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Donnell Rawlings joins Sway In The Morning to discuss his ambitious vision of creating "Donnelland," a family-focused event that could become the next urban Disneyland! 🎡🔥 From heartfelt community-building moments to hilarious banter with Sway and his young cousin Bryce, this episode dives into the magic and memories Donnelland creates for kids and families alike. Donnell shares how this annual event bridges generations and fosters lasting connections through activities like three-legged races, kayaking, and comedy. Plus, hear about his journey in comedy, his thoughts on mentorship, and how he draws inspiration from Walt Disney himself.
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CHAPTERS:
00:44 - Donnell Rawlings First Job
04:58 - Meet 10-Year-Old Bryce
08:48 - Donnell Rawlings Donellland Event
14:50 - Sign Up for Donellland
17:54 - Donnell's Vision for Donellland
22:08 - Upcoming Shows with Donnell
24:17 - Commander Anthony from Dallas
25:44 - Collaborating with Anthony
26:50 - Last Roast Battle Highlights
28:40 - Recreating Comedy History
31:50 - Working with Teddy Swims
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[Applause] wow give it up man for Danielle Rollins man uh that was a clip i'm not clapping
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from the the a new day remember that special on Netflix Heather we watched it did we watch it together did you watch
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his special nope you did not watch Darnell's special natur
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i don't like Darnell and I think you're being gracious that you have him here yeah I think you
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doing him a favor we're actually only here today to celebrate young Bryce young Bryce that's it bryce put your
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earphones on Bryce we live on Bryce we got Darnell Rollins and um his cousin
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Bryce here 10-year-old Bryce man can you not be Man I know I taught you better than this when I gave you your first job
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on radio i gave you your first job just wait just answer the qu i give you your
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first job on radio bro now let me tell you the transition i mean but then I give you your first job on radio let's
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start there you gave me the opportunity for the world to see the God-given
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talent that I have and with that said I wanted you for inspiration motivation to be a mentor and your ass quit the next
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day that's the part you don't want to tell nobody i just want we got to go step by
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step i just want you quit how you going to be like "Come on I'm out of here you quit on me son." I'm just saying though
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I gave you your first job on radio you did and I appreciate I never spoke against it i never never said anything
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other than that and also know that you not everybody in this room are a very
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positive person thank you bro you have a career that's been unscathed i don't know how that happened you must got deep
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pockets of your publishers is working overtime i don't know how you never got no
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trouble son but these two over here yo Heather and Tracy and listen I didn't
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even know this is my my friend ex-friend whatever you call her sister whatever i
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didn't even know she told me she was like "Yo D um I'm in LA now." And the first thing I said was I thought I
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thought it was something going on he wasn't negative you didn't give me the
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information you said "So what's the first I was like yo Dell where you at Dave where we doing what's going on?"
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Like "Where you at son i'm in LA now." And you said "I'm I'm I'm living here."
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Yeah now what I'm supposed to say after that what happened congratulations y'all
2:24
still together i was like yo where's the support listen let's back it let's back it up
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the support if you would have said and I didn't know till I saw it online if you have said the show moved to California
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then I wouldn't have asked those questions but out of nowhere you like this i'm in LA i I was The reason why I
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was nervous because when I look at like a perfect marriage and happiness over you I thought something happened so you
2:46
took it the wrong way because you negative when you said that when you said that I was worried i was like "No."
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And then I was like "Oh she back on the streets." I didn't know if you was back on the streets cuz when people back on the streets you see it go on the street
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you see where the negativity starts when a woman moves from one coast to the
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next coast they back in the streets oh back in the streets
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trying to get away from that as much as possible and start a new life and I thought she would start a new life but
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she sounded too happy i'm like damn he must been making her mad for years right she was like this i'm in LA and I didn't
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you know why the reason why I was so happy is because very rarely are me and Darnell out here at the same time i know
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his schedule's crazy so the first thing I was like "Where you at?" He's like "I'm in LA i'm in my sister house." And
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I was like "I'm here too." He's like "What you mean?" I was like "I'm here never moved here you still with your
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everything all right with your marriage you could have said Tracy Tracy you had the expression you felt how I would have
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misinterpret that situation yes if you'd have said the show is moving here then I would have been excited but I had some
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concerns about uh I was wondering if you still married i think it's very
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indicative of your bond cuz you was concerned you wanted to be there for your sis no I didn't want to think I was
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going to introduce her to her it's negative for her it's negative for real man come on man and he told me I would
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still smoke with him but you know I'm team you like that's
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I still smoke with her but I would want you to know I'm still with you i'm with you this is what I dealt with in less
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than a 4minute conversation but what I did I'm telling you once I figured out what was going on
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I was excited that you was here and I was excited cuz cuz I you know I split my time between Ohio and here and I was
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like "Oh that's awesome." Because you know the closest people I got here is uh my sister right and then I know you know
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her then I know how you get down there i was like "Oh we about to cook she ain't going to clean her chicken in LA."
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That's the first thing I said i was excited about it why he you still Why he saying that don't don't don't we can we
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can we talk about the young man that's in here why we allow Darnella even come
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in because of young Bryce but this is okay hey I don't want to over talk him or whatever but um he hasn't even said
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nothing yet bro can you say hi go ahead go ahead hi Bryce hi he is traumatized man what's the old to
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you your cousin uh my cousin but he's like my uncle he's like an uncle right do Do you like him
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okay why reason um cuz he's funny and nice he's nice they about to cut your
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mic off say nice man my gosh all right okay cool what well welcome to the show
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man thank you you got your commander outfit from head to toe huh one of those kids you do Spider-Man too uh yeah okay
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all right great man um who's your favorite commander terry McLuren is my guy jaden okay okay that's what's up man
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nice all right you You want to be a stand-up comous
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uncle Cousin no I I don't want to i want to play sports okay football isn't it
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obvious what do you What position do you play qb qb man big baby man what are you
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stretching right now what's so you know what you sound like you stretching what do you mean like you the way you talk
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you sound like you style this is a handsome young man i
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like this guy he's a handsome young man he's fun he's vibrant he has a lot of
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energy i met Bryce for the first time and his dad up at Darnell Land darnell Land come on get that around you heather
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talks about that you swear you pay her no well because see that's negative why can't
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Well because why can't I mean the way she talk about it is like she's an ambassador but she can't be passionate
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about it she can't believe in it i mean damn i mean every day she talks about it every day and what's wrong with every day it's too much negative stuff going
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on i need a time out in a prayer man and a therapist it's too much going on see
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this is the problem we have all the negative stuff going on and then she wants to talk positive about it every
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day and you got a problem with it i mean bro it's a Thank you for giving me my first radio you never have bro and I'm
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You still ain't [Â __Â ] you know oh excuse me Bryce all right Bryce man i think you're a great guy welcome to the show
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man thank you D and I I you know it's easy for me to say and Heather talks
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about it i talked about it this is the fifth year of Darnell Land we do it Memorial Day weekend i can talk about it
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but I think that the thing that I like about this the most is what uh it does for kids and how they feel it's point
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it's in it's ingrained in them now like soon as it start getting warm like are we going to Danielle Land i could talk
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about it all I want but I said let me invite my husband up so you can get perspective on what Darnell Land's
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Darnell Land means to the kids that come out yo what is Darnell Land like for you what was the first time you went you
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remember uh I don't remember the first time I went but what is it like when you go
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there what what excites you about it that I get to spend time with my family especially my cousins
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what kind of activities do y'all do there's like trampoline and last time I went I forgot what it was called but
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like when you throw the ball at the um target oh when you get a prize no and
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like you like somebody falls in the water yeah yeah like what do you call that so what it's called a capside which
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uh which her and her husband did three times oh wow where she was on a river part of the Monday it's a climax when we
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do a river run we for the last couple of years we've had like 300 boats if you want to say kayaks and canoes in there
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and the interesting thing about me what I like about it is to see people from the city have that experience for the first time like she had the thought that
8:37
she could be live and I wish she would go back on her on her phone cuz she would always be like this way oh we down
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here Dell look at the ass whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
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you and Horse fell out the boat three times not only did we fall out the boat after the boat ride the river run
8:56
Darnell has the the stage and everything set up and everybody's talking about the experience and the food and so he brings
9:03
me up on stage and he brings up Austin and I was like "Hi Austin it's good to
9:08
see you remember me?" He's like "Yeah you the one that kept falling in the water." And I looked at him i was like
9:13
"You like your pops your why would you do this to me?" But the thing about it
9:19
what Bryce spoke about like we just talked about this this week Spray when we talked about the Fry Oreos like I had
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them at Darnell Land i mentioned that on air because he set up a carnival there's a carnival set up for kids there's a um
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a a a paint face painting there's a magician like this entire weekend yeah
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it's family but the kids that come out and you have to see the smiles on their faces how many kids would you say are
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there like I think uh last year it probably was maybe a hundred kids oh wow
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wow and then a lot of them were from like uh uh two parents in the household so you put two on top of that so I think
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that we had like a total of like three between the activities probably like three or 400 yeah and then we also do a
10:02
comedy show that we usually turn about 1100 or 1200 people wow we do um we do
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uh it's it's something for everybody we do a sound bath people want to get in touch with themselves we do a a nature a
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nature walk uh a a kickball game we do the creeks versus the streets it is and
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the thing and I got to say it started because when I was doing the um outdoor shows or the summer shows with Chappelle
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some years ago during the pandemic he pretty much had the comedy side locked down but I realized that we had a lot of
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people in town they didn't couldn't go anywhere and then we had to have some activities dave's wife's introduced she
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was used to planning the stuff we're going to do we going to do a nature walk i was like I don't want to do that then we we did the uh the kayak and I fell in
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love with it and then like I said Dave used to do the comedy part of it but I wanted I would say I was like the camp
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counselor i would uh organize the barbecues the outdoor uh hiking the
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canoe trips and everything and then when he kind of like didn't do it as much because when the world opened up
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everybody was going on the road i said I would like to have a weekend where I kind of pre pretty pretty much do all of
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the things that we did that summer on on this scale and um we started this is the fifth season it started just as
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something that I did myself and then just continuing to grow right now I'm at the point now every year it's been money
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out of my pocket which I don't mind i was going to ask you how you paying for this it's out of my pocket last year was
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last year was the first time that we had we had a couple of local sponsors or whatever and then you know it's hard
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when you a lot of times when you're doing something and then you ask yourself if are people really
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appreciating it you know and you really get to a point you see the money that you spend but I was like I like the year
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before last I spent a lot of money and I was like the attendance was decent but I was like at least I could say that money
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was for marketing the idea of it now it's getting branded uh we started with some local sponsors i'm really trying to
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uh get uh a good person aligned with it frank Cooper who frank Cooper frank
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Cooper CFO at Visa did I call him out frank Cooper frank Cooper yo I know Frank Cooper he's big boy i mean I've
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read about him I know who he is he's a good guy he went to You should get Andre Williams from
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American Express we asking him right now ray I don't want no competition between cards you just I know andre is good
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people but here here's the thing it's hard this is the beginning of anything i But that's how you get Frank on board
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that's how Okay we going to get him but this somebody told me they used um uh the roots picnic example right they said
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when that first started they was just doing like they had mom part like smaller sponsors but once if you sending
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your message people attached to it and my line for Darnell Land they said "What is Darnell Land?" And Frank told me he
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said "What are you bridging you got to bridge bridge something that's what it's all about." And I said "Darnell land is
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bridging the gap between the young the young and the old to create memories for a lifetime." And that's one thing that I
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want the kids to and the families when they leave this i want them to be able to say 10 years from now remember we on
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the river and we got connected i've had people talk about the river saves my saved my marriage i've had some
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interesting people going that never experienced I know this sounds weird and people like what are you what is he doing here one year Kid Rock was there
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right kid Rock's big guy in the Midwest whatever his political feelings I'm not getting into that but I remember
13:18
floating down a river and he was beside me in a kayak and he said it feels like I just went through 12 uh hours of anger
13:24
management wow we were floating down a river and I saw like groups of people it was just one boat and it wasn't labeled
13:31
but it was clearly a LBGT boat okay right you had that boat floating down the river don Hill thank you for what
13:37
you're doing then you had a thug boat you know word is word to everything you know was that Heather was in that boat
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yeah she was in that boat but it sucks but it's something and the
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thing like when I first last year I had this field I want to shout out to Steve Wearing over at uh uh the pavilion that
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gave us this space and it was this huge space and I was like man I ain't got enough money to put I wanted to put like
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roller coasters and all this type stuff i was like your budget doesn't do that and then it made me think okay when you
14:06
were younger what are the type of things you used to do we used to do like like the three-legged race you know what I
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mean like uh like horseshoes like simple stuff i was like I don't have to have the most extravagant things to create
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the best experience and I and I I'll show you video this is video of them them just racing you know what I mean
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just simple stuff like that and the biggest thing was these kids are enjoying themselves with no roadblocks
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no phones no nothing and it's and it's a good thing you feel that Bryce like that's a big part of it too
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yeah you you meet a lot of kids there uh yeah yeah mostly my cousins so what
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what's what's your uh favorite what's your favorite activity uh probably the three-legged race the
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three-legged race huh all right okay thank you Bryce i appreciate that Darnell so anybody could come yeah
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anybody could come if you go to direwallins.com i'm I'm just you can sign up for the the registry for the
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guest book and then we'll have people you'll constantly get information on how to register for the kickball game how to
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uh find out where the comedy show is and then me and um we had a battle she got me twisted had to be there yeah got me
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twisted well we normally do we do our annual cook off as well because the other thing that Darnell is being humble
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about is that he opens up his home he he'll pick people go in the house i've never been invited to his house you did
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don't do that sweetheart that's negative to your house no you've been invited but you didn't have nothing to do cuz
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see when he time he see tripping up there go i'm surprised the only reason you're in the studio right now cuz you
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feel comfortable you back on the West Coast you know it yo yo he been [Â __Â ] walking got his Converse his chunks they
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not like guns i can just make a I can make a noise and it's all over curtains
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when I found out you was here I was like "Oh I know he happy as hell." Relax bro i know i know i could tell yeah man but
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he he opens up his home one of the days and just will have like a barbecue and
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that's usually when he and I will get into the kitchen his sistering and his brother like and we just have fun
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uncle's there like we just having a good time and we'll go back and forth we're both creating content and just we we
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we're joking but it's all in the spirit of love and then you walk out into your house heather this is a lie that's not
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what happened at my house at my house you That's not what happened you say
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"Darnell what you drinking?" Right and I don't know if you put the whatever Diddy
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was putting in drinks i don't know but what I'm saying is you don't talk like this you look at me she look at me and
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she see I'm starting to get a little faded right and soon as I get there she like "Look at him making baloney early
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in the morning." That's what she does that's what she does well either way he
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opens up his home to people and you walk outside and not only some of the times it's just a who's who of of of comedy
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and the entertainment industry but then it's to his point it's locals and it's people who just yo I'm a fan of Darnell
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i'm here to support yo I did this i'm The kids are in the pool they're swimming at Darnell's house they're
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running around folks are just bringing in ice and different things i just think for me it reminds me of old school
17:14
family reunions do you remember like the the music is playing you haven't seen your cousin in nine years your uncle got
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a new girlfriend like it's that feeling you know he's podcasting from that time and it's just one can you tell them how
17:28
the feeling about when we do karaoke how you get everybody twisted and then don't want to get off the microphone wow heather you don't tell a You don't You
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be hoging a karaoke mic i thought this was an opportunity to big up Darnell Land i didn't know i I I That's Thank
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you i didn't know I got my guards open i got
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to keep my guards up you got him on i like Thank you yo when is Darnell Lynn may was May 25th through the 27th may
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25th yo can I sponsor something i would love for you to sponsor something okay swear you honestly i'm serious it's a
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real good inexperience like you would not even One year Darnell rented out a movie theater for all the kids to just
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go to the movies really how much something like that might cost we can talk off air okay all right all right no
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but I'm telling you I mean I I I'm just I know that this is going to be something big in the future i know that
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this going to be something that you know when I'm not here you know in the physical form my son could take it over
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you know what I'm saying it's like again it's no money in it for me you know like I I never broke an even but I think that
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what I'm laying out for the future is going to be dope the fact that uh Bryce could have these memories like my friend
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uh Dawn out of Chicago she got two kids she's a her kids have been asking about Darnell Lance since last year wow you
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know I mean I think it's something and it's interesting because um a couple of my friends that helped me uh there was
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one young lady that worked for um Disney right and uh she was telling me the
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story of how Walt Disney started Disneyland and it started something simple he was at a park and he saw and
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he hadn't seen this in a while he saw f every member from the family enjoying itself something simple and he wanted to
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build on that that's how it all started something similar i didn't know that our thoughts ran i'm not saying I'm going to
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be Walt Disney but just how we got inspired how it started like just doing something would bring family together
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who knows i could be the the next urban Disneyland or whatever why not man but I
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like where it is i like that the kids are excited about it and it could be frustrating you know putting something
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together especially when you're doing something and you don't feel that people are seeing your vision the same way you
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like you can ask yourself why am I doing this but when I look at his face and when I hear Austin talk about it when I
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hear my friend's kids saying "Are we still doing um uh Darnell Land?" That's what kind of puts the battery in my pack
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to want to continue to do it but I will say we do need I'm going to be honest we
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need money i would much rather use another situation it ain't a lot i'm not trying to gouge anybody i just want to
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be able to provide the best experience for the people that come out here let me tell you this cuz you brought up Walt
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Disney and a lot of people don't that park that he was inspired by is a place
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called Fairyland so you know the story yeah and it's in the middle of Oakland okay and Fairyland is still there when
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you say Oakland why you got to act like you about to fight somebody yo yo yo yo he went back to New York you
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had the New York face on that Oakland i didn't know that yeah yeah tell the story yeah no it's a place called
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Fairyland in Oakland and it's a type of place where it's it's just they built it
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in Lake Merritt you know where Lake Merritt is in the in middle of Oakland and it's on the side of Lake Merritt and
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it's it it's kind of in the cut between a lot of the trees and the lake itself
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and when you go in it it's beautiful for kids we used to go as kids and they would have these gnomes that they'll
20:57
build like these little seammen statues of dwarfs and stuff and they'll have a little profile about the dwarf and
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they'll offer you these keys that you could put these keys inside of a little keyhole and then the dwarf will start
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talking it was a a recorded it was a recorded vocal of a dwarf talking and telling you the story it has like uh
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dragons cement dragons it's a small very minute version of what Disneyland became
21:23
but it was but to your point he saw that park and you could read this you could read about this we learned about this
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growing up and made Disneyland so Darnell Land you're right you know minus the sexual connotations that Disney
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movies start putting you know in the cartoons and stuff darnell Land why we got to manage those i'm joking i'm
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joking wow we do have an adult night i'm joking come on i'm just kidding it's adult night too that's where all the
21:48
kids go to bed that's where all the kids go to bed and Darnella hits on your text son what you doing son this about to get
21:54
popping over here i'm like "Yo we're in the Midwest and you want me to come over now at 1:00 a.m yo and we just did so we
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break day we break." I'm on board bro we'll talk off air man we want to universe want to sponsor something oh
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for sure okay we do a podcast oh and I know also I'm going to be in New York soon i'm going be at the um the city
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winery may 20 March 28th march 28th and the 29th and then Baltimore i'll be
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that's this weekend I'll be at the Comedy Factory outlet i love going to that place cuz it's like right it's the DMV you know I grew up between uh DC and
22:27
Alexander so I get a lot of DMV people and I will say this for anybody that people always ask the question you just
22:32
did a special are you going to do any new material i had a new 45 minutes to an hour after my special dropped and I
22:39
will say this way I thought you know somebody could say well I saw he was funny that but uh recording a special
22:46
it's in that moment yeah in that moment I thought I was the best I could be but I learned so much from that understand
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oh man that I I'll say one thing after doing it for 30 years every time I go on
22:57
the stage I go on the stage to be better than the last time I was on stage which
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was probably better than the last time I was on stage i'm really despite what anybody thinks I'm really like a student
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i'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm really serious about standup if I never get
23:14
another job in film if I never get a another job in television radio or anything the fact that I could put my
23:20
name on the marquee and people want to come out and see me do what I do yeah I
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appreciate it i never never sell an audience short darnell Rollins man uh yeah man let's do it man i'm definitely
23:31
down to do it um 888 i have a deck i have a deck that I'll send you but also
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I even with whoever gets this deck that is just like tears that we want but I'm
23:42
also uh open to customizing something just like the idea you said with the gnome if it's something you like hey I
23:48
I'll let you do or whatever you want to add to on the creative side of it yo D let's do this numbers must be huge huh
23:56
no they not i'm telling you for for people in this business they really light some people ask me "Ah but I'm not
24:03
trying to exploit anybody you know like if I could just at the end of the day if I could just break even everybody had a
24:10
good time whatever I'm good i'm on board man darnell Rollins is here bryce is here man he's in a commander uniform."
24:16
Anthony you want to talk uh to Darnell you in Dallas hey aunt yes sir i'm calling from Dallas Texas how you doing
24:22
Mr rollins and appreciate you Sway giving me his time absolutely is he a citizen what is he called he's a citizen
24:28
bro darnell come on man we We got merch too D take the money back Sway take the money back take the money back killing
24:34
me man take the money back okay damn i want to say I'm happy to see Tracy but she seems subdued over there you all
24:39
right you are in California
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you doing edible or something don't do that but I know all jokes I'm not trying to disrespect Anthony on the
24:50
phone but I didn't know sometimes when shows move they be like "We're just taking one person whatever." But it's good to see well you know what it is
24:57
Danielle tracy's running the New York studio while we're doing it here in LA and so we got both simultaneously we got
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both so you could have came in New York and been with Tracy in the studio but she was here okay you know so we you
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have on the screen yeah we usually have it but nobody's in New York New York studio right now so you you ain't
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nothing like Yeah come on down i really I I what y'all doing man so this is why
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I want to say you got a lot of platforms out here but you guys managed to keep it positive keep it keep it good and like
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just the loyalty of it when I saw all of y'all still together Sway is big on that even though he think that I don't
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appreciate his opportunity that he came whatever he's a good guy all right
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that's the last thing I'm going to say we trying to be nice you don't even sound right all right Anthony what's your question it sounds fake go ahead my
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qu My question is Mr rollins i'm a um screenplay writer and I also been ghost writing standup comedy for the last 3
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years i was trying to see would you like to collab on a film or you looking for a writer for standup comedy anything the
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comedian I was ghost writing for for the last four years he's on tour with Mike Eps right now i work with Master P i
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would I wouldn't need to know who that person is touring Mike cuz you might be writing for somebody I can't stand
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well give us example of a joke you ghost wrote talk offline about that wait wait give us example of a joke you wrote yeah
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I'm trying to hear that uh one of the jokes I wrote about was uh BBL's uh how
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the doctors when they done they put their neighbors anywhere when they done and they put it by their heart anywhere
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so if you notice when they're done with the neighbors they they never in the exact place where our neighbors are
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where we originally born so that's one of the jokes that our uh You know what
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he bought he bought that joke he bought it
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next caller please i'm just joking i'm You know what this is what I I was just
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on a popular roast battle and I gave people my honest critique or something and they was upset about it cuz yo that
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was crazy bro they It felt like everybody was attacking you they was attacking me because they couldn't handle me oneonone and the thing about
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it with what I thought was irritating was like this is the roast battle the most insensitive place that's why I don't want to do it i don't like doing
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roast battles because they take it they get real personal hey it's just a joke no you meant what you just said and I
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gave my critique of the two guys was up there they got upset and I told him I was like
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I said Jeff you can't believe in everybody's dreams i said they're not going to make it but I was clear what I
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said because of this i said this is a good opportunity for y'all obviously you guys not prepared it's I don't see no
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confidence coming from anybody you doing a roast you're trying to be this guy's friend when you doing a roast with somebody that's your enemy you're
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supposed to go to attack i said "And the biggest joke you had was a joke about me you weren't prepared you had one joke
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and you thought that one joke was gonna uh start a career." And that's the problem with these platforms that don't
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give standup comics the experience to really know what it takes to do it it's not one joke but now you got with social
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media I'm not hating you got social media one person get one joke they viral next thing you know like "Hey I'm so and
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so." So you giving them the false belief that that's what it takes to make it it ain't just one shot is going to the open
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mics it's people telling you no it's people that say that's not funny and I even told him at the end of his way I
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said "I hope that your disdain or the anger you have toward me you're so mad
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that it makes you want to be better and greater." And when I said that "Oh you can't talk to us like that." Yes I can
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but also I think I had one two three four five maybe six Titos and tonics right and then what what do they say
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what they say when you have some drink you tell the truth right everybody got upset with me then they tried to flip it
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here's another thing he always tried to do to me sway the all this what they always say and I'm going to address it
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oh he's Dave Chappelle's butt plug he's You know what I'm saying you heard that
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son why you didn't tell me they said that i called Heather yes you remember I called Heather this is what they say Sway he's so and so this is what they
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say if it wasn't for Dave Chappelle this is what I hear all the time right what has he done
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since Chappelle i can tell you what I done before Chappelle show that will probably mop up a lot of these dudes
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resumes and I could tell you what I done after Chappelle show that will mop up half these [Â __Â ] resume say that what
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they want me to do is recreate history i can't do that i cannot apologize for
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being and I don't give a [Â __Â ] what nobody say being one of the breakout performers on what people not me are
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saying is one of the greatest sketch shows in the history of television that's right whatever you feel about
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however long it was I already made history i can't re What am I going to
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try to do outdo something that has already been done it's just certain shows come along every once in a while
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where guess what whatever you do in your career that is going to be what everybody remembers you for you know
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what I'm saying and it's obvious that people appreciate it when we did SNL that little cameo is Ashley Larry and
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beautiful no I'm not trying to ride that [Â __Â ] but if it could sell a ticket why
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not what What am I gonna do so what I'm gonna try to do now is create a show that is better than what we already
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created no I just keep it moving stay consistent and this is the one thing they don't ever want to challenge me on
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any of them and I'm talking to all of y'all uh-huh they don't want to go on the stage go on the stage i I You can
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say all you want you can say all you want if anything that I'm confident about and I wear that on my shoulder
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talk all the [Â __Â ] you want to talk about me but let's bring it to the goddamn face none of them like any of those
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people on that roast that was getting at you they wouldn't go on stage with you you know what Sway they would go on
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stage with me right i'm not trying to be a bragger or whatever but I'll put it like this usually they could say
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whatever they want usually when I especially in certain circle they'll say "Oh I'm not dealing with that." Yeah i'm
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not dealing with it and I'm not I'm not I don't feel this much confidence when it comes to acting or any of that stuff
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but because and especially because how I I feel about this and and this is one thing I do too whatever negative happens
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in my life even that roast battle thing for a day I did ask myself you know what
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Danielle you got to be careful on how you present yourself because people are always watching i did take that
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accountability with that but I also remember how that moment was created and that moment was created because I've
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been rocking with Teddy Swims for the last two years right that's my guy we met you know you meet somebody you line
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or whatever you're like and he was doing a show in LA the Adam Corolla's uh Dr phil show and I just popped up on him he
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didn't know it and when we some certain energies when we saw each other eye to eye pause no whatever it was just like a
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connection and it was off to the races we did hit the bar what I did learn was you can't go tick for tack with a white
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dude from the south you know what I'm saying he he showed me right and then
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next thing you know I'm a rose battle and some honest things came out i'm not going to take away from the moment we kicking with him but I know I don't care
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what nobody say poundforound and this is the people that come to see my show you
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can contest to this poundforound i'm one of the nicest dudes on the stage with a mic in his hand darnell Rollins i I
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agree with that man i've seen you shut down shows live and it's funny when I saw what was the name of that roast uh
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it was called um it's called Roast Battles rose Battles okay yeah immediately you remember when I called
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you and said "Yeah but I didn't know what you was talking about." You didn't know what I was talking about but I was like "Man I don't know if I like what they was doing to him." You know see
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this is what the setup was the setup was what the thing was um when I came in here my my energy is very strong i kind
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of like roughed the whole show the host didn't like that right he tried to bring an order but if he was smart you got to
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understand with comedy shows yes you got a certain format but if something odd is happening and it's funny roll with it
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you got Donnell Rollins up there you got Teddy Sims up there you got Jeff Ross up there but you still want to be a star of
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the show that you've been doing for 11 years quarterbacks you ain't got to score all the touchdowns let that happen
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and if you really took a look at that I never got mad when anybody was roasting me i never I took it i knew that was
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part of it i tell the only part I got upset was when the dude tried to flip it
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and he said "Oh you're going to come up here." This is cuz he This is his negro voice oh darn you can't come up here and
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his negro yeah yeah yeah samuel Negro but you know what they're referencing to right he's like "Oh oh
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come on Dio you can't come up here and talking about us like that hey guys what I want you to do anytime this guy says
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something I want you to boo." He's got the audience trained so it's unfair so
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even if I said anything funny the minute I said something it was like boo and I told him I said "Y'all can't out boo
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me." And I would have stood up there and took it but it came to a point where they controlled that audience that
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audience goes there for a certain thing yeah i said "You know what enough is enough." I said "All right whatever it
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is what it is." And I knew after that here's the most notorious person in this business now it ain't the host it ain't
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the people in the audience the nastiest person you want to piss off is the editors the editors because when they
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say it happens in post it really happens in post they only show yo yeah you evil
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i know i know what you those are the ones that start the viral beef right there cuz they only show that
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moment and as much as people want to say I was rude or whatever what they can't
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deny is the guys two guys that was there at that moment they wasn't ready but
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here's another thing where I continue to I will continue to support i had to go do a good friend of mine Tino Cacino he
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has a radio show and doing this late night TV show in Phoenix right the two guys that I was talking about in the
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roast they were from Phoenix and I said "Listen it's a small word." I said "Tino why don't you get those two guys that
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thought that I disrespected them to come do this show with us so now we can do a
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reconnect they get a chance to see they get a chance to go back into the studio and do their thing." What happened one
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of the guys showed up wow okay one of the guys showed up and he was the one that I would say of of both of them that
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probably has some potential right so we did a skit where they got had some comments come out there and was
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intentionally horrible so I had to flip like "Oh my god you guys are the best thing ever you're going to make it oh my
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god give him a TV show." And then they brought the other guy here that I had uh I had um gave critique to he was there
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and he had an okay set and I said this is what I respect and I think that you
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could have potential doing this is that you didn't let what I said that night stop you from still going for it yeah
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yeah i said you got endurance i said and this what bigger than one joke this is what it is when you feel bad about
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something you come back and you try to correct it or do something different and
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it was a moment because for somebody try to make out like I don't support young comics or anything is so false so many
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people that I've helped in their career i I'm a person if anybody ever talks to
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me too much about I thought about doing comedy i'm going be like come to my show I'll give you five minutes off the rip
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i've been mentoring people forever it just so happened that I was honest if you can't take the honesty this is not
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the business to be in especially comedy especially comedy like if you if that and that's what I respected about the
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kid i wish I knew his name that's what I respect about him and then when I got to know him from some of the other comics
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in that uh area they was like yo he's like a favorite guy here people love his hustle and everything that's the thing
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that's bigger to me not just two seconds of a a moment and that's what's so sad
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about this business now people don't want to put the work in they want it to happen instantly they want to post one
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video and all of a sudden you viral but what happens you start creating these
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YouTube people that will fill a space up but then nobody want to go see them again cuz they not give no show and I'm
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not a person that's opposed to using the opportunities and the technology you have right now i wish they had we came
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up with flyers i wish that I had an opportunity that I could put a phone in front of my face and millions of people
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see it but I didn't so I had to take it from the grassroots now these young ones
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coming up if they could take the work ethics and they don't have to listen and
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the principles that we had coming up it's going to make them a better comic yeah but it's hard to even talk to these
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guys cuz ultimately what do you what do we want to do this for for the fame the
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money the girls but when I was coming up all of those things that you wanted you had to be good first
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to get the money now you don't have to be good you get the money first so it's hard to tell a young kid what you need
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to do he's like I made $300,000 on TikTok this month so they won't connect but hopefully they will now I appreciate
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you breaking that down cuz I had no idea what was going on when I just happened to catch the middle and I was like "Oh
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this looks funny." Oh I like And I liked you being in that genre right yeah i
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like cuz I know you could cover the you do all genre you could walk anywhere but you know what even on American Idol
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guess who they uh hated the most who simon Cal right and but guess who they wanted to hear from the most simon Cal
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darnell Rollins man make sure y'all sign up for Darnell Land go to darnellins.com we will be Savage
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Universe will be sponsoring something dope all right i don't know what it is bryce man you you hog the mic man you
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just talking and talking man you all right you want to shout anybody out before you leave i want to shout out my cousin Austin all right
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and my dad hi you have an amazing son man this guy got
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a great temperament right he He don't budge man i like him you all right with me you do good in school too man uh yeah
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he's killing it in school oh really okay cuz little girls like you too i My dad had to take me out cuz I now I have to
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go to all boys school cuz I got so much girls my man Bryce my man Bryce you go in on that no