Nonna was a freak!

Summary

Summary of "Nonna was a Freak!" Episode of The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament

Released on January 29, 2025, Joey Diaz and Leanne (also known as the Italian Princess) engage in a lively and humorous discussion centered around food, social media, Italian culture, and personal experiences.

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1. Introduction and Social Media Insights (00:00 - 05:36)

The episode kicks off with Joey Diaz welcoming listeners to the podcast, humorously promoting Via's THC products before diving into the main conversation. Joey shares his late entry into Instagram, expressing a preference for YouTube and highlighting his interest in dog and food videos over the typical tattooed beauty content. He humorously critiques the lack of authenticity among certain Instagram users, particularly "skinny Italians" lacking testosterone, contrasting them with Leanne's vibrant and genuine persona.

Notable Quote:

Joey Diaz (02:16): "But Trust me, these are like skinny, pale Italians. They have no testosterone. Trust me, you have plenty of testosterone."

2. Leanne's Journey into Social Media and Content Creation (05:36 - 12:22)

Leanne recounts her spontaneous decision to start creating content on TikTok out of spite, which quickly garnered her 6,000 followers within a week. She emphasizes her natural inclination towards food and family, explaining how her content reflects her everyday life without deliberate planning. This authenticity, she suggests, sets her apart from other influencers who often force their content, leading to more genuine engagement and a loyal following.

Notable Quote:

Leanne (05:58): "This is just how I live my life. It's just my normal life."

3. Authentic Italian Culture and Family Dynamics (12:22 - 22:50)

Joey and Leanne delve into the essence of authentic Italian culture, reminiscing about lively street scenes, family gatherings, and traditional feasts. Joey laments the decline of such vibrant community interactions, contrasting it with modern-day Italian restaurants that lack the spirited ambiance he cherishes. Leanne shares anecdotes about her family's reluctance to embrace social media fame, maintaining a low profile and valuing genuine relationships over online popularity.

Notable Quote:

Joey Diaz (08:10): "But your mom is not a pushover."

4. Challenges of Modern Dining and Influencer Culture (22:50 - 42:42)

The conversation shifts to the impact of social media on dining experiences. Both hosts express frustration with diners who prioritize capturing the perfect photo over enjoying their meals, leading to cold food and disrupted atmospheres. Leanne discusses her strategies to minimize such interruptions by visiting restaurants early or during off-peak hours. They critique the superficiality introduced by influencer presence in traditional dining settings, advocating for more authentic and respectful interactions.

Notable Quote:

Joey Diaz (24:35): "They're my age. They fucking grease their hair back, they put the white teeth in, they do a couple steroids."

5. Personal Relationships and Social Expectations (42:42 - 60:57)

Joey and Leanne explore the dynamics of personal relationships in the age of social media. Joey shares his disinterest in superficial interactions, preferring genuine connections and expressing disdain for shallow engagements prompted by online fame. Leanne echoes similar sentiments, emphasizing her preference for meeting people organically rather than through digital platforms. They discuss the pressures and misconceptions faced by those in the public eye, advocating for authenticity and rejecting the need to conform to influencer-driven expectations.

Notable Quote:

Leanne (56:35): "See, when I was 21, I had a boyfriend for three or four years who loved you. He would always be watching your podcast."

6. Navigating the Influencer Landscape and Monetization (60:57 - 79:06)

The discussion turns to the monetization of social media presence. Leanne talks about her collaboration with a friend on a jewelry line, highlighting the importance of working with trustworthy partners and maintaining personal integrity. Joey shares his experiences with the pitfalls of influencer culture, including the pressures to participate in various promotions and the resulting burnout. They advocate for setting personal boundaries and prioritizing genuine content over financial gains, stressing the importance of staying true to one's values.

Notable Quote:

Joey Diaz (78:54): "There's enough money to go around and at one point you gotta go, these are the things I'm doing and these are the things I refuse to fucking do."

7. Closing Reflections and Final Thoughts (79:06 - End)

In the concluding segment, Joey and Leanne reflect on the importance of authenticity in both personal and professional spheres. Joey expresses gratitude towards Leanne for bringing a refreshing perspective to the conversation, while Leanne appreciates Joey's candidness and support. They reiterate the value of maintaining genuine relationships and the joy derived from sharing authentic experiences with others.

Notable Quote:

Joey Diaz (80:25): "You're the first woman I've met in a long time that I have to go home and hug my daughter. You give me fucking faith."

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Conclusion:

In this episode, Joey Diaz and Leanne masterfully blend humor with insightful commentary on modern social dynamics, particularly focusing on the intersections of food, family, and social media. Their candid discussions highlight the challenges of maintaining authenticity in a digitally-driven world while celebrating the enduring values of genuine connections and cultural heritage.

Transcript

[Joey Diaz]

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[Leanne]

Hi, was Liana.

[Joey Diaz]

What is it, Liana?

[Unknown]

Well, just so you know, if you. If Joey knows you and get your name correct, he doesn't like you that much.

[Leanne]

Okay?

[Unknown]

If he likes you, your name is not right. He's been calling me the director from Israel for 15 years. I've never directed anything and I'm from Massachusetts, so if he gets your name wrong, he likes you.

[Leanne]

Okay, good, Perfect.

[Joey Diaz]

You know, I wasn't hip to Instagram. Like, I'm a YouTube type of guy. I go on YouTube and fucking look at videos, concerts and shit. So I didn't really know what was going on on Instagram. About four years ago, I started looking at Instagram. And, you know, you get the fucking girls with the tattoos, wiggling their ass and all this stupidity. But I'm into the fucking dog videos. People make cat videos. I like. I like people who talk about food, right? Because I like fucking food.

[Unknown]

Hell, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And, you know, there's a lot of amateurs on there. A lot of, like, skinny Italians.

[Leanne]

Well, I'm skinny Italian.

[Joey Diaz]

No, but Trust me, these are like skinny, pale Italians. They look.

[Leanne]

I'm a little pale, too.

[Joey Diaz]

They have no testosterone. Trust me, you have plenty of testosterone. More than these fucking moocs you see nowadays. And you see these guys trying to sell a sandwich and they just don't fucking sell it. They just. And then you got Dave Portnoy, who I love, who does great things, but I'm not going to eat what that fucking guy tells me to fucking eat. Pizza. You know, it's just we've gone into the wrong fucking realm with this shit. And then I discovered you, and I was blown the fuck away. Like, I was like, what is this girl talking about? The accent, the way you moved. But you killed me when you brought your grandmother into it. And you're over there talking Italian. I'm like, this is better than any fucking TV show. This is what I grew up around. And when I moved back from California, I expected to have this. I was moving in Central Jersey. My neighborhood's from fucking Staten Island. You know, I should have these Italians. I should have people yelling on the street. The one grandfather that runs away, you know something? Nothing. They're the most boring Italian people I've ever met in my life. They're nice people, but they eat macaroni and cheese and they, you know, it's just for me. Like, I'm Cuban and I lee, tell her the rules I have, even there's.

[Unknown]

A lot I'm gonna need to break it down. So, like, we were the rule this morning. Uh oh.

[Leanne]

Oh, no.

[Joey Diaz]

You put that ranch powder on the tuna and you even said it. I'm still a little Medigon and I. And that's why I love you still, because you threw there a little Medigon from time to time.

[Leanne]

I can't help that guy because we.

[Joey Diaz]

All got that white trash in us.

[Leanne]

I know. I got.

[Joey Diaz]

Like, before we're talking about Money Garden, I was thinking of not Rice a Roni. What's the other one with the noodles that your mom used to make?

[Unknown]

Oh, Hamburger Helper.

[Joey Diaz]

Hamburger Helper was a motherfucker when I was a kid. I asked my wife to pick it up like two years ago. I took one bite, I went into a fucking sodium buzz. I threw it right away. It was God awful. I still got like Dinty Moore stew. I'll throw a can of Dinty Moore stew down.

[Leanne]

I don't know what that is.

[Joey Diaz]

Dinty Moore. It's like a red stew that they sell at CVS with a loaf of fucking bread. Dinty Moore, that meat is better than McDonald's.

[Unknown]

It's been on the shelf for 40 years and they've never changed. It still is packaging, it goes with.

[Joey Diaz]

Tang, you know, shit like that. So I make mistakes, too. But you didn't make no mistakes. Like, and then you're going to restaurants and then you're fucking drinking these drinks, and then you're making videos with some skinny dude who is great, by the way, that he brings you one thing after the other.

[Leanne]

Oh, Rapkeys. Rapkeys. Yes, yes, yes.

[Joey Diaz]

And I look at you and I'm like, where does this food fucking go? You know? And every day is a different. How did you get into all this shit?

[Leanne]

You know, I just. This is just how I live my life. And it's just I was like, one day I was bored, so I was like, you know what? Well, actually, I did it out of spite. I'm not gonna lie. I started doing TikTok out of spite. And then within, like a week of doing it, I got like 6,000 followers, which is crazy for TikTok. This was two and a half years ago. And I was like, you know what? Let me keep doing this because it's working. I got my spite. It worked. That paid off.

[Joey Diaz]

So.

[Leanne]

So I just kept doing it. And I was always going out to eat. I was always going to my nunna's house. So I was like, let me just continue this bit. And just doing what I usually do. That's why I enjoy doing social media, because it's not like I'm going out looking for content to make. It's just my normal life. Like, I wake up, I eat a sandwich at 10am, I eat a plate of pasta at 12, and that's just what I do.

[Joey Diaz]

It's like, you live this life of, like, food and restaurants and nice cocktails, and that's what they do, you know, you're always.

[Unknown]

Can you go back to that? You eat a sandwich at 10 and a plate of pasta at 12 every day.

[Leanne]

Not every day, but when I work. See, my boss, he's the best. He loves me. So I start off my work day with a lobster tail. He always gives me a lobster tail and an espresso. Then like, after I finish eating that, he gives me my sandwich, which is around, like, 10:30am what time do you.

[Unknown]

Eat the lobster tail? You mean the pantry of the lobster tail?

[Leanne]

Yeah, as soon as I sit down to work, I eat my lobster tail. Then after I finish that, I do my sandwich. And then around like, 12, 1 o'clock, I do my plate of pasta. He makes me a nice plate of pasta, and two o'clock I leave.

[Unknown]

So here's. We have the same diet and we look very. I love. I love lobster tails. What do you. How is that even possible?

[Leanne]

You know?

[Unknown]

Do you work once a year?

[Leanne]

I. I work out twice a day. I'm not going to lie. So I work out. I wake up early. I wake up 6am, 5.30am and I work out. But then also, like, genetics too. Like, a lot of people always ask me, like, oh, my God. Oh, by the time you turn 40, you're gonna blah, blah, blah. But nobody in my family is. I don't want to jinx myself. I'm doing the malokia. Nobody's like, overweight in my family, so genetics plays a part in it, too. I'm not gonna lie. Like, we're all like skinny Italians. So, like, I get away with what I do by. By my genetics and working out.

[Joey Diaz]

But I tell you something. No disrespect, your mom ain't bad looking.

[Leanne]

To love this.

[Joey Diaz]

Your mom is not bad looking at all, Jack.

[Leanne]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

I mean, that shit runs deep in your family. And you could tell Nona was a freak back in the day in 1940. You know what I'm saying? You could tell. Nona's got a sense of humor. She don't say much.

[Leanne]

My nana's a real one. She's an OG right now.

[Joey Diaz]

But your mom is not a pushover.

[Leanne]

My father. Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

You know, and it's just really weird to see you in this, Doug. I didn't have a family like that. So when I. It's like a couple years ago, duck dynasty got big. I don't know if you remember that show. A bunch of rednecks, they go hunting ducks or whatever the fuck they sold. But at the end, they did something. They sat and said a prayer and ate. And that's something this country forgot. I grew up on the Waltons, dog. Okay? The Waltons. At the end of the show, he would always go, good night, John Boy. Good night, Priscilla. Good night, fucko. The whole house, fucko. We don't have that in this country no more. We don't have that. If it is, it's gotta be played out. I gotta have a gay cousin or cousin who's a tranny or. This guy's fucking allergic to fucking life, you know? It just can't be normal. And that's what I. I've seen videos of you with your family eating. And you're like, my uncles don't wanna be on table, you know what I'm saying?

[Leanne]

My uncles don't play around. It's so funny because, like, last year I had did a video in one of my uncle's houses. And that was big too, to like, let me, like, do a video like that. And like, his friends didn't know that I did social media. So, like, one of his friends was like, scrolling through Instagram. He's looking, he goes, is that Carlo's kitchen? So now he's calling his other friend. He's like, wait a minute, why is this girl in Carlos kitchen? And he's like, oh, that's his niece. Like, nobody knew who my uncles were. Who, like. And then my uncle's have to explain. Oh, that's my mom. Like, nobody knew because I like, kept it so, like, low key to me and my nana. Even my brothers. Like, I don't really put my brothers on. My mom, she's on like once in a while. Like, my family, they're not like, looking to be like, social media famous. Like, they don't, they don't want to be like, in that. My nunna for like the longest time. I used to say, nunna, please come do this with me. Because even her, like, she don't want to do it now. She likes it because, like, she, like, we have like this little deal where like, when companies send me, like, olive oil and like, food, I give it to her and she loves it because she loves that kind of stuff. So, like, nana, do this, they're going to send me olive oil and she doesn't want to smile on her face.

[Joey Diaz]

How crazy is it that people send you stuff now?

[Leanne]

Oh, I love it. It's the best.

[Joey Diaz]

You get home and there's like a box of food with ice around it.

[Leanne]

It's like Christmas every day.

[Joey Diaz]

And you're like, what the hell? I just got something Friday. I got chocolate, those Italian things. Chocolate from Long Island. The kids from Long Island.

[Unknown]

Wow.

[Joey Diaz]

Oh, my God, they were delicious. I took one bite. I'm like, this is too rich. Like, it was just too rich. And I thought it had edible juice in it because it just has.

[Unknown]

You said something like that you. This is what your normal life is. Did you ever try to, like, force it or, like, make content out of something? It didn't work. And like, is it. Or did you. Have you always just been doing your normal life?

[Leanne]

I've always just been doing my normal life. Yeah. I just. I go through, like, phases in my life. So, like, I went. Nobody knows. Like, they always ask me oh, your college? You go to college? But like, yeah, I went to college. Like I have a bachelor's degree, but I don't put on Instagram. Oh, I have a bachelor. Like, cuz like, I don't know. To me that doesn't really mean anything. Like it's just a piece of paper. Like, I don't. So like, I don't flaunt. Like, oh, she doesn't even have a degree. And I'm like, no, I do. But I just. That's not what I'm playing off my Instagram over. So I have. I was gonna. My uncle's an attorney. One of my uncles is an attorney. I was gonna become a lawyer. Worked with him. My uncle's like a Nazi. Working with my. I love my uncle. My uncle's like the best thing in the world. He's like the night. But when it came to work, oh my God, it was like horrible working with him because we're both very like headstrong. So like he would tell me to do something, but if it was something stupid, I wasn't going to do it. He would fire me. I would call my nana, like on the train home from the city, like, nana, he fired me. She'd call him, like, oh, why would you fire her? Then like that following Monday, I had my job back. I would go back to work. So we did this for a little bit. Then I was like, you know what? This is not for me. Then I was like personal training, which was fun, but I was like, you know what? I don't want to do this either. And then just. I was just, like I said, eating and that blew up. So I was like, let me just do this. Now I'm working in a deli. Working, sitting in a deli. But I've always done food. I've always done just food, content and like.

[Unknown]

Go ahead.

[Joey Diaz]

I'm sorry, Go ahead.

[Unknown]

No, I just. It's interesting. There are like Joey said, there's a lot of people doing food. Why do you think people like gravitated to you more than other people?

[Leanne]

I think cuz I don't force it. Like I see like other like content creators. I say I'm like the joker of content creators, like of influencers. Like I'm like the evil villain. But. But it's not because I want to be like, I don't want to collaborate with anyone. Like I used to do that, but then like, I don't know, like collaborating with people, like when you see what other influencers are about, it's like, oh, like this is ridiculous. Like, I don't want to do this. Like, I do all my videos in one shot. Like, it's like, boo, boo. I don't care how I look. I don't care what's going on. Like, one shot. Like. Like doing it with other people. Oh, I don't like how I look. We need to reshoot this. And then it's like, oh, I'm not doing this ever again.

[Joey Diaz]

Ten minutes turns into two hours.

[Leanne]

Oh, and it's the worst.

[Joey Diaz]

Fuck you. I got that type of time.

[Leanne]

I sat at dinners with, like, other influencers where the food gets cold because, like, oh, no, no, we got to redo this. Oh, no, no, we got to redo. When I'm out to dinner with people, I. One shot and that's it. Like, if I'm. That's only if I get invited to a restaurant to do content. Like, if I'm going out to eat with friends or family, like, on my own, I'll never pull out my phone and start recording. Because, like, I like to enjoy, like, time with people, too. But, like, some people are just so, like, in, like, just in it that they don't care. Like, they'll. The food will be cold. They just. They don't care. So I think people like me because, like, I'm not like that. Like, I'm just. I say whatever. Like, I don't care. Like, if people think I'm stupid. Like, sometimes I think it's good to look a little ditzy for Instagram. Like. Cause I graduated college with honors. Like, I graduated cum laude, but people think I'm, like, this Italian ditz, and I'm like, yeah, I like it. It's good to be a ditz. Like, you know, like, don't let people know too much about you.

[Joey Diaz]

You're playing them the right way.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

It's crazy because when I first saw it, the thing I liked about you the best is you kept it classy.

[Leanne]

Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

And I said that you kept it classy. It wasn't like, bikini shots and a tattoo and, you know, just bullshit.

[Leanne]

My uncles would beat my ass.

[Joey Diaz]

Cause I'm still a dad. You know what?

[Leanne]

My family would not let that slide.

[Joey Diaz]

I know. It's so. Cause I look at it from a business perspective.

[Leanne]

Well, that too. Yes.

[Joey Diaz]

And I'm also a dad. And I like women. I like the whole fucking thing. You know? It just. You gain that credibility.

[Leanne]

Thank you. Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And it's like, I have a friend that I'm a fan of hers. I brought it here. Katerina she's a fucking artist, but she's an artist to the end. She could do jokes. She could paint the fucking picture. You know, her things. I love her content. It's not forced, right? It's one shot. She gives zero fucks. Zero. Fuck. I don't want to see you dolled up.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

I don't want. I want to see you in your primitive. I want to see what you look like in the morning when you're eating fucking apples and tuna.

[Leanne]

And ranch. Don't forget the ranch.

[Joey Diaz]

And ranch. Oh, my God. But you. But you. Fucking basic. You know, you went into it. Listen, because I'm American, I gotta add some ranch. I'm like, all right, she's off the hook.

[Unknown]

I don't think I'd be off the hook if I put ranch on my tuna.

[Joey Diaz]

You're Jewish. I gotta make money. But it's just. You see these? Listen, we got into this in 2010 not knowing Dick, all right? There was Adam Carolla and Joe Rogan, and nobody knew who Joe Rogan was. It was Marc Maron and Adam Carolla, and we got a room before my daughter was born and we started. Then my wife threw us out, and we went to his apartment, and then we got thrown out of there, and we went to an office. We seen a chick get kidnapped. We fucking left that office. I mean, it was just raw. But this was all through mistakes you don't learn from, you know? Like, now I see. Take a podcast course. Six weeks. Go fuck yourself. You know what I'm saying? Who's teaching this shit? Some guy at Seton Hall. Get the fuck out of my face. It's a good scam, though, right?

[Leanne]

We should do it in the city. I know people that are like content creator managers that buy their followers. So, like, this one person that I know, 300,000 followers, right? And they're teaching courses on how to grow your social media, blah, blah, blah. But, like, somebody with a brain like me, I know the ins and outs of social media. You go to their page, their videos get 100 views, two comments. All right, 300,000.

[Joey Diaz]

All of a sudden. Yeah, all of a sudden. Yeah, but they're.

[Leanne]

But businesses that don't know any better are hiring these people because they see 300,000, 500,000 followers, and they're making money. So it's a good racket. It's a good scheme.

[Unknown]

How does it work? Like, do you. Like, when you got a good amount of followers, do you just reach out to restaurants and brands or.

[Leanne]

No, I never reach out So I know a lot of influencers do. I never do. Like I don't want to be thirsty, you know, like I don't want. And plus like I say, like I like social media, but social media is not my life. Like if this all like when Tick Tock was shutting down last week, like I was fine with it. Like, you know, it wasn't the end of the world. Like life goes on. But like I don't reach out to restaurants and now I have pretty much a nice like following where restaurants are reaching out to me on like a daily basis. So I don't need to reach out to restaurants or brands. But even when I had like, like 10,000 followers, 5,000, I never wanted to be thirsty and be like, oh, I want to come to your restaurant and for a comped meal I'll do this, I'll do that. Like I never want to do that. Makes me look bad, you know?

[Unknown]

Right. Because it definitely does work like it does. If you look at my Explore page, it's not chicks with ass. It's, it's comedy, sports and food. And I can't. Like I've been to a million places, especially in New York since I moved in September. I'll find places and I'll, I'll just like, that's how I go. Like it. You can tell when it's like really scripted.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

But like when it's someone who's just going somewhere cuz they like it. Yeah, like I'm gonna give that a shot.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Unknown]

And it's cool.

[Leanne]

I never go to restaurants based off of influencers. Now that I know, like influencers and what they do, I never go because I used to do that. Like before I started social media. I would go to restaurants that like influencers would post and like the restaurant, it would be the most disgusting restaurants, the food would be disgusting because like a lot of these places are gimmicky. Like the food is just like it looks good for videos and then you eat it and it's like, oh, like atrocious. I like the rundown spots like what we were talking about before where Fat Tony's laying on the bar. Like I like a place where they tell me no phones, no videos in here. And then I'm like, oh yeah, now I'm in a good spot.

[Joey Diaz]

Right.

[Unknown]

Well it's interesting what you said because I actually read an article a couple years ago, like this restaurant owner in New York looked through his security cameras because he was getting a lot of bad reviews and he's like, what's going on, and I forget the number. But he's like, people are taking forever before their meal to take pictures of it.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Do all that. And then the food gets cold. And then, like, everything gets messed up.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

So we like Band Phone. I forget what it was in the New York Times. But it's interesting how, like, that's, like, ruining some restaurants.

[Leanne]

Yeah. It's annoying. Even though I do it. But like I said, I do it. 1, 2, 3. Like, I. As soon as the food comes out, I do it. And I have friends that aren't influencers, that I've been at the dinner with them, and they're annoying as hell. Like, no, no, no. We got to get the right shot. Oh, no. Move your hand. Oh, no, no. Put your bracelet like this. And it's like, oh, my God, please let me drink my drink before I freaking go nuts in here. And it's like, it's annoying. And you see every other table with the flesh. Blah, blah, blah. That's why, like, when I go to restaurants to do videos, I go as soon as they open. And, like, a lot of times people will be like, oh, the restaurant's empty. The restaurant's empty. Or I'll go like, an hour before they open. Because one, I never get people in my videos. Like, people that are just sitting to eat. Like, I see, like, that all the time. And it's like, if that was me and I'm in somebody's video and I didn't know and I'm just out to dinner, I'd be so mad. So, like, I always go before a restaurant opens or when they first open. So it looks empty, but it's not empty because they have no business. It's empty because nobody's there yet. I'm there before. That way I don't annoy people that are actually there to eat. Like, I can actually just do what I gotta do without being a pain in the ass. Cause I hate pains in the asses.

[Joey Diaz]

It's just crazy that I love eating and I love food and I love going different places, but I don't like cheating. Like, once I'm in a restaurant, I'm in a fucking restaurant. Like, once I feel like I'm family in that restaurant.

[Leanne]

Oh, my God, me too. I'm the same way. You can't cheat.

[Joey Diaz]

I don't want to cheat.

[Leanne]

I'm the same.

[Joey Diaz]

Nothing bothers me more than we're in a restaurant. And you're like, I love the chicken parm. And he's like, I love the manigot. And all of a sudden, some fucking knucklehead at the table says, well, it's not as good as this and that. You don't understand. Like, I don't want to fucking hear your fucking mouth. Like, I don't want to hear your fucking mouth about what's better or what's saucier. I don't want to hear your mouth. We're here right now.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And that's all that fucking matters.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

Because that's the thing that any restaurant you go to, there's always that one fucking lunatic. Well, yeah, Nona makes. No, it doesn't. We've been coming here for 12 fucking years. What are you fucking talking about? Like, it infuriates me when I like a restaurant. I like a restaurant.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

You know, I grew up at this restaurant, a Chinese joint by here, dog. You know how many times I got arrested and cops told me I would say, like, something about chance, and they would go, we did a stakeout in there. 1. Fucking rats were moving the walls. That's how big they were. Did I not go there the next day? I went there the next day, you know, because I've been going there for 20 years. And when it was over, it was over. Like, when it was over, it was over. It's not going to come back. Nobody's gonna put it together again. It's time to find a new place. That's the problem I have. We live in a fucking what if we really look at the numbers, 65% Italian restaurant dominated areas between Louie's Pizza, Nick's Pizza, Domino's Pizza. Think about how much fucking pizza now. Think about Italian food. So I like chicken Frances.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

With a little side of pasta or something like that. I could go get it at Rudy's, which I really like, with Osteria, which is fucking great too. But I know some dickhead's gonna go, oh, you have to go to Zombo in Brooklyn. You know, I don't want to hear your fucking mouth, you know what I'm saying? So for me, when I fall in love with a restaurant, I can't cheat no more. Yeah, I like shit from this restaurant.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

Like, I used to go by me and Marlboro. There's two restaurants. One's more towards the seafood thing, but it's too Brooklyn. Y. You know, Thursday night, it's all these divorced women.

[Leanne]

Oh, I hate restaurants like that. I know, exactly.

[Joey Diaz]

And they got the dj.

[Leanne]

I'm in Long Island. Long island is the mecca for those restaurants. Are you kidding me? Thursday night and Saturday nights at some of these restaurants. There's a restaurant that I really like, on Saturdays they have that. And it's like I can't even go there because it's like the DJ's going. And it's like you have all these like middle aged people that are like acting like they're 20 years old. Savages, like animals savages. Me and my friends who are in our 20s will be sitting at the table looking at These older people, 60 years old, acting like animals. And we're like, oh my God. Like, these people are freaking crazy.

[Unknown]

We went to one on mushrooms and they were having like three birthday parties and they had like the sparklers going off and going to the table at like 7:00, it was still kind of light out.

[Joey Diaz]

They had 22 sparklers and everybody was singing, was gay. Like the little waiter. They used the same gay waiter. Happy birthday. And my mother was in my fucking mind. And you see these. Listen. I love women. I love women. All shapes, all sizes. When a woman's 50 and she's dolled up and she don't give a fuck about her little stomach hanging out, that's the sexiest thing in the world. You goof on it a little bit, you know, you look at their leopard pants or the fat hanging over the heel and you're like, you know what, dog? Look at this. Trying to get hers. I can't be mad at that. It's the guys who bother me.

[Leanne]

It's crazy.

[Joey Diaz]

They're my age. They fucking grease their hair back, they put the white teeth in, they do a couple steroids. Hey, como cediche. Then they come over to you talking Italian. And they don't even talk Italian.

[Leanne]

Me and my friends love it though. Cause we make fun of them.

[Joey Diaz]

Oh yeah, you caught you.

[Leanne]

It's the best. That's the best. And now they think we're stroking their ego. And meanwhile we'll be like, look at this clown. Like, it's a fun, funniest thing.

[Joey Diaz]

God bless. It's.

[Leanne]

It's so funny.

[Joey Diaz]

The out of my face.

[Leanne]

The fangsters, the how you doing? Like, they think they're like these big time gangsters, the wannabes. Oh my God, it's so funny. I don't even leave my house on Thursday nights in Long island because I'm like, stay home.

[Joey Diaz]

Yeah, so Thursday the best is when the disco singer from the 80s shows up.

[Leanne]

But I like it a little bit.

[Joey Diaz]

I like it too.

[Leanne]

I like a little disco freak. But that's when those freaks come out.

[Joey Diaz]

But that's when they do the lip syncing over the thing. And she's all coked up, she's sweating profusely.

[Leanne]

That's crazy.

[Joey Diaz]

Come on, dog, give me a breather. Leave her alone.

[Leanne]

And you try to eat your food. You can't even eat.

[Joey Diaz]

No.

[Leanne]

At that point you're like, shit, I'm done eating.

[Unknown]

Do they return to karaoke at night? Like Thursday night or Friday night, they start doing karaoke.

[Joey Diaz]

I've gone to one of those ones. They don't do that shit out there. This is the thing that they also do is I used to follow this girl that we went to grammar school with or high school. Her husband left her up at Rudy's or something. You know who I'm talking about? She don't follow. I got sick of following her. I don't know what happened. Facebook just said, don't follow no more. I used to follow her to see the train wreck. Cause she's my age and she's still out there hustling.

[Leanne]

It's crazy.

[Joey Diaz]

Trying to hustle guys. And she's in no shape. The hair's falling out. Every time she takes a close up, you can see that where the shots go in. I mean, it was just like. There's a point where you gotta let it go. I appreciate it, I really do. You're trying your best, but you're at a point where you're hanging out with 30 year olds and you don't look good, but you go to all those restaurants where the chubby chick is dancing with fire. Listen, if I'm eating fucking food, I better not see no chubby chick dance. That does not appeal to me or DJ Mario on a Saturday night or Thursday night. And I'm trying to talk to you.

[Leanne]

It's. You can't. You can't go out.

[Joey Diaz]

I cannot.

[Leanne]

And then like the best part is, is like you have like these older people at these restaurants and they'll be looking at my friends like. Like, they'll try to, like, you know, like, try to like, show us, like, who's the boss. And like these women will be looking at me and my friends like. And we'll be like, do what you got to do. Like, we're not here to take care of men. Like, we're just here to eat. And just like, because they think, like, it's a competition. Like, we'll be in the corner and they'll be like. And I'll be like, what do they.

[Joey Diaz]

Call young girls who go after Old pigeons.

[Unknown]

Gold diggers.

[Joey Diaz]

Gold diggers.

[Leanne]

I'm not gonna lie. I like an old pigeon.

[Joey Diaz]

No, you don't.

[Leanne]

I like old pigeons.

[Unknown]

I was gonna say, like, if I were you, I would take every free meal that I could get.

[Leanne]

Well, I don't need an old pigeon for a free meal at this point. I just. Cause the restaurants reach out to me.

[Unknown]

Oh, they must be pissed.

[Leanne]

I don't need the old.

[Unknown]

That's the only thing the guys had.

[Leanne]

He took a clip. I got the old pigeons because I like the old pigeons. But you know what it is? You know, because my mom, she always says it to me too. Like, she. My mom says that you hang out with these old men, but not. They're not old and old. But I like. I like, like the old school way of life. But I'm not talking about, like, these fangsters and wannabes that hang out at these places. Thursday. I just like, like the stories that you were telling and like, that old school. Like, people my age now, they don't have that, like, old school. They don't. It's not the same.

[Joey Diaz]

So they don't believe us. They don't. That never happened. Okay? It didn't happen.

[Leanne]

I have more fun talking to somebody who's older than me than somebody my age. I'll talk to somebody my age and I'll be like, all right, but like, talking to somebody older, just. And they're not a weirdo, and they're not trying to put on a show, and they're not trying to be a creep. That's what I like. And I like to hear, like, their stories about how life was with the Italian neighborhoods and this. That it's funny to me, but I do like it. I'm not gonna lie. I like old pigeons.

[Joey Diaz]

You know, man. And it's weird because, like, I told you, I like talking to women. I like chit chatting. I like breaking their balls. I like that I'm married. Because it helps out a lot. Like, it just. It just helps out a lot. You get out of a mess real fucking quick. I gotta go. My wife's calling me. You know what I'm saying? Like, this ain't what it is. If they're crazy or whatever. Not that you're on the hunt or nothing, but you like to go out. I'm a comedian, man.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And people fucking say shit to you and women say shit to you. You gotta talk to them. But I look at them and I look at them like a kid, like, yeah, it would be fun, but not really.

[Leanne]

Don't talk too much. Because if I have my own pigeon watching this and I'm like, I was.

[Joey Diaz]

Reading a book today. I was reading a book when I went to the hospital. I started this book. I like to reread books every two years. And I was reading a book about Jose Battle. This motherfucker was 72 in the hospital and the feds finally came in one day and were like, he goes for dialysis twice a week, but on Thursdays it takes him an hour longer. He was fucking his 24 year old wife.

[Leanne]

That's crazy.

[Joey Diaz]

He posed her as a nurse and she. I was like, at 72?

[Leanne]

That's extreme. Listen, that's a little extreme.

[Joey Diaz]

I'm 62 next month and I don't want to show my balls to anybody. Like, I don't care what you're selling, you know, we could do anything else, but I don't want to show you my dick or my balls or my fungi toenail, because I know it's going to fuck a woman up for the rest of her life. Even if she gets out of the old man craze and she marries a guy her age, you know it's gonna come out one day. Why are you making my tie? I used to date a guy that was 80.

[Leanne]

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but I wasn't going for 80 year olds. I'm talking about like 50.

[Joey Diaz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, 50.

[Leanne]

Okay.

[Joey Diaz]

No, and I can see it because you're very mature. Like this conversation with us today, I've learned more about social media than I thought I did just talking to you. And now, like, I want to ask you something again, none of my business. I'm gonna go fuck myself. I noticed something. Like, I go to a boxing gym and there's two girls like you there. Young, innocent. They love breaking my balls. They just love it. And I love them, you know, they. Joey, what are you doing? Uncle Joey, come over here and punch me in the head, you know, whatever the fuck they want me to do, you know? Because young girls are fucking nuts. So the one girl came up to me, she's like, uncle Joey, you don't follow me. And it's like, my daughter came downstairs with five other girlfriends. They're like, uncle Joey, follow us on Instagram. I'm like, listen, you five little dirty bitches, I am not fuck. Because that's how they throw you in jail.

[Leanne]

They're fucking 12.

[Joey Diaz]

They're 12. I'm not gonna follow you five dirty bitches, okay? So get out of my basement. They all Went upstairs with long faces, like, nah, I didn't call them bitches, but I ain't following you. And especially that. Like, I don't know who I'm following. So I followed her, and it's really weird. Like, I see she's a fitness chick. She trains Pilates, and she does this. No men. And that whole fucking thing of hers. There's not one man. And this girl could have any man she wants. No bikini shots, nothing like that. But I've noticed a couple girls that age now, no men. Why?

[Leanne]

I don't know. I think with me, because I have such a big following on social media, I think people get intimidated, you know, Even if. Even if, like, let's say, like, they're like, you know, they. They're established, and they have this thing. Like, I went out with one person who's, like, the love of my life. So if he's watching this and, like, we went out to eat, and he's, like, very established. Like, in Long island, we went on T. They put us at this little table. Then they caught wind that it was me. So they come over. They're like, oh, do you want to sit here? And it was like, this huge, big round table. And we were like, no, we're fine sitting here. And after, like, they walked away. He's like, oh, you know, they knew who you were. That's why they wanted to move us to the big table instead of the little table. And then I was like, oh. And I was like, shit. Like, this is awkward, because, like, I don't want somebody to think like, oh, look, I have all this pull, like, And I think maybe that intimidates people. Like, that I have pull. And it's like.

[Unknown]

That'D be all. I'd love to go to a restaurant.

[Leanne]

Here's a better table.

[Unknown]

Here's some appetizers.

[Leanne]

No, I don't know. Like, what do you think about what.

[Unknown]

Those animals kicked in?

[Leanne]

Like, if you're, like, out with somebody and, like, you think, like, you, like, you know, like. But he's nice. He doesn't think who he is, but you're out. And then, like, oh, like, they're. They're putting on a show for the person that you're out to dinner with. And then he's an older guy. I'm young, whatever. He. They might start to get a little insecure.

[Unknown]

Maybe it's different for women because, like, for guys, like, we're the ones who are supposed to show off.

[Leanne]

I think that's what it is. I think it's like, like, you know, like, imagine you escalate someone, right?

[Unknown]

Imagine you were single and like. But still comic. Like, you went to a place and like, maybe they, like, made a big deal about you coming. But then she's saying, she goes. And it's the opposite. And some guys are, like, a little bit insecure about a woman being, like, the more important one or more well known one.

[Leanne]

I think that's what my problem is.

[Joey Diaz]

Well, let me show you something.

[Leanne]

But you know what else? I'm a little crazy. I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little crazy.

[Joey Diaz]

I'm gonna show you. I saw something today.

[Leanne]

All right, show me.

[Joey Diaz]

This is the funniest thing I've seen all day. I hope it comes true. I saw this and I fucking died this morning. It was fucking Ali Wong, okay? You know, Ali Wong is a Chinese comic who is fucking nuts. And I love it at all my heart. And she goes, you'll never have the idea what it feels like. A woman with more money than you sucking your dick. That was on after your reel this morning. And I'm like, God damn, Allie. And she went at it. She was. I'm trying to find it. It was like four minutes of her going, it's spectacular. She's a nasty bitch. So she was just ratting shit out. And I'm sitting there going, wow, that's a fucking pretty interesting thing, right? If your wife made that much more money than you, what would the dynamic be in your house? Like, what would the dynamic be like if your wife obviously made 10 million? Like, it's expected for the guy to be, like, a professional sports guy, and he makes 85 million a year and his wife can be a housemaker. But flip that around, that's what they call them, right? Homemakers. Right?

[Leanne]

I want to be a homemaker.

[Joey Diaz]

You do?

[Leanne]

You do, Really? I do. I do. I go through, like, phases. So, like. Like, I'm done with, like, social media. I always say, like, I want to get. I'll get married tomorrow. Arranged. Marri. Delete all my social media, do homemaker for a little bit, and then I have my next phase after that. But, like, I want to do, like, a homemaker. I don't know. But you know why I grew up. My mom was a homemaker. My nanda was a homemaker. Her mom, her mom, her mom. That's just what I know. Homemakers.

[Joey Diaz]

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[Joey Diaz]

We're back, bitches. Don't forget, Super Bowl's coming. Two weeks. Download that app. So, anyway, back to you. Cause it's getting interesting now. Talk to me about your dad.

[Leanne]

Oh, so my dad passed away when I was young.

[Joey Diaz]

How old?

[Leanne]

Nine.

[Joey Diaz]

Wow. I'm sorry.

[Leanne]

So it's okay. A lot of people, they're always like, where's your dad? Where's your dad? Where's your dad? That's why I don't post my dad. But I'm not. Like, I don't look for pity parties. So I don't even tell people unless, like, they. They flat out, like, I'll never be like, oh, I hate my life. My dad died when I was young.

[Joey Diaz]

No, now I know your mom's available.

[Leanne]

My mom's going to eat this up. And you know what's so funny? Going back to what we were saying about, like, the people, the older people on Thursday nights, like, my mom makes fun of those people, even though that's her demographic. She always says, like, she would never be one of those people. Like, desperate. And she's like, I'd rather be at home. We were talking about my five German shepherds. I'd rather be at home with the babies than be out. Like these people, like, just desperate.

[Joey Diaz]

It does make you look. But again, like, I like women. So I get it. Like, the first time I moved back to Jersey, I went on a Thursday night And I saw eight women, all of them 200 plus pounds, seductive, clothing on. And I'm like, what? And I go, stop, Joey, stop. Look at them. They're fucking beautiful. God bless them. What am I gonna do? God bless them? They're not your type. And maybe you're not their fucking type, but at least they're out there slinging.

[Leanne]

You know, a lot, A lot of these freaks. Not to cut you off.

[Joey Diaz]

Freaks.

[Leanne]

They're swingers. Okay, so there's one.

[Joey Diaz]

What do you mean, swingers?

[Leanne]

Like. Like there's swingers. Like there's a restaurant that we were at, me and my friends, and we got word that, like, oh, don't look at these people. Like it was an older couple. Don't look at them because they're swingers. They. They. A lot of these older people that look like, like disgusting, but also seductive. They're looking for other older people to bring home. That's like a Long Island. Long island is a crazy place.

[Unknown]

Sounds like married couples will each other.

[Leanne]

You. Oh, wow, You've never heard of that term?

[Joey Diaz]

No, I understand. And it's funny that you said that because I've never been. I've never seen that shit place I go to, there's a couple and they're always up to something. Yes, always up to something.

[Leanne]

Every time I go to this restaurant on a Saturday night, there's a couple there looking to pick people up. And I'm like, oh my God, these people are sick. And they say, don't look their way. Do not look their way.

[Joey Diaz]

Some ain't right with these.

[Leanne]

They'll try to like inch over a little bit. And it's like, I'm looking at you because you're a freaking freak. Like, freak in a weird way. Not like a freak that I want to join you guys like, but Long island, it's a freaky place. Thursday and Saturday nights, Long Island. No matter what restaurant, if a restaurant has a DJ in Long island on a Thursday or Saturday night, do not go. Because it's a. It's a freaky spot.

[Joey Diaz]

The one place is really like big money by me. And there's a woman at the gym saying, she tells them, she goes, those women have sex in the bathroom and they drive up in fucking Lexus Mercedes.

[Leanne]

It's sick.

[Joey Diaz]

They're banging in the bathrooms at those restaurants.

[Leanne]

Yeah, it's sick.

[Joey Diaz]

And the one place where I go to the girl, the waitress, we were talking one night, she goes, I hate Thursday nights here. She goes, you gotta look at the women's bathroom. It's disgusting. She goes, the men's bathroom is okay. The women's bathroom look like a fucking bomb. Hits it in their puke and fucking stockings ripped and shit.

[Leanne]

It's crazy.

[Joey Diaz]

It's crazy.

[Leanne]

It's really crazy.

[Unknown]

How like are you? Do you have a lot of friends your age who are more like you or a lot of your friends, like the party type?

[Leanne]

No, I have no friends that are the party type. All my friends are like, are like me. They're like that OG like old school ways that they have like the same kind of families that they were brought up like, so they're not. I don't have friends that are like, let's go to the club. Like, you'll never find me in the club. I'd rather be in these freaky restaurants looking at these weirdos than actually being.

[Joey Diaz]

Like, you don't go to these Clubs like VIP bottles?

[Leanne]

No, no, no, no. Not even when I was younger. Like, maybe I went once or twice. And it's like. It's just that you stand there like this. Like, I. I had to explain that to my mom the other day because she doesn't go out, so she thinks nightclubs are like, how it was back in the day when she was going out, like in the 80s and the 90s. And I'm like, my nightclubs are not like that. Like, you go to the. With the VIP bottles and you just. People just stand there and they're all on drugs. Like, it's crazy. Crazy. Like, going out in the city would never.

[Joey Diaz]

I just never understood that whole.

[Leanne]

Like, it's just a show off.

[Joey Diaz]

No, that's all it is. Basically. Like when we grew up, there was, you know, you stood at the door like an idiot. The duty that knew you. You had a hookup, a cousin. You got in there and you went in and the drinks were like, whatever, eight bucks. Never be drank. And, you know, but now you got to go sit in the back. And while you're in there, hold on, Security fucking here from fucking.

[Leanne]

That's it. We're gonna cut this part out. The guy's name that I'm dating is like, seeing my husband is there.

[Joey Diaz]

You go, see here, step aside. And he walks in with like, fucking eight other guys that you could mug him. Like, I would have taken that money 10 years ago, right off the bat, like, without even thinking, like, where they sitting? And let's go over there, take their cocaine, whatever the fuck they got. That's what it is now. And you walk in. I used to go to Vegas and I would get sick to my fucking stomach after the UFC fights. They'd take me out and I'd go, I'm not doing this. And you go. And I'll tell you what else is dying about the club life. Half of these motherfuckers shouldn't be in a club. Let's get to that. They're not that attractive.

[Leanne]

Yeah, but the lights are dark, so you don't know where you're at.

[Joey Diaz]

Neither am I. But I go to Vegas. Like when I'm walking back to my room and I see these people waiting on line, you gotta start tapping them. Listen, you'd have a better time with that tomato and cheese soup in your room, because they have it on the menu in Vegas, right? Remember I always tell you, you could always get a cup of fucking tomato soup with cheese instead of putting yourself through. That's a bunch of young People like, listen, when I was fucking 19, if there was a guy in a bar that was 27, talking to my friends, the girls I was with, I would have a fucking heart attack, okay? I would have a fucking heart attack to the point where we rob them, get into a fight with them. It was always something. So as I was getting older, I always thought the same way. Like, Joey, you're just too fucking old to be there. You're just too old to be there. Like, Even my last 10 years of doing drugs, I was not out. I would get that package and run home by myself. Lock. My wife would be knocking. What's going on in there? Nothing. I'm fixing the toilet, whatever the fuck. I didn't like it. I did not like it. And now, like, I find myself going out one night a week to a bar. I don't drink. I go, I eat mushrooms. And I sit there and I fucking giggle. And that's the last thing I was gonna tell you. That last time I went out I bumped into swingers. I didn't know there were swingers till I gave them the mushrooms. And the chick goes, why don't you eat some too? And me, you and my boyfriend will go back to my place. And I'm like, that's. She's hotter than. She's an Arab chick. I was like, nah, I'm out of that.

[Unknown]

Nah. Well, not to get back to social media, but like, I would love to like see what your DMs are like.

[Leanne]

Oh my God, my DMs are great. They must just be some of the DMs I blocked if they're like really perverted. Cuz I get real perverted one. I block them because they. But like some of them are just desperate and. Or they're funny, like whatever, like, oh, but like real perverted, disgusting ones blocked. I don't want you on my page. Like, even comments I get, like, I'm like, these people are commenting this disgusting, perverted stuff on my videos. And like, you see that picture, they have their names. Like you're not embarrassed. Like somebody seems to say that, but I delete it and I block it. I'm like, this is disgusting.

[Unknown]

Is there a world where a guy would. I'm not obviously a dick pig crossing a line, but like, if a guy was like hitting you up, oh, you're so pretty. Let me take. Would that, could that ever work? I don't think that. I can't imagine that ever work on some people.

[Leanne]

Yes. I don't meet people off social media. Okay, so for me, no, no matter. It could be. He could be a billionaire. You know, I like to people. Maybe not a billionaire.

[Unknown]

I don't blame you.

[Leanne]

Maybe I would go, but I like to meet people organically. Even though I don't even leave the house. I just leave on Thursday and Saturday nights. I don't want to meet those people either, But I don't even if. If they could be a nice person. I look through their pictures. They could be attractive. Would I answer? Maybe I'd say thank you. Probably not even thank you. I would in my head say thank you, but I would never.

[Unknown]

That's all they get.

[Leanne]

They get a double tap somebody off social media. I don't know. It's just a weird. I don't want to get married to someone and then be like, oh, we met off social media. Like, that's. It's crazy.

[Unknown]

Do you ever do any of, like, the dating apps?

[Leanne]

No, when I was younger, so it's so funny. When I was, like, 21, I had a boyfriend for, like, three or four years who loved you. And, like, he would always be watching your podcast. Like all, Joey Diaz. Watch Joey Diaz. So he's gonna see this.

[Unknown]

He's gonna go, oh, yeah, hi.

[Leanne]

He's gonna see this. He's gonna cry himself to sleep. But we met off of a dating app. But I was young. I was 21 at the time. Now at 27, would I meet somebody off a dating app? No.

[Unknown]

No. Just like, in real.

[Leanne]

Just real life.

[Unknown]

Okay.

[Leanne]

Yeah, like a real Life.

[Joey Diaz]

So you're 27?

[Leanne]

Yes.

[Joey Diaz]

You know, I can tell you I thought you were 25, but your presence is 34.

[Leanne]

Thank you. See, a lot of people. A lot of people used to say to me, oh, I thought you were older. And I used to take it, like, offensive.

[Joey Diaz]

Cause you just fucking confused the shit out of me that you went to college and the boyfriend. So I'm like, maybe I was right. Maybe she is in the 30s.

[Leanne]

But I used to get like, what the are you talking about? I'm 30, like, in my 30s. But then, like, people would explain it, like, oh, you don't carry yourself like somebody? And then I'm like, all right. Because I was saying, what, do I look old? Like, back in the day when I was, like, 16, 17, and somebody said to you, oh, you look older. Then it's like, oh, okay, Now I'm like, 30. But, yeah, I. I don't know.

[Joey Diaz]

You don't look 30, but you carry yourself.

[Leanne]

Think, you know, that's why I like an older Crowd as opposed to my crowd. Because I've never met somebody like, like my age, like to go out, like to go like the guy that, who was in love with you. When I dated him when I was 21, he was four years older than me, but he was like, I'm like a child. Like, he was like. It was so much that it made me like, yeah, I need an older man. And I've ever since him. He ruined it for me. I was like, I need somebody older. Like, I can't, I can't with somebody young because it's just, it's too different. Like if somebody, the mindsets were you.

[Unknown]

The same growing up? Because like even, even taking dating out of the thing, like in high school or whatever, like my best friend in LA is sitting right there. Like, it's like, it's just I, I've always connected more with people who are a little bit older.

[Leanne]

Me too. Yeah, me too. Growing up, I always hung around my family too. Like, I don't have any cousins, I don't have any young people, like besides my brothers and my. So like I always was around like older people. Even like when I was little, little and like I'd be sitting at like the grown ups table with my nonno, my nana and his, their sisters and everyone like all like 70, 80 year olds. And I'd be like 5 years old and I'd be sitting there like having the time of my life around these older people. But I've always gravitated towards older people and that's why I love working at the deli that I'm at. It's because it's all like 7, 60, 70, 80 year old Italians, like those old school Italians. And it's like, oh, I can relate to these people. Like it's funny like the shit they say, like you don't hear that anywhere else but that little store. I'm like, this is the twilight zone. Like that all these freaks come in and it's the best thing. But I've always gravitated.

[Joey Diaz]

I gotta tell you something, man. You're the first woman I've met in a long time that I have to go home and hug my daughter. You give me fucking faith.

[Leanne]

Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

I meet women, I gotta go home and hug my daughter two times and.

[Unknown]

Go, what the fuck, man?

[Joey Diaz]

What the fuck? But you're a different type of fucking egg, my friend.

[Leanne]

Thank you. And it's so funny going back to my dad passing away when I was younger. Like, I always see like fatherless, I don't know if you've ever seen. You've probably seen it because you're younger. Like, fatherless activities. Like, it's like a joke. Like, girls that grew up without fathers, like, they're like these monsters. Like. Like. Like pigs. Like, you know. So I'm like a fatherless one, Their pigs.

[Joey Diaz]

Your mom remarry?

[Leanne]

She did. So I grew up with a stepfather in the house, so that's cool. Yes. And then I had my. Like, it was all right. It wasn't. You know, growing up with a stepfather is never.

[Joey Diaz]

Never good.

[Leanne]

He was, like, kind of like a fangster. Like, I want to be gangster. So, like, I. I didn't pay him any mind. A fangster?

[Joey Diaz]

Oh, my God.

[Leanne]

When they're like, the wannabe gangsters, they're finsters. Like, he was like, a fangster. So. So. But growing up, I had my uncles. So, like, I always say, like, I. I grew up. Like, my father passed away, but I had my uncles. So, like, my Uncle Carlo, who I'm very close with, he's my godfather, every weekend, he would come over to my nana's house. He would be taking us on vacation. He'd be taking us to Six Flags. He'd be taking us here. He'd be. So. It was never. Like. We grew up without a father, even though we didn't have. We, like, always had somebody, like, showing us love and like a.

[Joey Diaz]

You know, it's funny, today I was talking to a friend of mine that you probably know, and we were talking about Catholicism. You know, I want to do a show about Barnabas, you know, the guy that Jesus forgave on the cross. And, you know, we want to talk about St. Michael and fucking all these fucking religious. Mary Magdalene, you know, we're all gonna put them together. I forgot what I was gonna fucking tell you. I can't be smoking pot.

[Unknown]

Catholicism?

[Joey Diaz]

Catholicism. No, but you wanted to show up Barnabas. I was trying to talk more about old school, like, how we were raised. Like, I had a godfather who. My father died when I was three. My godfather was there every fucking Saturday.

[Leanne]

Yeah, that sounds.

[Joey Diaz]

And we'd walk from 88th street to 42nd street, and he'd take me to one of those fucking kid movies. And then he told me. He goes, I'm not gonna go to those pussy movies no more. He took me to see the World's Greatest Athlete I'll Never Forget, and the Love Bug, and he's like, I can't tolerate these things. If you want me to take you to the movies, I gotta take you to Big Boy movies. And for the next three years, he took me to see every fucking movie. Never porn on 42nd Street. Just, you know, people getting shot, making shit like that, you know? And you forget that. Like a godfather, what a godfather's job is.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

People like my daughter's godfather. We haven't talked in two fucking years, and he hasn't sent a card. Yeah, yeah. God knows it's, like, so weird how the Godfather thing has disappeared from this country. Like, when I was a kid, my godmother, my godfather were divorced. I wasn't allowed to see my godmother. My mother would send me down to Miami. She was fucking gorgeous, and she would fucking cook for me and give me clothes all week. I was a godmother and a godfather, you know? Now all those things have disappeared.

[Leanne]

Now it's just a name. They just. They just name godfathers and godmothers just.

[Joey Diaz]

Because I just don't understand all these things. Like when. The last 30 years. That's why I was so, like. I wanted to meet you because you brought it back to me. Like, just the people yelling on the streets, you know? There's a place that just opened by my house, Viola's, and people were pissed. They're like, why would Fayella's open if lavotes is around the corner? Lovotes is like a big chain. And I went into Fayella's, and I'm like, I get it. Because I could talk to the butcher, because I could talk to this woman about the rice pudding. I could talk. He's gonna bring me chocolate bread from Staten Island. I love that shit, you know? And that's what we're missing again. Now. It's my favorite place. Friday, I was home from the hospital. I went out to get the mail. He left me a meatball sandwich with rice pudding. You understand me?

[Leanne]

Yeah. They don't have places like that that has disappeared.

[Joey Diaz]

I mean, you went to one because my brother George goes to a meatball place. What's the name of it?

[Leanne]

What? Cuomo's Deli.

[Joey Diaz]

No.

[Leanne]

I don't think I went to that one. I went to Cuomo's. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

He said a couple days later you went to Cuomo's. Like that deli? Yeah, you know, like it fucking.

[Leanne]

I'm Cuban, and they're Cubans over there. Not the guy, not the owner. But all the workers over there are Cuban.

[Joey Diaz]

Yeah, I'm Cuban, but nothing pisses me off when a motherfucker walks into Jersey Mike's. Because somebody's grandmother came over on a Boat to make Coca Cola sandwiches. And here you are going to Jersey Mike's. Like, where's the fucking tradition? And Italian kids are going in there.

[Leanne]

I'm not gonna lie. I've been to Jersey Mike's a couple of times.

[Joey Diaz]

I know. And listen, not gonna lie. Listen, man, everybody once in a while, I think once a year.

[Leanne]

You know what it is? These Italian spots, they close early.

[Joey Diaz]

Early.

[Leanne]

Jersey Mike's is open until 10:00. So sometimes I ate.

[Joey Diaz]

Wait, then wait. Okay. If you can't have it from the man himself, then wait.

[Leanne]

Sometimes you get a hangering for some capicola. Nine o'clock at night. It's not the same, but.

[Unknown]

Well, that. Because I was thinking about when you were asking me some of your rules. I want to get your opinion on this. If you went to like the deli that you work at and someone ordered a turkey sandwich.

[Leanne]

We don't even have turkey.

[Joey Diaz]

What the fuck? Okay, there was this place. What was the name of the restaurant? They'd be talked about in Van Nuys, wherever the fuck in California. Dominic. Steve loved it. Oh, Vicente's, whatever the fuck it was.

[Unknown]

Something like that.

[Joey Diaz]

All right. I went up there one day. It was okay, you know, they spoke. I don't even know if they spoke it. What was the name of it? Remember the one that Steve Simone on Tour Boulevard?

[Unknown]

I remember the pizza place, the pizza from Brooklyn. But that's not the place you're talking about.

[Joey Diaz]

That place sucked dick too. But the deli.

[Unknown]

Oh yeah, I do remember the deli.

[Joey Diaz]

There was two of them. There was that one and Piccolo's in Burbank. Right, Piccolo's. Just. If Italians are out there, burn it. That place, the food was beyond bad. The meatballs were beyond bad. In California, the only good place to get good Italian food is up north, Santa Barbara. That motherfucker. There's a place up there that makes a lasagna with a meatball in the middle. Holy shit. Holy shit. But down in the city, all that. I went in there one day, I was like, maybe in a bad mood, going in there already, you know what I'm saying? Like, who am I gonna bump into? And some motherfucker came in there with sandals and ordered a turkey sandwich on like fucking white bread. I thought I was. I had to do everything. I. And then he started complaining like, there's not enough salt on here.

[Leanne]

Listen, I hate that.

[Joey Diaz]

Listen, get the fuck outta here. Go to Shoprite. All right? You gotta come in. Domingos.

[Unknown]

I was trying not. Yeah, yeah, Domingos. It's a good place.

[Joey Diaz]

You have no idea how fucking like little things at restaurants. Like, all of a sudden, waiters became really fucking annoying. The last four years. They stand by you. How long do they stand by me? Go away. Give me five. You know when you tell a guy, give me five minutes, but it only goes where George is. And you're like, now, do you think.

[Leanne]

They do that to you? Cause you're you? Cause I've had restaurants do that to me because of social media, okay? Which is annoying. I know what you mean. It's annoying.

[Joey Diaz]

Listen, it's. Sometimes it's because of me. They think I don't know, but if anybody knows me, I slept on the fucking park, so I'll eat with that dirty fucking fork. You know what I'm saying?

[Leanne]

I'm one of those guys I don't need.

[Joey Diaz]

You ever see Pretty Women?

[Leanne]

No. I heard of it, though.

[Joey Diaz]

You ever seen Richard Gere?

[Leanne]

I've heard of the movie.

[Joey Diaz]

Okay? She's a hooker.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And he takes her back one day, and she's eating strawberries and all this shit, and I don't know what he's talking about. And at one point she goes, listen, I'm a sure thing. You know what I'm saying? That's the same thing with me.

[Leanne]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

It's a sure fucking thing. What are we talking about?

[Unknown]

You're talking about when it annoys you when the waiters are close.

[Joey Diaz]

Yeah. When the waiter comes over, it's just too much for me. Do you want bottled water or regular water? Just give me fucking water. Or do you want aguas prebinada? The lemonade. Just give me the fucking water. I'm over here having a conversation. They don't read the room no more. God forbid I'm over proposing to you. God forbid. Leanne, I want to marry you. I want to be one of your old pigeons. Yeah, Water and lemonade. Get the fuck out of here. They just don't know anymore. They just can't read the fucking room. You know, my daughter told me about a month, and she's like, I don't want to go to a restaurant. I go, why not? She goes, the waiters drive me fucking crazy. So if I take it out at my restaurant, I gotta take it to the bar in the daytime. She loves the chicken parm from there. Or she takes it to go, dad, bring it for me to go. I don't want to deal with the waiters. She fucking hates it. My daughter is the only fucking kid that won't go for Breakfast hates it. It's too much drama for her in the morning. Too much, too many questions.

[Leanne]

That's cute.

[Joey Diaz]

I asked her again the other day. I go, where do you want to go for breakfast? Just too much drama, too many questions. And I'm like, you know what? You're fucking right. You're fucking right. But all that stuff went away. I like to be left alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll call you. Leanne, what's up? I'm sorry, I know you were at the other table. Leanne, can you bring me the money? Gordon, you know, whatever the fuck it.

[Unknown]

Is my favorite thing. Cause after the podcast, we've been going out to eat. I know Joey well enough where I can see when he's getting frustrated. And when, like a server, you don't like when they're close, but when they disappeared and the food's taking too long, you with that collard bread, you get so upset. And when you try so hard, I can see you, like, talking yourself off of a ledge in your head.

[Joey Diaz]

Look, listen, Brian, I like the Chinese led this country in service for a reason. You ever go to a Chinese restaurant, you sit, they come over, they give you that fucking menu and you go, I don't even need it. Give me number three. Throw hot sour soup in there. That motherfucker ain't coming back out unless he's got the soup, the water and the chips. Don't come back out empty handed. Now people come out empty handed. Like, where do you go? Where's my soup? You go in there and go like this. That's the shit that drives me fucking crazy. Like, there's no more thought, right? You know, there's no more. I went to one restaurant, great steak place, but they have the best hamburger in Jersey, supposedly. And it is a good fucking burger. And I asked the guy, I go, how do you have a burger and a steak? He goes, well, get two hamburgers and get a steak and chop it up, you know, at least the guy had a solution.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

The other waiters were like, I went to another restaurant where I'm with my childhood friends, we're having a night out, and this motherfucker brings me a towel and doesn't bring it for the rest of my friends.

[Leanne]

Oh, that's fucked up.

[Joey Diaz]

Then he brings my neighbor to the table that didn't even know I was there. I was on the other side of the restaurant. So this motherfucker went over there and said, joey Diaz is here's my neighbor. And all of a sudden, my neighbor comes Back and they're staring at me like, hi, how are you? Good to. What can I do? Sit at the table. I already had eight gorillas at the fucking table. It's like they don't think.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And I don't like to be bothered when I eat. Like I'm the type of guy, I just want to eat. Keep it light. Let's talk about your boots. Let's talk about whatever. I don't want to get into politics.

[Leanne]

Oh, me either. I don't do that.

[Joey Diaz]

Oh my God.

[Leanne]

Yeah, me either.

[Joey Diaz]

We went to a comedy club one night, they bring the pizza. In the words of my Italian predecessors, it was pure mouchade. This pizza, he's like the best pizza you ever gonna have. The fucking thing folded 18 fucking times. I just got it to put the mushrooms in to eat the pizza with. His buddy comes in and now they want to talk about politics, about blood pressure. And I kept saying, guys, it's a pretty fucking small room in here. This guy, you saw him that night, wouldn't shut the fuck up. I finally go, no politics, get the fuck out. And he ran out of there. Because all those things, when I eat, I like to eat in fucking.

[Leanne]

Right, right.

[Joey Diaz]

But today's world, you can't eat in peace. Who wants to take a fucking picture?

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

I'm over here telling my life story to this nice little girl. And you want to come over here and take a picture.

[Leanne]

And then if you don't, you're a bear guy.

[Joey Diaz]

Yeah. How about I crack you in the fucking head?

[Leanne]

You're a piece of shit if you don't take a picture.

[Joey Diaz]

Get the fuck out. And I tell them, now look where I am. Yesterday I took my daughter to the mall. We're sitting outside one of those girl stores, you know, love me forever. I'm embarrassed enough that I'm in there across from Victoria's Secret. I'm looking like a fucking pedophile out there. So there's a chair. I turn the chair around and I sit looking at the corner like I'm in a timeout. Cause that's how I roll. I don't want nobody to see me there. I betorbed my daughter. I told her we're not going into fucking Victoria's Secret cuz I have a heart attack. But then I saw another place. Bring your old bra in and they'll give you 20 bucks.

[Leanne]

Oh, ar.

[Joey Diaz]

And I'm like, go in there, go give him the old fucking stinky bra.

[Unknown]

Oh my God.

[Leanne]

I saw that same sign yesterday when I Went to the mall. That's so funny that.

[Joey Diaz]

Stuck with me all day. Then I gotta wake up to Selena Gomez crying. What the fuck is wrong with that little Mexican? Oh, my God, these California people. Why are you crying? If you like the Mexicans so much, get on the bus, tell Trump to pick you up. I'm over here sweating bullets. You don't see me walking the last couple days. My last name is Diaz, they might make a fucking mistake. And I'm calling you collect from Columbia. It's the fucking truth.

[Leanne]

I know. I stay out of all that too. That's why I stick to food. I never go into anything.

[Joey Diaz]

I know, I see that.

[Leanne]

Any. I don't touch upon anything on my social media. But it's not. I don't want to say that I don't care because you can't say that you don't care. But it's like, I just, I can't be str. Because what is stressing gonna do over these things? It's not gonna do anything.

[Joey Diaz]

Right.

[Unknown]

Well, like, what are some of your. You heard what pisses Joey off. Like, what are three things that if you. If you're going to a restaurant that's like, hired you to go out or even if they didn't hire you, like, what are the three things that piss you off?

[Leanne]

I hate when people come up to me and ask me for pictures. And so, like, now I'll take pictures with women. I don't take pictures with men because men are creepy. You know, some, they've just taken pictures. Like, some. One time I had a guy come into the deli and I already enforced this policy where I don't take pictures with men. He goes, can we take a picture? I was like, no, I'm sorry. He's like, come on. I want to make my Sicilian wife mad. So you're gonna use me to make your wife jealous, so then she's going to hate me for no reason. I didn't do anything. But you want to. Like, so I don't take pictures with men. I was at a feast over the summer in Brooklyn and I was around like all other content creators. And there was like, these guys, they're a little bit older than me, like maybe like 10, 15 years, like early 40s. We're having a conversation. I've always, like, had been friendly with them. This, this kid comes up to me and he was like 20 years old. He was with his mother. Was a boy, a man. He was 20 years old. He's like, can I take a picture of you? Now I'm like. With my. Like, I just didn't feel like taking pictures. I was like, no, I'm sorry. Like, it was fine. Like, I didn't want to do a picture. I saw these motherfuckers, the next week are on a podcast with somebody else that I know talking about all these influencers. They let it get to their head. Remember where you came from? We were at a feast, and one of them said no to this child and his mother. And I'm watching this. We're thinking we're friends, and I'm like, these motherfuckers are talking shit about me. And then the other guy. Oh, I saw with my own eyes. Can you believe how these people are to their fans? And they're talking to other people. I know. I called the other people. I know. I'm like, these motherfuckers, they're saying X, Y, and Z about me. Now, the other people they were talking to, they know me. So they're like, I can't believe they were saying that. So then I unfollowed them. Like, I didn't want problems. I unfollowed them. Not too long. This was over the summer. Not too long ago, one he messages me, hi, Liana. Why did you unfollow me? I thought we were cool. I thought we were friends. I said, excuse me? I said, I saw that podcast, and I didn't appreciate that you were talking about me, even though you didn't name me a name. You guys, after I had walked away, were talking shit. Oh, can you believe? She said no? Like, if I don't want to take a picture with somebody, what the fuck? I don't want to take a picture with them. Like, it's like, I got to take pictures with people.

[Joey Diaz]

I came to the point where it was starting to bother me when I did comedy, so I stopped doing comedy. That's how much it got to me.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And especially when I moved back here, because when I was growing up, there's no cameras allowed. I don't know what you're doing with that camera. There's cocaine. There's naked people here.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

Put that camera away or we're gonna break it on you. We're gonna ask you one time, right? And that's how I was raised. That's why when I put the book out a couple years ago, people are like, you have no pictures. Cause we weren't allowed cameras. We don't like.

[Leanne]

Right.

[Joey Diaz]

When I did the documentary.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

What did I say to you? Keep that camera low.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And what happened on Charles Court?

[Unknown]

A guy told us to put the camera away.

[Joey Diaz]

We don't come from that society, so put the camera away.

[Unknown]

But I do think. Because, like, it's different with comics, because I think a lot of comics take pictures after the show, and I've seen you take that, and I think that's.

[Joey Diaz]

The point and the place.

[Unknown]

Exactly my point.

[Joey Diaz]

To take a picture.

[Unknown]

Right?

[Joey Diaz]

But.

[Unknown]

And not during the show.

[Joey Diaz]

Not during the show. Like, I can't go to see you before because if you're singing and I come, three motherfuckers are gonna go, can we take a picture? That's disrespectful to Leanne, right?

[Unknown]

That's disrespectful after the show when you're supposed to take pictures.

[Joey Diaz]

It's fucking her night tonight, right?

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

That's disrespectful. So get the fuck out of here with the camera. There's so many situations where I love people and I love women and I love men. I don't mind taking a picture, but there's a time and a place for it, right?

[Leanne]

Right.

[Joey Diaz]

Friday morning. I was in the hospital last Friday night. Not this past Friday, the one before. So I said, you know what? I'm just gonna go for a ride. Friday night. I went, I picked up my drunk brother. I dropped him off, listened to his bullshit for fucking about the 10 families and the mob, you know, the fish company. I know. I dropped him off and I stopped by my place. Now it's dead, and I'm fucking happy. I'm really. It's dead now. I just got out of hospital. I don't drink, but I like. Their pistachio martini is fucking badass in there. I didn't get it. I just got a water, and I was talking to the owner's wife. There's two people over here. Two people. It's a bar that goes circular. Two here, two here, two here, two here. But there's seats in between us. The place ain't packed. I'm sitting there, and I see a black dude and a white dude walk in. I'm like, fucking ice is here. Cause they both looked like they were big and shit and had, like, jackets. I didn't say a word. I just kept watching. There was a hockey game and political shit. And when I go to those places, I just look at the tv because I don't want to get involved, right? So I just talk to the. Whoever I'm with, and I look at the tv. These two guys come back, but now they Bring eight guys back. Guess where they decide to stand?

[Leanne]

Right next to you.

[Joey Diaz]

Like, to get close. Like, I want to meet you.

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

Like, I'm over here looking at a phone, sending. I was sending old podcast videos to my daughter. That's what I was doing at the bar. 10:15. I just knew I wasn't going home till 10:30. I couldn't walk in my house. My wife was. What happened to your night? Nothing. I just couldn't walk in there. I walked. I said, I'm gonna wait till 10:30. I got up because they got coming closer and louder and louder and trying to get me into the conversation.

[Leanne]

Yeah, yeah, I've had that happen.

[Joey Diaz]

And you're no Dane. You're never gonna get me into your car. You can light yourself on fucking fire. You could light yourself on fucking fire, and I will not get involved if I don't know you. And finally the owner turned around. She goes, guy. After three people walked down, they kept telling you guys, can you move? The owner finally turned around, guys, the place is fucking. Like, fucking. And they were all in their 40s. They're not like, you know, steroid dudes or nothing. And that's what happens every time I go out.

[Leanne]

That's annoying.

[Joey Diaz]

And some nights I take my wife and. Hey, can I take a picture?

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

Doug, When I grew up, if a guy is telling his life story to any woman, whether she's six or 60, you keep fucking walking. You don't say nothing to that man. He's talking to a woman. And the same goes on. If I know you are and I see you talking to some old bird, you think, I'm gonna come up to you. Hey, no, I just look at you. You give me a wink, and we just go ourselves and things, you know? But now it's. And people have no idea that when you take a picture, you're gonna get everybody else started, Right?

[Leanne]

Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

Now people who don't even know you are gonna come over. Let's take a picture. So guess what happened. 20 minutes of your night, 20 minutes that you were gonna spend with Nona and your mother talking, just went out the way.

[Leanne]

People don't realize that because they say their rationale, even for you. Oh, but you. You do this. You chose this. So you gotta do it. It's like, I'm a real person. I'm a human being. I'm the same way.

[Joey Diaz]

I won't do dick.

[Leanne]

I'm the same way. If I don't want to do it, I'm not gonna do it. I'm the same way Thanksgiving night.

[Joey Diaz]

We did a show somewhere, did we not? We did a parks in Philly. I went to my bar, place is packed. I walked in, I'm in the corner, mushrooms are on fire. I'm in the mood to talk to nobody. I'm looking straight ahead of an NBA game. I don't even know who's playing. And sure enough, I'll fucking 12 guys came over from the ages of 25 to 30.

[Leanne]

I'm like, men are worse than women when it comes to that.

[Joey Diaz]

It's Friday night. I suggest you go get some pussy. They looked at me like I called them a fucking. They looked at me like pussy. What's that? The bar is filled with pussy and you guys want to take a picture with a 60 year old fat fucking felon? Get your fucking priorities together. Thank you, sir. And they walked away pissed. I don't got time for that. Cause at that age, I'd be mugging that celebrity, anybody who knows me. I saw Richard Gere out one night, I almost killed that motherfucker. Because when we were young, everybody, every woman wanted to be with Richard Gere. How would you feel if anytime you want to be with a man, they go, oh, I want to be with Isabella. You're like, fuck Isabella, that dirty bitch. Now when did the jewelry line come up? Cause you're involved in a couple different things.

[Leanne]

Oh my God. So yeah, so the jewelry. I do so. It's so funny. She, the girl that I do it with, she's like a social media. She's the best. I love her. I've known her since I like first got started. Like, she's like the one who like taught me like, oh, you need to monetize this. You need to make it a business. Like, because I was just doing it for fun. Like I wasn't doing it to be famous or to make money. She's like always been from the beginning, like the nicest places girl and I'm the worst. Like, I decline or I won't answer. Like 95% of the things I get invited to. It's because I just like to live in my own like bubble. And like, I just, I like to do social media from my like house and that's it. Like, I don't want to go outside my bubble. So like, there's so many things that I could go to. And like everybody that knows me personally gets so mad at me. Cause I decline, like big things, but I'm like, oh. Like I don't want to do it like, like, unless I really want to do it like this. I really wanted to do. So, like, this I came to do. But, like, she, like, in the beginning, when I was like, really in that. Like, I just want an answer. Like, she never would stop, like, oh, go do this. Go do that. Go do this. Like, trying to help me and, like, make this into a business for me. So I appreciate that. And then she has this, like, really nice jewelry line. So she's like, you want to do a collaboration with it? I was like, yeah, sure, it. Let's do it. We'll split the proceeds. So now we have that jewelry line. And it's, like, really fun. Like, she would hire, like, a photographer to come. We would take pictures. It was, like, a lot of fun. Like, to do something like that. I like to work with nice people. I won't just work with anybody because, like, I. If I put my name behind something, I like to actually like, like, the people that I'm working with. Like, the same thing with restaurants. Like, I won't go to a restaurant if the staff is, like, rude or, like, up or, like. Like. Like some restaurants. Like, this is one restaurant that I go to. Like, I don't know. Like, the girls that work there, like, they're, like, the biggest bitches I've ever met in my life. Like, I'll walk into the restaurant like this, they'll look at me, and I'm like, like. Like, I'll never come back here again. Like, it's simple. Like, you know, like, excuse me. Like, I hate that. And, like, I like to be friends with everybody. So, like, when I see that, like, I'm not the type. Like, I have girlfriends that, like, they'll see that and they'll be like, all right, let's do something. Like, me. Like, I don't want to. Like, I just will never come back. So, like, there's a restaurant. Like, I just will never come back there because, like, the girls that work there make me feel so uncomfortable for no reason. I don't know how I started talking about this, but. All right, so going back to restaurants. So, like, that restaurant, I probably would never post again because, like, there's no need for that. I like restaurants where, like, they're really nice. Like, the staff is friendly. How did we start talking about this? I'm rambling.

[Unknown]

Those. You were talking about your jewelry line. You like nice people.

[Leanne]

Oh, yes. I like to work with nice people. And that the girl that I do, which, she's a very nice person.

[Unknown]

So I do think, getting back, you said something interesting about like, you get invited to things you don't go to. Something that Joey started, like, and taught me in the beginning is, like, you don't want to have. Like, everyone has the same video. So, like, if you went to all those things, everyone. I'm sure I've seen eight videos about the same stuff. So, like, your stuff is always gonna be unique. And it's like, you don't need to go to, like, the pizza festival because.

[Leanne]

Every other person's gonna be so fee. I love, like, growing up in New York. New Jersey has feasts, too. Like, the Italian feasts. Like, I love them. Like, the Brooklyn feast. Like, I like the one 18th Avenue. I like the one in Williamsburg, out in Brooklyn. Like, I would go to those. And, like, I was like, I don't want to say I started it. Like, I don't. I don't like to be like that. But, like, when I was going to these feasts, no influencers were going to these fees. Like, these were. It was just. I was the only one doing this, maybe with one other person. Now. I went to the feast last year. I went to one. I never went again because it's all. It's like, come on. Like, if you weren't doing that from the beginning, at these feasts, don't come. You know what I'm saying? Like, because if they show up in.

[Joey Diaz]

The Yankees in the World Series.

[Leanne]

Yeah, don't come. Like, make your own feasts. Do not come to these feasts. If you weren't there when I was doing it originally, years ago, when nobody was there. Because then it gets to the point where it's like, everybody's showing Zeppelies. Everybody's showing sausage and peppers. And it's like, I don't want to do it anymore because everybody's showing.

[Joey Diaz]

Everybody's doing it.

[Leanne]

And now you've ruined my favorite thing. I love feasts.

[Joey Diaz]

Now, if they want to look at this jewelry, where do they go?

[Leanne]

Oh, so the brand is Cozenza nyc. So they could go on that. But, like, I always say, like, I don't like to push things on people. Like, I'll never be like, buy this. Oh, I'm selling this. Buy this. I don't like to. I don't like to push things. Like, if you want to buy it, if you want to support. But they're nice jewelry pieces. Like, they're beautiful pieces. So, like, that I'll push, but I don't like to push things down the throat. Like. Like, I see, like, a lot of people do cameo, you know, Cameo do you do cameo? Okay, good. I want to talk shit, but like, I see people do cameo. Like, oh, for $70, I'll send you a video saying happy Birthday. Like, why? It's like, who the fuck are you? Like, why? You know what I'm saying?

[Unknown]

Some of them are a lot more than $70.

[Leanne]

Like, I see people like influencers, like, like me, like charging people and people buy it. And like me, I'm like, what the. Like, I would be embarrassed to charge somebody $100 of a video of me saying, hi, Tom. Like, congratulations.

[Joey Diaz]

There's a lot of things, you gotta have your pride for that.

[Leanne]

Yes.

[Joey Diaz]

And there's enough money to go around.

[Leanne]

Yes.

[Joey Diaz]

Unless you're a fucking. There's enough money to go around and at one point you gotta go, these are the things I'm doing and these are the things I refuse to fucking do. And you gotta stick to them.

[Leanne]

Right?

[Joey Diaz]

It's like anything else, you know, you want success. If you don't want to be in that hole, then don't be in that hole no more. If they call you to be in that hole, go. No. It's a little bit of money, but yeah, it's like short films, you know, SAG has these low end movies. For three or four years I got called on all the hundred dollar a day movies until I go, fuck these bitches. I said, it's time for them to pay me my money, right? And guess what? All of a sudden it went up. I took a year off from doing those stupid movies. What did I lose? $4,000. I lost nothing. And that's the same thing. You can't milk these people from every fucking direction, right?

[Leanne]

Because then nobody's gonna watch you and.

[Joey Diaz]

People want to support you. Yeah, we give them a free thing. When you go to a restaurant, you just saved their time and you made it colorful for them. Maybe they would take. Thinking of taking their wife there.

[Leanne]

Right?

[Joey Diaz]

You know? You know, I was at a restaurant one night, I made a video. When I went to pay, somebody saw the video on Instagram and picked up the tab.

[Leanne]

Oh, that's nice.

[Joey Diaz]

Called the restaurant. And they never said who it was.

[Leanne]

I want that to happen to me.

[Joey Diaz]

Yeah.

[Leanne]

They never said, what the hell are you old pigeons doing?

[Joey Diaz]

But man, listen, this has been an education. I wish there were you. A breath of fucking fresh air. Thank you.

[Leanne]

Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

I expected something completely fucking different. Different? It was educational. You're beautiful.

[Leanne]

Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

Your mom, your family, you always got a home here.

[Leanne]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Joey Diaz]

Anytime you want to come Use the place. What? George.

[Leanne]

Oh, my Instagram. You can find me on Instagram. Tick tock la Italian princess.

[Joey Diaz]

Yeah, she's the Italian princess follower. But you're always welcome here, man.

[Leanne]

Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

You were a brain breath of fresh air.

[Leanne]

Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

I had I'm get hit up for your info. And so because that was you, you took me to the basement before you.

[Leanne]

Took me to the basement.

[Joey Diaz]

What's up with you?

[Unknown]

I'm doing good. I'm going to be at Laugh it up in Poughkeepsie February 8th. That's my next big one.

[Joey Diaz]

Headlining, right?

[Unknown]

That's gonna be a fun show. Yeah.

[Joey Diaz]

And I'm at the White eagle hall, the 12th. If my fucking lung doesn't collapse.

[Unknown]

Jesus Christ.

[Joey Diaz]

If it does collapse, then I don't know when you'll see me at the nearest hospital. Me playing at Neptune. Tickets are $2,200. Cause there's only eight seats available.

[Leanne]

So knock yourself up.

[Joey Diaz]

I want to thank you again, really, for coming down here. Thank you.

[Leanne]

Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

You're a breath of fucking fresh air. Make sure you follow her on Instagram. If you like food. If you're in the New York area, Long island, go. No, don't go fucking visit her anywhere. You dirty motherfuckers.

[Leanne]

Do not go out on Thursday and Saturday nights.

[Joey Diaz]

Don't go out on Thursday and Saturday.

[Leanne]

Unless you're a freak.

[Joey Diaz]

Unless you're a freak and you're fucking down and out. And before we go, a happiest of birthdays to my brother, Bob Lalingas, one of the brothers, one of the original fucking eight. Along with Ookie and a bunch of you motherfuckers. So we love you. We'll see you next week. Thank you. Love you.

[Leanne]

Thank you.

[Joey Diaz]

Thank you, Lee.

[Unknown]

Happy birthday, bub.

[Joey Diaz]

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