Joey Diaz is a comedian, actor, and podcaster from Los Angeles, California. He's been in the public eye for a long time, but he also happens to be a regular user of marijuana. In this episode, we talk about his experience with weed at Joey's show and how he managed to survive it. We also talk about how he feels about marijuana now that it's legal in California, and what he would do if he was high on it at the time of this recording. We hope you enjoy this episode and that it makes you think about what it's like to be high on marijuana. If you haven't tried it, you should definitely give it a try. It's not that bad, and it's definitely not as bad as you think it is either. Enjoy, and spread the word to your friends and family about this episode! if you like what you hear, we'd love to hear your thoughts on it! P.S. Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell us what you thought of the episode and what you think of it in the comments section below. We'll be looking out for new episodes in the next few days! Timestamps: 1:00 - How high is too high? 4:30 - How much weed do you like it? 6:20 - What kind of drugs do you smoke? 7:00 8:40 - How does it taste like? 9:30 11:15 - What is your favorite kind of pot? 12: What are you smoking? 15: What do you recommend? 16:00 + 16: What's your favorite part of weed? 17:00 & 17:40 18:20 19:00 Is it a good day? 21:00 What s your favorite type of marijuana? 22:00 How do you think you'd like to see me smoke it again? 25:00 Do you have a good one? 26:00 Can I smoke it more? 27:30 Is it better than that? 28:00 Are you smoking it again or not smoking it right now? 29:00 Would you like to smoke it in a bowl or not? 30:00 Should I try it again next week? 35:00 Does it feel like that's a little bit better? 32:00 I m not sure?
00:00:23.000And I said, because he asked me, we were backstage about to go on stage at the main room, and he's like, I want you to do my podcast, blah, blah, blah.
00:01:00.000Like Dean Gelber is like giving me some like pot stuff but like cookies and shit but then like he was eating these gummy bears and they're in a bag and I was like going fuck okay and he gave me just like he gave me just like an ear or some shit and that was it and then I was just like talking and then like literally I couldn't talk anymore.
00:01:48.000To the risk of repeating myself over and over again, which I do all the time, but when you eat marijuana, it's processed by your liver, and it produces something called 11-hydroxy-metabolite.
00:01:59.000It's a totally different psychoactive substance that's four to five times more psychoactive than THC. So that's why it hits you like that.
00:02:07.000And that's why people think they got dosed, because when you smoke pot, it's not psychoactive.
00:02:14.000But when you eat it, it's processed by your liver.
00:02:16.000It's something called a one-pass, and that's how it produces that.
00:02:20.000Yeah, and I can't believe he let me drive home.
00:02:35.000You gotta understand, Joey Diaz found his mother dead on the kitchen floor when he was on acid when he was 13. He would let you fly a fucking plane on those things.
00:05:01.000I mean, I think that, you know, I did a special, what was it?
00:05:04.000I don't know, like, I think it was like 2012 for a showtime called Politics where I went to D.C. and I did stand-up in D.C. and I interviewed all politicians.
00:07:04.000So, my point is, is I think, I really think that if Donald Trump went over there to meet with a guy, I think that would appease him and just chill him the fuck out.
00:08:01.000And the thing that's so crazy about the whole thing is that, like, you think of ISIS, and you think of that whole, you know, how those people, like...
00:08:10.000They don't care if they're going to die.
00:08:12.000And I think that he's trained his people.
00:08:14.000You see all these on CNN, all these marching soldiers.
00:08:19.000Well, if you lived in a shithole like North Korea, where every day you're under the oppressive boot of a military dictatorship, maybe you'd be ready to die, too.
00:08:27.000It's either escape to South Korea or die.
00:08:30.000I think what should happen is I think Trump should hire Dennis Rodman and put a tracking device on him, and they're jet skiing out in fucking the ocean, drinking and shit, and then seal Team Six.
00:08:41.000Comes in and fucking takes Kim Jong-un and flies into America and then gives all the North Korean internet and sets them free.
00:10:53.000Maybe you didn't cry hard enough when somebody died, or maybe you weren't excited enough when something good happened, you didn't cheer loud enough, and they'll rat you out for that, and then you have to be accountable.
00:11:33.000Spending time in prison would make you appreciate just the simple things.
00:11:37.000Because you always see people that are incarcerated and they get out and they see the sunlight and they're like, oh my god, this is fucking awesome.
00:11:45.000And part of me is I think everyone should maybe go to prison for a month.
00:17:45.000Yeah, so I was doing Spring Break for MTV. When was it?
00:17:52.000It was like 89, 90, 91, 92. And it was, you know, obviously the biggest thing in the world because it was live and there was hundreds of thousands of kids.
00:18:57.000It was actually in the afternoon, and I think it was like a Sunday Funday thing, or it was like some Easter egg night day or some shit, and he was just buzzing around in his suit and just talking to girls.
00:19:40.000And I was actually talking to Kellyanne Conway about right before Trump got elected on email.
00:19:49.000And I was supposed to have dinner with her and some of her friends, but I had to go do some shows in West Palm at the improv, so I had to cancel out.
00:19:55.000Who were you going to talk to Kellyanne Conway about?
00:23:00.000Yeah, I was supposed to do Celebrity Apprentice.
00:23:02.000They asked me to do Celebrity Apprentice when I had the second iteration of Fear Factor, when Fear Factor came back in like, what is it, 2011 or 12 or whatever it was.
00:23:14.000I just was like, I don't want to do it.
00:23:15.000I don't want to be in New York for three months.
00:24:50.000You know what's weird is when George Bush was president, I was doing some shows in D.C., and me and Dean Gelber, we went to the White House, and we actually went into that room, the press room, and it's actually fucking small.
00:26:43.000Hey, as far as your stand-up and stuff, like, you know, obviously, you know, we're peers, you know, and I see you and watch you and stuff like that.
00:27:55.000And if you work on it on a special, you know, and you really put together something good, they can say, oh, you know, this guy, he actually is a real comic.
00:30:27.000Like, her running and owning the Comedy Store in the glory days of Kenison and Pryor and now today even, you know, like, she set the stage.
00:30:39.000You know, I mean, out of all the people that helped me and, like, were important to me in my career, your mom was pretty uniquely significant.
00:32:04.000And that, to me, is something that I think we have to do.
00:32:08.000I think it's our responsibility, you know, to kind of give back to the younger guys and maybe spend a little more time there on a Monday night or something and really kind of help these kids out and give them some direction.
00:34:47.000The way it happened was Frank Sennis, who owns the building, who owned the building, said to my dad and his friend Rudy DeLuca, said, Hey, Sammy, you want to start a comedy room?
00:35:00.000Because he owned the building where Ciros is and that whole building there, the room right there, the original room actually, which was what it was originally.
00:36:05.000Like little peppermints and stuff, you know, to the guests that would come in.
00:36:09.000And then my dad would go on the road and open for Elvis and open for Engelbert Humperdinck and Sammy Davis and Sinatra and all these people.
00:36:18.000And my mom slowly started to take over the club while he was gone.
00:37:48.000Mike Binder is fucking, he was like the, him and Alan Bursky were like the youngest guys that came on the scene, but Mike Binder, he used to take me to skate parks and all that shit, because my mom was busy at the club, so she always gave me the comedians.
00:38:01.000As far as Kennison, I was a short order cook at the Comedy Store in Westwood.
00:39:41.000I know it's a weird, like, I was at the Funny or Die thing last night, and I was with Will Ferrell, not to drop names, but I'm a huge fan of him, and he owns the site, and we were talking, and he just gave it up to me.
00:39:55.000And he goes, I used to watch you on MTV, and Encino Man, this generation doesn't know what I did, most of the kids, the 25 and younger.
00:40:02.000They don't know that I started MTV, they don't know all the films, they think Sandler, they think all these other guys, but they don't know that I was the first.
00:40:11.000I was, you know, at the time, because MTV was so big.
00:40:33.000But growing up, like, in the store, like, from the time you were as old as you could remember, being a part of the comedy store, and then all of a sudden being 20 and being famous.
00:41:41.000Now when you get older, things are like...
00:41:44.000You know mom's sick or this or you know there's all these things life things you know or like yeah I'm gonna be 50 next year you know what I mean just like things like when you're younger dude I used to have like me and my friends we used to go to the beach and smoke pot you know we used to go to the Roxy we used to go to the rainbow it was like why can't you still do that because I don't feel like it well then why does it make you sad that you don't feel like doing those things what do you feel like doing Going to the Korean bathhouse and watching the news and chilling and drinking juice.
00:46:48.000Because I think you're a good actor, and I think that if you maybe developed a show or a film, you know, for you, you know, I think would be awesome.
00:49:20.000So another thing that I'm editing, I'm editing that documentary series, which I'm happy about, but I'm also editing a documentary in my life.
00:49:27.000And I've been doing that for three years.
00:51:00.000So he'd have these fucking pigs and these ducks behind him and he'd play the music and he'd have all this food over there and he'd have spaghetti and he'd be like...
00:51:10.000And it would just turn into this fucking crazy thing.
00:51:13.000And he'd pour cottage cheese in his balls.
00:53:48.000Richard Jenny worked at Eastside Comedy Club in Long Island, and he did a different show Friday 8 o'clock show, a different show Friday 10 o'clock show, a different show Saturday 8 o'clock show, and a different show Saturday 10 o'clock show.
00:54:03.000All the comics were sitting around scratching their head.
00:54:05.000I remember I was backstage with a- He's so good, yeah.
00:54:07.000I was an opener back then, you know, I was just starting out.
00:54:09.000But I was backstage with all these guys who were like local headliners and they were just like, fuck, we're terrible.
00:54:14.000They were like, it was just confronted by how good he was.
00:54:26.000The thing that I noticed, because we had the same manager, Michael Rotenberg, was my manager and Jenny's manager at the time.
00:54:33.000The one thing that I noticed about him, though, I don't know if you experienced this with him, is that his stand-up in the clubs was fucking insane.
00:54:42.000But for some reason, when he was on TV doing it, it didn't translate as much.
00:54:49.000You know how sometimes the camera just doesn't...
00:54:53.000It doesn't pick up you as funny as you are.
00:54:57.000That was kind of my experience with him, because he killed himself, and I don't know if that was part of the reason, because he was frustrated, you know what I mean?
00:55:06.000A lot of people, I guess, they kill themselves if things don't work out for them, right?
00:55:50.000A lot of it's relevant today, because it's 2007, but he does this thing about the difference between people on the left and people on the right and people in the middle, and it's fucking brilliant.
00:56:02.000And he was like a guy that I saw when I was starting out where I really realized, watching him, how important it is to really go in depth on a subject.
00:56:13.000Because he didn't just scratch the surface.
00:56:15.000Like, when I was an open-miker, one thing you see about open-mikers is they'll touch a subject, and then they move on to a next subject.
00:56:22.000But they basically just scratch the surface of it.
00:56:46.000When you see him in the clubs, you really got to see what he's really all about.
00:56:49.000That's really the problem with specials, right?
00:56:51.000It's like trying to figure out how to translate what you do when it's a Friday night in the OR. How do you get someone to experience that magic of a perfect club set?
00:58:31.000Like, I feel like stand-up is one of the unique things that requires, well, it requires, like, rigorous attention and detail.
00:58:41.000And you have to be paying, and you have to be enthusiastic And you have to be disciplined.
00:58:46.000Like, and it's almost contrary to what a lot of us are.
00:58:49.000Like, a lot of us aren't disciplined people, which is why we're funny in the first place, because we're silly, and we're impulsive, and we laugh about things, joke around about things, and think about things in a fucked up way that's outside the box of normal thinking, you know?
00:59:02.000So I think that a lot of times that sort of mindset is contrary to the mindset that's required to be disciplined, to write.
00:59:10.000But as a kid, as a kid growing up, tell me about your parents.
01:02:14.000Well, what's interesting in boxing, that was always the case, right?
01:02:16.000But now you're seeing Russians, like Gennady Golovkin, you know, and like...
01:02:21.000I mean, it's really just a matter of the economic situation, because in the early days of the 1900s, it was a lot of Jews, because, like, Slapsy Maxy Rosenbaum, there was a bunch of Jewish fighters, because,
01:02:36.000you know, there were Jewish immigrants, and they faced a lot of hostility and poverty, and this was a way out.
01:02:41.000And then it became Italians, like Rocky Marciano, Rocky Graziano.
01:03:32.000Because especially in Boston, which is like a really conservative place, my sense of humor was very fucked up because these people were fighters, you know?
01:03:41.000So there was all these black belts who were competing on a national level, traveling all around the country.
01:03:46.000Like, they were very intense people, so you could say fucked up things to them to make them laugh.
01:03:51.000Like, their borders, their boundaries were very different than the average person, because they were experiencing such a...
01:03:58.000Like, I assumed cops would be a lot like that, too, and maybe even soldiers.
01:04:01.000Cops I talked to, like a lot of cops that I would train with, too, they had the most fucked up senses of humor.
01:04:07.000Because they would be seeing gunshot wounds all the time, and, you know, and there was...
01:04:12.000A lot of jokes they would tell as the guy was dead.
01:04:16.000They would be over the guy's body making jokes when no one was around.
01:04:20.000And people would think it's disrespectful, but a lot of it is the human brain is not supposed to experience that kind of stress that a cop or soldier experiences.
01:04:29.000And gallows humor, as it were, that's what a lot of them would turn to for some sort of a relief.
01:04:35.000So what I did is I went to an open mic night and I watched This is actually a Richard Jenney quote.
01:04:44.000He said, one of the great things about terrible comedians is they inspire other people to try it.
01:04:49.000Because you watch them and you go, well, this guy's fucking terrible.
01:04:51.000At least if I suck, I won't suck that bad.
01:04:54.000So my idea of stand-up is I would go to some place and I would see like Robin Williams and Richard Pryor and all these people that were just like gods.
01:05:02.000And I would be like, There's no way I'm going to be able to go up there and do that.
01:05:05.000But when I went to an open mic night, I realized that, oh no, these people, it's just like being a white belt in martial arts.
01:05:11.000Like they're starting from the beginning.
01:06:18.000I'm feeling it more now that I'm getting older because at the bottom line is, you know, I don't want to, well, you know, Larry King, Michael Douglas, Letterman, these guys have their kids in their late 60s.
01:08:14.000But the desire to do an adventure, to just go someplace for a couple of weeks is cool, but when you have kids, especially if you have little girls that wait for you, and you talk to them on the phone, they can't wait to see you, it's a different world, you know?
01:08:57.000His fucking family members and his friends got up and told stories with a microphone, and they held everybody captive with their shitty stories.
01:09:57.000It would be kind of hilarious, but it's kind of gross, too, because whenever I see people that have their kids on these reality shows, I'm like, you're not even letting that kid choose.
01:10:05.000You don't even give that kid a choice to be famous, like Honey Boo Boo or any of those fucking people.
01:10:10.000You're just putting your kid on TV before your kid even understands the consequences of it.
01:10:15.000I mean, at least when you got on television, you were in your 20s.
01:11:08.000My friend of mine in San Antonio hooked me up with this agent.
01:11:12.000And he just, you know, they give you, you know, they pay you, obviously, and you fly in, and there's basically Comic Cons, as you know, it's all like, you know, people are dressed as Superman and Batman, and, you know, all these, but then there's the section with celebrities.
01:11:26.000So there's a lot of, like, people from Breaking Bad, there was a lot of people from Walking Dead, but then there was, like, Rob Schneider was in a booth, you know what I mean?
01:11:35.000Val Kilmer was in a booth, and he's got, like, throat cancer.
01:12:14.000Well, he's had some crazy ups and downs with his weight to the point where he gotta go, like, look at those pictures of him on the far right.
01:15:29.000Well, I mean, I wouldn't do it, but I'm just saying if someone came in and offered a whole bunch of money to knock it down and build a hotel.
01:16:02.000Like, Wednesday night, I did the hat trick.
01:16:04.000I started out in the belly room, or Tuesday night.
01:16:07.000I started out in the belly room, I did a set in the main room, and I did a set in the OR. You know, there's not a place in the country where you could do that, where you can perform in front of 90 people, 400 people, and then 150 people.
01:20:04.000It's also like a lot of people like, you know, for me, because I've seen the decades of it, there's still nothing like the Kennison in the prior days.
01:20:12.000You know, like I watch everyone in the back and I'm like, they're killing.
01:20:16.000But for some reason it just doesn't feel like I felt when I was one of the reasons why because back then and there would never been anything like that You know, I mean you think about prior before prior came around who the fuck was like prior?
01:20:28.000No one, you know and Kenison Kenison was a completely unique kind of talent There'd never been anybody like him before and so now you've seen so much since then They'll never be that uniquely innocent time where people are like Yeah, but, you know,
01:20:44.000to respond to the Pryor thing, when he would, because I saw him for years develop his show there at the store, when he would walk on stage and they would say, ladies and gentlemen, Richard Pryor, it was like, fucking Jesus.
01:20:59.000It was like, people literally would stand up and be like, no way, fuck, huh, what?
01:21:58.000And in it, his brother sort of talks about how Sam just kind of stopped writing because he was partying all the time and his material suffered and you could really feel the difference.
01:22:07.000And nobody could live that rock and roll crazy drug life and still be an awesome creative force.