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Aug. 7, 2023 - Fresh & Fit

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Michael Blackson On How To Monetize Comedy, Create Material, & Being A Comedian In Cancel Culture!

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	Yeah, welcome to Fresh Shirt Podcast, guys.
	We're here with Motosaka, Michael Blackson!
	Let's get into it!
	Let's go.
	What's up, guys?
	Welcome to the Fresh Shift Podcast, man.
	We are live streaming to YouTube.
	My bad, not YouTube.
	Rumble!
	Rumble, Twitter, Twitch, and Facebook, just so y'all know.
	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.
	What do you want to say?
	That niggas in jail?
	You're like, we're not going to be on YouTube, because you ain't talking about some jail, motherfucker.
	Yeah, bro.
	What the fuck did y'all do?
	What did y'all niggas do?
	We pushed Edge too far, I guess.
	We brought an alleged white supremacist on.
	That's what we did.
	How long is your jail term?
	Is it longer than Tory Lanez?
	Oh, God.
	We're already going there, aren't we?
	Here we go.
	In a few hours, if not, they probably already know by now.
	Yeah.
	His sentence.
	You know that, right?
	You're right.
	But hold on.
	You think he did it?
	Mother sucker, come on.
	As a black man, you think he did it?
	What do you mean as a black man?
	I'm gonna put my compression into this shit, motherfucker.
	I mean, I come to the evidence, you know.
	What do we do?
	I think he did it.
	They have evidence.
	Yeah, but it could be fake, no?
	Here's the thing.
	Here's my thing on testifying, okay, on court.
	If I didn't do something, I'm getting on that stand.
	I'm gonna convince them judges.
	Them fucking, um, jewelers.
	Because I didn't do it.
	Okay.
	When you don't get on the stage, I feel like you're hiding something.
	Mmm.
	I mean, true, but you can't use it against them, though.
	I know that, nigga, if I didn't kill somebody, I got to go convince them niggas I didn't kill somebody.
	I'm going to get on that stand.
	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.
	Right.
	I'm not going to fuck them lawyers, man.
	Them lawyers always tell you, don't go incriminate yourself.
	Nigga, if you didn't do it, go on that stand.
	Proof to them niggas you didn't do it.
	Nothing more important than your own words.
	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.
	But, I mean, it's bullshit, bro.
	I mean, you know, that's what happens when...
	Man, I'll fuck out to my lawyer.
	Fuck you, nigga.
	I don't understand.
	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.
	Well, yeah, I mean, OJ Simpson worked for OJ Simpson.
	They do work for some people.
	Yeah.
	But, man, fuck that.
	If I'm going on a stand, especially if I know I didn't.
	OJ didn't take a stand, he knew.
	Yeah, he would have killed his ass if you took a stand.
	If you did it, nigga, get the fuck up that stand.
	Don't do it.
	Yeah, okay.
	That's fair.
	But, yeah, man, I hope Torrey doesn't, he's looking at what, like 9 to 15?
	13 years, I think.
	13 years?
	Well, yeah, he had very good behavior.
	It was a...
	what's her name?
	Somebody wrote a letter for him.
	Oh, he had a character letter.
	A lot of characters.
	75 of them.
	One of them was...
	I forgot the girl's name Zellie Iguazela?
	Iguazela Okay She's one of those That wrote a letter On his back Loss a letter on his behalf But I think, to me, the biggest mistake he did was not going on that stand.
	Improving to them motherfuckers.
	Behind closed doors, what's this Hollywood thing?
	Do they think he's innocent too?
	Or are they just being quiet about it?
	I mean, I don't know.
	They just felt like he could have handled it a little differently after it happened.
	You know, we know.
	Me Too era.
	Where you can't do wrong to women.
	Facts.
	So, you know...
	And she took the stand and got it there and made them emotional.
	Like, Megan...
	Megan Thee Stallion, excuse me, took the stand and was super, you know what I mean, emotional and made them...
	And it went a Me Too era where, you know, this is a woman's time right now.
	Mm-hmm.
	You know, so if he did what he did by accident or whatever, he should have been in contact with her and apologized.
	Find a way to make it better.
	Yeah, but apologizing, he kind of did and that fucked him up.
	Yeah, I think he offered to make things go better.
	That's what made him look bad.
	He should have just never contacted her.
	So if he apologizes, are you saying he did it?
	No, but they can look at it as that he's culpable by apologizing.
	Even if he didn't do it, they can say, oh, well, why are you apologizing then?
	At the end of the day, man, women...
	Women, especially black women, you know, black women are for the black men.
	Most of them are all about black men.
	They do prefer black men, yeah.
	They do for the black men.
	And they don't want to see a black man go down.
	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.
	Women have a sympathy.
	They have a heart for black men.
	But she recorded him, bro.
	Huh?
	She recorded that phone call, man, and that ended up fucking him up.
	Yeah.
	She recorded it?
	She recorded it.
	They played it in trial that he called her and was like, man, I'm so sorry this happened, blah, blah, blah.
	And they tried to insinuate that that was an admission of guilt.
	Yeah, Meg the horse.
	I mean, Stallion.
	Meg the snitch.
	Yeah, bro.
	Whatever it is, I wish...
	Put him in jail, goddammit!
	I wish he would have...
	He's fucked up.
	He would have went a different route with it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's a rare situation where I think taking a stand potentially could have helped him.
	Oh, I would have took the stand.
	Potentially.
	I don't understand.
	I didn't do nothing, motherfucker.
	Is this one case?
	This one case I watched during the pandemic called Steve Avery.
	Have you found Steve Avery?
	Man, that shit's...
	It's still on Netflix.
	This guy was...
	Falsely accused of murder.
	Not murder, of rape.
	Falsely accused of rape, right?
	And then went to jail.
	18 years later, did the DNA. And there was somebody else.
	Right?
	I never know.
	And then when he got out of jail, somebody dies.
	Right?
	Accused him of raping and killing a girl.
	That came to his junkyard.
	He owned a junkyard, right?
	It's like, when you watch it, you're not going to know whether this guy did it or not.
	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.
	So now he had the whole city, the whole police officers were against him.
	Because he's suing them.
	And all of a sudden now somebody dies and then, you know, all the evidence was on him.
	And then boom.
	He came now, because he was suing for millions of dollars, now you gotta go to jail.
	Damn!
	And this guy did not get on the stand.
	He didn't get on the stand.
	You gotta go to Netflix, watch a Steve Avery case.
	Well, one of the few things I would say, like, self-defense is typically you got to take the stand for that.
	That's why Kyle Rittenhouse beat his case.
	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.
	Okay.
	But, yeah, in general, taking a stand is not a good idea.
	But, Michael, welcome back to Fresh and Fit, man.
	It's been, like, almost two years, brother.
	It has been a while.
	I miss you guys, man.
	I miss the...
	We miss you too, Murasaki.
	Nigga on steroids and of course...
	My dark-skinned brother, I miss you, man.
	We have to stick together.
	I remember last year, we were a Rolex gang.
	Things changed a little bit.
	You know, I got the same watch.
	This nigga moved up and got a whole AP watch, man.
	Me, I'm just, you know...
	In Hollywood or entertainment world, everything is just a show.
	You know, you got to look a certain way for putting respect.
	You got to, you know, and me, it just, all this shit I got on, just like, it's just for the stage.
	I'm on stage right now.
	Unfortunately, I only have two audio members, but this is a stage for me.
	You know what I mean?
	But he got the real deal, man.
	You got the real fucking deal.
	You're the real deal, Michael.
	I'm just an entertainer.
	What's new with you, bro?
	What's happening with you?
	Man, just staying busy, touring.
	You know, the biggest...
	I accomplished my biggest accomplishment in my life.
	What's that?
	I built a school in my village.
	A free school for the kids.
	You talked about that last time you were here.
	You got it done.
	It's done.
	Mike, you know who they finished their school yet?
	Dr.
	Omar.
	Yo, where's your school, bro?
	I know you bought your school, but where's his school?
	I'm just saying, bro.
	It's been 10 years, no?
	What the fuck, punk bitch?
	Damn!
	I didn't know he was going to school.
	Was he going to school?
	I'm just saying, bro.
	I think so.
	Yeah, with me, it was so needed.
	For over 10 years, Mo?
	Mo got the Carfax, he knows.
	In those villages in most part of Africa, especially West Africa, a lot of kids don't go to school.
	They can't afford uniform or the simplest things.
	You know, and a lot of times there's a few government schools in the area.
	Government schools are like public schools.
	So those are like overcrowded or they fill up too fast.
	And then now you have to go to private school or you're not going to go to school at all.
	And a lot of kids just walk around.
	A lot of them, they've just been home so long at like seven, eight years old.
	They don't even know what to do in school.
	So that's why I built a school for these kids in the village.
	Let's educate them early, man.
	You know, I used to go home and I'd see kids walking around during school hours.
	They wouldn't understand why.
	And when I found out why, I said to myself, I have to do something about it.
	And I finally did.
	Build them a school.
	Free food, free uniform, free education.
	The only thing you gotta pay for is pay attention to the teacher.
	That's it, man.
	All out of my pocket.
	Completely out of my pocket.
	Every month, I fund the school.
	I build with my own money.
	Teachers are paid every month.
	Damn.
	I mean, teachers, chefs, security, utilities, everything's done.
	All out of my pocket.
	Books, everything.
	I'm giving all back.
	To the less fortunate.
	Michael's a good dude.
	And I remember you talking about this last time, and it's a blessing that you actually got it done.
	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?
	Oh, yes, man.
	You know, it came...
	What the fuck is that?
	You like that?
	You like that, man?
	Crystal the sound effects.
	Go ahead.
	Go ahead, man.
	I was into a cracky.
	That's a cracky music.
	That's when you were covering from cracky and coming back to life.
	Don't play that shit again, my nigga.
	X cracky music on me.
	But no, you know, I came from nothing.
	Absolutely nothing.
	My mother, you know, my mother left my father.
	She had given her life to Christ many years ago.
	He left my father because my dad didn't want to live that life.
	My mom took her kids.
	She had seven kids.
	My father traveled by road preaching the gospel, you know, had us going around door to door.
	People gave us their home to live in, you know.
	And this is in Ghana, right?
	You were born from Ghana to Liberia.
	Yeah.
	To all parts of Nigeria, to all parts of different parts of Africa.
	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.
	And that's how I ended up in America.
	And I mean, I hope immigration is not listening.
	But if they are listening, you know, it was an invitation to come and preach for like two weeks and then go back.
	But I knew my mother was, I knew it wasn't going to go back.
	He also overstayed the visa.
	He overstayed the visa.
	Allegedly.
	Allegedly.
	Well, to be fair here, he would have been arrested.
	I used to work immigration.
	Did you really?
	Yeah, he's overstayed, bro.
	Get him, bro, on ICE right now.
	It's okay now, you know what?
	About a year ago, I officially became a U.S. citizen.
	Wow.
	Okay, he beat the case.
	It's okay, we can denaturalize him.
	He said allegedly.
	He got that shit through fraud.
	I already know.
	That shit was N-400.
	He lied on that shit.
	I'm a citizen there, motherfucker.
	Don't worry, Mike.
	He said allegedly.
	People do not understand.
	This thing, being a citizen, is not easy.
	No, it's hard, bro.
	It's a process.
	You know, then you have to have your green card for like five years.
	You know, and even getting a green card is a process.
	It took me almost 30 years to become a citizen.
	Wow, are you old, nigga?
	Yes, I'm old.
	You know, and then you gotta take a test where they ask these dumbass questions.
	Like, what's the capital of the United States?
	Miami, bitch.
	I don't fucking know.
	Where did John F. Kennedy get shot at?
	Liberty City, motherfucker.
	Liberty City.
	This the hood, ain't it?
	Oh, my God.
	Liberty City.
	Who fought in World War I and World War II? The bloods and the crates, my nigga.
	I don't fucking know, okay?
	Who's the first color president?
	Nigga Trump.
	I don't fucking know.
	The nigga is orange.
	I don't know.
	That's the only color I know.
	Orange.
	Yo!
	Oh, man.
	Oh, man.
	But I came from nothing.
	You know, we came to America, lived in people's basement.
	My mother worked at McDonald's at one time, made $50 a week to feed us.
	Damn.
	And brought home all the unused burgers at the job for us to eat for dinner.
	Was this in Philly?
	That was in Jersey.
	I moved to Philly.
	We did Philly three years after being in Jersey.
	Moved to Philly.
	By the time I got to Philly, things got a little bit better.
	You're in high school at this point?
	High school, yeah.
	I got to Philly.
	I was 11th grade at the time.
	And then I went to, got a job at Domino's Pizza.
	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.
	And then I was in Domino's flight all the way till I was after high school.
	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.
	I had family back home.
	I had to send money home.
	So I had to just keep working.
	I tried to get in the military.
	I tried going to army because army would pay you and travel the world, but I didn't have a green card.
	I just had a work permit.
	I didn't have a green card, so I couldn't even go in the army.
	So I had to keep working and just helping my family back home.
	Question for you, Mike.
	Talk to me.
	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?
	Definitely.
	There's no excuse in America.
	No excuse, man.
	And, I mean, don't get it wrong.
	You know, I could make a little bit of excuse for black America.
	A little bit of excuse.
	A little bit.
	Only because, you know, they didn't grow up with wealth.
	You know what I'm saying?
	They didn't grow up with wealth.
	You know, most white people...
	Grew up in wealth.
	I mean, their parents got life insurance.
	And they died and they leave $200,000.
	If you're starting your life up with $200,000, you're already ahead of life.
	But Blackpool, they live in the projects.
	They ain't paying no $30 a month on no fucking life insurance.
	You ain't thinking about that.
	You're not thinking about that.
	But regardless of that, you're talking about a man that was not a citizen, came here, had nothing.
	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.
	But if I wasn't a comedian...
	In a second language, too.
	In a second language.
	Now, if I wasn't a comedian, I worked at Domino's.
	Mind you, before I became a comedian, I worked at Domino's.
	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.
	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.
	Yeah.
	There's always a way to become successful in anything you do.
	Yeah.
	Maybe you're a landscaper.
	That's fine.
	You'll cut this niggas grass.
	Find out how you're going to own your own landscaping company.
	How you can be the boss.
	Right.
	America has the opportunities.
	So there's no fucking excuse for nobody in America.
	You could be successful in anything you do.
	Whether you're a trash man or you're a landscaper or you work at McDonald's.
	Work there long enough and find out how you can own a McDonald's.
	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.
	And here's the thing.
	I'm not telling you how to be in that job forever.
	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.
	And most importantly, it's going to teach you what life will be like if you don't get high income skills.
	And also humble you as well.
	It'll humble you, man.
	Working at McDonald's really helped me build character, made me realize, like, God damn, I don't want to do this.
	I better, like, become successful.
	I was blessed at Chick-fil-A. My pleasure.
	My pleasure.
	Yes.
	I'm sorry, you were saying...
	Okay, cool.
	I got you.
	Yeah, definitely.
	So, there's no excuse, guys.
	You could do the least...
	And...
	My whole thing, I hate to see guys go to jail for selling dope or scamming.
	I'm like, there's so many legal ways of making money.
	You know?
	It's like your freedom is the most important thing in the world.
	Why would you jeopardize your freedom?
	You know?
	Nigga, go get a job at McDonald's if you have to.
	You have freedom.
	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.
	Yeah.
	And Philly is consistently in the top 10 most dangerous cities in the United States.
	What was it like growing up in Philadelphia as an immigrant, bro?
	Yeah, Philly was rough.
	Um...
	When I grew up in Philly, we're talking about like early 90s.
	Goddamn!
	That's when I started.
	I was a teenager in the early 90s.
	Fresh wasn't kidding.
	You were old as hell, man.
	Yeah.
	Listen, man.
	90s?
	Black don't crack, okay?
	This dude was deliverable pizzas while watching Minister Society.
	Black don't crack.
	You light skin, you're gonna crack in two years, motherfucker.
	Black don't crack unless you smoke crack, motherfucker.
	That is true.
	But yeah, what was you saying?
	Now I'm confused.
	I'll say it because you were in Philly in the 90s.
	Philly's rough, man.
	You know, but the thing about it, Philly, when I came to Philly in the early 90s, I had left Jersey.
	When I left Jersey and came to Philly, Philly looked like a gold mine compared to Jersey.
	What part of Jersey were you in?
	I was in Newark, nigga.
	Brick City, exactly.
	Over there, getting a job at McDonald's was like a privilege.
	It was hard as hell.
	When I got to Philly, things were a little easier.
	I was able to get a job.
	I was able to get a job, and I was able to, like, you know, right away, I got a job right away.
	My mother, you found, cost of living was a lot cheaper in Philly.
	Yeah.
	My mother found a three-bedroom row house in a hood, and I didn't know what a hood was.
	I just wanted my own fucking room.
	Yeah.
	And this shit cost, she was paying $300 a month.
	For a three-bedroom in the hood.
	Wow.
	What year?
	Is this like, what, 94, 95 now?
	Nah, nigga.
	We're talking about like, it's like 90.
	Oh, shit.
	1990.
	Okay.
	It's like a 1993-bedroom.
	That same place right now is probably $1,500 a month now.
	Still not that.
	I wasn't even born yet.
	1990, yeah.
	You was a sperm, nigga.
	Not even that.
	You was a zygote.
	I was born in 90, so...
	He was a piece of cake.
	Dad was eating, motherfucker.
	He was a piece of cake.
	Actually, I was born in 90 as well.
	Oh, you were born in 90?
	Okay, you see?
	He's older than you, motherfucker.
	But yeah, man, so Philly was rough.
	I grew up in an era where, you know, you wore a pair of Nike, they'll put a gun to you, they'll kill you for Nike.
	Yeah.
	They'll kill you for a bomber coat.
	I mean, we had these goose bomber coat where it had like this fur on the neck of it with leather coat.
	Motherfucker would shoot you, you don't give that coat up.
	Damn.
	Nigga was dying for coats.
	I don't know what niggas dying for now.
	I'm talking about high school, you come out your school, there's going to be a nigga out there potentially with a gun and we'll kill you for your coat.
	So I grew up in a very tough era.
	The 90s were bad with all these major East Coast cities.
	New York City was terrible as well.
	It wasn't until Giuliani got in that he cleaned up New York a little bit.
	For real?
	Yeah, but the 90s were just terrible.
	Oh, the 90s was terrible.
	It was just taking lives, man.
	Like, it was nothing.
	And thank God I survived through it because, you know, When I came to America, my first few years was rough.
	You know, I got, I went to school.
	I'm not going to eighth grade.
	You know, my mom, we had no money.
	My mother went to like, when she bought my school clothes from a Woolworth.
	Your parents do a Woolworth.
	Woolworth, yeah.
	My Woolworth.
	That's in Barbados too.
	They have Woolworth.
	Yeah.
	So my mom, it's like a cheap store.
	It's like the new Walmart, nigga.
	They have Woolworth.
	They have McCurry's.
	Those are the new Walmart.
	So it's not FUBU. It's like poor FUBU. Nah, nigga.
	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.
	My mother bought me a pair of sneakers in Pathmark.
	Goddamn!
	I wore some chicken-flavored sneakers for two years.
	You must have got roasted, bro.
	I didn't know they had Pathmark in Pennsylvania.
	I thought it was just a New York thing.
	This is Jersey.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, okay.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And I went to school.
	I'm on the first day of school, man.
	I'm going to school.
	My brand new shit.
	New clothes.
	Yeah.
	New sneakers.
	Chicken flavor sneakers.
	I'm thinking I'm about to go shit on these niggas because I got new clothes on.
	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.
	We didn't care about name brand.
	We didn't know what name brand was.
	Right.
	We didn't know about no Adidas or Nike.
	We didn't care about that shit.
	You know, America is like that fucking, it's like the garden of Eden.
	Once you ate the apple, you saw everything.
	In Africa, we didn't eat the apple yet.
	So we didn't see all them little things that really matter here.
	We didn't see name brand.
	We didn't see complexion.
	Really?
	That's serious, man.
	In Liberia, where I grew up at, you would not know, this guy don't look light-skinned to you.
	We're all the same.
	I never saw complexions until I got to America.
	Oh, yeah.
	And when I got to America, I'm hanging out with some dudes, you know, some dark, some light brown.
	I'm probably the darkest one at that moment.
	I see a niggerless complexion, a nigger your complexion, a brown-skinned nigger.
	We all hanging out.
	And one of them be like, damn, you black as shit.
	Yeah.
	I said, no, he said first, he's like, oh, damn, you black.
	I said, of course, we are black.
	He said, no, nigga.
	You black as hell.
	You a different black.
	And he put his hands next to mine to compare the complexion.
	I'm like, what the fuck?
	And that was in the era of Michael Jackson and Prince era.
	And I'm like, damn, so now you got me self-conscious about my complexion.
	I ain't gonna lie.
	Y'all are kind of black though.
	Funny story for y'all.
	Before we started the show, on our main camera angle, Chris, show it to them.
	Right here.
	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.
	When I left the table, I kid you not, guys.
	I swear to God.
	I get up, ISO goes up because these dudes are so black, man.
	In our defense, the sun was going down, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	If the black guy had buried, the sweet of the juice.
	Yes!
	Girls love the blacker.
	I am diabetes, motherfucker.
	Okay, Mike, you mentioned earlier freedom, right?
	Speaking of freedom, now you're a single mother sucker.
	What's happening?
	You're a single guy now.
	I've just been single for life.
	Why about with the Asian chick, man?
	Yeah, last time.
	You know, she got fed up with my shit, man.
	You know, she gave me so much freedom, enough freedom, and man, man, we just greedy.
	This is the first time I'm actually talking about it.
	Nobody in this world knows.
	You guys are getting exclusive information about Radha leaving me.
	Guys, like the video, man.
	Nobody knows because I'm the type of nigga, I'm not going to post about it.
	Especially on a new breakup.
	You don't post about it because if she comes back a month later, you look stupid.
	How long ago?
	A week.
	Oh, damn!
	About a week ago.
	About a week ago.
	A week ago.
	But she already went on social media and said something.
	Right, right.
	Which is so dumb.
	Yeah.
	Stupid.
	It's too early.
	It's too young.
	What if you come back?
	Now you look very dumb in front of your friends.
	That's why I'm not going to be dumb enough to make a post about it.
	Yeah.
	Maybe I'll let the world know I'm single maybe like five, six months.
	You know, because five or six months, I'm expecting her to fuck somebody else.
	And then I'm not going to want her anymore.
	You know what I mean?
	If she came back to you now, would you take her?
	You know, the thing about it, she's a great woman.
	I mean, she's access to my company.
	She does everything for me.
	But she still works for me.
	She's still on payroll.
	She's still answering the stuff.
	We're just not communicating about relationships.
	She's still working.
	And I told her, I said, listen, you can work as long as you want.
	You get your paycheck.
	She's great assets for me.
	She runs my non-profit.
	She helped with my school back home.
	Very valuable.
	You know, she brings more to the table than just pussy.
	Because sometimes just women just bring pussy.
	And sometimes you need a little bit more.
	So it's more to it.
	But, you know, hey, I'm a man.
	I'm just greedy.
	I can't, you know, I just can't...
	I just...
	Whatever it is, it's my fault.
	It's not her.
	I'm the blame.
	You know, and when we...
	She don't like you bringing all the girls around?
	Is that what it was?
	Well, you know, she...
	You know, from the beginning, I told her what I was about.
	You know, I'm like, hey, listen.
	And then she gave me that whole thing.
	You can have one side chick a month.
	Mm-hmm.
	And, you know, occasionally I might get greedy and have two threes instead of just one.
	Ten.
	Because I'm just a man.
	I'm just, I'm like, y'all niggas.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Right?
	I remember her coming on the show and agreeing and saying it was cool.
	I remember too.
	She understands.
	I remember telling her, like, bro, Mike can replace you faster than you can replace him.
	I remember telling her that.
	She don't like that.
	She don't like that.
	She don't like you.
	I know she don't.
	She hates you, motherfucker.
	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.
	If she came back tomorrow, I'd probably still take her back.
	Because, you know, she's very helpful.
	You know, she's just not more than just sex.
	She does a lot more.
	You know, so...
	And she has pride, too, so she might not come back.
	She's 40, bro.
	She better drop that pride, man.
	She's got Asian pride.
	You can only have pride when you're 25 and below.
	After that, you got to drop that pride.
	Mike, keep it real, though.
	Most niggas going to cheat at some point.
	Yeah, probably 96.8%.
	There are three niggas that don't cheat, and they are cheating right now.
	It happens, man.
	Yeah, man.
	I hate these guys that get on here and say, oh, I'm going to be faithful to my wife.
	I'm going to be traditionally Christian and observe monogamy and all these traditional values.
	You guys be full of fucking shit, man.
	Especially successful people that work.
	Yeah.
	Let's be real.
	Let's keep it real.
	Yeah.
	Everything we do in this world, we do it for the women.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	On some level, yeah.
	I got a nice clue so I could bring a chick in there and fuck her.
	I got a nice car so I could put a girl in there.
	She be like, oh my god, nice car.
	She give me some pussy.
	Yeah.
	I make a lot of money so I'm like, damn, you didn't make a lot of money.
	I'm like, fuck her.
	Everything we do...
	It's for sex.
	Yeah.
	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.
	I'd be homeless, nigga.
	It takes so little for men to be happy, bro.
	It's funny because like girls will come over, right?
	They'll see like my room and they're like, you don't have anything here.
	And I'm like, why the fuck do I need anything?
	And they're like, where's the TV? Well, you don't have a nice day.
	All this shit.
	I'm like, I don't need none of this bullshit, man.
	Like men are simple, bro.
	Very simple.
	We do everything for a woman, man.
	You think I got a nice car for you?
	I don't give a fuck about you getting in my car.
	You think I got a nice apartment to invite you over to?
	No.
	Everything we do is for the women.
	And we, especially men that work hard and like successful, we ain't doing it for just one woman.
	Facts.
	That's big facts.
	I agree, man.
	I mean, every guy that I've ever seen that tries to sit there and virtue signal.
	Beyonce got cheated on.
	So who are you?
	Yeah.
	Who are you?
	Beyonce, the lady you look up to, got cheated on.
	Your idol got cheated on.
	What did she do?
	Everybody to the left.
	She stayed her ass where she was at, bro.
	Because you realize Jay-Z is the one that's actually irreplaceable.
	Oh, there you go.
	I don't know this.
	Chris, let me know if we got rents or anything like that.
	Okay.
	But what are we doing?
	In the spirit of Money Monday, let's say someone in the audience wants to be a comedian.
	How do they get started on this path to be a comedian?
	Good question, Fresh.
	Fortunately for the new era, man, they got it so fucking easy.
	You just go and do some skits on IG, build your audience, or TikTok.
	Even TikTok's even better.
	Go build your audience on there and entertain them.
	Build like two, three million followers and all of a sudden now you're a comedian.
	It's not like my era.
	My era, we had social media.
	It's tough.
	We had to go to open mic night and make a bunch of strange motherfuckers laugh.
	Yeah.
	A hundred people laugh.
	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.
	And then, boom, you go from like $100 a show, now you're on TV, now you're going to make $500 a show.
	Now you're going to get in a movie, now you're going to make $2,500 a show.
	Now you're going to start a movie, now you're going to make $20,000 a show.
	We had to take them steps.
	Nowadays, social media, man.
	It's so much easier now.
	Because you know what?
	I'm really glad that we brought this up because I've noticed there's a lot of influencers, like comedy influencers.
	What they do is they don't stand up and do...
	They don't stand there and do stand-up jokes.
	What they do is they do funny skits.
	With acting and parodies and shit like that.
	And...
	Those videos get so much views and then people are like, oh, wow, this guy's hilarious, etc.
	And it's like with social media, you can almost like build your own brand.
	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.
	And that was the only way.
	If you didn't make it in mainstream television, no one cared or knew you didn't have your own platform.
	Yeah.
	They got it easy, which is all good.
	Social media, definitely.
	I mean, don't get it wrong.
	Even though I'm old school and new school, it definitely helped me to where I am today.
	Making the kind of money I'm making.
	Because now, social media helped them identify your name, not your name.
	At first, I used to be the African nigga from Next Friday.
	Now, it's Michael Blackson.
	That's Michael Blackson.
	That's Michael Blackson.
	Your name is worth money.
	Shit, man.
	So, yeah.
	So, now that you see Michael Blackson doing a show, we'll see Michael Blackson because we know Michael Blackson.
	We know he's funny.
	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.
	You know, I want to make money.
	I want to be a comedian, etc.
	What would you tell them to do a step-by-step?
	Would you say, all right, make a social media profile?
	Should they simultaneously go do open mics and improv classes as well?
	Yeah, definitely.
	Go do open mic, go to the comedy clubs, go see a real audience.
	Because a lot of times, these guys will build their social media fans, do little skits, and then go TikTok, take a stick up.
	The skits on stage.
	You gotta go to a real audience.
	And you gotta do that for like a year.
	Perfect that first five minutes.
	Once that five minutes is perfected, then you work another five minutes, make it ten minutes, and then so forth.
	And the thing about comedy, man, it is great comedy.
	Every year, you're going to come up with 15 minutes of good shit.
	So you take three good years for you to attempt to headline.
	Because the headline, you need 45 minutes on stage.
	So every year, you come up with a good 15 minutes.
	So every year, try to get that perfect 15 minutes.
	And then the following year, work another 15 minutes.
	It takes for real great comedy.
	You know who was really in that limelight that I can say follow that pattern?
	Drewski.
	He was funny online, on social media.
	Then he started doing comedy shows.
	It wasn't that good at the beginning, but he perfected his craft.
	He's killing it now with those comedy shows.
	He's still hosting.
	I'm not sure he's doing a stand-up comedy show yet.
	I don't know.
	I know he's hosting a lot of big events and he's doing his thing.
	He's in a competition where people come and they say...
	I'm yet to see him go on stage and tell jokes for 45 minutes.
	Now, guys that are doing that is like That came from social media.
	Number one guy is DC Young Fly.
	Shout out to him.
	You know, you got Desi Banks is doing it as well.
	Desi.
	B Simone is doing it.
	Those are just hilarious.
	Those are probably the four top ones that went from social media to becoming true comedian headliners.
	So this is some really good information for anybody that's watching.
	So first...
	Work on getting five minute sessions in.
	Like getting at least five minutes of a good routine and then build yourself up to 15 minutes in the year.
	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.
	Right.
	And what makes it easier for you to sell tickets by that time?
	Now you have like four or five million followers.
	Marketing.
	Four or five million followers.
	That's an average of like 10,000 in big major cities.
	So all you need is about 10% of them to show up to the show.
	That's 1,000 tickets a weekend.
	Sold out.
	1,000 tickets a weekend.
	Average ticket is 50 bucks.
	That's $50,000.
	You're going to at least get...
	Start you off with these comedy clubs, the Improv, the Funny Bone, the Hillem.
	Those comedy clubs is where, you know, we make our money.
	You start from 70 to 85% of the door.
	So now 7% of $50,000, you're picking up $30,000 a week.
	You know, and that's how it starts.
	Mike, you just did that point, the comedy players there.
	How much you made?
	I made a lot of money, but I can't talk about it because child support is why I will show you my check.
	I'll show you my check.
	I did five shows.
	I saw about 1,600 people.
	Nice.
	You know what I mean?
	And then I'll show you my check.
	Because, you know, that just shows you how much potential it is for comedians.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	You know, but Charleston Boy's watching.
	I always watching.
	Y'all niggas aren't going to find out for me.
	Mike, I'll let you know.
	Next time you're in Miami, bro, you better invite us to your show, bro.
	I'm so sorry, man.
	That was so lit.
	Yeah.
	That shit was so lit.
	Next time I'm in the area, whether it's Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, whatever.
	I'll come.
	How many 45-minute routines should an aspiring comedian have ready to go and memorize?
	No, no.
	You just need one.
	You just need one?
	Okay.
	And the thing about it, you could do that once, that same routine for about three years.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Three-year lifespan.
	Yeah.
	Three.
	You could do it.
	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.
	Maybe even longer.
	Depends on how lazy I am.
	Because every year, I might come up with 15 minutes of new shit and I might replace some of the old shit.
	So you're going to get 30 minutes of old shit.
	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.
	And then you're going to get 15 more minutes of new shit.
	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.
	Okay, that makes sense when they release those specials.
	If you think about it, like a Chappelle show, they release it every one to three years in that range.
	Oh, definitely.
	Three to four years.
	Chris Rock is one of my favorites.
	Chris Rock does them shit every eight years.
	Every eight?
	Every eight years.
	That makes sense.
	No, except for the last one.
	He had the Will Smith shit to go off.
	Well, yeah, he had to do that right away.
	But prior to that, I think he had one like maybe four years prior.
	It was like a four-year gap.
	But prior to that, he was doing every eight years.
	And I think the longer it takes, though, the better.
	Because now you're like, you know.
	It's fresh.
	It's fresh.
	Let me ask you this, Mike.
	How the hell...
	Obviously, you're talented, so this probably comes easy to you.
	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?
	Do you focus on the news?
	Do you focus on current events?
	Do you focus on society?
	It depends what you want to do.
	You have to pick.
	Me, I think people like to know what's going on right now.
	Mons are all over the place.
	Mons is...
	Personal relationships.
	Okay.
	Women always want to hear about relationships.
	Because every woman's struggling with a man or a man struggling.
	They want to know how shit lasts.
	So I got my relationship point of view.
	If I got a new woman, the audience is going to know.
	I'm going to talk about it.
	If I got engaged, I'm going to talk about it.
	And that lasts forever, that type of content.
	Those jokes, right?
	Like, your relationship lasts forever.
	Versus, like, current events.
	Current events, in and out.
	But at the same time, you got to show how brilliant you are by making fun of what's going on right now.
	You know, I have material on Joe Biden falling every week.
	I have material on Donald Trump.
	Having like 36 indictments, 66 misdemeanors, 11 grabbing by the pussy.
	He got all these cases and the niggas still running for president.
	Are you watching news every day to stay sharp?
	You're supposed to, but I don't.
	I'm more on social media.
	I'll see whatever the hot topics are and not try to make jokes about them.
	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.
	Oh, the Spanish girl, right?
	No, nigga, Carly Russell, the black girl from Alabama that said she got kidnapped.
	Remember the girl that said she got kidnapped?
	Okay, okay, okay, okay.
	What the fuck have you been?
	Nigga, there's another girl that was living at somebody's house.
	She had a husband the whole time.
	No, this girl, you heard about Carly Russell, right?
	The girl that said she was kidnapped.
	And now she's in jail.
	She gonna get arrested because she lied about it.
	She made it all up.
	Was this like a year ago?
	Nigga, no, like a month ago.
	Oh, I don't know.
	Where the fuck y'all niggas been?
	You've been taking steroids, you've been in Jamaica, fucking a bunch of...
	I can't remember a girl that got arrested by the FBI for that.
	Is it the same girl?
	No?
	Okay.
	Nah, this girl, Carly Russell, made this fake-ass kidnapping thing.
	Where she was missing.
	And she put this whole story together how she got lured in by a baby that was crossing the highway.
	Chris, can you pull this up real quick?
	Yeah, pull that shit real fast.
	I don't know.
	I'm not surprised though.
	So I keep up with current shit like that.
	Gotcha.
	And then of course current shit dies after like a month or two.
	Yeah.
	But current shit happens all the time.
	So it's going to be a segment in my show where I'm going to have a current event.
	Just to let my audience know like I know what's going on.
	So when you're like how do you get into like do you sit down and write your material down?
	Are you like kind of envisioning it in your head?
	How do you rehearse it?
	Well yeah I write it down.
	I write notes.
	Okay.
	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.
	And then how do you rehearse and practice it because obviously acting it out makes it so makes it really funny.
	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.
	We'll go to a comedy club on night we are off.
	Like, if I'm in LA, I'll go to the comedy club on a Tuesday night.
	And I'm a big name, so they'll be like, Michael Blackson's here, and then I'm on stage.
	And then I'll go on stage and try some shit out.
	Okay.
	So you practice at the comedy clubs?
	At the comedy clubs.
	Okay.
	Or I could just tweet it, and see, I could respond to it.
	That's smart.
	I tweeted or posted on IG my story.
	I see a lot of smiley faces.
	I'm like, this shit's funny.
	Or sometimes I have so much confidence in what I say.
	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.
	This is the chick right here?
	That's right there.
	Okay, no, I didn't hear about this.
	So she lied about being kidnapped.
	Yeah, lied about being kidnapped.
	And then if the FBI found out she lied, now she's got charges.
	Yeah, bro.
	If you lie about getting kidnapped, the FBI will 100% come at you, bro.
	Of course, because you know how much money you cost them?
	Yeah, they spend crazy money.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	This happened to a chick like two years ago.
	I remember reading a case.
	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.
	Well, I mean, it's a great...
	It should be the same thing.
	Look at Justice Smollett.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know that story, right?
	Yeah, we know that one.
	Yeah.
	But they spend a lot of money because I've done a missing persons case before.
	Whenever someone goes missing, you need to start doing like emergency phone tolls, emergency phone pings, all this other shit.
	That shit's expensive, bro.
	It costs them thousands upon thousands of dollars to get kidnapping investigation initiated.
	So if they find out you aren't really kidnapped, they're coming after you, bro.
	Speaking of money, what's the best way to make money as a comedian?
	Tours, shows, streaming?
	What's the best way to make money?
	Specials?
	I mean, like I said, I'm old school, man.
	I like to go on stage and make my money.
	I like to earn my money the right way, the hard way.
	The most enjoyable way.
	I love being on stage.
	But we're just in an era where so many ways of making money.
	You know, streaming and YouTube.
	There's so many different networks out there all looking for content.
	You know, come up with an idea.
	You're a comedian.
	You're funny and smart and brilliant.
	Come up with an idea.
	Come up with your own show idea.
	So many networks.
	It's not like back in the day where we only had like NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CW, UPN, whatever.
	Man, it's like thousands of different networks and they're all looking for content.
	I got a question for you, Mike.
	Yes.
	How do you continue to stay as a successful comedian in this woke cancel culture that we have?
	Because obviously you've been in the game for a while.
	I remember seeing you like I think on Comic View back in the early 2000s.
	And it's been damn near 20 years and it's changed significantly.
	I remember when Chappelle was doing a Chappelle show and he was doing all this wild stuff with KKK mass, whatever.
	They didn't cancel back then.
	But if you try to do that shit now, they're going to cancel you.
	How do you adapt to an ever-growing, weak, pussy, woke society?
	That's it, bitch!
	It's tough, man.
	But, you know, you have to learn how to adopt what's going on.
	What happened back then is what happened back then.
	Now it's a whole new era.
	You have to be smart and brilliant how you do your thing, how you tell your joke.
	You can still make a joke and make fun of certain things, but you have to sit in a certain way.
	It's just part of the era, man.
	It is what it is, unfortunately.
	But don't compromise yourself.
	Still be yourself.
	Don't be no pussy.
	I'll never forget the Sticks and Stones Netflix special.
	They literally were like, you quit Netflix, and it was a huge backlash in my head.
	I'm like, bro, this wasn't even that bad.
	If y'all saw a Chappelle show in 05, it was way worse.
	There's so many people.
	I think to myself, if artists like Eminem We're around today.
	They would never blow.
	Like, Dave Chappelle, they would have got canceled.
	Like, we've become so soft and so woke nowadays.
	It's ridiculous to me, man.
	And so how do you avoid cancel culture?
	You just, like, kind of finesse certain jokes in a certain way where they can't...
	I mean, at the end of the day, it has to be...
	You have to...
	You have to still speak your mind.
	You know, um...
	And I grew up in...
	I came from Africa where a lot of stuff in Africa and the Middle East is all illegal.
	Like, being gay is illegal in certain countries in Africa.
	It's illegal in the Middle East, most countries, you know?
	But America, being raised in America, America has taught me To accept everybody for who they are.
	You know?
	And don't get it wrong.
	Because sometimes when you are nice and accepting things, people also take advantage of you.
	I'll explain it to you.
	This is some exclusive shit that I've never talked about in an interview before.
	Let's do it.
	Love some information.
	The fence!
	Looking like a dehydrated Rick Ross.
	That Rick Ross is a dehydrated DJ Khaled, motherfucker.
	DJ Khaled.
	DJ Khaled if he fucking was on crack on the game.
	But now, so like, so because I'm in an entertainment world, I've learned to accept everybody.
	If I have a gay friend or gay person that I know, I treat like a regular dude.
	I'm like, hey man, I got some bitches coming over, man.
	You want some bitches?
	I'm not even gonna look at you as gay.
	You still to me, I still kiss my nigga.
	You know what I mean?
	I'm like, hey, I got some bitches coming over.
	You do whatever you want to do.
	Right?
	And I'm nice to everybody.
	Yeah.
	Because especially being in Hollywood, you don't know who's who.
	You have to be.
	You never know.
	Americans have taught me to accept people and be open about different things.
	I've learned that being in America.
	Right.
	But, you know, sometimes people, when you're nice, people try to, like, think you want...
	Make a little story short.
	It was this one...
	This is my second time I've been living in LA. First time I lived in LA was back in 2005.
	It was four years after the movie Next Friday came out.
	When Next Friday came out, that was my big break.
	I became an instant hood star.
	You know, I was living in Philly.
	I started touring the whole country, go and pick up a little $2,500, because that's what happened in my first movie.
	I went from $500 a show to $2,500.
	So I'm touring everywhere.
	I'm going everywhere, different clubs, different places, everybody.
	I'm hot!
	Right?
	And I rode that wave to like 2005, 2004.
	I rode that wave and I'm like, okay, now let me go find the next thing.
	Let me go find myself to another movie or something.
	Right.
	So I'm all coming to L.A. When I came to L.A., that's when my girl, my homegirl, Eve.
	Eve?
	No Eve?
	The rapper Eve from Philly.
	Oh, from Rough Riders.
	Yes.
	Oh, shit.
	Eve had a TV show, right?
	She had the Eve show.
	Man, are you really showing your age now, bro?
	Yes.
	Goddamn.
	What do you mean?
	It was on UPN, if I'm not mistaken.
	She had a TV show or sitcom, and I used to go on set and hang out, you know, because she was from Philly.
	I was from Philly.
	Everybody from Philly that was in Hollywood would go hang out on set just to watch Eve.
	Okay.
	Hoping maybe one day she'll be like, hey, Mike, get Mike a cameo or whatever.
	You know, it never happened.
	They didn't care.
	We just want to hang out.
	Was happy for our Philly homegirl having her own TV show.
	And I'm not sure if I was a stylist.
	He was a stylist on the show.
	Was a real gay guy.
	Obviously gay guy.
	You know what I mean?
	Some people are undercover.
	This nigga is just straight.
	We know you gay.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	But I accepted for who he is, you know, because I've learned that in America.
	I accepted him.
	I looked at some of the buddies, homies, you know, and I speak to him like, hey, what's up?
	Everything's good?
	Good.
	Everything's great.
	So I remember, well, fast forward to like 2013 when I moved back to L.A., Finally, I'm doing my own show.
	I'm doing a reality sitcom called Living With Funny.
	It had me, it had D. Ray Davies, it had a couple other comedians and their girlfriend and kids and all of that stuff.
	And I'm going to run into him.
	I'm like, hey, I have a TV show, man.
	So if you want to bring some clothes over, you know, some clothes, because he was able to get hooked on some clothes.
	So I'm like, bring the clothes over, we'll put on a show, and I'll shut them out, whatever.
	Still looked at this dude like, you know what I mean?
	You still, I know you gay, and you still cool with me.
	I'm cool with everybody.
	Right.
	Right?
	And so, damn, so that's 2013.
	And then I ran into him again, like 20, before pandemic, 2019, maybe, at some event.
	Mona Scott had this event.
	Mona Scott is like a big on reality.
	She does produce reality shows.
	She had this big fashion show.
	And then I ran to him again.
	But this time he was with this badass chick, right?
	Because gay guys always hang out with the bad bitches.
	They do.
	They do.
	He was this badass chick.
	I'm like, yo, dawg, what's up with that chick?
	He said, oh, don't worry, man.
	I got you, Mike.
	I'm like, oh, you're cool.
	Right?
	So I remember, like, I remember going home and I remember texting him.
	I'm like, yo, man, what's up with that chick?
	He's like, um, she come as a package deal.
	Wait, what?
	I'm like, what?
	Strikey?
	I mean, what you mean?
	He said, um, you know, um, like, you know, you gotta have both of us together.
	Aww.
	I'm like, I'm like, I'm about to say I'm sorry, I'm not into it.
	I was like, I'm not into that.
	You know what I mean?
	You know, you might look at you as a homie.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, I'm not, I'm not.
	He said, Mike.
	Holly weird.
	He said, Mike, man, come on.
	He said, I could name you a bunch of names.
	A lot of guys are into this.
	You know what I mean?
	It's okay.
	Nobody's going to know about this.
	I'm like, well, no, I know, nigga.
	That's not my, I don't know, nigga.
	I just, I mean, because my thing is, I would never be mean to anybody, especially not a gay person.
	Yeah.
	You know, you get mean and then all of a sudden now they talking about you and a person can say anything about you.
	Yeah.
	You know, hey, by the way, I suck Michael Black's dick.
	You know what I mean?
	Who knows?
	I don't know what it is.
	I'm always nice to everybody.
	Yeah.
	So I'm like, since the guy's still present, hey, man, come on, man.
	You know what I mean?
	Nobody gonna know...
	A whole bunch of...
	All your homies are all into this stuff.
	I'm like, well, I'm not, man.
	I just respect you for who you are and I accept who you are.
	You know what I mean?
	I said, stop talking like this.
	I'm gonna block you.
	That's what I told him.
	You know what I mean?
	And I felt...
	I didn't talk to him anymore.
	I felt so violated.
	Is it because I'm...
	Should I be mean?
	Because I'm nice, you try to take advantage of that.
	You know what I mean?
	So...
	That whole Me Too shit goes either way.
	This is exclusive shit.
	It's the first time I've ever talked about this.
	And this shit happened when I bought my crib in LA in 2018.
	It happened like four years ago.
	Damn.
	The first time I'm talking about it.
	Let me ask you this.
	Talk to me.
	Transitioning over from...
	We were talking about cancel culture earlier.
	Neo is kind of going through it right now with the Alphabet community.
	What are your thoughts on that, man?
	Having people apologize and all this other stuff.
	He made some comments and then everyone started freaking out and backlash.
	I listened to his comment.
	At the end of the day, there's America.
	Freedom of speech.
	You're entitled to feeling whatever you want to feel.
	If that's how the guy is feeling, isn't that what America is all about?
	Why can't a guy feel the way he's feel?
	Why can't he talk about how he feels?
	It's just freedom of speech.
	That's what I came to America for.
	If I want my speech to be taken away, I'll move to your country, motherfucker.
	Yeah, there's no free speech in Sudan.
	I'm in America.
	Put the freedom of speech, you know?
	And it is what it is, man.
	I don't mean...
	What are your thoughts on...
	Because it never fails.
	This is the game plan.
	Celebrity or someone that has some influence says something, right?
	A community gets offended.
	Outrage.
	Backlash.
	You better apologize.
	And then they bend the knee and apologize.
	And it's not like it ends.
	They continue to go after them.
	We got Neil, Jamie Foxx.
	Jamie Foxx just went down the same thing recently, right?
	What did Jamie Foxx do?
	He made a story post saying...
	I'm paraphrasing, by the way.
	He said, people are fake.
	Look what they did to Jesus.
	And they assumed that he meant And I was like, bro, like, he just made a comment about people being snakes.
	Them boys.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah, and the thing about it, I know Jamie Foxx.
	Yeah, he's cool.
	There is no way Jamie Foxx.
	Jamie Foxx is the most peaceful person on earth.
	This guy loves everybody.
	Yeah.
	He's fucked a white woman, fucked a black woman.
	He's done it all.
	He said they and they took it a certain way, which is crazy.
	Who called them all?
	Jennifer Aniston.
	Crazy.
	It's always some old bitch, man.
	Every single time, bro.
	It's always some old chick that's way past her prime that no one cares about that's got a fucking virtue signal.
	Yeah.
	Every time.
	Pretty much.
	Right?
	He didn't say shit about, you know, them boys.
	You would never get a job in Hollywood.
	I wouldn't.
	Nah, I probably would, man.
	If you did, you'd be a genitor, motherfucker.
	You only get 10% too, man.
	That's what I'd be saying like that, man.
	I'd be canceled.
	Let's be honest.
	What I'm about to say does not reflect the opinions of anyone at the table.
	Who says the fuck what an old man got to say?
	Honestly.
	Like, I genuinely think women should have 50% of the vote.
	I'm not with this nigga.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Hear me out, hear me out.
	Again, this does not represent Michael Blackson or Fresh, okay?
	This is just my opinion here.
	I think a woman's vote should be 50% of a man's.
	And then I think if a chick reaches a certain age, who cares?
	Is my Uber here yet?
	Like, who gives a fuck what she thinks?
	That's like an 18-year-old nigga.
	Nobody cares what an 18-year-old gotta say for a dude.
	So we don't give a fuck what an old woman gotta say, bro.
	You're past your prime, man.
	Get out of here, bro.
	Niggas haven't watched Friends in two decades.
	Fuck out of here.
	I like older women.
	You kind of got a point.
	Come on, man.
	She old as hell, man.
	Trying to take down Jamie Foxx, bro.
	He wasn't even talking about those people.
	He was using an analogy.
	And she immediately, oh, dude, that's anti-Semitic.
	It's like, bro, he wasn't even referring to that shit.
	Yeah.
	Whatever, man.
	It's sad, man.
	It's always old bitches, bro.
	They got a virtual signal, man.
	Hollywood.
	Every time.
	But, yeah, sorry.
	So, Mike, I came to your show.
	I got to get out of here.
	Let's change girls real quick.
	No, I love you.
	I love you guys.
	So, I came to your show, like, two years ago.
	You went to Danny Point as well.
	And people's reactions in the audience were hilarious.
	Some people were crying.
	Some people were laughing their ass off.
	A whole bunch of reactions.
	What's the most insane reaction you ever got from someone in the audience?
	Most insane reaction?
	Yeah, from someone in the audience.
	Like, bad or good?
	What you mean?
	Either or.
	Bad, good?
	Crazy?
	I mean, good is like a standing ovation from your audience.
	I do a lot of roasting.
	I remember.
	I roast motherfuckers.
	Literally and figuratively.
	Because you're pretty roasted yourself.
	Looks like you've been in a few barbecues yourself, my friend.
	Fuck you, punk bitch.
	Fix the gap, nigga.
	Nah, I use this for...
	I put all the clitoris between this gap.
	I try to close my gap.
	He's like, don't close it.
	It's for clitoris.
	There's a lot of coochie stuck in this gap.
	Ew!
	You like game box, bro?
	No, it's very rare that I've found this.
	I haven't done it since 2013.
	I'm not a big boss guy, but your pussy has to look almost perfect.
	I'm very picky of what I eat.
	It can't be a raisin.
	It's got to be a grapefruit.
	No, not a raisin.
	It has to look perfect.
	You can't just eat any food.
	You're not going to eat food that's uncooked.
	It's got to look edible.
	Every woman is not edible.
	Well done.
	If the coochie look right, smell right, and taste right, I would eat it.
	Okay.
	What did you ask me, motherfucker?
	So the reaction.
	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.
	I mean, hot athletes.
	And you know, he had the blonde hair, So I remember I saw this one girl in the audience.
	This is late 90s?
	90s.
	Yeah.
	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.
	She got mad and poured her drink at me.
	Oh, shit!
	That was it.
	That's the only thing I remember.
	And to think about it, that was the first time I've ever had a reaction.
	I said, I didn't know what to do.
	I said, okay, I think this is the end of the show.
	Good night, motherfuckers.
	Wow.
	That was probably the roughest thing.
	Okay.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, so, Mike, I don't mean to say this in public, but I love watching your videos, bro.
	I stalk your page all the time.
	And I've seen a BET. You have your own TV show.
	It is going crazy.
	I saw a clip.
	I saw the show.
	I was like, how is this on TV? It is insane.
	Let's do the clip real quick.
	If you guys don't mind watching it with us, this is hilarious, by the way.
	And before we get into this clip real fast, guys, come on over to Rumble.
	Rumble.com slash FreshFit.
	We're going to kill the Twitter, Twitch, and Facebook stream.
	So come on over to Rumble, guys.
	We got almost 10,000 of y'all over here on Rumble.
	So come on over right now.
	We're going to run this clip.
	So come on over right now.
	Man, when I saw this, I was dying laughing, bro.
	I was like, this cannot be on TV. It's amazing.
	Murasaka.
	Murasaka.
	Okay, here we go.
	Black...
	Mobudo looking?
	What the fuck happened to your teeth?
	Are you born on Easter or your mother fucked a rabbit?
	If you ever took a bite out of crime, the crime rate in Chicago would go down.
	Don't you ever bite the hands that feed you?
	Because your mother won't have no arms.
	Yo, Mr.
	B, that's fucked up.
	You pink-lit polka dot motherfucker.
	What's fucked up is your forehead.
	Are you ahead of the class or you're heading this way?
	Let me guess.
	Every time you tie your shoes, you flip over, you big-headed bastard.
	Fuck you.
	Yo, yo, teach.
	Who are you talking to?
	I'm talking to you.
	Are you slow?
	Is this a slow class?
	Wait.
	We in a slow class?
	Of course you're in a slow class.
	You put your slow people in the same room.
	You're all very slow.
	There's one short yellow bus.
	You black...
	So Mike, who the hell gave me this show?
	How did this come about?
	Because I know you guys are on strike notes.
	You can't say too much.
	I got to support my fellow actors and writers.
	We're just fighting for what's rightfully ours.
	Can you explain the strike that's going down?
	You know what?
	To the best of my knowledge.
	I don't know much about it because I'm more in a comedy where I stand up.
	I make 90% of my money going on stage, telling jokes, and making money.
	Right.
	Unlike actors who, that's their whole life.
	Yeah.
	You know?
	As far as I know, we are fighting for a very small amount.
	And it has to do with streaming.
	You know?
	Nowadays, everything is streaming.
	Netflix, Hulu.
	All of those.
	And we just ask for a very small percentage of some of that money.
	Not just a one check.
	Right.
	From being out there, yeah.
	Very small amount.
	So, you know, hopefully they will figure it out and give us what is rightfully ours.
	At the end of the day, if you're coming to see the Michael Blackson show, who are you coming to see?
	Michael Blackson.
	Exactly.
	Pick Michael Blackson.
	It's just that simple.
	So, hopefully we'll be all get together.
	But I gotta give a shout out to one of my idols, Tyler Perry.
	Right.
	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.
	You know, some people got it.
	And every show, you could tell, Steve Harvey show, Martin Lawrence, Jamie Foxx show.
	Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
	Well, he was not a comedian.
	I'm just naming comedians.
	Okay.
	They got their show.
	And most of the time their show was named after them.
	It's after their name because they built up their name.
	Their name became the show.
	You know, and Tyler Perry saw something in me.
	You know, Martin.
	Tyler Perry saw something in me and gave me my own show.
	So I gotta give him, you know, he believed in me.
	Like I said, I can't talk much about it.
	You know, if you want to find it, go find it wherever you can find it at.
	Is this exclusive, if you can answer, is this exclusive with like Netflix celebrities?
	Because now it's like, there's like different worlds of actors now or celebrities.
	You got like comedians and you got YouTubers.
	Then you got actors that are like, you know, in traditional movie roles and the big screen.
	Then you got actors that are Netflix actors.
	Whoever is a SAG. Whoever is SAG or AFTR. That's the union.
	What's a SAG? SAG, well, whenever you make over a certain amount of money or year doing...
	Television, you become a SAG member.
	What's that stand for?
	Screen Actors Guild.
	Okay.
	So whether it's Netflix or the big screen...
	It doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	Yeah, it doesn't matter.
	We are SAG members.
	Okay.
	SAG and Africa.
	So that's what it is.
	I didn't know that.
	Okay.
	So basically, it's a union that's basically fighting for royalties from Netflix, which I mean, right for me so.
	We're not necessarily just streaming, period.
	I think it's...
	All streaming platforms?
	To be fair, just Yeah.
	Like musicians, well, they don't sell their masters and all that.
	They get their royalties.
	I mean, I think actors should get the same thing.
	Because they're going to make money on that for decades.
	If I go to watch a show, I'm going for the actors in the movie.
	Not for the producers.
	Who goes for the director?
	Who goes for the...
	Exactly.
	I forget who it was.
	I think it was Jack Nicholson in the first Batman.
	They offered him like 80 or 90 million back then in the 90s for that first Batman movie.
	And he said, no, I don't want the upfront payment.
	I want royalties.
	And he ended up making way more money on getting the royalties and negotiated where he took a little bit less upfront.
	But he made way more money over the long period of time through royalty.
	So I think that's the smart play, man, when it comes to whether it's lump sums.
	Because they're just trying to give a lump sum versus giving them royalties, right?
	Exactly.
	Listen, all I know is, if Michael Blackson's in the show, I'm watching it.
	That's all I know.
	I appreciate the support.
	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.
	I've been brazed and they followed me till now.
	And don't get it wrong, I did put in some work and found a way to keep my set relevant.
	That's the most important thing about being an entertainer.
	You have to keep your set relevant.
	Question for you.
	You gave people a really good blueprint on how to get their foot in the door with comedy.
	I don't think we've ever talked about that to this detail about how to become a comedian and make money doing it.
	What if someone wants to become an actor?
	You know, everybody knows the telltale sign, you know, old story.
	I'm gonna go to LA. I'm gonna, you know, wait tables and become an actor and pursue the dream.
	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?
	You know, start in your local city.
	Every city has some kind of acting classes.
	Okay.
	Take acting classes.
	Whenever you go to acting classes, there are always some kind of auditions going on.
	They always let you know about what's going on in the city.
	Whether it's audition, auditioning to be a commercial or something.
	What cities would you say are always doing this?
	Well, eventually you might want to move to a bigger city nearby.
	If you're in Oklahoma City, get the fuck out there, bitch.
	You know what I'm saying?
	If you're in Oklahoma City, maybe go to Houston.
	Okay.
	That's close enough.
	If you're in Charlotte, North Carolina, maybe come to Atlanta.
	Gotcha.
	If you're in Oakland, California, maybe come to LA. Okay.
	So like a first year major city, a New York City, a Miami, a Houston, a Dallas, a Chicago.
	Yeah, Chicago.
	You know?
	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.
	Whether you get the part or not, go and audition.
	No matter the role, always audition?
	Always audition.
	Okay.
	Just for the experience of it.
	Okay.
	Because, you know, but classes are very important.
	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.
	Is it expensive to take acting classes?
	It's not that bad.
	It's not like going to a film school or something.
	Acting classes, a lot of time, is ran by actors that just...
	Either they are done You know, their career is pretty much over, but they have their respect in the acting world.
	Or just great actors that never made it.
	They end up becoming coaches.
	Gotcha.
	Acting coach.
	You know, so you can take an acting coach.
	A lot of times, you go to a certain college, some college will have an acting class.
	You know, a lot of colleges.
	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.
	He was an acting teacher at the Philadelphia Community College, and he worked at Domino's Pizza as a side job to make tips.
	And he thought I was funny.
	He said, hey, Mike, you funny.
	Go to open mic.
	And he'd been an acting coach.
	He helped me write my first five minutes of material.
	And that's how I started.
	Where's he now?
	Kevin London.
	I'm not sure what the nigga is doing.
	But he's probably, you know, he's still probably teaching.
	He's an acting teacher in a college.
	So that's what he was doing.
	At what point should someone even contemplate moving to Los Angeles?
	What should they have in place before they do that?
	Man, you gotta have it together.
	Okay.
	LA is probably...
	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.
	Yeah.
	Or you're gonna end up being some porn star.
	It happens a lot.
	Damn.
	It ain't easy.
	A lot of times, it's the ladies.
	Ladies who think she's the baddest bitch in Oklahoma.
	I look good.
	I'm acting bad.
	But when you come to LA, you go from a dime to a high five.
	I think it's a three.
	Or Miami.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So you never...
	LA will make you really...
	LA will really tell you who you really are or what you are.
	It ain't easy.
	It's not like back...
	Things have changed.
	It's not like it was back in...
	In 2000, when you're a great actor, you come to LA. Now it's like, Hollywood has changed.
	It's like, how many followers do you have?
	Because now it's so many different platforms.
	They want to make sure if they give you a show, you have an audience to watch their motherfuckers.
	It's a requirement that you have a social media following now.
	You become the marketer.
	Exactly.
	They were somebody who did marketing.
	Trust me, it helps your career.
	Don't get it wrong.
	If you're great at acting and you go and you kill an audition, you could make it.
	You have a better chance of making it if you had a million followers.
	So you can be an okay actor but have a huge following versus having no following but a great actor.
	The guy that has a huge following is more than likely going to get the role.
	Powerful.
	Social media.
	We were talking about this a little bit before the show and I kind of want to get your take on this.
	Do you see the death of legacy media coming soon?
	Because people are going to alternative news nowadays.
	People aren't watching movies as much as they used to.
	They're streaming more.
	Do you think that regular television, the movie industry, etc., has taken a nosedive at this point?
	It was, but I think it's coming back for some reason.
	For some reason, I just feel like we are going back to watching We're going back to the movies now.
	I mean, during the pandemic, for three years, we're going to go to the movies.
	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.
	I mean, social media has spoiled us with all kinds of crazy shit we've seen.
	Facts.
	So now why am I going to watch somebody getting shot in the head right on social media?
	Now you're going to go on TV and sugarcoat it.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So TV has to go to a whole different level to make them watch.
	And I think that's probably what helped the show that I got.
	You know, the show that a guy is like, I'm a teacher that's cussing.
	You're not going to see that.
	If I'm going to watch TV, I got to see some crazy shit.
	That's back how it used to be.
	Back in the old days.
	What?
	TV. Just say whatever, be whatever.
	Well, I mean, no, TV has always been, like, clean.
	TV has been clean, but, like, now things are getting...
	Social media has...
	Really got to a whole different level.
	I mean, you could see all kinds of shit.
	So now TV has to compete with social media.
	So they have to go harder.
	They have to go harder.
	That's why reality won so much.
	Because reality is real life.
	Bitches fighting.
	All that crazy shit going on.
	Because TV, we're in a different era.
	So if TV want to compete, TV got to go hard.
	There got to be bitches still fighting on TV. You know what I could see you doing on a show with, Michael?
	For the love of Blackson, you and some girls. - Ah, one of those flavor-flavored-flavored shows. - And it was one short idea that I had in mind It's called It Takes a Village.
	And pretty much that show was a reality show about me making so many bad choices in my whole life.
	I'm picking women.
	I've been really bad with picking women.
	So I decided, okay, you know what?
	I'm going to take 10 women.
	I'm going to take them to my village and let my village decide who's best for me.
	Take these women out of their comfort zone.
	Get them from their bougie homes in America and take them to the village in West Africa.
	Take them to the huts.
	Throw a spear, bitch.
	And let the chiefs and the village ladies all decide which one of these are best for me.
	I might still do it, even though I have a whole scripted show now.
	So when you have a scripted show, you know, you don't go back to reality.
	But if I'm going to go back to reality, that would be something that I would do.
	That'd be dope.
	Is reality television still a big thing nowadays?
	Or are people still...
	I remember it was all the rage in like the late...
	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.
	I Love New York.
	Real Chance of Love.
	All these shows were huge back then.
	Jersey Shore, right?
	These were all huge shows back then.
	I still think reality is still hard and still being watched only because reality is real life.
	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.
	People want to see other motherfuckers fail in real life.
	Would you ever do a reality show?
	I've done one.
	I've done Couples Retreat.
	I did two years of that with Ryder.
	Tell me this, because I'm very curious about this.
	Is it true they take your phones away and give y'all plenty of alcohol so that they can kind of incite drama?
	That's what I've heard from these reality shows.
	It depends on what we're about to talk about.
	It depends on the scene.
	Some sayings, I mean, yeah, they want to get the truth out of you, so they do encourage you to drink, you know.
	And no phones when you're on the set, right?
	Of course, no phone.
	We don't, nobody, I mean, no network with no interruption in a set.
	Yeah.
	I know there's Love Island now, there's one pretty good, that reality show, Love Island.
	But I'm saying like Jersey Shore, they took their phones from them for months.
	Oh, I didn't know for months.
	While they were living in the house.
	Like, they only could use that, you know, that duck phone.
	Remember that duck phone?
	They'd go in there and they'd do it when they'd be talking to themselves.
	They only had that one duck phone and only one in the house.
	So, like, they would fight over the phone.
	I mean, that's just some camera.
	No one had a cell phone.
	None of that stuff.
	Off camera, them niggas got their phone back, nigga.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	All right.
	I wasn't sure.
	Ain't no way I'm gonna leave without my phone for a whole month.
	Hell no, nigga.
	We got some rants here.
	After a month, not having your phone, nigga, you be single, motherfucker, if you're in a relationship.
	Bitch, where you been there for a whole month?
	You answered my call.
	Away from you, bitch.
	Okay.
	Them boys...
	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.
	Oh, shit.
	They tried to get you to turn, huh?
	We got here.
	American Pharoah goes, Real G's always speaking truth bombs.
	Thank you, my friend.
	IRS goes, How bright are the lights in the studio?
	Did y'all make it just so we can see Michael and Fresh?
	Yeah, man.
	They're bright as hell right now.
	I ain't gonna lie.
	Who the fuck is that?
	Show his picture, motherfucker.
	What is the IRS, bro?
	Kobe goes, Martin, I was wondering if you still do one-on-one conversations.
	I have some things that I would like your mentorship and guidance on.
	I understand your time is valuable and that it would not be free.
	Yeah, bro, it would be very expensive, but just go ahead and send me a DM on Instagram.
	Mike Blackson and Aries Spears are the best comedians.
	The only reason they are not the biggest is because they don't play to the gym.
	Alright, we'll move on.
	Fresh and Michael both look like under the bed.
	He's using my fucking joke on me, punk bitch.
	Michael Blacks, I can't get jiggy with this shit.
	Nigga.
	Right amount of money to have in reserve for emergencies plus repairs when buying a turnkey property.
	You want to have at least six months of expenses there that you can cover.
	Guys, ask Mr.
	Nigga if he knows that Chris was a teacher.
	Oh, yeah.
	So get this, Michael.
	Our producer, Chris, You used to be a teacher.
	Chris, put the camera on you, ugly nigga.
	The one time you want to be quiet now, huh?
	But let me ask you this.
	Talk to him real quick and tell us if you'd be a good teacher.
	Chris, talk to Michael real quick.
	What do you mean?
	What do you mean he used to be a teacher?
	You still look young.
	You don't teach no more?
	No, no.
	Not anymore.
	I taught for five years, but yeah.
	What grade?
	My first year, I taught pre-K to fourth grade, and I taught sixth to twelfth grade.
	What subjects?
	Art, photography, journalism, and pretty much, man.
	So, I mean, that's about it.
	I have...
	What happened?
	The kids drove you nuts?
	No, I mean...
	Kindergarten in the fourth grade, they're adorable.
	So, you know, my school in Ghana is kindergarten right now to fourth grade.
	Every year I go up a grade.
	I'm going to eventually stop in ninth grade, like junior high.
	And those kids are just so adorable.
	You know what I mean?
	I'm not sure.
	Are you parents?
	Do you have kids?
	No.
	I have a dog.
	Okay.
	How ugly is your baby mother to have a fucking dog?
	Why did you stop being a teacher?
	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.
	to, like, what?
	6 a.m.
	to 7 p.m.?
	Yeah, that's a lot.
	Teachers are so on the pace when you're dealing with these badass fucking kids.
	Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
	So I went into graphic design and then for, like, six months and then here I am right now on the Fudge Fat Podcast.
	Why does it sound like Chris's tongue is burned, bro?
	Chris, it literally sounds like you've burned your tongue every time you talk, bro.
	I think the most important thing...
	The most important thing about being a teacher is...
	He was not really passionate about being a teacher.
	Teachers don't care about the money.
	It's the passion you have for the kids, the love.
	They don't make shit, man.
	They don't make nothing.
	Trust me.
	I was there from morning to night just doing what I got to do and stuff like that.
	But at the end of the day, life moves on.
	Simple as that.
	And my passion is art, so I just pursued art.
	Exactly.
	You wasn't a kid, motherfucker.
	Fuck them kids, man.
	Yo, look at this nigga, man.
	Oh, fuck God.
	Thanks, man.
	Fuck them kids.
	Give me a degree back, motherfucker.
	HBD cop shot his wife in the face in Texas.
	What the fuck?
	Damn, Nevin Singh.
	Thank you, FNF, for the continuous content.
	Best Music 2000.
	And then we got here John Bolton.
	Salaam Alaikum, FNF. Recently stumbled upon your show via ANC Report.
	Love your content, guys.
	Keep the awesome work going.
	Love the debates and shows.
	Take care, Habibi.
	Time out, guys.
	Are these guys paying money to talk to y'all?
	Yeah.
	That's how much they donate?
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Wa-alaikum salam.
	Habibi!
	Okay, y'all robbing these motherfuckers.
	Go ahead, man.
	This nigga.
	They're trying to get that money back they had to pay me.
	So, Mike, question for you, bro.
	Where can they find you and what's coming up for you next?
	I'm touring the country.
	This weekend I'm in Arlington, Texas.
	Show's almost sold out.
	Just a few tickets left.
	It starts Thursday night.
	I had a second show on Thursday.
	I got two Thursdays, two Friday, two Saturdays.
	I'm not sure if I'm going to stay with the Sunday or not, but Arlington, Texas at the Improv.
	Then the following week, I'm in, where am I at?
	Ontario, California at the Improv.
	And then after that, you catch me in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, and Nashville at Zany's Comedy Club.
	When are you back in Florida?
	I gotta check my schedule.
	Yes, nigga, man.
	I just left Florida yesterday.
	I just did Florida this weekend.
	I feel so bad.
	Don't worry, guys.
	I'll most likely be back in Florida in like three months.
	Florida has so many comedy clubs.
	Yeah.
	You know, and I've done all.
	I've done Tampa.
	I've done Orlando.
	I've done Daniel Beach.
	I've done West Palm already.
	Yeah.
	I've done Miami.
	I think West Palm might be the next one.
	I'll be there, bro.
	So yeah, so man, Florida always, every time I come out here, man, I sell out every show.
	You guys support me so much.
	We got to.
	I appreciate the support, man.
	I got a question.
	You were recently on the Impulsive podcast.
	How was that, man?
	Oh, that's fun, man.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Logan, all those guys were, it was a lot of fun.
	You know, it was, it was, and what I liked by doing that, you know, I gained a whole.
	They're out of California, right?
	LA? No, it's in New York.
	Oh, they film in New York?
	Yeah, they film in New York.
	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.
	It was up for like 30-something years.
	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?
	And I got a chance to do it.
	It was so much fun.
	And then I think it aired a day later and then I helped sell the whole show out.
	Nice.
	And again, the whole new audience, a whole new teenage white audience.
	All the crazy white kids follow me because of that interview.
	It's always good to broaden your horizon, go do some other...
	I like to talk to Indian, Chinese motherfuckers, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, a Haitian brother.
	Nigga, I'm not Haitian!
	Yes, sir!
	Where are you from?
	Where are you from?
	You forgot?
	Nigga!
	Barbados?
	Yeah!
	I'm sorry.
	Same shit, motherfuckers.
	We all eat rice.
	Still Caribbean.
	Still Caribbean, that's right.
	So I'm touring the whole country.
	Just follow me on IG. For those who went to a public school, I'll spell it for you.
	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.
	Thread.
	That's it.
	Thread is so gay, man.
	My thread, my Christian mingle, my everybody, black people and me.
	Just follow me, motherfuckers.
	Any single now.
	One last question.
	You and Kevin Hart are pretty good friends.
	Yeah, we're pretty cool.
	What's new with him?
	Have y'all hung out recently?
	Got anything planned together?
	Y'all both are from Philly, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I ran into Kev last time.
	He was at the Super Bowl.
	February, yeah.
	That's my senior, my Super Bowl.
	He don't like you, man.
	Huh?
	He don't like you.
	Nah, nah, we cool now.
	We had a little beef, but even though it was like...
	Beef for what?
	You didn't know about...
	See, where you been hiding?
	Hey, tell me, bro.
	Phil, Phil now.
	You know, Kevin's my...
	He's like my little brother.
	He's like my little brother.
	Just tell me what it was.
	I ran into him at the Super Bowl.
	We went to a Michael Rubin party, and it was late, and we talked, and that was the first time he's seen me.
	The all-white party?
	The all-white party?
	Or no?
	No, no, no.
	The all-white party was in, like, it's in New York.
	This one's in Arizona.
	Okay.
	So Michael Rubin, wherever an event is going on in the city, Mike Rubin's there to throw a big party.
	And he had nothing but A-listers.
	I was probably the only Z-list at the party.
	Okay.
	The cat was there, and the first thing he said to me was like, Mike, congratulations on the school.
	And I mean, it made me feel good that he's watching and appreciating.
	I think everybody...
	I ran to Cardi B at a Super Bowl party, and the first thing she said to me, congratulations on the school.
	She didn't drug your drink or throw a microphone at you?
	No, she didn't throw the mic at me.
	Okay.
	She congratulated me.
	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.
	It was something out of my heart, out of my money.
	It's just in Africa.
	I can't tax write this off.
	It's just something I'm doing for these guys.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You can't write it off?
	Can't write it off.
	Damn.
	Not in Africa.
	Fair enough.
	But it's just something.
	Here's my thing.
	I went to church my whole life.
	And when I went to church, when I was in church, I gave 10% of my Earnings to God.
	Tithes.
	Tithes, offerings, whatever.
	As I got older, you know, I'm like, okay, you know, church look like a business.
	I'm like, you know, I'm not doing much church.
	I'm still giving 10%, but now I'm giving it to something.
	I don't know where it's going to.
	You know, so every month, at least 10% of my income goes towards that school.
	So it's not, it's nothing.
	Ain't killing me.
	You know what I mean?
	I'm doing it out of my heart.
	I'm making people happy.
	I'm making kids in my village.
	I'm educating my kids in my village so they could become great like me one day.
	If anything, you're a real teacher.
	Not like Chris.
	Faith teacher.
	Shout out to Mike the Humanitarian.
	Yeah, Chris, you ain't shit, motherfucker.
	We used to teach you at DeVry University.
	I grew from ICDC, motherfucker.
	He went to school with Lord Romeo, same college.
	ICBC. Mike, for part two.
	We'll be back here a little.
	One more rumble rant.
	Call Ice Cube to be on.
	We might not be politically correct enough for him.
	Ice Cube would be hilarious on this show, bro.
	Speaking of facts.
	You got a phone number, man?
	I'll ask him if you want to do it.
	He was in Miami for the big three game.
	Why y'all didn't go talk to him?
	Ice Cube is a great guy, man.
	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.
	A1, the official goes, you the only nigga I know who named Tic Tac and your breasts still smell like shit.
	First time I heard about Michael Blackson.
	That's a movie Repo.
	Yeah.
	Two dollars for real, motherfucker?
	Why are we talking to this nigga?
	Don't read his question.
	Let's see your name.
	I bet that show would pop.
	Bring him back to the village, yo.
	Two dollars.
	Brooke, motherfucker.
	A dollar!
	Is there an amount of crack, y'all?
	What kind of work?
	It's a big deal for some people.
	Ha ha.
	Cool, man.
	Can you not read this shit under $20, please?
	Yeah, yeah.
	We got Kevin on the next show.
	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.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	Cool.
	All right, guys.
	Love y'all.
	We'll be back.
	Peace.
	I ran, I ran so far away.
	I just ran, I ran all night and day.

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