Donnell - Tox-city

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

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So everyone likes to say I go on different podcasts Donnell you have a bad temper you get upset you're out of pocket you're overreacting you're sensitive oh my god can you calm down can you let somebody talk and guess what I don't want to do none of that shit but I am working on and this is something that's going to help me in my life my personal life and everything I'm working on being a better person I'm working on being a kind of gentle person I'm working on a person that can be calm enough to just hear what somebody has to say and value their opinion, value their ideas, value their creativity, and value their work ethics. But sometimes, like in my personal life, things don't always go as planned. Sometimes I'm in a good mood.

Sometimes I'm in a bad mood. But the thing that I don't want to do because it's in my personal life too much. I don't want to be in a toxic relationship. I want people to understand me. I want people to know that, God damn it, Donnell, you're going to try harder. Donnell, damn it,

you're going to shut the fuck up and you're going to listen and value the opinions of other people. And as much as I try to do that, sometimes it just doesn't work out the donna rollins show a reality show about a podcast oh shit run the tape round here if it smell funny onions getting peeled round here if it smell funny get your onion filled, round here Can't help it, small tigga, can't help it

Can't help it, small tigga, can't help it Can't help it, small tigga, can't help it Can't help it, small tigga, can't help it Can't help it, small tigga, can't help it God damn! Yo, let me explain something. No, I want to explain something. You know what's more what's the worst than a toxic woman what a toxic mother man um what what's wrong i'm gonna tell

you what you first off toxic relationship only, me personally, it should be reserved for someone that I'm having intimacy with. But when you start feeling like you toxic with a mother f***er, you like, God f***er. Ha! Can I ask a question? No, no, I don't want you to ask no questions, please. Guess what? You have a system. Your excitement comes from me being upset.

And you figured out a way to continue to make me do it. So, you know what? Mission accomplished with that. And the f***ing thing, this is just life. People, listen to me. You ever be in a f***ing great motherf a great mother mood you had a whole box of your favorite cereal oh you was watching your favorite mother cartoon you was feeling good you got good sleep you slept on a double pillow top mattress. Your back had no ache.

You woke up not with a hangover. You woke up and when you woke up, you visioned and heard birds chirping. And you was thinking about the passing of Frankie Beverly and how his music brought so much joy and how people felt good. And you're like, you know what? Man, today is going to be a great day. Even to the point where you say, you know what? Somebody pitched a dumbass idea for a sketch to me last night. Right?

And we got this thing coming up last night. Hold on a second. Hello? Hello? Hello, how are you? Hey, what's going on? Who is this? This is Maria from the Law Factory? Hey, what's going on? Who is this? This is Maria from the Law Factory.

Hey, what's up? You sound like you're about to sell me some shit. What's going on? What do you like? First off, first off. No, first off. First off, let me say this. I'm right in the middle of my podcast.

You called, right? And the topic we're talking about is when you're in a good mood you feel good happy feelings in the joy and happy feelings you feeling that way and you tell yourself you say you know what i am not gonna let anything distract me from feeling good you're like just nobody can make me not feel good and then you run into a person that makes you not feel good. I'm sure she's feeling this right now. I want to talk to, no. Here's again. Can you please let this poor girl go?

No, I'm not. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. And of course, here's my point. Here's the thing. I'm asking her a serious question. You want to interject what you both think is a joke, and I'm trying to get an understanding from her.

How does that. Is that f***ed up? And I'm just talking about. The worst thing to a toxic woman. Is a toxic man. If you're a man. How do you avoid toxic people? Wait is she still on the phone?

Hello? Yeah. I'm here. Because whenever you see me, how do you feel? Who are you asking? I feel happy. If y'all don't shut the fuck up and let me fucking host and run the fucking show. And this is what the fuck you get off on.

What entertains you motherfuckers nobody is checking for this podcast to fucking hear you be funny see she would have never faced this and now you want to do it I swear to god I'm about to talk

I'm going to you know what I'm about to do I'm about to fucking kill Tony's shit because it's the same fucking thing man I'm just saying chill bro This is a lady calling you from employment No it's not his lady And she's listening all the time Alright you guys do jokes

Go ahead tell your joke Come into the stage Tell your fucking joke She called me from the comedy club Because she wanted to talk to me About doing a show I was going to talk about that But doing that

I was feeling a certain way I can't talk to you motherfuckers about yeah i was gonna talk about that but doing that i was feeling a certain way i can't talk to you motherfuckers about it because you think it's funny and i'm talking about energy okay the energy i was on and someone did something to fuck my energy up right how do you avoid that do you just say fuck these people i'm talking to if you want to say the caller how do you deal with people what's her name what do you want to ask yeah

Maria what was your energy like before this phone call she'll tell you if you shut up why tell her why you called me okay no yeah I'll tell you what her injury is oh my god this is what her energy is oh my god donna early in town we love when you come to the

laugh factory you always bring such great energy such positive vibes you're fair to everybody you're cool and we were wondering if you could come today that was a conversation was and i couldn't say fuck this podcast and talk to her that's what the conversation was but you want to continue to draw you want to continue to draw the narrative of comedy i'm just telling you let me talk and that point i was making when i came here today first off you're talking about today tonight you had a spot tonight maria yes please yes i do what time what time is the spot i don't know if i can make it, but what time is the spot? 8 o'clock show, and I can probably work you in whenever you need. Can you set me as a allow because I'm running around?

You're going to put this poor woman through all of this and then not even show up? Maria, what I'm going to do is I'm going to call is What I'm going to do is I'm going to call you when I finish this podcast Right Why can't you commit to Maria Why can't you be dependable enough to commit to Maria Maria has from 8 to 10pm You can just pick a time

I'm going to call you when I get off this podcast Alright Okay can we put you in the flyer That's what I'm going to call you when I get off this podcast. All right? Okay, can we put you in the flyer? That's what I'm saying. I don't want to commit. She should put you in the flyer, Donnell. It'd be so great for Maria.

I'm going to call you back. Oh, my God. Donnell, can I tell you about what saved my life? No. Because what that is, I'm so upset about it. Oh, my God. Oh, no, Alice, tell me what saved your life. Well, honestly, I feel so unheard right now.

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See, but this is a part of the problem. And this is part of where the toxicity comes from. You know what I mean? Come on. Come on. Oh, nothing sucks. No, not the socks. Yo, y'all fucking with me. And you don't get it. I don't like...

Yo, real talk. Run this episode. I don't like when you think you're fucking funnier than me, bruh. I don't like when I'm fucking talking to somebody and I'm asking you to chill, but you want to come in with the fuck you think is funny. No, she asked you to show up, dude. I was trying to say something and you keep on ha-ha-ha with this dumb shit.

God damn, man. Like, what the fuck, yo? Like, God damn, bro. I keep trying to work with this shit, man. I keep fucking with this shit. You keep saying shit's going to be different or whatever. This is what I'm talking about with the toxic shit. I keep working.

I keep working with this shit. I fucking have meetings. I say, how do we listen to each other and become better? Yeah, I say I hate this idea, but for the sake of your creativity I know you're onto something I will work with it the point I was trying to make when I came to work. I had two things I could have done I could have said fuck Alex and his idea. I said, you know what I can make Alex idea work That's what the fuck i said coming to work

today i said i'm gonna put everything to the side and i'm gonna give this motherfucker what he wants have you asked no i just want to say this yeah and i'm saying this after hearing someone said i think it was jerry seinfeld somebody had a new show or whatever. Tonight's show or something. I don't know exactly what it is. And they said, what advice? He said, whatever you do, fail at exactly what you want to do. Don't fail at what somebody else wants to do. That kept ringing in my ear. That's why I listened to it.

With that said, and maybe this will drop, whatever. With that said, I continue to try to tell you this is how we can make the podcast better. I keep saying that and every time I say it, everything we talk about you go completely against for the sake of a laugh.

And I've been getting laughs for 33 years. I'm trying to understand this shit. Can I tell you what that was symbolic of? I keep telling you. Let's break down that phone call for a second because it was a very interesting phone call. Yo, if you listen to it. And it's part of the problem.

So we started the phone call. First off, I don't have a problem. We started the phone call about toxicity in the workplace. Right. And then who guides the story? Who guides the story? You or me? No, but then this woman gets on the phone.

You know what she's getting on the phone with you for, right? You could have been like, I'm recording the podcast, but I didn't want to do that. You know why I didn't want to do that? I'll tell you why. Cause you didn't want to listen and you wanted to clown it. So I said, here's somebody to listen to the point I'm trying to make it. The point I'm trying to make is feeling good about something, feeling good about something. And the energy comes and fuck it up. You didn't want to hear hear that neither one of you guys wanted to hear it so i said guess

what i got somebody and i could hear that from we were hearing it no but then you kept trying to clown this you know what this is symbolic of everything we're dealing with and the reason why it's symbolic i'm not going to be on your couch alex i'm not on your fucking couch okay i'm not on your couch and you are not my fucking therapist. All right? You keep on talking about this is a problem. I don't have a fucking problem. You know who has a problem?

You. Whether I do this podcast or not, guess what? I'm going to still sell socks. And you're going to keep on thinking what the fuck you think is funny. You're going to keep on thinking what you think is funny, and we're going to sell what you think is funny, not what Donnell thinks is funny, what you think is funny. You're in control of this whole situation.

I am not in control of the situation. You are. When I came here today, you're the one that brought negative energy, Alex. You had a problem. You know you had to fix it. You brought the negative energy, and you made everything around you tense. And guess what I had to do? Break that down and continue to go work to get to the point where this is a good podcast.

You brought that energy. You brought that energy. You brought that energy, and then you want to make it. Now you're in a good mood. That ain't fair to nothing. I would rather fail at what I want to do instead of failing what somebody else wants to do. No one's forcing you into anything right now. You made that phone call.

You talked to that lady. And here's another thing. And you talked to that lady about other people fucking up your energy, right? This is a funny thing. And so, Donnell, you talked to that lady about other people fucking up your energy. You went. You knew what you wanted. You made it all about you.

And at the same time. Oh, my God. Wait a minute. So, wait a minute. Let me get this right. And then secondly. Okay, let me get this right. And then secondly. I made it all about you. And at the same time. Oh, my God. Wait a minute. So, wait a minute. Let me get this right. And then secondly. Okay, let me get this right. And then secondly.

I made it all about me. Part of the toxicity, Donnell, has to do with showing up and being consistent. All right. Okay, you said. What's so hard about saying I can show up at 830? You know why? Because I'll tell you 8. And know what you'll tell me?

I'll be there at 830. And then another thing you'll tell me. When I get here. When you say be here. But the lady's going to be here at 1030, be ready to roll. I walk in, no fucking cameras on. I got my socks ready. I'm ready to walk right on this couch and go to work.

And guess what I say? What you say? Fuck. Ah, I'm not ready. What did I do? Go ate a bowl of motherfucking soup and said, I'll wait. And what I, and also with that. Which was awesome.

The point of that whole conversation is the argument, the conversation we're having right now, I have no problem having that conversation with a lover. I don't have a problem having that conversation

with a baby mother. I don't have a problem having that conversation with a woman I'm dating. I don't have a problem. I have that conversation with a woman I'm dating. I don't have to have a problem in that conversation with somebody's hot to in me. But the point I was making about all this, I can not be in a toxic relationship with a nigga. I work with. You're creating the toxic environment. Kill Tony!

Do you want to try to make this not toxic? I don't want to try to do anything. That's the closing. You can run the table, keep cracking jokes if you want, but you can't get no closer, no wrap up. Do you remember what the name of the show is? Yeah. Anybody guess? I'm just wondering.

Does anybody know the answer to the name to the Don Air Rollins show? Right, so, I mean Call me an asshole, whatever But if I was a smart thing to do Can you at least get on camera? Get on camera At least have it in front of the security camera I know, you can hear me

Here's the point Put a picture up here Of one person That should be able To shift the direction of the show. That's what. You're the one talking the whole time. Shift it.

Do whatever you want to do. Take the power. It's all done. You keep trying to. Take your power, dude. This is not the place for this. You want the red? Do you want the red socks?

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This is just what it is? We're just going to, like, just edit right here? Nah, you should run that shit. Show it real. Don't edit it so to fucking keep on making me look like I need a therapist. Yeah. I don't think there's a way to edit this where it doesn't make you look like you need a therapist. Go to stage, Alex.

The person that was tapped in on what the rest of us wanted to do was this girl right here. All right? Everything about you is disruptive. And I'm cool with it. Yeah, but you want to reset? No, no, I don't want to reset. Okay. This girl is the shit.

Okay? She got it. While you was fucking around here stressing cursing everybody out we continue to work we continue to pitch ideas what did i say what i say katie we're gonna open up with the clip we continue to do that every time you step in shit gets chaotic son every time and now now here's what you won't do. This is a real moment that should be on here.

You're not going to do that. You know why? Because you don't think it's funny. This? Yeah. Do whatever you want to do with it, man. You just, God damn.

I'll fucking deal with this with bitches, man. I don't know. Bye. Oh, my God. Well, that's a bunch of unusual, Kate. And cut. Oh.

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