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Joe Rogan Experience #39 - Joey Diaz, Eddie Bravo (Part 1)
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joe rogan
Ladies, gentlemen, hermaphrodites, freaks and geeks, all my friends, lovers and children, welcome to the podcast.
Thank you very much once again for tuning in.
My road dogs, Eddie Bravo and Mad Flavor.
Let me adjust this camera because we can't see you right.
joey diaz
What up?
What up?
joe rogan
Is that better?
Yeah, bam.
There we go.
joey diaz
Tuning in there.
joe rogan
Tuning in week number seven.
It's week many, many, many, many weeks.
And we've been having a good fucking time.
We had a good goddamn time in Boston.
And we were talking about this yesterday, but we'll talk about it again just because Eddie's here.
It was fucking crazy when I asked on stage how many people listen to the podcast.
It's like the ability that you have when everybody went crazy.
It was like this huge audience.
And there's like, I'd say like 60% of them, 70% of them said they listened to the podcast.
eddie bravo
Yeah, it was crazy.
joe rogan
So it's like, it's only gonna keep doing that.
As long as you make things that people think are interesting, it's only gonna like, this is radio.
This is just as powerful as any radio station that's ever existed.
joey diaz
Without the bullshit and the drama and the bad fucking contestants and all that shit.
This is just straight up talking.
joe rogan
What the fuck happened to that camera?
joey diaz
Alright, there we are.
joe rogan
I'm a terrible cameraman.
joey diaz
Looking sharp.
Brian's off on vacation.
joe rogan
Yeah, Brian is off in Ohio with his lady friend.
joey diaz
Alright, alright.
joe rogan
Meeting the family.
joey diaz
Beautiful.
joe rogan
Having a good goddamn time.
Getting the freak on.
joey diaz
What's going on with Eddie Bravo?
What's going on with Eddie Bravo?
joe rogan
Eddie Bravo's Eddie Bravo.
You're not a strange character.
eddie bravo
It's funny.
joe rogan
You will all understand Eddie Bravo when the 10th Planet reality show comes to light.
Tenth Planet Riverside, bitches.
eddie bravo
Respect.
joey diaz
It's funny because I was talking to you on the phone last week and you said that you went to see a shitty movie.
But you're one of the few people like me that take a shitty movie and make it work for us.
You know what I'm saying?
Like we really make it work for us.
We see what the bad points are and you said you watch The Expendables or whatever.
And it's so weird how we learned that from Paul Mooney.
We had a conversation once about...
When you're a comedian, you should get entertained.
I'll tell you something.
The last two weeks, I've done something that has blown me apart.
I want to see a different form of entertainment.
I want to watch Eddie Bravo teach.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, that's entertainment.
joey diaz
And the way that place is, the way you sit, it's like a big fucking stage.
If I do a one-man show, I would do it there with the mats facing everything.
And I started watching him.
And the first week, he taught this move where you're hitting a guy, and then you roll and take his leg, and the guy gives you an arm, so you have three different options.
And then last week, when you were there, by the way, you know the fucking move, and you're hitting him, you're on his back, so you take this leg, and you double hook on this leg, and you pull over.
joe rogan
So you take his arm from Spiderweb?
unidentified
Yeah.
Oh, no, no, the truck.
joey diaz
Really cool, really cool.
But just the way Eddie was teaching.
unidentified
Yeah, that's a trip.
eddie bravo
You remember that.
joey diaz
You had George.
Come on, dog.
If I didn't remember...
eddie bravo
I thought you were just making shit up.
I thought you were just being funny.
unidentified
No, no, no.
Because in the beginning of the DVD, you know, because at that point, you didn't really know the system at all.
No, no, no.
joey diaz
What the fuck you were doing?
eddie bravo
That's the beauty of it, is you were just talking about Night of the Living Dead, and then I'd flip you with the butterfly hooks, and then...
joey diaz
No, no.
So last week you start on the guy's back with your two hooks in.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joey diaz
You hit the guy in the head.
He thinks you're going to choke him out.
And you flip over.
So you've got this leg.
You hook him with this leg.
eddie bravo
Yeah, you take it to the truck, baby.
joey diaz
You've got the truck.
And it was really weird how I went home and it fucked with me that night.
I was even doing comedy.
joe rogan
It fucked with you?
joey diaz
It fucked with me.
I thought about it when I left there.
And then I went the other night, which was a very simple hold where it was controlling the guy with the underhook, which you're really good at, he said.
eddie bravo
Wow.
George Sotteropolis is in town.
He's been in town for the last two weeks, so we've been focusing on overhook butterfly stuff to rubber guard.
joey diaz
But the point being of the situation was that I was very intrigued while I was watching him.
eddie bravo
Thank you.
joey diaz
Which I don't get intrigued by dick.
I didn't go see Avatar.
All these movies don't do dick to me.
joe rogan
Well, when someone's really good at something, when someone's really good at something and really good at speaking about that something, it's always fascinating.
joey diaz
But how he walks, he does it like a stand-up comic.
He walks in a certain area, so people have to look at him.
And he doesn't even know what he's doing.
He doesn't know how just being him, he commands attention.
You know, he's not a big guy.
He's not a flamboyant guy.
But I couldn't take my fucking eyes off him.
joe rogan
Are you gay for Eddie?
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
This feels like you're gay for Eddie.
joey diaz
I'm talking about what I learned this week.
joe rogan
I think Joey just came out to us.
joey diaz
I'm supposed to go to a UCB theater and see some fucking guy that's not funny and be entertained.
joe rogan
Some of those guys are funny.
joey diaz
But I obviously went to see a jiu-jitsu class and was very entertained and was very intrigued.
And that was the whole point of this.
It wasn't about the fucking UCB theater.
It was about you, that you really locked me in.
unidentified
Well, you know, you lock me in all the time, Joel.
eddie bravo
You know that shit.
When you're on stage, you lock my shit in.
unidentified
You know how fucking much great shit I talk about you to everybody.
joey diaz
I tell everybody.
joe rogan
Game recognizes game, bitches.
eddie bravo
Like originally, with the 10th Planet Kush, originally it was going to be the both of us.
But when Joey's around, I'm like, why would I want to put the fucking camera on me?
I'm just going to keep it on Joey.
I can't really speak my mind anyways.
I like being really honest.
I can't really be that honest.
I can't really be that honest.
And Joey can just...
Smash people.
joe rogan
You know what?
eddie bravo
It's hilarious.
I didn't say it.
unidentified
I wonder if dudes get upset at some of your predictions.
joe rogan
Marcus Davis.
I was like, Marcus Davis, burn the kilt.
eddie bravo
Yes, you know what?
Marcus Davis, Kenny Florian.
I fucking love you guys, man.
You know you're my dogs.
You know what I'm saying?
This is all entertainment.
I didn't say this shit.
joey diaz
No, we're just saying, listen, I picked Kenny Florian to win.
joe rogan
This is a YouTube clip we're discussing.
eddie bravo
Oh, no, no, but check this out.
But check this out.
What we're talking about actually is probably on YouTube right now.
I uploaded it about 73. Oh, my goodness.
unidentified
Perfect fucking segue, right?
Can we play it?
joe rogan
No, we can't.
We can't?
unidentified
Okay, alright.
joe rogan
We have to have two laptops to play.
Brian is not here right now, so...
I barely know what I'm doing here.
joey diaz
We're just navigating straight.
Even with Brian here, the fucking thing you...
eddie bravo
Okay, but anyways, what we're talking about, this review we're talking about, is actually just being released as we speak right now.
It's 10th Planet Kush, episode 19, featuring Joe Rogan.
That's the one.
It's up, like, right this second, probably.
And Joey fucking goes off, and I... I gotta put a warning thing before this.
unidentified
The views of Joey Karate do not reflect the views of Eddie Bravo, right?
joey diaz
I didn't go off.
eddie bravo
I gotta put that up.
joey diaz
I didn't go off.
Let me tell you something.
eddie bravo
You'll see what we mean.
joey diaz
It was funny because I read something that Dana had mentioned that what's-his-name choked.
And I started thinking about it.
joe rogan
Kenny Florian.
joey diaz
And I started thinking about it.
And I said, you know what?
How can I say that about a guy that I've never tried what he's doing?
Like, this is to the point in my life where I'm at.
I can never say somebody choked.
You know, maybe he had a bad day.
Then I started thinking about it.
He had, like, six bad days, you know?
But I never said he choked on it like that.
All I said was...
I was fucking...
All I said was he was as skinny as Jesus.
eddie bravo
Well, people will see exactly what you said when they watch the episode.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
You know what?
eddie bravo
It's all funny.
joe rogan
So what it is, for the people who don't know what we're talking about, Joey does this breakdown of the UFCs as Joey Karate, who's a Cuban black belt.
And it's probably...
Even if you're not a UFC fan, it's probably the funniest fucking thing you watch on the internet.
eddie bravo
It's the funniest possible, most entertaining reviews of UFC previews and reviews.
Sometimes we review a show, but there is nothing out there.
Fuck ESPN. Fuck all that HDNet shit.
There's nobody...
That brings the fire like Joey.
All that shit's entertaining to a point, but I don't know how many times I fucking turned it off halfway through MMA Live.
When you hear Joey do it, fuck.
You fucking want it to last 30 minutes.
joey diaz
And I'm always 2-3 or 3-3.
My picks are money.
You understand me?
Because I've learned from these guys, and I know what it is to get beat up.
So I watch these fights, and that's how I pick the things.
I've been in like two other three lately with the two key matchups always being money.
So I'm not that fucking bad.
joe rogan
No, you're very good.
You're very accurate with it.
I don't want to see that many guys talking about fights, analyzing fights.
There's not a lot of guys I like to listen to.
unidentified
Dude, you know what?
joe rogan
I want to hear funny.
eddie bravo
Yeah, you know what?
I respect...
Everybody out there doing...
joe rogan
To me, personally, I don't get nearly as much insight from any articles or any commentators.
I get it from MMA forums.
I think dudes have more opinions and better opinions and better points of view on MMA forums.
Absolutely.
There's some very good writers.
Guys who write on the underground.
There's guys who write on the underground that you read their shit and you're like, this guy's a fucking author.
I mean, he might as well be writing for a magazine.
This is really well-written.
A really well-written breakdown of the event, of a guy's performance.
To me, just because a guy has a job with Yahoo doesn't make him more credible than McFuckstick1 on the underground.
They're just human beings.
joey diaz
They're just writing.
joe rogan
Exactly.
It doesn't need to be official on ESPN.com to me.
Interacting with people on the underground and getting someone's opinion, you get a bit more insight as to how a fight's going to go down from that than I think than any of the websites online.
eddie bravo
You know, the one time I do like hearing what a fighter actually has to say about a fight, the one time when they're talking about stuff that the public, me included, really don't know about, what's really going on in that fucking cage.
You know what I mean?
Very few people experience...
Fighting in front of the fucking world.
So when a guy's breaking down a fight and they see something, a chink in that guy's armor, like he folds, or maybe fighters can...
After a while, some fighters are known as folders, right?
They just fold under the pressure.
And fighters see that quicker than the average person.
So I like that kind of insight.
joe rogan
Yeah, there was a time when I was doing commentary with Randy, and a dude got poked in the eye.
And the referee went over to him and he said, Can you see?
And he's like, man, I don't know.
I don't know how I can see.
And Randy got angry.
Randy goes, you never tell him you can't see.
He goes, if he tells him he can't see, it means he doesn't want to fight.
And I was like, whoa.
He got, like, really intense.
Like, his crazy, like, you know, competitive drive came out when he was discussing this other guy.
That's fascinating.
eddie bravo
Yeah, I love that shit.
joe rogan
But I don't want to hear, like, a bunch of analysts sitting around going, what he has to do is, Clay Guida's got to keep the fight standing.
Shut up.
Shut up.
eddie bravo
Stop it.
joe rogan
Stop it.
I want to hear you.
unidentified
I want to hear you.
joe rogan
I'm going, my man.
The caveman.
Geico.
unidentified
Guida.
joe rogan
Takedown.
Ground and pound.
It's all happening, dog.
You ain't stopping it.
That's what I want.
I want to hear that kind of stuff.
eddie bravo
I do enjoy Inside MMA, though.
I watch that shit all the time.
unidentified
Yes.
eddie bravo
Because I bring in some cool fighters.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm a Boss Rootin fan to the death.
joey diaz
Yeah, me too.
unidentified
He's fucking hysterical in the craziest way.
You know what I mean?
eddie bravo
Boss is insane.
We were on a plane together.
joe rogan
They let...
eddie bravo
An insane man hosts the fucking show.
joe rogan
It's hilarious.
We flew to Boston on the same plane.
We were in the same plane.
eddie bravo
He's nice as fuck.
One of the nicest guys I've ever met.
unidentified
So we're...
eddie bravo
Boz is super crazy nice, but he's also crazy, too.
unidentified
Yeah, he is crazy.
joe rogan
So we're on the plane, right?
So Boz is on the plane, and he goes up to use the restroom, and one of the ladies that's working for the plane is like, are you here for the wrestling thing?
unidentified
Are you...
joe rogan
And he's like, yes, mixed martial arts.
We're there for mixed martial arts.
And she tells him that her boyfriend has hands that he had registered as a deadly weapon.
And Boss became obsessed with this.
Boss is like, this is not true.
I told her bullshit.
Boss is telling me that he told her bullshit.
We got off the plane.
She's telling me her boyfriend's hands are registered as a deadly weapon.
I'm like, no fucking way.
It was super amped up.
eddie bravo
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
I mean, just listen to some of the shit he said on Pride.
eddie bravo
Oh, my God.
He's got, like, at least 15 to 20 classic lines.
Like, you want to put that shit on a loop.
joe rogan
And on top of that, he said some crazy shit.
Badass fighter.
I mean, he was one of the premier strikers in MMA during his era.
Like, when he took out Tiyoshi Kosaka, watch that fucking fight.
Watch that fight where he won the title.
He's a bad motherfucker.
That wasn't actually he won the title.
That was the first fight he had in the UFC. On the posters, it said, the world's greatest martial artist.
That's how they were bringing him in.
As the world's greatest martial artist.
And Boss just...
Fucked up to Yoshio Kosaka.
Just blasting him.
Like, there wasn't very many dudes who were striking like that in the UFC. Yeah, and Kosaka's fucking tough as hell.
Tough as fuck, dude.
Tough as fuck.
Boss was a savage, man.
His attack, man, he could kick so fucking hard.
I remember when he first fought in Pancrase.
All these dudes were kind of doing the same kind of thing.
Pancrases, they had open hand slaps.
You weren't allowed to punch.
And there's a lot of dudes that weren't kicking very good.
They just were kind of like, They'd take a guy down and dive on leg locks.
All these shin pads and these shoes on.
Like, you could grab a hold of a dude's feet pretty easy.
And a lot of dudes were doing leg locks.
Boss Rootin came out of nowhere blasting dudes with kicks.
unidentified
Just BOOM! You would see them hit these guys.
joe rogan
They'd be like, what the fuck?
What the fuck is he doing?
eddie bravo
And the palm strikes, these Japanese guys, they were just slapping each other and grappling.
He said, wait a minute, we could slap?
Hmm.
How about I fucking slap you really fucking hard?
So he came in and he was fucking iron palming dudes.
joe rogan
What he was doing was Boss could pull his hand way back.
So he was basically just punching you with this.
He was using all his punch techniques, but he was hitting you with the meat of your hand, which really is better because it doesn't hurt your knuckles.
Your hands don't break.
You can hit some shit really hard like that.
eddie bravo
He was knocking people out with these slaps.
The Japs weren't knocking anybody out.
joe rogan
Uppercut slaps, knocking dudes senseless.
eddie bravo
You know what's crazy?
I went to Amsterdam with Boz Rooten, dude.
In 2001, I commentated for a show called Too Hot to Handle in Holland while I was working for King of the Cage and Pride.
They fucking hired me, so we're on the same flight, and we're all on the same flight.
He lived in LA, and this is when he was crazy as fuck, dude.
I'm not going to get into detail what happened.
I don't want to bust him out.
But he's known as a crazy wild man.
joe rogan
Yes.
eddie bravo
On the fucking plane was a crazy wild man on the plane.
And I can't get into details.
But god damn it.
When we get to Holland, we partied all fucking...
I have about a hundred pictures of me and Bob all fucked up in Holland.
unidentified
Jacked everywhere.
All...
eddie bravo
I can't even begin to tell you.
joe rogan
Do you remember any of it?
eddie bravo
I remember all of it.
Well, I remember a lot of shit thanks to pictures because we took a lot of pictures.
joe rogan
And then you watch the pictures and you go, oh.
eddie bravo
Isn't it weird how your memories become memories of the pictures?
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
eddie bravo
You actually remember that those are your memories, the picture.
joe rogan
Well, memories are only relevant, you know, if you use them.
If it's a memory that's never going to come up, it's really hard to retrieve.
If it doesn't have any emotional, like, bearing in your life.
Like, I have memories from my early childhood because they were like, Strong moments that meant something to me.
I learned something from that experience.
But like a regular memory, just hanging out with somebody?
How long do you remember that for?
joey diaz
Good memories.
I remember a lot of shit.
joe rogan
Dude, as I get older, I feel like I have less room on my hard drive.
I feel like I got an old hard drive that's filled up with shit.
joey diaz
I don't remember the dumb stuff, but I do remember the important stuff.
eddie bravo
I got a question for you, Joe.
What do you think, out of everything you've heard about pancreas, I mean, what do you think?
I don't know what to think, but Ken Shamrock told me, Ken Shamrock told me, came out of his mouth that all those pancreas fights were worked.
They were set up.
He said all of them?
Except for when foreigners fought each other.
They would just let them fight.
But when it was Japanese against a foreigner...
He actually worked for the Japanese.
He was in Pank Race as their American to fight so they can mix it in with the Europeans.
That's what he said.
He said, I was brought in, you had to be really good.
joe rogan
Other guys have said the same thing.
eddie bravo
Yeah, because he said you had to be really, really good because if they asked you to take them to the later rounds or whatever, you had to be good enough too because sometimes the foreigners didn't know they were fixed.
He said the foreigners didn't always know.
But we would control it.
joe rogan
So the foreigners, you'd have to make sure you just didn't knock them out.
eddie bravo
Something.
They were trying to create characters and do different shit.
joe rogan
What would they do if the foreigner got hurt?
eddie bravo
Dude, this is just all...
I don't know if this is true or not.
joe rogan
So what is it all about?
Gambling?
Is that what it is?
eddie bravo
I don't know.
joe rogan
Fixed fights?
I mean, if it's all about predicting the outcome, is it like pro-wrestling with fighting?
What is it?
unidentified
I think it was...
eddie bravo
Half pro wrestling, half real.
You know what I mean?
I think that's a pancreas.
But I don't know, man.
This is what Ken Shamrock told me.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I wouldn't know.
eddie bravo
Because I do know one thing.
That fucking Frank Shamrock against Alan Golas, that shit was real.
That was pancreas.
joe rogan
Was it?
eddie bravo
And that was real as fuck.
Do you remember that?
joe rogan
No, I don't remember that part at all.
eddie bravo
Damn!
joe rogan
Was it good?
eddie bravo
Alan Golas was all over Frank Shamrock.
joe rogan
Really?
eddie bravo
But if you grab the rope...
You gotta let go of the hold and start again.
So if you're in a fucking hold, you can grab the rope.
So Alan Goers was all over Frank Shamrock.
Frank Shamrock just started great.
He was so green.
He really didn't know jiu-jitsu that well.
He was just a real natural athlete, powerful, strong.
He was always explosive.
He was just a fitness fucking powerhouse.
And he knew some shit from Ken Shamrock.
But he wasn't that good at that point.
And Alan Goes was all over him.
And if it wasn't for the ropes, he would have fucking...
But at the end, Frank Shamrock got him in a fucking footlock, dude.
And Alan Goes couldn't reach the rope.
And he fucking jacked him and broke his ankle.
joe rogan
Really?
eddie bravo
Yeah, but it was like a draw, I think.
I don't remember exactly if it was a disqualification.
unidentified
I don't know.
eddie bravo
There was something at the end.
I don't know who won.
But I do know Alan Goes was all over him.
But he got saved.
Frank Shamrock kept saving the ropes.
And then at the end, he got him in an ankle lock, man.
And Alan Goes didn't defend right.
And he broke it.
I mean, he screams.
joe rogan
I was surprised that Frank Shamrock retired.
I was surprised.
He's the commentator for the Strikeforce.
eddie bravo
But he hasn't retired.
joe rogan
He said he retired.
He had a big ceremony.
He had a big ceremony.
He stood in the middle of the octagon and bowed to everybody.
eddie bravo
You know how many times Ozzy retired?
joey diaz
Ozzy who?
eddie bravo
Ozzy Osbourne.
unidentified
Stop!
joey diaz
He's never retired.
eddie bravo
Exactly!
You know how many farewell tours?
Technically, he's had several farewell tours.
joey diaz
Ken Shamrock had it.
eddie bravo
Farewell.
joe rogan
Okay, so you think Frank Shamrock getting in that cage and just bowing to everybody's publicity stunt, that eventually he's going to come back and make it like it's a really big deal that he's coming back?
eddie bravo
I'm not going to say it was a publicity stunt because maybe he believes he's really retiring.
But I believe...
And he hasn't made that much money.
He hasn't made that much money.
And you have all these boxers that have made gazillions in boxing.
It happens all the time.
All these boxers that have made gazillions.
You get used to the money.
Damn, if I fight again, that could fight for...
Dude, that could make $200,000.
That means a lot to these guys.
These guys aren't rich.
They'll come back.
You know what I mean?
joey diaz
They'll always come back.
eddie bravo
I think he's coming back.
joe rogan
He's in his late 30s.
eddie bravo
I believe he's about 37. You know, even guys with millions come back for the money.
And he didn't make millions.
joe rogan
Well, he's a smart guy, though.
eddie bravo
But I respect him.
I'm not saying this.
joe rogan
I think he can do anything.
And I think if he decides that he doesn't want to compete anymore, why should he compete?
If it's not in his heart anymore and he feels like his performances reflect that, why not just step down?
Why not stop doing it if you can get over it?
The real problem with fighters is at a certain point in time, you're...
Self-esteem and your self-worth evolves completely around your ability to fight and beat people up.
And when you can't do it anymore, you feel like a loser.
A lot of guys, they don't even know who they are when they stop competing because it's such an intense experience that a giant chunk of their life is dedicated to getting really good at it, to getting good at fighting.
Their whole life revolves around their fighting.
And then when they're not fighting, it's like they're lost.
Like, when I was doing comedy and I was sucking, one of the best things that happened to me is I tore my ACL. And the reason being is I couldn't train, I couldn't do anything, and I certainly couldn't fight, and I needed an operation.
But it took competing as an option away from me.
I was 21 years old, and it took it away.
Now I was like, I can't compete anymore.
My leg's fucked.
Okay, so now I do have to concentrate on the next phase of my life.
Because otherwise, the thing about martial arts is this is the only thing I'd ever done that I was good at.
So I would do other things that suck at them.
I'm like, but I'm good at this.
What the fuck am I doing?
Why am I getting away from this?
My brain would be like, you don't want to do something and be terrible at it.
Do something to be good at it, even if there's no fucking money in it and no future in it.
You know, you can get really, really, really attached to the idea of who you are and being a fighter.
It's very difficult for those guys to step away.
You know, you can call it the glory.
Everybody says it's the glory.
It's far more complicated than that.
It's who they are.
It's all of a sudden their life is not wrapped around training camps, And preparing and improving your skills to face the next level and get to the top.
You get your title back once you've lost it.
It's not that anymore.
Now you're just a regular dude.
Well, if you were just a regular dude, there's nothing sad about being a regular dude.
But I guess if you're a fighter and you go to become just being a regular dude, for a lot of them, it's just too much to handle.
They don't want them in a normal life.
They're wired for fucking craziness.
They're wired for that extreme experience.
That shit's hard to walk away from, huh?
eddie bravo
Dude, I mean, nothing could feel better than beating someone's, like, winning the belt in the UFC, main card.
joe rogan
When Chuck Liddell throws those arms back and...
eddie bravo
Yeah.
I mean, what feels better than that?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it looks like...
eddie bravo
You're the number one guy on the planet.
joe rogan
When Chuck would do that and throw his arms back, it looks like he's got, like, the whole fucking...
Like, he should be glowing.
unidentified
Like...
Yeah, like there's a lightning bolt coming from the sky.
eddie bravo
Of course you get addicted to that.
Fuck yeah.
That's the ultimate rush.
joe rogan
When he smashed Tito, and after it was over, he was so fired up because Tito would talk so much shit.
Chuck is like the nicest guy in the world, but if you talk shit...
Chuck Liddell is the last person you want to talk shit to because he just wants to take it out on you.
He wanted to take it out on Tito so bad.
And when he knocked him out and he fucking threw his arms back like...
It literally was like that.
It was like a black hole was opening up.
eddie bravo
Were you there when...
Did I tell you the story about Chuck Liddell partying and Dana's lawyer or something grabbing some chick's ass?
unidentified
No.
eddie bravo
Did I tell you that story?
joe rogan
Should you be telling us?
eddie bravo
Um...
I don't know the guy's name, so it doesn't matter.
It was just a guy.
joe rogan
Well, did he do something that can get him in trouble?
No.
unidentified
No.
eddie bravo
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
Chuck loves the story.
No, no, Chuck loves this story.
Someone's going to jail.
No, no, no.
What happened is we're at some club in Vegas, Excess or some shit, and it's like Dana, Lorenzo, Chuck's there.
This guy I'm talking to is the lawyer guy.
They have a bunch of lawyers.
A lawyer for something.
Little guy.
He's all sitting there.
We're all at a table.
And right next to the next table is this straight baller.
He had to be a rapper.
Because he was straight, making it rain.
It was funny.
joe rogan
Oh, wait a minute, dude.
I was there.
This is the guy that got mouthy with Chuck.
eddie bravo
Yes, yes.
Remember, he started throwing ones up.
And it was funny.
The dude next to us was throwing up ones.
The ones were landing on our table.
We had billionaires there.
Nobody's picking up the fucking ones, dude.
joe rogan
They're just all over our feet.
eddie bravo
The guy's making it rain and no one gets shit.
unidentified
So anyways...
joe rogan
The guy got loud and mouthy.
eddie bravo
No, no, no, no, no.
He had a bunch of girls in that.
The rapper guy.
It was just him by himself with a bunch of chicks at his table.
And we're right next to him.
And I'm sitting there looking at all the girls going, God damn, this guy has got a lot of girls.
What does he do, right?
And I think...
I don't know what he...
He was an athlete or something.
joe rogan
Probably sold coke.
unidentified
And the lawyer that was sitting next to me, we're both looking over.
eddie bravo
We're both looking over at all the chicks.
And I'm going, God damn, he's got some hot ones.
And the lawyer guy reaches over at their table and grabs the chick's ass.
And the girl turns around and goes, who the fuck did that?
And the lawyer pointed at me.
He said, me.
I go, fuck you.
joe rogan
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Give up this guy's name.
eddie bravo
I don't know his name.
I don't know his name.
I don't have no idea who he is.
But he was with everybody.
He grabbed the girl's ass, and then the girl goes, who grabbed my ass?
He goes, he pointed at me.
I go, dude, it was him.
unidentified
Fuck.
Fuck you.
eddie bravo
I didn't grab no girl's ass.
joe rogan
He fucking pointed at me?
eddie bravo
He pointed at me, right?
joe rogan
We have to find who this guy is.
eddie bravo
So that girl grabs the fucking athlete, dude.
unidentified
Right.
eddie bravo
Comes over and he gets right in his fucking face and he's right there saying, did you?
And the guy keeps trying to shake it.
The lawyer guy tries to shake his hand and goes, like, fuck you, shake your hand.
You grab your fucking asshole.
Fuck you up right here.
He's like right in his face.
He goes, let me shake your hand.
Let's talk.
He goes, fuck Fuck your hand, man.
Fuck your hand, man.
He goes, let's just talk this up because I'm going to fuck you up right here.
And then while this is happening, fucking Patrick...
He calls Chuck or Dana calls Chuck or Lorenzo, one of them.
They call Chuck.
Chuck's just hanging out on the other side of the table.
He looks over and they go, Chuck, handle that shit.
Chuck went fucking...
Dude, he went right into that guy's face.
He said, what the fuck are you going to do?
He didn't even know what the fuck happened.
And the guy starts going, trying to shake Chuck's hand.
He was trying to shake Chuck's hand.
Chuck goes, fuck you.
You don't fuck with anybody here.
I'm going to fucking kill you.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
You sure that that's what he said?
Yeah.
You weren't right there, though.
I was there with you.
eddie bravo
He was screaming at him.
unidentified
Really?
eddie bravo
Yeah, and the guy was trying to shake Chuck's hand, and Chuck was like, oh!
joe rogan
It seemed to me a little bit more less intense than that.
eddie bravo
No, no, that's exactly what it was.
joe rogan
The guy was definitely very aggro, but Chuck did get in his face.
eddie bravo
Oh, dude, Chuck got right in his face and shut him down.
joe rogan
As soon as he saw Chuck.
joey diaz
The guy's hands were fucking registered with the FBI. What happened to him?
There's only black guys and they're cousins.
Did you ever notice that shit?
joe rogan
No, there's a lot of white karate guys that registered hands.
joey diaz
Nah, they don't exist.
When I was a kid growing up, if you were black and you talked about Bruce Lee, there's always that black guy that said, listen, I got a cousin who's a black belt who's got his hands registered with the emperor.
unidentified
What does it entail to actually have your hair?
joey diaz
Only black guys have their hands ready for an FBI.
eddie bravo
Maybe 20 years ago, I think if you had a black belt in karate in some states, you had to register your hands.
joe rogan
I don't think that's ever been the case.
eddie bravo
But you never heard about that?
I've heard about that.
joe rogan
People heard about it but it's not real.
It's just things that people make up.
I don't think there's any place that makes you register your hands as a deadly weapon.
Are you sure?
joey diaz
We're positive.
joe rogan
I'm almost positive.
unidentified
A hundred percent?
joe rogan
We got this on 10. I'm not a hundred.
unidentified
I'm not a hundred.
But I would say I'm 90. If you're a professional boxer, boss is very sure.
joe rogan
This is not true.
joey diaz
No, he does not.
joe rogan
Boss is very upset.
joey diaz
If you're a professional boxer or professional fighter and something ever goes down...
You always lose because that's the case.
joe rogan
Well, that's not necessarily the case.
That's Roger Huerta thing.
Everybody thinks he was in the right.
That guy that knocked out that chicken.
eddie bravo
But things have changed now.
joey diaz
Yeah, things have changed now.
eddie bravo
But 20 years ago, there was something.
There were some states that registered him.
joe rogan
Well, that's a video.
There's a video of that guy being an aggressive douchebag.
So that's where the evidence is.
It's a good thing.
joey diaz
It's karma.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, the guy punched this chick in the face.
It's the beginning of the video, and the guy just...
Whoever's filming it looks like he just got lucky and caught this all on tape.
But this big black dude, he's a fucking...
What's going on here?
Just hold it like a mic.
joey diaz
Nah, I'm not in the mood.
I'm over here hanging.
Relaxing.
joe rogan
This big, big guy, he's like 250, fucking giant muscles, walks up to this chick and just blasts her in the face and sucker punches her.
And everybody's like, what the fuck?
But the dude's so big, nobody wants to do anything.
Well, Roger Huerta gets right up to the guy and he goes, hey man, he's got his hands up like this, man, man, you just knocked out a girl.
And the guy's like, I'll knock out any bitch I want, I'll knock your bitch ass out.
And the guy took his shirt off.
So Roger Huerta goes, alright, I guess we're going.
Roger Wirt takes his shirt off, and there's a lot of scrambling in the camera.
It's tough to see what's going on.
But seconds later, maybe four, maybe five, the dude's unconscious on the ground, and Roger Wirt is beating down on him.
Just blah, blah, blah.
I mean, it's like karma, like a movie.
He's an action hero.
He's like Spider-Man.
He just blasts this dude out of nowhere, and they all got it on video.
And you can't say anything because the guy hit a chick.
It's like the perfect scenario.
It's like here's a guy using his martial arts for good unquestionably.
I mean, he's in a place where a guy assaults a woman and hits her with a sucker punch.
He confronts the man with his hands up in a passive way like this.
Like, hey man, what the fuck?
You just knocked out a girl.
Like, surely there's got to be a reason for this.
You know, yeah, that girl killed my mother.
You know what I'm saying?
You never know.
unidentified
I don't think he meant to do it.
joe rogan
I think he couldn't help himself.
That guy went through a lot of abuse when he was a kid.
He's very sensitive to bullies, I think.
And when he sees a situation like that, it's like, you have to step in and do something.
Like, that girl just got punched.
I mean, even if it was for a reason, what could it have been?
What's the reason to walk up to a chick and sucker punch you?
Drown your puppy?
What the fuck?
You know, what is it?
There's no reason.
eddie bravo
Why would I sucker punch a chick?
Let me think.
She would have had to...
joe rogan
She'd have the keys to the nuclear bomb.
You know what?
eddie bravo
If she stole my fucking phone, I would fucking...
If she stole my phone, I would sucker punch her.
unidentified
Really?
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's all it takes?
A girl has to steal your phone and you'll sucker punch her?
eddie bravo
I'll fucking...
joe rogan
Wow.
You're very close with your phone.
He loves his phone.
eddie bravo
No, maybe my laptop.
My laptop.
Maybe my phone, I would like push her head.
joe rogan
What's the longest time you've been without a phone and without internet connection?
What's the longest time?
unidentified
Ooh...
eddie bravo
Man, AT&T is worldwide.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
eddie bravo
They suck locally.
AT&T sucks balls at my house.
I can't talk on the phone at my house.
It's kind of weird.
But, goddammit, it'll come on in Thailand on a fucking island off the coast of Thailand.
I'm like, goddammit, it's working.
I guess they're roaming or something, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
I don't know what it is, but...
joe rogan
I went to a resort once in Mexico, in Cancun.
I wanted to go see the Mayan ruins.
And we went to Chichen Itza.
And the resort that we went to, that we stayed at near Cancun, no telephones, no internet access, no television.
joey diaz
Beautiful.
joe rogan
Nothing.
There was nothing.
It was terrible.
joey diaz
I fucking hated it.
unidentified
I hated it.
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
I got movies to watch on my laptop.
I'm watching movies on my laptop.
My laptop can't even connect to the fucking internet.
eddie bravo
And you're running out of movies.
unidentified
Yeah.
joey diaz
At night time, man.
joe rogan
I like watching a little TV. It doesn't matter where I'm staying, how beautiful it is.
When I lie down in bed, I like to see what the fuck's going on in the world.
I like to just turn on CNN for a few minutes.
joey diaz
Last week, I made a mistake.
I wanted a house phone.
So I called AT&T. Terry called up AT&T. We got everything put together.
The DSL, the house phone.
Well, they hooked everything up, except they shut the DSL off.
For five days.
No DSL. No DSL in the fucking house.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
unidentified
No internet.
joe rogan
Dial up!
joey diaz
Oh my god.
After one day, I was like, fuck it.
And I just spread it out.
I didn't bust down and go to the library.
And I'll tell you what.
By the third day, it was kind of fucking nice.
Really?
eddie bravo
I'd be so behind on emails.
I couldn't do it.
I'd get stressed.
joey diaz
So what?
Five days.
Try it for five days.
No computer, no cell phone.
See what your life...
You know when Brock Lesnar does that shit sometimes, you really gotta think about it.
And I know.
I know you're in a position where you need your cell phone.
Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, but listen, man, obviously I agree with you.
That's why I moved to the mountains.
joey diaz
It's something about it.
I really enjoyed it.
joe rogan
I think being separate, just having a little time to yourself is very important.
joey diaz
Very important.
joe rogan
Look, I mean, I'm a huge proponent of the isolation tank, and that's the whole theory behind the isolation tank, being alone.
Completely.
eddie bravo
Dude, in 98, remember I was going out psycho?
joe rogan
Eddie's girlfriends always have the best names.
Bored again, bored again was one, psycho was another.
eddie bravo
Psycho, we were at the tail end of the relationship, it was falling apart, and we decided, let's try to rekindle our love and drive up the coast to Monterey.
Let's try it.
See what happens.
One final fucking go at it, right?
So we drove up and it was pretty fucking cool.
Getting high, driving up the fucking PCH. The view was amazing.
I didn't realize, first time ever I drove up, I didn't realize how beautiful the coast is.
The view is incredible.
All the way up the coast, it's like, I kept pulling over every 10 minutes.
I kept looking, I'm like, I gotta videotape this.
This is like...
Fucking heaven!
joe rogan
It's weird that it's so close to the edge, though, that road.
That road's scary as fuck.
It's like you could easily just turn, just decide, this is it, I'm gonna end it.
Turn to the right, and you're off the side of the cliff.
eddie bravo
So scary.
But it's beautiful.
joe rogan
And you're trusting the other person coming the other direction.
I'm trusting you to not be crazy and suicidal.
eddie bravo
So we're driving up the coast, we go up to Monterey.
It's fucking cool.
We go to the aquarium, videotape and shit.
I'm like, fuck, man, I'm having a good time out there.
This is nice.
Right?
Smoking weed the whole time.
And then we spend a couple days in Monterey.
unidentified
It was cool.
eddie bravo
It was getting a little boring.
It was getting a little boring, but I'm like, okay.
We were going to drive back down, and there's a place.
It's like the wilderness next to the beach on cliffs.
It's called Big Sur.
And you rent little bungalows.
And we're going to rent bungalows for two nights.
Like, fuck it.
And go hiking.
And then hike to the beach.
Fuck, it's amazing.
It's fucking paradise.
We get there.
We check in for two nights.
Bam, immediately we go hiking and shit.
We had been in Monterey for a couple days.
We go to the beach.
Fuck, I got that all.
It's like some magical shit.
And then, man, the sun was coming down.
And we go back to the bungalow.
And we didn't know they didn't have anything.
They didn't have radio, TV, nothing.
They had nothing.
unidentified
That's true.
eddie bravo
So we were like, oh shit.
So it's like 7.30 and we're kicking back.
There's nothing to do.
So we watched the last two days at Monterey on the little LCD screen on my camcorder.
We're watching that and I'm thinking, there's only 90 minutes.
I was beginning to see.
We fucked.
The first time ever we videotaped it.
It was like, whoa, the first time we've ever videotaped sex.
We ran out of shit to do.
Damn, and now it's like 9.30 and shit.
Holy fuck.
I realized something.
That how important TV and internet is, especially when you're, you know, I could just go to sleep or whatever, but when you're trying to entertain your girlfriend, I said, fuck it.
I went back to, I went to the front desk and I said, I didn't know that we didn't, there was no reception up here at all.
Can we get, can I get a refund for tomorrow?
I just wanted to leave that next morning.
Get the Fuck back to my life.
So I came back and I go, guess what?
She said, what?
I go, I got the refund for tomorrow night.
She goes, yes!
She wanted the fuck out too.
I was like, yeah, let's get the fuck out of here.
We're just lying though.
There's nothing to do.
We've heard each other's stories for the last six months.
Like, what are you going to tell me?
A new story about you?
Something new about you?
joe rogan
Man, when you first meet someone, hanging out with them for 10 hours in a row and just talking is easy.
eddie bravo
We broke up.
On the way back, she was in a bad mood.
We started fighting.
I'm like, it's fucking over.
unidentified
By the time I hit fucking Santa Barbara, I was like, okay.
eddie bravo
I was thinking of the exit plan, you know what I mean?
It was done.
joe rogan
So TV kept your relationship together.
eddie bravo
Yes, and I realized we didn't have shit.
unidentified
We didn't have shit.
eddie bravo
By the time I hit Santa Barbara and Ventura, I was like planning for the future without her.
joe rogan
You had fucking.
And sometimes that's enough to keep a relationship together for a long time.
eddie bravo
And we had entertainment.
We watched a lot of TV together.
If we didn't have TV, what the fuck would we do together?
You know what I mean?
Nowadays, couples, couples, like I went to my friend's house, Steve from, you know, Steve Melee from Melee, right here.
Him and his girlfriend, they got the big screen going and they're both got their laptops on.
They're both, every time I go over, they're watching some movie.
unidentified
Oh, we're watching a movie again and we're on our laptop too.
eddie bravo
And it's like, that's the fucking wave of the future right there, right?
joe rogan
Well, yeah, if you're in that kind of a relationship, yeah.
eddie bravo
Yeah, you know what?
We're hanging out, but we got shit to do, but we're still hanging out.
We're still right here.
I could kiss you and all that, but I got work to do.
joe rogan
Some chicks, though, they want to be watching the same thing.
They're like, don't want you in the room while they watch a movie.
But you gotta cuddle.
eddie bravo
If you ain't cuddling, why are you watching the movie?
joey diaz
Well, fuck the cuddling.
unidentified
You just want to watch the movie.
joey diaz
You sit over there, I sit over here.
unidentified
You guys sit separately?
joey diaz
I don't like people on top of me.
I don't give a fuck who is it.
I love cuddling.
joe rogan
Oh, I like cuddling too.
joey diaz
Late night.
unidentified
Late night.
joey diaz
But not at 8 when I'm watching like fucking UFC. But I'm better get my nookie cookie, then I'm good.
eddie bravo
Yeah, you're right.
joey diaz
You can't cuddle and watch the UFC, right?
joe rogan
No way!
joey diaz
I don't like that.
I like to wean myself off of shit, especially the last five or six years.
There's nights I don't sleep with that.
I sleep apnea machine.
I know I'm going to get a headache.
What if there's a fucking earthquake?
What if?
What if?
I always want to prepare myself.
And that's why I don't like this shit.
These are fucking luxuries, guy.
That's why I was the last guy to get a fucking cell phone.
You know it.
You broke my balls for three years about it.
Something about it.
Something about it.
eddie bravo
You got that pager.
joey diaz
When I call somebody and they have a cell phone and they don't answer, it pisses me off.
Because it's not a house phone.
It's a cell phone.
It's in your pocket, you miserable motherfucker.
Answer the fucking thing.
You know what I'm saying?
And that's why I don't like cell phones.
Because I like to get people I call and say, let me look at your cell phone and smash it.
Because that's what it's a luxury.
Answer the fucking thing.
It's It's the same thing with these fucking computers.
You gotta get off, especially you.
You're intelligent.
Get off this shit for five days and see how different your fucking life is.
I enjoyed it.
After the second day, I was like, God damn.
It's like I was on coke.
I had to go somewhere every 20 minutes to do a bump.
That's what I feel like when I'm on a computer.
Every time I'm home, I gotta stop what I'm doing every 30 minutes and see who emailed me or whatever.
It was really nice not to give a fuck.
Like, you know what?
I don't give a fuck.
eddie bravo
It would be nice.
I agree with you.
joey diaz
I understand.
eddie bravo
But I actually enjoy the business when I get in the mode and I got to answer all my emails.
I'm loving it.
I'm like, it's happening, son.
joey diaz
But you know what?
I write a letter from time to time.
I write a letter.
Just to fucking keep me alive, dawg.
Don't depend on this shit.
You know what?
Let me ask you something.
If right now, if I took your fucking phone and I asked you what your mother's number was, you wouldn't fucking know it.
joe rogan
And neither would you.
joey diaz
And neither would I. We're getting too fucking comfortable, guys.
And it's fucking bullshit.
joe rogan
That is true.
joey diaz
I take your phone, I smash it, you're gonna sit there scratching your nuts for two days.
You know three numbers in your head.
The house, your manager, and that's it.
You don't know nobody else's number.
joe rogan
You think of how fucking far we are.
eddie bravo
You're the only number I know.
But I don't even know that number no more because you gotta do one!
unidentified
I don't know your number number!
I had to wait for three days for you to call me.
joey diaz
That's why I didn't call you in Boston last week.
I had to wait three days.
joe rogan
How many numbers do you think you can store in your brain?
joey diaz
Me?
joe rogan
Yeah, anybody.
joey diaz
Bro, in the old days, because of my cocaine and my criminal shit, I don't want numbers written on papers.
My mom never wrote nothing on papers.
When my mother died, that's why I never talked to my sister anymore.
Because my mom had all those numbers in her head.
joe rogan
You know Jay-Z does all his raps in his head?
In his head, you have to.
joey diaz
It's in your fucking head, man.
joe rogan
That's kind of crazy.
eddie bravo
That's insanity.
joey diaz
I mean, you do need a paper from time to time.
eddie bravo
I like notes, man.
I'm all about notes.
joe rogan
I went through a long time where I didn't write any of my comedy down.
joey diaz
Don't believe he don't use a paper.
You gotta write shit down from time to time.
eddie bravo
I got notes like a motherfucker.
joey diaz
That's huge.
eddie bravo
I'll forget.
I forget, man.
joe rogan
What I think is happening, Joey, is much more complicated than that.
I think it's not that this is making us soft.
I think this is becoming a part of us.
When you leave your phone at home, and I leave my phone at home, and I go out, and I realize I don't have my phone on me, I feel...
unidentified
Naked.
joe rogan
Something's wrong.
Yeah.
eddie bravo
You're disconnected from the world.
unidentified
You have this anxiety.
joe rogan
I feel vulnerable.
joey diaz
You have this anxiety.
joe rogan
Yeah, I feel vulnerable.
joey diaz
And you walk in your door, you pick up your phone, and I called you.
Big fucking deal.
You missed the guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it feels good, though.
Something about it.
Think about it.
joey diaz
Think about when you walk in, you haven't had your phone on, and you open it up, and you think all this fucking knowledge is going to be in there.
joe rogan
I think it's nostalgia for the past.
I think we're moving towards an era where you don't remember phone numbers.
They're on this device that controls everything in your life, and it might even be a part of your body.
I think you can't hold on to the past.
Things are changing.
They're obviously changing.
In our lifetime, the Internet has made things radically different, just in our lifetime.
We have had more change in our lifetime than hundreds and hundreds of years in the past, just in a few decades.
I think all this computer and technology and shit, it's not making us soft.
It's becoming a part of us.
And it's going to, I think, in some way, it's going to help human beings evolve.
joey diaz
Well, two years from now, when the Arabs bombed the fucking tower or the satellites, and we got no phone, and you're stuck on fucking the floor trying to call me, cocksucker.
You'll say, I had a fucking Joey's number in my cell.
joe rogan
You're right.
That's the least of my worries when the world ends.
joey diaz
No, I didn't talk about the world ends.
The phone ain't gonna work.
Listen, they've been trying to hit...
joe rogan
You ain't gonna have no lines when the world ends.
There's no lines.
joey diaz
I don't want no fucking lines.
joe rogan
You're gonna need to know how to make a bow and arrow with your shoelace.
joey diaz
I understand that.
joe rogan
And go kill a rabbit.
joey diaz
That's why I'm getting ready for that shit.
That's why I hang out with the brothers.
joe rogan
I got bows and arrows.
joey diaz
That's why I hang out with the brothers in Vermont and shoot.
joe rogan
That's why we're gonna go hunting with Ricky Schroeder.
We're gonna make it a reality special.
Eddie Bravo, me, and Ricky Schroeder out hunting.
eddie bravo
The only animal I've ever killed was...
If you count a rat, like I set up a mousetrap, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
You'd be down for that though, right?
Go hunting with Ricky Schroeder?
unidentified
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
We should film that, right?
That would be interesting.
You and I, super baked in the woods with guns.
What a great idea.
joey diaz
You can't do that.
You can't be super baked in the woods.
eddie bravo
With a straight Ricky Schroeder, right?
joe rogan
If I was really high, I think I would be better at hand.
I'm just kidding, ladies and gentlemen.
I wouldn't be high with a gun in the same woods as other people.
eddie bravo
Yeah, how dare you?
joey diaz
Yes, you would.
joe rogan
That's okay.
I would not do that.
joey diaz
It's wrong.
Eddie can't do the rubber guts.
He's got a.22 in his fucking knee.
joe rogan
You have to be very careful.
I read this article online.
I was researching hunting accidents in Maine.
Because I used to have this joke about hunting in Maine, and I was like, I wonder what the real numbers were, like how many people actually got shot.
Well, the real problem is experienced hunters.
They literally see deer.
They'll see a deer, and they'll pull the trigger, and then after they pull the trigger, they realize it's a woman in a red jacket.
It's like their mind plays tricks on them.
Because a seasoned hunter has to get so good at recognizing movement.
There he is!
I got the opening!
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
Pull the trigger!
So their brain literally puts an image of a deer in front of them when they see motion.
Your brain tries to already give you the image before it even gets it.
eddie bravo
Because you're looking for it so bad.
joe rogan
You're looking for it so bad that your brain makes you visualize a deer.
There's the deer!
And these guys literally say they saw a deer in the most horrible night.
eddie bravo
How often does that happen?
joe rogan
All the time.
eddie bravo
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the problem.
The problem is experienced hunters.
Experienced hunters who just, they're just used to knowing that you have to capitalize on a quick opening.
There's the opening, bang!
Oh my god, it's a person!
Like, that shit's real, man.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
That's the scariest thing about hunting.
The scariest thing about hunting is hunters that don't know what the fuck they're doing, and, you know, people accidentally shooting people.
It happens all the time.
joey diaz
So you got experienced hunters out there, 30%, and the other is unexperienced.
So some motherfucker's gonna get shot, is what we're saying.
joe rogan
Dude, the article that I was reading was about this guy who was an investigator, and he was out there, like, investigating people who were shot.
And, you know, they had this one guy that he thinks was a suspect, and the guy was an experienced hunter.
And he just, you know, was asking the guy, like, hey, you know, you see anything?
Anything going on?
You know, we got a situation.
And the guy's like, no, no, didn't see anything.
All he did was just drive by the dude's house every day for a week.
Just pause in front of the house, stop, look at him, drive.
Four or five days later, the dude cracked.
He just couldn't take it anymore.
Imagine the guilt of accidentally shooting somebody while you're hunting.
You know, you think you're seeing a deer.
So he talked to the guy, and that's what the guy said once he finally confessed.
He said, I really thought it was a person.
I mean, I really thought it was an animal.
I saw an animal.
I saw the horns.
I saw the whole thing.
I saw a buck with a big rack, and I pulled the trigger.
And it was a person.
eddie bravo
Let's go do that.
A tape bit.
joey diaz
I don't want to hunt until they let us hunt for the cop suckers.
That's when I want to go hunting.
I want to hunt the fucking humans in the woods.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you can't eat them, man.
joey diaz
I don't want to eat a fucking...
I don't even want to eat something like that.
joe rogan
Well, you eat animals like crazy.
joey diaz
Yeah, but I don't want to eat something like that.
unidentified
Oh, I do.
joey diaz
I don't want to see it.
joe rogan
Why not?
joey diaz
I don't want to see that fucking hole in its head.
joe rogan
Why would you want the animal to die in some fucking factory farm where they get their brains smashed by a piston and they're living in cow shit all day for most of their life until that happens.
joey diaz
I just don't want to shoot an animal.
joe rogan
You know what?
I don't want it either, but I eat meat, and I love it.
I had a juicy, fat fucking steak last night.
It was delicious.
joey diaz
I had a juicy one for fucking breakfast.
joe rogan
I love meat, man.
I love it.
I think it's a part of being a human being.
joey diaz
I love pussy, but you don't see me shooting no bitches.
joe rogan
But I don't think it has to.
unidentified
You know what I'm saying?
joey diaz
I love pussy, but you don't see me shooting a bitch in the head.
joe rogan
I like your logic, cocksucker and soccer.
joey diaz
Even though I would love it.
I just don't want to shoot an animal.
I know you don't want to.
joe rogan
I know you don't want to.
I know you don't want to, and I respect that.
I think there's nothing wrong with that.
joey diaz
I love you guys.
I don't want you shooting Eddie and vice versa.
joe rogan
I don't think that because you eat meat, I don't buy the argument that you should have to shoot an animal.
I don't buy that.
I think we've allowed ourselves to somehow or another be removed from the process of murdering, slaughtering, and butchering the animal, and we just enjoy the meat, which is kind of crazy, if you really think about it.
So I just want to, for my own personal edification, I just want to go and experience it.
joey diaz
I want you to go.
Why can't we get a cow and shoot a fucker in your backyard?
joe rogan
Well, you know, you could.
My gardener got in trouble for killing a goat in his backyard.
joey diaz
What'd they do to him?
joe rogan
They got mad at him.
They were going to evict him from the house.
And he's like, I don't get it.
He goes, I could cook, right, in my backyard.
He goes, why can't I kill a goat?
He was like, this way you know it's not diseased.
It's safe.
It's like the safest thing.
To him, it was like so normal.
It is normal.
I mean, why can't he kill it?
How come he can cook it?
He could be outside with a side of beef, sawing off chunks.
Nobody would say a word.
They would say, wow, that's a big piece of beef you got there.
But if you actually killed the cow and started sawing the beef, he would get in big trouble.
And I understand it's because you've got to get rid of the guts.
It's gross, dude.
joey diaz
It is gross.
joe rogan
Yeah, someone ratted him out.
joey diaz
He's a Spanish person.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's Mexican.
joey diaz
He's a Spanish dispense.
Sure, we don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
They kill pigs.
I mean, the way he was talking about it, it's like, this is silly.
Like, come on.
I want to make sure my meat is good, you know?
I know the animal's not diseased.
joey diaz
When I was a kid in Miami, my uncle would get the pigs, bring them up, feed them for a couple weeks, and then fucking kill them while we were there.
Horrible.
joe rogan
I stopped eating pork for a while because I saw that movie, My Brother's Keeper.
Did you ever see that?
joey diaz
No, I heard about it.
joe rogan
It's a documentary about these guys that were kind of slow and one of them, I think, got accused of murder or something like that.
But anyway, in the documentary, they live on a farm, I believe in upstate New York, I forget.
And the guy went to kill one of the pigs and he pulls out the shotgun.
And the pig starts running.
That pig knows what the fuck is going down.
Pigs are smart.
They're like smarter than dogs.
So when this pig sees that shotgun, he just starts fucking running and squealing and scrambling.
The guy's chasing after him, finally gets the gun to his head and blows his brains out.
But like while before it happens, that pig is in utter sheer terror.
I thought about that.
I'm like, man, I don't think I want to experience that.
Why am I eating pigs?
eddie bravo
When was the last time I ate bacon?
joe rogan
I ate it all the time.
I gave up.
It didn't last very long.
But for a while, I was like, cows are dumb.
Fuck them.
They're stupid.
But really, the shit that you're supposed to eat, I think, is the smart shit.
I think you're supposed to eat fish.
Not smart, but difficult to catch.
Fish and game.
Those are hard to catch.
Cows and pigs are just sitting there laying around.
That's probably not the best for you.
joey diaz
I appreciate your argument, and I know when I eat a piece of meat that some cow's hanging upside down with a fucking thing in his neck.
I don't see it.
I don't want to think about it.
But by me going hunting, which I really couldn't do anyway, it would just make my life...
You know what I'm saying?
I don't even like venison.
I don't like none of that shit.
I eat veal scallopini if this fucking Italian makes it to me in the East Coast.
joe rogan
I can't eat veal.
joey diaz
I'm sitting like a motherfucker.
And I eat it and I make believe I don't even know what the fuck I'm eating.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like eating pussy when you're coked up and drunk.
I can't.
And that's it, guys.
I eat meat because of my necessities and stuff.
Fish, you know.
Chicken I eat.
And even though I know they're nasty and they piss all over their fucking legs, I still fucking eat chicken.
I won't go to Popeye's chicken, but I eat chicken.
joe rogan
Popeye's is delicious.
joey diaz
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
Spicy chicken with rice and beans?
joey diaz
Yeah, next time you get a breast from fucking Popeye's, take the skin off it and see the foot.
You can see the indentations of the toe.
They cut the foot in half and see what the fuck's in there.
You'll never eat Popeye's again.
You understand me?
I got that surprise in my life.
joe rogan
These opinions are purely those of Joey Diaz's.
joey diaz
These opinions are true.
I know all about mafia meat and all that shit.
joe rogan
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
This is all Joey's opinions.
I, for one, am a huge fan of the Popeye's chicken.
I love it.
I wish to avoid litigation.
unidentified
All right.
joey diaz
What about you, Tarzan?
You like Popeye's chicken?
eddie bravo
I like El Pollo Loco's new chicken jalapeno sandwich.
unidentified
Is it good?
eddie bravo
I'm addicted to that motherfucker.
unidentified
Really?
eddie bravo
Yeah, yeah.
I'm telling you, man.
El Pollo Loco jalapeno chicken sandwich.
They just came out with the bread.
They did something to the bread.
The Mexicans in the back.
They soaked that shit in something.
It's like a McGriddle chicken sandwich.
It's so good.
joey diaz
Talking to Mexicans, I got to give Mexicans props this week because I have encountered something I've never encountered in my life.
I moved into North Hollywood, the coolest neighborhood I've lived in in California, and we actually have a Mexican ice cream man.
You don't know what life is until you have a Mexican ice cream man.
There's no schedule.
Some days he shows up at 10, some days at 6, some days he got ice cream.
Last week he showed up at 11.15 while I was watching the UFC on a Saturday night.
Terry's like, do you hear the fuck?
And I wish I was joking with you guys.
This motherfucker comes at 11 o'clock.
Bing!
eddie bravo
Bing!
joey diaz
You go out there, the best soft-serve ice cream I've ever had out here.
Better than Dairy Queen, all that shit.
Tremendous.
He had shoes on there last week.
He was selling shoes.
He's got popcorn.
I'm not fucking thinking.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
eddie bravo
As long as you keep moving, I guess he's got a mobile store.
He doesn't have to pay for space or anything.
joey diaz
I love the ice cream soft-serve.
He dips it like the thing, like Dairy Queen.
eddie bravo
You just hear a bell?
unidentified
Bell school?
eddie bravo
Is it a truck with a motor?
joey diaz
A fucking huge truck, like Mr. Softy in the East Coast when I was a kid.
eddie bravo
Oh, so it's an ice cream man.
joey diaz
No music, no nothing.
Like, I've seen an ice cream man downtown that just goes, and he just talks in Spanish, and everybody flocks out.
eddie bravo
Most of them push like a car.
joey diaz
Yeah, I see those guys.
eddie bravo
Your dude's in a truck.
joey diaz
This motherfucker has a truck that has a bell.
Bing!
eddie bravo
When you hear that shit, people just come out?
joey diaz
They lose their mind.
The ice cream is fucking delicious.
joe rogan
What a great idea the ice cream truck is.
That's one of the greatest ideas ever.
unidentified
It's not that huge.
eddie bravo
It's not that huge, though.
You only see them in poor neighborhoods, right?
You don't see them in nice neighborhoods.
joe rogan
It's hard to trust those motherfuckers.
Some dude just selling you some shit on the street out of his truck.
That's not good.
joey diaz
Hey, I grew up on Mr. Softy.
That shit was delicious.
unidentified
How weird is that?
eddie bravo
You can't just...
What are the laws?
unidentified
You just...
eddie bravo
You got ice cream truck laws?
joe rogan
No, yeah, you have to have a license.
You can't just do that.
You have to have some sort of a merchant's license.
joey diaz
You got to have a kitchen.
eddie bravo
It must be really hard because we would see more ice cream trucks in rich neighborhoods, but we really don't.
joe rogan
How do people want to buy it, man?
Rich neighborhoods?
You know, you can't be going through Beverly Hills in an ice cream truck.
joey diaz
Why not?
joe rogan
Because people think you're probably trying to rob them.
unidentified
You know what?
eddie bravo
You know what it is?
You know, the main thing is they know in the rich neighborhoods the kids just can't come out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
They can't get to them.
And the poor neighbors, the kids are out in the fucking streets at three and four.
They're like, the kids are like fucking stray dogs in poor neighborhoods, right?
joe rogan
Dude, when I was living with my grandfather in Newark, when I was living with my grandfather in Newark, they would be playing stickball in the middle of the street.
You would have to stop and whatever they'd be playing.
They'd be playing soccer in the middle of the street.
They'd be playing, like, right, there's mostly Puerto Ricans and Dominicans and stuff in Newark.
And you would literally have to stop your car and Wait in order to get through to where you wanted to go.
Oh, totally.
Cars coming.
Everybody would stop their game for a second.
eddie bravo
We did that all the time.
joe rogan
The car would drive by and they'd restart the game.
eddie bravo
Every goddamn day playing football on the street.
joe rogan
Playing in the street with cars.
eddie bravo
That was the story of my life.
Bunch of poor fucking Mexican kids.
No one had a dad.
90% of all the kids, we were like fucking the little rascals, dude, on my fucking block.
It was a couple guys.
I was like 10 and 11. Once my stepdad left at 10, I was gone.
I was on the streets.
My mom couldn't control me and my brother.
Stepdad could.
But once I was 10, we were on the fucking streets.
It was like two, three dudes at 10, my brother at 14 and 15, and then we had some 18, 19-year-olds and some 20, and we were all Mixed in, playing football, organizing shit.
We're always on the street playing basketball games, a bunch of Mexicans, and we're all into rock.
Eric was into Rush.
No one had a dad.
Everyone's dad was gone except for Onorio.
But fuck, man.
What was I playing?
joey diaz
I did it with Irish.
eddie bravo
Oh, ice cream truck.
Oh, ice cream truck.
Oh, that was part of our life.
Playing football on the fucking street.
And ice cream truck coming by.
That was...
joey diaz
I came from an Irish-Italian neighborhood and we played fucking everything on the street.
From stickball to football.
And then when their leaves came down, that's when you played two-hand touch.
And then when we put the bricks...
We put the bricks in the middle of the street and you pile the leaves on top of it.
And some dickhead's driving with his car.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
And he hit the front car.
joey diaz
We were fucking animals there.
joe rogan
When I lived in Jamaica Plain, when we first moved to Boston, we moved to a bad neighborhood.
We moved to this place, Jamaica Plain.
And it was...
One of those streets where you would, on the street, there was like, you know, maybe 15, 20 kids that would live on the street, and they would be hanging out in the middle of the street all night.
It was like 3 o'clock in the morning, and you'd be like watching TV. They'd be like 10 feet in front of your window screaming at each other, yelling, drinking beer, throwing shit.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
Summer nights, dude, nobody went to bed.
Nobody went to bed.
When there was a blizzard, everybody was out in the street fucking riding, taking sleds, taking sled rides down the hill.
It was crazy.
eddie bravo
My mom couldn't control us.
We had a thing called bombing.
Whenever we'd get together late at night, we'd get in camo, climb lemon trees, fill backpacks with lemons, and then we'd climb in other trees, and we'd be all camouflaged in a tree, and when the cars would come by, fucking throw lemons at them, and then they would stop.
Dude would come out and we'd be hiding in the fucking trees, man.
And they would never find us.
We were all camouflaged.
We love camouflage.
But we would practice jumping fences and escape routes.
We knew everybody's backyard and everyone's fence.
We would practice.
So we got chased, too.
Cops would even come by.
Cops chased us, but they couldn't catch us.
We're gone in the backyard through the fences.
We were going through this.
joe rogan
You know, I had this conversation with Brian Callen yesterday.
I'm going to have it again with you guys, too, because...
We're all the same in the three of us that we were kind of like left to our own devices.
Do you think that that's...
I think every interesting person that I know, almost all of them were not raised by their parents.
They were all raised like wild dogs.
They all figured out their way through the world.
They may have a good relationship with their mother, but they don't really see her that often.
She didn't really teach them things.
They kind of figured things out on their own.
eddie bravo
I for sure did, man.
Me and my brother were on the streets.
My mom just had to work all the time.
She worked all the goddamn time.
joe rogan
If you had a really cool dad who was a Christian, who was a real Republican but super nice guy, you could have thought like that.
If your dad raised you like that and brought you along like that?
eddie bravo
Who knows?
joe rogan
You could have.
eddie bravo
Who knows?
I don't know.
joe rogan
It would have been different.
eddie bravo
My life would have been different.
joe rogan
Your brain gets programmed, right?
Your brain gets programmed by the people that are around you, especially your influences and your teachers.
And your father, of course, is going to be the biggest teacher in your life.
If your father was a really nice guy and a sweet guy and a fun guy and a loving father and a Christian and really gung-ho, rah-rah Republican, the United States would never do a bad thing to us, you could be sucked into that way of thinking.
Don't you think?
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
You don't think so?
You don't think so because you're you, and you grew up wild.
You grew up, your parents died young, you were really on your own in a lot of ways.
I mean, you were taken in by people's generosity, like your friends and families.
joey diaz
Yeah, but I had a mom until 14, and it's weird because...
joe rogan
See what I'm saying?
That's young.
joey diaz
14 is very young.
My mom was pro-American, dog.
joe rogan
Right.
joey diaz
Here she was, had a bookmaking bank, was involved in heroin.
joe rogan
Right, but I'm saying it's very difficult to look at the world like this is how you developed.
It's very difficult to step back and say, okay, how much of who I am is my environment?
joey diaz
I'll tell you what, when I was a kid, I didn't buy into the Boy Scouts.
I didn't buy into none of that shit.
I never bought into clubs.
I never bought into none of that shit.
joe rogan
Well, you grew up very streetwise.
joey diaz
What?
joe rogan
You've got some stories about your stepfather.
joey diaz
Right.
But up to the age of 10, I wanted to be a white kid, an American kid.
I came here from another country.
I grew up on Dick Van Dyke.
joe rogan
So did you feel insecure?
joey diaz
I wanted to.
To this day, I'm insecure about it.
joe rogan
Really?
About being Cuban?
joey diaz
No, I'm not about being Cuban, but my big thing was to be an American.
My mother came here for me to be an American.
joe rogan
Everybody wants to be everybody else.
There's white kids who want to be black, black kids who want to be white.
joey diaz
No, no, no, no.
When I came to this country, my mom stressed that we came here for you to be an American.
One time on a bus, some kids were talking in Spanish, and they wanted to beat the teacher up because the guy threw them off the fucking bus and made them walk home.
And I walked in the house, and I told my mom.
My mom's like, I don't know what you're upset about.
This is America.
You came here to do this.
My mom raised me to be an American, and I seen some of the shit I bought into it.
joe rogan
I'm hearing a song in the background right now.
joey diaz
And some of the shit I didn't buy into.
It's just the way it happens.
I never bought into a lot of that shit.
I'm allowed to vote now.
I haven't had a felony in 15 years.
joe rogan
You can vote now?
joey diaz
I can vote now, but I don't want to vote.
joe rogan
That's what happens?
It's a 15 year break off?
Yeah, it's 10 years.
joey diaz
But I don't want to vote because what were my choices last year?
Palin, the old guy, and Obama.
All three of them were bad choices.
You know what I'm saying?
So part of me is in, the other part of me isn't.
eddie bravo
Okay, what happened?
Didn't you have someone hostage?
Can you talk about that?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joey diaz
In 1987, I was 27 years old, whatever.
I was working in Boulder.
I was going to school at night, and I was snorting coke with three hands.
And I fucking got involved with some kid, and he was going to rob his roommate, and ended up robbing them, both of them.
And then the guy that I had as a partner was going to rob me.
What a tangled web we weave when we tangled to deceive.
And it just so happens that the guy got caught.
Like, I told him the guy I didn't want nothing to do with it, even though I had the coke with me.
I sent the coke to Aspen, but the other guy, the guy that tried to rob me, he ended up getting pulled over with the guy we kidnapped in the trunk of his car, all fucking bandled up and shit.
So I got arrested for the kidnap, kidnapping too and everything, but you know what?
I fucked up.
It wasn't because I fucked up.
It wasn't because of America.
Listen, bro, 10 to 7, I got a ticket this morning for $200.
10 to 7 this morning.
unidentified
For what?
joey diaz
Both of you motherfuckers were sleeping.
I was going to Tai Chi at 7, so I had to drive there.
So my wife said, if you ever go to Tai Chi at 7, you might as well drop me off at the train station.
I usually walk her every morning to the train station.
But I drove her.
There was a lunch truck there.
I couldn't pull over, so I pulled by where she crosses the street.
When I made the right, when I made the left, there was a cop on me.
He goes, bro, the bus driver's complaining.
He goes, it's a $1,000 ticket.
I have to give you a $200 ticket for parking instead.
Is that okay?
And I took the ticket and I was not angry at him.
I went to Tai Chi.
I did my thing.
I didn't mention it.
He did his job.
This is America.
He did his fucking job.
You follow what I'm saying to you?
A lot of people got pissed off at this guy for pulling me over.
He did his fucking job.
You know, when I kidnapped that guy, I kidnapped him.
I did that.
I got four years.
I got it all fucking easy.
They should have thrown me in there for ten fucking years.
But people don't really see him.
eddie bravo
How much time did you actually do?
joey diaz
18 months, 16 months?
eddie bravo
That's a long time.
joey diaz
But it cost me two years of my life.
You don't know what your life, how precious it is.
eddie bravo
Was it horrible?
joey diaz
No, it wasn't horrible.
I could do it standing on my head.
joe rogan
But the only people that suck.
I could do that time standing on my head.
joey diaz
Listen, when you do time, bro, and you do time, guys like you, it's just another day in paradise.
They're going to take us to a place where we get the bullshit about jiu-jitsu instead of two hours a day, eight hours a day.
You follow me and you eat and whatever.
Your freedom gets lost, which sucks.
But it's the people at home.
It's not you or whatever.
I can do whatever the fuck.
Bro, my genes are from Cuba, motherfucker.
eddie bravo
Tell me about...
joey diaz
I smoked the weed Castro smoked before he went to the mountains to take over.
You understand me?
eddie bravo
Now, what was a typical day in prison like for you?
Like, at that six months.
You're in there six months.
What's a typical day?
joey diaz
Living like a doctor.
You liked it?
Bro, you gotta remember, I went to prison for four years.
I got sentenced, but guess what I became?
I became a stand-up comic.
I learned how to do stand-up comics in prison.
What?
I didn't even know that.
Dog, they used to have movie night on Thursday night.
So the projector would always fuck up like Ustream.
It would always fuck up.
joe rogan
Joey, talk in the microphone.
joey diaz
It would always fuck up.
So on Thursdays, the people just jokingly, I would always go, what the fuck is wrong with the projector?
And everybody would say, Cuba, get up there and talk.
So I would go up there on Thursday nights.
It was 200 people.
And like 100 of them were black.
So they'd go, Cuba, go up there and talk.
And I would make fun of the black guys.
joe rogan
What would you say?
joey diaz
We'd make fun of the kitchen.
joe rogan
This is the beginning of your stand-up career.
joey diaz
What'd you say?
That's how the movie starts.
I fucking, the first day in prison, they made me a baker.
You know, you don't tell people what you want.
It's like Cuba.
Like, yeah, on the outside, I was a mechanic.
Really?
Well, in here, you're a baker.
unidentified
You know what I'm saying?
joey diaz
Here's a book.
Learn how to make bagels.
And I made these cinnamon rolls, dog, that almost blew up the kitchen, right?
These motherfuckers were big.
So that afternoon, they fired me as a baker.
And they made me a fucking dishwasher and a stockroom clerk, right?
So I was a dishwasher and a stockroom clerk.
And whenever they had shitty meals, the guys I knew when they were going through the line, I would yell, Don't do it!
So I would go, don't do it.
joe rogan
How often were the meals bad?
joey diaz
Three times a week.
But it didn't matter because at lunchtime I was allowed to go to the store for 15 minutes.
I worked it out where I had to drive to take garbage out so I would go to the store for 15 minutes.
Not only that, I would call in my owner at the Chinese restaurant so it would be ready by the time I got there.
So I would go back to the prison with Chinese food and groceries.
That's how strong I was in there.
Plus, I didn't fuck around in there.
Plus, they were doing steroids and selling drugs.
joe rogan
In prison?
unidentified
Please!
joey diaz
Like a motherfucker!
So I was in the stockroom clerk, so they had to pay me rent.
Because they never inspected the stockroom.
joe rogan
So you stocked the roids?
joey diaz
I would say to you, yeah, I'll hold your roids, but you've got to give me three dollars.
You've got to give me three dollars.
joe rogan
You gotta give me some cigarettes.
joey diaz
So I had roids, cigarettes.
I had pills in there.
They weren't mine.
They just belonged to other people, but you put them under pallets.
So I would give them a key whenever they needed to go take shit out of it.
eddie bravo
So you were the connection?
joey diaz
No, I was the holder.
joe rogan
How did they get the steroids in?
Somebody had to put it up their ass?
joey diaz
Yeah, whatever.
unidentified
I don't know.
joey diaz
I don't know.
I never asked.
joe rogan
Can you imagine shooting a steroid in your body?
eddie bravo
How do they smuggle it in again?
joe rogan
Up their ass.
eddie bravo
And then they put it where?
joey diaz
They're contact visits.
unidentified
Right.
joey diaz
What you do is you take your fucking kid and you fill his pockets with the yum yum.
And while you're making out with your husband, you say, you want to see the kid?
You pass the kid to the husband and he takes the drugs out.
Then he gives you back the ugly kid.
joe rogan
That makes me sorry.
joey diaz
That's how Henry Hill did it.
That's how they do it.
Same shit.
Bro, there's more drugs on the inside than the ones on the outside.
And to boot, this was a minimum security camp.
We had contact visits.
When you have a contact visit, there's parties every night.
You know what I'm saying?
These motherfuckers.
That's the first time I did it.
No, it was like the second time I did heroin.
And I couldn't do a needle.
So the Mexicans took a Mexican thing of heroin, melted it.
I had to put like a funnel in my nose made out of paper and they dripped it in my nose.
And I got up and I had like candle wick burning out of my nose.
unidentified
What the fuck is this?
joey diaz
They're like, that's heroin, man.
Be cool.
I was like this for like a day.
And then the white dudes, the bikers would give me speed.
And they would play basketball all fucking night on speed.
unidentified
The I'd be out there with them huffing and puffing.
joey diaz
Every week was a new adventure.
I did every drug.
But the drug of every...
unidentified
You had a great time in college!
joey diaz
I was out there fucking...
That's a movie.
unidentified
Minimal security prison where everyone's partying and it's just the greatest time ever.
eddie bravo
When you get released, it's like terrible.
joey diaz
Then I went to the halfway house, which was even better.
joe rogan
You gotta talk in the mic.
joey diaz
People keep complaining about the sound.
When I go to the halfway house, it was even better because I started loaning money out to the Invix.
As a loan shark.
Yeah, because they want to go out.
But if your rent's not paid on Thursday, you're not allowed for the weekend.
So the rent would be $65, so I'd give them $65 for $92.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I'm going to give you $65, but you've got to give me $92 tomorrow.
And I had 10 guys on that row.
Bro, I was a fucking machine in there.
The biggest scam I had at the camp, the biggest scam I had was there was an old Italian dude from Brooklyn.
He was like a half a mobster and he had pool cards.
And he could only do one card a week.
He would make like 30 bucks.
And I went up to him and I go, bro, you have a problem with these cards.
I go, you're giving them to white guys.
You're not getting the black population.
You're not getting the fucking spics.
And he goes, I don't know.
They won't talk to me.
I said, give me the fucking cards.
We're going to go partners.
He went from selling one card every Monday to doing 10 with me.
Because I had the brothers, I had the youngs, I had the Puerto Ricans, I had the whites, I had everybody.
And it was amazing.
That's why I really learned that I could really fucking do this.
So on Thursday nights, they would say, Cuba, fuck the movie.
Just go up there and talk about the kitchen.
And all the yams would yell, don't do it!
unidentified
It was hysterical!
joey diaz
It was fucking hysterical!
And I would just talk about that.
And then I had this one crazy black guy.
This guy was Anton Spencer.
His name was Spencer Antoine from New Orleans.
And he was crazy.
And he told me that he was in there for eight years for involuntary manslaughter.
And he was my mentor.
That was my dog, Jack.
He was fucking nuts.
And he would tell me about, like one day some guy nailed him $2.
And he comes to the kitchen.
He goes, did you see that guy?
And I go, no, I think he's packing and leaving.
This motherfucker went and got a knife.
He got him at the gate.
The guy was getting out of jail.
He's like, motherfucker, you better give him my $2.
unidentified
Ah!
I was blown away!
joey diaz
I'm like, this guy was old.
And his parents and family had money.
They had the best attorney for him.
Bro, this guy killed somebody with his hands.
And he got eight years.
Beat a black guy in L.A., downtown L.A., because I was in a federal place.
He beat him with his fucking hands and got eight years.
And he did four for involuntary manslaughter.
He had like $50,000 attorneys.
But he had a knife.
He had a gold tooth in his mouth.
He was one of those brothers and shit that his eyes would go crazy.
joe rogan
Why do you think the gold tooth thing really caught on the black community?
joey diaz
Because it's fucking...
It's like a pubic hair in your mouth, you know what I'm saying?
eddie bravo
It's all about blinging, you know what I mean?
Like teeth?
Yeah, because people look directly at your face, so you want to catch your attention, that's why you got the necklace, that's why you got the watch, but nothing beats the fucking tooth.
Next, you know, that's why they bling the glasses out too, and it's like...
joe rogan
Yeah, but that never caught on with the white community.
That's where white people drew the line.
Stop!
We can't join you on this one.
You know, white people can't join you on this one.
unidentified
Mayhem?
eddie bravo
What about mayhem?
joe rogan
Mayhem wears it as a goof.
He's a character.
In real life, mayhem ain't walking around with a grill on.
He does it like part of it is to be silly to be mayhem.
But it's not like he wants to be wearing an iced-out grill like fucking Lil Wayne or something.
unidentified
I don't know.
eddie bravo
I think he really likes it.
joe rogan
Okay.
If that is the case, if Mayhem does, that's one.
Out of like, you know, how many wiggers are there out there?
eddie bravo
Hey.
joe rogan
A big number.
It's a giant number.
And they're not out there.
unidentified
I'll tell you what.
eddie bravo
Paul Wall, right?
joe rogan
He's a white guy.
unidentified
He's got a grill.
Right?
joe rogan
But there's not, you know.
eddie bravo
One thing about white guys that wish they were black, they have all one thing in common.
They will deny.
That they would rather be black than white.
They'll deny that shit, no matter what.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can...
No, I'm happy to be myself, you know what I'm saying?
It's just a hip-hop culture thing.
eddie bravo
It's just where I'm from.
joe rogan
It's a hip-hop culture thing, you know?
It's where I grew up.
I grew up like this, you know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
You know, it's all about the game, you know?
It's all about the hip-hop game.
eddie bravo
Meanwhile, they got an oversized NBA jersey.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, he's got red pubic hairs.
You can't talk like that if you get red pubic hair, son.
They try extra hard, you know?
White guys who want to be black, they have to try extra hard.
joey diaz
That's crazy, though, but to continue with Eddie, what I was telling you was that I went in there every Thursday, I get on stage, and then one day, this is fucked up, Joe Rogan, this is why I really dig you, because one day the guy in the library was like a nerdy dude.
The guy that ran the library.
And I was friends with him.
We did acid.
He was very into Nostradamus.
He was intelligent, but he had some problem or something.
He went to prison.
And the funny thing was that one day he came up to me in the jail.
And a notebook was a big thing.
And I was getting ready to get out.
And I never even thought about it.
He came up to me and he goes, hey, bro, I got your notebook.
And I go, what's the notebook for?
He goes, so when you get out, you can write some jokes.
He goes, every week you write jokes.
I never see the notebook.
And I looked at him, and I go, I don't even write.
And this motherfucker went nuts.
He goes, you don't write, and you go up there every week and do that?
He goes, when you get out of here, it was like an angel.
It was like an angel.
I never seen the guy again.
I never heard from him again.
He just goes, what I watch you do, you really need to write and get it together.
Because you have a gift.
Just pursue this.
And that guy never even talked to me.
Like, he never used to talk to me at all.
joe rogan
Just said it out of the blue.
joey diaz
Out of the blue.
Came up to me when they go, hey, I got your notebook.
eddie bravo
The black guy, right?
joey diaz
No, a white guy.
A white, nerdy guy.
eddie bravo
A different guy.
joey diaz
That was like a really nerdy guy that would always roll his own cigarette.
eddie bravo
So some random guy came up to me and told you.
unidentified
Random guy, bro.
eddie bravo
He goes, you got talent.
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you think that if you didn't go to prison, if you didn't have that experience of talking in front of those people, that you probably never would have done stand-up or would stand up something that was in the back of your head anyway?
joey diaz
It was in the back of my head.
The prison really...
Woke the animal up.
eddie bravo
You thought about it before.
joey diaz
I had thought...
eddie bravo
Because you had to be funny before prison, right?
joey diaz
Anybody who heard The Niggas Crazy by Richard Pryor, you had to think of it.
He pushed it so hard in that.
unidentified
But before prison, you were always in the life of the party.
joey diaz
Yeah, I was always good at the deli.
eddie bravo
You loved telling stories.
joey diaz
Yeah, I was always good with that shit.
And then the thing that really got me was when you go to prison, they do a diagnostic on you.
I'd like to get an attorney now.
That's the only thing that irks me about my life.
A lot of times, people say, oh, I slept with this guy.
With me, I always wanted to know it was on that paperwork because it was an intense psychological evaluation.
It just wasn't a guy with a piece of paper saying, what do you think when you see a star?
They put shit in my head, electrodes, and all this shit.
It was three days of mental testing, and it was eating me alive.
I wanted to know.
I kept asking the counselor.
Who was from Mississippi.
He hated black people.
He hated spics.
He told me to my face.
My counselor told me.
He goes, I hate all you bug fuckers, spics and niggas.
I mean, that's how he goes.
That was my counselor.
And he said to me, he goes, I go, bro, his name is Mr. Blue.
I go, when are you going to fucking tell me what's on there?
And one day he's like, you really want me to tell you what's on here, bug fucker?
That's what he would call me to my face, bug fucker.
He goes, I'll tell you what's on here, Mr. Bug fucker.
It said that if you really wanted something and I had it, that you would take it from me.
He goes, now you do what the fuck you want with that.
And he threw me out of his office.
And I felt like a thief for three days.
That's what I read of that.
But what he was trying to tell me was that anything I wanted in my life, that's what it said.
That I could do.
Anything you want, dog, you could do.
Do it.
That's what he was saying.
That's what he was trying to beat around.
joe rogan
By calling you a bug fucker?
joey diaz
No, by saying what he said to me.
And a week later he came up to me and he goes, hey, did you understand where I was going with that?
He goes, you're a smart guy.
You're not one of these guys.
This is an experience for you.
eddie bravo
Tell us about your first stand-up gig.
Do you remember it?
joey diaz
Yeah, I remember.
eddie bravo
What made you go up that night?
joe rogan
Do you consider the ones in prison your first stand-up gigs?
eddie bravo
I'm talking about first official at a club, like your first time you went up.
joe rogan
But I'm thinking that if you did it, how many times did you do it in prison?
You really were doing like open mic night.
joey diaz
I was doing every Thursday for about 90 days.
joe rogan
So you've done a bunch of times.
Did you have material planned out?
Did you have stuff that you repeated?
unidentified
No.
joey diaz
What was the first club?
Can you imagine repeating a joke in front of those yams and shitting all those crazy, roped out Mexicans?
That's the first time I really knew about the whole heritage.
They would sneak in fucking green chili burritos.
Tremendous.
joe rogan
Really?
Who had the best tattoo artist?
Was it the Mexicans?
joey diaz
Mexicans.
joe rogan
Mexicans always have wild-ass fucking prison tattoos.
joey diaz
I was in jail with three generations of Mexicans at one time.
I was in jail with the grandfather, the Aiellas, the father, and the son.
That's really...
Once you start seeing that thing, you're like, wow!
eddie bravo
That needs to be in a movie right now.
joey diaz
This is fucking crazy.
And I always wanted to shoot somebody and be a criminal.
I didn't...
I always thought about that my life deserved more than to spend it in here.
That's what prison did for me, bro.
If people come up to me and go, how bad was prison?
Prison is how bad you make it for me, for fucking me.
It opened my eyes.
I became a stand-up comic.
It just gave me that opportunity to see.
By the way, did you see the show about that dude that robbed millions?
What's that guy's name two years ago?
The guy that won a Wayne.
The Punzi Schemes.
If you get a chance, watch that on fucking MSNBC. What is this show on?
joe rogan
On Bernie Madoff?
joey diaz
Yes, where they took him to prison.
He's in North Carolina now.
He went right in there and teamed up with the fucking mob.
He paid people.
And he don't give a fuck, that guy, about people.
joe rogan
Well, you talked into...
Did people have to tell you that you were funny, that you should go on stage?
Did people tell you that you should do that?
eddie bravo
Yeah, tell us about the first time on stage.
Or if you don't remember...
joey diaz
No, no, I remember everything.
joe rogan
I would consider the first time he was on stage...
eddie bravo
Okay, the first time outside of prison.
joey diaz
Right.
joe rogan
Because my first time on stage was an open mic night, but before I went to the open mic night, it was the locker room.
eddie bravo
Yeah, I understand that.
I like your first night officially as a comedian is an interesting one.
Let's hear yours.
But I'm so curious about yours.
joey diaz
The truth of the matter is, now that you get down with it, about a month ago, I got a call from a friend of mine and we were talking that I hadn't talked to.
I hooked up with him on Facebook and he said something to me.
He goes, bro, I knew on that bus ride home.
That you're always going to be an entertainer.
And I asked him, I go, what are you talking about?
He goes, do you remember after freshman basketball, you would get on the bus and fucking go off every night?
He goes, it got to the point where the bus drivers wouldn't pick you up anymore.
Because we used to go on and do the theme from The Odd Couple.
And then I would go into a fucking 20 minute skit all the way until we got to the thing.
And I even wrote a blog about it that...
After he told me that, I called a bunch of people from those days, and I go, bro, what did we used to do on the bus?
And they were like, you don't remember?
We used to take all the fucking buses, the number one bus, 90th Street to 38th Street.
We ran it, and you were the fucking host, an emcee.
And I'm like, wow!
And I started thinking, I'm like, that's right.
So if I really go to that, that was freshman year basketball.
joe rogan
Wow.
joey diaz
Where I used to light the buses up every time.
And they wouldn't fucking pick up.
And I remember that, like being out there for two different bus drivers, and they would pick you up because you guys are too fucking loud.
joe rogan
Wow, that's hilarious.
But then in school, you know, no one ever considers that maybe this guy should be a stand-up comedian.
They just go, we gotta silence him.
We gotta stop this.
We gotta teach some discipline to you.
The lack of discipline is really what makes someone a comic, though.
eddie bravo
I wasn't a stand-up at all, like in that sense, like growing up, but I was always, every year, I was always, depending on the teacher I had, because junior high and high school you have like seven teachers, I was always the dude to start shit, play pranks, and always.
Unless the teacher was Mr. Enders, you never did shit, you just fucking, he was a bad motherfucker.
He goes, you want to act up, you want to talk?
joe rogan
We talked about this before on the podcast.
joey diaz
Who's Mr. Enders?
eddie bravo
Mr. Enders, 10th grade, I think, geology, I don't remember.
joe rogan
There's no way to tell, you know, the funny thing about someone becoming a comic is there's no one who could have pulled you aside and said what you really need to do is become a comic.
It's like you almost have to experience all this resistance to your personality, to regular life.
Then that forces you into being a comic.
It's like if someone can't just come up to you and go, this is what you really need to do.
You really need to be a comic.
You need to go through all the bullshit in life to experience that before someone comes along and tells you.
How old were you when you first got on stage?
joey diaz
30?
joe rogan
30?
joey diaz
29?
joe rogan
I was 21. It would have been better if I was 30. Because when I was 21, I didn't have shit to say.
I have no opinions about anything.
eddie bravo
Can a 15-year-old stand-up comedian, because there's a lot of guys...
joe rogan
Yeah, they can be funny.
eddie bravo
Can they be funny?
joe rogan
They can be funny if that's what they...
My problem was, when I was 21, my whole life, from 15 to 21...
It was all just taekwondo tournaments and kickboxing.
That's all I did.
That was 24 hours a day.
That was all I thought about.
I didn't really consider the world.
I didn't want to be a loser, and I wanted to be really good at taekwondo, and I wanted to win the nationals, and I wanted to compete in the Olympics.
I had all these ideas.
But I didn't know about fucking politics.
I had no clue as to what was going on in the world.
I didn't even think about it for a second.
All I thought about was this and getting laid.
That's all I thought about.
So when I started going into comedy, I literally had no opinions.
I know how to kick somebody in the head, and I know I like pussy.
Hmm.
eddie bravo
It's all the jokes for pussy jokes.
joe rogan
My jokes were sex jokes for like the first year and a half.
That's all I wrote.
When I'm 21 years old, what the fuck kind of opinion did I have that was interesting on anything?
If I told you anything about anything other than sex or kicking somebody in the head, you would already know what I was going to say way in advance.
I didn't have enough life experience.
My life experience was very limited.
joey diaz
I hear that a lot, that people are too young to sing, maybe they don't have a lot of life experiences.
joe rogan
Well, when you're 30, the kind of comedy you do, where you look at you, look at you, you stupid fuck, you know, you do that kind of comedy, where you point some shit out.
Well, you can't point some shit out at 21. You're not seeing it.
joey diaz
People are not going to listen to me.
joe rogan
They're not going to listen to you unless you're some super genius, and even then it's probably not going to be funny.
You know?
joey diaz
I just, I wrestled with it for a while.
I was a roofer after I got locked up.
eddie bravo
I roofed for one week.
joey diaz
I roofed for fucking two or three years.
I sold some cars.
unidentified
I couldn't handle it.
joey diaz
I went to school, and then I was sick and tired of people telling me, try it.
And I was getting breakfast one morning, I opened up a paper, and there was a be a stand-up comedian class for $33, and I took it.
joe rogan
I was not funny at all.
I was not a funny person.
I wasn't funny until I started doing Taekwondo and we would fight and compete in tournaments and everybody would be nervous.
You'd be nervous even in the locker room when you're about to go work out.
Because somebody might just get kicked in the face and knocked out.
It happened all the time.
Guys got knocked out in class all the time they get kicked in the face.
And you would get fucking terrified.
And so I was always cracking jokes to break the tension.
I was always the guy who was doing impressions of other people on the team.
That was the first time that I became funny.
Because other than that, I didn't think I was funny.
I loved comedy, though, man.
God damn, I just thought the idea of it was so crazy.
The first time I saw Richard Pryor live on the Sunset Strip, I couldn't fucking believe this guy was just talking.
He's on stage just talking.
It was one of the most profound moments of my young life.
I was like 13, I think.
I was in the audience, and I was just looking around.
And people were falling out of their chairs laughing.
And I was holding my stomach.
I remember my stomach was hurting because I was laughing so hard.
And I was thinking, how crazy is it?
This guy's just talking.
He's just talking, and what he's saying is way funnier than any movie I've ever seen.
I was thinking of Stripes at the time, because Stripes was this amazing movie.
You know, Bill Murray, the funniest guy ever, and Chevy Chase, and they're together in this movie, and it's incredible.
This was way funnier, and this is just a guy talking.
He was just talking.
eddie bravo
Delirious is what got me.
I was like, I think, 13, 12 or 13 when that came out.
And me and my brother watched it at his girlfriend's house who lived with her mom.
And we were watching it with my brother's girlfriend.
We were fucking dying because they're the only ones that had like, I think it was a VCR or something.
No one had VCRs.
We were dying.
Then the mom came home and we stopped laughing.
And she was standing right there.
We just froze.
We're like, oh shit, we're going to get busted.
joe rogan
Delirious was destruction.
eddie bravo
Yes.
She stood there, heard fucking Eddie Murphy go off, and she didn't say shit.
She didn't say hi or nothing.
She was just fucking...
We didn't laugh at all.
She went upstairs, bam, and then we're like...
That was the funniest shit ever.
joe rogan
Delirious was at the time.
He took it to a whole new level.
Destruction.
eddie bravo
It's terrible now.
joe rogan
Isn't that funny?
When I was a kid, man, that was the best shit ever.
Comedy does not hold up, man.
A lot of it does not hold up.
eddie bravo
Most old stand-up comedians...
joe rogan
You ever want to listen to some old Bob Hope shit?
It'll make you want to jump out a fucking window.
joey diaz
Lenny Bruce, too.
Some of that shit.
unidentified
Are you kidding me?
joey diaz
But some of it is fucking hilarious.
joe rogan
He's still got some shit that was funny.
eddie bravo
What's the timeless shit?
The timeless shit is early kinescent.
That will always be funny.
joe rogan
Lenny Bruce has a few timeless moments.
He's got this.
He goes, homosexuals, they want to make homosexuals illegal.
So dig this.
This is what they do.
They take a guy who's gay and they put him in prison with a bunch of guys who want to have sex with him.
I mean, come on, man.
He knocked that shit out of the park in like 1950. That's funny.
eddie bravo
That would stand up now.
joey diaz
When you go, dig this, man.
joe rogan
Dig, dig, man.
joey diaz
Dig this, man.
joe rogan
So, catch this.
But towards the end, he went crazy.
Towards the end, he would just go on stage with his legal papers and read from his legal documents.
He was out of his mind.
joey diaz
He was fucking nuts, bro.
eddie bravo
What's another classic Lenny Bruce?
joe rogan
This is not that many.
Is that it?
Oh, yeah.
He had one about...
He goes, Catholics, man, I don't think they get it.
You know, it's like, you know, Jesus comes back, you think he wants to see a cross?
It's like a guy walking around with an electric chair on his neck.
joey diaz
So let me ask you something.
Lenny Bruce did that first?
joe rogan
Yes.
joey diaz
Before Bill Hicks?
joe rogan
Before Bill Hicks, yes.
Yes, yes.
joey diaz
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was Lenny Bruce's joke.
joey diaz
Wow.
eddie bravo
That's pretty deep.
joey diaz
When I seen, when I heard Bicentennial Nigger and his son, I said Richard Pryor.
joe rogan
Richard Pryor, son.
eddie bravo
What was the best shit from that?
joey diaz
You remember?
joe rogan
Give me a classic.
You'd have to look at it.
joey diaz
The best one from whatever is, hey man, say nigga, you with the cape.
Why are you living in the people's window?
What's your name, boy?
Dracula?
What kind of name is that for a nigga?
Where you from, fool?
Transylvania.
I know where it is, nigga.
You ain't the smartest motherfucker in the world, you know, but you ain't the ugliest.
Oh, yes, you ugly motherfucker.
And what's that dirt on the back of your neck?
You a filthy little motherfucker, too.
You better go home before the sun come up.
I ain't lying.
See your ass in a day.
You liable to get arrested.
You want to suck what?
Suck some black niggas' uke?
You some kind of freak boy or an ugly freak?
joe rogan
All that shit.
joey diaz
That was my heart.
That was my heart, guys.
I listened to that.
joe rogan
He had Mudbone in there.
unidentified
Oh, Mudbone.
joe rogan
Chinese restaurant.
eddie bravo
Give me another little sound bite.
That was beautiful, man.
unidentified
One more.
eddie bravo
Another sound bite.
joe rogan
Our gang.
Mudbone goes to Hollywood.
Chinese restaurant.
joey diaz
When he told, I knew Jesus.
I met that nigga at the railroad death pole.
I told him, don't you go down there messing with them Jews without no money.
unidentified
Ha ha!
joe rogan
Fire was the genius.
joey diaz
He was great, but Bison told me when he goes to the baptism and a face like a lion and a body like a serpent.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to see no motherfucker that looks like that.
joe rogan
Man, when I was a kid, when I was in high school, me and my girlfriend, Bethany, we used to come home from high school and I had a cassette player and we'd listen to Richard Pryor cassettes and just giggle because we knew we shouldn't be listening to this.
Just giggle and laugh.
eddie bravo
Dude, there was this guy that I work with at UPS. We work next to each other on an assembly line where we're sorting boxes.
There's a fucking conveyor belt with boxes.
joey diaz
When did you do that?
That's a nightmare.
That's a four-hour shift.
That's a nightmare.
eddie bravo
From 2.30 to 7.30, that was my life.
My life was waking up at fucking 1.30.
Waking up at 1.30 was my life.
joey diaz
If you had kept that job today, they would have paid job for $2 million.
My buddy just got bought out.
joe rogan
Yeah?
joey diaz
My buddy did that.
Can you imagine he had the same job since high school?
joe rogan
Oh my god.
joey diaz
He would have to go on 11-15 and work till 3. In high school!
As a senior and junior.
But guess what?
When UPS went public, they paid that motherfucker $3 million.
joe rogan
$3 million?
joey diaz
When they went public, because he had 30 years of stocks.
They were just giving away stocks.
Like, just give this guy.
He's a part-timer.
Holy shit.
eddie bravo
That was a nightmare, man.
joey diaz
That motherfucker got so much money, he stopped talking to his brother and everything.
joe rogan
Stop talking to his brother.
joey diaz
The brother called.
joe rogan
He's like, bro, why would your brother have business investment opportunities?
People always have business investment opportunities.
eddie bravo
No, there was this guy, this black guy that I worked next to.
We fought a lot, man.
We had box wars and shit.
It's a long story, man.
He was pissed off that his conveyor belt was busier than mine, and I was the new guy.
He was fucking pissed.
But anyways, he would always have a ghetto box, and he fucking played Andrew.
There was a black guy named Phil Collins.
A black guy named Phil Collins.
He was always angry that he got the Busy Belt boxes were coming.
He'll throw boxes at me and shit.
I'm like, God damn it.
This sucks.
I gotta quit.
But anyways, he would always play Andrew Dice Clay in a ghetto box.
He knew Andrew Dice Clay.
At that point, it was like 1990, Andrew Dice Clay had a few CDs at that point.
He knew everything.
He would put a different one, The Day the Laughter Died.
He was just going back and forth.
It was, you know...
That's my story about comedy.
joey diaz
By the way, I gotta tell Joe while we're on this subject because it's very interesting.
I used to always tell you about UPS. People used to always tell me how they used to ship ship on UPS and I'd take them aside and go, don't ship nothing on UPS. Because my buddies ran the Paramus one.
And in all UPSs, they have a little gate where they have Rolexes and diamonds because they ship all the world's diamonds on UPS. A lot of people don't know that.
And they have a gate.
So when that bell goes off, that means the security gate opens and they would have these conveyor belts.
And these guys would have to sort shit out.
Well, my gangster buddies would take shit and throw it under the conveyor belt and it would get stuck and rip open.
eddie bravo
Oh, dude, I ripped shit off.
joey diaz
My buddy used to show up with Rolex Presidentials, bitches, and they were selling for $10K cash, selling three a week, making $8.50 an hour at UPS, selling three Presidentials.
joe rogan
How did they not know there were so many getting stolen?
joey diaz
Because they're on insurance anyway.
joe rogan
This is a long time before surveillance cameras.
joey diaz
The cameras would rip open because the boxes would rip open.
They just wouldn't take the box and throw it on the floor.
joe rogan
Now they have tracking numbers and shit.
joey diaz
They would take the box and throw it in the conveyor belt so the belt would break it.
The box opened.
They would say, the watch got damaged.
It's in pieces.
Go get it.
The watch was in their fucking pocket with the warranty and everything.
So a $20,000 watch, they would sell three a week, these kids.
Each of them were yanking 90 grand a week out of that.
Plus diamonds, plus anything else that came out of fucking UPS. The good old days.
eddie bravo
That was the worst job ever.
joey diaz
You don't move.
You don't stop moving.
eddie bravo
It was so bad.
The position I had, I thought it was a promotion.
I thought it was moving up.
Up in UPS. The way you get into UPS is hard, because I was working as a temp at the United States Post Office, and that shit was only six months, a year, something like that, and it was coming to end, so I had to get another job, so I had people that worked at UPS, they go, dude, try UPS. It's going to be really hard to get in, though.
They hire three out of 30 people that they come in.
They bring 30 people, and they hire three, and I'm like, dude, they're looking for warriors, dude.
It's really hard.
joey diaz
It's really hard.
eddie bravo
2.30 to 7.30, and they work you four hours, like a Fucking dog.
But they paid you eight bucks an hour, and minimum wage back then was $3.35, so it was like, I want that fucking money.
So I went in there and just bullshitted my way through it.
I went to the fucking interview, and they go, why do you think you're good for this job?
I love working in the middle at Graveyard Shift.
I'm always up.
I have so much energy.
I just want to have so much energy at that time.
I love hard work.
I don't want to work retail and deal with people.
I want to work in the back.
joe rogan
So basically what you did was like what you would do to a chick.
You would try to pretend that you're something you're not?
eddie bravo
Yes, totally.
Dude, they called the three finalists and one of them was me.
And I'm like, fuck yeah.
I came and I knew.
I just bullshitted my way through.
joe rogan
You guys had finalists for a job?
eddie bravo
Yeah, dude.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
eddie bravo
There was three out of 30 people.
They fucking called our name.
We fucking come in.
And then they give us on a tour of UPS. Tremendous warehouse.
joe rogan
So did you say, I really think my career is here.
eddie bravo
Yes, all that shit.
All that shit.
I can see me retiring with UPS. So at first, when you first come in, this is 1.30.
You're unloading semis.
The first job is you get in the semi, the two worst motherfuckers, there's all these semis and go, you're part of the semi crew.
You're just putting fucking boxes on conveyor belts and then the conveyor comes out and then the first guy sorts it by zip code and he has a bunch of belts behind him and he's going for it.
So I'm in the fucking truck going, fuck!
Working hard, going, I gotta get out of this fucking truck.
I need to be in the sorter.
There's all the dust in here.
This is for the fucking slaves.
Fuck this shit.
So finally, I bumped up.
Now I'm a splitter.
And they time your ass.
They're like hiding in the conveyor belt.
How many packages can you sort?
Dude, you can't think.
You're like, there's nine belts behind you.
And you're like fucking going crazy.
But I would know when they were watching.
I would know.
I was like, I'm like, I'm like always looking around.
unidentified
Always looking.
eddie bravo
I'm like, oh, this motherfucker's gonna tie me.
I would missort everything.
unidentified
I would just go...
I was just missorting shit.
eddie bravo
They don't know who the fuck missorts shit.
And after we would have our meeting, it was a great day.
You guys did great.
Like the team leader, fucking Edgar Bravo.
Again, the record holder for today.
The guy's on fire.
He's doing great.
I was the fucking...
Dude, I was the man.
And I really sucked.
I wasn't that good.
But I just can see them timing my ass.
And when it was time for the big promotion...
Way up the conveyor belt.
Like the dude who sorts for the actual trucks that are going out.
joey diaz
Up the conveyor belt.
unidentified
Yeah, they go.
eddie bravo
We go up.
The promotion goes to Edgar Bravo for his fantastic work and his fantastic times.
I'm like, oh shit!
joe rogan
How did they not?
What a whack system.
How did they not know you were horse shitting them?
eddie bravo
Dude, it was whack.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
eddie bravo
They don't get mis-sorted because there's conveyor belts that go for fucking like hundreds of yards and they're going through all this shit.
It's complex.
By the time, down the road in the conveyor belt they see a mis-sort.
Oh, that's a mis-sort.
Goes to the mis-sort I own and it comes all the way back.
They don't know who the fuck mis-sorted.
They make mistakes all the time.
You don't know what the fuck's going on.
They're fucking idiots.
Well, anyways, I thought I got a promotion, got a 50 cent raise and I'm sitting there Back-to-back like me or you're sorting for people behind you and I'm sorting for people behind me and it's me and Phil Collins and we're going I'm the the the reason the guy quit I didn't know he couldn't handle working with Phil Collins because Phil Collins is like just this mean fucking black guy that would fuck really cool before work started with everyone to what about the Jets oh my god God, did you see fucking Boomer Esiason?
He was on fire.
Everybody was really fucking cool at 2 o'clock in the morning.
But once it starts, you start fucking getting pissed.
And he would get pissed that I was getting help because I was new.
I was fucking out.
The guys were always helping me, the managers, but they weren't helping him.
So fuck, man.
That was the worst job ever.
I ended up quitting.
They were begging me to come back because to get a guy to get...
It takes like two months to fucking have that shit wired.
It takes a long time.
And until you get it wired, the fucking guy's got to help you.
The manager's got to help you.
They don't want you to quit.
We just put in a fucking nine months in with you.
You better not quit.
I would quit.
They were begging me to come back.
I'm like, I'm gone.
My back hurts.
I faked a back injury.
Give me the fuck out of here.
joe rogan
Well, we're all happy you did that.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because then we would have lost you, bro.
joey diaz
You would have been at UPS right now.
eddie bravo
You would have been a blue belt by now.
joey diaz
You would have been at UPS, only a blue belt.
You would have never gone to Abu Dhabi.
You would have been fucked up.
eddie bravo
Thank God for Phil Collins.
If you're out there, thank you, man.
joey diaz
Thank you.
Phil Collins, how do you spell it?
eddie bravo
I ran from that job.
unidentified
B-H-I-L-C-O-O-C-O-L-L-E-N. I don't remember, man.
joey diaz
Because there was two Phil Collins.
There was a drummer and then there was a guitar player from...
eddie bravo
Phil Collin.
Def Leppard.
joey diaz
Def Leppard.
eddie bravo
Phil Collin.
joey diaz
Who you think you're dealing with?
Some fucking novice here?
You know what I'm saying?
What's up, dawg?
What's the song of the week?
How about fucking...
joe rogan
You can't play songs on us.
joey diaz
I told you on the way up here, Doug, I was listening to Leonard Skinner, who I never even seen coming out of the woodwork, but I heard...
unidentified
Whatever.
joe rogan
Free Bird.
joey diaz
Oh, my God.
They ain't fucking around, dawg, are they?
joe rogan
Yeah, Leonard Skinner had some fucking jams.
joey diaz
Them and the Alden brothers, those cops.
joe rogan
Sweet home Alabama to this day.
unidentified
When he says, turn it up, oh my fucking Lord.
joey diaz
Turn that motherfucker up.
unidentified
All-time jam.
joe rogan
That's an all-time jam.
joey diaz
Fuck the rent money.
eddie bravo
So what you got going on this weekend?
joey diaz
I got nothing, man.
I was going to go to Sal's and I don't know what happened then.
joe rogan
Sal's Comedy Hall is temporarily closed down because he's got no liquor license.
eddie bravo
You're not doing nothing this weekend?
joe rogan
Just chillaxing.
I got to keep writing.
eddie bravo
Austin, you guys are doing a gig in Austin.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the 14th.
joey diaz
That's the 14th.
eddie bravo
That's a Wednesday?
joey diaz
I got Bray next Wednesday.
joe rogan
It's a Tuesday.
eddie bravo
UFC is on a Wednesday.
It's Tuesday night.
joe rogan
Joe Rogan, Joey Diaz, Ari too?
joey diaz
Ultimate Fighter.
eddie bravo
Ari, just you and Joey?
joey diaz
Just me and Joey.
eddie bravo
In Austin, beautiful.
unidentified
I'll be there too.
joey diaz
I'm in Bray next Wednesday.
eddie bravo
Laughing.
joey diaz
Doing my thing too.
eddie bravo
Next Wednesday, Bray?
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, next Wednesday is your monthly show?
joey diaz
Yeah, I got a bunch of shows.
joe rogan
Who's doing that?
Who's doing that with you?
I'll do that with you.
joey diaz
Yeah, I got a couple people coming down.
Let me know what's cracking.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'll do that.
joey diaz
That's really getting big.
It's been a lot of fun lately.
joe rogan
Yeah, you've been selling that place out, right?
joey diaz
Yeah, man.
We've been doing good fucking numbers.
joe rogan
Every month, Joey does...
Where can they find out about the show?
joey diaz
The Breyer Improv at improv.com, 714-482-0700.
joe rogan
Do you have a schedule when you're going to be there?
joey diaz
If you go on the Breyer schedule, it has me on there.
joe rogan
Do you have your website updated?
joey diaz
No, I have the Beauty and the Beast website updated.
joe rogan
You've got to update your website.
I know.
You're always doing something.
I've got a lot of people that would like to know where you're going to perform.
joey diaz
They know.
They fucking know.
joe rogan
We need to get you a real website with a real schedule.
You hit them up on Twitter?
joey diaz
Sure, bro.
joe rogan
And if you don't know Joey's Twitter, it's on the Ustream page.
You can see it there.
Mad Flavor.
unidentified
M-A-D-F-L-A-V-O-R. I don't know nothing about that.
joey diaz
Brian knows all about that shit.
joe rogan
Listen, I'm glad that you're finally at least connected to the internet and really into this.
You write a lot of blogs for a while.
joey diaz
I still write every Monday.
joe rogan
Do you?
Where do you put them up?
joey diaz
MySpace.
eddie bravo
Joey's on the internet a lot.
joe rogan
Still rocking MySpace.
joey diaz
Because that's why I started with that.
It's too hard to transfer them over.
eddie bravo
No, you copy and paste.
joey diaz
Well, this is the problem.
I have three different batches of people.
My Facebook has more family people on it that I grew up with.
And they know, but they don't know.
You know what I'm saying?
My Twitter people are my people on here.
You motherfuckers are the best.
I can talk about eating ass.
I can talk about stabbing Puerto Ricans.
You guys are the best.
MySpace, I go all out, but there's nobody left.
It's like me and a couple people, but I write my blog.
On MySpace just because I started on there.
Sometimes if I get a lot of hits real quick, I put it on Twitter or something.
joe rogan
It's kind of weird how MySpace just fucking fell apart.
I've never seen anything like that.
It was so popular and it just got crushed.
I don't know about that.
joey diaz
We just keep moving on.
unidentified
I think Facebook is a better product.
eddie bravo
My MySpace, I don't even bother advertising for seminars.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't advertise my shows anymore on MySpace.
eddie bravo
I just keep it up for the music.
People want to hear my music temporarily.
My music's up on MySpace.
That's it.
But I don't fuck with the jujitsu part of it at all.
joe rogan
Facebook's just so much smarter with their updates and shit.
You can go to your timeline and see all this different shit that's happening.
It's kind of interesting.
You know, Bob's in a relationship with Lisa.
Oh, no shit, huh?
Click this, click that.
unidentified
It's crazy.
joe rogan
Just get all busybody and start fucking looking through it.
eddie bravo
By the way, September 19th, I'm in Rochester at 10th Planet, Rochester with Chris Herzog.
joey diaz
What's the date?
eddie bravo
That's September 18th.
September 18th is Rochester.
That's a Saturday.
joey diaz
September 19th is the Viper Room on the Sunset Grill.
The Sunset Strip.
joe rogan
I think we got those dates wrong, man.
For some reason, I believe that the 18th is Saturday.
eddie bravo
Yeah, the 18th is Rochester.
joey diaz
And the 19th is the Viper Room.
eddie bravo
So get your tickets now.
If you want to get on the guest list, twisterbravo at sbcglobal.net.
I'll put you on the guest list if you're in LA. September 19th, Sunday, 9 p.m.
joe rogan
This is your band?
eddie bravo
Yes.
joe rogan
September 18th, bro.
18th is a Saturday night.
eddie bravo
Yeah, 18th is Rochester.
joe rogan
Okay, so the Sunday is the Viper Room.
eddie bravo
Yes, Sunday night Viper Room.
joey diaz
And the Monday is a holiday, so come on, bitch.
joe rogan
Is it really?
There's a grand opening of a UFC gym on the 18th.
I'm going to Rosemead.
eddie bravo
Oh, shit.
joey diaz
Columbus.
Columbus is September.
20th is probably Columbus Day.
And October 10th is something else, I guess.
eddie bravo
Also, my new website's up.
All the techniques are free on it.
All the shit that I put up on my website is all free.
It's stuff that I charged for before, up until October 1st.
So watch them all.
10thplanetjj.com.
Click techniques, please.
Thank you.
joey diaz
So, uh, your chick got fucking picked up for cocaine this weekend out of Vegas, that dummy.
joe rogan
Which one?
Parasol.
eddie bravo
What happened?
joe rogan
Her homeboy.
This is what I tell you.
Don't smoke in the car, cocksucker.
joey diaz
Don't smoke in the car.
joe rogan
Don't smoke in the car.
It's a running joke that Joey Diaz will just hop into a fucking car in the middle of a police parade.
It doesn't mean shit.
He'll just start lighting that joint.
Where's the reefer, cocksucker?
What are we doing there?
We playing games?
He'll just start lighting joints.
And I'm always thinking we're going to get pulled over and we're going to get, you know, this is not good.
You're not supposed to smoke weed in the car.
So we should have a rule.
You should never smoke weed in the car.
Don't smoke weed while I'm driving.
eddie bravo
I don't.
It just smells it up too much.
joe rogan
This is the reason.
eddie bravo
For like an hour, you're vulnerable, you know?
joe rogan
Well, not only that, it's just stupid.
joey diaz
She was smoking, the windows were open, and the fucking smoke got out, and there was a bike cop or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he drove right by him, and he's smelling weed.
joey diaz
He smelled the weed.
joe rogan
So he pulls him over and finds coke in her car.
joey diaz
Well, this bitch asks to go to the bathroom, goes to the bathroom, forgets to...
You know, when you get pulled over, the first thing you do is you take that illegal substance and put it in your fucking snatch.
Especially if you're abroad.
If you're a guy, put it in your ball sack.
Where did this happen?
In Vegas.
unidentified
Ooh.
joey diaz
Ooh, yeah.
eddie bravo
Is she in jail?
joey diaz
No.
unidentified
Nancy Grace was very upset.
joe rogan
Who is she to be let out of jail?
unidentified
If it was you or I, we would be in there right now.
eddie bravo
Speaking of Dr. Phil, I've read some stuff in the tabloids that he's having trouble with his wife.
Is that all bullshit?
Is that bullshit or is that real?
joey diaz
What do you think?
No, no, no.
I don't give a fuck about anything.
joe rogan
Dr. Phil is worth like hundreds of millions of dollars and I bet your bitches bomb on me.
unidentified
No, no.
eddie bravo
What I'm saying is I don't give a fuck what anybody does in their own life with their marriage.
I don't wish any harm in their marriage.
I hope everyone fucking is happy.
That motherfucker, Dr. Phil, I'm going to enjoy watching his life fall apart.
joe rogan
Why?
eddie bravo
He's a fucking idiot, man.
I hate that guy.
joe rogan
Wow, strong words.
eddie bravo
I hate that fucking guy.
He's a fucking backstabber to the male gender.
Come on.
That guy's the biggest fucking traitor.
joe rogan
He's hustling.
eddie bravo
Whatever.
joe rogan
Every day I'm hustling.
eddie bravo
It's going to be funny.
It's going to be funny to catch him busted with hookers and shit like that.
unidentified
I know.
eddie bravo
That's going to be fucking hilarious.
joe rogan
It's going to be interesting what does happen to him.
He's going to have to be very careful about his image if he does get divorced.
It could be total horseshit and he could be getting along with his wife great.
But if he gets divorced and he's out there wilding, he's out there dating, because there's going to be bitches that want to set him up, try to get on TMZ. How about the Dr. Phil sketch that was on the Man Show?
eddie bravo
There was a two-parter.
Remember that shit?
On the Man Show?
It was a reality when a guy that was posing as Dr. Phil had a fake book signing and people showed up and thought it was him.
joe rogan
And he was saying all kinds of crazy shit?
eddie bravo
Yeah, like the girls were in line.
They didn't even know it was him.
It looks like him.
It probably didn't fool everybody.
But, man, it was a total punk.
Like he would say.
He was signing the book.
I got some coke back in the hotel room.
You down?
And girls would be like, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
Let's do this.
eddie bravo
Girls were down!
And then he was making moves on this one chick, and from under the table, a girl came out like he had been getting a blowjob and just walked away.
And he just kept talking to her, go, you want a party?
Get your friends, let's go, I got some coats.
joe rogan
And they were fucking down, man!
eddie bravo
It was so funny, that sketch, it was so much material, it was the only comedy, it was the only man show sketch that had two parts.
They did it again the next week.
There was so much material, man.
joe rogan
It was too funny.
If Stan Hope and I had a real show where we could have really done what we wanted to do, it could have been very interesting.
There was two problems with doing that man show.
One was that I was doing Fear Factor at the same time.
eddie bravo
That was crazy days.
Crazy days, dude.
In the middle of all that man show shit, I'm training for Abu Dhabi.
I'm looking for the man show, depressed, out of my mind.
It was the worst.
From day one, inside, I wanted to kill myself.
I'm like, this fucking is not what I thought it was going to be for.
joe rogan
Well, when it started out, what it was supposed to be, was supposed to be we would be able to do whatever we wanted.
The way they sold it to me was...
Explain the beginning.
eddie bravo
Explain the beginning how they offered you the show while you were still on Fear Factor.
joe rogan
I was doing Fear Factor and they were saying, we want you to take over the man show.
And I was like, with who?
And they said, well, we have a short list of peoples or anybody you would want to do it with.
And I'm like, there's only one guy, Doug Stanhope.
I go, that's the only way it would work.
I go, this is the only guy that's like that, like fits right in there with me, like my sensitivity, my sensibility rather.
And so they said, well, you guys would be perfect, you could do it.
I'm like, but it would be too restrictive.
They're like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
A lawsuit would be good for us.
The guy actually said this to me.
He said, if we got sued, okay, it would be great publicity.
It would be great.
This is what we want to do.
We want to do nudity, blur it out.
If you want to swear, beep it out.
Essentially, you could do anything that you would talk about.
eddie bravo
And real quick, we already had like 10, 15 ideas for sketches, even before that, so this was like a perfect thing.
I remember you called me and go, dude, the fuck Comedy Central wants me to take over the man show.
How fucking crazy is that?
We were just, we were thinking it.
joe rogan
So anyway, what happened was, yeah, totally.
It was very strange.
And they came up to me and they basically just gave us a story about what they were going to be able to do for us.
We're going to have some show.
It's going to be completely wild.
You can do whatever you want.
Well, once we got in there, it was a completely different story.
They had really restricted ideas about what the subject matter should be.
The guy who was the executive producer wound up kind of hijacking the show and taking all the things in his direction.
And this is the guy that me and Doug hired.
unidentified
Yes.
eddie bravo
He hired the head writer.
joe rogan
He hated you.
You and him.
You remember that, right?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
unidentified
Remember that?
eddie bravo
The head writer.
I remember you going out to dinner because before you signed, you were like, let me pick the head writer.
And you said, can I hire my guys?
I'm going to bring in my guy.
What was your guy's name?
joe rogan
Tom Giannis.
eddie bravo
Tom Giannis.
No, the bald guy, the comedian.
joe rogan
Chris McGuire.
eddie bravo
Yes, you wanted to bring in Chris McGuire and Matty Kirsch and me.
And they said, no, no, whatever you want to do, man.
Whatever.
You have total power.
You have total power, dude.
And you're like, damn.
And you called me and go, dude, they're giving me total fucking power.
You go, well, I want to be able to hire the head writer.
You went out, met with some guys, and you met with Giannis.
joe rogan
Yeah, let's not get too into this.
I know what you're saying, but I don't want to throw Tom Giannis under the bus.
I think he's a talented guy.
He just did what he thought was the right show.
And I wasn't there.
Well, I wasn't there, and the network had real serious ideas about what they wanted.
And, you know, they were the ones running the show and coming up with the money, and they had some real serious ideas about what they thought was funny.
And one of them was they didn't want Joey on the show.
And I wanted Joey to come out at the beginning of the show naked and introduce everybody.
He would come out with a microphone, a handheld microphone.
Let's get this party started!
And Joey's dancing and everything.
It was probably one of the funniest things we ever did.
And they fought to the point of tears.
This fucking chick, who I like, a very nice person.
She's an executive.
She's telling me, why is that funny?
I'm like, how could it not be funny?
I go, you're going to get Joey Diaz.
He's going to run out naked.
You pixelate his balls.
The crowd's going to go crazy.
It's going to put him in the perfect mood.
I just don't see how this is funny.
I don't see how this is funny.
Tears are coming down our eyes.
I go, we'll do two intros.
We'll do one without it and we'll do one with it.
We do one without it.
You go out there, the fucking place goes apeshit.
They are falling down laughing.
It was hilarious.
It was the best intro ever.
eddie bravo
And I got that all on camcorder.
joe rogan
And so then I go to her and I'm like, you know, I raise my hands up.
unidentified
See?
joe rogan
Told you.
Like, you gotta...
I know what I think is funny.
I'm capable of reproducing what I think is funny.
You might not think it's funny on paper.
You might not think it's funny as I'm describing it to you.
But I know it's funny to me.
And if it's funny to me, it's gonna be funny to other people.
It just has to be people who think the way I think.
joey diaz
But these are the executives that went to college for four years.
That's why the reason Chappelle quit.
Because you gotta...
joe rogan
Well, it was also the reason why it turned out.
It was the reason why Adam Carolla and Jimmy...
Jimmy Kimmel stopped doing it.
It's because they gave up ownership of the show so that they could have creative control.
They gave up ownership because they're tired of these idiots.
And they gave up.
They were like, look, look, look.
You guys can't have the fucking show.
We just want to be responsible for what gets done.
eddie bravo
And they for sure didn't want to hire me.
They said, no, no, no.
Once you sign, they go, no, this Eddie Bravo has no TV experience.
Why the fuck do we want him on the show?
And they're like, no, we're not going to hire him.
We'll hire Chris McGuire.
But no.
joe rogan
The problem was they didn't understand what I was trying to do.
I was like, look, he says funny shit.
He comes up with some funny ideas.
He might not be a writer as far as he's not going to come up with a properly formatted sketch.
He could eventually do that, but for right now what he's good at, he's good at looking at things funny, smoking pot, coming up with crazy ideas.
eddie bravo
They weren't having it.
They weren't hearing it.
joe rogan
You had to yell at them.
He wanted it to be his show.
And I wasn't there enough.
I was doing Fear Factor at least three days a week.
So for three days, they would be running the show.
And Doug did not feel confident enough to take over.
And he would send me messages.
He would call me up and go, Dude, it is fucking hell here.
This is just driving me crazy.
This fucking stupid sketch is getting in, and I can't get this done.
And then the Janet Jackson nipple thing happened, and then we were fucked.
Because then shit that we already had approved, they yanked out.
b-real
They pulled shit out of episodes.
joe rogan
Because after that Janet Jackson nipple fiasco, people who don't know, who weren't in show business, a lot of people, it was nothing.
Some chick pulls her tit out in a video, you know, in a Super Bowl thing, rather, and it's like, who cares?
It's kind of gross.
It was stupid.
You know, they did something, and it's over, you know?
But to Hollywood, that cost people money.
People were worried about sponsors pulling out.
People were worried about losing commercial money, and they acted, man.
They started chopping up sketches and removing bits, and everybody went on a panic.
They were all sheep.
They just went on this panic sheep run, banging into walls, tripping over themselves, trying to stop comedy.
eddie bravo
How about the sketch that we wrote that they originally approved and they backed out of we were going to do extreme sack fighting?
You remember that?
joey diaz
It was funny because I'll never forget the day that that all went down.
Between you, me, and all three of us, I didn't want to fucking be there either.
It was the worst fucking thing I was around.
joe rogan
It was a bad energy, right?
It was terrible.
joey diaz
And I'll never forget that.
I went, they made me rehearse, like jack-offs that they were, and the guy, Tom Giannis, came over, and oh, it's hysterical, we love it.
Then the next day I go there, and now everybody's talking about it.
It was hysterical to see all these fucking educated white people walking around like they didn't know what the fuck to do.
He's going to take his balls out, and he's going to run, and they're going to kill, and that's it.
joe rogan
They all were arguing.
This is not the direction we want to go in.
joey diaz
This is like a fucking horrid situation.
eddie bravo
Joe pushed this through with all his might.
Nobody wanted to do it.
joe rogan
This is not a direction we want to go in.
You hired me to do what I think is funny.
You told me you want to do some crazy shit.
We're going to do some crazy shit.
joey diaz
And then they wanted me to be a juggie, a man juggie, and take a piss and show me my crack.
And I was like, this ain't gonna happen.
joe rogan
When Joey came running out, yeah, they're like, we want to put him in makeup and everything.
When Joey came running out, all bets were off.
They had to shut up for at least that day.
joey diaz
So we had to shoot two episodes that day.
We had to shoot two episodes.
And I was going to run through both of them.
But even after the first one, even after they'd seen the laughter, they were like, it's not going to happen.
But what got me was, I'm not familiar with this environment.
I'm a fucking stand-up comic at the time.
I had done a couple things, but I wasn't familiar with the whole other side of this business.
joe rogan
Hollywood bullshit.
joey diaz
Which is lying.
So the guy who was telling me to my face how funny I am, I catch him when I get off stage telling the Comedy Central people that it was tasteless, and he thought it was terrible, and he's going to tell Rogan how my balls aren't funny.
And I bust a dude.
And all of a sudden, I look at him, and I fucking was raging.
And as I'm at the end of the show, I'm outside, and what really happened was, because I don't give a fuck, I was smoking a joint with a security guard, with this black security guard.
I whipped out a joint right on the set.
You know, I don't give a fuck.
And me and the security guard was like, what you doing?
I go, smoke it.
We went into a little nook and cranny on a Saturday.
Remember they taped on a Saturday.
And we sparked up and we got really fucking high.
So now I walk in.
I got to put up with all that cut Judy Brown, all that shit.
I'll say this because I don't give a fuck.
I walk in and the guy comes and he goes to me.
That was hilarious.
And I stopped and I go, how can you say that to me?
How can you say that to me?
I just see you with my own eyes telling the people.
What?
It wasn't funny.
joe rogan
And he didn't see you when he was saying office.
unidentified
Right.
joey diaz
He didn't see me catching him.
So I go, how can you fucking say that to me?
He goes, I go, as a matter of fact, I'm going to go in there and tell Joe.
And he goes, you're going to go tell Joe?
So you're fired.
I go, really?
Come here.
And I fucking go to smack him.
You know me, dog.
I don't give a fuck.
That guy's a pussy with his fucking bike.
He's a white biker.
I'll still smack you in the fucking mouth, fuck.
unidentified
So...
joey diaz
He goes outside.
unidentified
Aren't they all white?
joey diaz
Yeah, he thought he was bad to the bone with his bike.
He's one of these bikers from Malibu, bro.
He can suck my dick.
So the funny thing is, he's outside by the pipe.
That's when I went to hit him, by the pipe.
And he hit his head with the pipe.
And we're outside, and he's sitting there like, I'm not going back unless Joe Diaz leaves.
You're a fucking man, and you're sitting by a pipe like a little fucking girl.
And all of a sudden, my main man had to come up to me, Jeff Sussman.
He goes, hey, man, they don't want you on the lot.
I might as well...
I gotta escort you off the lot.
And I remember, I go, Suss, walk me over there.
And I went over there, put my hand on it.
The guy wouldn't put his hand on it.
And I go, fuck you, bitch.
And he just looked at me like he was a tough guy with his friends.
And I remember he looked at the security guard to throw me out.
He looks at the security guard, and the security guard is like...
We just smoked a joint, bitch.
I got his back.
joe rogan
It was very unfortunate.
He was very political and very, very deceptive.
joey diaz
No, he did me a favor.
joe rogan
Yeah, no, he didn't.
We fucked up.
I fucked up in a bunch of different ways on that show, but I fucked up with him.
I did not know he was that guy.
I thought he was a different guy.
He turned on you, dude.
Once he got in, he wanted to do it his way.
He decided that he was running shit, and it was a real problem.
eddie bravo
Remember, day one, we walk in, and we think that we have two episodes already done.
Look, we've done all these sketches.
That's about two episodes worth.
So we walked in.
He goes, we got all these episodes ready to go.
Let's do them.
They said, Nuh-uh.
You gotta write some new shit.
Forget about that.
That's too crazy.
We're not gonna do that shit.
Start over.
joe rogan
Well, it's not that simple.
eddie bravo
Well, I'm simplifying it.
joe rogan
They had a bunch of sketches they had already prepared.
eddie bravo
Of course.
joe rogan
That's what I'm saying.
eddie bravo
So this was day fucking one.
And day one, they put me in a room with Chris McGuire, and they go, Write some jokes about Miami.
We're gonna go to Miami.
So now I feel like I'm at high school all day.
We're trying to come up with these ideas.
I'm like, Fuck, we have all these other ideas.
What the fuck are we...
Right there, I'm new.
Like, this is day one, the first hour.
I'm like, oh, shit.
By the fucking time that nightmare day ended, Joe was there all day, too.
I go, Joe, man, I just can't fucking write here.
They're ignoring all the other sketches that we did.
And you were like, yeah, man, I can't write here either.
I mean, I had a writer's block here, too.
It's just not the right environment.
So that day, you told Giannis and the producers, hey, me and Eddie are going to write...
At home, we're gonna relax.
That's when all the creative juices come out.
They said, go ahead.
Get the fuck out of here.
We'll still pay them.
They just wanted to get rid of me.
So they...
I only worked there the first day.
And all after that was working at home.
My job was...
I had to write...
You know, we got together a lot too, but he was really busy with Fear Factor.
So if we couldn't get together, I'd write at home.
I'd have to have at least one sketch.
A day.
So I'm at home.
Meanwhile, I'm training.
I'm training for Abu Dhabi going, oh my God, this is not what I thought it was going to be.
Fuck, I just quit my strip club job, strip DJ job for 10 years.
Now I know this isn't going to last.
Day one's a disaster.
I'm like, oh my God, either the show's going to get canceled because they were green lighting a bunch of bullshit.
Every now and then occasionally something would be funny, like the Decapasac thing, the Doug Stanhope, that was hilarious.
joe rogan
What we needed to do with that show was we needed to have control of it.
unidentified
it.
joe rogan
Doug had to have control of it.
And we had to have a producer that was on the same page.
And the other problem we had with that show was that it was the man show.
We should have been doing our own show.
We should not have been taking over someone else's show.
That's stupid.
To me, it was like a prepackaged show that was like it was easy.
It was like, you know, being on Fear Factor, I didn't really have the time to put something So this way, it'd be all put together.
But it was a mistake.
And it was disrespectful to those guys, Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla.
I didn't even think it was at the time.
I thought they had amicably parted ways because Jimmy wanted to do his talk show and Adam wanted to do his thing.
But that wasn't the case.
They didn't want the show to continue.
They didn't want anybody else to do it.
And it was their thing, really.
So we shouldn't have done it in the first place.
joey diaz
I can ask you a question.
You know I love you to all my heart.
unidentified
What?
joey diaz
Is the air conditioner close by, dog?
It's like a fucking yoga class in here.
Ha!
Put this thing a little colder, bro.
joe rogan
It's out in the hallway.
I can go out in the hallway.
We're going to end in a couple minutes anyway.
joey diaz
You're sweating profusiously.
joe rogan
I'm not sweating at all.
joey diaz
You got sweat on your fucking nose!
joe rogan
No, I don't.
joey diaz
Or is that shiny?
joe rogan
Dude, there's no sweat on my nose.
joey diaz
You got makeup on, cocksucker?
joe rogan
I got glistening.
I put some glistening oils.
I want to look slippery.
joey diaz
What time is it?
joe rogan
It's almost 5 o'clock.
Or 4 o'clock, rather.
joey diaz
Oh, man.
joe rogan
You want to go to 420 symbolically?
Want to end this at 420?
joey diaz
I don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
You're going to hang in there 20 minutes without air conditioning?
joey diaz
No, it's too fucking hot.
Oh, fuck.
joe rogan
Think about what McCain went through in NOM. I don't give a fuck with that cocksucker.
joey diaz
That was his choice.
You know what I'm saying?
I came up here to a house.
I thought you had the air on.
eddie bravo
We didn't even really talk about the UFC, man.
joey diaz
Let's do it.
eddie bravo
What the fuck?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Well, we might as well, right?
What did you think about BJ and Frankie Edgar?
I thought, you know, BJ, the game plan, like when they were in between corners, they didn't seem to have a game plan.
The game plan was like kick his ass.
You know, the game plan was like, there was no leg kicks, you know?
I mean, I want to see way more leg kicks.
I thought, he can land leg kicks, he's landing them.
And every one of those leg kicks takes a spring out of your step.
You're dealing with a guy who can't, you can't catch him.
He's so fast.
Reggie Edgar's a lightning bolt.
He's all over the place.
eddie bravo
Yeah, he's too fast, man.
joe rogan
But he was able to land leg kicks.
BJ landed a bunch of leg kicks.
When he tried, but the attempts were not that many.
I know it takes a lot of energy, but he should have been throwing a lot more leg kicks.
eddie bravo
I think BJ tried his fucking ass off.
Look at the fifth round.
He went after him.
I just think Frankie Edgar is that good.
joe rogan
Oh, no doubt.
eddie bravo
He's so fast.
He never gets tired.
He could do 25 rounds.
He never gets tired so fast.
His wrestling is top notch.
His striking is amazing.
He's hard to hit.
He's hard to get a hold of.
joe rogan
I'm not taking anything away from Frankie.
I just thought BJ's game plan, it just didn't seem right.
eddie bravo
The game plan, I don't agree with his advice, the advice in the corner.
I don't know.
joe rogan
There wasn't any advice.
They were just giving him and saying, kick his ass.
eddie bravo
Whatever that advice, whatever you want to call it.
joey diaz
I don't know this from that, but the last two fights against whatever, that was not the same guy seen against Diego Sanchez.
There's something more there.
joe rogan
Yeah, it could be a lack of motivation.
It could be, you know, he needs to mix things up.
eddie bravo
Well, the difference between Frankie Edgar's stand-up and Diego Sanchez's stand-up, come on.
joey diaz
It's a huge difference.
joe rogan
BJ hurt Diego early on in the fight, too.
That fight was a rout.
unidentified
It was perfect for BJ to have.
joey diaz
BJ didn't have any fucking tenacity in the two Frankie Edgar fights.
joe rogan
Well, it could be because Frankie Edgar counters that tenacity with his speed.
It could be that BJ gets frustrated and he gets a little disheartened.
eddie bravo
We're seeing some evolution.
We're seeing an amazing wrestler with serious standing because for the longest time, BJ had the best hands at lightweight.
No one was fucking with BJ. He was the best boxer.
Now Frankie Edgar looks like his technique.
I mean, it's totally different, but it seems like he's just too fast, too good.
He's working too hard, and I think, you know...
Maybe BJ might, you know, switch, like you mentioned, a switch of camps maybe might not hurt or add something new.
joe rogan
I think Frank Yeager's kicking it to a whole other level athletically, speed-wise, endurance-wise, the way he can move.
eddie bravo
His training camp must be insane.
joe rogan
He's a fucking worker, man.
eddie bravo
He's a machine.
joe rogan
He's one of those little dudes you can't fuck with.
Someone's been fucking with him all of his life.
And he built up a level of tenacity that not that many people can handle.
eddie bravo
His mentality is fucking perfect.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a fucking wrestler.
eddie bravo
He's got like Randy Couture's mentality, you know what I mean?
And his cardio and his endurance and his will.
joe rogan
But, you know, if you look at like the way he moves, he moves better than Randy.
unidentified
Oh, no, no.
For sure.
eddie bravo
I'm talking about the mental game.
joe rogan
And, you know, people are saying, oh, he's not stopping people.
He's stopping some people.
What you have to realize, though, is he's quite a bit smaller than everybody else in the division.
He's 154 pounds for real, legit.
eddie bravo
I think, ultimately, he's throwing with evil intentions.
He just hasn't developed the power yet.
But I believe, you know, within the next couple years, two, three years, maybe five years, he's going to be crushing people.
joe rogan
He comes in to blast 100% now with BJ. He hurt Veach, and Veach is a tough guy.
He dropped him before he strangled him.
His stand-up when he was fighting with Sean Shirk, he totally out-kickboxed Sean Shirk.
He's a bad motherfucker, dude.
It's going to be interesting, though, the rematch with Gray Maynard.
joey diaz
That's going to be very interesting.
joe rogan
Maynard's a hard guy to beat, man.
You complain all you want about his style.
He presents problems.
What's the solution to that problem?
You've got to be able to stop him from taking you down, man.
He's a powerful motherfucker, and he's a good wrestler.
eddie bravo
Or you gotta have a wicked fucking Dustin Hazlitt guard or something, you know?
joe rogan
Even more than wicked than Dustin Hazlitt, really, right?
Because Dustin Hazlitt couldn't do shit against Rick Story, you know?
It's more, he needs like some fucking Aoki guard.
eddie bravo
Well, he's going down to 55 because he should be there.
Clearly, Ricky Story was three times stronger than Dustin Hazlitt.
joe rogan
Right, but so, you know, Josh Berkman's strong as fuck, too, and Dustin had no problem with him.
eddie bravo
Yeah, but I think Ricky Story is stronger than Josh Birkman, dude.
He's from Washington, and he's rolled with Gerald, one of my black belts, a lot.
And Gerald, he calls me to tell me about the roles with Ricky Story.
He said he's fucking amazing.
He's just so powerful and good.
Very technical.
You're going to see him start to develop some finishing, too.
He's all into evolving and adding...
Weapons to his game constantly.
He's into that.
joe rogan
He's young and tenacious.
He's so powerful.
eddie bravo
And his fucking mental game, that guy goes in there and he loves to destroy.
joe rogan
He can't wait to get in there.
Dude, when he attacked Hazlitt up against the cage, he started ripping his body with punches.
It's very hard to deal with.
Hazlitt was doing everything he could just to stay alive.
This guy was just crushing him with punches.
eddie bravo
Boom, boom, boom.
joe rogan
What do you think about Randy and Tony?
eddie bravo
Frankie Edgar might need to...
Oh, go ahead.
Frankie Edgar might really need to take his guard game to the next level.
joe rogan
I was impressed with him off his back, man.
I was impressed at how he recovered when BJ mounted him.
BJ mounted him, got a hold of him.
eddie bravo
Usually you're dead when BJ mounts you.
BJ mounts you, it's usually over.
joe rogan
That's his shit.
He's got so much energy, man.
He just keeps pushing.
He doesn't give up, man.
He does not give up.
You know, some guys rest.
If BJ mounts you to rest and you're like, oh, fuck, now I got to get out of this.
But let me bide my time for a big explosion.
Frankie, the moment he got taken down was move, move, move, move, move, move, move, move.
unidentified
I'm out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Obviously, BJ's guard wasn't good enough to really threaten Frankie Edgar, really.
I mean, Frankie Edgar has great defense.
His jiu-jitsu is awesome, too.
But what I did like about Vijay is his guard recovery, his butterflies, and his foot-on-the-hip control.
Goddamn, it was really beautiful to see.
And again, you know, he didn't really attack that much off his back, but his recovery is just amazing.
He really uses his flexibility well.
And when he had both his feet on Frankie's hips, that's just serious, amazing Yoda control, you know.
joe rogan
Yeah, no, he's badass in controlling guys like that, but not enough to finish guys.
It's weird that B.J. is such a jiu-jitsu master, but yet he doesn't really finish guys off of his back.
You know, he's had problems in a lot of fights where guys can take him down and hold him down.
You know, that was obviously the problem in the George St. Pierre fight, and that was obviously the problem when Frankie Edgar took him down, too.
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