The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Earthquake On The Joke Telling Business, Stand-Up Longevity, Dave Chappelle + More

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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Special guests in the building, comedian, Earthquake. How you doing? Good morning, babe. Well, thank you for having me. It's always honor to be here with y'all, man. Congratulations, you just got married recently. Yes, I did. Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill at the wedding.

Yeah. How much is what I can cost? About 450,000. Wow! Everybody got it. That's light change. You make that in the weekend. That's right for Earthquake.

You know, it was my day, not just my wife. She didn't want to have big wedding. She wanted to do a destination. I was like, nah, I want everybody here what you tell me. So I want proof, you know what I mean? And it was my day. It was a beautiful day. All my friends was there, all the comedians was there,

and it was beautiful. It was it. It was everything I dreamed of for my day. What did you want to finally, you know, settle down? The right one. I always looked for. I mean, I've always believed in quality over quantity. The only reason I had quality because I didn't have quality.

So until I found that person, then it was it. I never, my man who was never based upon how many women I've been with or that type of thing, I'm not down like that. I was always new. I used to say in my jokes all the time, people were like, why ain't you made it? And I said, because I'm one good black woman for making it. And I always knew that. You know, I was never going to get the success that I got right now,

until I found her. You know, I listened to you, the foundation. You have to have that. And you said, and I always was such. I just could not find that partner, you know. And, you know, you know, is you look for Ms. Wright, not Ms. Right now. And then nothing wrong with them, my past women.

They just wasn't my woman. They wasn't right for me. And I don't settle. So, you just gave a great ball for anybody out there as a whole. Because you said, the only reason I was, I had so much quantity is because I couldn't find quality. Exactly.

Next time anybody I think get called a hole, use that line, okay? That's a great line. Damn. Yeah, it's the truth. I mean, because it's non-profitable. I mean, there's nothing in it.

That was a good one, too. It's not a possible. I mean, but really, if you really think about it, if you break it down, it's the situation in for any man, if you don't love it, you're just sleeping with it.

It's just for a feeling. So I have other things that give me just as much satisfaction of that feeling in being with a woman. So you get what I'm saying? So it didn't fill that point that it was looking for until I found her.

And Johnny gives one of your best friends? One of my best friend, J.G., people don't know he's one of the funniest dude out. I bring him on my show sometime. And we've been friends for many years. How'd that happen? Well, he is from D.C.

And, you know, I've followed him a lot of times. And then I actually got to meet him at a club and we kicked it all from there. And we've been friends ever since. That's dope. That's dope. It's my man right there. He's my man.

That's my man. Got the new comedy special. Comedy special dropped the day. Joke telling business, because that's what I am in. I'm really to tell comedians it's time to be funny. If you're going to say you're a comedian and fly that banner, be funny. You know what I mean? Or take the banner down.

You know, this is what we do. And I thought it was up to me at being in this game. I'm in the joke telling business. So all the other stuff y'all are talking about the people that want to be pronosticators or Nassadama selling what the future is and all this other stuff. If you're going to say you're a comedian, you need to tell jokes and be funny. And all these comedians still riding on their previous, you know, loans and stuff on it. I think just like a driver's license, comedians need to get their license renewed. Say you're funny.

You know, drop of something to say you're still a comic. You can't steal. You say, I used to be on Def Jam. BG Comic View and all that. You know, come on, it's time for you to renew your license to say you funny. If you're going to fly under the banner of being a comedian, say what you ain't or say what you are,

but you can't be us unless you be funny. And I want to say it was funny Saturday night. Thank you. It was a pleasure being with you in Indianapolis and I've seen you growl and keep doing your thing. That's dope. You know, just keep doing your thing. Expound on that, though.

What's the biggest difference between being funny and being a professional comedian who understands this is actually a business. Well, a lot of people fall off and she'll tell you, you have to, once you get to that plateau of being funny and among your peers, the consistency of being funny, you have to regenerate and come up with new material

and stay at that level. You know what's funny, and you have to work at it. I mean, I have nothing against internet comedians or nothing, but you cannot escape from hitting that stage, getting on there, networking and put new stuff in and um i tell you know my wife all the time she said why are you at the clubs and hanging it up in place i said you know the shepherd has always it must smell like the sheep people who we get our money from does not live the standard of the living that i live at so i have to

go down here and be down here so i can interpret what's funny from that perspective and talk to the people because where i'm at they would not relate and then they'll say i'm out of touch so i have to be around the people and be in the wall marks and be at marshal's to get an irregular shirt. I have to feel it on here so I can relate to the people that allows you to sit here and have massages three times a week. That is so important. Have you ever had to tell a comedian like as OG like you're not funny anymore? You should go do that?

No, I don't do that because jokes are subjective. You know, it's funny to me. I might funny nobody else. That's why I tell all the comedians, you know, no matter who you are, somebody going to find out find that you're not funny you just pray to God all of them don't show up that night you know what I'm saying you just pray to God they don't come there to see you that night then you get booed now you listen to justice set so you listen to other comedian sets to see what they're talking about no I because I don't I don't physically write I'm mentally

right so to keep my jokes pure I don't listen to other comics so it don't you know be contaminating I think I came of it because I heard it because I don't physically right but what I do do is for the people that are my and I want to see their growth I take time out and come see and she's one of those people that I say let me see it because I've seen her in the beginning I know how she got

in the game and you know people that's been in the game like I've been as a veteran holds it against them and I said I don't care how you got into it do you work at it her D.C. Young Fly they work at it and for the end I have nothing but respect for them. They on the road

every weekend just on the road every weekend D.C. on the road every weekend. Yeah, they work at it. But people could be on the road every weekend, suck. That is true. You know what I'm saying? There's some people around here bombing every day. You think it's, they're in Gaza. They drive them so many bombs. Do you feel like the art

you feel like the art of the long-form stand-up set is under threat? Or does it make your style of storytelling even more valuable? I think, to be honest with you, quality. I mean, the long-gated. of getting to the punchline. For me, get to the punchline. I feel certain comedians have a lot of, you know, nuts

because they have a long segue before they get to the punchline. And I always thought, if that don't work, you're in trouble. Because black people are impatient. When you sit in front of black audience, you go that long, and they sit in that chair, and then they rocked it one way, and they rock the other way, and then they look over to the other person, and they look over to acknowledge you suck, then the booze come. But if you hit them just continues and have multiple subjects,

that mean any time that they come into the show, they can pick up right there. They don't have to see you in the beginning for you to have the call back and everything. That's just my philosophy on it. I want you to be like a train that anytime you get on it, you can ride. You know, wherever you'll stop. You just walked in late or you was mad at your girl and, okay, I'm at a comedy show because we need your undivided attention. So whatever you're going through, I must go through.

that and get it. So if you argue with your woman all the way through and you're mad at her, I need to have a joke. Once you come around and realize you in a comedy club, you can enjoy at that point. Did your mom really date Marvin Gay? Yeah. Did you really say, I wish Marvin Gay was my daddy, not my real daddy? Yeah.

Dang. I mean, oh, because I wanted to come up. She couldn't trap them. I heard. He was on drugs. She's slipping. Come on, Mom. So she told you that, how do you find out? Yeah, I mean, she used to always tell who my My mother was that chick, man.

She dated a lot of different dude, and I just didn't understand how my father got him because he ain't had none of those qualities. Damn. You understand? But he funded her. So I get it now as a man. So you knew your mama was out there?

No, she wasn't. Jesus Christ. You know, out there, me, she's a worldly women. She want to see the world. Some people, some people, we in New York. Some people never leave the Bronx. You know what I'm saying? Never need New York.

I can't say it. I love, Shawlamee, my man. No, that's cool, Sean a man. That's the kind of guy you know it's gonna come. I got one with me, like Jabain. He's gonna hit that. We call him sniper, you know? He's just gonna, ah, you know, get it to your face.

You just take it, you know what I got you? I got you. What kind of truth did you tap into with this new special? That, you know what I really wanna ask? What's something you tapped into that you may not have tapped into 10 or 15 years ago? Oh, I really don't go like that. I just interpret and then I put it together and then I line it up,

which one I think these are the ones that I want to do. That's the funniest that will carry on. So more than anything, just the perspective of our Caucasian friends out here. You know, the Portland part, when I just went up there in Seattle to see struggling white people getting caught with, you know, back in the day, like New Jack City just laying on the ground with fentany. No, I mean, you could tell they had a good mother and father and they just land

and I'm just stepping over them like look at God I mean it's just I'm just I just thought it happened to us it was like white version of New Jack City I was like

it happened to us and to actually have a white dude asked me for some money I was like no you could be anything damn you could be anything all you need to

I mean everything is in your image you know you got everything all you need to do is take a shout put a suit on and you'll be my supervisor about them all. I was shocked when Trump sent the National Guard to Portland. Yeah, well, you know, he wants to do what he want to do.

You know, he's deboing the country, so everybody better tuck the chain. Because it don't matter who you are, he ain't playing, and ain't nobody holding against him. And to the point that he actually just letting you know, then I'm used the judicial system to go out of my political opponents. And there's nothing wrong with him. And it's amazing to me that these people just put their self-impressers to justify what he's doing. So as black people, we've been through this before. So, you know, you've got to navigate and just, we're the best, I mean, pure, per illegals in the world.

When somebody get locked up, a brother, like, how to get them. You know, so I can make sure. I don't do it. Yeah, I don't do it. We the first one, we first one, no, I get it, you know, what's the charge. Now, you got so much material, like, from. from the beginning, like you said about Aretha Franklin Fernwood, the beginning, all the way

until now, right? Is this comedy special longer than the last one? Yeah, I put 45 in them this time. Hey, good. And I call it the flu game because you know how it is. People don't know, and I see Charlemagne come to work sometime. We'd be under the weather, but, you know, you can't,

you know, I'm not Dave Chappelle, a cat, or one of them. They can go to Netflix and say, man, I'm not feeling good. Let's shoot this tomorrow. I have to go there. So I had a rest of respiratory effected when I had the sinus during the whole time and I pushed on oh man so you just

you've been there before you know how it is you see comedians they be on the stage they had their hot chocolate or the hot tea and everything on there and we get into us so I'm the most proud of it that it came at that particular point and I still I came off that's why I call it my Michael

Jordan flu gang still put up 40 you know what else is too I like what you said about you know how comedians got to renew their license right but are some people just grandfather then. And what I mean about that, like somebody like Eddie Murphy, right? Like, Eddie ain't put out a special in for ever.

Well, he grandfathered in, but he also gave up the banner of being saying he a stand-up comic. Because he did not want to continue. He knew what the standard takes for him to maintain it. And he bowed out with Steve did the same thing. You have surfing.

They give it up on it. And for them, they will always be on my mouse Rushmore of their on it. I'm talking about comedians that's right here and they're number one. claim to fame as being a stand-up comedian they're not telling no jokes you understand Eddie Murphy doing movies

TV animation then sit there he then gave that up and he appreciated the genre where it was at to give it enough that it deserved the utmost respect and I can't give it to it going to club what his process is to be up to that level to get up there he gave that up I don't have what it takes

to be at that level to get a respect for me to stand on that stage to amongst all the rest of comedians. So for that, you applaud. But you don't, what you do have to do is stop giving all these other comedians all these fanfare and giving them all this answer and they ain't telling no goddamn jokes.

Tell them be what they are. With the title, you are what you are. Not what you say you are. So that's why I'm naming, I, earthquake, is in a joke-telling business. That's what I do. So we have nothing else to talk about unless it got something to do with jokes.

What if you're telling jokes on your podcast or on TikTok or an Instagram clips. Well, you is, but if you say you're a stand-up comic, you have to sit here and do what. I don't have no problem with anybody diversifying from it, but you must stay with the job description of it. You know what I mean? If it bans you out to do books and TV and all that, great.

That's the show how diversify we are in the talent that we are. But you must stay. You know, if you're a singer, you must sing. You know what I mean? If you're a boxer, you've got to fight. That's all. That's all I'm saying. You've got too many comedians in my humble opinion that's not being funny.

And sometimes people such as yourself got to ask them, where's the jokes? Yeah. Is it hard? I'm going to do that. No, I agree with you. I agree. Where's the jokes? Where's the jokes?

Where the jokes at? Just this, where the jokes? That's all I ask. Tell the jokes. And you got to somebody. have to stand up and say even nothing, you know, for my profession and my genre. I have to stand up for, because I love it. It has been like the baseball is very, very good for me.

I have always given back on my own comedy club, have my own number one show and series that's called Quake House that I bring comedians that nobody hear about that we sit around and talk about to give them. I give back to the genre on the point of it because I love it so much and I think it. But we have too many people now that just not sticking with the job description. and somebody got to tell him at some point, man, be fucking funny. I was going to ask, is it hard once you start diversifying and everything else gets big?

And then you can't get on stage and do what you used to do. Like, Kevin Hart is still on stage, but people come for him because he doesn't joke or talk about certain things. But he's still funny. He's still a comedian, but people try to take that away from him because he's not, they feel like he's not as raw about certain things. Well, you got to understand. His constituents that, first of all,

comedians make fun of the experiences that they go through. Kevin Hahn is of the 1% of 1%. So his experiences does not go along with the other 99%. So what he has to do is for our writers that is experienced that and they give it to him and he looks it over. I have no problem with that evil.

Sit there and be funny on it. He's being funny. He's still giving back to the John Duff stand up so I have no problem with that. You know, you can't expect him to talk about his life. Oh man, I went there and Jet was And do you know they didn't have what I asked?

I said, I wanted flat water. The motherfucker just came here. They got $10. I'm on a private jet, flat water. Relatability is the number one essential of being a comedian. And very people can relate to his life because he has such a privileged life. So what's funny to him is not going to be funny to 99% of the people because they don't experience what he's going through. Damn.

He did have that. He talked about being on the private jet on his last special. When he had to go to the George Floyd funeral, that shit was funny. Okay, I mean, you can. But the relatability is the key to it because you have to sit here and allow them. That's why I said previously a shepherd must always smell like the sheep. You have to put yourself in that situation or somebody tell you what the sheep is going through and let you know so you can be relatable to the audience that you're asking that money to come see you.

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I think it's hotter now. No, because we're important. You see what happened to Jimmy Kimball? We have always been the third eye of society. We have always been the one that said truth to power. We was always the one from your rich and proud of George Clark. And we end those terms. We end them times now.

I think strong comedians stand in such as your deals and the rest of them are doing it. They're articulating it from the point. people want to hear and I look at it as the same way you give medicine to a baby you know you put a little applesauze in the front of the spoon and you put the medicine behind and that's what comedian do we put the joke in there and we put the information in and we put it in their mouth before they can get healed that's how we do it you know what I mean and it's very important and I commend every comedian that's out there that's standing on 10 toes down as you know speaking power truth to power and that's what we do you've been you've been around for a long time

Earthquick you always been like you know comedians favorite comedians right but Dave Chappelle pushed for your I don't want to call it a resurgence but he pushed you in like a different spotlight with the Netflix situation but now you got your own lane so how do you balance gratitude for that cosign but also making people see Earthquick as his own brand and not just somebody Dave picked I don't get caught up in that you know I just do me and I collaborate with anybody I don't I don't have to be the close on the show I don't have to be in I'm standing by you if if it's perceived that you're hotter than me don't kill my shine I I don't get caught up into those

speculative things you know it's just another thing I collaborate with anybody I want to collaborate me like I you know I watch our show that lady said it's true when you get to this point in my life the two most valuable possession you have is your time and your energy if the time is good and your energy is good then you know in the money right quake day every night we we in there you know what I mean so I don't get caught up I will be always indebted to Dave um but I was always indebted too because I hired them to come to my club when he was when he was in Dave you know what I'm saying so it's it's it's it's it's it's petty I'm from D.C. we we don't we don't fuck with

petty this shit you can't send me news clippings and expect me to support it I I don't do news clipping, man. You have to get on that stage and do what you do. And no matter who gets on there, Quaker's going to do what he's doing and let the chip standing with the stage. That first, last, medal, and the whole time. And whatever I do, have nothing to do what you got to do. What's one comedian now in the question?

Well, real quick, what he said is so powerful, man. You had a club back in the day. Yes. You used to put Dave on stage. Yes. All of them, Kevin Hart, Chris Zucker, Chris Rock. Every comedian that's walking here that's hot right now at one time I hired them for my club

and they all speak highly and you and not a damn position they're like oh go get quick yeah and then they do that yeah they put it on they do it too but you got to understand like I'm just but thank God I have my own sitcom that's coming with Bill Burr we're producing

and everything and we're you know and it's a blessing on here and there's so many people I want to put down that's good people but it's only but so many slots and then I can't jeopardize my slot for the overall trying to help everybody whether it could help up the whole production.

So I have to sit back and say, I want to help everybody, but I still have a team to come here and say, that person is better and that person is better. Because something of nothing leaves nothing, so I got to get something. And then when I get something, then I can bring you in when it's something. But trying to bring you in before

it's something, we both going to end up being nothing outside of Fox Studio on the streets. So how did that come about it? I remember you had a deal with Paramount, right? Yeah, I had CBS deal, had a Warner Bros. Deal, had a ABC deal ahead on. This one came together. The network president,

his name is Michael Thorne, came to me with my manager and said they're making a change. In Fox, they want to go back to their original when married with children and live in color was that. And they want to go to multi-camera

to TVs, I mean, to sitcoms. And they wanted me to be on their air and they wanted me to be me. They didn't want me to water down for me. water me down, they say they feel, which I feel, you were able to say what everybody thinking in the right way, they're not offended. And I want you in my air. And so now we're in the process of trying to find my Larry David. Like, if you know, he's the executive

to boost, what's on Steinfeld, my writer, my showrunner, you had your own. You know, that's the most important thing. And most important, and I've been interviewing for the last too much trying to find the right person that encapsulate that I feel that can end. And I think We're close right now. And the Burr thing is a great thing because he had a first look deal with Fah. Bill Burr did. And he wanted to produce my show since it was.

And I said it's a great combination between the two because I love his comedy. And we're going to branch both of my comedy, my mindsets and his mindset, and put it in the fictitious world that I navigate through. What's the premise of the show? Congratulations. What's the premise of the show?

I got frustrated with being, in Los Angeles because I never thought they was gonna get me a shot and me and my fiancé moves back to my hometown in Washington, D.C. to re-bide my old comedy club up

and I own my own comedy club in Washington, D.C. Oh, you know what I mean? It's based on a true story. The true story, yeah. But then I made it. You know, I just got frustrated with sitting there

and the fires was the reason why that was a sign from God. My house got burned down where it might as well just gone. This is it. Take this money and this locked money I got for my house and I could live balling in D.C. compared to L.A. and it's time to go home and my fiance

and we moved back and I bought my own comedy club where I started at and it's called Steel Quake. I'm still quake. That's not like a winner winner. It do. Yeah. And then you know, I bring out the comedians on, they come through and people that can play themselves

in my fictitious world without, you know, he's singing this, he's actually in towns, stopping by Dave is at the day at the big venue performing and he stopped by the coming club what we do and come by and have all my friends on it and it also give, again, young comedians' chance to be on TV and then normal selves, being themselves in the club so they can show the world

that they too have talents, such as I do. Man, I hope you have much success quick. I hope you have a Miss Pat style run. Yes, I love her. You think about how Ms. Pat was trying to get that show on forever and she finally got it on. It's loosely based on her life. And she's on, what, season five, man?

Yeah, look at God. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. And you sit back and you're like, all right, this is it. Now that I have promoted everything for my special, it's time to just knock down and just concentrate on getting ready to be on TV. I was going to ask, you know, earlier you were talking about you touched the stage, you're not worried about any other comedian, you do what you do, however the chips fall. Has there ever been a comedian that surprised the issue out of you,

that you got one day and you'd be like, damn, I ain't know he was this funny. Has that been a comedian like that? Well, I will say this. I never estimate any comedian because you know him off of it. Because like, you take an R&SJ, very energetic comedian.

So when you go behind him, you can't play around because he's already got the people up, the crowd hype up. And you go up there, hello, how are you doing? You're in trouble. So I never under miss. What I do,

what has always caught me off God because I didn't is the sudden the transition from a comedian you don't know and the next thing you know they blew up and you're like God I see this cover

I'm like God damn where was I at you know you just wake up in the morning the motherfuckers in arenas you know what fuck let me go back and you look at it there ain't no special jokes in here what is this over success peel this for you know what I mean you just be you like he went from nobody to 20,000 people

and it was just six days ago he was over here at the open mic how they know so that amaze me more than anything but it just let me know how you know you can go it can happen how fertile this game is that you can walk on there literally a comedian is the only person that could actually go to L.A. get on stage the producer could see him do his seven minutes They say, I want to do a show about you, then write a show, put a producer, and he gets a show, and then they come out here in the arenas.

Now, has that ever happened back in the day? Because that happens now. I never see none, I mean, all the time. Like, I never seen, I didn't see the upcoming of none of the hot comedians that we was, that at it, none of them. Back in the day? No, I didn't see none of them. Even at your club, like Kevin and all that?

None, I never seen none of that. Well, he's before Kevin. I'm talking about his era. Yeah, I never, no, we're Kevin about the same. nothing. But now you used to see because it used to be like you'd be on BT

Comic View, you'd be on death comedy jams and you go out to Montreal and do just for live. A lot of people do that but it doesn't translate to 20,000 people

when Cab was doing 20,000 people two shows on a Tuesday. But we saw the buildup though. You know what I saw when Cab was here at Caroline's doing

eight shows in four days. Like so we saw the buildup. Yeah but see when we are headliners we don't maintain other people's ticket counts because we're working that same day. So I don't

know what he's doing in Carolina because I'm in Augusta, Georgia. You know what I'm saying? I'm doing seven. And I don't sold out nine shows and ten shows in place, but it ain't quantified or equal to Madison Square Guard and sell another. You're like, God, damn. I've seen two

up close and personal. I saw Kevin Hard and Andrew's shows up close and person. Yeah, I didn't see none of them. Like, I saw every step from high school gyms with Kevin like doing homecomings to You know, Caroline said just building up, building up to get the government. I didn't see none of them. But see, you know, you've got your pulse on the community and everything too.

So you're more in depth of it. But I, from a comedy standpoint, I'd be like, God damn. And you see the residue of it. Because motherfuckers be calling you. You want to open up certain people? I ain't open up for this. Who the fuck? I ain't open up for this motherfucker man.

Who, what? He ain't where? On a Tuesday? Damn, God damn, you know, you don't hate. You're just like, oh, God. And really, and I tell all comedians, man, you really salute them and you cheer for them because that means it's possible. And if you see it's possible, that mean you can do it. You get what I'm saying?

So I never had envy. It was just more surprising. The devastating coming, and it also tells everybody else, be careful how you treat everybody because you never know when they're going to become the man. and a lot of people, you know, shitted on the other different people and turned around now, end up, you know,

kissing and licking their boots and shit like that. Is it true you met your fiancé because you made a donation? No. No. I met my fiancé eight years before we hooked back up. I try to get on, you know,

one night stand. She turned me down like a loan. So, you know what I mean? She said she ain't that type. So, you know, just wasn't, you know, going through my phone when I see her picture again. You know, you just hit up, what's up, big head?

Yeah. invited to a show. She came, and we kicked it, and then COVID hit. And then we just started kicking. We ain't had nowhere to go. And it's the most concentrated time I ever been with anyone because there wasn't no outside interest. And the rest of the world was getting, you know,

socially dissident from people. And I was getting closer to it. And I knew she was the right one when I, we could coexist. without doing anything. You know what I'm saying? She was there and she wasn't there. She didn't invade my space, but she was there.

And she always believed in me. You know what I mean? She was always encouraged me. You should be doing more of this. And you can't do that if you're doing. That's the most way. And it made a difference in my life. And that's from that point on.

That's why you see me, in my humble opinion, having a sitcom down and things are going well and everything and hold me accountable. me accountable. If you say you're going to have this, it's counterproductive doing that. Yeah. And people always come to me and say, you know, what do women, when you get to this point financially, what women have to bring to the table? And I said, my woman, what she brings to the table, she assembles the table. She tells me what's at the table. Do I got too many chairs at the table? Do I need to move a chair to a table? Do I don't have enough chairs on the table?

What chair's been on there too long? You know? So when you have that female perspective, only she can give from a loving point. It's essential when you're dealing at the higher level. And I had always missed it, that aspect of it. And it's making a difference now. So what's the story about our producer says how much? You gave a large donation to her? No, I don't know.

We got that. We want a donation for our foundation that we helping the fires in L.A. We did that in lieu of gifts at the wedding. We took in donations because we had enough And we didn't want another toaster and stuff like that We don't need that So listen what's the one piece of business advice You think young comics miss

I can tell you what I can miss I would tell them what I would do different Loyalty Is not me Loyalty doesn't mean that they believe in you and loyalty as you get closer to your goals get compromised you know what I mean you know what I mean so if I if I was them I will take a lesson from Jamie Fox and Jamie says the first of the year every year he sits down with his sister or his family and

reevaluates everybody in their life business wise and I will give that suggestions because if anything hindered a lot of my career was being loyal to people that wasn't meant to be in my life in the first place but you feel since you just feel a sense of obligation that was there and you know they need this in everything

you know what I'm saying she's dancing in the back first you ready to dance five four three I think you need to re-evaluate now no way I'll take it to chance to me a chance got to pull one away You see what I'm saying?

My wife would be like, yeah, we know what chair we need to leave right now. You know what I'm saying? Too many chairs at the table. That's how it is. Listen, joke telling business out right now. That's right. Netflix, definitely go check it out

and we appreciate you for joining us. And congratulations on the sitcom coming. And you promise that you'll come read for the show. You already know. You understand. Come on in there. I surely will. Because I will make sure that you get a call.

I look forward to it. Thank you. And as always, man. You're my brother, man. I appreciate you. Loire. What I'll tell you, you're beautiful in the course of my life skin, brother. That's right.

Y'all be cool. And thank y'all for having me. Also, this is my son's. I have to wear my son's outfit right here. It's clothing lines. Toxic University. And I'm wearing his and make sure I give him a shout out. Toxic University.

Toxic University. Lord Jesus. Yes, he's doing well with his own clothing line. I tell people, you have to invest into your kids. activities or you either choose to fund their activities or they bail money. Pick what's what you want to do. Tax the university. You know what I mean?

Either oil and I believe in them. So, toxic university on the whole time. Love you, Quake. Thank you. I love you more. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up.

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