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Episode Transcript: #1095 - T.J. English & Joey Diaz

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T.J. EnglishJoey Diaz

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Okay

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Boom and we're live with Joey Diaz and TJ English

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Joey turned me on to you a long time ago, mr. English. He gave me a copy of the Westies

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Right. What year was that?

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98 99 long time ago. He gave me that book. Yeah, it's fantastic really

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Fascinating stuff. Yeah first book I published was it really Westies. Yeah 1990

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How'd you guys find out of each other? He wrote a book a friend of mine turned me on to a book named Havana not turn

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That was a small book of fascinating read and I was just blown away by him

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And I went to a party one night and there was a literary ages there

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And I go do you fucking guys read a van and I turn they go we optioned it

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And I was like that's fucking in that's gonna be a great book. We just it broke down the the

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How Fidel took over it from three different cities how it was going down in three different categories

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And then I heard that he was writing a book about West New York and Union City Cubans where I grew up

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And I emailed him and I told him who I was that my mother had a bar and I grew up in that shit

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And he hit me back when we became friends. He came to a show and

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Yeah, Joey reached out to me, you know, unfortunately when I was just about finishing this book

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So I had done most of the work and it was down on paper

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But it was a trip. It was like he was like a character who walked out of the book

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And I wished I'd met him earlier because I hadn't met too many characters like him Union City's amazing place

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I don't think people realize it. It's one of those little enclaves happens to be

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