Crazy Street Fight Story That Changed Jon Bernthal's Life | Joey Diaz

I mean I saw this guy beat up some guy caught himself a paratrooper he beat him over the head with a [ __ ] magazine at 6:00 in the morning out in front of a coffee shop in Venice I mean it was like you know our best friend got stabbed in the stomach and you know we're delivering him to my little brother who's a doctor in the middle of the night like this is all happening while I'm going to doing movies with Roman Polanski and Roman Polanski and and Oliver Stone I mean like crazy [ __ ] was going on and we were just going a million miles an hour and then on July 3rd 2009 you know we used to have this we used to do this party in Venice where I lived up on my roof I'm really good friends with a guy Charlie tuna and guys from fishbone there's this great band called house of vibe and they play Wednesdays at harvelle's it's sort of like the local who's who of the the West Side hip-hop scene and they would play on my roof every July 4th and there's a crazy part everybody eating mushrooms and just having the time they're like and the night before that party I just needed to get away for a second I was walking my dogs I'm walking down the street and I see there's like a house party these you know these [ __ ] in this party and there was an old couple playing the didgeridoo right and that they're sitting there and it you know man and his wife and I see this one guy and I just [ __ ] lock on to this guy and there was just something about it where I just couldn't take my eyes off and was with his group Oh everybody's all [ __ ] up but he was like the ringleader and he goes up to this old woman who's playing the didgeridoo right next to her husband and he puts the didgeridoo on his dick so it looks like she's blowing his you know there's something about that that just [ __ ] pissed me off so much and I'm just looking at him and then all of a sudden he locked on to my dog and it was crazy cuz I'm like 20 yards away from him and he with this dog right here he calls boss over and you know boss runs over to him right and he's holding her so I called boss back and he held on to boss and there's something about my dogs and and my family and my friends I just like I can't I can't take that [ __ ] man it was a different time in my life so I went over and I grabbed boss from him and and and the guy goes hey man get your hands off my dogs and he's got all his friends right there right and I just looked at him and you know they still just had a real coldness in my [ __ ] heart man and I grabbed him and I started walking why I said come on boss and he said I told you not to you know grab my dog he his buddy start following me pushes me in the back and I turned around boom and I just hit him and you know at that point in my life man we we we're getting street fights all the time and all the [ __ ] time he was right up the street I hit this guy he gets knocked out standing up crashes his head on the pavement he's [ __ ] out his buddies jumped me I'm trying to fight them off me they get on top of me all of a sudden Kerrigan comes run so I don't know how the [ __ ] this guy heard about it but carrying comes BAM and like he's trying to rip dudes off and then the police come and it's this huge mess man and when the thing gets all broken up there's one guy you know lying in a pool blood and they say who did this and and it's their party so me and Kerrigan are handcuffed on the side of the on the side of the road and they're all pointing on me pouring beers on our heads because it's all they're people you know and anyways long story long story [ __ ] long they ended up taking me away because the guy wasn't waking up they put him in an ambulance she still hadn't woken up before t five minutes later and I've been in trouble my whole life and and and you know I'm down there now and um you know I had a career man I was a series regular on a few TV shows I'd done you know 12 15 movies and I'm sitting there on this bench in the Pacific Division and you know all of a sudden I remember being locked up when I was a kid because I'm in a situation where I'm I'm handcuffed to this bench and you know they got the wall right there so you can't even move to one side or the other and I had to piss so [ __ ] bad I couldn't believe I'm at a situation and when I piss I can't go piss I got asked anybody permission he's not gonna let me and these cops are on me hey if he doesn't wake up that's it [ __ ] you know how they are does he in my ear if you don't wake up you're done and I knew man right there on that bench I said to myself look man this is gonna go one of two ways but if he doesn't wake up I'm going down and I'm going through that room that way and I'm done man I'm done with family I'm done with friends and I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the devil I know what I know what it means to be locked up in California and you ain't getting out of that clean and I'm ready to be that guy I'm ready and it was a scary feeling because it wasn't I wasn't scared was peaceful I'm ready to be that guy but lord if you can just wait this guy up like if you can just change this I am done man I'm done with the [ __ ] I'm done with the drinking I'm done with the messing around I'm gonna commit to my lady I'm gonna commit to my work I'm gonna be about making a family I'm gonna trim all the fat off my life and I know I should have learned this lesson I need to learn it but but I've learned it now if you just give me a shot and look sure enough this guy ended up waking up he ended up he ended up suing me for a whole [ __ ] ton of money you know I just done Night at the Museum to which they [ __ ] put my face on the poster so my posters all over California he saw it goes that's a guy that knocked me out so now he assumed me for two million dollars saying he's got vertigo and PTSD and all this [ __ ] and point being man right after that is when I was faced with this situation where I had an audition for Walking Dead and July 3rd 2010 one year later I was on set for Walking Dead I got married right after the first year Walking Dead and that's really when my life changed in every single way and I started working different start behaving different my and and I can tell you man I've really you know something Sean says all the time man I think the with the biggest gift you can hope for in this world I don't mean to be you know preachy man but I think it's peace man if you can find some peace a peace of mind I got nothing left to prove to anybody anymore man I I have real peace I'm in love with my wife I got a I'm loving my kids I'm in love with my career and I get the best friends in the world and there's no part of me anymore that needs to go out and be be the guy there's no part where I where if I see some sort of brand of injustice I need to insert myself and say hey man don't you [ __ ] with that [ __ ] now don't get me wrong you're not gonna mess with my wife you're not gonna mess with my kids and my friends but I'm not going around with this this you know I think we're confused man I think we're confused that we feel like as men we need to go prove ourselves all the time and we need to assert ourselves and to me honestly there's there's actually nothing less manly I think than being the loudest voice in the room and and I and what I what I came to figure out you know literally a year later on July 3rd 2010 I remember I ended up writing a letter I never sent it to the guy just wrote a letter to that guy that I knocked out and I remember thinking and realizing that that was me that not to get to tribute but that was me that I knocked out that was the old version of me man I saw [ __ ] in him I saw behavior in him I saw brashness and a loudness and a disrespect in him that I'd seen in the younger version of myself and I was done with that guy man I was done with that guy and you know that that event ended up that event ended up really changing my life right there along with Walking Dead and I think you don't have I don't have one with that the other it's so weird how a negative turned into a positive if you can if you can make it man I still remember being in a jail cell with a [ __ ] Armani suit on board handcuffs on and they just gave me six years and I'm like that's it this is it just is it and you I want to sleep you know I just after I got sentenced I just laid my head down and closed sleep for three or four hours I was done and it took me more years to get peace but you're absolutely right there's nothing better than a peaceful man ever since I shot that Netflix thing in June everything changed me especially comedy-wise I'm a medic comic because I'm at peace now I really don't give a [ __ ] that I mom don't whatever the [ __ ] they think it's what I do today you know and I go home and it's so weird how did you have a was there a transition period when peace came into your life that you forgive something was missing have you ever had that look man I think anytime you give up anything the first thing that happens is there's a big [ __ ] you know when I when I sort of gave up kind of being crazy and going out and doing all these things and you know I I didn't know what the [ __ ] to do myself I didn't know who I was I didn't know if I could act I didn't know if unless I was the guy sort of bleeding out and being the crazies I'm you got it you can ask Kerrigan I mean I was the guy man you know I was the guy who's doing the crazy [ __ ] and anything that people were down for I was laid man let's go and when I gave that up you know that the case of my my deal was I sort of was under this I was under this this deal with the prosecutor's office that I had three years where if I was I didn't need to be charged and he didn't need to be convicted but if I was arrested in association with any kind of violence it was mandatory ten years in LA County and those three years men right after that I just cold turkey stop just stopped everything and I didn't know what to I didn't I was really scared man I didn't believe in myself I didn't know who the [ __ ] I was if I wasn't you know being that guy but you know then you know that's that that's life man that's growing up it's like you start to get something new in you don't know what the [ __ ] it is but you don't run from that you run towards it and I think it's weakness and cowardice to run back to what's familiar to you all the time and and I think especially and if you're gonna be an artist you got run to what scares you you got a run to what you don't do well you got a rust doing the same [ __ ] over and over again and [ __ ] you man like you got this opportunity you got this opportunity to be a professional [ __ ] artist like challenge yourself I love it no yeah [ __ ] it I might go up there you know again I always knew you know and it's dumb I always know come watch those stupid YouTube tapes that let his skin and had something in their head and in the documentary they said our goal was to blow the band behind this out and that's what my goal is now that's as gentlemanly as I could do is if I'm at the county store I'm destroying that I don't care what comes out of my mouth long walk yeah I'm not politically correct at all no more it doesn't matter to me I'm gonna take you into my world and that's what stand-up is taking you into my world you know not to get too much into that [Music] you

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Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 27 2019