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March 26, 2020 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1448 - Joey Diaz
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unidentified
And we're live, Joey Diaz.
joey diaz
My brother.
joe rogan
How you feeling?
joey diaz
Like a new fucking man, rested.
joe rogan
I know, rested, right?
joey diaz
Rested, very rested.
I looked at this as a reset button.
As soon as I came back from Vegas, I knew what time it was.
February 29th was at 50% capacity.
joe rogan
Yeah, we were there a week later.
We were there when Tommy was at the Mirage, and the UFC had their Vegas, the Las Vegas card.
It was a ghost town.
Not even half full.
I mean, a week after you, you were at 50% capacity.
You were probably dropping less than that.
joey diaz
30. It was at 30. But the UFC was packed.
It was packed.
And then I came to the Comedy Store March 2nd, and that's when I could smell it in the fucking air.
When I went into the green room, bro, and I saw all those people in the green room, I basically had a fucking panic attack.
Yeah, and I went right to the door.
There's a street door in the back of the Eddie Murphy door.
If he comes back, that's what we'll call it, the Eddie Murphy door.
Because how else is he going to get in and out of there?
joe rogan
There's no other way.
Yeah, they're going to have to have guards to get him in.
joey diaz
So I went to the Eddie Murphy door, and I stayed there.
And you could just see people in the audience like nothing was going on.
And I just got shattered.
I was shattered by Saturday.
And remember, I was supposed to be in New York for St. Paddy's Day and the Monday before.
I was supposed to be in New York the 16th and the 17th with a show at Nyack.
On the 12th.
And I saw it happening.
I went to a doctor for a shot on my knee to get the gel for the arthritis.
And he said, you might have a weird reaction to it.
And sure enough, Tuesday, I went to boxing class.
And the guy goes, dog, your leg is bruised.
So I had a little bruising on my leg.
And I got home.
And that night on the news, it had hit New Rochelle.
And I go, wait a second.
New Rochelle and Nyack, they're like fucking neighbors.
You know, my memory might not serve me right, but in my mind, that's all clustered.
It's all pretty on top of everything.
So I sent a picture of my knee to the producers, and I said, I'm not coming in.
Because they wanted me to come in Thursday for wardrobe.
And then I was just going to sit in my hotel room for two days.
You know, go to Jersey and eat shit like that.
joe rogan
So even during all this, they were still planning on filming?
And this is for the Sopranos movie?
joey diaz
So we were gonna do a couple of shoots, reshoots.
No, not reshoots, extra scenes.
So that Tuesday when I got home, New Rochelle had busted.
I sent them a picture of my knee and said, I'm not getting on a plane till Friday.
I want the swelling to go down.
But it doesn't take a fucking...
I got a GED. And when I was in New York City in May, I went by the garden to eat lunch.
I wanted to get out of my hotel room, and I went to the garden.
On the side, you could sit there at 12 o'clock, and they have everything.
Steak sandwiches, whatever you want.
Pretty fucking good, too.
joe rogan
Trucks?
joey diaz
No.
They have a building that has foods inside, and they have some trucks, and you could sit outside.
Fucking beautiful.
But while I was sitting there, it was a Tuesday.
I was off from shooting, and I remember calling my wife and specifically saying, I like it here and everything, but if Godzilla comes out of the Hudson River, where are all these people going to go?
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
If you sit in New York City in Manhattan, like on the 50s, and just sit there at a cafe, you could estimate, I mean, it's like maybe 10,000 for every 10 minutes that you sit there, people that walk by you.
We don't have that foot traffic in LA like there's in New York.
There's a little bit of foot traffic downtown, but Sunset Strip, that ship sailed.
You don't see people walking around the Sunset Strip, Hollywood Boulevard, but not to the dense, you know, not to the numbers of New York.
So it was a no-fucking-brain.
This is a GED here.
This is me sitting there going, this is going to happen.
I just kept cutting it down.
And my biggest fear...
Was going to the East Coast and getting stuck.
joe rogan
It could happen.
joey diaz
I would have had to buy a truck, a Cadillac, and drove back.
I was already prepared.
I was like, I'm going to buy a truck and drive back.
joe rogan
Do you think you could do that drive?
That's a long-ass fucking drive.
joey diaz
I could do that.
I've done that drive 20 times.
joe rogan
What is it, five days?
joey diaz
Five days.
Four days.
joe rogan
Four days, you've got to do, like, what, 16 hours a day?
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's hard to stay awake.
joey diaz
I did Colorado, New Jersey, like the back of my hand.
joe rogan
How far is that?
joey diaz
In the early 80s, three.
joe rogan
What is it from here to Colorado, like here to Denver?
joey diaz
I think 16. 16?
joe rogan
Here to Utah, Salt Lake is 10?
10. That's a good one.
joey diaz
Did you do that one?
joe rogan
That's a good escape.
joey diaz
Have you done that track?
joe rogan
No, I have not.
But I've done Vegas multiple times, right?
Vegas is about four and a half.
joey diaz
Four and a half, yeah.
joe rogan
And then you go another six-ish, somewhere in that range.
You get to Salt Lake, depending on traffic.
Salt Lake, you go to Salt Lake City at five in the afternoon, like, oh, fuck, rush hour.
Hey, where's the cars?
Just fly by.
unidentified
There's no one there.
Just fly by.
joey diaz
There's nobody there.
joe rogan
There's nobody there.
joey diaz
And now, it took me 10 minutes to get here.
joe rogan
We thought, I thought Salt Lake City was like millions.
I thought it was like millions of people.
It's not millions.
What did we figure it out, Jamie?
It's like a couple hundred thousand.
joey diaz
What a cool fucking place.
joe rogan
I love it.
I love Salt Lake City.
It's so underrated.
The Mormons put a stink on it.
joey diaz
Nobody knows dick about dick.
They got reefer, bongs, grenades.
joe rogan
They got everything.
Great Mexican food.
joey diaz
Great food.
joe rogan
Did you go to that one famous Mexican joint, something lizard?
joey diaz
I was walking around and some guy goes, Joey Dears, I got the perfect spot for you.
He seemed cool.
He drove me to a Mexican joint.
joe rogan
What is that?
There's a one famous Mexican spot in...
Did you get the number?
jamie vernon
It says estimated is 200k, but the metro area is 1.2 million, so I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah, that goes all the way out to the mountains.
1.2 million.
joey diaz
That's nothing.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's nothing.
200,000 in the city.
joey diaz
When you see those pop, when people are like dancing, then I started hearing that we're going to cancel Coachella.
And I'm like, then I gotta cancel Coachella.
They're too fucking greedy to cancel Coachella.
Dog, old people.
That's what some palms bring us.
unidentified
Well, once they canceled South by Southwest, I was like, ooh.
joe rogan
I'm like, whoa, this is crazy.
The store was planning on keeping the OR open, and they canceled my show in the main room, and they offered me a spot in the OR. I was like, I don't think we should be doing shows.
This seems like it's getting real.
Because if you make a mistake, and there's a 14-day period where all these people can get infected, who the fuck knows who gets infected during those 14 days?
Because we didn't know what it was yet.
It's still, we don't know what it is.
It's still strange because so many people, Idris Elba apparently is asymptomatic.
He's not showing any symptoms and he has asthma.
And I was reading something, find out if this is true, that somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% of the people are asymptomatic.
And I wonder if that means they never show symptoms, or I wonder if that means they're asymptomatic for a certain period of time, so 60% of the people infected are asymptomatic, but a certain percentage of those people ultimately get the cold, or get the cough and all the terrible symptoms.
The fever.
joey diaz
Listen, you know a lot of people, and I know a lot of people, and nobody's called me yet.
joe rogan
That has it?
I have.
Michael Yeo.
Michael Yeo was almost dead.
Michael Yeo went to New York City, did Gotham.
He came back, he got real sick.
joey diaz
No!
joe rogan
Yes, yes, yes.
He got pneumonia.
And the COVID-19 at the same time.
So he got coronavirus and pneumonia.
And he said, now six days ago, I talked to him two days ago, he said, four days before that, he thought he was going to die.
He said, I couldn't breathe.
Pneumonia and this coronavirus.
I think this motherfucker, it plays with you.
If you don't have it, if you don't get it, you can kind of like, oh, this is no big deal.
But if you do get it, it fucking grabs you.
Like Jamie knows a girl who's 21 who lost her sense of smell and taste.
And it just, it wrecks people.
We were Googling a story about this Olympic swimmer from South Africa, 31, stud athlete.
Olympic swimmer.
He said this virus fucked him up.
He said it was the worst thing he's ever experienced.
So it's weird.
It almost plays with our mind.
It makes some people seem like they're immune, and some people are fine, and maybe it's you.
Take a chance.
Go outside.
Take a chance.
Go to a restaurant.
Take a chance.
unidentified
Go to the beach.
joe rogan
Let's go to the beach.
unidentified
What's the worst thing that can happen?
Fuck it.
Eat it.
joey diaz
Crack those assholes.
joe rogan
Go deep.
joey diaz
Fuck it.
joe rogan
And then boom, a bunch of people in your family get it, and then boom, your grandma dies.
joey diaz
Look at Italy.
Do you know what happened in Italy?
Look at Italy.
joe rogan
They just went out.
joey diaz
They all lived together.
joe rogan
Yep.
unidentified
Yep.
joey diaz
They all lived together.
And they hang together.
Nothing wrong with that.
That's how people are where I came from.
joe rogan
They're supposed to be like that.
joey diaz
There's a basement.
Your grandmother and grandfather live in a basement.
Your parents live on the second floor.
And you live on the third floor.
Boom.
We hang out together.
The Futsco family.
God bless them.
From Freehold, New Jersey.
They lost four people.
From a family reunion, they went to like a...
joe rogan
Oh yeah, I saw that.
joey diaz
And I saw that one.
I saw the one that the guy had the 40th birthday party and they all got on planes afterward and went off to different parts of the country.
joe rogan
Family from New Jersey was not very old either.
joey diaz
No!
joe rogan
The youngest one that died I think was 55. I think it's somewhere in that range.
joey diaz
Do I have the mask on?
Am I jumping up and down at Ralph's buying groceries?
No.
I went to one boxing class after that thing was announced.
And I was like, you know what?
This is too personal.
We gotta give it a chance.
I got a bag at the house.
I got kettle bags at the house.
Everything could be done out of my house.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you're a person and you want to work out, There's so many YouTube videos of just bodyweight workouts.
You can get a fucking amazing workout with nothing.
You don't need any equipment.
You just do burpees and push-ups and bodyweight squats and lunges.
There's plenty of working out to do, folks, and it's free.
It's a beautiful thing about YouTube.
There's so many really good fitness instructors that just put their stuff out there for free because they want people to follow them.
And, you know, you can get a ton of great body weight workouts.
You don't need nothing.
And if you need weights, folks, you can pick shit up around your house and you can do a great workout with.
I'm sure you got a can of paint somewhere that probably weighs 15 pounds.
You know, people have things laying around.
joey diaz
You know what I started doing?
joe rogan
What?
joey diaz
Because it was fucking with me.
Meditate.
I had to go back to meditating.
joe rogan
What do you do?
What kind of meditating are you doing?
joey diaz
So what I do is I hit the bag.
I broke my workout.
Because now you can't do that long workout now.
Because what are you going to do for the other day, for the restoration day, the recovery day?
joe rogan
Right.
joey diaz
So there's no recovery in my world.
joe rogan
Just easy workouts every day.
joey diaz
15 minutes.
joe rogan
Yeah, nice.
joey diaz
Hitting the bag.
Hitting the bag is very essential during this time.
Hitting the bag is very essential.
Get the ya-ya's out.
joe rogan
Get the ya-ya's out.
joey diaz
You're punching.
You look at anything.
Benefits over 40 for boxing.
Benefits over 50. The number one benefit is stress.
You know, for a couple days there, dog, I was getting scared.
I wasn't, I'm not scared of it, but I respect it.
There's a big difference.
I respect what's going on.
Something's going on.
I'm not a fucking scientist.
joe rogan
Have you ever been hearing an earthquake?
joey diaz
Yes.
joe rogan
For me, it's the same feeling, but more magnified.
It's like, okay, this is alright, but what is it like if it gets worse?
joey diaz
Right.
Are you scared of earthquakes?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
joey diaz
Where were you in July?
I was on fucking stage!
joe rogan
We were home.
I didn't even feel it.
I didn't even feel it.
joey diaz
I was on a stage in Huntington Beach, and the room shook, and I just kept going.
I just kept going.
Fuck it, if a beam falls and hits me, this is it.
joe rogan
But you felt it while you were on stage?
joey diaz
Did you talk about it?
Yes, I couldn't let them get scared.
joe rogan
Oh.
joey diaz
I could not let them get scared, because now you lose the audience.
I had 250 people in there.
joe rogan
I know.
joey diaz
So I could not let them get scared.
joe rogan
How far into your act were you?
joey diaz
22 minutes.
It was brilliant.
It was perfect.
I was just thinking about the other day.
That was one of my best times I had the last year doing stand-up.
Right in the middle.
I'm on stage and I had to calm them down, so I just went into a rant so they didn't get scared.
joe rogan
Yeah, my last show I did was like a Tuesday or a Wednesday at the Improv.
I forget.
Maybe a Wednesday.
Did one show, 8 p.m.
show.
Great.
Fun time.
But I was like, I think this is it.
This is the last show for a long time.
joey diaz
I didn't want somebody to say they went to the Improv.
unidentified
Right.
joey diaz
I didn't want somebody to say that they got sick.
You'll never shake that.
joe rogan
The thing is you'll never know.
There's no way anybody could dial it into one person where you got it from.
That's the weird thing is we're constantly interacting with people and touching surfaces.
And according to these cruise liners that they're testing where these people were sick, even people that are asymptomatic, it shows the virus stays on surfaces for as much as 17 days.
That's a new discovery.
They thought it was three days before that.
Now they're realizing, even in asymptomatic people, people that don't...
It's weird.
It's a fucking weird virus, man.
It's real weird.
Real weird.
My friend Dr. Peter Atiyah was saying that most people, 55 and under, they seem to just get a cold.
I mean, they're fine.
They feel like shit for a while, but they get over it.
He said, but then there's this 28-year-old fitness instructor that one of his friends is treating.
Who's a doctor, and this guy's on a ventilator.
He's a fitness instructor.
And they're like, there could be genetic conditions, predispositions, and then also it might be vaping.
They're thinking that vaping might have something to do with damaging some people's lungs, or cigarette smoking.
Cigarette smoking's a bad one.
And they think that that might have contributed to a lot of deaths in Italy and in China.
joey diaz
They smoke over there, Jack.
joe rogan
Yep, in China and in Italy, they smoke.
joey diaz
They outsmoke us, and they have less cancer in China.
joe rogan
See, the thing is, are we sure they have less cancer?
When they say they have deaths, like how many deaths they have out of China, do you believe those numbers?
I don't trust a fucking word of it.
They're trying to say that this is an American disease.
There's some propaganda network from China that's, I don't know what's connected to the government or what, or maybe it's people just fucking around.
Maybe it's people trying to be funny.
But they're putting out that this is a man-made disease that was spread in China by the United States government.
So who the fuck are you trusting?
I'm not trusting.
I trust Italy when it comes to the numbers because I think they're being pretty honest about what a disaster it is.
But China's trying to make it seem like everything's bouncing back now.
I don't buy it.
joey diaz
They opened up the movie theaters.
joe rogan
In China?
joey diaz
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You might just go to the fucking movies, watch a nightmare movie, watch a horror movie while you're in this fucking theater just wondering if everything you touch is eventually gonna kill you?
Fuck.
Apparently, they were saying also that it has something to do with blood type, and they don't know why, but a lot of the fatalities were blood type A. They seem to be vulnerable, or maybe it's just a coincidence.
They don't have enough data yet, especially here, like reliable data that we can trust here in America.
They don't have enough yet.
So when I think about it, what gets me is that same feeling like an earthquake.
Once an earthquake hits, you're like, oh, all right.
Well, we're okay right now, but now we know that this can happen.
The first one I ever experienced, it was the first year here.
I had an apartment in North Hollywood.
It was a thin place.
You could hear the next door neighbor.
She would get phone calls.
I would hear her answering machine go off, because this is the 90s.
And I would hear the person talking on her answering machine.
I could hear every conversation she had, like it was through a towel.
That's how thin it was.
It was a shitty apartment.
But when the earthquake hit, the apartment just went like this.
And I remember thinking, this is like when you're a kid and you're playing in a refrigerator box.
Remember those refrigerator boxes?
We would get them on the street, and we would all climb in them and fuck around, but they were flimsy.
I'm like, this house felt like a refrigerator box.
It just started moving like this.
And it wasn't even a big earthquake.
It was like a 5-something, like a 5-5 or something like that.
It wasn't a huge one.
They say it was an aftershock from Northridge.
I just started doing this.
It's moving back and forth and I was like, whoa!
I didn't think it was gonna be like that.
I thought the ground would shake.
I thought it'd be like you feel your feet moving.
It's not.
Everything just goes left and right.
Everything just shifts.
Like the ground is made out of like it's sand or something.
Like instantly it just becomes pliable.
It's weird.
joey diaz
I saw the cat drinking water.
And all of a sudden, I saw the cat in the air and the bowl in the air.
That's how much of a dip it made.
Jesus.
I heard it, looked.
Like, you know, you're on the computer and something, and I looked, and I saw the cat drinking water.
And all of a sudden, I saw the cat in the air, and when he landed, he took off.
And they're supposed to feel something before the earthquake.
joe rogan
I think dogs do better than cats.
I think those indoor cats are done.
unidentified
They're done.
joey diaz
Once you bring them indoors, a mouse runs by them, they're like, I'm done.
But I don't think so, because my cats are alive and kicking at midnight.
joe rogan
No, they still have fun.
joey diaz
They're like Judas Priest.
joe rogan
How many do you have now?
joey diaz
Three.
joe rogan
You only have three?
That's crazy.
You were up to 11 at one point.
joey diaz
Nine, 10. You had nine?
joe rogan
I think you had 11. You probably forgot.
joey diaz
I had so many of them outside.
I was feeding.
I had so many of them.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
You had a bunch of feral ones that lived in the yard, too.
Marc Maron has that kind of setup, too.
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
Or at least he used to at his old place.
joey diaz
It is fucking crazy.
I'm down to three.
I'm down to three girls.
All the boys punched a ticket.
My favorite one died three months ago.
A little boy now.
I'm down to girls.
I don't know what I'm gonna do with my next move is.
I'm waiting to see what the smoke clears.
Maybe get a German Shepherd.
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
We should all get out of here.
joey diaz
No shit.
joe rogan
Legitimately.
unidentified
No shit.
joe rogan
We should get out of here.
unidentified
No shit.
joe rogan
This should be our wake-up call.
We should all just pack up and go to Denver.
joey diaz
This is a big wake-up call for a lot of people.
This is going to be a big wake-up call for a lot of people.
joe rogan
You know, there's a lot of places like Loveland, hour outside of Denver, you know what I mean?
Evergreen, 30 minutes outside of Denver.
joey diaz
You know what?
What happened to Montana?
joe rogan
What happened to Montana?
joey diaz
You ever hear anything about Montana?
joe rogan
No, but here's the thing.
Denver's got comedy.
Utah's got comedy.
joey diaz
You know what?
Why don't we just open up a club in Montana and Billings...
joe rogan
We could do it.
joey diaz
That could be done.
Everybody's opening up a club in St. Louis.
Everybody's opening up a club here.
joe rogan
Imagine if we did if we opened up a club.
joey diaz
You go to war to war with everybody else.
Comedy, school, and fucking Billings, Montana.
joe rogan
If we just decided to do that...
joey diaz
When was the last time you were in Montana?
joe rogan
Oh, six months ago or so?
joey diaz
What did you think?
joe rogan
I love it there.
I love Bozeman.
joey diaz
What are we waiting for?
joe rogan
The winter's a motherfucker, though, son.
That winter's real, and there's grizzly bears in the woods.
joey diaz
Look who we're living through now.
What does it make you realize that we can do anything?
unidentified
It's better.
joey diaz
See, this makes you realize, look, after every earthquake...
A certain amount of, there's a certain percentage of Californians that wake up and say, I'm not going through that again.
joe rogan
Right.
joey diaz
They get up and leave.
There's certain Californians that go like me, that go, oh shit, you gotta get a generator for my fat sleep apnea machine.
And every time you go to the supermarket, buy two of something.
Buy two cans of cream corn.
Buy two cans of this.
You go in my fucking garage, I'm good.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta have dried stuff.
joey diaz
I'm good.
I'm good.
You know why?
Because I'm a child of the 60s.
When I was growing up, every building you moved into had a fallout shelter, you dumb fucks.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, we forgot about those.
joey diaz
Nobody remembers the fucking fallout shelter.
And they had Tang and fucking TV dinners down there.
And every once in a while, your building would run a fucking thing.
The Russians are coming.
The Russians are coming.
And you'd have to run to the basement and close the door, and they had like a vent.
And in grammar schools, you had to go down to the basement, and they'd give you like the fucking tang juice and all that shit.
joe rogan
I forgot about fallout shelters were an East Coast thing, right?
joey diaz
Fuck yeah!
Nobody remembers the fallout shelter.
So I've always lived like it's the fallout shelter.
I always had a back situation.
I got weed till fucking Tundu's there.
joe rogan
Your family came over here when?
joey diaz
66. But they had been over here already dabbling.
They had been over here since the 50s, fucking around numbers, whatever the fuck my mom was doing, whatever the fuck my dad was doing.
So they were already hip.
They made it official in 66. So when I was being raised here, my first couple of years in this country, we were living under fear.
Vietnam was going on.
They had just killed Kennedy, and now they just killed—because I was alive and kicking when Sihon Sihon killed Robert Kennedy.
So it was a different time then.
We were living in a little fear.
Cubans had pointed missiles at us.
Us and the Russians weren't that fucking cool.
So that's why the fallout shelter was big.
Just in case they threw a bomb at us, we'd go downstairs to a basement and live and stuff like that.
So I think...
What fucked with me was the Yoel Romero fight.
The night of the Yoel Romero fight, I was invited to a friend's house to watch the fight.
And I pretty much had a nervous breakdown from the fear of leaving the house.
unidentified
Really?
joey diaz
Because of the...
joe rogan
Because of the virus?
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
Really?
joey diaz
Nervous breakdowns.
joe rogan
You didn't want to go to your friend's house?
joey diaz
Best guy in the world.
joe rogan
But you were like, I gotta stay home.
joey diaz
Four people.
joe rogan
You never know.
joey diaz
I asked him if they were cool.
He goes, yeah.
I go, nobody's been to China.
Nobody's been...
No, because that's the problem.
See, I knew it was going to affect...
Look, the skier that went skiing in New Rochelle, the Jewish guy that went to the synagogue, well, the two dudes he went skiing with, I mean, Encino, in critical condition, well, they were.
He went in a group.
Then he went to the synagogue in New Rochelle and spread it all around.
He should be the most popular guy in the neighborhood today.
You know what I'm saying?
That guy, like, nobody wants to talk to him tonight.
joe rogan
So he brought it there from Italy.
joey diaz
He went skiing in Italy.
He couldn't go to fucking Riverton, Wyoming, or fucking Utah, or fucking Aspen.
He had to go to Italy, like a big shot.
joe rogan
Well, he probably planned a trip to Italy long beforehand.
joey diaz
I don't give a fuck!
Go to Aspen, you fuck!
Go to Riverton, Wyoming.
That's the best.
joe rogan
Right, but he wanted to eat pasta in Italy and go skiing.
joey diaz
I don't give a fuck.
They got pasta in fucking Utah.
unidentified
But before this...
joey diaz
That shit drives me fucking crazy.
joe rogan
What drives you crazy?
joey diaz
That shit.
That shit.
Well, you can't go to Ajax.
You can't go to Ajax?
Nobody wants to ski Ajax.
You can't go to Ajax.
You gotta go all the way to fucking Italy to go skiing, cocksucker.
joe rogan
Well, maybe he wanted to go skiing as well as go to Italy.
joey diaz
Leave me alone.
You know that shit bothers me as it is.
He took people down.
joe rogan
Joe, you don't have a passport.
You can't leave.
Let me tell you something.
Going to Italy is awesome.
joey diaz
I know it is.
I didn't say that, but he had to go ski.
He went to a ski trip in Italy.
joe rogan
Right, but also in Italy.
So you could eat pasta and see the sights.
joey diaz
You could eat pasta in Aspen.
And you could see the sights in Aspen.
joe rogan
Okay.
joey diaz
Do you see what I'm saying?
joe rogan
If everybody goes to Aspen, we're fucked.
joey diaz
No, Aspen, you break it up.
joe rogan
There was apparently a guy from Aspen that had it too.
joey diaz
You like it in Utah.
You like skiing in Utah.
joe rogan
I don't like skiing.
joey diaz
Oh no, you don't like skiing.
joe rogan
No, I only ski because my family likes it.
joey diaz
But they enjoy Utah, Aspen.
joe rogan
They like all those places.
We've been to Aspen.
Aspen's beautiful.
I love it.
joey diaz
Did you come back with the fucking, did you come back with the hiv?
joe rogan
No, but there was a guy that went there from Australia who had it, who apparently knew he had it, and he refused to self-quarantine.
He went to restaurants, he rode the bus, he went skiing.
joey diaz
Throw him under the fucking jail.
unidentified
Yeah.
joey diaz
Throw him on...
See, that's the other thing about the store that shocked me that night.
Tuesdays to Thursdays...
joe rogan
Packed.
joey diaz
Packed with people visiting.
joe rogan
Yep, from overseas.
joey diaz
From other countries.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
So that started giving me the willies that night.
When they canceled the store, I was happy.
I'm just worried about the wait staff.
You know what?
Like, we've been rock and rolling the last ten.
They've been rock and rolling the last ten.
joe rogan
Well, they're putting together some sort of fund.
I hope they do it quickly.
And we're all going to be able to donate.
And I think they want to have some stream shows, too.
But...
I don't think that's the way to do it.
I mean, if they do do it and they have a bunch of people almost like podcast style, maybe that would work and have like a telethon, raise money for the staff.
joey diaz
Well, I'll tell you what.
I thought about the stream thing.
I like doing the stream thing.
joe rogan
But a podcast, not stand-up.
joey diaz
I thought, but then I saw this week with John whatever on HBO. John Oliver?
John Oliver, and last week he didn't have an audience.
joe rogan
Not good?
joey diaz
No, why not?
joe rogan
Well, when no one's laughing at your monologue.
joey diaz
Yeah, you need that energy.
joe rogan
Yeah, they were doing live shows from the Laugh Factory yesterday.
Was it yesterday?
And it was no audience.
And I was watching Jay Moore on stage for a couple minutes before I had a panic attack and I had to shut it off.
joey diaz
No, it's just no good.
It's just no good.
unidentified
It's drained.
joey diaz
It really doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
I wanted it to work.
joe rogan
It's weird.
joey diaz
And I thought that I could do it for people just to break the monotony.
You know?
joe rogan
It's like watching someone with no voice sing in the shower.
joey diaz
Yeah.
No, no, no.
Leave me the fuck alone.
unidentified
It's just too strange.
joey diaz
How bored are we?
How bored do you want to go?
Like at 10 o'clock are you like, I'm fucking done.
joe rogan
At night?
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
No.
joey diaz
I'm not bored.
My wife goes to bed.
The baby goes to bed.
We have her on a home school schedule.
They have an 11 o'clock, 10 o'clock video conference and an 11 o'clock Then we do math, we take a breather, and she hits the mitts too.
Everybody gotta hit the mitts at the house.
We gotta get that stress out, you know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Good move, good move.
joey diaz
And everybody's on a schedule.
But at night, like, this is the first...
I have not been out of the house in 21 nights.
What, what, the 25th?
joe rogan
Today's the 25th, right?
joey diaz
Yeah, 23 nights.
So, at 11 o'clock, I got a little bored.
Thank God, I'm...
The edibles started not working.
joe rogan
Because you've been too exposed to them?
joey diaz
Yeah, I've just been popping...
joe rogan
Built up a tolerance?
joey diaz
I've been popping two, threes, you know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
I've been eating them so much.
Like, the first week of the week before St. Patty's, I was under so much personal stress.
Like, I was so fearful of that plane ride to New York that I was getting fucking gazilled.
I wasn't even getting stoned.
joe rogan
Imagine if you took that flight.
You would have probably caught it.
I mean, that whole New York area, there's a real good chance you would catch it there.
joey diaz
I had a JetBlue by myself cabin.
I had it all planned out, but the more I thought about it, I'm like, I don't know, guys.
I don't want to be in a hotel.
I know how the food service industry works.
joe rogan
But it was that very weekend that Yo got it?
That very weekend that you went?
joey diaz
Yeah, that was the heat of it.
That was the fucking heat of it.
And it's still just climbing.
joe rogan
Well, they said it's two weeks it's going to reach its apex, but they have an astounding number of cases.
They do, however, test more than California, so they're more accurate in terms of their numbers.
There's more testing being done in New York City, I think by threefold, than California.
It's crazy, man.
This is a whole new time, and I really hope it's a wake-up call for us.
joey diaz
It is a wake-up call.
Doug, listen.
As jokey as this may sound or whatever, I've always had a faith.
My faith got me to where I am today.
joe rogan
A faith in what?
joey diaz
On a higher power.
Let's call it a higher power.
I always had a faith in a higher power.
And if anybody knows about karma, it's me.
I'm the fucking poster boy for karma.
I know all about it.
For me, this is like...
Higher power letting us know, like, it's a reset button.
Take a look around.
You guys have gotten caught up in selfies.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
Like, you've gotten caught up in selfies.
You know, you go see a fucking concert, it's $250 and $60 to park.
You know, you go to a movie theater, you walk out, an American family can't go to a sporting event no more.
The normal American family cannot go to a sporting event no more.
We got a little out of control, Joe.
We can't move in apartments no more.
$1,500 for a studio.
We just got greedy, man.
The greed's been too much.
You know, I gotta feel bad for Disney losing $6 million.
Suck my dick.
You were charging $140 a day, cocksucker.
140 a day.
joe rogan
I think that's the least of our problem.
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
I think the big problem is people think this is all, this life, the way we're living is going to be permanent.
joey diaz
No, no, no.
It's changing for a reason.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
It's changing for a reason.
We were getting fucking greedy.
joe rogan
But there's definitely that.
joey diaz
And we were getting a little overzealous.
joe rogan
But we're soft.
We're soft.
That's the big one.
And especially we're soft right here because we don't have to deal with weather.
Right here, we don't have to deal with nothing.
You go outside every day.
joey diaz
You can sleep outside.
joe rogan
It's a great place to be homeless.
All you need is a sleeping bag.
Get under an overpass.
If it does rain, it only rains 10 days a year, you'll be fine.
You know, this is a great place because of that.
But because of that also, we're not humbled enough.
You know?
The places where people get humbled are the places where people have to deal with direct nature.
Snowy places.
Real cold places.
Like, if you go to any place that's near an ocean, that's a little slap in the face.
Like, wake up, bitch.
Take a look at that.
You ain't shit.
Mountains are another one.
Same thing.
Like, you could die up there, stupid.
There's bears up there.
There's mountain lions up there.
They're fucking killing deer with their face.
You don't think they'll fuck you up, too?
Go hike.
Go hike and get lost, hippie.
You know, like, it's a wake-up call, those places.
And I think this is a wake-up call for the whole country, the whole world.
It's a wake-up call.
We're vulnerable.
And it's also a wake-up call.
I mean, I can't say this to enough people.
Take care of your health.
Please.
It is the one defense for this that seems to be agreed upon by almost everyone, is that if you have a strong immune system, you have a better chance to get through any sickness.
And you can do something to strengthen your immune system.
Your immune system is something you can work on.
You can work on it by cleaning up your diet.
You can work on it with regular exercise.
You can work on it with regular sleep.
All those things have a real big impact on your immune system.
Also, vitamins.
Supplement with vitamins.
Eat a healthy diet.
Get some exercise.
And if you can, get in a fucking sauna every day.
Tremendous for your body producing heat shock proteins or your body reducing inflammation, alleviating stress.
It's great for your cardiovascular system.
It's just great for you.
There's a bunch of different things you can do.
You can use this as like, okay, I'm alive.
Now this is a wake-up call.
I'm so glad this didn't happen to me.
I didn't get wrecked by this.
I'm gonna get my life in order, and it can be done.
It's something that everyone can do, and this is the time to do it.
This is a good time to do it.
If you're surviving and you're getting through this, this is a good time to get your health in line.
joey diaz
What you don't know, a lot of people don't know about me, is I was a sickly kid.
joe rogan
Really?
Really bad.
I never believed that.
joey diaz
From the age of four to six, because of my dad dying and my mind going somewhere, my immune system fell apart.
It was respiratory.
I always got colds, always shots, you know, vaccines.
I knew the people by first name at the hospital, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
I mean, it was real with me.
When I was sick something, and I also have asthma.
joe rogan
Do you really?
joey diaz
Which went untreated.
Like I just said...
joe rogan
You have asthma still?
joey diaz
Like my mother said, it's for faggots.
Don't worry about it.
You don't need it.
joe rogan
You have asthma right now?
joey diaz
I outgrew it.
My daughter has it though.
Really?
She has it.
And now I see it in her and I go...
joe rogan
Does she have an inhaler?
joey diaz
Yeah, she has a little inhaler.
joe rogan
And you don't use an inhaler at all anymore?
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
Did you ever?
joey diaz
For like a week.
Then my mother goes, get rid of that.
You live in New York City.
You don't want to get smacked, do you?
joe rogan
Wow, your mother's hard.
joey diaz
So I grew up with this fucking thing.
And then when I was 16, I got put in the hospital for 13 days for a lung infection from Paraquat.
So ever since then, I'm not supposed to smoke.
I'm never supposed to smoke.
When I started smoking, I would get sick for days afterwards.
I had to jump a hurdle to smoke pot.
joe rogan
But when you were smoking cigarettes, what about that?
joey diaz
Let's not even talk about that.
Let's talk about the hurdles I had smoking reefer early on.
I would smoke reefer and it would be an event.
I would have to take three or four days off.
It would crush me for that long.
joe rogan
Really?
joey diaz
Then once I built the tolerance to that, then I started having to build the tolerance of who I smoke dope with.
Like, if I smoked dope with me, you, and Jamie, and somebody else the next day, I'd have a temperature.
joe rogan
You'd get sick from someone.
joey diaz
Yeah, 13, 14. So by the age of 15, I already knew how to keep my shit.
Like, if I smoked with you and Jamie every day, that's who I smoked with.
Once somebody else comes into that circle, I would get sick.
So I had to knock that out.
So I had to be very aware at a young age of who I smoked with.
joe rogan
I got sick a lot when I was competing.
I wasn't taking care of myself back then.
I didn't even take vitamins.
I didn't take shit.
I got sick a lot because I was always stressed out too because I was always nervous because fighting all the time.
So, you know, you get ready and the weeks up to a tournament, you know, that's the most stressful.
And then the week of the tournament, I'd always come down with something, you know, and you I fought sick in Anaheim.
I flew out to California to fight in the Nationals.
I fought sick.
I had three fights sick.
Did we figure out what the percentage?
jamie vernon
I found something that said that was an estimation that was close to 60%.
Of asymptomatic?
joe rogan
Well, I think as time goes on, they're getting a better picture of it.
Take care of your immune system, kids.
I've been drinking a shitload of water, too.
Oh, my God.
I'm peeing like crazy.
Kombucha.
joey diaz
CBD oil.
joe rogan
CBD oil, for sure.
I took some pet CBD oil accidentally.
I wasn't paying attention.
I went to the cabinet to get them some CBD oil.
I'm like, man, this is tasty.
What is this?
It's like peanut butter CBD oil.
And I have three droppers full.
And then I looked on it and said PET. And I'm like, damn.
I hope I'm going to be okay.
I don't know what the difference is between CBDMD's PET formula and their regular formula, but I had three full droppers of their peanut butter PET formula.
It was quite delicious.
It was pretty good.
joey diaz
You take a lot.
I take enough supplements.
unidentified
Vitamins, KTPF. I take a lot of things.
joey diaz
You know, like I said, I've cut down the reefer a little bit throughout this.
I was going like through a half ounce maybe a week.
Joints and bong hits.
Now I'm down to like an eighth a week.
I've got fucking a couple ounces at the house.
Go off edibles.
joe rogan
I'm enjoying the time, just the relaxing time of no pressure of things to do, you know, no shows to go to, stay home every night, hang out with the girls.
I'm enjoying it.
joey diaz
I don't watch the news.
unidentified
Yeah.
joey diaz
That's what was fucking with me the first week until I had that little nervous breakdown on the 7th.
That was really fucking with me.
And then I said, that's it.
I went back to my roots.
I went back to Boulder.
I took it back to the Roper Institute, bitch.
And I took it back to the meditation.
So what I would do is I'd hit the bag, 15, and then to come down, I'd stretch and just do yoga poses and breathe.
And then end with like a long fucking meditation.
Get some vitamin D. I do everything outside in the back of the house.
I got a little backyard hidden.
joe rogan
I think that hitting the bag is a kind of meditation.
joey diaz
Yes.
joe rogan
I really do.
joey diaz
Yes.
joe rogan
I think if you really can just concentrate on your breath.
joey diaz
I just focus on my breathing.
joe rogan
That's what I do.
joey diaz
I focus on my breathing.
And I do three minutes, 30 seconds off.
I do try to do five sets of that.
But then after that the stretch has really helped me.
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
joey diaz
Now I have no cryotherapy, I got no acupuncture, none of those things.
joe rogan
Is cryo closed?
joey diaz
Cryo's closed.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
I stayed away for the last two weeks.
I did a little Novathor, which is the red lights, until about 10 days ago.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
And then this started getting a little serious, and I go, you know what?
Let's start just cutting down on this whole thing.
And then last weekend, I see what was going on at the parks and shit.
There's a park close to my house.
I said, let me go over there and make a few calls.
I'm like, this is crazy down here.
Look at these people.
They're on top of each other.
And if I'm running behind you, that makes no sense.
They're all running the same way.
Are you running right into it?
You're running right into it.
unidentified
And I got a GED. Joe, this is what kills me.
joey diaz
I got a GED and I'm sitting there watching these fucking morons run behind each other.
You know, like, yeah, all of a sudden you're fucking Rocky.
But you're sucking that guy's breath in.
And the chick behind you is sucking her breath in.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
joey diaz
And the chick behind you.
And they all run in the same direction 10 feet away from each other.
Like a race.
joe rogan
A race would be a great way to get sick.
Oh, the cops tell them to get out of the park?
joey diaz
The cops are pulling in the park going, listen, what are we doing here?
joe rogan
But you can be by yourself, right?
I saw some people hitting the pads at the park where someone was holding pads for somebody.
You can do that.
You got some space away from each other.
You can get a little workout in.
joey diaz
But there's always going to be that dude that's going to come up to you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
There's always that dude.
joe rogan
Hey, man, aren't you worried about the coronavirus?
joey diaz
I have to take the racehorse out early.
My daughter's a racehorse.
So at 845, I give my wife a break, and I just take her for a little stroll.
joe rogan
Just to wear out a little bit?
joey diaz
Just to wear out a little bit.
We play badminton, whatever the fuck that is.
The tennis with the fly.
I throw wiffle balls at her.
I was telling the lead the other day, in the heat of all this, I'm there at 9.15 for a reason.
They got the playground sealed off, and then they got a huge fucking park.
And for some reason, everybody who had a walk had a walk in between me and my daughter.
Talking about a second person, I had to say something.
Really?
Really?
You can't walk around.
You gotta walk in between.
People can't have enough.
They test your fucking wits.
joe rogan
Well, they don't change their behavior.
joey diaz
The best was the guy that watched me playing with my daughter.
And I could see him out of the corner of my eye, Joe Rogan.
I could see him whispering to the wife some stupid shit.
And what does he do?
He starts walking towards me.
And I'm not even paying attention to him, but I am.
I'm watching him through his fucking vision.
I'm watching him.
I'm playing with my daughter, throwing the woofer ball.
And he's walking towards me.
Finally had a stop.
And he goes, hi, I just wanted to shake.
I go, stop!
He just looked at me and I felt terrible for him.
But this is what's actually going on.
They still want to shake your hand.
joe rogan
Yeah, people try to shake your hand still.
joey diaz
They still want to shake your hand.
I'm like, it's not going to happen.
Stop!
Right there.
I go, hit me on Twitter and I'll hit you back.
But that's it.
I don't wanna hug.
I don't wanna know nobody.
Nothing you gotta tell me I wanna hear.
Unless you're showing in here with a fucking envelope, which I don't see you have.
Don't come close to me at all.
joe rogan
People, they're not changing their behavior that much.
joey diaz
No, they're not changing their behavior.
joe rogan
There's a number of people, right?
So some people are paying attention to everything, some people are over-cautious.
I went to the fucking supermarket, this lady had goggles on, and she had, I mean, not goggles, but big Jackie Onassis, dark sunglasses, a fucking face mask with these giant gloves on, and she's walking away from everybody, like everyone's a bomb.
And she's doing her grocery shop.
I'm like, okay, well, you've gone too far.
This is a little ridiculous.
And then I'm looking at other people that are acting like there's nothing wrong, and they try to shake your hand.
And then there's people that are paying attention too much, so they've become paranoid, and they're not even living their life.
And then there's other people that aren't paying attention at all.
They're barely paying attention.
joey diaz
I'm in the middle.
I'm in the middle.
I know I have to live my life.
That means I don't have to go to 7-Eleven for nothing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
7-Eleven is filthy.
I don't have to go in there for nothing.
Okay?
Nothing.
I got rolling papers and everything in my house.
Lighters.
I got lighters till the next millennium.
I can light myself up 10 times with the lighters I got.
I'm not putting myself in a bad position.
You know, you've been quarantined.
Jamie's been quarantined.
Jamie, I didn't go to...
You know, there's some idiots that tonight there'll be a concert.
They'll go.
joe rogan
Where?
joey diaz
No, if I tell you that tonight there's a concert, they'll go.
joe rogan
If it was.
Well, Liberty University is letting students back in today.
Jesus is going to look out for them.
Yeah.
There was an article on CNN. They were showing Liberty University opening up its doors again to students.
Like, this just started, you fucks.
You can't just, you know...
joey diaz
Where do you think we are right now?
joe rogan
Beginning.
joey diaz
You really think we're in the beginning?
joe rogan
Yes.
joey diaz
You don't think we're good till mid-May?
joe rogan
Listen, it keeps accelerating every day.
If it's accelerating every day, that means it's at the beginning.
Every day there's more cases.
Every day there's more people getting sick.
joey diaz
Now, didn't he say yesterday, and don't quote me on this, he's talking about Easter.
joe rogan
Yeah, because it's a very special day to him.
See?
He said it's a special day.
This virus doesn't give a fuck what day you think Jesus came out of the ground.
This virus doesn't give a fuck.
And if you don't respect it, people are gonna die.
And there's people like the lieutenant governor, I think, who he is of Texas, who is like, we should take a risk with older people just to get the economy back in line.
People are like, whoa!
What are you saying?
You think we should get the economy back in line, and by doing the economy, some old people are going to have to die.
You're ready to sacrifice people for money.
Yeah, older people would rather die than let COVID-19 harm U.S. economy, Texas officials said.
Older people would rather die.
This is what he says.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
Okay.
Yeah, and you know, he's saying that he's in that high-risk category himself because he's 70. You know, these politicians are terrified.
That this is going to lead to an economic disaster and their name's going to be stuck on it.
I think they were terrified at first that they had to act, they had to close things down, but they didn't have a plan.
And now they realize, oh my god, this might have to stay locked down for a long time.
What happens to the economy?
Yeah, you didn't have a plan.
No one had a plan.
So they locked everything down and now they're like, listen, this could last a long time.
We've got to start the rumblings now of getting this ball rolling again.
Because if this goes six, seven months, and no one's working, no one can go outside their house for six, seven months, this is crazy.
We won't have any money, and China's going to take over.
Tucker Carlson had this whole piece he did that I saw that was actually pretty accurate, where he was talking about what could be possible.
He was talking about how the NBA... Did you see that whole segment where the NBA, they had said something about China, and then you see all these people that were praising China and saying positive things about China?
What was the reason behind that, Jamie?
You're an NBA guy.
jamie vernon
GM for the Houston Rockets tweeted, like, support for Hong Kong.
joe rogan
That's right.
That's right.
It was support for Hong Kong, and then China got pissed at that, and so then they started tweeting nice things about China, and they started...
jamie vernon
Well, at the time that that happened, there was, like, NBA teams in China doing games, and they'd just come back, and then they started asking all of them what they thought about this, and then, like, LeBron started supporting China, I think, and then everyone jumped on them, and, like...
Money over people, I think.
joe rogan
Well, you mean that they face consequences for supporting Hong Kong.
Yeah.
Well, what Tucker Carlson was saying in this piece was that imagine if that's the whole country.
Understand that if China's the ruler of the world, if China becomes the ruler of the world, not the United States because of something like this.
This is all really possible.
The idea that the United States is the ruler of the world, so it has to stay the ruler of the world forever.
No, natural disasters, disease, fucking asteroid impact, there's a bunch of different things that could shift the balance of power in the world.
Rome used to run everything, right?
Europe, England, the UK. England used to run half the fucking planet.
There's a lot of different countries that were on top of the world that are no longer on top of the world.
And we would be in a real sticky situation if we had to live under the same military dictatorship that China does.
And the idea that we would never have to live under that.
We can't.
We're America.
Well, that's ridiculous because we're human beings and other human beings are stuck in a circumstance where they're living under a military dictatorship.
So there's no difference between them and us other than culture and the place where they live.
That shifts.
Things change.
With natural disaster, with disease, with failure of the economy, with war, with all these different factors, things change, and our perception, much like our perception of our society itself, it's always going to be like this, and all of a sudden this disease comes along and shuts everything down.
You're like, whoa, that's a fucking wake-up call.
You need to recognize that this is kind of fragile.
Well, the whole system is fragile.
If those things happen, natural disaster, disease, war, anything catastrophic happens, the balance of power completely shifts.
And who knows whose control the survivors are under?
Who knows?
Who knows how this works out?
This is all real touch and go right now.
This is real touch and go.
This is uncharted territory where we have slipped into a place where no one's working and everyone's scared and the president wants to go back to work on Easter because it's a special day to him.
And Joe Biden can't talk.
The guy who's running for fucking president for the Democrats can't talk.
Did you see the latest shit?
Tim Dillon sent me two videos.
He's like, what the fuck is going on?
Like he's in a cognitive decline.
Governor of New York.
Cuomo.
Put him in.
Put him in, coach.
Put him in.
You want a guy to run for president that makes sense?
You want a guy who's an intelligent guy, who's a strong leader, who's got a lot of experience?
joey diaz
He's impressed the fuck out of me the last two weeks.
joe rogan
He's impressed the fuck out of me, too.
joey diaz
And when he's like, fuck, opening up human lives count more than money.
He's impressed me.
I'll tell you who else has impressed me.
I don't know.
See, you can't say nothing because you're always going to be wrong.
There's always a knock.
Well, Joey, you're wrong, because he's declined the Women's Abortion Act.
There's always something.
joe rogan
That's true.
That's the argument they had about him.
joey diaz
I don't even know what it is.
I don't even know, and I tell you, it's always something.
I don't even know what the issue is.
joe rogan
The issue is late-term abortions.
He apparently voted for...
joey diaz
I know there's always something.
And I was just making a joke, but I know there's always something.
joe rogan
You were actually right.
Tucker Carlson actually brought that up.
joey diaz
The other guy that's doing a good job that I see that he's communicating is Governor Newsom.
joe rogan
Yes.
joey diaz
He's doing a great job.
I don't know what his politics are.
I don't know if he's a Democratic or Republican.
I just know he's stepping up and he's fighting for these people and he's making some smart choices.
And you know what?
I don't know.
Are you a fucking scientist, Joe Rogan?
joe rogan
Let me check.
joey diaz
Are you a scientist?
No, me neither.
Go fuck ourselves.
Until that time, I don't know.
I do know one scientist.
And she's telling me to stay the fuck home and mind my business.
I do know three, four people who work in emergency rooms that have told me it's not a fucking pretty place.
My brother's a cop in a hospital, and he says that it's a fucking nightmare, that you have to sort them out, A and B, and B is if you have kidney-itis, and A is if you have corona.
They say it's a fucking nightmare.
joe rogan
Right, because you gotta think the same amount of people are still getting injured and sick from other stuff.
joey diaz
So Mercy's coming in, Hope is coming in, they're not corona ships.
They don't want no corona people down there.
They just want fucking, you know, they're bringing in a ship with a thousand beds.
joe rogan
There's fucking these goddamn cruise ships.
You want to talk about a petri dish.
Stuck on a metal craft in the middle of the ocean, breathing recirculated air with a bunch of people partying.
joey diaz
For three or four or five days.
joe rogan
And around you is the ocean, and if you fall in, you're dead, because they don't scoop anybody out.
When do they ever turn the ship around and scoop somebody out when they fall overboard?
joey diaz
Did you ever go on those cruise ships?
unidentified
No!
joe rogan
No chance.
For comics, it was always a death sentence.
joey diaz
I made a mistake.
unidentified
No.
joey diaz
When I was 21 with a chick, I went on the cruise ship, the one that used to go around Manhattan.
So you leave at 6 o'clock and you're back at 6 in the morning.
And they take you out far enough so you can gamble, play blackjack.
I did that one one time.
Nice, but I knew I wasn't going to do it again.
Got out of my system.
I don't want to go on a fucking cruise ship.
And as a comic, you hate to say this as a comedian, Amongst us, it's a death sentence.
For me, they have additional work.
joe rogan
I do gotta say though, the fucking Impractical Jokers, those guys did a tour on a bus, I mean on a boat, apparently everybody loved it.
So it's like if you get your fans in there, a rare thing.
Yeah, there's people that could pull that off.
joey diaz
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, Alonzo goes on jazz tours.
He does jazz cruises.
You know, Alonzo Bowden is a serious jazz fan.
Loves jazz music.
Loves it.
joey diaz
I spoke to him yesterday.
joe rogan
Good dude.
I love him to death.
joey diaz
Good dude.
joe rogan
He's always been the best.
joey diaz
And a Clippers fan.
Before anybody even talked about the Clippers.
joe rogan
And rides a motorcycle everywhere.
joey diaz
Yeah, that motherfucker.
A badass bike, too.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got a bunch of bikes.
Or he's had a bunch of bikes.
joey diaz
The one BMW's got a badass bike.
But he was a Clippers fan when they were 0-92.
He was down there by himself with Costello Alonzo.
Now he's living like a doctor.
He's fucking yelling.
Soon as they got Kwame, I was happy just for Alonzo.
That's how much I love Alonzo.
I was happy just for Alonzo.
joe rogan
Everybody loves Alonzo.
joey diaz
Everybody.
Nobody has a beef with Alonzo.
joe rogan
Nobody.
joey diaz
Why would you?
First of all, he'll break you in half.
joe rogan
He's giant.
joey diaz
His fucking hands are ginormous.
joe rogan
And he's the sweetheart.
joey diaz
He's the sweetheart.
He doesn't even know he could break your back.
joe rogan
You'd never know that he's six foot four, 250 pounds, solid muscle, whatever the fuck he is.
He's a tank of a man.
But he's hilarious, too.
He's a dude that's got great points.
Here's one of his lines.
He goes, not every Trump supporter is racist, but every racist is a Trump supporter.
There's not a whole lot of racists voting for Biden.
I mean, maybe a few.
They can't let that guy run for president.
They have to put a stop to that.
joey diaz
He's done.
joe rogan
You have to see these recent videos.
I'm sending it to you.
Have you seen it, Jamie?
joey diaz
And then you fucking killed Bernie Sanders.
You basically killed Bernie Sanders.
joe rogan
Hey, they killed him.
joey diaz
I'm reading something the other night.
joe rogan
He used me.
unidentified
That Porter, you put the kiss of death on him, cocksucker.
joe rogan
He was doing just fine.
joey diaz
Oh my God, Julia, the Puerto Rican chick that won't shut up, Ocasio.
joe rogan
Oh, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.
joey diaz
Yeah, she won't shut the fuck up.
She's a Puerto Rican chick.
joe rogan
She's 28 years old.
joey diaz
She won't shut the fuck up.
joe rogan
Rags to riches Congresswoman.
joey diaz
And she's like, fuck, and I won't talk to him because Joe Rogan backed him.
unidentified
Well, it's not that I backed him.
joe rogan
It's that they used a video of me to support their campaign to say that I endorsed him.
And then they took a bunch of my bits, and they took a bunch of things we said on the podcast, high as fuck, out of context, and made it look like I was some right-wing monster.
Make them like I'm some sort of homophobe.
And then they use the transphobe thing from the lady that used to be a man.
If you don't know the story, used to be a man for 30 years, became a woman for two, and then started beating the fuck out of women without telling them that her whole life she had been a man up until recently.
She just thought it was a medical condition that she didn't have to reveal.
And I got mad.
joey diaz
It's domestic violence.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's crazy.
It should be criminal to not tell somebody.
I mean, the idea that you're the same thing as a biological woman is just not fact.
It's not scientific fact.
And yeah, I said a bunch of horrible shit about her.
Not even horrible shit.
I just said mean things.
That she's a man.
Like you're a man.
You can't just go fighting.
joey diaz
You said the truth, though.
joe rogan
Yes, that's what I did.
I said the truth.
joey diaz
When you say the truth, you're not going to have a lot of friends.
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
I'm a guy that I support bull riding, okay?
I support if you're a woman and you want to fight a man, I support it.
But you got to let that person know that you're a man.
If you used to be a man, you've got to let them know.
If a woman wants to fight a biological man right now, a guy with his balls, and she wants to do it, and he wants to do it, and they sign off on it, you could skydive.
Why can't you do that?
They're both the same weight.
Go ahead.
I don't think you should.
If you're my friend, if you were a woman and you're my friend, I'd be like, there's too many physical advantages.
It's too dangerous.
All they have to do is hit you once.
They don't have to be as skillful as you.
If they clip you, you're fucked.
And that's the truth.
That's what happens.
I mean, it's a giant advantage.
It doesn't mean the woman can't win because Jermaine Duran to me Actually had a kickboxing fight with a man and knocked him the fuck out.
That lady's a beast.
The Iron Lady from Holland, she's a beast.
But she's a former UFC featherweight fucking champion of the world.
I mean, she's an animal, that lady.
And had a real close fight with Amanda Nunes recently for the bantamweight title.
She's one of the best fighters on earth.
And she beat a man and knocked him out.
But you shouldn't...
Fight a man if you don't know it's a man.
That's rude.
And if you didn't know that someone used to be a man, that's rude, too.
So they tried to pretend that I'm not this transphobic crusader.
I love all people.
I literally love all people.
I don't care what you are, whether you're gay or straight or Asian or black or white or...
I don't care.
I don't care.
I just...
If you're nice, I'm nice to you.
I'm 100% open to everybody.
But I'm not gonna bullshit.
You can't fight women if you used to be a man and not tell them.
It's so ridiculous that that's even a debatable subject.
Like, I had a bit about it where I said, never do I think as a society we could get to a point where someone would say, hey man, I don't think it's cool if you get your dick removed and then beat the fuck out of chicks.
And people would be like, you're out of line.
That's where it got.
That's where it got.
We got so overly progressive in the fight to do the right thing.
joey diaz
We gotta write that script about a guy who falls in love with a girl.
joe rogan
It turns out that she's a man?
joey diaz
Yeah, like right before at the wedding, she tells her, you know, my name was Hugo.
unidentified
What would you do if she's really hot?
joe rogan
You're still into her.
Do you really care?
joey diaz
Good question.
joe rogan
Some people don't care.
Some people are like, I don't give a fuck.
I'm ride or die with you, Hugo.
When you're alone with her in public.
Yeah, man.
It's in the fight to do the right thing.
And that's what's going on with progressives when they get overly progressive.
They think they're fighting to do the right thing.
But you have to be able to call out shit that's wrong on your side.
And this is one of the problems that the Democratic Party is having right now with this Joe Biden guy.
You guys gotta be able to call it out.
You can't let this slide because everybody else sees it.
And Trump is going to eat him alive.
He's gonna eat that guy alive.
The guy can barely remember what he's talking about while he's talking.
jamie vernon
Do you know which one it was?
Because there's a few videos going around.
joe rogan
There's a few of them.
Play any of them.
They're all crazy.
Every video of him recently talking, he's stumbling through shit.
He forgets what he's talking about.
joe biden
We should be making those masks.
We should be moving on those ventilators.
unidentified
We can do that.
Why doesn't he just act like a president?
That's a stupid way to say it, I guess.
You know, Donald Trump was asked on...
Sorry.
joey diaz
Yeah, he's done.
joe biden
No, no, I... Probably best I don't.
joey diaz
He's like Junior Soprano before he shot...
joe rogan
Yeah.
Look at him.
That's not even the worst example.
That's just an example.
The one down there, when he's talking to that lady, I think that one was a struggle too.
That was a struggle fest.
unidentified
...period for keeping businesses shut and people at home.
Are you at all concerned, as Trump said, that we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself?
We have to take care of the cure.
joe biden
That will make the problem worse no matter what.
No matter what.
We know what has to be done.
We know you have to...
unidentified
Reassess the recommended period.
joe rogan
Yeah, see, he doesn't know what he's talking about when he's talking.
And this is not...
I'm looking at this like a medical condition.
I'm looking at this like, okay, when I'm calling a fight and I see a guy limping...
And I'm like, I think he hurt his knee.
Like, Tiago Santos against Jon Jones.
I think he hurt his knee there.
I think there's something going on with his knee.
Like, that's what I'm looking at this.
I'm looking at this like this is a medical issue.
That's not a normal way to communicate, unless he's high as fuck.
Because if I was high, I'd be like, I don't know what I said to this lady.
You could be in the middle of one of those interviews, blasted on edibles, going, what are we even talking about?
I don't think that's what it is.
joey diaz
He's fucking tired.
He's old.
joe rogan
He's very old.
joey diaz
And I think he can't...
joe rogan
He doesn't look good either, and they got makeup on him.
joey diaz
Yeah, he doesn't look good.
joe rogan
His skin is all pulled tight like a lizard.
joey diaz
He's got the formaldehyde in him already.
He looks like he's got the formaldehyde in him already.
joe rogan
It's not good.
joey diaz
They're gonna just press a button.
joe rogan
Governor Cuomo.
joey diaz
Governor Cuomo right be the answer.
joe rogan
That's the answer.
joey diaz
I love his behavior.
I love his attitude so far.
And he's been honest.
And I'm telling you, unless you're a fucking idiot, just go to any street corner in New York, you know, look at fucking footage from July.
It's too many people.
joe rogan
It's too many people.
It's too many people stacked on top of each other.
joey diaz
I couldn't even think about getting on a ferry and going to eat at Rudy's.
Like, I was staying somewhere on Park Avenue, and I'm like, so I gotta get into an Uber, which I fucking filthy in New York.
Okay?
When you walk into an Uber, people are sitting in cars with the windows shut, breathing whatever he's breathing.
joe rogan
Yep.
joey diaz
I open up the car and the guy's like, you gonna get in?
Yeah, give it a minute.
And then I would take my handy wipe out and lower the window and close the fucking door before I got in.
When I get on the ferry, I stand outside.
I don't sit in there.
I breathe that Hudson River air.
That's good for you.
That's as good as it's going to get.
joe rogan
Disinfected.
joey diaz
All those bodies and shit floating in there.
That fucking Malukia dust in there and pollution, whatever the fuck is in there.
But I knew.
Look, within weeks, Teaneck, right?
Teaneck was the one that got contaminated.
joe rogan
Did they?
joey diaz
Fort Lee got it.
You know, that's all my fucking neighborhood.
I don't think nobody...
Oh, Hoboken.
Hoboken was really bad.
joe rogan
Hoboken got it bad?
joey diaz
Hoboken, the cops had to go in there and fucking, like, Hoboken was like a party.
Like, Hoboken didn't give a fuck!
Like, they were fucking just having orgies in Hoboken.
Gino told me, you gotta see it!
joe rogan
Really?
joey diaz
So they finally had to go down and they closed Hoboken.
Like, you weren't allowed to go into Hoboken.
Only people who lived in Hoboken could party in Hoboken.
Then they just had to fucking shut it down.
joe rogan
Somebody had a meme on their page.
It might have been Donnell.
I forget who it was.
No, it might have been Snoop.
I don't remember who it was.
But anyway, they had a meme on their page that said, you're telling people you're going to put them in jail if they go out after 8 p.m., but you're letting people out of jail early because they got the coronavirus.
And there's someone going, hmm.
Like, what?
Like, what the fuck?
What are you saying?
Are you gonna lock people up, but you're letting people out?
joey diaz
First off, if you looked at this whole thing, There's been some weird people who got tests.
joe rogan
They got tests?
joey diaz
Like, they got tested.
Like, there's been some weird people.
unidentified
Like who?
joey diaz
Like, even Izbin Abbas, whatever his fucking name is.
Who?
Izbin Abbas, whatever his fucking name is.
joe rogan
Idris Elba.
joey diaz
Yeah, the black dude that got shot.
joe rogan
Well, he lives in England, and he got tested because he was in contact with other people that had it.
joey diaz
You know, why the fuck did Harvey get a test?
joe rogan
Because he's in Rikers, and Rikers has a massive outbreak.
joey diaz
No shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's in Rikers.
He's in maximum security.
joey diaz
Well, he's in Buffalo now.
joe rogan
Oh, did they move him to that because of the corona?
joey diaz
He's in a hospital up in Buffalo.
He's fucked.
joe rogan
He's fucked.
He probably has no will to live, you know?
I mean, he probably doesn't have a will to get through this.
I mean, I don't know what kind of medical treatment they're gonna give him, but this could do him in easily.
joey diaz
It's running rampant.
joe rogan
He's so sick already.
You look at the guy, he can barely walk.
His health is deteriorating.
joey diaz
Oh, the stress in this trial killed him.
joe rogan
Crushed him.
Took 20 years off his life instantly.
joey diaz
This is just a death sentence.
joe rogan
I was just saying, we were talking about this yesterday.
Imagine if you came up to him four years ago and said, I want to show you your future.
Dying in a bed in prison for things you've already done.
Right now.
You're walking around, toast to the town, getting in limos, climbing out.
People are waving to you and cheering.
You're getting interviewed on the carpet.
Everyone shouts you out.
I just want to thank Harvey Weinstein for his amazing, amazing company and the movies you put together that allowed me to shine.
Yeah.
How many people?
Have you seen all the people that praised him?
And then four years later, imagine that.
The things he's already done.
He'd already done them at that point.
joey diaz
And they knew while they were praising him.
joe rogan
I wonder what they knew.
joey diaz
They knew.
joe rogan
They knew something.
They knew he was a scumbag.
joey diaz
They knew something.
They knew.
They all knew, though.
You gotta assume they all knew.
So what the fuck?
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
They went back.
They knocked on doors.
Wait a second.
So I rape you?
You gonna go to that party?
joe rogan
What do you mean?
joey diaz
So I raped you at a party.
Now the next year there's going to be another Cannes Festival.
And you're going to show up again?
joe rogan
A lot of them did because they wanted to work.
See, the thing about Harvey is apparently, this is Whitney Cummings' take on it, she said he would actually give them the things he would tell them he would give them.
So he'd say, hey, you suck my dick, I'm going to make you a star.
And he would actually do it.
He would actually put them in these movies.
He would give them so they were happy.
So they would get all this treatment, and then they had to spend some alone time with him every now and then.
So they would send him emails, lovey-dovey emails.
But really, they hated him.
And that's when all this came out.
He didn't even see it coming because he thought that they loved him.
He thought that they would send him these emails.
So he sent the emails to the press like, look, look at all these emails.
These girls love me.
Even though he had done scumbag shit to them.
It's just he had it set up where this was how you got by.
This is how you made movies.
This is how you want to be famous.
This is how you get famous.
I can help you get famous.
You got to help me get rid of some cum.
joey diaz
Who do you think sucked his dick?
joe rogan
Everyone.
I think everyone did.
All the guys, too.
joey diaz
Really?
joe rogan
Every guy.
joey diaz
Come on.
You think Brad Pitt was sniffing his nutsack?
joe rogan
No, I think Brad Pitt threatened him because he made Gwyneth Paltrow feel real uncomfortable, apparently.
Oh, I don't know, man.
One of the people said the producer did not have symptoms and was under close observation.
It was not clear why he had been tested.
joey diaz
I'm telling you, there's a lot of shit that don't sound right to me.
Listen, Invicts are the last people they care about.
The only problem you have with those things is that you could really sue the state.
I got locked up when HIV was starting to get popular, 87, 88. So as soon as I got to my destination, they had already built an HIV unit that was a fucking state-of-the-art facility.
Everybody else lived like a fucking Momo.
The HIV guys lived like kings.
Microwave ovens, TVs, colored...
unidentified
Really?
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
They let them get microwaves?
joey diaz
Oh, they had everything in there.
joe rogan
How come?
joey diaz
Their own refrigerator.
Because they didn't want their food.
They didn't really know the extent of the HIV. So they had their own thing.
They had their own cook that came in and cooked for the six guys in that unit.
So you never...
I don't understand.
joe rogan
That must have contributed so much to homophobia.
joey diaz
But, okay, so, when you...
joe rogan
Not in jail.
I mean, in the world, you know, during the AIDS crisis?
joey diaz
What do you mean?
joe rogan
Homophobia in the world during the AIDS crisis, when AIDS was out, when it was a big deal.
I mean, I was almost too young to remember it, because I was like 21 when it was happening.
I was still a kid.
But I mean, the people that were already inclined towards hating gay people, and then there's a disease that everyone's terrified of that you get through sex that could kill you, and it affects gay people disproportionately.
joey diaz
83, 82, those are tough years, you know.
They even made a phenomenal movie about it called And The Band Played On with Richard Gere and a bunch of great actors.
Richard Gere played the guy that...
The guy that's a choreographer that did a bunch of plays.
I can't remember his name.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
joey diaz
But he played him in a weird manner.
And everybody in that movie was a movie star.
It was a phenomenal movie about HIV. HIV really started with a stewardess, a male stewardess that would take flights from France or Italy or England.
One of those.
Don't quote me, but let's just go with France to New York.
And when he would come to New York he would fuck somebody from the plane, then go to Studio 54 and get his dick sucked, and then go right back to England.
And he kept doing that.
It was all sex with the same stewardess.
unidentified
Really?
joey diaz
If you watch that and the band played on, people forget about that.
I was going to put that out in this week.
joe rogan
I never saw it.
joey diaz
For one of my weekly movies.
Excuse me, Jamie.
If you can see if there's a trailer for it or something.
And the band played on.
joe rogan
We can't play the trailer?
joey diaz
No, no, no.
But they'll tell you who's in it.
joe rogan
Oh.
joey diaz
And you're going to go, damn!
How the fuck did they even see that?
Everybody's in it.
Like, it was such a...
It was such a...
joe rogan
Well, just go to the movie.
Don't go for a YouTube.
Don't go to a trailer.
Just go to the movie on IMDB and you'll be able to see.
joey diaz
Look at Richard Gere how good looking he was.
He was beautiful.
He was still flinging dick.
joe rogan
He was a beautiful man.
joey diaz
And these guys were all gay.
And he's going to interview gay dudes that got it.
And they're telling him, man, it started with a spot on my hand and This is a phenomenal, phenomenal movie if you've never seen it.
joe rogan
So there's the starring...
There's the cast.
Matthew Modine from Vision Quest.
joey diaz
Alan Alda.
joe rogan
Alan Alda.
joey diaz
Matthew Modine.
Natalie Bay.
Christian...
I mean, fuck it.
joe rogan
Phil Collins.
joey diaz
Phil Collins.
Alex Courtney.
David Dukes.
Richard Gere.
There's somebody else in this movie.
joe rogan
That was back in the day when rock stars.
joey diaz
Angelica Houston was great.
Glenn Healy was great in this.
See, they're all doctors.
Yes, Richard Gere was a choreographer.
It doesn't say which choreographer.
joe rogan
It doesn't say.
joey diaz
But it's supposed to be somebody who was very big at that time.
joe rogan
Who's it supposed to be based on, Jamie?
jamie vernon
He's on the movie posters and shit.
joe rogan
The actual choreographer?
The real one that it's based on?
jamie vernon
Richard Gere is.
joe rogan
Right, but find out who it was supposed to be based on.
Phil Collins was in that movie.
It's interesting, like, rock stars used to be, they used to do movies back then.
Remember, Gene Simmons did a few movies.
joey diaz
He was phenomenal.
Gene Simmons did a movie called, with the dude from, oh my god.
joe rogan
When the guy put the bomb in his mouth?
joey diaz
Oh!
joe rogan
Rutger Hauer.
joey diaz
Rutger Hauer.
joe rogan
That's right.
joey diaz
Wanted, dead or alive, cocksucker.
Gene Simmons did that one.
joe rogan
He was a bad guy.
joey diaz
Where Gene Simmons was brilliant was on Miami Vice when he played the coke dealer on the fucking boat in the pilot for the second season.
He was phenomenal.
He played an Arab.
He always played an Arab.
They made him take a suntan.
They told him, Gene, go be an Arab.
And he would fucking get a suntan.
In Wanted Dead or Alive, he was an Arab terrorist.
And in Miami Vice, he was...
Like an international Arab arms dealer, and he hooks up Crockett and Tubbs.
He did a ton of work.
And Phil Collins did a good Miami Vice, too, with Kira Sedgwick, who is what's-his-name's-wife now.
He did a tremendous episode.
joe rogan
Kevin Bacon, right?
joey diaz
Yeah, she's married to Kevin Bacon.
joe rogan
There's a lot of great movies from that era.
joey diaz
I've been putting them out, G. That's it.
It started, like, March 4th for me, by mistake.
At about 11 o'clock, I caught on, because my wife changed something at the house, so they threw a different epic out of some package, and at 11 o'clock, Death Wish was starting.
And I watched it from the beginning, and now I know why rape and all that shit is disturbing to me.
It's that movie.
joe rogan
Oh, right.
unidentified
I remember that.
joey diaz
The rapes in that movie, as a little kid, fucked my shit up.
joe rogan
Wasn't Jeff Goldblum one of the rapers?
joey diaz
Yes, and one of the one was two.
That rape scene in that movie fucked me up, so I started watching my mom a lot more.
I'm like, that's what rape is?
That's fucking nasty.
joe rogan
Those movies got campy.
Like, the Death Wish movie started out, the real first one was really kind of disturbing and scary.
joey diaz
Very disturbing.
joe rogan
And you were with Bronson.
You were like, go get him.
joey diaz
Oh, no, no.
You were with Bronson, and at that time, New York had had the vigilante, the Jewish guy, Berkowitz, the one that got on the train and shot the two black teens because he felt intimidated by them.
joe rogan
He shot one in the back.
joey diaz
Right.
New York was kind of in a fucking little bit of an uproar.
I don't know if Death Wish was first or that movie was first, but Death Wish is fucking...
The rape scene is so fucking disturbing, you want to cry.
And as a kid, I remember thinking about my mother at the bar.
Like, this could happen to my mother?
Oh, this could never fucking happen.
Yes, it is Jeff Goldblum.
You're absolutely right.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was real scary in it, too.
He was real creepy.
Yeah, this is horrible shit, man.
This has happened to people before.
That's real.
Charles Bronson was a bad motherfucker in that movie, too.
He had those shark eyes.
joey diaz
Dog, he went to Arizona to try to relax after his wife died or his wife was a vegetable.
And that dude gave him a gun, took him to the gun range.
And that's when it was all fucking over.
He just went out at night looking for motherfuckers to shoot.
joe rogan
I got a good movie that people forgot about.
joey diaz
Which one?
joe rogan
Southern Comfort.
joey diaz
How good is it?
joe rogan
It's a real good movie.
Remember that movie?
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
A bunch of guys are doing, they're in the swamp.
I think it was Louisiana.
And they're like National Guard guys.
They think they're being cute.
And they run into these backwoods swamp people that live back there.
And they wind up getting those Creole, those French dudes that speak French.
Is this it?
Oh, yeah, man.
So they run into these communities of people that live deep, I guess like Cajun people?
Am I saying that right?
Is that wrong?
Is that what it is?
And they get fucked up.
And they get sucked into these guys' world.
They think they're being cute.
And they shoot at someone or something.
I forget how it happens.
But they wind up getting fucked up by these guys.
And it's scary.
I haven't seen it in a long time.
I enjoyed the shit out of it when it came out, though.
81. Freshman in high school.
unidentified
It's a good fucking movie.
joey diaz
You know, I remember this movie.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
I remember this movie.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Booth.
joe rogan
What's his name again?
joey diaz
Booth.
joe rogan
What's his first name?
joey diaz
I forget.
He also played...
joe rogan
T.K. Kirkland's in that movie?
joey diaz
He could be.
joe rogan
The stand-up.
joey diaz
Yes, he could be.
joe rogan
He was in a lot of movies, man.
joey diaz
Yes, he was.
joe rogan
He was in John Carpenter's The Thing.
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
Remember that?
joey diaz
T.K. Kirkland was in a lot of fucking movies.
joe rogan
See the, um, what's the cast, Jamie?
Travis Booth?
Is that his name?
No.
Is that right?
I am...
Yeah, it's, uh...
joey diaz
He played the dude in Jonestown.
joe rogan
Oh, yes, that's right.
That's right, he did.
unidentified
Powers Booth.
joe rogan
Powers Booth, that's right.
Keith Carradine, that's right.
Who else is in there?
Can you show me the...
Is T.K. Carter, not Kirkland.
T.K. Carter.
Sorry, T.K. Kirkland.
I fucked up.
I blame the weed!
T.K. Carter used to be around the store.
Used to be around the store.
joey diaz
Great guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was a great guy.
Damn, I haven't seen him in forever.
Right?
He was always doing...
He was doing movies while he was doing stand-up and then wind up just doing these big-ass movies.
When he was in The Thing, I remember, what year was The Thing?
82. So, he was in The Thing when I was in high school.
Crazy.
So, by the time I came out here...
joey diaz
And saw him at the store.
joe rogan
It's like six years later.
joey diaz
Yeah, it was crazy.
When I saw him at the store, I couldn't believe it was...
joe rogan
No, more than that, 82. So, 10, 12 years later.
12 years later, I was out here.
So, it was 12 years after that.
Southern Comfort.
It's a good movie.
joey diaz
But one of my all-time favorite movies, all-time favorite that nobody talks about, is a movie called 29th Street.
joe rogan
What's that?
joey diaz
It's a movie about a guy named Joe Pesch, and you know who he is.
He's the guy in real life, in real life, Joe Pesch was the dude in Beverly Hills Cop.
He was like the token Italian for a long time.
joe rogan
Oh, that guy.
joey diaz
No, that's Lampaglia.
That's Joe Pesch.
This movie is a fucking phenomenal movie.
joe rogan
Really?
joey diaz
Oh my god!
This is Danny Aiello's best fucking movie.
If you got daddy issues, you do not watch this movie.
So Joe Pesch in real life.
The brother sold this movie as a script.
He's great friends with Sylvester Stallone.
Stallone puts him in all his movies now.
He's always old in all of Sylvester Stallone's movies.
But this guy's name...
In fact, that black dude...
So when I came to the store, this was one of my favorite movies of all time.
It's a movie about a guy who hits a lottery ticket in New York City.
He wins the New York State lottery ticket, the first lottery ticket of all time.
It's a true story.
That actor in real life won that guy on the left.
Right there.
He's the one that's, hey Vinny, today's your lucky day.
My name is Carmine Fucko.
He's also, what do you think I stole that line from?
Who do you think you're dealing with, Joey Bananas?
That's from Beverly Hills Cop.
He's the one that's selling Eddie Murphy the shit.
And in the beginning of Beverly Hills Cop, he's the guy that has the truck that Eddie Murphy's going to rob.
He's had great scenes.
He had that one with Beverly Hills.
And then he was in Midnight Run when they made De Niro go look for the guy.
The guy that they made go look for De Niro is sitting with an Italian guy that's handcuffed.
joe rogan
Who's in Midnight Run again?
joey diaz
Midnight Run is De Niro and the guy that...
With the bad hair piece.
Fucking great movie.
Dennis Farina.
Just an Academy Award.
One of De Niro's best movies because he had to do comedy.
That guy.
joe rogan
Charles Grodin.
joey diaz
Oh!
This is a classic movie.
Dennis Farina is the best gangster in the world.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
And De Niro's a bounty hunter.
He has to go capture him.
joey diaz
But there's a dude in this.
The dude that they hire, they look for De Niro.
joe rogan
Whatever happened to that Charles Grodin guy?
joey diaz
He's still looking for O.J.'s killer.
He's still looking for whoever killed Nicole.
That's who he's looking for.
He's still mad at O.J. They finally threw him off TV. The wig company wouldn't sponsor him no more.
joe rogan
Didn't he have a late night show?
joey diaz
He had something.
He had something.
They did the Bomb Word movies.
But back to 29th Street.
When I first moved to L.A., the black dude from 29th Street came into the store one night.
And I thought I was on a soccer stick.
joe rogan
Who is it?
joey diaz
Whoever played, he's a drill sergeant in that movie.
He played Anthony.
Frank Pesce wasn't in real life.
When he sold the script, it was a beautiful script.
But somewhere along the line, somebody had to sit him down and go look it, bro.
We love your story.
We're going to shoot it.
You're not going to play you.
joe rogan
Imagine that.
joey diaz
So they had Anthony Lompaglia, who was already a star in his own way.
He's Australian, Anthony Lompaglia.
joe rogan
Is he really?
joey diaz
Yeah, he's Australian.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
unidentified
Yeah.
joey diaz
He's Australian.
joe rogan
They're so good at doing our accent.
joey diaz
Yeah, he's tremendous.
And they do a great New York accent.
So they let him be the lead.
Danny Aiello played the father.
He played the brother.
They still let him be in the movie.
He had a great role.
He had a great role.
The Italian woman that's in every movie played the mom.
I don't even know what the point of the fucking story is.
It's just a great movie.
What the fuck was the point of all this shit?
I'm getting like Joe Biden.
joe rogan
Midnight Run, 29th Street.
29th Street's a great movie.
joey diaz
Oh, so I would see all these guys at the store.
Guess who else is on 29th Street?
joe rogan
Who?
joey diaz
Vinnie Curdo.
joe rogan
No shit.
joey diaz
Yeah, he's in the scene with Paulie Walnuts in The Soprano.
And one time, he's gotta come in and go...
joe rogan
Have we ever told the Vinnie Curdo story?
joey diaz
I don't know.
joe rogan
Vinnie Curdo was that close to having his life movie made with Robert De Niro and Mark Wahlberg.
Did we talk about that?
joey diaz
And he also was going to fight fucking your boy at one time.
unidentified
Who?
joey diaz
He was scheduled to fight your boy.
joe rogan
Who's my boy?
joey diaz
The guy from Boston.
The black dude with the shaved head from Boston.
joe rogan
Marvin Hagler?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's right, yeah.
Yeah, Vinnie Curdo was a fucking animal when he was fighting.
He was an animal.
joey diaz
Then I saw Vinnie Curdo's in it.
Vinnie Curdo shows up at the store.
And then there's somebody else who's in it.
joe rogan
Look at him hanging out with Sam Kinison.
I met Vinnie right when, well before, but right when all that shit was going down, I went to his apartment.
And he was showing me the script and telling me what was happening.
joey diaz
That's Marky Wahlberg.
That's who he was going to hire.
That's who was going to play.
joe rogan
And then the funding fell apart.
Like last minute the funding fell apart and the movie deteriorated.
But it was a good movie.
And it's based on his life.
joey diaz
And it's based on his life.
joe rogan
And it's a fucked up story.
And he was willing to say who he is and how he became who he is.
He was a tough motherfucker, though.
That guy was a tough fighter.
Very tough guy.
joey diaz
I read his other script.
And it's better than that one.
joe rogan
His script was good.
It was a very good script.
joey diaz
Bro, the other one he wrote about when he had to go hide out in Canada.
So he couldn't go to any training gyms.
unidentified
Really?
joey diaz
Because everybody knew where he was looking, that they were all looking in boxing gyms.
joe rogan
Wow.
joey diaz
So instead of hitting the bag, he decided to run up a hill in Canada.
It was very hard to run up this hill, so every day he would run up the hill.
And finally there was a kid in the block, and he had some type of muscular dystrophy, and the kid always said, I'd like to walk up that hill.
So then he said, listen, before you die, we're going to walk up the hill one time.
And they walked up the hill on the way back.
The kid died.
And he wrote it into a fucking screenplay.
unidentified
Wow.
joey diaz
Vinny's got some stories.
joe rogan
He's got some stories.
joey diaz
Vinny's got, and he forgets them.
joe rogan
He forgets them.
I mean, how many fights did he have?
joey diaz
The other night, I gotta tell you, it's another Academy Award winner that I forgot about.
That I'm gonna be honest with everybody right here, I refuse to watch it.
When it came out for years, I refused to watch it.
And after I did, I'm happy I did.
Harlem Nights is so fucking good.
Harlem Nights is such a fucking black experience that it is a masterpiece.
I mean, I've been watching a lot of shit lately.
joe rogan
I haven't seen that in forever.
What year was that?
I remember seeing it when it came out.
unidentified
That movie is so...
joe rogan
Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
unidentified
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
joey diaz
And fucking the other fucking guy, too.
Red Fox.
Oh my God, this is such a good movie!
joe rogan
Look at that picture.
joey diaz
I refuse to go see this movie.
I'm like, this is just black exploitation.
It is so fucking brilliant, this movie.
joe rogan
Have you seen Dolomite?
joey diaz
Yes.
joe rogan
I haven't seen it, the new Dolomite.
I heard it's amazing.
joey diaz
I think it's amazing.
joe rogan
I heard it's amazing.
joey diaz
I think he did a great job.
He says one line in that movie, I'll tell you, that I love.
I fell in love.
It is coming out of my eyes.
He's an open-miker, man.
And he's fucking dying to make it.
And you know how we are.
And one of us comes up to you like, Joe, I got an idea.
You know, like he said, I got an idea, man.
I think I'm going to do this.
And the other comedian was like, man, you're just a bum.
And you know, like when you're at that, when you're an open mic and you really can't, and he was walking away and he said something to somebody, he goes, it's going to be all right.
And Eddie Murphy goes, nah, it ain't, man.
There's nothing worse than having something to sell and nobody to sell it to.
And it made me feel like an open mic.
Because that's what you feel like when you're an open mic.
joe rogan
Yeah, you got something to sell.
joey diaz
But nobody to sell it to.
joe rogan
Do you remember that feeling when you'd watch someone on stage and the crowd was packed and you just wished you could get up there?
God, I wish I could get up there right now.
joey diaz
And that's what I'm trying to do right now.
I'm trying to re-fall in love with stand-up.
joe rogan
During the break?
Yeah.
joey diaz
I even wrote the story out of how I was lost and my ex-wife fucking forced my hand and drove me to the comedy works in Denver.
And now I got off stage and I was like, this is it.
And I'm like, but the only obstacle I have is a wife and a kid.
How am I going to do comedy with a wife and a kid?
We just bought a condo.
joe rogan
How old were you?
joey diaz
$28.
It stole my soul.
I didn't want to go to work no more.
Nothing else mattered.
The only thing I loved as much as doing comedy was cocaine.
I didn't like nothing else.
I just liked cocaine and stand-up comedy.
And I couldn't figure out how to do them and make a living and pay for a family.
Then she came home after three months and she didn't want to be married no more.
And part of me was 80% relieved and the other 20 I wanted to be a father and the whole thing.
But it's the truth.
I fell in love with it.
It fucking just stole my soul.
Like, I did everything I had.
I watched every tape.
I studied Carlin.
I studied the shit out of Pryor.
I studied the fuck out of Dice.
I studied the fuck out of Bill Hicks.
You know, I love Bill Hicks.
You know, I watched...
Today, before I came up here, I was in a rabbit hole.
Because I took my daughter for a walk, and I sat down for a minute to get them a drink, to send some emails.
And Rodney Dangerfield was on The Tonight Show, the week before Easy Money.
And he said that...
He said a joke on The Tonight Show and I was laughing.
I thought it was funny.
He says he drinks so much that he pissed on olives.
And the other night, that was on the other night.
Caddyshack.
joe rogan
Oh, man.
joey diaz
From the beginning was on.
I watched that for a little while.
joe rogan
Oh, that's a great movie.
joey diaz
So, like, this vacation, whatever the fuck is going on, it hasn't been rough on me at all.
The first week was rough on me before St. Paddy's Day.
When I thought I had a flight to New York was rough on me.
I already had a plan already in mind.
I'm coming back from New York and I'm just staying at home.
I'm hiding like a motherfucker.
That was my plan.
For how long?
I do not know, Joe.
If he says the 18th, I'm not still going on 420. I have a 420 show.
joe rogan
Yeah, I have a 420 show in Vancouver.
joey diaz
But it's on the 18th or 420?
joe rogan
420. Monday night in Vancouver.
joey diaz
You were going on a Monday?
unidentified
Yeah.
joey diaz
That's not happening.
joe rogan
I don't see how it can happen unless they come up with some sort of cure in 10 days.
I mean, it's the 25th.
Unless somewhere around the first week of April they have a cure, that's not going to happen.
I mean, there's some hope to some treatments that they're coming up with.
There's no cure right now.
There's no vaccine.
It's not even close.
The vaccine is a year away plus.
joey diaz
How big is this place that you're doing?
joe rogan
I'm doing an arena.
joey diaz
How do you feel doing it?
joe rogan
I don't want to put anybody at risk.
joey diaz
Okay.
joe rogan
If people can go to the show and have a good time and not be at risk, I would love to do it.
It's so weird, man.
If the flu was going around, I know this is worse than the flu, but if the flu was going around, we wouldn't think twice of doing a show.
That's what's so weird about this.
It's like it is absolutely more deadly than the flu.
Don't misread what I'm saying.
But it's just so crazy how different our approach is to this as approach to anything else that winds up killing people.
You know, we've all known people that have died from a disease.
Diseases, they kill people all the time.
But we've never been in a situation where everybody's scared of one disease.
It's so strange, man.
It's so strange.
And I don't think I can be able to get past that and just do a show right now.
I'm 90% sure they're going to cancel it.
I mean, the stuff that they're coming up with for treatment, one of them is a malarial disease, an old malaria disease.
There's some other different treatments that hold hope.
But there's so many people, man, that could get infected if you've got a show of 12,000, 13,000 people, whatever it is.
How the fuck are you going to make sure those people are okay?
Is it your responsibility?
Do you say, come at your own risk?
You know, I mean, what if you get it when you're there?
Like, what are we doing?
What are we doing?
You know, I mean...
The whole thing's crazy.
I think it's going to be a long time before we feel comfortable doing shows again.
It's going to be strange at first, you know?
But I also think when the dust settles, it will settle, hopefully, unless this is the first thing that falls and then all those other things fall into place that we talked about, like natural disasters.
We're going to appreciate peace.
We're going to appreciate freedom.
You're going to appreciate being to roam around, do whatever you want, go out at 3 o'clock at night.
You're going to appreciate it.
You're going to appreciate being able to go to a diner and have breakfast with your friend at 2 o'clock in the morning and laugh.
You're going to appreciate it.
Cars on the street.
Everybody acting normal.
It's going to mean more to you now.
It's like the sun after a rainy day.
It means more.
It feels better.
It has more of an impact.
And I think we've gone through a long stretch in this country where everything was static, everything was doing fairly well, we were on an upward trend, no real tragedy nationally that changed the way we live our life other than September 11th.
So we got like September 11th and then all these years of war of course, crime of course, but we're basically business as usual for most folks.
Not anymore.
This is a wake-up call.
This is a wake-up call that you have a finite amount of time in this life.
And this life, the way you're experiencing it right now, this is just how it is right now.
There's a million different factors that are in play constantly.
And you've been real lucky that you've had this stretch of peace and harmony.
But that shit could change at any moment.
It really could.
And we gotta use this time to be nicer to each other.
We gotta use this time to realize that we got a little confused.
We got crazy.
You know, everybody's just trying to acquire things and everybody's trying to, you know, move their way up the corporate ladder.
Like, hey...
There's a fucking end to this ride, okay?
This ride comes to a stop someday, and it doesn't matter how much shit you've acquired, it doesn't matter how far you got up this ladder, what position of prominence you have in the community, and how you're respected by the business world, nobody gives a fuck when you're dead.
You're gonna die.
We're together right now experiencing this thing in this really distracted way.
The thing comes into focus when you're forced into a situation like we are now, where you're literally nervous about your survival.
Then the thing comes into focus.
And to me, my gratitude has come into focus.
My gratitude towards my friends, my gratitude towards my family, my gratitude towards...
Look, we're very fortunate that we're not living check to check.
Many of us have been in the comedy community.
Many of us are now.
There's a lot of guys listening to this right now that we're hoping for these weekends coming up so they could pay their rent.
This is uncharted territory for those folks and all of us that are Experiencing this, but the people that are going check to check, they're the ones who are really getting hit.
joey diaz
I want them to also know that you cannot stress over this enough that your stress makes you get sick also.
joe rogan
Yeah, it weakens your immune system.
joey diaz
We are working, you know, and I know 50% of people are being honest.
You know, my friend said that they yanked them the other day for the cable bill in the middle of all this.
You know, cable doesn't give a fuck.
joe rogan
So they shut his cable off?
joey diaz
They called him and told him they were shutting his cable off.
He goes, I had the money.
I didn't have no problem with it.
My wife just forgot to pay her.
joe rogan
So they're just jumping on people right away.
joey diaz
Yeah, they're jumping on you right away.
joe rogan
Yeah, they don't want it to stack up.
joey diaz
I don't know how landlord's going to be.
I had another friend who said, this is really funny, who got divorced 10 years ago.
Close to 11 years ago, there was a dispute with one of the credit cards during the divorce.
They yanked it two weeks ago out of his account, out of his savings account.
They got a judgment.
$4,200 on an old credit card.
joe rogan
Wow.
joey diaz
Like, they're coming out of the fucking woodwork.
joe rogan
Yeah, chasing down cold cases.
joey diaz
Cold cases and shit like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, they realize a big...
joey diaz
So be careful, whatever money you have, if you didn't pay your student loan, they might yank it now.
Just yank it from you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
And say, we had to do this.
unidentified
Right.
joey diaz
So be very fucking careful.
joe rogan
You're right.
joey diaz
You know.
joe rogan
Right, and you think about it that way?
Like, who knows what the fuck they're going to do now.
joey diaz
You know, they're telling you on TV, yeah, that this landlord isn't going to care.
First off, listen, if you can't do business, I can't take your rent money, but who am I going to put in there anyway?
Who called you this morning and said that we're going to look for a location for a business?
If you have two brains in your head, you're not doing anything right now.
joe rogan
No.
joey diaz
You're not buying a house unless this is your business.
Like, unless you drop and buy houses for a living, you know what I'm saying?
You're not going house hunting right now.
joe rogan
Even if you do, you'd be like, let's hold on here.
joey diaz
Yeah, let's hold on.
Nobody knows nothing.
For the next six or seven weeks, you don't know dick.
I never even thought about the China thing.
I didn't read that article, but that was even enlightening.
But you don't know dick.
Mind your business.
I don't have to fly nowhere.
Do you understand me?
unidentified
Yeah.
joey diaz
I don't have to go anywhere.
I got Brea the first week of June.
I got Indianapolis and Cleveland somewhere in there in June.
That's it.
I got nothing in July.
July 31st, I got Las Vegas.
Who knows what's going to happen there.
And August 1st, I'm in San Diego.
unidentified
Who knows if any of those dates could come up.
joey diaz
And I'm being smart about this.
Listen, so what you mean to tell me is that Motley Crue, who was supposed to start a huge tour in August, Guns N' Roses, who was supposed to start a massive tour I mean, when Live Nation thinks about giving that Motley Crue money back, they have a heart attack.
They have a heart attack.
They're like, no, we're holding on to this, you know, because it's August.
I talked to Salami.
He talks to what's his name?
Ricky.
I think it's August that they go on tour.
So what are you telling me, that right after people are allowed to go out, people are going to start Going out and spending money right away?
I don't think so, guy.
I don't think so.
They're evaluating.
Every day we're not at work, every week that we lose the weakness, that $1 check is basically going to get people groceries.
joe rogan
I think that right now, like, we're real touch and go, but so is the rest of the world, right?
China's touch and go.
Everywhere's touch and go.
Italy's certainly touch and go.
They've still got their streets locked down.
joey diaz
They're out there singing at night.
They don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
Some of them, yeah.
joey diaz
Those Italians are singing like motherfuckers.
Then New York's gotta act like gay people.
They gotta fucking sing Yellow Submarine.
Sing War Pigs, bitch!
This is New York.
This is the boogie down Bronx.
What are you singing Yellow Submarine for and shit?
Fucking Yellow Submarine.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
You know what's killing me the most about this?
There's one thing about not wanting to go out and do comedy.
There's another thing that you can't go out and do comedy.
joe rogan
Right.
joey diaz
Okay?
I'm the Captain Kirk of the Enterprise.
You know what, man?
I gotta get out of the house every three nights.
If not, somebody's gonna get stabbed.
You know that.
Even a belly room show.
I don't give a fuck.
There's always something for us to do.
You know?
joe rogan
How long do you think it's going to be, if you had a guess?
joey diaz
Honest, honest, honest, honest by what I'm seeing today, by what I watched in the news last night, I think for me to go back on stage, it'll be May 1st.
And I don't know when I'll be on another plane again.
unidentified
Dum-dum-dum.
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's all guesswork right now.
We really have no idea.
joey diaz
We don't know nothing.
joe rogan
We don't know nothing.
joey diaz
How has your focus been on writing?
Have you been focused enough to really write the best stuff you've been writing?
joe rogan
Right now?
No.
joey diaz
Yeah, no.
Okay.
joe rogan
I haven't written it all.
joey diaz
Okay.
joe rogan
I haven't written it all while this is going on.
I'm waiting.
joey diaz
I've tried.
I've tried to write.
I've written jokes that, like, you know, the funny thing was, like, last week, they had that poor little white kid that had the rosy cheeks.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
joey diaz
And he's like, you could tell that dude never got a D in his life.
You see that video?
This is our turn in Florida.
I had to write about shit like that.
Everybody's mad at that kid.
Joe, that's me.
unidentified
That was me in 1981. That's every 18-year-old.
joey diaz
Yeah.
Can you imagine coming up to me in 81 and going, there's a coronavirus.
I would have snorted the coronavirus.
joe rogan
You'd be like, Joe, we're here to party.
joey diaz
Give me a line of that coronavirus.
Watch.
Nothing happens to you.
Give me two lines.
I guarantee you.
So it's all different.
That could have been us.
That kid was as dumb as a fucking stump.
Did you see that boy?
His parents must be like, Jesus, we fucked up with that dummy.
joe rogan
Well, him and the other kids they interviewed, too.
All the same thing.
This one girl was like, is it my birthday?
Turn up?
joey diaz
Oh, my God.
There was like 20 little chicks doing that fucking hanky breaky heart dance.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
joey diaz
Did you see them?
All 20 of those girls just spinning into each other one's breath?
Oh, I was fucking dying.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
The achy breaky heart dance.
joey diaz
Yeah, whatever.
I don't know what the answer is.
Don't quote me.
Fly dancing.
Something I haven't done since like the fifth grade type shit.
joe rogan
Goddamn.
joey diaz
So I don't know what the fuck's going on.
joe rogan
You're always going to have that with kids though.
Kids are going to fuck.
They're 18 years old.
They're going to fuck.
They're going out.
They have a couple drinks in them.
They got plastic cups.
They're gonna fuck.
joey diaz
What about the dude who took his mistress to Italy?
And he got the fucking herp when he was over there.
unidentified
They both came back, and so now they're both busted, disgrusted, and you'll never be trusted.
joey diaz
He took his mistress to fucking Italy to do something.
joe rogan
And they both got the corona?
joey diaz
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
And they got detained over there?
joey diaz
Somewhere.
Something happened.
So the cat's out of the bag.
Mama filed for fucking divorce.
She's got nowhere to spend the money, fucking Manhattan shut down.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's nowhere to go in the world.
Like, the UFC's talking about putting on a fight on April 18th.
You know, I don't know how they're gonna do that.
I don't know if they're gonna be able to do that in the United States.
They're talking about doing it in a place with less than 10 people, and then, you know, just an open arena.
I guess someone's gonna commentate it.
It's not gonna be me.
And they're gonna be duking it out like in an empty place.
And they're gonna try to do that on the 18th.
They did it for the last card in Brazil because it was ordered by the government.
The government ordered all large gatherings to break up when they started seeing the cases of corona rising in Brazil.
So they had to do the Brazil card Indoors, no people.
Weird.
But they're gonna plan Khabib and Tony this way.
They're gonna plan it.
So it doesn't even have to be a big place.
They could do it at like a film studio.
Legitimately, they could set this up in a film studio somewhere.
I mean, they could...
Tyler Perry's got a place in Florida.
They go down to Florida, rent one of Tyler Perry's gigantic film studios, set up a...
I mean, we did it in...
When we did Fight for the Troops, when they did...
joey diaz
Yeah, in San Diego.
joe rogan
Yeah, San Diego and several other places in Austin as well.
Whenever we did it, there was a few...
No, North Carolina.
There's a few different ones that we did.
They just would use an airplane hangar.
And the troops would be there.
The whole audience was the troops in their uniforms.
And they would set up this octagon in an airplane hangar.
And it was pretty powerful.
It's different.
Different.
Real different.
Different kind of show.
But they could do that.
They could do that in a studio or just a large warehouse.
UFC could do it.
Set up some lights.
Have some crazy high-speed hookup to the internet.
Let's party.
They see notes.
Getting uploaded and we're watching it from here.
I mean, they could definitely do that.
The UFC has the capability of doing that.
The thing is, how are they going to make sure that nobody has it?
You know, you're going to have to test everybody.
And if someone has it, do you let them fight?
Like, what if they have it in their, like, Idris Elba?
They have no symptoms, but they got the corona.
Like, what if Khabib has the corona?
Or what if Tony has the corona?
Does Khabib even fight him?
joey diaz
This fight is so fucking cursed.
joe rogan
This fight is so cursed?
joey diaz
And I gotta be honest with you.
I gotta be honest with you.
I already...
That's one of the first things I thought of.
When they started talking.
And then they started talking about the NBA getting cancelled.
Like, oh.
joe rogan
Oh, no, the fight.
joey diaz
That goes Khabib again.
joe rogan
Well, this is how Dana feels.
This is why Dana's trying so hard to make it happen, even if there's only 10 people in the room.
joey diaz
At first, for a couple days, I was mad at Dana.
I'm like, fucking Dana.
I go, you know what?
This fight has to happen.
I don't care if this happens by itself in a fucking airport in Havana, Cuba.
I don't give a fuck, but this fight has to get over with.
We've waited so long.
How many cancellations?
Three?
joe rogan
Quite a few.
Three.
unidentified
Four?
joe rogan
This is the fourth time to do it?
joey diaz
Three or four.
joe rogan
I think this is the fourth time to do it.
joey diaz
Hospital visits, broken knee...
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
Anxiety attacks.
joe rogan
This might be the fifth.
This might be the fifth.
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
I think so.
joey diaz
Yeah, this fight is fucking cursed.
joe rogan
Google it.
How many times has Tony versus Khabib been canceled?
I'm going to say, I think this is the fifth time.
It's many times, though.
And it's the best fight.
joey diaz
Maybe ever.
That's the first thing.
Then they kept giving you notes.
First the NBA, then the Nets tested positive.
Then the fucking city of New York went under.
And I'm like, oh no, everything's pointing in the wrong direction.
I go, but they'll have Vegas.
Then Vegas said, they're not fucking meeting until after March 25th.
joe rogan
Is this the fifth?
It's the fifth time.
joey diaz
Fifth fucking time.
Come on, guys.
This has to happen.
joe rogan
It is the fight.
joey diaz
I don't care about any other fight on the card.
Just pay them, Dana.
Just pay them.
joe rogan
Just one fight.
joey diaz
Just pay them.
joe rogan
One fight.
joey diaz
I'll pay the pay-per-view.
joe rogan
No warm-ups.
joey diaz
I'll pay the 69.50 pay-per-view just to see Khabib and get it over with.
joe rogan
Could you imagine?
unidentified
That's it.
joey diaz
Nobody else has to fight.
joe rogan
$69 pay-per-view for one fight.
joey diaz
One, two, three trainers in each corner.
Everybody's testing.
Yeah.
One guy and where are you going to put the fucking judges?
joe rogan
They watch from home.
joey diaz
Listen, they're terrible when they're there.
They're terrible when they're there.
So they can't watch from home.
joe rogan
It's not going to help them being there.
Oftentimes, honestly, you get a better view of what's going on when you're watching at home.
Especially if you have headphones on.
When I watch with headphones, because I'm watching...
When I look down at the screen, sometimes when I'm watching fights, I have to.
Sometimes I get a better view.
I can't see what the fuck is going on.
There's pillars in front of me, and guys are grappling, and I don't know if someone's trying to get a submission or what's happening.
Sometimes guys tap, and I didn't even see it.
I was like, what did he do?
I have to break it down.
Then I have to look at it on the screen.
When you watch it at home, oftentimes you really have a better view of it.
But it's not as crazy.
joey diaz
So we don't need them there within social distancing.
We could put them in a fucking booth.
joe rogan
The judges can all come right here.
I'm going to look over their shoulder.
joey diaz
Come right here.
And then, so all we need is the three guys in the corner, the two fighters, the ref.
joe rogan
Bruce Buffer.
Test Bruce Buffer.
joey diaz
Bruce Buffer, he could do a long distance, too.
unidentified
No, no, no, no.
joe rogan
He's going to do it with a gas mask on.
Bruce Buffer's going to be in there, red face with a fucking scuba helmet on.
It's time!
Big ol' fuckin' scuba helmet.
jamie vernon
Does it have to be pay-per-view, do you think?
Because there's no competition for it.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Of course it does.
jamie vernon
There's literally no competition.
joe rogan
What are you, a communist?
jamie vernon
No, I'm saying there's...
joe rogan
Who's a socialist trying to get fuckin' free shows?
jamie vernon
At the same time you're talking about passing out stimulus checks, how are you gonna ask...
joe rogan
No, the UFC wants money, sir.
jamie vernon
I know.
How are you gonna get people to pay for it?
joe rogan
You're gonna get plenty of people.
joey diaz
Like I said, you know what?
jamie vernon
Same.
joe rogan
Jamie wants everything to be for free now.
jamie vernon
You gotta be a douche.
joey diaz
Somebody fucking loses here.
So you gotta be a douchebag.
joe rogan
Somebody loses how?
joey diaz
Because how am I gonna put all...
There's three or four prelims.
Five prelims, and then four fights before that.
So I'm talking 10 fights, I'm talking 20 people, three per whatever, they're trainers.
That's a lot of people, Joe, in one fucking place of winner.
So it can't.
We gotta eliminate the early prelims and just do the main card.
joe rogan
They could do that, but they also would have to test everybody.
joey diaz
Everybody cannot share a space either.
I cannot be in this room with your Romero over there throwing sidekicks because he's about to fight.
joe rogan
But if everybody's tested and everyone's negative, then who gives a shit?
That should be the only thing.
If you're tested and you're negative, you should be able to wander around.
joey diaz
I think this motherfucker's a creepy motherfucker.
joe rogan
The virus?
Yeah.
joey diaz
I think you're right.
I think that we're going to find out more.
I think there could be a 21-day something.
I'm waiting to hear about it.
What about the people who got stuck at Texas Airport last week?
Four hours for luggage when they came back internationally.
joe rogan
Yes.
joey diaz
Not one of them has tested positive.
How come they're not suing Dulles Airport?
joe rogan
That's not just Texas.
That was O'Hara, too.
joey diaz
O'Hara last week.
Nobody's testing positive and waiting on a line for eight hours.
But if you go on Twitter, everybody who's dying is from functions of the coronavirus.
joe rogan
Right, and you had to go on that line.
joey diaz
Results of the coronavirus.
You had to go on that line.
So I gotta see how long this could really stay.
Two weeks ago they were saying the air droplets stay in the air for fucking three hours.
Now they're saying something fucking different.
joe rogan
I don't think they have a lot of reliable information yet.
They have some, they know what it is.
joey diaz
Fuck it.
You gotta be ready.
joe rogan
Have you seen the coronavirus song?
The rap song?
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
I got it on my Instagram page.
You haven't seen it?
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
It's fucking great.
These guys, it's really catchy.
I start singing it throughout the day sometimes.
I'm driving around.
joey diaz
Why don't you sing it for me a couple of times?
joe rogan
No, I'll play it for you.
I have to play it.
Can't even play it now.
I don't want to get a copyright strike.
We'll play it afterwards.
This is the world we're living in.
I think people are less worried about bullshit right now.
More worried about real things.
I think in that sense.
Some of my favorite people that I've ever met are people from Israel.
Something about them.
They're like carefree.
My friend Shuki, he was a kickboxing trainer in Tarzana at a Majiro gym in Tarzana.
I used to go down and train with him there.
And he was from Israel.
And I went to eat dinner at his house once.
He invited me over to his house with his family.
And they're playing bongo drums and dancing and shit.
They were having so much fun.
They were so happy.
And I said, tell me this.
I go, why are Israelis so, like, carefree?
He goes, because every day over there you can die.
Every day over there you can die.
He goes, any day something can happen.
And he goes, everybody just, while you're alive, you want to party.
Party, party, have fun, have fun.
Have a good time.
And I was like, wow.
That's it.
They have a heightened sense of appreciation of life.
Like my friends, all my Jewish friends that would go over there for whatever religious thing, they would talk about how hot the Israeli chicks were.
Like the chicks in Israel.
They're wild.
Wild.
And they all have to go to the army.
joey diaz
It's a party over there.
You know that, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
It's a party.
You ever see the episode when Bourdain was there?
unidentified
They were launching missiles and shit in Tel Aviv or somewhere?
joe rogan
Oh, yes.
He was stuck.
That was the old show.
They got stuck there while fucking missiles were flying through the air.
joey diaz
They were like, what the fuck is that?
joe rogan
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We were looking for trouble.
Instead of trouble being here, our life was so soft, we were looking for trouble where it didn't exist.
We were trying to create problems where they weren't real.
We were getting outraged about things that really didn't matter.
And now we see what matters.
So now that focus has to be on real survival things and health and community and taking care of each other and looking out for the people that don't have any money right now.
Because they're not lazy, they just got fucked.
You know, we've got to look out for each other, right?
All those things are coming into focus now instead of the nonsense that people have been focused.
What are you eating there?
What is that?
joey diaz
Unedible.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
I thought it was aspirin.
Or ibuprofen.
I was going to say, don't take that shit.
joey diaz
Why not?
joe rogan
Shouldn't take that shit right now.
Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and it can do damage to your gut bacteria.
Apparently it can fuck with your immune system a little bit.
What's ibuprofen?
Advil, stuff like that.
It's good if you're, you know, you need it if you're injured, right?
But it has an effect on your gut biome and it causes inflammation on some people.
Cam Haynes was on that shit every day.
He was taking 800 milligrams every day and he was in all this pain.
And I sent him this Rhonda Patrick thing where she was talking about the dangers of ibuprofen and taking large doses of it, particularly all the time.
And so he gets off of it.
He's like, fuck.
There's a danger of stroke.
See if you can find the dangers of taking too much ibuprofen.
Because there's a lot of people that really get into that ibuprofen shit.
joey diaz
I take a baby aspirin at night.
joe rogan
That's fine.
joey diaz
That's it.
At night, I take it.
Before I go to bed.
So I'll be protected between 5.30 and 12, which is the highest rate of having heart issues.
joe rogan
Ibuprofen is very different than aspirin.
joey diaz
But leave and all that stuff, I'm not big on that.
Unless I absolutely, positively have to take something.
I don't get that many headaches like that.
joe rogan
So you know Cam runs like fucking 20 miles a day.
FDA strengthens warnings that non-steroidal anti-inflammatories increase heart attack and stroke risk.
Yeah.
joey diaz
So which one are they?
joe rogan
That's like Advil.
It's non-steroidal anti-inflammatories.
There's a bunch of different ones.
Motrin, Advil, Naproxen, Aleve, Ibuprofen.
Yeah, that's Ibuprofen and Naproxen.
So two different types of non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, Ibuprofen and Naproxen.
They're both available over the counter.
And he said it's important to be aware of the ibuprofen warnings and naproxen warnings and take steps to limit the risk.
So Cam was on 800 milligrams of this shit a day.
He's in pain all the time because he runs so much.
Gets off of it and the pain goes away.
So he's taking something for pain and it's causing him to be in pain all the time.
Because it's causing all this inflammation, because his gut is reacting to this fucking chemical he keeps dumping in there, and it's a vicious cycle.
Because you've got all this inflammation, and that's what's causing you to take the shit, and the shit is giving you the inflammation.
And he's thinking the inflammation is coming from his running.
So he gets off of it.
No more pain.
Like, what?
God damn.
We're so ignorant.
I mean, this is a guy who's an elite athlete.
I mean, he's a guy who runs ultra marathons.
He's run as much as 240 miles in one race, right?
And he didn't know.
Like, how many regular folks know that this stuff is bad for you?
How many regular folks take unnecessary medication that could be beneficial to you if you have a real issue, but you take it all the time, you take it too much, and actually causes problems?
This is a wake-up call for people when it comes to your health.
A wake-up call for taking care of your meat vehicle.
Take care of your body.
You gotta take care of your body.
This is one that if you're fortunate and you have a strong immune system, you can mitigate some of the effects of it.
And that's the case with the common cold, it's the case with the flu, it's the case with a lot of different things.
If you're healthier, you have a better chance of coming out of it on the other end.
joey diaz
You know, I've never gotten a flu shot.
joe rogan
Never?
joey diaz
Never.
unidentified
Really?
joey diaz
Because I don't like needles.
So I just found out recently that I could take it through my nose.
You could spray it.
joe rogan
It doesn't work as good on older people, though.
joey diaz
It doesn't?
joe rogan
No, we asked Dr. Osterholm about that.
joey diaz
I'm going to be as honest as I can with you.
I've never taken a flu.
Anything that has needles involved, you could tell.
I would love to do heroin once in a while.
But to get really high, it involves a needle.
And that's where you throw me the fuck out.
That's where the party ends for me.
Once you say needle, that's where it ends for me.
So, done.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You got a great joke about that.
I don't want to say it right now.
joey diaz
What's that?
joe rogan
About not needing a flu shot.
joey diaz
Oh, no, no, no.
But it really is the truth that I've just, I think the immune system, we've flown so much.
We have flown so much that that builds a different type of immune system.
joe rogan
Well, how about all those shows we did like at the Chicago Theater and giant places where we took pictures with people after the show, hundreds of people?
joey diaz
You know, I just did the Treasure Island, sold it out and took pictures with everybody after the show.
joe rogan
That's a lot of people.
joey diaz
And I went back up to my room and took a tremendous hot, hot, boiling shower.
You know, the last time I was at the store, I always take a shower before I go to the store.
The last time on April 2nd was probably the first time in years I took a shower that night.
That's how disturbed I was.
Like, I was fucking really disturbed from that last time I was at the store.
Because I thought everybody else was going to be social distancing.
More people grabbed me that night than ever before.
And every time they grabbed me or somebody came up to me and talked to me, my skin would crawl.
And I'm like, I'm not coming down here for a while.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's no social distancing at the store.
joey diaz
No.
joe rogan
So that's why I was...
joey diaz
I was like, man, this is my fucking spot.
But now we're learning how to live without, which is crazy.
You learn how to live without.
And that helps sometimes.
Like I said, not doing comedy, like giving it a breather, or not being able to do comedy are two different fucking things.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
I can't wait to get on stage.
I have a ton to say.
You know, we all do.
The last fucking four weeks we've made ourselves laugh and now we lose our fucking minds.
joe rogan
Yeah, one of the reasons why I haven't written anything is because I'm just enjoying the relaxing.
joey diaz
Me too.
It's been too long.
We've been doing this too long.
And the last run, this last nine years has been a run.
It's a podcast.
joe rogan
Well, once you started really kicking ass on the road, too.
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
You really picked up your pace.
joey diaz
You gotta.
You gotta.
joe rogan
Gotta make hay while the sun's shining, as they say.
joey diaz
No, but you gotta write.
As a comic, you gotta write.
joe rogan
Well, I felt like with this, I wanted to think about it.
I love one thing that Max Holloway always says.
He says, it is what it is.
And it's a simple philosophy.
It is what it is.
But it's also a good way of looking at things.
It's like, what are you going to do?
Are you going to freak out?
It's not going to change it.
It is what it is.
And this is what it is right now.
It is what it is.
We're inside all day.
You know, if we go outside, we go outside for a hike.
There's no people there.
You know, come here, stay away from everybody.
No hugging, no kissing.
Everybody just distance.
And we do our social distancing.
And we wait it out.
And this is life right now.
We're still lucky.
We're still not...
Look, Justin Wren comes here a couple times a year after he gets back from the Congo.
Okay?
And Justin goes over to the Congo.
He sleeps in a grass hut.
And he's come back with so many different fucking diseases.
He's got malaria three times.
Now he has some new parasite that they haven't identified.
They don't know what it is.
He's worried it's in his brain because he's having some shakes and some chills and some issues that lead him to think that it's connected to whatever the fuck this parasite is.
So they keep running tests on him.
They have these top virologists that are examining him.
But he's deep, deep, deep, deep, deep in the Congo.
So who knows what the fuck's in there?
There might be some new shit in there.
He might literally have some new shit in his body right now.
And, you know, this guy keeps going back.
He goes back because he's compelled.
He's...
His mission in life is to improve the lives of all these people that he met there.
It's changed his perspective, you know?
He's an amazing, amazing person.
And he's constantly doing that.
Like, that guy is so happy and so friendly, and I think one of the reasons why is because of his perspective.
Like, he knows what it's like.
Where these people live.
He visits them.
He stays with them for months at a time.
He knows what it's like.
And he knows how lucky we are over here.
We're lucky as fuck.
So if right now we can't do stand-up, you and I are extremely fortunate we have podcasts.
So you could just do your podcast instead of, what do you do, two days a week?
Do it three.
Do it three.
You'll be fine.
You'll give plenty of chances to rant and rave.
Only have people over that you trust.
You know, no one's sick.
Don't touch anybody.
Wipe everything down.
Wash your hands.
Take a lot of vitamin C. Eat healthy.
Take all your vitamins.
Make sure you get good rest.
Get in a sauna if you can.
Please get in a sauna.
They have them.
I mean, I don't know if they have them at gyms.
Fuck, you can't go to gym right now.
joey diaz
You can't do dick.
Nobody's got a fucking sauna.
joe rogan
Well, get in the hot tub then.
joey diaz
Nobody knows where to fucking go to a sauna.
Everybody has a sauna.
joe rogan
If you have one, you're lucky as fuck.
joey diaz
I wish I could do a thousand things.
But you can't.
joe rogan
They were also saying one good thing, just elevate your body temperature.
Just elevate your body temperature by working out and breaking a really good sweat.
That actually has a good effect on your immune system as well.
Even if you exercise in a hot room, you kick up your immune system.
You don't have to do anything crazy.
But what you're doing is you're introducing those cytokines, those heat shock proteins.
Just wear a bunch of layers and get a decent workout in.
Really get hot and sweaty.
It's good for you.
All that stuff's good for you.
joey diaz
If you look at the first thing after benefits of working out, it's always lowering your stress.
Working on your blood pressure.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
This is the opposite.
The times right now are debilitating.
If I had the ability to go to acupuncture right now, I know he'd tell me, like, all this shit is low.
They make you grab the thing.
joe rogan
All this shit is low?
joey diaz
Like, all your chakras are blocked, like shit like that.
All that shit is probably running low.
Like, you need help with your immune system.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
Even though you haven't been doing much.
Because just the subconscious thoughts that we have now.
You know, we start to sit, this shit goes deep into your subconscious.
That's what happened to me.
That's why I had my little nervous breakdown on the night that Romero fought.
joe rogan
So tell me, you were kind of getting into it.
Your friend invites you over to his house to watch the fights, and you're like, I can't.
And you had a breakdown?
joey diaz
He invited me over, like, Wednesday.
And I'm like, absolutely.
If not, I'm just gonna sit here at home and watch him by myself.
Like I always do.
Or, I'll go to Brent's house.
All right, you know, Brett.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
John Jock.
unidentified
Right.
joey diaz
Go to Brett's.
That night, he called me like on Wednesday.
He goes, what are you doing Saturday?
I'm getting a catered.
A couple people coming over.
I'd love for you to come over.
He broke his leg skin.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
joey diaz
So I haven't seen him.
joe rogan
When did he break his leg skin?
joey diaz
Three months ago.
Surgery, the whole fucking thing.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
joey diaz
Fucking metal in his leg.
Oh, no.
My main dog, so before I went to his house.
joe rogan
Is he on crutches still?
joey diaz
Yeah, he just got off maybe a week ago.
joe rogan
Oh, what a time to have just got off of a fucking surgery.
When this shit is going down?
joey diaz
Yeah, he beat the surgery curve like by three weeks, four weeks.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
Imagine.
joey diaz
I'm okay all day.
I'm with the family.
Fucking six o'clock comes.
I gotta jump in the shower.
It's basically where he lives.
Jump over Laurel Canyon, make a right.
Go a mile past the comedy store.
That's it.
For some reason, man, I went in the shower and in the shower.
I just started getting on a regular heartbeat.
I came out.
I took a little anxiety medication, got dressed.
joe rogan
What are you taking?
joey diaz
They give me a.25, whatever.
I don't take them.
joe rogan
What is it?
joey diaz
Like Stenazole, whatever the fuck they call it.
Xanax, whatever.
joe rogan
Take Xanax?
joey diaz
It's a football.
It's the baby one.
It's not the sticks the junkies take.
It's the little fucking footballs, you know?
joe rogan
So you got a little anxiety, so you took a Xanax.
How often do you take those things?
joey diaz
I take them.
Most of the time, between you and me, I wash them.
My wife washes them because I put them in my drug pocket.
I take them down to the store.
joe rogan
And you forget they're in there?
joey diaz
And I forget they're in there and I throw them in the hamper.
So between you and me, I wash more of them than I eat.
And I only get like, he gives me, if I ask him, he'll give them to me.
I ask him for like maybe two prescriptions a year.
joe rogan
So you just keep them around, just in case?
joey diaz
I just keep them around.
joe rogan
What does it do?
I've never done it.
joey diaz
Just in case I get that Morgan Murphy freak out.
joe rogan
Morgan Murphy freak out?
joey diaz
What's her name?
joe rogan
Morgan Murphy, yeah.
joey diaz
Yeah, one night I had a follower at the store.
I don't know what it was.
I fucking walked up the stairs and my anxiety lit up.
joe rogan
Really?
joey diaz
I almost passed out, but I went up there and destroyed the room.
I came out of a fog at the 13-minute mark.
I didn't know what had come out of my mouth.
I didn't know what I had said.
Anxiety had just took over.
joe rogan
And you were on the Xanax or the anxiety?
joey diaz
No, no, no.
joe rogan
Just anxiety itself.
joey diaz
I went up there and I just got this weird anxiety.
And I remember reaching over to Paulie Shorten going, Go up there for me.
I can't do it right now.
He goes, what are you talking about, buddy?
You have to go up next.
And I'm like, fuck you.
And I got so fucking mad, I went up there and leveled it.
But I was in a coma.
I was in a coma.
joe rogan
Were you high?
joey diaz
No.
unidentified
No.
joey diaz
My body was so...
I had so much anxiety.
It was just...
I was just spewing.
I was like Roseanne Barr at night.
I was just saying shit, Doug.
unidentified
I was just talking.
joey diaz
I remember when I got off the stage, Paulie Short told me, you should get anxiety a lot more often.
Because that was fucking phenomenal.
I just worked myself up.
And I worked myself up that much that night.
I wanted to see Yo Romero.
I definitely wanted to see Joanna against Ching, whatever.
joe rogan
Wiley Zhang.
joey diaz
Wiley Zhang.
I wanted to see her.
And all of a sudden, Joe Rogan, I was getting a stroke.
I was going to take mushrooms and not eat them, but I was going to take mushrooms with me and my jacket.
How long you know me?
20 years.
I'm not scared of nothing.
I went in the car, pulled the car out of the driveway, went like six steps, stopped the car, and then sat there for 10 minutes deciding whether I should take the mushrooms.
I'm gonna get stopped by the cops.
I had no edibles in me, no nothing.
There was no reason for this paranoia.
It was just my mind playing tricks on me.
I started walking in and out of the house.
In and out of the house like I was about to have a stroke.
I couldn't control myself.
Should I take the keys?
I know I forgot something.
joe rogan
You weren't I? No.
joey diaz
Let me go get the fucking Xanax just in case I get a fucking...
Should I bring an edible?
No, I won't bring an edible.
Yeah, yeah.
Let me go back inside and get an edible.
That was my acting.
I'm not going to wear this shirt.
I should wear a different shirt.
Let me wear this shirt.
I just went through this whole fucking...
And I finally said, stop.
Joe Dears, get your shit together, cocksucker.
This is when I turned Joe Dears.
joe rogan
Let's go.
joey diaz
Let's go, motherfucker.
We're going to go.
Let's go.
Come on.
What are you, a fucking pussy?
What are you, a fucking pussy?
I got in that car and I did like 90 down Laurel Canyon.
I went over there.
He had some YU beef for me with some lobster mashed potatoes and shit.
And we just watched the fight.
We had a great time.
There was a dude there who was turning me on to medical shit, telling me to fucking inhale silver.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
joey diaz
And it'll block the fucking...
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't think that's...
joey diaz
It'll block the fucking thing in your lungs.
unidentified
Coronavirus.
joey diaz
The coronavirus.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
It was great.
But you know what?
That night I realized I was just having a fucking...
This can't happen no more.
That's the type of shit I like to avoid.
I don't like that.
It's like the first time I got high, I took an edible and went to jiu-jitsu, and somebody mounted me.
Time out.
Get off.
Get off.
Please, get off.
Please, you gotta get off me.
I know.
joe rogan
I can't.
joey diaz
Please, please, get off me.
Please.
I had to go outside, take my gi off, and take my dick out, and pee in the street as cars went by.
That's how bad...
When I got anxiety, I had to pee.
unidentified
Really?
joey diaz
When I get anxiety, yeah, I gotta pee right away.
So like when I go lift on Mondays and Thursdays, I go lift with a trainer.
When she puts 400 on the squat machine and I gotta fucking squat, as soon as I put the back, I gotta go pee.
She's like, where you going?
I go, bro, my body just went into shock.
My body just went into shock.
That's how you can tell.
And when I gotta go, I gotta go.
My first three months of jiu-jitsu, I learned the hard way.
Never take an edible.
No bueno.
Don't be taking an edible at 10 in the morning and going to jiu-jitsu at 6. It comes back.
Even if it's gone, it revisits you.
The first time somebody threw a mount on me, dog...
I had one of those heavy judo gis on.
I didn't even know of a lightweight gis yet.
Oh my god, Joe Rogan.
I had to call a timeout.
Like it was over.
I had to run outside, take my G off, my gi top off, and just take my dick out and piss.
Cars are going by Burbank Boulevard.
I'm just peeing.
I don't give a fuck about the cops.
I tell them the truth.
I get these huge anxiety surges.
Yeah.
When I work out heavy, like heavy weights, I gotta go to the bathroom before, and before I get in my car, I gotta take a long piss.
joe rogan
Does the medication help you?
When you take a Xanax?
joey diaz
Not if you don't take it.
I got shit to do in the daytime, dog.
I got no time for a fucking Xanax.
I don't know what kind of...
joe rogan
Well, what does it do?
That's what I'm asking.
joey diaz
Well, I'll tell you what happens with Xanax.
I know for a fucking fact that nobody can tell me.
When I first got into comedy, how I... Joey D is the secrets of comedy.
You ready?
joe rogan
Okay.
joey diaz
When I got into comedy, all these jerk-offs, you gotta bring five people to a fucking show.
I'm not asking nobody to come to a show.
I just wait for Joe Rogan to call me and ask me who wants weed.
You want weed?
Meet me at the comedy club.
I gotta meet you at the comedy club.
Don't worry about it.
Just meet me there.
Next thing you know, I got you paying, Ted, at the door.
So I got into selling Xanax.
There was a crazy guy in Boulder who had just gotten out of prison for murder and his wife, I don't know, they were getting Xanaxes from a pharmacy.
So I was getting Valiums, the Vs.
unidentified
The one with the Vs, you don't know anything about that world.
joey diaz
Ten milligrams.
You could sell those for two bucks a piece.
He was giving them to me for like a quarter.
So when I first was an open miker, I was a Zadix salesman.
But it always, because I got into a contest.
So for me to win the contest, I had to have people there.
So they would say, hey, when can we buy some Xanax?
You got to meet me at the broker.
So all of them would come up to me and go, what the fuck's wrong with you?
I just paid $10 to get in there.
You got to take that off the price of the pills.
Don't worry about it.
I got you covered.
I had such a high profit margin.
It didn't really matter.
So I would sell Xanax to people in the hundreds, twenties, tens.
Cokeheads loved those things.
So what was that?
I was a coke head.
I could eat ten of those.
joe rogan
What does it do?
joey diaz
Knocks you the fuck out.
joe rogan
Like how?
joey diaz
Like you're gonna pass out.
You could die like that.
When people OD, that's what they eat.
Fucking Xanax.
joe rogan
I thought it just relaxes you.
joey diaz
It relaxes you, but if you eat 50 of them, you're gonna die.
And I was eating 50 of them.
joe rogan
You were eating 50 in a day?
joey diaz
Dog, I ate 30 of them in three days in Beaumont.
It took me five days to recover.
I told you, I OD'd in Beaumont, Texas in 2005. Wow.
From eating 30 10-milligram Valium.
joe rogan
Jesus, that's a lot.
joey diaz
The problem with that shit in me is, you ready?
This is what I realized 20, 30 years.
When I was in Open Micah, I was selling them.
I was dating a chick that didn't get high.
So for me to be around, I would pop those anti-bars and I would be high.
That would be good enough for me.
So I was used to popping like six of them.
I had my tolerance up there fucking high.
joe rogan
And why did you like it?
joey diaz
Because I would drink with them.
I would drink like one or two drinks.
You feel tremendous.
That's it.
Just one or two.
joe rogan
Like how do you feel?
joey diaz
Like fucked up.
Fucked up.
Two drinks and a couple Xanny bars, you get fucked up.
This is before the Xanny bars.
joe rogan
You're not supposed to drink on them, right?
joey diaz
No!
No!
But I would get fucked up and then I'd do comedy and eat two Valiums and drink with the waitresses.
I was an open mic, a guy.
joe rogan
Right.
joey diaz
But the point to my story is that if you eat 10 milligrams of a Valium, Five of it.
Your body utilizes five of it.
The other five go into your fat and your body holds on to it until it uses it again.
joe rogan
Is this science?
joey diaz
Yeah.
What am I talking about here?
You forget who you're dealing with here.
So what happens is when you eat that shit, So every time I would get high, I'd fucking nod.
joe rogan
The Xanax would come out of your fat.
joey diaz
It would agitate the fat and fucking...
It would agitate the Xanax out of my fat.
joe rogan
If you jogged, would you get high?
joey diaz
Oh, fuck yeah!
joe rogan
As your body starts eating up and sweating?
joey diaz
Dog, I've been off of coke for 12 years.
At the seven year mark, I'd be working out from time to time and I'd bump into a coke rock that just went through my system and I'd get all paranoid and creepy for a minute.
Like, I was still digesting shit throughout the years, but I believe that those bars and all those little zanny things stick into your fat, and then they get me tired the next day.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
They'll get me tired now.
Like, if I eat six of them, I'll get tired.
I only eat one of them.
I eat one of them.
Sometimes I get really high anxiety before I'm about to go up, and I'll eat another one once I get down there.
But then I won't eat them for four days.
I don't need them until...
And then sometimes I remember to take it out and put them back in the thing.
Sometimes I just throw them in the hamper and my wife washes them.
joe rogan
One of my friends who takes them says that when you get off of them...
joey diaz
Very highly addictive.
joe rogan
Well, he also said that when you get off of them, it heightens your anxiety.
It's like a rubber band effect.
That's what he was saying for him personally.
joey diaz
I'm going to tell you what I just realized.
joe rogan
What?
joey diaz
These fucking things.
These things are the worst things I ever did.
joe rogan
The ear things?
joey diaz
This is the worst thing I ever did.
joe rogan
Why?
joey diaz
Because my hearing was better before I got these.
joe rogan
Really?
joey diaz
You told me something once, that when you're doing the jack...
When you're doing the babanya to get you stronger, that your nutsack disappears.
So when you go off the babanya, now you're fucking...
joe rogan
If you're doing steroids, your body's endocrine system shuts down so it no longer produces testosterone.
joey diaz
Is that true?
joe rogan
Yes.
joey diaz
So your balls shrink?
Is that true?
joe rogan
No.
The balls don't really shrink.
joey diaz
Okay, so...
joe rogan
But they don't work anymore.
They're not putting in any work.
joey diaz
I feel with this.
Ever since I got these hearing aids to clarify my hearing, it's made my hearing weaker.
It doesn't make my hearing work anymore.
joe rogan
Is it true or is it making you aware of the fact that your hearing was going bad?
joey diaz
No, my hearing was not going bad, Joe Rogan.
I was hearing things out of place.
I was hearing the wrong things.
If I went to dinner with Joe Rogan, it was fine.
If you and I had a conversation, if you brought your wife, I'm gonna have a hard time in the restaurant.
joe rogan
You wouldn't hear?
joey diaz
I wouldn't hear none of you's.
I would just hear Jamie's table on the other side of the room.
I could hear his conversation more than yours.
joe rogan
Really?
joey diaz
And I could hear the silverware hit the table, and I could hear the dishwasher washing dishes, and every time his fork would hit, The fucking thing.
I hear that shit.
Every time I have four kids at a restaurant, I would be...
Every time I was at a restaurant, if it was me and you, we're having a good time.
But once you throw Ari and Duncan in the mix, I'm just basically yesing you to death.
joe rogan
Really?
joey diaz
Yes.
That's how bad it was.
joe rogan
Well, what is that called?
Is there a name for it?
joey diaz
There's a couple different names for it.
And then somebody told me they kind of had it.
I go, why do you wear those?
And they're like, I don't know, for years.
I went to concerts and then it got to the point where I heard too many things.
I just needed to narrow it down.
So I finally figured out with these, I don't have them on loud.
I have them on low.
Because if not, you hear fucking everything.
Like I was getting high and fucking hearing everything.
You get high, you fucking hear everything.
joe rogan
They have these new AirPods now.
They have sound deadening.
So they sit in your...
Noise cancelling.
So you put them in and you can either turn noise cancelling on or you can turn them into transparency mode.
In transparency mode, the microphone actually picks up the stuff that's outside.
Have you tried that yet, Jamie?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
So it makes things sound louder than they are.
Like you can hear things better.
In a way.
It seems to me.
I mean, I don't have any hearing issues.
jamie vernon
To people that maybe don't have hearing issues or whatever, it might make it sound better, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't have any hearing issues.
But when I put those things on, I can hear things louder.
I can hear stuff further away.
It's like, ooh.
I don't think I can hear them talking if it wasn't for me wearing those things.
jamie vernon
Noise cancellation works.
There's microphones on the outside that flip the frequency, and it cancels it out.
joe rogan
Oh, that's how it works.
jamie vernon
And so by not flipping it over, it's just adding to it.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
What is the number?
Is it like one and a half times louder than it normally would be?
Is there a number?
jamie vernon
Well, when you add three dB, which is not a lot, that doubles sound.
That's like, the intensity of the sound is more, it's double the, it's really hard, it's like a math equation with sound.
joe rogan
It's interesting because that's one area where Apple has just stolen the show when it comes to Apple versus Android.
Like, phones are pretty comparable.
jamie vernon
I haven't tried them, but I've heard that Samsung maybe has a pair that are close to it.
Or people like them also.
joe rogan
They're very good, but they don't have the sound cancelling.
They don't have noise cancelling.
And the Apple ones, I think the sound quality has been reviewed as being better too.
They just, they have, they figured out how to make it, like you just open it up, right?
You pull it out of your pocket, you open it up, it asks you if you want to connect, you press a button, boom, it connects, stick it in your ear, and you hear perfect.
And for me, it's so much better than a hands-free system when you're driving in the car.
I just have it in my ear, and I double tap on that.
Instead of it going through the whole car and hearing it in the speakers and everything, I just hear it in my ear like I would a normal, normal conversation I would have with AirPods on.
jamie vernon
There's another level you could probably get into that I don't think you have in-ear monitors, which I know Burt has.
I think Tom and Christina use.
joe rogan
I have those at the UFC. When I go into the Octagon and I'm doing an interview, I have an in-ear monitor in.
jamie vernon
You can get really good ones for music.
They have like eight different speakers in that little tiny thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, I have a pair of Shure headphones.
They work on my laptop.
They don't work on iPhones anymore, obviously, but they have drivers in them.
And they're like this clear coating over silver cord.
They're like pretty high-end.
Fuck, they sound good.
But, you know, for the little ones you carry in your pocket, like AirPods, that's a goddamn genius invention.
jamie vernon
Those are way more easily replaceable for $250 than the $3,000 or whatever.
joe rogan
Yeah, easily replaceable and they just work so well.
They work great.
joey diaz
Which of these?
joe rogan
AirPods.
joey diaz
AirPods.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's little things.
There's two kinds.
There's the kind that are noise-canceling and then the other kind.
Most of the time, I actually have both, but most of the time I use the regular one because it sits in my ear better.
The noise canceling, I feel like I've got to jam it in there a little bit.
But it's great.
You can talk to people while you're driving.
It doesn't have to go through the system in your car.
You know, if you have a Bluetooth setup.
joey diaz
You don't have to hear it in the speakers.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't hear it in the speakers.
joey diaz
It'll hear your music.
unidentified
Exactly.
joey diaz
Or it doesn't block your music.
You can still hear the music on the radio.
joe rogan
You know, you said something to me, and I realized, like, that's something that I do, and when I do it, I probably have some of my best results, is you were saying a couple years ago you stopped listening to music driving to the store.
joey diaz
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
Absolutely.
joe rogan
My car that I have, some of my favorite sets, after I drive there, is a car that doesn't even have a radio.
That little Porsche that I have, the red one, because it's so, it's old, and it's like real loud, and it's fucking...
It's real mechanical, and I'm just, I'm so engaged with it, but that I went, by the time I get to the comedy store, my brain is firing, right?
I've been doing something with it.
I'm not just pressing autopilot and just sitting back and relaxing on my way to the store and riding on this fucking cloud like the Tesla.
With that little Porsche, it's like you're...
You hear all the gears.
You feel it when you're shifting gears.
It's like you're engaged.
No music.
When you get there, your brain is fired.
And you can think about stuff while you're driving there.
I like listening to sets.
I listen to a lot of my sets.
But I also like...
I like doing that before shows.
I like driving to a show and listening to a set.
But I also like sometimes not listening to shit.
Just letting my brain get into a good, creative place.
Just go over the bits.
Go over what I like about them, what I don't like about them.
Just make myself concentrate on them with no paper, no nothing.
Just driving and concentrating on the bit.
joey diaz
I wanted...
I heard years ago that...
I don't know how true it is.
You know, in fucking actors, you hear all this fucking malachy.
But I heard that Denzel would sit in a room once a day and go through all his emotions until he drove himself to tears just to check himself for the day.
joe rogan
Wow.
joey diaz
And I said, how can I do that as a stand-up?
I don't need to fucking cry.
I'm not in the business to make people cry, so I don't need to cry.
I just need to be the best me.
Do you know that I went to Anthony Robbins, right?
You know I'm a big Anthony Robbins fan.
You know that, right?
You do know that.
joe rogan
You have talked about Anthony Robbins before.
joey diaz
I do believe in a lot of what he's saying.
joe rogan
Yes.
joey diaz
I think that a little bit, you know, I mean, dog, when I went to see him, I was a burglar.
I ended up a kidnapper.
Something happened, he got through to me.
You know what I'm saying?
He made me fucking, he works.
This shit works.
unidentified
He took it to another level.
joey diaz
I took it to another level.
So I ain't mad at Anthony Robbins.
You know what I'm saying?
I got caught.
I fucked up.
Anthony was on the right pace.
joe rogan
I used to listen to his cassette tapes.
joey diaz
I really do believe stimulus take you there, something that you do to take you to that mind.
Okay?
He believes that there's something that we do.
joe rogan
You can put yourself in the state.
joey diaz
You can put yourself in that state.
I really believe there's something to that.
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
joey diaz
The reason why sometimes you're calling me and you're like, Joey, what are you doing?
I'm not being honest with you.
I'm telling you I'm writing or whatever.
I'm watching Paparazzi.
I'm watching the most obscure people who are performers.
joe rogan
Why wouldn't you tell me that?
Why are you lying to me?
joey diaz
Because, not you, but a lot of times my wife would go, you know, what are you doing in there?
I'm writing.
I'm not writing.
I'm watching B.B. King live from Africa.
joe rogan
But you are writing, in a way.
joey diaz
I'm watching B.B. King live from Africa.
And I'm watching B.B. go into a place that I could only dream into going.
But I've probably been in my 28 years of doing comedy, I've been in there 200 times.
I want to learn how to get there more.
So I believe that on the way down to the store, Some mornings I do it.
Just drive without the car on and think of a specific time in my life.
Bad or good, break down the situation and see what happens.
I'm not breaking open a scab and I'm not going to see a psychotherapist.
I just want to see how I feel about that situation today.
You know, I always do that.
joe rogan
Reflecting.
It's time alone, right?
joey diaz
Right now I'm thinking a lot about falling in love with comedy.
The shit I did, Stan Hope, coming over to my house as a feature act first.
And I was an MC at The Broker on Tuesday nights, 1991. Stan Hope comes as a feature.
If anybody ever did that run, you knew that the Tribble Run started Tuesday in Boulder, and Wednesday you had Off, and then Thursday you had Craig, Colorado.
I was divorced, but I had a condo.
I had a two-and-a-half-bedroom condo.
If the comic was cool on Tuesday night, I'd invite him to sleep over so he wouldn't have to pay for a hotel.
You know what I'm saying?
If not, he would have had to pay.
He only made $75.
Now you've got to pay $48 for a hotel.
joe rogan
Crazy.
joey diaz
So if the comic was cool on Tuesday night, I'd say, hey, man.
If you want to spend the night tomorrow, give me a call.
Tonight you got the hotel here.
But if you don't want to drive to Craig, spend the night.
First time Stanhope came, he was a fucking feature actor.
The second time that motherfucker came, he stayed at my house.
I walked him to his car and brought him like food down.
He had an apartment.
He had like a one-bedroom apartment in his car.
And I'll never forget saying, what the fuck is this?
And he's like, I'm homeless, but this is what you got to do if you want to.
Because he was a real road dog.
joe rogan
Yeah, he lived out of his car.
joey diaz
He just became a real road dog.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
So I took his fucking advice, you know?
I fucking, in June of 95, I said, I'm getting a car.
I hung the stick in the back just like him.
I had a Frisbee in there, a basketball.
I had everything you could have in there.
Remember those things that you put in your radiator, the metal?
And if your radiator blew, you can fix your radiator on the spot.
joe rogan
You can seal it up.
Yeah.
joey diaz
Oh, when you're broke, that shit for a dollar.
joe rogan
Fix a flat, too.
joey diaz
Fix a flat.
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Living out of your car on the road is a character builder.
joey diaz
It's a what?
joe rogan
Character builder.
joey diaz
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Every comic that I know that ever did that, they're some of my favorite people.
They've gone through some shit, you know?
Road gigs, man.
People that did road gigs, that's a different world, man.
I remember when I was doing road gigs, sometimes the booking agent, particularly if I was a middle act, they would bring in a headliner from New York, and a lot of times with these guys, they were club guys.
Like, God, I forget the guy's name, but he was an old club act who worked around New York City.
He never really did the road, just did New York City, and he and I did a gig together in Burlington, Vermont.
And you can see this is like a rare thing for the guy.
The guy didn't have a car because he lived in New York and didn't know how he was going to get around.
He had to have someone drive him up from the city, wanted to get a ride with me.
I was like, man, I'm not giving anybody a ride to Vermont that I don't know.
Like, that's just too weird, you know?
This gig doesn't pay that much anyway.
But those guys that didn't do the road when they did, man, they were like a fish out of water.
They had like New York City jokes.
Nobody gives a fuck about New York City when they're in Burlington, Vermont.
joey diaz
Oh, they go right to the old reliable.
So what do you do for a living?
joe rogan
A little bit of that, yeah.
joey diaz
What do you do for a living?
I'm not talking to an electrician.
You like being an electrician?
What does she do?
joe rogan
There were so many comics, though, in New York that they would work the crowd because the crowds were on top of you.
The crowds are on top of you in New York.
You know, the stages were so small because real estate was so precious that the club was stuffed.
People would be stuffed into some of those places, like Stand Up New York.
Remember how small that stage was?
Or Boston Comedy?
You alright with the ear?
joey diaz
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is that thing fucking with you?
joey diaz
No, it just gets itchy.
joe rogan
Oh.
joey diaz
I remember fucking New York Comedy Club was on 74th Street.
joe rogan
I don't remember.
joey diaz
Yeah, 74th on the west side.
Sussman used to live close to there.
We saw him one time.
But that room was small and it had like a little stairway on top of it.
It had like a staircase that was right on top of it.
That was Stand Up New York, the old one.
I used to be a New York Comedy Club guy in 91. That's who took me in in 93. I forget what his name is.
He was very decent to me.
That's how I ended up meeting Mikey Buschetti, who is now Artie Lang's...
joe rogan
Hey, how's Artie doing?
Is he doing alright?
joey diaz
I checked his...
joe rogan
You said he was suffering from anxiety.
joey diaz
Anxiety, yeah.
When I went to New York, I was scheduled to do his podcast that Wednesday and he cancelled.
So obviously he's still struggling with it.
joe rogan
He's not using.
joey diaz
He's not using, no.
joe rogan
He did a podcast with me at the Legion of Skanks place and it was amazing.
He was great.
It was great to see him sober and so alert, present, so there and so honest and fucking hilarious.
He's like as funny as he's ever been.
Fucked up nose, laughing about it.
joey diaz
Doesn't give a fuck.
joe rogan
Talking about what he did.
He snorted glass.
Snorted glass.
His girl broke up these pills with a fucking salt shaker and cracked it and got glass and he snorted glass and his nose was bleeding.
And he also got knocked out by a guy who he owed money to.
The guy who he owed money to hired some kid to collect, and the guy punched him in the nose and smashed his nose in.
So he had a double whammy happen.
Two things at the same time.
Smoking, snorting glass.
Dude, he was so funny.
He was so funny, and he was so alert.
It was great.
It was like the Artie I knew years ago, but even better.
I don't think I've ever known Artie sober.
joey diaz
You know the circle of...
There's a circle.
It's a spiraling out of control.
You get involved.
When you're going through it, you're not seeing it.
Once you've done it and you have the balls and you look back, they're all hilarious.
I went through it.
They're all hilarious.
You just keep getting in trouble.
joe rogan
Isn't it funny though that that's a human pattern?
It's a funny pattern that so many humans fall into.
joey diaz
He got caught with heroin on Route 86. He got caught in his garage.
The cops came down.
It's things that would never, ever happen under regular circumstances.
But the funk of the drug...
It just hits you at one time where...
Remember, everything...
Listen, nobody drives to an open mic with a Lamborghini.
You know?
Right?
You never see nobody pull up to an open mic with a Lamborghini.
Nobody does cocaine or heroin the second time because they had a bad time doing it.
You do have a really good time at first.
Or it seems like you're having a good time.
Your body left an opening somewhere.
Just how your immune system could let in coronavirus.
Sometimes your soul just has a weakness somewhere.
And that's when the coke or the heroin comes in.
I know in his mind right now, he's like, fucking heroin?
Really?
unidentified
Right.
joey diaz
How crazy was I caught up in this shit?
So then he went down this fucking just hole, you know?
And that's what rehabs do.
They catch you.
They slow you up.
They try to identify the problem with him.
Was it his father?
Or was it the firing of, you know, The radio guy?
joe rogan
No, he had problems way before that.
He had problems when he was on MADtv.
joey diaz
So what set him off, you know?
That's what the rehab does, you know?
That's what sets you the fuck off.
And you gotta get yourself away from that.
I found out what set me off over the years.
You know, there was a time that I could sit here for hours with you.
Talk, I'm out on bail.
And I'm fucking out on bail, kidnapping.
Out on bail for second-degree kidnapping, second-degree assault, you know.
I got the work strong at me.
And I'm fucking going in to see us every day and clipping ten Bruce Springsteen double-set CDs born in the USA. They're going for $80, whatever they were going for, $40.
I'm getting $22 apiece.
I'm taking $2 a day.
I'm walking with a small $220.
I got $100 for Coke, $50 for weed, and $50 for lunch.
That was it.
I still remember, like, doing this for a month.
Like, just, like, my addiction had me on this schedule that I wasn't going to work when I'm hot on bail.
I'm just going to go to C.S. Roebuck every day.
And Rob, born by the USA. They even had him right by the door.
I didn't even have to do much work.
I just had to walk in, walk in to see his.
Made believe I was looking for a hammer.
And then on the way out, I just take four of them, put them in my shirt, and walk out.
One day, Joe Rogan, I pick up like ten of them.
Because instead of four, why am I going to take four?
It's like the guy says in Narco.
You're going to move a kilo?
You might as well move two.
You're going to move two?
You might as well move five.
You're going to move five?
You might as well do ten.
What's the difference?
So instead of taking four boxes, I started taking like tens.
Like I would walk out of there, Joe Rogan, like a CD fucking thing.
And one day I walk out of there and I hear a guy go, hey you, stop right there.
And I'm like...
What are you talking about?
He's like, come back with those CDs.
They're chasing me in Boulder.
In the parking lot of Crossroads Mall, here I am getting chased.
One security guard in a car and the other guy on foot.
I could beat them both up.
Like, I could beat them, fuck both of them.
But I just can't have no problems.
So what am I doing?
I'm whipping CDs at them as I'm running.
And the guy's like, hey, stop that!
And I finally click them.
What made me think I was going to get away?
And then I run up.
I had them.
I had them.
And I run up to the top of the road as I'm about to hit 28th Street.
Boulder police is coming right at me.
And I had to stop and give them a fake name and fucking...
You know, here I am out on fucking bail.
Why am I robbing fucking seats?
Why?
joe rogan
Were you addicted to it, to the thrill?
joey diaz
I was addicted to snorting coke and getting my dick sucked.
joe rogan
But do you think there was a little bit of an addiction to the thrill of stealing too?
joey diaz
Oh, I loved all that shit.
joe rogan
Because you loved all that, doing that shit later on with like lighters and shit.
joey diaz
Oh, I love all that shit.
If I'm not in trouble for something, listen, I just smoked three joints for you here.
Do I look high to you?
joe rogan
No, you look fine.
joey diaz
Don't do nothing no more.
joe rogan
Well, it gets you to a good place.
joey diaz
But the reefer lets me know I'm still, nothing has changed about me.
I could be an AA right now and be clean and sober.
I don't do enough to warrant being fucking unsober.
This just lets me know I'm okay.
It's like a teddy bear.
It's like when people suck their thumb.
That's all this is for me, Ree, for now.
It doesn't really get me blasted no more.
I just told you, listen, I'll give you one of these capsules.
You won't see daylight till tomorrow, okay?
joe rogan
The THC capsules?
joey diaz
Oh, these things right here are the strongest things in the market.
joe rogan
What's in there?
joey diaz
AEB is fucking hash oil, a little bit of oxygen, and 100 milligrams of THC. How many are you taking?
I can pop two in the afternoon, 200 milligrams, then take another 200 tonight.
Phew!
And I'll be okay.
No, I got this new thing called Quick Z. Quick Z. Quick Z. What is that?
It's a little two-ounce container.
If you want to sleep, you come see me.
unidentified
Quick Z. Quick Z. What's in it?
joey diaz
Melatonin, like triple.
Anything that puts you to sleep naturally, they've put it in there.
Plus 100 milligrams of either sativa, indica, or hybrid marijuana.
unidentified
Whoa.
joey diaz
And you drink it, dog.
The first night I drank it, I found myself...
Usually I fall asleep like you do, like this.
Like you're reading the computer and you're like this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
All right, that's one way.
That's A. B is this one.
I'm away from the computer.
joe rogan
Right.
joey diaz
I actually back away and just go.
joe rogan
And then slump.
unidentified
Slump.
joey diaz
Have you done that one, Joe?
joe rogan
I'm sure I've done that one.
joey diaz
Yes, you have.
Last week, no, two weeks ago, I got so fucked up because I thought I was going to go to New York and die from the Corolla.
But I actually drank that shit.
I ate two pills.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
joey diaz
I ate two of these first.
Nothing happened.
Like, I'm like, fuck.
Nothing's happened.
And then I drank the fucking liquid.
And something started to happen, but it wasn't going fast enough.
It was like 10, 15. I wanted to go to bed, so I popped two more of these.
Oh my god.
They all hit me at once like a Larry Holmes fucking left hook.
That night, I woke up on the floor.
I fell off the chair, and the heater woke me up.
I have a heater in my office.
My back was on fire.
I woke up.
I'm like, why am I on fire here?
I woke up dog in a trance.
I went into the kitchen.
I opened up the refrigerator, and I pulled out a half a pound of deluxe cheese that she had just bought, an American cheese.
And I took a pack of saltine crackers, because in my mind, I'm not eating bread.
I'm OK. I'm not eating bread.
I'm ahead of this motherfucker.
joe rogan
You're eating crackers?
joey diaz
Doc, I ate the whole half a pound of deluxe ham.
joe rogan
Wow.
joey diaz
And the whole thing of American cheese sliced in with crackers.
And I just went to bed.
I woke up the next morning.
I took off my mask.
There was a big chunk of American cheese in the sleep apnea mask.
joe rogan
Didn't you have M&Ms in your mask once, too?
joey diaz
Oh, my God.
I was like, what the fuck did I eat last night?
I fucking went out.
My wife's like, Joey, I have a pound of ham.
I just bought that.
What were you thinking?
I go, what was I thinking?
You have no idea what I was going through last night, you fuck.
unidentified
I didn't get into bed till four in the morning.
joey diaz
I went to bed at 4 and I woke up at 3.30 and was like, what the fuck happened?
I must have went down at a quarter to 11. I probably was in this position for an hour and then I just fell off the fucking stool and just laid on the floor.
Nobody saw me.
That's how drilled I got.
I think that was the Wednesday.
Yeah, that was the 10th.
joe rogan
I don't like to smoke and go to sleep.
I don't like to eat it and go to sleep.
I just like to go to sleep when I go to sleep.
But when I get high, like if I get high before bed, I have to get out of bed.
I gotta grab the computer.
Because that's when my best ideas come.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, my best ideas come like the first hour after getting high.
Like the rush.
There's like a rush that happens.
A rush of wild thoughts that happens for like the first 40 minutes to an hour right after you're high.
It's like, that's when they're popping, they're just popping into your head and they're like, come on, man, let's dance.
Like, you gotta get up.
You can't just try to sleep on that.
Like, when those little moments hit, I start getting ideas.
Like, oh, okay.
This is a time.
You gotta write.
Because, you know, how many times do you just go through your day and don't have any interesting ideas?
And then all of a sudden, you get high and they come out of nowhere.
It's like the most underappreciated engine for ideas ever is getting high.
joey diaz
It's funny how when I get home at night, I always think of something between the two stages.
Something always happens between the main room and the original room and vice versa.
And something always happens how I could do something a little better than what just happened.
So when I get home, yeah, I do take a piss, I wash my hands, I... That's the best time to write.
I got my THC tea going.
I got my little three-milligram Cicomo tea with the CBNs and shit.
joe rogan
They have little breath mints now.
They're five-milligram breath mints.
joey diaz
Oh, they'll fuck you up.
Trust me.
unidentified
How did you eat?
joey diaz
Oh, my God.
They're called Sleep.
The product is by Cicomo.
And the tea I drink is called Tranquil.
And it's...
Every time I got a chamomile and the yorba root.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, yorba mate?
joey diaz
Yorba mate.
joe rogan
Yorba mate is a stimulant.
joey diaz
Well then it's the cousin.
It makes you go to sleep.
Whatever it is.
Yorba somebody.
And then you have 3 milligrams of THC, 10 milligrams of CBN, and like all those other things that put you to sleep.
Rosemary.
They got everything.
No melatonin.
But they're fucking pills.
It's like a container, not like Tic Tacs.
joe rogan
Like a little tin.
joey diaz
Like a tin.
joe rogan
Of little tiny breath mints.
joey diaz
Oh, Lordy!
You better be careful with those babies.
joe rogan
How many did you take?
joey diaz
Two or three.
joe rogan
That's it?
joey diaz
Yeah, but I also had like 300 milligrams of fucking these in me.
joe rogan
Oh, I think it's the other things.
joey diaz
No, no, no, no, no.
I went to Las Vegas.
The last road gig I did was Las Vegas and I went with those.
They worked.
Don't get me wrong.
It's not the THC that kills you.
It's the CBN. Jamie, can we find out what CBN is?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I've never heard of that.
jamie vernon
There's multiple terpenes.
joey diaz
Right.
It's one of the dirty cousins to CBD. What is a terpene officially?
jamie vernon
One of the things in it.
I don't know how to explain that, but like...
joe rogan
Cannabinoid?
Was it terpene?
jamie vernon
I think that's like what a better...
joe rogan
It's a great word.
When you could use the term confidently.
Whenever you could say terpene confidently.
joey diaz
Cannabinoid and all that shit.
jamie vernon
Terpenes are what you smell.
Large, diverse class of organic compounds produced by plants, insects, strong odor, may protect the plants.
joe rogan
So it's just a component of the plant.
jamie vernon
Right, yeah.
joey diaz
Interesting.
jamie vernon
So CBN is like that here.
joe rogan
Here it is.
jamie vernon
I mean, it says it's good for the same stuff CBD is.
joe rogan
So CBN study benefits include pain relief, anti-insomnia, promote growth of bone cells, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-convulsive, and appetite stimulant.
Very interesting.
So it sounds real similar to just THC or CBD. So just another cannabinoid?
Is that what it is?
jamie vernon
Yeah, there's some new ones they're finding out too.
Like I've gotten THCA, which is not psychoactive.
And there's some other new ones.
The science is getting awesome right now.
joe rogan
It's great for you.
CBD is fucking great for you.
joey diaz
It really is.
joe rogan
It's great for you.
It really is.
joey diaz
I feel the difference.
joe rogan
And I don't see any downside.
I'm not seeing it.
I'm looking for it.
Right?
I'm trying to find out, is there something this stuff does to you?
Like, see, just Google, what are the negative effects of CBD? I've never heard of any.
Have you?
I haven't looked for them, though.
unidentified
I'll tell you what.
joey diaz
I've been using CBD cream.
joe rogan
Oh, it's amazing.
joey diaz
Instead of cream.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
Just on my legs.
joe rogan
Yeah.
joey diaz
I went to Vegas and I had it and my skin got dry.
I went somewhere and I was like, let me start using this.
I'm done.
joe rogan
Side effects include nausea, fatigue, and irritability.
Nah, I doubt it.
I think you're just talking to pussies.
Yeah, I blame it on that CBD, man.
It made me have fatigue.
I was irritable because of CBD. Yeah, but you know what?
joey diaz
You should have a little fatigue at night.
If you take, like, more than a thousand milligrams of CBD at night when you get home, if you work out, if you legitimately have an injury, like, I know it rests the fuck out of me at night.
Like, I like all that shit.
I'd rather take that shit than hit opioids, like at this point in my life.
All that Xanax, Ambien, the Ambien makes you do crazy shit, and the Xanax makes you get addicted and makes you say crazy shit, too.
It makes you say, do dumb shit at night and make crazy shit, too.
You know what?
With these, every once in a while I go off the deep end, I'll make a Race is common or something late at night, but I can live with that.
unidentified
You know what I'm saying?
joey diaz
I can live with that.
joe rogan
Ambien doesn't...
You don't really sleep, though.
It just kind of puts you away for a little bit.
You don't go through a full sleep cycle, right?
joey diaz
Who was telling me...
unidentified
Is that true?
joe rogan
You don't go through a full...
See what...
I want to make sure I'm getting this right.
Ambien doesn't allow you to go through a full REM sleep cycle.
joey diaz
Really?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
I think it's a different cycle.
Because when we had Matthew Walker, the sleep expert, when he was doing a very informative podcast.
joey diaz
The best.
And the one, listen, let me tell you something.
Your podcast from Monday the 9th of March or the 8th of March, that was the best podcast of the year.
joe rogan
Which one?
joey diaz
That's the one about, that one broke down the coronavirus.
joe rogan
Oh, that's this guy.
joey diaz
Monday.
joe rogan
Osterholm.
joey diaz
Osterholm, that was the best.
That's the one that put the fear of God into me.
That's the one that opened my eyes a little bit more why people were reacting to where they were.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, that was a wake-up call.
joe rogan
Wake-up call.
Big wake-up call.
jamie vernon
What do we got?
Hard to find because I would also imagine that any negative effects would be zapped by the pill industry online to Google it.
Somebody says maybe at high dosages it might affect it but the very first thing I said it says effects of zolpidem which is Ambien had no effects on REM sleep.
Really?
joe rogan
Interesting.
That's not what Matthew Walker was saying.
joey diaz
No, I know that for a fact.
unidentified
You don't go as deep as you're supposed to.
joey diaz
That you think you're supposed to go there, but you don't go as deep as you do.
joe rogan
Why don't we Google, does Ambien affect, do you get real sleep on Ambien?
How about that?
jamie vernon
I mean, that's...
I have to dig through, like...
What would you like me to look, I guess?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
jamie vernon
The very first things that come up are just, like, blogs about AMBN and, like, yes, I get sleep.
This is the very first thing.
I have to go through 12 pages, probably, of results.
joe rogan
Yeah, we'd have to figure it out.
You know what?
I need to talk to...
Well, I know that Matthew Walker was talking about the negative effects of it, but I need to talk to someone else and get, like, the...
Get the rap down.
Or just listen to what he said about it and just get the rap down.
Because I know there's something to it where it doesn't totally...
It's not the same as just sleeping eight hours without it.
You know, the same amount of recovery or something.
It just seems like any time you can take something, it just knocks you out.
Like...
A chemical just put you out.
It can't be good.
It can't be good for there's a chemical you take that crashes you.
That's not good.
You're going to recover once you crash, but you've done something very strange.
You've taken something that shuts you off.
Just to me, when I'm up, I'm up.
Am I up?
Oh, okay.
Well, I'll get up.
And then when I'm tired, I'll lay down.
I'm not taking anything.
And people are like, well, I need it for work.
Okay.
I get it.
You need it.
It just seems to me that if you want to be healthier, taking something that just makes you go to sleep is not the answer.
Yeah, it's one thing if it's a natural alternative that just relaxes you in a lap, but something that knocks you the fuck out and when you wake up you're in a gunfight with the cops.
Because that's what Ambien does.
Kevin James woke up in the middle.
I talked about it on one of my specials.
He made a fucking turkey.
Went to the grocery store.
He made food.
And people came home and they're like, what the fuck?
He's like, someone broke into the house.
He went to the supermarket and bought food and made a meal.
And he thought that someone broke into his house and cooked.
joey diaz
You know how scary that is?
joe rogan
Dude, people are in the middle of a drive on the highway.
They wake up.
They have no idea how they got there.
They have no idea.
Some people, when they're on Ambien, they just Ambien walk.
They do all kinds of wacky shit.
I think people have committed murders when they're on Ambien.
I think there was a guy...
See if that's true.
jamie vernon
So, Matthew Walker says that you're not getting the restorative benefits of sleep from it.
Yeah, there you go.
You're not getting true sleep.
They switch off the top of your cortex, the top of your brain, you explain in your magazine, and put you in a state of unconsciousness.
That's not sleep, that's cryogenics.
According to Walker, the sleeping pill of sleep does not have the same restorative powers.
joe rogan
There you go.
jamie vernon
From immune boosting to emotional resilience.
joe rogan
So, of course, the other stuff that you read was SHILLS by the pill industry trying to fill up the Google search.
Folks, stay up.
When you're tired, go to bed.
My advice to you.
joey diaz
That's all you could do.
joe rogan
You know when they didn't need sleeping pills?
Back in the fucking pioneer days.
You take a wagon across the country and fight off Indians all day.
You could just go to sleep, man.
You could just sleep.
You're tired.
Dig ditches all day.
You're exhausted.
joey diaz
I've always used Reefer to sleep early on.
joe rogan
Pull this thing into you.
joey diaz
I've always used Reefer to sleep, A. And B, I've always used Reefer to slow me down a little bit.
I know for a fact...
It always slowed me down.
My mind has always been fucked up like that.
They should have treated it with something early on.
They didn't catch it.
They didn't know it existed.
Now I know how to calm myself down.
joe rogan
Self-medicate.
joey diaz
I know how to smoke the reefer.
I really dig the meditation the last two weeks.
I saw where it took me from, where I was at, to where it took me from.
It helped me do the main thing, which is accept.
Acceptance is the main thing in this whole thing that's going on right now.
Once you accept it, you'll lose 30 pounds of weight.
You're going to live 20 more years.
Accepting this, that you didn't fuck up and nobody around you fucked up.
You didn't fuck up, Joe.
This is just, didn't fuck up because I shot somebody at the store or I acted bad at the store.
This has nothing to do with us.
You know, this is something from life.
We will all bounce back from this.
Might be a year.
Might take two.
Might take six months.
You don't know what's going to happen.
I know that it's going to change people's lives for the better.
People are going to go, you know what?
I didn't want to work in a fucking office anyway.
You know what?
This is going to make people think from outside the box, which is something they needed.
So there's both negative and positive from this whole situation.
How it works for you is up to you.
joe rogan
How it works for you, it's all gonna be up to you, G. Well, every time there's a moment of adversity, you can recover from that adversity.
If you can recover from that adversity, you have an opportunity to grow.
It's always there.
What was the quote that Rafael Lovato quoted that inside every seed of adversity is a seed of an equivalent benefit?
Who is that?
Think and Grow Rich?
What is that guy's name again?
God damn it.
This weed in your memory.
joey diaz
I'm not being 50 fucking.
joe rogan
Yes, Napoleon Hill's book.
Very interesting book.
Raphael Lovato Jr., he loves that book.
That book to him is like, that's like his, one of his motivational books.
Joey Diaz, let's wrap this up.
We're three hours in.
It's always great to see you.
joey diaz
I'm glad we got a chance to do this.
Jamie, great to see you, brother.
I know Jamie's dying.
There's no sports.
I've been thinking about him a lot lately.
joe rogan
What are they doing?
Are they going to just put everything aside for a little bit?
jamie vernon
People are betting on the weather right now.
NASCAR is doing a virtual league this weekend.
They're starting up with some past drivers and whatnot.
joe rogan
Oh my god, virtually.
jamie vernon
Right now everything is on hold.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
joey diaz
You know what I was thinking of doing like some old, oh my god, I watched something really good the other night.
joe rogan
What?
joey diaz
Fucking UFC Unleashed came through for Uncle Joey.
They showed all three Chuck Randy fights.
Right back to another.
Very interesting.
joe rogan
Wow.
joey diaz
You know, Chuck going in there, not training, taking a light, getting fucking lit.
joe rogan
Yeah, Randy took him down.
joey diaz
He fucking mounted him and shit.
joe rogan
Stopped him.
joey diaz
And then him coming back, catching him with that shirt right, and then him coming back again.
That's been great.
I wish you could narrate him.
Like, the other day I was like, why can't he fucking...
I should call him.
We should go up there and do it.
You know when you and Eddie get together and do that?
Because even though...
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Fight companion.
joey diaz
That's great.
Right now to get, like, old fights and put them up and go.
joe rogan
It's not a bad idea.
joey diaz
No, my God!
This is the time to do it!
joe rogan
We should have a fight companion for old pride fights.
Like, get some of the pride grand prix cards.
joey diaz
Yeah, because I have no knowledge on them.
joe rogan
That's what we should do.
joey diaz
Like, I love to go get schooled on...
Overeem in the beginning.
The Japanese guy?
joe rogan
Which one?
joey diaz
The one that you- Sakuraba?
Sakuraba.
And then O'Gara Brothers over there.
That's the education I need next.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a great idea.
A fight companion with some of those great old Pride cards?
Yeah, we'll pick out a card.
Pride Dynamite or some shit.
There's so many ones.
jamie vernon
Like put together a card of just like top 10 fights.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, we could totally do that.
But the best way I think would be if we put it together where they could sync it up like the dark side of the moon and then watch the whole card with us.
So we're going to press play right now.
It's starting.
Here's the first round in three, two, you know, like that.
Just like we do with a regular fight.
So they could be synced up so they're watching it with us.
joey diaz
Yeah, UFC came through last week.
It's a great idea.
Diaz, they had McGregor.
They had everybody on, both fights.
They ended up with Khabib, Diaz.
joe rogan
Didn't ESPN have something like 11 hours of fights?
joey diaz
Yes, yes.
They ended up with Khabib, Conor McGregor.
joe rogan
Here's the thing about UFC fights, for some strange reason, and I'm not sure why, they're as entertaining to watch the second time as anything I've ever seen ever.
joey diaz
Anything I've ever watched.
I still have Diaz-McGregor on my pay-per-view.
And Khabib McGregor.
joe rogan
Dude, I've watched Zhang Weili and Ioannion Jacek.
I've watched that five times.
joey diaz
No, you haven't.
joe rogan
Yes, I have.
I've watched it on my TV at home.
Fuck you.
joey diaz
That's like watching Uncut Gems.
joe rogan
It's so good.
joey diaz
And even better.
That was so good.
That was so nerve-wracking.
joe rogan
That fight was so crazy.
I watched that fight a gang of times.
I watched the Stylebender-Yoel Romero fight at least two times.
I watched John Jones-Tiago Alves.
I watched that...
I mean, Tiago...
Tiago...
joey diaz
Paulo, whatever.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
Tiago Santos.
Jesus Christ.
Tiago Alves is a welterweight.
unidentified
Weed!
joe rogan
I blame the weed!
But I watched that a bunch of times.
I watched the Dominic Reyes fight a bunch of times.
I watched that fight at least four or five times.
I watched that fight with a fine-tooth comb, and I don't know.
I still can't call it.
Anybody who says that this guy won or that guy won in that fight, that's open to interpretation.
That third round is open to interpretation.
No question, Dominic Reyes won the first two.
No question, Jon Jones won the last two.
It's that third round.
That third round, I was like, oof.
Can we make it even?
That seemed like, you know, it's hard to say.
That's a hard to say round.
I kind of lean towards maybe Dominic Reyes did enough to win that round, because I think he landed more volume in that round.
But John controlled the center of the octagon.
John was starting to put pressure on him.
John was starting to catch him.
Especially towards the end of the round, which I always, for whatever reason, score higher.
The end of the round to me is like, this is when shit's starting to change.
And then one person might have got a relief from the bell, or the other person was gaining an advantage.
That's what it seemed like at the end of round three.
It seemed like John was starting to gain an advantage.
joey diaz
I haven't watched it again.
joe rogan
It's good.
It's a good fight, man.
Dominic Reyes is a bad motherfucker.
He put on a show.
You think about what he did and how calm he stayed in front of the GOAT. The guy was beating everybody.
Jon Jones has beaten everybody.
And Dominic Reyes put it to him.
Got it so close that there's a real argument that he might have done enough to win the decision.
I don't necessarily agree with that argument.
I think I almost kind of agree with a draw, if people saw the draw.
I could almost see that third round being a draw.
But I like John winning because John was stronger in the fourth and fifth rounds.
I think it means more.
I think it should mean more.
I know it doesn't, but it should.
It's like the fight was going his way.
He was starting to take over.
That's what you want to see.
You want to see the guy who was trying to chase the other guy down and beat on him at the end of the fight.
Who's doing that at the end of the fight?
Well, the end of the fight was Jon Jones.
But still, impressive.
But you gotta think, the Thiago Silva, not Thiago Silva, Thiago Santos fight, Jesus Christ.
Thiago Silva was another bad motherfucker from Brazil.
But the Thiago Santos fight was a split decision.
People forget that.
I mean, I don't necessarily agree that there was a split decision.
I thought John won.
But it was close enough that one judge disagreed.
You know, one judge, incompetent or competent, you beat a judge, gave it to Thiago Santos.
And, you know, Tiago Santos put on a hell of a show.
It was an amazing fight.
But, you know, John's still the greatest of all time.
If you look at all the guys that he'd beaten, Anthony Smith, OSP, Leota Machida, Rashad Evans, just go down the line, Rampage Jackson, just go down the line, Vitor Belfort, just go on the line, everybody, John beats everybody, Daniel Cormier twice, stopped him the second time.
John beats everybody.
John beats everybody.
So for Dominic Reyes to put on a show like that?
See, this is why this coronavirus is so fucked up for MMA. A, that people can catch it and get sick, and their loved ones can catch it and get sick, of course.
But B, goddamn, there's some good fights that need to be made.
And how are they going to make them?
What are they going to do?
Tyson Fury, they're pushing Tyson Fury and Wilder 3. They're pushing it back.
They have to.
They don't know what to do.
I think they're going to try to push it back to July or something, right?
The fall?
That's right, it was in July.
That's right.
unidentified
I was going to Vegas in July.
joe rogan
There's a fight in Vegas in July.
I'm supposed to be at the Park Theater.
joey diaz
Where?
joe rogan
In July, in Vegas.
joey diaz
You are?
joe rogan
The day before the fight, yeah.
The one that's next to the MGM? I'm at that place.
That place where they do the weigh-ins?
Who knows if I'll be able to even do that?
I don't know.
I mean, Max Holloway said it best.
joey diaz
It is what it is.
Let's get the fuck out of here.
joe rogan
He's right.
It is what it is.
Hey, we love you people.
joey diaz
I love you guys.
joe rogan
We do.
Thank you for tuning in.
I feel like one of the cool things about this, about being able to do podcasts this week with Bird and Tom and you, it's like...
Our community is still together.
We're still together.
We're still having fun together, and we want you guys to be connected to that.
That helps.
I mean, even if it's just an e-community or it's just a virtual community, it's still all of us that kind of vibe on these conversations and have a good time together, we're all in it together, including people listening.
You know, this is a weird thing that we're doing.
And we're not going to stop because of this virus.
If we have to do it from our house, if it gets so crazy they keep me in the house, we're going to do it.
We'll hook it up with some sort of cameras.
We'll make it happen.
We're going to make it happen.
joey diaz
We're here for you.
We got you, cocksuckers.
joe rogan
We got you.
joey diaz
Stay black.
joe rogan
We love you.
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