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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. This one's going to be a little bit different.
I'm starting with a public service announcement and a disclosure. If you are driving your car, go ahead and pull over.
If you're eating food, put it down. If you are drinking anything, sit the cup or glass down because Mick Unplugged and Mick Hunt will not be responsible if you wreck your car or choke on food or water today.
Because today's guest is a versatile comedian, a speaker, a social media influencer, a media personality whose content has taken the internet by storm over the last several years. Known for his God ain't please rents, he has shared the stage with comedy legends like Kevin Hart, Ricky Smiley, Mike Epps, and many, many more.
But beyond the stage, he inspires and uplifts youth, conducting workshops and seminars on high schools and colleges. Ladies and gentlemen, I told you the disclosure in PSA.
Get ready for an uproarious conversation with my guy, the person I consider top five comedian alive, Mr. Alton Walker.
Alton, how you doing today, brother? Man, what's going on, man? What's happening, bro? I'm just trying to be in your world, man. Man, thank you for letting me be in your world.
For real, man, I appreciate it. Hey, y'all, excuse the, you know, my background, man.
I got stuff falling off and everything on the wall. All good, man.
You gotta create your own personal studio so by my sound proof stuff is falling off and everything i want a background like yours i'm like look at his background hey five dollars still goes a long way bro five dollars and i got you covered i got you covered man so we gave everybody enough time to pull over and to put all their food and drink down so we're gonna get into it man like again i've been a huge follower of yours probably since the r&b workouts right oh yeah man you taught me the jodeci step the kc step right yeah i ain't lose a lot of weight but but it was still good i gotta bring it back so many people want want me to bring it back i just gotta find the time to do it man but now that r&b workout was amazing was great, but when you stopped that game all the way back, I was a slim 225 when you had it going. That was one of the best events I ever created in my life, man.
We did a live event. So, it was amazing.
Sold out every time we did it, man. Man, that's amazing, man.
And like, again, one of the top the top five comedians in my opinion in the world and it's my opinion so anybody want to argue with me hold up your phone and do a selfie argue with that person you're looking at but when when did comedy become a thing and you do more right you write you produce like when did that become a thing for for out oh i mean the first time i got got actually paid to do stand-up i used to you know always host i was doing you know i've always on i've been on stage since high school you know what really before that you know i'm a church boy so we always we've been on stage all my life it's just sunday right so um but in high school, I was in drama club and I was always

a comedic relief, but nobody told me about

stand-up comedy. And I actually did my first

stand-up set in 10th grade.

But nobody told me

about being

a stand-up comedian. I didn't even know what that was.

So when I got around

in college, I would host all the

time and then got into

radio and I was always host events

but didn't know about stand-up comedy you know i just thought hey i just host i'm funny you know and then somebody asked me hey can you do like 15 minutes for 250 or something like that i was like oh and so i got up there and talked for 15 minutes to do whatever. And it worked.
It worked, man. So that's what I'm like, oh, this is how you do it.
Okay. So that's really when I knew that you could make money in comedy.
And then, of course, you got to figure out the marketing and all that part. But, yeah, I mean, I got paid for the first time.
And then I realized, oh, I can make this into a career. Let's be honest with you.
One of the things that I love about you and that I admire about you, though, is that you actually do make it a craft. Right.
Like you don't take even the content creation piece. It's not just like I'm just going to throw some stuff out there like you really hone it in.
And I think a lot of people miss that, whether they're a comedian in their business life, in their personal life, they don't try to master a skill. Yeah.
You master that crap, bro. Yeah, man.
I believe if you're going to do it, become a student of whatever you do. You know, I just, you know, and that was with everything.
When I was, I originally wanted to be a drummer, you know, and I will play, I will play drums for hours and hours and hours just trying to become great at playing drums. I wish I would have did it for basketball, but I probably would have been in the NBA.
I just didn't know. I didn't have that concept of what hard work can, you know, bring to you.
But anyway, yeah, man, I believe you be a student and be consistent

and work hard at anything you do, man, you're going to be successful.

I really want to know the ins and outs of what comedy is

and how to create comedy, what makes people laugh.

I read books about it.

I know formulas about it.

You know, I know the ins and outs, and I'm still learning, you know.

So I believe you, you become a master of whatever you want to do.

Or just don't do it at all.

No half-stepping, you know? Yes, sir. That's how I am, man.
And you're the perfect person to answer this question because I have this conversation. I'm a huge fan of comedy, of stand-up comedy, of the writing of comedy.
and I tell people all the time

cook out funny

and being on stage when people

expect you to laugh funny are two totally different things and you were just kind of elaborating on that too about the reading and the studying for everybody out there man like let them know just because you funny at a cookout don't mean you can go bless the stage for 15 30 45 60 minutes they people and people do it all the time they think they could be funny and i'm like get on that stage man and they get on they be like like it's a lot it's a lot of social media comedians because you know they get on stage for the first time and they be like oh it ain't what i what i thought you know so um and you still got you still got some comedians that's just naturally funny um they don't quite know what like what they are doing you know the terminologies or and they're just great at it it's some better comedians that's just funny but they don't know what they really doing they just been doing it for a long time they've been on stage they know an audience but me i am a student of this thing i could i could teach you how to create a joke now like i can i know the ins and outs i know what make people laugh and um that's what that will kind of separate um comedians you know i'm saying you could tell a comedian that's just goofy just silly on stage and isn't that and then you could tell a well professional student written comedian, you like, oh, no, that took some thought. I'm one of those that like the, like, I'm going to take some thought into every joke.
You know what I'm saying? Yep. And another thing that I love about you and your sets, man, you are funny from beginning to end.
There are a lot of, I'm going to say professional, famous comedians that, you know, they got a 30, 45 minute set. The first seven minutes are amazing.
And then after that, it's like, that's all he got. That's all she got.
You are literally from second one. And so when I have to pick my jaw up off the ground, you are that guy from literally beginning to end.
And again, like how do that I know a lot of is the studying the the formulating what you're gonna do but like how did you get to that level of from minute one to minute 45 I'm tearing their mouth out yeah I mean it's it's it's really a lot of stage time man every comedian to tell will tell you, man, like, I treat comedy

like a sport.

You know,

I created a,

like two years ago,

I created a thing

called the Comedy Gym

because I create,

I teach,

I treat it like a sport.

Like,

Steph Curry

shoots thousands

of shots a week.

Probably,

he shoots a lot

of shots a week.

So,

as a comedian,

you have to

do these open mics.

You have to do stages,

you know,

so.

there's a lot of shots a week. So as a comedian, you have to do these open mics.
You have to do stages, you know? So during the week, man, I'm on a stage, you know, whether it's two people in the audience, five people, I find that like, we, it's a comedy world where there's open mics and there's different rooms where you can go and work out material. And shoot, to with you dave chappelle kevin hart they still pop up at these comedy clubs when you don't know and they'll pop up to work out material and so that's what i do like every set every joke i'm working it out i'm saying it over and over again saying it over and over again rearranging things okay i'm listening to an audience you know to see what they respond to and whether okay do i like that responding am i okay with that response or how do i respond to their response you don't say how do i react to it you know comedy is a tooth it's a tooth it's a it's a communication a lot of comedians they just want people to laugh they just listen for laughs and that's it but i listen for reaction so you know it takes time after it takes shooting that shot it takes keep shooting keep working that joke keep i'm gonna go hit a stage tonight like i'm still working still working and and then you get into different audience because every audience ain't the same so i've been in i've been in rooms where they were playing poker behind me and the TVs are on.
I'm talking about the NBA finals is on and they play in poker and we got people in front of me. It's like you got to put yourself in different scenarios, white rooms, black rooms, Hispanic, like just to make sure your material is working and you dissect it and rearrange it.
So that's how I can go from minute one to minute and 20 and keep your, your attention. And it ain't necessarily about being funny every second.
You know, it's just a dejavel says it. It's it's not all about being funny, but being interesting.
interesting you know if i can keep your attention that's all that really matters yes sir yes sir so who are some of your mentors getting into the the comedy gang well i'll put it like this i never had anybody to take me under their wing like nobody really you know you got those when i look at mentors i look at somebody you have a relationship that you talk to on on consistent basis probably a couple of times a week i i till this day i still don't have that i never really had now i've had people that um poured into me like ricky smiley you know uh i could call him a mentor we're not like, I don't talk to him all the time. You know what I'm saying? So he's the person that poured into me and he poured into me a lot.
Every time I'm on the show, Ricky Smiley is giving me game. Marcus D Wiley, uh, when you're on the Adam morning show, these are cats that I could call and, um, and just get answers to, you know what I'm saying? Right now, I'm on tour with Kev on stage.
Yep. And although he's only one year older than me, man, I'm learning so much from this guy.
So with me, I get my inspiration and my information like that. Now, I would love to have a person to really, really mentor me, but hey, it just never happened for me.
I don't know. Have you ever had a mentor? I never had one.
I do. I have a couple.
I believe in having coaches, man, because for me, I have to stay on top of my game and learn from wisdom of other people. So absolutely.
Yeah. I just never had.
And I always wanted somebody to, you know, look out and out and take me and like i said no get me wrong i have people that i can call and get advice from but when i think of mentorship i think of really having that that person that that's close that checking on you make sure you're good i just never had that accountability part accountability i never i never had it never okay well that's amazing because bro like i said top five in my opinion best comedian out there and that's from top to bottom number out five for sure and and speaking on like i said like and you don't obviously i guess i didn't need need one but i do like i said you can have i guess you could talk call that mentorship i guess i just just look at mentorship as really, really somebody you can really like. It's a relationship.
What a week we're going to get on the phone. We got conversations or stuff.
Yeah, no, I feel you. So, yeah.
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So, on Mick Unplugged, man, we talk about your because.

That thing that's deeper than your why, right? I tell people all the time, I think your why is superficial, right?

Like, your kids are your why.

Like, yeah, they should be your why.

Thank you. your because, that thing that's deeper than your why, right? I tell people all the time, I think your why is superficial, right? Like your kids are your why.
Like, yeah, they should be your why, right? But your because is your purpose. Your because is that thing that every day you're going to check and say, I'm doing this because A, B, and C.
If I were to say Alton Walker, man, what is your because? What's your's your purpose like why are you doing really what you do man i that that's a question i have to read like i have to react myself and remind myself all the time i it's becoming every day um like i i know i'm here to i mean laughter is medicine god gave me the gift of laughter and it's and it's and it's healing you know and I know I'm here to, I mean, laughter is medicine. God gave me the gift of laughter and it's healing, you know, and I know I'm here to use my gifts and talent to what we call bring glory to him or it ain't even, it is a, it really is a God thing.
I'm not going to, yeah, it's to bring glory to him. It's to heal people from there.
People are troubled, man. And so I'm really now in my groove of what I'm doing.
So if you come to my show, you'll get maybe like 50-something minutes of laughter. And in that last 10 minutes, man, it's inspiring, encouraging words, and this and this and that.
And when I'm coming to find out, man, people forget about my whole 50 minutes and they remember their last – like right now I'm on tour with Kevho Stage. People will remember my last two minutes, two or three minutes of inspiring words than the 20-something minutes that I've did of laughter.
So I'm really like in my groove of why I'm here. here.
I'm here to heal people, man. Through a message, man, to make you laugh, but at the end of the day, let you know you're going to be all right.
Everything's good. But for a minute, you want to do it for the money.
I still do comedy for money but when it's all for money it can it can really um turn you go down the wrong word road when it's all you're doing is for money um and it's discouraging uh i recently realized man that um man in this world nothing can make you happy man nothing no person, nothing can make you happy, man. Nothing, no person, nothing completely can make you happy in this world.
And so that's why I kept asking the question, so why am I doing this? You know, if you think about it, everything you accomplish, you get it, you do it, and then it's something else you want, which is like it's a never-ending of happiness because you can't get happiness from things or even a person. So you have to find what you just talked about the because, because if you don't, man, you're going to always look for happiness and things in the person and you're never going to be complete ever.
I agree a thousand percent. So one of my, my mentors, accountability partners, Carl Estherester Crumpler, who lives in Atlanta as well, too.
You know, he challenged me about a year ago talking about happiness. And he was like, Mick, are you happy? I was like, yeah, I'm really happy.
And he said, are you fulfilled? And I was like, doggone it, Carl Lester. You got me like, no, he said people think and chase happiness, but what it really is about is joy and fulfillment because that's really what you're seeking.
That's the thing that you're really driving for. And that totally changed my perspective on how I wanted to do everything.
And starting the podcast, it was like, that's about joy and fulfillment, man, because happiness comes and goes, right? Like nobody, I don't care who you are. You're never happy 24 seven, right? Like there are moments in the day, in the week that is like, crap, like I got to deal with this or I got to go solve this.
You can still be fulfilled. And so for me, that's what it became, man.
Yeah. Yeah.
And like I said, I don't know if you ever heard of Anthony DeMillo. I'm reading a lot of his stuff, man, and it's been helpful, you know, because when you start chasing the money, I mean, I'm always real with my business.
And I say this in my comedy show, me chasing money because, I mean, it was a point where I didn't feel like comedy was working or it wasn't going as fast as i wanted to go you know and i remember like still being successful on tour i think i was on tour with desi you know but it's just like my career is not moving like i wanted to move and it's taking too long to get to that financial place so i remember i started trading stocks man and. I ain't going to lie, that first month, I did well.
I was on this dude Discord. Shout out to him.
Dude named Aristotle Investment. He does nothing against what he would do.
They would give you calls. They'd teach you how to trade.
I started doing my own thing. That first month, I made like $20,000, man.
It was killing it.

That second month and beyond.

And I remember hearing clearly a voice of God saying, look, man, you know,

because it was getting to a point where, and a lot of times this is what happens,

we get discouraged in our gifts and we'll try to move to something else, try to still hold on to our gifts, but we put more attention to that something else. And that's what I was doing.
I was giving that more attention. I remember being on my phone, like doing like comedy shows or, you know, at the radio station where I should be focused.
It's like when I should be focused in the gift, I'm giving it to stocks. And I remember losing, kept losing money.

And God's like, hey, man, it ain't nothing wrong with stocks. But that's not what I called you to do.
Your millions is in your gifts. And every time you throw yourself in your gift and your talent, you make a lot of money.
Man i put it look i lost a hundred over a hundred and forty thousand dollars in trading stocks you know and i made more like i made all that money with comedy you know i'm saying and so i always encourage people like to stay focused because when you're not happy and you're not fulfilled like you was talking about, you will go to other things

and, man, you'll get lost in that thing.

It was a dark moment, you know, even now, you know, trying to get out of it.

You know, I'd be like, man, I don't know.

I don't know how I'm going to get out of it.

You know what I'm saying? But God is good. You know, I'm able to eat.
I'd be like, man, I don't know. I don't know how I'm going to get it.

But God is good.

I'm able to eat. I ain't vote.

But $140,000,

that was an expensive lesson to say, hey, man, get back

on your grind and on you.

Focus on you and what God

created you to do and everything is going to come.

And every time I do it, man,

I kill. I made the most

money in comedy.

Okay. My biggest check

Thank you. created you to do and everything is going to come.
And every time I do it, man, I kill. I made the most money in comedy.

Okay. My biggest check

has been comedy.

Yeah. You know, but

like I said, it wasn't moving like I wanted it

to move.

And that's what happens when you lose

focus and you go to something else.

So yeah, $140,000 lesson to say

Alton, get back to the grind of comedy. Yeah, I don't care who you are.
$140,000 is $140,000. That's a big lesson.
Oh, I want my money back so bad, man. And I'm getting it back, but it is getting it back like with comedy.
I wanted to get it back the way I lost it. And that's why I kept on losing because I'm like, uh-uh, I'm going to get this back with the stocks.
That's why Vegas is what Vegas is. Everybody has that same mentality.
And my girl had to say that. Hey, man, you slick gambling.
I was like, you know, I hate to say it like that, but yeah, I was. It became gambling, trying to get my money back.
At first, it was wealth growing because I was sticking with the rules. And those who trade stocks and do it the right way, they are successful.
It just ain't my thing. I ain't disciplined enough to do stocks.
Not with that. I'm disciplined with what I'm disciplined.
That stock market, no, that ain't me. So what I heard was God wasn't pleased with that.
God, and that's what he was saying, and, and. I remember telling God, I'm like, well, until you do something else, I'm going to track these stocks.
And it wasn't him punishing. He wouldn't punish me.
It was nothing. I didn't do nothing with punishment.
He just know me. And he's like, I'm trying to keep you from losing more.
That's just not. Put your focus back on a purpose.
Yeah. And when you take your focus off a purpose, you're going to lose.
I'm telling you. You're going to lose every time.
Every time. Every time.
So speaking of God ain't please, when did that start? Like, what was the mindset of starting, I'm going to say that brand, because to me, it's become a brand, right? So tell us the evolution of that. I would do these things called Sunday services.
I would be preaching. I posted a few clips every once in a while, but every Sunday, me and my homegirl, she would be like my one member in this Facebook Live, and I'd be preaching about whatever current event went down, and I would just say, and God ain't pleased, not even knowing I'm doing it.
And I just started seeing people in the comments saying, and somebody said, man, I need that T-shirt. And so I'm like, okay.
So I started doing my rants and just saying, God ain't pleased. You know, and I go, then I start stuttering, not knowing.
I'm like, and, and, and, and I'm not even knowing I'm doing it. That's what I learned.
Like, look, read your comments. And I know some of your comments are like crazy and, and, you know, but some of them comments can make you some money.
The R&B workout event came from a comment. I was putting no videos out in that viral video and somebody said, Ooh, I take this class.
I was the class and i remember that first one uh i put 50 i just put 50 tickets early bird that junk sold out in like 10 minutes you know because it was like man your comment so basically god ain't please came from the audience saying it came from me saying it yeah but be paying attention to the audience, going back to comedy.

On that stand-up, I'm just not just speaking, but I'm listening to responses.

Okay, what are they getting?

So smack that thing on the T-shirt, and now it's a brand, you know?

It is totally a brand.

My favorite Instagram reels weekly are the God Ain't Please clips because bro, you give it to me every time. I even, I even put in the comments, man, like there was one time.
And the reason I told everybody to put your food and drinks down, we were at dinner and I'm rolling through Instagram and you popped up and obviously, you know, I usually have the volume down. I always turn the volume up on yours.
And I about lost it. I about lost it.
And I was like, I'm done. I think that's the comment I put in there too.
Like, I'm done. I can't mess with Alton no more.
Not this week. And I just like to have fun, man.
Like, you know, a lot of people, because most of them can be edgy, but it is what it is, man. Yeah it man i freaking love it i love it and and another thing that i love about what you do is it's you're you're never bashing anyone right it's just you're you're saying what other people are thinking it's just let me bring it to your attention now now some do.
I go straight at it, but I like what people think I'm going to say. They think I'm about to go at them and I don't.
That's the thing. With the big girls.
That was the one. Melissa White, baby.
I love Melissa White, man, but plus size women, baby. Shout out to y'all.
Because all you see is the picture of her trying to walk through this doorway. And I was like, I got to hear what you're about to say because I'm about to lose it.
Yeah, baby. Give a beeper number 777-9311.
Yes, sir. And I do that because, you know, also, man, everything I do has purpose, man.
It's a lot of plus-size women that are like, you know, because this world makes you feel like you got to be a certain size. You got to be, you know.
So, you know, I don't believe in body shaming. So it's to encourage them.
I get a lot of plus-size women in my DM saying thank you, this and this and that. Like, Shout out to them.
And I do, I am attracted to

plus-size women, especially they got curves and this

and this. I don't discriminate.

I do like plus-size women because people are like,

you don't really like them in store Sometimes we find what we're looking for Sometimes we're rolling easy and free Sometimes one and one makes three So much to love along this ride That's why Nationwide is on your side Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and affiliates, Columbus, Ohio. Hey, it's Cole Swindell, and I want to meet you in Austin at the I Heart Country Festival.
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He will respond to you, ladies. Yeah.
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So I got to go to another, again, I'm going to say it's a brand because it was, you posted it as video of the year. It was my song of the year.
Man. The crazy thing was I saw it, I think it was what, in July on the Morning Hustle show, right? So I'm watching it and I was like, what in the world? And then when he did the clip of it, I was like, that is it.
That is my jam. I actually do.
I have the audio version. I probably listened to it.
And like for one of my cousins, because you guys look alike, like that is literally the ringtone that I have for the ringtone. Now, he don't ever call me, but he always texts.
But if he were to call, that's what would come up. That was a...
And what's crazy about that is when I was going through a time where comedy wasn't funny. I mean, it just wasn't fun.
I wasn't having fun with comedy. You know, I wouldn't, I didn't feel like I would, I ain't gonna lie, I felt like I was getting overlooked on a few opportunities.
You know, couldn't find nobody to help me on, like I was just in that space and I just like, you know what, let me figure this out. Let me get back to the fun of it.
And soon I started building,

getting back to the fun and the purpose. Like we've been talking about,

that was one of the first videos that I did.

It was like,

Oh,

we just going to have fun,

man.

And it wasn't even what a week in it had over a million views.

Well,

it's crazy.

Cause I posted the first time it moved,

but it didn't move.

Yeah. It did.
What happened was Kendrick Lamar did his concert in L.A. And I said, you know what, I'm going to drop it again because at the time I posted it, it was like they not like us kind of – it was kind of dying down a little bit.
It was still around, but him doing that concert made it come back up. So I dropped it again, and that's when it took off.
Did we ever give the character a name? I know we gave it. I ain't even gave him a name yet, man.
Because I did a few other videos with him that went well, you know, because he's just an old school rapper that rap about old people. Like, what old people should rap about? You know what I'm saying? That's the whole idea.
Rap with the snappers. I learned with social media.
I recently just did it. I pulled a video from 2020.
A Christmas video. It reposted it and it went viral.
The first time I posted it, it was like 100,000 views. I posted it again.
It got over a million tell people it's the same thing with books, right? Like you see a book come out and you think it's new. And then you realize, Oh, this book was written 20 years ago, but it's just recirculate because something happened, made it relevant.
Or, you know, the, the social media team or the marketing team decided to push it. Now, like it's always, I tell everybody if not, if you're trying to be an influencer, because me that's hard like you either are you're not like you don't try to be but if you want to test your content like test it like it's your content right like you don't have to say oh i posted it once and now it has to sit there like nah if you believe in the material that you have and the things you created like it You own it.
Like, you can post it every day if you want to. Right.
And I think that's where people make a mistake. It's like, oh, well, you know, I posted it once and nobody did anything.
Nobody commented. I'm like, hey, part of that could be the algorithm.
Part of it could have just been like, I know for me, like I did something, thought it was about to be hot. And then the next day, Biden said, I'm out of the race.
It was like, that killed everything. But then brought it back like a month later, and it started taking off.
It started taking off. Yeah, I mean, and as learning, you know, from, like, because I do, I will say this, going back, I do have a lot of colleagues and peers that, like I said, I really learned a lot about, you know, I don't know if you ever heard of Shula King Shula King one man I could call him and he's a person that like he the one that got me really doing God ain't pleased like the way I do it you know because I used to take a lot a lot of time people don't do a lot of content because they take it takes a they takes them a long time you know but shula was like hey man stop editing your stuff stop redoing it 30 times and this because i'll be wanting it so perfect and i found out the internet they hate perfection yes i learned that the hard way too like i can literally take my phone and just record sitting right here and it will get more.
It will go. Yeah.
It'll like, I can spend 45 minutes editing something, the right message, the right voice, the right tone. Yeah.
But let me go. Stumble down to do it.
Say it again. I said, but let me go stumble down the steps and everybody fall out over that.
Listen, look, I you right now content creators if you're struggling if you want to get in social media stop don't stop pressuring yourself stop making it hard stop overthinking that's the word i was looking stop overthinking yes sir my most viral videos come from me not overthinking like Just put it out there. Don't worry about if it gets likes.
Don't worry about the comments. You have to start doing this for you.
What makes me laugh or what I think is funny because like I said, you know it. It'd be the video you spend hours making and you were like, oh yeah, man, it's good.
It looked good. You posted that thing.
You were like, let me take you down and repost it. Post it again.
Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
And then I said, the video where you just talking and being real, that's what I learned about the internet. They don't like, they hate perfection.
They love just authenticity. I i think i said that word right yeah so you did you did well you did well so god ain't pleased man like i'm gonna start calling him bishop gap for god ain't pleased bishop gap went bishop gap bishop that is what so again, like, I know how that one came about.
We just talked about the character that we don't have a name for yet. I'm hoping Kendrick let me open up for the Super Bowl.
Because I know he heard the song. He had to hear that thing.
Let's put it up there. His people got to be hearing something.
It ain't no way that thing went too viral for

him not to hear it. So hopefully

he'll hit me up. Hey man, yeah, just

open up the Super Bowl. If he do that, man,

I'll buy and lose my mind.

Well, I want to see you lose your mind.

What mind you got left,

I want to see you lose it. I want to see you lose

it. Hey, so, man,

again, just honored to have you on, man. Is there anything you want to leave the people with today? I mean, again, man, what I really want people to do, especially for 2025, man, is to really own your greatness, man.
That's what I'm on. I was raised a Christian, you know, church world, and a lot of time in the church world, we take being humble or humility to a whole other level.
We take that. I mean, we take humble to let people just walk over you type stuff, you know, because we don't want to outshine people.
So, you know, humble, humble and humility to us is stay low. Like, you know, be great, but don't talk about it.
You know, when somebody say you good, oh, man, you know, you know, and I'm at a place where I'm. I'm not dimming my light for anybody.
You know, I'm not dimming my light to make you feel comfortable around me or to make you feel better or feel, you know, I'm not doing that no more. And where I got it from is when Jesus, when they looked at Jesus and said, who are you? He said, I am.
You know, like, like, say that to somebody now he's like if i came from you ask me okay i don't say who are you man i you know you know you'll be like man this dude is cocky you know he's because but and that's what they did they thought jesus was like man they were like who are who you think you is to say that but in in reality he wasn't lying to the christian world he's a son of god so he was telling the truth i am i am that i am and so when i looked at that i'm like why are we not like that why are we not moving around like i am you know and the reason why i i put emphasis on that because if jesus doesn't know who he is he can't do the miracles that he performed. So he missed out on all those opportunities to be God.
And I feel like when we move around and we don't know our greatness, we don't know that I am, we will miss out on opportunities. We won't see them because we don't understand how great we are because we don't think we good enough for it.

Yeah.

So I'm going around this world and like, hey, own your greatness.

Be great and don't apologize for it.

Don't dim your light for nobody.

Stop making people feel good.

No, listen, when they look at you and say who you are, I am.

And own it.

I've been looking at your stuff. It looks good good i don't know how much work you put in how much study you put behind podcasts but you know what you're doing man and never ever again dim your light and i know you're probably not doing it but man own it you great at this this is what you do man and it looks amazing bro and i'm proud of you and i can't wait to see how you take over to the 25 i like that you said hey man i got the number one podcast that's what i'm talking about let's get it yes sir yes sir i needed that message today god dog and i'm sick of this you know we'll try to be like ain't who you are.
I'm sick of it, man. I needed it today, Reverend.
Let's get it, man. It's your time, and it's only your time.
And sometimes we'll miss our time because, again, we forget how great we are. You're not great because you're great because God created you, but you're great because you put the time and effort in it.

Yes, sir.

That's why you're great.

That's why you're great.

Yes, you're naturally talented.

But me, yes, I'm naturally talented.

LeBron is naturally talented.

But what makes him great is the effort and time that he put in it.

And that's why you say, I am great.

Not because it's by accident.

It's because I put the work in to get to this greatness.

So that's what I want to leave people.

Thank you. why you say I am great not because it's by accident it's because I put the work in to get to this greatness so that's what I want to leave people sick of this Bishop Gop I needed that one brother I needed that one let's get it man man so again thank you thank you thank you thank you this won't be the last we'll do something in person we'll go out to the studios at Urban One and record some in-person stuff too.
Man, we'd love to, man. We'll do something.
Bro, I appreciate you more than you know. Man, I appreciate you having me, man.
Absolutely. For all the listeners and viewers, remember, your because is your superpower.
Go Unleash It. Thank you for tuning in to Mick Unplugged.
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