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Why did Joey Diaz get frustrated when the Nor’easter canceled the AC/DC concert?
Kick this motherfucker meal lead. What up, beautiful people? Uncle Joey here with the church of what's happening now, new edition. And my main man, Pedro Garcia. What's up, bro? It's Tuesday, the twenty-ninth of September. You got Two and a half more shop left in months. That's it. It's coming quick. If you're already in October 1st on Thursday, think about this. We were just having a conversation and you can't dress in white, you know, September 1st, and look at us now. We're hitting October. But it's another fun filled show. Pedro's here. What up, Tarzan? Chilling, brother. What's going on with you? Uh, you know, bro. Had a rough week last week with the internet. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. Play GTA fucking You play for two hours, then everybody else gets on and fucking the computer goes down.
It starts stuttering, whatever the fuck they call it.
Uh uh lagging. Lagging. What the fuck? Laggin, stuttering. Nah, no. Same shit. Chat was going crazy calling a Chinese Wi Fi. Yeah, Chinese.
Fuck this, I'm going to bed. I might as well go to bed. But beside that, the week was great. We did that show at Uncle Vinny's shout out if he came out. Yep. Was a great night. You know, when Uncle Vinny's packs up, man, that club is fucking real. Like it was real that night. Real fun, man. And, you know, again, uh I'm sorry. To all you people who stayed home because you were petrified of the Nor'easter. Oh yeah. Go fuck yourself. I don't know what the fuck you're thinking. Why are you letting these people scare the fuck out of you? There was nothing on the road. I mean people calling me up. We careful tonight. There's ambulance there was not a tree down. Nobody lost their power. Nothing. Nothing. And
I see one Puerto Rican on a boat.
No. No. And all day Friday, New Jersey twelve, the gay guy was on there. All fucking day. A fucking drop of rain didn't fall at all.
How did Judy Carter’s stand-up comedy book help Joey Diaz break out of a slump?
But here's what really pissed me off. What pissed me off was that fucking they cancelled A C D C. On Friday night at Met Life. And a raindrop didn't even fall. Rumor has that the the union guys didn't want to go up on top to build something 'cause it was windy, you know. But Still, there was not a raindrop. Every time I went out Friday night. It was I was getting more and more fucking, you know. Every time I go out I go, Nothing's going on. It was like a You you're getting petrified here to death, you know. So That's the only thing I hate about all those fucking when they scare white people.
Yeah.
But besides that and I forgot to bring it up, man. What's up? For a couple of weeks there. I was trying to You know, listen man, I know when When your comedy's a little on the off side, you know, you always know You know, sometimes you go up there and they laugh. But when you get off, you go, I forgot this, I didn't do this right, I didn't do that right. Right. So for the last like six weeks, I've been looking around. For uh Judy Carter's book. Stand up comedy. And some people look at it. And it's you know, like Most comics look at it and shut it off for the reasons I almost always did. My reason was who the fuck is Judy Caught? I never seen her on Tonight Show. I never saw a do dick, you know. And Somebody gave me the book when I started out.
Somebody recommended it to me. I bought it. And I looked at it and it had some interesting stuff, but At the time I didn't think it was me. Then I rebought it and I kept losing it and I rebought it. Until about ninety seven it was a Bible. It was always in with the writing stuff and I would take if I was on a high percentage of bombing You know, one of those weeks where you keep bombing, I would open it up and go to basics. But for some reason, like six weeks ago, I'm like, I went home from something, one of these shows we do, and I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna look to see if I could buy this book because I saw her Uh on Instagram. I go Juicy. I got an Instagram account. She was eighty when I bought the book.
You know, now that's forty years ago. That's thirty five years ago. She's 120. So I fucking uh I uh go online and the book is sold out obviously. And then I go to uh
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Joey Diaz get frustrated when the Nor’easter canceled the AC/DC concert?
0:02–1:51
2
How did Judy Carter’s stand-up comedy book help Joey Diaz break out of a slump?
1:51–9:51
3
How can comedians rebuild stage energy and turn frustration into material?
9:51–16:40
4
What can aspiring comedians learn from stand-up classes and comedy workshops?
16:40–31:16
5
What was it like growing up in North Bergen and discovering a passion for comedy?
31:16–40:30
6
How did Joey Diaz find support after losing his mother as a teenager?
40:30–48:19
7
How did Joey Diaz get into stand-up comedy after seeing a comedian perform live?
48:19–58:11
8
How did friendship and laughter help Joey Diaz through difficult years?
58:11–1:10:15