Joe Rogan Experience #2089 - Joey Diaz
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #2089 - Joey Diaz explores joey Diaz and Joe Rogan on drugs, health hacks, comedy, and chaos Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz trade long-form stories that swing from drug use, extreme highs, and panic attacks to current health obsessions like red light therapy, saunas, cold plunges, and sleep tracking. They dig into the risks of modern weed, edibles, ketamine, and Ozempic-style drugs, contrasting them with alcohol’s underestimated damage. The conversation shifts into fitness, weight loss, snow shoveling, and Diaz’s pneumonia, then into stand-up comedy history at The Comedy Store, residencies, and the culture around Kill Tony and Rogan’s Austin club. Interspersed throughout are riffs on immigration, COVID policy, trans issues, gambling, organized crime, and Joey’s intention to finish his career purely as a standup, not a podcaster.
Joey Diaz and Joe Rogan on drugs, health hacks, comedy, and chaos
Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz trade long-form stories that swing from drug use, extreme highs, and panic attacks to current health obsessions like red light therapy, saunas, cold plunges, and sleep tracking. They dig into the risks of modern weed, edibles, ketamine, and Ozempic-style drugs, contrasting them with alcohol’s underestimated damage. The conversation shifts into fitness, weight loss, snow shoveling, and Diaz’s pneumonia, then into stand-up comedy history at The Comedy Store, residencies, and the culture around Kill Tony and Rogan’s Austin club. Interspersed throughout are riffs on immigration, COVID policy, trans issues, gambling, organized crime, and Joey’s intention to finish his career purely as a standup, not a podcaster.
Key Takeaways
High-dose cannabis and edibles can trigger serious psychological issues.
Rogan and Diaz describe panic attacks and reality distortion at very high THC doses, and reference reporting on marijuana-induced psychosis and schizophrenia in vulnerable people—arguing weed is beneficial at low/moderate doses but potentially destabilizing at extremes.
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Simple lifestyle tracking reveals how destructive alcohol is to recovery.
Using devices like WHOOP or Oura, Rogan notes even a couple drinks dramatically lower heart rate variability and next-day readiness, while cutting alcohol, sugar, and staying hydrated reliably improves recovery and performance metrics.
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Sauna use several times a week is strongly associated with lower mortality.
They cite Finnish longitudinal research and Rhonda Patrick’s summaries: around 50–60 minutes of sauna per week is linked to large reductions in cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality, as well as better sleep, mood, and cardiorespiratory fitness.
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Cold exposure and cryotherapy are powerful but challenging recovery tools.
Both men report feeling deeply reset after cold plunges and cryo; Rogan believes cold plunges have a stronger physiological hit, while Diaz jokes he wishes he had cryotherapy available during his heavy drug days because of how 'brand new' you feel afterward.
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GLP‑1 weight-loss drugs work, but nutrition and resistance training still matter.
They discuss Ozempic/Wegovy’s explosion in use and note that without prioritizing protein intake and lifting weights, many users lose muscle and bone along with fat—so the drugs should be paired with structured diet and strength training, not used in isolation.
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Legalization and ultra-strong modern cannabis have outpaced many users’ tolerance.
Diaz and Rogan point out today’s concentrates, high-THC flower, and edibles are much stronger than past generations’ weed; newcomers treating it as casual or harmless can end up overwhelmed, especially without building tolerance gradually.
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For some comics, podcasting is secondary to preserving standup as the core craft.
Diaz says he intends to end his career as a pure standup and stop doing his own podcast, preferring a residency (likely in Philly or at Rogan’s Mothership) and focusing his remaining years on live performance rather than media and advertising obligations.
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Notable Quotes
“At high doses, marijuana is not what people think it is. It gets to that very psychedelic place where it might as well be acid.”
— Joe Rogan
“For three years I cried about this anxiety… It was the edibles. You can’t live on 2,000 milligrams a goddamn day. Something’s gotta fall apart eventually.”
— Joey Diaz
“You know how you find out what alcohol does to your body? Get an Oura Ring or a WHOOP strap. Have a couple cocktails and check your recovery. It’s crazy.”
— Joe Rogan
“If I had to pick one over the two, I think I’d pick sauna. There’s a 20-year study out of Finland that shows around a 40% decrease in all‑cause mortality.”
— Joe Rogan
“I’m ending this career as a standup. No more podcast. Let’s do the last two years fucking standup, motherfuckers.”
— Joey Diaz
Questions Answered in This Episode
How much of Rogan and Diaz’s experience with extreme cannabis and edibles reflects broader trends in legalization-era weed use, and where should responsible limits be drawn?
Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz trade long-form stories that swing from drug use, extreme highs, and panic attacks to current health obsessions like red light therapy, saunas, cold plunges, and sleep tracking. ...
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What is the actual clinical evidence behind red light therapy for vision and capillary health compared to Rogan’s anecdotal improvements?
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Given the powerful mortality and performance associations with sauna use, why aren’t heat and cold exposure more central in mainstream medical guidelines?
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How should society balance compassion for trans people with clear safety boundaries in sex-segregated spaces, given the kinds of edge-case scenarios they describe?
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In light of their criticism of COVID policies and immigration handling, what concrete reforms would address their grievances without tipping into reactionary overcorrection?
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Transcript Preview
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I didn't bring my motherfucking glasses though.
Oh, do you need some?
Yeah.
I have some.
Just in case, if you're gonna show me something interesting.
Yeah.
Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir.
So I started doing this, uh, red light bed. I started doing two things to help my eyes. One, I started taking Pure Encapsulations. They have this, um ... What is it called? Macro support? What is it called? Anyway, it's a bunch of supplements that they put together, um, to stop your eyesight from going bad and it's legit.
Macular Support?
Macular Support. That's it.
You like it? Oh.
Legit. It stopped ... Whatever the deterioration that I was experiencing, where my eyesight was starting to go, it stopped. Just stopped it, and it made it a little bit better, and then I started doing this red light bed. So I had this guy Gary Brecka on the podcast. He's explained to me how red light, um, revitalizes your capillaries and helps your vision come back. And so I've been doing that now for about six weeks and I've noticed an, an improvement. Like I don't need reading glasses as much if I'm reading things on my phone. I can read some things that I just was not gonna be able to read. And more importantly, it's not getting worse, 'cause like it was like kinda every six months, eight months or so, I'd notice my ... God, my eyes are worse. Like this is terrible. Like after like 46 it seemed like, somewhere around 46 it was like it dropped off a cliff.
And you did the right thing because you didn't submit to these. My mistake was to submit to these when I was like 43, 44.
Mm.
By 44 I could see I was having problems already and I submitted to these, and this is worse for you. That's why I used to tell you-
Glasses.
... don't put the glasses on.
Yeah.
Hold on.
Yeah.
Make your eyes muscle that thing. It's like when you wear fucking hearing aids.
Mm-hmm.
Like, your hearing gets lost. I-
Well, they say with, with vision, like the problem is we're looking at things that are real close up all the time and your, your eyes are supposed to do a bunch of different things. They're supposed to look at stuff in the distance, they're supposed to look at things up close, and if you don't look at things in the distance all the time, you lose that ability.
Well, I'm gonna be as honest as I can with you. I'm not trying to be cute here.
Okay.
I lost my eyesight when I stopped doing coke, 'cause when I was doing coke, my eyesight was on point, Joe.
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