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00:00which way is he coming from this way or this way okay thanks yeah just wanted to have a view of
00:13seeing him coming oh i didn't know we were filming i would not look at my phone like a jerk can you
00:23give that to my brother when you got this i have hidden folders so you won't find everything in
00:26there it's not as creepy as you think you get to have a seat till he comes oh yeah he's coming right
00:32away you bet you bet so i should also welcome him and stuff right totally you got it hi guys
00:39okay where do i go chair chair there's a chair i have a chair nice hi guys nice to see you by the
00:50way how are you what's your name lyle lex here nice nice nice lexler lexier russell lexier
00:56with sexier when it's lexier yeah that's right very nice to meet you my family and i are like
01:02huge fans of yours i thank your family for having low standards oh hi nice to meet you i'm alexis
01:08hey alexis nice to have alexis hi hi i'm millie hey millie well you can ask me questions through
01:15that i love it yes maybe all right hey buddy i'm luke hey luke how are you luke at you i've been
01:23a fan of you for 14 years oh thanks luke it's like i've known you since you're a baby
01:27i like your sense of humor on some of your shows on some of them though yeah i don't want them i only
01:37have watched some shows i don't blame you it's not that good all right everybody i think we're ready
01:49to start lyle you get to open the show for us lyle here's your microphone lyle lexier that's right
01:56welcome to the assembly a collective of autistic and neurodivergent interviewers
02:13we are very delighted to have you join us today our rules are no subjects are out of bounds
02:21no questions are off the table and all might happen can you please tell us who you are
02:28my name is russell peters i'm a stand-up comedian for the past 36 years and uh this is going to be
02:35fun because i too have i have no filter already so it's just nice to meet other humans with no filters
02:42first question comes from mariah thank you russell once again my family and i are huge fans of yours
02:53thank you anyways um i've got a question for you so um what is your most embarrassing moment
03:00oh that's a lot of those um i have two marriages to prove that no i have
03:06not that i don't want to put you on the spot uh my most embarrassing moment i don't know
03:12you know embarrass i i i tend to say embarrassing things when i meet celebrities you would think
03:19oh russell you've been in the business a long time must be a old hat to you no i still panic
03:24i'll tell you a story i met willem defoe this is maybe about 10 or 12 years ago i'm at the
03:31toronto film festival i'm standing in the hallway and he's standing right beside me and i'm like holy
03:35mackerel that's that's willem defoe right there and uh and now you would think that your brain
03:41would start giving you all the movies he's been in right no not my brain my brain much like yours
03:46just went the other let's go in the other direction and uh my brain somebody years ago told me willem
03:51defoe has a huge penis that's what i remember that's the only thing that popped into my head not
03:57at this movie that movie my brain went that guy's got a huge penis and
04:02my panicked brain i go hey nice to see you guys hey nice to see you i go you got a film in the
04:09festival he goes yeah you i go yeah me too he goes oh congrats i go thanks man hey congrats on your
04:14penis and he goes what i go no i heard you got a big one out
04:23i said if i had one like that i'd have it hanging out right now and then and then he goes what and
04:34then you hear russell peters i go nice to meet you and i walked away
04:38that might be up there with one of my most american i'm sure there's plenty to share
04:44thanks moriah i like your cube what is that one it's got a seal and an otter and a jellyfish on
04:54it it's from tea tea wow he feeds the seals you feed the seals at the aquarium oh yes oh nice
05:00i also like otters i'm an otter person yeah you otter be in pictures
05:04damon is next damon damon
05:12you look very young damon that very nice clear smooth skin like a seal almost
05:22that being said tj would like to feed you
05:27i love that thanks so much i am a handsome 24 year old seal yes you are
05:43i am non-speaking so it will take a little time for me to type my question no problem
05:54now my brain thinks damon has a british accent
06:00you really want to mess with me change it to the indian accent it'll really freak me out damon
06:05um russell would you at all be okay taking off your glasses sure yeah is that okay
06:14amazing am i reflecting is that we're reflecting yeah there i am i was trying to hide my tired
06:22eyes guys don't worry you look bad fabulous mom quick question before ipads and stuff how
06:33did you and damon communicate we did not oh he didn't communicate till he was 14
06:39that's no so you have 10 years now and it's only gonna get better exactly
06:49in your book call me russell you described a specific racial slur that was used as a way for
06:55bullies to assert their feelings of superiority over you as a child and teenager at the time when you
07:01wrote this you couldn't find humor in such name calling so my question is what do you think of the
07:10use of the r word to describe people like me
07:15well see it's funny you should say that that's a good question damon
07:20because um i would self-admittedly say i use the r word all day long
07:24but it's never about anybody with it's mostly about situations for me like or my i've been
07:33saying it so long too it's it's one of those things where i know my intention but i also know
07:36where not to say it you know i'm not out there uh but i would never call somebody like you that
07:42it just that that to me that to me is out of line that's when you're using it in the wrong way it's a
07:47it's a it's a venomous way of using it the evil way the evil way that yeah that's the it's the wrong way
07:56okay thank you so much thanks damon
08:04julia your turn julia your next love thank you
08:09and what was your favorite moment from the time spent in the school that you went to um the one
08:17where you said all the autistic people sat on the table together that's why this is not new to me
08:21this was like being in high school really right now my school was like this it was and so i loved
08:27it because i feel like here now tell me if i'm wrong but i feel like autistic people are on a different
08:33level and and what they would consider regular people i think we're stuck in a way of doing
08:39certain things and you guys are able to see and do things that we just can't figure out when
08:44people say special needs i hate the term special needs because your needs aren't special your needs
08:49are um you have actually basic needs uh... we have the special needs i can have gluten special need
08:56you know i'm there and lactose intolerant special need you know what i mean you want to get into
09:00a building that's not a special need that's a basic need you know what i mean you need an elevator
09:04that's not a special need that's a basic need i need to get upstairs
09:07so uh... being in that high school for grade eleven and twelve really it just showed me how
09:15much better the world can be you know when i was in the other school with all the the normies um
09:21they were dicks you know and i never i never i never had that problem in the other school like
09:27like i look at everybody here i go huh finally real people you know nobody's hiding behind anything
09:33thank you julia thank you liam you're next
09:39good old liam i gotta be honest liam you're the least liam looking liam i've ever seen in my life
09:44uh thank you i think liam are you a power lifter or something jesus uh yeah i am yeah you look
09:56like you could lift the whole room right now
10:01um you've discussed uh notions of challenging political correctness and i was wondering what
10:07that meant to you to challenge convention like that well i've always been a guy that's questioned
10:14everything you can't just tell me something expect me to go okay um there's there's always gonna be
10:20more information behind it than than just the okay you know if it's not affecting or hurting anybody why
10:26do we have to do that just we're not a bunch of robots and that's why we're all here today because
10:31we all have different ways of looking at things and uh if if it's up to political correctness they
10:37won't let any of us talk you know they're like oh they're going to say something out of line i go
10:41well i hope so because that's what i want i want to hear people tell the truth saying what you saw
10:46isn't bad and you know you saw it when people tell me oh you can't say that but that's really what
10:52happened political silence yeah that's what i call it yeah that's good one political silence i like that
10:56i'm so afraid of scaring of offending someone up that's almost getting that's scary in that way
11:02well yeah that's that i mean that's a george orwellian concept yeah you know look at i mean i'll make
11:08i've been making jokes to you guys all day but somebody's going to watch this and get offended for
11:12you and i think when people get offended on your behalf it's even worse because that means they're
11:16looking at you like they're smarter than you and you're like no you weren't there you weren't feeling
11:20the energy in the room you know and that's i hate that kind of stuff like oh you should have said
11:25that to liam unless liam tells me himself i'm not gonna know you know what i mean thank you yeah
11:33alexis you're next
11:39uh hello um so i um heard that you didn't have such a great relationship with your mom growing up
11:49uh but that it's changed now over time and i was wondering kind of what happened like was it you
11:56that changed was it her that changed or was it like a little bit of both that like repaired your
12:00relationship well it's funny because um my mom doesn't realize that we had a strained relationship
12:07when i was a kid because uh so my mom has not changed at all yeah okay i had to understand my
12:15mom yeah more than she had to understand me and once i realized my mom really didn't have any bad
12:21intentions she just had a different way of doing things yeah it made that made it a lot easier you
12:26know and then and now my mama's boy what are you gonna do you know uh you know she's 84 years old and
12:31yeah and she's still kicking and she's you know she's mom and she's so little you know okay
12:39i wouldn't say i had a bad relationship either when i was a kid it's just that
12:42my mom was very fair-skinned so i was when i was getting uh racially i was a kid in the park
12:49and i would come home and my mom wouldn't give me that much sympathy i was assuming she was because
12:55she was white um i was like oh you're white that's why you're acting like that she's like i'm from
12:58india how am i white and i'm like well you're very fair-skinned and i'm like okay and i'm like
13:04doesn't matter you're one of them to me right yeah but that's but that's always been her way of
13:08dealing with since she's never like oh my god are you okay she's never been that person yeah i don't
13:12think she's capable of being that person um but that's fine that's just who mom is you know you
13:16got to accept people the way they are for sure yeah you can't change them so you have if you want to
13:20really be what's around people you have to bend the way you think to understand the way they think
13:25hmm that's good advice for my mom there you go see let her know yeah and maybe she doesn't like
13:30you because you're white i'm just kidding i'm kidding i don't know maybe yeah
13:41what are you making i'm making a bag nice it's a crochet bag that's pretty cool yeah thank you
13:47uh nilly you're next i was wondering when nilly was going to get up here
13:55sorry somebody wrote all over you nilly
14:02so i am a queer person to me that is an umbrella term that covers me being transgender and also
14:10varying sexual preferences my question to you is have you had any queer experiences or fantasies
14:24myself no i mean i i don't know the problem with two girls with me but i mean
14:30but i i've never no that's i mean that's why i really understand it is it's not uh it's not a choice
14:36you know it's just the way you are and i kind of accept everybody the way they are
14:42because whatever you are doing is really none of my business you know but if i care about you
14:47i just want to make sure you're good you know it's never been for me but i do have some very
14:52close gay friends and some trans friends i have friends right across the board so
14:57i get to ask them all the questions i want you know because when you're friends with somebody they
15:00understand where your heart is and where your um what your intentions are when you ask questions
15:04so i tend to ask a lot of questions just because i want the actual answers i don't want to ask a
15:09straight guy about how a trans person should feel that's not fair to you you know so if i have a
15:14question i'll be like millie i need some answers yeah thanks thanks millie nick you are up okay then
15:27hey nick pleasure to meet you mr good hat thank you anyways my question we're going to dwell a
15:34little on your past something a little more interesting how you used to uh... deal uh...
15:39weed and hash back in those days oh yes was there any particular instances when you nearly got
15:44nabbed and that that caused you to think of maybe giving up and is that even why you gave up
15:52no i uh... so back in the day i needed money and i never did drugs and uh... i knew some guys that
16:00had drugs ah yes and we're talking the late 80s weed was illegal at the time right and so i needed
16:08money and these guys said here and they gave me a brick of hashish and and they said uh give us back
16:15this much and whatever you make after that is yours i remember sitting down in my bedroom and i took this
16:20little brick of hash and i cut it all up into ten dollar pieces and i wrapped it up in tinfoil and i went
16:25out and i saw my friend's brother was like hey you smoke hash he goes yeah i go you want to buy some
16:31because you got and i go yeah i go how much you go ten bucks piece of black hash i sell it to my
16:37friend's brother i'm like all right i made my first sale i'm a drug dealer now and uh and maybe about
16:43no about half an hour later his brother comes back goes i don't want it anymore and i go wait what
16:49because i want my money back i'm like how am i the only drug dealer return policy
16:54so me thinking i'm street right i i grab it i go let me see it and i open it up something didn't
17:00feel right about it but i'm like i don't know maybe i've been touching it all day and i smelt it but my
17:04hands already had the hash on my fingers so i'm giving you way too much drug information but when you
17:08break black hash it's brown on the inside yes so i broke it and it was brownish on the inside i go all
17:14right but i give him his money back but i'm like i'm not convinced and then i just went i put it to
17:19my tongue he took the hash and gave me back you know those nibs the little black licorice oh he took
17:26a little black licorice and gave it back to me oh my god so i got ripped off on my first drug deal
17:33ouch i learned very early that that was not the world for me so it wasn't even about getting caught it
17:38was more about getting ripped off oh man oh yeah did you sell the rest of it i did sell the rest of
17:45it yeah okay i had a staunch no return policy after that very strict thanks nick no problem at all
17:53fantastic um luke p luke p
18:02how's it going russell hey luke p how are you i'm doing incredible i've been fanning you for 14 years and
18:08i love your stand-ups on netflix and youtube man thank you um my question for you is you're canadian
18:14but live in the united states what are some of the best and worst moments of living in the u.s
18:23i mean the best moments of living in the u.s were all pre-trump and um
18:28uh you know the worst moments are living in them now buddy you know it is very frightening and it is
18:41very heartbreaking what's going on in the world right now i mean i you know i talk about it in
18:47my act i say you know because i'm i'm not an american citizen i've been there 20 years and they asked me
18:52you're gonna get citizenship i said no they said why not i said i'm not giving up canadian they go you don't
18:56have to i go but i don't want the other one i'm very happy with my canadian citizenship and they
19:01said what if they kick you out i go that's not a threat what are you gonna send me back to canada
19:05that's not a threat that's that's kind of an upgrade thank you i am thanks again for coming
19:12russell and we have all a lot of respect for you ma'am thank you you too luke thanks luke p
19:17alex you're up thank you okay so a bit more of a serious question for you um do you ever feel
19:35like you've become a safe brown guy for white audiences someone who makes race funny without
19:40making it uncomfortable i mean that was always my goal to do that not not the safe brown guy part
19:48but uh you know i'm from a different generation i grew up in a different generation than the brown
19:54kids now so my experience is completely different than their experience they have each other to lean
19:59against and i didn't have any so being an indian kid that grew up in brampton before it was
20:05majority indian and so i hung around the jamaican kids so my experience my childhood memories are all
20:14very like they're very different than the kids now yeah so i don't know if i'm a safe space but i'm
20:20definitely a reminder of what canada used to look like or what it used to sound like even yeah are you
20:25happy to see the difference of what it is i'm happy to see the difference i'm just not happy to see the
20:29lack of simulation anymore i think it'd be great if we all intermingled more because that's what made
20:35canada so and kept moving us forward and the minute we all started to just find our tribe and and go
20:41away that that separates us and that defeats the purpose of coming to another country yeah well thank
20:46you thanks thanks alex looking forward to that bag oh yeah
20:59thank you
21:16hey thanks man welcome welcome well that's my energy for the day i'm just kidding everybody feeling
21:24good yeah um all right back to the questions next is sophie
21:32so uh forbes magazine calls you one of the richest comedians what do you spend all your money on taxes
21:45taxes taxes ex-wives baby mamas everything but me those were the good old days weren't they
21:59pre-debt i call it
22:00yeah you know you know i think we're all pretty regular people here we grew up in normal houses
22:07with normal parents we didn't live a luxurious life we got whatever we got and then when you're
22:13a kid like me who grew up wanting things that your parents could never afford when you start making
22:18money you start buying all the things you ever thought you wanted and then when covid started it
22:23taught me that i didn't need any of these things yeah well good thank you so much thanks gen c gen c from gen z
22:40howdy rascal i mean russell yep i did yeah i do get names wrong and you know i gotta tell you there
22:50were there were there were so many peps safe i've done uh like since uh um like since since age two to
22:57to to present and uh and long long story and uh um do you have any any regrets like that in life
23:06like uh what did you do and uh what happened
23:11i mean i think uh i don't think i have any regrets i mean there's situations that probably could have
23:17handled better but i wouldn't call them regrets because everything becomes a learning moment you
23:21know yeah and i also live uh i'm one of those people who lives a life of oh wells rather than what
23:27ifs so i think a regret would be uh a what if would be a regret what if i did that well i should have done
23:35it then you know yep like uh um late like right now i'm always like oh i shouldn't have done that you
23:45should have done it i guess guess i did and i'm glad you did for sure yep i'll i'll take your word on
23:50that anyway it was great meeting you guys thanks gen c yeah great millie would you like to close the
23:59show for us yeah millie so how was this experience for you was it difficult it wasn't difficult at all
24:12it was actually really fun because uh i like people that are not um there's no filter and i'm no
24:20filter and so it's like talking to a bunch of me you know so it was great for me a great experience
24:27i think you guys are all wonderful you got beautiful hearts and uh it's a wonderful thing
24:32and we thank you and it's a pleasure to have you yeah i can extra having me yeah it's a pleasure to
24:38have you muscle that was a good impression of rothal it's good dancing with you uh you sure
24:48everyone yeah it's very nice to meet you did he finish it no i did not finish the i finished okay this
24:54part the bag part but not the trap oh yeah yeah i got it it's pretty quick though yeah thank you it's
24:59impressive you too i got you i'm right here that's me touching you yeah not in a creepy way i hope
25:09here we go awesome thank you thank you thank you can i give you a hug thank you buddy i'm nice to
25:21meet you too brother good to see you good dancing with you
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