Episode Transcript: #1095 - T.J. English & Joey Diaz
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Joey turned me on to you a long time ago, mr. English. He gave me a copy of the Westies
Right. What year was that?
98 99 long time ago. He gave me that book. Yeah, it's fantastic really
Fascinating stuff. Yeah first book I published was it really Westies. Yeah 1990
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
That was a small book of fascinating read and I was just blown away by him
And I went to a party one night and there was a literary ages there
And I go do you fucking guys read a van and I turn they go we optioned it
And I was like that's fucking in that's gonna be a great book. We just it broke down the the
How Fidel took over it from three different cities how it was going down in three different categories
And then I heard that he was writing a book about West New York and Union City Cubans where I grew up
And I emailed him and I told him who I was that my mother had a bar and I grew up in that shit
And he hit me back when we became friends. He came to a show and
Yeah, Joey reached out to me, you know, unfortunately when I was just about finishing this book
So I had done most of the work and it was down on paper
But it was a trip. It was like he was like a character who walked out of the book
And I wished I'd met him earlier because I hadn't met too many characters like him Union City's amazing place
I don't think people realize it. It's one of those little enclaves happens to be