Get Up Cocksuckers, It's All Over — Joey Diaz speaking into a podcast microphone wearing headphones and a green Legacy Jiu-Jitsu t-shirt in front of a red

Get Up Cocksuckers, It's All Over

2017viral videosemi-active

Published November 9, 2026

Joey Diaz capped an October 2017 episode of his podcast with a shouted motivational monologue over the American national anthem, ranting about hurricanes, North Korea and Snapchat before telling listeners to 'stay Black.' The clip drifted across YouTube compilations for years, then found a second life on TikTok in June 2022, where users paired the audio with captions about waking up disoriented from accidental naps.

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Overview

Diaz performs the speech as an over-the-top call to arms, shouting lines like 'get up cocksuckers, it's all over' and telling Americans they are 'the baddest motherfuckers out there' while the Star-Spangled Banner swells behind him1. His closing instructions, stay off Snapchat and Twitter and 'stay Black,' make up the quotable payoff fans circulate as general motivation2.

On TikTok, the audio usually plays under a selfie clip with heavy overlaid text about waking up from an unintended nap, often several hours later, and Diaz's patriotic intensity makes the mundane panic feel epic3. Outside the nap format, the sound soundtracks workout montages, late-night studying clips and other hype-driven selfie content tied back to Diaz's wider fan circle4.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (podcast) / TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
Joey Diaz
Date
2017

On October 6th, 2017, episode 522 of The Church of What's Happening Now was published to YouTube, with comedian Joey Diaz closing the show over the American national anthem1. He cycled through the hurricanes battering the U.S. that year and rising tensions with North Korea, told listeners to 'shoot back' and 'stop with the gun control,' then ended with his sign-off telling fans to 'stay Black'3.

Diaz uploaded an isolated cut of the speech to his own YouTube channel a day earlier, on October 5th, 2017, and that version gathered over 795,000 views across the following five years2. The full episode itself collected more than 145,000 views in the same window3.

How It Spread

The isolated YouTube clip picked up steady views through 2017 and 2018, and on September 12th, 2018, the fan channel Joey Diaz Clips folded the speech into a best-of compilation that reached over 541,000 views by mid-20224. Diaz's own upload of the full speech climbed past 795,000 YouTube views in that same window2, making the audio a known quantity among his podcast listeners well before it hit TikTok.

The sound found TikTok traction on June 7th, 2022, when @civilfallout attached the speech to a caption about Fallout 76 finally becoming playable, drawing over 70,000 views within a month5. By July 2022, the audio had inspired more than 870 TikTok videos, most of them selfies with long captions describing waking up confused after an accidental nap3.

Use later widened beyond the nap gag to general hype content, though the post-nap confession stayed the dominant format tied to the sound on TikTok3.

Timeline

2017-10-05

Joey Diaz uploaded an isolated cut of the national anthem speech to his YouTube channel.

2017-10-06

Episode 522 of The Church of What's Happening Now was published to YouTube, closing with Diaz's speech over the anthem.

2018-09-12

Fan channel Joey Diaz Clips released a best-of compilation that included the speech.

2022-06-07

TikToker @civilfallout paired the audio with a Fallout 76 caption, kicking off the sound's TikTok spread.

2022-07

The sound passed 870 TikTok uses, mostly selfie videos about waking up disoriented from accidental naps.

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