Michael Blackson On How To Monetize Comedy, Create Material, & Being A Comedian In Cancel Culture!
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Motosaka and Michael Blackson discuss the case of Torrey Gray and his trial in the murder case of Meek Mill. They discuss the defense strategy and why he should have taken the stand. They also discuss the possibility that he may have been framed and why the defense should have gone on the stand to prove their case against him. Also, they discuss why they think he is innocent and why they believe he is going to get a fair chance at a fair trial. They also talk about why they don t think he should've been allowed to take the stand and why it's a good idea for him to take a stand. And they give their thoughts on the OJ Simpson case and how he should or should not have taken a stand in this case. Also, we give our thoughts on why Meek Mills should have been given the chance to defend himself and what he should do with the evidence that he was given. We also give our opinion on the case and what they should have done in the trial and the likelihood of him getting the sentence he deserves. Enjoy the episode and don't forget to subscribe to the podcast! Stay tuned for more episodes coming soon! -FreshShitPodcast -The FreshShit Crew and stay tuned for the latest Freshshave Podcast . Freshshift Podcast Subscribe, Subscribe, Share, and Share and Retweet! We are live streaming to YouTube! Subscribe to the Freshshade Podcast! and other social media platforms where you can be notified when we uploads a new episode of FreshShave Podcasts! . . . FreshShout Podcasts are available on all the latest freshshave is available on your favorite streaming platform! FreshShift Podcasts Subscribe on the airwaves on all major podcast platforms New episodes available on the , & much more! Get in touch with us on social media on Insta: is a Freshshare Podcasts and more information about the Fresh Shift Podcasts? Shoutout to FreshShirt Podcasts on this week's Freshshoutday's Newest Podcasts Outtro Podcast? on the FreshShore Podcasts available on Freshshoes and much more Outtro Music in the next episode coming soon Thank you for listening to Freshshouse Podcasts out there! Thanks for listening out!
Transcript
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Rumble, Twitter, Twitch, and Facebook, just so y'all know.
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We're going to be out of YouTube jail here in a few hours, guys, so bear with us, because we're in YouTube jail.
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You're like, we're not going to be on YouTube, because you ain't talking about some jail, motherfucker.
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In a few hours, if not, they probably already know by now.
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I'm gonna put my compression into this shit, motherfucker.
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If I didn't do something, I'm getting on that stand.
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When you don't get on the stage, I feel like you're hiding something.
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I mean, true, but you can't use it against them, though.
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I know that, nigga, if I didn't kill somebody, I got to go convince them niggas I didn't kill somebody.
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If I got to cry, swear to every guy there is, you're going to believe me because I know I didn't do it.
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Them lawyers always tell you, don't go incriminate yourself.
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I speculate, because I studied that case a lot, I speculate that it was her friend that shot her, because they got in a full-on fist fight right before, and I think her friend was the one that actually shot her.
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Yeah, and here's the thing, like, there's rare instances where taking a stand is actually good, and one of them is self-defense.
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Well, yeah, I mean, OJ Simpson worked for OJ Simpson.
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If I'm going on a stand, especially if I know I didn't.
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Yeah, he would have killed his ass if you took a stand.
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If you did it, nigga, get the fuck up that stand.
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But, yeah, man, I hope Torrey doesn't, he's looking at what, like 9 to 15?
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But I think, to me, the biggest mistake he did was not going on that stand.
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Behind closed doors, what's this Hollywood thing?
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They just felt like he could have handled it a little differently after it happened.
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And she took the stand and got it there and made them emotional.
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Megan Thee Stallion, excuse me, took the stand and was super, you know what I mean, emotional and made them...
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And it went a Me Too era where, you know, this is a woman's time right now.
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You know, so if he did what he did by accident or whatever, he should have been in contact with her and apologized.
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Yeah, but apologizing, he kind of did and that fucked him up.
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Yeah, I think he offered to make things go better.
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No, but they can look at it as that he's culpable by apologizing.
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Even if he didn't do it, they can say, oh, well, why are you apologizing then?
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Women, especially black women, you know, black women are for the black men.
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And they don't want to see a black man go down.
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You know, so if any black man, if you did something wrong to a woman, you just call her up, like, baby, I'm sorry.
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She recorded that phone call, man, and that ended up fucking him up.
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They played it in trial that he called her and was like, man, I'm so sorry this happened, blah, blah, blah.
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And they tried to insinuate that that was an admission of guilt.
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That's a rare situation where I think taking a stand potentially could have helped him.
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This one case I watched during the pandemic called Steve Avery.
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18 years later, did the DNA. And there was somebody else.
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And then when he got out of jail, somebody dies.
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It's like, when you watch it, you're not going to know whether this guy did it or not.
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Because when he was accused, and then later on the DNA came out and he didn't do it, he started to sue the city.
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So now he had the whole city, the whole police officers were against him.
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And all of a sudden now somebody dies and then, you know, all the evidence was on him.
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He came now, because he was suing for millions of dollars, now you gotta go to jail.
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You gotta go to Netflix, watch a Steve Avery case.
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Well, one of the few things I would say, like, self-defense is typically you got to take the stand for that.
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And then the other one is if you try to shoot someone or you didn't do it or that person is still alive and they're pointing at you, taking a stand sometimes might be good, but it's very case-by-case basis.
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But, yeah, in general, taking a stand is not a good idea.
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But, Michael, welcome back to Fresh and Fit, man.
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This nigga moved up and got a whole AP watch, man.
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In Hollywood or entertainment world, everything is just a show.
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You know, you got to look a certain way for putting respect.
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You got to, you know, and me, it just, all this shit I got on, just like, it's just for the stage.
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Unfortunately, I only have two audio members, but this is a stage for me.
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I accomplished my biggest accomplishment in my life.
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Mike, you know who they finished their school yet?
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I know you bought your school, but where's his school?
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In those villages in most part of Africa, especially West Africa, a lot of kids don't go to school.
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They can't afford uniform or the simplest things.
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You know, and a lot of times there's a few government schools in the area.
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So those are like overcrowded or they fill up too fast.
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And then now you have to go to private school or you're not going to go to school at all.
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A lot of them, they've just been home so long at like seven, eight years old.
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So that's why I built a school for these kids in the village.
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You know, I used to go home and I'd see kids walking around during school hours.
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And when I found out why, I said to myself, I have to do something about it.
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The only thing you gotta pay for is pay attention to the teacher.
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I mean, teachers, chefs, security, utilities, everything's done.
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And I remember you talking about this last time, and it's a blessing that you actually got it done.
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But for the people that might not know who you are or aren't aware of your story, can you tell the people your come-up story of how you beat poverty and made the United States?
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That's when you were covering from cracky and coming back to life.
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She had given her life to Christ many years ago.
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He left my father because my dad didn't want to live that life.
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My father traveled by road preaching the gospel, you know, had us going around door to door.
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People gave us their home to live in, you know.
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To all parts of Nigeria, to all parts of different parts of Africa.
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And then by the time I was 13, you know, she had got an invitation to come and preach at a church in New Jersey.
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And I mean, I hope immigration is not listening.
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But if they are listening, you know, it was an invitation to come and preach for like two weeks and then go back.
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But I knew my mother was, I knew it wasn't going to go back.
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Well, to be fair here, he would have been arrested.
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About a year ago, I officially became a U.S. citizen.
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You know, then you have to have your green card for like five years.
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You know, and even getting a green card is a process.
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It took me almost 30 years to become a citizen.
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You know, and then you gotta take a test where they ask these dumbass questions.
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Who fought in World War I and World War II? The bloods and the crates, my nigga.
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You know, we came to America, lived in people's basement.
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My mother worked at McDonald's at one time, made $50 a week to feed us.
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And brought home all the unused burgers at the job for us to eat for dinner.
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We did Philly three years after being in Jersey.
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By the time I got to Philly, things got a little bit better.
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And then I went to, got a job at Domino's Pizza.
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You know, I started off just answering the phones and I went to delivering pizzas on a bike because I didn't have a car.
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And then I was in Domino's flight all the way till I was after high school.
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Now, mind you, after high school, Graduated with A and B in my grade, but I couldn't even go to college because I had to help my mother pay bills.
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I tried going to army because army would pay you and travel the world, but I didn't have a green card.
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I didn't have a green card, so I couldn't even go in the army.
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So I had to keep working and just helping my family back home.
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What are your thoughts on people that are born and raised here that make excuses for why they're not where they want to be, being an immigrant like yourself, where it took you 30 years to get your citizenship?
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You know, I could make a little bit of excuse for black America.
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Only because, you know, they didn't grow up with wealth.
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If you're starting your life up with $200,000, you're already ahead of life.
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They ain't paying no $30 a month on no fucking life insurance.
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But regardless of that, you're talking about a man that was not a citizen, came here, had nothing.
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And don't get it wrong, God gave me a gift of being a comedian, and I know everybody don't have that gift to go make people laugh and make a whole bunch of money.
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Now, if I wasn't a comedian, I worked at Domino's.
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Mind you, before I became a comedian, I worked at Domino's.
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And I started off answering the phones, delivering pieces on a bike, being an assistant manager, and being a manager by the time I was 20 years old, running the store, hiring and firing.
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Now, what happens after this is, after working at any fast food restaurant for a certain amount of years, You can find a way to own one.
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There's always a way to become successful in anything you do.
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Find out how you're going to own your own landscaping company.
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So there's no fucking excuse for nobody in America.
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Whether you're a trash man or you're a landscaper or you work at McDonald's.
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Work there long enough and find out how you can own a McDonald's.
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Let me say yes, too, because I worked at McDonald's when I was 16, and I really think every young man should have at least one fast food job in their lifetime and also go ahead and have at least one manual labor job, whether it's landscaping or construction or whatever, and learn sweat equity with making money.
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I'm not telling you how to be in that job forever.
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What I am telling you is that it's going to teach you character and make you appreciate when you actually do get a real job.
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And most importantly, it's going to teach you what life will be like if you don't get high income skills.
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Working at McDonald's really helped me build character, made me realize, like, God damn, I don't want to do this.
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My whole thing, I hate to see guys go to jail for selling dope or scamming.
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I'm like, there's so many legal ways of making money.
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It's like your freedom is the most important thing in the world.
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Nigga, go get a job at McDonald's if you have to.
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The thing about it, you go sell dope, make low $50,000 a week, you go spend a week in jail, be like, damn, I wish I'd ever did this.
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And Philly is consistently in the top 10 most dangerous cities in the United States.
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What was it like growing up in Philadelphia as an immigrant, bro?
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When I grew up in Philly, we're talking about like early 90s.
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This dude was deliverable pizzas while watching Minister Society.
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You light skin, you're gonna crack in two years, motherfucker.
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Black don't crack unless you smoke crack, motherfucker.
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I'll say it because you were in Philly in the 90s.
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You know, but the thing about it, Philly, when I came to Philly in the early 90s, I had left Jersey.
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When I left Jersey and came to Philly, Philly looked like a gold mine compared to Jersey.
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Over there, getting a job at McDonald's was like a privilege.
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When I got to Philly, things were a little easier.
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I was able to get a job, and I was able to, like, you know, right away, I got a job right away.
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My mother, you found, cost of living was a lot cheaper in Philly.
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My mother found a three-bedroom row house in a hood, and I didn't know what a hood was.
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And this shit cost, she was paying $300 a month.
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That same place right now is probably $1,500 a month now.
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The 90s were bad with all these major East Coast cities.
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It wasn't until Giuliani got in that he cleaned up New York a little bit.
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And thank God I survived through it because, you know, When I came to America, my first few years was rough.
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My mother went to like, when she bought my school clothes from a Woolworth.
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So it's not FUBU. It's like poor FUBU. Nah, nigga.
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It's like a homeless FUBU. And then, even at some time back then, they used to sell sneakers in grocery stores, like Pathmark was a grocery store.
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My mother bought me a pair of sneakers in Pathmark.
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I wore some chicken-flavored sneakers for two years.
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I didn't know they had Pathmark in Pennsylvania.
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I'm thinking I'm about to go shit on these niggas because I got new clothes on.
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Because in Africa, at that time of the year, I mean, at that era in my life in Africa, all the girls care about you having the new clothes.
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You know, America is like that fucking, it's like the garden of Eden.
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So we didn't see all them little things that really matter here.
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In Liberia, where I grew up at, you would not know, this guy don't look light-skinned to you.
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I never saw complexions until I got to America.
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And when I got to America, I'm hanging out with some dudes, you know, some dark, some light brown.
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I see a niggerless complexion, a nigger your complexion, a brown-skinned nigger.
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And one of them be like, damn, you black as shit.
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I said, no, he said first, he's like, oh, damn, you black.
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And he put his hands next to mine to compare the complexion.
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And that was in the era of Michael Jackson and Prince era.
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And I'm like, damn, so now you got me self-conscious about my complexion.
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Before we started the show, on our main camera angle, Chris, show it to them.
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So the main camera, on one, when I got up to go take a piss, the ISO automatically went up because these dudes are so black.
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I get up, ISO goes up because these dudes are so black, man.
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If the black guy had buried, the sweet of the juice.
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Okay, Mike, you mentioned earlier freedom, right?
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Speaking of freedom, now you're a single mother sucker.
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You know, she gave me so much freedom, enough freedom, and man, man, we just greedy.
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This is the first time I'm actually talking about it.
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You guys are getting exclusive information about Radha leaving me.
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Nobody knows because I'm the type of nigga, I'm not going to post about it.
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You don't post about it because if she comes back a month later, you look stupid.
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But she already went on social media and said something.
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Now you look very dumb in front of your friends.
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That's why I'm not going to be dumb enough to make a post about it.
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Maybe I'll let the world know I'm single maybe like five, six months.
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You know, because five or six months, I'm expecting her to fuck somebody else.
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If she came back to you now, would you take her?
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You know, the thing about it, she's a great woman.
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We're just not communicating about relationships.
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And I told her, I said, listen, you can work as long as you want.
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You know, she brings more to the table than just pussy.
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She don't like you bringing all the girls around?
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You know, from the beginning, I told her what I was about.
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And, you know, occasionally I might get greedy and have two threes instead of just one.
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I remember her coming on the show and agreeing and saying it was cool.
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I remember telling her, like, bro, Mike can replace you faster than you can replace him.
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But yeah, but you know, when breakups are new, I don't mean, because I'm like, my thing is, she's such a great asset to me.
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If she came back tomorrow, I'd probably still take her back.
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And she has pride, too, so she might not come back.
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You can only have pride when you're 25 and below.
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There are three niggas that don't cheat, and they are cheating right now.
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I hate these guys that get on here and say, oh, I'm going to be faithful to my wife.
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I'm going to be traditionally Christian and observe monogamy and all these traditional values.
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Everything we do in this world, we do it for the women.
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I got a nice clue so I could bring a chick in there and fuck her.
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I got a nice car so I could put a girl in there.
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I make a lot of money so I'm like, damn, you didn't make a lot of money.
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If we didn't have bitches, bro, every dude here would be living with a TV on the floor, one couch, one bedroom, piece of shit apartment, and like one table.
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It's funny because like girls will come over, right?
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They'll see like my room and they're like, you don't have anything here.
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And they're like, where's the TV? Well, you don't have a nice day.
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I'm like, I don't need none of this bullshit, man.
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I don't give a fuck about you getting in my car.
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You think I got a nice apartment to invite you over to?
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And we, especially men that work hard and like successful, we ain't doing it for just one woman.
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I mean, every guy that I've ever seen that tries to sit there and virtue signal.
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Beyonce, the lady you look up to, got cheated on.
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She realized Jay-Z is the one that's actually irreplaceable.
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Chris, let me know if we got rants or anything like that.
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In the spirit of Money Monday, let's say someone in the audience wants to be a comedian.
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How do they get started on this path to be a comedian?
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Fortunately for the new era, man, they got it so fucking easy.
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You just go and do some skits on IG, build your audience, or TikTok.
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Go build your audience on there and entertain them.
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Build like two, three million followers and all of a sudden now you're a comedian.
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We had to go to open mic night and make a bunch of strange motherfuckers laugh.
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You know, and you have to go every week and every week and then hopefully you got yourself on BET Comic View I remember that show.
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And then, boom, you go from like $100 a show, now you're on TV, now you're going to make $500 a show.
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Now you're going to get in a movie, now you're going to make $2,500 a show.
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Now you're going to start a movie, now you're going to make $20,000 a show.
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I'm really glad that we brought this up because I've noticed there's a lot of influencers, like comedy influencers.
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Those videos get so much views and then people are like, oh, wow, this guy's hilarious, etc.
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And it's like with social media, you can almost like build your own brand.
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But I remember like from what you're talking about, because I remember Comic View, they'd have comedians like kind of battle it out telling jokes and stuff.
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If you didn't make it in mainstream television, no one cared or knew you didn't have your own platform.
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Even though I'm old school and new school, it definitely helped me to where I am today.
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Because now, social media helped them identify your name, not your name.
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At first, I used to be the African nigga from Next Friday.
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So, now that you see Michael Blackson doing a show, we'll see Michael Blackson because we know Michael Blackson.
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So, let's say, because there's a lot of people that might be watching this that are like, hey, I got a sense of humor.
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Would you say, all right, make a social media profile?
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Should they simultaneously go do open mics and improv classes as well?
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Go do open mic, go to the comedy clubs, go see a real audience.
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Because a lot of times, these guys will build their social media fans, do little skits, and then go TikTok, take a stick up.
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Once that five minutes is perfected, then you work another five minutes, make it ten minutes, and then so forth.
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And the thing about comedy, man, it is great comedy.
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Every year, you're going to come up with 15 minutes of good shit.
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So you take three good years for you to attempt to headline.
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Because the headline, you need 45 minutes on stage.
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So every year, you come up with a good 15 minutes.
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So every year, try to get that perfect 15 minutes.
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And then the following year, work another 15 minutes.
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You know who was really in that limelight that I can say follow that pattern?
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It wasn't that good at the beginning, but he perfected his craft.
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I'm not sure he's doing a stand-up comedy show yet.
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I know he's hosting a lot of big events and he's doing his thing.
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He's in a competition where people come and they say...
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I'm yet to see him go on stage and tell jokes for 45 minutes.
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Now, guys that are doing that is like That came from social media.
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You know, you got Desi Banks is doing it as well.
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Those are probably the four top ones that went from social media to becoming true comedian headliners.
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So this is some really good information for anybody that's watching.
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Like getting at least five minutes of a good routine and then build yourself up to 15 minutes in the year.
00:33:19.000
And then at some point be able to put that all together and be able to handle a 45 minute show if you're going to headline.
00:33:25.000
And what makes it easier for you to sell tickets by that time?
00:33:30.000
Now you have like four or five million followers.
00:33:35.000
That's an average of like 10,000 in big major cities.
00:33:40.000
So all you need is about 10% of them to show up to the show.
00:33:53.000
Start you off with these comedy clubs, the Improv, the Funny Bone, the Hillem.
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Those comedy clubs is where, you know, we make our money.
00:34:04.000
So now 7% of $50,000, you're picking up $30,000 a week.
00:34:12.000
Mike, you just did that point, the comedy players there.
00:34:16.000
I made a lot of money, but I can't talk about it because child support is why I will show you my check.
00:34:27.000
Because, you know, that just shows you how much potential it is for comedians.
00:34:35.000
Next time you're in Miami, bro, you better invite us to your show, bro.
00:34:41.000
Next time I'm in the area, whether it's Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, whatever.
00:34:45.000
How many 45-minute routines should an aspiring comedian have ready to go and memorize?
00:34:55.000
And the thing about it, you could do that once, that same routine for about three years.
00:35:05.000
So if you see me today, if you want to see a whole new 45-minute, it's going to take at least three years.
00:35:13.000
Because every year, I might come up with 15 minutes of new shit and I might replace some of the old shit.
00:35:21.000
If you come to see Michael Blackson, you might think it's an old shit, but I revamp that old shit and make it sound new.
00:35:28.000
And then you're going to get 15 more minutes of new shit.
00:35:31.000
So if you're a big fan of a comedian and you don't want to hear the same shit, See them nigger every three years.
00:35:36.000
Okay, that makes sense when they release those specials.
00:35:38.000
If you think about it, like a Chappelle show, they release it every one to three years in that range.
00:35:58.000
But prior to that, I think he had one like maybe four years prior.
00:36:02.000
But prior to that, he was doing every eight years.
00:36:05.000
And I think the longer it takes, though, the better.
00:36:12.000
Obviously, you're talented, so this probably comes easy to you.
00:36:14.000
But for those people out there that kind of want to do this and are a little bit rough around the edges, how do you come up with material?
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Me, I think people like to know what's going on right now.
00:36:37.000
Because every woman's struggling with a man or a man struggling.
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If I got a new woman, the audience is going to know.
00:36:58.000
But at the same time, you got to show how brilliant you are by making fun of what's going on right now.
00:37:03.000
You know, I have material on Joe Biden falling every week.
00:37:10.000
Having like 36 indictments, 66 misdemeanors, 11 grabbing by the pussy.
00:37:16.000
He got all these cases and the niggas still running for president.
00:37:23.000
I'll see whatever the hot topics are and not try to make jokes about them.
00:37:27.000
Even the girl that got missing and then I think she was probably sucking her side niggas dick and then the baby crossed the street.
00:37:36.000
No, nigga, Carly Russell, the black girl from Alabama that said she got kidnapped.
00:37:44.000
Nigga, there's another girl that was living at somebody's house.
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No, this girl, you heard about Carly Russell, right?
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She gonna get arrested because she lied about it.
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You've been taking steroids, you've been in Jamaica, fucking a bunch of...
00:38:10.000
I can't remember a girl that got arrested by the FBI for that.
00:38:16.000
Nah, this girl, Carly Russell, made this fake-ass kidnapping thing.
00:38:23.000
And she put this whole story together how she got lured in by a baby that was crossing the highway.
00:38:36.000
And then of course current shit dies after like a month or two.
00:38:42.000
So it's going to be a segment in my show where I'm going to have a current event.
00:38:45.000
Just to let my audience know like I know what's going on.
00:38:48.000
So when you're like how do you get into like do you sit down and write your material down?
00:38:53.000
Are you like kind of envisioning it in your head?
00:38:58.000
You know back when I first started I write the whole sentence then but now I just write a topic and I don't know what the topic is about.
00:39:04.000
And then how do you rehearse and practice it because obviously acting it out makes it so makes it really funny.
00:39:09.000
I've been doing comedy so long, and I know what my audience like, that sometimes if I have a joke that I want to try, and I don't have time to go to open mic night, because most comedians will go to open mic.
00:39:23.000
Like, if I'm in LA, I'll go to the comedy club on a Tuesday night.
00:39:26.000
And I'm a big name, so they'll be like, Michael Blackson's here, and then I'm on stage.
00:39:30.000
And then I'll go on stage and try some shit out.
00:39:35.000
Or I could just tweet it, and see, I could respond to it.
00:39:46.000
Or sometimes I have so much confidence in what I say.
00:39:49.000
When you become a comedy star where your fans know who you are and love who you are, you almost can't go wrong, you can sneak some shit in there.
00:40:05.000
And then if the FBI found out she lied, now she's got charges.
00:40:10.000
If you lie about getting kidnapped, the FBI will 100% come at you, bro.
00:40:13.000
Of course, because you know how much money you cost them?
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Like, if you try to sit there and say, I got kidnapped and they find you, the FBI is 100% going to come and indict you, bro.
00:40:31.000
But they spend a lot of money because I've done a missing persons case before.
00:40:35.000
Whenever someone goes missing, you need to start doing like emergency phone tolls, emergency phone pings, all this other shit.
00:40:42.000
It costs them thousands upon thousands of dollars to get kidnapping investigation initiated.
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So if they find out you aren't really kidnapped, they're coming after you, bro.
00:40:52.000
Speaking of money, what's the best way to make money as a comedian?
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I like to earn my money the right way, the hard way.
00:41:09.000
But we're just in an era where so many ways of making money.
00:41:15.000
There's so many different networks out there all looking for content.
00:41:27.000
It's not like back in the day where we only had like NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CW, UPN, whatever.
00:41:34.000
Man, it's like thousands of different networks and they're all looking for content.
00:41:41.000
How do you continue to stay as a successful comedian in this woke cancel culture that we have?
00:41:47.000
Because obviously you've been in the game for a while.
00:41:49.000
I remember seeing you like I think on Comic View back in the early 2000s.
00:41:52.000
And it's been damn near 20 years and it's changed significantly.
00:41:55.000
I remember when Chappelle was doing a Chappelle show and he was doing all this wild stuff with KKK mass, whatever.
00:42:00.000
But if you try to do that shit now, they're going to cancel you.
00:42:02.000
How do you adapt to an ever-growing, weak, pussy, woke society?
00:42:10.000
But, you know, you have to learn how to adopt what's going on.
00:42:17.000
What happened back then is what happened back then.
00:42:21.000
You have to be smart and brilliant how you do your thing, how you tell your joke.
00:42:25.000
You can still make a joke and make fun of certain things, but you have to sit in a certain way.
00:42:39.000
I'll never forget the Sticks and Stones Netflix special.
00:42:42.000
They literally were like, you quit Netflix, and it was a huge backlash in my head.
00:42:49.000
If y'all saw a Chappelle show in 05, it was way worse.
00:42:54.000
I think to myself, if artists like Eminem We're around today.
00:43:00.000
Like, Dave Chappelle, they would have got canceled.
00:43:01.000
Like, we've become so soft and so woke nowadays.
00:43:07.000
You just, like, kind of finesse certain jokes in a certain way where they can't...
00:43:18.000
I came from Africa where a lot of stuff in Africa and the Middle East is all illegal.
00:43:25.000
Like, being gay is illegal in certain countries in Africa.
00:43:27.000
It's illegal in the Middle East, most countries, you know?
00:43:31.000
But America, being raised in America, America has taught me To accept everybody for who they are.
00:43:41.000
Because sometimes when you are nice and accepting things, people also take advantage of you.
00:43:49.000
This is some exclusive shit that I've never talked about in an interview before.
00:43:59.000
That Rick Ross is a dehydrated DJ Khaled, motherfucker.
00:44:04.000
DJ Khaled if he fucking was on crack on the game.
00:44:09.000
But now, so like, so because I'm in an entertainment world, I've learned to accept everybody.
00:44:16.000
If I have a gay friend or gay person that I know, I treat like a regular dude.
00:44:21.000
I'm like, hey man, I got some bitches coming over, man.
00:44:35.000
Because especially being in Hollywood, you don't know who's who.
00:44:40.000
Americans have taught me to accept people and be open about different things.
00:44:47.000
But, you know, sometimes people, when you're nice, people try to, like, think you want...
00:44:57.000
This is my second time I've been living in LA. First time I lived in LA was back in 2005.
00:45:02.000
It was four years after the movie Next Friday came out.
00:45:06.000
When Next Friday came out, that was my big break.
00:45:13.000
I started touring the whole country, go and pick up a little $2,500, because that's what happened in my first movie.
00:45:23.000
I'm going everywhere, different clubs, different places, everybody.
00:45:32.000
I rode that wave and I'm like, okay, now let me go find the next thing.
00:45:35.000
Let me go find myself to another movie or something.
00:45:37.000
So I'm all coming to L.A. When I came to L.A., that's when my girl, my homegirl, Eve.
00:45:58.000
She had a TV show or sitcom, and I used to go on set and hang out, you know, because she was from Philly.
00:46:04.000
Everybody from Philly that was in Hollywood would go hang out on set just to watch Eve.
00:46:09.000
Hoping maybe one day she'll be like, hey, Mike, get Mike a cameo or whatever.
00:46:15.000
Was happy for our Philly homegirl having her own TV show.
00:46:34.000
But I accepted for who he is, you know, because I've learned that in America.
00:46:39.000
I looked at some of the buddies, homies, you know, and I speak to him like, hey, what's up?
00:46:45.000
So I remember, well, fast forward to like 2013 when I moved back to L.A., Finally, I'm doing my own show.
00:46:51.000
I'm doing a reality sitcom called Living With Funny.
00:46:54.000
It had me, it had D. Ray Davies, it had a couple other comedians and their girlfriend and kids and all of that stuff.
00:47:03.000
So if you want to bring some clothes over, you know, some clothes, because he was able to get hooked on some clothes.
00:47:09.000
So I'm like, bring the clothes over, we'll put on a show, and I'll shut them out, whatever.
00:47:13.000
Still looked at this dude like, you know what I mean?
00:47:16.000
You still, I know you gay, and you still cool with me.
00:47:26.000
And then I ran into him again, like 20, before pandemic, 2019, maybe, at some event.
00:47:43.000
But this time he was with this badass chick, right?
00:47:45.000
Because gay guys always hang out with the bad bitches.
00:47:57.000
So I remember, like, I remember going home and I remember texting him.
00:48:10.000
He said, um, you know, um, like, you know, you gotta have both of us together.
00:48:15.000
I'm like, I'm like, I'm about to say I'm sorry, I'm not into it.
00:48:42.000
I just, I mean, because my thing is, I would never be mean to anybody, especially not a gay person.
00:48:49.000
You know, you get mean and then all of a sudden now they talking about you and a person can say anything about you.
00:48:55.000
You know, hey, by the way, I suck Michael Black's dick.
00:49:01.000
So I'm like, since the guy's still present, hey, man, come on, man.
00:49:11.000
I just respect you for who you are and I accept who you are.
00:49:27.000
Because I'm nice, you try to take advantage of that.
00:49:35.000
It's the first time I've ever talked about this.
00:49:37.000
And this shit happened when I bought my crib in LA in 2018.
00:49:51.000
Neo is kind of going through it right now with the Alphabet community.
00:49:57.000
Having people apologize and all this other stuff.
00:50:01.000
He made some comments and then everyone started freaking out and backlash.
00:50:10.000
You're entitled to feeling whatever you want to feel.
00:50:13.000
If that's how the guy is feeling, isn't that what America is all about?
00:50:25.000
If I want my speech to be taken away, I'll move to your country, motherfucker.
00:50:46.000
Celebrity or someone that has some influence says something, right?
00:51:00.000
Jamie Foxx just went down the same thing recently, right?
00:51:12.000
And they assumed that he meant And I was like, bro, like, he just made a comment about people being snakes.
00:51:19.000
Yeah, and the thing about it, I know Jamie Foxx.
00:51:25.000
Jamie Foxx is the most peaceful person on earth.
00:51:30.000
He's fucked a white woman, fucked a black woman.
00:51:33.000
He said they and they took it a certain way, which is crazy.
00:51:41.000
It's always some old chick that's way past her prime that no one cares about that's got a fucking virtue signal.
00:52:06.000
What I'm about to say does not reflect the opinions of anyone at the table.
00:52:14.000
Like, I genuinely think women should have 50% of the vote.
00:52:22.000
Again, this does not represent Michael Blackson or Fresh, okay?
00:52:26.000
I think a woman's vote should be 50% of a man's.
00:52:28.000
And then I think if a chick reaches a certain age, who cares?
00:52:38.000
Nobody cares what an 18-year-old gotta say for a dude.
00:52:40.000
So we don't give a fuck what an old woman gotta say, bro.
00:52:55.000
And she immediately, oh, dude, that's anti-Semitic.
00:52:57.000
It's like, bro, he wasn't even referring to that shit.
00:53:18.000
And people's reactions in the audience were hilarious.
00:53:26.000
What's the most insane reaction you ever got from someone in the audience?
00:53:35.000
I mean, good is like a standing ovation from your audience.
00:53:49.000
Looks like you've been in a few barbecues yourself, my friend.
00:54:20.000
I'm not a big boss guy, but your pussy has to look almost perfect.
00:54:43.000
If the coochie look right, smell right, and taste right, I would eat it.
00:54:52.000
I remember when I first started comedy, early in my career, mid-90s somewhere, I remember I was in Philly, another rough city, on stage, and back then, Dennis Rodman was one of the hot comedians.
00:55:08.000
And you know, he had the blonde hair, So I remember I saw this one girl in the audience.
00:55:14.000
I remember I seen this one girl in the audience and she had like a blonde streak like Dennis Rodman and I called her Denise Rodman.
00:55:27.000
And to think about it, that was the first time I've ever had a reaction.
00:55:31.000
I said, okay, I think this is the end of the show.
00:55:40.000
Yeah, so, Mike, I don't mean to say this in public, but I love watching your videos, bro.
00:55:47.000
And I've seen a BET. You have your own TV show.
00:56:00.000
If you guys don't mind watching it with us, this is hilarious, by the way.
00:56:02.000
And before we get into this clip real fast, guys, come on over to Rumble.
00:56:05.000
We're going to kill the Twitter, Twitch, and Facebook stream.
00:56:09.000
We got almost 10,000 of y'all over here on Rumble.
00:56:17.000
Man, when I saw this, I was dying laughing, bro.
00:56:18.000
I was like, this cannot be on TV. It's amazing.
00:56:35.000
Are you born on Easter or your mother fucked a rabbit?
00:56:38.000
If you ever took a bite out of crime, the crime rate in Chicago would go down.
00:56:59.000
Are you ahead of the class or you're heading this way?
00:57:02.000
Every time you tie your shoes, you flip over, you big-headed bastard.
00:57:41.000
We're just fighting for what's rightfully ours.
00:57:50.000
I don't know much about it because I'm more in a comedy where I stand up.
00:57:53.000
I make 90% of my money going on stage, telling jokes, and making money.
00:58:02.000
As far as I know, we are fighting for a very small amount.
00:58:13.000
And we just ask for a very small percentage of some of that money.
00:58:22.000
So, you know, hopefully they will figure it out and give us what is rightfully ours.
00:58:27.000
At the end of the day, if you're coming to see the Michael Blackson show, who are you coming to see?
00:58:38.000
But I gotta give a shout out to one of my idols, Tyler Perry.
00:58:43.000
You know, as a comedian from the 90s, When you start a comedy, your goal was to be good enough to get a TV show.
00:58:53.000
And every show, you could tell, Steve Harvey show, Martin Lawrence, Jamie Foxx show.
00:59:06.000
And most of the time their show was named after them.
00:59:07.000
It's after their name because they built up their name.
00:59:17.000
Tyler Perry saw something in me and gave me my own show.
00:59:20.000
So I gotta give him, you know, he believed in me.
00:59:27.000
You know, if you want to find it, go find it wherever you can find it at.
00:59:30.000
Is this exclusive, if you can answer, is this exclusive with like Netflix celebrities?
00:59:34.000
Because now it's like, there's like different worlds of actors now or celebrities.
00:59:40.000
Then you got actors that are like, you know, in traditional movie roles and the big screen.
00:59:45.000
Whoever is a SAG. Whoever is SAG or AFTR. That's the union.
00:59:48.000
What's a SAG? SAG, well, whenever you make over a certain amount of money or year doing...
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So basically, it's a union that's basically fighting for royalties from Netflix, which I mean, right for me so.
01:00:21.000
Like musicians, well, they don't sell their masters and all that.
01:00:25.000
I mean, I think actors should get the same thing.
01:00:27.000
Because they're going to make money on that for decades.
01:00:29.000
If I go to watch a show, I'm going for the actors in the movie.
01:00:38.000
I think it was Jack Nicholson in the first Batman.
01:00:40.000
They offered him like 80 or 90 million back then in the 90s for that first Batman movie.
01:00:46.000
And he said, no, I don't want the upfront payment.
01:00:49.000
And he ended up making way more money on getting the royalties and negotiated where he took a little bit less upfront.
01:00:54.000
But he made way more money over the long period of time through royalty.
01:00:57.000
So I think that's the smart play, man, when it comes to whether it's lump sums.
01:01:02.000
Because they're just trying to give a lump sum versus giving them royalties, right?
01:01:05.000
Listen, all I know is, if Michael Blackson's in the show, I'm watching it.
01:01:11.000
The support I've gotten from, especially America, Black America, from the day they embraced me since day one, since I got on Comic View in 1995, or whatever year that was.
01:01:21.000
I've been brazed and they followed me till now.
01:01:25.000
And don't get it wrong, I did put in some work and found a way to keep my set relevant.
01:01:29.000
That's the most important thing about being an entertainer.
01:01:35.000
You gave people a really good blueprint on how to get their foot in the door with comedy.
01:01:40.000
I don't think we've ever talked about that to this detail about how to become a comedian and make money doing it.
01:01:45.000
You know, everybody knows the telltale sign, you know, old story.
01:01:49.000
I'm gonna go to LA. I'm gonna, you know, wait tables and become an actor and pursue the dream.
01:01:52.000
What do you think is now that you've been there, you've lived there, you know what it's like, what would you tell someone that wants to go ahead and pursue that dream of acting?
01:02:08.000
Whenever you go to acting classes, there are always some kind of auditions going on.
01:02:11.000
They always let you know about what's going on in the city.
01:02:14.000
Whether it's audition, auditioning to be a commercial or something.
01:02:18.000
What cities would you say are always doing this?
01:02:21.000
Well, eventually you might want to move to a bigger city nearby.
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If you're in Oklahoma City, get the fuck out there, bitch.
01:02:29.000
If you're in Oklahoma City, maybe go to Houston.
01:02:32.000
If you're in Charlotte, North Carolina, maybe come to Atlanta.
01:02:36.000
If you're in Oakland, California, maybe come to LA. Okay.
01:02:39.000
So like a first year major city, a New York City, a Miami, a Houston, a Dallas, a Chicago.
01:02:46.000
But take some acting classes, you know, go audition as often as possible because audition is always good for you because it makes you better.
01:02:54.000
Whether you get the part or not, go and audition.
01:03:02.000
Because, you know, but classes are very important.
01:03:05.000
Take some acting classes and then find out what's going on because a lot of times acting teachers will have information on what's going on in the local areas of auditions of different things.
01:03:19.000
It's not like going to a film school or something.
01:03:23.000
Acting classes, a lot of time, is ran by actors that just...
01:03:28.000
Either they are done You know, their career is pretty much over, but they have their respect in the acting world.
01:03:42.000
A lot of times, you go to a certain college, some college will have an acting class.
01:03:48.000
In fact, one of my guys I used to work with, in fact, he was the guy that got me to go on the open mic night.
01:03:53.000
He was an acting teacher at the Philadelphia Community College, and he worked at Domino's Pizza as a side job to make tips.
01:04:05.000
He helped me write my first five minutes of material.
01:04:14.000
But he's probably, you know, he's still probably teaching.
01:04:20.000
At what point should someone even contemplate moving to Los Angeles?
01:04:25.000
What should they have in place before they do that?
01:04:31.000
And just as many as people that fly to LA every day to become stars, there's the same amount of people fly out of LA every day.
01:04:48.000
Ladies who think she's the baddest bitch in Oklahoma.
01:04:52.000
But when you come to LA, you go from a dime to a high five.
01:05:02.000
LA will really tell you who you really are or what you are.
01:05:12.000
In 2000, when you're a great actor, you come to LA. Now it's like, Hollywood has changed.
01:05:22.000
They want to make sure if they give you a show, you have an audience to watch their motherfuckers.
01:05:28.000
It's a requirement that you have a social media following now.
01:05:38.000
If you're great at acting and you go and you kill an audition, you could make it.
01:05:43.000
You have a better chance of making it if you had a million followers.
01:05:46.000
So you can be an okay actor but have a huge following versus having no following but a great actor.
01:05:51.000
The guy that has a huge following is more than likely going to get the role.
01:05:57.000
We were talking about this a little bit before the show and I kind of want to get your take on this.
01:06:01.000
Do you see the death of legacy media coming soon?
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Because people are going to alternative news nowadays.
01:06:07.000
People aren't watching movies as much as they used to.
01:06:11.000
Do you think that regular television, the movie industry, etc., has taken a nosedive at this point?
01:06:16.000
It was, but I think it's coming back for some reason.
01:06:21.000
For some reason, I just feel like we are going back to watching We're going back to the movies now.
01:06:27.000
I mean, during the pandemic, for three years, we're going to go to the movies.
01:06:30.000
So if we're going back to the movies, I think we're going to probably eventually end up going back to watching TV once they start making TV more interesting.
01:06:38.000
I mean, social media has spoiled us with all kinds of crazy shit we've seen.
01:06:43.000
So now why am I going to watch somebody getting shot in the head right on social media?
01:06:50.000
So TV has to go to a whole different level to make them watch.
01:06:53.000
And I think that's probably what helped the show that I got.
01:06:57.000
You know, the show that a guy is like, I'm a teacher that's cussing.
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If I'm going to watch TV, I got to see some crazy shit.
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Well, I mean, no, TV has always been, like, clean.
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TV has been clean, but, like, now things are getting...
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There got to be bitches still fighting on TV. You know what I could see you doing on a show with, Michael?
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It was one short idea that I had in mind that I was going to do.
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And pretty much that show was a reality show about me making so many bad choices in my whole life.
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I'm going to take them to my village and let my village decide who's best for me.
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Get them from their bougie homes in America and take them to the village in West Africa.
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And let the chiefs and the village ladies all decide which one of these are best for me.
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I might still do it, even though I have a whole scripted show now.
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So when you have a scripted show, you know, you don't go back to reality.
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But if I'm going to go back to reality, that would be something that I would do.
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Is reality television still a big thing nowadays?
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I remember it was all the rage in like the late...
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In the early 2000s all the way up until like 2010, I remember all these, you know, the pickup artists and Flavor of Love and New York had the real world, Flavor of Love's like the contestant, what's her name, For the Love of New York did a show.
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I still think reality is still hard and still being watched only because reality is real life.
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Some of them still have a little bit of storylines or whatever, but it's still real life and people are so invested into people's real life.
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People want to see other motherfuckers fail in real life.
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Tell me this, because I'm very curious about this.
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Is it true they take your phones away and give y'all plenty of alcohol so that they can kind of incite drama?
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That's what I've heard from these reality shows.
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Some sayings, I mean, yeah, they want to get the truth out of you, so they do encourage you to drink, you know.
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We don't, nobody, I mean, no network with no interruption in a set.
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I know there's Love Island now, there's one pretty good, that reality show, Love Island.
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But I'm saying like Jersey Shore, they took their phones from them for months.
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Like, they only could use that, you know, that duck phone.
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They'd go in there and they'd do it when they'd be talking to themselves.
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They only had that one duck phone and only one in the house.
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Off camera, them niggas got their phone back, nigga.
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Ain't no way I'm gonna leave without my phone for a whole month.
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After a month, not having your phone, nigga, you be single, motherfucker, if you're in a relationship.
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Michael Blackson would have been the biggest comedian if he sold out to the LGBT agenda, but he kept a solid and stood tall and still won.
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American Pharoah goes, Real G's always speaking truth bombs.
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IRS goes, How bright are the lights in the studio?
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Did y'all make it just so we can see Michael and Fresh?
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Kobe goes, Martin, I was wondering if you still do one-on-one conversations.
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I have some things that I would like your mentorship and guidance on.
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I understand your time is valuable and that it would not be free.
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Yeah, bro, it would be very expensive, but just go ahead and send me a DM on Instagram.
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Mike Blackson and Aries Spears are the best comedians.
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The only reason they are not the biggest is because they don't play to the gym.
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Fresh and Michael both look like under the bed.
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Michael Blacks, I can't get jiggy with this shit.
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Right amount of money to have in reserve for emergencies plus repairs when buying a turnkey property.
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You want to have at least six months of expenses there that you can cover.
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Talk to him real quick and tell us if you'd be a good teacher.
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My first year, I taught pre-K to fourth grade, and I taught sixth to twelfth grade.
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Art, photography, journalism, and pretty much, man.
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Kindergarten in the fourth grade, they're adorable.
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So, you know, my school in Ghana is kindergarten right now to fourth grade.
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I'm going to eventually stop in ninth grade, like junior high.
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How ugly is your baby mother to have a fucking dog?
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No, because after low pay and, you know, it's one of those things where the hours you put in from, like, 6 a.m.
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Teachers are so on the pace when you're dealing with these badass fucking kids.
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So I went into graphic design and then for, like, six months and then here I am right now on the Fudge Fat Podcast.
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Why does it sound like Chris's tongue is burned, bro?
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Chris, it literally sounds like you've burned your tongue every time you talk, bro.
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The most important thing about being a teacher is...
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He was not really passionate about being a teacher.
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It's the passion you have for the kids, the love.
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I was there from morning to night just doing what I got to do and stuff like that.
01:14:28.000
Salaam Alaikum, FNF. Recently stumbled upon your show via ANC Report.
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They're trying to get that money back they had to pay me.
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Where can they find you and what's coming up for you next?
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I got two Thursdays, two Friday, two Saturdays.
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I'm not sure if I'm going to stay with the Sunday or not, but Arlington, Texas at the Improv.
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Then the following week, I'm in, where am I at?
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And then after that, you catch me in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, and Nashville at Zany's Comedy Club.
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I'll most likely be back in Florida in like three months.
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So yeah, so man, Florida always, every time I come out here, man, I sell out every show.
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Logan, all those guys were, it was a lot of fun.
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You know, it was, it was, and what I liked by doing that, you know, I gained a whole.
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Like I was telling you earlier before the show, when I go to do Caroline's, Caroline's usually just close the comedy club down.
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And when I went to go to Caroline's on the weekend, you know, they have all these press lined up and The podcast was part of the press, you know?
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And then I think it aired a day later and then I helped sell the whole show out.
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And again, the whole new audience, a whole new teenage white audience.
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All the crazy white kids follow me because of that interview.
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It's always good to broaden your horizon, go do some other...
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I like to talk to Indian, Chinese motherfuckers, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, a Haitian brother.
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Just follow me on IG. For those who went to a public school, I'll spell it for you.
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It's M-I-C-H-A-E-L-B-L-A-C-K-S-O-N. That's my Instagram, my Twitter, my thread now.
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My thread, my Christian mingle, my everybody, black people and me.
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We had a little beef, but even though it was like...
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We went to a Michael Rubin party, and it was late, and we talked, and that was the first time he's seen me.
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The all-white party was in, like, it's in New York.
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So Michael Rubin, wherever an event is going on in the city, Mike Rubin's there to throw a big party.
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The cat was there, and the first thing he said to me was like, Mike, congratulations on the school.
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And I mean, it made me feel good that he's watching and appreciating.
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I ran to Cardi B at a Super Bowl party, and the first thing she said to me, congratulations on the school.
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She didn't drug your drink or throw a microphone at you?
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And it really made me feel good about what I... When I was building a school, I was just doing it because I just felt like these kids needed it.
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It was something out of my heart, out of my money.
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And when I went to church, when I was in church, I gave 10% of my Earnings to God.
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As I got older, you know, I'm like, okay, you know, church look like a business.
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I'm still giving 10%, but now I'm giving it to something.
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You know, so every month, at least 10% of my income goes towards that school.
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I'm educating my kids in my village so they could become great like me one day.
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He went to school with Lord Romeo, same college.
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We might not be politically correct enough for him.
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Y'all should bring in trial to great for the viewers that are thinking about joining a branch in the military as a former USMC. Okay, maybe in the future.
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A1, the official goes, you the only nigga I know who named Tic Tac and your breasts still smell like shit.
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But yeah, guys, he's Michael Black, so we'll be back with him to some lovely ladies here in about, of course, call it like an hour.