RIP MICHAELS - Canned Meat Saves Money

of people don't even know what spam is. It's actually something that you can get at the store. It's nine store meat olicious. I'm actually, well, welcome to the spam club. I don't even know how to get out of the can everybody. So I'm really meat. It's a go to because it's stage. You can seep in your bag, you can do a lot with me. It is real meat. Like So my green isn't super simple because uh, I come from a little diverse struggle. So don't let the little even she sweat the fool you in a little

a little change. But this is back in the day, because you know why I don't paint her Nick pay us in um Rock Kerry CDs and you know that you were, so my gredients are super simple. I got spam right here, cann of spam. Look at that. That's enough meat for a week, and that only costs a dollar nighting. Now that last your week, last your week. But the way I cook it, unless you want to splur and have guests because you know, maybe like two days. I got tomatoes. Of course, tomatoes the cheap. I use

regular letters. We're not gonna see no no rollman, no mixed. I'm talking about regular letters you can get for eighty nine. Sense In here, we got mixed cheese, which I normally don't do mixed cheese. I normally do, like uh like sometimes I just take the Cheetos and I just scrub the Cheetos cheese and put it in the thing and then eat the Cheetos later. That's how you have two meals and one I'm not stupid cheese. Got protein and then we got onion, red onion, so it's gonna be

absolutely good. And all you need, of course, is your mccormicks or Laurie's Tacos easing, which nor only like six not sens. I got my water a little little oil from my pant in my little season, in my little ground pepper and stuff like that. Did you need oil for your pans? I did? But it's sam. Spam is like bacon. It kind of makes its own grease. If

you can see the gelatin, it'll definitely come. You know what, if I was ever wondering based on like how you look today and how successful you are, I would never guess that you could creatively make or have eaten a dish like this. So it's because look, you know, you're very successful, and you're very successful, and I think it's so important for people to see, you know, someone of your stature, someone that's accomplished so much, see that you legit ate like this. So go ahead, start us off

with the how do how do we get this meal started? Okay, let's get this spam all cut up. It's get this cut board over here. Yes, normally I wouldn't even have a knife when you broke. You just literally just cut it up. And you can see that the meat actually lasts for a long time because you can see how blacky it is and how they say falls apart just like that. Now, do you when it comes to spam, do you have to cook it all. Once you open the can or can you like aluminum foil. Some of it,

actually spam can be eaten right out the can. A lot of people don't know what. It's already pre cooked. It's already actually ready to go. All you gotta do is all we're really doing is warming it up a little bit, because it's actually actually ready to go. I actually on rush days just eat it just like this, probably warming up in the microwave, and that's good to go. A part of me wants to just try a little

slither of it. You think I'm trying to know why, No, we don't have any I'm going to try a piece of this, guys, just for one for the team, also for doing on your plane. Okay, interesting, it's already go already, I know you food or whatever. I'm not knocking spam. By the way, it's actually pre cooked. Um, it's really salty, Yes, it's it's definitely salty. That's why it's like you don't really need oil, but you can use oils. It's definitely a little salty. Um. Yeah for me, because you know,

I just recently lost a lot of weight. So because I'm going back look great, look amazing. Thank you man, you're gonna speaking to babies. That's what they spared my weight loss. I actually went to Six Flags with my daughter and I was three hundred thirty pounds and I was too fat to get on the roller coaster. And we went there and I was actually my daughter's first time actually going to um uh to uh six Flags, and she was so excited to ride two different roller

coasters and them and things like that. Yeah, so when we got to the roller coaster, they don't tell you don't have like a weight requirement, so they don't tell you that you know you're too big, So there's no way you'll know until you get on the road coaster.

So I'm sitting on the road coast and I'm uh, they're trying to push the harness down and then pushing the harness down there like sir, it won't it has to close, and like four the little kids and it's like roller coasters back up and it's hot, and everybody's looking like why would this fat ass dude? No, he is too big for this thing in roller coaster, and so they're pushing it down. The management come and they

don't call you a fat ass. They just look at you and they give you that white face and they go, sir, it has to close, and the right then and there. It was so embarrassing. I had to get off the thing. They had to let everybody else's harness up. And then my daughter wrote the rollercoaster by herself. And then with my daughter so resilient, um, she was on the roller coast and I'm like, sweetie, did you have a good time? She was like it was okay, we can go home now.

And that's just showing how much my daughter actually and she actually was like let's go home because she was embarrassed for me. So God is so good. They have this thing in six lags when you go down these steps and it's like this little thing or it's like a picture both where they take pictures of me and they show how much fun you have. And so when I look at the picture, but it was like yeah, I was just why did you lie to me? You have fun? And she was like, damn, I did it

so much fun as everything I thought it was. But you're such fat and I no one told you to eat twinkies late at night, and I'm so embarrassed. So I spent the entire time at the music part, just pretty much getting in the cotton candy line and stuff like that. So that inspired my That inspired me so much, and I promised my daughter that before the season and we go back, and that happened in June. And in all this I went back, I lost sixties seven pounds and I got on every single roller coast and I

just kept my journey going from from there. Own. That's amazing. So it sounds like you're an amazing dad. But let's talk about how you got your start. Um. I actually started doing comedy when I was a little kid around Chicago. So you used to have this thing called the Comedy Click, and we used to have this thing at Bernie Mac used to host called the Cotton Club. I was actually thirteen years old when I first started doing comedy. And where were your parents during this whole thing? Just my dad.

My parents are still together, so they be married for I want to say, forty three years and they be cheating on each other forty two years. So my dad's girlfriend is the actually person that got me in the comedy. So yeah, telling you truth, my dad's girlfriend, I had an I didn't know behind cameras, this is the truth. I didn't even know she wasn't my auntie. I didn't know that. My dad used to make me call his girlfriend Auntie. I didn't know that married. Yeah they're still married.

I didn't know that wasn't my auntie. I thought that was literally my Auntie Jockey. I had no idea to One day I came home and I was like, Mama, look, Auntie Jockey bought me a suit. And I was so happy. I came and I was saying, Mamma, look what did you Jockey? She bought me a suit. My mom was like that, ain't you damn Auntie? That's your daddy girlfriend. And go outside. Your uncle Craig gonna help you. Go talk you to the zoo. So I had an Auntie

Jocket and Uncle Craig my whole life. It's a true story. I have more questions though. That's the questions. Did your did your was your mom? Were they cool? Was this like an open marriage? They were just my mom would just do, my dad doing, like okay, let's be doing, let's go do it. And they're they're married still they still look. Don't judge my parents. They know you don't go to church, you don't know what they freak. They

still together. Yeah, that's amazing. I love that. I mean very toxic now that you you know, look at it coming on the outside going in. That's not how Mary. Yeah, I didn't know if they were like best friends and they're just like sharing their trade secrets. Oh no, they were know J D. Pet Will Smith Augustustina in Templements, straight up cheating. And my mom was smart because and my dad would go out and come here like one

o'clock in the morning. My mom would come on the tour from teen Ac like she would sleep all day. I was keeping both day secrets. All right. Now, that's what a good allowance, I tell you that. Yeah, but they wow, but wow, you know that, no wonder come in. No. So she's to take me around to the comedy clubs because she was, you know, frequent him, and she would take me around and she would be like, okay, cool. And then my mom found out I was going to

comedy club and put a stop to it. Um So then once my mom put a stop to it, I stopped doing comedy altogether, and I couldn't go out anymore because she was actually my connect for the whole thing. So once that stopped, um, I wouldn't finished up high school and everything. And I remember because I was going back into it. Now that I'm out of high school. I just graduated. I got a job doing construction, and then my mom was like, you gotta I came home

and my mom was like, you gotta leave. You gotta kick me out. Literally, I've just been working a week and she's like, you can't stay here because you're not going to college. And I was like, well, at least let me get my paycheck so I can't find a place to go and do. She's like no, all my stuff was sitting on the porch and she's like, you gotta go my mama. My MoMA is a Popeye Ladys from Free Boil. We're like so. Um. Then I end up going to college graduating because I have no other choice.

So and then after I got to college, I pursued my career fully. I met Dave Chappelle at a comedy club in Ohio and yells with Dane Ohio and I saw him. He's like, if you ever want to find out funny? And I go to New York. So I literally got off the Greyhound bus maybe like two weeks later after my friend Jermain got locked up and he said, this is what you're supposed to do. And I never looked back. I stayed on the streets of New York homeless for about a year. He's not the trash kings

and all that stuff. And the hard part was I had a daughter at the time. Well I didn't know I had a daughter. My mama called me. She was like, some girl called here with a picture of a baby to look just like yours. So she was like, that ain't my baby. She was like, a baby got your eyes. I was like, Mama, those ain't really my eyes. Those are the eyes of niggas. That my baby, mama life. So so it was such a weird thing to me,

my daughter, because she was already two years old. And but how old were you that I was, So, you're homeless in New York and get the phone, call your daddy. I'm a daddy. Yes, I go home. I get in the Greyhound bus. I go home. I see this little girl and I'm like, she's you know, because you don't know if she also you don't want to pick up first or you just like this. So I'm looking at it like this I'm examine her, but yes, she's been my daughter, and um, I am getting full custoing to

my daughter. And like maybe four months later, I took it to New York and she was like, you know, in the street phones with me and I would go to different hotels and get her milk in the morning and and we would like the pursuit of happiness. I want to call it that. It would just miss been

my road dog ever since. Man, I think that, you know, if I wouldn't have my daughter, my driving determination for what I do wouldn't be as great because she's my other half, like and I raised it by myself entirely, So it's just been a struggle. I love her to death, like any time I'm there, Like I used to go to comedy club and have her sitting right there in a little car sin and then the car. And it's been a journey every since everything I do. Wow, that's amazing.

So you're sitting you were a single dad while pursuing your dreams? Correct there was was there a part of you that felt like you had to hold down a nine to five or did you during while you're pursuing your dreams and being a single Dad, Well, since I you know I have. I did get my degree in college. I mean I get my degree economics. Find that I just needed to know because I wanted to be a comedian my entire life. Um since I was a little kid and I saw death comedy and I just knew

that this is what I was supposed to do. And I told God, if this is my gift, then allow me to be uh to prosper off. This allow me because making people laugh and and and and and and being able to smile and bring them joy, because that's what I do my comedy. My name is not actually ripped Michaels. A lot of people don't know that's actually ripped. If you look at this R I P M I C H E L S, it's actually ripped Mike Heals. So that's actually how you say my name, but everybody's

kept it risk Michael. So I don't really correct people, but that's actually what it is because I like to heal with my comedy. Most of my shows are urban, and people come to urban shows with a lot of different things, um and pressures, spending licenses where they don't get an abortion and I hope bunch of stuff going on You're the black show. That's why they go so

hard or ethnic show to UM. Actually, if they don't like you, they booed because they didn't done a lot to get to that little show, to pay to knowledge, to get in. So I love for ten minutes to the amount of what's going on in your life. If I can take away some of that and make you forget or make you laugh at some of your pain, that's my whole job. Now. So you come to to New York, you have your single dad, You're working. I'm

guessing a day job because you have a degree. No. Never once, once I move to New York, I never took a day job. I would do comedy on the streets. I would entertained on the train and go put a little red onions and entertained on the train. UM. I would do sell metro swipes, and I would do and they gave me the ability to be doing a bit of comedy for anything. I would do comedy somebody basement, I did gospel comedy. UM. And a lot of the comedians in New York they have like the clickers thing.

So since I wasn't from there, they wouldn't allow you to get on stage. It would make you come week and week after week and never give you stage time. And I used to have to bark. So I got so good at barking. That means when you stand out with a flyer and you try to get people to come to the show. So I got so good at barking that I would fill the entire rooms just off me going outside speaking to people and getting into buy tickets, to the point where I started doing my own rooms.

And and in my biggest break, I would say was when I did a show because I was so skinny, because I was like skinny, then I'm fat. I came to a fact, but I was homeless, so is made me so skinny because I didn't have anyone. When I said I'm home, I'm talking about not sleeping the car home, and it's not room the room. I'm talking about like literally sleeping outside the Fifth Institute and Brian Park and stuff.

And then thank god I had a Value Membership um from college and I would just take me and my DA would go there and we shower and everything there. And what's your family saying while you're doing all this? Are they like questioning whether you're insane? Well, for me, my mom and my dad have been like my dad is kind of supportive and not really. They have been my biggest um catalyst for me to be a commedie because they always told me I would never be anything.

My mom al wasn't steal with me, that I wasn't attractive, I wasn't good. No one's ever gonna laugh at your jokes, and whatever you do, you're gonna fail and succeed it and you're never going to succeed at it. So I used that energy to always live my life to prove my mother wrong. And you guys get along fine now, Yeah, because I forget. I mean, she you know, she's coming around now. Because I think everybody when a mother become a grandmother, that's not the same person to rage you.

I'm gonna tell that right now. Is it just me? I don't know yet? This my first grand mother to trust me. That's not to say my mama used burned me with a cigarette. I can't even yell at my daughter from mama. She's a totally different person. To think she's sick. She's trying to get in heaven. God seen what you did. I'm gonna teach hbody how to read with a cigarette. But yeah, we're super cool now and now when I do TV shows and stuff. Um she called me from time to time like, I'm very proud

of you. You said you would do it, and you did regardless of how I made you feel. So you know, that was a really defined moment when she apologized to me. And we've been cool ever since. So when did you realize like you had arrived? I still don't think I high arrived. I think the entire time I've been to a comedy because from that. My first television pearance was U big shout out to Christina Milia and her mom.

They put me on the show. She had a show at the time called um uh Wannabes and I was so skinny, actually was the same size as y'all rule And that was my first appearance and I was so funny on that she allowed me to do warmer for her show and all the rest of her shows, and then she offered me a round. And then after I did the show, I wanted the contest. It was like a show where you get to uh become the artist. So three people compete to be an artist and at the end you get to make a music video if

you're good enough to be the artist. Um, and we did that and then that turned actually um into me being warm up and then she put me in the movie let and costs the thing. And that's why I'm

nick and UM, I should have moved out here. But you know, being a dad, I couldn't participate when while Out first came out, So you know, I couldn't do the things that you know, most people could do because you know, my whole career has been you know, being a dad and making sure my daughter had everything she needed. So it's a lot of opportunities I had to pass up. So now while you're in New York doing this, you're are you turning? Are you actually making money doing stand up?

So what I started doing instantaneously when I realized I was good at the bar, because I start producing my own shows. Um to the point where I ran New York and I could constantly. I can confidently say I ran. I had more rooms than any comedian in New York. So what I did was because the clubs wouldn't put me on, I used that same negative energy as a catalyt. So what I would do was go around to like little bars and restaurants, and I would allow them to like, Hey,

let me do comedy here. You don't have to pay me. I'll bring an audience, I'll do the show. So you would let them keep the money, or you would have like that they like the bar and the liquor, and I would just take off of what I brung in. So Um I got so good at that I had, I would do comedy. I had three different rooms tonight. So I started from comedians not putting me onto employing all pretty much all the comedians in New York. You

I had the largest run in New York. So people would have to call me, and in the week you would make two thousand dollars off of me, just because you would do every single room. It got to the point where I was doing so many rooms. I would bring up the feature and leave and go to another room and host that one and come back and close it and go to another one. And then when my friend Um Rashid died, Um a great comedian. You played

Uncle Dope on Bad Boys, the comedy So Funny. When he died, Um, he I end up his family, Um end up asking me to host his rooms. Because when he died, he was really good. He had like maybe I want to say, five rooms. And when he passed away, they were trying to host it. And I remember one night I was there and they were like, everyone's bombing. No one's doing really well. If you can bring the crowd back in and kill it, I'll give you an

extra hundred dollars. So I did that, and then I did like a couple of other times that happened, and the next thing I know, I had his room on top of my room. So I end up having like twenty one rooms in a month to do comedy in New York. And I would take the proceeds half the money I got and give it to his family. A lot of communities don't know that because they were like, we're ripping. So I was like, no, I make sure

this family kept half the money. I used to take half or whatever I got and give it to us, this brother in law and his kids because he when he died, he left three kids. Wow. And so now it makes sense to me because when I see on you know, on stage, talent like yourself, You're funny, you're charismatic. Sometimes I'm always like, is the talent really the entrepreneur?

The driving force. Now I'm familiar and I've heard that you are the founder of the Walling Out Tour, and that was like, what rips the founder of the tour like creator, creator of it. I'm like, that's like more of an entrepreneur, the skill set mixed with talent. So tell me how did you do that? Again? I would, I would give all my accomplishments to my daughter. Everything I never tried to. I'm just now trying to be a star or I'm just now trying to actually get

my name out. So when you ask me the question did I arrived, I've never put energy in that my whole thought process being the funniest person I could possibly be, um continuing to have if you can watch any of my show, I keep that crowd laughing and running and having a great time. That's the type of energy I've always run to it. So the catalyst for me doing a while Now tour was I was I was working with Nick on his special stand up Don't Shoot, and

we were going around opening up UM clubs. And I've written for a lot of comedians, wrote Anthony Anderson, special I wrote brand T Jackson special Um I wrote with Nick Okay, I tried. I tried to get You'll always you know, Nigga always one. Because there's some of Nick stand up that we're very in the last one stand Up Don't Show, and I'm writing on this new talk show. He has a daytime talk shows. Well, so when we're doing this, we're actually funny story because it actually happened

in Los Angeles. We're in Los Angeles and we just leave the Ontario Improv and we're sitting at the Ontario improb and we go. He's like, I'm gonna go and see Cat. Do you want to go? So I happened the car with Nick and he goes and he's watching Cat and Nike it standing in with like look on it. And I'm like, Nick, what you just like, you know,

like saying someone's watching like Michael Jordan played. And then Nick goes, I'm like, You'll always wish I could sell at the Rings, Yeah, And I go what He was like, you Nick, canny, you put Cat what you're going? Of course you could sell out of readings Like no, man, that's never been I've never been able to do that. He's like, that's my that's one of my dreams to be able to do that, and I was like, Nick, you put me on your show, and you've done so much for me and change my life. You kept me

on it. When I tell you, Nick keeps me on the show because I do some wild stuff from pulling wigs off throwing powder every day. I'm almost fired. I've been when I first threw powder of the whole cats like fire. But Nick was like, that's the best thing ever. Because I always looked at wild Out as being a character, and I always wanted to be the wildest character because that's who I am, like the wild guy that you never know what's gonna do it. Did I go too far?

And so when he said that, I was like Nick. I turned to Nick and I go, I'll do that for you because I'd already have following. I've already been doing my April Foods comedy gym, selling out arenas across the country on my own. So then I was like, I'll do that for you. So I took the wild Out tour. And it's funny because Nick was like, how are we gonna do this? How is it gonna go? And everything like this until he thought I was joking.

So I was like, give me six months and we'll be doing nothing but the ringing, And so I'll go ahead and booked this little small show to get it off. It's it was one of the hardest things I ever promoted because people didn't know what it was. It wasn't like it was a comedy. So people just like, it comes on TV, it's gonna be were tables with it.

How are we how you guys were gonna do it? Yeah, so everybody when I when I used to promote, it was so hard to promote because I couldn't get the concept to people wanting to buy a ticket to see it. So then I structured it where I was like, I'm gonna put artists on it. I'm gonna do this. So I took it to this place called Amazuri in New York. It was a small, little fifteen hundred seater place, and I tried it out there and I remember going to Nick and said, man, give me a day. You know Nick,

He's like, yeah, whatever, sure, Sure. So then I was like, Nick, we have a show in three weeks and he's like, what in the three weeks I'm met Chicago. I was like, you told me we could do the one thing. And you know Nick of course, why would he believe that I was during dates? And so then I was like, Nick was like, listen, rip, I'm making X amount of

dollars in Chicago. And I was like, look, whatever you're making in Chicago, I promise you, as a man, I will give you that because you gave me the day. And Nick goes. Nick goes, Okay, are you serious? And I was like, yes, whatever it is, I promise you will not leave. You will not walk in the building with all your money. And so Nick goes and you know, Nick give you that face was like you can't make yourself or kill yourself. But now did you know you

were gonna be able to do that? For sure? No doubt. It was hard at first, but but you didn't did You didn't have the money yet, know. So what I did was I did because I had to pay for the venue. I took all the money, max doll with my credit card. But what I did was you personally financed this thing. And I got with my friend Compton. We used to do little shows together, and so we

took all the credit cards and maxim all out. And every time I was still one ticket, I would just run up with his tip, his tip Doe, so everything I'll be putting money to say and he'd be like what. And then um, it got to the point where not only did I do one show to night, I did two shows and then I did another show in Long Island and we end up doing three shows in two days, um and to a sold out crowd. And then I remember his agents from ic N was there and they

were like, these people don't matter. And I was like, what do you mean they don't matter? He was, I seem to say, said these people don't matter. I was like, it's in the hood. It doesn't matter that this in the hood. And I was like, but it's hard working people paying money they see the show. He's like, no, this is in the real arena. So once he said that to me, it made me go, okay, cool. And I have one question. While all this is going on, you're taking all the risks. Are you breaking even or

you making an actual dollars? Nick? In the beginning, I was just paying people and me and I was just paying people to get on. And then Nick says, I'm saying we're gonna do it too. Because they said that, it fuelled me to go and I booked like fifteen or twenty arenas and just and it was hard to get arend because it was like, you don't have arena you know, you know you're doing this too. We never heard of it. And so then I go to Nick and I fly to Nick and I was like, Man,

we're gonna do an arena too. Here. It's all the money that you require upfront to do an arena tour for every single day. And Nick didn't believe me. So he's sitting the back and he's counting money. He's like, you're really serious, and he goes, so what I have to do? I was like, to give me a draw for every city and just hostedt's it. So you're so dope. I just I was just blown away. Yeah, and we know what it is. It's Nick and working with Nick.

It's that Nick always allowed me to have the ability to trust in me and fail or or succeed on my own. So he gave me that opportunity to prove myself or disprove myself, and UM and the support behind it, because I mean, he got so fleactive. I mean, MTV was like, you got a two we don't know nothing about. And when I tell you, I was selling out every

single arena. I still in that year hold the number two on post Star, which is like Billboard of Promoters, and Take itself were number two in the country, right behind Janet Jackson. At You, I sold out every single arena, and then I broke another record in d C by setting out two arenas and one night in the same city. So we did twelve tho the show Palatin, and we came to do Capital One Arena and we did seventeen five and I promoted that in thirty days and then

Nick shook my hand. He was like, you did it. You did exactly what you said, and he gave me his look, and I was like, I felt like I repaid you for the opportunity to take care of my daughter, because being on Wild Now changed my entire life. And I felt like that thank you, like the camaraderie with

each other. And then when we actually sold out the Staples Center, the actual producer of the Wild Now like now elevens and everyone, they were like, we never thought something we created would sell out in l A. You sold out the Staples Center. Yeah, I remember, I remember hearing about it, and they were like, we how no one sells out in l A. And we started this

thing and you helped us sell out. You sold it out in l A. I was like, yeah, thank you guys for making me a part of this, this this thing, because to me, while I was bigger than being on SNL, it was like the death comedy gym thing. So Nick is all about cultivating talent, and I just I love the fact that he gave me the opportunity and he trusted me and believe me when he shook my hand and allowed me to do that and he actually showed up at that date. Was everything. Yeah, and we've been

rocking around ever since. By the way, we gotta do maybe I'll come out to your restaurant. We gotta do a follow up on you just you know awesome. You see my on my restaurant, on my show Alban needs the treat to show on NBC, shot the NBC Peacock and um, so many different things where you know, I

get to do the same thing. I pay back all my friends, like I put all the people I've worked with over the years and helped like Jack Queis and Cardi B and um, so many different people that I've inspired and helped over the years, like I've known Cardi since you're just the dancer and the clubs I used to host and to see her do her thing. And you know, I remember when I used try to get Cardi on whild Out. They were like, no, we wouldn't

like her brand, we don't like her image. And she blew up and they was like, can you get Cardy she was I was like, she said no. You gotta

understand how hard it was to meet a while. And I did warm up for wild Out for three years, three years, killing the woman to the point where they would turn the cameras and they would bank my audience applause and laughter and put it on the television show because I would do one so so strong and um, because I would always use that as an audition tape to me um, to to let them know how funny I was. UM. And I did all that just to

get an audition. So it was it was a it was a big It was a big deal to actually finally get on the show. It was amazing and it's changed my entire life. Like when you were three years for that, yeah, three years. More advice do you give to someone that's coming up knowing everything that you've done to get to where you're at. Um. I want honestly say God has been my biggest thing because everybody around me was so you know, negative, and he sent me his angels. So he sent me his angels to say

that you know you could do this. Don't listen to this noise. Don't listen to your parents, don't listen to all this noise. Don't listen to noise. Go get a job. Don't listen to a noise. You need to plan and B. Don't listen to the noise. You gotta go to college because what if it fails, there is no plan. B. If there's only a plan, ain't and you don't fail until you quit. So whatever your level of successes, don't determine it by someone else's because your story is going

to be your story. It's not. I can't have the Kevin Harns story. I don't have the Nick Candid story. I don't have a brand of ty Jacson Storey. I didn't step on stage when I'm sixteen, and someone says, let's put him in every single movie. So I would tell people to stay resilient, and there's so many ways to do it. So what I what I every no I got I turned into it. Yes, okay, you're not great at doing satire. So I went to Barnes and Nobles and I stayed every day and the reading every

single book that was ever written on comedy. How to write comedy scripts, how to write comedy writing secrets, and know how to put jokes together and right double entendres versus and playing words, and do every single form of comedy. So I can walk into a church and do comedy. I could do a golf tournament. I did the Governor's Ball in New York, Um, so I could. There's that stuff. Of course. I mean a lot of people don't look at comedy that you don't have to go and learn

about it. But I think that's probably the only few people jump into that. Oh I'm silly, but if you actually do the research, you'll find it so much into it. And I start reading all these other books at Barnes and Nobles about being an entrepreneur and what it takes, and reading uh Napoleon Hills, Uh I think and grow rich and understanding that you know a lot of entrepreneurs sell the same drive and determination and finding out how to do those things and applying yourself, because there is

no such thing as no except for your mind. As long as you believe in God, there's no such thing as Notice that's there's nothing you cannot do. You only limited about who you are. Wow, Wow, we haven't even in You gotta feed us and we're gonna slice up these tomatoes and we're gonna get this type of sausa. But if you know, you know, without no sauce, it's gonna be a little dry. It's okay, you know this is eating all broke for real? So what are you

working on? UM? I just got my own show on NBC show NBC called Urban Eason Treats, where I go around showing there's great stuff to eat in urban neighborhoods. I feel like, you know, with the whole Black Lives Matter, a lot of people don't understand the minority neighborhoods. We have great stuff to eat. We have a insanely good dishes.

There's fusion, there's so much going on. So a lot of my guests, like Nick Cannon was on the Russell Peters Tamar Braxton Shack, they take us to these restaurants that they used to eat it, that they still eat it. To this day that are great and you see these great chefs and has a restaurant owner myself else it's great to be able to share a lout on all these minority owned businesses. It's not a black thing. It's just minority owners. Like a lot of times people to

go black and it's no weird minority. I think when you think like minorities, it opens up for everyone. And I think sometimes when people like black black black, you're excluding people. So now they have to feel like they have to start their own thing. But if we think as minorities together, then we become to majority. And that's just my whole thought process. And I create Indian food,

great Mexican restaurants. They get this this Israeli taco place where it's like it's really food mixed with Mexican and it's just it's great, great dishes. So you'll go around on the show and you try, Yeah, we're going too these restaurants. So if you could think of dinners, drives, and dives mixed with comedians and cars. Because they have these interviews and they go in depth about how they

started doing everything, it's just great. And then when their jokes and the funny thing is all these rich people leave me with the bill at the end of the episode.

They leave me at the bill, the bill with the end of the end of the episode, Yeah, which is hilarious because I'm sitting here with tone bill and I'm like, these dudes are rich and Genie, y'all sharing, and they're leaving me with I would think that the restaurants would like, let you no, and that's I would never want to take advantage because I know they can, of course, and I want them to showcase and the food is good. And I'm always about I'm always about paying for things

and letting people know that I support them. I think that sometimes when you get to a certain level that people think, oh, you're supposed to get everything free because I'm such and such a such a and I know what that's like. So I don't ever want to be that person for me personally. And then now did you you created the show, so did you shop it to get NBC? I feel like you did everything to get it. Big shout out to Kevin. That's actually Kevin Hart and

Jeff Clanigan. When I was actually doing the tour um in my agent and they were like Jeff knows me from the Shack all Star thinking, and when he saw it, he was always trying to, you know, pick some kind of thing to to work on. When Kevin saw it,

he just automatically gravitated toward something. Kevin was like, Rip, We're gonna definitely do something with this, and so big shout at him because he wanted to do the whole thing and in process to deal and I woke up one day and he was like, here you go, Rip, and I was like, look at God. Wow, look at God. And that was right after, you know, the whole COVID thing and the tour getting council. So I got two

other projects that I'm doing currently UM. And I turned my restaurant into I've noticed that during COVID it wasn't a lot of opportunities for comments and singers. So what I did is I turned my my restaurant actually into a full service UM performance space, so now I can have more artists performed. So I took the dance flowout and much and now it's a performerformer space or now poets and everything can showcase they think and I can give them fair deals because a lot of people don't

understand it. When we do these comedy clubs, we don't get fair deals. We get seventy percent of the door, we get no bar, we get no food, weeted, nothing. So we walk away with a thirty thousand on the weekend. But you're not realizing the comedy club made a hundred and so it's not even a fair thing. So when when when artists come, I actually give them a fair check. I give them a portion of the ball, I give them a portion of the I give them the entire door.

So it's just the opportunities that you know that we need to start having for each other. Sorry about that. And today I'm just impressed that you just totally freestyle saw in front of names I've never I didn't even know you could do this. Um, I'm promised you. I'm learning to cook because feeding won't broke right here. So we want do take a little bit of your spam. Awesome spam and onions, Yes, a little caramelized onions. Did we go pieces? And then perfect? Awesome? Let's try to

line it up like a little fancy restaurant. Yeah, that's that's good. Then I like to like me personally. I like the cheese to kind of be on top of these again, yeah, because it's like it melts right. A lot of people like the cheese on top to give you that cold effect. But I actually like my cheese right on top of my meat. Weird like that, but you know, can I put the cheese? Put your cheese on top. I like to have the balance of co hot coal hot. Please never tell a strong woman no,

please put my cheese on. I promise you. We're gonna be like best friends. So he totally freestyle the salsa. Everyone. I want to get some overhead camaman. Look at that. Look at that. So this is a spam taco. A spam taco, A taco that actually cost probably about ninety cents, and I think the most expensive partner taco is the bread. And you can get quite a bit of tacos out of this. Oh yeah, of course, I love it. And you get all the ingredients pretty much at your local

Dollar Tree or Family Dollars. Nanny served milk and meat and everything like that. Okay, now let's eat, let's try, let's see, let's see what we're working with. Okay, that's going to blue trucks. I don't have my own saucers. But you know, like a real chef over here apologizing. Let's see everybody. You're gonna take a watch first. Mmm. Good, oh, thank you again. I don't have all my fix. I didn't get the spam. I gotta get another bike. M you know what that's also, it's not even dry. You're

all worried. Yeah, it's actually really good. Thank you, and you will help me. Good. You put the cheese on. We made it together. You know it's an US thing, but you did your thing. I like how everyone. I definitely want to make sure you add the salts a bit that you did in the end, because I can see where it could have when driving a little bit more peppers if I had peppers and chop up in it, make it more people out. You'd enjoy the taste a bit, a little bit more spicy. You know this tastes great.

Thank you great, all women in the peppers and more stuff. But you know, bro, check out the book, shout out the recipe. You'll definitely survive while pursuing your here again, this is yes, so thank you so much for coming out feeding me and they and the baby. I really enjoyed your time today and I can't wait to link back up with you here. I'm very proud of everything you're doing. And I know your daughters inside like proud, jumping up for joy and she just beautiful. So that's

gonna be amazing. Thank you so much. I'm not hearting on because this to me too movie. I feel like every guy's afraid now ye like, yeah, you get a little bit. So thank you guys. Um for listening. Check us out on the I heart Radio app. For more Eating Wall Broke from I Heart Radio and The Black Effect, visit the I heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite show, Show, Show, Show, Show