#143: MANS NOT HOT AKA Big Shaq AKA Michael Dapaah

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome British comedian Michael Dapaah AKA the worldwide sensation Big Shaq AKA Mans Not Hot to the Upper West Side! In his first American interview, Michael talks about the genesis of Big Shaq, how the Fire in the Booth segment took shape, how Michael wasn't completely happy after the performance, how it took the internet by storm, and whether man actually did get hot in the booth. We also dive into Michael's full history, from growing up in South London with dreams of being a football star, to his hilarious quest to get into University and follow his father's footsteps, to finding his passion in performing live on stage and in Instagram videos. We discuss how the loss of a lifelong friend changed his outlook on life, how he quit his desk job to focus on creative videos, and how he held himself to goals he kept posted on his bedroom wall. All that, plus stories about Drake, Shaquille O'Neal, Charlie Sloth, dealing with the ups and downs of producing internet content, and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jeff. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. We are one and a half weeks away from our debut West Coast show in Los Angeles, California. Jeff, November 2nd, it's the real live in Los Angeles at the bootleg theater.
0:14.3	Oh, my schedule is clear for that day. Well, thank God because the plane tickets are bought. The Airbnb is reserved and on November 2nd guys, we're bringing comedy, music, merch, special
0:26.8	guests, including...
0:28.3	We got three multi-platinum special guests coming through.
0:31.0	Not one.
0:31.7	Not one.
0:32.3	Not two.
0:33.3	Well, maybe two.
0:34.3	But three multi-platinum selling artists as special guests and...
0:41.1	Wait, are we those special guests?
0:42.5	We are not those special guests.
0:43.6	Okay.
0:44.4	But more on the way.
0:47.8	Guys, it's going to be an amazing show and we don't just want to show up.
0:52.2	We want to sell it out.
0:53.5	We sold out our show at SOBs here in New York. We sold out our show at Highline here in New York. We went to London and sold out our show over there at the Hockson Square Bar and Kitchen. Let's keep the streak alive. And that starts with you guys. And we wanted to shout out a whole bunch of people who have bought tickets and they're not even
1:12.5	going to be in the building right and we've named some of them before yeah so people from across
1:16.8	the country who have gone to it's the real dot com bought tickets because they want to support the sellout
1:22.8	and here's just some of the names shout out to dave Dunn, Michael Sanchez, Darius, Darius,
1:29.5	Tyler Denning, Jenna Luckman, Shale Thacker, Alvin Taylor, Justin Agujar, Rob Hunter,
1:37.1	Anthony Bonilla, Christina Nunes, Scott Fonle, Kim Fenster, Alex Cohen, Sam Bernal, Scott Lulali, guys, that's just some of the names who have contributed to our cause.
1:50.0	Let's sell out the bootleg theater, our first show on the West Coast.
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