#1814 - Radio Rahim

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Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Oh, yeah. And last time, I guess I talk really loud, apparently.

No, you don't. Oh, you read comments. Don't read comments. Don't read comments. Don't read comments.

He told me that last time.

Never read comments. Never. Recap. I told when Donnell and I did a podcast with Ariza, it was so much fun. After it was over, I gave him a big hug. I said that was fun. Don't read the comments. And he went on like for weeks. For weeks. He was like on this defensive campaign.

But Donnell, maybe, maybe should read a few of the comments.

I don't think so. I don't think so. I like him. Perfectly flawed. I like him.

Describe it.

Yeah. I don't want him to change at all. I mean, I'd like him to grow and get better as a human being, but that whole interrupting thing that he does, that's great, man. That's him.

I'm a very sensitive guy, though. I need to know what I've said, how that affects people.

You're in the wrong business. If you're a sensitive guy, you're in the wrong business. Fuck. You got to get out of those comments. Don't read them. If they said that you were too loud, that means one fucking person thought you were too loud and they've put it out there and then another person reads that and go, yeah, he's too loud.

Am I too loud?

No, you're not too loud. You're not too loud. That's not real.

Do you not go into your own comment section on Instagram, like, never? It is the wild west. And every check mark, every legitimate celebrity, everybody's trying to beat each other. Not just to be the first to comment on anything you post, but to have the smartest quip or the funniest one liner.

That's good.

It's a talent show because you get 100 followers from having one solid comment on a Rogan post.

That's funny. The people actually do that. They try to get followers from. Look, I probably would do that too, if I didn't have a lot of followers.

I'm not saying that because I'm above it. I'm in there, too. That's a good one liner for this.

Well, it is kind of a thing on YouTube, right? When I read YouTube comments on other people, I do read them on other people's videos. But it is funny, like how people, they develop, like a little community. They fuck with each other and go back and forth and then you go, oh, this guy always has funny things to say. And you read his comment and they.

Dog pile on you.

Oh, they dog pile. Yeah, they definitely dog pile. But that's the kind of people that are doing that. The kind of people that are leaving a lot of comments are the kind of people that complain a lot. And they're going to be more prevalent because there's more of them. So it's a biased sample group. It'll give you a distorted perception of what the actual show was like.

People who want to be heard, who want to have their own say on things that really have nothing to do with them at all. It just was like their moment to grab a little of the spotlight.

People like to talk, and also you got to always take into consideration, there's a lot of people out there that are doing this while they work because they hate their job. Their job sucks, so they just complain about shit. Fuck this dude. And that's, like, fun to say. Fun to say. Fuck that guy. He talks too much. He's too loud. He's not funny. He's that. You need some feedback. But lucky, as a comic, you get feedback from audiences. And I do audit myself. I do think about my own self. Like, what I do, if it's too loud or too this or too dumb or not funny or whatever, I'm my worst critic, so I don't need other critics.

And you performing in front of an audience on a regular basis, you have, like, real time reaction. Person doesn't have an opportunity to say he's not funny after he's finished laughing.

Right.

Too late to bullshit.

Yeah, that's a problem. We're just navigating this whole new world of social weird. You know, it's been, it's not like our grandparents did it. And, boy, when you get on Twitter, I'll tell you what happened to me when I got on. Don't fucking. They don't have any data. No one knows.

Well, we're in the moment. I think that we're learning, and we're learning a real valuable lesson right now as to how that, what Chappelle likes to call not a real place, Twitter, affects our real lives. Like, this line blurred between what's happening online and what's happening in real life.

Yeah. You weren't with Dave at the Hollywood bowl.

Yeah, this is what I'm saying. We'd probably be remiss if we didn't address that off the top.

Right?

Because I'm, what, 36 hours removed from that like, one sleep away from what in the moment I recognize as an assassination attempt on my best friend. Right? We have the incredible good fortune to be able to be laughing about it now. And there's the memes, and everybody is making fun of how this guy got broken up into a pretzel, and Dave's good reflexes and all that only is entertaining because we don't have to have an inconsolable moment of grief, which was one thought in this guy's mind, away from that being the reality.

Yeah, I mean, well, I think the guy was, like, legitimately mentally ill. But also, the security at the Hollywood bowl sucks every dick that's ever walked the face of the earth. Not the dicks walk, but the fact that you let that guy. Apparently, people were saying to security, hey, this guy passed the barrier. He got through the barrier, and they ignored him. They're just watching the show. And then he literally made a run for it. Their security is fucking terrible. The fact that that guy got to where he got is terrible. But that's the case with a lot of venues, man. A lot of venues. We do. We look around. We were in Jacksonville. There's a fucking guy that was sleeping. Sleeping security during the show. Like, they're not paying attention. They're not paying attention to shit. It just happens.

Security at a venue is most likely minimum wage workers. Not that the amount of money that you're being paid necessarily indicates how seriously you take your job, but it's going to be hard to get 50 people work in one venue at minimum wage that take their job incredibly seriously or have gone through some extensive training. I don't think they get paid for that job.

They definitely get paid more than minimum wage. But the point is, they should hire cops. They should have off duty police. They should have people that are near the stage, especially when it's Dave. After all that shit that went down with Netflix and just. I don't know what kind of assessments they do about people and threats and stuff like that, but that guy actually had made a tweet saying, dave Chappelle, you're next. After Will Smith got slapped, or, excuse me, after Chris Rock got slapped by Will Smith.

I don't know that there's any level of security that insulate you from real life.

That's true.

A guy like that, who we can't say his name. I don't even want to reference this motherfucker, because it's the kind of attention that they want. Like, part of the idea of a person like that is that now they become something.

They become special.

Yeah.

For a moment, special person. Yeah.

We want to look at what their videos, we want to look at their tweets. We want to figure out who this guy is and speak their name. And for him, that is everything that's worth everything that happened. But for us, the idea that anybody in this world can get at you, that any thought that somebody has in their head can change literally the course of history and take the people from us that we love, they don't have to be famous. They don't have to be of great impact to the entire world. But I've lost loved ones. I know you've lost loved ones. Seeing in that moment that I might actually have lost my best friend on the world stage in front of everybody, on cameras, all of us there thinking that we could protect them, all of us there thinking, well, it couldn't possibly be a guy jumping a barrier, jumping on stage with a clean run of Dave with a weapon, with a knife that's shaped like a fucking gun. That's inconceivable. That couldn't possibly happen, right? If it can happen there, can happen anywhere.

Well, not only that, there's a lot of video of it. What happened to those fucking cell phones? Being in a bag? A lot of people had knives. A lot of other people had knives, too. They cut those fucking bags open. They need metal detectors at Dave's shows now. I'm sure they're going to ramp up things.

Metal detectors?

What, that guy went through a metal detector with a knife?

If he came through the normal order of security, then he had to walk through a metal detector.

How did he even get a ticket? He was a homeless guy.

These questions, the kind of things that I'll twist you a notch and keep you tossing and turning all night. The broader emotion I'm struggling with is the reality that we have to have a bit more gratitude for the people that we have on this planet in our lives, in our sphere of entertainment and influence. While they're here, I don't want to be posting about how much, oh, we all love Dave and what we missed, what we could have said, and I don't need a Nipsey Russell moment. You know what I mean? Nipsey hussle.

Right?

What I need is people to just think for a minute about how we approach the people, even with whom we disagree, with this veil of violence, with this veil of like, yeah, fuck that guy is one