The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #130 - UNCLE JOEY'S JOINT with JOEY DIAZ

Episode Date: January 12, 2022

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Let's start the podcast with eight. Bobby Sagitt is dead and I don't feel so good myself. RIP to Bob Sagitt. He was a fucking great comedian. I didn't get to post my picture up with him and me smiling. When I saw everybody else doing it, I figured I went a different direction. I don't even have a picture of me and Bob Sagitt.

I was at the store for 23 years, and I met him probably in 1998 at the front bar. I was waiting for a package. He used to come up at night. A car would drop him off, and he'd stay there in front and talk to comics, and he would go up to it. And that's the first time I met him, and I found him to be fucking a great guy. I think he gave me advice because he's a dirty comic. So I went to him in 98. and asked him some questions at the bar.

And he said, I'll come watch you. And a couple weeks later, he popped up again. He said to me, hey, man, that's the way to fucking do comedy. He goes, Mitzie and you go, yeah. And we just went down the fucking hotline. And then a little while after that, he got into stand-up, back into stand-up. I'm sorry, and he would hang out down there. He was down there with us on Tuesday nights.

He did all the crazy shows. And it's a shame that the world is where it is. right now and that they found them and dog yesterday i saw a lot of great tributes for bob saget but i saw some people posting some rotten shit and like i always say the world's in a fucked up place right now i never saw that guy get high i never saw him drink i never listen i never went out with him i never did any projects with him but i knew him from the store and i knew he was a comedy store fucking savage And here's my favorite story. Like, years ago, I had HBO like everybody else.

Like, for years, I had HBO. No matter where I moved, whose house I was living in, they always had fucking HBO. And that's when I saw those Rodney things, you know, like it. I could lie. I don't know what fucking year it was. I know it was before I got locked up. Let's just say that.

Before the kidnapping. BK., right? So I saw him stand up was nowhere in my fucking world It was a Rodney Dangerfield type thing And you guys know I was always a Rodney fan So I watched it because of that And he had a great fucking set And I never knew his name

I never knew nothing And then they threw a curveball at me They fucking, he was on America's fun of his videos So I saw him on HBO talking about disasters, and now he's got a suit and glasses on. And then he was on the other show in Full House, and then Felicia did an episode of that show.

So that's how, you know, so I was always a fan of his, but honestly, I became a super fan of his when I saw him do spots at the store because he's one of me. I'm one of him, and I hope he's up there with Mitzi, fucking laughing and giggling.

Rest in peace to his family, My heart goes out to his family and his children. You know the fucking deal, guys. But I'm not going to post a fucking picture of me and him behind the car. That just, you know, it's getting crazy out there, people. We've got to show you who we're about now. You can see I switched fucking corners. My mother used to tell me, don't hang out in corners for too long.

So we switched it around. I got Bruce Lee. I got fucking me and my mom there. We got the YouTube. We got the fucking 75 shot to plot to kill for that. Adele up in northern New Jersey. I got it in the paper right there. Nobody could tell me nothing.

We got the Adam Sandler and we got fucking Spider-Ham. Spider-Man, too. That's not no way home, but fuck it. Hopefully he'll throw me a residual something. I saw you people saying that you wanted me and the Spider-Man and brought fucking hope to the world.

You know, you were supposed to have a petition. Well, it failed. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Your fucking your petition went kaput. All right, cock-suckers. Because I never got to be. to call for Spider-Man unless they're going to zoom me in there like a little picture of Milan over a chubby fucking body you know what I'm saying but now the Bob Sagitt thing that you know

it did bother me guys to the extent that A he was a comedy store guy but B that's what I always fucking dreaded listen man we're all gonna fucking die you could pick your own medicine right or wrong you can pick your own money you could die in the street with a fucking gun in your hand, you could die in your fucking bed surrounded by people who were waiting for you to die so they could steal that fucking pool table

from 1921 you got in your basement. You know those people that come as you're getting ready to die? I know we all did it one time. We milked somebody on their last leg, told them how much we loved them. We wanted to move up from the patio furniture maybe for a gold watch or something.

It's a fucking shame what people do after people die. But that's not what I'm fucking saying. Listen, I don't want to die in a hotel room. That was my biggest fear when I was doing Coke that I would die in a hotel room and you wouldn't find me for two days. My feet would get the stinking. You know what I'm saying?

You come in there and have a purple mark on my fucking heart and your feet are stinking. The people come in. What smells worse? Like, I always think about that shit. So, you know what? Knock on wood. That deters me a little bit.

But rest in peace, Bob Saggin. I mean, they'll probably, I'm not, listen to me, it's been such a fucking bad year. They're about to have, and I wish I could go, you know, this guy made my fucking career. Jeff, the piano player, Jeff Scott, rest in peace, is supposed to have a thing for him. Like on January 16th or something like that. I saw that, you know, this guy hasn't even dried yet, and here goes another soldier from the comedy store going down. So that's going to be a fucking really heartfelt. But you know what?

People need that right now. I'll tell you, if there's ever a time for that shit, it's the time right now. Trust me, I wouldn't go to that stuff. But if I was in L.A., I'd be down there Sunday night with my vaccination card, you know, honoring fucking, I'm going to find out if there's someone I can send flowers or if he left the fund to send a little money because Jeff Scott was my motherfucking dog. Jeff Scott taught me how to do fucking comedy. in the original room.

And he always stayed on me, and he gave me great advice when I was there. And when Jeff Scott died last year, guys, I was going through such a fucking hard time in my life. I never got to absorb it until about six months ago when somebody told me on the phone that they went to the store and the original room is not the same

without Jeff Scott playing a fucking piano. And I knew it. I knew it. But I never really mourned him at all. You know, me and Jeff used to just fuck around on Facebook and stuff like that. I didn't have his number. He didn't have my number.

Yeah, he called me once, but it was years ago. But I was thinking about that today, how that's going to be a fucking wild wake memorial. You know, a lot of people have fallen in the last year, you know. So I don't know what's going on. You know, I ain't got the answers. All I could do is fucking make you giggle a little bit for a half hour or so. And then you go back to the fucking world. Do you keep listening to podcasts all day long?

I know that's what I would do right now. to put a little humor in my life. I am happy you guys enjoyed fucking Stu Feiner. He's a great dude, man. He did some great fucking things. He'd have to apologize to nobody. When I stumbled upon Stu and those guys, like I said in the interview with Stu, I stumbled upon Stu and what they were doing like in 1992.

That was like August of 92. and then I went back in 93. Guys, let me be as honest as I can with you. I got a couple regrets. I don't regret nothing that I did. I think if I could do it all over again, I would do it all. What are you going to do?

But I regret not going into the Army, but listen, I would have got thrown out in three years. I would have made basic. I was in shape, but I would have got thrown. I didn't want to hear about rules. If they were taking me to Japan or something, I would have ended up in a sucky-sucky house, fucking stabbing people.

People and shit and do them blow. We all know the deal. I mean, you know, I have to fucking be honest with myself here. And I got some fucking regrets, you know. But one of them is not, listen, when I met those guys, when I met Stu and Kurt and all those guys, they fucking turn my life around. Like that, you know, that training period, those first four weeks in August were fucking phenomenal. phenomenal for a guy like me.

I had somewhere to be now from 10 to 6. You called people on the phone and harassed them. That's what I'm all about. You know what I'm saying? The more you say don't call, that's a green light for Uncle Joey. So that kind of job is all numbers. It's the more people you fucking call,

the more people and you're faxing and you're doing shit. You're just, listen, why don't I do this? Let me fax you. I mean, we were fucking nuts in that office, but it taught me how to work the fucking phone. They taught me discipline. It prepared me for comedy because it takes away your weekends. See, I was one of the lucky dudes in there.

There was 14 guys in that office. But only four of us were single. The other 10 guys had fucking mouths to feed. Kids, boats. These motherfuckers were getting paid. I mean, it was, it gave you hope. You know, the first year, like I said, I bottomed out. I was awful.

Listen, the whole time I worked there was all fucked up on Coke, you know. It's not like I was doing coke in the daytime. It was the amount of coke I was doing at nighttime. And during football season, you know, you're making money. So my party would start Friday night, you know, 11 o'clock, go to 5. You got to walk in that office at 6. You got to walk into the office at 6. And you've got to be really to yell at people at 6.30 in the fucking morning.

You grab your fucking card. But it carries, like, it just. It helped me out. I would do that and at the same time do comedy because you only work till 6 o'clock at night. And on the weekends, yeah, they had a show on Friday nights. You stayed there till midnight at 11 o'clock. But at that point in my comedy career, think about this shit, guys. I was doing comedy and working there at the same time.

I had it fucking down. So you figure I started in July of 91. I got separated in October in 91. I was on the comedy tip And then all in 92 I was the house MC At the fucking broker in Boulder I would go right from the job

To the broker like on Tuesday nights And half the guys would come with me So every Monday night Win or lose every weekend During football season The manager, the owner of that company Would take because Stu was in Long Island I was in Boulder, Colorado with these savages

Stu, this guy Kurt, would take us out every Monday night we would vote on a bar in boulder they had to have great fucking food and tremendous appetizes and we'd take over a bar like he'd get the whole back room for 17 of us 20 of us because some of the people who worked in the office would come along and we'd sit there from 7 o'clock to 11 eating drinking for free he would pick up the whole fucking tab they were very professional and it gave me hope at that time i had just gone through a divorce I was down on my dick.

You know, I was selling neon part-time whenever I fucking woke up. And this job grabbed me. And you heard the fucking hours. There was no fucking around there. You couldn't come in at 7 and go your horse broke down or, you know, your pussy hurts. No. These guys were Strong Island, strong island mentality, Jewish, very, very fucking going for the kill. You know, last weekend I had a sleep over here.

It was my daughter's birthday on Saturday. and because of the COVID thing we couldn't have the party in a pool hall or not a pool hall a bowling alley was supposed to rent but when my wife got there with the other mom the bowling alley was shut because of COVID so we just didn't want to

you know fucking throw it to the wool so we go you know if you want to pick four girls to sleep in the living room we'll lay fucking mattresses down and shit and you know we'll uh the girls can sleep in the living room

We'll get some food. I went to Chick-fil-A. I bought like 90 fucking chicken nuggets. I snuck like 10 of them in my pocket. Those fucking chicken nuggets from chicken filet are fucking top-notch. Let me tell you some, Chick-fil-A get your shit done quick. Like, don't ever fucking get the turret at that place because of a line. I don't ever like standing on fucking lines.

But Chick-fil-A, I know I'm getting my shit in six minutes. Those Christians are tip-top fucking McGoo over there. I love those Christian motherfuckers. Fuck abortion. Fuck working Sunday. You know, these motherfuckers are bad to the bone over at Chick-fil-A. I went there Friday, Saturday night. I picked up 90 fucking chicks fucking fries.

No lemonade or nothing later. They had a bunch of shit upstairs. They come back. Anyway, let's get to the story, Joy. What the fuck? So I get back and they're going to go to sleep. You know, they're up there fucking loud. I'm down here watching what I was watching the honeymoon.

That was a late Christmas honeymoon. It was on. I said, let me stay up until fucking one and watch the honeymooners. I could, you know, they'll be out cold. Fuck you. At one o'clock, it sounded like Studio 54 up in that motherfucker.

They put the TV to some music shit, like that kid's Disney. I don't even know what the song is. It's the same chick singing different songs and every song is worse than the other. But she's got a kind of a cute voice. So anyway, I heard my, I go upstairs about one.

and about three in the morning I see my wife getting up and she's got steam coming out of the ears and when she comes back she's got smoke coming out of her fucking ears

and I go what's the matter she goes you put that sleep apnea machine you can't hear with those fucking girls out there going fucking AWOL and I didn't hear nothing and she goes

let me tell you somebody I take two of them aside now there were six little girls and you know all nationalities all races but there's one that's a fucking great i love with a dead she plays softball my daughter a little jewish girl

hell on wheels that's why i love her you know what i'm saying like i don't want no fuck you know and they were all hell on wheels don't get me fucking wrong it's six nine year old it was four nine year olds one 10 year old and one 11 year old and that didn't fucking stop so my wife comes back and she goes and the girl's name is like a fucking attorney I go, she's Jewish. What do you expect? You know what I'm saying? She was talking my wife out of shit.

And then she even said my wife, she goes, you know what, I don't even like that you're in charge. I think Joey should be in charge. Fucking steam came. And then the girl goes, let's take a vote to see who wants Joey to be in charge. And three of the girls raised their hand, my wife, crack. She's like, go to bed.

I went right into the room. I didn't say a fucking word. You know, I tried to be like my mother. My mother would always, like, if I had kids over, forget it. She would embarrass the shit out of me. She'd fucking come out and ask the kid if they wanted steaks. Do they look like they want fucking steaks? And then she's like, oh, you're hungry.

Can't you just give us potato chips? No, she'd make a fucking T-bone steak before all my fucking friends with Cuban rice be. And my friend, you know, it was just embarrassing. But I liked it. I liked that she opened her home to my fucking goombas. Anyway, to make a long story short, speaking of Jews, I was talking about the Jewish people that I worked for in fucking Boulder College. Colorado. Like they were just, Stu started out here in Long Island, but the other three brothers had an interesting story. You know, Stu helped them out to get the business going. These guys opened the business out of their basement. And the first year, within the mother, they had the mother calling, you know, to get confirmations of the credit cards and stuff. And there was the two brothers. And the first year working out of the basement, they would go from upstairs to downstairs in the house.

Like they had an office and nothing like that. They made fucking like seven figures. When I heard that story, you know, that was their mentality. I remember he used to say some crazy shit at the meetings. He's like, and gentlemen, we're working Christmas. Jesus was a Jew. You know, he would say that every fucking year. But let me tell you the other hand of that.

On the other hand, if you worked an off day, like, listen, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, they had you. That's a great place to work. not only did you make money but they had your lunch they had your breakfast and they had your mid-afternoon snack so if you were hungry like at 2 o'clock you'd get up go to the back and get like a bagel with whitefish or fucking salmon they would have a whole fucking salmon out

and they would get everything flown in from fucking New York listen in my heart you know I'm all in so when they let me go to first year they knew I had a drug problem they didn't insult me they didn't say it bad to me they said come back when you get your head together, which is always very nice. They knew what I was going through. I was going through a horrible divorce.

I was trying to make fucking ends meet. There was no ends meeting. And the most frustrating thing was, I wanted to do comedy. So I understand where you guys are at when you need to work because I had attorney bills, child support. I was trying to get back on my fucking feet.

But at the same time, I didn't want none of that shit. I didn't care that I was broke. I just wanted to do fucking comedy. You ever feel like that? Like, I shit, don't fucking give a fuck. Why doesn't Allison change call me? You know what I'm saying?

Take me on fucking tour. Like, guys, I was so fucking frustrated. But then I realized what I had. I had like a paid little scholarship to take my time. I had the boulder broker, which guaranteed me a spot on Tuesday night. I had a little spot on Wednesday night. I would go at the time.

And I had a spot. That's when I was doing that fucking Italian ball with a fucking chubby dude. came out and he was a cook at first he'd give everybody Italian food and then he'd come back dressed his fucking Elvis impersonator that's what I was going through in my life so think about it I'm fucking working at the sports center I'm doing stand-up at night and my end fucking set for the week Thursday night you know how I fucking went to bed on Thursday night I just opened up for a 500 pound fat dude that was an Elvis impersonator you know

how embarrassing that was for me and I had to go back up there and close the show And let me tell you something When the show opened They had like 20 people But when the show closed They were down to four He walked everybody The food was good

But once the food was done it You're gonna take an ear beating from Elvis Not me And I would have to go back out there And say let's keep it going For whatever his name was Leonardo And I would get in my car With that small 50

And I would just want to fucking cry Because I wanted to do that Every goddamn night The second year I ended on good fucking terms With them Like I went all the way to February 3rd.

He referred an attorney for me to help me to get my daughter, to get decent visitation hours. Guy's name was Barry Seiko. Out of bold, the guy had balls of steel. But there was just so much you could do. I was spending this guy a lot of dough. You know, that year they also made me open up like an account. And what that account did for you was you started putting money in there in August.

Like you put a hundred away from me. A week. And then once you start making more money, they wanted you to take something out. Now, when was the last time you worked for an employer that wanted you to take something out of your paycheck? Because they actually cared for you. What they did was whatever you put away,

by the end of the year, they would match. So during the off-season, you had money. You know, remember, after sports, after fucking the NFL football, business tapers off by 60%. Your big bulk of the year is what you make on the NFL football, college. Right now, we're in the middle of fucking bookmaking fucking mania.

You got college basketball, pro basketball, fucking hockey, you know, football. We're going into a wildcar weekend. College football just ended Monday night. Fucking Alabama let me down the Crimson Tide those cock suppers. I rode you out for 20 years. I don't give a fuck. Again, they had like a $4.00 pool. I put it in on Monday.

I forgot who the fuck was playing. I'm into this fucking wire Me and my wife started watching a wire From scratch Listen there's nothing on TV no more I can't I can't do it guys You fucking morons Telling me to watch that show

With the three little white trash motherfuck From Newark robbing people You know that no I don't know these people You ever saw this show on HBO These three little white trash Motherfuckers in Newark They're robbing they're doing drugs You know they junkie dudes

I might have bumped into them in the 80s It's a real show It's a real show, but the dog, they lost me with the first episode when he smacked the girlfriend. Like, I couldn't watch it anymore. I'm like, then I realized it was 1980. Everybody was kicking people in the stomach. It didn't really fucking matter, but it still got disturbed. I'm like, I don't need to watch this.

I'm 58 years old. I don't need to be a guy beating up a woman. It wasn't my type of show. I already watched fucking The Punisher. You know, I've watched everything guys. You sit there at night and you watch a couple movies. There's one show that there. There's one channel that saves me all the time.

It's called this. No, it's called this. BET too, because BET always got boomerang on. At least once a week or they deliver with Harlem nights. I ain't mad at BET. Power to the people. BAT is my world because every week they either hit you with hustle and flow, fucking hustle and flow, boomerang.

The temptation is moving. No, that's always on VH1. Go, get it together. That's on VH4. They got Boomerang and they got Harlem Knights. Fucking tremendous Beatty. I love it. I love that they have those movies on.

You know, I'll watch Harlem Knights at beginning. When Eddie Murphy kills the dude, the toothless motherfucker. That's my favorite shit. Boomerang, I love to watch the Chris Rock scenes. I've seen the movie 50 fucking times. But I love the Chris Rock scene. I like when they're in the gym working out. And fucking the one guy asking.

The last of one guy if he got a piece of pussy yet, the funniest guy from a, he's a bad motherfucker. And I always forget what his name is, brother. It was Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, and the third guy. This guy was a bad, Derek, so whatever, he has three names. They're on the treadmill, whatever the fuck you call that thing, with a rower. And all of a sudden he cracks the black dude. David Allen Greer, and David Allen Greer starts rowing that fucking thing.

He's so hot, and Eddie's like, relax, relax. All that shit is fucking natural comedy. But back to what the fuck. was I talking about. We're talking about the this. The this. They got like hard times from once. They tune you up once a week.

But last week they broke my heart because Enter the Dragon was supposed to start at 9 o'clock. There was nothing else on. I went to watch Enter the Dragon. I wanted to watch just the beginning to fuck him when he smacks the Chinese kid in the head and I wanted to see when he fights fucking the guy

in the Chowin Temple. But it was something else. It was like double dragons, these white kids on skateboards in the 80. They cracked me, so I switched it. But I started watching the fucking wire. I asked my wife, if you ever watch the wire, she's like, it's been a while. I go, dog, it's been such a while for me.

I blacked out. I know one thing about the wire that Dominic Lorne Bardosie, we had him in the podcast. I do his podcast from time to time. He was on there. And I really forgot. Next time he does the podcast, that's the fucking episode we're doing. It's on the fucking wire, how he got the job. Why?

I don't know if you've seen the Y, you haven't seen the Y. I'm up to like episode 10, maybe 12. Every night we've been watching one or two episodes. Guys, I got to be honest with you. It's up there with the fucking Sopranos. I like it, but way better than I like the show on whatever with the speedheads and shit, you know, the one about New Mexico, when it down there making Mets and shit.

That was okay for me. Yeah, I didn't bite. the chump there for some reason. I'm really a Sopranos guy, but this fucking wire is making me think twice. It's re-evaluating my fucking, you know, I got overtaken by the Pisans there for a couple of years, but man,

if you haven't seen the Yire, I think it's on HBO Mac or HBO Plus, I don't know what they even called. The 1992 HBO, have you put HBO on HBO Latino, HBO family, HBO comedy, HBO fucking Russia, I'm lost with HBO. I know that I have that particular app

I used to take it on the road when I, one of my little iPads. I don't know what the fuck it is. HBO Max, that's what it is. But talking about, you know, the sports advisors, yeah, and I still remember. So 93,

I finished. And then I went back in 94. I went to work for one of their friends for a few weeks. during the summer. Ficked up guy, he broke away from them. And then my man, Kurt, called me and he goes,

hey, you can't work for that dude. He goes, how much you want a week? Because they, you know, the first year they give you a guarantee versus commission. So he asked me, I told them a number, and he goes, done. Come to work. I was like, what? So I'm going to make some money, my 94. By 94, I started gaining time on my comedy.

I started fucking, you know, I had 20 minutes. I had opened up for Carlos Monsia with the Locoslam comedy. We did a two or four cities that gave me a little confidence. I was also getting a lot more love from the comedy works. I was done. I had gotten fired from the Boulder broker the year earlier, so I was out of there on Tuesdays. I didn't have that commitment anymore.

But it was time for me to fucking move. move on. That wasn't a job forever anyway. And now I was out there doing spots every fucking night. Sunday through fucking Thursday. I was out there. Plus, McElvys gave me guest sets during the weekend. So how did you do McElvys or Wittenden? I had a bag of dick at Witsend.

Plus, I started there as a doorman. Plus, the owner didn't like me. So once I ate a bag of dicks day, he cut me off in that club. So on the weekends, I would just do four sets at McElvys. but at the same time I was starting to pick up weekend work. Bill Bower was taking me to Wyoming. Ooh, my career was on a fucking move, Jack. You know, I was doing Greeley on Thursday nights now.

I didn't have to do that fucking Italian guy's restaurant anymore. I was getting better bookings. I was making $50 a show now. So I was making a little bit of fucking money at night. And then there was this booker named David Tribble. and that's where you graduate. You know, I'm sure there's a booker around here when your band gets together.

It's not the tour of lightning. It's not, you know, the guy that, it's not Roger Graham, whatever his name is out of San Francisco. This guy's name is Louis Leapke. He's probably missing a fucking eye. He chisels you on every fucking gig. When you get there, they're not paying. They send a check 45 days later.

Each musician could only get three beers. food is full price, but fucking you're going to give shit blood if you eat it. You know, there's a thousand fucking stories. That's what it is. I know the comedy world, so I know how the comedy fucking world works, and the first year is just atrocious,

and you work for horrific fucking people. So I had been the house MC at the broker. The broker was a triple run on Tuesday nights. Wednesday you had off, Thursday, Greeley, Friday or something underneath Crested butt Cresta Butte

Cresta Butte was Friday and then you ended up in Colorado Springs on Saturday and I was an okay run and suck dick who my line to You gotta drive fucking eight hours in between

You had to hit a fucking deer So I was a house MC And he was hearing things about me And I finally had the boss To send them like a tape That August And I never heard from So I remember sending

a tape to this other comedy duo, Dana and Doug McGraw out of fucking Nebraska. I had taped this set at a club mixed. This was like a black club that was a gang club. And I would go down there every Sunday they gave me love. It was on East Kofax. Are you kidding me or what? So I would go to every fucking Sunday night. That was me and the vet from, I had.

Animal Planet were the only white dudes they liked. So we'd go down there. We'd open up the fucking show. But, you know, who was coming up then? Cedric. D.L. Eugli. You know, all these guys were getting flown in there on Sunday nights. And I was opening for them and meeting them.

Quame. I mean, I met so many fucking people that were great. Then the club ended because there was a shootout and there was no more comedy. I went up there on Monday. There was fucking those things everywhere. There was cops there. They shot two people. It was tremendous, tremendous.

Always gives that comedy room an edge. I dare you to sell out on that motherfucker. So I was having a good fucking time doing comedy. I was making money with them. Now, I was supposed to stay that year. I was going to give it a shot till Final Four basketball. I had a job. Kurt told me I could keep my job until Final Four basketball.

I was very happy. I was going to make two extra months of money. By the time I got out of that office, it would be nice weather anyway. I would go to doing comedy and delivering fucking Chinese food. And if you got to sell some Coke, we'd do what we'd do.

I was in such a hole back then, guys. I couldn't get ahead if I was selling my asshole for 10, you know, I would never get ahead back then. There was no way. I was in no fucking danger of getting ahead there. And one, I'd celebrate that. Remember that Christmas, that fucking,

I paid off all my bills, and I was waiting for, like, a check from a comedy show I did. That's what I'm talking about. I know all those fucking scams. I did, like, a show somewhere at, like, a small college, like one of those ones that somebody calls you and three people send you out there.

I don't even remember who booked me in one of those things. And when I got to, they were like, oh, by the way, we send you a check in the mail. I'm signed the W-9. I'm like, God, damn. And how am I going to get home? I got no money for fucking gas. It was those type of gigs.

I don't know if anybody's ever experienced those. There was a contest in Seattle years later. It was on Monday nights in Tacoma. A fucking tremendous room. You had a win to get a hundred bucks. I would go down there on E. I had no choice but to fucking win. And I would go up there with the energy of 10 fucking Israel fucking whatever sharpshooters.

And I'd fucking win every fucking Monday. They gave you 100 that Monday and 100 to come back to. on Monday and host, who the fuck you think you're dealing with Joy Bananas? You know, I ain't fucking around. So. Oh, I loved that. That was before I left Seattle for unwanted circumstances that we won't get into. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes you got to go.

Seattle was great to me. It was just time to move on to bigger pastures, Los Angeles. And I'm happy I fucking did. So, you know, I was scheduled to stay there. I went through a rough Christmas. I paid like a bunch of shit in the 15th. Like I said, I didn't get my Christmas money. So I had a resort to pure fucking vulgarity

and Rob fucking Toys R Us from, you know, I would go in there and, you know, what was I going to do? I took a Christmas tree. I mean, you guys have heard this. It was just a horrible Christmas. I fronted Chinese food from the Chinese place. I delivered that.

And that was the last time I had it for Christmas. I remember that the Christmas tree was, beautiful. She had a bicycle. She had, and let me tell you what's crazy. The toys that Mercy likes are the ones I used to give my daughter when she was younger. Those fucking little houses that you build

and shit. My friend Lisa brings them for her and my other friend Judy gives them to her. Their old school toys. She's got the whole village up there. I remember giving her tons of those a bike. I had I had no Scots tape so I put up the silver shit around the room

with duct tape. Yeah. It was It was just, you know, it was the last Joey Dears Christmas and bold. I didn't even know it. You know, and the New Year came, and, like, it was probably like the second week of January one night. I was not expecting it. It was freezing. And I got a call from David Treble.

And he's like, hey, it's just Joey Dears. I've heard good things, blah, blah, blah. How much time do you have? I didn't lie. I got, like, 24 minutes. He goes, all right. He goes, we're going to start. He goes, I've got to fall out in Boulder.

Why don't you go down there tonight? And he goes, if it all works out, I'll put you on the road. I'll give you some time. I don't know if you guys knew this story or not. So it was, I'll never forget, he called on Monday Night Football. We were at a bar, and he called me, and that was like the best day of my fucking life when Triple called me. If you know anything about me, that was it.

I had fucking made it, you know, in my mind. Like I had fucking made it. It's scary. But I remember getting off the phone with them. And my legs were kind of like wobbling. Like I got hitting the head with a chair. I mean, it was fucking crazy, guys. This was what I wanted.

I didn't want to be a star. I didn't want to be in movies. I just wanted triple. And then the people I told you, Dana McGraw and Doug McGraw, they sent me a file. I sent them a tape. They sent me a letter with like a $100 check. And saying that they were going to hire me.

as a co-edliner for one-fifth year show. I was like, what? I got to call him back and go, I don't have 40 minutes of material. He goes, ah, we'll burn that bridge when you get to start writing. I swear to God. So here I went from fucking

three years of fucking fighting my ex-wife, fighting her boyfriend, fucking going through a deaf, just horrible emotional rollercoaster. Every time I had to drop my daughter off, they take her, pull off and I'd sit there and fucking cry while I smoked the fucking joint and I'd get my bearings

to me and I'd have to force myself to do comedy. It was a tremendous fucking, you know, looking back at it now, I'm happy I suffered. I'm happy I put the time in because when I got off that phone with fucking David Trillow, I was ready to go. So my mission was to open up. I wish I remembered who I was opening for. It didn't matter. My job was just to go up there and do great.

And I went up there and I, listen, I knew the manager at the fucking thing. He liked me. But he also was trying to move up in the company and he wanted to do other things with Tribble. So he really wasn't going to lie to Trouble for me. You know, I didn't drink that night. I didn't do no Coke. I had everybody I knew come down. Like all my friends in Boulder to come down.

They all came down. They cheered me on. And he was like, hey, I'm going to give you a good report. I almost fucking died. And I didn't hear from Tribble the next day. I called him the next day and thanked him. for the spot, something I learned from Stu Feiner. I called them and thanked them for the spot.

Because all this shit I was learning from Stu now I was using it towards my comedy. Like I was calling people cold call. I didn't give a fuck about calling the comedy producer. You know what I'm saying? So what Stu was teaching me was going into my comedy now. And I'll never forget. I called them the next morning.

It was like a Wednesday morning. I didn't hear back from him. I was fucking hard. Heartbroken as fuck. A week went by. Two weeks went by. And I remember calling Dana and Doug McGone going, I guess I'm going up to Nebraska. And he started giving me dates on the phone.

He goes, well, at the present time, all I got is like one fucking week for a year. And it was like this awkward week. It was going to be like 90 miles of driving. Each gig, he hadn't really put his network together. But each gig was an average of 12 hours in between. So you basically had to do the gig, get in your car, and drive 12 hours to, and it was spread out. It was like, Ogallala, Nebraska to fucking, oh, yeah. Like, it was going to take me 24 hours just to get that type of fucking comedy.

And then from Ogallala, I had to go all the way up to, like, something in North Dakota. And then there was something in South Dakota. and it ended up in like 50 miles from West Virginia. That's a fucking haul, guys. I don't know. Take a look at your fucking map. Because it wasn't like now. Let me see how many miles. No.

In those days, you didn't have that app. You had a fucking whatever map. And when you looked at that motherfucker and pointed and went like that and it was six inches. And then you went over here and it was six inches. Then you went down it was six inches. All right. Every one of those inches is a fucking nightmare.

So I remember going, what the fuck. I go, Doug, can I call you back in a couple days and give you an answer on this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And out of nowhere, like on a fucking Monday night at 10 o'clock, I was at my uncle Mike Kessler's house, we were probably about to cut into a package and my fucking pageo went off.

And there was the whatever, the Idaho, because he lived in Idaho. No, no, no, no. He lived in Vancouver, Washington. And he called me up. And he's like, Joey Diaz, okay, David Trouble. And I remember I was at a pay phone. I didn't have a pen with me.

I had nothing. You know, I just answered the phone. And he's like, Joe Dears, David Tribble, I have a nice run for you six weeks in a row. I almost fucking came in my asshole. Like I was like, holy shit. This is exactly what I want. He goes, do you have a phone number? I can fax it.

and thank God my uncle Mike had driven me to the pay phone and he goes he's got a fax machine and we fucking wrote down the number and he sent the pages that night like an hour later it was like 30 fucking pages of gigs like 30 gigs

in six weeks it started with the potato run I was like what the fuck did I get myself into but I didn't give a fuck I was so fucking happy I could fucking jump out of window man I was to live my dream you know i was fucking happy what was i going to do with my job i still had to work for final four

basketball and all that shit so i was like fuck what am i going to do so i went into curate like a man the next day and i told him the truth and he said like when are you leaving he goes then quit that be your last day at least work till then get as much money as you can't put away and i fucking took care of everything of my ex-wife and i did you do that my ex-wife Because I was coming back every Sunday. There was no way I was staying out in limbo for six fucking weeks. You're out there in fucking limbo, guys. And listen, if I didn't have the situation I had in bold,

I wouldn't have mind staying out there for six weeks. That was that type of savage. I was gung-ho. It was 1995, which made me 32 years old. I had zero possessions in my life. I had a car that a guy let me money to buy I had an apartment There was no zero value

I had nothing saved I didn't have a credit card I had fucking nothing I just had this car And I decided to do fucking stand up I had a pager I had a basketball, football or frisbee I threw them all in the trunk of the fucking car

I had a blanket in there A suit I prepared myself for a road gig I remember looking at Doug Stanhope's car when he slept over my house like when I first got separated he came back as a headliner and I looked at his fucking car

and it was just tremendous I'm like he had it all sorted out and shit a little cooler so I did the same thing I copied what he did except for the hanger across the car I had like a little sting and I worked my last day for Kurt

I had some money put away that it was like fucking February mid-February that was snowy where you were and my first road gig you motherfuckers couldn't guess this if you wanted to you want me to tell you why I started

my first fucking ever road gig you ready Rock Springs Wyoming motherfuckers Rock Springs Wyoming motherfuckers that's where talent goes to die.

Now, let me tell you the funny thing about Rock Springs, Wyoming, before we get into this shit, we won't be here for long, guys. I was watching, I'm a big time fucking 60 minutes guy. I'm going to tell you if I'm going to watch it after they come out. You know how they start, this guy in Europe is selling fucking fire that you could stick in your ass.

What's his name? He's going to go visit him. And they're like, and this guy, you know, they always tell you the preview of the show before it comes. comes up, you know. And they give it to you, and I like that they tell you the truth. You always know what's going to be the first story on 60 Minutes. Well, I used to watch 60 Minutes,

and if it sucked, I would put on Fox and watch House of Buggin with John Leguizamo. A lot of you motherfuckers don't even know what I'm talking about. Look it up on YouTube, Vogueing for Congress. It was John Leguizamo and Louis Guzman and a couple fucking funny cats from New York

and Fox gave him a deal to build like a Latino in living color. And it was okay. but it didn't cut the fucking mustard. But John was good, and Louis Guzman was really good. So I was watching 60 Minutes one night. I remember I switched to watch that fucking thing specifically, and it was 60 Minutes was doing a thing about Rock Springs, Wyoming, and the problems they had in Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Now, you guys will not fucking believe this. The government had to go in. The feds, guys grew up. Google the shit. Google Rock Springs, Wyoming, Google 16 minutes. This is the type of shit that only Uncle Joey's gonna tell you.

Some guy fucking hit me like a year ago. He's like, every time I listen to John Rogan, it was always something. You were friends with a drug dealer in Aspen. I was never Steve Grable's friend. I just knew of him in his antics, and he got blown up by a car bomb

in Aspen, in Aspen, Colorado, when he was coming out of the fucking Aspen Club. I was not friends with him. I read about the legend. I had heard about him. My friend Steve Chaboney. used to make them chicken curry sandwiches on rye at In-N-Out sandwich place

in Aspen, Colorado, so I got info from him with people like, how do you come across these motherfuckers? So anyway, what are we talking about? What are we talking about? That's what the fart is. It's to throw you off a little bit. That really wasn't a tremendous fart. That was more of a rip, people.

Don't believe the fucking hype. So I got to fucking rock spring. This was a place. took from the fucking mafia. The fucking mafia was up in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Don't ask me what family. Don't ask me what organization. I got no idea.

I don't remember who the fuck they were. I remember sitting there. It all started with a pizza place. Some guy went out there for a pizza place, and if you don't fucking quote me on this, I think the feds got involved because the guy was in a witness relocation plan. And he went up to Rock Springs, Wyoming. and created fucking havoc.

There was a strip club up there. I'm never to forget pulling to Rock Springs, Wyoming, and driving down the town and fucking seeing strip club upon strip club upon strip club. So I'm like, what the fuck goes on in Rock Spring? So what I did the first time I went there, I drive to the location of the gate. I want to go see what this fucking hellhole looks like.

I got there, the hellhole was fucking great. It was just a ball with, lot of glass, you know, like people, they have the glasses up on top and the bartender. That's all I remember vaguely. Big place, nice stage, the whole thing. I go and I introduce myself. The guy looks something like I have three heads. And he goes, you from New York?

Yeah, he goes, a lot of fucking people here from Jersey and New York. Now that you said that I'll make calls, they'll all probably be at the fucking show tonight. I was very excited. I go, what do I do all day? He goes, well, you can't check into the hotel until three. So if you want, go to a strip club. down the fucking bottom of the corner. So I did what the guy told him.

He goes, he served lunch there. You get a sandwich. Tell him, we sent you. You're the comedian. They'll take care. I fucking go in this place. Creepy as fuck. It smells like spiders.

I don't even know what a spider smells like. But if a spider smelled, this is the club that would smell like the fucking cobweb. So I get into this fucking place and they're like this. Like an open or you could eat shit for lunch. And it was like a buffet. you know, it was all nasty food, but when you're fucking an opener

and you got $5 in your pot. At that time, I'm not going to lie to you. I had that money put away from the sports, but I couldn't get to that. They would send you that once a month. It was like a stipend. And I went up there, I had a couple fucking dollars on me.

How much can you have at that time? If I had $100 cash, it was burning all in my pocket. Sorry about that. It's a leftover COVID lung juice. So I'll never forget that I walk into this place and I notice something that's very fucking weird. Real quick. And now for a word for my sponsors.

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So it works out perfectly. So I walk into this fucking strip club, and I noticed something, guys. I got a sandwich. I didn't go in there to pick nobody up, guys. I had no money. I didn't have the resources, so why fuck with somebody?

They said hello, and do you want to dance and all this shit? But that's not what I was there for. So I fucking go in and I noticed something that every one of these girls is a fucking nine. This is no joke. This is not like a strip club. anywhere before that I've been.

This is a fucking, these girls are hot and young. Yeah, they look a little different. So when I'm in there, I start talking to some guy, you're from Jersey, yeah, you go to this strip club. It's still fucking 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

I had to buy a beer to sit there like an asshole. I think I drank half of it. It was disgusting. I don't know what it was. I went to the other strip club, and I noticed in there, guys, every woman in there was hot. They were like, you know,

between 19 and 10. 25, whatever. So I start talking to one of the guys in there. And he's like, I want to be fucking gangster. He's telling me all this shit that he moved from Brooklyn. He opened up the strip club with the sandwich shop. And they're telling me that these chicks, they run them out in and out of Vegas,

but they're running through Rock Springs. So after they go, like, on a tour of Vegas, like they would go, like, let's say, to the bunny ranches or one of those fucking houses, they would get fucked to debt for about six months. After the pussy's out of whack and shit, they would go to Rock Springs. They would do like, well, there was no CBD then, but I know some girl was telling me that a day

that her friend is putting together a CBD vagina scrub to get your little monkey back in shape and shit. So they would go up there, do a little folios, tighten up the asshole, get the stink off of 60 days of having disgusting sex with disgusting fat dudes like myself. I've never had sex in Vegas, but I'm just telling you that the guys are more disgusting than me. and they go up there and they kind of like rehab them from the drugs.

I was in fucking shock that I'm hearing this shit. No, this isn't surreal. This is like an episode of fucking the twilight zone for a guy like me. So finally I look up at the fucking clock and it's a quarter of three. I'm like, fuck it. I went in my pocket because they would send you a fax with the hotels that you were staying at, the bar manager, the name of the bar you were performing at, the guy's name, who was going to pay you,

how much you were going to pick up, and then, you know, the name of the hotel, blah, blah, blah, the name of the headliner. That week I didn't know who the headliner was, so I fucking get to the hotel. The guy asked me for my license and shit. I give it to him. And also, the guy goes, you're the comedian,

and yeah, he goes, we got bad news. We don't have hotel rooms. We only have one, and you have to share it with the other fucking comic. And, guys, there's nothing. I hate more than sharing a room with another fucking man. I didn't grow up with a fucking brother, okay? I didn't have no fucking brothers.

You know, the only people who slept in my house are sisters. Not my sister, but I'm saying like a woman, that's it. I never shared a bed with a man or I never was in a corner on a bed over there. It was very uncomfortable for me. But I couldn't afford a hotel room anywhere else. I mean, this hotel was shit. You could tell people had broken out of that. Like, it was just glasses were broken.

shit. When I got to my whole tower when I knocked in the door, the guy opened that he looked at me like fucking he was waiting for a pizza and that was one of the worst fucking experiences of my life on my first night of being a fucking

comic on the road. So for fucking three years I've been going out there fighting, biting people working on material I moved to New York for fucking nine months and my first triple run I got to share a fucking room with a guy. I get dressed. I go down to

the fucking gig. Not only do I have to share room with a fucking dude, but I eat the biggest bag of dicks. I even remember the fucking manager like rubbing my back like it's going to be okay. I'll give you a good report. I was ready to fucking die. But that's just to let you know

man that it was great and I'm really happy Stu called up the other day. I'm really happy we got a great time. He educated us like the way he educated me. Let me tell you how deep that fucking sports thing got me to

we're talking to my 98 I'm in L.A. I'm at the store Yeah I booked the Taco Bell commercial I ran some fucking money or whatever ran into some money and that kept me I was on fucking Coke

how long was that going to last me I blew it as fast as it came in and it was time to go look for a job and I go you know what I can't believe I'm fucking so I got a job I had to be there at five in the morning, six in the morning. It was selling screws and anchors and fucking S-hooks and eye-hooks and, you know,

just everything I didn't want to fucking sell. But when I was there, I was there for like three days. I realized they gave you a long-distance access, which you didn't have anywhere else. You had to pay for it or buy a calling card, and they had a fax machine. Now, if you guys, a lot of you guys don't know this back then, the way to get work was, to write out a month on a piece of paper,

you know, whatever, with your hand. I didn't have a fucking computer, so I would just write it out with my fucking hand. You write it out, and you would send them to bookers. You know, I'm available. It's called your avails, your availabilities. And I'd send them to El Paso, Texas, the two guys that booked Michigan.

I would send it to the improv, Cleveland, the Improv Miami, the Improv, Texas. You know, I had like, it went from a list of two clubs to like 20 clubs, and I would do this every fucking day at that nail place. This is all the knowledge that I had gotten from Colorado sports. Oh, I didn't know how to do any of this shit. But fucking, what, four years later in a complete different type of business, all those skills, and I was calling those club owners,

the way I was calling the clients. What's happening? Joey D is here. What's going on? Listen, I got 15 minutes. I'm not looking to waste your fucking time. I need a guest spot. You know why I need a guest spot?

Because once I get there, I'm going to book that guest spot, and you're going to ask me to give me more work. Am I speaking to the manager that is available to book? Talk, early on, I was already closing people on the phone. And my speaking with whoever's going to book me there, will he be there on Sunday night? I figured it out, and I created a speech wrapped around comedy book And I was doing the same aggressive stuff that they had showed me in the sports betting service as comedy bookers.

And also, I got into fucking O'Passo. I got into Kansas City. I got into fucking the Buffalo Funnybone. All those clubs, I got in from what I had learned. I just called them and fucking muscled them, cock suckers. And I'd say, I'm tough because I get, no, but let me tell you something. In the beginning, I didn't know this. In 93, what I failed to tell you, motherfuckers, was for free, I drove 16 hours, rented their own car on the fucking arm from me.

Thank God I knew a guy in national fucking car rental. He let me the car for two days. He charged me, but I didn't have to pay the full $22 a fucking mile. But I drove all the way to fucking New Mexico, stayed in my car. The guy let me stay in the condo that night. I drove all the way back. And do you know what? He gave me three weeks.

I was very proud of that. I booked three weeks. I went up there. I earned it. What good were the three weeks I booked right before I was going to do them. All three clubs were not a fucking business. Phoenix, New Mexico, and Minneapolis

all fucking went out of business. And that's where the House of Comedy is today. See, you learn something on Uncle Joey's joint, cocksucker. So ever since that time, I think I did a guest set in Michigan when I was there to do Joey's. I went up there, I killed.

And when I got off stage, I went up to the guy, I go, so when can I have a guy? have a date and he goes, I'm not the guy that books the room. I'm going to God damn it. So now I made sure before I came in and did a free fucking set for you on a Sunday night, that the comedy booker was there. You don't want to miss this.

And I would talk to him that way, guys. That's how fucking out of my brain I would be. You don't want to miss this. I'll be Doniv and trust me, I ate a lot of bags of dick. I ate a bag of dicks in the South Bend Funny Bone that was embarrassed. And I can never even watch Notre Dame ever again. But it didn't fucking matter. I muscled them with what Stu, the system he had put together.

I wish there was a way I could teach you, motherfuckers. Maybe we'll bother Stu and see if he'll do like an online class and teach people how to be a fucking savage. It's like the wolf of Wall Street. I was thinking about that as I was talking to him. I'm like, this guy's got to do fucking inspirational talking and teach people the steps to fucking close people. You know, most of these motherfuckers walk around

and don't know how to close a motherfucker. That's what he taught me how to close a motherfucker, not think of you. Yeah, well, I think about it. Fuck, you think about it. I'm here. Either give me the fucking Getus or tell me no. Anyway, that's January the 12th.

It's a beautiful motherfucking Wednesday, as you could tell motherfuckers, I'm feeling good, I'm looking good. I can't even start to tell you how bad a fucking shape I was at this time last year. I was just coming out of surgery, down here drooling, eating fucking those oxycodings,

which almost killed me. me, but I did it with your help, betterhelp.com, and I still talk to them. I feel fucking great. As you guys could tell, I started taking my alpha brain. They were in a new year. The first week of the podcast was a little off. I think I was still recovering from COVID brain, but I'm not here to apologize. Fuck you, motherfucker's Uncle Joey's back. It's 22. We're changing things around. We're making different videos. And, you know, it was just, I was in a bad place, guys. I'm happy I opened up about it. Told you guys where I was going through.

It made it easier. It opened up a lot of doors for me. And here we are today. Wednesday, January 10th, ready to sling dick and give out fucking chopsticks like a motherfucker. That's it and that's that. We'll be back Monday morning. Tip Top McGoo.

Do not forget you got the wild card this week and got a lot of shit going on. You got Patreon, $5, $10, whatever the fuck you want to throw. We're back building over there. We're working on. album of the week. We're working on figuring out a way how we can blow smoke through your fucking speakers and get you, no, we're not. We're just trying to be better from all angles. As you can see here today, we switched everything around. I got some new pictures here. And a new picture, new year, new attitude. After Mike leaves today, I'm going to kill a few chickens

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