¶ The Legend of Mike P
Welcome to Vegas Circle Podcast with your hosts , Paki and Chris . We are people who are passionate about business , success and culture , and this is our platform to showcase the people in our city who make it happen . On today's podcast , man , we got a legend with us , man . We got the man of many hats .
We're going to actually be exploring the state of comedy and radio . Welcome into the circle a comedian , radio personality , actor and also sports betting consultant We'll put that in there . We got Mr Michael Perry , better known as Mike P man .
Yes sir , yes sir , Welcome to the circle man . Yes sir , yes sir , Welcome . You got a legend . Yeah , yeah , yeah , this is well overdue , man .
I know I reached out to you years ago , man . Right , I ran into you multiple different times , man . But let's dive in , man . So we want to kind of first start off with football star huh .
Yes , sir .
So you had a scholarship at .
UNLV yeah , football , okay , football was my passion . But I had started doing comedy in la . Okay , my mom had got sick and I was just gonna do the comedy because I was popping , okay , and she was like , nah , you're gonna always be funny . Pick one of the schools , yeah , some big schools , yeah . But I came out here , I seen the light rap .
It was a rap . I can't even and then I didn't want to be too far away from the house , so I just stayed close to my mom and I was . I wanted to leave pasadena . That that's where I'm from , okay . Yup , so I left Dena and I came to Vegas . Man .
What position you play in .
I play wide receiver and I return kicks and punts .
Oh fun , you was nasty then . Yeah , I was him . Could you go co-pro ? Oh hell yeah .
Absolutely . You know , sometimes in life , since I've gotten here , I'm not really tripping on football because I was just using football to get into entertainment anyway , I was showboating .
Okay , smart , I talk a lot of trash .
Yeah but , you know my work ethic and how I get out . That's why I can back up what I'm saying . You know what I mean . It's why I could back up what I'm saying . You know what I mean . It's not really being cocky or anything like that , it's just I do the work and when you know who you are , you're who you are , right , yeah absolutely .
I'm confident . Yeah , yeah , walk us through the radio man , because you've been in the radio game . I've been listening to your voice as long as I've been in Vegas , even before that right so how long have you been in the radio game with just , or at least with Hot 97 ?
Well , I started 97.5 . You started 97.5 ? I started . I was the first person they ever hired ?
Oh , I did not know that .
Yes , okay , I brought Franzen out here Word , I named it Hot 97 . I said , man , we need to name this Hot .
We in the desert . Plus they got 97 in New York . We need to just say Hot 97 .
Okay . So yeah , I did all that , man Wow . So when did it ?
launch . When did Hot 97 launch 2001 .
Damn Was that your first foray into being a radio DJ , or was it ?
I was going to UNLV . I was in broadcasting Okay , and the general manager was coming in the class in broadcasting okay , and the general managers was coming in the class . So the general manager , sherman rudley , shout out to sherman .
He came into the class and you know he's telling everybody if you want to do radio , well , I walk right up to him like I , I want to get on the radio , you know . I mean , he said well , son , come see me tomorrow and maybe we could talk about it . So I'll pull up at four in the morning when he get to work . I'm there .
I said you said , you said tomorrow . So he said come on in here , boy , what the hell are you doing out here ? Gave me an internship . I went up there every day , seven days a week , and then one day somebody did no call , no show , no show . And they was like , well , who's up there ?
I was up there , I learned production , I learned sales , I learned everything about how to do it . So they just they gave me a shot and , man , I never looked back after that .
I never knew this man . I never knew you were the one to start .
That's what's up man , yeah , hell yeah .
So that's 23 years , jesus .
Christ , okay , yeah , well , 98 is when I got on the radio , actually , so it's been about , yeah , like 26 years .
Did you ever see yourself going into that ? I know you talked about going to football and comedy , but transitioning into radio , which is a little bit kind of similar but different .
Well , in my football career , I was , uh , deemed ineligible . Okay , that's a long story about my eligibility at my junior college and whatever . Just I didn't do the paperwork , thinking that I'm so awesome that they'll just slide me through that . Ain't how that work homie , especially back then .
So I was watching this richard pryor movie called jojo dancer one night when I figured out my yeah my career . So I you know what I'm finna do I'm gonna get on the radio , I'm gonna get known for being funny as hell , I'm gonna start my own comedy room and I'm gonna blow up . That was just my idea .
So I say that to say this to anybody that's out there with a dream homie it's start with a thought and then you go do the work and then you allow God to give you your purpose , because a lot of times people don't understand where they need to go or what it is that they're trying to do with themselves .
Find what you passionate about , what you love , and then ask God to open the doors . That's what happened . How else could you explain this ? I came out here . I didn't know not one person . Now we sitting up here talking about I'm a legend .
That's crazy , it's wild , because everybody knows you , I mean literally you , the voice of Vegas for radio every morning ?
Yes , sir .
And everybody knows you , Everybody say Mike P , they're like oh shit , of course . I know who he is . So are you a dj also ? Do you play the music in the whole nine ? Yeah , I do everything okay , yeah , so let's talk about the music man vegas , music , just in general
¶ Challenges Facing Local Artists in Vegas
. Okay , why do you feel like the artists have not popped like other markets , like a new york or chicago or la ? I'm gonna give it to you okay ?
yeah , that's what I want to hear from you , homie . There is no city in the world like Las Vegas . So how can people get behind a local artist when you have every A-lister coming here every week ? There's no city in the world like that . So it's very hard for people to get behind Vegas artists . For the simple fact this is a transient town too .
People are here for a year , they gone . You know . People come and go , they moving and shaking , and it's so many big a-list people that come through here it's very hard to focus on someone who was locally doing it . You know what I mean and that's the problem in it .
There's not a lot of uh culture , uh , out here in this town because of how the city is ran . You know what I mean . It's go big or go home out here . You know what I mean . They don't see you as an up and comer in this city . Now you go somewhere else . They see how do you shift that culture a little bit .
It seems like almost unfit . We have some great artists here . Yeah , we do 100% Fire Like International GT . I don't know if you know who he is . Yeah , thomas , ridiculous .
Wordplay , everything . A lot of times people don't understand . Like look man , you don't really need nothing , you got your phone . You know the world didn't turn into this homie . You know , I don't give a damn what you do , it's how you sell it , that's true , so if you wrap everything , marketing and everything . Man , you better sell it .
Your audience is out there . It ain't even about becoming famous . No more . Hollywood is dead to me , bro , that template that people used to do I'll go to hollywood and I'm going to perform for free , for and work as a waiter and all it , man , and I'm somebody's going to discover me like man , get the out of here , that's that's over with homie .
No , in this day and time , you better pick your phone up , or your homie that do camera work . He need to turn the camera on you and you find your damn audience yeah , because there's people that's popping , that you don't even know .
You know , I'm saying so don't try to go , the old school rock that's dead , that's out of here .
I got a mixtape . Man , you better know how to sell yourself . I don't give a damn what it is you're doing . You do nails , you do massage . You know what I mean . Whatever you do , you better know how to sell it to people and be consistent . See , a lot of these people want stuff overnight . It don't work like that .
You got to put in the work , because if you don't do the work when get the opportunity , it's just gonna pass you by . Nothing is gonna stick .
Yeah , I mean so that's why I appreciate your honesty . Yeah , that's what it is , but it sucks that that's the case because you got so many talented people here , but do you feel like that's because the strip sucks a lot of that market of dollars up to be able absolutely to not be able to put their backing on an artist ?
Yeah , what is the point ? What is the business template for them to even do that ? Yeah , that's a good point . It's already rolling . We focused on this these tourists and keeping these people gambling . Yeah , entertaining them . And you know such and such . That's over here , man . We need Lil Wayne Drake . You know such and such .
That's over here , man , we need little wayne drake , or you know somebody ? Yeah , this is a major city , bro like it's ridiculous there's nowhere in the world like this city . Yeah , that's why I never left yeah , it was pointless yeah like homie . You could wake up with nothing .
I mean , you could go to bed with nothing and wake up with everything out here , where you gonna go . It's like that Most places you stuck . You know what I'm saying ? Ain't nobody . You know what I'm saying ? It's terrible .
We were laughing about that because when I first , I moved here in 07 . I think you've been how long you been here now 2011 . Okay , 2011 . So I moved here in 07 , and I hated it when I first moved here . Oh , hell , yeah , and I was like this sucks .
Most people think that because you just don't know , like I'm mad , all these people that moved out here because this is a hidden diamond .
It is , it's not no more Like yeah , mike .
Mike , damn raising rent . It's hard to find spots Because , dude , it's like this city . You're 30 minutes away from the snow Everything 30 minutes away from the water . You know what I mean You're at the ocean three and a half hours away . Yeah , it's just man , once you get used to it , the heat is lovely out here .
That's a real statement , for real , and you're kind of talking about . You know , say you do have these local artists right and you have your platform to be able to showcase them . Do you have , like , the flexibility or the ability to be able to put them on the stage ? Like , how do you determine the set list ? Well , you want to put out on that end .
I'm not in program . Okay , I'm an on-air personality . Now , if somebody want to get at me and get on stage where I perform at , yeah , I'll open my door for that . Pull your people up , pull your camera out , shoot your shot , let's get it in . You know what I mean . That's the type of person I am . I'm not just in this for me .
I do my comedy show every week , which I've been on the street for 14 years . Yeah , you know what I mean . That take ain't never missed a week , ain't never been late . You feel me . And I have that , not because I'm making a lot of money or nothing like that . It's to just bring the community together and help other people .
That's honestly what I'm doing it for and that's that's a luna lounge , right ? Yes , on tuesdays , okay .
Yes , you've been doing that for 14 years , yes , sir I started in 05 with michael collier at the fitzgerald , which is the d okay , linked up with bob sumner who started deaf comedy jam . I went to la I seen what this shit was .
When I went out there I said hell , no , this is stupid , yeah , okay man these dudes is out there performing for free hoping somebody discover them in them damn rooms . Ain't nobody coming in there , bro ? I don't need a pat on my back that I'm funny , like I know that . Like , where's the money ?
so you be out there struggling .
You know people I've seen on tv . I'm like that's what you driving really . You know what I mean . You know they 40 years old , with roommates like come on , man , what are y'all doing ? This is goofy . So I came back here and I just started my own program .
And .
I've been on my own page . I ain't had no agent , no manager . I've been in movies , I've been on television , I've been all around the whole country , feel me , and I can just say that I've done it all by myself .
That's why .
I don't really look at people when they look for people to hand them something or give them something . I don't really have no sympathy . Like man , get up off your ass and get it cracking .
What are you doing ? That's got a common theme though You've said a few times , you're a hard worker , right , absolutely . You're consistent , hardworking , putting the effort , making it happen . Where do you think that drive comes from ? Where does that instill that in you ?
Because it seems like a constant thing when you're doing something , you do it right and consistently .
Well , my mother raised me that way . You know what I mean . Her no was no . Can I go in your purse and get a quarter ? No , you take your ass over there , you're going to get your ass whooped . So , so that instilled in me to go get it for myself . From a youngster , at five years old , I used to take people's trash out and for a quarter .
So I got money . When the ice cream truck pulled up , when I didn't have the money to play football , I got a paper route . I saved up all my money so that I could play football when I was 12 years old . I'm getting up every day at 3.30 . So it's just something that is embedded in me and I've always had high standards . I'm getting up every day at 3.30 .
So it's just something that is embedded in me and I've always had high standards for myself .
You know what I'm saying . So high standards , high work rate . You know what I mean . So that's where it comes from . Yeah , how'd you connect with 50 ?
I know that's a cold story 50 come to the radio station . Right At this point , homie . I did a play with Tyler Perry . Tyler Perry came to the radio station . He do his old lady character , I do mine . He bust out laughing . He couldn't stay with me . He put me on the play let me come to his we did that play in Hollywood . Let me come up there early .
He showed me how a whole play production is ran . His outfit changes . He put me in the play , all that right . So I've been networking and moving with people . At this point , I really don't care , you know what I mean . So they say 50 cents coming up . He's only going to be in there for two minutes . You know what I mean ? I don't give a damn right .
Yeah , so when he came in he was beefing with rick ross at the particular time . You know what I mean . So when he came in the studio I said oh , homie , I seen you and rick ross beefing . You got his baby mama out here . If that was me , you would have to see me from the neck up , neck up he fell out laughing right he knew I was on .
You know , I'm really from the streets , though , you know , so I knew what I was saying . I was calm .
You know , we ended up having a dope ass interview stay for like two hours so while he's standing there , I'm looking at him . I'm like hold up , homie , you standing here right now . Before I say what I'm about , hold up , homie . Yeah , you standing here right now .
Before I say what I'm about to say , I'm gonna let you know right now , homie , I ain't looking for no handout , I'm looking for a hand up . I'm the new face of comedy because I said it .
¶ Navigating the Comedy Industry
He said get his number because he was feeling your energy man . He knew you were right .
I was serious , though like so they gave me a number , but it was . It wasn't 10 digits , it was like nine digits , you know what I'm saying I like he also bullshit too . It's whatever . I'm a dude , me , I don't . I'm not tripping .
I've never been a type of dude that will run behind somebody for clout or to get some attention or some notoriety , and all that man . I'm my own man , and if I could have a conversation with you and engage with you , man , I really feel like I'm on your level or I'm above you honestly . So make a long story short , he called my phone . Two months later .
I answered the phone like man . Who the hell is this ? He like this 50 . I'm like man get off my phone man . You know what I mean . He said no , no , this is really 50 . I said this is 50 . Oh , I couldn't wait for you to call so I could tell this bitch I'm living with fuck you he said let me be , I want you to be my best friend in this movie .
I'm finna , lose weight . I'm like send me the script , fam , right , never been in a movie , or nothing yeah , that's a great man we go to michigan , get off the plane , I get my per diem . I'm like , oh , this is me . We get the um , we go do the things . He said . We finna go ad lib . I'm like , what is that ? He said we gonna walk this bridge .
You just make up something . You know what I'm saying . And man , shit that's . We walked that bridge . I made up some hilarious . When we got to the end of the bridge everybody was laughing . We go back to the me . He like , hey , mike gonna do him . And . But I had read the script so many times , I knew everybody's line .
So when we would do scenes , I know you gotta say that . You know I'm saying I , I was prepared , but I really didn't even know what I was doing . To be honest with you , that was my first opportunity and I just jumped on it and ended up being in the whole movie that's what's up , and then I learned about hollywood and how the shit actually works .
So after you do a movie , you'd be thinking well , damn you did good in there , why you didn't blow up . Well , you actually do get other movies , but they don't necessarily come out . The investors back out . It's a lot to get a movie and have it come out . That's real .
I remember when Jeff Porter was talking about it . I remember we had Porter .
Craig , he was breaking that down .
The movie industry is no joke man . You're trying to sell that movie for a while . Right what You're going to be in five movies and never just get money to buy it .
It's like literally you're shopping it yeah , I didn't even know new york josh shows man a bunch of stuff nothing ever came out of .
That's wild you know I'm saying so how do you handle that , though ?
Because it's kind of like you said you're doing a great job and you're feeling confident , they're giving these opportunities and you're making moves , and then you know they don't bite on it and you don't get to get that recognition that you deserve because you did do a great job how do you kind of handle that well a little ?
bit you go back to what you're doing on your own . You don't even worry about that , like I'm not in this shit to be famous , bro , I don't really give a shit about that . I'm doing this because I love to do it . I'm gonna die doing it . That's just what I'm passionate about .
Whatever I put out , whatever I produce , you know , because sometimes your audience just has to catch up to you . Yeah , sometimes you know people just don't you know they don't vibe or whatever it is . Yeah , they just ain't caught on to what you own yet .
Yeah , and my thinking I've always thought , way before people like I was doing sketches on the internet , way before everybody was doing it Like for the vine and all that man .
I mean you could go look it up , bro , it ain't ? I'm not lying about nothing .
Like I've . I've always had , um , uh , foreseeing type of mind , and in this day and time , in entertainment , it's like this homie you find your lane , create whatever it is that you're creating and you service that audience and then you just wait for the motherfucking shit to grow . You know what I mean ?
Don't worry about it , like I don't care that I'm not recognized as quote unquote top five funniest comedians , or this or that . I'm not .
I don't live for that yeah man , I got a family , bro .
That's my purpose . I'm able to do me and take care of my whole goddamn family .
My daughter graduated college .
Guess who paid for the shit I did . Did she graduate with any debt ? Absolutely not her daddy bought her a car , absolutely . My son went to private school . He goes to unlv , plays football . Who hooked that all up ?
his daddy did that , bro , that's beautiful man , you did do something you love too , which is also and having vibe in and doing you can see it .
You can see it with you .
That's why people so it's like , and then I think that my consistency and the way I move it inspires other people , even if they ain't saying shit to me . So I don't really , I'm not really caught up in that . And then I've been on stage with some of the greatest of the greatest , yeah , and they've all given me my you know stamp of approval .
I opened for D hewley one night , right , I just I just met monty carlo . He'll let you know he's cool as hell I bring him on stage . He said give it up for mike p . That motherfucker will never open for me again I'm sitting back like what did ? I do he said anybody that can take my job , can't be up here with me .
He paid me and said good luck , motherfucker .
But he's real . He told you yeah , real bro . I finally found out about because our mutual friend TK TK , Kirk he . Finally , I didn't know that DL worked for the LA newspaper . Yeah , hell yeah , I never knew that . Tk was the first person that told us about it .
I never knew that I started in LA at this place called the Comedy Act Theater , and we used to do Maverick's Flats too in LA and nigga it used to be . Every outstanding comedian that ever lived would be in these rooms and going up at the same time .
Oh shit , it was dope as hell . I can't even imagine .
So that's my library of where I got all this shit , and then I just brought it to Las Vegas . You know what I mean , with my own unique idea of how I wanted to do it .
The real time . I feel like that was the real comedy , right , that kind of span all . America all hit with LA and Cali at that time and you mentioned .
it can't even pass over Def Jam . I mean that's the foundation for Martin . I mean with Def Jam , I mean that's the foundation for Martin , I mean with Martin Lawrence .
Martin , oh my Lord , yeah , I've been on stage with Martin Wow , mike Epps , tyler Perry , the Kings of Comedy , damn Lou Nail , that's the homegirl . Yeah , my man , earthquake . You know what I mean . We did a residency over at the Laugh Factory . I just met Earthquaker DR Cole . When they were here , tk introduced me Cool brother man , dr Cole , that's my guy .
He is cool as hell man , I'm from Chicago , so I love DR . Yeah , man , come on , bro , I love both of them . I met them briefly , I'm known doing me man and I'm not really tripping off nothing .
That's powerful , man . I love that about you . Your mindset is everything , man , yeah , man , so do you write , do you write your jokes ?
Hell yeah , I write .
Oh , so you write before you even go up on stage . Absolutely , yeah , okay , I figured you would freestyle because you're so creative .
Because you're so creative , I can't freestyle , but I know how to . You got to have the structure first . It's hard to create a punchline on stage right .
You kind of need to have that but you just got to see it .
Yeah , okay , and then real comedians that's gifted . They could turn anything into a joke .
For real , straight up . What's his name ? Tracy Morgan .
Yeah , you know it's just , and then you use that in movies and in scenes . That's why a lot of comedians that you see on stage ain't shit in the scene , because they don't know how to transition the gift into scenes and making up things . It's , and making up things . It's a gift to be able to do that . I ain't going to even lie to you , it's not easy .
Have you ever bombed ?
Hell yeah , how'd you recoup Because ?
everybody got punched in the face . No , it's always a reason why you know , what I'm saying . Early on , I just didn't know how to deal with certain elements . I needed more experience to know what the hell I'm doing , and I never really let that affect me at all . It was just like I'll bomb .
I'll be back tomorrow Because I like challenges anyway , and this is the greatest challenge in the world .
It's hard as shit to do comedy I can't even imagine there's a lot of confidence you'll go up there and bomb and pick it back up and do it again . Come on bro .
I feel like comedians . You're a public speaker , you're a mentor , I mean everything that you do a philosopher . I mean there's so much that you can do , and I give it up to people like yourself that to be able to control a room and be able to hear a pin drop yes and be able to relate , that is extremely hard to do , extremely hard .
It's a gift . That's a gift man , something that I've worked on like man . I'm I'm pretty phenomenal at the shit . Yeah , I've seen you multiple times .
Yeah , I give it up to you I'm gonna tell you later how we met , but I'm gonna tell you that afterwards . But uh , what do you see happening with vegas man ? Like , what do you see the growth I mean we when we got bright line coming ? You've been in the radio industry for 23 years . What do you see happening ?
sky's the limit . Yeah , I think they're gonna have that movie theater out of um movie studio out here yes , they're gonna start filming films out here and I just think that you know it's just gonna just boom . You know what I mean . And if you have been putting in that work and you have your feet in the semen out here , you should be able to eat .
Love it , absolutely , I agree with you .
Yeah , that studio's coming . I mean with Howard Hughes and Sony . Oh , come on , man , mark Wahlberg . Consultant . Local artist .
Containers on the strip that have been working forever .
There's so many talented people here that they don't get that exposure and to be able to have the hub , the foundation here .
Because ?
Because LA is trash , bro , it is terrible and they got a serious homeless problem .
I mean I don't even know why nobody lives . Hell yeah , it don't make no sense , it's a rough situation .
Let's talk about this sports betting man , because I know you're killing it . I see that on you nonstop . How'd you get into that ? Is that something that's been new for you ?
No , look , when I was out here , right , I didn't have no money . So , I would take my last $50 and I was just betting on sports .
Then I ran into a couple of people that gave me the game on how to actually do it and then I just took my own method and my own ideology on how it's supposed to work and my little gut feeling that I be having and shit , you really be winning man .
I win a lot .
Some days I have terrible days . That's the part of the game , especially if you're doing it every day . Ain't nobody winning every day . Some days I suck Straight out . I'm not going to lie to nobody , but I do know what's going to hit every day . I honestly do what's the sports NBA ? I bet two roaches racing Just show me the line .
You actually watch them all . Like you said , the back of the room .
I watch every . Really , I don't even watch none of that shit . I watch numbers . Okay , you know what I'm saying numbers , okay , okay , I watch numbers and different variables on how those numbers are affected .
Okay , then I come up with my own line and then I look at what Vegas has and then I kind of can figure out like what's gonna win and what ain't gonna win so people can reach out to you and say hey , mike , I need you to help me . Oh , yeah what's going on ?
with NBA right now they can reach out to you , man .
you can hit my Instagram at Mike P Comedy .
Okay , check him out man , If you're a female out there and you want to cheat hit me on my Instagram .
At Mike P Comedy .
That's a stable little bit .
¶ Finding Inspiration and Pursuing Dreams
What inspires you now , man ? Is it your kids just graduating ? What's keeping you ?
Because you're waking up at what , four in the morning every day like what's inspiring every day ? 3 , 30 , yes , okay , um , what's inspiring me now ? Yeah , uh , just to finish , to see how far I can actually go . Yeah , that's the key . Yeah , like I've done all this amazing shit what else ? can I do ? Maybe one day I can have my own studio why not ?
My own sports betting whole business , why not ? I just don't think nothing is going to stop me from accomplishing whatever . It is that I the hardest part about being successful is figuring out your next idea of what to do . I tell my daughter this shit all the time . The struggle and the process is the funnest time .
Once you get to where you're trying to go , it is hard to stay there , and the reason why is because you need to always be hungry for the next idea , for the next thing that you want to do , because once you see things for what they really are , you become very disappointed . You know what I mean .
Like once I seen what Hollywood was , I was like , oh hell , no , this is garbage . You know what I mean . I don't know how people do this shit . Why would you go do that for that Like I ? Just I stand on principles . It's just certain things that I just can't do .
Yeah , that , like I just I stand on principles , I mean I just it's just certain things that I just can't do .
Yeah , that's real man . Yeah , there's someone who values mentorship , man who's in your circle that's spoken your life , other than your mom , I know you spoke about , but who's who's spoken in your life to kind of keep you on the right track and keep you in the right direction ?
Uh , my uncle Okay , my uncle , he'd been there day one , okay . So my uncle , ridge , and then my cousin , his dad , um , gave me the confidence that I have today and pretty much my uh relationship with God . That's what's up . You know what I mean ?
Just trying to be a righteous , good person , straight , thorough as hell as I possibly can be , and that like keeps me focused , because people who don't have a spiritual connection , they become victims of their imagination . They do whatever the fuck they think . All right , I got enough money to have three bitches .
Three bitches come on and then that shit come with a whole lot of fucking problems stds , child support cases , all types of shit , a nigga that's outside ready to kill for the bitch , all that come with that . So a lot of times people don't think about having that connection . So you can have direction . You know what I mean .
What do I need to do next for you ? Lord ? Thank you for this opportunity to be alive . You know what I mean , cause sometimes people be like I don't wanna be here . Well , what the fuck is you talking about ? If you wasn't existing , you wouldn't even , you wouldn't have nothing . Yeah , what a blessing to be here , bro .
Yeah , like we sitting here , at the same time enjoying each other's energy . Yeah , what a blessing yeah , that's real .
Why would I be mad that ?
I couldn't experience this this moment ? Yeah , because you only can control what you do for the day anyway . Exactly , I'm fucking to be tripping about what's going to happen later on , Like come on , man .
Stay in the moment and that's it . That's all I'll focus on . I'm trying to learn that , man , as I keep getting older . I got kids now and you want to be in the moment , man , because that's the only time you got yeah , that's it .
And then once it's gone , it's gone . They're never eight or nine again , they're never a baby , ever again .
And that's so funny . You said my son nine and my youngest is seven . Yeah , it goes like that .
They're gonna be 16 so for real girl in the bed for business advice .
But we always ask everybody about the gems man . What ?
would you tell over there it's coming , I promise .
They both hassle too I got that it's coming For business advice , but we always ask everybody about the gems . Man , what would you tell somebody that similar to yourself , man you probably one of the most consistent people that I know and now they've got a chance to really get a chance to talk with . What would you share with them , man ?
Maybe they're thinking now , want to really , you know , execute on or whatever that scenario is , but they've got a dream . What would you share with them as ?
business advice before you do any motherfucking thing , figure out what it is you're doing and go to people who have experience in that and if you got to pay them for the game , pay them . You know what I'm saying ? And get to work and you're gonna have bad days .
It's gonna be some days where you know it ain't looking like it's going to work at all , but if you stay consistent , that blessing is on its way . Every time Straight out . Y'all might be doing this podcast and it's seven people you know viewing it on YouTube . So motherfucking what you stay with it . Next thing you know you done popped off .
So motherfucking what you stay with it . Next thing you know , you didn't popped off . One of these interviews popped . Now they're going back looking at all your shit . Your shit , go through the roof .
You know I'm so happy you said that . So , Chris and I we and my and my wife we launched this in 2018 . We have been consistent putting out episodes . We now episodes . We haven't missed a beat in almost six years . Yeah , and I remember I was just listening to joe button uh talking on um .
I forgot the show that he was just on , but at any rate that's what he was talking about . He was saying , yeah , everybody's in podcasts . They do podcast startup left and right , but nobody's consistent , nobody . Everybody wants to quit when you get hard , but we literally have put out episodes every single month since 2018 .
Haven't missed a a beat . You get that over it because you see it same thing Entertainment in general . That's the hardest thing to be consistent in , because you're constantly dealing with rejection and people saying shit .
You know what I mean .
You can't listen to none of that shit . You have to be consistently consumed in the vision you see in your head . That's all you see like I don't give a fuck about great compliments or negative ones . I don't see or hear none of you niggas . I'm on my passion , on my purpose . Y'all don't see what's in my head anyway you're in your lane , man ?
yeah , I'm in my own lane , doing my own thing because I want to do it yeah exactly that's real and ain't nobody controlling me , telling me what I gotta do , how I gotta do it , and you know what I mean . I I can't speak on certain issues because these sponsors is gonna take the money from me and all that man .
Fuck all that I say whatever I want to say yeah , that's real . You know what I mean and that's part of being a man , bro . You know what I mean . A lot of these motherfuckers , you see , that's famous . They ain't got no control over their life . They can't say what they really want to say .
They got to just eat that , because somebody writing a check for it .
That's what it is and they don't want to offend nobody .
You know what I mean .
That's tough .
It a slave or for the money , and then , after you get a certain amount of money , homie , it really don't matter anymore , and you lost your dignity at that point . Yeah , and my dignity is everything . I'm ready to die for that .
For real . Take with you everything . I'm with you , man . We always ask everybody about restaurants in Vegas . I know you got some gems , man . What's your favorite restaurant in Vegas ? Dude , and give us something that probably nobody knows about probably .
Uh okay , high end del fresco del fresco is good , del fresco is great .
Hey man , I've been there multiple times , shout out what ?
okay . And then , um , let me think there's this restaurant over by unlv . They make these grits and catfish .
Oh , soulful Spot . Hell yeah , you gotta give us that . What's the name ? Damn it , I forgot the name .
Because I love Soulful man , we're gonna look it up and tell them . I'm always at . I'm always at Lucille's too , lucille's is really good .
Those rolls get me every time . But you said Del Frisco's , lucille's , really good .
Lucille's fine . Those roles get me every time . Yeah , it's actually five of them .
Yeah , but you said Del Frisco's , lucille's and the soulful spot by UNLV . Yeah , it's a lot of little different places that I frequent , though out here .
That's what's up , man . We gave us a couple man . What else did we forget ? On that , we can leave us on that .
we didn't ask you , man , you know just just just out here doing my thing , bro , trying to expand , trying to get bigger . Yeah , trying to find the right team of people to work with too , because I've done all this stuff all by myself . I probably would be a lot further in life if I could trust a team of people . You know what I mean .
Probably my biggest drawback or my biggest criticism for myself is not working with other people , because I don't trust people to do the job . Yeah , I always believe in . I know I'm gonna do this shit . Uh-huh , you know what I'm saying .
So if I had a consistent , powerful team , I probably would be a lot further and probably a hell of a lot bigger too yeah , well , they're too late to find that team keep pushing .
No , it ain't at all yeah yeah , mike , I swear you got like a sixth sense . This is what we were talking about before you came here Literally yeah .
I swear you got a sixth sense . We were literally just I'm telling you .
We were just debating about this because we were saying that tyus about it , we were breaking it all down . I swear literally 30 minutes ago . So , but it's it's .
You know , you could be the star , but it ain't about you , no it really ain't it's about us collectively doing this I agree , you just standing out , so what ?
no , it doesn't matter to make all this shit work everybody all of us everybody . Yeah , brains is everything
¶ Embracing Humility and Appreciation
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So another thing I tell people man , fuck your ego . Your ego ain't your amigo homie yeah , you know , I'm saying stick to the script . Yeah , you know , appreciate people . Uh , like you hit me up on instagram , I didn't have to come up here no like but fuck that , I said I was gonna do it .
Yeah , here I am and I appreciate you doing your man of your word man I appreciate that that's been fun , but that's probably why I'm so lucky all the time is because I do things without any type of uh uh , malice or any type of I need something for it .
I just do it because I just care , and it's gonna come back full circle oh , it's always gonna come back .
yeah , for real that it's always going to come back . Yeah , for real . That's what's up , man .
You're a real dude man . I appreciate it , man , you're a real dude man .
So what's your social handles man People ?
can reach out to you At Mike P Comedy on Instagram . Okay , mike P Las Vegas on Facebook .
Snapchat at Mike . This dude got some hilarious stuff . I've been looking at your stories . You have me dying . Y'all think I'm joking he literally is hilarious .
Every day I'm looking with something funny to do for a show .
I'm going to tell you something afterwards . I don't want to say it on air . It's just hilarious what you said to me . But check us out at VegasCirclecom and check out Mike P man . I appreciate you man appreciate y'all .
that was hilarious , hell yeah .