Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast - Donnell Rawlings!

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

Are You Garbage presents stand up comedian and podcast host Donnell Rawlings! You know Donnell Rawlings from Stand up Comedy, The Breakfast Club, the Joe Rogan Experience, Kill Tony, This Past Weekend, Whiskey Ginger, Brilliant Idiots, Somethings Burning, the Donnell Rawlings Show, and so much more! Thanks for watching the Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast! AYG Live Show Tickets: https://punchup.live/areyougarbage/tickets Live Shows: https://punchup.live/areyougarbage/tickets PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/AreYouGarbage MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ Blue Chew: https://bluechew.com/ Promo Code: Garbage This Show is sponsored by BetterHelp Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/GARBAGE Tushy: https://hellotushy.com/ Promo Code: Garbage True Classic: https://www.trueclassic.com/garbage Code: Garbage Comedians H. Foley and Kevin Ryan are self proclaimed GARBAGE. Each week a new stand up comedian gets put to the test. Steal shampoo from hotels? Own a George Foreman Grill? Ever worn JNCO Jeans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to another exciting edition of R U Garbage. The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals or absolute trash. Now here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H Foley. Hey everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast. This is R U Garbage. Oh yeah. It's that little show we sit down with your favorite comedians and we find that after a group to be classy. Hey everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast. This is R U Garbage. Oh, yeah It's that little show we sit down with your favorite comedians and we find that after group to be classy Mm-hmm, or to just a big old piece of trash trash trash. I'm your host a trolley coming at you on a beautiful day

We're out back here at Tooties in the new edition. She's upstairs got a little spaghetti going. Okay using ramen noodles fair enough What are you gonna do? All right, fair enough. My co-host is coming at you from right next to me A little bit of a swing and a miss this week. He is the CEO of RU Garbage. He is an international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world. Give it up for KJ. Kevin James Ryan, everybody.

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and I mean, incredibly special guest here with us today for the first time. He is a legendary stand up comedian, actor and podcaster. And you might have seen him in him, but not limited to you got Law and Order. Third Watch, of course, the Chappelle show. Spider-Man 2, The Wire, Guy Court, Black Dynamite, Black Jesus, The Last O.G., The Cabin with Mr. Burke Kreischer, our good pal, Clerks 3, Def Comedy Jam, Premium Blend, Last Call with Carson Daly, Showtime at the

Apollo, The Bad Boys of Comedy, BET's Comic View, I Am Comic, The Kevin Nealon Show, Chelsea Lately, Guy Code, Something's Burning, Lights Out with David Spade, Theates the Joe Rogan experience and the Breakfast Club and his albums and specials include from Ashy to classy ain't worried about and y'all need to chill and of course you can hear him every week on his amazing podcast the Donna Raleigh show over there on his YouTube page and he's gonna be in Schoenberg Illinois at the improv October 10th through the 12th but the big question everybody's mind today is he garbage Louis Vuitton glasses and a sharp suit

This is gonna be a tough one. Give it up for the one the only Donna Rawlings everybody I have to start by saying you should have just told people 56 years old Because you go through your credits you like god I saw a blend comic view. I saw each one. Coming to the stage, you see them on Def Comic Jam. Yes, he's 56 years old. Celebrate his 57th if he makes it that far. Those were some of the oldest, but you know what?

I did some shit. You did a lot of shit. You said Premium Blend, I was like, Premium Blend was like, that was like really, really. And then also, I left off Little House on the Prairie. Oh shit, you know what's so funny? The youngest talking about, I posted a Little House on the Prairie. Oh, shit. You know, it's so funny, the youngest talking about, I posted a picture of me in the military,

and somebody said, we didn't know you was in MASH. Right? Because they had the oldest uniform. Stayed in front of an old jeep. What I will say, with that credit, and just as to the young, punk ass comedians out there. I think he's talking to you, Luke. Yeah, no, I'm telling y'all motherfuckers you know what that means a motherfucker that's been relevant for

over 33 years I don't know if you got some clap music or something right now but that's a goddamn clap. And yes, fixes chord form. And you were really slick about you know people got different ways to call you old now like what's up what's up uncle what's up legend. OG. You know me I mean, OG, that's like this. Okay, you see it in the beard. I'm an old motherfucker. Call you a jive turkey when you walk in. Oh, jive turkey, that's something my father was saying. I didn't see you, you jive turkey motherfucker. And people wonder why I say bitch in my routine so much.

It's my dad. It's funny. Buddy, give us the origin story. Buddy, thank you for coming in. The crazy thing is people would not know this. I was in the military. OK. Four years.

Despite what you want to think, I got an honorable discharge. I don't know why. No, people look at me like this. I think highly of you. No, people like this. Yeah, they kick me out. What was the charges? No, they tried to kick me out.

But I was like, you know what? I'll just say siren hour before that. I was in the military. I was a military police officer. You were an MP? Yeah, a lot of people don't know that. My father was so disappointed in me because he was a heroin dealer in DC. You're not wearing a wire, are you? No, no. He said, this goes against everything I believe in. Oh, shit. A military police

officer. I was stationed in Bolin, North First Base in Washington, DC. Okay. The first base I went to was Kunsan, Korea. I was in Korea. Okay. Used to work the front gate there. So after four years of being in the military, when you're in the military, whatever job you had in the military, normally that's what you pursue when you get out. So I was waiting to be a DC police officer. I was that close to when Pat did the psychological exam,

whatever the scholastic, if you wanna say, exam. I think that was just eight through, anybody could be a goddamn DC police cop. So in an interim, I was head of security at a grocery store. Okay. And I know you want to look at me like I was a rent a cop. I mean, head of security is a tall, is a big name. Detective at a shop, right? I was a general. I was a general because I went and bought stars for my uniform. Oh shit. Awesome. Right, and then there was a guy

that used to work at one of the stores. I supervised. He worked for Hostess Cupcake Company. And he was a comic at night. And he would come to the club. Oh shit. Come to the store and give out tickets. You know, he was almost like bring a show.

Yeah. So I used to go with a lot of friends. And I went to this comedy club called Comic Connection of Greenbell. Almost all black comics in DC started here. Gotcha. I went to this club and I started heckling the comedians. I mean I got I was so nice with it that people started showing up to see to hear me heckle. They would go to the doors like is that asshole gonna be here today? Is the sergeant here tonight? Yeah no General don't disrespect my rank like that.

You and this motherfucking producer the worst people I ran into. He thought I was in the Is the sergeant here tonight? Yeah, no, General, don't disrespect my rank like that. My bad, dude. You and this motherfucking producer that wretched me by running into. He thought I was in the military. Sir, step to your left, step to your right. Three inches, a quarter of an inch. One eighth of an inch. I'm going to stay where I want to stay.

So, you know, most hecklers are people that want to do stand-up, but don't have the balls to be in front of an audience. So, they dared me to go in. First week I was like, fuck that, I'd rather be. Listen, I was so cocky as a heckler. Signing autographs and shit. No, no, no, it was worse than that. You got merch.

No, no, worse than that. I tried to get a door deal. Yo, I tried to work. I was like, I went to the club. Let me get a 70-30 split out this motherfucker. No, no, I think it was more like 80-20. Sure, I bet. But I told him, I said, and split out this motherfucker. No, no, I think it was more like 80-20. Sure, I'm up there. But I told him, I said. Got agent fees. And I looked around, I said, look, look at this room.

I'm like, I think it's time for us to do a deal. I said, I think I've increased your business by 50. And they looked at me like I was fucking nuts. Sure. They challenged me to go on stage. It didn't go down. The following week I went on, and the first time I ever touched a stage, I caught a stand-in on vision.

No shit. There you go. And I know it wasn't because I was the greatest comedian. What it was, it was like everybody used to come, they was rooting for me to do it. It was the story of the guy in the crowd, got up and fucking did it. You know there's always like, you should do it, you should do it, you should do it. And I ran the light. I didn't know what the light meant. I didn't know shit. And it was like chaos. How long did you run it? I did a hot seven, I ran like 35 seconds, whatever it was.

But the thing was, I didn't know the rules to comedy. I didn't know anything. And when they, you know, this is worse than when a comedian has got the crowd going, right? And this is the psychological shit you play with the audience. You know you need to get the fuck off the stage. And you'd be like, they don't be like this.

Oh man, oh, I gotta leave, y'all. I gotta leave, they're making me leave. It's not me. Is that the light? Yeah, and they just like boo. Everybody's like boo boo. And my good friend Mike Washington, and people knew, I don't wanna say a star was born,

but they knew something special was about to happen. Shit, I love it. And they were like, and Mike was like, no, no, no, y'all don't understand. See, Donnell, this is his first time. Donnell don't know what the light means, right? But out of all the things I did in my life, it was, I feel like a show.

It was in that moment that I knew I wasn't gonna do anything else with my life. The whole idea of being a DC police officer was out the window. But see, I think, not like a white man, I was like, I had a job, right? And I was like, wait a minute, how do I support myself? I wanna quit this job. You can't quit, cause if you quit,

you don't get unemployment, right? So I did everything to get fired from this job, right? Got fired from my job, took that six months of unemployment and moved to New York and that was it. Yeah, that's my story. And never look, I never, I think, I keep trying to trim my time, but I think I've been in the game 33 years.

And never, you know how some people say, was there ever a hard time you thought about not doing it? 33 years, I never ever gave myself any other options other than I'm gonna make this work. No plan B. Yeah, you can't have a plan B. I mean, I can have plan B. You know, when you go raw, you gotta have plan B.

Sure. No, but I didn't have that plan, you know, come on, you know what I'm talking about. Pop goes the weasel. You ever kiss a girl, buddy? Go back a little bit with you talking about your dad. Brothers and sisters, and where'd you grow up? I grew up between DC and Alexandria, Virginia.

Okay. I lived in DC until I was like about 11 or 12. Then my dad moved my family to Alexandria, Virginia. I lived in DC until I was like about 11 or 12. Then my dad moved my family to Alexandria. And it wasn't until I got older that I realized the reason why he got one of my mother to leave DC, because all his other girls was in DC. And then as I got even older, I realized the house that he got my mother was a motherfucking stash house.

And I didn't realize, I was I was something peculiar about all these black dudes coming in. We had the kitchen just counting hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think my dad is trying to teach me how to count. Right. It was a it was a stash house. My dad, that was relation my dad, what I had with my dad. Did he live there with you? No, when he felt like it. Sure. OK, when he was when when win any other the women did gotcha

Oh, he was dating it was it just you would give brothers me I got two younger brothers see this is a question when you ask black guys to get real tricky I mean brothers sister you have well on my mother's side Like you got to separate the sides when I hear people say parents you show off mother fucker My mom had two kids mother had two other sons and my dad. Older? Young, everybody's younger. Everybody's younger than you, okay.

Yeah, and then my dad, I mean, we still, we was counting up until like the last 10 years. No shit. Yeah, he had like 10, it was like nine or 10 of us. Wow. But what I will say, with that, I will say my dad did a great job of all his kids knowing who we were.

Gotcha. You know what I mean, it wasn't like somebody lived over here, you had a chance of bumping into him that knew him. He was present in their lives. He was, he was, kind of, sorta. But I think so, and I was like into girls hard, so I guess he had to introduce me to two of my sisters that were the same age.

Sure, you don't wanna get your West Virginia order. This is Alexandria. When you say, was he moving some serious? Yeah, he was like, I am proud to say, it's one thing to say your dad was dealing drugs as like a guy on the corner, but he was like a heroin Kingspin in DC. Like when he got busted,

or when they finally kind of got a hold on him, it was in the front page of the Washington Post, Washington, it was the Washington Post. It was 11 people indictment, it was a multi-million. It was like, they moved on the crew that was. Yeah, yeah, it was a big deal. It wasn't just they caught him, yeah. No, and when it was like, they've been investigating,

he's been in and out of prison, but it's interesting because in DC they have this thing, this music called Go Go Music, right? It's sort of like, I don't know if you want to say it's interesting because in DC they have this thing this music called gogo music, right? It's sort of like I don't know if you want to say it's like like I don't know what the genre is But it's a lot of congo's a lot of percussions whatever is really popular in DC And when I was coming there was three top gogo bands. It was one called EU trouble funk Essence I know it's weird, but they were the top three But they were so competitive that none of them would ever be in the same bill together. It would be like trouble funk and EU or EU and rare essence They were like headliners. I'm not yeah, I'm not opening for a while

Yeah, but my dad it was a old like a hockey ring called a Washington Coliseum And my dad was leasing that for like years and he was the first guy to ever bring all of those super groups together Damn, he He had booked a new edition when they was off of Candy Girl. No kidding. He was big time. And I remember we used to go, me and my friends, we used to go to the Go-Go. My mother would never let me hang out that late

other than me working in concession for my dad. And I remember one time me and my friend was gonna go watch the band and my father, and my mom came up to me she said they looking for your dad right and I knew what that meant I knew that he was on the run. I don't know if anybody ever experienced something of going through like your mom telling you something and you say yourself I might not ever see my father again. And the crazy thing was I was like stunned and shocked I'm like god damn he was on the run thing was I was like stunned and shocked. I'm like, God damn, he was on the run.

He was on the run. And I was like, I don't know if I'm ever gonna see my daddy again. Nobody was gonna tell me anything. And it was Christmas, maybe like 10 months after the incident, I get a knock on the door. He's on the run the whole time, you haven't seen him. I haven't seen him.

I get a knock on the door, boom, boom, boom, boom. And I was like, who is it? He said, it's your father. And I was like, oh shit. I thought I was never gonna see you again. You really love us, but then I forgot. It was the Stash House. So he was like, hey, go give me that money, bitch.

I'll see y'all later, right? That just toyed with my emotions, dude. Everybody tell me I should do this as a movie. So he was gone. Damn. Moved to Jamaica, right? He just did? Yeah, he moved to Jamaica.

He moved to Jamaica. The motherfucker was throwing concerts in Jamaica. He was like, So that was his on the level fucking way to make money, was the promotions and him diversifying. Yeah, but I'm pretty sure he still had Sure, but I'm just saying like this was but that was his laundering or whatever Yeah, and this motherfucker had moved to Jamaica and was doing what you call your motherfucker We do a lot of time in prison. I want yeah my father. He was on just doing these like big concerts

He brought a new addition to Jamaica Right. He just had a thing. Oh shit shit, my father wasn't, did he? I hope he wasn't, did he? But he was doing concerts there. And what happened was, the Jamaican government at the time, they didn't give a fuck. No extradition. He had so much money that he was paying them.

Like, he was, motherfucker was over there, had a mansion. Yeah, he was chilling. He had a Rolls Royce and shit. No shit. And something happened with him, with the government. I don't think, I think he was sleeping with a big crooked politician's girlfriend. And then they turned him in and they,

he said, man, I never seen so many guns. They came up in that motherfucker with AK-47s. Down there? Down in Jamaica. And my father was, my father, he was built for prison. He was in and out, he told me one time, he said, man, maybe I'm crazy. I had fun in jail. I was like, how could you say that? He said all my friends was there. You know, but he said, one thing he said, man, I am so glad they got me

fucking out of that Jamaican jail system. He was like the worst experience he ever had. Brought him back to, brought him back to DC. Did a bid, did like 11, this is a crazy story, did like 11, 12 years. Right? Missed almost, first of all, almost all of my childhood, graduating and everything. And this is a crazy story. So when he finally got out,

I remember one time he came to my show and I had just started doing comedy. And I just wanted this proud moment with him, right? I said, dad, this is my proud moment. Look, I'm like, dad, what do you think? He said, man. He said, it was okay. He said, but you know what you gotta do.

And I'm like, motherfucker, what you gotta do is stay out of jail. Who we giving these lessons to right now, right? But he would come. A little pedestrian if you ask me. For three years, he would come to my shows with his boys. Thanksgiving. And then he started saying that I started making a name for myself. He started showing me he was a little proud, but it always was always had something slick to say, well, you know what you need to do. I'm like, man, fuck that. I just wanted you to have a proud moment.

So some years passed and it was a tradition that he brought us all those boys to the Thanksgiving show. And then one year, I got a call from my mother again. And she said, they got your father. I'm like what the fuck are you selling now, bruh? You old as shit. And come to find out he was still no shit.

Dylan Harrowin. And he's so old that he's using code words from like 80s. Like he's saying shit anybody could figure out like, yeah. It was snowing in California last week. People like, what the fuck? He's like this. He's like, yeah, how many nuggets you win? You win Burger King, motherfucker,

Burger King don't even have nuggets, right? Now this motherfucker, I could not believe. Dude, getting caught with all time slang is awesome. And not only that, The Wire was one of his favorite shows. And this motherfucker got caught talking on The Wire. Right, I was like dad give it up and it was like but I'm telling you he's so gangster he never bitched never cry he's one of the old-school dudes like I'm not talking

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And I'm like, he don't have the money to have a high-powered lawyer anymore, so he's ready to cop a plea. Right, I think he was gonna cop till like 10 years or whatever, right? And I remember one day, I got another call from him. He said, what's up, can I call, of course? And he was like, yeah, he was like, beep beep beep beep.

And he was like, what's up, son? I said, what's up, dad, how you doing? He said, shit, man, I'm making it. You never know what my father's emotion was. He never let you know if he was sad, mad. He just was that steady tongue guy. And he said, yeah, I talked to my lawyer today. He said, what's going on?

He said, my lawyer said, Mr. Gray, I got some good news and some bad news. You want the good news or the bad news? And my father said, I'm locked up. They all bad news. He's right. He said, the bad news is I'm not gonna be able to come see you today.

The good news is you're coming home. No shit. There was a rogue cop on the case, a crooked FBI agent that was stealing the drugs, using the drugs, and my father fucking walked out. No shit. Not just his case, this was a big time story. It was about 170 people.

If you caught a case with a fucked up FBI agent, everybody going home. Damn. And the crazy thing about it was, I thought he was gonna miss our traditional, this is a fucking movie. I thought he was gonna miss out traditional, this is a fucking movie. I thought he was gonna miss out traditional Thanksgiving show, right?

And I was like, that was the thing that was hitting me. I was like, damn, that's gonna be weird not to see my father at this show. And he got freed about two weeks before the Thanksgiving show and he came through Thanksgiving show. Passed away four years ago. It's a goddamn Hallmark movie. I'm sorry to hear that.

I mean, you know what? And that's what I tell people. I think that how my father was with us, and I don't have nothing bad to say about my father. Certain lifestyles just don't give you the opportunity to spend all the time you want with your kids, whatever. Nick Cannon can say he's a good father all he want, but there's no, you know what I'm saying,

with 12 kids, you know what I'm saying, with 12, you know what I'm saying, I understand he just wants to procreate or whatever, but there's no way that 12 kids are getting that dad. There's no way, there's no way. But I will say, the relationship I had with him, I have no regrets or anything, I wish I would have had more time, but now when I look at my son,

I have a young son, he's nine years old, and I'm so caught up into raising this kid, like I look at my son, I remember when he was five, I looked at him, I was like, where was my dad at when I was five? Locked up. Where was my dad when I was seven? Locked up.

And I can't even imagine being somewhere other than being in his life and doing the best we can. Yeah, man, that is something else. Crazy fucking story. That's crazy. I'm gonna make that shit a goddamn movie. That is a movie. That's all right. Let's go back a little bit.

So your mom basically raised you. How was the grades in school? Were you a good student? I mean, do you know any comics that had good grades? Fuck all the questions that. Let me tell you, if you got straight A's in school, you're a shitty comedian. I mean, you had to balance that shit.

AF, I was an AF motherfucker. Yeah, me too. Yeah, when I got an F, I knew I needed an A. When I got an A, I was like, I could rock on an F. I was average. I mean, I was, I didn't really, school was just fucking a fun place to be for me. You know, now I look at it now,

like what does school teach me to prepare me for this? Nothing other than getting in front of a classroom and cracking jokes and whatever. Not to say that school is important, but for me, it was just a fun place to go. For sure, I get that. Did you play any sports growing up? I wrestled for a year.

Okay. I wrestled for a year. OK. I wrestled 98 weight class. I was so small. I was like about 75. The wrestlers, that's the biggest thing with wrestlers is making weight. Yeah. Yeah.

They used to be so mad at me. I used to go to weight with a goddamn jacket on, boots, eat the steak and cheese sandwich like Steak Tim. That was the outfit. Steak and cheese, these motherfuckers already taking laxatives shit and everything. And I'm like, ah, still underweight. But I did that for a while.

But I was, you know, I was the manager for the basketball team. I called it manager, they called it water boy. Sure, I was gonna correct you. Don't disrespect me like that, motherfucker. Like yeah, you water boy motherfucker. No, but I was- Assistant coach. Yeah, I was assistant coach. You know, I was the stats guy. I'm like, yeah, you Waterboy motherfucker? No, but I was a- Assistant coach. Yeah, I was assistant coach.

You know, I was the stats guy. I was the stats guy. Yo guys wouldn't win nowhere if I didn't tell them how many rebounds they had every game. But I was, yeah, I was that guy. And I was like, I wasn't really good in sports, but I only wanted to be on a team, just to crack jokes. Be around people.

And then I didn't, my mom didn't have any money then. So if you make the Waterboy or whatever, you got a free pair of leather sneakers. There you go. You know what I'm saying? You got to travel. Okay. Like if we win a game, we got to go to pizza hut and shit like that. And every place I was connected with, I was only there to fucking make people laugh.

That's been a story in my life from high school to the little jobs I had. The only reason I never got fired from jobs, or the reason why I was hesitant, because I was a morale motherfucker. Yeah, fun to be around. They're like, this motherfucker ain't shit on the clock, but goddamn, everybody feel good around here. That was it, I was a morale.

Someone's gotta go, Don-El's a good time, Gary stinks. I'll see you later, Gary. Yep, that was it, that's the story. That's good, and then you went to, right in the military after high school? Yeah, 17. Okay. What uh one sec What did vacations look like growing? No, we're all before like when you were kidding

What the fuck is a vacation when I was growing And Lewisburg penitentiary you You want a vacation? That's a vacation you get. How white is the- But I will, I will remember, I do remember this. That reminds me of Ms. Pat if she opens her eyes underwater and she said white people sure is nosy. Yeah, no, no, you don't do that shit. But I do remember one, I remember this, one vacation.

Where'd your family ski at? Oh my God. His dad was running this hollow. Yeah, my dad had the whole neighborhood skiing, motherfucker. Where's your family ski at? All right, there you go, I'm selling my lift tickets We didn't have we didn't do without no vacations But I do it's a memorable story and I kind of recreated it with my son one year my dad Rented an RV for all of his kids, right? He didn't go You guys were mule the RV for all of his kids,

and to this day, I remember that trip like it was yesterday. And we had an interesting time because I'm from the DC area so anybody growing up in DC area, you love Maryland blue crabs. Yeah. So we went crabbing on Myrtle Beach and we was like this, oh shit, man, we was catching the motherfucking crabs. We had like three bushels of crab.

We're about to have a crab feast. I'm gonna get all the bitches when we get back to DC. You got a bushel of crabs at DC, you can get some pussy. End of the story. That's about two, 300 bucks. Yeah, that's two, 300 bitches. I mean, queens, queens. So the thing was, we caught these as food at Myrtle Beach,

but then we had to drive to my grandma's house in Fayetteville, North Carolina. So the thing was, we caught these as food at Myrtle Beach. But then we had to drive to my grandma's house in Fayetteville, North Carolina. So that's like a two hour, two and a half hour drive. So they went from, we gonna eat these motherfuckers to pets. Yeah. We started getting connected with them. Playing with them and shit.

Giving them names, Krabby Curl, I mean. And then my sister and them, they had figuring out how to write their names on the back of them. We racing, the fucking crabs in the yard yard we get in my grandma's house. We forgot they're supposed to be, we was going to eat them. And then I remember this, man. We hear our aunt yell from the window, all we saw was this pot with steam coming up. She was like, bring them goddamn crabs in here!

We was like, you bitch! You killed Curl the crab! And just to see all of us like, barely over the top of the dining room table. And she didn't give a fuck. All we heard was, ch ch ch. More crabs for me, man.

Yeah, that was... That's a good vacation though. Yeah, and it was memorable. And that's why even like a couple years ago, I couldn't wait to have that experience with my son and I was in New York and I Read an RV and we drove from New York to Yellow Springs, Ohio Nice DC back to New York until this day. He's only nine years old But all he says daddy women are going to RV trip again. That's awesome. But last year this motherfucker asked me

I said what you want because he said a RV right. I thought he meant like the little scaled model. He said, no daddy, a RV. But my dumb ass, I'm like, okay, you know what? That's not a bad idea. And it's not a bad idea. Again, the fact that I can create these memories with my son, and that's the one thing that I always, I try to leave that impression with my son

and other people with their kids and everything, man, make those motherfucking memories, you know? Damn. Ah, I love it. That's great. Did you buy the RV? No, I'm gonna, man, fuck that. I will, I'm so good.

If you own an RV company out there, hit them up. Let them get one for a front of the cheap. At some point, I will do it, because I just, again, knowing the relationship I have with my dad, it's like everything, I just wanna do everything. And then I'm a motherfuckin', I'm old enough to be my son's granddad,

so he's got a combination of dad and granddad. I don't try to teach this motherfucker no life lessons, I'm just like, how do you shut the fuck up? I'm trying to rest my eyes over here. Here's some candy, fuck your teeth, this is the first set. You get some new one, but he got the best of both worlds when we having him later in life and everything. I love it.

What was the first concert you went to? It was probably one of the Go Go concerts. It was the... Earl Funk or what was it? No, it was... You trying to be funny now. No, no, no. It was something funk.

When you said funk, you stuck there looking right in my eyes. I was trying to remember it. It was it Frankie Beverly. I got an interesting story about Frankie. No, I open for him. You did? I did. Holy **** and then from as a DC. He just passed. I know a couple weeks ago as a DC comic that was was like one of the biggest gigs you could have. Philly too, yeah. Yeah, you know the history behind it.

So yeah, I opened for him at the Greek theater about three or four years ago. But the first comic. Three or four years ago? Oh shit. And he was on his, like his voice, just for people to understand about Frankie Beverly. People like, you know you got haters like,

oh his voice is insane. Nobody, at a certain point, you don't go to a Frankie Beverly Mays concert, you know you got haters like, all his voices are saying, nobody, at a certain point, you don't go to a Frankie Beverly Maze concert to hear him sing. You go so you can sing. So you can sing, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the whole thing, people come before, he don't even have to say, he be like,

before I did, no! Yeah, but it was a new edition, the new edition concert was the first concert. Okay. I'm telling you, when I say we didn't have money, we didn't do a lot of extra shit. So when my dad was running that, that was so dope for me because I could go there all the time.

But Frankie, and the dope thing, I was going through some old videos and I took my son to the Frankie Beverly Maze concert like four years ago. He went on stage and I got a video of my son being on my shoulders Listening and grew into Frankie Beverly. That's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome One of the questions we ask God who is the most famous person you met as a kid before you started doing comedy before you ever Like just bump into they could have been like a newscaster a guy off the radio Bobby Brown. No Bob. I didn't meet them

I didn't go backstage It was Sam was to um, he's played for Virginia. Um, center. Um, Sam's Ralph Sampson. Ralph. I don't know. Ralph. Yeah, Ralph Sampson. I'm old as shit. Ralph Sampson. A center from the University of Virginia. I think he went to Virginia. American. Terry Holland. Yeah, him. Ralph Sampson. Yeah. Terry. Terry Holland was the coach then.

Oh, okay. I remember we were doing something down there. I think I was managing the basketball team and he just happened to be in a gym. And I'm NBA. That's pretty good. That's not bad. I like that. Or the pet situation as a kid. I was in the crowd. A whore dog. Oh, yeah. It was weird. I'm the dog.

Fuck everybody. And she did that plan B. This bitch just kept getting pregnant, because black people, we don't fix our dogs, we just blame it on you. You shouldn't have been outside, bitch! One time she had a set of Rottweilers, Chihuahuas and shit, her name was Yvette,

and I knew when she was out there whoring, because she, I know, we gave her a whole human, it's a whoring name. I know, you're not wrong. I'm sorry. I mean, sorry if there's a Yvette out there, a hornet. I know, you're not wrong. I'm sorry. I mean, sorry if there's an Yvette out there, but I bet you're fuckin'. But we knew when she was out there doing her thing,

getting rowdy, cause she would have paw prints on her back of her legs. And I could tell when somebody was really digging into it, cause the paw prints would be closer to him. And I mean, somebody really hitting her with the bong, bong, bong. Yep, Yvette, that was a pet situation What was the the first big check in comedy

First big check we were like, oh first big check and comedy It wasn't it was it was because of me being in comedy. Mm-hmm, but I remember it was for It was for a Sahara Miss Campaign damn shit this guy named Frank Cooper black guy he used to be the vice president of North American marketing for um for Pepsi and This is when I don't know if you remember but they did a campaign Sarah miss campaign when I use a lot of the cast members from mad TV They was trying to flip it on some comedy shit. It'll probably come up some time.

That was when they first launched. Oh, somewhere around that time. Yeah. So Frank Cooper, come to find out, he was a fan of mine from Chappelle's show. And he hired me as a consultant on that show. But I didn't consult shit, because you know, normally in those campaigns, when you got a group of writers.

I'm a sprite man. Yeah, I was like, usually when you got a group of writers like that, they don't really, they're not open to any outside interests. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like, it's just their homeboys. And so they was like, who is the fuck is this motherfucker? Where'd he come from?

I literally went into one meeting, pitched one idea, they looked at me like, eh. I went back to my trailer, right, and I got $50,000. Damn! Oh shit! Yep, and I got $50,000 Oh shit Yep, and I felt so bad about it, but the only reason I was there cuz Frank Cooper I He wanted part of that Chappelle show energy got around and I had some decent ideas But I understand what this what the system was and I got and I felt guilty about it Wow, and I almost I felt like man

I owe you some money and he looked at some of my friends, man, you know, that's a drop of the bucket for him. That's not, they don't even know that's gone. Feeling bad for Pepsi? Yeah, I know. That's- He's a good guy. Yep, but yeah, that was the first 50 Gs. That's nuts.

That's all right. Any stupid purchase with a big check that you got early on, where you're like, I shouldn't have bought that car, I shouldn't have bought that jacket. No, not really, because when I would catch a check, I was so behind them. Catch a check, that's a great term. When I catch a check, I was so behind them. Catch a check, that's a great term. When I catch a check, I'll be so behind them,

should I owe the landlord six, seven bucks. So that shit be looking like didn't do the agency, ah, ah, uncle Sam, that shit be turning to 15,000 quick as shit. Catch a check, but no, nothing crazy. Okay. It's all right. Were you a big clothes guy back in the day?

No, I couldn't afford it, but I was creative. You know, we used to shop, man, I used to shop at thrift stores. Really? Yeah, and I would look for like, man, you know how hard it is for a little poor kid to go through those fucking musty ass moth balls, ass rack and shit.

And I finally would get up, oh man, I found this IZOD shirt one time. I thought it, I look ass. I was like, all these bitches now gonna be ready tomorrow. Get the crabs ready. Get the crabs, bitch. But the thing was, I'm like, damn, how do I explain a brand new old shirt?

How do I explain it? Like, where did you get that shirt that's already worn? Yeah, they like, I'm like, I used to tell them, man, I don't leave my clothes over my grandmother house. Who the fuck does that? Right? But I remember it. The shirt was so old, the alligator twisted up. I know what you mean. It twisted up. Scoliosis. It twisted up and I had to start it and make that shit stick before I could wear it. But I couldn't tell. I flipped the collar up. you couldn't tell me shit. How was your mom in the kitchen? Good cook?

Yeah, she was a good cook. And because she had to be creative, I think that that's, like I love to cook. Right now, and like, people are like, what's your favorite dish? I don't have a favorite dish, I can follow a recipe, and I get creative. And then when you're coming up with,

when you're growing up with no money, you gotta try to get funky in the kitchen. So my mother was like always. What's something that she would hit with that the kids would all love? Lasagna, I know it's so simple. I know this is weird, but this is my favorite dish, and it was a struggle dish. It was tuna fish casserole. Wow, just thinking about that.

I love some goddamn tuna fish casserole, and even when I make it now, I think it just makes me reminisce about my mom. You do it with the egg noodles and the peas and stuff like that. Oh man, I was just like, oh man, with that little crust on the top, man. Take the little bread crumbs with the garlic butter. Yes! That was a fair share. And even like, I think when I was coming up in comedy,

I didn't really have money to take chicks out on fancy dates, so they thought I was like, oh, I see you chefin' up. Bitch, I ain't got no money. That's why I'm doing that. I'd say you cook for them. Yeah, I cook for them. Oh, and I used to do all that romantic slash broke motherfucker shit.

Hey, you wanna go for a walk in the park? I wrote you a poem. Yeah, let's have a picnic. Let's go watch the plane. That was one of my things at DC. Wait, what? Go watch the plane. Oh, watch the plane. Oh, that's romantic.

Watch the planes land. On the hood of the car? No, not the hood, I ain't had no car, motherfucker. She had a car. Yo, I'm like, I used to lay that goddamn blanket out, it'd be a water felon, I'd just, oh this is so romantic. Ew! Ew!

Cause I was broke. Why you got all these candles? Cause the lights are off, bitch. Let's get romantic. No furniture type of shit. But those was a good thing. It's too far. And those are, if you think about it in this business,

I know a lot of successful people, right? My head hurts. Of course. And when you talk to them, really like people that really came through the mud, if you want to say, they not, I know billionaires, not a lot, that when you talk to them,

they don't talk about where they are now. They want you to appreciate where they came from. Right, of course. That's the story that they want to tell you. It wasn't always this easy, you know. I was on the verge of bankruptcy. My honey over here loaned me $20,000 and whatever. That's the story.

If you think about real humble, successful people, that's the story to give a fuck about. Because once you get to that point, you feel like especially if you knew you had a vision, you knew it was gonna get there, you knew it was gonna come. It was just a matter of time. And you know, in this business,

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Boing. Where did you run show? Where was your shows in New York? I had a show in Brooklyn, this place called, what I would do when I came up here in the comics they used to produce shows, weren't that friendly with me. I had to figure out a way to make money. So I would go to like a small restaurant. When I came up here, and the comics that used to produce shows weren't that friendly with me.

I had to figure out a way to make money. So I would go to like a small restaurant. Again, I went to this place called Palm Cut Lounge, and I saw that they had an open mic there. And I went there like two or three times, and I was like five people, ten people. And I went to the manager, and I was like, I I mean you don't know me, whatever I say, but I can get people in this place. You know what I'm saying?

That was my hustle, I always put this show. And I had this by Palm Court Lounge and I chose a Monday night. I said I don't wanna do Tuesday, Wednesday, because everybody got something. I always said, you know when you hear about Monday, people always say, man ain't nothing to do on Monday. There's nothing to do on Monday.

So I named the night Something to Do on Monday. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. And I made this the hottest, especially for urban comedy. And the thing that I'm proud of is all the gang banging killers, they came to my spot. There you go. And guess what they did?

They didn't kill that day. Sure. Yo Monday was. You're out of your safe and long. Safest day of the week. Yeah and the reason why, Sure. Yo, Monday was no kill day. Monday was no kill day. Monday was no kill day. Safest day of the week. Yeah, and the reason why, because the reason why I always, always had bad chicks in my spots, right?

Motherfuckers come. You get the bad chicks come. I remember one time, this guy, he's not- Keeping the streets safe. This guy, this guy, I know. You should be the mayor, dude. Look, I'm dressed like him today. And it might be a job opening coming up soon, too.

So I thought about that. I'm the Ashley Eric. But I've never- That is an Eric Adam shoot, dude. That's funny. That's a very Eric Adam shoot. But it was got, and I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna that. I'm the Ashley Eric. But I've been one. That is an Eric Adams shoot dude.

That's a very Eric Adams. But it was got, and I mean I'm telling you, this spot, it was some of the most notorious Brooklyn gangsters ever. So much that none of them are alive right now. No shit. I mean one night this guy, it was this guy named Nut, and Nut was just, well, he earned his name.

Sure. And he was over in the corner talking shit. I didn't know who Nut was, but I always, because my rooms would get rowdy, and I always tried to, I had to control the audience. I'm like, yo, listen up, y'all shut up and everything. And he was over there talking to more killers. I didn't know anybody was a killer.

I mean, they don't have a name to have a hi, I'm a killer. Hello, where do you guys go to school? Yeah, like bop, bop, bop. Where do you guys go on vacation, huh? So, and I was like, yo, chill out, chill out. And everybody was like, when I was talking to people, they looked at me like, I'm so cool.

And I was like, yo, fuck that, whatever. I said, yo, y'all disrespecting the show, man. Y'all need to be quiet or y'all gonna have to leave. And he looked at me like. Right? And I didn't know that look. I was like, y'all heard me? I walked away.

And then another good friend of mine that knew me and knew Nut, Nut was outside waitin' for me, right? Oh shit. And I was like, right? And my other guy And I was like, right? And my other guy, he was like, yo D. He said, yo chill D.

I was like, fuck you talking about, you need to be quiet when I'm on stage. He said, chill. He said, yo, you my man, but that's my man. Translation, we kill people together. Yeah. Like, and only the craziest thing, some jokes, My man. Translation, we kill people together. And only the craziest thing, some jokes, literally almost cost me my life.

That's crazy, yeah. Jesus, that's old school shit. But it was like, I know it sound weird, like did you quit? Nah, man, I was waiting for some violence to pop off because in the black clubs, if something pop off the week before, next week, that shit poppin'. We goin' back.

Yo, you gotta get there early, man. But it was always, I was like, that was the first. He's a marketer. They were always, that's when I got my stripes in New York with them. And I got knighted, I remember one time I was doin' a show, and this guy, I was on the stage and this guy in the audience was heckling me.

He was like, yo, BX, baby, BX. I'm like, okay, BX, but we in Brooklyn now, BK all day, because you gotta say that, BK all day. He was like, BX, baby, he's like, fuck you. And then I was like, fuck you. The Bronx has a different kind of heckler, too. Yeah, forget about it. But you can't help, you can't,

yeah, I don't give a fuck, you can't come to Brooklyn. Sure, no, of course. Right, and this is where I got my, this was when Brooklyn fell in love with me. Like he was talking shit to me or whatever, right? And he tried to rush the stage, I was on the stage, right, he tried to rush the stage. I had the mic in my hand, right?

And I just started welling on this motherfucker. You know how nice it is to hear the combination with a mic in your head, where you can hear the sound effects? And it was like, it was like, bloop, blop, blop, blop, blop! Right, and the sweet thing was, after that, I went back on stage and finished my show.

And another notorious killer, sometime later was like, you know what we loved you, son? He said, when you fucked that motherfucker up and went back on stage, we was like, he's one of us. Damn, that's awesome. And I still, still, still I still got love for Brooke. Mokas wasn't going on when you were coming up right?

No I was before Mokas. Okay. Like there was no. Smokey and all them? Smokey and there was no other like I would say compared to Hot Room, Rob Stapleton. Sure. He used to do Sugar Hill in the Bronx. Rob Stapleton was the first guy I ever saw murder.

We both started at the Laugh House in Philly and it was John Laster, our buddy Chris Cotton, and Rob Stapleton closing. And our buddy Chris Cotton murdered as a host, Laster destroyed and I'm like, I don't know who this guy is coming up, but there's no way he's gonna stop this. But you know John Laster was a guy that,

when he first moved here, I was one of the only guys to give him a spot at the spot I was telling him about, Palm Coast Lounge. He's one of the best. And I respected, I had so much respect for Rob Staple, because when comics was like, I don't know if he was jealous or just didn't fuck with me or whatever, Rob always, I would always say,

that's why I always do whatever they would do, he always put money in my pocket. Yeah. And that means a lot when you got a motherfucker you know, would come to your shit. Even if I would come, like man, I was broke, where I would like do a spot, I'd get $100 or $150, and then the next week, I'm like,

I will still come to your spot. They'd be like, you was just here last week. I was like, I got new jokes, motherfucker, just to get a $20, $30 spot. But Rob has always been, Rob has always had a dope room, but anybody tell you, that area, that era, like early 2000, late 90s. Killers.

It was like, I had a poppin' room, the crazy thing was, I wasn't from here. So it was like, who is this country motherfucker that come up here and just have these rules? I had the rooms poppin', it was dope. And I was like, I don't have to call you for bookings. I mean, I was doing, I remember I was doing one spot in Brooklyn, it was called Poke Knockers.

We were doing $3,000 at the door and seven to 10,000 on food and beverages. It's crazy. That's good for a comedy club, man. Man, I was, you couldn't tell me shit. I was clean, cause you know, back then, you know, you're rooming with somebody, so you splitting rent three ways.

I would clear my fucking all my bills in one. And one, we can just trick on the bitches. No more watching the planes. No, not at all. No, but just look out the window. Look at the Brooklyn clock. Yeah, I had never. I was new to comedy and I had never seen anybody kill a room like that. All three of them. And Rob Stableton. It, it was unreal to see that at the Laff House.

But that was crazy. When we were coming up, that was the only, anything other than just because we just was like, you got to rip, especially in those rooms. You just had to rip. But what, how was it? If you was OK, I mean, you got booed. Yeah, yeah, which happened a couple of times.

We got to watch Ture Gordon and just watch him just. Yeah, T-Ray's another. We all from the same era. Same cloth, yeah, which happened a couple of times we got to watch out to Ray Gordon and just watch him Yeah, T. Ray's another we all from the same same era. Yeah Let's talk about now a little bit yeah a little bit of cash You're doing okay. How many suits do you own you came in wearing a suit first got everywhere a proper suit. I I own more shoots suits than the average black guy. What? Because you usually have, you know what it means, that suit, you know, don't act like you don't know.

I'm not, man. You know what that means. We don't see colors. You know, you got your vacation suit. You know what that means. You was like, what does that mean? So you have a suit outside of church and funerals? No, marriage, we got one suit and we changed the shirt.

But it was a couple years ago. But you wear the hell out of a suit. You look great. And I always had reservations about it. And I was always on stage. I'm normally like, most comics, their look is normally like, we get fly with the sneakers, jeans, or a graphic t-shirt.

That was my thing, because I said, I'll feel comfortable dressed like that. But I had to do something one time. I didn't have time to change. It was a suit. I don't know if it was a funeral or something. And this girl was like, you should wear the suit. My friend should wear the suit.

And I wore a suit. It was in Atlanta. I wore a suit on stage. And I thought I was gonna be stiff, but I'm telling you, just the appreciation. It felt good. Confidence. I still mix it up, but it is something to be said.

You know, if you, I mean, it's a whole different conversation. You know what I mean? You don't have to prove it. And I still, there's times I go up there, I go on stage with a hoodie, t-shirt, whatever I feel. But, you know, especially with me getting older, I was like, you know what? You know, you're getting older and you want to show your grown man side and mix it up. Of course. Maturity. So what are we talking? Seven suits? No, I probably got about 25. 25 suits? Any real heavy hitters, like any designer?

I don't really go that. Standard, classic. The crazy thing was I got introduced to the suit game from a good friend of mine from Brooklyn. He was like, you ever had a custom made suit? I was still off the rack. I was like, no. I got measured and it was these Korean tailors in Brooklyn.

La Conte, La Quinte, whatever, I can never pronounce the name right. But they suited me up and the crazy thing was they gave me, this is how I got in the game, they gave me five suits for free. Oh shit. And paid me. And I didn't give a fuck about the suits, I wanted the money. I was like, shit, I'll take that little bit of change. And then this is the way people responded to suits. I wanted the money. I was like, shit, I'd take that little bit of change. Right?

And then, just the way people responded to it, I just fell in love with it. But it's nothing like, no, I'm telling you, I'm not spending no five and 10,000 on a suit. Yeah, they look great though. Yeah, but then it's just, what's like, how you accessorize and how you wear it? You know?

Were you a Stacey Adams guy back in the day? That's racist. No, I'm just saying, like, just saying, was your father a pimp also? Nah, Stacey Adams, you wear Stacey Adams, you're like, I told the bitch to come over here before. You just gonna- He used to have a pimp.

I used to always wanna be able to pull off the Stacey Adams, the weave shoes, you know what I'm talking about? No, but I never was, back then I didn't get, no. I know the look you're talking about, you gotta get the shoes, the socks to match and everything. No, I was just a strictly a sneaker Tim, back then I didn't get, no. I know the look you're talking about, then you gotta get the shoes, the socks to match, and everything. No, I was just a strictly a sneaker Tim guy back then.

Okay. And what kind of car are you whipping around in now? I have a Mercedes E06 580 electric something in a Bronco in Ohio. And a Bronco. The new Bronco or an old Bronco? The Bronco, no. Not the OJ, you just look like you got

OJ Simpson in your eyes. What the hell? I didn't even think of that. I don't like this picture of your picture. No, no, no, no, no, I you just look like you got OJ Simpson in your eyes. What the hell? I didn't even think of that. I don't like this picture you're picking up. No, no, no, no, I'm just fucking with you. No, it's my, because I stay between Yellow Springs and Ohio, and that fucking Bronco is like my favorite car. Yeah, they're cool, they're real cool.

And I got a, this is a great story. A 1985 El Dorado. Ooh. And the story behind that, I told you my dad was a hustler. And when, like all of his kids, when we got off the age to drive, he bought all of his kids cars, right?

And I remember it was time for me to get a car and I'm all excited about this shit. And I heard him, I picked up the phone and he's talking to my mother. He was like, yeah, I got this El Dorado over here, I'm not really driving it. I'd like to give it to Donnell for his birthday. And my mother said, that don't make no sense. We live in this neighborhood, yeah, I got this El Dorado over here. I'm not really driving it. I'd like to give it to Donnell for his birthday. And my mother said, that don't make no sense.

We live in this neighborhood, whatever, and it just, me, fucking seven-five pound dude wearing thrift clothes, thrift store clothes, driving the fucking El Dorado. How many times am I gonna get pulled over? Right? And my mother fucking was like, no. And that was the first time, I didn't call her,

but I felt bitch in my head sure This was stop me from getting these bitches About to be a young dad about it the elder all though. I had a 35 year old kid Crazy thing was she nipped it in the butt. I got a Dodge Ami. Dodge Ami. Dodge Ami. I don't know. Let me see.

But the thing about it, here's a story about me doing that Cadillac. That was like my dream car. Oh, that's way different than an El Dorado, dude. Yikes. Yeah, I know. So I'm like this. I know, but I was still driving.

I had a hatchback in the radio. I still had bitches. But I would have had bitches. Hatchback in the radio. I still had bitches, but I woulda had bitches. But the thing that, and going back to the story, so that was like, that was the car that got away. And I'm not really a car guy, but I always said, you know what? Sentimental. I wanna buy a car, and I was, and maybe like 10 years ago,

I was in Virginia, somewhere in Virginia, I'm driving down the street, and the car that my dad wanted to get me, it was on somebody's driveway for sale. The exact same car. And I said, I don't give a fuck if this car got an engine or whatever, I'm getting it just because that birthday gift to myself some years later. I never drive it, like I'm not a big car guy,

but that one, that car just means a lot to me because I'm like What if question that's a good story? I love that Are you peeing in the shower? I'm not answer that question with all these allegations going on When you take a shower, yeah Did he used to be in the shower? You see what he got him? That's a standard RU garbage question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I pee in the shower.

Will you brush your teeth in there? Yep. You leave the toothbrush in? Yep, I have it on a rack. Okay. I might even rub one off in the shower. I made it. That's garbage. That's a real mess. This guy's a one-stop shop, dude. There's a lot of things happening in that shower.

Well you put chips on a sandwich, if you're making a sandwich. Hell yeah. Okay. Oh yeah, come on, wrong question man. Ham and cheese, turkey, ham and cheese. But it's gotta be certain chips. Only ones, you only can do

Lay's. Yes. Or Ruffles, sour cream and onion. You cream and I don't know on it on a real yeah But no like barbecue or no shit like that. It's gotta be a plain joint. Yes new money. What do I have a sandwich? What's your Mayo Hellman's or Miracle Whip? Hellman's gentlemen alright, and where you shopping in, Ohio? Where you go where do you go to the grocery store? And are you doing it? I go to Kroger's go to Kroger's Okay, all right. Oh, there's a really small

Because I like to support locally like the small market Yeah, I call Tom's really and I go in there because all old people in there and I feel young as shit when I go They think I'm a Idris Elba in yellow spray That's gonna say you mentioned a Kroger in a high I like that little country life. Sure. Have you ever washed shoes in the washing machine or dishwasher? Hell yeah. I just did it a while ago. I got a pair of shoes. What? Yeah. I throw them in there. But a certain shoe, not no Nike's or shit.

Like I got a couple of pairs of shoes that's like just washable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Is it? Oh, I was supposed to say no I take the toothbrush I mean, that's a tragedy. I mean, I'm watching them in the dishwasher watching each trashy. Is it hamburger meat or ground beef? Hamburger meat what else goes with hamburger helper motherfucker. You don't hear them say ground beef helpers hamburger Burger, I mean he's losing ground quick. I love it. Have you ever owned a butterfly knife or a switchblade? I did.

Yeah, he did. I had one. I even had a switchblade comb. That's the trashiest answer. I like it. Let's see. I mean, I got a couple more and we got to get them out of here. Have you ever owned your own bowling ball or pool cue?

I have owned my own pool cue. Wow. Yes. Baller Bushka? I don't know what the name of it was. I bought it from Thrift Store. I was willing to. I was willing to. And I had my own. I had a quick story.

My dad, because he used to get stuff from the barbershop. He had a Gibson lead guitar. Whoa. He gave it to me. I didn't know shit about it, but I just knew I was like, and my dumbass left the fucking guitar on the front porch of a city neighborhood the next morning was gone I could have been sitting up here Jimmy Hendrix My god ladies and gentlemen, sir, Donnell Rawlings, uh, what do you think hip? Mostly classy mostly. I don't know those last couple of minutes dropped it in the last couple of minutes though

So I'm trash. I'm going to trash a better way for it. Can I be good badge? Donnell Rollings everybody he's going to be in the Sherbrooke improv in Illinois October 10th through the 12th Check out all those other dates at his website. And the podcast, DonnairRollins.com. Of course. I just started this podcast and I tell people, it's not a traditional podcast,

it's a reality show about a car podcast. So go hit the sub, Donnair Rollins Show. On YouTube. And we got some interesting stuff coming on. Yeah, YouTube. Buddy, an absolute legend, one of the funniest. This was amazing, we love you and thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Thank you

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