Skip to content
The Joe Rogan ExperienceThe Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan Experience #1460 - Donnell Rawlings

Donnell Rawlings is a stand up comedian, actor, and podcaster. His new podcast “The Donnell Rawlings Show” is available on Apple Podcasts & YouTube. @thedonnellrawlingsshow

Donnell RawlingsguestJoe RoganhostJamie Vernonguest
Apr 17, 20203h 1mWatch on YouTube ↗

EVERY SPOKEN WORD

  1. 0:00 – 2:26

    COVID-era catch-up: coughing, distancing, and immune support basics

    1. DR

      One. Donnell.

    2. JR

      We're live.

    3. DR

      Mm.

    4. JR

      So good to see you.

    5. DR

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

    6. JR

      This is just a weed cough. (coughs)

    7. DR

      This is ... (coughs)

    8. JR

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

    9. DR

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

    10. JR

      ... at the end of the podcast.

    11. DR

      You ain't gotta-

    12. JR

      I'm not worried.

    13. DR

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

    14. JR

      (laughs)

    15. DR

      Give me a chance to explain.

    16. JR

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

    17. DR

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

    18. JR

      Get healthy.

    19. DR

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

    20. JR

      Social distancing.

    21. DR

      ... social distancing-

    22. JR

      Oh.

    23. DR

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

    24. JR

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

    25. DR

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

    26. JR

      (laughs)

    27. DR

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

    28. JR

      Right.

    29. DR

      ... to you.

    30. JR

      Okay.

  2. 2:26 – 7:59

    Why this virus dominates headlines: novelty, immunity, and how airborne spread works

    1. JR

      All of it's bad, you know. It's not good to be sick. But when you, when you protect your immune system and keep your body healthy and strong, it, it definitely ... It's like you have troops. All right? You gotta think of the virus as like an in- invading army.

    2. DR

      100%.

    3. JR

      There's all these viruses. And apparently, that Lex Fridman quote ... What was it? How many different viruses are there? Hundreds of thousands that are constantly competing? Like, he was, uh, describing it. This, this genius Russian scientist that I have on the podcast sometimes.

    4. DR

      He was like specifically the COVID virus?

    5. JR

      Well, he's talking about all viruses in general.

    6. DR

      All viruses, period.

    7. JR

      He said it's like a world war out there of viruses.

    8. DR

      But what I hear in, in ... When it comes to it being a world war, I've heard that the COVID-

    9. JR

      Here it is. Look at this guy wrote. "There's 320,000 plus distinct viruses in mammals and 100 million invertebrates, invertebrates and plants. There's an epic microscopic world war going on all around us and inside us. Nature is beautiful and terrifying." And then he closes the source.

    10. DR

      So, why is this, why is this one getting the headlines?

    11. JR

      Well-

    12. DR

      If that's the case, why is this getting the headlines?

    13. JR

      It's new. It's called ... It's a novel coronavirus, meaning no one has an immune system for it.

    14. DR

      Got it.

    15. JR

      No one has developed immunity. You know, when you think about other diseases like the common cold or, you know, uh, different flus, like, we've had flus. People have a certain amount of immunity to flu. You get flu shots. You can get a flu shot. It gives you an immunity to a certain amount. Even, even when they get the flu shot wrong apparently, because sometimes they, they guess the wrong flu strain, it still has enough of what a flu is to protect you somewhat, sort of keep you from getting more sick and you can't get sick.

    16. DR

      So, corona is actually a strand of ... It's like the baby brother of the flu?

    17. JR

      Not really. It's a, it's a type of virus. A coronavirus is a, is a, is a whole category of viruses that includes the common cold. This is ... They call it SARS-2 or COVID-19.

    18. DR

      Right.

    19. JR

      And this is a new one. So, then the problem with this is no one knows how it gets spread. Like, even back as far as January, they were thinking it didn't spread through the air. They were thinking-

    20. DR

      Right. So, it's not-

    21. JR

      ... it didn't spread person-to-person.

    22. DR

      It's not ... And I know this might be some ignorant questions, but I know a lot of ignorant people.

    23. JR

      No, it's not. No ignorance, man. It's not ignorance.

    24. DR

      Um-

    25. JR

      Like, we ... None of us really know. It's, it's ... We're learning.

    26. DR

      So, um, is the ... With the ... Like you said, f- ... I think what people are fearful of the most, if it's airborne.

    27. JR

      Yes.

    28. DR

      I mean, I don't know if that is the, the specific reason why they're enforcing wearing masks or whatever.

    29. JR

      Yes, it is, yeah.

    30. DR

      And I don't know if we've got to that panic stage. And I, I know none of the people haven't announced it or anything. But it didn't ... It hasn't been classified as a virus that's airborne. Like, it doesn't just fly around motherfucking ... S- fly around shit all day.

  3. 7:59 – 10:17

    Historical parallels and the psychology of lockdown: Spanish flu, trust, and relationship pressure

    1. JR

      I would never do that. I only did it because he ... So whoever p- I thought it was him. Someone posted ... Maybe he did it on Twitter, I don't know. Someone posted something that was a picture of, uh, these people that got tired of social distancing after the 1918 flu.

    2. DR

      Right.

    3. JR

      And they were out in the streets celebrating the end of the war. And they said that that started a resurge in cases, and the second wave wound up killing more people than died in the war.

    4. DR

      And you know who those people were?

    5. JR

      Young men. A lot of them.

    6. DR

      No. They was motherfuckers that was in fucked up relationships.

    7. JR

      (laughs)

    8. DR

      Joe, if corona don't test anything ... Yo, if corona don't test anything, it's gonna test the love that you have for the person that you're supposed to love.

    9. JR

      Yes.

    10. DR

      And I'm pretty sure, like, nobody wants to die, right?

    11. JR

      Right.

    12. DR

      Definitely nobody wants to die, right? (laughs) But sometimes motherfu- they, they just mention that, you know what? (sighs)

    13. JR

      You finding out if you made a mistake right now.

    14. DR

      I ... You may, you made a mistake, but you start ... And I hope this is not the case with people. You start weighing it.

    15. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    16. DR

      You're like, "Oh, fuck, man. I swear, I-"

    17. JR

      Well, women with men too, man. Imagine being, living with a guy who's falling apart right now.

    18. DR

      Falling apart in wha- in, in the health-wise or just mentally in their life?

    19. JR

      No, just like if you're together, you're together in a house 24/7.

    20. DR

      Right.

    21. JR

      And y- you know, you're, you're falling apart as far as like the way you're handling this. Like some people just can just accept, okay, this is a new normal. This is what, this o- there's people running around like, "Fuck this."

    22. DR

      So you're talking about the bitch mother-

    23. JR

      "Open the fucking government back up."

    24. DR

      Right.

    25. JR

      There's people that are freaking out right now.

    26. DR

      Right.

    27. JR

      And there's people that have points and there's people that don't have points, but men and women. Like everybody's a mess right now.

    28. DR

      But you know, you, you're absolutely right. And this is where ... And I know you have got it. You're, you're a fan of David? You know what I'm saying?

    29. JR

      I just uh, love him.

    30. DR

      David and David Goggins.

  4. 10:17 – 15:49

    Obesity, diet culture, and hard truths about risk factors

    1. DR

      Like, like you say. And one of the things that this is gonna ... what's gonna happen with this, it's gonna be, it's gonna increase awareness on so many fucking levels.

    2. JR

      Yo, 100%.

    3. DR

      'Cause they do these Covey fucking, um, briefs every day, right? And there's three things they say is gonna really fuck you up if you do. Drugs, alcohol, and it's another one. Drugs-

    4. JR

      Obesity.

    5. DR

      Obesity, drugs and alcohol.

    6. JR

      They said obesity was the number one factor-

    7. DR

      Obesity.

    8. JR

      ... in New York City apparently.

    9. DR

      And this is the thing. And this is what you, this is what they don't report. And I'm not disres- I'm not shitting on anybody, you know. The God bless ... I mean, hopefully nobody I know gets it or just I don't want this shit to happen to anyone. But this is what they don't mention when they say these numbers. You know? And it's crazy. I ain't trying to be a asshole. Uh, 500 people died today. They don't break it down. Is it 500 Joe Rogan niggas?

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. DR

      Is it 500 David Goggins niggas? No, it's probably, it's ... You know what it is.

    12. JR

      It is, but sometimes it's not. That's what's scary about this shit.

    13. DR

      But that, I know sometimes it's not, but we do know, Joe, that it contributes.

    14. JR

      Yes.

    15. DR

      It has a major factor in it.

    16. JR

      It's a major factor and people need to know that it's a major factor and stop saving their feelings.

    17. DR

      Yes.

    18. JR

      Just letting them know as a fact.

    19. DR

      Yeah.

    20. JR

      Some, some-

    21. DR

      Some fat motherfuckers is dying of Covey.

    22. JR

      Yes. And sometimes, like, when you're just talking shit about someone being fat-

    23. DR

      And let's be some fat mother- I saw a motherfucker on the internet, Joe.

    24. JR

      (laughs)

    25. DR

      This nigga was live with a ventilator, right? He sound like Biggie Smalls. He was like, (breathing heavily) "I'm letting y'all know this is serious." Nigga, yes, it's serious. You know what else is serious too? Those 10 pieces of chicken, that extra sweet tea, that motherfucking potato salad with mayonnaise and mayonnaise and mayonnaise and mayonnaise. All of that shit is important and all of it is relevant.

    26. JR

      All of it's relevant.

    27. DR

      All of it is fucking relevant.

    28. JR

      Yeah. You, it's delicious food, but you know what you're doing when you're eating it.

    29. DR

      When I talk to you-

    30. JR

      When you drink something that's like, you know why you're drinking it. Like, if you're drinking like a regular Coca-Cola.

  5. 15:49 – 21:21

    Faith, personal responsibility, and the RZA-comments aftermath

    1. DR

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

    2. JR

      That's a good question.

    3. DR

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

    4. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    5. DR

      ... 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.

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. DR

      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.

    8. JR

      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.

    9. DR

      You gotta-

    10. JR

      Yeah, don't do that.

    11. DR

      Bro.

    12. JR

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

    13. DR

      I tell-

    14. JR

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

    15. DR

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

    16. JR

      Help him.

    17. DR

      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."

    18. JR

      (laughs)

    19. DR

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

    20. JR

      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.

    21. DR

      You know, it's-

    22. JR

      You gotta figure out a way to live your life better. It can be done. Other people have done it. You can do it too.

    23. DR

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      The idea that you can't do it is stupid.

    25. DR

      You know, uh, you just gave me a thought, and the reason why sometime I interrupt because I know I got ADD, right?

    26. JR

      (laughs)

    27. DR

      And if I don't get my thought out in that second, I'll fucking forget about it.

    28. JR

      I get it.

    29. DR

      A- and, um, it's-

    30. JR

      You're, you're sensitive to interrupting now after the RZA podcast.

  6. 21:21 – 29:20

    Podcasting and creative control: why independence beats producers

    1. DR

      Joe, that's easy for you to say, Joe. Yo, how many years did it take you to just be you and comfortable like this? And the reason why I'm saying that, when you first started, right? When you... And not that, uh... And the birth of my podcast was because of that. When you first started, I know as calm as your demeanor is right now and as comfortable, and I may be wrong, as comfortable of saying, "Fuck them, don't worry about them," I know that could not have been your beginning. I've, uh, you had to have had you... And I may be wrong. You had to like, "Okay, why did that person say that? What do they mean by that?"

    2. JR

      Darnell, I think I have brain damage.

    3. DR

      From what?

    4. JR

      From getting hit in the head. And I don't think I worry about the same-

    5. DR

      Okay.

    6. JR

      ... um, things that people worry about.

    7. DR

      Right. I... You're absolutely right, 'cause that's probably-

    8. JR

      That's one... Uh, that's a real possibility, right? You know me. That might be real, right? There might be something going on there. But it's also, um, I, I have that-

    9. DR

      So your whole career-

    10. JR

      ... Fear Factor money. And then I just wanted-

    11. DR

      Okay, there it is. There it is.

    12. JR

      ... to do standup. And I was free. I felt-

    13. DR

      Okay, so you had... See? Boom.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. DR

      See? You had a...

    16. JR

      I'm not a... I don't buy a lot of shit. I don't go-

    17. DR

      Right.

    18. JR

      I don't go crazy. I like cars.

    19. DR

      Right.

    20. JR

      That's my, my, my only addiction.

    21. DR

      Right.

    22. JR

      But I'm not... When I did something like Fear Factor and making some money, it gave me this freedom to now just to not worry about ever doing that again.

    23. DR

      But you always have been of that mindset.

    24. JR

      Yeah, but it reinforced it. It just re- Uh, things like that reinforce it. Like having a bl- Uh, having, uh, like, uh, savings in the bank is nice, but also doing what you want to do is nice too. One of the things that I learned from Fear Factor-

    25. DR

      How about this? I learned from you today.

    26. JR

      ... is that I don't want to do that anymore.

    27. DR

      Right.

    28. JR

      I don't want to do that kind of stuff anymore.

    29. DR

      You know what? I don't want to be premature of it, but, uh, I could see you my podcast mentor. You know what I'm saying? But not being mat- bl- uh, uh, uh, uh, um, into it too early. But you made me feel that type of confidence in term, in, in, in terms of controlling your own destiny, being in control of your own shit, and this is what you want to do. 'Cause I've talked to you about the pod... I've... E- Oh, every time I get an idea, I hit you up, like, "What do you think about this as a TV show?" And you told me, like... I was excited about this idea I had, and you were like, "The podcast, bro, you control that. It's your show."

    30. JR

      Look, you don't want... You're you, right?

  7. 29:20 – 37:38

    Merch, masks, and the ‘Donny Ross’ candle: building a product during quarantine

    1. JR

      It's moving.

    2. DR

      But, you know, and I feel-

    3. JR

      Look at you. (laughs) You even have your own mask.

    4. DR

      That's my son's hair right there, son.

    5. JR

      Oh, Jesus.

    6. DR

      That's my son. And this, speaking of that, I-

    7. JR

      Show us your m- show everybody your mask, though. The mask is hilarious.

    8. DR

      Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    9. JR

      This is The Donnell Rawlings Show-

    10. DR

      Oh, we got merchandise for y'all punk motherfuckers now.

    11. JR

      ... COVID mask.

    12. DR

      This is the-

    13. JR

      What does it say on it? (laughs)

    14. DR

      Hold on, wait a minute, wait a minute. What does it say? It says, it says ... hold on. It says, "The Donnell Rawlings Show" on one side. What is that? What side?

    15. JR

      Right. Uh, the other side.

    16. DR

      Oh, Donnell Rawlings Show.

    17. JR

      And the other side it says- "Not today, 'rona."

    18. DR

      "Not today, 'rona." Not today, 'rona. It won't happen today. And if you see ... Yo, look s- ... all right, I'ma tell y'all a secret. I didn't want-

    19. JR

      (laughs) With your son's hair.

    20. DR

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

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. DR

      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.

    23. JR

      Dude, I got a sunroof.

    24. DR

      No, I got a sunroof sunroof.

    25. JR

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

    26. DR

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

    27. JR

      (laughs)

    28. DR

      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-

    29. JR

      Aw.

    30. DR

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

  8. 37:38 – 43:58

    Comedy income shock and adapting fast: road life ends, dad time begins

    1. DR

      And, and the thing about it was, it was... I was gonna launch this before the corona shit hit, but I had to ask myself, like, wh- this is what put things in perspective for me. I'm a road rat, you know I'm a road dog.

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. DR

      When you're a road dog, you start feeling com... You like, I got... You look at your candel- com- comedian... You look at your ca- calendar and see your calendar, you're like, "I'm good." And the rhythm of my calendar before this shit popped, I was rocking with Martin, we had fucking dates coming on. You know what I'm saying? I had some-

    4. JR

      Yeah, I was looking forward to those.

    5. DR

      ... good shit.

    6. JR

      Nashville, New Orleans, we were going to have some fun.

    7. DR

      Nashville, New Orleans.

    8. JR

      Ah.

    9. DR

      I had one time when I was supposed to do you, this was going to be my weekend. It was you and Dave on a Friday, and then Martin Lawrence the next day.

    10. JR

      Jesus Christ.

    11. DR

      And as they say in the streets, God was good as a motherfucker. The last show I did before these mandates came in, it was at the, um, at the Milwau- you've probably played there before, Milwaukee Theater.

    12. JR

      Yeah, I think I've been there.

    13. DR

      The Pabst, the Pabst Theater.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. DR

      So you've been down in that green room downstairs, right?

    16. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    17. DR

      Incredible. That was the last time... It was the last time I was on stage.

    18. JR

      Do you remember what weekend that was?

    19. DR

      In, in regards to-

    20. JR

      Was that the 14th?

    21. DR

      Oh, goddamn.

    22. JR

      Or was it the weekend before that? There was like a couple of weekends where people were still... Like I remember, uh, Post Malone had a big show in Denver.

    23. DR

      It was right when it was about to pop. It was like, you know, the reason why, because seeing the days road guy, whatever. Every like... When we were on the road, every day was a different news report. You know what I'm saying? It was right when it was going down, Joe.

    24. JR

      Right, right.

    25. DR

      Like it was like when everybody-

    26. JR

      It was accelerating.

    27. DR

      Yeah, it was, everybody was like, "Oh, fucking..." Uh, th- this what we was hearing, the NBA, baseball, and we was like this, "We good." We telling jokes. Pow, pow, pow. And then next thing you know, the shit-

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. DR

      ... was shut down. But I said, I was like, "Hold up, motherfucker, you are really unemployed right now." You know, and when I say that my flow of income is rode. And I'm like, "What do you do?" You got savings and shit, but you still, nobody wants to just see money going out and no money coming in. And then I was like, I was happy that this is why I was... I could tell you, I always thank you, but I was happy because you got me out the gate, so the momentum is there and I needed to put the focus in on it. I was forced to put the focus in it, but I put the focus on it and I said to myself, as, as all these comedians bitching what am I going to do, I'm like, "You got three months to figure out what your rhythm is going to be and what you're going to do." You can wait for this shit, it's what you ever you consider it to be over, you can wait for it's over and then like start now or you could start now. And the only reason I'm saying like that the candle thing, it was going to be a novelty thing, whatever, but I was like, this candle is going to, going to train me on what it takes to come up with an idea, market it, get people excited about it, provide a quality product and see what the feedback is. You know? So I know it may seem like so simple to people, but as... I've always had a, a entrepreneur spirit, but never was forced to really-

    30. JR

      Right.

  9. 43:58 – 56:04

    How fragile ‘normal’ is: second waves, viral load, and frontline mask ethics

    1. JR

      What makes you think that this is really temporary? Just because it's always been there doesn't mean it will always be there.

    2. DR

      What you mean?

    3. JR

      People have gone-

    4. DR

      The virus or just the con- just the mental?

    5. JR

      Anything! Whatever life is.

    6. DR

      Right.

    7. JR

      The way, the way our society is structured, this is new. All right? There's, the cities themselves are new. They've only, they've only been around here for a few hundred years, right? We pretend-

    8. DR

      All my friends think we s- the world started in the '60s because... (laughs)

    9. JR

      Whatever it is.

    10. DR

      All right.

    11. JR

      Wha- wh- whatever the date is, we all know that the world used to be very different. We just assume that the way it is now is the way it's gonna stay. That's not a good assumption because it's all volatile and changes constantly, and there's natural disasters that are way scarier than this virus. There's things like asteroid impacts that are inevitable. There's things like super volcanoes, which are inevitable. They're going to happen. Whether they happen 100,000 years from now or 100 days from now, somewhere in the world a giant volcano is gonna explode and it's gonna turn the whole phun- fucking planet into nuclear winter.

    12. DR

      And people aren't a-

    13. JR

      A lot of shit is gonna die. It's gonna cloud out the sun, it's gonna cool the temperature of the planet, and it's gonna do it for 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-

    14. DR

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

    15. JR

      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.

    16. DR

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

    17. JR

      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.

    18. DR

      But do you think this-

    19. JR

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

    20. DR

      Do you think-

    21. JR

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

    22. DR

      100%.

    23. JR

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

    24. DR

      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-

    25. JR

      I don't know all the viruses.

    26. DR

      You know all, you know more viruses than me.

    27. JR

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

    28. DR

      Yeah but you-

    29. JR

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

    30. DR

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

  10. 56:04 – 1:03:28

    Crime, fear, and self-defense: from convenience stores to being robbed at gunpoint

    1. JR

      Dude, if you work in a liquor store and-

    2. DR

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      ... you know, like your, your, your, your liquor store has been robbed a couple times already, you know.

    4. DR

      How... First off, if I were... There's... Here's the deal. Liquor store, anybody who's thinking about robbing a liquor store, keep in mind that I'm almost certain that every motherfucker that own a liquor store got a shotgun or a pistol back there.

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. DR

      I don't give a fuck, they're gonna have something back there. So-

    7. JR

      Tell you-

    8. DR

      ... you can roll up in there with your fucking Spider-Man mask if you want to, you won't get your head split.

    9. JR

      That's a crazy job to be in, man, to put yourself in a situation where every day you go at work, you might have a gun stuck in your face and be told to empty out the cash register, like any day. Like you live in fear of that, that people coming in might rob you.

    10. DR

      I said... I was at... I have a routine. I don't socialize but I go out and get coffee, right? There's this 7-Eleven I go to and, um, I know the motherfucking Mexican motherfucker that work in there, right? And I was outside in the car and there was a Black guy in there and I could tell him this guy was looking at the Black guy. Next thing you know, and I was about to do a radio interview for DC, my man Joe Clay a shout-out, and these motherfuckers started rumbling, like fighting, like going at it, like pop, pop, pop, fuck you, fuck you. And my instinct was to try to go help or do something and for a second I was like, "Oh, this is just fucked up, man. Stop that." Then I was like, "Rona out there, motherfucker. I'm not getting in it." And then finally they stopped, but it just... it was just weird like-

    11. JR

      That kind of contact, yeah, unless-

    12. DR

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      ... you're stopping a man from doing that to a woman or unless you're stopping someone from hurting someone as much as small as them.

    14. DR

      But that guy... This motherfucker work for 7-Eleven, Joe, and like he's defending whatever, might have been a can of Spam or whatever the situation is. And he's-

    15. JR

      Oh, that's what they're fighting over?

    16. DR

      I don't know what it was.

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. DR

      I don't know what it was. I'm pretty sure he's accused the guy of shoplifting.

    19. JR

      Oh.

    20. DR

      But he put his... especially in this day and age whatever, in, in the state that we're all... This motherfucker was fighting... He was fighting for this shit.

    21. JR

      Joel, let it go.

    22. DR

      Yeah. You gotta let it go. I'm like this motherfucker, you can have-

    23. JR

      Especially 'cause you're just an employee. Imagine having a fight for a can of Spam-

    24. DR

      But that's what I'm putting.

    25. JR

      ... and just getting paid $5 an hour anyway.

    26. DR

      In Hawaii?

    27. JR

      What's minimum wage? What's been-

    28. DR

      What?

    29. JR

      What's minimum?

    30. DR

      It's like 11 bucks.

  11. 1:03:28 – 1:11:28

    Tiger King and modern identity debates: fame, trolling, and “do whatever you want”

    1. JR

      Like Joe Exotic, right? He's in Oklahoma and so he's walking around with that-

    2. DR

      Yeah, that motherfucker (laughs) .

    3. JR

      They must have an open carry law there too (laughs) .

Episode duration: 3:01:24

Install uListen for AI-powered chat & search across the full episode — Get Full Transcript

Transcript of episode IXFlwSr5u_k

Get more out of YouTube videos.

High quality summaries for YouTube videos. Accurate transcripts to search & find moments. Powered by ChatGPT & Claude AI.

iOSAndroidClaudeChrome