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$532K in One Month Selling Land They Didn't Own - Ep. #308

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$532K in One Month Selling Land They Didn't Own - Ep. #308

The podcast features an interview with Jeffrey Peterson, "The 420 Comic," who has been a performer since the 1970s. He recounts his journey from a heavy metal singer to a stand-up comedian, adopting the 420 persona after encouragement from Victor Lop and George Lopez, who told him to embrace his love of marijuana. Peterson shares anecdotes about working with icons like Rich Little, Gary B.C., and Louis Anderson, and describes performing at events such as Tommy Chong’s birthday. He discusses the challenges of performing while stoned, noting that while he can handle it, many comedians fail when high, citing examples like Joey Coco Diaz and the Lucas Brothers. Peterson criticizes celebrities who claim modern cannabis is too potent, calling such complaints overblown. He also reflects on mentoring other stoner comedians like Stoner Rob and expresses frustration at never being booked for the Boston Freedom Rally despite his New England roots. Throughout, Peterson emphasizes his authentic connection to cannabis culture and his pride in a career rich with unique experiences.

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[Music] Hey everyone this is Richie Ramon and you listening to Still Token with, yeah. Greetings, my friends. This is the Brain of TV's Pinkie in the Brain! Yes, and my. Oona Avatar, Marisa Marsha. I, it's Chris Bond and you're listening to Still Toking Whiz. Hey! This is Eric Roland, voice of Kendall Rapa on My Hero Academia and host of the Tough Love Podcast. You're listening to Still Toking Whiz! Are the Dorkening Podcast Network? My crew is ready to appear the after-lunch and move it. Any doubt that we were several four-man. What's happening, everybody? Did you miss us? Uh, bullshit, you didn't miss us. But that's okay, because it was a much-needed vacation for us. I'm very excited about tonight's show for multiple reasons. The gentleman that we have on is a real OG, been doing what he's been doing for quite a long fucking time. Uh, but he's also one of the reasons why seven seasons later we're still doing this show. He was one of our first guests in season one. I believe it was the third episode. What a shitty season we had, man. We knew nothing about any of this shit. Um, long story short, he agreed to come back all these years later because he's been kicking ass for many years. And uh, I'm just really excited to catch up with him. I mean, he's uh, he's one of a kind. I'm going to leave it right there because I have to introduce my counterpart in the shenanigans this evening. The flashy one, as always, Mr. Jeffrey Mark. Good evening. Yes, I missed us being here too. Well, you were on vacation and being with your family and all that good stuff. So welcome back, everybody. I wasn't around for season one, but I am around for now and I am thrilled. We got somebody. This is going to be an hour of fun. This guy is a comic. He's a voiceover artist. He's a comic book artist. He's an actor. He's a promoter. He's nuts. And he's going to bring that nuts to our show. Please welcome to our stage. The 420 comic, Jeffrey Peterson. And open up your mic Jeffrey. There you go. Yeah, your mic's muted. There we go. It's unmuted now. All right. See, and that's part of it's fucking comedy act, folks. Well, there you go. And the last thing you want to do is mute a comic, right? That's right. That's just like, that's an oxymoron. But uh, welcome from Fabulous Las Vegas, you guys where the earth is melting, but we're we have a pool. So we're happy. We have pot and a pool. So that's the most important. Yeah, it's like 500 degrees out here in Palm Springs today. Awesome. But you have a pool there too, right? Correct. Not in my background. That's a sense. AC and a pool are like the tools that help you survive in the desert. But of course, you know, I live in a fantasy land over here. It's like, it's an amusement park. I can step in and out of anytime I want. And it's been a blast lately. You know, I'm a celebrity impressionist. And lately I've been hanging out with Rich Little. That's been fun. I've been down the edge of the hill. Oh, he's just so great. He brought me up to do impressions with him. And and that was a thrill of my life. So yeah, Rich is a friend and boy is he talented. Oh, man, he's just such a great guy too and very, very affable person. But you know, that's most Canadians are like that. And he's just a really cool guy. He's a legend. You know, I the room he's working at at the Horseshoe Casino. I used to be ballies. And I was there five nights a week and and Carl LaBove's show stripped. So I worked with the great Carl LaBove and Alan Steven. And we followed Wayne Newton three nights a week. So, you know, I love working with these legendary guys the best. Right. Yeah, Rich's daughter lives out here near me. Oh, okay. Well, he's just, you know, he got he got he stepped back and couldn't believe some of the voices that came out of someone that looks like they're from sons of anarchy. But when when when I broke out by Casey Casey, so he just couldn't believe it when I said, you know what, Rich, the year 1983, the band Dexys Midnight Rutters, the song, come on, I leave. He just, he got a big. I have to arrange, I have to arrange for you to do that for Gene Cason. That would be great. Yeah. I've met Gene Cason before and I worked with the great Frazier Smith from K. L. O. S. So, so I got to do for years. I did celebrity voices on there and people didn't know they told Gary BC was really calling him, but they didn't know it wasn't Gary BC at all. It was a figment of their imagination. But yeah, I love giving Gary way too much intelligence of that. Oh, let me tell you, let me tell you, Jeffrey, he is a sharp tool. Gary is not to be to be underestimated. And I'll tell you why for years on Frazier Smith's show, I would do James Gandalfini, I would do Ozzy, I would do iced tea, and I would do McConaughey, all kinds of people. Well, BC was like a mainstay. And for years, I mean, many years on his podcast and on K. L. O. S., people thought Frazier was very good friends with Gary BC. He'd never met him. So I tried the Mandela effect. I contacted Gary BC as one of the producers and said, we'd love to have you in the studio. You're always great when you're on the show. And thinking we're fooling him, right? And he, he said, you send me a limo to my house in Malibu, and I'll be on the show. We sent a limo. Frazier had him on the show at the second break. Gary turned to Frazier and said, you know, Jeffrey Peterson is the best Gary BC impressionist in the world. There's nobody better. He knew the whole time who I was and who was doing his voice. He's not, he's not dumb as I thought he was, you know, you would think he is. He's not at all. So Gary BC cheers. Yeah, we, I have worked with Gary on charity work and, um, right. He's an interesting guy. I'm glad you had a good time with him. I've never met him. I've never met him personally, but I've been around people that know him and they, they said you're frightening me because you sound so much like you. But yeah, I do, I have, I have a curiosity. Sure. The 420 comics. So in case any of our friends and fans out there, yeah, no, 420, wink, wink about marijuana and smoking marijuana because it, but that was the number in the books of police books. If you got booked from marijuana, 420 in the books was how I got there. Anyway, I've been doing stand up since the 70s. Getting stoned and doing stand up, it was almost the same thing when I was hers getting started. How did you figure out to sort of give yourself that 420 patina as you're a cook? Oh, it's, it's very interesting. And I told this story many, many times. I started, I used to be a singer in a heavy metal band on the sunset strip for years. And we very successfully, we would, we were headliners and we had, in the era of metal, we had labels ready to sign us, but things changed. The grunge era came in and then, and then I joined another band were in the rap metal era and we got very popular. But I got, after years of, of near success, I was like, I was, I was told by so many people between songs, how funny I am, why don't you do stand up? And I was like, okay, maybe this is a way for me to still be a performer and not deal with the drummer bitching about something. So, I tried stand up and I got a job as the, as the door man at the Ice House Comedy Club, the America's oldest comedy club. And, uh, much to my chagrin, they didn't care that I was a comedian. Like the comedy store where they, you have to be a comedian at the Ice House, they were like, we could give a shit, just watch the door. Um, but I, when I started, I thought of being like Jerry Seinfeld kind of clean, but my mentor, I met Victor Lop, who was on the going show and make me laugh. Victor was, you know, the funniest human I've ever met. He, he told me, I, I don't know why you're pretending to be something you're not. You're a huge stoner. You should just be that guy. So, that was part of it. And then, and Victor kind of got me on that, that little bit of a tip rolling, but when I let George Lopez. I was in it. I was still in a, you know, what happened was I was, I met him when I was in a metal band and he was, I was LA famous and he was LA famous. We weren't famous because he would play, he would headline the LaFactory and I would headline the whiskey or something like that. So we were, we were both, you know, LA famous 10 years later, and in 2003, I read, read, met up with George and he said to me, "That's great. You're a comedian. What, what, what kind of comedian are you?" And, and I said, "I'm figuring that out." And he told me, "You need to be a pot comic. You need to be, he goes, he goes, because you're, you're the biggest pothead I know." And he goes, "If someday, Cheech and Chong will need to hand that mantle to somebody," he goes, "You could be that guy." And he goes, "But you got to stick to it like forever." So I, my other influence was the unknown comic, who I've become very good friends with. Murray is one of my bad boys. Yeah, Murray is, it's a comic genius, probably the best one-liner in history and one-liner comic in history. And he, I took a note from him by pigeon-hoeing myself as the 420 comic and everyone immediately was like, "You're so stupid. You're never going to get gigs. You're going to, you're going to, like, just put yourself in a corner." And so for quite a few years at the beginning, people were like, you're like, "You should really drop that." And I was like, "No, I'm going to stick to it." And, and I started doing things other comics, didn't like playing conventions and doing, doing festivals that, you know, taking it back to the 70, opening for rock bands that nobody dared open for. They thought, "I was crazy." A lot of famous hip-hop bands. And so I kind of cornered that. Like, nobody was really doing that. And I was like, "Hey, here's a, here's a market." And it was a good friend of mine, Johnny Sanchez, from Mad TV, said to me one time. He said, "You know the good thing about you calling yourself the 420 comic." He goes, "There's a lot of people might not know Jeffrey Peterson, but a lot of people know who the 420 comic is, even if they don't know what you look like." They just, they've heard of you. And I'm like, "Wow, I didn't, I, and you know, that kind of thing, it's so interesting, you guys, because I was doing a gig in 2013 with Louis Anderson at the Plaza. And I got the opportunity to headline, because my buddy Warren Durso just, he was out of town and he said, "You know, headline my show." So I headline the Plaza. The show following us was Louis Anderson. And Louis Anderson came up to me. I've never met Louis Anderson at this point. And he said, "You know, if I knew the 420 comic was here, I wouldn't have done so many pot jokes." And I was like, like, you know who I am. And he goes, I didn't say that to him, but I just in my head. And I immediately said to him, "Don't worry, Louis, I'm going to do a bunch of buffet jokes when I go up." And he got to pick out of that. You got to be quick with these old timies. You know, I worked with Rip Taylor. I've worked with Bruce Baum. You know, I've worked with the legend. Jeffrey, it's amazing. We've never met in person. We have so many fun. I know. I know. I'm surprised. I dress Louis. I dress because of really. Yeah. It was Rip Taylor's idea. See, that's my hook, all the sequence. Oh, he was, you know, you know he's such a gracious person. What a great guy he was. I mean, I did a pot event on 420 with him. And he introduced me. I mean, I've been, I've been so fortunate. You know, I may not have a lifestyle that looks like I have a huge bank account. But man, if experiences were money, nothing can beat my life. I mean, I got introduced in New Orleans by Johnson Claire. I mean, he brought me up on stage, you know, like I've had, I got invited to Tommy Chong's 80th birthday. I mean, I could, so whatever impact that's been made, it satisfies me personally. I'd be like, wow, what a life I've had, you know, right? We talked about this off camera. We talked among ourselves before the show starts. No, I'm a recovery person. Marijuana was my foundation of my life when I was young. Yeah. I only worked stoned once. At a nightclub in Greenwich Village in New York City. Wow. In the late 70s. Exciting. It's exciting. Except, you know what? When I was writing comedy and doing stuff at Homestone, I came up with brilliant stuff. Right. But I soberly had to edit what I wrote to make it got it understandable. And I tried to get up and do it. And what I found was that I was so much in my own head. Overthinking. Overthinking. I wasn't feeling the audience's energy. I was reacting to them. I was reacting to me. I might as well have been at home by myself. And I never worked stoned again. How do you do it? And relate to the audience. Because I couldn't do. Well, I can say this, according to my girlfriend, some of my best sets have been at home. She said, I mean, she's never really said that. She's been like, oh my God, that shit you were doing the other day was fucking hilarious. And I couldn't redo it on stage. I mean, just, but to answer that, you know, I've always been one of those guys that gets stoned on the way to get stoned. I got, I got high all throughout high school. I got, you know, I was in a Christian heavy metal band and we smoked pot and sang about it. And people thought we were like, what? And we're like, so I've always, I've always liked pot since like eighth grade. Now, when it came to doing comedy, you know, I built this persona that I had to live up to. But it wasn't hard because it was real. I mean, I just, I love smoking pot. You're absolutely real. So I've had that tested to me numerous times, like a club like the Southwest Cannabis Club in Portland where you could, you know, it was a, it was a cannabis bar. People would interrupt me in the middle of my set. Do, do a dab right now, like right now and try to throw me off my game. And it would, I'd be like, if you want to keep wasting pot on me, go ahead. I will, I'll do a dab between every third joke because I love smoking pots. So you're not going to, I'm a professional on the high wire. I can, I can do this. And, and, you know, I, I, I used to have a show when I hosted hemp con and I had a, a game show called Last Stoner Standing. And I know I can do this. And I know other people that, you know, Stoner Rob can do this and Tommy Chon. And other friends of mine are, are pros at this. But, you know, not everybody is. So I would play this game show where, where I would take comedians and I would get them stoned. Now, now someone has a show that kind of copied me, but I would get them stoned and then put them through the paces. And one of the paces was to tell jokes. And I'll, cause a lot of comedians have never done that. And they, and a lot of them failed. They're like, I mean, I've seen famous comedians. I, you know, I saw Joey Coco Diaz once so stoned. He was like, I don't, I can't remember what the fuck I was saying. I, oh my gosh, shouldn't I hit that fucking brownie? What the hell was that shit? I forgot my act. I forgot my fucking act. And I just, I've seen people disintegrate the Lucas Brothers, who Lucas Brothers moving, the famous animated series that, that depicted to the Lucas Brothers as stoners on the show. Well, when I lived in Denver, they were, headlining a show on 420. And this was like, I think 2015 and they came to Denver. They're from New York. They got so high when they got there, they canceled their show by 420. They canceled it for the night. They, they said they can't do it. They canceled it. And, and the next day, and people were pissed, they wanted their money back. The next day, they went to mutiny information cafe to do kind of a meet and greet to kind of address it. And I sat now with them and I said, why are you guys pretending to be stoners? I said, there's people like me that take this seriously. I mean, this is, this is a genre for us. This is, this is something that we don't just pretend, you know, it's, it's not something that that we want to fit a mold by, by being opposed or we're not, it's, it's real to us, you know, Seth Rogen, back when I, we got to Seth Rogen. Pack up. Yeah, I hope so. So many of the people I came up with were working stoned. They did not, the audience, they were working stoned. They just, they just wrote and did it. And they would be backstage getting high, before they're going, I couldn't do it. But I did get to watch a lot of very funny people, people fail because they were stoned. Yeah. A lot of funny people do better because they were stoned. Oh yeah. Yeah. Sometimes it relaxes you. For me, for me, I do a lot of one-liners and kind of high energy impressions. So I've got it, you know, when I do my show, my one-man show impression impossible, I do 77 celebrity impressions. So to, you know, your mind has to be very, you know, in tune, you know what I mean? You can't drift. You've got to use the cannabis to be your catalyst and you can't space off in any way because you'll lose people. And also, too, they'll go, wow, you're like, you can't do this high, you know what I mean? Because I'm, you know, I just helped my friend Lana Turner, the widow of Ralphie Mae, she has a documentary and one of the things that happened also in Colorado was a Ralphie Mae got up on stage and he claimed to be a big stoner and he got up on stage and in the middle of his set, he said, I'm too high right now. I don't I don't even feel like telling jokes. I'm a, I'm a go back to my hotel room and he walked off stage 15 minutes, like 20 minutes into his set. So I couldn't imagine that. I couldn't imagine cheating an audience first of all, but also too. It's like, you know, this is a really funny world. We've got people now claiming that have scrimmaging, the pot makes you vomit. You know, we have a term we use in the cannabis world for people like that. We call them pussy's. Like what the hell wrong with you? Like he's throwing up from pot. Well, how about this? Don't smoke it then. And definitely don't smoke it around me because you throw in my ball on a big piss. But oh my god, like people, oh god, how about this too? Like, I mean, I've seen celebrities say this, look, the potency of marijuana today is so dangerous. There it's not like the pot in the 70s. It's so it's deadly. It could get you so like, just once you go lay down and take a nap, you're like, what's wrong with you? He's getting all excited. He's dropping his phone and shit. You muted yourself again. Oh my god. We're not muting him tonight, folks. He's muting him. Now, you brought up a friend of mine with Stona Rob. Yeah. So Rob's actually been on the show. He was on the show for an interview, but on New Year's Eve, we'd like to bring people back for like 15 minute updates. And he came back on a New Year's Eve. But next time you see him, just ask him to say, Hey, I heard you get a show in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Yeah. Just see what he says. I will definitely do that. You know, the thing is Rob was one of my protege's. I mean, I knew him when he was, you know, Robert Martinez. And and he came to me and he and medicinal Michael who was just running for Congress out here. They both came to me and said, I saw what you did with your name. I'm going to change my name to Stona Rob. And I'm going to change my name to me. So it kind of started a little bit of a trend. And these guys used to be my opening act and stuff. And so I think it's cool. There's strengths and numbers. There's more, you know, but I will say this. I was born in Manchester, Connecticut. I'm a New Englander in my soul. I still to this day, you know, Boston Freedom Rally. How have you never booked me once? I do not. When the King of Pot was alive, Michael L. Malta by dear, dear friend, you know, he back in 2012. He passed away. But they for years, they said they were going to book me there to be the host. And it's like, it's like, I'm from New England. You guys, you know, you don't want me, you know, to host. So that perplexes me, Ben. I'm as a New Englander. I'm like, I feel like Jesus. Like they don't want me in Nazareth. I mean, you've you saw what we started with, like how we started with the first comic book that we did. You know, you know, I mean, that's how far back we go. And we've only been invited once. Yeah, it is. And I live fucking 30 minutes from that. The problem behind a lot, a problem, the problem behind a lot of what I see is not just with the Freedom Rally, but with a lot of places they don't want to spend the money to have people there. That's true. Even though even if you're a draw, you know, and I mean, you're a draw in the New England area, where are you? You are in the New England area. Mr. Marks, a huge draw in the California area. They just sometimes it's like, I'd rather have, I'd rather spend $180,000 and have teach Marin here. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, they do that. They try to do that with me. Yeah. It's a lot of a lot of cannabis events have, you know, because I've, like I said, I kind of led the charge for that years ago. And because of that, I've worked with like, like so many famous bands and stuff. But I've noticed a lot of these famous, I mean, a lot of these cannabis festivals, they're not being able to afford big names anymore. So they'll present it like it was, but you'll go, I don't even know who any of these people are. They're not famous. I like you know. And I've always, do you think Jeff, maybe becouse of the legalization and kind of sort of normalization of this that being a pot head isn't as glamorous as it used to be when we were younger? It's it really has to do with the generation Z and, you know, for less-repart millennials, but mainly generation Z, they're just, they don't care about pot. They don't like it. They don't, I mean, I got a drill and they said, like, they keep doing it just with the scrummeting too. They keep having like memes and stuff and doctors saying that that teenagers are becoming, you know, addicted to cannabis and teenagers are like the pot is so strong. Guess what? I know a lot of teenagers. They don't smoke pot. They think it's for old people like us. So they, they look at it like, they look at it like, I'm not gonna smoke pot. That's what my grandfather does. They, they honestly don't. And even though they try to, you know, sell it like young people, it's still a thing to them. It really is not. They prefer to do nicotine with flavors and pills and any other weird hallucination. They like VR stuff. They're not even having sex. Kids are 18, that's a fact. That is a fact. They're not even interested in sex. You know, they figured out, first they went from like, do I take a guy or a girl to the prom? I don't know. Do I take both? Do I take one of the other? Do I take someone in the middle? Now they're just like, I give up. I'm not even going to prom. I'm not even gonna take and I'm not gonna have girlfriends or boyfriends or anything. Like young people just, are they're not in relationships? They're, they're, they're shifting from dry dick is what they're suffering. Yeah. Well, and also, too, they're just literally up here. Sex starts in the mind. They're not interested. They are, that's what I keep saying about the sex robots, too. You know, they're, they're, they're, they're not interested. Yeah. The sexual box are coming, you know, and, and they're, you're going to, you're going to see people dating robots very soon. The worst part about that is, you know, the sex robots are so realistic. Yeah. There you go. That's a great joke right there, guys. The sex robots are so realistic. You waited. I know what I'm, I know how to, I know how to, you know, speaking of, you know, we make, we make fantasy comic books and stuff and people don't realize because I'm a huge sci-fi guy. I read a lot of Phillip K dick and a lot of Brad Berry and Ellison and and great, you know, the, the greats and they, they predicted all this stuff and and what's crazy is people do not realize the wave, the tsunami of robots that is about to infiltrate our world. Like they can't even fathom it yet, but very soon in a blink of an eye, you're going to see robots everywhere. I mean, in Vegas, we already have the zoops, taxis, and LA, you have the little R2D2 delivery droids. So they just, they're going to break out the, the humanoid's real soon. A pretty soon earth is going to be like Krypton and look what happened to Krypton. Exactly. Here we go. But see the thing is, Jeffrey, is I believe we're in a, we're in a simulation like Phillip K dick said and I believe that we are in a, in a, a prison that is, that is, of a intelligent design by a benevolent forces that are keeping us within this space. I mean, even, when Bill Nye, the science guy who's an idiot, even says, we can't leave this system. We cannot leave this system. It's, you know, it really is true. We're, we're, the waters above the waters below. How about this? They just discovered recently, forget the Mariana trench. They've gone as deep as you can in the ocean and they say. they've never found a bottom. This one guy that built this like super submarine. He's like there there is there may be no bottom to the ocean. They find the same thing in Palm Springs. They can't find the top anywhere. It's all bottoms. So there you go. There you go. Well, let's go back. Let's let's let let let let Ben choke for a moment and then let's talk about comic books because I am so yeah. I'm a book fan and Ben and Jeff and you have produced some wonderful stuff and then I'm an enormous silver age Superman fan and and an expert. I mean, books talk about my being an expert. So I guess I would love to talk about your comic book. And I already know I don't have to ask a question. I'm giving you a topic. Go. Oh, the topic as far as comic books go you and comic books. Well, me and comic books. I have always gravitated toward really epic heroes. Conan was one of my favorites. Thor was one of my favorites. John Carter, Warlord of Mars. So I've always liked those kind of like sword slinging, you know, tough guys in comics. Especially when you take them like a fish out of water like like the what if Conan walked the earth today type thing. How that was never a movie I don't know. But yeah, and I've always like I've always like gotty over the top superhero costumes. I just like I love superheroes. I've always ever since I think the first superheroes I like were the mighty heroes. Ralph Bakshi's cartoon, you know, strong man, you know, and diaper man. When I was a kid, I really like diaper man. Yes, yes. So then anything superheroish I really like Hong Kong Fui. I mean, he's a what an odd choice for super joy or age now, sir. Oh, yeah, I think we all are because I mean, I grew up with him. Yeah, and I come from I come from an animation family. I was raised by by lesbians in the 70s in the hood and L.A. And so my Saturday mornings were like devoted to waking up super early and and catching my favorite cartoons and which they still hold up to this day. I mean, I love all of them. And but but yeah, my Saturday morning was till at least like 11 or 12. I was I was hooked from like probably 536 AM. Yeah, about six hours each Saturday. And then I would go and then from there around noon, I would go to the on Saturdays. I would go to the news stand in Los Angeles and get the comic books that I saved my money for that week to I get like three. And we always me and my friend would always piss off the the book stand guy because the new stand guy because we would spend about two hours trying to decide which ones we wanted. And we were we weren't allowed to open them. So it was my cover only and we were like, gosh, oh my God, which one should I get? Oh my God. Would you just hurry up and buy them and leave every week every Saturday? Yeah. So I love coming. I'm older than you guys. The very first comic books that came into my life, the selling price was still 10 cents. So I go all the way back. I started reading comic books in 1960. Yeah. And I got hooked. The adventures of Superman was on every day in New York five days a week and between the TV series and the comic books. That's how I learned to read and to love reading. Yeah, the TV series was great. The Fletcher Brothers animated stuff was just so I mean, the day just like astounding. People look at the fly sure Superman stuff and don't believe that it was all drawn by hand. Oh yeah. You didn't have anything else back then. Well, you know, I came from an animation family. My aunt created Baloo the Bear for the Jungle Book and she did the character design and worked on a lot of those Disney movies, the Aristocats and a bunch of other stuff. And then and then filmation just like dominated like Saturday morning. And so when I was a kid, my brothers and I, my three older brothers and I would, you know, turn the summer. We would go hang out there. So only two of us were interested and we would stand there and watch them make fat Albert tarzan and and Star Trek and we were just astounded. And then to meet Lou Scheimer, I mean, you know, look at that. He man is like the number one movie that wouldn't happen without filmation. That was, you know, Scheimer and Prescott were very, very important to their game. Yeah. And you had a film and we love you. We saw the thing. Thank you, Jeff. Yeah. And they were, they were, you know, I mean, what a, what a guy. I mean, he, he was putting black characters and Asian characters and Hispanic characters and cartoons way before anybody. He always included people. He was a really genuinely nice guy and he had always, always had moralistic tales. So, so I, you know, I've said this before, filmation made me the man I am today in a way. Because when I, when I turned 17, they got sick of me watching and they said, "Here, take a pencil." So I worked on Shira when I was 17, one episode. Comic book geek to comic book geek. Yeah. When I was young, and even when you guys were young, comic books had a cannon. It had, it had, this was the world of whichever character you were reading. There came a point, first 3D scene, then they all did it. Where they just kept reinventing the characters. Like every two or three years, they'd throw all the cannon away. And okay, now, you know, Jimmy Olson has red hair. Now he has black hair. Now he's gay. Now he's straight. Now he's a doll. Oh, yeah. "Sarenko's Wonder Woman" is one of the best examples. How do you feel about that? Where they just change everything. They claim they run out of stories and they have to do this or they have to modernize it. But I got angry. I pretty much thought of it because of that. I'm a purist. I like, you know, like I said, I like, I like, like, gaudy costumes. I like, I like my characters to look. That's what I hate about the present Marvel movies, the Disney versions of Marvel movies and quite a few even DC movies is. I like the costumes the way they were. I don't really, I don't think you have to really, you know, update them. They always make everything so dark to try to be realistic. They think, just make it black. That'll look realistic and it doesn't. It just looks like you're trying to blend in and you're clearly not at all. You're not, I mean, they shortchange us on so many characters. I mean, Black Widow would have looked so much better. Had she really had red hair and the bullet bracelets and the bullet belt and like, you look like the, and spoke like that, spoke like, you know, with the Russian accent. That would have been sexy, I mean, and cool. But they don't, they always shorts like, what if that could have been Marvel's Twilight Zone? Had they done it correctly? It would have been like a black mirror. They could have gotten big celebrities and great actors to play the already published great what ifs, what ifs my favorite series from my favorite comic book series. They just, what they did was, because I was an animator and I, and I was specifically worked with voice actors. They looked at their roster of people they could pay and they said, let's write stories around that, around who we could get. Not let's get great stories and bring them to life, you know, and I mean, yeah, the first episode, you see the watcher, he's a white guy. The third episode, he's become black and you're like, what the wait a second? Are you going to even address that? I mean, that's just weird. Don't be weird. I mean, no one has any problems with, you know, certain stuff, but like when you, when there's so much subterfews, there's so much sneaking stuff in that I need. And really, the Disney game plan is to reinvent all the characters from Marvel so that Marvel doesn't know the rights anymore. Well, there's no, it's really Disney characters now. I want to, what are brothers of the season is pretty much doing the same thing. You're talking about the dark costumes. All right. Yeah. Six foot three, incredibly muscular human being is wearing the tightest skin type costume and tights they can wear. There is. nothing realistic about that, that's the point. It is. Exactly. It's over the top. You want them to be, I mean, that's what I like about the boys. Like homeland or just steps right out. He doesn't give a crap. I mean, I love that type of stuff. The audacity of being a superhero, you have to be, because like Watchman really, you know, obviously it's like one of the best ever, you know, depictions of what, you know, realistic comic book heroes would be like. And so like when the hour, when the original night owl is saying, you know, well, the bad guys were wearing costumes to try to be silly. So, hey, we thought we'd costume up too. And that's really what it is. You're supposed to wear a costume that a villain would laugh at right before you knock his teeth out. You know, that's wonderful. There's a wonderful little bit of dialogue. From one of my favorite stories of all time, for the man who has everything, it was a Superman story. And folks, all you need to know is that there's a fortress of solitude. It's located in the Arctic. It's freezing cold. And what Batman and Robin have come to help Superman celebrate his birthday. And they're trying to get inside the fortress. And wonder women is wearing next to nothing. That was her costume next to nothing. And she's next to Batman and Robin. Oh, you boys must be getting cold. And Robin turns to Batman. She's wearing that and we're getting cold. And Batman looks at him and says, super hero. And keep clean thoughts, Chum. I loved that that they were they themselves understood that they were not normal and not average. And this is a fantasy. Right. And you know, here's something that someone brought up. You're going to dig this. The new super girl, which is, it's people are having a heart attack. Like there's nobody that loves Australian actors more than me. Trust me. Chris Lilly is, I think the funniest person on earth. But this, this, this choice for super girl, you know, she looked okay in the Superman movie, but she, she looks so weird in this. I haven't seen it yet. But someone pointed out they went close up. She's got pierced ears. How on earth did those ears get pierced? You have bulletproof skin. The only thing that could pierce your ear would be cryptidite. And that would practically kill you. If the bottle of candor actually still existed, right? It's gone to the bottle of candor and got her ear pierced there. But it doesn't exist anymore because they can't exactly see you're an expert. You would know. And the other thing too is this is my biggest gripe. This is my biggest gripe in comic book genre, like especially television. I can't believe they let Caesar Romero be the Joker for so many years with that damn mustache. Like every time I see him, every single time I see him, I go, "Shave that stash, you sissy." Because, you know, he was a flaming homosexual and he didn't want it. You know, he didn't want to shave off his mustache. I get it. You're just wrong for the part, man. You're just, we need somebody else. He did not want to shave off his mustache because he was a flaming homosexual. He didn't want to shave off his mustache because he was Cuban. And it was a son of a little bit. I would say a little bit of both. I've heard things about Caesar Romero. All years of his career going back to the 30s when he was a romantic star. He never made the mustache. He just wouldn't know. Oh, I know. And that worked, you know, when he played, when he played at sex trafficker on Vegas, that worked, but not when he's playing the Joker, right? I thought he was marvelous as the Joker. And yes, it looked silly having the white makeup over his mustache. I'm not a fan of Barry Coggins, you know, messed up face that I saw at the end. But I will say this since you're a DC guy, I think the Batman is the best Batman of all of them. And people have said, you're nuts, like, because I were done Batman, the animated series. And I will say Ben Affleck is kind of closest to that Batman. Like he, Ben Affleck, I don't like him as a person, but, and I know this is a Boston based show. So I'm just kidding. But he, uh, wow, we just, he nailed, he nailed, Dunkin Donuts. People are like, forget this Boston. What a dickhead. No, um, so, uh, he really, he really nailed Bruce Wayne more than anybody. Because Bruce Wayne is a jerk. Bruce Wayne wouldn't give me the time of day. And, and so he nailed that. Nobody yet has done that. I mean, Michael Keaton didn't do it. Val Kilmer was like, you know, thought he was Jim Morrison. Clooney's the worst, you know, I mean, and not, why you don't like Ben? Well, I don't, why I don't like him. It's not that I don't like him. He's number two on my list. I do like him. Oh, I don't like him as a person. Yeah. Why don't I like him as a person? Oh, because he's, he's involved in sex trafficking and child, dude, he's deep in it. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and, and all that they are deep in the Epstein world. His brother, Casey Affleck, they both been to Epstein's Island many times. Uh, how Matt Damon has, you know, had a career where he keeps that at Owens links. I don't know. But Ben Affleck is a despicable human being in my opinion. Now having said all that, he was really good at batman for the most part. But, but I think Robert Madison nailed it as vengeance. Oh my God, he was just so like I really liked his portrayal of Batman. Did you? I want to, I want to segue here. Oh, I want to go away here because we're talking about comic books and we're, and which is great because I love talking about comic books. But this one comic that we haven't talked about yet, that we really, really need to talk about. Which is what mine. This is right here. The legend of Mean Green. Yeah. And if anybody knows, Mean Green is a legend the past way and, and sadly in um, uh, 2022, he, uh, you know, the Boston based magazine Greenleaf, uh, magazine, uh, was planning on putting me on the cover in 2022. I was so excited. I didn't even more than high times are like what I, I wanted to be on a cover of a New England magazine that was that really represented, uh, you know, my roots. And so my friend Darren passed away. Mean Green, who was a legendary hip-hop artist and started the Los Angeles Turb Market, uh, real legend. Um, he passed away. We, we hung out with him about three weeks before he passed away, but he died of cancer and he didn't tell anybody had cancer. So it was really tough. But, um, Brett, uh, Cogill, uh, the editor of Greenleaf, decided to put Darren on the cover, Mean Green on the cover and, and did a side story of me, which, you know, obviously I couldn't get upset at. This is my friend who just died. So, um, I, I felt like it, you know, I missed an opportunity, but also it was like, you know, it couldn't be, it couldn't be helped. So then, uh, two years ago when, when, when, when Brett put me on the cover of, of, uh, Greenleaf magazine, I was so delighted. So I mean, yeah, Greaton, Darren and, you know, Darren Johnson, Mean Green means a lot to us, man. It's, it's weird that we did a comic book after he died because we would have done when he was alive, but we do keep a spirit alive. And, and even his mother contacted us and said, you know, this is wonderful. And Darren would have loved this and, and, uh, um, it, it's neat because we've been able to turn him into a specter superhero, a phantom superhero. He lives beyond in the, you know, he, in that realm between life and death. And, um, and we've been able to utilize that very well in the comic book. And, this next issue is very exciting because it's got, we bring back the character from our very first issue, uh, Super Stoneers number one, the villain known as Dickweed returns. Dickweed is a real, he's a multi-millionaire, uh, uh, just a total jerk that, that uses his money like a miser and gets, he's a spoiled brat. And then on the other hand, a new character we have called Doepster. And Doepster is, is inspired by, uh, Zoltan, our Zoltar, pardon me, the, uh, the, the, Sufseier, uh, and, um, uh, Doepster, which you probably know, uh, Jeffrey is a, is somebody that predicts the outcome of, uh, the outcome of sporting events and/or political events. So what a great name, Doepster, uh, for this guy that he, he sees the future. And, uh, uh, speaking of, uh, great names, speaking of great names, one more little piece of comic book trivia. Uh-huh. You mentioned the Spector. Uh-huh. You remember who created the Spector? Was it Jerry Conway? Jerry Conway? The original Spector was created by Jerry Siegel, the same guy who created the Spector. Like Jerry Siegel. Oh, how wonderful. Yeah. Well, They were, you know, people don't realize how that they created quite a few characters more than Superman. Right. You know, and yeah, I love all those guys. And you know, I've got to meet some of those great guys. I got to spend some time with Neil Adams a little bit. He was much friendlier than people said. I was wondering, I've always heard all of this stuff from people negatively about Neil socially. I didn't find it that way. I know. All right. Good. We agree. He was pretty serious, but he wasn't. You know, Jim Shooter was a really great guy. Jim Shooter, I did a comic book signing at Mile High Comics in Denver, which was already a thrill. But Jim, when you're a designer, you can go up and talk to anybody as you know Ben. The barrier of fanboy is broken. I can go walk and walk up and go, "Oh, you've got a table too. You're a designer." So they don't look at you the same. You know, Lou Ferigno, I could say, "Hey, I worked on the whole with you." And he was like, "Oh, wow." Like, I didn't have to give him 50 bucks to do that. So Jim Shooter, when he found out that my comic books were cannabis, theme, he really liked them. And he said, "Let me tell you." He said, back in the day, in the early 80s, high times and Marvel were very close to each other. Like, in proximity, he goes, "And a lot of the high times guys were comic book nerds." And a lot of the Marvel guys were big stoners. He goes, "We would have parties over at high times and little parties over at Marvel." And he goes, "We had a kind of a little mutual love affair with high times." And I was like, "Who would think that?" So Ben, guys like you and I, we're just falling into place in this natural thing. Pretty much. Jim Shooter was amazing because, you don't know who he was. He started off as a fanboy at DC Comics. And a host sent, Mort Weissinger, entire homemade comic books using the characters that Mort edited and more familiar to him, his very first comic book. He created Princess Projectra and Feroa Lad and Karate Kid. And he was 14 years old and used the money he made at DC Comics to help support his family. Eventually, he ended up running Marvel Comics. Yeah. The man was just absolutely. He's like six foot five or something like that. I've been so fortunate to not only meet but become friends with some pretty notable people. I met Ray Bradbury in 1996 and then about six years later, I come walking up and he remembers me completely. And I became friends with George Clayton Johnson who co-wrote Logan's run and some of the best Twilight Zone and Kung Fu and Star Trek episodes. So if I meet people like that, I kind of gravitate toward them and don't let them go. I've been friends with Jeff Dow, the real dude from the Big Lebowski for many, many years. But you got to take a bow for this because that's so many people react to you that way. You're a black and your talent must speak to them. You know, thank you, Jeff. I appreciate that. And it's. You know, like my time with Rich Little two weeks ago hanging out with him. I just saw him like three days ago. But when he brought me up to do impressions, it's like, you know, that was so not only generous of him, but he saw the bigger picture like this. He saw through my veneer and saw that I'm a talented person. And he wants to, you know, exploit that in a way that benefits me because the neat thing too is I explained to him because I'm a real rocker guy. I address like a rocker and always have been. Yeah, so the funny thing is like I explained to him right now, Alice Cooper and Chris Angel are doing something together. And I said, I said, Rich, think of me as Chris Angel and you as Alice Cooper. Like I'm the. In a way, like nobody else is bringing rock and roll to impressionism. And impressionism has become very popular again, really popular. But no one's bringing rock and roll to it the way I do. And the neat thing is is that's what Chris Angel did with magic, you know? I laughed so hard only because thinking of Rich as Alice Cooper and Rich is so politically conservative. Oh, that's just the whole idea of that is very fun. His show is edger than you'd think. I mean, he had a great pot joke in his act. He does, when he does Ronald Reagan. He does, he has a reporter asking a question, Mr. President, is it true that you're considering legalizing marijuana? And he said, well, that is true. In fact, next week we're going to meet in a joint session. Look at that, he had a pot joke. I love it. I love it. So, yeah, so I was, you know, man, working with these guys, like, you know, when I met Murray Langston, the unknown comic with Vic Dunlop, I'm driving home with Vic and Vic goes, you made us laugh. And I go, oh, really? And he goes, nobody makes us laugh. We're weird legends. We're old school. You made us laugh. He goes, do you realize that that's not easy? We don't think anybody's funny. Well, they fit a lot of comics together and they talk and some of us see something funny will go, yeah, that's funny. Yeah. But they don't laugh. They don't. No, they don't. Very excellent point, Jeffrey, because the thing is, when you do, when you do open mics, if you're up there and people are laughing at you like crazy, they're actually making fun of you because if the comedians are watching you, they're going, shit, that's a good joke. I think that guy, damn it. They don't want to give it up. A very quick show business thought, less than a minute. K Valored Broadway star came to tell you late 60s on the mother's in law with E. Vard, which was reduced and directed by Desi Arnitz. So Lucille Ball had even K and Desi and the rest of the cast to her home to screen the first episode on Milton Verl and Jack Benny and other people they knew really well. And he said she was horrified. They watched the entire show. It wasn't a laugh, a snicker, a smile. All she got was that was clever. Well, that was, oh, you moved too fast. All she got was commentary. She thought the show was terrible until Lucille pulled her aside and said, honey, this is how they are. They liked your show or they wouldn't have commented at all on it. 100%. They're so, they're so serious. Yeah. I've been so fortunate I've worked with so many greats and so far I haven't let anybody down or you know. They let you know. It's what's great about comedy is that if it doesn't work out, they show you the door pretty quick. They're like, you know what? This maybe isn't for you. I mean, the biggest break I got really changed my career in 2007. I'd only been doing comedy for four years and I was by no means ready to be a headliner. But Garrett Morris from Saturday Night Live made me a headliner at his comedy club and he believed in me and that kind of stuff just kept, you know, one thing led to another, you know, and I mean by me kind of focusing on these old school people more than like, you know, who's young and hip and who's happening now? Because all the comics that are famous right now came up with me and they're much more famous than me. But I was there when Tony Hedgecliff was, you know, a door man. I was there when CEO Vaughn was first starting and I did shows with Joe Rogan and if you would have told me Tom Segura would be famous, I would have said, no way. I used to work at a reality show with him. So, you know, so, you know, it's neat and what's crazy too on the other end, Jeffrey, you'll get this because you're a comedian. People are shocked. They're like, wow, you're still around. You know, I've been doing this for 23 years. So I just had line the Ice House Comedy Club, which was a huge, you know, career achievement for me because I started out there. So the headline was a big deal. My friend Craig Robinson came to visit me and, you know, I used to see Craig, you know, in the trenches when there would be 11 people at his show. So he came by to just wish me luck and to tell me, you know, that he's still thinking to me, that meant the world to me. So, and I hadn't seen him in years. So that's what kind of thing comedy does. You get to, you know, either a show. Isn't she beautiful? Yes. You. Yeah. Wave. Say hi. So we have, we have the amazing 420 comic on the show tonight, folks. And one of one of my superstars, my granddaughter, Lila said, no, I want to say hi. I said, come on down. She put the earbud in her ear herself. Three and a half with the earbud. But in so she could come say hello. Lila, you're looking very pretty. You're looking very pretty. You say thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. You got a cool grandpa. I can tell. I can tell. Am I a cool nano? Yeah. Yeah. All right. I think she's got talent. I think we're going to be seeing her performing sooner than all. That's great. Oh, that's great. Well, you know, I'm very fortunate. I've really, really enjoyed doing comedy and making comic books. Did you, I was starting to ask you before. Lila joined us. Have you ever had an evening working in front of an audience? We're for whatever reason you've flopped on. But you have an evening where just it didn't work. Oh, yeah. And if you, and if you, if you say you didn't, then you really haven't been doing comedy very long. And sometimes it happens in the oddest of circumstances. I was doing an event for Los Angeles normal, okay? The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. The famous cannabis defense attorney Bruce Margolyne's place. You know, and it was like, it was, this was, this was the, the, the cannabis movement of, of the West Coast there, right? And they had just been talking in that nauseam about legalization and stuff. And I would do events where Jack here would say, okay, we talked enough about legal stuff. Jeffrey, go be funny. And then they would tell me to go be funny. And I was like a court jester. Most of the time it would work. Most of the time I'd go up and, and I would just like, you know, turn everything around into people laughing now. Well, this time they were still so serious thinking about, you know, reform laws and this and that. They were not in the mood for, for somebody, you know, making fun of, of pot. And the way I do. So I bombed hard. Nobody was laughing. My friend, Lou Dogg from the band cotton mouth, King's turn to me. And goes, dude, you're bombing. I know. I know. But it's been worse before I did the million marijuana, the million marijuana march in Lambert Park and South Central Los Angeles. And I'm on stage in the middle of the day. And there's a bunch of black people, you know, watching me and they're going, do you know where you're at? And I go, yeah, I know where I'm at. I grew up right down the street. I said, you remember that one white family that wouldn't move out of your neighborhood? Hi, I'm Jeff. And so I, at the end, I won them over, you know, it's like, you just got to believe in what you do. And the biggest thing you got to do is have fun. You got to, you got to really enjoy what you're doing. If you don't, if, you know, I can laugh off an audience not enjoying me. I could be like, what's your problem? Because I'll even mess with them. I'll be like, obviously, these jokes are too good for you people. Or something, you know. I'm swimming with the big fish out here. I, you know, performing in Las Vegas has always been kind of a dream. And now that I'm in the latter part of my career, I, this is where I want to be. I'm not really into touring and all that. If the situation is right, I'll go. But I'd love to, I love doing comedy here and being back in my bed with my bong and my dog next to me by 11 p.m. Well, you brought up a good point. You've had this wonderful career. You're still having it. But these days, you got a lot of fans out there. And then today, because of our large audience, more fans. We're, people go to see you perform and buy your products. Where can they get their fill of Jeffrey Peterson? Well, thanks for asking them, you know, check your local comic book store and see if they carry our stuff. And if they don't, we, they will because we do. I just, I just made a pilgrimage to the Secret Stash in New Jersey. So I'm super excited that Jane sign that Bob will be carrying our stuff. So you can find me on social networks, Instagram and Facebook. It's easy to just look up the 420 comic and I'll come up and I also have a YouTube page. But as far as seeing me live, in general, I will have a residency out here in Las Vegas fairly soon. I've had some great residencies out here. I was the first comedian to have a residency at a dispensary. I had planted 13. I had a residency for two and a half months. And then I had one of the nerd bar on Fremont Street and on Fremont Street, they had my billboard every three minutes with a big pot leaf behind me. So little by little, I'm integrating cannabis comedy into Las Vegas. And it's only a matter of time before my show, Impression Impossible finds its residency home. But in the meantime, I'll be. Well, you know, I'll come up and see you. Great. And Jeffrey, I'll make a trip to Palm Springs. That's a no brainer. But Ben, man, to you and Jeff, man, so great to be proud of you guys. And I've always thought of some day doing a crossover with you guys somehow. And that would be great. But we're part of a special genre of a subculture of cannabis, the ennoblux. And I've told people, there's a lot of great people who've been doing this for years. Verandru with Captain Cannabis, Jim Stewart over in Scotland. You guys, we have 37 issues in print. And two more ready to go. So to us, it's really about spreading out the word. And making what we've done, which has been great, we make people's comic book dreams come true. Because the majority of our characters are real people. Most of our characters are based on real people. And we just, we indulge their personalities. And whether it's the hemp father or indica boy or higher education, mean green, all these people are real people. You know, and dumb. Yeah. And we did this. Yeah. Yeah. And what's great is I get, you know, working with this, this author, Jeric Keen, I can't overstate it. I'm excited I am because he, he wrote a really great novel I read called Hammer of the Dogs that's a post apocalyptic novel. Everyone should check out. But I think this is going to bring not only calic, calicronic comics to a new forefront, but also Jeric Keen as an author. So really excited about this. It's like, it's got that, you know, he came up with the concept for the cover that I drew. And it's got that traditional pulp, you know, kind of, you know, barbaric cover that we always loved, you know. Right. So, but great to meet you, Jeffrey. And we will draw great eyes by the way. Thank you. Thank you. And I try to make them as as musculos they're supposed to be. It was hilarious because I never want to be Rob Liefeld. I, I saw Harlan Ellison talking about how there's artists out there that don't even know anatomy. And he goes, I'll just say it. Rob Liefeld. He goes, son, you need to take an anatomy class. And I'm just like, oh God, I love the way Harlan Ellison would say anything he wanted to. So, not just a brilliant writer, but a brilliant comedy mind of his own. Right. Yeah. I mean, I love his, his, his writing style is so brave. He just, there's no filter. I mean, I wish Mark Twain could have read some Harlan Ellison. He would have went, yeah. That's what I'm talking about right there. I agree with you. So we are, we are way over time tonight folks, but it's okay because we have an amazing guest. We've been on vacation for three weeks. So, go a little bit late. Oh, we got another one. Hey, bandit. That's the one. He's, he's going to be in an upcoming comic book called the Game Changer. So when Game Changer comes out, you'll see him, he's going to, he's the star in the comic book. Woohoo. We got, we got to get his paw print. Yeah. Well, guys, this was great. We'll keep, we'll keep on token and, and smoking and this, we'll have to continue these conversations at another time, but, but, Jeffrey, we're going to exchange information and, and hang out. Absolutely. We should, we should, we should chat later in the year about having you back on New years. for a 15 minute update. - I would love it. And I'm still planning on-- - Are you planning on 15 or do 15 minutes of standup for us? - I would love to. And I'm still planning on a cannabis theme comic book convention out here that we did one in Denver called Chromicon, but I wanna do one with just, with mainly these indie comics that we discussed, like all of us. But like, let's join forces and really show people what a strong genre we are, you know? So-- - Oh yeah, I absolutely agree. - And that's how I look at it. I think I'm part of a group of people, not just an island. So thanks to you guys, it's become a thing. So you guys folks, I'll see you soon, deciding off from fabulous Las Vegas. I'm gonna go take my dogs out to the heat. (laughing) But Jeffrey, I'll connect to you in Palm Springs sometime. - Please do. - All right, guys. - So normally at this time, that would be asking how you want your fans to contact you, but you've already told them. - Yeah, and what I was gonna say folks is, if you missed it, check the show notes up above or down below all the 420 comics information is there, like, your Facebook is YouTube. It's there, man. You can just follow them. - Go follow them. Why wouldn't you? - Yeah, and I just did it. I just did a show last week for NBC called Insomniac TV, Insomniac Television. You can find me on there doing celebrity impressions and stuff, but yeah, just look it up on YouTube. Insomniac Television. - There you go folks. So Mr. Mark, yes sir. - Where can they find you? - Well, you know I've got to do 10 seconds of this. Marijuana is great. For 90% of the people who use it, you can help with disease, you can help bring out your creativity, you can help you to sleep, it helps with pain relief, but 10% of us get addicted to it. If you're one of those people who needs help, please love got marijuanaanonymous.org. There is help everywhere in the world for that. Or contact me personally. I'll be happy to help you. And you can get me on Facebook, Jeffrey Mark, as it's spill below me here. For those of you who are listening, GE-O-F-F-R-E-Y-M-A-R-K on Facebook, Jeffrey Mark Showbiz on Instagram. I answer everybody and hey, Ben and I have another program we do. It's not a talk show, it is about music. G-P-E, Jeffrey Mark plays Ella every week. I play the music of the great Ella-Fridge, Gerald on a theme and then give you insider stories about the music and the songs and Ella. Ben produces it, I am the host. And I think you'll have a good, good time. So that's my info. Ben. (laughs) So you can see everything you want to see about us. On the website, stilltoking.com. Talking with the dead on Facebook. Still talking productions everywhere else, YouTube and everything. We wanna thank Mr. Peterson for hanging out with us this evening, bringing up that date on all his killer shit. If you're in Vegas, look him up. Yeah, we'll see him. You'll have a good time. Yeah, he is funny as fuck. He is. Thank you so much, man. Well, I can teach you guys. To all our veterans and first responders, we wanna thank you for doing what you do. So people like us can come up here and do what we do. Stay safe. We'll see you next week. God bless and have a happy. (upbeat music) ♪ So come on ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Step it off, break it down and lose it ♪ ♪ Come on ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Follow us to the new revolution ♪ ♪ Come on ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Step it off, break it down and lose it ♪ ♪ Come on ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Follow us to the new revolution ♪ ♪ Hey ♪

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast hosts welcome Jeffrey Peterson, known as "The 420 Comic," a veteran performer with decades of experience in comedy, voiceover, and comic art.
  2. Peterson explains he adopted the "420" persona after advice from mentor Victor Lop and comedian George Lopez, who encouraged him to embrace his identity as a heavy marijuana user.
  3. He shares stories of working with legends like Rich Little, Gary B.C., and Louis Anderson, and performing at events like Tommy Chong’s 80th birthday.
  4. Peterson discusses the challenges of performing while stoned, noting that while he can do it professionally, many comedians fail when high, citing examples like Joey Coco Diaz and the Lucas Brothers.
  5. He criticizes celebrities who claim modern marijuana is too potent or dangerous, calling such complaints exaggerated, and reflects on his authentic connection to cannabis culture.
  6. Peterson mentions mentoring other stoner comedians like Stoner Rob and his frustration with never being booked at the Boston Freedom Rally, despite being a New England native.

Summary:

The podcast features an interview with Jeffrey Peterson, "The 420 Comic," who has been a performer since the 1970s. He recounts his journey from a heavy metal singer to a stand-up comedian, adopting the 420 persona after encouragement from Victor Lop and George Lopez, who told him to embrace his love of marijuana. , and Louis Anderson, and describes performing at events such as Tommy Chong’s birthday.

He discusses the challenges of performing while stoned, noting that while he can handle it, many comedians fail when high, citing examples like Joey Coco Diaz and the Lucas Brothers. Peterson criticizes celebrities who claim modern cannabis is too potent, calling such complaints overblown. He also reflects on mentoring other stoner comedians like Stoner Rob and expresses frustration at never being booked for the Boston Freedom Rally despite his New England roots.

Throughout, Peterson emphasizes his authentic connection to cannabis culture and his pride in a career rich with unique experiences.

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