Donnell Rawlings Announces His New Podcast

I encourage too many people to do too many things. I encourage everybody to start a podcast. I encourage everybody to do stand-up. I do it all the time. And people will get mad at me going, you should encourage everybody to do it. But if you try it, you might be good at it. Like, it's not a special talent in the sense that like, if you can't run fast, you're not gonna win at track and field. You're just not. You're just not. But almost anybody who thinks they're funny, who loves comedy, who's got a sense of humor and is smart, can at least make some attempts at stand-up. And I think if you can just get a little bit of traction, get going a little bit, you can get better. Everybody's got a different pace. Your pace was faster because you had been talking shit your whole life. But other guys were more silent and introverted. It took them a little while to get their thing going. But if they can do it, I always encourage people to do it. But even if they do it, they gotta keep doing it. Yes, you gotta keep doing it. You can't just like, that guy, my friend. It's the grind. Some people can't grind. I started, I started, you know, I didn't start my podcast, Start Started, but I recorded one today. Wow. By myself. It's happening. For 44 minutes. Did you just do a Bill Burst style? What did Bill Burst do? The reason why I did it, the reason why I did it, because I didn't want you to just talk shit to me. I was like this, I was like, this motherfucker got a knockout punch. But listen, you're so good. You're so good on podcasts. For you to not have a podcast is an atrocity. But I did it for four, this is the first time in my life, I talked for 45 minutes with nobody else but myself. Perfect. This is the first time I ever did that. It's easy for you. You could stay in this room for three hours and just go. I'm way better off with people. But you could do it, like you could go the distance. You could just do whatever. But it's a thing that you get better at doing. That's all it is. It's like everything else. Like being on a podcast, like doing podcasts is a thing that gets you, you get better at being on a podcast. You get better at doing it. I think I'm gonna, I have fun. Yeah, you're gonna be perfect at it. I was scared of shit, son, but I knew I couldn't come in here. I knew I couldn't come in here. When I, I'll show you the time line. I was like, I knew it wasn't a year, son. It was like five months ago, son. And every time I see you, I just be wanting to say, what's up? He like stretching out his shit. He's like, what's up with that podcast? I'm like, man, I tried to skip this. I said, you know, my son has a birthday. Yeah, that's cool. Everybody has a birthday. What's up with that podcast? But this is what I say. This is what I, and I really mean it. Everybody, one of the reasons why I encourage every comic to do it, because if you just put some energy into it, you have a thing that's all you. And if it's successful, it's all you. It's you. It's like you, and you don't have to worry about getting fired. You don't have to worry about it. People being mad at you. It's you putting out. I know it's me, but me now used to talking to himself. But you could talk to a friend. I couldn't, I didn't have a friend then, son. I'm your friend. I'm your friend. You don't want to talk to me. I do. No, listen. I would talk to you on yours first. All right. And then we can come and do mine second. Or vice versa. I did one today. I did one today. How about we do one today? I just did one. Okay. I just did one. I got 44 minutes. Okay. I did one. And I'm gonna tell you, it started off, I don't know. I was honest. Listen, I want you to critique it, son. Okay. You got to critique it, son. Okay. I just. I think you just got to put them out. If the first ones aren't your favorite ones, it doesn't matter. But that made me, I'm gonna tell you, I felt I was excited because you wouldn't be able to talk shit to me. I was. I was like, fuck that. Fuck that shit. I was excited you wasn't gonna talk shit to me. You took it on podcasts. And I'm excited that I got 44 minutes of me talking. That's beautiful. And this is a start. And I'm telling the truth. Yeah, if you go back and listen to the early burr ones, he would do it on a phone. He would like make a phone call to a place and like it would be him on the phone. It wasn't even like a recorder on his phone. Like this Bill Burr's first ones, he was doing way back before there was like an app on your phone that you could record on. Yeah. Yeah. And he was just talking shit about people at the airport. Just talking shit about this guy. Look at this fucking guy. Oh really? See, that's what I wanted. I just wanna talk shit, son. I just wanna talk shit. Well, you're a fucking master at it, man. I'm 100% sure you have a podcast. 44 minutes. The more people do it, the more comics do it, the more it empowers all of us. All right, what do I gotta do now? All you just gotta do is get it. I got 44 minutes. Get it to a Lipson account. You need an account where you can get an RSS feed, someone to help you. Aw, man. Don't panic. No, I wanna do it now. Come on, man. We'll help you, we'll help you. We'll help you. You ain't gonna do it, man. You're not gonna help me. Jamie's gonna help you. I'm a moron. Jamie, could you produce my first one? That's all I ask. I just get one. Yes, yes. Can I get one, Jamie? We'll do it. You can do it bootleg and shit. We'll do it. Come on, Jamie, help me, man. Don't worry, I'll take care of it. We got you. All right, so that's the first one. I got 44 minutes. I'm an air traffic team. We'll have it super easy to set up, so you just have to upload one every week. It'll be easy. All right. Okay, we'll get it started. You promised, right? Well, 100%, him and me. Okay. We're gonna go through this together. Don't forget me, son. I'm not forgetting you. I'm gonna do more, but I got one ready, son. You're gonna do more. I'm gonna help you. I was honest. I'll do whatever is good. Beautiful. I love you, son. I love you too, man. I get happy when I see you, man. I get happy when I see you too. I'm like, God, that nigga be working out. Everywhere I go, this motherfucker's everywhere. You at every club, son. You gotta work. How can you not win? You gotta work. Yeah, I mean, don't you think? That's the thing. Just put in those numbers. How can you? And it's so funny because- And be nice. Be nice. Because when we did that show, we all did a good job, right? Yeah. But it felt good because we knew we had put the reps in. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't like this swinging haymakers. It's like, no, motherfucker. We gotta tone down. I got this shit. Yeah, we gotta do it. Even when we did the Utah joint, that was so dope because we did the first one, Ashley, you, I mean, Ashley and the you, and then they had the intermission with me and Dave, and then on the Utah joint, it was daytime. Right, that's right. Yo, it was just some funny shit. It started out during the day. It started off during the day. I told them to wait. I'm like, what are we doing? They didn't wait, right? So I'm like this, because I had just experienced something similar the year before with Frankie, Beverly, and Mays. Basically, motherfuckers weren't there, and it was daytime, you know? And I was like this, you can't give Joe a motherfucking daytime audience. Like, it's the backstage of the festivalist and shit, right? I was like, oh man, this shit gotta get dark. And I went on then, and it got dark, and fuck it, you wouldn't have been able to get that shit up, son. It was fun. It was amazing. Those gigs were special, man. Like, they felt like, they felt historic. They felt like we were doing something really fun. Yeah. You know? Which one is this? Utah one. Oh, Utah was beautiful. They were both beautiful. Utah, look at that shit, son. Yeah, the sky and everything above it. It was perfect. They were both beautiful. I fucking love Utah, man. I like going there. Look at that shit, son. Look at that. Bam. But you know what I'm saying? Like, those shows felt special. They felt like we were doing some fun shit. Man, that shit is like energy, man. That energy? Yeah. That energy, it's like, oh. It was like shit I would want to see. Like, if I was a guy who liked stand up but didn't do it, I want to see that show. And it's the show, and then it's seeing other people enjoy the show. You know what I'm saying? Bumping it to somebody. Hey, we were at the Rogan Chappelle show, you know? No, it was fun, man. It's dope. It was real fun. Got to do more of those, huh? I'm starting my part. You got me started, bro. Come on. Yo, you promised, son. You said you was going to produce it. I promise. I don't back out of promises. We're going to take care of it. I know. That's why I had to do it. We had to take care of it. We could just open up a branch that would annoy the fuck out of people, right? What? We'll hire a whole separate group of people so we could help people get podcasts launched. People be like, there's too fucking many of us. Man. Too many. You said you're going to do mine. I'm going to do yours. The first one, that's all. This is, I'm going to concentrate 100% on you. All right. But I'm saying, I mean, if we did decide to do that, to have a branch where it just helped people get started with their shit. But then too many people would ask. Then you would have people. No, you got to pick it. You got to pick it. But then people get mad at you. You don't pick them. But don't nobody give a fuck. You're dealing with some record producer type shit. You found a horse in your bed. You feel like a yearly draft. You just want to be out of five a year. Oh, yearly draft. Too much work. See, man, you just came up. We just produced yours. We just produced yours. That's it, man. Just mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was I thinking? I was giving myself an extra job. Producing yours is easy. Your fans started fucking trying to bully me and shit. Yo, I was in Orlando, and all these motherfuckers looked like you kept coming up to me. They love you. They look just like you, man. They look like you. They walk like you. They dress like you. They are you, sir. They come up, talk about what the fuck is up with the podcast. That's the truth. That's hilarious. Well, we got you. We're rolling. All right. We're official. You heard it here, folks, ladies and gentlemen. Whoo. That's it. We're rolling. Yeah, 100%. You got me. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.