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What happens when a former football star embraces his comedic side and becomes a multi-faceted talent in the entertainment industry? Join us on the Vegas Circle Podcast as we welcome the dynamic Michael Perry, also known as Mike P, who takes us through his remarkable evolution from a wide receiver at UNLV to a celebrated comedian, radio personality, actor, and sports betting consultant. From coining the name "Hot 97.5" to becoming the station's first hire, Mike P's journey is a testament to hard work, confidence, and pursuing one's passion.

Local artists in Las Vegas face a unique set of challenges, and Mike P shares his firsthand experiences navigating the city's entertainment landscape. We discuss how the constant influx of big-name celebrities impacts local talent and the critical role of self-marketing through social media. Mike P provides valuable insights on how emerging artists can leverage local platforms, adapt to the city's transient nature, and uncover the hidden opportunities that Las Vegas has to offer.

Expect the unexpected in the comedy world, as Mike P recounts a surprising call from 50 Cent that led to a movie role, illustrating Hollywood's unpredictable nature. Despite the setbacks, Mike P emphasizes the importance of perseverance, humility, and authenticity. He reflects on the fulfillment that comes from staying true to one's commitments and achieving personal milestones. With practical advice and inspiring stories, this episode promises both laughter and valuable lessons for aspiring artists and entrepreneurs alike.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1:

So you had a scholarship at.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

What position you play in.

Speaker 2:

I play wide receiver and I return kicks and punts.

Speaker 1:

Oh fun, you was nasty then. Yeah, I was him. Could you go co-pro? Oh hell yeah.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

Okay, smart, I talk a lot of trash.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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?

Speaker 2:

Well, I started 97.5. You started 97.5? I started. I was the first person they ever hired?

Speaker 1:

Oh, I did not know that.

Speaker 2:

Yes, okay, I brought Franzen out here Word, I named it Hot 97. I said, man, we need to name this Hot.

Speaker 3:

We in the desert. Plus they got 97 in New York. We need to just say Hot 97.

Speaker 2:

Okay. So yeah, I did all that, man Wow. So when did it?

Speaker 1:

launch. When did Hot 97 launch 2001.

Speaker 3:

Damn Was that your first foray into being a radio DJ, or was it?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

I never knew this man. I never knew you were the one to start.

Speaker 2:

That's what's up man, yeah, hell yeah.

Speaker 1:

So that's 23 years, jesus.

Speaker 2:

Christ, okay, yeah, well, 98 is when I got on the radio, actually, so it's been about, yeah, like 26 years.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

That's crazy, it's wild, because everybody knows you, I mean literally you, the voice of Vegas for radio every morning?

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1:

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. 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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

You know, I'm saying so don't try to go, the old school rock that's dead, that's out of here.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

It is, it's not no more Like yeah, mike.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

That's honestly what I'm doing it for and that's that's a luna lounge, right? Yes, on tuesdays, okay.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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?

Speaker 3:

so you be out there struggling.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

And.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

That's why.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

You know, I'm really from the streets, though, you know, so I knew what I was saying. I was calm.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

He said get his number because he was feeling your energy man. He knew you were right.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

I remember when Jeff Porter was talking about it. I remember we had Porter.

Speaker 2:

Craig, he was breaking that down.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

I mean you could go look it up, bro, it ain't? I'm not lying about nothing.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

I don't live for that yeah man, I got a family, bro.

Speaker 2:

That's my purpose. I'm able to do me and take care of my whole goddamn family.

Speaker 3:

My daughter graduated college.

Speaker 2:

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?

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 1:

You can see it with you.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

Oh shit, it was dope as hell. I can't even imagine.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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?

Speaker 2:

Hell yeah, I write.

Speaker 1:

Oh, so you write before you even go up on stage. Absolutely, yeah, okay, I figured you would freestyle because you're so creative.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

You kind of need to have that but you just got to see it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, okay, and then real comedians that's gifted. They could turn anything into a joke.

Speaker 3:

For real, straight up. What's his name? Tracy Morgan.

Speaker 2:

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?

Speaker 1:

Hell yeah, how'd you recoup Because?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that studio's coming. I mean with Howard Hughes and Sony. Oh, come on, man, mark Wahlberg. Consultant. Local artist.

Speaker 3:

Containers on the strip that have been working forever.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

Because?

Speaker 1:

Because LA is trash, bro, it is terrible and they got a serious homeless problem.

Speaker 2:

I mean I don't even know why nobody lives. Hell yeah, it don't make no sense, it's a rough situation.

Speaker 1:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

I win a lot.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

You actually watch them all. Like you said, the back of the room.

Speaker 2:

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?

Speaker 1:

with NBA right now they can reach out to you, man.

Speaker 2:

you can hit my Instagram at Mike P Comedy.

Speaker 3:

Okay, check him out man, If you're a female out there and you want to cheat hit me on my Instagram.

Speaker 2:

At Mike P Comedy.

Speaker 1:

That's a stable little bit. What inspires you now, man? Is it your kids just graduating? What's keeping you?

Speaker 2:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

Why would I be mad that?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

And then once it's gone, it's gone. They're never eight or nine again, they're never a baby, ever again.

Speaker 1:

And that's so funny. You said my son nine and my youngest is seven. Yeah, it goes like that.

Speaker 2:

They're gonna be 16 so for real girl in the bed for business advice.

Speaker 1:

But we always ask everybody about the gems man. What?

Speaker 2:

would you tell over there it's coming, I promise.

Speaker 1:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 3:

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.

Speaker 1:

You know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

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?

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

That's what it is and they don't want to offend nobody.

Speaker 2:

You know what I mean.

Speaker 3:

That's tough.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

Uh okay, high end del fresco del fresco is good, del fresco is great.

Speaker 1:

Hey man, I've been there multiple times, shout out what?

Speaker 2:

okay. And then, um, let me think there's this restaurant over by unlv. They make these grits and catfish.

Speaker 1:

Oh, soulful Spot. Hell yeah, you gotta give us that. What's the name? Damn it, I forgot the name.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 3:

Those rolls get me every time. But you said Del Frisco's, lucille's, really good.

Speaker 1:

Lucille's fine. Those roles get me every time. Yeah, it's actually five of them.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

I swear you got a sixth sense. We were literally just I'm telling you.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

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?

Speaker 1:

no, it doesn't matter to make all this shit work everybody all of us everybody. Yeah, brains is everything. It's the whole nine.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 2:

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.

Speaker 1:

yeah, for real that it's always going to come back. Yeah, for real. That's what's up, man.

Speaker 3:

You're a real dude man. I appreciate it, man, you're a real dude man.

Speaker 1:

So what's your social handles man People?

Speaker 2:

can reach out to you At Mike P Comedy on Instagram. Okay, mike P Las Vegas on Facebook.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

Every day I'm looking with something funny to do for a show.

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 3:

that was hilarious, hell yeah.