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>> The Joe Rogan Experience.

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>> TRAIN BY DAY. JOE ROGAN PODCAST BY

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NIGHT. All day.

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>> Really? Red meat.

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>> It's unfortunate. That's just

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>> in any form,

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>> you know? Like I have I know it's weird.

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If I eat a burger,

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it's different if I eat a steak.

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>> Steak is a problem.

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>> Yeah. I don't know if my digestive

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system just like you too old to [ __ ]

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uh

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>> bust this down. I'm 58.

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>> I I'm 58 too. I eat mostly meat.

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>> I don't think it's age.

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>> What is it then?

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>> Well, what are you eating it with?

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>> Uh Titos. We rolling

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>> Titos. Titos.

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>> Titos vodka. Well, it can't be that,

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right?

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>> No. Titos. I'm eating a steak and I wash

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I eat a steak and I wash and I wash it

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down with Titos and tonic cuz it's it

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resembles H2O so much sometime I get

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thrown off until I do it.

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>> What?

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>> Yeah, I think I'm better at

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>> Titos and tonic resembles water.

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>> The look of it.

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>> The look of it.

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>> It's clear.

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>> That's all matters to you.

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>> Yeah, I know. At some point I need to

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change I need to change my life. I'm at

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the age now that it's like I look at

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certain food and I'm like, "Oh my god,

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it looks good." But you know, you can't

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handle that. I think this is when I

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really really need to be in love because

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I need to be with somebody that

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understands when I go places and when I

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want to pick out, they got to be like,

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"He can't eat that. He's not going to be

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up. He's going to be thrown up." But I

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think a female handler they call it

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geriatric like they This is what I hear.

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>> This is what the streets are saying.

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Most men get to a geriatric [ __ ] when

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you just smash all the women you want to

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do and everything. Now you're going to

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have to worry about somebody helping you

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with your pill diet, helping you with

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your dietary needs and everything. And

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they say that's a lot of times when men

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fall in love when they need somebody to

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take them to the golden ears or when

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it's when you about to be out of here.

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You need somebody to say don't do that.

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You got to mash this food up. You got to

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chop it up. But I'm having digestive

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issues sometimes

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>> with steak. Huh?

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>> It's red meat. I want to say and I'm I'm

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a fan of it. So you eat if you eat like

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a bowl of pasta with the Titos, no

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problem.

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>> That's not a problem.

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>> Interesting.

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>> But it's definitely red meat. Red meat.

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I'm not to one of those doctors that

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checks people for allergies.

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>> Voodoo doctor.

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>> Yeah. You

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>> I don't want one of them. I had to date

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an Asian. I mean, I had to date a a

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Haitian chick.

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>> They into voodoo really really big. Oh

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yeah. Oh yeah. They stab you with

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pillows and [ __ ] You wouldn't have pain

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in your neck.

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Is there any particular reason, Joe, and

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I haven't been here in a while.

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>> Is there any particular reason why I am

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doing your show during Black History

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Month?

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>> No. You asked to come on.

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>> But but you reached out to me.

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>> I reached out to you.

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>> I didn't You could have reached out to

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me in July. I would have said yes. You

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got an open invitation. You know that

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>> I have an open invitation. But this is

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when I don't know you. I said, "Can I

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come through?" You said this is what you

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told. You said, "I have a guest." And

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then you called back. I don't know if

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Jamie said, you know what month this is,

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>> right? I don't know if he end. And you

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caught me right.

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>> I moved somebody. I moved somebody for

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you cuz I knew you were coming here on a

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Monday. I had someone booked.

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>> Was it a Caucasian person?

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>> I don't know. I don't remember.

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>> I don't remember.

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>> You know it was a white man or a black

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man? No. You know what

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>> DID I GET? DID I BOOK A WHITE PERSON?

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>> It might have been Michael J. White cuz

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he's here tomorrow.

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>> Yeah.

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>> So, it was probably Michael. I just

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probably moved him a day.

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>> But I appreciate dude being

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accommodating cuz I felt like it was

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time for me to come back. I haven't been

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here a while.

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>> You can come on anytime.

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>> I really appreciate that and you know I

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hold that to be true.

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>> Come on.

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>> I know that's true.

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>> You know I love you.

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>> Yeah. I want some of that gum, too, man.

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I'm sorry.

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>> The neuro gum. Do we have any Jamie?

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>> I have some. Yeah.

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>> Yeah. That stuff's the shoes.

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>> I know. Wait. Whenever you say something

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is the [ __ ] is the [ __ ]

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>> Yeah.

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>> Well, what can I do about my I can't do

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anything about my diet.

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>> Sorry. Whoops. I hit the mic. Um Yeah,

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you can. you just uh you know, you

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should go to a doctor and find out if

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there's like there might be something

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particularly about you that red meat

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doesn't agree with you, but it might

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just be what you're eating with the red

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meat more than the red meat itself. You

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know, that's what I would imagine. I

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would imagine it's not actually red

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meat. I would imagine it's what you're

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eating with it.

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>> Might be. and I'm going to check into it

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cuz as they say in the streets, I'm of

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that big age when you have to be

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considerate of a whole bunch of things.

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So that's what I have to do. I have to

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do that.

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>> Do you exercise at all?

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>> A little bit. Usually during sexual

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intercourse is when I get my most of my

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cardio.

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>> Get your push-ups in.

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>> Yeah. And it's not as strong. Damn, man.

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You ever get I don't know if this apply

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to everybody. You get to a where you

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start looking at your history and you

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like damn 2000 was my best years. Like

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right now I'll just give up.

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>> You give up.

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>> I don't put no pressure. I give up. I

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start asking like what's your shoe sizes

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or whatever. I rather go shopping than

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to really try to pound somebody out for

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three hours. I'm at that age now where I

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have I call it um

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certain times like you going to get a

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work good.

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>> I probably shouldn't have given you that

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gum. It's that gum's going to be a real

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problem with the microphone.

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>> Is it Is it Okay.

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>> People People are going to get annoyed

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with you. I can tell.

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>> All right. I don't know what to do.

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>> Just chew it a little and spit it out.

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>> Okay.

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>> You'll get the effects of it pretty

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quickly. Anyway,

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>> I'm at the age where my best work is

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like holidays.

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>> Holidays.

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>> Like I'm I'm a animal.

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>> Why don't you hire a trainer?

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>> You got some money.

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>> And what are the trainer going to do?

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>> Get you in shape. I think I need a

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therapist before I get a trainer.

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I mean, you got to take one step at a

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time. I got to get my mind right before

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I get my body right. Wouldn't you agree?

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>> No. The getting your body right will

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help get your mind right.

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>> I think you there's some truth to that.

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I think it I think that you may be right

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about that.

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>> Oh, 100%. Getting your body right fixes

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your mind without a doubt.

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>> But I I will say I'm at my best. I'm at

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my peak when it's a holiday to celebrate

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>> because you're rested.

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>> I'm rested. It's more incentive. Like if

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you want me to really smash good time,

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you consider it like uh uh Valentine's

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Day, Christmas,

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uh uh Quanza, you can get seven good

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days. But to expect me to be at my best

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on just a regular Tuesday or a Wednesday

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is not going to happen. I need more.

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>> That's also drinking. You like to drink.

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>> Why would you say that? I know why you

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would say that.

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>> Come on. I've seen you. All right.

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>> I've been with you. I've drank with you.

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>> Okay, then that's a good point. All

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right.

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>> There's cigarettes.

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>> You was there.

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>> You brought a pack with you,

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>> right? There's that. Those those are not

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good. Um there's uh

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>> But you used to smoke I saw one of your

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podcast.

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>> I forget how you explained what made you

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>> not want to smoke anymore. What was

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that?

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>> Well, cigarettes are a cognitive

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enhancer. They are. It's a fact.

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Nicotine is a cognitive enhancer.

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There's no doubt about it. It's a fact.

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And it does things to to your mind. It

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stimulates your mind in a way that very

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few other things do. That's why a lot of

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intellectuals, a lot of professors use

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nicotine. A lot of academics use

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nicotine. A lot of people that rely on

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their brain use a lot of writers use

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nicotine. And there's different delivery

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methods that have different effects.

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Unfortunately, smoking has a very potent

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instantaneous effect. Uh and that's why

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people like it. But it comes with a

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cost. You know, the the physical health

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you know, repercussions of cigarettes

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are well known.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Not good. And also, you're you're

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smoking Marros.

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>> There's a we had a doctor on the other

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day that thinks that Mar lights don't

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>> regular cigarettes are not nearly like

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American spirits are not nearly as bad

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for you

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>> as uh

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>> I understand they have some type of the

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the American spirits. I'm not even like

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advocating for what you should shouldn't

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smoke, but it's supposed they say that's

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supposed to be the most natural if

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there's such a thing.

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>> It's just tobacco, I believe. Is that a

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fact?

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>> Nope.

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>> No. What's in there besides tobacco?

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>> I don't know. I've been trying They got

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I don't know how this lawsuit ended up,

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but they got sued for the advertising of

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saying it's additive free and all that.

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>> Oh, did they?

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>> Yeah.

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>> What What are the additives?

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>> I've

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said it's on it. I've tried to look. I

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mean, there's a big Here's like the

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website about the lawsuit.

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>> What's the accusation

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>> that uh Here you go. It's on the screen.

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>> Here we go. Lawsuit questions natural

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claims. Natural American Spirit

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cigarettes are made by Santa Fe Natural

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Tobacco Company and parent company

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Reynolds America. RJ Reynolds, they [ __ ]

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with you. American Spirits has been sold

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in the US since 1985. Her under the

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original name original American Spirit

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organic Oh, you got us [ __ ] Um,

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unadulterated tobacco suit claims such

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marketing language has endeared American

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spirit cigarettes to a core group of

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smokers who believe that the natural

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tobacco and the cigarette makes them a

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healthier alternative. Despite cigarette

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sales declining 17% between 2009 2014,

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American Spirit sales have increased 86%

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over the same period. Huzzah. Uh, a

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regulatory filing on the Reynolds

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American website states American Spirit

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is the leading super premium cigarette

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brand that is a top 10 bestselling

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cigarette brand priced higher than most

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other competitive brands and is

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differentiated from key competitors

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through its use of all naturatural

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additive free tobacco including styles

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made with organic tobacco. But words

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like all natural and additive free

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unamerican spirits labeling the suit

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says belies the fact that Santa Fe

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Reynolds adds ammonia to their

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cigarettes to maximize the amount of

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nicotine a smoker receives with the

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result that American spirits contain

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significantly more freebased nicotine

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than other major cigarette brands.

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>> So you're actually getting high off of

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cigarettes?

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>> 100%. I get high off of them because I

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don't smoke them all the time. So, I

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only smoke if if I smoke a couple

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cigarettes a week, it's a lot.

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>> And Newport's probably like 10 times

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worse than uh menthol cigarettes

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probably 10 times worse to for your

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body.

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>> I was talking to Cat about that. I was

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Yeah, I was asking him like why why do

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you like menthols and he's like he was

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speaking on behalf of the black

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community. He said we like things that

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are more potent.

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I believe that that's possible part of

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it, but I also believe that back in the

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day and this apply I don't know if I

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talked about this. It was certain brands

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that targeted certain communities just

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for the loyalty of it. Yeah. And I think

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Newport's was targeting I don't know if

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it was a situation where Newport came

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out,

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>> they was spending more ad money with

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advertising everything cuz I I don't

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know if I shared this story with you,

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but

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>> um uh Pepsi was a company that did that

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where they targeted the black community.

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So I think even though I understand we

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said more potent but I think it was

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something that was in our community

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whether that was like cheaper prices or

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whatever and I think it's generation and

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generations like you need to do this

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because black people did this because it

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was cheaper what I think that that might

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be the case with Newport.

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>> Yeah probably both. What is the the

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menthol effect? What what is the what is

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the difference in the

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>> I know when I smoke menthol I I sound

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like cat whims the next day they ruined

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that's one of the reasons I had to

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downgrade to like some people think that

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I started smoking marbell lights cuz I

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started dating white women which is more

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appealing unless you date a white woman

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from the Midwest she probably smoking

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new drinking Pepsis and Coca-Cola just

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like you but I think that but I got so

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many

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bad habits that I need to change. Here

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we go. And our sponsor, our AI sponsor,

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Perplexity says, "The menthol effected

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cigarettes come from the chemical

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menthol itself, which is added as a

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flavoring and a sensory agent to the

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tobacco. Menthol is naturally found in

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peppermint and other mint plants. Can

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also be made synthetically in a lab.

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Menthol activates cold sensitive nerd

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receptors in the mouth, throat, and

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airways, creating a cooling sensation

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when you inhale smoke. It's a mild anes

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a mild anesthetic numbing effect that

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reduces pain and irritation from hot

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harsh cigarette smoke making it feel

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smoother. Menthol can suppress the cough

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reflex and dull early warnings or early

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warning signs of airway irritation which

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make it easier to inhale more deeply and

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more often. Menthol reduces the

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perceived harshness of nicotine and

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smoke. Uh the minty taste and smell plus

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the cooling feel act as a pleasant

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sensory cues that many smokers come to

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associate with satisfaction and craving.

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Menthol can alter nicotine metabolism

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and the way nicotine acts on brain

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receptors which may increase nicotine's

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reinforcing addictive effects. In short,

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the menthol effect is not from nicotine,

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but from added menthol, which cools and

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numbs the airways, mask masks

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irritation, and can make cigarettes feel

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smoother and more addictive without

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making them any safer.

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>> So, menthol cigarettes appeal to black

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people because it's a cool cigarette.

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>> It's cool.

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>> That's what makes so much sense why the

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brand cool cigarette cuz it makes it

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that makes sense,

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>> right? That's why they called it cool, I

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bet.

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>> Damn. What white people do to destroy my

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community, man?

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>> Destroy everybody. Yeah,

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>> they don't give a [ __ ] about anybody.

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>> Cool ain't cold.

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>> Half ain't wide, body ain't soul, mild

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ain't bold. Cool ain't cool. Newport is

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Oh, cuz that was like a

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>> That makes cools cuz people used to

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smoke cools. Do cools exist anymore?

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>> In jail?

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>> Only in jail? I think that I think I

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don't know what the the rat the ratio is

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what what cigarette gets you more money

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in a dice game but whenever I hear

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people telling war stories they like man

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I got a pack I got a carton of cools for

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a bag of Doritos or something but the

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value of a cool cigarette is is is

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higher in in prison.

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>> Isn't it crazy that they give you

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cigarettes in prison?

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>> That's crazy. It's like the only drug

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you can get in prison.

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>> Yeah. And those

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>> you can't get alcohol, right?

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>> Well, you can get hooch. Well, you can't

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get alcohol, but they make their own.

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>> It's all under the table.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah.

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>> But I think in prison the things that

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hold the most value, I think it's tang,

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>> right? It's that uh artificial flavored

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drink you do. I think that

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>> astronaut [ __ ]

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>> Yep. Cigarettes, Doritos. I heard honey

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buns

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hold their value. And I heard candy bar.

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But candy bars, you got to be particular

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with that. you because if you offer,

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this is what I hear. If you offer a

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person a certain amount of candy bars,

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then what I understand is that you're

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inviting them to have sexual intercourse

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with you.

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>> Interesting. Yeah. Candy bars.

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>> Yeah. Like you I don't think

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>> you want some candy bars and that's like

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code.

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>> Yeah. It's like pizza gate like pizza.

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>> Mr. Good Bar for this good bar. Okay.

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>> I think this is only not that I've had

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those experiences, Joe, but this is the

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times that I frequent the streets, which

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aren't anymore. Not too often. These are

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the stories that they tell.

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>> Interesting.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah.

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>> And these facts, you don't need them for

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anything but for barbershop talk, but

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these are the conversations that I have

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>> that I've heard people have.

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>> It's interesting how different brands

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market to different people. And I mean,

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how do they figure it out? like what are

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they work like the that that's where

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it's evil, right? Like advertising

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itself I don't have a problem with but I

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did I there is something weird about

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deceptive advertising that's legal, you

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know.

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>> Well, they they do a a history on what

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uh people like. I was watching or

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reading a story about the uh people that

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started Forever 21. I forget what the

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brand was. There was some Koreans from

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South Korea, not to be confused with Kim

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Jongun in those people, but they were

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tailored or something. They started a

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small boutique. And what they would do

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was they would have these clothing uh

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pieces of clothes and they would really

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pay particular attention to what colors

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people like, um what was uh selling the

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most, whatever, and that's what they

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buy. And one of the things that made

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Forever 21 so popular cuz they had

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really inex the the clothes weren't

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expensive, but they was turning them

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over so quick, you know. So people do do

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case studies and see what people uh

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attracted to. I know with um with black

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people um you you put lemon pepper on

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anything, it's going to go out out the

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roof. You could do lemon pepper chicken

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wings, lemon pepper French fries,

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anything lemon pepper, they gonna go. I

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don't know who started the whole lemon

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pepper craze, but you lemon pepper

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anything, black people gonna buy it.

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>> That's interesting. Like how white

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people are associated with very bland

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foods,

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>> you know, macaroni, cheese, mashed

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potatoes, mayonnaise.

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>> And you know why you're connected with

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that blandness? Cuz the way you

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pronounced it.

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>> Macaroni and cheese.

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>> You'd never ever say if you tell

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somebody if you say and you would be

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able to be invited to the cookout, Joe.

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You know, people like you. If if you

16:58

say, "Hey guys, I'm coming to the

17:00

cookout, right, and I'm bringing

17:02

macaroni and cheese." You're going to

17:05

get uninvited to the cookout.

17:06

>> What? How should I say it?

17:07

>> Mac and cheese.

17:08

>> Mac and cheese.

17:09

>> Yeah. You can't say macaroni and cheese.

17:11

Nobody ever does that.

17:13

>> Okay.

17:13

>> You would They would look at you as a

17:15

spy. You would get invited and be

17:16

invited.

17:17

>> Well, I'm a different type of white

17:18

person cuz I'm Italian and we're

17:20

associated with spicy food. Very strong

17:23

flavors.

17:24

Yeah, but it's a different like Italian

17:27

people don't like bland food. They like

17:29

very spicy, very flavorful food.

17:31

>> I'm bringing baked ziti to the barbecue.

17:33

You like I'm bringing ziti, right?

17:35

>> Yeah, they would say baked ziti. Yeah,

17:37

because there's different kinds of ziti.

17:39

You know, there's ziti that you bake and

17:40

then there's ziti that you just boil and

17:42

put, you know, marinara sauce on.

17:44

>> There's different. I will say this, as

17:46

much as you know, community make fun of

17:49

um white people and their lack of

17:52

seasoning,

17:54

that can save your life.

17:56

>> Lack of seasoning can save your life.

17:58

How so?

17:59

>> When you think about you look at

18:01

somebody, one of the most the country uh

18:05

uh homecooked soulfood spot, the one

18:08

ingredient that's in everything that you

18:11

taste right off the rip is salt. How

18:12

good is not bad for you at all? It's

18:14

awesome.

18:14

>> Then why do we think salt is

18:15

accomplished?

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19:27

>> Salt is an essential mineral. You need

19:30

salt to survive. Salt is not the

19:32

problem. They associate salt with high

19:34

blood pressure, salt with this, salt

19:35

with it's not true. It's [ __ ] What

19:38

type of salt? Is it a different salt? Is

19:40

it like

19:40

>> No, it's not. Salt's not bad for you.

19:42

Well, first of all, there's iodiz salt,

19:44

which is actually good for you because

19:46

it contains iodine. They add iodine to

19:48

it,

19:48

>> which is good for you. But salt is not a

19:51

bad thing. I mean, you shouldn't have

19:53

too much salt. Salt. If you look, if you

19:56

eat enough salt, you can be the

19:57

president to educate me with this. So,

19:59

all of these years,

20:00

>> it's a it's a

20:01

>> these people getting their toes chopped

20:03

off.

20:04

>> That's not why. That's not why. If

20:06

you're getting diabetes, it's usually

20:08

from sugar.

20:09

>> Okay?

20:09

>> You know, there's been a lot of

20:11

misinformation that's spread because of

20:15

actual scientists that were bribed by

20:18

the the sugar industry. So, the sugar

20:20

industry, they paid a bunch of Harvard

20:22

scientists. It was Harvard, right?

20:24

>> I believe it was. They didn't even give

20:26

them a lot of money. Uh was it the 1950s

20:28

or 1960s, Jamie? Do you remember? So,

20:31

this has all been outed now, but what

20:34

they did was they tried to associate

20:36

saturated fat and and foods with

20:39

saturated fat with being responsible for

20:41

heart disease. And they did that to try

20:43

to get the blame off of sugar cuz sugar

20:46

is [ __ ] terrible for you. It's

20:48

terrible in basically every way,

20:50

especially added sugar. So why are all

20:52

of these diseases that we speak of are

20:54

more more car happening in the black

20:58

community than in the white community?

21:00

>> It's diet. It's 100%. It's sugarcessed.

21:03

It's processed food. It's diet. It's

21:05

sugar. It's sugary drinks. It's the

21:08

amount of sugar. Like if you say if you

21:09

drink like a a a one liter Pepsi, the

21:13

amount of sugar that is Okay, let's find

21:15

out how much sugar is in a one liter

21:17

Pepsi.

21:18

If you drink several of these a day, one

21:20

of them, I believe, is more sugar than

21:22

you're ever supposed to have in a day.

21:24

>> Pepsi is the one and that's why

21:26

>> Well, it could be Coca-Cola, could be

21:27

Pepsi, Mountain Dew. Name your poison.

21:30

>> I think it's 100% Pepsi.

21:32

>> Well, Pepsi is I don't know. Does Pepsi

21:34

have more sugar than Coca-Cola? I don't

21:36

know.

21:37

>> You know, Coca-Cola is one of the only

21:39

things that's still flavored with

21:41

cocaine leaf. Uh sugar content 115 123

21:46

grams in a one liter bottle. That's a

21:48

crazy amount of sugar. 25 teaspoons. 35

21:52

sugar cubes.

21:54

>> God damn.

21:55

>> That's 130% 138% of the recommended

21:58

daily value of sugar.

22:00

>> That's that's where people are getting

22:02

type 2 diabetes. They're getting it from

22:04

excess sugar. Specifically

22:06

>> excess sugar like in a liquid form. Your

22:09

body does not know what the [ __ ] to do

22:11

with that cuz nowhere in nature do you

22:13

get sugar in a liquid form like that.

22:15

Like even orange juice. Like people

22:17

think orange juice is good for you. It's

22:19

not. Like drinking orange juice. Yeah,

22:22

you're going to get some vitamin D, but

22:23

you're also going to vitamin C rather,

22:24

but you're also going to get a gigantic

22:26

dose of sugar that has no fiber in it.

22:29

>> But is it a different type of sugar in

22:31

fruits and vegetables than what you get

22:33

off the counter?

22:34

>> You get fructose rather than high

22:36

fructose corn syrup. Uh you know, like

22:39

sugar from fruit is the best sugar for

22:41

you because it's attached to fiber and

22:43

that's that's a slow release sugar. Like

22:46

if you eat an apple and apples aren't

22:47

bad for you. It's a natural way that

22:49

your body consumes sugar. But there's

22:51

>> apples were bad for Adam.

22:53

>> Uh I don't even know if it was an apple.

22:55

>> It was a fruit.

22:57

>> It was from the tree of knowledge. The

22:59

tree of

23:00

>> It was an apple.

23:01

>> Uh

23:02

>> it was an apple,

23:03

>> but it wasn't an apple tree. What What

23:05

specifically does the Bible refer to as

23:07

the fruit?

23:08

>> Adam and Eve. Adam,

23:09

>> you know the truth?

23:10

>> What?

23:11

>> Eve never talked to God. Adam talked to

23:14

God. Adam told God not to eat the fruit.

23:18

There's nowhere in the Bible does it say

23:19

that Adam went and told Eve.

23:21

>> This is why we should start not just

23:24

shutting women down to listening to

23:25

them.

23:28

>> It all started off

23:29

>> Genesis does not specifically specify

23:31

rather what kind of fruit Adam ate only

23:34

that it calls it fruit from the tree of

23:35

knowledge of good and evil. Yeah. So

23:38

it's not necessarily an apple. We call

23:40

it an apple.

23:42

Uh, the text never names the species,

23:45

apple, fig, etc. The Hebrew word is

23:47

perry, a general term meaning fruit

23:49

without a botanical detail. Where the

23:52

apple idea came from. Over time, Jewish

23:54

and Christian interpreters proposed many

23:56

candidates including fig, grape,

23:58

pomegranate, citron, and others. Now,

24:01

common ideas that an apple developed

24:03

later in European tradition helped by

24:06

word play in Latin and old French where

24:08

the words evil and apple or fruit

24:11

sounded or were spelled similarly. So,

24:14

it's not necessarily an apple.

24:15

>> I really don't know what to believe. I

24:17

feel like I get so much more information

24:19

when I come here.

24:20

>> I don't know if people understand that.

24:22

Well, the crazy thing is that I mean I

24:24

I've found this out recently because

24:25

I've actually been reading the Bible

24:27

that the there's no reference whatsoever

24:30

to Adam telling Eve you're not supposed

24:33

to eat the fruit from the plant uh with

24:36

with the knowledge of good and evil.

24:38

>> I never knew that.

24:39

>> Yeah.

24:40

>> I just knew white woman with an apple

24:42

and his [ __ ] got [ __ ] up after that.

24:44

>> What happened was God created Adam. This

24:46

is what Genesis says. God created an

24:47

Adam and then told Adam, "Go and name

24:49

all the animals." And then when he was

24:52

done with that, Adam made Eve,

24:55

but he never said, it never says in the

24:58

Bible, Adam told Eve, "Do not eat the

25:01

apple."

25:02

>> Who's giving this us this

25:03

misinformation?

25:04

>> Well, the problem with the Bible uh is

25:07

first of all that it was an oral

25:09

tradition forever. So, it was an oral

25:11

tradition for a long time before it was

25:13

ever written down. that it was written

25:15

down in a bunch of ancient languages. It

25:17

was written down in ancient Hebrew. It

25:19

was written down in Aramaic, Aramaic,

25:21

and then when you translate ancient

25:23

Hebrew to first they translated to Latin

25:27

and then they translated it to Greek and

25:29

all these other maybe Greek first. I

25:31

forget which one was first, but either

25:32

way, the the translations miss a lot of

25:36

the the language. It's very complicated.

25:38

Ancient Hebrew is a very complicated

25:40

language and numbers double as letters

25:43

in ancient Hebrew. So ancient Hebrew

25:45

doesn't have numbers. All their words

25:47

have a numerical value to them.

25:49

>> What do you think makes people so

25:52

connected

25:54

to the Bible? Is it because of wanting

25:57

to believe in something?

25:59

>> Definitely. definitely wanting to

26:01

believe in something and then

26:02

specifically if you look at like the

26:05

teachings of Jesus Christ if you follow

26:07

them I think it'll lead to a better

26:09

life. I think it makes you a better

26:10

person makes you a better member of the

26:12

community. It it it reinforces

26:15

community. It's like a really good way

26:17

to live your life. So I think people

26:19

that live that way that actually live

26:21

that way they're better examples of

26:23

human beings. So that makes it

26:25

reinforced. But it's also people there's

26:28

a lot of other religions that people

26:29

believe in that don't have those aspects

26:31

to them. People want to believe things.

26:33

People want to believe in things. Even

26:35

if you like like Scientology, people

26:37

deeply believe in Scientology. And we

26:39

know it was written by a science fiction

26:41

author, right?

26:42

>> Who was a bad science fiction author.

26:44

Elron Huard wrote some terrible books.

26:46

Like that guy would just bang books out.

26:48

He never rewrote [ __ ] He everything was

26:50

a first draft.

26:52

just clank. He wrote more fiction than

26:54

any human being that's ever lived and he

26:56

also wrote Scientology

26:58

>> and people believe in it. But I do

26:59

believe PE I think people like you say

27:02

people want to if your life is [ __ ] or

27:05

whatever they want to be able to say

27:06

okay this is my savior if I believe in

27:08

this it's going to get me on the right

27:09

track

27:10

>> 100%. And then with that with these like

27:12

uh Duski just did a a skit that went

27:15

viral, right? And it was like he was

27:16

making fun of the mega churches and

27:18

everything. But these churches like they

27:21

give these people something to believe

27:24

in, make them feel better and they

27:25

charge people. Do you think that there

27:27

should be a separation? If I if I

27:29

inspire you, if my writings or my

27:32

speeches inspire you to want to do

27:34

something and change your life and be uh

27:37

more financially secure, do you think

27:39

these people entitled to like, okay,

27:41

almost like agencies, if I get you to

27:42

work or get you there, should you hit me

27:44

off or the megaurches, is it so wrong

27:46

for people just to pour all their money

27:47

into them or are they giving these

27:49

people something to believe in? If

27:51

that's the case, do I supposed to get a

27:53

piece of that? I think they're preying

27:54

on people's need to believe in things

27:56

and I think they're very predatory and I

27:58

think that's why they're flying private

28:00

jets and driving Rolls-Royces and living

28:02

in mega mansions on giant ranches

28:04

>> and they're doing it all off of

28:06

donations of people that are barely

28:07

getting by. That's a lot of it. You

28:09

know, I think it's a scam that's legal.

28:12

I think if we were a just and righteous

28:14

society, it wouldn't be legal,

28:16

>> right? I mean, it's you're taking

28:18

advantage of people when they need

28:22

something to believe in and you're

28:23

asking for all their money. Like I

28:26

remember I was watching this guy on TV

28:28

once like televangelists are the worst.

28:31

And this guy was saying that if you are

28:33

broke, you should borrow money to donate

28:36

it to the church and it will be paid

28:38

back to you tenfold. That God will pay

28:41

you back tenfold. And then he had all

28:43

these examples of people that did it and

28:45

they would call in and say, "I I was

28:47

$1,000 in debt and this and that, but I

28:49

borrowed $100 and I donated it to you

28:51

and now all of a sudden I drive a

28:53

Rolls-Royce." And it's all horseshit.

28:54

>> But those are all desperate desperate

28:57

people. Desperate people. Those are the

28:59

same people that I'm going to spend $30

29:01

on the lottery every day for like

29:02

[ __ ] 50 years and no one know how

29:04

much.

29:04

>> That's another scam. That's another

29:06

scam. Not only is that a scam, here's

29:08

the scam about the lottery. Not only

29:10

does like say if everyone pumps money

29:13

into the lottery, say you you buy $100

29:16

worth of tickets and Jamie buys $100

29:17

worth of tickets and I buy $100. So

29:19

there's $300 in the lottery. There's not

29:21

even $300 available

29:24

>> if you win. Right.

29:25

>> So and then if you win, you don't get

29:27

all the money. You get the money over a

29:30

long period of time.

29:32

>> Right. Right. Right. But if you if you

29:33

take the second option, it's a

29:35

significantly like here's a good example

29:37

of it. Speaking of the Epstein Files,

29:40

his

29:40

>> What do you mean speaking of

29:41

>> company Zoro Trust?

29:44

>> I didn't like that transition. You

29:46

looked me right in my eyes and said,

29:48

"Speaking of the

29:48

>> Well, FC, we were talking about it

29:50

before the podcast. Came to see you."

29:52

>> No, MC did not [ __ ] come.

29:53

>> They came They loved your show.

29:55

>> Yo,

29:55

>> he was your He was a number one fan.

29:57

>> First of all, I I've never

30:00

>> HE CAME TO YOU DON'T KNOW. LOOK, they

30:03

came to West Palm Improv because you're

30:04

a famous comedian and you were playing

30:07

in the town where he lived.

30:08

>> So, what are you saying?

30:09

>> Nothing. But what I'm saying is that

30:12

>> I'm on I'm actually

30:12

>> What I'm saying is Epstein won the

30:14

lottery. His company, Zoro Trust, won an

30:18

$80 million lottery and then they paid

30:21

they they took the payoff and the payoff

30:23

was a ticket or you mean with in

30:26

corporation?

30:27

>> What do you mean when you say

30:28

>> they his company bought a ticket for the

30:31

lottery? Really? that yes, Zoro Trust,

30:33

which is his company, they won the

30:35

lottery, which is very suspicious. Not

30:37

only that, he won the lottery right

30:38

after he was arrested and went to jail

30:40

for [ __ ] kids or having sex or

30:42

whatever, whatever he was arrested for,

30:44

sexual hand jobs, whatever it was. So

30:48

underage. No, but when they're underage

30:50

girls, probably not.

30:50

>> Oh, I didn't know that. But

30:51

>> so then when he went um and got the

30:55

lottery money, the company took the

30:57

payoff the payoff out of an $80 million

31:00

payment. the $80 million jackpot was

31:03

only 30 million. So if you want the

31:04

money, you take 30. So not only did they

31:07

take 50 out of the 80, but then you

31:10

think about how many people spent money

31:12

buying lottery tickets, way more than 80

31:15

million.

31:16

>> So they make money off of that and then

31:18

they make money off of the fact that you

31:19

want the payoff instead of the, you

31:21

know, the over.

31:23

>> So they never could, it doesn't matter

31:25

what the jackpot becomes, they never

31:26

could lose.

31:27

>> They they can't lose. It's stealing

31:29

money from people that are desperate.

31:30

It's it's legalized gambling where the

31:33

house always wins.

31:35

>> Like let's find that out. Like uh let's

31:37

say

31:38

>> let's find uh an average jackpot of mega

31:42

bucks and find out how much money

31:45

actually goes into it. How much how much

31:48

money people spend versus how much money

31:50

the payout is.

31:51

>> So when this the uh all lots are state

31:55

regulated, right? Right.

31:57

>> I don't know. I don't know who regulates

31:58

them. So they get say they get $100

32:04

million from people trying to win a

32:06

billion dollars.

32:07

>> It's because the state regulate. Do they

32:08

do they have to pay taxes to the

32:10

government for the money they

32:12

>> the lotto? No, it's the state well or

32:14

it's the the government owns it. So it's

32:16

a it's a whatever the not only that you

32:19

pay taxes on it. So say pays taxes.

32:22

Yeah. Yeah.

32:22

>> So say if you take that $30 million

32:24

payout, you don't even get 30 million.

32:26

Then you have to pay taxes on that 30

32:27

million. So they get money from that

32:29

too. So they can't [ __ ] lose.

32:31

>> But for a person that's never seen

32:34

barely seen $1,000 anywhere, anything

32:36

with millionaire, they're going to be

32:37

excited about and take it before

32:39

>> Exactly. Exactly. And over time, most

32:42

people are not going to win. So most

32:44

people are dumping money into it.

32:46

>> There was a story of a a young lady. I

32:48

don't know exactly what it was. I think

32:49

she won some type of lottery where they

32:52

gave her two options. She would get I

32:54

think it was like uh a payout of like 2

32:56

or 3 million right up front or they give

33:00

her I think it was like $20,000 every

33:03

month for as long as she lived.

33:05

>> Yeah, that's how they

33:06

>> and she did this. Well, people think

33:07

that it's kind of crazy, but if you

33:09

consider the fact that she was probably

33:11

20 21, her life expectancy probably she

33:13

was white, so she probably lived to 132.

33:17

You know what I'm saying? She looked

33:18

like I That was a smart a lot of people

33:19

would not understand that. That was a

33:21

smart thing. But I I did

33:22

>> I don't think it's for the rest of your

33:24

life. I think it's until it reaches that

33:26

number. I don't think they're going to

33:28

give you money for the rest of your

33:29

life.

33:29

>> Well, maybe I was reading the headline.

33:31

>> Maybe it's a different kind of lottery

33:32

that I'm not aware of.

33:33

>> Maybe. I think it was something as long

33:35

as she lives.

33:36

>> That sounds crazy.

33:37

>> Yeah.

33:37

>> All right. Here it is. Typical

33:38

Megaillions jackpot run. Total ticket

33:40

revenue is usually several times the

33:43

advertised jackpot. But there's no

33:45

single fixed average because sales vary

33:47

enormously with the jackpot size. still

33:50

you can get a good ballpark. So around

33:52

50% of ticket revenue goes into the

33:54

overall prize pool. So the government

33:56

makes 50% right off the bat,

33:58

>> right?

33:58

>> So if it's a hund00 million payout, they

34:01

already made a h 100red million. So this

34:03

$200 million is what they made. They

34:06

throw in $100 million for everybody of

34:08

that prize pool. Roughly 2/3 to 3/4 is

34:12

allocated to the jackpot with the rest

34:14

funding lower tier prizes. So that means

34:17

even if there's $200 million out of the

34:19

hund00 million only twothirds of it goes

34:22

into the the big jackpot. Um and that

34:26

means the jackpot is typically in the

34:28

order of onethird of total ticket sales

34:31

that run and then out of that one-third

34:34

so say if it's a hundred million or with

34:35

the Epstein case it was 80 million. He

34:38

took the payout which was 30 million. So

34:40

they make 50 on top of that and then on

34:42

top of that you pay taxes on that 30.

34:45

It's a crazy scam.

34:46

>> What do they do with the money?

34:47

>> Whatever the [ __ ] they want.

34:49

>> I think they probably I think they in

34:50

certain neighborhoods I think they

34:52

probably pump a certain amount of

34:54

winning tickets into a neighborhood just

34:56

to get you addicted to keep going in

34:57

there and spend your money.

35:00

>> Well, it's supposed to be random. You

35:02

know, I don't know how much oversight.

35:05

Look, if a guy like Jeffrey Epstein can

35:07

win, I don't know how much oversight is

35:08

it. I know um back in Boston when I

35:11

lived there, Whitey Bulier won. See if

35:13

this is true. I think he won the lotto

35:16

twice, which is crazy.

35:18

>> Whitey Bulier. Who was that? That sound

35:19

>> Whitey Bulier was a South Boston mob

35:22

boss uh in the 1980s when I lived there.

35:27

The 1980s and 90s.

35:29

>> A mob a mob boss.

35:31

>> Yeah, he was a dangerous dangerous guy.

35:34

He was the guy that that movie that

35:36

Leonardo DiCaprio starred in with Jack

35:39

Nicholson. What was that movie? Jamie,

35:42

remember that movie that was based on

35:43

Whitey Bulier?

35:45

>> The Departed?

35:46

>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Departed. Yeah.

35:47

>> Yeah.

35:47

>> Okay.

35:47

>> That was based on Whitey Bulier.

35:49

>> He was a gangster.

35:50

>> Oh, yeah. Terrifying gangster. Yeah.

35:53

>> What was his demise?

35:55

>> He was actually a [ __ ] FBI informant.

35:58

Not only was he a gangster, he was

36:00

working with the FBI and they were

36:02

letting him get away with [ __ ] because

36:03

he was throwing other people under the

36:05

bus.

36:05

>> I think there's a different I mean,

36:07

>> they wind up catching him in Santa

36:08

Monica. Well, I found that

36:11

>> Hunting Whitey about that Whitey Bulier

36:14

won the Mass Millions lottery about that

36:16

time. Yeah. Yeah, he won the [ __ ]

36:18

lottery, man. So, uh

36:22

this is what it says here. What does it

36:25

say?

36:27

>> I think it was more of a scheme than

36:29

they actually won the but it's Oh, he

36:30

was taking money. It's probably a way to

36:31

like launder money.

36:33

>> Yeah. Oh, 100%. It's a way to launder

36:34

money. So the way it would work was like

36:37

say if you lived in the community and

36:39

you won the lottery ticket, maybe they

36:41

would give you money for your lottery

36:43

ticket and then he would get it and that

36:45

way it would show that this is where he

36:47

got his income from. Like these guys

36:49

would all own businesses. But the reason

36:51

why they would own businesses is so they

36:53

could show why they drive a Cadillac,

36:55

why they have a mansion, why they have

36:57

this, because they have legitimate

36:58

businesses. But really, these businesses

37:00

were scams. My father convinced my

37:02

family that he was a real estate agent

37:04

for years and come to find out he was a

37:06

heroin king been in DC for years. All we

37:08

needed was an excuse. He's selling real

37:10

estate. All right.

37:11

>> That's hilarious.

37:13

Um so he ordered the real winner to sign

37:16

the ticket over with Whitey and two

37:18

associates paying $2.3 million in cash

37:21

for 50% of the winnings. Buler Bulier

37:24

himself paid Michael Linsky 700,000.

37:27

Although Linsky lost money in the deal,

37:29

he really had no choice. It came down to

37:31

selling the ticket or risking his life.

37:33

Yeah. So that's how it usually wills

37:35

works.

37:36

>> So he was a snitch.

37:38

>> Whitey was a snitch. Yeah.

37:39

>> He was a snitch and he got caught in

37:41

Santa Monica. He was

37:42

>> snitch or whistleblower. There is a

37:43

difference.

37:44

>> No, he was a snitch.

37:45

>> Whistleblowers are people that snitch on

37:46

people in higher profile positions like

37:48

corporate America. But what I'm finding

37:50

out

37:50

>> No, he wasn't a whistleblower. He was an

37:52

actual snitch because he was turning

37:54

other people in. But he was a kingpin.

37:56

Is this true? And I don't want to make

37:59

everything about race. Is that phrase

38:02

snitches get snitches more prevalent in

38:04

the white community or the black

38:05

community or it's across the board?

38:07

>> I think it's across the board, isn't it?

38:08

Like like the black community is famous

38:11

for keeping their mouth shut when

38:12

someone gets shot or when someone does

38:14

something like when cops come and

38:16

question.

38:16

>> I don't know that's the truth anymore

38:17

because what I'm

38:18

>> not anymore. But that was the thing with

38:19

the mafia too. Yeah.

38:20

>> The mob would never rat out. Guys would

38:22

just go to jail. interested now because

38:24

now I see like especially in my

38:27

community so many people like rat I got

38:29

the paperwork and everything and now it

38:31

feels like like that model of being

38:35

loyal is dead like people now they they

38:40

getting caught with [ __ ] and the minute

38:41

they get caught they snitch on everybody

38:43

right and there's no repercussions when

38:46

they come home there's no repercussion I

38:48

don't see that as much I see so many

38:50

people that are like They saying

38:52

whatever the [ __ ] they want to do,

38:53

whatever, and they still out here just

38:55

living their lives normal like and

38:57

nothing [ __ ] happened.

38:58

>> Well, with the mob, it was always like,

39:00

if you ratted on the mob, you were a

39:02

dead man. You were a dead man. Your

39:03

family was probably dead. They burn your

39:05

house down and and people kept their

39:07

mouth shut because of that. And so guys

39:09

would go to jail all the time and never

39:11

open their mouth and they would be

39:12

rewarded when they would get out and

39:14

they'd have a party for them, celebrate.

39:16

That's in good fellas. You kept your

39:17

mouth shut. You never said nothing. That

39:20

was the whole thing. But the whole thing

39:22

I used to live

39:22

>> that changed though like with John Gotti

39:25

like the the government no Sammy the

39:28

Bull Sammy the Bull and it wasn't just

39:30

them like there was everyone was

39:31

snitching on everybody. It's like they

39:33

got these guys and you know we had

39:36

Donnie Brasco in in the studio

39:38

>> from from um what um from Johnny Depp

39:41

movie. It was called Donnie Bras.

39:43

>> Okay.

39:44

>> He why am I confusing that with um

39:46

>> what's his real John Deonnie Bras's real

39:48

name?

39:50

Joe. Uh,

39:51

>> I'm not confused. Bronx, that's not

39:53

Bronx.

39:53

>> Joe Pone.

39:54

>> Joe Pone.

39:55

>> That's nothing to do with Bronx Tale,

39:56

right?

39:56

>> No, different story. That's a different

39:58

story.

39:59

>> Yeah. Um, so Donnie Brasco was the guy

40:02

who was he was an agent and he pretended

40:05

to be a mob guy and he got in with the

40:07

mob and was with him for like seven

40:09

years. Did all kinds of [ __ ] with the

40:11

mob and then sold everybody out and they

40:14

all went under.

40:15

>> Yeah. I don't know. I'm just so this the

40:17

culture everything is they used to be

40:19

afraid snitches get stitches now I don't

40:22

know if this just everywhere but

40:24

everywhere I go it's like the most

40:26

interesting thing now that's selling on

40:28

any platform especially social media is

40:30

beef and I don't understand why people

40:33

gravitate toward negativity more than

40:35

anything

40:36

>> that's normal

40:37

>> why but you know what it's interesting

40:39

your platform is not known for that

40:42

>> no

40:42

>> your platform but I go to these other

40:44

platforms And I don't know. I think

40:47

these guys, the people, they just sit

40:49

back and it's like, okay, what can I say

40:52

to make people upset, get them riled up,

40:56

and then I take advantage of the

40:57

engagement that they do?

40:59

>> They're in a different game than me. All

41:01

right. Their game is trying to get

41:02

engagement. My game is talking to people

41:04

that are

41:05

>> But that don't doesn't that become

41:07

>> I don't want to be triggering anything,

41:09

but doesn't that become destructive

41:12

after a while?

41:12

>> 100%. And do you have you noticed it

41:16

especially I'll put it like this

41:17

especially with comedians with podcast

41:20

it it will used to be a time where like

41:23

you say a person would go on a podcast

41:25

because it was interesting they told

41:27

funny stories

41:28

>> or they was good at their craft or

41:30

whatever but now it feels like all these

41:32

platforms and I don't know that's just

41:34

in in my community when I say that black

41:36

people it's like the only way I can find

41:38

myself interesting if I talk [ __ ] about

41:41

people Right.

41:42

>> And [ __ ] are going away from

41:45

being being funny

41:48

when you get interviewed. Like every

41:51

[ __ ] podcast I turn on now is

41:53

somebody I'm exposed this person. I'mma

41:56

tell this about what you didn't know.

41:57

And the one thing they're not doing,

41:59

especially as a standup comedian,

42:01

[ __ ] don't give a [ __ ] about

42:03

being funny no more. Are those days

42:05

over?

42:06

>> No. No. No. No. Those people that do

42:08

that are almost always not very

42:11

talented. Almost always. The only

42:13

exception to that fooling. The only

42:15

exception to that is Cat. And I think

42:16

what Cat was doing was different. Cuz

42:18

what Cat was doing was exposing what he

42:21

thought was snakes and liars.

42:22

>> Okay.

42:23

>> A different thing.

42:24

>> Okay. Okay. I Okay. This is my question.

42:29

>> Okay. Okay.

42:30

>> This is my question. Okay. This is my

42:32

question. People can take it.

42:34

>> Okay.

42:35

>> Okay. Okay, I want to say this. This is

42:37

what I'm saying, Joe.

42:38

>> What are you saying?

42:39

>> I'm coming from this place. I'm like

42:40

this. No disrespect or whatever to Cat,

42:42

but like

42:44

>> who asked you

42:47

>> uh Shannon Sharp did

42:49

>> when he did that podcast.

42:51

>> Shannon Sharp might have asked one

42:53

question.

42:53

>> Shannon, but Shannon Sharp likes that

42:55

like that in his relationship. He likes

42:57

a lot of that. His his people, they find

42:59

questions. He's got a sheet of paper.

43:01

He's got questions. with those Joe. What

43:04

do you do with those truths?

43:06

>> What do you do with talking about I

43:09

watched Oh, this is a horrible

43:11

impression. I sat there in the parking

43:13

lot and I watched people go up at the

43:15

Dy's house and they came down and they

43:17

were standing up. I'm trying to figure

43:19

out what the [ __ ] do you get out of

43:22

that? What what what is the result of

43:25

that? You expose these people to say

43:27

what? Hollywood is never going to

43:31

[ __ ] change. You know what changes?

43:33

Like what you do? I left [ __ ]

43:36

Hollywood. Hollywood is not going to

43:37

change. And I'm not saying I went to a

43:40

diddy party. First off, I was never

43:42

invited.

43:43

>> There's a chance I would accept the

43:45

invitation with rules, you know, right?

43:47

But if what is the purpose of exposing

43:50

something that you

43:52

>> I don't think most people are exposing

43:54

what most people are doing when they're

43:56

being negative is they are jealous and

43:58

they are below the person they're

44:00

talking [ __ ] about like whenever I see

44:02

someone that's talking about jealous

44:04

about you don't think now you say that

44:06

and you use Cat Williams as an example.

44:10

So when you said they're jealous

44:11

>> first of all when Cat did it was very

44:13

funny which is

44:14

>> it was very funny. Cat's a very funny

44:16

guy. And when he was doing it, I think

44:18

he was also being very funny while he

44:20

was doing it, which is different.

44:21

>> Well, you have to put a LOL on the end

44:22

of it because people might not

44:23

understand his humor cuz this is what

44:26

this is the connection people have. They

44:27

This is what they the connection they

44:29

have with cat. It's like they this is

44:30

what they say and they ride with him.

44:32

They say, "Where is the lie? Where is

44:35

the lie?" And all this stuff. But I'm

44:36

just trying to understand what is the

44:38

purpose of exposing all this stuff. What

44:41

do we do with this information? What do

44:43

we do with the information that Diddy

44:44

like to have [ __ ] freak parties with

44:46

baby oil? What the [ __ ] do we do with

44:48

all this information?

44:49

>> Well, Denny's in jail right now, so they

44:51

did that with the information.

44:52

>> Well, Denny's in jail for doing

44:53

something that a lot of people

44:56

I Let me tell you something, Joe.

44:58

>> Tell me something.

45:00

>> I was riding with Diddy for one. I like

45:02

the music he did or everything. I don't

45:04

know did like that. But when I first

45:08

read the definition of sex trafficking,

45:13

right?

45:14

>> I'm sure you're a verse person. You're

45:15

smart.

45:15

>> Uhhuh.

45:16

>> The definition of sex trafficking to

45:19

transport a woman across state lines

45:22

with the intent to have sexual

45:23

intercourse with her.

45:24

>> Right.

45:25

>> When I heard

45:25

>> when you're paying them,

45:28

>> it's trafficking is

45:29

>> No, that's not actually my

45:32

This is my Jamie. You can pull this up.

45:34

>> Wait a minute. So, if you are dating a

45:36

girl and she lives in Minnesota and you

45:38

live in California and you fly her to

45:40

California, that's sex trafficking.

45:42

>> And I'm thinking about

45:44

>> I don't think that's true. I don't think

45:45

that's true at all. I think that's just

45:47

flying a girl in that you're having a

45:49

relationship.

45:49

>> They call it flued out. Fluid out.

45:51

>> Yeah, but that's normal. Everybody does

45:53

that.

45:53

>> But that's the definition.

45:55

>> Commercial sex act.

45:56

>> Yeah. Commercial. Commercial sex act

45:59

induced by force, fraud, or coercion.

46:01

Huh. Well, coercion's crazy cuz coercion

46:04

is like, "Please, I'll buy you a bag."

46:06

>> That's sex trafficking. So, like if a

46:09

girl, right, if you if you if there's a

46:10

girl, she's like, "What are you going to

46:11

do for me?" Like, "You know those shoes

46:13

you want? I got those shoes for you.

46:14

Let's go shopping." Like, that's kind of

46:17

sex trafficking. If that's coercion for

46:19

money,

46:20

>> like if a girl's thinking about coming

46:22

out to visit you and then you go,

46:24

"Listen, listen, listen. What are you

46:26

looking for? What do you What do you

46:27

want to buy? I got money. Come on. Let's

46:29

go shopping." that kind of would fall

46:31

into that category.

46:33

>> But we're getting off topic. Let's go

46:35

back to the topic originally in hand.

46:37

>> The reason why these comedians are

46:38

negative I need to

46:39

>> No, no, no, no. You're not going to get

46:41

in trouble for sex trafficking. Listen,

46:42

that's all horseshit.

46:44

>> But the reason why these comedians are

46:46

doing it is because they're never bigger

46:49

than the comedians they're [ __ ] on.

46:51

Never.

46:51

>> 1,000%.

46:54

>> And you know what it is, Joe?

46:55

>> And they're never good.

46:56

>> That You know what it is, too, Joe? is

46:58

that deep down inside they want to be

47:02

that person

47:03

>> 100%.

47:04

>> And I tell you that

47:04

>> or they want to be in the position that

47:06

person's in is a better way of putting

47:07

it.

47:08

>> And I I I'll use this. I'll tell you

47:09

this story. I realize now not to say

47:11

names, but you it's so many people that

47:13

could be guilt guilty of it. And this is

47:15

the thing that I hear that understands

47:17

me that that that that disturbs me is

47:20

that, you know, uh, a lot of these

47:23

people that [ __ ] the most, they at some

47:26

point in their career, they were favored

47:29

by Hollywood.

47:30

>> Yes.

47:30

>> At some point in their career, they had

47:32

these opportunities. At some point in

47:34

their career, guess what? They had the

47:36

agencies. They had the agents. And

47:38

something happened in their career where

47:40

they fell out of favor for whatever you

47:42

want to call that it. whatever you want

47:44

to call that for whatever maybe

47:46

something they did agency didn't like

47:47

like them too much and now everything

47:50

that they wrote on everything they

47:51

wanted to do now it's all that's [ __ ]

47:54

up and only way you get this opportunity

47:56

cuz it has to be sexual favors and all

47:58

that type of [ __ ] and where did the [ __ ]

48:00

you draw the line

48:00

>> but it's not even sexual favor it's like

48:03

they criticize the work of the other

48:04

person that person ain't [ __ ] that

48:06

person sucks can I can I yo there's

48:09

here's the thing there was

48:12

>> come on you you get this all all the

48:13

time because you ride with Dave and

48:15

Dave's number one, right? So you you

48:17

always get you always get this label

48:19

even though you're a great comic, you

48:21

get this label being a coattail rider,

48:23

>> right? And guess what? Everybody don't

48:26

This is what I try to explain to people,

48:27

Joe.

48:28

>> Everybody does not have to be Batman.

48:34

I don't have a problem with being Robin.

48:37

You know why? Cuz Robin got the same

48:39

amount of screen time as Batman. And and

48:42

the reason why I say this is what I get.

48:44

And I'm I'm telling you this, Joe. I

48:45

don't know if this gum is kicking in.

48:48

>> This is what this is what go this is

48:50

what [ __ ] me up, Joe. This is what

48:52

[ __ ] me up. And I'll tell you example.

48:54

I'm going to give you an example. Don't

48:55

give me examples.

48:56

>> No, I'm going tell you. Are you pulling

48:57

out your phone? I'mma tell you why.

48:59

Because your [ __ ] shirt is [ __ ]

49:01

triggering me right now.

49:02

>> Kill Tony.

49:04

>> You mean the greatest greatest comedy

49:05

show of all time in the history of the

49:07

known universe?

49:08

>> I know that, but there's a lot of lies

49:09

involved. Listen,

49:11

this is this is what they saying. THIS

49:13

IS WHAT THEY SAYING.

49:14

>> DON'T PAY ATTENTION to what they say.

49:16

>> Listen,

49:16

>> why are you doing that?

49:17

>> Yo, you told me things that the Kill

49:19

Tony audience say about me.

49:21

>> Um, Chappelle's butt plug is ACTUALLY

49:25

>> YO, I GOT TO DEAL WITH THIS [ __ ] WHAT

49:28

IS SO NO.

49:29

>> WELL, you got to stop paying attention

49:31

to it.

49:31

>> It's so hard.

49:32

>> You know what it would happen to me if I

49:34

paid attention to all the haters that I

49:36

have? Yeah.

49:36

>> I would go crazy.

49:37

>> You would. Do you think that you paid

49:39

attention to those haters? Now you're at

49:41

a position where now you have so many

49:42

reasons to say [ __ ] them. Do you feel

49:43

like you had that same belief when you

49:46

was first starting this? Did you did you

49:48

engage them then?

49:49

>> Well, I engaged online with a lot of

49:52

people in the early days cuz I didn't

49:54

understand what you're doing is you're

49:56

engaging with people that don't have

49:58

happy lives,

49:59

>> right?

50:00

>> And they're negative. And there's some

50:02

criticisms that are good for you because

50:04

some criticisms make you evaluate what

50:06

you're doing and say, "Okay, well, what

50:07

I need to do is be undeniable." So,

50:09

these critics mean nothing to me because

50:11

you can't the I'm killing the audience

50:14

loves me. I'm selling out everywhere.

50:16

I'm doing great on stage. That you can't

50:18

pay attention.

50:19

>> You know what? You know what? I will say

50:20

this. I hear you, Joe. I tried that with

50:22

them [ __ ] on your shirt.

50:24

>> You had a bad show. You had one bad

50:26

show.

50:27

>> I never had

50:27

>> You had a bad show.

50:29

>> You had a bad show. Please don't do this

50:30

to me. All right.

50:31

>> You did. You had that one bad show where

50:32

you went back and forth. You walked Did

50:34

you walk off the show?

50:37

>> Listen, man.

50:39

>> Get sit the [ __ ] down.

50:41

>> SIT THE [ __ ] DOWN.

50:41

>> [ __ ] WALK OFF THE SHOW.

50:43

>> YOU WANT ME to play it back?

50:44

>> I I

50:46

Please don't do this.

50:47

>> You were a little drunk.

50:49

>> Who is the comic? Who is the comic?

50:50

>> I don't know his name.

50:53

>> We don't need to bring Whoever that dude

50:54

is.

50:55

>> See, now you're doing this. You You know

50:57

what you're doing.

50:58

You're don't You're being A PROVOCATORY

51:00

RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE PROVOKING ME cuz we

51:03

BROKE THIS [ __ ] DOWN AND I DON'T WANT TO

51:05

KEEP GOING.

51:06

>> I didn't think of this when I was

51:07

wearing this shirt. I'll change the

51:08

shirt.

51:08

>> No, it's okay. Put something over.

51:10

>> Shirt. I'll wear a Benny the Jet shirt.

51:11

>> Let's Let's Let's break it down, Joe.

51:14

>> Oh, we don't have to.

51:15

>> If we have to. You started this [ __ ]

51:17

All right. Thank you.

51:19

>> I'm gonna change my shirt right now.

51:20

>> It's like I didn't have a bad show.

51:23

>> You definitely didn't have a great show,

51:25

right? When you walk off, it's not good.

51:29

>> Jesus Christ. God

51:34

I'm cheating now. I feel like Carrie.

51:38

THEY'RE ALL GOING TO LAUGH AT ME.

51:39

THEY'RE going to laugh at me. It wasn't

51:43

this for the last [ __ ] time, Joe. For

51:46

the last [ __ ] time. And this is

51:49

what's so [ __ ] evil about this

51:52

situation that some people call a bad

51:53

show. I never wanted to do the show.

51:57

>> But you came back on. You had a good

51:59

show, right?

51:59

>> I want to go back. Let's rewind. All

52:02

right. And this is You were a part of

52:04

it.

52:04

>> Hey, look. I changed my shirt. No more

52:07

trigger.

52:07

>> I appreciate that.

52:08

>> Shout out to Benny the Jet.

52:09

>> Okay. I feel a lot better now.

52:11

>> Oh boy. I need another piece of gum.

52:14

>> I'm going to say this. Say what it's

52:16

worth. First off, I did not want the

52:20

first time I did it here in Austin,

52:22

>> right?

52:22

>> I didn't want to do the show. Okay.

52:24

>> And the reason why I didn't want to do

52:26

the show, Joe, now you're not even

52:28

paying attention to

52:28

>> You want a cigar?

52:29

>> Yeah, I'll take a cigar. I I didn't want

52:32

to do the show, and I'll tell you why.

52:33

Cuz I'm The streets say I'm sensitive.

52:36

>> You are a little sensitive.

52:39

>> Can I have not have your opinion and

52:41

just listen to me, please? The um uh

52:45

They know I'm sensitive. It was during

52:48

the pandemic, Joe. You remember people

52:51

would still come to do your podcast cuz

52:54

they know the benefits of it and you had

52:56

your thing doing. They would come to

52:57

your podcast and then they would [ __ ]

52:59

leave cuz they didn't want to catch co

53:01

and then they would leave Tony stranded

53:03

and he had no good guests. I was here

53:09

right this when when I'm talking about

53:11

the time when Tony had a black band.

53:15

>> He still has a black band.

53:16

>> All black. There a couple black people

53:18

on there now. Me too. I think it's

53:20

mostly black, right?

53:22

>> Okay. I want to tell a story. This is

53:24

the last time I want to talk about

53:25

>> Deep Madness. I mean, name

53:26

>> this the last time, Joe. I want to tell

53:28

the story.

53:28

>> Drummer, the guitar player or not?

53:30

>> What's that,

53:31

>> Mike? Dr.

53:32

>> Yeah. I mean, there's like

53:33

>> the horns.

53:35

>> A lot of them are black.

53:36

>> Definitely

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54:56

>> Look at the old when it when it's when

54:58

it was all had not high production, all

55:00

that type [ __ ] Tony is like, "It's hard

55:02

for me to get a guess. Would you stay?"

55:04

>> And this is when you [ __ ] me up the

55:06

last time. You wasn't playing fair. Yes,

55:07

you did. I wasn't playing fair.

55:09

>> No, I'm telling you when you weren't

55:10

playing fair.

55:11

>> When was I not playing fair?

55:12

>> Can I talk?

55:13

>> Please.

55:14

>> All I want to do I don't know if I got a

55:16

raise in my hand. I just want to be able

55:17

to speak. It is my month. It's my

55:20

[ __ ] month. So Tony said, "Would you

55:23

stay? Come on." I was like, you know,

55:24

and I stayed, right?

55:25

>> Okay.

55:26

>> And I stayed and I stayed. I was on his

55:28

show for two and a half hours. I told

55:30

him, "This is where it gets all crazy."

55:31

I told him I had a something I was

55:33

supposed to do later. There was another

55:35

black comic that was on his show. He

55:37

started roasting me. I had no problem

55:39

with that. I had no problem with him

55:41

roasting me, but I felt [ __ ] up

55:42

because it was only me him. And I was

55:45

trying to give this guy some sound

55:46

advice. But the only way he thought he

55:48

was going to get off by [ __ ] with me. So

55:49

I was like, "Yo, why you [ __ ] with me?

55:51

We on the same We on this [ __ ] same

55:53

team." What they did was look at the

55:56

[ __ ] video.

55:57

>> Okay.

55:57

>> You see, I want you to slow it down.

56:00

>> Slow it down.

56:01

>> Slow the video down.

56:03

>> It's like a Zapruder film.

56:04

>> It's a back. You're going to let me

56:07

freaking get my thought, Joe.

56:09

>> Sorry.

56:10

>> It's so easy for me to get distracted.

56:12

Just hanging out with

56:13

>> his gum.

56:17

>> So, if you look at this video, you see

56:21

him saying something to me and then when

56:23

I leave, it's two different [ __ ]

56:25

comics on the [ __ ] stage. It's a dude

56:29

that I was roasting and then they showed

56:31

me the exit and then these kill Tony

56:33

[ __ ] ass [ __ ] And I'm telling

56:35

you, I'll get past it. They may Oh,

56:37

Darnell walked off. I didn't walked off.

56:39

I had some other [ __ ] to do. And then

56:41

the last episode, you and your boy Tony,

56:45

he caught here and Tony doubled down on

56:47

it and he said, "No, that's not what

56:49

happened." Of course, them comment

56:51

[ __ ] the ones that be putting

56:52

cringe on here, they rolled with it.

56:54

>> Okay.

56:55

>> Then I came back.

56:58

>> Came back. He had an amazing show.

57:00

>> Tony said it was one of the best shows

57:01

he's ever done.

57:02

>> You know why it was amazing?

57:03

>> Because you were ready. I I'm amazing.

57:06

>> You You are amazing. But also, you

57:08

wanted to get it back,

57:10

>> right?

57:10

>> I didn't have You know what? This is

57:12

what Red Man said to me. Red band. Red

57:14

Man, whatever the [ __ ] his name, he

57:16

changed, too. I'm going to tell you

57:17

about in the Wuang Club.

57:18

>> Let me tell you,

57:20

>> I'm going to tell you the difference

57:21

between him and I'm going to tell you

57:22

the similarities between him and Jamie a

57:24

little later on, right? Okay.

57:25

>> How they're divas now. And I know you

57:27

>> Jamie. My Jamie's a diva. He has a false

57:30

memory of someone already. I'll let him

57:32

go. is the last thing from a [ __ ]

57:35

diva. I will defend Jamie to the bitter

57:38

end.

57:38

>> Well, maybe you don't know him, BUT

57:40

>> I DON'T KNOW. JAMIE.

57:41

>> YO, LET ME TELL YOU. THIS IS JAMIE.

57:43

>> I KNOW JAMIE BETTER THAN his mom.

57:45

>> I know, but this is the Jamie I saw.

57:49

>> Kill Tony after.

57:50

>> Sit down. You're not on camera. Saturday

57:53

night.

57:53

>> Okay. He had a leather jacket on.

57:56

>> Don't have a leather jacket.

57:56

>> Jamie had a leather jacket. Did he own a

57:58

leather jacket? WHATEVER IT WAS.

57:59

>> YOU OWN A LEATHER JACKET. NO.

58:00

>> WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. THE COLLAR WAS

58:03

FLIPPED UP. YOUR COLLAR WAS FLIPPED UP

58:05

>> LIKE DICE. And then AND THEN HE HAD THE

58:08

SHIRT.

58:08

>> You might have had Timmy no brakes.

58:11

He had the shirt open to this button

58:13

right here.

58:14

>> Oh, right. Gold chains.

58:16

>> And he was sitting. I don't know what

58:17

type of moose.

58:18

>> Jimmy had gold chains, boots on his

58:19

hair,

58:20

>> PONYTAIL WAS POPPING.

58:22

HE HAD some type of moose or something,

58:24

right? And then he was just looking and

58:26

I was like, "What's up, Jamie?" He was

58:28

like, he had his hands in his pot. It

58:30

was given, as they say, it was given

58:32

Fonzy attitude. I knew I knew that had

58:35

changed. But this is what Red B Red Man

58:36

whatever man he red

58:38

>> red man he said after the show he said

58:42

that must been the most epic comeback

58:44

and kill Tony history. I was like

58:46

>> well the second episode was you came

58:48

back full

58:49

>> you know what you're doing I don't know

58:51

it was great

58:51

>> I'm trying to use the term I don't I

58:53

don't think this past wrestle but you

58:55

[ __ ] with my MENTAL RIGHT NOW. OH,

58:56

I'M TELLING YOU, YOU'RE A GREAT COMIC

58:58

and you're funny as [ __ ] And when you

58:59

came back, it was amazing.

59:00

>> That's what you're saying.

59:01

>> The second episode was great.

59:02

>> This is the point I'm making that what

59:04

you're doing,

59:04

>> right?

59:05

>> The first episode was great.

59:07

>> It was Dr.

59:11

>> It was It was Dr. VIDEO.

59:15

YOU do it. But then then here's the

59:18

thing. They said the Red Man, Red Band,

59:21

he said

59:23

he said that was the greatest comeback.

59:25

I was like, it wasn't a comeback. You're

59:26

editing what it was. And this is what I

59:28

DID.

59:28

>> YOU'RE EDITING.

59:29

>> THIS IS WHAT I DID.

59:31

>> And I'm not saying I think about the

59:33

kill Tony audience like that, but I

59:35

thought about them cuz what? This is

59:37

what I said. I was like, this is what I

59:38

went. Like you say, I'm a great comment.

59:39

I know what I do. I said, you know what?

59:41

I don't want to give these [ __ ]

59:43

opportunity to be able to [ __ ] with me.

59:44

So I did

59:46

>> before I went that last. I said, okay,

59:47

what did you do last time that you're

59:50

going to do different for they want to

59:51

say that? I was like, the last one you

59:53

had some drinks. Well, I I wasn't able

59:55

to do anything about that cuz I had some

59:56

more drinks. But I was like I tried to

59:58

address what their concerns were, right?

60:01

Which with them, it's not going to make

60:03

a difference cuz I know that last

60:05

episode what this is what I didn't

60:07

understand about Kill Tony. I didn't

60:08

understand the the formula. I don't

60:10

watch it like that. First time I ever

60:12

did it, I was interrupting the one

60:14

minute part. You know what I mean?

60:16

>> Oh, okay.

60:16

>> And Tony told me the first time I did

60:18

it, he said, "D only one rule." He said,

60:20

"Let them talk for a minute." I said,

60:23

"Tony, why you have this on me on this

60:25

show? You know, I'm going to break the

60:26

rules."

60:27

>> And he knew that, right? But then after

60:29

I I was like, I understood how important

60:33

it was to let those comics get that

60:35

minute,

60:36

>> right?

60:36

>> So, when I did it the second time with

60:37

Rob Schneider, I didn't interrupt.

60:39

Sometimes my criticism could have been

60:41

too hard. I was trying to be more

60:42

supportive than anything. If you watch

60:44

the last one I did, I had nothing bad to

60:46

say about people in a harsh way. Certain

60:49

people I knew was up there just because

60:50

it was gimmick. And there were certain

60:52

people I was like, "Oh man, they've

60:53

really got talent." Like this one lady,

60:55

she was an older woman. I think she's a

60:57

regular there, right? I don't know what

60:58

she know what she was. But I told her, I

61:00

said, you know, it's so awesome. I said,

61:02

when I watch you perform, I see passion.

61:04

I see somebody that's going into a

61:05

different career later in life, which is

61:07

the hardest thing to do. I made those

61:09

points like, and I wasn't trying to be

61:10

an [ __ ] And even I got caught up in

61:13

one. They ran with this [ __ ]

61:16

And it's a song that uh there was one of

61:18

the acts by the name of Wanita.

61:21

Wanita is a a gender what is it when you

61:24

>> transgender?

61:25

>> Yeah. You have a dick but you're a girl

61:26

still.

61:27

>> Yeah.

61:28

>> Yeah. Transgender. Right. So she came up

61:30

with this song. She did a song we we

61:33

will praise you. Praise you. And I had a

61:36

couple drinks. Right. And I said and I

61:39

was thinking like

61:39

>> [ __ ] you don't have that song.

61:41

>> What? What? Jamie.

61:43

>> I just started playing it. Sorry.

61:44

>> What? Just stop. Oh, you geared up for

61:46

that [ __ ] huh? You

61:47

>> put your headphones on.

61:48

>> No, listen.

61:49

>> Put your headphones on.

61:50

>> Oh god. Okay.

61:57

>> Go.

61:58

>> Go ahead.

62:08

>> All right.

62:09

>> Wait a minute. That's Wanita's version.

62:11

>> That's

62:12

the Okay. Okay.

62:14

>> Do you got Wanita's version?

62:16

>> Oh, I can find that.

62:17

>> Get the So, this is what happened, Joe.

62:19

So, I'm I had a couple two two three

62:22

four five Titos in

62:25

>> and I'm only looking at the artist with

62:27

my peripheral. I'm not staring nobody

62:29

down and like looking at them through

62:31

the pupils or whatever. So, the

62:33

performer I'm going to say that cuz I

62:35

don't want to get anybody upset. The

62:36

performer was like,

62:37

>> "Here we go.

62:39

Obviously, I'll let him talk to SA.

62:41

>> Okay. Now, look how I'm not paying

62:43

attention,

62:44

>> right? You're looking right AT HER.

62:45

>> SHUT THE [ __ ] UP.

62:47

>> OKAY. LISTEN.

62:49

>> All right. We'll see.

62:53

>> Um, so it's very strange when in 2008.

62:56

>> Sorry.

62:57

>> Okay.

62:58

>> Oh, they had to cut it out, too, I

62:59

think.

63:00

>> Probably the song. Yeah.

63:04

>> I That's the gayest thing I've ever

63:05

done.

63:09

And I do anal,

63:12

>> believe it or not.

63:13

>> Wanita, welcome back to the show.

63:17

>> Can I do a remix of that song for any

63:19

black guy watching her RIGHT NOW?

63:20

>> YEAH.

63:21

>> WE WILL. WE WILL. [ __ ] YOU.

63:27

>> Probably true until you find out she has

63:29

a dick. Darnell,

63:32

>> that is a

63:35

>> Keep it going. Don't

63:37

>> keep it going. This is amazing.

63:40

>> That's how it happens, ladies and

63:41

gentlemen.

63:43

They can't tell.

63:45

>> No. No. Come back.

63:50

>> The brothers. The brothers can't tell.

63:53

THE BROTHERS CAN'T.

63:54

>> THEY WILL. THEY WILL.

63:57

>> They never The last place.

63:58

>> I WAS TRYING TO BE NICE.

64:02

>> The last

64:04

but

64:04

>> Keep it going. Keep it going cuz it's

64:06

hilarious.

64:09

>> Whereas white guys know

64:12

>> that's the first place the white guys

64:14

look.

64:17

>> I'm

64:20

Charlemagne's going to find that clip.

64:22

You will. We will. We will. [ __ ] you.

64:25

You are You are [ __ ] ON NOW.

64:29

I'M

64:29

>> GETTING word from the street.

64:32

I'm

64:32

>> getting word from the street.

64:35

I'm sure this happened.

64:36

>> I DON'T WANT TO GET BANNED LIKE DAVE

64:38

CHAPPELLE, [ __ ]

64:39

>> DANIEL, I'm sure this HAPPENED BEFORE IN

64:41

KOREA.

64:42

>> ME, SON.

64:44

>> I'm sure in Korea, as an 18-year-old

64:46

boy, this is a memory coming back to

64:48

you.

64:50

>> Oh my god.

64:52

>> This is usually how black guys react.

64:55

It's pretty.

64:56

>> Juanita, have you been with a black man

64:58

before?

64:58

>> We go there.

64:59

>> Keep it going. Keep it going. Guess it

65:01

gets you on fire.

65:02

>> Okay. Are you just saying that so that

65:04

he doesn't find you and kill you?

65:06

>> No, I was raised rat. I'm just kidding.

65:08

I mean, that's a joke.

65:09

>> Oh [ __ ]

65:10

>> Now I'm offended.

65:12

>> No, I have been I've been with one. He

65:14

was half.

65:15

>> Okay. He was half

65:16

>> half a black.

65:17

>> Okay.

65:20

>> My career is over, [ __ ]

65:27

>> It's over.

65:32

Yeah,

65:33

>> come on. That was funny.

65:34

>> No, wait a minute. It was funny. And I

65:36

didn't take The funny thing about it was

65:38

I had I did have a couple of drinks,

65:40

right? People like, "How did you not

65:41

know?" Like um I live in the Midwest and

65:43

what I really thought it would I know

65:45

women that look just like Wanita

65:48

>> that in the face is kind of like sketchy

65:51

like a Dollar General one to two. And uh

65:54

I wasn't offended, but it just it just

65:56

caught me off guard. But what I'm going

65:58

back to what I was saying about the kill

65:59

Tony thing, and this is another thing

66:01

people said, "Well, Darnell, you got

66:03

upset cuz Rob Schneider was roasting you

66:05

and whatever." First off, there was the

66:09

first time Rob Schneider was on the

66:10

show, right? He didn't really know too

66:12

much about the Kill Tony platform. I

66:14

knew a little more than he did. And at

66:17

the beginning, he was kind of cold, if

66:19

you want to say, not cold, like not

66:21

funny, but he just wasn't warmed up to

66:23

the flow. And then I started saying

66:25

things. We was I was alleyooping him,

66:27

right? And basically people can say what

66:30

they want. I helped get him comfortable

66:32

in the show and then he started

66:33

crushing. Right. He started crushing and

66:37

then we did we anybody tell you that

66:39

episode was amazing. Right. It

66:40

>> was amazing.

66:40

>> And but this is the thing. This is what

66:42

that play that platform is not a place

66:44

for you to tell how you really feel

66:46

about somebody. Right. And I owe Tony an

66:49

apology. And I'll tell you why. When

66:51

Tony did the um um RN Republic National

66:55

Convention, whatever.

66:57

>> Remember when he did the roasting?

66:58

>> Yes.

66:58

>> For that, it was a very very testy time.

67:02

You know, politics, everybody said you

67:04

shouldn't do this and everything.

67:05

>> I told him not to do it.

67:07

>> You told him not to do the show or not

67:08

to do

67:09

>> the Republican party thing.

67:10

>> Here's the thing, and this is what just

67:12

for the people that's listening, this is

67:13

what happened at the end of that Kill

67:15

Tony with me and Rob Schneider. All I

67:17

wanted to do I I I had the question on

67:20

where do you draw the line? Do you draw

67:22

a line of what people think how you

67:23

supposed to respond something or do you

67:25

loy are you loyal to somebody on how

67:27

they treat you and how they are as a

67:29

friend to you? And Tony wanted me to do

67:32

that show and anytime I've called Tony

67:34

he's pick up the phone vice versa. We've

67:36

been for each other. my publicist.

67:39

I don't know if this is a good idea

67:40

right now to because what you think is a

67:43

nice gesture, you want to do the show,

67:44

people gonna act like it's a political

67:46

stand. I didn't want that, right? So, I

67:48

had

67:49

>> listen to publicists.

67:50

>> This is what I learned now, Joe. You

67:52

know what I'm saying? That was my

67:53

inexperience. Whatever. And something I

67:55

kept calling her. I was like, "What if I

67:57

do this?" Cuz I wanted to be reconnected

68:00

with him, whatever. And I told Tony, he

68:03

was hot in a good way, and a positive

68:05

way. I felt so bad. I caught him. I

68:07

said, "Man, I really want to do the

68:10

show, but I think people gonna take it

68:11

the wrong way now." Right. And this was

68:13

with me. I felt bad about it. I stood up

68:15

at your condo. I was on the balcony,

68:18

bro. And I watched [ __ ] going

68:21

to the show. I felt bad about it. I

68:23

didn't do it. And the only thing I

68:25

wanted to do at the end of that Kill

68:26

Tony episode was to apologize to him and

68:30

say, you know, as a friend, I probably

68:31

wasn't there. And he understood even I

68:33

was like, he's never going to let me do

68:34

the show again. He said, "I'd love to

68:35

have you there." The only issue I had

68:37

with Rob Schneider in that moment, he

68:39

didn't have the sense of me trying to

68:40

say something serious, right? And he he

68:43

was getting a laugh off this one joke

68:45

and it was at my expense. You know, when

68:47

I had this moment, I was talking about

68:49

friendship and everything.

68:51

Rob kept on with this [ __ ] corny joke

68:53

and I didn't want to flip out and then

68:55

people took that as like, "Oh yeah, Rob

68:58

roasted him. The [ __ ] out of here." I

69:01

was trying to talk about and I had this

69:02

issue. You might have the same issue.

69:07

Some people know people certain way, you

69:09

know them different way. And I use an

69:10

example and I'm going to get [ __ ] on

69:13

for saying this or whatever. Like, oh,

69:15

how could you say that?

69:17

>> I um

69:19

>> you got to stop worrying about what

69:20

other people think.

69:21

>> Can't do it. I can't do it.

69:23

>> You got to stop worrying about what

69:24

other people think. This is this is the

69:26

conflict. You you know how you feel.

69:28

>> Just be yourself.

69:29

>> I'll just say this. Kid Rock. Kid Rock.

69:31

Right.

69:32

You say that name for some people in

69:34

certain places they like, "Oh, [ __ ]

69:35

him." or whatever. Right.

69:37

>> I met Kid Rock some years ago when we

69:39

were doing the uh Cornfield shows in um

69:42

in Yellow Springs. And I tell people

69:44

some, and we talked about this earlier,

69:45

some people are provocators.

69:47

>> I really believe Kid Rock doesn't

69:49

believe half the [ __ ] he say, but I

69:51

think that he knows what's going to move

69:52

the Dow is what's going to make him be

69:54

in the headlines or what people like,

69:55

"Oh [ __ ] he's gonna stick to that."

69:58

>> When we did that show in Nashville,

69:59

remember we hung out with him, went to

70:00

his house.

70:01

>> Yeah. Exactly.

70:02

>> Um and and with that, even when he came

70:05

to conference that time, this was the

70:06

point where he says some crazy [ __ ] out

70:08

of his mouth. Nobody wanted to be around

70:09

him or anything. Right. They was like,

70:11

"Oh,

70:12

>> right."

70:12

>> Right. You know, when I do I do this

70:14

thing called I do river runs in in

70:16

Yellow Springs, Ohio. And for some

70:18

reason, I take people down the river and

70:20

it's like a peach thing like you in

70:21

nature.

70:22

>> Got a photo of you right outside the

70:23

door.

70:23

>> I know. I asked for that photo here too.

70:25

Right outside the door. I love that. So

70:27

now if you look at that photo, you'll

70:28

see the energy. That's the vibe I was

70:30

on. And nobody wanted to get close to

70:32

Kid Rock or anything, right? And I

70:34

remember as a kid how the black

70:35

community accepted him. He was cool. I'm

70:37

thinking about that [ __ ] We're riding

70:38

down the river. Kid is over on one

70:41

kayak. I'm on the other side. We smoking

70:43

a joint. And he looked at me and I know

70:44

he was sincere and he said it. He said,

70:46

"Man, it feel like I just had 13 hours

70:49

of anger management, right?" And I was

70:51

like, "Okay, I'm not trying to be a

70:53

therapist or anything, but that felt

70:54

good." Then at the end, we stopped. He's

70:56

flipping burgers and [ __ ] We got to

70:59

know each other. come in touch with each

71:00

other and um he was doing a comedy

71:03

festival in Nashville, right? He

71:05

appreciated me as a comedian. He said,

71:07

"Yo, D, I'm doing this." I was like one

71:08

of the first people he called, right? He

71:10

said, "You want to do it?" I was like,

71:12

"Why not?" Then I thought about I was

71:13

like, "What?" Again, what you're saying,

71:15

I was like, "What people going to

71:16

think?" Seven comedians on the show. I'm

71:18

the only black guy. I knew what I was

71:20

walking into. I knew it was going to be

71:23

all Maggas.

71:25

It wasn't going to be a gay person. It

71:27

wasn't going to be a [ __ ] It wasn't

71:29

going to be a lesbian. It wasn't going

71:32

to be anything but bonafide the real

71:36

real red, white, and blue flag

71:38

[ __ ] But I said, "Darnell, can

71:40

you separate? Can you go up here? Can

71:43

you perform and and be entertaining, not

71:47

shucking, and jing or none of that type

71:48

of [ __ ] I went up there, last person

71:50

got a standing ovation right at the end

71:53

of the show." This is what people might

71:55

not understand, and I'm not trying to

71:56

defend them or anything. At the end of

71:58

the show, me and Kid Rock, or in this

72:00

case, I want to say Kid Rock wasn't

72:02

backstage. Bobby was, right?

72:04

>> And he said, "Man," he looked at me, he

72:06

said, "Man, I think we just brought this

72:09

country back together, right?" And I

72:11

said, "Well, don't separate it,

72:13

motherfucker." He said, "Okay." Two

72:14

weeks later, he do some other stupid

72:16

[ __ ] When when when when Trump got

72:19

elected, I know people went to his page

72:23

to see what his response was going to

72:26

be. Was he gonna gloat? We like, "Fuck

72:29

y'all. This is America." He did this

72:31

video, which I thought was so dope cuz

72:33

it showed two sides of him. It showed

72:36

Kid Rock and it showed Bobby, right? And

72:39

then how they both uh responded to

72:42

Donald Trump being elected. The Kid Rock

72:44

was the crotch grabbing [ __ ]

72:46

[ __ ] you. Right. Then he came out, you

72:49

find this, he came out as Bobby with

72:51

shorts, just no American flags, baseball

72:54

cap, [ __ ] reading glasses or

72:56

whatever. And I thought it was dope the

72:58

dialogue that he had with it. He played

73:00

the victory. He said, you know, you

73:02

know, we did win. He said, but this is

73:04

not a time to gloat. It's so much stuff

73:06

that we need to do. He said, all sides

73:09

want to get to a certain place, but we

73:11

have different ideas on how we going to

73:13

get there. I thought that for whatever

73:16

people want to think, I thought that was

73:17

showing another side. And also, I told

73:20

him cuz I would talk to him off and on.

73:22

I said, "You know what song that you

73:24

should do? You should do Nina Simone's

73:27

uh song um uh misunderstood,

73:30

right? Just sing that shit." But I know

73:32

he wouldn't never do that because the

73:34

base that really likes to resp support

73:37

him might be like, "Oh, he's soft." Now,

73:39

the point I'm making with even though

73:41

with Tony with the situation, I consider

73:44

Tony a good friend of mine for different

73:46

reasons, right? That's why I wanted to

73:47

have that moment to say that, but Rob

73:49

Schneider, as much as they say I took

73:51

away from moments on that show, he took

73:53

away from that moment. I wasn't trying

73:54

to be a [ __ ] I wasn't trying to be

73:55

soft, but I wanted to say I apologize

73:58

cuz sometimes friendships got to be

73:59

stronger than that. And that's where I

74:00

was with that. And as much as I don't

74:02

need

74:04

the Kill Tony show and this is what I

74:06

always say about that show. I said

74:08

there's not that reminds me Kill Tony

74:10

reminds me of the Death Jam era, right?

74:13

And when I say that there was a platform

74:15

for undiscovered talent, people that you

74:18

never seen for it's such a spectacle

74:21

like Death Jam. It was people that

74:23

didn't have the skill set to [ __ ] go

74:25

headline but they was being seen. Same

74:28

thing with Kill Tony. You look at what

74:29

>> is your phone on? Is your phone

74:30

dingering? Shut up.

74:32

>> You look at this. What I appreciate

74:33

about this show for whoever likes it or

74:35

whatever.

74:36

>> It's a platform to get on.

74:38

>> I travel around the country. It used to

74:40

be, you remember back in the day it was

74:42

like, "Oh, I need to be on Letterman. I

74:43

need to be on Carson." Whatever. That is

74:45

the I got to get on Kill Tone

74:47

>> 100%.

74:48

>> And in some cases there's some good and

74:51

bad to that. There some people that was

74:52

ready for it. There's some people like,

74:54

you know what, you had two or three

74:55

minutes worth of jokes. You know what

74:56

I'm saying? You're not ready. But it

74:58

gave people some hope. When I was

74:59

staying at the hotel the other day,

75:01

three people travel across the country

75:03

like with the hopes of that, you know.

75:05

So, I know how important that show is,

75:09

you know. Is it the fan base? I want

75:11

them to be like, "Oh, I can't wait to

75:13

see them." But for me, I always my whole

75:17

career, Joe, I always want to be around

75:19

the people, the places that they say the

75:22

best comedians perform. When I started

75:24

um when I was in New York, I always I

75:26

wanted to get past the comedy seller.

75:28

Not because I wanted to be a seller

75:30

dweller. I didn't want to be the guy in

75:31

the back [ __ ] just every weekend just

75:33

sit back there telling war stories. I

75:36

was like, if this is where the best

75:37

comics perform, I want to be a part of

75:40

that. I want to be past that. Cuz when I

75:41

got past in the comedy seller, it wasn't

75:44

a lot of black comedians working. It was

75:46

Greer Barnes. It was Keith Robinson.

75:49

RIP. It was William Stevenson. Patrice

75:52

>> Patrice Dave Chappelle. In fact, uh

75:55

Barry Catz had a room uh Boston Comedy

75:58

Club and it was black night on Sundays,

76:00

right? The black comedian looked at me

76:02

like they said, "Where you going?" I was

76:03

like, "I got a spot of the seller."

76:05

Like, "How the [ __ ] did you get in the

76:06

cellar?" The way I got into it was put

76:08

to work in, I hung out, got a couple of

76:10

recommendations, and when it's time for

76:11

me to showcase, I did my thing. But the

76:13

minute I got past in the seller, I

76:15

didn't really care about working there

76:16

all the time. I just wanted to be

76:17

validated as like this is the spot. Same

76:19

thing,

76:20

>> you know. Same thing with the comedy

76:22

store. Same thing with what you doing

76:23

here. It was that part of it.

76:24

>> I get it. Um Greg Barnes probably one of

76:27

the most underappreciated talents in the

76:29

country.

76:29

>> But you know what?

76:30

>> I've known that dude for 30 years. He's

76:32

a funny [ __ ] and he's been funny

76:34

forever.

76:34

>> You know, it's so funny that you said

76:36

underappreciated because you know when

76:38

you you know comedians that put the work

76:40

in or whatever. It's a phrase that

76:41

people use underrated, but then you got

76:42

to ask who rated. You didn't use those

76:44

words. You said underappreciated, but he

76:46

is.

76:48

I don't know. Sometimes you got to ask

76:50

yourself,

76:50

>> he's not underrated by comics. He's

76:52

underappreciated by audience members for

76:54

whatever reason. I think it's a social

76:56

media thing. I just think he doesn't

76:58

have a big presence on social media for

77:00

whatever reason. He's a solid solid

77:02

[ __ ] comic though. Always has been

77:04

>> and a solid guy

77:05

>> and a good dude.

77:06

>> But that's another thing. This is the

77:08

era that we in right now. And it's like,

77:09

and you notice it's even more so now.

77:12

The most talented people aren't getting

77:14

the shots if you don't know how to

77:17

evolve. Well, it's not even just that

77:20

because like look at Dave, not Dave

77:22

Chappelle, excuse me, David. David Tel,

77:24

I think, is one of the funniest dudes

77:25

who's ever lived ever. Ever. One of the

77:28

best comics ever in the history of

77:30

comedy and mostly does clubs and does

77:33

like theaters and stuff like that. He

77:34

should be sold out arenas all across the

77:36

country, but he does not promote

77:38

himself. He's not into social media,

77:40

>> but I don't think other than specials.

77:43

>> I don't think I think a tale would be

77:45

petrified. Not that he couldn't do it

77:48

and it was pro. What remember with the

77:49

show he had? What was that? The late

77:51

night show. That was before anybody was

77:52

doing it.

77:52

>> Yeah.

77:53

>> The late night show he go to bars and

77:54

stuff like that.

77:56

>> Insomniac.

77:57

>> Yeah. Insomniac. This is before

77:58

everybody was doing. I don't think that

78:00

some people they like I think he's

78:03

always going to make millions of dollars

78:04

touring or whatever. But I think his

78:06

comfort zone is like he's a not a club

78:08

act, but he's a club comment. I think

78:10

the best thing for him he ever wants to

78:12

be is in front of 250 to 500 people.

78:15

Well, he's awesome in that, but he does

78:17

like when Bert does arenas, he does

78:18

arenas and he murders in arenas.

78:21

>> I think the the real thing with him is

78:23

that he's just focused on his craft

78:25

only. And the props that he gets from

78:27

other comedians on podcasts and things

78:29

along those lines is what really fuels

78:31

his popularity. And then when people go

78:33

to see him, just word of mouth.

78:35

>> Do you think some people might be afraid

78:37

of a certain level of fame that they

78:39

don't want to have?

78:40

>> There is that. But I don't think he's

78:42

that. I just don't think he thinks about

78:43

it. I mean, he doesn't even have a

78:45

phone. Like, he he carries a flip phone

78:47

with him all the time. He has a iPhone

78:48

that he like stores away and sometimes

78:51

he uses it. But when you text him, he

78:53

texts you on like Well, you got to press

78:55

four times. Joe, you know what that is,

78:58

right?

78:58

>> Well, he doesn't want to be distracted.

78:59

>> He's in the Epstein files.

79:03

>> Yo, distracted.

79:05

>> You need to burn a phone if you heavily

79:07

in the Epste files. Uh, no. I think

79:10

>> he's only in the Epstein files cuz he

79:11

was on a lineup that Epstein was going

79:13

to go see at the cellar.

79:14

>> I think David Tail,

79:16

>> Louis J is on that too.

79:18

>> That I I like him. I think David Tail is

79:20

like I think Dave Tail's ultimate

79:23

happiness is being on.

79:27

>> Shut your [ __ ] phone off, man. Put

79:28

that [ __ ] on silent. Just put it on

79:30

silent. Do you know how to do that? You

79:32

don't know how to do that.

79:32

>> Don't disrespect me like that.

79:33

>> Put it on do not disturb. You know how

79:35

to do that?

79:35

>> It's okay. It's off. It's off.

79:36

>> Okay.

79:37

you popular [ __ ]

79:39

>> I think some people I think my opinion

79:42

David T his comfort zone is [ __ ] just

79:45

being as incognito as he tries to be.

79:48

It's just like oh I came up with this. I

79:51

don't know anybody that turns over

79:52

material. There certain comments you

79:55

look at Joe and you like godamn this

79:58

motherfucker's constantly trying.

80:00

>> Yeah.

80:01

>> Like

80:02

>> when I work with Dave

80:04

>> he forces me to do that. Deion Cole is

80:06

another guy when I watch Deion Cole does

80:08

like at the Hollywood improv I think

80:10

maybe three times a week he just have a

80:11

Monday night and he just use as a

80:12

workout right me when I go into a spot

80:15

I'm trying to beat the [ __ ] I'm trying

80:17

to beat it up so sometimes I get

80:19

distracted on what I'm really there for

80:20

that's work out new material there's

80:22

such an there's a different level when

80:24

you just like you know what I could deal

80:26

with the silence I could deal with

80:27

something not working and when I watch

80:29

people like him it's another comedian in

80:31

LA by the name of um Malik S that

80:34

doesn't have all that notoriety like

80:36

that. But when I see him, I'm like,

80:37

damn, every time I see this

80:38

[ __ ] he's working on some new

80:40

[ __ ] and has the same passion. Everybody

80:42

doesn't have that. That's why David Tail

80:44

will always give other comics something

80:47

to like try to achieve cuz he like you

80:49

ain't going to see him doing the same

80:51

[ __ ] It's always a flip and that's what

80:53

makes him who he is. And that's why he

80:55

gets so respected by so many Well, he's

80:58

he's only focused on his craft, whereas

81:01

some people are really focused on social

81:03

media and promotions, and they have a

81:04

guy that films him doing a bunch of wild

81:07

things and edits with music. And

81:09

>> I've never seen so many comedians have

81:12

fullout production crews with him,

81:15

>> right?

81:15

>> On an intro.

81:16

>> I know.

81:17

>> On stage,

81:18

>> they think that that's what they need,

81:20

you know? They think that's what they

81:21

need to separate them. and it does get

81:22

them attention. But what it takes away

81:26

it it it does draw some focus away from

81:29

what you're trying to do which is work

81:30

on your [ __ ] and come up with new stuff

81:32

where a towel doesn't have any of that.

81:33

>> But with that said, it takes away but

81:35

then it also lets you know who the

81:38

special people are. Right now [ __ ] my

81:40

goddamn um guy that services my pool and

81:43

[ __ ] say he's got a H he's got a special

81:45

coming out. I don't know who doesn't

81:46

have a special coming out. And the thing

81:48

about it is like now Joe, you know it,

81:50

specials aren't, if you really look at

81:52

it, specials aren't special anymore.

81:54

It's special.

81:55

>> It's a weird word, right? Specials are a

81:57

weird world.

81:58

>> It's I got a new special. Like no other

82:01

art form calls it a special. Like if

82:03

someone like Taylor Swift puts out a

82:05

concert video, it's a video of her

82:08

performance. You know, a musician puts

82:10

out a a video, it's that it's like for a

82:12

comic, we got a weird word special.

82:15

>> You know what special is now? What? When

82:17

you get excited about special, if you

82:18

people still do that, it's who's putting

82:20

it out. It's special people that do it.

82:22

It's special people like

82:24

>> um Sebastian, he's doing a special. You

82:27

know what I'm saying? [ __ ] Tom does a

82:29

special. It's special people where, you

82:31

know, it's special. And a lot of them

82:33

now is just people that's doing 45

82:34

minutes worth of comedy. No beginning,

82:37

no middle, no end, no point of view. You

82:39

don't know anything about them. It's

82:41

just like the same way they do photo

82:43

dumps. It's just like joke dumps,

82:44

>> right? But I I say and I'm not people

82:47

say Dave Chappelle's uh butt play, but

82:50

one thing I could say, however you look

82:53

at

82:53

>> Dave Chappelle's a what?

82:54

>> No, I'm Dave Chappelle's butt plug. I'm

82:56

going back to that's what people, you

82:57

know, they

82:58

>> You got to stop listening to what other

83:00

people say.

83:01

>> Joe, I'm segueing into a story.

83:07

>> Is it about Jamie wearing a Fonza

83:08

jacket?

83:09

>> Hey,

83:12

he's got him in all colors. It's got him

83:14

all.

83:14

>> He's got a red, white, and blue one,

83:16

>> you know, and like people,

83:16

>> he took it off before the show.

83:18

>> People get so critical, but at certain

83:21

point people evolve.

83:25

People that you norm certain way, but

83:27

then you talk about a person has a 35,

83:29

40 year career, like people like, well,

83:31

this last special so and so did it

83:34

wasn't that funny. But how often, how

83:36

long are you going to just be like rip

83:38

roaring funny? Some people have a

83:39

position where when they talk, people

83:41

listen. And I look at I'll use Dave as

83:44

an example. If you look at All Special

83:47

20 years from now, right, you having

83:50

Netflix and chill day or whatever.

83:52

>> If you play all the special that Dave

83:55

ever did, you would know exactly what

83:57

was going on in the world at that time.

84:00

>> You know what I mean? You know what's

84:02

going Some people put out singles. They

84:03

got one or two jokes. And some people

84:04

pull out put pull put put out albums.

84:08

He's he's one of those people. Sebastian

84:09

is another one. And you look at like you

84:11

see how his comedy evolved. People get

84:13

older. They have different perspective

84:15

on life and that's what you have to

84:17

[ __ ] accept him for. But we don't we

84:19

don't do that. Right.

84:20

>> And another thing I don't know if this

84:24

is prevalent in your community and when

84:26

I say that your community is a lot of

84:28

people but

84:30

>> my community man is just so much dumb

84:34

beef. And I've It's only one wife be

84:38

white beef I've ever known about and

84:40

that's yours.

84:42

>> Mine?

84:43

>> Yes.

84:45

>> What do you mean?

84:46

>> The beef that you had with it. I don't

84:47

even

84:48

>> Ben.

84:48

>> Yeah. Years ago.

84:49

>> Oh, well that was the same thing like

84:51

with Cat. Like some [ __ ] just has to be

84:53

exposed. That was a real problem, man.

84:56

You weren't around the store back then,

84:57

but it was a real problem where he had

85:00

that special or that show brother on

85:02

Comedy Central after Dave left

85:04

>> which was basically doing his version of

85:06

Dave's sketches and he was ste.

85:10

>> Do you think it was his version of Dave

85:11

sketches?

85:12

>> It was a lot of [ __ ] was like the when

85:13

when he dressed like the white guy and

85:15

had white paint on his face and wore the

85:16

white wig. It was basically the same

85:18

character that Dave was doing.

85:19

>> Yeah. But if you look at the history of

85:20

sketch comedy, I don't think Dave was

85:22

the first person to ever paint dressed

85:24

himself up to look like But it was right

85:27

afterwards. Right after same slot.

85:31

>> Anything that came after Chappelle's

85:34

show, they would have compared.

85:35

>> Dave was saying it.

85:36

>> Yeah.

85:37

>> Dave never talked [ __ ] about nobody. Was

85:39

like, "This motherfucker's doing my

85:40

show." Dave was saying it. Dave doesn't

85:43

talk [ __ ] about nobody,

85:45

>> right?

85:47

>> It was But that was the That was only

85:49

one of the problems. The real problem

85:51

was he would sit in the back room and

85:53

watch open mic nights and take their

85:55

[ __ ]

85:56

>> like when they would flash the light

85:57

when he was in the room. So comics

85:59

wouldn't do material. They would start

86:00

doing crowd work.

86:01

>> So why didn't he get exposed before

86:03

that? Why did it just come?

86:04

>> Because nobody had the balls to do it.

86:05

>> And then he had to

86:06

>> because he was famous at the time and he

86:08

was doing and look at it cost me. I got

86:11

banned from the store. I lost my agent

86:13

and I was famous. I I was on Fear

86:15

Factor. I was rich. I there was I had a

86:18

lot going for me where I could stick my

86:20

neck out.

86:21

>> But you came back stronger. I give

86:22

another example like the same situation

86:24

with Dave and Comedy Central and [ __ ]

86:25

As much as he went through that Yeah.

86:27

>> he took a 12-year hiatus or whatever you

86:29

want to say.

86:29

>> What Dave showed in that is that he's a

86:32

real artist,

86:33

>> right?

86:33

>> Dave just said, "Fuck it. I'm going to

86:35

disappear for a while." Like a legend.

86:37

He just disappeared. I remember when we

86:39

I was hearing stories about Dave doing

86:41

shows where he would set up a a speaker

86:43

in Seattle in the park and just start

86:45

doing standup and people like what the

86:46

[ __ ] and for no money. People would just

86:49

show up and he would just do street

86:51

performances.

86:51

>> But you know was what was kind of where

86:53

he got it from? You you've heard of a

86:54

comment I'm pretty sure of it. Charlie

86:56

Barnett

86:56

>> 100%. Yeah. We played Charlie Barnett on

86:58

the show. I knew Charlie. Charlie was

87:00

like, "If you ever thought you were

87:02

funny or whatever, go." This is what the

87:05

art of. Only people I've ever known that

87:06

got certain level of success with that

87:08

that Charlie Barnett, Michael Collier

87:10

when he used to Venice Beach,

87:11

>> right?

87:11

>> But people don't understand how Charlie

87:14

Barnett would like

87:17

to go to a park, go to the center of

87:19

Washington Square Park

87:20

>> and get to gather around a bunch of

87:21

people in

87:22

>> you got it's a certain certain

87:23

technique. Not only that, you got to

87:25

hold their attention for one joke,

87:27

>> right? You got to get them involved.

87:29

Blah blah blah blah. And you build this

87:31

audience up and then it's really for

87:33

one.

87:34

>> A lot of people don't know that Charlie

87:35

got Saturday Night Live but he couldn't

87:36

read.

87:37

>> Yeah, he couldn't. And that's what g

87:38

opened up the door

87:40

>> and and but but he was so gangster like

87:42

when they wouldn't give him spots

87:44

because, you know, he was probably a bit

87:46

to deal with. He would go to the Boston

87:48

Comic Cup and yell in there, "DON'T GO

87:50

IN THERE. I'M DOING MY SHOW IN FIVE

87:53

MINUTES." THE WHOLE [ __ ] club would

87:57

come out. That's how much power he had.

87:59

But then sometimes that we become

88:02

victims of our own vices and everything

88:04

and destroy us more than anything.

88:07

That's why when people talk [ __ ] about

88:09

like they oh Kevin Kevin Hart didn't get

88:11

out the mud. It's you got funny but you

88:14

know funny isn't everything. Okay.

88:18

You're funny. That's not Oh, so good

88:20

that you got talent, but more

88:22

importantly, it's your work ethics. And

88:25

how do you take your god-given talent

88:26

and your passion and turn it into money?

88:29

You know, you're into music and

88:30

everything. You probably could name a

88:32

million saxoponists or whatever that

88:35

didn't get to do that. You could be

88:36

like, "Well, listen to this shit." But

88:38

for some reason, they didn't have the

88:39

business part and and and all that

88:42

together. And I'm going back. I'm

88:43

probably talking in circles now, but

88:44

this is what upsets me the most about uh

88:48

my folks or whatever. These people that

88:50

go on these platforms and talk [ __ ]

88:52

about people. There was a comedian that

88:54

was talking [ __ ] about Martin Lawrence,

88:56

right? Well, I saw Martin Lawrence and

88:58

Martin Lawrence in the casino. He's

89:00

really It's not that funny. I'm like

89:03

this [ __ ] He's Martin Lawrence.

89:07

>> Well, they didn't know him in the 90s.

89:09

No, no. This person, no. This person

89:12

particularly

89:13

>> it. No. If you just know Martin

89:16

Lawrence, period, that's enough. Richard

89:18

Pride before he passed away when he was

89:21

in a wheelchair. Damn near rolled him

89:22

out on the stage. Sold out audiences.

89:24

>> I followed him for 6 weeks. I followed

89:26

him for six weeks at the comedy store

89:28

when he was like that.

89:29

>> Certain people, Joe, I look at this

89:30

business, are made people. How dare you

89:32

talk [ __ ] about this [ __ ]

89:34

>> That's a good way to put it. He's a made

89:36

man. Another thing Joe legend you know

89:38

in this business you can have a career

89:41

right but you have certain times where

89:42

you just ruled

89:44

>> you had three years Martin Lawrence film

89:46

star

89:47

>> uh movie star comedy star he had one

89:50

period of time for five or seven years

89:51

when it was just Martin everywhere how

89:53

dare you as a person gets older and

89:56

whether he has a good bad a night or a

89:58

bad night how are you to judge and you

89:59

ain't doing [ __ ] how are you to judge a

90:01

[ __ ] that when I was coming up

90:03

Joe every [ __ ] black comic in the

90:06

business wanted an audition. Everybody

90:09

wanted to be Hustle Man. Everybody

90:11

wanted to just get two or three minutes

90:12

on Martin show cuz they knew what that

90:14

dude that would do to their career. So

90:16

you judge a [ __ ] years down the

90:18

road, right? Where they basically when

90:21

Martin goes out, guess what? Martin not

90:23

doing no tour saying I'm doing 45

90:25

minutes, whatever. He's like, "Y'all

90:26

want to see me? Guess what? Y'all going

90:28

to see this young talent. You going to

90:29

see this person. I'm putting people on.

90:31

How dare you even have come out your

90:33

[ __ ] mouth and talk [ __ ] about this

90:34

[ __ ] How dare you talk [ __ ]

90:36

about [ __ ] that talk [ __ ] about

90:38

Kevin Hart? How dare you talk [ __ ] about

90:40

a [ __ ] that was rocking with a

90:41

dude Nate Nate Smith RIP passed away. I

90:45

remember when Kevin Hart was the one of

90:46

[ __ ] doing those comment cards.

90:48

All right. All right. I'm doing emiss e

90:51

email list one. I remember when [ __ ]

90:54

Kevin Hart had [ __ ] 20,000 people on

90:57

Instagram. No, on Twitter and at the

90:59

radio. He was like, "Yo, Ray says, "Yo,

91:01

D, this apartment." I seen the hard

91:03

work. I see him not just come to [ __ ]

91:06

New York and do the black rooms. I'm

91:08

doing the black rooms. I'm doing the

91:09

white rooms. I'm doing all of this [ __ ]

91:11

How dare you. I I'll just say this and

91:14

I'll answer this. It ain't no B for

91:15

nothing. Cat Williams said, this is what

91:18

Cat Williams said about Kevin Hart. How

91:20

I find it very strange that you just

91:23

come from New York and then you have a

91:25

TV show and a movie show and how does

91:27

that happen? You were in New York. I'll

91:29

tell you how it happens.

91:31

You're on the biggest showcase in

91:35

comedy. And you know what that is? JFL.

91:39

Just for laughs. Kevin Hart was a

91:41

product of that. Mo'Nique was a product

91:43

of that. Dave Chappelle was a product of

91:45

that. No, Kevin Hart wasn't pounding the

91:48

streets in LA, but he happened to be on

91:50

a showcase. When you y back in the day,

91:53

you do with JFL. It was [ __ ]

91:55

leaving there. that probably have $500

91:57

in the bank, leaving with a quarter

91:59

million dollar development deal just to

92:01

do nothing. That's the error it was. I

92:03

remember. So, just because you weren't

92:04

in LA doesn't mean you wasn't you wasn't

92:06

beating the pavement.

92:07

>> And I don't care in LA, you got LA and

92:10

New York. Nobody as a stand-up comic

92:12

grinds as hard as a comic come from New

92:14

York opposed to LA. And the reason why

92:17

LA don't have that many stages. LA don't

92:19

have that many stages. They would tell

92:21

you all the time as a standup comic, if

92:22

you if you're trying to be an actor,

92:24

whatever, go to LA. If you want to be a

92:26

great stand-up comic, bang it out in New

92:28

York. And this was this was the rule

92:30

back in the day, Joe. Let Hollywood call

92:32

you. You just don't go to LA to sleep on

92:34

somebody couch. Some people had that

92:35

story, but it was like you grind. And

92:37

back then,

92:38

>> everybody's got their own path, D. You

92:40

could do whatever the [ __ ] you want.

92:41

It's just work on your act.

92:42

>> That's the point that I'm making.

92:44

>> Yeah. It's just everybody's got their

92:45

own path. The the real problem in this

92:47

conversation is what I said earlier.

92:49

It's worrying about what other people

92:51

think. The more you spend time worrying

92:53

about what other people think, the less

92:54

you're worrying about what you're doing,

92:57

>> you less you're thinking about what

92:58

you're actually trying to achieve.

93:00

>> And I listen to what you're saying and I

93:02

don't listen to what you're saying. And

93:04

and the reason why I say that every time

93:05

I go into this rabbit hole or whatever

93:08

and it's the echo, it's like a a a Rogan

93:11

angel right here and it's whispering,

93:13

"Don't read the comments."

93:14

>> Yeah, but I'm right.

93:16

>> I still read them.

93:17

>> I know you should.

93:18

>> But I I'm I'm stopping. But this is

93:20

another thing I didn't What I didn't

93:22

know is that white comedians actually

93:29

have beef with each other.

93:32

I did not know or at least it's not uh

93:35

you don't hear about it.

93:36

>> It's rare. It's more rare. And the ones

93:39

who have beef are usually failures.

93:42

They're usually people that aren't doing

93:43

well. Usually people that aren't

93:45

>> example.

93:46

>> Okay.

93:46

>> I'm exposing the industry right now. I'm

93:48

not exposing. I have an example was so

93:50

funny and this was interesting. I was at

93:52

the comedy store.

93:53

>> Oh, you told me this.

93:55

>> This so [ __ ] funny to me, son. About

93:58

two months ago, right? I'm good friends

94:00

with Bill Burr. You know, we did we had

94:02

um Rich [ __ ] Tour with Charlie Murphy,

94:04

me, Bill Burr years ago, and I know uh

94:08

Mark Marin, right? I don't know. What I

94:11

found out is I didn't know Mark Marin

94:13

the way white people know Markin, right?

94:16

So I know Mark Marin like when I see

94:18

Mark Marin I was like a that's the guy

94:20

that had one of the greatest podcast out

94:23

that guy that was one of the alternative

94:25

comedy favorites Mark Marin's special so

94:28

when I see Mark Marin I have a certain

94:30

level of respect like oh that's the guy

94:31

who did it whatever so I was doing Annie

94:34

Letterman's show for what Annie Wood or

94:37

whatever right and I love that girl um

94:39

and I'm in the green room and I'm

94:41

smoking a joint I forgot who sponsored

94:42

this weed but it was incredible right so

94:44

I'm in there and I'm cracking jokes.

94:46

Bill is right there and then Mark is

94:49

over by the side of the door and I'm

94:51

cracking jokes with Bill and everything

94:52

and I felt something did nobody was

94:54

really laughing at my jokes, right? That

94:57

all of a sudden a whole [ __ ] argument

94:59

popped off and it was like it was white

95:02

argument because it was so nice. They

95:05

were so gentle to each other. It was a

95:07

whole bunch of, oh yeah, but you'll

95:09

never do my podcast. It was like podcast

95:11

beast. I'm right in the middle. I don't

95:14

even know. I didn't even know that they

95:16

had beef like this, but they were so

95:17

gentle about it. But I tell you the

95:18

difference between white beef and black

95:20

beef. I never felt that I was going to

95:22

get shot.

95:24

Yo, I felt so safe. Yo, if anything, I

95:29

thought it'd be like lawsuits the next

95:31

morning, defamation of character,

95:33

slander, but I never knew that it was

95:35

[ __ ] Caucasian and on Caucasian beef

95:38

like that and it was entertaining.

95:40

>> This is an example. Mark Maron was doing

95:42

really well at one point in time in his

95:43

career and now he's not. So Mark Maron

95:45

had the number one podcast and after a

95:47

while his podcast wasn't even in the top

95:49

200. It dropped off.

95:51

>> Bill Burr, his career's

95:54

>> took off. He's doing arenas. He's

95:56

killing it. Mark's not. And Mark finds

95:59

reasons to criticize other people that

96:01

are doing much better than him. And he

96:03

focuses on that because he thinks he

96:04

should be getting more than he deserves.

96:06

>> But do you think that's going back to

96:07

being a provocator? He knows if he

96:09

talked his [ __ ]

96:09

>> No, no. I think it's going back to being

96:11

bitter and jealous and thinking about

96:13

other people instead of thinking about

96:14

himself and why people don't want to go

96:16

see him anymore.

96:17

>> He was upset when we left the comedy

96:19

store because we took the crowds away.

96:21

>> And it's like, hey, you were on the

96:23

[ __ ] marquee, too, man.

96:24

>> Right.

96:25

>> They're not coming to see you. And the

96:26

reason why they're not coming to see you

96:27

is because you're not doing well. And

96:29

your podcast was in the top. It was

96:32

number one. And when it was at number

96:33

one, by the way, this is what I always

96:35

say about Mark Maron, he was great. Mark

96:37

man was fun to hang out with when he was

96:39

killing it, right? Because he was happy

96:41

>> because he was getting validation

96:42

because he had the number one podcast.

96:44

We were friends. Like I did his podcast,

96:46

he did mine. We had a good time. I'd hug

96:48

him when I see him. Like we had gone

96:51

back and forth many times and having

96:52

beef with each other. His problem, let

96:54

me finish. His problem was when

96:56

everybody else started doing really good

96:58

and he started dropping off. Right.

97:00

That's what happened.

97:01

>> Why? Just what I don't understand. Why

97:02

can't people understand that you have a

97:05

moment? Like I was talking

97:06

>> because he's a [ __ ] narcissist and he

97:08

wants the moment to always be around

97:10

him.

97:10

>> He wants it to always be about him and

97:12

when other people are doing better than

97:13

him, he wants to talk [ __ ] about them.

97:15

And that's where Phil had a problem with

97:16

it.

97:17

>> You think being a narcissist in this

97:18

field is a bad thing? I for some reason

97:20

I think that kind of fuels you to be the

97:22

person that you are to be determined to

97:23

do and not give a [ __ ] about what nobody

97:25

think.

97:25

>> Well, having self-respect and having an

97:29

ego where you care about what you put

97:31

out, yes, that's a good thing. But

97:34

making it all about you and not being

97:35

able to appreciate other people's work

97:37

is crazy because other people doing well

97:40

can be fuel for you to be inspired and

97:42

do better yourself. And it's a positive

97:45

thing. And if these people are your

97:46

friends and you love them and you care

97:47

about them, you should be happy that

97:49

they're killing it. And if you're not

97:50

killing it anymore, you should try to

97:52

figure out why. Because it's not like

97:53

the door is not open. It's not like

97:55

you're not getting on stage. It's not

97:56

like you're not putting out specials.

97:57

You should probably figure out why your

98:00

podcast dropped from number one to not

98:02

even in the top 200 anymore without

98:04

anything happening. You didn't get

98:06

arrested. There was no scandal. There

98:07

was nothing crazy. You should try to

98:09

figure that out. And he doesn't do that

98:10

cuz he's instead bitter. Bitter and

98:13

jealous. He's always been like that.

98:15

There's a story about John Stewart

98:17

>> and Andrew Schultz came on the podcast

98:18

and told the story about John Stewart

98:20

and Marin where

98:21

>> Marin confronted John Stewart but John

98:23

Stewart got some television show. He

98:24

called him a [ __ ] sellout. He yelled

98:26

at him. all this different [ __ ] John

98:28

Stewart left the show and they hired

98:30

Marin to do the same show.

98:32

>> Yeah.

98:32

>> The same show that he was calling John

98:34

Stewart for being a sellout.

98:35

>> So, how did you go from that to Okay,

98:37

for you to have one of the biggest

98:39

podcast at some point in your career,

98:41

you had to be likable or you think

98:42

people just wanted to do the show?

98:44

>> There wasn't very many pod podcast back

98:46

then. The thing that killed Marin's

98:48

podcast, my personal opinion, no hate,

98:50

is that he has this rant at the

98:52

beginning of his podcast that's not

98:54

entertaining. I don't think it's good.

98:56

And he the rant was long and he would

98:58

just ramble about himself, was very

99:00

self-obsessed. And I just don't think it

99:02

was good. And I think that was part of

99:04

the problem. It's also the problem was

99:06

how he interviewed people. He had a very

99:07

confrontational interview style,

99:09

specifically with some comedians that he

99:11

felt like were below him or that he

99:13

could pick on.

99:13

>> You would think that that style would

99:15

work in this day and age.

99:16

>> No, no, no, no. People don't want always

99:18

to be uncomfortable. They want to like

99:20

you, man. They want you to be a good

99:21

person.

99:22

>> People want train wrecks. They want

99:24

train wrecks for 15 second or 30 minute

99:28

30 second in Instagram clips. They don't

99:30

want train wrecks to be their primary

99:32

thing that they're listening to when

99:33

they're in traffic on the way to work.

99:35

>> But the people that host these podcast

99:37

now like I think people going to these

99:39

podcasts now and like this ah this is

99:41

going to be clickbait. We're going to go

99:42

viral.

99:43

>> Yeah. But that's they're not that

99:45

talented. That's why they're doing it is

99:46

because that's their only method of

99:49

getting attention. If they were

99:51

entertaining and interesting and

99:53

fascinating, then their podcast would be

99:56

about that.

99:58

>> You know what?

99:58

>> It's all in what you're trying to focus

100:00

on. What I try to focus on on my podcast

100:02

is who do I want to talk to? I never

100:05

have someone on and go, "Oh, this would

100:07

be great. It'll be very controversial.

100:09

People will [ __ ] hate them. It'll be

100:11

crazy. They'll say wild shit." I never

100:12

do that. My podcast is only about who do

100:16

I want to talk to. That's why I have a

100:18

lot of people on that aren't even

100:19

remotely famous because they're

100:21

interesting, right? I find them

100:22

interesting. I find with the book they

100:23

wrote interesting, the documentary they

100:25

made interesting. I want to know

100:27

something about them. I it stimulates my

100:29

curiosity.

100:30

>> Do you think that there's going to be a

100:31

a shift? Do you think that these

100:34

salacious interviews, these interviews

100:36

with the provocator, you think?

100:38

>> I don't think about it. Okay,

100:39

>> that's my key.

100:40

>> You know what's so funny about I I will

100:42

say this. You know what's funny about

100:43

what you said that I was with Dave a

100:46

while ago and he echoed the exact same

100:48

thing and I was having this conversation

100:49

with him. He said, "Don't even think

100:52

about that shit."

100:53

>> Yeah. Don't think about it. There's

100:54

other things to think about. This is

100:56

I've said this too many times. If people

100:57

have heard this before, I'm sorry. Think

100:59

of your focus and your attention like a

101:02

number. Think of you have like a hundred

101:05

points in a day to spend on things. If

101:08

you spend 30 of those points thinking

101:11

about haters or 30% of those thinking

101:13

about bitter people, 30% thinking about

101:16

other people that are doing better than

101:17

you, that's 30% that you robbed from the

101:20

100% that you have to focus on your

101:22

life. I have things to do, man. I have a

101:24

family. I have friends. I have loved

101:26

ones. I have interests. I have hobbies.

101:29

I have comedy and podcasts and the UFC

101:32

and all these different things that I

101:33

like to do and I think about those

101:34

things. I don't think about negative,

101:37

stupid things with people that have

101:38

bitter, angry minds that are

101:41

concentrating on other people's success

101:42

and trying to tear them down all the

101:44

time because they're trying to tear them

101:45

down all the time because they compare

101:46

themselves to them and they don't like

101:48

how they stack up. They don't like the

101:50

fact that person's doing better. They

101:51

don't like the fact that person's more

101:53

successful. So they try to take things

101:56

either out of context or they try to

101:57

misrepresent who that person is. They

101:59

try to change public perception of that

102:01

person to try to drag that person down.

102:04

And it's transparent. The reason why it

102:06

doesn't work is because people

102:07

inherently know what you're trying to

102:09

do. It might get people, oh, there's

102:11

beef. Oh, there's beef. Those are

102:13

simple-minded people that you're always

102:15

going to attract, but you're not going

102:16

to change people's opinions of things.

102:18

It's it's a trick. It's a trap that

102:20

you're playing on yourself.

102:22

It's a waste of your precious resources.

102:25

You only have so much time in the day.

102:27

My time I spend on things that I think

102:30

are interesting or beneficial or things

102:33

that excite my curiosity. And I think

102:35

that is the way I like to live my life.

102:37

Now, if you like to live your life

102:39

constantly engaged in beefs and being

102:41

filled with anxiety and stress and you

102:42

want to do that, okay, but those are

102:44

bitter [ __ ] people. I don't want to

102:46

be a bitter person.

102:47

>> In another life, could you have been a

102:48

therapist?

102:50

Well, I majored in psychology

102:53

for the brief amount of time that I was

102:55

in college. That was what I was

102:56

interested in, but it was I was doing

102:57

that because I was fighting at the time

102:59

and I was trying to figure out how to

103:01

manage my mind. So, I was trying to

103:03

figure out the inner workings of the

103:04

human psyche.

103:05

>> Do you think I know this is I'm not Do

103:08

you think your success

103:11

made you a a more calm person to not

103:16

give a [ __ ] Well, it certainly helps,

103:18

right? You don't have to give a [ __ ] if

103:20

you have enough money that you could

103:22

just like disappear off into the sunset

103:24

and never have to worry about money

103:25

because a lot of people are always

103:26

worried about money. And so, you're

103:27

always constantly in this state of

103:28

anxiety or trying to get more. That

103:30

helps, but it's also it's like there's

103:33

other things in life. I concentrate on

103:36

my loved ones. I concentrate on my

103:37

friends. I concentrate on things I enjoy

103:39

doing, on fun. This this life is short,

103:42

man. You and I are 58 years old. We're

103:44

more than halfway dead. Why would you

103:46

spend time concentrating on people you

103:49

don't like? Like, it's one thing if

103:50

someone's wronging you. It's one thing

103:52

if you find out you have a business

103:54

partner who's been stealing money or you

103:56

have someone who's uh lying about

103:57

>> Shout out to uh uh uh Dane Cook.

104:00

>> No, I'm just saying. No, I know

104:02

>> his own brother stole D like this. Yet

104:04

the [ __ ]

104:06

>> Yeah, it's very very interesting. And

104:09

I'm at a place right now. I was um I was

104:12

with John Ham, right? San Francisco and

104:16

I had just did a show with Dave and it

104:18

was interesting. He says something to

104:19

me. He's in the back and he's with his

104:20

wife and we kicking and he used to come

104:22

out to summer camp and everything hang

104:23

out with us. I don't say we like super

104:26

friends but we have mutual respect for

104:27

each other and it was interesting

104:28

because we're in the green room and this

104:30

is after I had just slayed this audience

104:31

or whatever, right? And and I'm feeling

104:33

good and he said Don he said what is it

104:35

that you really want to do? He said what

104:38

is it that you want? I said what kind of

104:39

question? He said no I mean what is it

104:40

want? Is it TV? Is it TV show? Is it

104:43

movies? I was like, "John, I'm doing

104:46

exactly what I want to do."

104:49

For me to be able to wake up, not have

104:51

to work for anybody, call my own shots,

104:55

make a fair wage, take care of my

104:57

families, enjoy my friends, and

104:59

everything. And it's me connecting with

105:01

a Godgiven talent. Anything else is a

105:05

bonus. I don't look at it like I need

105:07

the private jet and everything. certain

105:09

things you like, you know, that would be

105:10

nice. But I just look at what this life

105:13

has given me and I'm appreciative of

105:15

that. I know so many people that of my

105:18

uh class, whatever, that aren't doing

105:20

nearly as well as I am. Or even the ones

105:22

that aren't, that don't mean that

105:23

they're happy. You know what I'm saying?

105:25

So when he asked me that question, I

105:27

didn't think any bad of it. I was like

105:28

this. I don't get caught up on looking

105:31

at somebody, they got this, they got

105:33

that. I like this. Am I happy? Am I

105:36

comfortable? Do I get to do what I want?

105:37

So whether I tell people all this all

105:39

the time, whether I get another film

105:41

opportunity, whether I get another TV

105:43

show or whatever or any of that, I'm

105:46

living

105:47

what some people's dreams are.

105:50

>> Yes.

105:50

>> And it's not my dream, it's my reality.

105:54

>> Yes.

105:54

>> And I also had to realize this is so

105:56

easy for us to do. You can be so

105:58

connected with somebody and even with um

106:00

my situation with my connection with

106:02

Dave and everything, I'm a huge fan of

106:04

Dave. He's given me great opportunities

106:05

and everything, but at some point in my

106:08

life, I had to say, you can't be caught

106:10

up in somebody else's dream so much that

106:12

you forget your realities. And my real

106:15

my reality is whether I'm alongside of

106:17

him or what I'm doing, I got to continue

106:19

to be Don Rollins. I got to continue to

106:21

support my family. I got to continue to

106:23

do things that I do. And it's so easy.

106:26

You It's so easy for me to get caught

106:27

up. I'm like, I'm rolling with Dave. We

106:29

on the Jets. We doing this type of [ __ ]

106:31

But then I'll lose focus on who I am.

106:33

And I realized for me and my career

106:35

continues to go when I know how to make

106:38

that separation. I do have

106:40

>> Yeah. But the thing is even when you're

106:41

caught up with Dave, you still love him

106:43

and you don't hate him at all. You're

106:45

not you're not jealous of him at all.

106:47

>> You might get caught up in the wave

106:48

because you're hanging out with one of

106:49

the greatest comics that's ever lived.

106:51

But it doesn't mean that it's a

106:53

negative.

106:53

>> And you know, another thing, let me add

106:54

to that, and I'm not blowing my own horn

106:57

or whatever. Like you said, one of the

106:59

greatest comedians ever lived, right? If

107:00

a person had a conversation with Dave

107:02

Chappelle, people can say whatever I'm

107:03

woring about people think. If you ask

107:06

Dave

107:07

who is in his top five comedians, my

107:11

name's going to come up. So, as much as

107:13

people, they always talk about they

107:15

always try to pin me like blah blah this

107:18

and everything. I respect the fact that

107:20

I he respects me, I respect him. When we

107:23

work together, we push each other. We

107:24

make each other whatever people want to

107:26

say, we make each other better. And what

107:29

other people understand is that like

107:31

he's like truly my friend.

107:34

You know what I mean? It's not like I

107:36

just work on a show. He's my friend. And

107:38

even when I some of my fondest memories,

107:40

especially when I come here, is when we

107:42

was doing those [ __ ] shows.

107:44

>> Yeah.

107:44

>> When we was doing [ __ ] nobody was doing.

107:46

>> When we were doing those lockdown shows,

107:49

that was fun.

107:50

>> Yo, it was

107:50

>> that was wild times.

107:51

>> It was It was It's all It was already We

107:54

already have a community. We all have

107:55

mutual respect for each other. But the

107:57

thing that made that so special wasn't

107:59

nobody doing this [ __ ]

108:00

>> right?

108:00

>> That's what made it and and it really

108:02

one thing about the pandemic, it made

108:04

you appreciate life a lot more than

108:08

before the pandemic.

108:09

>> Yeah. It made you appreciate freedom.

108:11

>> Freedom.

108:12

>> Ability to do shows.

108:13

>> Yeah.

108:14

>> Remember we did those shows outside and

108:15

everybody was wearing a mask. It was so

108:17

stupid.

108:18

>> But we it did but we

108:19

>> And they all got tested too.

108:21

>> We got They was I I was I had so much

108:24

fun during the pandemic. I was almost

108:26

embarrassed to show the pictures I

108:27

wanted to show like faceless [ __ ]

108:30

>> Yo, we would take pictures and people

108:33

was like this. Look at him. HE COULD

108:35

KILL MY GRANDMOTHER. I'M LIKE, all

108:36

right, first of all, you did it. Dave

108:38

did. I was like, people's like this. Oh,

108:40

it must be nice to have rich friends

108:42

that have testing machines. I was like,

108:43

you're absolutely right.

108:44

>> It is. It's beautiful.

108:46

>> It is the most amazing [ __ ] ever. Dave

108:50

Chappelle raped my nose for two summers

108:52

in a row when when we were doing the

108:54

shows in in the cornfields and [ __ ] But

108:56

this what people don't understand. He

108:58

took the opportunity that village of

109:01

Yellow Springs. He made it as safe as it

109:04

could be. Like any place we would go,

109:06

hotel staff, everybody had an

109:08

opportunity to get everybody opportunity

109:10

to get tested. And I remember this was

109:12

very interesting when the bubble we did

109:16

one this Bob Saget. RIP. We were doing

109:19

these shows and I think that at before

109:22

Bob passed away when he came out to

109:24

Yellow Springs and was hanging out with

109:25

Dave and us and everything. It gave him

109:27

some incentive to want to go back on the

109:28

road to do he was just got really

109:31

excited about doing it again. We we we

109:34

did like 55 shows. The summer was over.

109:37

The run was clear. We had no positives

109:40

or anything. Dave extended the show

109:43

another week and that week was when the

109:45

bubble popped, right? And now

109:48

everybody's like freaking out like oh my

109:50

god these same women that was people was

109:52

coming out there when they was getting

109:54

flown out in jets they weren't getting

109:56

traffic but Dave created the environment

109:58

he wanted his friends around they was we

110:00

was going to restaurants we were have

110:01

the whole spot we was just doing all

110:03

this stuff nobody was thinking about the

110:05

possible consequences of that and I

110:07

remember this one girl was like oh my

110:08

god I don't even know why I'm here then

110:10

I looked at Dave I was like yo man damn

110:12

we almost made it man through he was

110:14

like

110:16

it's going to be okay he You got to

110:17

realize this is the reason why we test.

110:20

When we first got our first positive,

110:23

had we not been testing, it could have

110:25

been crazy.

110:26

>> And we got a first positive because

110:27

dudes went to do somebody else's podcast

110:29

and they didn't test. Remember that?

110:31

>> I remember that. That was the I remember

110:33

that because it I remember that uh Cena,

110:36

it was so funny.

110:38

>> Yeah, that was here. Yeah. And um it was

110:40

like I something was different because

110:42

we had one positive and the you remember

110:44

that backstage used to be packed out

110:46

right it started getting lower and lower

110:48

right it was basically like me cy sounds

110:51

somebody else was in the green room

110:52

right and then big Jay came that's one

110:55

of my friends good friends big Jay came

110:57

back and he had this look on his face

110:58

like it's over right he came in there

111:01

and I looked I said boss man got it he's

111:04

like yep right and another thing Dave

111:06

could have did this why I respect his

111:07

character He could have been at that

111:09

time he could have just been in the mask

111:11

went on stage went back out he cancelled

111:13

the show but the funniest [ __ ] it's a

111:15

whole at Stubs room is sold out right

111:18

and then Cena comes back and Cena was

111:21

like um I need you to go out there and

111:24

tell people that the show is cancelled

111:26

right I said you don't need me to do

111:28

that [ __ ] [ __ ] cuz the minute I it's

111:30

one thing if I go out there people going

111:32

to be like show starting right and as a

111:35

comedian I'm not going to not tell jokes

111:37

and then I'm Oh yeah, Dave not gonna

111:39

show up. But that was the crazy thing

111:41

about that. Everybody at the line hotel,

111:44

they was making jokes, Joe. They call it

111:46

corona co row cuz we had like the whole

111:49

floor had the whole floor floor locked

111:52

down, right? And everybody in our team

111:54

got it.

111:56

But it felt like a old school chickenpox

111:58

party. You know what I'm saying? It's

111:59

like we got it. We got it. What I tell

112:02

you, Ben, what we did, like everything

112:05

was like, "Okay, make sure you had your

112:06

vitamins, all that type of shit." But

112:08

the beauty of it was we was like, you

112:10

know, people was testing out like eight

112:11

or nine days, right? So, we thought we

112:13

was going to leave. After a while, we

112:15

was like, I was like, "Wait a minute.

112:16

The next run was going to be in 10

112:17

days."

112:18

>> And for some reason, everybody went back

112:20

to being negative. We closed, did more

112:23

shows, and we got the [ __ ] up out of

112:24

here. But it was a beautiful time, man.

112:26

It was a beautiful time. It was a fun

112:27

time to be alive. Yep.

112:28

>> It was a fun time,

112:30

>> but it was crazy. And then we did that.

112:32

What that [ __ ] joint we did? Uh

112:34

>> it was in Tacoma.

112:36

>> Mhm. The Super Doome.

112:38

>> That was wild. That was

112:39

>> 27 25,000.

112:41

>> Whatever it was, we broke the Tacoma

112:43

Dome record.

112:44

>> I never been in a place where the

112:47

laughter was so hard. It felt like

112:49

helicopters was

112:50

>> crazy.

112:51

>> It was crazy.

112:52

>> It was crazy.

112:52

>> This is what I respect about what you

112:54

guys did. You got people saying they

112:55

they doing arenas and [ __ ] but normally

112:57

>> But that was precoid, brother.

112:59

>> It was pre-COVID. Yeah, that was

113:00

pre-COVID that before everything popped

113:02

off.

113:03

>> What I will say about a real arena show,

113:05

you got the arena show where a quarter

113:07

of the venue is being used for stage and

113:11

every right. So, it ain't the true

113:12

capacity,

113:13

>> right?

113:13

>> But the shows you [ __ ] was

113:15

doing, it was it was in the round,

113:18

>> right? Well, the wildest thing was

113:20

walking through the crowd to get to the

113:22

stage. Those are

113:23

>> crazy. You you've experienced this [ __ ]

113:26

of that walk from from the UFC [ __ ]

113:29

man. I'm so grateful for your you guys

113:31

friendship and everything and for me it

113:33

was so special for me because

113:36

I didn't sell a ticket. Nobody else no

113:39

opener you and Dave sold those tickets

113:40

right but the best feeling for me Joe

113:43

was when I go out and DJ Trauma be like

113:46

you seen them on HBO's The Wire you seen

113:48

him on BMF whatever but simple line but

113:51

you fell in love with Asharia Chappelle

113:52

show and them people [ __ ] go crazy. I

113:55

don't give a [ __ ] if you ever been in a

113:57

fist fight in your life. When you come

113:58

through them tunnels, you you doing this

114:01

[ __ ] right here. You feel like Tyson,

114:02

like just give me a robe. Just give me a

114:04

time. I'm about to go beat these

114:06

[ __ ] up. And every show we had,

114:10

there was no room for being okay. You

114:12

had to be on your game every time.

114:14

>> Yeah, it was fun. It was a good time.

114:16

Well, that was uh when all that CO [ __ ]

114:19

went down with me when CNN turned my

114:21

face green. That was because of a

114:23

Nashville show that we were doing that

114:25

we had to cancel.

114:26

>> Yeah. I didn't know that.

114:27

>> That's what that was. Yeah. We were

114:28

supposed to do a show that weekend and I

114:30

got CO the previous weekend. I was doing

114:32

an arena with Tony in Florida and I got

114:36

CO in Florida and then I made that video

114:39

on like a Tuesday or a Wednesday. It was

114:42

like the third day after I got COVID

114:44

where I got over it and I was like, you

114:45

know, I feel fine but we have to cancel

114:47

the shows this weekend, right? And

114:48

that's when all the [ __ ] went down

114:50

because I took Ivormect. That was up.

114:52

That was that was those re Oh, he has

114:55

the answer everything. Yo, if he don't

114:56

have the answer, at least he's [ __ ]

114:58

trying to find. It's so interesting.

115:00

>> I whether or not I had the answer, the

115:02

crazy thing is I was better. I was

115:04

already better

115:05

>> and they they turned my face green on

115:08

CNN. Like we got to see how crazy the

115:11

media really is. Like they didn't want

115:13

to hear nothing but you have to take

115:15

this vaccine

115:16

>> and you have to do that

115:17

>> and if you didn't take this vaccine,

115:18

you're a part of the problem.

115:19

>> It's s I just don't and as as

115:23

devastating as that time was.

115:26

>> Excuse me.

115:27

>> I'm just How is it just like [ __ ]

115:31

over now? Is it her immunity? How is it

115:33

just like

115:34

>> it's her immunity? It's it's yeah it's

115:36

also you know everybody who got it got

115:38

it. You got immunity because of it and

115:41

then

115:42

>> also whatever variants are still left

115:44

they're significantly diminished. That's

115:46

how viruses generally

115:47

>> it's like a cold strand now. Right.

115:48

>> Yes. Well that's how viruses generally

115:50

go. They become more transmissible but

115:53

less potent over time. Yeah. And that's

115:55

what happened.

115:56

>> I'm going tell you there was a time

115:57

though man I I even said man maybe it

115:59

was just something about how people got

116:02

along with each other. I was like, we

116:03

should do like once a year just have a

116:05

week of just lockdown.

116:08

>> Yo, just so you can get into Man, I

116:10

>> It makes you appreciate freedom. That's

116:12

for sure.

116:12

>> It made me appreciate nature, bro. I I

116:15

bought a [ __ ] house in Yellow Springs

116:16

because I was like, you know what?

116:17

Trees, woods. I don't know if the

116:20

streets can handle this, but I became a

116:22

bird watcher, bro.

116:23

>> I watch bird. I watch birds.

116:29

You know what that does to my street

116:30

credit?

116:31

>> What? to know the difference between a

116:33

cardinal and a blue j

116:36

>> it's not the most listen

116:44

call said I can't be in the street

116:45

talking about

116:48

it was good [ __ ]

116:49

>> if you can't appreciate nature that's

116:51

whatever that's a [ __ ] narrative

116:54

>> that's ridiculous

116:55

>> I didn't Here's the thing I didn't crash

116:58

out today didn't crash out I know people

117:01

think I'm a crash out king. It's not

117:03

that. Sometimes I just need to

117:04

>> You mean on this show today?

117:06

>> Yeah. What did I No.

117:07

>> No. No. You You definitely accused Jamie

117:09

of wearing a leather jacket.

117:10

>> Jamie did have a leather jacket. He had

117:12

a leather jacket on, man. And I think he

117:14

brushed his eyebrows, too.

117:17

>> It was everything. I was like, I never

117:20

seen this sexy side of Jamie. He had

117:22

like a British accent.

117:25

>> He was like, I think I

117:28

was like, who is his eyebrows? I was

117:31

like, "Who the [ __ ] is this person,

117:33

man?" It was something different.

117:35

>> We We definitely went through something

117:37

that most people never experienced in

117:40

their life.

117:40

>> Nope.

117:41

>> And and most previous generations never

117:43

experienced it. Having a a nationwide,

117:46

worldwide pandemic that everybody

117:48

freaked out and we didn't.

117:49

>> Not only did we didn't freak out, we did

117:51

shows. We had a good time. We hung out

117:53

together. Those after parties when we go

117:55

to the line, you had a DJ and we would

117:57

laugh and laugh. We would laugh till 2

118:00

3:00 in the morning.

118:01

>> I you know I girl I was so much fun girl

118:05

I was dating the time then she couldn't

118:06

believe that she was like I would be

118:08

like this. So what do you do? I was like

118:10

well I was at the line kicking it with

118:12

Dave and Joe. What y'all doing? Just

118:14

talking and laughing till 3:30 in the

118:16

morning. They was like get the [ __ ] out

118:18

of here. YOU WAS [ __ ] NO. NO I

118:20

WASN'T.

118:21

>> We was just on some brohood [ __ ] It was

118:23

just so much.

118:25

>> And we we also realized how special it

118:27

was that we could do this while the

118:29

whole world was locked down.

118:30

>> Yep.

118:30

>> I'm telling you, I was embarrassed to

118:32

show pictures. My mother would call me,

118:33

"You better be careful out there." I'm

118:35

like, "Man, I'm getting tested." We got

118:37

tested more than probably anybody in the

118:39

country. And that's

118:39

>> I got tested every day because I was

118:41

doing podcast through the whole thing.

118:42

>> I did your show during that one time.

118:44

>> Yeah.

118:44

>> And then we didn't I sat down and before

118:47

I got the results the last time I was

118:49

here, you was like, "Did he get the

118:51

test?" I'm like

118:54

>> I'm like just please don't come in here

118:55

LIKE GET THIS [ __ ] OUT OF HERE.

118:58

>> WELL, we definitely had a couple people

118:59

that tested positive. We had to get them

119:01

out.

119:02

>> And I tested positive once.

119:03

>> But the thing about it to making those

119:05

taking those precautions, you could

119:07

isolate it. You knew where it came and

119:08

you shut it down. That's one thing. If

119:10

you're not doing that, it's all over the

119:11

place. Just think about it. If if

119:13

imagine if Jamie

119:15

>> would have got CO, then we would have

119:16

never seen his sexy side. Now

119:18

>> Jamie got CO. He got CO before anybody.

119:20

He got co really early on when there was

119:22

no vaccine, no treatment, no nothing. He

119:25

had to take a whole week off.

119:27

>> Um maybe that's why he has the attitude

119:30

that he has.

119:32

Yo, y'all get all this.

119:33

>> Well, we did the Kanye podcast. You you

119:35

had CO that week, right? Yeah. Yeah. He

119:37

missed the Kanye podcast.

119:40

>> Yeah. But I'm sorry, Jamie, if you

119:42

thought I said anything that was kind of

119:43

disrespectful to your character.

119:45

>> Well, totally false.

119:47

>> No, it wasn't. I'm telling you that

119:49

[ __ ] ponytail. I don't know what the

119:51

[ __ ] he did about it that day.

119:52

>> Like a Steven Seagal ponytail back.

119:54

>> And not only that, but he put his hair

119:56

back like this.

119:57

>> Mhm.

119:58

>> Almost like the like a diddy party.

120:00

That's how he started diddy parties.

120:02

>> Oiled up.

120:03

>> Yeah. Oil. I don't say that cuz I was

120:05

Never mind. I never went to a diddy

120:07

party. I have a photo, but I never went

120:09

to a diddy party. Jesus Christ.

120:12

>> Yeah. It's like I think people are going

120:14

to be wiser if something like that

120:16

happens again. I

120:17

>> could it ever happen again? I don't

120:19

>> 100%. Yeah, 100%. There's a lot of

120:21

people that think they engineered that

120:22

whole thing. They wanted it to happen

120:24

because the largest transfer of upward

120:26

transfer of wealth in human history.

120:29

>> So many small businesses went down.

120:31

>> Look at businesses got made more money.

120:33

>> Look what it did to Zoom.

120:35

>> Yep. Zoom to

120:36

>> I remember Zoom cuz um I was I I had a

120:40

show in Naples, whatever. I met this

120:41

doctor that he wanted me to uh be on

120:43

this podcast and I was like, "How we

120:45

going to do?" He said, "We can do it by

120:46

Zoom." This was when it was only like

120:48

for like business people. It was really

120:50

like the nerdy thing.

120:51

>> Yeah, that's what it used to be. Yeah,

120:53

>> it used to be. But the pandemic, it blew

120:55

it up. It was like now Zoom is like

120:57

that's the best way. You don't want to

120:59

talk to somebody on the phone, they call

121:01

you. Oh, I'm on a Zoom right now. It is

121:02

so like in everybody's household that

121:05

blew up. So many business did the same

121:06

thing.

121:06

>> Is anybody using that anymore?

121:08

>> Zoom?

121:09

>> Yeah.

121:09

>> They use it for an excuse not to talk to

121:11

somebody.

121:12

>> Yeah.

121:13

>> Do they do Zoom podcast anymore? Do

121:15

people do Zoom podcasts? I never hear

121:17

that term. It used to be things like,

121:19

"Oh, we're going to do it on Zoom." I

121:21

don't hear that anymore.

121:21

>> A few other platforms exist now. I don't

121:23

even think people discuss it, but

121:25

>> yeah, they had one one was that

121:26

Clubhouse, whatever. All of these

121:27

things.

121:28

>> Oh, yeah. Clubhouse. Clubhouse is a big

121:30

one. That was a big one where people

121:32

were essentially doing podcasts. Like

121:34

anybody could just like chime in and

121:36

talk [ __ ]

121:36

>> People was getting like a million

121:37

followers in 3 days and [ __ ] like Yeah.

121:39

>> Oh yeah. There was a lot of that. And a

121:40

lot of people thought that that was

121:41

going to keep going like clubhouse is

121:43

going to be the new thing. I'm like this

121:45

is just bad podcasting

121:46

>> and it's and it's what there was only up

121:48

so many things that that um that battle

121:50

the versus battles did they do now when

121:53

they have like it's mostly it's been

121:54

hip-hop and R&B I think it was who was

121:56

it um it was uh um damn Swiss Beats and

122:01

Timberland I think they started this

122:02

thing during the pandemic it was versus

122:05

right where you have an artist versus

122:07

another artist and like a competitive

122:09

type of situation they didn't win

122:10

anything but it was just entertaining

122:11

for everybody and that went from like it

122:14

was so lowle like people was in front of

122:16

their computers it was freezing up and

122:18

everything but it was what everybody was

122:20

doing now that's like one of the biggest

122:22

things now they did one at Madison

122:25

Square Gardens like it's a big thing now

122:27

when you want to it's just like a

122:28

competition like you got I think that

122:31

they had cash money and no limit records

122:33

but it's very I don't see no white

122:35

verses but it's a popular thing and it

122:37

started because of um the pandemic

122:39

>> well so many businesses started during

122:40

the pandemic because a lot of people got

122:42

laid off so they started their own

122:43

business. A lot of online businesses

122:45

started. A lot of people quit their jobs

122:47

cuz they realize, look, they could just

122:48

take this [ __ ] away from me at any

122:50

minute. Why am I doing something that I

122:51

hate when I thought there was security

122:52

in it? There's no security in it. I'm

122:54

going to start my own business.

122:55

>> Also, even like you you're an example of

122:57

um um uh of what happens when you

123:01

finally realize that um you don't need

123:04

Hollywood the way it used to be.

123:06

>> No. Well, we figured that out a long

123:08

time ago. We figured that out when the

123:10

podcast started kicking off

123:12

>> in like the early 2010s.

123:15

>> I realized that I was like, "This is I

123:18

don't need TV shows anymore." We figured

123:20

that out in like 2013, 2014. And

123:23

Hollywood is not like It used to be I'm

123:26

I'm very old school guy, but I remember

123:29

when when I first started, you couldn't

123:31

make it in this business. You had to be

123:33

in New York or LA.

123:34

>> Yep. There was no producers going to

123:37

They wasn't going to Toledo, Ohio. There

123:39

was no way. This was big.

123:41

>> Well, there was no comedy communities

123:43

outside of New York and LA.

123:44

>> No, not at all.

123:45

>> Not a real community. There might have

123:47

been like a good club that had some like

123:50

Denver always had like good opening

123:52

acts, good good good was responsible for

123:55

that.

123:55

>> It wasn't like a real hub like Austin is

123:58

now. And that wouldn't have happened if

124:00

it hadn't been for the pandemic.

124:02

>> People wouldn't have moved.

124:03

>> They wouldn't have moved.

124:04

>> No. and you brought a whole community

124:06

here. As much as this place was always

124:08

big for music or whatever, but I I mean

124:10

there's no way anybody cannot agree with

124:13

like what you did and what you made it

124:16

appealing to a lot of people is that you

124:18

could go somewhere else, get a better

124:20

quality of life.

124:21

>> Yeah.

124:22

>> And everything like

124:23

>> lower cost of living, better quality of

124:24

life, no traffic, nicer people, and no

124:27

Hollywood [ __ ] The problem with the

124:30

LA is always going to be poisoned by the

124:34

the idea of going there to become

124:36

famous,

124:37

>> right?

124:37

>> That whole idea was it was permeated in

124:41

the culture of LA and that fame was like

124:43

the number one commodity.

124:44

>> But back then it was that was the case.

124:47

But no, Go ahead. I'm sorry.

124:48

>> But the problem is that's bad for art.

124:51

That's bad for your ability to produce

124:53

[ __ ] I mean, you got great comics that

124:55

came out of LA, but that was in spite of

124:57

what LA had to offer, right?

124:59

>> It wasn't because of.

125:01

>> Whereas Austin, like the main reason

125:03

people come here, first of all, is Kill

125:05

Tony, because like you said, Kill Tony

125:07

is one of the rare places where you can

125:09

be a comic that's been doing comedy 3,

125:12

four years, may even just start now, but

125:14

you got some talent. You can have a

125:16

[ __ ] career, like a real career, and

125:18

it'll launch. Look, you got Cam

125:20

Patterson who's on SNL right now. You

125:22

got all these people like William

125:24

Montgomery, David Lucas, they're killing

125:26

it on the road, selling out everywhere

125:28

they go. Ari Maddie, these guy, I mean,

125:30

they have a real career now.

125:31

>> But you know, another thing that they

125:32

don't understand is like this is what I

125:34

say and I I use you as an example.

125:38

Whenever you hear about somebody saying

125:39

that they want to do a podcast, the

125:41

first thing certain things like, I want

125:43

to be Joe Rogan. And I said this before,

125:46

nobody wanted to be Joe Rogan [ __ ] 25

125:50

years ago. They didn't want to put the

125:51

work in. They want to see the accolades,

125:54

the fortune you've built. They see that

125:55

part, but nobody sees the hard work.

125:58

Even with Kill Tony, the fact that

126:00

during the pandemic when he could have

126:02

let the whole platform just fall apart

126:04

like we don't know when we're going to

126:05

do it, he dug deeper and figure out a

126:07

way. I'm just going to continue to do

126:08

it. Nobody they Nobody ever respects the

126:13

journey,

126:14

>> right? And if you think about it, Joe,

126:16

and you're probably the same way, most

126:18

successful people, and I know some very,

126:20

very wealthy people, right? And when

126:22

they talk about their career, whatever,

126:24

they hardly ever talk about the yacht.

126:27

They have ever talk about the the

126:29

[ __ ] mansion they got in Paris, you

126:31

know, they talk about it was just me and

126:33

my wife and we drove a Toyota, you know,

126:35

a Toyota Corolla and we was like, we was

126:37

down to our last 10 bucks and she did

126:40

this. That's the most interesting part

126:42

of the story for most successful people.

126:44

And people don't understand that,

126:45

>> right? They only think about where you

126:46

got to. I want to get to there, too.

126:48

>> They want to skip everything. I hear

126:50

people right now, I want to be like

126:52

stand up. I'm like, all right. Well, no.

126:55

When I was doing HBO's The Wire, right?

126:57

This guy I knew, I grew up with, he was

126:59

like, this [ __ ] said, "Yo, D,

127:02

what's the number to the wire? I want to

127:04

call him. I want to be on the wire."

127:06

Like, there's a wire. Hey, is this David

127:09

Simon? Yeah, I could be Omar. They

127:13

don't. I was like, and guess what? If I

127:16

knew the number to the wire,

127:18

>> I wouldn't give it to you. I'm not

127:19

giving it to you.

127:20

>> I want you to get that busy signal.

127:23

That's what it's Nobody ever wants to

127:26

respect the grind. And they all

127:28

everybody wants the rewards of the

127:30

grind.

127:32

>> Everybody, it's just people that are

127:33

they're missing it. They're not getting

127:36

what it's all about. What's what it's

127:37

all like Kill Tonyy's a great example of

127:39

that. I was there in the early days of

127:41

Kill Tony. When K when Tony started out

127:43

in 2013, there was no one in the crowd.

127:45

There was no one there. It was a small

127:47

show. You'd have a few comedians, you

127:50

know. I was doing it back before I was

127:52

back at the comedy store, but I was

127:53

still banned. So, I was doing it from

127:54

the Ice House,

127:55

>> right?

127:56

>> And he didn't do it thinking it was

127:58

going to be the number one show in the

127:59

world and he was going to be on Netflix.

128:01

and he did it because it was fun to do

128:04

and he wanted to do a great job and he

128:06

wanted to make it better every week and

128:08

he kept doing it and kept getting better

128:09

at it. It's the same thing with this

128:10

podcast. This podcast didn't make money

128:12

for years. Didn't make any money for

128:15

years. It cost money.

128:16

>> But the most successful people are the

128:18

ones like even with um when I first

128:20

started doing comedy, right? I never You

128:23

have some comedians that go out there

128:25

like I want to do comedy. I want to get

128:26

the money. I want to get [ __ ] off of

128:28

it. Right? When I first started, I never

128:31

the only thing I wanted to do, Joe, I

128:33

wanted to be good. I was like this, if

128:35

I'm good, all those other things that

128:37

are rewards of that that were happening,

128:39

but I had to be good first. And here's

128:41

the thing that I think especially when

128:43

you have these like social media

128:45

comedians or whatever. The thing that

128:47

the interesting thing about it, it's

128:48

kind of hard to tell somebody to work on

128:52

their craft when they getting all the

128:54

perks of what the craft can present them

128:57

at an early early stage. It's hard to

128:59

tell somebody that's only been doing it

129:02

for two years that's making $50,000 or

129:04

$100,000 a month off of monetizing

129:06

something. They're like, "This you need

129:07

to get better." Hello.

129:11

>> They don't have to. Like, do whatever

129:13

the [ __ ] you want to do. If you just

129:14

want to do that, do that. And also, some

129:17

of them are going to figure it out

129:18

anyway. Some of them are going to figure

129:19

out, I'm I'm not getting better. I'll

129:22

get better. Let me work harder at it.

129:24

>> Right?

129:24

>> There's going to be people that don't

129:25

figure things out no matter what you do

129:27

in this life. There's going to be a

129:28

bunch of people that have a distorted

129:30

perception of what success is all about,

129:32

what you really want. It's always going

129:34

to be that.

129:35

>> What do you What do you What is This is

129:37

interesting question. What is your

129:39

definition of success?

129:41

>> Happiness. Happiness and doing something

129:44

that you enjoy doing and something

129:45

that's challenging.

129:46

>> So, what is your definition of

129:47

happiness?

129:48

>> Friendship, love,

129:51

doing something I enjoy doing, doing it

129:53

well, doing it better all the time,

129:55

getting better at it, you know? I mean,

129:57

you you're and struggle. You're always

129:59

going to have some kind of a struggle.

130:00

And that struggle hopefully is you

130:03

trying to be better at the thing that

130:04

you're doing.

130:05

>> You What gives you, this is an

130:07

interesting question. What gives you the

130:10

incentive

130:12

to always continue to want to perform?

130:17

What gives you incentive to always want

130:19

to do Joe Rogan and Friends when you

130:21

could just sit back and [ __ ] just

130:23

>> It's fun. It's fun. It's first of all,

130:25

the green room on Tuesday and Wednesday

130:27

nights at the mothership. Some of the

130:28

funniest times I've ever had in my

130:30

[ __ ] life. It's so fun. We have so

130:32

much fun there. There's Ron White there

130:34

and Shane Gillis and Tony and

130:37

>> it's fun. It's I mean it's a community.

130:39

>> Sounds like you're trying to get me to

130:40

enjoy our times. Would you want to come

130:42

on?

130:43

>> Come to Tuesday.

130:45

>> What are you doing tomorrow?

130:47

>> Come on, Dell. What do you got going on

130:50

tomorrow? Where are you headed back to

130:51

Ohio?

130:52

>> No, I'm going to uh LA. Do you have a

130:54

show?

130:55

>> I got a son.

130:56

>> Okay. Well, that's different. That's

130:58

more important.

130:58

>> But I can just give him some Roblox

131:00

money. He'll be all right.

131:04

He

131:05

>> I'll give you some Roblox money. He'll

131:07

be cool. Let me tell you, I might cuz I

131:09

didn't I wish I would have even thought

131:11

about it before, but I might I might cuz

131:14

I haven't had that experience.

131:15

>> Oh, calm down then. If you can if your

131:17

son's cool with it, do it. If not,

131:19

there's always another time.

131:20

>> I can cook it another time. That's

131:22

another thing about me being an older

131:23

dad. Like my son is really the age. He

131:25

could be my grandson. I don't have time

131:27

to do all those instill vials and morals

131:30

and [ __ ] I'm like this. Will candy shut

131:33

this [ __ ] up. Yo, I'm like, yo,

131:36

let's go to McDonald's or whatever. But

131:37

yeah, I'm going see. I would definitely

131:39

consider that.

131:40

>> Consider it.

131:40

>> Yeah.

131:41

>> But that's what I like. I mean, I'm just

131:43

enjoying my life and I like to do things

131:44

that I find that are interesting and

131:46

challenging and I like to have

131:48

conversations with interesting people

131:50

and I like the fact that people enjoy it

131:52

still.

131:52

>> You know, when I first met you were, you

131:55

know, and I already I already knew that

131:57

uh you had the ultimate platform, right?

132:00

And I never this is me and I don't know

132:02

if this is what happened, but I was like

132:05

I never want to be like, "Hey, Joe

132:06

Rogan, I'm down here rhymes from so and

132:08

so." And the only respect I ever wanted

132:10

to get from my peers and people that

132:11

were doing it was like from the stage,

132:13

you know? I always like I was like, if

132:15

we ever make the connection, I wanted to

132:17

be off of, yo, this [ __ ] is

132:19

funny first, not just like, hey, you

132:21

know, I rock with Dave anything. And I

132:23

think that that was what happened. I

132:24

used to spend time in and I never never

132:27

did. Even to this day, I don't, you

132:29

know, I just look at like the resp I

132:32

just want people, you can respect me as

132:34

a man and respect my character,

132:36

whatever, but at the end of the day,

132:38

what I love to do the most is stand up.

132:40

I want you to be like, "Yo, this

132:41

[ __ ] puts the work in." And then

132:43

we can build everything off of that.

132:45

That's what respect I want of I want the

132:47

respect from what I put in, the work I

132:49

put in. people can acknowledge that and

132:51

that's what builds my relationship with

132:52

you. It's built my relationships with

132:55

all of these all these guys. Bird all of

132:57

all of these all these people that I

132:59

[ __ ] with now. It ain't because other

133:02

than anything other than like yo he's a

133:04

dope comic and then you can find out

133:05

that I'm a good dude after.

133:06

>> Yeah. It's that and then after that it's

133:09

got to be like are you cool,

133:11

>> right?

133:12

>> Is is he fun to hang out with?

133:13

>> Right.

133:14

>> Yeah.

133:14

>> Barry K said that one time. He said that

133:16

in one of his podcast. It's one of the

133:18

things that separate like who goes on

133:20

the road or so and so is if you're a

133:22

good hang.

133:23

>> Yeah. Oh my god. That's everything.

133:25

>> I don't know how many people quote berry

133:27

cats, but I want to share this story.

133:28

>> You might be the only one

133:29

>> and you probably the only one be but I

133:33

you said something earlier about

133:34

undeniable, right? Yeah.

133:36

>> I remember when I first moved from DC

133:38

and I moved to New York, I was doing the

133:40

Chitlin circuit, the black circuit. I

133:41

was popular in the black community,

133:43

whatever. I was like, I don't think this

133:44

is going to be enough.

133:45

>> I want to do the mainstream stuff. I

133:47

want to do these other things, right?

133:50

And Barry Catz, um Dave used to uh host

133:52

this comedy night at this place called

133:54

El Flamingos in in DC in in New York.

133:57

And Barry Catz saw me there one day. He

133:59

was like, I don't think I've ever seen a

134:02

comedian that go in front of an audience

134:04

that would ready to rip someone's head

134:06

off and you could hear silence. You

134:08

know, that's the control I had over the

134:10

audience. So, we built sort of a respect

134:12

for each other. And um I remember one

134:14

time I was at the comedy seller and he

134:16

was there and I knew that he was back

134:18

then, whatever you want to say about

134:19

him, nobody had a roster bigger than

134:21

Barry Cats back then in like 97 or

134:24

whatever, he had everybody. Uh

134:28

>> he the list goes on and on. So I and I

134:31

knew he was a fan of mine and I said,

134:33

"Barry, man, I'm trying to work these

134:36

clubs, these mainstream clubs, but I'm

134:37

having a hard time uh getting in passing

134:40

these clubs." I was like, "Could you

134:42

make a phone call or whatever for me?"

134:43

And he looked at me. He said, "Darnell,"

134:45

he said, "this is what you do." I

134:47

probably do the worst. Everybody does a

134:49

better better berry catch.

134:50

>> You got to do Barry like this.

134:52

>> Yes. Okay, I'll try it again. He was

134:54

like,

134:54

>> "This is what you do."

134:56

>> And slowing down. He said, "Darnell,

135:00

just rip." Right. He said,

135:03

>> "Yeah, be undeniable."

135:04

>> That's what he said. He said, "Just be."

135:06

He said, "I'm not talk." And I tell this

135:08

is advice I give people. They say,

135:10

"Well, I need so I was like, I'm not

135:12

talking about have one good set and

135:14

you've have four bad sets." I'm talking

135:16

about the consistency where every time

135:19

somebody sees you go on that stage, you

135:21

blowing the roof off. And once you do

135:24

that, if the managers are going to come

135:26

to you, they're going to hear about it.

135:28

That's the one of the things that a lot

135:29

of people try to skip. They like, "Oh,

135:32

how was your set? It was okay, but I I

135:34

can't talk to you unless you just

135:36

straight just destroying [ __ ]

135:38

everywhere. Then you got other [ __ ] to

135:41

work on.

135:42

>> Yeah. And there's also a lot of people

135:43

that are very delusional about how well

135:45

they're doing because they want so much.

135:47

They want it all to be about them. So

135:49

they think they should have already had

135:50

this, they should have already had that.

135:51

Why don't I have a sitcom? Why don't I

135:53

have a this? Why don't I have a that?

135:55

>> And I always said this is another thing

135:56

even with these lineups you do these

135:58

shows, whatever. Always say that you

136:00

have time to have a defining moment.

136:03

If you're in the room, right, and for

136:05

some reason the room is on fire, the

136:08

club is on fire, everybody is ripping,

136:11

you probably won't stand out as much as

136:13

that night when everybody was bombing.

136:16

You've seen rooms where

136:18

>> everybody come back saying and say,

136:19

"That crowd was weird." But then you got

136:20

one [ __ ] back there like this. I

136:22

don't give a [ __ ] what y'all doing.

136:24

>> Right.

136:24

>> I'm going to elevate this. Those are the

136:28

times when you got to [ __ ] stand up.

136:31

>> Yeah. Well, we used to see that all the

136:33

time at the store, like late night at

136:35

the store in particular, where like, you

136:37

know, cuz the way the store works, the

136:39

show starts at 8:00 p.m. and it goes on

136:41

till 2:00 a.m. And there's a lot of

136:43

people that get there at 8 8:00 p.m.

136:45

that are like, you know, tourists that

136:47

are in town and they sit there for the

136:50

whole [ __ ] show. They came to see the

136:52

comedy store. Yeah.

136:53

>> So, by the time 12:30 rolls around,

136:56

[ __ ] they've seen everything. And so

136:58

you get this low period and then someone

137:01

will go up and just tear that [ __ ]

137:03

place apart when 50 people.

137:04

>> When I used to I was so naive when I

137:06

first started that um uh we used to have

137:10

open mics, right? And the open mic list

137:12

would be like 25 people, right? And they

137:16

they [ __ ] the guy that was running,

137:18

they hated me so much because I used to

137:20

talk [ __ ] in the audience and everything

137:21

and they would keep bumping me down,

137:23

right? And my dumb ass never got mad,

137:26

right? I was like this. Yeah, they want

137:27

me to headline, right? 25 comedians. I

137:31

took that I was like, "Yeah, seven." I

137:33

didn't think about audience fatigue or

137:35

anything.

137:35

>> Oh, boy.

137:36

>> I just was like, "Yeah." And it would be

137:39

And but I'm telling you, I think that

137:41

was one of the things that made me

137:43

strong because

137:43

>> 100%.

137:44

>> I was like, I I I'm going to do what the

137:47

next person there's one story. This is

137:51

one of, if you ask Dave Chappelle, one

137:54

of the dopest sets he's ever seen. I

137:57

just so happened to be a part of that.

137:58

It was at the Hollywood Bowl years ago,

138:00

about three years ago. Right. You know,

138:02

Jeff,

138:02

>> is that when he got attacked?

138:03

>> No, no, that wasn't that. It was like

138:04

the year before. Okay.

138:05

>> You know, Jeff Wills Live Nation, right?

138:07

>> Sure.

138:08

>> So, we're doing um

138:09

>> Shout out to Jeff.

138:10

>> Shout out to Jeff. Um, we're doing uh a

138:12

show, you know, Hollywood Bowls 18,000

138:15

people, right?

138:16

>> So, show starts at 7 o'clock, right?

138:18

Jeff comes up to me. He was like,

138:19

"Donnie, I got some good news and bad

138:20

news." He said, "What?" He said, "We're

138:22

going to start on time. It's only but

138:24

700 people out there right now. You

138:26

imagine what 700 people look like in

138:29

front of 18,000 place, right?" He said,

138:31

"There's only 700 people out there." He

138:33

said, "Well, I can let you start now or

138:36

we can wait 10 minutes." I was like,

138:37

"Jeff, it's not like 17,000 people going

138:41

to show up in 10 minutes." I said, "Give

138:43

me the mic now." Big ass stage. I jump

138:46

off the stage, right? Dave and all these

138:48

people in the green room. I jump off the

138:49

stage. I go into the audience. I'm

138:50

literally going to each person

138:54

in the theater and I'll get you a

138:56

picture. You can add this. I'm going to

138:58

each person.

138:58

>> Why didn't they wait for the people to

139:00

show up and sit down?

139:01

>> That's what I wanted to say. But they

139:03

were just like, "The show has to

139:05

continue."

139:05

>> I don't allow that. I never allow that.

139:08

>> They've tried to do that before with me

139:10

and they say, "We're going to have to

139:10

pay more money if the show goes over." I

139:12

go, "Then the show goes over and we pay

139:13

more money. Get the [ __ ] out of But for

139:15

for me it was a moment because any other

139:18

comedian not any other most people like

139:20

this or was nobody out there so many

139:22

excuses. I jumped off stage I was like

139:24

no I'm I can't be up here look like I'm

139:27

about to be auctioned off. I go in the

139:28

audience I'm going to each joint right

139:31

and I'm [ __ ] killing it's 700 people

139:35

in front of 18,000.

139:36

>> That's a great way to start a show.

139:37

>> But listen and I'm like this and here's

139:39

the [ __ ] up thing about this. Nobody's

139:42

going to know about it cuz YOUR [ __ ]

139:43

PHONES ARE LOCKED UP, RIGHT? YO, it was

139:46

a moment Dave uh uh Dave, everybody from

139:50

the green room came out, right? And Dave

139:52

told me to this day, he said, "If I was

139:55

doing a a class on standup comedy," he

139:58

said, "I would use this as an example of

140:00

like owning up to it." And it was so

140:03

crazy, man. It was like And it was just

140:07

it was crazy. I remember another time I

140:10

was working with uh I think I was

140:12

working with you. It was me, you, and

140:14

Dave. And I think it was a time we was

140:16

doing an outdoor theater and uh I was

140:19

supposed to be a break. It was supposed

140:22

to be me. It was supposed to be I think

140:23

you, Tony, or whatever or something.

140:25

Then it was a break and then it was

140:27

going to be me and Dave. But uh it was

140:30

still daytime, right?

140:33

>> Where was this?

140:34

>> I can't remember the place. It was still

140:36

day. Jeff, he came up to me. He was I

140:38

was like, "I already know I'm going to

140:39

have to go on now." And I literally had

140:41

to perform until it started getting

140:44

dark.

140:45

>> Oh, I remember this.

140:47

>> And I was saying to myself, I was like,

140:48

"Ain't no way." I was like, "This ain't

140:51

no way they giving Rogan." And it wasn't

140:53

a shitty people just hadn't come yet,

140:55

>> right?

140:55

>> I was like, I knew I was going to even

140:57

suggest. I was like, "Nah, we had these

140:59

two halves, right?" And it was and I

141:01

that was another example like, "Okay,

141:03

you got to do what you got to do." And I

141:04

had to go up there. It wasn't the spot

141:05

that I expected or whatever, but I was

141:07

like this, you know, for the sake of the

141:09

show. And I'm always like, what do we

141:10

need to do to support this? And I had to

141:12

we had to bring it down. We had to buy

141:14

some more time. And then by the time you

141:16

got on stage, everybody was seated.

141:19

>> It was dark.

141:19

>> It was dark.

141:20

>> That was that was outside of San

141:22

Francisco.

141:22

>> I can't remember exactly. That was

141:24

moment. That was California. That [ __ ]

141:26

was fun.

141:27

>> But I tell people all the time and I do

141:28

slight mentor. I was like, man, it's

141:30

certain times where you got to do what

141:33

the next person is not going to do. You

141:36

can't [ __ ] about [ __ ] And at the end

141:37

of the day, you got to be a [ __ ] I know

141:40

when I used to do these shows with Dave,

141:42

I used to [ __ ] get the shittiest

141:44

time. Like, what? Well, we're at 30%

141:46

capacity. I'm like, man, half of these

141:48

[ __ ] not even going to see me.

141:49

But I looked it like this. Well, the

141:51

people that's going to see me, they're

141:52

going to remember it, you know, and you

141:54

just got to keep on keep on going.

141:57

>> That's a good attitude.

141:58

>> Yep. Yeah, that's healthy.

142:00

>> See, I feel like this very productive.

142:03

>> This conversation is going to bode well

142:06

with my mental health.

142:07

>> Yeah, I think so, too.

142:08

>> Everything except the lies you told

142:10

about Jamie.

142:14

>> You know what I'm going to do? I'mma

142:15

start taking [ __ ] videos. I wish I

142:17

would have had it.

142:18

>> Yeah, I wish he did, too.

142:19

>> And the thing about it,

142:20

>> you would see like, oh man, he didn't

142:21

even have a leather jacket on.

142:22

>> And thing and he wasn't even talking to

142:24

me. He was talking to me like, what is

142:25

it? No, I'm walked up. You didn't even

142:29

know who I was at first.

142:31

>> Guess why? WHY DIDN'T I KNOW? I NEVER

142:34

KNOW THAT. I NEVER KNEW. I WAS LIKE, WHO

142:36

IS THIS FAKE ass Jamie ass [ __ ]

142:38

It's like it was almost like remember

142:40

when uh family battles uh Urkl and then

142:43

Stefan.

142:45

It was two characters. They had the they

142:47

had the the like the geeky Urkl and then

142:50

his alter ego, whatever. He was just

142:52

this cool ass. He was the same person.

142:54

>> Whatever happened to that dude?

142:56

Yeah.

142:57

>> Oh, he's been around.

142:58

>> What's he selling weed?

142:59

>> Is he?

143:00

>> He was. And his weed is really good.

143:01

>> He's got a weed. Purple.

143:04

>> It's the best. He got this joint he

143:05

wrote and it's like some type of Italian

143:07

noodle. The spiral noodle. He used that

143:09

as a filter.

143:10

>> But also, I spent a lot of time with him

143:13

because he would come out to the

143:14

cornfields, whatever. So, I've been

143:15

seeing him. He's got a talk show on

143:18

>> Didn't he get jacked? Isn't he like, is

143:20

that him? White. Uh, I don't know.

143:22

>> I heard Urg got in great shape. Yeah,

143:24

but he's a good guy, man. But he's

143:26

another one of those celebrities I know

143:28

that wants to do comedy but don't have

143:29

the heart to do it.

143:31

>> Always. I was like, well, he said, "No,

143:32

no, no, don't do that." But he's a he's

143:34

a he's a great guy.

143:35

>> It's hard to start out already famous.

143:37

That's one of the things that I've

143:38

really respected about Charlie. Charlie

143:40

was already famous when he was starting.

143:42

>> Do you know who started Charlie?

143:44

>> Who?

143:45

>> Me.

143:45

>> Did you?

143:46

>> And this is how it happened. when we

143:48

were doing the Chappelle show and it's

143:50

safe to say like nobody was really

143:52

making money. You know, in the contract

143:54

when you in your contract if your show

143:55

just blows up, you got to stick to

143:57

whatever you was getting for the

143:58

contract, right?

143:58

>> So, we weren't making a lot of money

144:00

doing the show, but I was like just

144:02

we're too popular right now. And at that

144:03

time, it was me and Charlie. We was it

144:05

was Dave, me and Charlie, like the

144:06

biggest names on the show. So, this um

144:09

Mike Burkowitz, who's Dave, who's head

144:11

of um um Whim and Morris right now,

144:13

right? He was a young agent at the time,

144:15

right? He was coming up and I was like I

144:17

told Jason my manager at the time jail

144:19

Jason Steinberg I said man we got to do

144:21

a tour or something. I was like yo

144:22

everybody talking about I'm Rich [ __ ]

144:24

I was like let's do I'm Rich [ __ ] tour

144:26

right? He was like it's a good idea. I

144:28

said me and Charlie can do it. At the

144:30

time that was only a twoman show.

144:32

Charlie didn't have no time or anything.

144:35

And I was like you know what I want to

144:37

do it because it was my idea. I said I

144:39

want to do me Charlie. I said we need

144:41

another comedian. At the time, Bill Burr

144:43

was not making a lot of money doing

144:45

standup. And I'm not disrespecting, but

144:47

you everybody knew he was going to blow.

144:49

But that was early on in the career. And

144:50

all Bill had to do was have a situation

144:52

like he had in Philly. Everybody knew he

144:54

was going to blow, right?

144:55

>> So I said, "Why don't we do a tour? Me,

144:58

Charlie, and Bill Bird. That [ __ ] would

145:00

be hot." Charlie had never did standup.

145:02

And I used to He used to always crack

145:03

jokes and [ __ ] I was like, "Yeah, you

145:05

talk a lot of [ __ ] but once that

145:06

microphone your ass, you a [ __ ] ass

145:09

motherfucker." So Charlie was a guy like

145:11

don't threaten him with anything, right?

145:13

So this is when they had they had the uh

145:14

Laugh Factory in New York for Time

145:16

Square, right? One of my friends was

145:18

doing the show there. I was like,

145:19

Charlie, yo, if we going to do this

145:20

tour, you got to at least have 10

145:22

minutes. He could have at that time

145:24

Charlie was so hot. He people would have

145:26

just YELLED OUT CHARLIE MURPHY for five

145:29

minutes. He was the MC. We just needed

145:31

his face to be there.

145:32

>> And this was it would be Charlie,

145:35

Charlie, Bilber, and myself. And Charlie

145:39

had no jokes, right? And like you said,

145:42

I was like, maybe I don't know if you

145:43

guys understand how it is to be selling

145:45

out as a open micer.

145:47

>> Crazy.

145:48

>> And he had to get his voice. And I know

145:49

and I was like, why did he never do

145:51

this? But I'm part of it was because he

145:53

probably never want to be compared to

145:54

his brother,

145:55

>> right?

145:55

>> He never wanted to be able to like uh

145:58

that's his brother and he had his own

146:00

style or whatever. So we did this

146:02

[ __ ] tour for like like a year and

146:05

then I saw him start to grow. Sometimes

146:07

he took some hits, but he became Charlie

146:11

Murphy. He became like, "I'm not my

146:14

brother. I'm a storyteller." He stuck to

146:16

that [ __ ] And the one of the things

146:18

that I would say that I really

146:20

appreciate about what uh the Chappelle

146:23

Show gave to Charlie Murphy. When

146:25

Charlie Murphy passed away, Joe, nobody

146:27

said Eddie Murphy's brother died,

146:30

>> right?

146:30

>> They said Charlie Murphy passed away. So

146:32

if that show didn't do and when I tell

146:34

you one of the most standup original

146:38

guys all of those stories like was it

146:40

true it was he told that was just part

146:43

of the story me day me Charlie and Bill

146:47

built a relationship we did something

146:48

that was spectacular then but uh Bill

146:53

Bird used to [ __ ] with us and I'm going

146:55

to tell you one of the things he would

146:57

do we would be on the road and we all we

146:59

used to do was argue and fight and just

147:01

[ __ ] with each other one time Bill Burr,

147:03

he did some [ __ ] I don't want to call

147:04

this racist or whatever, but whenever it

147:07

it was very Bostononian, okay, I won't

147:10

say, but what he did, I didn't know two

147:12

years later, Bill Bird would when we

147:14

meet up, he would buy a [ __ ] like 12

147:17

piece of Popeye's chicken, right? And he

147:20

knew me and Charlie would devour that

147:22

chicken and we would be in a sleep coma,

147:25

right, the next 15 minutes. And it was

147:27

almost like he gave us sleeping pills

147:28

and [ __ ] He would get us a chicken,

147:30

we'd be knocked out, and then he just go

147:31

and just laugh at us and [ __ ] But that

147:33

time, that was such a great time because

147:36

you saw people's careers being born.

147:39

Like Bill was already on a trajectory to

147:42

be great. You know what I'm saying? But

147:44

at that time, and this is when I say the

147:46

stories that you remember, I'm pretty

147:48

sure Bill still remembers like this was

147:50

the first time that he was making like

147:54

regular good money every week. You know

147:56

how it is for be a [ __ ] headliner

147:59

that's doing $800 a weekend or or they

148:02

give you a deal $2,000 and then you get

148:05

a $500 bonus when you sell or give away

148:08

300 tickets

148:09

>> and you're not working every weekend

148:10

>> and you're not working every weekend and

148:11

then you got club bonus like your bonus

148:13

supposed to be at 300 and they be like

148:16

uh couldn't give you that bonus. You was

148:17

at 298 you know be like [ __ ] I

148:20

could have bought those. They lied to

148:22

it.

148:23

>> They lie about how many tickets you

148:24

sold. They lied to and then they wonder

148:26

why when guys become big and everything

148:28

they don't want to come back cuz I

148:29

remember that.

148:30

>> Oh, I remember that. There's a couple

148:32

club owners that they can go eat [ __ ]

148:34

>> And I tell people all the time when

148:35

everybody talk about this. I was like,

148:37

"Yo, try this. Try doing a [ __ ] tour

148:40

for a year and a half." And every night

148:43

you had to come behind Bill Burr.

148:46

I had no days off. And I knew when I had

148:50

a day off, it wasn't I wasn't hitting on

148:52

all cylinders because that's when they

148:54

had used to have comment cards, right?

148:57

The comment cards like I DON'T KNOW WHY

148:59

THE THE WHITE BOY DIDN'T GO LAST, RIGHT?

149:02

>> But that always that just that's that's

149:04

that always kept me in shape. You know

149:07

what I'm saying? It's like this you

149:08

don't got no time to play around cuz

149:10

Bill

149:11

>> and Bill cuz Bill was one of those

149:12

comics. Bill was like, Bill would come.

149:15

Bill did the mainstream [ __ ] and he was

149:18

one of the only white dudes with would

149:19

do the [ __ ] most griiest spots ever.

149:22

And I'm pretty sure he's always going to

149:24

be a great comic. But I think that that

149:26

helped build his character. Like I think

149:29

that was probably what made him be in a

149:31

position where he go to Philly like,

149:33

"Yo, [ __ ] y'all. I just did Darnell's

149:35

[ __ ] hood club in Brooklyn, right?

149:37

>> If I can handle that, I can handle

149:38

that."

149:39

>> Well, that rant in Philly was cuz he was

149:40

doing the Opie and Anthony tour. So when

149:42

Opie and Anthony, their crowd were

149:44

brutal. Their crowds were [ __ ]

149:47

brutal.

149:47

>> They was kill Tony's before Kill Tonies

149:49

was

149:49

>> way worse. Way worse. That they had sort

149:53

of fed into that crowd. They they

149:55

fostered that crowd. They called them

149:58

the pests.

149:59

>> But then even going back to what I was

150:00

saying in this career sometimes you have

150:03

situations that have a defining moment.

150:06

>> And that was one of those things. I'm

150:07

pretty sure everybody that went on

150:08

before Bill was throwing a towel and he

150:10

was like, "Fuck that." But what happened

150:13

was Damarrera went on and you know

150:15

Domera is a legend.

150:17

>> How's he doing, man?

150:18

>> He's hurting. Yeah, he's got he's

150:20

hurting. He's got whatever that

150:22

neurological condition is. It's not

150:24

good, right?

150:24

>> I mean, I don't want to speak out of

150:26

turn about his uh his health, but it's

150:28

not good.

150:29

>> Um but

150:31

Dom, they they booed Dom. They were just

150:34

rough. They wanted you to fail. And Bill

150:37

went up and go, "Fuck you." You know,

150:40

and he just went into this crazy.

150:41

>> You know who else had a moment like

150:42

that?

150:43

>> Who?

150:43

>> Bernie Mack.

150:44

>> Did he? Oh, on Death Jam. I ain't afraid

150:47

of you, [ __ ] Yeah.

150:48

>> You know, you know how that was? You

150:49

know how that was born?

150:50

>> Why?

150:51

>> That first off, Martin Lawrence was the

150:53

host. And that night, everybody was

150:56

taking licks, right?

150:57

>> And there was another It was a comic

150:59

from DC named Butch Burns, right? He was

151:01

very popular in DC. Butch Burns went on

151:04

stage and bombed so bad. [ __ ]

151:06

throwing [ __ ] There was nothing that

151:09

Martin could do. You know how sometimes

151:11

you try and you like just you're on your

151:13

own, right? It's like whoopde-doo,

151:15

right? So, Butch Burns had bombed. The

151:19

room was going crazy. Barton couldn't do

151:20

anything. Next on deck was [ __ ] uh

151:23

Bernie Mack. Bernie Mack saw uh Butch

151:25

Burns on the way out and he told him, he

151:27

was like, "Listen, man. Hold your head

151:29

up, man." He said, "The sun might not

151:31

shine on your day, but it's get you'll

151:33

have another opportunity to shine." And

151:34

the reason he didn't plan on I ain't

151:37

scared of you [ __ ] And then um

151:40

Bernie had a situation to go through

151:41

because Bernie was on Death Jam before

151:43

he dressed in a suit and everything. He

151:45

was looking like a Chicago player, but

151:48

he didn't think that he connected with a

151:49

young audience like that. So if you even

151:51

watch the way he was dressed from the

151:52

previous show to the next one,

151:54

>> the next one he had more of a hip

151:55

outfit, had graffiti on the jeans. He

151:57

was he was dressed up for that part of

151:59

it.

152:00

>> No idea. I ain't skinny [ __ ]

152:02

He did have the um energy that he was

152:05

going to do, the connection he was going

152:06

to have with the DJ, right? But what

152:08

made it so explosive is that he said,

152:11

"Fuck y'all."

152:12

>> He said he did his joke and then that's

152:14

why you hear like I Why was he saying I

152:16

ain't scared of you [ __ ]

152:17

right?

152:18

>> It was because of the other [ __ ] He

152:20

said, "I ain't scared of you

152:21

motherfuckers."

152:22

>> Kick it.

152:23

>> Boom boom boom. But he say what he say?

152:25

Um he and it was such the most simple

152:28

stock jokes but the

152:30

>> So powerful. So powerful.

152:32

>> So powerful.

152:32

>> The rhythm that he had and the fact that

152:35

you knew that something was special

152:37

would happen. That's why that [ __ ]

152:39

audience looked was so [ __ ] charged

152:42

up because he said, "Fuck y'all."

152:44

>> I saw Bernie live once at the Comedy

152:46

Connection in Faniel Hall in Boston.

152:49

>> I remember that club.

152:50

>> He was on fire. He was so powerful.

152:53

>> First time I saw him at uh Comedy

152:55

Connection at Green Belt. I used to do

152:57

this club and it was a couple of people

152:59

that come through and I was like these

153:00

[ __ ] on the next level. It was

153:02

him. Another person that was like that

153:03

was George Wallace.

153:04

>> Oh yeah.

153:05

>> You know another person that was like

153:06

that? Rich Voss.

153:07

>> Oh yeah. Yo George Wallace. First off I

153:10

do George Wallace on the next level.

153:12

I've never seen nobody go to the comedy

153:14

club and the deal he had was 100% of the

153:16

door.

153:17

>> Everything. You just get your drinks and

153:20

your chicken wings 100% door. They had

153:21

to give it to him.

153:22

>> Wow.

153:23

>> Um and and George Wallace he was old.

153:26

George Wallace always been an older

153:27

dude, right?

153:28

>> Somebody said, you know, his thing is

153:30

your mama jokes, right? Somebody had did

153:32

a mama joke and [ __ ] George

153:34

Wallace ripped off about 30 mama jokes.

153:36

I felt so bad for him. And then Rich

153:39

Voss [ __ ] Rich Voss [ __ ] me up

153:42

because I never seen a white comedian

153:45

perform at this club. It was a black

153:46

club. Rich Voss came in here. He had a

153:48

ponytail similar to Jamie's, right?

153:51

>> Jerry Curls. No, Rich Voss had a

153:53

ponytail, the same one that Jamie was

153:55

wearing when I Right. the It was Rich

153:58

Bosses, right? And I saw Rich Boss go up

154:01

there and destroy his crap. I was like,

154:03

"This white dude don't know what's going

154:04

to [ __ ] killed that shit." I I had

154:08

to, you know, when we talk about joke

154:10

stealing, right? I've never I stole one

154:13

joke in my life and I apologized to Rich

154:16

Foss. I was doing a show and none of my

154:19

jokes worked. I tried. Yo, I tried

154:22

everything. I tried everything. And I

154:25

said to myself, what joke have you

154:28

heard? I didn't mean to steal, right? I

154:31

borrowed it. Okay. I said, "What one

154:33

joke you know that [ __ ] will kill this

154:36

audience?" And Rich Fost used to have

154:38

this joke. He said, "You know what they

154:40

say, once you go black, you never go

154:42

back." He said, "Yeah, cuz your father

154:43

won't let you back in the house." Right?

154:46

I stole that joke. I got him laugh. I

154:48

got him back on track. And then I had to

154:50

call Voss. I said, "Man, I'm so sorry,

154:52

bro."

154:54

I said, "It's gonna get back to you."

154:56

But I stole the joke. He was like, "No,

154:58

no, no problem with it."

154:59

>> Well, at least you admitted it.

155:00

>> Yeah, I did.

155:02

>> All right. I think we we accomplished a

155:04

lot.

155:04

>> This was therapy for me.

155:05

>> I think it was good for you. Stay out of

155:07

the comments.

155:08

>> I'm going to stay out of the comments.

155:09

You

155:09

>> remember that podcast we did with Resza?

155:12

>> NO, DON'T DO THAT. THEY STILL talk [ __ ]

155:14

to me.

155:16

>> I grabbed you at the end of the podcast.

155:17

I said that was great. Don't read the

155:19

gobz.

155:20

>> Don't read. Exactly.

155:21

>> That was a long time ago. I've been

155:22

giving you that advice for a long time.

155:24

>> You did tell me don't. But but the part

155:26

of that story people don't know is that

155:29

I did my podcast early. I hadn't seen my

155:31

son like two and a half weeks. I was on

155:32

a road and I I I came straight there

155:36

straight to the podcast to do it, right?

155:38

And then um uh I was like you was like,

155:41

"Yo, you want to hang out?" This is what

155:43

people don't know. This is the side you

155:44

don't tell them. You invited me. You

155:47

invited me. I did invite you. You did it

155:48

by You said, "Yo, I thought it'd be

155:50

fun."

155:50

>> You said the RZ's going to come, right?

155:51

>> Well, we were having a good time. We had

155:53

did a podcast together. We were hanging

155:55

out and I said, "Are you going anywhere?

155:56

You want to I'm doing a podcast with

155:58

Rizzenex next. You want to hop on?"

156:00

>> I thought it would be fun.

156:01

>> I thought it would be fun, but

156:02

>> it was it was fun.

156:03

>> I would like to tell my side of the

156:05

story.

156:06

>> We already did. We've talked this. We've

156:08

done this many times.

156:09

>> Okay.

156:09

>> I think like every other podcast we do,

156:11

you tell your side of the story.

156:12

>> I'm never going to I'm never going to

156:13

say this again, Joe. I was going to

156:15

leave and I was like I was like man [ __ ]

156:17

Wu Tang man I'm going to see my son

156:20

right and I'm leaving out and soon as I

156:22

get ready to get in my car uh the Rizza

156:25

comes out and this [ __ ] said

156:27

what's up Ashy Larry and I said [ __ ] my

156:29

son I'm [ __ ] with the Wuang right

156:32

>> and I didn't but it was a good time it

156:35

was fun

156:35

>> but what people don't understand is

156:37

before we did that Rizza said yo yo bang

156:40

bang bang I got this idea right I said

156:42

what he said I'm going to do these jokes

156:43

they going to be He was trying to pitch

156:45

jokes like he was on the joke and I was

156:46

like, "Please don't do that." Right?

156:49

>> I was like, "Please don't do that." And

156:52

we sat down and of course it went I had

156:54

a good time. But people's like, "Just

156:55

you just ruined it. You ruined it for

156:58

the You just ruined it." But shout out

157:00

to it.

157:01

>> It was fun.

157:02

>> And thanks for whenever I call you. Let

157:03

me uh um I can't even tell people

157:07

anything other than Yes, I'm on tour. Go

157:09

to donins.com. Get tour dates.

157:11

>> All right. All right. And here's my

157:12

here's my [ __ ] A joke could be too

157:15

soon, but it never could be too soon for

157:17

a funny observation. And that's what

157:19

you're going to get when you come to my

157:21

show.

157:21

>> All right. Thank you, sir. Appreciate

157:23

you, brother.

157:23

>> I'm taking this gum with me. Jamie, stay

157:25

sexy, sir.

157:26

>> Stay sexy. Bye, everybody.

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Joe Rogan and Donnell Rawlings discuss a variety of topics including aging, digestive issues with red meat, and the health impacts of sugar versus salt. They explore the history and marketing of menthol cigarettes to specific communities, the 'scam' nature of the lottery, and the ethics of televangelism. A significant portion of the conversation focuses on the comedy industry, touching on recent beefs, the importance of hard work over viral fame, and the legacies of legends like Martin Lawrence, Charlie Murphy, and Bernie Mac. Joe also defines success as finding happiness through meaningful work, friendship, and personal growth.

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