this, right, we are. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate that. I think women are prepared.
Speaker 1: Like that's what I feel like usually, Like that's my observation.
Speaker 1: It's not a better or worse thing. I just feel
Speaker 1: like more across the ward, women are like, well, if
Speaker 1: nothing else, I'm going to be prepared, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean they sat on the sidelines for so long.
Speaker 1: They watched and they took notes and they were like,
Speaker 1: well I don't want to know exactly what I don't
Speaker 1: want to do. So they don't come in half acid.
Speaker 1: They come in full bore, which which is I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the same for any marginalized group of human beings, um,
Speaker 1: whether they be females, non whites, gay, straight, trans whatever.
Speaker 1: If you've been marginalized in some form or another, you're
Speaker 1: gonna when you get your chance, you're gonna take it
Speaker 1: a little bit more seriously. Right, No, I agree, look
Speaker 1: at me, full of full of insights to I know,
Speaker 1: full of these like feminine power. Insights had some feminine
Speaker 1: power on me this morning. So speaking of I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask, is it are you fully wedding planned out?
Speaker 1: Or is it is there still more planning? We did
Speaker 1: our tasting a couple of weeks ago. We're already in
Speaker 1: production for the invites and that's a pretty cool. We
Speaker 1: just got to send them out. And yeah, just all
Speaker 1: new to me, like, you know, because obviously I've been
Speaker 1: married once before, but five hundred bucks have cost me.
Speaker 1: That thing was Elvis impersonator, a little whitechapel. Oh that's right,
Speaker 1: I forgot and out, buddy. Yeah, yeah, that lasted a
Speaker 1: long time. You know. They say you get what you
Speaker 1: pay for, right, So you got what ye short wedding,
Speaker 1: short marriage? Yeah, I guess uncertain, Yeah, I mean, there
Speaker 1: are some people it's worked out for just you know,
Speaker 1: when you're doing it for the wrong reasons at the
Speaker 1: wrong time, it's never a good deal. Right. Were you
Speaker 1: very drunk? Can I ask? No? No, My daughter's mother
Speaker 1: was pregnant. I was like, I should probably be a
Speaker 1: gentleman to marry her. I don't know. I figured, you know,
Speaker 1: I figured Indian people get married all the time and
Speaker 1: they don't really know each other and they make it work.
Speaker 1: And I'm Indian. Let's trying to make this work. And
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna work. But you know whatever, I got
Speaker 1: a great kid out of it. Yeah, that was the
Speaker 1: whole purpose of it, that really was. So you know,
Speaker 1: this would be the first. So I considered this my
Speaker 1: first marriage, this one right here, this lady she had
Speaker 1: raised two daughters by herself, no help and uh and
Speaker 1: still a strong woman like no, And there was no
Speaker 1: like I'm longing to do this. It was just like
Speaker 1: one of those things. I was like, you never, oh,
Speaker 1: that would be fun, you'd be I think you're the
Speaker 1: right one. Yeah, even though you pushed me away in
Speaker 1: the beginning. Yeah that was at the beginning. I wasn't ready,
Speaker 1: you know that already. I was not in a good
Speaker 1: mental space at all. Yeah. I was going through a
Speaker 1: lot at the time. Yeah. Yeah, Eddie had just transitioned
Speaker 1: into a and so we were dealing with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's traumatic for everyone. He used to tuck his art
Speaker 1: vark in and just his mushroom cap was didn't have
Speaker 1: a mushroom CAP's got a turtleneck. It's got an ant eater.
Speaker 1: These are all bumper stickers on these cars. On his motorcycle.
Speaker 1: My other penis is a hard heat I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a helmet for it whenever, even his motorcycle,
Speaker 1: even his motorcycle helmet has stuff over the front. You
Speaker 1: should get a helmet like that, Eddie, the uncircumcised motorcycle helmet.
Speaker 1: And then you have to respond when someone's like, heyduk,
Speaker 1: you have to pull it down to see and his
Speaker 1: license plates is YAE was there? You got dick face perfect.
Speaker 1: So we got some viewer emails. We have several, really
Speaker 1: had like three. You remember we thought we were going
Speaker 1: to be clever and we're gonna do a viewer feedback.
Speaker 1: One we had no viewers. Hi, this is Canal. I
Speaker 1: have a question for Russell um As an Indian comedian.
Speaker 1: I imagine you had to do some like weird Indian
Speaker 1: brown events coming up. So I've wondered, have you ever
Speaker 1: been heckled by an Indian uncle or auntie? Uh? Or
Speaker 1: if not, what's the weirdest thing that. Yes, I'm Indian,
Speaker 1: I'm a comedian, but I'm not an Indian comedian. Um,
Speaker 1: let's just straighten that out right away. I was always
Speaker 1: just a comedian. In fact, that I'm Indian was something
Speaker 1: I couldn't do. I couldn't avoid. Um. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: did have to do so I didn't have to. I
Speaker 1: did do some Indian functions, and yeah I did get
Speaker 1: heckled by some uncles and aunties, but they didn't like
Speaker 1: it because I shut them down like I was in
Speaker 1: a comedy club. I'm not the Indian boy that's going
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, auntie, uncle, thank you. No, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I fuck you man. I was always that guy. I
Speaker 1: was not going to be fucking like like some dorky
Speaker 1: as didn't get at a here shut up, uncle, who
Speaker 1: have another shiv us? Or Johnny Walker black you fuck
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I would just let him
Speaker 1: have it. And then I remember doing one Indian culture show,
Speaker 1: and I got that happened, and then some girl came
Speaker 1: back and tried to get all up in my face,
Speaker 1: and I was like, get the funk out of here,
Speaker 1: Like there's parents and uncles and aunties out there going
Speaker 1: I don't give a ship their problem. Where was that
Speaker 1: in Canada? Something all up in my girl? Like, I
Speaker 1: was like, get out of here. Comedy show now it
Speaker 1: was like an Indian culture show, and I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: not my problem, lady. Yeah, we need to expand our
Speaker 1: our our horizons. Here is what I was trying to do.
Speaker 1: I was always about taking us outside the bar or
Speaker 1: the blubba as the Indians would say, and uh and
Speaker 1: and and let us expand. And now look where we're at.
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one. And there's plenty of them
Speaker 1: doing really well, so you know, but they weren't there
Speaker 1: when I started. I was that guy. I was the
Speaker 1: first guy. I again, when I started, I wasn't thinking
Speaker 1: about how I'm going to do this for my people.
Speaker 1: I didn't have any delusions of grandeur. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: also feel like that's basically if you did try to
Speaker 1: piece them, that's the kind of the thing of like
Speaker 1: trying to make your parents happy with your comedy set,
Speaker 1: which is probably not. That's the worst work. Oh did
Speaker 1: my dad really likes my set? Wow? Well that sucks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The more of my parents complained about I I'm doing something. However,
Speaker 1: my dad was really smart, so when he would give me,
Speaker 1: he'd give me feedback. Good walk in front of cameras
Speaker 1: if you can't call, yeah, PAULI uh what when do
Speaker 1: you think your alarm is going to go out on
Speaker 1: your phone? Yeah? So my dad, But my dad. My
Speaker 1: dad was really intelligent and spoke like his English was
Speaker 1: his vocabulary was amazing and not to be messed with.
Speaker 1: But then he would try and tell me to like
Speaker 1: I need to expand my repertoire. He would tell me
Speaker 1: all the time and talk about different things and can't
Speaker 1: just do this? And then I was like, oh boy.
Speaker 1: And then he would tell me here's reader's digest. Go reader.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not going to learn from reader's digest.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. But I did take it to
Speaker 1: a certain degree and I started paying attention more when
Speaker 1: I was out just trying to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's where we're at now. It's only been thirty
Speaker 1: two years. We're good. I think you're onto something. That's
Speaker 1: what I think. All right, there's there's a lot of eats.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the next one. Hi resful. I was wondering,
Speaker 1: you know, since COVID pretty much all live performances stop
Speaker 1: for a really long time, including stand up. If stand
Speaker 1: up I'd never come back, what would you have shift
Speaker 1: to besides podcasting? Of course? Would you have gone to
Speaker 1: get uh educated in a different way, a completely different career.
Speaker 1: I'm curious educated. See that's the problem is people think
Speaker 1: you need to somebody else to teach you something. Would
Speaker 1: you go and get educated? I never got fucking educated
Speaker 1: the first time? Do you know what I mean? It
Speaker 1: was I learned. I learned through life. And if you're
Speaker 1: a hustler and you know how to live through life,
Speaker 1: that's I mean. I would have figured it out eventually,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to adapt because of COVID. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, you make these these little uh concessions in
Speaker 1: your life. And I would have probably gotten more into deejaying,
Speaker 1: and probably I was ready to enter the World Jiu
Speaker 1: Jitsu Championships. I would have I would have trained my
Speaker 1: ass off because I would have nothing else to do.
Speaker 1: I would have. I would have entered the World Jiu
Speaker 1: Jitsu Championships, and I would have continued down that path.
Speaker 1: I think too. I'm sure there's no money in it,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of personal gratification that I would
Speaker 1: have seen from that. But you know, fifty one years old,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do? I would have figured
Speaker 1: it out, flipped something into something. Yeah, I always did
Speaker 1: since I was a little kid, So it's not like
Speaker 1: this would be new to me. Did you ever think
Speaker 1: that it wasn't going to come back that. I never
Speaker 1: thought it was going to come back. I just thought
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna come back fully, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a little weird, and it was a
Speaker 1: little weird at first. But you know, as we you know,
Speaker 1: as we meander our way through this new world we're
Speaker 1: living in, we're starting to figure it out and it's
Speaker 1: coming back just fine. And you have a tour coming
Speaker 1: up now, Oh, yes, I do have a tour. Thanks
Speaker 1: for bringing that up. Courting at your Age World tour.
Speaker 1: So here's what happened before the pandemic. I had come
Speaker 1: up with the title for my tour and it was
Speaker 1: going to be called Brown's Plaitation, and we had artwork
Speaker 1: made up. It was like artwork like black sploitation films,
Speaker 1: but with like a lot of Indian themes in it
Speaker 1: and stuff, and uh it was really dope looking. But
Speaker 1: the act had nothing to do with Brown e seplotation. Um.
Speaker 1: Culturally canceled has nothing to do with being culturally canceled. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Um Deported had nothing to do with being deported.
Speaker 1: You know, none of my tour titles have ever really
Speaker 1: had anything to do with the act. But this time
Speaker 1: I came up with the act. And usually I came
Speaker 1: up with the name of the tour and the title
Speaker 1: of everything right away. This time I came up with
Speaker 1: the act. First, I was struggling to come up with
Speaker 1: a title name and um. I was in Abu Dhabi
Speaker 1: in September and I was sitting on my balcony with
Speaker 1: my buddy Clay Roberts, who did the podcast, and we
Speaker 1: were brainstorming. I was like, well, I need a better
Speaker 1: name of this too, because it doesn't make sense it's
Speaker 1: brown seplotation. And then I came up with Act Your
Speaker 1: Age because my act is about, you know, uh, dealing
Speaker 1: with being a fifty year old man and still not
Speaker 1: mentally being a fifty one year old man, but at
Speaker 1: times having to mentally be a fifty one year old
Speaker 1: man and dealing with millennials and gen z s and
Speaker 1: all these sensitive cultures we're living in front of now
Speaker 1: and how we got here and why we got here.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I came up with him, act
Speaker 1: your age, because how do you act your age? If
Speaker 1: I act my age, I could possibly get canceled. So
Speaker 1: that's why the title makes sense on this tour. So
Speaker 1: finally a tour title with an act that matches it.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to toot my own horn, but
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty damn good act. Eddie, what
Speaker 1: do you think about this act? Eddie's excited for it,
Speaker 1: Eddie likes and Eddie's seen a bunch of him now,
Speaker 1: he's seen about five tours she'd ever seen see. Paulie's
Speaker 1: sister came into me in Pittsburgh and said it was
Speaker 1: the funniest she's seen every tour as well. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that it's getting great feedback from people who have seen
Speaker 1: me a lot of times. And it's funny to see
Speaker 1: fun faces on the internet, you know, when I post clips,
Speaker 1: know like and I'm like, clearly, I said this is
Speaker 1: a throw a. Yeah, clearly I said this is CrowdWork, right,
Speaker 1: And they're like, we won't do something else but talk
Speaker 1: to the crowd. I'm not going to give away my act,
Speaker 1: you prick, you know what I mean? Like, here's some
Speaker 1: free ship on your free platform. Go freely funk yourself
Speaker 1: and people talk ship. Now. I just instantly removed them
Speaker 1: as a follower. I'm like, I don't need your bullshit totally.
Speaker 1: And also that I feel like that also goes for
Speaker 1: our podcast listeners. Just a reminder that this show is
Speaker 1: also free, so stop whining. Thank you free. I don't
Speaker 1: like it, well, then don't fucking enjoy. You don't watch it?
Speaker 1: Why are you here? Can you flick on the middle
Speaker 1: heat for Alee? I'm good you were looking at it earlier.
Speaker 1: I was there was a mosquito flying over your head,
Speaker 1: and I was like, don't give bit on your neck.
Speaker 1: That's why I thought land on his leg your life.
Speaker 1: You did on that. You got stung this morning? Listen
Speaker 1: bigger than a mosquito with Eddie's motorcycle helmet. Moy no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm a proper My ship looks pretty at all times,
Speaker 1: perfect small but pretty small. Looks like King louis like
Speaker 1: the king of a chessboard. K you see the Jungle Book.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, o King Lily and everything. And then oh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty funny. That's like the most graphic thing we've
Speaker 1: ever been sone, right, so you just see when he's
Speaker 1: dancing and they're doing King Lily. It's pretty funny the
Speaker 1: same I will. Yeah, well, there's a lot of penises
Speaker 1: and animated movies. I feel like the um in The
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid and the castle on the cover and then
Speaker 1: also like the old school cover and then they changed
Speaker 1: it because they realized and then there's the priest that's
Speaker 1: marrying them, and if you pay attention, it's like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I've never watched any of those Disney movies really watched. Ever,
Speaker 1: how is that possible? I was a grown man when
Speaker 1: they were coming out. I didn't To me, I get that.
Speaker 1: And he didn't have kids at the time. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got that. Also, you know, to me, there's a difference
Speaker 1: between animation and cartoons, and I like cartoons. I don't
Speaker 1: like animation. It's like trying to be too real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see a fucking a chicken running into
Speaker 1: a wall, Like I want to see dumb, dumb, mindless thing.
Speaker 1: You want to see slapstick in your cartoons? Yeah, just
Speaker 1: just have fun and not mean anything. I get that.
Speaker 1: I mean I think for me, like, as you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a music cold fans, so I feel like those
Speaker 1: movies are very musical and the music annoys me, and
Speaker 1: I like all that. He's like to be watching this ship.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, first of all, the baby's here, so
Speaker 1: we're watching it, right, you put it on and leave
Speaker 1: it on. I'm like, what is this on my fucking TV?
Speaker 1: I like background. I like background, like music, Yeah do you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like to have the news on. My dad the
Speaker 1: news on, and I just need to know what's happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's depressing, but it's it's what's happening. I know. That's
Speaker 1: what my mom does, the exact same thing, and it's um.
Speaker 1: But that's why it's like every time she calls, she
Speaker 1: wants to talk about politics, and I'm like, I need
Speaker 1: you to get another thought in your head, just like
Speaker 1: another one that is maybe not just this annoying because
Speaker 1: it's all bad. Yeah. Um, And I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: don't watch the news, but yeah, maybe just not like
Speaker 1: the twenty four hour news right where it's in the
Speaker 1: back here. I kind of keep it on the local
Speaker 1: and one just so get the weather and traffic more
Speaker 1: than anything that's not bad, and also find out what
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Speaker 1: podcast app. Hey Russell, my name is Dave. I just
Speaker 1: had a quick question. Um, you did two Comedy Now specials,
Speaker 1: one in ninety seven and one and two thousand and three. Um,
Speaker 1: I read your autobiography and I'm just I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit unclear about a couple of things. I'm just wondering
Speaker 1: me you could tell me what happened between that period,
Speaker 1: because I know that you mentioned about sleeping on Keith
Speaker 1: Robinson's couch, and then I think you also went to
Speaker 1: South Africa. But if I'm I I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong about this, but did you also go to
Speaker 1: England and Holster Show. I'm just wondering if you could
Speaker 1: talk about those six years because it seems like those
Speaker 1: six years will be important to your career. Anyways, to
Speaker 1: love the podcast, UM, hope to hear more of it.
Speaker 1: Thanks again. Well, first of all, thanks Dave. A little
Speaker 1: first person said they loved the podcast, so salute to Dave. Um.
Speaker 1: So when I si I slept on Keith Winson's couch,
Speaker 1: Keith Robinson Patrice O'Neil's couch as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: and those guys really gave me a lot of solid
Speaker 1: advice and I played them my special then the first
Speaker 1: special actually it was it was called Comics. It was
Speaker 1: on CBC in Canada, and I was so proud of
Speaker 1: that one. And I took the videotape with me to
Speaker 1: New York and I put it on and I said
Speaker 1: to Keith and Patricia want to see and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I put it on. It was silent in the room
Speaker 1: when it was on, and then it was when it ended.
Speaker 1: I looked at them. They go, what the funk was that?
Speaker 1: And they go, come on. They were like, that was
Speaker 1: the worst piece of ship I ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: And I was like, come on, your kidding. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: that was trash and I was like, throw that funk
Speaker 1: videotape in the trash. I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: And they weren't kidding. And they told me how to
Speaker 1: right differently, how to think, how to write in a
Speaker 1: place where nobody else can do those thoughts but you,
Speaker 1: because they're your thoughts. They said, what what was what
Speaker 1: was so special about any one of those jokes and
Speaker 1: that that anybody else couldn't do? And I couldn't have
Speaker 1: I didn't have an answer, and then made me change
Speaker 1: from that moment. And then I got the Special in
Speaker 1: ninety seven, which I feel at the time was a
Speaker 1: little too soon for me because of what they were
Speaker 1: doing was um they were banking off the success of
Speaker 1: the one in ninety one. Didn't there until ninety six,
Speaker 1: and then you know, they were like trying to get
Speaker 1: another one out in ninety seven, and I agreed to
Speaker 1: it because they offered me ten grand I was like
Speaker 1: ten grand I was. I went and bought Alexis with
Speaker 1: it because I'm a fucking idiot. Uh you know, So
Speaker 1: that special wasn't that very good at all. I'll be
Speaker 1: the first to admit it. And then you know, the
Speaker 1: six years went by. Why I did nothing in Canada.
Speaker 1: I was in England all the time. I was traveling around.
Speaker 1: From England, you would get all these gigs in Europe
Speaker 1: and Asia and the Middle East, and I was just
Speaker 1: two in the world doing comedy through these gigs from
Speaker 1: from London. And the money was terrible, but it was
Speaker 1: a great time. I didn't have any kids, I didn't
Speaker 1: have any I didn't have any mortgages. You know, it
Speaker 1: was all just travel around the world, make your money,
Speaker 1: go make a little bit money and go go see
Speaker 1: all these countries you would never have gone to in
Speaker 1: the first place. And that's where I started, just to
Speaker 1: learn how to write differently and experience the world differently.
Speaker 1: And then you know, in that time, I was cultivating
Speaker 1: my act, and because I didn't know, I wasn't doing
Speaker 1: any TV, I just kept polishing up the act, just
Speaker 1: kept getting shinier and shinier until we did the One
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three and and that changed the
Speaker 1: game from me. And yeah, I did have a little
Speaker 1: talk show in England in the early two thousands. It
Speaker 1: was called Network East. Late it was BBC two I
Speaker 1: think it was, or the South Asian but whatever. It
Speaker 1: was called Asian Programming Unit. That's what it was called
Speaker 1: because in England the Indians are called Asians. So if
Speaker 1: you're in England you say I met an Asian person,
Speaker 1: They're not going to think Ali, They're gonna think me.
Speaker 1: And in America when I say I'm Asian, they would go,
Speaker 1: do you know you're not like that, fucking idiot? Go
Speaker 1: look at the maps, dude, But um, look at look
Speaker 1: at the biggest One of the biggest parts of Asia
Speaker 1: is US. Yeah. Fuck um. And we're also the second
Speaker 1: largest population of the world of South Asians. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was the host of this late night Indian
Speaker 1: Indo centric talk show in London and uh it wasn't
Speaker 1: very good and all the guests had to be Indian
Speaker 1: for some reason. I was like, listen, We're already Indian,
Speaker 1: We're already doing something. Why do we only have to
Speaker 1: talk to more Indian people? It just didn't make sense
Speaker 1: to me. I was like, no Indian person does this
Speaker 1: much Indian ship in their life, Like why can't we Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we can have we can we can put a
Speaker 1: spotlight on the Indian people that are doing something different.
Speaker 1: But we literally had a girl on the show who
Speaker 1: was in one of the those New Star Wars movies
Speaker 1: in the two thousands. But she was like in a
Speaker 1: scene it was like an extra basically like here can
Speaker 1: you pass you with that? Here you go, sir. It
Speaker 1: was like that, And I'm like, and I'm having to
Speaker 1: ask her about this movie and what was it like
Speaker 1: working on the movie, And I'm like it was so lame, um,
Speaker 1: but whatever, you know, it puts me in that world
Speaker 1: and lets me experience different things and then you appreciate
Speaker 1: how much harder it is to do that type of
Speaker 1: show when you when you've done it. So when people
Speaker 1: say where else it would you like to host a
Speaker 1: late night show? I wouldn't mind. But you know, and
Speaker 1: how much work is involved. That money better be right
Speaker 1: because it's like it's constant. You have to you know,
Speaker 1: have something every day every Yeah, I mean there's the
Speaker 1: writers and everything. You know, it's gotta be you gotta
Speaker 1: turn it out. The writing has to be right. A Russell,
Speaker 1: how's it going? It's rab calling out shadowing out from
Speaker 1: Mississauga really loves the show. So this is a kind
Speaker 1: of an odd question. Um, it's actually a question more
Speaker 1: for Lenox Lewis, but I know you and Lenic Clois
Speaker 1: or friends. So cousin of mine used to train with
Speaker 1: a one of the decathlon guys Canadian team back in
Speaker 1: the day. He said. Apparently Lennox Lewis and Ben Johnson
Speaker 1: got into it at the Olympic Village back in what
Speaker 1: is nine when Ben was at his peak, you know,
Speaker 1: peak testosterone or whatever you want to call it. So
Speaker 1: apparently Lennox went to punch Ben and Ben, being you know,
Speaker 1: as strong as he was back then, just put him
Speaker 1: in a bear hug. And kind of just you know,
Speaker 1: fight fizzled out, people broke up the fight. So I
Speaker 1: just wanted to know if this is an urban legend
Speaker 1: or if this was real. Uh, kind of curious to
Speaker 1: find out, So I'd love to hear the ante on
Speaker 1: the show. Well, Rap, I think there is definitely some
Speaker 1: truth to that. I don't know about Ben putting Lennox
Speaker 1: in a barrague. I don't No, I don't know that
Speaker 1: part is true, but I know they they almost got
Speaker 1: into and I know Lenox almost knocked out Ben Johnson
Speaker 1: that at the eighty eight Olympics. They had a little beef,
Speaker 1: but Ben was all roided up at the time, so
Speaker 1: Ben was real real you know, Antsie from the Royds. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact details. Lennox has told me
Speaker 1: the story before, but I don't recall it. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of stories from Lennox, So but you know,
Speaker 1: once I get Lennox on the podcast one day, fucker
Speaker 1: Lenox literally came over one day when we're doing a
Speaker 1: pod because you want to do it? Yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 1: then he left and waited till we were done and
Speaker 1: came back, didn't he Also there was like another day
Speaker 1: it was like two days. He did that twice to us,
Speaker 1: and Rip Hamilton's did that one time. Remember Rip Hamilton's
Speaker 1: was here waiting, But that wasn't his fault. That was
Speaker 1: our fault. We started late because everybody else came late
Speaker 1: and he had to go right. He was here on time.
Speaker 1: And then Rip was going to do it a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and then he bailed on me, and
Speaker 1: Royce Clayton bailed on me. And you know that's the
Speaker 1: thing with having friends that a retired athletes. You're like, listen, stupid, um,
Speaker 1: you were at the top of your game at some point.
Speaker 1: We don't just relive those moments with me. I think
Speaker 1: all those people should be on the same episode. Definitely.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be Royce and Ripped that day, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because then you can roast them all for being you know,
Speaker 1: it was gonna be Royce, Rip Russell and Ralph. Ralph
Speaker 1: Porter was gonna sit in because Ralph Port is a
Speaker 1: big sports fan and he opens for me, so I
Speaker 1: wanted him to be here to talk to sports stuff
Speaker 1: and I would talk like just a regular human ship
Speaker 1: to these guys. But we're gonna get to that episode
Speaker 1: one day soon. It'll happen, and then we'll and then
Speaker 1: we'll have a better answer. But you remember the year.
Speaker 1: You remember the year that that happened. It was was
Speaker 1: the Olympics. That's when Lennox of Gold. That's when Ben
Speaker 1: Johnson won a gold And then, uh, I remember the
Speaker 1: newspapers in Canada so fucking racist when Ben Johnson won
Speaker 1: the gold as fastest man in the world. He beat
Speaker 1: Carl Uh, he beat Carl Lewis and it said Canada's
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson fastest man in the world in the front newspaper.
Speaker 1: And then when the steroids thing came out, it said
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson from Jamaica tested pausing like, wow, wow, you
Speaker 1: really turned quick. Huh yeah, they were. They were dicks
Speaker 1: about it. Oh that's that's say. That's the media, buddy. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll bring you up and tear you down the
Speaker 1: exact same way. Hey Russell, this is Drew Um. It's
Speaker 1: been a very sad time since the recent unexpected passing
Speaker 1: of the great Norman McDonald. Uh. And he seemed to
Speaker 1: be such a comics comic, so I have been really
Speaker 1: enjoying hearing different comedians tell their favorite norm stories and
Speaker 1: moments and such, so I'm wondering if you happen to
Speaker 1: have a favorite Norm McDonald joke or moment, or if
Speaker 1: you ever got to meet him over the years, maybe
Speaker 1: you could share an anecdote or two. Take care of
Speaker 1: you well, Thanks Drew, which is also the past tense
Speaker 1: of draw um uh so Norm Canadian as well from Ottawa. Hilarious,
Speaker 1: like like it was just funny as hell. We're at
Speaker 1: the laugh Factory one night and Jamie Massada, the manager
Speaker 1: of the owner of laugh Factory, he was just my me.
Speaker 1: Norm and Jamie were staying there and Jamie's like, but
Speaker 1: everybody keeps giving me their car, the look this guy producer,
Speaker 1: this one, the right to this one on a catering truck.
Speaker 1: Everybody give me the leir card bro and and and
Speaker 1: and then Normal looks at me, and then Jamie goes
Speaker 1: on to something else, starts talking about something completely random,
Speaker 1: and then Norm goes, hey, Jamie, do that thing with
Speaker 1: the cards again. It's just so funny, dude, that bit
Speaker 1: about the cards a game, It's just so ridiculous. I
Speaker 1: remember laughing so hard because I was like, that's so
Speaker 1: fucking funny, man. But that's the that's the genius that
Speaker 1: he was. And when he replaced he replaced me on
Speaker 1: the last comic standing, and that was the only person
Speaker 1: I was not upset. I was like, if I'm going
Speaker 1: to be replaced by Norm McDonald, I'm not. I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with that. I mean, you at least
Speaker 1: replace me with a better comic. Did you ever Were
Speaker 1: you ever doing any shows or performance? Is there any
Speaker 1: like TV appearances with him? No? But him and I
Speaker 1: used to bang the same chick back in the nineties.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of people that you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I remember specifically because she was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: used to funck Norm, and I go cool. I didn't
Speaker 1: know Norm at the time. I knew who he was.
Speaker 1: I didn't know him. I was like, okay, whatever, I
Speaker 1: don't give a shot. I'm sucking you know, so I
Speaker 1: don't really care who you sucked before me. And then
Speaker 1: when I met Norm, I was like, hey, do you
Speaker 1: know blah blah blah. It's like, oh, how do you know?
Speaker 1: And I go, I go, doesn't that make you? What
Speaker 1: is the word? Ask of my brothers? I guess as
Speaker 1: my brothers, Yeah, Norman, I are forever connected. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got the same chlamydia and I'm just kidding. Hi. Yes,
Speaker 1: my name is Victoria. And I was wondering, since you
Speaker 1: filmed from your backyard, do your dogs enjoy participating, flash helping,
Speaker 1: being involved? Um? And or I say dogs, how many
Speaker 1: dogs do you have? Um? And do they enjoy it?
Speaker 1: And are they helpful? Well? The dogs are all Alley's dogs.
Speaker 1: She has seven dogs. She's a crazy dog lady. But
Speaker 1: we keep the dogs at Allie's house. Um. She has
Speaker 1: three pitbulls, three ship sues and Piper Pipers are different
Speaker 1: and Pipers, you know, the toy pug who's been on
Speaker 1: the show. She's fallen asleep on my lap on the
Speaker 1: show and she was snoring on this show. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know that the dogs enjoy the show. Um, I
Speaker 1: haven't asked them, but you know, no, she has seven dogs,
Speaker 1: so that we late Like the other day we had
Speaker 1: two of them here. We had Piper and Bubby, he's
Speaker 1: one of the shit sus. But I really want to
Speaker 1: bring Dino. He's the pit mastive. I love Dino. He's
Speaker 1: my big my big boy Dino. He's huge, he's a
Speaker 1: d and twenty pounds or something like that. And uh,
Speaker 1: I was playing with him in her backyard a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and he's so freaking strong and so big.
Speaker 1: I guess he got excited the way I was petting
Speaker 1: him on the head and he got a little frisky
Speaker 1: and tried to hump my leg. But when he grabbed
Speaker 1: my leg, it literally felt like a jiu jitsu takedown,
Speaker 1: Like it felt like a guy grabbing my leg to
Speaker 1: give me a single leg takedown. He was like, hey,
Speaker 1: get off me, you fucker. I had to push them
Speaker 1: off and he was like, hey, we want to do this.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't. But the funniest thing is
Speaker 1: when she has to go into his cage, and now
Speaker 1: he's got a doghouse, which he's very happy with if
Speaker 1: she goes into his cage because he would tear up
Speaker 1: his beat all the time. She would get into the
Speaker 1: cage on her hands and knees to get it out,
Speaker 1: and he would run behind her try and hump her
Speaker 1: every time, and I was like, you stand there and
Speaker 1: laugh and I see it's not just me. It hurts.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what the fuck? No, Because he grabs
Speaker 1: and I'm like I was like, get him and laughing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, it hurts like he's scratching my leg
Speaker 1: and scratches leg. I feel like it would be really
Speaker 1: amazing if there was an attack dog who didn't just
Speaker 1: you know, like bite and growl. But well, no could
Speaker 1: do like a jiu jitsu take down, like what you're saying,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, maybe with a little humping there.
Speaker 1: I think it would has to be just to just
Speaker 1: to emasculate your yes, because then he pins you down
Speaker 1: and humps you like when he gets you down. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's really big and released. When I first met Dino,
Speaker 1: he was I walked in her back ard and he
Speaker 1: was lying down and I was like, you got a pig,
Speaker 1: And she was like, it's not a pig, that's my dog,
Speaker 1: one of the other pits. They have to be separated
Speaker 1: at all times. They can't be together because she always
Speaker 1: a tax Dino. She's a little Diesel last pit too.
Speaker 1: What kind of pity is she? Pocket? Pocket pity, pocket pity.
Speaker 1: Apparently she looks like she's part Frenchy, like she's a Frenchy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a sweetheart too, but she's so sweet, but she
Speaker 1: doesn't she doesn't like Dino, and Dino's twice her size.
Speaker 1: So she got out one day and ran straight for
Speaker 1: him and attacked him, bit him on the ear, and he,
Speaker 1: defending himself, almost tore her leg off. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: he wasn't. He wasn't. He's not like I'm gonna get you,
Speaker 1: just like funk out of here. So the vet came
Speaker 1: to fixed Nilly up and then and Dina had like
Speaker 1: a scratch on his ear. So the vet puts a
Speaker 1: whole bandage around his head. Right, he was standing up
Speaker 1: with his head on the brick, like like you have
Speaker 1: a nick on your ear. Comb down. You tore off
Speaker 1: Nilly's arm and she was walking, and you know, she
Speaker 1: was fine with she she was mad, but she just
Speaker 1: he was. She wasn't whining or anything. She just went
Speaker 1: in her bed. He was other whining. And I'm liked
Speaker 1: because he's a male. Males are such babies when they're
Speaker 1: certainly there's no doubt about that. Hey, thanks for listening.
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