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Get Up Cocksuckers, It's All Over, also known as Joey Diaz National Anthem Speech or Joey Diaz 4th of July Motivation, is a viral video from an October 2017 episode of comedian Joey Diaz's podcast The Church of What's Happening Now where Diaz makes an impassioned speech over the American national anthem about taking pride in being American. The clip gained viral spread over the following years and became a popular original sound on TikTok in July 2022.

Origin

On October 6th, 2017, episode 522 of The Church of What's Happening Now. a podcast hosted by comedian Joey Diaz, was published on YouTube.^[1] At the end of the episode, Diaz makes a motivational speech over the American national anthem. During the speech, he talks about several hard times that Americans and the world, in general, were going through at the time, including hurricanes and rising tensions with North Korea and reminds listeners that they're the "baddest motherfuckers out there." He says it's time to "shoot back" and to "stop with the gun control," finishing his speech by telling people to stay off Snapchat and Twitter and "stay Black." The episode gained over 145,000 views in five years (shown below).

Get up cocksuckers, it's all over. Listen, we had a rough couple 'a months. Fuckin' Katrina's cousin Maria, the other one, Puerto Rico, Houston, fuckin' Florida. Listen, it's been tough up to now, the earthquake in Mexico, you know, the White House, whatever the fuck is goin' on, but it don't matter. They wanna shoot? It's time for us to fuckin' shoot, cocksuckers. They wanna get down and dirty? Don't forget who the fuck we are, y'understand me? We're the baddest motherfuckers out there! You send a message to that fuckin' North Korean, he's gonna be sniffin' my dick and sucking my asshole! That's the focus! We're goin' to North Korea in like a year! It's gonna be an island! It's gonna glow in the dark! You know why? 'Cause we're Americans, cocksuckers! Who the fuck d'you think you're dealing with? Stop with the gun control! They're sellin' more guns than ever in the last three days! Stop with the fuckin' whining! Stop with the Russians on Facebook! I don't give a fuck, worry about yourself, keep ya' eyes open, and get the fuck off Snapchat and fuckin' Twitter, cocksucker! Stay Black!

Spread

The clip gained viral spread over the following years. On October 5th, 2017, Diaz uploaded the isolated clip to his YouTube^[2] channel, gaining over 795,000 views in five years. On September 12th, 2018, the clip was included in a compilation of Diaz's best speeches uploaded by YouTuber^[3] Joey Diaz Clips, gaining over 541,000 views in four years (shown below).

TikTok Sound

On June 7th, 2022, TikToker^[4] @civilfallout posted a version of the clip with a caption about Fallout 76 becoming playable, gaining over 70,000 views in a month. The original sound inspired over 870 videos by July. The majority are selfie videos with long strings of text about waking up confused after a long, sometimes unexpected nap (examples shown below).

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