Prison War Stories from the Most Brutal New York Prison Units | Michael 'Champ' Baker
Locked In with Ian Bick
Ian Bick
4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This October, a remarkable true story comes to the big screen. I have Tourette syndrome, and it makes me tick. In the film, critics are calling powerful and life-affirming. The problem is that people don't know enough about Tourette's. I can sit here, but I can help this lad. Laugh out loud, funny and uplifting. That young man would not harm a fly, and he makes a damn fine cup of tea. With a brilliant lead performance, it's unmissable. Starring Robert Arameo, Maxine P, Peter Mullen and Shirley Henderson, I swear in Cinemas October 10. Champ, welcome to Lockton, man. We've been talking about doing this for a while now and I'm glad we were able to set it up. Absolutely, man. First and foremost, thank you for the |
| 0:38.0 | opportunity. I've been watching your show for a while now. Definitely falls in line with who I am |
| 0:44.3 | and where I come from and what I do at this point. And you are a inspiration. Just letting you know that, |
| 0:52.2 | you know, coming from prison, coming out here, getting to it immediately, you know, going through the ups and downs of life and figuring it out. You know what I mean? And now you're here in such a lovely place, big-ass platform. I love it, man. Thanks for having me. Thank you, brother. I appreciate it, man. That's |
| 1:11.0 | what it's all about. And then plug the name of your show in at the top of this episode, too. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah, so my show is called Spin the Yard. It's on YouTube under my Champion Style TV YouTube page. |
| 1:23.5 | You can follow me on Instagram at Champion Style TV.TV. You can follow spin dot the yard on Instagram. |
| 1:31.8 | And that's that. |
| 1:33.0 | Awesome. |
| 1:33.7 | Yeah, and Facebook too, obviously under my real name, Michael Smith Baker. |
| 1:37.1 | Okay, perfect. |
| 1:38.0 | And we'll have that all linked down in the description of this episode for the audience, too. |
| 1:41.9 | Did you grow up in New York? |
| 1:43.6 | Yes. |
| 1:45.2 | I grew up in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:49.7 | It's the projects, conventional hood, you know, to live in in New York City. |
| 1:57.1 | It's actually called this, I think it's the biggest projects in Brooklyn, New York |
| 2:03.4 | compared to Queensbridge in Queens, New York, which is the biggest throughout the five boroughs. |
| 2:10.3 | I grew up there for a little while. Initially, I was living in Park Slope, Brooklyn, like me, my grandmother, my aunts, my mother, my uncle Ross, |
| 2:21.7 | we all lived under the same roof with my grandmother. |
| 2:25.0 | And my mother had me when she was like 15 years old. |
| 2:28.2 | And my mother did not want to have me, right? |
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