#1973 - Joey Diaz

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joey Diaz (0:09)

Look at Jamie looking yoked, like a motherfucker, hitting balls across the fucking desert.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Yeah, he's addicted to that golf. I should see him out there with the simulator, just whop.

Joey Diaz (0:22)

He told me he was out in the back yard. Good for him, man.

Whop. You still won't hit a golf ball?

Joe Rogan (0:28)

I've hit a couple of golf balls, I'm just not going to play golf. I'm scared.

Joey Diaz (0:32)

Of what?

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Get addicted to it.

They're all addicted, Ron White, Tony Hinchcliffe, him, all these guys. They're addicted. Look at them. He's over there, Jones. Got the bug.

Joey Diaz (0:42)

They go every day? You guys go every day?

Joe Rogan (0:44)

He does. He's on the simulator every day.

The kid motherfucker can whack a golf ball.

Jamie (0:49)

It's like shooting jump shots, though. You got to practice the jump shot.

Joey Diaz (0:52)

Yeah, you got to practice the jump shot. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Tremendous.

Joey Diaz (0:56)

Tremendous.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

How long did this take you to do?

Joey Diaz (0:58)

22 fucking years.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Jesus.

Joey Diaz (1:01)

And then I hooked up with Erica Florentine, Jimmy's niece, and she put it all together for me. I'm happy I did it and got it over with.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

Nice.

Joey Diaz (1:10)

I got all that shit off my fucking chest.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

Joey Diaz is an author. Look at this.

I bet this is great. I've heard most of these stories, I'm sure. But I don't know what you. You know, with you, I always think I've heard all the fucking stories, and then another one pops up.

If you really could document everything you've been through in your life, no one would believe it. They don't believe it. People still sometimes don't believe some of those stories.

Joey Diaz (1:37)

Yeah, we're all. Good to see you.

The one thing that writing it and reading it, I did the audio book.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Oh, nice.

Joey Diaz (1:45)

I did the audio book.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

How was that?

Joey Diaz (1:46)

Good. And everybody said it's going to suck. I go, give me three hours a day.

Give me a space in between.

And I'll go in there and just knock it off in two and a half weeks. Nice. But once I read it, like, you know, because it's been in your head for a long time and shit.

Once I read it, I only got one thing out of this book. I got my money's worth.

When they picked me for a life, I got my money's worth, whether it was good or bad, you know what I'm saying? Whether it was good or bad, I got my money's worth out of this life. If I get hit by a plane tonight, I'm good. And that's what, seriously, that's what I came up with. Adventures, fucking stories. I was the biggest loser. How many times I started over? If you read that book, I must have started over 60 times. You know, just move. Pick up, move, and go to another town and rob them blind. And then pick them up and go back and forth. I was like a fucking yo-yo, man. Yeah. I was very unsettled.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

You were unsettled when I met you.

Joey Diaz (2:45)

Very.

Joe Rogan (2:46)

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. I was like, I had come to LA, and I was just so not used to actors. I was so not used to those kind of people.

But I was so used to, like, comics and degenerate pool hall people.

And then I met you, and I was like, oh, I know you. This is a combination. I knew you. I knew you right away. You and I became friends like that.

Joey Diaz (3:13)

Quickly.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

Like that.

I remember, like, there's so many people that got weirded out by you. It was so funny when I'd bring you around, like, news radio.

Joey Diaz (3:24)

With the leather jacket.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

Joey would go with... Joey was building a football player back then, and you would go into the fucking, the green room, where all the executives and you're eating all the shrimp cocktail. They were scared to say anything because, like, that room was separated from everybody else's green room. So they had their own thing where they'd go in there and everything was catered and beautiful and champagne. And you just strolled in there and started eating shrimp cocktail. They're like, who's this criminal looking fellow who's eating our shrimp cocktail?