John helped him get ahold of Davis and Strawberry, and Joey invited them to his event. Joey says John would slip him numbers for athletes, and Joey would interview them. He’d ask them to speak to Nadel, and would get a scoop. One day Joey said he was able to hear sadness in Nadel’s voice. Joey asked him what the problem was and learned that his daughter was using methamphetamines or “ice.” Over the next few years, Joey would call John’s daughter and talk about how drugs had ruined his life and John’s daughter Stacy eventually turned her life around and graduated college. Joey was contacted by Fox Television—who wanted to do a special on him. After being in some of this country’s most violent prisons, it was confusing for Joey when the guards and inmates would greet him with “good morning.” Joey says he pondered what they wanted from him. Perhaps the way that he looked at the world was tempering his expectations of others and not everyone was working an angle. It’s a telling story when you can’t even trust those around you to be pleasant for genuine reasons.
