Mick Unplugged - Aries Spears Talks Cancel Culture, Comedy Evolution, and Staying True to Himself

Starting point is 00:00:00 Away from away from this business this this this shit it beat you up man It beats your spirit up your soul up to the point where you at times think about quitting Maybe you feel suicidal You know this this this kills you man. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy Welcome to Mick unplugged the number one podcast for self-improvement, leadership, and relentless growth. No fluff, no filters, just heart-hitting truths, unstoppable strategies, and the mindset shifts that separate the best from the rest. Ready to break limits? Let's go! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged, and today we got one of my top five dead or alive.

Starting point is 00:00:54 From stepping on the stage at just 14 to redefining sketch comedy on mad TV, this man didn't just chase the spotlight, he commanded it. He's a comedic powerhouse who's mastered impressions, tackled Hollywood, and has kept audiences laughing for decades. Please give my guy a huge round of applause and welcome the bold, the unfiltered, the relentless, Mr. Aries Spears.

Starting point is 00:01:17 Aries, how you doing today, brother? What's up, brother? Man, I told you offline, I'm honored to have you on. You are literally one of my favorite standups in the world. Just honor you to the time of your busy schedule to be here, bro. Oh, no, man, thank you for being somewhat forgiving because I was supposed, I know we were supposed to start

Starting point is 00:01:37 this at two o'clock, but I was actually coming from doing another podcast by comedian Harlan Williams. So that LA traffic is a monster. So I just got a little bit of that traffic, but I'm here now, so thank you. I appreciate it, man. On Mick Unplugged, I always like to ask my greats, my favorites, my legends, what their because is.

Starting point is 00:01:58 That thing that's deeper than your why. That thing that really is your purpose, that fuel. And you've been doing this man since 14. Today in 2025, what's Aries Spears be cause? What's that thing that's driving you, bro? Cause I still feel like I haven't arrived, you know, in terms of where I have always seen myself and in terms of what I've always wanted,

Starting point is 00:02:24 I don't, I'm not there yet. So I still desperately and very badly want to reach that level. Well, I don't know about what you think, but bro, I think you're there, man. Like I said, you are literally, I know a lot of people see Aries. I've seen Aries over 20 times. It's always a different set. And I don't think people understand that, man. Like in standup, it's real easy to have like your routine and just some cats as you know, we're not gonna name names.

Starting point is 00:02:57 They run that for 10 years and like, you go see them once, you don't have to see them again. With Aries, you get a new experience, bro, every freaking time. How do you do that, dude? Well, I think a huge testament to that is, you know, my crowd work, you know? You know, I almost liken it to being a quarterback

Starting point is 00:03:18 on a football team. You know, yeah, you got your playbook, I allow your material, but every now and then, you gotta be able to call a, you know, a quarterback, you know what playbook, I'll allow your material. But every now and then you gotta be able to call a, you know, a quarterback, you know what I mean? Recognize the blitz and call an audible. You know what I'm saying? So, and that to me is like being able to do crowd work.

Starting point is 00:03:34 So I like the spontaneity of it. It always makes the crowd feel like they're involved. And it's just, for me, it's a much more fun time. Yeah, yeah. I tell all my buddies, man, like every time I go see Aries, I know you were a sports guy too, it's like, it's game seven for you, every set, right? And it's like game seven, two seconds left,

Starting point is 00:04:01 Aries wants the ball every damn time, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, anybody that know me and listen to my podcast and follow me on social media, know that I'm a Michael Jordan fanatic. So, you know, like Jordan, yeah, give me the ball. I want the game-winning shot. You know, I want to be able to, you know, pump my fists and ass, victory.

Starting point is 00:04:22 And I want to, you know, I want to be the man. Yep, and you do it every time, victory. And I wanna be the man. Yep, and you do it every time, man. And you talk about crowd work. I always try to sit up front. I know you're gonna get me. I know you're gonna get my wife. The last time we were there, you told my wife, her name is Marcy for all the viewers and listeners.

Starting point is 00:04:39 You said, Marcy, you're as white as uncut cocaine. And I literally spit out everything I had in my system at that moment, bro. Like your crowd work is unreal, dude. Thank you, brother, thank you. And you know, that was something very early in my beginnings that I was intimidated by. Because you know, you're basically on a wire

Starting point is 00:05:02 with no safety net. And not everybody can do that well, you know you you you you're basically on a wire with no safety net And not everybody can do that Well, you know, but I said to myself and you're gonna be a complete comedian You need to have all the facets of your game On point, you know, it's like again the Jordan reference, you know, there was no weaknesses in my like to do it all So I was like, you know, I know I can do the impressions. I'm pretty quick. I'm pretty savvy. I know, you know, I can talk about relationships

Starting point is 00:05:33 and pop culture and whatever. Even get a little political, even though I don't think that's my thing. But I wanted to be able to go, yo, you got, I just don't understand how you can be a comedian and not implement that into your skill set because it's just such a strong tool to have to show people how quick you are. So I take pride in that. And then I studied DL, Huly, and Joe Torre,

Starting point is 00:06:05 who were too vicious, vicious, when it came time to chew somebody's ass up. So I just kind of always wanted that in my repertoire. And I like it a lot of what we do to sports, because I think there are certain similarities. And I always say I look at it like football. It's like you can be a Hall of Fame championship quarterback, a la Brett Favre, a la Peyton Manning, and stay in the pocket, which is your material. Or you can Michael Vickett and be able to scramble for the first down,

Starting point is 00:06:45 which is going off the dome. And don't get me wrong, you don't have to be able to go off the dome to be a great Hall of Fame Championship quarterback. And those guys never Michael Vickett. They stayed in the pocket and they're two of the best Tom Brady probably didn't go. But I just felt like if you know, if you gonna be deadly, why not be twice as deadly instead of being, you know, singularly deadly?

Starting point is 00:07:11 You know what I mean? So that, I just wanted to be able to do both. Nah, I love that, dude. And I've always wanted to ask you this question because, you know, Aries also is never gonna hold back, right? And every time I see you, and it never fails, there's always someone who pays their money

Starting point is 00:07:30 to go to a comedy show, but sits up like they don't wanna be there, right? And like, I do public speaking, and I see it a lot too. Like, you spent your money, why are you making the comedian work hard? But Aries will call you out, like, why do people like, do you understand why people do that, bro? Listen, I just, when you say, you know, one person, I'm

Starting point is 00:07:56 retired from performing in the city of Cleveland, because that whole city does that. I did a radio show to promote my, my performance in Columbus, Ohio, which out of all the Ohio's, Toledo, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Columbus is my favorite. But I didn't know that the radio station I was doing, the airwaves reached out to Cleveland. So I took a dump on that city so bad, I was getting death threats from Clevelanders. People hit me up in my social media, man, you come back to Cleveland, we gonna pull up. And I said, pull up, because I'm done.

Starting point is 00:08:34 I'm done with the city of Cleveland. There's something so miserable about that city. That Cleveland is America's rectum. It's just a horrible experience. And listen, I'm not even saying you gotta give me anything because I don't mind earning what I need to get. Right. But to just sit there with just two things.

Starting point is 00:08:56 One, a state of misery and heaviness. And two, you know, listen, man, and I don't think this is just relegated to Cleveland. I think there is a mentality and an attitude that exists within the culture and the community and people that grow up in the hood, ghetto, street, not seeing all of them, but a lot of them come with a mentality where quite frankly, you're just not open enough, savvy enough and intelligent enough to get what I'm serving. You know, you're playing checkers, I'm playing chess. People mentally, they just don't have, they're not equipped to follow what you're doing. It's above them. And I'll get, I'm

Starting point is 00:09:43 not trying to make that sound like I'm better than anybody, but I'm better than some people. Yep. You know what I'm saying? So between the level of intelligence or lack thereof and the misery and the attitude, then I'm over it. I've been doing this 36 years.

Starting point is 00:10:02 I've been down those waters. I'm swimming in waters. That's that's how I you know, most of the clubs that I did starting out in Jersey and New York, you know, whether it's Newark, Long Island, you know, Queens was them rough clubs. So I've earned them stripes. Yeah, what happened do that if I don't have to? No, bro, it baffles me to this day. Like, I see it all the time. People just sit there.

Starting point is 00:10:27 It's like, typically it's usually a Thursday night sometimes with mainly Friday night, Saturday night. Like, it's the weekend, right? And you get into frequency airy spirits. You know, like, why would you just go in there all, all right, I'm here. Like, it baffles me to this day, bro. No, it's crazy.

Starting point is 00:10:48 And you know, if any people from Cleveland see this or hear this, you know, I'm not saying you're not a good people because I've mentioned great people in Cleveland, but comedically, it just is a heaviness, man, where it's like, you know, the difference between some people coming and going, yeah, make me laugh, because I want to laugh, versus, yeah, show me what you got.

Starting point is 00:11:11 I mean, it's like, come on, man. Come on, man. Yep, so that's a challenge to my guy, Andrew Ryan, who is actually in Cleveland. You got to do better, bro. Yeah, man. And what's crazy, the part that kills me is the responses are so cliche.

Starting point is 00:11:31 They're so unoriginal. What I get is, well, you just ain't funny. Tell better jokes. You just ain't funny. Listen, I've been coming to Cleveland and taking money out of there in terms of working there for almost 20 years. Why do you think that is?

Starting point is 00:11:45 Because I'm not funny. I do five sold out shows, add three more and they sell out. Why do you think that is? Because I'm not funny. I go there and I make 50K for the weekend. Why do you think that is? Because I'm not funny. That is the most unoriginal shit I've heard.

Starting point is 00:12:02 It's almost like when you get when people insult you They either turn into women or children, you know, they either say, you know, like a child would say to another child Well, no, you're a poopy head or like a woman who goes after ten years of being in a relationship Now I'm telling you I want to be with you no more Oh, that's why you got a little dick and you can't fuck. You was with me for 10 years. Make that make sense. Math ain't mathin'. And listen, if I perform all over the country,

Starting point is 00:12:35 let's say I'm just throwing a number out there. I do 20 cities and in 19 of them, same material, same amount of energy and passion, and I'm killing 19 out of the 20. And Cleveland is city number 20. You mean to tell me I'm gonna let you guys be the testament to my greatness when you've been outruled by 19 other cities? Nah, it ain't me, it's you.

Starting point is 00:13:01 Get your shit together. Yup, I love it, I love it. So you've said it, you started early on, man, 36 years in the game strong, which is a testament to you. Like when I tell people about receipts, being a standup comedian, 36 years are all the receipts that you ever need right there, man. Like what made Aries Spears say,

Starting point is 00:13:23 not just I'm gonna get in the comedy game, but I'm gonna dominate? Because at 14, most people haven't figured that part out yet. Uh, well, you know, um, I grew up an 80s baby, you know? I'm-I'm built 80s up, you know? And I came up at that time where, you know, prior to Eddie Murphy, you know, I was born in 75. So, like, you know, I always said,

Starting point is 00:13:44 Hollywood only really allowed one funny black man per decade. You had you had Dick Gregory in the 60s. Richard Pryor dominated the 70s, Eddie Murphy the 80s. And then by the 90s, you had the explosion of Def Jam, which introduced mainstream America to, to, to more than just one funny black person. Right. 80s, you know, Eddie Murphy was my guy.

Starting point is 00:14:09 So, you know, it was appointment television every Saturday at 1130 for me and my father to watch Eddie Murphy. And then when I saw 48 hours in trading places, I was hooked. I said, that's what I want to do. And then, you know, I eventually found out, you know, he and I, she had the same birthday, April 3, we both zodiac size Aries. I just took all that as motivation to, to really want to do this, you know what I mean? And I knew I wasn't, I wasn't equipped to do anything else. You know, I knew school at an early age, other than basic arithmetic and reading and writing,

Starting point is 00:14:47 most of that is bullshit, that's useless in life, you know. And I knew that early. So I was like, you know what? I'm passionate about comedy. I enjoy making my peers and my family laugh. And you know, I just, you know, when I went on stage for the first time at 14, 15, I just, you know, granted,

Starting point is 00:15:09 I wasn't nearly as seasoned as I am now, can't be. But to be that young and have that kind of an impact, I just kind of felt like, you know, what's up with special is happening here. So I just, that was the dream and I pursued it. And I gotta, you know, I gotta take my hat off to my mother, because if it wasn't for her, you know, she really instilled the confidence in me

Starting point is 00:15:32 to do it, because my mother's a jazz and blues singer. And you know, she used to sing open with the jazz great Lionel Hampton. And she once performed at the White House for Reagan. So she was always like my Catherine Jackson to my Michael. And she just really pushed me and believed in me and instilled that confidence in me. And I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her.

Starting point is 00:15:57 I love that dude. At 14, did you have mentors? No. No? No, cause I, you know, coming up, I couldn't hang out with the other comedians cause you know, I'm a teenager, you know, they're grown, they, you know, they, and establishments that serve alcohol.

Starting point is 00:16:17 So I was never allowed to be a part of that. My mother would bring me in, you know, whatever green room they had for me to wait in, I would wait in, do my set. And then after that, head back to the crib, no hanging out, no nothing. Because, you know, basically, I was the Spider-Man of the comedians. You know what I mean? I had Spoo the next day. So while Thor and Captain America and, you know, Hulk and Iron Man is out partying. I had algebra tomorrow. So, you know, I was Peter Parker.

Starting point is 00:16:53 Yeah, yeah, that's dope, man, that's dope. So, you know, one of the things I've, another question I always wanted to ask you was this, the dark side of comedy, right? Like your job is to make people laugh. And I say job, I don't mean it as a job, but you're great at making people laugh. But I know like Dion Cole, a good friend of mine,

Starting point is 00:17:14 all the time, man, like you don't walk on stage and everything is going perfect in your world, but you still gotta make people laugh because that's how you get paid. I thought that was brilliant when he did that. When he did that, he pointed that out. I almost wanted to wake my girl up and be like, bitch, listen to this right here.

Starting point is 00:17:35 You need to appreciate it. And it's weird because it's like the people that you wish would show you love and adulation and praise are the people that don't, meaning your family. And the people that love you and praise you sometimes more than family, often more than family, are strangers. So it's crazy that the appreciation that you seek from your loved ones, your kinfolk, they

Starting point is 00:18:08 almost take you for granted and don't see you as that because they know you went before that. But the people that really appreciate you are the people that aren't associated to you by blood. And when he said that, it was like, man, you need that. Cause away from this business, this shit, it beats you up, man. It beats your spirit up, your soul up to the point where you at times think about quitting.

Starting point is 00:18:36 Maybe you feel suicidal. This kills you, man. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. And for those that don't know, right? Like talk through that a little bit. Like what does an airy spears, I'm not saying you personally, right? But like, what does an airy spears go through

Starting point is 00:18:55 that people don't realize? Like I get the grind, right? Like you're every weekend, you're out, you come home for a couple of days and it's like tomorrow you right back out again, right? Like being able to develop relationships, friendships, like it's people, the things that we do as normal people, right? Take it totally for granted, man. Yeah, I mean, you know, being the sole breadwinner, being the main source of everybody financially, being responsible for people,

Starting point is 00:19:28 buying my ass adults, not being able to say no when you know you should, feeling like you're being taken advantage of, you underappreciated, dealing with the politics of show business, the racism of show business, the race in the show business. You know, they like to coin this term in Hollywood amongst black entertainers. Like there's Hollywood and then there's black Hollywood. But the truth is sometimes black Hollywood do you dirtier than white Hollywood.

Starting point is 00:20:00 Black Hollywood don't support you sometimes the way it should, like white Hollywood. And they're smart enough, getting white Hollywood. And they smart enough getting white Hollywood to treat you right. And to find out that your own do you worth, aren't it supported? That's what I'm telling you, man, this game, it's an evil game, man, but you stay in it.

Starting point is 00:20:21 Cause one thing can change your life around forever. Whether it's a viral video, a commercial, a TV series, a movie, you are always one thing away from making $2 million an episode. So when you know those are the kind of numbers you playing with, you take the abuse. You know it. Brist Rock said it best. He was like, Hollywood is like an uncle that molested you

Starting point is 00:20:52 but put you through college. Right. Right. Yeah, I remember that. Yep. Crazy. It's so bittersweet. It's so bittersweet.

Starting point is 00:21:04 Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. So you are the king of impersonation, right? Like I will say no one has an impersonation portfolio like Aries Spirits, right? Cause you don't at all. I think that might've been true at one time. I think the guy that kinda, if you can even,

Starting point is 00:21:26 you know, I mean, you want to brand somebody with a title, which I guess to some degree is pretty useless as it's all subjective. But if you were to brand somebody with that title, I would give that to Jay Farrow. I think Jay does so many, and it seems like he's constantly coming up with new ones. Yeah, I would I would give that to Jay Farrell.

Starting point is 00:21:51 I'm only thing is this. I just never wanted to be known for just that. And and I'm not, you know, I'm not pointing the finger at anybody. But I think there are guys in this game who do great impressions, phenomenal, but aren't the best comedians. And then there are guys who are phenomenal comedians who do impressions, but the impressions, they are. I always wanted to be like Eddie Murphy

Starting point is 00:22:20 and be able to marry the two perfectly. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like for me doing impressions is like being in the NBA as a basketball player and dunking, I can dunk anytime I want. I want you, I want you to know that I can play defense. I can grab boards. I got, I can pass. I got high basketball IQ.

Starting point is 00:22:39 So to me, the first important part is the stand up, is the material, is the wit, is the sharp look, is the quickness, the improv. The impressions part is easy. But that's why I think you are the goat though, right? That's why, because you can go, I don't wanna say character to character, you can go impersonation to real, to back to an impersonation all in your set

Starting point is 00:23:07 because I see it all the time, right? Where I think some people to your point just live in the impersonation. And if you took that away from them, they can't go on stage and rock a crowd for an hour, right? That's why I say you are the king, you are the goat, you are the OG because I see it in everything you do, bro. So don't give that away, that's you.

Starting point is 00:23:28 That again, that's, you know. It's subjective, but it's my subjection. No, no, no doubt. But that's what I'm saying. Like when I say I study Eddie Murphy, like that to me is what makes him, like Richard Pryor is like the Babe Ruth, you know what I mean? Like he, but Eddie Murphy, like, you know,

Starting point is 00:23:52 I wanna, I don't wanna give that, I don't wanna give Pryor Babe Ruth, it's almost like Eddie Murphy is Michael Jordan and Richard Pryor's Bill Russell, you know what I'm saying? He got more chips, but in terms of totality, and that's not what I get in a goat argument with people. People go, well, if it's about rings, Bill Russell, he got 11.

Starting point is 00:24:15 If it's about rings, Robert Orry, he got seven. No, it's about totality. You know what I'm talking about, goat gumbo? The recipe to goat gumbo is more than rings. It's everything, it Goat Gumbo, the recipe to Goat Gumbo is more than rings. It's everything. It encompasses rings, popularity, impact on the game, stats. You know, it's athleticism. It's all of it. And Eddie Murphy, to me, had all of it. You know, he killed on every level. TV, SNL, stand-up, delirious, the raw, even though I wish he had more stand-ups. Movies, of course, the billions of dollars he made, Aramount, you know. Yeah, Eddie's

Starting point is 00:24:55 just complete, man. Don't disagree. Don't disagree. So what do you think is the evolution of comedy now? Right? Because to me, again, these are the words of Mick and Mick only, funny ain't as funny as it used to be to me anymore. Right? Like I still have the people that I just love going to see because I know they're funny, you being one of them. Right? Like I think you and DL are in a class that's different than most people. But where do you see the evolution of comedy going? I think it's gonna go back to what it once was. Because of political correctness and wokeness and the whole moisture movement,

Starting point is 00:25:37 the comedy cocaine got diluted. You know what I mean? A lot of baking soda stepped on and a lot of people scared to take risks because of cancer culture. I've never cut my comedy coquette. I've always kept it 100% Bolivia Yale. You know what I mean? And part of that is because one, I never feared cancer culture because I think Hollywood kind of closed its doors to me and wrote me off a long

Starting point is 00:26:05 time ago. So how can you cancel what Hollywood to a degree has already canceled? And the only thing I can do from this point is figure out how to become the rose in the concrete and rise up. You know, yeah, they've shut their doors to me, but you know, whether I get around it, get over it, get under it, I might not be able to get through it. But there's it there is a way. And so, you know, and maybe to some degree, I while I might not would like that to be the case, I'm kind of glad it is the case because I don't know that I would have been happy with myself if I would have sold out or diluted my product for the sake of trying to appease people, appease feelings. There's nothing better than having that laugh

Starting point is 00:26:52 if you feel like you're not supposed to have that sticker that you feel you gotta hide because you know what's funny, we know what's innately funny, instasively funny and to somehow shield yourself from that because society has told you that's wrong. When you're in a place where it's sole purpose is for that.

Starting point is 00:27:15 Right. That's like, I don't go to strip clubs where I see girls with face-he's on. Like, what are we doing here? You either show me your titty or you don't. Right. I mean, I'm gonna see the areola, I wanna see the size and the thickness

Starting point is 00:27:29 and the length of the nipple. I wanna see it all. That's why we in a strip club. Right. I'm gonna put pasties on my jokes. I love it, bro. So what do you hope your contributions to comedy and entertainment will be moving forward?

Starting point is 00:27:48 So if we were to say the legacy, the impact of Aries Spears, what would you want that to be? What do you want everybody to say 20 years from now? Well, you know, it has yet to be written. So I don't know that I fully know. But based on what they say now, you know, I'd like to believe that that gets better. You know, like I'll almost cringe a little bit when people say call me goat. You know, yo, man, you wanted a goat,

Starting point is 00:28:16 so you used the word legend. Because that to me is Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Red Fox, the dudes who are on the Mount Olympus looking down on us. You know, and I don't think my body of work has been strong enough or extensive enough to warrant that title. Now, if that's how you feel,

Starting point is 00:28:38 and you wanna give me that, okay. But I would never give myself that, ever. Of course, of course. But here's what I will tell you And I want you to feel this and hear this man like my kids who were early 20s, right? Like yeah, they've seen some Eddie stuff, right? Like they got to sit with me to go watch prior stuff, right? Because they're just not naturally gonna go search Richard prior my my three kids, you are that to them. Like you are to them.

Starting point is 00:29:10 What a prior and a red Fox who, you know, I got to know red Fox through Sanford and son, and then I had to go find out how great red Fox was in standup after the fact, right? Like you are that to my kids. They, they will tell you that my sister who's four years younger than me, right, loves her some Aries Spears. Like, meaning, like, you are like, Matt TV to her was what SNL was like for me growing up, right?

Starting point is 00:29:37 Like, she will always go back to that. So, bro, I need you to feel that, man. Like, you just gotta understand, everybody can't go to where you and I were from a database of history and comedy. So you are that benchmark to a lot of people, bro. Well, that's why I say, man, sometimes when the ego needs to be fed, y'all do a better job of feeding me

Starting point is 00:30:03 than the people who are supposed to. Hey, well, as a guy that looks up to you, that respects you like none other, I just need you to know that, bro. I appreciate it, bro. Trange-worthy, cool, but just know that to millions of people, you are that. Appreciate it, brother, thank you.

Starting point is 00:30:23 You got it. So what's new coming up with Aries Spears, man? Where do you want people to follow and find you? I'll make sure we have all the descriptions in the show notes. You know, I've got the podcast Spears and Steinberg, which, you know, got like 600 some episodes and this is very important. I tell people listen, man, start from the beginning.

Starting point is 00:30:44 I know it's a lot, but binge it. It's worth it. It's like masturbation and potato chips. Once you start to pay stop. And plus, if you do it that way, you get to follow the evolution of the show from how we started to where we end up, the characters that you'll get to fall in love with,

Starting point is 00:31:02 the callbacks, the jokes. And we didn't get on YouTube until two years after we had started. So all the, like the first couple of hundred episodes aren't even available on YouTube. So I stress to people to really listen to it on the streaming platforms, then watch it. But if you do go watch it, it's on YouTube,

Starting point is 00:31:23 it's Spears, Berg, Pod. Please hit like and subscribe. Or you can slide into my Instagram and my DMs, and I'll send you the links, chop it up with you. Spears and Steinberg is the name of the podcast. And it is one of my favorite ones. Like, I don't even have a favorite episode because they all are bangers.

Starting point is 00:31:45 And you're right, like binging them is amazing. I even go back and listen to several of them. The one with you and Godfrey doing soprano and Jason said, like, bro, like that one, I can literally listen to that one every night before I go to bed. Like that's how I get it, bro. And Godfrey is one of my soldiers in comedy, man.

Starting point is 00:32:06 That's another brother that I know that because of his stance on race and his honesty about racism and white America, much like me, and he doesn't hold his tongue, he is not where he should be. He is undervalued and underappreciated. But I'm doing everything in my power with this movie I'm trying to get together to change that. Because a lot of people, when they saw me and him

Starting point is 00:32:34 do that on the podcast, so many people in the comments were like, man, you and God, they need to do something together. Man, y'all two, I would love to see y'all two. Y'all chemistry, y'all funny. So, you know, we hear a lot of times brothers talk about it, but very seldom do they be about it. So I'm trying to be about it

Starting point is 00:32:56 and get this movie off the ground, which will showcase me and him doing what we do. Hey, well, if you need somebody to act like a podcaster doing an interview, you holler at me. I'll be there for free. I'll be there for free. Cool, well, brother, I appreciate you more than you know. Like I said, I know you're busy.

Starting point is 00:33:14 This meant the world to me. This meant the world to my family, my community. Just appreciate you with everything, brother. Brother, thank you so much, man. Appreciate the love, brother. You got it. For all the viewers and viewers and listeners remember your because is your superpower. Go unleash it. Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Mick Unplugged.

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