#1785 - Earthquake

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

All right, talk to me earthquake, what's happening? Great to see you, man.

Earthquake (0:17)

Thanks for having me, first of all.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

My pleasure. Listen, your special is fucking outstanding. It is one of the best specials I've seen in a long time. It's hard to laugh by yourself out loud on a phone. When you're watching someone on a phone, I laughed hard.

It was great. It's you, it's like, you know, sometimes someone does a special, and it's like, it's better seeing them live, but you captured it.

Earthquake (0:38)

It was the journey, it was the first time I was properly financed.

You know what I mean? We wasn't borrowing money or had the right vehicle, properly supported by the distributors and everything, so it was the opportunity. Then I knew the significance of it by Dave being a part of it, that this is the one I needed to elevate me to get off of this level that I'm on right now.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

Well, we were talking about this before, but in my mind, your level, in terms of your ability, you're already there. You're one of the best comics alive. There's no doubt about it. So this is a great representative of that. It's a great representation of that. Because it's very rare that someone gets as good as you are that's not selling out arenas.

That's how good you are.

Earthquake (1:26)

Well, thank you.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

So it's exciting for me.

Earthquake (1:29)

Yes, and I hope that you know it. You're a comic, man. You never know what's gonna do it, what's gonna generate. I never had a problem with, I never equated quantity with quality.

So when I seen people 15, 17, 18,000, I never felt inferior or bad that I had 2,000. You know what I mean? The work of it. And then at the end of the day, to be quite honest with you, as a comic, you know that when you first get into it, you just wanna make people laugh. And I have achieved that. So I had already felt that I was successful, but sometimes you do sit back and like, God damn, when are they ever gonna get to the ease?

They keep skipping me. How long does it take? I mean, cause you know, I said in my echo, the thing I'm saying, I've been the bridesmaid for so long and never the bride.

And watch all my friends just get TV shows and everything. And like you said, I look at my friends and I see them, tellin why I don't feel it. I just look at them and say they had an opportunity and they achieved and they won on it and they cashed in on it. I have yet to have that opportunity to cash in on it. So that's what I'm looking for.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

Well, the fact that Dave Chappelle's behind it and that Dave produced it and he introduces you at the beginning of the special, that's gigantic. That's gonna help a lot.

But we've all been talking about you for years. Everyone's terrified to follow you.

Earthquake (2:54)

Everyone.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

When we find out that you were at the comedy store, everybody's like, oh shit, where is he at in the lineup?

Fuck that spot. That spot after you is not fun.

Earthquake (3:05)

Yeah, I mean, when you have nothing but your jokes, you gotta least perfect that aspect of the career.

Joe Rogan (3:11)

Well, you're a hustler too. You're always out there. And the guys that are constantly working, there's a polish that you get when you're on the road and you're doing those Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sundays, when you're just constantly doing sets.

There's an undeniable polish that a guy gets.

Earthquake (3:25)

Yeah, I mean, I call them the frontline workers. You know what I mean?

Success takes you off the frontline. You know what I mean? It does. It keeps you from your fans to feel exact because we feed off the information that we get from our fans.

Joe Rogan (3:42)

Yeah. Yeah.

Earthquake (3:43)

And if you're isolated with security or other things that you have to do, or the enormous of your career, you kind of get away from the people who actually support you. And that's the key to me. I always stay within my constituents some way. Family member or somebody. I take a young comedian on the road with me who I look up to and say he can make it.

And just allow him to be in the life and I just watch what he do and what he going through. And that's how I keep my stuff.