Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2455 - Donnell Rawlings
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2455 - Donnell Rawlings' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2455 - Donnell Rawlings

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Really?
Red meat?
It's unfortunate.
In any form?
You know, like, I know it's weird.
If I eat a burger, it's different if I eat a steak.
Steak is a problem?
Yeah, I don't know if my digestive system,
just like you two older fucking bust this down.
I'm 58.
I'm 58 too.
I eat mostly meat.
I don't think it's age.
What is it then?
Well, what are you eating it with?
Tito's.
We're rolling?
Tito's.
Tito's vodka?
It can't be that, right?
No.
I'm eating a steak and I wash it down.
You just eat steak with Tito's?
And I wash it down with Tito's and tonic
because it resembles H2O so much.
Sometime I get thrown off until I do it.
What?
Yeah, I think I'm better aged.
Tito's and tonic resembles water?
The look of it.
The look of it.
It's clear.
That's all that matters to you?
Yeah.
I know at some point I need to change my life.
I'm at the age now that it's like I look at certain food
and I'm like, oh my God, it looks good,
but you know you can't handle that.
I think this is when I really, really need to be in love
because I need to be with somebody that understands
when I go places and when I want to pig out,
they got to be like, he can't eat that.
He's going to be in the seat.
Oh, right.
He's going to sit up.
He's going to be thrown up.
You need a female handler.
A female handler.
They call it geriatric, like this is where I hear.
This is what the streets are saying.
Most men get to an age, it's the geriatric shit
where you just smash all the women you want to do
and everything.
Now you're going to have to worry about somebody
helping you with your pill diet,
helping you with your dietary needs and everything.
And they say that's a lot of times when men fall in love,
when they need somebody to take them to the golden ears.
Oh, when you're about to be out of here,
you need somebody to say, don't do that.
You got to mash this food up.
You got to chop it up.
But I'm having digestive issues sometimes.
With steak, huh?
It's red meat, I want to say.
And I'm a fan of it.
So if you eat like a bowl of pasta with the Tito's,
no problem?
That's not a problem.
Interesting.
But it's definitely red meat.
Red meat, I'm not sleeping.
You should go to one of those doctors
that checks people for allergies.
Voodoo doctor?
Yeah.
I don't want one of them to sound like that.
I had to date an Asian.
I mean, I had to date a Haitian chick.
They enter voodoo really, really better.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They stab you with pillows and shit.
You have pain in your neck.
Is there any particular reason, Joe,
and I haven't been here in a while.
Is there any particular reason
why I am doing your show
during Black History Month?
No.
You asked to come on.
You reached out to me.
I reached out to you.
You could have reached out to me in July.
I would have said yes.
I could have.
You got an open invitation.
You know that.
I have an open invitation.
But this is when,
I don't know,
I say, can I come through?
You said,
this is what you told me.
You said,
I have a guest.
And then you called back.
I don't know if Jamie said,
you know what month this is.
Right?
I don't know if he entered you.
And you called me right back.
I moved somebody.
I moved somebody for you
because I knew you were coming here
on a Monday.
I had someone booked.
Was it a Caucasian person?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
Jamie?
I don't remember.
You know it was a white man
or a black man.
No, you know what?
Did I get,
did I bump a white person for black?
It might have been
Michael Jai White
because he's here tomorrow.
Yeah.
So it was probably Michael.
I just probably moved him a day.
But I appreciate you
being accommodating
because I felt like
it was time for me to come back.
I haven't been here a while.
You can come on anytime.
I really appreciate that.
Whenever you're in town.
I hold that to be true.
Come on.
I know that's true too.
You know I love you.
Yeah.
I want some of that gum too, man.
I'm sorry.
The neuro gum?
Do we have any, Jamie?
I have some, yeah.
Yeah, that stuff's the shoot.
I know.
Whenever you say something,
it's the shit, it's the shit.
Yeah.
But what can I do about my,
I can't do anything about my diet.
Sorry.
Whoops.
I hit the mic.
Yeah, you can.
You just, you know,
you should go to a doctor
and find out if there's like,
there might be something
particularly about you
that red meat
doesn't agree with you.
But it might just be
what you're eating
with the red meat
more than the red meat itself.
You know?
That's what I would imagine.
I would imagine
it's not actually red meat.
I would imagine
it's what you're eating with it.
Might be.
And I'm going to check into it.
Because as they say in the streets,
I'm of that big age
when you have to be considerate
of a whole bunch of things.
So that's what I have to do.
I have to do that.
Do you exercise at all?
A little bit.
Usually doing sexual intercourse
is when I get most of my cardio.
Get your push-ups in?
Yeah.
And it's not as strong.
Damn, man.
You have to get,
I don't know if this
apply to everybody.
You get to an age
where you start looking
at your history
and you're like,
damn, 2000,
what was my best years?
Like right now,
I'll just give up.
You give up.
I don't put no pressure in it.
I give up.
I start asking like,
what's your shoe size is
or whatever.
I'd rather go shopping
than to really try to
pound somebody out
for three hours.
I'm at that age now
where I have,
I call it,
certain times,
like,
you gonna get to work?
I probably shouldn't
give you that gum.
That gum's gonna be
a real problem
on the microphone.
Is it?
Oh, okay.
People are gonna get annoyed
with you.
All right.
I don't know what to do.
Just chew it a little
and spit it out.
Okay.
You'll get the effects
of it pretty quickly anyway.
I'm at the age
where my best work
is like holidays.
Holidays.
I'm an animal.
Why don't you hire a trainer?
You got some money.
And what are the trainers
gonna do?
Get you in shape.
I think I need a therapist
before I get a trainer.
I mean,
you gotta take one step
at a time.
I gotta get my mind right
before I get my body right.
Wouldn't you agree?
No.
Getting your body right
will help get your mind right.
I think that's some truth to that.
I think that you may be
right about that.
Oh, 100%.
Getting your body right
fixes your mind.
Without a doubt.
But I will say,
I'm at my best.
I'm at my peak
when it's a holiday
to celebrate.
Because you're rested.
I'm rested.
It's more incentive.
Like,
if you want me
to really smash
good time,
consider it like
Valentine's Day,
Christmas,
Kwanzaa.
You can get seven good days.
But to expect me
to be at my best
on just a regular Tuesday
or a Wednesday
is not gonna happen.
I need more incentive.
Well, it's also drinking.
You like to drink.
Why would you say that?
I know why you would say that.
Come on, I've seen you.
All right.
I've been with you.
I've drank with you.
Okay, then that's a good point.
All right.
There's cigarettes.
You was there.
You brought a pack with you.
Right?
There's that.
Those are not good.
But you used to smoke.
I saw one of your podcasts.
I forget how you explained
what made you
not want to smoke anymore.
What was that?
Well,
cigarettes are
a cognitive enhancer.
They are.
It's a fact.
Nicotine is a cognitive enhancer.
There's no doubt about it.
It's a fact.
And it does things
to your mind.
It stimulates your mind
in a way
that very few other things do.
That's why
a lot of intellectuals,
a lot of professors
use nicotine.
A lot of academics
use nicotine.
A lot of people
that rely on their brain
use it.
A lot of writers
use nicotine.
And there's different
delivery methods
that have different effects.
Unfortunately,
smoking has a very potent
instantaneous effect.
And that's why people like it.
But it comes with a cost.
Right.
The physical health,
you know,
repercussions of cigarettes
are well known.
Yeah.
Not good.
And also,
you're smoking Marlboro's.
We had a doctor
on the other day
that thinks that
regular cigarettes
are not nearly,
like American spirits
are not nearly as bad
for you as these.
I understand that
they have some type of,
the American spirits,
I'm not even,
like, advocating
for what you shouldn't smoke.
But they say
that's supposed to be
the most natural
if there's such a thing.
It's just tobacco,
I believe.
Is that a fact?
Nope.
No?
What's in there
besides tobacco?
I don't know.
I've been trying.
I don't know
how this lawsuit ended up,
but they got sued
for the advertising
of saying
it's additive free
and all that.
Oh, did they?
Yeah.
What are the additives?
I've not decided.
Well, let's look into it.
I've tried to look.
I mean, there's a big,
here's, like,
the website
about the lawsuit.
What's the accusation?
That, uh,
here you go.
It's on the screen.
Here we go.
Lawsuit questions
natural claims.
Natural American spirit
cigarettes are made
by Santa Fe
natural tobacco company
and parent company
Reynolds America.
R.J. Reynolds,
they fuck with you.
American spirits
has been sold
in the U.S.
since 1985,
under the original name,
Original American Spirit.
Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.
Organic.
Oh, you got us.
You fucks.
Um,
unadulterated tobacco.
Sue claims
such marketing language
has endeared
American spirit cigarettes
to a core group
of smokers
who believe
that the natural tobacco
in the cigarette
makes them
a healthier alternative.
Despite cigarette sales
declining 17%
between 2009-2014,
American spirit sales
have increased
86%
over the same period.
Huzzah.
A regulatory filing
on the Reynolds
American website
states,
American spirit
is the leading
super premium cigarette brand
that is a top 10
best-selling cigarette brand
priced higher
than most other
competitive brands
and is differentiated
from key competitors
through its use
of all-natural
additive-free tobacco
including styles
made with organic tobacco.
But words like
all-natural
and additive-free
on American spirits
labeling
the suit says
belies the fact
that Santa Fe
Reynolds adds
ammonia
to their cigarettes
to maximize
the amount of nicotine
a smoker receives
with the result
that American spirits
contain significantly
more free-based nicotine
than other major
cigarette brands.
So you're actually
getting high off
of cigarettes?
100%.
I get high off them
because I don't
smoke them all the time.
So I only smoke
if I smoke
a couple cigarettes a week
it's a lot.
And Newport's
probably like
10 times worse
than menthol cigarettes
probably 10 times
worse for your body.
I was talking
to Cat about that.
Cat Williams?
Yeah, I was asking him
like why
do you like menthols?
And he's like
he was speaking
on behalf
of the black community.
He said
we like things
that are more potent.
I believe
that that's
possible part of it
but I also believe
that back in the day
and this supply
I don't know
if I talk about this
it was certain brands
that targeted
certain communities
just for the loyalty
of it.
And I think
Newport's was targeting
I don't know
if it was a situation
when Newport came out
they were spending
more ad money
with advertising
and everything
because I don't know
if I shared this story
with you
but Pepsi
was a company
that did that
where they targeted
the black community
so I think
even though
I understand
we said more potent
but I think
it was something
that was in our community
whether that was
like cheaper prices
or whatever
and I think
it's generation
and generation
like you need
to do this
because black people
did this
because it was cheaper
I think
that that might
be the case
with Newport
probably both
what is the
the menthol effect
what is the
what is the difference
in the way
when I smoke menthol
I sound like
Cat Williams
and that's
they've ruined
that's one of the reasons
I had to downgrade
to like
some people think
that I started
smoking Marlboro Lights
because I started
dating white women
which is more
appealing
unless you date
a white woman
from the midwest
then she probably
smoking Newports
and drinking Pepsis
and Coca-Cola
just like you
but I got so many
bad habits
that I nee