Joe Rogan Experience #1381 - Donnell Rawlings

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Why is that? …

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      Why is that?

   2. DRDonnell Rawlings0:03

      I don't know, it just feels... When you, it's, when you say, "Turn my shit up," the engineers and the producers feel like, oh, shit, this nigga just turned his shit up. He's about to go in.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Oh.

   4. DRDonnell Rawlings0:12

      It gives you the impression that you're about to spit the hottest 16 of your life.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      16? What does 16 mean?

   6. DRDonnell Rawlings0:19

      16 bars-

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      Okay.

   8. DRDonnell Rawlings0:20

      ... in a song.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      Okay.

   10. DRDonnell Rawlings0:20

       Like a, like in, in ra- You don't know this?

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       No.

   12. DRDonnell Rawlings0:24

       So, nobody's ever come up to you and say, um, uh-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       (laughs)

   14. DRDonnell Rawlings0:26

       Nobody's ever come up to you (laughs) and say-

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       (laughs)

   16. DRDonnell Rawlings0:29

       ... um, s- "Let me get your 16. Spit s- hot s- s-, uh, a hot 16." Nobody's ever said that to you?

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       Never in my life have I heard that expression.

   18. DRDonnell Rawlings0:38

       You need to change the places you hang out, son.

   19. NANarrator0:40

       (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:40

       (laughs)

   21. DRDonnell Rawlings0:40

       For real, man. I mean, I mean, I don't know. (laughs)

   22. NANarrator0:43

       (claps)

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       Ha!

   24. DRDonnell Rawlings0:44

       I'm not trying, I'm just sayin' 'cause I'm pretty sure there are places you would've... All the people, all the Black people you know, all the rappers and nobody-

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Nobody's ev- asked me to rap.

   26. DRDonnell Rawlings0:52

       ... nobody's ever asked you to spit?

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       No. No, never. I've never spit.

   28. DRDonnell Rawlings0:56

       Have you ever practiced?

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       Never.

   30. DRDonnell Rawlings0:57

       Come on, Joe. Don't lie, bruh.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Right. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      And this is his, his wise words. He said, "I'm a better asset to boxing if I'm retired. I'm a better asset to boxing as an example of what's possible, that you can do all this and come out with 100% of your faculties intact."

   2. DRDonnell Rawlings15:11

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:12

      You talk to that guy, he's 100% there.

   4. DRDonnell Rawlings15:14

      Right.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      And he's making money as a commentator and an analyst. He's got a great career. He made money. He's good. He's like, "I'm good."

   6. DRDonnell Rawlings15:21

      Yeah. I want-

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:22

      "I don't wanna lose my brain."

   8. DRDonnell Rawlings15:23

      And, and everybody is different ways to do... The, the, the interesting thing to me, as vicious and notorious as Mike Tyson used to be and probably still is, it just something that makes me feel good knowing that this motherfucker is funny. And I know this may sound crazy, but he's like, a lovable Mike.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:41

      Yes, very lovable.

   10. DRDonnell Rawlings15:42

       You know, like, lovable.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:43

       And high as a kite all day long.

   12. DRDonnell Rawlings15:45

       Always w- (laughs) Well, that would make you (laughs) , that would make you lovable.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       Well, that's what he said, it makes him a better person, like, we talked about. He's like, "Uh..." He was like, "I think it makes me a better person."

   14. DRDonnell Rawlings15:53

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:54

       It does, man.

   16. DRDonnell Rawlings15:55

       Tyson-

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       He's nice.

   18. DRDonnell Rawlings15:56

       I just-

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       He's a nice guy to be around.

   20. DRDonnell Rawlings15:58

       Somebody just, uh, posted. It w- it, it came back, that, that interview when he was promoting his, uh, one-man show.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:04

       Hmm.

   22. DRDonnell Rawlings16:05

       And he was sitting down on the couch with this Black guy, and the Black guy was trying to push him into a corner.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       Oh, yeah. I remember that.

   24. DRDonnell Rawlings16:08

       Saying some crazy shit.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:10

       Yeah.

   26. DRDonnell Rawlings16:10

       Man, I had so much fucking respect for Mike Tyson for doing that, because people always use the excuse, "I'm the media."

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:19

       Yes.

   28. DRDonnell Rawlings16:19

       "No, this is the question the people want to know." That's not the questions the people want to know. That's the questions you want to know, and that's the shit you want to say to provoke somebody-

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:27

       Exactly.

   30. DRDonnell Rawlings16:28

       ... to turn into a motherfucking beast.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. DRDonnell Rawlings30:00

      somebody feel like that? That's just awful to make somebody... But then those same people probably have, d- don't have that one person-

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:07

      Mm-hmm.

   3. DRDonnell Rawlings30:07

      ... that they can confide in.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      Yeah.

   5. DRDonnell Rawlings30:08

      That one person that's not gonna bullshit them. The one person that doesn't want anything.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:12

      Right, but that's-

   7. DRDonnell Rawlings30:12

      And the one person listens.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:13

      Yeah, if you don't have anyone in your life, you don't have anybody that's telling you the truth or lying. You know? And there's a, and there's a lot of people out there that are real lonely that only c- exist on the internet, you know?

   9. DRDonnell Rawlings30:22

      Oh, the internet is the... The internet is the most fabricated lonely place in the world.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       Mm-hmm.

   11. DRDonnell Rawlings30:28

       And it's so... It's, it's interesting because it's like, like especially what we do is like you feel like you need it, but then after a while, this shit is just so fucking overwhelming.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:41

       Yeah.

   13. DRDonnell Rawlings30:41

       And it's so easy for a person to carve out the perfect life. People will tell you like, "Oh my God, I thought you was having so much fun on vacation."

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       Mm-hmm.

   15. DRDonnell Rawlings30:49

       This and that. You know how fucking many takes it takes to get that perfect picture-

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:54

       (laughs)

   17. DRDonnell Rawlings30:54

       ... to show everybody that your life is the fucking bomb?

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:58

       Yeah. It's just a not... It's not an accurate representative of anybody's life, you know.

   19. DRDonnell Rawlings31:03

       And it's everywhere. And that's where everybody wants to show their lives.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:07

       Yeah.

   21. DRDonnell Rawlings31:07

       I said, uh, you, you tell average chick, right? No, I won't say on the street, but just an average woman. If you tell them that, um, "I wanna take you on a vacation. Anywhere in the world you wanna go, but you can't bring a phone."

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:20

       Oof.

   23. DRDonnell Rawlings31:21

       You know what half of them motherfuckers would say? "Uh, let me think about that."

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:25

       (laughs)

   25. DRDonnell Rawlings31:26

       Because nobody wants to have a memory and share memory just from the memory they have.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:32

       Right.

   27. DRDonnell Rawlings31:32

       It's like they want it to get validated, want people to get the thumbs up and everything.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:36

       Mm-hmm.

   29. DRDonnell Rawlings31:36

       And nobody... You, even you, with the sh- your shows, whatever, it's so weird. Like when I first started doing those shows where they lock your phones up-

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:43

       Mm-hmm.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   I hate bombing. …

   1. DRDonnell Rawlings45:00

      "Wait a minute."

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      I hate bombing.

   3. DRDonnell Rawlings45:01

      It's not about the money, and it's all about... It's just something very addictive about constantly training to be prepared for anything and to be better. My lady's sometimes like, "You going out? You, you going out tonight?" I don't know if women understand. They call it going out, you know?

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:19

      Right, right.

   5. DRDonnell Rawlings45:19

      I don't call it... I'm like, "No, I'm-"

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:20

      Working.

   7. DRDonnell Rawlings45:20

      "I'm, I'm gonna work out." And even if I'm... If I... If it's a set I'm working on and I do the same thing, it's just something that's just such a rush about going on stage. Even if you find something small, a small tag-

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:36

      Mm-hmm.

   9. DRDonnell Rawlings45:36

      ... 'cause the joke never ends, you just stop telling it.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:38

       Never. Yep, yep.

   11. DRDonnell Rawlings45:39

       It never ends, you stop telling it. Some people are like, "Yo, where'd you get that from?" 'Cause, you know, the, the comedy's, comedian's mindset, people are like, "Write that down, write that down." We don't always write it down. Just thinking about how dope we would be if we wrote everything down. But it goes to a hard drive. It goes to a hard drive. And you might have thought of something funny, like this year, then next year... You might have never talked about it, then next year, something will happen and then it'll come up from that hard drive.

   12. JRJoe Rogan46:03

       Mm-hmm.

   13. DRDonnell Rawlings46:03

       And boom, you got a banging ass fucking bit.

   14. JRJoe Rogan46:05

       Yeah, you never know. And you... If you don't go on stage, you won't... That won't blossom.

   15. DRDonnell Rawlings46:09

       It never...

   16. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       You gotta water those seeds.

   17. DRDonnell Rawlings46:10

       I was in, um... I was in fucking, um, uh, Pleasanton. Pleasanton, California over the weekend at the, uh, Tommy T's. And there's this young, young guy. He's a fan of yours. He wants to do comedy and, and I know his mom. About four years, I put him on stage and he didn't really do well the first time he went on stage, right? And then... I appreciate that. And then, like, he tells me he wants to do comedy, right? "He tell me you want to do comedy." I was like, "Okay. Do a guest spot."

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:41

       Wow.

   19. DRDonnell Rawlings46:42

       He said, "Abida, abida, abida."

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:44

       (laughs)

   21. DRDonnell Rawlings46:44

       I call it the abida, abida. That's how you test a motherfucker. They be like, "Yeah, I want to do this and I've been writing, I've been working on my material and everything." "Okay, go on. Abida, abida." "No, I gotta wait because I got to..." "No, motherfucker, you don't gotta wait." And I told him, I like the kid a lot. I said, "I'm a comedian, comedian." "Don't talk to me about comedy no fucking more."

   22. JRJoe Rogan47:02

       Right.

   23. DRDonnell Rawlings47:03

       Because that's the opportunity.

   24. JRJoe Rogan47:05

       Go do it.

   25. DRDonnell Rawlings47:05

       Go do it right now.

   26. JRJoe Rogan47:06

       Yeah.

   27. DRDonnell Rawlings47:07

       And then he still was abida, abida. And I told him, I was like, "Maybe this is not for you." He said, "Well, you know what? Maybe I needed this talk." I was like, "You don't need to talk for me, motherfucker. You need to talk with yourself. Either you're gonna do it or you're not gonna do it."

   28. JRJoe Rogan47:18

       He'd never been on stage before ever?

   29. DRDonnell Rawlings47:20

       No, he'd been on before.

   30. JRJoe Rogan47:21

       Oh.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:04:19

   God, how did I…

   1. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:00

      was SNL. He won an Emmy for this. This was SNL, like, um-

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:03

      God, how did I not see this?

   3. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:03

      ... two years ago when... This scene right here, man, I was saying to myself, "This shit is cr-" Like, 'cause I hadn't seen him perform as a character actor since Chappelle's Show.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:17

      Mm-hmm.

   5. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:17

      And he fucking bodied this. The beginning of this shit is ridiculous. It was funny as shit. That won a Emmy for, like, they have... You know they have the little special category, like, a special... like, a comedy special? Not the, not the premiere, um, Emmys, but the one... You know the ones I'm talking about.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

      Mm-hmm. Yeah. That, that's a crazy scene to spoof too, right? That was a terr- Remember that scene?

   7. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:42

      That's the s- Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

      In The Walking Dead?

   9. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:44

      But he did it.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       That's, like, one of the most brutal scenes in all of television.

   11. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:50

       (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       If you really stop and think about it. Like, I couldn't believe what they showed, like, when they-

   13. NANarrator1:00:55

       Is the first episode out too of, like, the season, right?

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:57

       Right. I think so.

   15. NANarrator1:00:58

       They killed off two or three people.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:00

       The, the one dude who they... What was his name? The, uh-

   17. NANarrator1:01:03

       Glenn.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:03

       Glenn, that they kept hitting in the head and you could see his eyeball pop out. I'm like, "What are we doing here?"

   19. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:06

       See, I watched that gory shit. I can't-

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

       Guys-

   21. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:08

       ... fuck with that.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

       I didn't fuck with it after that. I was like, "I can't..."

   23. NANarrator1:01:11

       (laughs)

   24. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:11

       I didn't even know-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:11

       ... I don't wanna do this.

   26. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:11

       ... it was existing to this.Yeah, but he made that shit funny. That was some funny shit.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:16

       Yeah.

   28. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:16

       And there, if it was any glimpse of what would be, "Oh man, he killed that, brought that back." It was...

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:22

       Well, you know, I mean, again, when you talk about all-time sketches.

   30. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:27

       Shit. It was fun, man. And-

Episode duration: 2:39:27