Joe Rogan Experience #1140 - Joey Diaz
Joe Rogan (host), Joey Diaz (guest), Jamie Vernan (guest), Narrator, Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Narrator, Narrator
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz, Joe Rogan Experience #1140 - Joey Diaz explores joey Diaz and Joe Rogan: Chaos, cocaine, craft, and confession This episode is an unfiltered, three‑and‑a‑half‑hour riff between Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz that bounces between wild drug stories, childhood trauma, standup comedy craft, crime, violence, and aging. Diaz openly describes his past as a criminal, addict, and struggling comic, contrasting it with his current life as a father, health‑conscious jiu‑jitsu student, and working professional. They dig into policing, military and Secret Service culture, conspiracy thinking, the MeToo era and Hollywood’s long history of exploitation, plus how technology and social media are reshaping behavior. Underneath the chaos and jokes, a through‑line emerges about resilience, personal responsibility, and using pain and bad decisions as fuel to become a better person and artist.
Joey Diaz and Joe Rogan: Chaos, cocaine, craft, and confession
This episode is an unfiltered, three‑and‑a‑half‑hour riff between Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz that bounces between wild drug stories, childhood trauma, standup comedy craft, crime, violence, and aging. Diaz openly describes his past as a criminal, addict, and struggling comic, contrasting it with his current life as a father, health‑conscious jiu‑jitsu student, and working professional. They dig into policing, military and Secret Service culture, conspiracy thinking, the MeToo era and Hollywood’s long history of exploitation, plus how technology and social media are reshaping behavior. Underneath the chaos and jokes, a through‑line emerges about resilience, personal responsibility, and using pain and bad decisions as fuel to become a better person and artist.
Key Takeaways
Diaz’s extreme past is the backbone of his comedy persona.
Stories of burglary, cocaine addiction, prison, and homelessness aren’t just shock value; they’re the lived experiences that shape his worldview, timing, and authenticity on stage.
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Sleep, weight, and drugs are tightly linked as people age.
Diaz details how edibles, late‑night eating, and aging wreck his sleep, and how cutting edibles or using Weight Watchers radically changes his patterns—highlighting how older bodies react differently to substances and habits.
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Great standup often comes from working with people who crush you.
Rogan explains that touring with Diaz early on was like sparring with a superior fighter; learning to follow a killer forced him to change his mindset from fear to fun and sharpened his own act.
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Police and elite military work require extreme situational awareness and training.
Their discussion of Secret Service formations and Navy SEALs underlines that protecting VIPs or conducting special operations is about years of mental conditioning, hearing, pattern recognition, and coordinated response—not movie‑style heroics.
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Abuse and violence in childhood often cascade into later dysfunction.
Both men reflect on seeing kids beaten by parents, predatory adults, and neighborhood violence, arguing that many “bad people” are products of unresolved trauma rather than born monsters.
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Hollywood’s exploitation culture is systemic, not just a few monsters.
They argue Harvey Weinstein‑type behavior was an open secret involving agents, executives, and peers who looked the other way, suggesting accountability should extend beyond a small set of publicly shamed individuals.
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Technology and social media are eroding real human contact and perspective.
Rogan predicts deeper human‑computer integration and mind‑to‑mind connectivity, while Diaz pushes back by prioritizing phone calls, jiu‑jitsu, and in‑person interaction as antidotes to isolation and hysteria.
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Notable Quotes
““If you’re heavy and you don’t go to Weight Watchers, it’s ’cause you’re a fucking loser.””
— Joey Diaz
““You don’t get better at sparring people that suck. You get better when you spar with wizards.””
— Joe Rogan
““I was lashing out at the world. If you didn’t lend me a hundred bucks, I robbed your house.””
— Joey Diaz
““People that are really into conspiracy theories are rarely into history.””
— Joe Rogan
““We’re supposed to be the social column of society. Now you want to take that away from me?””
— Joey Diaz
Questions Answered in This Episode
How much responsibility should bystanders and colleagues bear in long‑running Hollywood abuse cases like Weinstein’s?
This episode is an unfiltered, three‑and‑a‑half‑hour riff between Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz that bounces between wild drug stories, childhood trauma, standup comedy craft, crime, violence, and aging. ...
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Where is the line between honest, offensive comedy and material that genuinely harms vulnerable groups?
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How do Diaz’s experiences of childhood trauma and crime change your view of “bad” or violent adults?
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Is Rogan right that future tech will lead to some form of shared or readable thoughts, and what would that do to privacy and art?
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In the MeToo and social‑media era, how can comics preserve risk‑taking and raw honesty without being reckless or cruel?
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Transcript Preview
Five, four, three, two, one.
The first man to smoke marijuana never really smoked it. He inhaled it. (smacks lips) He was a Chinese man. He was a very great man. And whenever he lit the, the, the, the plant, it wasn't to get high. But he would start to get high, and every time he got high, a blue bird would come to him (smacks lips) and tell him to conquer his neighboring neighborhoods, and, uh, he listened to those, to the bird. And that's exactly what he did, and he became a great emperor in China. And at that point in the story, Pablo Escobar looks at his doctor and he goes, "Have you ever been to Disneyland?"
(laughs)
And the doctor goes, "No, Pablo, I haven't." He goes, "Very clean. Very organized."
Whoa.
That's it. But it's the truth. The first guy that ever got high was a Chinese dude that burnt the plant because he liked the smell of the plant. (can pops open) It, it gave him a soothing... But after days of doing it, it packed up in his body, and he started hallucinating. He saw a blue bird... A blue bird came to him and told him that he had to conquer the neighborhoods within, uh, the region.
What a crazy bird. He got high, and a bird started talking to him.
What are you gonna do?
You know, uh, I don't know if this is true, but this is one of the things that, uh, the pot aficionados always used to say, is that you know when a priest walks down the aisle, and they have that, that thing that they swing and there's burning incense inside of it? That used to be weed. That's what they used to do. Used to be-
When? In what dimension?
I don't know. I don't know.
At one point, I believe it was weed. Then it became that shit that Batman shot at The Green Hornet.
(laughs)
It was like pedophile smoke, you-
(laughs)
... you wake up, your shirt's on backwards and shit.
(laughs)
Your pants are missing. (laughs)
Well, the, what did, what is it now? What kind of incense is it now? Is it sage?
It's like this blue smoke. I, I go in there to church every once in a while.
Yeah?
But you have to go for the full effect one. Like, the five in the afternoon on Saturday and the early morning Sunday, they don't break out the incense.
Mm.
Then they'll start breaking out the fucking malukia fucking, uh, (sings) salamala malunkedoo. And the guy comes out, and one guys comes out throwing water.
Jesus.
And then the other guy... It's so weird how some, somebody made a, a great point on Twitter the other day. They said, "You, me, Mitch Hedberg, I think there's five of us that delivered newspapers. There's five comedians-"
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