#1778 - Joey Diaz

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joey Diaz (0:12)

What's happening, you bad motherfuckers? Uncle Joey live in Austin, cocksuckers.

SPEAKER_4 (0:18)

So good to see you, man.

Joey Diaz (0:20)

Great to see you, you look great, man.

SPEAKER_4 (0:21)

You look great, too.

Joey Diaz (0:22)

Great fucking studio down here. I like the lights.

I like the whole cosmic effect.

SPEAKER_4 (0:27)

I wish you had more time in town. I want to take you around.

I got to take you to the... I want to show you some things. I want to show you some things. I want to show you the club.

Joey Diaz (0:35)

Okay, yeah, I like to see the club. You got a lighter over there? Let's get this party started. I haven't smoked since this fucking... I didn't even smoke this morning.

SPEAKER_4 (0:41)

Well, that's crazy.

Joey Diaz (0:41)

That plane took off at... I left the house at 5

I was up at 4 I took some edibles last night with some CBD, so I woke up feeling like a fucking doctor.

SPEAKER_4 (0:51)

New Jersey's all wide open now, right?

Joey Diaz (0:53)

Wide open.

SPEAKER_4 (0:54)

It's legal, like recreational, right?

Joey Diaz (0:56)

Yeah, and let me tell you something. Like, they're waiting on stores?

Not really.

SPEAKER_4 (1:01)

No?

Joey Diaz (1:01)

People are just opening those motherfuckers. Really? Delivery services that are tremendous. They come to your house, deliver it, whatever time.

SPEAKER_4 (1:08)

When I was in New Orleans, I bought weed on a food truck.

Joey Diaz (1:11)

Yeah, they have those in New York.

SPEAKER_4 (1:12)

They had a food truck. This lady pulled up in a food truck. She was just selling weed.

Figured out. Popped the top.

Joey Diaz (1:18)

Any good?

SPEAKER_4 (1:18)

Yes! It was very good. It's upside down. You're upside down. That one. It's a cigar lighter.

There you go.

Joey Diaz (1:28)

We got to open up the fucking podcast a little fart. It's great to see you, man.

SPEAKER_4 (1:37)

It's great to see you too.

Joey Diaz (1:38)

Fucking long time from LA, huh?

SPEAKER_4 (1:40)

I know. I know. You know, the one time that I visited you in New Jersey and we had dinner at Il Nido, that fantastic Italian restaurant near your house. I wouldn't move either.

I get it. Look, I love New Jersey. New Jersey is like, you're close enough to New York, but you're kind of like in the rest of the world.

You know, they're regular people, just normal people living their lives.

Joey Diaz (2:05)

They go to the city, they come back, they commute. You look at them, you go, how the fuck do you do that every day? Get on a goddamn bus.

An hour, an hour back, walk through Times Square.

SPEAKER_4 (2:15)

It's a different life.

Joey Diaz (2:16)

It's a different fucking life. Me, when I moved down there, I knew that my New York days were over with.

SPEAKER_4 (2:21)

Yeah.

Joey Diaz (2:21)

Because it's an hour to and fro, you know?

SPEAKER_4 (2:24)

Right.

Joey Diaz (2:25)

And I used to go down there 20 years ago. My buddy Chris Fish still lives down there. And that's how I got introduced to that area. When I was going to move to Jersey, I was going to move to Bergen County. I was going to be close to the city, Fort Lee, my old hometown.

But after the pandemic, you couldn't find shit. That Bergen County is where the guy went skiing, and he came back from Italy, and everybody got fucking, well, that was like somewhere in Westchester.

But Bergen Field.

SPEAKER_4 (2:50)

Someone brought it?

Joey Diaz (2:51)

Back. Remember, I complained to you that the guy went skiing in Italy, and he came back. That fucking guy, he must have been the joy of his fucking neighborhood. Because the whole neighborhood got it after that. He's alive still, the dude, but it doesn't matter. When everything went down, I just wanted to get out of LA. When I saw Burbank and what was going on in Burbank, and I was like, you know what, I don't want to raise my daughter here anymore. I wasn't safe.

All the parades were being held around the corner from my house. All the fucking violence parades and shit. So I had people walking through my neighborhood, breaking into cars. And I was like, we were dying to get the fuck out anyway. Like I went to New York in 2016 at the airport. My wife asked me why we were even going back.

She's like, why are we going back? I can see that you like it here. You're having a good time with your friends.