Hello and welcome to another episode of Not Too Deep. I'm your host Grace Hellbag. Very excited to have rapper comedian

podcaster and all around

Anime enthusiast open Mike Eagle on today's episode we talk about his start in rap in Chicago

To Los Angeles getting into the UCB and comedy world and infusing comedy into his rap

Realizing that that might have gone a little too far and redirecting. We got to talk about his new podcast network stony Island audio and

He gives me one of the most enticing

descriptions of anime

That I've ever heard that might actually get me to watch anime. So please enjoy this extremely delightful episode of Not Too Deep with Open Mike Eagle

Open Mike Eagle do you prefer to be called that?

That's a lot of syllables you can use any of those that you want you can pick one. Okay, great

I'll vary it throughout this entire episode. That keeps me on my toes. I like that

Well, first of all, I want to know

Because you're such a multi-faceted artist in so many ways. How do you describe your artistry?

I like to tell people I'm like primarily known as a rapper because I feel like that's the way most people have heard of me

But then I just list off whatever other stuff is in the front of my mind at the time. So right now it would be like podcast dirt

comedy adjacent and TV stuff because I'm trying to sell TV stuff

So it's in the front of my mind even though I'm currently not on TV

Right, right, right, but when it happens, we'll know that it wasn't just some random event that it's been a long time coming

It wasn't it wasn't overnight. It was a lot of a lot of

Difficult pitches. I'm sure those are always the most fun ones

I want to know how how you got here you studied psychology

Right and then but you were raised in Chicago. Yeah, how did you enter into music into rap into entertainment at all?

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