Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #670 - Mike Tyson
Episode Date: March 27, 2019Mike Tyson, the youngest ever heavyweight boxing world champion, an actor, performer, and host of the "Hotboxin with Mike Tyson" podcast, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt LIVE. This podcast is brought ...to you by: Hims - Go to ForHims.com/joey for the Hims complete hair kit for just $5. While supplies last, restrictions apply.  CBD Lion - For all of your CBD needs, from shatter to gummies go to CBDLion.com and use code CHURCH for 20% off.  ZipRecruiter - post your job to 200+ job sites with a single click for free at www.ziprecruiter.com/church   Â
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What's going on? How hard does this hit? Oh, it's hitting hard. This is 80 something just
I need to come out to my faith in this only thing. Yeah, this makes you want to stab come out the age
Of the radical of the youngster. Oh my god, Mike you did something that happens in hollywood
But it happened to you
You were like the fucking king at the age of 20
How hard was
I mean, you don't even know what the fuck was going on around. No, you absolutely right. That's true at 20 things are moving so fast. Hey, um
Well, he never thought about that. It's me and it's this old Italian fellow we got together
And he has told me these wonderful things about myself and what I could accomplish if I listen to him
And so I dedicated my life and listen to him and listen into him now. Did he take you to a hypnotist?
Yeah, he was hypnotist too, but he also took me to one. He was hypnotist. Yeah in which way
Um, just that way he got
Um, allow you to relax and he could reach your subconsciousness
With the tone of his voice. Yeah
And just talk to you nice and light. Yeah. Now you what was going on?
Thought fall asleep. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no cuss was uh, uh, a weird breed
I never met him but god rest his soul
But he knew what he wanted in life. He wanted champions
You know mike, I want to write a book. I've been writing a book but
in that book
In between chapters, I want to write about the people who touched my life
In the weird how many motherfuckers came in and out of your life
That you think about every three days and go god and they're not dead. I'm not even talking about that. They can still be alive
You're just in a different mind game. You didn't talk to them no more
Yeah, you're not talking to them no more because the most of mine are dead
No, like motherfuckers my life is just changed how many motherfuckers came up to you one day
Didn't want none from you and just said something to you that you went back to your room and had to think about
What the fuck this happened and you you you look back and they disappeared
And you think there maybe could be an angel from god that just I had 20 motherfuckers
That have come into my life at the weirdest times
Then they disappeared
I want to write like a page just in between chapters
How many motherfuckers do you have that really affected you in the weirdest ways?
Yeah, um, wow
We said a lot of people in my life that affect me in that particular way
They easily passed away and stuff and I was watching uh
A documentary about your own river Joe's Joe rivers
She's the blonde that you're right, right the crazy lady. Yeah, and she has said um, somebody had left her
She lost contact one of her workers and she said god he was there and you know what happened to those people?
Remember when this happened?
And I did no more
It's weird. I'm not even talking like I got a guy that lives in
business on Mo Beach
And one day I was he was my sales manager at a car place
And he was trying to egg me out. I think it's time for you to come in. I'm like stop it dog
Ain't no fucking comedian. I'm a criminal
Car salesman. I barely keep it together. No, you're good. I didn't notice at this time
I didn't notice and one day I sold the car that night late and they were washing at the next morning
and the kid's son
Well, I went back to the check on him. I go was this car gonna be ready by nine
And the kid's son looked at me. It was funny. We were talking about you this morning at breakfast
He goes my dad said if you hadn't eat balls, he quit his job
Getting a car and take you on the road to do comedy
That shit fucked my insides up like yeah
Like till this day I check in with him once every two months. He's about 70
He's the one that taught me how to write my goals
He used to say a lot of people go, you know, like go right down. I want to be world champion
well
How are you gonna become world champion right down the things you need to do to become world champion?
I gotta train. I can't drink. I gotta stay away from these people and he would make you write weekly goals
Daily goals like when you went in there and the every day he wouldn't let you talk to a customer
Until you write down your goals for the week. I'm gonna sell. I'm gonna sell two cars today
I'm gonna call 10 people on the phone. I'm gonna talk to eight people
Face to face. I'm gonna have a good attitude. You gotta hand it to him. He ain't dead
But I never forgot that lesson. He came into my life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we still talk
I talked to the kids online
The one kid has shares the birthday with me. So I wish them happy birthday. Sure
I I don't forget nobody Mike that came into my life like an angel my prison counselor
Redneck motherfucking Mike
Mike the first day I sat down like I wanted to you know, you just get off the bus when you go to prison
And they unshackle you and they give you the fucking towel and your sheets
And then you go to the room and there's some motherfucker comes in and says Tyson
Counsel wants to see your room four and you got to go in there and before you even sit down
Mike before I even sat down. He goes, oh
Before you sit, I want to tell you something. I don't like specs niggas and jews
So I don't like you already Mike. That was out of conversation. Oh
Man, I'm going in there with personality like
You know that nigga. They said fuck that. No
He said to me, uh, did you ever get to sit down? No, he goes don't even sit down
I don't like this these type of minorities. I'm not crazy about chinese people like he just
He was a redneck with a military hairdo. I'm not crazy. He goes, uh, I read over your report
You you got here by a skin of your fucking mother's cunt
And then he goes, uh, you're just you're dismissed and before I hit the door he goes
You ever get hepatitis c
Or something it was either hepatitis or some other disease. I don't know
He goes report to the kitchen. You got a job
Get the fuck out of my sight
So for weeks, I didn't like him Mike
You know, how can I like a guy that opens up like that? I don't like specs
Who the fuck are you? Nobody's ever said that shit to me
But somehow or another he got impressed with me
You know, I did what I was supposed to do and there was these psychological evaluations
You know when we first got locked up before they sent us to our destination
They do that week where they ask you stupid questions. They draw blood
They ask you to fucking fill the circles with the blocks. Did you have to do that?
Yeah
A whole week and they say what does this look like?
Yes, look like what does this look like? Yes, what?
I only had that evaluation once because like that's I I watched the your spike lead documentary like it was
It blew my mind how similar you two were but it said you were arrested 38 times by the time you were 13. Yeah
Like do they even do diagnostics anymore at after like 30 times
No, they always didn't give you Thor's Dean and what's that?
What's that I'm thinking you told me lithium lithium. Yeah, they put you on the lithium shuffle
I've been on so many medications of the kids. Oh really they drug you and yeah, listen, we were kids
Well, Mike and I were kids. There was two drugs
There was a lithium
And Thor's in and then there was a heavy one that gave you and they used to call it the lithium shuffle
As soon as you go to prison they give you Thor's in to calm you down
Especially if you write really dangerous guy and you have to take it. Oh, yeah
And then what you do is yeah, and then what you do is you double up on them
Like I would put them under my tongue and save them until I got three of them
And then I eat them all at once and get fucked up like 15
Sometimes you can sell them. That's why they always check. Yeah, you sell them some stuff in me
They always make sure like they're under your tongue and shit like that. This is complete
So you do that diagnostic and at the end of that diagnostic report
They make an assessment and that assessment goes to the fucking FBI
And every other federal bureau, this is their assessment
And I gotta tell you it's it's an I believe it's an 87 percent assessment because
It was big amongst the prisoners
They would say did you get your report yet that and you had a you had a file of petition to a lawyer to actually get it
Your mind said I was like a fucking retard and no it didn't. Yeah
No, it didn't
He told me I was a retard
They don't want you to know the result
They didn't really want you to know so once I got under his skin once he became my buddy
Kind of saw that even though I know he hated minorities
I would go up to him when I was walking and go blue his name was mr. Blue. I go blue
Blue when are you gonna give me the diagnostic report?
He's like get the fuck out of here speck boy
Like he would say shit like that with a giggle and I was already used to that from jersey mistletoe tino
So he couldn't bother when I was a kid there was a dude on my corner
And he used to say shit to me every day and I loved him to death because he toughened me up
He you know if they knew I did santeria. So every time I walked up to corny gray
What are you and your mother gonna invite some black people up and jump up and down and kill chickens today and shit
I mean he was but he would say shit to the irish
He would say shit to the jews everybody. He made a comment from his fucking balcony
So I made this guy out to be like mr. Otino
And finally like a month before I got out I went up to him like I missed mr. Blue tell me what it said on that thing
He's like you don't want to know
I
Like you got to tell me what it says on there and he got pissed and he walked me into his office
He threw his fucking file on the table
And he goes it says in that if I had something you wanted
You would take it from me
That's what it says that you're a fucking thief that what you wanted to know
And mike I broke
Mike I'd rather have you punch me in the stomach 80 times than the feeling I had at that moment
Because at 25 years old I was told I was gonna not to amount to anything else but a fucking common thief
That's devastating and he told me this four days before christmas
Like a rule of my fucking christmas, but at least I came to terms with
I go if i'm gonna be a thief i'm gonna be the best fucking thief there is when I got out of there
I remember I was a thief when I was a kid too
Yeah, and then I got in trouble so and I always had you know
Coming from places like booking people want you to make you feel real bad about yourself because it feels like you're
You're a predator and everybody outside of brooklyn is prey and you're looked at funny
You know watch out for him. He's gonna try to rob. He's gonna break in your house
Keep your doors closed and we had that reputation brooklyn always had a bad reputation
You know before the podcast we were talking about
How
There was a time in 1984. Well, I became a fucking animal and I became such an animal
I would keep it from my friends
Like the kids I grew up with I would keep it from my friends
You know, I was working in manhattan that the sheriff didn't set on 52nd and 7th
And I got out at one in the morning
Do you know what that's like for a 22 21 year old kid?
With $2 in his pocket a half gram of blow just to get the party started beautiful
Oh, no, no, it's beautiful. I was the king of new york
But I did shit those nights that you know
For that went on for like 18 months of nights. I still remember being at
A fucking party mike like they invited us after a club like the rooftop
You remember the rooftop very well you you went in there after 11 and it was 17 dollars all you could drink
And after three it was 14 dollars all you could drink
And we went home with paul newman's daughter
Like I was that like
Not the fucker. We all went back party. Yeah, like it was like a party. She had like a
An apartment that had different floors
Now every floor there were people snorting coke you were talking to people and I ended up in a bedroom
With a friend of mine and this girl that went to high school with both of them one three of us had grown up together
And we're snorting coke and we got that on a tuesday now. It's wednesday
And now it's thursday morning. We're still up. That's funny. That coke can't make time fly right fly
Nobody's eating drinking everybody's still up. Everybody's thinking about fucking your dick fucked up your dick's fucked up
But every time you pee you got a toilet paper and you wash your dick
Just in case somebody decides to suck it. You don't want it to smell like pee and helmet glue. You know what I'm saying
All just being fucked up and I wanted to fuck this girl, but she was our friend
I knew she was a dirty hole, but
Our friendship was bigger than us me trying to fuck her on the coke
But one night or this morning. It was like 11 in the morning
My buddies we were there so long. They told my buddy's car
That's how you know you're somewhere too long
So it was thursday morning
And we're in the thing and all of a sudden we're looking for a lighter
And lubes go look in the draw and regina opens the draw
And there's a fucking ounce of fucking coke like in a bag. It's like heaven. Yes, and I look it up
And I look at heaven opened up and say what I look at regina. I go regina. Take some of them
We'll get the fuck out of you. She's like take some I'm taking it all
She put in her purse. We walked out of there. We had no cash to get back to jersey lubes went upstairs and borrowed
Money to get his car untold
This is this is when the 80s. This was when new york was fucking crazy
Or this had to be yeah 85. Where were you in 85 85? Um, establishing just turned professional fighter
Fighting 18 years old just started fighting. Were you smoking reefer that anything?
I smoked a little weed for last stop when I started fighting for the olympics they would test you
Yeah, so you couldn't smoke over that. Yeah, when did you start smoking weed like
97 that's
98 97 I started smoking back and it calms you down
Hey, I wish I was smoking the one I only smoked the once when I was fighting. I had an awesome fight
I fucked the guy I broke his cheek bone with the ice socket and his jaw his back
But it's fucking man. I fucked up his ribs
I was on the drums. I fucked somebody up stone. Yeah, but they um, they um, they find me 300,000
Oh, they tested you afterward. Yeah
Oh, so they really look at marijuana as an enhancement drug
I believe so. I believe these two that is fucking crazy
But I'll tell you what the best thing I ever did growing up was shooting hoops
And there was nothing like shooting hoops when you stoned to the fucking gills
To play basketball like tree buckling sparring when jim. Yes. No, no
No sparring. I'll do bag work. I'll jump rope. I'll do kettle bells
I'll lift punches getting thrown at me when I'm stoned off the fuck you and jiu-jitsu
I never even think about getting high before I go to jiu-jitsu. This is my best sparring session. I'm high. I'm fighting good
It relaxes you when you're sparring that it takes that little see I like it before I go on stage
Before I go on stage the feeling you get it all lives in your stomach everything that you own
Everything that you do. Yeah when I was on stage. I couldn't go on this over. I couldn't go on stage
All right, let me ask you this off the fucking cuff here. I watched Tyson
I watched you go do a one-man show on I think he came on HBO. Yeah
I sat there going
Look at this motherfucker. Look at this man
What he's done
But then I go to him this is dick
Because he's beating people up in front of 18 50,000 people with a million people watching you on pay-per-view
What's the difference of what I mean? You went up there like you were you have been doing stand-up for 20 years
It's different. It's different. No, why?
um
It's too fucking intimate, you know, it's too intimate to have to block out
You know, even though some fighting you could block everything out, but you can still seriously, but it's everything is blocked out
You know, but right there. It's just too fucking bro. You turn around it in your fucking face
so, um
It was you know, it was really interesting how the how I was doing that, you know
But but I put all in the same perspective as fighting when you went up on stage
Yeah, fucking brilliant because I've been telling people that ever since I started jujitsu my stand-up game
Has gotten way fucking better. I've become a better stand-up
Now I know when to breathe now. I know when to attack
Yeah, yeah, now I know how to beat him up for three sec three minutes and back and on
Being on stage is pretty exhilarating man. It gives you something of a high
You know, when you got off stage, what did you feel when I got off stage? I
I felt that I needed to get back on stage
Really? Yeah
Now where did you rehearse this?
um
in Vegas
In the mgm grand
How many times did you rehearse this a week when you before you shot it for hpl?
um
Wow, we did it for a long time and then they said, um, let's go to broadway
First they took us to broadway and then once we did it in broadway, they said let's shoot it here
And then we shot it there. How long was it on broadway for?
um, I think we did two weeks
In two weeks on broadway, would you switch the stories up every night or did you stay to a?
um
Sometimes I'll switch them up because something else pops up
Yes, like sometimes you're in between two stories and you got the two stories
But there's a bridge between those motherfucking stories that'll make those stories so much motherfucking better. Just one little bridge changes always changing
And how did you feel when you got off stage? Were you tired? Were you vulnerable? No, um
I thought it wasn't long or something. I need to get back on there again. I wanted to be out there
I wanted people to see me. I wanted them to applaud more and stuff
And how long would you do how long was the original?
Listen, I used to do it twice a day
It's the twice in a year, but I did it twice a day in some shows
And who wrote it with you my wife wrote it
No, and you just told her the stories. It's totally what happened first. She said, whoa, I don't want to talk about that
You think you remember people to know that I said, no, baby
Everybody know if I lied people out there would see you lying motherfucker. They know everybody know what happened
So that's I thought I had to tell the truth. Everybody knows no one could come up and say hey, that's bullshit
Because everybody know that really what happened
You didn't care like me. I like I don't give a fuck what I put it all out there. Everybody knows
I used to never you know, I told everybody before I used to never told nobody on stage like that, but everybody knows
I like I was telling Lee yesterday the other night to get on stage and sometimes Lee might feel like I'm
Bullying him or whatever, but what I'm trying to explain to Lee is
The more you go on stage the more you peel the layers off
I can make you go up there and talk shit for every night for a year until one night
You're fucking dying and all of a sudden, you know, you start talking about fuck this
Let me tell you what I had when I saw when I was four
I was walking down the block and I saw a dude stab another dude
And all of a sudden the crowd is silent, but all of a sudden you just took off your shirt. You just put your heart
In their hands and that's a weird I it took me fucking 11 years of comedy to even think
of putting
prison
drug addiction
The pain I had grown up finding my mother dead on the fucking floor when I'm gonna hit an acid
It took years for me to come up on stage and get the balls to say that
Because I didn't think it was interesting
I thought that everybody took these lumps as a child
And I thought everybody kept it in fact and I thought everybody felt dirty about it
I used to feel dirty who am I talking about childhood with that was poor
I felt real bad about that
It was just really bad. It's like no one this is never gonna turn out good
There's no way I was gonna become this guy that I am now
It was just really bad
For how long didn't you feel it for how long did it take you
To not feel the real Mike Tyson
Like for me, I had to be I was 44 years old when I felt who
Joey Diaz was
Jose like I broke this I break I broken this into three chapters Mike
My birth name is Jose Antonio Diaz. That's my mother fucking slave man
They gave me before they put me on this ship
My street name is Coco Diaz
And my name today is Joey Diaz
And I've had to for me to keep going. I've had to break this up into three characters
Understand who the fuck made me
Do you feel that way like at one time you were little Mike tough Mike dirty Mike dirty Mike?
Okay, you were dirty Mike
And then you became
The undisputed champion of the fucking war that's really true. Then you became dirty crazy Mike
Now you just became a fool. Then you became nasty. Yeah
Fools nasty Mike that West wind of nwa. You know what I'm saying like you were an nwa
Say when I was champ, I really didn't hurt anybody but myself really, you know, we have had a lot of fun
I bought a lot of cars for people and girls and stuff and we spend our money on boats and cars houses
Playing whatever
Yeah, you didn't give a fuck where the next dollar was coming from you know, it was coming
And if it didn't come you could still rob it. No, it wasn't about what no, no
In the back of your mind 25 30 million a watt man. So, you know, yeah, we make 98 years. So we were just
Going crazy
Oh
90 million dollars when did the blow come into this while
I used to use them blow to what?
2006 probably
Oh, okay, that came later when you were champion you were champion
On everything. Yeah, did you
When you were growing up being dirty Mike, did you think drugs were going to be a part of your life or
None when you were hanging out with cuss. It was the farthest thing from your mother
I was hanging out with cuss. Yeah, but drugs always been a part of my life
I thought I thought yeah, my my mother's alcohol is my father's drug addict and stuff. I called you to play and stuff
So, um, I always did drugs but I wanted to do boxing so bad. I gave all that stuff up
You really respected yourself and you never thought you'd do drugs again
Why you were knocking motherfuckers out of 20. No, I always think I want to smoke a joint
Oh, you did at least want to smoke a joint
I wanted to smoke a joint but I was drinking like a fish though
So I my mind works like this. This is how my mind works at
10 9 11 12 13 14 this time I went
Listen, I'm not going to do weed and no more drugs. No, why could that feel illegal?
But I'm gonna get drunk like a mother for I was an alcoholic my whole career
Oh man, play even fucking full-blown alcohol
What am I doing training camps? No, I didn't do nothing. I stopped doing my training but listen after fights. I'm a monster
Right to the bars
So how long huh, how long would you go after until we got a next fight and I start training again?
Saying something before that was interesting when you I mean here you are going into get the fucking champions and beat people up
now you have to
I consider when I go up on stage
I'm going up in front of a mirror
And that's why you get those nerves in times
You were saying that before you got on stage
Your nerves would be out of fucking control and you needed to get blasted. Why?
No, I just have to me. Um
I'm not comfortable enough of myself being sober and performing
Like that in front of all the people I have to have to get stimulated. What kind of uh,
Stimulation did you have?
You know your shadow box smoke smoke a joint like an hour before 15 minutes before 30 minutes before I go on stage
And how loose did it make you feel? Yeah, I'm just ready to go
I'm pretty um uninhibited
When you get off stage after an hour how long was the
115
Yeah, 115 when you got off. Did you feel that night when you get to the hotel?
Not pain, but a little discomfort in your thighs
Because you were you were
For me when I get off stage and this has just been the last 10 years
When I learned how to become a headliner
When I became a headliner. Yeah, I was headlining clubs, but I wasn't a motherfucking headliner
There's a big difference
uh
Sometimes my legs feel sore after two shows
because
I'm gripping my feet like a fucking animal
Into the ground and I'm letting everything go and I ain't backing up bitch
In my mind, you know, um, this is why I do this. I didn't mean to rip it. No, no go go go
That's why I haven't been doing shows for probably a year because I won't do a show less. I'm in 100% physical shape
God bless you. I don't go on stage. Let them in. Why?
Huh why because my stage is a lot is a lot of energy and explosives. I'm doing stuff. I'm jumping on low place
I'm moving a lot
And um, I can't do that. I can't do that right now my show. I couldn't do my show right today
I'm burning so much. I could I was too tired
I can finish this show when I do two shows now like I do two shows a night
And I fucking buy the third second night
Something and I work on the daytime, you know, I'm saying 20 on the elliptical
20 minutes away something old man. I ain't looking there's a kickbox in school
I'll take the hour class and stuff like that. But I do agree with you when I was 400 pounds
And I was going up on stage when I get off stage there'd be two puddles under my arm
The cocaine would be sweating the night before because I would never do coke before I want
I'm only gotta get I'm only gotta dig I did coke on stage. You want to this then turn right in like
Oh, shit, isn't fucking bad my nose is stuck clogged. You do not want to do cocaine. I'm talking for him through my nose
I like it. No, I did it one time st. Patty's day
1992 that was the last time I did cocaine before I went on stage
I couldn't even do cocaine at one in the afternoon if I had a show at eight now
Don't get me wrong
While I was up on stage, you know, I had a gram in that drug pocket
Oh, no because as soon as I get off stage before I could talk to Mike Tyson or Joey LaBamba
Or give lia hug. I would go hold on. I gotta pee
Because I had to keep that adrenaline going so I would as I was peeing
I would do my first three bumps
Then I come out and give you a hug and then I was joey. That's it. That was that was how it was for
The last 10 years of my career
I couldn't do right. I had a habit in my pocket. I don't want no problems if you told me it was on its way
I went up on stage and I would be cracked
Because I didn't have it. I wanted my pocket. I don't want to do it. Just give it to me
Let me hold it in my pocket
Don't make me feel comfortable that that was the reason why it took me so long to quit cocaine because I didn't think I'd be funny
But I knew one thing when I went up on stage
Coaked out like the night before like if I'd done coke for two nights in a row
That next time when I get off stage, I would tell you material
But my soul and my heart wasn't connecting with the material like what I want to say. I thought everybody knew I was on cocaine
You did?
Yeah
Oh, you should they know they look at me
They know they don't know I got bugged out. Yeah
I got Mike
So you had to break down your life. So we're still the dirty Mike
Mike
And who are you today?
Listen, right? I'm I'm
Just want to establish my relationship with my children now, you know, me and my wife are cool now
We don't beef no we don't fight we work as a team now
But I haven't pretty much established in my relationship my sons and stuff letting them know it's all about sacrifice and
And it's you know, dedicating your life to something that you really want to
Achieve something in and then after that maybe you have to achieve your goals
Then you can hang around a party and have fun but you have to establish yourself first before you even
You know, I I can't even enjoy myself for when I first understood what
I'm sacrifice wasn't what the what the prizes was from sacrifice
I could I can't imagine I want to achieve things in life
and we came very um
What's the word very ambitious
As a young kid I just can't understand at 20 18 19
I I've I've established so much in my kids. They don't have that kind of drive. I want them to have that drive and believe in themselves
What do you think is missing
Kids today having that drive at 20
That we had growing up
Hey, um, I didn't stop that. Well, let me have to say I don't know. Maybe it's mindful. Maybe um our pampering them
Maybe I think I think me
Am I I think we allowed them to have everything they needed at the young kid and probably a little bit more
They able to go go out the country and travel and go on trips and stuff whenever they want
Maybe I'm not a little bit too much, but then I don't know. I just I don't know
I mean, we love our I have a daughter and
I love with all my heart and you put money away and you do this and you're that but yeah, I have a son
You know, if he's if he had drug deaths the guys call his mother say well
Such and such old me money for this and she has to pay him
You know this kid is the little sport kids and we always pay make sure he has his
Parkmen and stuff and he never have to never have to worry about it. They struggle for anything
And no one's ever given me anything but an opportunity, you know, and I'm saying this is probably my fault
You know, you know what I would do to a kid like my kid if I saw my kid
If I didn't even saw him walking the streets, you know what I would do to him what bad stuff
You don't want your kids on the street at all. No
Never to repeat what you did at all not even a little bit
You made a commitment to that you said fuck that but sometimes I worry maybe they need they needed a little struggle in life
You know, you make them mow the lawn. You make them paint. No, no, they don't do that stuff
See that's my mother instilled that in me
even
Fucking
She was a functioning alcoholic
But she wouldn't just give me a 20 like if I came to this I want that toy down the block
She would go all right sweep the front
Take the garbage out wash the bathroom. Do I got to clean the bathroom? You got to clean the bathroom
fill up the beer case
And ask pepper if he needs helping the kitchen
It would take me an hour to happen. She'd throw me a 20
So I knew if I hustled her for a 20, you know what I'm saying like I knew
and that
And I was spoiled till my mother died and then I had to find
The realities of the world my mother used to bring her boyfriends over and stuff when they go to bed
They get tired. We used to always rob its pocket
When the men they came when she grew up now, she always robbed when they fell asleep
Trust me, I robbed a lot of pockets, but they weren't from my mother's but no my mother died without
But I used I used to fuck with my stepfather
I loved my stepfather, but he was a loan shark
And he would hide his money in different places in the house
So when I wanted to fuck with him, I would move his money. I would never steal it from him
I would move his money
And he would never say nothing. He would just go crazy. I would do this to him for fucking weeks
And then something happened between us. I went to work for him
Selling flowers on 86th street and Broadway. We would sell gladiolos
And one night I felt he undercut me
So I started robbing for him. I like I take a 100 off the top
And he would have rubber bands and he would always put like a marking on him
And I would lure him downstairs one way or another. I'd make a fire in the kitchen or something
And while he was turning up I hit him for a hundred dollar bill
And one time I never forgot I was robbing him and the hundred dollar bill rubber band blew up
And there was hundreds floating and he caught me. He's like you motherfucker
It was fucking crazy. Do you ever notice this when you go around life and your journey in life?
You haven't met too many people like yourself
Oh
No
I think where I came from I'd have to have to do it, you know, I went out man. What was that?
I'm in england or sweeton somewhere and I'm talking to a young lady. I'm young. I'm like 23 at the time
So I'm talking to young lady and she's talking about wonderful things her and her family did
And she said what did you do in your young kid? What were you like? And I thought you said rob people's houses
I stopped playing. She said what were you like at that? I thought you had robbed houses and stuff
Snatch people's jewelry and purses and stuff
I was uh, I didn't get arrested 38 times
But you know in that in that area where I lived, yeah, we had police contact
But they would throw you in the backseat of the car and give you a ride home a punch in the stomach
You know, they would smack you in the face cops were different back then
But the worst thing I did at that age in the eighth grade
People were moving into the house across the street for me, right, Mike?
And they had like new york license plate
So I knew they had to go back to new york to get this shit
So I'm the second load me and my buddies watched them and I broke into the house and robbed
A couple things but I took the kid's stereo the kid had a badass fisher
With some fucking blouse punk not not blouse punk, but fisher's speakers
And the eight track with the cassette in the thing
I mean I was living life. It's 75 and I robbed this motherfucker. I'm like 12 or 13. Wow
They come back. They call the police. I got the stereo set up in my bedroom. Guess what happened
I ended up becoming friends with the kid
I would go to his house and eat then he would come to my house and eat and then he
He wasn't allowed in my bedroom
For two years. We were friends, but I never invited him up to he would always say, how come I never saw your stereo
You don't want to see it
And then they moved back to the Bronx. They were Puerto Rican. They said fuck New Jersey
Oh man, shit, Jersey, she will put a weekend there
Oh that Puerto Ricans are all over that beautiful fucking city, bro
And now they got the medicans up and down. Aren't they beautiful people? Beautiful
Beautiful they fucking uh, I love that whole area. I'm I'm excited about going back for a few weeks
It's been a long fucking time since 93
Every time I go to new york, it's just for fucking three days and I get out of there
And to be back there in april and may the weather's fucking nice
No humidity yet that june shit
That june shit you could fucking kill your mother in that shit
That june humidity shit buying the ice is the ice is buying ice yet
You had to sleep with a sheet all the windows open the fucking fan on a sheet naked
Be that what?
On the iron stuff we come and hang out and put our clothes on the fire escape the fire escape
Yeah, I think you were talking about the the Puerto Rican snow cones
That was awesome, too
The dew comes with a sheet of ice with a towel on top of it
Oh, they put tamarindo and fucking coconut. Yeah. Oh the coconut is the shit cherry too cherry cherry coconut mix
You give them an extra quarter in shit
Remember ice cream truck with mommy mommy. I think don't have a quarter. Uh, mr. Softy
Not like new york, right, bro. Mr. Softy. Mr. Softy
Came into my life in 1988
Until this day my favorite mr. Softy's a double cone
vanilla chocolate with color
Fuck yeah, mr. I still fuck with carvel
Everybody who knows me still knows I buy a carvel cake every year my birthday
Even if it's just me alone, bitch. Hey, joey. I was in my um my room my baby and they watching television
I was just saying to myself. I was watching um bobby brown. There was a little step. He was young like 19
And I think wow, this is my error. I said, where did the time go?
Hey, you know, I got old too fast. What the hell happened? How fast do they go by my and went too fast one minute
You were 20. Yeah, one minute. You were 33 not even like you you wake up and go I'm 33
Wow, that was 13 years ago. And then you wake up in your 41
Then 48 something else hit you
And I walk around I look at my daughter at dinner some nights and I'm like, how the fuck did this happen?
Six years ago, how the fuck did this happen?
How many fucking when did she come from?
You know who brought her into this fucking house
So sometimes I call up I call friends or something like to get my daughter
I get one of my kids a friend of mine's a job and I forget god
I can call people to help people get jobs. I know these people. You ever never remember time goes by so fast
You know, you forget how you met them, you know, but you know, they got the job and they can help you
Damn, how did he get into this stuff when you were sitting there at cuss's house at that age of 15
thinking you're gonna go to the olympics and become a champion
Did you think about going around the world eight times like you had? Yeah
You were dreaming about dreaming about going around the world fighting and stuff with cuss and stuff
Dreaming of meeting different people
Cultures and good Italian foods
Fucking some women because I know that was the back of you. Yeah, you're a fucking savage. Yeah, you're like, I'm gonna go
Fuck those Indian women up. Listen, I'm fucking that right off their head. No, listen
I went on a trip one day with a friend of mine
Yeah, we're for like three months off off the French Riviera
We we started from like a visa Spain and we ended up the boat there, but we kept going that boat ended up in the Ukraine
When we was partying from country to country
We just having a ball we went to istanbul for the um
On the
Little mecca that they know you walk around race car driving. Oh shit
um
I forgot the grand prix or is that you've been to the monaco 500 too. You've been to monaco
How beautiful is monaco monaco is very beautiful, you know, it's like a servant. It's like a different kind of
Country where it takes care of itself, you know, I mean right right?
I just watched this. Yeah, what country didn't you go to in your journeys? All right. That's where I want to go
I want to go to Iran. I haven't been to Iran. I would like to go to Iran and
And then I rock in those countries. I've never been there
Never no
I'll do by to buy been to Dubai. What do you think of Dubai? I love Dubai Dubai. It's really awesome. Now. You're vegan
No, but probably now I am. Yeah
I'm not vegan. You know, I'm losing weight
Right when you go to these countries. How do you feel about the food? Do you either?
I normally eat in American hotels and stay there
What type of foods do you like Chinese food? I love Chinese food in New York style. I don't eat Chinese food in China
Okay, I get it. What about like you were in Japan various times. What do you think of Japan?
Um, that's not too bad. The food the food's not too bad. I can eat Japanese food
What do you feel when you go to a place like Africa?
And uh, when I first go there, I feel a little apprehensive the first time you went
Yeah, how old were you the first time you went to Africa?
Um, I was an adult of the fight. I was champ
but um
I was apprehensive because of all the rumors I've heard about African stuff and all the things I've heard happening on television
But when I went there, everything was just
Brilliant and beautiful people are beautiful. I just came back. I came back from Egypt like a week ago
What were you what kind of rumors did you hear before you went to Africa?
What kind of rumors did you hear about the violent and stuff and then, um
You gotta be careful. I stay in the hotel and I come outside the hotel. Did you go to Nigeria?
I've been to South Africa. Are you been to South Africa? I've been to South Africa. I've been to Algeria
And I've been to Egypt
I think some of those players don't remember right now. Now, Nigeria is where the party goes down. That's Nairobi. That's what I hear
That kenya
I thought it was Nigeria where they have the most pickpockets. Like that's the most corrupt place in the fucking world
Yes, that's where it all goes down in Nigeria. I was just for it. You know, I didn't know if you had been there somebody
No, no
Love you pay me. I'll go anywhere. You don't
You've been to Norway, switzerland
But you you guys were talking about the different kinds of people you've been in your life
What is the
What is your reception now because back then you were heavyweight champ of the world
Like the toughest guy ever and now like not that like you're still him, but you're also
Like a comedy actor. Like you're funny. Like you're funny. Like you're like a sweetheart now
The only thing that's funny is that um people who never saw me fighting the who I am
From watching the hangover and doing other things. I've just done, you know
I've outside of boxing like actors and so they know me from that
But they never see me box. They parent have to tell them that with a boxer before I was an actor or something
They didn't have no idea. That's crazy
They said my type. There's a my type in the actors. No, you're not acting either boxer
They don't understand, you know, I watched all your fights
I get out of jail. I'm put in a halfway house. I'm working on a car wash as a host
And I'll never forget
I came up hot
For a ua it was my second one
In the halfway house and I wasn't allowed rec time
So I miss the bug the buster douglas fight. It's like god didn't let me watch
They didn't want you to watch they want you to cry baby
And the next day I was fucking like
You know, hey, this was 20 years ago. We could talk about this shit now. You know what I'm saying?
I want you to cry
My I'm like the next day it was the weirdest thing like god didn't let me watch
My main dog fucking do his thing. How crazy is that?
That's why I said you and I have similar lives Mike in a lot of ways
But I know
I know
That every three years
Somebody came into our life
That opened our eyes a little more my wife this one I met in 2000
You know, I met this white chick. She from Tennessee. What the fuck does she know where we're from?
You know what I'm saying? She watched the motherfucking Sopranos
And one night, you know what this bitch said to me Mike fell in love with you. No, no
I was coked up and she said something I fall in love with the motherfuckers that call me out
Because they see something that nobody else does you know what this motherfuckers said to me one night in the middle of my coke
out when we got back
She goes I've been dating you for eight months and I could tell
That you were raised without a mother
At that time I had two options. I could have picked her up and thrown her out the fucking window
But I went with option B because she broke me down
Like no other motherfucker broke me down in eight months
You know, that's why I cherished my wife because in one sentence she changed me as a man
How I had a fucking act for no one I wasn't acting like a person. She said I was missing
Somebody's love. Do you ever have somebody say some like shit like that?
And here you are doing podcasts
Yeah, I'm making plans to build a fucking stadium
You're so but
Do it luck. Trust me. I'm a great believer in luck
Great belief. I believe in luck
But I also believe that we got to get ourselves to that place to be lucky. No, I believe the harder you work the more lucky you are
You really believe that
Yeah, I believe that's why I get the edge because I work harder than everyone
I mean when I went down to your studios and you were showing me all the things you had planned
I'm like, when the fuck is Mike Tyson gonna fucking find time
To do all these things. I mean, I had no idea about the Egypt trip
I mean, you don't stop moving
Yeah, so stay alive. I'm kind of you're a shark. You're a fucking shark
You work seven days a week, you know, even if I could play it's let me go because I'm useless
And when you're not working you're thinking about the next fucking move. Yeah
That's a really um that that can start depression and stuff. What's that?
Not doing it being idle
I'm always thinking about the next move my mind. I could be looking at you talking to you. That's why I need that
I smoked that reefer for two reasons
It's a it's the only thing I have from my past
It's a tiny bear from my past when I was Jose Antonio
And it was there when I was Cocoa and it's there now when I'm Joey Diaz
You know, I'm saying Cocoa my mother fucking Cocoa was Cocoa son that name Cocoa
Cocoa wasn't my name given to my me but my father before he died
Because of how white my skin was
So they called me the inside of a coconut. You know, I didn't like it for a long time
But I didn't like Jose Antonio either
Jose Antonio was a cunning motherfucker. He didn't do drugs, but he fucked with people's heads in an early age
You know what I'm saying?
Jose Antonio was a stone cold hustler
Jose Antonio
Was a kid that from the age of seven
To 16 he didn't care about pussy. He cared about how to make money and get out of his mom's grasp
Like the more I could stay away from my mother and her
Giving me money the better we were off
We had an understanding because if I took a 20 from my mother I had to take a bullshit
Even though I still took a 20 from her from time to time
I had to take a bullshit
But I wanted to be independently free. I delivered newspapers. I sold flowers on the corner of the sixth street
I robbed trains
I robbed punks and knocked on people's door and sold the punks for a dollar a piece
I was a one-man fucking. I need to make money machine
If I went to chinatown league
You want a t-shirt from chinatown or bruce lee t-shirt? Yeah, it cost 12 50. No, it don't it cost 9 99
No, that's the shitty one. It cost 12 50. I'll prove it to you. I would make 350 on the transaction
I learned how to jump into converse
And jump into dumpsters
And I would have to get the right sizes of the shoes because you can't pull a six and an eight
And try to sell them motherfuckers for the small 13 because they were 21 dollars. That was hose antonio
hose antonio always had to have a 40 in his pocket
From the age of eight to seven. I bought my first double o seven knife. Remember double o seven that knife that big fucking knife
I had double o seven o seven on this motherfucker. It was gigantic
You couldn't even put it in your pocket. I'm like, oh my god. You had to put it in your side pocket
You had to figure out a way how your mom can. No, fuck your sock. It wouldn't fit your sock
It was a rambo knife. I had one when I was eight
My mother found that knife and next to you know, I was in cat for school getting beat up by nuns
My mother was like, I'm not gonna tolerate you having that fucking knife
Well, how are we the first time you carry the knife?
So young ten probably
damn
Nobody would understand these stories mic
That's why I was so you're such a breath a fucking fresh air
Today, you're an ambassador of god, you know that trip to think of who you were first
That's all my life consists of beating somebody
And today you're an ambassador of god
My life consists of beating somebody get closer to the mic my life consists of beating somebody every day
It's my sesame. How can I play him? Oh, he's too big. Let me go get my friend to call them and work with him
Let me roll both of us
If I wouldn't look like I'm involved. I will always plan in style. Look at his motherfucker Jesse Smollett
You know how I knew he lied
You know how I knew that podcast died
That but check out dig. He it's got they let him go. Yeah, they just dropped all the charges today
If you have to all the charges, I understand I have to look at toes because I couldn't hear
But you know how I knew he was bullshitting because he had that little faggy kind of design
And I and my clothes. Yeah, and me and Mike would have jumped him. One of those eyes would have been closed busted nose
Broken fucking rib cage
We always kick you when you're down after the mugging just to make sure, you know, I mean that was just amazing
That's the way we do that
That somebody would do that. No more like I told you before it's called a place called Hollywood
People do shit in Hollywood. They wouldn't normally do who would suck an old man's dick to get in the movie only in Hollywood
You take your dick out in the Bronx. That motherfucker's getting cut off
And then they're gonna take it to the blood bank and get whatever they can for it
They'll get ten dollars an ounce of blood in there. Shit gets an age
I
Only in Hollywood
I was telling Lee last night I go Lee. How much would I have to pay you?
To stand outside the door at mbc
And for me to walk out past you with a woman who just ate three kwayloons
That sucked your dick. We're gonna fucked up and I grew up on cosmic, but you got to be honest. What other city?
Would that happen where?
A cop wouldn't look and go that woman's been fucked in the ass and she took a couple sleeping pills
I mean most of the women that said Cosby Rob the or apta
Setouts inside a trailer a lot of them set inside a trailer. How many people did in the trailer in the trailer on the set
How many people did he have to walk past a woman with to know what the fuck was going on?
But how much do I have to pay you to turn your head with 15 an hour and benefits?
He must have been really going for it, man. He was going for it. Look at the read those after davis
He was giving bitches sleeping pills and shit
They first he would give you something like you see what the russians did
What the chinese did and what the cubans did a bunch of diplomats went to fucking china
And a bunch of diplomats went to cuban
And they had to leave because of headaches and now they're suing the government
Because the cubans are playing the tuning fork and the chinese are playing the tuning fork
And they're fucked up with their head and now that the government's saying no that they have no sufficient evidence
That the chinese and the cubans are using fucking commies have taken over. That's like the point the point
I forgot what the fuck the point was that bond had had me going
What was the point?
Are they fuck with you?
What wouldn't you be wanting to do for a paycheck? Yeah, what you wanted to do for a paycheck?
Well, Mike, what is it like? Obviously not assaulting people, but when you're at that level
What like can you can you like explain what it's like to just walk around and like go into a store or a restaurant?
Like people will just do whatever they want for it. Like do they do whatever they want for you or like
Like what is it like being at that level? I don't know. What did you say something?
What do you do? I asked me what somebody did to me before I happen
I don't know like like like when you walk into an office or something. No, I'll say this um
I'll be in the street. I'm in my car and I pull up on the corner. I figure I should get in the car
I don't know the girl she gets in the car and she goes to me
somewhere
Don't know. He's making her to get in the car. She just comes
Oh, no
That's pretty great
That is fucking crazy
Listen, my this is my friend that this is crazy. You won't believe it if you didn't see it if you did not see this
You would not believe it
Now you could pull up to a girl and this girl looks together like she's nice because she wouldn't do nothing stupid like that
Let me ask you. I mean my friend laughs because they can't believe somebody actually did this
You just can't believe I'm like getting the getting the couple don't say where we're going or anything. Hello
Like I said, OJ was getting bitches after he killed that motherfucker the next day. He had a pen pal ready to suck his dick
So the man thing got them awesome. Yeah, I married a young girl. Yeah, he's got 20 year old
Yeah, he's got seven bitches on hold. They were killing motherfuckers for him
Mike when you got when you got out of prison, how did people treat you for a while?
That's interesting. Oh, were you back to iron? Mike like nobody fucking gave a fuck
Or were you fucking with your own head?
A little bit of both, but I was I ain't Mike again, but I'm pretty cautious
You know, I'm Mike
I'm pretty cautious, but I was still stupid
What was going on in your head when you came out that people were looking at you?
No, I was dead at a chip on my shoulder
Angry. Yeah, I wanted to succeed and fucking they fuck you motherfucker
How long did the angle last for before you realized a couple of years? Well, I'm cool now. Yeah
That stuff destroyed me stuff that destroyed me
That movie they made Mike. They said they based it off you
Mm-hmm the one with Ving Reims and Wesley said that bullshit. Is that bullshit pretty much? Yeah, nobody challenged you in there. No
They didn't fly some fucking dude in from fucking Kentucky to try to beat you up and shit
They were saying that I was hearing dumb shit and I heard that movie and they were like, this is based on Mike Tyson
Being in fucking jail Ving Reims playing Mike Tyson or some shit. I knew that had to be by the way that
Listen, right if anybody would ever think about them and don't guys would just have me down. It helps me down like that
You had no bad experiences in there. No, I had listen, um
Yeah, I had one of the best I've done for that three years. That's like kind of like
Best time my life had a ball in prison
Like that had a ball
Seriously, yeah in which way?
um, I had anything I wanted I had um
I got my um
She's my not my teacher, you know, so you go to school in prison. I got my teacher pregnant in prison
I'm gonna say I got my teacher pregnant in prison my friend my friend from jacar got the driver to
Uh, uh, doctor to get an abortion, but I got her pregnant in prison
So it didn't stop for you when you got locked up
It really is a crazy fucking right Mike Tyson. Yeah, this I still had a little bit of money when I locked up
I you know, I didn't have a lot of money
But I said I have around five million dollars still and I got locked up
So I could still make things happen when I was locked up
I'd say put this in that money here in that there's in that there's that guard's house that guard's house that guard's house
You were eating good in there. Yeah, whatever. I want no one to the child hall or my food brought to me
from the street
I had a menu to give me a menu. You said, what do you want to eat tonight? And I say, I don't know some
Chinese foods some fucking. I don't know
Chicken were you boxing at all there? No, you're just running around training doing exercise weights and stuff
And that's when you change religious faith. Yeah, I was Muslim before I went to prison with people raiding and all that
Okay, what were you raised?
Catholic
Fuck those motherfuckers. Hey, I can't say that because you know, there's some good Catholic. There's some good Catholics
No, I listen I I'm Catholic. I'm still Catholic. I just don't go to church and mingle
You know what I'm saying? There's no reason to go to church and mingle with those fucking people
if you know
So what was that like then like being king of prison versus
Like you weren't king of like when you were 15 or 13 in juby 38 times like you they didn't
Do whatever you wanted then no, I am a young kid. I had no money and those stuff like that
But I knew everybody in the prison because most of the guys from my neighborhood that were locked up, you know
And some guys used to see from other places like Queens or the Bronx that you meet on 42nd street
I pretty much knew everybody in my juvenile time being locked up. I knew everybody
Did you go into a city a lot when you were young all the time pick pocket?
all time
No, shit. Yeah, remember, um
You you robbed those perverts and stuff, right? Right? Yeah 40 seconds. See we used to do that too
See we go with the color I go with Jimmy my friend beat the shit out of them take their money
Those perverts never call the cops. No, they can't
Call the cops those little pedophiles when you jump from the layer beating on them
They can't call the cops
It was funny with me. I think that the word got out that they were getting beat on
Like the word was definitely out don't go over there the people that over there sucking your dick
But don't beat you to death and shit
And the guy who got me finally that fucked me up
He was waving down the cops
Like he was there as their savior like I was I went back there. I went down there on a bad fucking night
And I tried to suck his dick and I he I didn't take I didn't even follow the
The route you're supposed to take him deep a little by the tree. Yeah, you take him to the shower people could still see
I took him on the head of I took him on Boulevard east and I smacked him on suicide bridge
And that was my if I would have had him by the dirt
I would have come I heard him scream
Nobody heard him scream the only person was screaming was me Mike Tyson
When he unloaded 50 fucking style Mike Tyson shot to my head
He was one of those aerobic pedophiles and shit this motherfucker
Went to the gym and jumped rope with candy in his mouth
And he lit me the fuck up
With probably 11 punches and he knew how to hit Mike
Because he was going up here. He was going on. I was covering myself. He was fucking me up with uh with hooks
The next day it wasn't my lip that was busted on my nose that was a little fucked up
It's the damage he had done to my head my head leaving
My head looked like zombo. Let me tell you something there was a guy down there
That's so hot dogs that weighed 500 pounds and he made fresh lemonade
I was I was down at three times a week eating those dirty dog hot dogs
After that fucking pedophile beat me. I never went back down there again
Not even to get a hot dog because I was scared. He was still waiting for me
Yeah, I got jumped. I got it was uh, it was a mugging that was a fucking uh
It backfired on me Mike. You ever have a mugging backfire on you?
Hey listen, man, I finally want to tell you
Hit me you got to hit me with one
You know, I had one mugging when somebody got killed one of my friends got killed
Oh my god
Yeah
Mugging go bad. So the mugger shot one of our friends like and he was like Berkowitz the crazy Jew
That one of the train that time in New York
That guy with jury on them and stuff and um
Nobody searched me. It's all a jury and it went for the jury. Nobody decided
Searched this guy and nothing and stuff when everybody started turning they like walked around and turned around he came out boom boom
I want to shit my fucking pants
My buddies went to get their dick sucked one night in New York
And I was downstairs. I was not getting my dick sucked the type of guy in buildings and shit
And they went upstairs with these two chicks
They went into a building
I was down there for 45 minutes. I was supposed while they were getting their dick sucked
I was supposed to go around the corner and cop
It was right when you get off to george washington bridge and make a left
It's little dominicanville back there in those buildings
The cops had that wired down. They knew why you were there. Nobody bothered you a little bodega on the corner
So if it was me you and mike mike's going to get his dick sucked
I'm going to get the drugs you're going to six back to buy daily news
And a pack of gum maybe some fucking chicharrones
Just to have a reason to be there
And then we'd all meet downstairs. We let the fucking two idiots go upstairs
45 minutes later they went to get the dick sucked
Now I got to buzz my way into the building because it's also the drug dealer building
And go back upstairs and look for these two idiots
And I finally something something made me go on the roof
The door was open and both these idiots were handcuffed
The chick fucking he he they said the story was
The chick was sucking one of their dicks and while she went to suck the other guy's dick
A guy came up on the roof and said what do we have here?
Get get up. I'm a cop stick about it was a fucking fake stick
I put them up handcuffed them told them he was the cop took all this shit and left them there
I had to go get one of the dominicans to get a fucking
So we had to fucking open up the handcuffs and the two guys made me promise never to tell the story
It's the first time I told it
Fuck them
The guy's name was Cheech and Bastiche and his buddy
And they got their dick sucked over there and I didn't you know
That's why I don't like going and then another time I went over there
My buddy got his dick sucked this time. He kidnapped the bitch
We took her back to jersey and robbed her for $60 and lit a wig on fire. I mean we used to have a
White guy. He wasn't he wasn't white, but he was Puerto Rican, but he was white
He had blue eyes, blonde hair and everything
And we used to always just put up the jury on him and put him in the front of the movie. They ended up there
It's for people to fuck with them for we could fuck them up
We're getting fights. Where would you hide? Huh? Where would you hide?
No, we'd be right here. We'd be right in the front. We'd be right behind them
Couple of um rows behind them stuff
There's a lot of jury on this stuff this stuff fights
They think they think you like they want to rob him
It's amazing when your mentality goes
When your street my eighth my sock my senior year
I wasn't even in high school. I had already quit, but I was still hanging out with those guys. I was working
And we went to the city. We picked up an ape
Yeah, we're always plotting I'll never forget that I went to a fucking we went and picked up an ape born on a 35th of
Amsterdam
We went to my buddy's father's jewelry liquor store. It was closed at 10. We broke into it
He had the key and the alarm codes. We took out a bottle of jack in a
Case of nips the eight ounce cold beers and we started drinking them. We went to this bar. We were fucked up
Mike, I was kid. I drank bacardi all like 10
Oh, I was in bacardi bacardi. How old were you from yeah from like 10 11 12 13? Oh, Jesus Christ, Mike
I won't I started out light with boons for them. Are you serious? Yeah, I started out
Straight with um, what's that Gordon's gin? Yeah. Oh, Jesus Christ straight or with a little tonic on a twist of line
Fucking straight and what else while I was rolling?
I remember Wild Irish Rose in Thunderbird. Remember that I remember that shouldn't give you a headache for eight days
I'm what needs to drink that Thunderbird will give you a headache for eight fucking days. That should kill you, man
That shit will fucking kill you. What's the word?
Thunderbird
That was really the commercial that was that was the slang on the street. Okay. That was on the street dog. What up g?
What's the word Thunderbird? I'm in
I got 50 cents. Mike got a nickel
Lee got a dollar. Let's go. We'll get some potato chips going there. Lee tell him put it on your tab
Remember when you can run a tab at the bodega dog? Listen, uh, remember you did this you come there, um
You give them a food stamp, right? But they don't give you no change. It's right on the paper all you 70 cents or 30 cents
Yeah, and it's good that shit would crack me because I would food buy would buy food stamps like 30 cents to the dollar
Oh, you'd buy people's food stamps
Bro, they're junkies. So they had 60 dollars with the food stamps
You give them 20 you always want this um rob for my food stamps. Yeah
You can cash you can cash the check back things. He was easy to cash somebody else to check for all it was so easy back in the 70s
So my biggest scam was you know 70s fraud. You didn't even have to have
Um, they got them critical nothing the information you'd have to check
Wow
It's a different time. It was a different world trip dog. Tell him
Chinese restaurants used to go in and they used to imprint the card
So if you spent over 50, they never rang it in I'd go to the same Chinese food for a month and eat for free the lunch
Rice and gravy where I used to always get when I was in the streets hustling and stuff
I couldn't eat until I go there and I buy some rice and gravy
If you eat in Chinese restaurant, you know what else I made a lot of money, you know, you know, I took down single hands
Tell me about it
Oh, man, that's tricky
That's no you got to go to far in neighborhoods
For me, you got to go to Japville. Yeah, little Japanese neighborhood. They don't ask questions. You don't tell them no lies
Let's say you got a 50 dollar fucking american express travelers check you buy something for 32
32 they
No idea. Okay
They give you 18 and change you follow me. So you would just go to Japanville
And spend a little bit they were all in on it because they got the insurance. Nobody gave a fuck
So if I knew you were going on vacation, you said to me, I go, what are you gonna do?
How much you got? Well, I'm kind of struggling. I only got a thousand. Forget about it
Go to the bank. Get me the travelers checks. Bring them to me. Call the police. Say you got them stolen
Follow police report. You go right back to the bank within one hour. You get your travelers checks back and I'll give you five off the top
So I make 500 you make 500
So what you catch a little smack to the face like Henry Hill says
Everyone's so why you got to get a beating sometimes. Yeah, that's so that's it. So who gives a fuck
You got to get a beating you got to get a beating somewhere along your life
I think I know the answer to this but like
How many days a week mic were you thinking about doing all this stuff? Like was it every every day with robbing this stuff?
Yeah, it was my job
I get in the morning to go school
I go to school eat breakfast and then with soon class stop all my go outside and start robbing this doesn't let the time come
Come back won't eat lunch if I didn't get a good thing if I got a good thing
I'm gonna eat lunch. I'm gonna go somewhere else and you know restaurant like red lobster somewhere. Damn, whether or not
I'll come to school. I come back to school on the time eating time. I go back out and get until five o'clock from nine to five
Because after that it's really not gonna get any more hits unless you run up and rob someone
God bless you. Look you're not lying. Let me ask you a question
When you're mentally because I know this I have to be honest with people. So I'll tell you
There was a day there was days and I would wake up from the ages of 17
To 27 and I would wake up and go
I don't know how the day's gonna start. I don't know how it's gonna end
What I do know is that I gotta come up with 80 dollars
Because I need money to eat. I gotta do laundry
And I gotta get a bag of dope
And in some way or another I get 82
Or I get 75 and that's when the song from the stones comes on. You can't always get what you want
But then something happened years later
That mentality went from waking up
So how am I gonna rob today became?
I'm waking up. Where am I gonna get on stage?
That that transference happened for you from robbing to boxing
Did you fall in love so much with boxing?
That it took you away from that you had 100 percent 100 percent you went from thinking about I I saw you in an interview one time
Say that when you stayed with cuss at night, you would watch
Fights endlessly black and white fights endlessly you studied
Listen, I have all the utmost respect for all your accomplishments, but my utmost respect for you
Is that nobody can ever pull one over on you about a fighter if there's a fighter that existed
Good or bad, you know, he existed. Oh, yeah, you know the day he fought who he fought
The corner how many tickets were sold and that impresses me to know and with you when I saw you do that interview
I had just gotten into comedy and I said if he was a champion and he studied all those tapes
It's time for me to study
Tapes of guys that have nothing to do with me even if I don't like that comedy
Just to see everything that was available to me
Oh, that's the best thing to study. I always say like if I'm gonna and um
If I'm going to get involved in anything stay as baseball boxing. Oh, it's um
Record, but then I'm gonna find out who be cube how this first began
I'm gonna go to the origin of it where it first began and I'm gonna know who the players are
And I'm gonna know how to play the game. I'm gonna know how it feels for him. I failed for him
How well for him?
That's how it went and you study
The fighters and you studied what they did what they didn't do
What made them successful what you're gonna do different
You know what kid chocolate did this type of training? I'm gonna do that type of training
I wanted to say something to you about that because I was looking at something about kid chocolate and I was talking to you about
He was he got second court disease. But what he did was bigger than that. He um
He made people he turned people in the fighters because joe loose wouldn't have been a fighter had any arm strong
They wouldn't have been fighters. They didn't have much money. He made
They had they had no thing then they had no intention in mind of becoming a fighter
There were people into play violin and your officer was looking on the railroad and he saw in the paper
I kid chocolate made like I'm I'm the 85 thousand dollars a night one night. They said fuck this. I want to be a fighter
He inspired so many great fighters
I didn't say that. What did you like the most about his fighting style? He's beautiful
the pretty fighter
Muhammad Ali
He's different styles. Cuban's got different. They moved it showed it in play bounce
Then they hit a different. Oh, they had those bongo players. They hit those bongos. Yeah, it looked pretty good looking. We ballet players
You know they ballet dancers
It's amazing that I learned a lot from you Mike. We're uh
very similar and uh
Now we smoke weed with three hands. You don't give a fuck jack. No, I like to smoke. Yeah
You love your fucking reefer now just so nobody fucking gets in your way. There's no misunderstandings
So what's next for mike tyson brother fill me in
Fool the church on what's next
Besides being a fucking great inspiration. Oh really what i'm doing now. Um, I embarked on
My canvas business and not necessarily from a flower perspective, you know, we work with flower
We don't necessarily touch it but for my cb and cbd perspective, you know
From the medicine perspective from the health perspective hygienic hygienic perspective
You love cbd off
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No, it's a way I would never have met some of the people I've gotten become friendly with some of the people
Even so if it wasn't from the weed perspective, you know
Or from dealing kind of cannabis and stuff. I'm not a lot of people
What the fuck is that liver actually calling? Yeah, jesus christ. He's back from the grave
Listen mike. I appreciate you coming up here today. I know it's a long route. No, it's all good, man
And I appreciate your friendship. Where'd you go eat? We ate at this time. It was like a spanish restaurant, wasn't it?
It was really awesome. Oh, they got potato tacos. You should
I'm on diet right now. So what do you eat now? What you try pretty much egg white and broccoli or spinach sometimes
That's your breakfast egg white
You gotta eat a yolk from time to time
I'm gonna tell you what
That yolk keeps the helmet good
Stay down. I miss one of those guys when I'm on my way there. He's booming. What are you looking to drop?
Probably 40 pounds. Really? What are you walking around at now?
I don't know probably 260. You look beautiful, man. Hey, I know but I don't want to be healthy
You just have a physical lately or something. No, but I just know my body. I know sometimes
I'm one of those guys. I we just gotta get the person and say fuck life and start eating and say I hate myself or something
And then I have to suffer and lose the weight when uh, you get the cannabis going
Uh, are you gonna sell cannabis in stores?
Will I be able to distribute to those people in the stores and they're gonna sell the cannabis
Sell the cannabis now. What's it gonna be called Tyson's knockout? That could be some of them as well. Yeah
I want you to get me KO coach, you know, yeah, I want you to get me like a 29% called coco's debt
You smoke this shit. You ain't coming back. I like that. I like that. I'll talk coco's debt
You know I'm saying the return of coco the concussions from coco the concussions from coco might
The best thing about you man. I tell you what I've done a lot of podcasts and jota whatever
More questions everywhere. I've gone the last three weeks
People have asked me what type of person you are. I'm gonna tell you really coley moley you're a champion in
and out of the ring
And what you're doing for people you smile
You know, tom sagura wrote a bit about your meeting you on an airplane. It's on netflix
You're just that type motherfucker like god put on this
We always treat people joe. That's what I know that I know that's it. That's all I keep it
Dog I revisit the street
I don't give a fuck I got a soup brew nobody needs to know nothing they could all suck my dick and call me shorty
I was born in 1940
Mike just break that
Jesus christ almighty. Mike. I love you 1940 shorty from 1940. We ain't fucking around. That's an old Bronx
From tremont avenue
Over where with the royal javelins used to run and shit. What was the name of your first gang?
jolly stompers jolly fucking stompers. Yeah, what was your insignia?
I don't know what the fuck it was
We used to carry out of the flag. We're doing crazy
Mike Tyson, I will need to see you on your podcast. I'll see you here. I love that man. This is really awesome
Whatever you want me. I'll be down. I'll go down there and fucking rock with you for now
What do you gotta come on next fair our next concert?
What is the next concert topper?
We're at it's gonna be the palm spring the dead spring area. What's it gonna be called?
Dead hot springs area. It'll be the kind festival Mike. I'm titan rancid brown for those the kind festival. You're gonna have comedy show
Um, we can make a comedy show. Let's talk music. Let's talk. Let's do a separate tent
We got 410 acres. Oh fuck. We've got a lot of people there. Yeah, then you just gotta get some bathrooms people gotta shoot outside
If not, it's gonna be like wood stuff. We're gonna get a country. We're gonna get out of some coffee shop
We may get what's the coffee stuff again magic?
Behind I forgot the name starbucks. We're probably trying to work against starbucks out there
Like I wish you all the luck in the world. You're a gentleman. I'm just very grateful
You give a lot of love and grateful that life has turned out good for me. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really happy it has to man
Like you got more lives than a motherfucking cat
But you're always welcome here, right brother. Thank you
Have a great day. Stay black all day and most important. Stay beautiful. You see jesse smell that bits out slap that
No, I can't do that. That's gonna put me back in the cell. No, he'll take the bits laugh from you
He knows he got it coming and shit. I love you mike tyson. Thank you very much
I want to give mike a shout out for stopping by the the champ of champs
I want to give christ killer a shout out
Always showing up and shit with his little bald head doing no fucking fiddle bid
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