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Brand Building: Entertainer shares insights on managing a team and making tough decisions to grow professionally. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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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: just being a food and I was better than working
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  Speaker 4: for somebody for eight hours. So I was in the
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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 4: I wanted to do. Matter of fact, I didn't even
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  Speaker 4: know being a comedian was an occupation.
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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 4: up and stuff like that. And so as time of
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  Speaker 4: not doing nothing but comedy, and you know, at a
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  Speaker 4: high level, I knew and I still know, there's nobody
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  Speaker 4: else gonna pay me this kind of money for this
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  Speaker 4: type of effort.
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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: and you definitely don't see fifty and sixty is never
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  Speaker 1: even a thought in your mind when you're young. But
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  Speaker 1: when you hit those those those those landmark years, forty decades,
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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 3: a weapon.
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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 4: of it.
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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: get enough out of it that I can live to
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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 1: educate or just do comedy to be funny.
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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: was male, said they'd rather leave the earth. Then you know,
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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 3: Up in here around here.
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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 1: the o j joke and him.
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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 1: name a few that. A will to take moments that
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  Speaker 1: you might deem, you know, off limits, and next thing
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  Speaker 1: you know, you bending over in tears because you went
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  Speaker 1: at it with a third eye. A bent approach that
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  Speaker 1: people now find see the humorous side because we gotta laugh.
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  Speaker 2: A life can be too sad for us.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, Yes, I mean, I mean laughter is the best
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  Speaker 4: healing ever. You cannot have a good time without laughter.
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  Speaker 4: It's necessary. There's no way you can describe a great
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  Speaker 4: time and enjoyment time, family time anywhere that y'all had
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  Speaker 4: a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Laughter is a main ingredient.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you get famous earthquake, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't even have to ask to be in the news.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they just you know, you walking down as
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  Speaker 1: people taking pictures. You know, you have these relationships. People
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  Speaker 1: start tell you where they're going. And when did you
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  Speaker 1: realize you were a fame with earthquakes?
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  Speaker 4: Ooh, when my mother, God rest her soul, start asking
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  Speaker 4: for more money, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And we look forward, she used to say. And the truth, man.
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  Speaker 4: It's the first of the money, and the mail man
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  Speaker 4: ain't came back as my house.
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  Speaker 3: It's the first of the month.
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  Speaker 4: That mail is the fifth, and that male man ain't
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  Speaker 4: dropping nothing on my I had to tell her. I said, listen, Mama,
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  Speaker 4: I'm your I'm your I'm your son, not your husband.
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  Speaker 3: You done, man, Mama, You understand I told you so.
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  Speaker 1: Your mama was having money making conversations before we shied
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  Speaker 1: brought the show. Money made conversations because that's a favor
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  Speaker 1: due to you. I was same thing with my father.
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  Speaker 1: I remember my father because I'm named after my father,
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  Speaker 1: and I would never use junior and he was all
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  Speaker 1: he was good with that, and then he went in
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  Speaker 1: the store one day. It was a Seizon Robucks and
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  Speaker 1: the guy asked him. He said, his name he Goes,
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  Speaker 1: is your son that comedian? And that was right there.
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  Speaker 1: It turned the lightbulb on my Oh to my dad
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  Speaker 1: as to who I could be or who I was
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  Speaker 1: after that day, brother, them jokes meant something to him. Earthquake,
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  Speaker 1: you get the big.
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  Speaker 4: Piece, big piece of chicken, You get advitage, all the
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  Speaker 4: family functions. Asked your question, what you think? When should
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  Speaker 4: we you the one travel a lot. Where should we go?
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  Speaker 2: Please don't go anywhere.
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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 5: Rashaun McDonald.
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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 1: think it's about jokes, and it's about you know, I
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  Speaker 1: always tell people in the early goings, I would I
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  Speaker 1: would drive to a gig just for the meal. I
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  Speaker 1: would drive to a gig just to get to gas
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  Speaker 1: to pay for the gas. I just burnt to get
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  Speaker 1: to that gig. And then all of a sudden you
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  Speaker 1: get become an opener the middle lac and then become
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  Speaker 1: a headliner, and then all of a sudden you get
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  Speaker 1: the first class seats, you can ask for a junior
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  Speaker 1: suite kings tweet get starting to when does the business
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  Speaker 1: aspect of your career and how do you start putting
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  Speaker 1: the people around your earthquake to trust that they can
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  Speaker 1: can move your career forward.
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  Speaker 4: That is a constant change and recalibration every time, because
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  Speaker 4: when you're dealing with people, people change, and certain people
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  Speaker 4: only qualified to do the business at the level that
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  Speaker 4: you hired them at.
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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 4: get more professional people that's qualified to deal with you
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  Speaker 4: at that level.
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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: important and you have to continue to look at your
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  Speaker 4: people and say, hey, though I hired you at this level,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not an opener.
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  Speaker 3: No more, I'm a headliner, and a headliner.
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  Speaker 4: The job description you have right now needs to be
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  Speaker 4: able to do this, so you need to learn to
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  Speaker 4: do this. You can facilitate a headliner, not an opener,
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  Speaker 4: and that's the hardest part because these are people that
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  Speaker 4: you love and you care about. And that's where you
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  Speaker 4: get the stigma that you know, as soon as he
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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: man Man to hold my social media when he was
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  Speaker 4: just posting stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm a.
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  Speaker 4: Network television style now those are not appropriate for a
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  Speaker 4: television star.
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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 4: that's your global icon or global entity.
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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 4: strength in my career. I have always knew when when
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  Speaker 4: win is when when it's time to change, starting with
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  Speaker 4: myself when it started to say, hey, no more drinking
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  Speaker 4: on the show. Let the alcohol go. That's the fun
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  Speaker 4: part of being entertainer. Goal the recreational drugs and the
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  Speaker 4: hanging and the things that comes with the women and
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  Speaker 4: all that. You just know when to when when you
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  Speaker 4: need to go ahead and just shave that off and
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  Speaker 4: make that transition.
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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 1: I had the realization that everybody around me could not
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  Speaker 1: do the job that I wanted them to do. But
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  Speaker 1: I knew them a long time though, and those decisions
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  Speaker 1: are hard to make because now you're making the decision
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  Speaker 1: on their on paying their rent when they can't even
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  Speaker 1: pay your rent. And that's a that's a true business statement.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, I was about to close. I
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  Speaker 1: was about to my business were going to shut down
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't make the decisions that earthquake just talked about.
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  Speaker 2: That's a true statement that he just made. Because we
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to.
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  Speaker 1: Move emotions and business because they travel different lanes and if
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you try to merge them, you will go thro correct.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: And just to add to that, you know what I mean?
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: There we have no safety that when you were entrepreneurs.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: There is no safety in that. There's no one else
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: you can call. There is no loan me me you
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: loan me?
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Is you?
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: So you have to me personally. The way I look
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: at it is I tell my crew this all the time.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I said, God is blessing me with this opportunity to
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: be the leader in this.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: If you have a better.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Plan than I do, show it, present it, and I'll
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: show you what a true Indian is, right.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right, right, But then the bigger picture is
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: always about the end game, and the endgame is when
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you're standing there, you write in the check, and how
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you distribute it should be tied to how you feel
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and giving it to the people that you know can
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: do the right job, not because somebody say you owe me,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: or I was there in the beginning, or I'm your ball,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I'm your girl, i'm your child. All these things come
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: into play, and you should gauge the importance of that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: tied to how you distribute your money.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: And that's the biggest.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Part about it. As you used to sitting and you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Get higher and high into that altitude, they you know,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: they they don't have they don't have no idea how
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: to and God bless their heart to facilitate that, you know,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: because they was dealing with you on a certain level.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: When you go to a higher level, they.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Their services is no longer needed for the salary that
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: you're paying them for because when you move into a
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: different realm, you know, it's a bigger company that covers.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: All the things that they was doing. You know what
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I mean. You know I'm paying two people. I'm paying
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: you because of my friend, but I'm.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Playing this o'ther professional person who covers your little thing too.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: So I have to let you know you're going to
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: find something that's valuable to do because you longer you
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: can do this job to the to the level it
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: needs to be done on this level.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: So that's the host a little bit.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about this.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: This these comedy specials that I never get invited to,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you know, the legendary. I'm watching television, you know, looking
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: at my wife going, you know, you know, it's so funny.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I watched TV Shu.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: You know, earthquake.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: That's my boy right there. You see.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: You know, when you when you're married to somebody, you
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: are you with somebody they don't know sometimes your relationships
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: or your fame, you know.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: And uh we laugh and just laugh and laugh. It's
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: my boy.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And then then she found out you came to Atlanta
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and taped another comedy especially by the way, ladies and gentlemen,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I live in Atlanta, been here since two thousand and seven,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and he knows that. But I was not invited to
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the comedy special. But but I told my wife, I know.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: So with that being said, let's talk about that that
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: next comedy special. How did it come about what can
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: we expect from the brilliant earthquake?
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: It was matter of fame.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I had to really put this together real quickly because
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I had penned in things that I had to deal
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: with and I really wanted to put this special on
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: the books. Plus I needed the money for this transition.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: So it came together after the hit one we had before.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: It'll be out in the next two months scheduling. I
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: came to Atlanta because that's where I was born in comedy.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I old Atlanta I wouldn't be I wouldn't be who
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I am today without Atlanta. I didn't know what I
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: was going to do when I moved to Atlanta after
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: military never been there before.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: They opened their arms.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: They showed me it was just a great place for
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: me to nurture my talent. And I'm still eating off
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the stuff I learned from Atlanta. So my first one
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: was at my natural born home where I'm from Washington,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: d C. But my second one had to be at Atlanta.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: And I ain't of a special. It's called joke telling business.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I'm in the joke telling business, and as a comedian,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I'm the reason I named that.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I am challenging all comedians to get back into the
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: joke telling business.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Too many keep comedians fly the banner of saying they comedians.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: But where's the jokes? You know what I mean.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: You're doing commentary, you're doing shot jocks, You're being You're
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: being a relationship guru. I'm a commentator on mats and.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Critic But where's the jokes? Where's the funny at? You
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: know what I mean?
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: So I just want to let people know only thing.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I'm just in the joke telling business. I'm not your pastor.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: I'm not here to advise you. I'm not here to
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: criticize you. I am in the joke telling business. So
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: keep your criticism of me on the jokes because that's
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: the only.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Public thing that I'm sharing with you. You understand, you.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Have no right to come at me with anything else
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: but your your interpretation or criticism, criticism, or your opinion
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: on the jokes.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: How I live my life, who I live my life,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: what I am? I did not give that to you,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: nor did I sell that to you. Know? Is that
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: for debate for you?
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Because the only person who can judge me what I
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: should or should not be is God. Who are you
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: you understanding as a man and man, if you have
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: a problem with me other than the jokes, then come
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: see me and we can handle it. Man, the man
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: like men supposed to me.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: You got a problem with it because I'm easy to find.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I got to schedule everywhere, and I'm sure you can
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: come pull up and say I don't like the way you.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Is and then we'll make the decision.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: And where I'm from, Washington, DC, when you have a
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: problem with then you try to come.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Change it absolutely.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Earth Quig, you know, uh, it's stand up comedy.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I love you, I love you, and I'm just gonna
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: let everybody know if here's a show on series XM
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: radio show twenty eighteen, they approached him on the Kevin
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Hart uh Laugh out Loud Series XM channel and it's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: called Quake's House.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And if you if.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You're a fan of his stand up comedy, then you
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: need to start listening to this channel, especially this show,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: because his commentary, his social commentary is I really believe
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: it's the genius of you, Earthquake. That third eye that
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you have and how you twist it and and create
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: common sense to humor is pretty amazing. Talk to us
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: about your team and talk to us about why is
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: it why is.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: It important to do your radio show quickly?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm like you.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: You know and out and tell people right here, and
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not just gashing if you have always provided opportunity
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: for comedians to expand the genre. I think, especially as
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: black comedians, we don't do that.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: As others, as our contemporaries.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And what I mean is, you know you put them
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: on you whatever platform you ever been, when you were
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Steve Harvey and y'all was doing all the different things
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: with the radio, you still provided opportunities for young comedians
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: such as myself to come on to be seen on
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the biggest platform.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: And that's what I wanted to do.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: And started with my comedy club, and I learned to
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: uptel on comedy corner always any step forward I go.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I tried to bring put.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: The gendre, especially black cousin, to give them a platform
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: to let them know the people know it's.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Not just me.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: It's a lot of other comedians out here with different
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: styles and messages and stuff. Blake House is a place
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: where I bring different comedians every show and we sit
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: around and talk about hot topics. So I like to
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: call it the view with comedians and we you know,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: we just sit.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Around and we just sit and elaborate and we flip it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: We don't.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I don't do.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Got your comedians let them talk about I think it
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: can be funny without it, you know what I mean.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: We might hit a subject on what's the hot topic
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: on an individual, but we don't go after the individual.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: We go about the subject that the individual find themselves in,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: and then we do our hot populars. What would you
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: do if you was in that situation? So I just
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: wanted to put a platform for young comedian. That's what
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: we do, comedians you never heard of, and let the
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: world hear them. And you know, like I do, it's
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: very important to do what we're doing now. And I
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: tell him this, I learned it from you and Steve
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: off of it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Do you want.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Somebody to hear you and say, who was that comedian
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: the funny this morning?
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: When is he coming in my tam? Oh he did today?
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Let me buy this ticket. That's how I made my money.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Make it so funny that they want to crash in
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: the morning till when they get off work they buy
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: them tickets. See, we didn't have all this, so I
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: had to get that little eight minutes, that little seven
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: minutes on that morning show with that funky DJ who
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: didn't a personality that didn't want to be on it,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: like you wanted to take his job. Don't nobody want
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: to move the Little Rock Akasas and be on the
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: video show man? Calm down, I lived. I'm from Washington,
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: d C. I live in California. I have bigger aspirations
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: than be a be a morning personality and Little Rock Arkansas.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I'm just here for tonight.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: You can have it the rest of the week. I'm
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: going to enhance your show. But they didn't see it
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: that way. They took us as a threat because they
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: knew if they if they heard us, we can be
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: funny between the songs. So that was the most important part.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: And I try to translate that to them, say be
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: funny this way you can sell tickets and sales stickers
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: can translate to be on a bigger stage such as
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: TV shows and movies and stuff.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Like that earthquake your Fox. Now the aspirations of being
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a TV star talk to us.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a blessing. You know, you've been
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: in this game.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: It's deals are deals, But who makes the deals?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Really makes, to.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Be quite honest with you, with the possibility of you
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: actually be.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: It on the air.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: And the president of the network, Michael Thorne, shout out
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: to him when he came to me and the team
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: three Honts and the rest of it, said he wanted
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: me on his on his air, and he wanted that
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Earthquakes show. And he said he's moving the network more
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: over to you know, sitcoms, because they h he wanted
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: more sitcoms on it, and he wanted it back to
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: the point when Living Color was on the air and
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Martin and Live in Single and he wanted yes, those
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: type of things, and I was I was floored.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: And I got up with my man Bill Burr.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Who wanted the funniest dudes walking, and we wanted to
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: just put a show together that merged both of our
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: comedy mentalities and philosophy into a fictitious world.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: And it's coming together.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: We're trying to find right now the show runner for
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: my show. We have the script that I mean, the
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: outline of the show that I want to do, and
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to find somebody to write it that
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: understand it.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: And you understand more than anything.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: My first thing is I need to find a writer
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: to understand that I will not audition for my own show,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: so you will not give me a script that I
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: have to sit down here and study right myself.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: So you love those words more than you love your job.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Maybe you not don't want to stay ahead work over here,
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? So you know. So it's
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: it's coming together and I'm blessed to.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Have it, you know, And it's very you know this,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: it's very few of us that get this opportunity at
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: this point in our life by the president of a
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: network at the studio.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Wow, you know, some earthquake.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let everybody know when they shoot the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: pilot Keele Ra Sean McDonnell know, I.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Promise if EVA don't do it, she's gonna get fired.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you know. If I if you're for
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: a pilot's been shot.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Get shot. We're getting on the head, but get shot.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Shan mcdonal, not in the standing on sidelines pointing at you,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: because you're special. Man, You're special, and I appreciate you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: giving me time, but I want to get just a
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: close out on the personal side, because you can't make
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: these journeys to the neck club because you've heard me
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: mention my wife's over time, how important of a role
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: she plays in our life. This shout out what makes
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: you tick the day and what makes you flow to day,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: what keeps you even killed to day?
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Real quick, as we close out the show.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I used to say this joke.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: People used to come up to me all the time,
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: and I told you all my jokes come from truth.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: And then I make it out a laughter. People like, quick,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: why haven't you quote made it yet? I say, I'm
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: one good black woman for making it once.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: God is never gonna allow me in order.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I think, in my humble opinion, any man, especially a
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: black man, could fit, can fulfill or reach his true
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: potential without his woman on his side. And August twenty first,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I will be getting married for the second time.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: To this beautiful woman six years ago.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: That came in my life that has changed everything and
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: since she has been here out in my career, my focus.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: She's a true woman that leaves in me.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: She's just not a person that actually here for the
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: benefit of being who I am. It's a person that
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: actually believe me. It's a totally different that as an
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: entertainer and just refrankly brother. As a man, when you
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: properly love by a woman, that gives you that motivation
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: to want to do more and happy your cheerity r
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: biggest chility that wants to see you fulfill your potential,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: not just just maintain a status and take advantage of
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: the privilege and the benefits that comes along with the occupation.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: And it has changed my life, and so.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: God her and that together has put me in this
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: position that I'm gonna have my own TV show on
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: another natural special and selling out shows all out. And
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I know the different because I have been out here.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I'm playing around for years independit contractors.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: And the things that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Look good with the thing good look good with the occupation,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: but did not have the substance of it.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: And now they have the substance of it. I see why.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Other men, comedians, and just to be quite honest with it,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: people was beating me in this game called life because
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: I didn't have that substance of a woman being properly
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: loved by a woman's especially a black woman.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. It's called earthquake.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He's the one and only earthquake. He's the Real earthquake
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: dot com, the Real earthquake dot com if you want
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to know more about him, his tours, his radio show,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: which is on Serious XM. Quake's House, that's Kevin Hart's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: laugh out Loud channel on Serious XM, his special and
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I think he uh, he's.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: You know, as I close.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Now, he's mentioned my name several times about the significance
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I play in his life. But when I can wake
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: up and I can think, and then I I word
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: earthquake name pops up and I just smile and I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: laugh because I've seen him, y'all. I've seen different steps
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: in his life from nineteen ninety five. And every time
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I wake up and think about it, I just walking
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: down the street or driving my car, I just smile.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Earthquake, you are so special, brother, and I love you.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: That's a sincere I love you, brother. And but if
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: you don't hand me there for your pilot, it will
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: be some hate. It will be some hate, but it'll
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: be still tied with love. Earthquake, thanks for coming on myself.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Brother.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: I don't know what yes, but she's gonna get a
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: turkey for me. I don't know where you you will
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: know where that power.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: That you don't get a turkey for me. Thank you, brother.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: I appreciate your time, man, and thank you for everything
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: you've done in my career. Man, I remember and just
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: the closing out, I remember you. It's like it was
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: no need for you to cuss on this show. Were
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: doing the thing a father. You was always a teacher
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: and I love you man, and God bless you, and
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: I will take to the day.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: I don't money making conversation. That's what I tell them.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I don't do nothing else. I got to have money
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: making conversation and I love it. Rather continue success and
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: God bless you.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: The one and only Earthquake. Y'all on the Money Making
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Conversation Masterclass.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: This has been another edition of Money Making Conversations Masterclass
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: hosted by me Rashaan McDonald. Thank you to our guests
• 35:32
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