The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #804 - Joey Diaz on Change

Episode Date: July 15, 2020

Joey Diaz talks about some disturbing things he's seen recently, an important decision he made and why he made it, and he also has a special announcement about new content! This podcast is brought to you by: Express VPN - Get 3 months free at www.expressvpn.com/church Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout on your first order.  

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Wednesday, cock suckers. We're here. We're queer. You know what I'm saying? What do you want from me? Things are bad all over. Thank you for watching me on the fight companion. We had a great time.

Fights were great. The whole fucking thing. It was great to see Joe. You know, it's tough right now because we don't see. I haven't seen Theo since February. I haven't seen Tom. I saw Sickle one time. I haven't seen anybody.

I see Lee. I see Steve Simone, you know. But I didn't want you guys to think, we don't see anybody, you know. I haven't seen the lies. I haven't seen, you know, Ali Wong. I don't know what these people are doing. I try to check in with as many as I can. But it's overwhelming.

What's going on right here in L.A. I know that Texas is on fire. Arizona's on fire. Florida's on fire. My heart goes out to you. You know, we're on fire. We'll probably be on level one by Thursday. That's a reality.

By tomorrow, we'll be on level one. I mean, that could be a reality. So things are looking bleak out here. Today, you know, I go for my little afternoon ride. I do a bunch of shit in the morning to stay busy. And then I come over here. I check the office. Make sure the gate is closed.

And I went out to the main street here, Lancashire. And I was telling Leah, I had to tell you guys, I'm parked at the light on mind of my own business. It's maybe 2.45. I'm sitting there at the light on the second car behind the car. And all of a sudden, because I'm headed towards, like, you know, there's a train station there that's always been a little bit on the fucking evil side. You know what I'm saying? Every train station is a weird. This one is not bueno.

They sell tamales, you'd shit blood for a week. The pork had splinters in it. What kind of fucking pork had splinters in it? It's a shady fucking place. I used to walk my wife there when she worked downtown. I would walk her every morning because it was that shady, you know? And I'm watching out of my left eye, and I'm seeing a commotion, guys. And next thing you know, I see a guy go down.

What? Just go down, like four, bam. He fell from the same. sidewalk to the street and he was holding on to his head. Oh no. And then a guy, a lady was waiting for the bus but she was looking towards me.

She didn't even see it coming. And he clocked her in the head with an axe with no axe on it, just a handle. He clocked her in the head. Then he clocked another dude on the rib. That guy went down and then he started to proceed to hit this guy and this guy ran away

from him. Now the light turns green were about to move and this guy runs across the street and the guy with the axe handles chasing them across the street and they go into the train center they're sprinting so i make a fucking you turn you know me i'm batman i'm gonna intercept this guy hit him with the car this is my excuse right here this is my big chance to shine right because one of those you got to hit those guys with a fuck and i'll just run them over with the Subaru at this point i'll be in the paper tomorrow joie dears is a hero he saves a life at him of the door Yeah, I was going to hit him with something

So I made a U-turn And I cut down the fucking alley Because he was running down The train street Right there What did he look like? What did the guy with the axe? White, 5 foot 8

Homeless or not? He looked a little homeless He looked a homeless He had like a leather vest on I taped the Warriors I haven't watched it yet So he had like a little leather vest on And

like brown pants And I fuck you And when he hit him, the chubby guy ran first, then the guy ran after him with the axe handle. And the two security guys ran after him with fucking walkie-tokies. What good are they going to do? They're chasing him.

So I make the U-turn. I shoot down the fucking thing. I'm driving the same way he's going. I'm figuring I'm going to fucking meet him right there. But he runs the other way. Now he doesn't have the axe handle no more. And when I went to look, the guy that he, He was chasing, was on the floor.

There was blood all over his fucking head. He was on the floor already. He must add him two or three times with the X handle. But he dropped the axe handle, so his fingerprints around it. So he ran down. I chased him, but he made a left into the fucking bus terminal. Like he went around the corner. Right.

Back towards the train. Like, they weren't going to see him. This guy's nuts. Jesus Christ. But this is happening, you know, eight blocks from my house, three blocks from the office. And then I went on Venturable. I had to go to the bank and fucking deposit the I got like those residual checks from stupid movies and TV shows those penny oh $2 and 15 cents they've been sitting there for a week

I figured I had to take a ride right you know when you're just sitting there I'm looking at these three checks between the three checks they add up to 10 bucks okay it's like two 15 but I'm not just going to throw them away bro 10 dollars is 10 dollars there's a lot of people who need 10 dollars Who the fucking might have throw away? So I'm like every dad do something different. Like you know what's on my list tomorrow? What? Getting gas.

Like, you know, when you have getting gas on your list, you know things are fucking slim, okay? So I'm getting gas tomorrow. So I can't make any plans because then I close the camp. Right. Oh, no, no, but I don't want to forget. You're on Ventura. I'm on Ventura.

I'm minding my own business. Right. What's our favorite Chinese restaurant? Sushi didn't? No, Chinese. Oh, Chinese, green apple, I'm sorry. Dog, on the corner, a guy totally naked, waving at people. Now, tell these people that neighborhood.

That's unlike here. That's a nice, white neighborhood. Cross the street from White's Deli. It's like the Beverly Hills of the Valley. Guys, it's like the Beverly Hills of the Valley. And there's a naked man on a corner, and nobody's talking to it. Just doing, like, yours, like the vote for me away? Yeah, like nobody's beeping at them.

Nobody's existing is existing. You don't see some of the stuff like that in LA every once in a while. It's crazy. Now, something happened. Okay, guys, if I walk out the language, if I walk out to the hunger, the hunger is right down the corner. There's a fire department, then there's the health department. That area by the health department, guys, it's so bad at night. So there's a new hotel across from the health department that's fucking empty.

They built that hotel for like 18 years. years and they opened it like March 1st right for Corona the grand opening was like March 16th they've been empty you go in there right now you get a room for 10 bucks it's a beautiful little hotel and next one is a coffee shop and next one is a Lutheran church okay and I don't know nothing about Lutheran people and across from the Lutheran church is a Lutheran school that belongs to the church it's called St. Paul's when my wife was looking for a daycare for mercy. My wife went everywhere, but all these people around here served like goat cheese

and shit to your kid. So my wife didn't want that for my child. You know, they were all like fucking, oh, they eat sushi for lunch or brown rice. My wife said, what happened to fuck on apples? Yeah, what happened to the burglary? They were all very like monaget-tois type places, you know? So my wife settled on St. Paul's. And my personal experience with them, I loved them. I don't care if they're Lutheran, Jewish, Catholic.

I don't even know what a Lutheran is. But the point being, I've trusted my daughter with them for two or three years. I think Mercy went in there at one and a half, and she got out of there when she was five. She's basically family over there. One of the girls sleeps at my house three nights a week. I don't even see her. I don't even see her. She comes and after I go to bed, and she wakes up at six and leaves.

takes a shower, helps my wife out, she's great. Father is the principal. And then there's another teacher there that hangs out with my wife. These are good people. These are great American people. They're white people, but they ain't bothering nobody. So this church is stuck next to this fucking neighborhood that, you know, that back street there,

where the Buddha's Temple is, and that other Lancashem School, that Lancashem School is where they did the Jacks Teller. When Jacks Teller did, when they did the school shooting in Sons of Anarchy, that's the school they use. It's behind that street next to a karate school behind NoHo Dina. So all that is that area there. It's really bad.

One day I saw a guy laying on his stomach drinking water from the fire department was washing their truck. He was licking the water from the floor. Yeah, just so you guys know, this is all, this is within walking distance of that train station we were talking about and the Greyhound station. And there's a Greyhound station that's horrible. And those people that sit out there, it closes at 6 o'clock at night, and it reopens like at 4 in the morning. So those people just walk around the fucking neighborhood and they go to NoHo diner, and No Hodina serving outside. You know, Nohold diner is a scary place. Oh, yeah.

Like when you go in there at two in the morning, you better, you pray for your life to don't get robbed because they're close to the 170. I don't like that place. I love yum yum donuts to get a donut. But as far as fucking going in there at night and sitting there and writing jokes, it's never going to happen. They're going to get hit one day.

You know what I'm going to? It's right there off the 170. So, do you see something over by the church today, too? So, no. So my point is, the church is across the street from how big is the park, bro? Few football fields. Remember, there's two parks.

There's no whole park. Then there's a park across the street. And they have a library. They have tennis courts. They have a swimming pool. Baseball field. A baseball field that's huge. A rec center.

And then behind, they have a skateboard camp back there. And on Thursdays, they do food trucks. And there's hundreds of people there every week. They have, you know, a lobster truck and fucking Thai food and Puerto Rican food. Sometimes they have. They do. They really do. They have Puerto Rican food.

I look at it every Thursday. I used to go. We used to go. We used to go. We used to go on Thursday nights when my daughter went to St. Paul. We would pull her out. Anyway, back to St. Paul.

So the lady comes over one night, and she's telling my wife that the school has been fucking crazy lately. We're all wearing masks. We're in the front of the house. We're outside. And we're talking about St. Paul's, and she's telling us how the school's been crazy

over there later. that. They woke up, they opened up the school and there was a homeless guy in the school. They had to call the cops and the cops had to come and the guy refused to go. And then another guy broke into the homeless school and they took a shit. And then they defaced the property. Again, if you've ever seen the episode of Sons of Anarchy with Gemma, when Jimmy Smith confronts Gemma after he finds out that she killed Jacks Tellers'

wife, there's gates. You'll see it. The first scene that she does when she calls Jimmy Smith, she's at that church. The second scene, she's in front of the daycare center. I feel like you might have seen Sons of Anarchy. You guys ever seen Sons of Anarchy. It's the episode when Jim went towards the end. It's like either the last two episodes, she shoots all day. Then she says goodbye to the kid, the grandson, and they shot that scene across the street at the baseball field. So there's a ton of, room there, guys. My point is there's a ton of fucking room in that area

that's in any way you want. So the other day, I wake up and my wife goes, do you see what's going on right now? And I go, no. What's going on now? Another fucking guy got shot or something? What the fuck happened now? She goes, St. Paul's is on TMZ.

It's trending on TMZ because an African American woman sat under one of the trees and they have no trespassing. Oh, that was there? Did you see that? Did you hear about it? I mean, yeah, you see that one side of a video here. But here's the thing. Did you just watch the video? Yeah. You know, like the guy told her, you know, they're like fucking old white people over there. They're not there looking for problems or anything like that.

I don't think they explain themselves right. Like, you don't understand what having a ton of problems here with people breaking in and we just don't want anybody on the property. We feel uncomfortable with you on our property. I actually had someone pull something on me recently with this. Like, it's a very similar thing. My car just got broken into in my apartment complex. And I have a, my apartment complex has like a gate to get to park in a garage. And there's this big Mexican dude with a truck pulled up at the front of the gate and said,

hey, I'm going to have to see my grandma. Can you open the gate for me? I said, you know what, man? I'll go grab her for you if you want. apartment is she in and he wouldn't do it and I was like he's like oh no let me just come in I'm like no you know what I'm sorry I can't do that but I'll I'll go grab her for you and he he even he said to me he said is it because I'm Mexican I said that I he didn't know that I broke up with Paul I said no I'm I did a Mexican girl I just can't let someone into the apartment and he's he

he back he gave up and he left I don't think he actually was seeing someone in there but it is it's it's a really big topic right now so people get upset but it doesn't like Like when people say, are you racist? It feels like it's like a kind of an attack. Like it feels like you're being attacked almost. Well, it's very scary. They're called agitators. Okay, now we're seeing what's called agitators.

And you church people are seeing it. You guys are seeing it. They're just agitators. They just go out and they go from Dean Kane to, and they agitate. And they try to shake people's tree up, you know, and it's a shame. I know those people at St. Paul's. They did not deserve a write-up. Now, do you know the back end to that?

No. Then they got protesters there on Sunday. Guess what they did? They invited them in. Oh, that is. And they invited the African-American girl to church there to see what they're all about. And now they're good. But they got ripped through the fucking mud for no reason.

I mean, yeah, there was a reason. The girl took it wrong. You know, they told the African-American girl she couldn't sit there. And guess what happened the next day? I went over to the check on them. There was a white guy sitting on the lawn just to see if they would come out and bust their ball. Oh, you think so? I know so.

That's the degree of what's going on right now. Yeah. That's the degree of what's going on right now. Now, when you see it on the news or you see it happening somewhere else, you go, wow, that could happen. Guess what? It's happening here. We just went to level two, right? Well, level one or two.

I think we're back down to level one. because they closed everything. They closed pretty much everything. People are refusing to close. We got a state that's fucking divided here. Orange County was on the California. It's on the L.A. border. Orange County wants to open their schools with no social distancing and masks.

You know, listen, guys, 4% of people getting COVID kids under 10. You know, the percentages are fucking wild, you know. The problem with those kids is that shit spreads with those kids. I get both views. Listen, I don't want my daughter at home all fucking day. She's got to go to school. But I'm also concerned about the teachers. You know, they have families.

They go to places. You know what? The teachers have to live in isolation too. But at the same time, a child can't spend five hours a day on a computer learning. It just doesn't comprehend. It doesn't flow right. They need the socialization. they need to see other kids their rates.

I've said it a thousand times they speak their own fucking language. I mean, so you've had her at home since, like, four or five months. Do you see a difference with her? Did you see a difference with the end of the school year? I saw, first of all, I'm no fucking doctor. The first month, March, 16th, through April 1st, I saw a kid that didn't really know what was happening, you know? She didn't really know what was happening around there.

She didn't understand why she wasn't going to school. You know, we had the news on that night, and she would pop out from time to time, and she started asking about COVID. And then she, you know, they're not stupid. They're not stupid. They listen. Just because she's playing her fucking Nintendo Switch in the living room

doesn't mean she's not listening to her 894 debts reported today in fucking New York City. She heard all that. then by April you know we figured we got it down early we got the process down early you know I saw what my wife

was doing I go whoa we're doing it wrong when they go to school in the morning we take her there at 8 but she doesn't go into the classroom until 825 you know when they do that then let them get their yaya's out

that first burst of fucking energy from the cereal you got to assume they had Captain Charcular and they're ready to strangle the motherfucker so that's what I assume in the morning is that she's ready to strangle the motherfucker, which if you see her at 815, you know she's ready to go.

So at 815, we had to take her out, guy. And guys, you know I've been through hell in my life. You don't know what hell is, too. You have to keep a kid occupied. That is high energy. She's not a bad child, but she's very high energy. So you have to keep her, you know, she's smart, man. And you have to challenge her mind from time to time.

So every day we had to go to, we had different parking lots. Parks were closed, so we had to go to fucking parking lots. We had a whiffaboard bat. One day, one day we had tennis with those little fucking butterflies. Oh, yeah. We brought hula hoops. You should have seen me hula hooping. I'm not a good hula hooper.

You know what I'm saying? My hula hoop days are over with, you know, we bought bikes. She had a bike already. We taught how to ride a bike. That was good. for about three weeks, then that obviously got old, you know. Kids were hidden. We would take them to the park, and they were still not known what was going on,

so there was no kids in our lives. And then we started figuring out the Zooming for them and FaceTiming. So she started FaceTiming with two or three of her friends, and then thank God one of the mothers is a nurse at a major hospital, and she broke down everything for her. she got us masks. I mean, I grew up and I feel like I was a nervous kid.

Do you see her being anxious or nervous? No. She's, I'm looking at her very closely. You know, I wanted to stay healthy, but kids need kids. I'm not a psychologist. I'm not a doctor. I know me.

And I know how I was at that age. Yeah, I had my problems when I was young. You know, at first I was very insecure. My dad had died. You know, I'm building models. I'm staying in. Then my mom pushed me out there. And then once she pushed me out, there was no bringing me back in.

Like, once I discovered the world and the freedom I had, you know, my wife and I were talking last night about something. And I go, we were talking about my friend that his daughter walks to the pizza place in Jersey. I go, can you believe that? He lets her go to the pizza place. Like, that's big, you know? And she goes by herself. She's 12 with her friends. You know, and my wife was like, what were you doing at that day?

I'm like, at seven, I remember still walking six walking 30 blocks. My mom thought I was in the fucking blocks. Yeah, like into Harlem to buy hot pants by James Brown at Mercy's age. That's an narrative of two kids that are both six or seven. I think police would stop you now. Yeah, now. And we had beat cops then. There were cops on the fucking beat.

You know, so I don't know what the fuck this is. There were cops on the beat, so yeah, I didn't know what to expect. But right now, this is just, this shutdown is just not working. I mean, I know in Arizona, I don't know how you people are doing, Texas and in Florida. I mean, you know, we're not going to recover from this for two years. There's no recovery. All you have to do is take a ride tomorrow and to Mount Rose. all you need to do. Tomorrow at 12, take a little VW bucks there and go over the fucking hill.

Just go to Joe's Pizza. Go down to Melrose, down on Crescent Heights, and make a left and come back home on the 101 and call me. And you let me know what you see the future like in L.A. It's not good. The Comedy Store's not coming back for a while. I hear rumblings about the Laugh Factory. Rumblings are out already about the Laugh Factory. I know the improv will never close, but they're not opening in the foreseeable future. Yeah, I mean, the only thing that's saving some of these other places is, like, the parking lot shows, and we don't really have parking lots, no in Hollywood at least. Like I said, you know, I talked to Alonzo Bowden yesterday, and he said he did a couple of guests at the Hoyer, and it was great, but it was like crack, like exactly what I told you.

I don't want to go on stage I can do it every night for me to just go I can go on stage tonight you and I both know there's a place we go on stage tonight a couple people

have open mics I could go I could go every night if I wanted to I just can't I just can't right now first of all I gotta stay safe

there's a lot those open mics are kind of dirty they don't you know because they're trying to hide them the door is closed so you're in there breathing with nine or ten people

so that's not good right there So, you know what, when we're ready for stand-up, we'll be ready for stand-up. That's it, no big deal. I mean, yeah, guys, I'm mourning a little bit. When you see me now, I'm happy. I could swear to you guys, there's no depression, there's no nothing. I'm fucking happy. I'm okay with this.

Everybody's losing money. I've accepted it. Life is not about money. It's about being happy. I've accepted all this shit. The comedy part about not going out at night. I'm having a little hard time with it. It's starting to bother me now.

It really is eating away at me a little bit. Not enough to hit somebody in the head with an axe handle. Not enough to yell at my wife. None of that shit. Like, we'll cool, me and my wife, the baby. The house is stronger than ever. It's just I don't see a good future here. So now I got to make my decisions, you know.

After this shutdown, this shutdown, we don't. did not need. I could have gone all summer. We could have gone all summer how we were doing recovery, but this shutdown just destroyed us. And let's be honest, this shutdown is going to be until November to the election. They're going to shut us down to do the mail-in fucking whatever. The mail-in voting, oh, that's the scam, that's a word on the streets, or I've accepted it. Nothing I could do. Today, yesterday morning, I got a call at 9.30 in the morning. I got to call at 9.30 in the that my Philadelphia date, October 24th that I was fucking looking forward. Because, you know, I go to the Parks Casino.

I get there on Thursday. I do nothing but eat that week. Let me tell you, when I save my way. When I go to Philly, I save my Weight Watch at bonus points. I live like a skeleton all week until I get to Philly. I hit the Philly. I got 45 points to kill, plus the points I got for the day. And I use every fucking one of them.

I love Philadelphia and all my fucking art. that breaks my fucking heart. They have canceled live events in Philadelphia until February of 2021. Are you fucking kidding me? How many places are going to survive? You know, helium, I love that guy. He's got all those clubs, but that's, how is he going to keep the doors open until February? You know, I mean, this is what's actually going on.

I just got a call tonight. from a dear friend of mine, but another friend of mine that's struggling. And I explained to him that after this closing, our friend cannot mathematically make it. He cannot mathematically make it in the business that he does. What he's doing right now is breaking even. If they force him to close again,

he hasn't paid rent in three months. This is all, and the rent's got to be all paid in full by September 1. Mathematically, he cannot do it. What he could do is cut a deal with the landlord, make payments so it doesn't turn into a judgment. So nobody goes to court and move on with his life. I mean, the sadness I have is that think of how many people have to close their business, look at each other and go, is this worth to hemorrhage? We worked for 30 fucking years to get to where we are.

And we can either stay open because we have loyal employees, or we could either stay open because we have loyal employees, or we could give our employees a loyal little check and close this motherfucker out. And you know already, you've read the people that have closed in Hollywood already. You've read the fucking places, 60-year-old places. All over the country, that's all the news everywhere. And I think both sides are our fault.

But to me, I think the saddest part about this is it shows how divided, I think, a lot of people are. Because if we all, as a country, agreed to just shut down for two, three weeks, this would be over. But because some places are different than other places, it's going to be, I think it's going to go on for, could go on for years. I see it once, I mean, when you go on Ventura Boulevard,

you don't see, you see it. You see it a little bit, but you don't feel the gloom you do as much as when you go to Hollywood. This is what I'm trying to say. I'm sorry about, you know, telling you, Listen, guys, they can't all be fucking hilarity podcast. Some of them have to be realism. We have to be real with one another.

I told you guys March 16th that this was going to give people time to think, well, this fucking lockout. This next one, this last one, the one that got issued Tuesday, yesterday, this one, this one broke me. Well, part of it. like, well, whatever about it. My daughter's not going to be able to go to school. We got camp to August 12th. If they shut the whole city down, then we have no camp. And basically, we're only living here to do a podcast.

There's no film. There's no TV. Not that that's what I'm interested in at all. At all, am I interested in that? I just see that. we have to make a move. I don't know where it's between Telly Ride, Austin, Texas.

I mean, I've been thinking about a lot of places I have a dear, dear friends and Ari, Colorado, and Gunnison, and it's fucking beautiful on the western slope. But Colorado's only going to go to school in September to teach their kids how to fucking do homeschooling. So that's the fucking situation I got. Listen, sometimes you guys got to hear my fucking problems, too.

All right. That's not all about you cock suckers, okay? I come on here. I level my heart out for you. Sometimes I got to tell you what's going on here. Just so you know the real fact about fucking what's going on here in California. I don't know how you're feeling. I talked to King Condom today.

She's in Florida. You know, she said she did a couple gigs. It was nice to talk to her, you know. That's one of the saddest things for me because I... She was thinking of coming back here. She called me. We've been playing phone tag, and I called her, and then today she picked up,

and she goes, I want to know if you think it's worth it for me to come back to October, November. I go, I don't think nothing's going to be here for you. I think you're away in New York. Like, you know, word on the street is the numbers are ticking back up in New Jersey. I don't know about New York. I haven't heard New York. I heard it's clean up in northern New York. They're going to open up a few schools, or they're going to try or something.

I don't really know. I don't really know what's going on. I know that if I go to New York, I'm quarantined for two weeks. That I do know. As soon as you get there, you can't leave for two weeks? No. You can't anywhere from Arizona, Texas or Florida. When you go to New York, you've got to quarantine yourself for two weeks.

Wow. That's good. I mean, that's what you were talking about with Rogan about Jimmy in Korea. It's like these places that take it seriously and quarantine you, Like you saw, do you see the NBA player who got in trouble had to go back into quarantine because he got takeout food? No. You got food delivered to the bubble.

Listen, I tried to tell you guys that that bubble for basketball, that's going to be very rough on them. That's going to be very, very rough on them. But that's what we need. My heart goes, no, no, no, no. We need sports to help the economy. We need sports entertainers. I mean, obviously they're not shooting anything new.

They haven't figured it out. but at the same time you want safety yeah okay you're putting a bunch of millionaires in a bubble and i think their families are with them or whoever they want them they're with them but besides that they're in a bubble remember it's a lot different me traveling with you and playing with you than me traveling with you playing with you and living with you that creates a different type of environment. I don't know how many weeks it's going to be. I think after four months. It's going to be very fucking tough.

So you mean to tell me, I don't know how many teams are in this bubble. You mean to tell me as a smart American that Zion Williamson, the rookie sensation and I hate to put it this way, but I have to, just so you people understand where I'm coming from, you're

going to look me in the eye and tell me that Zion Williamson isn't going to sneak out to get his dick suck. It's hard to... That's what you're telling me, that one of those NBA players doesn't have a dirty white chick waiting for him in Orlando, because that's a home of dirty white chicks. It's Orlando. That's a capital.

Tons of dirty white chicks looking to suck dick in Orlando. They must be flocking there if they knew all the entire NBA is there? Yeah, they must be flocking there. So think about it. And I'm not trying to be a wise ass. I'm not trying to crack stupid jokes. I'm just trying to be it from a logical perspective here. Do you really think these guys are going to stay in there every night?

Have you played sports? Have you ever traveled with that sports team? The first thing you want to do as a kid is sneak out. When I played bitty basketball, all that shit, I heard stories of fucking those guys sneaking out and buying beers and getting caught and putting sleeping pills and the coaches, milk. And, you know, this is what you did.

You snuck out. You're a kid. How am I not going to have a good time in the hotel room? This is what you do. so you mean to tell me I don't know how many teams are there but each one of these guys is gonna play basketball and stay in

and that's all they have to do is bad I mean they've been less to do than we do that's it they built amusements for them in there there's shit for them to do in there so they're not bored I mean we've all been in our homes for the last four months

how fucking bored are you they start organizing how fucking bored of most of you people that are fucking working from your house living at your house getting food delivered to your house how fucking bored are you at one point of the day do you actually feel like crying sometimes for me it's seven o'clock every night at seven o'clock i want to shut it to you as soon as i hear the first key to dun dun dun dun jeopardy i just want to fucking put my hands between

my head and hold them and cry. But I don't. I don't. I look up and I go, you know what? We're going to work this thing through. You know, I feel. I feel terrible for America right now. There's people who are really fucking struggling. I know somebody who had a nervous breakdown last week.

Got to go to the hospital. I'm a great lady. Dear friend of mine. It's just too much. It's overwhelming. Another friend of mine, his mother-in-law had so much anxiety that she dehydrated.

Something happens to your whatever levels of something. They had to rush her to the hospital to get like an IV because you're, whatever gatorate fucking supplies. Electrolites. Electrolites. Something was off in her body. So, you know, I mean, this is what's going on with people. People are drinking more than ever.

Well, like, that's why it's interesting you talking about the kid earlier. I'm very lucky that the only person I have to worry about is myself. I can't imagine having the stress of just me. And then not only do I have to worry about my kid, but I have to teach her too. I have to be now I'm in school. Like on top of this. Listen, I don't mind. I had to read a bunch of shit and reacquaint into myself.

But what if you had to work all day? She's had a dog. Dog. There's parents right now that are banging their heads on the law in America. There are parents right now that are banging their heads on the wall because who's going to watch these kids? You got three kids. You work and I work. How are we going to fucking do this?

So my heart goes out to those people. There are parents right now that are going, holy fuck if my kid doesn't go back to school. And I was talking about some stuff earlier, but the other side of it is how sad is it that we can't trust our government? I'm not saying that this is a fake or a hoax, but there's at least a chance that this is fake. It doesn't sound crazy anymore to say that. I grew up trusting the president, the police,

there's at least an inkling that we can't trust what they're telling us. Well, America is on a crossroads right now. You know, America's at a crossroads with the police. America's crossroads with African Americans. Americans and the crossroads with Latinos went to crossroads right now. And this crossroad could leave to a civil war. You know, there's a lot of African American hate crime now

on other people. The videos have been posted. You know, people feel unsafe, uncertain. You know, when... Why it's going to be skisking? Scary is because why I got scary as a human being. When my heart turned black, that's what I used to steal. When my mother died, I thought the world turned on me,

and the government turned on me. They wanted paperwork for me to get money that was supposed to come to me, from my father and my mother. So all those things broke down. So I'm reliving it. I'm seeing people go through what I went through at 16, losing their job, losing your mother, losing a wife, losing a child, losing your job that you've been doing for 20 years.

People, cameramen, directors, ADs, you know, all those people, people who went to school for editing and been out here editing for 20 years. They're not shooting nothing right now. Right now they're sitting at home tidily winking, you know. Yeah, what about the kids on the other on who just graduated college? What about those kids? And those two ones are coming through. What about not having a graduation?

You know, all these things are weighing on people. So yes, you're non-trust in the government, your confusion, and the morning of the death of you not having a job, you know, two weeks you lose your benefits. I mean, I hate to be fucking Joey Downer. But yes, this weighs on people. The reason why we do the podcast is so you understand that you're not the only one. I'm telling you guys, you're not the only one.

So please, listen, like I said it once, I live by these saying, never see a booking with a part-time job and there's no debtors prison there was a time when I thought my world was over and it was just starting it was just starting and it was 29 years ago tomorrow so 29 years ago tomorrow I started comedy you know I did something that I never thought I would do it was a changing of the guard it was uh I was at the crossroads I had a job I had a job It paid me with good money. I had a truck. I had a fucking cell phone.

I had a cool, cush job. I could, you know, you know me. I still woke up at 6 and did the whole thing. But if I was a regular guy, I could get there at 11 and measure some roofs. Not me. I got up at 6 and went down there and helped with the roof

and the supplies and I went and did my bids and all this shit. I had it. But I had one day I thought about it. I'm like, this is it. This is it. So I'm 65. and they give me a gold watch for being the estimator of the year. This is what I'd live for.

This is what my mother for. There's got to be more. There's got to be more. 29 years ago, yesterday, this is where I was. Right now, it's probably biting my fingers right now, thinking about stand up, how I was going to fucking fail, how this was going to be embarrassing, who the fuck was I?

I had the worst thoughts going through my head, which are the same thoughts I got going through my head when I get on stage now. Who the fuck do I think I am? I'm a bum. Why am I even going down there? And I got a laugh at me. And I got off that fucking stage

and the owner of the club said, great job. You had great stage presence. And people spoke to me and next thing you know, people were shaking my hand. I was talking to different people. And I felt like fucking Karen at the wedding, at the Goodfellers' wedding.

Remember she was overwhelmed. There was so many Peters and Paulies in the room. I didn't know what the fuck was going on, you know? I mean, the next thing, you know, I'm driving home with this woman who was my wife at the time, and I'm thinking, how am I going to do this for a living? How am I going to do this for a living? 29 years ago, tomorrow, 29 years ago right now, I was probably biting my fucking nails, pissing my fucking pants, crying like a pussy, guys.

Can you believe that? that on this night 29 years ago I wish I could actually remember what I was doing but if you know anything about me I was probably having beginnings of anxiety

I didn't think I was doing coke when I got into comedy I really took it seriously I did coke months later once my wife left there was no reason not to do coke you know what I got the whole house to myself I could crawl I could play

John Rambo, I could look out windows. But when I got into comedy, I was pretty serious. I think I was just smoking dope. Because I had just gotten off pissing in a bottle. And something happened. Like, I was like, you know what? If I had picked up all this responsibility at work, so I was getting out like maybe once a week.

It wasn't like, so I was still focused. You know, the baby was, I had a baby daughter at the time. She was a year and a half. I'm like, what the fuck am I going to do? I thought I was just going to go down there and get on stage and go home. That's what I really thought, that they were going to boo me, I was going to get hit with a tomato, and I was going to go back to the roof in the next day. And I got off that stage and fucking, you know, I think for two hours,

I just sat there with my mouth open, and my body felt like it had never felt before. No drug could ever match that feeling after I got on stage. stage the first time. Well, to me, it sounds like a lot like what you're talking about is happening now, happened to you a few years from this point when you got kicked out of Denver and you had to make the choice to leave. Yeah.

Because all of your opportunity was taken from you. I got, well, no, I still had, here's the thing, listen, guys, nobody should ever give you an invite to leave. If you're smart enough, you read it and you go. You know, I had a situation that I knew I had to get rid of something in December, and I woke up January 21st, and I got rid of that person. I loved that person daily, but I just couldn't work with them anymore. I had to get rid of them, and I knew it for a while.

What was your question? Just about how it's similar now to when you left Denver? When I left Denver, I got thrown out of the comedy works, but I still had McElvys, I still had. At Whits End and Tribble had a run there. And Jimmy Abade had four or five rooms that paid. And the other guy had two or three weeks of paid work. I had work there.

I can't say I had tons of work there. I had work there. But again, even then I was letting God control my life without knowing. I let it follow. I mean, I went to fucking Michigan to do it. like in May of Memorial Day weekend I drove to Michigan to do my first feature spot

at a club like it was like a cold MC spot like I opened up the show but I did 20 minutes and I did well I was really in shock and I met a girl and then she came back so in the process in 95

95 wasn't a good year for me I was in a position where I was spinning my wheels I was doing great work as a comic. As a comic, I was doing great fucking work. But everything else in my life was shit. I was waiting around for receipts outside Kmart. You know, what the fuck is that?

What type of human being does that? You know, I was just returning shit. I was, you know, I would sell drugs. I would sell Valium then. I had a Valium guy that worked at Lincoln Mercury. He would give it to me by the thousand. What? A thousand Valiums.

for 25 cents I would sell them for $2. The profit margin was phenomenal. Phenomenal. I always had pocket money. When you sell 10 values for fucking whatever, 20 bucks and they cost you two, are you fucking retarded? That's pretty crazy. 250, and I made 1750 or something like that.

So I would sell that. That was my little spare change. And I'm doing fucking common, you know. That was my life. reason I was in Boulder was for one thing to be a father and they didn't want me to be her father. They didn't want me to be her father. And on the other end, I didn't deserve to be a father. So I planned it out. I met that girl.

She came and got me. She stayed with me for a week in Boulder. And then she went to Seattle. And I left to Seattle maybe a week and a half later. I never looked back. When she offered you to go, did any part of you hold back? Or were making my decision? Sure, I held back.

I had a daughter there. I had roots there. I had been there for 12 years. I did my time. It was there for 12 years. I was in Boulder from, I was in Boulder from 90. I was in Boulder from 86 to 95. But I was in Colorado total from 83.

to 95, 12 years. I was in Boulder from 86. I hit Boulder November of 86. That's a long time. I struggle with decisions like that. If someone told me, hey, it's time to leave, yeah, I like that. But if it's something that I have to make my decision, I go back and forth. Listen, between you and I and the Fourth War, I knew it was time to leave in May.

I knew it was time to leave. I had a funny feeling. I did not know about that they were going to reclose. I didn't know anything about that. But I thought it was time to leave in May. Oh, you mean LA? Yeah. In May, I was already telling people.

I talked Rick Ramos into it. He got the fuck out of here. I talked my other friend to it. He got the fuck out of here. It made sense. They called me and I told them, you got to go. I understand your pain. I understand what you're going through.

And I wouldn't be here. Can you imagine how many people would have left if they knew it was going to last this long? Like if in March you knew it was going to last all year, I bet 20% more people leave. When I got the call from Rogan last week that he's leaving next month, that really just acquainted for me that that's it. It's time to look around and say, wow, I pay 13.8% in tax. The police is getting defunded.

the prisoners are getting out and crime is on the rise and I have a daughter in my house and there's people walking around looking for a problem have you ever taken a ride at night lately no take a ride 11 o'clock at night

go to length they should make a left and go up towards victory wait do you get the victory wait do you see up there oh and by gold's jam it's demolished up there there's nothing up there entire street

my gold gym they built a mall there's a mall to the right but they were building that far before that's where the first Karen threw a fit yeah at traitor Joe's right there that's where the first Karen went in there and said go fuck yourself I have breathing problems and shit yeah but I mean on the main street actually on the Laurel Canyon

like there used to be a couple empty businesses couple open businesses now there's just blocks of empty guys it's fucking Listen, there was a pie store there called 420. Do you know I went on a date to 420 in 1997 with a girl up here that lived up here? Wow. I went to one date with her, and we met there for a piece of pie and coffee.

Nothing happened. We just met the talk. Hard goals were different than mine. And, but I still remember going in there in 1997. coming up from Hollywood, making the U-turn, parking in there, going, wow, getting like a piece of Dutch apple pie, not giving a fuck with ice cream, after just having a Chinese buffet somewhere. And so when I moved to the valley, I would take my wife there for breakfast. They had an okay breakfast. But then we get the pie.

Oh, yeah. And then she was pregnant. I'm gaining weight by the fucking day because she's pregnant. I'm getting to be a fat fuck, so I stopped going in there. But one day my daughter said to me, my wife said to me, you know, 420 is going out of business in Van Nuys. They had one on Van Nuys. And I was like, that's fucking crazy because they have all those car dealers. Right.

How can they go out of business? But listen, once you... That's where it is. Oh, wow. That's where it is. But then there's a 420 on Laurel Canyon. Yeah. Across from Gelson's.

So my daughter and I were talking and she goes, Dad, I can go for a piece of pumpkin pie. But you know what? After the punch. I'll take it for a piece of pumpkin pie. Let's go support local businesses. So we put our mask on. We went in there. We went in there.

We got a piece of pumpkin pie. Guy looked me straight in the face and he goes, we got apple, we got cherry, and we got cheesecake. We're closing on Sundays. I go, just give me two pieces of whatever from my wife. Both of them didn't like the pie. Like, it was just made with the last.

They were just putting the last of the shit in there. and they closed and they wrote no article about it I don't know how many years they were there but you have to look at this as a human being so yeah we're starting to look

we'll still keep doing the podcast I don't know if Leah want to move to whatever destination I choose I hope he does this is going to be very hard here the next two years you know

as Lee has seen, rents are not really dropping. You know, all the, I know New York has a rent moratorium going in July 31st and people getting evicted. I'm sure a lot of people are going to get evicted here. But what's even the point? Like what you're saying with your friend, the rents due in September still? Like, just, that's the only thing that I think is positive about this is that there's no, there's nothing to be ashamed of.

about if stuff goes badly. No. I told the dear friend of mine. I told the dear friend of mine yesterday. He knows he has to close his business. So I went over there to visit him. He was outside and I spoke to him. I looked him in the face and I go, I want you to know something. I want you to know that you're a good, good guy. I want you to know that you provide a great service.

You've done a lot of great things here now. This is out of your control. So if anybody's going through this stuff, listens to this podcast, remember these words. You are not God. You are not Jesus. You're not Buddha. You're not any higher power. Everybody's going through something right now.

And don't be shameful if you have to move back with your mom. Don't be ashamed if you have to move into your fucking car. Don't be ashamed to ask for help. Not right now. Not right now. Listen, guys, I'm going to make a confession to you guys that I don't talk about in this podcast. The Comedy Store, I don't even know why I'm telling you this, but I just want you to know what's going on in my world. For the last three years of the Comedy Store, I was doing main room shows.

You know that. And because I sell tickets, they would pay me good money, and they would give me cash. So Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays was nice. Guys, you know, I got paid $15 for 20 years. I deserved the raise. Okay, let's put it that way. For fucking 18 years, I got $15, just like Joe Rogan, just like Paul Mooney, just like everybody else,

just like Richard Pryor, just like Bobby Lee, just like Theo Vaughn, just like Bill Burr. But when you did the main room, they paid you. and they paid your cash, and they gave you some good money. Now, I did something. I would take that cash, because I'm not ashamed to tell you guys. I would take that cash, and I would put in an envelope and put in the safe. Never counted it.

And then I'd do another scam. I skim from myself on the road. You know me, dog. I'm the only guy that can rob himself, okay? You charge yourself a Vig? I charge myself a Vig. They're supposed to give me money for a plane ticket. I always make them give me

500 bucks cash and yardsticks. They're like, why? I don't know. And then I get home and nobody knows nothing because that's part of my plane money. You follow them saying to you? So I take that $500.

I open the safe and I put it in there. I don't even have the safe no more. I got rid of it because I'm like, somebody's going to break it and take the safe. Okay. So I didn't, I'll tell you why I got rid of this safe. First of all, I had nothing else in there. I had a gun in there.

That's it. I took it out now because now you've got to protect yourself. So, but I'm going to be honest with you guys for three years. Every Tuesday and Thursday I went to the comedy store

and they gave me cash. I would go home and throw in that MO. Never counted it. Didn't want to count it. I said, I'm going to save this for a rainy day. Something's going to

want to happen for a rainy day. And I kept putting whatever they were, 300s, 500s, 750, whatever they would give me. And this is the first time I've ever to discuss money with you guys. I would put in this envelope. COVID came along one day. I said, somebody called me and said they were having a hard time. Like two weeks before COVID, a dear friend of mine, I said, I got you covered. what's the amount that you need?

And they told me it wasn't a lot of money, but it was money. I go, no problem. I mean, he was a childhood friend of mine. He bailed me out of 13 million fucking things. And he's struggling now. I want to repay the favor. So I went into the envelope

and I was going to give my wife to cash to deposit to write him a check. so it wouldn't come out of the house you know my wife wouldn't say you know that's house money you're given to your friends I took that money and I counted it I don't want to tell you how much money was in that

envelope well I'd say it was 20 grand in cash plus because it was three years and filled that envelope every week we'd kindly store money okay and there were all $100 bills

that was going to make Do you know what? There's not a $100 bill left. Remember, I gave $5,000 to the store. I took that money, and I sent it out to my friends who I knew would need it. I didn't want them to ask me.

You never let a friend embarrass themselves when they're going through hell. So before they could even ask, I just put it in my fucking PayPal account and sent it. that without even asking. They called and said, Joey, we don't want the money, but you're not going to believe this.

We didn't even know how we're going to pay our shop this month. One friend of mine called, he goes, I didn't even know how I'm going to pay my shop. And I figured that was my, that's how I could help during this time, you know. I think I took a couple hundred for a cat shelter, and I donated money from the church to the men, North Hollywood, whatever. I went over there, dropped off clothes and gave me three bills cash. I dropped off all my sweatpants. My big fat man sweatpants and shit. I had 20 hooded sweatshirts.

I just put them in a bag when they had that homeless thing up here in North Hollywood. And I went up there and dropped off and I gave the lady 300 cash. That was left in that money. That's it. I'm not mad. That's what that money was for. a rainy fucking day. But I thought it was going to be for me and ended up being for my friends.

And that's what you live life for. That's it. Granted, I'm sure everyone can use some money. But selfishly, does it feel good to have people be that, like, happy? I know that's not why you did it, but when you make someone that happy, it has to make you feel good.

How many stakes Joe Rogan bought me? You know how many TV shows? I think the entertainer put me in. Do you have any idea how many times Ralphie Mae took care of me? Who was here last week? Josh Wool, I would tell you the time he took me to buy three parachutes for a TV show. You know, I think Brody gave me a couple hundred one time to eat. This is what happens, brother.

You can't ask it back or you can't ask it back. never asked back with the money for the suits. You know, you know how many times I just had the balls to ask Rogan for a hundred bucks? And he would give it to me without blinking a guy knowing it was for drugs, but what can he do? He didn't want me to rob somebody or something like that. So I don't know. I mean, I've had very good friends that have been very good to me. How can I deny?

And these are kids from Jersey. These are all kids. There was a couple waitresses, you know. But these were kids from Jersey that, you know, they go back to the sixth grade with me. I asked everybody, I asked a couple friends, and they said they were all right. But I knew a handful of them that weren't all right. I had one friend that was moving into a new place. I knew he needed the deposit right before he asked.

I just sent him a fucking certified check. You know, he doesn't have PayPal. This is what this life is about. It's remembering, you know, especially in times like this. I wish I could do more. I wish. I wish I was Bill Gates and I could do more. And I could just, you know, but I'm not.

I could just do what I could do. So this is a time right now that your bank account means nothing because there's somebody missing a fucking meal. It's the truth. It's the fucking truth. You know what else I did? I joined a bunch. I subscribed to a bunch of people's pantriots.

Nice. I took some money. I'm not going to tell you who. Some dirty girls. I bought their only fans. I want it because I wanted to look. But the reason why I did it was because I want to look at what people are putting out there. What I'm doing is...

You're going to support a painter. Tomorrow is my 29. anniversary and comedy. I've been doing a podcast with you guys for years. I Instagram with you guys for years. I periscope with you guys for years. And I got a new idea. I want to do a show called The Mind of Joey Diaz.

And I'm going to tell you some stuff you're going to know, some stuff you're not going to know. I'm going to put it on Patreon. It's going to be patreon.com slash Joey Diaz. it's a couple videos a week some inspirational stuff some vlogs I'm going to write some blogs in there also

and the beauty of it is it's a dollar you want to give $2? Give $2 I don't give a fuck you want to judge me give me $5 I don't give a fuck What I'm doing is this My guy that shoots the videos He's not working He's a director

I wish I could pay him from the church money, but as you guys see, even our ads are down. So I'm going to have him use videos, you know. My friend Mike Klein does all the posters and he puts up all the videos. And he's at a peak also where he doesn't think he's going back to work. So what I'm trying to do with this dollar is spread it around. This is going to be the mind that Joey Diaz. magazine. It's a Patreon account. It's got nothing to do with the podcast. Podcasts is still going to come on Mondays and Wednesdays. I'm not fucking with the podcast. This is you guys all day

long. It's a Patreon.com slash Joey Diaz. This helps two, three people. Doesn't make them rich, but it helps them out. And we're going to take a little bit every month and donate to a cat saying my wife is looking for a legitimate cat thing to put up on the on the Patreon. I'm going to give you inspirational things in the morning because they have a 15 second video. All right. I love it. So I could just go on there and call you a motherfucker, cocksucker, son of a bitch. I've already, I've been practicing on a fake site that my manager made me for the last week.

And they fucking loved it. They came over. This is, they're going to go crazy. So it probably goes live sometime Friday. You know, when we do an Instagram Friday night, 7 p.m. You're around or you going to Vegas this weekend?

No, I'm here. Any fights this weekend? I think so, yeah. Okay, good. So we'll do, we'll be back Friday night. We'll do a little Instagram live at 7 o'clock at night. Just let's smoke a joint, you know?

What the fuck? You're staying again and just sitting your house and fought all night, Lee? But yeah, I thought this would be an interesting idea. I don't have a day job no more, guys. I don't have a night job no more. I'm not looking for a handout. I'm looking to be held to something.

I'm looking for somebody to hold me to my commitment. And the only way I could do that is, I can't charge you $5,000, and I'm not going to charge you $10. I'm not worth that kind of money. But that's why I got a couple people's patrons to support them and to see what they were doing. And I got some dirty brids to help them out.

you know, just to see what the fuck they're doing. Those are disgusting pages. They're just disgusting. I haven't seen them yet. Yeah, it's just, you know, I was thinking of doing it only fans, and they're at great service. They provide a great thing, but my manager was tied with the dude from Patreon,

so we talked to him, he thought it was a good idea, and when I told him, I just won a dollar. That's it. Listen, the social networks now, Twitter and Facebook, You know what, bro, guys, they're getting a little bit too crazy. They get a little bit too crazy.

Tonight some guy wrote on there, When You ate that girl's pussy, you robbed a girl. I never said nowhere I robbed the girl. We robbed her boyfriend. We robbed the guy she was working for. People are taking everything the wrong way, whether you say something funny, whether you say something.

You know me, I don't post politically or nothing like that. I just tell you to go, I fought it. Today I showed you a picture of me on the bike. with the helmet did you see that yeah with a nice little red helmet just to let you know I got problems too I got problems just like everybody else I put a little red helmet on and shit like a momo I got my little face mask out there riding the bike for 50 fucking minutes I almost got hit twice today it's crazy out there yeah it's crazy I go to that park and I just do circles around the loop I go all the way to Laurel Canyon past the cold water I just go on all the side

streets and it's great i do it at nine 30 in the morning my anxiety fucking goes away because when i get up i got to do something so when my wife takes the baby the fucking can't boom i bust on that fucking bike no ipod no hearing aids no nothing it's just me and fucking nature out there and i'm loving it you know i'm trimming down a little bit i'm feeling better and it's because of you guys what we've been doing here so again it's patreon dot com slash Joey Diaz a dollar a dollar that's it if next month you want to give two dollars you give two dollars it's a dollar four fucking quarters you understand me four fucking quarters patreon.com slash joey dears that's it nice and easy I just want to check in with you guys and let you know we're all going

through shit we're all going through shit fuck it no we're not kim cadassian we're not up there hanging out with Kanye West with a waitress for serving this fucking shrimp. We're dying down here too. We're with you guys, man. So, you know, I love you motherfuckers with all my heart. But first, I want to talk to you guys about fucking on it because

I think how I got my game back was with Honit. I'm telling you right now, guys, I was having a hard time. Listen, I'm not even fucking taking my baby Xanax is no more. No? No. Don't even feel it no more. I finally identified what the fucking trigger was and

you know, I exercise five days a week. I walk. I call it with my daughter. I meditate. You know what? I'm feeling a lot better, guys. So, but one thing that got me started was alpha brain. I got to tell you, my focus was all over the place. I couldn't write. I couldn't outline the

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