Mick Unplugged - Comedy to Coaching: The Impact of a Legend with Earthquake

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

Earthquake, born Nathaniel Stroman, is a phenomenal force in comedy and entertainment, commanding stages worldwide for almost three decades with his sharp wit and profound storytelling. A mul...ti-talented artist, his critically acclaimed Netflix special "Chappelle's Home Team - Earthquake: Legendary" solidified his status as a comedic icon, earning accolades from the New York Times. Beyond the spotlight, Earthquake exemplifies entrepreneurial vision, having successfully owned and operated multiple comedy clubs, and he consistently uses his platform to uplift and mentor emerging talent, proving that true legendary status is built on both performance and generous leadership.Takeaways:The Entrepreneurial Drive for Necessity: Earthquake's journey into club ownership was born from a fundamental need to create his own opportunities when existing structures proved restrictive, showcasing how adversity can spark innovation.The Continuous Pursuit of Excellence: He emphasizes that maintaining a high standard in comedy, much like in any craft, demands constant work and improvement, rejecting complacency that can lead to stagnation.Leadership Through Elevation: Earthquake’s approach to leadership involves not just personal success, but actively creating platforms and opportunities for others, deferring credit while still undeniably leading the team.Sound Bytes:"My mother told me what she always said. You can't get mad at another person for not allowing you to ride their bike. You either get your own bike or don't ride a bike at all.""But at the end of the day, everybody know who team it is. You know what I'm So the actor, you ain't gotta say it. You don't need to acclimate. And if you're about winning, you want to elevate your team.""I'm at the front line. I'm telling you, I minister this comedy gospel to 4,000 people all this weekend for a whole hour. Believe me, I'm telling you what experiences, where they at."Connect & Discover Earthquake:Website: therealearthquake.comFacebook: @nathaniel.stroman.75Instagram: @therealearthquakeX: @RealEarthquake🔥 Ready to Unleash Your Inner Game-Changer? 🔥 Mick Hunt’s BEST SELLING book, How to Be a Good Leader When You’ve Never Had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, is here to light a fire under your ambition and arm you with the real-talk strategies that only Mick delivers. 👉 Grab your copy now and level up your life → Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million FOLLOW MICK ON:Spotify: MickUnpluggedInstagram: @mickunplugged Facebook: @mickunpluggedYouTube:  @MickUnpluggedPodcast LinkedIn: @mickhunt Website:  MickHuntOfficial.comWebsite: howtobeagoodleader.comWebsite: Leadloudseries.comApple: MickUnpluggedSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Mick Unplugged, hosted by the one and only Mick Hunt. This is where purpose meets power and stories spark transformation. Mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning, helping you discover your because and becoming unstoppable. I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, you're in the right place. Let's get Unplugged. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the most impactful and important episode of Mick Unplugged in the history of this park.
Starting point is 00:00:34 We are talking to a legend to the guy who I follow who I've looked up to, not just from his comedic skills, but also his entrepreneur mindset. He is someone who we're about to talk about it, got me in trouble when I was 16 years old. But he is the guy that I have always looked up to. I am talking about the iconic, the legendary, the phenomenal, the absolute legend. Mr. Earthquake. Quake, how are you doing today, brother? I'm doing good, boy, that's too much like a eulogy. I'm like, did you talk to my doctor?
Starting point is 00:01:06 Did somebody tell you? But I'm good, man. I'm blessed. Life was good. And things are well. I'm well. I'm well. I'm truly honored.
Starting point is 00:01:17 I've been looking forward to this all of my life, man. And I truly mean that. Everybody knows the comedic legend that you are. But you don't give yourself enough fortitude. You don't talk about enough about, one, what you do in the community. But two, the entrepreneur, mindset that you have. And I'm going to give you those flowers today, brother. Well, thank you. I think my father taught me a long time ago. The best way you can change the
Starting point is 00:01:43 world is do your part. And, you know, your part is, you know, do the best you can with which you can for what you have around people that around you. And that's all I try to do. You know what I mean? And I always thought if, actually us as black people, If we only did the best we could for each other and start with yourself and your own, it will be a lot farther. You know what I mean? And personal responsibility and give grace to our women and understanding to our men. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:02:19 So that's always been my platform. Absolutely. And you do that in everything that you do, too. When you're on stage, you always have those moments where you're coaching us. And I'm going to say it, you're coaching us. black men on how black men should be, right? You talk to us about going to the doctor, about having our paperwork, about all those things that matter.
Starting point is 00:02:42 On Quake's House, you talk to everybody about doing the right thing. When you're on interviews, like, those things come out, and that, again, that's why I want to give you your flowers. But I'm also going to be mad at you because you're the first person that ever got me in trouble. I'm born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, hour and a half up the road from Atlanta, Georgia. And at 16, I would sneak. sneak down and go to this comedy club called Uptown Comedy Corner in Buckhead.
Starting point is 00:03:09 I was not supposed to be there. But at 16, I looked a little bit older and I could get in, and I would always have the time of my life, except my mama found out one day. My mama said I had to be home so I could go to church on Sunday, and I was late because I had an amazing time, and I'm just going to leave it at that down in Atlanta. But that's when I realized the brevity of who earthquake was. because these are the things that I'm going to say, T-93 and T-95, there were, you can count them on what, three fingers,
Starting point is 00:03:41 black-owned comedy clubs in the country, not just Atlanta, not just Georgia, not just the South, not just the East Coast in the country. And to see excellence, because it'd be easy to tear the club down. And I don't mean physically, I just mean to not have would be really easy to do in the early to mid-90s, right? The excellence that that club represented, I got to know Earthquake the businessman before I even got to know Earthquake the comedian, man.
Starting point is 00:04:11 So I'd love for you to just walk us to that time and why you said, you know what, I need to open my own doors because people were not willing to take that financial risk either. Well, it came out of necessity to be quite honest with you. They had a black comedy club there already. Historic Comedy Act field. And, you know, they had two locations. One in L.A., and of course, one in Atlanta.
Starting point is 00:04:34 And I was just getting into business of comedy because of like it's going on now, golf war blueprint, there's a storm had kicked off. And I had decided that I wasn't going over in a fight. I don't mind practicing for war, but y'all fighting for real. You know what I mean? And as patriotic as I was,
Starting point is 00:04:55 I knew that that fight had anything to do with my country, had to do things with all. So my time was up, so I didn't reenlist. So I saw CNN and CNN said, the best place for black people, black men to be prospered, was Atlanta, Georgia, never been there.
Starting point is 00:05:11 So I migrated to there and said, let me try this comedy thing because I was doing a little hosting when I was in the military. And the owner would never let me perform at his club. And then one time he said, okay, I'm allow you to perform at my club. And I told, you know, the girls and everything,
Starting point is 00:05:31 yeah, I'm a comedian. Because when you tell a woman, you're a comedian, especially black women, that's the only women I mess with. And when are you going to be at the Comedy Act? No, I'm down in Miami and, you know, White Club. All right, ain't it. Call me when you come to you, to the Comedy Act. And you ain't a real comedian unless you perform at the Comedy Act. It was equivalent to being at the Apollo Theater back in that time.
Starting point is 00:05:53 So he finally said yes. And I could perform. So I told the little girl I was messing with, I'm performing this Friday. And I finally went to go up there to perform that Friday And I posed to open up for Paul Mooney And the owner told me, no, you're not on the show I ain't telling you that I said, you're lying to me. So I cried to my mother.
Starting point is 00:06:14 I said, this man, let me down, sit down there, told me who's going to put me on. I told all my friends I was going to be there. And my mother told me what she always said, you can't get mad at another person for not long. You can ride me a bike. You even get your own bike or don't ride a bike at all. I said, what you mean? She was like, get your own comedy club. I said, Mom, you just can't get your own comedy club.
Starting point is 00:06:37 And she said the key word that that's why black women are so important to me. Because she just gave me, and as clear as day, why not? And I'm like, yeah, why not? So from then on, I went and found some investors and opened up my comedy club and the rest of it's history, and I had three out of that. Man, man, man. And again, just that the business acumen that you had, the financial literacy that you have because again,
Starting point is 00:07:03 when you own something, right, like there's a lot that goes into it that people don't realize, right? Like, it's bills to pay. It's employees whose lives depend on the decisions that you make. Like, people don't understand that, bro. And again, that's why I applaud you.
Starting point is 00:07:17 Like, still, my all-time favorite comedian, but one of my all-time favorite business people is Earthquake. Thank you. It was, you know, it was so funny about it. You never realized the significance of it until, you look back at it because you're in it. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:07:33 You never, that's why I tell people, you know, just do it. And don't, you know, worry about if it can't work. Just do it, apply. And then it's time to sit back and reflect. And you never know how great, with all due respect, how great of accomplice you make until it's over. It's like, you know, like you said, it gives you time to count the money.
Starting point is 00:07:55 You know, you count the money when the deal is over, when the game is over. You know, you never count your money. money at the table. And that's metaphorably what I did. I just was, I went all out on it. Atlanta was rich at that time. You know how I was. It wasn't infiltrated by so many people, transitioning people being there. And I'm being from D.C. It was a, it was a country town that turned into a city. You know what I mean? It had all the southern accolades, but it was a city. And you know, like, man, this is fertile. I mean, I was surprised they let you
Starting point is 00:08:29 pump your gas, then you walk in and then pay for it. You know what I mean? So I ain't paid for no gas. Just lead a hose on the ground and drive off. You know what I mean? It was just that period, that naive. I mean, that naive, it was beautiful. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Starting point is 00:08:47 Now I'm going to get into this comedic legend that you are, man. You know, we have these conversations. We have barbershop conversations at my house every weekend. I got a big family and we always gather around. And, you know, just two weekends ago, we were talking about earthquake. And every single person in my family said the most relevant and relatable comic of our lifetime is you. You put in the work. And again, I'm going to keep giving you flowers during this whole interview.
Starting point is 00:09:14 But you know, right? Like, I go to comedy shows all the time. There's comedians that don't put in the work, meaning they told a great joke 10 years ago and that's still the joke they close with. Right. It's like, you can close your eyes and tell the joke. you are always putting in the work and from opening story, and I like story because you're a storyteller, to the close, you got us hurt, bro. Like hurt. Again, a lot of people, they'll put energy in the beginning or energy at the end.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Earthquake is giving it to you moment after moment after moment. Talk to us about that work and why that's so important and why I'm not going to have you say it. These are the words of Mick and Mick only. why there are some that just don't continue to put in the work. It's hard to come up with each other. I'm just blessed to be able to do it. I come from a family that we call, I'm from Washington, D.C. We have no cut card.
Starting point is 00:10:09 So we're always joking, and there is no limit. You know what I mean? My brother was bound, was fighting cancer, and he just came out of surgery. He was in Iceland. And we asked the doctors, can we go to see him? And me and my three brothers, we went to see him. And my older brother named Tyrone looked at him and said,
Starting point is 00:10:30 Hey, man, I know your zodiac sound is a cancer, but you're going too far to prove you a cancer. And we just started laughing. The doctor was like, what is wrong with y'all? You know what I mean? But that's just how we have no cut card. So when you have a standard of excellence within your family, you know there's a standard you must do when you stand on that stage.
Starting point is 00:10:54 And that's what is in me. I know that it's a standard I have already set. I know it's a standard that, you know, I must maintain. And it's easier to maintain that standard if you keep working on it than to let it go down and then try to regenerate it. And I think that's what a lot of comedians do. I'm not confident enough or arrogant enough. To be anything, I can rest on my lungs.
Starting point is 00:11:27 You know what I mean? I don't have that comfortability. You know, I always worry about, have I structured it this way? I'm constantly, I'm always in the lab trying to improve. And of course, you get into them slumps with creative it doesn't come. But you mean anyway, I fight to get out of it and keep on working with it. People pay their hard-earned money to come see you, especially, especially a black comment. I'm an urban comment.
Starting point is 00:11:59 My clientele is my people. And I know what it takes for them to spend their money to come see me. So it's an obligation that I at least give them their money to work to come see me. And I always, you know, I carry that like a badge of honor. And you do it well, man. And now, I mean, it's been this way for a while because, you know, three decades in, you started when you was five years. old, I get it. You are now, you're the shoulders that people are standing on, right?
Starting point is 00:12:30 And again, I want to give you your flowers because I don't know if you understand how powerful that is, man, but it's your shoulders that people are standing on it. And when you hear those type words or that phrase, like, how does that make you feel? It's humbling. And you try to sit back and say, thank you, God. Thank you for allowing me to be literally. in a great purpose, making a difference. Because I always, for all my, all my, see, in this business, I have always tried to elevate
Starting point is 00:13:01 my peers, my friends, and my coworkers, because I'm a so fan of the art. I love the art of it. You know what I mean? So when I owe my own comedy club, you know, I only, this did not do that for me. I did it for every other comedian that they went loud to perform there. I gave them their opportunity. Quakehouse, when I formed, when Kevin Hart came to me and asked me about that, what kind of show?
Starting point is 00:13:27 I could have done my show anything, but I brought a place where other comedians can shine and everybody can hear other than the name brand you know about. These comedians are just as funny, and the people that you love so much, we was at these same position in these comedians I'm introducing in their life. So let me introduce you to them. And I have always felt opportunity you need to give back, especially to black comedians because we don't have no comedy clubs. We don't have no platform.
Starting point is 00:14:00 So I think it's very important for those of us that do get some kind of success and able to provide a platform. And we do have the ear of the masses. It's our obligation, our family, is our obligation to pullback. Say, yeah, you love me, but what about him? He's funny, too. Let me show you the bands of comedians that we have. And I always carry that to the day I die.
Starting point is 00:14:28 And again, I applaud you because as a huge listener supporter, Quake House, that is exactly how that show is, man. Like, yeah, your name is on it, but you give everybody their time. Like, you wouldn't know that it's your show unless you really knew that it was your show, meaning everybody gets their time. you don't interrupt, you never make it about you, like, ever. And you let people go in on you on the show. Like, y'all cut on each other.
Starting point is 00:14:56 Like, and you don't pull the, I'm earthquake card or anything like that. Like, again, I relate that to business because that actually helped me be a better leader in my businesses. Because it's not about me. Yeah, it's my name. It's my brand. But I can't do anything without my team, right? It just though happens that my name is on it. And not only that, if you really look at it, man,
Starting point is 00:15:18 I call it the Tom Brady effect. You know what I mean? You take responsibility when you lose. It's my fault. And you defer all the credit when you win. But at the end of the day, everybody knows who team it is? You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:15:33 So the actor, you ain't got to say, you don't need the accolades. And if you're about winning, you want to elevate your team. And you know what I mean? And you want to want people to gravitate to the other people that you put. And then at the end of the day,
Starting point is 00:15:48 those people that you elevated are going to be so indebted to you for what you did for them when they knew you could have been the other dude you could have hogged all the time you could have been this is mine
Starting point is 00:16:02 mine mine all my mind mind I look at that as insecurity I look at that as bad business I look at that as burning bridges and then if you have for me having an ultimate faith in God that this is my purpose and what's meant for me
Starting point is 00:16:17 Can none of y'all stop it? You know what I'm saying? So there's no reason for me being around here and be portraying to be afraid that you can. When I know you can. You can't. Yes, sir. And, you know, that's a perfect segue.
Starting point is 00:16:34 You talk about team and the team dynamics and you brought up Tom Brady. I'm a huge sports nut. And you are as well, right? Like, I mean, you could talk about sports more than you talk about comedy if you want. to, and you do a lot of times, man. What happened to your football team, bro?
Starting point is 00:16:53 Well, I met the Washington commanders. I mean, it's understandable. It was a gift and a curse. The gift was we got JD 5, Daniels, J.D. Daniels. And we had a phenomenal year. We went all the way to the NFC championship, something we ain't done in over 30 years. So you had to run it back.
Starting point is 00:17:15 You had to give all of those older players. that was on one year deal. Another shot. It was one game from being to the Super Bowl. You know what I mean? You had to postpone or delay the rebuild and add a couple of more players to see can they duplicate what they did the previous year.
Starting point is 00:17:35 Unfortunately, the older players got older. Injuries came in. And you sit back and say, okay, we gave it a shot. Now we're going to tear it back down and get back to the original, the way we are. A building around. Obviously,
Starting point is 00:17:50 one of the greatest young quarterbacks able to play and go from there. So that's what happens with our team. We gave them one more year for them to duplicate the gold father.
Starting point is 00:18:00 And it didn't work out. It was a gamble that didn't work. And now we're back to rebuilding and doing what we need to do with the quarterback we got. No,
Starting point is 00:18:09 y'all would be just fine, man, because those quarterback contracts are very good if you got the right quarterback, which you guys did. So to turn it around, we'll be quick because my team did it.
Starting point is 00:18:18 So I'm a New England Patriot. It has nothing to do with Tom Brady. Oh, listen to me. You all got listened to me. Oh, New England Patriots got the easiest road to the Super Bowl ever to know. We had to play the games, though. I'm not knocking it. You celebrated.
Starting point is 00:18:39 You came in second. Every team is going to be upset except for one. And that was Seattle. Y'all was two. Y'all went. No problem. One. He was experienced.
Starting point is 00:18:48 Jake May get the final. He went to a Super Bowl. He already know what it takes and everything. But, you know, y'all back in the same situation we are. Do you keep that same team because you got to the Super Bowl? Or do you stay on the same formula of rebuilding and rebuilding, placing around and hitting the draft and everything on it? And we're going to see.
Starting point is 00:19:11 Yeah, we got to go get an offensive line because we got exposed. Well, you got exposed earlier than that. He just, you didn't have no off, nobody on the other side could score. You know what I mean? You played a team that didn't have no offense. Right. So after a while, the opposing defense get tired. We just, we just can't, listen, man, we just, we even get a chance to drink no water.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Y'all went three and out again. You know what I mean? After a while, there's, I tell people, if I had to pick between a defense and an offense, I'll take a defense. All day. You understand? because the defense can demoralize the whole team. Yeah. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:19:51 If you got the 85 bears and you knocking the quarterback out turn and the defense seed, man, they ain't getting no break and there's three and out there. You're demoralized. Yeah. So, everything got to be right. Yeah. Everything got to be.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Defensively, they can't move that ball. That's why I tell people all the time, don't tell me how good your defense is. Can your defense make a stop when it needs to make a stop? I don't want to hear you the fourth-ranked defense in the league. When he got, there's no reason Kansas City should bet he go all the way down the field in 13 seconds. You're supposed to lose that game.
Starting point is 00:20:27 You got the game winning. You let him go all the way down in 13 seconds. 13 seconds, man. Come on, man. Listen, I can't blitz them, do something. You're supposed to have certain. What did you practice all week for? You're supposed to have one coverage.
Starting point is 00:20:44 This is the one right here that we're going to blitz him. and you're going to be free, and you've got to make this, you've got to make this time. If they get in this formation right here, which they love to do, and he come over there because, you know, pretty boy and the city quarterback, patch of my home, come on over here, come on,
Starting point is 00:21:01 you see him, man, pretty light-skinned dude. You know what I'm man? You don't know what I'm like to do. Oh, L's the ball in there. Come on, huddle up, huddle up. You know what I mean? You just got to sit there, and you've seen previously,
Starting point is 00:21:13 and you put pressure on, that's how you're going to beat them. Why are you going to sit back here in the zone? You're supposed to have a blitz package. That's the one we're going to run right here when the game's on the line. Yes, sir. NFL general managers. Earthquake might be available on your coaching staff. Hey, man.
Starting point is 00:21:33 Consultant to the owner, he might be available. Well, if I did, I'll start a team of building a time. I'll build it from the inside out. Offense and defense the line out. You understand? If I got an offensive line that can push the ball three yards out, and if I got a defense line that can push you back three yards out, then anybody behind me is good.
Starting point is 00:21:57 I can put anybody as quarterback get a ball to that dude run, run, run. They're going to have to do something to come and stop the run, then check down. I don't need cash in my home. I've been saying that forever, brother. Like, at the end of the day, football is just blocking and tackling. Everything off the charades. Everything else is just getting your eyes to look somewhere else.
Starting point is 00:22:17 Exactly. Forget all that. Richard Dent, it was a friend of mine. And he said one of the best thing ever when he was with the 85 bed. I said, don't you worry about how they're doing all that switching and everything around and all that motion. They say, yeah, they got to stop. But eventually when they stop, there's 11 on the left.
Starting point is 00:22:35 That's it. When you ship over here and move all that, we ain't care about nothing. We're coming right there. You got to stop. And when you stop, I got him, you got him, you got him, you got him. Beat your man and go get the quarterback. That's it. And I said, okay, I love that philosophy.
Starting point is 00:22:52 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Quake, man, I got to talk really quick about Earthquate Legendary. Yes. The Chappelle's home team, crazy numbers. You guys are rocking it, man. Like, how did all that come together? Legendary came.
Starting point is 00:23:07 Dave Chappelle called me. I thought it was a prank call. I'm to be quite honest, which me and Dave had been finished. for a while. He called my agent and asked for my number. My agent called and said, Dave Chappelle was wondering, is it cool for me for him to give him my number?
Starting point is 00:23:25 I said, of course. So he called me. I'm going to do your special. Take you to Netflix. I should have did it a long time ago, please forgive me. I said, yeah. So he went to Netflix and told them that he wanted to produce my special. And I knew that was going to be career changing.
Starting point is 00:23:42 and it was. And it was beautiful. It was one of the biggest breaks that I have ever received other than now developing my own TV show on Fox I've ever had in my career, you know? And it is still one of my favorites. If you go to my list in Netflix, it is still there.
Starting point is 00:24:02 I love to watch it when I'm in the air because it makes me not think about anything and I laugh for a good hour and 15, man, because you give it to us all the time. all the time. And let's talk about this Fox show coming up. Let's talk about it. Yeah, man. And with my boy, Bill Burr, producing it from his production company with Fox. We right now, going through the process with the, you know, the notes with the scripts and everything. We're trying to get it all together, suitable for the network. And it's going to be an earthquake show with the mandate from the president, Michael Thorne.
Starting point is 00:24:42 that said in our quote, I don't care if you put earthquake on the roof on the moon, as long as this earthquake. We're buying earthquake to hear that blessing from a man of that statue, a network president, something anybody in this business dream upon me. And it came. I didn't have close to 16 deals. And every time they signed me to do a TV show, I had to always try to convince them, they should allow me to be me, even though they bought me.
Starting point is 00:25:15 I used to always have to audition to play me. I mean, one time we was in a meeting, and they were sending me notes. And what I'm saying, we don't believe earthquake would say that. I said, well, I'm earthquake. I've been with earthquake longer than anybody. I think I should know what earthquake would say, but you don't think, I mean, you actually had a month of a deal. I don't think earthquake would say that. What?
Starting point is 00:25:38 You know what I mean? So this is what you do? with and to actually have a person that wants me to be on his network because Fox is making the transition to back to their origins of when they first came out with sitcoms with In Living Color, married with children, Martin, yeah, they're going back to that. Yeah, rock. They're going back. And we're one of the shows that's slated to make that new rhythm song to come back in it. And the script is funny because I wrote it. I am very caught.
Starting point is 00:26:15 Yes, I had everything to deal with it. And we're just waiting for the rest of the notes on it and get the script together for them to give us the AOK to cast, you know, get it going. Man, I have never anticipated anything more than this because, one, I think the people are telling these networks and kudos to Fox. that reality TV is great and all, but we're missing something in society. Like, we don't laugh as much. Like, there's silliness, and nothing against Instagram comedians,
Starting point is 00:26:45 everybody's got their place. It's still not the same as just, I had a rough day. I need to laugh, and I need a show that's just going to, like, put me at ease, take my mind off the day. And when you go see Earthquake in person,
Starting point is 00:26:59 that's what happens. So the fact that you have the full creative control over your own show, man, I am so excited. and have been anticipating this for a long time, brother. Yes, and taking when you was at, creative control is the mandate that came along with it because can't no one write me but me, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:27:17 So I tell the story and get it in. And when you was thinking about the relaxation, you know, I told that to my writer, we want to be Cowellon, take them away. You know what I mean? We want, and the reason why, in my humble opinion, that it was so much reality TV shows because people who was greenlighting the shows,
Starting point is 00:27:38 it was so far-fetched that everyday people couldn't even recognize what this is. You know what I mean? So really, in my humble opinion, it was a testament to them not allowing people, the comedians that they hire, come and tell you, I'm at the front line. I'm telling you, I ministered this comedy gospel to 4,000 people all this weekend for a whole hour.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Believe me, I'm telling you, what experiences, where they're at. If you trusted me, I can bring that, and you allow me to do it on your platform and give me an honest shot at it, we can pull this on. And the reason why reality show is doing so well because people can recognize with that
Starting point is 00:28:23 more than the fictitious scripted show that you'd have formulated and sitting through the machine with people who lives in million-dollar houses that's not dealing with the everyday life. You know what I mean? And so I think, you know, that's the biggest problems I have to say in my humble opinion. I respect it, too. And like I said, I cannot wait when taping starts.
Starting point is 00:28:47 I'm going to be out there in the live studio audience. Please. I promise you. I promise you. You have my people think I ain't going to interrupt. Please. I want you to be there. I want you to talk about it.
Starting point is 00:28:58 I'm going to a lot of online influencers. I'm going to bring them out to see it because I really want to. sit because we need our Jeffers, we need our good times, we need our show that, you know, that like you said, you can just sit and laugh, and that's what we're doing.
Starting point is 00:29:17 That's what we're writing, and we're going to push the edge. I'm all for it. I'm all for it. You don't have to tell me twice, man. So I'll make sure I'm doing my part. Every day, if I got to, I'm going to be posting about it until it comes out. And when it comes out, I'm going to post 10 times the day, because
Starting point is 00:29:33 I know what those ratings are supposed to look like. So I'm in that world too. So whatever I can do, brother, I'm there. Like, you don't even have to ask. You just tell me and it's done. Because you've changed my life more than you ever known. Like, you taught me how to be a businessman and how to be a man, period, when I didn't have somebody that looks like me that could do that.
Starting point is 00:29:52 So thank you for being an earthquake. And thank you for the inspiration that you've given to me personally, brother. Thank you, brother. And thank you. And words can't describe my appreciation to what you just said. go. There you go. Well, I know you're busy, so I'm going to let you run to everybody that's watching or listening. Follow earthquake. Stay up to tune with what's going on with the new show. I'm going to be pushing it out everywhere. He is earthquake, ladies and gentlemen. I can't say anything
Starting point is 00:30:20 more. So follow me at the real earthquake for all my dates and where I'm going to be. Keep God first and anything else to work out. My brother, God bless you, and I hope to see you in the future. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you, brother. That's another powerful conversation on Mick Unplugged. If this episode moved you, and I'm sure it did, follow the show wherever you listen, share it with someone who needs that spark, and leave a review so more people can find there because.
Starting point is 00:30:49 I'm Rudy Rush, and until next time, stay driven, stay focused, and stay unplugged.

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