Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #218 | UNCLE JOEY’S JOINT with JOEY DIAZ

Episode Date: December 5, 2022

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What's happening, you bad motherfuckers? It's Monday the 5th of fucking December. It was a great weekend. We're already in goddamn fucking December. We're in it to win it, Jack. Oh, son's anarchy when the fucking guy goes, I don't want to go to war. And he goes, son, we already in it. You know what I'm saying?

We're already in it. It's getting cold and it's December. That's it. It was a great fucking weekend. Hung out with the girls. No comedy. I didn't do dick. Worked out.

Went to a Gracie seminar on Saturday. Got my blue belt at the fucking promotion finally. I got it the right way. I did the fucking steps. I did the classes. I don't really think I'm a blue belt, but I went up there with an open mind. To be honest with you guys, I'm like, I'm not getting no fucking blue belt today. And I was fine with that.

I'm just listening. For me and my world, I'm an old man. I'm not trying to go to the no-gee worlds or the worlds or nothing. I'm just trying to get in shape, meet new people, you know, fuck around a little bit, get hurt, get choked out. That's it. But I'm really happy. You know, I tell you guys all the time that, listen, you might not be good at something.

Stand up for me. What do you think? I fucking got up on the stage and people will give me fucking props. No. It's a journey and it's sticking with it that is so beneficial. Like anybody could fucking quit anything. Anybody sticking with it is what people usually don't do, you know. And again, you know, I learned from my mistakes and I try to, the mistakes I really made,

I always try to correct them. When I first joined Jiu Jitsu, I was getting information from everywhere and it was very confusing for me. My schedule was fucked up. There was weeks I could train. I couldn't train and I didn't think I gave myself a fair chance. I really loved Alberto Crane school where I got my blue belt. I loved subconscious, but I was always missing something. After I tore my hamstring, I was like, that's it.

I'm not going to be able to do shit anymore. In fact, I gave a bunch of my geese away. I saved like two geese. And when I got here, I got bored one day and I was just Googling shit. I saw it. There was a grade C school and I went up there and I really liked what they did. I liked the program. It was, it wasn't a California type program.

It was a slower, more fundamental program. And I went and man, I tell you, I struggle, I struggle every fucking class. But I show up and I'm a little older. I understand that. I have to give myself a breather. Like you have to, when you start jujitsu, they tell you to check your ego at the door, which you should be doing in all aspects of all your life. But at my age, I really got to go in there and check my ego at the door.

There's not much I can do, but just showing up, man, doing the warmups, trying the best you can, laughing with people. It makes a world of a difference. And if it gets me a little healthier, listen, at my age right now, or you keep hearing even fucking Thor, look at fucking Thor. Thor is like a guy that eats fucking carrots and lips weights and drinks, fucking carrot juice and shit. And he's taken six months off because he's got some gene or something.

But he's got dementia. You know how much that scares me. You know what I live with right now? I live with my friends telling me about their parents and how hard it is to fucking. I have a friend right now that he's the sweetest guy in the world. I've known this guy for fucking 40 years. I mean, just a gentleman and his mother is in hospice. You know, she doesn't even know who she is half the time.

The father, you know, it's it's fucking rough. So dementia scares the fuck out of me like we did cocaine. We smoke reefer for 40 fucking years. I got hit in the head a couple of times. I'm a little concerned. So that's why when you get older, I like to do things that involve your mind, involve steps. When you do jujitsu, I grab you.

Let's say it's a it's a fucking arm bar from the closed guard. I got to pull your arm, put my leg on your fucking hip, you know, fucking throw this leg over, take your balance off and then push your face away so my leg can get over. Those are steps. It's six steps. So you have to memorize those steps. And that's that will help me with dementia. When you hit the bag, you do combos, right?

I'm not Muhammad Ali, but you do little combos. You break a sweat. All those little, you know, jab on uppercut, left hook, fucking right cross, all that shit and reputation and repetition, reputation. It must, it must fucking help you fuck out. You know, so this is why I'm into this stuff. People always said, yeah, but you do that. Guys, I'm harmless.

I can't do anything. My flying through the head days have come to a fucking end, but just showing up. I can't say this enough to people just showing up. And guess what? Some days you're going to have shitty days. You might have two shitty days. You have a shitty day at the gym. You go to the gym and you're not feeling it and the weights.

But then you go in there some other days and you're fucking throwing things around like fucking Thor. You're throwing weights around and people and, you know, so you have bad days and good days, but the most important thing is not to give up. You know those guys at Jiu Jitsu, what they always say to me, man, and it means the world. The other day when I got the blue belt, when I walked up to Hollis and I was like, Hollis, I'm not ready for this. And he goes, yes, you are. He goes, I know the first time you got your blue belt, you think you weren't ready.

This time you're ready. You're putting in the work and just keep showing up. They have a multitude of classes you go to. You go to classes and not roll. You go to classes and drill. You go to classes and get killed. So I'm happy I go in there. It's, uh, it's more of a therapy for me.

Honest to God. The first time I went to Jiu Jitsu was the day of the Many Saints and the Word premiere. And I was petrified. I had a horrible fear of fucking COVID. Horrible. Now I walk into a COVID cave. I don't give a fuck. I walk into it.

It doesn't matter. But guys, at first it really jarred me to fear. And I still remember him calling me and me walking upstairs to a room and fucking going. Like it was just me and him in the class. We're doing a private Sean who also got his brown belt yesterday. I fucking, this is my little brother. He's my son. I love this little Irishman.

He's the one that made me go back in there. And I never forget walking out of that first day. I'll never forget him being in my closed garden breathing on me and me going. If I'm not dying by this, you know, I didn't even want people breathing on me in my back. So I wouldn't leave the fucking house. Just the fact that I went there and did it. When I got up off that mat, I did a horrible job that day. I couldn't even fucking breathe.

But when I walked down those stairs, I was like, this is what I needed to eliminate that fear. And I got in the car and went right into the beacon theater and I walked down. There was 2000 fucking people there. And I'm like, here we go. We're going to die again now. But I fucking didn't get COVID. The point is that that jujitsu eliminated my fear. And then three months later, I ended up getting COVID and here we fucking are.

But I'm really happy that I fucking walked in there. And you know, a lot of these guys always said to me, Joey, we wish we could get our father's to come in here. Like every four classes, a guy will go, man, I was talking to my wife and I told her, you come in here. And she's like, he's a real fucking dude. You know, because in LA, guys like me would take private classes and I don't want nobody else from the gym and me. Why join jujitsu if you're not going to be involved with people? That's what part of it is. It's human touch.

It's grabbing. It's pushing. And at the end you shake hands. I mean, you laugh your fucking ass off. And it's like my daughter. I watched my daughter. My daughter does basketball. She's got a little circle of friends.

I don't know how many times I'll tell my daughter, we're going to kickbox and today we're going to Fat Joe's. And she's like, I don't know that as soon as I walk in the door with her, she's giggling with these fucking kids because you have a whole new set of friends over there. And now we're going to start doing more things at night and dinners and shit like that. But it's just a way of life. And if you're a little lost or confused or yeah, whatever the fuck you're going through, it might be the answer. This is a kid that I had on my Patreon, Kurt McPeak. I love this.

Kurt's a bad motherfucker. Kurt joined. Kurt went up there. Kurt told me, you think I should go and I go, Kurt? Kurt's a little shy guy, very personable. He goes up there. He just got a second stripe. He fucking goes to double classes.

Kurt walks with Lee on the Patreon. You know, he's just a sweetheart of a kid and that's a feather in my cap. For me, when I see Kurt up there, Kurt hit me on Patreon. I went to two classes. I'm sore as fuck. I can't walk. My eye is sore. You know, but he'll always thank me.

Thank you. Thank you for giving me a device to come up here. It's fucking great. The guys are great. So I'm very happy. And like I said to you, if you're lonely, you're fucking out of shape. I mean, whatever. Listen, just join.

Don't tell me that. Well, I need to get in shape. Just join. You'll get in shape as you go and the people will take care of you more than what the fuck you think. Guys, people take care of you. Oh my God, there's certain guys, all the belts. They'll come over and go, don't do this, man.

Don't do this. Do this. Don't let this fucking animal get on top of you. You know, so trust me, it's a different fucking world. I never thought I would love this world. I mean, I'm an old man. I got nothing going for me, but I go. And there's a guy that's 69 that kicks my ass every time I go.

There's another guy that's 65. Charlie, I'm going to go see him. He's at Gracie and Long Branch and all these schools are connected. So you could train at Gracie Middletown, Gracie Old Bridge. I get in the car tomorrow and go to Long Branch. I get in the car tomorrow night and go to Gracie fucking. That's where my daytime teacher is. I love that hard girl.

Garland or something like that. Garwood, Gracie Garwood. So you could train at all these different schools and guys, it's like next Sunday. I got to go to a fucking school at Long Branch. Just doing that grand opening, you know. So this is what, you know, you go, you talk to people, you eat some fucking Brazilian food, you get an açaí bowl, you eat the granola and the fruit and you call it a fucking night.

What else has been going on this week? I mean, you got a lot of fucking hits lately. Some people goof on me and I, you know, some people call me, you know, whatever. Cocaine Bear is coming the fuck out and it's all over the place. So people hit me up. Listen, here it is plain and simple. If you don't believe me, even Michael stick up for me. I was the first person to talk about that cocaine bad thing.

And I'll tell you the fucking story through it before you get all confused and shit. I lived in a snowmass village in 84 and when I went to Aspen in 84, my whole mind, like when I went to Colorado, I was a fiend already. Not an addictive fiend. I was just like a little fucking young coke fiend. I was 19 and Scarface hadn't come out yet. We didn't even know the basics of cocaine. Some people knew it.

Some people didn't. I had grown up with it. I was in my mother's bar. I saw it in my house. You know, I just kept my mouth shut about it. But when I went to Aspen, the first thing that happened was I got a, the guy who talked me into going to Aspen was Jimmy Burkle. God bless, rest his soul.

But the guy who convinced me was my cousin Tweety. Tweety is a bad motherfucker. He's about 68 now. Lives in Miami. Tweety, I just bumped into him one day after I spoke to Jimmy Burkle. I'm thinking I'm moving to Aspen because I got a house in Aspen. I go, what? What are you talking about?

He goes, I got a house in Aspen. If you come up, come visit me. Maroon bells, all this shit. And I'm like, how does a guy from West New York get a house in fucking Aspen? And he goes, all the people I work with. I didn't know who we worked with. I, you know, whatever. So he gave me a number and whatever.

I fucking got that snowmass village. I lived in Basalt first. When I lived in Basalt, I did a little coke. I had to go to Carbondale to cop it. You know, like just a half gram every other week, shit like that. When I moved to snowmass, there was a lot more cocaine around. Now it's 1983 guys. By this point, when I left North Bergen in 83 in April of 83, cocaine was around.

You know, people were doing it. People had it. You could go into the city and get it. When I went to Aspen, when I went to snowmass village, Colorado, whatever. When I got there, you know, when I got to snowmass village, like I said, I was snorting coke and stuff. But I saw that the coke world was a little thicker up there. And for people who don't know this and you're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you and you could Google it. When I got to Colorado in 1983, I never forget one of the first times I went to Aspen and bought cocaine.

And somebody said to me, bro, you're at the right place if you like coke. And I'm like, I love cocaine. And they're like, you're at the right place because Aspen is the cocaine capital, the United States. And I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? It's Miami. And they're like, no, it's not because Aspen, Gunnison, all those places are the where they store it to go to Minneapolis, Idaho. It's mid-country. Denver is mid-country pretty much.

And it's a port you could take it to California, you know, Arizona, New Mexico. So that, you know, that was the thinking back then, I guess. But I mean, I was at a bar called Patty Bugatti's one time and some guy was telling me that you're at the right place, man. You're at the capital of cocaine, Aspen, Colorado, the mother of pearl. And I'm like, what are you talking about? And I started buying coke at Aspen and that shit was to a different fucking level. That shit was glass. You know, the coke that they were getting up and had, it was $100, sometimes $110.

They were not fucking around and tight counts. I mean, you got a tight fucking gram, but cocaine was everywhere. You know, I didn't know any players. I love to tell you I knew Pablo. I didn't know anybody, right? I knew nothing, but I would hear the different things. You know, I became a burglar in Colorado and in Snowmass Village. So I would hear different things.

I always played the guy that didn't do coke. If I bought coke from a dealer, it was from my roommate that worked for VPM. He didn't want nobody to know he did coke. So he didn't want to buy it. So everybody always knew I was a reefer head and a fucking weightlifter that had nothing to do with cocaine. They knew I didn't drink. They knew I just smoked pot. So when Coke started missing up in Snowmass Village, nobody looked at me because they were going,

he don't do coke. He's a fucking pothead. But these guys were all part of a network. Okay, that I, there was a guy named, I don't know, I don't remember what his name was. Sweetheart of a guy and there was a girl named Kiehl's. That was a piece of ass. Beautiful. That was right before my eyes in 83.

I got there in April. I moved to Snowmass in June. And by fucking the time I left in January, these guys were driving fucking new cars. It was insane how fast cocaine was moving, but especially up there. The coke I was getting in Aspen was way better than anything I was getting here at the time. And we're close to Union City. Union City's a Cuban fucking hub. Mariellito's all that shit.

When they came in to the picture, cocaine was everywhere here. But when I went to Aspen, the cocaine was a lot better. When I got back from Aspen to New York in February of 84, cocaine was fucking everywhere here. But let's get back to the cocaine there. So my cousin told me he lived in Maroon Bells. If you Google Maroon Bells, it's fucking beautiful. It's like a mountain. It's fucking gorgeous up there.

And he told me that he lived next to Jack Nicholson. And I remember taking a bus up there one day and going, I'm just going to knock on his door because I kept calling him and leaving messages, calling him and leaving messages. And I finally walked up there one day. It was like a fucking two mile hike going upward and fucking altitude. It's 90 degrees. And I went to his house, rang the door, but nobody answered. And next door was where Jack Nicholson lived and there was a fence there and shit.

But when I walked down from there, I remembered that, God damn, I saw a lot of Mercedes and Porsches. And, you know, this is like a snow community. At that time, you saw Super Roos and like trucks and shit. But there was all this, you know, these Porsches and shit. I just started hearing little rumblings and stuff like that. And on December, like 12th, the anniversary is coming. This dude got maybe a little later in 83. This dude, Steven Graebaugh, got arrested and it was huge.

It was all over the news. Everybody had known about this guy, but those people, I mentioned Kiehl's and a buddy from Mankato, Minnesota kind of went underground when this guy got nailed. Because I remember I was looking for coke and people were like, dog, dog, things are bad. The kingpin just got fucking nailed and the numbers were just, they were unbelievable. He was making six million dollars every six weeks. He was bringing in tons from, he was a Jewish kid from Miami that moved to Aspen. He became a skier, not a professional, he just skied. He never even saw the cocaine.

He just called it around like where it was going. His cocaine from Miami went straight to Minneapolis and the other half went to Hawaii. He was supplying Hawaii with coke right from that fucking spot in Aspen. And nobody, nobody was fucking with this guy. I mean, it was just like he would put money in different, after he got arrested, all the stories came out. The guy was making so much money that he would go to somebody like Mike that had a restaurant and go, Mike, I love your food here. Do you mind if I get it safe and put it in the freezer and pay your lease every month? And who wouldn't, my lease is 8,000.

You sure you want, yeah, I'll pay it every month. Just let me put it safe in your freezer. And then he would run tabs at those restaurants or he would come in and go, Mike, here's $50,000. Tell me when you need more. And you're like $50,000. You could eat in here for fucking ever. Like you could eat in here until fucking San Gennaro day. He was just, he was putting it in restaurants and businesses to hide it because he was making so much fucking money.

When he got arrested, this motherfucker had $900,000 in a garbage can outside with leaves on top of it. He had like 1.6 million cash in his house. When they took him back to Denver, the DEA in Denver said, no, no, no, no, go back there. There's more money. We got him on a wire. And how they nailed this motherfucker was through his garbage. They would pick up his garbage and look at his measurements and all that shit. They didn't find no cocaine.

They didn't find a scale, nothing. They couldn't tie him to cocaine. You're like, Joey, how does this tie into a fucking bear? It's coming, cock suckers. So now I saw the fucking, like I'm hearing all these numbers. And then in the middle of that, a heroin kingpin died in Aspen. He was a kingpin in Chicago. This is all like within a week or two.

And one day people were like, don't go on 82. That's the main road from Aspen to Glenwood Springs. They go, don't go on there because there's a fucking funeral. Some guys in the funeral getting seen through from Aspen to Old Snowmass. I swear to God, guys, I did not see this. They had the guy who was a black dude that was filthy fucking rich. They had him up in the car with $100 bills in his hands in the fucking casket and shit. This is crazy.

So I'm saying, what the fuck goes on up in fucking Aspen? And then to top it off, in Old Snowmass, right at the same time, some guy, there was a huge story in the paper. The feds tapped some guy. Now, wait a minute. You're like, Joey, this is Aspen. There's a small place, a DEA bust, a drug, the heroin kingpin from Chicago. And now this story, the fucking feds were watching this guy, this coke dealer in Old Snowmass.

And they wired, you know, like they went to the fucking fuse box or whatever the fuck it is. And they wired him. The only problem was the feds fucked up with the wiring. So every time people would turn their TV on, he was coming on the TV. Guys, you can't write this shit. You cannot write this shit. He would come on the TV. So his own neighbors were calling him up, going, Mike, I can see you taking a shower.

Mike, you're over there eating breakfast. Mike, you're eating dinner. So he turned around and sued the feds for like millions of dollars because they were programming what was going on in his house to all the other homes in the fucking area. This is crazy shit. And in the middle of all this, one day, there's an article in the paper in the Aspen Times. And it was like on the third page. I thought I was fucking hallucinating. All right.

I thought I was fucking hallucinating. There's this huge story about that they found these bears or they found one. Let me not get this. I don't want people coming back and me going to them. Joey was one bear. Okay. They found a bear dead next to a duffel bag next to cocaine. This was an Aspen or a couple of miles away from Aspen.

Guys, the story for cocaine bear happened in Atlanta, Georgia, in the mountains of Georgia, I think. Yeah. It's nothing to do with my story. But I still remember reading that. And then weeks later, they had found three or four more bears dead. And with that, now for a word from my motherfucking sponsors. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. If life came with a user manual, things would be easy for everybody, but they don't.

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I'll tell you why in a second. Anyway, dead as disco is fucking these bears. And they had a big right up the bottom. You know, I never fucking saw any of these bears. I never hung out with these bears. I didn't know the people who, you know, were drunk. You know, I'd love to tell you, I knew the guys. I was in the bottom with flashlights, you know, with fucking flags to dump the coke.

It wasn't me at all. But that's, guys, when I tell people, like, I did a podcast and joined about two years ago. And I talked about the people that were around me and asked me, guys, it was fucking weird. And then I left. I was homeless. I became an addict the whole thing. And I went back there.

I ended up going back there like in October of 85. And guys, when I went back to Colorado, that was just a cocaine factory. When I went back to fucking Snowmass Village in October of 85, I wasn't doing coke. I didn't snap till I stayed in Aspen two months before I broke. I made it to a year. I think I got high New Year's Eve, 85. And then I started getting high mildly. But through the ranks, guys, there was some wild shit going on up there.

Shit that I think about now. And I'm like, what the fuck? You know, I was just a plan. I didn't have any money. I worked on a video store. You know, I shovel some snow. I made ends meet. I did little hustles.

I hooked people up with a pound of weed, stupid shit like that. But I was going day to day pretty much. So I wasn't even buying that type of coke. But I was hearing this shit that was in there. And then after June, when I was there, June of 86, I said, fuck it. My friend Danny, who I got, I owe him a call. I haven't spoken to this guy in months, called me. He says, I got some great coke.

I want you to try. And he came out from Jersey and I tried it. It was fantastic. And it was $1,000 cheaper than what they were asking for in Aspen. So I knew even if I cut the price by 500, I was still making money. Hand over fist. I would be an idiot not to get involved with it. But once I got involved with that cocaine batch and I started running in those numbers

and selling guns, guys, I was hearing some wild shit. The thing that I still cannot ever get out of my mind. Like I think all my stupid stories and all the crazy shit I did, you know, I was going back East like every other Wednesday, every Wednesday and picking up a quarter of a kilo and I was bringing back guns. And I would do this from fucking maybe September and I did it until maybe December, maybe August. August? Yeah, a little like that because it was the summer.

I started early and I made some good money. When I started making money and I started selling some coke, people started coming out of the fucking woodwork at me. And that's when I started keeping the guns. And yeah, some of it was the paranoia from the cocaine. I get that. But man, people started coming at me from all directions to take for me to stop getting the coke from New York and for me to buy the coke from them.

Now here I am just a fucking ounce dealer. You know, I love, again, I love to tell you I had bitches and helicopters and I was just an ounce dealer. And if I cut it with like seven grams and gave me 35, I sold 30 grams. I made some money and I fucking snorted five fucking grams of coke. I wasn't doing nothing out of this world. But the people that were approaching me were starting to get me guys. And you know, I'm not a scary cat.

I was like, these fucking people are not, you know, every time I meet with somebody who wanted to sell me coke, I would notice a gun. And I go, what the fuck, you know, in North Bergen and shit for years, you know, I hung out with savages, but nobody really had a fucking gun on them. You know, every time I go to hug these guys or shake their hand, there was always a gun or a knife. These guys were ready for fucking war. But the time that blew me away was that dude Kiehl's friend came up to him and then he

goes, Hey, man, there's more to the story. When I came back in the LA to Colorado in 85, you know, I, I was really, you know, I, I was a dormant. I was security in a hotel and I was a Belman, you know, like a Belman, I was security and I had to make runs to the airport at night. So Dan Graybo got arrested in 83 December of 83 in that cocaine thing. When I got back to Aspen, I didn't, you know, what do you think I was thinking about? Graybo?

What happened to him? I didn't know, I didn't know the guy, but when I got back, I heard that he was going to go on trial. It was all over the papers that there was no cocaine involved, that he was a kingpin, but he was going to go on trial for money laundering. That's all they pinched him on was the money laundering. Okay. You know, they're talking about Graybo again.

It's not like I'm hanging out in Aspen, jumping up and down. I'm a poor fucking ounce dealer in snowmass village. I wasn't going to those clubs up there. I knew about the Paragon and shit like that, but that wasn't my cup of tea. And one fucking December, like right around the fucking holidays one night, you heard a bunch of ambulances and cops were coming. You know, you could hear them on 82 and the next day it was in the paper. They fucking put a car bomb in Graybo's fucking car and blew him the fuck up 24 days before

his trial in Denver. You could read this. This is common knowledge. Dan Graybo, G-R-A-B-O-W. Dan Graybo was at the Aspen club lifting weights like he did four or five nights a week. The Aspen club is like, they charge you 20 bucks just to walk in another hundred for a towel, one of those fucking places. Every night when he left to work out and then he would get dressed and go out at night,

but he would work out late and he would give the valet 20 bucks to start his car up. That night the valet wasn't there. So he went out to start his fucking car. He had a regular Jeep. They put a pipe bomb under his fucking seat and baboon. The pipe bomb went right in his ass, but it was like the De Niro movie fucking casino. The Jeep, the year he had the Jeep had an extra metal plate underneath it. So it didn't really blow him up.

It blew him up. He lit on fire and he really bled out. He was alive after the car bomb. He made it to the hospital and he died at the hospital. That didn't affect me. I didn't know the guy, but what I didn't know it affected all the cocaine dealers around the area. So now everybody moved up a notch. Everybody was moving up a notch.

Everybody was scrambling to get coke. I guess Kelly and this guy were getting coke from this guy. So after he died, like the smoke cleared and that it was that summer when I started dealing coke. So again, I didn't go to his wake. I wasn't involved with any of those people. What had happened was I called Kelly one day and she was like, listen, man, I know you're paying a thousand dollars. At that time I was paying, I don't know, 9,800 for 13 ounces or something like that. And she goes, I'll tell you what, if I can make you the same deal, would you stop going to New York and buying our coke?

And now I'm like in demand. Like I'm like, oh shit, I'm living Miami Vice. You know what I'm saying? People are calling me. Like I'm like, I could live with this shit and I fucking take the meeting. So again, I've been in some scary situations, weapons. The guys call me and they go, you know, go to a fucking pay phone and call us. I went to the snow mass center there and I called them and they will call you back.

It was like real fucking hush, hush, like, you know, and they will call you back in like five minutes. No names on the phone or that bullshit. I'm like, okay. And they're like, listen, we'd like to meet with you. Give us an address and we'll pick you up. I'm like, okay. And they fucking met me like a day later or some shit. And I got in the car and the guys were cool.

How you doing? Nice to meet you. Yeah. I had a gun on me. You know, I didn't know I'm not. So right away, guys, I had a gun on me. I think that's never fucking good. You know, that just shows you the people I was running with.

And we drove to Woody Creek somewhere and then they go, listen, can you do us a favor and put a fucking blindfold on? I'm like, are you fucking guys crazy? I put the blindfold on against my best wishes. I get to the fucking place. They search me. They take my gun. They're very nice. Walk this way.

Follow us. And when I get in, they go, we got to ask you another favor. Do you mind putting a bag over your head? And I'm like, what the fuck? You know, I already got the things on my eyes. I can't see nothing. They're like, this guy, these guys that talk to you want to be very secretive. And I'm like, oh, here we go.

Back to fucking everybody's Miami vice weighing the coke and putting it in a thing and shaking it. Give them the money. I don't like none of that shit. So they were like, Joey, you know, we've heard great things about you. And we know you're loyal. You got bought all this shit. And they're like, we want you to do business with us, you know, fucking. And then they just started spilling their fucking guts, you know, talking about they get a shipment every two weeks.

And it comes right to them. I wouldn't have to go anywhere. And then they go, if you're interested, we'll let you fucking know what to do. The guys that drove here, I said, I'm interested. How much can you pick up every two weeks? I told them and they go, okay, we're in business. We'll give you a call when we're ready. Go home now.

Thank you for coming. I go, okay. And I'm like, what the fuck? I take the bandage off. They put blindfolds back on me. And now we drive like 10 minutes and they go take it off. And the guys are like, listen, when you hear this story, this is when you got to say to yourself, because I told the story on the church and shit. You got to ask yourself what the fuck was going on on the way home.

These motherfuckers say to me, listen. We don't give you the coke hand to hand. Never. You'll never see us again. What you need to do is join the snow mass club, which was cousins with the Aspen club where they blew up gray boat. I smell conspiracy. Do you smell conspiracy here? So the Aspen club snow mass club, you're going to go to the snow mass club and join.

And when you go there on certain days, we'll tell you what day to go there. You give the front counter girl money and you go work out. Like you, you do all the time, but on the way out to Coco being your locker. This is like fucking mind boggling. Like this is like, I'm like, am I living a fucking movie? Am I living an episode of Miami Vice? I tried to fucking go down there and they're like, oh, how long do you want to join for? And I'm like, you know, eternally, I'm like, I'm confused.

I don't know nothing. And they're like, the best package is to sign up for the first year. And I'm like, oh, great, give me the paperwork. I'll sign up and dog. They were like, do you want the executive package or something? I didn't even know what to say. And they're like, it's like 1500 a year to join. And they need like $800.

And I'm like, what? Like it was, I don't even know for 1500. It was a number that was, no, because you went down there was a gym, but you could play golf. And you could steam bath and you could smoke cigars with guys. And you could fucking, you know, you could just do all this stupid shit. Like it's a whole day. I was, I was going on their lips from weights, maybe fucking swim a little bit and get the fuck out of there. Pick up my coke.

But when they told me that, like, they're like, no, you got to go to the gym. Give the girl the money and then go to your locker, work out and pick it. You cannot fucking just get the coke and leave. You got to go through a whole rigmarole, the whole fucking thing. So, so they're like, okay, so I went down to the joint. I couldn't afford to join. I didn't want to fucking join this gym. And they're like, okay, if you don't want to join the gym, you have to become a volunteer.

So I became a volunteer fireman. That's the reason I became a volunteer fireman was to get the free subscription. So I could go in there and buy my fucking cocaine. Listen, guys, I lasted as a volunteer fireman for maybe a month and a half or two fucking months. I was never a volunteer fireman. I think I took the training and I showed up to like two fires and I'm like, come on. I'm going to sit around with eight fat guys putting on a dumpster fire. Give me a break.

I'm going to get my dick sucked. I'm snorting coke. Don't fucking bother with these dumpster fires at three in the morning. So I fucking, you know, once it all ended, I got my car in November of 86 and I left. I don't know what happened to the Aspen club. I don't know what ever happened to these people. I don't know if they lived or died. It makes no difference to me, but it's just to show you.

I tell you these things just to show you the fucking this. And I was just involved with like little guys. I can't even imagine what the fuck was going up there. But it was everywhere. When I tell you it was every, and I think everybody was in on it because there was a fucking thing that if the cops, the feds, when they came to town, they stayed at the Red Roof Inn. There was no fucking Uber. What was that shit now where you rent the house with your buddies and nobody knows you're there, whatever the fuck that's called, you know, Airbnb. There was none of that.

So guys, that was the main thing they'd say when the feds come to town, they stay at the Red Roof Inn and you're not allowed to sell coke or anything. They were all tied in. This was the biggest conspiracy. And I didn't even touch, I'm just telling you guys like the different sizes of this shit. The Aspen Club was fucking in bed with the Snowmass Club. And probably the same owners, I don't know, go on their website. They're still open. Both those clubs are still alive and kicking.

Fucking the Aspen Club Barbie Benton used to be there. She's a Playboy chick from the 80s. I don't know if I forgot. I used to date a girl. She came home and they said, I took a shower with Barbie Benton. I mean, he took a shower with my bitch because, you know, I have to fucking working out. There's a general area. How did her bush look?

She goes, beautiful. I'm like, holy fuck. Fuck man. So yeah, I don't know much about the cocaine bag. I don't know what's going on with it. I didn't write the fucking thing. I'm just telling you that when I lived in Snowmass Village, there was a bear that died from cocaine. No, if you can look it up on the Aspen Times, I think the Aspen Times only goes back 30 fucking years.

So maybe you could fly. I don't know because I tried to get an article from December 24th, 1983. 1983. I tried to get an article from there years ago. My buddy wrote for them when he was a young guy, like before he became a writer. He had an apprenticeship over there. So I asked him, Mike Robbuck, if he'd get the article he called and he goes, they don't go back that far. I would love to get my hands on the cocaine article.

The night when I robbed them all on Christmas Eve, all gets burglarized on Christmas Eve. That's why I wanted that article. Yeah. I wanted that article for the book or whatever the fuck's going on. The book's going great. All hands on deck. I got to change a few names, all that shit, which I fucking knew, you know. And the last thing I want to talk about on a beautiful Monday morning or something I was going through last week, you have realizations in your life, you know.

When I did Beauty and the Beast with Felicia, you know, for years, when you listen to different podcasts, comics, a lot of comics will go, you know what? Joey Diaz always checks it, you know, whether it's a text or a call, it was raised on checking it, you know. And following up, you know. I try to do it a friendship, but most people don't do. That's what you need to do. And that's what you need to do in all your adventures, you know. When my parents died, my friends taught me the greatest gift that you could teach somebody, which is to gift a friendship. There's no bigger gift than friendship.

You know, your family, you're stuck with them. You know, you can't pick your fucking family. When you look at your mother and she's a hundred pounds overweight and she's got that work coming out of her face with their head growing out of it. And you're like, how the fuck is this will to beast my mother? You can't, you know what I'm saying? Like you can't, you can't fucking, you can't, you know. But when I learned the value of a friend, you know, when I, when my parents died and what those people did for me, I really learned the value of a friend. So I respected friendship.

I really did. I respected it more than most guys, you know, and I made a lot of mistakes growing up. But when I realized I was alone in this world, I realized that friends are all you got. You know, once your mom and your dad leaves and your brother gets married to a lesbian chick and your sister gets married to an organ grinder in Seattle and you live in fucking New Jersey, you're not going to see them, you know. So once your parents are gone, you realize that you're alone in this fucking world and that's a horrible feeling. You only feel it for like two minutes and you're like, I'm alone, you know, I'm alone in this world. I got no imbibical cord, whatever the fuck they talk about. So you look at your friends a lot different, you know, you look at your brother, your brother's great.

He's your brother, he's your blood, but they got their own life and they all got a fucking nasty, fat wife with a mole on their face. And you go to yourself, why do you marry that fucking chick with a mole? But it doesn't matter, you just lose so what you really have in your life are your friends. When I left North Bergen in 1985, I had a handful of fucking friends, friends that I could breathe for and friends that would breathe to me. They had done it already. I learned a tremendous gift of friendship growing up and I respected friendship as much as I could. I'll never forget when I did that Beauty and the Beast Felicia, we had gotten into a conversation about people in LA and friends and how you have to treat people. It seems like you do really well with that.

I go because I don't have a family. So I have to focus. Now you have acquaintances, you have friends and then you have that little inner circle, which is your family without being your family. You know, you tell your kids that your uncle, you know, whatever, they're your fucking family that you breathe for. So my biggest accomplishment as a man was keeping in touch with the people who did me right as I was growing up. That was my main focus all those years when I was in LA and that's what kept me grounded. The reason why I don't drive a beamer and I don't say amazing and I don't tell you that everything is wonderful is because I stayed grounded. I kept on the phone with my friends and by listening to what they were talking about, it made everything all right.

In my world, me living in Los Angeles was like having a bad job. You're doing it until you get to your goal and then you don't have to deal with these fucking people no more. I didn't know I was involved with these type of people. I just picked my friends over and I kept in touch with them and whenever I came home, we always try to do a dinner or go out. I was telling Mike I took pride in that. And when I would come home, there'd be like six of us at dinner and I'd always go, hey man, because they say, yeah, I haven't seen you. And I go, I live in California. Did you just say that you haven't seen him since the last time I came here?

And we did dinner like, yeah, but they live like fucking 10 miles apart. And I'm like, how does this happen? I would give a fucking finger in LA to be able to see you guys once a week. You know, I would give a fucking finger. I'm stuck with all these fucking fake people around me. So, you know, when I every year I come here and it'd be the same thing and I go someday I'm going to move back and I'm going to change all this shit. You motherfuckers going to see each other every weekend. We're going to smoke pot.

We're going to do this. Well, I moved back and COVID was here at first, you know, and when you call people that were concerned about their parents, you know, it was the beginning of COVID when I moved here. So it didn't loosen up till after I was here, maybe six months. And then I got the knee surgery. I was stuck in the house for three or four months. And at that time I was talking to my friends and stuff like that. And after the knee surgery healed and, you know, things slowed down a little bit. I started doing dinners with, you know, James and my other buddies from North.

We started doing little fucking dinners and stuff like that. But they were always few and far like they were always a month away. Like it was a month and then we wouldn't talk for another month and then we'd do it again. And then I hooked up with my eight grade friends and that's been fantastic. Louis Hernandez, Dave Whitey, that's been fucking great. But everybody's got, you know, Whitey's mom passed. Everybody's got their issues. So we get along, we try to get together as much as possible guys, but it's not, it's just not fucking feasible.

You know, and I was the, how wrong was I? Because I was the first guy that was saying when I come back, I'm going to do all this shit. When I come back, I don't have two hours. I don't have an hour to drive up somewhere, sit for an hour and a half and then come back. I wish I had that. Like the other day I was going to go up to North Bergen just to go to Rudy's and eat. I don't have that anymore. I don't go up to North Bergen like I used to.

But my point is that since I've been back here, I've lost a lot of contact with my friends. There was a couple of friends that listened 40 years past and we changed a ton in 40 years. And I came back and we just realized that we weren't the same people and that's okay. I could live with that. When I moved here, the people I thought I was going to see all the time completely different than what happened. The friends that I still have from North Bergen today are friends that we built our relationship after I moved here. And it wasn't about me being in the movie. It wasn't about me being stand up.

It was that I knew them early on and they wanted to come back in my life and I wanted to be in their life. So last week I just had a rough week friendship wise, you know, like just coming to the conclusion that what that was was. That was a long fucking time ago. That was 40 fucking years ago, Joey. What do you expect? Do you expect these for us just to jump back in the saddle? Yeah, it might happen once or twice a year and you have to cherish it. But it was just disappointing to me.

It just took a lot of wind out of my sails that it was a realization that you try really hard to keep your friends over the years and show that life takes over. And that's okay. That's okay. It's not like we had an argument or we disagreed on something. We talk, we share our sentiments and we move on and we try to put dates together. But guys, it just, you know, with families and kids and holidays and holidays and jobs and shit like that, it just doesn't work out. So I just had to come to terms with that. I was a little down for a few days about it.

But then I went to the fucking festival. I got my little fucking blue belt and here we are on a Monday morning. We got a sling dick. We got what? We got 20 fucking shoplifting days left. That's it. Christmas is right around the fucking corner. So that's what's going on right now.

I've been having a great time. Thank you for all you guys that are helping me out with the Stoner Club. They're doing fucking great. Thank you. They got great fucking reefer. I just got a delivery from them the other day. They gave me some, I don't know what the fuck it was. Something in a bag on the top over the top.

Holy shit. It was over the fucking top. And I'm trying to get them some, some laughing gas. People are really fucking digging the laughing gas. So I'm happy. But remember Stoner's Club, they have just go to a website. Just go to a website. I don't remember all the specials they got, but I'll tell you what I'm going to do for you.

Just press an Uncle Joey 10 and I'm going to give you 10% off for fucking life. Mike, that was a great video last week, the way he took it off the shirt. Great fucking job. And that's what's going on. We got to wait a whole fucking month to do a show, the 28th, and we're working on the book. We're healthy and we're slinging dick guys. Listen, try to be a good friend, but always know that after a while there's nothing you can do. We fucking change.

We really do change. And we change our perspectives and what we watch and what we listen to. That's life guys. We keep fucking evolving. I love you motherfuckers with all my heart. Have a great week. And now for a word from my motherfucking sponsor, Jack. Hi you bad motherfuckers.

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