Michael Jackson, Media Manipulation, & Manifestation | Ep. 60 | Unphazed

In this episode Phaz reviews the new Michael Jackson movie and talk about why the media tried to paint it as something it wasn’t — just like they spent years trying to tear down Michael Jackson throughout his life. He dives into more of how media is used as a tool to control and manipulate society.

Phaz breaks down the excellence, discipline, manifestation, greatness, work ethic, and mindset that made Michael Jackson one of the most influential human beings to ever live, while also talking about how the Media often attacks people who dare to become extraordinary. 

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SPEAKER_06 0:22

Welcome to the Unfazed Podcast. As you may already know, what this episode is going to be about, I have to be very careful as we get into this next episode because this is an emotional episode. This is an inspirational episode. This is an episode that looks deeper into all of the things that we have been talking about thus far on the Unphazed podcast. So, transitional achievers, unphazed family, please buckle up your seatbelt because we're about to have an amazing conversation about the new Michael Jackson movie. And not just the movie, but his legacy and what we can take from his legacy and what we need to look at his story and take from so we can apply that to our own lives so we could even get a smooch, a little, a little lick, a little, a little taste of greatness coming to you soon on the Unfaced Podcast. Let's do it. So yes, I see I know y'all see the fit. You hee he Oh, wait, I got the fit on. You see the pony in the back. You see the you see the pony? You know? I look good, don't I? I look good. Um shout out to Michael Jackson, man. And um I wanna say one thing. Why does this Michael Jackson movie, why does this, why does this matter? Why does that why was there such a wave of inspiration? Why was there such a wave of you know love being sent around where it felt like for that glimpse, that moment, it felt like we were back in '99. It felt like, well, I don't even know how good you know race relations were in 99, but I'm just saying, it just felt like back in the day where we were a little more where we could come together, different races, different sizes, different genders, different people, and we could because there's not many people nowadays, especially that can do that, that can unite people in a way that Michael Jackson did. There's not a lot of people who would want to do or have the impact that Michael Jackson did. And why is that? Because you will make there's a high probability that you will end up how Michael Jackson did. Right? So let's get into this. Michael Jackson, um, somebody who is an inspiration of all. Um, I want to get into a lot of things that have been going on with this new movie. If you haven't seen the movie, first off, I I'm sorry, I'm gonna be doing this all day. I don't know how Michael did this, it's getting in on my mouth. If you did not see the movie, my personal rating right here on the movie, I'm not gonna give away the movie. I'm sure you've seen it already. It did 400 billion, trillion, gazillion domestically, right? So I'm sure you've seen the movie, but I rate the movie uh out of 10, I would give it probably 1,565.99, right? If that was out of 10, though, if I had to rate that movie. And I want to talk about something because the initial reactions to the movie really threw me off. So I'm gonna pull this up here. Now we're back. The initial reactions to the Michael movie, I want y'all to look at this. Michael debuts with a low 27% score on Rotten Tomatoes. I was like, no way, there's no way that they flopped on this movie. There's no way. But me not knowing, I didn't, well, I wasn't looking into this movie like as it was coming out. I wasn't watching like the interviews and I didn't know much about Jafar. I didn't know much about the family reaction. I didn't, I didn't know much about it leading up to it, which is even better. I feel like because I was super excited when it came out, right? But seeing this, I was like, dang it, why would they? Ah, bad. They did Michael bad, they did it. But something in my heart, because I trust these reviews, which and maybe that's me, I look at the reviews of movies, and that doesn't mean I will not go see the movie because I am also a fan of going to see a bad movie. Even if someone says it's bad, I want to go see that for myself and maintain my own opinion of that film. But it does affect me a little bit. And if there's two movies that come out at the same time, and one has a lower and one has a higher, I may go see that one, and I may not make it back to see that one until it comes out on the streaming platforms. So that was a possibility with the Michael movie. But I was like, no way, no how. There's no way this movie was that bad. 27% on Riding Tomatoes. Then we go back. Let's bring that popcorn meter back. The popcorn meter, the audience score gave that movie 97%. How is that possible? How is that possible? Is that because there's so many fans just of Michael Jackson? Possibly. Maybe is it because the critics were looking for specific things and they have an agenda that they look at for each of the movies, and it's like, yeah, Michael just didn't fit that agenda or that checklist for the movies that they were looking at at that time. Possibly. Or could it also be people wanting to see that movie fail? Could it also be the continuation of the media manipulation that was done to Michael Jackson while he was alive? Possibly. But I went to the movies, I went to go see the movie myself, and like I said, I gave it 1,000 five 1,559.99 out of 10, right? So this was an amazing movie, and I loved every aspect of the movie because as I am an avid Michael Jackson fan, I don't know every detail. I'm not, I don't know any detail about every anybody really, but it's like that's one of those guys. Like I love the greats. I love my Michael Jordan's, my Kobe's, my LeBron's, my Muhammad Ali's, my, you know, I mean, I love stuff like that. I love championships, I love winning, I love greatness, I love things like that because that motivates me, that inspires me, that gives me an ounce of hope that I can be successful, that I can be great, that my life is meant for more, that I can reach people and I can help people and I can heal people with my God-given abilities, right? I and I've been trying to stop saying right all the time. I know I say that after everything. But watching this movie, it was an amazing, it was an amazing organization of different parts of his life. I don't know exactly how accurate some people were arguing about the accuracy of the film, but it was an amazing organization of different ways of his life and being able to see his thought process or his feelings during certain points in his life, and being able to see the reactions from other people, what he was actually going through, and to see how alienated he was, how he was a true alien on this world where there's nobody, I'm not gonna say nobody, there's very few people who have similar experiences to that. Maybe him, Justin Bieber, and a few others who are at such a young age, you are put into the spotlight, and now millions of people eyes on you on it all the time. There was a part in the movie, I'm sorry if you haven't seen it, where he was a kid and the mom was trying to, Nia Long played great in the movie too. Um always good to see her. But um, there was a point in the movie where the mom, Nia Long, was telling him, hey, you should go, you know, make some friends your own age, you know, or make some friends. He was saying that this is the kid version of Michael was saying that, yeah, I can't make friends. Like, I don't connect with them. They just look at me weird and they stare at me and they do all these things. And this was at such a young age, and then you could see as he got older, he just got more, he didn't get less famous, he got more famous. So being able to look at a behind the scenes lens of what this person actually went through. I think it was an amazing, it was an amazing film. So I definitely recommend it a thousand out of ten. A thousand out of ten. And if y'all have not seen the movie, like I said, 27 by Rotten Tomatoes, you know, but who cares about that? 90% by the audience, and then let's see, it also got it was okay. Here we go. This is some big news for it. Michael is now the highest rated musical biopic of all audiences of all time by audiences. Highest rated musical biopic of all. Sorry, Michael is now the highest rated musical biopic of all time by audiences. That doesn't just happen, folks. That doesn't just happen. That does not just happen, okay? And I could go in and I could talk to you about how much the money the movie made, how successful the movie was. But I want to hit on that critics review, that Rotten Tomatoes review for a second. Because, like I said, I don't know. This could be a plethora of things that led to that rating, that view, or whatever it is. And maybe they just like they gave a valid reason for like I didn't hit on these points. Well, maybe the next one will because the movie did so good that they're coming out with a Michael II, right? So let's get that out of the way. The media did an amazing job. The media has done an amazing job. The powers that be have done an amazing job structuring the world, implementing rules in the world, controlling the world, and I had a conversation with this guy at work, and we were just talking about how good of a job, and I'm starting to see it's my algorithm. My algorithm, I'll pull up one of those videos for you, but I'm starting to see all these videos where it's like I wonder how much programming it took to get us to believe that Michael Jackson was a terrible person. But I'm seeing a lot of different videos about that, not even just about Michael Jackson, but about life. Like how much conditioning, like how much work, how much planning, how much effort and execution, thought, and sometimes evil had to go into making the world what it is today. But I'm an optimist, right? I'm an optimist. I don't like to come over here and talk about things like this all the time because it sometimes seems negative, but I don't look at this as negative, so I don't want you guys to look at this as negative. I want you to look at this as acknowledgement. Because now when you can acknowledge something, when you know the truth, you know, when you know the truth, the truth hurts. And that that's the the truth hurts, right? A lot of times the truth, when you really know the truth, you can't handle the truth. You remember that movie? The truth hurts. But when you do know the truth and you acknowledge the truth, that is a little bit of a weight off of your shoulders, and then you can look at that and you can be able to move in the world how you want to move, and you can inform other people around you so you guys can wake up and be living the right way and not be controlled to the best of your ability. But back to my point, the media did an amazing job. The media still does an amazing job. The media did an amazing job. Growing up, my I had growing up, Michael Jackson was not very like talked about as much in my household. Maybe heard his songs every once in a while. But I remember just as a young kid, right? My first experience with Michael Jackson was I seen him going to court. It was that famous picture, and I'll try to pull it up here as well. Um gotta take the glove off, sorry. Um, it was a famous picture of Michael Jackson when he was going to court for all those cases. Um, dealing with, like, you know, all the with jazz, all the, you know, all the crazy stuff that we all know what he went to court for. I seen him, he was in pajamas, and he was in the courtroom, and I was a young kid. You know, young kids, they just say anything. They just like look at anything. They're like, oh my God. They call it out. They're they're blunt. I was a blunt kid. I'm looking, I was scared of Michael Jackson because I was like, in my mind, I'm looking at this guy is in court for what he's in court for for harming kids, and he just he looked different. You know what I mean? Like the skin tone, like the work that he got done, whatever it was, right? It was like, okay, it was weird. So there was a true fear in my heart about who Michael Jackson was. And when I say the media did a good job, growing up my whole life, I'm not saying I always had that fear or I was just scared of Michael Jackson, but I looked at Michael Jackson as wacko Jacko. I looked at Michael Jackson as a weird guy. I looked at Michael Jackson as someone who was not a great guy. And that was my experience growing up to him. Why does he look like that? Oh, he bleaches his skin all the time. He doesn't care it is, he wanted to be white. The media did a great job making us think these things, not knowing that he had Vitiligo. Not saying that he never bleached his skin, but there was a reason behind. It wasn't that he hated himself. And I'm not gonna keep going dive and trying to dive deep into like who Michael Jackson is and what I know about him and this and that, because I don't know much about him, but I some of the things that I'm starting to pick up on, even that we've seen from the actual film itself, that they made aware of that he had Vitalico. And that was something that he was dealing with. Not that he wanted to be white, is what I thought. I want to let Charlemagne the God said something too, just about like the cases and everything that he was going through. Um, like the accusations, because he was um acquitted. You know what I mean? I think I believe he won the case. Um, but I want to show this video of what Charlemagne the God said about Michael Jackson.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

I wouldn't want to see anything about uh Michael Jackson's sexual assault allegations unless you're telling me how false they were. Unless you're telling me about how the how the FBI investigated Michael for 17 years and didn't find anything. If you're not gonna tell me that part of the story, I don't want to, I don't, I don't care about the propaganda that's been put out all these years.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

I think if they do a sequel, maybe they'll get into that. I know that the scene that we talked about that was uh reportedly removed, they say it was removed because of a stipulation and settlement um that Michael Jackson that had happened in one of the cases.

SPEAKER_05 17:24

If it's the documentary of his life, I would want to see that as well. Like, of course, I want to see all of the amazing performances, how he started and all that, but I would want to see that as well.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

I want to see how he was investigated by the FBI for 17 years and they didn't find nothing. I want to see, I want them to talk about how he owned ATV Music Publishing Rec catalog, which he purchased in 1985 for like 50 million dollars, okay? And how he had like the Beatles catalog, and how being that powerful in the music industry caused people to start putting these type of allegations on him.

SPEAKER_06 17:53

Well, going back to that point of the media did an amazing job, right? And not even amazing, like, okay, good job, but they knew what they were doing. There's this machine in the media that is telling us what to think. There's this machine in the media that doesn't want to lose control. There's this machine in the media that uses that as a tool to get us to act in accordance with the way that they want us to act, to do the things they want us to do, to buy the things they want us to buy, to think the things they want us to think, to act the way they want us to act. There's a problem there, and when I say Michael Jackson's life was a great example of a lot of the things that we're starting to uncover and see in 2025-2026. A lot of these things that are starting to come out. Michael Jackson's life was a piece of that. Michael Jackson's life was an example of the bigger problem that America has. Just mentioned, oh, he had ATV, like he had bought all these publishing rights, he had the Beatles, he became so powerful in the music industry. When somebody becomes so powerful, when somebody has so much influence, when somebody has so much money and so much talent, and acknowledges the bad that the people at the top are doing, there's only one way to handle that. There's only one way to handle that. Speaking of the mental, unfazed family. I have to fill you guys in real quick. I know this is a great episode. Speaking about mental, speaking about the mind and how that important that is to us and all the things that we're trying to succeed in life. You know what I mean? Most of the time we're taught about the physical side of training, but nobody really takes the time to teach us how to train the mental. And if you guys want to know what I'm doing to train my mental, you guys need to check out this mental reps journal. I'm gonna have the link in the description so you guys can go pick this up. It is super good. Mental Reps is a guided journal designed to help you build confidence, discipline, resilience, and emotional strength through your daily refreshment. It's inspired by a personal story and your own experiences. So whether you're an athlete, a student, an entrepreneur, or you're a transitional achiever, if you guys want to know what I'm doing, this is what I'm doing. I'm journaling, I'm writing my thoughts down. We're trying to do a lot of things in a world that is fighting back against us. So if you guys want clarity going through those moments, if you want some time to really reflect on what it is that you're doing and how incredible you are, you need to get this mental rep journal. The link is in the bio in the description. Go to mental ref journal.com. I look at Michael Jackson's story and I look at his situation and his relentless pursuit of greatness is so admirable. It's so admirable. I want to play another video just talking about like how he was able to manifest the life that he wanted.

SPEAKER_03 21:24

He once said, I look in the mirror and I would say over and over to myself, I'd take a deep breath, put my feet together, raise myself strong like a hero warrior, and I'd say, biggest selling album of all time, over and over in my mind, and I'd look in my eyes and I'd mean it. I'd say, biggest selling album of all time. And I wouldn't accept anything unless it was exactly what I wanted. My attitude was I want the biggest selling album of all time to break records.

SPEAKER_05 21:51

The King of Pop was right.

SPEAKER_06 21:52

What you tell yourself over and over again, that's his legacy. That's who Michael Jackson was. Not all the slop that they tried to feed us towards the end of his life. Not everything that he was in those courtrooms for. Not the stuff that they made sketches of him about, calling him Wacko Jacko, and what the media tried to portray him as. Michael Jackson's legacy was a legacy of truly the go- truly the GOAT. The greatest of all time. But there's there's something insane about it. And maybe that that it is insane, but there's something insane about manifest being able to say I'm going to be the greatest of all time, than actually going out there and doing it. A lot of us say we want to be successful. A lot of us would love to say we want to be as famous as Michael Jackson or as great as Michael Jackson. I've said that. But you think about the timeline, and of course he would like the abuse from his father and stuff growing up, but even think about all that work that put to make him the greatest. Even post that, like what really went into creating the greatest performer of all time? Somebody that has been in the top ten over several decades. Right? I think I think it is amazing. I think his story is amazing. I think the movie was amazing. I can't wait for the second movie to come out. But I do think when we look at Michael Jackson's life, and we look at the life that we want to live, and we look at the America that we want to live in, it's sad a lot of times to see this media machine and how we can't really trust it, and how AI is coming out, and how the better and better that gets, if we can't trust the media now, boy, wait until I'd say wait until a year, but like it's happening now right in front of us. We don't know what's real or what's fake, we don't know what's fact or fiction, we don't know what's really going on in this world. Politics has become a reality show. Everything is more expensive, but all we can do is acknowledge it. Don't let it drive you crazy. Don't let it get you caught up in something you're not supposed to be doing. Stick to the plan, acknowledge it, and keep moving forward. Keep moving that what did Varaki say? It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. About how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. That is the exact formula into how we're going to win 2026. And I'm not talking about life. There's a radical change that I feel like is going on in the world right now. That's going on in my life right now, and I'm sure it's going on in a lot of other people's lives, your guys' life, your life right now. There's a change happening. There's something that you feel like in the world that is like sorry, it's just different, it's becoming more real. Like I'm becoming more aware of my vitality. I'm becoming more aware of what really matters in the world. And I think that's the sad part because I'm becoming more aware of what really matters in the world, and the more aware I become, the more that I realize that everything in this world is so opposite, left from that. And not the world, but it's the society, like what we're being told, what we're being fed, what we're watching. And I hate to say like all because all of it's not bad, but a lot of it is. So talking about transitional achievers, um, Michael Jackson, like his story is an amazing story for being able to dedicate your life to something, to dedicate your life to being great. And I'm not saying you have to do that, but a portion of that, of the work ethic, of the manifestation, of the belief, of the insanity. Because I do feel like you have to be insane, insanely committed to one goal. And that goal is is is being the best you, not being Michael Jackson, not being LeBron James, not being Kobe Bryant, not being Barack Obama, being the best version of you, the weird version, the talkative version, the shy version, the happy version, the sad version, but being the best version of you and continually trying to get better. All I want to say is that they don't really care about us. All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us. All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us. I had an amazing time at the Michael Jackson movie. I'm gonna put up um I got some videos I'm gonna put up here for y'all too, just to see. You know, I was out there getting it at the movie. Man, it was um that that was an amazing thing to see. If y'all haven't seen it, go see it. Take your family, take your people, and go and see that, man. That's a very motivational movie to see Michael Jackson, the greatest of all time. I definitely want to end with a message from the great. Let me see what I got on here.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

I don't read all the things written about me. I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up as I did in front of 100 million people since the age of five, you're automatically different. The last few weeks, I have been cleansing myself and it's been a rebirth for myself. It's like a cleansing spirit. I love you too. My childhood was completely taken away from me. There was no Christmas, there was no birthdays, it was not a normal childhood, no normal pleasures of childhood. Those were exchanged for hard work, struggle, and pain. An eventual material and professional success. But as an awful price, I cannot recreate that part of my life. Nor would I change any part of my life. However, today, when I create my music, I feel like an instrument of nature. I wonder what delight nature must feel when we open our hearts and express our God-given talents. The sound of approval rose across the universe, and the whole world abounds in magic. Wonder fills our hearts, what we have glimpsed for an instant. The playfulness of life. And that's why I love children and learn so much from being around them. I realize that many of our world's problems today, from the inner city crime to large-scale wars and terrorism and our overcrowded prisons, are a result of the fact that children have had their childhood stolen from them. The magic, the wonder, the mystery, and the innocence of a child's heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. I really believe that.

SPEAKER_06 31:49

Couldn't have said it any better, man. Um, sad to see somebody like that gone too soon. The greatest of all time, the goat. If you haven't seen the Michael movie, go and see it. Um I know that inspired me, so I know it's gonna inspire a lot of you guys. I hope this message short episode that I did today inspires you guys as well. I know I'm not exactly where I want to be, um, but that there was like a burst that I've been getting in these past few weeks, I feel like that it's that extra boost, that extra um feeling of hope that um there there's something around the corner there, and I know times can look bleak, and for a lot of us that are alone, that are just maybe not even alone, but like feeling alone or trying to change your situation in the world that seems like it's constantly working against you, I just want you to know it's gonna be alright. Don't work too hard, work hard, extremely hard, but enjoy enjoy your life. Um, and get out, get some sun, go walk, have conversations, be around people that make you smile, that make you laugh, laugh more. I think that that's what his legacy was happiness, peace, and love. Thank you again for coming to the Unfazed Podcast. My name is FaZe, I'm a clerge. Stay unfazed. We outta here.