Donnell - FU 2020

Episode Date: January 13, 2021

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, when did this show, this show start? See, what's going to be the structure? I don't know what the structure could be. Me just talking shit, right? Yeah. What do you want to do? Have fun with it. It's relaxing.

I want to have fun, but I want to have fun. Yeah. But like, I want to have fun. I'm angry. I have things to celebrate. I have things to be pissed about. I have a compliment, a compliment, a compliment. Accomplishments. Accomplishments.

Accomplishments. Yeah. Yo, that joint kicking in, son. Accomplishments. I know. It's just my throat is dry right here, son. Y'all know what I'm trying to say. Accomplishments.

Okay. Accomplishments. Yo, it's a lot of shit going on in my brain right now. I have a lot of emotions I'm going through right now, son. Do you see my fucking hoodie? It says FU 2020. This is what the fuck my hoodie says. So that's the attitude that I have.

It's not a bad attitude to have. Because 2020 was a great year for me. But at the same time, I still want to say fuck you. Because you made a motherfucker have to work harder y'all hear that this is what 2020 did 2020 made motherfuckers have to work harder 2020 made motherfuckers have to think harder

try harder live harder fuck harder chakra harder it made you just everything harder if it didn't make you harder then a lot of people fell to the wayside niggas quit Everything harder. If it didn't make you harder, then a lot of people fell to the wayside. Niggas quit! Motherfuckers quit.

I didn't quit on 2020. I'm gonna talk about it. Hut, hut, hut. I'm trying not to interrupt. I'm trying not to interrupt. Yo, I'm trying not to interrupt. I'm trying not to interrupt. Yo. I'm trying not to interrupt. Yo. I'm trying not to interrupt.

I'm trying not to interrupt. I'm trying not to interrupt. I'm trying not to interrupt. Yo. Yo. I'm trying not to interrupt. The Donnell Rawlings Show, live in your face. Fuck out, bitch-ass nigga.

You'll never take my place, nigga. Thank you. Let me do this. Boom. Oh, damn. Hey, y'all. Hey, Derry, talk, nigga. You see I'm typing? How you been? What the fuck you do for New Year's?

You just gonna watch me type, nigga? Talk. I know how easy it is to edit that part out, though. That's why. Well, then talk while you tell me that. What did I do? I don't know. I haven't done shit, man. I don't care year's i just sat home i sat home i went to bed

you know what i did for new year's i'll tell you what i did for new year's i went to bed really early i went to bed at like 10 p.m and i woke up at 4 30 in the morning and i went for a hike up in griffith park to see the sunrise of 2021 that's what I did. If I expected anyone to do the whitest possible thing you could do at the whitest time to do it, in the whitest place to do it, it would be David Deary. Yeah.

David Deary. And I made that New Year's resolution this year to do, to get Donnell to do more white shit. Donnell does way more white shit than you, David. Oh, fuck no. David, you cannot out- white shit me, son.

You ever snowboard? Yeah, I snowboard. Oh, okay. Do I fuck with it now? No. Do you ever perish? I bet you ain't did more black shit than I did. All right, ask me your white shit.

Go ahead. Camping? But you camped. I been camped, right. Yeah. Is that white shit, camping? You ever get some pussy from a pack of Newports and a cold ass Pepsi, nigga? Huh?

No. Ask me some more white boy shit. Yeah, bungee jumping. Did you ever jump off a really big bridge? I did. I bungee jumped. Yeah. You bungee jumped?

Yeah, nigga. Oh, I haven't even bungee jumped. Yeah, I never. You ever fuck the bitch raw you just met, nigga? Yeah, I've done that. I have done that. That's the same as bungee jumping. That's the same as bungee jumping.

You know what's so funny, son? And I know everybody's like, why is everything, this is what everybody, why has everything got to be black and white? Why everything got to be black and white? You know why everything has to be black and white? Because is everything got to be black and white? You know why everything has to be black and white? Because for the most part, everything is black and white. You got humanity, then you got black and white. Like people always say, oh, it's always black and white. That's the most troubling issue in America is fucking race.

Why do you talk about race all the time? Because it's the most troubling thing.? Because it's the most troubling thing. Yeah. It's the most troubling thing. What about surfing? Have you ever gone surfing? I didn't do surf. I gotta take you surfing. Yeah. Scuba diving? Yeah, but you know what you just did?

What? You changed the direction of the show, not listening to what I was saying. No, I did. You said, why is it always about race? No, you didn't let me. This is what you got to do. This is what you're going to do in 2020. You're going to work on your listening skills, okay? And I know you're prepared to say something else, but I was making

a very profound statement and a very profound comment. Well, I apologize, sir. And you just shifted it. This is that lesson. You know what you did? I'm going to tell you what you did. I'm going to tell you what you did. Oh, don't go there. I'm going to tell you what you did.

You did what everybody accuses me of. Oh, okay. I'll take that. I thought you were going to say I used my white privilege to shut you the hell up about race stuff. First off, I would never even, you would never have an opportunity to use a white privilege around me. You could do it around some other motherfuckers, but I would never go for it. Right. Because I would just blow that shit off like, look, Derry just tried to use his white privilege on me.

Exactly. Uh-uh. It could never work. I'm just curious. I want you to do more white shit in 2021 because I saw you. White shit? What more white shit do you? Derry.

Surfing. Derry, I'm the river nigga. Yeah, I know, but there's more. There's more. There's more. What more adventurous? Have you scuba dived? Let me tell you.

Is that white people shit? I've never scuba dived, but I snorkeled. Scuba diving could be fun. It could be fun, but I'm not afraid of that. I won't do it. I don't have a problem doing it. Well, you don't have to be afraid of it. You're not afraid of surfing.

That would be fun, too. No, I'm afraid of surfing. Oh, you are? The reason why, because I'm not a power swimmer. Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? And and it's like you know i like a lot of black people i'm nice in a swimming pool and i'm nice in water but in regard to having this is what is fascinating to me about people that surf it's not how well you can surf oh yeah it's how well you can swim oh yeah definitely you know what i mean because i can't

even imagine taking a surfboard out there and i come up off my shit and i'm underwater and i don't know if i'm going up or down nigga yeah i'm going if yo this is what why black people don't fuck with the ocean we'll fuck with some shit but like ocean. You had to have grew up around a lot of white dudes to fuck with the ocean. Because this is the most terrifying breath you could ever take. Is when you underwater and you see this shit going on up there and you just see light, right? And you don't know what stroke you got to get to get there. You know you got one stroke to get to the top. It's this, right? You know you got one stroke to get to the top Is this Right And then if you hit that joint

And you get to Yo You are not fucking with the waves no more We gotta get you surfing No I'm not gonna surf No it's crazy When you get under the water And it's like a washing machine

That's rough Yeah but I think that me was talking about race Was a lot fucking better Alright let's talk about race then It's a rough I mean I know but Like I was on some damn Dr. Martin Luther King shit

You were Right in the middle of it I took that from you Yo right in the middle of it You said This is fucking You said Hey

You wanna surf Yo how you How do you do that But It was easy. It was very easy. And the thing... You'll get there.

You'll get there. Go back. The thing that's... Everybody's like, everything's about race because race is the biggest shit. In this country, yeah. Charlemagne Tha God. Charlemagne Tha God.

Charlemagne Tha God, he said something. And I don't really fuck with him like that, but once in a while, at least with me, I know his fans think he's brilliant and all that shit. But every once in a while, he'll say something that I'm like, huh, it's kind of dope. And he said that he's frustrated with people keep talking about this isn't America. This isn't America.

He said it is America. But now, like, you start, everybody's starting to feel it. Everybody, you're like, oh, it's white. Oh, it's because I'm black. In some cases, it is. It's because I'm white. In some cases, it is. It's because I'm white. In some cases, it is. And, like, I don't want to even, like, go on the politics side or choose a side or I hate them, they hate me.

But the incident with the fucking Trumpers. Yeah. Because you got, like, Trumpers. Then. Because you got like Trumpers. Then you got people that support Trump. People that support Trump, not really Trumpers. Right. Some of them, they're not Trumpers. They support Trump.

Right. They're not like diehard fucking. They're not going to be around in a month. They're not wearing bear horns. They're like, well, I'm really going to miss that tax break. Right. You know what I mean? Like, well, there goes my small business. It's those. But

the ones that was, yo, I swear to God, one of the funniest scenes I think I've seen on television in a while has been watching white folks with no teeth dressed up like animals and Star Wars characters and shit scale a wall. It's hilarious. You see the dude fall off?

Huh? You see the dude fall off the wall? They made a goddamn Mario commercial about this shit. Oh, I see that shit. Oh, they got to make the Sonic the Hedgehog when he falls, the fucking,

the rings fly. For me, everybody was upset, upset. And I, it was the most entertaining shit I watched in a while. And this is what

I said to myself. I saw the motherfuckers start coming over those gates and those barriers and shit. And I said to myself, man, somebody going to get shot. No doubt. Yo, I was like, this is what I said to myself.

This is what I said to myself. I said, one of them niggas is about to get shot. I said, and he won't be black. Yeah. I'm like, somebody going to bust shots. And it's not like, and I'm telling you, man, I don't wish death on anybody

or anything like that, but I'm just echoing what the internet was saying. The white chick that was in the military, this kind of hurt my feelings because she was a military vet and an Air Force vet. I was like, that's fucked up. Right?

But she opened that door. Fuck! Yo, I know it's not funny, but here's the thing. When you have so much hate and people feel hate, you have so much hate in your heart, it's hard for a person to feel sorry for you. Yeah. You know, it's hard.

Because, like, there's nothing funny about that. But I'm telling you, on the Internet, people are like, well, that's what. Because they know where she was coming from. They know where the energy was coming from they know where the energy was coming from and it don't matter people can make this argument what is donald trump's legacy a lot of people not going to know stare it up a lot of shit a lot of people not going to know really what his legacy was if it was anything i don't see i didn't i didn't see him making good on any of his campaign promises none of don't think he's going to have a good legacy, bro.

And here's the thing. For whatever people, like he did this, for the economy or whatever, for whatever they say, like he signed programs where people are coming home from prison for minor offenses, all that. But the motherfucker creates so much hate. It's just hard to be happy about anything.

It's unfortunate. How do you feel about holding people accountable? Some people are saying that Rudy Giuliani is responsible. Don Jr. is responsible. Donald Trump's responsible. Do you feel like... They're responsible? Yeah.

No, I don't think they're responsible. It's just like the tip of the iceberg. They're not responsible. You know what I'm saying? The things that they say, it's like a code language they had. You know what I'm saying? They say certain things like, oh, I know what you're saying. We know what we got to go do.

Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't think they're responsible because there is nothing they could do to stop the energy and the hate that these people had in their heart. You know what I'm saying? Like, that might have been the tip of the iceberg. Not to stop it. Did they do something to start it, though? That's what I mean. They helped it.

They helped it along. Right. Is that illegal or is that legal? I'm sure it's illegal.'s what I mean. They helped it. They helped it along. Right. Is that illegal or is that legal? I'm sure it's illegal, but what I'm saying is they helped it along, but it was going to be small pockets of that anywhere. Of course, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Because their energy, the people that went to the march,

their energy was like they wanted to be heard and they were pissed. So either they were going to be pissed marching there or they were going to be pissed at Walmart when they bumped into a black person. They was going to be pissed somewhere else. They was going to be pissed, but that was just one place where they all could come to be pissed at Walmart when they bumped into a black person. They was going to be pissed somewhere else. They was going to be pissed. But that was just one place where they all could come and be pissed together. And they looked like fucking fools because my thing is like this. I can't believe that anybody could be so loyal to something or someone that is a factual liar.

Like everything that they're selling you is not the truth yeah it's like they still think he's gonna win i swear to god there's still people online that are like it's all it's all uh deep ops they're waiting they're like on the inauguration day they're gonna swoop down they're gonna arrest joe biden and donald trump's gonna be uh inaugurated watch watch trust me watch it's gonna start happening what biden and donald trump's gonna be uh inaugurated watch watch trust me watch it's gonna start happening what's gonna start happening is it's gonna be some people getting fucked up you know i'm saying because like you know i don't want to encourage anything but and i said this on the podcast before you have a lot of people are at the point where they say

it's whatever it's whatever i don't give a fuck and when someone gets to the point where they say, it's whatever. It's whatever. I don't give a fuck. And when someone gets to a point where they say, it's whatever, I don't give a fuck, that means they don't care about any consequences. That means that they're going to be going, whatever chakra that is, they're going to be going outside of that, and they don't care. It's not the second one.

It ain't the second one. The second one, I won't even march. The second one almost cost me my vote. My vote in like 2012. Yo, this girl was on my chakra, and i was supposed to go vote for barack this white chick was on my chakra son so hard it's spinning yo she had it spinning yo i was like this bitch trying to suck my vote out of me i was like how dare you whip my penis out of her mouth, wouldn't vote, and came back and say, now fuck politics. Back to business.

You know? But it's going to be, it's going to get, it's going to, you know what? It doesn't really have to get ugly. Because people haven't seen white folks act and look that way in a while. This is like, I don't't know when last time white people have been embarrassed to be white great point you know i don't remember last time great a white person was like i'm oh that's not how we act i'm not that type of wigger you know i mean like i'm not that type of like now you guys have to answer the question y'all be trying to get us, like, what type of whitey are you?

Yeah, yeah. I was going to say, I'm Jewish, so I'm not in that crowd. Thank God. You don't think there's no Jewish fucking Trumpers out there? I mean, I'm sure there are, but it's a Nazi crowd, so it's not really welcoming, to be honest with you. When you see a guy with an Auschwitz uh camp Auschwitz hoodie on this is what black people need to do we need to do what white people think they do we need to step back and just let them do their thing oh for sure you know I mean they step back you know and it's so

funny because white people are they were like okay okay, watch this happen. Watch. They're going to start looting and stuff. Right, right, right. White people are like this. And on day three, they'll start looting. Look at them going over the fences with the televisions. Shoot them. Shoot them. Shoot them. Shoot them.

That's what we need to do. We need to just sit back like that Michael Jackson meme. Sit back and just watch because this shit is entertainment. Because I did not know Patriots was so, well, in this case, the ones I saw. Because I do have some Patriots that are my friends, right? Right. I just did not understand. But a Patriot could be foolish enough to give his address and his full name with no mask on. See, they've been telling y'all

to wear a mask because you don't want to wear a mask. Yo, guess what? Guess who's all going to jail? The motherfuckers that don't want to wear a mask. Yo, them motherfuckers was so proud.

This dude was like, my name is Keith of Henry and I'm going to tell you what we came to do what? That's what we did. The answers are, it is so entertaining. It's so entertaining that all you got to do what that's what we did right the answers are it is so entertaining it's so entertaining that all you got to do is just let them keep talking and talking and then white folks

will be like yeah we're not gonna be a part of that did you see the guy who was wearing his work pass he was wearing he was wearing his work yo this Derry, I don't mean to cut you off. No, go for it. But this is the interesting part to me. People ask the question, what if? Yo, it's such a dumb question. What do you think would have happened if they were black? Nigga.

Yo. Yo, what if we were black? They got that picture of them standing, guarding the same building for the Black Lives Matter. If that, the first nigga that rung the doorbell. No, it would have been like, not even though, yeah, we going in. If it doing it, but like, pew, pew. It could have been like Amazon. If it was black, and the organization registered to get the permits for that Amazon if it was black and the organization registered

to get the permits for that and it was black it would have been met they would have been shooting outside of helicopters dogs, water hoses and shit, fucking Chinese stars nunchucks they would have fucked them up man but you know what

one thing this election showed was i really believe the power of the black vote y'all the black vote yeah man the black vote did the goddamn thing georgia flipped it flipped it In a regular election and in a runoff. Flipped it. And I'm going to tell you why. This is how I know the black vote meant so much. Because in Georgia, in those counties

or whatever, when all the ballots were tabulating and everything, then it started going to areas where they know niggas was at. They know niggas and nigga lovers was over there. Oh, that area over here, Foucault County? Oh, yeah, them white bitches love black dick over there. Also, I've got that. Yo, once it started hitting that shit,

but I'm going to tell you why this was so big. Because for the most part, up until now, you're lucky if you get a black person to get involved with the general election. Let alone this sub shit. Niggas like this, oh, steal some more voting? I thought we already voted. Who we got to vote for? Think about that.

For them to flip Georgia like that, right? One time. And that could have been all you asked for black people for a long time. You'd be like, whew, I know we really wore you out. We even had to come up with music and everything. But then when fucking Stacey Adams got together, talking about holding a grudge and

putting it down, man, and this is what was so missing in the black community. And I had a conversation with this guy that was down with civil rights this older guy I forget his name he was on my Instagram but he said it he said in a tribbling voice he said what we need to do and this was in the height of black lives matter like everybody was talking about it he said we need to do is we need to organize And people took that for granted, what organizing really meant.

What organizing means, you call this person, I'll call this person. Who do you have that's influential that can push this message or at least bring some awareness to it? And for motherfuckers to vote in a general election, they come back and do those runoffs with the same passion and feel it the same way as it was the regular election but i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna tell you whoever came up with this campaign probably sealed the deal in in georgia stacy abrams i'm sure no no her plan but under like they had a video and it was a ludicrous song move bitch, bitch. Get out the way. Get out the way, bitch. Get out the way. Move, bitch.

Get out the way. Right? That was ludicrous song, right? They had a campaign with Mitch. Right. Move, Mitch. Yo. That's funny.

That shit. I was like, how do you get black people to vote? Put it in a song. They was TikTok-ing that shit. It sounds so simple. Move, Mitch. Get out the way. It's not anything different from when Donald Trump finds something that gets his base electrified and they ride with it.

But that shit, they came through. through and now and like it's it's going to be very interesting to see what happens now right it's going to be insane like most important this was no excuses now like fucking defund the police let's go that's not going to be everybody's argument and that may not happen like it won't matter whose argument it is because the people are in control of the senate so if aoc brings it up and wants like if somebody writes a bill in the in the house and they back it and bring it to the defund the police you could defund the police all you want right but what's like no the problem but what is going to be the solution after that well the solution when people hear defund the police they think i understand yeah motherfucker they lose their money they lose their jobs it's diverting the money but yeah now that's the question and now okay people don't

understand that the average person when you say defund the police they mean like oh they about to lose their pension you know they're about to people don't understand what it really means no it just means diverting the money into better things, rebuilding. It means not having so much money for overtime. Right. Because with the police department, overtime is a straight scam. It's basically just not buying them tanks and shit. They don't need tanks. They don't need fucking military weapons.

Yes, you do. I don't know. Let me tell you something now. Now it all depends on who's going to drive those tanks. They're going to need all that type of shit because some crazy shit is about to happen. They're going to need all that. But when they get those tanks, what they need,

they don't need that fucking cop that was a pussy in high school that he got a badge now. Now he think he's tougher than everybody. Now he got that sense of power. Because of those things, there's going to be other problems that we're going to have

where you're going to need that line of defense. But who's driving that? Who's responsible for that? there's going to be other problems that we're going to have where you're going to need that line of defense. But who's driving that? Who's responsible for that? They're going to need, nigga, if I saw a thousand of those Trumpers coming my way with their bones and skulls and all that type of shit, I would want the biggest gun the police department can offer me. And I don't want no silence. I want niggas to hear this shit going off. I gotta say, they were pretty tame.

It could have been worse. Who was tame? At the Capitol? You said the police were pretty tame? No, the whole situation was pretty tame. They killed one person. One guy tased his own balls and died. Okay, yeah, they were tame they killed one person they okay no one guy tased his own balls yo bro that's not what i'm

saying okay yeah they were pretty tame right but here's the thing they were pretty tame it could have been a lot more shit it could have been oh they were peaceful once i got in but they know what i'm saying is they broke into shit they broke no they broke they broke the law they broke definitely they broke the law that there was a nigga going through them doors. The whole front row would have been fired the fuck up. And guess what? If they shot 50 people yesterday, I wouldn't be shocked. I wouldn't be here saying like, well, that was, I mean, it's the Capitol. Yeah.

It's the fucking Capitol. Like, I mean, like, you know, when they burned the Wendy's down, if they fucking like arrested 60 people that night, I'd be like, well, I don't know, man. That's not really the equivalent. You know what is the equivalent? That's not even the equivalent. You know what equivalent is? You know what the equivalent is? What is?

It's going. Now, this is you want white people to have problems, real problems where they fucking go crazy. Go to the Upper West Side of New York, right? And burn down three Starbucks within a 10-mile radius. And we will see the National Guard. You will see so much spandex pants with fucking rescue dog fur on it. You would see a change. Burn down a Starbucks.

Listen, I'm telling white people. Wait, are you telling people to burn down a Starbucks? Yeah, motherfucker. I'm telling you to do that right now. Fuck that. I'm telling y'all to do it right now. I'm Donald Trump right now. Burn down. You know what you gotta do. Yo, until they give Dave Chappelle his money, burn down

every Starbucks. Fuck it. Fucking Frappuccino, Latte Mocha Skinny. Give me an order. Pumpkin latte spice. Pumpkin latte spice. It's fall, bitch. Burn that shit down

and we'll see some motherfucking change. Find your spark. Burn it down. Find your spark. Find your spark. Find your spark. Find your spark.

Find your spark. Yo, I've been on Find Your Spark. I've been on Find Your Spark. The reason why I've been on Find Your Spark is so, I don't know if this is full circle,

but over the summer, you know, situation with Yellow Springs and everything that could have been bad about 2020, that could have happened bad, we figured out a way to flip it. And basically, I found lucky enough to be a part of one of the biggest animations, animated films. Is it safe to say in the history of animation? I think it is, yeah. It's not being cocky. These are facts. It's up there, yeah.

It's up there. You got Toy Story. What do you got? Finding Nemo is pretty big. Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Incredibles. What else up there, yeah. It's up there. You got Toy Story. What do you got? Finding Nemo is pretty big. Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Incredibles. What else? Watership Down. Watership Down.

In-N-Out. That's cult. In-N-Out. What else? Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Inside Out, I guess. Give me a factual list. I'll give you a list. Okay.

No, you can still talk. You don't like talking, son. She can do that. Yo, here's the thing. This is what I'm saying. South Park the movie? I think, dude, honestly, I think Finding Nemo. That was horrible, son.

Toy Story? There's other ones. In-N-Out. What else? Inside Out. Inside Out. Oh, yeah, The Incredibles. The Incredibles. The Lion King. The Nightmare. In-N-Out. What else? Inside Out. Inside Out. Oh, yeah. The Incredibles.

The Incredibles. Lion King. So, okay. Let's just take those right there. That's probably like $30 billion budget for roughly. Right. These joints. Frozen. $30 billion budget for roughly. Right. Aladdin.

These joints. Frozen. All of these movies are minimal $150 million to make. Right. That's nothing to do with the advertising or anything. Right. I was lucky enough to be a part of that. It's wild to see you because I feel like now that it's like out and you've seen it, like maybe you're like, you've like grown even more proud of it or something.

You know what I mean? Like you have like. I was already, I was already, when I booked it, when I got it, I was already proud. You're excited, but you're more excited now. You know why I was excited? This was crazy shit. This is how I was on Soul. My agent called me and said,

Pixar Disney wants to make you an offer for the next animation. He didn't say they wanted you to record your voice. I was like, who the fuck makes me an offer? Because for years, I go out on auditions. I'm not really an audition person. It's like 50-50. But whenever I'm on set, I kill a shit, right? And for years, I was like, you know, no, no, no, no, no.

Then I was like, wait a minute. I've been doing this long enough. There's got to be some people that know me, that are fans of mine, that, like, I want to work with him. And I was like, maybe we should focus on finding the people that like me instead of audition audition for the people that don't give a fuck about me i was like so many no's and shit said i was like yeah let's just i know some yeah niggas out here right and when i was like who the fuck just makes me offer on something like that and that's what it was i never never auditioned. Somebody on that Pixar team wanted me to be in that movie. That's dope. Here's another story that people don't know about it.

Not to discredit who was the lead, but Pixar aggressively was after Dave Chappelle. And it was so funny because when I walked in, they looked at me like, what happened to your boy? They was like, yeah, we wanted your boy, but we had to fuck with you. They wanted him for the lead. And there's no slight of, like, now that I look at it,

that Jamie Foxx, if they would have did it, he would have probably smashed it. Jamie did it, he smashed it. It was just that opportunity. I was like, who? I never really found out who did it, but somebody on that motherfucker

fucked with me. I want to say, I know y'all going to say, go ahead and pick the black guy. Kemp. Mr. Powers. I'm saying my nigga, you know, he was the only nigga on all of these white people. I was like, it might not have been him,

but it felt like it was him. It was so dope, man. Because first time I went there, they was adamant about, you got to bring your son out here to Pixar studio. That's some baller shit. Yeah, that's crazy. Yo, and this is where my son was really excited about the Incredibles, right?

So the first time I went to Pixar, I walk in and it's Pete Docter. It's Kim Powers. It's Dana Mary. And it's a whole bunch of other white dudes. There's one dude who looked like Scrooge. But he's like a fucking animation legend. I'm so fucked up that I don't remember. I didn't know nothing about animated motherfuckers.

Right. But it's every Oscar winning producer, director, editor, craft service, kind of Oscar. You know what I'm saying? It's all of these motherfuckers. And they greet me. And I walk in. And they just walking around looking at me and we talking and shit. And I'm going through Pixar studio.

And, like, I'm talking to people that could not change my life but give my career a big boost. Definitely. A big boost. And I'm oblivious to all that. that could not change my life but give my career a big boost definitely a big boost and i'm oblivious to all that all i'm saying to myself is my son yo like all these motherfucking oscar motherfuckers right they like so we work with so and so when we were doing toy story and then the objective of this and i'm like this nigga i was saying to myself, my son is going to come in here. He's going to run straight down that hallway. Like, they're going to be like this, whose nigga baby is this, right?

I knew they were going to be like this. Someone never seen a Pixar studio. I was like this. I knew it, and I was laughing. I warned him. I warned him. Pete Donovan was talking to me. I was like, yeah, my son, he about to tear all this shit up.

He coming through here. And then he was like, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. And then he said, daddy. And it was, wow, the Dash character. Because right at that time, he was Dash. He run through the house like, dad, I got super speed. Right, right.

Wow, that's amazing. And then he saw these almost, these big ass shit. So they're giving us a tour of all of Pixar. It's fucking amazing. We're going to all these offices. It's fucking amazing. Right. We're going to all these offices. And then my son is just going haywire on everything. He think everything is trampoline and shit.

Then he was jumping on this one leather chair. And she was like, and this was the original chair in Walt Disney's office. Right. And I'm like, nigga, you just bounced Al Chek away. Al Chek just bounced. He's like, daddy, whoop. Whee. But they made us feel so good and then when i went into the because uh i've heard you know you got a distinct voice whatever

but i'm not a voice i'm not trained to be a voice oh no but you're fucking sick bro like yeah no you're good you're man listen yeah yeah you're good at that shit. You never train though. I don't have the training so I do it my way. My way is like you got professors go up to me and be like drop it. Me it's like this. I gotta be like oh yeah I'm getting warmed up now. My shit is like you know I hate reading out loud

anyway. I never want to get into reading glasses. So at first I'm like it could be nervous. What's it like in there? In that room? Yeah, because it's crazy. They got the iPad?

Or do they have the, how do you read it? Is it a script or is it iPad? It's a script. Yo, this shit is like, it's like some 007 shit, right? Like, I've been to places places you gotta fix the mic and shit they hit buttons should be like oh shit it's like right wow and you got your one section right here and then they was like you need glasses i was i

don't need no mother glasses and then uh they was like you might want to try do you see this like all these ring glasses and shit. What? Yeah. Then they got an apple over here. They got pineapple juice. They got all the little tricks you use to pineapple. It's something that does to your throat. For real?

Pineapple juice. All these little tricks. They got this. This is Pixar, bro. Yeah. I got to tell you this whole situation. This is Pixar. Pixar.

This is the shit. This is big time. Everybody in this bitch got an Oscar. Yeah. It's likerah's like and you got an oscar you get oscar the only thing i have an oscar is me and i don't even know how i got there i never asked somebody like who the fuck picked me right so i started reading it and in this right in front of you like about 10 feet away it's a table a long table and it's all of those when someone wins the Oscar and all those guys go up to the stage

it's all of them we did it good job Pete it's those guys they're right in front of you in the same space and then over to this way it's another room. It is

seven motherfuckers. They got Emmys. Right. And they're looking at you. And then behind you, they got the glass, like the police glass, where you're not supposed to know it's police. You know that fucking one-way glass? Two-way, yeah. One-way glass, two-way glass. They got that, and it's like, and it's like, oh. One-way glass?

It's like, oh shit, and everybody is looking at your mouth. And I'm like, oh shit, and everybody is looking at your mouth. And I'm like, did I get it? And then I was like, oh, I don't know if I got it. Did I get it? But you know how I know I got it? Because at that level, they don't move forward until they got it. Yeah, they ask you to do it again?

Yeah, do it again. Would they do it. Yeah, they ask you to do it again? Yeah, do it again. Would they do it again? Like, they were really cool about not wanting to over-direct it because they chose me for a reason. Right. So it was like, how do we get him into this? So they don't go as hard. And I'm not trained, so I know it could be frustrating

because I'm like, okay. And then it's so funny. Y'all would never know this. I wish we could get the outtakes of me because people were like this. Oh, man, you only said one time. They probably cut out five sons. Yo, it's a lot of sons made the editing floor, son. And, yo, it was so much shit.

But it was like because, like, sometimes I wasn't getting their flow, so I had to add the extra shit to get to my shit. So, like, every end of something, like, and that's how it is, Joe. And then I would be like, yeah, you feel me, nigga? Right? Yo. Yo. I'm telling you the truth.

Yo, I swear to God. Would they trip out or would they just be like, nah, they were loving it? Whatever. Like, I was so not Disney. If you see the words that was in my shit, I was like, fuck out of here, son. But it helped me get into the groove. Right, right. And I remember one time a kid was like this.

Yes, yes. Right? Right, right. And I remember one time, Kim was like this, yes, yes, right? So, meanwhile, I don't know how important this scene is to the movie because you don't get the whole movie. Right. I don't know the backstory of it. I don't know that that scene

was not in the original script. Oh, really? I didn't know that Kim Powers, he texted Pete Docter at night and said, if we're going to do The Neighborhood,

we got to be in a barbershop. He was talking about his experience with the barbershop and everything. Pete Docter was like, write the scene. That was an added scene.

Oh, okay. So that means they probably had to find me after it happened. That makes sense. That scene's amazing. Oh, so they had the whole movie

already worked on? Yeah. Wow. That was an added scene to make sense that seems amazing oh so they had the whole movie like already worked on yeah wow he that was an added scene oh it's amazing it was an added scene and it was so weird because i think everything that kemp was trying to explain to him about the barbershop when i came in and interviewed him i echoed his. I echoed what a barbershop means to a black person in the hood. I echoed what it means for a father to take his son to the barbershop. I echoed what the conversation that goes on, you know what I mean, the camaraderie. I echoed all of that type of shit. And I know, now I can see why he was smiling at certain things I was saying because it was like, I told you.

Yeah. They were so connected to detail. Like, Malitha, I forget her name. She was a jazz woman that gave him the break. Even with her hair. They was like, they showed me a picture of her hair right and i was like god damn i said that's a motherfucking bush right and they were like bush what do you mean i was like that bush just look i was like just stop it for a second i said it just looks so

good i said and i i know women make an argument well the reason why i wear extensions and weave and stuff is because I want to have other options, different looks. I understand that. I said I understand that. But I also said that there is no better feeling for a man to be able to run his hand through a woman's hair. And if that's a natural bush, a natural, clean bush, that's the best shit. Then they explained to me that with her bush, her hair, they hand-drew each hair individually. That's why it looks like a real fucking afro.

They did that, and they really paid attention to the smallest details. Up to the way a barber has his finger in your hair when he's doing the razor blade. Right. The whole thing. So much detail. But the interesting story about that. So the first time I went, I had an amazing session. They was like, oh, my God, you were great. They let my son get anything out of the gift shop. I visited a couple of my friends. It was crazy.

Right. That was the first time. So a couple of weeks later, three weeks later, they called me again and said, Pixar, I want you to come back. I'm like, oh, I killed it so hard. They're going to even like, oh, I killed it so hard they're going to even add scenes. Look, I'm like, they're going to even add scenes. So that's what I was thinking. That's what in the case what happened was when they do these scripts, they might switch it and you got to come back.

Yeah, they rewrite the script. They rewrite it. So I think they're going to add shit. No, we're going a different direction. But this time, the studio I went to this time, it wasn't in Berkeley. It was in Newport Beach. And it was at this little fucking studio. It was like this little, it felt like a little closet.

Yo, the heat was, the air condition wasn't working. I think I fucking got fucked up the night before. They was like, Jamie's coming. You want to see Jamie? And I went in that booth, and I was sweating in that bitch's eye. That shit wasn't sounding right. Nobody was giving me the thumbs up or anything. Yo, they was looking at me like, ah.

I'm like, oh, shit, nigga. I was like this. I'm not going to the premiere. I was like this. I'm not going to the premiere. I was like this. I'm not going to the premiere. I was like, there's no way I'm going to premiere. Because I'm like this. This is Disney, Pixar.

They don't got time to fuck with me. Then I saw somebody, because they get voices. I guess it's like, say, standing voices to go against certain shit. So I was listening to one of the tapes of the person that stood in for me, their voice. I was like, why didn't you of the person that stood in for me, their voice. I was like, why didn't you get it to this nigga? He wasn't Don L. He didn't have my name.

So I swear, I thought I tanked that fucking shit. They was like, you want to wait for Jamie? I was like, man, I'm getting the fuck out of here. I don't want to see nobody. Dana Murray didn't look me in my eyes. Pete Docter was like, Kip was the only one like, my nigga, right? And I was like, when I my eyes Pete doctor was like Kip was the only one like my nigga right and I was like I don't well I was like yeah I don't think I'm being a Pixar shit I don't think I'm going to the premiere I kept

saying that I was like I'm not they're gonna replace me and Hollywood don't have to tell you anything I said they're gonna fucking replace me and Hollywood don't have to tell you anything. I said, they're going to fucking replace me. And then I was coming from somewhere. I was at LAX Airport. I get off the plane. I look down. Kemp Powers is there. That's the black guy who wrote the scene. And I looked down and I said, oh shit nigga. I said,

I ain't going to the premiere, huh? He was like, what are you talking about? I my scene right he said oh i was just looking at just he said oh my god i love you see the motherfucker flipped his laptop open and showed it to you and showed it to me oh shit and then you were like i'm going to the premiere i'm going to premiere and i was like this you gotta understand this is what 2020 is why i say fuck you right right right i was going to premiere i'm going to premiere i'm already planning it my son is going to walk the red fucking carpet right at a disney pixar joint i'm like this is gonna be fire and then kovic said you're not going to the premiere that was supposed to come out in may son right they said you're not going to the premiere. I'm like, fuck. There that goes.

You know, people was like, this summer, it was tough. I made it work, but there was some moments that I missed because it was supposed to be in, right, two weeks before it came out on Disney+. I had the advanced copy of it or a link, and I was watching it. I set up a thing for watching with my son and a couple of his young friends, and I fucked up. I bought Happy Meals. So I'm trying to play a movie.

Didn't the Happy Meals came on before I came up? Oh, yeah. They were not trying to see it, huh? Yo, once them Happy Meals dropped, son, I was like, Austin, here come my part. I'm the barber. Dave was looking at me like, Daddy, you don't have any hair. What do you need a barber for?

They just tapped out of the whole shit. So I was like, damn. My son don't give a fuck about this movie. But then closer to the December release, it started popping up on his YouTube. It started popping up on Nickelodeon. It was popping up on billboards.

And for the first time, I was famous. I was finally, not that I wanted to be famous. Right. But he felt that shit. Like, basically, he was like, I don't give a fuck about what your father do. My father fuck with Pixar Disney. And this is why I all came full circle. And the fact that I was in a movie that's in his Happy Meal? Nigga.

I'm the shit. But the beauty about that movie was it kind of, it's kind of like it runs parallel with what I think my life is and it's going to be. Right. It's kind of like it runs parallel with what I think my life is. And it's going to be finding the spark, understanding what your purpose is. And that scene particularly resonated with so many people because there are a lot of people out here. There's a lot of people that follow us. There's a lot of people out here that are doing something that might not have been their complete passion.

But it provides for them. It gives them their happiness, and that's a win. And that's the shit about it. So if I could say anything, I have to do this right now. Find my spark with this podcast. Again.

So, for this being the first podcast of 2021, there will be more. We're going to get on a schedule. This show is going to find a spark and live your life to the fucking fullest. Thank you.