John Witherspoon Talks 'Cooking for Poor People'

I'm booked. I'm booked. I'm booked. I'm booked too much. Do you still enjoy the shows though? No. I had enough. I had enough. I've had enough. You know your fans may or may not watch or listen to this, right? They know that, you know, it's hard work. It's hard work. You're there performing, yeah. Whenever I've done shows with him, the moment, because I'll hang out, because after every show he'll try to sell merch and take pictures. But as soon as he gets in the green room, he's like, J, do you see how hard I work? You see all this I'm doing right here. You don't know nothing about this hard work. I'm like, okay. Your business is tough. You do five, six weeks in a row. That's what I hate. I'm on my second of five weeks. The second week now. So I got to go next week. I go to Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford Springfield. That's why you actually fly into that. Then I go to Memphis. So wait, you said you hate it, but why don't you just stop? Paper. You set him up. You lob it as well. Yeah. The only time I've ever seen him do anything outside, because he's old school, so it's one of those things where he's so used to, he's so used to, you got his agents, his managers, and he's so used to someone giving him work. So it's one of those things where I'm on the road, you're given the spots, you're given the clubs. I was like, well, what do you like doing? Because you asked that earlier. The one thing that we've made between him doing comedy and now is we created a YouTube channel for him where he does a cooking show. So he has his own YouTube channel, because I do YouTube and all this stuff. I do gaming videos and a bunch of other random stuff, sketches and blogs. But he was like, well, he's like, well, I guess I got a little time off. We can do something random. He's like, maybe we can do this cooking idea I got. And I said, sure, let's do it. We create the channel. We make it. And it's called Cooking for Poor People. Cooking for Poor People, because when you're hungry, everything tastes good. Yes. And his channel is Dijon with- So I eat a bunch of crap. I cook a bunch of crap. Like what kind of food? Chicken feet and rice. Chicken feet. Chicken feet, pig feet, oxtail. Oh, I've had- Chicken feet. What is chicken feet like? Tough. You gotta be. You gotta be. But you know- He tried to- Asian people eat it. Chinese people eat it every day. He tried to feed it to our dog and our dog ran away from him. So that's like a clip from the video. You don't know what a delicacy it was. That's what that was. Yeah. And then I recommend wine. I have wine, I have a tall glass of Mad Dog 2020 with them chicken feet. With them chicken feet. Thunderbird. Thunderbird wine. Thunderbird wine. What do you even fuck? Cisco. Where do you get Mad Dog 2020? He's good at finding these. That's the place back there on Van Nuys. Really? Some Mexican salad. Yeah. And they're hanging out in the- You know, just like in old school, they're hanging out in the front with their bottle. They're bringing it down here in the high of the behind the crate and they bring it up and hit that joint. And they're like, ah. And they're like, ah. Yeah. Then you go buy some more and I'm shocked at the head. There we go. So I helped them produce and create, help them work on this thing. But you know, it gets good. You get that pig feet right there in the end. I got somebody, Shelly threw my shit away. I can't believe she threw- She threw the old pig feet away? Old cause- I like the kitchen too. Yeah, that's old school. Whose kitchen is that? It's his. It's a house we have. We bought the house next to us. Oh nice. So I got the house next to me and I tore the whole fence down. Guess house kitchen. And I got all that old kitchen. So I said, I'm gonna eat that. I'm gonna eat that. That's a perfect kitchen for like a show on cooking. Yeah. Cause it's tight and old school. It reminds you of like growing up. Yeah. And it works well. You know, we, we, I don't know. I think we may, maybe 12, 15 of these things, but people watch them. It's just one of those things where he works on the road. So I, whenever free time comes around, we used to sit back and knock them out and try to shoot them and I would edit them and whatnot. But now I'm busy. So he has an editor. So- Yeah, I got my man. What's his name? But you know, I try to help him market it when it's like finished. I'm like, all right, post it on the social platforms, get it out there and whatnot.