Joe Rogan Experience #2309 - Joey Diaz

1. 0:01 – 1:06

   Austin comedy scene catch-up: packed shows, moving to Texas, and community vibes

   1. NANarrator0:01

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   2. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (instrumental music plays)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Let's fucking go.

   4. JDJoey Diaz0:14

      Let's go.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      Joey Diaz, ladies and gentlemen.

   6. JDJoey Diaz0:16

      What's up, beautiful?

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      It's good to see you, my brother.

   8. JDJoey Diaz0:18

      Good to see you. That was great. The club was fucking in rare form last night.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      Oh, last night was packed. It's been packed all week. It's been really fun. Lot of fun shows, you know.

   10. JDJoey Diaz0:28

       I was having a good time.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       Shane, Shane was there last night, or the night before last. You know, you're there tonight. It's, it's been amazing.

   12. JDJoey Diaz0:35

       Are you coming down to it?

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       Holtzman is on fire.

   14. JDJoey Diaz0:37

       He's crazy.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Holtzman's on fire. Last night he was on fire. (laughs)

   16. JDJoey Diaz0:41

       He is fucking on-

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       Me and Adam Eget were howling. We were watching him from the balcony and howling. Such a good community, Joey. It's so nice out here. So, so, so-

   18. JDJoey Diaz0:49

       And I bumped into Duncan for breakfast.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       He's the best.

   20. JDJoey Diaz0:52

       Like, we just looked at each other. He's like, "What are you doing here, man?" And we sat down.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       Me and Duncan are gonna corner you and try to get you to move here.

   22. JDJoey Diaz0:58

       No, we're gonna, we're gonna figure it out. We're gonna figure it out.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00

       Yeah. You guys, you guys, you belong here.

   24. JDJoey Diaz1:02

       Every time I come down here, I see something else that ... Like, I had a great time last night.

2. 1:06 – 3:29

   Sandwich talk turns into East Coast nostalgia: imports, Italian delis, and Greasy Tony stories

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:06

      Joe DeRose is here now too.

   2. JDJoey Diaz1:07

      That's what I heard.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:08

      Yeah, he just moved here.

   4. JDJoey Diaz1:09

      Is he gonna bring the sandwich shop down here?

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:10

      Yes, he is. We're gonna open up a sandwich shop out here. He is, rather.

   6. JDJoey Diaz1:13

      That's a good fucking idea.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:14

      I say we because I'm gonna be eating there. (laughs)

   8. JDJoey Diaz1:16

      Yeah, if he makes good sandwiches out here.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:17

      He, he makes a very good sandwich. Very good sandwich. Yeah. He brought a bunch of, um ... What did he do? Was it Moontower last year that he brought them? It might have been. It was Moontower or SXSW.

   10. NANarrator1:27

       Yeah, it was one of the two.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       One of the two last year. He brought, like, a ton of sandwiches. He had a pop-up. So, he, his, his restaurant did a pop-up somewhere in Austin. I was like, "Bro, you gotta open this up here. You'd be killing it."

   12. JDJoey Diaz1:37

       Yeah, he'd be

   13. NANarrator1:37

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:37

       "Especially if it's you."

   15. JDJoey Diaz1:39

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:39

       And people know it's your business. 'Cause-

   17. JDJoey Diaz1:41

       What I've heard is-

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:42

       (laughs)

   19. JDJoey Diaz1:42

       Somebody else was telling me about the sandwiches.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:43

       Very legit.

   21. JDJoey Diaz1:44

       I gotta go up there.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:45

       Very legit.

   23. JDJoey Diaz1:45

       I just don't even know where it is. I don't know if it's in Brooklyn.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:48

       Bro, I wanna kidnap my man Giovanni in White Plains and bring him out here. (laughs)

   25. JDJoey Diaz1:52

       Oh, bring him out here. Yeah, he'll fucking-

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:52

       He can't survive outside of Italian neighborhoods, though. That guy's the most Italian guy that's ever lived.

   27. JDJoey Diaz1:58

       And, you know, they get their stuff up there. They got everything.

   28. JRJoe Rogan2:00

       Yeah, they get everything.

   29. JDJoey Diaz2:01

       Yeah, everything.

   30. JRJoe Rogan2:01

       And it's all coming in right from Italy, you know, 'cause a lot of it's imported. They, they use a lot of imported stuff. Imported mortadella, imported, um, the, the peppers, all that stuff that they have. You know, sun-dried peppers, sun-dried tomatoes. They import all that shit.
3. 3:29 – 4:22

   Watching cities change: Austin’s growth, post-pandemic migration, and the fall of old scenes

   1. JDJoey Diaz3:29

      When I drove in yesterday, I'm like, "This is how things change." I mean, we've been coming here since '95. I know I have.

   2. JRJoe Rogan3:35

      Yeah.

   3. JDJoey Diaz3:35

      Right?

   4. JRJoe Rogan3:35

      Yeah, I think '99 was my first time here.

   5. JDJoey Diaz3:37

      Yeah, I would do Houston and then drive down here and-

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:40

      Yeah.

   7. JDJoey Diaz3:40

      ... do the lobby in the fucking, uh, Cap City, when they had-

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:43

      Oh, yeah, that little spot.

   9. JDJoey Diaz3:45

      ... the stand up and the lobby. I still remember that.

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:46

       Yeah.

   11. JDJoey Diaz3:46

       Driving from fucking Houston down here. Not having any money, having to drive back because we couldn't get a hotel room. Drive back to Houston at the end of the night. And I was l- looking at this yesterday. Like, when I landed, it was four o'clock traffic. And I'm like, "Oh my God, this is how ... We're, we're watching how past civilizations just changed."

   12. JRJoe Rogan4:06

       Yes.

   13. JDJoey Diaz4:07

       Something happened here and everybody moved here.

   14. JRJoe Rogan4:10

       Yup.

   15. JDJoey Diaz4:10

       And I'm not talking about four or five people. Everybody.

   16. JRJoe Rogan4:14

       Yeah.

   17. JDJoey Diaz4:14

       And that's how civilizations change. We just witnessed it after the pandemic. It's been fucking surreal.

   18. JRJoe Rogan4:20

       Yeah.

   19. JDJoey Diaz4:21

       It is surreal.

   20. JRJoe Rogan4:22

       Surreal. It's surreal.

   21. JDJoey Diaz4:22

       Surreal.

4. 4:22 – 7:30

   California critique: overregulation, identity politics, and why Austin feels more balanced

   1. JRJoe Rogan4:22

      To see things change, yeah. Um, you know what, it's also ... There's places that sort of rest on their laurels too much, and whenever that happens, it's easy for another place to rise up, that offers something more interesting. So, like, Los Angeles was always Los Angeles, and, like, when Gavin Newsom talks about California, it's like, "You know, I'm very big on California, very bullish on California. California has all this industry." Hey, fucko, they're all thinking about moving.

   2. JDJoey Diaz4:53

      Thank God. Thank God.

   3. JRJoe Rogan4:54

      The only reason why they don't move is 'cause it's too difficult to move. If it was like every business could instantly pull up roots and replace everything and have everything running in a week at the other place, they'd all be gone. They'd all be gone. They just ... It's too expensive. It's too expensive to leave versus what you would save and the regulations that you wouldn't have to go through and all the bullshit with all the permits and all the ... What California does is overregulate everything. They get as much government involved as possible, they suck as much tax money out of you as possible, and then they still leave the place a mess. They still have homeless people everywhere. It's still a fucking disaster. It's still a woke shitshow of virtue signaling at every level of the government, still. Like, no course correction at all. They're going further and further into la-la land. And you're like, "Jesus Christ, you guys." And so then a place like Austin becomes attractive, you know, because, like, it's not like that here. And people are very reasonable. And Austin ... The best thing about Austin is it's a blue city in a red state.... so it's, like, balanced. Like, this is a saying they have out here, "Keep Austin weird and surrounded." So Austin is (laughs) surrounded by rednecks with guns, and, like, it keeps the tone more medium. Like, the Austin liberals, they're much more just left of center people, like we are.

   4. JDJoey Diaz6:26

      Okay.

   5. JRJoe Rogan6:26

      You know what I mean? Like, in some parts of the country, we're considered, like, far right, you and I, far right. It's crazy. It's fucking ridiculous. It's... But it's because everybody went nuts, and everyone demanded a whole series of things that you have to agree to in order to be a good person. Like, (gasps) "Fuck off." You know what you can do?

   6. JDJoey Diaz6:47

      So, the real problem is out there, let me tell you what the real problem is. I didn't realize it 'til I fucking left.

   7. JRJoe Rogan6:52

      What?

   8. JDJoey Diaz6:52

      That everybody's too busy tapping themselves on the back.

   9. JRJoe Rogan6:56

      There's a lot of that.

   10. JDJoey Diaz6:56

       Every... When the fires happen, those three women, or whatever the fuck-

   11. JRJoe Rogan7:00

       Yeah.

   12. JDJoey Diaz7:00

       ... uh, the chief and whatever-

   13. JRJoe Rogan7:01

       Uh-huh.

   14. JDJoey Diaz7:01

       ... I'm looking at them and I'm like, "Look at 'em."

   15. JRJoe Rogan7:04

       Yeah.

   16. JDJoey Diaz7:04

       They all got gel in their hair.

   17. JRJoe Rogan7:05

       (laughs)

   18. JDJoey Diaz7:06

       They all got a tattoo on their neck. God forbid, god forbid they can't be cool for just one fucking minute. God forbid. And tha-

   19. JRJoe Rogan7:14

       I...

   20. JDJoey Diaz7:14

       And that's the problem you have out there. It's too many people, "I'm so great. This is my idea and it's great, and it's gonna work." It's not working.

   21. JRJoe Rogan7:21

       You're, you're right. But I think-

   22. JDJoey Diaz7:22

       But you're too stupid to g- uh, say, "You know what? This ain't working." Their egos are so big, they don't have the heart to go, "This ain't working."

5. 7:30 – 12:20

   Protected classes, standards, and the firefighter debate (plus Sopranos detour)

   1. JRJoe Rogan7:30

      You're right. You're da-... absolutely right. But I don't think it's entirely their fault. It is their fault, but the culture rewards that kind of behavior. This is the problem with having protected classes of people, whether it's gay, lesbian, whatever it is, whether it's your nationality. If you have a protected class of people where you're not allowed to criticize the protected class of people, then they become, you know... Vivek, um, Ramaswamy talked about this, uh, in a very interesting way. He's like, "It's the tyranny of the underprivileged," or did... Is that what he called it, that the tyranny of the marginalized, or something along those lines. But the idea is that this group of people, whether they're trans people or gay people, they get, oh, above everything. Everything you do is amazing. Oh my God, you're so fabulous. You're so... because no one wants to be think-... thought of as homophobic or transphobic, so you pretend that everything they do is incredible, and so you... that you're gonna be the best firefighter ever. Like, can you carry a burning man out of a building? Girl, you don't have to. If he was in that building, he shou-... he shouldn't have been in that building in the first place. If I have to carry him out, we got other problems. That la-... a literal firefighter said that in response to could she carry her husband out of the building. Like, no, you c-... no, you can't, and so you shouldn't be a firefighter. Just like you shouldn't be a bouncer if you can't fight. You shouldn't be a firefighter. You shouldn't be a firefighter if you can't carry someone out of a buil-... if you can't run up a flight of stairs 'cause you're 260 pounds and five foot seven and a woman. No. No, you shouldn't be a firefighter. You should have to be in, like, really good shape to be a... Now, if you're some fucking CrossFits game lady who's some beast, I'm like, "Yeah, that lady could be a firefighter." Yeah. But it's like, like even guys. Like, if you're a guy and you're fucking scrawny and you never work out and all you do is smoke cigarettes, maybe you shouldn't be a firefighter. You know, maybe you ca- (laughs) maybe you can't get up that fucking flight of stairs either. It should be like... It's physical job where you're rescuing people. You have to be able to physically carry people. You have to rescue them. Firefighters, when I was a kid, were the fucking big-

   2. JDJoey Diaz9:37

      Beast.

   3. JRJoe Rogan9:37

      ... brutal men.

   4. JDJoey Diaz9:38

      Beast. Kicking down doors.

   5. JRJoe Rogan9:40

      Fucking houses. They looked like former football players. There was this guy I used to play pool with, Ray the fireman, 'cause everybody in the pool hall had... I was Joe the comedian. Everybody had a nickname based on what you did. Ray the fireman was a fucking house. He was just this big fucking, like, big Irish guy, you know? Like, of course he's a fireman. Look at him. That guy can s-... gonna kick down a door, carry your fucking husband, throw him over his shoulder, run through the flames, huh, throw him on the lawn. He does it all the time. He's an animal.

   6. JDJoey Diaz10:09

      Like Vito's lover in The Sopranos? Remember, he was a fireman?

   7. JRJoe Rogan10:12

      Oh, yeah, that's right.

   8. JDJoey Diaz10:13

      Remember, he was firing the gay dude?

   9. JRJoe Rogan10:14

      I forgot about that scene.

   10. JDJoey Diaz10:16

       Then he killed himself-

   11. JRJoe Rogan10:16

       Those scenes.

   12. JDJoey Diaz10:17

       ... in real life.

   13. JRJoe Rogan10:17

       Yeah. Oh, did he really?

   14. JDJoey Diaz10:18

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan10:18

       After that show-

   16. JDJoey Diaz10:19

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan10:19

       ... because they thought he was gay?

   18. JDJoey Diaz10:20

       I don't know. I- I read somewhere-

   19. JRJoe Rogan10:22

       I ba-... Oh, I hope it wasn't that. I hope they didn't taunt him for being gay. Can you imagine? You get your shot. "Hey, Joey, I got good news and bad news. Good news is you're gonna be on The Sopranos. Bad news is you gotta fuck a guy."

   20. JDJoey Diaz10:36

       And you gotta swap spit with him.

   21. JRJoe Rogan10:37

       You gotta swap spit on camera.

   22. JDJoey Diaz10:38

       On camera.

   23. JRJoe Rogan10:39

       Yeah. But you're on The Sopranos. What are you gonna do? Depends on what you wanna do. If you're a regular guy and that's your first acting gig, I suggest you pass. I suggest you pass.

   24. JDJoey Diaz10:50

       Oh my gosh. I couldn't swap spit for the meth.

   25. JRJoe Rogan10:51

       You have to be, like, a Jared Leto-type dude to pull that off. Died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound December 16th, 2008 at the age of 47.

   26. JDJoey Diaz11:01

       And he was a firefighter, a former firefighter.

   27. JRJoe Rogan11:06

       Who knows? I mean, when, when did he die? How long after the show?

   28. NANarrator11:11

       Hmm, I'd try to find that out.

   29. JRJoe Rogan11:13

       Go pull it back up again.

   30. NANarrator11:14

       What day?
6. 12:20 – 28:21

   Gay friends, Judas Priest, and Rob Halford’s cultural impact (with a lyrical deep-dive)

   1. JDJoey Diaz12:20

      Do you remember the kid from Houston?

   2. JRJoe Rogan12:21

      ... which one?

   3. JDJoey Diaz12:22

      The guy that used to always wear football shirts.

   4. JRJoe Rogan12:24

      Yes, where... He, did he die?

   5. JDJoey Diaz12:26

      He, he passed away. He passed.

   6. JRJoe Rogan12:27

      Oh.

   7. JDJoey Diaz12:27

      That was my brother.

   8. JRJoe Rogan12:29

      What was his name? Goddammit, I loved him.

   9. JDJoey Diaz12:32

      I loved him, that's for sure.

   10. JRJoe Rogan12:33

       It's fucking escaping my mind.

   11. JDJoey Diaz12:34

       With the little hat on.

   12. JRJoe Rogan12:35

       You're gonna remember his name.

   13. JDJoey Diaz12:36

       And he'd come up to you and give you a hug all the time.

   14. JRJoe Rogan12:38

       (sighs) I haven't seen him in so long. When did he die?

   15. JDJoey Diaz12:41

       (sniffs) I don't know, maybe 10 years ago.

   16. JRJoe Rogan12:43

       Did he talk about being gay onstage?

   17. JDJoey Diaz12:46

       No, but he told me he was gay all the fucking time.

   18. JRJoe Rogan12:47

       Oh, yeah, well he was gay as fuck.

   19. JDJoey Diaz12:48

       He would go to those army things just to fuck men.

   20. JRJoe Rogan12:51

       Well, he just looked like a football player.

   21. JDJoey Diaz12:53

       Yes.

   22. JRJoe Rogan12:53

       Like a big, form... He looked like a Shane Gillis type dude.

   23. JDJoey Diaz12:56

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan12:56

       Like a big, former football player, but he was gay.

   25. JDJoey Diaz12:59

       But he was gay.

   26. JRJoe Rogan12:59

       He always wore football jerseys.

   27. JDJoey Diaz13:00

       Always football jerseys.

   28. JRJoe Rogan13:01

       Yes, sweet-

   29. JDJoey Diaz13:01

       That's how he'd trick 'em.

   30. JRJoe Rogan13:03

       ... sweetheart of guy. But again, same situation, Joey. That guy was one of us. He just hung out with us.
7. 28:21 – 33:24

   Alan Turing, chemical castration, and the modern hormone-blocker argument

   1. JRJoe Rogan28:21

      ... that's a good thing that the world is changing, you know, because there's... Do you know the guy who invented, um, the Turing test? You know what the Turing test is?

   2. JDJoey Diaz28:31

      No.

   3. JRJoe Rogan28:32

      His name's Alan Turing, (sniffs) and he's, um... He wa-... As a scientist, he, he invented a test that they say AI has passed, and this test is where you can talk to a computer and not be able to tell that it's a computer, that it, it behaves like a human. It thinks like a human, it communicates like a human where it's indiscernible. That's the, the Turing test. AI has recently passed the Turing test. Well, this guy, this, this... He was in England when this happened, right, Jamie? Where they, they forced him to take medication. He got arrested for being gay in, like, the 1950s, and they forced him to take medication that made him sterile, made him impotent, so he couldn't have sex. Like, they, they forced him to take, like, hormone blockers that they give to sex offenders. You know, chemical castration-

   4. JDJoey Diaz29:19

      Right, yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan29:19

      ... when they do that to sex offenders? And then he killed himself. The guy who invented the method of determining whether or not AI has become sentient gets murdered by dumb apes who don't like that he's gay.

   6. JDJoey Diaz29:32

      (sighs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan29:32

      How crazy is that? I'm not fucking that story up, right?

   8. NANarrator29:36

      That's confirming. (clears throat)

   9. JRJoe Rogan29:40

      I'm pretty sure that's the story.

   10. JDJoey Diaz29:40

       When do they give you blockers to, to sexual offenders? When do they give you that?

   11. JRJoe Rogan29:44

       Well, they don't always do it, you know, but, uh, it's called chemical castration. And by the way, it's the same chemicals, the same drugs that they use on kids when they give them hormone blockers. So when you talk to a, uh, they're talking about a child getting puberty blockers, you know? "Oh, it's totally reversible." The fuck it is. The fuck it is. That's the same shit. It's chemical castration. It's not reversible. That child is never gonna fully develop. If they get on hormone blockers, then when they're 18, they go, "You know what? I think I actually am a man." Too late. Too late because from 13 to 15 you suppressed your testosterone. (clears throat) Okay, here it is. Turing was later convicted by the advice of his brother and his own solicitor, and he entered a plea of guilty. Uh, in the case, Regina versus Turing and Murray was brought to trial on the 31st of March, 1952. Turing was convicted and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce libido, known as chemical castration. He accepted the option of injections of what was then called stilboestrol, s- um, now known as diethyl... diethylstilboestrol, or DES, a synthetic estrogen. His feminization of his body was continued for the course of one year. The treatment rendered Turing impotent and caused breast tissue to form. In a letter, Turing wrote that, "No doubt, I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who, I've not found out." Murray was given a conditional jis- discharge. So, Murray must have been the guy he was having sex with. That's so crazy, man.

   12. NANarrator31:30

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan31:30

       Arrested for being gay. In 1954 at his house, uh, Turing's housekeeper found him dead. Postmortem was held that evening and determined that he had died from the previous day at age 41 with cyanide poisoning, cited as the cause of death. He had an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed. Although apples not tested for cyanide, it was speculated that this was the means in which Turing had consumed a fatal dose. So he fucking killed himself 'cause they chemically castrated him. You know, founder of computer science and crypto- cryptographer whose work was key to breaking the wartime Enigma codes. So this guy, like, helped the British crack codes. And what'd they do? They injected him with poison so that his dick wouldn't work so he couldn't fuck guys anymore, which is what he wanted. He was... Imagine if th- if they were... everyone was gay, everyone, and you were straight. And you're like, "I don't want any dick. This is crazy." Like, guys keep trying to offer you their dick. Like, "No, no, no, no, is there anything else?" And then you meet a girl and it's like, "Oh, look, they're so soft-"

   14. NANarrator32:36

       I know.

   15. JRJoe Rogan32:37

       "... and so pretty. That's what I like. I like girls." And like, "No, you don't. No, you're gonna take this gay drug until you get that out of your system, or we're gonna chemically castrate you. You can't be having sex with girls." Like, (gasps) "But, uh, but they're so pretty. They're so lovely to be around. I'm so attracted to them." No.

   16. NANarrator32:54

       (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan32:54

       No, no, no. Only guys.

   18. NANarrator32:56

       (clears throat)

   19. JRJoe Rogan32:56

       That's crazy. That's how stupid some... these people-

   20. NANarrator33:01

       Uh-huh.

   21. JRJoe Rogan33:01

       ... especially, like, when you get to, like, serious fundamentalist rigid religions which want to throw them off roofs. There's parts... Middle East, they throw them off the roof. The- they round up all the gay guys, whoof, throw them off the roof. And everybody watches and cheers. Yay. Crazy.

   22. NANarrator33:21

       Like I said, it's a different world out there, my friend.

8. 33:24 – 39:47

   Authoritarianism, surveillance, and automation: from Iran to Russia to robot-run ports

   1. JRJoe Rogan33:24

      It is a different world out there, but it's the world out there that could be just like the world here. It could go this way here. Like, that's what people don't understand. Just how Los Angeles fell apart, the United States could fall apart too, you know. Like, look at Iran. We were looking at Iran the other day and photographs from the 1970s. Girls had miniskirts, they all looked really hot. The guys had no shirts on with six packs, walking down the street, everyone's smiling. Looks like Europe. It looks like you're in Italy. And now, it's a religious-run country. It's run by a dictatorship. Like, you- if you criticize the government, they execute you. They executed an Olympic gold medalist in wrestling.

   2. NANarrator34:00

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan34:01

      Yeah, the UFC even tried to get them to stop. They plead- they pleaded to try to get them to stop. They tried to get Trump to get them to... Or, was it Bi- th- during the Biden administration or the Trump administration? I don't remember. But they tried to get the president to somehow or another talk to Iran and not kill this guy.

   4. NANarrator34:19

      They killed him because he spoke against the government?

   5. JRJoe Rogan34:21

      Allegedly. But you don't even have to really have spoken against the government. That's what's so scary.

   6. NANarrator34:26

      (clears throat)

   7. JRJoe Rogan34:27

      You- you just have to be accused of speaking against the government. I mean, to this day and age, any... Like, a friend of mine's, uh, Twitter account got hacked and, uh, he got phished. They sent him an email.

   8. NANarrator34:37

      (sniffs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan34:38

      And he didn't... You know, he's not that sophisticated with that stuff, and so he got phished. And then I heard he got phished. So, um, I go to my, um, Twitter, just because I never check my DMs, but I did it just 'cause I knew he got phished. And I went into my DM and it was him asking me for my email address after he got phished. So I was like, "This motherfucker. He's trying to get me now." So someone could easily get your account and then... or use, you know, some sort of code cracker to figure out your code, then start posting stuff for you against the government, especially if you're in Iran. Like, they- they probably already have all your passcodes for everything over there. They've probably been, like, spying on everybody's computer from the jump. They probably just go to the database, "What's Joey Diaz's Facebook password?" Okay, post a bunch of shit there about these gover- the people in government should all be lined up and shot, they- they all suck dicks secretly. (laughs)

   10. NANarrator35:32

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan35:33

       They're- they're all eating babies. Just make them say something like that, and then let's go round them up. And then, if you don't have any due process, that's the kind of shit that dictators do. They just round you up.

   12. NANarrator35:45

       Wow.

   13. JRJoe Rogan35:46

       This episode is brought to you by ZipRecruiter. It's not always fun to talk numbers. I get it. But it can be useful. Like, seeing how much you spend on groceries or entertainment in a month, that's good to know when you're creating a budget. If you run a business, you probably want to keep track of wages, cash flow, profit margins, growth rate, and so on. But here's another stat you may want to pay close attention to. According to ZipRecruiter, 76% of employers plan to expand their headcount this year. That's a ton of time going into hiring. If you're one of those businesses, stay on top of it with ZipRecruiter. Their latest feature, ZipIntro, is exactly what you need. Try it for free at ziprecruiter.com/rogan. ZipIntro lets you post jobs and start talking to qualified candidates the very next day, saving you time. It gives you the power to quickly go through top talent and set up back-to-back calls. Just pick who you want to talk to and a time, and ZipIntro will help make it happen. Save time hiring for 2025 with ZipIntro. Just go to ziprecruiter.com/rogan right now to try ZipIntro for free. Again, that's ziprecruiter.com/rogan. ZipIntro. Post jobs today, talk to qualified candidates tomorrow.... Dunkin scared the shit out of me. We were talking about this the other day, about Ukraine and, and Russia. He's like, "You know, there's people in Russia that are just in Russia because they tweeted against the government. And you know what they do with those people? They put them in prison. And you know what happens when the war breaks out? They give them the option, like, you could either be in jail forever or you can go fight in the war." And so, they go to the front line and they get killed by American weapons, guys who were tweeting against Putin. It's like, you can use it to get rid of his political enemies. Crazy. And this is all while you and I, at the same time, hanging out in Boston ... or hanging out in Austin, rather, eating barbecue, you know? Like, it could go that way here, too. Just like it went that way in Iran, it could go that way in the United States. Just like LA fell apart. LA 20 years ago was amazing.

   14. JDJoey Diaz37:58

       Amazing.

   15. JRJoe Rogan37:58

       Do you remember LA in 2005? We were having the time of our lives.

   16. JDJoey Diaz38:02

       96, 97.

   17. JRJoe Rogan38:03

       Oh my God. We were having the time of our lives.

   18. JDJoey Diaz38:06

       Unbelievable.

   19. JRJoe Rogan38:06

       The restaurants were great. There was music playing everywhere. It was fun. There was a lot of great comedy. We had a good group of guys we were all hanging out with. LA was great. Yeah, there was still some traffic, but you know, it was the weather was great, people were generally pretty nice. A lot nicer than they were on the East Coast. It's not even the same place anymore. And that can happen anywhere. That can happen in the United States. If something terrible happens in the United States, new laws get passed, new restrictions, that can happen anywhere. That's why I talk about it so much. People are like, "Why do you obsess about it so much?" 'Cause you need to be paying attention. Because when it's too late, when they've already got complete control of what you can say on social media, and they got you locked down, you're in trouble, you're in trouble. Because so many other things are coming that they're aware of, and the big one is automation. Joey, when automation comes, and this is what, um, Andrew Yang was kind of running on when he was running for president, and I had him in, and it was a very interesting conversation 'cause it was something that I hadn't considered.

   20. JDJoey Diaz39:10

       (sighs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan39:10

       That all these jobs are gone. Do you know there's parts of the world like, uh, there's ports in China now where it's 100% controlled by robots? There's a few people that run around doing maintenance and stuff, but everything screens, everything is super efficient. These robots pick up the packages. They make an inventory of everything's in there, everything gets logged into the computer. They (imitates power moving) put it into these trucks (imitates power moving) and before you know it, they're gonna have electric trucks that drive themselves.

   22. JDJoey Diaz39:38

       That's why the strike happened in Jersey, all over, with the Teamsters-

   23. JRJoe Rogan39:41

       Yes.

   24. JDJoey Diaz39:41

       ... with the longshoremen.

   25. JRJoe Rogan39:42

       Yes.

   26. JDJoey Diaz39:43

       Because they know it.

   27. JRJoe Rogan39:43

       They know.

   28. JDJoey Diaz39:44

       They don't have much left.

   29. JRJoe Rogan39:45

       They don't have much time left.

   30. JDJoey Diaz39:46

       They don't have much time.
9. 39:47 – 46:09

   America’s hollowed-out industry: Rust Belt decline, offshoring, and Ross Perot’s warning

   1. JDJoey Diaz39:47

      It's fucking crazy how industry has just dwindled in this country.

   2. JRJoe Rogan39:52

      I know.

   3. JDJoey Diaz39:53

      You know, and Americans really don't see that. See, 'cause everybody's fucking into traveling and being cool. The gift that I had from doing comedy was I really got to see the country.

   4. JRJoe Rogan40:03

      Mm-hmm.

   5. JDJoey Diaz40:03

      I really got to see the ins and outs. And when I was a feature act, I would ask questions. You know, like, when you don't sit in a hotel all day and you just go out and you go to a movie theater, and-

   6. JRJoe Rogan40:12

      Right.

   7. JDJoey Diaz40:12

      ... you ask questions. And people tell you, "Oh my God, that's a great restaurant. Go there." You know, you look at cities like Cleveland. Okay, I don't know if a lot of people know this. 20 years ago, with all the jokes and shit, Cleveland had more Puerto Ricans than New York City.

   8. JRJoe Rogan40:27

      Really?

   9. JDJoey Diaz40:27

      Because there was a fucking car plant there.

   10. JRJoe Rogan40:30

       Oh.

   11. JDJoey Diaz40:31

       And they were building cars there. You know, I remember being a fucking kid and going to Detroit for a basketball tournament or something stupid. And seeing that city, it was 1976, '77, that city was fucking booming.

   12. JRJoe Rogan40:42

       Detroit was one of the richest cities in the world.

   13. JDJoey Diaz40:44

       Booming.

   14. JRJoe Rogan40:45

       Yeah.

   15. JDJoey Diaz40:45

       It was the murder capital at the time. Booming.

   16. JRJoe Rogan40:46

       Was it still even back then?

   17. JDJoey Diaz40:48

       Yeah, yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan40:49

       Wow.

   19. JDJoey Diaz40:49

       'Cause when I met my buddy in the '80s, it was, he was from Detroit and it was the murder capital. But '75, '76, that city was booming, bro.

   20. JRJoe Rogan40:55

       Yeah.

   21. JDJoey Diaz40:56

       You know, Buffalo, New York, booming. Fisher-Price, all these other companies left.

   22. JRJoe Rogan41:01

       Mm.

   23. JDJoey Diaz41:01

       You know, that's what I saw. Cleveland, Pittsburgh.

   24. JRJoe Rogan41:05

       Yeah.

   25. JDJoey Diaz41:06

       Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh steel.

   26. JRJoe Rogan41:08

       Yep.

   27. JDJoey Diaz41:10

       I went to Pittsburgh two years ago. Half the shit was closed down, brother.

   28. JRJoe Rogan41:13

       Yep.

   29. JDJoey Diaz41:13

       You know? So when I saw-

   30. JRJoe Rogan41:15

       Youngstown?
10. 46:09 – 54:11

    Ari Shaffir’s chaos and a hard pivot to classic boxing greatness (Hearns, Hagler, Duran)

    1. JDJoey Diaz46:09

       Dog, what about the chief of police in my hometown that had this shit on his desk?

    2. JRJoe Rogan46:12

       Yeah, why'd he do that?

    3. JDJoey Diaz46:13

       I don't know. (laughs)

    4. JRJoe Rogan46:18

       (laughs) Was he proving a point? What was the... What was up with that?

    5. JDJoey Diaz46:20

       You know, man, I heard he's a good dude, but he's a prankster.

    6. JRJoe Rogan46:23

       Oh.

    7. JDJoey Diaz46:23

       He's, he's like a prankster type of dude. He sends fucking-

    8. JRJoe Rogan46:26

       So he's like Ari Shaffir?

    9. JDJoey Diaz46:28

       Yeah, he sends, like, packages to your house, and he's one of those dudes, you know?

    10. JRJoe Rogan46:32

        Mm-hmm.

    11. JDJoey Diaz46:33

        And, uh, I- I don't know. That's... I- I guarantee it was like a joke and it just blew up, and now it's national. Now you got nowhere to go, you know?

    12. JRJoe Rogan46:40

        Oh, my god. Did you see what Ari did once when he shoved a note up his ass, then he shitted out on stage and read it?

    13. NANarrator46:51

        (laughs)

    14. JRJoe Rogan46:52

        (laughs) Look at your face.

    15. NANarrator46:53

        Man.

    16. JDJoey Diaz46:56

        I don't want nobody to read a note out of their ass.

    17. JRJoe Rogan46:59

        I don't want you shitting in the room with me. What kind of parasites and bugs and fucking-

    18. JDJoey Diaz47:03

        Dog, he's got hemorrhoids, he's got-

    19. JRJoe Rogan47:05

        All sorts of stuff is flying through the air. Every breath you breathe is Ari's shit gas flying around.

    20. JDJoey Diaz47:12

        He's a fucking nut. He has not-

    21. JRJoe Rogan47:13

        (laughs) He's so crazy.

    22. JDJoey Diaz47:14

        He has not stopped at all. Like, it is not ending.

    23. JRJoe Rogan47:18

        No.

    24. JDJoey Diaz47:19

        I'm going to his thing next week.

    25. JRJoe Rogan47:20

        He's never growing up.

    26. JDJoey Diaz47:21

        No, no, he's never growing up.

    27. JRJoe Rogan47:22

        It's not happening.

    28. JDJoey Diaz47:24

        But he's getting married, right?

    29. JRJoe Rogan47:25

        Yeah.

    30. JDJoey Diaz47:25

        Or he got married, or something like that? So...
11. 54:11 – 1:12:03

    From spaghetti westerns to streaming overload: old Hollywood, modern PR, and theater decline

    1. JRJoe Rogan54:11

       The guy could come back after all those years off, you know? He had one fight, got dropped, said he was retiring, and then comes back and decides he's gonna fight Hagler, and then he wins. And then Hagler's like, "I'm done. I'm done. I'm gonna go to Italy and make terrible movies." (laughs) You ever see those Marvin Hagler movies?

    2. NANarrator54:32

       No.

    3. JRJoe Rogan54:32

       Oh, you gotta see some clips.

    4. NANarrator54:34

       No.

    5. JRJoe Rogan54:34

       Joey, they're the dumbest movies of all time.

    6. NANarrator54:36

       No.

    7. JRJoe Rogan54:36

       Hagler punches people, they go flying through the air. (laughs)

    8. NANarrator54:39

       No, I'm not watching that. I love Marvin Hagler too much.

    9. JRJoe Rogan54:42

       No, they're fun. Look, he was having a good time. I bet he was a huge star in Italy, but that's, that, to me, it's like everything seems fishy. The fight seemed fishy to me, the decision seemed fishy to me. And then Hagler goes off and becomes a movie star and I go, "Okay." In Italy? How does that happen? How do you get connected... How does that happen? Look how bad this movie is.

    10. NANarrator55:09

        Clint Eastwood called me.

    11. JRJoe Rogan55:10

        Look how bad this movie is. Look at this.

    12. NANarrator55:12

        ... all the power of Commando.

    13. The world has to know what's happening here.

    14. It's the thrill-packed feature action fans are waiting for.

    15. I want those Indios.

    16. Marvelous Marvin Hagler returns from the original Indio. Indio 2: The Revolt. The jungle is shrinking.

    17. JRJoe Rogan55:30

        (laughs)

    18. NANarrator55:30

        They've been steering clear of the highway towards jungle.

    19. JDJoey Diaz55:33

        ... made by the mine. (movie scene playing)

    20. NANarrator55:34

        And greed is spreading. You had better start praying to your god that we finish the highway before the rainy season. (movie scene playing) Here, only one man is mean enough. I know many of us may die. But it is better to die than to live like slaves. Mad enough.

    21. Tell them the days of running and hiding are over.

    22. JRJoe Rogan55:51

        (laughs)

    23. NANarrator55:51

        This is your land.

    24. JRJoe Rogan55:53

        (laughs)

    25. NANarrator55:54

        And 3... Tough guy. (laughs)

    26. JRJoe Rogan55:56

        (laughs)

    27. NANarrator55:56

        Will you lead us, my friend? Sometimes...

    28. JRJoe Rogan55:59

        It's hilarious.

    29. JDJoey Diaz56:00

        I, I don't see one Italian. There's not one fucking Italian.

    30. JRJoe Rogan56:04

        That guy. (laughs)
12. 1:12:03 – 1:17:26

    What to watch now: Wicked on mushrooms, Barbie discourse, and the hot-take economy

    1. JDJoey Diaz1:12:03

       I don't... I won't go see a popular movie. I'm not a, a top raider like that. I like going seeing... I see a movie, I go, "You know what? I wanna go watch that." Some movies I could watch at home now, I don't wanna watch in the fucking thing. Anything with 3D, like Wicked or whatever, I go.

    2. JRJoe Rogan1:12:17

       (laughs)

    3. JDJoey Diaz1:12:17

       I take my mushrooms, I take my daughter. I sit there, she enjoys it, and I fucking have a great time.

    4. JRJoe Rogan1:12:21

       Wicked was great.

    5. JDJoey Diaz1:12:22

       Wicked was great. The only thing was-

    6. JRJoe Rogan1:12:25

       It was great.

    7. JDJoey Diaz1:12:25

       ... don't go on mushrooms.

    8. JRJoe Rogan1:12:27

       No?

    9. JDJoey Diaz1:12:27

       I was so fucked up.

    10. JRJoe Rogan1:12:29

        How much-

    11. JDJoey Diaz1:12:29

        The chick is black and green. I couldn't deal with that right off the bat.

    12. JRJoe Rogan1:12:32

        (laughs)

    13. JDJoey Diaz1:12:33

        Where's the black people? Raise your hand. What the fuck? I'm feeling like a racist in here. She can't be black and she can't be green.

    14. JRJoe Rogan1:12:39

        (sighs)

    15. JDJoey Diaz1:12:39

        Then Ariana with no eyebrows, that killed me.

    16. JRJoe Rogan1:12:42

        This is...

    17. JDJoey Diaz1:12:42

        She had like those blind eyebrows. I'm on fucking mushrooms and this movie won't end.

    18. JRJoe Rogan1:12:46

        Whoa.

    19. JDJoey Diaz1:12:47

        It won't end. And-

    20. JRJoe Rogan1:12:47

        It's a long movie.

    21. JDJoey Diaz1:12:48

        It's a fucking long movie. But I'm looking at her (laughs) and she's having such a great time.

    22. JRJoe Rogan1:12:53

        (laughs)

    23. JDJoey Diaz1:12:53

        When you look at your kids and they're having such a great time, you're like, "I don't give a fuck."

    24. JRJoe Rogan1:12:56

        I enjoyed it.

    25. JDJoey Diaz1:12:57

        I fucking-

    26. JRJoe Rogan1:12:57

        I enjoyed the Barbie movie. How about that?

    27. JDJoey Diaz1:13:00

        I never saw it. What was-

    28. JRJoe Rogan1:13:00

        I enjoyed it. I went, I went with my kids. They had a good time. I thought it was funny. E- Everybody was like complaining, it's the, you know, it's political, it's against the patriarchy. Like, listen-

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