At a glance
WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Joey Diaz On Weed, Weight Loss, Hustling, Comedy, And Getting Older
- Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz spend a long-form, meandering conversation bouncing between Joey’s relationship with weed and edibles, his Weight Watchers-driven weight loss and training regimen, and the realities of aging bodies, injuries, and recovery.
- They dive into old-school hustles and crime stories, the cocaine-and-pizza lifestyle that made Joey 418 pounds, and how structured training (Muay Thai, jiu-jitsu, kettlebells, strength work) and diet changes transformed his health and mentality.
- They reminisce about standup origins, Mitzi Shore’s influence at The Comedy Store, classic radio and TV, and films like The Exorcist and Rocky as they connect storytelling, imagination, and the craft of performing.
- Threaded through are discussions about success, outliers, divorce money and gender, hormone replacement, and Rogan’s hyper-competitive Sober October fitness challenge with Ari Shaffir, Bert Kreischer, and Tom Segura.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasChanging your relationship with weed changes your whole routine.
Diaz describes how quitting edibles because of uncontrollable late-night hunger and stomach issues forced him to confront his sleep, post-show comedown, and how he self-medicates after standup; Rogan notes that even a one‑month break made him anxious to start again.
Small, consistent dietary changes can sustain major weight loss.
Joey lost about 30 pounds over 11 months mostly via Weight Watchers: cutting cheese and bacon portions, avoiding late-night binges, and eating breakfast early to avoid all-day catch‑up eating instead of chasing extreme fad diets.
For older lifters, shorter, smarter sessions beat maximal beatdowns.
Both emphasize that after 50 you should favor frequent but abbreviated strength sessions (squats, deadlifts, kettlebells, club work) plus recovery tools (cryotherapy, red light beds) over marathon ego workouts that wreck your joints and recovery.
Strength work is crucial “anti-aging” for men—physically and sexually.
Diaz frames squats and deadlifts as the real “testosterone boosters,” joking they protect the “Maalox stick,” while Rogan adds that properly monitored hormone replacement plus heavy lifting preserves muscle, bone density, and vitality.
Success in any field is a mix of hard work and timing.
Rogan references Malcolm Gladwell’s *Outliers* and the role of birth year, access, and opportunity in hockey and tech (e.g., Bill Gates), contrasting that with how many ultra‑wealthy women got rich via divorce, and how Hillary Clinton’s path blended merit with access.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesIf you’re clean off weed for 29 days, you might as well go for a year and then make a comeback.
— Joey Diaz
If you wanna be a fat fuck, don’t eat till 1:00… then you gotta make up for it the rest of the day.
— Joey Diaz
There is a stigma attached to testosterone. All that matters is that you have it in your system. If you don’t, you’re not gonna feel as good.
— Joe Rogan
I knew one thing my freshman year in high school: I did not want a day job.
— Joey Diaz
Almost every day I worked out this month I didn’t want to do it. The only thing that kept me doing it is Bert talking shit.
— Joe Rogan
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