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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mic Unplug. 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 are eating food, put it down. If you are drinking anything, sit the cup or glass down because Mic Unplug and Mic 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 God ain't Please Rants, 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, This is your Alton Walker. Alton, how are 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, you all excuse the My background, man. I got stuff falling off and everything on my wall.

All good, man. Let's get ready.

You got to bring your own personal studio. My soundproof stuff is falling off and everything. I want a background I'm like, Look at it back, bro.

$5 still goes a long way, bro. $5, and I got you covered. I got you covered, man. We gave everybody enough time to pull over and to put all their food and drink down, so we're going to get into it, man. Again, I've been a huge follow of yours, probably since the RnB workouts, right?

Oh, yeah, man.

When you talk me the Jodeci stuff, the KC stuff, right? Yeah. I didn't lose a lot of weight, but it was still good.

I got to bring it back. So many people want me to bring it back. I just got to the time to do it, man. But no, that R-B workout was amazing.

It was great, but when you stopped, I gained all the weight 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, because we did a live event. It was amazing. Sold out every time we did it, man.

Man, that's amazing, man. Again, one of 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 did comedy become a thing? And you do more, right? You write, you produce. When did that become a thing for Alton?

The first time I got actually paid to do stand-up. I used to always host. I've been on stage since high school. Well, really before that. I'm a church boys. We've been on It's on stage all my life.

Easter Sunday.

Right. But in high school, I was in drama club, and I was always a comedic relief, but nobody told me about stand-up comedy. 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. 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 No Comedy. I just thought, Hey, I just host. I'm funny. Then somebody asked me, Hey, can you do like 15 minutes for $250 or something like that? I was like, Oh. I got up there and talked for 15 minutes to do whatever, and it worked. It worked, man. That's when I'm like, Oh, this is how you do it. Okay. That's really when I knew that you could make money in comedy. Then, of course, you got to figure out the marketing and all that But yeah, I got paid for the first time, and I realized, Oh, I can make this into a career, to 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. You don't take even the content creation piece. It's not just like, I'm just going to throw some stuff out there. You really hone it in. 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. You master that crap, bro.

Yeah, man. I believe if you're going to do it, become a student of whatever you do. With everything, when I was... I originally wanted to be a drummer, and I will play drums for hours and hours and hours just trying to become great at playing drums. I wish I would do it for basketball, but I probably would have been in the NBA. I didn't have that concept of what hard work can 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. I know the ins and outs, and I'm still learning. I believe you, you become a master of whatever you want to do, or just don't do it at all. No half-stepping. Yes, sir. That's how I am, man.

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. I tell people all the time, cookout funny and being on stage when people expect you to laugh funny are two totally different things. You were just elaborating on that, too, about the reading and the studying. For everybody out there, man, let them know, just because you're funny at a cookout, don't mean you can go bless the stage for 15, 30, 45, 60 minutes.

People do it all the time. They think it could be funny, and I'm like, Get on that stage, man. They get on, they'll be like, Wooop. It's a lot of social media comedians because they get on stage for the first time, and they were like, Oh, it ain't what I thought. You still got some comedians that's just naturally funny. They don't quite know what they are doing, the terminologies, and they're just great at it. It's some better comedians that's just funny, but they don't know what they're 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 teach you how to create a joke now. I know the ins and outs. I know what makes people laugh. That will separate comedians. You know what I'm saying? You could tell a comedian that's just goofy, just silly on stage and this and that. Then you could tell a well-professional student-written comedian. You're like, Oh, no, that took some thought. I'm one of those that like the... I'm going to take some thought into every joke. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Another thing that I love about you and your set, man, you are funny from beginning to end. There are a lot of, I'm going to say, professional famous comedians that they got a 30, 45 minutes set. The first seven minutes were amazing Then after that, it's like, That's all he got. That's all she got. You are literally from second one until when I have to pick my jaw up off the ground, you are that guy from literally beginning to end. Again, how do you do that? I know a lot of it is the studying, the formulating what you're going to do, but how did you get to that level of from minute one to minute 45, I'm tearing their mouth out.

It's really a lot of stage time, man. Every comedian will tell you, man, I treat comedy like a sport. Two years ago, I created a thing called the Comedy Gym because I've treated it like a sport. Steph Curry shoots thousands of shots a week. Probably he shoots a lot of shots a week. As a comedian, you have to do these open mics. You have to do stages. So During the week, man, I'm on a stage. Whether it's two people in the audience, five people, I find it's a comedy world where there's open mics and there's different rooms where you can go and work out material. To be honest with you, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, they still pop up at these comedy clubs when you don't know, they'll pop up to work out material. That's what I do. Every set, every joke, I'm working it out. I'm saying over and over again, saying it over and over again, re-arranging things. Okay, I'm listening to an audience to see what they respond to and whether, okay, do I like that respond? Am I okay with that response? Or how do I respond to their response? I don't say I react to it.

Comedy is a two... 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 a reaction. It It takes time. It takes shooting that shot. It takes keep shooting, keep working that joke. I'm going to go hit a stage tonight. I'm still working, still working. Then you get into different audience because every audience ain't the same. 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're playing poker and we got people, you got to be in front of. It's like, you got to put yourself in different scenarios, white rooms, Black rooms, Hispanic, just to make sure your material is working and you dissect it and rearrange it. That's how I can go from minute one to minute 20 and keep your attention. It ain't necessarily about being funny every second. It's just, Deja Pell says it. It's not all about being funny, but being interesting. If I can keep your attention, that's all that really matters.

Yes, Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Who are some of your mentors getting into the comedy game?

Well, I'll put it like this. I never had anybody to take me under their wing. 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 a consistent basis, probably a couple of times a week. I till this day, I still don't have that. I never really had. Now, I've had people that poured into me, Ricky Smiley. I could call him a mentor, but we're not. I don't talk to him all the time. You know what I'm saying? He's a person that poured into me, and he poured into me a lot every time I'm on the show. Ricky Wiley is giving me a game. Marcus D. Wiley, Yulana Adam Morning Show. These are guys that I could call and just get answers to. You know what I'm saying? Right now, I'm on tour with Kev on stage. Although he's only one year older than me, man, I'm learning so much from this guy. 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.

Absolutely. I always wanted somebody to look out and take me in. 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 person that's close, that checking on you, making sure you're good. I just never had that. That accountability part. That accountability, 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, top five for sure.

Speaking of like I said, obviously, I guess I didn't need one, but I do. Like I said, you could have, I guess you could call that mentorship. I guess. I just look at relationship as really somebody you can really... It's a relationship.

What the week we're going to get on the phone, we got conversations or stuff like that. No, I feel you. On Mic Unplug, man, we talk about your because, that thing that's deeper than your why. I tell people all the time, I think your why is superficial. Your kids are your why. Yeah, they should be your why. 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, Alex and Walker, man, what is your because? What's your purpose? Why are you doing really what you do?

Man, that's a I have to... I have to react by myself and remind myself all the time. It's becoming everyday. I know I'm here to... I mean, laughter is medicine. God gave me the gift of laughter, and it's healing. I know I'm here to use my gifts and talent to what we call bring glory to him. It really is a God thing. I'm not going to It's to bring glory to him. It's to heal people from their... People are trouble, man. I'm really now in my groove of what I'm doing. If you come to my show, you'll get maybe 50 something minutes of laughter. In that last 10 minutes, man, it's inspiring, encouraging words, and this and this and that. When I'm coming to find out, man, people forget about my whole 50 minutes, and they remember their last Right now, I'm on tour with L. O. Stage. People will remember my last two minutes, two or three minutes of inspiring words than the 20 something minutes that I did of laughter. I'm really in my groove of while I'm here, man, 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.

This is what you know. 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 really turn... You go down the wrong road when it's all you're doing is for money. It's discouraging. I recently realized that in this world, nothing can make you happy, man. Nothing, no person, nothing completely can make you happy in world. And so that's why I kept asking the question, Why am I doing this? 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 a person, and you're never going to be complete, ever.

I agree a thousand %. One of my mentor's accountability partners, Carlester Cropler, who lives in Atlanta as well, too. 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. He said, Are you fulfilled? I was like, Dog, going to Carl Lester, you got me. Like, no, I'm not. 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. 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, because happiness comes and goes. Nobody I don't care who you are. You're never happy 24/7. There are moments in the day, in the week that is like, crap, I got to deal with this, or I got to go solve this. You can still be fulfilled. For me, that's what it became, man.

Yeah. Yeah. 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 because when you start chasing the money, I'm always real with my business, and I say this in my comedy show, me chasing money because it was a point where I didn't feel like comedy was working or it wasn't going as fast as I wanted it to go. I remember still being successful on tour. I think I was on tour with Desi, but it's just like my career is not moving. I wanted to move, and it's taking too long to get to that financial place. I remember I started trading stocks, man. I ain't going to lie, that first month, I did well. I was on this dude, Discord. Shout out to him, dude named Erl Stout of investment. He does nothing against what he would do. They would give you calls, they'd teach you how to trade. I I started doing my own thing. That first month, I made $20,000, man. I was killing it. That second month and beyond. I remember hearing clearly a voice of God saying, Look, man, Because it was getting to a point where, and a lot of times this is what happens, we get discouraging 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.

That's what I was doing. I was giving that more attention. I remember being on my phone, doing like, comedy shows or at the radio station where I should be focused. When I should be focused in the gift, I'm giving it to stocks. And I remember Remember, 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 If you're going to give in your talent, you make a lot of money. Man, look, I lost over $140,000 in trading stocks. And I made more I made all that money with comedy. You know what I'm saying? I always encourage people to stay focused because when you're not happy and you're not fulfilled like you was I'm talking about, you will go to other things and, man, you'll get lost in that thing. It was a dark moment. Even now, trying to get out of it. I'd be like, Man, I don't know how I'm going to get. You know what I'm saying? But God is good. I'm able to eat, I ain't both.

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 I wanted you to do and everything is going to come in. Every time I do it, man, I kill. I made the most money in comedy.

Okay.

My biggest check has been comedy. But like I said, it wasn't moving like I wanted it to move. That's what happens when you lose focus and you go to something else. Yeah, $140,000 a lesson to say, Alton, get back to the grind of comedy.

Yeah, I don't care who you are. $140,000 What's it? $140,000. That's it. That's the big lesson.

Oh, I want my money back so bad, man. I'm getting it back, but it is getting it back with comedy. I wanted to get it back the way I lost it. That's why I kept on losing because I'm like, I'm going to get this back with the stocks.

That's why Vegas is what Vegas is. Everybody has that same mentality.

My girl had to say that, Hey, man, you slicked I'm gambling. 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. Those who trade stocks and do it the right way, they're a successful. It just ain't my thing. I ain't disciplined enough to do stocks. Not with that. I'm disciplined without discipling me. That stock market, no, that ain't me.

What I heard was God He wasn't pleased with that.

God, and that's what he was in. I remember telling the guy, I was like, Well, until you do something else, I'm going to track these stuff. It wasn't him punishing. He wasn't punishing me. It was nothing. I did 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. 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? What was the mindset of starting? I'm going to say that brand because to me, it's become a Man, right? 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 my one member in this Facebook Live, and I'd be preaching about whatever current event went down. I would just say, And God ain't pleased, not even knowing I'm doing it. I just started seeing people in the comments saying, and somebody said, Man, I need that T-shirt. I'm like, Okay. I started doing my rants and just saying, God ain't pleased. Then I started stuttering not knowing. I'm like, and, and, and. I'm not even doing it. That's what I learned. That's what I learned. Look, read your comments. I know some of your comments are crazy, 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 video, and somebody said, Oh, I take this class. I was like, Hmm. Created a class. I remember that first one, I put I just put 50 tickets early bird. That junk sold out in 10 minutes because it was like, Man, your comment.

Basically, God ain't please came from the audience. It came from me saying it, but be paying attention to the audience, going back to comedy. On that standup, 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.

It is totally a brand. My favorite My favorite Instagram reels weekly are the God ain't Please clips because, bro, you give it to me every time. I even put in the comments, man. 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, I usually have the volume down. I always turn the volume up on yours, and I about lost it. I about lost I was like, I'm done. I think that's the comment I put in there, too. I'm done. I can't mess with the outside no more. Not this week.

I just like to have fun, man. A lot of people... Because most of you could be edgy, but it is what it is, man.

Yeah. Hey, I love it, man. I freaking love it. I love it. Another thing that I love about what you do is you're never bashing anyone. You're saying what other people are thinking. It's just, Let me bring it to your attention.

Now, some I do. I go straight at, but I like what people think I'm going to say, like what they think I'm about to go at them, and I don't. That's the thing. With the big girls. That was the boy. I didn't want to- Melissa Whites, baby. I love Melissa White, man. But plus size women, baby. Shout out to you 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 me a beep number, self, self, seven, 9311. Yes, sir. And I do that because also, man, everything I do have is purpose, man. It's a lot of plus-size women that are like... Because this world makes you feel like you got to be a certain size. I don't believe in body shame, 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. 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. Yes, I do.

At Eltonaltunwalkershow is his Instagram handle. He does check his DMs. He will respond to you. Ladies, @altonwalkershow on Instagram.

Plus-size women, hit me up, baby.

I got to go to another Again, I'm going to say it's a brand because you posted it as video of the year. It was my song of the year. The crazy thing was I saw it, I think it was in July, on the Morning Hustle show. I'm watching it and I was like, What in the world? Then when you 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 listen to it for one of my cousins because you guys look alike. That is literally the ringtone that I have. Now, he don't ever call me, but he always text. But if he were to call, that's what would come up.

That was in 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. I didn't feel like I was getting overlooked on a few opportunities. Couldn't find nobody to help me. I was just in that space, and I just was like, You know what? Let me figure this out. Let me get back to the fun of it. As soon, I started getting back to the fun and the purpose, like we've been talking about that was one of the first videos that I did. I was like, Oh, we just going to have fun, man.

It wasn't even what, a week, and it had over a million views?

Well, it's crazy because I posted the first time, it moved, but it didn't move. What happened was Kendrick Lamar did his concert in LA. 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. It was dying down a little bit. It was still around, but them 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 my name yet, man, because I did a few other videos with him that went well because he's just a old-school rapper that rap about old people.

What old people should rap about? You know what I'm saying? That's the whole idea. Rapper You're lippin snappers. Man, I learned with social media, man. I recently just did it. I pulled a video from 2020, a Christmas video, and 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 views.

Yeah. I tell people it's the same thing with books. You see a book come out, you think it's new, and then you realize, Oh, this book was written 20 years ago, then it's just recirculating because something happened made it relevant, or the social media team or the marketing team decided to push it. Now, it's always... I tell everybody, not if you're trying to be an influencer, because to me, that's hard. You either are, you're not.

You don't try to be an influencer.

But if you want to test your content, test it. It's your content. You don't have to say, Oh, I posted it once, and now it has to sit there. No, if you believe in the material that you have and the things you created, it's yours. You own it. You can post it every day if you want to. I think that's where people make a mistake. It's like, Oh, well, 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, I know for me, I did something, thought it was about to be hot, and then the next day, Joe Biden said, I'm out of the race. It was like, That killed everything. But then brought it back a month later, and it started taking off.

Started taking off. Yeah. As a learning, From... I will say this, going back, I do have a lot of colleagues and peers that, like I said, I really learned a lot with about. I don't know if you ever heard of Shula King. Yeah. Shula King, one Man, I could call him, and he's a person that... He's the one that got me really doing God ain't Please the way I do it. Because I used to take a lot... A lot of time, people don't do a lot of content because it takes them a long time. But Shula was like, Hey, man, stop editing your stuff. Stop redoing it 30 times. Because I be wondering, it's so perfect. I found out the internet, they hate perfection.

Yes. The I learned that the hard way, too. I can literally take my phone and just record sitting right here, and it will get more-It will go.

Yeah.

I can spend 45 minutes editing something, the right message, the right voice, the right tone.

So nobody Yeah. But let me go- If you're trying to do it- Say it again now.

I said, But let me go stumble down the steps, and everybody fall out of it.

Listen, I'm looking at you right now. Content creators, if you're struggling, if you want to get in social media, Stop. Stop pressuring yourself. Stop making it hard. Stop overthinking. That's the word I was looking for. Stop overthinking. Yes, sir. My most viral videos come from me not overth. Just put it out there. Don't worry about it to get likes. Don't worry about the comments. You have to start doing this for you, what makes me laugh, for what I think is funny. Because like I said, you know it. It'll be the video you spend hours making. You were like, Oh, yeah, man, it's good. It look good. You posted that thing. You were like, Let me take you down and repost it. Post it again. Wait a minute. Then I I said a video where you just talking. And being real, that's what I learned about the internet. They hate perfection. They love just authenticity. I think I said that word right.

Yeah, you did. You did well. You did well. So God ain't Please, man. I'm going to start calling him Bishop Gap, for God ain't Please. Bishop Gap.

Bishop Gap. Bishop Gap. That is what- Bishop Gap.

So again, Man, 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 heard it. He had hear that thing.

Let's put it up there. These 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 like, Hey, man, yeah. Just open up the Super Bowl. If he do that, man, I 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'm 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 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, I mean, we take humble to let people just walk over you type stuff because we don't want to outshine people. Humble and humility to us is stay low. Be great, but don't talk about it. When somebody says you're good, oh, man, you know, no. I'm at a place where I'm not dimming my light for anybody. I'm not dimming my light to make you feel comfortable around me or to make you feel better or feel… I'm not doing that no more. Where I got it from is when they looked at Jesus and said, Who are you? He said, I am. You thought like, Say that to somebody now. If I came forward and you asked me, Okay, Al, who are you? Man, I am. You'll be like, Man, this dude is cocky. That's what they did. They thought Jesus was like, Man, I was like, Who do you think you is to say that?

But 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? The reason why I put emphasis on that, because if Jesus doesn't know who he is, he can't do the miracles that he performs. So he miss out on all those opportunities to be God. 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're good enough for it. 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. I don't know how much work you put in, how much study you put behind podcast, but you know what you're doing, man.

Man, never ever again dim your light. And I know you're probably not doing it, but man, own it. You're 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 two 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. I needed that message today.

God, dogg, I'm sick of it. You always try to be like you, who you are. I'm sick of it, man.

I needed it today, Reverend.

I needed it, Reverend. Let's get it, man. It's your time, and it's only your time. 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. For 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. 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. That's what I want to lead people.

I'm sick of 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 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.

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