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Chef Lauren Von Der Pool

Aug 24, 202145 minSeason 1Ep. 26
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Eat yourself, ladies! Chef Lauren Von Der Pool aka The Queen of Green (@queenofgreen) was born in Washington D.C., and describes herself in her early life as a "bad girl" and "gangster." When a stab wound to the head at the age of sixteen proved almost fatal, Von Der Pool decided to make a new life for herself with a complete lifestyle change. She began to transform her relationship with food, and she experimented with raw and vegan cooking. With the advice from a mentor, Von Der Pool enrolled at the Le Cordon Bleu Los Angeles and Paris Culinary School. Upon graduating from Le Cordon Bleu, Von Der Pool worked with many notable chefs, including Wolfgang Puck and Alice Waters. Von Der Pool has also worked as a personal chef for many prominent celebrities, like Patti Labelle, Common, Stevie Wonder, Venus and Serena Williams (Venus Williams wrote the foreword for her cookbook Eat Yourself Sexy.) For three years, Von Der Pool worked exclusively for the sisters, teasingly claiming, "I ate, drank, and slept Serena and Venus" during her Miami New Times interview in 2015. One of the most significant highlights of her career occurred in 2009 when First Lady Michelle Obama invited Von Der Pool to serve as an executive chef for "Let's Move!"—the First Lady's childhood obesity prevention campaign.

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Calgary Audio. Welcome to another episode of Madasker. I'm your host, Michael Blackson. Of course, I'm here with Chinese best friend. Hey, Chinese best friend. How are you doing, Mike. I'm good man. I just uh I went back home again. Yeah I miss you. Man, it's been one month. Yeah yeah, I want to go back and get my monthly ten. Oh yeah, yeah, you did look very tent today. Yeah. Man, I go back home, and I don't want to lose my darkness. Man.

You know, you know wintertime in America, you just stuck. Everybody stuck getting light skins. So I go back home and get darker. I gotta you know, I'm still in competition with a coup for the high Petition coming up. The High Olympics is coming up in now. Yeah. A con Is is been in first place. He wanted to take years in a row. Uh. Little Booty is up there too. Of course, Flavor Flavor is one of you snipes lost a couple of years ago, and I'm down Cheeto give his third place. So I'm trying to win

it all this ship. You were finally winning first place. You got real good darkness on you. You look like you've been swimming with the dolphins in Ghana for a while. What the dolphins gotta do with me getting hanging out on the ocean? Mike? Okay, thanks man? Yeah you look very dark. Did you have your education? Did you took all your medicine today? I just took some, only took half. What you were? Best friend? One of your friends dm me on the Instagram. They said, hey, we want to

ship you some clothes. What you got some free clothes with me? Like you? What is that called? They told me that they sent you a lot, but you don't wear it. I don't work because it's not for But so what is that? It's just what's what's written on it's a black owned business. We're supporting black owned business and school earned, not giving. Okay, so thanks a lot for giving give me some pants to please, But you didn't earn that. Yeah, I didn't learn and they just

give it to me. Well thanks to you. GE's your friends, not mine. So I was gonna manna was nice? Um beautiful? Uh so this you know? I'm building a school? Congratulations, finally done. You've been building it for twenty years. Those kids are like adults now, No, so what's gonna make the school could have been done a little sooner. What's pushing what's prolong in it is um you know, I how to talk about mother and she wants to make it like a complete from pretty much elementary order to

high school. Holy fun. Before you told me it was just a dicker kindergarten. Next thing, you know, it's gonna be a whole college. No, no college? Are you sure? No? Because it's best to groom the kids from first grade all the way to twelve that for some reasons, she said, like it's better. So now we are we have to add more classes. Oh that's amazing, Yes, and pretty much we just need we technically need about I think what twelve classics classics like nine or twelve classes something like that.

I'm not sure how this system works. You know, I've been out of school. So it's like a Ghana unified school district approved by the government of Ghana as it has to be approved by the government. But the difference between those schools and my school. I'm going to teach African. I'm gonna make sure this African history teachers there as well, because you know, when I want to school as a kid in Africa, I don't remember anything on African history.

You know that too much on black history. So I'm gonna make sure that is thought in my school, like black history, African history. Are you gonna be the teacher? No, the funk I'm not Chinese best friend? Oh yeah, well yeah, if I am the teacher and the kids must well just go to defray or or I see d C when they get out of my school. But no, I'm not going to teach. But but what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna have American teachers come in the summertime just

to like, you know, teach your kids something different. You know. Yeah, I would have so hopefully to fund some some you know teachers that wan't to just don't know their time, you know. I foul like a free flight in the free room. Just come out, dad and talk to the kids. Yeah, if any teachers are listening to our podcasts, uh, you could sign up now? Yes, any teachers interested, just you know, send mer DM or you know what, don't you DM me because I gets six thousand of them? His best friend.

Oh thanks, Mike. I answer all your d ms all the time already. Well good, now you have more. You have a lot of questions like, what would it actually besides where's Michael Blackson? It's Michael Blackson finally back from Ghana? When is it performing again in our c D and what's it is that be like a bunch of bunch of cities. Yeah, so the DM you asking questions for me? What are you just DM me? Because you don't answer

your fucking dms. Motherfucker. I just saw like eight million d ms from What they need to do is turn the picture into a beautiful woman with a nice ass and just like they get me when I go on, I g live. You do that and I might answer the DM. Okay, if there's some guy looking like this for your guy that looks like me, I'm not answering your DM's gonna be very tough. It's gonna be saying that about twelve years. Okay, I will answer your d M,

probably at your funeral. Motherfucker. Now you're gonna have five billion d ms from from people because you're gonna make girls pictures and tricked me. Well. I don't know how many people are listening to our podcast right now, but I think we're number four in Nigeria the last time I checked the chart table. Thanks Nigeria overly that number four Nigeria, Yes, Mike, why would I like five? Uh seven? No? Out of five billion people? I heard Nigeria's uh like

the population there is very high. Nigeria very very overpopulated. I mean really, yes, I mean I thought Mexicans were all packed up in one cars. It's a lot of Nigerians. There's a lot of Mexicans are not listening right now, but Nigerians are pretty overpopulated. Yeah. Where we don't have a numb top on Mexico right now. Unfortunately we're like, we're like, they don't listen. Nobody listens to us in Mexico. Yeah, nobody knows us. What else we need to speak Spanish?

I don't keep tracking. I don't keep track of what's going on. What what else are we toping? Just Nigeria. We were at top fifty four in the United States of America where we live at the moment. That's very good, and now we're one seventy. I guess what happened? Who was out this last time? I think the guest was I didn't check that one. I should was you on the show? I was there? Yeah? I think that was probably my friend drinking tequila. But no, but Ghana was great,

had a wonderful time. In fact, Um, my first guest, my only guest on this particular show, was a lady I met in Ghana. Oh really, yes, she lives out here in Beverly Hills. He lives in California. She wasn't Ghana doing a whole bunch of things. Um, very busy woman. I'm gonna let you, guys, I'm gonna let her, you know, tell a little bit about more about herself. You know, I know she's a vegan chef. Oh that's amazing. That's what you need. I need it. Yeah, I have us.

I've been carrying this twelve month old baby in my stomach for twelve years. Yeah, maybe she could help you get rid of it. Friend, you probably need a fast for how long? Motherside? I don't know, man, twelve years? Just just fast? Don't always mean you don't have to eat for twelve years. Just you could just fast and then I eat fast. That's why I'm fat. Yeah? Does that account? I eat pretty fast? I could eat a whole bowl of You should know you in five seconds?

You should hoop? You should know? Yeah? You know? Is that you should know? His rice would beef on top. You know, it's like poor people eat Michael Blackson. Yeah, you're poor, like poor Asians. No, No, we just drive through. It's like a it's like a McDonald's for agents. Okay, where is it? It's sucking. There's three of them across the street. You could throw a booger or whatever here it reaches the drive. True. Yeah, I like that before, but I haven't had it in a while. But it's delicious. Yeah,

it has rice with it. Yeah, rice and beef. I should bring you one beef or just beef beef, very delicious like cow beef. What else pig beef? Yeah, he's done a trick question. I didn't go to your elementary school and ghana. All right, let's bring up my guests. Give a big hand for chef Lauren von dead Pool and Mike. That last time I heard the chef's name that long was Chef boy r D. What was it? Joan?

My goodness, world, welcome to the show. It's like a Spanish and French and like a little bit of everything in your name. And it ends with a pool like like a poodle, like a swimming pool. Oh pool, Oh is your father's name actually grand for real, and I bet you digger can't swim. We have two people Mike can't swim either. Yeah, everybody with the last name Pool. You should need drowned. Maybe you should have a swimm mean class in your school, Michael black think that. Okay,

we just start just education first. Yeah, well swimming is very important, all right, I need to Okay, Lauren Ron what I mean? You look creo? Are you Creo? I'm a little bit of everything. I'm like a big fruitcake. Um, I'm Guyanese, just like my friend Michael Blackson. There's a difference between Ghana and Guyana, right absolutely, Guy in South America and Ghana is in West Africa. What California public school did you go to. I went to school in

Van High School. Yeah. They didn't teach us history either. Well you should have touched a geography and it's not about histories about Yeah, that's right, I missed that class. I went to Spanish. Okay, oh yeah, joke to see Mike. We're gonna be top five in Mexico next week. Keep speaking Spanish. I after I mentioned the whole thing about picking up in a car, we won't uh, can we talk to the yes. All right, all I can explain your name, okay, Lauren, Well, Lauren, so you are who's

who's Yes. My mother's side is Guyanese, so your mother is well, yeah, her mother and father are both Guyanese. Her father's um Madras Indian and Dutch, which is where I get my name, and my grandmother her mother is Chinese and Amerindian Indian. Oh yeah, hi, I'm Chinese too, Okay, that's why it's Guyanese. Right. Did you take your DNA? I'm Nigga knees, yeah, I took mine. Alright. So your name is so your poor Guyanese. And my father's from Brooklyn,

New York. Dead ass facts broth to the mother's son word facts, dead ass sons. Y'all got all sons. There's no daughters, Hey son facts, dead son. But you're a daughter. Did you grow up in the New York City to facts? Facts? I grew up in d C, Washington, d C. That's where Mike's friends lives. Joe Biden. We need to visit him. Michael black Well, he's just started falling up the steps. You know you when you fought up the steps ship We will never get invited. I hope he's not listening.

He's not listening to pocket. I's gonna he's running the whole country. Yeah, he has no time to visit. Listen to Mata. People fought down the steps. Joe finally felt up the steps on the plane. Well, you've never seen one going up. I didn't see that. You didn't see when he felt up the steps and on the plane. I've heard about it. I don't know. Maybe I was in Ghana. It was before he got It was all over the United it was over social media. I didn't see it. He was going up to the steps on

the plane. Air Force five or one? Oh, never mind, I thought it was the Jordan's Air Force one. They called Air Force one forever. Oh, I know what happened. I bet you Donald Trump put some freaking oil on that thing, because that was used to be his plane. Yeah. Yeah, he gave it back to Joe Biden, and he puts some grease on the baby oil. Trump put some baby away from when he was beating meat on a plane. Poor Donald Trump. Oh, I wonder who's right, poor Joe Biden.

Oh yeah, yeah, poor Joe Biden. Yes, sorry, missed the president. I hope they take that oil out of that stairs. I hope he's okay. I howe broke a feebler. Yeah that you ought to have a sports injury. Maybe he needs help, Mike. Maybe he needs a guy to walk him up the stairs. Yeah, he probably needs you're his friends. He probably need to eat better because that's what you Oh yeah, absolutely, that's right. Tell us about your food. Yeah, so yeah, I specialized in vegan and raffles that home

together and foot well, it's raw vegan food. Anything wrong, end up with some kids. I'm cooking all my food same. It's like when you eat fruits and you know you don't no, I don't. It's vegan, so there's no meat, no eggs. No, it sounds more sexual and more like God through the ears when it's just rub vegan, right, yeah it does. Yeah, okay, yeah, I like that. So okay, yeah, I guess if it's vegan, and it could be raw

because like vegetables. Yeah, so basically raw foods means it's not cooked above or heated above a D eighteen degrees. So you can make like raw tacos and raw burgers and know it sounds crazy, but you use like vegetables and nuts and beans and things like that, and you make it and it's really delicious. M hm and vegan twenty years. WHOA, you don't eat meat at all. I don't eat any meat. Now, what if you're stuck in a small little island and they only have meat, they

don't have any coconuts or bananas and tomatoes. Well, I'm pretty sure they have green vegetation. Oh yeah, see, I think that's what if they don't have that and they only have a pig walking around, She'll eat it. She'll just leave some the floors. That's exactly right. And now I'll make some. I'll make some contumorate. It's a fisher.

When I saw about my Patreon page is now live my weekly Titty Tuesday and Talking Thursdays movie exclusively to Patreon, where they do no longer be sensor about the social media companies. I will also be sharing Delly updates plus show announcements here. First see you on Patreon, mother suckers. She said, alright, so we met in Ghana. So this is you know what, It's so crazy how I met her. Um, I'm coming out from partying, you know, because you were

partying every day. Michael bluckson I'm parting right, And then she she she just got to Ghana and I just see this real putting in the hallway. I'm like, And then she had American I got somebody from America L list, you know what. Start having a conversation, and she was in the verge of like changing her room because the room she's really picky because she said, oh, she said the TV was upside down something white? Who what? No? I wanted. I wanted to the room first of all,

room number one, thirty eight pounds. But she needed a bigger room, you know my way? Um? Yeah, first of all, I number one Oxford Street, amazing beautiful, like amazing hotel designed my very good friend freedom Na chat Out, chat out where he got like eight names. Oh yeah, showed that hotel in your Instagram. Yeah it looks very nice, very nice hotel. Yeah. So, um, but I wanted a bigger room, so I ended up with the penthouse. What did you phouse? There's only one in the whole hotel?

Or is there two? Now there's there's four, but there's four of them. Oh, where were you staying, Mike in the first floor? Now I was actually on the um. I don't know what flaws seven, seventh or fifth, because I think I gave my sister the seventh and I kept it faith do something. It didn't matter to me. I was by myself, you know, still like I still had like a nice sweet every everyone in that hotel is a gorgeous hotel. It's called number one Oxford, that

number one. If you're gonna Croghana, you know he's got some free promotion. You know it's mothersucker. You're gonna give my mother sucker at least the ninth floor next time? No, no, no, he take me the first time I stay his property, give me like the penthouse at the qualities I haven't

been to quality. Oh you give me three better in penthouse A qualities last the first time we met, now the first time I met at first of my stay his property, you know, so um and then this then the one where the one hotel is is more more going on? Is you know? I think that where qualities is more quieter and the one is more contemporary. Qualities is more like a traditional little you know. But yeah, but it's a beauty. All his properties are really really nice.

Yeah amazing. What all did you do in Ghana? That's about coming so I was Yeah, I was there um promoting health and wellness. So UM we met with um so many people, Gosh, the president of Tourism, and we went to the presidential office and met with all the dignitaries. They're really trying to bring more health and wellness. Uh, not just to Ghana, but across the globe. I think that because Um, I just feel like we need to

learn how to eat better. We know, the COVID happened and everyone's like dying because they don't know how to heal themselves. So like teaching people the basics, you know. I feel like Ghana is so rich, you know, of course, you know you come from the fruits, the vegetables, I mean, the mangoes, the pineapples, the fresh air, so amazing, it really is. You should go there. I need to move there. Are you hiring theater? It could be my teacher. No,

you're not gonna not for my kids. For English. No Chinese, best friend Chinese? Well, I don't know how to speak that very fluid you. Yeah, we could use some Chinese classes because I always feel like Chinese were always talking about us, So I need some Chinese. I'm gonna have you be the Chinese teacher. But there's one problem, like I don't speak Chinese, mothersucker. I don't know how many times I have to tell you that I speak fluent, and see I don't. And so you got a chance

to um. So you met a lot of people, Yeah, I did a lot of media book signings I have. I'm an author, So I have a book out book, Eat Yourself Sexy, Eat Yourself Sexy, Eat Yourself Sexy like a point hub. Yeah, it looks like a point hub, the Goddess Edition. Okay, so there's eat Yourself sexyly. Have you ever eat yourself and each sexy the Goddess Edition? Years? No, but you know, because I'm vegan for twenty years, it would be the best thing ever. I would never suck

my own dick. I know that much. I noticed. I never will. That's that would be. I would never eat myself. I'm not reading your book Eat Yourself Sexy? Did you give us? Did you bring us some books? You know? When I have a knife for you, because I also have my own knife company, So I have a knife for you, and I also have a book for you. So but I'm literally just leaving Jim Henson's studio from catering and gigs. So I left it at you left my knife in my book? I did. I was rushing

because I was late. I was late, and then I realized I wasn't so la, I owe somebody use that knife and cut that book up. Okay, you make? You have your own knife? Is it? So it's my it's um my own knife company. So I just launched the very first one. It's called the Queen's Collection, and we sold out in seven days. So I did pretty well. And I just have had a new shipment and we're almost sold out of that and we're rolling out a

whole um kitchen collection. So knife spoons? What makes you get up and say to yourself, I want to be a knife maker? Like? What what got on your head to make nighte? Ex husband? Trying to cheated, trying to kill somebody like never been married. But I'm a chef, so like you, a chef has to know do you have to have a really? I forgot to use the ship can't just be out here with some anneal knife. I have a Japanese steel um knife. It's gorgeous. The

mask is still with wood grain handle. How many inches is the knife Um, that seems like a loaded question. I'm gonna leave that right there. The knife, because the knife, it's like a sword. The longer the knife does better it is for cutting. Right, Mike doesn't watch a cooking channel. I do. It's it's nine inches nine inches. My knife bigger than that, but it's not as sharp as her knife. Mode socker. Her knife could cut the whole coconut one hit. Yes, so,

but actually I use a machete for that. Yeah. My knife is a Japanese steel knife, so it's very delicate, so you don't really want to cackle been coconut. Your break it because it's super sharp. And yeah, you use a muchet for that. Oh, I carry a bucket knife. That's all. Yeah, but I've got vegans, and it was there any vegans. Yeah, but that's why I'm bringing it vegan because yeah, it is is vegan. It's made of cassava,

and like, yeah, it's it's vegan. Yeah, but I'm saying that you gotta make a vegan soup because we like all kinds of meat in the soup. They contomerate and the Okrah soup and all of that. If you make them without meat, it's pretty much. It's vegan and what I love vegan? You have fake meat, yeah you can do Yeah, you can do meat for some reason. Let's like sleep on a sex dog. Actually make a point there, like, yeah, well you can use mushrooms and mushrooms you can. You

can make vegetables taste media. It's really the flavor prof wow that you add to the vegetables. Yeah, it's not really right. And that's the point. You know, we should stop eating. Can we order thy food first today? Maybe with stuff tomorrow? Well, Thai food can be I love Thai food. Color a red curry. So vegging, what is vigg involved? No me, No shrimp, no, no nothing, no shrimp, no fish, no eggs, no milk, no nothing. Stop dairies

like a year and a half ago. Okay, good. Yeah, but you know a lot of people think that it's you're so limited, but just think about the thousands of plants that grow on the planet. There's so many fruits and vegetables, and it's really about your creativity. Is for me, I've been vegging for over twenty years so and I've worked with the best Serena Venus Williams Common Venus Williams is a vegan, Serena, I worked with them trap vegan. Yeah, that should have been common sense. Are you gonna are

you here to make Michael Blocks, I'm gonna make you vegan. No, I'm I'm a hard person there and stop eating meat. Yeah, I'm good. I think you should start my twenty one day vegan challenge. I haven't eat yourself, Sexy Journey did. I can't eat nothing like Nami couci Kid. That's it. You can eat. Oh that's vegan. Well, Mike, that's fine, you're good. You could eat couch. How about us? Oh, never mind, that's wrong question. That's it's not it's not vegan. Yeah,

that's not vegan. That's a you're you're safe. All in that area which you don't want to do is eat any meat. But see, that's the thing is that when you cleanse your body, the sexes much better. Oh, and you taste better and you're everything is just better. Everything is greater, and it lasts longer. What That's why I've been coming so quick? Yeah, Mike, if you become vegan, no more second man, and then there's more herbs. They see. Once you really understand that food is your medicine. Then

you can. You can take herbs that heal you and then make sure that you are performing at your best. That's why Tiffany had it, didn't common because he probably sucking her longer. And now my fucking lady left me again. Probably it's time to go vegan. Mother, you broke up with me again. Listen, If you go vegan, I guarantee you're gonna get her back. Yeah, Mike, the start of your freaking two seconds and one. Yeah, but I'll be giving her ten forty two seconds. Oh, that's like vegan.

M all right. So I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Maybe they didn't help your sex life. It does. There's certain herbs like yo hem bay yoma is an amazing herb for men that helps with you know, the reproductive function exactly. And that you eat all that meat and all that dairy. You see, that is not good. There's not good for you know, everybody wants listening to this who eased me? And living in regular life? They

know what's going on. You know, it's none of my business to say, but you know what's happening behind closed doors because you're you're not healthy, you're not getting enough oxygen. You to your different body cards. All right, let's see you are that vegan ship and stay healthy work out, and then you can hit my card and you're dead healthy. Man, when I die, I want to be like he should have been dead he died. I don't want to die healthy. I'd be really upset if I die healthy, and I

want to every I'm dick. The fall off. Liked get hit by lightning in Ghana somewhere. We hate to be healthy. And then Tiger was dripping in front of me and my life. Yeah, he was going eighty five per hour, you know, in a genesis. Yeah, on a twenty five mile pur schools on. You know what we found out today or whatever last whatever week it was that we found out that he was speeding right, yeah, you know it was like a curve going into like the mountains

or something. And then he said that it was just going regular speed and usually everybody falls off the mountain. I guess they found out from the computer that genesis. Then he was going eighty five miles per hour and when he hit hit him hit a wall, right, he hit a curving, he fluent tumbled. This happened. She doesn't want I just vegan news. I don't watch the news. I literally just bought my very first TV in life last look this year ovulations live in the village of

Beverly Hills. I just I don't like TV. TV isn't my thing. You know, TV isn't my thing. But I got it because I like movies. You have no clue what's going on? Do you? No? I mean I'm not. I don't really focus on bad news. Do you know Michael Blacks and he's all he's famous on TV? Yeah, I'm kind of famous. No, Actually, you're pretty dope. But she doesn't watch TV. Motesucker, But I watched Coming to America. Oh you did when you watching on the microwave. I've

watched it on my new TV. Oh yeah, how many inches is that TV? I don't know. It's pretty big. Now it's a bigger than that one. It's about that size. Yeah, this is actually this TV came with the places I my TV. If I was about TV would be like the whole size of that wall. I don't think that. Walmart doesn't say, I'm like, I'm not going to wart Best. You've got good sales. They might be a sponsored n What I want to know is what happened to the to the costumes on Coming to America? Yeah, I know

she was just concerned by the costumes. They don't I think. I don't know what happened to costumes of movies period. I think they save them. Um, the costom designer keeps them for some reason. That's what I think. Like Ruth, Ruth wasn't a Ruth card is our name? Oh my god, please don't suck me up. I'm saying I know a first of its rude. I think it's but she she did what kind of movie? And she did come to America.

She was a casting She wanted with Waconda. She want to ask us for a Waconda so she might be nominated a game for a Coming to America. She did a great job as well. What's up, mother suckers, this is your African King up coming Michael Blackson. I'm here to ask you a question. Are you subscribe to my podcast, The Mother Stuck, a podcast with me Michael Blackson. If not, you are missing out on the crazy interviews. They're exclusive behind the scenes content of my life and tons of

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couple of ideas on like mind clothing. Yeah, was like make my I said, make my army close my army pants shorts because I remember being a kid, and I remember like the soldiers back home, they were like soldiers shorts, like shorts. I'm like, make mine shorts, you know, so I give out it really good. It was very catchy. Nobody nobody wore shorts. I like your outfit, so I kind of helped put it together. I picked out like you know, yeah, that was kind of me. You know,

she brought him. I'm like, make my pants shorts and put this overhead, you know, put my sleeves this way, because I remember, you know, um, I spent a lot of time in like barriers. I remember being a librarian, and I remember the soldiers how they roll their sleeves up on their on their army clothes. So I got a lot of ideas from me being a kid, and and you know, running into like soldiers of Africa. So I try to bring you know, even though it's the

Moonda and next Dooria, they're not real places. I just try to bring the real part of Africa a little bit with you know, with a dressing. Yeah. I think that's important though, you know, it's about Africa should be. I saw there was a lot of Ethiopian inspired like crosses and outfits, um and they did well. Just you

know that. I mean, at the end of the day, I mean Zemunda, next Doria, Rokana, the officitious places, they're not real, you know, when you're dealing places and then our real you know, you could kind of like make up your own things, you know, and make some things up. And you know people sometimes put on't know any better, they don't. They just you know, I feel like Africans were pissed when they saw. They were pissed because African thing.

African thought, you know, we're trying to trying to be African, but they just these are made up places. So and I and I had an interview, I had a TV interview when I wasn't gonna and I talked about this, like we can't get upset, we can't take this personal. This will imagine every places and our real places. You know it's not real places, Mike, For goodness, gracious, I thought it was real. He's trying about un American headlines to go to Zamunda. Mother, we're just ruined all the

Asians dreams going through Zamunda. Well, good luck, man, you know who goes to spirit headlines, motherfucker? Good luck. The round trip ticket for thirty dollars. It's gonna cost you six thousand for your bluggage, and then you gotta pay another three thousand to breathe, and then we ask questions on the plane. That's another three thousand dollars. It's a lot of hidden churches. So yeah, what else did you get? Did you get to go to the slave cast and

all that I did tell us about that? Oh my god, that was so powerful. I cried so much. It was it was like, well, when you go inside, I feel like there's so many different emotions because you go into the to the men's dungeon and to the women's dungeon, and then the stories and just the energy that's still in that space is like and then realizing that the African Americans here are the ones that survived it. That

was also really powerful. That just the resilience, because you know, a lot of us didn't really survive it was it was pretty intense and black people are very strong, right, tough people. Man, Yeah, it's I mean I went there once in my life and it was probably about who was that? Do I go that way? Who's that was? Anyway? Was my sister with you? It was really sad because I didn't. I can't imagine when my people went through,

you know. But you know, we we we overcame it, you know, and it just it just it's just part of our history now, you know. And we can't forget where you came from. You know, never forget. You gotta teach your kids this and let them know. But yeah, man, um, and okay, so you saw this slave castle and then we did the Last Bath. Are you familiar with that? Nah? So that's a whole not that's like they took the slaves to this before they took them to the dungeons.

They put them on a boat to take them to the dungeons, but they gave them this what they call the last bath. They walk them through the woods and put them in the water and just it's just torturous ship. Like, who are they call it the last bath? They just dump them in the water and throw them on the on the slave ship. Yeah. Like, but so what we did, So I went there. I don't know if you're familiar with Queen of Fua, but she's my spiritual mother. She

has been a healer for over fifty years. Um. So I was with her and uh, Angela Rye are you from me? With Angela Rye? She's on CNN. Anyway, we were all there, and so the whole point was to go back two through the door of no return, which is we've returned, you know what I mean, and through the last bath, so that we it's like our first bath. It's coming. It's doing the healing work, um, for ourselves and for our ancestors. It was. It was pretty dope, um okay. And what else did you anything else you

remember doing? It was that pretty much? I mean, gosh we did. Every day was jam packed with meetings and TV and interviews and um, he had a great time. I got a new name too, They gave me a new um gosh, I am um Yama Day, Princess Yama Day. I thought it would like went by like the whole days of the weekday, yeah, yeah, Thursday, Okay, y'all, okay, y'all. My brother, my brother is Thursday, He's y'all. So guys, y'all.

And a girl is yeah yeah, yes, I'm like, I'm I'm, I'm Monday, so Joe and female Monday is is that where you're born? Well, they just named it, you know, it has to do with like, um, it's a traditional thing. It's like the day of the week you're born, the name. If you want to sunder of the week, then that

becomes your name, basically nickname. Don't go to Ghana and be like, hey coat Joe, You're gonna have like ten niggas turn around, you know, and it's it just felt so when you know, it felt great being back there where it's like I'm in a place where everybody looks like me, you know, I love and nice. I literally I like I went to Egypt right after, and I'll tell you this whole another energy. Like the people in

Ghana were sweet and kind and fun. The food was delicious, the vibes were just to me a lot higher Egypt, like I felt like they were a little back in the eighteen hundreds, honestly, Yeah, it was. It's a Muslim country, which you know, I have a lot of Muslim friends, but it was like they don't respect women the majority. I'm not saying, you know, I don't want to stereotype, but it was just very a little for me. Yeah. The good thing, the cool thing about being in Ghana

and like, you know, body looked like me. It kind of like when I was in America. When I came to America as a kid. You know how people describe me and it's like, okay, Mike, which Mike, black ass Mike. So now when Ghana, everybody darkens me. So now you gotta really described the long neck Mike, short neck Mike, no neck, Mike, got teeth Mike, because now you can't

go black ass Mike neck black ass. You know everybody Ghana we like the original black were like between eleven PM at like one thirty a m. I've fallen around midnight enough for this ship man. But overall, you had a great time. Ghana was great. Are you so? What's your plans are going back? I'll be back actually probably next month to do some business. Nice. I'll be there too. Yeah, it's going back there too. Oh, did you ever close

the deal with the house? Yeah, yeah, cho chow hands on it and all the paperwork is going on right now, so you know, hopefully everything works. Did I show you the house? Yeah, you show me. It's so beautiful and with your your street name and all of that. Yeah, they're gonna street what Motsaker Street on Mothersuker Avenue. They're gonna call it bit stet. Did they have any for Sie? I want to buy one. No, they we'll build one on the street for you. But yeah, so I mean,

and I'm glad you came. I ain't joined us today. I can't. Well, when you go back, I hopefully I'll be there with till we'll get the hang out. You know, we have a housewoman party and come to the house. Absolutely, I'll make you some some vegan contemplate with no with no meat, no meat. Yeah, I'm serious. You're gonna go vegan for twenty one days. I don't mind. I tried some comble. I love yams, Do you guys? You have some? N I e some conum and yams all day. And

the plan than planting is amazing. In the coconut water, the pineapple it is it is and you would think that it's not right because it's green on the outside. Normally, like when I picked my pineapples, it's nice and yellow, right, but this one's like white yeah and green yeah, and it's white on the inside, and you think it's like this is gonna be bitter or sour? Is perfect? So sweet, probably the sweetest pineapple. Al right. Well, the dog tell us time in the show, thank you for having me,

Thanks for coming. Were the wonderful time. Tell um, tell follow us how to follow you because you are absolutely You can follow me at Queen of Green. I'm on Instagram and you can check me out on my website Lauren Bonderpool dot com. Lauren for those who went to the public school, you spid that for them? Please yes, l A U R E n V as in Victor O N D E R p O l dot com. By my knife, joined the twenty one day Eat Yourself Sexy Journey and check out my book on Amazon. Eat Yourself, Ladies,

Eat yourself. And you can follow Chinese best Friend at Chinese best Friend. Yeah, We've we've been going on for like a few weeks and he's best friends. Your following, Yeah, every time I make a post I lose to one thousand followers, so I only post once a month now, yes, okay, well you guys don't follow me, okay your Instagram. I don't need no more haters. I have enough haters. Congratulations Mike for the hitting five million followers. Hat five millions followers.

Congratulation and I earned. I got it a hard way, like I told a lot of jokes for those. I mean, you guys gotta be shared a lot. To gain five million, a lot of people go out there and buy them. I'm not gonna mention no names, don't commit. Yeah, I don't get there's so many. I earned mine grinded for eleven years and when Instagram came out, Yeah, eleven years. Man, I was telling jokes and funny videos. I earned those five millions. So thank you all five for sticking with me.

All right, thank you for joining us. See another episode of the mother Stucker Podcast with me Michael Blackson. It's a Cavalry audio production brought to you by All Her Radio and The Black Effect Podcast Network. Produced by Brendan Morgan off Calvary Audio and a King for The Black Effect. Associate producer is Jeff Apple. Executive produced by Michael Blackson, Keegan Rosenberger, and Dana Brunetti.

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