Joey Diaz Discusses Cocaine Addiction - Joe Rogan

Hello freak bitches. It's fucking amazing that stuff's legal. Did you watch 60 Minutes three weeks ago? No. That was the motherfuckers motherfucker. What was it? Just about the opioid epidemic and the DEA stopped prosecuting the word came from... It's just a nightmare. They're fucking terrible, those things. Listen, those things are terrible. There was a whole article recently about the company that sells most of the opioids and the family that's behind that company and how many billions of dollars that they've made off the opioid crisis. Opioid? Opioid or be it? How do we say it? Opioid. How do we say it wrong? Once that shit grips you, that synthetic heroin, that's what that... Right, isn't it? Yeah, essentially, yeah. It's a bad grip. Like I said, I took a 16th one night in my living room and I had to lay down. And that's my whole resume with Oxycons. And I'm a fucking mule. I can eat 2,000 milligrams of THC and live a 16th of one of those pills. I popped, it was just a little piece, nothing. My blood pressure dropped so fucking much. I just laid down, went to sleep and I knew my pill career had come to an end. Never even let it start. Really? Never even let it start. Can you believe, brother? In two weeks, it's going to be 10 years since I've done that wipeout. I want you to think about that. Wow. 10 years. I want you to really think about it. I still remember being at Cobbs with you that January. And I go and it's been two months. I don't know if I could really do this shit. Like I don't know if I control this feeling and I controlled it. So you, like when you quit, what was like the first week like? Hell. Hell. First two weeks were hell. Did you think about going back? Just like you can't do this? Or did you know that you had had to make a change? I had to make a change. I knew that. My spine was starting to hurt. I knew that. The spine was starting to hurt. Yeah, I was starting to get choked. Oh. Yeah, I was waiting here just by 4 in the morning, you know, after you do coke. Oh. Right at the tip over here. A lot of people have done coke at like Parkinson's. Yeah. Fuck that. No, no, no, no. Once I started to... So you think that's related? Well, a lot of old timers that did a lot of coke in the 70s and then they wound up like some serious neuromuscular disease. Neuromuscular. Absolutely. That shit shocks your central nervous system. There was times I did cocaine that was like electric. It was like when you put that thing in your hand or you get electrocuted, you could feel the electric in your body the next day like that. Like you're in your brain. Like you can actually see the neurotransmitters are fucking on fire. You could feel that. You know, I could tell when I would go on stage after doing two or three nights of blow that week, I had no control. I really had no control over my material. I had no control over my delivery. That's what I wanted to tell you. Like you're just the way you communicate is just off? Yeah, your mind can't grip it. You can't sell the joke. The facial doesn't connect with the hand movement or the breathing. So like I knew that that was always going to be a danger in the future. Now, you know, I take all that for like a year. I drank those what's your buddy's name that makes the neurosurgeon milkshakes. The football player that fucking beat the guy up Romanowski. I took all his stuff for like a year just to... Did you? Yeah, the orange drink and stuff. Neuro one that stuff. Is that helping? Yeah, it felt good. It felt a lot better. I give your brain some nutrients and control. Yeah, but 10 years. I mean that that I had to do a benefit in Hoboken and I had gotten high like that whole summer I tried to get off Coke. I was doing the heroin. I was trying to get off the coke and shit. And then that September ran out of heroin. So I was doing it like maybe once a week and the whole thing went down in Maryland. I knew I had to stop. And then I had this thing in Hoboken. I went... The whole thing went down in Maryland Martinez when she died? Yeah, when she was dying. I went back east that week and she was dying. I don't know what happened. It was like, you know what? I was trying to get coke on Friday night. I couldn't get it and I just took it for what it was. I was trying to get coke on Saturday. I couldn't get it. So fuck it. I took the plane back Sunday. I couldn't get it here. Something happened. I couldn't get it. And then that Monday I had a meeting to do a movie and at the end of the meeting the guy said, Listen man, we know about your drug problem. So before you say yes, we want you to think about this because you can't miss a day on this movie. You cannot be late. If you're late, the whole movie can't shoot because it was a cast. We all shot in one room. It was an AA meeting. So I thought about it. I'll do it. And that was the roughest fucking month ever because I was just going home and before eight o'clock would start, I would just go to bed because eight o'clock was my cocaine time. That's when my body would start to ache. That's when I couldn't even... You could be telling me the most important thing in your life and I'd be watching you, but I couldn't hear. All my mind was focusing on was getting that blow at eight o'clock. And then I would figure out how to get the 60 bucks. I'm going to go to the ATM machine. I would shoot over the rock and roll routes. There's that ATM machine in front of rock and roll routes right there. And I would take 60 bucks out there. I would run every red light to get to that ATM machine. I didn't give a fuck. We got to give a fuck. And then from there, I would just make the U-turn, go to my dealer's house, go home and leave the Coke there. And now he's ready for the night. I was in peace just knowing that the Coke was at the house. I didn't have to do it. You know, I've never been physically addicted to something in a way where I had a hard time kicking it, but I've had some psychological addictions for sure. And I think that one of the things that I've gotten out of this month of the sober October thing that Tom Burton, Ari and I are doing is that a lot of it is psychological. A lot of it is psychological. Because just knowing that we can't smoke pot or can't drink all month, you start thinking about, oh, we're at the home stretch November 1st, we're on the corner. I don't really feel like I need to get high. It's not like I need a drink tomorrow. But it's knowing that I can't do it for the month where it hangs over your head. So that's what's even more impressive, that you could kick it. Because it's not just the fact that you have like a physical problem, but you also have this psychological problem. Like the psychological part of it is like it's a pattern that you're comfortable with. You got used to that pattern of 8 o'clock, you're looking for the Coke, you go into it, and then you're off. It's like you're off, even though you're in chaos, your life's in disarray, and you're in the grips of addiction, you're comfortable with that feeling. You've been there before. And for whatever reason, when people get used to fucking up, and they go, why do I keep fucking up? One of the reasons you keep fucking up is because you're used to fucking up. And it's not an uncomfortable feeling in the sense that you know it. It might suck, but it's the devil you know. That was nice. I didn't want to do it. I still did it. Do you understand me? I didn't want to do it. I didn't need to do it. I didn't feel. I just wanted to do it. But it was just something to do. It was just something to do. But you know, what I tell people all the time is you want to have to quit. It just doesn't happen. Like I quit at 44. I'm no fucking genius. But it took me two years. It was a two year struggle, like a personal little struggle. When did you know that you were free? Because you didn't go to AA or narcotics and all of this? I went to one meeting, an AA meeting, I went in Hollywood, which everything is good until you go to it in Hollywood. Because in Hollywood you add the dramatic and the actor image to it. You know, if you go to an AA meeting in Jersey, they're in their smoking camel reds, fucking talking from the heart. You go to an AA meeting in Hollywood, you got people with AA tattoos on their arms, hugging each other. You know, it's a fucking jamboree. They're just happy to be in AA. It's a new clan that they're in. And then what happens is after about two months in this area for some reason, I know this because I have a lot of friends in AA. Somebody approaches you and says, Hi, you know what's going on? You're like, I'm struggling. They're like, why have you seen Dr. Bob? Dr. Bob? I'm just making this name. They're like, Dr. Bob? Oh my God. Tell him about Dr. Bob. Tell Joe about Dr. Bob. I hope Dr. Bob has changed your whole life. So basically you'll see Dr. Bob. He gives you bullshit, referendum, whatever. Prescription. What you have. You know, like, oh, you're bipolar. Right. You're this. Now they start shooting at her all at you. Oh, the other shit at you. So you're really not sober. You're really not sober. You see, now after I got clean, I discovered I had a problem. I discovered I was bipolar or Johnny who bots or this or that or this. Now that medication they give you, you know, on top of the opioid epidemic, how bad a fucking Adderall. Adderall is so fucked up as Adderall. Subs by www.zeoranger.co.uk