#1220 - Joey Diaz

Joe Rogan (0:01)

I always act like there is.

Joey Diaz (0:03)

I assume there is.

Joe Rogan (0:05)

Yeah, I always assume. Merry Christmas, ladies and gentlemen.

Joey Diaz (0:10)

Happy New Year, Merry Christmas. It's fucking on, you understand me. It's Christmas Eve. You thought it was gonna be ho-hum? Fuck you.

Uncle Joey, Joe Rogan here, fucking live. Christmas Eve.

Talking about bugs in your house and how easy it is for the feds.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

They don't need to bug your house anymore. They just use your phone. They just turn them on. Jamie, tell them what you were telling me about that, the AirPods?

Jamie (0:33)

Oh yeah, there's a new setting on the new operating system where your AirPods, you turn on this thing called Live Listen, and it's listening to the microphone on your iPhone.

So you can leave your phone in a room, walk out, and you just made your own bug. But that means that anybody that can then access your phone could probably also listen if they have access to that. I don't know how strong.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

But they've already said, like if you talk to anybody that knows what's possible with electronics, they can already turn your microphone on anytime they want.

Joey Diaz (1:04)

Bro, when I was a kid, I grew up in that bookmaking shit, and there were certain bookmakers that wouldn't talk in a room that there was a phone in the room.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

Smart ones.

Joey Diaz (1:13)

In the 70s. They would not talk, not on the phone, but if there was a phone in the room, they would leave the room.

That's, and I used to go, these guys are super paranoid. They were 30 years ahead of that time.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Well, you remember how they got Vince in the chin. They started bugging cars along the way where he would walk. He would walk with his bathrobe like he was crazy, and he would give everybody instructions, and he would do it on his walk, so he couldn't get bugged anywhere. So they started bugging the cars along his walk route.

That's how they got them.

Joey Diaz (1:41)

And they get you with the mic?

With the same microphone they use in the NFL, when you hear all those tackles and grunts. In the old days, they had, I don't know, the parabolic mic takes vibrations from glass. Yeah. So I could just point this laser at your glass with speakers on, and it'll take whatever you're saying in a room and bounce it off the glass.

Joe Rogan (2:05)

I've heard it. There's a recording of it.

Joey Diaz (2:06)

This is in the fucking 80s. So by now, it's world class.

Joe Rogan (2:10)

They're listening to everything. Everything. Anything and everything.

Joey Diaz (2:14)

When I go in the bathroom on a plane, you have to assume they're watching you. Like I used to go in there and do Blast a Coke. I would always pull my pants down. Go through the whole process like I was shitting. I wasn't really shitting.

I just always thought there was a camera there.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

Well, you're probably correct.

Joey Diaz (2:32)

I've heard things that are just horrid about Vegas in the 80s, how they had cameras in rooms.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Well, Vegas in the 80s was all mob runs.

Joey Diaz (2:40)

Vegas and the bathrooms have cameras. So as soon as you do a blast, you come out within 10 minutes, the cops are around you.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

When did the mob officially get out of Vegas?

Joey Diaz (2:52)

The mob is still in Vegas, just in short spurts. It's crazy. I was in New York last week, and I realized how much construction was going on.

And I thought to myself, how much of that is the mob still getting? They had a tax for years, 2%. So if it's a $300 million job, do the math on that. You make a big chunk on that.

You know, Trump didn't get rich because the construction business is huge. And you go to New York, now you know, I can't give you accurate numbers because I don't know what numbers are, but look what the average is for a square foot of concrete in New York, and look what the average is in Iowa.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

I was reading something about that.

Joey Diaz (3:37)

The square foot of concrete. To build a building in New York, the concrete is fucking insane because so many hands are getting fucking greased. You know, you don't pay a job, okay? So you don't pay. It's like that one episode of The Sopranos. So what I do is break your balls. You're a GC, you don't want to pay me my money. That's fine. I sent somebody from the union down there.