Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #061 | UNCLE JOEY'S JOINT with JOEY DIAZ
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What's happening you bad motherfuckers, it's monday may the third a whole new month a whole new set of goals
A whole new set of fucking priorities
I'm feeling good tip top magoo
I'm feeling good tip top Magoo had a great fucking weekend. You know, it's funny how
when you gamble like
The other day I went to the gym
And I get out of my fucking car and I look on the you know, whatever I turn around and I
Look on the floor and there's a dollar bill on the fucking floor. I go what I pick up the dollar bill
I get the last three numbers of the there's like ten numbers on a dollar bill
I get the last three numbers and I play to pick it three times. It was like
723 my number came up my birthday number came out last Sunday, New Jersey
219 but it came out box it came out 129 that day I stopped and I bet 219
But I didn't box it the dummy that I fucking am
You know, if I if I got a minute
I'll go over to pick place and I'll pick the fucking three numbers or four numbers or six
Just is something to do, you know, that's what you do when you live in fucking Jersey. You play to pick three
So I'm like, what the fuck? I gotta stop playing that. I played the fucking 219
Nothing fucking happened. Then I found the dollar bill at the gym
I played 723 the morning the lunch number and the night number
Straighten box. I got dick and then yesterday I go to fucking
Saturday I went to a fucking
Kentucky Derby party at a great weekend. I mean we were out listen the house goes to bed at nine
Here my what my daughter goes to bed 9 9 30
My wife follows her like quarter to fucking 10 and then I stay up from 11 to about 12. I'm in that area
We've been out four nights this week. We didn't get home till fucking 9 30. I mean, it was just a great week a lot of action games
You know, she won the fucking game ball on Saturday. We'll talk about that shit later
But it was a full fucking week Friday night. We had a fucking game and then we had a dinner with the families
We went over to fucking a pizza joint and we invaded this place
You know pizzas and fucking chicken sandwich is the whole thing for the kids and then Saturday
We had a game and fucking after that. I went to a Kentucky Derby party like I said, so I'm shell shocked from the week
Haven't picked the winner since the under of the fucking rose number Juma's fight to last week the 23rd
So I'm sitting there all weekend. I'm not there was a game. I liked one night this week an NBA game
I didn't put it out on Twitter. I fucking came home and I forgot about it and I fucking would have lost anyway
So I was like, thank God. I didn't bet it. I'm the kiss of debt this week
So I go to this Kentucky Derby party yesterday. I'm sitting and I go, you know what they're taking numbers
They like that, you know, we could take bets if you want them
So I'm sitting there. I look at the fucking lineup and again, I don't know nothing about these horses
I don't know nothing about trainers. I know nothing. This is what I say to you
You know people who are very technical like if you ask Joe Rogan, like I don't know how many times
We've been on a plane together had until UFC and I'll talk to him about somebody I want to gamble on and he'll tell me
Why not to bet that guy and I'll believe him and then the guy the other guy will win
Because Joe knows the fighters to the fucking he knows everything about fighters. He knows everything about boxing
He knows everything about the trainers. So when people know that much knowledge
They tend to bet and they lose because there's too much knowledge. You're betting on the fucking line
So I don't know nothing about nothing. So I'm sitting there yesterday. I get the fucking booklet
I'm looking at I go. What's my lucky number eight? My mother died on the eighth. I
Stopped doing blow on the eighth my daughter was born on the eighth as far as I'm concerned
It's my lucky fucking number, right?
So I go, let me bet the fucking eight horse and then Joe Florentine like the nine horse the hot rod
Whatever the fuck it was. So the other thing was that the eight horse had a name Medina
So I like that song funky called Medina and I have a friend called Sam Medina that me and my brother were talking about the other day
So I said fucking I'll put 20 across the board on this number eight horse Medina
And I'll put 20 across the board on the nine horse this fucking hot rod whatever and listen
It doesn't really matter if I win or lose. It's a hundred and twenty dollars. I'm at a party
Who cares me and my wife and my wife took some horses. I don't know who the fuck she bet
Next thing, you know, the race goes off and I'm like fucking sitting there. I can't see the fucking screen
But then you know what the day I said, let me get up a little closer. Give it some luck
I get up fucking ten feet and my horse is coming in. I'm like, come on the eight horses and come on
That was just a lucky fucking pick and all sudden doom the races over the eight horse came in and the nine horse came in third
So I won on the nine horse and the fucking eight horse
Then after the eight horse one, I found out that the trainer was like fucking Belichick
He had broken he won fucking eight Kentucky Derby's and shit people looking at me like you knew I didn't know nothing
I didn't know nothing. It was the luckiest fucking bet I've ever made in my life
But that just goes to show you man. You never know what the fuck is gonna happen in this life
You never fucking know, you know, right now I got I spoke to Ari this week
I spoke to Rogan this week, you know, and they both gave me a little shit about not doing stand-up
And I go, you know what there's nothing wrong with that because something good will come out from all this
For you guys that don't know on my other podcast on patreon. I let them know on Friday that I had my first fucking
Meeting with a book publisher this Friday, you know, how big that is
Do you have any idea how big that is? Like I didn't even know till after I got off the fucking phone
And how big that was the last couple months. I've been over here. Yeah, we've been doing a podcast
The zooms you guys don't like whatever the fuck, you know
But we've been trying at least we're trying. That's all that fucking matters in my world
You know when people say to you well, I'm not doing this because I don't know exactly how to do it
We'll fucking do it and while you're doing it, you'll find the kinks and you'll work them out
It's like the kids going back to school
They should have been back in fucking school a year ago
Because like that we could we could have learned we could have learned what's really fucking happening here
If you put ten kids together, they're gonna and then we go by we learn you close in the fucking schools
And that let them go to school and saying that we got to figure it out. It's not gonna fucking pan out
This is why I started doing the fucking podcast because I knew what loosened me the fuck up patreon
It would loosen me the fuck up and I go back to the early seat
last week
Leave the podcast with somebody
And he said some pretty interesting things on that lead and they were talking about
That throughout this whole podcast genre. Nobody gave enough credit to Brian Red Band
Because Brian Red Band was the guy who really pushed these when
Pod how podcasting started for me how I got introduced to it was
In a window of time that I didn't know what the fuck was going on, you know
2007 I quit coke I quit cocaine
But while I was in that process of quitting cocaine, I was also on my name is Earl
Greg Garcia God bless his soul gave me a recurring role
They were that was when Earl was stuck in the prison
With Ethan Supley, they were great. They were great episodes a couple weeks ago
I had Michael Rappaport on and a bunch of you guys got pissed off at me. Whatever listen me and Michael Rappaport
Go back to that season of 2007 with my name is Earl and the reason why
Greg liked me, you know, whatever was because Mike Rappaport was pulling for me on the show
While they were shooting Michael Rappaport would go. Hey, this would be a good scene to have Joey in it
And they would call me at three in the afternoon and go Joey. What are you doing at like six?
Can you stop by the set and just do a scene? That's how good they were to me
But I was in a great position. I quit cocaine November 2007
I did two more episodes of my name is real in December and that meant that in 2008 I was going into a
New fucking show. I was like they were gonna stay in the prison for the rest of the year a
Lot of people don't know this fucking story. That's why I'm telling you the story a lot of people don't know this
I was and I was so fucking excited because I go listen if
I'm on a network show during pilot season for people who don't know pilot season used to be
From mid-January to about May
Late April I would usually get the call the end of March because I'm one of the ugly dudes
They usually start with the leads and then the fucking other roles and then they pick the janitors and the fucking other people last
And that's when I would come in
So I figured that if I was on a fucking TV show while pilot season was on I would maybe get put on as a series regular
It was perfect. I was off the blow. I had a new outlook. I was excited
Fuck this is great. Well, you put the brakes on the fucking car
There's a fucking union strike. There's a rider strike
So my fucking plans of January me being on a fucking show will wipe that the slate was wiped clean
I was done the strike took over and it was heartbreaking
You know, I mean I was listen if you want me to think that I was throwing things at wall now
It's just it's just a part of fucking growing up that you deal with as a man
You go, what the what am I gonna do? There's nothing I could do here. There's a rider strike and after the strike came back
They weren't gonna do but they weren't gonna be back in the fucking prison
So I got fucked in pilot season. I got fucked out of sixth grade episodes of my name is Earl
I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining. I had a big transition period. So we're 2008 right now
And the only thing I got going on really is Joe Rogan Joe Rogan is taking me on the road with him. It's me him
Ari Duncan, you know red band at the time. We had a nice little click going
I'd worked really hard, you know, I was
They wouldn't accept me as a stand-up even though by this time I was a regular at the store
from 97
2007 all that stuff went down with Rogan and myself at the store and you know the guy that was running
I forget what his fucking name was. So there was that was it. I wasn't at the store no more. It was 2008
You know by this time I
Had done the longest shot I had done spider-man. I had done my name is Earl. I had done all this fucking work law and order SVU
Taxi I mean the fucking movies were endless and the TV shows were endless, but you know what man?
Nothing was working for me. It just was not working for me at whatsoever. I was
Lost I didn't know what to do. Like I said, the only thing on my compass was Rogan. Rogan was the lighthouse
At least I had that every two weeks and don't get me wrong. I was putting my own little gigs together
But I was really I was at the end of my fucking rope. I
Don't know what else I could do, you know to win them the fuck over
I have no idea what to do
but while I was going on the road with Rogan at night
We would finish up on the road and then we would go back to Joe's room and we would dick around and
One night Brian's like let's just tape this, you know, and I'm like, what are you talking about tape it?
And we were taping it and I
Started thinking I'm like listen man. We're taping these things and
Who's home on a fucking Friday night at midnight 14 year olds?
We're basically talking to 14 year olds. A lot of people don't remember this shit, you know, I was not
Into it at all. I would hang out up at the rooms. Me and Ari would go up there and hang out for a little while
And I just wasn't into this podcast thing. I wasn't buying into it
And then I remember getting a call from Brian one day that
They weren't gonna do that podcast anymore after the shows
because some kid that DMT and his mother caught him and
He's blamed it on listening to it on Rogan with us that night and they actually called Rogan's manager people forget about this
Shit, I don't forget about none of this shit. So I was turned off the podcasting like I'm like I'm see what I'm saying
Do you see them fucking saying some fucking kid was listening at midnight on fucking Friday night?
Why are we getting together on a Friday night at midnight?
People are out doing blow eating ass doing drugs getting in trouble eating pills
Fucking knuckleheads are home on a Friday night kids, you know, they're just kids. They're home
They got no money to go out and you're gonna fucking pop up on their screen and they're gonna fucking, you know
So I was like, I don't know what the fuck I want to do but on the other side to stand up like I was good
I was I was really fucking good at stand-up at this time
But guys, it just wasn't working. There's nothing you could do sometimes
People fall but between the holes, you know, I saw this whole
Thing happened and it was so beautiful and I want to tell you how it went down
fucking step-by-step
So one of those nights I went out to dinner with my wife. I
Don't know where the fuck we were we were at some fucking restaurant
And it was busy. They had a couple of valets. It was a place in Encino
They had valets running and running. I forget the name of the restaurant to be honest here now
I'm seeing it in my head and
One of the kids came over to me. You know, they usually have Mexican valets
This guy was a little Arab kid nice kid sweet kid came over to me. He's like Joey. You don't know me
My girlfriend's a comic slash whatever
She does a show on
Thursday nights. We just tell stories
We don't want you to do no stand-up. There's no stand-up allowed
You have to go up there and tell a fucking story and I'm like really
This is weird. So I was struggling with my stand-up. I was a good stand-up
But there was something missing from my stand-up
It was the personalization of my stand-up. I was just doing one-liners. I felt like Rodney danger field
I was trying to copy Rodney for a lot of people that say you resemble not resemble
But your your comedy because I was trying to be Rodney for a long time
I was in the middle of Rodney andrew dice clay bill Hicks
Prior I let you know those are the guys that affected me Lenny Clark. I love that style of comedy Paul Mooney
so
But I wasn't catching what they were doing the reason why they were successful
Because they were connecting with the audience members. I was funny
But I wasn't connecting with the audience big fucking difference
I want you to think about that a lot of people don't even think about that you have to make a connection with that audience
Funny is funny people laugh and on the way out they'll go
He was a funny guy the second guy that went up before Rogan
But he's not making a connection like Rogan's making like Greg Geraldo was making like all these guys were making
So I went and I it was like a Thursday night
some bar
It wasn't even a bar to be honest. It was a coffee shop
Trying to correct myself it was a coffee shop that
maybe sat 16
It was in the back of like a fucking restaurant and I went and I told the story
And I remember getting in the car
After it I don't ask me what story I told I think I told I told the story about
Maybe mr. Montini or something like that like I was thinking about 88th Street 205
And when I got off
Remember she thanked me and I got in the car and I'm like that was interesting
It was a funny story like I got laughs. It was interesting. I
Guys, I wish I can remember the story
that and
I enjoyed my I was like that was fucking great, you know that I I got to tell a story instead of going up then just telling one liners
and
About a week later. I got a call from the funny bones and
they were trying to book me in
a
Couple clubs like they were like what we're trying to do is get
Guys that don't sell out improvs and put them in funny bones
And I was like that sounds great, but this was just brought me back to something that happened with Billy Gardell. I
Remember going to Burbank one day. There was Starbucks to meet a guy to write and
As I was walking towards my car. There's a hamburger joint next to the Starbucks. It's a famous at Mel's
Mel's burgers and on Friday nights
That's where Jay Leno brings his cars and a bunch of people bring their cars like from the 50s
And they they try to like do doop and all this shit. Anyway, it's got nothing to do with this
I'm just explaining the restaurant to you motherfuckers if you ever in Burbank and you want to go knock yourself out
But I saw Billy was sitting there by himself right before he got to show with the girl on CBS
It had to be maybe three months before he got this this is
a couple years before that and I
Saw him sitting there and I went Billy. What's going on? You know, I knew Billy from the comedy scene
And he goes ah these fucking funny bones made me an offer
It's not even worth fucking doing when you think about it, you know
I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do when I go Billy
It's just an awful bubble and then I had I didn't see Billy again and God bless me months later
He got the show with
Melissa or whatever her name is. I don't even know if that's her name
McCarthy, I don't know and he became famous Billy Gardell
But now I was on that end. I'll never forget that when I was on the phone with
The fucking funny bones. I was thinking about Billy years earlier
And I fucking go they offered me like shitty money, you know for comedy
I don't know if you guys know what money shitty money is it was like Wednesday through Sunday
So that's Wednesday Thursday
To Friday to Saturday and one Sunday and they wanted to give you 1200 bucks. No plane ticket
Plane tickets were like 300 fucking bucks. So that means I'm clearing nine
No commission, but you got to pay taxes. You're not really making any money. It's work, Joey
Be happy with it. By that point. I was like, you know what man?
I'll do it, but cut Sunday and they were like we can't do that if we cut Sunday
We need to cut money off the thing and I was like, you know what?
This is something I don't even want to fucking do
I'm having a great time going out with Rogan. He pays me well
We eat well. He takes care of me plus. I'm around great comics when I'm with him. I
Just do that. I'm not gonna get involved in this shit. No more fact. I'm gonna get a fucking job
I'm not gonna do fucking stand-up around town
You know, I just moved to the valley in 2009. I got married. I moved to the valley
And I was like I made a decision. I said, I'll tell you what I'm gonna fucking do
I'm gonna fucking do stand up a couple nights a week
You know a hundred here 200 here 50 here and I'll go on the road with Rogan
But I think it's time to get a fucking day job
Am I quitting to stand up?
Not really, but I'm not doing this a hundred percent. I've got guys like Greg Garcia
I've got friends that are writers that throw me stuff from time to time. You know, I was getting
You know, maybe four calls a year from friends. Just give me a fucking movie or a TV show
Which is fucking better than nothing. So I figured fuck it. I'll just do that
I'll get a fucking day job
and
I'll keep pushing, you know, whatever. I'll be a husband. I'll stay in at night more
I'm not going to the store. You know, I'm not doing all these things. You know, I might as well just
focus on being a husband
focus on fucking
You know a little stand-up I'm gonna do and I'll focus on the job
I'll trade it. I'll try to get a job selling something. So I put a resume together
2009 a lot of you guys don't know this. I put a resume together
I've made up the phony college fucking the credits and the fucking, you know
all the shit and I
Went online and started sending out resumes to become a fucking salesman
You know, I got a few calls back, you know, they weren't nothing. I wanted not to be a traveling salesman
I want like to sell shit on the phone like to just check up on people whatever the fuck it was
Maybe you have an 800 line number for a fucking couch company and people call in with leads
It's not like I'm cold calling people. I want to try different. I love selling. I love talking to people on the phone
I don't give a fuck. So I sent out a bunch of resumes
You know, I got nothing who the fuck's on a call a fucking 40 year old loser for a fucking kids job
So nobody fucking calls. I said fucking I'll go back to what I know what I do selling fucking cars
So I went to a couple dealerships in the area
Walking distance from my house, you know me. I'm a lazy fuck. I
Applied to the Ford store. I applied to I think it was a Nissan store
And I think there was a Toyota store and all three of them said they would take me
But the Ford store really wanted me the Ford store was in love with me
They were they were all in they liked the experience. It was a line of closer type deal
They were gonna fucking make me a closer right off the bat, but there was a kink in the deal
I had to give McLean your analysis
That wasn't happening. I was smoking dope with three hands
the revolution of dope was just starting to fucking happen and
You know
I'm not I'm not fucking
Quitting dope so the guys like listen just find yourself like fake piss or whatever
Take the test pass it and they were even I mean they were willing to work around my schedule
They were like we even let you go on the weekends and do comedy just come here during the week
Put in as many hours as you can a lot of people don't fucking know this about me
But there's two sides to this fucking story
one day I got a call from Ari and
He goes hey, man, do me a favor. I want to try this thing and the improv
There's not even booze being served
There's no fucking money at all being paid. It's just an experiment. Would you mind doing it for me?
Come down and tell a story. I
Go what story do you want me to tell? I mean Ari knows a lot of my life. He was tell a story about you going to prison. I
Had never I was fucking embarrassed. I had never talked about this
Before you know, I was like wow I
Go, all right, you know, I'll go down and fucking tell a story. I get down there Mark Marin's there
And Mark Marin is telling a story about a concert and I go wow
So whatever story I thought about whatever portion I was gonna talk about the kidnapping and whatever I go fuck this
I'm gonna go up there and tell a pink Floyd story when I took a hit of acid and when got pink Floyd tickets and the whole fucking thing
And I went down and did it and felt great about it and when I got there and got off
I think Steve Agee was there. It was me Steve Agee and
I think that's how you say his name Steve a J. Whatever. He hangs out with Sarah Silverman and
Mark Marin I went up after Mark and
we told this pink Floyd story and
Couple days later Ari put it up on YouTube and I'm like, let me take a look at it
I mean, I hate watching myself, but let me fucking take a look at this thing
And I fucking took a look at this thing and I'm like, wow
That's completely different shit than what I do on stage. I
Gotta start leaning towards that. I
Gotta figure out a way how to fucking lean towards storytelling on stage and
This you know, this is the way to go to help my act
But at that time I really wasn't putting that much focus and I'm like
It might work. It might not work
What if I tell a story and people don't like it? How am I gonna come back from that?
You know, I told the story about
Finding my mother on stage one night on acid in some city when I was opening up for Joe
It was a complete the story was great, but then I couldn't go anywhere from there
I just bombed once you find your mother on the floor. There ain't no fucking place to go from there
You know, they know Joe jokie. You can't follow that. You know I'm saying people fucking got tears in their eyes
I'm like, what have I done? I'm trying to be funny here to tell this fucking story and people got tears in their eyes
I fucked myself. So I'm like, how am I gonna make this fucking work? This was all like a process
So I'm like, you know, even though I don't want to be a stand-up full-time anymore
I still would like to be a better stand-up. There's nothing wrong with be even better. You know
So
That calling me from the Ford store, you know, hey, well, how's it going? Are you are you staying clean?
I'm like, listen, bro. I'm just weaning myself off from reefer. I'm not staying clean
I had made some calls to figure out how to get fucking piss
Everybody I asked everybody I knew got high
It's not like I didn't know anybody who didn't get fucking high. So where was I gonna get pissed from?
You know when I lived in Colorado, I had a few neighbors that I would go up to them with the jar and go
Pissing here for me, you know, and they would understand but in California people
I didn't know who to ask you go up to somebody in California. You tell me you want piss
God, can you imagine right now? Somebody fucking saying on a video? Yeah, 10 years ago. Joey Diaz called me up looking for piss
I don't know what he was gonna do with it. That's a complete different fucking side. I didn't even ask anybody
This is way somebody told me that they sold piss at head shops
Fake piss and synthetic piss. I couldn't fucking find it. So I was like give me a couple more weeks
And I'll try to get fucking clean off this weed and my numbers to go down. They calling me every fucking day
Can you please we need John DeLon? I'm like, holy shit. What the fuck have I done here?
And in all this I still got Brian, you know, which is funny because I talked to Brian
Thursday night this week and I called them because I was going through my computer and I found
I'm gonna post a few things I found this weekend. I'm finally cleaning up a bunch of shit guys
You know, I people keep asking me when can I get a PO box? I'm not getting shit because I'm still fucking putting away
Shit, I just took a bunch of clothes upstairs this morning. I got up early and I fucking took a bunch of clothes upstairs that I found
There was a bunch of shit that was going on right now and
Red band we did I we did for a while there me Brian and Ari were getting together on my front balcony
And we were doing a podcast outside called podcasts. I don't know if anybody remembers that
Podcast podcast podcast and we would just talk about fucking cats
And I'm like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life, but I got to do some with my life
I mean, let's at least talk about fucking cats, you know, I got had nine cats at the time now
I'm down to three, you know, they die over the fucking years. You can't take them. I wish they could all still be here
But and two of them on their last leg. They just holding on to dear life
But it's gonna be a sad day when they go and then they're two sisters and they were brothers with they were sisters was super bad
But anyway, who gives a fuck about the cats. We're not talking about cats right now, but that's how it started
We did about six episodes of podcasts and I still I found what I found the other day wasn't the actual fucking podcast
I found the notes I would make to talk about Calico and you know
Fucking whatever blue and fucking Siamese cats and I found the notes. I'm like, I was making actual fucking notes for that
I forgot all about that
So Brian was still with the podcast thing like are you gonna ever do a podcast? I'm like, no, why?
So if I smoke a joint on there
I'm gonna get a call from some kid's mother that a 13 year old fucking OD on a joint because I smoked a joint on a fucking
Podcast, that's the last thing I fucking need. So no, I'm not doing any fucking podcast. I refused
But all of a sudden I get another call from Ari
And he's like, hey, we're doing that show again. Do you mind coming down? I'm like
Really another storyteller show. Okay. This is fun. Maybe I'll get to do another fucking story
And I wrote I don't even know what story I told him the second one again, it was back
And then we were doing him in the annex. We weren't even doing him at the fucking improv
That's why I give Ari all the credit in the world
He got that show and he started it in the fucking annex with no booze
It was people just sitting there no drinking no nothing. They didn't even have curtains up
It was just a fucking eight inch brick wall
Not even the fucking bricks block it was a block wall no curtain no nothing
I felt like I was going there to get shot like somebody was gonna ask me. Do you want a last cigarette?
Like there was nothing there. So
Just and I forget what story I told there
And again, it fucking worked. I'm like, fuck it. This is great. The storytelling shit
Is fucking great, you know
And
I get a call from the Ford store dog. We need you. You got to come piss. So I said fucking I'll go down there
And give it a shot. They go if you piss
And if you fail, you can't get it. You got to come back in a year
You got to wait a whole fucking year. So are you ready for this? I go don't listen
I've been smoking the light lately. What's the light for me? Maybe a joiner to a day
Compared to the 22 I was smoking for the last fucking 28 years
Let's go give it a shot and I went down there and I pissed in the bottle
And they were like, listen, you came back hotter than fuck
Your car salesman days are over with and I'm like
Everything happens for a reason. I think the next day
I bumped into Felicia Michaels
at the coffee shop on cofax
now I had met Felicia
in 1994
At the comedy works in Denver
She was one of the hottest comics working in the country at that time
She had just won star search. She had just posed and played boy
You know, I was a young comic
I mean, I wasn't a young kid. I was already an old long in the two 32 year old 33 year old
in 1994
I'm clocking myself. Maybe 32. Yeah, I was born in 33. So 63
So in 94, I'm 31. Maybe 95. I'm 32
I had to be 32 and I was doing an open mic on a Tuesday night
And we were in the comedy works in Denver and in Denver the headliner of the week
It starts headlining on Wednesday
But they pay you extra money to fly in on Tuesday
And just do a half hour for the open mic
To draw people to the open mic
So the open mic is gonna have an audience
Which I thought was great and
I watched it do a set
And I fucking died a laughter and afterward I just went up to her
And I was like that was great. I had I didn't know of Felicia
I had seen her on the MTV half hour comedy hour before
And I was like, she's pretty fucking good and she's beautiful
You know, I could be as honest as I can to you when I went up to her
I didn't go up to her when any
Thing of hitting on her or anything. I really went up to her to tell her that was fucking great, you know, and
What do I I just want to ask advice in those days
Whenever I saw a comic
I would always go up to them that I liked that I was kind of cool with
And I would always go if there was one piece of advice
You could give me, you know
And I went up to her and I told her I like this set
And it wasn't like hollywood shit where people don't make eye contact with you
She made eye contact with me
And she took the time like she was like you have to get on stage
You know, don't worry about a manager or an agent
Don't worry about head shots
Just get the real fucking patois of stand up, you know, just get up there
That's all you got to do is just get up there, you know, and it'll come to you
But keep getting up there. Don't get discouraged. She gave me such great advice that I was so thankful to her
Like I was so grateful to her because sometimes when people give you advice they give you advice in a weird tone
Like oh this again, you know, she didn't do that and because of that lesson that I learned from felicia
When comics come up to me with advice, I don't
Give them a third eye. I
Stink eye, you know
I actually make eye contact with them and I
I tell them what I think
Is the perfect thing for them, you know, which which is just get on stage
You know, all this other shit you tell you
It's like when you talk to a foreigner and he's like, this is shit. This is pure shit. You know, it's the same thing
It's like when you come up to me, you're like, I don't know what to do
My my material listen get on stage
You're doing comedy three years. Guess what? Nobody gives a fuck
I wish I could look you in the eye and tell you that somebody gives a fuck
Nobody gives a fuck. This is one of the best times of your life
When nobody gives a fuck you go up then do whatever the fuck you want. You have a free fucking pass
It's when you're doing comedy eight years that somebody will come up to you and go
You've been doing comedy eight years and you're still playing the banjo with your teeth and you're like, I thought it works
No, you know, when you're doing comedy three years, that's the beauty about doing comedy for three years
You could do whatever the fuck you want. Nobody's gonna say something. Who's that dummy with the suit on?
Oh, he's an open mic. He's just a retard. That's what I'm saying. But meanwhile you're making fucking
I knew that every time I touched the stage in the beginning
That I was making strides like I didn't beat myself up
I was I could be as honest as I can with you
And tell you that my first two or three years of comedy
I didn't beat myself up because I figured out it was getting on stage. It was a numbers game
It's just numbers. Just keep getting in and let people make fun of you and let them say you suck
Plenty of them said I sucked to me my own friends
My own friends that I grew up with would tell me joey
Those jokes are fucking brutal. You know what that feels like. It's a heartbreaker, but it's a part of fucking life
But I used those three years to my advantage like to just do whatever the fuck I wanted back to the fucking story at hand here
so
I bumped into Felicia in this coffee shop
That was right by my house and I sat down with her and we started yakking and you know catching up and she had just gone through a divorce
You know, she was lost. You know when you go through a divorce
people
I have to pick sides
when people go through a divorce
Sometimes people are forced
to pick sides Felicia was in a tough
situation
Because she was married to a big time comedy manager
Comics a horse
So if you look at Felicia and look at this comedy manager, even if that comedy
Manager wasn't your manager
You didn't want a situation where
In the future, you're going to get big and that guy's not going to be your manager because your friends with his ex-wife
Do you follow what I'm saying to you?
So when I bumped into Felicia from my conversation with her I could tell that
She was grateful that I was talking to her because
This divorce had set had pushed comics away from her in a way that made her like
Standoffish just just the way it is in LA if this would happen anywhere else
People would still be their friend, but in LA god forbid, you know, this guy could be my manager someday some day
I might have a big movie
So I I spoke to her a few times and I go hey Felicia
All these people are doing a fucking podcast
Let's
Give it a fucking shot
And she was like, let's give it a shot. I mean, we didn't even know where to start guys. It wasn't like
Nobody I called red band and I go red band. I'm thinking of starting a podcast with Felicia
What do I need and he gave me a fucking list of shit
And went to the guitar center
And we set it up in the house. There was no instructional manual
There was no youtube videos. There was no ikea videos. There was there was nothing
There was nothing. There was just there was no proof. There was no
Joe Rogan experience
The guy at that time when we started was the guy from the man show
That was it
Mark Marron was rocking and rolling a little bit. Those were the two higher ups. There was maybe
Maybe 300 podcast then there wasn't the 20 000 podcast there is now. There was nothing
There was nothing to base yourself off of
Really nothing
We were just going in there myself and Felicia. I told I go the first
Two months if you listen to beauty and the beast now
It was just her and I just fucking figuring it out
And I got to tell you I listened to one
Maybe six months ago. Oh
It was fucking rough. You think the zooms are rough
You should try listen to one of those beauty and the beast. You'll be running back to the fucking zooms. Okay, so
It was fucking rough, but we kept doing it. But now
At the same time the storytelling shit started picking up
in la
Ari's doing more storytelling shows
The chick I know is doing more storytelling shows
I had picked up a small little thing my friend the agostino, which you guys know
The agostino zo either the home school podcast
He was a manager at the ha he was just a kid
And we became friends and I had a deal with him that
I would go over to the ha ha not get put on the lineup
I would go over to the ha ha
Every fucking night and close the show up
That's how I made my comeback into comedy again. I wasn't really
This was done. I was gone. I was gonna go sell cars. I wasn't gonna do something completely fucking different
But I was like
I gotta give this podcast. There was no money
Nobody was making money. There was no ads. There was nothing our first ad was fucking the sex toy company
They gave us a hundred a month to sell dildos and shit like that. There was no fucking money. There was nothing
Nobody knew nothing about nothing
But all I know is we had a show up there every tuesday and I think we did it once a week or at the beginning
We just did it once a week because we didn't fucking know we had nobody listened to it
Nobody was downloading podcasts. This was like fucking, you know the beginnings
But we kept with it
We kept doing it and doing it and we were lost
We could not find the fucking voice of this fucking podcast
But a funny thing happened on the way to the fucking circus
see
All this storytelling going around town
Got me going and I would sit down every day and write a different fucking story
I would sit down every day and write a different story and I don't know if you guys believe me
You go back with me this far if any of you motherfuckers could find my myspace
Go on my myspace
I wrote the monday morning blog for a fucking two years on myspace. That's how when you start
When I start thinking about all this
How this thing came about the last
I've been sitting in this house for the last eight months thinking about
How the fuck this journey started
Where and when did this journey pick up how
I you know, and we've never covered this shit like people ask me all the time. How the fucking you know
I'm giving you the answer. I didn't know anything about anything
It's 2010 and
I'm not selling tickets. I'm not
I was getting better as a comic. I think I think I was in the transition period
I was starting to tell stories and trying to do jokes at the same time
I didn't even know what I was doing, but
Something else that I was doing came into that. I never told anybody. I think I mentioned it twice
over the last 10 years on podcasts
I looked within and I knew one thing I knew that
I was funny. Let's get this out of the way
I was funny. Was I the funniest guy on the block? No
But even after doing stand-up at the 17 year mark
17 years
Fucking
10 of them
Being at the store the world famous comedy store
I still didn't have it down
As a good comic it didn't really I was trying to find the balance 17 years you're doing something
17 fucking years and you cannot find the balance
That sucks
But through the storytelling shows
I started picking it up. I was eating big bags of dicks
I remember going out with josh wolf and we were laughing like
Dog I've ate four bags of dicks this week. I went out four nights with him and I died
That's why josh has a video. I think him and bill burr were talking about nobody bombs like me
Oh
There was a period where fucking I was just bombing
And loving it and not caring because I didn't give a fuck. I'm I was experimenting
This was all new to me, but
I was
I don't want to tell you I was frustrated
I knew I could improve so I didn't say nothing to nobody
Every Thursday night when a comic came into town at the Irvine improv
I would take a ride by myself smoke a number
Park in the garage at the improv
And walking through the back door and there was a little table on the side
Where you could sit to fucking nobody even knew I was there
The waitresses would say hi to me. I would just sit at this little side
and for a year
I'm lying to you. Let's say for nine months
Every Thursday. Maybe I missed four Thursdays
in a year nine months
I went to see a different headliner and watched them from the side
watched them objectively
Between you and I took notes
I would bring a little notebook with me
I wouldn't make notes of their material not at all
I would make notes of what their strengths were
and how I could
Be as strong as them that was
On the ride home before I got in the car
I would ride what their strengths were and on the ride home. I would think about
What I needed to do to be like greg gerardo to be like david tell to be like fucking
The elephant in the room the big black dude that I fucking loved. I can't think of his name patrice o'neill
To be like rich vars. I went down and I actually studied them. I wasn't going to the store
I wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't even at the store at that time
And I went down there. So I was trying to get an idea
Of what I wanted to do again
This is at the fucking
18 year mark of doing comedy
2008, you know, I've been doing comedy since 91
So I was learning I yearned to learn. I fucking yearned. I'm like, I'm gonna get this
I heard mitzsche show once say that you don't know what stand-up is
Till you're doing it for 20 years
So I was like, you know what I'm gonna have to wait till 2000 fucking 11
If I'm gonna quit or not gonna do this, I'll wait till 2011
So even though while I was transitioning
And not doing so much stand-up
This is why I'm not upset right now
That I'm not doing stand-up because even though I'm not doing stand-up
I'm putting a book together
Which guys it's all I ever wanted to do the last 20 years
I just wanted to have that thing author next to my name
So since I moved in here, even though at times I feel like
I'm not carrying my load
The podcast isn't working
All this shit isn't working. Guess what I'm doing. I'm sticking to a schedule. That is
So great of me. I'm sticking to a workout routine
I'm sticking to a schedule in the last
Since to surgery since january
Eric and I have put together close to five chapters in a book
And I don't know if you guys have been following my story on ryan sickler
Those are some long fucking chapters. Okay, this book is gonna be fucking long as fuck
They're gonna edit it as we go along
You know, I spoke to the publisher
And he asked me goes, why did you give up on your one-man show?
I go, I didn't give up on it. It gave up on me
You can't fit that much material in 70 fucking minutes
Unless I want to keep you guys there for three hours on a one-man show
And that's not nobody is that special that you want to see him for three fucking hours tell a story
There's no way it's an hour 10 and then your hemorrhoids starts to fucking burn and you got you already heard mine burning
That's not a fart. That's a shared thing
But what I'm trying to say to you is that's what happens. You start moving you start getting uncomfortable
I don't want to do that. So I explained to him that the 70 minute mark wasn't gonna work. So
To get back to the fucking story here. I'm trying to tell you guys
I'm trying to tell you guys
Podcasting wasn't working for us. We weren't the top podcast
We weren't making it happen. But something happened on the way to the dance
It always does
Always keep that in mind. No position
Listen, unless you're at home and you're just watching tv all day
And not trying then the odds are stocked against you. You're not gonna do shit
if you're sitting there if you
If you want to write an album for your band if your band's waiting for you to write an album and you're sitting at home
Watching tv it looks like that album is never gonna fucking come
It's never gonna fucking come
If you're sitting there making notes every day
And you're struggling with it
But you're sticking to it every day four or five days a week
And even though you're struggling with it like the way i'm struggling with the guitar
I was really struggling with it
But if you do it four or five days a week even if it's for 15 minutes
Eventually something good's gonna happen
I didn't get my my act was struggling
The podcast was struggling and then something happened on the way to the dance
Me and Felicia were going back and forth
And what I was doing was I had Sirius in my car
So when I would drive around I would drive around listening to Sirius
And I would go fuck, you know, I got to get the podcast
To be more like the Sirius shows i'm listening to you know at that time it was Eddie tronk florentine
Jim norton and uh, you know opien anthony I was listening to those guys
And I was like I wanted to be more like that, but then I go what is it? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Podcasting is podcasting
Radio is radio. There's two different fucking things and if you look at what's going on in the world today, what's going on in life today
Radio is not out doing anything anymore. I mean we got like maybe four hosts that you still listen to
But podcasts are blowing up all these listen to podcast all fucking day long
And there's a reason for that and this is what I didn't understand
I was trying to do radio on a podcast
And if and it wasn't for the day
That me and felicia were talking
Maybe I had a bong hitting me. Maybe I didn't who the fuck knows
And I'll never forget that she we had little things that could cover you like a spit guard
Is that what you call them like a spit guard?
I couldn't really fucking see anything
I couldn't see her
And we were just fucking yakking back and forth about something
And I told the story about mugging the hooker and lighting her wig on fire
I don't know what made me say
I thought about my friend and I'm like, hey, I ever tell you I had a friend that we used to use as a model
and we used to put him out there
and fucking
you know
Guys like confused guys would fucking drive up to him
And ask him if he could suck his dick and then we would fucking mug them
You know we were talking about that and then I told the story about speaking of muggins
One night we actually went into the city
And while my friend was getting his dicks up god rest his soul
We mugged the fucking hooker. We took her back to fucking jersey and mugged her and lit her wig on fire
I'll never forget that I was so into telling the story. I was focused on the microphone
I was telling the story and something made me pop up
Like and look at felicia
And next thing I know is she was looking straight at me and her jaw
Was had dropped
And when I looked at her I go
holy
shit
That's what a fucking podcast is
her jaw dropped for a fucking reason
I was blown away. We kind of wrapped it up and
Felicia you okay? She's like joey that fucking story kind of disturbed me
It was weird. I don't know if we should put it up
You know you're mugging a hooker and I'm like felicia
There's radio and this podcast we got to bring this fucking pot. Just put it up
Put it up if they hate it. They hate it if they want to come arrest me they'll come arrest me
But this is what needs to be done. I could be wrong. I could be wrong. I've been wrong before
I don't fucking know everything
Let's put the fucking podcast up and sure enough
Dog I started getting twitter hits
It was crazy, but the real true test
Of what had happened how two worlds had combined because that's what happened from 2007
To 2010 till we started the podcast
Even though I wasn't focused on stand-up
This is the weirdest thing. I was focused on different things
And eventually it all came together and it made my stand-up that much better
But
Once I told that story. This is the fucking craziest thing
Guys
I did the longest shot. It fucking was the number one movie in america
You know, I mean when you watch it, you could tell I didn't know what I was doing
But I still did a great job. I thought people were gonna come in the droves
To come see me and stand up. I thought it would raise my statue as a stand-up
It did dick
You know the my name is earl now we're on tv. I thought they were gonna do something for my stature
Nothing nothing
Nothing I did helped me nothing
It didn't put me from a to z but
telling a story
About mugging a hooker and lighting a wig on fire
So I told the story
I didn't think much of it. You know, I got some twitter people
I got some messages that story was disturbing
But I don't know if you guys remember when cat williams blew up
Cat williams blew up because of one fucking joke
And if you you got to watch it, it's the most disturbing
Joke you'll ever hear in front of
You know, he took it to his own. He took it to the african-american community
And he said, uh, you know, you guys like michael jackson
He's still sniffing little kids assholes or little kids booty holes or something and brother that fucking room
I think you have to go back to cat's first special
And see the reaction that he got when he told that joke
That's the reaction
Whenever you do a fucking joke that we pray for you're not gonna get it
That's the kind of jokes I want to write
That you get that mixed fucking reaction because that mixed reaction
Is what you take home with you and break down and now joey d is stays in your head
Cat williams stays in your head patrice. Oh neil stays in your head
Uh bill burr stays in your head. That's the connection that I was looking for that. I didn't have
So all those years through stand-up and through podcasting they met
And the storytelling
So between ari's storytelling the podcasting storytelling
It met we became podcasters and that was the end of fucking radio
And that's why we tell stories on fucking podcasts
But on top of that
Ari's this is not happening
Took off in a different fucking direction also
Because people were sick and tired of that style of whatever
People want to hear the nuts and bolts of your fucking life
They don't and this is what i'm doing with the book. But the lesson today is
That's most important on a beautiful monday
May the third two days before
Cinco de Mayo, even though I haven't seen a mexican. It's gotta be three fucking weeks
I've not seen a mexican in this area. I don't even know where to fucking eat mexican food
There's a new taco stand that opened up that people are raving about
But it's an hour and a half wake. Go fuck yourself. I ain't waiting for food. This ain't fucking avana cuba
My point of podcast today was
To let you know that right now even though I may not be doing stand-up
And I may feel a little bit subhuman about myself and not doing stand-up
I'm still making things happen and they're making me proud
More than ever have I been this proud of as i'm doing right now. Yeah, i'm missing on stand-up
And i'm not doing it. I am writing a couple of jokes
That i'm not gonna lie to you when and will I get back on stage?
I don't know
When I feel it your motherfuckers will be the first to know
I'm sure that any week now one of these weeks now
I'm gonna get a call from rich and jimmy and they're gonna go. Hey, I'm going to tips tonight. I'm going to uncle vinnies tonight
I'm going to
You know to go do a comedy the whatever sam triplet room and i'm going to say let me you know what?
Let me go down there with you
And i'm probably going to start with a couple 10 minute sets
Then i'll bring it back to uncle vinnies and go for the hour sets and then take it from there, but
Whether that day's gonna come or not. I have no fucking idea. I'm hoping it comes
For your sake and for my sake so we can connect
But if it doesn't i'm still fucking making strides happen
Because i'll tell you what?
When they come back with you know, I think I got another meeting with a publisher this week
So I think i'm gonna meet with three publishers. I'm not gonna tell you the names. It really doesn't matter
One of them the first one i met with is fucking huge. I'm very proud
I'm very proud of my agent. I'm i'm this agent has the patience of a fucking
monument
Because he's been waiting for this book for seven
fucking years
We had our first meeting when I shot like mafia 2
Or something like that. We've been talking for six or seven years
I've been trying to put this book together
For seven fucking years and I failed
Miserably i'm not embarrassed to tell you this is part of it because you shouldn't be embarrassed to ask for help
And that's what I did with erica florentine
And this is why we made it this far so far with the book. I'm also writing a tv show with a friend of mine, Howard
Whether it gets picked up. It doesn't fucking matter. I don't give a fuck about the money. Well, joey. Nobody's paying you. Who cares?
I'm just trying to stay busy
with writing the fucking sitcom
writing the book
Working on the podcast eventually this will come back
Or something else will come from it
What it will be?
I have no fucking idea. Do you see a crystal ball there? No, I need to do fucking eye
So we're all fucking this together and that's my fucking podcast for today. It's monday
The third of may what I wanted to tell you from before earlier and the thing was
My daughter won the game ball on fucking saturday. You know why?
Because the switch went off remember a couple months ago. We covered the switch
I just saw the switch go off in front of my fucking eyes and it was a beautiful thing. You know
This move wasn't about me and it wasn't about my fucking wife. It was about my daughter
I wanted her to have the childhood stories I had the childhood bonds
That I had I wanted her to have all these little things
And jesus christ what I'm watching happen
Is something completely fucking different than what I expected
You know, I watched her play. I don't know
I watched her do five practices
five fucking games and
You know, I watched the kid go
It's like my first two years of stand-up. I was just going somewhere to do comedy
It took me to come to new york in 93 to meet people like mike bachetti
To go to these clubs to realize this is what I want to do and this is how I got to do it from now on
I saw her
Going and not rushing for balls
No, pardon the fucking expri- you know to charging balls now. She's playing third base. She's charging
Pardon the fucking expri- you know to charging balls now. She's playing third base. She's charging balls
I saw the other day on saturday
Turn around and go we got two outs team. We got two outs
I see her in the dugout in between fucking things
Singing little songs with her girlfriends. I don't even know the fucking songs
About we will we will rock you and all this shit and I see her grow and it's a beautiful fucking thing
You know, I I'm happy that you guys
Are watching me grow the last nine months on this fucking podcast seven months
Whatever the fuck we've been doing, you know when I got here. It was a rough patch. My mind was in a bunch of places
But by writing by working out, you know, I'm working out four days a week now
I'm 58 years old. I do two hard days
I do two recovery days. I'm only supposed to be doing 61 weight-watching points. That's my goal for the thing
I've been hitting 70 for the last three fucking weeks
You know, I work myself up every week more and more and more and more
So yeah, I might not be doing stand-up, but I'm making strides in different part of my life. My marriage is great
I'm having a great time as a dad, you know last night. I went out to dinner
Saturday we went out to fucking the party
Sunday they had something in the daytime a kids part had two kids parties in the daytime
And then we went out to dinner Sunday night with one of our neighbors across the street to a great little japanese steakhouse. So
Listen guys, uh, I'm getting better every day. I'm getting stronger every day
I am down to a bowl of reefer a day now
I know some of years are not going to believe that
And it's not even before two o'clock. I've been smoking lately
At 10 30 at night before I play the guitar. I get nice and stoned
You know, I I had to switch it all around
I put my 35 weed away and I turned it all the way back
To 26 percent. I'm doing this. Listen guys. This is uncle joey fucking 2.0 here
You know, uh, my wife told me a day something that I did not even have a clue on
We're gonna have a guest on and in a couple weeks
And him and I were talking about my coffee intake
My coffee intake used to be a cup of coffee for breakfast
Then after the cup of coffee, I would jam two expressos
Then about two o'clock in the afternoon. I would do like three fucking expressos
And then at the quarter eight every night, I would do four expressos
You know, thank god I was using stevia and not fucking real sugar
And and putting a Cuban coffee together. Thank god. I'd be 800 pounds
That's not the point that coffee was feeding my anxiety
I realized that when I was doing that afternoon cup of coffee and then, you know, an edible was
Not far around the fucking corner. So between the edibles and the fucking coffee
My anxiety and between the fear I had a covert and all this shit
My anxiety was to an all-time fucking high
You know, my wife told me on thursday last week. She has an ordered expresso since october
Because I stopped drinking coffee all together. What happened was wednesday night
I went out to eat with the kids with jim florentine his kid and my daughter
And I got a double expresso at like 8 30 at night
And the next day I realized I didn't fucking sleep. I'm like, what the fuck happened last night?
I took my fucking, uh, you know, my melatonin. I took my cbd lion
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I told my wife the next morning. She's like, show it
I go Terry, I could drink a flat white at a quarter of midnight
And being better 12 30. I wouldn't sleep, right? Obviously. I would obviously wouldn't get grim sleep
But do you know that I drank a double expresso at dinner wednesday night?
And I slept like shits when I told my wife that she goes show you slept like shit
You haven't drank expresso. I go wait. I forgot all about it
I go, what are you talking about? She goes joey
You were drinking close to fucking eight expressos a day. I was restocking
That the little container where we put the little single thing. She goes, I was restocking it every two days
She goes, I haven't never mind restocking. I haven't even ordered expresso since october
You stopped completely
And you know, this has just been a process guys. I was just knocking out this anxiety
Just so I could be stronger and I could do this. I was having a lot of fucking problems
You know, listen to my stomach. That's intermittent fasting. I'm telling you I'm coming at you for more fucking directions. Anyway
Thank you very much for listening. Now, you know the
Story of my evolution early on with the podcasting and the storytelling. It just wasn't there even at 17 years
Of doing stand-up. I was still struggling people know who I was
I'd done cds and whatnot, but
This is just food for thought to tell you guys
You got to keep pushing. You never know what's gonna fucking you sitting on the couch wishing
Ain't gonna do nothing for you. I'd rather you work on something an hour a day
And after 90 days, you'll see what's going on and that'll excite you the way I'm excited now now
I can't wait to talk to erica later on today. We're gonna, you know
Now we're talking three days a week because now I know I have something that a publisher wants
So hopefully by the end of the year, we'll have this book ready for you motherfuckers and uh
This'll all come full circle and who knows when I'll be back for stand-up. But listen that doesn't mean I gave up
I'm just taking a breather off
So my family could have some fun. Have a great week. I love you motherfuckers with all my heart
Thank you for watching uncle joey's joint
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