Joe Rogan Experience #1319 - Joey Diaz
Joe Rogan (host), Joey Diaz (guest), Narrator, Jamie Vernon (guest), Jamie Vernon (guest), Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Jamie Vernon (guest)
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz, Joe Rogan Experience #1319 - Joey Diaz explores joey Diaz, Trans Athletes, UFOs, Movies, Sharks, And Immigration Chaos Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz jump between edgy comedy, social issues, and nostalgia, opening with jokes about gay pride and quickly moving into a serious conversation on LGBTQ acceptance and the fairness of transgender athletes in sports. They spend a long mid-section on UFOs, military sightings, and how unreliable human memory is, blending Diaz’s New Jersey stories with Rogan’s skepticism. A major chunk is pure nostalgia: classic comedies like The Blues Brothers, Stripes, Godzilla, and King Kong, plus talk about Charles Bronson, Rocky, and how filmmaking and comedy have changed. They also touch on sharks and climate change, homelessness and immigration policy, cults like Jonestown and NXIVM, and wrap with bits about fighting, training, and their long history at The Comedy Store.
Joey Diaz, Trans Athletes, UFOs, Movies, Sharks, And Immigration Chaos
Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz jump between edgy comedy, social issues, and nostalgia, opening with jokes about gay pride and quickly moving into a serious conversation on LGBTQ acceptance and the fairness of transgender athletes in sports. They spend a long mid-section on UFOs, military sightings, and how unreliable human memory is, blending Diaz’s New Jersey stories with Rogan’s skepticism. A major chunk is pure nostalgia: classic comedies like The Blues Brothers, Stripes, Godzilla, and King Kong, plus talk about Charles Bronson, Rocky, and how filmmaking and comedy have changed. They also touch on sharks and climate change, homelessness and immigration policy, cults like Jonestown and NXIVM, and wrap with bits about fighting, training, and their long history at The Comedy Store.
Key Takeaways
Cultural acceptance of LGBTQ people has progressed, but friction remains around sports.
Rogan and Diaz both say adults should live freely and mock homophobia as outdated, yet Rogan argues that male-to-female transgender athletes may retain advantages from years of testosterone and that sports bodies haven’t fully resolved this tension.
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Trans-athlete debates require separating inclusion from safety and fairness.
Rogan stresses you can support transgender rights and still question combat or power sports, pointing to trans women dominating high-school girls’ events and likening decades of male puberty to a long steroid cycle.
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Military and pilot UFO sightings are hard to dismiss outright.
They distinguish crackpot stories from credible fighter-pilot and Navy reports of objects moving with impossible acceleration and angles, arguing those cases deserve serious investigation even if many UFO claims are misidentifications or exaggerations.
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Human memory is far less reliable than people assume.
Rogan uses fight recollections and childhood stories to show how we confabulate details over time, while Diaz notes how smells, songs, and places can suddenly surface vivid but still incomplete memories.
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Classic comedy and genre films felt freer and more risk-taking than today’s output.
They celebrate The Blues Brothers, Stripes, early Godzilla, King Kong, and Charles Bronson movies as examples of wild, practical, often offensive comedy and action that big studios are reluctant to attempt now, despite modern visual effects being far superior.
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Shark and wildlife encounters may reflect environmental and food-chain stress.
They riff on recent shark and seal attack videos and suggest overfishing, pollution, and climate change might be pushing predators closer to shore and into unusual behavior, even if viral clips exaggerate how often it happens.
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Immigration and homelessness debates mix empathy with capacity concerns.
Diaz shares stories of hardworking immigrants (e. ...
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Notable Quotes
“Of all the shit in the world to worry about, you’re worrying about guys who like guys? What do you give a fuck?”
— Joe Rogan
“It doesn’t mean you hate transgender people… but we also have to look at reality. These transgender athletes are dominating against women who have never had 30 years of testosterone.”
— Joe Rogan
“For me, for it to be credible, I gotta see the motherfucker land, get out.”
— Joey Diaz (on UFO sightings)
“Maybe we’re full. We don’t have nowhere else to put anyone…and we’re running out of money to take care of who we got here.”
— Joey Diaz
“Any time someone is running any kind of thing where they gotta separate you from everybody else… it never goes well.”
— Joe Rogan (on cults)
Questions Answered in This Episode
How should sports organizations balance inclusion for transgender athletes with concerns about safety and competitive fairness, especially in combat and power sports?
Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz jump between edgy comedy, social issues, and nostalgia, opening with jokes about gay pride and quickly moving into a serious conversation on LGBTQ acceptance and the fairness of transgender athletes in sports. ...
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What standards of evidence should we demand before taking UFO reports—especially from military pilots—as something more than misidentification or experimental aircraft?
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Why do classic comedies and action films from the ’70s and ’80s still feel so fresh compared to many modern big-budget movies, despite weaker effects?
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At what point does a country reasonably become “full,” and what ethical framework should guide immigration policy when both compassion and resource limits are real?
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What psychological needs make people vulnerable to cults and charismatic leaders, and how can those warning signs be better recognized in everyday life?
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Transcript Preview
Do, do, do, do, do. Joey motherfucking Diaz.
What's up, brother?
What's happening, baby?
I'm just, on the drive up here, I was thinking about all the busted assholes that are in the hospital today from the gay pride parade yesterday.
(laughs)
Can you imagine how many guys went down there just to say hello-
(laughs)
... and ended up getting fucked in the ass by the states?
They had a good time.
Bro, let me tell you something. That was one of the biggest turnouts. My friend went, and he said he had a fucking blast.
I'm sure.
One of my gorilla buddies said he had a blast. Blast. Gay people are great in fucking New York, all over.
Everywhere.
Everywhere.
They, they're celebrating. They can be free.
I loved it.
They can be who they are.
I loved it. But-
Anybody who's got a problem with that is crazy.
But on the dark side, let's talk about the facts here. Couple confused little young white dudes-
(laughs)
... went down there yesterday. "Sure, I'll go have a drink. Uh."
Yeah. Some guys who just wanted to be an ally, ally to the gay folks. "I just want ... You know, I'm not gay, but, uh, I am your ally." Next thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire. (laughs)
(laughs) What's up, brother?
That's what guys have to remember. Gay dudes are dudes. It's, they, all same rules apply. All same rules of scumbaggery that apply to men apply to gay men. (laughs)
Yeah, there's, like, three types of gay guys.
They'll get you. Yeah.
There's gay guys that aren't interested.
Yeah.
There's gay guys that are semi-interested, and there are gay guys that live to convert you.
It hurts my feelings as a 51-year-old man that that's still a big deal, that anyone cares at all. It really does. It does. It hurts my feelings, 'cause I thought that by the time I was a f- fucking middle-aged 51-year-old father that we'd be done with that. People wouldn't care if other people were gay. Like, whoa. Of all the shit to worry about, of all the shit in the world to worry about, you're worrying about guys who like guys? Like, what do you give a fuck? And they always go Biblical. They always go Biblical. Like, it's always that, "If God wanted that, it'd be in the Bible." Uh, that is ... That shit drives me crazy.
Where I lived in my old house in North Hollywood, there was a gay couple across the street, two dudes. One was a pilot for a major airline, and he was in the process, and the other guy got fired from Target for being a transgender. This goes back to 2010. And they had cats. You know me, dog, I talked to the guys about cats. There was an old guy down the block that would come over and talk to me, like, "You can't talk to them." Old white dude, like, "You can't talk to them."
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