The Joe Rogan Experience - Joe Rogan Experience #1973 - Joey Diaz

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00:00:11.000 Jamie looking yoked. 1.00

00:00:14.000 Like a motherfucker. 1.00

00:00:16.000 Hitting balls across the fucking desert. 1.00

00:00:19.000 Yeah, he's addicted to that golf. 1.00

00:00:20.000 I should see him out there with the simulator.

00:00:22.000 He told me he was out in the backyard.

00:00:24.000 Good for him, man.

00:00:26.000 You still won't hit a golf ball?

00:00:28.000 I've hit a couple golf balls.

00:00:29.000 I'm just not going to play golf.

00:00:30.000 Okay.

00:00:31.000 I'm scared.

00:00:32.000 Of what?

00:00:33.000 Get addicted to it.

00:00:34.000 They're all addicted.

00:00:35.000 Ron White, Tony Hinchcliffe, him, all these guys.

00:00:38.000 They're addicted.

00:00:39.000 Look at them.

00:00:40.000 He's over there, Jones.

00:00:41.000 Got the bug.

00:00:42.000 They go every day?

00:00:43.000 You guys go every day?

00:00:44.000 He's on the simulator every day. 1.00

00:00:47.000 The kid motherfucker can whack a golf ball. 0.99

00:00:50.000 It's like shooting jump shots, though. 1.00

00:00:51.000 You've got to practice the jump shot.

00:00:52.000 Yeah, you've got to practice the jump shot.

00:00:53.000 Yeah.

00:00:55.000 Tremendous.

00:00:56.000 Tremendous.

00:00:57.000 How long did this take you to do? 1.00

00:00:58.000 22 fucking years. 1.00

00:01:00.000 Jesus. 0.99

00:01:01.000 And then I hooked up with Erica Florentine, Jimmy's niece, and she put it all together for me.

00:01:07.000 Nice.

00:01:07.000 I'm happy I did it and got it over with.

00:01:09.000 Nice. 1.00

00:01:10.000 I got all that shit off my fucking chest. 1.00

00:01:12.000 Joey Diaz is an author. 1.00

00:01:14.000 Look at this.

00:01:17.000 I bet this is great.

00:01:18.000 I've heard most of these stories, I'm sure.

00:01:21.000 But I don't know with you. 0.99

00:01:22.000 You know, I always think I've heard all the fucking stories and then another one pops up. 0.97

00:01:28.000 If you really could, like, document everything you've been through in your life, like, no one would believe it. 0.99

00:01:34.000 They don't believe it.

00:01:34.000 People still sometimes don't believe some of those stories.

00:01:37.000 Yeah, we're on.

00:01:38.000 Oh, good to see you.

00:01:41.000 The one thing that, writing it and reading it, I did the audio book.

00:01:44.000 Oh, nice.

00:01:45.000 I did the audio book.

00:01:46.000 How was that?

00:01:46.000 Good.

00:01:47.000 And everybody said, it's going to suck. 0.77

00:01:49.000 I go, give me three hours a day.

00:01:51.000 Give me a space in between.

00:01:53.000 And I'll go in there and just knock it off in two and a half weeks.

00:01:57.000 Nice. 0.99

00:01:58.000 But once I read it, like, you know, because it's been in your head for a long time and shit. 0.98

00:02:02.000 Once I read it, I only got one thing out of this book. 0.99

00:02:06.000 I got my money's worth.

00:02:09.000 When they picked me for a life, I got my money's worth.

00:02:12.000 Whether it was good or bad, you know what I'm saying?

00:02:14.000 Whether it was good or bad, I got my money's worth out of this life.

00:02:18.000 If I get hit by a plane tonight, I'm good.

00:02:21.000 Seriously, that's what I came up with. 1.00

00:02:24.000 Adventures, fucking stories. 0.99

00:02:27.000 I was the biggest loser how many times I started over. 1.00

00:02:30.000 If you read that book, I must have started over 60 times.

00:02:34.000 You know, just move.

00:02:35.000 Pick up, move, and go to another town and rob them blind.

00:02:38.000 And then pick them up and go back. 1.00

00:02:40.000 I was like a fucking yo-yo, man. 0.99

00:02:41.000 I was very unsettled. 1.00

00:02:44.000 You were unsettled when I met you.

00:02:46.000 Very.

00:02:46.000 It was so funny because I remember I was talking to some guys the other night in the green room about when I met you.

00:02:52.000 I was like, I had come to LA and I was just so not used to actors.

00:02:57.000 I was so not used to those kind of people.

00:02:59.000 But I was so used to like comics and degenerate pool hall people.

00:03:05.000 And then I met you, and I was like, oh, I know you.

00:03:08.000 This is a combination.

00:03:10.000 Like, I knew you.

00:03:10.000 I knew you right away.

00:03:11.000 You and I became friends like that.

00:03:14.000 Quickly.

00:03:14.000 Like that.

00:03:16.000 I remember, like, there's so many people that got weirded out by you.

00:03:19.000 It was so funny when I bring you around, like, news radio.

00:03:24.000 With the leather jacket.

00:03:26.000 Joey was building a football player back then. 0.98

00:03:29.000 And you would go into the fucking, the green room where all the executives and you were eating all the shrimp cocktail. 0.97

00:03:35.000 And they were like, they were scared to say anything because like, that room was separated from everybody else's green room. 0.97

00:03:43.000 So they had their own thing where they go in there and everything was catered and beautiful and champagne and you just strolled in there and started eating shrimp cocktail and they're like, Who's this criminal-looking fellow who's eating a shrimp cocktail?

00:03:56.000 Well, they had the table with the regular food, and I remember they had chili.

00:04:00.000 I'll never forget that.

00:04:01.000 They had the best chili in the world.

00:04:02.000 I was broke, I was hungry, and I must have ate ten bowls of it.

00:04:05.000 And then I looked over, and there's all these little white dudes with, you know, ha, ha, ha, ha. 0.99

00:04:09.000 You know, I'm like, what the fuck? 0.99

00:04:10.000 And they had the jumbo shrimp and the thing. 0.99

00:04:13.000 So I walked right in there, right past them.

00:04:16.000 And I just started mingling with them.

00:04:17.000 Great show.

00:04:18.000 Great script.

00:04:20.000 Tremendous actor, Andy Dick.

00:04:22.000 And that was it.

00:04:23.000 And then they came to you and you would die in a laugh.

00:04:25.000 And you're like, Joe, you can't.

00:04:27.000 They just, boom.

00:04:29.000 And then the time with the man show.

00:04:31.000 Oh, yeah.

00:04:32.000 Yeah, we had some times with that one.

00:04:36.000 I think the first, like, eight years you were like, I don't know if I can handle this guy.

00:04:39.000 What are you talking about?

00:04:41.000 I did my best.

00:04:42.000 Do you remember Stand Up New York with Sussman when I went off on the owner?

00:04:47.000 Oh, yeah.

00:04:48.000 You remember that?

00:04:49.000 Oh, yeah.

00:04:50.000 During August.

00:04:51.000 For fear factor, we went in there.

00:04:53.000 And he's like, you're not going to get a spot tonight. 1.00

00:04:55.000 I go, I didn't ask for a fucking spot, you asshole. 1.00

00:04:57.000 He just looked at me and was like, what the fuck, Joey? 1.00

00:05:00.000 I didn't like that dude, so. 0.99

00:05:03.000 But no, at the beginning, I know that you were like shaking your head a lot.

00:05:07.000 This guy's not.

00:05:08.000 Yeah, but it made me comfortable.

00:05:10.000 I love being around you because I know people like you.

00:05:14.000 I understand you.

00:05:15.000 I didn't understand actors.

00:05:17.000 It made me so uncomfortable because I never knew who they really were.

00:05:20.000 I never knew what they really thought.

00:05:22.000 They were never present with you.

00:05:23.000 Not all of them, but it was just like there was enough of them out there that were trying to make it in Hollywood and they were putting on a show for everybody, everywhere they went.

00:05:32.000 So you never really knew who they were.

00:05:35.000 With you, I was like, right away, I was like, oh, I know guys like you.

00:05:38.000 Like, right away.

00:05:40.000 It was rough those couple years, because I would go to meetings and stuff, and people would go, I don't know.

00:05:45.000 Yeah, you were rough.

00:05:47.000 You were rough.

00:05:47.000 Rough.

00:05:48.000 I was like, I don't know.

00:05:49.000 And then I remember I went to HBO. Somebody got me a meeting at HBO, like in 98. And I had no success at all.

00:05:58.000 Like, I wasn't having any success at all, except for the Comedy Store.

00:06:02.000 And I went to that meeting.

00:06:05.000 And something.

00:06:06.000 I went with actors and agents, and you know how proper they are.

00:06:10.000 This is an idea about the future of this show.

00:06:13.000 And I could just take it for so long, and I just went. 0.96

00:06:16.000 And I talked about growing up in a funeral parlor, picking up bodies, going to fucking JFK, and bringing the bodies back, and slinging them in the mouth of the guy's body. 0.98

00:06:27.000 The mouth would open on the body, because my friend had a funeral parlor. 0.98

00:06:30.000 And they were like, hold on one second.

00:06:32.000 This is stunning.

00:06:33.000 And I just started going off on them.

00:06:35.000 And they're like, we want to hear more.

00:06:37.000 Put these together in notes for me.

00:06:39.000 And I was like, OK. And then after the new year, I gave them the notes.

00:06:42.000 And I was on fire.

00:06:44.000 I didn't tell anybody about this.

00:06:45.000 Some guy hip-pocketed me and took me to a meeting.

00:06:49.000 And that was six feet under.

00:06:51.000 Oh.

00:06:52.000 So we were on.

00:06:53.000 I was like, OK, OK. And they were like, we don't know if this is going to work.

00:06:57.000 But then they turned me down.

00:06:58.000 They go, we like the idea, but funeral ideas haven't worked.

00:07:02.000 This went on for like two months. 0.99

00:07:04.000 And then six months later, fucking Six Feet Under came out. 0.99

00:07:07.000 Oh, they just took your idea. 0.99

00:07:10.000 I don't know.

00:07:10.000 I don't think they took my idea.

00:07:11.000 Listen, that happens all the time.

00:07:12.000 I thought they had it in development.

00:07:13.000 But my idea was completely different.

00:07:15.000 It was about two hoodlums who worked at a funeral parlor.

00:07:18.000 It wasn't about whatever that show turned out.

00:07:20.000 But I think the concept is just constantly handling dead people.

00:07:25.000 There's something about that that never was really covered before.

00:07:27.000 That's got to affect the way people see life.

00:07:30.000 I remember the first time I saw my grandfather was in an open casket, and the first time I saw his body, I remember immediately, it was very interesting, because one of the first things I felt was like, oh, he's not there.

00:07:43.000 You know, like, it's not just that someone's not alive anymore, like, he wasn't there.

00:07:49.000 That was when I started wondering, I wonder if a soul is a real thing.

00:07:53.000 I wonder what that is, that concept of what is the force inside of someone that causes them to be alive.

00:07:59.000 You sense it when you're around them.

00:08:00.000 Because the strange thing about dead bodies is not just that they're a human body that's dead.

00:08:04.000 It's also there's no one there.

00:08:07.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:08:08.000 Like, you have a feeling that's very intangible.

00:08:11.000 There's a feeling when you're around a person.

00:08:14.000 Like, there's a person there.

00:08:15.000 When the person's not there, it's like, well, he's not there anymore.

00:08:16.000 There's no energy.

00:08:18.000 There's nothing coming from the body.

00:08:19.000 There's no nothing.

00:08:20.000 It's not as simple as the heart's not beating and the lungs aren't catching oxygen.

00:08:24.000 It's something more.

00:08:25.000 It's like you feel it.

00:08:28.000 I don't know if it's real.

00:08:29.000 And it's also, when you're looking at a body that's in an open casket, it's been drenched in formaldehyde and covered in makeup.

00:08:38.000 It's very odd.

00:08:39.000 Very odd.

00:08:40.000 Now, they say that when you die, you lose how much pounds?

00:08:43.000 I don't think that's real.

00:08:45.000 21 grams?

00:08:46.000 Yeah, 21 grams.

00:08:46.000 That's a movie that that dude made.

00:08:48.000 Let's see if that, what was that based on?

00:08:51.000 That was based on some sort of a study, but from what I understand, it's not real.

00:08:57.000 I don't think your soul would weigh anything.

00:08:58.000 Why would it have to weigh anything?

00:09:00.000 It's just the spirit.

00:09:01.000 It's just an energy.

00:09:03.000 Does electricity weigh anything?

00:09:05.000 You want me to tell you something, man?

00:09:06.000 I grew up going to a lot of wakes early in.

00:09:10.000 When you watch The Sopranos, they go to a wake every other week.

00:09:12.000 In Jersey, you're in a wake every other week.

00:09:14.000 I've been there three years, and I already could have gone to like 18 wakes.

00:09:19.000 I've been to maybe two or three of them.

00:09:21.000 But in three years, wakes are big.

00:09:23.000 But you look at the whole process of a wake.

00:09:27.000 I would never let my daughter go to a wake now until she's 18, just because the effects it did to me.

00:09:35.000 I don't remember my father's wake, but I remember my friend's wakes from grammar school, and I remember my mother's wakes.

00:09:41.000 And those three wakes fucked me up. 0.98

00:09:44.000 To the point where somebody else died when I was like a junior or a senior in high school and I didn't go to that wake.

00:09:49.000 I was like, I've had enough wakes.

00:09:52.000 I don't think it's healthy.

00:09:54.000 I don't know.

00:09:55.000 For me, it wasn't.

00:09:56.000 I got exposed to it at a young age and it just wasn't healthy, man. 0.98

00:10:00.000 It fucked with me for a long time. 0.98

00:10:02.000 I watched The Exorcist. 1.00

00:10:03.000 It didn't fuck with me as much as those caskets fucked with me. 0.98

00:10:08.000 So when my buddy had the funeral parlor years later, I volunteered for the job because I didn't want to have that creepiness between us, and that eliminated... 0.99

00:10:17.000 I saw how he responded to it.

00:10:20.000 It was like an everyday thing.

00:10:21.000 It was like you lifting kettlebells.

00:10:23.000 Him picking up a dead body, putting him down.

00:10:25.000 You know, I saw how he...

00:10:27.000 You get numb.

00:10:29.000 You're numb to that.

00:10:30.000 Yeah.

00:10:30.000 That's the...

00:10:31.000 You know, but it's so weird how it's like the number one career to get into.

00:10:36.000 Really?

00:10:36.000 Think about it.

00:10:38.000 It pays off the bat.

00:10:40.000 Like, off the bat, if you go to school, embalming school, whatever they call it, it's like a funeral director, the whole thing, they cover everything.

00:10:48.000 It's like a year if you don't go to college.

00:10:50.000 A year.

00:10:52.000 A year to make a hundred and something thousand dollars.

00:10:57.000 Think about it.

00:10:57.000 That's not bad.

00:10:58.000 Yeah, if you're willing to work with dead people.

00:11:00.000 If you're willing to work with dead people.

00:11:01.000 My friend's funeral parlor had a fireman that did the embalming.

00:11:06.000 So he would just come in and do the embalming.

00:11:09.000 You know, 400 a body, whatever.

00:11:11.000 I don't know what it's done during the embalming.

00:11:13.000 It's very sacred. 0.99

00:11:14.000 I know they break the spine, they drain the blood, they fill you with formaldehyde and shit. 0.98

00:11:19.000 But that whole process, and then you go back and look at the Aztecs and how they did. 0.98

00:11:25.000 The Chinese, they put you on a boat and they float you away. 1.00

00:11:28.000 They celebrate the spirit.

00:11:29.000 I think the Vikings did it right.

00:11:30.000 The Vikings did it right. 1.00

00:11:31.000 Light that motherfucker on fire. 1.00

00:11:33.000 Light him on fire. 1.00

00:11:34.000 Everybody had their own thing, which is very interesting.

00:11:38.000 The Aztecs, this, that, everybody had their own way of dealing with it.

00:11:43.000 So we were on the right path.

00:11:45.000 I just don't think of going in there and sitting with a dead body for three hours.

00:11:49.000 And looking at them as healthy.

00:11:50.000 And then I heard stories from Cuba where they had no embalming fluids and you would have to bury, your body would die and you would have to wake at your home.

00:12:00.000 Like in the 40s, 20s, they had wakes of people's homes without the embalming fluid. 0.98

00:12:05.000 And at one point, the fucking hand would pop up. 0.98

00:12:09.000 And you'd have to break the arm to put the casket down. 0.99

00:12:12.000 Because once that rigor mortis sets in that arm, that's a straight, that's fucking straight strength. 0.71

00:12:17.000 You're not just going to bend that arm in and do an arm bar or a kimura. 0.99

00:12:22.000 It's not going to fucking happen. 0.61

00:12:23.000 So they have to break the arm to put the arm down. 1.00

00:12:27.000 So when I was a kid, my mother would always go, if you hit your mother, your arm pops up in your fucking casket. 0.99

00:12:32.000 So I decided I'm not going to hit my mom. 1.00

00:12:34.000 Fuck that. 1.00

00:12:36.000 I'm going to walk into fucking hell with your arm up like Hitler. 1.00

00:12:39.000 You know, you hit your mother. 1.00

00:12:41.000 Fuck you. 1.00

00:12:43.000 You're the first person to tell me about the scams of the whole mortuary industry. 1.00

00:12:48.000 About how much money they get you for.

00:12:51.000 Even if you want to get an embalming, or even if you want to get someone cremated, you still have to get them embalmed.

00:12:59.000 You still have to fill them up with formaldehyde.

00:13:01.000 You were explaining the caskets, how they guilt you into getting a nicer casket.

00:13:07.000 Oh, yeah.

00:13:07.000 What do you want?

00:13:08.000 You want to be buried in four pieces of wood or you want the Cadillac caskets?

00:13:12.000 How weird is that?

00:13:13.000 I got one with a sunroof.

00:13:15.000 They got everything now. 0.99

00:13:16.000 But how weird is it that people give a fuck what the box looks like that they bury you in? 0.99

00:13:21.000 So strange. 0.99

00:13:23.000 The things that people do to show that they cared when someone was alive.

00:13:27.000 Buy a fancy box to put them in, like...

00:13:31.000 If that's me, save your money.

00:13:33.000 Me too.

00:13:34.000 Yeah.

00:14:01.000 It's all a natural part of the cycle of life of all living things.

00:14:05.000 And we've removed ourselves from it.

00:14:07.000 We've removed ourselves from it.

00:14:09.000 And you could say, well, it was a good thing because you ever watch that HBO show with Dr. Michael Badden, Autopsy?

00:14:14.000 Sometimes they...

00:14:15.000 Exhumed people and they find out that the wife really did it. 0.90

00:14:18.000 You ever watch that show? 1.00

00:14:20.000 Fuck yeah. 1.00

00:14:21.000 That fucking show was amazing. 1.00

00:14:22.000 We've had numerous conversations. 1.00

00:14:25.000 In fact, they took Biden, what was his name, Michael Bowden?

00:14:28.000 Michael Bowden.

00:14:29.000 He was retired and they took him back to get the autopsy on Epstein.

00:14:33.000 And they found out that he had a fracture in his neck that was indicative of being strangled with a ligature. 0.99

00:14:39.000 Like some sort of a fucking cord. 0.99

00:14:42.000 Yeah, and this wasn't like when people hang themselves. 0.99

00:14:45.000 When they hang themselves, the weight of it goes up because your body is hanging down.

00:14:50.000 So it's like you're getting pulled.

00:14:52.000 This was down on his neck, like low, like someone strangled him from behind.

00:14:57.000 In his throat, the bones in his neck were fractured, which is also like a ligature strangulation.

00:15:05.000 Isn't it weird how that just went down?

00:15:08.000 Still going down.

00:15:09.000 Disappeared.

00:15:10.000 They put Ghislaine in jail, and they never released a client list.

00:15:14.000 That is insane.

00:15:15.000 The fact that that's okay with people, and everybody's freaking out about Bud Light.

00:15:21.000 Okay, you care about Bud Light?

00:15:23.000 Care about Bud Light.

00:15:24.000 You should really care about that, because it's showing that people that are in power can probably have people killed and probably hide evidence that they did something that people would find atrocious.

00:15:34.000 And we just never questioned it.

00:15:36.000 He died. 1.00

00:15:37.000 We knew it was the fucking mystery man. 1.00

00:15:40.000 I think it's good there's more of that. 1.00

00:15:42.000 The more of that shit that's out there, the more people realize how fucking ridiculous it is to think that these people that are in positions of power give a fuck about you. 1.00

00:15:50.000 They don't. 1.00

00:15:52.000 That's why I don't fuck with politics. 1.00

00:15:54.000 Don't fuck with politics. 1.00

00:15:55.000 I don't. 1.00

00:15:55.000 It's not necessary. 1.00

00:15:56.000 I don't.

00:15:57.000 Because at the end of the day, it don't matter. 0.92

00:15:59.000 They don't give two fucks about you. 0.96

00:16:00.000 I just went off at a restaurant Sunday. 0.99

00:16:03.000 Some lady... 1.00

00:16:03.000 I don't know why people do this. 1.00

00:16:05.000 Some couple asked me if I was a fucking Republican. 0.99

00:16:09.000 A couple asked you that? 1.00

00:16:10.000 Yeah, it was at a restaurant.

00:16:11.000 You know, you had a bar and you're eating.

00:16:13.000 There's a couple next to you and you're talking, you're watching a game.

00:16:16.000 And she goes, are you a Republican or a Democrat?

00:16:19.000 And I looked at her and I go, I'm a felon. 1.00

00:16:21.000 And she just shit. 1.00

00:16:23.000 She goes, what are you talking about? 1.00

00:16:24.000 I go, listen, I don't play that shit, okay, lady? 1.00

00:16:27.000 I go, all you motherfuckers have gotten too political in the last 10 years. 1.00

00:16:30.000 Everybody's a political analyst. 1.00

00:16:32.000 I go, I got here in 66. And I always paid attention to elections and what people said.

00:16:37.000 I always did.

00:16:38.000 And by the time I was 18, I realized, you know what? 0.99

00:16:41.000 These people come along every four years with the same fucking story and nothing gets done. 0.96

00:16:45.000 So I chose a different path for my life instead of focusing on that. 0.99

00:16:49.000 Call me when the president who says, listen... 0.99

00:16:53.000 You don't have to go to work and you're going to get your balls licked all day. 1.00

00:16:55.000 That's who I'm voting for. 1.00

00:16:56.000 Until that fucking time, I get KLS because I still got to get up and be a thief every fucking day. 1.00

00:17:01.000 I still got to get up and hustle every fucking day. 1.00

00:17:03.000 So what good is it? 0.99

00:17:05.000 Every day, they're going to lower taxes.

00:17:07.000 They're going to do this.

00:17:08.000 They're going to do that. 1.00

00:17:08.000 And I'm still getting up, busting my fucking hump every fucking day. 1.00

00:17:12.000 Well, who gives a fuck? 1.00

00:17:14.000 I think a bad president is very bad. 1.00

00:17:17.000 But I think a good president, you just take for granted.

00:17:20.000 You don't think anything and just go about your life.

00:17:21.000 Obama was very good.

00:17:22.000 There was a lot of great presidents that we had.

00:17:24.000 But it makes the country safer if someone makes good decisions, if someone's a good figurehead.

00:17:33.000 The problem when someone isn't, whether it was Trump or whoever it was, when people mock them and are angry at them, it's just bad for morale.

00:17:42.000 It's bad for everybody. 0.99

00:17:44.000 I saw all that shit. 1.00

00:17:45.000 I saw the last two or three presidents how much as Americans we backbite. 1.00

00:17:50.000 When I was a kid, we didn't backbite that much.

00:17:53.000 Didn't backbite like the president?

00:17:54.000 Like the president.

00:17:55.000 Attack the president?

00:17:55.000 Yeah, attack the president that much.

00:17:57.000 There was a lot of people that hated Kennedy, right?

00:17:59.000 Like that was one of the things about when he got assassinated, there was a lot of people that were very happy.

00:18:05.000 That's one of the kinkiest things in our history. 1.00

00:18:07.000 Oh my God.

00:18:08.000 Who was happy?

00:18:10.000 For sure the Republicans.

00:18:12.000 There was a lot of Republicans that did not like him.

00:18:14.000 It was right after the Bay of Pigs.

00:18:16.000 There was a lot going on with him.

00:18:19.000 And, you know, he had all this talk about secret societies, the being abhorrent, and that he wanted to disband the CIA. That motherfucker wanted to get us out of Vietnam. 0.99

00:18:29.000 Like, Kennedy was a different cat. 1.00

00:18:31.000 He was a different cat.

00:18:32.000 And, you know, for all of his... 0.94

00:18:36.000 Sexual proclivities and all, you know, all the documented things of him being a freak. 0.99

00:18:40.000 They're all freaks. 0.96

00:18:41.000 That's why those people became presidents in the first place.

00:18:44.000 That's why they wanted power.

00:18:45.000 There were men who wanted power.

00:18:47.000 And men who wanted power were all like, you know, like your stereotypical man in power.

00:18:54.000 Like that's, there's a reason why that stereotype exists. 0.93

00:18:57.000 But when you look at what he was trying to do for the country and trying to unite people and the speeches that he gave, To this day, they're fucking incredible. 0.76

00:19:06.000 Civil rights. 0.81

00:19:07.000 Everything.

00:19:08.000 He pissed off a lot of people.

00:19:10.000 Even talking about going to the moon, just the way he phrased it.

00:19:14.000 We choose to go to the moon, not because it's easy, because it is hard.

00:19:20.000 He talked about that.

00:19:23.000 He wanted it to be a symbol of American excellence.

00:19:28.000 He wanted to set a tone for the country. 1.00

00:19:33.000 They shot his ass. 1.00

00:19:35.000 He dropped those... 1.00

00:19:36.000 You know, those Cubans feel like he fucked them. 1.00

00:19:39.000 Yes. 1.00

00:19:39.000 The Bay of Pigs Cubans feel like... 1.00

00:19:41.000 I think there was...

00:19:41.000 I don't understand that story totally.

00:19:43.000 I've been told several different versions of it, that he was double-crossed, that they pulled out support.

00:19:50.000 They pulled out their support at the last minute.

00:19:52.000 Yeah, I don't know. 1.00

00:19:55.000 I've heard he was an idiot, and I've heard he was a piece of shit, and I've heard, no, he got fucked. 1.00

00:20:00.000 So it's like, I would have to go do a deep dive. 1.00

00:20:04.000 You know, it's very difficult when you're reading some versions of history, because you can read a lot of versions of history that treat the Lee Harvey Oswald lone assassin stories if it's plausible.

00:20:16.000 You can read a lot of versions of that.

00:20:18.000 You go, oh yeah, I guess so. 0.98

00:20:20.000 But then you'll read, you know, David Lifton's book, Best Evidence, and you'll be like, there's no fucking way. 1.00

00:20:26.000 They killed him. 1.00

00:20:27.000 They killed him. 1.00

00:20:27.000 They fucking killed him. 1.00

00:20:28.000 Let's just skip it out of the way. 1.00

00:20:29.000 They killed him.

00:20:30.000 They didn't just kill him, Joey.

00:20:31.000 For sure, someone in the CIA had something to do with it because of Jolly West's involvement.

00:20:39.000 Jolly West was the guy that was the head of NK Ultra.

00:20:42.000 He was the guy that dosed up Manson and they ran the Haight-Ashbury free clinic. 0.99

00:20:51.000 The CIA ran a free clinic in San Francisco for fucking decades. 0.95

00:20:56.000 And then they ran Operation Midnight Climax, where they would dose up Johns with acid. 0.99

00:21:02.000 These guys would go into brothels. 1.00

00:21:04.000 They'd dose them.

00:21:04.000 They'd think they'd go to have sex, and the woman would give them a drink, and they're drinking acid.

00:21:09.000 And they'd just get dosed up, and then they'd study these guys. 1.00

00:21:12.000 They did some wild, freaky shit. 0.99

00:21:14.000 And one of the things that he did... 0.99

00:21:16.000 When he got, when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, he went to visit Jack Ruby in prison. 1.00

00:21:24.000 And from that moment on, Jack Ruby lost his fucking mind. 1.00

00:21:28.000 He was hiding underneath the bed, saying the Jews are being incinerated, they're coming to kill us all. 1.00

00:21:33.000 He was tripping balls. 1.00

00:21:36.000 I think they just dosed that guy into a fucking coma, and then after they dosed him into a coma, they gave him cancer. 1.00

00:21:43.000 And he was dead like within a year. 0.99

00:21:46.000 And it's all connected.

00:21:48.000 It's all connected.

00:21:49.000 And the idea that no one was involved in that assassination other than Lee Harvey Oswald, that doesn't make any sense.

00:21:55.000 Even if Lee Harvey Oswald was the only one who pulled the trigger.

00:21:58.000 Even if that.

00:21:59.000 Lee Harvey Oswald was traveling back and forth to Russia.

00:22:02.000 He lived in Russia.

00:22:04.000 He was married to a Russian woman.

00:22:05.000 Like, the fact that this is in the middle of the Cold War.

00:22:07.000 They're not investigating this guy.

00:22:09.000 They're not... 0.99

00:22:10.000 Get the fuck out of here. 0.99

00:22:11.000 I think he was a patsy, bro. 1.00

00:22:12.000 I think they set him up from A to Z. Somebody was giving him money, letting him know.

00:22:17.000 It's interesting, because when... 0.97

00:22:18.000 Listen, you don't want to base yourself on stupid things, but remember that speech that that dude gave Kevin Costner? 0.98

00:22:26.000 Which one? 0.99

00:22:27.000 In JFK. Yes.

00:22:30.000 What was the guy's name?

00:22:31.000 He's the guy that...

00:22:31.000 Donald Sutherland.

00:22:32.000 Donald Sutherland.

00:22:33.000 The guy from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 1.00

00:22:34.000 The guy, that motherfucker, got offered a deal for Animal House. 0.99

00:22:39.000 He would have been, like, $11 million, he took the $10,000 one payment. 1.00

00:22:45.000 Really?

00:22:45.000 Yeah.

00:22:46.000 I read that somewhere.

00:22:47.000 I still love Donald Sutherland. 1.00

00:22:48.000 Donald Sutherland was a bad motherfucker. 1.00

00:22:51.000 But that speech he gave... 1.00

00:22:52.000 Kiefer Sutherland's dad.

00:22:52.000 Kiefer Sutherland's...

00:22:53.000 Ow. 0.99

00:22:54.000 They already had information on it.

00:22:55.000 He goes, Dad...

00:22:56.000 The guy got shot, and within 10 minutes, they already had a whole background on this guy.

00:23:00.000 You know?

00:23:01.000 And then he showed them the newspapers.

00:23:03.000 How could the paper come out in Brussels?

00:23:05.000 I don't remember the whole thing. 0.97

00:23:07.000 But all that made a lot of fucking sense. 0.88

00:23:10.000 Yeah, newspapers were already reporting stories on him, on him, who he was, what his background was. 0.99

00:23:16.000 Yeah, I think he was a patsy.

00:23:18.000 And a very interesting thing.

00:23:19.000 I started, listen, you know when people tell you to watch a show?

00:23:22.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:23:23.000 And you're like, I don't want to watch that fucking show. 1.00

00:23:24.000 Every day. 1.00

00:23:25.000 But people tell you constantly, watch that show, watch that show.

00:23:28.000 I've recently put on a show, I didn't know what to expect, Joe Rogan. 0.97

00:23:32.000 Un-fucking-real. 0.90

00:23:35.000 What is it? 0.97

00:23:36.000 Godfather of Harlem.

00:23:38.000 Ooh, what's that?

00:23:39.000 Not about...

00:23:40.000 Haven't done anything.

00:23:41.000 Not about what you think. 0.97

00:23:42.000 It's that dude that played Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the brother that goes after Sean Penn, the big dude, Forrest Whitaker, the fucking great actor. 0.98

00:23:54.000 Nigel Dodge.

00:23:55.000 Is it already on season three?

00:23:56.000 Yeah.

00:23:57.000 Prequel to American Gangster.

00:23:58.000 I think I just...

00:23:59.000 Oh.

00:24:00.000 This show...

00:24:01.000 So it's about that guy that Denzel Washington played.

00:24:03.000 Yeah.

00:24:04.000 So this show...

00:24:04.000 But it's not what you...

00:24:05.000 I don't want you to think, oh, Joey showed up here with this...

00:24:09.000 This show, first of all, the first season, basically by Muhammad Ali in Harlem.

00:24:15.000 How?

00:24:15.000 He hooked up with...

00:24:16.000 What's his name?

00:24:18.000 K... Malcolm X... And they already told him, listen, your name is Muhammad Ali, but we're not going to change it until you win the championship, the title, because you'll lose the white sponsors, 1.00

00:24:34.000 the white devil, and all this shit. 0.99

00:24:36.000 He was already with them. 1.00

00:24:38.000 But not only that story, it talks about civil rights.

00:24:41.000 It goes through when they shot Kennedy.

00:24:44.000 What they saw, like, in Chicago, how they knew for sure was the mob in the CIA that killed Kennedy.

00:24:50.000 They talk about how when Malcolm X was gonna meet...

00:24:52.000 I didn't know about this.

00:24:54.000 He was gonna do a speech at the United Nations with Che Guevara.

00:25:00.000 Malcolm X. Really?

00:25:01.000 In 1965. They were going fucking nuts. 1.00

00:25:05.000 And it all ties in because... 0.99

00:25:07.000 And they kind of explained in the beginning.

00:25:09.000 You have to tie a gangster in with political because then he blows up that pilot.

00:25:13.000 Something really interesting. 1.00

00:25:15.000 You know I'm a fucking moron. 1.00

00:25:17.000 I can't say this. 1.00

00:25:18.000 And that's what they try to show you.

00:25:20.000 That all these gangsters had something to do with this history.

00:25:27.000 The guy who played... 1.00

00:25:28.000 That fucking dude that blows his head off in Full Metal Jacket. 1.00

00:25:32.000 What's his name? 1.00

00:25:33.000 Vincent D'Onofrio.

00:25:34.000 Vincent D'Onofrio.

00:25:35.000 He plays Vito Genovese. 1.00

00:25:38.000 That your fucking head will blow up. 1.00

00:25:40.000 Something completely different. 1.00

00:25:42.000 I like how he cast it.

00:25:44.000 I like the way he cast it.

00:25:46.000 He cast it outside the box.

00:25:48.000 Again, like Tony Soprano was casted.

00:25:51.000 Vito, the guy that plays Vito.

00:25:53.000 He's very political in this. 0.98

00:25:55.000 And the guy Giancarlo Esposito, who's a fucking G, he plays a congressman. 0.98

00:26:00.000 And he's always meeting with presidents, but Bumpy's wife works for him. 0.98

00:26:04.000 So it's very interesting.

00:26:06.000 What's it on?

00:26:08.000 So it's MGM Plus?

00:26:09.000 Hulu, the first two seasons, and MGM Plus, the last season.

00:26:14.000 MGM Plus?

00:26:14.000 What is that?

00:26:15.000 MGM Plus is like...

00:26:16.000 Is that a new one?

00:26:17.000 It's like Paramount Plus.

00:26:18.000 There's so many of them.

00:26:19.000 There's so many of them.

00:26:20.000 You know, at the end of the week, you pay for so many.

00:26:21.000 But it's an interesting show.

00:26:23.000 You know, that's the most interesting show.

00:26:25.000 You learn something.

00:26:26.000 It's not about shooting and just heroin.

00:26:28.000 It's all this little, you know, the Cuban dude, how all he wanted. 1.00

00:26:32.000 Battle, that dude that we talked about with T.J. English.

00:26:35.000 All he wanted, he was selling code just to take Cuba back. 0.98

00:26:39.000 Like, that guy was... 0.94

00:26:40.000 Can you imagine you coming to me going, Joey, we're gonna do this, this, this, but the fucking final result of this money is me going back to Palermo to take my grandfather's village back. 0.92

00:26:53.000 This is what that battle dude was into. 0.96

00:26:56.000 He just wanted to go back to Cuba.

00:26:58.000 That's it.

00:26:58.000 I don't want no problems.

00:26:59.000 I just want to kill Fidel and go back to Cuba. 1.00

00:27:03.000 So they tried, they get with the CIA and they show how many times they tried to kill Operation Mongoose, the fucking wetsuits, the fucking cigar that explodes. 1.00

00:27:13.000 All those were failed CIA attacks. 0.99

00:27:15.000 How many times did they try to kill Castro?

00:27:16.000 Watch that documentary 101 times.

00:27:19.000 That's so weird. 1.00

00:27:20.000 Remember when that motherfucker walked on the subway in New York? 0.99

00:27:23.000 Remember he came to the U.S.? Yeah. 1.00

00:27:25.000 And he walked on, that's what they show in that.

00:27:26.000 He walked on the subway in New York and the guy goes, you got a bulletproof vest and he lowers it and he goes, I got nothing on it.

00:27:33.000 101 Ways to Kill Castro.

00:27:35.000 Wasn't that the name of the documentary?

00:27:36.000 I don't know. 0.98

00:27:39.000 Forrest Whitaker's a fucking great actor, isn't he? 0.98

00:27:43.000 Forrest Whitaker was in The Color of Money. 0.99

00:27:44.000 He played the guy that hustled Fast Eddie Felsen.

00:27:47.000 Yes, yes.

00:27:48.000 Remember when he has...

00:27:49.000 Is that You Mad?

00:27:50.000 Yes.

00:27:52.000 638...

00:27:53.000 He hustles him out of all this money, and at the end he goes, Can I ask you a question?

00:27:59.000 Do you think I should lose some weight?

00:28:02.000 The guy was, like, completely broke.

00:28:05.000 He shattered him. 0.99

00:28:06.000 Fast Eddie went in there with a big ego, thinking he was this man, this big-time pool hustler from the 1960s, and Forrest Whitaker plays this guy that's, like, super eccentric, who hustles him out of all his money, and then that's his fuck you at the end. 0.99

00:28:20.000 Let me ask you a question. 0.99

00:28:21.000 You think I should lose some weight? 0.99

00:28:25.000 Forrest Whitaker's played some fucking good roles, too. 0.99

00:28:28.000 Oh, yeah. 1.00

00:28:29.000 That Idi Amin and that fucking... 0.99

00:28:32.000 The Last King of Scotland? 1.00

00:28:34.000 I don't know.

00:28:34.000 He's played a lot.

00:28:35.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:37.000 Ghost Dog.

00:28:38.000 Ghost Dog.

00:28:41.000 And D'Onofrio. 1.00

00:28:42.000 Goddamn, that motherfucker. 1.00

00:28:43.000 That guy has been around. 1.00

00:28:45.000 That guy can act his ass off. 0.97

00:28:46.000 Dog, he plays a good... 0.97

00:28:47.000 And then not like, hey, oh, no.

00:28:49.000 He seems like a guy that would be a nightmare to have a political talk with, though.

00:28:52.000 Yeah.

00:28:53.000 No, he's...

00:28:54.000 Like if you sit in the craft service table and he starts breaking about the Biden administration's new plans for this or that, you'd be like, oh, my God.

00:29:00.000 Hey, can I run out here and pee real quick?

00:29:01.000 Yeah, go run out here and pee real quick. 1.00

00:29:03.000 Hold on one second.

00:29:04.000 We'll be right back, ladies and gentlemen.

00:29:08.000 No worries.

00:29:09.000 We got you to pee before we rock the mold.

00:29:11.000 No, I saw you went to the bathroom.

00:29:12.000 I'm like, I should go.

00:29:13.000 I'll hold it. 1.00

00:29:13.000 Fuck you. 1.00

00:29:14.000 You got to hold it. 1.00

00:29:15.000 Those holding days are over with.

00:29:17.000 I got to go, Jack. 1.00

00:29:18.000 I got a bottle in my fucking car. 1.00

00:29:19.000 You got a bottle you pee in? 1.00

00:29:20.000 Yeah, the one from surgery, from my knee surgery three years ago.

00:29:23.000 I just took it home, left on the back seat. 1.00

00:29:25.000 That New Jersey turnpike, fuck you. 1.00

00:29:27.000 I go to the gym at 10. You go to the gym, you're drinking. 1.00

00:29:31.000 And then I go, let me go up north for something, a meeting or something.

00:29:34.000 Dog, I got to pull over like three times.

00:29:37.000 I was just pissing that thing out of light.

00:29:39.000 I got it down to a science.

00:29:40.000 I put the Cuban egg roll in the bottle.

00:29:42.000 I piss in it.

00:29:43.000 I put it in the drink holder.

00:29:44.000 I just drive like a mile.

00:29:47.000 Put it in the brakes.

00:29:48.000 Oh no, I don't.

00:29:49.000 Dog, you know me.

00:29:50.000 I pop the door open.

00:29:51.000 I dump the little piss.

00:29:52.000 I put paper towel in.

00:29:54.000 I wipe it out.

00:29:54.000 I take it in the back, fill it with water.

00:29:56.000 And that keeps me going. 1.00

00:29:58.000 That turnpike's a motherfucker, dog. 1.00

00:29:59.000 Yeah, that traffic is insane. 1.00

00:30:01.000 That turnpike parkway is a motherfucker. 0.99

00:30:03.000 The traffic in and out of New York City is probably the worst traffic I've ever experienced. 1.00

00:30:08.000 No. 0.99

00:30:09.000 That shit that we left in LA had his moments too. 1.00

00:30:12.000 Yeah, that's bad too. 1.00

00:30:13.000 When the 10 goes to the 405 at 430, that was the worst.

00:30:17.000 There's some ways into the city though where it feels like there's only one way.

00:30:20.000 Whereas if you're going down to like Orange County, there's a few different ways.

00:30:26.000 You can kind of skirt around it up until you get deep in. 0.99

00:30:29.000 Once you get near San Diego, you're kind of fucked. 1.00

00:30:31.000 You're kind of fucked. 1.00

00:30:32.000 Those are the rough days. 1.00

00:30:34.000 Driving from L.A. Remember we'd do like the La Jolla Comedy Store?

00:30:37.000 We'd have to leave at like 1 p.m.

00:30:39.000 You would leave at 1. I would leave at 6. And do 90 on the shoulder the whole way.

00:30:44.000 Because if you left at 1, it was still 4 hours.

00:30:48.000 So either you had to leave at 6, or you had to leave at like 6 in the morning, or you had to leave at like 6 o'clock at night, which would give you a two-hour window.

00:30:58.000 Barely.

00:30:58.000 And I was featuring.

00:30:59.000 Oh, God. 0.97

00:31:00.000 And I would fucking make it all the time. 0.99

00:31:02.000 Tell them to go long, and you get down there. 0.96

00:31:05.000 Do you remember I used to make it back from San Diego in, I think, like an hour?

00:31:12.000 It had to be more than that.

00:31:13.000 What is it?

00:31:14.000 117 miles, I think.

00:31:16.000 I would leave San Diego, La Jolla at a quarter to twelve.

00:31:22.000 And I would make it to my Coke dealer's house by 1 a.m.

00:31:26.000 You're going 100 miles an hour, Joey.

00:31:28.000 What is the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego?

00:31:32.000 101 miles.

00:31:33.000 I think it's more.

00:31:34.000 So I would get on the 5. I think it's 110. Okay, I would get on the 5. This is it.

00:31:39.000 Get on the 5, do 75. Once you're like five miles away from immigration, where they ask you to stop for fruit, I would kick it to 100. 118. I would kick it to 100, and then once I'd pass the fruit, I'd slow down to the speed limit,

00:31:55.000 and from there to Irvine, I'd do 100. The next thing you knew, it said LA, 29 miles.

00:32:01.000 Jesus. 0.99

00:32:02.000 I used to fucking, I remember I got stopped a few times. 1.00

00:32:05.000 Yeah? 0.98

00:32:05.000 And the cops pulled me over, you know how fast you were going, but because I wasn't drinking. 0.98

00:32:09.000 On Fridays and Saturday nights.

00:32:11.000 Were you drinking?

00:32:12.000 Not at all, officer.

00:32:12.000 I'm better than that.

00:32:13.000 Okay.

00:32:14.000 Slow down next time. 1.00

00:32:15.000 Fuck you. 1.00

00:32:16.000 I got a coke guy to meet by one o'clock. 1.00

00:32:18.000 I got shit to do. 0.98

00:32:20.000 My coke deal would close at one. 0.99

00:32:22.000 Aren't you glad your coke days were before the fentanyl problem?

00:32:26.000 Yeah.

00:32:27.000 Jesus Christ, Joey.

00:32:29.000 This is why I only do anything I get from who I know.

00:32:33.000 I'm to a point now where I just deal with laughing gas.

00:32:36.000 That's it.

00:32:37.000 I eat that mushrooms, I eat anything from them because I know where I'm getting it from.

00:32:41.000 I feel a lot safer.

00:32:43.000 In LA now, you gotta be really careful with anything you touch. 0.98

00:32:48.000 Even if it's prescription, you gotta be fucking careful. 0.94

00:32:55.000 Well, I heard that people were buying testing kits for cocaine. 0.99

00:32:59.000 Yeah.

00:33:01.000 I know.

00:33:02.000 It's crazy, right?

00:33:02.000 You kind of have to do that.

00:33:04.000 You don't have to do anything.

00:33:06.000 Why snort coke? 0.99

00:33:07.000 You know, snorting coke was always a fucking Russian roulette, right? 0.99

00:33:13.000 But now it's even more Russian roulette. 1.00

00:33:15.000 Now you can either die of a fucking heart attack or fentanyl. 1.00

00:33:19.000 And that goes for everything. 1.00

00:33:21.000 That's heroin.

00:33:22.000 That's prescription pills. 1.00

00:33:24.000 That's fucking reefer. 1.00

00:33:26.000 They're putting in edibles in LA. That's everything. 1.00

00:33:28.000 Didn't somebody just die again from fentanyl?

00:33:31.000 Coolio or something?

00:33:33.000 Coolio died from fentanyl.

00:33:34.000 That's an end.

00:33:35.000 So you gotta really...

00:33:39.000 You really gotta be careful what you're putting in you now. 0.99

00:33:41.000 Thank God I wasn't doing any of that shit now. 0.99

00:33:44.000 Thank God. 1.00

00:33:44.000 Because, yeah, you're gonna die. 1.00

00:33:46.000 It's very scary. 1.00

00:33:47.000 They're putting that shit into this country. 1.00

00:33:48.000 I mean, that's all you read about. 1.00

00:33:50.000 How much fentanyl is coming in and how many people are dying from that shit. 0.99

00:33:54.000 Didn't they say now they're giving you Narcan at home? 1.00

00:33:57.000 You can buy it at CVS or something like that?

00:33:59.000 I don't know if that's the case, but I know a lot of people are buying Narcan and sending it to their kids at college.

00:34:06.000 It's very scary. 0.97

00:34:09.000 Scary shit, man, because it's like, this is not something that anybody had to deal with before. 0.99

00:34:13.000 Like, this level of contamination was something that's so deadly. 0.99

00:34:19.000 When you get like, I think it was like 100,000 people one year died of overdoses. 1.00

00:34:25.000 Like, what the fuck, man? 0.99

00:34:27.000 From fentanyl. 1.00

00:34:29.000 Tom Petty died from that, too, right?

00:34:31.000 Yep.

00:34:31.000 Prince, Tom Petty.

00:34:33.000 Now, what is fentanyl?

00:34:34.000 Fentanyl is synthetic opioids.

00:34:36.000 It's a very potent synthetic opioid.

00:34:38.000 And the amount that can kill you is so small that if you look at a penny, it'd be like a tiny little piece on a penny.

00:34:45.000 Like, there's an image that's online, like a famous image of the...

00:34:49.000 See if you can find it, Jamie.

00:34:50.000 There's an amount of fentanyl that can kill you, and it's next to a penny. 1.00

00:34:54.000 And you look at it, and you go, holy fuck. 1.00

00:34:56.000 It's the tiniest amount. 1.00

00:34:58.000 So it's super, super, super potent.

00:35:01.000 So, you know, in medications, it's used, but they know what the dosage is.

00:35:07.000 When you're getting it from the cartel, someone's mixing it in a bathtub in Tijuana.

00:35:12.000 Like, look at it.

00:35:12.000 Look at that amount next to the penny.

00:35:16.000 How crazy is that? 0.94

00:35:18.000 That'll kill you. 0.99

00:35:21.000 I mean, that's nuts, man. 0.98

00:35:22.000 It's basically the amount of coke, the amount of fentanyl that's in Lincoln's beard. 0.97

00:35:26.000 If you take that amount from Lincoln's beard, if you're looking at a penny, that'll kill you. 0.94

00:35:31.000 That's crazy. 1.00

00:35:33.000 That's a potent fucking drug. 1.00

00:35:35.000 And the fact that they mix that into everything, it's fucking nuts, man. 1.00

00:35:46.000 Scary shit, man. 1.00

00:35:47.000 And it's scary how they'll just hand out pain pills to people. 1.00

00:35:51.000 Nobody just deals with pain.

00:35:53.000 Everybody's gotta just be zonked out all day.

00:35:56.000 And I gotta tell you something.

00:35:57.000 I learned a very valuable lesson from those pills with my last surgery.

00:36:01.000 I learned a very valuable lesson. 0.99

00:36:03.000 The lesson is I learned that I think those fucking Oxycontins promote more pain. 1.00

00:36:09.000 I really do. 1.00

00:36:10.000 I really fucking do. 0.94

00:36:11.000 I can tell you this now after the surgery, because when I had the right knee surgery, okay, number one, I got to give it to New Jersey, though. 0.98

00:36:19.000 New Jersey, listen, I know a pharmacist, and she tells me that she used to work in Staten Island.

00:36:25.000 When somebody goes in there for pain pills in Staten Island, they give them $100.

00:36:30.000 Jesus.

00:36:31.000 You know how many they give you in Jersey?

00:36:33.000 How much?

00:36:33.000 19. They would give me 19 for the week.

00:36:38.000 If you're going to take them for pain every six hours, that don't add up.

00:36:42.000 They didn't give you enough from the beginning. 1.00

00:36:44.000 New Jersey does not fuck around. 1.00

00:36:46.000 So they're worried about you becoming addicted. 1.00

00:36:48.000 Yeah, the DEA went into Jersey.

00:36:50.000 You can't get none of it.

00:36:52.000 And you know I know everybody. 1.00

00:36:53.000 You can't get shit in Jersey. 1.00

00:36:57.000 Shit. 1.00

00:36:58.000 Not the way it was in LA. But Staten Island's open... 0.99

00:37:01.000 Yeah, because New York State is different prescription things.

00:37:04.000 So when a doctor prescribes you OxyContin in New York or Staten Island or for the five boroughs, they give you like 90 of them.

00:37:12.000 You know?

00:37:13.000 In New Jersey, they give you 19. Look, I thought the pharmacy was robbing me.

00:37:18.000 Like, I would get home and go, where'd all the pills go?

00:37:21.000 And I would sit there and I'd take...

00:37:22.000 No!

00:37:23.000 I just got them!

00:37:23.000 My wife would give them...

00:37:24.000 How the fuck can this... 1.00

00:37:25.000 They don't give them to you to drive you crazy no more. 0.99

00:37:28.000 But I had one prescription and then it took me three days to get another one.

00:37:33.000 I just suffered.

00:37:35.000 And then I took another prescription and by the end of that week...

00:37:39.000 The pain had gotten worse.

00:37:41.000 And it got to a point one day where it was that bone by my ankle.

00:37:44.000 I guess they screwed something in there. 0.98

00:37:46.000 I don't fucking know. 0.99

00:37:48.000 And I said, you know what? 0.99

00:37:49.000 I got the prescription.

00:37:50.000 I threw them away.

00:37:51.000 And the pain went away.

00:37:53.000 So I think the pain was promoting The pill was promoting my pain.

00:37:59.000 Because once I threw the pain pills away, I'd have no more pain.

00:38:02.000 And what was the decision to throw the pain pills away?

00:38:05.000 I don't like how they make you feel.

00:38:06.000 You know, listen, you go to the dentist.

00:38:09.000 I'm happy for two hours.

00:38:11.000 They either give you a viking or something.

00:38:13.000 I could live off a viking.

00:38:15.000 I could dodge a game or smoke a joint.

00:38:18.000 I'm good if I want to do that.

00:38:20.000 It's when you do those things every day, like when you get a surgery and they give you those things every day, that's when I think it's a problem.

00:38:27.000 Because when I took the fat ball out of my That was horrible.

00:38:31.000 At the end of that prescription, and I was a full junkie then, I did not feel good, Papa. 0.94

00:38:37.000 I did not fuckin' feel good. 0.99

00:38:40.000 It took me a couple weeks, and it wasn't, you know, you do the probiotics, you do all that shit. 0.99

00:38:45.000 Now let's take it back to the Xanax. 0.94

00:38:47.000 When I was on the Xanax, it was basically during the pandemic.

00:38:51.000 I had 10,000 of those things at the house.

00:38:54.000 10,000?

00:38:55.000 Because he was sending me 90 a month from 2012. On automatic monthly.

00:39:02.000 How was it taking them?

00:39:04.000 They were just going in a closet. 1.00

00:39:05.000 They were just going in a fucking... 0.99

00:39:06.000 When did you take it? 0.99

00:39:08.000 2012 was when I got it prescribed.

00:39:10.000 When I had my little situation at the comedy store that we goofed about.

00:39:14.000 That was not good.

00:39:17.000 There's no way I should be on a standing walking 10 count.

00:39:21.000 That's what that was that night, when I had to follow Morgan Murphy.

00:39:24.000 A standing, walking 10 count?

00:39:26.000 Doug, I asked Paulie Shaw, I told you this story, and we laughed about it.

00:39:31.000 But, Doug, now thinking about it, I should have done something.

00:39:35.000 I went to the Comedy Store.

00:39:36.000 I'm in the back.

00:39:37.000 You weren't there.

00:39:38.000 I think you were coming in later.

00:39:40.000 Yes, you were coming in later, because on Saturdays, I used to close the original room.

00:39:46.000 Talking, bullshitting with Paulie.

00:39:48.000 Everybody's in the back. 0.62

00:39:49.000 No refurb, maybe a joint before I got there.

00:39:52.000 You know, Saturday night, just look at the girls. 1.00

00:39:53.000 I get there.

00:39:55.000 They say, Joey, you're up next.

00:39:57.000 I walk to the thing, and as I'm walking, I walk up the steps to the original room, and Morgan's on stage, and Paulie's standing there laughing at her. 0.98

00:40:06.000 And I walk up, and I'm like, damn, I don't fucking feel good. 0.87

00:40:09.000 Like, this is not working. 0.98

00:40:11.000 I was starting to get anxiety.

00:40:13.000 I couldn't breathe.

00:40:14.000 I couldn't breathe.

00:40:15.000 But I went to look at that window for years.

00:40:18.000 Whenever I had anxiety in the original room, I had a window.

00:40:22.000 When I'm on stage, I got a window on the right.

00:40:25.000 Remember?

00:40:25.000 And we could look out the sunset.

00:40:27.000 I was always good. 0.99

00:40:29.000 That day in particular, when I went in there, I didn't see a fucking window. 0.98

00:40:33.000 So I was waiting for Morgan to get off. 0.98

00:40:36.000 And all of a sudden, I got this anxiety joy.

00:40:38.000 I couldn't breathe. 0.99

00:40:39.000 I couldn't fucking breathe. 0.98

00:40:40.000 So I walked down the stairs just to look at the door. 0.99

00:40:44.000 And it got worse.

00:40:45.000 It got worse.

00:40:46.000 I couldn't breathe. 0.98

00:40:47.000 I thought I was going to fucking have a heart attack. 0.98

00:40:49.000 And I go, Paulie, I can't get on stage. 0.98

00:40:51.000 I'm having a horrible anxiety attack.

00:40:52.000 He goes, I just went up, dude.

00:40:55.000 And I walked up there, and I told you.

00:40:57.000 But I didn't explain it to you correctly because I was cracking a joke.

00:41:01.000 I woke up at the 12-minute mark.

00:41:04.000 I remember walking past Paulie, and that's it, Joe.

00:41:09.000 That's it.

00:41:10.000 And then I remember waking up on stage and people laughing, and I was probably on automatic pilot.

00:41:16.000 Wow.

00:41:17.000 I had a bit that it was on automatic pilot.

00:41:19.000 That was a little scary.

00:41:21.000 So that's when you got on Xanax?

00:41:22.000 No.

00:41:22.000 It was a couple weeks ago.

00:41:23.000 I went to the doctor, and he goes, what was that?

00:41:25.000 I kept having these little panic attacks.

00:41:27.000 Kept having these little panic attacks, little panic attacks.

00:41:30.000 But I was okay.

00:41:31.000 I wasn't going to go to a psychiatrist.

00:41:32.000 We were working our asses off. 0.99

00:41:34.000 We didn't know what the fuck was going on. 0.99

00:41:35.000 So I started taking the Xanax. 0.99

00:41:38.000 And it would help it a little bit.

00:41:40.000 I would take it on the road if I went on a plane or something like that.

00:41:43.000 What does it do for you?

00:41:45.000 You got to remember, too, it was your walking contradiction.

00:41:49.000 I'm talking about myself because you said it best. 0.96

00:41:53.000 I'm eating 2,000 milligrams of THC and scaring the fuck out of myself, right? 1.00

00:41:58.000 You're walking around fucking scaring. 0.99

00:41:59.000 Then the Xanax, I would take the Xanax to calm me down off the anxiety. 1.00

00:42:07.000 Come on, man.

00:42:08.000 That's not gonna work.

00:42:09.000 Those edible weed sessions, when you do too many of them, I do think they make people very anxious.

00:42:15.000 I think they just shift the pole of your brain.

00:42:20.000 You know, I brought some more.

00:42:21.000 But now I eat them more to sleep.

00:42:24.000 I got them on a...

00:42:25.000 My big problem, Joe, is still to this day asleep.

00:42:29.000 So now, two nights, three nights a week, I drink a bodybuilder sleeping thing.

00:42:34.000 What do you...

00:42:35.000 Do you have a hard time sleeping because you're not tired?

00:42:37.000 Do you have a hard time sleeping because you're thinking?

00:42:39.000 I'm tired...

00:42:41.000 Till 9.30.

00:42:43.000 And I look, ah, come on, man.

00:42:45.000 It's like comedy timing.

00:42:46.000 I don't want to go to bed at 9.30.

00:42:48.000 Yeah.

00:42:49.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:42:49.000 Yeah.

00:42:50.000 I never want to go to bed at 8 o'clock.

00:42:51.000 That's when you know you're almost done.

00:42:53.000 Yeah.

00:42:53.000 I want to bed at 8. Fuck you, man.

00:42:56.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:42:56.000 I'm not looking to stay up till 4, but I'm not going to bed at 9.30. 1.00

00:42:59.000 So I'm tired about 9, but I push the envelope a little bit.

00:43:03.000 I like to read, maybe listen to music.

00:43:06.000 11, 11.30.

00:43:07.000 I'm like you. 1.00

00:43:07.000 I like to read shit on the computer. 1.00

00:43:09.000 11, 11.30. 0.99

00:43:10.000 I try to read it, and then I turn the TV off.

00:43:13.000 Once I go up there, bro, I'm thinking about the guy who came to my house who asked me if he could take an orange, but he took three instead.

00:43:21.000 He took nine.

00:43:22.000 He took nine instead.

00:43:24.000 Yeah, and you're like, that was 11 years ago, Joey.

00:43:27.000 I think about the time I bombed in the original room following Don Myrera, like, does it matter? 0.97

00:43:32.000 I think about the time I ate a bucket of dicks in North Carolina in Chapel Hill. 0.98

00:43:36.000 Does it matter? 1.00

00:43:37.000 Does it really matter that you ate a bag of dicks? 1.00

00:43:40.000 You know, I think of stupid shit. 1.00

00:43:42.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:43:43.000 And I fall asleep eventually.

00:43:44.000 I'll tell you what helped.

00:43:46.000 Whoop.

00:43:47.000 I got the Whoop Watch to help me with recovery because I was lifting and going into jiu-jitsu and my back would hurt.

00:43:52.000 So I want to figure out what kind of calories I could do and I won't go over those.

00:43:58.000 If I could do those five days a week, that's fine. 0.96

00:44:00.000 But I can't go in there, burn 800 fucking calories in jiu-jitsu and expect a deadlift the next day. 0.98

00:44:05.000 I don't have that. 0.98

00:44:07.000 So I got the Whoop Watch.

00:44:08.000 The Whoop Watch put me on to sleep.

00:44:10.000 It's helped me sleep better because I finally realized, oh, you slept four hours last night. 1.00

00:44:16.000 No wonder you feel like shit. 1.00

00:44:17.000 Right. 1.00

00:44:18.000 So now I'm in contest with Whoop.

00:44:21.000 So I got it up from four and a half hours of sleep to eight hours pretty much.

00:44:24.000 Last night I only slept like five because of the flight.

00:44:28.000 But I'm sleeping eight hours now.

00:44:29.000 That's great.

00:44:30.000 Yeah.

00:44:31.000 Now I'm sleeping 11.30 to 8. Don't get me wrong.

00:44:35.000 Once every two weeks, I have a little hiccup.

00:44:38.000 I go upstairs.

00:44:39.000 I think of something.

00:44:40.000 I go back down.

00:44:41.000 I smoke some pot.

00:44:42.000 I read, and I go back up, and I'm all right.

00:44:45.000 But when I was doing comedy, there was no sleep, Joe.

00:44:48.000 Yeah.

00:44:48.000 Do you want me to tell you why?

00:44:50.000 Why?

00:44:51.000 Eight cups of espresso a day.

00:44:54.000 You know, everybody thought I would leave the store because I was going to do something bad.

00:44:58.000 Do you know why I was leaving the store before midnight?

00:45:01.000 Think.

00:45:03.000 Why?

00:45:04.000 Because Starbucks is open till midnight in Studio City.

00:45:07.000 And God forbid I didn't catch my flat white before midnight.

00:45:11.000 God forbid I didn't catch my grande flat white before midnight.

00:45:15.000 And then I'll call you tomorrow and tell you how I didn't sleep last night.

00:45:18.000 So you would drink coffee later?

00:45:19.000 We would always have espresso after dinner.

00:45:21.000 Yeah, no.

00:45:22.000 Now I have an espresso at 5 and I'm not sleeping.

00:45:25.000 That's so weird.

00:45:26.000 I could sleep right after having one.

00:45:28.000 Oh, I loved it.

00:45:29.000 Because in my world, it takes you up.

00:45:31.000 Yeah.

00:45:31.000 So you catch it on the way down.

00:45:34.000 I eat a chocolate something, I can't fucking sleep that night now. 0.98

00:45:37.000 Really? 0.98

00:45:38.000 I really focused on my sleep the last couple years, you know, especially since I got this whoop about 16, 17 months ago.

00:45:46.000 That's what's really improved in my life, is the sleep.

00:45:48.000 And I've been taking naps, too.

00:45:51.000 If I go to jiu-jitsu, I do the blue belt class, I need a nap jack. 0.99

00:45:55.000 I need a little nap from five to six, you know?

00:45:58.000 That's where I am.

00:46:01.000 But when I started popping the Xanax, the high point was maybe May of during the pandemic.

00:46:09.000 Like, I couldn't leave the house without popping the Xanax, and then when I get in the car, I pop another one.

00:46:15.000 And it would stay in your system.

00:46:16.000 Thank God I wasn't drinking.

00:46:18.000 And what was that doing for you, though?

00:46:19.000 What's the feeling like?

00:46:21.000 Calming me down.

00:46:23.000 I can't take sleeping pills, and I can't take the strong Xanax, so I have to take the little footballs. 1.00

00:46:29.000 But I was taking eight to ten of those motherfuckers a day. 1.00

00:46:32.000 Jesus. 0.99

00:46:33.000 And then when I landed in Jersey, what had happened was, you know how you and Tom had that conversation about my tolerance?

00:46:39.000 Yeah.

00:46:40.000 Okay. 1.00

00:46:41.000 That tolerance, dog, I think, as you can tell, I think a lot about this shit. 1.00

00:46:46.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:46:46.000 You had a conversation with me a couple years ago about your Romero getting punched in the face in his eye socket. 0.99

00:46:52.000 And when he got into the green room, when the doctor saw him after the fight, his eye socket was healed.

00:46:58.000 It was healing.

00:46:59.000 Healing, okay.

00:47:01.000 I think about what you were talking about my tolerance with the edibles and stuff.

00:47:05.000 Now let's get back to early Joe Diaz.

00:47:08.000 When I was a child, the doctor would have to come to my house two days in a row for years.

00:47:14.000 They'd have to shoot me with penicillin on Monday and then come back on Tuesday and shoot me again because I would never take the penicillin. 0.99

00:47:22.000 You know, I had a lot of problems with my throat as a kid and whatever, fucking tonsils and shit. 0.99

00:47:28.000 So I was always in the hospital as a kid. 0.99

00:47:30.000 I was a sickly kid until I was about eight.

00:47:33.000 All those years, Joe, they would always have to shoot me two or three times with penicillin.

00:47:37.000 The same penicillin they would give you one shot of. 0.67

00:47:40.000 They'd have to shoot me.

00:47:41.000 So I don't know.

00:47:42.000 So you've always had a high tolerance.

00:47:43.000 Always.

00:47:44.000 Interesting.

00:47:45.000 Except for alcohol.

00:47:46.000 Mmm.

00:47:47.000 And even alcohol.

00:47:48.000 Because I could drink something with Jamie right now and I won't fall over.

00:47:51.000 I don't want to do it.

00:47:52.000 But that's what's always pissed me off about alcohol.

00:47:54.000 That I could drink a few alcohol shots, feel okay, but then if I push the envelope, that's when I feel shitty. 1.00

00:48:01.000 But my tolerance with alcohol and with cocaine and alcohol, shit. 0.99

00:48:05.000 I could drink a case of Budweiser, you know, cans. 1.00

00:48:09.000 So...

00:48:10.000 My friend Johnny, you had a Coke problem.

00:48:11.000 I always used to have to take him to the corner store, the liquor store, to get 40 ounces.

00:48:17.000 Yeah.

00:48:17.000 He would calm himself down with like a big malt liquor.

00:48:19.000 He was always trying to like...

00:48:21.000 22 beers.

00:48:22.000 22 beers.

00:48:23.000 And it would calm you down.

00:48:25.000 So when the Xanax finally...

00:48:27.000 But I realized when I got the jersey that, yeah, I got the jersey August 9th or something on your birth, August something.

00:48:34.000 Two days after I got the jersey, I had something like a weird, mild heart attack.

00:48:40.000 My heart didn't stop pounding.

00:48:42.000 And that was because the Xanax turned on me.

00:48:45.000 I didn't realize that until I went to the knee surgery.

00:48:48.000 And one of the assistants caught it because I couldn't sleep.

00:48:52.000 And they tried to give me something to sleep.

00:48:53.000 And the chick goes, you're a... 0.97

00:48:58.000 Withdrawing. 0.55

00:49:00.000 Oh, from Benzo's.

00:49:01.000 She goes, you're withdrawing, naturally.

00:49:03.000 That's why your heartbeat's going up. 1.00

00:49:05.000 That's why you're fucked up. 1.00

00:49:06.000 That's very dangerous. 1.00

00:49:07.000 So then she told me, you have to flip it.

00:49:09.000 So I had to read a...

00:49:11.000 A journal about transitioning.

00:49:16.000 You just can't quit.

00:49:17.000 You can't quit alcohol, and you can't quit benzos.

00:49:20.000 Yeah.

00:49:22.000 You could die.

00:49:23.000 So what I had to do was take whatever I was eating, which was eight of those things a day, and work myself backwards.

00:49:31.000 How long did it take you?

00:49:33.000 Six months.

00:49:34.000 Wow.

00:49:35.000 Worked myself backwards. 1.00

00:49:36.000 Jordan Peterson was fucked up for a year. 1.00

00:49:39.000 Dog. 1.00

00:49:41.000 It fucks with your central nervous system. 1.00

00:49:44.000 You don't have no idea what life is till your central nervous system is fucked with. 1.00

00:49:50.000 Forget cocaine. 1.00

00:49:52.000 Forget all that shit. 1.00

00:49:53.000 And you know I've done it all. 1.00

00:49:54.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:49:54.000 How's it fuck with you? 0.99

00:49:59.000 Your heart constantly beats. 1.00

00:50:02.000 I'm talking constantly.

00:50:04.000 You could be watching TV and you could see it.

00:50:08.000 Do you know how scary that is? 1.00

00:50:09.000 You could fucking see it. 0.99

00:50:11.000 So your body's just freaking out that it doesn't have it in the system. 0.99

00:50:14.000 Freaking out.

00:50:15.000 I had to go on comm support. 0.99

00:50:16.000 I had to fucking change my diet. 0.97

00:50:20.000 So even the six months slowly transitioning off, even that was rough? 0.99

00:50:24.000 Oh! 0.60

00:50:25.000 Really?

00:50:26.000 Because I had to break them into two parts, the Xanax.

00:50:29.000 So I would get up in the morning, eat breakfast, workout, and then pop a Xanax.

00:50:33.000 And then go the whole day, I'm gonna tell you why I did six months.

00:50:38.000 I would go the whole day without a Xanax and then pop one at night and deal with it just to help me go to sleep.

00:50:44.000 But that whole time, I would go to the pool every day. 0.97

00:50:47.000 I would put my feet in the grass and try to, you know, just get me back because it was central nervous system shit. 0.97

00:50:53.000 A lot of tea, a lot of... 0.97

00:50:55.000 So you just felt off?

00:50:56.000 Oh, you feel awful.

00:50:58.000 Awful. 0.99

00:50:59.000 Was it fucking with your comedy? 0.99

00:51:01.000 I wasn't doing comedy. 0.99

00:51:02.000 The pandemic.

00:51:03.000 Oh, that's right.

00:51:03.000 I was just getting back into it.

00:51:05.000 It was just starting to open up.

00:51:07.000 I went and did a parking lot.

00:51:09.000 It was outdoor comedy. 0.99

00:51:12.000 Rich Voss told me to go fucking do a parking lot. 0.99

00:51:14.000 Me, him, and Jimmy. 0.99

00:51:15.000 Oh my god, there were fucking bats. 0.99

00:51:22.000 It was like in a mall outside of Jersey. 1.00

00:51:25.000 There's a little stage, and you can see the bats flapping behind the comics and shit. 0.97

00:51:29.000 And I told Rich the next way, Rich, what's with all those bats? 1.00

00:51:32.000 He goes, fuck that. 1.00

00:51:33.000 I did a gig last week. 1.00

00:51:34.000 There was a bear behind us. 1.00

00:51:35.000 He goes, I jumped right off the fucking stage. 1.00

00:51:37.000 Jesus Christ. 1.00

00:51:38.000 In those places in northern Jersey.

00:51:40.000 Jersey's got a lot of bears.

00:51:42.000 Everybody's doing those outdoor shows.

00:51:43.000 So when I was going through all this, I used to just sit on my bed.

00:51:47.000 On my hands and look straight.

00:51:50.000 That's all I could do all day.

00:51:51.000 You couldn't really keep a conversation.

00:51:53.000 I remember Ari came down once. 0.99

00:51:55.000 I couldn't wait for him to fucking leave. 0.98

00:51:58.000 That's normal though, right? 0.99

00:51:59.000 No!

00:52:00.000 That's my brother.

00:52:02.000 That's my brother.

00:52:03.000 I was happy.

00:52:03.000 He brought the dog and the girlfriend.

00:52:05.000 Of course.

00:52:06.000 I took him for Chinese food.

00:52:07.000 It was great, but I couldn't wait.

00:52:08.000 I couldn't keep eye contact. 0.96

00:52:10.000 I couldn't fucking do much. 0.97

00:52:12.000 And I always noticed that after I took the pill, that feeling would start again. 0.99

00:52:16.000 So when I went to the gym in the morning and did all that shit, I was fine. 1.00

00:52:20.000 Once I took that Xanax, I felt like shit. 1.00

00:52:23.000 And once I took that nighttime Xanax, I felt like shit. 1.00

00:52:27.000 And I cut down... 0.99

00:52:28.000 What's that called?

00:52:29.000 When you cut back?

00:52:31.000 You trim a little...

00:52:32.000 What was that called?

00:52:35.000 Regression?

00:52:36.000 Regression doses?

00:52:37.000 I don't know.

00:52:38.000 What would it be called?

00:52:39.000 I forget.

00:52:40.000 You have to cut off.

00:52:41.000 You have to shave.

00:52:42.000 I know what it is.

00:52:43.000 I can't...

00:52:44.000 You have to shave the pill a little bit.

00:52:47.000 And that's what I did.

00:52:48.000 And then I realized one day...

00:52:50.000 Tapering.

00:52:51.000 Tapering.

00:52:52.000 I got myself a...

00:52:53.000 I got myself a...

00:52:56.000 What's the doctor under the doctor?

00:52:58.000 A nurse?

00:52:59.000 No, a doctor.

00:53:01.000 They call them something.

00:53:02.000 They can give you prescriptions, but they're not really a doctor.

00:53:05.000 I signed up with one of those, and she put me on this plan, like just what to eat and do all that stuff.

00:53:12.000 And one day I called, and I said, listen, man, I got a funny feeling that every time I take these pills, it makes me feel worse.

00:53:18.000 And she goes, why?

00:53:19.000 I go, because when I go to the gym, I'm feeling great.

00:53:21.000 I go in there.

00:53:22.000 I'm talking with people.

00:53:23.000 I'm feeling great.

00:53:24.000 And she goes, what are you saying?

00:53:25.000 I go, I'm going to stop taking them.

00:53:27.000 Because I take clonidine already for blood pressure, and that stops strokes.

00:53:32.000 So I go, I'm just going to stop doing it.

00:53:33.000 And I stopped.

00:53:34.000 I never took Xanax again.

00:53:36.000 Wow.

00:53:36.000 That was it.

00:53:37.000 But I'll, dog, I will never, the withdrawal, the withdrawal, the withdrawal was horrible, Joe.

00:53:44.000 I won't wish it on anybody.

00:53:46.000 Well, that's what Jordan was saying.

00:53:48.000 He had no idea how bad it was when he got it.

00:53:49.000 You have no idea? 0.99

00:53:51.000 Listen, if I was buying this shit on the street from some kind named fucking Pedro or something, then I would have a problem. 1.00

00:53:58.000 When your doctor gives it to you, you think it's normal. 0.99

00:54:00.000 I did the studying.

00:54:02.000 Xanax is only prescribed for two weeks.

00:54:05.000 That's it.

00:54:06.000 It's for short periods of time until they figure out what to give you. 0.99

00:54:10.000 Whether they give you whatever the fuck they gotta give you. 1.00

00:54:13.000 How long does it take before your body gets addicted? 1.00

00:54:16.000 I don't know, Joe.

00:54:18.000 I was living through hell.

00:54:19.000 There's so many of these creepy medications out there, Joey, that people are just taking.

00:54:24.000 You know, there's some medications that people kill themselves.

00:54:26.000 You know, I don't know.

00:54:27.000 I don't know if it's even real.

00:54:28.000 I don't know if it's true.

00:54:29.000 Well, there's definitely medications for the side effects of suicidal thoughts.

00:54:32.000 I just didn't want to feel like this ever again.

00:54:36.000 And, you know, I stopped drinking.

00:54:38.000 Like, I never really drank, but when I moved to Jersey, I was drinking sangrias when I went out.

00:54:43.000 And one night I thought I was bad Joe Rogan and I got an Italian Old Fashioned.

00:54:47.000 Oh my God, Joe. 0.99

00:54:49.000 That set me back fucking... 0.99

00:54:52.000 That was it. 0.99

00:54:54.000 I was done with alcohol after that.

00:54:57.000 Alcohol's a dangerous one.

00:54:59.000 Really?

00:55:00.000 It's a little poison.

00:55:01.000 A little poison every time, but it's fun.

00:55:03.000 You know, I always feel bad that I don't drink.

00:55:06.000 Well, I feel horrible that I don't drink.

00:55:08.000 Why?

00:55:09.000 I wish I could be sociable and have a red wine, Joe.

00:55:12.000 I wish I'd go to dinner with you.

00:55:13.000 Yeah, but it doesn't matter.

00:55:15.000 No one cares.

00:55:16.000 It doesn't matter.

00:55:17.000 Joe, I grew up in the 70s.

00:55:20.000 I know.

00:55:20.000 Where you walk into somebody's house and people just gave you a drink.

00:55:25.000 Hi, Joe, do you want bourbon?

00:55:26.000 Would you like a drink?

00:55:27.000 Yeah.

00:55:27.000 In the 70s, they didn't have it.

00:55:29.000 They took two cubes.

00:55:31.000 How cool were those tables?

00:55:32.000 Yeah.

00:55:32.000 Like Sinatra.

00:55:33.000 Yeah.

00:55:34.000 Dean, what's his name?

00:55:36.000 Do you know when you do the Tonight Show, they would have a cart? 1.00

00:55:38.000 They would pull a fucking bar cart into your green room? 0.99

00:55:42.000 Into your dressing room. 1.00

00:55:44.000 Would you like a drink?

00:55:45.000 When I did the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, he gets you booze before you go out there.

00:55:49.000 I didn't know that.

00:55:50.000 Yeah, he wants everybody to be laughing.

00:55:51.000 Have a good time. 0.99

00:55:53.000 What's a joint all fucking... 0.99

00:55:54.000 Relaxed. 0.99

00:55:54.000 Exactly. 0.99

00:55:55.000 Do you see what laughing gas is?

00:55:57.000 I'm sure Mar probably smokes before.

00:55:59.000 Well, he definitely smokes on his podcast.

00:56:01.000 Does he?

00:56:01.000 Jesus Christ, Joey.

00:56:03.000 What do you got there?

00:56:05.000 I'm so terrified of that bag.

00:56:07.000 Bring it to the green room.

00:56:08.000 Okay, keep it in there.

00:56:11.000 And you got your own bag with the Joe Rogan experience on it.

00:56:14.000 Thank you.

00:56:15.000 A beautiful leather bag. 1.00

00:56:16.000 I got you some fucking... 1.00

00:56:18.000 I'm so excited to show you this club. 1.00

00:56:20.000 Bro, I've heard fucking... 0.98

00:56:23.000 I have people that are non-comics hitting me up. 1.00

00:56:26.000 Non-comics!

00:56:27.000 This is just a lot of noise on the microphones.

00:56:29.000 I know, I'm trying to figure out what to get to smoke next, bro.

00:56:34.000 Look at this, I got bags everywhere.

00:56:36.000 Come on, we're good. 1.00

00:56:38.000 What the fuck? 1.00

00:56:40.000 Here. 1.00

00:56:41.000 Here. 1.00

00:56:42.000 We got a fucking chocolate mushroom bar. 1.00

00:56:47.000 Laughing guy's got it all, Uncle Papa. 1.00

00:56:50.000 They're gonna open up an AC. They've got to fix the laws in Texas.

00:56:55.000 Basically, marijuana is decriminalized in the city of Austin, but the fucking law is dumb. 1.00

00:57:01.000 And these people don't realize it's dumb because they've got it connected to leftists and hippies. 1.00

00:57:06.000 It's about freedom. 0.97

00:57:08.000 There's a lot of ranchers and farmers that like to smoke weed.

00:57:11.000 It's great.

00:57:12.000 Weed's great.

00:57:13.000 It makes you love your children more, makes you stare at the stars, makes food taste better, makes sex feel better. 1.00

00:57:19.000 You fucking idiots that are making it illegal are ruining the world. 1.00

00:57:23.000 And they say that it's gonna ruin people, yeah. 1.00

00:57:26.000 It's gonna ruin people, just like cheeseburgers are gonna ruin people, and gambling is gonna ruin people, and alcohol is gonna ruin people. 0.94

00:57:33.000 All those things that are legal and should be legal.

00:57:35.000 Because you gotta give people the opportunity to fuck up their own life. 0.98

00:57:39.000 Work on counseling, she'd give people advice, she'd give people some sort of resources where they could get out of any sort of hole they're in, whatever addiction they might have, but you gotta leave people the fuck alone. 0.98

00:57:52.000 That's what this country's founded on.

00:57:54.000 This country's founded on freedom.

00:57:55.000 And if you don't have the freedom to choose what you put in your own body, especially when we're talking about something that is Beneficial, medically, psychologically, physically, not physically addictive, doesn't kill anyone. 0.97

00:58:10.000 The only way you die from it, you literally have to do something stupid because you're high. 0.75

00:58:16.000 If I haven't died from it, ain't nobody gonna die from marijuana. 1.00

00:58:19.000 Okay? 1.00

00:58:19.000 Knock it the fuck off. 1.00

00:58:21.000 The only time you die is a fucking brick of marijuana falls out of the sky and hits you in the head. 1.00

00:58:31.000 But, we're still dealing with a bunch of goofy laws. 1.00

00:58:33.000 And I think they keep these laws goofy on purpose.

00:58:35.000 They keep the culture war going because it's an easy distraction from other things.

00:58:39.000 The more...

00:58:40.000 No, Texas doesn't gamble either, right?

00:58:41.000 What's that?

00:58:42.000 You don't gamble either, right, Jamie?

00:58:43.000 There's some gambling here, right?

00:58:45.000 They're like poker rooms.

00:58:47.000 Okay, but not like...

00:58:48.000 Not a casino. 0.98

00:58:50.000 Casinos are magnets for sick people. 0.95

00:58:56.000 You know, when you go to those casinos in Lake Connecticut, they're like, Jesus Christ, there's so many people that are just sick.

00:59:01.000 A lot of people having a good time, just out on a date.

00:59:04.000 Let's go to the casino, play a couple of hands of blackjack.

00:59:06.000 Seems like a good time. 1.00

00:59:07.000 But there's a lot of just sick fucking gambling junkies in there. 1.00

00:59:11.000 Just lost. 1.00

00:59:13.000 When you see them and they have their wheelchairs and they got the oxygen mask and they're smoking a cigarette in the casino, you're like, wow.

00:59:20.000 You see a lot of those.

00:59:21.000 But different strokes with different folks.

00:59:22.000 Hey, you gotta let people do that if that's what they want to do.

00:59:25.000 How about the chick last week that was winning so much money she just started pissing at the casino. 1.00

00:59:29.000 I saw that.

00:59:30.000 Did you see that? 1.00

00:59:31.000 That girl just pissed on the fucking seat. 1.00

00:59:33.000 Pissed on the fucking floor. 1.00

00:59:34.000 While she was playing slot machines. 1.00

00:59:35.000 Bro, she ain't losing the chair.

00:59:36.000 She didn't even move.

00:59:36.000 She was on the phone.

00:59:38.000 She didn't dry her monkey either. 1.00

00:59:39.000 What a crazy bitch. 1.00

00:59:40.000 That's disgusting. 1.00

00:59:41.000 That's a crazy bitch. 1.00

00:59:42.000 I don't mind if you pee. 1.00

00:59:43.000 Even me, when I pee in the bottle, I have a little tissue to dry the helmet off.

00:59:46.000 Maybe she was on Xanax.

00:59:48.000 Yeah, this is her.

00:59:49.000 She seems kind of hot, too.

00:59:50.000 She looks hot from the side. 0.97

00:59:51.000 And just pissing. 1.00

00:59:53.000 So ridiculous. 1.00

00:59:54.000 The lady's wild. 0.99

00:59:56.000 It's crazy, though.

00:59:57.000 Imagine that you...

00:59:59.000 It's not uncommon.

01:00:00.000 Not that uncommon.

01:00:01.000 Hold on.

01:00:01.000 Scroll up.

01:00:02.000 Scroll, scroll.

01:00:04.000 Look at this.

01:00:05.000 Regardless of the video's legitimacy, urinating on Casino Florence isn't as uncommon as one might think.

01:00:12.000 Oh, many people probably did it.

01:00:16.000 Oh, they had adult diapers.

01:00:18.000 This guy said that Arnie Wexler, a recovered problem gambler who operated a New Jersey-based gambling hotline and counseling service at the time, told the Louisville Courier Journal that many heavy gamblers don adult diapers to avoid having to leave a slot machine or gaming table.

01:00:35.000 If they don't come prepared, he said, they just pee in the seat. 1.00

01:00:39.000 Oh my god, you dirty fucks. 1.00

01:00:42.000 Imagine walking into a casino, you just smell piss. 1.00

01:00:45.000 You just know so many people have been pissing on the floor, you can smell it.

01:00:50.000 I don't know if I'm ready for diapers.

01:00:54.000 I don't know.

01:00:55.000 I don't know, dog. 1.00

01:00:57.000 If you pee in your pants, you gotta leave that shit on? 1.00

01:00:59.000 What would you rather have, diapers or be paralyzed? 1.00

01:01:02.000 I'll take diapers.

01:01:04.000 You gotta just deal with it.

01:01:05.000 It is what it is.

01:01:06.000 You know?

01:01:07.000 You can only control what you can control. 1.00

01:01:10.000 You're going to tell me you're going to shit in a diaper and sit in it for two hours? 1.00

01:01:13.000 I don't think the shit thing is as big of an issue. 1.00

01:01:16.000 I think mostly it's a piss thing. 0.99

01:01:19.000 Incontinence. 0.99

01:01:20.000 You might be shitting your pants a little bit, too.

01:01:24.000 Depends on your digestive system and your diet.

01:01:27.000 That's the worst.

01:01:28.000 Some people have gastrointestinal problems.

01:01:30.000 It's horrible.

01:01:30.000 That's the worst.

01:01:31.000 There's a lot of problems out there in the world, though.

01:01:34.000 Little babies die of leukemia.

01:01:35.000 A lot of problems. 1.00

01:01:37.000 We're lucky as shit. 0.99

01:01:39.000 We're alive and kicking in 2023, one of the most interesting times to be alive. 0.99

01:01:43.000 And you and I grew up in a time where there was no internet.

01:01:47.000 We got to experience this whole wave of change over the world.

01:01:51.000 The erosion of faith in politicians and media is at an all-time high.

01:01:58.000 People are... 0.97

01:01:59.000 Just started to wake up to how fucking insane this world is organized and run. 0.90

01:02:04.000 And we're starting to realize that, hey, you know, this is almost over for whoever is listening to this. 0.94

01:02:08.000 If you're listening to this and you're in your 40s, you're halfway there, kid.

01:02:12.000 Alright?

01:02:13.000 If you're listening in your 20s, if nothing terrible happens to you, you don't accidentally overdose on fentanyl, you got a solid 60 years left if everything goes great.

01:02:22.000 If you're taking care of yourself, maybe you'll make it to 90. Maybe.

01:02:26.000 So I'm 55. So how much time do I have left?

01:02:29.000 I'm pretty robust.

01:02:30.000 20. I work out a lot.

01:02:31.000 20. 20 years?

01:02:33.000 That's it? 1.00

01:02:33.000 Damn. 1.00

01:02:34.000 I was hoping for like 100. After that, what do you want? 0.99

01:02:37.000 I think I'd get even better.

01:02:41.000 I think I'd get even better at anything.

01:02:44.000 I think if you could stay alive for longer, you'd make less mistakes, you'd understand yourself more.

01:02:49.000 They'd be like a value that you could give to other people if you have energy.

01:02:53.000 Like, people can learn things from other people that have already experienced life.

01:02:56.000 That's why we love hearing stories and hearing wise people talk about things.

01:03:00.000 The more I experience life, the more I understand me and other people, and the more I talk to people, the more I understand people, the better I get at it, the better I get at life.

01:03:11.000 I really, really, really believe that.

01:03:12.000 And I think everybody does, sort of.

01:03:14.000 Everybody does.

01:03:14.000 I feel the same way.

01:03:15.000 Everybody does in their heart of hearts.

01:03:16.000 I feel the same way.

01:03:17.000 As long as you don't give up.

01:03:18.000 As long as you don't give up.

01:03:19.000 As long as you don't get cynical.

01:03:20.000 As long as you don't get hateful.

01:03:22.000 If you could just stay positive and stay around loving people and be a good person and be someone that people like to be around.

01:03:29.000 You can get better all the time.

01:03:31.000 You keep getting better at being a human.

01:03:33.000 You get better at podcasting.

01:03:35.000 You get better at stand-up.

01:03:36.000 You get better at everything.

01:03:37.000 You once told me something really interesting.

01:03:39.000 You said that your biggest fear was turning old.

01:03:43.000 You wanted to be in good shape.

01:03:45.000 Yeah.

01:03:48.000 And my biggest fear all these years, honest to God, was not dying or anything.

01:03:53.000 It was not being...

01:03:55.000 I hate to say this to you, and you're going to understand what I'm saying right off the bat.

01:04:00.000 People at home might not.

01:04:01.000 I didn't want to become one of the comics at the store when we got there.

01:04:05.000 I know what you mean. 0.53

01:04:06.000 I'd rather shoot myself. 0.90

01:04:09.000 I didn't want to call you when I was 60 and go, dog, I'm taking this cruise. 0.70

01:04:13.000 I need to come on the podcast to change my life, as we both heard from people.

01:04:18.000 Yeah.

01:04:18.000 I did not want to be one of those guys, and that is what I'm proudest of the most.

01:04:22.000 I'm proud that...

01:04:24.000 I put a book together.

01:04:25.000 I'm very proud that I found alternatives that I have to keep bothering people at clubs to put me on.

01:04:33.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:04:33.000 And, you know, well, Joe Rogan sucks. 0.99

01:04:36.000 Mitchie Shaw never gave me the love I needed. 0.99

01:04:38.000 I blew off Kennison. 1.00

01:04:39.000 I don't want to hear that shit. 1.00

01:04:41.000 Yeah, but those guys, they're always going to exist. 1.00

01:04:44.000 You know, they're a lesson for you.

01:04:47.000 This is a path that you could go down.

01:04:49.000 You see that path and you know it's negative.

01:04:51.000 Where we got very lucky, Joey, is that we both experienced, like, you did movies, The Longest Yard, we did a bunch of stuff.

01:05:02.000 We did a bunch of stuff, but then the internet came along right when we were, like, fully developed, like, real comics.

01:05:10.000 We were real headliners.

01:05:12.000 And then when everybody transitioned into podcasting, and everybody transitioned into like, YouTube became like the best platform for putting out a comedy special.

01:05:20.000 And we all learned who's the great comics from listening to each other.

01:05:25.000 You know, people would talk about, have you seen Shane Gillis, holy shit, Mark Norman, oh my god, that guy's funny.

01:05:29.000 And then everybody here, and it becomes this organic network.

01:05:33.000 But it all happened, we got so fortunate that we caught that wave every step of the way at the right time.

01:05:41.000 We wrote every wave in, every step of the way.

01:05:44.000 Take the mainstream stuff to use it to transition into putting your stuff online.

01:05:49.000 You realize online is the real mainstream. 1.00

01:05:51.000 Everybody's addicted to their goddamn phone. 1.00

01:05:53.000 Everybody's on social media. 1.00

01:05:55.000 Everybody's watching YouTube.

01:05:58.000 Everybody's listening to podcasts.

01:06:00.000 We caught that wave every step of the way.

01:06:04.000 And that's the same thing with this club. 0.99

01:06:06.000 Joey, I was not going to open up a fucking club. 0.99

01:06:09.000 What did I always tell you guys? 0.99

01:06:10.000 I said, be nice to club owners.

01:06:11.000 You don't want to be one of them.

01:06:12.000 We need those freaks. 0.99

01:06:14.000 We need these crazy people that are willing to deal with stand-up comedians every week and hoping that they don't have a fucking overdose after the Friday night show and hoping that they show up for radio at 6 o'clock in the morning to promote the gig. 1.00

01:06:26.000 Those people are crazy. 1.00

01:06:27.000 We know them. 1.00

01:06:28.000 We are them. 0.99

01:06:29.000 We're all crazy. 1.00

01:06:30.000 Anybody who wants to do stand-up comedy is out of their fucking mind. 1.00

01:06:33.000 You don't want to be a club owner. 0.99

01:06:34.000 So I was always like, be nice to those people.

01:06:36.000 I want them to be my friends.

01:06:38.000 These are people I work with.

01:06:39.000 I want to look forward to seeing them and hugging them.

01:06:42.000 I don't want to think, this guy's fucking me out of money, and my bonuses are short, and all that.

01:06:46.000 I don't want to be involved in any of that.

01:06:48.000 I just want to give everybody a hug, say hi to the waitstaff, what's up, what's up?

01:06:52.000 I want it to be nice, positive experience. 0.99

01:06:55.000 You don't want to be a fucking club owner. 0.99

01:06:57.000 Now I'm a club owner. 1.00

01:06:58.000 It came about during the pandemic.

01:07:00.000 It was this wild series of opportunities.

01:07:04.000 First of all, COVID, me looking at all the chaos in LA going, this ain't getting better. 0.95

01:07:08.000 We're getting the fuck out. 0.97

01:07:09.000 I had liberal friends calling to borrow guns. 0.97

01:07:12.000 Like, what?

01:07:13.000 No, you can't borrow a gun. 1.00

01:07:15.000 Jesus fucking Christ. 1.00

01:07:16.000 There's lines around the gun stores. 1.00

01:07:18.000 You remember the lines at the gun stores?

01:07:20.000 Joey, I was driving through, I think it was Burbank.

01:07:22.000 Burbank.

01:07:22.000 There was a line.

01:07:24.000 Both of them.

01:07:25.000 A line.

01:07:25.000 Alberto Crane School.

01:07:26.000 For people looking to buy guns.

01:07:28.000 They didn't have enough guns to sell people. 0.97

01:07:30.000 So I was like, I'm getting the fuck out of here. 0.99

01:07:32.000 And when I got to LA, or got to Austin rather, I was like, shit, I need a club. 0.99

01:07:36.000 There's no clubs here. 0.97

01:07:37.000 We were working out the Vulcan, which was nice, but it wasn't set up as a community.

01:07:40.000 It wasn't set up that was like, where we could all be together and hang like we did at the store.

01:07:46.000 I was like, Jesus, that's so important for the culture of stand-up.

01:07:50.000 It's so important for the comics to have a sense of community. 0.99

01:07:53.000 And so I was like, all right, I gotta open up a fucking club. 0.97

01:07:56.000 And at the same time, everybody had been fired from the Comedy Store. 0.99

01:08:00.000 The Comedy Store was shut down.

01:08:01.000 Everybody was unemployed.

01:08:03.000 So I got all the best people from the store to come here. 0.99

01:08:07.000 When I got Curtis and Adam and Eric and Jody and Jesus Christ and Carrie Mitchell to run the bar, I was like, holy shit, man. 0.97

01:08:14.000 It was like, this is the dream team. 0.93

01:08:16.000 And imagine how many people were ready to leave. 1.00

01:08:18.000 Bro, and Adam Egott, that guy's the fucking man. 1.00

01:08:22.000 Everybody was ready to leave. 0.99

01:08:23.000 They come here, and it's so beautiful, and people are so nice.

01:08:27.000 And it all, like, every step of the way, it's like I rode this wave perfect.

01:08:31.000 This building that I got, they didn't even want to sell the building.

01:08:34.000 One family has owned it for a hundred years.

01:08:37.000 They didn't want to sell it, but they decided, they offered me a price, I didn't even negotiate, they said, I'll take it.

01:08:43.000 And they were just happy that it was going to stay a live entertainment venue.

01:08:47.000 They were worried it would maybe become a hotel or something, or a restaurant.

01:08:50.000 They wanted it to be a live entertainment venue like it always was.

01:08:53.000 I want you to go back to what you were talking about in L.A. with your liberal friends asking you.

01:08:57.000 That's a good topic you brought up because I always feel that the beginning of my downfall with the fear just wasn't the pandemic. 0.99

01:09:07.000 I'm not scared to fucking die from a fucking cold. 0.99

01:09:11.000 It wasn't the pandemic, but the pandemic was fucking with me. 1.00

01:09:14.000 The thing that fucked with me the most was what my neighborhood had become. 0.99

01:09:19.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:09:19.000 And not from you telling me. 0.99

01:09:21.000 You know how people tell you shit? 1.00

01:09:22.000 No, no. 1.00

01:09:23.000 What I saw.

01:09:24.000 Yeah.

01:09:24.000 And once I see something, that's it.

01:09:27.000 I don't give a fuck what anybody tells me. 0.99

01:09:28.000 I saw a guy get hit by a 4x4. 1.00

01:09:32.000 At the bus station in North Hollywood.

01:09:34.000 We drove by thousands of times.

01:09:37.000 I saw a guy hitting people with a 4x4, not a 2x4.

01:09:41.000 Who leaves the house with a 4x4?

01:09:44.000 Jesus Christ. 1.00

01:09:44.000 I saw a fucking CVS, Studio City. 1.00

01:09:48.000 I saw a white guy and an African-American hooker fighting at CVS at 10 in the morning in Studio City. 1.00

01:10:00.000 I've been going to that fucking thing for five years, that CVS. That's why I got all my prescriptions and shit. 1.00

01:10:05.000 I saw like three or four things. 0.99

01:10:07.000 Then I had the glass door in my house.

01:10:10.000 So I kept feeling that they were going to kick the front door in.

01:10:13.000 So I went right to the Armenian. 0.99

01:10:15.000 And I'm like, dog, I need a gun.

01:10:17.000 We ain't got time to stand in line in Burbank. 1.00

01:10:20.000 And he brought me like a fucking.45 with a bazooka and shit. 0.99

01:10:24.000 And I gave him like two grand. 1.00

01:10:26.000 I go, don't come back without a gun.

01:10:28.000 Wow. 1.00

01:10:29.000 This motherfucker came back three days later with like a fucking AR-15 in a suitcase with a violin. 1.00

01:10:35.000 I'm like, oh my god. 1.00

01:10:36.000 So now one thing I don't like, I do not like weapons. 0.99

01:10:40.000 I'll shoot you. 0.95

01:10:42.000 But I don't want to have a weapon. 1.00

01:10:43.000 I can't have a weapon.

01:10:44.000 You don't want to want to have a weapon, right?

01:10:46.000 You don't want to feel that you need to have a weapon, though.

01:10:51.000 No.

01:10:51.000 I don't ever want to feel like I have a weapon.

01:10:55.000 I messed around with weapons for years.

01:10:56.000 You know, I got in trouble with a weapon.

01:10:58.000 And I always said that when I put weapons on, I met more people that had weapons on.

01:11:04.000 Do you follow what I'm saying to you?

01:11:05.000 When I was a civilian, hugging people, I never felt a weapon.

01:11:08.000 But when I put a weapon on in 86, for three years after I got arrested, most people I dealt with had a weapon, so I considered it a magnet. 0.99

01:11:17.000 For me, in my mind, it felt like a magnet of fucking bad shit. 0.99

01:11:22.000 Those two guns I had in the house, that didn't feel right with me. 1.00

01:11:26.000 You weren't gonna bust into my house and hurt my daughter or my wife.

01:11:32.000 But having those two weapons in the house did not feel good with me.

01:11:35.000 California has very creepy laws when it comes to that, too. 0.97

01:11:38.000 I didn't give a fuck about the laws. 0.99

01:11:42.000 Get rid of that gun before the cops even get there. 0.99

01:11:45.000 Trust me. 1.00

01:11:45.000 I had 10 neighbors that were cool as shit. 1.00

01:11:48.000 I got an OJ. Where'd OJ's shit go to? 1.00

01:11:52.000 You got neighbors. 1.00

01:11:53.000 You got neighbors. 1.00

01:11:55.000 I killed the bitch, hide the fucking shirt. 1.00

01:11:57.000 Whatever. 1.00

01:11:59.000 I just didn't like it.

01:12:00.000 I didn't like having that weapon.

01:12:02.000 I didn't like having a.45 in my car.

01:12:04.000 And then on the day I flew back here, I'll never forget that I had that.

01:12:08.000 I gave them back the AR, and I had the.45.

01:12:13.000 And the people called me, and they're like, are you bringing a weapon with you on the plane?

01:12:16.000 Because I flew on a private plane. 0.98

01:12:18.000 During COVID, I had the cats and shit, you know? 0.98

01:12:21.000 So I go, yeah, I'm going to bring the gun with me. 0.98

01:12:24.000 And that night, I said, no.

01:12:27.000 And I gave it to Brett. 0.99

01:12:29.000 I called him next month, I go, come pick up this fucking 45 from me. 0.99

01:12:33.000 He still has it. 0.99

01:12:35.000 He's holding it for me.

01:12:35.000 I don't want it.

01:12:36.000 That's how...

01:12:37.000 I didn't like that fear.

01:12:40.000 When I saw Latin Kings spray paint on my daughter's school, Koufax Elementary, same school, Bert sent his kids, that wasn't good. 0.99

01:12:49.000 I just saw a lot of shit up there that I would never saw in the valley. 1.00

01:12:53.000 You see it in Hollywood, you know, shit like that. 1.00

01:12:57.000 So that's good that you brought that up because I forgot how scary it was. 0.99

01:13:01.000 It was scary for a few weeks.

01:13:02.000 It got very strange because it got different.

01:13:04.000 It felt like everybody was more on edge.

01:13:07.000 I saw a bunch of lootings.

01:13:08.000 It was crazy.

01:13:09.000 Someone broke into this clothes store.

01:13:11.000 They smashed the windows and ran into it.

01:13:13.000 And we were by this Target.

01:13:16.000 And these people had blocked the door of the Target with a dumpster and lit the dumpster on fire.

01:13:23.000 And they were telling everybody to get out of the building, put down whatever you're purchasing, run out of the exit right now.

01:13:29.000 It got real weird with all that Antifa stuff.

01:13:32.000 It got very strange.

01:13:33.000 People were emboldened to do things. 0.99

01:13:36.000 And after the George Floyd death, when it was the riots and they lit the cop cars on fire, there was this real feeling, this real fuck the police, we're gonna do whatever the fuck we want and no one's gonna stop it. 0.98

01:13:48.000 And the police seemed hesitant to do things too. 0.98

01:13:51.000 And that was when I was like, check please.

01:13:55.000 I was like, this is not the place.

01:13:58.000 You've got to recognize when things are changing and when they're not going to get better because there's no resources in place.

01:14:06.000 There's no leadership in place.

01:14:07.000 If you're defunding the police, that is a totally wrong approach to deal with an excess of crime.

01:14:13.000 What you need is better funding and you need better training and better people as police officers and better respect for police officers.

01:14:21.000 You need to have an understanding that they're very, very necessary.

01:14:24.000 And one of the things that people found is that as soon as crime starts fucking scaling up, in every city people are calling for the cops.

01:14:31.000 Even politicians in San Francisco that were actively, like, saying we should defund the police. 0.88

01:14:37.000 They were tweeting we should defund the police.

01:14:38.000 Then crime starts kicking up, they're like, we can't even get the cops to come out.

01:14:42.000 Like, why do you think that is?

01:14:43.000 That's crazy.

01:14:44.000 Maybe it's because you defunded them. 1.00

01:14:45.000 I mean, are you out of your fucking mind? 0.99

01:14:47.000 Like, do you think that somehow or another having less police equals less crime? 1.00

01:14:51.000 Like, that's the dumbest scenario. 0.98

01:14:54.000 Like, how would you think everybody's going to get kumbaya on you? 0.99

01:14:57.000 No, you're just going to embolden criminals and you're going to terrify people.

01:15:01.000 And then things are going to scale worse and worse.

01:15:04.000 And if you keep doing the same thing to try to fix it, it's never going to get better.

01:15:09.000 And that's what you're seeing in Portland.

01:15:10.000 That's what you see in San Francisco.

01:15:12.000 It just keeps getting worse, and it's chaotic. 1.00

01:15:14.000 You ever go to a fucking club, like a club, and they're playing disco music, and all of a sudden some fat fuck like me yells, put on Skynyrd! 1.00

01:15:22.000 And nobody listens. 1.00

01:15:24.000 People are like, look at that idiot. 1.00

01:15:26.000 When I heard the term, debunk the police, that's what it felt like. 1.00

01:15:29.000 Defund the police, yeah.

01:15:29.000 Defund the police, put on Skynyrd.

01:15:31.000 Until people started saying, that's a great idea. 1.00

01:15:34.000 And you're like, what the fuck? 0.99

01:15:35.000 And that's what was going on. 0.99

01:15:36.000 Too many people were yelling, put on Skynyrd with different ideas at that point.

01:15:40.000 And you're like, what do you mean?

01:15:42.000 Dog, listen, let's get something straight. 0.99

01:15:44.000 You're going to hear this from me one fucking time. 0.99

01:15:46.000 I was born a nice kid. 1.00

01:15:48.000 Somewhere along the line, I lost my fucking way. 0.99

01:15:50.000 Somewhere along the line, when you suffer a traumatic experience when you're a young man, you stay stuck for a few years. 0.99

01:15:56.000 Or a young woman, you stay stuck. 0.82

01:15:58.000 That's why women become, you know, they become, what is that word? 1.00

01:16:03.000 Prostitutes? 1.00

01:16:03.000 No. 1.00

01:16:06.000 When you like to fuck, the prostitutes, whatever that fucking word is. 1.00

01:16:10.000 Nymphomaniacs? 1.00

01:16:10.000 No, that's not the word. 1.00

01:16:12.000 Promiscuous?

01:16:12.000 Promiscuous.

01:16:13.000 You know, when you suffer a dad or a mom or a grandmother you were tight with, You get stalled for a couple of years.

01:16:19.000 I'm not making excuses.

01:16:20.000 These are all proven things. 1.00

01:16:22.000 You got to read this shit. 1.00

01:16:23.000 You just don't grow until the reality comes to you of what happened. 1.00

01:16:28.000 You're still in shock when your mom dies or your father dies.

01:16:31.000 And somewhere along the line, I went off the rails.

01:16:33.000 And I'm sorry for that.

01:16:35.000 I never disrespected a cop, Joe.

01:16:38.000 In all the stories I tell you, you never hear any disrespect of a police officer.

01:16:44.000 Never.

01:16:44.000 Well, you knew cops.

01:16:47.000 But that's part of it too.

01:16:49.000 You know who raised me when I was a young kid?

01:16:51.000 P.A.L. P.A.L. Believe that's Ledif League on 88th Street in Amsterdam.

01:16:58.000 I grew up in there.

01:16:59.000 That's where I learned how to shoot pool.

01:17:00.000 Really?

01:17:01.000 That's where I learned how to shoot guns.

01:17:02.000 They took you to the 25th precinct, and you shot at targets.

01:17:05.000 They took you to the park.

01:17:07.000 I was a big PAO guy.

01:17:09.000 Then I moved to Jersey. 0.97

01:17:10.000 Fucking baddest PAO boxing coach, Cuban coach, Mr. Gamio. 1.00

01:17:14.000 I never traded with him. 0.99

01:17:15.000 He didn't like me.

01:17:16.000 But I knew his sons and his kids, you know.

01:17:19.000 But PAO, Mr. Marino, that dude used to drive us everywhere.

01:17:22.000 Again, he didn't like me too much.

01:17:24.000 Why did he like you?

01:17:25.000 Because I was like, you know, something.

01:17:27.000 I don't know.

01:17:28.000 Once I got to Jersey, I hung out with a rough crew or something.

01:17:30.000 At that age, they didn't like me in bitty basketball, so I didn't play in Union City.

01:17:34.000 But I always had respect to the PAL. And all those years, I always knew they had a job to do.

01:17:41.000 And I was trying to be a criminal.

01:17:43.000 I can't take it out on them. 0.99

01:17:46.000 You never heard me say bad shit about cops. 0.92

01:17:49.000 In fact, in 60 years, the only cop I've had a problem with is one of the guys that arrested me in Boulder. 0.90

01:17:57.000 In fact, the other dude, I just wished him a happy birthday.

01:18:00.000 James Kohler.

01:18:01.000 It was his birthday on Wednesday.

01:18:02.000 Or Tuesday on Facebook.

01:18:04.000 I follow with friends on Facebook.

01:18:06.000 Oh, that's hilarious.

01:18:07.000 So that was the only cop.

01:18:09.000 So for a guy like me to only have problem with one real cop in all those years, gotta tell you something. 0.99

01:18:15.000 So when I heard that debunk the fucking cops. 0.99

01:18:18.000 Defund. 1.00

01:18:18.000 Go fuck yourself. 1.00

01:18:20.000 It's so ridiculous. 1.00

01:18:20.000 You're the same motherfuckers that are gonna be crying for the same cops to come to your house in five years. 1.00

01:18:25.000 A hundred percent. 1.00

01:18:26.000 And then they were talking about having people come over to your house and just talking to you.

01:18:30.000 Yeah.

01:18:31.000 Like during, you know, two safety officers. 0.99

01:18:34.000 And now this shit that they're doing with bails, it's crazy. 0.97

01:18:38.000 It's almost like they want everything to fall apart. 0.99

01:18:41.000 This is like something that you hear, yeah, we're going to have bail reform.

01:18:45.000 You're like, okay, yeah, I'll put on skin again.

01:18:48.000 Yeah.

01:18:48.000 Bail reform.

01:18:49.000 So what you're telling me is right now they have a huge problem in New Jersey with stolen cars. 1.00

01:18:54.000 And these motherfuckers got it down to a science. 0.99

01:18:56.000 They're stealing them, and they take them right to the port in Newark. 1.00

01:18:59.000 There's no more middlemen.

01:19:01.000 You know, in L.A., they got the Armenians chopping up cars? 0.99

01:19:03.000 No.

01:19:03.000 They just take them right to the port.

01:19:05.000 You could see it on the GPS of your car.

01:19:08.000 They take them right to Newark.

01:19:10.000 They're waiting for the car.

01:19:11.000 They know where you live.

01:19:13.000 They know it's a half hour to Newark.

01:19:14.000 The ship is there.

01:19:15.000 And where do they bring them?

01:19:16.000 They take them to whatever, Brazil to start a new currency. 0.99

01:19:19.000 I don't know where the fuck they take them. 0.98

01:19:21.000 But my point is that when those guys get arrested, they're out the next day. 0.99

01:19:26.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:19:27.000 And half of the shit that's going on, people are out the next day. 1.00

01:19:30.000 Again! 0.99

01:19:30.000 Did you see the thing, the shoplifting statistics about New York? 0.99

01:19:35.000 Of all of the shoplifting, it's like 600 people.

01:19:40.000 And they've been arrested thousands of times.

01:19:42.000 Thousands of times.

01:19:43.000 See if you can find the statistics, because it's so crazy, you can't believe that that's really it.

01:19:49.000 In New York, it takes two cops to arrest you.

01:19:51.000 So here it is.

01:19:53.000 Okay.

01:19:53.000 Oh, excuse me.

01:19:54.000 Only 327 people, collectively, they were arrested and re-arrested more than 6,000 times.

01:20:02.000 Some engage in shoplifting as a trade while others are driven by addiction or mental illness.

01:20:07.000 The police did not identify the 327 people in the analysis.

01:20:13.000 327 people!

01:20:14.000 Hey, maybe you should lock those folks up and you'd stop all of the shoplifting. 0.99

01:20:20.000 The idea that you shouldn't do that is so fucking... 0.98

01:20:23.000 Do you understand how cities work? 0.99

01:20:25.000 Do you understand how law and order works?

01:20:27.000 Do you understand how peace works?

01:20:29.000 You need peace officers.

01:20:31.000 If you don't have peace officers, bad people are gonna run amok and they're not gonna listen.

01:20:36.000 This has been the case in all of human history. 0.99

01:20:40.000 I mean, we know what the fucking equation is. 0.96

01:20:42.000 It's not that all cops are bad. 0.99

01:20:44.000 It's that there are some bad cops.

01:20:46.000 And they should be exposed, and they should have better training, and they should be better funded, and they should be appreciated.

01:20:52.000 And maybe if they're more appreciated, there would be less of this.

01:20:55.000 And maybe we should figure out why the crime is happening in these cities in the first place. 0.51

01:20:59.000 Maybe figure out why these disenfranchised communities are the same every fucking year, decade after decade, with no federal funding, why we ship billions of dollars over to Ukraine. 0.96

01:21:09.000 And what did we spend in Afghanistan? 0.98

01:21:10.000 What did we spend?

01:21:11.000 Come on! 0.61

01:21:12.000 This is...

01:21:13.000 It's not like you can't, like, make some real steps to fix this nationwide as a country.

01:21:19.000 But defunding the police is not one of them.

01:21:21.000 Not one of them. 0.96

01:21:22.000 That's a dumb way to approach it. 1.00

01:21:24.000 Punishment is so fucking important. 1.00

01:21:26.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:21:27.000 I understand the slap in the wrist.

01:21:29.000 I got a ton of them.

01:21:30.000 And what did that do?

01:21:31.000 Nothing.

01:21:32.000 What did that do?

01:21:33.000 All those slaps on the wrist.

01:21:35.000 I was cool.

01:21:35.000 Right.

01:21:36.000 You got a little record.

01:21:37.000 Write a letter.

01:21:38.000 You were legit.

01:21:39.000 What did they do?

01:21:41.000 What did they do?

01:21:43.000 They let me run amok from 1983 to 1988 when I got busted.

01:21:51.000 I wish I would have got arrested once and for all. 0.95

01:21:54.000 But all those stupidity things, you know, that I was doing, whether I was in San Francisco, I got arrested in all those places. 0.99

01:22:02.000 But they were dumb enough to let me out. 1.00

01:22:04.000 What did you get arrested for? 0.99

01:22:07.000 Doesn't matter. 1.00

01:22:08.000 You know, stupid shit, theft of over $200, possession of stolen tools, possession of this, you know, only one weed possession. 1.00

01:22:18.000 That was my second arrest, was weed and I got a six-month probation, which had a half ounce on me. 1.00

01:22:25.000 I get it.

01:22:25.000 I paid a fine, a buck and a quarter or something like that.

01:22:28.000 Did it defray me?

01:22:30.000 Did it deter me from getting high?

01:22:31.000 No.

01:22:32.000 No.

01:22:33.000 You know, I wish they'd nail you, and that sentence that that judge gave me, that's a sentence they gotta give people.

01:22:43.000 Zero to four years, uh, reconsideration after a year.

01:22:51.000 If you really do it.

01:22:53.000 Just to show you the bowels of what it is. 1.00

01:22:56.000 If after a year I don't reconsider you, pretty much you're gonna be in there for the rest of your fucking life. 0.99

01:23:03.000 You take somebody, you punish them heavy the first time, and then you see what direction they go. 0.99

01:23:08.000 One thing, when I walked out of that prison cell, I knew I was gonna still do coke and show.

01:23:12.000 I knew I was still gonna steal.

01:23:14.000 I just knew I had to change my ways a little bit.

01:23:18.000 I knew I wasn't going back in there.

01:23:20.000 This goes back to shoplifting.

01:23:22.000 When you shoplift, they have theft over $200 and theft under $200.

01:23:27.000 And in different states, different counties, it's all different.

01:23:30.000 I don't know what it is.

01:23:32.000 Well, now in places, it's like $900.

01:23:34.000 Yeah, $900.

01:23:35.000 So people are just walking out of stores and no one's stopping them.

01:23:37.000 Exactly. 0.98

01:23:38.000 So it used to be that I could go to a place, a supermarket, and try to rob a fucking lobster tail for $100, and they'd give me a ticket. 0.99

01:23:47.000 A ticket. 0.99

01:23:48.000 I'll live with a ticket all day long. 1.00

01:23:50.000 I'll take that ticket and shove it up my ass. 0.99

01:23:52.000 It's me going down to the station, getting processed, fingerprinted. 1.00

01:23:57.000 That's what deters you. 1.00

01:23:59.000 That's the shit that deters you, Joe. 1.00

01:24:02.000 And that's what they're not understanding. 1.00

01:24:04.000 They don't have enough programs for people.

01:24:05.000 Listen, when you go to prison in this country, all you're doing is warehousing me and put me back out.

01:24:10.000 You warehouse me with guys that are smarter than me and now gave me new ways to make money.

01:24:16.000 To steal.

01:24:18.000 If I was stealing with a gun before, now they taught me how to steal with a computer.

01:24:22.000 What do you think's gonna happen?

01:24:24.000 There's no programs in there.

01:24:26.000 They don't talk to you. 1.00

01:24:26.000 They don't give a fuck. 1.00

01:24:28.000 It's up to you to give a fuck. 1.00

01:24:31.000 There's no Chinese food in prison. 1.00

01:24:33.000 There's no fucking tons of things in prison, so I didn't belong there. 0.98

01:24:36.000 So I didn't... 0.90

01:24:37.000 I knew I wasn't gonna go back.

01:24:39.000 Knock on wood.

01:24:39.000 I stayed out.

01:24:41.000 But think about the people who weren't as lucky as me.

01:24:44.000 The percentages.

01:24:45.000 The percentages are horrible.

01:24:46.000 The percentages of most men who grow up in crime-ridden neighborhoods are horrible.

01:24:52.000 It's very...

01:24:55.000 It's very hard to get out.

01:24:57.000 You gotta find something, whether it's music or entertainment or sports or something.

01:25:03.000 You might have a wild idea for a business that catches on, but Jesus Christ, the odds are stacked against you.

01:25:08.000 The odds are stacked against you.

01:25:09.000 And what happens when you do get convicted with that felony?

01:25:13.000 I can't do nothing.

01:25:16.000 Still, to this day, I can't do anything, Joe.

01:25:19.000 I can't go get a retirement job at Costco.

01:25:22.000 I can't volunteer at Costco. 0.98

01:25:24.000 I can't get a volunteer's job at a fucking rec center, maybe helping, taking old people out to a movie or something like that just to give back to the community. 0.98

01:25:33.000 I can't do that. 0.99

01:25:35.000 Can't do that.

01:25:36.000 That liquidated me from anything.

01:25:38.000 I found out the last three years how worthless I really was.

01:25:42.000 That's why I sell weed.

01:25:44.000 The last three years.

01:25:45.000 Why sell the last three years?

01:25:46.000 Because I was always looking for options.

01:25:48.000 Like what else can I do in my life that would maybe, you know, whatever.

01:25:53.000 Just what can I do?

01:25:54.000 Maybe go back to school.

01:25:55.000 Anything.

01:25:55.000 I don't know.

01:25:56.000 I'm always interested in learning more. 0.93

01:25:59.000 I fucking don't remember any history. 0.60

01:26:02.000 So you're just thinking about doing it just as an interesting thing to do, like a new adventure? 0.92

01:26:06.000 Yeah, like maybe go back to school or something, take online classes, something. 0.98

01:26:11.000 I love to fucking learn all this shit I blew away the last 30 years. 0.97

01:26:16.000 You know, I didn't read what I used to read as a child. 1.00

01:26:19.000 I didn't read geography, I didn't read history, I read, you know, books, you know, fucking stupid books. 0.99

01:26:25.000 So I'd love to take classes again or something like that, but anything. 1.00

01:26:30.000 I have no options.

01:26:31.000 I could never do anything with that felony. 1.00

01:26:33.000 Is that the fucking thing you should be sending? 0.98

01:26:38.000 Yeah, it doesn't mean... 0.99

01:26:40.000 If someone pays their price and does their time, I feel like they should just...

01:26:44.000 As long as they're not doing anything else, as long as they're not committing more crimes, they should be a regular member of society.

01:26:50.000 No.

01:26:51.000 Let me explain something to you.

01:26:52.000 In my world, for me to get to where I got, when I walked out of that prison cell, I became a regular member of society.

01:26:58.000 But imagine if you're 20 years old and you do something stupid and you get locked up for it, and then you are no longer a voting member of society.

01:27:04.000 I was 25. Yeah. 0.99

01:27:07.000 I was 25. Yeah.

01:27:09.000 1987, I'm 24. 1988, I'm 25, Joe.

01:27:14.000 Yeah.

01:27:15.000 I got out when I was 27. 27 and a half, maybe?

01:27:20.000 And thank God I could sell. 1.00

01:27:22.000 Thank God I could fucking sell ice to a fucking Eskimo. 1.00

01:27:25.000 Thank God you have that skill. 1.00

01:27:27.000 At least you could sell cars or insurance or whatever.

01:27:30.000 I can't get registered.

01:27:31.000 I can't work at the stocks.

01:27:33.000 I could always be like you're a stockbroker. 1.00

01:27:36.000 I could always make cold calls for your shit like that. 1.00

01:27:39.000 But in my world, I didn't want to go back. 0.99

01:27:41.000 What was I going to do?

01:27:43.000 What are you going to do?

01:27:44.000 I can't even be an acupuncturist.

01:27:45.000 That probably makes a lot of people go back to crime.

01:27:49.000 Exactly.

01:27:50.000 People give up. 0.96

01:27:51.000 When I found out that I didn't do background checks at comedy clubs, how fucking happy was I? And I was still skeptical. 0.84

01:27:59.000 And then it was one guy that saved my life, Tim Allen.

01:28:02.000 Tim Allen.

01:28:03.000 I was just going to say that.

01:28:03.000 When I heard that Tim Allen did, boom.

01:28:06.000 Yeah.

01:28:06.000 Boom.

01:28:07.000 I'm like, okay. 1.00

01:28:08.000 And the motherfucker got on Disney. 1.00

01:28:11.000 And I'm like, okay. 1.00

01:28:12.000 I just want to get to the Comedy Store.

01:28:14.000 I don't want to get on Disney.

01:28:16.000 I don't want to go on NBC. Let me ask you this.

01:28:19.000 What happened to you where you figured out how to be funny on stage?

01:28:25.000 Because you were always okay on stage, but you would have some rough sets.

01:28:30.000 And then there was one day...

01:28:33.000 It was one day in the OR. You were telling stories backstage.

01:28:38.000 You know, we had to have that little back parking lot area. 0.99

01:28:40.000 You were telling stories and you went on stage just fucking guns blazing and you murdered harder than I'd ever seen you kill before. 0.99

01:28:48.000 I was like, this is crazy. 1.00

01:28:49.000 This is like a different person.

01:28:51.000 You were stiff on stage before.

01:28:54.000 You're like, oh, you didn't like that joke?

01:28:55.000 All right.

01:28:56.000 And you go into another joke, and you had a joke and a joke, and then one day, you went on stage just guns blazing, and it was not...

01:29:06.000 I always tell everybody, it wasn't like it was a slow, gradual, he got better.

01:29:10.000 It was like you were here, and then boom. 0.87

01:29:14.000 Bro, you get punched in the face one too many times.

01:29:17.000 And after one punch, you go, that's it.

01:29:19.000 I'm not doing this.

01:29:20.000 And I just want to tell you something, because I talked to Ari about this.

01:29:25.000 If... 1.00

01:29:26.000 Well, I'm definitely going to do ten minutes tonight to fuck around with you. 1.00

01:29:30.000 I have a plan, Joe. 1.00

01:29:31.000 If you know anything about me, you know I always got a plan.

01:29:33.000 You got plans.

01:29:34.000 I always got a plan.

01:29:37.000 For me to do stand-up again, I don't want to travel.

01:29:41.000 I'll come down here, do a residency down here for you. 0.99

01:29:44.000 Whatever the fuck you want. 0.99

01:29:45.000 Storyteller, whatever you want. 1.00

01:29:46.000 I got no problem with that.

01:29:47.000 I don't want to hang dates all over me.

01:29:49.000 That gives me a lot of anxiety.

01:29:51.000 And I don't want to be doing anything else.

01:29:54.000 For the first time, if I go back to comedy, I told Ari this.

01:29:58.000 I go, Ari, because Ari says you might not do a podcast no more.

01:30:02.000 And I go, you're done. 0.98

01:30:05.000 Ari's so silly. 1.00

01:30:05.000 I go, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. 1.00

01:30:07.000 Just focus on stand-up for the next five years.

01:30:09.000 He's about to turn 48 or something.

01:30:11.000 I go, just do stand-up for the next five years.

01:30:13.000 Nothing else.

01:30:14.000 No podcasting, no films.

01:30:16.000 You don't have to worry about anything. 0.97

01:30:17.000 And he goes, you know, you got a good point because I wrote the new special when I couldn't edit no more, that fucking This Is Not Happening show. 0.94

01:30:26.000 You've always spoken about this. 0.98

01:30:28.000 Just do stand-up.

01:30:29.000 Yeah.

01:30:30.000 When I got to L.A., I was there just to do stand-up.

01:30:33.000 But then everybody started throwing all these things at me, and I got confused.

01:30:37.000 And then I realized I'm at the store.

01:30:39.000 I came here to do stand-up.

01:30:40.000 And that's what we are.

01:30:42.000 I think even now, the stand-up comic is too...

01:30:45.000 We're all over the place now.

01:30:48.000 We used to just do stand-up.

01:30:50.000 We used to just do stand-up.

01:30:52.000 They got comics doing everything now. 0.99

01:30:54.000 It's great, but it takes away from who the fuck we really are. 0.94

01:30:59.000 Well, when I was doing Fear Factor, I didn't tour hardly at all. 0.98

01:31:04.000 Because I was really working a lot.

01:31:06.000 It was a lot of hours.

01:31:08.000 And I was mostly just doing the store.

01:31:11.000 And I remember hearing about people that were doing the road and I'd get jealous.

01:31:15.000 I was hearing about people just doing stand-up and I would get jealous.

01:31:20.000 But I also knew I was very fortunate.

01:31:22.000 I also knew like, hey man, not a lot of people get a hit television show.

01:31:26.000 You gotta keep doing this. 0.94

01:31:28.000 This is money that you could literally do whatever the fuck you want now. 0.89

01:31:33.000 You could literally not ever worry about money. 0.91

01:31:36.000 That's a giant thing to have.

01:31:39.000 So I was like, okay.

01:31:40.000 But I remember thinking, man, all these guys are just doing stand-up.

01:31:43.000 It looks like so much fun.

01:31:44.000 I would talk to dudes after they did Thursday, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and they'd come to the store on Tuesday.

01:31:49.000 And I'd be like, where were you?

01:31:50.000 They're like, oh, I was in Columbus.

01:31:52.000 How was it? 0.99

01:31:52.000 Oh, it was fucking great. 0.99

01:31:54.000 Saturday night, the fucking show was so good. 1.00

01:31:56.000 They're telling stories and this and that. 1.00

01:31:57.000 And I'm like, oh.

01:31:59.000 And, you know, like, oh, your hour gets so tight.

01:32:02.000 You know, you roll in Thursday with a new joke. 0.99

01:32:04.000 By the time Saturday late show, it's fucking crack. 0.99

01:32:06.000 And I'm like... 0.98

01:32:09.000 Yeah, but all I was able to do was do weeknights and weekends occasionally at the store.

01:32:13.000 But I really didn't have the time to travel.

01:32:16.000 Well, at least you did that. 0.99

01:32:17.000 Think of all the guys that came to LA as good stand-ups, got a job on a TV show, and say, fuck stand-up, fuck stand-up. 1.00

01:32:25.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:32:25.000 And they got caught up in the TV show, and then they never did stand-up again. 0.99

01:32:29.000 And that's one thing I always really respected about you. 0.99

01:32:31.000 And I told people all the time, I go, In the height of his game, this motherfucker would still do his 1045 on a Friday night. 0.98

01:32:39.000 After he just grabbed a huge paycheck all week on some TV show that was news radio or the other one. 0.97

01:32:44.000 You'd never be late for your Friday night spot.

01:32:47.000 And that's character.

01:32:48.000 That built a lot of...

01:32:50.000 That made me...

01:32:52.000 It inspired me. 0.95

01:32:53.000 Like, this guy doesn't give a fuck, because 9 out of 10 comics, they'll tell you how much they love comedy. 0.98

01:32:59.000 Once they got on a TV show, it's over. 0.99

01:33:02.000 They're not coming down there again.

01:33:03.000 And I get it.

01:33:05.000 I get it.

01:33:06.000 But you didn't really love comedy the whole time.

01:33:08.000 Do you know what I'm saying?

01:33:09.000 Yeah.

01:33:10.000 You've always...

01:33:11.000 And that's what I like about stand-up.

01:33:14.000 I don't have to travel, Joe.

01:33:16.000 I could just shoot into the stand three nights a week, do 15. And you know how you prove it, it's really the stand-up?

01:33:21.000 It's because, like, the store wasn't even giving you any money.

01:33:23.000 Like, what'd you get, like, 25 bucks?

01:33:24.000 Yeah, 15. 15 bucks.

01:33:27.000 For a 15-minute set.

01:33:28.000 We weren't doing it for money.

01:33:29.000 No.

01:33:30.000 We were doing it to work on stand-up.

01:33:31.000 I enjoyed being broke.

01:33:33.000 It was accepting.

01:33:34.000 I was accepted at that time as being broke. 0.99

01:33:37.000 You accept being broke for the fucking honor to come here four or five nights a week. 0.99

01:33:44.000 That's what you switch. 0.99

01:33:45.000 You give away that to take that.

01:33:48.000 Think about, for people watching this right now, how much does stand-up mean to you what you don't even care about?

01:33:58.000 I didn't care where I slept. 0.97

01:33:59.000 When I would go on the road, we'd think I had a fucking, you know, who shows to an open mic on a Lamborghini? 0.99

01:34:05.000 You know what I'm saying? 0.99

01:34:06.000 Nobody, right?

01:34:07.000 Nobody's funny.

01:34:08.000 You know?

01:34:08.000 No!

01:34:09.000 Nobody shows up to an open mic on a Lamborghini.

01:34:12.000 Nobody.

01:34:13.000 One kid, when I started with, he had a rich, what do you call those rich hot mamas he had? 1.00

01:34:17.000 Oh, he had a sugar mama? 0.57

01:34:18.000 Yeah, he had a sugar mama. 0.98

01:34:20.000 This kid was horrible.

01:34:21.000 He did impersonations, but it was all one.

01:34:24.000 His resume, you opened it up, his bio was a living 3D resume. 0.99

01:34:28.000 She had made like a hundred copies of this fucking book that came out. 1.00

01:34:33.000 It was him as Tony Montana and him as like Charlie Chan and all these people. 0.99

01:34:37.000 And that was his name.

01:34:39.000 He's probably even not in the business anymore.

01:34:42.000 But his name, it was like, ding, the man of a thousand voices.

01:34:46.000 But in Denver they said, but you only heard one.

01:34:50.000 And I still remember him going down to the Comedy Works, one of the best clubs in the country at that time.

01:34:55.000 This is 94. And him doing an open mic and me doing an open mic.

01:35:00.000 And me, like, doing OK. But he'd just go and bomb.

01:35:03.000 And he would come off the stage.

01:35:05.000 This is how crazy comedy is.

01:35:07.000 And he would have his tape recorder, the old ones, and he would be pounding it.

01:35:12.000 And I'd go, what's the matter? 1.00

01:35:13.000 And he goes, this fucking tape recorder. 1.00

01:35:14.000 Don't pick up the laughter. 1.00

01:35:17.000 And I'd go, oh my god.

01:35:19.000 You know how many times this guy would call me up after that?

01:35:22.000 I was living in Seattle.

01:35:24.000 And he'd go, I've got to ask you a question.

01:35:26.000 He goes, I just got down to coconuts.

01:35:27.000 He booked me as a headliner.

01:35:29.000 And then after the first night, he booked me to a feature.

01:35:32.000 He demoted me.

01:35:33.000 Now I'm the emcee and I'm seating people.

01:35:35.000 Should I stay?

01:35:36.000 Because in coconuts, you had to seat people if you were the emcee.

01:35:40.000 You didn't know that?

01:35:40.000 No.

01:35:41.000 Those chains in Florida, I don't even think they're still open.

01:35:43.000 This is how far long ago it was.

01:35:45.000 So when you worked at Coconuts, if you were the MC, you had to seat people.

01:35:48.000 He got hired as a headliner.

01:35:50.000 When he got there on Tuesday, he was the headliner. 1.00

01:35:53.000 He ate such a bag of shit on Tuesday, they made him the fucking feature on Wednesday. 1.00

01:35:58.000 He ate such a bag of shit on Wednesday, they made him the MC on... 1.00

01:36:01.000 That's how bad this guy was. 1.00

01:36:03.000 But he was filthy rich.

01:36:04.000 The chick would get him suits and lights and... 1.00

01:36:06.000 Unbelievable.

01:36:09.000 He had a guy on stage already as an open-miker.

01:36:13.000 He already had a sound guy. 0.98

01:36:18.000 The people you fucking meet in this struggle, my friend. 0.99

01:36:21.000 I know. 0.99

01:36:22.000 It's interesting when you stay with them the whole time.

01:36:25.000 One of the interesting things about being good friends with Greg Fitzsimmons is that we literally started out a week apart from each other.

01:36:32.000 So we were there for all these crazy shows.

01:36:35.000 We were there in a car once, and we were driving to this gig, and we were with this guy, and we're just talking about different stuff.

01:36:42.000 And this guy was this little feeble guy with glasses.

01:36:47.000 You know, we're talking about like one guy was complaining about his girlfriend.

01:36:50.000 She does this. 1.00

01:36:51.000 He goes, well, my woman insists that I put a dildo in my ass. 1.00

01:36:56.000 We're like, what? 1.00

01:36:58.000 You put a dildo in your ass? 1.00

01:37:00.000 He's like, yep. 1.00

01:37:01.000 Yep.

01:37:02.000 She wants me to do it.

01:37:04.000 And it's not bad.

01:37:06.000 We're just in the car driving. 0.98

01:37:07.000 And to this day, Greg and I will talk about that and just fucking cry laughing. 1.00

01:37:10.000 We're like, what the fuck are you saying? 1.00

01:37:12.000 She does what to you? 1.00

01:37:16.000 Like, those people, they're insane people. 0.99

01:37:18.000 You mean, like, literal insane people. 1.00

01:37:21.000 The open mic world is a fucking fantastic world. 1.00

01:37:25.000 And it's funny as shit, too. 1.00

01:37:27.000 It'd be a great sitcom. 0.99

01:37:28.000 Yes, it is.

01:37:29.000 Like a single camera?

01:37:30.000 Like a, you know, like a Louis style?

01:37:33.000 Come on.

01:37:33.000 Let's just talk about the Sunday nights at the store when we were there.

01:37:37.000 When I used to host, the 7 o'clock, the 9. The open mic.

01:37:41.000 Yeah.

01:37:42.000 And I quit because there's too much walking up and down the stairs. 0.95

01:37:46.000 Three fucking minutes, I'm up and down. 0.98

01:37:47.000 I've run 8,000 calories. 0.99

01:37:49.000 So then she gave me 10 to 12. But that helped you a lot, too, because you got loose, like fucking around in between the acts and making fun of things. 0.97

01:37:58.000 Well, right there I was working really close with Mitzi. 0.95

01:38:01.000 And Mitzi was a confidence builder.

01:38:03.000 You know that.

01:38:04.000 She didn't even have to give you a note. 0.98

01:38:07.000 If you went up with her and killed, you got better. 0.87

01:38:09.000 Yeah. 0.87

01:38:09.000 Because the first couple times in front of Mitzi, you were always, like, kind of gawky. 0.87

01:38:13.000 Yeah.

01:38:13.000 So the more you go up in front of Mitzi on a Sunday, the more confidence you get.

01:38:17.000 And I still remember going somewhere in, like, 2002. Like, uh...

01:38:23.000 Indianapolis.

01:38:25.000 Uh, Notre Dame in Indiana.

01:38:28.000 They used to have a comedy club there, Funny Bone.

01:38:30.000 And I was dating that crazy chick from Misha Walker from Michigan. 0.98

01:38:34.000 And I'll never forget like 2000, maybe like 2000. And I'll never forget that I went there for a fucking showcase. 0.99

01:38:42.000 And I'm not the type of guy that would open his mouth like that. 0.99

01:38:46.000 He told me, come on Sunday and do 10. And if you're funny, I'll bring you back.

01:38:50.000 And I go, okay.

01:38:51.000 And I went down there.

01:38:52.000 And after, I did great.

01:38:53.000 I did great.

01:38:54.000 But afterward, he was like, well, I don't like him.

01:38:56.000 I stopped him.

01:38:57.000 I go, oh, stop.

01:38:59.000 I don't mean any disrespect. 0.98

01:39:01.000 I perform in front of Mitzi Short fucking three times a week. 1.00

01:39:04.000 Shut the fuck up. 1.00

01:39:06.000 You ain't gonna give me no fucking note, Tarzan. 1.00

01:39:09.000 You're in Notre Dame. 1.00

01:39:11.000 You don't know dick about dick. 1.00

01:39:14.000 I really did. 0.99

01:39:14.000 He was a great guy. 0.99

01:39:15.000 We both laughed about it.

01:39:17.000 But in my mind, I had that confidence in my heart. 1.00

01:39:19.000 Like, save it, bitch. 1.00

01:39:21.000 I'm in front of Mitzi. 1.00

01:39:23.000 Save. 1.00

01:39:23.000 Go fuck yourself. 1.00

01:39:24.000 She was the ultimate mentor. 1.00

01:39:25.000 She was.

01:39:26.000 And she gave me...

01:39:27.000 That was the other thing.

01:39:29.000 Like, she just...

01:39:30.000 You know, when you're in front of her a lot, and she don't have to say nothing to you.

01:39:33.000 Just you killing in front of her, that's it. 1.00

01:39:36.000 I'm wearing my dick on my fucking shirt. 1.00

01:39:38.000 I don't give a fuck. 1.00

01:39:39.000 She also was the very best at taking comics and putting them in dangerous spots. 0.99

01:39:45.000 Taking people and putting them after people that they really probably shouldn't be following.

01:39:49.000 Me?

01:39:50.000 Yeah, with all of us. 1.00

01:39:51.000 She would put me after Irera or that fucking dude. 1.00

01:39:53.000 I've told you a thousand times. 1.00

01:39:55.000 I still have nightmares about that dude.

01:39:57.000 What's that dude saying?

01:39:58.000 The brother with the dreads. 1.00

01:39:59.000 God damn it. 1.00

01:40:00.000 Dog, I still have nightmares about him. 1.00

01:40:02.000 This is driving me nuts. 0.97

01:40:03.000 You're killing me.

01:40:04.000 I can't remember his name.

01:40:05.000 Me neither.

01:40:06.000 Great kid.

01:40:06.000 We'll figure it out.

01:40:07.000 I can't even figure out what to tell Jamie to find him. 0.99

01:40:11.000 God damn it. 0.99

01:40:13.000 It's just weed. 1.00

01:40:14.000 It's a real problem, these 420 shows.

01:40:16.000 Bro, don't blame on the weed.

01:40:17.000 I could pull his name out if I didn't have the weed in me. 0.99

01:40:20.000 God damn it. 1.00

01:40:20.000 Two alpha brains, I'll fucking pull his name out. 1.00

01:40:22.000 I just saw T.K. Kirkland. 0.99

01:40:24.000 Oh, shit. 1.00

01:40:24.000 On a podcast with... 1.00

01:40:27.000 I was dying of laughter with that motherfucker. 1.00

01:40:30.000 Godfrey. 1.00

01:40:32.000 Godfrey and T.K. Kirkland.

01:40:33.000 I remember T.K. Kirkland from the store early days.

01:40:36.000 Early days.

01:40:37.000 You were always talking about him.

01:40:39.000 Yeah, I liked him a lot.

01:40:40.000 I liked him.

01:40:41.000 Have you seen Eddie Griffin?

01:40:43.000 When was the last time you saw Eddie?

01:40:44.000 I see him online.

01:40:46.000 I haven't seen him in forever.

01:40:47.000 I want to see him physically.

01:40:47.000 I send him messages.

01:40:48.000 He won't return my messages.

01:40:51.000 If he was in front of you, he'd give you a big hug.

01:40:53.000 Dog.

01:40:54.000 I always loved that.

01:40:55.000 Listen, I think that you and Eddie, regardless of what you might say, could be a good podcast for two hours.

01:41:02.000 I would talk to Eddie Griffin for three hours.

01:41:04.000 I think, come on.

01:41:05.000 Dog, how about the night we were behind the comedy store? 1.00

01:41:07.000 Tell these motherfuckers what he said to you. 1.00

01:41:10.000 How much that Bruce Lee fought a thousand guys? 1.00

01:41:12.000 I was there with you!

01:41:13.000 So I can't...

01:41:14.000 You can repeat this, because I was there with you.

01:41:18.000 I remember we walked the pink dot.

01:41:19.000 We walked the pink dot, and you're like, I don't know.

01:41:21.000 I don't know about it.

01:41:23.000 Well, he just loved telling stories.

01:41:25.000 And it didn't even matter if the story was true.

01:41:28.000 Did Bruce Lee fight a thousand guys to the death? 0.99

01:41:31.000 I don't know what the fuck it was. 1.00

01:41:33.000 It was so ridiculous. 1.00

01:41:33.000 But you heard it too? 1.00

01:41:34.000 Yeah.

01:41:35.000 The whole thing is happening while I'm working for the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

01:41:38.000 He's telling me about how Bruce Lee fought a thousand people. 0.99

01:41:41.000 I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about, man? 0.99

01:41:43.000 He was an actor. 0.99

01:41:45.000 Bruce Lee is an innovator in martial arts, a hero.

01:41:47.000 He was an amazing guy.

01:41:48.000 But no, he didn't fight a thousand people.

01:41:50.000 It was one guy and he hit him with a punch.

01:41:53.000 Because I still remember that speech.

01:41:54.000 It was 3 in the morning. 0.99

01:41:55.000 I was a little fucked up. 0.99

01:41:57.000 But I would listen to that speech all day long, man. 0.99

01:42:00.000 Eddie Griffin would describe to you in detail how they built the pyramids.

01:42:03.000 Let me tell you about Eddie Griffin.

01:42:04.000 Eddie Griffin was there.

01:42:05.000 I introduced myself to Eddie Griffin the first night I walked into the originals.

01:42:09.000 The first night I ever walked into the store was on Monday, and Eddie was there with Tupac.

01:42:14.000 Not Tupac.

01:42:16.000 Tumac, the kid who was in the Last Dragon.

01:42:18.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Last Dragon.

01:42:20.000 Okay, the showgun of Harlem.

01:42:22.000 He was in there with him.

01:42:23.000 There was eight people in the audience.

01:42:25.000 Bruce Leroy.

01:42:27.000 Don Barris was hosting.

01:42:29.000 Wheels was there, and that was it on a Monday night.

01:42:33.000 And Don Barris put me up out of a favor to nobody, to himself, and Eddie saw me.

01:42:41.000 Didn't say nothing to me, but then I got a showcase.

01:42:44.000 And Eddie was there, and he told me that night, I'm going to sit next to Mitzi.

01:42:48.000 He's a good dude. 0.99

01:42:49.000 He sat next to Mitzi when I was on stage, so no motherfuckers would talk to her. 0.99

01:42:53.000 Yeah, and they would laugh. 0.99

01:42:55.000 The Todd did that for me.

01:42:57.000 People would tell you to do that, too.

01:42:59.000 Like, if guys you knew that were gonna showcase, you'd sit next to Mitzi and laugh.

01:43:03.000 He was good to me.

01:43:04.000 And then I bumped him to him on a plane one time. 0.99

01:43:06.000 This is before 9-11 when you could do whatever the fuck you want on a plane. 0.94

01:43:09.000 And I moved up to first class with him. 0.98

01:43:13.000 And he goes, just sit here.

01:43:15.000 Stay here with me, and that was how I met Eddie, and I gave him a picture of Bruce Lee's grave that I had taken, and ever since that we just hit it off. 0.79

01:43:25.000 And he would always throw me little bones, and he would bump me for fucking six hours, but I never really got mad at him for that. 0.73

01:43:32.000 His set on Def Jam to this day was one of the best. 0.99

01:43:35.000 At the time, I remember thinking, God damn, this guy's talented. 0.93

01:43:40.000 Remember he had shorts on? 0.98

01:43:41.000 Do you remember that?

01:43:42.000 Alexander Graham Bell invented the...

01:43:45.000 What was the joke?

01:43:46.000 Why?

01:43:47.000 Because he was doing coke.

01:43:48.000 Yeah.

01:43:49.000 Right?

01:43:50.000 Yeah, it'd go like, how high you gotta be to be like, I want to talk to someone who's not even here.

01:43:57.000 That was it.

01:43:58.000 I want to talk to someone who's not here.

01:44:02.000 That was the one.

01:44:02.000 That's a great joke.

01:44:04.000 Bro, he had some great bits, man.

01:44:05.000 And he was so physical.

01:44:07.000 He was real lean back then.

01:44:09.000 Real lean.

01:44:09.000 Real physical on stage.

01:44:11.000 He had all this energy.

01:44:13.000 I remember watching it.

01:44:14.000 I think I was living in New York at the time. 0.99

01:44:16.000 I think I watched it on HBO, and I was like, holy fuck, is this guy good. 0.97

01:44:20.000 You know who I studied a lot? 0.97

01:44:21.000 Who I was a fan of when I first got into comedy, and I'm a fan of them still to this day.

01:44:25.000 I just saw he's doing a show.

01:44:30.000 The Brothers from St. Louis.

01:44:32.000 The Wayans brothers?

01:44:33.000 No, the other brothers.

01:44:35.000 Your friends with the young...

01:44:36.000 Oh, the Tories.

01:44:37.000 The Tories.

01:44:38.000 Guy and Joe.

01:44:39.000 Oh my God.

01:44:40.000 Oh, they're great.

01:44:40.000 Joe was the warm-up for Death Jam when we were coming up.

01:44:43.000 Joe was the only guy that I ever saw kill and be yoked at the same time. 1.00

01:44:48.000 This motherfucker would go on stage with like a vest on, built like Mike Tyson, just jacked, and he would kill. 1.00

01:44:57.000 I don't know how he did it. 1.00

01:44:58.000 Like, I don't know.

01:44:59.000 He's not even remotely self-conscious.

01:45:01.000 Jamar Neighbors can do it, too. 0.99

01:45:02.000 Jamar Neighbors goes on stage shirtless, and he's fucking shredded. 0.99

01:45:06.000 And it's funny. 0.99

01:45:07.000 It works.

01:45:08.000 I miss Jamar Neighbors.

01:45:09.000 I love Jamar Neighbors.

01:45:10.000 Where is he?

01:45:10.000 He's back in LA, I guess.

01:45:11.000 Oh, I thought he was down here with you guys.

01:45:13.000 No, he came out.

01:45:14.000 He spent some time here.

01:45:15.000 He did the podcast.

01:45:17.000 What, like a year and a half ago?

01:45:19.000 I love that dude.

01:45:21.000 He's a legit boxer.

01:45:22.000 You know, Jamar Neighbors can box. 1.00

01:45:24.000 I didn't know that.

01:45:24.000 Show me video of him fighting.

01:45:26.000 He's had amateur fights.

01:45:28.000 Jamar Neighbors can crack. 0.99

01:45:30.000 No bullshit. 1.00

01:45:31.000 No bullshit. 0.99

01:45:32.000 He can box. 1.00

01:45:34.000 That's crazy.

01:45:35.000 Yeah, that's where that body's from.

01:45:37.000 He does all these crazy calisthenics.

01:45:38.000 If you go on his Instagram, I think he's got all his crazy workouts he does.

01:45:42.000 That dude's in serious shape. 0.99

01:45:44.000 He looks strong as fuck. 0.99

01:45:46.000 He's shredded. 0.99

01:45:47.000 You see him on his Instagram?

01:45:49.000 He's got a video put up of him doing stand-up with a mohawk.

01:45:51.000 He glues a mohawk today. 0.99

01:45:53.000 And he's just fucking ripped. 0.99

01:45:55.000 This is him boxing. 0.99

01:45:57.000 That's Jamar.

01:45:58.000 Dude, he's good, man.

01:46:00.000 He's like a good amateur boxer.

01:46:02.000 He's very fast, too.

01:46:04.000 I mean, how old is Jamar?

01:46:06.000 He's got to be in his late 30s, right?

01:46:08.000 No.

01:46:09.000 I thought he was a little younger than that, right?

01:46:11.000 How old is he?

01:46:11.000 I don't know.

01:46:12.000 I've known him forever.

01:46:15.000 I don't know.

01:46:16.000 He's got to be 35, right?

01:46:19.000 37. 37. Wow.

01:46:21.000 I thought he was a little younger.

01:46:23.000 33, 32. He's a good boxer, though.

01:46:25.000 So it's very rare that some, but Guy Torrey was the first guy that I ever saw that went on stage with like a vest on.

01:46:33.000 I was like, what?

01:46:35.000 Look at him.

01:46:36.000 There's Jamar. 0.84

01:46:37.000 White slavery. 0.98

01:46:39.000 He's wearing a Nazi hat. 0.97

01:46:40.000 Look how shredded Jamar is. 0.99

01:46:42.000 That's ridiculous. 1.00

01:46:43.000 I'm telling you, he goes on stage looking like that and he kills. 1.00

01:46:47.000 Malachi.

01:46:48.000 I like that name.

01:46:49.000 He's just a fun dude to be around.

01:46:52.000 But find Guy Torrey.

01:46:55.000 Dog, I still remember one of his bits.

01:46:57.000 Or Joe Torrey.

01:46:58.000 Joe Torrey.

01:46:58.000 Joe Torrey's bit when he warmed up.

01:47:01.000 Him? 0.99

01:47:02.000 Fucking Martin Lawrence? 0.99

01:47:04.000 That was a hell of a lineup. 0.99

01:47:05.000 Dude, that was my worst bombings of all time when I had to follow Martin Lawrence at the store.

01:47:10.000 Over and over and over again.

01:47:11.000 And I'm going to tell you who the best performance on.

01:47:13.000 That is Joe. 0.99

01:47:13.000 I'm going to tell you the best performance ever on fucking Def Jam. 0.99

01:47:18.000 D.O. Hughley as a host. 0.99

01:47:20.000 When he got a standing ovation.

01:47:22.000 I never saw anything like that in my life.

01:47:24.000 Yeah, how about...

01:47:25.000 As a host, got a standing... 0.99

01:47:28.000 I mean, ripped the fucking room apart. 0.99

01:47:31.000 I will never forget that. 0.99

01:47:34.000 Joe Torrey, ready for Joe Torrey?

01:47:35.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:47:36.000 I got a brother who's one of those Save the Whale motherfuckers. 1.00

01:47:40.000 But I'm thinking about getting a gun. 1.00

01:47:42.000 I'm dying to shoot a motherfucker, man. 1.00

01:47:44.000 I could see me with a gun hanging outside an ATM machine with a tuxedo on. 1.00

01:47:49.000 Come out of the bushes. 1.00

01:47:50.000 I'm going to shoot you. 1.00

01:47:51.000 Something about fucking buying a gun and he wanted to shoot somebody so he would hang out at an ATM with a tuxedo on every night. 1.00

01:47:59.000 I fucking loved that joke. 1.00

01:48:01.000 And one night I said it to him and he's like, man... 0.99

01:48:04.000 I haven't heard that in years.

01:48:05.000 That's great.

01:48:06.000 You just reminded me.

01:48:07.000 He hit his brother with good dudes.

01:48:09.000 You ever think about dudes who didn't make it where you can't understand how? 0.98

01:48:13.000 Like, where you're like, God damn, that guy was good. 0.99

01:48:16.000 Like, what the fuck? 0.99

01:48:19.000 I always use Reggie McFadden. 1.00

01:48:23.000 Where is Reggie?

01:48:24.000 I do not know.

01:48:26.000 I think he got into real estate or something.

01:48:28.000 But Reggie McFadden in like 1992, when I was living in New York, my friend John, John Tobin was opening up for Reggie at the Champagne Comedy Club.

01:48:39.000 The Champagne Comedy Club was this dude who was hilarious.

01:48:42.000 This old school black dude who owned it. 1.00

01:48:43.000 He was like, no motherfuckers. 1.00

01:48:45.000 Like he had rules. 1.00

01:48:46.000 He goes, you don't say the bitch had a big ass. 1.00

01:48:48.000 You say the woman had a wide behind. 1.00

01:48:50.000 And he would like tell guys how to talk comedy.

01:48:55.000 But it didn't matter with Reggie because Reggie's act was clean. 1.00

01:48:59.000 And I'm telling you, this motherfucker murdered. 1.00

01:49:02.000 I was in this room watching him. 1.00

01:49:05.000 John had gone up.

01:49:06.000 He brought him up.

01:49:06.000 And we sat and watched Reggie.

01:49:08.000 And he murdered.

01:49:11.000 I mean, to the point where I was like, I'm looking at the next Eddie Murphy.

01:49:14.000 I'm looking at the next superstar.

01:49:15.000 This is a can't-go-wrong talent.

01:49:19.000 He had this joke about meeting a pretty girl and she's got an ugly friend that you can't shake.

01:49:26.000 He has the ugly girl smash through his window, and he's physical, so he bursts through the window on stage. 0.60

01:49:33.000 Where are you? 0.88

01:49:35.000 He was so funny, man.

01:49:38.000 He was so talented.

01:49:39.000 And I don't know what happened.

01:49:41.000 I don't know what happened.

01:49:42.000 People change.

01:49:43.000 People see things they don't want to do.

01:49:45.000 Corey Miller was one of those guys.

01:49:47.000 What happened with him?

01:49:48.000 The zoo?

01:49:48.000 Little zoo, remember?

01:49:49.000 Yeah, but what happened with him?

01:49:50.000 He just went back to raise his kid in Atlanta.

01:49:53.000 He still does comedy.

01:49:54.000 Still does comedy in Atlanta.

01:49:56.000 I know somebody saw him at a college and he said to say hello to me.

01:50:00.000 People just change their priorities, man. 0.99

01:50:02.000 It happens all the fucking time. 0.99

01:50:03.000 You know, you think about the two dudes who were in Guns N' Roses, the one guy, Izzy, that just left. 0.99

01:50:09.000 What does he feel like today?

01:50:11.000 You know, didn't you have a guy on from Soundgarden here?

01:50:14.000 Jason Everman.

01:50:15.000 Jason Everman.

01:50:16.000 Was he the original guy?

01:50:18.000 He was in Nirvana, and then he got kicked out of Nirvana, and he was in Soundgarden, and then he got kicked out of Soundgarden.

01:50:25.000 How do you think he feels today?

01:50:26.000 He was not very happy.

01:50:28.000 I don't know.

01:50:28.000 Well, now he's happy.

01:50:29.000 Now he's fine.

01:50:30.000 I mean, he really is a very much at peace guy.

01:50:34.000 He's also had a very fascinating life.

01:50:38.000 He's a special forces guy.

01:50:41.000 He did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, multiple tours in Afghanistan, went to Columbia, got a degree at Columbia.

01:50:48.000 He's a brilliant guy.

01:50:50.000 So, like, I think he's a very thoughtful person, and his path was a great path for him. 0.99

01:50:56.000 But at the time, he felt like total dog shit. 0.97

01:50:59.000 They just honored the guy from the original bass player, from Soundgarden. 0.99

01:51:03.000 And he was, like, on the first two albums. 0.99

01:51:05.000 I always wondered, what happened to that fucking dude? 0.99

01:51:08.000 And how they feel now that they had an opportunity to be in this monster of a band, you know? 1.00

01:51:15.000 Isn't that the craziest thing about artists? 0.99

01:51:17.000 Guys like Chris Cornell, who is so fucking talented and so universally loved and still takes his own life. 0.97

01:51:27.000 That just shows you how fragile mental health is and people's states of mind. 0.97

01:51:33.000 And how, you know, you could just not see the thing. 1.00

01:51:37.000 I mean, that motherfucker was beloved. 1.00

01:51:39.000 Like, his voice was fucking insane. 1.00

01:51:43.000 It had so much power. 0.99

01:51:46.000 He's a really fucking talented guy. 0.99

01:51:48.000 Spoon Man? 0.99

01:51:49.000 Come on.

01:51:49.000 Are you kidding me?

01:51:51.000 I remember one time you and I were listening to Spoon Man. 0.99

01:51:54.000 Remember I had that Suburban with all the big speakers in it and shit? 0.99

01:51:58.000 Yes, yes. 0.99

01:51:58.000 We were sitting in my... 0.99

01:51:59.000 No, it was a Denali.

01:52:00.000 It was a Yukon Denali.

01:52:02.000 Denali.

01:52:02.000 And we were sitting in the Denali in the Comedy Store parking lot just jamming to Spoon Man.

01:52:08.000 Spoon Man! 1.00

01:52:09.000 Spoon Man! 1.00

01:52:10.000 And you were screaming. 1.00

01:52:12.000 If you don't like this song, you're not real, cocksucker. 1.00

01:52:15.000 You don't like Spoonman. 1.00

01:52:16.000 Are you out of your fucking mind? 1.00

01:52:18.000 You were just so into this song. 1.00

01:52:20.000 And I still remember the night you came up to me out of the cold and you go, how can somebody listen to the Beatles after they listen to Blow Up the Outside World?

01:52:32.000 By Soundgarden.

01:52:33.000 And I said to you, I go, you know what's crazy?

01:52:35.000 You could tell Chris was a Beatles fan when you hear that chant, but I get what you were saying that day.

01:52:41.000 Soundgarden was great.

01:52:42.000 I changed my perceptions on that.

01:52:44.000 I became a much bigger Beatles fan later on.

01:52:47.000 Me too.

01:52:48.000 But back then, look, Blow Up The Outside World is a masterpiece.

01:52:53.000 That song's a masterpiece.

01:52:53.000 His voice is great on it.

01:52:55.000 It's a masterpiece of sound, everything about it.

01:52:58.000 It's like a spiritual experience, that song. 1.00

01:53:01.000 That song is a fuck. 1.00

01:53:02.000 And if you're high, if you're like sitting in your living room and you smoke a joint, you put the headphones on, you listen to that. 1.00

01:53:09.000 Oh my god.

01:53:10.000 That song's incredible.

01:53:12.000 It's crazy how I had views.

01:53:15.000 I hated the Beatles.

01:53:17.000 Here, give me some of that.

01:53:37.000 Especially if you're high and you listen to this, Joey.

01:53:45.000 There's some music that's just accentuated by weed.

01:54:04.000 We're good.

01:54:44.000 What a song.

01:54:45.000 I like it towards the end when they do the drum thing and he says that he holds that one note.

01:54:50.000 Yeah.

01:54:51.000 Oh my god.

01:54:51.000 Keep it going, Jamie.

01:54:52.000 Keep it going. 1.00

01:56:19.000 What a talented motherfucker that guy was. 0.99

01:56:24.000 Now, talking to the Beatles, after we didn't have appreciation for the Beatles growing up, not because I didn't like them, because everybody always broke my balls on how good they were. 0.99

01:56:34.000 And I've told this story before.

01:56:36.000 I love John Lennon.

01:56:37.000 But the day John Lennon got shot, it was the happiest day of my life.

01:56:41.000 Because I won the argument now. 0.96

01:56:43.000 Because every time you couldn't fucking say nothing with Beatle people. 0.97

01:56:46.000 Every time you said, like, oh my god, I went to see The Stones last night. 0.97

01:56:51.000 What a great album.

01:56:52.000 Shattered.

01:56:53.000 What a great album.

01:56:54.000 Miss You is. 0.99

01:56:54.000 Some motherfucker would say, yeah, it's a great album, but wait till the Beatles get back together. 0.99

01:57:00.000 Fucking Stay With Heaven's a great song. 0.99

01:57:02.000 Yeah, it's great, but wait till the Beatles get back together. 0.97

01:57:04.000 They always had me.

01:57:06.000 I always lost that argument.

01:57:07.000 You gotta walk away like, yeah, he got a point.

01:57:09.000 The day John Lennon got shut, that argument went out the window. 1.00

01:57:12.000 Bitch, they ain't getting back together. 1.00

01:57:14.000 So shut the fuck up now, okay? 1.00

01:57:16.000 It's Led Zeppelin who's running things. 1.00

01:57:19.000 In fact, they had a Beatle mural at my high school.

01:57:22.000 Somebody put an extra John Lennon the day after he got shot because we didn't want to hear that argument no more. 0.99

01:57:27.000 Everybody got sick of that fucking argument, all right? 0.99

01:57:30.000 And I love John. 1.00

01:57:32.000 I love all those albums, fucking Shave, Fish, and all that stuff. 0.99

01:57:35.000 While My Guitar Gently Weeps. 1.00

01:57:37.000 Oh, I love all that shit. 1.00

01:57:38.000 Oh, my God. 1.00

01:57:39.000 I love the Beatles from Revolve On. 1.00

01:57:41.000 Once they did the Aston and started smoking dope, I like all that shit. 0.99

01:57:45.000 That's really good stuff. 1.00

01:57:47.000 Before that, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:57:49.000 It's okay.

01:57:50.000 I get it.

01:57:51.000 But no.

01:57:52.000 It was a different time.

01:57:53.000 Yeah.

01:57:54.000 A different time of the world. 0.98

01:57:55.000 When they went to India and smoked with that Maharishi and started playing all that shit and opened up their horizons, they were good, man. 1.00

01:58:01.000 Isn't it interesting that the kids that grew up that were into like ACDC, Led Zeppelin, those are not necessarily kids that were into the Beatles. 0.94

01:58:09.000 Mm-mm.

01:58:10.000 And some of them were.

01:58:11.000 My crew was all like Jim Morrison.

01:58:14.000 It was The Doors, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin.

01:58:19.000 Van Halen was current.

01:58:20.000 That was like the current band that everybody was into.

01:58:22.000 But it was old bands.

01:58:24.000 It was always played Stairway to Heaven.

01:58:27.000 Or if somebody wanted to get crazy, you play Freebird. 0.99

01:58:30.000 When that guitar solo goes on in Freebird, when you're 16 years old and you listen to that song, you're like, holy shit! 0.97

01:58:39.000 To this day, in my opinion, that's the greatest guitar solo of all time. 0.99

01:58:45.000 That guitar solo is fucking insane. 0.75

01:58:47.000 There's so much good music. 0.98

01:58:49.000 So much good music.

01:58:50.000 You get caught up with one thing.

01:58:52.000 During the pandemic, I got back into music.

01:58:55.000 I bought vinyl.

01:58:57.000 I got into vinyl again. 0.98

01:58:59.000 I fucking love it. 0.92

01:59:01.000 And it's so weird how... 0.97

01:59:03.000 An album will take you back.

01:59:05.000 Like, I got an album now, it'll take me back for a week. 0.96

01:59:08.000 Like, I'll play the album when I'm writing, when I'm doing shit, you know? 0.70

01:59:11.000 Take you back to those days. 0.85

01:59:12.000 I just...

01:59:13.000 But you also hear things. 0.98

01:59:15.000 That's why I don't like doing music reviews and shit. 0.92

01:59:19.000 Because I learn more about the music the more I listen to it. 0.97

01:59:22.000 Like, every time I put on...

01:59:24.000 Like, I don't put on Led Zeppelin no more.

01:59:26.000 But you're in your car, you're headed back, you crank it up, you always hear something you haven't heard and go, wow.

01:59:32.000 I used to always crank a whole lot of love when I was on my way to the store. 0.99

01:59:35.000 I crank all that shit. 0.99

01:59:37.000 I love it. 1.00

01:59:37.000 But that was the song. 1.00

01:59:38.000 That was the song that I wanted to hear when I was on my way to the store. 0.99

01:59:48.000 That fuckin' jam. 0.99

01:59:50.000 Oh my god. 1.00

01:59:51.000 And then there's like a minute and a half of fuck sounds in that song. 0.99

01:59:55.000 A minute and a half, it's like... 0.98

01:59:57.000 With the little cymbals in the background.

02:00:01.000 Zeppelin II is very interesting because it's dirty.

02:00:05.000 It's dirty.

02:00:07.000 Yeah, here we go.

02:00:08.000 Give me some of this. 0.68

02:00:09.000 It's dirty. 0.99

02:00:10.000 Let me go shoot a load real quick. 0.97

02:00:12.000 Honey.

02:00:21.000 This was the get ramped up to go to the Comedy Store song. 1.00

02:00:27.000 And this sound sucks. 0.53

02:00:29.000 You gotta listen to this on, like, real speakers. 1.00

02:00:32.000 Something about the way it's coming through my ears sounds like dog shit. 1.00

02:00:35.000 Maybe I need new headphones. 0.99

02:00:36.000 No, it's some songs on YouTube for some reason.

02:00:41.000 Don't sound great when we run it through here.

02:00:43.000 Maybe it's because they don't want you to be able to do that.

02:00:45.000 Maybe they want it to distort so that you can't just take the music down.

02:00:50.000 I think it has to do with the cable I'm using.

02:00:53.000 That's more logical.

02:00:54.000 Sometimes some things sound fine and other things don't.

02:00:56.000 Maybe we should get a better cable.

02:00:57.000 I don't know why some things sound perfect and other things don't.

02:01:00.000 Should we replace the cable?

02:01:01.000 It might not fix it.

02:01:03.000 It's also the thing.

02:01:04.000 Okay.

02:01:04.000 It could be that.

02:01:06.000 But wouldn't it be nice if we could hear it really good?

02:01:09.000 That seems like it should be possible.

02:01:12.000 It also could be like I have to find a good source.

02:01:15.000 You know?

02:01:16.000 Right, so some of these...

02:01:17.000 Might not be the best place.

02:01:18.000 They're probably compressed too, right?

02:01:19.000 Yeah.

02:01:21.000 Doesn't sound great either.

02:01:23.000 Keep it going though.

02:01:24.000 Let me hear some of that.

02:01:28.000 That's better.

02:01:29.000 That's better. 0.99

02:01:33.000 I had a 2002 Toyota Supra Turbo that I got the craziest sound system ever put into this fucking thing. 0.98

02:01:43.000 This was like when I was on Fear Factor and I was like, what can you do? 0.97

02:01:48.000 And they said, we can engineer a sound system just for your car.

02:01:52.000 And I'm like, oh my god, let's do it.

02:01:54.000 And they put, like, there was a subwoofer under the front seat, or under the back seat, like, you couldn't push the back seat back, and these crazy speakers in the dash, and put speakers here and speakers there.

02:02:05.000 You have to put a microphone in your seat, so they can, like...

02:02:09.000 Tune to your seat?

02:02:10.000 I don't know how they did it, but when I would play this in that car, the music would dance around the car.

02:02:18.000 Like, you could hear the guitar from over here.

02:02:21.000 You know what I would really hear it in?

02:02:23.000 Was Seal.

02:02:24.000 When you kiss by a rose, there's sound coming from all over the place in that song.

02:02:30.000 Well, what's that taping called?

02:02:31.000 That style of recording?

02:02:32.000 Because that's on that album.

02:02:34.000 Because even when you listen to it when you were a kid, and you had two sets of speakers, ah, ah, ah!

02:02:41.000 That's what I was just saying.

02:02:42.000 What I was saying is, do you remember that Toyota 911 Turbo?

02:02:48.000 That's what it was.

02:02:48.000 That was a Super Turbo.

02:02:49.000 That had a 2002 911 Turbo.

02:02:52.000 I had that crazy sound system in it.

02:02:54.000 And that sound system, the sound would bounce around with that song.

02:02:59.000 So that was like my warm-up song.

02:03:01.000 When I was listening to that song and I was driving down Sunset It was like coming and all the with the humping sounds like It's like drifting around the car.

02:03:12.000 Give me some of that.

02:03:13.000 So when you do acid or something like that, that's what you start hearing those little speakers.

02:03:18.000 I've always thought that they recorded Like thinking that you were gonna do acid like Pink Floyd.

02:03:24.000 I know recorded Thinking that you were gonna be tripping.

02:03:27.000 Oh for sure. 0.98

02:03:28.000 They fucked with you like that, you know, you got it What was the name of the kid speaking of with? 0.99

02:03:37.000 When you got to LA you bought a nice car and then you didn't want it no more. 0.99

02:03:41.000 Would you sell that super to?

02:03:43.000 Oh comedian.

02:03:44.000 Yeah, he disappeared out which it wasn't that was a Volkswagen I had a Volkswagen Corrado.

02:03:52.000 And he only had a certain amount of money.

02:03:54.000 And I said, okay.

02:03:55.000 What was his name? 0.99

02:03:57.000 Fucking forget his name. 0.99

02:03:58.000 Did he date Kelly Kirsten? 0.99

02:03:59.000 I don't believe so, did he?

02:04:01.000 But he was a nice kid.

02:04:03.000 Nice kid.

02:04:04.000 I was just starting to make some money.

02:04:05.000 He was funny.

02:04:06.000 Yeah.

02:04:06.000 What happened to him?

02:04:07.000 Man, some of them just, the pressure, the overwhelming pressure of constantly performing is just, it gives them anxiety and they never survive it.

02:04:17.000 They just, it cracks them.

02:04:19.000 Here it is.

02:04:21.000 So this is me coming down Laurel Canyon.

02:04:24.000 I would always time it.

02:04:25.000 I knew when to start playing it.

02:04:27.000 I would start playing it when you hit that store.

02:04:29.000 You know that little country store on Laurel Canyon?

02:04:31.000 When I hit that, that's when I would start the song.

02:04:33.000 And by the time I'm snaking all the way down Laurel and I get to the bottom and I take that turn...

02:04:38.000 You're playing two different things. 0.97

02:04:49.000 Fucked it up, Jimmy.

02:04:52.000 I was trying to show you Laurel Canyon. 0.97

02:04:53.000 Oh.

02:04:54.000 Oh, I see.

02:04:58.000 This was the way I would come over from the valley.

02:05:01.000 If I didn't take the 405, I'd go this way. 1.00

02:05:03.000 Fuck this line. 1.00

02:05:05.000 Yeah, the traffic. 1.00

02:05:12.000 This was just like the perfect Let's Fucking Go song. 0.98

02:05:23.000 This song made me smoke pasta. 0.98

02:05:25.000 This one did?

02:05:26.000 That was it.

02:05:28.000 You think it's over, but it's not over.

02:05:34.000 You think it's winding down.

02:05:41.000 Do you hear that?

02:05:42.000 I was going to bring this up.

02:05:43.000 Can you hear in the background, you can hear his voice?

02:05:45.000 That echoes, yeah.

02:05:46.000 Yeah, that's part of what happened with the tape.

02:05:48.000 It's like an accident.

02:05:50.000 Oh, no way.

02:05:51.000 Tape is tight, stored too tightly, kind of?

02:05:54.000 Meanwhile, it's perfect.

02:05:55.000 Yeah, it sounds perfect.

02:05:56.000 It's an accident.

02:06:17.000 Oh! 0.99

02:06:20.000 Here we go, cocksuckers! 1.00

02:06:25.000 Cheers for me, girl! 1.00

02:06:28.000 I wanna be your backdoor man! 0.98

02:06:44.000 Goddamn, that's a good drop! 0.98

02:06:47.000 And there'll never, ever be anything like this ever again. 0.94

02:06:52.000 Well, it was so unique for the time, too.

02:06:55.000 This was the second album. 1.00

02:06:57.000 This was the second fucking album. 1.00

02:06:58.000 I'm hooked on the fifth album now. 1.00

02:07:00.000 I've been listening to Presence lately.

02:07:03.000 Achilles' Last Stand.

02:07:04.000 How about The Ocean?

02:07:05.000 For Your Life.

02:07:07.000 That's House of the Holy.

02:07:08.000 That was the second album that put me over the top.

02:07:11.000 That A to Z. Dancing Days.

02:07:14.000 Oh, my God.

02:07:14.000 That.

02:07:15.000 Oh, my God.

02:07:15.000 No court.

02:07:16.000 Listen, I was such a fucking... 1.00

02:07:19.000 Half a little fag when I was a kid. 1.00

02:07:21.000 When I first got Led Zeppelin to, I would play Dancing Days. 0.97

02:07:25.000 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

02:07:27.000 You don't have to go.

02:07:29.000 Then it's supposed to be No Quarter and then The Ocean.

02:07:33.000 I would skip over No Quarter. 1.00

02:07:35.000 Scariest fucking song they had. 0.99

02:07:38.000 I only listened to it when I got a little old. 0.99

02:07:40.000 I was like, okay, I'm ready for this.

02:07:41.000 I love the Immigrant Song.

02:07:42.000 Immigrant Song.

02:07:43.000 I'm three.

02:07:44.000 Listen.

02:07:45.000 And that's what really shows you every album, they kind of changed it up.

02:07:49.000 They got a hillbilly song. 0.99

02:07:52.000 Called fucking Gallows Pole. 1.00

02:07:54.000 It's a hillbilly song or a country song? 1.00

02:07:57.000 Gallows Pole? 1.00

02:07:58.000 Yeah, can you ask Jamie to put on and listen to the beginning of this chant?

02:08:00.000 Yeah.

02:08:01.000 And it just picks up.

02:08:02.000 I used to eat Quaaludes to this, me and Dini.

02:08:04.000 We used to eat Quaaludes with a bottle of Pupoff.

02:08:06.000 What's Pupoff?

02:08:08.000 Pupoff vodka. 1.00

02:08:08.000 P-O-P-O-V, that fucking liquid. 1.00

02:08:11.000 And we would fucking go over and over. 0.99

02:08:15.000 In fact, I still got a busted eye thing, a vein, from the Quaaludes. 0.98

02:08:24.000 I think I see my friends coming, riding many miles.

02:08:34.000 Friends, you get some silver.

02:08:55.000 That does have a country kind of influence to it.

02:08:57.000 Speed it up a little, Jamie.

02:08:58.000 Here we go.

02:09:17.000 I think I see my brother coming right in many miles Brother, you give me some silver As you get a little gold Here

02:10:07.000 we go!

02:11:22.000 Woo! 0.99

02:11:23.000 A little something different.

02:11:26.000 Beautiful. 0.97

02:11:27.000 I used to get fucked, and this album's got Immigrant Song, this, and the best Led Zeppelin song after all those songs. 0.98

02:11:35.000 Jimmy Page's best work since I've Been Loving You. 0.99

02:11:38.000 Oh, yeah. 1.00

02:11:40.000 Shit. 1.00

02:11:41.000 I'm telling you, they came up with something different every fucking album. 1.00

02:11:44.000 I love music today. 0.99

02:11:45.000 I can't also believe I just saw that picture for the first time of James Brown's mugshot.

02:11:51.000 Is that from the arrest in 91?

02:11:53.000 Yeah.

02:11:53.000 Yeah, that was 91. He hit her and they chased him in the truck and shit.

02:11:58.000 My favorite thing is when he got in trouble, then he was on some talk show, like right afterwards with sunglasses on. 0.99

02:12:05.000 That's right.

02:12:06.000 He was skirting around it. 1.00

02:12:07.000 He was fucked up. 1.00

02:12:08.000 Yeah, that's his mugshot. 1.00

02:12:12.000 So the other one was a different time he got arrested.

02:12:15.000 It was something else, I think.

02:12:18.000 Was that something else?

02:12:22.000 That's a different one.

02:12:24.000 See if you can find the interview with him.

02:12:27.000 There's a hilarious James Brown interview where he's like, clearly high as kite.

02:12:31.000 And he's singing and having a good time.

02:12:33.000 It's very, very funny.

02:12:35.000 That's at CNN. Janice Brown.

02:12:37.000 My brother, are you in Newark next week?

02:12:39.000 Yes.

02:12:40.000 Oh, you are coming?

02:12:40.000 Yes.

02:12:42.000 Give me some money for this.

02:12:44.000 This is amazing.

02:12:46.000 He's got these incredible sunglasses on.

02:12:49.000 Look at him.

02:12:56.000 Living in America!

02:13:03.000 Nothing wrong.

02:13:07.000 No, I'm not.

02:13:12.000 Yeah, I'm out on love.

02:13:17.000 Are you out on love or out of love?

02:13:19.000 Which is it?

02:13:20.000 Out on love.

02:13:22.000 Alone from night to night, you'll find me.

02:13:25.000 Now, James, this isn't the first time you and your wife have had a problem.

02:13:29.000 Are the two of you going to be able to work this out?

02:13:30.000 Let's talk about some music.

02:13:32.000 You want to talk about music and you don't want to talk about what happened?

02:13:35.000 No, it's all over.

02:13:36.000 Well, let's talk about your tour.

02:13:37.000 When are you leaving?

02:13:38.000 We're leaving tomorrow.

02:13:40.000 And where are you going?

02:13:42.000 Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

02:13:46.000 Your fans will have read all about this, James.

02:13:48.000 Aren't you concerned about that?

02:13:53.000 I'm concerned because there's nothing wrong.

02:13:56.000 And what are you going to say to your fans when they ask you some questions about it?

02:14:00.000 I'm going to say I feel good!

02:14:03.000 I just got a brand new bag.

02:14:04.000 It's a man's world. 1.00

02:14:06.000 Well, that's the second time we've heard that in two days.

02:14:09.000 That's very interesting.

02:14:10.000 Now, don't leave us, James.

02:14:11.000 You stay right there.

02:14:12.000 We have more that we have to talk about.

02:14:14.000 Well, tell us a little bit about what you're going to be doing on this tour.

02:14:18.000 What are you going to be doing on this tour?

02:14:21.000 I'm gonna be doing...

02:14:22.000 Papa's got a brand new bag, living in America. 1.00

02:14:24.000 Sex machine, get up off of that thing! 1.00

02:14:27.000 I feel good! 0.99

02:14:29.000 Jam! 0.98

02:14:42.000 He's got gloves on.

02:14:53.000 Well, I'm asking you.

02:14:54.000 Huh?

02:14:55.000 Because I look good.

02:14:56.000 I smell good.

02:14:58.000 I feel good.

02:14:59.000 And you sing good.

02:15:01.000 And make love good.

02:15:02.000 Oh.

02:15:04.000 Well, there we are.

02:15:05.000 We don't have to ask anybody else.

02:15:07.000 We got that from the source.

02:15:08.000 There you are.

02:15:10.000 Now, you're involved in publishing a gospel magazine.

02:15:13.000 Tell us a little bit about that.

02:15:15.000 The Second Coming.

02:15:16.000 It's out of Augusta, Georgia's ankle.

02:15:22.000 Joseph P. Young is the editor, and James Viner, one of the advisors.

02:15:26.000 And we're doing a fantastic job.

02:15:28.000 The Second Coming, it features, on this week, I think we have the Pope and, I believe, the Williams brothers. 0.87

02:15:38.000 And next week we're going to have Reverend Al Sharpton, I think, on the cover.

02:15:43.000 And we'll be doing a lot of good things, and hopefully we'll get Brother Ted Turner on the cover.

02:15:49.000 Ted, where you at?

02:15:51.000 James, we want to thank you for being with us today and giving us an opportunity.

02:15:55.000 Wait a minute, I have a good idea.

02:15:55.000 Oh, is there something more you want to say that we haven't covered?

02:15:58.000 Yeah, I want to say another thing.

02:15:59.000 Okay, go ahead.

02:16:00.000 I love you.

02:16:00.000 I love America.

02:16:01.000 I love everybody.

02:16:03.000 I feel good.

02:16:04.000 It sounds to me that you're not troubled by any of this at all.

02:16:07.000 This is a man's world! 1.00

02:16:10.000 Thanks for reminding us of that.

02:16:12.000 Every once in a while, we forget.

02:16:15.000 But we've remembered again.

02:16:16.000 James, good luck on your tour.

02:16:18.000 Thanks for being with us.

02:16:19.000 I guess we're going to hear lots more.

02:16:21.000 Hasta luego. 0.97

02:16:25.000 There's a guy that didn't give two fucks. 0.99

02:16:27.000 He's coked up to the gills. 1.00

02:16:29.000 God knows what else is in his fucking system. 1.00

02:16:32.000 Look at him. 1.00

02:16:33.000 He was as good as it gets, man.

02:16:35.000 How talented was that guy, though?

02:16:36.000 What was the concert in Zaire?

02:16:38.000 Yeah, the Muhammad Ali one?

02:16:40.000 Yes.

02:16:41.000 Jamie, play that.

02:16:42.000 Because that was incredible.

02:16:45.000 See if you can find that.

02:16:47.000 Because that concert was insane.

02:16:51.000 What year was that?

02:16:52.000 74. Wow.

02:16:55.000 Look at him. 0.99

02:16:56.000 He's fucking drenched. 0.99

02:16:59.000 Oh my god, yeah. 0.99

02:17:01.000 That's the one.

02:17:02.000 With the cape.

02:17:04.000 Yeah. 0.62

02:17:05.000 This man will make your bladder splatter! 0.57

02:17:10.000 This man will freeze your knees.

02:17:14.000 If you will, let's all welcome the world's godfather of soul, soul brother number one, James Brown! 1.00

02:17:42.000 Goddamn! 0.97

02:18:02.000 You know Joe, this guy was the real deal to me. 0.99

02:18:06.000 He was the real deal.

02:18:08.000 What did he do up in Boston?

02:18:11.000 He has history.

02:18:12.000 Boy, he did something.

02:18:13.000 He saved.

02:18:13.000 He stopped a riot.

02:18:16.000 Oh, he performed!

02:18:17.000 After a cop shot a black kid and the city was in a riot and they told him not to perform.

02:18:23.000 He goes, I'm performing something.

02:18:25.000 He did something.

02:18:26.000 The night James Brown saved Boston.

02:18:28.000 Yes.

02:18:29.000 Very interesting thing.

02:18:31.000 Oh, there's a movie about it.

02:18:34.000 Wow.

02:18:35.000 Two days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, singer James Brown performs at the Boston Garden.

02:18:40.000 Oh, wow.

02:18:43.000 Two days?

02:18:44.000 That's insane.

02:18:47.000 Oh, my God.

02:18:48.000 Yeah, he did something.

02:18:51.000 Wow.

02:18:52.000 Okay, I'll check that out.

02:18:53.000 These guys, I don't know, these guys were...

02:18:56.000 Different era, different world.

02:18:58.000 Pioneers, real pioneers.

02:19:00.000 You know, they were running against different... 0.98

02:19:01.000 I watched that fucking thing again a couple weeks ago, The Green Mile, whatever, The Green Book. 0.98

02:19:06.000 You know, that dude's in the South. 1.00

02:19:08.000 He fucking wanted to go sing in the South. 1.00

02:19:10.000 They wouldn't let him fucking... 1.00

02:19:12.000 They wouldn't put him in the green room. 0.99

02:19:14.000 They wouldn't let him perform in the...

02:19:16.000 Eat in the dining room with other people. 1.00

02:19:19.000 That was a different fucking world, man. 0.99

02:19:21.000 And these guys had so much courage. 0.99

02:19:24.000 Jackie Robinson, to face that.

02:19:26.000 I would fold.

02:19:26.000 How about Ali changing his name in the middle of it and then not going into the Vietnam War?

02:19:31.000 They won't let him fight for three years and they're in the middle of his prime. 0.99

02:19:35.000 It's fucking crazy. 0.99

02:19:37.000 It's crazy. 0.99

02:19:37.000 So you really got to nod to these guys, because, man, they came up in a tough time. 0.99

02:19:43.000 I always see those pictures like him, Jim Brown, and Muhammad Ali, and they all got together.

02:19:51.000 It's pretty impressive, man.

02:19:53.000 Different type of savages.

02:19:54.000 It's a different world.

02:19:56.000 Imagine being a kid in the 1960s when you see Hendrix for the first time.

02:20:05.000 If you were 15 years old, five years before Hendrix, there was nothing like that?

02:20:10.000 No.

02:20:11.000 Nobody prepared anybody for anything like that? 1.00

02:20:16.000 I saw a lot of shit when I came from... 0.99

02:20:18.000 I learned a lot, man. 1.00

02:20:19.000 And that shit has always stuck with me. 0.99

02:20:22.000 The stuff I saw, you know... 1.00

02:20:27.000 Hence tremendous.

02:20:29.000 Hence tremendous.

02:20:30.000 When's it available?

02:20:31.000 May?

02:20:31.000 May 2nd.

02:20:33.000 You can order it now on Amazon, like pre-order it.

02:20:35.000 When can you get the audiobook?

02:20:37.000 May 2nd.

02:20:38.000 Oh, everything May 2nd.

02:20:40.000 Nice. 0.90

02:20:41.000 Fucking tough to write, man. 0.95

02:20:43.000 I'm sure. 1.00

02:20:43.000 You know how it is with these fucking things. 1.00

02:20:45.000 You gotta dig deep and ask questions. 0.99

02:20:46.000 Yeah, a book is a lot of soul searching, too, I'd imagine.

02:20:50.000 Yeah, no. 0.99

02:20:51.000 While I was doing it, I was fucked up as hell. 0.97

02:20:54.000 That's why I figured I'd do it then. 0.97

02:20:55.000 You did it while you were getting off the benzos?

02:20:57.000 Yeah.

02:20:58.000 Well, I just moved.

02:21:00.000 I did the knee surgery.

02:21:02.000 It was like a thousand things.

02:21:03.000 I didn't even know I was withdrawing, like I said, until I did the knee surgery, and something happened with my heart.

02:21:11.000 And one of the doctors came in, and we started talking, and he kept looking at me weird.

02:21:15.000 He was a Spanish dude. 0.93

02:21:17.000 And I fucking, he gave me his card, and I called him when I got out, and he goes, come see me. 0.97

02:21:22.000 Something wasn't right that night. 0.99

02:21:24.000 And he did a physical, and I went back to see him, blood, that type of shit, and he goes, everything was right, you know, everything was okay. 0.97

02:21:32.000 I don't know, he put me on a heart monitor, and he goes, your heart's fine. 1.00

02:21:36.000 I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. 0.99

02:21:38.000 And his assistant said, are you still taking the Xanax? 1.00

02:21:43.000 And I go, yeah.

02:21:44.000 And she goes, that's what's going on with you.

02:21:46.000 Look at the charts, Doc.

02:21:48.000 He's been on them since 2012. And I go, no.

02:21:52.000 I've just been using them since the pandemic started.

02:21:55.000 And that's when she goes, no, you've got to stop withdrawing.

02:21:59.000 I didn't even know. 0.99

02:22:00.000 I just had a horrible fucking feeling. 1.00

02:22:02.000 How long do you think it takes when you're on those things before you're addicted? 1.00

02:22:06.000 Two weeks, maybe.

02:22:07.000 Really?

02:22:08.000 Well, I didn't...

02:22:09.000 See, I would take them and then forget about them.

02:22:11.000 I would put them in my top pocket and then go to the store and not take them.

02:22:15.000 And then I would just wash them. 0.98

02:22:17.000 There was a lot of times I would take them, I would bring it with me in case I got, like, a little fucking, you know. 0.98

02:22:23.000 But, Joe, the funny thing about this, if I tell you, this goes back to when I was a kid in the simplest way. 0.91

02:22:29.000 You ready for this? 0.98

02:22:31.000 I was a little fucking fruitcake when I came from Cuba. 1.00

02:22:34.000 Do you know I sucked a pacifier after I was six? 0.99

02:22:38.000 So after, like, I was three, they took them away from you, but I'd hide them in strategic places. 0.99

02:22:44.000 And whenever shit got dange... 0.99

02:22:47.000 I'd go over suck it, put it down, and then I'd fucking go back to what was going on here. 1.00

02:22:51.000 So when I lived in 88th Street in New York City, my mom had a jukebox at the bar. 0.99

02:22:57.000 So every week, the guy comes in and he gives you the old 45s.

02:23:01.000 Is that what they're called?

02:23:02.000 Mm-hmm.

02:23:03.000 45s?

02:23:04.000 So I don't know what they were.

02:23:05.000 They were all different types.

02:23:06.000 Spanish music, you know, black music, rock music.

02:23:09.000 My mother had a great taste in the jukebox. 1.00

02:23:12.000 So I would have fucking boxes of singles. 0.99

02:23:16.000 I lived on the third floor. 0.96

02:23:18.000 And if you go to 205 West, even today, you pull up to it, you'll see where I live, where I grew up right there on the third floor, but you'll see that there's like a parking garage there.

02:23:29.000 They never really...

02:23:30.000 It's like an old building.

02:23:31.000 Now it's redone again.

02:23:32.000 They did something.

02:23:33.000 When we were kids, we played back there.

02:23:36.000 So whenever I had anxiety, I would go upstairs to suck on the pacifier.

02:23:40.000 I wasn't cool enough to put him on the street yet. 0.81

02:23:44.000 Later in time, I would put him on the street and I would suck on him when I was playing basketball or something.

02:23:49.000 If they called a foul on me and I would panic, I would go upstairs and I had a window that they couldn't see from below because it was the back of the building.

02:24:00.000 So it was like an indentation and all our windows.

02:24:03.000 You can't see that from there.

02:24:04.000 So I would take those 45s and I would whip them. 1.00

02:24:08.000 They're like fucking boomerangs. 1.00

02:24:11.000 I would just sit there for 10 minutes and just whip them, whip them, whip them. 1.00

02:24:14.000 And I'd hear people downstairs, what the fuck? 1.00

02:24:17.000 Stop it, you fucking scumbag! 1.00

02:24:19.000 What's going on? 1.00

02:24:20.000 And then I'd run downstairs, and all these kids would be holding on to their heads and shit. 0.99

02:24:24.000 They're like, where'd you go? 0.99

02:24:25.000 And I go, I went upstairs to go to the bathroom.

02:24:27.000 You missed it.

02:24:28.000 The crazy guy's throwing records at us.

02:24:30.000 Do you know how long I did that for, Doug?

02:24:32.000 I did that for about a year. 1.00

02:24:33.000 I threw records at those motherfuckers. 1.00

02:24:35.000 I caught them. 1.00

02:24:36.000 I did so many things to those kids.

02:24:37.000 They never knew.

02:24:39.000 It was me.

02:24:40.000 But back to it, that's how I started going upstairs to suck on the pacifier.

02:24:44.000 So I always had something.

02:24:46.000 You know what I'm saying?

02:24:46.000 Like, I always had my little...

02:24:47.000 You wanted something to, like, help you out.

02:24:49.000 I always had something to smoothen the humps and the bumps. 0.99

02:24:52.000 I didn't know that shit existed. 1.00

02:24:53.000 I ate those when you did coke. 1.00

02:24:55.000 When you do coke, that's when people give you those things.

02:24:57.000 Oh, you're gonna have a hard-on, take two of these, and you'll get a hard-on, you'll fall asleep.

02:25:02.000 I never knew they were treated for anxiety or whatever. 1.00

02:25:05.000 Fuck. 1.00

02:25:05.000 Who gives a fuck? 1.00

02:25:06.000 When you're on the street doing drugs, what they're treated for. 0.98

02:25:09.000 There's a lot of people with anxiety.

02:25:11.000 That's the problem.

02:25:11.000 And getting off of that seems like it's one of the worst things you get off imaginable.

02:25:17.000 No, man, because now I deal with it.

02:25:19.000 It's so funny. 1.00

02:25:20.000 No, I'm talking about the withdrawal, the shit you went through. 1.00

02:25:22.000 Oh, the withdrawals are horrible. 1.00

02:25:24.000 But it's funny now when I do shit, I always remember. 0.99

02:25:28.000 Like, I had to do something in the city a couple weeks ago. 0.99

02:25:30.000 I had to go for an audition.

02:25:32.000 As I was putting on my suit, I go...

02:25:35.000 Insert Xanax now.

02:25:37.000 This is when I would be put into Xanax.

02:25:39.000 My anxiety would start creeping up on me.

02:25:42.000 I'd lose my breath.

02:25:43.000 Like, my breath would go away from me.

02:25:45.000 And once I'd start panicking, forget...

02:25:47.000 I even had to take...

02:25:48.000 I would take in Xanax to go to jiu-jitsu for a while.

02:25:51.000 Jesus.

02:25:52.000 Because of my anxiety in jiu-jitsu.

02:25:54.000 Now I have no anxiety in jiu-jitsu.

02:25:55.000 Now I go to jiu-jitsu, I just get beat up.

02:25:58.000 That's it.

02:25:59.000 It's great.

02:25:59.000 I go in there and I breathe.

02:26:00.000 It's fantastic.

02:26:02.000 So you have to work at anxiety.

02:26:04.000 You have to really breathe.

02:26:05.000 I did a lot of breath work.

02:26:07.000 I slept a lot.

02:26:09.000 I went back to my boulder roots and I meditated a little bit, which helps.

02:26:13.000 I don't get on the computer in the morning anymore.

02:26:16.000 That helps you a lot? 0.94

02:26:19.000 I fucking get a cup of coffee and I sit on my balcony and look at the mountains for 20-30 minutes. 0.98

02:26:25.000 We're in no rush. 0.99

02:26:26.000 We got nowhere to be. 0.99

02:26:29.000 I do a little grateful shit, what I'm grateful for. 0.99

02:26:31.000 I pray for you. 0.99

02:26:32.000 I pray for my friends.

02:26:33.000 I don't pray, but I hope everybody's alright.

02:26:37.000 You know, I'm Cuban. 0.98

02:26:38.000 I got my little faults, but I'm still like that bolder Buddhist shit has always... 0.98

02:26:43.000 I can't cop to being a Buddhist, but sometimes I think about it, you know? 0.98

02:26:48.000 So before I do anything, I make sure I'm good in the mornings.

02:26:51.000 I'm grounded. 0.98

02:26:52.000 I used to get up and go around the fucking computer and start doing bong hits. 0.99

02:26:56.000 That ain't gonna do nothing. 0.99

02:26:57.000 Come on, man.

02:26:59.000 Come on, man. 1.00

02:27:00.000 You can't do that shit. 1.00

02:27:01.000 You can't do it. 1.00

02:27:03.000 And this is what you were saying before.

02:27:04.000 As you get older, you start learning about what works, and you try to share it with people.

02:27:09.000 You're like, listen, man, don't get up anymore and put that TV on. 0.99

02:27:13.000 And don't get up and open that fucking computer. 1.00

02:27:15.000 Save yourself. 1.00

02:27:16.000 I realized something else.

02:27:18.000 For the last year, I've been eating a fruit bowl for breakfast.

02:27:21.000 Every morning.

02:27:22.000 Raspberries, bananas, pears, cherries, whatever.

02:27:25.000 Whatever I could get on.

02:27:26.000 Guess what now?

02:27:27.000 I don't need sugar at night.

02:27:30.000 Is that the weirdest thing?

02:27:32.000 Even when I get...

02:27:32.000 I can smoke 15 joints.

02:27:34.000 I don't need sugar at night no more.

02:27:36.000 Because I got rid of that sugar crave in the morning, I think.

02:27:40.000 I don't know.

02:27:40.000 Well, it's definitely the healthiest way to get sugar.

02:27:43.000 I don't know.

02:27:44.000 I don't think anybody says fruit's bad for you.

02:27:46.000 They do.

02:27:47.000 It's like, for who?

02:27:48.000 Yeah, fruit.

02:27:49.000 Fruit's great.

02:27:50.000 Listen, if you take 22 aspirins a day, you're going to die. 0.99

02:27:52.000 But one aspirin ain't going to fucking kill you. 1.00

02:27:54.000 Two apples ain't going to fucking kill you. 0.99

02:27:56.000 You know? 0.99

02:27:58.000 Joe, I've got to wrap this up.

02:28:00.000 We've got to get out of here.

02:28:00.000 Where are you going?

02:28:01.000 Got a dinner.

02:28:02.000 We just got here.

02:28:03.000 No, it's already 4.30.

02:28:04.000 It's 4.30?

02:28:05.000 Yeah.

02:28:05.000 That's it?

02:28:06.000 I'm not going to see you?

02:28:07.000 Oh, you're going to see me in a couple of hours.

02:28:08.000 Okay.

02:28:09.000 Who's coming tonight?

02:28:10.000 Who's doing the show with us?

02:28:11.000 Russell's here?

02:28:12.000 Russell's here.

02:28:14.000 Tony, Brian Simpson, Ahsan Ahmaud.

02:28:21.000 Okay.

02:28:22.000 You and me.

02:28:23.000 Ron White.

02:28:24.000 Ron might come down.

02:28:25.000 Ron was sick.

02:28:26.000 He's been sick for a couple days.

02:28:27.000 Hopefully he's feeling better.

02:28:28.000 I'll call him up.

02:28:29.000 He looks good, man.

02:28:30.000 Yeah.

02:28:30.000 Duncan?

02:28:31.000 Call Duncan up.

02:28:31.000 I'd love to see him.

02:28:32.000 Yeah, for sure.

02:28:33.000 I want to thank Laughing Gas.

02:28:34.000 They send you a bag.

02:28:35.000 Oh, Christina's coming down tonight, too.

02:28:37.000 Christina's coming down?

02:28:38.000 Yeah.

02:28:38.000 Good to see her.

02:28:39.000 What do you call her?

02:28:40.000 Christina P. Okay.

02:28:41.000 I'll call her Christine.

02:28:43.000 Okay.

02:28:43.000 I know it's one of those that she gets pissed off at.

02:28:46.000 I don't know what her name is.

02:28:47.000 Yeah, she don't like what I mean.

02:28:47.000 Okay.

02:28:49.000 I love you.

02:28:49.000 Thank you very much for having me on.

02:28:51.000 Thank you.

02:28:51.000 And everybody, tremendous.

02:28:52.000 The book is out May 5th.

02:28:54.000 May 2nd.

02:28:55.000 May 2nd.

02:28:56.000 Pre-order Amazon, Barnes& Noble, thrift.com, and you save no delivery charge.

02:29:02.000 You go on thriftbooks.com or something.

02:29:04.000 All right.

02:29:05.000 Bye.

02:29:05.000 I love you.

02:29:05.000 I love you, too.

02:29:06.000 Appreciate you having me.

02:29:06.000 Appreciate you being a staple.

02:29:08.000 We're going to have fun tonight.

02:29:09.000 Bye, everybody.

The Joe Rogan Experience - April 21, 2023

Joe Rogan Experience #1973 - Joey Diaz

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