Joe Rogan Experience #1460 - Donnell Rawlings

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   One. Donnell. …

   1. DRDonnell Rawlings0:00

      One. Donnell.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:02

      We're live.

   3. DRDonnell Rawlings0:03

      Mm.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:05

      So good to see you.

   5. DRDonnell Rawlings0:09

      (laughs) (coughs) Okay. This is not the cough that people expect to come from me.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      This is just a weed cough. (coughs)

   7. DRDonnell Rawlings0:14

      This is ... (coughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      Donnell has not been tested. He will be tested today-

   9. DRDonnell Rawlings0:19

      Y- ... I might, man. (coughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:19

       ... at the end of the podcast.

   11. DRDonnell Rawlings0:20

       You ain't gotta-

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       I'm not worried.

   13. DRDonnell Rawlings0:22

       But you ain't gotta blow it up like that, man.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       (laughs)

   15. DRDonnell Rawlings0:24

       Give me a chance to explain.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       I'm not worried. I'm not worried.

   17. DRDonnell Rawlings0:27

       Gi- give me, give me a chance. And, and, and, and I understand-

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       Get healthy.

   19. DRDonnell Rawlings0:29

       I haven't, but I have subscribed ... Six feet. I have my measure. I have subscribed to-

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Social distancing.

   21. DRDonnell Rawlings0:37

       ... social distancing-

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       Oh.

   23. DRDonnell Rawlings0:38

       100%, but the new normal. The new normal-

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       Is he on camera? We should move over a little bit.

   25. DRDonnell Rawlings0:43

       Th- the, the new normal. In the new normal ... And this has nothing to do with you, Joe. But just ... The-

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       (laughs)

   27. DRDonnell Rawlings0:48

       I'm just saying. Listen. It ain't the p- ... It's ... I, I'm protecting, possibly be protecting myself from, for me-

   28. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       Right.

   29. DRDonnell Rawlings0:55

       ... to you.

   30. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       Okay.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   It's crazy. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      m- you're gonna make people pay for that, you can't.

   2. DRDonnell Rawlings15:02

      It's crazy.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Yeah, you can't. This is a thing that's happening right now. It's almost like, uh, there, there's a lot of dangerous shit that happens when things go into chaos because there's people that take advantage of those moments, and they just-

   4. DRDonnell Rawlings15:13

      People get rich.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      They, people get rich, but more importantly, laws get passed 'cause people are scared. And those laws can, like, be, uh, they could sneak something in where they ban encryption, or they sneak something in where they, uh, stop, uh, digital currencies that aren't controlled by certai- certain companies. They can sneak weird shit in while people are freaking out. 24-hour surveillance 'cause we wanna make sure that people don't loot and riot. Weird shit can happen that can-

   6. DRDonnell Rawlings15:39

      Right.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:39

      ... erode your civil liberties when things get chaotic.

   8. DRDonnell Rawlings15:41

      Different, change.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:42

      This is a weird time, you know, but this is where we live. This is life right now. You gotta just accept that.

   10. DRDonnell Rawlings15:49

       Do you think something like this had to happen for people to put real family values and what's important in perspective?

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:57

       That's a good question.

   12. DRDonnell Rawlings15:57

       Is, do you believe, like, we talked about it of- like-

   13. JRJoe Rogan16:00

       Mm-hmm.

   14. DRDonnell Rawlings16:00

       ... and I'm like, um, I'm a religious person to the extent that I know that it is something that makes people feel good about.

   15. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       Yeah.

   16. DRDonnell Rawlings16:09

       You know? But, you know, with, and, but then you have those holy, holy, holy people that celebrate God on one level, but then when something like this happens, but they don't understand that if you believe that God can fix anything, he's gonna take you to the Promised Land, you gotta believe that he had to be part of the narrative of this, of this curse.

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:28

       I think it's how much responsibility you put on yourself and how much responsibility, even if you believe in God, you put on that. Like, you gotta do some work yourself too. Like, even if you believe in God, don't get so fat that you're gonna die.

   18. DRDonnell Rawlings16:39

       You gotta-

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:39

       Yeah, don't do that.

   20. DRDonnell Rawlings16:40

       Bro.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:40

       Don't let yourself do that. Start drinking water, just exercise-

   22. DRDonnell Rawlings16:43

       I tell-

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:43

       ... stop eating as much sugar. You can do it. It can be done.

   24. DRDonnell Rawlings16:46

       Joe, I tell motherfuckers all the fucking time, you gotta fucking help God.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:51

       Help him.

   26. DRDonnell Rawlings16:52

       You gotta help him. You can't, you can't just be like, "Oh, shit, God, I hope I don't get diabetes. Let me get the cotton candy."

   27. JRJoe Rogan17:00

       (laughs)

   28. DRDonnell Rawlings17:00

       "Let me get the extra sweet tea. Let me get the funnel cake." You can't do that.

   29. JRJoe Rogan17:04

       Uh, you're right. You're right. You can't, shouldn't. If you do, you're, you're, you're doing a disservice to the gift of life. You know how many people out there are in wheelchairs, they're born with horrible debilitating diseases, they can't do shit, people that have been in accidents, people that have been blown up in war, they can't even move around? And here you are taking a perfectly good body and just dumping bullshit into it while it just explodes. And I understand that people get addicted to things. You get addicted to that feeling of the rush of eating, but you gotta get yourself off of it.

   30. DRDonnell Rawlings17:34

       You know, it's-
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   (laughs) …

   1. DRDonnell Rawlings30:00

      tell you, I'ma tell you what happened, son. This was a tough time for everybody. Nobody wanted to take their hat off, right?

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:06

      (laughs)

   3. DRDonnell Rawlings30:06

      And yo, I've been feeling it, right? And I was like, "Well, never act in Hollywood again if I do this," right? So I started going ... You'll see, I mean, I ain't embarrassed. I got the motherfucking sunroof.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:16

      Dude, I got a sunroof.

   5. DRDonnell Rawlings30:17

      No, I got a sunroof sunroof.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:19

      Look at this. Look at this, man. This is a sunroof.

   7. DRDonnell Rawlings30:20

      Yo, my s- ... but your sunroof making fu- $50 million a year.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:24

      (laughs)

   9. DRDonnell Rawlings30:24

      This is not the same roof. You know what I'm saying? This is a, this is a hoopty roof right here. So I cut my son's hair, right? And I was like, "Oh, shit, what can I do?" Right? He saw his hair and he was like, "Ugh." So I said, "I'm gonna fuck around when I take it to the show and I'm gonna get a glue stick..."... and put it on my head just for fun. He thought it would be funny. And I showed him this podcast, um, the other day, and he got excited about it. But the thing I like about me having that hair, it smells like him. So it's like-

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       Aw.

   11. DRDonnell Rawlings30:50

       ... a little souvenir. And right there, you know what? Joe, I don't want to feel like I'm CVS or anything right now-

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       (laughs)

   13. DRDonnell Rawlings30:56

       ... but I want to say, we all know when it comes to corona, there's certain things that go before you know if you have corona or you kind of feel it.

   14. JRJoe Rogan31:03

       Right.

   15. DRDonnell Rawlings31:03

       Your sense of smell-

   16. JRJoe Rogan31:04

       Right.

   17. DRDonnell Rawlings31:04

       ... and your sense of taste. That's why, Joe, you're not gonna believe this, right? (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       (laughs)

   19. DRDonnell Rawlings31:08

       I came up ... I came up with a one of a kind, this is a, a specific to me, it's the Donnell Rawlings show.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       Okay.

   21. DRDonnell Rawlings31:16

       Now, I've n- I don't know if you're familiar with a smell called Black Ice. Black Ice. Do you know what Black Ice is?

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       No.

   23. DRDonnell Rawlings31:23

       You don't know what Black Ice is?

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:24

       I don't know. I wouldn't lie to you.

   25. DRDonnell Rawlings31:27

       No, you don't really know-

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:28

       Do you know what Black Ice-

   27. DRDonnell Rawlings31:29

       ... what the Black Ice air freshener is?

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:31

       I don't think so. Do you know what it is?

   29. DRDonnell Rawlings31:33

       You don't know. Okay. You're gonna ... I bet you ... 'cause you'll know this.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:36

       I mean, I've ... oh, their air freshener?
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   But people are conditioned…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      years and a lot of fucking things are gonna die. That's happened a ton of times. Uh, that, I mean, this, what we're having right now is-

   2. DRDonnell Rawlings45:07

      But people are conditioned to it because they went through it. We never went through anything like this.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:10

      Exactly! But this is why we're going through something that is the good... If there's anything that's good about going through something is that you're forced to realize that something can happen, something real can happen that shuts the world's economy down and no one saw it coming. Something real, that's a real thing.

   4. DRDonnell Rawlings45:25

      But we really haven't had, uh, in America, we really haven't had that test.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:29

      No, but this is for the whole world though. This is like a planetary test and the good thing about that is it g- you get to see how different people try it. Different people have different, you know, strategies they have to, to deal with their public and their, their healthcare. And it's very different results all over the planet and they're gonna analyze all that shit and try to find out why Germany did so well and Italy did so bad, and this and that. And they're gonna try to put all this stuff together. It's, it's a, it's a terrible time for the people that are affecting the people to get sick.

   6. DRDonnell Rawlings45:57

      But do you think this-

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:58

      Because no, there's no, it's not a good thing. But-

   8. DRDonnell Rawlings45:59

      Do you think-

   9. JRJoe Rogan46:00

      But pe- people can get something good out of it.

   10. DRDonnell Rawlings46:02

       100%.

   11. JRJoe Rogan46:02

       You can get something good out of a bad thing and the good thing is to prepare yourself better. You know?

   12. DRDonnell Rawlings46:08

       I, I agree with you 100%, but do you think this because when you, you talk about... And you the only motherfucker I would know that would know more than 10 viruses. Most motherfuckers I grew up with only know one virus. You know, you know all the viruses. Do you think, and when they s-

   13. JRJoe Rogan46:20

       I don't know all the viruses.

   14. DRDonnell Rawlings46:21

       You know all, you know more viruses than me.

   15. JRJoe Rogan46:23

       I just know there's numbers. But you know I barely know what I'm talking about.

   16. DRDonnell Rawlings46:25

       Yeah but you-

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:25

       It just sounds good 'cause I'm repeating shit.

   18. DRDonnell Rawlings46:26

       But you read off them ten-syllable words like you know all the motherfucking viruses, motherfucker.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:30

       (laughs)

   20. DRDonnell Rawlings46:30

       You didn't have to clap it out. But they say, this is what they say about the virus too.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:34

       (laughs)

   22. DRDonnell Rawlings46:35

       This is what they say about the virus too, Joe. They say it's a bitch-ass virus.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:40

       Yeah.

   24. DRDonnell Rawlings46:40

       And like, they s- like, is it-

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:42

       For some people.

   26. DRDonnell Rawlings46:43

       For some people. Do you think, and I've heard that, well you think it'll be flattening more or when it starts getting really, really hot?

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:52

       I don't know, see-

   28. DRDonnell Rawlings46:52

       You don't think, you think the... 'Cause I heard it doesn't survive like 85 degree or 90 degree temperatures. This is what I read somewhere, that it doesn't ha- that the likelihood of it living out of your body, whatever, is l- is l- a lot shorter.

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:06

       Shorter. Yeah. I don't know if that's true, uh, but I do know that for whatever reason there are seasons, right? Where people get colds. I mean, it kinda makes sense that-

   30. DRDonnell Rawlings47:14

       Yeah, because you-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:03:34

   (laughs) …

   1. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:00

      street and I used to do a poet-... a comedy poetry night, get a little money from the hat or whatever. And one night I'm going to the weed spot, right? I'm like, "Fuck it, I'm gonna go get some weed." I go to the weed spot, two motherfuckers roll up on me and I know I was in a gentrified neighborhood because my hood senses were down. I should have never been looking down. Two motherfuckers roll up on me, "Give me your shit, motherfucker." I'm like, "Oh, shit." They was like, "Where the..." This motherfucker said, "Where the jewelry?" 'Cause I'm not a flashy type of person. He's like, "Where the jewelry? Where the phone at, motherfucker?" I was like, "I don't travel like that. I don't get down like that." This motherfucker said, "Oh, you're a broke motherfucker." You calling me broke?

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

      (laughs)

   3. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:35

      And you fucking robbing me? I'm like, "What the fuck?"

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:40

      Yeah. (laughs)

   5. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:40

      Somebody didn't raise you right, that makes no sense. And I was still gonna go to the weed spot 'cause I still had a couple of bucks in my pocket, right? But I was like, "It would be just my luck, I go to the weed spot and the same motherfucker that robbed me is in the goddamn weed spot."

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

      Yeah.

   7. DRDonnell Rawlings1:00:53

      But that shit was like...... people and the, and when it happened to me, I felt fucked up. I felt so violated because I'm like, "You a bitch." I would respect you more if you mugged me. You know, like beat me up for my money. But to pull a gun out and have that advantage and think you tough, that shit was so fucked up and I felt so violated. On the inside, I was thinking like probably what most white dudes think, "You know what? I'm gonna jump for the gun" (laughs) like you. I'm thinking probably what you're thinking. I'm gonna disarm him, 'cause I know you gotta move if somebody put ... I know you, you know something if somebody put a gun to you. You'll be like ... and then next thing you know the gun be, be in their face. I was thinking that shit but I was like, "If I miss ..."

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:01:37

      People have a distorted idea of what they can do, especially if a guy's got a gun on you. You have a real distorted idea of how quickly you can move through space. Like, all this person has to do is this. That's it.

   9. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:48

      Right.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:01:48

       That's the great equalizer.

   11. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:50

       So that's what the-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:50

       A little movement like that and a kid can kill you. You know?

   13. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:53

       And that's was, the reason why I didn't go with how I felt-

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:56

       Yeah.

   15. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:56

       ... on the inside.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:56

       Oh, you have to. You gotta just-

   17. DRDonnell Rawlings1:01:57

       You know?

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:58

       ... give them the money. It's just, uh, it, yeah, you're right, it's a, it's a bitch way to do things. But-

   19. DRDonnell Rawlings1:02:04

       It is.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:02:04

       ... it's just a, it's a part of society that most people never use. Most people never pull a gun on people to get what they want. But some people do. It's a real thing. And it's, uh, it's a, it's one of the weakest things someone can do. You know?

   21. DRDonnell Rawlings1:02:17

       It is. It felt-

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:02:17

       But it also will protect you.

   23. DRDonnell Rawlings1:02:19

       And you ... but you feel powerless.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:02:20

       But it also can protect you.

   25. DRDonnell Rawlings1:02:21

       On the other side.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:02:22

       On the other side, it can protect you. You know, I watched a video today of these guys-

   27. DRDonnell Rawlings1:02:25

       Yeah, but they don't, don't, don't, the other-

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:02:26

       ... break into a new apartment.

   29. DRDonnell Rawlings1:02:27

       ... side on in places, and we talked about this before, the other side were places where it's legal. Like, you know, the only people that have guns for protection, and I'm speaking about living in New York, was the police.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:02:37

       Mm-hmm.

Episode duration: 3:01:24