Digital Social Hour - From $36 Outfit to Empire: An Immigrant's Success Blueprint | Michael Blackson DSH #1000

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Starting point is 00:01:12 All right guys Michael Black's son here today what happened you man man, you know what man You know first I'm on a nice easy table with a bunch of amateurs They had no damn clue what they were doing. I was doing very well. I was rich had about 200,000 and over 200,000 And he decided to put me on a big table with Adrian Peterson a bunch of other guys Rich had about 200,000, a little over 200,000. And he decided to put me on a big table with Adrian Peterson and a bunch of other guys. And that's just when things went downhill from there, man.

Starting point is 00:01:33 When I got, Adrian Peterson had like half a million, maybe more, maybe a million dollar. I'm not sure what the mother. Whatever he had, a lot more than me. So he had room to play around. He started bullying? He started bullying, man. And then I came up there with about 187 to be exact.

Starting point is 00:01:55 Then 187, yeah, I had about 187 and I never had a good hand. I never had a good hand. And I tried a couple of times. One time I folded with a seven 7-6 and I could have won You know, that's why usually I play almost every hand and when I was coming my good friend like Mike Don't play only play the good hands. The good hands don't always win facts You know, you got to take a risk if I would have took a risk

Starting point is 00:02:18 I would have probably been still playing right now Yeah, you got to play aggressive some play aggressive with nothing and with nothing. And then also, I mean, I went all in with a ace and a queen of spades at the beginning of the, you know, Adrian Peterson, he had a five and two fives came out. Oh, trip fives, that's nasty. And I started off with an ace and queen of spades. You're right though, you got to take risks. That goes for life too.

Starting point is 00:02:43 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Got to take a risk. You're not where you're at without taking some big risks. Hell no. Man, it's all good. You know, at the end of the day, I had a good time. I had fun. I mean, look at this jacket, man. Tripped out.

Starting point is 00:02:53 You know? Tripped out. I think I end up like 30-something out of 80-something. I don't know whatever it was. You're number one in outfits, though. I am number one outfit. That's all that matters, man. I'm the best dresser.

Starting point is 00:03:03 Everybody here look. I mean, everybody like did the half homeless. I mean, I'm not sure where these guys shop in one hamper. They shop it, but they have no style. I mean, no sense of style. They just always a horrible dressing one. I always win the money. But, you know, it's all good. I came here and this is actually still alive.

Starting point is 00:03:27 Is that real fur? This jacket is still alive. Wow. Yeah, it's cheaper when you buy it in my life, in my village. Yeah? Yeah. You got that from a village?

Starting point is 00:03:35 It's still alive, man. This jacket will bite the shit out of you right now. Man, well done. Let's go. You got to walk New York Fashion Week next year. Yeah, I would love to, man. I'm definitely gonna try the Milan one in June. I'm definitely going to Italy and going to Milan Fashion Week.

Starting point is 00:03:52 I'm looking forward to that. I'm into clothing, man. When I was a kid, when I came to America as a teenager, didn't know how to dress. Kids clown me every day, man. I had like, America, me every day man. You know, I had like, you know, America, you know, very materialistic here. And you know, as a kid coming from Africa, we just cared about our outfit being new. We didn't care whether it was Nike or Dieter's Pullman. We just cared it was new when I was a kid. And you know, I remember my first day of school, my mother bought me some sneakers.

Starting point is 00:04:23 Sneakers was called in action, Right? It was like $10. She bought it like in a grocery store. It was in Jersey. It's called Pathmark. I know you heard of Pathmark. That's way before your time. I grew up in Jersey. Pathmark's a grocery store. So she bought my sneakers in a grocery store like right next to Chicken. Like I have chicken flavored sneakers I had to wear to school. So I go to school but I didn't care because it was brand new, you know, I go to school I'm like, I got brand new sneakers, my sneakers in action. I had like a button up shirt cost like $5.99, some church pants that was like $9.99. My whole outfit was about the same

Starting point is 00:05:01 price as the drink I just had, like $36. Yeah. But I didn't care, it was brand new. It was my first day of school in America. I said, okay, I'm about to go to school, I'm about to sh- all my haters, because I got on brand new clothes. I get there, the kid's like, what the hell you wearing? I said, what you mean?

Starting point is 00:05:18 I said, it's not Nike, it's not Adidas, it's not Puma. I said, it's brand new. Nobody's ever worn this. It lit my ass up. So I said to myself, whenever I'm able to make some money, I'm gonna wear the best clothes ever. Let's go. Look at what you're wearing now.

Starting point is 00:05:35 I wear clothes that nobody in here has but have this on. If I catch anybody with this jacket on, I'm gonna throw this shit away, okay. And so those were the kids in Philly. This episode is brought to you by HelloFresh. Be honest. Between meetings, workout classes, and the kids' clubs, who's got time to cook? That's where HelloFresh comes in.

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Starting point is 00:06:45 I always spent my three years in Jersey. By the time I got to Philly, I already knew what to take to fit in. I knew already. So when I got to Philly, I got a job at Domino's Pizza. I was delivering pizzas on a bike at like 16 years old, making a little $30 here every day during the summertime.

Starting point is 00:07:02 And then saved up all my money, September wind shop for some nice, decent clothes. And then I went to school and it started looking good. every day during the summertime and then saved up all my money, September went and shopped for some nice decent clothes and then I went to school and it started looking good. Damn, humble beginnings man. Came a long way man. Wow, I didn't know you grew up in Jersey though. Yeah, yeah my first three year was in Newark, New Jersey

Starting point is 00:07:16 then I moved to Philly. Philly's where I was raised the rest of the time. I got to Philly like 15 and a half years old, 16 years old and then I pretty much grew up there. You started running the school. And I started doing comedy about five years later, 21 years old, I started doing stand up. Wow, let's go.

Starting point is 00:07:32 Who were your mentors early on? Who was my guy, Eddie? I mean, Eddie Murphy was my, you know, he was one of my favorites when I first started. You know, I missed, I kind of almost missed the Richard Pryor era when I came to America, but Eddie was a man. I mean, I watched like Raw, Delirious,

Starting point is 00:07:48 and then we went fast forward to like 28 years later, I'm doing a movie with this guy. Wow. You know what I mean? Full circle. Full circle, man. Amazing, so yeah, man. You ever look back like, damn, like, this guy's-

Starting point is 00:08:01 I look back all the time, man. Like I came from, from where I came from to where I am right now, it's's amazing man yeah cuz you grew up in Ghana right yeah yeah well Liberia Liberia is where Ghana was birthed Liberia was where I was raised and then I came spent actually spent my three years in Nigeria as well as a kid you know pretty much West Africa and then I came to the States in my teens and then um and stand up was I guess that's what because I was a shy kid. I was very shy as a kid man. I didn't um.

Starting point is 00:08:32 Why were you shy? I don't know because the kid you know I was in a very different place you know American kids would be very mean very mean very mean. You know a lot of things I didn't know about myself that I got to America you know like you know let's like let's say Africa for instance you know Africa we have all different complexion of black people you have darker black you have brown you have light you have everything in Africa we never saw colors. No white people. Well I mean that's of white we knew the white people were white I mean but the blacks we just never saw different colors in the black. When I came to America is when I found out that I'm dark skinned. I had no idea I was dark skinned until

Starting point is 00:09:11 I got here. That's crazy. I'm playing with the kids, you know, and American kids in the hood could be real mean. I'm playing with the kids and they just looked at me like, they said, damn, you black. I said, of course, we are black. They said, no, you black as hell. Yo. He just looked at me like, he said, damn, you black. I said, of course, we all black. He said, no, you black as hell. I said, what you mean? One kid told me I look like I was baptized on a skillet. Damn.

Starting point is 00:09:32 That's like a frying pan. Fuck it. One other kid told me I look like I have no bright ideas. He said the difference between me and midnight is 1159. Oh my God. He said, when God said, let there be light, I was out of town. They told me every time I wear a wife beater,

Starting point is 00:09:53 I look like a skunk. Jeez. One kid told me Stevie Wonder sees me every day. That's dark as hell, man. Stevie Wonder don't see shit. I tell you right now, that's blind. This kid's ruthless, man. They were mean.

Starting point is 00:10:06 So I took everything them kids said about me and I took it to the stage now. And I'm rich. Thank you, mother. You ever hit them up when you became successful? They probably are in jail or somewhere. Who knows where they are? That's the best way to win them. Prove them with success.

Starting point is 00:10:22 You know, yes. You know what? I was. Oh, yeah know what, I was- We work for Trump, so- Oh yeah, Trump, I was rooting for the guy. There's a few reasons why I was rooting for Trump. I like to see somebody like this, I mean, that just shows you the American dream, how he could be- I mean, most of the politicians are all- they all came from like, all were senators and governor and this and that. Trump was a businessman that had no idea about presidency and then he won 2016, became

Starting point is 00:10:49 president. The guy that with no experience. And the funny thing about Trump is that you know when he went in office 2016 he had no idea that he was supposed to like hire like 4,000 people. He had no clue. Crazy. You know what I mean? That's just crazy. That's what makes this country so great. You come from nothing or have no idea of something and then you could be the whole leader of the free world. Of course the economy was bad. The economy's been very bad. That's why we needed a change. And I mean, it was just great to see, they all living on his past, he did this, he did grab this, he grabbed that was 30 years ago. Now, the day he went into office, I mean day

Starting point is 00:11:34 he won, what happened? Stocks went up, everything went up. Crypto went up. Everything went up. I wish I would have put some money on freaking Tesla the night before, I would have been rich right now. Two freshly cracked eggs, any way you like them. Three strips of naturally smoked bacon I would've put some money on freaking Tesla the night before, I would've been rich right now. Oh. You know, but yeah. Two freshly cracked eggs any way you like them. Three strips of naturally smoked bacon and a side of toast. Only $6 at A&W's in Ontario. Experience A&W's classic breakfast on Now,

Starting point is 00:11:57 dining only until 11 a.m. Yeah, yeah, I like to see the underdogs win. You know, I'm also very religious, you know and We just I just want America to be normal again, yeah, you know speaking of religion there's a there's a bet on poly market What will Trump say during his inauguration speech and one of them is God? Is that was a is on a poly poly market? Yes. So do you think he'll say God during his inauguration speech? He's, uh, when he said God, yeah, I think he would 56% chance that he would say God. That's the betting market right now.

Starting point is 00:12:35 Yeah. I mean, I'm sure make America great again. It's probably 100. Yeah. McDonald's is on here. Crypto Dogecoin, Kamala rigged. Illegal immigrants is at 52%. Border five plus times is at 35%. We'll see what he says, man. I'm going to try to make it to the inauguration, man. It's going to be a big event.

Starting point is 00:12:58 Yeah. I'm excited. I'm just excited about it. Sometimes when things are not great, you need a change. Yeah. That's with any country, that's anywhere. And he was an underdog to me. Meaning he came from where he came from.

Starting point is 00:13:12 I like to see underdogs come up. Absolutely, shout out to Trump. Yeah, definitely. Dude, what's next for you and where can people keep up with you? What's next? I currently have a TV show. It's a pilot, four episode pilot on BT+, it's called

Starting point is 00:13:26 The Michael Blackson Show. I'm on tour as well. Recently when I built a free school in my village, I went back and gave back. Nice. Yeah, the school is called Michael Blackson Academy, so everybody want to donate a dollar and help, you know, put a kid in school. My foundation is michaelblacksonfoundation.org. school my foundation is michaelblaxtonfoundation.org. You can follow me on Instagram, my Instagram, my IG is at michaelblaxton. For those who went to a public school it's M-I-C-H-A-E-L-B-L-A-C-K-S-O-N. That's my Instagram, Facebook, my Twitter, Christian Mingle, where black people meet where white people meet and where you meet my just hit me any one of those. Let's go. Boom.

Starting point is 00:14:10 Thanks for coming on man.

Digital Social Hour - From $36 Outfit to Empire: An Immigrant's Success Blueprint | Michael Blackson DSH #1000

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