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>> Really? Red meat.
>> It's unfortunate. That's just
>> in any form,
>> you know? Like I have I know it's weird.
If I eat a burger,
it's different if I eat a steak.
>> Steak is a problem.
>> Yeah. I don't know if my digestive
system just like you too old to [ __ ]
uh
>> bust this down. I'm 58.
>> I I'm 58 too. I eat mostly meat.
>> I don't think it's age.
>> What is it then?
>> Well, what are you eating it with?
>> Uh Titos. We rolling
>> Titos. Titos.
>> Titos vodka. Well, it can't be that,
right?
>> No. Titos. I'm eating a steak and I wash
I eat a steak and I wash and I wash it
down with Titos and tonic cuz it's it
resembles H2O so much sometime I get
thrown off until I do it.
>> What?
>> Yeah, I think I'm better at
>> Titos and tonic resembles water.
>> The look of it.
>> The look of it.
>> It's clear.
>> That's all matters to you.
>> Yeah, I know. At some point I need to
change I need to change my life. I'm at
the age now that it's like I look at
certain food and I'm like, "Oh my god,
it looks good." But you know, you can't
handle that. I think this is when I
really really need to be in love because
I need to be with somebody that
understands when I go places and when I
want to pick out, they got to be like,
"He can't eat that. He's not going to be
up. He's going to be thrown up." But I
think a female handler they call it
geriatric like they This is what I hear.
>> This is what the streets are saying.
Most men get to a geriatric [ __ ] when
you just smash all the women you want to
do and everything. Now you're going to
have to worry about somebody helping you
with your pill diet, helping you with
your dietary needs and everything. And
they say that's a lot of times when men
fall in love when they need somebody to
take them to the golden ears or when
it's when you about to be out of here.
You need somebody to say don't do that.
You got to mash this food up. You got to
chop it up. But I'm having digestive
issues sometimes
>> with steak. Huh?
>> It's red meat. I want to say and I'm I'm
a fan of it. So you eat if you eat like
a bowl of pasta with the Titos, no
problem.
>> That's not a problem.
>> Interesting.
>> But it's definitely red meat. Red meat.
I'm not to one of those doctors that
checks people for allergies.
>> Voodoo doctor.
>> Yeah. You
>> I don't want one of them. I had to date
an Asian. I mean, I had to date a a
Haitian chick.
>> They into voodoo really really big. Oh
yeah. Oh yeah. They stab you with
pillows and [ __ ] You wouldn't have pain
in your neck.
Is there any particular reason, Joe, and
I haven't been here in a while.
>> Is there any particular reason why I am
doing your show during Black History
Month?
>> No. You asked to come on.
>> But but you reached out to me.
>> I reached out to you.
>> I didn't You could have reached out to
me in July. I would have said yes. You
got an open invitation. You know that
>> I have an open invitation. But this is
when I don't know you. I said, "Can I
come through?" You said this is what you
told. You said, "I have a guest." And
then you called back. I don't know if
Jamie said, you know what month this is,
>> right? I don't know if he end. And you
caught me right.
>> I moved somebody. I moved somebody for
you cuz I knew you were coming here on a
Monday. I had someone booked.
>> Was it a Caucasian person?
>> I don't know. I don't remember.
>> I don't remember.
>> You know it was a white man or a black
man? No. You know what
>> DID I GET? DID I BOOK A WHITE PERSON?
>> It might have been Michael J. White cuz
he's here tomorrow.
>> Yeah.
>> So, it was probably Michael. I just
probably moved him a day.
>> But I appreciate dude being
accommodating cuz I felt like it was
time for me to come back. I haven't been
here a while.
>> You can come on anytime.
>> I really appreciate that and you know I
hold that to be true.
>> Come on.
>> I know that's true.
>> You know I love you.
>> Yeah. I want some of that gum, too, man.
I'm sorry.
>> The neuro gum. Do we have any Jamie?
>> I have some. Yeah.
>> Yeah. That stuff's the shoes.
>> I know. Wait. Whenever you say something
is the [ __ ] is the [ __ ]
>> Yeah.
>> Well, what can I do about my I can't do
anything about my diet.
>> Sorry. Whoops. I hit the mic. Um Yeah,
you can. you just uh you know, you
should go to a doctor and find out if
there's like there might be something
particularly about you that red meat
doesn't agree with you, but it might
just be what you're eating with the red
meat more than the red meat itself. You
know, that's what I would imagine. I
would imagine it's not actually red
meat. I would imagine it's what you're
eating with it.
>> Might be. and I'm going to check into it
cuz as they say in the streets, I'm of
that big age when you have to be
considerate of a whole bunch of things.
So that's what I have to do. I have to
do that.
>> Do you exercise at all?
>> A little bit. Usually during sexual
intercourse is when I get my most of my
cardio.
>> Get your push-ups in.
>> Yeah. And it's not as strong. Damn, man.
You ever get I don't know if this apply
to everybody. You get to a where you
start looking at your history and you
like damn 2000 was my best years. Like
right now I'll just give up.
>> You give up.
>> I don't put no pressure. I give up. I
start asking like what's your shoe sizes
or whatever. I rather go shopping than
to really try to pound somebody out for
three hours. I'm at that age now where I
have I call it um
certain times like you going to get a
work good.
>> I probably shouldn't have given you that
gum. It's that gum's going to be a real
problem with the microphone.
>> Is it Is it Okay.
>> People People are going to get annoyed
with you. I can tell.
>> All right. I don't know what to do.
>> Just chew it a little and spit it out.
>> Okay.
>> You'll get the effects of it pretty
quickly. Anyway,
>> I'm at the age where my best work is
like holidays.
>> Holidays.
>> Like I'm I'm a animal.
>> Why don't you hire a trainer?
>> You got some money.
>> And what are the trainer going to do?
>> Get you in shape. I think I need a
therapist before I get a trainer.
I mean, you got to take one step at a
time. I got to get my mind right before
I get my body right. Wouldn't you agree?
>> No. The getting your body right will
help get your mind right.
>> I think you there's some truth to that.
I think it I think that you may be right
about that.
>> Oh, 100%. Getting your body right fixes
your mind without a doubt.
>> But I I will say I'm at my best. I'm at
my peak when it's a holiday to celebrate
>> because you're rested.
>> I'm rested. It's more incentive. Like if
you want me to really smash good time,
you consider it like uh uh Valentine's
Day, Christmas,
uh uh Quanza, you can get seven good
days. But to expect me to be at my best
on just a regular Tuesday or a Wednesday
is not going to happen. I need more.
>> That's also drinking. You like to drink.
>> Why would you say that? I know why you
would say that.
>> Come on. I've seen you. All right.
>> I've been with you. I've drank with you.
>> Okay, then that's a good point. All
right.
>> There's cigarettes.
>> You was there.
>> You brought a pack with you,
>> right? There's that. Those those are not
good. Um there's uh
>> But you used to smoke I saw one of your
podcast.
>> I forget how you explained what made you
>> not want to smoke anymore. What was
that?
>> Well, cigarettes are a cognitive
enhancer. They are. It's a fact.
Nicotine is a cognitive enhancer.
There's no doubt about it. It's a fact.
And it does things to to your mind. It
stimulates your mind in a way that very
few other things do. That's why a lot of
intellectuals, a lot of professors use
nicotine. A lot of academics use
nicotine. A lot of people that rely on
their brain use a lot of writers use
nicotine. And there's different delivery
methods that have different effects.
Unfortunately, smoking has a very potent
instantaneous effect. Uh and that's why
people like it. But it comes with a
cost. You know, the the physical health
you know, repercussions of cigarettes
are well known.
>> Yeah.
>> Not good. And also, you're you're
smoking Marros.
>> There's a we had a doctor on the other
day that thinks that Mar lights don't
>> regular cigarettes are not nearly like
American spirits are not nearly as bad
for you
>> as uh
>> I understand they have some type of the
the American spirits. I'm not even like
advocating for what you should shouldn't
smoke, but it's supposed they say that's
supposed to be the most natural if
there's such a thing.
>> It's just tobacco, I believe. Is that a
fact?
>> Nope.
>> No. What's in there besides tobacco?
>> I don't know. I've been trying They got
I don't know how this lawsuit ended up,
but they got sued for the advertising of
saying it's additive free and all that.
>> Oh, did they?
>> Yeah.
>> What What are the additives?
>> I've
said it's on it. I've tried to look. I
mean, there's a big Here's like the
website about the lawsuit.
>> What's the accusation
>> that uh Here you go. It's on the screen.
>> Here we go. Lawsuit questions natural
claims. Natural American Spirit
cigarettes are made by Santa Fe Natural
Tobacco Company and parent company
Reynolds America. RJ Reynolds, they [ __ ]
with you. American Spirits has been sold
in the US since 1985. Her under the
original name original American Spirit
organic Oh, you got us [ __ ] Um,
unadulterated tobacco suit claims such
marketing language has endeared American
spirit cigarettes to a core group of
smokers who believe that the natural
tobacco and the cigarette makes them a
healthier alternative. Despite cigarette
sales declining 17% between 2009 2014,
American Spirit sales have increased 86%
over the same period. Huzzah. Uh, a
regulatory filing on the Reynolds
American website states American Spirit
is the leading super premium cigarette
brand that is a top 10 bestselling
cigarette brand priced higher than most
other competitive brands and is
differentiated from key competitors
through its use of all naturatural
additive free tobacco including styles
made with organic tobacco. But words
like all natural and additive free
unamerican spirits labeling the suit
says belies the fact that Santa Fe
Reynolds adds ammonia to their
cigarettes to maximize the amount of
nicotine a smoker receives with the
result that American spirits contain
significantly more freebased nicotine
than other major cigarette brands.
>> So you're actually getting high off of
cigarettes?
>> 100%. I get high off of them because I
don't smoke them all the time. So, I
only smoke if if I smoke a couple
cigarettes a week, it's a lot.
>> And Newport's probably like 10 times
worse than uh menthol cigarettes
probably 10 times worse to for your
body.
>> I was talking to Cat about that. I was
Yeah, I was asking him like why why do
you like menthols and he's like he was
speaking on behalf of the black
community. He said we like things that
are more potent.
I believe that that's possible part of
it, but I also believe that back in the
day and this apply I don't know if I
talked about this. It was certain brands
that targeted certain communities just
for the loyalty of it. Yeah. And I think
Newport's was targeting I don't know if
it was a situation where Newport came
out,
>> they was spending more ad money with
advertising everything cuz I I don't
know if I shared this story with you,
but
>> um uh Pepsi was a company that did that
where they targeted the black community.
So I think even though I understand we
said more potent but I think it was
something that was in our community
whether that was like cheaper prices or
whatever and I think it's generation and
generations like you need to do this
because black people did this because it
was cheaper what I think that that might
be the case with Newport.
>> Yeah probably both. What is the the
menthol effect? What what is the what is
the difference in the
>> I know when I smoke menthol I I sound
like cat whims the next day they ruined
that's one of the reasons I had to
downgrade to like some people think that
I started smoking marbell lights cuz I
started dating white women which is more
appealing unless you date a white woman
from the Midwest she probably smoking
new drinking Pepsis and Coca-Cola just
like you but I think that but I got so
many
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smoother and more addictive without
making them any safer.
>> So, menthol cigarettes appeal to black
people because it's a cool cigarette.
>> It's cool.
>> That's what makes so much sense why the
brand cool cigarette cuz it makes it
that makes sense,
>> right? That's why they called it cool, I
bet.
>> Damn. What white people do to destroy my
community, man?
>> Destroy everybody. Yeah,
>> they don't give a [ __ ] about anybody.
>> Cool ain't cold.
>> Half ain't wide, body ain't soul, mild
ain't bold. Cool ain't cool. Newport is
Oh, cuz that was like a
>> That makes cools cuz people used to
smoke cools. Do cools exist anymore?
>> In jail?
>> Only in jail? I think that I think I
don't know what the the rat the ratio is
what what cigarette gets you more money
in a dice game but whenever I hear
people telling war stories they like man
I got a pack I got a carton of cools for
a bag of Doritos or something but the
value of a cool cigarette is is is
higher in in prison.
>> Isn't it crazy that they give you
cigarettes in prison?
>> That's crazy. It's like the only drug
you can get in prison.
>> Yeah. And those
>> you can't get alcohol, right?
>> Well, you can get hooch. Well, you can't
get alcohol, but they make their own.
>> It's all under the table.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> But I think in prison the things that
hold the most value, I think it's tang,
>> right? It's that uh artificial flavored
drink you do. I think that
>> astronaut [ __ ]
>> Yep. Cigarettes, Doritos. I heard honey
buns
hold their value. And I heard candy bar.
But candy bars, you got to be particular
with that. you because if you offer,
this is what I hear. If you offer a
person a certain amount of candy bars,
then what I understand is that you're
inviting them to have sexual intercourse
with you.
>> Interesting. Yeah. Candy bars.
>> Yeah. Like you I don't think
>> you want some candy bars and that's like
code.
>> Yeah. It's like pizza gate like pizza.
>> Mr. Good Bar for this good bar. Okay.
>> I think this is only not that I've had
those experiences, Joe, but this is the
times that I frequent the streets, which
aren't anymore. Not too often. These are
the stories that they tell.
>> Interesting.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> And these facts, you don't need them for
anything but for barbershop talk, but
these are the conversations that I have
>> that I've heard people have.
>> It's interesting how different brands
market to different people. And I mean,
how do they figure it out? like what are
they work like the that that's where
it's evil, right? Like advertising
itself I don't have a problem with but I
did I there is something weird about
deceptive advertising that's legal, you
know.
>> Well, they they do a a history on what
uh people like. I was watching or
reading a story about the uh people that
started Forever 21. I forget what the
brand was. There was some Koreans from
South Korea, not to be confused with Kim
Jongun in those people, but they were
tailored or something. They started a
small boutique. And what they would do
was they would have these clothing uh
pieces of clothes and they would really
pay particular attention to what colors
people like, um what was uh selling the
most, whatever, and that's what they
buy. And one of the things that made
Forever 21 so popular cuz they had
really inex the the clothes weren't
expensive, but they was turning them
over so quick, you know. So people do do
case studies and see what people uh
attracted to. I know with um with black
people um you you put lemon pepper on
anything, it's going to go out out the
roof. You could do lemon pepper chicken
wings, lemon pepper French fries,
anything lemon pepper, they gonna go. I
don't know who started the whole lemon
pepper craze, but you lemon pepper
anything, black people gonna buy it.
>> That's interesting. Like how white
people are associated with very bland
foods,
>> you know, macaroni, cheese, mashed
potatoes, mayonnaise.
>> And you know why you're connected with
that blandness? Cuz the way you
pronounced it.
>> Macaroni and cheese.
>> You'd never ever say if you tell
somebody if you say and you would be
able to be invited to the cookout, Joe.
You know, people like you. If if you
say, "Hey guys, I'm coming to the
cookout, right, and I'm bringing
macaroni and cheese." You're going to
get uninvited to the cookout.
>> What? How should I say it?
>> Mac and cheese.
>> Mac and cheese.
>> Yeah. You can't say macaroni and cheese.
Nobody ever does that.
>> Okay.
>> You would They would look at you as a
spy. You would get invited and be
invited.
>> Well, I'm a different type of white
person cuz I'm Italian and we're
associated with spicy food. Very strong
flavors.
Yeah, but it's a different like Italian
people don't like bland food. They like
very spicy, very flavorful food.
>> I'm bringing baked ziti to the barbecue.
You like I'm bringing ziti, right?
>> Yeah, they would say baked ziti. Yeah,
because there's different kinds of ziti.
You know, there's ziti that you bake and
then there's ziti that you just boil and
put, you know, marinara sauce on.
>> There's different. I will say this, as
much as you know, community make fun of
um white people and their lack of
seasoning,
that can save your life.
>> Lack of seasoning can save your life.
How so?
>> When you think about you look at
somebody, one of the most the country uh
uh homecooked soulfood spot, the one
ingredient that's in everything that you
taste right off the rip is salt. How
good is not bad for you at all? It's
awesome.
>> Then why do we think salt is
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>> Salt is an essential mineral. You need
salt to survive. Salt is not the
problem. They associate salt with high
blood pressure, salt with this, salt
with it's not true. It's [ __ ] What
type of salt? Is it a different salt? Is
it like
>> No, it's not. Salt's not bad for you.
Well, first of all, there's iodiz salt,
which is actually good for you because
it contains iodine. They add iodine to
it,
>> which is good for you. But salt is not a
bad thing. I mean, you shouldn't have
too much salt. Salt. If you look, if you
eat enough salt, you can be the
president to educate me with this. So,
all of these years,
>> it's a it's a
>> these people getting their toes chopped
off.
>> That's not why. That's not why. If
you're getting diabetes, it's usually
from sugar.
>> Okay?
>> You know, there's been a lot of
misinformation that's spread because of
actual scientists that were bribed by
the the sugar industry. So, the sugar
industry, they paid a bunch of Harvard
scientists. It was Harvard, right?
>> I believe it was. They didn't even give
them a lot of money. Uh was it the 1950s
or 1960s, Jamie? Do you remember? So,
this has all been outed now, but what
they did was they tried to associate
saturated fat and and foods with
saturated fat with being responsible for
heart disease. And they did that to try
to get the blame off of sugar cuz sugar
is [ __ ] terrible for you. It's
terrible in basically every way,
especially added sugar. So why are all
of these diseases that we speak of are
more more car happening in the black
community than in the white community?
>> It's diet. It's 100%. It's sugarcessed.
It's processed food. It's diet. It's
sugar. It's sugary drinks. It's the
amount of sugar. Like if you say if you
drink like a a a one liter Pepsi, the
amount of sugar that is Okay, let's find
out how much sugar is in a one liter
Pepsi.
If you drink several of these a day, one
of them, I believe, is more sugar than
you're ever supposed to have in a day.
>> Pepsi is the one and that's why
>> Well, it could be Coca-Cola, could be
Pepsi, Mountain Dew. Name your poison.
>> I think it's 100% Pepsi.
>> Well, Pepsi is I don't know. Does Pepsi
have more sugar than Coca-Cola? I don't
know.
>> You know, Coca-Cola is one of the only
things that's still flavored with
cocaine leaf. Uh sugar content 115 123
grams in a one liter bottle. That's a
crazy amount of sugar. 25 teaspoons. 35
sugar cubes.
>> God damn.
>> That's 130% 138% of the recommended
daily value of sugar.
>> That's that's where people are getting
type 2 diabetes. They're getting it from
excess sugar. Specifically
>> excess sugar like in a liquid form. Your
body does not know what the [ __ ] to do
with that cuz nowhere in nature do you
get sugar in a liquid form like that.
Like even orange juice. Like people
think orange juice is good for you. It's
not. Like drinking orange juice. Yeah,
you're going to get some vitamin D, but
you're also going to vitamin C rather,
but you're also going to get a gigantic
dose of sugar that has no fiber in it.
>> But is it a different type of sugar in
fruits and vegetables than what you get
off the counter?
>> You get fructose rather than high
fructose corn syrup. Uh you know, like
sugar from fruit is the best sugar for
you because it's attached to fiber and
that's that's a slow release sugar. Like
if you eat an apple and apples aren't
bad for you. It's a natural way that
your body consumes sugar. But there's
>> apples were bad for Adam.
>> Uh I don't even know if it was an apple.
>> It was a fruit.
>> It was from the tree of knowledge. The
tree of
>> It was an apple.
>> Uh
>> it was an apple,
>> but it wasn't an apple tree. What What
specifically does the Bible refer to as
the fruit?
>> Adam and Eve. Adam,
>> you know the truth?
>> What?
>> Eve never talked to God. Adam talked to
God. Adam told God not to eat the fruit.
There's nowhere in the Bible does it say
that Adam went and told Eve.
>> This is why we should start not just
shutting women down to listening to
them.
>> It all started off
>> Genesis does not specifically specify
rather what kind of fruit Adam ate only
that it calls it fruit from the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. Yeah. So
it's not necessarily an apple. We call
it an apple.
Uh, the text never names the species,
apple, fig, etc. The Hebrew word is
perry, a general term meaning fruit
without a botanical detail. Where the
apple idea came from. Over time, Jewish
and Christian interpreters proposed many
candidates including fig, grape,
pomegranate, citron, and others. Now,
common ideas that an apple developed
later in European tradition helped by
word play in Latin and old French where
the words evil and apple or fruit
sounded or were spelled similarly. So,
it's not necessarily an apple.
>> I really don't know what to believe. I
feel like I get so much more information
when I come here.
>> I don't know if people understand that.
Well, the crazy thing is that I mean I
I've found this out recently because
I've actually been reading the Bible
that the there's no reference whatsoever
to Adam telling Eve you're not supposed
to eat the fruit from the plant uh with
with the knowledge of good and evil.
>> I never knew that.
>> Yeah.
>> I just knew white woman with an apple
and his [ __ ] got [ __ ] up after that.
>> What happened was God created Adam. This
is what Genesis says. God created an
Adam and then told Adam, "Go and name
all the animals." And then when he was
done with that, Adam made Eve,
but he never said, it never says in the
Bible, Adam told Eve, "Do not eat the
apple."
>> Who's giving this us this
misinformation?
>> Well, the problem with the Bible uh is
first of all that it was an oral
tradition forever. So, it was an oral
tradition for a long time before it was
ever written down. that it was written
down in a bunch of ancient languages. It
was written down in ancient Hebrew. It
was written down in Aramaic, Aramaic,
and then when you translate ancient
Hebrew to first they translated to Latin
and then they translated it to Greek and
all these other maybe Greek first. I
forget which one was first, but either
way, the the translations miss a lot of
the the language. It's very complicated.
Ancient Hebrew is a very complicated
language and numbers double as letters
in ancient Hebrew. So ancient Hebrew
doesn't have numbers. All their words
have a numerical value to them.
>> What do you think makes people so
connected
to the Bible? Is it because of wanting
to believe in something?
>> Definitely. definitely wanting to
believe in something and then
specifically if you look at like the
teachings of Jesus Christ if you follow
them I think it'll lead to a better
life. I think it makes you a better
person makes you a better member of the
community. It it it reinforces
community. It's like a really good way
to live your life. So I think people
that live that way that actually live
that way they're better examples of
human beings. So that makes it
reinforced. But it's also people there's
a lot of other religions that people
believe in that don't have those aspects
to them. People want to believe things.
People want to believe in things. Even
if you like like Scientology, people
deeply believe in Scientology. And we
know it was written by a science fiction
author, right?
>> Who was a bad science fiction author.
Elron Huard wrote some terrible books.
Like that guy would just bang books out.
He never rewrote [ __ ] He everything was
a first draft.
just clank. He wrote more fiction than
any human being that's ever lived and he
also wrote Scientology
>> and people believe in it. But I do
believe PE I think people like you say
people want to if your life is [ __ ] or
whatever they want to be able to say
okay this is my savior if I believe in
this it's going to get me on the right
track
>> 100%. And then with that with these like
uh Duski just did a a skit that went
viral, right? And it was like he was
making fun of the mega churches and
everything. But these churches like they
give these people something to believe
in, make them feel better and they
charge people. Do you think that there
should be a separation? If I if I
inspire you, if my writings or my
speeches inspire you to want to do
something and change your life and be uh
more financially secure, do you think
these people entitled to like, okay,
almost like agencies, if I get you to
work or get you there, should you hit me
off or the megaurches, is it so wrong
for people just to pour all their money
into them or are they giving these
people something to believe in? If
that's the case, do I supposed to get a
piece of that? I think they're preying
on people's need to believe in things
and I think they're very predatory and I
think that's why they're flying private
jets and driving Rolls-Royces and living
in mega mansions on giant ranches
>> and they're doing it all off of
donations of people that are barely
getting by. That's a lot of it. You
know, I think it's a scam that's legal.
I think if we were a just and righteous
society, it wouldn't be legal,
>> right? I mean, it's you're taking
advantage of people when they need
something to believe in and you're
asking for all their money. Like I
remember I was watching this guy on TV
once like televangelists are the worst.
And this guy was saying that if you are
broke, you should borrow money to donate
it to the church and it will be paid
back to you tenfold. That God will pay
you back tenfold. And then he had all
these examples of people that did it and
they would call in and say, "I I was
$1,000 in debt and this and that, but I
borrowed $100 and I donated it to you
and now all of a sudden I drive a
Rolls-Royce." And it's all horseshit.
>> But those are all desperate desperate
people. Desperate people. Those are the
same people that I'm going to spend $30
on the lottery every day for like
[ __ ] 50 years and no one know how
much.
>> That's another scam. That's another
scam. Not only is that a scam, here's
the scam about the lottery. Not only
does like say if everyone pumps money
into the lottery, say you you buy $100
worth of tickets and Jamie buys $100
worth of tickets and I buy $100. So
there's $300 in the lottery. There's not
even $300 available
>> if you win. Right.
>> So and then if you win, you don't get
all the money. You get the money over a
long period of time.
>> Right. Right. Right. But if you if you
take the second option, it's a
significantly like here's a good example
of it. Speaking of the Epstein Files,
his
>> What do you mean speaking of
>> company Zoro Trust?
>> I didn't like that transition. You
looked me right in my eyes and said,
"Speaking of the
>> Well, FC, we were talking about it
before the podcast. Came to see you."
>> No, MC did not [ __ ] come.
>> They came They loved your show.
>> Yo,
>> he was your He was a number one fan.
>> First of all, I I've never
>> HE CAME TO YOU DON'T KNOW. LOOK, they
came to West Palm Improv because you're
a famous comedian and you were playing
in the town where he lived.
>> So, what are you saying?
>> Nothing. But what I'm saying is that
>> I'm on I'm actually
>> What I'm saying is Epstein won the
lottery. His company, Zoro Trust, won an
$80 million lottery and then they paid
they they took the payoff and the payoff
was a ticket or you mean with in
corporation?
>> What do you mean when you say
>> they his company bought a ticket for the
lottery? Really? that yes, Zoro Trust,
which is his company, they won the
lottery, which is very suspicious. Not
only that, he won the lottery right
after he was arrested and went to jail
for [ __ ] kids or having sex or
whatever, whatever he was arrested for,
sexual hand jobs, whatever it was. So
underage. No, but when they're underage
girls, probably not.
>> Oh, I didn't know that. But
>> so then when he went um and got the
lottery money, the company took the
payoff the payoff out of an $80 million
payment. the $80 million jackpot was
only 30 million. So if you want the
money, you take 30. So not only did they
take 50 out of the 80, but then you
think about how many people spent money
buying lottery tickets, way more than 80
million.
>> So they make money off of that and then
they make money off of the fact that you
want the payoff instead of the, you
know, the over.
>> So they never could, it doesn't matter
what the jackpot becomes, they never
could lose.
>> They they can't lose. It's stealing
money from people that are desperate.
It's it's legalized gambling where the
house always wins.
>> Like let's find that out. Like uh let's
say
>> let's find uh an average jackpot of mega
bucks and find out how much money
actually goes into it. How much how much
money people spend versus how much money
the payout is.
>> So when this the uh all lots are state
regulated, right? Right.
>> I don't know. I don't know who regulates
them. So they get say they get $100
million from people trying to win a
billion dollars.
>> It's because the state regulate. Do they
do they have to pay taxes to the
government for the money they
>> the lotto? No, it's the state well or
it's the the government owns it. So it's
a it's a whatever the not only that you
pay taxes on it. So say pays taxes.
Yeah. Yeah.
>> So say if you take that $30 million
payout, you don't even get 30 million.
Then you have to pay taxes on that 30
million. So they get money from that
too. So they can't [ __ ] lose.
>> But for a person that's never seen
barely seen $1,000 anywhere, anything
with millionaire, they're going to be
excited about and take it before
>> Exactly. Exactly. And over time, most
people are not going to win. So most
people are dumping money into it.
>> There was a story of a a young lady. I
don't know exactly what it was. I think
she won some type of lottery where they
gave her two options. She would get I
think it was like uh a payout of like 2
or 3 million right up front or they give
her I think it was like $20,000 every
month for as long as she lived.
>> Yeah, that's how they
>> and she did this. Well, people think
that it's kind of crazy, but if you
consider the fact that she was probably
20 21, her life expectancy probably she
was white, so she probably lived to 132.
You know what I'm saying? She looked
like I That was a smart a lot of people
would not understand that. That was a
smart thing. But I I did
>> I don't think it's for the rest of your
life. I think it's until it reaches that
number. I don't think they're going to
give you money for the rest of your
life.
>> Well, maybe I was reading the headline.
>> Maybe it's a different kind of lottery
that I'm not aware of.
>> Maybe. I think it was something as long
as she lives.
>> That sounds crazy.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. Here it is. Typical
Megaillions jackpot run. Total ticket
revenue is usually several times the
advertised jackpot. But there's no
single fixed average because sales vary
enormously with the jackpot size. still
you can get a good ballpark. So around
50% of ticket revenue goes into the
overall prize pool. So the government
makes 50% right off the bat,
>> right?
>> So if it's a hund00 million payout, they
already made a h 100red million. So this
$200 million is what they made. They
throw in $100 million for everybody of
that prize pool. Roughly 2/3 to 3/4 is
allocated to the jackpot with the rest
funding lower tier prizes. So that means
even if there's $200 million out of the
hund00 million only twothirds of it goes
into the the big jackpot. Um and that
means the jackpot is typically in the
order of onethird of total ticket sales
that run and then out of that one-third
so say if it's a hundred million or with
the Epstein case it was 80 million. He
took the payout which was 30 million. So
they make 50 on top of that and then on
top of that you pay taxes on that 30.
It's a crazy scam.
>> What do they do with the money?
>> Whatever the [ __ ] they want.
>> I think they probably I think they in
certain neighborhoods I think they
probably pump a certain amount of
winning tickets into a neighborhood just
to get you addicted to keep going in
there and spend your money.
>> Well, it's supposed to be random. You
know, I don't know how much oversight.
Look, if a guy like Jeffrey Epstein can
win, I don't know how much oversight is
it. I know um back in Boston when I
lived there, Whitey Bulier won. See if
this is true. I think he won the lotto
twice, which is crazy.
>> Whitey Bulier. Who was that? That sound
>> Whitey Bulier was a South Boston mob
boss uh in the 1980s when I lived there.
The 1980s and 90s.
>> A mob a mob boss.
>> Yeah, he was a dangerous dangerous guy.
He was the guy that that movie that
Leonardo DiCaprio starred in with Jack
Nicholson. What was that movie? Jamie,
remember that movie that was based on
Whitey Bulier?
>> The Departed?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Departed. Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> That was based on Whitey Bulier.
>> He was a gangster.
>> Oh, yeah. Terrifying gangster. Yeah.
>> What was his demise?
>> He was actually a [ __ ] FBI informant.
Not only was he a gangster, he was
working with the FBI and they were
letting him get away with [ __ ] because
he was throwing other people under the
bus.
>> I think there's a different I mean,
>> they wind up catching him in Santa
Monica. Well, I found that
>> Hunting Whitey about that Whitey Bulier
won the Mass Millions lottery about that
time. Yeah. Yeah, he won the [ __ ]
lottery, man. So, uh
this is what it says here. What does it
say?
>> I think it was more of a scheme than
they actually won the but it's Oh, he
was taking money. It's probably a way to
like launder money.
>> Yeah. Oh, 100%. It's a way to launder
money. So the way it would work was like
say if you lived in the community and
you won the lottery ticket, maybe they
would give you money for your lottery
ticket and then he would get it and that
way it would show that this is where he
got his income from. Like these guys
would all own businesses. But the reason
why they would own businesses is so they
could show why they drive a Cadillac,
why they have a mansion, why they have
this, because they have legitimate
businesses. But really, these businesses
were scams. My father convinced my
family that he was a real estate agent
for years and come to find out he was a
heroin king been in DC for years. All we
needed was an excuse. He's selling real
estate. All right.
>> That's hilarious.
Um so he ordered the real winner to sign
the ticket over with Whitey and two
associates paying $2.3 million in cash
for 50% of the winnings. Buler Bulier
himself paid Michael Linsky 700,000.
Although Linsky lost money in the deal,
he really had no choice. It came down to
selling the ticket or risking his life.
Yeah. So that's how it usually wills
works.
>> So he was a snitch.
>> Whitey was a snitch. Yeah.
>> He was a snitch and he got caught in
Santa Monica. He was
>> snitch or whistleblower. There is a
difference.
>> No, he was a snitch.
>> Whistleblowers are people that snitch on
people in higher profile positions like
corporate America. But what I'm finding
out
>> No, he wasn't a whistleblower. He was an
actual snitch because he was turning
other people in. But he was a kingpin.
Is this true? And I don't want to make
everything about race. Is that phrase
snitches get snitches more prevalent in
the white community or the black
community or it's across the board?
>> I think it's across the board, isn't it?
Like like the black community is famous
for keeping their mouth shut when
someone gets shot or when someone does
something like when cops come and
question.
>> I don't know that's the truth anymore
because what I'm
>> not anymore. But that was the thing with
the mafia too. Yeah.
>> The mob would never rat out. Guys would
just go to jail. interested now because
now I see like especially in my
community so many people like rat I got
the paperwork and everything and now it
feels like like that model of being
loyal is dead like people now they they
getting caught with [ __ ] and the minute
they get caught they snitch on everybody
right and there's no repercussions when
they come home there's no repercussion I
don't see that as much I see so many
people that are like They saying
whatever the [ __ ] they want to do,
whatever, and they still out here just
living their lives normal like and
nothing [ __ ] happened.
>> Well, with the mob, it was always like,
if you ratted on the mob, you were a
dead man. You were a dead man. Your
family was probably dead. They burn your
house down and and people kept their
mouth shut because of that. And so guys
would go to jail all the time and never
open their mouth and they would be
rewarded when they would get out and
they'd have a party for them, celebrate.
That's in good fellas. You kept your
mouth shut. You never said nothing. That
was the whole thing. But the whole thing
I used to live
>> that changed though like with John Gotti
like the the government no Sammy the
Bull Sammy the Bull and it wasn't just
them like there was everyone was
snitching on everybody. It's like they
got these guys and you know we had
Donnie Brasco in in the studio
>> from from um what um from Johnny Depp
movie. It was called Donnie Bras.
>> Okay.
>> He why am I confusing that with um
>> what's his real John Deonnie Bras's real
name?
Joe. Uh,
>> I'm not confused. Bronx, that's not
Bronx.
>> Joe Pone.
>> Joe Pone.
>> That's nothing to do with Bronx Tale,
right?
>> No, different story. That's a different
story.
>> Yeah. Um, so Donnie Brasco was the guy
who was he was an agent and he pretended
to be a mob guy and he got in with the
mob and was with him for like seven
years. Did all kinds of [ __ ] with the
mob and then sold everybody out and they
all went under.
>> Yeah. I don't know. I'm just so this the
culture everything is they used to be
afraid snitches get stitches now I don't
know if this just everywhere but
everywhere I go it's like the most
interesting thing now that's selling on
any platform especially social media is
beef and I don't understand why people
gravitate toward negativity more than
anything
>> that's normal
>> why but you know what it's interesting
your platform is not known for that
>> no
>> your platform but I go to these other
platforms And I don't know. I think
these guys, the people, they just sit
back and it's like, okay, what can I say
to make people upset, get them riled up,
and then I take advantage of the
engagement that they do?
>> They're in a different game than me. All
right. Their game is trying to get
engagement. My game is talking to people
that are
>> But that don't doesn't that become
>> I don't want to be triggering anything,
but doesn't that become destructive
after a while?
>> 100%. And do you have you noticed it
especially I'll put it like this
especially with comedians with podcast
it it will used to be a time where like
you say a person would go on a podcast
because it was interesting they told
funny stories
>> or they was good at their craft or
whatever but now it feels like all these
platforms and I don't know that's just
in in my community when I say that black
people it's like the only way I can find
myself interesting if I talk [ __ ] about
people Right.
>> And [ __ ] are going away from
being being funny
when you get interviewed. Like every
[ __ ] podcast I turn on now is
somebody I'm exposed this person. I'mma
tell this about what you didn't know.
And the one thing they're not doing,
especially as a standup comedian,
[ __ ] don't give a [ __ ] about
being funny no more. Are those days
over?
>> No. No. No. No. Those people that do
that are almost always not very
talented. Almost always. The only
exception to that fooling. The only
exception to that is Cat. And I think
what Cat was doing was different. Cuz
what Cat was doing was exposing what he
thought was snakes and liars.
>> Okay.
>> A different thing.
>> Okay. Okay. I Okay. This is my question.
>> Okay. Okay.
>> This is my question. Okay. This is my
question. People can take it.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. Okay, I want to say this. This is
what I'm saying, Joe.
>> What are you saying?
>> I'm coming from this place. I'm like
this. No disrespect or whatever to Cat,
but like
>> who asked you
>> uh Shannon Sharp did
>> when he did that podcast.
>> Shannon Sharp might have asked one
question.
>> Shannon, but Shannon Sharp likes that
like that in his relationship. He likes
a lot of that. His his people, they find
questions. He's got a sheet of paper.
He's got questions. with those Joe. What
do you do with those truths?
>> What do you do with talking about I
watched Oh, this is a horrible
impression. I sat there in the parking
lot and I watched people go up at the
Dy's house and they came down and they
were standing up. I'm trying to figure
out what the [ __ ] do you get out of
that? What what what is the result of
that? You expose these people to say
what? Hollywood is never going to
[ __ ] change. You know what changes?
Like what you do? I left [ __ ]
Hollywood. Hollywood is not going to
change. And I'm not saying I went to a
diddy party. First off, I was never
invited.
>> There's a chance I would accept the
invitation with rules, you know, right?
But if what is the purpose of exposing
something that you
>> I don't think most people are exposing
what most people are doing when they're
being negative is they are jealous and
they are below the person they're
talking [ __ ] about like whenever I see
someone that's talking about jealous
about you don't think now you say that
and you use Cat Williams as an example.
So when you said they're jealous
>> first of all when Cat did it was very
funny which is
>> it was very funny. Cat's a very funny
guy. And when he was doing it, I think
he was also being very funny while he
was doing it, which is different.
>> Well, you have to put a LOL on the end
of it because people might not
understand his humor cuz this is what
this is the connection people have. They
This is what they the connection they
have with cat. It's like they this is
what they say and they ride with him.
They say, "Where is the lie? Where is
the lie?" And all this stuff. But I'm
just trying to understand what is the
purpose of exposing all this stuff. What
do we do with this information? What do
we do with the information that Diddy
like to have [ __ ] freak parties with
baby oil? What the [ __ ] do we do with
all this information?
>> Well, Denny's in jail right now, so they
did that with the information.
>> Well, Denny's in jail for doing
something that a lot of people
I Let me tell you something, Joe.
>> Tell me something.
>> I was riding with Diddy for one. I like
the music he did or everything. I don't
know did like that. But when I first
read the definition of sex trafficking,
right?
>> I'm sure you're a verse person. You're
smart.
>> Uhhuh.
>> The definition of sex trafficking to
transport a woman across state lines
with the intent to have sexual
intercourse with her.
>> Right.
>> When I heard
>> when you're paying them,
>> it's trafficking is
>> No, that's not actually my
This is my Jamie. You can pull this up.
>> Wait a minute. So, if you are dating a
girl and she lives in Minnesota and you
live in California and you fly her to
California, that's sex trafficking.
>> And I'm thinking about
>> I don't think that's true. I don't think
that's true at all. I think that's just
flying a girl in that you're having a
relationship.
>> They call it flued out. Fluid out.
>> Yeah, but that's normal. Everybody does
that.
>> But that's the definition.
>> Commercial sex act.
>> Yeah. Commercial. Commercial sex act
induced by force, fraud, or coercion.
Huh. Well, coercion's crazy cuz coercion
is like, "Please, I'll buy you a bag."
>> That's sex trafficking. So, like if a
girl, right, if you if you if there's a
girl, she's like, "What are you going to
do for me?" Like, "You know those shoes
you want? I got those shoes for you.
Let's go shopping." Like, that's kind of
sex trafficking. If that's coercion for
money,
>> like if a girl's thinking about coming
out to visit you and then you go,
"Listen, listen, listen. What are you
looking for? What do you What do you
want to buy? I got money. Come on. Let's
go shopping." that kind of would fall
into that category.
>> But we're getting off topic. Let's go
back to the topic originally in hand.
>> The reason why these comedians are
negative I need to
>> No, no, no, no. You're not going to get
in trouble for sex trafficking. Listen,
that's all horseshit.
>> But the reason why these comedians are
doing it is because they're never bigger
than the comedians they're [ __ ] on.
Never.
>> 1,000%.
>> And you know what it is, Joe?
>> And they're never good.
>> That You know what it is, too, Joe? is
that deep down inside they want to be
that person
>> 100%.
>> And I tell you that
>> or they want to be in the position that
person's in is a better way of putting
it.
>> And I I I'll use this. I'll tell you
this story. I realize now not to say
names, but you it's so many people that
could be guilt guilty of it. And this is
the thing that I hear that understands
me that that that that disturbs me is
that, you know, uh, a lot of these
people that [ __ ] the most, they at some
point in their career, they were favored
by Hollywood.
>> Yes.
>> At some point in their career, they had
these opportunities. At some point in
their career, guess what? They had the
agencies. They had the agents. And
something happened in their career where
they fell out of favor for whatever you
want to call that it. whatever you want
to call that for whatever maybe
something they did agency didn't like
like them too much and now everything
that they wrote on everything they
wanted to do now it's all that's [ __ ]
up and only way you get this opportunity
cuz it has to be sexual favors and all
that type of [ __ ] and where did the [ __ ]
you draw the line
>> but it's not even sexual favor it's like
they criticize the work of the other
person that person ain't [ __ ] that
person sucks can I can I yo there's
here's the thing there was
>> come on you you get this all all the
time because you ride with Dave and
Dave's number one, right? So you you
always get you always get this label
even though you're a great comic, you
get this label being a coattail rider,
>> right? And guess what? Everybody don't
This is what I try to explain to people,
Joe.
>> Everybody does not have to be Batman.
I don't have a problem with being Robin.
You know why? Cuz Robin got the same
amount of screen time as Batman. And and
the reason why I say this is what I get.
And I'm I'm telling you this, Joe. I
don't know if this gum is kicking in.
>> This is what this is what go this is
what [ __ ] me up, Joe. This is what
[ __ ] me up. And I'll tell you example.
I'm going to give you an example. Don't
give me examples.
>> No, I'm going tell you. Are you pulling
out your phone? I'mma tell you why.
Because your [ __ ] shirt is [ __ ]
triggering me right now.
>> Kill Tony.
>> You mean the greatest greatest comedy
show of all time in the history of the
known universe?
>> I know that, but there's a lot of lies
involved. Listen,
this is this is what they saying. THIS
IS WHAT THEY SAYING.
>> DON'T PAY ATTENTION to what they say.
>> Listen,
>> why are you doing that?
>> Yo, you told me things that the Kill
Tony audience say about me.
>> Um, Chappelle's butt plug is ACTUALLY
>> YO, I GOT TO DEAL WITH THIS [ __ ] WHAT
IS SO NO.
>> WELL, you got to stop paying attention
to it.
>> It's so hard.
>> You know what it would happen to me if I
paid attention to all the haters that I
have? Yeah.
>> I would go crazy.
>> You would. Do you think that you paid
attention to those haters? Now you're at
a position where now you have so many
reasons to say [ __ ] them. Do you feel
like you had that same belief when you
was first starting this? Did you did you
engage them then?
>> Well, I engaged online with a lot of
people in the early days cuz I didn't
understand what you're doing is you're
engaging with people that don't have
happy lives,
>> right?
>> And they're negative. And there's some
criticisms that are good for you because
some criticisms make you evaluate what
you're doing and say, "Okay, well, what
I need to do is be undeniable." So,
these critics mean nothing to me because
you can't the I'm killing the audience
loves me. I'm selling out everywhere.
I'm doing great on stage. That you can't
pay attention.
>> You know what? You know what? I will say
this. I hear you, Joe. I tried that with
them [ __ ] on your shirt.
>> You had a bad show. You had one bad
show.
>> I never had
>> You had a bad show.
>> You had a bad show. Please don't do this
to me. All right.
>> You did. You had that one bad show where
you went back and forth. You walked Did
you walk off the show?
>> Listen, man.
>> Get sit the [ __ ] down.
>> SIT THE [ __ ] DOWN.
>> [ __ ] WALK OFF THE SHOW.
>> YOU WANT ME to play it back?
>> I I
Please don't do this.
>> You were a little drunk.
>> Who is the comic? Who is the comic?
>> I don't know his name.
>> We don't need to bring Whoever that dude
is.
>> See, now you're doing this. You You know
what you're doing.
You're don't You're being A PROVOCATORY
RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE PROVOKING ME cuz we
BROKE THIS [ __ ] DOWN AND I DON'T WANT TO
KEEP GOING.
>> I didn't think of this when I was
wearing this shirt. I'll change the
shirt.
>> No, it's okay. Put something over.
>> Shirt. I'll wear a Benny the Jet shirt.
>> Let's Let's Let's break it down, Joe.
>> Oh, we don't have to.
>> If we have to. You started this [ __ ]
All right. Thank you.
>> I'm gonna change my shirt right now.
>> It's like I didn't have a bad show.
>> You definitely didn't have a great show,
right? When you walk off, it's not good.
>> Jesus Christ. God
I'm cheating now. I feel like Carrie.
THEY'RE ALL GOING TO LAUGH AT ME.
THEY'RE going to laugh at me. It wasn't
this for the last [ __ ] time, Joe. For
the last [ __ ] time. And this is
what's so [ __ ] evil about this
situation that some people call a bad
show. I never wanted to do the show.
>> But you came back on. You had a good
show, right?
>> I want to go back. Let's rewind. All
right. And this is You were a part of
it.
>> Hey, look. I changed my shirt. No more
trigger.
>> I appreciate that.
>> Shout out to Benny the Jet.
>> Okay. I feel a lot better now.
>> Oh boy. I need another piece of gum.
>> I'm going to say this. Say what it's
worth. First off, I did not want the
first time I did it here in Austin,
>> right?
>> I didn't want to do the show. Okay.
>> And the reason why I didn't want to do
the show, Joe, now you're not even
paying attention to
>> You want a cigar?
>> Yeah, I'll take a cigar. I I didn't want
to do the show, and I'll tell you why.
Cuz I'm The streets say I'm sensitive.
>> You are a little sensitive.
>> Can I have not have your opinion and
just listen to me, please? The um uh
They know I'm sensitive. It was during
the pandemic, Joe. You remember people
would still come to do your podcast cuz
they know the benefits of it and you had
your thing doing. They would come to
your podcast and then they would [ __ ]
leave cuz they didn't want to catch co
and then they would leave Tony stranded
and he had no good guests. I was here
right this when when I'm talking about
the time when Tony had a black band.
>> He still has a black band.
>> All black. There a couple black people
on there now. Me too. I think it's
mostly black, right?
>> Okay. I want to tell a story. This is
the last time I want to talk about
>> Deep Madness. I mean, name
>> this the last time, Joe. I want to tell
the story.
>> Drummer, the guitar player or not?
>> What's that,
>> Mike? Dr.
>> Yeah. I mean, there's like
>> the horns.
>> A lot of them are black.
>> Definitely
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>> Look at the old when it when it's when
it was all had not high production, all
that type [ __ ] Tony is like, "It's hard
for me to get a guess. Would you stay?"
>> And this is when you [ __ ] me up the
last time. You wasn't playing fair. Yes,
you did. I wasn't playing fair.
>> No, I'm telling you when you weren't
playing fair.
>> When was I not playing fair?
>> Can I talk?
>> Please.
>> All I want to do I don't know if I got a
raise in my hand. I just want to be able
to speak. It is my month. It's my
[ __ ] month. So Tony said, "Would you
stay? Come on." I was like, you know,
and I stayed, right?
>> Okay.
>> And I stayed and I stayed. I was on his
show for two and a half hours. I told
him, "This is where it gets all crazy."
I told him I had a something I was
supposed to do later. There was another
black comic that was on his show. He
started roasting me. I had no problem
with that. I had no problem with him
roasting me, but I felt [ __ ] up
because it was only me him. And I was
trying to give this guy some sound
advice. But the only way he thought he
was going to get off by [ __ ] with me. So
I was like, "Yo, why you [ __ ] with me?
We on the same We on this [ __ ] same
team." What they did was look at the
[ __ ] video.
>> Okay.
>> You see, I want you to slow it down.
>> Slow it down.
>> Slow the video down.
>> It's like a Zapruder film.
>> It's a back. You're going to let me
freaking get my thought, Joe.
>> Sorry.
>> It's so easy for me to get distracted.
Just hanging out with
>> his gum.
>> So, if you look at this video, you see
him saying something to me and then when
I leave, it's two different [ __ ]
comics on the [ __ ] stage. It's a dude
that I was roasting and then they showed
me the exit and then these kill Tony
[ __ ] ass [ __ ] And I'm telling
you, I'll get past it. They may Oh,
Darnell walked off. I didn't walked off.
I had some other [ __ ] to do. And then
the last episode, you and your boy Tony,
he caught here and Tony doubled down on
it and he said, "No, that's not what
happened." Of course, them comment
[ __ ] the ones that be putting
cringe on here, they rolled with it.
>> Okay.
>> Then I came back.
>> Came back. He had an amazing show.
>> Tony said it was one of the best shows
he's ever done.
>> You know why it was amazing?
>> Because you were ready. I I'm amazing.
>> You You are amazing. But also, you
wanted to get it back,
>> right?
>> I didn't have You know what? This is
what Red Man said to me. Red band. Red
Man, whatever the [ __ ] his name, he
changed, too. I'm going to tell you
about in the Wuang Club.
>> Let me tell you,
>> I'm going to tell you the difference
between him and I'm going to tell you
the similarities between him and Jamie a
little later on, right? Okay.
>> How they're divas now. And I know you
>> Jamie. My Jamie's a diva. He has a false
memory of someone already. I'll let him
go. is the last thing from a [ __ ]
diva. I will defend Jamie to the bitter
end.
>> Well, maybe you don't know him, BUT
>> I DON'T KNOW. JAMIE.
>> YO, LET ME TELL YOU. THIS IS JAMIE.
>> I KNOW JAMIE BETTER THAN his mom.
>> I know, but this is the Jamie I saw.
>> Kill Tony after.
>> Sit down. You're not on camera. Saturday
night.
>> Okay. He had a leather jacket on.
>> Don't have a leather jacket.
>> Jamie had a leather jacket. Did he own a
leather jacket? WHATEVER IT WAS.
>> YOU OWN A LEATHER JACKET. NO.
>> WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. THE COLLAR WAS
FLIPPED UP. YOUR COLLAR WAS FLIPPED UP
>> LIKE DICE. And then AND THEN HE HAD THE
SHIRT.
>> You might have had Timmy no brakes.
He had the shirt open to this button
right here.
>> Oh, right. Gold chains.
>> And he was sitting. I don't know what
type of moose.
>> Jimmy had gold chains, boots on his
hair,
>> PONYTAIL WAS POPPING.
HE HAD some type of moose or something,
right? And then he was just looking and
I was like, "What's up, Jamie?" He was
like, he had his hands in his pot. It
was given, as they say, it was given
Fonzy attitude. I knew I knew that had
changed. But this is what Red B Red Man
whatever man he red
>> red man he said after the show he said
that must been the most epic comeback
and kill Tony history. I was like
>> well the second episode was you came
back full
>> you know what you're doing I don't know
it was great
>> I'm trying to use the term I don't I
don't think this past wrestle but you
[ __ ] with my MENTAL RIGHT NOW. OH,
I'M TELLING YOU, YOU'RE A GREAT COMIC
and you're funny as [ __ ] And when you
came back, it was amazing.
>> That's what you're saying.
>> The second episode was great.
>> This is the point I'm making that what
you're doing,
>> right?
>> The first episode was great.
>> It was Dr.
>> It was It was Dr. VIDEO.
YOU do it. But then then here's the
thing. They said the Red Man, Red Band,
he said
he said that was the greatest comeback.
I was like, it wasn't a comeback. You're
editing what it was. And this is what I
DID.
>> YOU'RE EDITING.
>> THIS IS WHAT I DID.
>> And I'm not saying I think about the
kill Tony audience like that, but I
thought about them cuz what? This is
what I said. I was like, this is what I
went. Like you say, I'm a great comment.
I know what I do. I said, you know what?
I don't want to give these [ __ ]
opportunity to be able to [ __ ] with me.
So I did
>> before I went that last. I said, okay,
what did you do last time that you're
going to do different for they want to
say that? I was like, the last one you
had some drinks. Well, I I wasn't able
to do anything about that cuz I had some
more drinks. But I was like I tried to
address what their concerns were, right?
Which with them, it's not going to make
a difference cuz I know that last
episode what this is what I didn't
understand about Kill Tony. I didn't
understand the the formula. I don't
watch it like that. First time I ever
did it, I was interrupting the one
minute part. You know what I mean?
>> Oh, okay.
>> And Tony told me the first time I did
it, he said, "D only one rule." He said,
"Let them talk for a minute." I said,
"Tony, why you have this on me on this
show? You know, I'm going to break the
rules."
>> And he knew that, right? But then after
I I was like, I understood how important
it was to let those comics get that
minute,
>> right?
>> So, when I did it the second time with
Rob Schneider, I didn't interrupt.
Sometimes my criticism could have been
too hard. I was trying to be more
supportive than anything. If you watch
the last one I did, I had nothing bad to
say about people in a harsh way. Certain
people I knew was up there just because
it was gimmick. And there were certain
people I was like, "Oh man, they've
really got talent." Like this one lady,
she was an older woman. I think she's a
regular there, right? I don't know what
she know what she was. But I told her, I
said, you know, it's so awesome. I said,
when I watch you perform, I see passion.
I see somebody that's going into a
different career later in life, which is
the hardest thing to do. I made those
points like, and I wasn't trying to be
an [ __ ] And even I got caught up in
one. They ran with this [ __ ]
And it's a song that uh there was one of
the acts by the name of Wanita.
Wanita is a a gender what is it when you
>> transgender?
>> Yeah. You have a dick but you're a girl
still.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Transgender. Right. So she came up
with this song. She did a song we we
will praise you. Praise you. And I had a
couple drinks. Right. And I said and I
was thinking like
>> [ __ ] you don't have that song.
>> What? What? Jamie.
>> I just started playing it. Sorry.
>> What? Just stop. Oh, you geared up for
that [ __ ] huh? You
>> put your headphones on.
>> No, listen.
>> Put your headphones on.
>> Oh god. Okay.
>> Go.
>> Go ahead.
>> All right.
>> Wait a minute. That's Wanita's version.
>> That's
the Okay. Okay.
>> Do you got Wanita's version?
>> Oh, I can find that.
>> Get the So, this is what happened, Joe.
So, I'm I had a couple two two three
four five Titos in
>> and I'm only looking at the artist with
my peripheral. I'm not staring nobody
down and like looking at them through
the pupils or whatever. So, the
performer I'm going to say that cuz I
don't want to get anybody upset. The
performer was like,
>> "Here we go.
Obviously, I'll let him talk to SA.
>> Okay. Now, look how I'm not paying
attention,
>> right? You're looking right AT HER.
>> SHUT THE [ __ ] UP.
>> OKAY. LISTEN.
>> All right. We'll see.
>> Um, so it's very strange when in 2008.
>> Sorry.
>> Okay.
>> Oh, they had to cut it out, too, I
think.
>> Probably the song. Yeah.
>> I That's the gayest thing I've ever
done.
And I do anal,
>> believe it or not.
>> Wanita, welcome back to the show.
>> Can I do a remix of that song for any
black guy watching her RIGHT NOW?
>> YEAH.
>> WE WILL. WE WILL. [ __ ] YOU.
>> Probably true until you find out she has
a dick. Darnell,
>> that is a
>> Keep it going. Don't
>> keep it going. This is amazing.
>> That's how it happens, ladies and
gentlemen.
They can't tell.
>> No. No. Come back.
>> The brothers. The brothers can't tell.
THE BROTHERS CAN'T.
>> THEY WILL. THEY WILL.
>> They never The last place.
>> I WAS TRYING TO BE NICE.
>> The last
but
>> Keep it going. Keep it going cuz it's
hilarious.
>> Whereas white guys know
>> that's the first place the white guys
look.
>> I'm
Charlemagne's going to find that clip.
You will. We will. We will. [ __ ] you.
You are You are [ __ ] ON NOW.
I'M
>> GETTING word from the street.
I'm
>> getting word from the street.
I'm sure this happened.
>> I DON'T WANT TO GET BANNED LIKE DAVE
CHAPPELLE, [ __ ]
>> DANIEL, I'm sure this HAPPENED BEFORE IN
KOREA.
>> ME, SON.
>> I'm sure in Korea, as an 18-year-old
boy, this is a memory coming back to
you.
>> Oh my god.
>> This is usually how black guys react.
It's pretty.
>> Juanita, have you been with a black man
before?
>> We go there.
>> Keep it going. Keep it going. Guess it
gets you on fire.
>> Okay. Are you just saying that so that
he doesn't find you and kill you?
>> No, I was raised rat. I'm just kidding.
I mean, that's a joke.
>> Oh [ __ ]
>> Now I'm offended.
>> No, I have been I've been with one. He
was half.
>> Okay. He was half
>> half a black.
>> Okay.
>> My career is over, [ __ ]
>> It's over.
Yeah,
>> come on. That was funny.
>> No, wait a minute. It was funny. And I
didn't take The funny thing about it was
I had I did have a couple of drinks,
right? People like, "How did you not
know?" Like um I live in the Midwest and
what I really thought it would I know
women that look just like Wanita
>> that in the face is kind of like sketchy
like a Dollar General one to two. And uh
I wasn't offended, but it just it just
caught me off guard. But what I'm going
back to what I was saying about the kill
Tony thing, and this is another thing
people said, "Well, Darnell, you got
upset cuz Rob Schneider was roasting you
and whatever." First off, there was the
first time Rob Schneider was on the
show, right? He didn't really know too
much about the Kill Tony platform. I
knew a little more than he did. And at
the beginning, he was kind of cold, if
you want to say, not cold, like not
funny, but he just wasn't warmed up to
the flow. And then I started saying
things. We was I was alleyooping him,
right? And basically people can say what
they want. I helped get him comfortable
in the show and then he started
crushing. Right. He started crushing and
then we did we anybody tell you that
episode was amazing. Right. It
>> was amazing.
>> And but this is the thing. This is what
that play that platform is not a place
for you to tell how you really feel
about somebody. Right. And I owe Tony an
apology. And I'll tell you why. When
Tony did the um um RN Republic National
Convention, whatever.
>> Remember when he did the roasting?
>> Yes.
>> For that, it was a very very testy time.
You know, politics, everybody said you
shouldn't do this and everything.
>> I told him not to do it.
>> You told him not to do the show or not
to do
>> the Republican party thing.
>> Here's the thing, and this is what just
for the people that's listening, this is
what happened at the end of that Kill
Tony with me and Rob Schneider. All I
wanted to do I I I had the question on
where do you draw the line? Do you draw
a line of what people think how you
supposed to respond something or do you
loy are you loyal to somebody on how
they treat you and how they are as a
friend to you? And Tony wanted me to do
that show and anytime I've called Tony
he's pick up the phone vice versa. We've
been for each other. my publicist.
I don't know if this is a good idea
right now to because what you think is a
nice gesture, you want to do the show,
people gonna act like it's a political
stand. I didn't want that, right? So, I
had
>> listen to publicists.
>> This is what I learned now, Joe. You
know what I'm saying? That was my
inexperience. Whatever. And something I
kept calling her. I was like, "What if I
do this?" Cuz I wanted to be reconnected
with him, whatever. And I told Tony, he
was hot in a good way, and a positive
way. I felt so bad. I caught him. I
said, "Man, I really want to do the
show, but I think people gonna take it
the wrong way now." Right. And this was
with me. I felt bad about it. I stood up
at your condo. I was on the balcony,
bro. And I watched [ __ ] going
to the show. I felt bad about it. I
didn't do it. And the only thing I
wanted to do at the end of that Kill
Tony episode was to apologize to him and
say, you know, as a friend, I probably
wasn't there. And he understood even I
was like, he's never going to let me do
the show again. He said, "I'd love to
have you there." The only issue I had
with Rob Schneider in that moment, he
didn't have the sense of me trying to
say something serious, right? And he he
was getting a laugh off this one joke
and it was at my expense. You know, when
I had this moment, I was talking about
friendship and everything.
Rob kept on with this [ __ ] corny joke
and I didn't want to flip out and then
people took that as like, "Oh yeah, Rob
roasted him. The [ __ ] out of here." I
was trying to talk about and I had this
issue. You might have the same issue.
Some people know people certain way, you
know them different way. And I use an
example and I'm going to get [ __ ] on
for saying this or whatever. Like, oh,
how could you say that?
>> I um
>> you got to stop worrying about what
other people think.
>> Can't do it. I can't do it.
>> You got to stop worrying about what
other people think. This is this is the
conflict. You you know how you feel.
>> Just be yourself.
>> I'll just say this. Kid Rock. Kid Rock.
Right.
You say that name for some people in
certain places they like, "Oh, [ __ ]
him." or whatever. Right.
>> I met Kid Rock some years ago when we
were doing the uh Cornfield shows in um
in Yellow Springs. And I tell people
some, and we talked about this earlier,
some people are provocators.
>> I really believe Kid Rock doesn't
believe half the [ __ ] he say, but I
think that he knows what's going to move
the Dow is what's going to make him be
in the headlines or what people like,
"Oh [ __ ] he's gonna stick to that."
>> When we did that show in Nashville,
remember we hung out with him, went to
his house.
>> Yeah. Exactly.
>> Um and and with that, even when he came
to conference that time, this was the
point where he says some crazy [ __ ] out
of his mouth. Nobody wanted to be around
him or anything. Right. They was like,
"Oh,
>> right."
>> Right. You know, when I do I do this
thing called I do river runs in in
Yellow Springs, Ohio. And for some
reason, I take people down the river and
it's like a peach thing like you in
nature.
>> Got a photo of you right outside the
door.
>> I know. I asked for that photo here too.
Right outside the door. I love that. So
now if you look at that photo, you'll
see the energy. That's the vibe I was
on. And nobody wanted to get close to
Kid Rock or anything, right? And I
remember as a kid how the black
community accepted him. He was cool. I'm
thinking about that [ __ ] We're riding
down the river. Kid is over on one
kayak. I'm on the other side. We smoking
a joint. And he looked at me and I know
he was sincere and he said it. He said,
"Man, it feel like I just had 13 hours
of anger management, right?" And I was
like, "Okay, I'm not trying to be a
therapist or anything, but that felt
good." Then at the end, we stopped. He's
flipping burgers and [ __ ] We got to
know each other. come in touch with each
other and um he was doing a comedy
festival in Nashville, right? He
appreciated me as a comedian. He said,
"Yo, D, I'm doing this." I was like one
of the first people he called, right? He
said, "You want to do it?" I was like,
"Why not?" Then I thought about I was
like, "What?" Again, what you're saying,
I was like, "What people going to
think?" Seven comedians on the show. I'm
the only black guy. I knew what I was
walking into. I knew it was going to be
all Maggas.
It wasn't going to be a gay person. It
wasn't going to be a [ __ ] It wasn't
going to be a lesbian. It wasn't going
to be anything but bonafide the real
real red, white, and blue flag
[ __ ] But I said, "Darnell, can
you separate? Can you go up here? Can
you perform and and be entertaining, not
shucking, and jing or none of that type
of [ __ ] I went up there, last person
got a standing ovation right at the end
of the show." This is what people might
not understand, and I'm not trying to
defend them or anything. At the end of
the show, me and Kid Rock, or in this
case, I want to say Kid Rock wasn't
backstage. Bobby was, right?
>> And he said, "Man," he looked at me, he
said, "Man, I think we just brought this
country back together, right?" And I
said, "Well, don't separate it,
motherfucker." He said, "Okay." Two
weeks later, he do some other stupid
[ __ ] When when when when Trump got
elected, I know people went to his page
to see what his response was going to
be. Was he gonna gloat? We like, "Fuck
y'all. This is America." He did this
video, which I thought was so dope cuz
it showed two sides of him. It showed
Kid Rock and it showed Bobby, right? And
then how they both uh responded to
Donald Trump being elected. The Kid Rock
was the crotch grabbing [ __ ]
[ __ ] you. Right. Then he came out, you
find this, he came out as Bobby with
shorts, just no American flags, baseball
cap, [ __ ] reading glasses or
whatever. And I thought it was dope the
dialogue that he had with it. He played
the victory. He said, you know, you
know, we did win. He said, but this is
not a time to gloat. It's so much stuff
that we need to do. He said, all sides
want to get to a certain place, but we
have different ideas on how we going to
get there. I thought that for whatever
people want to think, I thought that was
showing another side. And also, I told
him cuz I would talk to him off and on.
I said, "You know what song that you
should do? You should do Nina Simone's
uh song um uh misunderstood,
right? Just sing that shit." But I know
he wouldn't never do that because the
base that really likes to resp support
him might be like, "Oh, he's soft." Now,
the point I'm making with even though
with Tony with the situation, I consider
Tony a good friend of mine for different
reasons, right? That's why I wanted to
have that moment to say that, but Rob
Schneider, as much as they say I took
away from moments on that show, he took
away from that moment. I wasn't trying
to be a [ __ ] I wasn't trying to be
soft, but I wanted to say I apologize
cuz sometimes friendships got to be
stronger than that. And that's where I
was with that. And as much as I don't
need
the Kill Tony show and this is what I
always say about that show. I said
there's not that reminds me Kill Tony
reminds me of the Death Jam era, right?
And when I say that there was a platform
for undiscovered talent, people that you
never seen for it's such a spectacle
like Death Jam. It was people that
didn't have the skill set to [ __ ] go
headline but they was being seen. Same
thing with Kill Tony. You look at what
>> is your phone on? Is your phone
dingering? Shut up.
>> You look at this. What I appreciate
about this show for whoever likes it or
whatever.
>> It's a platform to get on.
>> I travel around the country. It used to
be, you remember back in the day it was
like, "Oh, I need to be on Letterman. I
need to be on Carson." Whatever. That is
the I got to get on Kill Tone
>> 100%.
>> And in some cases there's some good and
bad to that. There some people that was
ready for it. There's some people like,
you know what, you had two or three
minutes worth of jokes. You know what
I'm saying? You're not ready. But it
gave people some hope. When I was
staying at the hotel the other day,
three people travel across the country
like with the hopes of that, you know.
So, I know how important that show is,
you know. Is it the fan base? I want
them to be like, "Oh, I can't wait to
see them." But for me, I always my whole
career, Joe, I always want to be around
the people, the places that they say the
best comedians perform. When I started
um when I was in New York, I always I
wanted to get past the comedy seller.
Not because I wanted to be a seller
dweller. I didn't want to be the guy in
the back [ __ ] just every weekend just
sit back there telling war stories. I
was like, if this is where the best
comics perform, I want to be a part of
that. I want to be past that. Cuz when I
got past in the comedy seller, it wasn't
a lot of black comedians working. It was
Greer Barnes. It was Keith Robinson.
RIP. It was William Stevenson. Patrice
>> Patrice Dave Chappelle. In fact, uh
Barry Catz had a room uh Boston Comedy
Club and it was black night on Sundays,
right? The black comedian looked at me
like they said, "Where you going?" I was
like, "I got a spot of the seller."
Like, "How the [ __ ] did you get in the
cellar?" The way I got into it was put
to work in, I hung out, got a couple of
recommendations, and when it's time for
me to showcase, I did my thing. But the
minute I got past in the seller, I
didn't really care about working there
all the time. I just wanted to be
validated as like this is the spot. Same
thing,
>> you know. Same thing with the comedy
store. Same thing with what you doing
here. It was that part of it.
>> I get it. Um Greg Barnes probably one of
the most underappreciated talents in the
country.
>> But you know what?
>> I've known that dude for 30 years. He's
a funny [ __ ] and he's been funny
forever.
>> You know, it's so funny that you said
underappreciated because you know when
you you know comedians that put the work
in or whatever. It's a phrase that
people use underrated, but then you got
to ask who rated. You didn't use those
words. You said underappreciated, but he
is.
I don't know. Sometimes you got to ask
yourself,
>> he's not underrated by comics. He's
underappreciated by audience members for
whatever reason. I think it's a social
media thing. I just think he doesn't
have a big presence on social media for
whatever reason. He's a solid solid
[ __ ] comic though. Always has been
>> and a solid guy
>> and a good dude.
>> But that's another thing. This is the
era that we in right now. And it's like,
and you notice it's even more so now.
The most talented people aren't getting
the shots if you don't know how to
evolve. Well, it's not even just that
because like look at Dave, not Dave
Chappelle, excuse me, David. David Tel,
I think, is one of the funniest dudes
who's ever lived ever. Ever. One of the
best comics ever in the history of
comedy and mostly does clubs and does
like theaters and stuff like that. He
should be sold out arenas all across the
country, but he does not promote
himself. He's not into social media,
>> but I don't think other than specials.
>> I don't think I think a tale would be
petrified. Not that he couldn't do it
and it was pro. What remember with the
show he had? What was that? The late
night show. That was before anybody was
doing it.
>> Yeah.
>> The late night show he go to bars and
stuff like that.
>> Insomniac.
>> Yeah. Insomniac. This is before
everybody was doing. I don't think that
some people they like I think he's
always going to make millions of dollars
touring or whatever. But I think his
comfort zone is like he's a not a club
act, but he's a club comment. I think
the best thing for him he ever wants to
be is in front of 250 to 500 people.
Well, he's awesome in that, but he does
like when Bert does arenas, he does
arenas and he murders in arenas.
>> I think the the real thing with him is
that he's just focused on his craft
only. And the props that he gets from
other comedians on podcasts and things
along those lines is what really fuels
his popularity. And then when people go
to see him, just word of mouth.
>> Do you think some people might be afraid
of a certain level of fame that they
don't want to have?
>> There is that. But I don't think he's
that. I just don't think he thinks about
it. I mean, he doesn't even have a
phone. Like, he he carries a flip phone
with him all the time. He has a iPhone
that he like stores away and sometimes
he uses it. But when you text him, he
texts you on like Well, you got to press
four times. Joe, you know what that is,
right?
>> Well, he doesn't want to be distracted.
>> He's in the Epstein files.
>> Yo, distracted.
>> You need to burn a phone if you heavily
in the Epste files. Uh, no. I think
>> he's only in the Epstein files cuz he
was on a lineup that Epstein was going
to go see at the cellar.
>> I think David Tail,
>> Louis J is on that too.
>> That I I like him. I think David Tail is
like I think Dave Tail's ultimate
happiness is being on.
>> Shut your [ __ ] phone off, man. Put
that [ __ ] on silent. Just put it on
silent. Do you know how to do that? You
don't know how to do that.
>> Don't disrespect me like that.
>> Put it on do not disturb. You know how
to do that?
>> It's okay. It's off. It's off.
>> Okay.
you popular [ __ ]
>> I think some people I think my opinion
David T his comfort zone is [ __ ] just
being as incognito as he tries to be.
It's just like oh I came up with this. I
don't know anybody that turns over
material. There certain comments you
look at Joe and you like godamn this
motherfucker's constantly trying.
>> Yeah.
>> Like
>> when I work with Dave
>> he forces me to do that. Deion Cole is
another guy when I watch Deion Cole does
like at the Hollywood improv I think
maybe three times a week he just have a
Monday night and he just use as a
workout right me when I go into a spot
I'm trying to beat the [ __ ] I'm trying
to beat it up so sometimes I get
distracted on what I'm really there for
that's work out new material there's
such an there's a different level when
you just like you know what I could deal
with the silence I could deal with
something not working and when I watch
people like him it's another comedian in
LA by the name of um Malik S that
doesn't have all that notoriety like
that. But when I see him, I'm like,
damn, every time I see this
[ __ ] he's working on some new
[ __ ] and has the same passion. Everybody
doesn't have that. That's why David Tail
will always give other comics something
to like try to achieve cuz he like you
ain't going to see him doing the same
[ __ ] It's always a flip and that's what
makes him who he is. And that's why he
gets so respected by so many Well, he's
he's only focused on his craft, whereas
some people are really focused on social
media and promotions, and they have a
guy that films him doing a bunch of wild
things and edits with music. And
>> I've never seen so many comedians have
fullout production crews with him,
>> right?
>> On an intro.
>> I know.
>> On stage,
>> they think that that's what they need,
you know? They think that's what they
need to separate them. and it does get
them attention. But what it takes away
it it it does draw some focus away from
what you're trying to do which is work
on your [ __ ] and come up with new stuff
where a towel doesn't have any of that.
>> But with that said, it takes away but
then it also lets you know who the
special people are. Right now [ __ ] my
goddamn um guy that services my pool and
[ __ ] say he's got a H he's got a special
coming out. I don't know who doesn't
have a special coming out. And the thing
about it is like now Joe, you know it,
specials aren't, if you really look at
it, specials aren't special anymore.
It's special.
>> It's a weird word, right? Specials are a
weird world.
>> It's I got a new special. Like no other
art form calls it a special. Like if
someone like Taylor Swift puts out a
concert video, it's a video of her
performance. You know, a musician puts
out a a video, it's that it's like for a
comic, we got a weird word special.
>> You know what special is now? What? When
you get excited about special, if you
people still do that, it's who's putting
it out. It's special people that do it.
It's special people like
>> um Sebastian, he's doing a special. You
know what I'm saying? [ __ ] Tom does a
special. It's special people where, you
know, it's special. And a lot of them
now is just people that's doing 45
minutes worth of comedy. No beginning,
no middle, no end, no point of view. You
don't know anything about them. It's
just like the same way they do photo
dumps. It's just like joke dumps,
>> right? But I I say and I'm not people
say Dave Chappelle's uh butt play, but
one thing I could say, however you look
at
>> Dave Chappelle's a what?
>> No, I'm Dave Chappelle's butt plug. I'm
going back to that's what people, you
know, they
>> You got to stop listening to what other
people say.
>> Joe, I'm segueing into a story.
>> Is it about Jamie wearing a Fonza
jacket?
>> Hey,
he's got him in all colors. It's got him
all.
>> He's got a red, white, and blue one,
>> you know, and like people,
>> he took it off before the show.
>> People get so critical, but at certain
point people evolve.
People that you norm certain way, but
then you talk about a person has a 35,
40 year career, like people like, well,
this last special so and so did it
wasn't that funny. But how often, how
long are you going to just be like rip
roaring funny? Some people have a
position where when they talk, people
listen. And I look at I'll use Dave as
an example. If you look at All Special
20 years from now, right, you having
Netflix and chill day or whatever.
>> If you play all the special that Dave
ever did, you would know exactly what
was going on in the world at that time.
>> You know what I mean? You know what's
going Some people put out singles. They
got one or two jokes. And some people
pull out put pull put put out albums.
He's he's one of those people. Sebastian
is another one. And you look at like you
see how his comedy evolved. People get
older. They have different perspective
on life and that's what you have to
[ __ ] accept him for. But we don't we
don't do that. Right.
>> And another thing I don't know if this
is prevalent in your community and when
I say that your community is a lot of
people but
>> my community man is just so much dumb
beef. And I've It's only one wife be
white beef I've ever known about and
that's yours.
>> Mine?
>> Yes.
>> What do you mean?
>> The beef that you had with it. I don't
even
>> Ben.
>> Yeah. Years ago.
>> Oh, well that was the same thing like
with Cat. Like some [ __ ] just has to be
exposed. That was a real problem, man.
You weren't around the store back then,
but it was a real problem where he had
that special or that show brother on
Comedy Central after Dave left
>> which was basically doing his version of
Dave's sketches and he was ste.
>> Do you think it was his version of Dave
sketches?
>> It was a lot of [ __ ] was like the when
when he dressed like the white guy and
had white paint on his face and wore the
white wig. It was basically the same
character that Dave was doing.
>> Yeah. But if you look at the history of
sketch comedy, I don't think Dave was
the first person to ever paint dressed
himself up to look like But it was right
afterwards. Right after same slot.
>> Anything that came after Chappelle's
show, they would have compared.
>> Dave was saying it.
>> Yeah.
>> Dave never talked [ __ ] about nobody. Was
like, "This motherfucker's doing my
show." Dave was saying it. Dave doesn't
talk [ __ ] about nobody,
>> right?
>> It was But that was the That was only
one of the problems. The real problem
was he would sit in the back room and
watch open mic nights and take their
[ __ ]
>> like when they would flash the light
when he was in the room. So comics
wouldn't do material. They would start
doing crowd work.
>> So why didn't he get exposed before
that? Why did it just come?
>> Because nobody had the balls to do it.
>> And then he had to
>> because he was famous at the time and he
was doing and look at it cost me. I got
banned from the store. I lost my agent
and I was famous. I I was on Fear
Factor. I was rich. I there was I had a
lot going for me where I could stick my
neck out.
>> But you came back stronger. I give
another example like the same situation
with Dave and Comedy Central and [ __ ]
As much as he went through that Yeah.
>> he took a 12-year hiatus or whatever you
want to say.
>> What Dave showed in that is that he's a
real artist,
>> right?
>> Dave just said, "Fuck it. I'm going to
disappear for a while." Like a legend.
He just disappeared. I remember when we
I was hearing stories about Dave doing
shows where he would set up a a speaker
in Seattle in the park and just start
doing standup and people like what the
[ __ ] and for no money. People would just
show up and he would just do street
performances.
>> But you know was what was kind of where
he got it from? You you've heard of a
comment I'm pretty sure of it. Charlie
Barnett
>> 100%. Yeah. We played Charlie Barnett on
the show. I knew Charlie. Charlie was
like, "If you ever thought you were
funny or whatever, go." This is what the
art of. Only people I've ever known that
got certain level of success with that
that Charlie Barnett, Michael Collier
when he used to Venice Beach,
>> right?
>> But people don't understand how Charlie
Barnett would like
to go to a park, go to the center of
Washington Square Park
>> and get to gather around a bunch of
people in
>> you got it's a certain certain
technique. Not only that, you got to
hold their attention for one joke,
>> right? You got to get them involved.
Blah blah blah blah. And you build this
audience up and then it's really for
one.
>> A lot of people don't know that Charlie
got Saturday Night Live but he couldn't
read.
>> Yeah, he couldn't. And that's what g
opened up the door
>> and and but but he was so gangster like
when they wouldn't give him spots
because, you know, he was probably a bit
to deal with. He would go to the Boston
Comic Cup and yell in there, "DON'T GO
IN THERE. I'M DOING MY SHOW IN FIVE
MINUTES." THE WHOLE [ __ ] club would
come out. That's how much power he had.
But then sometimes that we become
victims of our own vices and everything
and destroy us more than anything.
That's why when people talk [ __ ] about
like they oh Kevin Kevin Hart didn't get
out the mud. It's you got funny but you
know funny isn't everything. Okay.
You're funny. That's not Oh, so good
that you got talent, but more
importantly, it's your work ethics. And
how do you take your god-given talent
and your passion and turn it into money?
You know, you're into music and
everything. You probably could name a
million saxoponists or whatever that
didn't get to do that. You could be
like, "Well, listen to this shit." But
for some reason, they didn't have the
business part and and and all that
together. And I'm going back. I'm
probably talking in circles now, but
this is what upsets me the most about uh
my folks or whatever. These people that
go on these platforms and talk [ __ ]
about people. There was a comedian that
was talking [ __ ] about Martin Lawrence,
right? Well, I saw Martin Lawrence and
Martin Lawrence in the casino. He's
really It's not that funny. I'm like
this [ __ ] He's Martin Lawrence.
>> Well, they didn't know him in the 90s.
No, no. This person, no. This person
particularly
>> it. No. If you just know Martin
Lawrence, period, that's enough. Richard
Pride before he passed away when he was
in a wheelchair. Damn near rolled him
out on the stage. Sold out audiences.
>> I followed him for 6 weeks. I followed
him for six weeks at the comedy store
when he was like that.
>> Certain people, Joe, I look at this
business, are made people. How dare you
talk [ __ ] about this [ __ ]
>> That's a good way to put it. He's a made
man. Another thing Joe legend you know
in this business you can have a career
right but you have certain times where
you just ruled
>> you had three years Martin Lawrence film
star
>> uh movie star comedy star he had one
period of time for five or seven years
when it was just Martin everywhere how
dare you as a person gets older and
whether he has a good bad a night or a
bad night how are you to judge and you
ain't doing [ __ ] how are you to judge a
[ __ ] that when I was coming up
Joe every [ __ ] black comic in the
business wanted an audition. Everybody
wanted to be Hustle Man. Everybody
wanted to just get two or three minutes
on Martin show cuz they knew what that
dude that would do to their career. So
you judge a [ __ ] years down the
road, right? Where they basically when
Martin goes out, guess what? Martin not
doing no tour saying I'm doing 45
minutes, whatever. He's like, "Y'all
want to see me? Guess what? Y'all going
to see this young talent. You going to
see this person. I'm putting people on.
How dare you even have come out your
[ __ ] mouth and talk [ __ ] about this
[ __ ] How dare you talk [ __ ]
about [ __ ] that talk [ __ ] about
Kevin Hart? How dare you talk [ __ ] about
a [ __ ] that was rocking with a
dude Nate Nate Smith RIP passed away. I
remember when Kevin Hart was the one of
[ __ ] doing those comment cards.
All right. All right. I'm doing emiss e
email list one. I remember when [ __ ]
Kevin Hart had [ __ ] 20,000 people on
Instagram. No, on Twitter and at the
radio. He was like, "Yo, Ray says, "Yo,
D, this apartment." I seen the hard
work. I see him not just come to [ __ ]
New York and do the black rooms. I'm
doing the black rooms. I'm doing the
white rooms. I'm doing all of this [ __ ]
How dare you. I I'll just say this and
I'll answer this. It ain't no B for
nothing. Cat Williams said, this is what
Cat Williams said about Kevin Hart. How
I find it very strange that you just
come from New York and then you have a
TV show and a movie show and how does
that happen? You were in New York. I'll
tell you how it happens.
You're on the biggest showcase in
comedy. And you know what that is? JFL.
Just for laughs. Kevin Hart was a
product of that. Mo'Nique was a product
of that. Dave Chappelle was a product of
that. No, Kevin Hart wasn't pounding the
streets in LA, but he happened to be on
a showcase. When you y back in the day,
you do with JFL. It was [ __ ]
leaving there. that probably have $500
in the bank, leaving with a quarter
million dollar development deal just to
do nothing. That's the error it was. I
remember. So, just because you weren't
in LA doesn't mean you wasn't you wasn't
beating the pavement.
>> And I don't care in LA, you got LA and
New York. Nobody as a stand-up comic
grinds as hard as a comic come from New
York opposed to LA. And the reason why
LA don't have that many stages. LA don't
have that many stages. They would tell
you all the time as a standup comic, if
you if you're trying to be an actor,
whatever, go to LA. If you want to be a
great stand-up comic, bang it out in New
York. And this was this was the rule
back in the day, Joe. Let Hollywood call
you. You just don't go to LA to sleep on
somebody couch. Some people had that
story, but it was like you grind. And
back then,
>> everybody's got their own path, D. You
could do whatever the [ __ ] you want.
It's just work on your act.
>> That's the point that I'm making.
>> Yeah. It's just everybody's got their
own path. The the real problem in this
conversation is what I said earlier.
It's worrying about what other people
think. The more you spend time worrying
about what other people think, the less
you're worrying about what you're doing,
>> you less you're thinking about what
you're actually trying to achieve.
>> And I listen to what you're saying and I
don't listen to what you're saying. And
and the reason why I say that every time
I go into this rabbit hole or whatever
and it's the echo, it's like a a a Rogan
angel right here and it's whispering,
"Don't read the comments."
>> Yeah, but I'm right.
>> I still read them.
>> I know you should.
>> But I I'm I'm stopping. But this is
another thing I didn't What I didn't
know is that white comedians actually
have beef with each other.
I did not know or at least it's not uh
you don't hear about it.
>> It's rare. It's more rare. And the ones
who have beef are usually failures.
They're usually people that aren't doing
well. Usually people that aren't
>> example.
>> Okay.
>> I'm exposing the industry right now. I'm
not exposing. I have an example was so
funny and this was interesting. I was at
the comedy store.
>> Oh, you told me this.
>> This so [ __ ] funny to me, son. About
two months ago, right? I'm good friends
with Bill Burr. You know, we did we had
um Rich [ __ ] Tour with Charlie Murphy,
me, Bill Burr years ago, and I know uh
Mark Marin, right? I don't know. What I
found out is I didn't know Mark Marin
the way white people know Markin, right?
So I know Mark Marin like when I see
Mark Marin I was like a that's the guy
that had one of the greatest podcast out
that guy that was one of the alternative
comedy favorites Mark Marin's special so
when I see Mark Marin I have a certain
level of respect like oh that's the guy
who did it whatever so I was doing Annie
Letterman's show for what Annie Wood or
whatever right and I love that girl um
and I'm in the green room and I'm
smoking a joint I forgot who sponsored
this weed but it was incredible right so
I'm in there and I'm cracking jokes.
Bill is right there and then Mark is
over by the side of the door and I'm
cracking jokes with Bill and everything
and I felt something did nobody was
really laughing at my jokes, right? That
all of a sudden a whole [ __ ] argument
popped off and it was like it was white
argument because it was so nice. They
were so gentle to each other. It was a
whole bunch of, oh yeah, but you'll
never do my podcast. It was like podcast
beast. I'm right in the middle. I don't
even know. I didn't even know that they
had beef like this, but they were so
gentle about it. But I tell you the
difference between white beef and black
beef. I never felt that I was going to
get shot.
Yo, I felt so safe. Yo, if anything, I
thought it'd be like lawsuits the next
morning, defamation of character,
slander, but I never knew that it was
[ __ ] Caucasian and on Caucasian beef
like that and it was entertaining.
>> This is an example. Mark Maron was doing
really well at one point in time in his
career and now he's not. So Mark Maron
had the number one podcast and after a
while his podcast wasn't even in the top
200. It dropped off.
>> Bill Burr, his career's
>> took off. He's doing arenas. He's
killing it. Mark's not. And Mark finds
reasons to criticize other people that
are doing much better than him. And he
focuses on that because he thinks he
should be getting more than he deserves.
>> But do you think that's going back to
being a provocator? He knows if he
talked his [ __ ]
>> No, no. I think it's going back to being
bitter and jealous and thinking about
other people instead of thinking about
himself and why people don't want to go
see him anymore.
>> He was upset when we left the comedy
store because we took the crowds away.
>> And it's like, hey, you were on the
[ __ ] marquee, too, man.
>> Right.
>> They're not coming to see you. And the
reason why they're not coming to see you
is because you're not doing well. And
your podcast was in the top. It was
number one. And when it was at number
one, by the way, this is what I always
say about Mark Maron, he was great. Mark
man was fun to hang out with when he was
killing it, right? Because he was happy
>> because he was getting validation
because he had the number one podcast.
We were friends. Like I did his podcast,
he did mine. We had a good time. I'd hug
him when I see him. Like we had gone
back and forth many times and having
beef with each other. His problem, let
me finish. His problem was when
everybody else started doing really good
and he started dropping off. Right.
That's what happened.
>> Why? Just what I don't understand. Why
can't people understand that you have a
moment? Like I was talking
>> because he's a [ __ ] narcissist and he
wants the moment to always be around
him.
>> He wants it to always be about him and
when other people are doing better than
him, he wants to talk [ __ ] about them.
And that's where Phil had a problem with
it.
>> You think being a narcissist in this
field is a bad thing? I for some reason
I think that kind of fuels you to be the
person that you are to be determined to
do and not give a [ __ ] about what nobody
think.
>> Well, having self-respect and having an
ego where you care about what you put
out, yes, that's a good thing. But
making it all about you and not being
able to appreciate other people's work
is crazy because other people doing well
can be fuel for you to be inspired and
do better yourself. And it's a positive
thing. And if these people are your
friends and you love them and you care
about them, you should be happy that
they're killing it. And if you're not
killing it anymore, you should try to
figure out why. Because it's not like
the door is not open. It's not like
you're not getting on stage. It's not
like you're not putting out specials.
You should probably figure out why your
podcast dropped from number one to not
even in the top 200 anymore without
anything happening. You didn't get
arrested. There was no scandal. There
was nothing crazy. You should try to
figure that out. And he doesn't do that
cuz he's instead bitter. Bitter and
jealous. He's always been like that.
There's a story about John Stewart
>> and Andrew Schultz came on the podcast
and told the story about John Stewart
and Marin where
>> Marin confronted John Stewart but John
Stewart got some television show. He
called him a [ __ ] sellout. He yelled
at him. all this different [ __ ] John
Stewart left the show and they hired
Marin to do the same show.
>> Yeah.
>> The same show that he was calling John
Stewart for being a sellout.
>> So, how did you go from that to Okay,
for you to have one of the biggest
podcast at some point in your career,
you had to be likable or you think
people just wanted to do the show?
>> There wasn't very many pod podcast back
then. The thing that killed Marin's
podcast, my personal opinion, no hate,
is that he has this rant at the
beginning of his podcast that's not
entertaining. I don't think it's good.
And he the rant was long and he would
just ramble about himself, was very
self-obsessed. And I just don't think it
was good. And I think that was part of
the problem. It's also the problem was
how he interviewed people. He had a very
confrontational interview style,
specifically with some comedians that he
felt like were below him or that he
could pick on.
>> You would think that that style would
work in this day and age.
>> No, no, no, no. People don't want always
to be uncomfortable. They want to like
you, man. They want you to be a good
person.
>> People want train wrecks. They want
train wrecks for 15 second or 30 minute
30 second in Instagram clips. They don't
want train wrecks to be their primary
thing that they're listening to when
they're in traffic on the way to work.
>> But the people that host these podcast
now like I think people going to these
podcasts now and like this ah this is
going to be clickbait. We're going to go
viral.
>> Yeah. But that's they're not that
talented. That's why they're doing it is
because that's their only method of
getting attention. If they were
entertaining and interesting and
fascinating, then their podcast would be
about that.
>> You know what?
>> It's all in what you're trying to focus
on. What I try to focus on on my podcast
is who do I want to talk to? I never
have someone on and go, "Oh, this would
be great. It'll be very controversial.
People will [ __ ] hate them. It'll be
crazy. They'll say wild shit." I never
do that. My podcast is only about who do
I want to talk to. That's why I have a
lot of people on that aren't even
remotely famous because they're
interesting, right? I find them
interesting. I find with the book they
wrote interesting, the documentary they
made interesting. I want to know
something about them. I it stimulates my
curiosity.
>> Do you think that there's going to be a
a shift? Do you think that these
salacious interviews, these interviews
with the provocator, you think?
>> I don't think about it. Okay,
>> that's my key.
>> You know what's so funny about I I will
say this. You know what's funny about
what you said that I was with Dave a
while ago and he echoed the exact same
thing and I was having this conversation
with him. He said, "Don't even think
about that shit."
>> Yeah. Don't think about it. There's
other things to think about. This is
I've said this too many times. If people
have heard this before, I'm sorry. Think
of your focus and your attention like a
number. Think of you have like a hundred
points in a day to spend on things. If
you spend 30 of those points thinking
about haters or 30% of those thinking
about bitter people, 30% thinking about
other people that are doing better than
you, that's 30% that you robbed from the
100% that you have to focus on your
life. I have things to do, man. I have a
family. I have friends. I have loved
ones. I have interests. I have hobbies.
I have comedy and podcasts and the UFC
and all these different things that I
like to do and I think about those
things. I don't think about negative,
stupid things with people that have
bitter, angry minds that are
concentrating on other people's success
and trying to tear them down all the
time because they're trying to tear them
down all the time because they compare
themselves to them and they don't like
how they stack up. They don't like the
fact that person's doing better. They
don't like the fact that person's more
successful. So they try to take things
either out of context or they try to
misrepresent who that person is. They
try to change public perception of that
person to try to drag that person down.
And it's transparent. The reason why it
doesn't work is because people
inherently know what you're trying to
do. It might get people, oh, there's
beef. Oh, there's beef. Those are
simple-minded people that you're always
going to attract, but you're not going
to change people's opinions of things.
It's it's a trick. It's a trap that
you're playing on yourself.
It's a waste of your precious resources.
You only have so much time in the day.
My time I spend on things that I think
are interesting or beneficial or things
that excite my curiosity. And I think
that is the way I like to live my life.
Now, if you like to live your life
constantly engaged in beefs and being
filled with anxiety and stress and you
want to do that, okay, but those are
bitter [ __ ] people. I don't want to
be a bitter person.
>> In another life, could you have been a
therapist?
Well, I majored in psychology
for the brief amount of time that I was
in college. That was what I was
interested in, but it was I was doing
that because I was fighting at the time
and I was trying to figure out how to
manage my mind. So, I was trying to
figure out the inner workings of the
human psyche.
>> Do you think I know this is I'm not Do
you think your success
made you a a more calm person to not
give a [ __ ] Well, it certainly helps,
right? You don't have to give a [ __ ] if
you have enough money that you could
just like disappear off into the sunset
and never have to worry about money
because a lot of people are always
worried about money. And so, you're
always constantly in this state of
anxiety or trying to get more. That
helps, but it's also it's like there's
other things in life. I concentrate on
my loved ones. I concentrate on my
friends. I concentrate on things I enjoy
doing, on fun. This this life is short,
man. You and I are 58 years old. We're
more than halfway dead. Why would you
spend time concentrating on people you
don't like? Like, it's one thing if
someone's wronging you. It's one thing
if you find out you have a business
partner who's been stealing money or you
have someone who's uh lying about
>> Shout out to uh uh uh Dane Cook.
>> No, I'm just saying. No, I know
>> his own brother stole D like this. Yet
the [ __ ]
>> Yeah, it's very very interesting. And
I'm at a place right now. I was um I was
with John Ham, right? San Francisco and
I had just did a show with Dave and it
was interesting. He says something to
me. He's in the back and he's with his
wife and we kicking and he used to come
out to summer camp and everything hang
out with us. I don't say we like super
friends but we have mutual respect for
each other and it was interesting
because we're in the green room and this
is after I had just slayed this audience
or whatever, right? And and I'm feeling
good and he said Don he said what is it
that you really want to do? He said what
is it that you want? I said what kind of
question? He said no I mean what is it
want? Is it TV? Is it TV show? Is it
movies? I was like, "John, I'm doing
exactly what I want to do."
For me to be able to wake up, not have
to work for anybody, call my own shots,
make a fair wage, take care of my
families, enjoy my friends, and
everything. And it's me connecting with
a Godgiven talent. Anything else is a
bonus. I don't look at it like I need
the private jet and everything. certain
things you like, you know, that would be
nice. But I just look at what this life
has given me and I'm appreciative of
that. I know so many people that of my
uh class, whatever, that aren't doing
nearly as well as I am. Or even the ones
that aren't, that don't mean that
they're happy. You know what I'm saying?
So when he asked me that question, I
didn't think any bad of it. I was like
this. I don't get caught up on looking
at somebody, they got this, they got
that. I like this. Am I happy? Am I
comfortable? Do I get to do what I want?
So whether I tell people all this all
the time, whether I get another film
opportunity, whether I get another TV
show or whatever or any of that, I'm
living
what some people's dreams are.
>> Yes.
>> And it's not my dream, it's my reality.
>> Yes.
>> And I also had to realize this is so
easy for us to do. You can be so
connected with somebody and even with um
my situation with my connection with
Dave and everything, I'm a huge fan of
Dave. He's given me great opportunities
and everything, but at some point in my
life, I had to say, you can't be caught
up in somebody else's dream so much that
you forget your realities. And my real
my reality is whether I'm alongside of
him or what I'm doing, I got to continue
to be Don Rollins. I got to continue to
support my family. I got to continue to
do things that I do. And it's so easy.
You It's so easy for me to get caught
up. I'm like, I'm rolling with Dave. We
on the Jets. We doing this type of [ __ ]
But then I'll lose focus on who I am.
And I realized for me and my career
continues to go when I know how to make
that separation. I do have
>> Yeah. But the thing is even when you're
caught up with Dave, you still love him
and you don't hate him at all. You're
not you're not jealous of him at all.
>> You might get caught up in the wave
because you're hanging out with one of
the greatest comics that's ever lived.
But it doesn't mean that it's a
negative.
>> And you know, another thing, let me add
to that, and I'm not blowing my own horn
or whatever. Like you said, one of the
greatest comedians ever lived, right? If
a person had a conversation with Dave
Chappelle, people can say whatever I'm
woring about people think. If you ask
Dave
who is in his top five comedians, my
name's going to come up. So, as much as
people, they always talk about they
always try to pin me like blah blah this
and everything. I respect the fact that
I he respects me, I respect him. When we
work together, we push each other. We
make each other whatever people want to
say, we make each other better. And what
other people understand is that like
he's like truly my friend.
You know what I mean? It's not like I
just work on a show. He's my friend. And
even when I some of my fondest memories,
especially when I come here, is when we
was doing those [ __ ] shows.
>> Yeah.
>> When we was doing [ __ ] nobody was doing.
>> When we were doing those lockdown shows,
that was fun.
>> Yo, it was
>> that was wild times.
>> It was It was It's all It was already We
already have a community. We all have
mutual respect for each other. But the
thing that made that so special wasn't
nobody doing this [ __ ]
>> right?
>> That's what made it and and it really
one thing about the pandemic, it made
you appreciate life a lot more than
before the pandemic.
>> Yeah. It made you appreciate freedom.
>> Freedom.
>> Ability to do shows.
>> Yeah.
>> Remember we did those shows outside and
everybody was wearing a mask. It was so
stupid.
>> But we it did but we
>> And they all got tested too.
>> We got They was I I was I had so much
fun during the pandemic. I was almost
embarrassed to show the pictures I
wanted to show like faceless [ __ ]
>> Yo, we would take pictures and people
was like this. Look at him. HE COULD
KILL MY GRANDMOTHER. I'M LIKE, all
right, first of all, you did it. Dave
did. I was like, people's like this. Oh,
it must be nice to have rich friends
that have testing machines. I was like,
you're absolutely right.
>> It is. It's beautiful.
>> It is the most amazing [ __ ] ever. Dave
Chappelle raped my nose for two summers
in a row when when we were doing the
shows in in the cornfields and [ __ ] But
this what people don't understand. He
took the opportunity that village of
Yellow Springs. He made it as safe as it
could be. Like any place we would go,
hotel staff, everybody had an
opportunity to get everybody opportunity
to get tested. And I remember this was
very interesting when the bubble we did
one this Bob Saget. RIP. We were doing
these shows and I think that at before
Bob passed away when he came out to
Yellow Springs and was hanging out with
Dave and us and everything. It gave him
some incentive to want to go back on the
road to do he was just got really
excited about doing it again. We we we
did like 55 shows. The summer was over.
The run was clear. We had no positives
or anything. Dave extended the show
another week and that week was when the
bubble popped, right? And now
everybody's like freaking out like oh my
god these same women that was people was
coming out there when they was getting
flown out in jets they weren't getting
traffic but Dave created the environment
he wanted his friends around they was we
was going to restaurants we were have
the whole spot we was just doing all
this stuff nobody was thinking about the
possible consequences of that and I
remember this one girl was like oh my
god I don't even know why I'm here then
I looked at Dave I was like yo man damn
we almost made it man through he was
like
it's going to be okay he You got to
realize this is the reason why we test.
When we first got our first positive,
had we not been testing, it could have
been crazy.
>> And we got a first positive because
dudes went to do somebody else's podcast
and they didn't test. Remember that?
>> I remember that. That was the I remember
that because it I remember that uh Cena,
it was so funny.
>> Yeah, that was here. Yeah. And um it was
like I something was different because
we had one positive and the you remember
that backstage used to be packed out
right it started getting lower and lower
right it was basically like me cy sounds
somebody else was in the green room
right and then big Jay came that's one
of my friends good friends big Jay came
back and he had this look on his face
like it's over right he came in there
and I looked I said boss man got it he's
like yep right and another thing Dave
could have did this why I respect his
character He could have been at that
time he could have just been in the mask
went on stage went back out he cancelled
the show but the funniest [ __ ] it's a
whole at Stubs room is sold out right
and then Cena comes back and Cena was
like um I need you to go out there and
tell people that the show is cancelled
right I said you don't need me to do
that [ __ ] [ __ ] cuz the minute I it's
one thing if I go out there people going
to be like show starting right and as a
comedian I'm not going to not tell jokes
and then I'm Oh yeah, Dave not gonna
show up. But that was the crazy thing
about that. Everybody at the line hotel,
they was making jokes, Joe. They call it
corona co row cuz we had like the whole
floor had the whole floor floor locked
down, right? And everybody in our team
got it.
But it felt like a old school chickenpox
party. You know what I'm saying? It's
like we got it. We got it. What I tell
you, Ben, what we did, like everything
was like, "Okay, make sure you had your
vitamins, all that type of shit." But
the beauty of it was we was like, you
know, people was testing out like eight
or nine days, right? So, we thought we
was going to leave. After a while, we
was like, I was like, "Wait a minute.
The next run was going to be in 10
days."
>> And for some reason, everybody went back
to being negative. We closed, did more
shows, and we got the [ __ ] up out of
here. But it was a beautiful time, man.
It was a beautiful time. It was a fun
time to be alive. Yep.
>> It was a fun time,
>> but it was crazy. And then we did that.
What that [ __ ] joint we did? Uh
>> it was in Tacoma.
>> Mhm. The Super Doome.
>> That was wild. That was
>> 27 25,000.
>> Whatever it was, we broke the Tacoma
Dome record.
>> I never been in a place where the
laughter was so hard. It felt like
helicopters was
>> crazy.
>> It was crazy.
>> It was crazy.
>> This is what I respect about what you
guys did. You got people saying they
they doing arenas and [ __ ] but normally
>> But that was precoid, brother.
>> It was pre-COVID. Yeah, that was
pre-COVID that before everything popped
off.
>> What I will say about a real arena show,
you got the arena show where a quarter
of the venue is being used for stage and
every right. So, it ain't the true
capacity,
>> right?
>> But the shows you [ __ ] was
doing, it was it was in the round,
>> right? Well, the wildest thing was
walking through the crowd to get to the
stage. Those are
>> crazy. You you've experienced this [ __ ]
of that walk from from the UFC [ __ ]
man. I'm so grateful for your you guys
friendship and everything and for me it
was so special for me because
I didn't sell a ticket. Nobody else no
opener you and Dave sold those tickets
right but the best feeling for me Joe
was when I go out and DJ Trauma be like
you seen them on HBO's The Wire you seen
him on BMF whatever but simple line but
you fell in love with Asharia Chappelle
show and them people [ __ ] go crazy. I
don't give a [ __ ] if you ever been in a
fist fight in your life. When you come
through them tunnels, you you doing this
[ __ ] right here. You feel like Tyson,
like just give me a robe. Just give me a
time. I'm about to go beat these
[ __ ] up. And every show we had,
there was no room for being okay. You
had to be on your game every time.
>> Yeah, it was fun. It was a good time.
Well, that was uh when all that CO [ __ ]
went down with me when CNN turned my
face green. That was because of a
Nashville show that we were doing that
we had to cancel.
>> Yeah. I didn't know that.
>> That's what that was. Yeah. We were
supposed to do a show that weekend and I
got CO the previous weekend. I was doing
an arena with Tony in Florida and I got
CO in Florida and then I made that video
on like a Tuesday or a Wednesday. It was
like the third day after I got COVID
where I got over it and I was like, you
know, I feel fine but we have to cancel
the shows this weekend, right? And
that's when all the [ __ ] went down
because I took Ivormect. That was up.
That was that was those re Oh, he has
the answer everything. Yo, if he don't
have the answer, at least he's [ __ ]
trying to find. It's so interesting.
>> I whether or not I had the answer, the
crazy thing is I was better. I was
already better
>> and they they turned my face green on
CNN. Like we got to see how crazy the
media really is. Like they didn't want
to hear nothing but you have to take
this vaccine
>> and you have to do that
>> and if you didn't take this vaccine,
you're a part of the problem.
>> It's s I just don't and as as
devastating as that time was.
>> Excuse me.
>> I'm just How is it just like [ __ ]
over now? Is it her immunity? How is it
just like
>> it's her immunity? It's it's yeah it's
also you know everybody who got it got
it. You got immunity because of it and
then
>> also whatever variants are still left
they're significantly diminished. That's
how viruses generally
>> it's like a cold strand now. Right.
>> Yes. Well that's how viruses generally
go. They become more transmissible but
less potent over time. Yeah. And that's
what happened.
>> I'm going tell you there was a time
though man I I even said man maybe it
was just something about how people got
along with each other. I was like, we
should do like once a year just have a
week of just lockdown.
>> Yo, just so you can get into Man, I
>> It makes you appreciate freedom. That's
for sure.
>> It made me appreciate nature, bro. I I
bought a [ __ ] house in Yellow Springs
because I was like, you know what?
Trees, woods. I don't know if the
streets can handle this, but I became a
bird watcher, bro.
>> I watch bird. I watch birds.
You know what that does to my street
credit?
>> What? to know the difference between a
cardinal and a blue j
>> it's not the most listen
call said I can't be in the street
talking about
it was good [ __ ]
>> if you can't appreciate nature that's
whatever that's a [ __ ] narrative
>> that's ridiculous
>> I didn't Here's the thing I didn't crash
out today didn't crash out I know people
think I'm a crash out king. It's not
that. Sometimes I just need to
>> You mean on this show today?
>> Yeah. What did I No.
>> No. No. You You definitely accused Jamie
of wearing a leather jacket.
>> Jamie did have a leather jacket. He had
a leather jacket on, man. And I think he
brushed his eyebrows, too.
>> It was everything. I was like, I never
seen this sexy side of Jamie. He had
like a British accent.
>> He was like, I think I
was like, who is his eyebrows? I was
like, "Who the [ __ ] is this person,
man?" It was something different.
>> We We definitely went through something
that most people never experienced in
their life.
>> Nope.
>> And and most previous generations never
experienced it. Having a a nationwide,
worldwide pandemic that everybody
freaked out and we didn't.
>> Not only did we didn't freak out, we did
shows. We had a good time. We hung out
together. Those after parties when we go
to the line, you had a DJ and we would
laugh and laugh. We would laugh till 2
3:00 in the morning.
>> I you know I girl I was so much fun girl
I was dating the time then she couldn't
believe that she was like I would be
like this. So what do you do? I was like
well I was at the line kicking it with
Dave and Joe. What y'all doing? Just
talking and laughing till 3:30 in the
morning. They was like get the [ __ ] out
of here. YOU WAS [ __ ] NO. NO I
WASN'T.
>> We was just on some brohood [ __ ] It was
just so much.
>> And we we also realized how special it
was that we could do this while the
whole world was locked down.
>> Yep.
>> I'm telling you, I was embarrassed to
show pictures. My mother would call me,
"You better be careful out there." I'm
like, "Man, I'm getting tested." We got
tested more than probably anybody in the
country. And that's
>> I got tested every day because I was
doing podcast through the whole thing.
>> I did your show during that one time.
>> Yeah.
>> And then we didn't I sat down and before
I got the results the last time I was
here, you was like, "Did he get the
test?" I'm like
>> I'm like just please don't come in here
LIKE GET THIS [ __ ] OUT OF HERE.
>> WELL, we definitely had a couple people
that tested positive. We had to get them
out.
>> And I tested positive once.
>> But the thing about it to making those
taking those precautions, you could
isolate it. You knew where it came and
you shut it down. That's one thing. If
you're not doing that, it's all over the
place. Just think about it. If if
imagine if Jamie
>> would have got CO, then we would have
never seen his sexy side. Now
>> Jamie got CO. He got CO before anybody.
He got co really early on when there was
no vaccine, no treatment, no nothing. He
had to take a whole week off.
>> Um maybe that's why he has the attitude
that he has.
Yo, y'all get all this.
>> Well, we did the Kanye podcast. You you
had CO that week, right? Yeah. Yeah. He
missed the Kanye podcast.
>> Yeah. But I'm sorry, Jamie, if you
thought I said anything that was kind of
disrespectful to your character.
>> Well, totally false.
>> No, it wasn't. I'm telling you that
[ __ ] ponytail. I don't know what the
[ __ ] he did about it that day.
>> Like a Steven Seagal ponytail back.
>> And not only that, but he put his hair
back like this.
>> Mhm.
>> Almost like the like a diddy party.
That's how he started diddy parties.
>> Oiled up.
>> Yeah. Oil. I don't say that cuz I was
Never mind. I never went to a diddy
party. I have a photo, but I never went
to a diddy party. Jesus Christ.
>> Yeah. It's like I think people are going
to be wiser if something like that
happens again. I
>> could it ever happen again? I don't
>> 100%. Yeah, 100%. There's a lot of
people that think they engineered that
whole thing. They wanted it to happen
because the largest transfer of upward
transfer of wealth in human history.
>> So many small businesses went down.
>> Look at businesses got made more money.
>> Look what it did to Zoom.
>> Yep. Zoom to
>> I remember Zoom cuz um I was I I had a
show in Naples, whatever. I met this
doctor that he wanted me to uh be on
this podcast and I was like, "How we
going to do?" He said, "We can do it by
Zoom." This was when it was only like
for like business people. It was really
like the nerdy thing.
>> Yeah, that's what it used to be. Yeah,
>> it used to be. But the pandemic, it blew
it up. It was like now Zoom is like
that's the best way. You don't want to
talk to somebody on the phone, they call
you. Oh, I'm on a Zoom right now. It is
so like in everybody's household that
blew up. So many business did the same
thing.
>> Is anybody using that anymore?
>> Zoom?
>> Yeah.
>> They use it for an excuse not to talk to
somebody.
>> Yeah.
>> Do they do Zoom podcast anymore? Do
people do Zoom podcasts? I never hear
that term. It used to be things like,
"Oh, we're going to do it on Zoom." I
don't hear that anymore.
>> A few other platforms exist now. I don't
even think people discuss it, but
>> yeah, they had one one was that
Clubhouse, whatever. All of these
things.
>> Oh, yeah. Clubhouse. Clubhouse is a big
one. That was a big one where people
were essentially doing podcasts. Like
anybody could just like chime in and
talk [ __ ]
>> People was getting like a million
followers in 3 days and [ __ ] like Yeah.
>> Oh yeah. There was a lot of that. And a
lot of people thought that that was
going to keep going like clubhouse is
going to be the new thing. I'm like this
is just bad podcasting
>> and it's and it's what there was only up
so many things that that um that battle
the versus battles did they do now when
they have like it's mostly it's been
hip-hop and R&B I think it was who was
it um it was uh um damn Swiss Beats and
Timberland I think they started this
thing during the pandemic it was versus
right where you have an artist versus
another artist and like a competitive
type of situation they didn't win
anything but it was just entertaining
for everybody and that went from like it
was so lowle like people was in front of
their computers it was freezing up and
everything but it was what everybody was
doing now that's like one of the biggest
things now they did one at Madison
Square Gardens like it's a big thing now
when you want to it's just like a
competition like you got I think that
they had cash money and no limit records
but it's very I don't see no white
verses but it's a popular thing and it
started because of um the pandemic
>> well so many businesses started during
the pandemic because a lot of people got
laid off so they started their own
business. A lot of online businesses
started. A lot of people quit their jobs
cuz they realize, look, they could just
take this [ __ ] away from me at any
minute. Why am I doing something that I
hate when I thought there was security
in it? There's no security in it. I'm
going to start my own business.
>> Also, even like you you're an example of
um um uh of what happens when you
finally realize that um you don't need
Hollywood the way it used to be.
>> No. Well, we figured that out a long
time ago. We figured that out when the
podcast started kicking off
>> in like the early 2010s.
>> I realized that I was like, "This is I
don't need TV shows anymore." We figured
that out in like 2013, 2014. And
Hollywood is not like It used to be I'm
I'm very old school guy, but I remember
when when I first started, you couldn't
make it in this business. You had to be
in New York or LA.
>> Yep. There was no producers going to
They wasn't going to Toledo, Ohio. There
was no way. This was big.
>> Well, there was no comedy communities
outside of New York and LA.
>> No, not at all.
>> Not a real community. There might have
been like a good club that had some like
Denver always had like good opening
acts, good good good was responsible for
that.
>> It wasn't like a real hub like Austin is
now. And that wouldn't have happened if
it hadn't been for the pandemic.
>> People wouldn't have moved.
>> They wouldn't have moved.
>> No. and you brought a whole community
here. As much as this place was always
big for music or whatever, but I I mean
there's no way anybody cannot agree with
like what you did and what you made it
appealing to a lot of people is that you
could go somewhere else, get a better
quality of life.
>> Yeah.
>> And everything like
>> lower cost of living, better quality of
life, no traffic, nicer people, and no
Hollywood [ __ ] The problem with the
LA is always going to be poisoned by the
the idea of going there to become
famous,
>> right?
>> That whole idea was it was permeated in
the culture of LA and that fame was like
the number one commodity.
>> But back then it was that was the case.
But no, Go ahead. I'm sorry.
>> But the problem is that's bad for art.
That's bad for your ability to produce
[ __ ] I mean, you got great comics that
came out of LA, but that was in spite of
what LA had to offer, right?
>> It wasn't because of.
>> Whereas Austin, like the main reason
people come here, first of all, is Kill
Tony, because like you said, Kill Tony
is one of the rare places where you can
be a comic that's been doing comedy 3,
four years, may even just start now, but
you got some talent. You can have a
[ __ ] career, like a real career, and
it'll launch. Look, you got Cam
Patterson who's on SNL right now. You
got all these people like William
Montgomery, David Lucas, they're killing
it on the road, selling out everywhere
they go. Ari Maddie, these guy, I mean,
they have a real career now.
>> But you know, another thing that they
don't understand is like this is what I
say and I I use you as an example.
Whenever you hear about somebody saying
that they want to do a podcast, the
first thing certain things like, I want
to be Joe Rogan. And I said this before,
nobody wanted to be Joe Rogan [ __ ] 25
years ago. They didn't want to put the
work in. They want to see the accolades,
the fortune you've built. They see that
part, but nobody sees the hard work.
Even with Kill Tony, the fact that
during the pandemic when he could have
let the whole platform just fall apart
like we don't know when we're going to
do it, he dug deeper and figure out a
way. I'm just going to continue to do
it. Nobody they Nobody ever respects the
journey,
>> right? And if you think about it, Joe,
and you're probably the same way, most
successful people, and I know some very,
very wealthy people, right? And when
they talk about their career, whatever,
they hardly ever talk about the yacht.
They have ever talk about the the
[ __ ] mansion they got in Paris, you
know, they talk about it was just me and
my wife and we drove a Toyota, you know,
a Toyota Corolla and we was like, we was
down to our last 10 bucks and she did
this. That's the most interesting part
of the story for most successful people.
And people don't understand that,
>> right? They only think about where you
got to. I want to get to there, too.
>> They want to skip everything. I hear
people right now, I want to be like
stand up. I'm like, all right. Well, no.
When I was doing HBO's The Wire, right?
This guy I knew, I grew up with, he was
like, this [ __ ] said, "Yo, D,
what's the number to the wire? I want to
call him. I want to be on the wire."
Like, there's a wire. Hey, is this David
Simon? Yeah, I could be Omar. They
don't. I was like, and guess what? If I
knew the number to the wire,
>> I wouldn't give it to you. I'm not
giving it to you.
>> I want you to get that busy signal.
That's what it's Nobody ever wants to
respect the grind. And they all
everybody wants the rewards of the
grind.
>> Everybody, it's just people that are
they're missing it. They're not getting
what it's all about. What's what it's
all like Kill Tonyy's a great example of
that. I was there in the early days of
Kill Tony. When K when Tony started out
in 2013, there was no one in the crowd.
There was no one there. It was a small
show. You'd have a few comedians, you
know. I was doing it back before I was
back at the comedy store, but I was
still banned. So, I was doing it from
the Ice House,
>> right?
>> And he didn't do it thinking it was
going to be the number one show in the
world and he was going to be on Netflix.
and he did it because it was fun to do
and he wanted to do a great job and he
wanted to make it better every week and
he kept doing it and kept getting better
at it. It's the same thing with this
podcast. This podcast didn't make money
for years. Didn't make any money for
years. It cost money.
>> But the most successful people are the
ones like even with um when I first
started doing comedy, right? I never You
have some comedians that go out there
like I want to do comedy. I want to get
the money. I want to get [ __ ] off of
it. Right? When I first started, I never
the only thing I wanted to do, Joe, I
wanted to be good. I was like this, if
I'm good, all those other things that
are rewards of that that were happening,
but I had to be good first. And here's
the thing that I think especially when
you have these like social media
comedians or whatever. The thing that
the interesting thing about it, it's
kind of hard to tell somebody to work on
their craft when they getting all the
perks of what the craft can present them
at an early early stage. It's hard to
tell somebody that's only been doing it
for two years that's making $50,000 or
$100,000 a month off of monetizing
something. They're like, "This you need
to get better." Hello.
>> They don't have to. Like, do whatever
the [ __ ] you want to do. If you just
want to do that, do that. And also, some
of them are going to figure it out
anyway. Some of them are going to figure
out, I'm I'm not getting better. I'll
get better. Let me work harder at it.
>> Right?
>> There's going to be people that don't
figure things out no matter what you do
in this life. There's going to be a
bunch of people that have a distorted
perception of what success is all about,
what you really want. It's always going
to be that.
>> What do you What do you What is This is
interesting question. What is your
definition of success?
>> Happiness. Happiness and doing something
that you enjoy doing and something
that's challenging.
>> So, what is your definition of
happiness?
>> Friendship, love,
doing something I enjoy doing, doing it
well, doing it better all the time,
getting better at it, you know? I mean,
you you're and struggle. You're always
going to have some kind of a struggle.
And that struggle hopefully is you
trying to be better at the thing that
you're doing.
>> You What gives you, this is an
interesting question. What gives you the
incentive
to always continue to want to perform?
What gives you incentive to always want
to do Joe Rogan and Friends when you
could just sit back and [ __ ] just
>> It's fun. It's fun. It's first of all,
the green room on Tuesday and Wednesday
nights at the mothership. Some of the
funniest times I've ever had in my
[ __ ] life. It's so fun. We have so
much fun there. There's Ron White there
and Shane Gillis and Tony and
>> it's fun. It's I mean it's a community.
>> Sounds like you're trying to get me to
enjoy our times. Would you want to come
on?
>> Come to Tuesday.
>> What are you doing tomorrow?
>> Come on, Dell. What do you got going on
tomorrow? Where are you headed back to
Ohio?
>> No, I'm going to uh LA. Do you have a
show?
>> I got a son.
>> Okay. Well, that's different. That's
more important.
>> But I can just give him some Roblox
money. He'll be all right.
He
>> I'll give you some Roblox money. He'll
be cool. Let me tell you, I might cuz I
didn't I wish I would have even thought
about it before, but I might I might cuz
I haven't had that experience.
>> Oh, calm down then. If you can if your
son's cool with it, do it. If not,
there's always another time.
>> I can cook it another time. That's
another thing about me being an older
dad. Like my son is really the age. He
could be my grandson. I don't have time
to do all those instill vials and morals
and [ __ ] I'm like this. Will candy shut
this [ __ ] up. Yo, I'm like, yo,
let's go to McDonald's or whatever. But
yeah, I'm going see. I would definitely
consider that.
>> Consider it.
>> Yeah.
>> But that's what I like. I mean, I'm just
enjoying my life and I like to do things
that I find that are interesting and
challenging and I like to have
conversations with interesting people
and I like the fact that people enjoy it
still.
>> You know, when I first met you were, you
know, and I already I already knew that
uh you had the ultimate platform, right?
And I never this is me and I don't know
if this is what happened, but I was like
I never want to be like, "Hey, Joe
Rogan, I'm down here rhymes from so and
so." And the only respect I ever wanted
to get from my peers and people that
were doing it was like from the stage,
you know? I always like I was like, if
we ever make the connection, I wanted to
be off of, yo, this [ __ ] is
funny first, not just like, hey, you
know, I rock with Dave anything. And I
think that that was what happened. I
used to spend time in and I never never
did. Even to this day, I don't, you
know, I just look at like the resp I
just want people, you can respect me as
a man and respect my character,
whatever, but at the end of the day,
what I love to do the most is stand up.
I want you to be like, "Yo, this
[ __ ] puts the work in." And then
we can build everything off of that.
That's what respect I want of I want the
respect from what I put in, the work I
put in. people can acknowledge that and
that's what builds my relationship with
you. It's built my relationships with
all of these all these guys. Bird all of
all of these all these people that I
[ __ ] with now. It ain't because other
than anything other than like yo he's a
dope comic and then you can find out
that I'm a good dude after.
>> Yeah. It's that and then after that it's
got to be like are you cool,
>> right?
>> Is is he fun to hang out with?
>> Right.
>> Yeah.
>> Barry K said that one time. He said that
in one of his podcast. It's one of the
things that separate like who goes on
the road or so and so is if you're a
good hang.
>> Yeah. Oh my god. That's everything.
>> I don't know how many people quote berry
cats, but I want to share this story.
>> You might be the only one
>> and you probably the only one be but I
you said something earlier about
undeniable, right? Yeah.
>> I remember when I first moved from DC
and I moved to New York, I was doing the
Chitlin circuit, the black circuit. I
was popular in the black community,
whatever. I was like, I don't think this
is going to be enough.
>> I want to do the mainstream stuff. I
want to do these other things, right?
And Barry Catz, um Dave used to uh host
this comedy night at this place called
El Flamingos in in DC in in New York.
And Barry Catz saw me there one day. He
was like, I don't think I've ever seen a
comedian that go in front of an audience
that would ready to rip someone's head
off and you could hear silence. You
know, that's the control I had over the
audience. So, we built sort of a respect
for each other. And um I remember one
time I was at the comedy seller and he
was there and I knew that he was back
then, whatever you want to say about
him, nobody had a roster bigger than
Barry Cats back then in like 97 or
whatever, he had everybody. Uh
>> he the list goes on and on. So I and I
knew he was a fan of mine and I said,
"Barry, man, I'm trying to work these
clubs, these mainstream clubs, but I'm
having a hard time uh getting in passing
these clubs." I was like, "Could you
make a phone call or whatever for me?"
And he looked at me. He said, "Darnell,"
he said, "this is what you do." I
probably do the worst. Everybody does a
better better berry catch.
>> You got to do Barry like this.
>> Yes. Okay, I'll try it again. He was
like,
>> "This is what you do."
>> And slowing down. He said, "Darnell,
just rip." Right. He said,
>> "Yeah, be undeniable."
>> That's what he said. He said, "Just be."
He said, "I'm not talk." And I tell this
is advice I give people. They say,
"Well, I need so I was like, I'm not
talking about have one good set and
you've have four bad sets." I'm talking
about the consistency where every time
somebody sees you go on that stage, you
blowing the roof off. And once you do
that, if the managers are going to come
to you, they're going to hear about it.
That's the one of the things that a lot
of people try to skip. They like, "Oh,
how was your set? It was okay, but I I
can't talk to you unless you just
straight just destroying [ __ ]
everywhere. Then you got other [ __ ] to
work on.
>> Yeah. And there's also a lot of people
that are very delusional about how well
they're doing because they want so much.
They want it all to be about them. So
they think they should have already had
this, they should have already had that.
Why don't I have a sitcom? Why don't I
have a this? Why don't I have a that?
>> And I always said this is another thing
even with these lineups you do these
shows, whatever. Always say that you
have time to have a defining moment.
If you're in the room, right, and for
some reason the room is on fire, the
club is on fire, everybody is ripping,
you probably won't stand out as much as
that night when everybody was bombing.
You've seen rooms where
>> everybody come back saying and say,
"That crowd was weird." But then you got
one [ __ ] back there like this. I
don't give a [ __ ] what y'all doing.
>> Right.
>> I'm going to elevate this. Those are the
times when you got to [ __ ] stand up.
>> Yeah. Well, we used to see that all the
time at the store, like late night at
the store in particular, where like, you
know, cuz the way the store works, the
show starts at 8:00 p.m. and it goes on
till 2:00 a.m. And there's a lot of
people that get there at 8 8:00 p.m.
that are like, you know, tourists that
are in town and they sit there for the
whole [ __ ] show. They came to see the
comedy store. Yeah.
>> So, by the time 12:30 rolls around,
[ __ ] they've seen everything. And so
you get this low period and then someone
will go up and just tear that [ __ ]
place apart when 50 people.
>> When I used to I was so naive when I
first started that um uh we used to have
open mics, right? And the open mic list
would be like 25 people, right? And they
they [ __ ] the guy that was running,
they hated me so much because I used to
talk [ __ ] in the audience and everything
and they would keep bumping me down,
right? And my dumb ass never got mad,
right? I was like this. Yeah, they want
me to headline, right? 25 comedians. I
took that I was like, "Yeah, seven." I
didn't think about audience fatigue or
anything.
>> Oh, boy.
>> I just was like, "Yeah." And it would be
And but I'm telling you, I think that
was one of the things that made me
strong because
>> 100%.
>> I was like, I I I'm going to do what the
next person there's one story. This is
one of, if you ask Dave Chappelle, one
of the dopest sets he's ever seen. I
just so happened to be a part of that.
It was at the Hollywood Bowl years ago,
about three years ago. Right. You know,
Jeff,
>> is that when he got attacked?
>> No, no, that wasn't that. It was like
the year before. Okay.
>> You know, Jeff Wills Live Nation, right?
>> Sure.
>> So, we're doing um
>> Shout out to Jeff.
>> Shout out to Jeff. Um, we're doing uh a
show, you know, Hollywood Bowls 18,000
people, right?
>> So, show starts at 7 o'clock, right?
Jeff comes up to me. He was like,
"Donnie, I got some good news and bad
news." He said, "What?" He said, "We're
going to start on time. It's only but
700 people out there right now. You
imagine what 700 people look like in
front of 18,000 place, right?" He said,
"There's only 700 people out there." He
said, "Well, I can let you start now or
we can wait 10 minutes." I was like,
"Jeff, it's not like 17,000 people going
to show up in 10 minutes." I said, "Give
me the mic now." Big ass stage. I jump
off the stage, right? Dave and all these
people in the green room. I jump off the
stage. I go into the audience. I'm
literally going to each person
in the theater and I'll get you a
picture. You can add this. I'm going to
each person.
>> Why didn't they wait for the people to
show up and sit down?
>> That's what I wanted to say. But they
were just like, "The show has to
continue."
>> I don't allow that. I never allow that.
>> They've tried to do that before with me
and they say, "We're going to have to
pay more money if the show goes over." I
go, "Then the show goes over and we pay
more money. Get the [ __ ] out of But for
for me it was a moment because any other
comedian not any other most people like
this or was nobody out there so many
excuses. I jumped off stage I was like
no I'm I can't be up here look like I'm
about to be auctioned off. I go in the
audience I'm going to each joint right
and I'm [ __ ] killing it's 700 people
in front of 18,000.
>> That's a great way to start a show.
>> But listen and I'm like this and here's
the [ __ ] up thing about this. Nobody's
going to know about it cuz YOUR [ __ ]
PHONES ARE LOCKED UP, RIGHT? YO, it was
a moment Dave uh uh Dave, everybody from
the green room came out, right? And Dave
told me to this day, he said, "If I was
doing a a class on standup comedy," he
said, "I would use this as an example of
like owning up to it." And it was so
crazy, man. It was like And it was just
it was crazy. I remember another time I
was working with uh I think I was
working with you. It was me, you, and
Dave. And I think it was a time we was
doing an outdoor theater and uh I was
supposed to be a break. It was supposed
to be me. It was supposed to be I think
you, Tony, or whatever or something.
Then it was a break and then it was
going to be me and Dave. But uh it was
still daytime, right?
>> Where was this?
>> I can't remember the place. It was still
day. Jeff, he came up to me. He was I
was like, "I already know I'm going to
have to go on now." And I literally had
to perform until it started getting
dark.
>> Oh, I remember this.
>> And I was saying to myself, I was like,
"Ain't no way." I was like, "This ain't
no way they giving Rogan." And it wasn't
a shitty people just hadn't come yet,
>> right?
>> I was like, I knew I was going to even
suggest. I was like, "Nah, we had these
two halves, right?" And it was and I
that was another example like, "Okay,
you got to do what you got to do." And I
had to go up there. It wasn't the spot
that I expected or whatever, but I was
like this, you know, for the sake of the
show. And I'm always like, what do we
need to do to support this? And I had to
we had to bring it down. We had to buy
some more time. And then by the time you
got on stage, everybody was seated.
>> It was dark.
>> It was dark.
>> That was that was outside of San
Francisco.
>> I can't remember exactly. That was
moment. That was California. That [ __ ]
was fun.
>> But I tell people all the time and I do
slight mentor. I was like, man, it's
certain times where you got to do what
the next person is not going to do. You
can't [ __ ] about [ __ ] And at the end
of the day, you got to be a [ __ ] I know
when I used to do these shows with Dave,
I used to [ __ ] get the shittiest
time. Like, what? Well, we're at 30%
capacity. I'm like, man, half of these
[ __ ] not even going to see me.
But I looked it like this. Well, the
people that's going to see me, they're
going to remember it, you know, and you
just got to keep on keep on going.
>> That's a good attitude.
>> Yep. Yeah, that's healthy.
>> See, I feel like this very productive.
>> This conversation is going to bode well
with my mental health.
>> Yeah, I think so, too.
>> Everything except the lies you told
about Jamie.
>> You know what I'm going to do? I'mma
start taking [ __ ] videos. I wish I
would have had it.
>> Yeah, I wish he did, too.
>> And the thing about it,
>> you would see like, oh man, he didn't
even have a leather jacket on.
>> And thing and he wasn't even talking to
me. He was talking to me like, what is
it? No, I'm walked up. You didn't even
know who I was at first.
>> Guess why? WHY DIDN'T I KNOW? I NEVER
KNOW THAT. I NEVER KNEW. I WAS LIKE, WHO
IS THIS FAKE ass Jamie ass [ __ ]
It's like it was almost like remember
when uh family battles uh Urkl and then
Stefan.
It was two characters. They had the they
had the the like the geeky Urkl and then
his alter ego, whatever. He was just
this cool ass. He was the same person.
>> Whatever happened to that dude?
Yeah.
>> Oh, he's been around.
>> What's he selling weed?
>> Is he?
>> He was. And his weed is really good.
>> He's got a weed. Purple.
>> It's the best. He got this joint he
wrote and it's like some type of Italian
noodle. The spiral noodle. He used that
as a filter.
>> But also, I spent a lot of time with him
because he would come out to the
cornfields, whatever. So, I've been
seeing him. He's got a talk show on
>> Didn't he get jacked? Isn't he like, is
that him? White. Uh, I don't know.
>> I heard Urg got in great shape. Yeah,
but he's a good guy, man. But he's
another one of those celebrities I know
that wants to do comedy but don't have
the heart to do it.
>> Always. I was like, well, he said, "No,
no, no, don't do that." But he's a he's
a he's a great guy.
>> It's hard to start out already famous.
That's one of the things that I've
really respected about Charlie. Charlie
was already famous when he was starting.
>> Do you know who started Charlie?
>> Who?
>> Me.
>> Did you?
>> And this is how it happened. when we
were doing the Chappelle show and it's
safe to say like nobody was really
making money. You know, in the contract
when you in your contract if your show
just blows up, you got to stick to
whatever you was getting for the
contract, right?
>> So, we weren't making a lot of money
doing the show, but I was like just
we're too popular right now. And at that
time, it was me and Charlie. We was it
was Dave, me and Charlie, like the
biggest names on the show. So, this um
Mike Burkowitz, who's Dave, who's head
of um um Whim and Morris right now,
right? He was a young agent at the time,
right? He was coming up and I was like I
told Jason my manager at the time jail
Jason Steinberg I said man we got to do
a tour or something. I was like yo
everybody talking about I'm Rich [ __ ]
I was like let's do I'm Rich [ __ ] tour
right? He was like it's a good idea. I
said me and Charlie can do it. At the
time that was only a twoman show.
Charlie didn't have no time or anything.
And I was like you know what I want to
do it because it was my idea. I said I
want to do me Charlie. I said we need
another comedian. At the time, Bill Burr
was not making a lot of money doing
standup. And I'm not disrespecting, but
you everybody knew he was going to blow.
But that was early on in the career. And
all Bill had to do was have a situation
like he had in Philly. Everybody knew he
was going to blow, right?
>> So I said, "Why don't we do a tour? Me,
Charlie, and Bill Bird. That [ __ ] would
be hot." Charlie had never did standup.
And I used to He used to always crack
jokes and [ __ ] I was like, "Yeah, you
talk a lot of [ __ ] but once that
microphone your ass, you a [ __ ] ass
motherfucker." So Charlie was a guy like
don't threaten him with anything, right?
So this is when they had they had the uh
Laugh Factory in New York for Time
Square, right? One of my friends was
doing the show there. I was like,
Charlie, yo, if we going to do this
tour, you got to at least have 10
minutes. He could have at that time
Charlie was so hot. He people would have
just YELLED OUT CHARLIE MURPHY for five
minutes. He was the MC. We just needed
his face to be there.
>> And this was it would be Charlie,
Charlie, Bilber, and myself. And Charlie
had no jokes, right? And like you said,
I was like, maybe I don't know if you
guys understand how it is to be selling
out as a open micer.
>> Crazy.
>> And he had to get his voice. And I know
and I was like, why did he never do
this? But I'm part of it was because he
probably never want to be compared to
his brother,
>> right?
>> He never wanted to be able to like uh
that's his brother and he had his own
style or whatever. So we did this
[ __ ] tour for like like a year and
then I saw him start to grow. Sometimes
he took some hits, but he became Charlie
Murphy. He became like, "I'm not my
brother. I'm a storyteller." He stuck to
that [ __ ] And the one of the things
that I would say that I really
appreciate about what uh the Chappelle
Show gave to Charlie Murphy. When
Charlie Murphy passed away, Joe, nobody
said Eddie Murphy's brother died,
>> right?
>> They said Charlie Murphy passed away. So
if that show didn't do and when I tell
you one of the most standup original
guys all of those stories like was it
true it was he told that was just part
of the story me day me Charlie and Bill
built a relationship we did something
that was spectacular then but uh Bill
Bird used to [ __ ] with us and I'm going
to tell you one of the things he would
do we would be on the road and we all we
used to do was argue and fight and just
[ __ ] with each other one time Bill Burr,
he did some [ __ ] I don't want to call
this racist or whatever, but whenever it
it was very Bostononian, okay, I won't
say, but what he did, I didn't know two
years later, Bill Bird would when we
meet up, he would buy a [ __ ] like 12
piece of Popeye's chicken, right? And he
knew me and Charlie would devour that
chicken and we would be in a sleep coma,
right, the next 15 minutes. And it was
almost like he gave us sleeping pills
and [ __ ] He would get us a chicken,
we'd be knocked out, and then he just go
and just laugh at us and [ __ ] But that
time, that was such a great time because
you saw people's careers being born.
Like Bill was already on a trajectory to
be great. You know what I'm saying? But
at that time, and this is when I say the
stories that you remember, I'm pretty
sure Bill still remembers like this was
the first time that he was making like
regular good money every week. You know
how it is for be a [ __ ] headliner
that's doing $800 a weekend or or they
give you a deal $2,000 and then you get
a $500 bonus when you sell or give away
300 tickets
>> and you're not working every weekend
>> and you're not working every weekend and
then you got club bonus like your bonus
supposed to be at 300 and they be like
uh couldn't give you that bonus. You was
at 298 you know be like [ __ ] I
could have bought those. They lied to
it.
>> They lie about how many tickets you
sold. They lied to and then they wonder
why when guys become big and everything
they don't want to come back cuz I
remember that.
>> Oh, I remember that. There's a couple
club owners that they can go eat [ __ ]
>> And I tell people all the time when
everybody talk about this. I was like,
"Yo, try this. Try doing a [ __ ] tour
for a year and a half." And every night
you had to come behind Bill Burr.
I had no days off. And I knew when I had
a day off, it wasn't I wasn't hitting on
all cylinders because that's when they
had used to have comment cards, right?
The comment cards like I DON'T KNOW WHY
THE THE WHITE BOY DIDN'T GO LAST, RIGHT?
>> But that always that just that's that's
that always kept me in shape. You know
what I'm saying? It's like this you
don't got no time to play around cuz
Bill
>> and Bill cuz Bill was one of those
comics. Bill was like, Bill would come.
Bill did the mainstream [ __ ] and he was
one of the only white dudes with would
do the [ __ ] most griiest spots ever.
And I'm pretty sure he's always going to
be a great comic. But I think that that
helped build his character. Like I think
that was probably what made him be in a
position where he go to Philly like,
"Yo, [ __ ] y'all. I just did Darnell's
[ __ ] hood club in Brooklyn, right?
>> If I can handle that, I can handle
that."
>> Well, that rant in Philly was cuz he was
doing the Opie and Anthony tour. So when
Opie and Anthony, their crowd were
brutal. Their crowds were [ __ ]
brutal.
>> They was kill Tony's before Kill Tonies
was
>> way worse. Way worse. That they had sort
of fed into that crowd. They they
fostered that crowd. They called them
the pests.
>> But then even going back to what I was
saying in this career sometimes you have
situations that have a defining moment.
>> And that was one of those things. I'm
pretty sure everybody that went on
before Bill was throwing a towel and he
was like, "Fuck that." But what happened
was Damarrera went on and you know
Domera is a legend.
>> How's he doing, man?
>> He's hurting. Yeah, he's got he's
hurting. He's got whatever that
neurological condition is. It's not
good, right?
>> I mean, I don't want to speak out of
turn about his uh his health, but it's
not good.
>> Um but
Dom, they they booed Dom. They were just
rough. They wanted you to fail. And Bill
went up and go, "Fuck you." You know,
and he just went into this crazy.
>> You know who else had a moment like
that?
>> Who?
>> Bernie Mack.
>> Did he? Oh, on Death Jam. I ain't afraid
of you, [ __ ] Yeah.
>> You know, you know how that was? You
know how that was born?
>> Why?
>> That first off, Martin Lawrence was the
host. And that night, everybody was
taking licks, right?
>> And there was another It was a comic
from DC named Butch Burns, right? He was
very popular in DC. Butch Burns went on
stage and bombed so bad. [ __ ]
throwing [ __ ] There was nothing that
Martin could do. You know how sometimes
you try and you like just you're on your
own, right? It's like whoopde-doo,
right? So, Butch Burns had bombed. The
room was going crazy. Barton couldn't do
anything. Next on deck was [ __ ] uh
Bernie Mack. Bernie Mack saw uh Butch
Burns on the way out and he told him, he
was like, "Listen, man. Hold your head
up, man." He said, "The sun might not
shine on your day, but it's get you'll
have another opportunity to shine." And
the reason he didn't plan on I ain't
scared of you [ __ ] And then um
Bernie had a situation to go through
because Bernie was on Death Jam before
he dressed in a suit and everything. He
was looking like a Chicago player, but
he didn't think that he connected with a
young audience like that. So if you even
watch the way he was dressed from the
previous show to the next one,
>> the next one he had more of a hip
outfit, had graffiti on the jeans. He
was he was dressed up for that part of
it.
>> No idea. I ain't skinny [ __ ]
He did have the um energy that he was
going to do, the connection he was going
to have with the DJ, right? But what
made it so explosive is that he said,
"Fuck y'all."
>> He said he did his joke and then that's
why you hear like I Why was he saying I
ain't scared of you [ __ ]
right?
>> It was because of the other [ __ ] He
said, "I ain't scared of you
motherfuckers."
>> Kick it.
>> Boom boom boom. But he say what he say?
Um he and it was such the most simple
stock jokes but the
>> So powerful. So powerful.
>> So powerful.
>> The rhythm that he had and the fact that
you knew that something was special
would happen. That's why that [ __ ]
audience looked was so [ __ ] charged
up because he said, "Fuck y'all."
>> I saw Bernie live once at the Comedy
Connection in Faniel Hall in Boston.
>> I remember that club.
>> He was on fire. He was so powerful.
>> First time I saw him at uh Comedy
Connection at Green Belt. I used to do
this club and it was a couple of people
that come through and I was like these
[ __ ] on the next level. It was
him. Another person that was like that
was George Wallace.
>> Oh yeah.
>> You know another person that was like
that? Rich Voss.
>> Oh yeah. Yo George Wallace. First off I
do George Wallace on the next level.
I've never seen nobody go to the comedy
club and the deal he had was 100% of the
door.
>> Everything. You just get your drinks and
your chicken wings 100% door. They had
to give it to him.
>> Wow.
>> Um and and George Wallace he was old.
George Wallace always been an older
dude, right?
>> Somebody said, you know, his thing is
your mama jokes, right? Somebody had did
a mama joke and [ __ ] George
Wallace ripped off about 30 mama jokes.
I felt so bad for him. And then Rich
Voss [ __ ] Rich Voss [ __ ] me up
because I never seen a white comedian
perform at this club. It was a black
club. Rich Voss came in here. He had a
ponytail similar to Jamie's, right?
>> Jerry Curls. No, Rich Voss had a
ponytail, the same one that Jamie was
wearing when I Right. the It was Rich
Bosses, right? And I saw Rich Boss go up
there and destroy his crap. I was like,
"This white dude don't know what's going
to [ __ ] killed that shit." I I had
to, you know, when we talk about joke
stealing, right? I've never I stole one
joke in my life and I apologized to Rich
Foss. I was doing a show and none of my
jokes worked. I tried. Yo, I tried
everything. I tried everything. And I
said to myself, what joke have you
heard? I didn't mean to steal, right? I
borrowed it. Okay. I said, "What one
joke you know that [ __ ] will kill this
audience?" And Rich Fost used to have
this joke. He said, "You know what they
say, once you go black, you never go
back." He said, "Yeah, cuz your father
won't let you back in the house." Right?
I stole that joke. I got him laugh. I
got him back on track. And then I had to
call Voss. I said, "Man, I'm so sorry,
bro."
I said, "It's gonna get back to you."
But I stole the joke. He was like, "No,
no, no problem with it."
>> Well, at least you admitted it.
>> Yeah, I did.
>> All right. I think we we accomplished a
lot.
>> This was therapy for me.
>> I think it was good for you. Stay out of
the comments.
>> I'm going to stay out of the comments.
You
>> remember that podcast we did with Resza?
>> NO, DON'T DO THAT. THEY STILL talk [ __ ]
to me.
>> I grabbed you at the end of the podcast.
I said that was great. Don't read the
gobz.
>> Don't read. Exactly.
>> That was a long time ago. I've been
giving you that advice for a long time.
>> You did tell me don't. But but the part
of that story people don't know is that
I did my podcast early. I hadn't seen my
son like two and a half weeks. I was on
a road and I I I came straight there
straight to the podcast to do it, right?
And then um uh I was like you was like,
"Yo, you want to hang out?" This is what
people don't know. This is the side you
don't tell them. You invited me. You
invited me. I did invite you. You did it
by You said, "Yo, I thought it'd be
fun."
>> You said the RZ's going to come, right?
>> Well, we were having a good time. We had
did a podcast together. We were hanging
out and I said, "Are you going anywhere?
You want to I'm doing a podcast with
Rizzenex next. You want to hop on?"
>> I thought it would be fun.
>> I thought it would be fun, but
>> it was it was fun.
>> I would like to tell my side of the
story.
>> We already did. We've talked this. We've
done this many times.
>> Okay.
>> I think like every other podcast we do,
you tell your side of the story.
>> I'm never going to I'm never going to
say this again, Joe. I was going to
leave and I was like I was like man [ __ ]
Wu Tang man I'm going to see my son
right and I'm leaving out and soon as I
get ready to get in my car uh the Rizza
comes out and this [ __ ] said
what's up Ashy Larry and I said [ __ ] my
son I'm [ __ ] with the Wuang right
>> and I didn't but it was a good time it
was fun
>> but what people don't understand is
before we did that Rizza said yo yo bang
bang bang I got this idea right I said
what he said I'm going to do these jokes
they going to be He was trying to pitch
jokes like he was on the joke and I was
like, "Please don't do that." Right?
>> I was like, "Please don't do that." And
we sat down and of course it went I had
a good time. But people's like, "Just
you just ruined it. You ruined it for
the You just ruined it." But shout out
to it.
>> It was fun.
>> And thanks for whenever I call you. Let
me uh um I can't even tell people
anything other than Yes, I'm on tour. Go
to donins.com. Get tour dates.
>> All right. All right. And here's my
here's my [ __ ] A joke could be too
soon, but it never could be too soon for
a funny observation. And that's what
you're going to get when you come to my
show.
>> All right. Thank you, sir. Appreciate
you, brother.
>> I'm taking this gum with me. Jamie, stay
sexy, sir.
>> 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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