Speaker 1: Calgary Audio. What's up, Mother Sockers. Welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: Mother Soccer Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Blackson. I'm never alone.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, thanks again for listening every week. I guess
Speaker 1: they love her voice. Michael Blackson. What are you wearing today,
Speaker 1: Chinnese best friend? I'm wearing the clothes that I did
Speaker 1: not get from your friends. Oh no, free close to that.
Speaker 1: I had to buy this myself. Michael Blockxon. For those
Speaker 1: who are listening, Chinese best friend, get all the free
Speaker 1: clothes that I get that I don't wear. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you're supposed to wear not me. After I word, their
Speaker 1: value went down. They all went bankrupt. Hey, they don't worry.
Speaker 1: Very soon, you're gonna be very valuable to them. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be my Mr hit me down of Michael Blackson.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to lose at least a hundred pounds. No,
Speaker 1: I just tell him, make a big good size of
Speaker 1: my size. Actually wear like an extra medium. I just
Speaker 1: tell them they make you like a I am an
Speaker 1: extra large in a good day when I don't eat
Speaker 1: a lot of fried rush, I could be a large,
Speaker 1: but it's a little uncomfortable with the belly, so you
Speaker 1: just wear those are those clothes as you cast your
Speaker 1: money this week? Yeah, my girlfriend shout out to my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: She last had a baby together. You gotta get up
Speaker 1: for wait three or four years? I long you guys
Speaker 1: been together. Oh it's been a good five years. Michael.
Speaker 1: Why did she still your girlfriend? You scared to commit
Speaker 1: to her? Yeah? After you proposed on national television, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm gonna have to propose. You have
Speaker 1: a ring or you want to borrow? You can I
Speaker 1: borrow your ring? I'll get maybe, I'll see if I
Speaker 1: get rather to give that the friendship. I gave a
Speaker 1: promise that a ring before the engagement ring. I'll see
Speaker 1: if I give you like you borrow that, Michael Blackson,
Speaker 1: you had me down clothes, not engagement rings. For goodness, gracious,
Speaker 1: thanks Mike. We could talk about it after the show.
Speaker 1: I'll take it, okay. I gotta talked to Rid because
Speaker 1: she likes that ring, one of her engagement ring, and
Speaker 1: every ring was like pucking ten percent of what the
Speaker 1: engagement ring called. She like that would have to bring better.
Speaker 1: I'm like, the whole lot of money I could have
Speaker 1: just tricked you and just she likes the chief she
Speaker 1: took the ring off her head, watch your sleep and
Speaker 1: just give it to her. And the next day and
Speaker 1: just got on my knees and put on her other finger.
Speaker 1: See myself. I was gonna propose, Michael Blackson, but after
Speaker 1: seeing your very sweet proposal, I don't think I could
Speaker 1: beat that. Don't try to beat me. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: too I was like, just impress your Chinese people? What
Speaker 1: can you do to impress them? Like, can you like
Speaker 1: eat more rights? I don't know, Michael Good. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you said it, because I don't. I don't want to know.
Speaker 1: Chinese hate crime people are listening to us right now.
Speaker 1: They have other things to do, like what I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably like making Louis v than banks or on the
Speaker 1: civic were shortage in vehicles right now? A lot of things. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So how is he living with the African known as
Speaker 1: the African King of Comedy, Michael Blackson? Was he always
Speaker 1: a funny kid? Or you know? That is such a
Speaker 1: great question because I think it was really a surprise
Speaker 1: to all of us. Um Well, Michael decided that he
Speaker 1: thought he was funny. Yeah, because I remember, like in
Speaker 1: high school, his big thing was Big Daddy King, like
Speaker 1: you can't tell him he wasn't big Daddy King. He
Speaker 1: walked around like you know. It was so funny because
Speaker 1: everybody thought he because he wore the nicest pull of
Speaker 1: people thought, oh he was a drug dealer, but he
Speaker 1: was really a piece of dealer. He worked pizza, but
Speaker 1: nobody knew because you know, he kind of hit that
Speaker 1: part because if you in Philadelphia, I always say it's
Speaker 1: one of the most segregated cities because if you're downtown,
Speaker 1: you really don't know what's going on very well. So
Speaker 1: nobody really from the name heard you all. But then
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, when he was finished high school,
Speaker 1: we started telling jokes and you know, he would tell
Speaker 1: me some of them and I would laugh just in support. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't think he would take it seriously. Um,
Speaker 1: So of course I helped him write some of his
Speaker 1: jokes and stuff and gave him his humor. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I wrong, no wonder, No, I mean, you have
Speaker 1: to try the jokes on people. But one thing I
Speaker 1: think I admire was that he didn't give up. He
Speaker 1: kept trying. Um. I think the one thing my mom
Speaker 1: was like, My mom was like, um, you can't you
Speaker 1: know you have to go to school, you have to
Speaker 1: get some kind of trades. I think he went to
Speaker 1: craft Institute and got to travel industry kind of earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I did, Yeah I did. I went to school
Speaker 1: to work, Travis, because that's how he used to pick
Speaker 1: up girls, Like, Hey, I got a buddy pass. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? That was? That was no do
Speaker 1: you just I could give you a buddy pass, a
Speaker 1: standby ticket to But he you know, he did his
Speaker 1: He did his thing comedy. So you guys, are you
Speaker 1: a lot about sports? Oh my god, you know you
Speaker 1: know when I was a kid, I still got this
Speaker 1: Remember hitting me in the head. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what Michael friend, friend, Michael always, Michael always, he has
Speaker 1: these strings? Can you do that? Always? I had a
Speaker 1: fight with my sister him with a frying pan and Hicky.
Speaker 1: Still I do not do not recall senate one day
Speaker 1: so I would not have this tarnish in my record.
Speaker 1: That never had my hi right that he must have.
Speaker 1: That's from one of his ex girlfriends. That whatever, you
Speaker 1: scarred me, nigger, she was a fighter in high school.
Speaker 1: That's not true. It's not true. That's not true. That's
Speaker 1: not true. Great, well, that's not that's not that's not
Speaker 1: that's not true. Michael is technically older than our my her,
Speaker 1: so I don't know what he's talking about. First of all,
Speaker 1: I came to America with my mom first. Mike came
Speaker 1: like three years later. So um and I remember um
Speaker 1: when he you know when he came, So we were
Speaker 1: close in age, we probably like two years or whatever apart.
Speaker 1: He is older. Um, yes, he's he's older than my mom.
Speaker 1: My mom is the first. No, he's what's up, mother
Speaker 1: suck us? This is your African king up coming, Michael Blackson.
Speaker 1: I'm here to ask you a question. Oh you subscribe
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Speaker 1: catch a new episode every Tuesday. We grew up of course,
Speaker 1: Um Newark, New Jersey and funny story. That's our first boy,
Speaker 1: we're funny. Before we got to Philadelphia, right, my mom
Speaker 1: had to well, first of all, Um had to work
Speaker 1: so we can save enough money to be able to
Speaker 1: move to Philadelphia and get our own place, because before
Speaker 1: them were lived in like people's basement, different stuff. And
Speaker 1: a friend of my mom who was renowned pastor, the
Speaker 1: late um Verne, Yeah, Raven Lee. And it was in
Speaker 1: the eighties where homelessness was starting to go on the rise,
Speaker 1: but a lot of churches weren't doing anything about it.
Speaker 1: So he left the church. He was very this popular church,
Speaker 1: and he bought this house and in North New York
Speaker 1: and converted into uh a shelter home, so homeless people.
Speaker 1: So we lived there, right, we so because my mom
Speaker 1: had to like save money. It's hard to save money
Speaker 1: to speak about own place. But I remember Mike and
Speaker 1: I were so like ashamed, like because we lived in
Speaker 1: this shelter home, like the most random people. Like we
Speaker 1: had like these two old, like old men who I
Speaker 1: still thought it was the fifties and black folks weren't free.
Speaker 1: We had missed June, who had like mental health issue.
Speaker 1: She walked around with like lipstick brighter because she was
Speaker 1: a beauty queen back in her day, but that day
Speaker 1: passed like fifty years before, but she was still very
Speaker 1: present there. So it was like all these e collective
Speaker 1: characters all around us. So I remember we used there
Speaker 1: were kids who went to um Broardway Junior High or
Speaker 1: I was to go to the other school they lift
Speaker 1: across the street. So Mike and Now we would literally
Speaker 1: wait until all the kids are going to school and
Speaker 1: would try to like sneak out, and they kids us
Speaker 1: come out the shelter home. So one day they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you live there? Like? But what was funny was,
Speaker 1: of course we were Africans, and you know, everybody knows
Speaker 1: rice is king and my mom one of the things
Speaker 1: we had in our room was a rice cooker, and
Speaker 1: there was rules where you weren't allowed to cook in
Speaker 1: your room, but we didn't really like a lot of
Speaker 1: the foods they were cooked. So one day the security
Speaker 1: guard came knocking on our door and he was like,
Speaker 1: y'all in here cooking. We were like no, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the steamer from the rice cooker
Speaker 1: came up. We're like, no, we didn't cooking, you know,
Speaker 1: like what is smoke coming from behind your head because
Speaker 1: we supposed to shot the home food. I know, so
Speaker 1: they took our rice cooker. I'm sorry, that's taking me back.
Speaker 1: I'm very triggered right now. Somebody they took our rice cooker.
Speaker 1: It was very traumatic. But but then we still you know,
Speaker 1: we still graduated. I mean we we still did well
Speaker 1: and we did you want to you want to brought
Speaker 1: with Jr. High Schold right, No, because remember you were
Speaker 1: a couple of years ahead of me. We didn't move
Speaker 1: to Philly until my freshman year of high cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we moved to Philadelphia my freshman years of high school.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and Philadelphia was a good move for us.
Speaker 1: But shout out to us because what we used to do. Remember,
Speaker 1: we used to work for Rhane, Mike and I to
Speaker 1: help my mom out. There was this guy who had
Speaker 1: this van and he would put I mean, Nowaday would
Speaker 1: look real suspect. But he used to put these kids
Speaker 1: into these little black kids and would drive us to
Speaker 1: the suburbs to sell candy and to the rich white people.
Speaker 1: So what was so funny was that we were he
Speaker 1: was so skilled at teaching us. We had to come
Speaker 1: back for everything. So if you're not gonna do somebody's like, no,
Speaker 1: I can't buy your your thing because I'm diabetic, but
Speaker 1: you will be helping the kids in the community. If
Speaker 1: somebody said, oh, I'm a low income, then we had
Speaker 1: every like we had to come back for everything. And
Speaker 1: we were like we we used to we used to
Speaker 1: do well, and we used to bring their money home
Speaker 1: to my mom. Yeah, we'll give her like half the
Speaker 1: money was so we get like these candies, we sell
Speaker 1: them for like three dollars and out of every three dollar,
Speaker 1: we get seventy out of each one. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: well fifty to seventy five dollars a week and we
Speaker 1: have the money to our mom and we save the
Speaker 1: other half. And as I was able to save school
Speaker 1: money to go shopping for school close. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: how you find all those nice outfits and necklaces. No,
Speaker 1: but let me tell you Michael at that time, because
Speaker 1: you know in Africa, newly from African country, we don't
Speaker 1: really care about name brand as long as it's new.
Speaker 1: So Michael go, you know, we'll buy our meet, our
Speaker 1: groceries and sneakers all in the same Aland so Michael
Speaker 1: would like come to school and be feeling good about
Speaker 1: himself because it's like, oh it's new, but like, what
Speaker 1: the hell is bubbos? Bubbos they make your feet feel fun? Bubbos.
Speaker 1: Then cast our dollar. None bubbos, I forgot the rest
Speaker 1: of that. Bubb everybody whatever will bubbos. No, you don't
Speaker 1: know about that? You always or like any kind of
Speaker 1: no name names, no name like start track in action. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a sneakers that was called in action. It
Speaker 1: caused my mom. Actually it was more than it was
Speaker 1: nine dollars nine and she got it right next to
Speaker 1: the chicken. But remember that time, this is the true story.
Speaker 1: Remember that time we asked our mother for television. We're
Speaker 1: living in like the artists artists basement or whatever. We
Speaker 1: asked her for a TV. It's like, Mom, it would
Speaker 1: really be nice to have a TV on the TV.
Speaker 1: So my mom all of a sudden comes home. I
Speaker 1: don't know how she got this thing in the house,
Speaker 1: but bought the biggest bible she could find it. There's
Speaker 1: your TV has comedy has us. My mother is an
Speaker 1: advantage of that. She just all she's going, just got
Speaker 1: in us. I'm like, mom, we know god person. I
Speaker 1: was like, how did you get that TV? How did
Speaker 1: you get that Bible home? Like the thing was bigger
Speaker 1: at this table. She's like, that's your TV. So we
Speaker 1: never asked for TV again. You remember who's basement and
Speaker 1: we lived in or whenever the the artist artist in basement, yes,
Speaker 1: whenever she was flush the toilet. We living were like,
Speaker 1: bring the bleach, bret. We live in somebody basements and
Speaker 1: whenever the flded toilet is like you get to smell
Speaker 1: all the dudude or sometimes and then we went from
Speaker 1: then when we got our own place and Mommy came back,
Speaker 1: we gotta before Philly. We wasn't like Oranges when we
Speaker 1: where before the Marrison. We had our own place. We
Speaker 1: ran an attic. We forgot that was an East Orange,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. And then moved the Philly. We finally got
Speaker 1: our own place, a real home. I got my own
Speaker 1: bedroom for the first time. You know what I'm saying, Uh,
Speaker 1: three bad we had. We had three bad homeom row house,
Speaker 1: my mother playing three hunds a month. That's why I
Speaker 1: moved to Philly. Was so much cheaper. Philly as much,
Speaker 1: but so Philly definitely was the best thing that happened
Speaker 1: to us. Because Philly. You know, we got the Philly.
Speaker 1: It was so different. You could get a job right away.
Speaker 1: I went to Domina's Pizza. I got a job immediately.
Speaker 1: In Jersey, it was so hard to get a job.
Speaker 1: Having a job McDonald's was good. That's how hard it was.
Speaker 1: Like you could even get a job McDonald's when I
Speaker 1: was a kid back in the day. It's overpopulated at
Speaker 1: that time, not that it was hard to get one
Speaker 1: of my mom's. One of my mom's jobs though, was McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Remember she's to bring fish for We had all that
Speaker 1: free artists. We are the burghers my mom bring up
Speaker 1: and we'll freeze him up and eat him the next day.
Speaker 1: And I think it's illegal because I think that they
Speaker 1: put throwing them things the way every day, and my
Speaker 1: mom didn't like throwing away. My mom throw with food
Speaker 1: man Mike. But you know what, it's so funny when
Speaker 1: you brought up music. I thought of when we were
Speaker 1: in North New York and Michael. You guys don't know,
Speaker 1: but Michael's first movie was Lean on Me. By the way,
Speaker 1: he was the next stray and that he's the guy
Speaker 1: with the hot top pain in the Boston Self outside
Speaker 1: of the corner. It was so funny because he came.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to be in a movie.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, you're not. He's like, yeah, so what
Speaker 1: are your lying? Tell me? You like, He's like, free,
Speaker 1: Mr Clark. Free. That's when check that out you have
Speaker 1: he had two months he was like, it was free
Speaker 1: Mr Clark, Free, Mr Clark. There was oh that was
Speaker 1: his line. No no, no, yetally every extra had to
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