Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #175 | The BEST of THE JOINT with JOEY DIAZ

Episode Date: June 27, 2022

Welcome to UNCLE JOEY’S JOINT..... It’s Monday, June 27th.... While Uncle Joey is away on Bert Kreischer's FULLY LOADED Tour, please enjoy some of our favorite moments from Uncle Joey's Joint! Clips Taken from: Episode 141 - LEE SYATT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3tp-NaSWao&t=3040s Episode 86 - GEORGE PEREZ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qC91KH4f9E&t=759s Episode 109 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_rBXYOLbJI&t=663s Episode 160 - JON BERNTHAL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE5oBB8sI6o&t=561s Episode 74 - CASSIUS MORRIS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8FNG2BqdHI&t=868s Episode 150 - LEE SYATT & STEVE SIMEONE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJDn68hjGNo&t=3692s Episode 92 - TIM DILLON - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td8BRqDkfJE&t=3020s Episode 96 - MICHAEL GANDOLFINI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8VS7X_cwo&t=1480s Episode 98 - KATHERINE NARDUCCI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d5qJs6Krxc This podcast is ALWAYS presented by ONNIT! https://www.onnit.com Follow Uncle Joey on Social Media: https://www.Twitter.com/madflavor https://www.Instagram.com/madflavors_world And don’t forget..... The Mind Of Joey Diaz on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/joeydiaz #JoeyDiaz #Madflavor #UncleJoeysJoint #TheJoint  The JOINT is Produced by: Michael Klein aka @onebyonepodcast on Social Media: https://www.Instagram.com/onebyonepodcast https://www.twitter.com/onebyonepodcast Huge Thanks to BEN TELFORD for the Tremendous intro video..... https://spoti.fi/unclejoeysjoint  

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That fucking spicy hummus tastes like a Hindu's fucking toes. After he fucking runs two miles in fucking India with the COVID invest. With the fucking COVID there, God knows what else hummus. When was the last time you ate hummus before that? Too long, almost like a little bit every once in a while. And the flies stopped attacking you. You see that? You have no flies around you anymore. They were trying to say there was a fly on your neck.

But I was like, these motherfuckers. I think it must have been you. They haven't been a fly since I left LA. I mean, it's the hummus like I told you. When you eat hummus, it comes out of your fucking pores as shit. What do flies like the most? Shit. Do you ever see a piece of shit? Take a piece of shit. How long do the fly lands on it?

Fucking two seconds? And then he whistles for his fucking friends and his family and they all attack that piece of shit till they get down to the fucking granola bit. I forgot you used to have flies as pets and like do science experiments on flies. Now flies don't even come around me because you're not around.

See, they knew I was related to you by fucking proxy even though you didn't suck my dick and I didn't suck yours. But they fucking... I can't even catch. I don't even see a fucking fly no more. I was thinking about that. I found the candy out there, my little fly paradise. You took that home? You took that from to New Jersey? Fuck yeah, I worked hard on that little fucking fly getaway and shit.

That's my little fly getaway. I had a pond in there. Some TAC deposits and shit. I had a fucking room where they could just hang themselves like a little rope and shit. It got too much. The TAC got too much. Oh my god, that's so crazy. What are you down now Tarzan? 144.

Jesus Christ. And what are you going for? I want to get down to 150. So that's another 40 pounds. And how much walking are you still doing? Four times a week. I do about at least three miles. No shit, how long does it take you? Right now, 45 minutes to an hour. It's really not that bad. I do it on the walk with my Patreon. We just talk and it's...

I actually like walking now. I'm never going to be a hiker or like a huge working out person. But a little walk, it clears my mind. It's fun. That's why I like the city more. I like being able to like, oh, I'm going to go walk to the store now. In LA, you're walking and looking at dirt and homeless people. It's boring. It's funny because you used to always say that

the reason why you put on so much weight in LA was beside the edibles, the weed, the hummus, the fucking, you know, the cheese covered fries and shit. What really got you was the not walking. And I just came on a couple of months, you know, I went back to Jiu-Jitsu and I noticed that my cardio was shit again. And you know, you lift weights, you do kettlebells, you try to do everything you can.

I don't even know what cardio is. And then I started reading. When I joined Jiu-Jitsu and then I got the COVID, I started reading those days that I had the COVID. And ever since, I don't know, the last week of December, I've been walking on a treadmill. And it's so weird how you find out a lot about yourself because I never looked at walking as anything big. I did it for fucking years in New York,

walked from Port Authority to 150. That's 40 fucking blocks, you know. Right. That's a long fucking. That's a long. And I used to do that all the time. I was a big time walker. But I realized when I started walking again and leave, do you have a whoop watch?

I don't. I don't. You gotta get a fucking whoop watch. Okay. Whatever it is a month, 30 bucks a month, whatever. I gotta tell you, man, I'm learning more about myself every fucking day. And every day it's a challenge. Like you have to beat the record from yesterday.

And that's the one that tracks your workout, your sleep. It tracks everything. Tracks your workout, your sleep, which your sleep is important. It, you know, it works on your fucking vitals, your oxygen, your heart rate. You know, for me being a fucking old goat, I like it. And it works. I've never thought that when I got it,

it was a friend referred it to me at jujitsu. And I gotta tell you, man, you learn a lot. Like I think I'm working out hard, but you ain't doing it yet. Right. And then you go home and put the watch on and you're like, fuck, 4.4. What the fuck? And they'll tell you, you went to lift,

but you did more cardio based stuff. So get back to lifting. You know, and it just really, I like to sleep on it. Like now I'm learning to fucking go to bed early. I keep my kids. They'll tell you go to bed at 1113 and wake up at 748. He'll tell you, right? He'll tell you what you need, what your body needs, water.

It's fucking pretty intense. But man, I almost got as much as I swear to Godly. And this is why I called you yesterday. I said, I got as many happy birthdays as I got. Did you see Lee? My Facebook had about 20 messages and 10 of them were. We're really happy for Lee. You know, and now I heard you got a podcast with the girlfriend.

It's funny. Oh yeah. We just did. We did an episode about going to Philly to eat. But I appreciate it, man. It's, um, you, you were always in a nice way on me about working out, eating right. And I wish I, I wish I had an answer to this, but I feel,

I honestly feel like every person just has to be there because I just wasn't, I just wasn't ready, I guess. Cause it's just, I've been on it for 14 months and I'm not doing really anything that special. I honestly, the walking is the working out idea. I threw my back out doing kettlebells and I don't do that anymore. And I have regular meals. It's just, I got, this is the lightest I've been probably since

high school and I'm just, I like it. I'm down to a 36 now. I've, I was, I was over 50 inch waist when I left LA. I was, I stopped at a Walmart in Arkansas or wherever the head of Walmart is and I had to buy the biggest jeans they had and they barely fit. And now I'm down to a 36 and like even Steve, Steve Simone and Jimmy Schubert, they took me walking when, when we were still

in LA during COVID. We went walking a couple of times a week. I had to sit down on the street. I hated it. Just little changes, man. I mean, look at you. I just, like I told you yesterday, I just watched the Sopranos movie.

You were so much bigger back then. You, you lost a ton of weight too. I bet. You know, it looks like I lost weight, but it's deceiving. I'm putting on weight as we fucking speak. I've gained like 10 pounds since the COVID. Is it muscle? Do you think?

I don't have a muscle in my fucking body. I'm an old fucking Giza, but I don't know what it is. You know, I've been eating the edibles again and some of them, like the, all the Delta eights have that sugar on them and shit. Sugar is my fucking enemy. I mean, everybody's enemy between the inflammation and the weight. I can eat 22 fucking pork chops and not gain as much weight as I eat one fucking donut.

I like that shirt. Thank you, brother. That shirt says fucking Rodney. That's a good album. That's a good fucking album. You got some good albums there on the wall. Fucking wanted that are alive. The pride behind you.

I don't even want to say it because people get pissed. You got my fucking album back there. That's a nightmare. I like it. Oh, I do too. I don't want to remember. It was fucking horrible. I bombed the first show.

I had to change the set around. It was a fuck. I'm not good with specials, George. I'm just not a good special comic. I choked under pressure. I'm only good when I'm live. Fuck that shit. Yeah, I feel you.

What's up, buddy? Nothing much, man. We podcasted last night. Chilled. You know, it's weird not having my dog around, man. I'm sorry about your dog. It's a fucking nightmare. But give it a breathe and then go get another one.

And now I'm not going to get no more. That's it. You're done. I'm done. Yeah, my daughter wants me to get a dog. I got to wait for the cats to die. And then I'll get a fucking dog. I got the yard and everything, but you got to be careful with

dogs here because they got the text from the fucking deer and shit. And the next thing you know, you're dizzy. And that's fucking it. How's it work? How's California treating you? California's good, man. The strip club's good, but, uh, you know, the comedy store, they want like a full background check now.

Motherfuckers. They're checking the barcode on everything now. So what's the barcode? It's on the, on the, on the fucking vaccination. Yeah. It's on the vaccination. That card looks bogus. Yeah.

But the codes are put in the computer and your phone number and your email and your birthday come up. Okay. So. And you haven't gotten vaccinated yet. Hell no, but I got the card. Okay. Yeah.

That's the way it is. Fuck it. Don't let a lot of people know they'll give you a fucking felony. That's the last thing. They'll give you a fucking felony because you use the fucking COVID card and they give you like three years because they want to make an example and shit. And you're in jail with COVID.

Oh, shit. That shit is running through prison. Oh, it ain't. That shit was running through the prisons. That's why they inoculated those motherfuckers first. But you know what? They were sharing. If you had COVID, you were supposed to give it to the whole dorm.

People had COVID. People had COVID. We're getting released early. Damn. What a fucking scam. Yeah. You go up to your fucking CEO and cough in his face. Hey, dog.

I seen videos where fools are like, hey, I got COVID. Drinking that each day. Eat off his bowl. Get it. Get it. You get to go home. No shit. How many people did they release in California?

I think they released like 30,000. God damn. That's a lot of criminals walking around, Doug. Yeah. But it was like, you know, drug charges, nothing major, you know. Can you imagine George being locked up with COVID now? I would have fucking. I don't know.

Fucked up. It is to be locked up now. Wow. I've stayed out of that fucking hole for 30 years. I can't imagine we're going to prisoners like now. No smoking. Yeah. Fucking just, it's night.

You know, you did it. We did it already. We got it out of the fucking way. You know, I'm happy I got it out of the way. It never going to happen again. I could never get fucking locked up again, dog. That was, that's fucked up when they take away your freedom. That is fucked up, man.

That's yeah. People have no idea how fucked up it is when a man wakes you up and kicks your bed. But you got to sit up for a count. You remember that shit? Yeah. Fuck that. Eight counts of fucking day.

They coming and move your sheet at night to make sure it's you that you haven't escaped because I was at a camp. I ended up at a camp. You know, I went through the fucking. I was thinking about diagnostic the other day, dog. I had to go for a blood test. And I'm like, dog, I'm going to faint in this fucking thing. They had us like in a little pod.

I'm going to faint and they're going to fuck me in the ass. These motherfuckers. I was petrified and dog. Usually I tell a lady when she's taking our blood to be a little careful because I faint. I didn't say nothing. No way. And I sat down.

It was one of those fucking school chairs. I put my little fucking faggy arm out in the shit. I looked the other way. I was trying to make believe I was hard and shit. And I'm like, yeah, I'm going to do this and fucking. She shot me. George took blood out and Uncle Joey didn't faint. I walked in that fucking thing with a stroll to me and shit.

Like what bitches say something later on? I went to my room. I'm like, I'm straight. I put my arm down and I go, let me see what happened. I took a piece of cotton off. There was a piece of cotton with a little dot of blood. I fainted in my fucking cell, Doug. I went down like a bad habit.

I woke up 20 minutes later with a lump on my head and shit. Fucking walking around with ice to fucking nightmare. When you try to be hard and you ain't dog. It's a fucking nightmare. My diagnostics was different. Uh, we were at war with like the prison was at war with each other. So they made us sit in these fucking cages. Like, and like, cause no one was allowed to wait in the doctor's office

cause fools are fighting right there. And we were just waiting in those fucking cages, man. And it's Bakersfield fucking freezing at six in the morning, dog. You're just sitting there waiting and fucking. Honestly, I was worried cause I was fucking a lot of chicks back then and they're like, yo, dog, you find out if you got AIDS today. Like I was worried. They were like, yo, they do every test.

And I was just like, damn. Yeah. I think of the magic Johnson and everything at that time. I was like, damn, dog. I'm going to own the Dodgers. Hey, it's crazy how when I got locked up, it was 87. Fuck. I was 10.

I was 10. It's crazy how when I got locked up, it was 87. Fuck. So 88. 88 is when I got locked up. I'm coming on the anniversary now, August 15th of 88. And when I got locked up, HIV was huge. Oh yeah.

So the prisons had a building HIV wing. Every jail I was at was under construction. But when I got to Camp George West and Golden, they already had an AIDS unit, George, you had to see this fucking thing. State of the state of the art appliances. They didn't want these motherfuckers in the kitchen or nothing. No, no, they had their own setup state of the art to fucking they had a TV in their big screen TV already in 88.

I remember going in there and watching the Dodgers. So we would hang out at the AIDS unit. My headquarters was the AIDS unit. That's why I took book. That's why I brought my food. That's why I did everything was the HIV unit. They only housed five people and they only had three people in the rooms. Wow.

So they were like, nobody talks to us because they treat us like fucking with lepers. So when I got there, the one black dude was tremendous and he's like, come on over, say hello whenever you want. I went over there one time. I didn't leave. I didn't leave. They're like, dog, you got HIV.

Fuck. I'd rather be in here with you guys. I would wake up and shoot over there. Those guys had everything. Thank you for being here. Thank you for checking in. Let's open up the week with fucking ice cream shop has got the blunts in stock.

They went partnership with Packwood's laughing gas is now in a blunt. And let me tell you something. I hope you love your eyes because I had to actually hold an eye while I was smoking this motherfucker. Your eye is going to fly the fuck out. I want to thank fucking pipe freeze for sending us a bong freeze pipe dot com for sending us a new pipe and a bar and a little fucking smoker from my man, Mike Klein there.

So now he's at home doing bond. I love when I give Mike weed. Like, I don't even have to fucking ask him if the weed is good. I just wait a night and look at his artwork. When I see that a picture of a devil fucking a monkey, I'm like, that weed is good. You know what I'm saying? I'll watch some of the Rogan posters and shit.

And I go, this weed is fucking homie up. He told me the other day. Last couple. They're kind of out there. Yeah, they're out there because I'm giving them the weed of death. There's one day I woke up. He wrote three songs. He composed a fucking album overnight.

I woke up at eight in the morning. He's like, I wrote an album and performed the last night. What the fuck, Mike? I'm like, I gave him that weed. He gets like leave. Everyone used to smoke. He's come up with business ventures. I got a new idea for floatable donuts, you know, shit like that.

There was always something every time you gave him good weed. They go home and they come back with a fucking guitar. You know, they come home with something. They come back with something. I thought you needed a guitar. That's fucking tremendous. So yeah, it's always great to smoke some good reefer on the fucking weekend. It was a great, I posted a picture the other day.

Since I have moved here, people have been telling me about this restaurant El Nido. Joe, you got to go to El Nido. Joe, you got to go to El Nido. It's close to my house. When I go to the gym, I have to drive by there. And I see the, they have like little boots outside that you could sit with your girlfriend. Just along the booth. If you want, they could, they close the curtains for you.

I love that shit. When I first got into comedy, I used to do comedy at a place called The Broker. Great fucking restaurant. I loved it. Till this day, I'm very loyal to them. They won't let me back in the place to do comedy, but I, you know, some people have short memories. You know what I'm saying? Everybody says, everybody says they're a Christian, but they don't practice what they preach.

You know what I'm saying? So they had four restaurants. They had like The Broker in Boulder. They had The Broker in like Aurora. Every one of them had a different name, but they had The Broker in Denver. And it was called The Woman's Bank. And you're like, The Woman's Bank, ah, until you went down there. For starters, The Broker, when you sit down, they'd open up with a back, with a fucking, not a cup, not a, not a thing, not like a soup bowl.

I wish I was exaggerating to you. They'd open up with a manhole cover filled with shrimp, Katrina shrimp. You know the ones I'm talking about, the ones you dip in soy sauce, not soy sauce, cocktail sauce. If you eat 20 of those, you're going to shit blood because they don't clean them. They're just a little geeky ones. But you know what? When you're 31 and broke, you will eat those motherfuckers like that for layman young. You know what I'm saying?

You throw them up in the air, like fucking just lick them out of the air. I would go to The Broker just for the fucking shrimp and they would bring you a bowl. But the thing about the ladies bank was The Woman's Bank, I take a date with me. When you're young and you're doing a couple fucking bumper ruse, you close the curtains, you eat a monkey and then breakfast is served. You know what I'm saying? Boom. The waiter comes, my aunt and my come in.

Absolutely. You pull up a little pantyhose and you sit there and you fucking shrimp. You eat 20 shrimp. You got a hot on and you close the curtain again and give another stab and doggy style. Nobody knows nothing. Who gives about the flower in her shirt? It's a little fucked up. You swished it.

You know what I'm saying? You smushed it. Fuck it. But I like that shit when you could close the curtain and stuff. Not that I would do anything perverted down there, but I'm saying that. So it seemed interesting to me, you know, I'm like that curtains. Then I joined the pool and at the pool, there were these little fucking old dudes that were retired, but there was this one dude, a Jewish dude, sweetheart Phil.

He would always talk to me about restaurants. I would spit out restaurants from Boston, Iowa because he traveled for a living. So he, that was his thing was hunting down restaurants. You know, this guy could tell you like, I asked him about a restaurant. He's like, what'd you think about the fountain? When somebody tells you, what'd you think about the fountain? They looked at all the details. Like they liked that shit.

You know, there's people who live for that shit. And he was telling me that that restaurant is in the top five restaurants in Jersey. He goes, I did the math. He goes, this is what I do. This guy's retired. He goes out to dinner. Five nights a fucking week all over the place. Plus my man, Dave Batone, DB orthopedics.

I'm going to give him a shout out. He helped me with my knee. He's trying to help me with my right and left knee now to get the arthritis out of there. DB orthopedics, that motherfucker knows every slice of pizza, every meatball from here to fucking Delaware. It's unbelievable. And he was telling me like since the beginning, even when we go out to different dinners, he would go, dog, I'm going to take you to El Nido one day.

I'm going to take you to El Nido. But then I heard mixed reviews. People were like, it's really good, but it's not my type of Italian food. And I get it. And then people were saying, well, they don't give you big servings. And I get it. It's fine dining. What are you, a fucking gorilla?

Go to Burger King if you want to eat all you want to eat. You got to have some fucking cadence in your fucking life. What are you fucking? So I finally, me and my wife, you know, we try to do a date night once a month. I mean, with the kid, we were out all the time eating with the kids and shit. You know, medium range restaurants, wings, pizzas, I get the salads, shit like that. But, you know, you got to take them to a carpet joint from time to time. You know what I'm saying?

You got to take them to a rug joint, you know, fine dining, fucking some guy playing a violin. Not that they're playing a violin El Nido. They don't need to play a violin. They don't need no fucking gimmicks or nothing. So fucking Thursday night, me and my wife went down there. Holy shit. That's all I could say. Holy shit.

First off, it's all organic. The owner, his name is Joe. He's a 78 year old Joe Rogan. It's like if Joe Rogan was 78 years old, when they bring you every dish, they explain the history to you of that dish and what region of Italy it came from. Now you guys know me a long time. You ever see those waiters? They bring you a glass of wine and you have to taste it.

Then they stand there and say, you know, just pour the fucking glass. Well, you know, I'm one of those fucking gorillas too. You know what I'm saying? But it was just sharp. Like from the minute you walk in there, we sat down fucking. You would never hear this word out of me. The ambiance is tremendous. When he came over, he confirmed it.

You know, I have a problem hearing. That's why I have those hearing aids. I have a problem when I go to a restaurant, when two people, when I'm talking to Mike, let's say, at a restaurant. I don't really hear Mike. I hear the dishwasher in the back slamming. I can hear the cooks talking because my hearing is fucking off. So when I go to a restaurant nine out of 10 times, the food better be good because if

not, it's an uncomfortable situation for me. I'm unfunk and comfortable like I can hear. So when you're talking to me, not this place. And when Joe, the owner came over, we were talking, he explained to me that he installed something in the ceiling. So all the sound gets out just way ahead of the fucking curve, way ahead of the curve. All their ingredients are 85% imported. I mean, you got to taste this shit.

He grows all his vegetables. So when you put a vegetable, like whatever you think a green bean tastes like, when you taste it in there, it's what it should taste like. The fucking chicken in there. It just breaks off. It's those chickens that have not been kicked. So it's like, think about the shit you can discover and how you can grow. We don't get that.

It's like playing baseball, right? Like you fucking play baseball. You can work. You can hit off a tee. You know what I mean? If you don't have anybody else where you can throw a ball against a fucking tree, right? You can like stretch. You can work out.

But in order to play the game, you got to have a bunch of other people with all the equipment, with the field, with the ball, they got to be willing to play. They all got to be allowed to be there at the same time. That's how you get better at baseball. You go to practice. The way you get better as an actor is you go to play rehearsal. You don't do it by sitting alone in your fucking living room saying the lines to a mirror. You know, you don't say it by like the 10 seconds you get between action and cut on a film set.

You know, you're driving in the car, you're saying the lines over and over. What fucking practice is that? You know what I mean? Rehearsal is fucking where you do it. I love it. I love all that shit. I like when they block on a movie. Yeah, yeah.

I love all that. I've always loved that. I'm actually doing that for eight hours. Doug, I got to tell you a funny story. I don't think I told you. So we do the table read. Ray's there. Yeah.

I respect the shit out of Ray Leone. You know, I love Ray Leone. I say, how are you doing? I keep it to a minimum. He's from Union, New Jersey up the corner here. So I keep it to a minimum. I don't see Ray for like two weeks and we're shooting. And all of a sudden Ray shows up, you know, and it's like five in the morning.

I'm in my trailer smoking dope and I finished my joint. And I, you know, I go to make up and there's Ray next to me. I don't say good morning. How are you doing? Lady's good. And also not on the way out. I go, Ray, not for nothing. If you want to rehearse the lines, let me know.

Do you know this motherfucker didn't even answer me. Oh, yeah. He heard me loud and clear. And he just looked over at me and he just fucking turned his face. I'm like, motherfucker, right? So I'm going to say none of this motherfucker. Now we get into the scene. It's a table.

Satriali. And he's sitting there at the end and I'm sitting right next to him. So I got to live off. I don't say a word. So first line comes up, hop along, kiss a DJ. What are you talking about? And then he starts with his Frank Sinatra Dean Martin joke. And he's fucking it up.

Like he can't. We could talk about this now. This was like first day he was in there. He's spitting food. He's trying to chew. He's fighting food with the thing in it. They fucking, what's his name leaves? God bless him.

You know, whatever it's David Chase. He fucking could take it no more. Because the fucking girl came over 20 times. Ray. Can you imagine coming over to him? Oh my God. She came over 20 times, Ray. The line is gone.

And he's like wiping his face. You're like, hey Ray, you want to rehearse those lines? No, I didn't say that. So all of a sudden again, action. Ray fucks up the line. I can't take it no more. I go, Ray, maybe you should have fucking read those lines. He just looked at me like you.

He didn't like me that much. He didn't even talk to me after that. Ray, you should have fucking rehearsed those lines. And he got so angry, he just left. Did you hear about that? He just left. We shot that scene without him. He put somebody there and shot that scene without him.

So he's Ray Liotta. He's the star of the fucking movie. What are you going to do? You know, he's having a bad day. So I don't say nothing. I'm dying to laugh. I'm dying to laugh. He's spitting food.

John is going crazy. You got to have playing Sylvia. He's like, what the fuck is going on over there? This is going on for three fucking hours, four hours. Finally Ray leaves. He just left. Nobody said nothing. I think honestly people were like, thank God, thank God he left.

Because we just didn't have it together. Read those lines off camera. So Doug, I did not want to laugh. It's my first time with these people. I don't want to laugh and I don't want to be an asshole. So honestly, nothing about it. I'm just sitting there from time to time giggling by myself. And then at one point we're sitting there.

It's got to be three in the fucking morning. We're there from six in the morning and fucking. John McGarrow looks at us as like six of us and he goes, what the fuck was going on with Ray today? We fucking lost it. Because everybody was waiting for somebody to say what the fuck was going on. Everybody lost it. And then we pack up rap.

We all get in the van. We're shooting back to the city. We're sitting there. We're tired and out of nowhere the makeup lady goes, can I ask you guys a question? What was going on with Ray Leone today? And this time the fucking driver of the car, the teamster, was like, he busted out.

Because he's like, Doug, I was listening to it. What the fuck was going on in there? He was just having, but then, like I didn't see Ray. I didn't see him at all. Maybe one other day. And then I went to see the movie and you see him in prison. You're like, oh fuck. He's a fucking killer.

He's a fucking killer. He's a killer. That's 30 fucking years of acting. That's right. What I'm trying to tell you guys is everything is great. We got a great interview today. You know, I've been podcasting for 10, close to 11 years now. I don't consider myself anything.

I'm just a podcaster who's lucky. You know, the joint does what it does. I don't sweat it. I'm trying to give a message out. Some people I help. Some people I don't. Some people like it. Some people don't.

It doesn't make a difference to me whatsoever. Some people moved on. God bless you. I'm happy that you moved on. Whenever you want to come back, you're more than welcome here. But one guy that never moved on. One guy that I is a fucking animal is a kid by the name of Cassius Morris. I met him 10 years ago when he reached out and I did his podcast and I felt so good about afterward

because I was actually actually helping a kid out with his dream. This was, I could tell by talking to him that this is what he wanted to do when I gave him props. You know, when I was 12, I didn't know what the fuck I wanted to do. I had no, he had pinpointed it and stuck with it. And now he's 22. He's been doing a podcast for 10 fucking years. You know, he's a fucking great media guy. And like I told him when you watch in 10 years, he's going to be the fucking king and you get to see him now.

I know what Joe is joined. Enjoy it. Joe Diaz, what's going on? Oh, are you my little friend? It's been a long fucking time. It has been a long time, my man. It feels like we were in different worlds the last time we talked. I think right at the beginning of the pandemic. Was that long? It was that long, man, but it's okay.

I've been, I've been watching you. Obviously everybody else has loving it, man. I've been watching you too, man. You had some sensational guests on there. Thank you. You're doing your thing. You're growing, which is what it's all about. How old were you when I met you?

I was scratching my head there and I go, how old was I when I went on your podcast first? Right. And I said a bunch of fucking stupid shit and I left there and I'm like, how can I talk like that in front of a 12 year old kid? What the fuck is wrong with me? I felt like such a fucking douchebag, but then you became my nephew and I forgave myself. How old were you the first time we podcasted? I had to be like turning 13. Wow.

And I mean, I really appreciated it, Joey, because you were the first person to really give me an actual chance. Like that, that was the, the opening to a lot of things for me, you know, and that was a big chapter in my life. When I look back and think on that, it's a, I can't even really describe how it feels, you know, that somebody gave me a chance like that. That never went over my head just so you know. You know how many fucking chances people gave me? So when I see a guy online that's on there every day busting his ass, I reach out, you know, we, we, we would stop. We started talking. We started complimenting each other.

You know, I liked that you were a young kid and you were going after it. You knew what you wanted. I think after the first interview, you were talking to me about not going to school. Yeah. LA. You know, just shit that was, uh, I was really blown away. Like how much when I was 12, I thought I was going to be a fucking basketball player, but I really didn't. You know what I'm saying?

Like I, I want to be a basketball player and an astronaut. You know, the ideas of your mother, but to really tell somebody when you're 12 years old that you want to be in media and, you know, grow and interview bands. And, you know, there was two guys that you guys really blew me away. One was you and one is the kid from Rockin' Pins. Okay. Yes. Yes. I've watched both of you.

Right. Take off while everybody else was fucking crying. There's a lot of crying that goes on. Why everybody else is fucking crying. Nobody gives me nothing. You and Mauricio kept pounding it out, pounding it out. I still remember Mauricio paying for concerts to take pictures and bringing them to me at the store and, and telling me like how he had a sneak in and they threw him out and the whole thing. And then he got a press pass and he started going to shows now.

And then he started writing a blog to accompany the shows. And, you know, this is what it is. Nobody's going to give you dick. Everybody thinks they're going to give you dick. Nobody's going to give you dick. Go get the fuck. You know, the other day some guy hit me up and he's like, I want you to do this, this, this, this in the podcast. I go, why don't you do me a favor?

Start your own podcast. He didn't even have a podcast and he's emailing you. No, and he's emailing me like barking me orders. And I'm like, bro, you have the knowledge on this. Great guy. Don't get me wrong. He was a great guy. And you know why I told him to start his own podcast?

Because he's got a great story. He's a cancer survivor, which I know if I had cancer and I was at home sweating. I mean, I have a dear friend right now that's going through hell. And I want to talk to a cancer survivor. I want to see a guy that made it through the other side the same way. A guy that went to prison for four years for a stupid thing looks at me and goes, wait a second. That motherfucker came out and did something different with his life. Turned his life around.

I could do it. So I told him, I go, you're a cancer survivor. You could spread love. You could save so many people and give so many people hope just by fucking one podcast, two podcasts, telling what you went through, the puking, the chemo, you know. Yeah. So it's just a great thing that we're doing. It's great that we're still here fucking pushing, doing our thing.

It's nice that some people stick around. Like obviously you were always going to stick around, Joey, but it's like, it's true. It's like a rotating door where there's not many familiar faces that you can say, OK, five, six years ago they were doing a show and stuff. It's like it's constantly changing, you know, so I understand what you mean. Well, this pandemic made people stay home. And I estimate, you know, 10,000 new podcasts started. Right.

Especially now. But as usual, as per life is people want to make money and they don't have the patience. If you want to make money, go to the supermarket, stock shelves at night. Yeah. And then do podcasts in the daytime and build it up until it's like comedy. It's like being a guitar player. It's like anything else, you know, go get a fucking job, keep playing your fucking guitar, but I work eight to six.

Well, you know, you got to go to one stage from seven to 10. Exactly. That's the work of the kid. And then somebody will throw you a bone. Some guy will say, hey, man, I do a band. And next thing you know, you're making 200 a month. Right. Next thing you know, you make a 400 a month.

Next thing you know, you're making 750 a month. You know, and now you're like, fuck it. Now I know what I got to do. If I can make 1100 a month, OK, that means I got to get rid of my cable. Mm hmm. I got to go. For me to live my dream, these are the things I got to sacrifice. There's so many sacrifices.

You know, it's incredible. I don't even have a TV in here, Joey, like in my new spot because I was looking at TVs and I said, why would I pay hundreds of dollars that I'm never going to get back to waste time? I was like, let's get real here because I'm looking around and I'm like, time is not something like it feels like just the other day you and me first met. So it's like time is not something that is that expendable. You know what I mean? So it's it's it's it's insane.

And I feel like a lot of people, they want to talk about what they want to do. They want to watch videos of Bill Gates and sit and fantasize, but they don't want to make moves to make that transition. Because if you say something, they're going to bring you in. It's like I was watching the Sopranos. That guy that was a witness and he told the cops, I'm a good citizen. I should have said something. Then two weeks later, his name is in the paper. And he's like, I'm going to get killed by the gangsters.

That's why I shut your fucking mind your business. Shut your fucking mind sometime. You want to be a fucking playboy or a boy scout? Do that in your own fucking time. Go tie your shoelaces. Go bring a donut to a homeless guy. What the fuck is wrong with you? But they do them great.

And you know what? I'm happy for him. A lot of people turned their back on him. He got to see where he stood in life. And once you see where you stand in life, you're fucking brand new. You're brand new. He's got nothing to talk about. Nobody to talk with.

Fuck you. You said shit about me on Twitter. Yeah. And he moves on. I check him with Deli all the time. Me too. I love him. He's a good man.

He loves being a dad. He's a family. His parents are awesome. Like, I love that. Come on, man. What happened was he was fucking people and he was being a dick. You're not going to chick-suck your dick. You're like, oh, you're finished.

Get the fuck out of here. Can't do that for these chicks. These chicks actually think that they want to get married to you or something. So it was just a bad situation. I'm happy we all moved down from that. I'm happy all the stupid shit that people were saying. Fucking everybody moved down from it. And now you see.

Now you see why we're the way we are. Now what do you got? Now you got comedians that aren't going to fucking talk to you. Yeah. That's what you got now. Comedians that aren't going to fucking talk to you. They're scared. I know a comic, no names.

He said he will never do another meet and greet. He doesn't give a Frenchman's fuck. Yeah. Because God forbid you touch somebody wrong, whatever. So that's what you get now. That's what you get. You want to complain about comedians. You know, that's why.

And there was, there was some creepy shit. I got, I took a picture with a fucking, I told you about that. Three years ago, I went to like Toledo. I went to Toledo, Ohio. Is that what you did? Yeah. Yeah. The funny bone in Toledo.

Four fucking years ago, five fucking years ago. In between a dog. It was so long, I don't even fucking remember. I took a picture with a fucking, I was in the lobby in the hotel. Like about five or no, no on a Saturday, especially in a small town, because everybody knows you're at that hotel. Gotcha. I went out for dinner.

It was a smaller hotel. They didn't have room service. Usually for dinner at any hotel on Saturday, I just have room service because you don't really want to go out. I do all my shit early. I go to the gym. And then I go up to the room about four, watch TV for a little while. And then I didn't do that that day.

I went out when I came back there with checking in. Now she was really attractive. And so was he. They were young couple. They were like 32. Yeah. She took a picture of me. He took a picture of me.

Then they both took a picture of me. Never thought about it again. Yeah. Hi, goodbye. They said I was very approachable. Whatever. Two years later, I'm getting a fucking email looking for my address. He was filing for divorce.

And he used one of my pictures with the chick to say she was cheating on him. That's terrible. Do you know what I'm saying? So now I got an answer to an attorney and all this stuff. Wait, wait, wait. They hit up an attorney? Yeah. The attorney might hit me up.

We have. Oh my God. That's terrible. So with all that shit now, how do you feel after that? Do you want to, you know, how do you want my behavior to be after that? You know, UFC fighters are taking pictures of people that would say get me in a headlock. And a year later, they're getting sued because they said when you got them in a headlock, you hurt their fucking neck.

And it sucks because like the vast majority, like 95% of people we meet or I've met through this have been so cool, but the crazy have gotten crazier. And it's just, it's not like, it's just not worth it. Like as much as it would suck to be like, I can't take a picture, but it's like, is this the one time I take a picture and someone says I did something? Or even yesterday, some guys, first time in six months, anyone said anything to me about the search. Some guys stopped me at a gas station, but they literally pulled over.

They weren't even really in the spot. They left the car running. And I was like, am I about to get fucking like, yeah, like I'm no way in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut. But so like, you think about it now, I get it. And mine is a hundredth of thousands of what you're like, I said last night as a joke to like, how often do you get recognized? Because it happened last night when we were out and your wife was like, oh, every day.

Like that, that's a little bit much. That must get a little bit old. No, you say hello to people. There's some people who last night was an arrest. No, Friday night I went to a restaurant in Coltsnack and I got 12 kids and I got 12 adults. You know, I got like six sets of parents and we're sitting. We just come from a tag, a flag football game and we're sitting there. We're having a good time with the kids and all of a sudden a guy comes in with kids and

I stop because the waitress is there and I make eye contact with the guy and he looks at me and I go, what's happening? He goes, how you doing, man? He goes, I love you in the longest shot. He shook my hand and he kept moving with his car. Great people, yeah. That's it. He goes, that's mercy.

I go, yeah. I listen to the podcast. He walked away. Yeah. Got some other kids. I was gonna say, good people make it easy to be nice to them. Good people make it easy. They make it easy.

They make life easy. But then there's problem people. Where are you just going? Then I got two kids around me. I got my daughter sitting on me and I got the neighbor girl busting my balls because my pants were short and I could see my ass crack. So the neighbor girl kept saying, I'm gonna throw pennies in there, Mr. Diaz. And all of a sudden some kid goes, are you Joe Diaz?

And I'm like, no, you got the wrong guy. Just because I knew what he wanted. When you see a guy with two kids, he was excited. He was very excited. He was young and I knew he was gonna hang there. He might even slip and say, where's the reefer at or something? Right. I'm sitting next to a cop, you know, he's a detective.

You know, he knows I get high, but I don't want to slam it in his face. Right. So I go, nah, nah. And he goes, everybody fucking, you look just like him. Anybody ever tell you that? And the detective goes, I tell him all the time. They look just like Joe Diaz. He won't listen.

And everybody's laughing at the table and the guy's like, man, you look just like Joey. I didn't do that because I was a scumbag. I did it because I know that. What I was gonna play. The other guy had kids with him and he was just like a nice, you know, whatever. I love talking to people. I love. Listen, I'm a chatty.

You know what I'm saying? Like I love talking to people. So if you're cool with me and you approach me the right way, I'll talk to you for 10 fucking years. The other day I went to Lobodes and they're talking to some guy out there for fucking 20 minutes about CGI. Yep. You know, he just, he came up to me.

I'm in high school and I want to learn. He goes, when they shot in the Sopranos, did they really? And we talked. Yeah. He didn't want to take a picture. He didn't give a fuck about comedy. Polite. Polite.

And respectful. Respect. That like, I remember being in a bar. I wasn't even drinking, but I was like five years ago or whatever bartender slammed and, you know, I catch the wire and I said, excuse me. I can see that you're busy, but when you have a chance, may I please get a Diet Coke with no ice. And the guy goes, what?

I said, I understand your busy. But when you please just the Diet Coke and he went, you know what, whatever you want, it's free. I go, what? He goes, order whatever you want. He goes, you're the only polite person we've had in here in a year. He goes, whatever you want, I got it. Like, because people don't do that anymore.

There's no more common courtesy. I think that over the, with the situation the last two years, I think, you know, man, I call it like a mental health issue because maybe I had a little bit of mental health issue. But at times when you see all these planes and stuff, I was thinking about the planes that it was people have been in the house too long and they forgot how to act. Yeah. Well, she's thanked me about a week, two weeks ago, my daughter took me aside eight years

old and she's like, dad, thank you for bringing me here. Thank you for turning me on to your food. She fucking loves White Castle. You know, she'll ask me twice a week, can we go to White Castle? You know, she loves fucking Carvel. I mean, she loves Carvel. She's all over fucking Carvel. Yeah.

Last night she asked me because I took her to a football game. She's like, you know, it's get a Sunday free today at Carvel. I'm like, why not fucking go on a Carvel? Because I take a once a week for her. Every now and then. Her little fucking vanilla ice cream soda. Yeah. But even like, I could tell how she treats the people I grew up with.

Right. She's really interested in other people. She really digs them. She really goes out in a way to talk to them. She's asked, she asked some questions like, did you go to school with my daddy? You know, so she's really appreciate that's what made me happy. Right now I got to be honest with you. I've been having an all right time here.

But watching her have a great time makes my dick hard. What's the difference between when you grew up there and now? How, what, what are the major changes? Holy shit. It's listen, I grew up in a city that was buck fucking wild. No rules. I was getting dressed yesterday in the shower and I was thinking about a friend of mine getting me a job one day. And before he left the room, he goes, enjoy your job, you know, and he goes, don't forget to steal.

Because if you don't steal, they're going to know I was stealing. Who the fuck tells you that in a society? So it was buck wild up there. I live an hour from where I grew up. Where I grew up is really fucking populated. It's right across the Hudson River from New York City. So I didn't want to move up there. There was no way I was moving up there.

Right. I'm in a place now where, you know, it's wide open. There's trees. The other night I was smoking a joint on my front porch and two deer run ran in front of me. I thought I was going to have a fucking heart attack. I thought I was going to shit my fucking pants when I seen those deer in my front porch at a quarter to 11. I got a cup of tea in me and I got half a joint. I'm just sitting and I heard this fucking thing and the two deer jumped out in front of me and I almost shit my pants.

It's a different world to him. Yeah, yeah. It's a different world, you know, and I'm happy I got to bring her here. I'm happy my wife is here. She's having a great time. My wife had friends. My wife has friends now that don't give a fuck who I am. Right.

You know, before she would make a friend and after two weeks, the girl would say, you know, can we bring, give your husband a script? And my wife would go, was this what it's all about? And then when my wife tells him, no, they stopped talking to my wife. That was LA for my wife. Yeah, that's tough. To see what they could get out of her on her end. And if nothing, move the fuck on, you know, so. Right.

She's in a different place now. She's surrounded with real parents. Yeah. They care about their kids. Yeah. And they, you know, in LA, people use their kids. They're pimping out their kids in that way. Fucking marketing fucking tool.

No, they're pimping out their kids. Yeah. No, it's crazy. Nope. I know people who have a kid just to put them in carpenter. Yeah. They don't give a fuck about the kid. Carpenters school for people don't know it's in studio city.

Right. And it's a grammar school, but it's where all the fucking celebrities go. The kids go to school. Yeah. And they have their Christmas party at CBS Radford on the lot. Yeah. I get it. Cause I have a God son who's like a quarter Filipino, but we say Chinese cause we want

him to, you know, higher end. We say Japanese or Chinese. We don't admit to Filipino, but he's, but he's the chubby baby with the Asian face. I go, let's get him in something. Let's make a couple of dollars here. You know, because the reality is, is, you know, the only thing he could be is a nurse really. Cause his mother's in our Filipino nurse.

I said, so let's just make, let's get him. Like he'll drink some juice. He eats the doughnut. Let's make a few hundred grand off this motherfucker before, because he might grow up to be a beautiful kid, but he also might grow up to be absolutely, uh, disgusting. We don't know. So I get it. Like in LA, like sometimes you just got to make the money while they're young.

Let me tell you something. I remember going to fucking auditions for commercials and seeing like, you know, when you go to those auditions to have eight rooms. Right. And they had one room that's for kids, like kids come and that I would sit there and just watch the parents and watch the kids and fucking get sick to my stomach. Yeah. How the parents would act because the parents are like pistol Pete's father.

Yeah. They're pushing the kid. They're telling the kid, he's got to get this audition. The fucking poor kid wants to play with blocks. Right. You know, some of those kids are psychopaths. You know, I was an actor as a kid when I was young. I was on Sesame Street.

I started in plays when I was like six. No shit. Where to God. And I legitimately, I did. I toured around the country with a show. My mother went on tour with me. I did a lot of theater. I did, I did Sesame Street.

I did a student NYU student film. I never did anything big. I tried out for big shit, but I never got like home improvement or any of those big sitcom. I never got them. And my parents were like, they, they weren't good at being a stage mom. Like they should have been pushier and more aggressive, but they weren't. And then every time I would fail at the audition, we would go home through Penn Station in New York City. And I would go, can I go, can I go to Dairy Queen and they would get me a Dairy Queen Blizzard.

And I would eat it like a failure in the waiting room of the Long Island Railroad. And I would get, I would get like, I forget what kind I'd get. I'd get an Oreo or Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard. And I would just sit there and eat it like a failure. And then we'd finally take the train home. So it was a tragic thing, but I had fun doing it, but I never made it. But you did it. At 13, I became a cocaine addict.

So maybe it's not good. You started snorting at 13. At 13, yeah. Holy shit. Summer going into high school. Jesus Christ, Tim Dillon. What haven't you done? I was at my friend Tina DeLuca's house and we're in Long Island and she had a nice house on the water.

And she goes, we got, you know, me and a couple other friends were there. And, you know, they were like, let's try cocaine. I said, that sounds like a great idea. And she had it. And we did it. Didn't even work. I mean, at first time I said, it doesn't even, we had to keep doing it and doing it. And then finally, you know, it took. You got a drink with it.

Yeah. Yeah. It took eventually. But I mean, I was smoking weed. I was doing acid, you know, all of those things. Yeah. First tab of acid. I was in my first tab of acid. You're going to laugh. Was at my friend's house.

I was in eighth grade. The second time I did acid, I was on the graduation stage of my junior high school and me and my friend Shay, my friend Tina, we're like a three. We all took a tab of acid and we were standing there and the valedictorian is up there, wouldn't shut up some, you know, some Asian girl. And she was talking and talking to God bless her. But she was talking about, you know, whatever, you know, and we would just stand in there. And then finally we went to the beach afterwards.

We were all, we were finally tripping. But yeah, I started really young and then I sobered up at 25. So I had about a 10 year period of being out and doing wild shit. Now you sober today. Sober is a church. No drinking. No smoking. No pills.

No weed. Nothing. How long now? About 11 years. No shit. About 11 years. Yeah. Your what?

Your skin's glowing. What kind of face routine you got going on, huh? No, no reefer all fucking day. Just to join at night. I'm getting some good sleep. There you go. I'm drinking a lot of fucking water. I love it.

And vitamin D, you know, Jersey vitamin D mixed with a little pollution. The best. A little cancer in the air. It's good for you. I love that smell when you land. Like when I get back from LA and I landed in New York, like the smell of like New York pollution and trash. Like I love it.

It makes me feel good. It's in my blood. There you go. It's, it's quite, I like when you're driving on the turnpike and you get that whiff that those fucking odors of New Jersey, like, and you see that stack blowing the fucking smoke into the air and God knows what's up there. In the marsh, you have like the marsh and who knows how many bodies are buried in there.

I do know how many bodies are buried in there. There's a lot. In fact, I saw a foot sticking out the other day on the 18. I'm like, I'm not even going to bother that motherfucker. It's funny. We were driving on the 18. Yeah. And then my daughter goes, dad, I just saw a bear and my wife was like, let's pull

over. I go, fuck them. Pull over. What is the zoo? There ain't no fucking zoo. We're not pulling over nowhere. Yeah. No way.

I love that. I love that. How you been? I've been good, brother. I've been good. Um, you know, getting ready for the movie to come out, I've been doing all this sort of press, which is like so incredible and so weird and like talking about myself a ton. It's such an interesting fucking experience.

It's like, I don't know. I feel like, you know, like I'm just a normal guy. So it's so weird to like, um, you know, have all just answering all these questions about me and my life. It's, it's been tough and fun and hard and scary and exciting and all that stuff. Good. How does it feel to be less than a month away from being in one of the best films of the year?

Oh man. Um, I'm excited. I'm just like excited. I'm really, I'm proud of what we did, man. I'm really proud of it and, uh, you know, that's the feeling I have and like proud for everyone to see it and can't wait to get everyone together. It'll be like our family reunion, you know, how are you feeling with it coming out? Um, uh, this has been a great experience for me from the beginning all the way to now.

The shooting inspired me to move back here. Yeah. Just coming back for that movie inspired me in a way to go. What the, where have I been? What the fuck am I doing with my life living out in LA? I'm ready for Jersey. My daughter needs it. Um, the set was one of the best sets I've ever worked on in my life.

It was no drama, you know, another LA bullshit on the set. You could tell the big difference between shooting in New York and LA. There's a big, big difference. Everybody was dynamite. We laughed our asses off. There were long days, you know, but they didn't feel long. Like I've worked on movies before where you're like, this sucks. Yeah.

This was coming home at six feeling like you just went, came back from an orgy. You know, just like, I would leave there going, holy fuck, that was great today. You know, and David's directing and, you know, what you learned from him and just everybody, everybody. It was just a phenomenal experience. And, uh, I saw the movie and when I went to see the movie, I had expectations. I don't know what the words I'm looking for. And I was blown away. I was really blown the fuck away to the point that I sat there for like five minutes going, what the fuck that I just see.

Yeah. And I think the biggest takeaway I got from the movie was how good you were, how good you came through, how great your arc was, your arc. You got to remember, I only did one scene with you. We never saw each other. We never saw each other. I know. You were always off duty when I'd see you. I know.

Whatever. So we were never together except for that scene. And that was John's scene. So we had nothing to do in there. So I never really got to see you till I went to the movie and I was like, I'm the drive home. I was like, motherfucker, better be ready for what's coming his way after this. I really, I really, really, really appreciate that. You know, especially coming from you and it's a testament to you guys.

I leaned on every one of you. And like you said, like we didn't have a lot of scenes together, but all of us who are part of it, like David. David is such an incredible artist, not only in his writing, but like in his casting. I mean, he created a family and I got to lean on you guys and that's what I did. I just leaned on you guys and learned from you guys. Like you said, like, you know, a lot of people sometimes ask, like, was it super intense? Was it hard? And like you say, of course it was hard and intense, but it was a fucking blast.

Like it was so fun. We laughed our asses off. You know, I mean, we were doing 14, 15, 16 hour days, but on days that I had off, not every day, but a lot of days I had off, I'd come to set. I just wanted to watch. Like I wasn't going to not watch you guys and get to watch these incredible actors and people work. Like I love just being on set. It was the best, you know, it was the best.

I really learned a lot from David. Like I was a big fan of the show, but I liked the humor of the show. Like I always said, when they do the intervention with Christopher, that is some of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen. And I'm a pink Floyd. I'm a pink Floyd pink Panther guy. I'm a pink Panther guy. I love the pink Panther.

And that's what that reminded me of. Like Paulie goes to the psychic and he throws the chair. Oh my God. Oh my God. There's just so many fucking scenes that are hilarious that you really laugh. And I remember it was my first day on the set and we had to do a scene. And I was doing the comic thing. I was trying to improvise.

And I remember somebody came over and they went, don't do it. Just sit and learn. And I remember doing it exactly how they wanted me to. And all of a sudden I was in the twilight zone. I was in the soprano episode. Yeah. Because David is the king of silence. Yeah.

He's the king of making silence. Like when you're a standup comic, you come from a school, Michael, that you tell a joke and it should vibrate. And then it comes back to you, but let the joke sit. Don't step on it. And a lot of comics, including myself, you know, you're on a roll. So you just keep hitting them with fucking left, you know, with hard right hands. It's great once in a while to hit somebody with a right hand. That was your intro to this life.

That was my intro. Could I tell you something about brutal honesty? And this is the God's honest truth. And I was ever listening to this when I was in the room with the casting director and I wish they still have that tape. I won't say everything I said right now, but I'll say some of what I said. She said, when you're done with those sides, tell me who you are. And on God, I looked in the camera and I said, my name is Kat. And I was always brutally honest like you.

And that is a loaded question. Tell me who you are, even on regular nine to five job interviews. The worst question they could ask me because that's how I didn't get the job in that world. Tell me who you are. And I said, my name is Catherine Anducci. And my whole life, I knew I was supposed to be an actress and everywhere and every job I ever had, I would look out the window and daydream that I was supposed to be an actress and I wasn't supposed to be there. That I was supposed to be right here.

And my father was murdered when I was 10 and shot down. My mother suffered from mental nervous breakdowns. My whole childhood, I come from a very dysfunctional childhood. My sister, my dad, my dad. I spilled out all my family dirty laundry. And then I just went, oh my God, could I do it over? She went, no, thank you. And I went, I'm not going to get the fucking job.

I just blew the job. I knew I did a great audition, but I just blew the fucking job. And when I got that job, De Niro said to me the first day of work, you know why you got this? And I said, why you got this? Because you told the truth in your audition. Stay with that honesty, stay with that. That's how you got to act. Just be really honest.

That's what acting is. It's honesty. That is one of the best fucking stories I've heard in the entertainment business in 23 fucking years. That is great. That is tremendous. And you took the ball and ran from there. It's never stopped. Well, it's always been a struggle.

I'm a working class actress. I'm no A-lister. I work a lot. Sometimes I don't work. Sometimes I work. But no matter what, I always say this to people when they go, even when I taught, I taught a couple of semesters at school visual arts. I say, if you're not willing to just work the rest of your life, if I told you, you would work the rest of your life in a broken down theater.

Nobody will even see you. But you can act in that theater. You can do all the plays. You can do shit. You can do that. The rest of your life, you're an actor. But that's where you'll do it. Where you still want to be an actor.

And if they say yes, then I say then do it. Because you'll never be miserable when you're not working. You'll never be miserable when you got told no. You'll never be miserable when you don't work for long periods of time. Because you're just fucking happy being who you are and what you are meant to be. So when I had dry spells, of course I wanted to work because I needed to pay my bills. But I never said all this fucking business or fuck this, fuck that. I was never not happy for my friends that worked all the time.

All my friends worked all the time. And I was always still happy for them. And I was happy for them because I said I want to be around working actors. I don't want to be around a bunch of non-working actors. Although I was around a lot of non-working actors. I like being around working actors. It teaches me and it gives me hope. I want you to get it even if I don't get it.

Because then you are my inspiration. If she got it, I can get it. That's how I always took it when somebody else got my job. That's how I look at it. That's how I look at things. Everything about it is positive because I just want to be an actor. I don't want to be famous. I just want to be an actor and I want to be able to pay my bills.

And I am successful. You are. That's a great attitude to have. And you haven't stopped since. I remember after the Sopranos ended, I saw you in an audition for something. To play a cop or something. Oh, I think it was CSI New York. I think we auditioned.

I think so. I think it was. Yes. Did we speak? No, I just said hello to you. You had on pants. You were dressed like a cop. I've been thinking about it for the last couple of days.

What auditions I went in that time. And I think it was CSI New York. When it first came out. Like the original cast. Like this was to shoot the pilot. So it was a long time ago, but you have not fucking stopped. How did you end up getting the Sopranos? Kathy Moriarty called me who I love.

And to me, she's such a fucking great actress, man. Yes, she is. Um, Kathy Moriarty called me. She goes, not do she named me. Not do everybody calls me not do not do your kitty on my two nicknames. She goes, not do you got to go into the show. Uh, the Sopranos. And I was like, but I don't sing.

She goes, no, it's not about that. She goes, you got to go in your right for it. Call your agent. I call my agent. He goes, all right, I'm on it. And then I got an audition. I auditioned for Edie Falco's role. And they call me back.

Of course, only Edie could have done Edie's role. Brilliant. Edie who I love. Um, Edie Falco's role. And then they call me back and I went in for Charmaine Bucco and, uh, I got called the next day for that. They said, you know, David wants to give you Charmaine Bucco. So I was blessed again.

Blessed. Unbelievable. Blessed. You did great on that show. You were great. Fucking great. Thank you. Thank you.

And now we're here. You know what I'm saying? I'm sorry you're not going to go to the premiere. I would love to see you. I heard from Vinnie last night. Well, no, you know what? Wait, let me tell you, we were, I think we're all, I mean, I'm invited to be many saints of New York premiere,

but I may have to go back to the show that I'm blonde for. If I don't, I definitely want to come in and I, and I want to see everybody. I would hope all the sopranos are gone. I love, I love to see. We all love seeing each other and I get to see you. Yes. No, they're all supposed to go.

I heard from Vinnie last night and he said, he'll see me at the premiere. I heard from a friend, the Sharipas, he's going. So yeah, everybody's going to be there. Aw. And I'm so happy. I, I, you understand, I did the Wizard of Lies with Alessandro. Yes.

Yes. And I, me and Alessandro, I love him and I love his wife and I love their family. And I just am so happy for him. I am so happy for Michael. I'm happy for David Chase. He's unbelievable. He don't stop.

I'm just, I'm just really happy about this movie. I'm happy for you. I'm just, it's so, everything's a win-win. Yes. A win-win. I'm happy for Dave. I'm really happy for Michael. And I think, I hate talking shit, but I think Alessandro's

going to come out with an award from this fucking thing. Oh. Or at least a nomination. You know when he did he called me. Yes. When he got it. Yes. He's going to be, I think this is a good movie.

I think they all did well. You saw it? Yeah. But I think it's going to be different. All right. For all honesty, how did you like yourselves? In all honesty. Yeah.

I looked away. Why? I hate looking at myself on film. You want to know, could I say something you told me about the, not me, you told the whole world. The three things, the three, the three things you, you know, are appreciated. Grateful for, yes.

Grateful for. I'm going to tell you something. When you watch yourself, watch it again. Go with a different perspective and love yourself and say, wow, self, you're doing pretty fucking good from a kid from fucking nothing. Look at you up there. Look at you.

Look at your eyes. Look at your mouth, your nose, your ears, your hair, your body. You're up there. You're in a beautiful movie. You're so blessed. Look at you kid. Look at you kid.

Look how good you're doing now and look at yourself beautifully because all that put together made them hire you and, and, and appreciate it. Let that be one of the things I appreciate me on a screen with all these fabulous people. I appreciate me being able to be seen and heard. I appreciate me to be doing what I love. I appreciate it.

I appreciate my face, my body. That's what got me there. I'm healthy. I see. I breathe. I taste. I hear. I, I have, you know, all these things, all these things that

put me together, meaning me. I appreciate you. I appreciate you, Joey. I appreciate you. And let your little inner child that was beaten up and broken down, look up at that screen and say, we did it. That's fucking beautiful. That is as beautiful as it gets.

We did it. We did it. We fucking did it. And I don't care if it goes nowhere or you never work again. You fucking did it. You're fucking inner child that tries to keep going. The sparkle in your eye, the honesty you have, all the things that make you did it.

I'm like you again differently. I'm like you captain right here. It's all about this right here. Oh my God. She died when I was 16. And this is it right here. She wanted me to grow up and be a man. I did.

That's it. What's her name? DeNora. DeNora? DeNora. DeNora. With a D. DeNora.

He did it. We did it. We fucking did it. DeNora. I'm funny. My mother was funny. And she's up there too. And Nicky, my father, but I don't care.

Scrappy kids from nothing. I don't care how big or small. We're trying. Keep yourself a fucking hug. Give yourself a break. Give yourself a little pat on the shoulder. Appreciate the little moments because that's your life right there. Right now.

This moment. It's every single step we take. It's our life. That's it. Can't keep waiting for the big event. The big this, the big apartment. My biggest. My most happiest times is when I fucking had nothing.

You know, as a kid, I was homeless a couple of times. We slept in central park on newspapers. And very, you know, short period of time, like two weeks. Then we went to the hospital. We had to go to the hospital. We had to be very, you know, short period of time, like two weeks. Then again, we did it for a week. And I got to tell you, we got evicted.

I was still so fucking happy. Like what the fuck is in my stupid? Like, I just feel you got to appreciate your life. The good, the bad, the ugly. It's your fucking life. And then it's over. Then it's over. And right now, it's like you're here.

Appreciate it. You're not going to be miss happy, go lucky or miss the happy, go lucky all day, every day and appreciate, but try, try, try to, to just appreciate it. Like you looking at yourself on screen. Look again, man. Look again through that little joey Diaz fucking 10 year old that was going through a shit.

Look again and go, man, what the fuck? You got up there. We did it. We did it. That's it. It's to be appreciated. I really appreciate it now. Now you really gave me a different appreciation for it.

Yes. I love you. You made a mark in this world. You really fucking, this is one of the best podcasts I've done in a long goddamn time. You don't make me cry. You fucking schooled me today. I love it.

I am blown away at tears in my eyes. You made me think about my mom. You really fucking hit out of the park. That was great. You are a fucking star. I appreciate you with all my fucking heart. You know, I would watch you and go, wow, she's bringing something different to the table.

And now I know what it is you're bringing to the table. You got a lot of heart, man. You got a lot of fucking heart Harlem filled your heart with fucking balls and toughness. You're the real deal, Narduch. Oh my, she can't be more already. I love her too. I haven't seen her in years.

She still have the pizza place. You know, I don't know. I'm not clear. I spoke to her about maybe three weeks ago. I didn't, I forgot what she said. I think I arrested her, but I forgot what she said. I forgot. Yeah.

They opened up a new one by my house before I moved from LA. They had opened up a new pizza place by my house. I'd gone to it once. It was good. You know, it was their pizza. Good pizza. Yeah. Yeah.

They opened one in studio city before I left. So it was great. Um, how long is your podcast? Are we going too long? No, that's it. We're done. Oh, okay. Is that filming anymore?

No, we're filming. We're going to end right now. I love you to death. I'm happy you came on today. It was tremendous. They're going to fucking love you. Let these savages know where they could find you. Do you have any social media?

Anything? Yes. I just started following you Coco. And that's my niece's name. Shout out to Coco. They could find me. I don't know. I guess on, on Instagram, Twitter,

Instagram, capital, not duchy. That's it really. I don't have anything fancy. I have Instagram. No website. No. Okay. I love you, Narduch.

You should start one of these podcasts. Narduchy, you're very good at this. No, I like, I know. You fucking just blew me away today. So you're very good at this. I don't get blown away too much. You have some deep knowledge. So I love you to death.

You have a new fan, a bigger fan. I was a fan already. Now I'm a bigger fucking fan because I got to look at your heart and what you're about. So thank you very much for coming on today. And let's stay in touch. Okay. I'm going to call you every week and be in touch with you.

And these guys know I keep in touch with people. I don't fuck around when I love you. I love you to death. So I appreciate you taking the time to come on today. I love you to death. I love you to death. I love you to death. I love you.

I love you to death. I love you to death. Thanks for watching.