Joe Rogan Experience #1072 - Joey Diaz

1. 0:00 – 0:51

   Planning a Spanish-subtitled Cuba podcast with Yoel Romero

   1. JDJoey Diaz0:00

      ... the story. (laughs) Save the story.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      Did not show up, so I'm flying him out after Luke Rockhold-

   3. JDJoey Diaz0:04

      Are we live? Okay.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:04

      I'm gonna do a podcast with him with subtitles in Spanish, then I'm bringing him up here on Friday and we're gonna-

   5. JDJoey Diaz0:09

      What? Really?

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:10

      Yeah. I'm, I got a company to do it for me in Spanish with subtitles. And then I'm gonna bring him up here on Friday and we're gonna have a three-way about Cuba.

   7. JDJoey Diaz0:19

      Whoa.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      And what it was like to wrestle and the whole thing, if you don't mind.

   9. JDJoey Diaz0:22

      Whoa.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       I don't know if you'd mind. So I'll do mine about subtitles just in Español.

   11. JDJoey Diaz0:27

       Okay.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       Cómo hablan de Cuba, cómo tú te criaste. So, no, we will not clash with you.

   13. JDJoey Diaz0:32

       Dude, the three-

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       You, y-

   15. JDJoey Diaz0:33

       ... of us together would be the greatest podcast ever.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       You, you, yeah, 'cause I can interpret and you would be, would be, uh, it would be, uh, real MMA. You could really talk-

   17. JDJoey Diaz0:42

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       ... about underhooks and-

   19. JDJoey Diaz0:43

       Dude.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       ... Russia and-

   21. JDJoey Diaz0:44

       That's a fantastic idea.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       ... early training in Cuba and where they shipped them, 'cause they ship you off when you're a young kid.

   23. JDJoey Diaz0:50

       They do?

2. 0:51 – 7:07

   Russian wrestling systems, GSP comparisons, and Lomachenko’s cross-training

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:51

      That's what a lot of people don't know. Yeah, they look at you and then they go, uh, "Pelotero." You don't have a choice. They look at you and they go, "Tú vas a luchadero," and that's it. Nah, they, they take you at a certain age and they, or they either send you to Nicaragua or Russia and you train. And that's why a lot of Cubans are judokas, because they go to Russia and learn judo.

   2. JDJoey Diaz1:15

      Wow.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:16

      So he's gonna tell you how they shipped him off with... And, and they don't just tell your mom like, "We're taking him tomorrow."

   4. JDJoey Diaz1:22

      That's a r- It's always been interesting to me because the Cubans and the Russians in particular were always thought of, of as being very technical. S- really the Russians. Russians are super technical. That was what, uh, a lot of people attributed George St-Pierre's success in wrestling. You know, George didn't wrestle in college or in high school, uh, but he trained with a bunch of Russian nationals in Montreal, and apparently phenomenal wrestlers. They have this incredible wrestling program. Like, when you see, when you see Nurmagomedov, the way he mauls people inside the octagon-

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:52

      (laughs)

   6. JDJoey Diaz1:52

      ... like what in the fuck? Like that is like a, a perfect example of that like style of super hard, super technical wrestling. They're so good at it. There's so many. Do you see... You know, you see Lomachenko used to be a wrestler?

   7. JRJoe Rogan2:07

      Yeah.

   8. JDJoey Diaz2:07

      There's a video of Lo- Lomachenko, looks like he's doing Sambo. It looks like he's got a, like a gi on and it's him and some other cat, and he's like 11 years old or something like that. So his father put him in everything. His father made him... You know who Lomachenko is, right?

   9. JRJoe Rogan2:21

      Yes, yes, yeah.

   10. JDJoey Diaz2:22

       One of the best boxers ever, like literally one of the most technically beautiful to watch boxers that's ever lived. But this guy used to wrestle too, like his da... This is, uh... I don't think this is it, is it?

   11. JVJamie Vernon2:33

       Yes, that was him.

   12. JDJoey Diaz2:34

       This is him? Okay. Is this him wrestling with somebody? Yeah, this is one now-

   13. JVJamie Vernon2:40

       Oh.

   14. JDJoey Diaz2:40

       ... where he can still do this shit. This is like pretty recent, like he showed some of his wrestling moves. But the other one was him when he was a little boy. Like, he's really technical, man. He, he knows how to wrestle. This is legit. Like when you see the way he's moving his body, he's not faking that. He's done that a bunch of times.

   15. JVJamie Vernon2:57

       Here's a good one.

   16. JDJoey Diaz2:57

       And yeah, this is a, this is one when he's a little kid, man. (laughs) It's crazy. It says Greco-Roman wrestling, but they're wearing a gi, so I'm not exactly sure what it is. But he gets his kid and, uh, gets behind him and sends him for a ride. So he was, he's always been an amazing athlete. Like in every... I think there's, there's something to that. There's something to... His father had an idea. It's a crazy idea. His father took him out of boxing and put him in a dance for like several years. So, uh, a Ukrainian traditional dance style, apparently. They were talking about it on one of those HBO shows. For like four year... I think it was the HBO show. But for four years, I think, he just danced. You imagine that? His father's like, "You wanna learn how to box? You gotta dance." And now nobody's got footwork. Y- have you ever seen him, Joey?

   17. JRJoe Rogan3:46

       Yes.

   18. JDJoey Diaz3:46

       Have you seen like his highlight reel?

   19. JRJoe Rogan3:48

       Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

   20. JDJoey Diaz3:48

       He's insane.

   21. JRJoe Rogan3:49

       It's insane, but-

   22. JDJoey Diaz3:49

       It's insane. Jamie, pull up a Lomachenko highlight reel.

   23. JRJoe Rogan3:52

       ... it's funny you say that 'cause my daughter goes to ballet and 80% of the class is Russian. So I was thinking about it yesterday, I was watching the movements, the last pirouette movement and I'm like, "Jesus Christ, if people did ballet, could you..." And I was thinking of the GSP, like you know me-

   24. JDJoey Diaz4:08

       Right.

   25. JRJoe Rogan4:08

       ... I'm like, "GSP probably fucking does ballet."

   26. JDJoey Diaz4:11

       Uh, uh-

   27. JRJoe Rogan4:12

       Like, you know what I'm saying?

   28. JDJoey Diaz4:12

       ... yeah, he would.

   29. JRJoe Rogan4:13

       Like, that's what people do-

   30. JDJoey Diaz4:13

       It'll be good for you.
3. 7:07 – 13:50

   UFC matchmaking talk: Rockhold vs Bisping, Romero, Jacare, and Ngannou’s rise

   1. JDJoey Diaz7:07

      Well, he's fighting Rockhold now.

   2. JRJoe Rogan7:08

      W- which is a tremendous fight on the 10th, right?

   3. JDJoey Diaz7:10

      That's a crazy fight.

   4. JRJoe Rogan7:11

      That's a crazy fight.

   5. JDJoey Diaz7:12

      A very good fight. It's a very good fight. Rockhold, when he's on is super dangerous. You know, when r- Rockhold made one slip-up against Bisping, but, you know, fair play to Bisping. He, he came into that fight regardless of where anybody ranked him, you know, like how, how, how they felt his chances were. He came in swinging. He had like, I think he had like 11 days' notice, something like that. What was, how many, how many days' notice did Michael Bisping get when he fought Luke Rockhold? I wanna say it was something crazy low. It wasn't much time.

   6. JRJoe Rogan7:41

      You know, Luke Lock, R- Luke Rockhold is very-

   7. JDJoey Diaz7:44

      He's a beast.

   8. JRJoe Rogan7:45

      ... very good.

   9. JDJoey Diaz7:45

      He's a beast.

   10. JRJoe Rogan7:46

       Very, very good.

   11. JDJoey Diaz7:47

       His top game is insane.

   12. JRJoe Rogan7:48

       I think when, let me tell you something, I think when he fought Michael Bisping, I'm not gonna lie to you, I think his focus was a little off maybe too, in a way. I think he was dating rock stars and hanging out in Hollywood. I think he's not dating whatever anymore, and now he's just fucking, you know-

   13. JDJoey Diaz8:02

       Focused.

   14. JRJoe Rogan8:02

       ... when he beat, uh, Branch he looked great.

   15. JDJoey Diaz8:05

       Yes.

   16. JRJoe Rogan8:05

       But his jujitsu's great.

   17. JDJoey Diaz8:06

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan8:07

       He has great kicks, he's great with his hands, his movement. Him against Yoel is gonna be interesting.

   19. JDJoey Diaz8:12

       Oh, it's... He's got vicious kicks, man.

   20. JRJoe Rogan8:14

       Now, he's four and he's won, right? So Luke Rockhold is number one at 185 right now?

   21. JDJoey Diaz8:21

       I believe so. Yeah. I think he's the number one contender.

   22. JRJoe Rogan8:23

       And then Jo- and then Yoel is four.

   23. JDJoey Diaz8:23

       Is he four?

   24. JRJoe Rogan8:24

       Yeah.

   25. JDJoey Diaz8:24

       Yeah. It's a great fight.

   26. JRJoe Rogan8:25

       And then, and then you got Jacare's back in the mix.

   27. JDJoey Diaz8:27

       Ooh, Jacare with Derek Brunson.

   28. JRJoe Rogan8:29

       After the head kick. You know what's crazy? Like I always say to you, like, uh, w- I don't f- mean to pronounce his name wrong, Ndengeyo, right? Like, when he fought Stipe. Well-

   29. JDJoey Diaz8:37

       Ngannou.

   30. JRJoe Rogan8:38

       ... Ngannou, when he fought my man, immigrant mentality like a motherfucker. Yeah, he hits hard and all that stuff like that, but now that dude's still gonna be more dangerous now. He's gonna fucking take that loss and come back-
4. 13:50 – 20:26

   ‘A Bronx Tale’ and immigrant-era neighborhood violence and code

   1. JRJoe Rogan13:50

      Like, the other night, you know what was on? I almost called you, Joe. I hate calling you. I almost called you to go, "When was the last time you watched Bronx Tale?"

   2. JDJoey Diaz13:58

      Oh, you know what? I-

   3. JRJoe Rogan13:59

      It's been on all week.

   4. JDJoey Diaz14:01

      I watched it a year ago.

   5. JRJoe Rogan14:02

      When he fucking finds them with the guns, and he starts smacking-

   6. JDJoey Diaz14:06

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan14:06

      ... the kids in the neighborhood. I used to remember people's parents smacking kids in the neighborhood.

   8. JDJoey Diaz14:12

      Wow.

   9. JRJoe Rogan14:13

      Like, people's parents coming, going, "What the fuck are you guys doing? Get the fuck home."

   10. JDJoey Diaz14:16

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan14:17

       And like one kid got a kick to the stomach, and the father punched the other kid. And nobody said dick.

   12. JDJoey Diaz14:23

       Nobody said dick. (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan14:24

       Dick!

   14. JDJoey Diaz14:24

       No.

   15. JRJoe Rogan14:25

       Like, I'm watching this Bro- And with the biker scene. When was the last ... Like, I haven't watched Bronx Tale in 20 years. It's on AMC at 6:30 at night.

   16. JDJoey Diaz14:33

       Right, when they lock the door-

   17. JRJoe Rogan14:33

       Bro.

   18. JDJoey Diaz14:33

       ... and now you can't leave.

   19. JRJoe Rogan14:34

       He's eating and shit.

   20. JDJoey Diaz14:36

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan14:36

       And all of a sudden, he hears the bikes and shit, and he walks over. "Oh, okay, nice," like a gentleman. "Yeah, all right, no problem. One beer." And all of a sudden they do a thing, and he walks up to the guy, "I gotta leave." "No, now you can't leave." And Calogero, like that guy named his son Calogero.

   22. JDJoey Diaz14:53

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan14:53

       Who would do something like that? That means just you want your son to have the immigrant mentality. But when they throw that beating on the bikers. That's a true story, bro.

   24. JDJoey Diaz15:02

       Is it?

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:02

       That's a true, true story. I wa- Listen, in the '60s, you couldn't have long hair and walk around the Bronx. It just wasn't accepted.

   26. JDJoey Diaz15:11

       Really?

   27. JRJoe Rogan15:11

       Yeah, yeah. Tha- that hippie shit? Tha- tha- that didn't happen in the Bronx in 1965.

   28. JDJoey Diaz15:16

       So what did they do? (laughs) What if, like, a hippie was walking through the Bronx?

   29. JRJoe Rogan15:19

       They called you dirty hair. They insulted you. They called you a bunch of shit, and then they threw a beating on you.

   30. JDJoey Diaz15:26

       Wow.
5. 20:26 – 35:13

   Growing up around ‘the numbers’: dry cleaners, bookmaking, and family lore

   1. JRJoe Rogan20:26

      I don't, I don't know how true it was. But I still remember being five. Like if I could think ... I- if you could put, hit me with truth serum, I, I could go back to being 1968, 1969 in the Bronx. My daughter's five. And my mother would send me from the dry cleaner that she owned to the corner where there was an Italian place that had slices and Italian ice and shit like that.

   2. JDJoey Diaz20:50

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan20:51

      Like I was allowed to walk to the corner at Marcy's age. On Tremont Avenue. Like I think about, I was looking at my daughter (laughs) when I was watching Bronx and I'm going, "How d- how different has time changed?" Like I was allowed to go to the liquor store with a note and get my mother Marlboro Reds and bring them back in that neighborhood. We didn't live there. My mother just had a dry cleaner and up there was bookie, numbers joint. That's why we had the dry cleaner. We were partners on the dry cleaner. You didn't know that.

   4. JDJoey Diaz21:20

      No.

   5. JRJoe Rogan21:20

      That's why I got scars on my face. I got bit by a German Shepherd as a kid. Those three, by one of the eyes, that's what we did. When we came from Cuba, I lived in 205 West 88th Street. And after my father died, my mother had a dry cleaner. And that's where we were up. We were up in Jerome Avenue, in Tremont, in Grand Concourse. And we had a dry cleaner. And every, every weekend I would go up there and I would sit there with the fucking ... I learned how to dry clean. And had Black Mike. Black Mike was the guy that ironed everything, but he made the best spaghetti in the Bronx.

   6. JDJoey Diaz21:54

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan21:54

      So even Italians came to eat Black Mike's spaghetti.

   8. JDJoey Diaz21:57

      Really?

   9. JRJoe Rogan21:58

      Yeah, this was, uh ... I knew all that shit when I was a kid. Because when you have a numbers operation, uh, you have to keep moving it around.

   10. JDJoey Diaz22:08

       Right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan22:09

       The cops can't. So you have to, every three or four weeks, you have to move it around.

   12. JDJoey Diaz22:12

       Explain the numbers to people who don't know what that means.

   13. JRJoe Rogan22:14

       The numbers is, uh, the parimutuel. It's, uh, the last three numbers are the parimutuel of the track, which is the amount the track made for the day. So if the track made $686,482, the number for the day is 482. And it comes out as the Brooklyn number. So there's three numbers a day. There's Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey. But what happened was, that was a big business until the '80s, till the lotto came out. Then the lotto cut that in half. But before that, that was all put in d- little different, little different immigrant neighborhoods all over New York City because as immigrants, we all w- want hope.

   14. JDJoey Diaz22:58

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan22:58

       You know, we want that money to get that refrigerator and the stove and shit like that. It's such a weird, uh, thing that they would gamble. Just $2 a day. Remember, $2 a day wins you $1000.

   16. JDJoey Diaz23:10

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan23:11

       I could do a lot in 1975 with $1000 with two kids.

   18. JDJoey Diaz23:15

       My grandmother was obsessed with the numbers.

   19. JRJoe Rogan23:17

       Yeah, every, uh, you know-

   20. JDJoey Diaz23:18

       She was obsessed. And she would always have like a, um, number in her head that she thought it was gonna be. And it was like one off or something like that. It was like these stories she would tell you.

   21. JRJoe Rogan23:27

       What would you say to her?

   22. JDJoey Diaz23:28

       Psh, what could I say? I was like five. (laughs) I just remember it very distinctly. My grandmother went to jail for running numbers.

   23. JRJoe Rogan23:38

       In New Jersey.

   24. JDJoey Diaz23:38

       She, she wouldn't, she wouldn't rat them out, so they put her in jail. And so she made sweaters, gave sweaters to the guards.

   25. JRJoe Rogan23:45

       (laughs)

   26. JDJoey Diaz23:45

       Mrs. D, she's the nicest lady.

   27. JRJoe Rogan23:47

       How did you feel that your grandmother had done time? What did you think?

   28. JDJoey Diaz23:51

       We didn't find out until I was probably like ... I, I wonder when I found out. I think maybe I found out in my teenage years. And I was like, "What?"

   29. JRJoe Rogan23:58

       (laughs)

   30. JDJoey Diaz23:59

       "What the fuck?" Like people would go to see her, like, "Where's ... " uh, I don't want to say my grandma's name out of respect. But people would say, you know, "Where is she?" And she ... oh, she went to visit her, her cousin or she went to see her aunt. And she was, you know, she was in the pokey for like six months.
6. 35:13 – 44:00

   Intuition, raids, Abakuá, and wild street-level stories (including the wig cocaine stash)

   1. JDJoey Diaz35:13

      Well, it's unfortunate because you think about how many bets are placed.

   2. JRJoe Rogan35:17

      Oh, Jesus Christ.

   3. JDJoey Diaz35:18

      I mean-

   4. JRJoe Rogan35:19

      There's so much money out there.

   5. JDJoey Diaz35:20

      There's so much money out there. People love to gamble. Fucking games, when games are on, people love to gamble.

   6. JRJoe Rogan35:27

      What do you think is spent this weekend, Jamie? Gi-... Come on, Jamie, you-

   7. JDJoey Diaz35:30

      But here's my question, Joey. Like, why is that a problem? Like, what, what... what i- what's helping us by letting them regulate that shit? Like, why? Why does that ha- why do you have to have a license to gamble? Why?

   8. JRJoe Rogan35:43

      (sighs) .

   9. JDJoey Diaz35:43

      You know, if you think someone's not paying their taxes and you can prove it, is it because it's money, it's cash that's being thrown around mostly? Like what... why is it an issue? The government's go-... not getting their piece?

   10. JRJoe Rogan35:55

       (sighs) .

   11. JDJoey Diaz35:57

       It seems ridiculous that grown adults could tell other grown adults they can't gamble, but you can here, but you can't there.

   12. JRJoe Rogan36:03

       Well, gambling is one of those things-

   13. JDJoey Diaz36:05

       (sighs) .

   14. JRJoe Rogan36:05

       ... like legalization of marijuana, like legalization of fucking, uh, cocaine.

   15. JDJoey Diaz36:10

       It's-

   16. JRJoe Rogan36:10

       Like legalization of anything, bro. You know what? There's gonna be fucking winners and there's gonna be fucking losers, my friends.

   17. JDJoey Diaz36:17

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan36:17

       Two years ago, Connecticut did a, did an expose on 60 Minutes about women who have just lost their fucking minds gambling-

   19. JDJoey Diaz36:27

       Mm-hmm.

   20. JRJoe Rogan36:27

       ... at Mohegan Sun-

   21. JDJoey Diaz36:29

       Mm-hmm.

   22. JRJoe Rogan36:29

       ... because they installed... No, no disrespect to Mohegan Sun, the casino industries. They installed these type of slot machines that could just fuck with your mind.

   23. JDJoey Diaz36:40

       What?

   24. JRJoe Rogan36:40

       So, these women were going down there and losing fucking mortgages, houses, you know? I-

   25. JDJoey Diaz36:47

       Sounds like a John Waters movie.

   26. JRJoe Rogan36:49

       D- dog-

   27. JDJoey Diaz36:49

       Doesn't it?

   28. JRJoe Rogan36:50

       Dog, it was just something that... Listen, the biggest-

   29. JDJoey Diaz36:53

       But that's crazy. They-

   30. JRJoe Rogan36:53

       Listen, listen. Let, let's get, let's get something outta the way here.
7. 44:00 – 52:30

   Gambling addiction: why it’s dangerous, who gets hit hardest, and how the web tightens

   1. JRJoe Rogan44:00

      All right. Once and for all-

   2. JDJoey Diaz44:01

      (clears throat)

   3. JRJoe Rogan44:01

      ... once and for all, I want you to break it down for me. (sighs) I walk into a pool hall with Jamie.

   4. JDJoey Diaz44:09

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan44:09

      I got 10Gs cash in my pocket. Jamie's my main man. How do I exactly make money? And why is it that the people in the room pass money around and how does that money get dispersed?

   6. JDJoey Diaz44:22

      Oh, it's real simple. Everybody puts ... Like you put in, I'm in for 100-

   7. JRJoe Rogan44:26

      Jamie's my boy.

   8. JDJoey Diaz44:27

      ... 20 matches. It depends (snaps fingers) on who's putting it together because they might decide to just pool in all their money, like everybody put in on one side, pool in money and, you know, and- and back this guy. Or they might be betting on the side, they might not even be playing the game. There's always side bets. Side bets are probably more, like if you had a bet, if you had a, like a big pool game, right? In a ... There used to be a place called, uh, what- what is it? West End Billiards, I think, in New Jersey. West End. I think it was called w- ... See if you find West End Billiards. It was a world-famous pool hall. We would take the drive from, um, from New York to go down to New Jersey to this famous pool hall that would have these like serious high-level professionals play there. And real high-level hustlers from all over the country would go there for big money games. You could go there and watch people play for $5,000, $10,000. I mean, the best in the world would be there all the time. I got to play against some of the best in the world. They killed me, but I got to play againem- against them.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:28

      Like real good guys, now-

   10. JDJoey Diaz45:30

       I just enter the tournament.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:31

       Okay. Okay, okay.

   12. JDJoey Diaz45:31

       Say if you and I- if you and I are in the tournament and you are, uh, Efren Reyes, like the greatest of all time, or Earl Strickland or Johnny Archer, and I'm just Joe Rogan. I- I barely could play. It doesn't matter. I put my money up, I enter the tournament, I can play against you.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:46

       No.

   14. JDJoey Diaz45:46

       Unless it's a huge, huge like where you have to get invited.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:49

       So now does Joey Diaz come on the side and go, "Listen, I'm putting 3:1 odds on this."

   16. JDJoey Diaz45:53

       Sure, some people definitely do.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       Okay. So that's-

   18. JDJoey Diaz45:55

       Definitely do.

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       ... a side... That's a side bet.

   20. JDJoey Diaz45:57

       Yes.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:57

       Okay.

   22. JDJoey Diaz45:57

       Side bets all over the place.

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:58

       I don't know how the pool hall-

   24. JDJoey Diaz45:59

       "I got 100 bucks on Archer." You know, "Oh, you'd never seen this Diaz kid play. I got 100 on Diaz." And d- dudes will go, "I'll take that, I'll take that." And then you just work it out. And everybody works it out. But when ... Sometimes guys will get together and back somebody too. Like say if the- you got like a friend that's a really good player and this guy's coming in from out of town and he wants to take a crack at him. And go, well, he wants to play $100 sets. Okay, and then you have to think, how many barrels do we have? You pool all your money together. Okay, we got four barrels. That means if he wants to play sets, we can lose four times. So you have to be able to lose a couple, gain a couple. Like if you're gonna really play a guy out, these guys would play 10, 12 hours. They would keep going back and forth and back and forth. It's- it's a- it's crazy. Like I've seen guys and you would see them the next day, they'd still be playing. You'd go there in the morning, they'd be playing all through the night. I don't know what the fuck they were on. Most likely some sort of amphetamines. That was a big thing in the pool world for a while. Guys would just break each other with gambling. It would just ... It would be about who quits. It wouldn't be about who won. It's very rarely about like-

   25. JRJoe Rogan47:00

       And like-

   26. JDJoey Diaz47:00

       ... you know, like you would- you would be- you would be frowned upon highly if you left on top. Say if you're ahead by $500 and you want to quit me and I- you ... And I'm still ready- ready to keep playing, I still got more money, man. Let me win my money back. If you just walked away, "Nope, I've got what I wanted. I'm going to leave now." Like that would be ... You'd- you'd be what's called bad action.

   27. JRJoe Rogan47:22

       What about guys, "I got two kids, I got to get up at 7:00 and go bring them to school."

   28. JDJoey Diaz47:25

       Shouldn't be out in the pool hall, motherfucker. With two kids you're not playing that kind of pool. There ain't nobody with two kids playing that level pool in pool halls, like gambling and hustling.

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:32

       Because a pool hall-

   30. JDJoey Diaz47:33

       Maybe now there are. There's actually a few guys. I take that back. There's a few guys with kids that, uh, are top of the food chain.
8. 52:30 – 1:05:21

   Pool hustling economics: staking, side bets, ‘bad action,’ and marathon sets

   1. JRJoe Rogan52:30

      So I don't even know when this podcast started and-

   2. JDJoey Diaz52:33

      It's on.

   3. JRJoe Rogan52:33

      ... when it begins.

   4. JDJoey Diaz52:34

      It's happening.

   5. JRJoe Rogan52:34

      But it's funny, before we started, we were talking about, uh, yeah, 4.8 billion-

   6. JDJoey Diaz52:39

      Oh my god.

   7. JRJoe Rogan52:39

      ... for the Super Bowl.

   8. Yeah.

   9. JDJoey Diaz52:41

      3% will happen in Nevada.

   10. JRJoe Rogan52:42

       That's it.

   11. JDJoey Diaz52:43

       Only 3%. So is most of it online?

   12. JRJoe Rogan52:46

       Online...

   13. JDJoey Diaz52:46

       What was that Chris Christie thing you pulled up earlier, Jamey?

   14. JRJoe Rogan52:48

       Listen, G, online and banks.

   15. JDJoey Diaz52:51

       Banks.

   16. JRJoe Rogan52:52

       There's still people who are like, uh, you know, they have, they got a ton of loot.

   17. JDJoey Diaz52:57

       Chris Christie goes to the Supreme Court on sports betting. Is he trying to get sports betting legalized?

   18. JRJoe Rogan53:02

       Yeah, so they- they passed something in New Jersey I think in 2011 to allow betting in sports, but it's still only allowed in Vegas because of the, whatever law there is, you know?

   19. JDJoey Diaz53:10

       I'm back on your team, Crisp.

   20. JRJoe Rogan53:12

       Yeah.

   21. JDJoey Diaz53:12

       All right?

   22. JRJoe Rogan53:12

       So he has a Supreme Court case going.

   23. JDJoey Diaz53:13

       He might have a few problems, but we all do. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan53:15

       There's 17 states also with him on this. I think they wanna do it and they're just-

   25. No, they want it... So he won? He opposed it? Or he's got-

   26. They want it again. They want betting again because they have an NHL team in Vegas, and that's always been like the, the logic is that you, there'll be some issue, whatever. You can't be betting where there's sports being played-

   27. Right.

   28. ... because someone will throw the game.

   29. JDJoey Diaz53:32

       Everybody should be able to bet, every city. She'll do whatever you want. You're a-

   30. JRJoe Rogan53:35

       As long as they tax you-
9. 1:05:21 – 1:17:47

   Legalization, taxes, and the cash problem: weed shops, regulation, and black markets

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:05:21

      I got an edible in me, I watched the Barry Seal thing.

   2. JDJoey Diaz1:05:24

      How was it?

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:05:25

      It's not an Academy Award winner, but it's very interesting when we're just burying money, Joe Rogan. Four million a shot. Like me and you are-

   4. JDJoey Diaz1:05:34

      (sighs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:05:34

      ... in the yard, like, burying money, like a suitcase with hundred dollar bills falling out of it-

   6. JDJoey Diaz1:05:40

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:05:40

      ... and you don't give a Frenchman's fuck.

   8. JDJoey Diaz1:05:43

      I always wanted to know this. Snopes this. Did Barry Seal die with George Bush's phone number in his pocket? That's what they always said. And he died, they shot him on the way to the trial with George Bush's phone number in his pocket.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:05:55

      Bro, he was top-notch, that guy. He had it all.

   10. JDJoey Diaz1:05:59

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:05:59

       He's seen it. Bro, he took pictures-

   12. JDJoey Diaz1:06:01

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:06:01

       ... of them loading a fucking plane in Nicaragua with Escobar and the top aide in Nicaragua.

   14. JDJoey Diaz1:06:11

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:06:11

       They had him by the fucking balls. No matter what, how you... That took balls.

   16. JDJoey Diaz1:06:15

       Fuck, yeah, it did.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:06:16

       They fucked him in the ass. They told him that they wouldn't release the pictures.

   18. JDJoey Diaz1:06:20

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:06:20

       Then they released the pictures which was douche, and that's why the guy got shot.

   20. JDJoey Diaz1:06:23

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:06:23

       That's fucked up. They should have taken him and hidden him. He's fucking-

   22. JDJoey Diaz1:06:26

       It's interesting though, they assassinated that guy. That's a 100% assassination in connection to some sort of illegal government-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:06:35

       It was a fucking collab. What illegal? What are you talking about? That was Escobar-

   24. JDJoey Diaz1:06:39

       Yeah, but-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:06:40

       ... that sent the bird, the message.

   26. JDJoey Diaz1:06:41

       They had a deal where Barry Seals could land though, right? Like it wasn't part of the thing was with the people on the ground.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:06:46

       Right, on the ground.

   28. JDJoey Diaz1:06:47

       That was in Mean, Arkansas, right?

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:06:48

       Now, but, but here's the problem. This is where Eddie Bravo comes in.

   30. JDJoey Diaz1:06:52

       Right.

Episode duration: 3:06:34