Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #182 - Joey Diaz, Mike Pyle and Lee Syatt
Episode Date: June 2, 2014Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt are joined by UFC fighter Mike Pyle. This podcast is brought to you by: Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a discount at checkout. Hulu Plus. Visit Huluplus.com/joey for ...an extended free trial. Dollar Shave Club. Use promo code CHURCH and get high quality razors sent to your door. Escapepodtank.com Mention Joey or the Church and get $250 off. Recorded on 06/02/2014.
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Who's that motherfucking Chiba Choo League stuff?
It's coming.
Oh shit.
Oh shit.
Crank it, Lee.
Crank it.
Oh shit.
Oh shit.
Kill that motherfucker, Lee.
Monday, June 2nd.
Eat that motherfucker, Lee.
There you go.
What?
It's Monday.
You got a second chance.
You can start whatever the fuck you want.
Let's make this happen today, Lee.
Oh.
It's hard out there for a fucking pimp.
Without instructions.
You're slinging dick today, Lee.
It's June 2nd, the day the devil was buried in sea,
gang raped, lit on fire,
and then shot in Santa Barbara.
Who gives a fuck about the devil?
What?
Huh?
Kick it, Lee.
You're not wiggling, Lee.
What's the problem?
Sorry.
What's your little arm?
You're like a fucking dinosaur.
What's up with the wiggle?
Now you better have a...
How should I wiggle?
Give me a little wiggle.
A little bounce, huh?
What?
It's hard for a pimp, but I'm putting it in.
I'm hoping to God I don't slither.
You know it's hard out here for a pimp.
What, Lee?
Huh?
You're doing it, buddy.
You're in California, wake up.
You're in New York, wake up.
You're in Australia, wake up.
Grab your fucking nuts and give thanks.
You're back!
Some people are laying in a fucking hospital.
Some people are sick and they are with two legs,
thinking it's gonna be a bad day.
Get the fuck up, you fucking mutt.
It's a beautiful fucking day to be alive.
It's sunny, it's raining.
Whatever the fuck is going down, you're alive, bitch.
What's happening to my little Jewish brother?
You bad motherfucker, you.
What are you gonna do?
You know me, it's Monday, June 2nd.
I'm ready to stab a motherfucker.
There's so much to tell.
Where do we start today?
We can start with a live podcast, which is sensational.
Ari Shafia always bringing it,
taking it to the hoop.
Had to get up,
because he was taking a long distance call from China.
Who speaks to Chinese people on a Wednesday night?
Thursday, San Diego, fucking phenomenal.
I'm out of driving shapely.
I'm definitely out of driving.
You're not out of driving shapely.
Listen, man, for years I drove a lot.
I drove to all these gigs.
Now you fly in your wind, in your car,
you fucking don't have it no more.
I bought that car in January, I got 3,000 miles.
I used to put 3,000 miles a week on a fucking car.
Jesus.
A week, I'm exaggerating, but you know what I'm saying.
Okay, but I feel like, you know, I'm telling the whole story.
What fucking story?
We got high and we drove down, man.
That was a-
You said get there at like 3, 45, four o'clock,
somewhere around there.
We get there and we start wearing errands.
I'm like, where is he going?
He's going to the ATM?
Okay, maybe he wants to pay, tip the bartender.
And I'm like, oh, sit, no, we're going to the weed store.
Went to the weed store,
which a lot of my closing around the area,
we were getting-
So you gotta stock up?
It's, yeah, you gotta stock up,
but I've been going to listen.
Noho Organic has been one of my favorites since day one.
I've had some great weed stores.
I had the one in Hollywood, Kushmart, with my main man,
me and Ralph, used to go up there and get the Matzo G.
And then I moved to the valley.
I can't drive to fucking Hollywood every day,
so I got Divine Wellness.
I had the other Noho one on Lancashire, that moved,
but Divine Wellness closed down.
Divine Wellness had some great edibles,
but Noho Organic has always been in the run.
They were, and I like Tony,
I like the host app, the Mexican chick,
the little Mexican kid, I like the owner jam.
I mean, they're just good people.
If you go to that place,
they got all the name brands we talk about.
You know, they got Auntie Dolores, they got Chibachu,
they've got the other Noh ones.
The only ones they don't have is the chocolate bars I get.
Bang?
No, no, no, the other ones, Curb, whatever the fuck they are.
But what do you call that?
The strongest edible at Noho Organic
is these fucking 200 milligram cookies.
And how many?
They're ugly as shit.
How much did you tell me they were?
Don't worry about it, I'll tell you.
He gave it to me like, it's 10 milligrams.
Listen, these fucking things are like,
you go to like a bakery and they have that big Chinese cookie
or the big cookie with the chocolate chip in it.
Like the black and white cookie, yeah.
The black and white cookie, it's like that.
It's a big fucking cookie.
So you break that motherfucker in half.
And I'll tell you what, you will see stars.
I guarantee you, you will see stars.
Now they have one of the top shelf that's 200
and they have one of the bottom, the middle shelf
that they're 100, but on the second shelf,
they always have fudge squares.
Okay, on the third square, they have sodas.
They have THC sodas and they have anti-dolaris in the mix.
Let me tell you something, I love anti-dolaris.
I love Chibo chewy, disgust them.
Nothing will rock your world
like this 200 milligram cookie.
Nothing, Lee, has anything rocked your world that hard?
The only thing that got close was when I had
one and a half green hornets, but this was one thing.
And the thing that got me was it took a while
to get down there and you started getting high
because then after you took the half, like 30 minutes later,
you just down to hold Chibichu.
Oh, I just ate a Chibichu on top
but like a fucking soldier was sitting in traffic.
Yeah, but then that's the thing, someone,
I forget who it was, I think maybe it was Rick,
but we were talking about how when you were driving,
you don't really sit, you can't really sit still.
Can you, you would start opening the windows a little bit,
do the AC a little bit, but then you started getting high.
So we were talking about 90 down the highway
with all four windows down.
Why don't we?
The AC going a thousand and I'm freezing,
but I can't look, and then we stopped and got snacks
so we thought we were close.
Cause for whatever reason, we stopped looking up the GPS,
we went off by what the promoter said.
What's your name?
Monique.
Monique, she's very nice, but you got mints.
And you ate like a quarter of the packet once,
but I couldn't even look, I couldn't look,
I just heard a chomping and I couldn't look at you.
We were so fucking stoned by that point
and the chibachu was kicking in.
So now we got to drive,
but now it's no more interstate freeway.
It's winds and valleys.
Like what do you call those winding roads?
Yeah, we're on the Indian reservation.
It's an Indian reservation with one road going that way
and one coming this way.
It's a two-laner.
It's a two-rotor as my friend Furnie Bassasuto used to say.
Yeah, felt like East Coast.
Yeah, did feel like the East Coast.
We're driving and I'm getting sicker and sicker.
I got fucking car sick by reputation, you know,
since I was a kid, I got fucking car sick.
So now I'm getting car sick
and I got to pull over with 20 minutes and we made a left.
I made a left somewhere that took us up
this fucking hill of debt.
And I'm like, Lee, I don't see no lights.
It kept getting darker.
The GPS wasn't working,
but he was telling me to go fuck himself.
We finally called the back, she goes turn around,
we made a U-turn and that went,
before I made that U-turn, I had to pull over.
That was horrid.
This was the weird thing, I didn't tell Lee,
so I'm getting anxiety.
I'm sweating profusiously.
I'm getting sick.
I get out of the fucking car.
I closed the door.
Yeah, what happened?
I'm just breathing.
I looked to the side of the road and somebody died there.
They got flowers there and shit.
Oh no.
And Indian arrows and shit.
So now I got to sit there and go,
and that's why I looked there and go,
we're gonna die, Tyler.
Oh no.
Then I tell you, we're gonna die.
I think we're out of the car to call Monique.
I think we're out of the car to do that.
No, I got a car to get fucking air.
I didn't want to call Monique.
I could've called her in the car right directly
without even picking up the fucking phone.
Oh my God.
I pulled over to breathe and get my head right and fucking.
And then we went to the one side of the casino
that didn't have ballet,
and I was like, this is never gonna end.
Oh.
We sat there and we had to get around,
but I had to do like eight.
By that point, I was doing eight miles an hour
because I couldn't even drive no more, guys.
That's how plastic I was.
I couldn't even fucking drive anymore.
I was getting so goddamn car sick.
So I pulled over into Valley Can.
We walked in the air conditioner, helped.
We drank.
So even in that little green room,
I was about to puke.
Yeah.
Remember I said to you, give me the garbage can?
Yeah.
Remember I said that.
And it had no fucking garbage lining in it.
And I'm like, I'm gonna puke in a no fucking garbage line.
And then you see the guy who came in,
moved it and I was like, don't move that,
but I was too hot to tell him.
Oh my God.
But then, about 10 minutes before I got on stage
with the water and just standing up.
Well, we were in the green room for that long.
I felt like we were in the green room for like six minutes
and then you went on stage for an hour.
I was like, how is he doing it?
And then I tried to wait in the green room
for as long as possible
because when you left, you were right on stage
and I didn't want to, like the people were crazy.
They started cheering when we got there.
There was some crazy people.
So I didn't want-
Just to drive down that fucking road, you gotta be crazy.
Oh yeah, I wanted to get,
I wanted your show to like be going on
for as long as possible before I tried to sneak out.
And it didn't really work.
But then luckily they brought the chicken
and you kept doing like five minute checkups.
I mean, like, we have the chicken.
You doing okay?
Lee, I was so fucked up.
And I couldn't even answer you.
I was just like, I didn't put those up.
I don't know how we made it home,
but I know we made it home in two hours.
Oh yeah, I was on the way home, I was doing okay.
And I introduced you
to a Puerto Rican Italian sandwich at 7-Eleven.
Yeah, that was actually pretty good.
I told you, but this is what you do
with the 7-Eleven Italian sandwich.
Yeah, you were telling me.
Listen, we live in California
before you start fucking judging.
So a few people going, Joey, you didn't just say that.
Yes, I did fucking say that.
Because where do you get an Italian sandwich around here?
I mean, a real Italian sandwich,
like you grew up with on the East Coast, you don't.
So what you got to do is dope them up.
That's what I live off.
Dope shit up sometimes.
Pizza I'm done with.
So you got to dope it up.
So you got to get mama Celeste and dope it up.
I got to go to the one place and to hunger,
get the pie, bring it home,
re-dope it up and put it back on the fucking oven.
It's brilliant.
And then a couple of times it's delicious.
I'll make your fucking slice that too.
What do you put on it?
Mozzarella.
I put fucking some peppers on it.
I put some, you know, you just re-dope it up.
You put some olive oil on the fucking crust again.
These sandwiches don't fucking know.
These Gentiles don't know how to fucking cook.
You go to an Italian sandwich here, it tastes like shit.
It tastes like shit.
An Italian sandwich is ham, cappacool,
whatever the fuck, prosciutto or some shit.
Maybe some mortadella, some provolone,
some motherfucking lettuce, some peppercini,
some sweet peppers, vinegar or salt and pepper,
and fucking oregano.
That's an Italian sandwich.
Well, I hope that's as close as I know.
Ham, salami, genoa, you know, ham, genoa, mortadella.
I don't even think the prosciutto's in there.
I don't even think the prosciutto, you don't need it.
The cappacool will do great with the fucking, whatever,
you know?
Listen, anyway, 7-Eleven got a sandwich,
like a pepperoni, salami, provolone cheese,
and the bread ain't bad.
What you do is you take that motherfucker home,
you re-bake it like an old school Stuart sandwiches.
If you remember Stuart sandwiches,
that means you're old school,
and you were an old school fucking cokehead.
You went into a bar and they had like this little oven,
and you tell them what you want,
and they took a sandwich out and it was in a baggie,
and they put it in the oven with the baggie,
and it was like popcorn to where it is today.
It would go pop, and then the fucking,
they would open the bag and the steam would come out,
and your sandwich wasn't that bad.
Me and my fucking guerrilla buddies
ate a thousand of those at Joan Mary's,
and bars all over the East Coast,
from the Bronx to fucking Connecticut,
when I used to go up there and do highlight.
Stuart sandwiches were all over the East Coast.
That's where I got the idea from.
You take that fucking sandwich home,
you put it in the oven, you re-bake it a little bit,
get the bread to get hard and crispy,
burn that motherfucker, it comes out,
you shave some lettuce, shave it,
and not just put, like, fucking Adam's leaf.
You shave some lettuce, you put some vinegar
on that motherfucker, some pepperoncinis.
Yeah, you were telling me to do this at 2 a.m.,
in a 7-Eleven parking lot, I'm like,
I can't, I'm not gonna do any of that right now.
You remember the two guys that came up to me,
and said, you look at the guy from the longest shot,
and I'm like, nah, I hear that all the time,
and they walked away, and there was a black guy in the car,
and what'd he say to that?
He's like, I know who you are, you're Joe Ideas.
And put the two fucking dudes, and they're like,
hey, look at me.
And you're like, you got it, and he's like,
I'll let those dudes think they know.
He said something at the end, he's like,
I'll let those dudes not know, or something, or.
A fucking craziness.
Now, we had a good night, that was a good fucking night.
I had a very peaceful weekend.
I tell you what, I did this weekend, I pulled the leak.
What do you?
I didn't watch sports, though, I watched,
I caught up on some movies.
Nice, and you feel relaxed, right, you feel nice?
Yeah, listen, man, I learned a big,
when I used to work at the comedy store,
a lot, Paul Mooney was there a lot, and I asked Paul,
Paul, when you're looking at a right comedy,
what do you do when you're stuck,
and he goes, go get entertained.
And I got entertained.
I watched 21 Grams, an old movie.
I watched two movies back to back,
which is very rare for me.
I sat there and watched 21 Grams
and whatever was on before that, which is very good.
And I watched Captain Phillips again, the end of it.
Oh, you were so excited when you were watching that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the fucking four days in the raft,
with fucking four black dudes when they came out there.
Are you okay?
Am I okay?
I'd been in a fucking dingy with four fucking Somalians
and no water and no soap.
What do you think I fucking found?
Remember, he was great Tom Hanks in that.
I was idiot.
And I watched, what else?
I just hung out with the family.
I worked out, I went to Friday Night Jiu Jitsu,
you know, and I had a good time, I got beat up.
Saturday I did nothing, just a family thing,
and watched a little bit of the UFC,
but didn't really get caught up in it,
and then Sunday I did the same.
Yes, I really didn't do shit.
And I felt really bad about it.
I couldn't shake something like,
they weren't feeling good, I wasn't feeling good.
The best thing I did, yes, I did that podcast
with Steve Simone.
Oh yeah.
I had a really good time with Steve Simone.
We taped it over there at Marie T.C.
We met at nine in the morning.
There was not a fucking soul there.
And we just sat there and talked shit.
A lot of noise, a lot of background noise though.
I know, but the mics don't really catch it,
catch it until you're fine.
But besides that, that was it.
I'm back in Salt Lake City this week,
and the week after that I'm in Long Island.
So I didn't really fucking want to do much, Lee.
Just really wasn't into going crazy this weekend.
I don't know why, you know?
No, I agree, and I have to actually thank you.
You told me, oh, it's on the way down to San Diego,
you told me.
What's that?
What I ended up doing for Paula.
Well, we were talking, I was thinking about how
Paula goes to law school.
But you brought it up out of nowhere.
The way I remember it, we were just sitting there,
and then he looked at me like,
when does Paula start her job?
So you were thinking about it by yourself.
Yeah, you know, listen, man, the church
of what's happening now is basically,
I got a whole shit to tell you,
the church of what's happening now is basically
about your growth, that's what it's become,
how people see you've grown, if you listen to episode two.
Oh, God, I don't even want to.
Well, you wouldn't even take a fart to the face
in episode 100, now you're at least fucked up, take it.
And it's also about making somebody's day.
I don't want this to be,
I don't ever want to be put on the pressure
that this has to be fucking funny.
Because if that's the, you're not gonna be fucking funny
every goddamn day.
But that's all I could give you.
I could give you making your day
by at one point of the fucking podcast
with an idea or something, and watching Lee's growth.
I'm a broke old man, I got nothing going on.
And that's what the show's about.
Me and Lee were driving to San Diego.
We're fucking stoned this shit.
We blast music, we heard every genre.
Fuckin' me, Lee knows, I love, I got-
But it was so weird.
I know we're getting off track a little bit,
but you don't listen to music, I think you would.
Like, you listen to rock, but you're into like,
more of ballads.
Like, you don't like the, you kind of skipped over
the hard stuff, and you like it when they were really saying.
Like, I was kind of, I was like-
Yeah, I like to do what they say.
I was expecting more hard stuff,
and you were like, the ones that they would get into
and sing, I was like, oh, this is what he likes.
This is-
I didn't like, I don't like that heavy, heavy shit,
Kill Your Uncle, all that fucking music.
I really don't.
I like a lot of, you know, Tom Petty was great
on the radio down, we listened to She's a Woman in Love.
Just these songs that you don't put up,
you don't put on by yourself.
Sometimes the radio reminds you of how good music is.
I'm very happy I have serious radio,
and I'm very happy I have Ozzy's Boneyard.
I get to listen to Jim Florentine,
and we listen to Norton on the way down that night.
And the best fucking station on there
is this hip hop station where they just run away yams.
That's all I could call them.
They're not even black people anymore.
They're not even black.
They started out being black.
They passed the fucking one stage.
Now they're just hardcore gangster yams, and I love it.
I put it on when I'm in the car with my wife.
I put it on when I'm in the car with myself.
I don't know what the station is.
It's five or six stations after Ozzy's Boneyard,
that way, and it's old school.
No, it's not even old school hip hop.
It's just, I don't even know what it is.
They had Fat Joe on there one day.
I was fucking dying, listening to what they were saying.
If you're easily offended, do not listen to the station.
It's just black guys fucking dropping it, dropping it.
She's a hoe, fuck that bitch.
It was the weeks of lounge, hit JZ.
I never heard nothing like that.
I thought my podcast, our podcast was bad.
Nothing.
They were calling her a fucking everything,
that dirty bitch, no career having motherfucker.
I mean, just horrid things.
But anyway, I love that.
I love all that shit.
You know, Lee, I listen to everything.
I got the chances where you're gonna, I called you.
You don't wanna pay the extra $7.
I watched something I never thought I'd watch.
I watched the HBO, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions.
I didn't watch all of it.
I watched bits and pieces of it.
But I turned it on as Bruce Springsteen was on.
With the East Street band.
He was inducting the East Street band.
And it made me fall in love with Bruce Springsteen.
Why?
It was beautiful.
He just fucking dropped it.
And then I saw the Nirvana one.
They inducted Nirvana.
God damn!
They weren't in there yet?
No, the guy from Ariane brought them up
and defined lightning in a bottle.
And then I saw Dave Grohl's speech.
Holy fuck.
But one thing Dave Grohl, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen,
especially, was they love of music.
They knew all.
Let me tell you something.
Kid Rock is a fucking numberhead.
But you ain't gonna be quit Kid Rock on Jeopardy about music.
He knows everything.
When they get to that level of musician,
you've listened to everything.
You've picked up a little something from everything.
It's really weird that it was the first time
I picked up a heavy duty correlation.
People might think Joey's funny.
Or people might not think I'm funny.
Either way, it doesn't matter.
But you see who your influences are.
And with me, it wasn't as much as the big time comedians
as the people I hung around with.
And there's gotta be,
I have maybe 10 people that I hung around with
that influenced me and nobody I ever know or hear of.
And then I mix it in with Dice Clay and Rodney
and Bill Hicks and a little bit of Kenison
and I become something.
When you're a musician, that's the same fucking thing.
It's the same fucking thing.
You go to work.
My wife said that the reason why she really quit her job
this year wasn't because of the baby
and wasn't because she wanted to help me with the t-shirts.
It was because they gave her a 1.7% raise of the job.
The girl that she worked with got like a 1.2.
But my wife does accounting.
And she realized that all the people
in these other divisions, the divisions were weaker.
We're getting 12% percentage raises and all this shit.
That's what really hurt my wife.
And man, my wife don't yell.
But when I see her yell in the kitchen
with the baby in the room, I know there's a problem.
And when she was breaking this down to me last week,
I realized what happens to us when we become art.
I hate saying that word.
When one day we say, you know what?
Fuck society.
Fuck society, you're not fucking me anymore.
I'm putting my life and I'm getting up early.
I don't steal from you.
I don't even take an extra sugar, one of my fucking coffee.
I get there at fucking a half hour early
and I leave a half hour later
and you give me 1.7% raise.
But the fucking guy who comes in late
and is drinking all the time and whatever,
he gets 12%, whatever.
That's what happens to people one day.
It's amazing how quick.
For some people, it happens when you're 19,
like it happened for me.
And for some people, it happens when you're 40.
But it's never too late.
That's when you go, you know what?
I've been putting all this effort into somebody else's shit.
Fuck it.
I'm gonna do this for myself now.
And I'm gonna do this.
And this is what I'm gonna make my own hours.
And I don't wanna ever work full time again.
That's where you get your strength.
I saw my wife snap you this week.
I know what happens.
And for me, I've told you my parents are,
they weren't never against it,
but they were always nervous for me.
My mom finally got on board yesterday.
She called me and she was like,
because I'm moving, we're talking.
And she's like, so do you think,
because the shows are starting right around now?
She's like, so are you thinking about getting a new job?
I was like, no, not really.
I'm making less, but maybe I've figured it out.
I'm making enough money to survive.
She looked, congratulations.
She like was, because I see what she's going through now,
like towards the end of her career.
And it's just the fuck of the shit they put her through.
And it's, I was talking to Paula.
I'm so much, I'm making less money,
but I'm so much happier,
like not going over the four or five every day,
twice a day.
Oh Jesus Christ.
So it's just, it's scary,
but people start getting like,
understanding what you're talking about.
And it's, and the worst part is,
is it's not the other people who get a bigger raise,
but it's like the boss who doesn't come in until 12
and leaves early.
And, and he, he, he talked,
you see in the new, in the newsletter
that he got a 20% bonus because corporate was happy.
It's like that, that's the stuff that really pissed me off.
And it's like,
you guys are doing all the hard work
and somebody else has to smile.
And no, you know,
and like I tell people all the time with me,
I was 19 and I was like, why am I doing this?
I could be doing this.
I used to get furious.
Like I'm doing this for 10 bucks an hour.
I can make 10 bucks an hour with one drug deal
or kicking one window in.
But that's not what I really wanted to do.
I just wanted to fucking do something
that I could work for myself.
Like, and that's why I think I basically got into comedy.
I mean, that's basic.
That was the easiest business I could enter
without having a ukulele or a fucking guitar
or a piano or a monkey.
You know, that was the easiest fucking thing
I could get into.
But I see it's a weird day when that happens to you.
Like for me, the day I snapped this,
the day I couldn't make my credit card payment.
Like I thought my credit card would be ruined.
Like I was raised on paying your bills.
I thought my credit will be ruined.
I was shot as an American the day
I couldn't make my fucking credit card payment.
You know, I was shocked as an American the day
that I realized what life was after college.
I realized that the day you graduate college,
you're done, you're done.
You have a realization.
You go into these firms, you know,
here you got your college degree,
you're paying back your loans.
And one day while you're writing that check
to pay back your loans,
you go, wow, this is basically it.
Yeah.
This is it.
You're even paying them back forever regardless.
Yeah, you're like, this is it.
I'm gonna, in 10 years, I'm gonna be the guy
that's ahead of me.
And then one day when I'm 65,
I retire and they give me a gold fucking watch.
And on the weekends, I mold along,
I take the kids to fucking church.
And I go to Denny's and eat.
That's it.
This is it.
This is all I'm gonna do.
Some people say, yeah, this is what I'm gonna do.
And some people say, fuck it.
I'm gonna figure something else out.
I wanna go to Ireland.
I wanna go to Thailand and get my dick licked.
I wanna paint house.
You know, whatever.
It's so weird how way your inside comes out
and overwhelms your beliefs.
That's what basically comes down to.
And you have to commit.
You have to fucking put everything you can.
I don't work 40 hours a week.
I work 80 hours a week.
I talked to my brother Mike Runney yesterday.
He's called the podcast.
He just got a new job.
He's 52.
He's working 70 hours a week.
He worked 19 hours on Friday as a general manager of a store.
He's on salary.
Yeah, he's making, you know, 80, 90 grand a year.
But on a fucking Friday,
he's gotta put in 19 fucking hours at 52.
Jesus.
You know, can you imagine doing construction work at 52?
My buddy, Timmy, who drives a truck.
I hope he's out of the hospital.
I know he was home resting.
He put the wrong pad on his back.
Cosmaster, he has to break down pallets every day
and shit like that.
Jesus.
You know, you fed your family,
put us into a bad position.
So now we have to do something we don't want to do.
Then we realize why we're not fucking happy.
Yeah.
And I want to be an advocate for this.
And I never did it because I always felt like
you should have a job.
If you're, for people who are my age, 25,
let's say you work at a college for a few years,
take unemployment for a little bit if you're unhappy.
You pay into it every week.
Look at your check.
You pay into it and I never took it.
And it saved me at the beginning of this.
Now I'm doing okay, but it saved me at the beginning of this.
And it's just sitting there.
You're gonna pay taxes into it
and you pay taxes for what they give you.
So if you worked for, I worked for like four years
or so, three years, and I think I have a year of benefits,
something like that, so fucking use it.
I mean, you're paying taxes into it.
You know, I was such a jerk off when I was younger.
When I got fired from mass back-century,
when I was going to high school and I got sick
and they fired me, I collected unemployment
because I got fired, they told me.
But then afterward, I always thought that
why would I collect unemployment if I'd gotten steel?
There's an American that could use it seriously.
Maybe he's got a disability that he can't get a job.
I just really thought this way.
And I never touched it again.
It was Ari Shafir five years ago who said to me,
you don't collect unemployment.
I'm like, no, he goes, all the movies you do,
you don't collect unemployment,
you don't collect unemployment.
Go get your money, you know.
Whenever you shoot up commercial,
the next day you're eligible for unemployment.
Like the fucking next day, you gotta call in and go,
hey, guess what?
I'm ready for you.
So that's who got me on.
And I collected it for years with no shame.
And you're right, it is your fucking money, you know?
And it loosens you up a little bit,
gives you a time to think and strategize.
Because if they're gonna tax you 30%,
because they tax people like us, 30%,
the people who can do millions of dollars,
like Mitt Romney who paid 17%,
if they're gonna tax us 30%,
I'm gonna take the part that they say I can take.
So it's just, yeah, people don't do it.
And that could be your start for a new thing.
It was for me.
You know, it's funny how all this came about
into diving into what you're gonna do.
When you dive into your belief,
you have to dive into your belief, you know?
If you're gonna be a musician,
you know, I'm listening to fucking Dave Groh.
I think that's his name, the drummer from Nirvana.
And now he's got the Foo Fighters, I know it's Groh,
but he was talking about sitting in the back of a van
eating gay old pizza, fucking listening to,
you know, Little Richard and something like that.
You'd never think that the guy from Nirvana
would listen to Little Richard,
but you have to, you have to understand it.
You show me a musician or comic
that doesn't know the history of this fucking thing
or hasn't, have you ever had a conversation
with Mike Tyson?
No, neither have I, but have you ever seen,
have you ever seen him get interviewed?
No, he's great.
He knows everything about boxing.
He'll talk to you about boxes in the 40s,
boxes in the 30s, he'll go back to bad knuckle boxing.
He'll go back to the history of fucking two cavemen,
you know, choking each other.
He knows everything about it.
And that's what I don't understand.
Like when you dive yourself into yourself
and you dive yourself into what you believe in,
whether it's boxing, personal training,
comedy, drawing, whatever,
you have to know everything about anything.
And when I heard Bruce Springsteen's speech,
it was fucking beautiful.
Especially when you talk about Clamens, Clamens,
and the guy from the Sopranos, you know,
I don't know what the guy who played
the fucking Concierge, whatever his name was.
You know, I wasn't never a big Bruce Springsteen fan.
I don't know much about him.
You know, when I was growing up in Jersey,
I got beat up with him.
So it kind of got, it was a turn off.
And I liked a few out songs on some of the albums,
but as I grew older, I appreciated them.
The other night, it came full fucking circle.
I really dug, because I understood his struggle,
you know, I understood his struggle as a man
and to get somewhere and then you reach it.
You know, it's not just,
once you fucking make it as a musician,
that's when it really gets hard.
Cause now you gotta follow up all that shit.
He said, him and that guitar player
knew each other for 50 fucking years.
Him and that one, Miami, Steve, Van Zandt,
whatever his fucking name is, you know?
And it's amazing how this is what I do.
This is what I do.
I have to be really good at all the facets of it, you know?
In two weeks, I'm gonna be on Marin.
I acted on that, you know?
When we come to the podcast,
I have to be good at doing the podcast.
On Thursday nights when I go on stage
and I can't be good every night at this shit,
but I have to dive myself into this, you know?
I have to dive myself into this shit.
And it's amazing if you're gonna,
when I finally realized that through whatever came to me
that happened to my wife at 44, it came to my wife.
And she was fucking yelling in the kitchen.
She's like, why should I fucking, you know?
It's amazing when it hit me, I was very sad.
Like I thought the American way was the American way.
You went to college, you got a job,
you joined the country club,
you hit golf balls, you hung out with fucking Gentiles.
But it sucks.
It sucks.
It's a fucking struggle.
And then at the end, you fucking die
and you count your pennies from your retirement.
Right.
And you fucking die.
You might as well live a fucking little
or put that belief that you're gonna put into JC Penney
or whatever corporation, whatever company you're gonna put
in your brother-in-law's plumbing company,
whatever and put it into yourself.
You know, put the effort into yourself.
And yeah, you're going Joey, that's easy for you to say,
you know, go, listen, man, if you believe in yourself,
you'll get a small loan.
If you believe in what you're selling,
you'll figure it the fuck out.
We all do.
We just sometimes think we gotta get,
oh, we're gonna get an SBA loan from them.
I don't know if they give them out that many loans.
You know what I'm saying?
So whatever you choose on,
you gotta get a job to finance it yourself
or sell a kilo or blow.
Or at least like what I was doing in this and TV,
I saved, I didn't like, I'm not driving around in a BMW.
I could have spent the money
that I was making from both places.
But I saved like almost every penny I made from the podcast.
And if you're gonna be working, at least save it
so that in a year or two,
you could spend a little bit of time
and work on your goals.
You know, I was always never a big saver, you know,
because I was like, fuck, I'm gonna save money for when,
please.
And it's weird how you have to, you know,
my wife, for example, one day we're going through shit.
And my wife goes, do you see what I have saved
from my job and I looked and I couldn't fucking believe it.
And I go, how long would it take you to save that?
You know, and she goes, oh, it took me six years, you know,
taking a little percentage of my check every week.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
I wish I had that fortitude.
I wish I had the, and the way she says it, she goes,
I just got to take it out of my check.
I don't even see it.
I don't have to touch it.
Oh yeah, I never got to that level, but yes,
it's what you gotta do.
I mean, the way you talk about how you,
like you're at Robby gas station,
have three grand and be gone in four days.
It freaks me out.
I can't, I've never even really thought about it
cause I can't imagine that you didn't pull like a thousand
away or...
It is, that's part of the fucking thrill.
That was part of the high.
The high was in three days.
I would go to the front desk of the hotel
where I was staying, pay for five days
and go fuck it Friday at 12 o'clock is deed day.
You know what, fuck it.
Let's do Saturday at 12 o'clock is deed day.
I gotta figure it out by Saturday.
And it would force me to be a savage.
Oh.
I could not lay my more, you know, it's funny.
I was telling my wife last night about George.
George is starting a framing business with a sister.
My friend George and I said, you know, Terry,
I've, when people pay me cash sometimes,
I take the top hundred off and I save it.
Okay.
I save it and then every couple of weeks
I put it away in the bank
and it's not, it doesn't even go on my account.
And the funny thing is I, like my wife,
I put away a couple hundred in there in the last two years.
And my buddy George is opening up a framing company
with his sister and I see what he's been doing lately.
You know, George really had to pick it up.
George divorced his wife.
He has a different girlfriend.
He lives in grandma's apartment and she gets a low rent.
So he picks up the rent and he lives there.
Well, that was all going away pretty soon.
So I told him, I go, George, you got to pick it up.
That's it.
I go, once you got to start paying child support
and her house payment and your rent,
you know, you can't rent outrageously.
You can't go get a two grand house
because you're paying 15 under one
and you still got to pay child support.
So you got to figure it out.
I was busting those balls for a year.
I'm like, you better start looking for a part time job.
As a doorman at night, you better do something.
He took my advice and he was like, you know what?
I'm going to start my own business.
He wholesales frames for this guy,
but the guy is spreading his business out thin
and George sees it coming.
George already saw it coming.
So he went to his sister.
His sister originally had the framing shop with the mother.
When she got married, they moved away.
So she couldn't help no more.
So the mother sold the business in 85
and George has been freelancing since 85,
not really with a home.
It really takes away from him.
He rents a small office like ours
and what he call that shit, he does the guy's wholesale work,
but he's losing thousands of dollars a month.
And George understands that he has two daughters.
He was raising them, he had to drive them around.
So you just take whatever you can
so you could raise your children.
But now the children, he gets one daughter on the weekend
and then every other weekend, the one daughter's older.
So he has more time.
So he was telling me he's looking for a warehouse.
So I told my wife last night, you know what?
He's been getting up the last couple of Fridays,
Sunday mornings and going to different farmers markets
just to get his name out there.
And he's doing good.
Yeah, like he was pissed yesterday.
So he only sold two things,
but his sister sold like eight things, you know?
But I go, George, you're getting out there.
And this is how people start.
You gotta get out there.
And he knows, he goes, I don't know
if it was a waste of money, I paid 250 to rent a booth.
I go, what would your options be?
Would you be at home watching TV?
You're playing with your daughter?
You're out there.
The only, nothing happens on the couch, bro.
Nothing fucking has ever happened on the couch.
Yeah, you don't wanna stick your hand in the couch
and pull up 35 cents.
You could do that all fucking day
and smell somebody else's asshole on those fucking,
whatever, but nothing happens on the couch, you know?
Get out there.
And it's funny.
So I told my wife, I'm gonna take those couple of hundreds.
I'm gonna give it to George to start up, you know?
Whatever he needs, man.
If I give him a thousand bucks
to start his little business up, you know?
And at that point, like that thousand is,
it's like 20,000.
Like when you're first starting out,
or especially when, back to what you did
for, told me to do for Paula.
I'm making his day because let's face it.
When I bumped into George, March of 85.
This shit which he's kicking in, sorry.
Oh, please.
When I bumped into George in March of 85,
he was working as a landscaper
and he was raking some of these leaves in their backyard.
And I was burglarizing the joint
and I was casing the neighborhood out
and I saw him and he opened me.
Listen, man, I was two weeks,
I was a month away from getting arrested.
There's no two fucking ways about it, guys.
And I was gonna do 10 years.
They were gonna give me at least eight.
I had no ties to the community.
I just, I was robbing those fucking gas stations.
I was doing a thousand other things.
The more spaghetti you used to throw,
you know, when you're doing crime,
I used to do crime in three month chunks.
After three months, you know something's gonna go down.
So you can't do it for three months every day.
Like every day you gotta get up and make a living,
break into an apartment, sell nickel bags.
Eventually something's gonna happen.
It's gonna store your fucking growth.
You're gonna get arrested somewhere, some little mistake.
And I had already gotten arrested in New York
for selling like a hot jewelry.
I sold hot jewelry with an ID and they came and got me.
So I already knew it was around the corner.
The width of the police were around the corner, you know?
So when I bumped into George,
I fucking say what you wanna say.
George saved my life by 10 years.
You know, George gave me,
he let me stay with his family for three months.
I helped him out as much as I could.
But I learned more in those three months.
George had been my brother since I was 15.
Since freshman year of high school.
George Kaledinsky has been my brother.
I mean, guys all in, all in.
You know, when I met people from close side,
they'd say to me, your friends are George, fuck it.
Yeah, give them a drink, front them a grandma.
But whatever I needed,
because I was friends with George growing up.
And it's amazing that our friendship
has lasted 36 fucking years.
Wow.
And, you know, I just wanna make his day.
You know, he doesn't listen,
so he won't know about this.
But it's amazing.
When we met together, George, he should be listening.
No, he listened.
He used to listen from his phone, I think.
I know, he called in.
Yeah, he's called in.
No worries, but it's just that he'll never know.
But it's just amazing that sometimes
you do have to make somebody's day.
You really do, man.
Just, and it doesn't take a fucking diamond.
It doesn't take a dinner at Ruth Chris.
It's just a little fucking gesture, man.
And I'm happy you did that, Lee.
I'm happy.
We didn't tell him what we were doing.
So we were driving down and you're like,
when does Paula start her job?
I said, tomorrow.
And you're like, here's what you do.
You get her a nice card, you stick whatever a hundred dollars
is, I don't remember how you say it.
A yardstick.
You put it in there.
And you tell her, here's this, go get your nails done
before you start the job and you can look pretty.
Like, something like that, I'm high now,
so it's all gonna come together.
You wanna get fucking sharp.
You know what I'm saying?
You want your feet and your fingers
to look fucking sharp.
So I did that, but I went to the pharmacy to get a card.
And there was one that was perfect.
It was like, I believe in you,
but it was a whole big long poem of like,
I believe in goodness because of you.
And I started giggling.
And then there was this one where this,
this Harry cave man was like, I'm a stupid cave man.
And then I find you and I chose that one.
And I put it in there and like, I had to go.
You put a whole hundred or five twenties?
Five twenties.
Jesus Christ.
I didn't have time to go get a hundred.
You had a man who could put an even beating.
I was picking her up the next day.
So I picked her and her cousin up at something.
I had to go drive her cousin back.
And I gave her the card once her cousin got out of the car
and she started crying just cause he was so happy.
And I like, it threw me for a loop.
Cause like, I've got her stuff that was more expensive
than that and it didn't have that effect on her.
But it was just, it was, it made me feel good.
Making somebody's fucking day dog
with the littlest gesture is the best thing you could do.
Even calling somebody and going,
yo, cocksucker, watch that helmet and hanging up on them.
Cause they'll call you back and go, what the fuck is that?
And then they'll go to work and go, fuck it.
One of my friends called me this morning,
told me to fucking get up and hung up on me and shit.
Just little things that you giggle at, you know?
Listen, at the end of the fucking week
when you're laying in that casket
and you're ready to fucking die,
you're gonna giggle one time.
Right.
You're gonna go, that motherfucker made my day, you know?
Loops used to always make my day, pick me up,
give me a valium.
I got this joint fee, Uncle Joey, you know,
whatever people, you know, this kid Andrew made our day
when he put this little thing together.
This, you know, some people,
well, look at this, what the, this took his time.
This is great.
I love when people do little things like this.
Andrew put this, I mean, this girl from made a little devil,
the devil's getting a dick up the ass,
the other two in the corner, they already got fucked.
You know, it's little things like that
that make somebody's day sometimes.
Sometimes you just call somebody and tell them you're 11.
Where's the fucking jam?
Where does that wanna be around today?
It's fucking 645.
Get up, cock, suck, it's a beautiful day to be alive.
Make somebody's day, but also make your own fucking day.
Grab your cocks, loot that motherfucking flag.
What?
I wanna be around to pick up the pieces
when somebody breaks your heart.
How stoned are you, Lisa, yeah?
Medium, medium, medium, yeah.
Get ready to rock.
That's a triple dose.
Let's do a vapor hit, wanna a vapor hit.
I'm okay.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Okay, so you were on the highest I've ever heard you yesterday
and then you wake up at six in the morning
and you wanna do it.
I always like taking day, you don't take days off.
Like, geez.
I took Friday and Saturday off.
You did not?
Yes, I did.
Oh, thank goodness.
I was the only benefit.
Why are you depressing me?
Oh, okay.
Look at these fucking clouds from a vapor pen.
Are you kidding me or what?
Who are you dealing with?
Hit that motherfucker, lady, and hold it in.
You gotta hold it in.
It's good for your lungs.
What's that?
That's a junior fucking pilot hit.
What the fuck?
You wanna, listen, you wanna navigate that plane
and lose it like the Malaysians did.
Take a deep fucking hit, will you?
Deep, deep, deep in the lungs of death.
Someone send this to TMZ.
Don't know what's TMZ.
Don't know what's Sterling will be so happy.
Fuck TMZ, fuck that.
TMZ.
Crime stopping and shit on people.
That chick got in trouble.
She said race is fucking, I like it, I like it.
You're a fucking animal.
Look, you put gel in your head, do today, you're smoking.
Last week you got a stop side shirt on,
so you got a green light on.
What do you got?
Red and green shirt with this fucking Santa Claus
and Jolani cocksucker, give me that.
Oh, fuck it.
That was a nice hit.
Brody.
That was a very fucking nice hit.
You fucked up Tony Bennett to the L of the fuck them up.
You just cut them up into pieces.
While leaps off in the duct.
Oh my God.
I'm gonna give some shot out
so my main motherfucker first off to my main man.
Happy birthday, Joe Van Aksman, cocksucker.
My little brother, Cal Donnie,
Raj Dude, Adderall, you bad motherfucker.
Joey Rookland, looking good.
Less than Thomas, I love you.
I always see you cocksucker with the hairdo.
Thomas Heeter, you bad motherfucker.
Javier 93, what are you nuts?
Or what?
Or what?
And Camaro Jeff, watch that asshole.
It's Monday, cocksucker.
Because he drives the Camaro?
I don't fucking know.
His name is Camaro Jeff.
You gotta tell him something.
What if he drove like a Mustang?
What?
He couldn't be Camaro Jeff anymore.
Like what if he just was,
Listen, just looks straight at the screen.
Just looks straight at the screen like a business.
What do you gotta bother fucking people for, right?
There's a need to, I don't know.
I wonder if he drives the Camaro.
I don't fucking know.
I never asked him.
Why don't you get him on the phone?
Oh, he'll hook up Camaro Jeff and go Camaro Jeff.
Maybe he likes fucking Camaro's
and he has a Cadillac now
because he's got six fucking kids.
Did you ever think of that, Lee?
I hope not.
This fucking youth of America.
I got my main man, Mike Pyle.
UFC fighter calling it at 7 a.m.
I love Mike Pyle.
I met him through Eddie Bravo.
Yesterday I fucked up.
I did not go to Eddie Bravo Invitational last night.
That was part of what made me feel very bad last night.
I did not make Eddie's day yesterday.
I fucked up.
I taught the Invitational Star at F5.
And my plan was to leave the house.
I was gonna leave, I liked to read.
Try to do a Duncan podcast.
I was gonna do Duncan's podcast.
Hang out with Duncan for a little while.
And then I was gonna shoot to the EBI
and sit there from like 5 to 6.30 and go home.
And at least he did it with Mercy and Bader.
But the Invitational Instructo's 6.30.
And that's right in the middle of fucking,
good morning America in my fucking house.
From 5 to 7 in my house, it's fucking chaos.
From 4.30, from the time we get back from the park
to 8 o'clock, it's just chaos.
Even with one little child.
Because we both eat, she eats.
You know, I gotta do some shit.
The phone rings unnecessary.
I mean, there's a thousand things going on.
I don't know why.
So it's very hard.
I can't go to Jiu Jitsu at 7.30.
It's very hard even for me to go at 8 o'clock at night.
That's why I gotta go on the daytime.
Today I can't go.
I got a bunch of fucking shit going on today.
I wanted to go to Kettlebell class.
I can't fucking go, but the knee feels a lot better.
Thank you for the people who sent me emails
and exercise programs.
One thing about the fucking church is that
if you put it on Twitter,
if anybody from the church needs an exercise program
or a diet or a fucking personal train or anything,
Jeremy's around, guys, put it on Twitter.
Just and say, attention church.
Put some hashtag.
I don't even know what a hashtag is.
People sent me fucking exercises for my knee.
Some fucking kid, a doctor sent me a thing I could do
with a ball just to reduce the pain.
Some other people sent me stuff I could put on it
like a lady's sending me some type of brace.
Listen, man, I love you for motherfuckers,
but you guys gotta spread out amongst us.
We gotta start making money.
We gotta start taking care of each other.
Not me.
I'm talking about you guys as a whole.
There's a lot of you guys that hit me up from my client.
I noticed a lot of people that hit me up lately
from fucking Utah and Texas and Houston.
You guys gotta work together in Houston
because it's amazing, all the shit,
all the great exercises and little things, breathing.
Every time I put the lab of prom with something on here,
Lee, it's fucking amazing.
It's amazing.
I at least get three emails from people
going, Joe, you were wrong about this.
Try this.
And it really, I don't argue with people.
I take their advice,
because maybe this is their fucking field.
And nine out of 10, it is their fucking field.
You know what I'm saying?
So if you have something,
put it on this Twitter page,
what do you call them, a thread?
I don't even know.
Because it's very interesting,
the things I've learned from fucking you guys.
This is a Facebook fan page.
What's that?
This is a Facebook page for other church.
Is there, some girl sent me a workout with a wall.
Like, I think she was telling me
that she does this to rehab people,
but she believes that if I do this before the surgery,
my knee would get strong.
I swear to God, Lee, I did all three times last week,
and the swelling went down to the T.
She goes, this is what's gonna happen,
then elevate and isolate for 15 minutes
and get back on and walk on it for six minutes.
I mean, this girl sent me a fucking thing.
So thank you, man.
Thank you for all the love you give us.
Thank you for always reaching out.
Thank you for always doing all that type of shit.
I got some interesting,
I also got a, you get good shit and you get bad shit.
I got a very fucking interesting email
like Thursday from somebody.
And I got it and I didn't look at it till yesterday.
I didn't even, this is how high I was last night.
That in the three years or four years
that I've been doing a podcast,
it's the second time I didn't answer emails.
You didn't answer emails.
No, I couldn't even look at them.
I tried.
I opened them up at about six and I could not do it.
When the baby went to take a bath,
I ran in there real quick
just to see if I could knock off 10 of them.
I read one that fucking made me cry,
so I closed it and fucking went up.
I got it and sat there.
That's how fucking high I was.
That's how fucking high I was.
It was such a touching fucking email
about somebody's family
that I had to shut the fucking thing down
and go lay down on the couch.
That's how, you know, it's amazing the things that,
you know, this is why we're trying to put,
I went and looked at couches this week.
Okay.
And I couldn't find couches that were high enough.
I left Sarah Tiana a message.
I'm gonna bring the table over here
and we're working on the advice show.
It's just gonna take a little while.
I wanna make the studio look right on that side.
I'm gonna put a perfect couch
and I'm gonna have the perfect pictures and whatnot.
But it's amazing.
You know, we always get advice couch.
Somebody sent me a fucking thread this week
from a webpage where they were just bashing me.
Really?
And it's hysterical, but it didn't bother me
because they were telling the truth.
Okay.
They were telling their opinion and the truth.
You know, the other day we had a conversation
about a show I saw that I just did not think was funny
in how society thinks it's fucking hilarious.
And these guys, it was a thread that somebody sent me
and I think it was from a Dunkin' Trussell webpage
or something.
Is that what you call them?
A board?
Yeah.
A board.
And they made some interesting points.
I've always heard.
You should write back.
No, no, no, no.
I won't write back because I don't want it to become,
it's not a confrontation or something.
Hey, listen, man, I never peep.
I never fucking peep.
Okay, a lot of people always say don't Google yourself.
I know people Google themselves constantly
and find shit on them.
I don't wanna see nothing.
I don't wanna hear my voice.
I don't give a fuck.
But it's so weird that somebody sent me this and said,
look what I found, I guess,
on somebody's webpage thread or a board.
Yeah.
Is that what you call them?
And it was just, you know, 15 fucking pages of hate,
of not, some intelligent hatred and I understood it
the same way I would explain.
I just wouldn't say something sucks.
You know, they said, some people said that Joe Rogan
was selling all of us that they didn't think I was funny
or I was funny.
That the people thought Joe and Duncan were funny.
They thought that I was a slime ball
and I was a fucking idiot.
You know, whatever.
And it was very weird to read, you know.
What do you feel like when you read that?
You just feel disconnected, but I understand.
No, I'm not that type of person.
I'm not a hypocrite like that.
I get it.
I fucking get it.
Listen, once in a while, listen,
if you wanna hit me and go, I don't like what you do,
that's fine.
Yeah.
I appreciate that.
It's when you hit me and insult me.
There's a big difference.
Hey, you fat bastard, fuck your stupid fucking show.
Okay.
It's on.
But if you wanna hit me with an email
or something like that, like a gentleman
and go listen, I listen to your show, it's Volga.
You're racist or you're fucking insensitive
or you smoke dope.
Some guy wrote, I tell you what some guy wrote
that he never paid attention to me,
Ralphie May, Jackie Gleason
or any other comedian that's fat.
Because why would you listen to a public figure
if they were obese?
That was the one that made me laugh.
Yeah.
That you would never, a comedian should be in shape,
you know, whatever.
That was the one.
So a comedian should just be very attractive.
That was how shallow this motherfucker was.
Hasn't paid much attention to comedy.
Right.
And that's why you have to, you know,
one guy said we were one trick pony
that Rogan talks about certain subjects
and I talk about certain subjects over and over again.
All right, tremendous.
That's the subjects we know.
I'm not gonna talk about something,
I don't know and be a fucking fuss about it.
I'm not gonna come out here and make believe
I know about everything.
You know, I don't know about it.
I don't know about anything.
I know about two or three fucking things down to the wire
but that's it.
And I've grown from there.
But it's the one that, the only thing that bothered me
was that people called me a liar.
That was the one I didn't like for sure.
But there was a lot of people on the thread
that also made viable points.
All right, there he is.
Mr. Pile, what's happening, brother?
What's happening, JD?
Good morning, my friend.
Thank you very much for taking the time and calling me.
What's going on over there?
Oh, now they're just getting,
just everybody's up for the day now.
How's the baby?
He's fantastic.
He's in there, he's in there eating right now
as a matter of fact.
10 months old?
10, 10 months.
And is he walking?
Oh yeah, he's walking all over the place, man.
All over the place.
And how do you feel?
All right, great.
It's awesome to send a walk to you
and lifted arms up for you to pick them up and hold them.
It's tough for you to leave the house anymore, huh?
Yeah, it is.
It really is, it really is.
I didn't even make it to Eddie's Invitational last night
because of my house.
So after we spoke, I couldn't do it, man.
It was Sunday and there was too much going on
and there was fistics and Wally Kazam
and I bought her a scooter and you know.
Yeah, there's a new boss in the house, man,
and that's all there is to it.
I don't care how tough you are, how badass you are,
how mean of a person you might be or whatever,
a kid will soften you up in a second.
Your own kid, your own kid will soften you up
in one second, man.
No, it's a weird thing.
What's going on in your world?
You training?
I am, I am, I will be.
I will be going just a couple of hours
after I'm through talking with you.
And do you have a fight second?
And you'll probably have me so pumped up
I'll go and bash somebody when I get to the gym.
Oh please, I need for you to go in there
like a fucking Sabbath today.
What do you got today?
You got striking, you got conditioning,
you got jiu-jitsu, you got everything today?
Yes, and I think it's going to be
in and made, orientated training today.
I'll probably leave the class today
because the owner is out doing a reality show right now.
So I'll step in and fill his shoes
until he gets back, until he gets back being famous.
And then I'll leave the guys a little bit
and then maybe choke a couple of them out
and then come home.
It's amazing the life you guys lead, man.
I fucking love it.
I've learned so much from watching MMA.
I've learned so much and applied it to comedy, you know?
But you've been around, you're the real fucking deal.
You are the real deal, my friend.
I've been around a long time in this game anyway.
As young as it is, I've been around
almost as long as it's existed.
I've been a participant as long as it exists almost.
On one of the fights when you fought,
somebody mentioned that your first fight
was against Rampage Jackson in Memphis.
Yeah, actually that was probably one of my,
that was actually about my fifth fight.
It was Rampage's first fight.
It was around my fifth fight.
I don't remember about,
I didn't remember any of the names of my opponents,
so of course, sure, I'll put in honor
and just put up some magical number up there
with no names decided, but anyway.
Yeah, but still, nevertheless,
just five fights in, you fight in a beast like him,
a big man, and I was way out of my way class.
My guy had gotten hurt and Florida called me and said,
well, you know, in Englandville, probably,
your guy got hurt or whatever.
You know, I'm 175 pounds, which was the weight limit.
And I said, well, I'm gonna fight who you got.
He said, well, we got that guy at Rampage that housed,
you know, like a wolf all the time, so let's fight him.
So yeah, well, he's 210 pounds, you know,
so I'm gonna give a shit, let's fight.
I'm ready to fight.
So to get, and well, that's the history.
I got thrown around a little bit, flammed around,
I got picked up, thrown out of the ring,
into my corners arms a little bit,
and they just kind of just shoved me back underneath
the bottom rope and told me to go get after it.
Now let me ask you something, Mike,
when you were younger before that,
were you a fighter?
Did you get into many fights?
Did you have good hands?
No.
No, you know, actually, I was a good kid.
I was on Redneck in a small town.
But you know, I spent my time on a pond somewhere fishing
or just at home running around the woods
or something like that, you know what I mean?
But you know, I moved, I went to five,
I think it was four different schools in my lifetime.
So, you know, we've had little pricks,
you have to, you know, slap around a little bit
so they'll leave you alone.
Got into a few fights like that,
you know, just kids being kids
and picking on the new guy and the new guy whoops their ass
and then they want to be friends with you.
But other than that, no, not really,
a lot of, not really a lot of fights,
maybe probably grew up, maybe 10, 10,
not a handful of fights growing up only.
And yes, Joey, I'm going every single one of them
and coming through fashion.
Now, let me ask you this.
What was your first art?
Did you learn wrestling first or jujitsu or?
Taekwondo was my first at 18 years old.
That's when you joined at 18.
What's that?
You joined Taekwondo at 18?
Yep, I was 18 years old, about 10, 19.
And how, how long did you do that?
My little cousin, my little cousin, he was seven.
His mom was taking him to Taekwondo all the time.
And I was always, I was always interested
in Taekwondo to begin with, because I mean, I'm sorry,
martial arts, because we grew up, you know,
watching Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, you know,
so that was, I was always taught to watch one of those
when we was up.
That was, that was my, that was my shit.
I love, I love martial arts.
It's just that the small towns that we always lived in,
never had, you know, access to a martial arts gym.
There was, it was just too small.
You know, it's just the way it is.
So that's when you were in Dresden?
Yep, that was when I was in, well, no, actually,
I moved away from Dresden when I was 17.
I thought, I thought I was a big boy
and I needed to go out into the world and pay bills
and have bills and shit like that.
Thought I was big and tough.
So I left home 17, moved to Alabama with my cousin,
who was a lot older than me with children.
And her children were in Taekwondo and that's what,
that's why I joined Taekwondo because, you know,
they were going and I could drive them there
and you know, things like that.
I was already driving them, you know,
going and picking them up occasionally.
So I'd watch the class and I was like,
well, that's interesting.
But it just wasn't tough enough for me.
You know, that Taekwondo, they just kind of,
they just kind of, you know, tag, they just play tag,
you know what I mean?
They don't really hit each other.
You wanted a rock and roll.
You were really a rock and roll.
I wanted a rock and roll.
So she let me kind of get a little bit more of an instructor
kind of let me get a little bit more, you know,
a little bit more physical with one of the adults
that were there that was an old kickboxer.
And, and he kicked shit out of me.
That's the first time I actually ever felt
a liver shot in my life.
He kicked me in my liver and I hit the floor,
blind and I'm trying to gasp for breath up.
I thought, my God, that is awesome.
That is a powerful, painful technique.
I have to do that someone.
One day I'm going to do that when I grow up.
But anyway, that guy, he kind of, you know,
turned me on to being what it is to be tough
and what it really feels like to use a martial art
in a more physical way than Taekwondo was allowing me,
you know, with the rules and things like that.
But he didn't seem to care to whip on me at all.
But I thanked him for that and it made me tough.
And, and that's, that'll either,
it'll either make you or break you, you know?
At that point, you're going to go,
well, this is a little too physical for me.
Let's go back to Taekwondo and tag one another in class.
But I stuck with it and it became the toughest song
Bits and Dresden.
It's amazing how this happens.
Like you go into a gym one day.
You know, whenever I talk to fighters,
I always expect them to say,
well, I beat the fuck out of everybody I fought after 12.
No, it's the other way around.
You went and walked into something and it evolved.
And one day you're like, you know what, man?
I could do this shit.
I could fucking do this.
I couldn't imagine getting punched in the face
for a fucking living, you know?
I could take a fucking knuckle to the head of something
and hopefully not go down,
but to do it for a living, Mike Powell,
I respect the fuck out of you guys.
And to evolve, to keep evolving, you know, Mike,
every time you fight, you got to get a little better.
Yeah, you have to because hell, the other guy is.
The thing is, with the way it's going now, for me,
I went through all the stages
and all the changes that Hennemays went through.
You know, I started straight in when it was,
I was, you know, fighting when it was,
you know, Hose Bar or men, it was,
then it was NHB.
Remember that, NHB?
Yeah.
They abbreviated it to make it sound a little,
you know, a little more sophisticated than an NHB fighter.
You know, I was an NHB fighter.
I was, I went through all those times where,
you know, you basically kind of had a guy who
was a wrestler that barely could punch.
And you knew you were going to be in a wrestling match.
You knew you were going to be wrestled, right?
But, you know, times have changed.
Everybody's getting better.
And now everybody can wrestle their ass off.
They can punch very well.
You know, they can kick.
They can grapple.
They can submit.
They can, you know, most fighters are jumping off cages
and inside kicking people in the face.
You know what I mean?
It's just, you know, I've been there since the beginning
and now better coaches as far as strength and conditioning
and better, more open-minded, striking coaches,
you know, have gotten into the game and evolved
and started, and now is starting to produce
some very, very good fighters
because they got, you know, a good grasp
and a good idea of, you know, what's going on with the sport.
And, you know, and they know what the hell they're doing.
It's not just a boxing coach or just a wrestling coach
or, you know, et cetera.
Now we're starting to develop some, you know, young guys
that, you know, five years ago come in when they were 18.
Now they're, you know, in their middle 20s
and the first thing they were doing was a mixed martial arts.
Not just boxing or boxing, yeah.
I mean, pure, pure, like, here you go,
you got to take down wrestle, punch, kick, grapple,
submit and all that shit.
You ready to go?
You know what I mean?
So, and there's been some good coaches that evolved
and now retired and been in the game back in the day
and that, you know, and been around it and, you know,
and the sports yard was like 20 years old, do this.
You know, I mean, 20 years is nothing, anything.
That's nothing for a sport.
You know, to evolve and grow.
That's 20 years is nothing.
And look where it's at now.
There's just nothing more fascinating
than two guys pitted against one another
and, you know, and it's just a human chess match.
You know, they're getting after it, man.
And it's been, I mean, it's,
as humans were documented over the thousands of years
that we've been on this earth.
And, you know, you see all the,
even down to higher glyphics, people are, you know,
they got to show a couple of dudes wrestling, grappling.
And then, you know, back in the Roman days, guys,
you know, the gladiators, I mean, it's just,
it's infactuating fighters are.
Fighters have always been around
until the end of time because,
because it's just the ultimate, you know,
it's just the coolest.
Yeah, soccer players are cool, basketball players are cool,
but you get to sit down and pick a fighter's brain
or talk to him about fighting.
It's just, it's just,
it's just something that will always remain interesting.
I mean, because we, we are a small,
small percentage of the human race.
We're a 0, 0, 0 point, I don't know,
five or so, I don't know, I don't have a crush on us,
but the people that walked out,
do what we do.
We're a very small, small number,
and people are, you know, even boxers, you know what I mean,
and put us all together.
Boxers and, and MMA fighters,
it's a small, small, small world and community.
About a lot of us out there that's able to do it, you know.
It's interesting.
It's interesting to sit and talk to a fighter or watch it.
And it's, you know, like I say, it's part of history,
and it always will be.
But if humans beat in the hell out of one another,
people will stop and watch it every time.
It's so fucking interesting.
You're right.
Now, listen, man.
Hey, man, you're walking down the street
and then a soccer game breaks out.
You're gonna keep walking.
You know, you're gonna keep on walking.
You're gonna walk on,
are you walking by in a baseball field or playing baseball?
Yeah, so what?
You're gonna keep talking to your buddy about
that new engine that you're gonna put
in your transand tomorrow or whatever.
But you start walking by a park
and then you start scrapping.
You know, you're gonna stop and you're gonna watch it.
You really are.
It's ultimately, it's captivating.
It's interesting to watch people, you know,
especially at the level that, you know,
that USC has, you know, brought to the MMA community
you know, as far as knowledge and exposing the fighters
to the public and letting them understand that,
you know, hey, we're not a bunch of, you know,
dumb meatheads that just get in the cage
because we like fighting, you know, it's an art.
It's a skill set where we are professional athletes
just the same as a basketball player or a football player.
Or we prepare, you know, we have to prepare.
We're professional athletes now.
And, you know, USC's done a really great job
at getting that point across
and exposing the fighters to the public
so they can shake their hand and talk with them.
You know, it's not that often you get to sit and talk
with your favorite golf player or football player
or whatever, but, you know, you see us everywhere.
You know, we're approachable.
And for the most part, intelligent, you know,
there's, you know, and finally, you know,
it's a great sport, man.
No, I love it.
I love what's happening with it.
You know, when I first watched the UFC,
I didn't know what the fuck was going on.
10, 15 years ago, I wasn't too crazy about it,
but I started paying attention
after I saw Anderson beat up Chris Liebman.
I just had it on my TV when that fight was happening.
And once I saw Anderson Silva, I'm like,
oh, this is beautiful.
I was really into it.
And after that, I became a fan
and I became a fan of your lives.
I like your lives.
I like that exactly.
It's just not two guys beating each other up
and during the week, juicing and going to a bar.
It's, you know, people have families.
You're a family, man.
You're not out, you know, fucking having orgies every night.
You're a family guy.
You get up, you go down there.
You do your training and you go back home.
And now you have to be this different person.
Here you are in your mind three hours earlier.
Your focus is on breaking somebody's shoulder, whatever.
I'm, you know, you're in the fucking cage practicing.
You know, you have to get your mind set up
and now you got to go home and shut that off
and pick up a child and, you know, wash a dish
and tell your wife, your lover,
it's brilliant that you have those two different mindsets.
But just what goes into being a fighter,
not just a UFC fighter, but the whole thing.
We were talking about dedication this morning, Mike Powell,
that people think that you just do jumping jacks
and hit a bar, a bag all day.
There's so much more.
I wish it was, and even for comedy,
there's people think that you get up at two
and we just get on stage and crack a microphone
and smoke a joint.
I'm 51.
I fucking work harder now.
You got a right.
You got to prepare.
And I can't even imagine being a fighter,
the nutrition, the fucking, the jujitsu,
the wrestling, the running, the conditioning.
And then, and then, oh my God,
then you got to pray that you stay healthy.
That the guys that rollin' next to you
and he bumps into your ankle, that,
because you know there's freak accidents.
So it's such, all the stars have to be aligned.
Your head has to be right.
You know, it just, I give you guys so much fucking props
on the preparation that America doesn't see.
America doesn't see the preparation that goes into,
you know, they work nine to five.
They work, their focus is on other parts.
They just, you know, turn on a Fox Sports on Saturday
and they're like, look at these fucking savages.
They don't understand, you know, even with pro football,
they don't understand that that shit
starts every fucking Monday,
that there's film to watch
and you got to prepare for their defense
and prepare for their offense.
You know, this is the same, any professional,
but what you guys have done has really taken it
to the next level in preparation.
And you especially, you're a fucking badass savage.
Your last fight, you were a fucking savage, a savage.
But I think Ron Der Rousey was on the card.
So they forgot about my brother Mike fucking Pyle.
You know what I'm sayin'?
It's like when Rocky's coach went to talk to Rocky
to try to get him to manage him the first time.
And he's telling them why you need to manage him
because he knocked out whatever,
but it was the same night that Joe Lewis knocked out
so nobody knew what happened.
But I saw what happened.
I saw what happened.
You came out like a fucking savage.
Your movie Thai Skills were all over the place.
That's why I love you Mike Pyle.
Plus you're from fucking the best place ever.
I love all that stuff out there.
That's why I married my wife.
After I went to see a family
and I saw those hills and how they eat those squirrels,
I was fucking inject.
How they eat those squirrels.
They do.
My wife's family eats squirrels.
Hell yeah, I believe I've ate a squirrel myself.
Oh, and they look delicious.
I have hunted, shot, and eaten a squirrel
more than one occasion.
And how big are they when you eat them?
How big are they?
Think that's small man.
It about as big as your foot.
Oh, and you're deep-priin, right?
My wife deep-prizin' with chicken.
Yeah, you can deep-priin' and you can make a stew out of them,
do whatever, just whatever you do with any other meat,
such a bacon.
Look at my co-host, the fine Jew.
He's freaking out.
What, you don't eat squirrels, Doug?
I'm so high right now that I'm eating a squirrel.
Yeah, I'm telling you, you like a little fried squirrel
with some fucking mashed potatoes
that you'll be jumping up and down.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, there you go.
That's good shit.
When is your next fight?
What are they saying?
Well, I asked for August and the email reply was,
I will give you a fight in August.
Yeah, they got a couple cards coming up, so.
Yeah, I could, you know what?
I could even tell you what's going on in the next cards
or whatever.
So many.
Oh my God.
Blowing up so big, so fast.
Man, I'm, and all these new names coming on, you know,
on board, I'm out.
Shit, I can't, I can hardly keep up with myself
and getting to the gym and, you know, like you said,
coming home being bad.
It's like, damn, who's fighting next?
Oh, fight, oh, there's a fight Wednesday and Saturday.
Okay, all right, all right.
Every week, there's almost a fight.
It's awesome.
It's blowing up, man.
You know, they were just in Berlin and Brazil
and now they're coming back home here in the States.
It's nuts, man, it's nuts.
Where are the fights this weekend?
Cause I know this fight Saturday.
This fucking fight Saturday, brother, the seventh
and this fights the 15th.
I mean, this fights the next three weeks, I think.
What do you think, Lee?
What do you see there?
It's either a Johnson against somebody.
It's fucking, it's blowing up.
It's a fight night.
The market is thinning as well.
It's Ben Henderson and-
Oh no, yeah, that's right.
And where are they fighting?
Let me see.
Maybe Jamie Varner?
Let me look at it.
No, it's not Jamie Varner.
Oh, here we go, here we go.
Henderson versus Kabilov?
Kabilov, the Russian dude?
Yeah, all right.
Yeah, so-
Kabilov?
Yeah.
Kabilov?
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
And then Sanchez versus Pearson.
That's that classic.
Dodson versus Moraga.
What's that white wig on, huh?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that big weird hat.
Yeah, that was weird.
Oh, that's who's fighting him?
That guy against Ben Henderson?
Oh my God, where are they fighting out of?
Albuquerque.
Oh shit.
Oh shit.
You might have to jump in the car
and go down there and report directly
from fucking Albuquerque.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh my gosh.
Then they'll stop at the Indian Reservation
and get $10 in quarters.
What else is-
Is this part Indian?
Who?
Lee is, Lee is, Lee is Jewish.
I'm Jewish.
Lee is Jewish.
He could be Indian if he needed to.
My wife is half Indian.
Her family up there in Tennessee,
that my mother-in-law-
No he said, who?
Who?
It's how, man, not who.
How, who?
You know, you gotta be careful with the Indians.
They'll fucking take that pistol off.
They get mad at the Braves.
Can you imagine what they'll do to us?
Oh yeah, they'll get mad, they'll get mad.
I gotta, there's a friend of mine here that's,
I don't know how much Indian,
but I mean, he looks, you know, a lot.
Indian, I think Paiute tried that, you know,
that was out here, he's a cool cat.
Loves his beer.
Loves his beer, he's a beer man.
He's a brew master out here.
Got his, got his tribe, got his tribe tattooed
on the inside of his lip.
That's when you know you're fucking dedicated
to the tribe, my friend.
The Crips don't do that shit.
Let me ask you something.
The blood runs.
The blood runs.
What?
Let me ask you something.
What gym do you train at now?
Syndicate.
And what syndicate?
Who's over there with you?
Syndicate is, it's been a gym
that you probably remember the name.
It used to be, okay, started out back in the day,
more than 10 years ago, combat club.
Then it, then he joined forces with Zion.
Then it becomes Zion, the training center out here.
Then he joined forces with a warrior gym.
Then that didn't pan out, then it became a pro down gym.
And that didn't work out with the, you know,
partnerships and all that.
So then he stood the hell with it,
and he was gonna go solo, call it syndicate.
Okay.
And then-
Owners John Wood said that he's been the owner
of all those names and same gym,
just changed the name on the outside, right?
You know, for 10 years now, 10 years plus.
His fucking, his sign guy must love him.
Right?
The guy that makes his signs fucking loves him.
He's like, uh-oh, here we go.
No, the bank's gotta love him
when every time he changes the LLC.
Oh, Jesus.
And then you gotta pay some more shit.
So you're fighting out a syndicate now.
Those are your trainers.
Yep, those are those trainers.
Yep, yep.
A trained boxing coach is actually more
of a private boxing coach, not part of the gym.
That's Jimmy Gifford.
And then another one of my striking coaches
that I use, for the most part, all the time,
is Nate Pettit, he's out of syndicate gym.
And then I'm out of syndicate.
You know, John Wood, who owns the gym,
has been a real close friend of mine
ever since I moved out here to Vegas.
And I've always, you know, always went to his gym.
His gym has always been close to my house,
and usually is always the closer gym.
And I used to, you know,
because I used to be out of the extreme to tour.
Right, I remember.
And, but I was only, you know,
once or twice a week, I was over at my buddy's gym.
Anyway, I just represented, you know, to tour his gym.
And so I parted ways from there, from syndicate,
I'm sorry, from...
Couture.
Yeah, from coutures.
And then, you know, just started going over there,
you know, solely and completely.
You know, like I was talking about, you know,
evolving in the sport and things like that,
got to the point where the team aspect of everything
is great, don't get me wrong.
But there's, I just felt like I was at a point in my career
where it was either shit or get off the pot,
because I'm 38 right now, Joey.
I'm getting old.
I'm an old man when it comes to this sport.
Young man in life, but for the sport,
I'm getting old, right?
So I needed to make a change.
I needed to get more focus on my pile.
I needed to get the coaching staff around my pile,
not a extreme couture team.
You know, it's hard for a coach to walk the floor
when there's 20 guys on the floor,
and seven of them are getting ready to fight in two weeks,
or three weeks, and get that kind of focus
and that attention that you need in that focus.
And things like that, you know,
that you need from your coaches and your coaching staff,
and things like that, it's hard for a coach
to walk the floor and work with 20 guys at the same time,
right?
But so I've made a change.
I'm gonna, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hire a coach
on for my camp, where every day at this time,
and this time, my people are there,
whether it be five people that's on board
or whether it be two people that's on board.
They're right there, and they're all about my pile winning
on whatever date it is, and that's what their focus is.
And that is, and that's what flipped the script for me.
I dropped a couple in the UFC, and I was about out.
If I would've lost another one, I would've been gone,
probably, you know, due to the history of other fighters
that could look like that was next for me,
you know, because you lose too much,
then you're not that interesting.
And that's just the way it is, it's cutthroat that way.
So once I got that focus, and I dialed all that in,
I made a turnaround in my career.
And it was a very needed thing for me
because I'd reached such a point where,
Joe, I don't wanna go nowhere else.
UFC's where it's at, man.
I don't wanna go anywhere else, that's top of the heap.
All those other organizations that are out there,
they're great, right?
But if UFC's where it's at, that's where I fought my ass
off to get to, and that's where I'm gonna stay
until I'm done fighting.
I make the decision when I'm done fighting, right?
I'm not going anywhere else.
So I have this shit to get off the clock.
So I did, I made the change, went left the team aspect,
brought my guys on.
If I'm fighting a wrestler, a very, very good wrestler,
then I'll hire a guy who was a very good wrestler
to come in for my camp for eight weeks.
I'll throw him down a check, I'll say, here's the check.
Does this number work for you?
Do you wanna come take some time out of your life
to help me win that night?
If so, here's that check.
If not, then I understand, because that's a big commitment.
Six to eight weeks gone away from,
if it's a family man, he'd be gone.
It just doesn't matter.
You're out of your home for six weeks from anywhere.
It's tough, so everybody's gotta eat, you know?
So break them off, hey, you wanna be part of it?
Yes, in the coaches, they're on board already.
They know what they're getting.
The training partners that I bring in,
they know what they're getting.
It's a very specific structure that I have now,
and it's been great.
I dropped a couple of fights here and there,
but it's to some bad boys, they're not slouches.
According to Wikipedia, you're eight and two
in the last 10 fights.
Yeah, you're eight and two.
I was gonna say you were four and one in the last,
I know you went down to Matt Brown,
which just went by the blink of a fucking eye.
It wasn't like, and I know you beat the fuck out of story,
and there was another one there,
and then the one in February,
so you were never out of the game, brother.
You were always in there.
And I know, hey, listen, self-criticism,
you're talking to captain fucking self-criticism.
I hate myself.
So when I go on stage and I miss a joke,
and I forget, I fucking go back to my room
and beat myself up that night, you know?
And then the next day I see it's just a joke or whatever,
but if you wanna keep doing what we're doing,
we gotta pick this shit up.
So no, you're a fucking savage, brother.
38 is just a fucking number.
You look good.
You keep, you know, you're light.
You haven't taken that many of your ones.
What did you fight at 170, don't you?
Right, 155, 170?
Yeah, 170.
Yeah, 170, I probably woke up on 87,
about 17 pounds over.
I never really, you know, I'm not a big guy.
I'm just, I've always been tall and lanky, you know?
So not too big of a welterweight,
but right in the middle there, I guess.
And you got heart, man.
I see it when you fight.
I see it while you walk around.
You know, I've known you a couple of years
and I've always loved you.
When I found out where you were from,
I even loved you more.
You know, I love rednecks.
That's my dream.
I didn't want to be Cuban or Italian.
I want to be a fucking redneck dog.
Because then I had an excuse to shoot a motherfucker.
You understand me?
When you got an American flag on your truck,
you got an excuse to shoot a motherfucker.
I'm Cuban now.
Let's throw me in jail.
But you know, I-
I'm not asking that just to be driving down the road
and take your shot down off the back of your,
right off your gun rack out of your truck.
Just take it off the rack, step out, shoot,
whatever the hell it is, you're shooting out there,
no matter where you're at, and nobody gonna hear it.
And then put your-
and put it back in to the truck.
Visible to everyone.
Go to the post office and drop a mail off.
Shotguns still sitting right there
and no one blinks an eye or calls the cops
because it should have cancer.
I got a shotgun in their window.
You know, when I was young growing up in Jersey,
I was so shot in the nose.
I thought, Texas is the way you went to be a redneck.
So I was gonna pick up my bags.
I loved everything Texas.
I loved the Houston Rockets.
I liked the Dallas Cowboys.
I didn't even know about fucking Tennessee
and what was cracking there till I got older.
But you know, I've told you a couple times,
my wife is going back in June
and we're definitely getting the house
an hour outside of Nashville somewhere.
Like, I'm done.
Okay.
I'm done.
How you doing?
I'm really happy.
I wanna move back there.
I wanna move closer to her family.
You know, I like-
Let that little one grow up with a yard
and all the trees and grow up that way, man.
No, I'm with you.
I really like that.
I like-
I want property.
I don't wanna spend, you know, $400,000
and have a fucking neighbor.
I wanna whack off in the-
I wanna whack off in the fucking-
Yeah.
You know-
Oh yeah, we should feed up on the back porch
and looking out over the fog rolling through the trees.
Lay back in there, man.
You hear a walking by,
you be in the underwear, just chillin'.
And if you needed to, take a piss.
You just stand on piss off the side of the porch.
Oh, I love all that shit.
I love-
I'm sick and tired of traffic.
You know, somebody, a couple of people,
I've said this before, I wanna move to Nashville
and I've gotten emails from people that it's very racist.
And I'm like, you know what, man?
People fucking hate people everywhere.
If I don't attract-
Yeah, I don't attract those people.
So I don't give a fuck.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't give a fuck.
I don't attract-
What's racist about wanting to move to Nashville?
I know, other fuck, you know?
Everywhere you move, there's racism.
Everywhere, you know?
So it's like, shut the fuck up.
I go to Nashville, my wife's best friend is black.
They talk every fucking day on the phone.
She's Andrea Bobo, she's in fucking Memphis now.
You know, my niece is in New York.
My niece, we just graduated from Bradford.
They took him for a two week trip.
Tonight they going to a Yankee game, bitch.
They're in New York City.
She went to see a pride-
There's racism everywhere you go.
I grew up with, I grew up, I grew up just,
I guess I would say just out of being dirt poor.
Just a little bit higher than that,
I guess, whoever that would be.
But we had, I mean, we were all living together.
Black folks, white folks, all down in those neighborhoods, man.
One of my good friends growing up,
the name was Tojo.
That was his given name, his name was Tojo.
That was my boy.
We go hunt birds with BB guns every day after school.
Wonder what old Tojo's up to nowadays.
Hunting fucking birds with BB guns.
You never know, my brother.
I'm going to see you July 18th, all right?
You're going to be, you're going to come with the wife.
I'll see you at the South Point.
I love you, Mike Powell, and I wish you nothing but luck.
I wish you would have done the show earlier.
I was always embarrassed to ask you,
but you're a fucking great guy, man.
I hope any time that you want me to come on out,
definitely do it.
I love you, Mike Powell.
Have a great week.
Give your son a kiss, and I'll see you July 18th
with the flying Jew.
Say goodbye.
All right, brother, say goodbye.
Bye, buddy.
All right, man.
Have a great week.
Thank you.
That's a great fucking guy, man.
I love him.
Every time I see him, he got Eddie Bravo in a movie
with Mickey Rourke.
They all played prisoners.
He's been in movies, Mike Powell.
Yeah.
Mike's a good guy.
I'm very fortunate to go to Wayne's
and talk to these guys.
Whenever you do comedy shows, they show up and stuff.
What's up, Lisa Yat?
Your looking for your fucking hide.
What's the problem?
No. No, no.
No, no, no.
Fuck.
Let me talk.
Let me just give a shout out.
You squished some of that down.
That wasn't just a quarter.
No, stop.
What are you going to do?
You're beautiful.
It's fucking Monday.
What else you got going on?
I got a lot of shit to do.
What do you got to do?
I'm moving on Thursday, I got a pack.
Okay, what about the walk today?
You're gonna take a walk today, you didn't walk yesterday.
What am I supposed to do, dog?
You see how high I am?
Listen, you go home, you get your fucking iPod
with the Jews jumping up and down and checking on music,
and you go for a walk.
You can't listen to that high.
I almost had a panic attack, listening to him,
talking about people beating each other up in the park.
I started thinking about gladiators.
Look at Lee, look at Lee.
Ha, ha, ha, he stoned to the gills.
This is what I'm talking about people.
Get your shit together, it's Monday, motherfuckers.
Who gives a fuck what I'm still thinking?
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you gotta have a little respect, you understand?
You said something very funny.
What'd I say?
You said?
You're fucking wrong with you.
What'd I say, Lee, look at this video.
And I gotta tell you something, I listen to, what, Lee,
what, what, what?
Am I gonna keep talking?
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Don't keep talking.
I got nothing to say, fucks up,
listen to you fucking stop giggling, what is it?
Ladies and gentlemen, this poor fucking kid
is shot to death.
You know what's crazy, man?
I've been a little fucked up lately,
I've been a little fucked up lately.
It's amazing how hard it is to really write a book,
it really, really is.
I gotta give props to the people who are authors,
anybody who writes a blog.
But what's really hard is when you write a biography,
I've been hooking up my little editor, Jessica,
who I love daily, who, she really is great,
and she's really got the language down,
and she's a hard work and whatnot.
But the beauty of it is, we sat down this week,
and we probably talked to three, close to four hours,
we broke down three chapters.
And I'll tell you something,
it sucked the fucking wind out of me all week.
Being that open or?
Well, being that open, you know,
cause I had made notes, you know, you just don't,
it's not like I just sit there and rattle off shit.
I learn, I have to take a week and make little notes
about everything I remember about that area.
And then I put it all together,
and then when I'm putting it together,
I remember some other specific thing that was in there.
So it takes time.
So when I get together with her on Tuesdays,
we just sit there and we discuss the chapters,
and it's a lot.
You know what, you people are gonna get a way better book
because she's involved.
You're gonna get a tremendous book because she's involved
because she's sucking the energy out of me,
she's taking these stories out of me,
she's asking the questions that you wanna know.
This is gonna be a lot easier than me just writing
cause I don't know what you guys wanna know.
So it just, it dragged me a little bit this week.
It really, between that on Tuesday,
the live podcast on Thursday,
and the show on Thursday in San Diego
and the drive and the fucking cooking, everything.
It really killed me.
By Saturday, I was wiped.
I didn't know why I was so sore.
Well, you're pretty open with the podcast every week.
I'm open with the podcast,
but this is remembering those years.
It's a fucking nightmare.
It's a fucking nightmare
because it takes me there some nights.
I have to go there in my heart
and feel the desperation.
You know, Friday night I stayed home,
and I was just about ready to go to bed,
nine o'clock, hustling flow was coming up,
and I watched the beginning of it,
and hustling flow was about a black guy that has pimps,
that has hookers, a white chick and two black chicks,
and they're all stars today, I guess, in their own way.
I mean, this movie was great.
It starts off a little slow.
I don't know how many years old it is now,
10 years old or whatever.
It starts off a little slow, but it gets,
it picks up, it picks up in the story,
and they start writing,
and every character you'll see in this movie
you've seen before, including Ludacris.
And I don't know what happens.
I don't want to spoil it for you,
but there's a part in the movie
when I was watching it the other day,
and they're sitting there and they're waiting for a client,
a trick, and he's writing raps.
The pimp is writing raps in his car,
there's no air conditioner,
and the hooker is a young pretty girl
with no confidence, zero confidence,
but she looks over at him and she goes,
hey, D, I wish I could do something.
I wish I could do something.
Just like that.
She goes, no, she goes, I wish I was good at something.
I wish I could do something.
One of those sentences, and it just destroyed my insights,
because again, like watching the thief a couple of weeks ago
and seeing what I wanted,
the other part of it was that that was me.
I always felt that was a thief
because I couldn't do anything.
And I think that's a horrible way of thinking.
I know there's a lot of people that walk around
thinking that they can't do something at that age.
It's horrible, it's fucking horrible.
It really is horrible, you know?
And even that, even thinking that thought,
that I thought that way,
took a little wind out of my sails
because I can't believe why I thought that way.
Boy, was I confused.
But if I was confused living in New York,
I can't imagine how many other people are confused
thinking that they can't do nothing,
that they have to settle for a shitty fucking job,
or settle for something they don't wanna do in life.
It's so fucking weird.
So if you get a chance, watch Hustling Flow,
but if you feel that way sometimes,
you have fucking options
because that's what writing that book reminds me.
That's what people wanna see, that they write that book.
I never ever wanted to be a fucking celebrity.
I still consider myself a celebrity.
That's a stupid fucking word, you know?
And I'm not a movie star,
and I'm just a dirty fucking comic.
And I sit down with another fucking dirty Jew
twice a week and we talk shit, okay?
But we talk the truth and we talk what's in our heart
and we talk about the things that we do and how it affects us.
This podcast is about fucking Lee and his growth.
This podcast is about making somebody's day.
But this podcast is also about thinking
that we can't do something.
And I don't want you to think that way no more.
Fuck all that shit.
You can do whatever the fuck you want.
It's Monday, motherfuckers.
Plain and simple.
That's why we ate the edible.
That's why we smoked the vapor pens.
And that's why we're gonna leave you
with a smile on our face.
I think I can tell you what was so fucking mean.
Well, tell me now what I'm fucking giggling.
You're doing the escape hot tank guy.
And you're like, I love calling Jeremy.
I love talking to Jeremy on the phone.
He always has answers for me.
He's like, quick line.
I love talking to Jeremy.
Sure, he always got answers.
Why call a customer service guy
if we don't have fucking answers, Lee?
You know what I'm saying?
I just imagine he's like, there's answers about nothing.
It's like, yeah.
Answers.
He always got answers.
And then he's asking about the McDonald's.
Don't give me a burger.
What's the 88 cents?
Yeah, why?
Why call somebody if they ain't got no fucking answers?
You know what I'm saying?
Have a great fucking week.
It's Monday, June 2nd.
Like I said, you can do it or fucking it.
We don't ever think you can't do it.
Doug, I thought the same fucking way
that hurt my feelings watching that movie.
So get up there, grab your fucking balls,
take the little syringe, whatever you,
what's that little sponge?
Wash your asshole.
It's gonna be a good day.
It's gonna be a great day.
Oh, the One Wipe Charlie's.
I think he meant, whatever.
Even if you just get the fucking towel
and you don't have One Wipe Charlie's,
wash that asshole, get the bonnicles out.
It's gonna be a good day, trust me.
It started off in doubt,
but it's gonna be a good day.
Stay black.
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Thank you for a beautiful Monday.
Have a great day.
See you Wednesday.
We haven't decided on what time.
It will not be a morning one.
Have a fucking great day.
Stay black.
A little something for my people from New Jersey.
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Freeze out, stay black.
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Tid drizzles on the citybed Oracle, they searchin' for as group
Seems like the whole world walking pretty and you can't find more room to move
Well everybody better move over that song
Cause I'm running on the bad side and I got my back through the wall
10 devil new frees out
10 devil new frees out
I was standing in the jungle trying to take in all the heat that was given
Day and night is dark with the sun more bright and light with the light of the living
From a tenement window a child just a brand
Turnin' on the color things got real caught in your face
I walked into a 10 devil new frees out
10 devil new frees out
Turnin' on the color things got real caught in your face
I walked into a 10 devil new frees out
I was standing in the jungle trying to take in all the heat that was given
Oh
When the change was made of time and the big man joined the bay
From a close-knight to the city all the men opened the ways of hell
I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When the sky and the big man crossed the city in a happy way
10 devil new frees out
10 devil new frees out
10 devil new frees out
10 devil new frees out
Tell me, tell me
Ain't nothing more to tell me
I'm told you have a little tail
Ain't nothing more to tell
Tell it, tell it, tell it, tell it, tell it, tell it
Tell it, tell, tell it, tell it, tell it, tell it
I'm told you have a little tail
10 devil new frees out
10 devil new frees out