Joe Rogan Experience #1190 - Joey Diaz
Joe Rogan (host), Joey Diaz (guest), Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz, Joe Rogan Experience #1190 - Joey Diaz explores joey Diaz On Weed, Weight Loss, Hustling, Comedy, And Getting Older Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz spend a long-form, meandering conversation bouncing between Joey’s relationship with weed and edibles, his Weight Watchers-driven weight loss and training regimen, and the realities of aging bodies, injuries, and recovery.
Joey Diaz On Weed, Weight Loss, Hustling, Comedy, And Getting Older
Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz spend a long-form, meandering conversation bouncing between Joey’s relationship with weed and edibles, his Weight Watchers-driven weight loss and training regimen, and the realities of aging bodies, injuries, and recovery.
They dive into old-school hustles and crime stories, the cocaine-and-pizza lifestyle that made Joey 418 pounds, and how structured training (Muay Thai, jiu-jitsu, kettlebells, strength work) and diet changes transformed his health and mentality.
They reminisce about standup origins, Mitzi Shore’s influence at The Comedy Store, classic radio and TV, and films like The Exorcist and Rocky as they connect storytelling, imagination, and the craft of performing.
Threaded through are discussions about success, outliers, divorce money and gender, hormone replacement, and Rogan’s hyper-competitive Sober October fitness challenge with Ari Shaffir, Bert Kreischer, and Tom Segura.
Key Takeaways
Changing your relationship with weed changes your whole routine.
Diaz describes how quitting edibles because of uncontrollable late-night hunger and stomach issues forced him to confront his sleep, post-show comedown, and how he self-medicates after standup; Rogan notes that even a one‑month break made him anxious to start again.
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Small, consistent dietary changes can sustain major weight loss.
Joey lost about 30 pounds over 11 months mostly via Weight Watchers: cutting cheese and bacon portions, avoiding late-night binges, and eating breakfast early to avoid all-day catch‑up eating instead of chasing extreme fad diets.
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For older lifters, shorter, smarter sessions beat maximal beatdowns.
Both emphasize that after 50 you should favor frequent but abbreviated strength sessions (squats, deadlifts, kettlebells, club work) plus recovery tools (cryotherapy, red light beds) over marathon ego workouts that wreck your joints and recovery.
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Strength work is crucial “anti-aging” for men—physically and sexually.
Diaz frames squats and deadlifts as the real “testosterone boosters,” joking they protect the “Maalox stick,” while Rogan adds that properly monitored hormone replacement plus heavy lifting preserves muscle, bone density, and vitality.
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Success in any field is a mix of hard work and timing.
Rogan references Malcolm Gladwell’s *Outliers* and the role of birth year, access, and opportunity in hockey and tech (e. ...
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Imagination and restraint often make stories and films more powerful.
They contrast older movies like *Scarface*, *Once Upon a Time in the West*, *American Werewolf in London*, and *The Exorcist*—which used suggestion and audience imagination—with modern CGI‑heavy films that overshow and dull emotional impact.
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Sustained discipline outperforms talent in fitness challenges.
Rogan breaks down his Sober October strategy: multiple hours of daily varied training, strict tracking with a heart‑rate monitor, and leveraging competition against friends; he argues this kind of grind drastically reduces anxiety and improves mood.
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Notable Quotes
“If you’re clean off weed for 29 days, you might as well go for a year and then make a comeback.”
— Joey Diaz
“If you wanna be a fat fuck, don’t eat till 1:00… then you gotta make up for it the rest of the day.”
— Joey Diaz
“There is a stigma attached to testosterone. All that matters is that you have it in your system. If you don’t, you’re not gonna feel as good.”
— Joe Rogan
“I knew one thing my freshman year in high school: I did not want a day job.”
— Joey Diaz
“Almost every day I worked out this month I didn’t want to do it. The only thing that kept me doing it is Bert talking shit.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How does Joey Diaz’s experience with edibles and late-night munchies compare to your own relationship with weed or other substances?
Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz spend a long-form, meandering conversation bouncing between Joey’s relationship with weed and edibles, his Weight Watchers-driven weight loss and training regimen, and the realities of aging bodies, injuries, and recovery.
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What specific small dietary or scheduling changes from Joey’s Weight Watchers approach could you realistically apply to your own life?
They dive into old-school hustles and crime stories, the cocaine-and-pizza lifestyle that made Joey 418 pounds, and how structured training (Muay Thai, jiu-jitsu, kettlebells, strength work) and diet changes transformed his health and mentality.
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Rogan argues hormone replacement can be life-changing if done correctly; where do you personally draw the line between therapy and “cheating”?
They reminisce about standup origins, Mitzi Shore’s influence at The Comedy Store, classic radio and TV, and films like The Exorcist and Rocky as they connect storytelling, imagination, and the craft of performing.
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In what ways do you agree or disagree with their views on wealth, gender, and divorce settlements as sources of female billionaires?
Threaded through are discussions about success, outliers, divorce money and gender, hormone replacement, and Rogan’s hyper-competitive Sober October fitness challenge with Ari Shaffir, Bert Kreischer, and Tom Segura.
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How might Rogan’s description of intense, daily training affecting his mood and anxiety change the way you think about exercise—not just for fitness, but for mental health?
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Transcript Preview
Three, two... What the fuck were you saying, Joey Diaz?
I said that once you're clean for 29 days without smoking reefer, that's it. Why go back?
(laughs) What?
Yeah!
I like it.
No.
(laughs)
If I fucking stayed clean from reefer for 29 days, I'd go, (claps hands) I'd let my lungs fucking heal from the abuse I've inflicted on them the last 30 fucking years.
What about edibles? What about sprays?
Uh, first of all-
You know, the, the Jamba sprays?
First of all, I haven't had an edible since like... I broke it in Boston September 29th, so out of respect for Sober October, I didn't do an edible. I haven't done edibles. I, I... Something was wrong with my stomach so I figured out it, I was, uh, lactose tolerant-
Lactose intolerant? (laughs)
Lactose intolerant. I fucking eat mozzarella cheese or milk and I'm farting up... You know, it's a nightmare.
Yeah.
So I had to cut that out of my diet. No mozzarella cheese. Light on the American cheese now. No Swiss no more. No Cuban sandwiches.
Really?
It's fucking crazy. And then I had to cut out... The edibles were giving me a weird feeling.
(laughs) Like what?
Like, it had, it had just gone... It had just gone somewhere else and I didn't like the hunger issues.
Oh, the munchies? Yeah.
The hunger issues after 11:00 were just monstrous. Like here I am working hard to lose weight, I'd stick to it and then I go home, I start with an apple, another apple-
Mm-hmm.
... a banana, another banana. Then you gotta bust out the salami sandwich with the fucking American... You know.
Right.
It was just, uh, it was just getting bad. I could not control it. Could not. Uncontrollable. The hunger from edibles every minute after 11:00 for me was uncontrollable.
Well, you get blitzkrieg. You don't just get like a little fucked up.
No. No, and it starts early. It was starting early, 2:00 in the afternoon, then pop another two at fucking 6:00.
Do you like vaporizing?
No.
No, just smoking?
I, if, if you-
If you're worried about your lungs, you know, you-
I take vapors at a hotel-
Like a vape pen?
... to get the party started in the morning.
Right.
While I'm having coffee in my hotel room, writing my notes for the m- thoughts of the day.
Mm-hmm.
Because I don't wake up with hunger. See, that was my problem all those years. I wouldn't eat till 1:00. If, if you wanna be a fat fuck, don't eat till 1:00 when you wake up because then you gotta make up for it the rest of the day. So now I have to force myself to eat.
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