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Nobody shows up to Joe Rogan's studio quite like Joey Diaz. The Cuban-American comedian and longtime Rogan friend has been a recurring guest for years, and every visit is the same beautiful chaos: profanity, health-routine deep dives, and stories from a criminal past he somehow survived to joke about. We went through our full library of episode summaries and pulled every Joey Diaz appearance on the show.
Below are all five, ranked by how much they actually reveal rather than just ramble. Each entry notes the episode number so you know exactly which show to queue up, plus the specific stories and facts that make it worth the runtime.
Joe Rogan Experience #2512 - Joey Diaz
Fresh off a knee replacement, Joey opens up about wiping his entire stand-up act to start from scratch, then digs into his chaotic Boulder years dodging drug tests, at one point pouring Drano on a urine sample and blowing up the testing machine. He also admits to shaking down a shop owner for $200 a week by posing as a witness-relocated mafia figure, and later predicts a US move on Cuba within two weeks. This is the richest of the five, packed with real confessions rather than just riffing. Listen if you want the fullest version of Joey's criminal-past-to-comedian arc.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2128 - Joey Diaz
The most personally revealing episode on this list: Joey reveals he once weighed 450 pounds and wouldn't leave his apartment if the elevator broke, with his wife tying his shoelaces for him. He also explains why he quit fundraising for police charities after learning only a fraction of donations reached the actual cause, and recounts fleeing to Aspen at 18 with police looking for him back home. Best pick for anyone who wants Joey's redemption story over the usual riffing.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #1973 - Joey Diaz
Joey talks about recording his memoir's audiobook in two and a half weeks while getting off benzodiazepines, then reveals the addiction itself: years on prescribed Xanax that he didn't realize had taken hold until a hospital assistant caught his racing heart as withdrawal. He also opens up on how being a convicted felon locked him out of ordinary jobs, and closes with an unexpectedly tender Led Zeppelin and Beatles deep dive. Good pick for listeners who want the addiction story told straight, with the classic-rock nostalgia as a bonus.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2309 - Joey Diaz
A wide-ranging catch-up that ends with the scariest health scare on this list: Joey's blood pressure hit 212/100 and his oxygen dropped to 86 before he drove himself to the hospital for congestive heart failure, which he blames on the supplement MK-677. Along the way there's a 1975 bar story about a gay neighbor pulling a gun on two bookies who'd insulted him, and Rogan's retelling of the Nixon-Jackie Gleason UFO legend. Worth it for the heart-failure account alone if you're curious about supplement risk.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2089 - Joey Diaz
Joey gets unusually emotional here, admitting he spent years telling himself his dead mother had just gone away and would come back, and crediting Mitzi Shore and The Comedy Store with saving him from a path that led only to prison. There's also a wild aside about tearing his meniscus by fainting off a chair during acupuncture due to a severe needle phobia. The lightest on shock value of the five, but the best pick if you want Joey's comedy origin story told with real feeling.
Read the full episode notesThat's the full run of Joey Diaz on The Joe Rogan Experience, at least so far. Browse the rest of our episode summaries for more guests worth your time.