Comedian Jeff Perla talks about his love of The Specials and their hit song, "Ghost Town." Jeff also talks about mental illness and how we should all embrace it more than we do right now. Jeff also discusses his love for music and how he grew up listening to it.
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00:01:22.000And, you know, missing your two front teeth is the kind of thing that's funny for like a week and then you go and have them fixed and that's that.
00:01:56.000I always wanted to do a sketch of that, by the way, where I have a Japanese person, a British person, and me debating fluoride in the water and if it helps or is it damaging.
00:02:07.000And we'd buy like novelty teeth for the British guy and the Japanese guy, and then he'd be unintelligible, so we'd have to add subtitles to theirs while they talk about how damaging fluoride is.
00:03:11.000We'd make money at the gas station, and then we'd take the bus to the city and spend it on imports, which were fucking $14.99 in the early 80s.
00:03:21.000Jesus H. They're still the same price today.
00:04:23.000Or they could come to my Zani Zoo we talked about where bipolar people can skip their medication for four days and they run around a fenced in area that's got no sharp edges.
00:05:13.000Jerry Dammers did write that song, and it's a great song.
00:05:16.000But when you listen to classic reggae, like on Spotify, and you make it like, say you do, what's a really old reggae band, like pre-Peter Tosh, like the very, very beginnings, like the 60s.
00:05:30.000You choose some 60s reggae band, and then you say radio, and you hear all these songs, and it's like special songs.
00:06:54.000I kept all my CDs, like walls like as big as this.
00:06:58.000So I can just set that up in her room, buy her some CD player, and she's got all that.
00:07:03.000But anyway, covers were normal back then.
00:07:06.000In fact, the only reason the Beatles and the Stones started playing their own songs is because they would be the band.
00:07:13.000After they were no longer the opening band, they'd be the main band, but the opening band would be playing all the hits, and then they'd be stuck playing the same songs, and it seemed stupid.
00:07:21.000So they started writing their own songs.
00:07:23.000But like Led Zeppelin, for example, they ripped off so much shit.
00:09:28.000But not being able to see is the end of the world, and that's why blind people are dicks.
00:09:31.000And that's why when my dad was a teenager working at a hotel in Glasgow, everyone would fight tooth and nail to not have to work when a blind group was coming because they were always complaining they're a pain in the ass.
00:09:43.000Is this bothering you as much as it's bothering me?
00:10:18.000And now being a cover band is a huge deal.
00:10:22.000But I chose this not just because of the front page of the post today, but because I went into the city on Friday night, just took the city, the city, just took the family down to the city.
00:10:31.000I thought, let's go to the American History Museum, stay in a hotel overnight, just fucking party, yo.
00:12:17.000So when the specials were on tour in the late 70s, early 80s, they just noticed that everything was falling apart, especially in Glasgow, Scotland, my alma mater.
00:12:29.000And they said, it just seems like a ghost town.
00:12:31.000And that's exactly why the post chose that name.
00:12:35.000I'll get to the American Natural History Museum in a second.
00:12:38.000But it's just so fucking sad, that city, the most vibrant city in the world, a New York minute.
00:12:44.000And it still has that New York minute.
00:12:46.000Living in the burbs, you really don't take for granted.
00:12:51.000Living in the city, you take for granted how great the service is.
00:12:54.000Living in the burbs, these fucking Karens have nothing but time on their hands because they have the maid and the au pair handling everything.
00:13:02.000So when they go somewhere, they like to chat.
00:13:04.000Even at the McDonald's drive-thru this morning, the woman was like, I thought that came with a coffee.
00:15:09.000It's got this bullshit that you probably have in your town, unless you're in Florida where everyone's cool.
00:15:15.000A long sheet of plexiglass, as long as the bar can see, and then you can't face the bar.
00:15:21.000You sit like this, parallel to the bar, and then there's a table, and then someone faces you, and you're both sitting at a table, which happens to be at the bar.
00:15:31.000So then you order a drink, and she passes it up to you, and you reach over the plexiglass and sit like this.
00:15:39.000Now I'm alone, so I have to go sit at a little table over there, and then a waitress will come, probably make me buy a mozzarella stick or some soup, because you need food.
00:15:52.000And then I'll drink alone like I'm some fucking loser on trial for rape, and no one will speak to me.
00:16:00.000I go, it's some sort of chubby feminist at the front, because it's New York City.
00:17:02.000But the peak of my black viewing experience has got to be the Oval.
00:17:09.000Tyler Perry's new sizzling drama about the White House.
00:17:16.000And this is a White House where every single person remotely associated with the president is black, from the chef to the first lady to all security.
00:25:07.000And then we sat in some room and it was like, the way we know what a black hole is, is light is refracted towards the satellite and then we shoot it back, but it goes around this thing.
00:26:41.000Yeah, I know, but then some people say that those aren't actually the real fossils in there because they're radioactive, so there's like layers of lead paint on them.
00:26:49.000So that way the radioactivity doesn't go in.
00:27:55.000Yeah, they're saying that the person that trained her and helped her to speak and write and do all these things that are impressive is that she was doing all the work?
00:28:57.000And you try to develop brown fat, which is what the Indians have.
00:29:00.000And a lot of people say they're called redskins, not because of all this bullshit about blood, but because they were outside in today's weather with no shirt on.
00:29:08.000And that makes you red because your blood's coursing through your veins.
00:35:07.000Assuming Indians owned the land, or at least had been living there, assuming anyone in that tribe was born in Manhattan, which I'm pretty dubious of, it was pretty stinky up until we started importing water from upstate New York.
00:35:21.000If you recall, the five points was diarrhea, dysentery, disease central.
00:35:27.000Any his, Peter Stuyvesant was an integral part of creating modern New York.
00:35:36.000Oh, sorry, I forgot the Bill the Butcher thing.
00:35:38.000So Bill the Butcher was a violent criminal.
00:37:23.000Yeah, this 1601 encounter between Dutch and Lenape leaders was intended to celebrate the Dutch founders of old New York.
00:37:30.000But the scene offers only stereotypical representations.
00:37:34.000Yeah, that's what dioramas tend to do.
00:37:37.000They tend to be pretty stereotypical because they're representing a grander scene using a microcosm.
00:37:46.000Isn't that what the origin of the word stereotype is?
00:37:49.000If there was something like a stitch in time saves nine, instead of having to use it all the time, they would have it pre-made with the typeset.
00:37:56.000So when someone used that colloquialism, you could just go, oh, I already have it here.
00:39:15.000So they take umbrage with Stuyvesant having a gun, and they say he wasn't just trading with people because the guy next to him had a gun, so that wasn't fair.
00:40:33.000I guarantee you, the woman who wrote this little acetate thing that was glued onto the fucking diorama doesn't have a degree in history.
00:40:43.000And then finally, what's the next one?
00:40:45.000Look, there's glue dripping down like jizz.
00:40:50.000Colonialism and cultural representation.
00:40:53.000The museum and all of New York City are on original Lenape territory in an effort to acknowledge the ongoing impact of colonialism, as well as the urgent need to reconceive or recognize, as Ryan would say, how diverse peoples and cultures are represented in the museum.
00:41:08.000We have undertaken a series of initiatives in our cultural halls.
00:41:12.000These initiatives, including re-examination of this diorama, will add a diversity of voices and perspectives to the museum's displays.
00:41:20.000Someone said on parlor, what's really going on here is the donors.
00:41:26.000Donors said, I will give you another extra million if you wokeify some of these dioramas.
00:41:33.000Some silly old lady who's part of the trend of wokeification because people talk about it at dinner parties.
00:41:39.000The rich, especially rich white people in New York City, have always loved the underdogs.
00:41:44.000In fact, the foundations of the NAACP, they all look like something out of that British show with the fucking rich people, Downton Abbey.
00:41:56.000They all look like the NAACP was founded by like Sir Agatha Prontothneu and Lord Biddertwixt in their effort to humanize the Negro.
00:42:12.000Interesting thing about Peter Stuyvesant too is he was a Knickerbocker.
00:42:16.000And the Dutch colonists were called Knickerbockers because they wore those faggy trousers, which is a song by Madness.
00:43:38.000And if you're a kid in the city, especially near Central Park in the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side, you don't get a lot of sport time.
00:43:44.000De Blasio and his henchmen are canceling it because they're racist.
00:43:50.000And you can't go after the Knicks and basketball and the Knickerbockers.
00:45:25.000Those people, they're all just kissing their donors' asses.
00:45:28.000So they're like, whatever our donors want is not problematic, and whatever they object to, even in the slightest way, it's such a huge, beautiful statue, too.
00:50:01.000So at any point, I don't know how they haven't figured this out.
00:50:03.000At any point, people can just show their screen as like Dennis Prager, like cock and ball torture.
00:50:09.000And it's just like him and it's like Dennis Prager, as if that was a quote, which is kind of funny.
00:50:14.000But if you're Dennis Prager and you're doing something even remotely live or that involves contributors, you absolutely have to have some sort of screening process or it's going to get destroyed.
00:50:23.000Yeah, I don't know how that was being done.
00:50:25.000And they kicked one of them out, then another one did it.
00:51:32.000First I voted for Obama and then I started hearing, you know, Republicans say their side for the first time in history because all the TV channels, depending on, you know, unless you're watching Fox, it's all going to be liberal.
00:51:45.000So I was like, default liberal until like two years ago, blah, blah.
00:51:48.000And there was this other guy that looked like Jaden Smith that was really aggressive and insulting to him.
00:51:54.000And he was like, I went, I'm go to NYU, which is a real university.
00:54:44.000When someone insists that you come out, they are bored, they're with a dud, and they're looking for a court gesture to change the course of the night.
00:54:57.000If you're doing something fun, you usually don't text other people and say, come along.
00:55:02.000If you're the other person and you text a fun person who's having fun, then they'll go, oh yeah, man, shit, we're at the fucking pig's head tavern.
00:56:05.000If I was super busy having an amazing time, and I guess we were in the Bronx or something doing a pub call, and I realized we're near this guy who lives there, Jamie.
00:56:11.000And I texted Jamie, and he's like, I can't come out.
00:58:25.000So I bought myself a ranch in Herbosillo.
00:58:28.000So little by little, I started getting more of my animals, and the most famous animal that I have right now, which is my oldest one, is an alligator, an American alligator.
01:04:40.000Basically, the Hells Angels were guys who were in World War II, and they've been driving around North Africa on Harleys and shooting people and fucking prostitutes and having the most intense time imaginable.
01:04:52.000And then they come back to golly land.
01:04:56.000And they're like, one day I hope, with little rosy red cheeks, like fucking Pee Wee Herman characters.
01:05:02.000One day I hope to kiss a lady on the lips.
01:05:04.000Meanwhile, they saw a lady's lips get shot off as he was fucking her from behind.
01:05:09.000So they were bored and they started the Hell's Angels, but they had the regiment of the military.
01:05:14.000So they have captains and lieutenants.
01:05:16.000And Sonny was there basically since day one.
01:05:18.000Holy shit, is this a fun coffee table book?
01:05:24.000But it's him explaining the sort of progression from the 40s, 50s, 60s all the way up to now.
01:05:30.000Him going to jail, them fighting the feds on a RICO charge and winning.
01:05:38.000Really sad page at the end where he talks about this funeral he went to, and it's the only one he choked up at.
01:05:44.000And it was some kid who had been in one of his movies, and he was following the pack in a truck, and they got in a road rage thing.
01:05:52.000And without anyone seeing what happened, the guy got out of the car and shot this poor kid in the head.
01:06:00.000Yeah, he's done a lot of movies and books.
01:06:02.000Barger has, but he learned not to call them the Hell's Angels because they get 50% of whatever you do if you make a movie or a book and it says Hell's Angels.
01:06:10.000So he calls them the infidels and other stuff now.
01:07:27.000In fact, I think the Hells Angels was started by a guy who was pissed off and left his club called the Pissed Off Motherfuckers or something.
01:09:15.000I mean, Indian tribes that had better bow and arrows and better systems for slinging arrows would beat the tribes that didn't have enough arrows.
01:09:25.000So this whole idea of like in that book, Jared, what's his name, Guns, Germs, and Steel, where we cheated because we had guns, there's no rules.
01:12:27.000Remember those days where girls were just magic?
01:12:42.000So that's obviously a joke, but it's based on reality, and reality is 3-0, which is going big on the internet this weekend, where they were caught doing a training video telling their Coca-Cola was telling their employees to try to be less white.
01:12:56.000And less white means be less oppressive, be less arrogant, be less certain.
01:14:11.000So anytime there's something wrong, it's white people's fault.
01:14:14.000And even in the case of Coca-Cola, nothing was wrong, but they just made it white people's fault.
01:14:19.000So we've been talking a lot last week about this race war going on in California, especially near in and around Oakland, which is blacks versus Asians.
01:14:27.000It's predominant in every major city across the country, but it's particularly bad in Oakland.
01:14:33.000Word got out that Asians don't call the cops and they carry cash around.
01:14:37.000Or sometimes in a shitty neighborhood, they're the only ones working.
01:14:40.000They have a bodega or a deli, and so they're the only ones to rob.
01:15:54.000Yeah, and it reminds me of the rally they had at the Brooklyn Museum where it was for trans lives.
01:16:00.000This is at the peak of COVID, and there was maybe 100,000 people in Brooklyn protesting trans lives.
01:16:08.000And as we saw on Milo's show when he had that tranny guest on, the vast majority, like to the tune of 80, 90%, of the people murdering these trans people are black.
01:17:16.000El Chapo is not stationed in New York City.
01:17:19.000So if you had gone to that rally with like a sign that showed all the people who had killed trans, and Milo's guest showed a video montage of it, and it was like 100 black dudes who had killed trans people, and she was trans.
01:17:44.000The other thing amazing about it, too, is it reminded me of that rally.
01:17:51.000Remember at the Pulse shooting when Milo and I went there and kissed each other's hot lips in front of the Pulse nightclub and said, fuck Islam, to piss Off the homophobes in Muslim culture, which, by the way, the left stole from us and started doing in the safety of their own homes with each other's boyfriends.
01:18:08.000That's not dangerous, and gay on gay is not interesting.
01:18:12.000You're not going out on a limb there to kiss your boyfriend.
01:18:15.000I went on a limb because I was at Pulse.
01:18:17.000We had a bodyguard looking for snipers, and I kissed a homosexual, which is gross.
01:18:23.000But the next week, a silly Jewish man dressed like Mork from Fag named Work for Peace.
01:19:08.000So then he goes dancing, twerking in front of Mike Pence's house to show the world, the Muslim world, that they can't kill us and we're going to keep partying and dancing.
01:19:18.000Do it in front of a mosque, you fucking loser.
01:19:22.000And this is what pisses me off about these people.
01:22:30.000And my question is, how many Americans are going, yeah, this is bullshit?
01:22:34.000Like, out of that march, out of, say, 100 people have heard of that march in New York against white supremacy, please tell me, out of the 100, how many know that the perp who killed the Asian guy is black?
01:22:54.000Because surely, obviously I'm in the eye of the storm, so I've been calling bullshit on this for a long time.
01:22:59.000But surely normal, incurious, average New Yorkers and Americans in general, people in general, are going, something tells me it wasn't a Nazi skinhead who beat up the Chinese man because he didn't like his squinty eyes and he wanted America to be all white and he wanted the Asians out of America,
01:23:18.000which is like, who's run into a guy like that?
01:23:21.000There's probably seven of them in the entire fucking country.
01:23:27.000Mr. President, UW-Milwaukee professor Joel Berkowitz asked President Joe Biden about white supremacists and other hate groups during Tuesday night's town hall in Milwaukee.
01:23:36.000While I appreciate efforts being made to bring them to justice, I worry about ongoing threats to our country from Americans who embrace white supremacists.
01:23:44.000I would just like you to know, Joel Berkowitz, that you're white.
01:23:48.000And say hypothetically there was a race war.
01:23:51.000The blacks would not take you in and say, welcome aboard, fellow minority.
01:23:56.000Generally, uneducated black violent criminals see you as white, but super white.
01:24:03.000So in fact, you'd be at the front of the line.
01:24:05.000They would probably like rednecks more than they would like you.
01:24:09.000So I don't know why you get to pretend that you're some sort of oppressed minority.
01:24:34.000I get how you could say being anti-immigration aligns with white supremacy because both middle-class Mexican citizens, I'm saying both, but there's going to be a lot here.
01:24:46.000Conservatives, paleoconservatives, a lot of young entrepreneurs, a lot of different people.
01:24:54.000But yes, also Nazi skinheads are against open borders.
01:25:28.000What can your administration do to address this complex and wide-ranging problem?
01:25:32.000I got involved in politics to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, and the most dangerous people in America continue to exist.
01:25:44.000That is the greatest threat to terror in America, domestic terror.
01:28:51.000And he realizes it's a son, a grown man's son, like a six foot four, 30-year-old son, attacking his, she's black, let's say, 50-year-old, 46-year-old mother, terrorizing her.
01:29:05.000So he takes out his phone to record it.
01:31:52.000This is sort of going to be an unpopular take for our viewers.
01:31:56.000But the story I heard was teachers disparage parents, laugh at them as how stupid and petty they are, and then they all had to quit the next day.
01:32:12.000Remember when Don Lamond and the other guy, the Never Trumper, and that Indian guy were all laughing at how stupid we are and how Rednecks couldn't find Ukraine on a map if it had the letter U and the picture of a crane next to it?
01:32:27.000And then Don Lamon couldn't stop laughing.
01:32:29.000And then they're all doing southern accents going, ha, I'm a fucking American.
01:32:56.000He's just trying to demean her, and obviously it's false.
01:33:00.000And look, he also knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.
01:34:44.000We have kids or have known kids that have gone to these schools having a vested interest in this process, and they don't know what we do behind the scenes.
01:39:12.000It's just not in my nature to go, ha ha ha, motherfuckers.
01:39:16.000You got kicked out for saying a true fact about medical marijuana, laughing about it, and then saying, if someone steps me and gets violent, I'll fuck them up.
01:40:54.000So if there was a fund that almost like unemployment, that anybody who was fired for speech, no matter what it is, no matter what context, tweets, saying something rude, if they were fired for their First Amendment right, they get benefits,
01:42:26.000You might be able to do a case-by-case basis, but setting up a massive fund for anyone who gets fired for political reasons is, I mean, that's why we have a legal system.
01:42:37.000You try to sue, and it takes a whole courtroom.
01:48:24.000I have to build a pirate ship that is constantly being attacked, and you have to give your credit card to me in order to hear what I have to say.
01:51:08.000Here's an idea for a new section of your website, NewSpeak Dictionary 2021.
01:51:12.000Listeners can send in dictionary entries as they recognize NewSpeak being used.
01:51:16.000Entries should provide one, the NewSpeak term, two, the standard English being replaced, and three, the Ministry of Truth's reason for the change.
01:51:38.000Ministry of Truth's reason for change.
01:51:40.000Charity and service are from the heart with a desire to help the needy.
01:51:43.000These words connote Christian values that should not exist in our utopia.
01:51:50.000Giving back to the community carries the connotation that if you have money, you must have nefariously taken it from someone and should give it back.
01:51:58.000In a free market, you must provide a product or service that is worth much more to the buyer than the money they paid you, otherwise they would not freely give you their money.
01:52:04.000Therefore, there's no need to quote unquote give back to the community.
01:52:08.000You've already added more to the community than you took from it.
01:52:10.000But as we move away from a true free market system toward crony capitalism, the government will assure that free market transactions no longer take place and our cronies can charge more than the free market would allow.
01:52:21.000Therefore, asking people to give back to the community more fairly describes the situation in our utopia.
01:54:21.000He may or may not have been involved in the cocaine industry.
01:54:24.000And I think when one is involved in said industry, you get very emotional.
01:54:28.000You have bigger ups, but you have bigger downs.
01:54:31.000I don't know if this was related to his death, but I believe, I'm treading very lightly because I'm scared of these dudes, that he was playing Russian roulette one day.