The guest
Joey Diaz: Stand-up comedian, actor, author and longtime Rogan friend; a former criminal who became a Comedy Store regular and built a comedy career later in life.
What this episode covers
Joey Diaz joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling, profane catch-up that opens with their health and recovery routines: red-light therapy, sauna and cold plunge, Whoop tracking, sleep, fasting and weight loss. Joey reflects on decades of drug use, his needle phobia, and the toll the years have taken on his body. The conversation veers into UFC history (especially Anderson Silva's debut), underground gambling, immigration and pandemic-era policy, New Jersey trivia, and survival stories about the Titanic and a skydiver. The back half becomes an emotional look at Joey's comedy origins, Mitzi Shore and The Comedy Store saving him from a criminal path, and his plan to wind down with a stand-up residency.
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Macular Support
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Whoop strap
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Salo sauna
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The guest's own work
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Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage
Joey Diaz
“I didn't know what my life was about till I read that till I wrote that book and then I read it and I was like I got to take a breather”— guest
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Tell Your Children
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A Night to Remember
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Green Book
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Leave the World Behind
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“we were just talking about about the end of the world with Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawk oh I didn't see that it was good”— Joe Rogan
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The Exorcist
“the mushrooms hit and that's a The Exorcist came on and I had to watch it and I'm like what the and I finally ran into the room”— guest
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Pulp Fiction
“I fainted in Pulp Fiction when they stuck the needle in the heart I was on a date and Boulder”— guest
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Boardwalk Empire
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Weight Watchers
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Stars of Death (edibles)
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Big reveals from this episode
- Joey claims he had 20/20 vision while doing cocaine and his eyesight fell off a cliff after he quit.
- Joey recounts a ketamine night so heavy he could barely drive the six minutes home and blacked out.
- Joey reveals he tore his meniscus by fainting off a chair during acupuncture due to severe needle phobia.
- Joey describes lying to himself for years that his dead mother had just gone away and would come back.
- Joey credits Mitzi Shore and The Comedy Store with saving his life from a path that pointed only to prison.
- Joey says he plans to end his career as a stand-up only and stop podcasting after finishing 10 spots and a residency.
Worth remembering
- A 20-year Finnish study found sauna users who went four times a week saw roughly a 40% decrease in all-cause mortality.
- Modern cryotherapy was developed in the 1970s by Japanese rheumatologist Toshima Yamaguchi.
- Ancient Egyptians, Romans and early Greeks used cold-temperature therapy as early as 2500 BC.
- After only two minutes of snow shoveling, study participants' heart rates exceeded 85% of maximum.
- Titanic chief baker Charles Joughin survived about two hours in freezing water, credited partly to being heavily drunk.
- In 1999 skydiver Joan Murray survived a 14,500-foot fall onto a fire-ant mound; the stings and adrenaline helped keep her alive.
- About 1.7% of Americans were prescribed GLP-1 medication in 2023, up 40-fold over five years (around two million people).
- New Jersey has the most horses per capita (about 10 per 1,000 people) and the highest density of black bears.
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