Donnell - The Intro & Meeting with Human Resources

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

In this episode, Donnell is joined by Dr. Eliot Glazer. They discuss the previous terrible intro of the podcast and Donnell is sat down for a meeting with human resources This episode is sponsored by Manscaped (https://www.manscaped.com/). Use offer code DONNELL for 20% off and free shipping! Sponsor Donnell: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/donnell Eliot Glazer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eliotglazer/ Eliot's Podcast, Couple's Therapy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eliot-glazer/id1410296631?i=1000522994935 Eliot Glazer Website: https://www.eliotglazer.com/ Like, Subscribe & Follow Donnell on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnXf59H6e99fQpWYM5uvEQw?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/donnellrawlingsofficial Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/donnellrawlings Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/donnellrawlings Website: http://www.donnellrawlings.com Hashtag: #donnellrawlings, #thedonnellrawlingsshow, #2soonwithdonnellrawlings, #toosoon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Donnell Rawlings Show, live in your face! Fuck that bitch ass nigga, you'll never take my place, nigga! Thank you. I'd like to highlight Katie Wilson's great work here. And she actually put together... White woman. Shout out to Dr. Umar. Continue. She put together a PowerPoint presentation that she'd like to share with you, if that's okay.

Oh, so now we're TED talking? Yeah. I think you're going to find it illuminating, actually. The issue that Katie has brought up primarily is with your intro video and your theme song. What's wrong with it? So the first slide is analyzing your intro video and why it's bad. Why it's bad?

I want you to have an open mind. What? Firstly, we do need to talk about the song. We should probably talk about it. What do you want to talk about? You want to know how the song came about? Well, no. She has some points about the song.

But not of my opinion, just what she saw. She'll ask some questions. All right, go ahead. Well, first of all, I just have a couple buzzwords I want to sort of bring up. Like, you know, the first time you hear it, this is what comes to mind. So, it's corny. It's trying way too hard. Down boy.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Down man. Down Boy. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's cringe. Down Man. Down Man. That is fair. We gotta get John down that one. That's the race car. Yeah, that was. Any boy,

pool boy, Amazon boy, is man. Continue, go ahead. It's cringe. And I wanna know who made this. Because

I had a couple of speculations about where this might have come from. The song itself. Yeah, so at first I thought this sounds like someone tried to recreate the Succession soundtrack from memory. Or an eighth grader just learned how to use GarageBand for a school project. Katie brought up that 90% of the people won't make it to the podcast intro because they heard the song and turned it off. Yes, Donnell. First off, one of the most talented producers in the history

of hip-hop would feel so insulted that you... Who's that? RZA. Lizzo? RZA. And again, you might not know this, but everyone loved it! Well... And then Katie had some issues with the video as well. I think my issues are more with the video Again, you might not know this, but everyone loved it. Well. And then Katie had some issues with the video as well.

I think my issues are more with the video than with the song. And it's a punk studio. I don't know if you see the picture of her. You can't even smoke marijuana in this motherfucking studio. Can you see the picture of this lady with the whipped cream on her toe? Yes, I remember that. We'll look into that later. We have more pressing issues. This one.

The selection of photographs. This isn't, your intro isn't a PowerPoint presentation. It's supposed to be like an emblem of who you are and your vibe. And I just, I do have. And who I am is a person that has really good friends. So, Katie, you can take away from whatever the fuck you want to take away from this. But that I am aligned with some of the top people in the game. So you don't think that it's important at any point doing the

quote-unquote PowerPoint presentation that I should show you the relationships that I have with some of the best people doing this. So I'm just supposed to ignore the friendships. You can. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're also asking me to ignore the friendship. I want you to erase your friendships.

I'm raising my hand. So I know you're probably barely over 22 fucking years old. I'm 23, thank you very much. Okay, I was off by two years. One year. So with your young fucking experience from another country I don't know shit about. You should visit sometime. You think that these people here, I've known these people five years before you even came to this planet,

and I'm supposed to just ignore this? No, never ignore it. I just don't think it's a classy look for your intro. Also, I'd like to note that in the PowerPoint presentation, Katie mentioned that these are, is a picture of bald white men, not good for the brand. Yeah, let's... Okay, it's not good for the brand. Yeah, let's... Okay, it's not good for the brand. We're on the next point, which is the name-dropping

of the PowerPoint slide presentation. Goes back to my story of, it's not name-dropping if you know him. Number one, we only name-drop cool celebrities. I think that's huge. I think that's important. In these two images, I only recognize one person. Who do you think? It's DaBaby. And I'm going to have to say, in these images, you look like the fan.

You know why? This is with me. You know why? Because I am. Okay. No, whoa, whoa. Hand raised. And it's okay to be fans.

Yes, I'm a fan of DaBaby. All right? Okay. And yes, I'm a fan of DaBaby. All right? Okay. And yes, I'm a fan of Chelsea Handler. And it's so wrong for that. I gave Chelsea Handler two ounces of mushrooms in the cornfields of Yellow Springs. So yes, we have a connection.

DaBaby- Is that why she looks so awful in that picture? I'm not going to disrespect her. She looks great. I'm not going to disrespect her. I love Chelsea. And I would say Chelsea could get it. you should enjoy you should avoid the fan pics because unless you're you're an italian restaurant in a bad neighborhood that puts like b-list pictures

of celebrities on their wall it's just it's not doing anything for you and and i just think you could can i talk to somebody that was was not born 23 years ago? I feel like this one speaks for itself. It's a picture of whipped cream animation on a woman's butt. It looks like it was made with Microsoft Paint. It's just simply a bad animation. Again, if we research those numbers of people that watch podcasts, I guarantee you it will be people that watch podcasts i guarantee you it

will be people that's connected with microsoft i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure this is going to be some people with some yahoo email addresses i'm pretty sure we got some aolers you know i'm saying i am not trying to be a kid kid i just don't think that this is particularly inclusive of like today's demographic um it's just not very sensitive to the masses like so you think i give a fuck about okay well because not everybody eats dairy products what does that have what is this whipped cream it's whipped cream and you don't have to eat it whipped cream in a situation like this is a sick we have lots of vegan fans don't know i i'm not a i'm not a fan of vegans and you you probably got a lot of And they could find some other podcasts

to listen to, too. Now, this is disrespectful. Also, what the fuck is this image? This is part of my transition. What transition to what? From ashy to classy. So far, so bad. So far, so bad.

Here's the re-amp version we made. We want to turn this around. As you can see, we have inclusivity with the pictures. That person looks like a black dude that hangs around with all white people. Alright? That looks like the dude, he's been dating Becky's this whole

fucking high school years. Now, why this new version works is it's short, sweet, and catchy. It's not street. We're going to the new version we made. So it's short, sweet, and catchy. It's a new song. We used the same clips that Katie liked with advanced editing. Yeah. It's a new you a glimpse into donnell's world length matters and length matters that's what she said is the kicker is

your song right now and your intro is over a minute long and experts say podcasts should be 15 to 30 seconds for the intro song so check this out we want to want you to know your thoughts. I like it. It is disrespectful. I'm not mad at it. It is disrespectful. I'm not mad at it. But you got Wu-Tang, RZA, and you got, talking about GarageBand. They had whistles in it. It had whistles.

It didn't have no strings. The other one I had had a straight orchestra. And you came with that old McDonald beat. It was I will I will say it was within that 15 seconds but the beat couldn't fuck with the other beat whoo it is freaking odd near how to hit I mean that's how it is gonna be this whole summer yeah and I'm sweating everywhere except for one place I'm sweating balls but not on your balls obviously no no not at all and I'm guessing is that because you have the crop soother ball after shaver lotion because I care about my genitals I care But not on your balls, obviously. No, no, not at all. And I'm guessing, is that because you have the Crop Soother Ball After Shaver Lotion? It's because I care about my genitals.

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Do you do know that I have headphones on? And if you're trying to get me to make eye contact with you, I'm not excited about that right now. Well, this is part of the problem. We have a special guest, Dr. Elliot Glazer, here today. And we brought him in because frankly,

there's been some workplace complaints here. Can I say something? Yeah. Why do you keep bringing all these doctors on that don't even look like they're professional? What's not professional? No, it's not professional. No, I'm just saying. Yo, you tell me this motherfucker's a doctor.

I thought he was a nightclub manager. You know what I'm saying? Maybe he's not on call a lot. But if I was on an airplane and they say, is there a professional doctor on the airplane? Can you come to row 27D? He would be the last person I expected to show up with a stethoscope. What is that thing called?

A stethoscope. A stethoscope. Okay, you know how to pronounce doctor words, at least. But none of these experts look like experts, but go ahead. Well, essentially we had some workplace complaints, right? Workplace complaints? Wait a minute.

We've had some HR violations. There have been some concerns that you've created a hostile work environment in the podcast studio and so we brought in psychotherapist dr elliot glazer so first of all this is supposed to be a team but obviously there's a whistleblower on the team we can't disclose that we can't disclose that all right but i do notice it there's a whistleblower because this crew is first off here's the people that complained you might not understand this

you two motherfuckers that's what I'm and that's what we're talking about today it's that kind of accusation you two motherfuckers went to human resources on me there's nobody else who brought this production I didn't go to HR on my own.

It was one of you motherfuckers went to HR. Well, the way workplace violations work is if you say and do things that are offensive in the workplace and someone complains, then something will happen. Well, if I'd love to, if I could interject. Interject. So understandably, a workplace

doesn't necessarily have to be one person two people it can be you know a big organization it can be a big or small but it's really about the relationships that you create with your co-workers can we just be exclusive to I know who those

people are sure I don't have to find it we don't have a group of motherfuckers that work here it's two people so when't have a group of motherfuckers that work here. Right. It's two people. Right. So when you say a group of people, no. Say it. Two people. Katie and Alex.

Say it. Sure. No, motherfucker. Say it. Katie and Alex. All right. Now continue with that in mind. Well, when we talk about the workplace, as big or as small as it is.

Well, we're talking about Katie and Alex. In this scenario, Katie and Alex. It's still about a relationship that you have with them. Katie and Alex. Yes, Katie and Alex. In this scenario, Katie and Alex. It's still about a relationship that you have with them. Katie and Alex. Yes, Katie and Alex. That's right. So ultimately, my first question is, do you ever feel the same sentimentality

that they feel they get from you? I never heard a bitch tell one joke. Oh, come on now. I'm just telling you the truth. This isn't about me. This is about you. No, yes and no. Y'all in the workplace. Shut the fuck up, workplace. Oh, come on now. I'm just telling you the truth. This isn't about me. This is about you. No, yes and no. Y'all in the workplace.

Shut the fuck up, workplace. No, fuck that. What is his official title? Psychotherapist. Okay. But I like hearing. I'm a narcissist. Okay.

I mean, that is. Sure. And I think that real good narcissists are great people. And I found a lot of them are very successful. And I think a lot of them started with the trait being adored and loved. Yeah. And then they use it against them. Because at the beginning, it's like this.

You're so driven. Oh, my God, you're working ethics. And then it turns into, like, all you want to do is talk about yourself. Right. Bitch, I was talking about myself when I met you. Uh-huh. Yeah. And so in the workplace, do you feel that... I don't feel nothing in the workplace.

Can you just imagine subjectively from a distance? Why you got to close your eyes to say that? What the fuck is going on, bro? He looked like he was waiting for a lap dance. I ain't closing my eyes. No ditty.

Hello? Jamie, Jamie, is that anything you gathered from being a part of Donnell Land? Nothing I experienced. Wow. What is your experience with me, Jamie? My experience is, you know, just someone that wants everybody to have a good time. Real friends say real shit. And what else, Jamie? You know, you could push back a little bit, but... What? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait. Yo, are you part of the workplace?

And she knows I create a very good work, workspace. And you, what you expressed too when you were on the phone with her was that you love speaking to her and that workplace because it's happy-go-lucky. It didn't go that way. It's positive. Yeah, but she was nasty, motherfucker, too. Okay. Yo, she suck her teeth at me and a whole bunch of shit alex also talked about um empathy and where shared empathy falls into your

personal relationships what what would you say is your relationship with empathy i don't have any even to this this podcast i didn't want to fuck with Alex doing this podcast first off we started the podcast a while ago he just quit in the middle of it and the thing about it was

it was his idea we could do this and then he said I'm not used to it but I feel passionate about this we could do this and then halfway through that he was like yeah

this shit ain't making the money I thought you know what I'm saying it was a hiatus saying it was a hiatus it was him I've never established a fucked up workplace he's always in a fucked up workplace hey Elliot

are there any like exercises you think we could do now I'm speaking on the mic if you're not familiar with this podcast this is Katie that's so fucking funny I just wanted to ask Elliot if there was any exercises that we could do to build back the trust. Yeah, absolutely. There's an exercise where all the employees...

How about this? How about I don't give a fuck about my employee? Okay, that's a problem. First off, how about I'm not submitting... The first time I talk to any resource, I'm not saying I'm going to give them what they want. First off, fuck them. This is not an attempt to kiss their ass.

It's an attempt, an exercise that puts everybody on level playing ground. Facts. To find a shared connection, which is you take a notebook paper. Yo, man, get the fuck out of here, yo. Who has notebook paper? We actually have some notepaper back here. We'll bring it out for you. I don't fuck with notepaper, man.

I think this is a healthy exercise. And what am I going to do? Just to try it out. So all three of you are going to write down three specific adjectives to describe each other. Right. And you're going to do it in a positive way. You're going to come from a place of empathy and positivity where, again, you don't have to write their names. You don't have to write your names.

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visit connectsontario.ca. And so we haveario.ca You know what? This takes up 15 seconds. You know what's 15 seconds supposed to be used for? Your intro. According to studies. Whose intro? RZA did an intro beat and they said it was trash. It was trash.

It's not my place to comment on what I think of Wu-Tang Clan but they are legendary no Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with that's what Wu-Tang Clan they're nothing to fuck with

and you feel like Katie fucked with them how am I not kind I'm kind as shit okay How am I not kind? I'm kind as shit. Okay. Katie, am I not kind, Katie? I will say, I will say.

Katie, you know how much I know about you in a short period of time? Oh, that's actually. A very lot. About your love for your fucking country. Yes. Your love for your boyfriend. That's right. Your love for, your passion for this shit,

the weather and everything. That's really sweet. I've been nothing but kind to you. Elliot, what did he write on that piece of paper? Can you read that out to us? I don't know if that's going to help the situation. No, fuck that. Keep it real.

Okay. What did I say about this group of people that I'm supposed to organize with and be kind to? What did I say? You wrote, fuck them assholes evil. Evil? Yes. I would say, see y'all next time. Did you see what we're dealing with?

Donnell, you gotta hear this. I can leave, man. No, you can't. I can fucking leave. Yo, you got the fucking work environment. My environment is good. I think this is the best we're going to get for today. Bye.