Joey Diaz: We're Getting Too Much News | Joe Rogan

We're so far away from where we were in the 70s. So far away. So far away. So far away. And that was our lifetime. We can remember the 70s. You know? 1973, I was six years old. Okay, I remember that. I remember the Vietnam War. I remember when the war ended, thinking when I was a little kid, this is great that the war is over, because now they know that war is bad, and they won't do any war anymore. The war is over. It's gone. When the war started up again, when I was, I think I was 21, when Desert Storm kicked in, I was like, holy shit, they're doing it again. Me and my friend Jimmy D'Itilio, we had an apartment in, I think it was fucking, where were we? Malden or some shit? I forget where the fuck we were. Waltham. That's where we were. We were in Waltham. We had this fucking apartment, and we were sitting there on TV, we were just sitting in front of the living room. I didn't think we had a couch. We were just sitting there in the living room, watching these fucking missiles flying through the air. I'll never forget. He goes, buddy, looks like we're at war. I was like, what? How the fuck? We were both sitting there going, what? How the fuck? We're at war? I thought we didn't do that anymore. I remember that. I remember that whole, I mean, that time when that was how you got information from the TV is so far removed from today. Today, everything that happens all the time is coming at you 100 miles an hour from every direction. There's just too much to keep up with. You have to control it, though. You have to control it. You still have to have a life. You still, you know, I don't have Facebook on my phone. I have my email account. I try to keep Twitter off my phone. When I go on the road, the iPad has no Twitter and no Facebook. It's too much. It's too much. It interferes with who we are. And if you haven't caught that by now, you're not catching this. You know, I'll open up my Twitter on a Saturday just to see who's tweeting, thinking to myself, what are you doing with your fucking life that you're tweeting on Friday and fucking Saturday and Sunday? You know? It becomes a little game. It's a little game. You have to give it a breather. You have to. It's too much news coming at you. From 202 on on your satellite disk. You know where the other thing is? It's too much news. From sports to world news, you got HLN, CNN, and then ESPN. All in a fucking row. It's too fast. It's too quick. Last week when I was home, my buddy is a cab driver. I took six Ubers on Monday in New York. Tuesday I just wanted to take a cab. I took my wife to get some real pizza, Roma pizza. The guy that was making pizza there was still there when I was a kid. I drove by one day and I go, he's still in there? So we took a fucking cab on the cab. This guy that drove me is a friend of mine. We grew up together since we were 12. And we were talking. I go, that's the first gas station I robbed. And then he goes, remember when we were 12? We were walking home tonight. Freddie Prinze got killed. Wow. Freddie Prinze had killed himself the night before. We didn't find out until that six o'clock news. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like that was the gap in time. So you got your news. And even though that was New York, it was the city capital, who watched TV in the morning. Maybe they mentioned it in the morning. Reports out of LA, Freddie Prinze is in the hospital. Yeah, but you never saw it. But no. I remember us being out and them saying Freddie Prinze died. He shot himself last night. And I storm him how cold it was. It was January. Or February was fucking freezing. But we were walking home. We were 12. And what do we see in front of us? But a guy passed out drunk. Just hammered drunk on the floor. So we'll like hold on. Let's get the money out of his pocket. You take the bottle. It was like a bottle of doers or whatever. So our plan was to take a bottle and shake a bum. What's it called? You roll a bum. Yeah. And we put our hand in his pocket. He grabbed one of us like Carrie. So next thing you know, three of us just started kicking him. We must have kicked him 82 times. And we ran away in a bottle. He got up and chased us. Oh, Jesus. We knew it was a short path through the cemetery. So we lost him. Like you get all those weird things. Like that's what I associate with. Like Freddie shot himself at night. They must have mentioned it in the morning. I was too busy going to school. And it wasn't confirmed till the next day. That's how slow news was. Now you're getting news. You're getting hit with 200 stories in 10 minutes. What happened in France? What Trump decided? What the UFC is doing? What fucking, Penny Marshall died. You're getting through this tronaccual thing. You really can't control it. Take your child. You've watched these two young girls grow up. You ever have days where you take them somewhere? Disney. And it's so much information they got to go back and take a nap? Yeah. That happens to us too. Yeah. That's got to be happening to us. Well, for sure. It's wearing you out. A lot of it is really negative too. That's another part of the problem. What's interesting to people is what's dangerous. And there's not much dangerous. So what's interesting to people becomes, being negative. Being nasty about something. Complaining about things. Bitching about that. Starting Twitter fights. Like people enjoy doing it. They're looking for battles. I wish there was a way where people could choose to only engage online without insulting people and just trying to get a rise out of people. Like a troll free way of interacting. But it's never going to happen. So you got to kind of accept what it is. And so if you accept what it is, you should be very wary about entering to anything where 60% of what you're experiencing is negative. Anything. Anything in life where you're looking at 60% negative. You don't have to. Being informed is one thing, but that's more than just being informed. Because how much of that information is even valuable to you. A lot of it is just getting soaked into these fucking horrible stories.