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I know I asked for that photo here, too. It's right outside the door. I love that. So now if you look at that photo, you'll see the energy. That's the vibe I was on. And nobody wanted to get close to Kid Rock or anything, right? And I remember as a kid how the black community accepted him in school. I'm thinking about that shit. We're riding down the river. Kid is over on one kayak. I'm on the other side. We smoking and joint. And he looked at me, and I know he was sincere when he said it. He said, man, it felt like I just had 13 hours of anger management, right? And I was like, okay, I'm not trying to be a therapist or anything, but that felt good. Then at the end, we stopped. He's flipping burgers and shit. We got to know each other. We kept in touch with each other. And he was doing a comedy festival in Nashville, right? He appreciated me as a comedian. He said, yo, D, I'm doing this. I was like one of the first people he called, right? He said, you want to do it? I was like, why not? Then I thought about it. I was like, again, what you're saying? I was like, what people gonna think? Seven comedians on the show. I'm the only black guy. I knew what I was walking into. I knew it was. It was gonna be all magas. It wasn't gonna be a gay person. It wasn't gonna be a midget, it wasn't gonna be a lesbian. It wasn't gonna be anything but bona fide, the real, real red, white and blue flag motherfuckers. But I said, donnell, can you separate? Can you go up here? Can you perform and be entertaining? Not shucking and jiving or none of that type of shit. I went up there, last person got a standing ovation right at the end of the show. This is what people might not understand. And I'm not trying to defend him or anything. At the end of the show, me and Kid Rock. In this case, I wanna say Kid Rock wasn't backstage. Bobby was right. And he said, man. He looked at me, he said, man, I think we just brought this country back together, right? And I said, well, don't separate it, motherfucker. He said, okay. Two weeks later, he do some other Stupid shit. When Trump got elected, I know people went to his page to see what his response was gonna be. Was he gonna gloat? Was like, fuck y', all, this is America. He did this video, which I thought was so dope, cuz it showed two sides of him. It showed Kid Rock and it showed Bobby, right? And then how they both responded to Donald Trump being elected. The Kid Rock was the crotch grabbing motherfucker. Fuck you, right? Then he came out, you find this. He came out as Bobby with shorts, just no American flags, baseball cap, fucking reading glasses or whatever. And I thought it was dope, the dialogue that he had with it. He played the victory. He said, you know, we did win. He said, but this is not a time to gloat. There's so much stuff that we need to do. He said, all sides want to get to a certain place, but we have different ideas on how we gonna get there. I thought that for whatever people want to think, I thought that was showing another side. And also I told him, because I would talk to him off and on. I said, you know what song you should do? You should do Nina Simone's song Misunderstood, right? Just sing that shit. But I know he wouldn't never do that because the bass that really likes and supports somebody like, oh, he's soft. Now, the point I'm making with. Even though with Tony, with the situation, I consider Tony a good friend of mine for different reasons, right? That's why I wanted to have that moment, to say that. But Rob Schneider, as much as they say I took away from moments on that show, he took away from that moment. I wasn't trying to be a bitch, I wasn't trying to be soft. But I wanted to say I apologize because sometimes friendships got to be stronger than that. And that's where I was with that. And as much as I don't need the Kill Tony show, and this is what I always say about that. I said, there's not. That reminds me. Kill Tony reminds me of the Def Jam era, right? And when I say that there was a platform for undiscovered talent, people that you've never seen for it's such a spectacle like Def Jam. It was people that didn't have the skill set to fucking go headline, but they was being seen. Same thing with Kill Tony. You look at what is your phone on?
