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Speaker 1: My guest is a comedy icon known for his razor

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Speaker 1: sharp wit, unapologetic honesty, and commanding stage present. He earn

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Speaker 1: critical acclaim for his breakout Netflix. So Chappelle's Home Team

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Speaker 1: presents Earthquake Legendary, produced by the One and Only Dave

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Speaker 1: Chappelle and Hell by The New York Times as the

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Speaker 1: funniest comedy.

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Speaker 2: Special of the year.

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Speaker 1: He's also the host of Quake's House It Is Unfiltered

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Speaker 1: and fan favorite radio show on Kevin Hart's Laugh Out

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Speaker 1: Loud Network Via Serious XM. Please welcome the one and

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Speaker 1: only to Money Making conversations, masterclass, Earthquake.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, my brother?

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Speaker 3: How you doing? Brother?

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Speaker 4: You know I love you because you say the whole

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Speaker 4: word conversation.

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Speaker 2: I got that, man, Las. My wife be on me.

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Speaker 3: She be on me, brother.

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Speaker 2: She's the number one good critic.

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Speaker 4: I'm so lazy with these words. I do combo and

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Speaker 4: right there convo.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean. I don't give them the

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Speaker 3: whole word, but you're giving them a whole, full course meal.

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Speaker 1: And she's gonna love that, and I appreciate it. Man, Earthquake.

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Speaker 1: You know, we all go, and you know, we go

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Speaker 1: way back in the comedy, all the way back to

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Speaker 1: Bat's comic view. In fact, let me just tell y'all

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Speaker 1: private store, I've done it on my show. I met

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Speaker 1: him on stage in Atlanta in nineteen ninety five. I

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Speaker 1: came into town as a held comedy writer off to

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey ABC sitcoll and that brother was hosting, and

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Speaker 1: he was waiting on me, and boy, he tore that

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Speaker 1: stage up, and I learned what Earthquake was is and

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Speaker 1: why he's a legend today because you were fund of

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Speaker 1: that night, brother, and it allowed me to see at

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Speaker 1: a young age that just just unbridled, unfiltered comedy. Talk

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Speaker 1: about doing comedy in ninety five and now you're doing

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Speaker 1: the comedy because we went to that little Wok period. Well,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't say certain things on stage or they take

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Speaker 1: in your career. So you went in ninety five, went

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Speaker 1: through that Wok period. How'd you deal with that? And

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Speaker 1: now back to during the comedy that you were comfortable doing?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean for me anyway, I don't know about

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Speaker 4: everybody else in the game. I have always been comfortent

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Speaker 4: with my my comedy because I always could tell if

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Speaker 4: I was ever questioned on the jokes where the origin

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Speaker 4: came from, and it never came from a hostility, bigotry, hatred.

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Speaker 4: And I think I stayed with my new next Fok

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Speaker 4: special is I always stay with the joke. I think

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Speaker 4: the problem that we have now and is comedians are

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Speaker 4: not being funny. They're trying that. You know what I

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Speaker 4: think they get in trouble is when they try to

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Speaker 4: be controversial or try to be shocking or be a

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Speaker 4: shock joke. But if you root it in jokes, if

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Speaker 4: you root it from humor, then you know people even

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Speaker 4: if they don't agree with it, they can least see

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Speaker 4: where you came from, of the origin of it, and

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Speaker 4: it came from a joke perspective.

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Speaker 3: Ninety five.

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Speaker 4: I was free because I didn't know if this is

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Speaker 4: what I wanted to do or not. So I was

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Speaker 4: kind of like I didn't have to burden of occupation,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I didn't know if this

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Speaker 4: was what I wanted to do. I just got out

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Speaker 4: the military, and people was giving me money for me

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Speaker 4: transition of coming out the military. I didn't you know,

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Speaker 4: I tell everybody my periods more than anything. This wasn't

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Speaker 4: no epiphany. I didn't just say, oh, this is what

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Speaker 3: I'm about Richard Pride in.

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Speaker 4: The movie, but I never knew about him doing stand

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Speaker 3: I just came to the conclusion, this is my destiny.

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Speaker 3: A payte.

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Speaker 2: I could do that for you.

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Speaker 4: Leave our coach in the co check and it's just

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Speaker 4: as the body I folks to stay at Jesus, you know, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, earthquake man, You know, I was just I was.

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Speaker 1: I was laughing off Ara with you're in and all

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Speaker 1: seriousness about your career. And I look at my career,

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Speaker 1: you know, and when you're twenties, you never see forty,

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Speaker 1: fifty decades. I'm in my sixties, and you really get

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Speaker 1: a sense of your career and what you have are

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Speaker 1: accomplishing because that's what you're doing. You're accomplishing. You're still

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Speaker 1: in the game. You still take me specials, you're still

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Speaker 1: selling out. That's a career. And did you think about that?

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Speaker 1: Do you think about that sometimes?

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Speaker 2: Earthquake?

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Speaker 3: To be honest with you know, because it's for me anyway.

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Speaker 4: I I try to do this job with that's form

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Speaker 4: of resistance. And what I mean, I don't want to

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Speaker 4: get I never got caught up in the hooplah of it.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean. I never use it as

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Speaker 4: I never use it as a person who I get

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Speaker 4: offended when other men tell other men's what journeys they

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Speaker 4: should have took, and whatever journey they took, what mistake

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Speaker 4: they meant they made, and you highlighted, who are you

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Speaker 4: to tell another man how he should live? And who

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Speaker 4: are you to sit on someone on a throne like

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Speaker 4: your guard and criticize this man for his mistake or never.

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Speaker 4: I just have a problem with that, And I always

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Speaker 4: had a problem with that, with this occupation and how

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Speaker 4: it makes other people treat you, no matter if they're

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Speaker 4: your kids, to your mother, your father, and the rest

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Speaker 3: The deceit in it.

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Speaker 4: So I kind of like just say, can I just

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Speaker 4: the standard of living I can without exchange, you know,

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Speaker 4: making those sacrifices.

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Speaker 3: So that was always my biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely earthquake, when you look at the whole aspect of

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Speaker 1: your career, you know, when you did the legendary I'm

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Speaker 1: watching on Netflix and just laughing, laughing because you was

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Speaker 1: talking about the real prospects of you know, colono enoscopy.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's a real story that was suddenly historically funny.

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Speaker 1: But in a sense you also educating men that they

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Speaker 1: should do this. Do you do you do comedy to

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Speaker 4: I'm both to be honest with you, you know, when

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Speaker 4: I experienced that, God, you know, I just feel my people,

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Speaker 4: especially black men, we have so many stigmas that's keeping

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Speaker 4: us from living. And shout out to Dion, you know Sanders,

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Speaker 4: prime time coach Sanders, he's breaking some of those.

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Speaker 3: You know, Like on my show, we had this.

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Speaker 4: Question on said if you had to wear it depends

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Speaker 4: diaper and still live and you couldn't have the function

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Speaker 4: of your you know, your main muscle between your legs

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Speaker 4: to work. Would you want to leave this earth or

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Speaker 4: would you go or live with And half of my

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Speaker 4: audience who was I mean half of my guests who

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Speaker 4: to check out and to go through that situation, and

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Speaker 4: that just lets you know how they degrade the quality

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Speaker 4: I mean life itself. As long as you live in

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Speaker 4: you can find quality of life. And your manhood is

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Speaker 4: not justified between your legs is who.

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Speaker 3: You are as a man.

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Speaker 4: So I really always tried to just educate our people

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Speaker 4: to say get checked. You know, this country, this country,

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Speaker 4: and my humble opinion, owe us this. If nothing else

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Speaker 4: than the healthcare, they didn't pay us for reparation.

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Speaker 3: The least they can do is take care of us.

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Speaker 3: And I'll be damned if.

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Speaker 4: They put all these urgent kids.

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Speaker 4: And I'm gonna go home and do home remedies and

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Speaker 4: drink a ginger ale. I'm going in there. You're gonna

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Speaker 4: see me, you gonna you can. I know I ain't

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Speaker 4: got no health insurance.

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Speaker 3: I'm just hold you.

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Speaker 4: My name is signor whatever and Social Security five five

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Speaker 4: five find me when you want to. But you're gonna

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Speaker 4: do this. You're gonna do this whole body scam today.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna do this pet scam. You're gonna do You're

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Speaker 4: gonna do this MRI. You're gonna do this blood work today.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know who I'm talking to, I'm talking

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Speaker 2: to the comedy Icon. I'm gonna put the word capital

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Speaker 2: I c O n Icon earthquake. It's comedy.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you them when I when you see

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Speaker 1: a funny person like Earthquake, they'll do things is just

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Speaker 1: stay in your mind forever.

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Speaker 2: It's one joke.

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Speaker 1: I will always remember him on BT's Comic View with

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Speaker 2: Running around that stool, him running around that stool.

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Speaker 1: I will wake up out of the blue and just

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Speaker 1: laugh because I just remember that moment and that becomes iconic.

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Speaker 1: And when you do humor like that and people remind

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Speaker 1: you of those moments.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel earthquakes flattering?

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Speaker 4: Especially when it comes from a person of your high standards?

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Speaker 3: You?

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Speaker 4: You know, I remember, you know, you are always just

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Speaker 4: the just the orator, the person that you can come

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Speaker 4: to and get the honest opinion on it. I just

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Speaker 4: keep I write it from I come from truth and

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Speaker 4: the truth. Like that joke, it originated from how do

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Speaker 4: you kill two people with one knife? What was the

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Speaker 4: first one doing when you were stabbing the second one?

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Well the first one? What

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Speaker 4: was the second one doing? So it starts from there.

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Speaker 4: So then you say the formulation of the joke. Okay,

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Speaker 4: if he stabbed the dude first, what was the sister doing?

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Speaker 3: If she was black, She's like, oh Jay, what you

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Speaker 3: doing in them bushes?

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Speaker 4: Then if you stabbed the first him being fast, you

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Speaker 4: running around the car. You're trying to stab you like,

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Speaker 4: go ahead with that old ja. I ain't got none

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Speaker 4: to do with that, right, So that's all that, you

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Speaker 4: know what I mean, So you you break it down.

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Speaker 4: That's how it comes with. It comes from truth, and

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Speaker 4: then I put the joke on top of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: And that's what ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: If you can find it on YouTube, it is one

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Speaker 1: of the funniest but serious. He's taking a serious matter.

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Speaker 1: That's the brilliant of comedia. That's the breeze of Dave

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Speaker 1: Chappelle and other comics like him. Chris Rock, I could

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Speaker 4: Ooh, when my mother, God rest her soul, start asking

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Speaker 1: Your mama was having money making conversations before we shied

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Speaker 1: after that day, brother, them jokes meant something to him. Earthquake,

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Speaker 4: Piece, big piece of chicken, You get advitage, all the

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Speaker 5: We'll be right back with more money Making Conversations master Class.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back to Money Making Conversation master Class with me

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Speaker 3: You know, let's get to.

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Speaker 1: Talk to business, your money Making Conversations master Class with earthquake.

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Speaker 1: But this is about business and a lot of people

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Speaker 4: That is a constant change and recalibration every time, because

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: As you succeed, as you go farther, you have to

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Speaker 3: I think you know.

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Speaker 4: Loyalty has its place, but as some competency is more

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Speaker 4: made it, he got real all these good people. Well,

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Speaker 4: Man Man, don't know how it was all right for

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Speaker 4: Network television style now those are not appropriate for a

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Speaker 3: Now you can't have to do.

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Speaker 4: Oh all due respect Man Man, being speaking for your company,

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Speaker 3: So that's the hardest part in You must.

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Speaker 4: Know when win is win. That has always been my

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Speaker 2: That's I learned that in twenty three.

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Speaker 1: I learned that in twenty three what you just said,

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Speaker 2: That's a true statement that he just made. Because we

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Speaker 4: And just to add to that, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Is you?

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Speaker 4: So you have to me personally. The way I look

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Speaker 3: If you have a better.

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Speaker 4: Plan than I do, show it, present it, and I'll

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Speaker 1: Right, right, right, right, But then the bigger picture is

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Speaker 2: And that's the biggest.

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Speaker 3: When you go to a higher level, they.

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Speaker 4: Their services is no longer needed for the salary that

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Speaker 3: All the things that they was doing. You know what

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Speaker 4: Playing this o'ther professional person who covers your little thing too.

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Speaker 4: So I have to let you know you're going to

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Speaker 1: This these comedy specials that I never get invited to,

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Speaker 2: I watched TV Shu.

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Speaker 3: You know, earthquake.

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Speaker 2: That's my boy right there. You see.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you when you're married to somebody, you

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Speaker 3: It was matter of fame.

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Speaker 4: I had to really put this together real quickly because

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Speaker 4: It'll be out in the next two months scheduling. I

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Speaker 4: I old Atlanta I wouldn't be I wouldn't be who

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Speaker 3: They opened their arms.

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Speaker 4: They showed me it was just a great place for

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Speaker 4: And I ain't of a special. It's called joke telling business.

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Speaker 4: I'm in the joke telling business, and as a comedian,

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Speaker 3: I am challenging all comedians to get back into the

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Speaker 4: Too many keep comedians fly the banner of saying they comedians.

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Speaker 3: But where's the jokes? You know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: You're doing commentary, you're doing shot jocks, You're being You're

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Speaker 3: Critic But where's the jokes? Where's the funny at? You

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Speaker 4: So I just want to let people know only thing.

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Speaker 4: I'm just in the joke telling business. I'm not your pastor.

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Speaker 4: I'm not here to advise you. I'm not here to

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Speaker 3: Public thing that I'm sharing with you. You understand, you.

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Speaker 4: Have no right to come at me with anything else

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Speaker 3: How I live my life, who I live my life,

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Speaker 3: what I am? I did not give that to you,

444
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Speaker 3: nor did I sell that to you. Know? Is that

445
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 3: for debate for you?

446
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 4: Because the only person who can judge me what I

447
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 4: should or should not be is God. Who are you

448
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,119
Speaker 4: you understanding as a man and man, if you have

449
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 4: a problem with me other than the jokes, then come

450
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Speaker 4: see me and we can handle it. Man, the man

451
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Speaker 4: like men supposed to me.

452
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Speaker 3: You got a problem with it because I'm easy to find.

453
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Speaker 4: I got to schedule everywhere, and I'm sure you can

454
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Speaker 4: come pull up and say I don't like the way you.

455
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Speaker 3: Is and then we'll make the decision.

456
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Speaker 4: And where I'm from, Washington, DC, when you have a

457
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Speaker 4: problem with then you try to come.

458
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Speaker 3: Change it absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Earth Quig, you know, uh, it's stand up comedy.

460
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Speaker 1: I love you, I love you, and I'm just gonna

461
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: let everybody know if here's a show on series XM

462
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 1: radio show twenty eighteen, they approached him on the Kevin

463
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Speaker 1: Hart uh Laugh out Loud Series XM channel and it's

464
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Speaker 1: called Quake's House.

465
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Speaker 2: And if you if.

466
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Speaker 1: You're a fan of his stand up comedy, then you

467
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: need to start listening to this channel, especially this show,

468
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Speaker 1: because his commentary, his social commentary is I really believe

469
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Speaker 1: it's the genius of you, Earthquake. That third eye that

470
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Speaker 1: you have and how you twist it and and create

471
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Speaker 1: common sense to humor is pretty amazing. Talk to us

472
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Speaker 1: about your team and talk to us about why is

473
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Speaker 1: it why is.

474
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Speaker 2: It important to do your radio show quickly?

475
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm like you.

476
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Speaker 4: You know and out and tell people right here, and

477
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 4: I'm not just gashing if you have always provided opportunity

478
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Speaker 4: for comedians to expand the genre. I think, especially as

479
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 4: black comedians, we don't do that.

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Speaker 3: As others, as our contemporaries.

481
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Speaker 4: And what I mean is, you know you put them

482
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Speaker 4: on you whatever platform you ever been, when you were

483
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Speaker 4: Steve Harvey and y'all was doing all the different things

484
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Speaker 4: with the radio, you still provided opportunities for young comedians

485
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Speaker 4: such as myself to come on to be seen on

486
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Speaker 4: the biggest platform.

487
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Speaker 3: And that's what I wanted to do.

488
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Speaker 4: And started with my comedy club, and I learned to

489
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Speaker 4: uptel on comedy corner always any step forward I go.

490
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Speaker 3: I tried to bring put.

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Speaker 4: The gendre, especially black cousin, to give them a platform

492
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Speaker 4: to let them know the people know it's.

493
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Speaker 3: Not just me.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot of other comedians out here with different

495
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Speaker 4: styles and messages and stuff. Blake House is a place

496
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Speaker 4: where I bring different comedians every show and we sit

497
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Speaker 4: around and talk about hot topics. So I like to

498
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Speaker 4: call it the view with comedians and we you know,

499
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Speaker 4: we just sit.

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Speaker 3: Around and we just sit and elaborate and we flip it.

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Speaker 4: We don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't do.

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Speaker 4: Got your comedians let them talk about I think it

504
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Speaker 4: can be funny without it, you know what I mean.

505
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Speaker 4: We might hit a subject on what's the hot topic

506
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Speaker 4: on an individual, but we don't go after the individual.

507
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Speaker 4: We go about the subject that the individual find themselves in,

508
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 4: and then we do our hot populars. What would you

509
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Speaker 4: do if you was in that situation? So I just

510
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Speaker 4: wanted to put a platform for young comedian. That's what

511
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Speaker 4: we do, comedians you never heard of, and let the

512
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Speaker 4: world hear them. And you know, like I do, it's

513
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Speaker 4: very important to do what we're doing now. And I

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Speaker 4: tell him this, I learned it from you and Steve

515
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Speaker 4: off of it.

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Speaker 3: Do you want.

517
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Speaker 4: Somebody to hear you and say, who was that comedian

518
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Speaker 4: the funny this morning?

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Speaker 3: When is he coming in my tam? Oh he did today?

520
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 3: Let me buy this ticket. That's how I made my money.

521
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 4: Make it so funny that they want to crash in

522
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Speaker 4: the morning till when they get off work they buy

523
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Speaker 4: them tickets. See, we didn't have all this, so I

524
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 4: had to get that little eight minutes, that little seven

525
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 4: minutes on that morning show with that funky DJ who

526
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 4: didn't a personality that didn't want to be on it,

527
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 4: like you wanted to take his job. Don't nobody want

528
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Speaker 4: to move the Little Rock Akasas and be on the

529
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Speaker 4: video show man? Calm down, I lived. I'm from Washington,

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Speaker 4: d C. I live in California. I have bigger aspirations

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Speaker 4: than be a be a morning personality and Little Rock Arkansas.

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Speaker 3: I'm just here for tonight.

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Speaker 4: You can have it the rest of the week. I'm

534
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 4: going to enhance your show. But they didn't see it

535
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 4: that way. They took us as a threat because they

536
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 4: knew if they if they heard us, we can be

537
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 4: funny between the songs. So that was the most important part.

538
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 4: And I try to translate that to them, say be

539
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Speaker 4: funny this way you can sell tickets and sales stickers

540
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Speaker 4: can translate to be on a bigger stage such as

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Speaker 4: TV shows and movies and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Like that earthquake your Fox. Now the aspirations of being

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Speaker 1: a TV star talk to us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a blessing. You know, you've been

545
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Speaker 3: in this game.

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Speaker 4: It's deals are deals, But who makes the deals?

547
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Speaker 3: Really makes, to.

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Speaker 4: Be quite honest with you, with the possibility of you

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Speaker 4: actually be.

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Speaker 3: It on the air.

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Speaker 4: And the president of the network, Michael Thorne, shout out

552
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Speaker 4: to him when he came to me and the team

553
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Speaker 4: three Honts and the rest of it, said he wanted

554
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Speaker 4: me on his on his air, and he wanted that

555
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 4: Earthquakes show. And he said he's moving the network more

556
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Speaker 4: over to you know, sitcoms, because they h he wanted

557
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 4: more sitcoms on it, and he wanted it back to

558
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 4: the point when Living Color was on the air and

559
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 4: Martin and Live in Single and he wanted yes, those

560
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 4: type of things, and I was I was floored.

561
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Speaker 3: And I got up with my man Bill Burr.

562
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Speaker 4: Who wanted the funniest dudes walking, and we wanted to

563
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 4: just put a show together that merged both of our

564
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 4: comedy mentalities and philosophy into a fictitious world.

565
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Speaker 3: And it's coming together.

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Speaker 4: We're trying to find right now the show runner for

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Speaker 4: my show. We have the script that I mean, the

568
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Speaker 4: outline of the show that I want to do, and

569
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to find somebody to write it that

570
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Speaker 4: understand it.

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Speaker 3: And you understand more than anything.

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Speaker 4: My first thing is I need to find a writer

573
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Speaker 4: to understand that I will not audition for my own show,

574
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Speaker 4: so you will not give me a script that I

575
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 4: have to sit down here and study right myself.

576
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Speaker 3: So you love those words more than you love your job.

577
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 3: Maybe you not don't want to stay ahead work over here,

578
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean? So you know. So it's

579
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Speaker 3: it's coming together and I'm blessed to.

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Speaker 4: Have it, you know, And it's very you know this,

581
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Speaker 4: it's very few of us that get this opportunity at

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Speaker 4: this point in our life by the president of a

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Speaker 4: network at the studio.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you know, some earthquake.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let everybody know when they shoot the

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Speaker 1: pilot Keele Ra Sean McDonnell know, I.

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Speaker 3: Promise if EVA don't do it, she's gonna get fired.

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00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you know. If I if you're for

589
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Speaker 2: a pilot's been shot.

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Speaker 3: Get shot. We're getting on the head, but get shot.

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Speaker 1: Shan mcdonal, not in the standing on sidelines pointing at you,

592
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: because you're special. Man, You're special, and I appreciate you

593
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Speaker 1: giving me time, but I want to get just a

594
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: close out on the personal side, because you can't make

595
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: these journeys to the neck club because you've heard me

596
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: mention my wife's over time, how important of a role

597
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: she plays in our life. This shout out what makes

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Speaker 1: you tick the day and what makes you flow to day,

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00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: what keeps you even killed to day?

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Speaker 2: Real quick, as we close out the show.

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Speaker 3: Well, I used to say this joke.

602
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Speaker 4: People used to come up to me all the time,

603
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 4: and I told you all my jokes come from truth.

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00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 4: And then I make it out a laughter. People like, quick,

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Speaker 4: why haven't you quote made it yet? I say, I'm

606
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Speaker 4: one good black woman for making it once.

607
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 3: God is never gonna allow me in order.

608
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Speaker 4: I think, in my humble opinion, any man, especially a

609
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Speaker 4: black man, could fit, can fulfill or reach his true

610
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 4: potential without his woman on his side. And August twenty first,

611
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Speaker 4: I will be getting married for the second time.

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Speaker 3: To this beautiful woman six years ago.

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00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 4: That came in my life that has changed everything and

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Speaker 4: since she has been here out in my career, my focus.

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00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 3: She's a true woman that leaves in me.

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Speaker 4: She's just not a person that actually here for the

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00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 4: benefit of being who I am. It's a person that

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Speaker 4: actually believe me. It's a totally different that as an

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Speaker 4: entertainer and just refrankly brother. As a man, when you

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Speaker 4: properly love by a woman, that gives you that motivation

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Speaker 4: to want to do more and happy your cheerity r

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Speaker 4: biggest chility that wants to see you fulfill your potential,

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Speaker 4: not just just maintain a status and take advantage of

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Speaker 4: the privilege and the benefits that comes along with the occupation.

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Speaker 3: And it has changed my life, and so.

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Speaker 4: God her and that together has put me in this

627
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Speaker 4: position that I'm gonna have my own TV show on

628
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Speaker 4: another natural special and selling out shows all out. And

629
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Speaker 4: I know the different because I have been out here.

630
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Speaker 4: I'm playing around for years independit contractors.

631
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Speaker 3: And the things that.

632
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 4: Look good with the thing good look good with the occupation,

633
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 4: but did not have the substance of it.

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00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 3: And now they have the substance of it. I see why.

635
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 4: Other men, comedians, and just to be quite honest with it,

636
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 4: people was beating me in this game called life because

637
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 4: I didn't have that substance of a woman being properly

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Speaker 4: loved by a woman's especially a black woman.

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. It's called earthquake.

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Speaker 1: He's the one and only earthquake. He's the Real earthquake

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Speaker 1: dot com, the Real earthquake dot com if you want

642
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: to know more about him, his tours, his radio show,

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00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: which is on Serious XM. Quake's House, that's Kevin Hart's

644
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: laugh out Loud channel on Serious XM, his special and

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Speaker 1: I think he uh, he's.

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Speaker 2: You know, as I close.

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Speaker 1: Now, he's mentioned my name several times about the significance

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Speaker 1: I play in his life. But when I can wake

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00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: up and I can think, and then I I word

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00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: earthquake name pops up and I just smile and I

651
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: laugh because I've seen him, y'all. I've seen different steps

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00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: in his life from nineteen ninety five. And every time

653
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: I wake up and think about it, I just walking

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00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: down the street or driving my car, I just smile.

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Speaker 2: Earthquake, you are so special, brother, and I love you.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 2: That's a sincere I love you, brother. And but if

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Speaker 2: you don't hand me there for your pilot, it will

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Speaker 2: be some hate. It will be some hate, but it'll

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00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 2: be still tied with love. Earthquake, thanks for coming on myself.

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Speaker 3: Brother.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what yes, but she's gonna get a

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Speaker 4: turkey for me. I don't know where you you will

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Speaker 4: know where that power.

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Speaker 3: That you don't get a turkey for me. Thank you, brother.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate your time, man, and thank you for everything

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Speaker 4: and I love you man, and God bless you, and

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Speaker 3: I don't do nothing else. I got to have money

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Speaker 3: making conversation and I love it. Rather continue success and

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Speaker 3: God bless you.

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