Special Guest- Earthquake - FULL INTERVIEW - 10.02.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, let's go everybody. He's here.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
He really needs no introduction, but I specialize in him.
He is one of my favorites. On the Pivot podcast.
Recently they asked me who sits on my Mount Rushmore
of comedy.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Now.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I told him there's a public monument, and there's a
private monument.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
In my private monument.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Six Cedricly entertainer, it's sis j Anthony Brown, and it's
sits earthquake.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I've never laughed so hard in a room with dee
fools right here and them three.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
And if I had to add one more sitting in
the room that is smiling. Lord, I have vomited with
j Anthony Brown. Ricky Smiley, earthquake has said entertainer. Contre
ladies and gentlemen. He's here, got another Netflix special. He's

(01:04):
on fire now, truly, No, God is never too late.
This boy just got special after space. He went from
no specials to specials everywhere. Happily mad, the brand new,
the one and only the living legend Earthquake.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Wait, wait.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
End the shop ten over there, twenty four hours out.
We're in the top ten on next week as the
hotters in the country. Right now, it's called Joe Telling
Business because these foods need to start telling jokes. If
you say you're a comedian and you fly to band
us being a comedian, we want you to be funny.
Please get you the job descriptions. And that's what we're
talking about. And I think comedians need to do just

(01:48):
like driver's license, renew your license as a comic, get
out the game. You know what I'm saying. That's why
I name the Seve Joe Telling Business because I'm not
walking about nothing but these jokes. Number one was in
their fast like you taught me. And also Steve Dad.
It's so great. I got married town the right woman,
and I'm gonna have my own tickcom Go ahead, boy,

(02:12):
I love hit on that.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm coming on that because I just want to see
you act.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm gonna act for them. Check now, get the check quick.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey man, I'm a man. Tommy went to the wind, Tommy,
how was the big web out there?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Outstanding? Outstanding? Quack looked amazing, bride looked beautiful, it was good.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Everybody with the weather outstanding, the hotel, everything, it wasn't
nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
It was outstanding.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
A nice when essence right now you can watch it.
You can see it. It was out there to spend
a lot of money, Steve, I was trying to be
like but I found my mandory and I'm happy. I'm
happily married. Turn them back loans now, don't look at
it happen when I was broke.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, quit you happy.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Now, man, Man, I listen to say, I am so blessed.
I told you. People always ask us, say quack when
you're gonna blow up. I say, I'm one good black
woman from making it. And it happened, and I found her,
and that's why everything's working out because I got her now.
She believes in me. She believes in me, she loves
me unconditionally, and that's the most beautiful thing in the world.

(03:27):
Nothing like being loved by a black woman to change
your whole perspective. And you know, I was all I
only had quality because I didn't have quality. I had
the quality because I couldn't find the right woman. But
I got it now, So I'm out. I'm out, I'm
happy and it's great and we're doing big things. Brother.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, that's an amazing statement. Yeah, when you're gonna blow up,
I'm just one black woman away from fine bruh and
you ain't never lied about that, man. You ain't never
lie hey man, So you know what you said something

(04:04):
else too, because one of the things I noticed, I'm
still a student of the game. Even though I got
out of stand up. You know, I still know the
business of it. And I had watched this business change.
I've watched comedians instead of telling jokes, they out there
making as brash a statement as they can and trying

(04:25):
to be shocking. Our job is not to be shocking.
Our job really is to be funny. And I guess
that's what prompted the name of the special joke telling business.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, because they they're not sticking with the job description,
you know what I mean. Then, if you're gonna be
all these things, you're gonna be a shock jock. You're
gonna be a You're gonna sit around here and tell
what people should or should not be in their life.
You're gonna bring up their past, and you don't put
no jokes to it. Then be that. But do not
fly around here with the banner saying you're a comedian

(04:58):
if you did not not telling no jokes to be funny.
And you need to not just lay on your loans
or wrestle your loans to what you.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Preleasedly did you need.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
To reading, You need to renegotiate and renew your life
to prove that you're a comedian and put something out
that's funny, because that's our job. We don't beef like this.
We're not rappers. Just we sit down there. We will
never have what we are coming to America or a
hall of night with the temperature that's going with comedians
like this. That's why we don't have metal detectors in

(05:30):
comedy clubs because we don't bring that. We are the
DNA of a clown. So be funny, show your perspective
and if not, get out of my jenre do something else.
But you're not a comedian if you're not funny, and
all platforms that put them on there they need to
hold them to that be funny. If you're gonna come
out as a comedian or get out the game.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Just get on the podcast and being but funny.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
You got it.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
But hear what killed me though your opinion of somebody
else how they on to do.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
But then you ain't none of who you talking about.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
That's what be killing me that I'll be just sitting
there going, Wait a minute, man, you talking about people
you ain't even them. Instead they talking about what they are.
I'm proud of you, man, I am proud of you.
Boy the dog going anyway. You are living witness that
God is never too late.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Hey, we come back.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
We're gonna talk more with the legend earthquake spitting business.
We're joke telling business. That's the name of the Netflix special.
It's in the top ten. Already check it out. We'll
be right back. All right, y'all, we back. Our special
guest this morning is one and only longtime friend Quake.
I remember I was in a hotel room in Mobile, Alabama,

(06:52):
and you know, my door was facing the parking lot
and a knock on the door and I came to
the door with a fishing knife and I said, what.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Who is it?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
And he said my name, Earthquake. Opened the door. He
told me he was in the Navy.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
I didn't believe him, but.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
He told me all of my jokes. He said, I
want to learn to bus. He came in and sat down.
That was in nineteen eighty eight, eighty seven. Wow, we've
been friends ever since. Earthquake.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
See that brotherhood. I love it. That boy right there.
So quake, how you feel? Man with a man?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
So tell me this. You got a sitcom deal with Fox?
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Man?

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh Man? The president of the network said he want me
on his network. They make it a transition from going
back to the founding when they started with a living
color and married with children, and he wants me to
be with my point of view. I hooked up with
the great my boy, Bill Burke from his production company,
and right now we're doing You've been through this before.

(07:56):
I'm just interviewing for my showrunner. Make sure I get
the right one, and we're gonna have it. And it's
called Still Quake about me the whole time I learned
from you from I take everything from you. Man. When
you told me you would never ever have another show
that your name after me and the boys went that
did not have your name, so I made sure they
put an earthquake name on everything. So it's Still Quake,

(08:18):
and I'm looking forward to it. The specially is doing well. Man,
My beautiful wife and everything coming in and I'm over
here getting it in. Man, I'm getting it in, getting
it in. So go ahead.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Have you come up with a premise for the sitcom.
Yeah are you still yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Man? Well, as the primise of my sitcom is, I'm
in La My house got burned it down with the
La fly the fires, and I said, man, this must
be a time for God for me to move back home.
And I moved back home about bought my old comedy
club that I own. And that's what you know, It's
about me and my fields. They moved back with my

(08:55):
family everything, and I got my comedy club back in
and doing like me and you should do when we
had our own quaint. Oh, I'm going to do that
right there.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Boy, Quake. I used to come through your club and
sit there. I do four shows a night. You and
Gary Abdo and boy whoo, I was clocking dollars.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
In them comedy clubs. Man, Thank you man, Yes, she
was you.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
You showed me with money in the comedy club.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
You showed me Quake, and you've done it well. Congratulations, man.
We got a sitcom coming out on Fox with right
Now Everybody. The Netflix specialist on Netflix Right Now is
called The Joke Telling Business. It is starring the one
the only Earthquake. Get your mind right, Quake. We love you, boy,
appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Correct I love you more man. Thank you. You know.
I love y'all. Man. Thank you for the plug. See
look at it and tell me what you think, man,
And I love you man.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I watch it this week.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Appreciate you, lady, ladies and jentle earthquake.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
That's it.