Donnell - The Donnell Rawlings Show Episode #073

Episode Date: March 14, 2022

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Hey boys and girls, this is boy Don Air Rollins and first off I want to personally thank you for helping the Don Air Rollins Show grow. In a matter of five weeks, we've gained over 15,000 new subscribers. That's you, you, you, you, you. And the motherfucker that didn't do it, it's not you. I want to take this time to say thank you but we want to keep going, keep pushing forward. So I encourage you to tell all your friends, all your fans, subscribe to the Donnell Rawlings show on YouTube and all podcast platforms all right now time for the show the Donnell Rawlings show live in your face Fuck that bitch ass nigga, you'll never take my place, nigga! Thank you. why do why do you test my masculinity every show every show it's almost as if you think I'm gay. I feel that way.

I feel that way because the adjustments and everything that you do, I don't think it's something that you would do around a man as masculine as I am as gangster as I am as big dill energy as I give I don't think you would do that I think it's just because I feel like you're my brother so I'm always a don't do that I'm gonna tell you straight off I'm gonna tell you straight off the right off the right off the rip. No man wants to hear you like a brother to me. That is the quickest way. That's a beeline to the friend zone.

No man wants to hear that shit. No man wants to hear that shit. And that's a clear indication that I would never fuck you. It's been over 20 years, Donnell. What does it mean? At what point do you put someone um say that someone's your friend woman at what point can you say that you're my friend

i can can men never be in the friend zone no no i always think you i always think you look at you as my friend but at the same time you know in the words of Biggie Smalls when the Remy's in the system ain't no telling I'm pipped by blood that's all I'm saying when the Remy's in the system ain't no telling if I fuck him or I diss him that's what they be yelling

whatever the fuck they say y'all be chasing I replace them I know but it is you know I agree with you there is a point where a man has to actually say to himself, that'll never happen. It's my friend. And we're going to be reluctant to say it.

We'll say it like, yes, she's my friend. There's nothing wrong with calling an ugly chick your friend. You would tell her. You would call her. You would call an ugly chick your friend quick as shit. You would tell her before she even think about it, she'd be like, that's my friend. You would say that shit quick. That's my she'd be like, that's my friend. You would say that shit quick.

That's my friend. Before anybody, that's my friend. That is my friend. But to have y'all, that's my friend. That's it. And I'm not saying it in an ugly way. I do consider you my friend. And I also am not.

I don't look at you like that. But I do look at you, but I don't look at you like that. Because like you said in the last show, titties are always going to be titties. Titties are going to be titties, and I'm going to be mad about the titties. I'm not going to be like, you just can't. Titties will stop mid-sentence. You can be like, the other day.

Okay, so the other day. Let them walk by slowly. Walk past slowly. But you know what? I think there's signs that you know you're getting older. And I think this is a clear indication I know I'm getting older because I can walk past a nice ass and don't get really affected by it anymore is that a good thing that's a great thing like I can like the other day I was like, I was proud of myself.

Because I saw this chick, she walked past me, right? And she was stacked up, right? And normally I would hit the quick neck joint. That's the younger down there. You do the quick neck joint. Make it sound. Yeah, when you're young, you're like, damn! When you get older, you walk past it, you scratch your head,

and you take a little look, and then you keep it moving. But I was so proud of myself. I was like, Donnell, it was so much restraint for you not to be like, I got Google. That's why I know that I'm starting to connect with how old I really am.

And it's not a bad thing. But when you get to that point, you got to say to yourself, did I take enough of them down? Going into retirement is hard. A lot of guys have street meetings. You don't think it's like a roller coaster, though? Like right now you're not in the looking mood for whatever reason. You've been busy, too.

So I get that you're probably tired. Your neck probably can't move that fast anymore you are really trying to call me oh I'm getting too busy to smash how old you gotta be like oh man won't you go over there you know you ain't got time for that you got to get up in the morning get your coffee ready do you reach ritual and everything read your newspaper yep read it now that's some old-school shit I remember when I first moved to LA from New York because that's some old school shit. I remember when I first moved to L.A. from New York, because that was my ritual in the morning.

I would go to the bodega, get a cup of coffee, and I'd get the post. And what's the other one? New York Daily Time? Whatever. New York is one is real and one is like almost like the National Enquirer. But that was my thing. And when I first moved here from New York, they had a, at the grocery store,

they still had the New York Post. They would have it, and that was kind of my, what my connection was to stay in touch with New York was I'd get my coffee and get to the newspaper. It's something about, and I don't really drink coffee like that, but it feels like if you get a newspaper, you have to get coffee with it.

Yeah, because what are you going to do while you're reading? You have to drink something or eat. You've got to be able to flip. You've got to cross your legs up like an old head or whatever. Do the crosswords. How was your weekend? My weekend was great. What'd you do? I won't get into it, but long story short.

Oh, shit. What happened? No. What happened? No, no. I was working like crazy. We won't get into SAG, AFTRA. That's the union people for actors and a lot of the movies you see.

They are ringing me for a loop on this movie. I just want my deposit back, y'all. Just give me my deposit back. From SAG? Yes. What movie are you talking about? Oh, sorry. My horror movie is called Shady Grove.

We're in post-production all my talent has been paid and overpaid triple times and they still are holding on my deposit for ransom that's why you beef with say you know why i was beefing with say why because during the pandemic when nobody could work because you know to get your health insurance you have to work you got to make a certain amount of money and during a time when nobody was working the got rid of me i heard they did that to a lot of people and some people are detrimentally sick and old and they did that to them yeah i was i don't want to get on make this whole show about how i don't like unions but this made me not like unions well my i did a lot of and i'm so tired i'm mentally tired and I'm physically tired. I had shows. Shout out to the people that came to see me at the Miami Improv.

Shout out to the people that came to see me at the West Palm Beach Improv. And I had six, five shows. But the most exciting thing about this trip, I flew a motherfucking plane. That's fancy. I flew a plane. Some people are like, yeah, nigga, you always hot. But it wasn't that. I mean, I actually I met this guy, Dominic Johnson

Jones, if I'm not mistaken. That's his last name. You know he's an arrogant black dude when he has two last names. Johnson Jones. Only white people do the three names. Mary Ann Beth, all that type of shit. But I met him like three years ago. He's a pilot for JetBlue, one of the first black pilots or captains for JetBlue. Some type of history like that.

He's a black motherfucker that's flying. I met him in Minneapolis. Minneapolis. I always say that wrong. Some years ago, I was doing a layover, and he was a fan of mine. He was like, oh, shit. How you gonna act like you don't recognize me? We the only two black people in the airport right now, right?

And we met. He was like, I'm based in Miami. I do, I'm a flight instructor for, like, you know, people that's just getting into flying. And I want to take you up. And I was like, man, I don't know if I want to do that. But I was kind of excited because, you know, I do white people shit.

I know. Those little planes are a little scary. Yeah. Them motherfuckers. I call them. You can hear that shit accelerating like. So we were supposed to link up. Then a pandemic screwed that up.

It's been like three years since we had this initial conversation. And finally, we were in Miami at the same time. And we went on a flight we went we went up flying right it was so funny because my man 40 he was like yo who gonna fly the flame plane son you gonna fly it and he was all nervous i'm like why are you nervous about me me flying the plane motherfucker you know me you don't know this nigga you don't know if he was sitting here by Charlemagne the God in the breakfast club. You don't know if they was like, yeah, we're going to get a fake pilot. This motherfucker practicing to be a suicide bomber. Right?

But it was like, of course you're going to be nervous. And the plane is small. But he kept on saying, man, these planes are safer than the big planes because if an engine go out on one of those or whatever, you can basically just the plane okay right so i was like oh i'm gonna be a pilot this is gonna be some good footage i was i started to go live but i was like fuck that something happened i don't want to be live and not alive you need to have two hands on the wheel yeah like whatever they call it and so and and i couldn't believe we we took out of a small airport out of Miami. We flew around. We was going over like DJ Khaled's house or Puffy's house and shit like that. I'm like, yo, invite me to the party, son. But it was so like, and again, going back to like during a pandemic

when I really encouraged everybody to like kind of challenge your fears, you know what I'm saying, and do things you say you wouldn't do. And I thought that that was one thing I would never do. But I did it, and I had so much fun. It just felt like you did something. First off, not too many people from where you came from can say they flew a plane. Did you already know how to fly a plane?

How the fuck am I going to know how to fly a plane? Well, I mean, how are you up there? Oh, because I was in the Air Force? You was in the Air Force. That's what I used to do, right? That's what I was thinking. No, that's what every black person thinks. You say it the Air Force. That's what I used to do, right? That's what I was thinking. No, that's what every black person thinks. You say it was the Air Force.

Yeah, you used to fly planes? No. Why'd you do that? I was a cop. I've told you this story. I was a military police officer. They didn't fuck that, man. It would have been a lot of dead people if they would have made me a fucking pilot.

But the thing that was exciting for me was I think about that profession. There's not a lot of black pilots out there or at least they're not getting recognized you know he introduced me to a pilot this black guy named Barrington let me I don't remember his first name is Barrington Barrington I love that I love that name that sound like somebody fly planes young to you what was he like 30 something Barrington Irving if I'm on. He is very handsome in your pictures. Man yeah.

Barrington Irving. The youngest black pilot to fly a plane around the world. Oh he's fancy. Yeah and it was like me just being in the plane. I was in for that short period of time. I can't even imagine. Just think

about the discipline you have to do just to stay up the whole time you can't go to sleep and that plane didn't look like he had no autopilot that plane looked like you had to be like the whole time you can't you got to have a regimen on how you eat because you don't want to eat too much then you take a shit you go and put over japan and you're like yo it's nowhere i'm going to go but it was so exciting to know and then they started introducing me to their world and i didn't know how many black pilots they were out there there's a lot and then they have i forget the name of the um it's a non-profit where they encourage like black kids to get excited about aviation and i don't know if you

know but little devol he's a big like plane freak Like he bought he's he's he owns two planes. Oh, wow. Like one that holds like four people and one in six. Not no private shit. I'm hate right now. And they can't afford a real plane. You can go instruction joint now. But I was talking to him about it because my guy was like, yo, it's a feel.

He was like, Donna, you said like the plane we were in was like $40,000. Okay. He was like a car. Yeah. Like, well, it's not your car. But my car. Yeah. It's like a car yeah like not your car but my car yeah it's like an angus car yeah well i'm just fucking you should still be here so i thought you was leaving mr ex-producer all right damn i'm sorry nobody's gonna know they're gonna know they're not gonna know no not a good time to take a half break. No, not a good time to take a nap break. And I'm so excited about this episode because we finally got people that believe in us enough to say that we're going to endorse the products, we're going to talk about how we use it,

and how we're excited about that. We're going to get to that. But then he was like, yo, you should buy like three of these planes. Then you can rent them out to instructors and stuff like that. And then I called Lord of All. I was like, I got an idea, nigga. Let's buy 13 planes. Right? And just rent them shits out, right?

He was like, yeah, we can afford a plane, nigga. But the maintenance will fuck you up. You know, it's a lot like to maintain a plane, you know. Especially a motherfucking plane. So you just have to hire a mechanic just to be a full-time year-round. But then I thought about, I really want to, i thought it was a good idea to possibly try to encourage i know it could

be all kids but i'm speaking to the black kids right now to encourage uh black kids not just to be part of aviation in regard to being a pilot but every part of it, you know, the air traffic control, the mechanics, whatever. So I'm really going to aggressively learn a little bit more about it. But that's one thing we don't see our face in life. We don't see the guys with the captain wings and stuff like that. And it would be interesting to see how far I can take it. I know I have influence, you know, but it would be interesting. It's like if I start some type of organization and shit and then I'm the reason why we get like ten dope as black pilots so that's gonna be my contribution to black lives matter black

lives matter because they gotta fly We're just going to be like, get high, but not that kind. No, it would be Black Cockpits. Yo, the cockpits. Yo, that's going to be the name of my black flying crew. The black. You got to pronounce it that black cockpits. Sounds like a rock band. Yeah, rock out with your black cock out. Cockpit out.

I'm telling y'all. Y'all laughing at me now. I'm on to something, son. I know I'm on to something. Yesterday's price is still today's price. Wait, wait. So if yesterday's price is still today's price, what are you doing in between to help get some money,

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Oh, no, that was the last one. Maybe you didn't get the memo. So I'm excited about it. We did promos in yellow springs i did shout out to earthquake earthquake dropped some straight fucking heat fire and that was a testament on day chapelle's eye to see who deserves a special right so you remember i shot this special like five months ago so So we did the promos in Yellow Spring. We're like three weeks out. And I'm at the Baltimore Comedy Factory.

Baltimore Comedy Factory Outlet. If I'm not hitting it right, y'all know it. It's the only black club in Baltimore. So 30 minutes before I'm ready going on stage phone rings Dave Chappelle then he was like what's up D I was like what's up they got ready Dave Chappelle says to me I want to do it again you I was like do it again. You? He said, I was like, do it again. Chappelle show?

I'm like, what are we doing again? I was like, doing what again? He said, I want to go again. I said, go again at what? He said, I want to go again at the special. And that's when I said, nigga! What? And everybody in the room was like,

Donnell, you wanted 15 minutes. I was like, hold on, nigga. I went out the room. I was pacing, right? I was like, what do you mean do it again? He said, I want to go again. And I just had this moment of silence. It's the first time I to dave i've been talking to dave on the phone for over 25 years first time i was i heard him say hello hello are you there hello i was like what do you mean he said i just he said it's not it i was like what do you mean it's not it i said i say

you explain this to me dave i said how do I go from getting a standing ovation, the second show. First show was a little shaky. It was a lot of things I was up against. Second show, how do I go, Dave? How do I go from standing ovation, Stan Latham, high five, my man Big Country, as soon as I see him, I hug. My agents in, you know, Jutan Clan, you know they were in the corner, right? They was like this.

They don't clap. They just go, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching that's how jute class laughed ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching sorry i was a good thing i just saw money in their pupils like oh ain't nothing to fight we're on to the races i know they're gonna be on the phone like this and our client just got a new netflix special right that excitement because i'll tell you the first show i wasn't that confident it was just so much we turned away half my audience because of covet whatever and i had to gut through that the second show i was like okay um you gotta bring it and you gotta bring especially when when Dave was in the corner.

I don't know what the fuck was on his mind that day, but he said, Donnell, this is all we have. One more shot. I feel like Eminem, right? He said, Donnell, if we don't do it now, if we don't get it now, we just go again. I'm like, nigga! Who got time to go again?

I'm already seeing it. Check. I'm like, we getting this shit right. Bang it out. Stand up, got it in the can. And then I was like, so why do you feel that way? And he said, Don L, I could put you in any audience any night and you'll rip it. He said, it's special. He said, it's good, but we want greatness.

A lot of people wouldn't keep it real with you like that. Because as a comic, you feel like, what didn't I do? I gave it everything I could give doing that performance. And in the circumstances I was dealing with, I stood up to it and it was good. But then I realized, now that I think about it, I was good but then i realized i was like now i think about i was like you know what when i was practicing getting ready for this set i wasn't working like um headlining spots like five shows a weekend i was put piecing a set together with what i could get it was during a pandemic supernova 10 minutes here chocolate sundaes 10 minutes here i was piecing together but i didn't have that rhythm you know i'm saying be like and i know why people like

deja vu people like chris rock people like Dave Chappelle, people like Chris Rock, people like Kevin Hart, Ali Wong, when they're getting ready for it, they're just running the set. They're running the set. They're running the set. I didn't have that opportunity. And then I thought about it. At the time situation, I was doing a lot of COVID stuff, you know,

which feels real dated right now. I was doing topical stuff. It was funny. But I understood what he he meant it wasn't the classic and you could be a person that has a couple of singles or you could be a person that has the chronic you get be a person that has doggy style miss education and Lauryn Hill so with that and the toughest thing for anybody to do is when you think you gave something your all to dig deeper and to

to even go harder yeah and i wasn't i never couldn't be mad at him because he got me a pretty big check but i wasn't mad at him that's a good friend too yeah it's a good friend i i wasn't mad but i was a little frustrated because you know these are in this business you position yourself off of things that you have things that you on. I already know my people's going like, yo, the Netflix special, it dropped. So my yesterday and I was I couldn't wait. I couldn't wait. I wanted this drop. I wanted to drop so bad so I could just tell people yesterday's price is not today's price.

Add the hashtag in front of it. When Dave said he wanted to do it again, I had to go. Yesterday's price is still today's price, nigga. Maybe even a discount. A discount. But then I said to myself, because I said to myself, This feels like a good time to talk about purity. We will. We'll do talk about that.

But, and then I was like, okay, you get a chance. You can go again. Nothing wrong with what you did. I said, but you can you can go again you know nothing wrong with you do i say but you could you could you could make it better you know and uh i immediately went into like back to the bat cave okay to the point where i'm recording all my stuff writing it down whatever because again it we could have put that out and it could have been okay. But I just want to smash it, especially when he got his name attached to it as the home team.

And when he said these are the people that he look up to, the people that he admire in comedy. I don't want to take a chance with it. But I was fooled. But it definitely makes sense, though, that you said that there was the COVID jokes and stuff. Because it would be dated at this point. Yeah, it was. And then it didn't help. You know, I'm saying another thing, too. When I too when i saw earthquake shit i just threw my shit in trash

didn't hurt help it was so good no but that's one of the things we do as commas or anything you should have the best people pushing you you know i'm saying and then when i and i'll be quite honest when i watched um earthquake special I saw years and years of experience. I saw somebody that's been running this set that could do it in their sleep and that was ready for it. You know what I'm saying? Like, I could tell that he, that set he was, he did. I've seen those jokes before. But it's when, the one thing is you can have a joke here, you can have a joke there.

But when it comes all together at one the the right way the segues the transitions the laughter everything there's a difference between wanda sykes i remember one time i was watching this comic performing wanda sykes and a guy was ripping the room and wanda said he's funny but i was like he's funny as shit and then she said okay and then 20 minutes, she came to me talking about, do you remember anything he said? And I didn't. And I was like, I get it. It's one thing to perform, like, for clubs.

And then it's one thing, like, he explained to me, it's another thing to perform for TV. Yeah, because you want those where people go to the office the next day around the water cooler. People don't go to water coolers. You get cold in a water cooler you get cold where the fuck you been when last time you heard somebody hanging out at a water cooler you know what i mean it's called water cooler talk it's metaphorically i understand metaphorically historically or whatever you want to use what i'm saying when the last time you see the motherfucker hanging around at a fucking water at a water

can but I'm telling you I'm so excited about it going again you know it's kind of a you know people that were anticipating

seeing it and we're excited about it you know just wait a little bit but it's gonna it's definitely come out it's gotta come out

because I already got the check the check clear so until they come knocking can we get that back no you can't get it back nigg knocking. Can we get that back?

No, you can't get it back. Niggas don't never get money back. I give you an extra show, never. I remember a motherfucker promoting, can I get a deposit back? I was like, nigga, you just ate that. You just ate that. I remember times where I was so broke,

I didn't give a fuck when it showed. I was like, they would say, are you available? Send me the deposit. I need half. So we're sending the deposit. You figure, we'll figure out the rest of this shit later. I need the deposit now. Where's the show going to be?

It could be in Mars, Pluto. I don't give a fuck. Give me half. I need that deposit right now. Because my motherfucking, my goddamn landlord don't want to hear. Yeah, as you can see, we was anticipating a little bit more. Somebody didn't pass up their flyers. Send me my goddamn deposit.

And I'm going to do it. When I do it, it's going to be a whole different look. I just, I feel excited about it, and especially now I feel like something's on my back. You know what I mean? Even though I agreed with the circumstance and the reason i still feel like okay watch you know when you get as a kid you you want to you want a kid to when they get real serious and when they're really going to do something different when they hit that watch don't believe me you hit that just watch yep i gotta challenge you i challenge fears in life

you have to challenge your fears absolutely even in a situation you know what i think one of the things that men fear the most? What's that? In relationships. It's not being prepared. What do you mean? You know the fuck I mean by not being prepared. Not being prepared. talking all that shit

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where every joke felt like it was my last joke. Every word had to mean something. I'm going back to the drawing board uh and i will have another god damn it who does two specials in one year i think the last one i don't know we're gonna do with it that shit gonna be an nft or something i'm gonna make that motherfucker nft put some call it nft and you only can buy it with cryptocurrency and all that type i thought it was hilarious because i was like i haven't heard these jokes before when i was sitting out in the audience because that's what that was part of the that was part of the revamp yeah it just

say work whatever if you want if you want anything out of life anything out of life you got to put the work into it on whatever level it is mental physical whatever you got to put the work in and you were talking to me earlier about something that was very interesting to me like people kind of being critical of Kim Kardashian because she wants to be is she trying to be not trying she's everything she wants to be but people were a little upset because Kim was getting advice on how to be successful and basically stop being lazy and work your ass off. That's what she said verbatim. Everyone, you know, work your ass off.

Stop being lazy. Literally and figuratively speaking when it comes to work your ass off. You know what's so funny is that I hear a lot of women talk, well, she got on because of this, because of a sex tape. It wasn't just a sex tape. There's motherfuckers out here that got sex tapes now that can't even get a motherfucking big bite at 7-Eleven.

It was her mom. Her mom is a beast. Her mom is a beast. But this is what people don't really consider when it comes to speaking on the success of the Kardashian family is the work ethics

that you have to put in to get to the point where your show is popping. You got to get up every day. speaking on the success of the Kardashian family, is the work ethics that you have to put in to be, to get to the point where your show is popping. You got to get up every day. You got to have production means. It's a lot of shit you got to do that people really don't understand when it comes to working to get to an ultimate goal. I'll compare it to, like, sometimes people are critical of, like, social media stars

internet stars we have like all that shit is corny as whack that's not what really real comedy is but for those guys that go out there and do them goddamn videos every day oh it's a lot you know it's a lot and you gotta you gotta commit to it and you got to be consistent with it it's not gonna be like one a lot of people think I just get one viral video and it's it's over it's a lot of things you have to I just get one viral video and it's over. It's a lot of things you have to do to become successful at that. I think it was a lot of things that the Kardashians had to do that people don't give them credit for to be successful to create an empire. Yeah, I think the thing that's going viral is Jameela Jalil.

I believe that's her last name. Jameela Jalil, beautiful. I believe she's Indian. But she had a valid point. Saying get up off your ass and work. A lot of people do get off their ass and work because she said something like we all have the same 24 hours in a day.

No, bitch. You have a different 24 hours than I have. Mine consists of driving my kids to school, doing this, cooking. You have people for that. You have people for that. You had people for that before your show. I don't really necessarily agree with that. You'll see somebody, say somebody works in an office building, right?

And you got a guy just in the mail room. All he does is sling envelopes. He's lifting shit. He's throwing shit around. And then he walked past the ceo of the company and the ceo is just sitting there just staring not doing well what he thinks to be not doing anything like look at him he don't do no work people work different ways i agree but sometimes some money isn't going to be what like so jamila's um point was she made so much money off of beauty products and her beauty and selling things, these teas and stuff, not talking about the plastic surgeries that she's gotten over this saying that this will make you beautiful.

She's not showing this part. And she made so much money off of that. Not everyone has a lot of money to go to the plastic. Well, what makes you beautiful is on the inside. I agree with that. It's inside outside yeah so so i think it's the bigger thing is like someone like that like for instance zoe um oh my god you just brain farted um lisa bonet's um daughter zoe cravitz zoe kravitz she came out and said like i think kids that were born into money should just

own it i'm not downing them I want my kid to be that kid. But just because you're born into money, that don't mean you know how to... Oh, I agree. A lot of them are jacked up too. But the thing is, you do have to acknowledge that, like Zoe did, acknowledge that you are where you are

because you did have a little boost up. It's like it's the bootstrap thing. Sometimes you don't have the boot. I know, but that doesn't necessarily the boot you can't know but just that doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be a successful business person i agree it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to know what to do with money you get you they had some type of study if you give uh somebody like a poor person like a million dollars right and then like a someone that's used to money a million dollars the poor person will be broke again

I forgot what the numbers were because the poor person did not know that you can go find someone that knows how to do money and help you figure out what to do with your money they just go out and just like I'm rich bitch I do agree with putting the work in

I do agree with that you don't get nothing unless you put the work in. I do agree with that. You don't get nothing unless you put the work in. I 100% agree with, you know, you have to have a strong mind to get what you want. Not to cut you off. And I do believe

a lot of people make excuses. Because you see me put in work constantly, right? Can you imagine if I had a mom or dad that when I did fall or when I did need the extra if I had a mom or dad that when I did fall or when I did um need the extra booths to start a company or something where I would be with the work ethic

that I have but you could have had a deity to help you with that yo daddy and deity but part of my work ethic is part of my, what is the other ethics? There's a bunch of ethics that I could have a daddy. No, not deity. Zaddy. Yeah, Zaddy. Zaddy. Hey, deity.

That motherfucker, you get everything. First off, people that use that voice always ask you, what's your sizes? Deities are like, hey, babe babe what's your size uh that's an eight and a half deity and do you know what you're saying normal numbers that's a 38 dead i never understood that shit i thought i fucking gained 10 pounds i looked at my my regular size compared to european size i'm like what the fuck just happened but yeah so i think the the point is, though, there is something to say when you do have

help when you, because like I said, I'm not downing it, but for her to get up and talk to down on other people, these people that are working 12-hour shifts, and they're still barely making it. Man, sometimes people need to tell, man, nobody want to hear that shit, man. Sometimes

motherfuckers need to tell you straight up you lazy as shit everything you want you don't want to work for it you think it's gonna be given to you sometimes motherfuckers need some tough love stop making excuses stop being assholes and fucking and go get it what's wrong with saying that well you say that she can't say that why because she didn't do it she did in a different in a different way like people's people struggles a difference of a person super successful not gonna have the same struggles as a person that doesn't have anything but they still have struggles like i call it we call it rich man problems rich man problems they're not they don't they don't equate

to someone that's doesn't that's not successful but they're still problems at the same time. And you have to have the mental capacity to be able to deal with this shit. And everybody can't deal with it. I'm definitely one to be like, man, I don't want to hear that shit. I look at me. I'm not saying I got all this and that, whatever. But I know that 27 years ago,

I made a decision that I'm not going to work a regular job and I'm not knocking that anymore. I said that I'm going to learn how to be happy being broke. And I'm not going to stop. I'm never gonna learn how to be happy being broke and i'm saying and there's and and i'm not gonna stop i'm never gonna stop it's never into it and people need to start having that mentality stop making excuses people do make excuses all the time i use my guy um wallow wallow and gilly gilly they got the um million worth of game podcast right i pretty much watch wallow go from a guy recently, not recently, but released from prison,

decided he wanted to be a motivational speaker, took that shit, was running around in the rain doing all these videos and everything, and right now, like, doing well for himself but didn't make excuses. Could have had the excuse that, oh, I'm a felon, I can't get a regular job, nobody's going to take

me serious but at some points you have at some point you have to take yourself serious and you have to do for yourself and don't make no excuse i believe i agree i agree you know we're on the same page on that right yeah but people like i just i'm just i i get so tired of people with excuses well i can't do this because of this i can't do this because that you can do whatever the fuck you want to do if you put your mind to it and as much as people talk shit about america america is still one of the greatest countries in the world because you can create opportunities you can't certain places you go to there's just no jobs and especially just jump in even for a woman america I was blessed to be born in America. Oh, God.

Here we go with the woman shit, man. I knew this was coming. It's National Women's Day. Oh, man. A.K.A. Shut the fuck up, Dave. Whatever happened to National Man Day? Y'all got all these goddamn days, man.

What y'all going to do? We're fresh off Valentine's. What y'all going to do? I respect women, but God damn, how many goddamn days y'all got? Valentine's Day, National Women's Day, Breast Awareness. I mean, nothing wrong with Breast Awareness. Because you're aware. Yeah.

Every time Nikki comes on this podcast, it's Breast Awareness Day. Oh, my God. Remember that girl y'all was talking about, Breast Awareness? But in a nutshell, man, people got to stop making excuses, man. Go get the shit. Go do it. We got so many examples of people that's doing shit because they worked their ass off to get it. I believe that.

Yeah. I agree. Man, I don't know what the fuck we're going to talk about. Shut this shit up. the fuck we gonna talk about you ever I'm tired man I'm tired I'm tired you can be physically tired of something

mentally tired of something I'm tired. You can be physically tired of something, mentally tired of something. I'm just tired. I just feel like I'm always traveling. I'm always doing something. I'm always, like, even with the situation with this podcast today, I'm coming off of, like I said earlier, five shows, going in airplanes. And you're on the East Coast on the east coast three hours ahead just doing so much i just feel like sometimes you just i just think that your brain needs to take a break

you need to take those that time for yourself how do you rest your brain do you meditate you sleep i don't know i used to i am i was a person didn't believe in sleep i'm telling you i don't fuck with sleep i to, I am, I was a person that didn't believe in sleep. I'm telling you, I don't fuck with sleep. I always, I thought sleeping was for losers. I was like, how the fuck you going to sleep, man? It's so much shit to get. But people like, I get up so early. People like, you get up early because you old motherfucker.

Old people get up early as shit because they want to get as much of the 24 hours they can get. They're like, fuck that. I'd rather sleep when I'm dead. But I don't know how to take a break what is what can I do what do I need to do to take a break just just I want to detach from everything I want to go somewhere the things you have to tip turn off the phone I'm you know what it's so funny said it cuz last couple of days I've resisted the impulse to just want to

grab my phone so I wake up in the morning and I feel like I'm getting some type of mental strength because of that. You know, like I woke up the last couple days, I was like this, oh, check. Nope, don't do that. Just do like a half an hour by yourself without the phone, meditate, sit in silence, and just go inward since you don't like seeing a therapist. And it's so funny you say that because this podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. It's a great, it's actually a really great way to go.

Yeah, especially life. We all know life is filled with ups and downs, twists and turns, arguments with baby mothers. All of it. Not getting along with your parents all the time. But the most important thing, we have to get some type of mental health. And it's important to show up for yourself through all the struggles that life can bring. I never thought that I would need any type of therapy,

but I am lately feeling that life really is filled with twisted terms, up and downs, not knowing to make the decision, not knowing to make that decision. I don't know if I want to work at walk up into a therapist's office, but I could see myself doing something that likes online. Yeah, the great thing about the great thing about the sorry, the great thing about BetterHelp is that you don't have to go into an office. You can go online. And what I love about is you can text your therapist you don't have to um you can do a video call you can do a phone call but the best part for me was being able to text because sometimes you don't want to talk about your

problems sometimes you feel a little about my problem no you feel a little embarrassed about i don't know my problems over over a glass of wine but i'm not gonna just be talking yeah in our i think in our culture sometimes it's like oh i'm why am i just letting this all out to a stranger but via text it's kind of like people with trigger fingers and we have a special offer for our podcast listeners the listeners of what the donnell rollins show your energy is up my energy yo let me tell you something man y'all don't you know how hard it was for me to do this podcast today y'all know how hard it was for the last podcast for me to say y'all check out the netflix special march 17th i dreaded coming to this podcast to say guess what nigga the special

ain't coming out until never word at 13. So you're going to be calling BetterHelp, and you are going to get 10% off. And I really think you should call and just give it a try. It's just text messages. All right. BetterHelp, H-E-L-P forward slash. BetterHelp. I don't need a therapist.

I don't know why. I don't need a therapist. I don't know why. I don't think I need. I guess people that are quick to say they don't need a therapist are the people that always need some type of therapy. But, you know, my therapy has been, my entire career, it's been going on stage. When I'm mad at something, I go on stage. When I'm happy about something, I go on stage. And once I do a retake on this special, people are going to be like this. They're going to know exactly what's on my fucking mind.

You know, but i don't know i think that sometimes well where we are now therapy is feels somewhat like it's becoming the thing to do like it's like oh you got therapist i got a therapist you got a therapist i got i don't even know i don't even know where to go look how do you find a therapist? How do you find a therapist well I know the new way is going online There's a place better help Hlp.com okay, and um they they link you with a Sorry a therapist that you know I think you take a 30, I think it's a 30, not 30 minute test. You do like a little program and they link you with someone that would be able to help you.

In conclusion, God damn it. The special has been postponed and delayed because the first special was good but not good enough for greatness until next time we hope you enjoyed the show I'm Donna Rawlings this is Nicky and we encourage you

to have better mental health we all need it in closing I'm going to say at the beginning of this a joke can be too soon, but in my world, it never could be too soon for a funny observation. Thank you.