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Donnell Rawlings On Dave Chappelle Shows in Yellow Springs & Caroline’s on Broadway Reopening
May 30, 2021
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oh
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no don't worry i'm okay oh no no no no
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my hair
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my hair is not okay this is a disaster
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huh
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we gotta fix this right now okay how we
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gotta go see this
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great who's this
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hey joe what are you doing here on a
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weekday you didn't call up an
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appointment man it's gonna be a while i
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was afraid of this
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go ahead and sit down
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you gotta wait son this is an emergency
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what joe get your buttons chill
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now should i even ask you how this
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happened the cat did it stop sounding
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insane i mean um
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i was um distracted getting ready to
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play with dorothea williams tonight
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dorthea williams
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that's big time joe congratulations
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that is from the award-winning i should
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say
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multiple award-winning animated film
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soul that we all watched and supported
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here at swing in the morning at swayze
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universe
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and we supported it for many reasons we
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supported it because
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it was like the first time and tracy you
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could chime in it was the first time
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that
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i remember seeing such a prestigious
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all black cast uh do an animated film
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like this the graphics were beautiful
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so many of the voices behind the cast
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the citizens
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are swaying in the morning but there was
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just one voice
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that at the same time i was so happy to
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hear
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the other side of me was like oh who
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made the decision to let him play
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deaths man doing no
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animation i'm talking about the one and
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only donnell
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rollins
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first off i want to say thank you for
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having me in the show another thing
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i like your tactic heather that's a very
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smart tactic
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and it's the same tactic that donald
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trump used when he was in office
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when the heat is on something or a
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situation
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you do or talk about something to get
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people's mind off of the real deal
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and the real deal is um i'm looking
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forward to a couple
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with you i'm looking forward to cooking
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for you where we don't cook turkey legs
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but we don't do uh we don't do your
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triple stuffed
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baked potato and we do something
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different and
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we don't use seasoned salt that's the
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only thing i want to do that's the
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purpose of this call thank you
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for talking about dance the barber but
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we have more important issues
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to talk about and the reason why i say
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it is like go ahead
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go ahead you have the floor and i'm and
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i'm and i'm really learning how to
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communicate better
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i'm not going to yell i want to keep a
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calm demeanor
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you know but um
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i'm sick of traveling i was just in
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orlando
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and some other um um
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citizens approach me as we always do
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hey hey can i get a picture and then
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they'd be like yeah heather b can cook
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better than you
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and and i'm sick of it i don't know what
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we're gonna do
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i don't know how long i've had a
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relationship with you guys maybe 10
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years or better whatever
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and i've seen tracy and we i don't i
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know i'm like being a dead horse
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i've seen her with a flip phone in 2016.
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right and i said this is go-to
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and i said who's in her life and then
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are you guys still dating chasey
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yes we are donald oh my god when you
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gonna get rid of this [ __ ]
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is he gonna ever be a lawyer wait
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yo how many years will it take to be a
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goddamn lawyer around here
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he passed the boss she ain't gonna post
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all her business though he already
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passed the ball
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yeah come on down now keep up and then
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the fact that cause i've seen you when
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you was like what are you gonna skip
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over
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i can hear the happiness in your voice
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tracy and i gotta be honest
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i don't like it wow
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i'm gonna keep at it man figure out what
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to do with your ears don't know because
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it's here baby and it's loud high volume
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eight eight
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[Applause]
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that's right it's all about the whop i
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don't cook i don't clean but let me tell
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you how i got this ring
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i know what it is you got a voice over
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me
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you listen to seven four two three three
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four five
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hey uh darnell rollins is here he's
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actually here to talk about
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caroline's it is the reopening of
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caroline's which we are all excited
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about you know sway in the morning
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is a staple at caroline's when we
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broadcast from there uh we're gonna get
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to that in a minute but he wanted to
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start off
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talking about the smoke that he doesn't
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want with me now i appreciate all the
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citizens
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that run up on darnell ask for a picture
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tell him that they love his show and
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then go that's why you can't cook better
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than hb i'm with it citizens
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keep it going in fact one night danielle
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tried to call me live from the show and
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said
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you got a cult i i'm not winning i ain't
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feeling it these people are coming
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i'm falling hey listen we got reuben on
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the live ruben calling in from the end
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oh what's up baby
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what's up reuben
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hey bro
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what's up baby how you doing say what up
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what's happening with y'all
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what's going on queens
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face but you know what i would take that
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as a little indication that
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heather heather you need to switch up
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the fish you use everybody's thinking of
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whiting so i would say trout face
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and maybe you need to step your game up
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and get some trouble i can't even see
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your face you you sound like you got
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high cholesterol son i don't know who it
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is you sound like
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you sound like you got type 2
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i'm the better you are i'm in better
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shape on my bad day
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talk to him
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the number here is 888-742-3345 anybody
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here team darnell out in the entire
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swaze universe
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call us up and let us know we love you
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reuben thank you road warrior we
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appreciate it
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yo he sound like his he got food in his
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name i know he got tight too
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you're moving reuben is
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family so darnell listen you headed back
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i
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i know that you've been traveling a lot
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obviously we all follow each other
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and you've been spending a lot of time
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in ohio
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going back and forth and i know you try
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to keep things short and brief on your
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brief on your ig but what has the
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experience been like
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being out in ohio it's impossible to get
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tickets um so for the people that's just
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kind of got to live vicariously through
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you what has that experience been like
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in yellow springs
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it was great like last year when
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everybody was scrambling what what what
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you going to do
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to maintain your family when everybody
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was like oh my god i want to perform
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dave created the outdoor comedy venue
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he took like a a wedding pavilion they
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kind of tricked it out we did a social
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distance shows
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we did it we did that in the entire
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summer and i know people were like
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living through me vicariously and it's
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kind of hard for me to say that i know
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it was so
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trying we you and i both had
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uh conversations about family members
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they got covered in
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how it was like scary for everybody but
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for me man i was lucky
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like i got in this bubble in yellow
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spring and i didn't have the same
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experience
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as everyone else and i i honestly say it
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was one of the best summers i ever had
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because
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we created an environment where we got
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to live our life as normal
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as possible you know and not like be
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little in or
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like uh uh understanding
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what the pandemic did for the world but
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we were just in this bubble
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we had fun people came out to the shows
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and and we was able to maintain our
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health and
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keep our sanity even though it wasn't
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yellow spring
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um uh it was texas that we were still
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doing this bubble thing in texas it
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busted
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and a couple of us got them how do you
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say it the roanoke
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yeah right everybody's like
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see all out here y'all out there trying
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to do too much no we weren't trying to
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do too much out there just trying to
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live and be as normal as possible
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and then when you do that there's always
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some risk involved we were fortunate
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that
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when when it happened in our team nobody
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got like terminally ill everybody got
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passed and everybody
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went back to testing positive and we and
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we kept it moving
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and last year during the summer what i i
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tell everybody
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one thing about the pandemic that it uh
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puts
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things in perspective and may if if if
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this pandemic hasn't made you think
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about
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what's important in life i don't think
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anything else will
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right i'll give you an example my uh
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stephanie
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um uh was with often um i was in ohio
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she was like i'm taking on austin to the
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uh to the bronze zoo
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and she was complaining like oh my god
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it's so hot i don't know if i'm gonna go
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i said we need to count our blessings
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because this time last year
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we was feeding to be able to do
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something we was feeding to be able to
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grow
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to have our kids engage with other kids
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so you know
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last year it was a it was life lessons
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for everybody and what i found out is
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that nature
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is the [ __ ] i've had so much
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appreciation
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and waking up here in birds chirp
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watching grass
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grow and going on a river going under
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the kayak and just doing [ __ ]
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that don't cost nothing you know what
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i'm saying right like
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all those little gifts from god yeah
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you're right yeah
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and so and i you know i love being a dad
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and i like
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i don't understand like you had god tell
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me well i don't have enough money to do
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this with my kid blah blah this and that
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it don't take nothing to spend
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quality time with your kid i took my son
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to a car wash and just had him
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help me wash my car and that's a memory
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that he talks about everyone daddy when
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we gonna go back to the car wash we're
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gonna go back to car wash
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you know i got i gotta catch myself
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yep it's beautiful darnell is literally
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out there now
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in ohio headed back to new york uh for
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caroline's uh
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you know to do this big reopening has
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happened in this memorial day weekend i
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also want to note
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that all these experiences that he's
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talking about that happen
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in yellow springs dave chappelle new
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documentary will make his world premiere
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at the festival at the tribeca film
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festival so congratulations darnell
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for you with that as well we got we got
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dan on the line
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um daniel dolan actually calling in from
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ohio what's up dan say what up to
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darnell
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hey danny tracy g heather b what's good
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family how y'all what up bro
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what's up family what part of ohio are
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you in dan
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i'm from dayton ohio but i normally live
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out in brooklyn in fort greene but i've
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been back and forth with my family right
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so i got to check the shows last summer
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and i wanted to holler at donnell
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donnell you're going to be the river
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[ __ ] again this year am i going to see
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you on the river what's up
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all right first off that's not a
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politically correct statement river
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ninja all right excuse me
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it was so funny because i went out last
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year the funny thing
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is it takes people from the hood and
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take them to on a
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on a canoe trip or kayak trip for the
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first time it's the craziest thing we
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did it
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charlie showed up with uh air force ones
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with high top socks nobody was dressed
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didn't have the right stuff but i
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embodied the river ninja
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last year and i'm going to continue that
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with the shows i do this summer
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and we're going to be planning some some
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kayak trips and some canoe stuff and
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some
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yeah adventurous things in fact dan if
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you up there you got to come back
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because that's where me and donnell are
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going to try to plan and do our cook-off
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up
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in ohio so hopefully you'll be able to
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make it all right
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hey say let's heather i'm here stay left
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all right man stay safe up there
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h oh man
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oh he not right we got terence on the
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live from san antonio texas terrence
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what's good t
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go spurs hey t what's going on heather b
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what's going on family baby i'm a nice
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guy baby but hip hop but yeah i love
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your food and darnell
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you need to put some food on you so you
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can be actually done
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have a big on whoop you man
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heather b does not clean her chicken
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we've already had this
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video but you don't you don't clean
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you her man got a lawyer she's got
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lawyers on her side
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don't try to explain nothing to darnell
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darnell thank you t
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don't try to explain nothing darnell
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darnell gonna keep leaning into this
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fact about some chicken he know
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that here's what happened he got mad
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because he lost round one y'all that's
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all it comes down to
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so he's using all of these tactics about
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i had a whole coffin and alcohol i
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pulled out
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i'll be cooking in my robes i i i don't
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clean myself
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and you know you know you nasty when you
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got fat
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you got fat who has satin silk darnel is
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silk
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every day of the week yes i do because
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he stole my apron on top
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after he lost he stole my apron and i
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can't get that back i know what i did
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and you can't get it you can get it back
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but i'm gonna tell you i did the dream
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challenge
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he got naked
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that's wild tracy butt naked
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in my in my robe took a picture of the
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balcony and asking me if i wanted my
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roll back i was like i'm good
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the beef never ends it never is but
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round two
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is coming your way citizen so make sure
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if you are in the ohio area and you see
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dave chappelle and donnell rollins on
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the bill make sure you check them make
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sure you check them in texas
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because they've been killing it out in
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texas as well and this weekend
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make sure you check him if you are going
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to be in new york city
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man caroline's is opening back up in a
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big way darnell
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let him know the days you're gonna be
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there we got thursday
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tonight is the first night two shows
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friday two shows saturday
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and i think um all the shows are sold
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out but we're
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adding a a second show on sunday
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um we're going to get the room at full
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capacity if you show your vaccination
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card you can come in but
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we got we i usually do six shows we're
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gonna do seven
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but i'm excited because this is the
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first uh comedy club in town square area
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that's opening back up
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caroline's this is my home club i have a
15:27
good experience with their
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with the stuff that i do and i know you
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guys got a relationship because you do
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your your annual show hopefully you guys
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bring that back
15:35
but i'm excited to get back to
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caroline's one of the best comedy clubs
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in the country
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as much as me and darno riff and go back
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and forth and clown each other this is
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one person
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that we call each other when we're going
15:47
through personal things professional
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things
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um you know fun stuff when we happy we
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salute each other
15:53
we celebrating each other this is my
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family and my brother and i'm so
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proud of him and i mean we laugh and
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joke that's what we do but i'm so proud
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of you darnell
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and my biggest proudest moment is just
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watching you every single time
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with austin as great as you are as a
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comedian and an actor and artist you are
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even a greater dad
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so god bless you i can't wait to see you
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kill it this weekend
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love you i can't wait to see all the
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videos and whatnot and i'll see you soon
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i know and i love you too but i would
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really love if you start cleaning your
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chicken that's all right you know what
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still still tracy you're still tracy
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still say hello stay in love
16:30
before darnell heads out though i was
16:32
interested in knowing d
16:33
um after soul won at the oscars i peeped
16:37
during
16:38
our um our dj set you went on live
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and there was something i thought was so
16:43
important that you mentioned and i
16:44
wanted you to expand upon right now you
16:46
were talking about how
16:48
no one ever succeeds alone
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and that's something that we often hear
16:52
in our culture like i did this
16:54
all by myself it's all me it's all me
16:57
and you are explaining how like
16:58
it's never just you in singularity
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can you speak on that yeah it's never
17:04
just you it's like it's everything is
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like um
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everything is teamwork and i give you an
17:08
example like everybody is like
17:10
you know with me and chappelle showing
17:11
everybody because that was a huge show
17:13
it goes down the history is one of the
17:14
best sketch shows on television
17:17
but i get this all the time like yeah
17:19
you wouldn't be nothing
17:20
without dave chappelle dave chappelle
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this they should go there and i like
17:23
this apparel
17:24
but the flip on that is like the day
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chapel show wouldn't have been the
17:27
chapel show
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if he didn't assemble the right team
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michael jordan
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i can't win a championship without
17:33
scottie pittman michael jordan can't win
17:35
a championship
17:36
without dennis roberts you always have a
17:38
person that's on the forefront or like
17:39
the marquee name
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but with that said there's always a team
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people between a
17:44
team of people to help a person reach a
17:47
certain amount of success
17:48
kevin hart isn't kevin hart without the
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team that he has
17:52
all of all those guys that that around
17:54
him you know
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you have to there's no this is like
17:58
especially in entertainment
18:00
it is not an individual's sport and as
18:02
much as your ego want to tell you i did
18:04
it by myself
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there's always somebody or a team of
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people
18:08
that's behind you that's inspiring you
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motivate you to put you in the right
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direction
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amen amen man thanks for that y'all
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better take that energy with you this
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weekend y'all follow him at darnell
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rollins
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it's a s at the end of that we got more
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sway in the morning everybody
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coming up next
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you
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