Joe Rogan Experience #2089 - Joey Diaz

Joey Diaz joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling, profane catch-up that opens with their health and recovery routines: red-light therapy, sauna and cold plunge, Whoop tracking, sleep, fasting and weight loss. Joey reflects on decades of drug use, his needle phobia, and the toll the years have taken on his body. The conversation veers into UFC history (especially Anderson Silva's debut), underground gambling, immigration and pandemic-era policy, New Jersey trivia, and survival stories about the Titanic and a skydiver. The back half becomes an emotional look at Joey's comedy origins, Mitzi Shore and The Comedy Store saving him from a criminal path, and his plan to wind down with a stand-up residency.

• Joey claims he had 20/20 vision while doing cocaine and his eyesight fell off a cliff after he quit.
  00:02:05
• Joey recounts a ketamine night so heavy he could barely drive the six minutes home and blacked out.
  00:03:38
• Joey reveals he tore his meniscus by fainting off a chair during acupuncture due to severe needle phobia.
  01:37:41
• Joey describes lying to himself for years that his dead mother had just gone away and would come back.
  02:25:09
• Joey credits Mitzi Shore and The Comedy Store with saving his life from a path that pointed only to prison.
  02:38:40
• Joey says he plans to end his career as a stand-up only and stop podcasting after finishing 10 spots and a residency.
  02:24:39

• A 20-year Finnish study found sauna users who went four times a week saw roughly a 40% decrease in all-cause mortality.
  00:15:32
• Modern cryotherapy was developed in the 1970s by Japanese rheumatologist Toshima Yamaguchi.
  00:20:40
• Ancient Egyptians, Romans and early Greeks used cold-temperature therapy as early as 2500 BC.
  00:21:12
• After only two minutes of snow shoveling, study participants' heart rates exceeded 85% of maximum.
  01:42:23
• Titanic chief baker Charles Joughin survived about two hours in freezing water, credited partly to being heavily drunk.
  01:45:33
• In 1999 skydiver Joan Murray survived a 14,500-foot fall onto a fire-ant mound; the stings and adrenaline helped keep her alive.
  01:51:53
• About 1.7% of Americans were prescribed GLP-1 medication in 2023, up 40-fold over five years (around two million people).
  01:32:33
• New Jersey has the most horses per capita (about 10 per 1,000 people) and the highest density of black bears.
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