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Joe Rogan Experience #1448 - Joey Diaz

Joey “CoCo” Diaz is a Cuban-American stand up comedian and actor. Joey also hosts his own podcast called “The Church of What’s Happening Now”. @JoeyDiaz

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Mar 26, 20202h 59mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:002:20

    Intro

    1. JR

      (inhales) And we're live, Joey Diaz.

    2. JD

      My brother.

    3. JR

      How you feeling?

    4. JD

      Like a new fucking man, rested.

    5. JR

      You look g- I know, rested, right?

    6. JD

      Rested, very rested. I looked at it, at this as a reset button. (smacks lips) As soon as I came back from Vegas, I knew what time it was, February 29th. It was at 50% capacity. (coughs)

    7. JR

      Yeah, we were there a week later. We were there, uh, when Tommy was at the, uh, Mirage. And UFC had, uh, their, um, their Vegas, uh, the Las Vegas card. It was, it was a ghost town. It was half, not even half full. I mean, that, a week after you, you were at 50% capacity? It was probably dropping less than that.

    8. JD

      30, it was at 30 and-

    9. JR

      But the UFC was packed.

    10. JD

      It was packed.

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. JD

      Packed. And then I came to The Comedy Store March 2nd, and that's when I could smell it in the fucking air. (sniffs) When I went into the green room, bro, and I saw all those people in the green room, I basically had a fucking-

    13. JR

      Panick attack?

    14. JD

      ... panic attack. Yeah, and I went right to the door, there's a street door-

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. JD

      ... in the back, the Eddie Murphy door. If he comes back, that's what we'll call it, the Eddie Murphy door.

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. JD

      'Cause how else is he gonna get in and out of that? There's no other way.

    19. JR

      Yeah, they're gonna have to have guards to get him in.

    20. JD

      So, uh, I went to the Eddie Murphy door and I stayed there. And you could just see people in the audience like nothing was going on. And I just got, I just got shat- like I was shattered. By Saturday, and remember, I was supposed to be in New York for St. Paddy's Day, and the Monday before, I was supposed to be in New York the 16th and 17th, with a show at Nyack on the 12th. And I saw it happening. I get, went to a doctor for a shot on my knee to get the gel for the arthritis, and he said that, "You might have a weird reaction to it." And sure enough, Tuesday, I went to boxing class and the guy goes, "Dog, your leg is bruised." So I had a little bruising on my leg. And I got home and that night on the news that it hit New Rochelle. And I go, "Wait a second, New Rochelle and Nyack, they're like fucking neighbors." You know, my memory might not serve me right but, in my mind that's all close to this.

    21. JR

      Pretty close, yeah.

    22. JD

      It's all pretty on top of everything. So I sent a letter to the prod- uh, picture of my knee to the producers and I said, "I'm not coming in." 'Cause they wanted me to come in Thursday for wardrobe, and then I was just gonna sit in my hotel room for two days. You know, go to Jersey and eat

  2. 2:206:15

    New York City

    1. JD

      and shit like that, so the show-

    2. JR

      So even during all this, they were still planning on filming. And this is for the Sopranos movie?

    3. JD

      Mm-hmm. So we were gonna do a couple shoots, reshoots. No, not reshoots, an ex- extra scenes.

    4. JR

      Right.

    5. JD

      So that Tuesday when I got home, New Rochelle had busted, I sent them a picture of my knee and said, "I'm not getting on a plane till Friday. (smacks lips) I want the swelling to go down." But it doesn't take a fucking... And I got a GED. And when I was in New York City in May, I went by the Garden to eat lunch. I wanted to get out of my hotel room and I went to the Garden. On the side, you could sit there at 12:00 and they have everything. Steak sandwiches, whatever you want. Pretty fucking good too.

    6. JR

      Trucks?

    7. JD

      Uh, no. They have a building that has foods inside.

    8. JR

      Oh, okay.

    9. JD

      And they have some trucks and you can sit outside, fucking beautiful. But while I was sitting there, it was a Tuesday, I was off from shooting. And I remember calling my wife and specifically saying, "I like it here and everything." (smacks lips) But if Godzilla comes out of the Hudson River-

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. JD

      ... where are all these people gonna go?"

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. JD

      If you sit in New York City in Manhattan, like on the 50s, and just sit there at a cafe, you could estimate, I mean, like, it's like maybe 10,000 for every 10 minutes that you sit there, people that walk by you. We don't have that foot traffic in LA, like there is in New York. There's a little bit of foot traffic downtown, but Sunset Strip, that ship sailed. You don't see people walking around the Sunset Strip, Hollywood Boulevard. But not to the dense popu- you know?

    14. JR

      No, not- there's nothing.

    15. JD

      Not, not to the numbers of New York. So it was a no fucking brain, this is a GED here. This is s- me sitting there going, "This is gonna happen." I just kept c- cutting it down. And my biggest fear was going to the East Coast and getting stuck.

    16. JR

      (sighs) It could happen.

    17. JD

      I would've had to buy a truck, a Cadillac, and drove back. I was already prepared. Like, I was like, "I'm gonna buy a truck and drive back."

    18. JR

      Do you think you could do that drive? That's a long ass fucking drive.

    19. JD

      I could do that, I've done that drive 20 times.

    20. JR

      What is it, five days?

    21. JD

      Five days, four days. There's a l-

    22. JR

      For what, four days you gotta do like what, 16 hours a day?

    23. JD

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      (whistles) It's hard to stay awake.

    25. JD

      I did Colorado and New Jersey like the back of my hand.

    26. JR

      How far is that?

    27. JD

      In the early '80s, three.

    28. JR

      What is it from here to Colorado, like here to Denver?

    29. JD

      I think 16.

    30. JR

      16? Here to Utah, Salt Lake is 10?

  3. 6:157:34

    Palm Springs

    1. JD

      Palm Springs.

    2. JR

      Well, once they canceled SXSW, I was like, "Ooh." I was like, "Whoa, this is crazy." And the store was planning on keeping the OR open and, uh, they canceled my show in the main room and they asked- offered me a spot in the OR. I was like, "I don't think we should be doing shows. Like, this just doesn't seem like... This seems like it's getting real." It's like, b- because if you make a mistake and there's a 14-day period where all these people can get infected, who the fuck knows who gets infected during those 14 days? It's... So, 'cause we didn't know what it was yet. And still we don't know what it-

    3. JD

      We don't know what it is.

    4. JR

      It's still strange-

    5. JD

      So very strange.

    6. JR

      ... because so many pe- Idris Elba apparently is asymptomatic. He's not showing any symptoms and he has asthma. And, uh, I was reading something, find out if this is true, that somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% of the people are asymptomatic. And I wonder if that means they never show symptoms or I wonder if that means they, they, they're asymptomatic for a certain period of time, so 60% of the people infected are asymptomatic, but a certain percentage of those people ultimately get the cold or get the, y- get the cough and all the, uh, the terrible symptoms. The fever.

    7. JD

      'Cause you really a- listen. You know a lot of people and I know a lot of people and nobody's called me yet.

  4. 7:3410:05

    Coronavirus

    1. JD

    2. JR

      That has it? I have. Michael Yo. Michael Yo was almost dead. Michael Yo went to New York City, he did Gotham, he came back, he got real sick. He got-

    3. JD

      No!

    4. JR

      Yes, yes, yes. He got pneumonia and the COVID-19 at the same time. So he got coronavirus and pneumonia. And he said now, now six days ago, I talked to him two days ago, he said for four days before that he thought he was gonna die. He said, "I couldn't breathe." Pneumonia and this coronavirus... I think, I think this motherfucker wouldn't... It, it, it, like, plays with you. If you don't have it, if you don't get it, you, you can kind of like, "Oh. Oh, well this is no big deal." But if you do get it, it fucking grabs you. Like, Jamie knows a girl who's 21 who lost her sense of smell and taste. And it just, it wrecks people. We were, we were, uh, Googling a story about this Olympic swimmer from South Africa, 31, stud athlete, Olympic swimmer. He said this virus fucked him up. He said it was the worst thing he's ever experienced. So it's weird. It's like it pl- it, it, it almost, like, plays with our mind. Like, it makes some people seem like they're immune and some people are fine, and maybe it's you. Take a chance. Go outside. Take a chance. Go to a restaurant. Take a chance. Go to the beach. Let's go to the beach. What's the worst thing that can happen?

    5. JD

      Fuck it. Eat a kracko's asshole.

    6. JR

      And then-

    7. JD

      Go deep. Fuck it.

    8. JR

      And then boom, a bunch of people in your family get it, and then boom, your grandma dies.

    9. JD

      Look at Italy. Do you know what happened in Italy? Look at Italy.

    10. JR

      They just went out.

    11. JD

      They all lived together.

    12. JR

      Yep. Yep, yep. Yep.

    13. JD

      They all lived together and they hang together. Nothing wrong with that. That's how people are where I came from.

    14. JR

      They're supposed to be like that.

    15. JD

      There's a basement. Your-

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. JD

      ... grandmother and grandfather live in the basement.

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. JD

      Your parents live on the second floor and you live on the third floor.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. JD

      Boom. We hang out together. The Fusco family, God b- bless them, from Freehold, New Jersey had lost four people at th- from a family reunion. They went to like a...

    22. JR

      Oh, yeah. I saw that. Yeah.

    23. JD

      And I saw that one.

    24. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    25. JD

      I saw the one that the guy had the 39th bir- the 40th birthday party and they all got on planes afterward and went off to different parts of the country. And 50 people invested-

    26. JR

      The family from New Jersey was not very old either.

    27. JD

      No.

    28. JR

      The, the youngest one that died I think was 55. I think it's somewhere in that range. It's, um...

    29. JD

      Am, am I doing, do I have the mask on? Am I jumping up and down at Ralph's buying groceries? No. Am I going, I stopped, you know, I went to one boxing class after that thing-

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  5. 10:0512:57

    Workouts

    1. JD

      so.

    2. JR

      Yeah. If you're a person and you wanna work out, there's so many YouTube videos of just body weight workouts. You can get a fucking amazing workout with nothing. You don't need any equipment. You just do burpees and push-ups and body weight squats and lunges. There's plenty of working out to do, folks, and it's free. It's a beautiful thing about YouTube. There's so many really good, uh, fitness instructors that just put their stuff out there for free because they want people to follow them. And, you know, you can get a ton of great body weight workouts. You don't need nothing. And if you need weights, folks, you could pick shit up around your house and you could do a, a great workout with. I'm sure you got a can of paint somewhere that probably weighs 15 pounds. You know, people have things laying around.

    3. JD

      Oh, you know what I started doing?

    4. JR

      What?

    5. JD

      'Cause it was fucking with me. Meditate.

    6. JR

      Mm.

    7. JD

      I had to go back to meditating.

    8. JR

      What do?

    9. JD

      I had to go back.

    10. JR

      What kind of meditating are you doing?

    11. JD

      So what I do is I hit the bag, like a boy. I broke my workout 'cause now you can't do that long workout now. 'Cause what are you gonna do for the other day, for the restoration day, the recovery day?

    12. JR

      Right.

    13. JD

      So there's no recovery in my world.

    14. JR

      Just easy workouts every day?

    15. JD

      Every day. 15 minutes.

    16. JR

      Yeah. Nice.

    17. JD

      Hitting the bag. Hitting the bag is very essential during these times.

    18. JR

      Yes.

    19. JD

      Hitting the bag is very essential. Get the yayas out, get punching-

    20. JR

      Get the yayas out. (laughs)

    21. JD

      ... get punching. You look at anything, benefits over 40 for boxing, benefits over 50, the number one benefit is stress.

    22. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    23. JD

      You know? For a couple days there, dog, I was getting scared.

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. JD

      I, I wasn't, I'm not scared of it, but I respect it. There's a big difference. I respect what's going on. Something's going on. I'm not a fucking scientist.

    26. JR

      Have you ever been here in an earthquake?

    27. JD

      Yes.

    28. JR

      It's, for me, it's the same feeling, but, but more magnified. It's like, "Okay, this is all right. But what is it like if it gets worse?"

    29. JD

      Right.

    30. JR

      It's the same feeling.

  6. 12:5715:15

    Virus

    1. JR

      never know. There's no way anybody could d- dial it into one person, where you got it from. That's the s- the weird thing, is we're constantly interacting with people and touching surfaces, and according to this, uh, these cruise liners, um, that they're testing where these people were sick, even people who are asymptomatic, it shows the virus stays on surfaces for as much as 17 days. That's a new discovery. They thought it was three days before that. Now, they're realizing even in asymptomatic people, people that don't... (laughs) He's got the spray.

    2. JD

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      These, it's weird. It's a fucking weird virus, man. It's real weird. Real weird. Um, my friend, Dr. Peter Attia, was saying that most people 55 and under, they seem to just get a cold. I mean, it's a day, they're fine. They, they feel like shit for a while, but they get over it. He said, but then there's this 28-year-old fitness instructor that one of his friends is treating, who's a doctor, and this, this guy's on a ventilator. He's a fitness instructor. And they're like, there could be, uh, genetic conditions, uh, predispositions, and then there also, it might be vaping. They're thinking that vaping might have something to do with, uh, damaging some people's lungs. You know, or cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoking's a bad one, and they think that that might have trin- contributed to a lot of deaths in Italy and in China.

    4. JD

      They smoke over their deaths.

    5. JR

      Yep, in China and in Italy. They smoke-

    6. JD

      They out, they out-smoke us, and they have less cancer in China.

    7. JR

      They... How?

    8. JD

      Did you hear that?

    9. JR

      See, the thing is, are, are we sure they have less cancer?

    10. JD

      Yes.

    11. JR

      Like, when they say they have deaths, like, how many deaths they have out of China, psh, would you believe those numbers? I don't trust a fucking word of it. They're trying to say that this is an American disease. That's what the, the Chinese people are ... that there's some propaganda network from China that's, I don't know, it's connected to the government or what, or maybe it's people just fucking around. Maybe it's people trying to be funny. But they're putting out that this is a, uh, uh, a man-made disease that was spread in China by the United States government. So who the fuck are you trusting? Uh, I'm not trusting ... I trust Italy when it comes to the numbers 'cause I think they're being pretty honest about what a disaster it is. But China's trying to make it seem like everything's bouncing back now. I don't buy it.

    12. JD

      They opened up the movie theaters.

    13. JR

      In China?

    14. JD

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      Ugh. (laughs) Imagine going to the fucking movies.

    16. JD

      Like, one person went to one movie theater, yeah.

    17. JR

      Watching a nightmare movie. Oh my God.

  7. 15:1524:35

    Earthquake

    1. JR

      Watch a horror movie where you're in this fucking theater just wondering if everything you touch is eventually gonna kill you. Fuck. Apparently, um, they were saying also that it has something to do with blood type and they don't know why, but a lot of the fatalities were blood type A, seemed to be vulnerable, or maybe it's just a coincidence. They, they, they don't have enough data yet, you know? Especially here, like, reliable data that we can trust here in America. They don't have enough yet. (sighs) So when I, uh, when I think about it, what gets me is that same feeling like an earthquake. Like, once an earthquake hits, you're like, "Oh. All right. Well, we're okay right now. But now we know that this can happen." Like, the first one I ever experienced, I was a first year here. I had an apartment in North Hollywood, and it wasn't ... It was a thin place, like, you could hear the next door neighbor. She would get phone calls. I would hear her answering machine go off 'cause this is the '90s, and I would hear the person talking on her answering machine. I could hear every conversation she heard, she had, like it was through a towel. Like, that's how thin it was. It was a shitty apartment. But when the earthquake hit, the apartment just went like this. And I remember thinking, this is like when you're a kid and you're playing in a refrigerator box. Remember those refrigerator boxes? We would get them on the street.

    2. JD

      Oh my God, yeah.

    3. JR

      And we would all climb in them and fuck around, but they were, they were flimsy. I'm like, this house felt like a refrigerator box. It just started moving like this. And it wasn't even a big earthquake. It was, like, a 5-something, like a 5.5 or something like that. It wasn't a huge one. They said it was an aftershock from Northridge. It just started doing this. It was moving back and forth, and I was like, "Whoa." I didn't think it was gonna be like that. I thought the ground would shake. I thought it'd be like, like, you feel your feet moving.

    4. JD

      Fucking weird.

    5. JR

      It's not. Everything just goes left and right. Everything just shifts. Like, the, the ground is made out of, like, it's sand or something. Like, instantly, it just becomes pliable. It's weird.

    6. JD

      I saw the cat drinking water, and all of a sudden I saw the cat in the air-

    7. JR

      (laughs)

    8. JD

      ... and the bowl in the air. That's how much of a dip it made.

    9. JR

      Jesus.

    10. JD

      I, I heard it, looked. Like, you know how you're on the computer and something, and you l-

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. JD

      And I looked, and I saw the cat drinking water. And all of a sudden I saw the cat in the air, and when he landed, he took off. And they're supposed to feel something before the earthquake.

    13. JR

      I think dogs do better than cats.

    14. JD

      Yeah. Somebody feels some-

    15. JR

      I think those indoor cats, those indoor cats are done. They're done. (laughs)

    16. JD

      They're done. Once you bring them indoor, a mouse runs by them, they're like, "I'm done." That, that... But I don't think so-

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. JD

      ... 'cause my cats are alive and kicking at midnight.

    19. JR

      They'll, no, they still have fun.

    20. JD

      They get, they live, they're like Judas Priests.

    21. JR

      How many do you have now?

    22. JD

      Three.

    23. JR

      You only have three? That's crazy. You were up to 11 at one point.

    24. JD

      Nine, 10.

    25. JR

      You had nine or ... I think you had 11.

    26. JD

      I-

    27. JR

      You probably forgot. (laughs)

    28. JD

      I had so many of them outside, I was feeding. I had so many of them.

    29. JR

      Oh, that's right, you had a bunch of feral ones that lived in the yard, too.

    30. JD

      Yeah.

  8. 24:3529:20

    Laugh Factory

    1. JR

      some sort of a fund to... I hope they do it quickly. And we're all gonna be able to donate in their... I think they wanna have some stream shows too, but, pshh, I don't think that's the way to do it. I mean, um, if, if they do do it and they... You have a bunch of people, almost like podcast style, maybe that, maybe that would work and have like a telethon, raise money for the staff.

    2. JD

      Well, I'll tell you what. I thought about the stream thing.

    3. JR

      Yeah.

    4. JD

      I, I like doing the stream thing. But-

    5. JR

      But a podcast, not stand up.

    6. JD

      ... I thought, but then I saw This Week with John whatever on HBO, the little English thing.

    7. JR

      John Oliver?

    8. JD

      John Oliver, and last week he didn't have an audience.

    9. JR

      Not good?

    10. JD

      No bueno.

    11. JR

      Well, when no one's laughing at your monologue-

    12. JD

      Yeah. You need that energy.

    13. JR

      Yeah. They were doing live shows from The Laugh Factory yesterday. Was it yesterday? And it was, uh, no audience. And, uh, I was watching Jay Mohr on stage for a couple minutes before I had a panic attack and I had to shut it off. (laughs)

    14. JD

      No. It's just no good. It's just no good.

    15. JR

      It's, it's strained.

    16. JD

      It really doesn't work.

    17. JR

      (coughs)

    18. JD

      It doesn't work.

    19. JR

      No.

    20. JD

      I wanted it to work.

    21. JR

      It's weird.

    22. JD

      And I thought that I could do it for people just to break the monotony.

    23. JR

      Mm-mm.

    24. JD

      You know what, man?

    25. JR

      It's like watching someone with-

    26. JD

      Yeah. No.

    27. JR

      ... no voice sing in the shower.

    28. JD

      Yeah. No, no, no, no. Leave me the fuck alone.

    29. JR

      It's just- (laughs)

    30. JD

      I said-

  9. 29:2033:40

    We are soft

    1. JR

      That's the big one. And especially we're soft right here, because we don't have to deal with weather. Right here, we don't have to deal with nothing. You go outside every day, you can sleep outside.

    2. JD

      It's beautiful. Gotta be alive. Yeah.

    3. JR

      It's a great place to be homeless. All you need is a sleeping bag. Get under an overpass if it does rain, it only rains 10 days a year, you'll be fine. You know, this is, uh, this is a great place because of that. But because of that also, w- we're not humbled enough. You know? The places where people get humbled are the places where people have to deal with direct nature, snowy places, real cold places. Like, uh, if you go to any place that's near an ocean, that's a little slap in the face. Like, "Wake up, bitch. Take a look at that. You ain't shit." Mountains are another one, same thing. Like, you could die up there, stupid. There's bears up there, there's mountain lions up there. There're fucking killing deer with their face. They don't, you don't think they'll fuck you up too? Go, go hike. Go hike and get lost, hippie. You know? Like, it's a wake-up call, those places. And I think this is a wake-up call for the whole country, the whole world. It's a wake-up call. We're vulnerable. And it's also a wake-up call... I mean, I can't say this to enough people, take care of your health, please. It is the one defense for this that seems to be agreed upon by almost everyone, is that if you have a strong immune system, you have a better chance to get through any sickness. And you can do something to strengthen your immune system. Your immune system is something you can work on.You know, you could work on it by cleaning up your diet. You could work on it with regular exercise. You could work on it with regular sleep. All those things have a real big impact on your immune system. Also, vitamins. Supplement with vitamins, eat a healthy diet, get some exercise and if you can, get in a fucking sauna every day. Tremendous for your body producing heat shock proteins, for your body reducing inflammation, alleviating stress. It's great for your cardiovascular system. It's just great for you. There's a bunch of different things you can do. You can, you, you can use this as like, "Okay, I'm alive, and now this is a wake-up call. I'm so glad this didn't happen to me, I didn't get wrecked by this. I'm gonna get my life in order." And it can be done. It's something th- that everyone can do and this is the time to do it. This is a good time to do it. If you're surviving and you're getting through this, this is a good time to get your health in line.

    4. JD

      What you don't know, a lot of people don't know about me, is I was a sickly kid.

    5. JR

      Really?

    6. JD

      Really bad.

    7. JR

      I would never have, I never believed that.

    8. JD

      From the age of four to six because of my dad dying and my mind going somewhere-

    9. JR

      Hmm.

    10. JD

      ... my immune system fell apart and it was respiratory. I always got colds, always shots, you know, vaccines.

    11. JR

      Hmm.

    12. JD

      I knew the people by first name at the hospital, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. I mean, it was real with me. When I was sick, something t- ... And I also have asthma.

    13. JR

      Did you really?

    14. JD

      Which went, which went untreated, like I just said.

    15. JR

      You have asthma still?

    16. JD

      Like, my mother said, "It's for faggots."

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. JD

      "Don't worry about it. You don't need to take-"

    19. JR

      You have asthma right now?

    20. JD

      I- I outgrew it. My daughter has it, though.

    21. JR

      Really?

    22. JD

      She has it, and now I see it in her and I go-

    23. JR

      Does she have an inhaler?

    24. JD

      Yeah, she got a little inhaler ..........................

    25. JR

      And you don't use an inhaler at all anymore?

    26. JD

      No, since-

    27. JR

      Did you ever?

    28. JD

      Uh, for like a week, and then my mother goes, "Get, get rid of that."

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. JD

      "You live in New York City, you don't wanna get smacked, do you?"

  10. 33:4038:00

    Fighting sick

    1. JD

    2. JR

      I got sick a lot when I was competing. I wasn't taking care of myself. Back then, I didn't even take vitamins. I didn't take shit. I got sick a lot 'cause I was always stressed out too, 'cause I was always nervous 'cause I was fighting all the time. So, uh, you know, you get ready in the weeks up to a tournament, you know, that's the most stressful, and then the week of the tournament, I'd always come down with something. You know, and you wind up fighting sick. Fought sick in Anaheim. I flew out to California to fight in the Nationals. I fought sick. I had three fights sick. Did we figure out what the, um, uh, percentage?

    3. GV

      We did, yeah. For something I said that was an estimation that was close to 60%.

    4. JR

      Of asympt- ..........................

    5. GV

      ... a week ago that said it was like 20%, though, so ...

    6. JD

      And that-

    7. JR

      Well, I think as time goes on, they're, they're getting a better picture of it. Take care of your immune system, kids. I've been drinking a shitload of water too.

    8. JD

      A lot of water, kombucha.

    9. JR

      Oh my God, I'm peeing like crazy.

    10. JD

      Kombucha, CBD oil.

    11. JR

      Kombucha, yep, yep.

    12. JD

      Uh-

    13. JR

      CBD oil for sure.

    14. JD

      It's-

    15. JR

      I took some pet CBD oil accidentally. I, I was, uh, wasn't paying attention. I went into the cabinet to get some m- CBD oil and I'm like, "Man, this is tasty. What is this?" It's like peanut butter CBD oil and I had three droppers full and then I looked on it and it said "pet". And I'm like, "Damn, hope I'm gonna be okay." (laughs)

    16. JD

      (laughs)

    17. JR

      I don't know what the difference is between CBD MD's pet formula and their regular formula, but I had three full droppers of their, uh, peanut butter pet formula. (laughs) It was quite delicious. It was pretty good.

    18. JD

      You take a lotta, I take enough supplements, vitamins, K, D, E, F-

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. JD

      ... whatever.

    21. JR

      I take a lot of things.

    22. JD

      You know, like I said, I've cut down the reefer a little bit throughout this. I was going like through a half ounce maybe a week-

    23. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    24. JD

      ... and enjoying some bong hits. Now I'm down to like an eighth a week. I've got fucking a couple ounces at the house, go off edibles.

    25. JR

      I'm enjoying the time, just the, the relaxing time of no pressure of things to do. You know, no shows to go to. Stay home every night, hang out with the girls. I'm enjoying it.

    26. JD

      I don't watch the news.

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. JD

      That's what was fucking with me the first week until I had that little nervous breakdown on the 7th. That was really fucking with me and then I said, "That's it." I went back to my roots. I went back to Boulder. I took it back to Naropa Institute, bitch.

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. JD

      And I took it back to the meditation. I said, what I would do is I'd hit the bag 15 and then to come down, I'd stretch and just do yoga poses and breathe.

  11. 38:0040:14

    Walking between people

    1. JD

    2. JR

      But you can be by yourself, right?

    3. JD

      Yeah.

    4. JR

      I saw some people hitting the pads at the park, where, uh, someone was holding pads for somebody.

    5. JD

      Yeah, they're doing that.

    6. JR

      You could do that.

    7. JD

      They're doing that.

    8. JR

      You got some space-

    9. JD

      They're doing that.

    10. JR

      ... away from each other. You can get a little workout in.

    11. JD

      But there's always gonna be that dude that's gonna come up to you.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. JD

      There's always that dude.

    14. JR

      "Hey man, aren't you worried about the cor- coronavirus?"

    15. JD

      I have to take the racehorse out early. My daughter's a racehorse. So at 8:45, I give my wife a break and I just take her for a little stroll.

    16. JR

      Just wear her out a little-

    17. JD

      Just to wear out a little bit. We play badminton, whatever the fuck that is.

    18. JR

      Mm-hmm. Yeah.

    19. JD

      The, the tennis with the fly.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. JD

      I throw Wiffle balls at her. I was telling Lee the other day, in the heat of all this, I'm there at 9:15 for a reason. They got the playground sealed off, and then they got a huge fucking park. And for some reason, everybody who had to walk had to walk in between me and my daughter. Dog, by the second person, I had to say something. Really? Really? You can't walk around, you gotta walk in between. People can't have enough.

    22. JR

      They n-

    23. JD

      They test your fucking wits.

    24. JR

      Well, they don't, they don't change their behavior.

    25. JD

      (coughs) The best was the guy that watched me playing with my daughter, and I could see him out of the corner of my eye, Joe Rogan. I could see him, I could see him whispering to the wife some stupid shit. And what does he do? He starts walking towards me. And I'm not even paying attention to him, but I am. I'm watching him through this fucking vision.

    26. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JD

      I'm watching him, I'm playing with my daughter, throwing the Wiffle ball, and he's walking towards me. Finally had to stop, and he goes, "Hi, I just wanted to shake..." I go, "Stop!" He just looked at me, and I felt terrible for him. But this is what's actually going on. They still want to shake your hand.

    28. JR

      Yeah, people try to shake your hand still.

    29. JD

      They still want to shake your hand. I'm like, "It's not gonna happen. Stop right there."

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  12. 40:1444:50

    People paying attention

    1. JR

      of people, right? So some people are paying attention to everything. Some people are overcautious. I went to the fucking supermarket. This lady had goggles on and she had, I mean, not goggles, but big Jacky Onassis dark sunglasses, a fucking face mask with these giant gloves on, and she's walking away from everybody like everyone's a bomb and she's doing her grocery shopping. I'm like, "Okay, well you're, you've gone too far. This is a little ridiculous." And then I'm looking at other people that are acting like there's nothing wrong and they try to shake your hand. And then there's people that are paying attention too much to the, they've become paranoid and they're not even living their life, and then there's other people that aren't paying attention at all. They're barely paying attention.

    2. JD

      I'm in the middle.

    3. JR

      They barely look at people.

    4. JD

      I'm in the middle. I know I have to live my life. That means I don't have to go to 7-Eleven for nothing.

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. JD

      7-Eleven is filthy. I don't have to go in there for nothing. Okay? Nothing. I got rolling papers.

    7. JR

      (laughs)

    8. JD

      I got everything in my house. Lighters, I got lighters till the next millennium. I can light myself up 10 times with the lighters I got. I'm not, you know, I'm not putting myself in a bad position.

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. JD

      You know, you've been quarantined, Jamie's been quarantined. Jamie had to go to fucki-... You know, there's some idiots that tonight there'll be a concert. And they'll go.

    11. JR

      Where?

    12. JD

      No, if I tell you that tonight there's a concert, they'll go.

    13. JR

      If it was, yeah.

    14. JD

      If it was, they'll still-

    15. JR

      Well, Liberty University is letting students back in today. Jesus is gonna look out for them. Yeah. There was an article on CNN, l- they were showing Liberty University opening up its doors again to students. Like, this just started, you fucks. You can't just, you know?

    16. JD

      Where do you think we are right now?

    17. JR

      Beginning.

    18. JD

      You really think we're in the beginning?

    19. JR

      This is the beginning. Yes. Yes, this is the beginning.

    20. JD

      You don't think we're good till mid-May?

    21. JR

      No listen, it keeps accelerating every day. If it's accelerating every day, that means it's at the beginning. Every day there's more cases. Every day there's more people getting sick. This-

    22. JD

      Now didn't he say yesterday, and I don't... Quote me on this, he's talking about Easter.

    23. JR

      Yeah, because it's a very special day to him. See? (laughs) He said it's a special day. (laughs) Like, this virus doesn't give a fuck what day you think Jesus came out of the ground. This virus doesn't give a fuck. And if you don't respect it, people are gonna die. And there's people like the lieutenant governor, I think is who, who he is, of Texas, who was like, "We should take a risk with older people just to get the economy back in line." And people were like, "Whoa. What are you saying? You think the economy, you should, we should get the economy back in line and by doing the economy some old people are gonna have to die? You're ready to sacrifice people for money?"... yeah, older people would rather die than let COVID-19 harm US economy, Texas official said. Older people would rather die, that's what he says, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. Okay. Yeah, and you know, he was saying that he's in that high-risk category himself because he's 70. You know what it is? These politicians are terrified (clears throat) that, um, this is gonna lead to an economic disaster and their name's gonna be stuck on it. You know, they, I think they were terrified at first that they had, they had to act, they had to close things down, but they didn't have a plan. And now they realize like, "Oh my God, this might have to stay locked down for a long time." What happens to the economy? Yeah, you didn't have a plan. No one had a plan. So they locked everything down and now they're like, "Listen, this could last a long time. We gotta fig- we gotta start the rumblings now of getting this ball rolling again." Because it w- if this goes six, seven months and no one's working, no one can go outside their house for six, seven months, like this is crazy. What, we won't have any money and China's gonna take over. Tucker Carlson had this whole piece he did that I saw that was actually pretty accurate, you know, where he's talking about what, what could be possible. Dude, like he was talking about how the NBA... Well, did you see that whole segment where the NBA, they had said something about China, and then, then you see all these people that were praising China and saying positive things about China. What was this, what was the reason behind that, Jamie? You're an NBA guy.

    24. GV

      Uh, the Sh- GM for the Houston Rockets tweeted like sup- support for Hong Kong.

    25. JR

      That's right. That's right. It was support for Hong Kong, and then China got pissed at that, and so then they started tweeting nice things about China.

    26. GV

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      And they started...

    28. GV

      Well, at the time that that happened, the, the, there was like NBA teams in China doing games.

    29. JR

      Right.

    30. GV

      And they had just come back and then they started asking all of them what they thought about this, and then like LeBron s- started supporting China, I think, and then everyone jumped on them and like, like money over people, I think, and then...

  13. 44:5049:20

    Ruler of the world

    1. JR

      Yeah. Well, what Tucker Carlson was saying in his piece was that imagine if that's the, the whole country. Like understand that like if China's the ruler of the world, if China becomes the ruler of the world, not the United States because of something like this, like this is all really possible. Like the idea that the United States is the ruler of the world so it has to stay the ruler of the world forever. No, natural disasters, disease, fucking a- asteroid impact. There's a bunch of different things that could shift the balance of power in the world. Rome used to run everything, right? The, you know, the, there's Europe, uh, England, the UK, U- England used to run half the fucking planet. There's a lot of different countries that were on top of the world that are no longer on top of the world, and we would be in a real sticky situation if we had to live under the same military dictatorship that China does, and the idea that we would never have to live under that, we, we can't, we're America. Well, that's ridiculous because we're human beings and other human beings are stuck in a circumstance where they're living under a military dictatorship. So there's no difference between them and us other than culture and the place where they live. That, that shifts. Things change with natural disaster, with disease, with failure of the economy, with war, with all these different factors, things change and our perception, much like our perception of our society itself, it's always gonna be like this and all of a sudden this disease comes along and shuts everything down. You're like, "Whoa, that's a fucking wake-up call. Need to recognize that this is kind of fragile." Well the whole system is fragile. If those things happen, natural disaster, disease, war, anything catastrophic happens, the balance of power completely shifts, and who knows whose control the survivors are under? Who knows? Who knows how this works out? This is all real touch and go right now. This is real touch and go. This is uncharted territory where we have slipped into a place where no one's working and everyone's scared and the president wants to go back to work on Easter because it's a special day to him. (laughs) And Joe Biden can't talk. The guy who's running for fucking president for the Democrats can't talk. Did you see the l- the latest shit? Tim Dillon sent me two videos. He's like, "What the fuck is going on?" Like he's in a cognitive decline. Governor of New York, Cuomo, put him in, put him in, coach, put him in. You want a, you want a guy to run for president that makes sense? You want a guy who's an intelligent guy, who's a strong leader, who's got a lot of experience?

    2. JD

      He's impressed the fuck out of me the last two weeks.

    3. JR

      He's imp- he's impressed the fuck out of me too, but-

    4. JD

      And when he's like, "Fuck opening up."

    5. JR

      ... put him in, coach.

    6. JD

      "Human lives count more than money."

    7. JR

      Yes.

    8. JD

      He's impressed me. I tell you who else has impressed me. I don't know no... See, you can't say nothing because you're always gonna be wrong. There's always a knock. "Well he, uh, but, but Joey, you, you're wrong because he's declined the woman's abortion act." There's always something, you know?

    9. JR

      That's true. That's part of, that's, that's the argument they had about him.

    10. JD

      I don't, I don't even know what it is.

    11. JR

      Well-

    12. JD

      I don't even know and I tell you, there's always something. I don't even know what the issues are.

    13. JR

      The, uh, the issue is, uh, late term abortions he apparently voted for.

    14. JD

      I know there's always something, so.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. JD

      And I was just making a joke, but I know there's always something.

    17. JR

      But you were, you were actually right.

    18. JD

      The other guy that's doing a good-

    19. JR

      Tucker Carlson actually brought that up.

    20. JD

      The other guy that's doing a good job that I've seen, that he's communicating is Governor Newsom.

    21. JR

      Yes.

    22. JD

      He's doing a great job. I don't know what his politics are. I don't know if he's a Democratic or Republican, I just know he's stepping up and he's fighting for these people and he's making some smart choices. And you know what? I don't know. Are you a fucking scientist, Joe Rogan?

    23. JR

      Let me check.

    24. JD

      Are you a scientist? No, me neither. Go fuck ourselves. Until that time, I don't know. I do know one scientist and she's telling me to stay the fuck home and mind my business.

    25. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    26. JD

      I knew no- I do know three, four people who work in emergency rooms that have told me it's not a fucking pretty place.

    27. JR

      No.

    28. JD

      My brother's a cop in an emer-... hospital. And he says that it's a fucking nightmare, that you have to sort 'em out A and B, and B is if you, if you have kidney-itis, and A is if you have-

    29. JR

      Coronavirus.

    30. JD

      ... Corona.

  14. 49:2053:00

    Cruises

    1. JR

      Stuck on a, a, a metal craft in the middle of the ocean, breathing recirculated air, with a bunch of people who are partying.

    2. JD

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      For three or four or five days.

    4. JD

      And around you is the ocean, and if you fall in, you're dead, 'cause they don't scoop anybody out. Did you-

    5. JR

      When do they ever turn the ship around and scoop somebody out when they fall overboard?

    6. JD

      Did you ever go on one of those cruise ships?

    7. JR

      No!

    8. JD

      Okay.

    9. JR

      No chance. For comics, it was always a death sentence.

    10. JD

      I made a mistake.

    11. JR

      No.

    12. JD

      When I was 21 with a chick.

    13. JR

      (laughs)

    14. JD

      I went on a cruise ship. Uh, the one that used to go around Manhattan. So, you leave at 6:00 and you're back at 6:00 in the morning. And they take you out far enough so you could gamble.

    15. JR

      Yeah?

    16. JD

      Play blackjack. I did that one, one time. Nice, but I knew I wasn't gonna do it again.

    17. JR

      Mm.

    18. JD

      Got it out of my system. I don't wanna go on a fucking cruise ship.

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. JD

      And as, yeah, as a comic, I hate ... You hate to say this as a comedian. Amongst us, it's a death-

    21. JR

      It's a death sentence.

    22. JD

      ... sentence. For me, they have additional work.

    23. JR

      I do gotta say, though, the fucking Impractical Jokers, those guys did a tour on a bus, I mean on a boat. Apparently, everybody loved it. So, it's like, if you get your fans in there-

    24. JD

      Right.

    25. JR

      ... a rare thing.

    26. JD

      Right.

    27. JR

      Um, yeah. There's, there's people that could pull that off.

    28. JD

      Yeah, yeah.

    29. JR

      Well, Alonzo goes on jazz tours. He does, does jazz cruises. You know, Londo Bodden is, Alonzo Bodden is a serious jazz fan. Loves jazz music, loves-

    30. JD

      Spoke to him yesterday. Good dude.

  15. 53:0056:45

    The Truth

    1. JR

      a video of me to support their, their campaign, to say that I endorsed them. And then, they took a bunch of my bits, and they took a bunch of things we said on the podcast, high as fuck, out of context, and made it look like I was some right-wing monster, make them, like I'm some sort of homophobe. It's, and then they used the transphobe thing from that, the-

    2. JD

      The fighter.

    3. JR

      ... lady that used to be a man.

    4. JD

      Yeah, yeah, the fighter. Yeah.

    5. JR

      If you don't know the story, used to be a man for 30 years, became a woman for two, and then started beating the fuck out of women without telling them that her whole life she had been a man up until recently. She just thought it was a medical condition that she didn't have to reveal. And I got mad.

    6. JD

      It's domestic violence where I come from. (laughs)

    7. JR

      Yeah, it's crazy. It's, it should be criminal to not tell somebody, that you, I mean, the idea that you're the same thing as a biological woman is just not fact. It's not scientific fact. And yeah, I said a bunch of horrible shit about her, uh, that she's a ... Uh, not even horrible shit, that she, I, I just said mean things, that she's a man, like, "You're a man." You can't-

    8. JD

      So, you, you can't just go fighting- You said the truth though.

    9. JR

      Yes. That's what I did. I said the truth. And I said it because-

    10. JD

      When you say the truth, you're not gonna have a lot of friends.

    11. JR

      But here's the thing.

    12. JD

      Don't give a fuck.

    13. JR

      I'm a guy that, I support bull riding, okay? I support, if you're a woman and you wanna fight a man, I support it, but you gotta let that person know that you're a man. You, if you used to be a man, you gotta let them know. If you wanna, if a woman wants to fight a biological man right now, a guy with his balls, and she wants to do it, and they, and he wants to do it, and they sign off on it, you could skydive. Why can't you do that? If they're both the same weight, go ahead. I don't think you should, if you're my friend. If you were a woman and you're my friend, I'd be like, "There's too many physical advantages. It's too dangerous." All they have to do is hit you once. As I said, they don't have to be as skillful as you. If they clip you, you're fucked.And that's the truth. That's what happens. I mean, it's a giant advantage. Doesn't mean the woman can't win because Germaine de Randamie actually had a kickboxing fight with a man and knocked him the fuck out. That wi- that lady's a beast, the Iron Lady from Holland, she's a beast. But she's a former UFC featherweight fucking champion of the world. I mean, she's an animal, that lady. And had a real close fight with Amanda Nunes recently for the bantamweight title. She's a, one of the best fighters on, on Earth. And she beat a man and knocked him out. But you shouldn't fight a man if you don't know it's a man. That's rude. And if you didn't know that someone used to be a man, that's rude too.

    14. JD

      (snoring)

    15. JR

      So they try to pretend that I'm not this, uh, transphobic crusader. I love all people.

    16. JD

      (snoring)

    17. JR

      I literally love all people. I don't care what you are, whether you're gay or straight or Asian or Black or white or ... I don't care. I don't care. I just ... If you're nice, I'm nice to you. It's, I'm, I'm 100% open to everybody. But I'm not gonna bullshit. You can't fight women if you used to be a man and not tell them.

    18. JD

      (snoring)

    19. JR

      It's so ridiculous that that's, that's even a debatable subject.

    20. JD

      (laughs) Oh, man.

    21. JR

      Like I had a bit about it where I said, "Never do I think as a society we could get to a point where, uh-

    22. JD

      (snoring)

    23. JR

      ... someone would say, 'Hey, man. I don't think it's cool if you get your dick removed and then beat the fuck out of chicks.' And people would be like, 'You're out of line.'" (laughs)

    24. JD

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      But that's, but that's where it got. That's where it got.

    26. JD

      Oh.

    27. JR

      We got so overly progressive in the, the fight to do the right thing.

    28. JD

      We gotta write that script about a guy who falls in love with a girl and ...

    29. JR

      And it turns out that she's a man?

    30. JD

      Yeah, like right before-

  16. 56:451:08:39

    Joe Biden

    1. JR

      It's, um, in the fight to do the right thing, and that's what- what, what's going on with progressives when they get overly progressive, they think they're fighting to do the right thing, but you have to be able to call out shit that's wrong on your side. And this is one of the problems th- that the Democratic Party's having right now with this Joe Biden guy.

    2. JD

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      You guys gotta be able to call it out. You- you can't let this slide because everybody else sees it and Trump is going to eat him alive. He's gonna eat that guy alive. The guy can barely remember what he's talking about while he's talking.

    4. NA

      Do you know which one it was? 'Cause there's a few videos going around.

    5. JR

      There's a few of them.

    6. NA

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      Just play any of them. They're all cri- they're all crazy.

    8. NA

      Oh.

    9. JR

      Every video of him recently talking, he's stumbling through shit, he forgets what he's talking about.

    10. NA

      We should be making those masks. We should be moving on those ventilators. We can do that. Why doesn't he just act like a president? That's a stupid way to say it, I guess.

    11. JR

      You know, Donald Trump was asked on s-

    12. NA

      But I really wish he ... Sorry.

    13. JD

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      Go ahead.

    15. JD

      He's done.

    16. NA

      Oh. No, I ... Probably best I don't.

    17. JD

      He's like Junior Soprano. Before he shot Columbo, look at him.

    18. JR

      Yeah. It's not ... That's not, that's not even the worst example. That's just an example. The one down there when he's talking to, uh, that lady, I think that one was a struggle too. That was a struggle fest.

    19. NA

      ... recommended period for keeping businesses shut and people at home. Are you at all concerned, as Trump said-

    20. JR

      Yeah, this is it.

    21. NA

      ... that we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself?

    22. We have to take care of the cure. That will make the problem worse no matter what. No matter what. We know what has to be done. We know you have to-

    23. But reassess the recommended period-

    24. JR

      What ... Yeah. See, he doesn't know what he's talking about when he's talking. And this is not ... Like, this ... I'm looking at this like a medical condition. Okay. I'm looking at this like, okay, when I'm calling a fight and I see a guy limping and I'm like, "I think he hurt his knee." Like Tiago Santos against Jon Jones, I think he hurt his knee there. I think there's something going on with his knee. Like, that's what I'm looking at this. I'm looking at this like this is a medical issue. That's not a normal way to communicate, unless he's high as fuck. Because if I was high, I'd be like, "I don't know what I just said to this lady." (laughs)

    25. JD

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      You could be in the middle of one of those interviews blasted on edibles going, "What are we even talking about?" I don't think that's what it is. I think he's-

    27. JD

      He's fucking tired. He's old.

    28. JR

      He's very old.

    29. JD

      And I think he can't ... It's, it's not-

    30. JR

      He doesn't look good either and they got makeup on him.

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